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the Brown
Corporation Ne ws in brief
to approve ‘Jockapella’
2012 budget receives UCS
this weekend approval
The Undergraduate Council
By Alex Bell of Students elected an Ivy
News Editor Council liaison and approved
the formation of four new
With few major capital projects left student groups, including
on its plate, the Corporation will “Jockapella,” last night.
meet this weekend to discuss vari- UCS invited its members
ous University policies and vote on to consider serving as the
next year’s budget. body’s representative to the
The University’s highest govern- Ivy Council. Leah Bromberg ’11,
ing body will review President Ruth who currently serves on the
Simmons’ budget recommendations Academic and Administrative
— including tuition and student fees Affairs committee, ran for
— based on the report of the Univer- Stephanie London / Herald the position pointing to her
sity Resources Committee, which Pro- and anti-gay marriage advocates overflowed from the State House yesterday as debate began on a marriage bill. experiences with both UCS
Faculty remains
the founding members have
Revered reverend formed a camaraderie with
athletes across a number of
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Chaplain looks back on 21 years
By ashley aydin which was just the two of us, to New Divine Providence
6:30 P.m. 6:00 p.m. Senior Staff Writer Hampshire. I had to make weekly A few years after she arrived as
Israeli Film Festival: “Precious Life”, CSA Chinese New Year Banquet, commutes. There was divinity place- chaplain, Cooper Nelson said she
Avon Cinema Andrews Dining Hall In suite 410 of J. Walter Wilson, amid ment in Hanover, which ultimately talked to senior officers and deans
colorful artwork, classic furniture turned into a job,” she said. and created student focus groups to
8:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
and family photographs of Brown There is not a typical process for see what could be done to increase
East Campus Speed Dating, Dancing with the Profs, community members, sits Reverend becoming a chaplain of a university. religious diversity on campus. Coo-
Barbour Hall Alumnae Hall Janet Cooper Nelson, the University “People come to this position out of per Nelson also created additional
chaplain. academic classrooms at universities, associate positions in her office so
across to bear School but did not like the way the
law school worked “because of its
added.
As chaplain, Cooper Nelson said
failure,” she said.
Religious institutions across the
ACROSS legends of the Hidden temple by natan last ‘12 sort of ‘hazing’ process,” she said, she tries to supports students in their world are undergoing processes of
1 Cops, slangily “where students would have to stand choices instead of dictating specific deep reform and restructuring.
5 Peaces out
11 As yet up and read cases.” solutions to them. “Your grandchildren will see radi-
unscheduled: Abbr.
14 Troy’s best friend, Cooper Nelson enrolled at the “We’re just going to hold the cally different models, whether due
on “Community”
15 86th Street home Divinity School in Cambridge, mirror up for you and make sure to finance, deep moral outrage about
of Caravaggio’s Mass., while her husband worked you’ve made a decision that reflects the conduct of some communities
“The Musicians”
16 Live ___, 1985 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, the values you have,” she said. “That’s and the people in some communi-
fundraising concert
for Ethiopian N.H. “We moved our family home, our job.” ties, or something else,” she said.
famine relief
17 Be a role model, as
to younger siblings
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22 Former Oasis
Corporation to review building projects
guitarist Gallagher
23 Headlines? continued from page 1 Aquatics Center and Jonathan Nel- in the company.
28 ___ Mawr, Pa. son ’77 Fitness Center and the Medi- Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76,
30 Bills at a strip club
31 Actress Green of Brown Alumni Association and a cal Education Building. who leads the Corporation, said that
“Casino Royale”
32 Eye of the tigre? trustee of the Corporation at the time Carey said the University’s invest- for the past few years the body has
33 “That’s just
embarrassing...,” of his death in December, will be held ment in HEI Hotels and Resorts will been “operating under the shadow of
online Saturday at 12:15 p.m. in Sayles Hall. also be on the agenda for the Cor- convulsions of the financial markets”
36 “Actress” who, to
assuage her fear In addition to the budget, Carey poration’s Investment Committee in its discussions of fundraising and
of flying before 66 Cuthbert of “The 13 Suffix with hater 48 Harsh
getting on planes, Girl Next Door” or power 49 Chomper in said discussion will likely also touch following the December recom- capital projects.
pumps some 67 Population: ___ 18 Web ___ “The Land
Britney Spears full (Strong Badia sign) (sparkling Before Time,”
on housing and future capital proj- mendation by the Advisory Com- “Meeting at this time is an op-
volume 68 Hirsute “Addams defensive play) and others ects, as well as ongoing projects such mittee on Corporate Responsibility portunity to both step back and to
39 Reality TV show in Family” cousin 19 Riotous crowd 51 “Still ___” (Hit
which Paris Hilton 69 “Shaun of the 24 City near from 1999) as the Katherine Moran Coleman in Investment Policy not to reinvest look forward,” he said.
and Nicole Richie Dead” or “Dead D√ºsseldorf 53 ___ Maas,
tried to do manual, & Breakfast,” for 25 Honduran Oedipa’s At its February meeting last year,
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low-paying jobs, for short currency husband in “The the Corporation approved a 4.5
the amusement of 70 Bad day for Caesar 26 Knievel of Crying of Lot the Brown
all daredeviltry 49” percent increase in undergraduate
42 Iron Wok DOWN 27 “How I Met Your 54 Kind of golf
alternative 1 Offer, as a lit joint Mother” narrator tourney tuition and fees along with a 6.5 per-
43 Element between 2 Fairy king in “A 29 Counterspell to 55 Calc. calculation
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Swearer Center brings student pay in line with labor law
By Claire Gianotti nator for the Swearer Classroom student employment policies and
Contributing Writer Program, said the only real change procedures,” Warner said. The
to her routine was that she would same review led the computer sci-
This semester the Swearer Cen- have to log her time hourly rather ence department to begin paying
ter for Public Service will pay its than weekly. its teaching assistants by the hour
program coordinators by the hour, Every week, coordinators will last semester.
rather than with a stipend, in order now have to fill out a form to log This committee revised the stu-
to bring its compensation polices their hours in order to receive dent employment handbook and
in line with the Fair Labor Stan- payment. Last year, Lin said, “the standardized a time-tracking sheet
dards Act. checks just came.” that can be used by all departments.
Coordinators are paid not only The Swearer Center does not This effort will continue, Warner
because of their large time com- expect “a major change” in funding said, adding that the committee will
mitment, but also in the hope that for the center, or in the amount of work with the Dean of the College
the compensation will make com- compensation students will receive, to define a new category of paid
munity service “more financially Nozaki said. “At this point it is a “student opportunities,” which will
accessible,” said Roger Nozaki pretty straightforward thing,” he not be subject to the Fair Labor
MAT’89, director of the Swearer added. Standards Act. Offering “student
Center and associate dean of the The decision is not a result of opportunities” in addition to stu-
College for community and global the Swearer budget cuts announced dent employment will hopefully
engagement. last spring, said Elizabeth Warner, provide more avenues for students
Affected students did not ex- director of compensation and or- to be involved in campus life, War-
press strong opinions about the ganizational services. Instead, the ner said.
change. “I do the work that I need change is intended to bring the The review “has nothing to do
to do, and I happen to get paid,” University into compliance with with money,” Warner said, and is
said Brian Lin ’12, a coordinator for the Fair Labor Standards Act of rather in response to a need for
the Brown Language Arts Program, 1938, she said. more communication between
which works with elementary-age A committee convened by the departments regarding employ-
students in Providence schools. Department of Human Resources, ment on campus. She added that
Lin said he was unsure how the the Office of Financial Aid and the the review is not likely to spur any
change would affect him. Controller’s Office met at the be- further changes to the way money Stephanie London / Herald
Christine Joyce ’12.5, a coordi- ginning of the semester to “clarify is allotted to student-run programs. The Swearer Center will pay students by the hour instead of on a stipend basis.
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