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Obama visits R.I. factory, thanks local workers Library contract talks stall By Brigitta Greene Metro Editor

President Obama toured the American Cord and Webbing factory in Woonsocket, R.I. Monday, praising workers on their ability to “buckle down” and persevere through rough economic times. The factory makes, among other things, buckles. “It’s small businesses like this one that are the bricks and blocks — the cord and webbing if you will — of our economy,” Obama said. “Across the country, the small businesses that were once the cornerstones of their communities are now empty storefronts that haunt our communities.” His short speech — just over 10 minutes — emphasized the administration’s recent efforts to encourage job growth through small businesses. Last month, Obama signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act, extending loans to small business owners and accelerating a chain of

tax cuts. The law is a final effort to stimulate the economy before next week’s midterm elections. “The government can’t guarantee your success,” he said to the workers. “But government can knock down some of the barriers that stand in the way of small businesses.” Although optimistic about new tax cuts and lending options for small businesses, Obama said he is frustrated by the level of partisanship in Congress. “I hope that my friends on the other side of the aisle are going to change their values going forward,” he said. “You can’t just focus on the next election, you have to focus on the next generation.” Obama decided earlier in the day not to endorse a candidate in the Rhode Island governor’s race. His decision, based on respect for his friend Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 angered Democratic candidate Frank Caprio, according to a Providence Journal blog post. Former U.S. continued on page 4

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istering for RISD courses, complaining of the challenge of fitting RISD classes into an otherwise Brownfilled schedule, as well as issues of actually getting into over-subscribed RISD classes. Current students’ experiences taking RISD classes vary. Linnea Blaurock ’13 is currently taking an introductory photography course for non-majors at RISD. In an e-mail to

Bargainers for the University and the libraries union sat back down Monday to an unproductive star t of another week’s contract negotiations, Karen McAninch ’74, the union’s business agent, told The Herald. Last week’s negotiations ended Wednesday with both sides coming to an agreement on the process the University could use to change workers’ shifts. McAninch also said the University agreed last week to hire a union door guard at the Sciences Librar y during the day. Negotiations did not continue past Wednesday last week because the federal mediator who has been working with both sides was not available, McAninch said. The mediator was present for Monday’s negotiations. Despite last week’s progress, McAninch said Monday’s discussion about contract language regarding health providers was “disappointing.” Based on a meeting last week with Vice President for Human Resources Karen Davis, McAninch said she was expecting the University to agree to maintain the

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Pres. Obama delivered a ten-minute speech to a Woonsocket factory Monday.

GISPs gain Cross-registration gives new perspectives student support By Rebecca Ballhaus Senior Staff Writer

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As the Nov. 5 deadline for Group Independent Study Project proposals nears, students are busy again creating syllabi, advertising to their peers and recruiting faculty members to sponsor them. Participation in GISPs has declined since they were implemented as part of the New Curriculum. But an information session last week sparked a standing-roomonly audience. Interested students filled the Faunce Memorial Room, and some even stood in the hallway to listen. Thirty-five GISPs have been proposed so far this semester, as compared to 20 last spring, and there is still time for students to create new ones, according to the GISP program’s blog. Students must submit a syllabus listing readings and assignments, an explanation of the validity of the course and a sponsorship statement from a faculty member. Each proposal is reviewed by the College Curriculum Council. Most GISPs are approved, according to Arthur Matuszewski

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The proximity of Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design has long been a selling point for both schools. In the early stages of applying to Brown, prospective students are frequently reminded of the possibility of taking classes at both schools. In fact, RISD’s website boasts that students can take “anything from foreign language

to political science to anatomy” at Brown and simultaneously satisfy the design school’s liberal arts requirements. The question is whether the process is quite as easy as it would seem — and whether students take advantage of it.

FEATURE Mix paints, blend schedules In past years, Brown students have lamented the difficulty of reg-

Rail line to offer service to T. F. Green Airport BY Sarah Forman Staff Writer

Starting this fall, travelers in Providence will be able to get to T. F. Green Airport with only a $2.50 train ticket, providing an alternative to pricey taxi services and crowded shuttles.

METRO A ribbon-cutting ceremony tomorrow will officially open the Interlink, a transportation hub that will soon offer commuter rail transportation to Providence. The new line and station are the result of a collaboration between the Rhode Island Department of Transit and

the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, said project manager James Eng, and the rail line will eventually connect Boston, Providence, Warwick and North Kingstown. The exact date that service to the airport will begin is “still up in the air,” Eng said, but it will be some time in late November or December. Initially, trains will run a half-dozen trips between Providence and the Warwick airport each day. By the spring, there will be eight round trips per day, after additional work is completed. Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority buses currently connect the airport with downtown

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Students protested on behalf of the library workers outside of President Simmons’ speech on Saturday.

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CIT upgrades cause slowdown for some on lab computers

New restaurant offers a variety of food in a cone

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“We’re trying to give everyone what they want.” — Director of Computing Facilities Jeff Coady

CIT staff working to fix computing freezes By Claire Gianotti Contributing Writer

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A temporary path has been placed on Lincoln Field to avoid grass damage. The path will remain until September 2011.

A new path to walk through Lincoln Field By Louisa Chafee Contributing Writer

A new asphalt path has temporarily been put in place on Lincoln Field to replace the existing sidewalk currently blocked by the construction of the Metcalf Laborator y Building. To some, the path seemed to have appeared overnight — Karina Alventosa ’13 said she saw “one guy turn in circles a few times” — but Paul Dietel, director of project management, said the decision to create the path was made a month ago. He cited the muddy track that had been created by people ignoring the signs and walking across the grass, thereby damaging it, as reasons for implementation. Dietel said the temporary path

would cause no lasting damage to the green. Dietel said he anticipates the temporary sidewalk will be taken out in September 2011, when the pre-existing sidewalk will be available again. The cost of the path was about $10,000, according to Dietel. Within the scope of the $42 million renovation project, this sum is seen as “minor” and falls under the “construction mitigation” category, Dietel said. Besides ser ving as a campus thoroughfare, Lincoln Field is mainly used for recreational sports. The club cricket team uses it for practice. Dietel said he did not anticipate that the walkway would create problems for athletics.

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Major changes to the Center for Information Technology’s computing facilities have caused computers in the building to freeze, aggravating students trying to complete projects on deadline and professors conducting research. The root of the problem lies hidden in a series of back rooms on the CIT’s upper floors, which house stacks of equipment to support the building’s computer labs. The equipment ranges in function from data storage to sorting through spam. Systems Manager for the Department of Computer Science Mark Dieterich said the department’s technical support staff tries to make its computer facilities “cheaper, bigger and faster” in order to pay less money for more disk space and quicker operations. Usually, Dieterich said, it is only possible to accomplish two of these goals at once. But this semester, the department’s technical staff, which includes Dieterich and Director of Computing Facilities Jeff Coady, is trying to accomplish all three aims. “We’re trying to give everyone what they want,” Coady said. Coady said an incredible amount of disk space is required both to run the sophisticated software CS

students use and to save their files. Students can log in to any computer in the CIT to access all their personal data files. Students can also log in remotely from their own computers to access this information and do coursework for their CS classes. This complex network system, Coady said, requires a lot of hardware to support it. This means working under “a new hardware and software environment,” Coady said, composed of IBM’s General Parallel File System software, which is run on commodity hardware. The new environment is a result of recommendations from a facilities committee formed at the end of last year to increase the efficiency and scope of the CIT’s computer facilities. The committee includes CS faculty, a graduate student representative and technical staff. Because of the switch, the technical staff has faced difficulties that Dieterich said were mainly the result of a “hardware problem.” There have been “bumps along the road, and they are more significant than we thought they would be,” Coady said. Students and professors encounter these roadblocks when their computers freeze during their work. Coady said the biggest consequence of these freezes, which he said are frequent and affect the majority of the community, is the amount of time

lost by students and faculty. Kathryn Gouinlock ’11 said the operating system has “been a little bit bad the past few weeks,” and described the computers as “slow” and “bogged down.” Her project due date for CSCI 0150: “Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Computer Science” was extended by one day because of the problems. Seth Ratner ’11, who is taking two computer science classes, said he has not noticed any significant changes in the computer lab. While he said the system was slow, when he logged in remotely using the secure shell protocol, the speed was no different from previous years. Instead, he said, the programs he runs seem to require less memory when he logs into a CIT computer. “The prevailing sentiment has been of appreciation and support for our technical staff members as they try to identify the causes of the problem and develop solutions,” wrote Roberto Tamassia, chair of the CS department, in an e-mail to the Herald. He wrote that he believes “significant progress” has been made toward dealing with the glitches in the new computer infrastructure, and that “the storage architecture we have deployed offers significant benefits in terms of scalability, security and cost- effectiveness.”

COE program finds a new home By Daniel Sack Contributing Writer

The Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship program has moved to a Sayles Hall suite that provides a new student lounge and space for clubs to meet.

The multidisciplinar y COE program, which is in its sixth year as a concentration, left its Feinstein House residence on Sept. 24 and moved in on Sept. 27. According to Maria Carkovic, administrative director of the COE program and lecturer in econom-

ics, the University made the decision to change locations about a year ago. “We did not need or ask to move, but cer tainly we’re here, happy, and we’re going to really exploit the opportunity of being in the middle of campus so that we can have more of a community around the concentration,” Carkovic said. The program’s newer space has about the same amount of room as its former Hope Street location, but it adds space for two clubs that share similar missions with the concentration. “I’m hoping it will be a big positive effect for students in the sense that we are centrally located and that students will take advantage of the space here,” Carkovic said. Both the Entrepreneurship Program and the Brown Women in Business clubs share a room off the lounge. Sean Kane ’11, one of the copresidents of the Entrepreneurship Program, said the new space will allow for more meeting opportunities. “It’s nice to have a building on the Main Green,” he said. “There’s less storage, but more space we can use.”

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“I think it should probably exist in every college.” — Harmony Lu ’12, on the option of taking GISP classes

GISP leaders step up marketing tactics continued from page 1 ’11, GISP co-coordinator and former editor-in-chief of post- magazine. One exception, he added, is proposals with preprofessional purposes or those which appear not to be academic. Faculty members work with students over the course of the semester to re-evaluate and adjust syllabi, he said. The Curricular Resource Center has recently stepped up ways to raise awareness of the program on campus, said Roman Gonzalez ’11, GISP cocoordinator. “The big problem is that people just don’t know what GISPs are,” he said. GISP leaders are trying to be more direct in their marketing and have recently implemented the slogan “Design Your Own Class.” Gonzalez has used social media to spearhead advertising for the resource center, creating Facebook and Twitter pages, a blog and a way to upload syllabi for students to view, he said. Gonzalez said he also hopes to produce GISP highlight videos to inform and entertain others about the program. “GISPs have historically had a certain coolness to them, and we want to emphasize the casual, relaxed nature of not only the (Curricular Resource Center), but of how welcome we are,” he said. Matuszewski said he worries that people view GISPs as illegitimate courses and that students opt to take one only when they seek an easy course credit. “The big thing is changing the perception and getting it out there that GISP is a viable option within the curriculum, and it is something that really should be supported and explored,” he said. A real commitment GISPs are not courses to be taken lightly, said Harmony Lu ’12, who is currently the GISP leader of “Modern Issues in China’s Environment.” The level of commitment and responsibility is higher than in regular courses, she said. She plans to coordinate a GISP next semester focusing on hydrology, but she said she has some reservations.

“I don’t know if I can deal with it again,” she said. “It has been a lot of work and really stressful.” But Lu also said GISPs are a unique and valuable learning opportunity. She has learned not only the material but also the logistics of what it takes to design a course and narrow down a broad topic to a number of assignments, she said. Though she admits that GISPs may not fit everyone’s interests, she said that the fact the option exists is beneficial to Brown students. “I think it should probably exist in every college,” she said. Shuheng Zhang ’14 said she did not know about GISPs until she recently read an announcement about them in Brown Morning Mail, but she was immediately interested in coordinating one next semester. She had always wanted to discuss the 18thcentury Chinese novel, “A Dream of Red Mansions,” with other students, she said. But Zhang said she will not be pursuing this goal next semester. After speaking with her adviser, she decided to seek a broader course of study for her first year at Brown to gain a greater appreciation for the humanities before tackling such a specific project. “You accumulate your knowledge more,” she said about waiting to take the GISP. “You make yourself a better person, a more mature person.” Jillian Jetton ’14 is following her well-established interest in theater. Jetton and Adam Kotin GS, who plan to lead “Performance-Based GISP” next semester, met last summer at foolsFURY Theater in San Francisco. Kotin had studied the Viewpoints and Suzuki methods, performance-based composition and training methods while an undergraduate student at Pomona College, and he got to know Jetton while training in those methods at foolsFURY. “We found out that we were both going to be at Brown and decided that it would be great to start a group of people to sort of learn about these forms and do sort of a weekly training, weekly exploration of these,” Jetton said. The course will be mainly perfor-

mance-oriented but will also include reading published research and conducting discussions and workshops. Jetton and Kotin have already started meeting with interested students, and they said they hope to build a strong community that will continue after the semester is over. “Even if people can’t be a part of the GISP officially, then they can still sort of learn from us, and we can learn from them, and there can be kind of a collaboration,” Kotin said. Why do it? A number of GISPs in the past have had a lasting impact. Professor Emeritus of Engineering Barrett Hazeltine has supervised GISPs that were breeding grounds for businesses such as Nantucket Nectars, Clearview Software and Amie Street. Though their primary intent was academic, the ideas of students in the GISPs led to the creation of these businesses, Hazeltine said. He said he values working with students in areas outside his expertise and seeing them develop ideas to explore. “I think Brown should do all they can to make these things easier to get to and accessible,” he said. Lauren Kay ’11 has found GISPs to be an invaluable resource for students at Brown. Though she first got involved with GISPs this semester, she has since become a visible proponent of the program, organizing the recent GISP information session alongside Gonzalez. “You end up putting so much time into it, but then you get really a lot out of it,” Kay said. “And the people you connect with are the people who really share your passions, because why else would someone have gone out of their way to sign up for and participate in a GISP?” In addition to a senior seminar, Kay said she will be enrolled next semester in three GISPs and one departmental independent study project that builds off her current GISP with Gonzalez and others, which is an academic study of love. “I look forward to going to class,” she said. “It’s like hanging out with a group of friends who care about the same things you do.”

Rail line offers cheaper option to airport continued from page 1 Providence. Students can ride RIPTA buses at no charge. Many Brown students travelling to and from T. F. Green currently use the hourly Airport Taxi RI shuttle service that stops at Faunce Arch. The $11 service is independent of the University, said Virginia Arnold, customer service representative, though the company has “a standing commitment” to stop on campus. The company is not planning on changing the number of shuttles or cabs on duty in anticipation of the new train service, said general manager Mike Mastrabano. He said he hopes the approximately five to 25 students who use the shuttle each day do not all switch to the com-

muter rail. “Airport travel changes all the time,” he said. “I personally think it is a stupid idea.” Elizabeth Gentry, vice president for financial and administrative services, said the expanded rail service “is great for Rhode Island,” though it is not clear how much the new service will affect the travel patterns of Brown students. “It’s still far enough out that there’s not enough details,” she said. Several students said they are already planning to switch from taxi and shuttle services to the commuter rail once trains start running. “I’ve just been waiting for it to actually open up,” said Maria Castillo ’13. Because the commuter rail will

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be less expensive than the shuttle, Ana Cuellar ’13 said she would start using it. Corey Finner ty-Ludwig ’09 MD’13 said she will also take the commuter rail when she flies, even if it means walking to the Providence train station with her bags. Officials at the University of Rhode Island are pushing to offer the same transportation choices to their students, and URI Vice President for Administration and Finance Bob Weygand said that he has encouraged RIDOT and MBTA to look into extending the line even further, all the way to Kingston and Westerly. “We think it’s very important that we have that kind of connection,” he said. “Right now, it is very difficult for visitors.”

Library workers negotiate wages, health benefits continued from page 1 current comprehensiveness of its health provider network. “We had been getting indications from her, as well as others on the bargaining committee, that we were going to get that resolved positively,” McAninch said. “We thought we kind of had an understanding on this.” But she said the University proposed Monday to maintain the network of providers only if the union agreed to give up certain benefits. Under the current contract, a buyout option exists for union members who purchase health insurance through spouses who work for other employers. The Brown employee can purchase coverage under the spouse’s plan and receive a buyout from Brown in lieu of the health benefits he or she is entitled to from Brown. McAninch said the University is tr ying to put a “sunset clause” into the contract stipulating that if Brown eliminates that option for non-union employees — which McAninch thinks Brown might do soon — then union workers will lose the option as soon as their three-year contract runs out. A similar situation exists when both spouses work for Brown: One employee can purchase insurance, and the other can take a buyout. McAninch said many non-union University employees no longer have this buyout option, and the University is tr ying to take the buyout out of this contract, too. McAninch said the union is

not prepared to give up these buyout options. On the other hand, McAninch said the University has decreased its offer for worker contributions to health insurance premiums to 10.5 percent the first year of the contract, 12.5 percent the year after and 14.5 percent in the final year. The offer for wage increases, McAninch said, remained the same Monday at 1.25 percent per year. McAninch said the union, for the first time on Monday, offered an increase in health contributions for the third year. The union’s current offer stands at keeping contributions at 6 percent the first two years, followed by 6.25 percent the final year. The union’s offer for wage increases stands at 4 percent per year. “The significant thing, to us, is we were making an of fer to move on contribution increases,” McAninch said. “It wasn’t taken as positively as we would have liked.” Negotiations resume today at 9 a.m. and will likely continue Thursday and Friday, McAninch said. They will take Wednesday off because the mediator will not be available. The contract, originally set to expire Sept. 30, was extended until Oct. 14 and again until Friday, Oct. 29 at midnight, McAninch said. Quantitative issues, like wage increases and employee contributions to health insurance, still need to be sorted out. “There’s still a lot of posturing going on,” McAninch said. “Right now, we’re sor t of toying with each other.”

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“Students like it a lot.” — Stephen Lassonde, deputy dean of the College, on cross-registration

Cross-registration ‘so, so worth it’ R.I. workers praise Obama’s continued from page 1 The Herald, she called the registration process “a lot of back-and-forth between Brown and RISD,” adding that “everything had to be done on paper in a specific order.” Now, having gotten into the course, she said the main difficulty is fitting the class into her schedule. “This semester I have four hours of Brown classes on Mondays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and then my five-hour RISD class runs from 1:10 p.m. to 6:10 p.m.,” she wrote. Rita Bullwinkel ’11 took Studio Furniture Design her sophomore year. “I took it because I tried to get into two other classes and they wouldn’t let me in — glass blowing and textiles,” she said. Since Brown does not offer a furniture design class, Bullwinkel chose to join the class at RISD, despite the fact that it took place twice a week for five hours, as opposed to the once-aweek, five-hour time slot her other choices occupied. Alex Toyoshima ’11, who is currently taking Artistic Anatomy in RISD’s illustration department, called the registration process “easy for the most part.” What he has found difficult is the time gap between the start of Brown’s semester and the start of RISD’s. “You either have to leave a hole in your schedule or have a class you’re willing to drop” before finding out if you can get into a RISD class, he said, adding that his flexible schedule has previously allowed him to take two other RISD classes. He said professors have been “very helpful” in figuring out how to manage his time between both schools. Stephen Lassonde, deputy dean of the college, is one of the advisers students consult to determine

whether they can register for a RISD class. He said he receives about 20 requests from students each fall, and about 30 in the spring, which includes both RISD’s spring semester and its Wintersession in January and February. “There is a more abundant array of studio courses to offer (at RISD),” he said. “It’s exciting for people to try something a little different without going too far off campus.” Toyoshima echoed Lassonde, saying, “Brown’s classes are pretty broad” and “don’t always get into the specifics of different mediums. RISD has more classes to offer.” But Lassonde said students need his permission to take nonstudio classes. “We don’t want students taking classes there when they’re offered here at the same time,” he said. This guideline isn’t simply theoretical — Lassonde said he “routinely” refuses requests from students to take RISD classes also offered at Brown. “We want to be able to fill the courses we have,” he said. Exceptions are made if the student needs the course to graduate or absolutely could not take it at Brown, he said. Lassonde has found the crossregistration program to be very successful, he added. “Students like it a lot,” he said. Widening the lens At RISD, meanwhile, 15 percent of students cross-register at Brown each year, according to the design school’s website. Alex Waterston, a RISD senior, is taking PHIL 0540: “Logic,” as well as sitting in on lectures for HIAA 0850: “Modern Architecture.” “I’ve actually talked to some teachers in the relative departments

at RISD and … it’s such a specialized school and such a small school that there is a very limited number of classes they can actually teach,” Waterston said. As a result, he said, the classes offered have to be more “universally acceptable.” Waterston called the process of cross-registering for RISD students “incredibly easy” and commended the program. “I think there needs to be more crossover,” he said. “When I was a freshman, it was completely isolated.” Jeremy Silberberg, a junior at RISD, has taken classes in comparative literature and English at Brown. The cross-registering process was “tedious but so, so worth it,” he said. “I don’t know what I would do without Brown next door.” He added that he has received positive feedback from professors at Brown and RISD for his choice to take classes at both schools. “They say, ‘It’s really great you stretched yourself to do that,’ ” he said. “Overall, professors at Brown have been super accommodating and understanding.” “The liberal arts tradition is built around English, art history, the history of philosophy and social science classes,” said Rajesh Bellani, the associate provost for student affairs at RISD. “So I think, for example, with language classes, students are very interested in going up to Brown to take those classes.” “I think it works well,” he added. “Both administrations work cooperatively together, and there’s a conversation between the two schools.” Mathew McNamara, a junior at the design school, said crossregistration offers “a really great opportunity to take these really cool classes that just aren’t offered at RISD.” That, he said, “is what’s nice about (Brown) being right there.”

handling of the economy continued from page 1 Senator Chafee is an independent candidate for governor. Obama “can take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I’m concerned,” Caprio said in a radio interview Monday morning. But later that afternoon, at the Cord and Webbing factory, Woonsocket Mayor Leo Fontaine said he could only take the rift between Obama and Caprio “for what it’s worth.” Caprio did not attend the event. The president’s visit was “great news” for Woonsocket, Fontaine said. “Manufacturing is a dying trade many places,” he said, and localities have limited resources to aid small business. States often respond to financial strain by cutting funding to cities and towns. Property taxes remain one of the few revenue sources available to localities like Woonsocket. But raising property taxes function to push out small business, he said. Woonsocket recently extended a tax stabilization program to American Cord and Webbing as part of a job creation initiative. Tax incentives will allow the factory to expand and hire new workers. Workers presented Obama with a customized collar for Bo, the first family’s dog. Jeanne Gudz, who has worked in the sewing department at the factory for 18 years, beamed after receiving a hug and a kiss from the president. “There’s been a lot of changes because of the economy,” she said. “We’ve been very fortunate. They’ve been running things the right way.” As for Obama, “He’s doing the best he can,” she said. “He’s gonna

help the little people, and that’s what counts.” Keeping jobs in the United States has been the biggest challenge facing American manufacturing, said Dennis Smith, national sales manager at American Cord and Webbing. Facing declining sales, the factory laid off workers in early 2009. Though Gladys Asencio did not lose her job as part of the layoffs, her shifts were cut to four days a week. “We worried,” she said. “Especially those that were out five days a week.” But all workers were rehired this year. Asencio said she would remember Obama’s visit for the rest of her life. “I woke up, I washed up, I got dressed,” she said. “But it’s a different day.” “When I tour places like this, it makes me optimistic,” Obama said in his closing remarks. “We’ve got big problems, it’s going to take a long time to solve. ... But we are going to get out.” More than 100 protestors greeted the president upon his arrival in Providence earlier that afternoon, according to the Providence Journal. He spoke at the Rhode Island Convention Center following his visit to Woonsocket. Obama drove through Brown’s campus around 6:30 p.m. on his way to an elaborate jack-o-lanternthemed fundraiser on the East Side. Students crowded the intersection of Thayer and Waterman streets, yelling and waving as the motorcade whizzed past. Susan Restrepo ’11 said she did not even know Obama was in the state. She received a text from her golf coach directing her and team members to Waterman Street. “We didn’t really see him,” she said. “But I think it’s neat that he’s in Providence supporting his agenda and the Democrats running for office.” Six-hundred pounds of pumpkin greeted the president and guests at the dinner, priced at $7,500 a plate. The largest jack-o-lantern weighed in at 200 pounds and featured Obama’s face, with the Lincoln Memorial in the background, according to an Oct. 25 Providence Journal article. But his likeness was not enough to convince the president to stay for dinner. Obama left after a brief address.

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“People have been coming in just by word of mouth.” — Mark Joia, owner of new restaurant Toledo on Thayer Tuesday, October 26, 2010 | Page 5

‘Anything in a cone,’ now on Thayer By Jennifer Kaplan Contributing Writer

Students can now eat almost anything out of a cone. Toledo, a new restaurant on Thayer Street, just opened its doors serving all of its food in cones, from pizza to salad to chicken parmesan. “It’s a back-home, Middle Eastern thing,” said restaurant owner Mark Joia. But Joia has gone beyond the traditional cone fillings and boasts cuisines from each Mediterranean country as well as typical American food. The concept is, essentially, “anything in a cone,” he said. Joia described the cone itself as a mixture between Syrian bread and pizza. “I thought it was an innovative idea that was successfully pulled

off,” said Cheno Pinter ’14, “but that they should make the cones a little thinner.” In most Mediterranean countries, these cones are machine made, but at Toledo, everything is made by hand, Joia said. “We use everything fresh” he said. “Vegetables, meat, everything is fresh.” The cone is made from scratch, and even the dough is handmade. The toppings are put in after the cone is ordered — including the restaurant’s special sauce and spice recipes — and then the whole thing is cooked at once. Joia said he hopes Toledo will appeal to students based on the quality and cost of the food. A cone — as filling as a meal — costs under $5. The concept of Toledo is also unique among Thayer eateries.

“It was really good,” said Sosie Bacon ’14. “It was basically pizza rolled up, but the whole outside was crispy like the crust.” According to Joia, the restaurant has generated a lot of interest since its soft opening Oct. 15. “People have been coming in just by word of mouth,” he said. But Joia is looking for more feedback. In honor of the grand opening that will occur in the upcoming weeks, Toledo will feature a huge special, Joia promised. For three days, a grand opening special will reduce the price of Toledo further, he said. Though Joia would not elaborate on the details of the special, he emphasized its value and encouraged students to keep their eyes peeled for fliers coming out some time early this week.

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Filling a unique position on Thayer, Toledo gives customers the option to eat their entire meal out of a cone.

After failed first round, state seeks applicants for pot centers By Julian Ezenwa Contributing Writer

Rhode Island’s medical marijuana situation is in a bit of a haze. After denying ever y license in a first round of applications last month, the state’s health department is once again soliciting compassion center applications. There are currently about 2,500 patients and 1,800 caregivers in the state, said Katherine Reardon ’12, president of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Caregivers are private citizens with the legal right to grow marijuana for up to five other patients. According to Reardon, the problem with the system is a lack of regulation. “Let’s pretend a caregiver is doing ever ything right but then just doesn’t realize that his crop has gotten moldy,” she said. “Then a patient who is very sick … accepts the marijuana from the caregiver

… and then smokes it, gets terribly sick from the mold. … It’s definitely a risk.” Compassion centers — storefront dispensaries or grow rooms — are designed to be a safer alternative. The Department of Health solicited applications last month for compassion center licenses, but rejected all fifteen submissions, according to the Providence Journal. “We determined that none of the applications were qualified, they either exceeded the 25-page limit or the applicant was a for-profit entity which clearly contradicted the statute for the program,” said Annemarie Beardsworth, public information officer for the Health Department. In response to the dear th of acceptable applicants, the health department is soliciting a second round of applications, Beardsworth said. Following the Nov. 12 dead-

English professor nominated for Book Award By Katrina Phillips Contributing Writer

Professor of English C.D. Wright is among the finalists for this year’s National Book Award. Her book, “One With Others: [a little book of her days],” was announced as a finalist in the poetr y categor y Oct. 13. The book is “a kind of hybrid text,” that combines poetr y and prose, Wright said. It ser ves as “both a tribute to a late friend of mine, who was an autodidact, and a sort of footnote to civil rights,” she said. The friend to whom the book pays tribute, referred to as V in the text, died a few years ago. Wright has previously published a dozen books of poetr y. “One With Others” is still in production and will be published in

about a week, she said. If Wright wins the National Book Award, it will be her sixth major award for poetr y. Her previous awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Griffin Poetr y Prize, which she won last year for her book “Rising, Falling, Hovering.” The winner will be announced next month and will receive $10,000 and a bronze statue, according to the National Book Foundation’s website. Last year’s winner for poetr y was another Brown professor, Keith Waldrop, professor of English. But for Wright, the awards are not what matters. “It’s not the same thing as readers,” she said, “and it doesn’t necessarily translate into readers. That would be a great benefit if it did.”

line, the Health Department will oversee a “completeness review,” checking for all requested information, she said. “Once we deem an application is complete, we will post these applications on the Department of Health website.” The public can then post comments either for or against any of the applicants, according to Beardsworth. “Most applications tend to come in the last couple of days,” so it is difficult to estimate how many applications to expect, she said. The

department will grant no more than three licenses, she said. The 15 applicants from the previous round are allowed to reapply. “We hope that we do get an applicant that is qualified,” she said. A caregiver in Pawtucket attributed the denied applications for compassion centers to the mafia, saying that after the mafia was denied, it prevented others from getting licenses for compassion centers. He declined to identify himself because of the risks associated with growing medical

marijuana. Recent police raids have targeted caregivers in the state, Reardon said. “And that was a lot of medicine that was destroyed for no reason and we’re sort of baffled,” she said. “If you have an MS attack and don’t have any medicine, you could do permanent damage,” she said. Reardon pointed out that while Maine began the procedure for licensing compassion centers after Rhode Island, it already has established centers, while the Ocean State does not.

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Last year, the Corporation announced that it had approved a new, mandatory $64 “recreational facilities” fee to be paid by every undergraduate student. As President Ruth Simmons wrote in an e-mail to students, the fee would “reduce the amount we will need to cut from the Athletics or other budgets.” As its name implies, the fee can also be applied to improving the gyms that most students use. Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn confirmed this impression when she told The Herald in February that the money will be shared between the Department of Athletics and the upkeep of University gyms. For the many students who are not on sports teams but do exercise at Brown gyms, this separate aspect of the fee makes it seem worthwhile and highlights the expenses of maintaining the several gyms on campus. This is one of the reasons we have been disappointed with the status of the gyms. We had heard anecdotally that machines are frequently out of order, among various other problems that could easily be fixed. The editorial page board visited all four student gyms on campus and found a disappointing level of disrepair. In total, five of the machines were broken, including ellipticals, treadmills and a stationary bicycle. Nearly all of the dozen televisions were not working. Some of the lights worked intermittently or not at all, and some of the weights were missing. None of this has a seriously negative impact on the gyms’ overall usefulness. For example, there are usually enough working machines for all present, though many students undoubtedly wish the televisions worked. Brown provides a form to report

malfunctioning gym equipment. But unlike a simple facilities request that can be submitted online, it’s a paper sheet that needs to be returned in person to the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center — quite a hike from the Bears Lair in the Graduate Center or Bigelow Gym in Keeney Quadrangle. This is why we were glad to hear that the Undergraduate Council of Students would begin to examine the condition of the gyms and recreational facilities. In its annual agenda, UCS committed itself to inspecting the gyms and recommending upgrades to the University. While we applaud UCS for this commonsense step, we hope it will concentrate first and foremost on ensuring that the gyms and their current equipment are adequately maintained. Given the new fee dedicated partially to that purpose, we think it is the least students should expect. Like all students, we eagerly await the opening of the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center and the Jonathan Nelson ’77 Fitness Center. The combined facilities will improve campus life and fill a conspicuous void on campus. Unfortunately, the facilities will not open until 2012. Until then, the University should make sure the existing facilities are in good condition. Particularly for those students for who live on the south side of campus, the condition of the satellite gyms is important. Since all students now contribute through tuition to the upkeep of these facilities, we hope to see our money put to good use.

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When campaign ads attack BY Sarah Rosenthal Opinions Columnist I was watching the Oprah Winfrey show the other day. (This isn’t a regular habit of mine, but it is a regular habit of my tutoring student’s mother, who keeps the television on all the time.) What caught my attention was not the angel-faced ten-year-old from America’s Got Talent singing “Pie Jesu” but the ads, and the sense of relief I felt when a car commercial came on. Finally, a break from Frank Caprio, Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 and John Robitaille! Maybe it’s an influx of outside money, funneled in to sway the massively important Rhode Island elections. Then again, maybe not. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission aside, it would seem that the wave of negative campaigning that has characterized this polarized election season across the country has crashed on our fair state’s shores. Full disclosure: I don’t follow Rhode Island politics, since I don’t vote here. As someone who knows little or nothing about the gubernatorial candidates, I am ripe to have my perceptions shaped by the barrage of ads in between Oprah segments. Let’s see how they measure up. 1. The Democrat. Caprio’s slogan is “A Governor Who Gets It.” According to his at-

tack ads, Chafee “just doesn’t get it,” which causes various Rhode Islanders to put their heads in their hands. He even wants to raise taxes on medication. For shame, Lincoln Chafee. Judging solely by these commercials, Caprio’s economic plan appears to consist of repeating the words “small businesses” and “create jobs” over and over again until something happens. Also, he was endorsed by Bill Clinton and he loves talking with construc-

of cronyism, nepotism and pay-to-play. And I learned that Frank Caprio is “relentless” in putting out attack ads. 3. The Republican. Wait, there’s a Republican in this race? Why yes, yes there is, though you might not know it from listening to Caprio or Chafee. And he wants to you to know that his opponents are using attack ads to hide their terrible, evil records. But he would never do such a thing. Robitaille wants to take Rhode Island in a “bold new di-

As someone who knows little or nothing about the gubernatorial candidates, I am ripe to have my perceptions shaped by the barrage of ads in between Oprah segments. tion workers and short-order cooks. 2. The Independent. Now I actually do know a bit about Chafee, since he was a fellow at the Watson Institute and, prior to that, was one of the few Republican moderates in the Senate before being voted out in the 2006 election. What else did I learn about Chafee from his ads? I learned that Frank Caprio voted to raise taxes in the State Legislature. He even raised taxes on medication. For shame, Frank Caprio. I also learned that Frank Caprio is guilty

rection” by, among other things, working to create new jobs. Incidentally, that’s just the direction his opponents want to go in as well (even if Caprio mostly wants to create jobs for his family members). However, unlike his opponents, Robitaille is not a career politician. Let’s make that very clear. In case you forget it, he will repeat it every ten seconds. In the television ad wars, poor Robitaille appears to be as significant as a flea pestering two big dogs fighting over a bone. At least

no one has accused him of trying to raise taxes on medication. But this week, Caprio launched his first print attacks against Robitaille after a National Republican Congressional Committee poll showed the two in a dead heat. (Polls not sponsored by the GOP tend to show Robitaille much farther behind, but that has not stopped Caprio.) The main policy difference I was able to discern was that Robitaille wants to cut property taxes, Caprio wants to keep taxes where they are and Chafee wants a 1 percent tax on currently exempted items. It’s not exactly the stuff of riveting political drama, so their attempts to spice it up are understandable, but with all the time they spend casting aspersions on one another, none of them end up looking all that trustworthy. As your Average Uninformed OprahWatching Voter, I can’t say that I found any of these ads to be particularly enlightening. Maybe it’s not fair to expect any level of nuance from 30 seconds of handshakes, slogans and blazer-less collared shirts. But if voters are truly sick of politics as usual this season, how is watching a rich white guy promise that he’s going to create jobs and get Rhode Island back on track going to convince anyone?

Former Herald Opinions Editor Sarah Rosenthal ’11 thinks that Chevrolet should put out attack ads against Toyota.

In defense of humanities BY yue wang Opinions Columnist A recent budget cut at the State University of New York at Albany resulted in the elimination of its French, Italian, Classics, Russian and Theater programs. This betokens a shocking crisis of the study of humanities, one defining element of the “liberal arts education” tradition of which the American higher education system has long been proud. To our relief, while other American universities are redirecting money from humanities to sciences under financial pressures, Brown University’s new grant of three million dollars for the Humanities Initiative will allow for the sustaining and development of interdisciplinary study in the humanities. With this money, for example, the German department is now able to appoint new faculties and work towards the development of a more interdisciplinary academic program. By firmly supporting the development of the humanities, the University is sending us a message, in accordance with the spirit of the Brown Curriculum, that humanities are indispensable for our overall liberal arts education. Nevertheless, one cannot stop being concerned about the future of humanities in American colleges, even an Ivy League institution like Brown. After all, the student body’s persistent interest and lasting passion in humanities subjects is the only guarantee that humanities programs won’t fall to the mercy of unpredictable amounts of out-

side donations. The students’ interest in humanities could be demonstrated by enrollment in these academic programs — one justification of the cut cited by the president of SUNY was that “there are comparatively fewer students enrolled in these degree programs.” According to Stanley Fish, a contributor to the New York Times’ Opinionator blog, in the history of American higher education, humanities used to be the location of much of the intellectual energy and inspiration for many other disciplines in the ’60s and ’70s. In stark contrast to the “good old days,” a dwin-

and vocation-oriented subjects. Students should be concerned about their post-grad career and cannot be persuaded to ignore the job prospects of their chosen majors or coursework in college. However, what I want to argue is that the students’ presumption that humanities won’t pay their bills or pay as well as other subjects in the future is simply short-sighted. The fact that Ivy League students don’t take courses in Communications Disorders or Forensic Chemistry (like students in third-tier state universities and community colleges) but end up getting better jobs anyway tells us

Students’ presumption that humanities won’ t pay their bills or pay as well as other subjects in the future is simply short-sighted.

dling number of students today are enrolled in humanities degree programs. Looking at the Brown statistics in the past ten years, the number of concentrators in humanities studies either perennially remains in the single digits or has experienced a drastic decline, while the number of concentrators for more pragmatic subjects, such as economics, has doubled. This situation is further exacerbated by the current financial crisis; concerned primarily with post-graduation employment, students tend to divert their academic focus from the lofty humanities to more skill-based

that a complete liberal arts education, rather than vocational training, is still highly valued by most employers. The reasons that humanities can make us more competitive in job markets are numerous. The study of languages and cultures prepares us to communicate and mediate within different systems of values and beliefs. The study of literature trains our divergent thinking, which is essential to creativity and innovation. The study of philosophy helps to develop our critical thinking and argumentative skills. Even after thousands

of years and drastic changes in the modern world, who could deny that Socrates’ insights into the human soul are not as true as ever? Most of all, the ability to write eloquently and logically (as a result of completing countless numbers of analytical papers) will definitely make us an invaluable asset for any employer. Indeed, the interdisciplinary nature of the humanities and the diverse skills we will have accrued through four years of liberal arts education would actually make us more adaptable to various kinds of vocations than people trained in certain technical areas, thus landing us higher-paying jobs. Our adaptability to various jobs, especially those requiring a cosmopolitan outlook (such as business representatives), should be highly valued. Louis Menand, a Harvard English professor, said, “Knowing how to interpret cultural expressions and evaluate belief systems is as indispensable in the professional world as knowing how to use a computer.” However, too often we have arbitrarily judged what is useful and what is not before getting on the road of discovery. While humanities are getting the axe and being replaced by ECON 0110 and ENGN 0090 in our choice of courses, we are at the same time giving up the opportunity to get a complete liberal arts education in exchange for generic vocational training.

Yue Wang ’12 is a political science and German studies concentrator from Shanghai. She can be contacted at yue_wang@brown.edu.

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