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Students started lining up as early as noon for the 5 p.m. sale of additional Spring Weekend tickets.
Spring Weekend tickets sell out
By Alicia Chen
AND CAITLIN TRUJILLO
Senior Staff Writers
With his fold-out chair and boom-
box, Devin Wilmot ’10 came prepared
for the wait. Though the additional
Spring Weekend concert tickets did
not go on sale until 5 p.m., Wilmot
arrived at the George Street ticket
Pitchers
struggle in
two losses
By Tony Bakshi
Sports Staff Writer
With four huge games coming up
this weekend against division rival
Dartmouth, the baseball team is
slumping. After dropping their
last two games against Harvard
SPORTS
on Monday afternoon, the Bears
(11-24) came home and lost
both ends of their doubleheader
against the Holy Cross Crusad-
ers (19-16).
Head Coach Marek Drabinski
summed up the losses bluntly:
“We just did not pitch today.”
Holy Cross dominated the Bruno
pitching staff from start to fin-
ish, and the Crusaders won the
first game, 8-5, and the second,
18-11.
Holy Cross 8, Brown 5
Holy Cross jumped ahead in
the early innings, scoring seven
runs in the first three frames.
The Crusaders took advantage
of Matt Boylan’s ’10 slow start.
He gave up a single and two walks
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booth just after noon. Soon, he was
not alone.
By 4:30 p.m., the line for tickets
had already wound completely around
the block bounded by George, Brown,
Benevolent and Magee streets.
The Brown Concert Agency an-
nounced Wednesday afternoon that
both Spring Weekend concerts would
be held outside on the Main Green,
High homeless
rates prompt action
By Leonardo Moauro
Staff Writer
In the month of March, Rhode Island
saw the largest number of people
METRO
without a home since 1985, when it
began keeping track, said Jim Ryczek,
U. looks to ensure Spring Weekend safety
By Brian Mastroianni
Features Editor
Two years ago, Kathleen McSharry,
associate dean for writing and issues
Fifty Years of
Spring
Second in a four-part
series
of chemical dependency, wanted to
see for herself what Spring Week-
end was like. Coming into work on
a Saturday, she put her hair up in a
ponytail, wore jeans, a windbreaker
and tennis shoes and walked around
continued on page 3
Metro, 7
EARTH LOVIN’
Volunteers spent a recent
Sat. morning uncovering
trash in Gano Park
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
and that an additional 1,500 tickets
would be released for sale. Between
four and five hours after the ticket
booth opened, all tickets had sold
out, said BCA Administrative Chair
Alex Spoto ’11.
At this point, about 200 people were
left in line, said BCA Director of Ticket-
continued on page 5
executive director of the Rhode Island
Coalition for the Homeless.
Ryczek’s organization has noted
a steady increase in the amount of
homeless people checking into shel-
ters over the past two years. Numbers
are especially high during the winter
months, when most shelters are open
continued on page 6
Students spending the afternoon on the Main Green on April 20.
Sports, 9
WATER POLO WONDER
Athlete of the Week Sarah
Glick ’10 makes a splash
Branding Brown
Fifth in a five-part series
The ‘university-
college’ on the hill
By Ellen Cushing
Senior Editor
In 1980 — long before the Uni-
versity embarked on an ambi-
tious plan to expand its graduate
programs, research capabilities
and international prestige, when
the University’s faculty was only
two-thirds the size that it is now,
when the endowment was one-
twentieth the size that it is now
and when the University received
one-third of the applications it
does now — the University view-
book, distributed to prospective
applicants, presented a picture
of a Brown whose undergradu-
ate and graduate offerings were
equally strong.
Brown “is one of the very few
institutions which has achieved
and maintained that delicate bal-
ance between the undergradu-
ate aspects of a college and the
research aspects of a university,”
the viewbook proclaimed. “And
that should be important to you
in your deliberations.”
Thirty years later, the Brown
that prospective students see has
changed immensely. The Gradu-
ate School and the faculty have
dramatically expanded. Billions
of dollars fund new capital proj-
ects and the campus boasts
updated facilities extending to
the south and west. Applications
have soared and the University’s
once-slumping graduate pro-
grams are now some of the best
Opinions, 11
signs of APARTHEID
Jonathon Ben-Artzi speaks
out on injustice and segre-
gation in Israel, Palestine
in the nation. The University has
acted on its ambitions to become
one of the best in the world and
an equal competitor with insti-
tutions like Harvard, Yale and
Stanford. But the message that
Brown is a university-college —
equally focused on graduate and
undergraduate education — has
hardly budged.
‘A major cultural shift’
The 2004 Plan for Academic
Enrichment, enacted under
President Ruth Simmons and
intended to increase Brown’s
national and international pres-
tige, has spurred a dramatic
expansion of the University’s
faculty, graduate programs and
research capabilities. But with
growth comes an increasing fo-
cus on graduate students and
a concern that undergraduates
may be neglected.
The way Provost David
Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 tells it, the
Plan signifies a tectonic shift in
the University’s aspirations.
“Brown has ambition to be
one of the world’s great univer-
sities. We’re increasing our in-
ternational visibility and we’re
increasing our ambition,” he
said. “Those aspirations have an
impact on the spirit and the ethos
of the place. It’s all part of a major
cultural shift. By thinking of our-
selves as a major player on the
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Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
editor’s note
There will be no
Herald tomorrow
because of Spring
Weekend. Publication
resumes April 26.
herald@browndailyherald.com
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Branding Brown
U. tries to strike a balance between research and undergrad emphasis
continued from page 1
world stage, it sets the bar higher
and sets our sights higher.”
But these ambitions necessitate a
larger and more powerful graduate
school — which, some caution, may
herald a decreased focus on teach-
ing and advising as faculty devote
more time to research and grants.
“It is a question of proportional-
ity,” Simmons said of the ratio be-
tween graduate and undergraduate
students. “A lot of universities have
outpaced, outgrown, outshown their
undergraduate programs. It’s impor-
tant that that proportion not get out
of whack. That proportion tells you
what matters. Here, (undergradu-
ates) know that they matter.”
Simmons also said the expan-
sion of the Graduate School need
not threaten the undergraduate
experience. “It’s a false dichotomy
to speak in terms of the undergradu-
ate experience versus the graduate
experience, just because the nature
of education has evolved over this
period of time,” she said.
Dean of the College Kather-
ine Bergeron, whose job includes
maintaining the quality of the un-
dergraduate experience in the face
of the Plan, said the University’s
expansion benefits undergraduates
greatly, allowing for more readily
available research opportunities.
“At a place like Brown, under-
graduates are not detached from
the work of the faculty,” she said. “At
Brown, they’re working side-by-side
in their labs, they’re helping to de-
sign new courses, they’re teaching
faculty about their own expertise
in some cases. So I feel that the en-
hancement of the seriousness of the
research program can only benefit
sudoku
undergraduates. Good research that
goes on on the campus is a benefit
to everyone,” she said.
Moreover, Bergeron said, the
increase in the faculty has paved the
way for more specialized programs
and institutes, such as the develop-
ment of the Cogut Center for the
Humanities, as well as spurring an
increase in the number of graduate
courses — classes that have come to
be populated by undergraduates.
“It really isn’t an either/or
proposition,” she said. “But a both/
and.”
Narratives over numbers
Ultimately, policy proscriptions
like the Plan — dense and technical,
outlined in bullet points and graphs,
tucked away in memos — may sim-
ply not be of interest to prospec-
tive students and their parents, said
Michael Goldberger, who began as
associate director of admissions in
1983 but has been director of athlet-
ics since 2005.
“Most kids don’t know much
about who the president of an insti-
tution is,” he said. During his tenure
as director of admission, Goldberger
found people not to be “as concerned
about the expansion of the Graduate
School outside of the University” as
they were inside.
Christiana Stephenson ’11, tours
co-coordinator for the Bruin Club
and The Herald’s director of alumni
relations, said that by and large, the
questions she receives on tours re-
volve around quality-of-life measures
like dining halls and dormitories,
rather than intricate details of ad-
ministrative policy.
As for the Plan, “talking about
the Plan for Academic Enrichment
may be more than prospective stu-
Though an increasing emphasis on graduate programs could direct attention away from the College, expansion
in the Graduate School has allowed for more undergraduate research opportunities.
dents and their families want to
digest,” said Keith Light, associate
director of admission and director
of communications for the Office
of Admission.
Indeed, the Plan scarcely shows
up in the University’s admissions
literature. Though viewbooks and
the Web site emphasize much that
it has yielded — state-of-the-art labo-
ratories and art studios, bigger and
better research opportunities for
undergraduates — the Plan itself
is not mentioned by name.
The guiding force for University
policy is thus in large part invisible
to the world off College Hill. And
this is intentional.
“A lot of what is most useful in
our outreach is more impression-
istic,” Light said. “We want to com-
municate the nature and character
and opportunities of Brown in such
a way that it can be compelling and
digestible.”
Especially as the college search
moves online and students can find
all kinds of information without hav-
ing to page through a viewbook,
the admission office is focusing
less on numbers and more on nar-
rative — telling stories that focus on
individual students and faculty and
highlight the opportunities available
to undergraduates.
“We do try to showcase those
kinds of stories that show faculty
engaging in research with under-
graduates,” said Marisa Quinn, vice
president for public affairs and Uni-
versity relations.
“We’re not merely listing the
Kim Perley / Herald File Photo
number of research institutes or
books in the library,” Light said.
“For high school seniors, an over-
view is often important.”
The admission of fice works
closely with the Office of Public
Affairs and University Relations to
“be conscious of what Brown hopes
to have the universe know about
the University,” Light said. “We pay
attention to emphasizing what the
University’s priorities are.”
The Office of Admission, he
said, is “being more conscious of
highlighting Brown’s strengths,
particularly those that may not be
widely understood.”
Goldberger said that during
his time as director of admission,
“the notion of a university-college”
was one of Brown’s biggest selling
points, along with the New Cur-
riculum.
“We wanted to make sure that we
were seen for what distinguishes us,
and that’s the university-college and
the Open Curriculum,” he said.
These days, according to Quinn,
academic terms like “university-
college” are becoming scarcer and
scarcer in the University’s promo-
tional materials.
Jason Becker ’09 GS, a former
tour guide, also said that while the
university-college model is “ex-
tremely attractive,” he found as a
tour guide that it was “more com-
plex than what people needed.”
But even as the term has disap-
peared from admission literature,
Quinn said, “that doesn’t mean we
don’t value that part.”

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news in brief
Election will be lengthened for
first-years
The MyCourses poll for student government elections
will be extended for first-year students until 10 a.m. Friday,
said Elections Board Chair Kening Tan ‘12 at the general
body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students
Wednesday. Non-freshmen still must finish voting by
Thursday at noon.
The election extension comes after members of the
class of 2013 could not access the ballot on Tuesday
because their names had not been added to the course
list. The issue on MyCourses was resolved Wednesday
morning, Tan said, adding that the Elections Board decided
to extend the election for freshman so that they would have
the full 48-hour window to vote. The board sent an e-mail
to all freshmen Wednesday evening, notifying them of the
change.
“For sophomores through seniors, nothing will change,”
said UCS President Clay Wertheimer ’10.
Candidates can continue campaigning until Friday with
material that has already been approved by the board, but
cannot introduce more material, Tan said.
The results of the election will be announced at 3:30
p.m. Friday at the Quiet Green side of Manning Hall.
At the meeting, UCS also discussed fundraising plans to
address flood damage in Providence that occurred in late
March.
Wertheimer met with the Brown Concert Agency on
Tuesday to discuss doing a “Miracle Minute” collection
between sets at Saturday’s Spring Weekend concert. During
the 15-minute break between the Black Keys and Snoop
Dogg, members of UCS would collect money from students
for 10 minutes. “I think visibility has gone up over the last
week,” Wertheimer said, adding that “the event of Spring
Weekend is perfect timing” for fundraising.
— Nicole Boucher
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
— Frances Mantak, director of health education, on perceptions of drug use
EMTs set to be stationed at Spring Weekend events
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the Main Green. The transformation
was complete, and she blended in eas-
ily with the mass of students crowding
the lawn.
She saw exactly what she ex-
pected — a wide array of Brown stu-
dents drinking alcohol and smoking
marijuana.
“There was a pervasive smell of
beer, and quite a bit of pot smoking
with no consequences for students,”
she said.
As someone who meets with stu-
dents on a daily basis to discuss issues
such as substance abuse and chemi-
cal dependency, McSharry wanted to
experience Spring Weekend firsthand
in order to get a sense of the tempta-
tions students who have substance
abuse problems might face during
the annual concert series.
“That’s a really hard environment
for someone who is recovering. This
year, everyone wants to go to Snoop
Dogg, right? If it’s like how it was
when I used to go to concerts, I’m
assuming pot is passed row-to-row,”
she said.
“It’s hard for people trying to re-
cover, because they want to partici-
pate — it’s a symbolic way of joining
in Spring Weekend,” she added.
‘Prevalence versus perception’
This sense of a communal at-
mosphere surrounding the use of
alcohol and other substances during
“It’s a typical psychological phenomenon.”
Spring Weekend helps feed into the
cultural stereotype that a large num-
ber of Brown students use drugs and
drink regularly.
“It’s all about prevalence versus
perception,” said Frances Mantak,
director of health education.
Mantak said that many students
on campus overestimate how often
their peers use drugs and alcohol
on campus.
“It’s a typical psychological phe-
nomenon,” Mantak said.
“You have a small number of stu-
dents who drink heavily and make
noise, and then all that people talk
about the next day is that group of
students — this makes those who
don’t drink or don’t use drugs to think
it is more prevalent,” she said.
According to a 2008 study con-
ducted by Health Education and the
Department of Public Health, nearly
one out of five students at Brown don’t
drink. A Herald poll last fall found
that about one in three students
smoked marijuana within the previ-
ous month.
These figures are not that different
from national statistics. A 2005 study
by the National Center on Addiction
and Substance Abuse at Columbia
University showed that 33.3 percent of
college students had tried marijuana
in the previous year, while 68 percent
reported drinking alcohol.
Mantak said that issuing such sta-
tistics out to the student body is part
of her office’s attempts at subliminal
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“passive education.”
Throughout the year, Health Edu-
cation issues table slips in the dining
halls and puts up posters featuring
statistics and safety tips in order to
“help people think about prevention”
and “harm reduction,” Mantak said.
Maintaining vigilance
Having worked at Brown for 10
years, Mantak said that all groups
involved in putting on Spring Week-
end have done a much better job at
“maintaining vigilance from multiple
levels.”
Mantak cited that event manage-
ment has become “very strong” in
recent years, by doing everything
for students from providing food at
large events to the use of Green Horn
Management security.
Mantak said this improvement in
managing events has occurred across
the board during activities at other
points in the year, such as Halloween,
St. Patrick’s Day and Sex Power God,
when alcohol and drug use are at an
elevated level on campus.
“We just do a much better job over-
all than in the past,” she said.
Part of what makes the weekend
run smoothly is the work done by
Emergency Medical Services. This
year, EMS will have Emergency Medi-
cal Technicians stationed at all major
Spring Weekend events including
Friday and Saturday’s concerts, Fri-
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Free breakfast, EMS among U.’s weekend safety precautions
continued from page 3
day’s Foam Dance Party on Lincoln
Field, Saturday’s Rage on Wriston
and Sunday’s Dave Binder concert,
wrote Amy Sanderson, manager of
safety and EMS, in an e-mail to The
Herald.
In anticipation of large crowds at
Saturday’s Snoop Dogg concert, EMS
has arranged to have a second am-
bulance at the concert in addition to
the usual Brown EMS personnel and
emergency vehicle. “Our ambulance
needs to be available to the entire
campus community, so the additional
hired ambulance ensures that there is
a dedicated unit at the concert, similar
to what you see at football games,”
she wrote in her e-mail.
For Mantak, EMS response is
crucial at events like Spring Week-
end — but there is always room for
improvement.
“We are always working on ways
to address what goes on at each event.
Every year we review what happens
at Spring Weekend,” she said.
“We try to be pretty consistent in
getting lots of messages out to lots of
people,” she added.
Mantak said she had no idea how
many EMS transports would be called
out this year. Last year, The Herald
reported that the total count of EMS
transports dropped by two from 2008
to 2009. At last year’s Spring Week-
end, eight total transports were called
out between the two concerts.
To party, or not to party?
Though a long line snaked down
George Street yesterday when it was
announced that more tickets would be
released because both concerts would
be held outdoors, some students will
not be participating in the weekend
festivities.
“It’s just such a big crowd and it
really doesn’t appeal to me,” said Sara
Mann ’10.
Mann, who attended an outdoor
Spring Weekend concert her fresh-
man year, said the concept of hun-
dreds of Brown students crowding
the Main Green does not hold much
appeal.
“When I think of Spring Weekend,
I think of really muscular football play-
ers tossing bags across the yard out-
side (Theta Delta Chi),” Mann said.
Mann said another association she
has with Spring Weekend is an added
incentive for the student body to drink
more than normal or try drugs.
“I think a lot of people are involved
in that scene. Most of my friends
drink more than they usually do,” she
said, adding that “I think it’s cool that
everyone is very consciously trying
to let go, and that they have a place
for that.”
What Mann said she does not like
is the trash that usually covers the
campus greens. “It’s really annoy-
ing how there’s litter everywhere,”
she said.
While there are plenty of events
and parties surrounding the week-
end’s concerts, Mann said there
are not many alternative options
for people who choose not to party
throughout the weekend.
“The options are either do your
own thing, or participate in the bois-
terous fiesta of Spring Weekend,” she
added.
Jodi-Ann Dattadeen ’12 will prob-
ably have a different weekend than
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Mann.
Dattadeen said the drug and al-
cohol culture that has come to be
associated with the weekend “is one
of the reasons people look forward
to Spring Weekend,” calling drug
and alcohol consumption during the
concert series “more accelerated”
on campus.
When it comes to students, like
Mann, who do not participate in many
of the weekend’s events, Dattadeen
said, “there’s not a lot of options for
them.”
“I didn’t really think about that
before. I feel there’s a lot of pressure
to drink or smoke or do whatever
they’re doing,” she added.
A student-driven campus
When Director of Student Activi-
ties Phil O’Hara ’55 attended Brown,
there was no Spring Weekend.
“We had nothing like this. The
only thing I can remember are ral-
lies during football season that we
used to have on the Faunce terrace,”
O’Hara said.
Flash for ward 65 years, and
O’Hara called the Brown social scene
“exciting” with events like Spring
Weekend.
Working at Brown since 1987,
O’Hara said he is proud of the work
that various departments at the Uni-
versity do to ensure Spring Weekend
runs smoothly.
“Everything we do — whether it’s
Health Education, DPS, Student Life,
Facilities — is to try to support these
events and have them be successful
and safe,” he said.
To ensure this, O’Hara’s office has
worked carefully with Brown Concert
Agency planners to set up a decibel
meter to “make sure sounds are not
invasive” to the surrounding Provi-
dence community, a standard that
is included in performers’ contracts.
The Student Activities Office has
also worked on setting up a Brown
Key Society-sponsored breakfast on
Wriston for students attending the
Sunday Dave Binder concert.
“They’re providing free food for
students who might be going on an
empty stomach to mitigate any unfa-
vorable results,” O’Hara said.
Helping BCA with the weekend’s
concerts is part of the mission of
O’Hara’s office. “We are one of many
departments that helps students to
plan safe and financially-viable activi-
ties,” he said.
“You can expect a hospitable, ami-
cable and friendly environment for the
community,” O’Hara added.
O’Hara said that there are “a lot
of challenges students face today”
— issues involving substance abuse
included — “and a whole process of
learning who they are and who they
are meant to be.”
“This is a student-driven school,
not a staff-driven school,” he said.
“At Brown, students schedule co-
curricular activities, and we’re here
to support everyone in a safe and
successful way.”
A watchful eye
From her third-floor University
Hall office, Dean McSharry has a
good view of the Brown campus. Ev-
ery day she interacts with students
who come to see her after multiple
EMS visits or are referred to her
from Psychological Services or other
sources on campus.
“Some find me themselves,” she
said, noting that 80 to 90 percent of
the students she interacts with are
undergrads.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
She said for students with tenden-
cies toward substance abuse and pos-
sible chemical dependency — a need
to use alcohol or drugs that doesn’t
diminish over time — the college
setting provides a “higher, artificial
environment, where students are
protected.”
Addiction to various substances is
three times more likely between the
ages of 12 and 19 — which overlaps
with the range when most teens de-
cide to head off to college, she said.
McSharry said this includes both
marijuana and alcohol use, with “daily
pot smokers shaving off the top ten
percent of performance. They say
they are ‘making it’ just fine, but they
could be doing so much better,” she
said.
McSharry said she understands
the struggles of some of her students
because she herself is a recovering
alcoholic.
“I’ll see more students as we ap-
proach finals — they come to see
me. They’ve had varying success of
moderating their substance use and
cannot handle the work as well as
they’d like to,” she said, adding that
there are a lot of outlets on campus
for students to seek help.
She said it is also important for the
campus to realize that not all Brown
students use drugs or alcohol. “Do
you guys really want your student
body to be defined in such a reduc-
tive way? I would like all students to
bear in mind that not everyone does
alcohol and drugs,” she said.
McSharry said it is important to
be vigilant when it comes to those stu-
dents who do suffer from addictions
on campus, especially during celebra-
tory times like Spring Weekend.
“I would like to see more aware-
ness that there is a population out
there dealing with this — we need to
be more mindful of that,” she said.
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lot of time talking about research,
taking students into labs,” said
Jonathan Eldridge ’11, who coor-
dinates them for the Bruin Club.
“We also like to show off that it’s
undergraduate research.”
“It’s about emphasizing that we
do do science and engineering and
technology, thank you very much,”
Light said.
Research sells
With the increasingly competi-
tive college admissions process
and the advent of research oppor-
tunities for high school students,
prospective applicants are getting
into research earlier and earlier
— and expecting their colleges to
offer them more opportunities than
in the past.
“The notion of undergraduate
research has really taken hold
since I started in undergraduate
admission in the 1980s,” Light said.
“I think there’s a higher hope and
expectation that this is something
that undergraduates can do.”
Becker, who engaged in re-
search in high school and studied
chemistry as an undergraduate,
actively sought out research oppor-
tunities when looking for schools.
“I wanted the flexibility to explore
my interests, but I needed to go
somewhere that I would be doing
hands-on laboratory science work
directly with faculty.”
For this reason, Brown’s expan-
sion may prove to be a significant
selling point for prospective stu-
dents.
“We lose students to other re-
search universities, not small liber-
al-arts colleges,” Kertzer said. “We
don’t lose students to Williams, to
Amherst, to Bowdoin, to Wesleyan.
Students want the excitement of a
with cutting, wait times
top university.”
Simmons said Brown’s research
capabilities attract students who
“would not have come to Brown if
it were, in fact, a college. These are
students who want faculty who are
involved in scholarship at a very
high level.”
While the viewbook of 1980
touted Brown’s state-of-the-art fa-
cilities and powerhouse research
programs, it was published before
the Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sci-
ences towered over Meeting Street,
before the University expanded
into the Jewelry District, before
the faculty ballooned from 475 to
nearly 700.
Becker said that since he came
to Brown, he has seen the Univer-
sity’s language and focus change.
“I think we’re emphasizing the
research university part much
more heavily — and backing it up
better than we used to.”
Sharpening the message
As the University continues to
grow into its aspirations and deepen
its commitment to research — and
while the nature of college admis-
sions changes — the University
appears to be sharpening, though
not overhauling entirely, the story
it tells to prospective students and
their families.
“The terms we use to talk about
the University haven’t changed,”
Quinn said. “We talked about our
excellence in teaching and research
even (before the Plan).”
The difference, it seems, is that
now the University has more to
back it up.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“Brown has always carved itself
out as a research institution,” said
Becker, who in addition to touring
has worked closely with adminis-
trators on shaping University policy
as a member of the Task Force on
Undergraduate Education. “But it’s
only becoming true now.”
“The attempt to bring out the re-
search character of this institution
has always been there. Our job now
is to make it even more visible,”
Bergeron said. “Will that change
our identity? The fact is, the term
‘university-college’ has two words
in it, and ‘university’ is first.”
“We sell ourselves as caring con-
siderably about the centrality of the
undergraduate experience,” Sim-
mons said. “I think Brown’s identity
as an undergraduate college that
is unique and very successful at
providing a total undergraduate
experience … is empowering to
students.”
She paused. “I think that will
never go away. It is central to our
identity and it is necessary to our
success.”
Perhaps it is this growth, this
ambition, that drives the narrative
of the University. “One of the great
things about telling the story in our
own way about the academic plan is
that it is aspirational,” Light said.
“No one will get excited about
a university that merely rested on
its laurels.”
continued from page 1
ing Sandy Ryza ’12.
“I’m used to being No. 1, so it was
just another conquest,” Wilmot said.
But others expressed greater frustra-
tion.
Waiting students — already an-
gered by earlier troubles with online
ticket sales — grew increasingly con-
cerned about other students cutting
in line.
Chantel Taylor ’10, who had been
waiting for tickets since 3:30 p.m.,
warned that if she did not get tickets
because of people cutting in line she
was “going to get feisty.”
Emma Ramadan ’13, a BCA staff
member manning the ticket desk, said
BCA had called the Department of
Public Safety earlier about regulating
the line. “DPS said there is nothing
that they or we could do about cutting
in line,” she said.
At 8:30 p.m., the line still stretched
from the booth on George Street to the
front of Maddock. Emily Shelkowitz
’12, who had been waiting since 4 p.m.
for tickets, was still in line. “My friend
got me food,” she said.
“There is no valid reason for why
it’s taking so long,” said Justin Wolfe
’12, who had also been waiting since
4 p.m.
BCA “accepts responsibility for
yesterday’s long ticket wait,” it wrote
Thursday, April 22, 2010
in a statement on its Web site. The line
was “an order of magnitude larger than
anticipated,” it wrote.
BCA did not want to sell additional
tickets online so that the sales would be
“surcharge-free, equitable and immedi-
ate,” according to the statement.
Students were allowed to hold up
to three Brown ID cards and purchase
one ticket for each concert per ID.
As a result, some students gave their
ID cards to friends who had a better
position in line.
“Over 150 students sent e-mails
about their inability to pick up tickets
at release time,” BCA wrote on its Web
site. The three-ID policy “addressed
this issue and ensured equitable
distribution” of the newly available
tickets.
BCA had only two sales positions
open in the booth from which tickets
were being sold. Each position was
staffed by two BCA members.
Spoto said BCA needed to concen-
trate on the money transactions and
checking ID cards in their computer
program to make sure no one bought
more tickets than they were allowed.
Because the BCA members were
handling “an extraordinary amount
of money,” Spoto said, they needed
to ensure they were keeping track of
everything.
“We wanted to have complete con-
trol over the money,” Spoto said.
Metro
The Brown Daily Herald
Rhode Island’s homeless rates top charts, shelters hit limits
continued from page 1
and people without a bed are in most
need. In March 2010 there were 1,283
registered homeless in the state, up
from 996 in February 2008, according
to the coalition’s records. This is the
highest level ever recorded.
“We would tend to see the lowest
numbers in the summer months,”
Ryczek said, but not in the past four
years. This “is an indicator that there
are more people in the system,” he
added, since it is usually the newly-
dispossessed who seek aid from
shelters.
The considerable increase in the
homeless population can partially be
attributed to the recent foreclosure
crisis, which hit Rhode Island very
hard, Ryczek said. The subsequent
rise in unemployment “has caused a
lot of people to fall off the economy
horse and enter the shelter system,”
he added.
Indeed, the coalition estimated
that shelter check-ins have increased
by 300 percent because of the crisis,
Ryczek said. Most of the shelters’ new
members are not previous property
owners, he said, but renters whose
landlords have faced foreclosure.
In fact, while families have three
days to vacate a housing unit after the
notice of eviction, landlords are not
obliged to notify these renters of the
risk of foreclosure, he said. Ryczek
noted that this has a very damaging
effect, because people often do not
have time to find alternate housing.
Shelters under stress
Increased demand has forced
St. Paul’s shelter to lead a more ag-
gressive fundraising campaign this
year, said Sheryl Marshall, program
director for Access Rhode Island, the
organization that runs the shelter. So
far, “we’ve survived through dona-
tions and community involvement,”
Marshall said, “but we need more.”
Access Rhode Island is an organi-
zation that is “set up to do intensive
case-management for the Providence
homeless,” Marshall said. Their
operations include connecting the
homeless to resources, finding hous-
ing and applying for social security,
she said. The organization also runs
the emergency shelter in St. Paul’s
church, open annually from Novem-
ber to April.
“My biggest fear is this will become the status quo, and nobody
will care.” — John Ryczek, executive director of RI Coalition for the Homeless
The group usually obtains fund-
ing from a variety of sources. “We
get about a third of it from the state
and some from the city, but we have
to piece it together to make it work,”
Marshall said. This year, extra fund-
ing will allow St. Paul’s shelter to stay
open for two more months, she added.
Since there are definitely more home-
less in the system, this will be very
helpful, Marshall said, but the true
numbers will only be known once
shelters close for the summer.
The unusually high level of home-
lessness hasn’t affected the organi-
zation’s case-management service,
Marshall said, as eligibility for the
program requires individuals to have
been homeless either for a year, or
four times in the past three years.
The state has been trying to ac-
commodate these new developments
and alleviate the plight of the home-
less. State officials recently allocated
an extra $90,000 to organizations for
the homeless, Ryczek said. This
has allowed the coalition to stagger
summer shelter closings, he added,
as well as render more efficient the
transportation system to and from
these shelters.
Thursday, April 22, 2010 | Page 6
“The Providence metropolitan
area has the vast majority of our
homeless population,” Ryczek said,
estimating that between a third and a
half of the state’s homeless live within
city bounds. There are two reasons
for this, he said. Because there are
simply more people living in the city,
there are also more homeless. What
is more, because smaller towns are
less likely to have facilities or shelters
to aid the homeless, individuals or
families who lose their house often
come to Providence or Pawtucket.
Looking long-term
“We don’t like shelters — we look
for permanent solutions, not tempo-
rary ones,” Ryczek said. Permanent
housing is not only a more attractive
solution for the dispossessed, it is
also a considerably cheaper option,
he added. The state saves approxi-
mately $8,000 for every person in
permanent housing rather than in a
shelter, he said.
But such a fundamental shift in
the homeless system towards more
permanent solutions requires initial
capital, Ryczek said. He said legisla-
tors up for election in November are
less likely to vote for long-term invest-
ments rather than options that yield
quick results. As things stand, “the
regular shelters have become perma-
nent housing for many,” Ryczek said,
which is a problematic situation.
Indeed, the Coalition for the
Homeless is currently focusing on
the maintenance of the Neighbor-
hood Opportunities Program, which
aims to provide the homeless with
permanent housing solutions, Ryc-
zek said.
The program serves a double
function, Ryczek said. It funds the
construction of new units of housing
and it pays for some of the ‘operat-
ing support’ of the buildings, which
include utility costs among other
things. Homeless residents usually
pay for a third of their living costs.
The program represents a concerted
effort to implement a long-term plan
to combat homeless levels in the
state, he said.
The Housing First program, a
permanent-housing solution opera-
tion run by River Wood Mental Health
Services, currently houses about 130
people and has a 90 percent success
rate in finding its residents perma-
nent housing, Ryczek said. In the long
term, this is much more successful
in aiding the homeless population
than short-term housing solutions,
he added.
But current levels of state funding
do not address the situation complete-
ly. The Neighborhood Opportunities
Program saw a recent $5 million drop
in funding, Ryczeck said, and its fund-
ing is not included in the governor’s
current budget proposal. The coali-
tion is “fighting” to secure funding
for the program, he added.
“The resources are stretched to
the limit,” Ryczek said. “Our provid-
ers are having to stretch the same
amount of dollars over a greater
amount of folks.” A ‘bottleneck’ sce-
nario has developed, and the coali-
tion cannot provide the chronically
homeless with enough places to stay,
he said.
“My biggest fear is that this will
become the status quo, and nobody
will care,” Ryczek said. Faced with
fewer and fewer prospects of assis-
tance, the homeless “may just go off
the grid and hide — literally in tents,”
he said.
Page 7 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Thursday, April 22, 2010

M etro “There’s probably 10 years’ worth of litter here.”

— Robert McMahon ’68, superintendant of the Providence Parks department

Raking out trash and debris, volunteers clean up Gano Park

By Caitlin Trujillo
Senior Staf f Writer
Gano Park was seasonably gray be-
neath Saturday morning’s steady
drizzle. But by noon, volunteers
had cleared piles of trash, wet logs
and debris from the banks of the
Seekonk River. As the chainsaws
slowed, community members spoke
of a renewed life for the park — of
boat ramps and bike paths — an
anchor for future neighborhood
activity.
The Fox Point Neighborhood
Association geared up for Earth
Day last Saturday by cleaning up
litter and invasive vegetation at
Gano Park, an endeavor that sets
the stage for a proposed boat ramp
for the Seekonk River at East Tran-
sit Street.
Neighborhood volunteers and
city workers from the Providence
Parks Department and Forestr y
Division spent three hours Satur-
day morning cleaning out the area
around the park near the Seekonk
River, where litter was strewn
among the trees. Volunteers also
worked to clean out the Japanese
knotweed plant that had invaded and
was killing the trees, said Robert
McMahon ’68, superintendent of the
Providence Parks Department.
“There’s probably 10 years’
worth of litter here,” he said.
Neighborhood volunteers and city workers spent three hours cleaning up litter and invasive vegetation near the
Seekonk River for an Earth Day event last Saturday.
The cleanup was funded by
a $500 Earth Day grant from the
Rhode Island Department of En-
vironmental Management, accord-
ing to a press release issued by the
neighborhood association.
The clearing of debris and the
invasive plants also coincides with
a proposal to build a new boat ramp
off East Transit Street, said John
Rousseau, the association’s execu-
tive secretary and organizer of the
cleanup. Plans for the boat ramp
stalled three years ago after the dis-
Courtesy of John Rousseau
covery of a landfill near the site, but
contaminated soil has since been
removed, said Seth Yurdin, council-
man for Ward 1 and coordinator for
the event.
Construction is expected to
begin in September and finish in
next May, according to the press
release.
The beach used to be a popular
hangout and swim spot, Rousseau
said, but has been marred over the
years by trash. With the area cleared
and clean, it could become appealing
once again, he said. There has been
discussion among neighborhood
residents of constructing bike paths
through the park, Yurdin said.
Brown’s crew teams race down
the Seekonk River, and clearing the
area might bring in more spectators,
Rousseau said.
“We’re hoping to develop the
area so people can watch the races,”
he said.
Yurdin said the cleanup both
spread the word about environ-
mental awareness and made com-
munity members feel like they had
“ownership” of the park, allowing
them to feel more participatory in
the community.
Some of the mulch that the vol-
unteers and city workers collected
from clearing out the woods was
used for the park’s community
garden.
“It’ll be really nice, I think, to see
the waterfront again,” said volun-
teer Keri Marion. “It’s such a great
park.”
She said she hoped further clean-
up would take place on the other
side of the river in the future.

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SportsThursday
The Brown Daily Herald
IVY LEAGUE SPORTS
BRIEF
Old is new for
Dartmouth
basketball
By Andrew Braca
Assistant Spor ts Editor
After under taking a national
search for a new men’s basketball
head coach, Dar tmouth looked
backwards to rehire one of the
most successful coaches in recent
program histor y.
Paul Cormier, who in his seven
seasons posted two of the three
winningest campaigns in the pro-
gram’s past 50 years, will begin his
second stint with the Big Green
19 years after leaving to become
Fairfield’s head coach, the school
announced Wednesday in a press
release.
Cormier will have to stabilize
a program thrown into turmoil
last season. Terr y Dunn abruptly
resigned as head coach Jan. 8 with
the Big Green off to a 3-10 start.
FoxSpor ts.com repor ted that
Dunn was forced to resign after
“each player signed a document
that was taken to the administra-
tion on Friday stating they refused
to play for Dunn.”
Assistant Coach Mark Graupe
replaced him on an interim ba-
sis, and the Big Green limped to
a 5-23 overall finish and a 1-13 Ivy
League record.
continued on page 9
athlete of the week
Glick ’10 brings power plays to the pool
By Katie DeAngelis
Spor ts Staf f Writer
Women’s water polo tri-captain
Sarah Glick ’10 may only be 5
feet 4 inches tall, but she’s been
a huge par t of the team in her
time at Brown. Glick ranks as
the all-time leader in points in a
season and a career at Brown, as
her 82 goals and 72 assists this
season have raised her career
totals to 282 goals and 257 assists.
This past week, she scored nine
goals, including five in her last
home game, a 14-10 victor y over
Har vard.
For her ef for ts over her ca-
reer, during this season and in the
last week, The Herald has named
Glick Athlete of the Week.
Herald: When and why did
you get involved with water
polo?
Glick: I started playing water
polo when I was 12 years old
because my older sister played
and she didn’t want me to. Being
the nagging little sister I was, of
course I had to play. Before that,
I started swim team when I was
four years old, so I’ve always been
involved in water sports. They are
kind of sister sports.
What’s your pre-game rou-
tine? Any songs you have to
listen to before ever y game?
I actually don’t normally listen
to music before games, which I
know is weird for athletes. I know
when you watch the Olympics you
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
Women’s water polo tri-captain
Sarah Glick ’10 ranks as the all-
time leader in points in a season
and career at Brown.
see Michael Phelps with his iPod
on. But my only pre-game ritual is
that I like to drink a Monster.
Weird.
Yeah, we’re actually really into
energy drinks on our team, which
I know is horrible. But yeah, I
like to drink one. I’m sure its psy-
chosomatic, but I just feel really
pumped up after I drink one.
What kind of pressure —
because of the records you
hold for Brown water polo —
do you feel when you are play-
ing in a game?
I don’t really think about my
stats when I’m playing. The only
thing I really want to do is make
sure that we do what we need to
do to win the game or play the
Thursday, April 22, 2010 | Page 8
best that we can. I tr y to keep
out of my mind how many goals
I’ve scored or how many assists I
have. I just try to make sure we’re
all doing what we need to do to
play our best.
If you could tell someone
one thing about water polo,
what would you tell them?
The most common question I
get is, isn’t it really hard to tread
water for that long? And actually
the harder part about water polo
is the swimming. It’s definitely a
lot harder to get into swim shape
than to tread water. I could prob-
ably tread water for two days.
We’re that efficient at it.
Did you play any other
sports in high school?
I did swim team and cross
countr y. Cross countr y I only
did my freshman year because
of injuries — I’m not meant for
land really.
Do you have an athletic ­—
or non-athletic — hero?
I’d say in the water polo com-
munity, Brenda Villa, because
she’s the exact same height as
me. And that’s one of the disad-
vantages for me, because I’m only
5’ 4” and a lot of the girls on the
Olympic team are 5’ 8”, 5’ 10’’,
even 6’ tall. She’s an inspiration
for me because she shows you
that you can be a smaller player
and still make a big impact. She’s
actually the captain of the U.S.
Olympic team right now.
Are you planning to do any-
thing water polo–related after
Brown?
I’m actually having a dif fi-
cult time right now deciding if I
want to play professionally next
year or if I want to get a real job.
There are professional leagues
all over Europe and Australia. I
kind of want to keep playing just
because I love it and I’m not sick
of it yet, even though I’ve been
playing for 10 years. But at the
same time, ever yone wants to be-
come independent and not rely
on parents any more, and I’m not
sure I would be financially stable
playing professionally. It’s going
to be a gamble.
How has your height af-
fected you?
It was really more of an issue
when I was trying to get recruited
to college. People would look at
that number and think, oh, well,
she’s small, so she’s probably not
that strong. But I don’t really let
it affect me when I’m in the pool,
so it hasn’t really had an impact
on the way I play.
Why do you think water
polo is the best sport?
I love water polo because ev-
er y practice and ever y game you
have to push yourself to the limit
— and it’s a huge adrenaline rush.
And I also love it because it com-
bines so many different sports.
You don’t have to know anything
about the game and you can still
watch it and enjoy it, having no
clue what the whistles mean, just
knowing that they’re trying to get
to the goal.
Page 9
S ports T hursday
IVY LEAGUE
SPORTS BRIEF
Columbia
player wins
major award
continued from page 8
Hired by Dar tmouth in
1984, Cormier coached the
1987-88 team to an 18-8 record
and a 10-4 Ivy mark, followed in
1988-89 by a 17-9 record with
a 10-4 Ivy mark, becoming the
only coach since 1960 to lead
the Big Green to consecutive
second-place finishes in the
conference, according to the
press release.
In 1991, he moved to Fair-
field, where he also spent sev-
en seasons, leading the Stags
to the NCAA Tournament in
1997. Cormier then moved to
the NBA, most recently ser v-
ing as an advance scout for the
Golden State Warriors.
Ivy Quick Hits
— Har vard assistant coach
Carl Junot has been named
the head men’s soccer coach
at Tufts. Junot, who was named
a Top Assistant Coaches hon-
oree by College Soccer News
in 2008, moves from a Crim-
son team that made the NCAA
tournament in each of his two
seasons to a Jumbos squad
that finished 2-10-2 and 0-8-1
in NESCAC play in 2009.
— Har vard All-American
Alex Meyer won the Nike Swim
Miami Open Water Meet 10K
event, beating 61 other swim-
mers with a time of 1:57:58,
almost four minutes ahead of
his nearest competitor.
— Columbia basketball play-
ers earned spots on the men’s
and women’s All-Metropolitan
Area teams, recognizing the
best Division I players in the
New York metropolitan area,
as awarded by the Metropoli-
tan Basketball Writers Asso-
ciation. Noruwa Agho made
the men’s third team, marking
the four th straight season a
Lion was named to the team.
Judie Lomax was named to the
women’s first team, the first
time a Columbia woman was
selected in the 15-year histor y
of the award.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Thursday, April 22, 2010
“We battled back, but they answered.”
— Baseball Head Coach Marek Drabinski
BASEBALL
Bears look to sweep four against Dartmouth
continued from page 1
to the first four batters he faced, and
all three runners came around to
score.
In the third inning, Heath Mayo
’13 replaced Boylan on the mound
with runners on first and third, but
was unable to shut the door. Holy
Cross catcher Steven Tkowski hit a
two-run double, and the next batter,
Nick Ciardiello, slammed a two-run
home run to left field.
Despite the seven-run deficit,
the Bruno batters almost made a
comeback. The bats finally came
alive in the bottom of the seventh
inning. Down 8-1 with three outs
to go, Nick Punal ’10 led off the in-
ning with a double. Graham Tyler ’12
drove Punal in with an RBI double.
Later in the frame, Matt Colantonio
’11 connected on a three-run home
run to bring the Bears within three,
8-5.
“We saw what the offense can
do,” Drabinski said.
But after the Crusaders replaced
Vaughn Hayward, their tiring pitch-
er, the Bears could not get any more
runs on the board, falling short of a Jonathan Bateman / Herald
Second baseman Chris Tanabe ’10 had three RBI in Wednesday’s doubleheader, but the team lost both games.
dramatic last-inning comeback.
Holy Cross 18, Brown 11 their fourth consecutive loss. If they get out of their funk quickly, and “The guys who aren’t pitching
The Bruno pitching staff strug- want to stay in contention for the Drabinski knows that begins with well just won’t be pitching in-con-
gled all seven innings of the second Ivy League title, they will have to the beleaguered pitching staff. ference.”
game. Holy Cross scored in every
inning, and seven different pitchers
were forced to step on the mound
for the Bears.
Brown enjoyed a brief lead in the
first inning, going up 2-1 after an
RBI double from Mike DiBiase ’12
and an RBI single from Ryan Zrenda
’11. But the Crusaders took the lead
right back in the next inning, after
outfielder Patrick Puentes tripled,
bringing home Ciardiello and scor-
ing himself on an error by Chris
Tanabe ’10.
The Bears did put together a big
inning, scoring six runs in the sixth.
Pete Greskoff’s ’11 grand slam was
the highlight of the frame, as his
shot to left field brought the Bears
within three, 14-11.
But the Bruno pitchers could not
keep the team close, as Holy Cross
scored four runs in the top of the
seventh. Crusader third baseman
Matt Perry hit a solo home run to
lead off the top of the inning, capping
his 5-for-5 day.
“Every time we came back and
scored, (Holy Cross) came right
back,” Drabinski said. “We battled
back, but they answered. You’re
not going to win many games do-
ing that.”
The Bears went quietly in the
bottom of the inning, wrapping up
Editorial & Letters
The Brown Daily Herald

Page 10 | Thursday, April 22, 2010

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

Misogynistic lyrics ignored

on campus
To the Editor:
This weekend, Brown students
will celebrate the arrival of an art-
ist whose lyrics explicitly advocate
violence against women. In light of
The Herald’s past commitment to
investigating and encouraging dis-
course about women’s issues, we
are surprised at the paper’s lack of
commentary on the student body’s
unchecked enthusiasm for Snoop
Dogg’s music, as well as the virtual
absence of dialogue throughout
campus.
Snoop Dogg’s lyrics go beyond
objectifying women to the point of at-
tacking women’s rights. In his 2004
song “Can U Control Yo’ Hoe,” the
lyrics speak for themselves:
“You got a b---- that won’t do what
you say.../ She hardheaded, she just
won’t obey/ You’ve got to put that
b---- in her place/ Even if it’s slapping
her in her face.”
Given Brown’s reputation as a
liberal campus, we are shocked that
tickets for such a blatantly misogy-
nistic artist would sell out within an
hour of their release and without a
word of commentary. Whether it
reflects apathy toward or ignorance
of Snoop Dogg’s lyrics, we find the
student body’s lack of deliberation
disturbing. We take pride in our
University’s history of standing up
for women’s rights, and we believe
that we all share a responsibility to
preserve that tradition. In the future,
we must at least pause to discuss
the significance of the messages
promoted by the figures we invite
to perform on campus.
richard stein and paul tran
Jasleen Salwan ’12
Michelle Uhrick ’11
April 20 e d i to r i a l

Working for the weekend

The sea of students lounging on Main Green and the one’s grades will suffer. Some may rush to complete
sound of music blasting on Wriston Quad serve as assignments quickly before the weekend starts. In
constant reminders that Spring Weekend is only a each scenario, students end up in an unfortunate
day away. Yet it seems one can hardly go five minutes situation.
without hearing the all-too-familiar gripes of students This doesn’t have to be the case. From a professor’s
who have midterms, papers or projects due early next perspective, there’s very little inconvenience added
week. We’d like to see this change. by having a paper or project due at the end of the
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d Spring Weekend is a long-standing Brown tradition following week, especially if the due date is planned
Senior Editors
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Deputy Managing Editors and professors should appreciate how difficult it is out in advance. In fact, the quality of the assignments
Chaz Kelsh Sophia Li Ellen Cushing
George Miller
Seth Motel to get work done when most of the school is outside would probably improve if students didn’t feel pres-
Emmy Liss
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JONATHAN
BEN-ARTZI
Guest Columnist
In their recent columns, Simon Liebling ’12
and Ethan Tobias ’12 debated the comparison
of the contemporary struggle against the Is-
raeli occupation of the Palestinian territories
and the struggle for divestment from the
apartheid state of South Africa in the 1980s
(“The right side of history” and “No apartheid
here,” Apr. 16).
Today, apartheid is considered to be a low
point in South African history. In the 1980s,
however, those who fought against it faced
fierce resistance. Dissent, unfortunately, is a
lonely business.
As an Israeli, I had to start planning for
my military service during my senior year
of high school. In Israel, interviews, medical
checkups, examinations and forms are all a
routine part of one’s 18th birthday. However,
long before scheduling my first interview,
I had already made up my mind: “I will not
join the military.” I decided that I had to take
a stand in the face of policies of segregation
and discrimination that ravaged (and still rav-
age) my country and the occupied Palestinian
territories.
Within Israel, these acts of segregation
include towns reserved for Jews only, immigra-
tion laws that allow any Jew from around the
world to immigrate but simultaneously deny
displaced indigenous Palestinians that same
right, and national health care and school
JACK L.
SCHWARTZWALD
Guest Columnist
May 2, 2010, will mark the 150th anniversary
of the birth of Theodor Herzl — the father
of modern political Zionism. Herzl’s desire
for Jewish self-determination in Judaism’s
ancestral homeland came to fruition on May
14, 1948, an uncanny fulfillment of a fifty-year
prediction he had made in 1897.
Ironically, the notion of Jewish statehood
did not occur to Herzl until eight years be-
fore his death. An avid proponent of Jewish
assimilation in emancipation-era Europe, he
was anguished to find the road to true equality
blocked by lingering anti-Semitism. Desperate
to see assimilation succeed, he wrestled with
myriad possible solutions — even proposing
the mass baptism of Jewish children. Only in
1895, when he heard a Parisian mob chanting
“Death to the Jews!” at the trial of Captain Al-
fred Dreyfus (a Jewish officer falsely accused
of treason by the French Army) did he realize
that assimilation was doomed even in the most
“advanced” of Western societies.
The epiphany drove him to write the trea-
tise that made him famous: “The Jewish State,
An attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish
Question” (1896). In it, he proposed the re-
establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine
— a model society in which Jews would “at
last live as free men on [their] own soil,” free-
ing the world by their liberation. A year later
in Basle, he convoked the inaugural “World
Zionist Congress” — Judaism’s first repre-
Yes, apartheid
systems that receive significantly more fund-
ing in Jewish towns than in Arab towns. Even
former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described
the situation as a “deliberate discrimination,”
and added that “governments have denied
[Palestinian citizens of Israel] their rights to
improve their quality of life.”
The situation in the Occupied Territories
is even worse. Nearly 4 million Palestinians
have been living under Israeli occupation for
over 40 years without basic human and civil
rights. Examples include roads that are for
Jews only, discrimination in water supply (Is-
Much as the struggle for equality and freedom in
South Africa required international support and
motivation, so does today’s struggle for justice in
the Holy Land.
raelis use as much as four times more water
than Palestinians, while Palestinians are not
allowed to dig their own wells and must rely on
Israeli supply) and the collective punishment
of Gaza, where 1.5 million Palestinians have
been living in the largest open-air prison on
earth for over four years.
What should one call this situation? The
International Criminal Court defines the crime
of apartheid as “inhumane acts […] committed
in the context of an institutionalized regime
of systematic oppression and domination by
one racial group over any other racial group
or groups and committed with the intention
Remembering Theodor Herzl
sentative assembly in 2,000 years — which
promptly declared for “a publicly recognized,
legally secured home in Palestine for the Jew-
ish people.”
Herzl’s remaining years took him on an
odyssey through the courts of Europe. Al-
though he didn’t create a Jewish state during
his lifetime, he did lay its foundation stone —
and he knew as much long before he died. “At
Basle,” he recorded in his diary, “I founded
The greater part of Herzl’s dream remains
unrealized; for far from liberating the Jewish
people, Israel, by degrees, has been transformed
into the “Jew among nations.”
the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today,
I would be answered by universal laughter.
Perhaps in five years, and certainly in fifty,
everyone will know it.”
Fifty years later, the United Nations voted
in favor of Jewish statehood. Yet the greater
part of Herzl’s dream remains unrealized; for
far from liberating the Jewish people, Israel,
by degrees, has been transformed into the
“Jew among nations.” Of the U.N.’s 192 mem-
bers, Israel alone is denied Security Council
eligibility. While Russia, Sri Lanka, Turke
and other states do as they please to sup-
press terrorism, Israel alone is accused of
“apartheid” for building a security barrier to
allay bombings of its buses, marketplaces and
of maintaining that regime.”
Refusing to join the military had its conse-
quences. After a long legal battle, the Israeli
military prevailed and incarcerated me for a
total of a year and a half, ignoring calls for my
release issued by Amnesty International, the
United Nations High Commissioner for Hu-
man Rights and the International Federation
for Human Rights.
Being a conscientious objector placed me in
the minority not only in Israel, but within my
extended family as well. Both of my parents
were born in Israel. Both my grandmothers
were born in Palestine (when there was no
“Israel” yet). In fact, I am a ninth-generation na-
tive of Palestine. My ancestors were amongst
the founders of today’s modern Jerusalem.
Both of my grandfathers fled the Nazis and
came to Palestine in time to take part in the
war of 1948. My mother’s only brother was a
paratrooper killed in combat in 1968. All of
my relatives served in the Israeli military for
extensive periods of time, some of them in
units most people don’t even know exist.
Much as the struggle for equality and
freedom in South Africa required interna-
tional support and motivation, so does to-
restaurants. Likewise, Israel alone is accused
of “war crimes” for attempting to suppress
Palestinian rocket attacks that left more than
75 percent of the children of Sderot (the most
frequently targeted Israeli city) with symptoms
of post-traumatic stress disorder.
While Iranian President Mahmoud Ah-
madinejad was allowed freedom of expres-
sion at Columbia University, Israeli speakers
worldwide have been disgracefully shouted
down (as Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren
recently was at U.C. Irvine) or forced to cancel
speaking engagements. Israeli cabinet min-
isters have cancelled trips to England under
threat of being arrested as “war criminals.”
Throughout Europe, anti-Semitic extremists
used last year’s Gaza War as a pretext to at-
tack innocent European Jews. For safety rea-
sons, some Danish schools actually denied
admission to Jewish children. Due to rioting
in Malmo during the 2009 Davis Cup competi-
tion, Sweden’s match with Israel had to be held
in a closely guarded empty stadium.
Less ominous, but closer to home, Brown
University joined a handful of universities
nationwide in providing a forum for 2010’s
Thursday, April 22, 2010 | Page 11
day’s struggle for justice in the Holy Land.
Americans, unfortunately, are complicit in
the situation: The U.S. is heavily involved
in the conflict through means ranging from
funding (by providing Israel with roughly $3
billion annually in military aid) and corporate
investments (Microsoft has one of its major
facilities in Israel) to diplomatic support (by
vetoing 32 UN Security Council resolutions
unsavory to Israel between 1982-2006).
There’s much that Brown students can
do. The first step is to refuse to accept the
prevailing “pro-Israel” narrative, and to learn
about the situation through means other than
mass corporate media. Being “pro-Israel” does
not mean blindly supporting anything that
Israel does.
The next step should be involvement in
groups on campus that promote unbiased
discussion and that call upon Brown to divest
from companies that profit from the Israeli oc-
cupation of the Palestinians — such as Brown
Students for Justice in Palestine.
Their agenda is not “pro-Palestine” or “pro-
Israel.” In fact, it is not a nationalistic agenda
at all. Rather, it is a “pro-human” agenda,
seeking to help Brown end its association
with unjust practices. In the end, only this
path will be the true savior of Israel from its
otherwise inevitable decline into an outcast,
rogue society.
Jonathan Ben-Artzi is a doctoral
candidate in the Department of
Mathematics from Jerusalem. He
can be contacted at yonib@math.
brown.edu.
“Israeli Apartheid Week,” an annual event
that demonizes Israel as an “apartheid state.”
Unmentioned in these festivities is the fact that
Israel is the lone Middle Eastern country to
provide all of its citizens with full and equal
democratic freedoms — irrespective of race,
gender or religion. Today, Israel’s 1.4 million
Arab citizens possess freedom of speech and
assembly. They vote and serve in the Knesset,
and attend and teach at Israeli universities.
No such freedoms were extended to
blacks in apartheid South Africa. Nor, indeed,
can they be found in other Middle Eastern
states, where gays are routinely imprisoned
or hanged, where women face severe restric-
tions on education, employment and travel,
and where religious minorities are relegated
to second-class citizenship. Based on criteria
such as these, Freedom House (an indepen-
dent organization that rates governmental hu-
man rights records) awards Israel its highest
rating (i.e., “1” on a scale of 1-7), while none
of the surrounding Arab states scores better
than a five.
In sum, Israel is not a perpetrator of apart-
heid, but a victim of it. To her detractors, how-
ever, innocence is no excuse. In a 1997 New
York Times article, Princeton Professor Arno
J. Mayer was quoted as saying that, “Herzl
would be spinning in his grave” if he could
witness the “hijacking” of his state by funda-
mentalist rabbis. More likely, Herzl’s feelings
would be mixed: Pride in Israel’s accomplish-
ments — and dismay with the world.
Dr. Jack Schwartzwald is a clinical
assistant professor of medicine at
the Alpert Medical School.
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A diamond to Diane Mokoro ’11, vice president
of the Undergraduate Council of Students and a can-
didate for next year’s president, for calling her council
a “hydra-type, many-headed monster.” Perhaps when
one prefrosh wrote that he hoped to concentrate in the
“Defense against the Dark Arts,” he actually meant he
hoped to one day serve on UCS.
Coal to the 12-year-old girl who made her parents
drive four hours round-trip to hear author Tamora
Coal to the first person on the Spring Weekend ticket
sales line. “I’m used to being No. 1, so it was just another
conquest,” he said. If you’re such a winner, how come
you didn’t get tickets the first time around either? But
a diamond for being the No. 1 douche.
Coal to Banner shutdowns and freshman MyCourses
disenfranchisement, though in the face of riot-worthy
lines, even the online Spring Weekend ticket sales don’t
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Pierce. Unless you’re the same kid who sells Girl Scout porn during that one.
Cookies all year long. In which case, om nom nom.
A diamond to recent campus speaker Noam Chom-
Coal to an alum’s invention of an alarm clock that sky and his new book, “Hope and Prospects.” Though we
makes you wake up not tired — but does nothing for wish you could have had more Meetings, it’s comfort-
c a l e n da r your hangover. ing to know you still believe in the Power and Benefit
of Friendship.
Thursday, APril 22 Friday, april 23 Coal to the student who is concerned that Snoop
Dogg doesn’t “rap about things Brown students sup- A diamond to Spring Weekend precautions, like
12:00 P.M. — “The Environment
and Where it is Going in Terms of
Technology and Careers,” Urban
you port.” Brown Concert Agency didn’t know to find some-
one who raps about Ruth.
providing “free food for students who might be going on
an empty stomach to mitigate any unfavorable results.”
Thank you for understanding.
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