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Violations
found in
LiSci labs
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staf f Writer
Hazardous waste management
inspections conducted in Sidney
Frank Hall this summer uncovered
violations in 10 biology and neuro-
science laboratories, according to
an Office of Environmental Health
and Safety report, a copy of which
was obtained by The Herald.
The labs were found to be in
breach of container-management
issues including improperly label-
ing waste depositories, displaying
open hazardous waste containers,
using inappropriate storage ves-
sels, blocking laborator y egress
and storing incompatible materials
together.
The Office of Environmental
Health and Safety conducts twice-
yearly inspections of all research
facilities, allowing labs to correct
violations within a one-week time
frame. But Henr y Huppert, the
University’s environmental com-
continued on page 2
‘Fearless’ Zuckerman still in
minds of PoliSci colleagues
By Dan Alexander
Senior Staff Writer
No one in the Department of Political
Science knows what a year at Brown
is like without Alan Zuckerman.
“Anybody who is here — he had a
hand in hiring,” said James Morone,
professor of political science and
department chair. “When we had a
faculty meeting about who we were
going to hire, he would be the loud-
est voice in it. ... So we’re all, in some
sense, his legacy.”
Zuckerman, who specialized in
comparative politics, died Aug. 20
after being diagnosed with pancre-
atic cancer in March, about a month
after his 64th birthday. He leaves
behind his wife Roberta, three chil-
dren and a department he was part
of since 1970 and chaired from 2002
to 2005.
According to Morone, he hard-
ly missed a day in his 39 years at
Brown.
“He was fearless. If he thought
you were doing something that he
disagreed with, in your classes, in
your writing, in your teaching —
anywhere, he would come up to you
and say, ‘You know, I don’t agree
with you,’” Morone said. “He lives
on — not just as a memory, but in
inside
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Protestors drummed up support for health care reform Tuesday.
what we do.”
Zuckerman began his studies fo-
cusing on Italy and Israel and later
researched the influence of culture
— people’s professions, family and
community — on political prefer-
ences, according to Wendy Schil-
ler, associate professor of political
science.
“He thought a good researcher
made a really good teacher,” Schil-
ler said. “He was demanding and
challenging.”
He authored or co-authored seven
books. His latest, “Partisan Families:
The Social Logic of Bounded Parti-
sanship in Germany and Britain,”
was awarded best book published
in 2007 by the International Society
for Political Psychology.
“It wasn’t work for him. It was a
passion,” said the late professor’s
son, Gregory. “He was a guy who
would have kept writing and re-
searching until they took his comput-
er away.” Jackie Codair ’11, a student
in one of Zuckerman’s classes last
spring, said Zuckerman expected a
lot of his students.
Codair said Zuckerman stopped
her one day after class last spring
and tapped her on the shoulder.
continued on page 3
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Eureka!
Neuroscience professor
Gilad Barnea hauls in a
$1.3 million NIH grant
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
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Cover up with alums’ quirky book jackets
By Talia Kagan
Contributing Writer
Don’t judge a book by its cover
— and don’t judge a Brown grad
by his day job.
Last summer, corporate lawyer
Jeremy Schwartz ’02 co-founded
Book City Jackets, for him an un-
expected foray into the world of
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literature and the arts. The com-
pany’s book jackets, designed by
co-founder Emma Gaines-Ross
’04, save readers from embarrass-
ment by cloaking their favorite
guilty pleasures in brown paper
adorned by little more than simple
designs.
While Schwartz handles the
nuts and bolts of running the small
business, Gaines-Ross is the cre-
ative partner who helps translate
Schwartz’s artistic vision into tan-
gible paper covers, relying on her
experience in graphic design to
function as Book City Jackets’ “art
department,” Schwartz said.
The most common reaction
Schwar tz hears is relief: “Oh,
thank God. I’m so embarrassed
when I read ‘Twilight’ on the
subway.”
Indeed, it was commuting
that gave Schwartz his inspira-
Famed Nigerian
writer joins faculty
by Nicole Friedman
Senior Staf f Writer
Internationally renowned Nigerian
writer Chinua Achebe has joined
the University faculty as the David
and Marianna Fisher University
Professor and a professor of Afri-
cana Studies.
Though his appointment is al-
ready effective, he will take over
his full responsibilities in the spring
semester, said Professor of Africana
Studies Tricia Rose PhD’93, who
chairs the department.
Achebe, who joins Brown after
19 years on the Bard College fac-
ulty, “won’t be offering indepen-
dent new courses of his own,” Rose
said.
The main “vehicle by which he’ll
be making an intellectual contribu-
tion” will be through the Chinua
Achebe Colloquium on Africa, a
new initiative focused on Achebe’s
“intellectual, pedagogical and ar-
tistic works,” Rose said. Achebe
may also teach or co-teach courses
already offered by the Africana de-
partment and give presentations in
Designer book covers — the brainchild of two Brown grads — on sale in
the Brown Bookstore promise to conceal readers’ reading choices.
tion, which came almost two years
ago. During his daily rides on New
York City’s subways, Schwartz
always noticed the books people
were reading, which led him to
think about the public nature of
reading.
“Part of being on the subway
in New York is being with other
people,” Schwartz said, and that
includes “seeing the books they’re
reading.”
Gaines-Ross agreed that people
often make assumptions about
others based on the books they’re
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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe.
Africana classes, she said.
Achebe is the fourth “distin-
guished writer of world signifi-
cance” to join the Africana Studies
faculty and the only one of the four
from Africa, Rose said. Because the
department’s work is a “wonderful
combination of thought and prac-
tice,” Achebe’s appointment will be
a “profound consolidation of exist-
ing strengths,” she added.
continued on page 2
Frederic Lu / Herald
reading.
Not so with a book jacket
“divorcing the surface from the
content of the book,” said Gaines-
Ross, who concentrated in art-
semiotics at Brown.
“Book covers were a good idea
in junior high school and they’re
a good idea now,” advertises the
Brooklyn-based company’s Web
site.
The covers are made with “re-
cycled kraft paper,” according to
continued on page 3
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lion’s roar
Susannah Kroeber ’11
remembers the late Sen.
Ted Kennedy
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C ampus N EWS “Some people are right on it, and some people delay.”
— Henry Huppert, environmental compliance officer, on labs fixing violations

Waste hazards found in 10 LiSci labs ‘Things Fall Apart’ author

continued from page 1

pliance officer, said some labs do

not immediately resolve violations
despite repeated citations.
“Sometimes, it doesn’t get com-
municated down to the lab staff,”
Huppert said. “Some people are
right on it, and some people de-
lay.”
The June report — a joint effort
led by Huppert and Director of En-
vironmental Health and Safety Ste-
phen Morin — was released less
than a year after similar inspections
at the University of California, Los
Angeles failed to prevent a lab ac-
cident that resulted in the death
of a research assistant. The lab
where the accident occurred did
not undertake the recommended
corrective actions.
Despite examining repor ts
from the UCLA accident — which
occurred after similar inspections
— Morin said his office has not
changed its inspection process.
“We’re still looking at that report,”
he said. “We convinced ourselves
that we’re okay with that, but it
really comes down to practicing
safe science.”
The most frequent violations
are “common things,” such as mis-
labeling or failing to label waste
containers, Hupper t said. But
he said he frequently sees “the
same patterns” in individual labs,
especially when there are new
people — signifying a careless-
ness he said his office is working
to combat.
Huppert said he and another
inspector in the office conduct all
the hazardous waste inspections
unannounced, a practice he said
he hopes will prepare labs if the
Environmental Protection Agency
decides to conduct its own inves-
tigations at Brown.
“It’s ongoing work,” he said.
“It’s a partnership with good re-
searchers.”
“I think we just addressed all
the issues,” said Professor of Biol-
ogy Robert Reenan, who leads a
lab that was found to have unla-
beled hazardous waste containers,
incompatible chemicals stored to-
gether and a blockage preventing
safe egress from the lab.
Ultimately, he said he left the
responsibility for fixing the viola-
tions to his lab manager. “I don’t
know the specifics,” he said.
“We are required to remedy
the violation and send a report,”
said Professor of Medical Science
Arthur Landy, whose lab had unla-
beled hazardous waste containers.
But he said he did not know the
“exact time frame” that labs are
given to correct the violation.
The recent budget crunch has
also generated questions about
the future of the program’s man-
agement, Morin said, which could
further affect the hazardous waste
standard.
“It’s one of the things you wor-
ry about with the budget,” he said.
“We try to balance lots of things,
and cost is one of them.”
Though he said his office would
never jeopardize waste manage-
ment, Huppert would consider
eliminating outsourcing — his
of fice began delegating waste
pickup to outside contractors
after he came to Brown in 2000
— and transitioning to an on-call
pickup system instead of a weekly
schedule.
Despite the office’s constant
efforts, Morin said accidents still
occur.
“There are small spills — in-
cidental spills,” he said. As an
example, he said a mercury ther-
mometer — which his office is
tr ying to remove through a re-
placement program — broke in
a lab on Monday. But he said this
type of accident was “not as bad
as it used to be.”
“I’m proud of where we are to-
day,” Morin said, but “there are
still more things we want to do.”
Achebe joins faculty
continued from page 1
“Things Fall Apart,” Achebe’s
1958 novel, is the most widely-read
work of African fiction, according to
a University press release. Since Af-
ricana studies is a relatively young
department, adding such an impor-
tant figure “covers — in one stroke
— a lot of ground,” said Dean of the
Faculty Rajiv Vohra P’07.
The colloquium will host one
major event each spring and several
smaller events each year, Rose said.
This spring, the colloquium is set to
host a series of events based around
dramatic readings of Achebe’s ma-
jor works. The following spring, the
plan is to host a “seminar slash con-
ference on governance in Africa,”
Rose said.
Since Achebe is already a cen-
tral figure in Africana studies, the
colloquium will bring scholars to
Brown “who work on a wide array
of issues — not only in literature,
but also politics in contemporary
Africa,” Vohra said.
Achebe is also interested in be-
ginning a project to translate classic
texts in European literature into
Igbo, Achebe’s native language,
Rose said.
Though Achebe will not teach
full-time, the Africana department
is “very interested in making sure
that people will have regular ac-
cess to him,” Rose said. She sug-
gested the possibility of regular
office hours for students who have
expressed knowledge of or interest
in Achebe’s fields of study.
Achebe’s appointment, which
“happened very quickly,” is an ex-
ample of what the University’s Tar-
get of Opportunity hiring program
was intended for, Vohra said. “The
program was meant to do precisely
this kind of thing — that is, allow
us to make quick decisions when
an opportunity arose of this kind,”
Vohra said.
Discussions about hiring Achebe
began in June, and the decision was
finalized last week, Rose said.
It has not been discussed wheth-
er Achebe’s wife, Christie Achebe
— a visiting professor at Bard —
will also be hired at Brown, Rose
said. “We are more than happy to
discuss that with her,” she added.
The University will hold a wel-
coming event for Achebe on Nov.
10, Rose said, which will feature his
newest book, “The Education of a
British-Protected Child: Essays.”
Achebe, who is paralyzed from
the waist down, has not finalized
arrangements for where he will
live during his time at Brown, Rose
said. “My expectation is that he’ll be
around in some regularized way by
the end of this semester, but surely
by the beginning of next semester,”
Rose said. “He’s dying to be physi-
cally located here.”

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Alums team up to help you
dress up your latest book
continued from page 1
the site, recalling the brown paper
bags used to adorn middle-school
textbooks. Gaines-Ross designed
the original set, whose covers
feature the words “fiction,” “non-
fiction” and “favorite” in simple
typefaces.
The jackets are sold in sets of
three. “I thought that people like
sets,” Schwar tz said. “There’s
something about a set that makes
something more special than a
piece of paper by itself.”
Though the small start-up sells
its products through its Web site,
the jackets are also sold at stores
across the U.S.
And its product line is diversify-
ing. Last month, Book City Jackets
launched “artist editions” featuring
printed drawings from young art-
ists, including RISD grad Morgan
Blair.
Its also reaching a new — and
familiar — market. Though some
Brown students may not feel the
need to cover up their love for
teen vampire novels, Book City
Jackets’ products have arrived on
College Hill. The first shipment hit
the Brown Bookstore two weeks
ago.
Mania Dardeen, an assistant
buyer for the bookstore who de-
cided to order Book City Jackets’
covers, said suppor ting alumni
products is important. “They’re
our biggest customers,” she said.
herald.com
But so far sales of the jackets
have been dragging, according to
Dardeen, perhaps because of stu-
dents like Mark Morales ’10. “I’m
impressed by how they look,” said
Morales, “but I haven’t had to cover
a book since eighth grade.”
Creating a market for the book
covers has been difficult, Schwartz
acknowledged. The duo expected
to cater to book lovers, Gaines-Ross
said, but the covers have made the
biggest waves among artists and
designers.
By his own admission, founding
the company has been a learning
experience for Schwartz, who said
launching a start-up has informed
his work as a lawyer and helped
him understand small business’
struggles, especially in the current
economic climate.
Despite its challenges, the
company is gearing up to increase
production, put out more ar tist
editions and partner with writers
or literar y magazines. There is
even a holiday set planned, which
Schwartz promises will be a “cool
— not trite — take on the winter
season.”
Not that Schwartz is quitting his
day job yet. “Currently, I love being
a lawyer,” said Schwartz.
“The dream scenario is that one
day I’ll have to make a decision,”
he said. “Do you want to be a book-
cover baron or a corporate lawyer?
I see both of those as viable, plau-
sible outcomes.”
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“He’s a guy who squeezed everything out of his 64 years.”
— Gregory Zuckerman, son of deceased Prof. Alan Zuckerman
Family remembers late PoliSci prof
continued from page 1
“He never missed a chance to
“He was like, ‘Jackie, you talked tell us he loved us,” Shetrit said. “He
a lot in class today and that was was the best dad in the world.”
really great,’” Codair recalled. “It For his 64th birthday in Febru-
just made my day.” ary, Shetrit sent him a card about
He was “just such a nice guy,” a month late. He happened to re-
she added. ceived it the day he was diagnosed
Zuckerman was active outside with cancer.
Brown, too. Later he told her how happy
“He was a guy with tremendous and moved he was to get the card
passions,” Gregor y Zuckerman that day.
said. “They ranged from Brown to Even after the diagnosis, Zuck-
the New York Yankees to the Rhode erman continued to focus on the Courtesy of Brown.edu
Island Jewish community.” positives in his life — despite re- Professor of Political Science Alan
His daughter, Shara Shetrit, said, ceiving the most aggressive cancer Zuckerman died last month.
“I guess I didn’t really have a sense treatment available, according to
of how important his work and his his son Ezra. Zuckerman died with his family
career was to him. He was really “It was great for us also,” Ezra around him at the Home and Hos-
involved a lot with the family.” Zuckerman said, “because if you pice Care of Rhode Island.
He came home for dinner at have someone like that who is “He’s a guy who squeezed ev-
6 p.m. every night to be with his dying and is in a positive state of erything out of his 64 years,” Greg-
children and Roberta, who was his mind, you can’t help but be posi- ory Zuckerman. “I’m comforted
high-school sweetheart. tive, too.” by that.”
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Neuro prof. lands large NIH grant
by Sarah Husk
Senior Staff Writer
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Gilad Barnea was recently awarded
a EUREKA grant — $1.3 million in
funding for scientific research over
four years — by the National Institutes
of Health.
The NIH awards the EUREKA
grant to scientists pursuing “high-risk,
high-reward” research. In addition
to being a relatively new grant — it
debuted in 2007 — the EUREKA grant
is distinct from more conservative
scientific funding in that it primarily
seeks to fund research that may not
achieve its intended aims, but has the
potential for major impact, Barnea
said.
Barnea’s research will attempt to
establish a way to monitor the acti-
vation of chemical receptors in the
brain, with an eye toward improving
treatments for neurological disorders.
In particular, he will look at neuro-
chemicals that have multiple recep-
tors, he said.
One such chemical is dopamine
— the primary focus of Barnea’s re-
search — a neurotransmitter with
five receptors that regulates a host
of biological processes, including
cognition, emotion, motivation and
locomotion. Dopamine deficiencies,
which express themselves in a va-
riety of disorders — schizophrenia,
attention deficit disorder, Parkinson’s
disease and addiction, among others
— can be difficult to treat, Barnea
said. Pharmacological treatments are
often imperfect because they can af-
fect extraneous receptors, he said.
If Barnea’s research is successful,
there could be broad implications for
the treatment of neurological disor-
ders. Having a more definitive un-
derstanding of how specific chemical
receptors become activated, Barnea
said, will “hopefully lead to more spe-
cific drugs” — drugs that are more
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“Our hearts go out to Annie Le’s family, fiance, and friends.”
— Yale President Richard Levin, after a med student was found murdered
effective with fewer side effects.
Barnea hopes success with dop-
amine research will lead to expanded
research on “other members of the
G-protein coupled receptor family,”
a group of receptors for a variety
of hormones and neurochemicals
with multiple receptors, such as se-
rotonin, melatonin, histamine and
adrenaline.
From there, Barnea said, the impli-
cations are vast. Such research could
begin to provide more exact and ef-
fective treatment options for a range
of disorders including hypertension,
asthma, allergies, ulcers and cancer.
Before he received the grant,
Barnea’s research sought a method
to label neural circuits to “understand
the logic used by the brain to process
olfactory information,” he said. This
initial research led to the idea for
the method he is trying to develop
with the grant to study the dopamine
receptors.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
higher ed in brief
Missing Yale student’s body found
and identified in lab building
A week-long search for a missing Yale student ended
in shock and tragedy Monday after the body identified
as that of Annie Le was found in the wall of a campus
science building.
Le, a medical student at the university, had been
planning to get married on Sunday, the day the body was
found. She had been missing for five days.
Since the body was discovered, developments have
come quickly in the case. Late Tuesday night, New Haven
Police announced that warrants were issued to search
the home of Raymond Clark III, who worked in the same
laboratory as Le, according to the Hartford Courant.
No charges have been files against Clark, but he has
been identified as a “person of interest,” and at press
time, was in custody, according to the Courant.
“Our hearts go out to Annie Le’s family, fiance and
friends, who must suffer the additional ordeal of waiting
for the body to be identified,” Richard Levin, the school’s
president, wrote in an e-mail to the Yale community
Sunday night after the body was found and presumed to
be Le’s.
On Monday, New Haven police identified the body as
Le’s, and the Connecticut chief medical examiner’s office
ruled the death a homicide. Access to the building in
which Le’s body was found has been restricted, and a New
Haven Police Department spokesman told the Yale Daily
News that the police were “not looking at (the homicide)
as if it is a random act.”
Le was studying pharmacology and received her
undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester.
— Ellen Cushing
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 | Page 5

M. soccer scores big weekend on rain-soaked field

By Katie Wood spotlight for the last few decades Grandstrand, Mandel and Walls.
Assistant Sports Editor as a top program, they stuck with “We struggled to keep it together
the Bears for the first 30 minutes of in the last half of the Adelphi game,”
The men’s soccer team (3-0-1) cap- play. Coleman said. “We won a very good
tured the outright Adidas-Brown The Bears were tired after a hard tournament outright, and not many
Classic title after two wins against fight and tough win against SMU in teams have been able to do that. We’re
Southern Methodist University (2- a game that ended at 11 p.m. Friday undefeated through the first three
2-0) and Adelphi University (1-1-2) night. But by Sunday they were reju- games, so we’re definitely headed in
this past weekend. Austin Mandel ’12 venated, and many Bears saw play- the right direction.”
led the way on offense, scoring two ing time to keep up the energy from The Bears traveled to nearby
goals, and Sean Rosa ’12 received the Friday night’s win. Bryant University (2-4-0) last night,
tournament’s Offensive MVP award “It’s been a tough situation with beginning a four-game road trip and
with a goal and an assist. the team playing so many games extending their winning streak to
The Bears waited patiently Fri- in a row, three games in five days,” three in a row with a 1-0 victory over
day night before their opening-round Coleman said. “The guys who don’t the Bulldogs. Thomas McNamara ’13
match in the Classic against SMU. play as much went out there for some recorded the first goal of his collegiate
And their composure paid off as they quality minutes and represented the career with less than two minutes to
came out mentally prepared to take on team well.” play in the first half. Grandstrand and
one of the consistently top-ranked pro- Mandel had a great look on goal the defense kept Bryant out of their
grams in the country. SMU opened up at 36:51 as his shot went high. He territory, allowing only one shot on
its season with a narrow 1-0 loss to the bounced right back and trickled a goal compared to Brown’s six.
then-No.3, now No. 1-ranked Univer- goal at 39:58 into the net past the out- The Bears take on another intra-
sity of Akron, so the Bears knew they stretched arms of Adelphi goalie Kyle state rival in the University of Rhode
would have to battle for all 90 minutes Blackmer. Mike Manella ’12 picked up Island (2-2-0) Saturday at 7 p.m.
of play against the Mustangs. the first point of his college career on “One of the stresses of this season
After an hour-and-a-half rain delay, the assist, and Mandel tallied his team- is to put forth a full team effort,” Cole-
both teams finally approached the leading second goal of the season. man said. “The team is committed to
swampy field, ready to play the highly The Brown team had the game both sides of the ball, and we are com-
anticipated early-season match-up. under control as it outshot the Pan- municating well and backing one an- Jesse Morgan / Herald
“There was some talk of canceling thers 8-2 in the second frame, and other up — translating into key wins Jon Okafor ‘11 (17) competes for the ball against Adelphi in Sunday’s
home game. The Bears blanked the Panthers 2-0.
the game,” said Evan Coleman ’12, the the defense continued to keep the at the beginning of the season.”
tournament’s Defensive MVP. “We ball on the opposite side of the field.
wanted to play because we knew we Adelphi players kept the pressure
could play our best and beat them.” on as they fouled the Bears 13 times
The Bears put together their best in the second half for a total of 18 in
overall performance this season, ac- the game.
cording to Coleman. Two minutes into the second half,
They had several excellent op- Remick lined up for a corner kick that
portunities to score thanks to Nick deflected off an Adelphi defender and
Elenz-Martin ’10 and Rosa in the open- popped right to Rosa, who finished
ing 30 minutes of play. And just three it with his first goal of the season,
minutes later, Mandel was fouled hard an effort that helped him earn the
inside the box and awarded a penalty Offensive MVP. Remick recorded
kick, which he converted to put the his first collegiate point on the as-
team up, 1-0. sist as the Bears went on to defeat
“In the beginning, we struggled,” Adelphi, 2-0.
Coleman said. “We had to set our own Several Bears earned spots on the
pace of the game since they were so all-tournament team, including MVPs
efficient on offense.” Coleman and Rosa, Elenz-Martin,
The Bears went into the half with
that slim margin, and Head Coach
Mike Noonan gave his team a “severe,
yet encouraging” halftime speech that
motivated players to come out and
reach their potential in the second
half.
“Coach told us it was going to be a
battle to the end,” Coleman said. “We
have some go-getters on the team,
and the rest of us fed off of them and
we all played better. We brought it to
SMU in the second half.”
The Bears came out firing on all
cylinders for a well-rounded effort
from both the defense and the offense.
The offense produced nine shots to
SMU’s four in the second half.
The defensive intensity continued
to soar as Coleman, Ryan McDuff
’13, Dylan Remick ’13 and co-captain
David Walls ’11 kept the ball out of the
net in order to preserve the one-goal
lead off Mandel’s penalty kick. Paul
Grandstrand ’11 also picked up three
saves to help the defensive backs.
“They weren’t ready for the sec-
ond half,” Coleman said. “It was a big
turning point in the game as we kept
on the pressure for all 90 minutes, re-
vealing a dedicated, strong team that
we knew we could be all along.”
The Bears then took on Adelphi,
who tied Yale on Friday, 1-1. Though
the Atlantic Soccer Conference’s Pan-
thers have not been in the national
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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r s

URL citations not the solution

To the Editor:
Regarding Tuesday’s op-ed (“Re-
thinking citations,” Sept. 15): Dan
Davidson’s ’11 point about hyper-
linked citations is a good one but
in a sense moot, since most citation
style sheets I’m familiar with would
require you to use a URL for any on-
line source you cite anyway. I would
take issue with the notion that a URL
all by itself is sufficient for a citation
(although I’m not entirely sure that’s
what he’s suggesting). As a reader
of scholarly literature, I often glance
at a citation’s author and maybe its
source (i.e. a refereed journal title
or perhaps who published the book)
to get a quick fix on its authority. I
suspect most faculty members do
the same. So not having that data
present would force me to leave
reading the article and chase down
the URL (which may or may not still
exist). The real problem is that a
printed-out paper doesn’t have the
ability to make the “live link.” I agree
that this ability to link directly to
your source is quite a major leap
forward in scholarly method.
The good news is, citation man-
agement is now fairly easy. The
Brown libraries have made a You-
Tube video describing the value
of citation managers. The library
website also has a page dedicated
to these tools. Classes in all three
of the managers we use at Brown
(EndNote, RefWorks and Zotero)
are available online.
Ned Quist
Music Librarian
ale x yuly
Sept. 15

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SUSANNAH KROEBER
Opinions Columnist
If you have driven through Massachusetts on In-
terstate 95 recently, the new highway billboards
that mark out the miles cannot have escaped
your notice. The recurring mantra, “Thanks,
Ted,” is but one of a small set of commemora-
tions of a man important beyond his role as
senior senator of Massachusetts.
The world for a graduating college student is
potentially a little scarier in an era post-Ted Ken-
nedy. Over the past year, as the United States
began — after decades of denial — to address
the issues of health care, universal coverage
and insurance, there have only been a handful
of national figures who have publicly supported
a radical overhaul in the direction of giving
every American affordable health care.
The initial group has dwindled over the
months, and with it any hope of the kind of
health-care reform liberals have been angling
for. This original list included then-Senator
Hillary Clinton and New Mexico Gov. Bill Rich-
ardson, who were among the more serious
proponents of a universal health insurance
system.
While Secretary of State Clinton may have
more television time on some issues, the cause
she championed in the 1990s as First Lady
has taken a back seat. Since Gov. Richardson
withdrew from the presidential race and sub-
sequently from consideration as Secretary of
Calling out the misinformed: a call to action
JULIAN PARK
Guest Columnist
This past Monday, Jonathan Topaz ’12 wrote
a column (“SDS’ golden opportunity,” Sept.
14) urging Students for a Democratic Society
to organize against the U.S.’s occupation of
Afghanistan. As a member of that organization,
I too have a “quick piece of advice to the new
Class of 2013”: Be wary of uninformed colum-
nists for The Herald.
I’d like to use this space to debunk some of
the misconceptions in that column. First, SDS
has never labeled the Brown Corporation, the
final decision-making power here at Brown,
either “evil” or “arch-conservative.” The descrip-
tors that SDS uses are “undemocratic,” “inac-
cessible” and “nontransparent.” Still, “liberal”
hardly seems to describe two of the Corpora-
tions highest profile members — Louisiana
Republican Governor Bobby Jindal ’91.5 is a pro-
lifer who supports intelligent design in public
schools, and Brown’s Chancellor Thomas Tisch
is a board member of a conservative think-tank
called the Manhattan Institute.
Nevertheless, the fact that Brown’s Cor-
poration is inaccessible, undemocratic and
nontransparent isn’t the point. The problem
with these things is the practical implications
that they have for the everyday lives of Brown
community members, potential community
members and the world at large.
Topaz points out that international student
aid has been increased by 25 percent source,
yet doesn’t mention that admissions for those
students are still not need-blind. While it is com-
mendable that the Corporation elected the first
African-American President of an Ivy, this masks
Thanks, Ted
Commerce, his national profile on this and
other issues has been drastically diminished.
Some of the other outspoken proponents of
universal health care during the 2008 campaign,
such as former Senator Mike Gravel, D.-Alaska,
have not succeeded in championing this issue,
finding fame mostly as national laughingstocks.
The last true liberal crusader for health-care
reform, and fittingly one of the first to decide
that discussing this issue was not tantamount
to political suicide, was Ted Kennedy.
Despite the associations of the term “mav-
The last true crusader for liberal health care
reform was Ted Kennedy.
erick” with Republicans in the current political
climate, Ted Kennedy was, in recent years, the
epitome of the liberal maverick. Even as his
health failed over the last two years, he was
one of the only senators unafraid of the insur-
ance industry’s money and lobbying power.
Kennedy was ready for the fight against what
he rightfully saw as the insurance industry’s
commercial scheme to maximize profits at the
expense of lives.
Ted Kennedy had the name and the oppor-
tunity to bring significant change to the way we
treat patients in this country, regardless of their
the fact that only seven percent source of stu-
dents at Brown share Ruth Simmons’ race (6.4
percent lower than US demographics, and 7.54
percent lower than Providence source). Even
in the year following the onset of the biggest
recession since the Great Depression, tuition
for Brown was still hiked three percent. I don’t
know about you, but I have friends that weren’t
able to come back this year after the hike.
Those students still attending may be curi-
ous about where their tuition dollars are going.
As a matter of standard practice, Brown keeps
investments a secret. We don’t know whether
“Think global, act local” seems to ring
particularly true here — one of the best ways
that Brown students can use the privilege they
do have to combat international problems is by
pressuring the school to divest from unworthy
causes.
we are benefiting from the growing coffers
of war-profiteering arms manufactures, the
continued occupation of Palestine, Iraq and,
yes, Afghanistan, or union-busting, employee-
abusing hotel chains like HEI (which Brown’s
own Student Labor Alliance has ascertained
we are invested in).
“Think global, act local” seems to ring par-
ticularly true here — one of the best ways that
Brown students can use the privilege they do
have to combat international problems is by
pressuring the school to divest from unwor-
thy causes. Of course, this sort of pressure is
impossible to apply as long as knowledge of
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 | Page 7
ability to pay. He was the lone senator who felt
that the insurance companies’ desires to turn
a profit at the expense of individuals’ health
was immoral. He knew that the appropriate
course of action was to turn health care into
an industry not run by private, unregulated
corporate interests.
Take a look at President Obama’s new allies
for health care reform. While Sen. Olympia
Snowe, R.-Maine, and Sen. Susan Collins R.-
Maine, are crucial to moving legislation at this
point, the end product is not the original pro-
posal the President touted in his initial weeks in
office. There is little doubt that if Ted Kennedy
were still here, his presence would have been
enough to push forward the most essential
aspects to the initial proposal: mandatory insur-
ance coverage and an affordable public option
to compete with private insurance.
For those of you beginning your job search,
even for those of you who are fairly confident
in finding a job upon graduation, remember
what the current system will cost you.
The national average for employment-based
health insurance includes the employee pay-
investments remains controlled.
Let me back up to Topaz’s recommenda-
tion that SDS “broaden their horizons.” As I
understand it, the argument is that since Brown
is already a progressive and privileged place,
why focus on making it better, when there
is the U.S.’s occupation of Afghanistan to be
stopped?
This argument makes no sense; these two
goals are hardly mutually exclusive. Wasn’t it
in the middle of the Vietnam War when our
beloved Open Curriculum was adopted after
student agitation? What if students of the day
had listened to advice like Topaz’s? True, Brown
is a privileged community, and kudos to Topaz’s
acknowledgement of this, but the reality is that
not everyone at Brown is equally privileged, nor
do all potential students have the same access
to this privilege. Students are the ones being
affected by admissions, tuition and financial
aid policies — it is our tuition dollars that are
invested — so we should be the ones with the
power to make decisions on these issues.
Topaz is under the impression that Universi-
ty Democratization was the only campaign SDS
worked on last year. It wasn’t. We organized a
coalition of student groups to greet the Corpora-
ing 30 percent of the policy’s cost. In under a
decade, these costs have more than doubled.
An average family of four not covered by an
employer pays over $13,000 per year, and these
families risk their insurance companies drop-
ping their policies at times when they have the
greatest need and medical costs. Some estimate
that, by 2018, employment-based family plans
will cost closer to $25,000 per year per family.
Every year, 1.5 million people foreclose
on their homes due in part to medical bills. In
2007, 62 percent of bankruptcies were linked to
medical expenses. Of these, almost 80 percent
had health insurance.
There’s no doubt that if Ted Kennedy were
still serving as a senator, the prospects for
families facing health problems 10 years from
now would not be so dire. While we study at
Brown, an institution that requires students
to have medical insurance, it becomes easy to
forget that health care in the real world is not
guaranteed.
It is important not to be blindsided by the
realities new college graduates — and others
— face on this front. We must consider how to
mend the system in an era without the strong
leadership of politicians who understand the
importance of universal health care.
Susannah Kroeber ’11 is a Slavic Studies
concentrator from Beijing, China.
She can be reached at
susannah_kroeber@brown.edu.
tion when they arrived to meet in February— a
demonstration designed to deliver the demands
of each group directly to the decision-makers,
whether they wanted to hear or not.
This coalition, calling itself Open the Books!,
delivered a letter to the Brown University Com-
munity Council, with Chancellor Tisch in at-
tendance. It expressed our desire to meet with
the Corporation Committee on Investment, a
request they refused. We also began working
with the Career Development Center towards
creating a code of ethics guiding which organiza-
tions would be allowed to recruit on campus.
There is good reason Brown SDS hasn’t
devoted itself to anti-war efforts (although
maybe you’ve heard of Funk the War — there
have been five): there is already an on-campus
anti-war group. It’s called Operation Iraqi Free-
dom.
Maybe you think that with the escalation
of US presence in Afghanistan, OIF is not as
relevant as it once was. Well, you’re in luck
— there is a new anti-war group in the mak-
ing, whose direction is yet set. If this fits your
interest (and I’m talking to you, Topaz), then
their first meeting is today
Otherwise, if you care about “petty internal
problems” like whom Brown is invested in,
whom we let recruit students on campus, how
much you pay to go here and whether we will
make our admissions policies more accessible,
come to the SDS meeting tonight. Me? I plan
on going to both.
Julian Park ’12 can be e-mailed for
information on anti-war and SDS
meetings. He can be reached at
julianfrancispark@gmail.com
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Today, September 16
11 AM — Farmers’ Market, Wriston
Quad
4 PM — “Ricardo Lagos — Coming
Through Crisis: A New Economic Model
Emerges in Latin America,” Watson
Institute
menu
Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Vegetarian Tacos, White
Pesto Pizza, Beef Tacos
Dinner — Spinach Stuffed Squash,
Beets in Orange Sauce, Cod with Po-
tato, Cheddar and Chives
crossword
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Birdfish | Matthew Weiss
6:30 PM — imPulse Dance Company
Fall Auditions, TF Green 205
7 pm — Movie Showing: “The Year
One,” Salomon 001
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Lunch — Honey Mustard Chicken
Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman
Sandwich, Tomato Quiche, Glazed
Carrots
Dinner — Rotisserie Style Chicken,
Sweet and Sour Tofu, Sticky Rice with
Edamame Beans
STW | Jingtao Huang
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