Daily Herald the Brown
vol. cxliv, no. 25 | Thursday, February 26, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891
Moderate
Party may
get R.I.
recognition
BY George Miller
Metro Editor
A lawsuit and bills in the state Gen-
eral Assembly may allow the Moder-
ate Party of Rhode Island, a year-old
political organization, to gain official
recognition by the next election.
METRO
Under current state law, a party
can gain official status by collecting
signatures of voters equal to 5 percent
of the turnout of the previous presi-
dential or gubernatorial election. The
signatures can be gathered only dur-
ing an election year. Parties are also
recognized if they fielded a candidate
for president or governor who got at
least 5 percent of the vote.
Rhode Island has “the most restric-
tive ballot access laws in the United
States,” said Ken Block, chairman of
the Moderate Party.
The party’s lawsuit, filed in federal
court, challenges the constitutionality
of the state statute. The Rhode Island
American Civil Liberties Union filed
the case, which Block said is still in its
early stages, on behalf of the group,
whose platform targets “the four Es:”
the economy, ethics, education and
the environment.
Block said the state needs to “get
our house in order” and not waste
time on divisive social issues such as
abortion and gay marriage.
Robert Kando, who is being sued
by the group in his position as the
executive director of the Rhode Island
Board of Elections, said he did not
find the current law unconstitutional.
The roughly 23,500 voters’ signatures
required to meet the 5-percent thresh-
old is “not an outrageous amount” to
require for a group seeking recogni-
tion as a statewide party, he said. The
lawsuit also names Secretary of State
A. Ralph Mollis and Attorney General
Patrick Lynch ’87.
“The statute that the Moderate
Party has an issue with is a well
thought-out statute and it’s a reason-
able statute,” said Mike Healey ’87,
spokesman for the attorney general.
He said case law shows that states
can require organizations to show a
“significant modicum of support” to
be granted the privileges of a politi-
cal party.
Bills introduced in the General
Assembly this month seek to lower
the signature threshold to 1 percent
continued on page 6
inside
News.....1-4
Metro........5-6
Spor ts...7-8
Editorial..10
Opinion...11
Today........12
www.browndailyherald.com
no s h o w
The Avon Cinema stopped its long-running tradition of screening
midnight movies.
Taking advantage of collapse, students head to Iceland
By Jeremy Jacob
Contributing Writer
Iceland, the small European island
nation, is famous for its hot springs,
egalitarianism and medieval sagas.
Unfortunately, it is now also known
for the collapse of its economy and
government in the teeth of the
global financial crisis, which has
led to devaluation of the country’s
currency and falling prices for many
of its commodities.
After reading in a travel article
over winter break that this reduc-
tion in prices of food and airline
tickets made an Icelandic vacation
Recyclemania
underway again
By Mitra Anoushiravani
Senior Staf f Writer
Brown hopes to improve on its
recycling record with a strong
performance in this year’s Recy-
clemania.
Recyclemania, a ten-week long
national college-campus recycling
and waste minimization compe-
tition, began its eighth annual
contest on Jan. 18.
According to its Web site, the
Inside
post-
post- scatters dat Brown
seed till it flowers all
pop-culture like, and
69s.
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Bush adviser: GOP
can bounce back
By Kevin Pratt
Contributing Writer
These are “dark times” for the Re-
publican party, David Frum told a List
Auditorium audience last night, but
one way into the light is a less polar-
izing stance on social issues.
Recognizing homosexuality as a
“reality” and calling for a “workable
consensus” on the abortion debate,
Frum — a former speechwriter and
special assistant to President George
W. Bush — maintained a moder-
ate tone throughout much of his
lecture.
Frum, who worked in Bush’s
White House in 2001 and 2002,
criticized the former president for
leading “his party to the brink of di-
saster” in his latest book, “Comeback:
Conservatism That Can Win Again,”
which Frum signed copies of in the
List lobby.
Frum told The Herald before the
Qidong Chen / Herald
lecture that a cultural shift toward self-
expression and individualism in the
See News, page 3 1970s has become “part of the reality
less expensive, Lee Stevens ’12 de- in a hostel in Reykjavik, the coun-
cided it would be a fun place to tr y’s capital and largest city, for
spend her spring break. She later the week, using the city as a “base
convinced her friends Andrew Lee camp” for possible excursions.
’12, Julie Chien ’12 and Andrew Stevens said what drew her to
Doty ’12 to make the trip. Iceland was its “very pristine” land-
While many students scape and the fact that
will be spending their FEATURE she isn’t sure if she’ll get
breaks at home, relax- another opportunity to
ing and seeing family, the group go.
— along with Rachel Lamb ’12, who “When the hell else am I going
was already planning a trip to Ice- to get a chance to go to Iceland?”
land with her friend and Carleton Stevens said.
College first-year Julia Cohen — Because Iceland imports most
will be embarking on a week-long of its food, with one notable excep-
trip to Iceland. tion being fish, food prices can be
The group of six will be staying double those in the United States,
program’s main goals are to “in-
crease recycling participation by
students and staff” and to “lower
waste generated on-campus by re-
ducing, reusing and recycling.”
Each week, participating schools
self-report the weight of waste
produced and materials recycled
by their community. Schools can
track their progress online at Re-
cyclemania’s Web site and see
continued on page 2 College Hill bins may not be empty for long — Recyclemania is back.
Metro, 5
city gets greener
Providence Councilman Seth
Yurdin proposes a law to clean
up diesel fuel emissions
that conservatives have to adapt to.”
He added that the shift was not the
product of one political ideology.
“The same force weakened the
traditional family and also weakened
trade unions,” he said.
Though he called the election
of Barack Obama as the first black
president “remarkable and gratify-
ing,” he said the president’s Chicago
background was a stronger indicator
of his political identity than his race.
Referring to that city’s reputation
for “abuses of the political process,”
Frum said that the “idealistic young
people who rallied to Barack Obama”
can expect to be shocked at the de-
gree to which political practices re-
main unchanged in the Democratic
party.
The Republican party suffers from
a “thin bench of talent” because of
its stringent screening of potential
candidates, he said.
Frum told The Herald that Loui-
siana Governor Bobby Jindal ’91.5, a
continued on page 3
Stevens said. But the country’s eco-
nomic troubles make a normally ex-
pensive trip far more affordable.
In addition to the low cost,
Lamb said her interest in hiking
and Cohen’s in geology contributed
to their decision to visit Iceland.
“We looked at pictures and were
reading things and it just seems
beautiful,” Lamb said. “We talked to
people and they said it would prob-
ably never be this cheap again.”
Stevens said the group is plan-
ning the trip on its own, without
help from a student travel agency
continued on page 2
Kim Perley / Herald File Photo
Opinions, 11
Oh To be young
Sean Quigley ’10 dissects
the role of young people in
political discourse.
herald@browndailyherald.com
Page 2 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Thursday, February 26, 2009

C ampus N EWS “Things (in Iceland) are pretty volatile right now.”
— Lee Stevens ’12, who plans on traveling to Iceland

Applicants to U.
summer programs
show no increase
By Anish Gonchigar
Contributing Writer
The number of applications for
the Swearer Center for Public
Ser vice’s summer fellowships
is expected to remain stable this
year, according to Roger Nozaki
MAT’89, director of the Swearer
Center and associate dean of the
College.
According to Nozaki, the
fellowships give out between
five and 20 scholarships each
— depending on the particular
program — and there are ap-
proximately two to three times as
many applicants as awards given.
Swearer Center fellowships are
generally multi-staged processes,
as students come in months be-
forehand to begin consulting on
their projects.
“You have to have a really
strong commitment to the proj-
ect you are working on,” Nozaki
said.
Alan Harlam, director of social
entrepreneurship and director of
the C.V. Starr Social Entrepre-
neurship Fellowship, said stu-
dents applying to these programs
don’t seem to be influenced by
the economic uncertainty.
“I think most of the people
who come through the door are
motivated by the work they want
to do,” Harlam said.
Lucy Stark ’10, who is apply-
sudoku
ing for the Starr Fellowship this
year, wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald that the economy was
not a factor in her decision to
apply.
The fellowship “seemed like
the perfect opportunity for me to
stay in Providence and do mean-
ingful work,” Stark wrote. “I think
the Fellowship, if I get it, will be a
good experience for me to learn
how to work independently and
outside of school.”
Stark wrote that her friends
who are applying for similar pro-
grams are probably not doing so
for economic reasons.
“I’d guess ... that most people
are applying because they have
a project they really want to do
— not because of the economic
crisis,” she wrote.
The Undergraduate Teaching
and Research Awards program is
not expecting a major increase in
applicants this year either, said
Christina Furtado, assistant dean
for Upper Class Studies and di-
rector of the program. Furtado
said there were over 350 applica-
Courtesy of Andreas Tille
tions for about 200 spots. Reduced costs are making Iceland an increasingly attractive travel destination.
Teach for America, a public
ser vice program that allows
recent college graduates and
professionals to work in public
Iceland’s collapse makes for cheap airfare
schools for two years at a time, continued from page 1 Reykjavik, due to limited knowledge is the world’s most developed coun-
is expecting a 60 to 70 percent in- of how to get around the country. try and one of the most egalitarian,
crease in applicants from Brown, such as StudentUniverse. Among Stevens said the group is not based on income inequality metrics,
The Herald reported last week. their plans is a trip to Iceland’s most worried about the collapse of the which measure income distribution
famous geothermal spa, the Blue economy and does not think the and economic inequality.
Lagoon. The spa, which Stevens trip includes many risks, noting Stevens estimated that the trip
said has health benefits in addition that a new government was re- will cost anywhere from $700 to
to its naturally warm water, is one cently set up in Iceland. She did $900 per person. The group’s fixed
of the most popular attractions in admit that “things are pretty volatile costs include $400 for their round
Iceland. Other natural sites, includ- right now” but added that Iceland trip airfare, as well as $23 per night
ing Iceland’s geysers, glaciers and doesn’t “seem to be slipping into for their hostel accommodations.
the island of Videy, which contains anarchy yet.” “I could go to Mexico or
a large variety of bird life, are also “Things could still change before Florida anytime,” Stevens said.
high on the group’s to-do list. we get there,” she said. “But this may be the only chance
Stevens said she thinks the According to the United Nations’ that I could go to Iceland for this
group will spend most of its time in Human Development Index, Iceland much money.”

Brown leads Ivies in waste management

continued from page 1
how they compare to other universi-
ties around the country.
This is Brown’s four th year
participating in the competition,
having consistently finished in the
During the same week, Brown
recycled 0.75 pounds of paper per
person, up from 0.65 pounds last
year; 0.60 pounds of cardboard per
person, down from 0.65 pounds;
and 0.31 pounds of bottles and
cans per person down, from 0.32
the school’s infrastructure.”
The competition has been adver-
tised in Morning Mail, with more
advertisements to come during the
remaining ten weeks. But most stu-
dents interviewed by The Herald
were not aware of Recyclemania

Daily Herald
middle of the pack in past years. pounds. and were surprised to learn that it
the Brown
“Brown’s goal is to generally im- O’Neill wrote that EcoReps started roughly five weeks ago.
prove over last year, particularly in plans on using the statistics to cre- “I haven’t seen any tableslips
Editorial Phone: 401.351.3372 | Business Phone: 401.351.3260 the waste minimization category,” ate educational programs such as or noticed anything,” said Ipsita
wrote Madeleine O’Neill ’12, stu- information sessions for Residential Krishnan ’11, adding that had she
Stephen DeLucia, President Jonathan Spector, Treasurer
dent co-coordinator for EcoReps in Peer Leaders and first-year units. known about the competition, she
Michael Bechek, Vice President Alexander Hughes, Secretary
an e-mail to The Herald. EcoReps She added that the group recently would have recycled more over the
The Brown Daily Herald (USPS 067.740) is an independent newspaper serv- coordinates Brown’s participation conducted an audit of the school’s past few weeks.
ing the Brown University community daily since 1891. It is published Monday in Recyclemania. Brown ranks as recycling bins to make sure that the Prabenzo Martadarma ’11 said,
through Friday during the academic year, excluding vacations, once during
the top Ivy in waste minimization bins were in the most convenient “They should advertise better. I’m
Commencement, once during Orientation and once in July by The Brown Daily
Herald, Inc. POSTMASTER please send corrections to P.O. Box 2538, Provi- for the fourth week of competition, locations. really surprised.”
dence, RI 02906. Periodicals postage paid at Providence, R.I. Offices are located with 8.71 pounds of waste per per- “Other schools tend to use Re- But Martadarma said that he
at 195 Angell St., Providence, R.I. E-mail herald@browndailyherald.com. son — down from 9.40 pounds last cyclemania as a short-term focus would not have changed the amount
World Wide Web: http://www.browndailyherald.com.
year and much lower than Princ- for improvement,” wrote O’Neill. he recycled even if he had known
Subscription prices: $319 one year daily, $139 one semester daily.
Copyright 2009 by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. All rights reserved. eton’s 12.08 pounds for the same “Brown, on the other hand, uses it about the competition because he
week, according to the Web site. as a platform for improvement in already recycles what he can.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
C ampus N EWS
Lights out for midnight shows Frum: Cut payroll taxes
BY Luisa Robledo
Staf f Writer
When Adrienne Langlois ’10 want-
ed a Friday full of suspense, she
would go to midnight showings
of Alfred Hitchcock or the Coen
brothers movies at the Avon Cin-
ema. Now, she will have to settle
for duller evenings and, when the
clock strikes 12, she will just have
to go to bed.
Until eight months ago, the
Avon Cinema ran midnight shows
of classic Hollywood movies every
week of the year. It also showed
movies that had come out in the
past six months and received
renewed attention at this time.
But decreasing attendance forced
owner Richard Dulgarian to cancel
the midnight movies.
“People just weren’t coming,”
he said. “It was obvious that the
shows were not paying for them-
selves.”
Dulgarian doesn’t know the
reason why people stopped com-
ing to his midnight shows.
“Maybe our society is going to
bed earlier,” he said. “Or maybe
Students aim to expose India-Pakistan conflict
By Monique Vernon
Contributing Writer
Raised at an early age on opposite
sides of the India-Pakistan border,
Meghna Philip ’11 and Farrukh Malik
’11 might not have pegged each other
as future collaborators. Ever since
the two countries split more than 60
years ago, tension between India and
Pakistan has colored a rough history
between the two nations.
Yet years later, Philip and Malik
are two of this year’s recipients of the
C.V. Starr National Service Fellow-
ship, granted by the Swearer Center
for Public Service. Their enterprise,
“The India-Pakistan Dialogue Proj-
ect,” aims to improve relations be-
tween Indian and Pakistani students
in South Asia.
The decades-long conflict has
resulted in the present-day nuclear
arms race between the two nations.
“It’s like a Cold War scenario played
out again in South Asia,” Malik said.
Because of the current state of affairs,
the two students wanted to create a
forum for other students affected by
the situation.
The India-Pakistan Dialogue
Project aims to take advantage of
21st-century technology — social
there’s just more things to do on
a Friday or Saturday night.”
The news disappointed the
Avon’s loyal costumers like Lan-
glois, a contributing writer for
post-, who spent several nights
of her first two years at Brown in
the theater.
“I’m gonna miss it,” Langlois
said. “I have very fond memories
of my time there.”
Langlois smiled as she remem-
bered when she went to see “The
Big Lebowski.” The theater was
full and the audience was excited
to see the film, she said.
“I went with a group of friends
to see this movie,” she said. “And,
those who were watching it for the
first time had the opportunity to
see it on the big screen and not
on their laptop screens.”
For some moviegoers, the
schedule was not the issue, it
was money.
“They still charge the regular
admission price to watch an old
film,” Langlois said. “It becomes
expensive.”
Another regular costumer,
Bonnie Min ’10, said that cancel-
networking tools and an online forum
— to foster dialogue between univer-
sity students in India and Pakistan.
With professors establishing the pa-
rameters, the forums will concentrate
on the discussion of specific issues
that impact the lives of the students
and their communities.
The discussions will lead to a con-
ference on College Hill in the spring
of 2010. The moderating professors
will select six or seven students who
have demonstrated qualities that
make them suitable to fly to Brown
and attend the conference, Malik and
Philip said.
The three main goals of the
project are to create relationships
between people of the two nations,
identify students who show promise
to be future leaders and create pos-
sible solutions for the issues that face
Indians and Pakistanis, Malik said. To
achieve these goals, Malik and Philip
said they want to create a space for
sustainable, productive discourse.
With the help of the Starr grant,
Malik will travel to his home country
of Pakistan, and Philip will travel to
her home of India, during the sum-
mer. There, they plan to visit between
five and 10 universities that will par-
ticipate and establish the foundation
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“It’s like a Cold War scenario played out again in South Asia.”
ing all midnight functions was too
radical.
“They could have one each
month,” Min said. “They could
print out flyers and make sure that
everybody knows about it.”
Min also mentioned that the
Avon should try to have midnight
screening in weeks when there
are no midterms or final exams.
“I’m sure that the week after
midterms would be a good idea,”
she said. “People would want to
have that unique experience after
studying hard.”
Committed to getting the “films
to the population,” Dulgarian has
made some changes in the sched-
ules. The theater now screens all
movies earlier, with the latest
showing around 10, he said.
“We’re trying to slip in the 10
p.m. show,” Dulgarian said. “We
want to see if there’s an interest,
a response.”
This week “Doubt” is playing at
the Avon at 9 p.m., and this com-
ing Friday there will be a screen-
ing of “Milk,” which just won two
Academy Awards, at 10 p.m.,
he said.
of the project.
The contention between India and
Pakistan is one that has permeated
the lives of Malik and Philip.
“I grew up in Pakistan. It was like
one of those things you couldn’t get
away from,” Malik said of the conflict.
“It dominated the headlines.”
Although Philip moved to the
United States from India when she
was five years old, she said she was
always aware of the conflict between
the two countries.
“The ironic part is the connectiv-
ity (between Indians and Pakistanis)
exists everywhere else but South
Asia,” Philip said. Outside of India
and Pakistan, members of the two
cultures associate with one another,
she added, but in South Asia the ten-
sion persists.
If successful, the project will not
only bring opposing sides together,
but also will create exposure to the
issues facing South Asian students
everyday.
At the moment, Malik and Philip
have enlisted Assistant Professor of
History Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Za-
mindar to help them, but they said
there is room for growth and an
increase in participation from inter-
ested students.
— Farrukh Malik ’11, on India-Pakistan tension
continued from page 1
rising Republican star, is “obvously
one of the leading candidates” for
the 2012 and 2016 Presidential elec-
tions.
Frum kept the his tone light in the
short lecture, comparing the Republi-
can party’s aggressive stance on social
issues to the fictional guitar amp in the
movie “This is Spinal Tap,” which had
11 volume settings while most have
ten. “We’re at 11,” he said.
Frum, who said he identifies as
pro-choice, said Republicans often
view social issues as binary rather
than on a spectrum. Republicans can
maintain their positions on immigra-
tion, abortion and gay rights while
moderating their tone, he said.
National efforts toward a constitu-
tional amendment banning same-sex
marriage, he said, tended to offend
those who do not support the ban
without great effect on those who
support it.
On abortion, Frum said Republi-
cans should adopt “realistic goals that
don’t disavow principles but settle for
what is achievable.”
Frum praised the Obama admin-
istration for appointing Larry Sum-
mers to head the National Economic
Council, and he called for a renewed
focus on competence and ethics in
the Republican party after the “steady
stream” of ineffective officials in the
Bush administration.
To combat the current economic
downturn, he suggested that tax cuts
— particularly a suspension of the
payroll tax — would be the best way
to go. Obama’s $787-billion economic
Page 3
stimulus plan would pay for the sus-
pension of the payroll tax for a year,
he said, and cutting the tax would
be a “powerful and fast” method of
economic stimulus that would put
$120 per week into the pockets of
American workers.
He also advocated the creation of a
national health insurance market with
simplified and nationally standardized
rules. Currently, each state writes its
own insurance policies, Frum said,
adding that creating a national market
will require “swallowing traditional
ideas about federalism.”
Frum also said the Republican
party faces a challenge of identity on
environmental issues. Credibility on
environmental issues has become
crucial to the viability of candidates
for national office, Frum said, just
as knowledge of national security
was important for their predeces-
sors. Conservatism should adopt an
“environmental ethic” that respects
the quality of life of property owners,
Frum said.
Republicans can also learn from
Obama’s rhetorical style, Frum said,
adding that the president employed
a conciliatory style not seen since
the Reagan days. But he said he felt
Bush was more willing to compromise
with opposing viewpoints on matters
of substance.
The lecture was a kickoff event for
the Rhode Island Republican Jew-
ish Coalition, the newest chapter of
the national organization, said Stacy
Silverman ’08, the chapter’s presi-
dent. It was co-hosted by the Brown
Republicans and the Rhode Island
Young Republicans.
Page 4 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
W orld & N ation
Mumbai attacker faces death penalty
Mark Magnier
Los Angeles Times
Authorities on Wednesday filed
charges of murder and “waging war”
on India against what they say is the
lone known surviving gunman in the
Mumbai attacks, which killed more
than 170 people in November.
If convicted, 21-year-old Ajmal
Amir Kasab, dubbed the “smiling
assassin” by Indian media for the
facial expression seen on closed-
circuit video during the attack on the
Mumbai railway station, could face
the death penalty. Nine other gun-
men were killed in the 60-hour siege,
which also targeted luxury hotels, a
Jewish center and other sites.
Also implicated in the 11,000-
page charge sheet were at least 35
suspects believed to be based in
Pakistan who allegedly abetted the
attackers or had a role in planning
the attacks. Separately, police ac-
cused two Indians of involvement
in the attacks.
Special public prosecutor Ujjwal
Nikam told reporters that he hoped
to wrap up the trial within six months,
a rapid turnaround given that cases
here can drag on for years. The mas-
sive document, part of which he
waved during the news conference,
reportedly contains accounts by over
2,000 witnesses as well as evidence
provided by the FBI, which assisted
Indian police.
The others charged include two
Pakistan army soldiers and Hafiz Mo-
hammad Saeed, founder of the mili-
tant Islamist Lashkar-e-Taiba group
India says was behind the attacks,
along with senior Lashkar members
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Zarar Shah
and Abu Hamza.
The gravity of Tuesday’s charges
against Kasab, who India says is from
Gipal Pura in Pakistan, suggest there
is little chance he will be extradited
to Pakistan, legal experts said, a step
Islamabad has requested.
It is also unlikely Pakistan will
allow any of the dozens of other na-
tionals who were charged Tuesday
to face trial in India. Islamabad has
argued that India should instead
hand over any evidence so suspects
can be tried in Pakistan.
In addition to being charged with
waging war against the nation, vari-
ous others were accused Tuesday of
murder, illegal entry into India, dam-
aging public property and related
weapons offenses.
“The filing of charges is good as
far as it goes, but Kasab is a foot sol-
der, and the colonels and generals are
elsewhere,” said G. Parthasarathy, a
former Indian ambassador to Paki-
stan, now a security analyst with New
Delhi’s Center for Policy Research.
“There’s something of a charade
in Pakistan with regard to a trial,” he
added. “Unless you have independent
observers and family members there,
it’s going to be a farce.”
Pervez Hoodbhoy, a professor at
Thursday, February 26, 2009
the Quaid-e-Azam University in Is-
lamabad, said Pakistan’s track record
on trying militants hasn’t been very
good, nor is extradition likely given
the political implications.
Tuesday’s report includes ac-
counts of guns and grenades used
by the attackers that police said bear
markings linked to Pakistani arms
companies. Indian police also say
they have a list of items left by the
attackers that were manufactured in
Pakistan, including detergent, toilet
paper and toothpaste.
Kasab was captured after fleeing
the railway station in a stolen car.
Pakistan announced last month it
had arrested 71 leaders of Lashkar-
e-Taiba and detained 124 more in an
effort to crack down on the Islamic
militant group believed to be respon-
sible for the Mumbai attacks. But
some Indian analysts said Pakistan
has a long history of quietly letting
suspects go a few weeks after they
are arrested.
Analysts said India has little lever-
age over Pakistan short of declaring
war. That option would be extremely
risky given that both sides have nu-
clear weapons.
“In the long-term, I think the only
way for this to be resolved is for India
and Pakistan to work together to curb
terrorism,” Hoodbhoy said. “In the
mean time, India’s best option is to
work through legal means and con-
tinue trying to building international
pressure.”
Metro
The Brown Daily Herald

Thursday, February 26, 2009 | Page 5

metro in brief City may require cleaner construction trucks

Court favors R.I. in Narragansett case
The U.S. Supreme Court
ruled 8-1 Tuesday that land
owned by the Narragansett
Indian tribe in Charlestown
cannot receive federal trust
status, which would have
largely removed it from state
and local control. The ruling
was a victory for the state,
which has been fighting
to develop the land since
1998.
The court ruled that the
tribe’s land does not qualify
to be held in trust by the
Department of Interior be-
cause the Narragansetts
were not a federally recog-
nized tribe when the Indian
Reorganization Act passed
in 1934. Justice Clarence
Thomas wrote that the act
“unambiguously refers to
those tribes that were under
federal jurisdiction when the
IRA was enacted.”
The Narragansetts be-
came a federally recognized
tribe in 1983 and bought the
31-acre property in 1991.
Rhode Island filed suit in
1998 when the Department
of the Interior agreed to take
the land in trust. The U.S.
District Court and First Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals found
in favor of the tribe.
“By preventing the Narra-
gansetts from placing land
into federal trust, citizens
are assured that no land can
be stripped from state or
town jurisdiction,” Joseph
Larisa, solicitor on Indian
affairs in Charlestown, said
in a press release, the Provi-
dence Journal reported.
“This means there can be no
tax-free smokeshop ... and
no Indian casino until and
unless the people vote to
have one.”
Narragansett Chief Sa-
chem Matthew Thomas said
the ruling ignored the tribe’s
history, specifically when the
state disbanded the tribe
in 1880 and took its lands,
according to the ProJo. He
pledged to work with other
tribes to petition Congress,
the White House and the
United Nations to take up
their cause.
— Joanna Wohlmuth
By Joanna Wohlmuth
Metro Editor
An ordinance requiring diesel con-
struction vehicles to meet cleaner
emissions standards when working
on city-funded projects was intro-
duced by Ward 1 Councilman Seth
Yurdin at a Providence City Council
meeting last Thursday.
Under the proposed law, com-
panies given city contracts over
$150,000 will have to use ultra-low
sulfur diesel fuel and retrofit older
equipment with emissions filters.
One of the motivations behind
the proposal is the availability of fed-
eral funding for such initiatives, said
Yurdin, whose district includes Fox
Point and most of College Hill.
In a show of support, the other
14 council members signed on to
co-sponsor the proposal, Yurdin
said. The bill will go through the
ordinance committee before going
back to the entire council for a final
vote.
Diesel exhaust contains small
particles and gases which are easily
breathed in, causing new diseases
and exacerbating existing conditions
such as lung and heart disease, can-
cer and asthma, said Molly Clark,
manager of health promotion at the
American Lung Association of New
England.
Exhaust from construction equip-
ment is particularly harmful in urban
environments like Providence, Clark
added.
“The important thing to realize
is it’s a public health (issue),” Yur-
din said. “This is one of the really
significant and dangerous forms of
pollution in cities and particularly in
Providence.”
Emissions from construction ve-
hicles account for 40 percent of all
diesel emissions in the Northeast,
said Annie Costner, coordinator
of the Diesel Pollution Initiative in
Rhode Island for the environmental
non-profit Clean Water Action. Provi-
dence County is among the worst 6
percent of counties in the nation for
health problems caused by diesel
emissions, “which is kind of shock-
ing,” she said.
Clean Water Action has been in-
volved with previous diesel pollution
reduction efforts at the state and
local level. It has supported laws to
ban the idling of vehicles for more
than five minutes and a requirement
that all school buses be equipped
with emissions control devices by
2010, Costner said. The Environmen-
tal Protection Agency has identified
construction vehicles as the next
focus of air pollution reduction ef-
forts, she said.
With federal stimulus funding
coming to the state for infrastruc-
ture projects, such as sewer and road
repair, “it made sense to make sure
that those good projects aren’t creat-
ing a bigger mess or public health
threat,” Costner said.
In addition to legislative efforts,
Yurdin has been working with neigh-
borhood organizations to reach out
to local business owners about pre-
venting the prolonged idling of de-
livery vehicles and getting the police
involved when necessary, he said.
“It’s hard to enforce idling (laws)
because you have to have an officer
sitting watching a vehicle idle for five
minutes,” Yurdin said. “It’s better to
be more informal.”
Part of Yurdin’s motivation to re-
duce diesel emissions came from the
diesel pollution summit he attended
at Brown’s Urban Environmental Lab
last year, where he heard “strong
scientific testimony” about negative
health effects linked to emissions,
continued on page 6

City gets $5.5m fund for lead abatement

Providence homeowners
can now apply for federal
funds to help remove lead
paint from their homes,
Mayor David Cicilline ’83 said
Monday. Cicilline announced
the $5.5 million fund from the
U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development at a
press conference along with
fellow Democrats Sen. Jack
Reed, Rep. Patrick Kennedy
and Rep. James Langevin.
Low-income occupants
can apply for grants covering
50 percent of repair costs,
with the other half paid for
with interest-free loans. The
grant will be forgiven if oc-
cupants live in their homes
for five years, Cicilline said.
Non-occupant owners can
apply for a grant covering 25
percent of costs and a loan
to cover the rest.
Cicilline said the money
would pay for upgrades to at
least 120 houses citywide.
“This is especially impor-
tant in a city like Providence
when you consider the age of
the city’s housing stock and
the number of families with
very young children who live
in these homes,” Cicilline
said. The upgrades will help
construction companies and
create work, he added.
Reed cited decreased
numbers of children with
significantly high levels of
lead in their blood in Rhode
Island as “proof positive that
if we invest in safer homes
we’ll get healthier children.”
According to a state Depart-
ment of Health study, the
portion of Rhode Island chil-
dren entering kindergarten
with a history of high levels
of lead in their blood fell
from 28 percent in 1997 to 5
percent this year.
An additional $100 million
for lead abatement is includ-
ed in the stimulus package
recently passed by Congress,
Reed said.
— George Miller
Page 6
M etro
Councilman wants cleaner diesel engines Party seeks recognition
continued from page 5
he said.
In addition to hosting programs
for cities and town in Rhode Island
with groups like Clean Water Action,
Brown students, faculty and staff are
also getting involved in projects to
limit diesel pollution. Brown is cur-
rently looking to develop a policy
requiring construction contractors
working on University projects
to abide by clean emissions stan-
dards, said Christopher Bull, senior
Interested in Web design? Join The Herald!
herald@browndailyherald.com
research engineer and senior lec-
turer in engineering, who has been
involved in projects to promote clean
diesel technologies.
Students in ENVS0410: “Envi-
ronmental Stewardship,” taught by
Lecturer in Environmental Studies
and Manager of Environmental Stew-
ardship Initiatives Kurt Teichert, are
working with Clean Water Action this
semester to improve efficiency and
implement green building strategies
on campus, Teichert said.
Though Yurdin has not yet heard
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
any negative reactions to the pro-
posed ordinance, he said he antici-
pates resistance from certain contrac-
tors who may not want to retrofit or
replace older equipment, he said.
According to Costner, retrofitting
costs roughly 0.5 percent of the total
cost of projects over $2 million but
can become a significant portion of
the budget of smaller projects.
“If (contractors) want the city
jobs, they are going to put (the fil-
ters) on and pass that cost along to
the city,” she said.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
continued from page 1
and eliminate the requirement that
signatures be collected no earlier
than Jan. 1 of an election year.
State Sen. Ed O’Neill, I-Dist. 17,
who co-sponsored the Senate bill on
behalf of the Moderate Party, said
third parties deserve access to what
is basically a “one-party system” in
the General Assembly. Currently,
only 5 of 38 state senators and 13
of 75 representatives are Republi-
cans.
“There’s no checks and balances
within the legislature to reel legisla-
tion back toward the middle,” Block
agreed.
State Sen. David Bates, R-Dist.
32, who introduced the bill, said,
“Rhode Island has a very, very dif-
ficult situation. It’s almost impos-
sible for a new party to get started.”
Bates was endorsed by the Moder-
ate Party in November’s election,
as was Rep. Rodney Driver, D-Dist.
39, who introduced an identical bill
in the House.
Current law places “very de-
manding requirements,” including
a short time and “inordinate num-
ber of signatures,” on new parties,
Driver said.
Changing the law would also give
the Moderate Party the chance to
raise money earlier, especially if the
start date for collecting signatures
is removed, Block said.
Current law means that his group
would lose out on a year or more of
fundraising that the established par-
ties get, he said. The Moderate Party
operated as a political action com-
mittee during last year’s election,
supporting Democratic, Republican
and independent candidates.
The preliminary start date for the
trial is Mar. 16, though Block said it
probably wouldn’t begin that early.
Bates said he was “optimistic” about
the Senate bill’s passage, but added
that composing the state budget is
taking up most of the legislature’s
time.
SportsThursday
The Brown Daily Herald

Thursday, February 26, 2009 | Page 7

The parity Mixed results in weekend competitions

fallacy: How Spor ts Staf f Repor ts lins Carey ’10 each tallied three

to fix baseball Over the weekend, various teams

Before the 2009 season begins, let’s
pause and reflect.
We watch 30 teams struggle over
162 games for
eight playof f Jonathan Hahn
Sports Columnist
spots and then
get to enjoy the crapshoot known
as the postseason. We enjoy hat-
ing the loosey-goosey Yankees or
obnoxious Red Sox, laughing at or
crying with the Pirates or Orioles
and wondering how the Marlins or
Rockies do it. (They don’t, it’s that
their divisions suck.) It’s worked out
pretty well, with eight different World
Series champions since 2000 and 23
different teams making playoff ap-
pearances.
Parity is alive and well, right?
Dig a little deeper and you’ll find
that it’s not balanced or fair. Since
2000, there have been a total of 36 po-
tential playoff spots for each league.
Looking closely, we find that in the
American League, there have been
ten different teams, but that 30, or
83 percent of those appearances
have been dominated by the same
six teams, leaving four teams with a
combined six appearances and four
with none.
It’s a little bit fairer over in the Na-
tional League, which lacks the finan-
cial behemoths (and level of talent)
of the AL, where 13 out of a possible
16 teams have made appearances,
but we still see that 27 appearances
— 75 percent of all available — came
from the same seven teams, leaving
six teams with two appearances or
fewer and three with none.
That’s not parity. I’ve got a cou-
ple suggestions to make baseball
fairer.
represented Brown both at home
and on the road and came away
with mixed results.
Fencing
The men’s fencing team strug-
gled at the Ivy League Champion-
ships at the Olney-Margolies Ath-
letic Center on Sunday, compiling
a 1-4 record to tie for fourth place.
Adam Pantel ’10 earned All-Ivy
honors in the foil after going 3-0
against Princeton to lead Brown
to a win in that event. He went 2-1
against Har vard.
Peter Tyson ’12 also had a
strong day, finishing with a 2-1
record against both Har vard and
Princeton in the saber.
The women’s squad also fal-
tered at the OMAC, finishing with
an 0-6 team record. But Aleksan-
dra Mackiewicz ’11 had a strong
day for Brown, going 2-1 in her sa-
ber matches against Har vard and
adding a win in her bout against
Princeton.
Both fencing squads will con-
tinue their season on Saturday
at Brandeis for the IFA/ECAC
Tournament.
Men’s lacrosse
The defending Ivy League
champion men’s lacrosse team
started its season off with a 13-12
win over Lehigh on Saturday.
After building a 6-4 halftime
lead, the Bears went up 12-6 less
than two minutes into the fourth
quarter. Lehigh scored five un-
answered goals to cut the lead to
one, 12-11, but Brown regained
control and escaped with a win.
Andrew Feinberg ’11 and Col-
goals and two assists, while
Thomas Muldoon ’10 and Nic Bell
’09 chipped in two goals apiece.
The Bears will host Hofstra on
Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
Men’s squash
The men’s squash team com-
peted at the Hoehn Cup over
the weekend, earning a No. 13
national ranking. Brown lost 6-3
to Franklin and Marshall in its
first match of the competition,
then rallied with a 5-4 win over St.
Lawrence and a 6-3 win over Navy.
Against Navy, highlights included
the No. 6 match, in which Evan
Besser ’11 rebounded from two
games down to pull out a 3-2 win,
and a 3-0 win for Brad Thompson
’12 at No. 4.
Track and Field
The men’s track and field team
competed at the USATF New Eng-
land Indoor Championships over
the weekend, where the Bears
earned several individual wins.
Marc Howland ’11 ran a per-
sonal best of 6.92 seconds to win
the 60-meter dash, and Matt Jas-
Justin Coleman / Herald File Photo
min ’09 continued his excellent The women’s fencing team finished with a 0-6 record against Harvard
season, running a time of 8.02 for over the weekend.
a second-place finish in the 60m
hurdles. Brown also dominated The women also had a strong in 2:11.93, while Susan Scavone
the 800m, with Sean O’Brien ’09, showing at the USATF-NE In- ’12 finished second in the 60m
Alex Stern ’10 and Thomas Elnick door Championships. The Bears hurdles in 8.92.
’12 earning the top three spots were particularly impressive in This weekend the Bears will
in 1:53.89, 1:53.94 and 1:56.88, the field, where Rachel Biblo ’11 travel to Har vard to compete in
respectively. won the long jump with a jump the Ivy League Heptagonal Cham-
The Bears also had a strong of 5.54m and Danielle Grunloh pionships.
showing in the field. Jordan Mad- ’10 and Br ynn Smith ’11 finished
docks ’11 won the high jump with one-two in shot put with throws Women’s water polo
a jump of 2.04m, while Andrew of 14.42m and 14.35m, respec- Over the weekend, the wom-
Chapin ’10 and Reginald Cole ’10 tively. en’s water polo team went 2-2 at
each jumped 14.62m to tie for the On the track, Kesley Ramsey
win in the triple jump. ’11 finished second in the 800m continued on page 8

A real salary cap

You knew this was coming — quit
running for the hills. Baseball needs
a hard salary cap, and not the joke
that is the soft cap luxury tax.
There’s a fundamental flaw in
your “free market” when you have
the same four to six teams every year
bidding on premium free agents. You
don’t need to be a genius to figure out
that the Yankee payroll of over $200
million offers a competitive imbal-
ance, whether compared to the next
highest teams at $138 million (the
Mets and the Tigers) or the lowest
team at $21 million (the Marlins).
Studies have shown that payroll
has a positive correlation with win-
ning, which means the more you
spend, the more likely you are to win
games and thus, make the playoffs.
You may not be able to buy champi-
onships, but you can certainly buy
playoff appearances (just ask the
Yankees).
As for the wealth transfer argu-
ment, where the cap transfers money
from the players to the owners by re-
stricting player salaries, it’s a sacrifice
I’m willing to make to ensure parity.
The free-market, competitive-bidding
theory of cap-free baseball doesn’t
really hold either, when baseball itself
is an oligopoly that has a stranglehold

continued on page 8
Page 8
S ports t hursday
Playoff expansion can save baseball
continued from page 7
on delivering its product. Ultimately,
it comes down to the fact that Cincin-
nati isn’t the same size as New York,
which brings us to the next issue.
Revenue Sharing: Free Money!
As baseball is a form of enter-
tainment, you’re choosing to spend
your hard-earned money on it. More
people within your area means more
potential money being spent on your
product.
It’s been suggested that the New
York metropolitan area could hypo-
thetically support about four to six
baseball teams. That’s a lot of teams.
Since there are currently only two
teams, that’s like having twice the rev-
enue potential of every other baseball
team, which is why large markets are
able to outspend smaller markets.
Search online for the Zumsteg
Plan, written in 2002 by Derek Zum-
steg, a sabermetrician, and you’ll find
an excellent revenue sharing plan.
The gist of his argument is that teams
shouldn’t be punished just because
they serve a smaller population, a fac-
tor that has particular significance in
Major League Baseball, whose teams
face the challenge of selling out 81
home games each season.
Instead, teams should be reward-
ed for being able to attract customers
given what they have, and revenue
sharing should be adjusted accord-
ingly. When coupled with a salary
cap and floor, revenue sharing has
tremendous potential to spread talent
around, ensure financial stability for
players and owners and ultimately
create parity.
Future of Baseball: Dare to
Dream
Expand the playoffs.
Seriously, make it five or six teams
in each league. Think about all the
extra tickets they could sell and the
races an expansion would create, es-
pecially this year when some 90-win
team in the AL East likely won’t make
it. That’s not right; it’s like last year’s
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
New England Patriots, who went 11-5
and missed the NFL playoffs.
As for those who advocate for
the presence of an Evil Empire, I
hear your argument — the desire
for a bad guy, increased tickets, etc.
But let’s face it, watching the talent-
stacked Yankees or Red Sox beat up
and thrash the less-talented Royals
isn’t good parity, or entertainment,
unless you also like stealing candy
or need the fantasy stats (see: Jon
Lester’s no-hitter).
So what will baseball become? Ide-
ally, with the cap and revenue sharing
plan, teams that are successful will be
ones that make smart decisions with
their money and draft well, not ones
that can spend away their mistakes
or buy wins. It’s time for some real
parity in baseball.
Jonathan Hahn ’10 is deeply sorry
and regretful for taking writing
enhancing drugs.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Equestrian wins
Conn. competition
continued from page 7
the Princeton Invitational.
Brown began the tournament
with a match-up against Mar y-
land on Saturday after noon,
which the Terrapins took, 14-10,
despite three goals from Lauren
Presant ’10. But the Bears re-
bounded later that day with a 10-9
win over Bucknell, as Sarah Glick
’10 notched five goals, Presant
added four and Stephanie Laing
’10 made nine saves in goal.
The Bears began the next day
with a dominant 12-2 win over Vil-
lanova, paced by three goals each
from Glick and Presant. Later
on Sunday, Brown took on host
Princeton in a thrilling contest
that saw Glick send the game into
overtime with her fourth goal of
the game with just two seconds
left. In overtime, though, the Ti-
gers scored twice while holding
Bruno scoreless to pull out an
11-9 win over Brown.
Equestrian
The equestrian team scored
38 points at Connecticut College
to earn first place as a team, led
by wins from Liz Giliberti ’10 in
the open flat, Cara Rosenbaum
’12 in the walk trot canter and
Rebecca de Sa ’10 in the walk
trot.
Other strong performances
came from Leona Rosenblum ’09,
who finished second in the novice
flat, Emma Bogdonoff ’10, who
earned third place in intermedi-
ate fences, and Emily Bourdeau
’10, who rode to a third-place fin-
ish in the intermediate flat.
The team will next compete
at UConn on Mar. 7.
Editorial & Letters
The Brown Daily Herald

Page 10 | Thursday, February 26, 2009

e d i to r i a l

Running Frum conservatives

It’s always refreshing to hear a major political figure unafraid to publicly
criticize his or her party, a point the handful of Brown students who attended
David Frum’s lecture last night can attest to firsthand. Frum, a former Bush
speechwriter and influential conservative public intellectual known for his
outspoken opposition to Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential nomination, provided
an interesting and refreshingly honest take on the GOP’s future. Frum was
invited to campus by the Rhode Island Republican Jewish Coalition and the
Brown College Republicans.
Given the College Republicans’ past choice of speakers (the polemicist Da-
vid Horowitz, for example), we were impressed with their decision to support
the RJC in bringing a less doctrinaire conservative like Frum to College Hill.
Brown students ought to be exposed to right-wing intellectuals more likely to
engage rather than provoke them, and Frum’s speech (like the Janus Forum’s
recent debate featuring John Yoo) should do just that.
However, the miniscule number of students in the audience suggests that
the Republicans may have dropped the ball in their advertising campaign,
which mainly consisted of a few small posters placed around campus right
before the event. (Would a Morning Mail announcement have killed you guys?)
Ultimately, we don’t believe the blame for Brown’s poor showing should be laid
exclusively at the Republicans’ feet: Brown students seem to be more drawn to
extreme ideologues like former Senator Rick Santorum and liberal superstars chris jesu lee
like Thomas Friedman than they are to moderate, right-wing intellectuals.
The exception to this rule seems to be the Janus Forum debates, where
conservatives like Yoo, Harvey Mansfield, Robert George and Francis Fukuy- l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r s
ama, hardly the most famous of individuals, have packed the room, largely
because of the structure of the events. The debate format attracts students
familiar with both the left and right wing speakers and creates an appealing
Implementation of homework policy ‘misguided’
atmosphere for intellectually engaged students. To the Editor: The implementation of the homework policy as a
The Republicans should take note. Though obviously not every speech means to address sanitation is misguided. The real
should be a debate (and this particular address was tailored to a Republican While we appreciate the effort put into the recent ar- problem lies with rodent and pest control, or poor and
audience), they might consider organizing one in the future. Had Frum been ticle about BuDS (“BuDS clamps down on no-homework failing equipment. These have already been addressed
discussing Republican politics with, say, idiosyncratic conservative Andrew rule,” Feb. 23), it did not address the inappropriateness to management many times in the past. In light of these
Sullivan or Democratic strategist James Carville, student attendance would of student managers’ actions, and the contradictions of realities, concerns over the homework seems at times
likely have been through the roof. Such events ought to be coordinated with the philosophy upon which the policy was implemented. insignificant and unreasonable. Rarely can a student’s
the Brown Democrats, whose speakers have their own problems (there are The BuDs workforce encompasses 341 workers, but only 24-hour stomach flu or unintended allergic reaction be
only so many students who want to see local politicians and policy wonks). 11 were involved in the creation and implementation of traced back to an orgo text laid next to cold cuts.
Our new president, after all, seems to want to foster bipartisanship around the policy. Neither the implementation of the policy nor While the article states that Swain said that neither
the nation. It would be nice to see some at Brown. the article accurately reflect workers’ viewpoints. she nor Hartley had been presented a petition or con-
The implication that the recipients of the formal warn- sulted by workers who disagreed with the policy, Gate
Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments to ings had simply refused to sign onto the new policy is supervisor Yanely Espinal openly announced her petition
editorials@browndailyherald.com. preposterous. Student management issued formal warn- at a formal supervisor training and felt as though she
ings to over 100 student workers who had not signed had been shut down.
the brown d a i ly herald the no-homework policy, which excludes them from Dining Services needs to recognize that we are
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editors Associate Editors Senior Editors receiving their bonuses. First, some of the students had student workers, emphasis on the student, and that our
Steve DeLucia Michael Bechek Nandini Jayakrishna Rachel Arndt never received the contract in their mailboxes. Second, concerns need to be addressed. The Management team
Chaz Firestone Franklin Kanin Catherine Cullen
Michael Skocpol Scott Lowenstein students were not notified of any repercussions. If this was established in 1971 to represent student needs, so
editorial Business policy was as important as was claimed, then we should it’s time for them to step up and uphold their responsi-
Ben Hyman Arts & Culture Editor General Managers Office Manager have been notified that failure to sign would result in a bilities to their workers.
Hannah Levintova Arts & Culture Editor Alexander Hughes Shawn Reilly
Sophia Li Features Editor Jonathan Spector formal warning. When workers pointed that out, “I am Iman Al-Saden ’09
Emmy Liss Features Editor Directors not your mother” was one of student management’s Vanessa Dessis ’09
Gaurie Tilak Higher Ed Editor Ellen DaSilva Sales Director
Matthew Varley Higher Ed Editor Claire Kiely Sales Director
responses. Such disgraceful lack of professionalism Laura Evans ’09
George Miller Metro Editor Phil Maynard Sales Director leaves much to be desired. In contrast to the actions Kate Owen ’10
Joanna Wohlmuth Metro Editor Katie Koh Finance Director taken against the aforementioned implications, Swain Nhut Giuc Tran ’09
Chaz Kelsh News Editor Jilyn Chao Asst. Finance Director
Jenna Stark News Editor states, “We’re trying not to get pressure to cut people’s Chelsea Lein ’09.5
Benjy Asher Sports Editor Managers
jobs,” making the issued formal warnings seem like a Mayte Garcia-Salgado ’10
Andrew Braca Sports Editor Kelly Wess Local Sales
Alex Mazerov Asst. Sports Editor Kathy Bui National Sales cost-saving measure above all else. Deborah Saint-Vil ’10
Katie Wood Asst. Sports Editor Alex Carrere University Sales Although Swain points out that it would be a “slap Owen Dunn ’10
Christiana Stephenson Recruiter Sales
Graphics & Photos
Matt Burrows Credit and Collections
in the face” to cashiers if they were not allowed to read Yanely Espinal ’11
Chris Jesu Lee Graphics Editor
Stephen Lichenstein Graphics Editor Opinions
on shift because they sometimes have very few costum- Sean Feiner ’11
Eunice Hong Photo Editor Sarah Rosenthal Opinions Editor ers per hour, she fails to recognize that workers and Ju Li Khing ’11
Kim Perley Photo Editor Editorial Page Board cashiers in the same unit would experience the same Enoma Okunbor ’11
Justin Coleman Sports Photo Editor James Shapiro Editorial Page Editor
Nick Bakshi Board member costumer flow, if not more. Feb. 24
production
Zack Beauchamp Board member
Kathryn Delaney Copy Desk Chief
Sara Molinaro Board member
Seth Motel Copy Desk Chief
Marlee Bruning Design Editor
Jessica Calihan Design Editor Post- magazine correction
Anna Migliaccio Asst. Design Editor Arthur Matuszewski Editor-in-Chief
Julien Ouellet Asst. Design Editor Kelly McKowen Editor-in-Chief
Neal Poole Web Editor An article in Wednesday’s Herald (“Green initiatives gain steam,” Feb. 25) suggested that the group Community
Carbon Use Reduction at Brown was responsible for the 7.7 percent drop in Brown’s carbon dioxide emissions
Jessie Calihan, Jessica Kirschner, Anna Migliaccio, Designer
footprint, when in fact the Energy and Environmental Advisory Council and Facilities Management were re-
Sydney Ember, Kelly Mallahan, Allison Peck, Copy Editors sponsible for the reduction.
Mitra Anoushiravani, Chaz Kelsh, George Miller, Caroline Sedano, Night Editors

Senior Staff Writers Mitra Anoushiravani, Colin Chazen, Ellen Cushing, Sydney Ember,
Lauren Fedor, Nicole Friedman, Britta Greene, Sarah Husk, Brian Mastroianni, Hannah
Moser, Ben Schreckinger, Caroline Sedano, Melissa Shube, Anne Simons, Sara Sunshine,
Staff Writers Zunaira Choudhary, Chris Duffy, Nicole Dungca, Juliana Friend, Cameron
Lee, Kelly Mallahan, Christian Martell, Heeyoung Min, Seth Motel, Jyotsna Mullur, Lauren
Pischel, Leslie Primack, Anne Speyer, Alexandra Ulmer, Kyla Wilkes
Sports Staff Writers Nicole Stock
Senior Business Associates Max Barrows, Jackie Goldman, Margaret Watson, Ben Xiong
Business Associates Stassia Chyzhykova, Misha Desai, Bonnie Kim, Maura Lynch, Cathy
Li, Allen McGonagill, Thanases Plestis, Corey Schwartz, William Schweitzer, Kenneth So,
Evan Sumortin, Haydar Taygun, Webber Xu, Lyndse Yess
Design Staff Sara Chimene-Weiss, Katerina Dalavurak, Gili Kliger, Jessica Kirschner,
Joanna Lee, Maxwell Rosero, John Walsh, Kate Wilson, Qian Yin
Photo Staff Qidong Chen, Janine Cheng, Alex DePaoli, Frederic Lu, Quinn Savit, Min Wu
Copy Editors Sara Chimene-Weiss, Sydney Ember, Lauren Fedor, Anna Jouravleva, Geoffrey
Kyi, Frederic Lu, Jordan Mainzer, Kelly Mallahan, Allison Peck, Madeleine Rosenberg, Luis
Solis
Web Developers Jihan Chao
An article in Wednesday’s Herald (“Phi Beta Kappa announces inductees,” Feb. 25) incorrectly reported that
Paola Servado was elected to the Rhode Island Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Paolo Servado ’10 was elected
to the chapter.
C O R R E C T I O N S P olicy
The Brown Daily Herald is committed to providing the Brown University community with the most accurate information possible. Correc-
tions may be submitted up to seven calendar days after publication.
C ommentary P O L I C Y
The editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial page board of The Brown Daily Herald. The editorial viewpoint does not necessarily
reflect the views of The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Columns, letters and comics reflect the opinions of their authors only.
L etters to the E ditor P olicy
Send letters to letters@browndailyherald.com. Include a telephone number with all letters. The Herald reserves the right to edit all letters for
length and clarity and cannot assure the publication of any letter. Please limit letters to 250 words. Under special circumstances writers may
request anonymity, but no letter will be printed if the author’s identity is unknown to the editors. Announcements of events will not be printed.
advertising P olicy
The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. reserves the right to accept or decline any advertisement at its discretion.
Opinions
The Brown Daily Herald
SEAN QUIGLEY
Opinions Columnist
Now in my third year of college, I have at-
tended enough conferences, conventions
and club meetings to know that if the young
are not an essential part of political life, we
are certainly a desired group. Ever y party,
movement and overall coalition seeks to
have the vaunted youth on its side.
The reasons for this are many, but they
tend to fall into two general categories,
per my obser vations. The more tradition-
al factions — who would seem at first to
be hesitant about incorporating the young
into their political groupings — praise the
youth in their midst as wiser than their age
suggests because even we “get it.”
To take an example, when opponents
of Social Security or Medicare frame their
arguments, they frequently drag out the
youth card, pointing to the fiscal misman-
agement of both programs as something
that even we youngsters can understand.
The young will be the ones to foot the bill,
they add.
The more progressive factions — seem-
ingly hard-wired to incorporate the youth,
because using us fits into their overall for-
ward-looking, march-of-histor y political
ideology — praise the youth for seizing the
future in the present. They laud us for not
waiting our turn.
President Obama’s infamous line dur-
ing the presidential campaign, “We are the
BY ANDREA MATHEWS
Opinions Columnist
I remember hearing, in my days as a pro-
spective student, about how Brown Univer-
sity is home to some of the happiest stu-
dents in the country. (According to the 2008
Princeton Review, Brown is No. 2 behind
to Clemson University. First is the worst,
second is the best, I say.)
Thanks to lists like the Princeton Re-
view’s, school reputation and word of mouth,
it seems that colleges in general have strong
incentive to keep their students happy. It
makes sense that a healthy, safe and fulfilled
student body would translate to a better
university.
But incentives can be tricky; in the col-
lege setting, it is possible that the motivation
to provide the most appealing environment
for students may not translate directly to
preser ving the welfare of ever y person.
Attributes like good food, low student
to teacher ratios and quality advising are all
things over which universities have clear
control. But what about quasi-exogenous
things like campus crime? Robber y and as-
sault are not things that can be cleared up
directly with additional funding, and yet col-
leges are still held responsible for them.
I heard a troublesome tidbit over winter
break from a friend at a California liberal arts
school. As their equivalent of an RC, she had
learned quite a bit about her college’s policy
regarding sexual assault, which apparently
is not much of a policy at all. Lobbying a
substantial accusation, she claimed that
her school went beyond unresponsiveness
Knowing our place
ones we’ve been waiting for,” captured this
infatuation with the present application
of the young. In that vainglorious outcr y,
the youth were co-opted for a movement
that, far from utilizing the current govern-
ing classes, would import the future into
the present. The pesky little things known
as reality and circumstance gave way to
dream and theor y, with the avant-garde
youth as the chief instruments.
Both approaches to the youth, how-
One side refuses to incorporate the youth in
any substantive way, and the other uses us
rhetorically for political ends.
ever, are terribly flawed. They rather pa-
tronizingly neglect the independence of
each youth that the opposing sides seek
to herd.
The more traditional politicos fail pri-
marily in their resistance to acknowledge
the simple facts that earthly life is not eter-
nal and that a changing of the guard will in-
evitably occur. As a result they tend to es-
chew our participation even as their ranks
grow grayer and grayer with each passing
election.
True to form, perhaps, they react nega-
tively to most things and people who come
with newer outlooks and attitudes. If you
Investments in well-being
to actively discourage reports of rape and
other sexual assault.
As victims who feel extremely vulner-
able, sur vivors can often be easily deterred
from reporting or continuing with ongo-
ing claims. I’m not making any assertions
about the best course of action for a victim of
sexual assault. That is up for the victim him
or herself to decide. What I am advocating
is easily available support that satisfies any
physical and emotional need and provides
advice for victims on their options inside
and outside of the college setting.
In at least one aspect of sexual assault
responsiveness, the University has come down on
the side of its students.
It’s not difficult to see how a school’s in-
centive to take care of its students may break
down in this situation. Providing inadequate
care to victims of sexual assault is detrimen-
tal to their well-being, but acknowledging
occurrences of such behavior, particularly if
the perpetrators are students, could damage
a school’s reputation. (What college would
want to be on a Princeton Review list titled
“Most Assaulted Students”?)
What has Brown done about this jumble
of incentives? In at least one aspect of sexual
assault responsiveness, the University has
come down on the side of its students. As
Thursday, February 26, 2009 | Page 11
have trouble countenancing this idea, I
would love to take you to an average meet-
ing of the Rhode Island Republican Party.
Worse still, these moribund figures
with their outdated approaches lack appre-
ciation for the merits of adaptation. They
almost actively seek to become irrelevant,
especially when they simply expect the
youth in their midst to come along for the
political ride.
Progressives, however, offer a similarly
poor strategy for incorporating the youth.
Obama may have talked a decent game
about how “this is our time,” but his ulti-
mate goal was purely political. As crushing
as this might be to the followers of our re-
cently installed political messiah, Obama
is just another crowd manipulator.
The young people who lined up behind
him became his tools, whom he hauled out
of the shed whenever the older ideologues
needed proof that they were still cutting-
edge radicals. And he used those tools fre-
quently and skillfully.
Obama does not care about the ideals of
young people. His first major initiative, the
of August of last year, Brown welcomed a
new Health Education staff member whose
arrival was not nearly publicized enough.
Trish Bakaitis-Glover, Brown’s (relatively)
new Sexual Assault Response and Prevention
Program coordinator, fulfills a position that
I wish ever y college would offer.
As Glover describes it, her first prior-
ity is to attend to a victim’s physical and
emotional needs and then to inform him or
her of the options available. This includes
addressing health concerns of injur y, un-
wanted pregnancy and STDs. Glover also
makes known the options available in terms
of reporting what happened, addressing the
time limit attached to collecting physical
evidence. “It’s really important that when
someone’s sexually assaulted that they make
their own decisions,” she said, acknowledg-
ing that the information she delivers can be
crucial to that process.
Glover ser ves as more than a resource
to victims of sexual assault; she can also act
as an advocate for the victim to the Office
of Student Life and other Brown actors to
preser ve the confidentiality of the student.
Furthermore, she has the capacity to fa-
spend-until-you-drop stimulus bill, is proof
enough of that. When given the chance to
shake up the dogmatic attachment to a new
New Deal panacea and stop piling debt on
future generations, he opted instead for
the old-fashioned spending package.
Obama’s plan was crafted in the dark
legislative corners inhabited by Washing-
ton power-brokers and by other old-timers,
all intent on spending other peoples’ mon-
ey for projects sure to gain them political
favor back home. Obama is just another of-
ficeholder, who will bring no glor y and no
liberty for the youth who supposedly put
him into the White House.
So, alas, this is where we are. One side
refuses to incorporate the youth in any
substantive way, and the other uses us rhe-
torically for political ends. It is thus a good
thing for stability’s sake that this is a doc-
ile generation.
Our generation is at a crossroads. Some
sided with McCain and had to withstand
the subsequent marginalization. Some sid-
ed with Obama and were used as tools in a
game that ended as they all do.
Hopefully we shall now think for our-
selves and not be relegated to a substan-
dard place determined by others claiming
to know better. We must always know our
place, of course, but we must also be the
ones to choose it.
Sean Quigley ’10 is a history and classics
concentrator from East Greenwich, Rhode
Island. He can be reached at
sean_quigley@brown.edu
cilitate contact with the Providence Police
or the Brown Department of Public Safety
or both.
The position of Sexual Assault Response
and Prevention Program coordinator is a
new one to Brown, and is a valuable step in
making Brown more responsive to sexual
assault. But it should not be a solitar y one.
Prevention and deterrence are objectives
that should not be allocated to just one per-
son in this university, and we can certainly
ask questions about how Brown treats stu-
dents who have been convicted of sexual
assault, particularly if they are repeat offend-
ers. Beyond this, a Brown RC recently noted
that though Glover’s position is important,
it is perhaps under-utilized because so few
people seem to know who she is.
Trish Glover probably wasn’t a resource
that the Princeton Review took into account
when it calculated its “Happiest Students”
rankings, and perhaps it would have been
inappropriate to do so. After all, a Sexual As-
sault Response and Prevention Coordinator
is responsible for something far more seri-
ous than making sure students are smiling
as they mill around the Main Green. But by
investing in Glover’s position, our University
has sent the message that recognizing rape
does not mean a trade-off in ensuring its
students’ well-being, and that makes me
pretty happy.
Andrea Matthews ’11 is an economics
and public policy concentrator from
Santa Barbara, California. She can be
reached at
andrea_matthews@brown.edu
 Today
The Brown Daily Herald
the news in images
5
c a l e n da r
February 26, 2009
6 P.M. — “Immigration: President
Obama’s Forgotten Priority” with Julia
Preston, Watson Institute
8 P.M. — Orientation Welcoming Com-
mittee Info Session, Wilson 102
menu
Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Gyro Sandwich, Chicken
Fingers, Baked Vegan Nuggets, Italian
Sausage and Peppers Sandwich
Dinner — Salt and Pepper Jerk
Chicken, Vegetarian Tamale Pie, Pesto
Pasta
crossword
5
to day to m o r r o w
Cleaner trucks in Li’l Rhody?
Those damn Yankees
7
Thursday, February 26, 2009
44 / 34 53 / 34
Page 12
post-
Inside...
03 feature
HIPPIES AND FASHIONISTAS \\ luisa robledo
04 film and television
COME ALONG FOR THE RIDE\\ doug eacho
TWO DRUNK GUYS TALKING ABOUT THE OSCARS \\ sam grey
05 music
50 YEARS OF REFUSAL \\ eva kurtz-nelson
07 sexpertise
February 27, 2009
TO 69 OR NOT?\\ allie wollner
7 P.M. — Relax and Unwind Work- THE DISCOVERY \\ sam yambrovich
shop, Salomon 203
08 from the hill
7:30 P.M. — Brown Breakdance THE PIGEON CHEST \\ audrey fox
Proudly Presents: Floorgasm, Sa- THEIR LAST MEAL \\ ted lamm & alex logan
lomon 101 FINDING ACCEPTANCE IN IRONY \\ anthony badami
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall comics
Enigma Twist | Dustin Foley
Lunch — Honey Mustard Chicken
Sandwich, Vegetarian Pot Pie, Peas
Dinner — Pork Medallions in Porta-
bello Sauce, Vegan Paella, Au Gratin
Potatoes with Fresh Herbs
Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman
The One About Zombies | Kevin Grebb
Vagina Dentata | Sojean Kim