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C R E AT I V E C O N S T R U C T I O n Simmons won’t be
‘buffeted about’ on boards
By Alex Bell In a statement on its compensa-
Senior Staf f Writer tion policies released in December,
Goldman stated that its compen-
President Ruth Simmons said in sation policy, which emphasizes
an inter view last week that she per formance-based bonuses, is
does not expect negative publicity “designed to attract and retain
about the practices of Goldman the most talented human capital,
Sachs, whose Board of Directors which has been a key contributor
she ser ves on, to carr y over to the to generating excess returns rela-
University’s image. tive to peers.”
Simmons joined the board in But to the surprise of many
2000 while president of Smith Col- analysts, Goldman announced on
lege. The New York–based financial Friday that the bonus received by
ser vices company Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein will be only
has suffered harsh criticism since $9 million this year and will be
early in the current financial crisis delivered entirely in stock. Blank-
for doling out high bonuses to its fein’s largest bonus, of $67.9 mil-
Hilary Rosenthal / Herald executives after receiving money lion, came in 2007. Newspapers
Construction on the Creative Arts Center progresses on Angell Street. from the federal bailout program. such as the Times of London had
All 10 of the company’s directors repor ted suspicions of a bonus
face lawsuit be lifted for next year compensation for the company’s
CEO and executives, according
nancial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Rep. Phil Angelides, D-Calif., criti-
from ex-wife
to the committee’s charter. cized Goldman’s practices during
By Max Godnick due to the harsh economic cli- The debate over Goldman’s the months leading up to the finan-
Senior Staff Writer mate. practices is to be expected, Sim- cial crisis of selling debt products
By Goda Thangada Should the recommendation mons said, but she declined to tied to mor tgages it knew were
Senior Staf f Writer The University Resources Com- be acted upon by the Corporation make a public statement on the declining in value. He compared
mittee made a recommendation when the budget is passed later company’s past actions. the practice to “selling a car with
A high-stakes lawsuit against a Cor- to the Corporation earlier this this month, it would allow Presi- “There are lots of things in a faulty brakes and then buying an
poration member may be brought month that the freeze placed on dent Ruth Simmons’ Plan for Aca- complex institution that go on,” insurance policy on the buyer.”
back to life after being dropped in faculty and staff salaries be lifted demic Enrichment to continue in she said. “You’re not in charge of Simmons said she can “fully ac-
January. in the next year’s budget. Last its efforts toward creating com- ever ything that your friends do cept” the public’s scrutiny, as well
Steven Cohen P’08, a trustee of year’s budget initiated a freeze and every policy that organizations
the University’s highest governing on all University employee wages continued on page 2 that you’re affiliated with issue.” continued on page 4
body who amassed a vast fortune in
dean dies
their divorce in 1990. Her lawyer,
Paul Batista, dropped the suit in By Nicole Boucher
mid-January, though Patricia Cohen Staff Writer
announced that she would continue
to pursue the suit with another law-
yer, Gaytri Kachroo, who told The
Nothing brings a group together
quite like a road trip, and practice
at 88
Herald that the case will be refiled has taken the diving teams out of By Ana Alvarez
soon. state twice a week for over two Senior Staff Writer
“What is open to us now is to years.
file a new complaint or an amended Elizabeth LeDuc, former dean of
complaint,” Kachroo said. FEATURE biological sciences and landmark
SAC Capital, the hedge fund member of Brown’s Division of Bi-
founded by Steven Cohen after After structural problems led ology and Medicine, died Jan. 31 at
the divorce, was also named in the to the demolition the Smith Swim 88 years of age. At a time when few
suit. Center in 2007, a temporary aquat- women were included in academic
“As we have said from the outset, ics facility was built on campus life, LeDuc left a legacy of effective
these decade-old allegations by Mr. to accommodate the swimming, leadership and groundbreaking re-
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
Cohen’s spouse are patently false diving and water polo teams. search in biology.
The temporary aquatics facility cannot accommodate three-meter
and entirely without merit,” said However, the pool is not deep diving, forcing the team to travel to Massachusetts for practice. According to the University Ar-
Jonathan Gasthalter, an SAC Capital enough to allow for three-meter chives, “Dukie,” as her colleagues
spokesperson. diving. Fish out of water — and out Traveling takes time away from called her, earned full professorship
Patricia Cohen’s claims come This setup places the diving of state school work and other social ac- in the BioMed division at Brown in
at time when the public is increas- team in a unique situation — they The team travels about 40 tivities, she added. 1964 — the third woman to reach that
ingly scrutinizing the practices of must travel off-campus twice a minutes to the University of Mas- Diver Charles Kambe ’10 put rank in Brown’s history and the first
prominent hedge funds. In the suit week to practice with the three- sachusetts at Dartmouth twice a a positive spin on having to use to do so in biology, the Providence
filed by Batista, she sought $300 meter springboard. week to use the three-meter board. off-campus facilities. “On the up- Journal reported.
million. “We deal with what we have They leave around 2:30 p.m. and side, it makes us much better at LeDuc served as the division’s
The earlier suit went into depth and we get by by thinking posi- get back around 6, Tassell said. traveling,” he said. “We are bet- dean from 1973 to 1977, another im-
describing Steven Cohen’s financial tively,” said Rebecca Tassell ’12, a “It’s hard on the team in terms ter at adapting. A lot of teams pressive achievement for a woman
member of the diving team. of traveling and commitment,” said
continued on page 7 team member Kara Lindquist ’11. continued on page 7 continued on page 4
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C ampus N EWS “It boils down to making sure that we remain competitive.”
— Rajiv Vohra P’07, Dean of the Faculty, on lifting the salary freeze
Daily Herald
the Brown
C ampus N EWS “We’re almost struggling with our success right now.”
— Professor Jan Hesthaven on Brown’s supercomputer
C ampus N EWS “It could funnel to me, but not to the University.”
— President Ruth Simmons on bad publicity from her board service
C ampus N EWS “Would you rather pay your cell phone bill or your health
insurance premium?” — Vincent Mor, professor
in novel’s success
tives, including two Republicans, el, according to the article. issuing recommendations from
have already signed on as cospon- Miller echoed Cole’s sentiment; Januar y to March 31.
sors. he said less strict marijuana laws Asked about the role of the
Rhode Island would be the thir- would provide “the potential for lo- commission, Edwards stressed the
teenth state to decriminalize mari- cal law enforcement to save worth- need for quick action. “They’re go-
By Mark Raymond cal acclaim, it did not sell many juana possession to some extent, while money.” ing to talk about it until it’s dead.
Contributing Writer copies. after California, Colorado, Maine, He was referring in part to the My opinion is, get the bill in,” he
“It got great reviews but it just Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mis- cost to the state of incarcerating said.
Thomas Cobb could never have didn’t sell,” Cobb said. “It only sold sissippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New marijuana offenders. It costs an av- Edwards’ bill is currently under
imagined that the story he wrote around 11,000 copies.” York, North Carolina, Ohio and erage of $44,000 per year to house evaluation by a committee chaired
when he was a student at Univer- The 2009 movie, directed by Oregon. In Nov. 2008, Massachu- inmates at Rhode Island’s Adult by Rep. Don Lally, D-Dist. 33, one
sity of Houston would one day be Scott Cooper, has now made its setts passed by ballot measure a Correctional Institute. of its cosponsors.
made into an Academy Award- way to theaters nationwide and is
nominated movie. the recipient of numerous awards,
Cobb, an English professor
at Rhode Island College, wrote
“Crazy Heart” as a doctoral dis-
including Best Actor in a Motion
Picture (Drama) at the Golden
Globes for Bridges’ portrayal of
Under alum, TFA expands to R.I.
sertation, and got the inspiration Bad Blake.
for the story’s protagonist from a “I’m really happy with Jeff and By Anne Artley taught at a public junior high school York state English and language arts
line that repeated over and over Maggie’s performances,” Cobb Contributing Writer in the South Bronx. exam.”
in his head. “Bad’s got the sweats said, referring to Bridges’ por- Her passion for education start- According to Tow-Yick, the mis-
again,” Cobb claims, served as trayal of Bad Blake and Maggie Teach for America, a program which ed with an internship she received sion of TFA is to bridge the gap in
the inspiration for the character Gyllenhaal’s portrayal of journalist trains recent college graduates in while still an undergraduate at Brown. academic performance between afflu-
known as Bad Blake, played by Jean Craddock. “Jeff really cap- teaching and places them in under- During one winter break, Tow-Yick ent schools and schools in low-income
Jeff Bridges in the recent movie tures Bad Blake’s character and performing school districts, will start worked with a fifth-grade teacher at communities.
adaptation of the book. Maggie’s performance was very sending teachers to Rhode Island for Community Preparatory School in TFA works with district partners
Cobb, who worked as a music effective.” the 2010-2011 school year. Heather Providence, which was founded to across America to identify disadvan-
critic while working towards his When pressed about the mov- Tow-Yick ’98, a former teacher, is educate students of color from low- taged schools with openings. While
doctorate, said he heard a song ie’s chances at the Oscars, Cobb heading up the organization’s expan- income families. She described her critics have accused TFA of taking
about a washed-up country singer placed great faith in Bridges’ like- sion — which will send 30 teachers in work with the students as “compel- jobs from traditional teachers, Rose
on an album he was supposed to lihood of winning Best Actor, as its first year — as the state executive ling” and “wonderful,” adding that she said the new teachers do not replace
review, and Bad Blake’s character well as T-Bone Burnett and Ryan director. remembered this experience when anyone, since they have to go through
developed from there. Bingham’s prospects of winning Tow-Yick said TFA had “a lot TFA came to recruit at Brown. the same application process.
The book that resulted from Best Original Song for “The Wea- of support” from the Rhode Island The program recruits its students “Some people think the five-week
his dissertation was published in community, including philanthropic through their universities. After grad- program is not enough, but we have
1987, and while it received criti- continued on page 7 groups, the Board of Regents and uating from college, TFA participants data that shows our teachers are just
Education Commissioner Deborah must complete a five-week teacher as effective,” Tow-Yick said.
Gist. training program before applying for Rose said she hopes TFA teachers
The program “works with com- teaching positions. will be employed in “harder-to-fill”
munities when the time is right,” she Tow-Yick, who double concentrat- positions such as math, science and
said. ed in English and American Civiliza- bilingual education.
Are there things you like? Tow-Yick added that Gist was in- tion, decided to continue working in Even if TFA teachers decide not to
And things you don’t like? strumental in bringing the educational
program to the state.
education after teaching in the Bronx.
She said she would encourage any
follow a career in education, Tow-Yick
said, she believes that their experience
“Teach For America has a reputa- college graduate to apply to TFA. will give them an optimistic attitude
tion as an organization that trains intel- “It’s a great opportunity to do and a solid work ethic that will allow
Man, do we have a site for you. ligent, qualified people,” Kim Rose, something that will have a measur- them to succeed in other fields.
the chief communications officer for able impact on society. Good teachers “What’s most important is that
the Providence Public School District, can make a tangible contribution,” people come away with a deep con-
www.diamondsandcoal.com said. “We all know having an effective she said. “Less than half of my kids viction that the kids in these schools
teacher in front of kids is the most entered 8th grade reading at below can achieve as much as kids in afflu-
important factor in education.” grade level, but after setting clear ent neighborhoods,” Tow-Yick said.
Tow-Yick herself is a TFA alum. goals, all but one kid exceeded ex- “They can take (this conviction) and
After graduating from Brown, she pectations when they took the New apply it to other professions.”
Page 7 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Tuesday, February 9, 2010
RIC prof ’s story hits the big screen Diving on the road: the
continued from page 6
team that has no home
ry Kind,” which is featured in the continued from page 1 fill the absence of student support
movie. at the games. “Swimming is not a
“Jeff has a really good chance struggle with that and we are more huge spectator sport anyway,” she
and I also think the song has a flexible.” added.
really good chance,” Cobb said. Three days a week, the team uses
“Maggie is up against Mo’Nique the one-meter boards in the tempo- Different perspectives
who has won Best Supporting Ac- rary aquatics bubble for two hours The seniors on the diving team
tress twice already, so she has a each day. The diving boards face recall a time during their freshman
tough road ahead of her.” each other, said Katie Olko ’10, so year when the Smith Swim Center
Despite all the recent success, it the diving coach cannot watch both was still fully operational. When the
wasn’t always clear to Cobb wheth- sides at the same time. center was deemed unsafe to use,
er or not his book would become “We are in a very unique situa- the entire swimming and diving
a movie. tion,” Olko said, and you “have to team was forced to travel every day
“There was always the hope give credit to all of us who have stuck for practice before the temporary
that someone would get it made, through it. I’m not sure other teams pool was built.
but I wasn’t holding my breath,” could have stuck it out so much.” “At first, we pretty much pan-
said Cobb. “It was a real surprise icked,” said Kambe. “We weren’t
when Scott was actually able to do No home field advantage sure what would happen to the
it, because nobody had come that Team members agreed that the team.”
close before.” setup impacts their performance Initially, Kambe said, the tempo-
Cobb said a movie adaptation at meets. rary pool seemed like a “God-send”
had been considered on and off “Our team has done very well because it meant traveling only twice
ever since the book was released in remaining competitive, but we a week for the diving team. Still, he
in 1987, but Cooper was the first are at the same time at a disadvan- said it has been difficult to avoid
person to get the film green-lighted tage because most teams practice becoming worn out by traveling
Hilary Rosenthal / Herald
by a studio. Thomas Cobb’s novel is now an Academy Award-nominated film. the three-meter five or six times a every week.
The professor’s life has certainly week,” Lindquist said. Olko said the team dynamics
changed now that the movie has Olko compared practicing the shifted after the Smith Swim Center
been released and is doing well all Cobb said the royalties from who is also the author of the 2008 three-meter only twice a week to closed. With a permanent facility,
across the country. the movie have also allowed him novel “Shavetail.” using only half of a basketball court. she said the swimming and diving
“I’m doing lots of press and fly- to remodel his home, and that the Even with his publicity and As a result, the team has less confi- team “was more cohesive” because
ing back and forth between Provi- original book is now back in print teaching duties, Cobb continues dence than other teams going into they could practice together, which
dence and L.A.,” Cobb said. “I’ve for readers to purchase. to write. He said he is working on a competition, she said. is not always an option in the tem-
walked the red carpet a couple of “I’m happy that it’s back in print new book that he hopes to complete “They have done a good job porary aquatics bubble. “The social
times.” after all these years,” said Cobb, this spring if all goes as planned. overcoming the adversity,” said aspect is different,” she said.
diving coach Alisha Hanoian, who She also said the diving team felt
joined the coaching team in 2008 more competitively confident during
after the Smith Swim Center had her freshman year because they had
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Last Tuesday, President Ruth Simmons e-mailed the papers in the dining halls — and leave them there in
Brown community to share a report issued by the good condition — fewer copies of the newspapers will
Organizational Review Committee, the group charged be necessary and the University will save money. Din-
with finding $14 million in cuts from the University’s ing Services should place a sign near the newspapers
fiscal year 2011 budget. As President Simmons noted, informing students of the expectation that newspapers
correction the budget process is ongoing, and we hope to con- will remain in the dining halls.
tribute continually to the conversation and help the Second, the ORC report noted that entire $33,000
A photo caption in Monday’s Herald (“Crooners for Haiti,” Feb. 8) administration find solutions that are economical, fair currently comes out of Dining Services’ budget. We
misidentified Austin Boxler ’12 as Lee Saper ’12. The Herald regrets the and sensible. Today, we would like to discuss one of hope administrators will take a look at this and see how
error.
the proposed cuts. the subscription costs might be more equally shared
In the report, the ORC suggested canceling sub- among multiple divisions.
scriptions to the New York Times and the Providence Third, the University should immediately conduct
Journal that are currently available in dining halls. These a poll to determine students’ news reading habits. The
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d subscriptions cost the University $33,000 each year. New York Times has announced that it will start charg-
Senior Editors
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Deputy Managing Editors While we understand what an enormously difficult task ing for online content this year, and the Providence
Chaz Kelsh Sophia Li Ellen Cushing
George Miller
Seth Motel the Organizational Review Committee has undertaken, Journal said it is considering the same move. Polling
Emmy Liss
Joanna Wohlmuth we strongly disagree with this particular cut. information will help the University determine whether
editorial
Business Life at Brown can be insular, and newspapers pro- to curtail print subscriptions and channel savings into
General Managers Office Manager
Anne Speyer Arts & Culture Editor Claire Kiely Shawn Reilly
vide an essential link to the outside world. We rely on securing electronic access for the entire institution.
Suzannah Weiss Arts & Culture Editor Katie Koh newspapers to promote political awareness on campus, The University could also solicit voluntary dona-
Brian Mastroianni Features Editor
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Kelly Wess Sales
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Matthew Burrows Finance prepare us for professional futures, learn more about access to print journalism. We would hope that the
Ben Schreckinger Metro Editor
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