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3,000 more Caught removing poster, UFB candidate quits
tickets made
available for
Weekend
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staff Writer
The Brown Concert Agency is selling
3,000 additional Spring Weekend tick-
ets because clear weather is forecast
for Friday and Saturday, Stephen
Hazeltine ’09, the group’s administra-
tive chair, said Wednesday.
The new tickets, 1,500 for each
of the two concerts, will be offered
first to Brown students. About 250 of
those tickets were sold Wednesday,
said Daniel Ain ’09, BCA’s booking
chair.
The remaining tickets will be on
sale at the Faunce House box office
today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. exclu-
sively to Brown students, and from
2 p.m. to 5 p.m. to Brown and Rhode
Island School of Design students.
Any tickets that remain after those
sales will be made available to the
public Friday and Saturday at a ticket
booth on the corner of Brown and
George streets.
BCA was able to release the ad-
ditional tickets because it was con-
fident the concerts could be held on
the Main Green, which has a larger
capacity than Meehan Auditorium,
the rain location. The group an-
nounced that both concerts would be
held outside in an e-mail to students
Wednesday.
“We wanted to make sure every-
one has a chance to hear about it,”
Ain said.
The group sold a total of 6,000
tickets to Brown students online last
month. The new tickets will boost
the total number of available passes
by 50 percent.
“We’re very pleased,” Hazeltine
said. “There is absolutely no rain in
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By Seth Motel board member of the Undergradu-
Staff Writer ate Council of Students and another
student close to the election pro-
Neil Parikh ’11, a candidate for Under- cess. Both sources asked to remain
graduate Finance Board vice-chair,
withdrew from the race Tuesday night
anonymous.
The withdrawal leaves Vasconez
after he was caught removing one as the only candidate for that position
of his opponent’s publicity posters, still on the ballot.
according to multiple sources. The two sources said Elections
Parikh, president of the Class Board Chair Lily Tran ’10 and Vice-
of 2011, was seen removing a sign Chair Zachary Langway ’09 told
for his opponent, Juan Vasconez ’10, Parikh Tuesday night that he could
from a Wriston Quadrangle door, ac- withdraw his candidacy or choose to
cording to both a former executive face a hearing before the full board.
The University is working with local day care providers to open eight new infant care slots to aid faculty and staff.
Staff hope for increased child care
By Brigitta Greene his position.
Senior Staf f Writer The infant care center — with
a capacity of just 20 children and
It’s a quiet morning on the Taft Av- a waiting list of over a year — is
enue Daycare Center playground, currently the only one of its kind to
nestled behind the Brown Stadium. cater exclusively to Brown faculty,
Among the many children enjoying staff and students.
their morning playtime, baby Max “We get two to three calls a day
sleeps peacefully in his strawberry looking for childcare,” said Mary
beanie. Less than three years old, Castrignano, the center’s director.
he has no idea how many parents “We’re now accepting enrollment
wish their children could be in for May 2010.”
Thousands protest
taxes at TEA Party
by Anne Speyer Tax Day TEA Party.” The name was
Staff Writer both an acronym for “Taxed Enough
Already” and an allusion to the Bos-
More than 2,000 protesters gath- ton Tea Party of 1773. The protest-
ered on the steps of the
State House Wednesday METRO
afternoon at a rally against
“runaway” government spending “Obama is our King George!” and
and taxes. “Fatherland security: I want my
The rally, one of hundreds hap- country back!”
Anne Speyer / Herald
pening simultaneously across the
country, was called the “Providence
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No longer Bumpin’
Local schools plan to abolish
a teacher-placement practice
known as “bumping”
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Parikh chose to withdraw his
name later that night, the sources
said.
Senior Director for Student En-
gagement Ricky Gresh discussed the
actions with certain members of the
board on Wednesday, the two stu-
dents said. The Herald was unable to
reach Gresh late Wednesday night.
The former UCS executive said
Vasconez’s sign was posted in a
way that violated the election rules.
There might have been confusion
over which spots on campus were
Matt Weisberg / Herald
The only other facility that gives
preference to the University com-
munity, the Brown/Fox Point Early
Childhood Education Center on
Hope Street, reserves about 60 per-
cent of its space — 44 of 76 slots
— for faculty, staff and students,
and caters to children between the
ages of three and six, said Chris
Amirault, executive director of the
continued on page 9
ers, some dressed in 18th
century garb, carried signs
with slogans proclaiming
continued on page 6
Sports, 7
FLIPPING OUT
Victoria Zanelli ’11 is The
Herald’s Athlete of the
Week
permissible for posting campaign
signs, according to a third student
close to the process, who confirmed
that Parikh had removed a poster.
“Elections Board doesn’t have
any institutional memory, so each
year, members just make up their
own rules,” the student said.
The Elections Board has estab-
lished a four-page set of guidelines,
Langway said. Though the guidelines
do not specify the procedure for re-
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Med students
put the dead
to rest, at last
By Jyotsna Mullur
Staf f Writer
It’s a rite of passage for all first-
year medical students — a course
in human anatomy, in which they
dissect the dead to understand
the living. But after their hands-
on experience with mortality, the
students organize a ceremony
that provides closure to their first
brush with the fragility of the
human body.
FEATURE
This year, 96 students at Alp-
ert Medical School dissected and
studied 24 donated cadavers, said
Dale Ritter, who directs the hu-
man anatomy course at Brown.
Students are given little identify-
ing information about the cadav-
ers, he said — nothing more than
their cadaver’s official cause of
death and age at expiration.
“Especially early on, we tend
not to focus on the other infor-
mation,” Ritter said, adding that
additional information makes it
even more difficult for beginning
medical students to dissect their
first human body.
The student-organized cer-
emony — a tradition that began
almost 20 years ago — com-
memorates not only the cadavers’
lives, but also the contribution to
medicine they made after death,
he said.
The ceremony was once an
hour-long affair held in a large
lecture hall at the end of the
course. But in recent years, it has
become an informal, quiet event
that takes place in the course’s
anatomy lab, Ritter said.
Amanda Westlake MD’12
helped organize this year’s cer-
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Med students remember
their cadavers as people
continued from page 1
emony, which took place in Feb-
ruary. After her brief introduction,
students lit candles for the cadavers
they had worked with for the length
of the course. They also had the
opportunity to sing, read poetr y
or simply speak and express their
thoughts.
At the ceremony, Wei Song ’08
MD’12 read a poem she had writ-
ten earlier in the year. It focused
on “the interaction between life and
Katherine Regalado / Herald
Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron and Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret death” and struggled to reconcile
Klawunn discussed improvements to the Faculty Advising Fellows program at a meeting of the Undergradu- the contrast between cutting open
ate Council of Students Wednesday night. bodies and the physician’s ultimate
goal of healing.
cadavers, Ritter said, such as their
careers and life achievements,
collected from obituaries and the
anatomical gift program. Westlake
learned that some of the donors had
even attended Brown, she said.
This aspect of the ceremony
brings the students full-circle, Rit-
ter said, by taking them back to their
first day in anatomy when they were
introduced to their cadavers by age
and cause of death.
“It’s a reminder that this was a
person — they had a life,” he said.
“They made an incredible gift.”
Westlake said dissecting the bod-
ies was a desensitizing experience
for many students.

Fellows program to get second boost “I wanted to recognize the

By Qian Yin
Contributing Writer
The Faculty Advising Fellows pro-
gram, which has professors host
events in their homes to encour-
age interaction between students
and faculty, will be expanded
next semester, according to the
administrators who oversee the
program.
Starting in the fall, faculty mem-
bers will host an informal gathering
with coffee and tea every afternoon
Monday through Thursday in J.
Walter Wilson, Dean of the Col-
lege Katherine Bergeron said, in an
effort to establish a regular social
event that is easy to get to.
Students will better know
when and where the fellows are
readily available, and can “just
stop by and get to know them,”
Bergeron said.
There will be also be more
dinners hosted for students and
faculty members to get together
in the Sharpe Refectory’s dining
rooms, Bergeron said.
The program was already
given a boost before the current
academic year when 10 non-res-
idential faculty advising fellows
were included to assist the exist-
ing fellows-in-residence.
The recent improvements to the
program have allowed fellows to
host better events, said Associate
Professor of Chemistry and Bio-
chemistry William Suggs, a fellow-
continued on page 4
value of what these people gave,”
Song said.
In the anatomy course itself,
there was a sense of discover y,
Westlake said. She said she found
a stent in her subject’s aor ta,
and classmates uncovered pros-
thetic knees, joint replacements
and other anomalies beneath the
cadavers’ skin.
The students organize the cer-
emony to take “a moment to reflect
the trust they had in us,” she said.
“Medical education depends on
people who don’t know us at all
trusting us.”
“I didn’t want it to be solemn,”
Westlake said. “Serious, but not
solemn.”
The commemoration is the first
time students are told other bio-
graphical information about their
“You quickly become acclimat-
ed to tearing through them with
scalpels,” she said, adding that
the ceremony was a reminder that
the cadavers had once been living
humans.
After the ceremony, the cadav-
ers were cremated and returned to
their families.
But the medical students seek
closure, too. Traditionally, they
sign the walls of the anatomy lab at
the ceremony’s end — unexpected
graffiti from hundreds of medical
students.
“Anatomy is a major event for
medical students,” Ritter said. It’s
when they realize that medical
school is “something different,”
he added.
The ceremony gives them a
sense of relief, he said. “There’s a
certain release to it.”

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Sexual assault center now staffed
By Alicia Dang
Staff Writer
For the first time since its creation,
the Sexual Assault Resource Center
is now staffed regularly on weekdays.
Nine students have been staffing the
center, located in the Sarah Doyle
Women’s Center, since earlier this
month.
Most of the students who staff the
center are members of the Sexual
Assault Task Force and the Coalition
Against Relationship Abuse.
Organizers said some students
have been coming to the center since
staffing began, but they hope even
more will take advantage of the ser-
vice.
Though the center itself has ex-
isted for almost two years, the move
to staff it is an attempt to “make it take
off” and encourage more students
to take advantage of its resources,
said Madeline Ray ’10, one of the
staffers.
Brown has “been behind in having
an open discourse” about sexual as-
sault and in providing resources that
are “available and that people know
about,” she said.
The Sexual Assault Task Force,
which initiated the move to staff the
center, was originally formed by a
group of students at Brown and the
Rhode Island School of Design which
got together “in response to the inad-
equacy of sexual assault resources” at
Candidate drops out of vice chair race
continued from page 1
moving a student caught breaking the
rules, Langway said the board was
under no obligation to question any
candidate who asked to have his name
removed from the ballot.
Parikh confirmed to The Herald
that he withdrew his candidacy, but
declined to explain his reasons.
“Unfortunately, I’m not at liberty
to discuss it until the election is over,”
Parikh said. “I won’t disclose anything
until the election is over to keep it fair
to all sides involved.”
Langway said he could not provide
any more information about Parikh’s
withdrawl.
“At Neil’s request, the Elections
Board is not discussing details of his
personal reasons for choosing to with-
draw until after the polls have closed
the schools, according to the group’s
mission statement.
After getting permission from the
Sarah Doyle Women’s Center to use a
room on the second floor, the group
opened the center in 2007, but it has
been little-known and little-used since
then, Ray said.
“It’s been here for almost two
years, but it wasn’t really function-
ing,” she said.
Since April 6, the students have
been taking shifts staffing the center
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through
Friday. The debut of staffing at the
center has been billed as a part of
Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but
organizers said they hoped regular
staffing would continue beyond the
end of the month.
The student staffers “answer
questions about sexual assault, give
background resources on campus”
and create a “central, safe, neutral
space for people to find information
for themselves and their friends,” said
Catherine McCarthy ’11, another stu-
dent who staffs the center.
All of the student staffers com-
pleted a two-hour training session
with Trish Glover, the University’s
sexual assault response and preven-
tion program coordinator. The train-
ing included information about the
dynamics of sexual assault and ways
to help victims, Glover said.
Though she and other students
who staff the center are “not exten-
tomorrow afternoon,” he said. “We’re
honoring his wishes for no discussion
beyond the statement that he has with-
drawn for personal reasons.”
Vasconez said the Elections Board
informed him late Tuesday night that
Parikh had dropped out, which he said
he “never expected.”
“I was pretty surprised and, I mean,
shocked, really,” Vasconez said.
The Elections Board has not de-
cided whether to consider Vasconez an
unopposed candidate — which would
mean he would need just 5 percent
of the vote to avoid a run-off election,
Tran said.
Regarding votes that had already
been cast for Parikh, Tran said, “It’s
a choice between whether or not
to count them as abstentions or to
completely disqualify the votes alto-
gether.”
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sively trained and professional,” Ray
said, they “can give our knowledge
and support, and are willing to lis-
ten.”
“The most important thing is we
be here,” she said.
Daniela Rodriguez DS ’10, who
coordinates the Coalition Against Re-
lationship Abuse and also staffs the
center, agreed. “We know resources
and how to deal with situations,” she
said.
Organizers said they think stu-
dents could take better advantage
of the center. “Regardless of how
willing we’re to help, it’s difficult to Kim Perley / Herald
get people to come in to talk to us,” Thanks to a clear forecast for the weekend, additional Spring Weekend
McCarthy said. tickets will be sold Thursday in the Faunce box office.
“It’s a challenge for peer support
programs,” Glover said, “because
(sexual assault) is truly private on a Sunny forecast means
3,000 more concert tix
small campus.”
“It’s important to promote the
space as private, confidential and
safe,” she said.
Making peer support available is continued from page 1 last month that each headliner
“really important for people who are will be paid between $40,000 and
sexually assaulted,” Glover added, the forecast.” $70,000 for the gigs. In previous
“because they often tell their friends, Ain said he thought the reason years, the top performers were
and it will be very helpful for their only a fraction of the available tick- paid between $30,000 and $50,000,
peers to know what to do, what to say ets were sold Wednesday was that he said.
and know the resources.” word of the additional offerings had “If anything, artists have gotten
But in addition to serving the not spread quickly enough among more expensive,” Hazeltine said.
larger community, the center is also a students. “A lot of the student body Sharon Jones and the Dap
“good point of encounter,” Rodriguez wasn’t aware,” he said. Kings, Santigold, local rock band
DS said. It “brings together people BCA consulted with the Student Deer Tick and world-fusion quintet
who have similar interests in work Activities Office and Facilities Man- Toubab Krewe will also perform.
against sexual violence,” she added. agement’s grounds department A student band, Doss the Artist
before making the final decision and PGA Tour, will open for Of
to hold both concerts outside, Ha- Montreal after winning a battle
zeltine said. of the bands competition this past
“This is the second year we’ve weekend.
Tran said the Elections Board intended to have both shows out- Tickets will be sold for $15 each
will wait until after the voting period side,” he said. “We thought we were to Brown students, with a maxi-
closes at 12 p.m. today to decide how due, and it seems that we were.” mum of two per person. Students
to handle votes cast for Parikh before Spring Weekend will be head- must present a Brown ID. The price
his name was removed from the My- lined on Friday night by hip-hop for RISD students will also be $15,
Courses ballot. star Nas and on Saturday by indie- while members of the public will
If the board decided to count pop band Of Montreal. be able to purchase any remaining
Parikh’s votes as abstentions and Hazeltine said in an interview tickets this weekend for $25.
Vasconez did not receive more than
50 percent of the vote, the group would
decide how to conduct a run-off, Tran
said.
She said the board was unsure
whether Parikh’s name would appear
on a run-off ballot in that situation.
“There are a lot of questions that need
to be answered still, unfortunately,”
she said.
Parikh said he has not decided
what he would do if the board allowed
him to place his name on a potential
run-off ballot.
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Last chance to vote for B ear y interestin g
UCS, UFB leadership
Voting for leaders of the Undergraduate Council of Stu-
dents and Undergraduate Finance Board ends today at 12
p.m. on MyCourses.
“Since the polls opened, we’ve seen record turnout among
the student body,” said Elections Board Vice-Chair Zachary
Langway ’09.
More than 2,000 students voted in the first 36 hours of
the election, he said. Voting opened Tuesday at 12 p.m.
The candidates for UCS president are Paris Hays ’10,
Mike MacCombie ’11, Ryan Lester ’11 and Clay Wertheimer
’10.
The candidates for UFB chair are Salsabil Ahmed ’11
and Jose Vasconez ’10.
— Seth Motel

Kim Perley / Herald

The Backbone Campaign held a workshop to teach “fun, non-violent direct action techniques” at Wilson
Hall Wednesday using a giant polar bear puppet.

Few students attend Fellow events

continued from page 2
in-residence at 22 Benevolent St.
With the additional non-resi-
dential faculty, fellows have been
able to bring in more guest speak-
ers through connections and “get
some really worthwhile high-quality
things happening,” Suggs said.
For example, he said, Professor
of Anthropology Lina Fruzzetti, the
non-residential fellow associated
with his house, organized a screen-
ing of a film about human traffick-
ing. Fruzzetti invited specialists on
the subject with whom Suggs said
he would not have had connections
as a chemistry professor.
But the re-energizing effort has
not managed to increase the number
of students who come to the events,
Suggs said. The average attendance
this year has dropped compared to
last year at 22 Benevolent St., he
said. The drop might be related to
moving up the usual event time to
8 p.m. from last year’s 10 p.m. start
time, he said.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Gregory Elliott, a non-residential
fellow at 22 Benevolent St., said he
would like to see more students at-
tend.
“The major problem I see with
this program is that it doesn’t seem
to be a high priority among stu-
dents,” he said. “We see a smaller
number than would be most useful
to our program at our study-break
sessions.”
“We’ve had single-digit atten-
dance at many of our events,” he
said.
Attendance has varied for dif-
ferent events, Suggs said. Events
like making crepes and a housing
lotter y information session have
been popular, while events centered
around “more targeted” subjects,
such as Italian women in politics,
have drawn smaller crowds.
Margaret Klawunn, vice presi-
dent for campus life and student
services, said she had expected that
the expansion of the program would
increase attendance but admitted
that has not been the case. “Overall,
it didn’t draw as many students as
we’d hoped,” she said.
“It’s a lear ning process,”
Bergeron said.
Though Brown has been finding
ways to cut back on spending in
almost all areas, Bergeron said the
faculty fellows program is “a very
high priority.” Administrators are
maintaining their “commitment to
making this program work,” she
said.

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Stimulus money goes to local arts

Of the $1.1 billion allotted to Rhode Island under the
economic stimulus bill signed by President Obama in February,
$291,500 is on its way to local art projects.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
included $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Forty percent of those funds will go to state and regional art
agencies, including the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
The funding “is mostly about job creation, job preservat-ion,”
said Fred Sneesby, a spokesman for Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65.
Randall Rosenbaum, the executive director of RISCA, said
the group submitted its application to the NEA about one month
ago and was approved for $291,500 in funding.
The money will be distributed to nonprofit arts organizations
— specifically state arts agencies and regional arts organizations
— through a grant-application process that is set to conclude
on May 1. The groups that receive funding will be announced in
Herald File Photo
Hope High School is among six schools where “bumping” will no longer be used to fill teaching vacancies. early July, Rosenbaum said.
RISCA has been surveying the art field since October and

City schools end teacher placement policy
By George Miller
Metro Editor
Providence Public Schools will end
the practice known as “bumping”
— filling teaching vacancies based
mainly on seniority — at six schools
later this year and throughout the
city in 2010. The move to end bump-
ing has angered the teachers union,
which may sue to stop it.
Superintendent Tom Brady an-
nounced the change in an e-mail
to all teachers and staff last week.
It follows a February order from
Peter McWalters, the state’s com-
missioner of elementary and sec-
ondary education, that the district
implement “criterion-based hiring
and job assignment processes that
are driven by student need rather
than by seniority.”
Bumping causes a chain-reac-
tion shuffling of teachers among
schools, said Christina O’Reilly, a
spokesperson for the school system.
For example, in order to eliminate
a teaching position at a school, the
district would need to send layoff
notices to all of the most junior
teachers in the district. While only
one teacher would be laid off, the re-
maining teachers would be shuffled
around as each chose a new position
based on seniority, she said.
Under the new hiring policy, all
applicants will undergo an interview
process with a committee and with
the school’s principal, who will have
final say as to who is hired. Hiring
will take into account both princi-
pals’ and teachers’ ranked prefer-
ences, and a current teacher who
continued on page 6
has noted a significant decrease in contributions to the arts,
he said. That in turn has led arts organizations to cut staff,
he said.
Under these conditions, Rosenbaum said, the funds will have
“a visible impact” on the state’s economy.
Public funding for the arts “is a main blood line for a lot of
us,” said Mike Townsend, a local artist.
But artists won’t be the only ones to benefit from the fund,
Rosenbaum said. Because the arts are a significant part of
the state’s economy and require a smaller investment than
other industries, the money allotted to the arts will have a
widespread impact.
More performances will bring more diners to restaurants and
more customers to parking garages, Rosenbaum said.
— Monique Vernon

Thayer Street congestion

fix awaits new parking boss
By Melissa Shube
Senior Staf f Writer
Last spring, a task force released
recommendations to reduce park-
ing problems and congestion on
College Hill. A year later, imple-
mentation of those recommenda-
tions is on hold while the city waits
for a new parking administrator to
take control.
Among the College Hill Park-
ing Task Force’s recommendations
were more short-term parking for
Thayer Street, more long-term
parking for the area’s students and
employees, increased parking en-
forcement and better signage and
street markings.
John Nickelson, the director
of the city’s Department of Pub-
lic Works, said the city was inter-
viewing potential parking admin-
istrators and expected to make a
decision soon.
“I actually suggested that we
hold off on the implementation
until we have someone who can
actually see this problem through,”
Nickelson said.
Brendan McNally, director of
the Rhode Island Center for Inno-
vation and Entrepreneurship, who
chaired the task force, said the next
step was for the city to hold a public
meeting to discuss the proposals.
A lower age for Zipcar rentals and
free use of RIPTA buses by students
have already reduced demand for
parking on the Hill, he said.
McNally said he was hopeful
that a meeting to discuss the task
force’s proposals would be sched-
uled in the next couple of months.
The task force was a “good process”
which resulted in valuable recom-
mendations, he said. “We’re hope-
ful that they’ll still be good ideas
to think about and implement,”
he said.
However, not everyone agrees
with the recommendations made
by the task force. William Touret,
the president of the College Hill
Neighborhood Association, said
some of the initiatives would actu-
ally increase the number of vehicles
on College Hill.
In a July letter to the City Plan
Commission, Touret wrote the
“primar y cause of the worsening
parking and traf fic congestion
on College Hill is the continued
facility expansion and intensifica-
tion on College Hill, primarily by
Brown University.” The task force
proposal does not address Brown’s
expansion, which he believes is the
underlying cause of the parking
problem, he wrote in the letter.
Brown participated in the task
force’s review as part of the process
of writing its institutional master
plan, which the University must
submit to the city every 10 years.
Meanwhile, drivers on Thayer
Street and College Hill still face a
shortage of parking spaces.
“If you live in College Hill, the
traffic congestion and parking con-
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Tea and anger at State House
continued from page 1
Helen Glover, host of a morning
talk show on Providence radio station
WHJJ, served as master of ceremo-
nies. “I always believed in paying my
taxes because I didn’t aspire one day
to be the secretary of treasury, where
I could get out of paying my taxes,”
she said to the crowd. “I always
trusted my government. That has
changed in the last several years, as I
see wasteful spending continuing and
there seems to be no end to it.”
Glover first introduced Colleen
Conley, who was responsible for or-
ganizing the Providence rally. “They
work for us,” Conley told the crowd,
referring to the representatives work-
ing in the State House behind her.
“And that’s why we’re here — to tell
them we are paying attention.”
“There’s an impeding black cloud
of taxation coming to us,” said Bill
Felkner, another speaker at the event
and one of the many who helped plan
the rally. Felkner condemned the
Obama administration’s bailouts of
national banks and the growing na-
tional debt.
Felkner also presented attend-
ees with a card pledging not to raise
taxes, which he called upon Rhode
Island representatives to sign. Rep.
Joseph Trillo, R-Dist. 24, was the
first to step forward and sign the
tax pledge card.
“I am so happy to see I finally have
some backup for the arguments I’ve
been making in this building in the
General Assembly for the last nine
years,” Trillo said, prompting ap-
plause from the crowd. Four other
state representatives followed his ex-
ample and signed the pledge card.
Father Giacomo Capoverdi, a
priest and former assistant to two
Providence mayors, also addressed
the crowd, denouncing excessive
taxation.
“We are totally against breaking
any of the Ten Commandments,”
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“There’s an impeding black cloud of taxation coming to us.”
— Bill Felkner, speaker at the Providence Tax Day TEA Party
he said. “Especially the eighth com-
mandment: Thou shalt not steal.”
He added that Americans should
not have to “pay exorbitant taxes and
have Obama decide where (their)
money will go.”
The throng of protesters who at-
tended the rally represented a vari-
ety of interest groups, but shared a
common goal.
“The reason I’m here is because
I have a 5-year-old son, and I’m con-
cerned for his future,” a woman who
identified herself only as Aurla told
The Herald. “Everyone that we have
at all levels of government should
be ousted. I want to see people with
morals running for office.”
Marion O’Brien, who is retired,
said she had never protested any-
thing before. She told The Herald
she wanted to see a flat tax rate and
an increased reliance on American-
made goods. “I don’t want to leave
... a legacy of nothing but bills,” she
said.
Teachers union might sue schools
continued from page 5
is transferred will be required to
stay in his new position until the
end of the school year, according
to Brady’s e-mail.
While the length of a teacher’s
ser vice will still be “valued” and
taken into consideration, it will
no longer be the main factor in
decisions, O’Reilly said. The new
system will “best match teacher
qualifications with student need,”
she said.
For the 2009-10 school year,
the policy change will take effect
at four existing schools­ ­— Hope
High School, Perry Middle School,
Veazie Street Elementary School
and Lauro Elementary School —
as well as at the new Providence
Career and Technical Academy
and the newly renovated Nathan
Bishop Middle School. It will take
effect district-wide for the 2010-11
school year.
Brady and McWalters wanted
to start with just a few schools, be-
cause they expect “there will be
some wrinkles to iron out,” O’Reilly
City takes steps to ease
parking congestion
continued from page 5
gestion is ver y serious, and it’s
not getting any better,” Touret
said. “I don’t think anybody —
the city, Brown, the residents or
visitors — would disagree with
that.”
Christina Taylor, who works
at Salon Kroma, said customers
often call and say they are going
to be late because they can’t find
anywhere to park.
“A neighborhood parking lot,
or even a parking garage, would
be great,” she said.
Grant Dulgarian, a Thayer
street businessman, said parking
is still an issue, and expressed dis-
may at new restaurants opening on
Thayer Street, noting that they will
increase the need for parking.
“It’s a difficult situation now,”
said.
But Steve Smith, president of the
Providence Teachers Union, said
he sees a larger problem with the
new plan. While the union is willing
to accept McWalters’ order, Smith
said, the district did not properly
take into account teachers’ input.
“We’re just being paid lip ser-
vice,” Smith said. “Superintendent
Brady’s idea of collaboration is he
tells us what he’s going to do.”
The union may pursue legal ac-
tion against the plan, he said.
O’Reilly said the union was
involved in six hours of meetings
going over the proposed plan, but
Smith said six hours are not enough
time to deal with a “monumental”
issue such as hiring practices.
The union worked non-stop for
several days during recent weeks
to create its own plan, which would
take teachers’ experience into ac-
count, institute checks and balances
and “give teachers a voice,” Smith
said.
“Teachers’ experience should
be valued,” he said.
Smith said the union wants lan-
Thursday, April 16, 2009
he said. “At the ver y least we
ought not to exacerbate the situ-
ation by adding any new demand
for on-street parking.”
Students with cars on campus
feel the parking crunch along with
local business owners.
Scott Middleton ’10 said find-
ing day parking around campus
is “usually pretty difficult.” But,
he said, “I’m also glad there’s not
parking lots everywhere because
that wouldn’t be too attractive.”
“It’s a big hassle because
there’s a blackout period dur-
ing the morning where you
can’t park for free,” said Christi
Zaleski ’11.
Nickelson said he is optimis-
tic that the parking situation on
Thayer and College Hill can be
improved. “If not, we’ve done a lot
of work for nothing,” he joked.
guage assuring safeguards against
unjustified assignments. According
to Brady’s e-mail to school staff,
the new plan will not allow “arbi-
trary, capricious” placements, and
teachers will be entitled to request
an explanation for any assignment
they receive.
The union is willing to work with
the district to form a new policy,
Smith said.
“We’re more than willing to work
with the district to implement the
commissioner’s order, but to date
this has been a top-down implemen-
tation,” he said.
Matthew Corritore ’09, a co-
coordinator for Brown Students for
Education Reform, said that he was
optimistic that bumping will end
but that a lawsuit from the teachers’
union would throw that into doubt.
His group’s school advocacy work
has included circulating a petition
to end bumping and support the
school system in case of a lawsuit.
Research has shown that a stable
school culture is important to learn-
ing and that bumps impede that
proces, Corritore said.
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The Brown Daily Herald
Zanelli ’11 vaults to success Golf, track teams look
By Elisabeth Avallone
Spor ts Staf f Writer
This past weekend, Victoria Zanelli
’11 competed at the USAG Collegiate
National at Southern Connecticut
State, scoring a personal best of
9.725 on the beam and thereby
earning USAG All-American status.
Posting a 9.375 on vault, a 9.250 on
the bars and a 9.075 on floor, her
total of 37.425 was one spot shy of
USAG All-American status in the
all-around.
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
This season, Zanelli earned Sec-
ond Team All-Ivy Classic honors on
the bars, beam and in the all-around.
She tied two previous career high
scores, posting a 9.725 on bars and
a 38.000 in the all-around.
For her outstanding per for-
mance, The Herald has named
Victoria Zanelli our Athlete of the
Week.
Herald: When did you first pick
up gymnastics and why?
Zanelli: I started when I was
seven, after the 1996 Olympics. I
would always do cartwheels and
handstands when I was in soccer
and ballet, so it just seemed to fit.
M. crew finds mixed results at Harvard
By Andrew Braca
Sports Editor
The No. 6 men’s crew team achieved
mixed results against No. 4 Harvard
on Saturday on the Charles River,
winning two out of five races.
In the varsity eight, Brown fell by
a single second as the Crimson recap-
tured the Stein Cup, but the strong
race showed the Bears had shaken
off a 10-second loss to Harvard in the
San Diego Crew Classic the previous
Sunday.
“We had lost to them in the finals at
San Diego by quite a lot, so I think, as
much as we would have liked to win it,
it was a good step forward to be right
How often did you train in high
school?
Five hours a day, six days a week.
It became so routine — leave school
up with them,” said Head Coach Paul
Cooke ’89.
Brown went on to drop the fresh-
man eight and the third varsity four,
but the Bears picked up victories in
the second varsity eight and the sec-
ond freshman eight.
“Losing in the varsity was a tough
defeat, but overall there were a lot of
positive results that came out of the
weekend,” said varsity eight coxswain
Rob O’Leary ’09.
For the Bears, the weekend was
a chance to reunite the entire team
after only the varsity eight made the
trip to San Diego.
“It was good to have everyone
together,” Cooke said. “The guys all
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early, practice, dinner, shower,
homework, bed.
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train together, so it was great to have
the whole squad go up there, and it
was good racing all day. All the races
were good contests.”
The varsity eight race opened the
day in exciting fashion, as the teams
battled down to the wire. Harvard
prevailed with a time of 5:47.0, just
one second faster than Brown.
O’Leary said the Bears were confi-
dent and were not fazed by Harvard’s
big win in San Diego.
“We knew we could stay close to
them and race them down to the line,
which is what it came down to,” he
said. “We weren’t worried at all about
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 | Page 7
strong in early contests
Sports Staff Reports
Men’s golf
Over the weekend, the men’s
golf team competed at the New
England Division I Champion-
ships, which were shor tened
from 36 to 27 holes due to weather.
Brown shot a team score of 461,
finishing sixth out of ten teams.
John Giannuzzi ’10 shot a 36
on the final nine holes to finish
with a team-leading score of 113,
which was good for seventh place
individually. Chris Hoffman ’09
followed with a 115after shooting
a 37 on the final nine holes, while
Conor Malloy ’09 led the team
with a 72 in the first round, but
struggled in the second round,
finishing the tournament at 116.
Michael Amato ’11 was next with
a 120, while Joe Rued ’09 finished
at 124.
This weekend, the team will
compete at the Yale Invitational.
Men’s track and field
The men’s track and field team
finished first at the Brown Invita-
tional with a total 129 points. On
the track, Alex Stern ’10 and Matt
Duffy ’12 ran to a one-two finish
in the 1500-meter run, finishing in
4:02.41 and 4:02.44, respectively.
Brian Schmidt ’09 won the 3000m
in 8:26.88, while Sean O’Brien ’09
finished the 800m in 1:56.32, good
for second place.
In the field, Reginald Cole ’10
earned two individual victories,
winning the long jump in 6.36m
and jumping 14.68m to win the
triple jump. Jordan Maddocks
’11 also picked up a win, clearing
2.00m to claim first place in the
high jump. Bryan Powlen ’10 made
his presence felt in the throwing
events, throwing 47.52m to win the
discus and finishing second in the
shot put with a toss of 15.62m.
Women’s track and field
The women’s squad finished
second at the Brown Invitational
with 107 points, just behind win-
ner Dartmouth, who finished with
109.25 points. Two Bears picked
up wins on the track, as Kesley
Ramsey ’11 won the 800m in a
time of 2:12.63 and Herald Staff
Writer Lauren Pischel ’11 crossed
the line in 10:06.52 to earn the vic-
tory in the 3000m. Brown also got
a strong performance from Megan
Fitzpatrick ’11, who finished sec-
ond in the 1500m in 4:50.61.
In the field, Brown dominated
the jumps, as Shannon Stone ’10
and Rachel Biblo ’11 finished one-
two in the triple jump in 11.28m
and 10.79m, respectively. Biblo
got the win in the long jump with
a jump of 5.14m, while Anja Her-
grueter ’10 cleared 1.75m for first
place in the high jump, a collegiate
personal record. In the throwing
events, Brynn Smith ’11 won the
shot put with a throw of 15.22m,
her best put of the season, and
Molly Hawskley ’09 threw 48.00m
for second place in the hammer
throw.
This weekend, both squads will
resume competition at the UConn
Invitational and the John McDon-
nell Invitational at the University
of Arkansas.
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AOTW: Gymnast looks to offseason M. varsity crew edged by
continued from page 7
Wow. With such a demanding
schedule, did you have any
free time apart from gymnas-
tics and school?
Barely. I don’t even know how I
managed to get everything done.
Who is your favorite gymnast
of all time?
Alicia Sacramone (’12).
Did you have any gymnastics
dreams as a child?
I was determined to go to the
Olympics when I first started, but
then you realize that it takes way
more time and work than you
would anticipate.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
Do you have a favorite event?
I would have to say beam be-
cause it’s the least impact on my
body and requires the least endur-
ance. Once you get over the fear of
being on four inches, you’re good
to go.
How about a least favorite?
Vault. Everything happens too
fast so it’s harder to fix or adjust
yourself.
What goes through your head
while you’re competing?
I try not to listen to the floor
music or the other teams cheering
in the background. I talk through
the motions and visualize the best
routines I’ve competed.
What’s the most embarrass-
ing thing that has happened
to you while competing?
This happens to every gymnast,
but your leotard rides up and you
can’t fix it because you’d get a
deduction.
Now that the gymnastics sea-
son is over, what will you do
during your free time?
I catch up on my social life. I
actually go to class now, and get a
reasonable amount of sleep.
one second at Harvard
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the ten seconds from the week before,
but it was definitely good to kind of put
ourselves back in the race.”
Christian Crynes ’10 was in the
bow, followed by Chris Bowman ’11 in
the second seat, Matt Wheeler ’09 in
third, Cole Bonner ’10 in fourth, Ben
Duggan ’10 in fifth, Scott Morgan ’10
in sixth, Nick Ritter ’10 in the seventh
seat, Gareth Seymour ’09 at stroke
and O’Leary.
The Bears turned the tables on the
Crimson with a five-second victory in
the second varsity eight, crossing the
line in 5:56.0.
Harvard dominated the third var-
sity four, as four Crimson boats fin-
ished between 6:29.0 and 6:39.0, while
Brown trailed at 6:42.0. The freshmen
eight race also went Harvard’s way,
as the Crimson finished at 5:59.8 and
the Bears followed at 6:03.2.
Bruno closed out the race with a
victory in the second freshman eight,
clocking in at 6:20.3, 3.1 seconds ahead
of Harvard.
But Cooke said winning the sec-
ond varsity eight and second freshman
eight was not necessarily a product of
his team’s depth.
“Harvard actually has a ton of
depth,” he said, citing the third varsity
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four race. “They actually have a lot
more depth in terms of just physical
numbers of people, and, I think, pretty
good athletes, but we have a group of
guys that are really motivated.”
“I think we just have a good, solid
core group,” he added.
The Bears sprang into action on
Saturday, supporting their teammates
in a way the varsity eight missed in
San Diego.
“There’s a lot of energy that comes
from the entire squad being there,
so it really helps to fuel each boat to
have everyone there behind them,”
O’Leary said.
The Bears hope to get support
from a different source — their
home crowd — when they take on
Northeastern on Saturday at 2:30 on
the Seekonk River. The women will
also race on the Seekonk on Saturday
when they host Boston University.
“I’m really looking forward to the
home race,” Wheeler said. “It should
be really fun. Northeastern’s a re-
ally high-quality competitor to race
against, so we have our work cut out
for us.”
O’Leary also said he was eagerly
anticipating the home race, adding,
“We’re just excited to test ourselves
again against another really fast
competitor.”
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C ampus N EWS
Reduced state aid, recession hurt families, childcare providers
continued from page 1
facility.
Given these limited opportunities
for affordable, quality childcare near
campus, many Brown employees are
looking to the University to provide
greater access to childcare services
and information.
Parents who are unable to enroll
their children in University-affiliated
childcare programs are at the “mer-
cy of the market,” said Pauline Lu-
ong, associate professor of political
science, who drops off her 4-year-old
twins at Brown/Fox Point.
“We’ve been lucky,” she said,
“but I don’t think our experience
is common.”
Long waiting lists and admission
lotteries at care centers force many
Brown families to turn to more ex-
pensive facilities — a scary proposi-
tion in the current economic climate.
But recent efforts by the University
might offer some respite.
Acknowledging the difficulty
of obtaining adequate childcare,
Brown is working with Mount
Hope Daycare to open eight new
infant care slots at the facility’s
Hope Street location this fall, said
Drew Murphy, director of benefits
in the University’s human resources
department.
But the effort — like cleaning
one child’s hand in a room full of
finger-painting toddlers — repre-
sents an insufficient and temporary
solution to a state-wide problem.
The biggest concern
The University has formed vari-
ous committees and conducted nu-
merous studies on childcare over
the past few decades, Amirault
said.
A survey administered to faculty
and staff in spring 2007 identified
full-day childcare — especially infant
and toddler care — as the number-
one concern, Murphy wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald. “Following
closely behind,” he wrote, “was the
need for emergency backup care
when regular daycare arrangements
fall through.”
In an effort to offer more of such
backup care during emergencies,
the University began offering subsi-
dized care to the children of faculty
members through the Work Options
Group last September. A national
backup care company, Work Options
offers up to 100 hours of care for a
nominal co-payment — $2 per hour
for in-center care and $4 per hour
for home care, Murphy said.
More faculty members have
started using the service in the last
few months — increasing from 109
hours in January to 369 in March,
Murphy wrote in his e-mail.
But graduate students are not
eligible for the service, which falls
under the category of a University
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“We’ve been lucky, but I don’t think our experience is common.”
— Pauline Luong, assoc. professor of political science, on finding childcare through Brown
benefit, said Cairn Smith, senior
benefits specialist in human re-
sources.
Michele Mericle, a graduate stu-
dent in the history department, said
emergency backup care has been
a major concern for her 3-year-old
daughter. “It happens all the time,”
she said. “If she gets sick, what do I
do? I don’t have family in the area. I
can’t bring her to grandma.”
Finding a balance
Though Taft Avenue Daycare
and Brown/Fox Point both main-
tain relationships with the Brown
community, each facility has its own
tuition and admission policies.
Neither facility is subsidized
by the University, but both occupy
University buildings at no cost. In
exchange, Brown/Fox Point gives
priority to Brown families in its lot-
tery system every year, Amirault
said, adding that there are gener-
ally about 100 applicants for 40 or
50 slots.
Brown/Fox Point decides fees
on a case-by-case basis, using a slid-
ing scale as a guide, Amirault said.
He said weekly tuition ranges from
$100 to $240.
In contrast, tuition at the Taft
Avenue facility is determined on a
fixed sliding scale based on annual
income. Fees for full-time care range
from $155 to $200 per week.
Those with low income, includ-
ing some graduate students on sti-
pends, can seek state aid through
the Child Care Assistance Program
run by the Department for Human
Services.
But following state budget cuts
in 2007, this aid was drastically re-
duced, and within the following year,
the number of children enrolled in
the program fell from 12,000 to
9,000, according to a 2008 press re-
lease from Rhode Island Kids Count,
a policy organization that seeks to
improve the care and development
of the state’s children.
Reduced state aid, coupled with
the current economic situation, af-
fects both families and childcare
providers, Amirault said. As families
pull their children out of care, pro-
viders — running on tight margins
— are forced to close their doors,
he said.
The state does not fully reim-
burse facilities for the cost of car-
ing for children on aid, said Carol
Mahoney of the Mount Hope Day-
care.
Infant care is particularly ex-
pensive for childcare providers as
the state mandates lower student-
to-teacher ratios and requires the
presence of a nurse for infant care,
Mahoney said.
She added that economic re-
alities are often in conflict with the
emotional aspects of providers’
jobs.
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“You have a business side, but
you also have a compassionate
side,” Mahoney said.
‘It takes money’
Sitting down for a hearty snack
of raisin bread and orange juice in
his Taft Avenue Daycare classroom,
4-year-old Liam shows off his newly
learned writing skills. “I’ll show you
how to make an S,” he says. “It’s like
skiing — I’m a super good skier.”
He traces the S shape over and
over on the paper, each time drag-
ging the pen back up through his
letter to start again. Maybe it’s a
trick of the eye, but it seems that
dollar signs — not S’s — cover the
page.
Most local childcare centers are
not-for-profit, Amirault said, adding
that Brown/Fox Point obtains the
majority of its funding from tuition,
federal financial aid, fundraising and
grants.
Amirault said he thinks early
childhood education professionals
are not valued by society.
“Childcare is largely subsidized
on the backs of (the care providers)
who do not get paid what they are
owed,” he said, adding that he pays
his employees at Brown/Fox Point
about $30,000 a year, far below what
he believes they deserve.
“It takes money, and oversight
and spine and political will,” he
said.
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The Brown Daily Herald

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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r s

Lighten the burden of

interdisciplinary programs
To the Editor:
While I applaud Nick Hagerty
’10 for his continued focus on Uni-
versity issues, his most recent col-
umn (“Academic Inequality,” April
13) has some poor proposals.
He starts off his column by stat-
ing that faculty turnover is slow.
This could not be further from the
truth. The figure I have recently
heard cited states that 40 percent
of the faculty at Brown has arrived
in the last six years. Continued
focus on our hiring practices and
tenure policies are critical to main-
taining the university-college.
Hagerty then proceeds to say
that for the sake of smaller class
sizes, depar tments with higher
courses, but at Brown, where stu-
dents are able to create their gen-
eral curriculum, the translation of
easy credits to resources would
be too great for any department
to resist.
The teaching burden at Brown
is not felt most by departments
like economics (where there are
currently three seniors writing
theses), it is felt by interdisciplin-
ar y programs with no “center” or
depar tment to call its own, like
development studies (where all
concentrators are required to
write a thesis). In these fields, it chris jesu lee
can be difficult to supply courses
required for concentrators from
year to year, and hiring in other
departments with their own priori- opinions extra

Lawyers won’t kill IR

teaching loads, such as econom- ties, which may or may not align
ics, should have more full-time- with a particular interdisciplinar y
equivalent appointments available field, is not responsive enough to
to them. This model exists at other the needs of students on campus. opment, diplomacy and economics, of their knowledge and experience.
universities across the countr y, For these concentrators size is it seems perfectly logical to include Why criticize Dan Danielsen, J.D. and
and turns undergraduate educa- not an issue; the issue is ensur- ALYSSA RATLEDGE legal studies. Massachusetts Bar member, for teach-
tion into a race to form the best ing required courses are offered Opinions Columnist In fact, legal studies might be ing a seminar called “How Lawyers
“gut” course. to begin with. just as important an element of in- Think”?
For example, Biology may want How we appoint FTEs is a ver y ternational relations as any of the This is not to say that Kennedy is
to ensure that all students with dis- tricky issue that should be explored Since the publication of a scathing ar- aforementioned fields. Just as we above reproach. If there are legitimate
tribution requirements in science further, but course enrollment is ticle on Interim Director of the Watson often frown upon leaders displaying concerns regarding his management
take their easy nutrition course so a bad model to follow, especially Institute David Kennedy ’76 (“Watson ignorance of other societies’ cultural style or nepotistic hiring practices,
their enrollment is higher and they at Brown. director’s unpopular agenda draws norms, we wouldn’t want them to act as indicated by several anonymous
receive more funding and more fac- ire,” March 16), several Herald letters without some knowledge of domes- sources in the article, they should
ulty as a result. The effect is bad Jason Becker ’07 and columns have stepped up to de- tic and international law. Providing be investigated through proper chan-
enough when there are required April 15 fend Kennedy from personal criticism. another option for students in IR nels — but not based upon the as-
Few, however, challenged the article’s (and other concentrations) to inves- sumption that classes about law are
angle: that it is somehow distasteful tigate the intersection of theory and bad for students or the department.
for Watson to hire legal studies profes- practice would help them apply what Instead, legal studies classes seem
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d sors and provide law-themed classes. they learn at Brown to careers in the to be a nice complement to current
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editors Associate Editors Senior Editors Perhaps if Kennedy were suddenly real world. classes by offering a new outlook
Steve DeLucia Michael Bechek Nandini Jayakrishna Rachel Arndt forcing every international relations Practical, real-world application within the field.
Chaz Firestone Franklin Kanin Catherine Cullen
Michael Skocpol Scott Lowenstein student to be pre-law, I could under- is, in fact, one of the reasons that Kennedy doesn’t have dastardly
editorial Business stand such an attitude, but short of Watson hires such a diverse faculty. plans to eliminate the IR degree and
Ben Hyman Arts & Culture Editor General Managers Office Manager that, what’s the problem? There are plenty of “nontraditional” fill Watson with Harvard-produced law
Hannah Levintova Arts & Culture Editor Alexander Hughes Shawn Reilly
Sophia Li Features Editor Jonathan Spector The Watson Institute is one of the scholars working at Watson — one school drones. In fact, adding legal
Emmy Liss Features Editor Directors most interdisciplinary institutions on recent addition, Professor-at-large studies as a choice within the cur-
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How not to win a college election
JEANNE JEONG
Opinions Columnist
Though the approval rating of UCS has
increased since the fall to a little over 50
percent, the organization still remains some-
what of a mystery to the rest of campus. So
it seems fitting that UCS elections should be
equally baffling.
During the past few weeks, hopeful can-
didates for various UCS positions have been
asking for signatures from anyone and ev-
eryone. Of course, this preliminary process
certainly does popularize candidates’ names
and faces. At the same time, however, it’s
annoying. In many cases, the act of running
around gathering signatures from random
acquaintances of friends of friends makes
people lose interest in the candidate and his
or her platform. That is, if they ever cared
about his or her platform.
Understandably, the process of getting
signatures weeds out candidates who are not
serious. Not that the upcoming election has
really shown me what it means to be serious
about UCS. But even the most dedicated
aspiring politician might reconsider the de-
cision to run if it means having to approach
200 pound football players in the omelet line
at the Ratty after having exhausted the less-
A love letter to two of Brown’s libraries
KATHARINE
HERMANN
Opinions Columnist
Over the course of my four years at Brown,
I have spent an estimated 2,040 hours in the
Rock. Add another 476 hours for the Hay,
where I have worked for the last two years,
and that makes about 2,516 hours spent in
Brown University libraries. I love the Brown
libraries and have two points to make on their
behalf: Appreciate the Rock more. Use the
Hay more.
There are quite a few loyal Rock users,
but the librar y is still underutilized. And
those students that I frequently see around
could be a bit more appreciative. Students
constantly lodge complaints against the Rock.
With some of them, I agree. The second floor
is freezing. The architectural style clashes
with many of the surrounding University
buildings. But my experiences at other uni-
versity libraries, while limited, give me the
distinct impression that the Rock is unparal-
leled in terms of comfort, convenience and
community.
I have done research at Columbia’s Butler
Library and have visited Harvard’s Widener
Library a few times. These institutions are
perhaps more picturesque than the Rock,
but they are lacking in areas where the Rock
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menacing Roots and Shoots regulars. Forcing
candidates to seek out an obscene number of
signatures, though it seems an easy task on
paper, could discourage shyer but qualified
candidates. Understandably, those in leader-
ship roles should be outgoing and responsive
to the student body. Asking for a signature,
however, is like asking for a number at Fish
Co. Most times it means nothing, and neither
party will remember the other’s name.
Then there’s the next step: campaigning.
More often than not, this also takes place at
UCS campaigning is essentially ineffective. The
platforms are often left ignored, people are bored
and votes are haphazardly promised.
the Ratty. And once again, it destroys the
quality of life of the average Brown student.
Admittedly, when I say average Brown stu-
dent, I mean me. Regardless, this average
Brown student, enjoys rushed lunches be-
tween classes and long dinners before head-
ing to the library. In neither of these cases
does the student wish to talk to candidates
about UCS, commit to voting for them or be
shines. The Rock provides huge, open and
light-filled workspaces, not tiny compart-
ments in subdivided rooms, such as those
that I saw at Columbia. The Rock offers not
only excellent research materials but com-
fortable seating arrangements that facilitate
long reading sessions and, depending upon
your inclination, light socializing.
The Rock has plenty of desktop comput-
ers — big, bulky, easy-to-use PCs with big
screens and big mouses — and I have never
had a difficult time finding an available com-
I love the Brown libraries and have two points to
make on their behalf: Appreciate the Rock more.
Use the Hay more.
puter there. Despite having a little white
laptop, I wrote my entire thesis on these
computers and am beginning to find them
cool in a counter-cool way. I know that their
availability and accessibility are the products
of planning by librar y administration and
staff to provide the academic support tools—
beyond just books — that students need.
The Rock might not offer the old-school
academic character that many of us search
reminded that the tables are still wobbly,
despite UCS’ alleged efforts. As a result,
campaigning is essentially ineffective. The
platforms are often left ignored, people are
bored and votes are haphazardly promised.
While on the topic of haphazard promises
made with no intention of following through,
I think it might be pertinent to discuss those
pesky Facebook event invitations to Vote for
(name) for (position). The gesture of check-
ing “Attending,” “Maybe Attending” or “Not
Attending” is polarizing, and the mass invi-
tations are unappreciated. Extremely so, in
fact, when they keep reappearing regardless
of the multitude of times I remove the invita-
tion from my events to avoid controversy.
It may be easier to respond “Attending” to
all invitations, but that could cause further
complications. I would be publicly throwing
my support behind more than one candidate,
leading the others on and being altogether
for at college. But if that charm is what you
want, welcome to the Hay.
The John Hay Librar y needs to be de-
mystified. If more students understood the
Hay, more would use it. The Hay is situated
to the right of the Rock as you exit the Van
Wickle Gates. The Hay is not to be confused
with the John Carter Brown Library, which
is situated on the Main Green, and is inde-
pendent from the Brown libraries in terms of
administration and funding. According to the
Encyclopedia Brunoniana, The Hay houses
Brown’s special collections, with “particu-
larly strong collections in American literature
and history, popular culture, military history
and iconography, history of science and the
art and history of the book.” The librarians
are kind and extremely helpful, if protective
of the collection and loyal to the librar y’s
regulations.
The regulations are many, but they are
not so difficult to understand. The Hay is
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too undemocratic for such a clearly important
election.
When election day rolls around, it seems
unlikely that students will eagerly log on to
MyCourses to vote. Not only is MyCourses
difficult to navigate, but students may want
to avoid a site whose primary use is dissemi-
nating homework assignments. This is not
just conjecture; in last year’s UCS and UFB
elections, only 1,346 ballots were cast (hardly
an overwhelming percentage of the student
body), and many abstained from voting for
some positions on the ballot.
The fact that elections for the govern-
ing body are so random (for lack of a better
word) is a little disheartening. UCS has been
improving, as shown by polls, and has the
ability to greatly benefit the student body. Yet
because students don’t take elections seri-
ously and candidates respond accordingly,
I planned on voting the same way I did for
positions in high school — for whoever gives
out the best bribes. (For future reference,
doughnuts work well.)
It would be different if the platforms
weren’t all the same, or if people, includ-
ing myself, knew what the majority of these
contested offices did. And if the Ratty really
did have less wobbly tables, so I would have
something to believe in again.
Jeanne Jeong ’12 is from Ashburn, Va,.
She can be reached at
Jeanne_Jeong@brown.edu
a closed stacks librar y, meaning that the
materials that you request are paged for you.
You cannot check materials out from the
Hay. Materials must be read in the beautiful,
multi-storied reading room, complete with
solid wood tables and brass desk lamps. You
cannot take jackets or bags into the reading
room; they must be checked in the coat room.
And pencils only, please.
But here is the most important piece of
information about the Hay, which I think is
the most commonly misconceived — anyone
can use the reading room, even if they are
not using Hay materials.
The Hay is a vestige of library systems
past. It is the classic university library that
I hear Brown students complain about not
having. You do have it. So use its materials,
or use it only for its reading room. Basically,
just use it.
As I prepare to leave Brown, I think about
how I can replace the community, stimula-
tion and academic support that the Brown
libraries have brought to my undergraduate
experience. I’m not sure that I will find these
things in one place again. So, to those with
a few years left at Brown, I say, use them,
appreciate them and lastly, enjoy them.
Katharine Hermann ’09 is a COE and
Urban Studies concentrator from
Portland, Oregon.
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c a l e n da r
TODAY, april 16
12 p.m. — 23rd Annual Bizarre Bazaar
Charity Auction, Wriston Quad
5 p.m. — SPEC Day Carnival,
Main Green
menu
Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Vegan Tofu Raviolis with
Sauce, Polynesian Chicken Wings,
Grilled Ham and Swiss Sandwich
Dinner — Vegetarian Gnocchi a la
Sorrentina, Roast Turkey with Sauce,
Stuffing, Mashed White Potatoes
crossword
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The star gymnast that isn’t Alicia Sacramone
TOMORROW, april 17
9 A.M. to 5 P.M. — “Evolutionary
Landscape,” an exhibit by Eve
Stockton, Pembroke Hall
7 p.m. — BCA Concert: Nas and Deer
Tick, Main Green
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Lunch — Chicken Caesar Salad
Wrap, Vegan Tofu Raviolis, Grilled
Cajun Chicken
Dinner — Chicken Chimichangas,
Mediterranean Couscous, Fried Rice
Bowl with Ham, Vegetable Egg Rolls
Enigma Twist | Dustin Foley
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A diamond to the sophomore who runs a business making “pupcakes” and
other baked goods in need of quotation marks. With Spring Weekend coming up,
you may want to whip up some “brownies.”
A sympathetic diamond to Latin American countries, who former Chilean
President Ricardo Lagos Escobar said had “done their homework” regarding
economic development and had “been good students,” but were still suffering.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you those macro problem sets are a bitch.
Coal to Rush Limbaugh, who suggested that our “multiculturist” University,
after renaming Columbus Day, might as well get rid of Halloween. That’s silly.
Although, technically, you have a point — Halloween parties at FishCo are prob-
ably at least as responsible for the spread of syphilis as Columbus was.
Speaking of disease, a diamond to Jim Yong Kim ’82, who spoke about global
health Tuesday before heading off to Hanover, N.H., to become the new president
of Dartmouth. Malaria, schmalaria — wait until you see what’s going around in
those frat basements.
A diamond to the Class of 2013, which had higher than average SAT scores
than previous pools. We hope you’re also smaller than average — we hear rumors
that ResLife may have to put three of you in a New Pembroke kitchen.
Coal to the state of Rhode Island, which is expected to reject Brown’s request
for $215 million in federal stimulus funds for new projects. What else are you
going to spend money on in Rhode Island? Our biggest industries are discount
furniture, indoor prostitution and veal.
A diamond to the Corporation, which will consider changing its policy of
sealing its official documents for 50 years. If only, before we die, we might get
to read the official transcript of what you said when you saw that ladder flying
toward the window.
Finally, a diamond to the forecast for Spring Weekend. According to the
National Weather Service, there’s a 90 percent chance that Nas will make it rain
on dem hos.
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