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Student dies in rooftop

fall while abroad
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staf f Writer
Arun Stewart ’11, a student whom
professors and friends described
as “brilliant,” “passionate” and
“incredibly hip,” died Friday in
Beijing, where he was studying
abroad.
He was attending a rooftop
gathering with friends near Tsin-
ghua University when he lost his
footing, according to an e-mail
from President Ruth Simmons
sent to the community Saturday
night.
“At this point, few details have
emerged,” said Marisa Quinn, vice
president for public affairs and
Courtesy of Brown
University relations, adding that
An artist’s rendering of the reinvented Richmond Street around a renovated medical school education building. the incident was being investigated
Today, the Jewelry District site is mostly desolate around the University-owned property. by local authorities. She said the
accident occurred approximately
Wang, who taught Stewar t
twice in classes on Chinese cin-
ema and 20th-centur y Chinese
literature, said Stewart wanted to
perform as a popular entertainer
in China, using language to unite
people across cultures. He was
also fascinated by Chinese poetry
and late imperial literature, she
said, which enhanced his cultural
understanding because he had
read the works he was studying
in their original form.
Stewart’s enthusiasm spilled
beyond the classroom. He was
granted a fellowship through the
Department of East Asian Stud-
ies before he traveled to Beijing.
Wang said Stewart and three other
students went to Shanghai to do
a project on Chinese food, restau-
rants and migrants and study local
business owners. The group was

Downtown, big ideas are soon to be tested 10 miles from Tsinghua.

By Brigitta Greene
Senior Staff Writer
In fewer than two years, Brown’s
new Medical Education Building will
welcome its first class of students.
But looking at the building now, it
is hard to tell.
The block-long former factory
sits waiting, its 165 windows staring
blankly out onto Richmond Street.
And though the Med Ed building
sits just under a mile from Faunce
Arch, few University students now
find themselves strolling past its en-
trance — not to mention anywhere
within the Jewelry District itself.
The Jewelry District, once a bus-
tling manufacturing center but now
a neighborhood in flux, lies between
Brown’s College Hill campus and
the Alpert Medical School’s partner
hospitals downtown. Over the past
decade, the University has looked
to the area as an outlet for growth
beyond College Hill. Administrators
view the planned opening of the new
Richmond Street facility in 2011 as
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Stewart was pursuing a degree
in East Asian Studies, following
what people who knew him called
an intense passion for Chinese lan-
guage and culture. Driven by a
desire to perform, Stewart wanted
to perfect his Chinese so he could
convey humor to his audience
through Chinese dialogue called
“cross-talk,” said Lingzhen Wang,
associate professor of East Asian
Studies and Stewart’s adviser.
“He was one of the very few
brightest students I have ever
taught,” Wang said. “I saw in
this kid a very ambitious plan for
the future.”
working on a detailed report that
Wang said was a project Stewart
was completing for Brown while
studying abroad.
“The interest he had in the hu-
manities in general really made
him a quite unique and outstand-
ing student,” she said. “I just hope
there are more students at Brown
who will approach different cul-
tures the way he has approached
it.”
“He loved to tease and be
teased,” said Professor of Com-
parative Literature Dore Levy, who
taught Stewart and three other stu-
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Faculty missing Edible car competition heats

ombudsperson
to manage
conflicts
By Nicole Friedman
Senior Staff Writer
A staff position responsible for hearing
and addressing the concerns of faculty
and postdoctoral students will remain
vacant this year after a failed search
to fill the spot coincided with a hiring
freeze instituted last year.
For the past three academic years,
the University employed a part-time
ombudsperson in a pilot program, who
worked with faculty members to “medi-
ate and try to resolve issues,” said Pro-
fessor of Physics Chung-I Tan, chair of
the Faculty Executive Committee.
Typical duties of the position includ-
ed moderating disputes and acting as
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inside
up with Food Network star
By Jenna Steckel
Contributing Writer
airs in 30 countries and chronicles
his adventures in the world of culi-
nary competitions.
Gravity and inertia don’t figure “I have five days to learn a
into most toddlers’ calculations particularly daunting skill that
as they meddle with their mashed revolves around food before tak-
potatoes. But for participants in ing on professionals,” Blumer
this year’s Edible Car said — professionals
Competition, playing FEATURE who, in this case, were
with food means fun Brown’s own engineer-
with physics. ing students.
In Barus and Holley last week,
Brown’s Society of Women Engi- Edible engineering
neers and the Division of Engi- Last Friday, the teams first
neering pitted 20 teams against scrambled to divvy up a buffet
each other to assemble a func- of potential car parts, including
tional, stylish and entirely edible pumpkins, Life Savers, zucchini
car in just one hour. and rice cakes. Unlike the first
But this year’s contest, only the edible car contest, held in spring
second ever, included Brown stu- 2008, the cars could only utilize
dents and faculty — and Bob Blum- the ingredients that SWE pro- Quinn Savit / Herald
er, host of the Food Network show The Food Network filmed this year’s Edible Car Competition, which took
continued on page 3 place last week in Barus and Holley.
“Glutton for Punishment,” which

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C ampus N EWS “We are all faculty or administrators, so by definition, we’re not impartial.”
— Dean Rod Beresford, on the need for a staff ombudsperson to address concerns

Faculty fail to hire

staff ombudsperson
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a confidential and neutral sounding-
board for personal and professional
concerns, according to an annual
report from the ombudsperson’s
office.
That experiment “worked out
well,” Tan said. The ombudsperson
was contacted by 28 to 59 faculty
members and postdocs each year,
according to the office’s annual re-
ports.
After surveying the faculty, the
FEC decided that the position —
which reported directly to the presi-
dent — should be made permanent.
The University made an offer last
year, but the candidate turned the job
down because it was only part-time,
according to the minutes of a Sept.
23, 2008 FEC meeting.
When the University imposed
a hiring freeze on all staff positions
not yet assisted any faculty member
with a concern this year.
To see if the current structure is
working, the FEC will review how
many faculty members come forward
this year, Tan said. Past ombudsper-
son reports indicate the approximate
number of cases that arise each year.
“After a year we’ll probably want to
review what’s transpired this year,”
he said.
In the past three years, during
which the University employed an
ombudsperson, the number of cases
taken to the FEC or the faculty’s Com-
mittee of Grievances declined, ac-
cording to past FEC meeting notes.
“In the past, the grievance com-
mittee would basically have both
jobs,” of addressing formal griev-
ances and handling more general
faculty concerns, Tan said.
An ombudsperson resolves Kim Perley / Herald
problems before they become for- A study of alcohol abuse in adolescents has produced evidence of a genetic link to alcohol-related problems.

New evidence supports youth alcoholism gene

soon after that date, Tan said, the FEC
decided that “although this position
is important, we would temporarily
put this on hold.”
The Web site of the ombudsper-
son’s office directs users to take ques-
tions and concerns to Tan, Associate
Provost and Director of Institutional
Diversity Valerie Wilson or Rod Be-
resford, professor of engineering
and interim associate dean of the
faculty.
“We are all faculty or administra-
tors, so by definition, we’re not impar-
tial,” Beresford said. Rather than try
to replace an ombudsperson’s neutral
view, the current structure provides
the faculty with “helpful” resources,
he added.
“This is an interim or short-term
arrangement,” he said. “The long-
term plan is not settled.”
Tan and Beresford said they have
sudoku
mal grievances and “can usually act
much more quickly” than the griev-
ance committee, “at the satisfaction
of everybody else,” said Professor of
Mathematics Richard Kenyon, the
grievance committee chair.
The FEC still intends to hire an
ombudsperson but has not yet de-
cided when, Tan said.
In light of the University’s finan-
cial needs, Beresford said, “It would
be difficult to justify this (position)
at this time, although that could
change.”
There is a “possibility” that when
the position is offered again, it will
be as a two-thirds or three-quarters
time job, rather than half-time, since
the increased benefits might make
the job “slightly more attractive,” Tan
said. The ombudsperson’s role might
also be expanded to address staff or
student needs, he added.
By Sarah Mancone
Contributing Writer
A Brown-led study has identified
a genetic variant that indicates an
increased risk of alcohol abuse in
adolescents. The study, led by Rob-
ert Miranda P’04, assistant professor
of psychiatry and human behavior
for research, focused on a receptor
gene previously tied only to adult
alcohol abuse.
The mutation — located on a
gene known as the m-opioid recep-
tor gene, or OPRM1 ­— could lead
to a higher risk of alcohol misuse
in adolescents and heightened sen-
sitivity to the reinforcing effects
of alcohol.
The study will help “shed some
light” and “get a better handle on
the etiology” of adolescent alcohol
abuse from a genetic perspective,
said Assistant Professor of Com-
munity Health Valerie Knopik, who
co-authored the paper. Knopik said
the study, which will appear in the
January 2010 issue of Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Re-
search, the official journal of the
Research Society on Alcoholism
and the International Society for
Biomedical Research on Alcohol-
ism, is significant because most
literature on alcohol abuse has
focused on adults.
The study involved 187 partici-
pants between the ages of 12 and
18 from “high-risk disadvantaged
neighborhoods and the court sys-
tem,” Knopik said. The volunteers
were asked to provide a genetic
sample and complete a series of
assessments.
The researchers searched for
the OPRM1 gene mutation — called
a polymorphism — and surveyed
each participant to determine “al-
cohol use disorder diagnoses and
other psychopathology,” Miranda
said. Those who exhibited the
polymorphism were more likely
to abuse alcohol.
“Our findings provide the first
evidence to suggest that teenag-
ers who carr y a certain variant
of the OPRM1 gene experience
more alcohol-related problems,”
said Miranda, “and are more likely
to meet diagnostic criteria for an
alcohol-use disorder.”
This variant was shown to en-
hance how adolescents feel while
drinking more than in adolescents
without it, which partly explains
why they are more likely to develop
alcohol-related problems.
These findings, however, are
not the sole causes of alcohol-use
disorders, and both Knopik and
Miranda emphasized the impor-
tance of environmental factors.
Still, “the relative importance
of environmental and genetic fac-
tors appears to shift considerably
over the course of adolescence,”
Miranda said. The genetic muta-

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Researchers awarded over
$12 million to study obesity
Studies to focus on
‘behavioral causes’ of
weight gain
By Samer Muallem
Contributing Writer
The Weight Control and Diabe-
tes Research Center at Miriam
Hospital recently received six
research grants worth a total of
more than $12 million from the
National Institutes of Health. The
money will be used to research
weight-gain prevention and the
benefits of losing weight.
Though the research center
often examines the ef fects of
diet and exercise on obesity, the
grant-funded studies will focus on
the behavioral causes of weight
gain and their inhibition, said
Rena Wing, director of the cen-
ter and professor of psychiatr y
and human behavior at the Alpert
Medical School.
The grant-funded studies are
“much more focused on how to
prevent … the behavioral causes
of weight gain” and “the health
benefits of weight loss,” Wing
said.
Among the six research
Food Network films ‘extreme food’ challenge on campus
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vided. While this meant there were
no turkey-mobiles, as one team
created in 2008, the contestants
found innovative methods to turn
vegetables into vehicles.
The day of the contest, Blumer
and his teammates, Sam Rabb ’10.5
and competition creator Julie Sy-
giel ’09, gathered in Barus and
Holley’s foyer with their competi-
tion. The teams spor ted names
like the Gourd Accord, Bread Man
Walking and Squash the Competi-
tion and included competitors as
unusual as 7-year-old Peter Curtin,
working with his father, Professor
of Engineering William Curtin.
At the end of an hour spent
drilling, car ving, chopping and
nibbling, the teams carried their
creations outside for judging and
a test run. One member of each
team held their car at the top of
the specially built ramp, releasing
it at event organizer Holly Laurid-
sen’s ’11 mark and watching it roll,
tumble or crash.
The winning team — Pump-
kin Express — was the first to
launch its culinar y creation. Its
entry rolled a full 174 feet to Brook
Street, stopping just in time to
avoid being crushed by two buses
that pulled up as it approached
the street.
But the team’s victor y was not
without controversy — a section
of an apple attached to the car fell
off on the ramp and was discov-
ered after the excitement of its
success.
Lauridsen and the contest’s
grants is the competitive NIH
Challenge Grant. Of the 20,000
applicants for the grant, Wing’s
study was one of only 200 to be
awarded funding. The grant is
worth $930,320 and is dedicated
to developing and evaluating an
online program in which physi-
cians can enroll their patients,
helping those struggling with
obesity to adhere to their pre-
scribed weight loss program.
The largest grant Wing’s re-
search was given came from the
National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute. The grant, totalling
nearly $6 million over five years,
will be used to research the be-
havioral treatments of obesity in
adults and to prevent weight gain
in young adults.
“Between the ages of 18 and
35, people gain about two pounds
a year,” Wing said. “It is an epi-
demic of obesity.”
The center’s other studies be-
ing funded by NIH grants include
an identification of the specific
genes related to obesity, the im-
pact of weight loss on Type-2
diabetes, the effects of weight
gain on erectile dysfunction and
the relationship between short
sleep duration and obesity.
judges said according to the
rulebook, the car’s distance was
determined by the distance the
first piece — in this case, the apple
— traveled. After the ruling was
made, the team’s members looked
up the rules.
“We printed out the of ficial
rules and saw that the rules stated
that the body and the wheels had
to remain intact the entire time,”
said Margaret Merritt ’11, one of
the members of Pumpkin Express.
Because the apple was on the car’s
axle, not the body or the wheels,
the vehicle’s full distance qualified
as part of its score.
The runners-up fell shor t by
yards — the Cur tins came in
second, and Blumer’s team, the
Vegi-Mights, came in third with
a car that consisted of a zucchini
body, wheels made of oranges
and squash and even a broccoli
driver.
Cooking up a car competition
The competition, one of two
“extreme food” events put on by
SWE, was the brainchild of Sygiel,
who helped create the group’s
first event in fall 2007: a ginger-
bread house competition that chal-
lenged participants to construct
the house that could support the
most weight.
After the event’s success, Sygiel
began thinking of other novel ways
to incorporate fun into engineering
events, she said.
Though Sygiel enter tained a
variety of possibilities, including
a paper airplane folding contest,
she ultimately found inspiration
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“Brown can’t do it alone. And we don’t want to do it alone.”
— Richard Spies, exec. VP for planning, on developing the Jewelry District
The number of students from foreign countries — particularly Asian countries — has increased at Brown and nationwide.
Rise in int’l students reflects national trend
By Ellen Cushing
Senior Staff Writer
The number of international students
— particularly those coming from Asia
— has increased dramatically on U.S.
campuses over the past several years, a
trend that is changing the face of college
admissions in many ways.
According to the Institute of Interna-
tional Education, more than 68,000 stu-
dents came from abroad to study in the
United States in the 2007-2008 school
year — a seven percent increase from
the year before. The top five nations of
origin for these students were India,
China, South Korea, Japan and Canada,
in her childhood memories.
“The University of Kentucky
hosted open houses and invited
kids to participate in all these fun
engineering events,” she said. One
of her favorites, she recalled, in-
volved making miniature cars from
food — last year, a revved-up ver-
sion rolled onto College Hill for
the first time.
For this second installment,
SWE’s leaders — headed by Lau-
ridsen — placed a new emphasis
on environmental consciousness
and social awareness.
SWE bought most of the food
through the online marketplace
Goodshop, which in turn donated
a percentage of its profits from the
purchase to Amos House, a local
social ser vices agency.
All the scraps are being used
as compost at the Urban Environ-
mental Lab, Lauridsen said, and
as food for Assistant Professor
of Engineering Kelly Pennell’s
chickens.
“We chose specifically to use
food as our medium because en-
gineers in this day and age have to
think about sustainability,” Sygiel
said. “If you build cars out of wood
and metal and plastic, what do you
do with the material?”
And unlike plastic, the entirely
edible cars are biodegradable. “It
was part of the thinking behind the
event that there should be some
other destination besides a dump-
ster,” Pennell said.
Hitting the books
The “Glutton for Punishment”
team stumbled across the edible
according to the Institute’s data.
At Brown, admissions statistics mir-
ror these larger trends.
According to data provided by the
Office of Admissions, 33 students who
attended high school in China entered
Brown with the class of 2013 — up from
13 in the class of 2009. Over the same
four-year period, the number of Korean
students increased from nine to 21, the
number from Singapore went from 10
to 14, and the number from India went
from four to 15.
At the same time, the number of
students from the Middle East, West-
ern Europe and the Caribbean has
decreased over the last five years.
car contest in a Google search
for “food competitions,” Laurid-
sen said. Producers contacted
the University in April, she said,
and preparations for the episode’s
filming have been under way ever
since.
Blumer and the crew, which for
this episode included modern cul-
ture and media concentrator Zack
Caldwell ’10, were on campus the
week leading up to the event, film-
ing segments that Lauridsen said
“highlight Brown’s sustainable
food use,”, including a segment
filmed in the kitchen of West House, a
Brown program house and food co-op
dedicated to environmentalism.
The Food Network star began
his quest at the beginning of the
week by building a car to ser ve as
a “benchmark” of his initial skill,
Pennell said.
“With no information from
me, he had one hour to build a
car (out) of produce,” she said.
“It was an utter failure.”
“It lost a wheel on the way to
the ramp and was in pieces all
along it,” Lauridsen said.
Blumer then immediately “hit
the books,” spending 13-hour days
filming and learning the complex
engineering behind a winning car
from Pennell and Interim Dean of
Engineering Rodney Clifton, Lau-
ridsen said. Blumer also learned
pumpkin-car ving techniques from
celebrated car ver Richard Alford
and spent a day testing car mod-
els with the members of Brown’s
Formula Society of Automotive
Engineers race car team.
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Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
“Ever since I’ve been here, there
has always been an upward trend”
in students coming from Asia, said
Panetha Ott, director of international
admissions.
Ott attributed the increase to the
general trends of globalization and Web
communication.
After the creation of the European
Union, Ott said, schooling became free
for any EU resident attending school
in any other EU member nation. The
result, Ott said, is that “Europe, which
used to be the center of recruitment,
gradually started sending fewer stu-
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A recipe for success
The main challenge to crafting
a successful vehicle is to make the
wheels spin and support the car at
the same time, Lauridsen said.
Sygiel advises having as much
weight in the car’s body as pos-
sible without breaking an axle.
From her own experiments, Sygiel
said, she has found that carrots
make good axles, but “you have to
chew them down to have the same
diameter all the way around.”
Bundling fettuccine is another
tactic Sygiel suggests, but as Blum-
er discovered while experimenting
with different models, vegetable
wheels effectively “cook” the pasta
they surround, producing soggy,
weakened axles.
Professor Emeritus of Engi-
neering Barrett Hazeltine, Pro-
fessor of Engineering Allan Bower
and Adjunct Lecturer in Visual Art
Ian Gonsher judged the cars on
appearance, speed and distance
traveled.
“It’s easy to make it look cool,”
Lauridsen said. “Making it func-
tion is more of a challenge, at least
in engineering,”
“All the theor y and practice
doesn’t do anything,” Blumer
said, when it comes time to actu-
ally build.
But Blumer’s coach thinks his
experience as a chef ser ved him
well in dishing up a functioning
vehicle. “People overlook how
creative engineers are,” she said,
“but it’s one of our most important
skill sets.”
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With Jewelry District expansion, U. aims to liven city
continued from page 1
a step toward a vibrant intellectual
center.
The dream is infectious. Imagine
sitting at a small sidewalk cafe on
Richmond Street, sipping a cappuc-
cino, discussing the applications of
stem cell growth. A renewed Jewelry
District, administrators say, will bring
new life to downtown Providence.
It will be like the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology’s Kendall
Square, like a less-urban New York
University.
But dreams will soon require
blueprints, and glossy images must
give way to nuts and bolts. As that
process unfolds, the University will
have to reconcile its goals with those
of the city as a whole, and the future
of Brown in downtown Providence
will hang in balance.
A CT scan with that coffee?
The opening of the Med School’s
new home in August 2011 will rep-
resent a key moment in Brown’s
history. By then, there will be more
than 1,000 members of the University
community present in the Jewelry
District — what administrators con-
sider to be a “critical mass” — ac-
cording to architectural consultant
Frances Halsband.
Halsband, who drafted the Uni-
versity’s 2003 Strategic Framework
for Physical Planning, was one of the
first proponents of the University’s
growth beyond College Hill. Growing
research interests demanded large-
scale facilities that simply wouldn’t
fit within current bounds.
The Jewelry District emerged as
an area with the capacity and flexibil-
ity to allow for University expansion,
but also as a place that could support
community development in a broader
sense, said Richard Spies, vice presi-
dent for planning and senior advisor
to President Ruth Simmons.
Research activity by universi-
ties and hospitals in the district has
“mushroomed” since the 1990s, said
Edward Wing, dean of medicine and
The University plans to renovate the building at 222 Richmond St. into a new medical school education center, the centerpiece of bigger plans for the Jewelry District area.
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biological sciences. The district is
on a trajectory to become an intel-
lectual hub.
In 2003, the University purchased
property at 70 Ship St., and bought
seven more properties in the Jewelry
District in 2006. Administrators have
looked to land freed up by the relo-
cation of I-195 as another potential
opportunity to acquire space.
Halsband presented a new “capac-
ity study” for the Jewelry District
to the Corporation at its meeting in
October. The study, which included
recommendations for mixed-used
development surrounding Brown-
owned properties, described “lively
promenades,” sidewalk cafes, tree-
lined streets and restored access to
the historic waterfront, she said.
The Jewelry District Association,
an advocacy group for neighborhood
residents and businesses, has been
working with Brown to develop plans
for the area.
“Obviously they want the students
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to have some life outside the build-
Brown’s plans for expansion into the Jewelry District include the evolution of a retail corridor similar to Thayer Street.
ing that they’re in,” said Jim Brown,
president of the association. Brown Clyde Briant, vice president for re- in about two months, said Thomas But the I-195 properties, contin-
has been working closely with the search. He pointed to Thayer Street Deller, Providence’s director of plan- ued University planning in the area
community throughout the planning as an example of a retail corridor that ning and development. and local budget crises have brought
process, he said, and he anticipates depends on Brown as its economic Once that happens, the task in the to the surface underlying conflicts
that the influx of students will foster driver. coming months will be to integrate over taxation between the institution
new interaction. Brown officials hope the name the University’s planning with the and the city.
This focus on community out- “Richmond Street” may soon conjure broader goals of the city. Perhaps it is not her style to don
reach represents a new tack for Uni- a similar image. But some of the city’s long-term feathers and start dumping Brown
versity planners. The 70 Ship St. lab, goals are already becoming clear. property into the Narragansett Bay
completed half a decade ago, has Providence weighs in The Rhode Island Public Transit Au- in the dark of the night, but Simmons
been used as an example of what not Many of the proposed improve- thority — in addition to reexamining has made it clear that she will not
to do. The facility was designed pri- ments, including grooming and re- existing transportation routes — is stand for increased city taxes on the
marily to maximize lab space, Spies storing streetscapes, require coop- planning a new streetcar line, which University.
said, not to encourage openness. eration with neighboring landowners in the next decade could connect The city — which collects no
“If you walk by the building, the and community groups in the area. “meds to eds,” running a loop from income tax and relies on property
shades are drawn,” he said. “We need “There aren’t too many things Brown through the Jewelry District taxes to fund its schools — sees
to think about making those spaces that we can snap our fingers and do,” to hospitals downtown. University expansion as a threat to
friendly to the street.” Spies said. “Brown can’t do it alone. There have been 15 or so studies its tax base, Deller said. About half
In contrast, the Medical Education And we don’t want to do it alone.” in the past ten years examining plan- of Providence’s land generates no
Building will encourage accessibility The University’s vision parallels ning for the district, said Brown, the property taxes, in large part because
and interaction. The building will the ideas of city planners, legisla- neighborhood association president. nonprofit institutions like Brown are
feature large windows, displays of tors and community members for “In the broad sense, they’re all in tax-exempt. Faced with troubled
student and faculty work and maybe future development, although the agreement,” he said. The Jewelry schools and a shrinking budget, the
street-level cafes, Wing said. city’s official vision is not yet fully District can and should become a hub city needs to protect all the revenue
“With all these people down articulated. of the city’s intellectual economy. streams it can, Deller said.
there, other kinds of businesses The city’s official Jewelry District “The whole property tax thing
that they need will spring up,” said Neighborhood Plan will be complete Not quite a tea party
continued on next page
Kim Perley / Herald (left), Courtesy of Brown (right)
Monday, November 2, 2009
C ampus N EWS
Private growth, intellectual
vitality figure into big plans
continued from previous page
is just a nightmare for the state,”
Brown said.
When the city planning depart-
ment was first considering its long-
term approach to the Jewelr y Dis-
trict and surrounding areas in the
early 1990s, officials expected that
future development would come
from taxable, for-profit ventures,
Deller said.
But over the past 20 years,
the economy in Rhode Island has
changed. Taxable industr y was
once considered to be the prime
engine of economic growth, but
now, life sciences and biotechnol-
ogy — often in the form of spon-
sored University research — are
key drivers.
The tax question has come
front and center with the sale of
land opened up by Providence’s
so-called “Iway” project, which
will relocate the junction of I-95
and I-195 and free up 20 parcels of
new property where the highways
once stood.
Brown expressed interest in the
property, but with Mayor David Ci-
cilline ’83 now pushing legislation
to levy a new tax on non-profit insti-
tutions and out-of-state students at
private colleges and universities, it
has scaled back its ambitions.
“We obviously — regardless of
who ends up owning it — have an
interest in how (the Iway land) is
developed and want to see it devel-
oped in a way that is supportive of
this knowledge economy,” Spies
said.
But the University is no longer
making aggressive moves towards
Iway land acquisition.
Administrators say it is the city,
not the school, that has more to
lose.
The problem is there are no
developers at this point who are
looking to buy up the land and start
paying taxes, Wing said. “There’s
not a tremendous alternative for
the city at the moment.”
But city of ficials argue that,
with no income tax, job growth
offers little taxable revenue to the
city, especially in comparison to
what private development would
offer.
“We need to figure out how
we can grow and prosper as a
city without losing our economic
space,” Deller said.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Page 5
“Brown can’t do it alone. And we don’t want to do it alone.”
— Richard Spies, exec. VP for planning, on developing the Jewelry District
Entrepreneurship and potential
The BrownMed/Downcity Ex-
press shuttle runs a loop connecting
College Hill to the Jewelry District
research facilities and hospitals down-
town. Riding the shuttle is like playing
a game of connect the dots; each satel-
lite destination stands alone, isolated
both from College Hill and from the
neighborhood that surrounds it.
If city and University plans come
to fruition, however, these facilities
will slowly be engulfed by a growing
and vibrant intellectual community. Kim Perley / Herald
The University also owns this biomedical research building in the Jewelry District, at 70 Ship St., above, which
“We must acknowledge that University officials cite as an example of a closed-off architectural approach to avoid in future projects.
Brown has an effect on the success
of the community and that the suc-
cess of the community has an effect
on Brown,” Spies said.
The school’s ability to attract and
retain the best students and faculty is
contingent on the perceived “competi-
tiveness” of Providence, he added.
Moreover, the University hopes
to encourage private companies to
invest in the area, offering graduates
a greater opportunity to live and work
in Providence after graduation.
“We’d like to see a lot of industry
go in there that will feed off of the re-
search activity going on,” Briant said.
“In the ideal world, we would have
our researchers spinning out their
businesses that would then locate
right around where they are.”
In April, Brown, in collaboration
with local business and government
leaders, opened the Rhode Island
Center for Innovation and Entrepre-
neurship at One Davol Square. The
center offers support for Rhode Is-
landers — including Brown faculty
and students — looking to start their
own businesses.
“It’s exciting and it’s promising,”
said Brendan McNally, director of the
center. “There’s truly the potential
for this to be a real hub for entrepre-
neurship.”
The goal is to offer alternatives
to researchers who now must look
to nearby intellectual centers such
as Boston or New York City. The
University is following in the foot-
steps of cities such as Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh and New Haven, Conn.
that have allowed non-profit institu-
tions to serve as the key drivers of
economic growth.
“Brown is not simply sitting on
College Hill and doing what it has
done for the past 240 years,” Wing
said. “It’s really taking advantage of
its strengths.”
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C ampus N EWS “If you were friends with Arun, you were friends for life.”
— Franny Choi ’11, on Arun Stewart ’11, who died Friday

Stewart ’11 remembered

200
International students at Brown

as ‘exceptional’ student
Number of students enrolled

150 East Asia

continued from page 1

100 dents in an independent study on
Canada Chinese poetry. “He had a shine
on him.”
Southeast Asia When she taught Stewart, Levy
50
said he would come to her office
before class to talk, and sometimes
Eastern Europe
even to take a bite of her sandwich.
0 “He was exceptional,” she said.
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 “He embodied every possibility
Source: Office of Insitutional Research
Jessie Calihan / Herald of diversity.”
The number of international students at Brown has risen over the past several years — particularly the number
Representatives of the Uni-
from Southeast and East Asia.
versity, including administrators Courtesy of Franny Choi

Number of Asian students has increased at U. and officials in the Office of the
Chaplains and Religious Life,
Arun Stewart ’11.

have spoken to Stewart’s family “Everything he meant cannot

continued from page 3
dents to the U.S.”
Moreover, Ott said, families in Asia
have become more open to and inter-
ested in sending their children to the
United States for school.
Kening Tan ’12, who went to high
school in China, said there has been
a “tremendous” rise in the number of
students from her high school looking
at colleges in the United States.
But Ott said serving this growing
interest comes with trade-offs.
Recruitment is difficult when ad-
missions officers must travel across
an ocean to conduct information ses-
sions, and it is a challenge to ensure
that all students have the tools they
need to apply.
“You’re not going to be able to hit
everybody,” Ott said.
As more students become inter-
ested in studying in the United States, a
cottage industry of application prepara-
tion services has emerged, particularly
in China.
Last month, Inside Higher Ed, an
online magazine that explores topics in
higher education, ran a story discuss-
ing the ethical questions admissions
officers face in reviewing applications
that may have come from students who
have received inappropriate assistance
— including forged transcripts and test
scores.
Ott said Brown works to ensure
that all applicants — from the United
States and abroad — present correct
information to the University in their
applications.
But “it’s hard,” she said, noting that
“it’s also a phenomenon in the United
States.”
Ultimately, Ott said that despite the
complications of recruiting and admit-
ting students from abroad, international
students contribute greatly to Brown’s
mission.
“If you are going to have good re-
lationships with people, its important
that they understand one another,” she
said. “And one means of doing that is
studying abroad.”
members, who are preparing to
travel to Beijing from their home
in Dallas.
The Chaplain’s Office hosted
an informal memorial gathering
Sunday night, which swelled with
nearly 40 friends and professors,
who spoke of Stewart’s humor
and style. Stewart’s commitment
to justice and his ability to make
ever yone feel important were
common themes echoed by all in
attendance.
“I knew how much Arun was
an important person here,” Alex
Arruda ’11, who was Stewart’s
roommate during their first year at
Brown, said after the memorial.
be summed up,” he added.
“I think he would have laughed
hysterically” at the descriptions of
his character at the memorial, said
Sean Feiner ’11, a thought echoed
by Flannery Berg ’11, who said
Stewart had “swagger,” but was
always humble.
“If you were friends with Arun,
you were friends for life,” Franny
Choi ’11, one of Stewart’s clos-
est friends and a Herald editorial
cartoonist, wrote in an e-mail.
“Arun was a kind, beautiful, un-
apologetically genuine person.
I am so blessed to have had his
wit, his love and his friendship in
my life.”
SportsMonday
The Brown Daily Herald
Quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero ’11 failed to find the end zone for the
first time this season, as the Bears’ offense was shut down by Penn.
Quakers’ defense keeps
Bears away for a 14-7 win
By Dan Alexander
Senior Staff Writer
Before this Saturday, no one on
Penn’s football roster had ever won
an overtime game in college. They
dropped
Penn 14 three straight
Brown 7
in 2006 and
had lost
three since. An overtime field goal
hit the upright against Yale in 2006.
The next week that year, a field goal
missed versus Brown. An extra point
missed against Princeton.
“We had had enough,” Penn
linebacker and captain Jake Lewko
said. “To hell with the old history
of bad breaks — bad snaps, missed
kicks, interceptions, all those. It’s
over with.”
Penn ended its hard-luck streak
against Brown on Saturday, defeat-
ing the Bears 14-7 in overtime at
Brown Stadium.
The Quakers’ defense stopped
Brown on the Bears’ only four downs
in overtime, keeping Brown’s of-
fense off the scoreboard for the
day.
If not for an interception that cor-
nerback A.J. Cruz ’13 returned for
a touchdown in the third quarter,
Brown would have been shut out
for the first time since 1996.
The Quakers’ defense — the
stingiest defense in the Ivy League
by points allowed — blanked the
Bears’ offense, which had been the
top offense in the Ivy League before
Saturday.
Penn’s defensive line and line-
backers recorded three sacks and
put pressure on Brown quarterback
Kyle Newhall-Caballero ’11 all day.
The Quakers’ pass rush “defi-
nitely got him thinking,” Lewko said.
“We were in there a lot, making him
scramble, getting a couple shots
on him — especially in pressure
Jesse Morgan / Herald
situations.”
Newhall-Caballero was 24-of-42
passing for 241 yards but didn’t have
a touchdown for the first time all
season.
The Bears’ attack was balanced
in the first quarter, as they threw
seven times and ran six. But running
back Zach Tronti ’11 didn’t touch
the ball in the second quarter and
got only six handoffs in the final
two quarters.
Tronti had 63 yards on 11 carries,
making him only the second running
back to gain over 60 yards against
Penn this season.
The Quakers’ offense struck
early. On Penn’s second drive of the
game, quarterback Kyle Olson led
his team 65 yards to the end zone for
the only offensive touchdown scored
in regulation. After throwing a 28-
yard strike on the first play of the
drive, Olsen threw short passes out
of the I-formation for the remainder
of the drive.
Olsen finished the first quarter
8-of-10 passing for 119 yards. But the
rest of his day wasn’t as easy.
“It seems like later in the game,
they were in more of a cover two,”
Olsen said of Brown’s defense.
“Those corners were staying down
there in the flat areas, and we had to
react to that and start throwing more
passes in the middle of the field.”
Olsen threw four interceptions in
the second half, three of which were
passes over the middle. He finished
27-of-47 passing for 313 yards.
Penn Head Coach Al Bagnoli said
his team — which usually focuses
its attack around the run — turned
to the pass because he didn’t want
to run at Brown’s defensive line,
which includes two All-Ivy players,
co-captain Jimmy Develin ’10 and
David Howard ’10.
continued on page 8
Monday, November 2, 2009 | Page 7
M. hockey drops opener at Princeton
By Dan Alexander
Senior Staf f Writer
Men’s hockey Head Coach Bren-
dan Whittet ’94 said before this
weekend that he didn’t know
who would win the star ting
goalie job this season. His de-
cision didn’t get any easier this
weekend. Dan Rosen ’10 and
Mike Clemente ’12, who each
started a game this weekend,
allowed just one goal between
them.
Clemente got the start in the
Bears’ season opener at Princ-
eton on Friday afternoon. After
60 minutes of play, he hadn’t al-
lowed a puck behind him. It took
an overtime goal for Princeton
to win, 1-0.
Rosen started against the
University of Ontario Institute
of Technology on Saturday, and
had 10 saves without allowing
a single goal in his 30 minutes
in net. UOIT didn’t score until
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
The Bears also faced UOIT in an exhibition tune-up Friday.
continued on page 8
Late Penn goal spells loss for w. soccer
By Tony Bakshi on hand for the game. was blocked off the line by a Penn
Contributing Writer Manners, a forward, made her defender. Seconds later, another
first appearance and start of the header by Robinson sailed just over
Despite a strong performance on season after having been out with the crossbar of the Penn goal, and
an unseasonably warm Senior Day, an injury all season. She made an was met by groans from Bruno
the women’s soccer team fell 1-0 to instant contribution on the field, supporters hoping for a score.
the Penn Quakers Saturday. forcing a Brown corner kick in The disappointing loss dropped
A surprising breakaway goal in the initial minutes before being Brown to seventh in the Ivy League
the 80th minute by Penn forward substituted for. standings. The Bears close out
Marin McDermott gave the Quak- The Bears got ver y close to their season next Saturday in
ers the only tally of the match, and notching a goal in the 25th minute, New Haven, Conn., where they
silenced a Stevenson Field crowd with two consecutive opportunities will face the Yale Bulldogs, who
expecting late-game heroics from by key senior players. Ballard’s are currently second on the Ivy
the Brown squad (5-8-1, 2-4-0 Ivy initial header off a corner kick League table.
League).
McDermott’s goal came after
she found herself unmarked on the
right side of the field. Goalie Steffi
Yellin ’10 was forced to come off
her line, and McDermott maneu-
vered around her and then tapped
the ball into the empty net.
Penn (9-4-2, 3-3-0) scored the
goal while suffering an offensive
onslaught by the Bears, who out-
shot the visitors 11-4 in the second
half and 16-8 overall. The Bears
spent the majority of the second
half in possession of the ball near
the Penn goal, but could not deliver
the needed blow.
Bruno’s best second-half scor-
ing opportunity came in the 65th
minute, as midfielder Gina Walker
’11 got free between two defend-
ers in the Penn box. She dribbled
through the opposition, and sent
a strike towards the goal. But her
shot went just wide, and she was
relegated to covering her head in
disbelief after the near miss.
Bruno played a solid first half as
well. Following a pre-game ceremo-
ny honoring the team’s octet of se-
niors — Yellin, Brenna Hogue ’10,
Bridget Ballard ’10, Melissa Kim
’10, Kellie Slater ’10, Paige Reidy
’10, Meghan Robinson ’10 and Kiki
Manners ’10 — the Brown squad
got off to a good start in front of the
many family members and friends
Page 8
S ports Monday
Field hockey fell to Penn Saturday after the Quakers scored four goals in the game’s final 21 minutes.
Field hockey loses season’s penultimate game
By Andrew Braca
Spor ts Editor
The field hockey team fell to Penn,
4-0, on Saturday in its penultimate
game of the season.
The final game atop blustery
War ner
Penn 4 Roof was a
Brown 0 bittersweet
experience
for seniors Whitney Knowlton
’10, Madison Miketa ’10 and tri-
captains Jackie Connard ’10, Nora
Malgieri ’10 and Michaela Seigo
’10.
“We’re all really sad that it’s
ending,” Malgieri said. “Having
our last home game was really
emotional, but we have one more
game left.”
The Bears (5-11, 0-6 Ivy) held
the Quakers (5-10, 2-3) scoreless
for 49 minutes before the flood-
gates opened.
“We all worked really hard and
Football falls to 2-2 in Ivy standings with loss
continued from page 7
Develin was all over the field on
Saturday, racking up 8.5 tackles,
including one sack. And Howard
— who had a scout from the NFL’s
Kansas City Chiefs watching him
— made two tackles and forced
two hurries.
“I thought our defense played
outstanding,” said Head Coach
Phil Estes. The tough unit “created
those pressures for them to throw
those interceptions, and it gave us
an opportunity,” he added.
The Bears scored their only
points of the game when Cruz
took an interception back for a
just couldn’t make it happen,” Mal-
gieri said.
Brown goalie Caroline Wash-
burn ’12 was the star of the first
half, stopping all seven shots she
faced to keep the Quakers off the
scoreboard. Malgieri said the de-
fense as a whole had a strong start
to the game.
“We were communicating,
and ever yone was recovering,”
she said. Washburn “had a lot
of really great saves, and Laura
Iacovetti (’12) was playing really
well, but I don’t know — I think
we stopped talking and got pretty
tired by the end. That’s when it
kind of fell apart.”
Penn scored four goals in the
final 21 minutes to pull away.
“That’s kind of been our prob-
lem all year — we allow those goals
to happen,” Malgieri said. “It was
great that we played so well in the
first half, but we need to be able to
keep that for 70 minutes.”
touchdown on Penn’s first drive
after halftime. Olsen tried to hit
Penn wide receiver Joe Holder in
double coverage, but Cruz wrestled
the ball out of Holder’s hands and
took it the other way.
Just after the start of the fourth
quarter, with Penn just eight yards
away from the goal line, Olson
threw an interception to Blaine
Grinna ’11 in the end zone, keep-
ing the game tied, 7-7.
The Bears offense drove 65
yards downfield on the ensuing
drive, setting up a 32-yard field-goal
attempt for Patrick Rooney ’11. But
Rooney, who was 0-of-3 on the day,
sent it wide left.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“Not any one guy loses a game, and it takes a team to win.”
Jesse Morgan / Herald
Penn outshot Brown by a mar-
gin of 28-6. Washburn totaled 14
saves, and Abigail Taft ’12 came
off the bench to lead the Bears
with two shots.
Brown will travel to New Haven,
Conn. on Saturday to close out the
season against Yale (11-5, 5-1). The
Bears will need to work hard this
week to beat the Bulldogs for the
third year in a row.
“We’ve been talking a lot about
being personally accountable for
what we’re doing on the field,” Sei-
go said. “This week of practice is
going to be really hard, physically
and mentally.”
Malgieri said the team will
focus on fundamentals such as
communication and “stick-to-stick
passing.”
“I think we’ll be fine for Sat-
urday,” she said. “We’re all really
frustrated with the loss, so we’re
ready to go into our last game (and
play) for a win.”
Rooney, who is listed on the ros-
ter as a wide receiver and made a
dramatic, unlikely go-ahead field
goal in the final seconds against
Holy Cross three weeks ago, had
a chance to be the hero again when
he lined up for a 44-yarder with the
score tied and just seven seconds
left in regulation. Against a strong
wind, Rooney didn’t have enough
leg to reach the goalpost, sending
the game into overtime.
“It wasn’t the last (field-goal at-
tempt), but it was the one before
that — got to have it,” Estes said.
“Now he’s not the hero … Not any
one guy loses a game, and it takes
a team to win.”
— Football Head Coach Phil Estes
M. hockey drops Ivy
opener despite tuneup
continued from page 7
Anthony Borelli ’13 was in net and
the Bears were ahead, 4-0.
“Michael Clemente played unbe-
lievable against Princeton,” Whittet
said. “And I thought Danny Rosen
played very, very well.
“It’s up in the air as we move
for ward, he said. “I could see a
rotation until somebody wins the
job.”
Princeton 1, Brown 0 (OT)
Princeton couldn’t score in 60
minutes of regulation play Friday,
but it took just 1:16 in overtime for
Tyler Beachell to beat Clemente
and win the game.
The goal came just five seconds
after the Tigers got a power-play
opportunity because of an interfer-
ence penalty against Jesse Fratkin
’11.
Princeton had only one more
shot than Brown during the game,
and it was the 32nd one that Cle-
mente couldn’t turn away. Princ-
eton goalie Zane Kalemba, who
led the ECAC in save percentage
last season, posted a shutout with
31 saves.
Princeton got out to a 10-2 shot
advantage in the first period, but
the Tigers didn’t dominate play,
as the Bears spent much of the
opening frame with the puck in
the Tigers’ zone.
Although the Tigers couldn’t
beat Clemente in the opening pe-
riod, they had a number of chances
in the center of Brown’s zone. The
puck crossed the slot in front of
Brown’s goal three times in the
first period, but no Tigers were
there to finish it.
The closest they came was when
Mark Magnowski one-timed the
puck in the slot, but Clemente
turned it away with under five
minutes left in the period.
Clemente got another scare at
the start of the middle frame, when
Tiger Sam Sabky wound up with a
slap-shot from the left point. The
puck went past Clemente, off the
inside of the post and out of the
goal.
Princeton kept Clemente busy at
the beginning of the third period,
but the Bears withstood the siege
and came back to regain a 12-10
shot advantage in the frame.
Neither team could get the go-
ahead goal in the final minutes of
regulation, sending the game into
overtime. It didn’t take Princeton
long to score in the extra period,
giving the Tigers a win on their
season opener.
The season-opening game,
played outside of the normal ECAC
schedule, does not count in the con-
ference standings but will count
as an official game in both teams’
overall records.
Brown 6, UOIT 1
Brown scored 25 seconds into
the exhibition game on Saturday,
and the game was never close
again. By the end of the game, six
Monday, November 2, 2009
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
The Bears opened on home ice
against UOIT with a 6-1 win.
different players had notched a
goal for the Bears.
Brown’s first goal came when
tri-captain Devin Timberlake ’10
passed across the crease to Chris
Zaires ’13, who one-timed it into
the net for his first collegiate goal
on the Bears’ opening shift of the
night.
“That was a great first shift,
but we didn’t play how we wanted
to play in that first period,” said
tri-captain Aaron Volpatti ’10. “I
think we improved as the game
went on.”
Brown pulled away to a 2-0 lead
by the end of the first period de-
spite getting only three shots on
goal.
UOIT outshot the Bears, 7-3,
in the opening frame, but Brown
controlled the puck for most of the
period.
Whittet said he thought his team
came out slow, but played better in
the last two periods.
“Our guys just thought it was
going to be easy, they thought it
was an exhibition game,” he said. “I
don’t think they had the feeling that
there needed to be that intensity.
And I want it. I want that intensity,
and I want that passion, and that
drive — every, every shift.”
UOIT got only six shots off in
the final two periods, one of which
was a one-timer that beat Roselli.
With a 3-0 lead entering the
third period, the Bears didn’t let up,
and ended the game ahead 6-1.
“It was great because it went
60 minutes,” UOIT Head Coach
Marlin Muylaert said.
But the final period was plagued
by whistles, as the teams took a
combined total of 16 penalties.
“I just felt that the officials were
going to be really relentless in mak-
ing sure that we were going to be
the team always shor thanded,”
Muylaert said.
UOIT took 15 penalties in the
game for 38 minutes, compared
to Brown’s 12 penalties for 40 min-
utes. Whittet said he thought the
officiating was “great.”
The Bears will return to the ice
next weekend, when they will face
Union and RPI in on a two-game
road trip.
Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald
Craftland show finds
a downtown home
By Ana Alvarez
Staff Writer
Every December since 2002, Provi-
dence shoppers in search of artisanal
holiday gifts have relied on the annual
Craftland show, a craft fair as homey
and handmade as the work sold there.
This year, the annual event has es-
tablished a year-round presence at
Craftland’s permanent store at 235
Westminster St.
The brainchild of local artists
Margaret Carleton and Johanna
Fisher, Craftland was conceived in
October 2002 after its creators “just
decided there was no good place to
get good handmade products,” said
Craftland artist and store employee
Kristin Crane.
Deb Dormody, one of the origi-
nal artists featured in Craftland who
now organizes the store, said both
Carleton and Fisher “were ruminat-
ing about all their talented friends
and how traditional venues weren’t
the best fit to showcase their work
and they decided to do something
about it.”
Within the month, Carleton and
Fisher had contacted 50 artists and
obtained a donated retail space in
downtown Providence. Craftland
opened that November and remained
open for the rest of the holiday sea-
son. The craft fair was well received,
and with each consecutive holiday
season, the number of artists from
Providence and around the world
grew to 140.
Noting the growth and popular-
ity of Craftland, Crane said, “There’s
been this handmade revolution. I
think people just want to get back to
products that are more thoughtful
and crafted well.”
As the Craftland spirit flourished
and became ingrained into the holiday
shopping routine of many Providence
residents, demand for Craftland to
open year-round began to spread.
When the financial crisis hit in
October of 2008, the future prospects
of holiday shopping — and with them,
Craftland — seemed bleak. Despite
such predictions, Crane said, “Craft-
land did better than ever.”
Dormody wasn’t surprised by
Craftland’s success despite the eco-
Monday, November 2, 2009 | Page 9
‘Oak Tree’ innovative, hypnotic
By Fei Cai
Contributing Writer
— male or female — plays the
father.
Though the play does have a
script, Crouch said, having dif-
nomic setbacks, and noted that the “I use hypnosis as a metaphor ferent actors ever y time creates
harsh economic times made Provi- The drone of the audience quiets for art,” Crouch said. “In effect, I a cer tain freedom within the
dence residents feel more compelled as the house lights dim. The stage play the artist.” text, “a kind of improvisation in
to support local businesses and art- lights brighten, and the audience By collaborating with a differ- the spirit.”
ists. sits back to enjoy a seemingly typi- ent actor each night, Crouch said, “We go and see the play not just
“They’re sustaining artists in their cal two-man show. he aims to challenge established for the words. We go for all the
community, they’re investing in their The only catch? One of the ac- theatrical traditions. other stuff,” he said. “And it’s all
local economy, they’re buying work tors has never seen the script. “In the last hundred years in the other stuff that is being made
that only appreciates in value. Who Thus begins Tim Crouch’s performing we got horribly stuck up in the moment.”
can’t get behind that?” Dormody innovative play, “An Oak Tree,” in a certain way of acting — a cer- Lisa D’Amour, a visiting lec-
said. which appears one night only tain style of preparation of acting,” turer in playwriting and the person
It wasn’t until 2008 that the at Leeds Theatre Tuesday at 8 he said. “I think we are, sadly, responsible for inviting Crouch to
Craftland team, having weathered p.m. The per formance will be completely ignoring the presence Brown, said she was excited about
the economic storm with impressive the first in Crouch’s monthlong of our audience in that prepara- the playwright’s coming. “He is an
gains, began to seriously consider U.S. tour. tion, and my work brings the role amazing writer and an amazing
expanding the store. The show dramatizes the meet- of the audience into the forefront performer,” she said.
“We started to look at how we had ing of two men — a father and of the theater experience.” In addition to the performance
grown exponentially each year, even a hypnotist responsible for the In “An Oak Tree,” the actor of “An Oak Tree,” Crouch’s visit
in this economy, and it seemed right death of the former’s child — after playing opposite Crouch becomes to Brown this week will include
to give it a try,” Dormody said. a terrible accident. representative of the audience, lectures and workshops for play-
As Craftland has transitioned Crouch, a British actor turned the playwright said, in that both wrights and actors.
into its new role, the team behind playwright, will play the hypnotist, the actor and the viewers are ex- Crouch said he hopes students
the store has broadened the original and a local actor will play the fa- periencing the performance for in the workshops will learn to leave
concept. ther. As always, the second actor’s the first time. behind the cultural stigmas that
“We still have our big holiday identity will not be revealed until “The actor is playing a charac- society has placed on theater.
show, but for the year-round shop the performance itself. ter who is lost in their grief, who “Theater is a cultural form that
we have about 70 artists and have di- Crouch has per formed the has lost the compass in their life. is available to anyone. And the
vided up the space so that we are also show more than 250 times around And that character is being per- transformation of theater is avail-
a gallery and classroom where we the world. Each time, he plays the formed by an actor who has also able to anyone, not just to special-
host the Craftland School of Craft,” hypnotist, and a different actor lost his compass,” he said. ist actors,” he said.
Dormody said.
The gallery, which is set in the
rear of the store, hosts small month-
long exhibitions curated by, and
featuring the work of, Providence
artists.
Along with the gallery, the store is
also offering a “School of Craft” with
about 10 classes each month on dif-
ferent craft techniques. Class topics
include tote bag-making, Adobe Pho-
toshop production and spray painting
stenciled skateboards.
With all of this activity, Craftland
has become “a great income genera-
tor for a lot of artists,” Crane said.
“We’re all pretty proud of how
many artists we’ve supported in the
last eight years,” Dormody said, add-
ing that this support of artists in the
Providence community distinguishes
Craftland from other stores.
Craftland has donated five per-
cent of proceeds to a different charity
every year. This year, the show will
benefit Girls Rock! Rhode Island,
an organization that offers music
camps to empower young women
and girls.
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Letters! We’re all right, Dave
David Dooley, the new president of the University of 13,000 undergraduates, URI’s undergraduate population
Send them our way, please? Rhode Island, has grand plans for increasing collabora- is almost double the size of Brown’s.
tion with Brown. He’d like the two universities to share Dooley told The Herald this week that collaboration,
letters@browndailyherald.com research sites and equipment, work together on projects including cross-registration, could benefit both institu-
and grant proposals and allow students to cross-register tions. Brown offers programs that are unavailable to URI
for classes. We’re all for pooling resources, especially in students, and URI offers classes that are unavailable
tough economic times. But some of Dooley’s ideas are on College Hill. In theory, cross-registration would
unsettling, and we urge the University to think carefully give Brown students access to classes on nursing,
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Chief among our concerns is Dooley’s proposal difficulties will likely rule out these opportunities for
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Michael Skocpol Scott Lowenstein University currently allows cross-registration with the in Providence, the campuses that offer more eclectic
editorial Business Rhode Island School of Design, and Dooley has hopes classes — the ones unavailable here at Brown — are
Ben Hyman Arts & Culture Editor General Managers Office Manager
Sophia Li Features Editor Alexander Hughes Shawn Reilly for a similar program between Brown and his school. far away from College Hill.
George Miller Metro Editor Jonathan Spector But opening our classroom doors to URI students may We don’t like to be overly pessimistic, but here’s the
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BY SEAN QUIGLEY
Opinions Columnist
As I began my first year at Brown more than
three years ago, I remember receiving this
exact question, having made no effort to hide
the fact that, at the French Legislative As-
sembly, I would have sat on the right. Even
to this day, when fellow conservatives and I
make recommendations concerning where
we see room for reform at our school, we
are typically met with scorn — as well as
the obligatory remark that we should have
matriculated elsewhere.
The gripes range based on a given situa-
tion, but the most common tend to revolve
around four central claims: we do not accept
Brown’s progressive consensus; we reject
what is distinctively Brown; we seek only dis-
cord and bitter disagreement; and we are so
prejudiced and misinformed that we have not
advanced to the moral consciousness expected
of a Brown student.
Essentially, we are stubborn neanderthals
disguised as stupid curmudgeons. Fit for Col-
lege Hill we are not.
One need only consult the reaction to the
recent Columbus Day rally, jointly sponsored
by the Brown College Republicans and the
Brown Spectator, in order to see how revil-
ing are our presence and our criticisms. In a
letter to the editor, Geoffrey Mino ’12 infers
that the purpose of the rally must have been
“to belittle rather than engage the community”
(“Criticism of Fall Weekend stokes racial an-
To those interested in creating peace in the Middle East
BY AVI SHAEFER
Guest Columnist
An open letter to the group Common Ground,
from a former Israeli Soldier:
My name is Avi Schaefer. I am a freshman at
Brown. I’m the one who doesn’t quite look like a
freshman, who doesn’t quite act like a freshman
and who generally shies away from the question,
“So what did you do during the three years you
weren’t in school?”
You know me as the quiet person who sat in
the back of Common Ground meetings. I tried to
speak up, but my opinions were not welcomed.
No one echoed my call for dialogue — this is
why I can no longer come. This is why I felt that
I had to write a letter.
As a good friend put it, “Avi, it’s time to tell
people the truth! Why are you afraid to tell ev-
eryone what you have done?”
I was afraid, because I don’t know how to
convince you that I dream of peace, desire it
more than anything and have devoted my life
thus far to it. How do I convince you of this, after
I tell you that I volunteered to fight in the Israeli
Defense Forces? If I said that I decided to go not
because of hatred, but rather to work for peace,
would you believe me? I went to the army so that
my children will not have to — a dream I fear
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Why did you come here?
tagonism,” Oct. 13). Mino then points to the
President of the Brown Republicans, Keith
DellaGrotta ’10, as the chief Brown antago-
nist there.
DellaGrotta’s tireless work to better the
campus, from his creation of the annual Dash
for Diabetes to his long-standing involvement
with Brown Christian Fellowship, should
demonstrate that his loyalties are always with
Brown. Moreover, he does not take his three-
generation Brown pedigree lightly, a pedigree
that greatly motivated the emotional content
In the end, it appears that far too many Brown
students resort to the charge that a critic must
be a traitor.
of his speech.
Had Mino possessed a belief in the possibil-
ity of a loyal opposition, he might have realized
that DellaGrotta cringed at the thought of
losing the Brown once attended by his Italian
grandfather from Federal Hill, Guerino Della-
Grotta ’36. For while destruction comes rather
easily — as the recent Herald articles about
Brown’s relationship with the Providence
community should reveal — preservation is
painstakingly difficult. So, not prone to inac-
tion, DellaGrotta took a stand.
But, since he was critical of Brown’s de-
cision, and sought a way to transcend the
may not come true. I am telling you this, Com-
mon Ground: Justice and Equality in Palestine/
Israel, so you know my story, to implore you to
consider what I have to say.
I came to Brown looking for an environment
that embodies the qualities of expression, open-
mindedness and understanding. I arrived opti-
I went to a meeting of your group called
“Common Ground,” looking for a forum of
honest dialogue, to establish two states for two
peoples, to find only the Palestinian side being
represented, understood and shared.
mistically searching to meet others devoted to
a common goal: forging lasting peace.
Imagine my utter disappointment as I went
to a meeting of your group, Common Ground,
looking for a forum of honest dialogue, to estab-
lish two states for two peoples, to find only the
Palestinian side being represented, understood
and shared. There was no attempt to recognize
hardships on Israelis or assign mutual blame
for conflicts.
I know that the group’s intentions are good,
but this situation is too nuanced, too complicated
and too important to only share the Palestinian
practice of waving the bloody hide of native op-
pression, he must have been deriding Brown.
Such is the logic of a person like Mino.
Taking a cue from those who conflate criti-
cism with disloyalty, the editorial page board
characterized the crowd, among whom was
yours truly, as betraying “rabidly anti-Brown
sentiment” (“A day off, not a day on,” Oct.
19).
I wonder whether the board would make
the same claim about those members of the
Brown Corporation who, in 1926, voted to
increase the number of trustees by six mem-
bers, and then removed all denominational
considerations for those six members, as well
as for the President. What of the members
who, in 1942, removed all denominational
requirements for all Corporation members?
If anything could be called un-Brown, it
should be the premeditated and deliberate
upending of the very charter that birthed
the University. Not to mention how much of
a slap in the face of Brown’s founders such a
departure from more than 160 years of prec-
edent must have been. They abandoned our
school’s very identity as a Baptist, Christian
side. As my father always says, “An enemy is
someone whose story we have not yet heard.”
Only through recognition of the other side will
there be peace.
When both sides truly understand that Israe-
lis and Palestinians have a right to live, a need
for legitimate safety and a desire to envision a
more peaceful future for their children, then there
will be peace. Can we move past the nuances to
work together? Can we understand each other
in order to help both Israelis and Palestinians
realize the other side’s story? If we at Brown
cannot create a forum to understand each other,
how can we ever assume that this will be created
in the Middle East?
I am writing to you, Common Ground, to urge
you to embody your name. Otherwise you should
be honest and change your name, clearly stating
that you are a pro-Palestinian group. If you truly
want to be a place for common ground, then you
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college.
Or let us take a more recent example, while
still applying the logic that a critique, even a
call for fairly substantial change, necessarily
amounts to hatred. Must we conclude that the
man largely behind the New Curriculum, Ira
Magaziner ’69 P’06 P’07 P’10, was a despiser
of Brown? He, after all, sought and succeeded
in shepherding a major revision to the Univer-
sity’s academic policies. How dare he.
In the end, it appears that far too many
Brown students resort to the charge that a
critic must be a traitor, especially when that
critic is on the right. What could end a discus-
sion sooner than the idea that one’s opponent
secretly hates Brown and thus only disagrees
out of a desire to encourage its failure?
One should expect more critical thinking
from the Ivy League. Then again, in the minds
of most progressives, discord does not and
cannot arise either from conflicting principles
or from genuinely differing interpretations,
but rather from a lack of knowledge. “You’re
just misinformed,” as so many opponents of
the rally stated time and time again.
Clearly. It is not as though people actually
could disagree in good faith, and then make
their disagreements known through recom-
mendations. That would be impossible, and
uncouth to boot. Who could want to reform
Brown? I mean, it is not as though it has ever
been reformed before.
Wait…
Sean Quigley ’10 puts the protest
in Protestant. He can be reached at
sean.b.quigley@gmail.com.
should look to further honest dialogue.
While you bring both Palestinians and Israelis
to speak of the situation, you carefully bring only
those who support your one side, and tell your
one story. Your most recent events brought in
Israeli voices who do not represent the general
view of Israeli society.
If you are truly concerned about sharing the
unheard voice, about achieving lasting peace,
about finding the common ground that Jews,
Muslims, Christians, Israelis, Palestinians and
other citizens of the world all care about, you
will be true to your name, and work towards
peace. You will not demonize and vilify the Israeli
side alone.
Let’s figure out how we can work together
to do something productive to honor your name
and find our common ground. I am here, ready
and anxiously waiting for you to work with me,
not against me. Do not give me another reason
to lose hope, because my patience is sadly run-
ning out. I wait for the day that the words of the
Prophet Isaiah will ring true: “Nation shall not
lift up sword against nation, neither shall they
learn war any more.”
Avi Schaefer ‘13 is an international
relations and Middle Eastern
studies concentrator from Santa
Barbara, Calif. He can be reached
at avi_schaefer@brown.edu
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12 pm — Brown-Tougaloo
Partnership Open House,
J. Walter Wilson 411
7 pm — Asian/Asian-American History
Month Opening Convocation,
Salomon 101
menu
Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Gnocchi Alla Sorrentina, Ital-
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Chocolate Frosted Brownies
Dinner — Brown Rice Garden Cas-
serole, Pirate Ship Pork Loin, Belgian
Carrots, Ambrosia Cake
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Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline
Lunch — Fried Clam Roll, Manicotti
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