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Community hot and steam y Meik apps


Health may increase 38
split into four percent
By Ben Noble
Contributing Writer By Shanoor Seervai
Contributing Writer
The Department of Community
Health is planning to split into four The Meiklejohn Peer Advising Pro-
new departments, according to As- gram had a 38 percent increase in
sociate Dean of Medicine for Public the number of applicants, from 375 in
Health and Public Policy Terrie 2009 to 517 this spring. The Meikle-
Wetle. The change, if it happens, john leadership made a concerted
will be an important step toward effort to publicize the program, hold-
the creation of a school of public ing three information sessions and
health at Brown. advertising at a table at J. Walter
The department is currently Wilson, said Ann Gaylin, associate
organized into four sections — dean of the College for first year and
behavioral and social sciences, sophomore studies.
biostatistics, epidemiology, and Although there was also an in-
health services, policy and practice Stephanie London / Herald crease in the number of rising juniors
A $650,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will pay for renovations on the Plant
— that will become new academic Environmental Center on Waterman Street. See page 3. and seniors who applied, 213 rising
departments within the Division of sophomores applied to be Meikle-
Biology and Medicine. johns, Gaylin said. She speculated

From afar, profs make the commute


“Structurally, the departments that a potential reason for the in-
will be very similar to our current crease in applications is because
sections,” Wetle said. rising sophomores are very happy
The Department of Community with the program.
Health approved the split internally By Sarah Julian tances to teach at Brown. Like Loury drives to Brown because Despite the increase in num-
in January but will have to clear a Staff Writer Prasad, some take the train to he is not “the kind of person who bers, the application deadline was
number of hurdles before the move work. Others drive or carpool, could bear the train.” He said that extended from Feb. 23 to 26. Noura
is formalized. Wetle said the depart- Ever y Wednesday and Friday and several keep houses or apart- even though he loses 45 minutes Choudhury ’11, one of 12 Meiklejohn
ment is planning to submit a formal morning at 8:30 a.m., Shankar ments in Providence. of reading time, he prefers driv- leaders, said the reason for the ex-
proposal for the split by the end of Prasad, visiting lecturer in po- ing because he doesn’t have to tension was that many people who
the academic year. litical science, boards his train at FEATURE operate on the train’s schedule might have wanted to apply were
The depar tment has made a Pennsylvania Station in New York or deal with taking a cab from the away for the long weekend.
presentation of its intention to the City. He works for three and a half Professor of Economics train station. Gaylin said the extension brought
Biomedical Faculty Council and the hours as the train makes its way Glenn Loury lives an hour away The loss of time during the in a few more applicants, but the pro-
Academic Priorities Committee, to Providence. Once he arrives, in Brookline, Mass. with his wife commute is one of the “biggest gram already had more than enough
which will be the first bodies to Prasad walks up College Hill in and children. In order to cope with cons” for Kurt Teichert, environ- applications before extending the
take a vote once formal documents time to teach his 2 p.m. class, the commute, Loury has a house mental stewardship initiatives deadline. First-time applicant Rachel
are filed. If approved, the proposal POLS1600: “Political Research on Williams Street, and often stays manager. Zolno ’13 mentioned that although
will then move to the Faculty Ex- Methods.” Monday nights in Providence. “On the days I travel to and she completed her application before
ecutive Committee before being Although Prasad is one of the “I leave at 5 a.m., get in at 6. I from Brown, it’s two hours that the deadline was extended, she had
considered by the entire faculty. few professors to make the trek drink my coffee, eat some break- I get to listen to music and get a a few friends who applied after they
Finally, the Corporation will have from New York, many faculty fast, get here in time to make of-
to approve the split at one of its members travel significant dis- fice hours,” he said. continued on page 2 continued on page 2
three yearly meetings.
Assuming all proceedings run
smoothly, the Department of Com-
munity Health will split into four Bears come back and
defeat Hartford in OT
departments by July 2011 at the
earliest, according to Provost David
Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98.
Wetle said there were a number
of reasons for splitting the depart- By Andrew Braca drew Feinberg ’11, positioned be-
ment, including growing logisti- Assistant Spor ts Editor hind and to the right of the cage,
cal and recruiting concerns. The rainbowed a pass that seemed
department, founded in 1971, has It was fitting that the seesawing to hang in the air for an eternity
grown rapidly in recent years to battle royale the No. 17 men’s la- over the defense and across the
encompass 27 tenure-track faculty crosse team staged with Hartford field to David Hawley ’11, who
and 140 affiliated faculty overall, on Wednesday afternoon would fired a shot that found the back
she said. come down to two possessions of the net.
“We are a pretty substantial in overtime. “It was awesome,” Hawley
size,” Wetle said. “It is ver y diffi- said. “I couldn’t ask for a better
cult for a single chair to manage a SPORTS time and place. I had all the time
140-faculty-member department.” in the world to shoot that ball. I
She also emphasized the im- After the Bears had twice ral- just put it on cage and luckily it
portance of creating specialized lied from multiple-goal deficits went in.”
departments to attract students and to tie the pesky Hawks, Hartford The crowd of 617 that packed
faculty to Brown. took the ball first in overtime but Meister-Kavan Field exploded.
“It is actually a benefit to re- was stymied by the Brown de- For the Bears, the 13-12 victor y Courtesy of David Silverman
fense. David Hawley ’11 scored the game-winner for the Bears Wednesday.
continued on page 5 After a successful clear, An- continued on page 9
inside

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C ampus N EWS “There are a lot of grumpy people who commute.”


— Joseph Pucci, associate professor of classics

news in brief
142 more apply to be Former Surgeon General
UFB proposes
changes to
Meiklejohn advisers calls for action on health
continued from page 1 Choudhur y added that the
appointment
“drive to advise” and the ability By Mark Raymond with the American people,” Satcher
process learned of the extension. to relate to first-years are also im- Staf f Writer said.
Zolno said she applied for portant. She said that given the Satcher described the work
The Undergraduate the program because she had a “really incredible set of applicants,” “We have to aim high if we want he did when he held that office,
Council of Students “good experience” with her own anyone who doesn’t get selected to eliminate disparities and reform which included the release of the
reviewed proposed Meiklejohn. She said she believes should reapply next year. the health system in this country,” Surgeon General’s Call to Action to
amendments to the that without a core curriculum, Although no drastic changes Former U.S. Surgeon General Da- Prevent and Decrease Overweight
Undergraduate Finance Brown can be overwhelming for have been made to the program, vid Satcher told an audience of and Obesity, as well as the Sur-
Board’s constitution at freshmen. She also said that peer Gaylin said the leadership has been students and faculty in a half-full geon General’s “prescription” for
its general body meeting advisers can be more helpful and trying to develop a “tighter organi- Sayles Hall Wednesday night. healthy living, which outlined the
Wednesday. Among UFB’s accessible than faculty advisers zational structure,” including mak- Satcher, who was appointed need for regular physical activity
suggested amendments because Meiklejohns have been ing the expectations and respon- surgeon general by President Bill and healthy eating, among other
was a proposal that it through the same experiences as sibilities of Meiklejohns clearer Clinton, told the audience about suggestions.
appoint its own members, incoming freshmen. to applicants before they are se- his experiences from 1998-2002 “Our children are becoming
who would then be subject About 350 Meiklejohns will lected. She said she is delighted as surgeon general and his time as addicted to sedentar y lifestyles,”
to approval by UCS. The be selected to advise the class of to be working with the Meiklejohn director of the Centers for Disease Satcher said. “Our responsibil-
amendment states that 2014, Choudhury said. Gaylin said program and views the increase Control and Prevention. The talk, ity is to make sure they become
after publicizing any some of the key qualities they are in the number of applications as a which was hosted by the Third addicted to physical activity and
vacancies on UFB to looking for in applicants are active “sign that people are noticing our World Center, was part of an on- healthy foods.”
the larger council, UCS listening, openness to intellectual energy and enthusiasm.” going Black Heritage Series on One way he suggested this
would advertise the open and cultural differences and a will- Applicants will be notified if campus. change could happen is through
position to the student ingness to help first-years make they have been accepted to the “As surgeon general, I think the the elimination of disparities in
body. the transition from high school to program before spring break, most important thing I was able
The Board would then college. Choudhury said. to do was communicate directly continued on page 5
hear presentations from
prospective members.

For profs, commutes cut down on family time


These presentations
would be followed by a
closed vote which would
be subject to approval
by one-third of UCS. continued from page 1 Providence on Benefit Street for lot of grumpy people who commute,” involvement don’t allow that.”
Members of UFB are nights when he doesn’t make the he said. “What a way to start the day Professor of Economics Louis
currently selected and few of my thoughts squared away, drive home. or end it.” Putterman makes a 60-mile com-
approved by UCS with no but that’s it. It’s relatively unproduc- “When I first started I took the Pucci likes living on College Hill mute from his Massachusetts home,
input from UFB. tive,” Teichert said. bus pretty regularly,” he said. “But because he doesn’t need to waste but chose not to live closer to his
UCS will debate and Teichert also occasionally par- that’s a back-up option because the time commuting, can easily partici- work because he has a handicapped
vote on UFB’s proposals ticipates in a carpool with two other cost is high and it’s pretty incon- pate in extracurricular events, and child who requires care that is not
at their general body colleagues. He said that as a passen- venient.” likes “living in the community, not available in Providence. Though
meeting next Wednesday. ger, he has “some great productive Prasad said he also avoids the just during business hours, but be- Putterman said he does not mind the
time,” but that his long hours make bus. ing a full-time member of it.” commute, he thinks “living in or near
— Max Godnick it difficult to carpool often. “I’ve tried the bus, the train, driv- For some of these professors, the Providence is certainly better.”
While Teichert lives about an ing,” he said. “The bus is actually main reason many make the com- Most professors agreed that
hour away in Massachusetts with quicker, but I find it’s dirtier and mute is to avoid displacing their a main negative of commuting to
his family, he also keeps a room in there is the variability of traffic.” families. Brown is the difficulty in partici-
Prasad said traffic congestion For Prasad — whose wife works pating in activities outside of the
sudoku also complicates driving, finding the at New York University — commut- classroom as well as experiencing
train to be a “way better” option, ing provides a way to stay close to what Providence has to offer.
although he said it is still “kind of his family. Each professor experienced dif-
a pain.” Lour y’s wife works at Tufts ferent inconveniences from commut-
“It takes 16 hours of my life every University, and when he started at ing to Brown. For Teichert it was
week,” he said. “There’s no internet Brown, his sons were just beginning missing out on weekend activities,
on the train, which is painful.” high school in Brookline. “When I while Prasad said he often misses
Associate Professor of Classics talk about moving, (my wife) looks lectures he would like to attend.
Joseph Pucci offered an alternate at me like ‘you must be crazy,’ ” he Prasad also said commuting pre-
perspective. Pucci lives on Bowen said. vents him from going to the restau-
Street, about a five-minute walk from Though Teicher t “cer tainly rants and theaters that he loves in
campus. He said he thinks this prox- would prefer to live in Providence Providence.
imity “affects every aspect” of his all the time,” he said “the reality of “I literally can’t do anything,” he
experience at Brown. “There are a family and property and community said. “I’m in and out.”

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Physicists discover new physical phase news in brief

By Warren Jin superconductivity, the team’s re-


NSF funds greenhouse renovation
Contributing Writer search will help to create a new Brown has received a $650,000 stimulus grant from
perspective in the field of quantum the National Science Foundation to renovate the research
A team of Brown physicists pub- mechanics, Koutroulakis said, add- facilities and infrastructure of its Plant Environmental
lished the discovery of a new physi- ing that Brown Professor of Physics Center, according to Director Fred Jackson. Judith Bender,
cal phase related to superconductiv- Leon Cooper won a Nobel Prize in professor of biology and principal investigator for the grant,
ity two weeks ago in the scientific 1972 for his work on earlier super- said she hopes this funding will generate major interest in
journal Physical Review Letters. conductivity research. the greenhouse and vastly increase the scope of research
The team’s research, conducted The discover y was par tly a that professors and graduate students can perform in the
by Georgios Koutroulakis GS and stroke of luck for the researchers, 23,000-square-foot facility, which is located at 91 Waterman
Assistant Professor of Physics Mitrovic said, adding that they did St.
Vesna Mitrovic, lies in the realm not expect to make this kind of dis- Jackson commented on the “timeliness” of the grant,
of quantum mechanics, a field of covery. The team was spurred on explaining that the controls for the center have not been
physics, which describes the be- by a related discovery made earlier updated since he began work at Brown 18 years ago. This
havior of energy and matter at the this year, she said. “next big step” is essential, he said. Fortuitously, according
subatomic scale. Specifically, the “It’s not like we were even look- to Jackson, the greenhouse renovation proposal “fit the
research group studies the relation- ing for this,” Mitrovic said. “It was bill perfectly.” After winning Brown’s internal competition
ship between superconductivity only this summer that some theory Courtesy of Vesna Mitrovic to select which proposal would be submitted, the proposal
— a super-cooled state in which suggested this would exist.” A Brown research team studying received funding from the NSF.
electrical resistance drops to zero Though advances in the field superconductivity and magnetism The renovation, which will include the addition of a high-tech
discovered a new physical phase.
— and magnetism. of quantum mechanics are primar- computer system to control the greenhouse’s environment,
“We saw a phase where su- ily theoretical, superconductivity three shade covers to create control zones and act as energy
perconductivity and magnetism theory is already starting to be put said. curtains, and a new preparation area, will begin in summer
have a very strange relationship,” into practice, she said. For exam- “It’s exciting to try to find new 2010 and take three to six months to complete, according
Koutroulakis said. “Ten years ago, ple, superconductivity properties things and be lucky,” Koutroulakis to Jackson and Bender. Both said they were optimistic and
we thought that if we have mag- are already used in the magnets said. “That’s one of the nice things excited, as Jackson explains that “this grant will allow us to
netism, we would kill supercon- in magnetic resonance imaging as about fundamental research — you be a competitive, state-of-the-art facility that will open the
ductivity.” well as in power storage banks in see things that nobody has seen doors to more NSF grants for research.”
As a part of “unconventional” Chicago’s electrical grid, Mitrovic before.”
— Clare de Boer

GOP candidate assesses gov. race


By Bradley Silverman often taking on an air of intimacy General Treasurer Frank Caprio,
Staf f Writer as the candidate sat behind a desk who is seeking the Democratic
turned toward the students, lean- gubernatorial nomination and is
Speaking with the Brown Repub- ing back as he spoke. During the considered to be more conservative
licans Tuesday night, John Robi- hour-long meeting, Robitaille spoke than his primar y rival, Attorney
taille, the presumptive Republican conversationally and took ques- General Patrick L ynch ’87. Robi-
nominee for governor, offered his tions from students, often engag- taille called Caprio a “wannabe
assessment of the state of the race ing them directly in back-and-forth Republican” who is too scared to
and outlined the economic positions exchanges. run as a Republican in deep-blue
around which he intends to focus “I’m not used to speaking to Rhode Island.
his campaign. such a small group,” he said. “It The Brown Republicans reached
During the meeting in Wilson would feel weird giving my normal out to Robitaille around two weeks
301, Robitaille shared his back- stump speech.” ago, said group President Keith
ground with students, gave a run- Robitaille said that because he DellaGrotta ’10, adding that the
down of the current state of the has little name recognition and candidate responded the next day
governor’s race and shared his cannot afford to self-finance his sounding enthusiastic about the
views on issues ranging from same- campaign, he will most likely ac- idea.
sex marriage to business taxes to cept public matching funds. DellaGrotta said that the meet-
social safety nets. At one point, Robitaille called ing gave club members an oppor-
Robitaille served as senior ad- President Barack Obama a “good tunity to learn more about their
visor for communications to Gov. man,” but said he has given too party’s candidate.
Donald Carcieri ’65 beginning in much control of his agenda to “A lot of people didn’t know a
2008 until earlier this year, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D- whole lot about him,” DellaGrotta
he left the Carcieri administration Calif., and Senate Majority Leader said.
to campaign for governor. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
continued on page 4
The event was lightly attended, Robitaille also threw a barb at
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C ampus N EWS “This is going to be the most unbelievable election I’ve ever
seen.”— GOP gubernatorial candidate John Robitaille

Gov. candidate Robitaille: R.I. tax levels are ‘unsustainable’


continued from page 3 “Legislators should be stewards Another priority as governor, He also said that he might not public officials to make the right
of taxpayer money,” he said. “They he said, would be expanding job veto a marriage equality bill if one decision for the state’s future.
Should Robitaille win the Re- shouldn’t spend like drunken sail- training and educational opportu- were produced by the General As- “There’s a real ‘throw the bums
publican primar y, as is expected, ors, like they do.” nities for workers to wean people sembly, depending on how it was out’ mentality,” he said, something
DellaGrotta said that the Brown Because Rhode Island’s taxes off what he called a “culture of de- written. that he hopes will work to his fa-
Republicans would strongly encour- are higher than other those of other pendency.” Robitaille said his opposition to vor as a candidate who has never
age members to campaign for him, New England states, Robitaille said, “Don’t get me wrong, when abortion stems from personal expe- ser ved in elected office. Carcieri
though he was unsure how involved businesses are fleeing the state for people fall on hard times, the gov- rience. He said his wife, then five was elected in 2002 as a business-
the group would get. neighbors such as New Hampshire ernment needs to help them,” he months pregnant, gave birth to two man without a background in gov-
Robitaille called himself a social and Massachusetts. said, but “we’re in this cycle that children who then lived for almost ernment.
and fiscal conser vative, but said “We are really suffering from we have to break.” a day. Watching them struggle to Robitaille noted that because so
that instead of on social issues, he an economic development engine Robitaille said that he does not sur vive, he said, convinced him many candidates are running, one
would focus his campaign on the that’s stalled,” he said. plan to emphasize social issues, that fetuses are human regardless could win with around 26 percent
economy — what he called the Robitaille said that as governor admitting that his conservative be- of their stage of development. of the vote, calling such a scenario
most important issue on the minds he would bring down business tax liefs would probably be unpopular Robitaille predicted that voter “unlikely,” but not impossible.
of Rhode Island voters right now. brackets so that entrepreneurs will in progressive Rhode Island. He frustration with the economy and Like Carcieri, Robitaille has a
Robitaille placed much of the stay in Rhode Island. is pro-life and opposes same-sex the General Assembly, as well as background in business, having
blame for Rhode Island’s poor econ- He also placed blame for Rhode marriage, though he said he would disappointment with President spent about ten years as a labor
omy on the Democrat-dominated Island’s “unsustainable” tax levels be supportive of measures to give Obama, will make for an explosive relations specialist for companies
General Assembly, which for de- on “lucrative benefits and pension same-sex couples a form of legal election this year. such as Frito-Lay and Continental
cades, he said, has kept taxes high plans” enjoyed by public employ- recognition that does not use the Throw into the mix an unusually Can Company. Robitaille said that
to fund expensive social services. ees. word marriage. large field of candidates — in addi- he learned about the art of negotia-
tion to the Republican and Demo- tion by working with unions, a skill
cratic candidates, Ken Block of the he said he believes would help him
Moderate Party is running, as are work with the General Assembly
independent candidates Lincoln and others as governor.
Chafee, a former senator, and Todd In 2006, Robitaille ran for a seat

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Giroux — and anything seems pos- in the Rhode Island House of Rep-
sible. resentatives from the 72nd District,
“This is going to be the most losing by just ten votes, accord-
unbelievable election I’ve ever ing to the Rhode Island Board of
seen,” Robitaille said, adding that Elections.

BlogDailyHerald.com incumbents of all parties should


feel ner vous about reelection. A
This year, with polls showing
Rhode Islanders frustrated with
recent public opinion survey by the their elected leaders and a large,
Taubman Center for Public Policy unstable field of candidates, Robi-
found that only 12 percent of reg- taille is hoping to do a little bet-
istered Rhode Island voters trust ter.
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Former surgeon gen. U. considers costs of dept.’s growth
discusses disparities continued from page 1

cruit someone into a department


similar to the split and restructur-
ing that the Department of Biology
went through several years ago.
external funding.
“We have been generating rev-
enues to support the growth that
that they recognize as their area Just two weeks ago, the Corpora- we are undertaking,” she said. “We
continued from page 2 “People that live in areas that of discipline,” Wetle said. “If you tion approved the merger of the De- have worked ver y hard to make
are less safe are less likely to be are getting a Ph.D. in epidemiol- partment of Cognitive and Linguis- this very efficient.”
the U.S. health system that fa- physically active, “Satcher said. ogy, getting that in a department tic Sciences and the Department of Both Wetle and Kertzer said
vor some groups of people over “Also, the fact that 25 percent of of epidemiology is more attractive Psychology, two departments that creating the new departments is
others. children in Harlem are asthmatic than it is in a department of com- had separated in 1986. an important step in establishing a
Satcher’s organization, the has a lot to do with the environ- munity health.” Wetle said she suspects the re- school of public health at Brown.
Satcher Health Leadership In- mental conditions there.” Chair of the Department and source requirements for the new “As we are positioning ourselves
stitute, has made it its mission Satcher emphasized that Professor of Medical Science Vin- departments might be a concern to be a school of public health, we
“to develop a diverse group of while the science and health cent Mor, who is also the head of and has been “tracking very close- will want and need to have these
public health leaders, foster and communities know what needs the health services, policy and prac- ly” the Organizational Review Com- departments, so it’s just steps along
suppor t leadership strategies, to be done to improve health in tice section, will step down as chair mittee’s report on administrative a progression,” Wetle said.
and influence policies toward the America, much of that knowl- after this year in order to focus on structures for departments. The University had targeted
reduction and ultimate elimina- edge hasn’t yet been translated teaching and research, Wetle said. “There are some costs to 2010 as the new school’s creation
tion of disparities,” according to into action. The department is in the process growth,” Wetle said. “But the date, according to a July 2006 arti-
a slideshow Satcher presented to “The gap between what we of recruiting a replacement, and modest additional cost of moving cle in The Herald. But Kertzer said
the audience. know and what we do is far too Wetle will ser ve as interim chair. from sections to departments will the economic crisis has delayed the
In addition to eliminating wide in this countr y,” Satcher The other three section heads will be very small because we already project indefinitely.
health disparities felt by minori- said. “We have to continue to sup- likely move into the role of depart- have an organizational structure “We are hoping that we can
ties in America, Satcher also port the sciences to learn what ment chairs, she said. in place.” move ahead with the school in
emphasized examining social works, but we also have to be Ker tzer, who called public She said the split should also be the fairly near future, but we re-
determinants, such as poverty willing to take action.” health “an area of great pride for put in the context of the growing ally don’t know exactly when,”
and education, when setting forth During the question-and-an- the University,” said he supports Department of Community Health, Kertzer said. “We are expecting
health policy. swer session that followed the the department-splitting but rec- which has more than tripled in size Brown to end up with one of the
“The most ef fective way to presentation, Satcher had the ognizes the cost concerns as the in the last five years and currently strongest schools of public health
impact health is through deal- chance to explain the philosophy University tries to cut its budget. receives $38 million per year in in the country.”
ing with social determinants,” that he believes got him to where “The finances will be one thing
Satcher said. “When we evalu- he is today. we will look at ver y carefully,”
ate policies in this countr y, we “I wanted to get into a position Kertzer said. “Brown does want
have to consider how they affect where I could affect health out- to consolidate where we can, but we
health.”
He pointed out that something
comes in this countr y,” Satcher
said. “I have responded to op-
also want to continue to strengthen
our academic enterprise.”
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as simple as where an individual portunities and challenges that Splitting large departments has
lives can have a significant impact have been consistent with that occurred before at Brown. Mor said
on his or her health. mission.” the plans within his department are
Metro
Knowledge Economy
in Profile
The two words have become something of a magic catchphrase for Provi-
dence’s future. Say “knowledge economy” — with the perfect combination
of hope and awe — around City officials, University administrators and local
entrepreneurs, and watch the glimmer flicker across their eyes.
Last spring, Brown partnered with local business and government lead-
ers to open the Rhode Island Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Parallel to the University’s Technology Ventures Office, the center works
with professors and students to transform lab-based research projects into
real-world marketable products.
The goal is to foster more private startup ventures born out of University
and hospital research activity. Startup firms that may have previously migrated
to larger intellectual centers like Boston or New York could instead remain in
Providence, anchoring economic activity downtown and further integrating
Brown into its surrounding city.
The Jewelry District — with its 20th-century facades and narrow, quiet
streets — is quickly becoming an epicenter for Providence’s intellectually-
fueled growth.
Less than a mile from the Main Green, the area has the potential to become
a second campus within the next 10 years — an urban sister to College Hill.
Long-term University plans include lively street-front cafes, green prom-
enades and easy transportation up and down the Hill. Administrators have
expressed hope that the combination of the Alpert Medical School’s presence
at 222 Richmond St. and the demolition of the old I-95 highway barrier will
yield an economic renewal in the district.
But private investment is a key element to these dreams. Today, The Herald Courtesy of Mark Nickel
profiles four members of Providence’s burgeoning “knowledge economy.” City officials and University planners hope to see renewed life in Jewelry District streets in the coming years.
The growing presence of the Warren Alpert Medical School downtown combined with increased private and pub-
Two of the firms are headquartered within the Jewelry District itself and two lic investment in Providence’s knowledge economy. Artist renderings of Richmond Street, the site of Brown’s
have their offices nearby on the East Side. new Medical Education Building, depict sidewalk cafes, landscaped walkways and easy access to public trans-
— Brigitta Greene portation — all within a mile of the Main Green.

Optimization — with a click Vaccination equation:


By Sofia Castello
Contributing Writer
tenryck said.
Van Hentenryck and Rob Wil-
to help people is “the most satisfy-
ing thing that can happen to a re-
the search goes on
liams, Dynadec’s vice-president, searcher,” van Hentenryck said. “It
Professor of Computer Science Pascal have spent the last year building can make a big difference in the life By Brian Mastroianni more tangible, DeGroot said.
van Hentenryck is putting “Comet,” the company. They have been hir- of people.” Features Editor “There are probably 200,000
an algorithm he developed at Brown, ing staff, looking for private equity Dynadec is currently working different strains of HIV — you
to commercial use at Dynadec. funding — which they have found at with Los Alamos National Laboratory Situated across from a parking lot, need a computer program to ana-
Dynadec consists of three rooms, companies such as IBM, Cisco and to maximize efficiency in emergency the two-story grayish-brown build- lyze the huge number of gene
hidden in the enormous unlabeled Intel — and engaging with clients, response to hurricanes. While Los ing at 146 Clifford Street is an un- sequences for that many strains,”
maze of One Richmond Square, an Williams said. As Williams’ phone Alamos provides possible scenarios imposing site, nestled in the heart she said. “I think of HIV as French
office building on Providence’s East buzzed, van Hentenryck joked, “af- and effects on infrastructure, Comet of Providence’s Jewelry District. and all the strains as dialect, which
Side. Two men sit at computers in ter a year together, we know who can help determine where to place The building is home to EpiVax is something that could only be
opposite corners of the stark white is calling.” resources such as water and medi- Inc. — a company dedicated to solved with a computer.”
room, busily clicking as the day slips Brown was “very helpful” in mak- cal supplies in order to respond as the design of new vaccines and With a recent HIV vaccine
away. A tour takes all of a minute ing the process “extremely smooth quickly as possible, said van Hen- the engineering of therapeutic developed in Thailand reported
and a half. and easy,” van Hentenryck said. tenryck. proteins. to be 32 percent effective, De-
The company is the product of Van Hentenryck and Williams “Think about Haiti, Chile ...” Wil- For Anne DeGroot, CEO of Groot said things are looking
a successful collaboration between have an easy camaraderie — the liams said. “Our technology is get- EpiVax as well as an adjunct as- much “better than they did a few
Brown and van Hentenryck and spe- two spoke intently, interrupting each ting there.” sociate professor of pediatrics at years ago.”
cializes in “stochastic optimization,” other periodically. Van Hentenr yck teaches Brown, the search for an HIV vac- DeGroot hopes EpiVax will
or “optimization under uncertainty,” “A technology that started at CSCI0310: “Introduction to Com- cine is EpiVax’s most important be in the forefront of developing
van Hentenryck said. Comet is the Brown is now being used in multi- puter Systems” and a graduate-level project. She said she has long a similar vaccine in the United
underlying platform behind improv- billion dollar companies,” said Wil- course in optimization. found HIV care to be “the big- States. “There is good news in
ing efficiency in various fields, rang- liams. “That really speaks to what He laughed, recalling his experi- gest problem in the world.” that we are heading in the right di-
ing from hurricane response systems (van Hentenryck) has done.” ence at Dancing with the Profs as “I wanted to take care of peo- rection. We continue to work on it
to workforce organization and steel Van Hentenryck opened up his “horrific.” He practiced “Billie Jean” ple who had the disease, and I and are making forward progress
manufacturing. laptop to show Comet at work, and 86 times, he said. Perhaps Comet also wanted to make a vaccine in our laboratory,” she said.
“Ever y- colored squares filled the screen. could optimize dance moves as for HIV,” she said. None of this would be possible
thing Comet’s next-generation tech- well. “Originally, this company was without Mayor David Cicilline ’83,
which nology has reduced the time Sofia Costello / Herald founded in hopes of helping to DeGroot said.
moves, necessary to schedule work- An entrepreneur in optimization, design an HIV vaccine, which is “He is the one person who is
Professor of Computer Science
we op- forces in hospitals from 10 a pretty tall order,” said Business really spearheading the knowl-
Pascal van Hentenryck demon-
timize,” minutes to 30 seconds and has strates his “Comet” algorithm. Development Associate Jason Del edge district plan. If he gets into
van Hen- cut costs of mobilizing repair Pozzo. Congress we’ll see even more ac-
technicians by about 65 per- The company has internally- cess to federal funds — if it wasn’t
cent, he said. funded vaccine programs, and has for his leadership, I wouldn’t be
“That’s huge,” Williams also received government grants here,” she said.
said. from the National Institutes of With economic growth in the
Creating science and us- Health to support lab research, Jewelry District, more companies
ing it Del Pozzo said. will be able to make the headway
EpiVax is currently doing that EpiVax is currently making,
work for the Children’s Hospi- Del Pozzo said.
tal of Philadelphia, Brigham and “From our standpoint, we
Women’s Hospital in Boston and think there’s obviously an excel-
Providence-based Lifespan, he lent core and foundation of re-
said. search and science in the Jewelry
It was the development of District. There is lots of room to
computer-based technology that grow, lots of land, and it is cheap-
made the study of HIV strains er to develop in Providence than
much easier, and made the reality
of creating an effective vaccine continued on page 7
Page 7 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Thursday, March 11, 2010

M etro “Brown is like a village.”


— Love Sarin MS ’05 PhD ’09

Answers in Moving forward and reversing wrinkles


sequencing By Caitlin Trujillo
Senior Staff Writer
dauskas said.
Isis Biopolymer uses its Jewelry

for HIV Isis Biopolymer, Inc. moved into the


severe, sandy-colored building at 233
District location and proximity to
medical institutions to its advantage.
Brown’s Molecular Medicine build-
continued from page 6 Richmond St. this past November. ing and Lifespan are within walking
The facility, previously home to a distance. The company leases
in Boston,” he said. watch-making company, now ticks its building from the Univer-
As one of the earliest medical out about 6,500 transdermal drug de- sity and works with Lifespan
start-ups and research facilities to livery patches a day. Come this May, to conduct clinical testing of
locate in the district, EpiVax only it will be both a bustling factory and its products. Across the street
recently starting seeing peer com- full-fledged research lab with a staff sits 222 Rich-
panies move in, DeGroot said. of about 70, said Chief Commercial mond
The growth of the district “has Officer Shawna Gvazdauskas.
been a little bit slow until last year,” It is this — the ability to conduct
DeGroot said. But now, she said the research and development while
area is starting to come alive, cre- simultaneously putting a product on
ating a community of Providence- the market — that makes Isis Bio-
based researchers. polymer stand out, she said. “That’s
“Every business is slightly dif- what really makes us so unique.”
ferent. What we are contributing Isis Biopolymer is the devel- St., which will become the home of
to the scene is that we are there, oper of the IsisIQ platform of drug Brown’s Alpert Medical School.
collaborating with one another,” delivery patches. The patches use Isis Biopolymer’s “Wrinkle Free
DeGroot said. three technologies: a selective bar- Brow Patch” went on the market in manufac-
“If you don’t have access to rier membrane, a single electrode January under the brand name of ture in the U.S., let alone
a certain piece of technology in and hydrogel. Patients can receive University Medical Pharmaceuti- in Providence. But the location is
your own facility, you automatically up to three different drugs from a cals. The company is developing a a “huge strategic advantage” and
know who has it, and you can eas- single patch. similar patch for the eye area that creates an opportunity to forge “re-
ily move on to someone else — we Conventional products often have will be ready in June, Gvazdauskas ally, really cool partnerships” with Courtesy of
Shawna Gvaz-
are all walking distance to other two electrodes and consequently can said. Brown, the city and Lifespan, she dauskas
laboratories,” she said. over-deliver the drug, Gvazdauskas Less than two weeks ago, the said. Staff manufacture drug
EpiVax’s position as a leader said. The IsisIQ, instead, operates at company appointed Brown Profes- Isis Biopolymer began in War- deliver patches at Isis Bio-
polymer’s lab downtown.
in the Jewelry District had rather a low current and can halt the drug sor of Emergency Medicine Bruce wick in 2006 but was recruited by
humble beginnings. delivery process. The platform’s Becker ’78 to the position of direc- the cities of Providence and Cran- headquarters several times and has
DeGroot first came to Brown in patches work by “active delivery,” tor of clinical research. He will su- ston in Rhode Island as well as An- been “very supportive,” Gvazdaus-
1992 directly from her Infectious meaning patients can control how pervise various research projects, napolis, Md. kas said. Ultimately, the lure of work-
Diseases Fellowship at Tufts Uni- much of the drug they receive by including a new product to numb Though Annapolis offered “at- ing in Providence’s Jewelry District
versity. She received a grant from pressing a button to increase the pain and work toward the elusive tractive” incentives, Gvazdauskas surpassed Annapolis’ appeal.
the National Institutes of Health dosage. “pain-free hospital” experience, he said, Providence Mayor David Cicil- “We’re really looking for this to
and moved to an empty lab in “By virtue of the materials and said. line ’83 as well as Brown President be a microcosm of medical research
Brown’s BioMedical Center. Right process of manufacturing, it’s an Gvazdauskas said it was “an Ruth Simmons launched the best and development and commercial-
away, DeGroot began working with extremely flexible platform,” Gvaz- anomaly” that the company would campaign. Cicilline has visited the ization,” Gvazdauskas said.
Gabriel Meister ’93 on computer-
based analysis of gene sequences.
They focused on T-cell epitopes in
order to identify triggers for im-
mune responses against diseases.
Absorbing toxic mercury, with Love
She worked from her lab at
Brown, creating what she called a By Hannah Moser According to the company’s Web says he sees his product being pur- support system in place. Hurt serves
“service-based consulting lab” for Features Editor site, the vapor “has been linked to chased by large manufacturers as as the chief scientific adviser, and the
groups outside the University. neurological, cardiovascular and well as by individuals for residential company has a subcontract with the
In order to get more funding Among all the fervor surrounding reproductive problems, and is of use. In 2007, President George W. University, Sarin said, which allows
for her work, DeGroot applied for the possibilities of “green” living, one special concern to pregnant women Bush approved legislation to begin him to use University facilities and
a grant from the Slater Technology Brown alum is taking being green to a and children due to its potential ef- phasing out the use of incandescent utilize science support.
Fund, which provides startup fund- whole new level. A very tiny level. fect on neurological development.” light bulbs, a change that could mean Hurt made reference to the oft-
ing for technology-based Rhode With the creation of Banyan Lamps containing the vapor could increased business for Banyan, he cited proverbs that “it takes a village
Island companies. “They didn’t give Environmental Inc., Love be broken during use or said. to raise a child.”
us money until we were actually Sarin MS ’05 PhD ’09 during transportation. The recent Brown graduate was in “Brown is like a village,” he said.
incorporated,” DeGroot said. Once took a graduate re- Banyan’s products Washington, D.C., this week receiv- “It takes a few elements on campus”
she had the funding secured, she search project in reflect customers’ ing a National Science Foundation to bring a grad student like Sarin to
relocated the base of her company nanomaterials and potential needs — grant for research and development the point of running a company.
to a less-traditional location — the turned it into an individual cloths to continue his work, and said he These elements, Hurt said, in-
third floor of her home. entrepreneurial op- for single broken is looking to expand the number of cluded a Brown Superfund Basic Re-
With only two employees — portunity. lamps, bags to people involved in the venture and search Program grant, which funded
including her founding par tner Sarin’s company transport burnt-out also expand to new products, though the project; support from Brown’s
and current Chief Information Of- manufactures an as- bulbs to recycling there are currently no new projects Institute for Molecular and Nano-
ficer, William Martin — DeGroot sortment of products centers and box in the works. scale Innovation, of which Hurt is the
proceeded to obtain more funding made of a special absor- linings to protect Sarin, who studied chemical director; and University programs
and eventually moved the company bent material that collects large shipments. engineering, finished his doctorate encouraging entrepreneurship.
to a location more suited to a bio- the toxic mercury vapor Sarin in August and launched Banyan in Even though Sarin was not part
medical start-up, she said. After that escapes from bro- October after working with Professor of the University’s Program in In-
receiving a sizable contract from a ken fluorescent of Engineering Robert Hurt, who novation Management and Entre-
pharmaceutical company in 2003, lamps. headed a team that included under- preneurship — a one-year master’s
EpiVax moved to its current home graduate and graduate students and program primarily geared toward
on Clifford Street. focused on mostly experimental de- engineers — he said the opportunity
Today, the company’s scope is velopments and their “applications for to interact with students who were in
fairly wide. The company is cur- human health and the environment,” the program was valuable because it
rently working on protein therapeu- according to Hurt. “The company is “helped me flesh out my ideas and
tics including research on Botox based out of one of those projects,” work on them.”
and is also developing vaccines for Sarin said. At Brown, Sarin said, “people want
tuberculosis, tularemia, smallpox, Though the company is small to do things differently and think for
H. Pylori, HPV and HIV. — just Sarin for now — there is a themselves.” He said the ease with
DeGroot envisions an exciting Courtesy of Love Sarin
which students can cross disciplines
future for the district. “I expect Love Sarin MS ’05 PhD ’09 has enabled him to consider opinions
rapid growth in the next few years,” developed a material capable of from all kinds of people. “It was a very
she said. absorbing toxic mercury vapor. great atmosphere,” he said.
SportsThursday
The Brown Daily Herald

Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Page 8

Swim takes seventh at


Ivy Championships
By SAhar Shahamatdar as the team of Carlucci, Kikuchi,
Sports Staff Writer Wetmore and J. D. Pinto ’10 took
third in the 400-yard medley relay
Despite setting two new school after shedding seven seconds off
records, the men’s swimming and the preliminary time.
diving team took seventh place out The Bears headed into the sec-
of eight teams for the second year ond night of finals in seventh place
in a row with 699 points at the Ivy with 142 points. Kikuchi helped
Championships in Princeton last Brown gain momentum with a
weekend. second-place finish in the 400-yard
Conor Carlucci ’11 broke the individual medley with a time of
record in the 200-yard breaststroke, 3:53.93. With this race, he became
with a time of 2:01.60, and tied his the first Brown swimmer this sea-
own record in the 100-yard breast- son to get a NCAA “B” qualifying
stroke with a time of 56.06. Ryan Ki- time. Jonathan Bateman / Herald
kuchi ’11 also had a record-breaking Pinto followed with another fast Athlete of the week Aaron Volpatti ’10 clashes with an opponent on the ice.
race with a time of 3:53.93 in the swim in the 100-yard butterfly, tak-
400-yard individual medley.
Head Coach Peter Brown noted
that 23 performances from the meet
ing seventh in the closest event of
the competition. The Bears totaled
505 points by the end of the second
Shooting the puck with Volpatti ’10
were among the top 25 times in day, maintaining their seventh-place
Brown history for their given event, position heading into the final day. By Dan Alexander Player of the Week honors — and I’ve met in person with a few
but the team ultimately came up 200 Kikuchi, Wetmore and Carlucci Spor ts Editor now, Herald Athlete of the Week teams — Vancouver, Nashville and
points short of getting in the mix continued their impressive perfor- honors too. Edmonton and Boston are all kind
with Columbia, Cornell and Yale mances and combined for 58 points With the men’s hockey team’s of in the mix now. There’s a few
for third place. in the individual events on the last season on the line last weekend, Herald: There has been a lot other teams that my advisor has
“We would have liked to place day of the meet. Diver C. J. Kambe tri-captain Aaron Volpatti ’10 led of talk about you going to the talked to.
higher in the team standings, but ’10 wrapped up the individual events the Bears to an upset triumph over NHL. Do you think that’s your You’re from British Columbia?
I am not sure we have the depth by taking seventh in the one-meter Rensselaer in the first round of the next step? Yeah.
to score the additional 200 or so dive. ECAC Hockey Playoffs. Volpatti Volpatti: As a team, and person- So are you favoring the Cana-
points,” Brown said. “Could we have The defending champion Princ- scored a goal in each of Brown’s ally, the ultimate goal is to win a dian teams?
found another 100 points? Yes, but eton outscored second-place Har- three games, bringing his season championship, so that’s what we’re If I can sign a contract right out
200? That is a stretch.” vard by more than 200 points to total to 10 goals, third-best on the trying to do. And then the benefit of college, I’m obviously going to do
Bruno started the first day of win the meet. team. of that is that everyone’s going to that. Ideally, there will be some sort
finals with a fifth-place finish in the Despite the disappointing finish, For his combination of scoring get recognized, and that will give of bidding war kind of thing. But I’m
200-yard freestyle relay. Tucker Brown said he was proud of the and toughness — he leads the team me and the other guys on the team obviously probably going to favor
Wetmore ’10, Trent Huxley ’10, Car- team and applauded the spirit and in penalties and penalty minutes — the best opportunity to (play profes- Vancouver because I’m from Brit-
lucci and Timothy Juhn ’12 edged effort of all swimmers and divers. Volpatti has gotten the attention sionally). So yeah, obviously, that’s ish Columbia. But if another team
out Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth “We had many very good swims, of a number of NHL teams this my goal to do that. offers a better deal or something
with a time of 1:22.48. Wetmore a few disappointments, but overall season. Last weekend, his perfor- Which NHL teams have come
continued on page 9
followed with a close 11th in the a good meet,” Brown said. mance earned him ECAC Hockey to check you out?
50-yard freestyle — just .01 seconds The coach added that he expects

Parker Brown ’12: For the name on the


behind Princeton. the team to get at least 900 points in
The day ended on a high note, the next conference meet.

front, and back, of my jersey


An athlete’s perspective on Wednesday’s game
The men’s lacrosse team beat day, Hawley gave Coach Tiffany (that’s probably because Hartford
Hartford, 13-12, in overtime (Lars Tiffany ’90) his first career doesn’t do “Divers” in practice. Yeah
Wednesday, and attackman overtime win and put the Bears man). Peter “Big Bird” Fallon ’11
Parker Brown ’12 helped to lead at 1-1 for the season after a loss to also stepped up in the fourth quarter
the Bears’ effort with three goals Hofstra last Saturday. Seven differ- and overtime, making outrageous
and two assists on the day. Here’s ent players scored for Brown, with pick-offs and dangling around the
how it went down from his point Feinberg leading the way with four Hartford attackmen, while “the Rhi-
of view. goals. Brown EMO (Extra Man no,” aka Brennan Bailey ’12, made
Offense), which was 4-of-6 against clear that he is indeed, as Coach
In his first career home game in Hoftsra, was not so hot on Wednes- Tiffany put it, “all grown up,” and
Division I lacrosse, David Hawley day, going 0-of-2 (I am on EMO, so I owned his attackmen all day.
’11, who transferred from Williams can say this). Fortunately, we were Between the lines, Rob “Jared
College, stuck the game-winner, top able to capitalize on transition and Allen” Schlesinger ’12 made plays on
shelf (where the cookie jar goes) to loose-ball goals, which made up for both sides of the field while looking
give the Brown men’s lacrosse team our lackluster EMO. good with his newly-trimmed mullet.
its first win of the season in overtime On the defensive side, Matt The “Schlesh-pup” finished with a
yesterday on Meister-Kavan Field. Chriss ’11 was solid in goal, espe- goal and a handful of ground balls.
Off of a feed by Andrew Feinberg cially when it counted in the fourth Defenseman Roger Ferguson ’13
’11, which was, in his own words, “a quarter and overtime. The entire was all over the field, registering an
lob and a half,” Hawley found himself defense, for that matter, played “Out- assist for the second straight game
wide open with time and room above standing!” during the last minute of while also making the Hartford
the goal. The Hartford goalie, who the fourth quarter, especially when attackmen wish they had stayed
had previously told his defense to the Bears went man-down with 44 home. Captains Reade Seligmann
guard Hawley because “he shoots so seconds remaining in regulation. ’10 and Thomas Muldoon ’10 quar-
fast” — and because he was scared The fourth quarter and overtime terbacked the offense while making
of him — stood no chance against defensive efforts were led by captain plays when it mattered most at the
the Hawley Heat. Final score: Brown Jake “the Duck” Westermann ’10, end of the game. Muldoon scooped
13, Hartford 12. who gave Brown possession of the
With the goal, his second of the ball after diving towards the endline continued on page 9
Page 9 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Thursday, March 11, 2010

S ports T HURSDAY “I get to keep chasing it.”


— Aaron Volpatti ’10 on his pro hockey dream

M. lax scores victory over Hartford


continued from page 1 Tiffany said it was especially After Matt Chriss ’11 had a pair
crucial to secure ground balls and of strong saves on Hartford’s en-
eased the sting of a season-open- win face-of fs in this game “be- suing possession, a subsequent
ing 15-12 loss to No. 10 Hofstra cause both offenses were going long Brown possession ended
and fulfilled Head Coach Lars Tif- to score goals.” fruitlessly. But Roger Ferguson
fany’s ’90 goal of improving with The third quarter was back- ’13 secured a ground ball at mid-
ever y game. and-for th for most of the way. field, and the Bears charged the
“Coming off the Hofstra loss, Har tford goalie Scott Bement other way and tied the game on a
playing at home today, we abso- never let Brown open up a mul- Feinberg goal with 3:04 left.
lutely needed the win to start the tiple-goal lead, making 14 saves When the Bears sur vived a
season in the right direction,” on the game. The Hawks struck 30-second man-down situation in
Hawley said. “Hopefully we’ll take twice in the third minute to retake the final minute of regulation, the
the next step this weekend.” the lead, but goals by Feinberg game headed to overtime.
The Bears star ted slowly and Nicholas Laster ’12 gave the “The man-down unit stepped
against a tough Hartford team. Bears a 9-8 lead with 5:24 left. up big when it really mattered
The Hawks entered the game Suddenly, Har tford scored most,” Tiffany said.
with a 1-2 record, but their two three goals, including its second In overtime, Hartford failed
losses had come to then-No. 17 man-up goal of the game, in the fi- to get a shot off on before Peter
Massachusetts and No. 14 Dela- nal four minutes of the quarter. Fallon ’11 scooped up a ground
ware. Despite getting goals from “There was a confidence build- ball and Brown cleared its defen-
quad-captain Thomas Muldoon ing on our sideline with the way sive zone. When Hawley scored
’10 and Feinberg, Brown faced we played second quarter, third the game-winner, the Bears
a 5-2 deficit after one quar ter, quarter and then bang — Hartford earned a hard-fought victor y.
as Hartford won six out of eight took it to us,” Tiffany said. “Know- “It just kind of sets the tone
face-offs. ing how good the Hartford goalie for the season,” Hawley said. “We
“We came out pretty slow, and is, not everything was going to go really didn’t want to go 0-2 for the
Courtesy of David Silverman we knew we just had no tempo, in, so we were going to need a lot first two games, so getting the
The men’s lacrosse team earned a tough victory over Hartford Wednesday
we weren’t playing with heart,” of good shot opportunities.” first win at home is a huge thing
and faces St. Joseph’s on Saturday for the third game of the season.
Hawley said. “We got some good But the Bears were undaunt- for taking the next step this week-

An athlete weighs in
speeches from the captains. They ed, despite heading into the final end and hopefully going 2-1.”
really picked up the tempo and led quarter down, 11-9. The Bears will travel to Phila-
the team to get those ground balls “I’ve been fortunate to have delphia on Saturday to face 0-6

on m. lacrosse’s win and those face-off wins for us.”


The Bears turned the tables on
the Hawks in the second, winning
men who compete and have al-
ways had a quiet confidence on
the sideline, stay positive with
St. Joseph’s.
“We’ve earned a good win over
a good team, and — right on the
continued from page 8 home of Wills “Snickers” Curley ’13. 6-of-7 face-offs and outracing the each other, and fortunately they field we’re standing on right now
Thanks to the fans for making our visitors to 11-of-16 ground balls en did that again today,” Tif fany — we’re going to get to work in
up ground balls like a vacuum off first win feel “Outstanding!” route to posting a 19-3 advantage said. less than 24 hours and try to make
the face-off wing, while Seligmann For the name on the front, and in shots for the quarter. The lead remained two after it better because our team defense
pulled the Bears within one in the back, of my jersey, this is Parker Rob Schlesinger ’12 and Park- the Hawks quickly answered needs to get a lot better,” Tiffany
fourth quarter. And then BANG!, Brown signing out. er Brown ’12 both scored to cut Parker Brown’s third goal of the said. “The offense has developed
Feinberg tied the score, 12-12, with — Parker Brown the deficit to 5-4 just 3:40 into the game in the first three minutes, earlier than we expected, but it’s
his fourth goal late in the game, quarter, and Feinberg and Brown but the Bears seemed to gain en- probably due to the fact that we’ve
before the aforementioned Brown scored 29 seconds apart to give ergy after killing off a one-minute got such experience there with
defense took over. Want to write about your sport Bruno its first lead with 7:02 re- penalty with just under 11 minutes Reade Seligmann, Thomas Mul-
In Hawley’s words, the win “was and think you can make people maining in the half. After Hartford left. Quad-captain Reade Selig- doon and Andrew Feinberg.”
awesome,” so we will keep this mo- laugh? Send The Herald sports tied the game, Hawley answered mann ’10 cut the lead to 12-11 “Moving forward, it’s one win,
mentum rolling into Saturday, when department an e-mail at sports@ to send the Bears to halftime with with 8:22 left, and then the wait- and now,” Tiffany said, “it’s all
we play St. Joe’s in Philadelphia, the browndailyherald.com. a 7-6 lead. ing began. about St. Joe’s.”

AOTW reflects, discusses dreams


continued from page 8 for six games after that. (Former while. But if not, then I mean I’ll
Head Coach Roger) Grillo sat me. cross that bridge when I get there.
like that, I’m probably going to go So, it’s just something that’s always I might end up going back to school
there — can’t really be too picky there. I think when I hit the next for a couple years. I’m not going to
when it comes to a contract. step, it’s probably going to be the be a doctor by any means because
Many guys who are goal-scor- same case. I would be in school until I’m like
ers like you change their roles Do you like having that mix of 40. So that won’t happen, but I see
when they move up to the next goal-scoring ability and physi- myself staying in the sports field,
level. Do you think yours will cal play? like athletic trainer type of thing.
change or remain the same? Yeah, that’s probably why I’m Is playing pro hockey some-
Don’t let my numbers deceive getting more attention because thing that you have dreamed
you. I’m still not a goal scorer, re- the game now — especially in the of since you were a little kid?
ally. ... I started Junior Hockey and NHL — you can’t just have fighters. Yeah, I think everyone dreams
I started out as a fighter and didn’t That used to be the case 10 years — especially up in Canada. Obvi-
see much ice time — scored like ago, where guys could be six-foot, ously, I know the faithful hockey
one goal in 60 games. And then, six and 260 and just fight. But now, players here dream about that, but
my last year, I improved, I started you’ve got to be able to play the every little kid dreams about that
scoring. But I still didn’t lose that game, too. back home. You play street hockey
physical element. You’re a human bio major? and you pretend to be so-and-so, so
And that happened when I Yeah. yeah, it’s obviously been a dream.
came to Brown. My first-ever game So if you don’t do hockey long- And eventually you give that dream
against Cornell, I got kicked out. term, what are you going to up. And it’s nice that I haven’t had
I got like nine minutes of penal- do? to give it up yet. I get to keep chas-
ties my first shift and I didn’t play Hopefully it works out for a ing it.

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Pedestrian safety comes


down to attitude
To the Editor: sauntering across the street with
the idea that they have the right of
Sunday afternoon, as I was driv- way. (Often they don’t.)
ing on Angell, a one-way street, a If you fail to recognize it’s a mat-
student in the middle of the block ter chiefly of attitude, you will accom-
darted in front of me to cross. If I plish very little. Improved signage
hadn’t stopped quickly, I would have may only lead student pedestrians
hit him. Fortunately for me (and to become even more complacent
especially for him) I kind of expected about their personal fates than they
he wouldn’t wait for me to pass by, demonstrate presently. Walking
so I was prepared to brake. down Meeting Street a few months
While it’s good to see an editorial ago, a car drove through a stop sign
(“Safe walking,” March 8) want to at about 30 mph as I was about to
do something useful for pedestrian step into the crosswalk. Had I been
safety after a student was killed, it’s a student, I might have stepped out
not so much a matter of location, and been hit. I had the right of way,
additional or improved signage as but sometimes it’s actually up to me
it is of attitude. to save myself.
The issue is entitlement and Students, don’t expect others
students’ belief that someone else to watch out for you. Watch out for
will take care of them. At night, of yourselves. R ichard S tein and P aul T ran

course, it’s worse, as a 4000-pound


vehicle with lights on is a lot easier Dan Siegel ’57
to see than a 150-pound student March 8 e d i to r i a l

Lecturing the board


Letters, please! When the Brown Lecture Board brought former
Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf to campus
listens to potential speakers’ past speeches before
signing a contract. Why not host a speech screening

you write ’em, we print ’em last semester, we had high expectations. Recent
speakers sponsored by Lecture Board — including
night and invite students to eat pizza and watch clips
of old speeches? We’re sure more than 25 people
outed CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and former would show up, especially if Lecture Board allowed
letters@browndailyherald.com Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee — delivered engaging talks attendees to cast a vote afterwards.
to packed audiences. Unfortunately, Musharraf’s In the long-term, Lecture Board should consider
speech turned out to be a flop. We weren’t thrilled opening the speaker selection process to the entire
to listen to the former president speak in generalities student body through formal surveys. The Brown
and dodge questions. We were even less thrilled to Concert Agency conducts a MyCourses poll every
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d hear that Lecture Board spent a good chunk of its fall about potential Spring Weekend performers.
budget on Musharraf, depleting funding for spring Indeed, the BCA told The Herald this week that the
Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor semester speakers. top choice in the student poll — MGMT — will be
Chaz Kelsh Sophia Li Ellen Cushing
George Miller Not every lecture is going to be phenomenal, and part of this year’s lineup.
Emmy Liss Seth Motel
Joanna Wohlmuth Lecture Board can only do so much to ensure that Surveying students would allow Lecture Board
editorial Business speakers will give substantive talks. Still, given the to gauge opinion on speakers who have less name
Anne Speyer Arts & Culture Editor General Managers Office Manager
Suzannah Weiss Arts & Culture Editor Claire Kiely Shawn Reilly amount of money the board controls and the impor- recognition but promise to give provocative speeches.
Brian Mastroianni Features Editor Katie Koh tance of lectures to student life on campus, we have Moreover, it might diversify the list of potential speak-
Hannah Moser Features Editor Directors a few suggestions for how to improve the speaker ers, which has been heavy on white male politicians
Brigitta Greene Metro Editor Kelly Wess Sales
Ben Schreckinger Metro Editor Matthew Burrows Finance selection process. in recent years. In addition to Huckabee, Lecture
Sydney Ember News Editor Margaret Watson Client Relations In the current process for picking speakers, board Board has sponsored speeches by Rick Santorum,
Nicole Friedman News Editor Christiana Stephenson Alumni Relations
Dan Alexander Sports Editor members compile a list of potential lecturers, look John Edwards and Howard Dean.
Andrew Braca Asst. Sports Editor Managers into their costs and availabilities and conduct a vote We’d also welcome some more transparency on
Han Cui Asst. Sports Editor Arjun Vaidya Local Sales
Marco deLeon National Sales to make the final decisions. behalf of Lecture Board. Schwartz told the editorial
Graphics & Photos Aditi Bhatia University Sales Those decisions — which this year determined the page board that picking speakers is a “pretty informal
Stephen Lichenstein Graphics Editor Jared Davis University Sales
Alex Yuly Graphics Editor Trenten Nelson-Rivers Recruiter Sales
fate of $90,000 of student activities money — are made process.” Any group that controls so much student
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong Photo Editor Maximillian Barrows Business Operations by just a handful of students. Though Lecture Board money should clearly set out its voting and budget-
Max Monn Asst. Photo Editor Jilyn Chao Sales Analytics is open to everyone, only 25 students attend meet- ing processes.
Jonathan Bateman Sports Photo Editor Alexander Carrere Special Projects
Kathy Bui Staff ings regularly. Former co-president Alex Schwartz At least that way, we can all take responsibility
Production Opinions ’10 said Lecture Board tries to reach out to campus, for speakers who give softball talks. And who use
Kelly Mallahan Copy Desk Chief Michael Fitzpatrick Opinions Editor adding that the board holds a big table at the activities their lectures to promote revisionist histories of their
Jordan Mainzer Asst. Copy Desk Chief Alyssa Ratledge Opinions Editor
Marlee Bruning Design Editor fair. That’s not nearly enough of an effort to engage regimes. And who, while we’re at it, are just plain
Editorial Page Board
Anna Migliaccio Asst. Design Editor Matt Aks Editorial Page Editor students and ensure that voting is representative of hard to understand.
Julien Ouellet Asst. Design Editor Debbie Lehmann
Neal Poole Web Editor
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William Martin Board member
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(Ab)using the Open Curriculum


The essential consequence of an open cur- typical high school, we find ourselves in the to. But by the line of reasoning outlined above,
riculum is the transfer of responsibility from absurd situation of never having had control the Open Curriculum’s real power is derived
KSHITIJ
institution to individual. A celebrated theorem of our own time and lives. One of our oldest from the fact that it puts power in the hands
LAURIA from economics says that efficient outcomes evolved responses, risk-aversion, then kicks of the student to do as she sees fit (subject to
result when property rights lie with those who in. Although this is in general a great thing, advisor expertise), whether that happens to be
Opinions Columnist
have the most information, the most at stake it may not always be the best way to conduct doing a combined neuroscience and compara-
or both. The corollary is that institutions that one’s academic career, especially given the tive literature concentration with a few courses
promote negotiation and information sym- fact that most of us don’t know our limits, at RISD thrown in, taking four 1000-level math
When I met with my first-year advisor earlier metry increase efficiency. don’t know our potential, and therefore don’t classes first semester of sophomore year or
this semester, he made an offhand remark I’ll The “property” in question here is a stu- know what kind of behavior is risky! anything in between.
never forget. We began our conversation with dent’s time: both scarce and valuable, all uses What my advisor was saying was this: It Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi, who
what is something of a tradition between us of it have associated opportunity costs. The is far better to stretch yourself and expose studies programming languages, often likes
now: some healthy, agreeable complaining to remark that “design should proceed not by
about the weather (“Where I come from this accumulating features, but by removing the
would be illegal.” “But it never snows in In- restrictions that made them seem necessary.”
dia! ... that’s how we’d know the law works.”) The Open Curriculum’s real power is derived from Ira Magaziner ’69 P’06 P’07 P’10 anticipated
Getting to business, he asked me what my this design philosophy by several decades
plan was for the second semester. This had the fact that it puts power in the hands of the when he proposed the New Curriculum. Pow-
been bothering me for a while: at the end of
shopping period I found myself registered
student to do as she sees fit. erful programming languages are so because
clever people use them in insane ways that
for a mix of five classes that seemed both just wouldn’t be possible in lesser languages.
insane and against the principles behind the Powerful curricula are so because unique
New Curriculum. Unable to pick one to drop, individuals (ab)use them in insane ways that
I felt the apprehension of someone who has student herself clearly has most at stake in yourself to a little risk, especially this early administrators did not, could not, anticipate.
gorged on too much spicy food and fears what the outcome; she also knows best what she in your academic career, than to risk never Sometimes you shoot yourself in the foot when
the morning may bring. excels at, but may lack the experience to pull finding out what you can and cannot do. doing those insane things, but sometimes you
Having heard my concerns, he leaned back, disparate skills together into a coherent whole. Many incoming freshmen (I refuse to call do something great. You never know unless
shrugged almost imperceptibly and said, “Fail This is precisely why the role of the advisor is myself a “first-year”) at Brown cite the Open you allow yourself to fail a little.
a little.” We moved on to other topics and so crucial in the New Curriculum. Curriculum as one of the biggest factors in
complained a little more about the cold, but I Most of us as students, however, have their decisions to come here. It certainly was
kept turning his words over in my head. He never had those rights and the associated for me. The prevailing opinion on campus Kshitij Lauria ’13 is rethinking his
had pointed out what now seems to me a cen- responsibilities granted to us. Through a com- seems to be that this is because it lets students personal economic decisions now that
tral feature of Brown’s New Curriculum: the bination of the resource scarcities and general broaden their education and take courses in midterms are coming up.
chance (even the obligation) to fail a little. boneheadedness that are the hallmarks of your areas they otherwise wouldn’t have been able

Divestment will not bring rapprochement


Furthermore, in order to expropriate land only compound their economic woes. seem counter-intuitive, but by encouraging
in an Israeli outpost, one need only build a Despite the BDS strategy’s flaws, action growth in the Israeli export sector, and thus
HUNTER FAST dwelling of some sort on that land. must be taken to ensure that Brown’s invest- its demand for labor, the economic cost of
Opinions Columnist Acting under the general assumption that ments are structured to promote peace. In- enforcing the West Bank separation barrier
people need places to live, a lower national stead of single-mindedly punishing Israel, and the blockade of Gaza will increase.
income would cause settlement expansion. Brown should invest itself in a way that fosters Palestinians are currently alienated from
Moreover, the Israeli government, averse to economic interdependence between Israelis the labor market due to Israeli policies that
Last week, Brown students saw numerous the idea of reducing West Bank settlements, and Palestinians, thus making the opportunity began during a period of elevated immigration
posters and banners declaring that “we don’t would have an incentive to ameliorate this cost of war too large to justify. from the former Soviet Union. As prominent
want our education profiting from occupation.” economic shift by further subsidizing settle- IAW’s organizers demand Brown’s divest- journalist Naomi Klein has stated, this wave
To this end, activists observed Israeli Apart- ment construction. ment from companies that sell arms to Israel. of immigration largely supplanted the role
heid Week, advocating Brown’s divestment The campaign for divestment from Israel, Instead, Brown should divest itself from all of Palestinian labor in the Israeli economy,
from companies that profit from Israeli policy the second pillar of BDS, seeks to trigger arms manufacturers — not only those that thereby rendering measures like the separa-
in the West Bank and Gaza. This advocacy tion barrier economically feasible.
stems from a 2005 call issued by “Palestin- However, immigration to Israel has largely
ian civil society” for boycotts, divestments dried up, leaving the country with the choice
and sanctions (BDS, not to be confused with of allowing Palestinians into the labor market
Brown Dining Services) against Israel. Instead of singlemindedly punishing Israel, or attempting to draw more immigrants. A
Predictably, most of the controversy over
IAW originates from the conflation of Israel
Brown should invest itself in a way that promotes sharp increase in Israeli exports would cause
labor demand to increase, such that drawing
with apartheid-era South Africa. This is a se- genuine economic interdependence between and resettling a corresponding number of
mantic debate that serves as a distraction from immigrants would be prohibitively expensive,
the implications of a large-scale implementa- Israelis and Palestinians. thus making the policies of separation too
tion of the BDS strategy, which is likely to costly to maintain.
have disastrous economic consequences for Given the catastrophic situation that Pales-
Israelis and Palestinians alike. tinians face, we as students and as a commu-
The primary economic impact of a consum- capital flight from Israel similar to that of South sell to Israel — and preferentially reinvest its nity must act. However, many aspects of this
er boycott against Israel would be a precipitous Africa during the 1980s. In so doing, however, funds in firms that contribute to Palestinian situation are caused by artificial barriers to
drop in Israeli economic output, which would the negative effects of capital flight on post- economic activity. trade imposed by the Israeli government, the
in turn lower the income of many Israelis. apartheid South Africa — effects that would By facilitating Palestinian access to capital, solution to which cannot be the imposition of
Despite proponents’ claim that economic hard- impact Palestinians — are ignored. export capacity will increase, such that Israel even more trade barriers. Pragmatic analysis
ship would cause Israel to turn away from Under large-scale divestment, Israeli New will face a choice between importing Palestin- and debate, rather than divisive rhetoric, will
settlement construction, there is significant Shekels would be sold for other currencies ian goods and importing goods from further allow us to contribute to the formation of an
evidence that the reverse would occur. as investors leave Israel’s economy, thereby afield at greater cost. As Palestinian exports economic groundwork for peace.
Consider the effect of a lower national in- creating an oversupply and subsequent de- to Israel increase, the cost of substituting
come on the Israeli market for housing. A 2009 valuation of the new shekel. Due to Israel’s Palestinian trade will rise to the point that
Slate article points out that while the average nature as a highly trade-dependent economy, war will become too expensive for the Israeli Hunter Fast ’12 is an economics
cost of a two-bedroom living space in Tel Aviv this would translate into soaring inflation. economy. concentrator from Bloomington, Illinois.
is approximately $400,000, the cost of the same Because the new shekel is the main currency Additionally, Brown can make an effort He can be reached at hunter_fast@
space in Modi’in Illit, an urban settlement 25 of exchange in the Occupied Territories, this to purchase more Israeli goods. The role of brown.edu.
miles away in the West Bank, is only $180,000. inflation would affect Palestinians and would such an effort in the promotion of peace may
Today 3 Robitaille, Brown Republicans meet to day to m o r r o w

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t h e n e w s i n i m ag e s inside

In today’s Post-
Questioning the roommate
questionaire, top ten things

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to do outside, Brown fashion
from a fresh set of eyes,
DosstheArtist and the PGA
Tour’s Post- playlist, an interview
with playwright Joe Waetcher
c a l e n da r GS, and springtime eatin.’ Plus,
as always: Diamonds and Coal,
Today, march 11 tomorrow, march 12 Sexploration, Modest Proposals,
and weekend five!
4:00 p.m. — Farzana Shaikh ­— “The 3:00 P.M. — Distinguished Lecture
Conundrum of Consensus: In Search Series: The Mathematics of
of ‘The’ Pakistani Identity,” Watson Swarming and Aggregation, Foxboro
Institute Auditorium
6:00 p.m. — The Secrets of Tomb 10A:
From Bersha to Boston, 1915 - 2010, 6:00 P.M. — Ayiti Cheri Haitian Film
Rhode Island Hall 108 Festival, Starr Auditorium

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Sharpe Refectory Verney-Woolley Dining Hall

Lunch — Grilled Ham and Swiss Lunch — Hot Roast Beef on French
Sandwich, Vegan Tofu Raviolis with Bread, Risotto alla Parmigiana, Cream
Sauce, Crispy Oat Cookies Cheese Brownies

Dinner — Roast Turkey with Sauce, Dinner — Lemon Broiled Chicken,


Cheese and Corn Strata Pasta Spinach Casserole

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