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Symposium Football looks to past Bears edge Stony Brook 21-20 in season opener do, you’re going to chew up a lot as guide to of the clock,” said quarterback and Kyle Newhall-Caballero city’s growth Though Stony Brook University co-captain ’11.5, returning to the field for the By Ashley McDonnell Sports Editor
By Kat Thornton Senior Staff Writer
For years, there has been little more than asphalt and debris where Interstate 195 once ran through the city, but the empty lots — about 35 acres of land — hold promise. This weekend, politicians, design professionals and community leaders gathered at a symposium to discuss plans for the space and how Providence’s history could be applied to the land in the Jewelry District. Friday’s theme, the Capital Center, examined the project that created walkways surrounding the Providence River and assessed its successes and failures, while Saturday was devoted to looking forward, at how best to develop the newly vacant land south of Downtown. University engagement
The University is expected to play a significant role in the area. With the Alpert Medical School already in place, Providence politicians who spoke at the symposium, including Mayor Angel Taveras and Rep. Chris Blazejewski, D-Providence, said they hope the University can bring in people and organizations in the form of medical students and related biotech companies to jumpstart the economy. The new land is a “huge opporcontinued on page 2
looked poised to snap their threegame losing streak, the Bears ultimately triumphed in a thrilling 21-20 victory in the football team’s 2011 season opener Saturday. Stony Brook took control of the game early on. In the first quarter, the Seawolves held the ball for 11 minutes, scoring a field goal and setting themselves up for a touchdown less than a minute into the second quarter. The Seawolves were able to run down the clock with a primarily rushing offense. They totalled 246 yards on the ground, compared to the Bears’ meager 28. “When you run the ball like they
first time since suffering a wrist injury early last season. “That’s all part of their scheme and their plan,” he said, “They just want to keep the ball out of the other offense’s hands. For us, that means we have to make the most of our time on offense.” Newhall-Caballero managed to do just that — in a little over a minute, between Stony Brook’s two scores, he connected twice on long passes to Alex Tounkara-Kone ’11.5, who ran in the second catch for a touchdown to put the Bears up 7-3 after the Seawolves’ opening field goal. Newhall-Caballero
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Alexander Tounkara-Kone ’11.5 scored two touchdowns in the Bears’ 21-20 victory.
In down economy, CS 17 enrollment soars Federal By Hannah Abelow Staff Writer
Enrollment in CSCI 0170: “Computer Science: An Integrated Introduction” has more than doubled this year, with professors attributing the rise to continued economic uncertainty. Last year, 73 students were enrolled in the class — up just slightly from the previous year’s enrollment of 60 students. As of Sunday night, 154 students were enrolled. The course, commonly known as CS 17, is part of a full-year sequence in which students are then expected to complete CSCI 0180: “Computer Science: An Integrated Introduction” in the spring. CS 17 is one of three introductory computer science classes offered, along
with CSCI 0150: “Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Computer Science” and CSCI 0190: “Accelerated Introduction to Computer Science,” which did not see significant enrollment increases. Most students enrolled in CS 17 plan to concentrate in computer science, so its rising enrollment likely indicates a future rise in computer science concentrators, said Andries van Dam, professor of computer science. The overwhelming interest in CS 17 made for a “chaotic” first week of classes, said Claire Mathieu, professor of computer science, who is teaching the course for the third year in a row. Originally, the class was held in a room meant to hold 65 people. “The first day we had to use two classrooms, and I taught two half-
classes,” Mathieu said. “It was chaotic, but exciting.” Professors in the Department of Computer Science noted the impact periodic developments in technology and the economy have had on the concentration’s enrollments over the years. “In the past, as the economy went down, our enrollments went down and as the economy went up, our enrollments went up,” said Thomas Doeppner, vice chair of the Department of Computer Science and director of undergraduate studies for the department. “A few years ago the popular conception was there were no jobs in computer science. Now the economy is down, and people seem
dubbed “Satellite Slutwalks,” quickly popped up in other cities around the world, including London, Asheville, N.C. and, most recently, Providence. At noon on Saturday, around 150 supporters gathered in Burnside Park to spread their message. Sarah Quenon, one of the organizers of the event, said she read about SlutWalk in the news and sensed that criticism of the event — by both the mainstream media and feminist organizations — is that the “message is skewed or lost” due to the clothing choices of many participants. The name of the event often encourages attendees to dress promiscuously, continued on page 5
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In January, Toronto policeman Michael Sanguinetti visited Osgoode Hall Law School to offer students advice on personal safety issues. “I’ve been told I’m not supposed to say this. However, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized,” he told the students, according to a May 8 BBC article. His comments, though brief, instantly sparked an international movement called SlutWalk, an event to combat slut-shaming, victim-blaming and rape culture. The first SlutWalk was held April 3 in Toronto, but more,
By David Chung Senior Staff Writer
Graduate students currently receiving federally subsidized Stafford loans will see an overall increase in the cost of their education starting next July. As part of the Budget Control Act passed by Congress in August, the federal government will no longer grant subsidized Stafford loans to graduate students, requiring them to pay an additional $392 out of their own pockets, according to Elizabeth Murphy, assistant director of financial aid. The legislation eliminates the subsidy that covers the interest that accrues on the Stafford loans while the students are enrolled in school. When the change goes into effect in July, only unsubsidized Stafford loans, which accumulate interest at a rate of 6.8 percent, will be available to graduate students. “We are certainly not happy about it,” said Jim Tilton, director of financial aid. But Tilton also said the change is not as severe as it may initially seem — under the current loan program, only $8,500 of the maximum $20,500 that graduate students can borrow per year can be subsidized. The remaining $12,000 accrues interest while the
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Professors debate insurance mandate By elizabeth Carr Senior Staff Writer
In honor of Constitution Day, the Janus Forum hosted a discussion Friday on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, bringing to campus what some now refer to as the “broccoli debate.” The lecture pitted Randy Barnett, professor of legal theory at Georgetown University, against his former tort law professor, Charles Fried, professor of law at Harvard. The act requires all people not covered by a health insurance program to purchase coverage or pay a fine. Since its implementation, the act’s constitutionality has been challenged in many states. In a February hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Fried defended the constitutionality of the mandate — when asked if the act was not legally akin to Congress forcing people to eat vegetables, Fried said “Congress cannot compel you to eat your broccoli” but “they can make you pay for it, and that’s a big, big difference,” he explained in the lecture. Barnett began the debate on Friday, speaking to the crowd of students and professors in Salomon 101 about the difference between federally mandated action and inaction, which is what most federal laws regulate. “What if I told you 100 things you had to do tomorrow?” he said. “That would be a much, much bigger infringement on your liberty than 100 prohibitions.” “It’s not as though the federal government never requires you to do anything,” Barnett said, pointing to federal taxes and the draft as examples. He added, “Each of these duties is necessary for the operation of government itself.” According to Barnett, the government’s claims that health
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care is somehow “unique” and therefore legal to regulate are not based in the Constitution. Allowing Congress this mandate would give it “unlimited power, which is equivalent to a police power.” “The mandate’s defenders are claiming, because Congress has the right to draft you into the military and make you fight and die for your country, it has the right to do anything less than that,” Barnett said. Barnett concluded his argument by predicting that the Supreme Court will ultimately vote down the mandate, though he said he believes the vote will be close. Fried began his argument predicting the opposite outcome. “I think there’s a good chance that the Supreme Court will uphold the mandate by a vote of eight to one,” he said. “The one vote is Justice Clarence Thomas and that is because Justice Clarence Thomas has been for a decade urging a definition of commerce which is a very narrow one. He’ll be perfectly principled and perfectly consistent and perfectly
incorrect.” “Ever since the New Deal, it has been quite clear that if an activity or a system has a substantial effect on the national economy, the government has the power to regulate it,” Fried said. He reasserted his broccoli argument, raising objections to the suggestion that the mandate forces people to enter a market. “The real market is not the market for health insurance — it’s the market for health care,” Fried said. “It is simply false to say that any substantial number of persons have not at some point in their lives, and will not at other points in their lives, enter the healthcare market.” “Unless you were born at home without the help of a midwife” and your mother severed the umbilical cord with her teeth, you are a part of the market, he said. He concluded his argument by repeating the prediction with which he began: “eight to one.” — With additional reporting by Felice Feit
City talks plans for Route 195 land continued from page 1 tunity in terms of economic development,” Taveras said, calling Brown a “catalyst for growth.” But he stressed that the new land will be taxable. Because the University is a non-profit, it is not required to pay taxes on its properties under academic use, creating tension between city and University officials.
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ings, surface parking lots and new lots created by the relocation of Route 195 covering much of the area’s land. Such buildings are “completely inappropriate in the historic setting of College Hill,” she said. The relocation of Route 195 and the resulting properties’ proximity to both College Hill and the hospital complex made the Jewelry District “a kind of ideal location” for a new Med School building. Brown is now also eyeing the area as a home for its new School of Engineering. Brown will “get out and get engaged” with this new land, said panelist Dick Spies, executive vice president for planning and senior adviser to the president, at the symposium. Floating ideas
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ficials presented, but government and institutional leaders seem to be aiming to model the district after other medical and educational complexes across the country. Governor Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14, Taveras, President Ruth Simmons and others visited Houston’s Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, earlier this year. They see in the Jewelry District an opportunity to create something similar, something to bring in new jobs and boost the state’s economy. Together with the nearby medical complex centered around Rhode Island Hospital, the area has been branded the “Knowledge District.” For panelists, the prospect of a cohesive, visitor-friendly area was key. “I want to live in a city where you can just leave your house and walk,” Blazejewski said. While the last remnants of the old Route 195 structure are being swept away, there are still several infrastructure projects proposed or planned which will be key to the area’s growth. A pedestrian bridge will be built on the supports for the old bridge over the river, with a new waterfront park at its western end. A Rhode Island Public Transit Authority study is looking at the possibility of creating a new
transit line, such as a streetcar, to connect College Hill, downtown Providence, the Jewelry District and the hospitals. Panelists thought historical preservation should play a role in the development. Ron Henderson, a designer for “cityWALK,” the plan for public pedestrian walkways in the area, said in an interview with The Herald that his plan would make for a street pattern “similar” to the original street patterns. But it would also let pedestrian pathways “thread through all of the other planning and development efforts,” he said. He said he hopes to provide “equitable access” to “urban assets” for all the nearby neighborhoods, especially those which do not currently have access. The river will be a “central location that ties together different parts of the city, rather than a dividing element that separates different parts of the city,” Halsband said in an earlier interview with The Herald. Arnold Chace, president and CEO of local development firm Cornish Associates, was in the crowd Saturday and said he is encouraged by the community’s united vision for the land. Taveras nominated Chace to be part of a panel that will oversee the area’s development, but he did not receive the governor’s approval. The State House is expected to approve
members of the seven-member panel this week. “Our resources are so limited, so collaboration is necessary,” Chace said. Taveras said he hopes to see zoning regulations set by June 30, 2012, at which time business can apply and development of the new land can begin. Sticking around
For Brown students, Spies said, “the idea of staying in Providence has more possibilities than it did five years ago.” Planners and community activists continue to cite the importance of mixed use development — growing the number of restaurants, clubs and housing units to bring activity at most or all hours of the day and night. But despite the implications for city life, the attendees at the Providence Preservation Society’s “Make no little plans” symposium were mostly local real estate agents and designers. Real estate professionals in the state are required to fulfill a biannual number of credit hours to maintain their licenses, and this event was “one of the more interesting events” that could fulfill the requirement, said Sue Erkkinen, a local agent. — With additional reporting by Greg Jordan-Detamore
continued from page 1 completed 22 passes for 292 yards and three touchdowns. Just before the end of the first half, the Bears had a chance to tie the game 10-10 on a 39-yard field goal attempt, but the kick by Alex Norocea ’14 sailed wide left. Stony Brook proved its might in the second quarter, sticking to its strategy of slowly and methodically running the ball down the field. On their first possession of the second half, after several plays for small gains, running back Miguel Maysonet found a hole in the Bears’ defense and ran 26 yards for the score. The Bears were unable to convert on their next possession and had to punt the ball right back to Stony Brook. But Seawolves wide receiver Jordan Gush could not handle the boot from punter Nathan Lovett ’12 and fumbled the ball, which linebacker Daniel Smithwick ’12 recovered. From Stony Brook’s 46-yard line, one play was all it took for NewhallCaballero and Tounkara-Kone to connect again for Tounkara-Kone’s second score of the night. At 17-14, the Bears were again within three points of tying the game. A defensive stop by the Bears seemed to be a sign that the tide had turned in Bruno’s favor, but cornerback A.J. Cruz ’13 fumbled the punt, and the Seawolves pounced
on the ball. But despite starting field position at Brown’s 31-yard line, the Seawolves were unable to convert and gave the ball back to the Bears. “(The dropped punt) was a big momentum change for us,” said Head Coach Phil Estes. “We can’t have self-inflicted wounds.” After steadily driving down the field, Newhall-Caballero was flushed out of the pocket and lost the football. The Seawolves again recovered the ball, and this time they were able to convert into a field goal, expanding their lead to 20-14 midway through the fourth quarter. “I think we made a lot of mistakes — we just got lucky, like on the penalties,” Estes said. “We dodged a few bullets here. It just shows the resiliency of the team.” The Seawolves had 11 penalties that awarded the Bears 133 yards, compared to Bruno’s seven penalties for 81 yards. On Bruno’s final scoring drive, Stony Brook was flagged twice for personal fouls, worth 15 yards apiece. The free 30-yard boost helped the Bears move the ball down the field, and Newhall-Caballero was eventually able to connect with wide receiver Tellef Lundevall ’13 for a 12-yard touchdown to give Brown a slim one-point lead, 21-20. With 2:59 left on the clock, Stony Brook started marching down the continued on page 5
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Jobs play role in CS enrollment spikes CIS launches access continued from page 1 to think it’s one of the few places where there are still jobs,” he said. “In the early ’80s, I taught well over 600 students for a couple semesters. Personal computing was just starting, and there was a lot of curiosity about it. It hadn’t yet become an appliance,” van Dam said. “Enrollments have cycled since then. Around 2000, our enrollment went up significantly. It had to do with Silicon Valley and startups and getting rich.” “Then we had the dot bomb,” he said. “Coincidentally or not, we saw enrollments drop in the mid-2000s. In the last couple years, enrollments have gone back up. It’s interesting to speculate why.” Van Dam also pointed to Silicon
Valley’s active campus recruiting schedule as a draw for prospective students in the computer science field. “They’re beating down the doors to recruit here,” van Dam said. “Kids and their parents must know that.” Van Dam and Doeppner both mentioned efforts by the admission office to highlight Brown’s strengths in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the STEM fields — as a factor in the increased level of undergraduate interest in computer science. “There’s been a move to show the rest of the world that Brown is not just a liberal arts school, that there’s science here as well,” Doeppner said. “I’m happy to be in this predicament but want to make sure we’ve got the resources to handle all these
students. There simply isn’t enough space in this building for all our students,” Doeppner said. “We think we can handle them now, but we’re at our limits, and we don’t want to put enrollment limits on our courses so we’re having to scramble.” CSCI 0020: “The Digital World,” a basic course for non-concentrators, has seen a similar rise in enrollment — from 59 to 165. The class “removes the mystery surrounding computers” and teaches basic HTML, Photoshop and other skills, according to the course description. Last year, the course was titled “Concepts and Challenges of Computer Science.” Cody Mello ’15, who is currently enrolled in CS 17 and describes computer science as his “primary interest,” said he chose to take CS 17 because “CS 15 concentrated on object-oriented programming,” and he’s “already been exposed to objectoriented programming in the past so (he) wanted to learn more about functional programming because it’s becoming a bit more popular lately.” Mello also said the availability of jobs in the computer science world has played a part in rising enrollments. “People are always saying ‘Oh, you’re doing CS? There’s a lot of money and job security in that field,’” he said. “I expect someday everyone will learn how to program because it’s a useful tool and people are combining CS with other things — computational biology, for instance.”
network for guests By Felice Feit Contributing Writer
Brown Computing and Information Services added a Brown-Guest network Sept. 2 geared toward visitors to the University who cannot access Brown-Secure and Brown-EZ. Signing into the network is similar to the process of signing into Brown-EZ, but instead of providing a username and password, the user enters an email address. Those who log into the network for more than eight days or are found to be overusing it can be booted off the network. The policy of limiting access after the eight-day period exists both to make sure the network is reserved for temporary guests and to prevent the network from becoming flooded with traffic, said Stephanie Obodda, CIS’s assistant manager of communications and computer education.
“It’s probably a big help during move-in when all of the parents are here,” she said. Obodda said CIS wants students to continue to connect to the internet through Brown-Secure, and if that does not work, then through Brown-EZ. Brown-Secure is the only one of the three networks that is encrypted. The guest network does not allow students access to any keyed resources, notably library resources like JSTOR. The speed of the three networks fluctuates depending on web traffic, but Brown-Secure is the fastest. The new guest network is a part of CIS’s efforts to keep up with the Brown community’s demands for internet usage. In the past four years, wireless coverage has increased from 990 access points to 1365 access points, Obodda said.
PW staging of childhood script a hilarious delight By Phoebe nir Arts & Culture Staff Writer
Here at Brown, surrounded by young adults, it’s easy to forget how recently we were all fourth-graders, prepubescent warriors in a world both innocent and terrifying, making marshmallow models of the solar system and trying not to get picked last in gym. Or, in Ben Freeman’s ’13 case, writing a 62-page tragedy about the Revolutionary War, replete with beggars, literal shotgun weddings and heavy usage of the epithet ‘wench.’
Arts & Culture Freeman’s elementary school opus, “Shattered: A Drama in Two Acts” was staged Saturday at Production Workshop, the grand finale to a week of activities designed to stimulate creativity and release as many inner children as possible. “Shattered” follows the dissolution of the Thatcher family, proud Philadelphians who are brought to disgrace and depravity by the stresses of the burgeoning war against the British. Nearly all the major characters die — some by murder, some by suicide and some by tuberculosis — cursing their mothers and God and damned, filthy King George. What makes “Shattered” so funny is the felt presence of its 10-year-old author in his touching and transparent desire to impress. Characters use every fancy vocabulary word Freeman knew, cite a social studies textbook’s worth of colonial trivia and soliloquize to the heavens with alarming frequency. Alas, the slings and arrows of outrageous fourth grade! We see what he was trying to achieve as well as his delightful failure, and it makes for a roaring good time. Yet for every clue we have into the workings of Freeman’s young mind, we find another, larger mystery. What was he thinking as he typed on his mother’s computer the line, “Love — it is the most versatile emotion. It
can be like heaven, but all at the same time, Satan himself can rear his ugly head”? And what would the boy have thought a decade later as he heard those words delivered by the funny and very game Annie Kocher ’14 to uproarious laughter? No parody could achieve this level of comedy — if an adult tried to imitate the voice of a child, and produced Freeman’s wild script verbatim, it would seem like he was trying too hard. Despite the over-wrought plot and dialogue, there are many lovely and genuine moments to be found when the actors’ tongues are not lodged so firmly in cheek. Harrison Chad ’14 brings a sweetness to his role as a British soldier in love with an American girl that remains even as he propositions her mother and goes on a homicidal spree at her wedding. Sam Alper ’11.5 may not offer very comforting advice to a street urchin played by Daniel Stern ’13, but at least he explains the definition of “opportunity” to him. And Blake Beaver’s ’14 solemn lullaby to his character’s newborn child makes the audience still. In his gracious opening remarks, Freeman admitted to feeling conflicted about whether or not he was betraying his fourth-grade self by presenting the piece for humor. Ultimately, he decided that laughing with his fourth-grade self — who is, after all, not very different from his present self — allowed him to undertake the project without reservation. “Shattered” was a delight, and I’m glad Freeman decided to stage it, but it’s a valid concern. Behind all the ridiculousness was a young boy who wanted very badly to connect with people through storytelling, with a frankly amazing intuitive grasp of dramatic structure. And the adult world is filled to bursting with people who are afraid to express themselves, for fear of being laughed at. As Mariagrazia LaFauci ’12 frets, playing pregnant unwed Jane Thatcher, “I shudder to think what will happen to the child.”
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continued from page 1 Quenon said, which can undermine the goal of the walk. “I want to send a clear message to speak out against rape culture,” she said. Gabrielle Sclafani ’14, who performed spoken word poetry to kick off the walk, held similar concerns. “I read about SlutWalk in different cities, and I was skeptical at first,” she said. “But Providence was less focused on the spectacle of it and not a big demonstration of people scantily clad.” Compared to media images of SlutWalks around the country, Providence SlutWalk was tame. While there were some short skirts and high heels, most attendees were expressing their views with picket signs, including “The only thing my dress asks for? Dry clean only,” “Rapists cause rape, not our clothes nor our choices” and “My dress does not mean yes.” Franny Choi ’11 performed a poem called “China Doll” about the fetishization of Asian women to “remind the crowd that there are groups of women whose bodies always mark them as a slut.” “It’s important to speak out against rape culture,” said Yvonne Yu ’13. She added that casual references to rape, like telling a friend “You Facebook-raped me,” diminish the seriousness of rape. “After being at Brown for three years, I’ve realized that this is important,” she said. Men also showed their support. Josh Kilby, a local LGBTQ activist, spoke to encourage the LGBTQ community to “get behind this new and exciting women’s movement.” Harpo Jaeger ’14 attended “in support of other people’s right to call themselves what they want and do what they want,” he said. He added that he thought it was important for men to attend the event because “there’s a perception that feminism is only for angry women who don’t like men, but it should be possible
student is enrolled. As a direct result of this subsidy elimination, students receiving the maximum amount of Stafford loans during the 2012-13 academic year will owe $289 more than those receiving the maximum amount of subsidized Stafford loans during the current academic year. With the change in origination fee and the elimination of the repayment incentive and rebate program, the total cost difference for each student will be $392, Murphy said. The Office of Financial Aid is increasing its efforts to communicate the change to graduate students. Under the current circumstances, students who qualify to receive the maximum $20,500 in loans receive a net disbursement of $20,398 a year due to the origination fee and rebate program, according to Murphy. Once the changes of the Budget Control Act are implemented, students will receive $20,295 in their accounts, with $205 lost to origination fees. To maximize the amount of funds available to students, Murphy said the Office of Financial Aid is looking into ways of shifting the cost of these fees onto the cost of attending the University. Graduate students who owe, for example, $35,000 to Brown each
year and qualify for the maximum $20,500 in federal support must then obtain $14,500 from another source to fully fund their education. If the financial aid office proceeds with and implements its plan, the University would add $205 to the students’ cost of attending Brown. As a result, the students would be able to obtain $14,705 from the other funding source, compensating for the loss to fees and maximizing the funds directly available to them, Murphy said. “It’s really about the amount of money they can receive,” Tilton said. “They need the money up front to help them with their expenses related to school.” The Graduate School provides funding for all doctoral candidates for five years of study, and a funding method for sixth-year doctoral students was established in March. But master’s candidates do not receive such support from the University, and their admission process remains need-aware. Approximately 200 master’s students, who account for about 10 percent of the Grad School population, receive subsidized Stafford loans, wrote Peter Weber, dean of the Graduate School, in an email to The Herald. The cost of attendance will rise for these students next July, but Weber wrote that it is yet unclear if
for everyone to support women’s rights.” Sara Molinaro from the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence acknowledged a connection between domestic abuse and rape in her speech. “People ask, ‘Why doesn’t she leave? Why does she put up with that?’” Molinaro said of victims. “The question itself is unfair. Instead of asking the victim why she stayed, ask the perpetrator why they abused.” The last speaker was Katt Shott-Mancini, another organizer of the event, who described herself as “anti-SlutWalk.” “I have a bone to pick with this kind of activism,” she told the crowd. “It’s not about minimal clothing. It’s not about what you wear — in Toronto it was. It’s about ending rape culture. “You’re not proving a point by wearing heels,” she continued. “You need to follow up, go to meetings. You’ve got to do it more than one day.” Shott-Mancini’s speech, which was littered with curse words and tinged with aggression, left several attendees confused. Though the speech was met with scattered cheers, one member of the crowd said, “I don’t feel emboldened to go out and SlutWalk.” Still, marchers persisted with enthusiasm. Turnout was small compared to at other Slutwalks, like the 2,000-person Slutwalk Boston. But the crowds made their presence felt, chanting, “Yes means yes! No means no!” and “Hey, ho, patriarchy has got to go.” “We’re here because we have a daughter and because we consider ourselves feminists,” said Sarah Prak, who came with her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Naomi. “We’ll be able to tell her that even when you were small, you believed in expressing yourself freely and your right to say ‘no.’” Meghan Daniel, a senior at Providence College, put it simply: “We’re here because there’s honestly no good reason not to be.” Fraternity of Evil | Eshan Mitra, Brendan Hainline and Hector Ramirez
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master’s programs will increase their financial aid contributions to these students to compensate for the subsidy elimination. The University will begin discussing its budget for the 201213 academic year next month, at which time the Grad School’s response to this federal policy change will be considered. Graduate students will be represented in these discussions. The Grad School currently provides $3.1 million to its master’s programs for financial aid support, Weber wrote, and some programs may contribute more on top of that to aid its students. According to Matteo Riondato GS, president of the Graduate Student Council, there has not been much talk in the graduate student community about this change. For now, the Office of Financial Aid aims to inform graduate students about the policy change so that students are prepared when it goes into effect. “Our role is to help graduate students sort of manage the cost of Brown with whatever money they may get from the Graduate School,” Tilton said. “It is a year away, and I think we’ll be well prepared here at Brown to help our students understand it and strategize on minimizing any impact it does have,” Murphy said.
well, Estes said. Estes pointed to Matthew O’Donnell ’12 as the defensive stand-out of the game. This was O’Donnell’s first start, and he led the team in tackles with 9.5, two Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman of them for a loss. Though happy with the win, Estes also said there are lots of things that his team needs to improve before facing off against Harvard in the team’s Ivy opener Friday. “(This game) wasn’t pretty,” he said. “There are lots of things we could clean up and get better at.” Still, he said, “We played pretty well.”
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Keeping concentrators in the loop A new trend is emerging at some American universities and colleges: If a student fulfills certain academic standards, the institution guarantees that his or her degree will only take a maximum of four years. Therefore, if a student cannot graduate on time because he or she cannot get into a required class, the institution will pay for the student’s additional semesters. Perhaps the economics department should calculate the costs that such agreements might incur for Brown. Many senior economics concentrators found themselves unable to get into six particular upperlevel courses when they were suddenly limited to 100 this semester despite being uncapped in previous years. Further, some members of the department refused to enroll seniors who needed these upperlevel classes to fill requirements that would enable them to graduate on time. The dearth of spots in these classes induced plenty of anger and hysterics — most notably, The Herald reported that one student offered to pay another student for his spot in ECON 1540: “International Trade” (“Econ caps spur black market controversy,” Sept. 12). We applaud the economics department for eventually increasing the caps on those six classes from 100 to 110 and reserving those extra 10 spots per class for senior concentrators. We also appreciate the department’s ambition to get classes down to smaller lectures for the purpose of increasing class participation and professor-student dialogue. But this problem speaks to a larger, campus-wide issue — Brown has experienced easily avoidable administrative problems because some departments have failed to communicate thoroughly with concentrators. Various departmental nightmares could have been less calamitous with better and more advance contact between departments and concentrators. Though more and more professors have started to upload syllabi to the Brown course preview website in a timely manner, there are still many who have failed to post them a full two weeks into the academic year. Uploading syllabi at the beginning of the semester is an easy way to make students’ lives much easier. Yet some professors continue to leave students, many of whom have a stressful and packed shopping period, in the dark. While we do not mean to rehash last semester’s debates on the International Relations program, the entire procedure could have been much less taxing for IR students if administrators had been more communicative and sensitive about timing. Furthermore, we cannot help but assume that economics concentrators would have preregistered for their desired upper-level courses last spring if they had explicitly been warned about the class cuts. With a bit more department-student communication, students will have slightly easier lives, and departments will not face the negative and angry backlash against their otherwise defensible policy changes. And, of course, the University will not have to dole out the big bucks to get its students to graduate. Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.
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The Brown Daily Herald Monday, September 19, 2011
Understanding a different kind of diversity Ethan Tobias Opinions Columnist Too often, I hear students lament the lack of political diversity on campus. Brown, as the common wisdom holds, is a bastion of uniform liberal thought where dissenting opinions are unceremoniously dismissed. This line of thinking is epitomized by the column written by Garrett Johnson ’14 last week (“A different kind of diversity” Sept. 13), which argues that Brown is deficient in its diversity of political opinions. Johnson argues that should the University make “a wellpublicized effort” to attract conservative professors and speakers, more conservative students would flock to Brown, thereby increasing the political diversity on campus. Unfortunately, this line of thinking is flawed. On the whole, the student body is not abnormally liberal given its demographic. People between the ages of 18 and 24 are among the most liberal voters in the country. In 2008, a full two-thirds of young voters with a high school diploma voted for President Obama. And the top three states from which Brown students are admitted in a politically blind process are New York, California and Massachusetts. These also happen to be states where Obama won over 60 percent of the vote. And, since a liberal arts education is compatible with many of the political left’s values about education for the sake of education, it is unsurprising that a Herald poll conducted before the 2008 presidential election indicated that 86 percent of the student body
supported Obama. In fact, Brown students are really unremarkable compared to their peers at other liberal arts colleges. At Harvard, 82 percent of students planned to vote for Obama in 2008, and even 79 percent of students at Princeton indicated that they supported Obama that same year. Assuming that academic skill is randomly assorted within the demographic Brown pulls from, and that Brown always chooses
the University welcomed John Yoo, a former Bush administration lawyer, and in 2008, the Brown Lecture Board brought former Arkansas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. And even this past year’s speakers are not exactly the loudest liberal voices. Sanjay Gupta is known foremost as a medical expert and esteemed journalist — not exactly the first name that pops to mind when one thinks of a liberal talking head.
Brown students are overwhelmingly on the liberal end of the political spectrum because most bright, talented high school graduates planning to attend elite liberal arts colleges are. the strongest candidates, then by simple statistics, conservatives should be about as prevalent at Brown as they are within the population of applicants. In short, Brown students are overwhelmingly on the liberal end of the political spectrum because most bright, talented high school graduates planning to attend elite liberal arts colleges are. It would be unacceptable for Brown to purposefully admit more conservative students regardless of academic preparation merely to bolster their representation within the student body. In his column, Johnson asserted that the University should bring in conservative speakers and professors in order to increase political diversity. Here too, Johnson seems sadly misinformed. In my time at Brown, the University has hosted many diverse speakers. In 2009,
As for professorships, the University should select new professors based on their academic excellence. Anything less would shortchange the student body of the highquality education they paid for. Imagine, for a second, that the University went out of its way to hire creationist biology professors in order to “diversify” Brown’s biology department. The strength of the theory of evolution is that every piece of evidence ever collected supports it, though it surely is a darn shame that Brown students miss out on a so-called broad array of opposing opinions. While this biology example may sound hyperbolic, it still illustrates the limits of including more opinions merely to create the appearance of impartiality. Sometimes — and I am not saying that it is the case — one side might just be more correct than the other, and it would be dishonest to present both
sides as differing opinions of equal value. Creationists simply do not deserve a forum next to evolutionists. While there are probably many conservatively minded professors that are just as capable as their liberally minded colleagues, again the demographics are just not in their favor. As with the potential Brown applicant, the demographic of college professors is skewed politically liberal nationally, so it is no surprise that more Brown professors hold liberal positions. In fact, as far as I know, no systematic survey of Brown professors’ politics has ever been conducted, making Johnson’s assertion that Brown is deficient in conservative ideas all but speculation. Finally, Johnson argues for a wide variety of viewpoints being presented on campus, from conservative to communist. This single spectrum fails to speak to the full diversity of opinions and nuance already on Brown’s campus. One liberal student might be pro-labor, pro-gay marriage and pro-life, while another liberal student might be pro-free markets, pro-civil unions and pro-choice. Given the wide range of issues that Brown students are passionate about, there are an infinite number of combinations of political philosophies on campus. Brown is a campus full of some really strange, wonderful and fascinating ideas. Let’s not jeopardize that by inventing an artificial cross-section of the population. Ethan Tobias ’12 is an 18-to-24 year-old high school graduate from New York. He can be reached at Ethan _Tobias@brown.edu
ROTC expansion threatens the integrity of our community By Julian Park Opinions Columnist The Brown Committee on ROTC’s recommendation that the University seek an expanded relationship with the U.S. military must be seen for what it really is: a recommendation to fundamentally jeopardize the openness and safety of the Brown community. It is worth clarifying that the committee was not unified in this recommendation. As Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron, committee chair, informed the Brown University Community Council last week when I asked what the exact split was, only six of 10 voting members voted for this recommendation. Many proponents will gesture toward the report itself, which highlights strong alumni support — 77 percent of those surveyed — for “Brown serving as a host campus for ROTC.” The majority of students polled supports either maintaining or expanding the University’s relationship with ROTC in some form, and 30 percent of students oppose expansion. Despite the high visibility given to the polls in the report, these polls were “informal” and voluntary unscientific surveys. Several of the most concerning implications of the committee’s recommendation, which highlight the closeness of the vote, can be found elsewhere in its report. According to the report, the Solomon Amendment, a 1996 piece of federal legislation, “allows the Secretary of Defense to
deny (all federal) funding to any institution of higher learning that prohibits ROTC programs or military recruiters on its campus.” Brown’s relationship with Providence College — where our students participate in Army ROTC — has kept us funded. As a footnote in the report mentions, one member of the committee cautioned that “if the University were to expand its current relationship with ROTC, any decision to reduce that relationship at a later date would violate the Solomon Amendment.”
the exclusion of transgender individuals from the military. If discrimination against lesbians and gays was sufficient for Brown to take a stand on this issue, then discrimination against the trans community should be as well. “Second, we still have very little information about the concrete terms that an expanded relationship would take. There is a very real possibility that it would entail the dedication of University resources to the military, and to me the notion of Brown handing
ROTC scholarship allocation and the requirements of the Naval program effectively close off Brown’s open curriculum. In preparation for this column, I sought to speak with the four members of the committee who were against the recommendation to investigate expansion. All but one were either unable to respond or had “no comment.” Graduate student representative Sean Dinces GS wrote in an email that he hopes “students and faculty take the time to comb through the report in detail. I’m pleased the report mentions issues like the high degree of uncertainty surrounding what institutional resources Brown would be obligated to give the military if it expands its relationship with ROTC, but a casual reader could easily miss points like this.” When asked about why he and the other three members dissented, Dinces wrote that there was a lot of overlapping reasoning, but “each member emphasized different concerns. For me, it boiled down to two main issues. First, there is a categorical conflict between Brown’s Code of Conduct and
over resources to such a generously funded government institution at a time when the University is so vocal about budgetary constraints would be a tough pill to swallow. If the decision to expand can’t be taken back because of the Solomon Amendment, then the Brown community needs to know the exact terms.” In a recent presentation to the Graduate Student Council on the report, Dinces also informed his peers that the committee “had some issues with getting basic information from ROTC representatives,” pointing to the denial of a request to give the committee program syllabi. This refusal to issue syllabi could seem inconsequential, but the opacity of military institutions that this demonstrates draws one’s attention to the incompatibility of such institutions and the spirit of openness and free inquiry so central to Brown. For example, ROTC scholarship allocation and the requirements of the Naval pro-
gram effectively close off Brown’s open curriculum. As the FAQs section appended to the report makes clear, the Navy has course requirements for its ROTC participants. Thus, the extracurricular nature claimed by the report is dubious at best. Furthermore — and this is not in the report — ROTC scholarships for the Army, Navy and Air Force are issued based on “Academic Discipline Mix” criteria that prefer students studying sciences, technology, engineering or mathematics. While the report claims that deeming ROTC an extracurricular activity reinforces principles of faculty governance, this is only half true. Although calling ROTC extracurricular means that faculty continue to govern the curriculum and faculty hiring, it effectively limits their governance — which is affirmed in such documents as the Plan for Academic Enrichment — over everything else and indirectly challenges both curricular and instructional oversight for any program the administration deems “extracurricular.” In short, the ROTC report’s conclusions are a blank check to the administration to circumvent faculty decision making, promoting an irreversible decision that could expend overstretched university resources. It would undoubtedly run roughshod over the already under-protected and under-recognized rights of Brown’s transgender community members and threaten the integrity of the open curriculum. Julian Park ’12 also opposed ROTC on the grounds that it promotes overt militarism in an already too covertly militarized university. For more information email julianfrancispark@gmail.com
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New study aims to Nothing gold can stay tackle concussions Bruno’s undefeated streak snapped By Sam Wickham Sports Staff Writer
After defeating the University of New Hampshire last week, the women’s soccer team suffered its first loss of the season Sunday against Sacred Heart University. Though a late goal was enough to top the Wildcats (1-6-1) Thursday, the Bears (4-1-1) could not outscore a physical Pioneers squad (4-2-2). Brown 1, UNH 0
Chloe Cross ’15 netted the eventual game-winning goal with six minutes left to play to help Bruno earn its fourth win of the season. “We did really well in the first half,” captain Sarah Hebert-Seropian ’12 said. “The only thing again was that we did not capitalize on our chances.” The Bears had nine chances in the first half alone. Bruno’s defense kept the Wildcats at bay throughout the game, as keepers MC Barrett ’14 and Amber Bledsoe ’14 each only had to make one save. Cross broke the deadlock when she fired a shot into the lower left side of the net after beating her defender. UNH could not find a response before the final whistle, and Bruno walked away with its fourth win this fall. “The UNH game was a real good win for us on the road,” said Head Coach Phil Pincince. “We were patient enough to look for the winning goal, and we held on, so it was a good game.” Sacred Heart 3, Brown 2
Goals from Kiersten Berg ’14 and Alison Mullin ’14 were not enough for Bruno to overcome the Pioneers. The Bears started the game with intensity, matching the Pioneers’ physicality in
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Alison Mullin ‘14 fights for the ball during the team’s first loss of the season.
the midfield by pressuring loose balls. But Sacred Heart got on the board first when Amanda Stiles put away her penalty shot after being brought down in the box in the 19th minute. “I thought that we had a hard time dealing with the physicalness of the game,” Pincince said. “They were the most physical team we’ve played thus far.” The Bears nearly answered minutes later when Berg drove a low cross into the feet of Maddie Wiener ’14, who pushed her effort just wide of the post. Sacred Heart nabbed another goal in the 33rd minute when Lucy Gildein got in behind the defense and lifted the ball over Bledsoe to double the lead. Bruno finally clawed a goal back with a little over eight minutes left in the half. Hebert-Seropian played a ball over the top of the UNH defense that found Berg, who calmly slid her shot below the keeper’s hands to bring the score to 2-1 going into the break. The squad opened the second
half the way they closed the first, when Mullin headed the ball in off a corner kick just three minutes in, tying the game 2-2. But the Pioneers answered right back, when Stiles guided a long ball into the back of the net for her second goal of the match. Despite 20 more minutes of midfield pressure, the Bears could not come up with another answering goal, and the final whistle blew to bring the 3-2 defeat to an end. “I think we should have done better in the first half,” Hebert-Seropian said. “Coach said we didn’t really follow the game plan, and I agree with that. We had to be a little more aggressive.” The Bears face their next challenge Thursday at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (22-2). Bruno looks to learn from this first loss and get back to its winning ways. “We need to be more accurate with our passes to release pressure,” Pincince said. “From A to Z, we were chasing that game, so hopefully we’ll do a better job with that.”
By Sam Sheehan Sports Staff Writer
During a professional football lockout that was marred by namecalling, stubbornness and greed earlier this year, the only thing the owners and players could agree on was that football needs to be safer. Both the short- and long-term effects of head injuries have hung over the league during the past few seasons, shortening and ending players’ careers and lives. At all levels of competitive pigskin — including Ivy League football — the question is the same: What can be done to make football safer? Researchers hope to answer this question by analyzing the results of a recent study conducted by Brown, Dartmouth and Virginia Tech. The study, led by Joseph Crisco III, professor of orthopaedics at the Alpert Medical School, gathered data over the past three football seasons from the schools’ respective football teams. Players were equipped with special helmets containing sensors that measured the frequency and violence of hits in order to learn more about concussions, the specifics of which continue to elude doctors. “All we know is that, if you have (a concussion), you are more likely to have another,” Crisco said. “If we don’t understand the exposure, we can’t understand concussions.” The study showed linemen suffer the most frequent blows to the head, while running-backs are predominately the most violently hit. The recording of these impacts was just the first step for Crisco and his team as they moved the project forward. “It’s unlikely that there is a single value at which someone gets a concussion,” Crisco said. “Looking at
the injury data is the next step.” The researchers will be searching for similarities in the force and location of hits that resulted in a concussion. Crisco said he hopes the study will be able to recommend safer practices and equipment for football players, but also that he believes equipment and technology can only go so far. “It’s unlikely that there will ever be a helmet that can prevent a concussion,” Crisco said. Head injuries in football have been a hot button topic across the sport, leading to rule changes at every level. The Ivy League is now limiting teams to only two days of full contact practice a week, which Bears’ Head Coach Phil Estes said he is in favor of. “I think it’s something that we need to do, as a league, to show other leagues,” he said in Sept. 6 Herald article. The NFL has moved the spot from which teams kick-off up a full five yards, increasing touchbacks and discouraging returns that often end in violent hits. There has also been an increase in player heath care to deal with the long term effects of sub-concussive impacts that tend to be prevalent in linemen and other players who receive consistent blows to the head. These sub-concussive impacts have been linked to neurological conditions for players later in life and to psychological conditions such as depression. “You shouldn’t be allowed to lower your head,” Crisco said. “I’m a football fan, and I love hitting. However, what’s clear to us now is that intentional hits to head should not be a part of the sport.” “We need to keep the head out of the tackling and out of the blocking as much as we possibly can,” Estes said. “You must do a better coaching job.”
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Cross country
Veteran squads shine early By James Blum Sports Staff Writer
At Saturday’s Iona Meet of Champions, many experienced runners opened up their seasons with impressive performances. The men captured second place, 45 points behind firstplace Iona College and seven points ahead of third place University at Albany. The women finished in third place, only five points behind firstplace Iona College. “I thought they performed well,” said Tim Springfield, head coach of the men’s team. “We executed the game plan we drew up, and I was pleased.” Dan Lowry ’12 led the way for the Bears in the eight-kilometer course. He finished fifth overall, completing the course in 25 minutes, 6 seconds.
Matt Duffy ’12 claimed sixth place in the race and finished in a time of 25:13. “I was feeling really good in the race,” Lowry said. “Matt Duffy and I ran the whole thing together, and we were kind of feeding off each other. We kept moving up and kept picking people off.” Springfield said though the pack running was well, he wanted to see the team improve in reducing the time spread between runners. “I think as the season goes on, the spreads going to close even more,” Lowry said. The women were led by Margaret Connelly ’14, who completed the six-kilometer course in 22:07, and claimed second place overall. “We tried to stay controlled the first mile and then accelerate and at
least stay even in packs together,” said Mitchell Baker, head coach of the women’s team. “I thought we were pretty successful at that.” Heidi Caldwell ’14 finished second for Bruno and third overall in 22:12, and Ari Garber ’12 completed the pack with a ninth-place finish and a time of 22:53. “Those three probably have trained the most together but actually ran the least amount of race together,” Baker said. “We’ll have to have them closer together to be at our best.” The Bears’ next challenge will come Sept. 30 at the Paul Short Invitational hosted by Lehigh University. “We just have to keep being consistent, and I think we’re in a good place for an early season competition,” Springfield said.
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