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How BCA Chomsky: U.S. policies

looks for
an A-plus
By Kristina Fazzalaro
Senior Staff Writer
It starts in September. The first
words on everyone’s lips after the
obligatory “Hey, how was your
summer?” undoubtedly revolve
around a single topic: Spring
Weekend. What makes or breaks
that long-awaited event is Brown
Concert Agency’s success — or
failure — in acquiring the best art-
ist lineup to satiate Brown students’
musical thirst.
Fifty Years of
Spring
First in a four-part series
This year commemorates 50
years of Brown students showing
off their musical zeal and partying
hurt Mideast relations
By Suzannah Weiss
Ar ts & Culture Editor
Noam Chomsky, the internationally
renowned linguist and outspoken
political activist, offered an analysis
of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
criticism of Israeli and U.S. policy
and advice on student activism to
a rowdy Salomon 101 audience
that spilled over into Sayles Hall
Tuesday evening.
“Thank you. Now we can go
home,” said the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology linguistics
professor as he stepped on stage
before the clamoring crowd.
Though most often cited in
academia for his work on linguis-
tic theor y, cognitive science and
philosophy, it was Chomsky the
Max Monn / Herald political activist who spoke last
Noam Chomsky criticized Israeli and U.S. policies toward Palestinians night. He began his lecture by
while speaking in Salomon 101 Tuesday night. recommending a column in Tues-
day’s New York Times — a piece
on public opinion of Israel by the
Times’ Jerusalem correspondent,
“someone I rarely praise,” he said
— and segued into a discussion of
the relationship between Israel, the
U.S. and the United Nations.
Israel’s policies in Palestine
are against international law, but
“as long as the master agrees, it
doesn’t matter what the law says,”
he said.
And by “the master,” Chomsky
largely meant the U.S. govern-
ment, which continuously fails to
utilize its persuasive power in the
U.N. and international trade to end
injustice, he said.
Chomsky compared the Obama
administration’s support of the Is-
raeli government to Ronald Rea-
gan’s continued trade with South
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Banner glitch briefly stalls juniors’ pre-registration

on the Main Green — in ways oth-
er schools can only dream about.
Past artists have included some
of the greatest musical acts of all
time, including Ray Charles, U2,
Bob Dylan and Wyclef Jean.
As always, speculation about
this year’s show started early.
Whispers of Kid Cudi and Ani-
mal Collective could be heard at
parties, on the Green and in the
Ratty. When the lineup was finally
released on March 10, the hype
had approached a breaking point,
with students trading supposed
inside information faster than they
could spend a flex point.
continued on page 2
By Sydney Ember
News Editor
Juniors attempting to pre-register for
next semester’s classes on Banner
Tuesday morning faced a temporary
service disruption, triggering campus-
wide frustration over delays that lasted
more than 10 minutes. The disruption
was caused by an internal server er-
ror that may have been a result of the
new Brown Course Scheduler, which
was incorporated into Banner for the
first time during this pre-registration
period, according to Senior Associate
Registrar Robert Fitzgerald.
“There was a performance issue
this morning,” Fitzgerald said Tues-
day. Computing and Information
Services “has been looking into it all
day,” he said.
Registration for rising seniors
opened at 8 a.m., but students were
not able to enroll in classes until the
server error was resolved at approxi-
mately 8:12 a.m., Fitzgerald said. He
said the new scheduler — which in-
cludes a shopping cart feature allow-
ing students to register pre-selected
classes directly from previously gener-
ated schedules — may have contrib-
uted to the disruption because more
students were attempting to register
more classes at the same time.
Fitzgerald said the service issue,
which also affected students browsing
Banner but not attempting to register,
seemed to correct itself after about 10
minutes. Though his office did not
receive specific complaints regard-
ing the scheduler, he said his office
fielded six to 10 calls from students
Error prevents freshmen
from voting in student
elections — See page 7
inquiring about the disruption during
the brief snafu.
CIS will allocate more central
processing units Wednesday, when
registration opens to rising juniors,
in an attempt to combat whatever
caused the Banner server interrup-
tion, Fitzgerald said. “We’ll monitor
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Raking it in? Over half of C h ar g e !

undergrads work for pay

By Talia Kagan
Senior Staf f Writer
Looks like Spring Weekend art-
ist Snoop Dogg isn’t the only one
with his mind on his money and his
money on his mind.
The Herald Poll
Over half of Brown students —
56 percent — pulled in their own
cash-money by working for pay this
semester, according to last month’s
Herald poll. Freshmen were less
likely to work than members of the
older classes — 37 percent of fresh-
men reported working as opposed
to 63 percent of non-freshmen.
Forty-two percent of students
inside
responded that they hadn’t worked
for pay, while 10 percent reported
working in excess of 15 hours per
week.
Among employed students, a
large number are working on cam-
pus. About 43 percent of all stu-
dents work on campus during the
academic year, according to data
provided by the Office of Financial
Aid. However, usually only about
25 percent of students are work-
ing at any given time, according
to the data.
Why students work, what they
do and where varies. Some work to
pay off the work-study component
of a financial aid package, while Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
Students in ARCH 1630: “Fighting Pharaohs” — with help from volunteers — recreated the Battle of
Qadesh on the Quiet Green Tuesday. Visit blogdailyherald.com for a photo slideshow.
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Page 2 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Wednesday, April 21, 2010

50 Years Of Spring “Brown is the king of individuality.”

— James Hinton ’11, booking chair for BCA

With eyes on the forecast, U. preps for Spring Weekend

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“I was so excited,” remembers Sam
Barney ’12. “I saw my friend’s status
on Facebook, immediately researched
to make sure it was correct, and then
ran upstairs to tell my friends.”
This year’s lineup combines musi-
cal legends and up-and-coming artists.
Headlining the shows this weekend
are MGMT on Friday and Snoop
Dogg on Saturday. The concerts will
also feature the Black Keys, Wale,
Major Lazer and Last Good Tooth, a
local student band.
That makes six artists, two days
and one agency to make it all come
together. With 6,013 undergraduates
to please, it’s hard to fathom how BCA
tackles the process of artist selection
— but somehow it does.
Capturing the zeitgeist
With 50 years of successes behind
Spring Weekend, BCA started with
a bit of modern technology its fore-
runners would have jumped over the
moon for — iTunes.
To find out what Brown students
are listening to at the moment, BCA
takes a “loose and dirty sampling of
about 12 students’ iTunes accounts”
off of the Brown network of shared
iTunes libraries, said BCA booking
chair James Hinton ’10.
The agency is “trying to capture
the zeitgeist,” Hinton said.
Though this year marks the 50th
anniversary of the concerts, BCA
chose not to change its methods for
finding and selecting artists because
the system has been successful in the
past, Hinton said.
The agency begins its search at the
beginning of the year by compiling a
list of 100 to 200 possible headliners,
Hinton said. This year’s list totaled 145
potential artists and bands.
sudoku
In November, the Undergraduate
Council of Students’ poll goes online.
Students are asked to write in their
top five choices for Spring Weekend
performers — not only to help out
BCA, but also for the chance to win
tickets to the concerts, an incentive
for students to take a few minutes to
fill out the form.
Hinton explained that BCA uses
these results to generate a histogram
displaying the amount of times stu-
dents mentioned each artist. The
“super-popular” results, generally
the top 20 or so, are automatically
checked for their availability. Then,
the negotiations begin.
Booking Brown
“The polls don’t dictate our deci-
sions, but they do serve as a good
barometer for student interest,” said
Alex Spoto ’11, BCA’s administrative
chair. Negotiations generally come
down to scheduling, money and avail-
ability, he added.
This is especially true when re-
sponses like Lady Gaga pop up over
and over again. “Someone who could
sell out Giants Stadium could never be
booked by any college,” Hinton said.
In negotiations, BCA does hear
a lot of no’s, Hinton said, but it’s not
for a lack of trying on their part. This
year, BCA almost secured both the
Beastie Boys and Missy Elliot, but
due to health reasons and schedul-
ing conflicts, respectively, both had
to decline.
“To move a group of that caliber,
you need a lot of pull,” Hinton said of
the Beastie Boys. “I was honored that
they even talked to us.”
The problem with many big artists
is that they are very “routed,” meaning
that they are following specific tour
routes either across or circling the
country, Hinton said. Consequently,
BCA makes sure to check which art-
ists are going to be near either New
York City or Boston before beginning
negotiations.
Hinton added that it’s easier to
schedule smaller artists who mostly
book gigs one at a time and don’t have
tour schedules they must follow.
This year’s selection was part luck,
part work. “Snoop was a very last-
minute opportunity,” Hinton said. “He
got a cancellation, and we got really
lucky.”
MGMT was at the top of BCA’s
poll this year, Spoto said, and the
organization moved early on to get
them.
Once the headliners are in place,
the agency has more freedom in deter-
mining the rest of the line-up, Hinton
said, allowing the group to focus on
finding a variety of musical acts.
However tricky the negotiations
might be, Brown has garnered a cer-
tain standing in the music industry.
“Brown is a really desirable place to
be,” Hinton said.
Spring Weekend has earned the
reputation of being a kind of festival,
Hinton said. Compared to other col-
leges and universities, Brown is a
very musically conscious campus,
he added.
“At other schools, you have to get
over the ‘Who’s that?’ factor,” Hinton
explained. “You don’t have that at
Brown.”
Busting the budget
A deciding factor when booking
an artist is the price. BCA is funded
by the Undergraduate Finance Board,
and this year there were rampant ru-
mors running around campus about
huge increases in BCA’s budget.
“BCA has historically received
the most money of student groups
over the years,” said Jose Vasconez
’10, UFB Chair. In the past BCA has
received around $100,000, Vasconez
said, adding that this year the agency
received substantially more because it
is the concert’s 50th anniversary.
BCA’s sizable budget reflects the
importance of Spring Weekend to the
Brown community.
“Brown is the king of individual-
ity. For Brown, this is a last thread of
community,” Hinton said. “We don’t
have chapel anymore. … We don’t go
to football games. With the money that
I paid for the Student Activities Fee, I
can’t imagine a better use for it.”
“I feel like it was worth it,” said
Justin Wolfe ’12. “I like the idea as long
they keep getting good bands.”
Austin Peters-Miller ’12 was more
skeptical. “We spent a lot of money
on big names and not necessarily
Do you approve or disapprove of the Brown
Concert Agency’s choices to play at Spring Weekend?
Don’t know/ no answer Strongly disapprove
8.0% 2.7%
Disapprove
9.7%
Strongly approve
42.4%
Approve
17.4%
Katie Wilson/Herald
The Herald poll was conducted on March 22 and 23 and has a 3.5
percent margin of error with 95 percent confidence. A total of 714 Brown
undergraduates completed the poll, which The Herald administered as a
written questionnaire to students in the lobby of J. Walter Wilson during the day
and in the Sciences Library at night.
But this year, BCA decided early he wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
on that they had not seen enough “But we’ve played a show with Last
groups at the Battle of the Bands com- Good Tooth, they’re a good band and
petition, Hinton said. Consequently, a we think it’s awesome that they get a
subgroup of BCA, called The Agency, turn to shine this year.”
hosted “Speakeasy Sessions” through-
out the year. The shows featured three In tune with the times?
times as many bands as Battles had According to a Herald poll con-
in the past, he said. ducted last month, the majority of
It was never clearly stated that the students — 79.7 percent —approve
bands would be up for a spot on the of BCA’s selections. But 12.4 percent
Spring Weekend stage, said Agency of students said they disapproved of
chair Akshay Rathod ’10. the final artist lineup.
The sessions included a panel of Several students interviewed by
judges from BCA, much like the Battle The Herald said they felt that BCA
of the Bands had, but the concerts was a little bit behind the times in their
took place over a longer period of choices. Ramos-Chapman said she
time. had some doubts about the effective-
“Last Good Tooth emerged as a ness of the UCS poll results. “Snoop
very strong group,” Rathod said. Dogg popped up a lot? I mean, he was
Though BCA administrative chair the stoner of 2001.”
Spoto is currently in Last Good Tooth, “We got U2 in the ’80s when they
Hinton said the band was under con- were big. Now we get Snoop 10 years
sideration for the Spring Weekend too late,” added Shawn Patterson
spot before Spoto became a mem- ’12.
ber and that he was not part of the Patterson also said he felt that
decision-making process. Hinton said Snoop Dogg didn’t best represent
Last Good Tooth has a large following Brown. “I don’t think he raps about
both at Brown and at the Rhode Island things Brown students support,” he
School of Design, which influenced said.
BCA’s decision. Other students are excited to see
According to Rathod, there were the rap legend. Brittany King ’12 said,
two rounds of auditions at the begin- “From what I’ve heard about Snoop
ning of each semester to be in one of Dogg, he’s an amazing performer.”
the four Speakeasy shows. The se- Drew Kunas ’12 said he is just “glad
lective process allowed BCA to see there’s a lot of grass on the Main
how serious the bands were about Green.”
performing. MGMT has also garnered mixed
Some students said they were dis- reviews. According to Kunas, “the

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George Miller, President Katie Koh, Treasurer together,” Vasconez said, adding that Jamilya Ramos-Chapman ’11. “Battle done a lot more with the money
Claire Kiely, Vice President Chaz Kelsh, Secretary the event inspires community-building of the Bands just sounds more epic. they got,” calling MGMT “so two
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
C ampus N EWS
Eating local, from farms to College Hill Fewer pre-frosh mark
By Brielle Friedman
Staf f Writer
It’s 10:30 a.m. on a Sunday morn-
ing. Most students would want to
crawl back under the covers and
go back to sleep. But thoughts of
research papers, problem sets and
chemistr y labs due the next week
force students to pull themselves
out of bed, throw on their jeans and
brace the morning rain.
The Sharpe Refectory is crowd-
ed with students who are still hun-
gover from the previous night’s
activities. Some watch Jose as he
flips and spins ID cards through
the air. Students look around the
dining hall, trying to decide which
line is most worth it, and their eyes
settle on the omelet bar­­–– the line
has already begun to creep around
the corner.
Students sometimes complain
about the dining hall’s long lines
and the quality of food in the Rat-
ty, but how many take the time to
think about where all the food in
the dining hall comes from? Or
about the ef for t it takes to get
those ingredients from the farm
to Ratty plates?
Local food for more people
There are several organizations
within the community that work to
increase access to locally grown
sustainable food. Farm Fresh
Rhode Island is one of them. The
organization was started by Brown
students in 2004, and, although
the organization is not associated
with the University, Jennifer Baum-
stein ’08, who is working at Farm
Fresh as a year-long volunteer with
AmeriCorps VISTA, said Brown
has nevertheless been a strong
suppor ter of the organization’s
mission. For example, each year
Brown Dining Ser vices hosts the
Local Food Forum in Andrews Din-
ing Hall and supports the Wriston
Farmers’ Market in the fall. Un-
til last November, the Center for
Environmental Studies held the
organization’s offices.
Farm Fresh’s offices are now
located in Pawtucket, in the same
building as the winter farmers’
market, a location change Molly
Bledsoe ’12, an intern and volun-
teer with the organization, said is
mutually beneficial. Looking for
something worthwhile to do over
break, Bledsoe started volunteer-
ing with Farm Fresh last Decem-
ber. She liked working with the
organization so much that she in-
terned over the summer through a
grant from the Swearer Center for
Public Ser vice and continued her
involvement when classes began
again in the fall.
“I liked the feeling of commu-
nity, of getting to know the farm-
ers and the customers,” Bledsoe
said.
Though Bledsoe said Farm
Fresh does not have enforce-
able product standards, she said
the organization uses the 60/40
rule for all produce farmers sell
in the markets — 60 percent of
the products have to be from the
farmer’s own farm, while the other
40 percent can be from farms in
Massachusetts, Connecticut or
Rhode Island.
“It diversifies the market but
keeps it regional,” Bledsoe said,
adding that such a rule is helpful
especially because Rhode Island
is such a small state.
Baumstein said part of Farm
Fresh’s goal is to distribute local
food to as many people as possible,
not just those that visit farmers’
markets. Because only a few Rhode
Island farmers sell wholesale,
Baumstein said Farm Fresh tries
to encourage large institutions, like
hospitals, universities and other
schools, to “buy into the idea that
local food is better for the com-
munity and better for your health.”
She said the size and influence of
these institutions enable them to
create large and lasting changes
within the community.
And it appears these changes
are having a substantial effect.
Bledsoe said Farm Fresh’s
Market Mobile –– a distribution
program that brings locally pro-
duced vegetables, fruit, yogur t
and cheese to organizations and
individuals –– has “grown 10 times
faster than we thought it would”
during the course of the program’s
pilot year.
As par t of the organization’s
initiative to connect low-income
people with better access to local,
healthy and fresh food, Farm Fresh
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
— Molly Bledsoe ’12, intern and volunteer at Farm Fresh RI
accepts food stamps at many of
its farmers’ markets. Wholesome
Wave Foundation and the Rhode
Island Foundation provide the
funding for the organization’s
Bonus Bucks program. Through
Bonus Bucks, the amount each
consumer spends using an elec-
tronic benefit card is doubled up
to $10. Bledsoe said the organiza-
tion is also working to increase the
amount of food corner stores order
from Farm Fresh, with the idea
that many of these stores primar-
ily ser ve low-income members of
the community.
Small farms disappearing
Bringing local food directly
from farmers to customers is also
a goal of Little Rhody Foods Inc.,
a Rhode Island food distributor. Eli
Berkowitz, president and owner of
the company, said Little Rhody is
tr ying to help local farms sur vive
by making sure farmers receive the
majority of their products’ profits.
Berkowitz said small farms have
almost disappeared. “There’s no
one left,” he said. “It’s not a ver y
lucrative business to be in.”
He said the majority of farms
today are either ver y large or
ver y small, something he said he
feels is true for most businesses in
the United States, and a fact that
makes companies like Little Rhody
increasingly more important.
“You need to support local busi-
nesses because it supports local
jobs,” Berkowitz said. “The con is
that people are going to pay more
for it.”
To compete with larger compa-
nies like Garelick Farms, Berkow-
itz said Little Rhody focuses on
having quality products. All of its
milk is processed through cold
separation, a technique Berkowitz
said ensures a better taste than
other methods of milk production.
He said this process gives Little
Rhody’s milk a thicker, creamier
taste, making its “skim milk taste
more like Garelick’s 1 percent.”
Though Little Rhody Foods has
been around for about six years,
Berkowitz said he is always sur-
prised by how many people in
Rhode Island still don’t know it
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“I liked the feeling of community.”
‘undecided’ for 2014
By Clare de Boer
Staf f Writer
Do 97 percent of admitted fresh-
men really know what they want
to concentrate in?
Statistics released by the
University indicate that only 3
percent of students admitted to
the Class of 2014 chose “unde-
cided” as their concentration. But
Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald
that the number, which is lower
than last year’s, reflects a word-
ing change on the undergraduate
application.
“The decrease this year in the
percentage of applicants choos-
ing ‘undecided’ is a function of
the way we asked the question
about intended concentrations,
not a change in the way stu-
dents are thinking about their
Brown academic careers,” Miller
wrote.
Unlike in past years, the ap-
plication for next year’s freshman
class asked students to “charac-
terize (their) level of commitment
to this field of study” by selecting
one of three options.
Incoming students who ap-
plied as “decided” expressed
a range of certainty in their di-
rection of study, according to
Miller.
“We suspect the new language
led people who were really unde-
cided to select several potential
concentrations and then choose
the ‘interested, but open to other
possibilities’ level of commitment
(the lowest on the continuum),
which was another way of saying
‘I’m pretty undecided,’ ” Miller
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wrote.
Many incoming students
said they didn’t think applying
as “decided” would change their
chances of admission.
“As an applicant, it was made
ver y clear to me that whatever
concentration I chose at the be-
ginning was by no means per-
manent, so I think there were
probably a lot of applicants just
filling in any box that sounded
interesting,” wrote Will Peterson
’14 in a message to The Herald. “I
think I knew that it was better to
indicate some sort of concentra-
tion to give my application some
context.”
“Even though I’m pretty un-
decided about what I’m going
to study, I didn’t apply as unde-
cided,” he added. “I’m pretty sure
that I said I wanted to go into
Media, Publishing and Journal-
ism, or whatever that area was.
I might have possibly marked
Linguistics.”
Marjorie Palmeri ’14 wrote
in a message to The Herald that
she has always been interested
in science, so she listed biology
as her primar y concentration.
Though her mind could change
in the future, she wrote, “as of
now, that is the direction I want
to take.”
Some admitted students said
they felt it was better to put some-
thing than to put nothing.
“Even though Defense Against
the Dark Arts is a competitive
field, I feel that putting it on
my application helped, if only a
little,” wrote admitted student
Tim Balcavage in a message to
The Herald.
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Juniors frustrated by With purchases, U. seeks ‘real food’
mishap on Banner
continued from page 1
it in the morning and see what hap-
pens,” he said. “Hopefully, nothing
happens, and it’s a non-event.”
Students said they were able
to log in to Banner and navigate to
the screen that would allow them
to add or drop classes, before being
directed to a window indicating an
internal server error. Neither re-
freshing the page nor attempting
to navigate to the previous page al-
leviated the problem, said Arune
Gulati ’11.
“I opened up two browsers, and
that didn’t work,” he said, adding
that Banner continued to redirect
him to the error page for about 20
minutes. “It happened to a bunch of
my friends, too.”
Ariel Hudes ’11 said she logged
in to Banner to register for a spe-
cific, capped class, only to find that
the site was not working. “I started
yelling through the walls making
sure it wasn’t just my computer
malfunctioning,” she said. After her
suitemates confirmed the server
disruption, she said she decided it
would be safe to wait until later in
the morning to register.
Students also said the frustration
induced by the error page — evident
on many social networking sites —
brought to mind last month’s server
error that inhibited many students
from purchasing Spring Weekend
tickets. Though he was ultimately
not shut out of classes he intends to
take next fall, Gulati said he thought
the people in charge of Brown’s
servers would have “learned from
the mistake of Spring Weekend
tickets.”
And though the server disruption
did not affect him directly because
he did not attempt to register until
after the problem had been resolved,
Marc Firestein ’11 also said he was
concerned with the malfunctioning
servers. “I was one of those people
who sat through the Spring Week-
end fiasco,” he said. “It’s interesting
that they kind of allowed it to hap-
pen” again.
Though the scheduler was the
only new feature on Banner, Fitzger-
ald said both the registrar’s office
and CIS were not sure the program
was the source of the service prob-
lem.
During the first hour of the pre-
registration period, there were 882
students who recorded registrations,
Fitzgerald said, adding that this was
a dramatic increase from previous
years, when about 500 rising seniors
enrolled in classes. Though there
is no way to determine whether
students registered through the
traditional Banner process or by
using the new scheduler, he said
Banner recorded more simultane-
ous registrations, indicating more
students were registering classes
at one time yesterday than during
past registration periods.
Before yesterday’s registration
opened, more than one-third of stu-
dents had already started organizing
their schedules through the sched-
uler’s shopping cart, Fitzgerald said,
adding that many of the carts were
“pretty substantial.”
Though unrelated to yester-
day’s error, the scheduler also ex-
perienced service disruptions last
weekend, when it was taken down
for a “minor tweak” to the suggestion
link on the Web site, which proved
incompatible with students’ Gmail
accounts, Fitzgerald said.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“Real food is something that is really important.”
— Emily Viggiano ’12, BDS Real Food Initiative progress coordinator
continued from page 3
exists.
Berkowitz said people often get
into specific habits while shopping
in supermarkets. Consumers often
blindly buy certain products with-
out considering how what they buy
affects their community, he added.
He said that’s one of the reasons
companies color code different ver-
sions of products, such as eggs, so
that shoppers can easily identify
each product without having to
stop and take the time to actually
read the labels.
Improving sustainability
Emily Viggiano ’12 was hired
in November by Dining Ser vices
as a Real Food Initiative progress
coordinator. “Real Food’s mission
is to use the purchasing power of
college dining facilities to support
food that is locally and community
based, fair, ecologically sound and
humane,” she said.
As an intern, Viggiano’s role is
to do “an assessment of our cur-
rent purchases and to get baseline
data on how much we’re currently
purchasing that is ‘real.’ ” She said
she is also looking into ways Din-
ing Ser vices can make more “real
food” purchases. Brown also has
two community har vest interns
who focus on facilitating more lo-
cal food into the dining halls and
eateries on campus.
According to Viggiano, Brown
is currently purchasing about 65
percent of its milk from Little Rho-
dy Foods and the rest of the pur-
chases from Garelick. Ann Hoff-
man, director of administration for
Dining Services, wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald that it is difficult to
know exactly what percentage of
food is purchased locally because
the term “local” does not currently
have an agreed-upon definition.
But she wrote that according to
the College Sustainability Report
The other BDH
blogdailyherald.com
Card, Brown partners “with more
than 20 local farms and 31 local
processors.” Hoffman also wrote
that the University regularly pur-
chases items from farms such as
Barden Orchards, Hill Orchards
and Mello’s Farm.
Brown isn’t the only university
that has begun to buy a greater
percentage of its food locally.
Berkowitz said Providence Col-
lege, Johnson and Wales University
and the Rhode Island School of
Design all buy products from Little
Rhody Foods. According to Pierre
St-Germain, RISD’s executive chef,
about 30 percent of what its dining
halls buy and serve is local. He said
the chicken that RISD uses in its
entrees all comes from Wellington
Farms in western Massachusetts,
and that whenever possible, all
apples are purchased locally.
“We tr y and incorporate as
much of that as possible into our
daily menus,” St-Germain said.
He said there is a higher cost
associated with certain meat prod-
ucts, like chicken or hamburger,
because of what is required to raise
the animals naturally and without
ar tificial feed. He also said the
cheese RISD purchases from Nar-
ragansett Creamer y tends to be
more expensive because it is “arti-
san cheese,” though in his mind it
is “definitely worth” the extra cost.
But other products, especially cer-
tain fruits and vegetables such as
apples, are actually less expensive
if bought locally.
St-Germain also said that pur-
chasing local food has become
“leaps and bounds easier” with
Farm Fresh’s Market Mobile.
“We’ve been able to streamline
the products we get each week,”
he said.
He said RISD tries to make
thoughtful choices whenever its
dining ser vices purchases food
for the campus community. For
example, he said the dining halls
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
“went to great lengths” to find lo-
cally produced soy milk because
of the item’s popularity among
students. 
“I think we have an exceptional
dining ser vice,” St-Germain said,
adding that he encourages Brown
students to take a walk down the
hill to tr y one of RISD’s eateries,
which is now easier than ever since
Brown students can add RISD meal
credits directly onto their meal
plans. 
Beyond the Ratty
In high school, Viggiano said
she was involved with environ-
mental and social justice work,
but nothing directly related to
sustainable food. She said the real
food movement is something she’s
learned about pretty recently in
college.
“It’s a ver y optimistic issue
to work on,” Viggiano, said. In
the sustainable food movement,
“there’s an image of what could
be,” she added.
This year, Viggiano, along with
the other three members of her
Graduate Center suite, went off
meal plan. She said they get the
majority of their food through the
market share program, which is
run by Farm Fresh’s Market Mo-
bile during the winter and spring
months.
“Each of us cooks once a week
on the weekdays,” she said.
Despite the inconveniences of
sharing a communal kitchen, Vig-
giano said it is fun to cook with
her friends. Cooking and eating
together is something she said
is culturally impor tant, and her
participation in the market share
program makes her feel as though
she’s living more by her values.
“Real food is something that
is really impor tant,” Viggiano
said. “It’s healthier, better for the
local environment and the local
economy.”
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This semester likely the Progress on S&J recs remains steady
last for pre-reg waiver
By Mark Raymond
Staff Writer
The University is extending a pol-
icy allowing students with unpaid
tuition balances of over $1,000 to
pre-register for classes, but this will
likely be the last semester of the
program, according to Elizabeth
Gentry, assistant vice president
of financial and administrative
services.
Approximately 100 students will
utilize this waiver program during
the current pre-registration period,
which began Tuesday, Gentry said.
This is less than half the number of
students who took advantage of the
program last registration period.
The waiver program was origi-
nally put in place during the pre-
registration period of fall 2008, and
has been available each semester
since then.
“In most of the time I’ve been
here, we haven’t had to do anything
like this,” Gentry said, “But the
financial situation we faced in 2008
warranted the University taking
some unusual steps to help families
in need.”
Gentr y said that while she
is not precisely sure why some
families have had trouble paying,
the economic crisis has increased
the number of families that could
not pay their bills on time. “Some
families have the money and are
just late to pay, while others are
actually in need of assistance,”
Gentry said.
Regardless of the reasons for
families’ inability to pay, the Uni-
versity felt it necessary to keep this
program going through this cur-
rent pre-registration period, though
the Office of the Provost did not
formally announce this extension,
as it had in previous semesters,
Gentry said.
According to Gentry, this lack
of a formal announcement is in
part due to the fact that the Uni-
versity does not plan to extend this
policy to the next pre-registration
period.
“We’re reaching out to affected
students to let them know it’s avail-
able, but we’re also letting them
know that this is probably the last
time,” Gentry said. “We haven’t
been seeing the level of difficulty
we had initially anticipated, so it’s
not likely that we will continue of-
fering the waivers.”
Gentry added that a final deci-
sion has not been made and that,
given certain circumstances, the
program could be extended once
again.
Even without this waiver in
place, the University plans on
continuing its outreach to families
in need and ensuring that there
is communication between both
parties.
“Generally when working with
families, we work on a case-by-
case basis,” Gentry said. “We were
communicating with families about
their financial difficulties even be-
fore this program was initiated.”
Gentry said the effects of the
2008 crisis left many families un-
sure of their financial situations,
but some of that initial confusion
is gone now.
“As things have started settling
down, families have had time to
adjust their financial packaging in
order to meet their needs,” Gentry
said.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“We work on a case-by-case basis.” — Elizabeth Gentry,
assistant vice president of financial and administrative services
By Warren Jin
Contributing Writer
In the three-and-a-half years since
the University Steering Committee
on Slaver y and Justice issued its
report on Brown’s former links to
the slave trade, steady progress
has been made on its recommenda-
tions — which included creating a
slaver y memorial, a center for the
study of slaver y and justice and a
$10 million fund to help support
local public schools. The commit-
tee also recommended expanding
the Africana studies program at
Brown.
The work of the highly publi-
cized committee has sparked simi-
lar investigations at other institu-
tions into their roots, said Marisa
Quinn, vice president for public
affairs and University relations.
“There has been this other influ-
ence for other institutions to take
on this same kind of endeavor,”
Quinn said. “These are significant
and lasting initiatives.”
Contemplating a memorial
The University’s Public Ar ts
Committee, tasked with commis-
sioning a memorial commemorat-
ing Brown’s and Rhode Island’s ties
to the slave trade, met in February
to discuss locations for the memo-
rial, said Jo-Ann Conklin, director
of the David Winton Bell Galler y
and a member of the University’s
Public Arts Committee.
Potential locations include the
main campus as well as the Jew-
elr y District, though the commit-
tee is leaning towards placing it
on Brown’s main campus, Conklin
said.
The committee, which consists
of seven permanent members and
a few temporar y members invited
for “diversity and historic back-
ground,” will meet again in May,
and expects to choose an ar tist
and have a proposal by December,
Conklin said.
“It needs to be an inviting space
for contemplation and thought,”
she said.
Though the committee will
choose among artists’ proposals,
the final product will be up to the
artist to decide.
“I really think it’s best to leave
this to the artist to come up with,”
she said, though it is important
that the memorial “reflect the find-
ings of the report.”
A new center’s creation
Minor progress has been made
toward a new center for the study
of slaver y and justice since an
advisor y committee reported its
recommendations for the center,
said Provost David Ker tzer ’69
P’95 P’98.
The 2008 report from the ad-
visor y committee proposed the
creation of the Institute on Slav-
er y and Justice to promote the
study of issues related to slaver y,
genocide, human trafficking and
other crimes. The committee rec-
ommended the creation of an en-
dowment and a dedicated space to
support the institute.
In a collaborative effort between
the histor y, American civilization
and Africana studies departments,
the University has been looking
for a director to head the center,
Kertzer said.
Though an offer was recently
made to a historian, negotiations
fell through, Kertzer said. None-
theless, he said the University will
re-launch the search.
“We hope to identify someone
in the coming year to join us in the
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
summer of 2011,” he said.
Local Education
Programs suppor ting local
education inspired by the steer-
ing committee’s repor t include
the education depar tment’s Ur-
ban Education Fellows program
and the University’s Fund for the
Education of the Children of Provi-
dence.
The Urban Education Fellows
program is a tuition-free program
that requires fellows to work for a
minimum of three years within the
Providence school system either
teaching or determining policy,
with the goal of enriching local
public schools, said Chair of the
Education Department Kenneth
Wong.
Six fellows will graduate this
year, compared to the nine that
graduated last year, Wong said.
“From my perspective, that’s
the most significant investment,”
Wong said. “Human capital.”
The fund — for which the Uni-
versity has currently raised only
$1.5 million, of an intended $10 mil-
lion — disbursed grants last year
that included a grant to provide
graphing calculators to all second-
ar y students in Providence, Wong
said. But he said the fund is not
likely to award more grants of that
size in the near future.
“This is an ongoing initiative,”
Wong said. “We will probably wait
for another year to make a signifi-
cant investment in that regard.”
Brown is also working with local
government and schools in various
other ways, including teacher edu-
cation and revising Rhode Island
policy, Wong said.
“Instead of looking back, we
should be thinking about the fu-
ture,” he said.
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Fewer freshmen working, but ‘uptick’ in on-campus jobs
continued from page 1
others just want a little extra pocket
money. Some shelve books in the
Rockefeller Library basement, oth-
ers hem costumes for the theater
department and some even take off
all their clothes for art classes.
Work it out
On-campus student employment
has stayed relatively steady for the
past decade, according to Tracy
Frisone, senior assistant director
at the Office of Financial Aid. But
she said there has been a “slight
uptick” in employment numbers
during the past two academic years,
which she attributed in part to the
current economic climate.
“There are certainly more stu-
dents seeking employment,” she
said, cautioning that it is not a par-
ticularly large increase.
Those who are working are not
necessarily working more hours,
she said.
An average work week for an
on-campus student employee is be-
tween eight and 10 hours, a rate that
has remained steady for the past
several years, according to Director
of Financial Aid James Tilton. This
is the target amount of hours that
his department hopes students will
work, he said.
“We really don’t want them to
work, if we can help it, more than
10,” he added.
Roughly 41 percent of all stu-
dents received need-based finan-
cial aid from the University for this
academic year, according to Tilton.
There is a work-study expectation,
partially funded by the federal gov-
ernment, included in all financial
aid packages, he said. An additional
100 students qualified for federal
work-study but not need-based
scholarships, Frisone wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald.
The University’s new financial
aid initiatives, begun last year,
have given families more options
for tuition payment, according to
Tilton.
Financial aid options might help
explain why fewer freshmen are
working. Beginning with the class
of 2007, Brown stopped requiring
first-years to work, giving them the
option of taking out loans. As of last
year, students on full financial aid
receive a University Work Scholar-
ship for their first year in lieu of
their work-study expectation. Stu-
dents receiving partial aid or who
otherwise qualify for work-study do
not receive this scholarship.
But students are not required
to work on campus to fulfill this
requirement. “At least 40 percent
of the students who receive work-
study in their financial aid don’t
work (an on-campus job),” Frisone
said. They may instead choose to
rely on outside scholarships, sum-
mer savings, off-campus jobs or
loans, she added.
Freshmen might also choose to
wait to begin working until they feel
comfortable and adjusted to Brown,
according to Frisone.
Money munchies
Brown Dining Ser vices is the
largest on-campus employer, with
a current employee count of rough-
ly 300 students, according to Ann
Hoffman, Dining Services’ direc-
tor of administration. That number
does not include the student groups
who work group shifts at satellite
eateries in order to raise money for
their organization.
Hoffman said she has noticed a
recent increase in student demand
for employment, which is “ver y
much consistent with the downturn
in the economy.”
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“We’re unique in the amount of responsibility we place
in students.” — Ann Hoffman, Brown Dining Services
This fall “was the first time
BuDS had a waitlist in seven or
eight years,” said BuDS General
Manager Melanie Masarin ’12.
But anecdotally, Hoffman said
she finds students working fewer
hours than they used to, which she
attributed in part to a change in the
pay-raise structure several years
ago. BuDS currently requires work-
ers to work a minimum of eight
hours per week, but more people
have been requesting exceptions,
Hoffman said. The department has
considered changing the policy and
will continue to examine the issue,
but “if you go too low, you risk los-
ing the commitment and level of
engagement,” she said.
Masarin has a more involved
job than most. She generally works
about 15–20 hours a week, though
that number can climb to 25 during
busy periods, she said. Masarin,
an international student, started
working for BuDS in part because
she wasn’t legally allowed to work
off campus her freshman year, she
said.
The large time commitment
has helped her learn to organize
her time better, she said. Though
there are sacrifices — “it comes in
conflict with my sleep more than
my schoolwork,” she added.
“We’re unique in the amount of
responsibility we place in students,”
Hoffman said.
Other large on-campus em-
ployers include the Department of
Athletics and the divisions of engi-
neering and biology and medicine,
Frisone said.
Cash money
On-campus minimum wage is
$8.20, which is above both federal
and state minimum wage, Tilton
said. But the majority of students
— 95 percent — are making more
than that, he said. Brown’s student
salaries are generally comparable
to other urban institutions, Tilton
added.
Among those working on-
campus, average yearly earnings
are roughly $1,500, according to
Frisone. The level of pay usually
correlates to the level of skill and
responsibility involved, she said,
adding that many of the higher-paid
jobs tend to involve web develop-
ment.
The diversity of pay and employ-
ment type is apparent on the Stu-
dent Employment Web site, which
includes both on-campus and off-
campus job listings. On Monday,
salaries offered in the on-campus
division ranged from the minimum
of $8.20 per hour, for a Third World
Center program coordination posi-
tion, to a maximum of $30 per hour,
for an instructor in pilates, yoga
and aerobics.
However, “working for pay” at
Brown might not even entail a set
hourly wage.
Baxter DiFabrizio ’13 hasn’t
worked a job this year, in part be-
cause he doesn’t want the “rigidity”
of a steady work schedule. But he
has earned some money by partici-
pating in several psychology and
Brown University Social Science
Experimental Laborator y experi-
On average, how many weeks have you
worked for pay this semester?
A majority of students have worked for pay this semester, with 9.5 percent
of undergraduates working a weekly average of 15 or more hours.
ments, which have more flexible
schedules.
BUSSEL, which is run by the
department of economics, runs
experiments in which the amount
of money students earn depends
in part on the decisions that they
and other students make during the
course of the experiment. In some
cases, students can walk away with
$40 cash after little over an hour. In
some, they might walk away with
nothing.
DiFabrizio’s motivation to par-
ticipate depends on the department.
“With psychology, it’s the experi-
ment. With econ, it’s definitely the
money,” said the intended psychol-
ogy concentrator.
Beyond Brown
Some students turn to multiple
jobs to bolster their paychecks.
Michelle Norworth ’10 started
working at Brown the second se-
mester of her sophomore year,
checking IDs at Meehan Audito-
rium. After working as a part-time
transcriptionist for an off-campus
firm last summer, she continued
that job — whose hours can vary
from zero–10 hours a week — while
returning to her shifts as BuDS
cart worker. This semester, she
has worked up to 30 hours in one
week when she had a full schedule
for both jobs, but otherwise works
20–25 hours a week, she said.
Last week, Nor wor th began
an additional on-campus job. She
said this full work schedule is only
possible because she is a senior
enrolled in three easy classes who
already has a job for next year —
and she isn’t writing a thesis.
Other students choose to work
solely off campus. Rebecca Smith
’12 began working at Blue State
Coffee last month in large part
because she liked the atmosphere
and already spent a good deal of
time there — something she hasn’t
found on campus, she said.
Many of the off-campus employ-
ers listed on the student employ-
ment Web site are parents looking
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Anna Migliaccio / Herald
for babysitters. Providence resident
David Shikiar wanted a college stu-
dent babysitter because students
are young, ambitious and curious
“about the wider world,” he said.
Takin’ care of business
But Kayla Urquidi ’11, who
works at the Student Activities
Office, prefers the convenience
of an on-campus job location, se-
lecting hours that with the breaks
between her classes, she said. She
also appreciates that the University
employers are understanding of a
student’s schedule, letting her leave
early for class and not expecting her
to work during vacations.
When it comes to student jobs,
some — like nude modeling — are
more exotic than most.
Daniel Stupar, adjunct lecturer in
Visual Art, coordinates the hiring of
nude models for visual arts classes.
He was very surprised with the vol-
ume of applications he received af-
ter the job was posted in Morning
Mail — about 40 applications for
only eight to 10 spots, he said. He
sought models with sports, yoga, or
martial experience to ensure that
they had the stamina to hold poses
for up to 20 minutes.
While some might worr y it
would be awkward to model for fel-
low students, Stupar said that those
applying knew what they were sign-
ing up for, and were “really casual
about it.”
Still, he added, “It’s probably
one of the strangest jobs you could
have at Brown.”
The Herald poll was conducted
on March 22 and 23 and has a 3.5
percent margin of error with 95
percent confidence. A total of 714
Brown undergraduates completed
the poll, which The Herald admin-
istered as a written questionnaire
to students in the lobby of J. Walter
Wilson during the day and in the
Sciences Library at night. For the
sample of just freshmen, the margin
of error is 6.8 percent. For the sample
of non-freshmen, the margin of error
is 4.0 percent.
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C ampus N EWS “My main regret is I was much too mild.”

— Noam Chomsky

Error disenfranchises many first-years Research board aims for

By Nicole Boucher
Senior Staf f Writer
efficiency, accessibility
The polls for the student gov-
ernment elections opened on
MyCourses for the student body
Tuesday at noon — at least for
non-freshmen.
Most members of the class of
2013 were not able to vote because
their names were apparently not
added to the access list, according to
Undergraduate Council of Students
President Clay Wertheimer ’10.
The Elections Board released
its plan Tuesday evening to accom-
modate for the student population
left out of the first day of voting
for members of UCS, the Under-
graduate Finance Board and class
boards. According to the estab-
lished policy codes of the Elections
Board, all students must be given
24–48 hours to vote, said board
member Sarah Rutherford ’12.
Ruther ford said the options
are contingent on the capabilities
of MyCourses. Plan A, she said,
would be to extend voting time
beyond Thursday at noon for only
the students affected so that they
could have a “concrete 48 hours”
to vote. In this scenario, the polls
would close at different times, but
all students would have the same
amount of time to vote. Rutherford
said this plan depends on whether
MyCourses will allow only the af-
fected students to vote longer.
But if MyCourses cannot be
configured to do this, then the
board will resort to one of two “all
or nothing” scenarios, Rutherford
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
If the problem is resolved before
noon on Wednesday, then the vot-
ing time for all students will end
as initially planned, which would
still allow the affected students a
24-hour window in which to vote.
But if the problem cannot be re-
solved before noon on Wednesday,
the Elections Board would extend
voting for ever ybody, Rutherford
said.
In that final case, the Elections
Board would violate its established
code by providing more than 48
hours for the majority to vote.
Rutherford wrote that the board
would prefer giving some people
ample time to vote rather than
giving certain students under 24
hours.
The way the polls are set up on
MyCourses, Wertheimer said, stu-
dents must be enrolled in a “UCS-
UFB Elections” course in order to
access the ballot. But Wertheimer
said some or all of the current
freshman class were not added to
the course list this year.
“I got a call from a student
around 4 (p.m.)who didn’t have the
course listed,” said Wertheimer,
adding that other freshmen called
him later. It is difficult to determine
yet if the whole freshman class is
affected because Wertheimer said
he can only check the interface to
determine enrollment one name at
a time. The mix-up appears to be
affecting only first-years, he said.
Wer theimer said he initially
hoped to resolve the problem Tues-
day, but UCS’s contact at Comput-
ing and Information Ser vices did
not have control of adding names
to the course. By the time the is-
sue was sent to the MyCourses
systems administrator, that ad-
ministrator had already left for the
day. Wertheimer said he hopes the
issue will be resolved and full ac-
cess to the polls will be provided
by Wednesday morning.
Elections Board Chair Kening
Tan ’12 said the board encourages
all students to vote as soon as they
can rather than rely on an exten-
sion. She added that the board is
still determining whether cam-
paigning will be extended.
Members of the Elections Board
sent e-mails to first-years and the
candidates Tuesday evening to
notify them of the problem.
“We will wait until ever ything
is resolved to send a campus-wide
e-mail” that announces the new
voting plan, Wertheimer said.
by Casey Bleho
Staff Writer
The University’s Research Ad-
visory Board received its latest
round of human research protocol
submissions March 31, following
efforts to increase accessibility and
enhance communication between
the researchers, students and Uni-
versity administration.
Given the efforts to increase
communication between the In-
stitutional Review Board, the
Research Protections Office and
researchers, the review board has
undergone significant changes in
the way it handles protocol sub-
missions.
“My experience with RPO is
that they have been quite helpful in
terms of guiding different project
investigators to think about some
of the ways they can consider IRB
concerns. They have been more
proactive,” said Kenneth Wong,
professor of education, chair of
the department and vice chair of
the advisory board.
The number of studies ap-
proved by the review board will
depend on the number of gradu-
ate student projects proposed this
year that involve human subjects,
he said.
Over the past few years, the
Potential reforms to the review
process that have already been
discussed include streamlining the
Web site of the Research Protec-
tions Office, which is in charge
of organizing and regulating the
institutional review of human and
animal research at the University,
as well as removing restrictions on
social science research that, in the
past, made it difficult for students
to get approval for their research,
Wong said.
The protections of fice has
undergone additional steps to in-
crease communications between
faculty, chairs and students of
the department, Wong said. The
changes allow students to increase
the amount of support they receive
from advisers and faculty in these
areas. Whereas two years ago, fac-
ulty advisers would likely redirect
student questions to the depart-
ment Web site, the review board is
looking to increase communication
and contact within the department,
Wong said.
“We’re trying to make it more
personal,” he said.
Other possible changes to the
review process include making
the review board more efficient
by holding campus-wide forums
aimed at collecting feedback from
students and faculty, as well as in-

Chomsky weighs in on Middle East

continued from page 1
Africa under apartheid in the 1980s.
“As long as they had that one vote,
the world could be disregarded,”
he said of the U.S.’s vote against
sanctions on South Africa.
As long as the U.S. government
backs Israel’s violations of the Ge-
neva Convention, the Israeli-Pales-
tinian conflict will not be resolved,
he said.
Chomsky said the U.S. backs
not only Israel, but also India and
Pakistan — the two other countries
that refused to sign the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty. “The U.S.
is not supported by the world on
this,” he added.
If the U.S. overestimates the
world’s approval of its foreign pol-
icy, it is because the phrase “inter-
national community” in American
press often “refers to Washington
and whoever else agrees,” he said
— a category which excludes most
Americans, who “agree with the
world outside the international
community.”
One way the U.S. could exert
positive influence on the real inter-
national community, he said, is to
support Egypt’s goal of creating a
weapons-free zone in the Middle
East, as discussed at a recent meet-
ing in Tehran.
Chomsky also called for a ter-
mination of arms shipments to
Israel.
During the question-and-answer
session, Chomsky addressed for-
eign policy issues across the board.
The misperceptions held by Ameri-
can politicians, press and public
are all culprits of the ignorance
surrounding oppressive policies
in the Middle East and elsewhere,
he said.
“They don’t hate us because
they hate our freedoms. They hate
us because they want their free-
doms,” he said of Middle Eastern
populations under U.S. “neocolo-
nialism,” addressing George W.
Bush’s confusion over their objec-
tions to the U.S. government.
But Chomsky did not let Obama
off the hook either. He criticized
the president’s opinion on Egypt’s
authoritarian government: that he
doesn’t want to label “folks.” When
a politician uses the word “folks,”
Chomsky said, “get ready for the
next series of lies.”
Chomsky added that a countr y
requires awareness to examine its
own mistakes. “It’s pretty hard to
look in the mirror, but it’s crucial if
you want to understand the world,”
he said.
He also emphasized that ending
American support of corrupt re-
gimes begins with groups like the
students he spoke to. “Ever y step
forward in history comes the same
way,” he said. “People like you do
something about it.” He suggested
protesting, gathering information
and spreading awareness. “The
task of those of us who care,” he
said, is to “let people know.”
When asked what he would
change if he could go back to his
own early years of activism during
the Vietnam War, Chomsky said,
“My main regret is I was much too
advisory board has been trying to creasing the number of meetings
instigate various reforms aimed at held by the boards. “They are try-
making the review process of the ing to institutionalize,” Wong said.
Institutional Review Board more “In the last year, what we have ac-
mild,” adding that his opponents accessible and efficient. The re- complished is a good framework.
would say just the opposite. view board examines all research I’m hoping to see more of the
The student group Common protocols that require the use of implementation now — campus-
Ground: Justice and Equality in human subjects to make sure these wide forums are an example of
Palestine/Israel sponsored Chom- protocols observe federal, state this, as is working more closely
sky’s visit. Member Lucas Mason- and local requirements and laws. with the administration.”
Brown ’13 came up with the idea,
he said, because Chomsky “voices
an opinion, which is absent from
mainstream discourse.”
But this was not Chomsky’s
only recent interaction with the
Brown community. On April 18, he
wrote a letter to Brown Students
for Justice in Palestine endorsing
its campaign for the University’s
divestment from corporations
benefitting “criminal and brutal
actions.”
“It is hard to imagine a more
defensible stance,” he wrote.
Lindsay Goss GS, a member
of Brown Students for Justice in
Palestine, said she valued Chom-
sky’s take on “some of the ways
the conflict gets talked about” that
“don’t reflect the reality of the situ-
ation.”
Ruhan Nagra ’10 said she ap-
preciated “Chomsky’s support for
student activism throughout the
countr y.”
Associate Dean of the College
for Science Education David Tar-
gan, who posed a question at the
lecture about student involvement,
said he hopes Chomsky helped
Brown students recognize their
influence in the political process.
“You have access to people that can
really effect change,” he said, refer-
ring to state representatives. “You
can see them from the Rock.”
Page 8 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
Higher Ed
in d epen d ence d ay UCs spend millions on bottled water
By Heeyoung Min
Senior Staf f Writer
Despite the University of Califor-
nia’s recent budget cuts and sub-
stantial hike in student fees, the
school system has spent about $2
million in recent years on bottled
water, the New York Times re-
ported April 15.
The San Francisco campus has
paid the Arrowhead drinking water
company $250,000 to $320,000 each
year since 2004, while the Berkeley
campus paid a total of $522,215 to
Arrowhead in the past three fiscal
years, the Times reported.
The San Francisco campus’s
bottled water budget is at odds
with the local government’s ban on
bottled water for its employees, ac-
cording to the San Francisco Gate.
Prior to 2007, the City of San Fran-
cisco — despite producing some of
the world’s most pristine drinking
water — spent almost $500,000 on
bottled water per year, the Gate
reported.
The Task Force on Bottled Wa-
ter at Brown was established last
year to reduce the use of bottle
water on campus, The Herald re-
ported Jan. 29.
Max Monn / Herald
“Although the task force hasn’t
Brown students protested Palestinian deaths outside Brown/RISD set a timeline yet, we hope to make
Hillel, coinciding with the 62nd anniversary of Israel’s independence. significant changes happen ver y
quickly and work towards the
complete elimination of bottled
water distribution on campus,”
Ari Rubenstein ’11, a member of
the task force, told The Herald in
Januar y.
Celebration cuts class time,
ruffles Duke faculty
The day after Duke’s men’s bas-
ketball team clinched its fourth
national championship title, Blue
Devil fans cut class to celebrate
in a packed Cameron Indoor Sta-
dium.
But the campus-wide ceremony
breached a 2006 internal Duke con-
tract that celebrations of athletic
victories would not cut into class
time, the New York Times reported
April 8.
Duke’s Vice President for Stu-
dent Af fairs Larr y Moneta sent
an e-mail to the undergraduate
student body the day before the
championship game to remind
them that classes would be in
session regardless of the game’s
outcome, the Duke Chronicle re-
ported April 7.
But Moneta’s e-mail did not stop
fans from skipping class to attend
the midday celebration, which in-
cluded a speech from men’s head
basketball coach Mike Krzyze-
wski.
Duke math professor Richard
Hain, who initiated the contract,
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
told the Times that this year was
the first since the agreement was
made that the basketball team
climbed to the Final Four –– and
“the agreement was completely ig-
nored.” The professor, who fought
for four years to curtail celebra-
tions to after-class hours asked,
“How can somebody schedule a
major event that wipes out basi-
cally all undergraduate courses the
whole afternoon, without talking to
the provost?”
Hot or not?
A new Web site, called Is My
Thesis Hot or Not, allows students
to post their thesis statements on-
line for approval or criticism, the
Chronicle of Higher Education
reported April 16.
But the Web site, part of the
graduate student community
GradShare, gives no criteria for
assessment, and there are only two
categories for voting: hot or not.
Voters can also anonymously add
comments to clarify why a thesis
is hot or not. Many voters pointed
out that the statements posted for
voting are topics or titles, rather
than theses.
The Web site, launched last
week, had about 75 theses posted
and 5,000 votes as of April 16, the
Chronicle of Higher Education
reported.
Page 9
C ampus N EWS
Alums market alarm clock ‘coach’ for better sleep cycles
By Margaret Yi
C ontributing Writer
Three alums are now selling the
product they first thought of as
undergraduates — the Zeo Per-
sonal Sleep Coach, an alarm clock
that monitors and analyzes sleep
patterns to wake sleepers up when
they feel least groggy.
The alarm clock has been avail-
able for sale since late 2009. The
inventors — Jason Donahue ’05,
Ben Rubin ’05 and Eric Shash-
oua ’05 — formed Zeo, Inc. in
2003 with the idea of creating an
alarm clock that would wake us-
ers up “at an optimal point in their
sleep schedule,” Donahue said.
Since then, Zeo has grown to of-
fer personalized sleep coaching
and sleep advice, according to its
Web site.
The process of building the
product began in Brown’s en-
gineering laboratories, where
the founders set up experiments
with friends, parents and pro-
fessors as test subjects, Rubin
said. According to Donahue, the
three spent countless nights in
the lab per fecting the technol-
ogy, which took two-and-a-half
years to develop. Their idea also
won the founders second place
in the Brown University Entre-
preneurship Program Competi-
tion, which provides funding for
student business plans, Donahue
said.
“Being a Brown student has
opened up a lot of doors,” Dona-
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Wednesday, April 21, 2010
“Being a Brown student has opened up a lot of doors.”
— Jason Donahue ’05
hue said.
Many professors — including
some specializing in sleep re-
search and engineering — offered
not only scientific instruction, but
also business advice, Shashoua
said.
After graduating, the founders
still faced some years of busi-
ness development before they
launched Zeo, Shashoua said.
They formed a board of direc-
tors, which today includes the
CEO of iRobot Corporation, the
former president of Bose Corpo-
ration and Zeo’s cur rent CEO,
Dave Dickinson, according to the
company’s Web site. In addition
to Brown faculty, Zeo’s founders
have also relied on the exper tise
of a scientific advisor y board,
which includes sleep exper ts
from Har vard Medical School
and other institutions, according
to Zeo’s Web site.
Zeo uses SoftWave sensor tech-
nology, which the founders creat-
ed to measure sleep patterns and
determine users’ sleep phases,
according to its Web site. Users
wear headbands while they sleep
to collect and measure electrical
signals from their brains and trans-
mit the data to displays by their
Courtesy of Zeo
beds. Users’ sleep information can The “personal sleep coach” created by three members of the class of 2005 is meant to wake sleepers up at just
be uploaded online onto a sleep the right time to minimize grogginess.
journal. The Zeo Bedside Display
has a Smar tWake alarm feature to its Web site. president for brand management, The founders’ plans for Zeo in-
that tries to wake up the user at an Since the product went on sale Rubin as chief technology of ficer clude an upcoming MyZeo iP-
optimum time — namely, when the in 2009, the founders have con- and Shashoua as vice president hone application and improved
sleeper is transitioning in and out tinued to play integral roles in for global business development, hardware and software, Donahue
of certain sleep phases, according the company — Donahue as vice according to the Zeo Web site. said.
SportsWednesday
The Brown Daily Herald
W. Tennis
Bears lose at Harvard,
then return home and
defeat Dartmouth
By Han Cui
Assistant Spor ts Editor
The No. 65 women’s tennis team
battled two higher-seeded Ivy
League opponents, No. 53 Har-
vard and No. 48 Dar tmouth,
this past weekend. After falling
to the Crimson, 5-2, on Friday
in Cambridge, Mass., the Bears
came home two days later and
defeated the Big Green by taking
the doubles point and the four
straight singles matches for a 5-2
victory.
Brown 2, Harvard 5
Head Coach Paul Wardlaw P’13
said both competitions were “win-
nable,” and in tight competitions,
“usually the team at home wins.”
The competition at Har vard
did not start well for the Bears as
they lost No. 1 and 2 doubles.
“Without the doubles point,
you will have to win four of the
six singles,” Wardlaw said.
But the Bears did have their
chances to come back. In the No.
3 singles, Misia Krasowski ’13 lost
a close first set, 7-5, and eventually
lost the match with a 6-0 second
set. In the No. 6 singles, Emily
Ellis ’10 forced the match into a
third-set tiebreaker after coming
back in the second set, 6-4, but fell
short in the end at 10-3.
Brown 5, Dartmouth 2
With the loss, the Bears re-
turned to Brown on Sunday to
begin their last homestand of the
season against Dartmouth. The
Bears got the momentum on their
side first by taking the No. 2 and
3 doubles matches.
“We won the doubles point,”
Wardlaw said. “That was ver y
important.”
But the first round of singles
did not bode well for the Bears, as
they lost four of the first six sets.
As a result, five of the six singles
matches went into the third-set
tiebreaker.
“The momentum swing came
from Bianca (Aboubakare ’11)”
at No. 2 singles, Wardlaw said.
“She lost a close first set (7-5),
but came back and took 12 of the
next 14 games.”
Aboubakare’s teammates fol-
lowed suit. In the No. 4 singles
match, Julie Flanzer ’12 won in a
similar three-set fashion, dropping
a close first set, 7-6 (5), then tak-
ing the next two sets, 6-3 and 6-2.
Krasowski and Marisa Schonfeld
’11 won their matches in three
sets also in the No. 3 and No. 5
spots, respectively, to give the
Bears a 5-2 come-from-behind
victory.
The Bears will travel to New
Haven, Conn., for their last
game of the season on Satur-
day at noon against Yale. Both
teams currently stand at third
place in the Ivy League with a
4-2 record.
The women’s water polo team’s 14-10 victory over Harvard Sunday earned the group a trip to Eastern
Championships later this month.
W. Water Polo
Brown clinches spot at Easterns
By Katie DeAngelis
Contributing Writer
After an overtime loss to No. 11
Hartwick on Saturday, the women’s
water polo team bounced back to
beat Har vard, 14-10, at home on
Sunday. With the victory over Har-
vard — who had beaten Brown
just the week before — the Bears
clinched an automatic berth to the
Eastern Championship.
The win was especially sweet
for seniors and captains Stephanie
Laing, Sarah Glick and Lauren Pre-
sant, as it was the last home game
of their careers.
“It was apparent when we start-
ed the game that we were going
to win it,” Glick said. “Ever yone
played hard from the start, and
we played really well together as
a team.”
After the first eight minutes, the
Bears had a 3-1 lead over Harvard.
They continued to dominate, and
M. Golf
Weather blows Bears off leaderboard
By Chan Hee Chu
Contributing Writer
After a difficult showing at the New
England Championship, the men’s
golf team sought to rebound at the
Yale Invitational this weekend. But the
Bears’ plans were derailed by strong
winds which Head Coach Michael
Hughes said hit an inexperienced
Brown team especially hard.
“We struggled this weekend.
There were very difficult conditions.
The wind was blowing, especially
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 | Page 10
with 2:23 left in the first half they
were up comfortably, 7-1. But in the
final minute of the half, Har vard
managed two quick goals, leaving
Brown up four at halftime.
“There were some lapses in
the defense at some points in the
game,” Glick said. “But we were
able to overcome those lapses by
scoring more goals.”
The Bears didn’t let Harvard’s
small rebound at the end of the
half disrupt their momentum. Both
teams netted two goals in the third
quarter, bringing the score to 9-5.
Har vard continued to give
Brown a fight, scoring five goals
in the fourth quarter. But the Bears
retaliated with five of their own, fin-
ishing the game ahead four goals,
the same margin they had at the
end of the first half.
Glick led Brown’s offense with
five goals and three assists, and
earned the Women’s Varsity North-
ern Division Player of the Week
the first day, and we were also a bit
overmatched by the course. A few of
our players aren’t used to playing in
those kinds of conditions,” Hughes
said.
In part due to the strong wind, the
Bears finished eighth of nine teams
with a total score of 660. Penn won
the event with a score of 612.
Despite the disappointing finish,
Hughes focused on the positives.
“Michael Amato (’11) and John
Giannuzzi (’10) played well. They had
Courtesy of Ingrid Pangandoyon
award.
Herald Senior Editor Joanna
Wohlmuth ’11 was also a strong
contributor to the Bears’ offense,
scoring three goals. Avery Mosser
’13, Claudia Ruiz ’13, Brittany West-
erman ’13 and Presant each had
one goal as well.
Laing had another impressive
game in the net, making seven
saves. She was named Defensive
Player of the Week for the sixth
time this season after making 46
saves over three games, an average
of 15.3 saves per game.
The Bears will next travel to the
University of Maryland to compete
in the Eastern Championships on
April 30.
Between now and then, the
Bears will continue preparing.
“We’re going to keep working
on our issues, like the occasional
lapses in defense,” Glick said.
“We’re just going to keep practic-
ing hard.”
been struggling a bit but I thought
they did well considering the condi-
tions,” Hughes said.
Amato shot a 157 while Gian-
nuzzi shot a 166. The three fresh-
men on the team — J.D. Ardell ’13,
Chris Williams ’13 and Jack Mylott
’13 — scored 165, 172 and 179, re-
spectively.
The Bears will look to improve
at the Ivy League Championships at
Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield,
N.J.
Page 11
S ports W ednesday
M. Lacrosse
Against winless PC, Bears win inaugural Ocean State Cup
By Zack Bahr
Assistant Spor ts Editor
Providence College came into the
men’s lacrosse game against Brown
with no wins on the season. PC had
nothing to lose. The Bears, (5-5,
2-2 Ivy) were looking to gain mo-
mentum going into key Ivy League
contests. In a game that included a
broken stick, an unsportsmanlike
conduct penalty and a number of
shots off the crossbar, Bruno pre-
vailed with a 14-7 win to claim the
first-ever Ocean State Cup.
With the Bears coming off a
hard loss to Ivy foe Yale, it was
important that they come out ready
to play, said midfielder David Haw-
ley ’11.
“We did a really good job com-
ing out early and playing strong
from the start,” Hawley said. “We
kind of got punched in the mouth
by Yale, but we scored first this
game and played well early.”
The Friars, in their first year in
the Big East conference, started
with strong defense, holding Brown
to just two goals in the first and
earning one goal of their own.
The defense star ted strong
for both teams, as attackman Rob
Schlesinger ’12 landed a hard shot
on a PC player in the first quarter
W. Golf
Bears tie for ninth of
14 at N.Y. invitational
By Chris Williams
Contributing Writer
Competing for the first time in two
weeks, the women’s golf team fin-
ished in a tie for ninth place in the 14-
team Roar-ee Invitational this Friday
and Saturday. The event, hosted by
Columbia, took place at Spook Rock
Golf Course in Mamaroneck, N.Y.,
located outside of New York City.
The Bears posted a two-day score
of 645, shooting an impressive 316
on the first day.
“The team goal is to break 320,
and we definitely played very well on
Friday,” said Head Coach Danielle
Griffiths.
Though the Bears did not finish
as strongly on Saturday, shooting a
329, Griffiths remained happy with
her team’s overall performance,
noting the event was “definitely an
improvement” over the Bears’ last
tournament, the Hoya Invitational.
Sarah Guarasico ’11, competing
as an individual, led the way for the
Bears in New York, finishing ninth
overall with a two-day score of 152.
Guarasico played exceptionally well
on Saturday, shooting an even-par
72.
Megan Tuohy ’12 continued
her season-long strong effort for
the Bears, playing consistently both
days on her way to 77-79 — 156.
Griffiths was pleased with Tuohy’s
effort, noting that she has “been
our top performer this spring” and
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Wednesday, April 21, 2010
“When she plays well, the team plays well.”
— Danielle Griffiths, women’s golf head coach
— before his stick snapped in the
second quarter.
“I really appreciate, as a coach,
how we came out and played,” said
Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90. “We
saw another opportunity to prove
ourselves as men and as a team.
You could see me on the sidelines. I
was an angry coach even in the sec-
ond half. I didn’t want us to lull.”
And lull they would not. Bruno
found the goal 14 times during the
game behind game leading scorer
Andrew Feinberg ’11, who found
the back of the net five times and
scored his 94th career goal.
One area that Brown lagged in
was faceoffs. Bruno only captured
8 of 24 against a Friar team that
averages 41 percent on the season.
The Friars capitalized on the extra
possessions. It was only the third
time this season that PC scored
more than five goals in a game.
“Moving early and not win-
ning the ball, that was frustrating
to me.” Tiffany said. “Seth Ratner Jonathan Bateman / Herald
(’11) stepped up in the second half, Andrew Feinberg ’11 fires a shot on goal in the game against Providence College. Feinberg led the Bears in
though. There was a silver lining. goals, scoring five times and bringing his career total to 94 goals.
I challenged Seth, and the next
time he went in, he got three of sportsmanlike conduct, adding to Cornell team in a game that will ticket to the NCAAs,” Hawley said.
four faceoffs.” what would become 5:30 worth of help decide if Brown makes the The team “beat them last year, so
With time running out in the penalties for the Friars. postseason Ivy Tournament. hopefully we can come out like we
game, frustrated PC Head Coach Brown will be on the road Sat- “Cornell is a huge game and did today, get an early lead and
Chris Burdick was called for un- urday at 1 p.m. against a tough the Ivy tournament is really our finish it.”
that “when she plays well, the team
plays well.”
Heather Arison ’12 finished third
for the Bears, shooting 78-84 — 162.
Close behind her were Susan Re-
strepo ’11 at 164 and Carly Arison
’12 at 165. Claire Straty ’13 also saw
action for the Bears, shooting a two-
day total of 170.
The Bears will compete at the Ivy
League Championships this week-
end, held at renowned Baltustrol
Golf Club in Springfield, N.J. Baltu-
strol has played host to 16 national
championships, including the 2005
PGA Championship.
In preparation for the event, Grif-
fiths will have her team working
hard on its mental and short game.
The Bears have been practicing
these parts of their game all season,
and though Griffiths has certainly
seen significant progress, she feels
there is still room for improvement.
Above all, Griffiths said she wants
her players to take the tournament
“one shot at a time” and stay “very
neutral mentally.”
The Bears are very excited for
this weekend’s tournament, Griffiths
said. “It should be an amazing event,
and we are very lucky and fortunate
to be able to play there,” she said.
World & Nation
The Brown Daily Herald
Paper and pencils are old school with iPads in the classroom
By Donna Jones
Santa Cr uz Sentinel
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — At Mon-
te Vista Christian School, histor y
textbooks could soon be a relic of
the past. Ditto for tomes on biology
and English literature. And spiral-
bound notebooks and pens — who
needs them?
They’re so old school when
you have a 16GB iPad, and Monte
Vista has 60 of the latest must-have
technology from Apple for use in
classrooms.
The iPads were introduced
Thursday to advanced placement
students who will participate in a
pilot project. If all goes well, Head-
master
Stephen Sharp anticipates re-
placing heavy and expensive text-
books with cheaper, interactive
e-versions.
Sharp believes the school is
among the first to adopt iPads,
but it won’t be the last.
“There are many academic ad-
vantages,” he said. “They provide
new access to photos, videos, daily
newspapers and resource material
that enhance the curriculum.”
English teacher Marcus Schwa-
ger showed his students how with
a click they could look up unfamil-
Research hopes to shed Gates: look again at community college
light on space sickness
By Olga Kuchment
San Jose Mercur y News
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A sneeze
knocks an astronaut into a wall,
leaving droplets of saliva spinning
in mid-air.
Call it the microgravity flu.
Astronauts tend to get sick
—15 of the 29 astronauts who
flew on Apollo missions in the
1960s and 70s came down with in-
fections during flight or immedi-
ately after — and Millie Hughes-
Fulford has been on a mission to
find out why. The University of
California-San Francisco molecu-
lar biologist and former astronaut
anxiously awaits the imminent
return of 16 mice from a two-week
stay aboard the space shuttle Dis-
cover y, as par t of an experiment
she designed to study how their
immune cells handle spaceflight.
The scheduled landing: 8:51 a.m.
EDT Monday at Florida’s Ken-
nedy Space Center.
NASA Ames researcher Edu-
ardo Almeida also sent millions
of mouse stem cells on the same
shuttle flight, hoping to find clues
about a constellation of space-trav-
elers’ maladies: weakened bones
and muscles, and compromised
immune systems.
Both projects aim to help hu-
mans sur vive years-long journeys
to Mars and beyond. The work
might also have implications for
iar words in Shakespeare’s “The
Tempest,” discovering the meaning
as well as the pronunciation.
Science teacher Cynthia Arm-
strong led her students through
an interactive display of a cutaway
view of the female body, demon-
strating the zoom function for
closer looks.
“It has lots of bells and whistles
you don’t have in a print textbook,”
she said.
“I’m really new to it but I’m
super-excited to use the iPad,”
histor y teacher Greg Davis told
his sophomore advanced place-
ment students.
Do his students want to copy
a graph he draws on the board?
There’s an app for that. How about
checking comprehension with a
pop quiz? Students find out imme-
diately whether they answered cor-
rectly, and an explanation is just a
click away.
If he’s lecturing, they can type
their notes using the flat-screen
keyboard, and if he’s talking too
fast and a student misses some-
thing, well, there’s an app for that
too. SoundPaper gives students
the ability to record the lecture
for listening later at home.
Sitting at tables, iPads propped
before them in black cloth cases,
health problems on Earth.
The astronauts’ maladies are
similar to muscular-skeletal dis-
eases in paralyzed or comatose
patients on Earth, Almeida said,
and to the weakening of the im-
mune system with aging, according
to Hughes-Fulford. She has seen
young astronauts come down with
shingles, which commonly occur
in people past the age of 60.
“Over the years I’ve been able
to do several experiments on the
shuttle,” Hughes-Fulford said.
“We’ve found that the immune sys-
tem is suppressed when it doesn’t
have gravity.”
The research is set up differ-
ently than when Hughes-Fulford
traveled to space herself, on a
1991 shuttle mission devoted to
science.
Almeida’s team poured mil-
lions of the cells in culture into
12 six-inch-long reactors, to fly in
the comfort of a mid-deck locker.
Over time, the cells grow into vari-
ous tissues — muscle, liver, neu-
rons. Under the microscope, the
researchers can even see tiny glim-
mers of twitching heart tissue.
When the cells return, the
team will track the genes and bio-
chemical pathways that were active
during flight, and compare those
to the activity in stem cells that
remained on Earth. Dvorochkin
said completing the analysis will
take roughly a year.
Students Becca Wynn, center, and Maureen Mendoza, left, test out the new Apple iPad as a study tool.
students tapped icons to bring up
pages.
“It’s a little easier to use,” said
sophomore Alyssa Villanueva, 15,
comparing the iPad to a textbook.
“You can really focus on where
you’re studying.”
For now, students will have to e-
By Linda Shaw
The Seattle Times
SEATTLE — For years, the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle
has pushed high schools to work
harder to graduate more students.
Now it is prodding community
colleges, which educate about half
of the nation’s college students, to
pay more attention to their gradua-
tion rates, too.
Melinda French Gates, speaking
Tuesday at the American Association
of Community Colleges conference in
Seattle, said the foundation estimates
that only 25 percent of students who
enter community college leave with
a diploma or certificate.
While acknowledging that num-
ber is controversial because many
community-college students don’t
intend to earn a degree, she said
there’s agreement that the number
needs to rise.
And at the conference Tuesday,
six national organizations represent-
ing nearly 1,200 community colleges
signed a commitment to increase
student-completion rates to 50 per-
cent over the next decade.
“Community colleges led the way
with college access,” Gates said. “I
really think now is the time to have
the conversation about college
completion.”
Gates said she and her husband,
Bill Gates, are often moved by the
sacrifices many community-college
students make to get an education.
She talked about a North Carolina
man she met who works all night,
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 | Page 12
mail their notes to an account they
can access at home since the iPads
are for classroom use only. Stu-
dents also will use their accounts
to access e-textbooks at home.
The tablets retail for $499 each,
but Apple provided a $50 school
discount, he said. Electronic text-
goes to school all morning, and
sleeps just a few hours in between.
“We owe them the same tenacity
in return,” she said.
She pledged another $57 million
to help community colleges improve
remedial classes, which about 60 per-
cent of community-college students
take.
In the foundation’s view, she said,
the best way to raise graduation rates
is to help students get through reme-
dial classes more quickly and cheap-
ly, before they run out of money or
get discouraged.
The foundation already has given
about $53 million to such efforts,
including about $5.3 million in Wash-
ington state.
Gates singled out Washington
state’s I-BEST program, started in
2004, as an example of the kind of
innovative program that the Gates
Foundation wants to expand.
I-BEST, which stands for Inte-
grated Basic Education and Skills
Training, are classes that combine
remedial and college-level work, so
that students finish much faster than
if they had to do the remedial work
separately. A recent study showed
that students in I-BEST classes earn
a certificate at much higher rates
than their peers.
Community colleges became a
major focus of the Gates Foundation
in November 2008, when it shifted its
education giving.
In the high-school arena, the
foundation moved away from break-
ing up big schools into smaller ones,
and focused more on defining and
Robinson Kuntz / Santa Cruz Sentinel
books, which are increasingly
available, cost about a third of
print versions.
Apple also has a program to
train teachers to use the technol-
ogy, Sharp said.
“The kids are going to be able
to educate us too,” he said.
rewarding effective teaching. At the
same time, it expanded its educa-
tion giving into community colleges,
largely because that’s where so many
college students are.
Community colleges, she said,
serve about 11 million students.
“The line between the haves and
the have-nots runs right through
your institutions,” Gates said.
Local community-college leaders
said Tuesday that they welcome the
attention they’re receiving from the
Gates Foundation and President Ba-
rack Obama, who has also mentioned
Washington’s I-BEST program in
some of his speeches, and proposed
putting an additional $12 billion of
federal money into community col-
leges, which Congress later cut to
$2 billion.
“It’s wonderful to be in the spot-
light,” said Jill Wakefield, chancel-
lor of Seattle’s four community and
technical colleges.
Although community colleges
have and will always believe in pro-
viding access to everyone, she said,
“we’re realizing that access doesn’t
just mean getting in the door.”
Charles Earl, executive director
of the Washington State Board for
Community and Technical Colleges,
said Washington state community
colleges are already working to im-
prove student outcomes. Over the
past few years, for example, the col-
leges have undertaken a number of
efforts to increase the number of
students who complete basic-skills
classes, finish remedial work, and
complete degrees.
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World & Nation
Report calls for mandatory reduction of salt in food
By Tony Pugh
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — America’s long
and dangerous love affair with salty
food may be coming to an end.
After more than 40 years of
failed efforts to reduce salt in pro-
cessed and restaurant food volun-
tarily, a new report calls on the
Food and Drug Administration to
establish mandatory standards that
gradually reduce sodium content
in the nation’s food supply.
The report by the Institute of
Medicine recommends that the
FDA, working with the food indus-
tr y, limit the amount of salt that
restaurants, food manufacturers
and food ser vice companies could
add to their products.
In a statement, the FDA said it
hadn’t decided whether to move
on the report.
“Over the coming weeks, the
FDA will more thoroughly review
the recommendations of the IOM
report and build plans for how the
FDA can continue to work with
other federal agencies, public
health and consumer groups and
the food industry to support the re-
duction of sodium levels in the food
supply,” the statement said. “The
Department of Health and Human
Ser vices will be establishing an
interagency working group on so-
dium at the department that will
review options and next steps.”
Health officials say it’s a matter
of life and death.
Eating too much salt can lead to
hypertension, or high blood pres-
sure, which is a major risk factor
for heart disease, kidney failure
and stroke. One in three U.S. adults
— nearly 75 million people 20 or
older — suffer from hypertension,
and another 50 million adults suf-
fer from pre-hypertension.
“The vast majority of the U.S.
population is consuming sodium
at levels that are simply too high
to be safe,” said Jane E. Henney, a
professor of medicine at the Uni-
versity of Cincinnati and the chair
of the Institute of Medicine com-
mittee that authored the report.
“... This is an urgent public health
problem.”
About 88 percent of the U.S
population age 2 and older con-
sumes more sodium each day
than is recommended. On aver-
age, Americans ingest about 3,400
milligrams of sodium each day, or
about 1.5 teaspoons of salt. Experts
have said they should consume no
more than 2,300 milligrams, or 1
teaspoon a day. People older than
50 should ingest even less.
However, lowering daily sodium
intake even further, to 1,500 mil-
ligrams, would prevent more than
100,000 deaths a year and save
billions in medical costs, Henney
said.
The new recommendations
would reduce sodium content and
consumption incrementally without
sacrificing flavor that consumers
love. If it’s done correctly over the
course of several years, most peo-
ple won’t even notice the change
in their diets, Henney said.
Under the Institute of Medicine
plan, acceptable sodium levels set
by the FDA would var y by food
groups such as meats, breads and
grains, beverages, soups and con-
diments.
Since most dietar y salt is con-
sumed through prepared meals
and processed or packaged foods,
the recommendations are directed
at food manufacturers and food-
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Wednesday, April 21, 2010
preparation industries.
The report calls for increasing
FDA staff and funding to implement
the changes and monitor compli-
ance with the new initiative.
“The committee recommends
that the FDA expeditiously begin
the process of gathering informa-
tion and initiating” action on the
proposal, Henney said.
The Grocer y Manufacturers
Association, which represents
the world’s leading food and bev-
erage companies, applauded the
proposal and said the food industry
had been working for several years
to reduce sodium in products and
provide consumers with healthier
food choices. In a statement, the
group said, “We look for ward to
working with the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration to develop a
national sodium reduction strategy
that will help consumers.”
The National Restaurant Asso-
ciation praised the proposal’s incre-
mental approach, saying consum-
ers would suffer if drastic recipe
changes were mandated quickly.
“Without customer acceptance,
there will be no measurable change
in consumer behavior,” said Scott
DeFife, the association’s executive
vice president.
Lori Roman, the president of
the Salt Institute, which repre-
sents salt producers, bashed the entific evidence they would need dustr y to reduce salt voluntarily
proposal, however, saying it ig- to take such drastic measures,” in its products in advance of the
nored the medical benefits of salt Roman said. new standards. It also advises the
for some people. Roman said the The Institute of Medicine plan FDA and the U.S. Department of
FDA should conduct clinical trials would modify salt’s status with the Agriculture to revise nutritional
before implementing the plan. FDA as “generally recognized as product labeling for sodium to
“They’re talking about limiting safe” at any level of use. The agen- reflect lower suggested levels of
sodium for an entire population cy would set maximum sodium consumption.
and there’s no clinical evidence levels that — if exceeded — no Henney said no timetable had
to support that, and they have re- longer would meet the “generally been set for implementing the
fused to do randomized clinical recognized as safe” standard. changes, and that it would take
trials to get the support and sci- The report calls on the food in- years to carr y out fully.
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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

U. flood donation laudable

To the Editor:
As a Brown alum, I was proud
to see the University’s rapid and
generous response to the floods
that have devastated the lives of
so many Rhode Islanders (“U.
donates $50,000 for flood relief,”
April 15). As President and CEO
of The Rhode Island Foundation,
I was delighted that Brown added
$50,000 to the $100,000 each con-
tributed by the Foundation and
the United Way of Rhode Island,
in order to help the Rhode Island
Flood Recover y Fund reach more
than $500,000. Working together,
we can accomplish a great deal to
help individuals and businesses
affected by the flood get back on
their feet. Many thanks to the Uni-
versity for showing the leadership
that will inspire others to give to
this important effort.
Neil Steinberg ’75

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POLS 0400: “Introduction to International Politics,” their computers. But laptops can still be vital tools
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Opinions
The Brown Daily Herald
Sarah Yu
Opinions Columnist
I had the fortunate experience last Friday to
sit in the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center,
manning a lonely stall for the A Day on Col-
lege Hill Activities Fair with nothing to oc-
cupy me but a can of diet soda and a pend-
ing sense of doom for an upcoming thesis
proposal deadline. Many pre-frosh, too shy
to stop and chat and not curious enough to
inquire about the foreign flag hanging above
my head, avoided making eye contact with
me and continued on their way toward the
performances in the middle of the space.
Seeing hundreds of pre-frosh on Brown’s
campus for the Third World Welcome and
ADOCH last week has inevitably made me
think about my own pre-frosh days. In under
two weeks, commitment cards with final col-
lege decisions are due for high school seniors,
and a lot is at stake for them to make the right
decision. For me, having applied to Brown by
early decision from overseas without ever at-
tending ADOCH, I did not spend the month of
April scrambling to weigh options in order to
pave out my future — instead, I went through
a few months’ worth of pulse-racing anxiety,
hoping never to find any new information that
could make me regret my binding decision.
I have recently been contacted by a col-
league of my mother’s whose son has been
accepted to several top-tier colleges in the
United States, including Stanford, Columbia
and the University of Pennsylvania. After offer-
LAUREN CRAPANZANO &
JOSH RODRIGUEZ-SREDNICKI
Guest Columnists
We write with humility at the challenge
placed before Catholic students at Brown
University. Though it may not be obvious to
the general University population, Catholi-
cism plays a large role in the lives of hun-
dreds of students on campus.   Each week,
over two hundred people gather in the upper
room of Manning Hall to celebrate Mass.  In
fact, the Brown-RISD Catholic Community is
the largest religious community on campus.   Standing strong and refusing the easy solution
In light of recent opinions columns that
have appeared in the Brown Daily Her-
ald, we feel the need to speak out about
our lives as faith-filled students. While we
do not claim to speak on behalf of all Catho-
lics on campus, we do offer insight into our
own personal experience as members of
the BRCC.    in which all people are equal and treated
Most of us in the BRCC were born into
Catholic families.  However, we are not Cath-
olic because of the environment in which we
were raised, the customs, beliefs and tradi-
tions in our daily lives, or the pressure to
be Catholic imposed by adults, peers or role
models. Belonging to the Catholic Church
is not simply a matter of voluntarism, but a
matter of faith with roots that run deep in our
personal histories and the global histor y of
the Church and apostles. In understanding
the broad, even over whelming, context for
our personal faith development and indi-
vidual choice to be Catholic, we can begin
For the right reasons
ing her a genuine congratulations on her son’s
success, I proceeded to answer her questions
regarding what I thought would be the best
college for her son to attend.
I outlined a few areas to look into for each of
the colleges that I felt should factor into one’s
college decision. Availability of advising, geo-
graphical location of the college and research
opportunities for undergraduate students are
areas to consider that are easily overlooked by
parents and students applying from overseas.
I wanted to make sure that this pre-frosh was
making the right college decision because of
Although I often become indignant when others
attempt to dismiss Brown as a quality institution
due to popular negative stereotypes, I realize
that there are some areas that we can improve
on, institutionally and as students, to ensure that
such concerns do not affect our overall image.
the right reasons, and not just because of the
persuasiveness of the U.S. News and World
Report college rankings.
What would be good reasons to choose
Brown? There’s the open curriculum, our repu-
tation for being the college with the happiest
students and, important for me, a liberal and
diverse student body. These reasons sound
like good starting points for a strong argu-
ment for Brown — however, we also have to
contend with some other perceptions of our
school that might not be so positive. A recent
Herald article (“Is Brown’s popularity a pass-
On being Catholic 
to explore the more specific aspects of our
religion.    the BRCC serves as an encouraging founda-
Although there are problems with the
human Catholic Church — many that we
certainly agree need to be addressed and in
fact are being addressed — our motivation
to practice Catholicism originates outside
of this. These issues cannot be assumed to
characterize all of the followers of this large
branch of faith.  teaching, which insists on the Gospel’s call
With over 1.1 billion members of the
Catholic Church worldwide, we do not pre-
tend that our unity comes from unanimous
of dismissing Catholicism or religion as a
whole because of hardship in the Church
and misinterpretation of doctrine and beliefs
deserves gratitude.
agreement of all members of the Church;
rather, it is our belief in God that unites
us. We are not Catholic because we agree
with ever y action of the Church hierarchy
or of individual Catholics, but because we
assent to the idea that the Catholic Church,
guided by the Holy Spirit, has something
revelator y to say about the crucifixion and
resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our hope is in
this redemption story found in our tradition
and Scripture.   ‘10 for discussing many of the challenges
In this continuous process of examination
and inquir y, the importance of a supportive
ing trend or here to stay?” April 19) names
some popular perceptions and stereotypes
about Brown perpetuated by the media —
the most common, that of Brunonians being
affluent, liberal hippies.
I can see, fairly easily, how some of our
good reasons for coming to Brown can be
transformed into bad reasons for coming to
Brown — for example, students may, thanks
to the New Curriculum, face the danger of
lacking academic focus and ambition, or, at
the other extreme, never be challenged to step
outside their comfort zones. The New Cur-
riculum may call into question Brown’s actual
academic rigor. The happy majority of students
might just be overshadowing a less content,
conservative minority. Some classmates from
my high school chose not to apply to Brown
simply for its reputation as “too liberal.” These
concerns, among others, can be the decisive
factor between a high school senior deciding
between Brown and colleges higher up on the
U.S. News and World Report list.
Although I often become indignant when
others attempt to dismiss Brown as a quality
institution due to popular negative stereotypes,
community cannot be overlooked. For us,
tion as we live our faith with its distinctive
challenges. We are given the opportunity
to gather and pray together several times a
week as a community of believers. Through
our service to our local community in Provi-
dence, the greater United States and popu-
lations abroad, we embody Catholic social
to a society based on justice and human dig-
nity. Informally, we have established friend-
ships that transcend our unique identity
at Brown as Catholics and found ways to
incorporate our faith and tradition into our
personal vocations whatever our specific
field of interest may be.  Perhaps working toward tolerance among
A recent Herald column (“Toward a more
productive dialogue on the Catholic Church
and religion,” April 19) clarifies several as-
pects of the Catholic religion that were mis-
represented in previous opinions columns.
We offer sincere thanks to Adrienne Langlois
Catholic students face and offering rational
advice for moving forward. Standing strong
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 | Page 15
I realize that there are some areas that we can
improve on, institutionally and as students, to
ensure that such concerns do not affect our
overall image. Some academic programs can
certainly work on improving their curricula
to be more comprehensive and increasing
advising opportunities for students. The vast
differences in courseload and requirements
from concentration to concentration can also
be more standardized, to dispel any notions
of the rigor and legitimacy of a degree from
Brown.
As for the negative implications of Brown’s
being “too liberal,” students can perhaps be
more aware of the hegemony of the liberal
end of a political spectrum. If, like the media
portrays, students are indeed deterred from
applying to Brown because of a discrepancy in
political attitude, I would suggest that we turn
away from any obsession for each member of
the community to be “progressive” and instead
work more on being “accepting.” We may
consider turning away from the reputation as
a “hippie” school, which, in addition to having
negative connotations, is oversimplifying our
demographic.
I would like to tell those interested in apply-
ing to Brown an even better truth about our
college than what we have right now. I would
like to tell them, “I chose Brown for the right
reasons, and you should, too.”
Sarah Yu ’11 can assure you that she does
not regret accepting Brown’s binding
decision. She can be reached at xia_yu@
brown.edu.
and refusing the easy solution of dismissing
Catholicism or religion as a whole because
of hardship in the Church and misinterpreta-
tion of doctrine and beliefs deser ves grati-
tude. This struggle is one we all inevitably
face as people of faith.  
Lastly, we invite all members of the
Brown community to attend Mass, to speak
with the more than 900 Catholics on campus
and to participate in any of our many ser-
vice projects in the community, in order to
obser ve Catholicism in action and witness
the diversity within the Church. Projection
of criticism towards an international body is
acceptable and sometimes painfully neces-
sar y, but one must be careful not to judge
a group of individual believers on campus
as a result.    
One of our favorite aspects of Brown is
the genuine concern of the student popula-
tion for various social issues, both close
to home and worldwide. Our nearly uni-
form goal at Brown to help create a world
with genuine respect gives us hope. Just
as we have been challenged continuously
throughout our lives because of our faith,
we now challenge the Brown community.
ourselves is a great step toward the justice
we feel all people deser ve.
Lauren Crapanzano ’12 and
Josh Rodriguez-Srednicki ‘12 are
members of the Brown-RISD Catholic
Community.
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Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Polynesian Chicken Wings,
Vegan Stir Fry Vegetables with Tofu,
Chocolate Frosted Eclairs
Dinner — Fried Calamari, Cheese
Quesadillas, Lime Jello
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Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman
tomorrow, april 22
4:30 P.M. — A Reading by Four
Iranian Writers, McCormack Family
Theater, 80 Brown St.
7:00 p.m. — Brown Degree Days
Event: Community Health, List 110
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline
Lunch — Hot Roast Beef on French
Bread, Eggplant Parmesan Sandwich,
Chocolate Frosted Brownies
Dinner — Bourbon BBQ Chicken,
Whipped Cream Peach Cake
Fruitopia | Andy Kim
Hippomaniac | Jintao Huang
Classic How to Get Down | Nate Saunders