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New initiative looks to pedestrian safety
A crosswalk near Soldier’s Arch on Thayer St. is one of about 40 that are
new or have been updated on campus.
Tours move Pauly D back home in R.I., briefly
to Welcome
Center
By Warren Jin
Contributing Writer
Beginning this semester, campus
tours leave from the Welcome Cen-
ter — one of the Stephen Robert
’62 Campus Center’s new features.
The tours, which used to start
in the admission office, have been
incorporated into the center, said
Eleanor Brennan, associate director
of admission. The move reflects a na-
tionwide trend among colleges and
universities of building dedicated
welcome centers that are separate
from the admission office, she said.
The larger size of the Welcome
Center will make visiting campus
more enjoyable for prospective stu-
dents and their families, she added.
“The (admission) office is too
small,” Brennan said. “There were
days when we were getting hun-
dreds and hundreds of people. It
was not a great experience for our
visitors.”
The new tour is also in a “much
easier location for people to find,”
said Christiana Stephenson ’11,
campus tour co-coordinator and The
Herald’s alumni relations director. “It
starts at the hub of student life,” she
said, giving prospective students and
their families a better opportunity to
understand Brown.
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Metro.......5–6
Sports.....7–9
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Today........12
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By Shara Azad
Contributing Writer
With all of the striking physical
changes to Brown’s campus greet-
ing returning students this fall, it’s
possible many missed additions
that were right under their feet:
dozens of new crosswalks.
Following two incidents last
winter — the death of Avi Schaefer
’13 on Thayer Street and the hit-
and-run of alums Erinn Phelan ’09
and Alma Guerrero ’09 MD’13 in
Brooklyn — Senior Vice President
for Corporation Affairs and Gov-
ernance Russell Carey ’91 MA’06
announced the creation of a pedes-
trian safety review committee at a
March faculty meeting.
Last week, Vice President for
Campus Life and Student Ser-
vices Margaret Klawunn sent an
e-mail to the Brown community
regarding enhancements on cam-
Max Monn / Herald
pus including “implementation of
a pedestrian safety initiative on
and around our campus including
By Brigitta Greene “Jersey Shore” finished filming
Metro Editor the show’s third season Wednes-
day, and DelVecchio was driving
DJ Pauly D is back in town for back home to Johnston from Sea-
two days only, making a brief side Heights, N.J., said his agent,
stop home before leaving for Los Michael Schweiger.
Angeles on Friday, said his agent. “He loves coming home,” Sch-
The “Jersey Shore” cast mem- weiger said. “His mom is there.
ber, whose real name is Paul All of his toys are there. … His
DelVecchio, was seen cruising motorbike, everything is there.”
through campus Wednesday af- Before his stint on MTV,
ternoon. DelVecchio had performed regu-
The cast of MTV’s hit show larly at local bars such as the Red
More than a mone y f or hone y
vacation: 3
undergrad
summers
BY Anna Andreeva
Staff Writer
Whether interning or research-
ing, spending their time in the
U.S. or abroad, many Brown stu-
FEATURE
dents took their passion out of the
classroom and into the world this
summer. The Herald took a look
at the summers of three different
undergrads –– each a part of the
The Wriston Quadrangle farmers’ market opened for the season Wednesday. The market will be held
Wednesdays from 11–2 on Wriston.
continued on page 3
Metro, 5
margarita madness
After resolving its liquor
license issues, Chipotle will
offer margaritas and beer
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
more visible crosswalks.”
This pedestrian safety initia-
tive is a direct result of the com-
mittee spearheaded by Klawunn
and Carey. According to Carey,
the committee of students, faculty
and staff learned that in the past
three years, there have been 14
accidents on campus involving
pedestrians, motor vehicles and
bicyclists, though most did not
entail “serious injuries.” Since this
finding, the fast-tracked initiative
has been launched, focusing on
three components — education,
awareness and on-campus en-
forcement — intended not only
for pedestrians, but also bicyclists
and drivers.
To boost enforcement, the
Department of Public Safety has
been working in close collabora-
tion with the Providence Police
Department to regulate intersec-
tions during high-traffic times for
students, such as the 10 minutes
continued on page 2
Room and the Fish Company.
Though Pauly D was not
booked to perform at Fish Co.
Wednesday night, bar tender
Tony Pirri said he called the DJ
that afternoon to request that he
stop by the bar’s weekly Brown
night.
DelVecchio will make an ap-
pearance at MTV’s Video Music
Awards on Sept. 12 and will be
continued on page 5
Sports, 7
women’s win
A mostly first-year women’s
soccer team wins weekend
tournament
Registration
extended for
Mon. classes
By Alexandra Ulmer
Senior Staff Writer
Registration period for Monday af-
ternoon seminars, which meet for
the first time next week, has been
extended from Sept. 14 to Sept. 20 to
allow more time for students to add
these classes.
Monday afternoon seminars did
not hold class the first half-week of
school, which began on a Wednesday,
and were then canceled this week due
to Labor Day.
“We have extended the add dead-
line just for those classes until the
following Monday,” said University
Registrar Robert Fitzgerald.
But students who wish to add a
Monday seminar to their schedule
after Sept. 14 must enroll at the Office
of the Registrar in J. Walter Wilson, as
online registration will be closed after
that date. During the extended period,
they will not be fined the standard $15
fee for late registration.
Professors of Monday afternoon
seminars brought the issue to the at-
tention of the registrar’s office, which
subsequently made the decision to
extend the registration deadline in
conjunction with the Dean of the Col-
lege, Fitzgerald added.
“It just seems like an unfortunate
happenstance,” Professor of English
Forrest Gander, who teaches LITR
1230K: “Latin American Death Trip,”
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “I
don’t expect my class size to suffer
at all.”
Students have until Tuesday at
5 p.m. to add other courses without
incurring a fee.
Max Monn / Herald
Opinions, 11
new-er curriculum?
Kurt Walters ’11: Is it time
we revise the curriculum to
better challenge students?
herald@browndailyherald.com
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C ampus N EWS “People can be aggressive drivers.”

— Margaret Klawunn, VP for campus life and student services

Emission reductions RISD will not close public service office

halfway to 2020 goals
By Mark Raymond
Senior Staff Writer
The University has reached a
halfway point in its efforts to cut
campus emissions of greenhouse
gases, according to Director of
Sustainable Energy and Environ-
mental Initiatives Chris Powell.
The goal is to reduce emissions
to 42 percent below 2007 levels
by 2020.
Emissions are now 21 percent
below 2007 levels — ­ an improve-
ment of 3 percent from last fall — a
drop that is largely the result of
Facilties Management’s decision
to use alternate fuels in campus
buildings, Powell said.
“We wanted to make some
quick reductions by switching
fuel sources, but future projects
will require more funds and plan-
ning,” Powell said.
Facilities plans to expand its
efforts using a $20 million loan,
Powell said. Thus far, most cuts
have been made using funds al-
ready appropriated to Facilities.
“We spent a few million dollars
the first several years, but that
paid for itself in savings,” Powell
said.
Upon making many immediate
changes to reduce emissions, the
emphasis within Facilities moved
toward working on more complex
and oftentimes more expensive
projects on campus, many of
which are the result of collabora-
tion between students and faculty.
“Facilities is working on a
number of large-scale projects,
including new lighting fixtures
sudoku
and boiler replacements,” said
Ben Howard ’11, an intern work-
ing with Facilities on sustainability
projects. “My role is to act as a
conduit between student projects
and the funding available to the
University.”
Energy and Environmental
Programs Coordinator Ginger
Gritzo reiterated the role students
now play in making sustainability
projects a reality on campus.
“I think that the coordination
between Facilities and students
has gotten a lot better,” Gritzo
said. “Before I was in this role,
there wasn’t coordination between
what Facilities wanted to do and
what students wanted to do.”
Powell stated that there are
many projects currently being
considered to continue the Uni-
versity’s efforts to cut emissions,
and he thinks the goals for 2020
are within reach.
“I think we can at least see proj-
ects that would get us there, and
we just need to get them approved
and implemented,” Powell said.
He also emphasized that sus-
tainability projects are in the pro-
cess of expanding, and that the
University will see cost savings
in the future.
“Now we’re spending faster
than the savings are coming in
because we’re doing more capital-
intensive projects,” Powell said.
“But we project that by the end
of fiscal year 2011, our annual sav-
ings as a result of these projects
will be around $1.5 million.”
continued on page 4
By Rebecca Ballhaus
Senior Staff Writer
The Rhode Island School of Design
will not close its Office of Public
Engagement as it had originally
proposed, President John Maeda
announced in May.
The office, the design school’s
equivalent of the Swearer Center
for Public Service, organizes the
school’s public outreach program.
When RISD proposed cutting
the office last spring, students ob-
jected vehemently to the choice
through letters, meetings with
the administration and, of course,
Facebook. On one Facebook page,
“Questioning RISD’s commitment:
Community Engagement and Di-
versity,” students protested what
they perceived as the school’s re-
sistance to establishing a sense of
community.
“We believe the current state
of discourse at RISD disengages
us from each other; the proposed
elimination of the Office of Public
Engagement disengages us from
our community; and the marginal-
ization of issues concerning diver-
sity overall disengages us from our
world,” the Facebook page reads.
Sarah Kern, who graduated
from RISD in the spring and
worked in the office, was “heavily
Brown addresses pedestrian safety
continued from page 1
in between classes. Lt. John Ryan,
PPD commander for District 9, said
he felt such a measure was “neces-
sar y for both operators of motor
vehicles and pedestrians.”
“Although you have the right of
way, you should use caution when
you walk,” he said, addressing pe-
destrians.
Approximately 40 crosswalks
were also updated to a standard
system or were newly created, ac-
cording to Carey. For example, a
crosswalk for pedestrians now ex-
ists at the intersection of Brook and
Charlesfield streets, and Thayer
Street crosswalks were standard-
ized to avoid confusion.
Other changes include improved
road signs, marked loading zones
for trucks and signals for drivers
to slow down at busy crosswalks,
such as the Brook Street crossing
involved” in the fight to keep the
office open, she wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald. She said that her
choice to work in the office in the
first place was due to her sense
that “community engagement was
discouraged by RISD’s intensive
studio practice.” She added, “This
feeling was made a reality … when
the administration attempted to
close the office at the end of the
school year.”
RISD’s administration “doesn’t
see the physical office and pro-
gramming as necessar y, and
(thinks it) can exist as an add-on
to various other offices,” she wrote.
“However, without a comprehen-
sive and centralized program in
public work, I do not see how stu-
dents can be effectively supported
in their work to engage the public
and work hand-in-hand with the city
of Providence.”
The students’ outcry provoked
the Rhode Island Foundation to pro-
vide some funding for the office for
the 2010–11 school year. The foun-
dation’s grant was then matched by
the design school’s board of trust-
ees, according to Assistant Provost
for Academic Affairs David Bogen.
“It is my hope that through
strategic planning we will find a
sustainable and integrated model to
bring public engagement … to our
at Manning Walk. All changes were
“coordinated closely with the city of
Providence,” Carey said.
Klawunn said she is closely
involved with the education and
awareness components of the initia-
tive. The former includes an orienta-
tion program that aimed to provide
the class of 2014 with information
about pedestrian safety. Fliers
have been posted around campus
with slogans such as “Brown is
not a closed campus” and “Make
eye contact,” referring to the need
for communication with drivers at
crosswalks.
Bicyclists are a particular con-
cern. “People can be aggressive
drivers, so bikers should err on the
side of caution,” Klawunn said. She
also mentioned that Rhode Island
traffic laws for bicyclists are avail-
able online.
Looking ahead, the pedestrian
core,” Maeda said in a statement
released in May.
“Of course I’m absolutely de-
lighted that RISD has made the de-
cision and enabled the continuation
of the office,” said Peter Hocking,
the office’s interim director. “I think
that this is a really important pro-
gram for RISD, which is why I’ve
been doing this work for the last
three years.”
The design school faced finan-
cial challenges last year as the re-
cession battered its endowment.
But spokeswoman Jaime Marland
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald
that the school is “solidly positioned
for this coming year,” a result of
budget cuts made last year and the
gradual recover y of the school’s
endowment.
RISD has also raised its tuition
by 4.5 percent this year, giving the
school a slightly larger budget to
work with.
“I think that the support from
the Rhode Island Foundation, as
well as the support from our trust-
ees, for public engagement gener-
ally is a very positive thing,” Bogen
said. “RISD is now involved in a
process of strategic planning and
we look forward to the emergence
of a full understanding and vision
of the future of public engagement
through that process.”
safety initiative will require “ongo-
ing assessment,” Carey said. For
some students, however, the effects
are already palpable.
“I’ve seen DPS wearing nylon
green vests late at night,” said
Fatima Aqeel ’12, a former Herald
opinions columnist. “It makes me
feel … quite secure.”
Hannah Riskin-Jones ’13 said
she had noticed the new crosswalk
painted across Thayer Street near
the Soldier’s Arch construction
site. “I don’t think anyone bothers
to look,” she added. “You can tell
that someone is from Los Angeles
or New York or a big city based on
if they look at the crosswalk.”
It remains to be seen whether
or not the initiative will influence
student behavior.
Referring to the new crosswalks,
Ylan Vo ’12 said, “I haven’t really
noticed.”

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F eature
Students encounter life-changing experiences during summer
continued from page 1
wide spectrum of experiences of
student summers.
An awakening
Christine Zaleski ’11, an envi-
ronmental studies concentrator,
spent over two months this summer
working for a non-governmental or-
ganization promoting sustainable
fisheries management in Gambia.
The Gambia-Senegal Sustainable
Fisheries Project, known locally as
Ba Nafaa, is a five-year, $2.5 million
project that has been ongoing since
2009, Zaleski said.
The project is carried out in con-
junction with the University of Rhode
Island Coastal Resources Center and
the World Wide Fund West Africa
Marine EcoRegional Program, ac-
cording to the center’s website.
Ba Nafaa’s goal is to “promote
sustainable fisheries management in-
cluding the shared marine and coast-
al resources between the Gambia
and Senegal,” according to the URI
Coastal Resources Center website.
The project works with 500 “oyster
women,” female immigrants from
Guinea Bissau whose livelihood re-
lies on harvesting oysters in protect-
ed wetlands. As Christian women in
a male-dominated, predominantly
Muslim society, the oyster women
are “the most disenfranchised group
of people,” Zaleski said. To that end,
Ba Nafaa also engages in providing
the women alternative sources of
income during the season when oys-
ter harvesting is closed, including
creating tie-dyed handicrafts for sale
to tourists, beekeeping and other
activities with low environmental
impact.
Zaleski’s trip was funded by a
grant awarded by the Center for
Environmental Studies, a large part
of which went toward covering the
cost of flight to and from Gambia.
The trip was also an opportunity
for Zaleski to do research for her
senior thesis, which deals with com-
munity management resources. She
plans to spend a good part of her
year working on her thesis. Zaleski
said she is potentially interested in
comparing the issues facing oyster
fisheries in Rhode Island and Gam-
Read Post- Magazine, Thursdays in The Herald
Julia Olszewski ’12 enjoyed canoeing, kayaking and snorkeling during her summer internship at the University
of Florida’s Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience.
bia.
For Zaleski, the people she met
were a positive part of the experi-
ence.
“I was really lucky to work with
the people that I worked with,” she
said. As the only foreign undergradu-
ate student working on the project,
Zaleski had the opportunity to meet
local families and grow close with
her coworkers. “They completely
incorporated me into their culture.
They let me help where I could be
of help and let me watch where I
couldn’t,” she said.
The most challenging part of
Zaleski’s summer was adjusting to
life in Gambia as a white, Christian
foreigner in a predominantly black,
Muslim country, she said. “With ev-
ery person you meet, you have to
first break through that barrier, the
visual ostracization,” Zaleski said.
“It was my first experience as a real
minority.”
“I realized how much I had to
learn, not only about developing
countries but my own country —
how much we have to give and how
much they still need. That was a big
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
awakening,” Zaleski said.
A taste of grad school
Julia Olszewski ’12, a marine
biology concentrator, completed
an eleven-week summer research
training program at the University
of Florida’s Whitney Laboratory for
Marine Bioscience in St. Augustine,
Florida.
Olszewski was the recipient of
a Research Experiences for Under-
graduates grant funded by the Na-
tional Science Foundation.
During her summer, she worked
with Professor James Liao of the
Whitney Laboratory researching ze-
bra fish larvae. Their work centered
on deciphering how the fish use the
information picked up from hairs
along their body, or neuromasts, to
swim.
The program also incorporated a
number of field trips that included
canoeing, kayaking snorkeling on
the Florida Keys and visiting the
main University of Florida campus
to speak to representatives from
graduate schools.
For Olszewski, the training was
“That was a big awakening.”
—Christine Zaleski ’11, on summer in Gambia
Courtesy of Julia Olszewski
a great preview of what a graduate
program in marine biology could
offer her. She said she spent an aver-
age of 10 hours per day in the lab.
“It was like tr ying out grad
school, at least the research part —
which is the part we’re not familiar
with,” Olszewski said.
Networking with professors and
researchers in the field was another
major plus for Olszewski. “We are
the only undergrads they interact
with year-round,” she said. Olsze-
wski is still in touch with her mentor
from the Whitney Lab and is cur-
rently working on publishing her
findings from the summer.
Around the world in three
months
Jose Rodriguez ’12, a commerce,
organizations and entrepreneurship
concentrator, split the summer be-
tween an internship with Infosys
Technologies in Bangalore, India and
research in the Dominican Republic.
Rodriguez secured the Infosys
internship after undergoing a double
interview process. First he applied
for the COE program’s Internship in
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India program, and later had to ap-
ply directly for a position at Infosys.
During his internship, Rodriguez
worked on extending and improv-
ing the company’s alumni online
network. He also participated in an
internal business competition, where
his group won third place for sug-
gesting an informational platform
for microfinance institutions.
Rodriguez also took the opportu-
nity to visit other cities in the area,
including Mumbai, New Delhi, Agra,
Goa and Mysore. “I’ve never traveled
so much in my life,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez especially enjoyed
meeting individuals from all over the
world at Infosys, as well as having
the chance to network and receive
professional feedback. “There is so
much talent there,” he said. “I built
such a strong relationship with my
group.”
After completing his work at In-
fosys, Rodriguez continued on to the
Dominican Republic to complete the
second phase of a ten-week research
fellowship that he had begun dur-
ing the previous winter break. The
project aims to identify the extent
to which the U.S. financial crisis af-
fected a particular neighborhood in
the Dominican Republic.
The Brown International Scholar
Program provided funding for his
research.
Rodriguez conducted interviews
and a pilot study to determine the
types of surveys that could be ad-
ministered to local households and
businesses in order to maximize the
quality of information for the study.
Previously, the Dominican Repub-
lic had been no more than a summer
vacation destination for Rodriguez.
By returning as a researcher, he was
able to use his unique perspective
as both an insider and outsider in
the country to meet people and get
to know the neighborhood, he said.
“For the first time, I was there to
do something to bring more light to
an issue that I felt was not adequately
explored,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez said he hopes to re-
turn to the Dominican Republic for
further research to “evaluate my
methods, my approaches and bet-
ter them.”
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C ampus N EWS
Tours to depart from
revamped Faunce
continued from page 1
Campus tours also play an im-
portant role in allowing visitors to
interact with students, said Chris-
topher Belcher ’11, president of the
Bruin Club, which organizes tours
and other admission events such as
A Day On College Hill. Visitors can
“stop a student in the Blue Room,
ask them how they’re doing, why
they applied,” he said. “That kind
of personal connection is great.”
The tour will continue to evolve
Campus emissions down
21 percent since 2007
continued from page 2
Howard also said he had high
hopes for the University’s ability
to meet its 2020 goals.
“I think it’s amazing that we
have access to so much funding,”
Howard said. “It’s just a matter of
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“We are hoping to use the cre-
ative arts center to bring the tours
to Pembroke,” she said.
The goal of the tours is to tell
visitors “stuff you can’t get off the
Internet,” said Robert Taj Moore
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“Most tour guides have their own
stories and narratives to share.”
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“Sanskrit is becoming established and recognized.”
Professor of Classics James Fitzgerald is helping run the new Ph.D. program in Asian Religious Traditions.
Sanskrit, Eastern religions now Ph.D. degrees
By Alicia Dang
Staff Writer
Students interested in Sanskrit or
Asian religions now have the chance
to undertake doctoral research at
Brown. Beginning last year, the
University started to accept appli-
cations to two newly added doctoral
programs in Sanskrit Language and
Literature and Asian Religious Tra-
ditions.
Two students have been accept-
ed into the Sanskrit program out of a
pool of nine or 10 applicants, accord-
ing to James Fitzgerald, professor
of classics and faculty affiliate and
chair of the Department of Religious
Studies.
Fitzgerald is also one of the core
faculty members who worked to-
gether to design the Asian Religious
Traditions program. The proposals
for these programs were submitted
and later approved in winter 2009
by the Graduate School. The pro-
gram currently has one student who
transferred from another doctoral
program in the same department.
She was admitted out of four or five
applicants, Fitzgerald said.
Asian Religious Traditions is
the third graduate program in the
Department of Religious Studies,
— Peter Scharf, senior lecturer in Sanskrit
in addition to Religion and Critical
Thought and Religions of the An-
cient Mediterranean.
The classics department has
added six Sanskrit courses on vari-
ous topics including ancient Indian
literature, philosophy and Sanskrit
linguistic traditions to accommodate
the new doctoral candidates.
These courses, together with
other individualized research guid-
ance, are run by Fitzgerald and Pe-
ter Scharf, acting chair of the South
Asian Studies Faculty Group and
senior lecturer in Sanskrit.
The six new Sanskrit courses
are also available to the students in
the South Asian Religions doctoral
track, which requires applicants to
have had at least two years of either
Sanskrit or Hindi-Urdu.
In addition to the new Sanskrit
graduate program, four undergradu-
ate concentration tracks in Sanskrit
are in the process of being approved
by the Dean of the College, with the
goal of making Sanskrit study more
comparable to Greek and Latin, he
added.
“Sanskrit is becoming estab-
lished and recognized as a program
of studies at equal level with other
ancient languages,” Scharf said.
“Sanskrit literature forms the
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Max Monn / Herald
largest body of texts prior to the
invention of the printing press in
the world,” he said. “Their litera-
ture is composed in every discipline:
mathematics, anthropology, medi-
cine, philosophy. A lot of scientific
knowledge in the Sanskrit text has
yet to be communicated to the con-
temporary community of scholars.”
“Hopefully, with this graduate
program, we’ll be able to integrate
more with other departments,”
Scharf said.
Fitzgerald linked the develop-
ment of these new programs to
University administrators’ growing
interest in directing international-
ization efforts towards Asia, as evi-
denced by the 2009-10 Year of India.
“The University administration
wants us to think globally and they
have been offering a more global
perspective in all the departments,”
said Professor of Religious Studies
Susan Harvey.
“For many decades, doctoral
work in religious studies at Brown
has been dominated by the Western
religious traditions,” she added. “We
are very glad and absolutely thrilled
that we now have a program focused
specifically on Asian religious tradi-
tions. … We have wanted it for a
long time.”
Metro
The Brown Daily Herald
DJ Pauly D returns home
after ‘Jersey Shore’ wrap
continued from page 1
on the road for the rest of the year,
Schweiger said.
On Dec. 3, the star will appear
at a sweet 16 celebration in Provi-
dence, one of only three private
appearances he will make this year.
“He is committed to doing (the
sweet 16) because it’s a local girl,”
Schweiger said. “He figures he
owes it to the Providence kids.”
Block Island wind farm
closer to construction
By Bradley Silverman
Staff Writer
Only months ago, Rhode Island’s bid
to build the nation’s first offshore wind
farm seemed dead in the water. The
state’s Public Utilities Commission
this spring rejected a proposed pric-
ing agreement between Deepwater
Wind — the project’s developer —
and a power distributor, in part due
to lobbying by the Energy Council
of Rhode Island, whose membership
includes Brown.
Despite continuing legal obstacles,
the project moved one step closer to
fruition. Since the commission ruled
against the project in April, both hous-
es of the General Assembly — with
the support of Gov. Donald Carcieri
’65 — have passed legislation to put
the project before the commission for
a second review.
Many legislators argued that the
project would put Rhode Island on
a path to energy independence and
prove a long-term financial boon to
the state. Some, however, expressed
concern that the legislation would
place an onerous burden on taxpay-
ers to the benefit of a single entity
— Deepwater Wind.
Last month, the commission voted
2–1 to approve the project, paving
the way for the construction of an
eight-turbine wind farm off the coast
of Block Island. The project could
eventually be expanded to include
106 additional turbines.
One factor in the proposal’s rejec-
tion last spring was opposition from
the Energy Council of Rhode Island,
a lobbying consortium representing
30 of the state’s largest energy users,
including the University. Chris Pow-
ell, Brown’s director of sustainable
But DJ Pauly D is not giving
away favors. The cost of an appear-
ance is “bigger than the breadbox.
… It’s got a few zeros in there,”
Schweiger said, though he declined
to give the exact figure. As of Feb.
1 this year, the minimum booking
fee for the star for one night stood
at $10,000.
— With additional repor ting by
Julien Ouellet
energy and environmental initiatives,
is a member of the group’s board.
Powell described the University’s
position on the Deepwater Wind proj-
ect as “officially neutral,” stressing
that although the energy consortium
represents Brown, it does not neces-
sarily reflect the University’s thinking
on the matter.
“We’re one member,” Powell said.
“We can make our comments known,
but at the end of the day, it is a demo-
cratic organization.”
Powell added that his council
membership has not influenced
Brown’s thinking on the matter.
The proposal was initially reject-
ed because the pricing agreement
between National Grid — a power
distributor — and Deepwater Wind
would have charged more for wind
power than the prevailing rate for oth-
er sources. The proposal included an
initial price of 24.4 cents per kilowatt-
hour, with a 3.5 percent increase over
each year of the 20-year agreement.
The average wholesale price paid for
other sources of energy, meanwhile,
is 7.8 cents per kilowatt-hour. Total
additional costs to consumers could
eventually rise to $500 million.
According to Amy Kempe, the gov-
ernor’s press secretary, the legislature
made changes to the proposal to make
it more palatable to the commission.
The revised proposal allows any fu-
ture energy savings from the project
to be returned to consumers as rate
decreases, she said. In addition, the
recently approved deal emphasizes
what she called the “economic devel-
opment and environmental” benefits
of the proposal.
She added that the governor would
continued on page 6
“There are people to whom having a beer or margarita with their burrito
rounds up their experience.” — Chris Arnold, Chipotle PR director
A banner announced Chipotle’s imminent arrival to the Thayer scene.
Chipotle clears licensing hurdle
By Leonardo Moauro
Staff Writer
The soon-to-be Chipotle location on
Thayer is set to open after concerns
regarding the terms of its liquor
license were resolved.
The Mexican-style eatery had
originally requested a full liquor
license from the city Board of Li-
censes, said Allison Spooner, presi-
dent of the College Hill Neighbor-
hood Association. Such a license
would have allowed the restaurant
to sell hard alcohol and beer and
to stay open until 2 a.m., much like
other bars on Thayer Street.
Instead, the restaurant will
serve only beer and margaritas,
and only until 10 p.m.
The neighborhood association
filed an official complaint at the
hearing for the license on Aug. 11.
“We opposed the full liquor license”
as well as “the 2 a.m. closing,”
Spooner said.
“With Chipotle, none of their
(other) restaurants are open past
eleven o’clock,” she added. “We
didn’t see why they needed to make
an exception for Thayer Street.”
Brown also opposed the initial
Thursday, September 9, 2010 | Page 5
liquor license terms, said Marisa
Quinn, vice president for public
affairs and University relations.
“We sent a letter of objection when
we heard that it was a 2 a.m. clos-
ing and a full liquor license,” she
said. “It was really a combination
of those two things.”
But the restaurant’s intentions
are not to serve as another Thayer
Street bar location, said Chris Ar-
nold, public relations director for
the company. The interior “won’t
even have a bar,” he said.
Arnold indicated that the city
can grant two types of liquor li-
cense: a full one, and a lesser one
that would permit them to serve
only beer and wine. “We applied
for the full liquor license because
that’s what we need to serve mar-
garitas, but we’re not a bar,” he
said.
“There are people to whom
having a beer or margarita with
their burrito rounds up their ex-
perience, which is why we do it,”
Arnold added.
Chipotle locations in general —
as well as this Chipotle — stay open
no later than 10 p.m., Arnold said,
so the 2 a.m. closing time permit-
Katie Wilson / Herald file photo
ted by the license would make no
difference.
Chipotle specified its inten-
tions to the Providence Board of
Licenses “about a week and a half
after the hearing,” Spooner said.
The Board then granted Chi-
potle a restricted liquor license
— permitting the sale of beer and
margaritas only — after the Univer-
sity withdrew its objection.
“People’s opposition is under-
standable when they see a liquor
license filing without understand-
ing the nature of the business,”
Arnold said.
“It seems like a kind of restau-
rant that many students would
like,” Quinn said. “It adds to the
diversity of the establishments on
Thayer Street.”
The restaurant would have
opened regardless of whether
it had obtained a liquor license,
Arnold said. “Alcohol amounts to
between 1 and 2 percent of our
sales, so in many cases it’s not
profitable,” he said.
As for the opening date, “it is
too far off to have a date but some
time in the fourth quarter” of the
year, Arnold said.
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M etro
Local collegiate newspaper avoids office eviction Wind farm
By Caitlin Trujillo
Senior Staff Writer
A local college’s newspaper is back
in its office this month after clashing
with the president of the student
body and finding itself locked out
of its publication room.
The Unfiltered Lens, the Com-
munity College of Rhode Island’s
student-run newspaper, lost access
to its publication room in the Knight
Campus student union building in late
July. David Gannon, the paper’s chief
executor, said the path to regaining
its headquarters proved rocky amid
negotiation failures and allegations
that student government president
Manna Muhuri solicited a bribe in
the form of favorable coverage for the
return of office privileges.
Muhuri — who did not respond
to multiple requests for comment —
has denied the allegations of bribery,
according to media reports.
Gannon said the debacle came
after Muhuri dismissed him as vice
president of student government —
along with the rest of his cabinet — in
June, and Gannon filed a complaint
alleging that the move violated the
student government’s constitution.
The controversy began in late July,
Gannon said, when notes were posted
on the Student Union office doors
saying new locks would be installed
on August 6. Several days prior to
the stated date, the staff found itself
locked out. Gannon said the security
office mistakenly changed the locks
early because they did not have access
to any of the clubs’ schedules.
The lock change request came
The Unfiltered Lens’s publication room was recently under threat.
from CCRI Associate Vice President
for Student Services Ronald Schertz,
who said the step was taken as a se-
curity measure because several sets
of keys to the old locks were missing.
Other student groups were affected
by the lock change as well.
Gannon submitted a form to obtain
new keys for himself and the other
editorial board members, he said.
But soon after turning the form in
to Schertz’s secretary, Gannon was
called into the vice president’s office
and told that Muhuri objected to the
request.
According to Schertz and Gannon,
Muhuri initially framed the problem as
one of space allocation. “Space in stu-
dent areas — not just on this campus
but on the other campuses, too — is
very limited,” Schertz said. Rarely do
clubs want the administration to allo-
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— David Gannon, chief executor of the Unfiltered Lens
cate that space, he added, so the job
often falls to the student government.
Gannon agreed to meet with
Schertz and Muhuri to discuss the
matter, but said Muhuri later ap-
proached him and offered to relent
on the issue if the paper gave him
positive press.
“Obviously that’s quid pro quo
right there,” Gannon said. He added
that if the issue was over space al-
location, Muhuri failed to make that
clear to the Unfiltered Lens from the
beginning.
“You start negotiations by talking,”
Gannon said. “You don’t start by tak-
ing action first.”
Schertz set up a meeting with
Muhuri, Gannon and the paper’s
adviser Steve Forleo to further dis-
cuss the matter. Gannon said Muhuri
expressed concern that locating the
Thursday, September 9, 2010
“You start negotiations by talking.”
Courtesy of Catherine Plante
Unfiltered Lens’ publication office
— they also have a separate editorial
office outside of the student union
— near the student government’s
headquarters would promote eaves-
dropping by reporters.
Gannon said Muhuri then shut
down suggestions to relocate the pa-
per’s office, and the meeting reached
a stalemate with Gannon walking out.
At a later meeting, Muhuri relent-
ed and said the paper could keep its
office. But, Gannon alleged, Muhuri
still requested that the paper not re-
port negatively on him. Gannon said
he offered Muhuri no promises.
Gannon said the Unfiltered Lens,
which is three years old, has reported
minimally on the student govern-
ment in the past. The president be-
fore Muhuri, Jim Brady, is also the
paper’s interim editor-in-chief. Brady
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that
he gave up his writing duties when
elected last year.
For now, the paper is back in its
publication office. New security policy
only allows one person to have key
access to the room.
still faces
roadblocks
continued from page 5
continue to support the project
for several reasons, including its
economic development potential,
positive environmental impact and
his desire to reduce Rhode Island’s
dependence on foreign and non-
renewable sources of energy.
Although the proposal has
moved forward, it still stands on
shaky ground. Several legal obsta-
cles still stand in the project’s way
— Attorney General Patrick Lynch
’87 has appealed the commission’s
ruling to the state Supreme Court,
calling it “outrageously bad.” The
Conservation Law Foundation, an
environmental group, has filed a
separate appeal to block the proj-
ect. Toray Plastics America and
Polytop Corp. — two large con-
sumers of electricity concerned
with the cost of wind energy —
filed a third appeal jointly.
In a press release, Lynch blast-
ed the proposal as a “sweetheart
deal” for Deepwater Wind that
will “force (Rhode Islanders) to
buy overpriced electricity for the
next 20 years in order to subsidize
one company” without creating
jobs. Lynch also said that the deal
would benefit Deepwater Wind
“at the expense of hardworking
Rhode Islanders, our state’s busi-
ness community and sustainable
economic development.”
Kempe said that Lynch’s op-
position to the Deepwater Wind
deal was political in nature, but
that she could not understand why
the Conservation Law Foundation
would challenge the project, given
what she described as the deal’s
environmental advantages.
“It’s disappointing,” she said.
SportsThursday
The Brown Daily Herald
W. Soccer
Squad wins Dartmouth tournament in opening weekend
By Madeleine Wenstrup
Contributing Writer
The graduation of eight former
players did not faze the women’s
soccer team during the opening
weekend of the season. After a one-
goal loss to Northeastern (3-2) on
Friday, the Bears (1-1) came back
to dominate Colgate (1-4) on Sun-
day and took the Dartmouth Nike
Classic Title. In the points-based
tournament in Hanover, N.H., the
team earned enough to secure the
tournament title.
The win was particularly impor-
tant in light of the changing team
dynamic. Ten freshmen joined the
squad, making over half the team
underclassmen.
“The two games gave us a
chance to learn about and play with
each other,” said Gina Walker ’11.
Northeastern 1, Brown 0
On Friday, Eliza Marshall ’13
helped her team come out strong
in the first half, recording Bruno’s
first three shots. But a goal by
Northeastern’s Veronica Napoli
in the middle of the first half would
determine the game.
Despite the Huskies’ goal,
Brown continued to attack, firing
off five shots in the last 17 minutes
of the first period, none of which
found the back of the net. In the
second half, Bruno again out-shot
Northeastern, 6-4, but could not
find a way past the Huskies’ goal-
keeper Michelle Sopko, who kept
Friday’s final score at 1-0.
In the first game of the season,
seven freshmen made their debuts
in collegiate soccer, including goal-
keepers MC Barrett ’13 and Amber
Bledsoe ’13, who together blocked
four of the Huskies’ shots on goal.
Working with new players and new
strategies, Friday’s game was a
time for “getting all the kinks out,”
said for ward Erika Lum ’11.
Brown 3, Colgate 0
The kinks were certainly gone
by Sunday afternoon, as Lum
scored just minutes into the game
for the first Brown goal of the year.
In the second half, Mar ybeth Les-
birel ’12 assisted on Bruno’s sec-
ond and third goals, setting up Lum
and Walker, respectively.
As a team, the Bears excelled
offensively, with 12 shots on goal
Thursday, September 9, 2010 | Page 7
compared to Colgate’s five. On
defense, the team prevented any
shots on goal in the entire second
half.
In the tour nament-winning
game, Head Coach Phil Pincince
played all 22 members of the travel-
ing team and said he was excited
that the freshmen had “gotten
their feet wet.” The tournament
win was “pretty rewarding for the
new members,” Pincince said.
In addition to the team’s title,
individual players were fur ther
honored. Lum, Walker and Allison
Kagawa ’12 were named to the All-
Tournament Team and Lum was
also named offensive MVP.
Players said the newly con-
structed team played well together.
“The progress we made this
weekend was a great starting point
for the season,” Walker said. “I be-
lieve we have a lot of potential this
year.”
The Bears continued to test
their new team dynamic Wednes-
day night, as they faced No. 5
Boston College in an away game.
Bruno returns to Providence to Jesse Morgan / Herald file photo
host its first home game on Satur- Sylvia Stone ’11, who was tied for third place on the team last year in
day at 2 p.m. against Monmouth. points, is one of the returners to this year’s team.
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S ports T hursday
M. Water Polo
After successful invite, Bruno looks ahead to tough schedule
BY Garret Johnson
Contributing Writer
The men’s water polo team still has
plenty more games to play, but it is
confident following two wins at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy Invitational on Saturday. Led by
Svetozar Stefanovic ’13, who returns
after a standout freshman year, the
Bears (2-0) handed Cal Lutheran (0-
4) an 11-6 defeat and beat the Boston
Metro Elite club team 11-7.
Head Coach Felix Mercado said
he was pleased to begin the season
undefeated, but the team is “nowhere
Field Hockey
Team drops two in season-opening tournament
BY Sam Sheehan
Contributing Writer
The field hockey team (0-2) trav-
eled to the University of Iowa early
this week for a pair of hard-fought
games. The Bears were edged 1-0
by Miami (Ohio) (5-0) and fell to
No. 19 Iowa 5-0.
Miami (Ohio) 1, Brown 0
In the first game, the Bears
scrapped and clawed their way
through a tough defensive battle,
but they were nicked by a single
goal in their ef for t against the
Miami (Ohio) Redhawks. Captain
Tacy Zysk ’11 was quick to cite
goalie Lauren Kessler ’12 as an in-
tegral part of the Bears’ ability to
keep the game close.
“She saved everything a (Divi-
sion I) goalie ought to, and then
some,” Zysk wrote in an e-mail to
The Herald. “She was the MVP of
near where we need to be.”
Mercado said the team’s condi-
tioning is its major weakness thus
far. “Some of the guys are not in 100
percent shape,” Mercado said. He
said his expectations were not too
high for the first games of the year,
but he was pleased that the team was
“tactically solid.”
Stefanovic, in an e-mail to The Her-
ald, echoed the feelings of his coach,
noting that the team “played well” but
is “not in shape yet.” Stefanovic scored
six goals at the MIT tournament but
was still not completely satisfied
with the results, writing that Bruno
that game.”
Kessler’s seven-save per for-
mance highlighted a strong de-
fensive effort for the Bears, who
continue to sharpen their skills for
Ivy League competition.
“It was a battle, and both teams
were racing hard to every ball and
laying everything out,” Zysk said.
University of Iowa 5, Brown 0
In the second game, the Bears
faced a tough challenge against the
nationally ranked Iowa Hawkeyes.
The matchup was made even more
difficult by multiple Bear injuries.
Starting midfielder Kelley Harri-
son ’13 suffered an ankle sprain in
warmups and players such as last
year’s leading scorer, Leslie Spring-
meyer ’12, played limited minutes
due to injury.
But the team refused to use the
injuries as justification for the poor
result.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“Our conference is as deep as it has ever been.”
“should have won by more goals.”
The Bears come away from MIT
with a vital momentum that will play a
role in the difficult remaining sched-
ule, Mercado said.
“Week in and week out, we are go-
ing to be playing tough competition,”
he said. “Our conference is as deep
as it has ever been.”
The coach mentioned the “usual
suspects” as contenders in the Col-
legiate Water Polo Association East
Region: Princeton, Navy and Johns
Hopkins. But the looming giant may
be St. Francis College, ranked No.
1 in the CWPA Northern Division,
Tacy Zysk ’11 and the field hockey team fell short in last weekend’s visit
to the University of Iowa.
“No team is built around any sin-
gle player, and we won’t acquiesce
to the excuse ‘we had injured start-
ers’ because our team is the deepest
it’s been in years,” Zysk wrote. “We
are going to watch video, figure out
— Felix Mercado, men’s water polo head coach
whom the Bears will face on Sept. 25.
If Brown defeats St. Francis and
other premier squads, it will have to
be with the help of underclassmen.
Over half of Mercado’s players are
freshmen or sophomores.
But Mercado said youth was a big-
ger obstacle last year, as the sopho-
mores have now played a full season
together. And the upperclassmen on
the team are “setting a good example”
for the newest members, Mercado
said.
Stefanovic wrote that he is pleased
with his freshman teammates thus far.
“At MIT they showed that they
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
what broke down, and fix it.”
The Bears will face Monmouth
on Saturday in the last game of their
opening road trip. Bruno then takes
on Columbia in its home opener
on Sept. 18.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
have great potential and that they
are an important part of the team,”
he wrote.
Both Stefanovic and Mercado
cited the promise of James McNa-
mara ’14, a member of the USA Junior
Olympic team. Mercado said he ex-
pects McNamara and other freshmen
to “make an impact.”
The Bears continue on to the
Bucknell Invitational, which begins
Friday evening. They will face Dia-
blo Valley College, the University
of Toronto, Bucknell, Penn State at
Behrend and Navy in a jam-packed
weekend.
s p o rt s i n b r i e f
Runners on their
mark for season
The men’s and women’s
cross country teams are
eagerly preparing for
a new year starting on
Saturday, according to
Director of Men’s and
Women’s Cross Country
Michelle Eisenreich.
“The enthusiasm is
amazing,” Eisenreich said.
“Everybody is working
hard at this point in the
season, and may be even
ready to step it up a
notch.”
Eisenreich, the longtime
throwing coach, replaced
former Head Coach Craig
Lake after last season.
The men hope to
improve on last season’s
results, when they placed
fifth at the Ivy League
Championships. NCAA
Championships qualifier
Christian Escareno ’11 is
expected to lead the team,
along with co-captains
Matt Duffy ’12 and Chris
Collins ’11.
Co-captains Lauren
Pischel ’11 and Caitlin
Clark ’11 will lead the
women’s squad. Past
standouts Ari Garber ’12
and Megan Fitzpatrick ’11
are also returning.
While only a few runners
will travel to the Boston
College Invitational this
Saturday, the rest of the
team will continue to
prepare for the Iona Meet
of Champions in New York
a week later. Bruno will
face its first big test of the
year there, with hopes that
its preseason work pays
off.
Brown hopes to find a
new men’s distance coach
this month, Eisenreich
said, after Kevin Myles left
the program to become
Head Men’s Track Coach
at Providence College.
— James Blum, with
additional reporting
by Ben Noble
World & Nation
The Brown Daily Herald
Researchers try to translate HIV treatment to humans Facebook
By Rachel Bernstein
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Clad in a yellow
gown, blue foot covers, hair net, face
mask and latex gloves, Paula Cannon
pushed open the door to the animal
room. “I hate this smell,” she said,
wrinkling her nose.
The stink came from scores of
little white mice scurrying about
in cages. Some of the cages were
marked with red biohazard signs,
indicating mice that had been injected
with HIV.
Yet, in some of the animals —
ones with a small genetic change —
the virus never took hold.
Like mouse, like man? Maybe so.
In early 2007, a patient in Berlin
needed a bone marrow transplant to
treat his leukemia. He was also HIV-
positive, and his doctor had an idea:
Why not use the marrow from one of
the rare individuals who are naturally
resistant to HIV and try to eradicate
both diseases at once?
It worked. Sixty-one days after the
patient’s transplant, his virus levels
were undetectable, and they’ve stayed
that way.
Since news of the man’s cure
broke, HIV patients have been tele-
phoning doctors to ask for bone
marrow transplants. But it’s not that
simple. The treatment is too risky
and impractical for widespread use.
“A bone marrow transplant — it’s
a horrible process you would not wish
on your worst enemy unless they
needed one to save their life,” said
Cannon, a biology professor at the
Keck School of Medicine at the Uni-
versity of Southern California. There
are grueling treatments to prepare a
patient for transplant; the danger of
rejecting the marrow; and the risk of
graft-versus-host disease, wherein the
marrow attacks the patient.
And that’s assuming the patient
can find a matching donor — a dif-
California student sues over sorority hazing
By Lisa M. Krieger
San Jose Mercury News
SAN JOSE, Calif. — When honor
student Courtney Howard pledged
to join a sorority on San Jose State
University, she sought the support
of close-knit sisters in the school’s
small African-American community.
Instead, what she got was ritual-
ized hazing that included a nearly
month-long string of beatings, punch-
ing, kicking and paddling, accord-
ing to a lawsuit filed in Santa Clara
County Superior Court this week —
an episode that experts say is far too
common among African-American
Greek organizations.
Howard, 20, has sued eight stu-
dents, the Sigma Gamma Rho So-
rority and the university, saying it
failed to investigate and protect her
from retaliation by sorority members
after reporting the 2008 incident. She
has since withdrawn from SJSU
and transferred to the University
of Southern California, saying she
didn’t feel safe.
A researcher inspects a mouse that will be infected with HIV for study at
a medical research lab at the USC Medical School.
ficult proposition in itself — with the
right HIV-resistant genetic constitu-
tion, which is present in only about 1
percent of the Caucasian population.
But there could be another way.
Instead of sifting through the
sands for a rare donor and then sub-
jecting a patient to the dangers of a
bone marrow transplant, Cannon and
her colleague Philip Gregory, chief
scientific officer at the Richmond,
Calif.-based biotech company San-
gamo BioSciences, began to think:
They could use gene therapy instead,
to tweak a patient’s own cells to resis-
tance — and recovery.
The mouse “cure,” they say, sug-
gests they’re on the right track.
Cannon and other HIV research-
ers insist that, despite cancers and
deaths associated with past gene
therapy trials, it’s the right way to
target the disease. They cite recent
successes, including treatments that
cured children with the “bubble boy”
syndrome and helped blind children
regain their vision.
Four of the SJSU students —
Princess Odom, Monique Hughes,
Nicole Remble and Joslyn Beard —
have already been convicted of mis-
demeanor hazing in criminal court,
sentenced to 90 days in jail and two
years’ probation.
“There was physical violence,”
said Howard’s attorney, Angela
Reddock of Los Angeles. Howard is
seeking unspecified damages. “Any
number of steps could have been
taken by the university to change her
living situation and provide security,
but that did not happen.”
SJSU spokesman Larry Carr
would not comment on the law-
suit, but he did say the university
has suspended Sigma Gamma Rho
until at least 2016 after concluding
the chapter had violated anti-hazing
regulations.
The 87-year-old sorority was also
suspended seven years ago following
another hazing incident. Another Af-
rican American sorority, Alpha Kappa
Alpha, is suspended from SJSU.
“We enforce a very strict no-
Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
“I don’t think anyone would want
to do gene therapy if there were an
alternative,” said California Institute
of Technology biologist David Bal-
timore, one of the many L.A.-based
researchers pursuing gene therapy
strategies to prevent or cure HIV. “I
think it’s absolutely necessary. Noth-
ing else will work.”
Since AIDS emerged in the early
1980s, development of anti-HIV medi-
cations has turned the disease from a
virtual death sentence into a chronic,
manageable condition.
But the clamor for a cure hasn’t
quieted.
Vaccine trials have failed; drug-
resistant strains are on the rise; and
the meds, which can have uncom-
fortable side effects such as fatigue,
nausea and redistribution of body fat
that creates a so-called buffalo hump,
cost about $20,000 a year.
A bone marrow transplant is about
five times as expensive, but it would
have to be done only once.
The question was, could research-
hazing policy. We do proper inves-
tigations and take complaints very
seriously,” said Carr. “We want to
make sure our students feel that San
Jose State is a safe place to be.”
Pledging is an important ritual for
young people seeking to join Greek
life. In identical outfits, learning po-
ems and history, students pledge
for a number of weeks and those
who stick with it “cross over” into
membership. Many make life-long
friends and create strong bonds to
their new organization. But during
the process, there can be a dark side,
called “hazing”: physical and emo-
tional challenges that may result in
injury, even death. To reduce risk,
Greek organizations and universities
have shortened the pledge period
and banned hazing.
On that late September week in
2008, the SJSU hazing resembled a
gang initiation rite.
Howard — a B-plus student, ath-
lete and YMCA counselor — said
that when she was invited to join the
sorority, she was told that the sorority
Thursday, September 9, 2010 | Page 9
ers create bone marrow stem cells
that — just like the marrow the Berlin
patient received — lack the crucial
gene, CCR5, that normally lets HIV
into the key immune cells it destroys?
In 2006, Gregory asked Cannon if
she was interested in testing whether
a tool his company developed, called
a zinc finger nuclease, could do the
trick.
Zinc finger nucleases are genetic
scissors, cutting DNA at a specific
site — say, in the middle of the CCR5
gene. When the cell glues the gene
back together, it usually makes a
mistake, resulting in a gene that no
longer works.
“It just jumped out at me as, ‘Oh
my gosh, that’s actually something
that could work,’ ” Cannon said.
The team spent about a year op-
timizing the procedure for treating
delicate stem cells with the CCR5
snippers.
They tested the method using
so-called humanized mice — ones
engineered to have a human immune
system — because HIV doesn’t infect
normal mice. When stem cells were
treated with the molecular scissors
before being injected into mice, the
resulting immune system lacked
CCR5, exactly as the scientists had
hoped.
These mice acted just like the Ber-
lin patient — they fought off the virus.
Ready to make the leap from
mouse to man, Gregory found a third
leg for the team: researchers at City
of Hope, who had extensive bone
marrow transplant expertise.
“They brought Paula’s data to us
and we said, ‘Wow, this looks fan-
tastic,’ “ said Dr. John Zaia, City of
Hope’s deputy director for clinical
research.
Researchers there are now work-
ing toward clinical trials, optimizing
every element of the treatment for
safety, effectiveness and reproduc-
ibility.
did not haze its pledges.
Sorority sisters threatened How-
ard that “snitches get stitches,” bor-
rowing a gangster phrase, Howard al-
leges. During one “pledge meeting,”
they warned Howard not to drop out,
saying she would be “jumped out”
with a beating, like being “jumped
into” a gang.
In one instance, Howard said she
and two other pledges were blind-
folded and taken to Odom’s San Jose
backyard, where they were sprayed
with a hose. In another, they were hit
on their hands and knuckles with
a wooden spoon. Later they were
slammed into walls, hit with a kitchen
pot and punched in the stomach.
Howard alleges that the repeated
assaults in up to 16 pledge meetings
caused welts, large bruises and a
knee injury, forcing her to seek medi-
cal care. Another pledge, Jade Atkins,
was knocked unconscious when she
fell and hit her head on a wooden
floor — but was simply taken to the
shower to awaken, according to the
complaint.
juror gets
homework
By Christina Hall
Detroit Free Press
DETROIT — A Warren, Mich., juror
was fined $250 and ordered to write a
five-page essay on the Sixth Amend-
ment after a Macomb County judge
found her in contempt of court for
declaring a defendant guilty on Face-
book before the trial ended.
Hadley Jons, 20, has to pay the fine
and write the essay on a defendant’s
right to a jury trial by Oct. 1, Circuit
Judge Diane Druzinski ordered
Thursday. If Jons complies, the civil
contempt will be purged.
Jons told the judge she was “very
sorry.” She did not comment after
the hearing.
“I think it’s an appropriate reso-
lution,” said her attorney, John C.
Giancotti.
The case has some in the legal
world thinking that judges, in general,
need to specify social media sites to
jurors when giving jury instructions
in this ever-changing tech world.
“(Jurors) need to be told so clearly,
so adamantly so it hits home and cre-
ates a picture. Maybe the penalty that
occurred in this case and the public
exposure will be helpful,” said Bay
County Circuit Judge Bill Caprathe,
chairman of the State Bar of Michi-
gan’s criminal jury instruction com-
mittee.
Saleema Goodman Sheikh, who
represented the defendant in the re-
sisting arrest trial in which Jons was
a juror, said that she is satisfied with
Druzinski’s decision, but “would have
liked to have seen some jail time.”
Before the prosecution finished
its case last month, Jons wrote on
her Facebook page that it was “gonna
be fun to tell the defendant they’re
GUILTY.” Goodman Sheikh’s 17-year-
old son, Jaxon Goodman, who is clerk-
ing for his mother, discovered the post
during a court break. Druzinski had
Jons removed.
“Who would think to have a pre-
determined verdict,” Goodman said
after Jons’ hearing Thursday.
Goodman Sheikh said that two of
the 12 jurors had Facebook pages and
that the other juror had not logged on
since the trial began.
She said that she hopes the Jons’
case will “make a difference to other
jurors.” Although she said that Dru-
zinski specifically mentioned Face-
book, MySpace and Google to the
jury, Goodman Sheikh agrees that
jury instructions in general may have
to explicitly mention social media
sites.
The Michigan Supreme Court ad-
opted a rule that took effect in 2009
that states courts are to instruct jurors
not to discuss the case or read or lis-
ten to news reports about the case.
Jurors also are not to use comput-
ers, cell phones or other electronic
devices with communication capa-
bilities at the trial or in deliberations
or to use these devices to “obtain or
disclose information about the case
when they are not in court.”
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Column skews sweatshop position

To the Editor: wholly to the workers’ demands in an
unprecedented recognition of respon-
Hunter Fast’s ’12 column (“Sweat- sibility for labor rights abuses in its
shops and you: a practical analysis,” global supply chain. These examples
Sept. 7) misrepresents the position ad- show that, despite Fast’s claims, al-
vocated by the global anti-sweatshop ternatives to labor abuses do exist,
movement, of which the Brown Stu- and an alliance between students and
dent Labor Alliance is a part. Workers workers globally has power to enact
in factories throughout the “develop- those alternatives.
ing” world are organizing and fighting Furthermore, we fundamentally
for fairer treatment from corporations. take issue with the assertion that
As anti-sweatshop activists, our goal sweatshops are beneficial to “develop-
is to stand with them in their fight. ing” countries in general. Contrary to
Brown SLA has never advocated the false binary guiding this column,
contract cuts from companies that the existing debate is not between
engage in unfair labor practices solely sweatshop jobs and no jobs, but be-
to distance our University from these tween sweatshop jobs and jobs at
practices, but rather as a tool to hold which human rights are respected.
corporations accountable for global Such jobs do exist, such as at the
abuses. new Knights Alta Gracia unionized
This targeted and strategic lever- garment factory in the Dominican
aging of university apparel contracts Republic, where workers are paid a
has led to tangible victories in the past living wage. Providing University busi-
two years. When Russell Athletic ille- ness for such factories can uplift labor A le x Y uly
gally shuttered two garment factories standards globally. These examples
in Honduras in response to union- show that students acting in solidarity
ization there, a campaign of contract with workers organizing globally can e d i to r i a l
cuts at U.S. universities forced the transform current sweatshop jobs.
company to reopen those factories Our goal is not to close sweatshops,
and respect workers’ rights to orga-
nize. When Nike refused to pay 1,700
displaced Honduran garment work-
but rather to ensure that workers
there have a right to organize and
fight for better conditions.
The private network
ers their legally-mandated severance We’ve all been warned countless times: Everything peoples’ careers. According to a recent New York
pay, Brown’s contract cut, along with Kate Hadley ’12.5, Haley we post on Facebook can and will be used against Times Magazine article, a 25-year-old aspiring
Cornell’s and the University of Wis- Kossek ’13, Julian Park ’12, us. Internet privacy is almost an oxymoron these teacher named Stacy Snyder was denied her degree
consin’s, motivated Nike to settle with Ian Trupin ’13, Becca Rast ’13 days, as companies track our online purchases and from the Millersville School of Education because
the workers’ union. Nike conceded Sept. 7 distant acquaintances browse our pictures. Most a picture on her Facebook profile appeared to pro-
people seem to feel that the responsibility to keep mote drinking. Snyder’s difficulties began when
a respectable and private Facebook profile lies a super visor at the public high school where she
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d entirely with users. Brown Computer Information was training looked up her profile.
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors Services even has a webpage which advises, “That While some would probably say Snyder should
George Miller Chaz Kelsh Emmy Liss Ben Hyman embarrassing photo from last weekend’s bash or have monitored the content of her Facebook page
Joanna Wohlmuth Seth Motel list of crudely-stated interests could tarnish your a little more carefully, we think the possibility of
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Anne Speyer Arts & Culture Editor General Managers Office Manager professor or alum/future employer.” That’s why we find the proposed German law so
Suzannah Weiss Arts & Culture Editor Claire Kiely Shawn Reilly However, lawmakers in Germany are question- intriguing. It begins to push back against the idea
Sara Luxenberg Features Editor Katie Koh
Brian Mastroianni Features Editor ing the notion that all online content is fundamen- that one’s Facebook or MySpace profile is an in-
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Sydney Ember News Editor Margaret Watson Client Relations
Zack Bahr Sports Editor Christiana Stephenson Alumni Relations evaluating job applicants. This provision is part of users, we hope society begins to recognize that
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BY MIKE JOHNSON
Opinions Columnist
As the class of 2014 walked through the Van
Wickle Gates, tanned on the Main Green
and emerged convocated, the rest of us set-
tled into our dorm rooms and picked out the
classes we’ll take. But this isn’t last semes-
ter’s Brown — widespread changes are al-
ready taking hold.
The new Campus Center in Faunce is ex-
citing, overly modern and ready to provide
an alternative to the Ratty lunches I for one
missed so much during the summer vaca-
tion.
Metcalf Chemistry Laboratory is under-
going a massive change, as construction
workers rip it apart so it can emerge later
a beautiful, grant-attracting butterfly. Traffic
on Thayer Street notwithstanding, this is a
long time coming, though I do feel that the
repaired steps that were put in last semester
seem a superfluous expense, in retrospect.
There was also a more subtle — and
more insidious — change to every campus
eatery and event from now until politics
change again: no more bottled water. That’s
right. No longer can the elitists buy Fiji; no
more can the shallow-pocketed buy Crystal
Geyser; the end has come even for the ques-
tionably named “Brown water” that made an
appearance at many campus events in the
past.
The “Beyond the Bottle” campaign has
made significant headway against the cul-
ture of single-use plastic in our beverage
The A/B/(N)Cs of Brown grading
BY KURT WALTERS
Opinions Columnist
Is it just me, or does something seem stale
at Brown? That fundamental Brunonian in-
stitution, the New Curriculum, turned forty
years old last year and yet, even solidly into
middle age, it has never had a systematic re-
evaluation.
Most students have a vague allegiance
to the system, mainly revolving around not
having required classes and being able to
take classes S/NC. We accept it as a part of
Brown’s identity and assume that the origi-
nal proposals from 1969 still have our best
interests at heart. It’s ironic, then, that stu-
dents passively accept the same New Curric-
ulum that encourages them to be the active
architects of their own educations.
With A’s increasing to account for over fif-
ty percent of grades in 2008, it is reasonable
to take another look at our grading system.
Next to our lack of requirements, Brown’s
grading is probably its most distinctive
feature, spawning the ever-annoying win-
ter break question of “Oh, Brown? So you,
like, don’t have grades, right?” Actually, that
question might not be so far off base. The
original GISP proposal for the New Curricu-
lum recommended doing away with grades
altogether, but worries about how graduate
schools would react prompted them to keep
grades — with several tweaks to them.
Thus we have the option to take any class
Satisfactory/No Credit. Even the more tradi-
tional A/B/C/NC option is not entirely con-
ventional, setting itself apart by eschewing
David Bowie loves Brown
selection, and the administration at Brown
agrees — bottled water is bad. The plastic
will give you cancer, the water usually just
comes from the tap (oh no!) and everyone
just throws empty bottles into the trash can
rather than recycling them.
Therefore, bottled water will slowly be
replaced. This has already begun, as the
Gate has eschewed bottled water in favor of
a “Water Station” located near where they
hide the napkins. To me, “Water Station” is
just a fancy name for “water fountain” and
Proponents claim that “Beyond the Bottle” will
help Brown to become truly sustainable. This
is particularly important in the case of siege or
nuclear fallout.
is a fairly flimsy attempt to take a technol-
ogy everyone knows and make it sound cut-
ting-edge and new wave. Might I instead
suggest “Hydration Station”? It sounds like
something Major Tom would use, while the
melodic rhyme satisfies those of us with sen-
sitive ears.
In all seriousness, though, what will this
actually change?
Lazy college students will simply buy oth-
er items that come in plastic bottles, such as
energy drinks, juice or soda, slowly fattening
themselves on high sugar content and going
into debt to pay dentists to care for rotting
pluses and minuses and not registering NC’s
or dropped classes. Thus the only grades
showing on our official transcripts are A’s,
B’s, C’s or S’s. We are definitely different
from other schools, but is this system still in
our best interest?
This grading system was a natural addi-
tion to the New Curriculum’s lack of distri-
bution requirements, encouraging academ-
ic exploration and a broad course of study.
The S/NC option permits students to stretch
When passing a class and getting a C is
considered worse than failing the course, we
know there is a problem.
themselves into unfamiliar academic terri-
tory without worrying about how they will
do. Similarly, I know I’m not the only person
who has benefited from being able to take
an extra class, knowing that I could always
drop it without consequence if it became too
much of a burden.
Still, how many times have you heard
a friend say, “Ugh, I got a B in that class. I
knew I should have just taken it pass/fail,”
or known of a friend who — realizing that
an NC would not show up on her transcript
— just dropped her chemistry class to avoid
Thursday, September 9, 2010 | Page 11
teeth. Even the not-so-lazy ones who buy a
reusable bottle could be lazy enough not to
wash it for a week or two, and could cook up
some crazy bacteria like staph or strep that
could infect themselves and others.
Proponents claim that “Beyond the Bot-
tle” will help Brown to become truly sustain-
able. This is particularly important in the
case of siege or nuclear fallout, since we’ll be
entirely cut off from the vestiges of civiliza-
tion and would have to fend for ourselves —
though ironically, in the worst-case scenario,
necessitating true sustainability, the water
tables would be polluted and all we would be
able to drink would be bottled water.
In the long run, reducing our dependen-
cy on bottled products is better for the en-
vironment. Exhaust from delivery trucks,
garbage from thrown-away bottles and the
pollution from factories manufacturing them
all take a toll on our increasingly fragile en-
vironment. I suppose my relationship with
bottled water could deal with a drawdown in
forces, despite my determination to recycle
every bottle I use.
But I don’t see how this could improve
getting a C? These are the perverse incen-
tives this system unwittingly created. A stu-
dent can elect to take a course S/NC if they
know they are unlikely to receive an A in the
class, hiding the grade from their transcript
and their (unofficially calculated) GPA. If the
student takes a class for a grade and is look-
ing at a C going into the home stretch, many
will counsel them to just drop the class or
even throw the exam — better to pass only
three classes than have a big ugly C on one’s
transcript.
This leaves us in an unreasonable new en-
vironment in which A’s are the only “good”
grade and anything else represents a failure
on some level. When passing a class and get-
ting a C is considered worse than failing the
course, we know there is a problem. While
the Brown grading system was created to
further academic exploration, it’s hard to
deny that it now encourages laxity and per-
fectionism. Even if we like the system as it
is, we should acknowledge its real outcomes
today, rather than solely clinging to 40-year-
sustainability overall, as it makes Brown
an island of “Hydration Stations” in a sea of
bottled water culture. Brown is not a closed
system; every day there is some sort of
event on campus, and some (including Com-
mencement every May) draw thousands of
visitors to College Hill. It would be ludicrous
to assume that every one of these visitors is
going to have a reusable bottle. So they en-
counter the “Hydration Station,” and what do
they do with it? It would be like thousands of
Ancyent Marineres wandering around Rim-
ing.
That would just be silly, some may say —
Brown would supply cups for them to use
with the “Hydration Station.” But what kind
of cups? Paper? Plastic? Gasp — Styrofoam?
Of course these visitors wouldn’t be expect-
ed to carry their cups, on which they’ve writ-
ten their names, around for the duration of
their stays at Brown — they’d throw them
away and get more whenever they were
thirsty.
Change is a huge buzzword right now,
and everyone is trying to hop on the trans-
formation bandwagon — even if it’s just
change for change’s sake. Brown will be
damned if it gets left behind. But it seems
to me that we haven’t thought this through.
Creating a bottled water-free utopia is short-
sighted and infeasible, not to mention a dys-
topia for Brown visitors. While the intentions
are admirable, perhaps Brown shouldn’t be
so hasty to go “Beyond the Bottle.”
Mike Johnson ’11 gives a shout-
out to “Sammy T” Coleridge.
old rhetoric.
I feel a few simple reforms could bring
our grading system back down to earth. A
requirement to complete at least the stu-
dent portion of the course performance re-
port (CPR) reflecting on one’s work in S/NC
classes could help prevent the classes from
being “slacker options.” We could also insti-
tute a deadline for the unrecorded drop, per-
haps two-thirds of the way through the se-
mester, allowing one time to know if an extra
class is too much, but preventing the worst
abuse. Last, either NC’s could be recorded
or D’s could be added as a passing grade to
make B’s and C’s more acceptable results.
Most of all, we should recognize that
sometimes it isn’t so bad to get our butt
kicked by a class. The papers and classes in
which I’ve gotten hammered have taught me
far more than any “easy A” has. While being
mindful of grad schools and future employ-
ment, I encourage students to view the oc-
casional poor grade not as a sign of failure,
but as a badge of pride for pushing them-
selves to their limits. Maybe a transcript full
of A’s is less a mark of a “perfect student”
and more that of a student who has played it
safe, missing the ultimate Brunonian goals
of pushing into truly unfamiliar territory and
up to the limits of one’s capacities.
Kurt Walters ’11 is a philosophy,
politics and economics
concentrator from Charlottesville,
Va. He may be contacted at kurt_
walters@brown.edu.
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1 “Happiness ___
Warm Gun”
4 Card game with Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra & Brendan Hainline
slapping
8 Hearty brews
14 Moon, Silver, and
Mortar, in Pokémon:
Abbr.
15 “I was the shadow
of the waxwing slain
/ By the false azure
in the window ___”:
“Pale Fire”
16 Commotion
17 Fictional barbershop
quartet on “The
Simpsons” that
breaks up when
Barney starts
dating a Japanese
conceptual artist
19 Nitrogen and carbon
dioxide
20 ___ mater
21 “Big up yaself”
speaker
23 Turkish muck-a-
muck
24 Mrs. Huxtable, on The Adventures of Team Vag | Wendy Kwartin
“The Cosby Show”
26 Paul ___, onetime
pseudonym of Paul
McCartney (and the
inspiration for Joey,
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