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Pool, gym
may be
combined
By Brigitta Greene
Senior Staf f Writer
The Jonathan Nelson ’77 Fitness
Center and a new aquatics center
may be combined under one roof
rather than being constructed as
separate facilities, top administra-
tors said recently.
A combined and somewhat
scaled-back facility would cost
approximately $40 million, about
$25 million less than the com-
bined price tag for two buildings,
said Richard Spies, executive vice
president for planning and senior
adviser to the president. Built sepa-
rately, the fitness center could cost
$40 million and the swim center
Future streetcar system may connect Brown, downtown
By Brigitta Greene
Senior Staf f Writer
From Seattle to Cincinnati,
streetcars are rattling back onto
U.S. streets — and Providence may
not be far behind.
A streetcar system connecting
Brown to the hospitals and medi-
cal centers downtown could be op-
erational within 10 years, said Tim
McCormick, former manager of the
In hiring, hallmark of a
broader push on Africa
By Sophia Li
Features Editor
When the University announced it
had hired famed African writer Chi-
nua Achebe last month, it brought
into its Department of Africana Stud-
ies one of the world’s highest-profile
thinkers on Africa. But rather than an
isolated move, the hiring is just the
latest indicator of a consistent effort
to enhance the University’s contribu-
tion to African scholarship.
“Brown is moving towards …
establishing itself as a leader in
scholarship on Africa,” said Anthony
Bogues, professor of Africana studies
and the department’s former chair.
“There’s no way we can consider
ourselves a leader at this point.”
Recent hires, such as Achebe,
suggest that “Brown is willing to
spend serious resources on scholars
who are of and from Africa,” said
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Daniel Smith, whose own research
focuses on HIV/AIDS, reproduc-
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Officials may fold a permanent replacement for the temporary aquatics bubble, above, into a planned new gym.
another $25 million.
The University is in conversa-
tions with the lead donors for each
project, and the buildings remain
in the initial stages of planning,
Spies said. Donors for both proj-
planning department at the Rhode
Island Public Transit Authority.
The Metro Transit Study Work-
ing Group, which comprises city
and state representatives, RIPTA,
development organizations and lo-
cal universities, has been working
on plans for a circulator y transit
system to connect Providence’s
medical facilities to its educational
institutions — or “meds to eds,”
said Amy Pettine, RIPTA’s special
tive health and marriage, mostly in
Nigeria.
But despite those efforts, the
University has its work cut out to
establish itself as a destination for
African scholars. The faculty, aca-
demic departments and University
centers that have long focused their
work on the continent are looking to
Professor of Anthropology Matthew
Gutmann, the new vice president for
international affairs, and Michael
Kennedy, the new director of the
Watson Institute for International
Studies, to lead the way.
Bogues said he expects the two
new leaders of Brown’s internation-
alization efforts to bolster the Uni-
versity’s reputation for scholarship
on Africa. “I’ve been in discussions
with both of them, and both have
expressed support for movement
in this direction,” he said.
The University’s Africana studies
department, which houses much of
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ects have been “receptive about
the idea,” he said, but want to see
more detailed plans before moving
for ward.
Administrators will present
a detailed proposal to the Cor-
projects manager.
The working group, which was
created in March 2007, plans to re-
lease the results of its study next
month.
Though route plans and funding
options have yet to be finalized, the
project is “not a pipe dream,” Mc-
Cormick said. “This is something
that’s not outside the realm of pos-
sibility.”
In a 2007 report on the city’s
she d d ing li ght on a bu se
Hundreds of purple and white flags were planted on the Main Green over the
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poration at its October meeting
next weekend. If the University’s
highest governing body approves
the proposal, construction could
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transit projects, Mayor David Ci-
cilline ’83 gave his support to the
system. “Future economic growth
requires reversing the congestion
that increasingly clogs our roads
and highways,” he wrote in the
report. “The real solution lies in
creating a great transit system.”
Because of the permanence of
rail infrastructure, streetcars dem-
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After rapid
growth,
faculty size
flatlines
By Seth Motel
News Editor
For the first time since an ambi-
tious effort to expand Brown’s
faculty began earlier this de-
cade, the size of the University’s
faculty has declined slightly
this year, losing a net of three
members.
The University began the
year with 686 faculty members,
down from 689 at the start of the
last academic year, according
to data released by the Office
of the Dean of the Faculty last
month. The size of last year’s
faculty represented a 20 percent
increase over the 573 faculty
on campus in 2001-2002, the
academic year immediately
preceding the boom in faculty
hiring that later became a foun-
dational element of the Plan for
Academic Enrichment.
That wide-reaching blueprint,
whose core elements were first
outlined by President Ruth Sim-
mons in Februar y 2002, calls
for 100 new faculty positions,
including 25 “target of oppor-
tunity” spots, which enable the
University to quickly hire es-
pecially distinguished profes-
sors when such opportunities
arise.
Provost David Kertzer ’69
P’95 P’98 said 82 of those 100
positions have been filled so far,
including 20 of the 25 “target”
spots. But faculty expansion is
nearing an end, he said.
“There was a fairly intense
period of hiring,” he said. “We’re
kind of past that heyday.”
The size of the faculty had
increased by about 18 members
per year from the 2001-2002
academic year through the
2007-2008 year, but last year
the faculty grew by only nine
members.
The three-member decrease
in faculty for the 2009-2010 aca-
demic year did not differ greatly
from what had been an antici-
pated “modest growth” of about
four members, said Dean of the
Faculty Rajiv Vohra P’07.
“Quite apart from the eco-
nomic downturn coming at this
time, I think that in the normal
course of implementing the Plan
for Academic Enrichment, we
would be slowing down growth,”
Vohra said.
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The unexpected condemnation of the Smith Swim Center in 2007 has complicated plans for a new fitness center.
Future gym, pool may be combined
continued from page 1 project is that plans to include three funds already raised, Spies said.
indoor basketball courts would be “It’s not quite true to say we’ve
begin in about a year, said Ste- scrapped, Maiorisi said. already got the $40 million” to pay
phen Maiorisi, vice president for “We will have to compromise for a combined building, Spies said.
facilities management. It would a bit on the program,” Spies said, But if the current lead donors
take approximately 18 months to emphasizing that the core plans for maintain their relationship with
complete, he said. each project would remain intact. the effort, “we assume we can get
But combining the facilities At its Februar y meeting, the there pretty quickly.”
would require scaling back some Corporation recommended that That the number of donors for
ambitions for the fitness center. the University look to complete its each project “is not huge” makes
The biggest change in the unified capital projects within the limits of compromise easier to achieve, he
added.
sudoku The new aquatics center, wheth-
er built as a separate project or as
part of a combined fitness center,
will house Brown’s first permanent
pool since structural deficiencies
unexpectedly forced the Smith
Swim Center to close in December
2006. The structure was demol-
ished a year later.
Peter Brown, head coach of the
men’s swimming and diving team,
said he thought the developments
in plans for a new building were a
positive sign.
“There’s no question it’s great
for Brown,” he said. “It’s great for
athletics. It’s great for the aquatics
program.”
Since Januar y 2008, Brown’s
swimming, diving and water polo
teams have been competing of f
campus and practicing in a tem-
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This year’s new data are not
necessarily indicative of a certain
pattern of faculty growth, said
Faculty Executive Committee
chair Chung-I Tan, a professor
of physics and chair of the de-
partment.
“At a given year, a slight drop
of this sort is not to be an alarm,”
he said. “Ever y effort has been
made to maintain the momentum
we’ve gained.”
By aggressively growing the
faculty before waiting for the $1.4
billion Campaign for Academic
Enrichment to meet 100 percent
of its goal, President Ruth Sim-
mons “did something rather
bold,” Kertzer said.
Considering the economic
effects of the past year, Kertzer
added, “We’ve been remarkably
successful in staying on track.”
Salary freezes
Kertzer said flattening faculty
growth coincided with the salary
freeze implemented this year for
most faculty.
“To be adding a lot of faculty
while freezing salaries, from a
faculty point of view, would have
been questionable,” he said.
The new repor t by Vohra’s
office showed a slight increase
in the median salaries of profes-
sors at ever y level between the
2007-2008 and 2008-2009 years,
though both Vohra and Kertzer
said the change in median salary
in the current academic year will
be close to zero because of the
salary freeze.
According to the data, the
median salary of full professors
rose 3.2 percent last year, from
$131,127 to $135,424. Associate
professors saw their median sal-
ar y go up by 3.7 percent, from
$84,000 to $87,213. The median
salary of assistant professors in-
creased from $73,500 to $75,328,
or 2.4 percent.
Vohra cautioned that median
salaries can be misleading be-
cause in any given year some
faculty are promoted, while oth-
ers leave the University and are
replaced.
A more accurate measure is
the total salar y increase of re-
turning faculty, Vohra said. That
number was about 4 percent last
year and had been 5 percent and
higher during the early years of
the Plan, he said.
Last year, the growth of sala-
ries of full professors at Brown
was four th-highest in the Ivy
League, while the growth of as-
sociate and assistant professors’
mean salaries at Brown ranked
seventh, according to data from
the Chronicle of Higher Educa-
tion. Still, Brown remains the
lowest-paying Ivy League school
at every level.
Faculty are generally under-
standing of the salar y freeze,
Tan said, but a prolonged freeze
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
might undo some of the positive
changes that have occurred un-
derSimmons’ leadership.
“At some point, in order to
remain competitive, you have to
address that issue,” he said.
Searching and ‘targeting’
Vohra said endowment losses
across the country have eliminat-
ed some of the “usual suspects”
among peer institutions that are
typically looking to hire faculty,
which makes it easier for schools
like Brown to attract talent. But
despite many active searches in
different departments, adminis-
trators have told depar tments
to be “particularly selective,” he
said.
Many department chairs said
they have not encountered much
difficulty in hiring new faculty.
Department Chair and Pro-
fessor of Histor y Omer Bartov
said he saw “no contradiction”
between a drop in the overall
number of faculty and the Univer-
sity’s pursuit of new high-profile
senior faculty. Because the overall
growth of the faculty may remain
limited, recruiting prominent and
established faculty makes sense,
he said.
But Bartov added that he has
concerns about the use of the
“target” program. Such hires,
typically older professors, often
do not stay at Brown for ver y
long, and can make a department
“top-heavy,” he said.
Bartov cautioned against mov-
ing too far in the direction of pri-
oritizing more senior, “target”
hires over younger faculty.
Andrew Foster, professor of
economics and department chair,
said he appreciated the flexibil-
ity that the “target” program has
given departments.
“It used to be the case histori-
cally at Brown that you had to
argue for how many FTEs you
had,” Foster said, referring to
“full-time equivalent” faculty
members. “You just never know
when you start the year who’s
going to be available.”
The new data show that most
new positions since the 2002-2003
academic year have been at the
level of assistant professor.
The number of assistant pro-
fessors has jumped 51.6 percent,
while the number of associate
professors is up 11 percent and
full professors have increased
by 10.2 percent in that time. The
number of lecturer positions at
the senior and junior levels saw
a 4.3 percent increase.
For Kenneth Wong, profes-
sor of education and chair of the
department, the key issue now
is not the size of the faculty, but
the amount of support available.
Increasing resources for the
growing faculty has been one of
the Plan’s primary goals.
“I think that that’s one area
that we need to think through
more carefully,” Wong said.
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Students contend with Programs boost African scholarship
overcrowded classes
By Anita Mathews
Contributing Writer
Sit at a desk in your last class? Con-
sider yourself fortunate.
Many sections are experienc-
ing overcrowding this semester, so
much so that students must sit on
the floor and, in some cases, win-
dowsills during lectures.
Enrollment in these congested
classes ranges from the 28 students
of GNSS 1960B: “Health and Healing
in American History,” crowded in a
Wilson Hall classroom, to the whop-
ping 261 in a single section of ENGN
0090: “Management of Industrial and
Nonprofit Organizations” in a Barus
and Holley auditorium.
Classroom scheduling is usually
based on an estimated 120 percent
of pre-registration numbers, Michael
Pesta, the University registrar, wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald. Once
classes begin, however, “enroll-
ments can fluctuate unpredictably,”
he added.
Anthony Adams, a visiting assis-
tant professor of english, requested
that his 53-student class, ENGL
1210: “History of the English Lan-
guage,” be moved from Wilson Hall
205, which has a maximum capacity
of 42, to a larger room in an effort to
retain interested students.
Riley Blanton ’09.5, a member
of the class, said he thought some
students may have dropped the class
during shopping period because of
the crowded space.
“It got to the point that people
couldn’t even open the door to get
in,” Blanton said.
The class eventually moved to a
larger room in the Center for Infor-
mation Technology, but Adams said
the bigger space has cost the class
the “campfire quality” it had before
the move. He added that while he
was surprised by the turnout, he
prefers teaching one large class to
two smaller sections.
In a big class, “you feel like
you’re on stage at a rock concert,”
he said.
For some professors, overflowing
sections are not unusual. Professor
Emeritus of Engineering Barrett
Hazeltine offers three sections of
ENGN 0090, a perennial favorite
among students. Hazeltine acknowl-
edged that enrollment is up from last
year, but he said enrollment num-
bers fluctuate from year to year.
He also said he polled the class
regarding a room change, but de-
spite the fact that the 261 enrolled
students in one section far exceed
the room’s capacity of 140, “the
consensus was to stay.” Now, with
students taking turns sitting on the
floor, Hazeltine says he thinks people
are more involved and engaged.
Though students like Blanton
described the overcrowding as dis-
tracting, he and others said they did
not think the tight space detracted
from their education.
Colette DeJong ’11, who takes
INTL 1280: “Global Security after
the Cold War,” a weekly lecture class
with roughly 20 students more than
chairs, said the lack of seats in class
doesn’t bother her too much.
“I’m always late, so I’ve never had
a seat yet,” she said. But that has not
hurt the level of student participa-
tion, she added.
“Global Security” may soon be
moved to a bigger room, but in the
meantime, DeJong said the seat
shortage might even be beneficial.
“It encourages people to get
there on time,” she said.
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“Brown is not going global. Brown is global.”
— Matthew Gutmann, vice president for international affairs
continued from page 1
Brown’s interdisciplinary scholar-
ship on Africa, has proposed to in-
troduce a graduate program, an of-
fering that could galvanize Brown’s
academic reputation in the field.
The proposal has been in the works
for more than two years, accord-
ing to Dean of the Graduate School
Sheila Bonde.
The proposal for an M.A./Ph.D.
program in Africana studies has
been approved by the Graduate
School Council, Bonde wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald, and is slated
for review by the Academic Priori-
ties Committee on Oct. 20. If the
committee approves the proposal,
it will be reviewed next by the fac-
ulty and then by the Corporation,
Bonde wrote.
The proposal is one of a host of
programs drawing attention to the
importance of Africa as a subject for
research, teaching and collabora-
tion. Last year featured a “Focus
on Africa,” a series of events and
speakers sponsored by the Africana
studies department that was similar
to the current “Year of India,” said
Bogues, who directed the series.
Bogues considers each year’s
focus to be a part of the University’s
commitment to internationalization
and to providing understudied
regions such as Africa and Latin
America, which enjoyed a similar
year of attention two years ago, with
“some kind of intellectual home at
Brown,” he said.
Smith, the associate director of
Brown’s Population Studies and
Training Center, said the center
recently received renewed funding
to recruit and train young scholars
from the developing world — and
will now focus exclusively on sub-
Saharan Africa. The center provides
stipends and scholarships for pre-
and post-doctoral population scien-
tists, and plans to support African
scholars in their early careers so
that “they’ll actually be able to go
home and benefit their places of
origin,” Smith said.
The University also recently
created a scholarship fund to sup-
port undergraduate students from
Africa.
Such investments in academic
support for African students aug-
ment a long history of academic
interest in Africa at Brown. Since
the mid-1960s, Professor of Anthro-
pology Philip Leis has directed the
Africa Group, a loosely organized
network of faculty, undergradu-
ates, graduate students and outside
scholars that usually hosts events
on topics related to Africa.
But this year, Leis said, the
Watson Institute has not allocated
any money to the Africa Group, an
indicator of the University’s tight
financial situation.
Nor have further plans to create
a center for teaching, research and
collaboration on Africa material-
ized, though the University’s in-
ternationalization committee made
establishing such an institute one of
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its central recommendations more
than two years ago.
Still, Leis said he thinks the
University’s commitment to inter-
nationalization, particularly as it
pertains to Africa, is “not just lip
service.”
With Gutmann and Kennedy still
new in their posts, the University’s
road ahead is unclear. But Bogues
listed several specific ways he
thinks Brown could improve teach-
ing about Africa: regularly offering
African languages for study, or hir-
ing faculty who can teach about the
political economy of Africa and who
specialize in the politics of Africa’s
regions.
Bogues said he recognized the
limitations on how quickly Brown
can build its international reputa-
tion. “The process has begun,” he
said, “but you can’t become a global
university in two years.”
“I’ve been on the job for four
weeks, and in four weeks I have
not set policy on everything,” Gut-
mann said.
Calling Brown’s work in Africa
“extremely important,” he added
that “we plan to build on the suc-
cessful work we have in South Af-
rica, Tanzania, Ghana, many other
places, and build these into signa-
ture programs for Brown.”
Gutmann emphasized that
Brown faculty and students are al-
ready doing important work in Af-
rica. “It’s not a question of starting
from scratch,” he said. “Brown is not
going global. Brown is global.”
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The Brown Daily Herald
Stimulus seen as ineffective, polls show
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staff Writer
Leaves aren’t the only things falling
in Providence.
According to a poll released
Thursday by Brown’s Taubman
Center for Public Policy, Providence
residents have become increasingly
frustrated with both their city’s poor
economy and with Mayor David Ci-
cilline’s ’83 job performance. More
than half the 480 registered voters
polled also reported their families
were worse off financially than they
were a year ago.
The poll — conducted Sept. 16
through 19 — found that 87 percent
of respondents said they thought
the city’s economy was “not so
good” or “poor.” Only 23 percent
of respondents thought the city’s
future would bring “continuous
good times,” down from 64 percent
in 2006, the last time a similar poll
was conducted.
More than 53 percent of re-
spondents thought the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009, which the survey referred
to as “the economic stimulus pro-
gram,” has not made a difference
for Providence, and nearly 70 per-
cent thought the federal stimulus
funds have not helped their per-
sonal financial situation.
Forty percent of respondents
rated Cicilline’s job performance “ex-
cellent” or “good,” while 45 percent
rated it as “only fair” or “poor.” And
despite Cicilline’s 2002 campaign
promise to “have a City Hall free of
cronyism and corruption,” 43 percent
of respondents said they thought he
had not lived up to his pledge.
But the poll also was marked by
a significant number of “don’t know”
and “no answer” responses across
the board — 14 percent of respon-
dents chose not to rate Cicilline’s
job performance and nearly 27 per-
cent did not know or had no answer
regarding the results of Cicilline’s
promise to clean up City Hall.
Taubman Center Director
Marion Orr, professor of political
science, said he attributed the declin-
ing approval ratings to the “major
challenges the city is facing,” such
as the “huge number of foreclosed
properties” that he said indicate that
the national housing crisis has hit the
city particularly hard.
But Orr added he was surprised
Michael McCormick, asst. vice president of planning, on streetcar project
by the high percentage of respon-
dents who were dissatisfied with the
city’s economy.
Cicilline could not be reached for
comment, but wrote in an e-mail to
the Providence Journal for an Oct. 2
article that “these poll results reflect
the very serious economic challeng-
es we’re facing in Providence, as well
as some important improvements
made in city services.”
Last time the Taubman Cen-
ter administered a similar poll, 67
percent of respondents approved
of Cicilline’s job performance, Orr
said, adding that the decline could
be a product of citywide pessimism
caused by the recession.
“Generally speaking, it’s just re-
ally the uncertainty of the state’s
economy,” he said of the poll’s un-
favorable responses.
Attention in the local media has
focused mostly on state and national
policy issues, such as health care,
which Orr said could be the reason
there were so many “don’t know”
and “no response” answers in the
poll.
“The coverage of the mayor and
the city are not as extensive as it
used to be,” he said.
“It’s obviously great for us.”
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A proposed streetcar system would have two lines whose terminals are
shown above. They would interest at Kennedy Plaza.
City eyes streetcars
for cross-town transit
continued from page 1
onstrate a greater commitment to
economic development than RIP-
TA’s traditional bus ser vice, said
Michael McCormick, Brown’s as-
sistant vice president for planning
design and construction in Facilities
Management.
Local developers recognize this
commitment and are more likely to
invest in the community, Tim Mc-
Cormick said. He pointed to Port-
land, Ore., one of the first American
cities to establish a major modern
streetcar system. Between 2001,
when that system was first built,
and the spring of 2008, $3.5 billion
was invested in the area within two
blocks of the streetcar tracks, ac-
cording a report by Portland Street-
car Inc.
The city will most probably look
to federal funding for the estimated
$66-$86 million initial cost to con-
struct the system and buy street-
cars. But RIPTA might ask private
sources — including Brown — to
cover the system’s annual operating
budget, estimated at approximately
$2-$3.5 million, Pettine said.
RIPTA’s current operating bud-
get is funded by the state’s gasoline
tax.
Brown pays RIPTA about
$360,000 a year to allow students,
faculty and staff to ride for free,
according to Elizabeth Gentry, as-
sistant vice president for adminis-
trative and financial services.
Institutions and individuals along
the route will have an economic
incentive to fund the budget, Pet-
tine said. The streetcars will cater
largely to University community
members traveling from College
Hill to the medical school and hos-
pitals.
An exact path for streetcar re-
mains to be finalized, but the most
Courtesy of Transit2020.org
recent Metro Transit Study draft
report shows two interlinked routes
serving Downcity and the Jewelry
District — connecting Rhode Island
Hospital and Providence station
with College Hill via the existing
bus tunnel.
The project would include ap-
proximately 2.1 miles of rail along
existing paved streets traversed by
five electrically powered streetcars,
which would be powered by over-
head catenar y lines. Cars would
run ever y 7 to 15 minutes for at
least 14 hours a day, according to
the study’s Web site.
Brown’s plans to establish a
greater presence in the Jewelry Dis-
trict represent a key opportunity for
Providence, Tim McCormick said.
“You might call it the only thing
going on in terms of a major invest-
ment in the city,” he said.
“It’s obviously great for us,” said
Michael McCormick, who has rep-
resented the University in planning
discussions.
The streetcar project will be
closely related to planning for com-
munity and economic development
that city government, educational
and health centers are currently
undertaking.
As Brown expands its medical
school in the Jewelry District, it will
look to further develop the area.
Frances Halsband — an architectur-
al consultant to the Corporation who
envisioned the Walk and has done
much of Brown’s recent long-term
physical planning — will present a
report to the Corporation when it
meets next week detailing potential
developments in the area. Included
in the report are recommendations
to restore historic streetscapes —
widening sidewalks, allowing for
corner cafes and planting greenery
— along parts of the streetcar route,
Halsband said.
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Metro
Like it, love it — can’t have it
By Lauren Fedor
Senior Staf f Writer
Cold Stone Creamer y on Thayer
Street closed its doors last week,
leaving College Hill ice cream-
lovers disappointed and a handful
of local students out of a job.
Kristina Gedutis, who co-
owned the Thayer Street franchise
with her husband, Craig, for five
years, said the store’s sales were
down 30 percent from 2008.
Though the location’s rent
remained the same, dwindling
revenues made it difficult for the
owners to make payments, she
said.
“I’m not sure why sales were
down,” she said. “Ever yone al-
ways blames the economy, but I’m
sure there were other reasons.”
Gedutis said she and her
husband decided to vacate the
location, though their lease guar-
anteed them use of the space
through this December.
The couple run another ice
cream parlor in Cranston, which
has not suffered as drastic a de-
cline in sales, she said.
In Februar y, Cold Stone — an
international chain of ice cream
parlors known for its trademark
“mix-ins” with more than 1,400
franchised locations worldwide
— formed a partnership with Tim
Hortons, the Ontario-based res-
taurant chain. Gedutis said the
opening of a joint Tim Hortons-
Cold Stone location on Dorrance
Street downtown negatively af-
fected her Thayer Street parlor’s
blogdailyherald.com
Thayer Street’s Cold Stone Creamery closed last week in the face of
declining revenue.
business.
“When we first opened, busi-
ness was great — we definitely
had our following,” she said.
“There wasn’t another Cold Stone
in Providence, so we got most of
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
— Kristina Gedutis, Thayer’s Cold Stone Creamery owner, on the opening of a rival nearby
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the area’s business.”
Gedutis said when the down-
town Cold Stone opened, she saw
revenue drop.
“I am bitter toward that,” she
said. “It wasn’t really fair.”
“I am bitter toward that. It wasn’t really fair.”
No layoffs, but unpaid days
likely for state employees
Unions voting on
governor’s new proposal
By Zung Nguyen Vu
Contributing Writer
The month-long standoff between
Governor Donald Carcieri ’65 and
state employee unions over his plan
to meet budget cut requirements
may soon be over.
After weeks of negotiations,
union members have begun to vote
on a proposal to save $36 million by
making all public employees work
without pay for eight days this year
and four days next year. The plan
under consideration would also de-
lay a promised 3 percent pay raise
for six months.
In return, no layoffs will be made
for the next two years. Workers will
be compensated at retirement and
receive additional leave days.
When Carcieri’s original plan
to send nonessential state workers
home for 12 days of the year without
pay was put on hold by the state
Supreme Court last month, Carcieri
threatened layoffs and began nego-
tiating a new plan with the unions.
The largest of the unions, Coun-
cil 94 of the American Federation
of State, County and Municipal Em-
ployees, expects to have members’
votes in today, said Council Presi-
dent Michael Downey. Members of
the second largest union, the Rhode
Island Alliance of Social Ser vice
Employees, Local 580, approved the
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
proposal by a 2-to-1 margin, accord-
ing to the union’s Web site.
The agreement represents a
major piece of Carcieri’s overall
plan to make $67.8 million in state
budget cuts in the face of soaring
unemployment and declining tax
revenue.
The state of Rhode Island cur-
rently employs about 13,000 work-
ers, said Amy Kempe, a spokes-
woman for the governor.
Union leaders had to approve the
agreement before other members
vote on it.
Initially, the unions thought they
could strike a better deal by pro-
longing the negotiations, Downey
said. But after the governor “went
on TV to say there was no chance,”
the union moved ahead with the
vote, he said.
If the proposal is passed, it
will be implemented immediately,
Kempe said.
Both Downey and Joseph Peck-
ham, acting executive director of
Council 94, support the plan but
declined to predict how the union’s
members would vote.
The union’s staff has been work-
ing hard for the last few days to
provide members with sufficient
information on the proposal, Peck-
ham said.
“As a democratic organization,
we felt that the union members had
the right to vote,” Downey said. “No
more layoffs, no more shut down
days. … That is good to know in a
difficult economy.”
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Need some advice? Save the tutors

Can’t hurt to ask! Last week, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron banned, no student could attend a study group without
buried the funeral announcement for a Brown institu- violating course policy. Academic coaching is no more
tion in the middle of a seemingly innocuous e-mail. useful for substantive help, as its individual sessions
While informing the student body of the creation of cover solely “study habits and learning strategies.”
“facilitated group study” and “academic coaching,” Bergeron’s defense of her decision against such
advice@browndailyherald.com Bergeron casually slipped in a notice that “individual attacks was unpersuasive. Tutoring doesn’t work in
tutoring will also be available by application on a selec- every case? Provide study groups as an alternative,
tive basis,” seemingly providing notice of a new form not a replacement. Tutors take advantage of lax over-
of academic assistance. In actuality, students were sight to over-report their hours? Then restrict tutor-
being notified of the termination of Brown’s free and ing sessions to particular hours in specific locations
widely available one-on-one tutoring program, which monitored by an electronic log-in system. The most
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d
Brown students were only informed of in the next plausible justification she could have given — budget
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editors Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors
day’s Herald. constraints — was the only one she explicitly denied
Steve DeLucia Michael Bechek Nandini Jayakrishna Rachel Arndt
Chaz Firestone Franklin Kanin Isabel Gottlieb This sort of duplicity by omission has characterized was a factor in the decision.
Michael Skocpol Scott Lowenstein the rollout of the new tutoring regime. As the head The arguments provided by Yolanda Rome, director
editorial Business CSCI0150: Intro to Object-Oriented Programming and of co-curricular advising and tutoring programs and a
Ben Hyman Arts & Culture Editor General Managers Office Manager
Rosalind Schonwald Arts & Culture Editor Alexander Hughes Shawn Reilly Computer Science TAs noted in a letter to the editor, no supporter of the decision, were also specious. Rome
Sophia Li Features Editor Jonathan Spector notification was provided to the leaders of the course, claimed that research has shown study groups to be
George Miller Metro Editor
Joanna Wohlmuth Metro Editor
which used individual tutors, and repeated requests “more pedagogically sound.” This may be true, but
Directors
Seth Motel News Editor Ellen DaSilva Sales for information went unanswered. They had to wait for we sincerely doubt that necessarily broad academic
Jenna Stark News Editor Claire Kiely Sales a taped note on the tutoring office’s door to find out research is a better means of assessing the usefulness
Andrew Braca Sports Editor Katie Koh Finance
Han Cui Asst. Sports Editor Jilyn Chao Asst. Finance that the service some of them had relied on would be of tutoring in a specific course, such as CSCI0150, than
Alex Mazerov Asst. Sports Editor Christiana Stephenson Alumni Relations discontinued. And when we say “relied on,” we don’t the judgment of that course’s professor.
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mean figuratively — CSCI 0150 Professor Andy van Professor of Chemistry David Cane’s testimony
Graphics & Photos Managers Dam believes that individual tutoring is so essential regarding the effectiveness of study groups in his
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to his course, the introductory centerpiece of the department is good evidence that the University ought
Eunice Hong Photo Editor Alex Carrere University Sales computer science program, that he was willing to pay to support a study group program. However, there is
Kim Perley Photo Editor Matt Burrows Credit and Collections tutors out of pocket to make sure his students would no reason this must trade off with allowing Van Dam
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still have access to them. The new system, according to employ tutors if he believes that they are more
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them to discover what their individual weaknesses are means that the University has made a number of
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future work. Such a relationship requires an intense tutoring program can be at least partially reinstated
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IVY CHANG
Opinions Columnist
It’s getting more and more difficult to attract
the attention of kids these days. Now col-
leges, too, must make the effort to keep up
with the times. The University of Pennsylva-
nia invited actor Kal Penn to teach, Brown is
adopting Tweeting in class and Harvard has
even tried putting out a clothing line.
A recent New York Times article report-
ed that MIT, Wellesley, Amherst, Yale and
numerous other colleges are beginning to
feature student-written blogs on their official
websites.
I had half-joked that it was unjust for Har-
vard rather than Brown, the “most fashionable”
Ivy League university, to have a clothing line,
and a rather formulaic and poorly designed
one at that. Learning that we’ve been left be-
hind on the blogging trend as well seems an
even greater tragedy.
Given the technical troubles we’ve been
having with Banner, Mocha and other
school-related Web sites, perhaps our tardi-
ness is for good reason. Plus, with our repu-
tation as the pot-smoking hipster of the Ivy
League, blog links on our main Web site
could be seen as a bit too predictable.
However, technical impediments and ste-
reotype affirmations aside, student blogs
could actually be extremely helpful in both
enriching our school’s image and fostering a
greater sense of community among the stu-
dent body.
Students narrowing down their college
Michael
Fitzpatrick
Opinions Columnist
Anyone who wandered through the Main
Green this past week was granted a rare op-
portunity to see some profoundly horrifying
images: a seal being brutally clubbed to death
for its fur; an innocent piglet being castrated;
a poor cat being pinned down on a dissect-
ing table.
In a stunning juxtaposition of moral out-
rage and disgust-inducing tastelessness, the
Brown Animal Rights Club, in conjunction
with People for the Ethical Treatment of Ani-
mals, brought to our campus an exhibition of
the Animal Liberation Project. In a nutshell,
the ALP seeks to inform the public — in par-
ticular, the youth — about the injustices that
human beings inflict upon animals.
Armed with an arsenal of hyper-sentimen-
tal quotes from human rights leaders such
as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., the
group has launched a campaign against soci-
etal tolerance of speciesism — the belief that
other species are inferior to our own. The
campaign fashions itself as a revival of older
liberation fronts, from abolition to feminism.
But instead of boycotts, protest marches and
petitions, the Animal Liberation Project pro-
poses a decidedly unorthodox protest meth-
od: vegetarianism.
Vegetarianism? Are they trying to waste
our time?
To clarify, I have nothing against dietary
vegetarianism. Nutritionally speaking, veg-
etables are far more valuable than animal
Honest to blog
choices these days do not want to rely mere-
ly on U.S. News rankings and the usual, im-
personal laundry list of location, class size
and programs of study.
Studies show that about 60 percent of
high school-age students use the Internet
for “education-related topics,” including col-
lege planning. They want to see what’s be-
hind all the smiling faces in glossy college
brochures, to know about the social scene,
surrounding college town, dorm conditions
and all the ups and downs of student life that
aren’t obvious from looking at a school’s
Student blogs are an accessible, reliable resource
for snapshots of campus life and valuable
interactions among students.
main Web site.
The influence of sites like College Con-
fidential cannot be ignored. Students and
parents use these sites extensively to dis-
cuss “insider” information, which is a mix
of rumors and tips from current college stu-
dents.
College visits can only help so much.
They can meld into a confusing blur and are
often too short to allow students to form an
accurate view of a school. The most honest
and personalized impressions they can get
before they arrive are definitely from stu-
dents on campus.
The vegetarian delusion
flesh as sources of fiber, vitamins and miner-
als. Moral vegetarianism, on the other hand,
is not only a failure as a form of activism; it’s
a failure as a lifestyle choice.
Let’s focus on vegetarian activism for a
moment. Vegetarian activism operates on
the same principle as a boycott: activists re-
fuse to purchase a product or use a service
and urge others to do the same. To convince
others to make that sacrifice, activists need
to make a statement about their cause. Un-
Instead of boycotts, protest marches and
petitions, the Animal Liberation Project proposes
a decidedly unorthodox protest method:
vegetarianism.
fortunately, swearing off meat isn’t a particu-
larly powerful statement when other people
do it for selfish reasons, like improving their
diet or fulfilling their religious obligations.
Compare this with Mahatma Gandhi,
a vegetarian who went on several hunger
strikes to promote peaceful resistance to
British rule in India. Vegetarianism was his
lifestyle, but self-starvation was his protest
method. It brought the attention he wanted.
After all, apart from the occasional anorexic
teenager, people generally don’t starve them-
selves unless they want to make a point.
Furthermore, vegetarianism constricts
Student blogs are an accessible, reliable
resource for snapshots of campus life and
valuable interactions among students. MIT
student blogs receive hundreds of com-
ments from prospective students, and many
current students claim that the blogs were
an important influence in their college deci-
sion.
As of now, it seems that the only Web ad-
dress for community interaction at Brown is
Facebook, and prospective students looking
to get an idea of what Brown is like have lim-
ited access to the network.
Although Brown does boast a wide ar-
ray of student-run newspapers and literary
journals, the information provided is scat-
tered across many different Web sites. The
curious will more often than not be unable
to locate many of these sources of student
opinions.
Student blogs would not only aid prospec-
tive students but the community at Brown as
well. Information and opinions get posted
instantly, with no editing or approval nec-
essary and facilitating a rapid exchange of
ideas between bloggers and readers. Blog-
gers could write about whatever topics they
the focus of the animal-welfare cause. If you
refuse to eat meat, any reasonable person
would assume that you protest the killing
of animals for their flesh, or the harvesting
of animal byproducts (e.g. eggs, milk and
honey) for food. But in terms of cruelty, eat-
ing animals is relatively mild compared to
other inhumane activities. Animals eat oth-
er animals — lions eat antelope, eagles eat
rabbits, dolphins eat fish. Eating is a natural
process.
Humans, on the other hand, are exclu-
sively guilty of killing animals for reasons
other than eating. Remember that seal club-
ber? He’s going to leave the skinned seal car-
cass on the ice pack for some polar bear to
eat. Eating meat has nothing to do with the
fur industry, vivisection or animal abuse, be-
cause in those cases the animals do not end
up on your plate.
To be an effective vegetarian activist, you
need to loudly proclaim to everyone within
earshot that a) you refuse to eat meat be-
cause it’s cruel, and b) you also strongly dis-
approve of fur coats, experimentation and
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wish, whether they be serious screeds on
politics and school policies or more light-
hearted ruminations about daily routines,
fashion trends on campus and where to find
cheap, good meals on Thayer.
As I’ve mentioned before, there isn’t re-
ally a central Internet space at which Brown
students can interact with each other. Not
many students frequent Brown’s Daily Jolt
page, with useful postings mostly limited to
unwanted items for sale.
The time we spend on Facebook and Twit-
ter reading the same people’s feeds over and
over can easily be supplemented with some-
thing new. Many students would probably
jump at the chance to blog for Brown, and
I’ll bet that quite a few of us already have per-
sonal blogs.
I’m sure that the usual misgivings about
offensive or poorly-written postings will not
apply to us. We probably won’t have to wor-
ry about students self-censoring too much
either, given the many examples set by out-
spoken student groups on campus.
The Internet has become undeniably im-
portant to fostering communication and dis-
seminating information. Student blogs can
help us get to know people that we might
otherwise never meet. They can expand not
only our conceptions, but also those of pro-
spective students, parents, and anyone else
who wants to know about what students
think, feel, and care about here at Brown.
Ivy Chang ’10 had to walk uphill both
ways to find out about colleges back in
her day. She can be reached at
ivy_chang@brown.edu.
animal abuse. But would you believe me if I
told you that you also had to grow your own
food?
That’s right: millions of rabbits, mice and
other rodents die each year when wheat
combines and other farm equipment har-
vest the crops. The problem is that machines
do not pause to allow the vermin to escape.
Only handpicked food is truly safe for ani-
mals, and that means finding a way to hire
millions of farm workers to gather, process
and package your dinner without forcing the
farmers into bankruptcy.
But you could grow your own food, right?
Subsistence gardening is extremely eco-
friendly, and you can harvest on your own
terms. You’ll never have to kill another rabbit
again, unless you find the little backstabbers
munching on your vegetables. For those
that remember Beatrix Potter’s “The Tales
of Peter Rabbit”… Well, you’ll suddenly feel
a strong sympathetic connection with nasty
old Mr. McGregor as you chase the vermin
away with a rake.
In terms of animal welfare, moral vegetar-
ianism is an insufficient response to animal
cruelty. It exists as a cheap alternative for
people who are too apathetic to participate
in a real protest against a real problem. Do
something productive with your time: pro-
test the seal clubbing, the experimentation
and the abuse… and please pass me a steak
knife.
Michael Fitzpatrick ’12 thinks that
“Roots and Shoots” should be renamed
“The Guiltless Grill.” He can be contact-
ed at michael_fitzpatrick@brown.edu
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