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When building Brown meant burning bridges
By Sophia Li
Features Editor
Bracketed by the Van Wickle Gates
and Soldiers Arch, Brown’s bustling
campus 50 years ago reached little
beyond the Main Green and Lincoln
Field. A residential neighborhood
of old colonial homes and stately
Victorian mansions extended right
to its doorstep.
Today, the University sprawls
over most of College Hill, and
has plans to expand even further
into the city. But this growth has
brought controversy as the Univer-
sity’s boundaries have blurred.
It was a shift that Ed Bishop ’54
P’86 P’91, a long-time Providence
resident, witnessed as a student:
the University’s struggle to grow
in an urban neighborhood without,
at the time, any “perspective on
preser vation.”
Wriston Quadrangle was being
built when he was a first-year stu-
dent, and construction on Keeney
Quadrangle had not yet begun.
Those projects, each landmark
continued on page 6
Brown students, minding their Ps and Qs
By Anne Speyer
Senior Staff Writer
The number of reported incidents
involving underage drinking and
copyright infringement at the Uni-
versity decreased this past year,
according to Margaret Klawunn,
vice president for campus life and
student services. Overall, violations
declined slightly.
A summary of non-academic
European health care model
an inspiration, Prodi says
By Alex Bell
Staff Writer
The United States should follow Eu-
rope’s lead in recognizing that health
care is a right, said Romano Prodi,
professor-at-large and former prime
minister of Italy, who spoke to a full
Joukowsky Forum Thursday along
with his wife.
Prodi and his wife, Flavia Fran-
zoni, a professor of politics at the
University of Bologna, compared
the differences between the health
care systems of the United States
and European nations.
Prodi said the disproportionate
amount of money spent on care in
the United States is largely due to
the high salaries of American phy-
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Second in a five-part series.
disciplinar y proceedings for the
2008-2009 academic year, released
recently, showed that the total
number of alleged violations to the
University’s non-academic behavior
policy was 3 percent lower than in
the year before.
A total of 171 violations to the
Standards of Student Conduct were
reported between July 2008 and June
2009, down from 177 incidents the
previous year.
sicians relative to those in Europe.
But he also observed that the high
cost of health care in America may
be tied to the relatively high preva-
lence of malpractice suits, which
forces physicians to spend more on
insurance.
This process “increases costs
and makes life unhappy,” Prodi
said. “Don’t underestimate litigation.
This to me is one of the dangers of
democracy.”
Prodi and Franzoni said the ma-
jor ideological difference between
American and European thinking
is that Europeans consider health
care a right, whereas Americans
do not.
continued on page 2
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Reported cases are addressed
in hearings before the Peer Com-
munity Standards Board, a dean or
administrator, the University Dis-
ciplinary Council or a University
administrative hearing officer.
The majority of the cases from
the past year were resolved in hear-
ings with a dean. Dean’s hearings
are used to address incidents that
continued on page 5
Romano Prodi, professor-at-large and former prime minister of Italy, said the need for malpractice insurance in
the United States “increases costs and makes life unhappy.”
50 years old, and
fresh as can be
Locals promote heirloom vegetables
By Leslie Primack cally grown heirloom fruits and
Staff Writer vegetables to their menus.
Though Mardosa drove Red
Looking forward to a comforting Planet Vegetables’ oblong pump-
Thanksgiving meal — that’s not kins, which resemble oversized
at the Sharpe Refector y? Last zucchinis, a mere seven miles
week, patrons of Providence res- to Local 121’s tables, the seed
taurant Local 121 were treated stock reputedly has its origins
to a unique version of a typical in the Azores Islands.
Thanksgiving dish: a pumpkin In 1832, whalers brought the
pie that — from seed to restau- long pie pumpkin — once the
rant table — had covered fewer only pumpkin used for pie in
miles than many students trav- New England — to Nantucket.
el to return home for the fall Over the next century and a half,
holiday. long pie pumpkins
The heirloom became increas-
pumpkins wer e SPOTLIGHT ingly rare — until
grown over the the late 1980s, when
summer in Johnston, on 150 farmer Ernest Leroy Souther
feet of land owned by Catherine Jr. took his pumpkin seeds to
Mardosa ’02 and Matt Tracy. Maine’s Common Ground Fair.
Together, the two run the local He sold them to a seed distribu-
farm Red Planet Vegetables, a tor, saving the prized stock from
small business that got its start extinction.
growing produce in downtown Several generations later,
Providence’s vacant lots. Souther’s seed stock had sprout-
Mardosa and Tracy received ed into the pumpkins for Local
the seeds as part of a New Eng- 121 chef David Johnson’s pie —
land-area Grow-Out sponsored delicate desserts three inches
by Renewing America’s Food in diameter and ser ved with a
Traditions, a coalition of sus- scoop of molasses ice cream.
tainable food advocates. The
Grow-Out culminated in Heir- Harvesting a local heritage
loom Harvest Week, which was When cooking with heir-
held Oct. 13-18 to celebrate the looms for the Har vest Week,
season’s crop, to promote local Johnson said he tried “to keep
food and to preserve heirloom it as simple as possible and ...
produce. Seventeen Providence to highlight that particular heir-
restaurants partnered with 13
Rhode Island farmers to add lo- continued on page 4
Julia Kim / Herald
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Despite talented acting and Brown students should
thoughtful direction ‘Anna embrace their inner elitists,
Bella Eema’ not up to par says Anish Mitra ’10
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C ampus N EWS “I’ve always been interested in the revolution and its consequences.”
Wood stays busy with book project
By Goda Thangada
Contributing Writer
“Do you know the difference between
a hedgehog and a fox?” asked Pro-
fessor Emeritus of History Gordon
Wood in a recent interview.
While the fox knows a lot of dif-
ferent things, the hedgehog knows
only one major thing, Wood ex-
plained: “I’m a hedgehog.”
The American Revolution expert
recently wrote “Empire of Liberty:
A History of the Early Republic,
1789-1815,” the fourth book of the
12-volume Oxford History of the
United States.
“I’ve always been interested in
the revolution and its consequenc-
Prodi: Americans still suspicious of change
continued from page 1
Franzoni said the health care
system in Europe, where coverage
is thought of as a right, is not only
considered a way to control costs,
but also “an instrument of govern-
ment.”
They agreed that providing uni-
versal health care should be a prior-
ity of governments.
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“In their moment of weakness,
the citizen must be protected,” Prodi
said. “I think this is civilization.”
The only mail that Though coverage models differ
in Europe from country to country,
counts in the morning Franzoni said the universal right
to health care is usually a major
tenet.
In some models, she said, care is
browndailyherald.com/register funded through contributions from
employers and employees, whereas
in others, the coverage is paid for by
the government to better facilitate
sudoku care for the unemployed.
At the base of the Italian system,
Franzoni explained, is a family’s
general practitioner. Visits to these
family doctors are free to patients,
and the National Health Center com-
pensates the doctors based on the
number of patients they see.
Family doctors are compensated
more for certain patients who tend
statistically to need more treatment,
such as the elderly, and doctors can-
not refuse patients, she said. Every
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— Professor Emeritus of History Gordon Wood
es,” he said, adding that he considers
himself a colonialist.
Wood said he had the opportunity
to work out the ideas in his book
when he taught a class at Brown.
“It’s been with me for a long time,”
he said.
Each volume of the Oxford se-
ries, published since 1982, covers
25 years of American history. Wood
said he was given free rein over the
content of the book, except for its
time period. When his editors re-
quested that 100 pages on art and
literature be cut, Wood said he spent
four months cutting pages through-
out the book. “That was hard to do,”
he said.
Wood calls the period covered
family chooses its own medical doc-
tor and can switch at any time.
Aside from providing general care
and prescribing drugs for patients
— usually with co-payments for all
but the poor — family doctors have
the sole authority to refer patients to
hospitals for no-cost procedures or
to specialists for diagnostic exams —
also usually with co-payments.
One problem of the referral sys-
tem, Prodi pointed out, is the dispar-
ity between regional administrations
of the system. Because patients can
choose which hospitals and special-
ists to see, patients from the South
often flock to hospitals in the more
economically developed North for
procedures, placing a burden on
those local hospitals.
“It’s an enormous problem,”
Prodi said. But it’s “legitimate to
look for a hospital that’s better.”
Another point of contention in
Italy is the coverage of illegal im-
migrants, which Prodi called “the
great problem of today.” He said il-
legal immigrants can obtain emer-
gency care, but in most cases, the
physician must report them to the
police afterward, thus discourag-
ing most illegal immigrants from
seeking care.
Despite the problems with Ita-
ly’s current system, Prodi said he
hoped the event would “de-demonize
people’s perception” of European
Friday, October 23, 2009
in his book a time of “extraordinary
transformations” and unprecedented
democratization — the North abol-
ished slavery and women’s rights
gained momentum. But the dreams
of the revolutionaries were pervert-
ed, he said.
“It’s a period of great instabil-
ity. Culture becomes more vulgar.
Drinking reaches an all-time high.
The whole college scene, including
Brown, experienced a series of ri-
ots. Nassau Hall was gutted by fire,
presumably set by students. There’s
been nothing like that since,” he
said.
In the book, Wood said he chal-
continued on page 5
health-care models.
Asked by an audience member
whether he thought a European-
influenced model of health care
could gain approval in the U.S.,
Prodi said he was skeptical of radi-
cal change, but was confident that
the European models would have
some influence.
“There’s much opposition in
America to anything managed by
the government,” he said.
By being flexible with the specif-
ics of a health-care plan, President
Obama has been able to raise sup-
port for reform, Prodi said. “But the
majority of the American public is
still suspicious about change.”
In his introduction of the speak-
ers, Vice President for International
Affairs Matthew Gutmann noted that
the Italian health-care system ranked
second in a World Health Organiza-
tion report on 191 member coun-
tries, and the United States ranked
37th, the lowest of all industrialized
nations.
But the most disturbing part,
he said, was that the United States
spends more than 16 percent of its
gross domestic product on health
care, compared to an average 8.6
percent in European countries.
“The United States can learn
much by examining health-care sys-
tems like those found in Europe and
elsewhere,” Gutmann said.
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Ivy receivers to duel as football faces Cornell
By Dan Alexander
Senior Staff Writer
Coming off of a three-game home-
stand, the football team will hit the
road to face Cornell on Saturday at
12:30 p.m.
Wide receiver and returner Buddy
Farnham ’10 put on a show last week,
amassing 309 all-purpose yards in the
Bears’ 34-17 victory over Princeton.
For his performance, Farnham was
named the Ivy League Offensive
SPORTS
Player of the Week and received
the Gridiron Club of Boston’s Gold
Helmet Award as the outstanding
player in New England.
The game against Cornell (2-3, 1-1
Ivy) will show if Brown’s defense has
learned anything from facing Farn-
ham in practice, as the Bears (3-2,
1-1 Ivy) will try to shut down Bryan
Walters, Cornell’s star wide receiver
and returner.
Walters is averaging 203 all-pur-
pose yards per game this season,
making him the only player in the
Ivy League with more all-purpose
yards than Farnham.
Walters, who also leads the Ivy
League in return yards, may have a
continued on page 5
U. wins grant to aid women scientists
By Zung Nguyen Vu
Contributing Writer
The University has received nearly
$600,000 from the National Science
Foundation to expand its support of
a grassroots organization seeking to
promote the development of women
scientists.
The Earth Science Women’s Net-
work, a self-identified international
grassroots organization, was found-
ed in 2002 by eight young women in
the field of earth sciences who had
met at various academic conferenc-
es and social venues, said Assistant
Professor of Geological Sciences
Meredith Hastings, the group’s co-
founder and board member.
The young women, including
Hastings, were in graduate school
or starting their academic careers
and struggling to find a place in
science, she said. They found the
opportunity to share experiences
with one another so helpful that
they decided to formalize their re-
lationships by maintaining an e-mail
list to keep in touch.
Seven years later, the original
e-mail list has grown into a sup-
port network of 800 women from
19 countries. Most members are
either in grad school or starting
careers in research, management
or consulting in various sub-fields
related to earth science, according
to Hastings.
The organization will use the
foundation’s grant, which totals $1
million (including the $600,000 that
will go to the University), to further
formalize the network, through ef-
forts such as reaching out to more
women by publishing a newsletter
Buddy Farnham ’10 named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week after
a breakout game against Princeton, in a 34-17 victory.
Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences Meredith Hastings.
and holding career development
workshops and impersonal net-
working events. The University will
play host to many of the group’s
activities.
“Many people are surprised
there are even 800 women in earth
sciences at all,” Hastings said, citing
a study conducted by the National
Science Foundation that reported
that the number of women getting
Ph.D.s in the sciences has increased,
but the number of women entering
research and holding positions at
the university level is still small.
Brown’s Department of Geologi-
cal Sciences, for example, has only
two female junior professors and
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“People are surprised there are even 800 women in Earth Sciences.”
— Meredith Hastings, assistant professor of geological sciences
Pledge to respect one’s
body kicks off annual
women’s week
By Miriam Furst
Contributing Writer
The unusually strong October
sun that shone down on the Main
Green Wednesday mirrored the
enthusiasm of resident Women
Peer Counselors as they started the
first day of their annual women’s
week. The WPCs, with Students for
Choice and Brown Health Services,
were observing national “Love Your
Body Day” by creating awareness
of body image issues.
Women’s Week events spon-
sored by the WPCs will continue
until Wednesday. The week also
coincides with national Domestic
Violence Awareness Month, which
the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center
has observed with lectures, mov-
ies and other events and plans to
extend into early next month.
Women’s Week is an opportu-
nity for WPCs, who live in first-year
units, to offer their knowledge and
advice on a range of topics to all
students — including sexism, con-
traception, safe sex and healthy re-
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lationships — said Zoe Stephenson
’12, a WPC in Perkins Hall.
The body image “declaration
of independence” was one of the
main attractions at a booth staffed
by WPCs Wednesday. The declara-
tion, which was a written promise
to respect and take care of one’s
body, was signed by students in
large numbers.
“I made sign-up sheets, and I
thought I put way more than we
needed, but we’re on our last one,”
Stephenson said during the last
half-hour of the event. After signing
the pledge, students were given a
white bracelet made of string to
serve as a reminder of their prom-
ise to protect their bodies.
“I’m shocked about the amount
of people who signed the pledge
with enthusiasm,” said Tashyana
Thompson ’12, another WPC. “It
really shows how much people ap-
preciate themselves and what the
W’s are doing on campus.”
The enthusiasm among students
that Thompson mentioned was per-
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three female tenured professors,
who comprise one-fifth of the de-
partment’s faculty.
“The prime years of starting a
family intersect with the years of
starting a career — many women do
not even think of starting a 10-year
track in academia because they are
afraid they can’t balance it, or that
they will be the only women there,”
Hastings said.
Being a part of the organization
and knowing that other women face
similar problems has helped Hast-
ings become more confident and
overcome the barriers and “invis-
ible biases” she has faced in her
field.
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haps a reflection of the WPCs’ own
passion and zest, said Allison Iar-
occi ’13. “It was hard to resist sign-
ing the pledge with the excitement
and support of the WPCs shouting
‘Love your body!’ across the Main
Green,” she said.
This declaration is an important
part of the idea behind Women’s
Week because of the importance
of self-esteem, said WPC Simren
Kanwal ’12.
“It’s really important for every-
one to have a good body image,”
she said.
“I’m hoping that Women’s
Week gets people to think about
important issues that a lot of people
wouldn’t think about on their own,”
Stephenson added. “And there’s a
lot of issues.”
Future events during the week
include movies, lectures on sub-
jects such as women in male-domi-
nated fields and hands-on activities
such as a self-defense workshop
co-sponsored by the Department of
Public Safety and the Sarah Doyle
Women’s Center.
In addition to helping the WPCs
organize the self-defense workshop,
the women’s center is making an
effort to honor Domestic Violence
Awareness Month. Though the
center is organizationally separate
from the WPC program, the two
groups share and support similar
causes, said Veronica Lowe ’10,
the publicity coordinator for the
women’s center.
Throughout October, the cen-
ter has hosted movies and panel
discussions to raise awareness
about domestic violence. Daniela
Rodriguez DS ’10, the center’s co-
ordinator for the Coalition Against
Relationship Abuse, emphasized
the importance of the awareness
month.
“The complexity and frequency
of relationship abuse is still un-
known to many,” she said. “With the
odds of one in three relationships
turning abusive at some point, this
is a pervasive problem that very
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SciLi floors closed, with
a chance of sprinklers
By Leonardo Moauro
Contributing Writer
The closing of certain floors in the
Sciences Library to install a new
sprinkler system will continue
through December, but students will
still be able to check out books from
those floors, according to Joanna
Saltonstall, Facilities Management
program manager.
The operation, which Cintas
Fire Protection Services began on
Oct. 5, started with the top floors
and will continue down to the third
floor. Two of the SciLi’s floors will
be closed to the public every week
from Monday through Friday. This
week, the ninth and 10th floors are
off-limits.
The library needs the sprinkler
system to adhere to Rhode Island’s
updated fire codes, Saltonstall wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald. At the
time of the construction of the Fried-
man Study Center and the installa-
tion of sprinklers on the lower floors
of the library, Facilities Manage-
ment committed to the completion
of the sprinkler system throughout
the building. The installation has an
overall cost of $500,000.
“At the end of the sprinkler proj-
ect and the third-floor renovation
into the Sciences Center, we antici-
pate that the building will (be) up to
current codes,” Saltonstall said.
The Science Resource Center
has been under construction this
semester and is scheduled to be
finished by the start of the spring
semester.
Currently, those who wish to
check out books on the closed floors
can do so through the library’s call
program. They can request mate-
rials online or solicit them at the
librarians’ desks. The librarians re-
trieve desired books every day after
the workers leave at 3 p.m.
Students and professors alike
demand between five and 10 books
per day through the call program,
said Senior Library Specialist James
Schlageter.
Though Facilities is working with
the SciLi to minimize the impact on
visitors, certain inconveniences will
be unavoidable. SciLi patron Donglei
Wei ’11, for instance, keeps a shelf of
books on mathematics and a locker
on the fifth floor. He said he will
have to move out when the workers
reach that floor in the future.
The SciLi will close floors seven
and eight starting on Monday.
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Relishing Rhody’s prized heirlooms
continued from page 1
loom, not hide it.” The restaurant’s
special menu last week also in-
cluded such heirlooms as Marfax
beans, Boston marrow squash and
Jimmy Nardello peppers.
At Local 121, cooking and eat-
ing local food isn’t just a weeklong
event. Johnson said the restaurant
plans its menus seasonally to in-
corporate as much local produce
as possible. In winter, its burgers
go without their customary tomato
slice — better no tomato than an
inferior tomato, he said.
Down the street at Gracie’s,
chef Joe Hafner added the same
strain of pumpkin from a differ-
ent local grower to slow-poached
duck eggs with marrow squash
and Jimmy Nardello peppers. Like
its neighbor, Gracie’s strives to
incorporate local food into its
regular menu — in fact, much
of its produce only has to be car-
ried from the roof to the kitchen
downstairs.
The restaurant grew its own
heirloom marrow squash and Si-
berian watermelon for Heirloom
Harvest Week in a garden on its
building’s roof in downtown Provi-
dence, Hafner said. The garden
also features other organic pro-
duce, including peppers, cherries,
herbs and more than 30 types of
tomatoes.
The Ocean State was not the
only place to get a taste of the
Grow-Out. Chefs Collaborative,
a non-profit supporter of sustain-
able food, also distributed seeds
to growers in Massachusetts and
New Hampshire, according to the
organization’s Web site. A total of
28 farmers and 35 chefs partici-
pated in the event.
While restaurant customers
may have been excited for the
unusual dishes they were able
to enjoy last week, Mardosa said
receiving free seeds to grow was
one of the best aspects of the
Grow-Out. “I think the garden-
ers probably made out the best,”
she said.
Historic heirlooms
Heirlooms are strains of fruits
and vegetables that have been
preserved for more than 50 years
without crossbreeding or genetic
modification. According to many
chefs and farmers, heirlooms are
often tastier than hybrid plants and
sometimes unusual in appearance
— for example, heirloom varieties
include black rice, banana-shaped
melons and green tomatoes with
stripes. They are also often resis-
tant to extreme climates or local
pests, several farmers said.
“They’re part of our histor y.
They’re unique,” said Johnson,
head chef at Local 121.
Though all types of vegetables
come in heirloom varieties, heir-
loom tomatoes are perhaps the
best-known, since many dif fer
drastically from the average to-
mato.
“In the ’70s people thought of
tomatoes as round red things,”
Mardosa said, adding that people
were surprised to find orange and
green versions that weren’t cre-
ated in a lab.
“They were bred that way, and
grown in gardens and backyards,”
she said.
Many heirlooms come with
interesting stories, such as an-
ecdotes about corn thieves and
backstabbing neighbors, said
Amy McCoy, chair of Slow Food
Rhode Island, one of the Grow-
Out’s sponsors. “It’s kind of like
art history, in a way,” she said. “It’s
the history of a culture.”
Heirlooms, Mardosa said, can
also be bred to withstand nature’s
cur veballs. “In the Southwest,
they’re growing things that can
withstand amazing droughts,” she
said. “Up here we’ve got to grow
things that won’t rot.”
Last summer, Red Planet tried
growing long pie pumpkins be-
cause the seeds came from Maine
— Mardosa’s home state.
“In late summer it rained so
hard, most people growing regular
sugar pumpkins lost their crops,”
she said. “They rotted. But the
long pies … were ripe and stored
in my barn by August.”
Still, heirlooms can be a risky
investment. The farmers partici-
pating in the Grow-Out “received
a lot of these seeds not knowing
what the outcome would be,”
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Johnson said, citing one farmer
who lost his entire crop to this
summer’s rainy weather.
Many local chefs choose heir-
looms over their hybrid counter-
parts because of their taste.
“It’s not always better if it’s lo-
cal, but I think 90 percent of the
time that holds true,” Hafner said.
The chef said though heirlooms
are more expensive because of
their lower yield per plant, they
offer more complex and uncon-
ventional flavors.
Buying local
In the profusion of sustainable
food jargon that fills today’s pop
culture, words like “local,” “or-
ganic” and “heirloom” are used
almost interchangeably. But few
realize the dilemmas that their
differences in meaning produce —
for example, whether buying local,
non-organic produce is more so-
cially responsible than purchasing
organic products from far away.
In fact, according to Brown
Dining Ser vices’ Dietitian Gina
Guiducci, most local Rhode Island
growers are not exclusively organ-
ic due to financial constraints. Not
only is it expensive to get certified
as organic, she said, but many lo-
cal farmers spray only minimally
— not quite enough to qualify as
“organic.”
“I think there’s a certain cachet
to the term ‘organic’ that isn’t re-
ally reflective of the complexity
of (the) food you buy,” said Sarah
Gibson ’10.5, a member of the
Sustainable Food Initiative and a
volunteer at the Farmer’s Market
on Wriston Quadrangle.
Buying from local farmers is
“ultimately more responsible than
buying organic produce from the
other side of the world,” Gibson
said.
Though Brown did not partici-
pate in the Grow-Out, in recent
years the University has made ef-
forts to incorporate local produce,
meats and dairy to its menus.
But many small growers find
the University’s appetite too big
to satisfy.
“We’d wipe out Rhode Island in
probably a month” if Brown tried
to buy all its beef locally, said John
O’Shea, Brown’s executive chef.
Red Planet used to receive
salad bar leftovers from BDS for
compost but was over whelmed
by the quantity — “over a couple
tons a week,” Mardosa said. Red
Planet, which sits on a total of two
acres, does not have the capacity
to ser vice an operation as large
as BDS.
Though the University’s size
poses a challenge to working with
local farmers, supporting them is
one of BDS’ priorities. Local food
takes precedence over heirloom
or organic produce, according to
Guiducci.
“We take into consideration
distance food has traveled or will
be traveling (to decide) who we
can help,” Guiducci wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald, “and if our
partnership will ultimately help
local farms, food producers and
vendors.”
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Drop seen in boozing, History teaches humility, says professor
illegal Internet cruising
continued from page 1
do not result in separation — that is,
suspension or expulsion — from the
University, including those related
to underage drinking, vandalism or
first-time copyright violations for il-
legal file sharing or downloading.
Dean’s hearings result in a writ-
ten reprimand, a period of probation
or a deferred suspension, during
which a student may be separated
from Brown in the case of an ad-
ditional violation. During the past
year, 83 of the 137 cases heard by a
dean resulted in reprimands. While
22 resulted in no finding of a viola-
tion, in 17 cases students were put
on probation.
Klawunn said the number of
cases related to infringement of
copyright laws has decreased sig-
nificantly in the past year.
“We think that students are more
aware of what constitutes a copyright
violation,” she said. “We have made
increased efforts to make sure that
people are aware of the policies.”
Terry Addison, associate dean of
student life, said students are also
more aware of legal alternatives
to downloading that would violate
copyright policies.
Computing and Information
Services “has done a good job of
promoting legal use,” he said. “They
put a lot of information out and
worked very hard at help desks,
for example, when students brought
in their laptops, to check that there
was no illegal sharing or download-
Bears look to change luck in road games
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good chance to put the Big Red in fa-
vorable field position this weekend.
Brown Head Coach Phil Estes
said his team’s punt and kickoff game
has been “very hot and cold” through
five games.
Punter Nate Lovett ’12 “has at
times been very good,” Estes said.
“The last few games, he has strug-
gled — just in where he places the
ball.”
Estes said Lovett has also had
some difficulties on kickoffs re-
cently.
“We are trying to place it, and be-
cause those kicks have been shallow,
we’ve given offenses great field posi-
tion,” he said.
If Brown’s punt and kickoff
teams continue to struggle, Walters
could have a big day at the Bears’
expense.
Walters is not just a threat on
special teams. He is second in the
league in receiving yards, behind
Farnham. He had 10 receptions for
178 yards and one touchdown in the
Big Red’s 39-27 loss to Fordham last
weekend.
But questions still remain about
who will pass to Walters on Saturday.
Cornell’s starting quarterback, Ben
Ganter, missed last week’s game due
to injury and was replaced by Adam
Currie and Stephen Liuzza and Chris
Amhrern.
ing equipment.”
Klawunn also pointed to a de-
cline in alcohol-related violations,
which she said is not indicative of
reduced alcohol consumption, but
rather an increased effort by resi-
dential staff to intervene in student
alcohol use before a violation has to
be reported.
Another notable difference be-
tween this past year and the year
before is the increase, from zero
to 10, in the number of University
Disciplinar y Council Hearings,
Addison said. While University
Administrative Hearings and UDC
hearings both address serious vio-
lations related to physical assault,
sexual misconduct, theft and drug
use, the formats of the hearings are
different.
Only an administrative hearing
officer and the student are present
for an administrative hearing, while a
disciplinary council hearing involves
a panel of faculty members, students
and administrators. Students have
the option of choosing between the
two types of hearings.
Klawunn said she could not ex-
plain why the number of UDC hear-
ings increased.
“We’re definitely interested in
why that would be,” she said.
In a high-profile case, eight mem-
bers of Students for Democratic
Society who forced their way into
University Hall during an October
2008 Corporation meeting chose to
have charges against them evaluated
by the UDC in December.
Cornell Head Coach Jim Knowles
called Ganter “day-to-day” and said
he’ll make a “game-time decision” as
to who starts under center against
Brown.
Last week Currie was 15-of-28
passing for 207 yards and one touch-
down, but he also threw four inter-
ceptions — as many as Ganter had
thrown in the previous four games
combined.
“We had to play a couple of young
quarterbacks,” Knowles said. “They
threw the ball pretty well. Unfortu-
nately they threw it to the other team
pretty well a few times also.”
Liuzza, who is listed as a wide re-
ceiver on the team roster, took snaps
at quarterback last week out of the
wildcat formation. He was two-of-six
passing for 55 yards and gained 166
yards rushing and two touchdowns
on 14 carries.
The wildcat formation would not
be anything new for the Bears’ de-
fense, which is used to facing Bruno’s
own wildcat formation in practice.
The Bears’ offensive attack has
been dominated by the pass this
season. Quarterback Kyle Newhall-
Caballero ’11 averages 41.8 passing
attempts per game and leads the An-
cient Eight in yards, touchdowns,
completions and completion percent-
age.
“Brown is prolific on offense —
very talented at the skilled positions,”
Knowles said.
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lenges the perception that democ-
ratization didn’t occur until the
Jacksonian era.
“I think it happened much ear-
lier,” Wood said, “The Jacksonian
era was one of consolidation.”
The Founding Fathers held
varied views on democratization.
President Jefferson celebrated de-
mocratization while President John
Adams was cynical about it, said
Wood. While Jefferson never lost
an election, Adams did.
“Many revolutionaries were
disillusioned with what they had
wrought,” he said. “They were sur-
prised by how popular and vulgar
society had become. It took a new
generation of leaders to come to
terms with it.”
Wood said he believes the Revo-
lution is the most important event
in American history because the
Brown not immune to domestic violence
continued from page 3
few people are aware of.”
Lowe said domestic violence
happens on campus, too. “I would
like people, even if they don’t go
to the events themselves, if they
just hear of the events, to be aware
that domestic violence happens on
campus,” she said.
One of the Sarah Doyle Wom-
en’s Center’s events is a screen-
ing of the film “Hush,” scheduled
for Nov. 5. Made by three Brown
The Cornell coach said his de-
fense can’t afford to miss tackles
and must keep Brown’s receivers
inside and in front of their defensive
backs.
“They’re going to complete some
passes,” Knowles said. “We’ve got to
make sure … we’re able to not give
up the big play.”
Cornell has used both three and
four-man defensive lines this season.
Brown’s passing attack will likely see
a combination of the packages.
“They really rock and roll on de-
fense, whether they’re going with a
three-down scheme or a four-down
scheme,” Estes said. “Our quarter-
back is really going to have to make
sure that we’re identifying the right
people to pick up so that we can make
the right plays downfield.”
Newhall-Caballero’s ability to read
opposing defenses is one of his great-
est strengths, according to coaches
and teammates.
In the last three games — all of
which Brown has won — Newhall
has 910 yards, seven touchdowns
and five interceptions.
The Big Red is coming off of its
third consecutive loss, a game in
which they gave up 420 yards and
five touchdowns through the air.
Brown hasn’t had an away game
in four weeks, and the Bears are 0-2
on opponents’ turf this season.
“We’ll see if we can change our
luck on road games,” Estes said.
country’s noblest ideals emerged
then.
“We go back to the revolution
for our identity,” he said, “We want
to know where we came from.” This
shared identity, not individual eth-
nicity, is what holds Americans
together, he said.
Wood said there are probably
no immediate lessons to learn from
history, but it is important to study
where we come from to understand
who we are.
“History teaches us humility,”
he said, “They lived with illusions
and we live with illusions too.”
He gained a new appreciation for
President Madison’s tenure while
writing the book because Madison
“refused to enhance executive pow-
er under wartime conditions,” he
said. “He has not had good press
amongst historians.”
At the moment, Wood said he
is compiling some of his past es-
students in the fall of 2007, the
documentar y portrays domes-
tic violence on Brown’s campus,
featuring two students’ stories of
sexual assault.
Lowe said she did not know
that domestic violence happened
on campus before she became in-
volved in Sarah Doyle activities.
“I had the perception that we’re
at Brown — we have the happiest
students in the U.S., according to
the rankings,” she said. “Domestic
violence wasn’t even a thought in
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says and is working on a Library of
America volume on Adams.
Wood, who retired last year,
had for many years been the only
scholar at Brown studying the pe-
riod from Christopher Columbus to
Jackson until Associate Professor
of History Seth Rockman and As-
sistant Professor of History Linford
Fisher joined the department.
Wood is about to embark on a
book tour for his latest book.
“We don’t expect just scholars
to read it,” he said. “We hope that
it reaches an educated audience.
Most books that historians write
are monographic, but the Oxford
series is designed for this.”
Though the Oxford series is
considered a stalwart, Wood said
he believes there is nothing defini-
tive in history.
“This may last for a couple of
decades at most,” he said. “It’s not
the end.”
my mind.”
Rodriguez DS said the center’s
goal was not only to spread aware-
ness about domestic violence on
campus, but also to provide stu-
dents with resources to “combat
relationship abuse.”
“Through diverse events like
film series, discussion panels and
self-defense workshops, we seek to
provide students with the language
and understanding that will allow
them to help a friend, or them-
selves,” she said.
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expansions that left an indelible mark on the
face of College Hill, set Brown on the path to
becoming a major research institution that
could accommodate a larger student body.
Bishop said he remembers being part
of a student body that was largely indiffer-
ent to the historic property lost during the
construction of the Sharpe Refector y and
new residence halls. But Wriston, where
51 historic homes once stood, was the first
major battlefield in the University’s conflict
with neighboring communities as it started
to expand.
At such times, there has been a feeling
among College Hill residents, Bishop said,
that “Brown is a 1,000-pound gorilla and
is going to get what it wants in the long
run.”
But since its early clashes with East Side
residents, Bishop said, the University has
altered its attitude toward College Hill’s
preser vation and become more willing to
compromise with its neighbors.
Brown has come a long way since its
“scorched-earth policy,” said Peter Mackie
’59, an archivist at the John Hay Librar y,
of the University’s approach of large-scale
demolition in the 1950s. “I think the light has
finally dawned on College Hill that we’re part
of the fabric of this community,” he said.
Wriston’s wrecking ball
The University began buying up parcels
of land near its existing property in 1922,
commencing a decades-long project that
added on-campus housing for nearly
1,500 students. The University expected
a post-war boom in enrollment that would
increase the size of the student body to
2,000, and at the time, Brown’s residence
halls lacked the capacity to ser ve so many
students.
But then-President Henr y Wriston had
additional reasons for beginning Brown’s
first major expansion project — the “New
Quadrangle” that later came to bear his
name.
The behavior and less-than-ideal aca-
demic performance in Brown’s fraternities
spurred University administrators to buy up
the frats’ off-campus houses and move the
students into University housing, according
to Bishop. Creating residence halls that
consolidated the school’s frats in a single on-
campus location gave administrators more
control over their activities.
Creating the quadrangle required wran-
gling with the city of Providence, including
obtaining the city’s approval to remove the
section of Benevolent Street that lay between
Brown and Thayer streets, running straight
through the planned quad.
The greatest outcr y, though, was raised
over the fate of the 51 historic homes that
had stood for more than 100 years on the
property, including eight colonial houses
built before 1830 and several Victorian man-
sions.
In an attempt at preser vation, Brown
moved two early houses to Benevolent Street
and offered the rest up for sale and reloca-
tion. But only eight of the colonial homes
were bought and moved, and in early 1949
Brown’s wrecking balls initiated the “first
phase of one of the largest land clearing
projects in the city’s histor y,” as the Provi-
dence Journal recorded on the first day of
demolition.
“It was not so much the value of the indi-
vidual buildings,” said Victoria Veh, interim
executive director of the Providence Pres-
er vation Society. “It was the context of an
entire neighborhood being eliminated.”
The preservation society formed partly as
a response to the loss of historic buildings
originally on Wriston.
Construction continued determinedly
over the next three years. Upon its comple-
tion in 1952, the $6.5 million quad repre-
sented about a third of Brown’s physical
campus — but marked only the beginning
of President Wriston’s grand scheme for
Brown’s transformation from a local New
England college to a nationally competitive
university.
Housing a growing institution
Wriston’s successor, President Barnaby
Keeney, continued expansion, provoking
organized opposition from neighbors who
remembered the demolition that laid the
groundwork for Wriston Quad’s construc-
tion.
The University offered up for sale eight
houses that would other wise be destroyed
to make way for Keeney Quad. Though each

1926: Hegeman Hall is built to 1947: West and East Andrews 1951: The Sharpe Refectory, a
expand Brown’s housing a ca- Halls are completed on the center piece of the new quad,
pacity, a goal that would drive 1949: Workers making way for
north side of Pembroke opens its doors for the first time
Brown’s planning in subsequent Wriston Quadrangle demolish
College’s campus
decades dozens of historic houses (1

1925

The now-demolished Howard House on the southwest corner of Thayer and George Streets. Also among the When Andrews Hall was built, in the 1940s, Pembroke College was still
properties now replaced by Wriston Quad were a school (far left) and a carpenter’s shop (far right). separate from Brown, which did not admit women.

These townhouses once stood on the northwest corner of George and

Thayer Streets, but they were demolished in the 1920s to make way for Courtesy of the University Archives
Hegeman Hall. A construction crew clears the future site of Wriston Quad, which was once filled with residential houses.
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Angell Hall (above) housed biology labs before it was demolished in 1972, during construction of the Sciences
Library, to make way for the landscaped courtyard (below) that now sits between the SciLi and MacMillan Hall.
1955-57: Construction of Keeney
Quadrangle spurs controversy
and inspires the creation of the
Providence Preservation Society
house was being sold for $1, it would have
cost the purchasers $30,000 to $40,000 to
move each building to a new location.
No buyers came forward for 125 Charles-
field St. or 17 Benevolent St. — both of which
were built around 1823. In December 1955,
East Side residents mobilized to tr y to fore-
stall the historic homes’ impending demoli-
tion, amassing 106 signatures for a petition
that asked the University to incorporate the
two buildings into the new quad’s design.
Such a move, the petition stated, would
“rejoice the hearts of many citizens sad-
dened by the obliteration of so many homes
which have for generations given this part
of Providence a distinctive character.”
The University rejected the residents’
proposal. To meet the deadline for the quad’s
completion — Februar y 1, 1957 — the de-
molition had to begin, President Keeney
said. The cranes rolled onto Brown Street,
razing the houses, the Monday after the
petition was presented.
“When one is destroyed,” Antoinette
Downing, an historian of local architecture
and Brown faculty spouse, told the Journal
in 1955, “it is like destroying the last copy
of an irreplaceable book.”
Downing maintained that the preser va-
tion of College Hill’s historic architecture
did not impede the University’s need to ex-
pand — that, if anything, preser vation was
the responsibility of an institution such as
Brown.
“Preserving buildings doesn’t mean going
back to live in the past but simply to enrich
present-day life,” Downing told the Journal.
“It’s the sort of thing a university stands for
when it stands for liberal education.”
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1971: Pembroke College
1964: Workers complete con-
struction on the Rockefeller
Library
Brown’s ‘conscience of history’
Having lost their fight, East Side resi-
dents were determined that similar destruc-
tion never happen again. In 1956, Downing
helped found the Providence Preser vation
Society, which has since been a major force
in maintaining College Hill’s architectural
heritage and transforming Providence into
a city known for its historic feel.
“We like to say that Brown was respon-
sible for the founding of the society,” said
Robert Emlen, the University curator and
senior lecturer in American Civilization, who
was a member of the society’s board of direc-
tors from 1989 to 1995. “Brown was knocking
down ever ything in sight,” he said.
One of the society’s first undertakings,
though, did not directly concern Brown.
Instead, in the 50s and 60s the preser vation
society faced off against the federal gov-
ernment, which proposed knocking down
buildings on Benefit Street to build public
housing projects.
At the time, the street looked nothing
like it does today.
“Benefit Street was like a Halloween
movie set.” Mackie recalled. “The houses
were dilapidated, run-down.”
Mostly low-income families inhabited
the “slum” that was Benefit Street, with
many families living in single rooms, Mackie
said.
The street was a place of poverty and
prostitution, said Dietrich Neumann, profes-
sor of histor y of art and architecture.
The preser vation society encouraged lo-
cal residents to buy property in the run-down
area and restore it, saving it from destruction
at the hands of the government, he said. But
in the process, the street’s real-estate value
Hegeman Hall sits on a site that 100 years ago was at the heart of a resi-
dential neighborhood.
1972: Angell Hall is razed to make
merges with Brown
room for the Sciences Library
skyrocketed, making it too expensive for the
families who lived on it.
While the street’s gentrification made
it “economically more viable,” Neumann
said, it also lost many of its former functions
— once dotted with garages, businesses
and a librar y, the street is now a “purely
residential” neighborhood.
Despite its origins, the preser vation so-
ciety and Brown have developed a more col-
laborative and cooperative relationship. The
society has become “almost the conscience
of histor y” for Brown, Mackie said, helping
make the University and local residents
“much more sensitive” to the historic value
of their shared neighborhood.
Balancing competing priorities today
Mackie and Emlen both said Brown has
recently become more mindful of its neigh-
bors’ needs during expansion.
The neighborhood surrounding Brown’s
campus is an asset to the University, Emlen
said. “You can walk across the street and be
in a beautiful neighborhood,” he added.
But as the University expands, it still
struggles to balance its students’ needs with
local residents’ priorities.
“Sometimes the needs of the people in
the neighborhood are diametrically opposed
to what the institution needs,” Emlen said,
citing handicap accessibility and modern
security measures as much-needed features
older buildings may not have.
Mackie and Emlen both said that the
sciences in particular demand up-to-date
facilities.
“It’s not that Brown is wrong,” Emlen
said. “If you want to teach biochem, you
can’t do it in a little beat-up house.” For
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example, he said, laborator y spaces need
modern climate control.
As Brown enters its latest phase of
growth, it may have found a compromise
that gives it the modern facilities it requires
to leapfrog its immediate neighbors and
expand into new areas of f campus. Last
weekend, the Corporation gave the green
light for renovations to begin early next
year on a new Medical Education Building
at 222 Richmond St. in the Jewelr y District
downtown.
Two major factors influenced Brown’s
decision to expand elsewhere, said Fran-
ces Halsband, the architect hired in 2003
to plan the campus’s growth. Because of
an “institutional zone” that regulates how
and where the University can build on its
property, “there wasn’t the possibility that
Brown could expand any more on College
Hill,” she said.
Residents’ concern for their historic
district also influenced Brown’s choice to
move the Alpert Medical School off the Hill,
Halsband said.
“I guess that we and the trustees ulti-
mately realized that the neighbors were right
— Brown is in a ver y fragile and beautiful
setting,” she said, adding that the priorities
of the neighborhood surrounding Brown
are an important consideration in campus
planning.
“I think that you’ve got to see any entity
as part of a larger community and part of a
larger environment,” she said.
No matter what, the University still has
to grow.
“It doesn’t want to be an institution of
the 1990s or the 1970s,” Emlen said. “It has
got to keep up.”
Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald
‘Anna Bella Eema’ tells much, shows little
By Ben Hyman
Arts & Culture Editor
Near the middle of “Anna Bella Eema”
— currently running at Perishable
Theatre — one character is about to
embark on a psychological journey,
a quest that will take her through a
fairy tale world populated by animal
beings, both helpful and threatening.
She leans toward the audience and
whispers, “Just imagine everything I
tell you as taking much, much longer
and being much more intense.”
The problem with “Anna Bella
Eema” isn’t exactly that it’s a bad
play, but rather that it isn’t exactly
a play. When a character has to tele-
graph that something important is
about to happen by literally telling
the audience something important
is about to happen, it’s obvious that
something is awry.
The playwright, Lisa D’Amour,
a visiting lecturer in theatre arts
and performance studies at Brown,
missed the mark here, crafting narra-
tors instead of characters and exposi-
tion instead of action.
“Anna Bella Eema” takes place in
the remnants of a trailer park some-
where deep in the Southern Gothic
tradition. (The eye-catching clutter
of Kathryn Kawecki’s detailed set
evokes the squalor.) Irene (Patricia
Thomas), a professional stamp-licker,
lives there with her 10-year-old daugh-
ter, Anna Bella (Elise Morrison GS, a
doctoral student in theatre arts and
performance studies). The close walls
of Irene’s mobile home would seem
to delimit her world, but they actu-
ally open up the possibility of a more
extravagant — and more problematic
— escape method: storytelling.
“Outside is a state of mind,” Irene
says multiple times, and her vivid,
anxious imagination supplies the
world beyond the trailer park with
its full share of vampires, werewolves
and monsters. But she refuses to ac-
knowledge the real external threat
menacing her unsound world: the
looming construction of an interstate
highway that will pass through the
trailer park and wipe it off the map.
Cloistered and defiant, Anna Bella
is exasperated by the limitations of
life in the trailer. In a fit of pique, she
builds a girl out of mud and breathes
life into it. We know this because she
tells us she did it.
The introduction of this new friend,
Anna Bella Eema (Katie Mulholland),
disrupts the fragile balance of Irene’s
world and sets in motion Anna Bella’s
passage out of childhood. Anna Bella
Eema inducts her creator into adult-
hood, enabling Anna Bella to circum-
vent her mother’s authority. Again,
all of this is explained to us, words
piling on top of words. We want the
characters to stop talking for once
and just show us something.
If “Anna Bella Eema” were the
Flannery O’Connor short story it
yearns so desperately to be, it could
succeed without ever leaving the sub-
jective narration of the characters.
But this is theater, and, one way
or another, speech has to be a space
in which things happen, a space for
the working out of conflict, not just
for the description of action and
sense. Occasionally, the characters
in “Anna Bella Eema” break into a
kind of speak-singing, with D’Amour’s
words set to music by Chris Sidorf-
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sky. These unaccompanied arias and
ensembles are often striking and ex-
pressive, but they feel unmotivated,
like a stopgap attempt to fill in, with
song, the emotional void left by the
absence of drama.
The truly sad thing is that the lan-
guage of “Anna Bella Eema,” taken
on its own, had to be so beautiful.
D’Amour soaks her text in unpreten-
tious, elemental prose poetry, rich in
detail and impact.
The three actresses, too, are ex-
ceptional. As Irene, Thomas projects
a warm, easy and likable stage pres-
ence that highlights her character’s
psychological complexity, and Mul-
holland’s Anna Bella Eema is arch
and otherworldly. Irene’s discomfort
with this archetypal Golem figure
becomes understandable because
Mulholland explores a territory that
is both animalistic and machine-like,
but never fully human.
Playing the preteen Anna Bella,
Morrison capitalizes on her round
face and bright, wide eyes. Her per-
formance is extremely sympathetic,
childlike without ever being conde-
scending. And the direction — by
Kym Moore, a visiting assistant pro-
fessor of theatre, speech and dance
— uses the space well, finding av-
enues within the script for evocative
movement.
“Anna Bella Eema” really does Adam Short / Rhode Island International Film Festival
have its heart in the right place. Its A still from “Cthulhu,” one of the movies screened at the Rhode Island
intentions are honorable: It wants to Horror Film Festival in 2007.
take a thin story and make it thick
with resonance. It’s not schlock. But,
sadly, it isn’t drama either.
Horror film festival offers
“Anna Bella Eema” runs at Perish-
able Theatre (95 Empire St.) through nightmares on Bell Street
Nov. 7.
By Sarah Mancone year,” Marshall said.
Contributing Writer In addition to horror films, this
year’s festival includes an H. P.
Things are definitely going bump Lovecraft Walking Tour on Satur-
in the night as the Rhode Island day. In its second year, the walking
International Film Festival un- tour begins at Brown’s Van Wickle
leashed its 10th annual Horror Gates and leads visitors through
Film Festival Wednesday night. various locations, including the
The festival continues through house where the Providence hor-
Sunday night for a hair-raising ror writer lived and the places
cinematic experience. “where Lovecraft had inspiration
Screenings of the festival’s 37 for his works,” Marshall said.
chilling and spine-tingling short Also on Saturday, local horror
films are taking place at the Bell author Christopher Rondina will
Street Chapel (5 Bell St.), with ad- be holding a book signing at the
ditional events at the Providence Providence Public Library begin-
Public Library. ning at noon. Rondina will discuss
The horror film festival began his newest book, “Ghost Ships of
as an idea of an intern at the RI- New England: Mysterious Tales
IFF and has grown into a major of the Sea from Yankee History
Providence event. George Mar- & Folklore.” The signing will also
shall, executive director of RIIFF, feature a screening of a “wonder-
said the festival has found “a very ful documentary,” said Marshall,
receptive audience” in Providence, and shows “who’s who in horror
with 2,000 people attending last films.”
year’s events. Outreach about the event has
The festival has “built a repu- not been forgotten, with com-
tation on short films,” Marshall mercials running on Cox Cable
said. “Short films are very, very 10, an article in the Providence
popular.” Journal, and partnership with
He attributed the popularity of other festivals, as well as the so-
short films to the fact that, even if a cial networking of the filmmakers
viewer does not like one particular themselves.
movie, he or she will still benefit The RIIFF Web site has also
from the variety of works being received numerous hits, and on
presented. this site a full schedule of events
The films were selected from in the festival can be found.
more than 250 submissions from Guaranteed to be an eerie-sis-
around the world, which started table event, tonight’s films begin
pouring in not long after the last playing in Bell Street Chapel at
festival ended. “We have already 7:30 p.m., and are certain to keep
started accepting films for next you screaming for more.
World & Nation
The Brown Daily Herald
Students surround a teacher at an Islamic seminary in Lahore whose head opposes the Taliban. The city in
Pakistan’s Punjab province has been gripped by violence recently.
In cultural hub, mixed feelings about army effort
By Pamela Constable
The Washington Post
Police Superintendent Mobashir
Ullah was en route to a graduation
ceremony Thursday when word
reached him that armed men had
stormed a training academy under
his command. Just seven months
before, terrorists had seized the
same compound near this provincial
capital, taking 800 recruits hostage
before being overpowered.
“This time they came straight
from the main road, firing and try-
ing to climb the walls. Our police
acted fast and kept shooting until
they finally killed themselves,” Ullah
said. “The survival of our country is
at stake now, and we have to fight it
out. When a man has been trained
and mentally prepared to blow him-
self up, nothing on Earth will stop
him.”
The brazen daylight assault,
quickly followed by two other deadly
attacks on security facilities in La-
hore that day, sent a fresh wave of
panic through the city, known for
its willow-lined canals, kite festivals
and sandstone monuments to 19th-
century British rule. Elementary
schools have been shut down; parks
and shopping centers are empty.
Yet public and official reaction
here has been very different from
the gung-ho support most Pakistanis
are giving their national army as it
embarks on a crucial campaign
to oust Taliban forces from South
Waziristan, the embattled tribal re-
gion near the Afghan border that
has served as the extremist group’s
sanctuary for years.
Here in Punjab province, political
reality is more complex. The region
is home to the main opposition par-
ty, the Pakistan Muslim League-N,
and an influential religious party,
Jamaat-e-Islami. It is also the base
for several militant Islamist groups,
such as Lashkar-i-Taiba, that are now
officially banned but were once spon-
sored by the state to fight India and
other foes.
As a result, officials here tend
to shy away from harsh condemna-
tions. Instead, their explanations for
the growing wave of terrorism are
a mix of anti-government rhetoric
and insinuations that outside forc-
es, especially India and the United
States, are conspiring to weaken
Muslim-ruled Pakistan, in part by
forcing it into armed conflict with
local militants.
“Pakistan continues to fall into the
U.S.-laid trap of using the military
option alone,” warned a lead editorial
this week in the Nation, a newspaper
based in Lahore. By jumping onto the
U.S. bandwagon in a “misdirected
war on terror,” it said, the govern-
ment only generated more violence.
American pressure to use military
force against militants in Punjab, the
editors added, points to “a larger
hidden anti-Pakistan agenda” and
is a “recipe for civil war.”
Nationally, public opinion has
turned decisively against the tribe-
based Pakistani Taliban forces in the
northwest. After a series of negotia-
tions failed to rein in the Taliban,
the army won praise for driving the
group out of the Swat Valley in the
summer. Military officials hope to
repeat that success in the larger,
more intimidating Waziristan region,
where they have been fighting for
the past week.
After the spurt of terrorism across
Pakistan this month, experts called it
a clear indication of the growing alli-
ance between northwestern Taliban
forces and various banned extremist
groups in the heartland. Yet Punjab
officials rejected that assessment,
saying that the attackers were serv-
ing unnamed “foreign masters.”
Not surprisingly, public opinion
here is just as confused and con-
tradictor y. Residents of Lahore,
unner ved by the unaccustomed
violence, frustrated by ubiquitous
police roadblocks and fearful for
their children’s safety, are looking
to old wars, new allies and long-dead
causes for explanations.
Some people blame the Reagan
years, when the United States built
up local Islamist groups to fight the
Soviet Union in Afghanistan and
later abandoned the region. Others
blame the Obama administration
and Congress, conflating concerns
about the ongoing war in next-door
Afghanistan with current U.S. plans
to shower $7.5 billion in economic —
not military — aid on Pakistan.
“These are all militants that Amer-
ica left us,” Mohammed Ahmad, 43,
a travel agent, said bitterly. “Islam is
a peaceful and respectable religion.
Pamela Constable / Washington Post
These Taliban have no religion,
no education. They just brainwash
young boys to fight. Maybe they
fought jihad against the Russians,
but what they are doing now is not
jihad at all. It isn’t even Islamic.”
Opinions are also mixed among
religious groups in the Lahore area,
largely depending on their sect or
leadership. Some express sympathy
for the Taliban-style campaign to im-
pose strict Islamic law but stop short
of publicly condoning the group’s
violent methods. Others have been
victimized by the extremists and
regard them with suspicion.
“The terrorists are enjoying mak-
ing people nervous,” said Raghib
Naeemi, the director of a moderate
Islamic seminary whose father, its
founder, was assassinated in June.
“The war we are fighting now is
between terror and Islam. These
groups were banned, and now they
are joining together against the state.
We can try and negotiate with them,
but in the end they must be punished
or killed.”
The peculiar political situation
in Punjab has further muddied the
waters. It is the stronghold of for-
mer prime minister Nawaz Sharif,
the leader of the Pakistan Muslim
League-N and a bitter rival of Presi-
dent Asif Ali Zardari of the Pakistan
People’s Party. The tougher Zard-
ari sounds on Islamist extremism
these days, the more Sharif’s party
deems him an American puppet,
hoping eventually to force him from
power.
Analysts said that despite Zard-
ari’s growing public focus on the
terrorist threat, and the army’s
latest thrust into Taliban territory,
many Pakistanis remain hesitant to
criticize anything Islamic, ready to
blame outsiders for their problems
and bewildered by the official shift
from patronizing to persecuting do-
mestic Islamist militias.
“At the top levels, I think every-
one gets it now, but below that there
is a whole range of attitudes towards
the militants within Pakistani soci-
ety,” said Hasan-Askari Rizvi, a politi-
cal analyst in Lahore. “Nobody likes
the Taliban, but they don’t much like
the Americans or their government
either, and they aren’t convinced that
using force is the right thing to do.
What prevails is mass confusion.”
Friday, October 23, 2009 | Page 9
Georgetown student
advertises for a
personal assistant
By Jenna Johnson
Washington Post
Georgetown University sopho-
more Charley Cooper is busy. He
has a full load of classes, hours of
homework and a part-time job at
a financial services company. He’s
also worried about an illness in
the family. And then there are all
the other time-consuming aspects
of college.
The solution? A personal as-
sistant.
Cooper, 19, logged on to the
university’s student employment
Web site last week and posted an
ad for someone to tackle “some
of my ever yday tasks,” such as
organizing his closet, dropping
him off and picking him up from
work, scheduling haircuts, put-
ting gas in the car and taking it
in for service, managing his elec-
tronic accounts and doing laun-
dr y (although the assistant will
be paid only for the time spent
loading, unloading and folding
clothes, not the entire laundr y
cycle).
The successful applicant can
expect to work three to seven
hours a week and make $10 to
$12 an hour, although “on occa-
sion it will be possible to work
additional hours and/or receive
bonuses at my discretion.” Prefer-
ence will be given to Georgetown
undergraduates, Cooper says in
the listing, and the assistant can
spread his or her tasks through-
out the day.
“As my PA you will receive
an email once a day by 9:00 am
with a task list for that day and
a time estimate for each task,”
Cooper wrote in the job listing,
which was first reported by the
student newsmagazine, George-
town Voice. “Important tasks will
be bolded on the list and must
be done that day (even though
ever ything on the list should
theoretically be finished on a
daily basis). At the end of the
day you will send me an email
telling me what tasks are incom-
plete or that all tasks have been
completed.”
Could this be a publicity stunt?
Cooper said in a Facebook mes-
sage to a reporter that he is seri-
ous and has heard from several
interested students, in addition
to a few prank applicants. A uni-
versity spokesman confirmed
that Cooper is a student and has
posted the job listing.
Cooper would answer ques-
tions only through messages
sent to his Facebook account,
which features a photo of a man
in a striped polo shirt holding a
champagne glass. He provided
only brief details about himself,
his family and his job: He grew up
in Bethesda, Md., and graduated
from the Landon School, a private
boys school, in 2008. He lives in
the dorms and hasn’t declared a
major but is planning to double-
major in finance and manage-
ment. His Linked-In profile says
he is considering jobs in finance,
entertainment or both.
Cooper said he decided to post
the help-wanted ad after a family
member had a cancer diagnosis
and began to make arrangements
for treatment at Georgetown Uni-
versity Hospital. Cooper says he
hopes to start interviews in a few
days, after the craziness of mid-
terms has passed. “I know that
if I didn’t already have a job, I
would definitely be interested
in a job that pays 10 to 12 dollars
per hour and is flexible in terms
of hours,” he said.
The Georgetown Voice posted
the listing on its blog Friday un-
der the headline, “Georgetown
sophomore seeks personal assis-
tant, takes premature self-impor-
tance to whole new level.” Soon,
dozens of derogator y comments
popped up accusing Cooper of
fur thering the stereotype that
Georgetown is filled with wealthy
kids who can’t do anything for
themselves.
“Ever ybody probably knows
who he is now,” said Sarah Mur-
phy, 19, a sophomore English
major who heard about the job
listing from friends. “People are
not happy. They think he’s just
ridiculous and full of himself.”
But other students were more
understanding. “Listen, I think
if there’s a market for it, and
someone wants to do it, all the
more power to him,” said Corey
Sherman, 20, a junior interna-
tional politics major who has two
jobs.
Although the posting created
buzz, outsourcing dull duties is
not a new thing at Georgetown or
other universities. Some students
pay to have their group houses or
apartments cleaned, or contract
with Soapy Joe’s, a company that
will pick up dirty laundr y from
the dorms and return it clean and
folded within days.
Still, springing for a personal
assistant is “definitely out of the
ordinar y,” said Bonnie Low-Kra-
men, the longtime personal assis-
tant to actress Olympia Dukakis.
Low-Kramen teaches workshops
to aspiring celebrity personal as-
sistants and wrote a book titled
“Be the Ultimate Assistant.”
College students are rarely
mature enough to handle the re-
sponsibility of managing a per-
sonal assistant, said Low-Kramen,
whose son is a senior at the Uni-
versity of Mar yland (and does
not have a personal assistant).
“There’s a benefit to learning to
do things on your own,” she said.
“I know — college is stressful,
there’s a lot to do. But the pres-
sures are still nowhere near need-
ing a personal assistant.”
Editorial & Letters
The Brown Daily Herald

Page 10 | Friday, October 23, 2009

l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

Investment transparency is
in everyone’s best interest
To the Editor: ing publicly. HEI does not guarantee
its workers affordable health care or
As members of the Open the job security, and it seeks to maximize
Books! Coalition, we are disappoint- its profits by laying off many employ-
ed with the Herald’s editorial on the ees. Members of the Student Labor
endowment (“Transparency and the Alliance presented the case against
endowment,” Oct. 20) that claims HEI before the Advisory Committee
that more investment transparency is on Corporate Responsibility in Invest-
“undesirable.” Disclosing the nature ment Policies , yet the University has
of investments to the campus com- refused to take action.
munity is not an uncommon practice ACCRIP was created in part to
at other universities. According to allow members of the campus com-
the College Sustainability Report, munity to voice their ethical concerns
one in five universities release the about corporations in which Brown
record of their investment holdings invests. Without investment transpar-
to students, and many even make ency, it is impossible for ACCRIP to
this information available to the pub- fulfill its mission. How can students
lic. Wesleyan University, Amherst and faculty raise their concerns about
College and Haverford College all socially irresponsible investments
publish their portfolios to students, if those investments are never dis-
with no demonstrated loss in their closed in the first place?
investment returns. Maximizing re- The Brown Slavery and Justice J ulia S treuli
turns to the endowment and increas- Committee Report described the
ing investment transparency are not current lack of transparency as
mutually exclusive practices. “troubling” and recommended that e d i to r i a l
The editorial wrongly claims that the University maintain “high ethical
Brown is “cognizant of the ethical standards in regard to investments.”
implications of its investments.” Last
year, students learned from a pre-
sentation given at Cornell University
Brown must adopt a policy of invest-
ment transparency. Keeping our port-
folio undisclosed serves neither the
Food for thought
that Brown is invested in HEI, a hotel interests of the Brown community Last week’s contract negotiations between the Uni- made sacrifices.
company that has become known for nor those of HEI hotel employees. versity and Brown Dining Services workers made for The administration has declared that it will not
its unjust treatment of workers. Two a surprisingly tense drama. BDS workers threatened allow budget modifications to affect financial aid or
hotels in California owned by HEI are to strike on Parents’ Weekend, and the two sides came academic programs. And so far, the administration
currently under a worker-led boycott. Kate Hadley ’12 to an agreement at 2 a.m. the night before the strike has not resorted to massive tuition hikes to compen-
Several pro-union workers have been Mark Morales ’10 would have begun. Students held multiple rallies in sate for endowment losses — this years’ 2.9 percent
interrogated, disciplined and even Oct. 22 support of the workers, one of which featured a giant increase in the overall undergraduate charge actually
laid off after workers began organiz- puppet caricature of an administrator clutching dollar represents the smallest increase since the 1960s.
bills in each of his hands. Moreover, all administrators have accepted a pay
Now that a compromise has been reached and the freeze, and several have followed President Ruth
dust has settled, we would like to reflect on the week’s Simmons in voluntarily requesting reduced pay. Va-
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d
events in hopes of extracting some lessons that might cant administrative positions in the Office of the
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editors Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors
be useful going forward, as the University prepares President, the Office of the Dean of the College and
Steve DeLucia Michael Bechek Nandini Jayakrishna Rachel Arndt
Chaz Firestone Franklin Kanin Isabel Gottlieb to cut $30 million from next year’s budget. Human Resources have been eliminated, requiring
Michael Skocpol Scott Lowenstein The central point of dispute in the negotiations current administrators to take on additional respon-
editorial Business was over how to calculate BDS employees’ health sibilities.
Ben Hyman Arts & Culture Editor General Managers Office Manager
Sophia Li Features Editor Alexander Hughes Shawn Reilly care contributions, with the University insisting that While students had a right to be upset about the
George Miller Metro Editor Jonathan Spector the existing method be changed. However, the Uni- University’s treatment of BDS workers, the harsh
Joanna Wohlmuth Metro Editor
Seth Motel News Editor
versity never specified how much money could be portrayal of the administration at the student rallies
Directors
Jenna Stark News Editor Ellen DaSilva Sales saved as a result of the proposed change, and only was unfair and extreme. With many more budget
Andrew Braca Sports Editor Claire Kiely Sales vaguely suggested that the switch would allow for cuts ahead, students may again need to mobilize to
Han Cui Asst. Sports Editor Katie Koh Finance
Alex Mazerov Asst. Sports Editor Jilyn Chao Asst. Finance more “flexibility” in structuring costs. convey the community’s sentiment — they cannot
Katie Wood Asst. Sports Editor Christiana Stephenson Alumni Relations We think the University owed the workers — and afford to alienate administrators or undermine their
the community as a whole — a better explanation own credibility.
Graphics & Photos Managers than this. BDS workers are tremendously important Perhaps the clearest and most important lesson
Chris Jesu Lee Graphics Editor Kelly Wess Local Sales
Stephen Lichenstein Graphics Editor Kathy Bui National Sales
to Brown’s day-to-day functioning and earn less than from last week’s events is this: The Brown commu-
Kim Perley Photo Editor Alex Carrere University Sales many other University employees. These consider- nity will not stand for the appearance that admin-
Max Monn Asst. Photo Editor Matt Burrows Credit and Collections ations heighten the University’s obligation to be clear istrators are sparing themselves at the expense of
Jesse Morgan Sports Photo Editor
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suffered last week, students should acknowledge administration all the way down.
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The Brown Daily Herald
Stuff Brown students should like
Anish Mitra
Opinions Columnist
Recently, post- Magazine did a six-part series
entitled “Stuff Brown Students Like.” Gmail,
celebrity children, spandex, Nice Slice, shop-
ping period and even ‘spicy with’ were all
on the list, and rightly so. To their credit,
post- was spot-on, and I hope they continue
the series.
While Brown students (myself included)
definitely do like Gmail and Nice Slice’s thin
crust pizza, there is an even longer (and
cooler) list of things Brown students should
like.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Elit-
ism should be on the top of the list. While
many “hip” and “progressive” Brown students
take solace in the fact that they are defying
some sort of abstract social conventions by
rebuking age-old Ivy League traditions, they
do so from an Ivy League platform. Respect
for natural elites is something that can do
Brown students well, especially in difficult
economic times.
Second, Brown students ought to like Wall
Street. While there are a good number of
students who pursue financial jobs, especially
those related to management consulting, many
Brown students grimace at the idea of working
at an investment bank, equating the job to a
soulless, greedy endeavor which apparently
Kate Fritzsche
Opinions Columnist
During our four years on campus, many stu-
dents create new identities, and they find
themselves drastically changed by the time of
graduation. One of the experiences most cen-
tral to my identity change in college has been
coming out as a feminist. It sounds simple,
but there are many reasons why I hope that
other Brown students will come to the same
realizations that I have.
I’m pretty sure I was born with feminist
beliefs, but it wasn’t until recently that I was
able to articulate them clearly and wanted to
tell others about my views. My parents always
made it clear that my sister and I were every
bit as capable as my brothers, and that being
female didn’t make us weak, stupid or worth
any less than any boy was.
The first time I remember realizing that
what my parents told me was not the same
as what everyone else believed was when I
told my parents that I wanted to be a secre-
tary when I grew up. My mom immediately
responded with horror, “You can do so much
more than that!”
Don’t get me wrong, there’s absolutely
nothing wrong with being a secretary; the
problem was that I thought that since I was
well-organized and a girl, a secretary was the
only job for me. I had seen women doing more
than that in my own family, but the mothers
I read about in books and saw on TV weren’t
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does little to solve problems that are far more
prescient, like “going green.”
Sadly, while these individuals mean well,
they are gravely misinformed. Wall Street
careers separate the strong from the weak
and ultimately require the skills that Brown
students often exude while at school: a strong
desire to learn and a love for working with
others.
In a similar vein, Brown students ought
to like capitalism more. Since I have come
to Brown, I have met more Marxist, socialist
While Brown students (myself included) definitely
do like Gmail and Nice Slice’s thin crust pizza,
there is an even longer (and cooler) list of things
Brown students should like.
and communist sympathizers than I have ever
thought possible. While this has been a valu-
able learning experience, we must realize that
the market needs Brown students to one day
create growth opportunities which will benefit
society as a whole. By consistently deriding the
free market, characterizing capitalism as “evil”
and vying for more misinformed government
intervention and regulation, Brown students
are only limiting their future opportunities
for success.
Feminism is not dead
always high achievers.
Since that time, I have always pushed my-
self to work hard to achieve everything that
I can. I have realized that a well-organized
woman can do anything; I could get a Ph.D., I
could become a lawyer or a doctor, I could lead
an international NGO or I could be president.
Or I could work locally on anything that’s
important to me. There is nothing that I have
to do by virtue of being female and there is
nothing I cannot do because I am female.
But feminism’s importance to me is predi-
cated on much more than my personal goals
and ambitions. Last fall, I saw Jessica Valenti,
Feminism is not about hating men. Being a
feminist means believing in the social, economic
and political equality of all genders.
founder of Feministing.com, speak on campus.
That hour or two in MacMillan started some-
thing in me that is now irreversible.
Through reading Valenti’s books, “Full
Frontal Feminism” and “He’s a Stud, She’s a
Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every
Woman Should Know,” talking to the three
girls I knew who stood up for themselves as
feminists and noticing the world around me,
I began to see just how pressing the issues
of feminism are today. I have heard plenty of
Brown students say that we live in a “post-
feminist” world, but I don’t believe it for a
Fashionably speaking, Brown students
ought to like J. Crew more. For those with
fatter wallets, classy yet simple selections
from couture designers ought to be liked as
well. While not all Brown students are guilty
of scoffing at madras shirts, plaid patterns,
Nantucket red, argyle designs, Dolce and Gab-
bana and Ralph Lauren, it is clear that there
is an agenda against the clean-cut look these
aforementioned items would imply.
Many Brown students are comfortable
wearing very tight ripped jeans, dirty T-shirts,
farmer plaid and other hipster-esque forms of
clothing. While this is not the worst possible
scenario, and there certainly should not be any
standard on what Brown students are expected
to wear, it would be nice to have an atmosphere
of appreciation, rather than militant resistance,
toward refined clothing. Either way, J. Crew
gives a 15 percent student discount.
Lastly, Brown students ought to like the
Wall Street Journal and DrudgeReport.com.
While most Brown students seem fascinated
second.
Feminism is not about hating men. Be-
ing a feminist means believing in the social,
economic and political equality of all genders.
In practice, this idea of equality applies to all
realms of our lives, including reproductive
and sexual rights, pay rates and employment,
behavioral expectations, political parity and
even problems as simple as the language used
to describe men and women.
There are many double standards that hurt
women, and it’s imperative that Brown students
stop promoting them. When groups advertise
parties, they shouldn’t exploit women’s bod-
ies to appeal to students, like the 2011 Class
Board’s proposed Lingerie Fashion Show did
last spring. When students get involved with
labor negotiations like they have with Brown
Dining Services employees, they should fight
to ensure that women and men are paid at
the same rate.
When we consider future occupations, we
should encourage women in our lives to as-
pire to great things, especially in areas where
women are underrepresented, such as politics.
And, most easily achieved, we need to stop
using gendered insults. Calling someone a
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by the New York Times and CNN.com, both
of which are satisfactory news sources, it
might not hurt to check out the Journal and
Drudge once in a while. The professional-
ism exhibited in the Journal, along with the
excellent quality of their opinions section, the
heavily researched features sections and the
highly important market updates all make
it an excellent news source (and one which
should be in the Ratty, ahem).
Further, while everyone loves Sanjay Gup-
ta, CNN.com’s “cool” approach to news simply
does not cut it for me. Drudge lays it all out in
his easy-to-read web format, and does a good
job of finding unique but reliable news sources
for his stories. Plus, the pictures on his Web
site are truly classic. Many Brown students
pride themselves on being extremely well
informed in matters of public affairs; if so, then
why the aversion to these news sources?
It is difficult to say which of the aforemen-
tioned items are most important, especially
when I am sure the list could be elongated to
a far greater degree. Ultimately, while Brown
is a beautiful place, there is room for great
improvement. I truly feel that with a small
change in direction, Brown students could
not only extract more value out of their un-
dergraduate years, but they will be positioned
well for future success.
Anish K. Mitra ’10 is an economics
concentrator from Queens, New York. He
can be reached at
anish_mitra@brown.edu.
“slut,” “whore” or my personal least favorite,
“pussy,” is insulting to all women. The mere
fact that the term “man whore” exists shows
that a “whore” is necessarily female, and we
all know it’s a derogatory term. So next time
you want to insult someone, can’t you use a
word that doesn’t make generalizations about
women?
And if you need any further motivation to
understand that feminist issues are crucial,
consider the 2006 shooting of 10 young girls
at an Amish school in Bart Township, Penn-
sylvania. The shooter arrived at the school
with three guns, two knives, and 600 rounds
of ammunition, and allowed the boys to leave
unharmed. He then lined up the girls, putting
handcuffs on them and binding their feet,
before shooting them in the back of their
heads. The police later stated that the shooter
“wanted to exact revenge against female vic-
tims.”
When people like this 32-year-old killer,
Charles Carl Roberts IV, target women and
girls simply because of their gender, it is clear
that feminism is still necessary. When it is not
universally believed that women should not
be killed on the basis of something funda-
mentally out of their control, feminism is still
necessary. And when women face less violent,
but even more pervasive daily taunts, exploit-
ative advertising, unequal opportunities, and
unfair reward for their efforts, feminism is
still necessary.
Kate Fritzsche ’10 is an applied
math-economics concentrator from
Kennebunk, Maine. She can be reached
at katherine_fritzsche@brown.edu.
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A cubic zirconium to the GCB, which just turned 40 but is still attracting lots of
21-year-olds. More power to you, but we hope we don’t find ourselves still stuck in the
basement of Grad Center when we hit middle age.

Coal to engineering professors who claimed they were not consulted about a new
cell phone antenna installed on the roof of Barus and Holley and were worried it would
interfere with sensitive scientific instruments. We tried to call you, but it went directly
to voicemail.

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A diamond to the sports marketing firm recently hired by Brown’s athletic department
to identify revenue-generating opportunities. Too bad the only idea they’ve come up
with is selling authentic water-damaged timbers from the old Smith Swim Center roof
(autographed by Chris Berman ’77!).

c a l e n da r Coal to the Rhode Island General Assembly, which was not scheduled to meet again until
2010 but which will bravely reconvene for a two-day emergency session after a months-long
Today, October 23 tomorrow, October 24 recess. We’ll give you an A for effort, but it’s a little disillusioning to know that governing
requires even less frequent attendance than a Russian literature independent study.
2 Pm — Self Defense Workshop for 11 AM — International Day of Cli-
Women, Arnold Lounge mate Action At Brown, Main Green A diamond to Yeasayer, the Brooklyn-based band that will headline BCA’s fall concert.
We know your “experimental psychadelic” music doesn’t please ever yone, and some will
10 PM — BCA Presents: Speakeasy 7 pm — W Week Screening: Ma Vie say you shouldn’t have been invited, but don’t listen to the ... well, the you-know-whats.
Sessions, Grad Center Lounge en Rose (My Life in Pink), Salomon
001 A cubic zirconium to the student in this week’s crime log whose iPod was stolen
from his desk while he took an accidental three-and-a-half-hour nap at the SciLi. We’re
not sure what was worse — getting your electronics stolen or realizing you just drooled
menu all over a computer cluster (and got logged out!).

Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Hot Pastrami Sandwich,
Roasted Herb Potatoes, Brussel
Sprouts Casserole
Dinner — Manicotti Piedmontese,
Marinated Beef, Mashed Butternut
Squash
RELEASE DATE– Friday, October 23, 2009
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Lunch — Chicken Fingers, Vegan
Rice Pilaf, Peas
Dinner — Seafood Jambalaya, Spin-
ach Pie Casserole, Lemon Rice
Coal to a leak in the roof in Salomon 101 that was only recently fixed. We’re lucky
it wasn’t a problem last month — Musharraf’s security detail might have had to carr y
guns and umbrellas.
A diamond to the enthusiastic moms and dads quoted — alongside the names of their
children — in Monday’s Parents’ Weekend article. Thanks for helping our reporters out,
even though your kids now hate you.

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