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Simmons:
‘Painful’ cuts
looming
By Nicole Friedman
Senior Staf f Writer
The University will face “very pain-
ful” budget cuts in the fiscal year
beginning in July necessitated by
a sharp drop in revenue, President
Ruth Simmons said at a monthly
faculty meeting Tuesday.
The Corporation recommended
that the University decrease its
payout from the endowment by 20
percent next fiscal year, Provost Da-
vid Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 said. The
endowment lost $740 million in the
last fiscal year and was valued at the
end of June at around $2 billion.
Since the University’s three main
sources of income — tuition and
fees, fundraising and outside re-
search funding — will not increase
enough to make up the lost revenue
from the endowment, there will be
“significant reductions” in expen-
ditures next fiscal year, Simmons
said. She added that the University
could not incur much more debt
without putting its financial health
at risk. “Simply put, our planned
expenses, no matter how urgent
or how worthy, cannot exceed our
revenue,” she said.
Though the final budget will not
be approved until the Corporation
meets in February, the University
Resources Committee — the group
of administrators, faculty and stu-
dents that reviews budget requests
— will make its preliminary budget
recommendations to Simmons at
the end of the semester.
The University chose to cut $30
million from the annual general bud-
get at three points — this year, next
year and in the fiscal year beginning
in July 2010 — rather than cut $90
million all at once, Simmons said.
Though some peer schools made
huge reductions last year, preferring
to have “all the pain at one time,”
Brown’s slower timeline “should
not be taken to mean that we do not
have a severe problem,” she said.
Rather, spreading out the cuts
over three years allows the Univer-
sity to “keep people working longer”
and take more time making its deci-
sions, she said.
Kertzer reminded the faculty
that, of the $30 million to be cut
from next year’s general budget
— which does not include the Divi-
sion of Biology and Medicine — $7
million has already been saved by
reducing capital expansion plans.
The organizational review process,
which is currently seeking ways to
cut spending by altering administra-
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ing a week’s worth of recycled water bottles from Keeney Quadrangle.
Jewelry District plans clear bureaucratic hurdle
By Brigitta Greene
Senior Staf f Writer
The City Plan Commission unani-
mously approved an amendment to
the University’s 2006 Institutional
Master Plan Tuesday night, clear-
ing the first of two bureaucratic
hurdles before renovations can
begin on a new medical school
building in the Jewelr y District.
Administrators hope to begin
Goodman ’10 wins
Marshall Scholarship
By Max Godnick
Staf f Writer
Jeremy Goodman ’10 is among
35 students nationwide who will
receive the prestigious Marshall
Scholarship for two years of grad-
uate study in the United King-
dom, the University announced
Tuesday.
A triple-concentrator from
Bethesda, Md., Goodman is on
track to graduate this May with
an Sc.B. in cognitive neurosci-
ence, an A.B. in physics and an
A.M. in philosophy, according to
a University press release. He is
currently spending the semester
abroad studying philosophy at
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University of California
administrators stand firm
on big fee increases
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
H1N1 vaccine debuts,
student demand high
By SuzANNAH Weiss
Senior Staff Writer
More than 1,600 Brown students
have signed up to be immunized
against H1N1 this week, now that
the vaccine is available to all college
students 24 and under in Rhode Is-
land. About 350 students ventured
to a makeshift clinic in Josiah’s to
get the vaccine Tuesday, the first
day immunizations were available
on campus.
“I was amazed that it was that
many,” said Director of Health
Services Edward Wheeler. “That’s
pretty good for the first day.”
A medical service provider, the
Wellness Company, is administer-
ing vaccines on behalf of the Rhode
Island Department of Health along-
side nurses from Health Services,
said Wheeler, who sent e-mails to
undergraduates Monday and Tues-
day about the online appointment-
making system.
Kim Perley / Herald
The health department, which
decides when and how to distribute
the vaccine, required that students
construction on the facility at 222 The original master plan did
Richmond St. this spring or sum- not include major planning for
mer, to be completed by August the Jewelr y District, much of
2011, said Michael McCormick, which has developed over the past
assistant vice president for plan- three years, McCormick said. The
ning, design and construction at amendment detailed broad plans
Facilities Management, at the for the downtown area — includ-
meeting. ing streetscape improvements on
The University must also ap- Richmond and Ship Streets — as
pear before the Providence Zoning well as construction specifics for
Board of Review before construc- the Medical Education Building.
tion can begin, he said. The plan also includes a pro-
University College, London.
Goodman said he will use his
scholarship to study philosophy
at Oxford University.
“It’s ... an amazing honor and
incredibly humbling to have
been chosen,” Goodman said
Tuesday.
Up to 40 American students
are selected for the Marshall each
year and are given the funding
to study at the graduate level at
any U.K. institution in any field
of study.
The lengthy and demanding ap-
plication process began this sum-
mer for Goodman, when he ap-
Jeremy Goodman ’10 was among 35 American students awarded a
Marshall Scholarship this year. He plans to complete a program at Oxford.
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News, 4
India, in theory
Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Jhumpa Lahiri read
from her work Tuesday
make appointments in order to re-
ceive the vaccine, a decision Wheeler
said was a “smart move.”
The appointment-only system
“works much better when you’re
doing such a high number of vac-
cines,” he said.
“So far it has been running really
smoothly,” Wheeler said.
He said he expects 350 to 400
students per day and about 4,000 to
5,000 in total to receive the vaccine
before the clinic ends Dec. 18. The
health department has allocated the
University enough vaccine to meet
that demand, he said.
Next semester, students will be
able to make appointments to get
vaccinated at Health Services, he
said.
The health department recom-
mends that college students get vac-
cinated regardless of whether or
not they have recently experienced
flu-like symptoms — and even if they
have previously tested positive for
the swine flu.
continued on page 4
posed renovation of the Rhode
Island Center for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, cur rently
housed at One Davol Square.
Representatives of the Provi-
dence Preser vation Society, the
Providence Foundation and the
Jewelry District Association spoke
in support of the amendment.
Though the University current-
continued on page 5
Courtesy of Jeremy Goodman
Opinions, 11
teaching teachers
Brian Judge ’11 calls for
a renewed emphasis on
professors’ teaching skills
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C ampus N EWS “It just wasn’t good P.R. for the medical school.”
— Philip Gruppuso, associate dean of medicine, on a rule allowing medical
students to graduate without passing the USMLE Step 1 exam.

With three degrees in hand, Med School mulls new requirement

senior to head to Oxford
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plied for a nomination from Brown.
After reviewing his submission,
a committee of faculty and deans
endorsed his application.
After being selected for an in-
terview in early November, Good-
man conducted mock interviews
with Linda Dunleavy, associate
dean of the College for fellowships
and pre-law.
Goodman said he found the
advising process beneficial and
effective.
“Dean Dunleavy was really
incredibly helpful and patient
throughout the whole application
process in terms of looking over
essays,” he said.
“We ran a couple of mock in-
terviews, which were extremely
helpful,” he said. “I think (the
fellowship committee) does a re-
ally good job of helping students
through the process to maximize
their chances of doing well.”
Goodman’s interview was held
Nov. 16 in Washington, D.C.
In the interview, “We mostly
talked about philosophy,” he said.
“The first question was, ‘Explain
what string theory is and whether
it is science,’ and I actually had an
unique intellect.
“Jeremy is remarkable because
of his ability to thrive both in the
world of philosophy and the hard
sciences,” Dunleavy wrote in an e-
mail to The Herald. “The Marshall
represents a wonderful opportu-
nity for him.”
Goodman has been active at
Brown in reviving the long-dor-
mant Philosophy Departmental
Undergraduate Group, of which he
is president. He also coordinated
the inaugural Brown Undergradu-
ate Philosophy Conference, an an-
nual event that was held for the
first time this year.
While at Brown, Goodman has
spent his summers working at the
National Institute for Neurological
Disorders and Stroke, where he
conducted brain scans on epilep-
tic patients to localize language
processing areas.
Goodman said he is looking
forward to the experiences that
await him.
“It’s really exciting to go (to Ox-
ford) right now,” he said. “Oxford
has an incredibly strong program
in philosophy, and it’s a really vi-
brant community right now.”
Brown faculty members with
whom Goodman worked during
By Bradley Silverman
Contributing Writer
Last week the Alpert Medical School
floated a proposal that would require
medical students to pass Step 1 of
the United States Medical Licensing
Examination in order to graduate.
On Nov. 24, the Faculty Execu-
tive Committee met with Associ-
ate Dean of Medicine Philip Grup-
puso about the proposed change
to the medical school’s graduation
requirements. Currently, students
at Brown’s medical school are re-
quired to take the USMLE Step 1,
but do not need to pass it, Grup-
puso said.
The new requirement would take
effect beginning with the entering
class of 2014, according to Grup-
puso.
The USMLE Step 1 is the exam’s
first part and is normally taken at
the end of the second year of medi-
cal school. It is the first licensing
test that medical students take, and
at many schools a passing score is
required to continue to the third
year, Gruppuso said.
Step 2 is usually taken during the
final year of medical school, and stu-
dents at Alpert are not required to
take this exam, Gruppuso said. The
final requirement, Step 3, is usually
taken during a student’s internship,
the first year of residency, according
to the USMLE Web site.
The primary purpose of Step 1 is
to assess a student’s ability to apply
scientific concepts that are essential
to the practice of medicine, includ-
ing fields such as anatomy, genetics
and physiology, according to the
USMLE Web site. It is taken during
a single session over the course of
eight hours and consists of seven
sections of 48 questions each, for
a total of 336 questions.
It is difficult to obtain a good
residency without scoring well on
the USMLE Step 1, Gruppuso said.
Because of this, most medical stu-
dents strive to pass the exam any-
way, making the proposal largely
symbolic. Furthermore, it is not
possible to practice medicine with-
out passing the USMLE Step 1, he
added.
Students who do not intend to
practice medicine will be able to
receive waivers exempting them
from the requirement, he said.
The funding guidelines of many
of the federal loan programs that the
medical school depends on now stip-
ulate that medical students pass the
USMLE Step 1, Gruppuso said.
The change is also partially a
matter of reputation. Because Alpert
is one of a very small number of
medical schools that do not require
students to pass the USMLE Step 1,
Gruppuso said, there is a perception
that its curriculum is not as rigorous
as those at comparable schools.
“It just wasn’t good P.R. for the
medical school,” he said. While he
does not believe that the percep-
tion is fair, he admits that it is real
nonetheless.
The proposal was first brought
to the attention of the Medical
Curriculum Committee, where it
was approved, before being sent
to the Biomedical Faculty Council,
Gruppuso said. From there, it went
to the Medical Faculty Executive
Committee and then finally to the
University’s FEC.
FEC Chair Chung-I Tan, a pro-
fessor of physics and chair of the
department, said while the pro-
posal is largely an internal matter
for the medical school, all gradua-
tion requirement changes must go
through the University FEC.
Tan said he anticipates that once
it has been thoroughly vetted, it will
be approved by the FEC within two
or three months.
“We would like to do it early sec-
ond semester,” he said, to have the
new policy in place before the next
academic year.

Faculty hears about budget pressures

answer, so that was good.”
Goodman heard of his accep-
tance at 3 a.m. the next night after
returning to London.
“I was jet-lagged and exhausted
when I found out,” he said. “It was
pretty surreal.”
Dunleavy praised Goodman
as an exemplary student with a
sudoku
the process “have all been ex-
tremely supportive of my appli-
cation and generally have been
inspiring throughout my academic
career,” he said.
After completing the two-year
B.Phil. program at Oxford, Good-
man plans to pursue a Ph.D. in
philosophy.
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tive structures and processes, is
projected to save another $14 mil-
lion, he said.
Finding areas to cut the final $9
million is difficult because of pres-
sure to remain competitive, along
with “particularly painful” increases
in utility costs and debt service, he
said. “If you do absolutely nothing
new, there are all sorts of inflation-
ary pressures that lead to added
costs,” he said.
On top of that, the University
needs to keep up with its peers in
compensation and graduate student
stipends — both of which were fro-
zen for the current fiscal year — and
financial aid offerings.
BioMed, which has already made
a necessary $10 million in cuts, is
dependent on the University endow-
ment only to support financial aid
for medical students, Kertzer said. It
will be challenged to find new fund-
ing for financial aid next year, which
Kertzer called both a competitive
and “humanitarian” issue.
Simmons also announced at the
meeting that the University will of-
ficially be re-accredited for 10 years
by the New England Association of
Schools and Colleges.
The faculty also unanimously ap-
proved four motions on its agenda,
including officially establishing a
doctoral program in Africana Stud-
ies.
Three of these motions — the
doctoral program, changing the
name of the Program in Ancient
Studies to the Program in Early
Cultures and creating a master’s
program in Behavioral and Social
Science Intervention — will now
go to the president and Corporation
for review.
The fourth motion immediately
changed the Faculty Rules and Reg-
ulations to reflect an updated pro-
cedure for appealing actions taken
in response to sexual harassment
charges.

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C ampus N EWS “All we’re asking is for people to put a draft of the syllabus up there.”
— Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron

higher ed news roundup

nandini jayakrishna, scott lowenstein and rachel z. arndt
Provost asks profs to put syllabi online
By Thomas Jarus syllabus so that students can access course information. “For a long
UC administrators standing firm on Contributing Writer it at the beginning of the semester time, a system didn’t actually ex-
when choosing their courses,” he ist for professors to upload their
tuition hike despite protests Shopping period might be a little wrote. syllabi easily,” he said. “Now, that
The University of California system is moving ahead with a bit easier for students in 2010. Bergeron said the technology system does exist.”
proposed 32 percent tuition hike despite a series of student Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 has created an easy way to make Online syllabi will prove helpful
protests. UC President Mark Yudof said the system — which P’98 has asked faculty to upload syllabi available to the student when students consider classes
serves 190,000 students on 10 campuses — has “no choice” their course syllabi to the Univer- body. meeting at the same time, Bergeron
but to raise tuition, despite the opposition from students sity’s old and infrequently used Teachers “don’t need to have said.
and university employees that has resulted in a bevy of legal course-preview site by the spring a MyCourses site,” she said. In- Since this decision comes long
complications and media coverage, according to an article in semester. The preview page di- stead, they can enter their syllabi before the start of the second se-
the Chronicle of Higher Education last week. rector y, courses.brown.edu, com- into a database that includes all of mester, both Bergeron and Moore
The most public student-administrator clash occurred bines descriptions from Banner the courses offered during a given said they plan to remind faculty to
Nov. 20 at UC-Berkeley, where a dramatic confrontation with additional information from semester. upload their syllabi as the spring
between students who locked themselves in a classroom professors. Though some professors may semester approaches.
and a police team led to the arrest of 41 students for The decision to ask professors not have the final versions of their Moore said UCS is in the pro-
trespassing, according to Inside Higher Ed. Mostly peaceful to submit their syllabi came as a syllabi ready for shopping period, cess of contacting depar tment
protests were held throughout last week on other UC result of longstanding efforts by Bergeron said provisional versions chairs and “re-emphasizing” the
campuses. the Undergraduate Council of Stu- will suffice. positive effect this could have on
These events, combined with the perceived remoteness dents to improve shopping period, “All we’re asking is for people shopping period.
of some UC administrators and a September New York according to Dean of the College to put a draft of the syllabus up Bergeron credited UCS mem-
Times interview, in which Yudof joked about his more than Katherine Bergeron. there,” she added. bers with spearheading the project.
$560,000 compensation package, have fed the protest To facilitate uploading course The availability of syllabi will “These conversations started with
movement, Inside Higher Ed reported. information, Computing and In- allow students to move “past Ban- members of UCS, who were tr y-
The protests are a result of the UC Board of Regents’ formation Ser vices developed the ner,” said Robert Taj Moore ’11, ing to get more info out there for
decision to increase student tuition from $7,788 to $10,000 Academic Services Gateway, which chair of academic and administra- students in advance of shopping
and cut employee pay to help close the system’s deficit of at offers “centralized access” to on- tive affairs for UCS. Students will period,” she said.
least $753 million, according to the Chronicle. The shortfall line teaching tools. also be able to “see what professors Bergeron said she will remind
has largely arisen from cuts in funding from the state of In an e-mail sent to faculty are teaching, if the course will be faculty members to upload the syl-
California, which faces massive budget deficits of its own. Nov. 11, Kertzer announced the a better fit” than other courses, labi, but once they do, the onus is
creation of the Gateway and its he said. on the students to properly use the
Nonprofit that donated to Harvard, Columbia related tools. Moore said the University information. “It’s just as important
charged with aiding Iran “Among these tools is an easy had to wait for the technology to for students now to build that piece
way for you to upload your course catch up with the demand for more into their searches,” she said.
A nonprofit organization that has donated money to
several American universities, including Columbia and
Harvard, to promote knowledge of Islamic and Iranian
cultures was accused by federal prosecutors this month of
“illegally providing money and services to Iran,” the New York
Times reported last week.
The Alavi Foundation, which donated $100,000 to
Columbia months before Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad spoke at the school in the fall of 2007, has
denied the allegations, according to the Times.
Over the past 25 years, the foundation donated about
$332,000 to Columbia for classes in Farsi and Persian
culture, Columbia spokesman David Stone told the Times.
“We were as surprised as every other university and
nonprofit group that may have received such donations about
the recent news reports regarding this foundation,” Stone
told the Times.
The foundation’s donation and the university’s invitation
to Ahmadinejad were not related and assuming a connection
between the two incidents “does not stand up to rational
scrutiny,” Stone told the Times.
The foundation owns several properties in Queens and
other parts of the country. The government is in the process
of seizing some of these properties, many of which have
mosques built on them — a move that the foundation has
resisted, according to the Times.

Northeastern axes football program

The football program at Northeastern University has been
cancelled in order to concentrate funding in the school’s
strongest sports programs.
Athletics Director Peter Roby sent an open letter to the
Northeastern community announcing the end of the school’s
intercollegiate football program Nov. 23, after informing the
team and coaches the night before.
“The past several years have been disappointing for
our football program despite the best efforts of our staff
and players,” he wrote. Tight finances, combined with the
team’s lackluster performances in recent years, led to the
decision made by the Board of Trustees, the university’s
administration and president.
“Elevating and sustaining a competitive Division I football
program would require additional multimillion investments
on an ongoing basis,” Roby wrote.
According to Roby’s letter, the crunch for funding since the
recession has forced the university to adjust its funding of
school programs. The result has been “strategic investments
in areas of strength,” according to a Northeastern
press release. Current players’ athletic scholarships will
continue until graduation, according to the release.
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Reading, discussion kick
off two-day festival
By Ellen Cushing
Senior Staf f Writer
Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Jhumpa Lahiri kicked off a two-day
festival of Indian literature Tuesday
afternoon with a reading and dis-
cussion of her work in a jam-packed
Salomon 001.
The festival, which also features
events with authors Rana Dasgupta
and Suketu Mehta, is presented by
the Literar y Arts program and the
International Writers Project. It is
part of the University’s yearlong
“Year of India” initiative.
Lahiri began by reading a selec-
tion from her latest book, “Unac-
customed Earth,” a collection of
short stories released last year.
The second half of the event con-
sisted of a question-and-answer
session, during which audience
members asked the author ques-
tions about her writing process
and the way identity informs her
work.
One audience member asked
Lahiri about the extent to which
her Indian identity plays a role
in her stories and whether a non-
Indian writer could have written
about the same themes.
Lahiri responded by acknowl-
edging that her own experiences
and those of her family influence
her work. But she hopes someone
of another background could also
tell her stories, she said.
“This is what writers do: They
imagine their way into alternate
realities, alternate states of being,
and tr y to bring those to life,” she
said. “Writing is a way for human
beings to transcend their own re-
alities ... and to understand the
realities and to embody them.”
“Some might say that’s naive,
or perhaps optimistic, but that’s
what I want to believe literature
is about,” she added.
Lahiri also discussed the value
of creative writing classes, which
she took during the nine months
she spent earning an MFA at Bos-
ton University.
“For me, it was really crucial, re-
ally critical,” she said, adding that,
while she does not think formal
training is necessar y to become a
good writer, her studies forced her
to prioritize writing and identify as
a fiction writer.
“I was a lost soul before I be-
came a writer,” she said. “I was
wandering around the world, and
not happily.”
The festival, called “New Indian
Writing: The Rising Generation,”
focuses on an emerging crop of
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“I was a lost soul before I became a writer.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, read from her work Tuesday as part of an Indian Literature festival.
Indian-American writers, said
Meera Viswanathan, a professor
of comparative literature and one
of the event’s organizers, in intro-
ductor y remarks.
Lahiri — who was born in Lon-
don to Bengali parents but raised
in Kingston, R.I. — embodies this
“rising generation,” Viswanathan
said after the event.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Lahiri’s work, which often focus-
es on first- and second-generation
Indian immigrants and addresses
themes of immigration and cross-
cultural identity, dovetails with the
larger goals of the Year of India,
Viswanathan added.
“The focus of the Year of India is
not the static India of the past, but
on that which overlaps and crosses
Students flock to Jo’s
for H1N1 vaccines
continued from page 1
“It’s possible to have a false posi-
tive,” Wheeler said.
About 750 Brown students have
reported flu-like illness since Sept.
1, according to Wheeler. Of those,
37 have been tested for the H1N1
virus. Eighteen of those tests came
out positive.
Despite some rumors floating
around to the contrary, Wheeler
said, the risk of an allergic reaction
to the H1N1 vaccine is no higher
than it is for any other immuniza-
tion. Still, students are required to
stay at Jo’s for 15 minutes following
the vaccination in case a reaction
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Quinn Savit / Herald
and transgresses with the rest of
the world, and those are some of
the themes she is interested in,”
she said.
Brian Evenson, director of the
literar y arts program, said Lahiri
was asked to the festival because
“she’s someone who talks a great
deal about people who exist across
cultures and between cultures.”
occurs.
The H1N1 vaccine comes in the
form of a “painless” nasal spray,
Wheeler said, although a limited
number of injections are available
for those with certain medical con-
ditions.
Health Services is giving stu-
dents the opportunity to schedule
appointments one week at a time.
As of Tuesday evening, most of the
appointments for this week were
filled, Wheeler said.
“If people have trouble getting
an appointment, they should keep
trying, because we will be getting
more vaccine as the weeks go on,”
he said.
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C ampus N EWS
Profs debut data trove
about U.S. nursing homes
By Anna Andreeva
Contributing Writer
The University’s Center for Ger-
ontology and Healthcare Research
launched a Web site last month aimed
at providing researchers and policy-
makers with data on the quality of
nursing home care in the United
States.
The Web site is the first of its
kind to “provide a massive amount
of data all in one site that has never
been brought together before,” said
Denise Tyler, project manager of
the Center’s project Shaping Long-
Term Care in America. The site is
also innovative for its conversion of
patient-level data into broader-scale
information about whole nursing
homes, she said.
The site, ltcfocus.org, was cre-
ated by a team of about 10 faculty
researchers led by Vincent Mor,
professor of community health and
chair of the department, and was
assisted by half a dozen Web design
specialists, Tyler said. A number of
graduate and post-doctoral students
were involved in testing the site.
Institutional master plan gets approval from city board
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ly pays taxes on the 222 Richmond
property, administrators hope to
shift the proper ty to the “pay-
ment in lieu of taxes” or “PILOT”
agreement with the city, gradually
decreasing its payments for the
facility over the next 15 years, Mc-
Cormick said.
McCormick also presented
changes to the original plan for
properties on College Hill that have
arisen from financial constraints.
The proposed separate fitness and
aquatics center has been combined
into one facility, and plans for the
Creative Arts Center were slightly
scaled down.
“We have been affected by the
economy just like the rest of the
world,” he said.
He also presented a “progress
repor t” of ongoing University
initiatives.
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The Web site allows users to cre-
ate and compare data sets or maps by
state, number of beds, demographics
and Medicaid policies, among other
variables. Users can also register
to receive updates and downloads
of the data.
While data is currently only avail-
able for the years between 2000 to
2007, the Center hopes to soon ac-
quire and post information through
2009.
“The next set of variables will be
‘quality measures’ variables related
to nursing-home care,” Tyler said.
“We’d like to add information on
other forms of nursing care, such
as assisted living facilities and home
health care.”
The site primarily targets law-
makers and researchers of long-term
care, and Tyler said the project is
designed to be “user-friendly for poli- Kim Perley / Herald
Members of the men’s lacrosse team organized a 36-hour run to raise money for the Wounded Warriors Project.
cymakers, state legislature people
and their aides,” Tyler said. Although
the site is not designed for consum- was held at the annual meeting of the ing on data sources, site navigation
ers, Tyler said the resource “could be Gerontological Society of America in and the reliability of the data, Tyler
used by people who are researching Atlanta, Ga. last month. Members said.
nursing homes for a loved one.” of the research team gave four pre- “We’ve had a lot of positive feed-
A symposium about the Web site sentations regarding the site, touch- back so far,” she said.
to gradually increase its presence surrounding proposals for the new especially at certain times of the
within a facility at 121 South Main athletic complex. The majority of year.
St., now occupying more than 60 the current parking lot outside the “Brown has an obligation to
percent of the building’s of fice Olney-Margolies Athletic Center minimize its ef fect on the sur-
space. The building houses the will be converted to green space rounding community,” said Wil-
Program in Public Health. The under current plans for the area. liam Touret, a former president
University is also looking to sell its Though he said this would only of the College Hill Neighborhood
Tockwotton Street Warehouse — present a potential parking short- Association.
previously under use as a creative age during large athletic events Though he said that parking
arts studio — and a facility at 1128 — which occur on roughly 15 concerns do not directly relate to
North Main St., he said. weekends each year — residents the amendment to Brown’s master
Students, faculty and staff have in attendance said it would still plan, “the City Plan Commission
increasingly taken advantage of result in a noticeable increase in still has the responsibility to deal
public and alternative transpor- congestion on surrounding streets, with them,” he said.
tation, he said. More than 3,000
Brown community members took
advantage of the subsidized public
transit fares in the fiscal year end-
ing in June, representing a 40-per-
cent increase from the previous
year. The number of Zipcars on
campus has increased from two
to 11 since 2005, he said.
McCormick also addressed
parking concerns in and around
the College Hill campus, especially
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One victory, two losses
for w. basketball team
The women’s basketball team had
a mixed week, beating in-state rival
Bryant, 79-72, in overtime on Nov.
24 before dropping two games over
the weekend at the Long Island Uni-
versity Turkey Classic to move to 2-4
on the season.
On Tuesday, the Bears traveled
to Smithfield to face the Bulldogs.
Trailing 19-16 with 6:37 left in the
first half, Brown racked up 14
straight points to cruise into half-
time with an 11-point lead.
A trey by Lindsay Nickel ’13
gave the Bears a 52-41 lead with
9:12 left, but the Bulldogs clawed
back to tie the game at 60, and af-
ter the teams traded final-minute
three-pointers, the game went into
overtime. Hannah Passafuime ’12
opened the extra session with a
jumper, and Brown never gave up
the lead, beating Bryant, 79-72.
Nickel led all scorers with 19
points, Passafuime added 11 points
and led Bruno with eight rebounds
and Christina Johnson ’10 chipped
in 10 points.
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On Friday, the Bears traveled
to Brooklyn, N.Y., to face host LIU
in the opening game of the Turkey
Classic. The Blackbirds scored the
first nine points of the game and
never trailed en route a 68-55 vic-
tory. Natalie Bonds ’10 and John-
son paced Brown with 10 points
apiece.
Bruno squared off against Seton
Hall the following day in the tourna-
ment consolation game, taking its
Big East opponent to the wire. After
ending the first half tied at 31, the
Pirates came out of the locker room
on a 13-3 run. The Bears, trailing
58-50 with 3:01 left, scored the final
seven points of the game to fall one
point short.
Nickel and Johnson each scored
14 points, while Aileen Daniels ’12
added 12.
The Bears will return to ac-
tion today when Boston Univer-
sity invades the Pizzitola Center
at 4 p.m. Jesse Morgan / Herald
— Sports Staff Reports The women’s basketball team, shown above in last week’s win against Central Connecticut, lost twice over
the holiday weekend.
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S ports W ednesday
Wrestling posts a solid start at Keystone Classic
By Han Cui
Assistant Spor ts Editor
In their second tournament of the
season, Brown wrestlers finished
sixth out of nine teams at the Key-
stone Classic, hosted by Penn on
Nov. 22.
Six wrestlers placed individu-
ally, led by Bran Crudden ’10, who
finished second at the 184-pound
weight class. Br yan Tracy ’10
placed third at 157, followed by
Greg Einfrank ’10, Cortland Choate
’13 and Larry Otsuka ’10, who each
took fourth place in their respective
weight classes. Caleb Blaney ’13
rounded out the tournament by
finishing sixth in the heavyweight
class.
After the opening tournament,
Head Coach David Amato said he
wanted to see how the team, espe-
cially the freshmen, would respond
in the Keystone Classic. He was
pleased by what he saw at Penn.
“This tournament was not as
difficult as Binghamton, but I did
see improvement, especially from
the freshmen,” Amato said.
The two freshmen who placed
individually, Choate and Blaney,
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are good examples. Choate upset
the third seed, Thomas Williams of
American, 11-6, in the quarterfinals
at 133. After losing the semifinal
match, 6-0, Choate came back in
the consolation bracket to advance
to the third-place match, where he
eventually lost 15-2 to claim fourth
place.
Blaney lost his opening match
by fall, but he stormed back in the
consolation bracket by winning two
consecutive matches to advance
to the fifth-place match. Although
he lost his last match, Blaney, like
Choate, enjoyed his first individual
placement at the collegiate level by
claiming sixth place.
Amato said the sixth-place team
finish “isn’t great,” but added that
the Bears were competing with-
out some wrestlers due to injuries
and with some wrestlers who just
returned to competition from inju-
ries. “If we have those guys back,
we would have been in the top
four,” Amato said.
Just as in the first tournament,
the seniors performed well again.
Crudden, the sixth seed at 185,
upset the third seed, Dylan Tem-
ple of Appalachian State, 4-2, in
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his quest into the finals. He then
handily defeated Kurt Brendel of
Princeton, who upset the second
seed earlier, by fall just 55 seconds
into the match. Crudden eventually
lost to the first seed, Mike Cannon
of American, in the finals to claim
second place.
At 157, Tracy posted the sec-
ond-best finish for the Bears by
taking third place. After winning
his match against Jake Hunter of
Penn, Tracy dropped the semifinal
match to the third seed, Shawn
Smith of Liberty, 7-3. In the conso-
lation bracket, Tracy wrestled his
way back by first defeating Danny
Scotton of Princeton, 12-10, and
then besting Ben Mandelbrant of
Boston University, 9-6, to claim
third place.
The Bears will head to Las
Vegas today for the two-day Las
Vegas Cliff Keen Invitational this
weekend. It will be the last tourna-
ment for the team before winter
recess begins.
“In tournaments like Vegas, I
am looking for more quality wins
and individual placements,” Amato
said of his expectation for the up-
coming tournament.
Clemente stymies
Crimson yet again
By Dan Alexander
Senior Staff Writer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Mike Clem-
ente ’12 hasn’t been a cordial guest in
his three visits to Harvard.
The Brown goalie, who gave Har-
vard its first back-to-back shutout
losses in 111 years at the end of last
season, nearly gave the Crimson an-
other in the Bears’ 4-1 victory last
night.
“The goaltender has been sensa-
tional,” said Harvard Head Coach Ted
Donato. “I think he made three saves
in the first period that were almost
sure goals.”
Clemente, who had 41 saves on
the night, said he loves to play at
Harvard.
“I mean, you come to Brown and
the first thing you hear about is how
much everyone hates Harvard and
how much they hate you,” he said.
“You just want to pump them every
time you play.”
For the third time in a row, the
Bears (2-7-1, 1-4-1 ECAC) beat the
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Crimson, getting their first conference
win. Harvard (1-7-2, 1-5-2) extended
its winless streak to nine games.
“We’re missing confidence,” Do-
nato said. “What sometimes happens
when a goalie is playing that well is
you start looking for the perfect shot,
and you can frustrate yourself that
way. So, I think we did that.”
Harvard outshot Brown 43-33 on
the night.
“Unfortunately we didn’t get re-
warded with our hard work,” said
Harvard captain Alex Biega. “It’s
just — it’s beyond frustrating at this
point.”
The Bears got on the scoreboard
with less than two minutes left in the
first period when tri-captain Jordan
Pietrus ’10 ripped a shot from the
left faceoff circle. Forward Jarred
Smith ’12, standing at the edge of the
crease, tipped it past Harvard goalie
Kyle Richter for his second goal of
the season.
Two minutes and 15 seconds into
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Obama lays out troop-surge strategy for Afghan war
By Scott Wilson
The Washington Post
President Obama announced Tues-
day that he will send 30,000 addi-
tional U.S. troops to Afghanistan by
next summer and begin withdraw-
ing forces in July 2011 after nearly
a decade of battle.
Addressing the nation from the
U.S. Militar y Academy at West
Point, Obama drew on the weight
of war he has felt as commander in
chief and on the national security
interests at stake in Afghanistan
and Pakistan to explain his decision
to escalate the eight-year-old con-
flict and to begin leaving it before
his term ends. He warned bluntly
that “huge challenges remain.”
“Afghanistan is not lost, but for
several years it has moved back-
wards,” he said. “In short, the sta-
tus quo is not sustainable.”
Obama concluded a three-
month review of war strategy by
placing extraordinar y confidence
in a strained U.S. militar y and ap-
plying fresh pressure on the un-
certain government of President
Hamid Karzai to reform itself in
months rather than years.
The 30,000 additional U.S.
troops amount to most of what
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the com-
mander of U.S. and NATO forces in
Afghanistan, requested at the end
of August. But by setting a date
for when he will begin removing
U.S. forces, scheduled to number
about 100,000 by next summer,
Obama is effectively holding Mc-
Chrystal to the urgent timeline he
laid out in his bleak assessment of
the situation.
Obama’s escalation of the war
effort and presentation of an exit
strategy reflects the divisions that
emerged within his administration
during the strategy review and the
difficult politics he faces in selling
his plan at home and abroad.
Manufacturing, real estate data paint muddled picture
By Dina ElBoghdady
The Washington Post
The uneven nature of the eco-
nomic recover y was on display
again Tuesday with the release of
mixed data on pending home sales,
manufacturing and construction
spending.
The residential real estate
markets showed signs of gain-
ing momentum, in the new data
while manufacturing appeared to
lose steam after a growth spurt
over the summer. More troubling,
the commercial real estate sector
seemed to be in “free-fall,” as one
analyst put it.
All told, the data did little to help
economists assess how fast the
economy is growing and whether
that growth will be strong enough
to generate jobs.
The brightest note came from
the National Association of Real-
tors, which reported a strong gain
in the number of pending home
Foreshadowing the debate over
his strategy, Obama said: “Years
of debate over Iraq and terrorism
have left our unity on national secu-
rity issues in tatters, and created a
highly polarized and partisan back-
drop for this effort.”
As details of his plan emerged
Tuesday, some Republicans ac-
cused Obama of aiding the Tali-
ban insurgency by setting a date
to begin a withdrawal, even though
administration officials said the
pace will be determined by the
country’s security and political sta-
bility. Democrats criticized Obama
for an expensive, if time-limited,
expansion of an unpopular conflict
at a time of economic hardship at
home.
The president spoke for about
40 minutes to an audience of cadets
gathered at Eisenhower Hall on
this historic campus on the banks
of the Hudson River. Many of those
in attendance will deploy to Afghan-
istan as part of Obama’s escalation,
and they received his speech with
a mix of solemn silence and polite
applause. Seventy-three West Point
graduates have died in battle since
the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Obama’s audience extended
beyond the hall to include a skep-
tical American public, reluctant
allies abroad, a weak government
in Pakistan, and an Afghan popula-
tion waiting to see whether inter-
national forces or the Taliban will
win the war.
Only a minority of Americans
believes the eight-year-old battle re-
mains worth fighting, according to
recent opinion polls, and Obama’s
decision to rapidly deploy tens of
thousands of additional U.S. troops
and his appeal to NATO allies for
more will sharply intensify the con-
flict in the coming months.
More than 920 U.S. troops
have died in Afghanistan since
the 2001 invasion that toppled the
sales in October — the ninth
straight month it recorded an in-
crease.
The group’s index, which tracks
the number of contracts to buy pre-
viously owned homes, rose 3.7 per-
cent from September to October.
The reading was up 31.8 percent
from last October — the biggest
annual gain since the index was
created in 2001.
The group attributed the rise
to the $8,000 tax credit for first-
time buyers. That program was to
expire Nov. 30. But it was recently
extended to Apr. 30 and expanded
to include people who now own
homes. In October, when its fate
was in flux, people rushed to get
in under the deadline, the group
said.
Analysts view the data as a
leading indicator of future sales
because it charts contracts, not
actual completed transactions.
But serious doubts linger about
whether these kinds of gains can
Taliban, and the pace of combat
deaths has accelerated this year
with Obama’s earlier decision to
send an additional 22,000 forces,
along with 11,000 that administra-
tion officials say were authorized
by Obama’s predecessor. So far this
year, 298 U.S. soldiers have died in
Afghanistan, surpassing the 155
killed there last year.
In his assessment of the con-
flict, McChr ystal wrote that the
war probably would be won or lost
in the next 18 months. Senior ad-
ministration officials emphasized
that July 2011 — about 18 months
from when the first batch of ad-
ditional U.S. troops will arrive in
Afghanistan — will mark the start
of the U.S. withdrawal.
Administration officials have
said that, while the Taliban can-
not be eliminated as a militar y
and political force, the goal is to
weaken the movement to the extent
that it cannot threaten the central
government or provide sanctuar y
for al-Qaida.
Obama is essentially gambling
that Karzai, who was reelected last
month by default, will feel more
pressure to reform the nation and
that the Taliban will not simply wait
out the U.S. militar y presence.
“Just as we have done in Iraq,
we will execute this transition
responsibly, taking into account
conditions on the ground,” Obama
said. “But it will be clear to the
Afghan government — and, more
importantly, to the Afghan people
— that they will ultimately be re-
sponsible for their own countr y.”
Many of Obama’s political ad-
visers, including Vice President
Joe Biden, argued for a more nar-
rowly focused counterterrorism
policy that would accelerate Afghan
troop training, step up aerial drone
strikes against al-Qaida operatives
in the borderlands of Afghanistan
and Pakistan, and help shore up
be maintained, especially if unem-
ployment keeps rising and govern-
ment inter vention in the housing
market is curtailed. The economic
recover y, many analysts agree, is
a fragile one.
Its volatility is reflected in the
manufacturing and construction
numbers, also released Tuesday.
The Institute of Supply Man-
agement, which sur veys large
manufacturing businesses and
compiles an index based on the
results, found that manufacturing
continued to expand in November,
albeit more slowly.
The index’s reading was 53.6,
marking the fourth straight month
of expansion. A reading under 50
would signal contraction. But the
November results fell below Octo-
ber’s 55.7 reading, evidence that
manufacturing activity may be
tapering off.
Paul Dales, an economist at Cap-
ital Economics, said last month’s
results were “not a disaster.” In
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | Page 8
the nuclear-armed government of
Pakistan against a Taliban insur-
gency inside its borders.
Karl Eikenberr y, the U.S. am-
bassador to Afghanistan, also op-
posed sending additional troops, ar-
guing that doing so would increase
Karzai’s dependence on the U.S.
military and prolong the country’s
involvement in the war.
Although Obama decided to
send more troops than Biden and
Eikenberr y had wanted, the spe-
cific timeline he set for the start of
the withdrawal was a nod to their
concerns, administration officials
said.
“The people of Afghanistan have
endured violence for decades,”
Obama said. “They have been con-
fronted with occupation — by the
Soviet Union, and then by foreign
al-Qaida fighters who used Afghan
land for their own purposes. So
tonight, I want the Afghan people
to understand — America seeks an
end to this era of war and suffering.
We have no interest in occupying
your countr y.”
In his speech, Obama appealed
to NATO allies, which under his
strategy will be asked to contribute
at least 5,000 additional troops to
the war. In many European coun-
tries, the conflict is even less popu-
lar than it is in the United States.
“We must come together to end
this war successfully,” he said. “For
what’s at stake is not simply a test
of NATO’s credibility — what’s at
stake is the security of our allies,
and the common security of the
world.”
Obama reaffirmed that destroy-
ing al-Qaida is the chief objective of
his strategy and emphasized that
turning over government and se-
curity responsibilities to Afghans
as quickly as possible is essential
to the mission.
He called the region “the epi-
center of the violent extremism
a note to clients, Dale said, “The
index is still consistent with fairly
decent GDP growth of around 3.5
percent per year.”
In a note to their clients, econo-
mists at Goldman Sachs said the
details of the index were “better
than the disappointing headline.”
For instance, even though there
was a larger-than-expected two-
point decline, the new-orders com-
ponent of the index rose 1.8 points,
to 60.3, and the gap between orders
and inventories improved.
Meanwhile, the closely watched
employment component of the in-
dex continued to grow, but at a
slower pace. The reading was 50.8
in November, down 2.3 points from
October.
The results were equally mixed
for construction spending.
The Commerce Depar tment
reported that month-over-month
construction spending was essen-
tially flat in October, at $910.8 bil-
lion, suggesting that construction
practiced by al-Qaida,” and warned
that “this danger will only grow if
the region slides backwards, and
al-Qaida can operate with impu-
nity.”
Of the 30,000 additional U.S.
troops that Obama plans to deploy,
5,000 will be dedicated to training
Afghan security forces. A senior
administration official said the goal
for the Afghan army, for example,
is to increase its ranks from 90,000
to 134,000 by the end of 2010.
All the troops are due to arrive
by the end of May, moving up by
about six months the expected de-
ployment schedule. Most of the
combat troops will be used in the
south and east, where the Taliban
is strongest.
During the review, Obama asked
for province-by-province assess-
ments of the Taliban’s strength, the
effectiveness of provincial Afghan
leaders and the overall security
outlook to determine how quickly
U.S. forces could leave cer tain
regions.
Those calculations, likely to
evolve as the conflict intensifies
in the months ahead, will help de-
termine the shape and timing of the
eventual U.S. withdrawal.
At the same time, Pakistani
President Asif Ali Zardari is con-
cerned that an abrupt U.S. depar-
ture will leave it vulnerable to the
Taliban, which the Pakistani army
is now fighting in the tribal areas.
But many Pakistanis believe the
U.S. role in the region is inflaming
the war and weakening the govern-
ment, something Obama sought to
address in his speech
“In the past, we too often de-
fined our relationship with Pakistan
narrowly,” he said. “Those days
are over. Moving for ward, we are
committed to a partnership with
Pakistan that is built on a founda-
tion of mutual interests, mutual
respect, and mutual trust.”
spending has stabilized after drop-
ping for five months in a row.
But the repor t also included
some disappointing results. It
showed a sharp downward revi-
sion of previous months’ spend-
ing. Most notably, it revealed that
spending in September dropped 1.6
percent, to $910.4 billion, instead
of rising 0.8 percent as had been
previously estimated.
Meanwhile, spending on home
construction rose 4.4 percent in
October from September. But
spending on commercial projects
dropped 2.5 percent.
Given the dramatic revisions
of past month, the newly released
data may be just “nonsense,” Ian
Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist
at High Frequency Economics,
wrote in a note to clients. “All we
can say with confidence is that the
trend in private (non-residential)
construction is now clearly in free-
fall,” Shepherdson said.
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W orld &N ation
M. icers continue streak
with win against Crimson
continued from page 7
the middle period, the Bears extend-
ed their lead on defenseman Jeff Bu-
vinow’s ’12 first goal of the season.
With a cluster of players fighting
for possession in the corner, the
puck spit out to the point. Buvinow
stopped it with his skate, wound
back and fired a slap shot into the
top right corner of the net.
“I had a lot of time and I just
ripped it on net,” Buvinow said.
“Guys went in front — good
screen. And it just went in. Puck
had eyes.”
It wasn’t until Harvard’s 29th
shot on goal that the Crimson finally
beat Clemente.
Trailing 2-0 midway through the
second period, Harvard’s Conor
Morrison received the puck just feet
away from the crease. After stopping
114 shots over two-and-a-half games,
Clemente finally let in his first goal
against Harvard.
He didn’t allow another.
With 56 seconds left in the sec-
ond period, Harvard’s Alex Fall-
strom was called for a five-minute
major penalty and game miscon-
duct for hitting from behind. Brown
couldn’t score on the power play,
which carried over into the third
period, but the penalty kept the puck
in Harvard’s zone for nearly five
minutes.
“We shot ourselves in the foot
maybe with a couple of penalties,”
Donato said. “Certainly, the five-
Single-sex campus aims
to divide and conquer
By Amina Khan
Los Angeles T imes
Eleven weeks after opening, Los
Angeles Unified’s newest middle
school still gleams. Science class-
rooms sport chemical eyewashes
and emergency showers. Teachers
deliver lessons in surround-sound
with hands-free microphones. Kids
play basketball on rooftop courts.
Yet what stands out most about
Young Oak Kim Academy is that
it is the district’s only single-sex
middle school. Classes are either
all male or all female.
During “biology Jeopardy,”
the girls stood on tiptoe, quiver-
ing hands stretched to the ceiling,
as science teacher Amber Green
called out categories — organelles
for 200, types of cells for 500. For
their four-person “edible cell” group
projects, students pulled out their
building materials — licorice, jelly
beans and other candies — and
after a brief buzz of consultation,
each member heads to a computer
or the supply closet to complete her
assigned task.
In the next class, Green had
the boys display their answers on
whiteboards, but the noise level cre-
scendoed, punctuated by students
yelling “Shut up!” One boy danced
down the aisle. When directed to
start on their cell projects, some
groups argued over their tasks, un-
aware the roles had been assigned.
minute one, I think kind of took a
chance for momentum.”
But Harvard got one last oppor-
tunity with 1:11 left in the game,
when Sean McMonagle ’10 was
whistled for interference, giving the
Crimson a power play for the rest
of the game. And with one minute
remaining Donato pulled his goalie
for an extra attacker, giving Harvard
a six-on-four advantage.
“It’s exciting,” Clemente said of
the last-minute pressure. “It’s the
best part of the game.”
Just five seconds after the Har-
vard goalie left the net, tri-captain
Aaron Volpatti ’10 forced a turnover
and scored a shorthanded, empty-
net goal.
Seventeen seconds after Vol-
patti’s strike, Jack Maclellan ’12
added another, extending Brown’s
lead to 4-1 with only 20 seconds
remaining.
Clemente got one last save with
four seconds left. When the final
buzzer sounded, he gave a double
fist-pump as his teammates rushed
to congratulate him.
Clemente said his teammates
told him, “You did it again. Let’s
keep it going.”
The Bears came into last night’s
game after winning their first game
of the year, an 8-1 rout of UConn
on Saturday. The Bears will get a
chance to extend the two-game win-
ning streak against Princeton on
home ice at 7 p.m. on Friday.
Many had not brought materials
for the project.
“Boys are impulsive,” science
teacher Shambo Lerer said. “Their
hands go straight up. They ask
questions like, ‘What happens if a
planet explodes?’ “
Girls thrive in the collaborative
atmosphere, Green said, while “the
boys require a lot of classroom
management.”
“It’s a learning curve, for us as
well as them,” she said.
The federal No Child Left
Behind Act in 2002 affirmed the
legality of single-sex instruction,
said Leonard Sax of the National
Association for Single Sex Public
Education. Since then, the number
of public schools with single-sex
classrooms has shot up from 11
to 540.
“I love it,” said Annie Clarke,
who enrolled her son and daughter
at Kim Academy. “The education
is great; they pay attention to the
kids here.”
Seventh-grader Eric Alejo ex-
pressed irritation with the noise
level in his classes.
“We don’t have a lot of time to
finish our stuff,” he said.
Aside from the dress code —
no skinny jeans, no colored under-
shirts — sixth-grader Zaira Lemoli
had no complaints.
“It’s cool,” she said, “because
you can pay attention more to the
teachers without boys.”
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
Loneliness is contagious, researchers say
By Rob Stein
The Washington Post
Loneliness is like a disease — and
what’s worse, it’s contagious.
Although it may sound coun-
terintuitive, loneliness can spread
from one person to another, ac-
cording to research being re-
leased Tuesday that underscores
the power of one person’s emo-
tions to affect friends, family and
neighbors.
The federally funded analysis
of data collected from more than
4,000 people over 10 years found
that lonely people increase the
chances that someone they know
will star t to feel alone, and that
the solitar y feeling can spread
one more degree of separation,
causing a friend of a friend or
even the sibling of a friend to feel
desolate.
“Loneliness can be transmit-
ted,” said John Cacioppo, a Univer-
sity of Chicago psychologist who
led the study being published in
the December issue of the Jour-
nal of Personality and Social Psy-
chology. “Loneliness is not just the
property of an individual. It can
be transmitted across people —
even people you don’t have direct
contact with.”
Moreover, people who become
lonely eventually move to the pe-
ripher y of their social networks,
becoming increasingly isolated,
which can exacerbate their loneli-
ness and affect social connected-
ness, the researchers found.
“No man is an island,” said
Nicholas Christakis, a professor
of medicine and medical sociol-
ogy at Har vard Medical School
who helped conduct the research.
“Something so personal as a per-
son’s emotions can have a collec-
tive existence and affect the vast
fabric of humanity.”
The seemingly paradoxical find-
ing is far more than a psychologi-
cal curiosity. Loneliness has been
linked to a variety of medical prob-
lems, including depression, sleep
problems and generally poorer
physical health. Identifying some
of the causes could help reduce
the emotion and improve health,
experts said.
“Loneliness is more than just
feeling bad,” said Chris Segrin,
a professor of communication
and health at the University of
Arizona, who was not involved in
the research. “It really does have
consequences.”
But some researchers ex-
pressed skepticism about the
findings, saying the study had the
same shortcomings as earlier, com-
parable work and could not neces-
sarily rule out other explanations
for the apparent association.
“It is unclear whether their sta-
tistical model will ‘find’ social con-
tagion in ever y outcome they ex-
amine because of the limitations,”
Jason Fletcher of Yale University
wrote in an e-mail. He and a col-
league conducted a similar analysis
using data from a large federal sur-
vey to show that acne, headaches
and even height could appear to be
spread through social networks if
not analyzed properly.
Christakis and Cacioppo de-
fended their work, saying their
statistical methods accounted for
other explanations. And others
hailed the work.
“I think it’s an incredible piece
of research,” said Mark Lear y, a
professor of psychology and neu-
roscience at Duke University. “I
don’t think we anticipated that
something like loneliness would
cluster like this in a population.
It’s surprising.”
Although the study did not
examine how loneliness spreads,
Cacioppo said other research has
provided clues. People who feel
lonely tend to act in negative ways
toward those they do have contact
with, perpetuating the behavior and
the emotion, he said.
“Let’s say for whatever reason
— the loss of a spouse, a divorce
— you get lonely. You then interact
with other people in a more nega-
tive fashion. That puts them in a
negative mood and makes them
more likely to interact with other
people in a negative fashion and
they minimize their social ties and
become lonely,” Cacioppo said.
For the study, Cacioppo teamed
up with Christakis and James
Fowler, an associate professor of
political science at the University
of California at San Diego, who
have published a series of papers
and the book “Connected,” based
on data originally collected by the
Framingham Heart Study, a long-
running government-funded project
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that has explored a host of health
issues.
The researchers used informa-
tion gathered from the participants
over decades, including their friend-
ships, identities of their neighbors,
co-workers and family members,
and information about their emo-
tional state. Previous studies by
Christakis and Fowler concluded
that obesity, the likelihood of quit-
ting smoking, and even happiness
could spread from one person to
another.
Similarly, the new analysis, in-
volving 4,793 people who were in-
terviewed every two years between
1991 and 2001, showed that having a
social connection to a lonely person
increased the chances of develop-
ing feelings of loneliness. A friend
of a lonely person was 52 percent
more likely to develop feelings of
loneliness by the time of the next
inter view, the analysis showed. A
friend of that person was 25 per-
cent more likely, and a friend of a
friend of a friend was 15 percent
more likely.
The effect was most powerful
for a friend, followed by a neigh-
bor, and was much weaker on
spouses and siblings, the research-
ers found. Loneliness spread more
easily among women than men,
perhaps because women were
more likely to articulate emotions,
Cacioppo said.
The researchers said the effect
could not be the result of lonely
people being more likely to associ-
ate with other lonely people because
they showed the effect over time.
“It’s not a birds-of-a-feather-flock-
together effect,” Christakis said.
The findings underscore the im-
portance of social networks, several
experts said.
“For years, physicians and re-
searchers thought about individuals
as isolated creatures,” said Stanley
Wasserman, who studies social
networks at Indiana University.
“We now know that the people
you surround yourself with can
have a tremendous impact on your
well-being, whether it’s physical or
psychological.”
The findings suggest that if you
help “the people on the margins
of the network, you help not only
them but help stabilize the whole
network,” Christakis said.
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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

The hidden costs of inaction

To the Editor:
Regarding Monday’s editorial
(“The price of tuition,” Nov. 30):
Granted, parallels exist between the
situation at Brown and the one Cali-
fornian students are dealing with.
That these should be understood
by a comparison between what the
editorial page board termed Rhode
Island’s “attempt to grab money
from private colleges” — the bill
considered taxing schools $150 per
student — and the 32 percent fee
increase at UC schools, $2,500 more
per student — well, that’s question-
able.
There are similarities, and the
editors take notice, worth consid-
ering: “Many students,” here and
in California, “object to reductions
in staff benefits and jobs while op-
Brown, when we discover a $2 mil-
lion tuition surplus it goes neither
to staff benefits nor salary (in the
case of our dining workers, Brown
sought, and more or less failed, to
cut back, thanks to worker-student
organizing), nor to financial aid. It
goes to fast-tracking the renovation
of Faunce.
Both the UC schools and Brown
are sitting on fat accumulated invest-
ments (forgive me if ours is a few
billion short of the Ivy standard),
which, thinking like the Once-ler, we
keep biggering and biggering, be-
cause money, after all, is something
that everyone needs. Of course the
purpose of this money is not first to
reduce tuition or provide worker’s
benefits, but to be invested — and
in what (the occupation of Pales-
tine? hotel chains with horrendous ale x yuly

posing tuition hikes.” According to labor practices?) they’ll never tell.

them, “students overlook a glaring What we find is the same nothing-
contradiction” with these objections­ else-matters approach to profit that e d i to r i a l
— one cannot simultaneously save brought the system to crisis in the
staff and lower tuition; one pays for
the other. This isn’t the case.
In California, as we learn from
first place: construct marketable fa-
cades and cut the substance, pitting
workers against students the whole
Give us a break
the blog Occupy California, “the way. The one that says our economy Ordinarily, we would never recommend that Brown family and friends.
University of California does not is recovering while unemployment try to be more like Yale or Wesleyan. But in one re- Some have speculated that there is an economic
use tuition money or student fees is rising. gard, these schools set an example that we believe rationale for the longer winter break. By keeping
to fund research and education. Perhaps the biggest break in Brown should consider following. At both colleges, the dorms closed until the very end of January, the
... They place 100 percent of this parallelism is the actions we take. students trade a shorter winter break for a two-week school saves money on a week’s worth of heating
money into an account with the Bank In California, thousands of students spring break. By contrast, Brown’s schedule strikes us costs. While we don’t have any hard data on how
of New York Mellon Trust in order and workers strike, occupy, barri- as imbalanced — we get at least five weeks of winter much money the current schedule saves relative to
to protect their borrowing power in cade and blockade. At Brown we break but only one week to relax in the spring. our proposed alternative schedule, we are optimistic
credit markets. They hold our tuition choose to complain. We believe Brown students would gladly give up that the benefit of the longer break to students justi-
as collateral in order to finance the a week of winter break if it meant lengthening spring fies the cost. At worst, we understand if the University
largest and most speculative con- Julian Park ’12 break by a week. By the last week of winter break, chooses to delay a scheduling change until economic
struction projects in the state.” At Nov. 30 most students have had more than enough time to conditions improve.
rest and to visit with family and friends, and are ea- The other significant drawback to shortening
ger to return to school and begin the new semester. winter break is premised on hopes that the January@
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WILL WRAY
Opinions Columnist
Rhode Island’s own Bishop Thomas Tobin
went head-to-head with Chris Matthews on
MSNBC’s Hardball last Wednesday. While it
is uncertain who won the confrontation, it is
quite clear that Matthews was wrong. What-
ever Rhode Island Congressman Patrick
Kennedy is, he is not a good Catholic. Bish-
op Tobin is free to tell him as much without
exposing himself to accusations of “trans-
gressing into the law.”
The casus belli was Kennedy’s public an-
nouncement that he was asked to refrain
from taking communion by Bishop Tobin in
February 2007. The Bishop told Rep. Ken-
nedy that certain positions he took as a leg-
islator disqualified him from participating
in the Catholic ritual. Kennedy’s announce-
ment has been widely publicized, not least
because the positions in question concerned
abortion.
Abortion legislation was certainly the
cornerstone of Matthews’ argument. In a
flurry of questions that put the Bishop at a
marked disadvantage, Matthews pointed out
that any law criminalizing abortion would be
impractical. The Bishop repeatedly insisted
that his job was not to craft legislation, but
to ensure that “Catholics who are in political
office are faithful ... to the dictates of their
conscience.”
Much of the criticism directed towards
Matthews alleges that he was blustery
and discourteous. This point is indisput-
able. Matthews frequently interrupted the
Brian Judge
Opinions Columnist
Publish or perish. This is the mantra of the
aspiring professor in the American universi-
ty system. If the only purpose of universities
was research, this wouldn’t be a problem.
“Publish or perish” is merely a narrower ver-
sion of the more comprehensive mantra of
the American economy: do your job, or get
fired.
But universities also exist to teach un-
dergraduates. So the professors at Brown
University, and most other universities, are
asked to do two radically different things:
teach and research. This doesn’t make any
sense. To get a job teaching at Brown, you
have to establish yourself as an up-and-com-
ing researcher (or scholar, if you like) in
your particular field by publishing some ar-
ticles, presenting papers at conference and
the like. Professors are not hired based on
their ability to teach.
Most of my teachers in high school went
to school to learn how to teach. But look-
ing through the catalog of graduate cours-
es at Brown, there aren’t any classes called
“Teaching Linear Algebra” or “How to Teach
Shakespeare.” If I wanted to teach high
school biology, I would have to know how
to teach high school biology as well as how
do high school biology. If I wanted to teach
college biology, I only have to know how to
do it.
In higher education, professors are gen-
Tobin plays hardball
Bishop, forced him to answer leading ques-
tions (questions which are by their very na-
ture slanted or testimonial, e.g. “Have you
stopped beating your wife?”), and used the
ecclesiastical title ‘Your Excellency’ in a
manner that suggested Bishop Tobin was
anything but. Matthews’ stridency smacked
of a guilty Roman Catholic conscience des-
perate for vindication. Whether his confron-
tational style was effective or unappealing is
a question which only Hardball’s ratings will
answer.
Even if the wisest public policy is to keep
abortion legal, Kennedy identifying himself as
a good Catholic while supporting pro-choice
legislation is akin to an individual identifying
himself as a hard-line ethical vegetarian while
working at a factory farm.
What is certain is that Matthews was
wrong, deeply wrong. Matthews failed to
see the difference between actively trying to
impose a particular religion’s moral dictates
as law on one hand, and simply holding pub-
lic office while remaining true to one’s moral
code. Bishop Tobin never advocated the for-
mer, and Kennedy failed in the latter.
Even if the wisest public policy is to keep
abortion legal, Kennedy identifying him-
self as a good Catholic while supporting
pro-choice legislation is akin to an individu-
al identifying himself as a hard-line ethical
vegetarian while working at a factory farm.
Teach teachers how to teach
erally evaluated for five to 10 years on the ba-
sis of their research output. If they produce
enough, they get tenure. Then they don’t get
evaluated at all. This is insane.
Not that it would be worth the admin-
istration’s while to assess teaching ability,
since for most professors, there’s nothing it
can do about it. In high school, every month
or so, a stern-looking administrator would
sit in the back of the classroom and assess
In higher education, professors are evaluated for
five to 10 years on the basis of their research
output. If they produce enough, they get tenure.
Then they don’t get evaluated at all. This is
insane.
how well the teacher was doing his or her
job. In order to get tenure, the teacher had
to prove himself or herself to be reasonably
competent at teaching. To my knowledge,
aspiring professors at Brown face no such
evaluation.
Tenure was established to protect pro-
fessors from financial pressure exerted by
donors and administrators with ideologi-
cal agendas. While I would guess that this
still happens to some degree, it is not nearly
the same as it was when universities were
denominational and could discriminate on
a whim. Since tenure committees are made
up of other professors, getting tenure re-
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | Page 11
While many ethical vegetarians acknowl-
edge that animal protein is necessary for the
developing world, or that it would be oppres-
sive to make eating meat illegal, active affir-
mation of mass animal slaughter contradicts
the principles of ethical vegetarianism.
As Bishop Tobin pointed out, it is not his
job to write the laws. It is not even his job to
be “politically active.” The Bishop privately
counsels individuals — individuals who have
freely approached the Church — as to how
their actions conform with Catholic norms.  Patrick Kennedy, who came to Brown to de-
Bishop Tobin’s choice not to be a legisla-
tor was in part based upon his personal de-
cision not to pick a profession where the ne-
cessities of the job contradicted his faith. If
Kennedy felt strongly about his Catholic be-
liefs, he would have done the same.
Kennedy would like this incident to es-
tablish him as a martyr for the cause of keep-
ing church and state separate. But he has no
compunctions about blurring the line when
it seems politically advantageous. In an Oct.
22 interview, Kennedy accused the Catholic
church of fanning “the flames of dissent and
discord (because) ... if the church is pro-life,
quires being in ideological step with one’s
colleagues. Thus the departments them-
selves have the ability to enforce an ideologi-
cal agenda. Whether or not you’ve published
dozens of obscure papers on trade theory, it
doesn’t bear on your ability to teach ECON
0110: Principles of Economics.
A more rational approach would be to
split departments into research and teach-
ing, and hire professors and admit graduate
students to one or the other. As an under-
graduate, I want to take classes from profes-
sors who have proven themselves to be good
teachers. If I were a research-oriented grad-
uate student, I would want to do research
alongside professors who have proven them-
selves to be good researchers.
Short of this, there are some very minor
things that would go a long way towards im-
proving teaching quality: have each depart-
ment add a course about teaching that disci-
pline and have graduate TA’s have a senior
faculty mentor to critique their classroom
performance.
If someone is being paid to teach under-
then they ought to be for health care reform
because it’s going to provide health care that
are going to keep people alive.”
This statement is flawed in almost too
many ways to count. It assumes that govern-
ment-initiated healthcare reform will help,
not hurt, it exhibits some regrettable gram-
mar and it blatantly overlooks the fact that
the church opposed a specific bill because it
provided state-subsidized abortions. 
Most importantly, it demonstrates that
clare that we need the public option because
“all of us are children of God,” is inconsis-
tent in his reasoning. If religious mores have
no place in the public sphere, then Kennedy
should delineate precisely why he supports
legislation in a secular fashion.
Without vague references to natural law
or appeals to an undefined, universalist God,
what doctrine guides Kennedy when he de-
termines which goods or services should
be provided to our citizens and how these
should be prioritized? Is he a utilitarian, be-
cause he cares about the aggregate health
and happiness of Americans? Is he a nation-
al socialist, because he directs the wealth
generated by American citizens to provide
for American well-being? Is he a technocrat,
because he supports having government-
appointed “experts” regulate how a given in-
dustry will be operated?
There is, of course, an ideology which
encompasses all of the above and explains
Kennedy’s stances. He is a populist: He allo-
cates taxpayers’ money wherever it will get
him elected.
Will Wray ’10 is late for a vote.
graduates and is bad at it, then they should
be fired. If someone is being paid to do re-
search and is bad at it, then they should
be fired. Hiring people to do both, but only
evaluating them on one (the one that isn’t
relevant for the bulk of the people shelling
out $50,000 to take classes from them) for
a short period of time doesn’t make sense
to me.
The best teacher I’ve ever had is some-
one who didn’t have a Ph.D and isn’t pub-
lished. The worst teacher I’ve ever had was
someone who has published a handful of
books and dozens of articles. This is no ac-
cident. The former was focused on being a
good teacher; the latter was focused on be-
ing a good researcher. There aren’t many
great teachers or researchers out there, and
there certainly aren’t enough of both to fill
Brown’s payroll. Just as the quality of re-
search has no bearing whatsoever on abil-
ity to teach, the ability to teach has no bear-
ing on the quality of research. And a great
teacher can produce a great researcher, but
someone studying under a great researcher
might not acquire the skills required in or-
der to be a great teacher.
Great teachers aren’t born, they aren’t
being formally trained and, as a result, they
aren’t being hired. Brown as a pioneer in
higher education can set a trend away from
the yoke of the status quo, and towards sub-
stantial reforms for the undergraduate class-
room experience. After all, that’s what we’re
paying for.
Brian Judge ’11 just wants things to
make sense. He can be reached at
brian_judge@brown.edu.
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