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DailyHeraldthe Brown

vol. cxliv, no. 38 | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891

By anne siMons

SeniorStaffWriter

Plans to sell two historic University-

owned houses on Angell Street are

up in the air ollowing the Cor-

porations decision in February to

scrap plans or a giant brain sciences

building, said Mike McCormick,

assistant vice president o planning,

design and construction.

The nal word on the sale ispending the outcome o an internal

investigation into the possibility o

accommodating the need or a new

brain sciences acility elsewhere on

campus, McCormick said. Those

ndings will be presented to the

Corporation at its next meeting in

May, when a more denite decision

will be made, he said.

Plans to sell the houses at

127 and 129 Angell St. are es-

sentially on hold until we nish the

investigation process, McCormick

said.

No decisions have been made

yet, he said. It could be many

years beore the University is ready

to move the houses, he added.

The Angell Street properties

currently occupy the location

previously chosen or a proposed

Mind Brain Behavior building.

The University hoped to preserve

the houses, rather than knocking

them down, by selling them to own-

ers who were willing to move them

elsewhere on the East Side. In or-

der to attract buyers, the houses

themselves were put on the market

or $10 apiece, and Brown promised

up to $1 million to deray moving

costs.

Ninety parties expressed inter-

est in buying one o the houses,

McCormick said, o whom nine sub-

mitted serious proposals. Brown

worked with the city and the Provi-

dence Preservation Society to cull

two specic proposals rom the

nine, he said.

I it proves easible to house the

brain science programs elsewhere,

the University may keep the houses

and rent them as student housing,

McCormick said.

There is no plan to use the two

buildings to house academic depart-

ments or oces, he said, because

building codes are much stricter or

oces than or residences and the

buildings would require extensive

and expensive renovations to bring

F , By Monique veRnon

Contributing Writer

Emma Buck 11 has always been in-

terested in ood, but it wasnt until she

took BIOL 0190H: Plants, Food, and

People that she realized it could be a

eld o study.

Using cuisine as a lens or di-

erent issues, Buck has declared

an independent concentration in

gastroanthropology, the study o the

relationship between the evolution o

cultures and their dietary practices.

Buck said ood illuminates topics o

nutrition, health, history and cultural

development.

A lot o political and economic is-

sues come at play as to why a person

eats, she said.

It all started with her work on a

arm in Ireland, Buck said. The ability

to be sel-sucient in the production

o ood inspired her to urther explore

how ood and people connect.

During her reshman year, Buck

took BIOL 0190H, taught by Proessor

o Biology Peter Heywood. The course

urther stimulated her interests, and

ater reading an article about the en-

vironment, ood and sustainability,

Buck said she saw her path laid out

beore her.

Heywood has signed on to be her

advisor and to support her work. I

was interested in the subject, he said,

adding that he would like to think

that his class helped inspire Buck to

ollow her passion.

One o the reasons I was so ex-

cited that it is all here, Buck said.

Currently, her courses include ECON

1530: Health, Hunger and the House-

hold in Developing Countries and

ARCH 0770: Food and Drink in Clas-

sical Antiquity.

She has already taken a range o

other courses or the concentration,

including BIOL 0030: Principles o

Nutrition, AMCV 0190J: Old Salts

and Sacred Cod: Culture and Environ-

ment in New England Fisheries and

HMAN 1970A: Eating Cultures: Food

and Society.

In the uture, other classes she said

By Ben schReckingeR

SeniorStaffWriter

The Brown University Community

Council heard reports on the Univer-

sitys role in bringing a knowledge-

based economy to Rhode Island and

Browns progress in internationaliza-

tion yesterday.

Provost David Kertzer 69 P95

P98 also discussed the Universitys

progress on implementing the rec-

ommendations o the 2006 report o

the University Steering Committee

on Slavery and Justice.

Richard Spies, executive vicepresident or planning and senior

adviser to President Ruth Simmons,

spoke on Browns involvement in

Rhode Islands economy, which su-

ers rom one o the nations highest

oreclosure rates and one o its high-

est unemployment rates.

Our success really is closely

linked to the success o the com-

munity we live in.

Spies said he sees a role or the

University in developing a knowl-

edge-based economy in Rhode Is-

land. There isnt really an economicocus in the city or or the most

part in the state, he said.

A proposed medical education

acility could be both a symbolic

and a substantive cornerstone o

an economic strategy in the Jewelry

District, where the University has

already invested in property, Spies

said.

Highway construction that will

ultimately relocate the junction o

I-95 and I-195 downtown represents

an economic opportunity, he said.

The area opened up by the Iwayproject, as the relocation is known,

could be designated a knowledge

district, Spies said.

Nobodys quite sure exactly

what that means yet, he said, but

one eature o the district would be

zoning to promote high-tech and

other similar businesses.

In response to a question about

the role o the humanities in Browns

U. ais o spu knowledge econoy in r.I. P By Rachel staRR

ContributingWriter

Brown scientists were recently key

members o a team whose work led

to the isolation o a single top quark,

the smallest undamental particle o

matter. The research, which involved

smashing tiny particles together re-

peatedly, took place at the Fermi Na-

tional Accelerator Lab, the location o

the Tevatron collider the worlds

highest-energy particle collider.

The top quark was one o the keythings that was missing rom the

Standard Model o particle physics,

said Associate Proessor o Physics

Meenakshi Narain, who spent years

working on the research that ulti-

mately produced the discovery. The

isolation o the top quark might be the

last step on the road to observing

the Higgs boson, which is believed

to generate mass, she said.

It was one o those nagging

things, Narain said.

The research, which was pub-

lished in Physical Review Letters

earlier this month. was written col-

laboratively by two teams o scien-

tists that had previously competedto produce the discovery DZero

Experiment and Collider Detector

at Fermilab.

David Cutts, proessor o physics,

was one o the original members o

the DZero Experiment. Collabora-

tion is very important because the

Tevatron is a very large piece o

equipment its very complex,

Cutts said.

Narain joined the DZero collabo-

ration as a post-doctoral researcher

and was involved in the discovery

Max Monn / Heral

Emma Buk 11 ooks up an inepenent onentration in foo an ulture.

Heral file photo

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WEdNESdAy, MARcH 18, 2009THE BROWN dAILy HERALdPAgE 2

CPUS wS Internalization is somethin in our own mins an ourown hearts. davi Kenne 76, VP for international affairs

she plans to take include one on hunt-

er-gatherer adaptations and another

on ethnographic anthropology.Bucks amily and riends were not

surprised when she revealed she was

concentrating in gastroanthropology.

She has always had an interest in the

culinary arts and shopping or ood,

she said, and the concentration brings

together many o her interdisciplinary

interests. She had otherwise planned

to concentrate either in Literary Arts

or American Civilization.

Colleen McDonald 12 is a ellow

concentrator in gastroanthropology.

Along with Buck and other prospec-

tive concentrators, she is trying to es-

tablish a Department Undergraduate

Group. Her track will ocus on nutri-tion, ood psychology, and sociology,

she said.

McDonald said she has always

been captivated by ood, but ater

taking a ood anthropology course

at Yale, discovered that there was a

legitimate, research-intensive aspect

to ood studies.

I think it is a ascinating under-studied eld, McDonald said.

Bucks interest in ood and its pro-

duction extends beyond her studies

to her extracurricular activities. She

is an editor o the Sustainable Food

Initiatives Ripe calendar, has a gar-

dening education ellowship and sells

cheese at the Farmers Market held

on Wriston Quadrangle.

Buck is not the only person at

Brown ascinated by the relationship

between ood and people. Though

no independent concentration can be

exactly duplicated, other students are

pursuing a similar path, according to

Jonathan Mitchell 09, an independentconcentration program coordinator at

the Curricular Resource Center.

The justication or each concen-

tration has to be dierent, he said,

adding that the proposal should be

personal.

Buck said a air number o aculty

members are also interested in the top-

ic. And a group o students is trying toestablish a Food Studies Departmen-

tal Undergraduate Group to bring

resources together that can benet

other concentrations, she said.

A number o Group Independent

Study Projects exist to address related

topics, including one about sustainable

agriculture and another on disordered

eating. Though there are not many

undergraduate gastroanthropology

programs, the study is more prevalent

among grad students, Buck said.

Ater graduating rom Brown,

Buck said she would be interested in

attending culinary school or managing

her own arm, though she said she isnot yet certain o her uture plans.

She has many possibilities, she

said, because gastroanthropology is

a really emerging eld.

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economic plan or the city, Spies said

knowledge-based did not reer ex-

clusively to scientic industries. He

cited Providences comparative ad-

vantage in design provided by the

Rhode Island School o Design as

an example o another component osuch an economy.

President Ruth Simmons said

Gov. Donald Carcieri 65 had written

her to encourage an expansion o the

Universitys engineering program or

the sake o the states economy.

Later, Vice President or Inter-

national Aairs David Kennedy 76

provided the Council with an over-

view o the Universitys continuingeorts to broaden Browns global

outlook.

Kennedy, who is also serving as

interim director o the Watson Insti-

tute or International Studies, said

Brown should concern itsel with

understanding the extent to which

we pursue and ought to be pursu-

ing internationalization at home.

In some regards, he said, interna-

tionalization is not something that

involves traveling here or traveling

there, but something in our own

minds and our own hearts.

In that vein, Kennedy said he

had identied curricular gaps, in ac-

ademic elds like public health and in

world regions like South Asia, where

the University should strengthen its

global purview.

Kennedy also talked about his de-

sire to provide a greater variety o

educational experiences abroad, such

as more internships and more in-tensive language programs.

Proessor o Medical Science Chi-

Ming Hai, a member o the Council,

told Kennedy he knew o several

graduate departments that had dis-

couraged international students rom

applying or nancial reasons.

Im not sure i Browns getting

more internationalized or less, Hai

said, adding that the University ap-

pears to be opening doors on one

side, closing doors on the other.

It takes money, Kennedy re-

sponded. You just have to keep

opening the doors.

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B C By kRistina fazzalaRo

Contributing Writer

The University nalized two memo-

randums o understanding with

the Chinese University o Hong

Kong last week, suggesting uture

collaboration.

The two memorandums legal

documents describing an agree-

ment between parties in which they

agree to work together on projects

in the uture ocused on gradu-

ate study abroad opportunities and

a new Chinese language exchange

program.

Academic synergy has to be the

primary ocus o collaborations,said Vasuki Nesiah, director o In-

ternational Aairs, which generally

takes the lead in orming ocial

agreements between Brown and

oreign universities.

Brown has signed a total o our

memorandums with CUHK over

the past several years. A partner-

ship has existed between the two

schools since November 2006,

when the rst CUHK delegation

arrived in Providence or discus-

sion.

In June 2007, a group o Brown

proessors and administrators

visited CUHK to pursue this rela-

tionship. Assistant Provost ShelleyStephenson, who has a background

in Chinese lm and literature, said

she rst got involved in the project

then.

Ater many talks back and orth,

the original two agreements were

nalized. The rst was an umbrella

agreement covering the basics o

the collaborations between the

two universities, and the second

went into more detail concerning

undergraduate study abroad and

educational opportunities.

The agreements signed last

week oered more detailed inor-

mation concerning study abroadand educational prospects or

graduate students and a new or-

eign language opportunity or those

studying Mandarin.

The Chinese language exchange

program promises to be very ben-

ecial to Brown students, especially

since Mandarin classes have been

in high demand over the last couple

o years, Stephenson said.

Associate Proessor o Histor yKerry Smith was in contact with

Proessor Gladys Tang, chair o the

department or Linguistic and Mod-

ern Languages at CUHK, Smith

told The Herald in an e-mail. The

two discussed bringing graduates

o the departments new masters

program to teach in Browns De-

partment o East Asian Studies.

Students enrolled in Mandarin

language courses will benet both

rom exposure to a highly moti-

vated native speaking instructor

and rom the increased program-

matic capacity a new teacher will

represent, Smith wrote.Smith added that, due to the

increased interest in Mandarin,

the Chinese program at Brown is

understaed.

In addition, Browns sta will

be given the chance to learn new

methods and instructional rame-

works rom the visiting instruc-

tors through team-teaching and

departmental orums, and ongoing

discussions with our counterparts

at CUHK, he wrote.

According to Stephenson, Brown

is hoping to set up other programs

with CUHK in the uture. These

may include a aculty exchange pro-

gram and a summer study abroadprogram. Students rom Brown

and CUHK would spend three to

our weeks in Providence study-

ing a particular eld o interest.

The same group would then go to

CUHK and study the same mate-

rial, Stephenson said.

The relationship between Brown

and CUHK was made possible part-

ly because the universities have a

common donor, according to Ste-

phenson. This donor a Brown

alums amily has had good ex-

periences at both universities and

would like to see them collaborate,

she said.Faculty members were also sup-

portive o this collaboration, she

said, especially o pursuing a gradu-

ate student exchange program.

In the uture, Brown will con-

tinue to pursue relationships with

oreign universities to benet both

students and proessors as it did

with CUHK, Stephenson said.

f k b By dan alexandeR

StaffWriter

It was more than two years ago that

Phillip Jackson, 43, was charged with

simple assault. He was alleged to have

hit a 17-year-old who neighbors said

had yelled racial slurs at Jacksons

young children. But a witness who

saw Jackson conront the teenager

said Jackson didnt touch him.

The charge was dismissed, and

Jackson was never put on trial or

the incident. But because he was on

probation, he was put behind bars

or seven years anyway.

During a screening o the docu-

mentary Stronger Than Their

Walls in List 120 last night, just over

25 students watched lm o Jackson

saying that he was a changed man

rom when he committed the crime

that more than 20 years ago

put him in jail in the rst place and,

later, on probation. He said he has

become more responsible since he

became a ather.

But because o a law that allows

judges to send people to jail or vio-

lating probation i they are charged

with a new crime, Jackson sees his

children under twice a week now,

them up to code.

Brown has notied the two pro-

spective buyers that a decision has

been delayed until May, McCormick

said, and the parties were under-

standing.

Everybody understands, given

the economy, its much harder to

move orward, he said.

The University realizes that i the

delay is too long, it will lose its cur-

rent buyers and will have to begin

the process again, McCormick said,

but the Universitys long-term plans

still involve moving the houses at

some point.

Relocating the Urban Environ-

mental Lab another historic

building on Angell Street that was

granted a temporary reprieve by the

Corporations decision is also still

a possibility, he said.

The University would eventually

like to put a large new building in

the place o the two houses and the

UEL, he said, and to relocate the

historic houses to the perimeter o

College Hill.

Were not moving the houses

this summer, but everything else

is still very much up in the air, Mc-

Cormick said.


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CPUS wS Seven ears? For ellin at someone? Phillip Jakson, subjet of the oumentar, Stroner Than Their Walls

even though the assault charge was

ultimately thrown out. Rhode Island

is one o only three states in the na-tion, along with Alabama and South

Dakota, to have such a law.

Four Brown alums working at the

Rhode Island Family Lie Center, a

non-prot organization that works

with and advocates or ex-inmates,

began creating the lm about a year

ago.

I thought that the documentary

would be the best way to bring the

pretty compelling ideology o the

problem to people who were more

distant rom the issue, said Nick

Horton 04, a policy researcher at

the Family Lie Center.

Julia Liu 06, Jon Mahone 99 andKeith Heyward 07 all worked on the

lm with Horton.

According to Horton, who is also

a co-producer and co-director o the

lm, one in every 26 Rhode Islanders

is on probation.

Huge parts o communities are on

probation, so that combined with the

very low standards or re-sentencing

someone, is kind o a perect storm

or creating due process violations,he said.

In addition to Jacksons and other

personal accounts, the lm details

eorts, led by State Representative

David Segal, D-Dist. 2, and the Fam-

ily Lie Center, to advance legislation

called the Justice and Innocence

Bill, which would take away judges

ability to put people on probation in

jail without a new conviction.

In Rhode Island, when people on

probation are charged with a crime,

they are given two options: to plead

no contest and accept a deal that

could put them behind bars or to have

a hearing, the lm explains.Jackson, who is the lms central

gure, maintained his innocence and

reused to accept a deal that would

have put him behind bars or two

years. He opted or a judges hear-

ing instead.

But under state law, a judge does

not need to nd guilt beyond a reason-

able doubt to put someone on proba-

tion back in jail. The law only requires

the judge be reasonably satisedthat the deendant violated his or her

pledge to preserve the peace and

be o good behavior, according to

the lm.

Its very rare that a judge will rule

in avor o the person on probation, a

public deender named John Hardi-

man says in the lm. Its like driving

a bike up a mountain. Its really hard

to overcome.

Jackson didnt win his hearing,

and the judge sent him back to prison

or seven more years.

Seven years. For yelling at some-

one? Jackson said.

Jacksons complaints are echoedby two others sent to jail by the

law whose stories the lm high-

lights.

The lm also chronicles the road-

blocks Segals and the Family Lie

Centers bill has aced. One o its

strongest opponents is State Attorney

General Patrick Lynch 87.

During June 2008 State Senate

hearings that are shown in the lm,

a member o Lynchs oce arguedthat someone on probation can still

be a danger and can still be sent

to jail even i he or she is not ound

guilty o an additional crime.

Probation violations arent based

on the new charge, theyre based on

the old charge, L ynchs representa-

tive said at the hearing.

Lynchs oice could not be

reached or comment.

In the organizations rst try two

years ago, the bill passed the General

Assembly but not the Senate. Last

year, it passed both houses, but Gov.

Donald Carcieri 65 vetoed it.

Segal, who attended the screen-ing, told The Herald aterward that he

is condent the bill he sponsored will

become a law this year. But he said

it is largely dependent on whether

the bill can pass early in session, so

that the legislature will have enough

time to override Carcieris expected

veto.

According to Segal, the speaker

o the house and committee leaders

said they would discuss the bill earlyin the legislative year.

In the meantime, Segal and Hor-

ton are trying to garner support rom

the public. Horton said the documen-

tary had been screened seven times

beore last night, and he thought

Brown would be a good place or an

eighth screening.

Brown students are really inter-

ested in criminal justice and prison

reorm issues, he said.

Scott Turcotte 11 signed up or

the Family Lie Centers mailing list

ater the screening and said he would

like to go down to the State House to

support the bill.I thought it was really tragic,

Turcotte said. Id love to get in-

volved.

Until the bill passes or until his

seven years are up Jackson will

remain in prison.


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brwr.m/r

o the top quark, and the anti-top

quark in 1995.DZero and the CDF have been

studying the top quarks properties

and production mode ever since,

Narain said, adding that this months

discovery is like a dream come true

ater 14 years o experimentation.

Particle physics is just a very ex-

citing time right now, said Monica

Pangilinan GS, a Brown Ph.D. student

who is currently on site at Fermilab

conducting research. Were closing

in on this window o where the Higgs

should be, i it exists.

Pangilinan, who is writing her the-

sis on the observation o this rare

production mode o the single topquark, has been closely involved in

both the observation and the analy-

sis taking place at the Tevatron,

Narain said.

Pangilinan and the rest o the DZe-

ro physicists had to analyze billions

o collisions in order to nd just hun-

dreds that matched the production

modes or which they were looking.

As part o the analysis, Pangilinan

developed this technique to extract

a very small signal rom a huge back-

ground Narain said.

The Tevatron res protons and

anti-protons at each other every 396

nanoseconds, but industry cant sup-

port keeping data about each colli-sion as there is not enough computer

space, Narain said.

One o Pangilinans hardest

jobs has been helping to determine

which collisions are interesting to

the researchers and which to ignore,

Narain added.

The analysis would have taken

about 1.5 million days i it had run on

a single computer, Pangilinan said,

adding that the weeks leading up to

the publication were very intense.

Still, neither Narain nor Pangilinan

have any intention o stopping now.

They are hoping to work with the

Large Hadron Collider, located onthe Switzerald-France border, which

is scheduled to resume operations

this all and one o whose primary

purposes will be to isolate the elusive

Higgs boson.

I think Id like to look or the

Higgs, Pangilinan said.

I personally think theres some-

thing beyond the Higgs, Narain,

said, adding that something new

has to show up with energies as

high as those at the Large Hardron

Collider.

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By luisa RoBledo

StaffWriter

San Juan College has ound a new

way to keep students rom dozing

o while learning make them one

minute long.

The small Farmington, N.M.

community college is pioneering

the or-credit use o what they call

micro-lectures, extremely short

videos that distill a topic into its most

undamental ideas. The online lec-

tures are used in conjunction with

assignments and individual projects

that allow students to become moreactive learners and discover topics

on their own.

Learners dont want to be drawn

into a long lecture, said Michelle

Meeks, an adjunct aculty member

at San Juan. It allows me to be more

succinct in my teaching.

Meeks teaches an online class

on academic reading. She prepares

a micro-lecture on a dierent topic

each week, condensing what would

normally be an hour and a hal o

material into about 60 seconds.

Each lecture begins with an

overview o the topic. Meeks then

presents students with a list o keyterms they are expected to learn

on their own.

I encourage them to go orward

and Google these terms, see what

they can nd and come back and

complete the exercise, she said.

Meeks concludes her lectures

by recommending strategies or stu-

dents to continue learning the topics.

She includes two discussion ques-

tions with each lecture, and studentsmust oten conduct outside research

to respond.

One o the beneits o micro-

lectures is that students can watch

the lecture three or our times,

Meeks said.

Richard Fiske, one o Meeks

students, wrote in an e-mail to The

Herald that the reading class was his

rst class to use micro-lecture. But,

so ar, Meeks has done a good job

implementing the new technique,

he wrote.

Its kind o a great jump start,

Fiske wrote in his e-mail, but a little

more would be nice.

According to Meeks, gettingcaught up in the one-minute limit is

not a good idea. But three minutes

is usually more than enough to get

her point across, she said.

The micro-lectures give you all

the inormation you need to know,

Shannon Boettler, another o Meeks

students, wrote in an e-mail to The

Herald. But theyre short enough

that it is easy to stay ocused and pay

attention the whole time.

Boettler, who works and partici-

pates in a community theater in addi-

tion to taking online and classroom-

based courses, described hersel as

a busy girl. Micro-lectures havemade lie easier, she wrote.

Meeks is not the only aculty

member in San Juan who uses micro-

lectures. Chris Baade, an assistant

proessor o mathematics at San Juan,

is in the process o creating them

or her beginning and intermediate

med schools quesion dug copany iesBy alexandRa ulMeR

StaffWriter

Medical students at both Harvardand Brown are concerned about

the ethical implications o current

policies regarding the institutional

infuence o the pharmaceutical

industry. Since Harvard Medical

School received a grade o F in the

American Medical Student Asso-

ciations report on aculty confict

o interest last October, a group

o students and aculty has mobi-

lized to challenge the universitys

policy on ties to prescription drug

companies, the New York Times

reported March 2.

Harvard Medical School is one

o many schools acing this prob-lem, and, as o now, the university

is not adequately addressing it,

said Arnold Relman, proessor

emeritus at Harvard Med.

Medicine should serve pub-

lic interest and not corporate in-

terest, said Relman, the ormer

editor o the New England Journal

o Medicine.

Under Harvards current policy,

aculty members must disclose to

students which drug companies, iany, employ them or consulting

and research. But Relman said it

is unethical or proessors to ac-

cept payment or their services to

outside corporations.

I dont consider industry to

be evil theyre not Satan, Rel-

man said. But they have dierent

imperatives. Were talking about

millions and millions o dollars.

Proessors employed by dr ug

companies may have an incentive

to misrepresent medications,

Relman said, possibly leading to

misinormed doctors who pre-

scribe unnecessary treatments.In the long term, this may lead to

increased health care costs and a

loss o public condence.

Ali Qureshi, vice president o

Harvard Medical Schools class

o 2012, said the university is on

par with other medical schools

in terms o its confict o interest

policies. But, he added, the Stu-

dent Council Advisory Board has

recently created a Confict o In-

terest Representative to increasedialogue about the issue.

Qureshi has never personally

elt the infuence o drug compa-

nies on his studies, he said, and

explained that, by its nature, Har-

vard draws prominent proessors

who are also recruited by major

drug companies. Harvards power

in controlling conficts o interest is

restrained because it does not own

the hospitals where its aculty and

students work, Qureshi added.

But the controversy has cre-

ated a healthy debate on campus,

Qureshi said, adding that while stu-

dent views on the issue varied, allare supportive o having a healthy

confict o interest policy.

Harvard Medical Schools pol-

icy on conficts o interest is quite

strict when compared to other

schools, said David Cameron, as-

Fighing endowen losses, op schools face cusBy ellen cushing

SeniorStaffWriter

Ater reporting double-digit endow-

ment losses during the recession,colleges and universities even

elite ones are outlining specic

strategies or slashing their bud-

gets.

Some schools are bracing them-

selves or even deeper cuts than they

anticipated just months ago.

In a Feb. 24 statement to the

community, Yale President Richard

Levin announced a revised budget

or the university which is project-

ing a 25 percent loss or this scal

year and a 7.5 percent reduction

in the salaries and benets o all non-

aculty sta, up rom a 5 percent re-

duction announced in December.The university plans to lay o as

many as 300 employees, the Yale

Daily News reported March 2.

Levin also called or a 7.5 per-

cent cut in non-salary expenditures,

up rom 5 percent cut and a salary

reeze or university employees mak-

ing over $75,000 a year.

In the statement, Levin explained

that worsening economic conditions

had led administrators to re-evaluate

earlier cost-cutting plans.

The mounting evidence sug-

gesting a prolonged recession hascaused us to recognize that we need

to take a more aggressive approach

to budget reductions or the com-

ing scal year, Levin said in the

statement.

Dartmouth announced last

month that it would be laying o

60 employees and decreasing wages

or another 28. Seventy employees

have already accepted buyouts, and

the university implemented a 10 per-

cent cut and a hiring reeze last all,

according to media and university

reports. A Feb. 9 statement rom

President James Wright announced

a reeze on most salaries and wagesand budget reduction o $72 million

over the next two years.

Cornell President David Skorton

issued a statement on March 6 that

discussed the schools worsening

nancial situation and outlined a

dramatically expanded budget-

reduction strategy.

The size o Cornells required

budget reductions has grown in re-

cent weeks, refecting diminished

investment perormance and other

actors dictated by the realities o

the marketplace, he said.Skortons letter also included a

15 percent cut in endowment spend-

ing this year, with even larger reduc-

tions planned or scal years 2011

and 2012. The university which

is acing a $230 million budget de-

cit also plans to sell up to $500

million in taxable bonds and cut its

budget by $60 million. The letter

announced a voluntary retirement

program, and the Cornell Daily Sun

reported Monday that the school

has laid o 35 employees this s-

cal year so ar, with more layos

expected to come.

Stanord University has also beenorced to make larger sacrices than

previously anticipated. Last week,

Provost John Etchemendy reported

that the university which now es-

timates an endowment loss as high

as 30 percent would be cutting

its budget by $100 million over one

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I This is the Amerian propensit to reue everthin to soun bites. Anries Van dam, professor of omputer siene

algebra classes.

Baade will spend her summer

creating micro-lectures to supple-

ment ace-to-ace interactions with

students. Each lecture will include

both instruction rom Baade and

practice problems.

I students miss class, theyll

have something to view and catchup, Baade said. They can also

view it beore they come to class or

use them to review or placement

exams.

Micro-lectures cannot replace

classroom interaction, Baade said.

Her remedial-level students gener-

ally need a little more assistance.

Micro-lectures are a huge back-up

plan, she said.

Micro-lectures are not new in the

education scene. Ten years ago, the

University o Pennsylvania started

using them to tell students about

interesting bits o research, and

videos were targeted towards stu-

dents interested in pursuing topics

beyond the scope o a course, said

Dennis DeTurck, the dean o the

schools College o Arts and Sci-

ences. Each semester, proessors

would distill inormation to only

the most important acts and create

60-second lectures to be presented

outside the classroom.

Its interesting to see what you

leave out, DeTurck said. Some-

times you have to leave out stu that

makes you sad to leave out.

David Penrose, manager o online

services and the senior instructional

designer at San Juan, said the cur-

rent generation o students was one

o net learners making the online

lectures a good tool or independent

study.

Another idea San Juan administra-

tors had, Penrose said, was to nd

a learning system that would use

smart phones cell phones thathad video and that consumed little

air time.

Hour-long lectures tend to make

learning more passive, Penrose said,

but micro-lectures orce students

to be more specic on what they

are learning. The assignments are

also just as important as the micro-

lectures, he said.

Andries van Dam, a proessor

o computer science at Brown, is

skeptical o micro-lectures. He said

the concepts he addresses in his

class are too complex to reduce to

60 seconds.

This is the American propensity

to reduce everything to sound bites,

van Dam said. But micro-lectures

might be eective as a tool or re-

viewing concepts mastered in class,

he said.

Sandra Tracy, San Juans dean o

the School o Extended Learning,

said micro-lectures have been a suc-

cess. They are being used by multiple

programs at the college, including

the colleges saety program, archae-

ology, English and cultural heritage

classes, she said.

It entices students to learn more

about a topic, Tracy said. And it is

easy or them to get the essential bits

o inormation.


C , 60-

sociate director o public aairs

and media relations at Harvard

Medical School.We require our researchers

to disclose nancial interests,

Cameron said. Depending on

the nature o the disclosure, we

have some very rm boundaries

on what a researcher can and can-

not do.

Harvard Medical School is cur-

rently conducting a comprehensive

policy review, Cameron said. The

lack o language on confict o in-

terests in areas that are specic to

a clinical setting is a ocus o the

review, he said.

Policy is also being revised at

Browns Alpert Medical School,which is aiming to limit all conficts

o interest in teaching, Associate

Dean o Medicine Philip Gruppuso

said, explaining that pharmaceuti-

cal marketing is expected to be

banned on campus under the new

policy. He said the policy will be

implemented beore the end o

the year.

I think it is very clear that

there will be support, or limitingthe intervention o drug companies

at the medical school, Gruppuso

said. More recently, people have

recognized what a problem it has

created at medical schools in gen-

eral, he added.

This policy change will require

all lecturers to disclose their ali-

ation with drug companies at the

start o each semester and aims to

develop curriculum on the infu-

ence o the pharmaceutical indus-

try on medical care, according to

Gruppuso.

The student group Brown

Pharmaceutical Policy TaskForceacted as the catalyst or this

change by submitting recommen-

dations to Dean Gruppuso.

I converted their recommen-

dations into an action plan, Grup-

puso said. We wanted this to be

student-led.

However, Gruppuso added

that, according to a survey result,

Those o us in the administration

are more uniormly concernedthan the population o students,

he said.

Joelle Karlik 08 MD 12, the stu-

dent leader o the Task Force, said

while she thinks this new policy is

a step in the right direction, dis-

closures by lecturers do not erase

infuence on their teaching.

Once money is accepted, there

is that possibility or infuence,

she said.

The administration has been

supportive o student recom-

mendations, Karlik said, but has

ocused more on limiting pharma-

ceutical companies infuence onstudents and less on their infuence

on proessors and hospitals.

Were not going to get rid o

infuence in our education without

removing industry infuence on the

greater community as well.


year, instead o the two-year timerame announced in January.

Princeton is also seeing signicant

reductions to its budget. Administra-

tors plan to cut the schools operating

budget by $82 million in the next scal

year, according to a March 5 article in

the Daily Princetonian. The univer-

sity also plans to borrow $1 billion to

limit spending out o its endowment,

which is projected to decrease by

25 percent.

At the same time, however, Princ-

eton has increased its commitment to

student aid, increasing its nancial aid

budget by $8 million, or 13 percent,

according to the Daily Princetonian

article.

Princeton is not alone in this

regard: In his letter, Levin stressedthat Yale will maintain its nancial aid

programs, and Penn has launched

a number o initiatives aimed at im-

proving aid.

In a letter to the Penn community,

President Amy Gutmann announced

a $17.6 million increase to its nan-

cial aid budget and the universitys

lowest tuition increase in more than

40 years.

With the mounting inancial

stress that many o our students

and amilies are experiencing right

now, we eel a responsibility to relieve

some o their pressure, the state-

ment said.

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BbJkI hate the World Baseball Classic.

Between the inaugural one in 2006

and this years equally lame edition,

Ive watched about 20-25 innings,

tops. That might not be signicant to

Major League

Baseball, which

hopes to use

the WBC to

help grow the

sport, except

that Im a hugebaseball an. I

Im not watch-

ing, who is? I Im not interested, who

is?

Fresh o the 2008 Olympics, where

a United States swimmer and USA

basketball captivated a nation, why

dont Americans seem to care? Even

i Red Sox ans can get past having to

root or Derek Jeter, or Mets ans can

applaud Jimmy Rollins, or Yankee ans

can cheer or David Wright and Dustin

Pedroia, it doesnt seem that anyone

in the States is really into it.

How can any sel-respecting MLB

an take it seriously? The best players

arent allowed to play, because teams(understandably) dont want their mil-

lion-dollar assets getting hurt in games

that are meaningless to the 2009

baseball season.

The stars who do play in the tour-

nament arent even close to playing

at their peak level. With only about

a week o spring training under their

belt by the time the WBC started,

the tournament will be over by the

time most o the participating play-

ers are even close to regular season

orm. Anything can happen in a small

sample size o only nine innings, but

what are the odds that Team USA

would get mercy-ruled, as it did 11-1on Saturday by Puerto Rico, i Jake

w. , k SportS StaffreportS

The womens water polo team went

2-1 in a tripleheader in upstate New

York Saturday to r un its record this

season to 11-5, but they dropped the

conerence opener.

The Bears beat Colorado College,

13-4, and knocked o the New York

Athletic Club, 15-10, or the second

time this season, but they dropped

their Collegiate Water Polo Associa-

tion Northern Division opener to

No. 13 Harwick, 13-10.

Lauren Presant 10 led the waywith 18 goals on the weekend and

was named the CWPA Northern

Division Player o the Week. Ater

notching three goals, three steals, an

assist and an ejection drawn against

Colorado College, she tallied seven

goals, three assists, a steal and an

ejection drawn against NYAC and

exploded against Hartwick or eight

o Browns 10 goals.

Browns day began in Utica, N.Y.

with the victory over Colorado Col-

lege. Sarah Glick 10 matched Pre-

sant with three goals, while Kather-

ine Stanton 11 and Bethany Kwoka

12 added two goals apiece and Rita

Bullwinkel 11 made our steals. Misa

Scharen 12 posted three saves inthree quarters o action.

The Bears then moved on to

Oneonta, N.Y., where they cruised

to victory over NYAC. Glick lled

the stat sheet with our goals, our

assists and ve steals, and Schar-

en made ve saves in her rst

career start.

Notable individual perormanc-

es still shone through in the 13-10

loss to Hartwick. Glick notched two

goals and six assists, while Stanton

chipped in with an assist and three

steals. Goalie Stephanie Laing 10,

playing her rst ull game o the day,

made 15 saves.

The Bears will be busy over

spring break, playing 11 gamesover nine days in Caliornia, includ-

ing the San Diego and Bakerseld

Invitationals.

S B I, SportS StaffreportS

Ater a banner weekend, Brownslacrosse teams cleaned up on the

awards circuit.

On the mens side, goalie Jordan

Burke 09 was named the Ivy League

Player o the Week, New England

Player o the Week and LAXnews

National Collegiate Player o the

Week or making 20 saves in a 9-8

victory over No. 13 UMass-Amherst

on Saturday. Burke, a quad-captain,

made ve saves in the ourth quar-

ter, including three in the nal 27

seconds o the game to repel the

Minutemen.

Burke leads the Ivy League with

12.6 saves per game and stands sec-ond with a .589 save percentage.

Last season, he was named the Ivy

League Player o the Year and select-

ed as a second team All-American.

He is a candidate or the 2009 Lowes

Senior CLASS Award or achieve-

ment both on and o the eld.

Two Bears were named to the

Ivy League Honor Roll. Midelder

Reade Seligmann 09 was recog-

nized or recording his rst career

hat trick against the Minutemen,

and midelder Rob Schlesinger

12 scored the rst two goals o

his career including the game

winner.

For the women, attacker JesseNunn 09 was named the Ivy League

Oensive Player o the Week or

scoring our goals and adding an as-

sist in a 12-8 victory over Harvard on

Saturday. She added three ground

balls, a draw control and caused a

turnover in the Bears rst win over

the Crimson since 2004.

Despite missing the two previous

games due to injury, Nunn leads

the Bears with 10 goals and two as-

sists, our points higher than the

next leading scorer.

Val Sherry 09 made the Ivy

League Honor Roll or her de-

ense. She caused three turnovers a game high and added three

ground balls and a draw control. She

clamped down on Harvards second-

highest scorer, Kaitlin Martin, who

scored her only two goals o the

game on ree position shots.

Two Brown athletes were rec-

ognized or their seasons. Mens

basketball center Matt Mullery 10,

previously announced as a rst team

All-Ivy selection, was named to the

National Association o Basketball

Coaches Division I All-District 13

Second Team.

Mullery blocked 59 shots to set

a single-season school record. His

career total o 115 blocked shots

is second in school history to Alai

Nuualiitias 03 total o 119 estab-

lished in 2003.

Mullery placed among the league

leaders in several categories this sea-

son. He led the Ivy League in eld

goal percentage with .606, nished

ourth in both scoring, and rebound-

ing, with 16.1 per game and 6.5 per

game, respectively, 15th in assists

with 2.0 per game and seventh in

minutes, with 33.1 per game.

Deenseman Je Buvinow 12

was named to the ECAC Hockey All-

Rookie team. He had already been

named to the All-Ivy Second Team

ater posting three goals and 14 as-

sists to nish second on the team

in scoring. His 17 points were the

third-highest total in school history

or a reshman deenseman.

er r rr r

The equestrian team

won b six points at John-

son an Wales in Rehoboth,

Mass., in its reular season

finale on Satura.

The Bears won their re-

ion b 36 points to linh

a trip to the Zone 1 cham-

pionship, while Liz giliberti

10 seale her season-lon

pursuit of the cahionecup. As the top rier in her

reion, she has earne a

trip to Nationals.

giliberti an Elise Fishel-

son 11 eah plae seon

in their respetive lasses

of the Open Fenes, while

Kat En 11 won the Nov-

ie Fenes.

giliberti ae a vitor

in the Open Flat. dakota

gruener 11 an Leona

Rosenblum 09 plae first

an seon, respetivel,

in their lasses of the In-

termeiate Flat, while En

pinne first in the Novie

Flat.

cate Berer 11 an

Rebea e Sa 09 both

took blue ribbons in their

respetive lasses of the

Walk Trot ivision.

The Bears will travel

to the Msti Valle Hunt

club, connetiut collees

home base, in glaes

Ferr, conn., for the Re-

ion 1 championship on

Marh 28.

Sports Staff Reports

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Peavy is throwing the ball the way he

does in mid-July?

And what about this double elimi-

nation nonsense? In a game where

randomness rules and a team ull o

theoretical minor leaguers would still

win 33 percent o the time, the best

teams ace rst-round exits because

o one bloop single or a bad call.

Yet the 2009 WBC is pulling in

higher ratings, bigger crowds and

more sponsorship dollars than the

2006 tournament. The TV ratings

in Japan or the Japan-Korea game

were higher than the Beijing Olympics

or any sports event since the 2006WBC nals, which eatured Japan

and Cuba. Even in the United States,

a Friday U.S.-Venezuela game was

more watched than the Celtics-Cavs

game on ESPN. Meanwhile, in addi-

tion to higher sponsorship revenue,

the number o sponsors or the WBC

more than doubled at a time when

proessional sports have been losing

sponsors in droves.

This is why i youre a an o base-

ball, you have to be a an o this joke

o a baseball tournament, even i you

dont ever plan on ollowing it. Its hard

to deny that its good or the business

o baseball. As the game grows more

internationally, combined with the

chance or a world-wide amateur drat

in the near uture, its easy to see howthe game itsel could produce more

stars and enhance the quality o play.

Theres even talk o expanding the

tournament rom 16 to 24 teams in

2013, which would expose even more

countries to the game and urther pro-

mote Major League Baseball.

So you can eel good about rooting

against Jeter, Sox ans, and you can be

happy that Pedroia hurt himsel in the

batting cages, Yankee ans, because

with every out Team USA makes, the

greater the chances that a country that

does actually care will win. Unlike the

US, where most people remain oblivi-

ous to the tournaments existence, itwill give other countries a legitimate

source o happiness and pride while

urther promoting a beautiul game

internationally.

World Baseball Classic you are

ar rom classic. Your meaningless

results are like gloried Spring Train-

ing games. I hate you and probably

always will. But as long as you keep

making my avorite sport healthier,

you can stay.

Tom Trueau 09 is bitter

beause two yankees

ot hurt plain in

the 09 WBc alrea.


0: Bb C , By steve yanda

WaShington poSt

The Stanord basketball squad MikeMontgomery oversaw in 2001 was

anchored by two imposing post play-

ers who oten gave the Cardinal a

decisive advantage on the boards

and in hal-court sets. Jason and Jar-

ron Collins 7 eet and 6 eet 11,

respectively led Stanord to the

region nal, where it ell to Mary-

land by 14 points. Montgomery was

known in those days or his ability

to coach big men.

Eight years later, Montgomery

guides a Caliornia team dependent

upon the play o its guards. The

Golden Bears rank No. 1 in the

nation in three-point shooting, andnow Montgomery is heralded or

his ability to coach those who man

the perimeter.

Thats always been his trade-

mark ability, said Eric Reveno, who

was an assistant under Montgomery

or seven seasons at Stanord. ad-

justing his style to the talent that

he has.

Caliornia will play Maryland (20-

13) on Thursday in the rst round

o the NCAA tournament in Kansas

City, Mo. The Terrapins are an in-

teresting matchup or the Golden

Bears, Montgomery said, because

o the teams similarities.

Out o necessity, Caliornia (22-

10) operates a guard-oriented lineup

that preers to score in transition.

But whereas Maryland is adept at

creating its transition opportunitiesvia high-pressure deensive schemes

that produce turnovers, the Golden

Bears are more risk-averse.

They want to get the ball back,

but theyre willing to be patient

and disciplined, said Reveno, now

the head coach at Portland, which

lost to Caliornia by 20 on Dec. 28.

The risk, or them, is not worth it.

Theyre not out there trapping or

anything like that. Theyll orce you

to miss and then spread the foor

ater a rebound.

Those responsibilities to orce

the miss, to grab the rebound and

then to spread the foor all on theshoulders o a trio o guards vital to

Caliornias success. Jerome Randle,

a hyperactive 5-10 point guard, or-

chestrates the urious runs. Though

Randle (18.4 points per game) can-

not always shake his shoot-rst

instinct, Montgomery lauded his

improved understanding o how to

get his teammates involved in the

fow o the oense.

Randles 4.9 assists per game

do not overshadow his 46.8 per-

cent three-point shooting, but its a

step toward the type o balance his

coach seeks.

Joined by guards Patrick Chris-

topher and Theo Robertson, Randleheads up the most accurate three-

point shooting team in the countr y.

Caliornia has connected on 43.4

percent o its three-point attempts.

I think thats a little bit o a mis-

nomer, in terms o being the top

three-point shooting team in the

country, Montgomery said. I think

thats statistics. We really got o to

a ast start and our percentage was

way up, almost uncanny, and then

weve kind o come down to earth

a little bit the last hal o the season.

... Were pretty comortable with the

shots that were taking becausethats what we have to take.

The Golden Bears have to rely

on outside shooting because their

interior presence, Montgomery said,

leaves much to be desired. Its not

that Caliornia lacks size starting

center Jordan Wilkes stands 7 eet

its that those big bodies have not

yet realized their potential.

Reveno said Wilkes is not very

physical and that Caliornias inside

presence comes, instead, rom 6-8

orward Jamal Boykin.

They dont have a real dominant

guy inside, Reveno said, but they

nd ways to get around it.Much as Maryland does, Cali-

ornia compensates by asking its

guards to venture into the post or

rebounds. Christopher (6-5) and

Robertson (6-6) each average 3.8

boards per game, nearly as many

as Wilkes (4.0).

Montgomery, who is in his rst

season at Caliornia, returned to

college basketball ater a our-year

hiatus, two o which were spent

coaching the NBAs Golden State

Warriors. He said he didnt neces-

sarily miss coaching at the collegiate

level, but the time o might have

provided broader perspective.

He understands that hell have tokeep adapting his style, keep nding

ways around his teams deciencies,

or at least a little while longer.

He just wants a solid and bal-

anced team, Reveno said. Its not

like he wants to be small and ath-

letic or big across the board and

walking it up the court. His style

o play is just like his personality

nothing extreme, just solid and

undamental.

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Recent developments at the Watson Institute or International A airs have

worried some corners o the Brown community. In an eort to strengthen

Watsons global governance expertise, interim director and Vice Presidentor International Aairs David Kennedy 76 has brought in scholars whose

primary academic ocus is law. Some proessors suspect that Kennedy is

launching a ull-scale legal studies program on the sly, particularly ater hear-

ing o an abandoned campaign to enable Watson to give tenure independently.

Such a program, say the critics, would run the risk o devoting considerable

University resources to a bevy o lawyers whose talents and training are bet-

ter suited to practice or law-school teaching, and who might view a university

post as a sinecure to help them avoid competing with Americas glut o legal

proessionals.

These are legitimate concerns. But so ar, Kennedys recruitment decisions

have been sound. The lawyers he has brought on board are also accomplished

scholars who will enhance Watsons ability to study international issues heavily

infuenced by legal thought and structures. Furthermore, Brown shouldnt

be araid to increase the legal experience o its aculty in other areas. The law

is a crucial element o any social science, helping students and proessors to

better grasp its interaction with societys many acets and injecting a doseo practicality into the oten-airy realms o ivory tower contemplation. Even

burgeoning scientists will benet rom basic knowledge o patent law and

other subjects, whether they spend their careers in the private sector or in

medical academia. And, o course, lawyerly proessors are a particular boon

to uture law students.

When it has weathered the current nancial storm, the University should

seriously consider ampliying these advantages and expanding its infuence

by ounding a law school. The Universitys charter obliquely discourages but

does not orbid such proessional schools, and the medical school has already

broken down that barrier. And compared to this latter institution, revived in

1975 and now one o the Universitys nest assets, a law school would not be

capital-intensive. I the time comes or Brown to take that step, departmental

legal studies programs could help pave the way or the new institution. Until

then, however, legal scholarship should be the preserve o a smattering o

proessors across various disciplines. Kennedy can be proud o what he has

done or Watson and Brown, but he and his successors must be wary o

giving momentum to what should be an auxiliary element o Browns socialsciences beore plans are in place to ulll the lawyers potential as proessors

in Browns next great institution.

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Many infuential gures have their own

dirty laundry. And both John Edwards and

John Yoo certainly have theirs.

This may sound like the beginning o a

juicy gossip column, and both gures have

a questionable past; Edwards cheated on his

wie and Yoo was the author o the Bush ad-

ministrations memos justiying torture. So

why did Brown students treat them so di-

erently when they came to lecture here?

As the day o Edwards speech ap-

proached, jokes pertaining to his person-al lie became all too common among stu-

dents. I wondered i anyone would actually

have the audacity to ask him a direct ques-

tion about his extramarital aair.

Though it seemed unlikely that this

would happen, I couldnt help but think o

Yoos February visit to speak at a Janus Fo-

rum debate called, Are There Universal

Human Rights?

I, or one, ound Yoos speech intellectu-

ally stimulating. In it, he addressed some o

the controversial ideas that made him so un-

popular. I didnt agree with them. But then,

I didnt have to. I was simply exposed to a

new set o ideas that orced me to consider

a point o view dierent rom my own, and

thats what being open-minded is about.It was a pity then that during the ques-

tion-and-answer session, a student asked Yoo a question that seemed needlessly

graphic, and not or the purpose o accura-

cy, but or the purpose o humiliating Yoo

in public. It wasnt wrong that the student

asked the question that he did, but he didnt

have to phrase it in a way that was so bla-

tantly rude.

Furthermore, as Yoo tried to answer the

question, he was constantly cut o by the

student. Nobody gained anything rom that

particular incident, least o all Browns im-

age as an open-minded community.

Thereore, it was surprising, in a good

way, that things went relatively smooth-

ly when Edwards visited Brown. The only

time that his extramarital aair was alluded

to was when a student asked him i he elt

the public should judge politicans according

to a more rigorous moral standard than thegeneral public is held to.

This question was ar less explicit thanthe one that Yoo had been asked, which is

an indicator o the dierence in the way that

the two were regarded. Though it is true that

what Edwards was asked about pertained to

his personal decisions, as compared to Yoo,

who was questioned over his public ones,

both incidents are in some way connected

to the moral standards that we expect our

leaders to uphold.

Moreover, even though Edwards speech

on the need to eradicate poverty wasnt

shockingly new or even contestable, he

was regularly applauded and generally treated

much better than the more controversial Yoo.

For Brown students, Edwards is some-

one who represents our ideals. He spoke

about things we already knew, believed in

and are convinced o. And we simply ap-

plauded him when he did.Yoo, on the other hand, attempted some-

thing ar more daunting. He stood in an au-ditorium ull o people who did not agree

with his ideas. He tried to show them a di-

erent point o view, and to convince them o

the reasons behind some o his policies.

Moreover, at the end o the day, Yoo is a

highly accomplished and extremely impor-

tant gure with a set o viewpoints that we

dont hear very oten at New England univ-

erities. I in the uture he is invited to Brown

and he decides he does not want to come

again because o the way he was treated last

time, it will be our loss and not his.

It has been noted by many beore that

or all their liberalism and openness, Brown

students are somewhat infexible about

their opinions and ideals. They could acceptEdwards as a guest because he represented

a set o principles that is upheld by the ma-

jority, but not Yoo because he didnt.

But, i we are to perpetuate the broad-

mindedness o this university, we cant

scare away everyone that we disagree with.

In act, we need to oster an environment

where speakers eel comortable express-

ing new and dierent ideas. This is required

not only or the sake o Browns reputation

and image, but also to prevent the commu-

nitys intellectual stagnation.

Fatima Aqeel 12 is a first-ear from Ka-

rahi, Pakistan. She an be reahe [email protected]

k

We all know that Browns nancial prob-

lems will necessitate certain changes in the

uture. How these changes will take shape

is less apparent. I recent news is any indi-

cation, however, the University will trim the

budget with sta reductions. As noted in a re-

cent article (Attrition, layos to cut 60 posi-

tions, March 6), the University needs to cut

spending by up to $90 million over the next

ve years in order to achieve a balanced bud-

get by 2014. With these sobering gures in

mind, the University has already begun to cut

jobs, removing upwards o 30 unlled posi-

tions and laying o almost as many personnel

or a total loss o 60 sta positions.

Top administrators have expressedtheir reluctance to make cuts in three cat-

egories quality o lie, education and -

nancial aid. As Ruth Simmons wrote in her

Remarks on the Current Financial Envi-

ronment: Browns principal purpose is to

ocus on its academic and research mission

and we must continue to do so in this peri-

od we will maintain a strong commitment

to support the continued matriculation o

students. For this reason, the Universi-

ty will not decrease the size o the aculty.

Aside rom the need to produce satised

alums who are willing to donate to Brown

later in lie, the University must continue

to attract students o the caliber it has been

able to in the past. And to continue to at-

tract these students, it must rst make the

school seem desirable to them, and secondmake it possible or them to aord to come

here. As such, it is reasonable to expect,

and consistent with the Universitys stated

plan, that short-term budget cuts will come

at the expense o the sta.

Its dicult to imagine that many Brown

students are in avor o investing less in any

o the three categories unless absolutely

necessary, particularly i it means ring

sta. We should begrudgingly support the

elimination sta jobs insoar as it is criti-

cal to meeting budgetary constraints while

maintaining quality o lie, etc. When Ruth

Simmons told the Undergraduate Council o

Students that sta cuts were coming, there

were no reports o students protesting. And

while I am ully in this camp, I think it is im-

portant to consider sta cuts in the larger

context o Rhode Island.

The Ocean State is in the second worst

economic shape in the country, according

to a recent article in the New York Times.

Rhode Islands small size may be the culpritin most o its problems. By contrast, Michi-

gan, the worst-o state, has the auto indus-

try to blame. Unortunately or Rhode Is-

land, bailing out a car company is (long-term

concerns or the auto industry aside) much

easier than expanding a states borders.

Symptoms o the Rhode Islands econom-

ic collapse are a massive budget decit re la-

tive to its modest population and the second

highest unemployment rate in the nation.

Because o Lil Rhodys littleness, Brown is

one o the states largest employers. And with

only about 700 ull-time aculty, its clear that

most o those jobs are sta positions.

As a result, Browns plummeting endow-

ment aects not only quality o lie, edu-

cation and nancial aid or students, but

also job security or a signicant portion o

Rhode Islands working population. Its pos-

sible that Brown may eventually have to lay

o many o its sta. Fortunately, we have

not yet reached that point.

Given Rhode Islands current situationand Browns local infuence, massive sta

layos could be very damaging to the state

as a whole. Laid-o Brown sta might not

be able to nd jobs in their home state,

pushing the unemployment rate up rom

10 percent. Layos would likely reduce the

states tax base, increase its unemployment

payouts and thereby infate the budget de-

cit. Despite Rhode Islands improvement in

recent years, its situation seems precarious

right now; it could easily enter a process o

terminal decline.

At this point, however, I would like to

reconsider Browns priorities. I, like most

other Brown students, am not rom Rhode

Island. Many o us come to Brown in or-

der to be at Brown, and not in order to bein Providence or Rhode Island. We spend

our our years here and then, or the most

part, we leave; we orm no permanent con-

nections to the state, nor do we particular-

ly care about its uture. Although this is a

somewhat sel-centered view, what really

matters is our experience at Brown, a no-

tion that the University itsel reinorces.

Will Allen 12 is from Berkele,

california. He an be reahe at

[email protected]

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It is reasonable to expet, an onsistent with the

Universits state plan, that short-term buet

uts will ome at the expense of the staff.

Even thouh Ewars speeh on the nee to

eraiate povert wasnt shokinl new or even

ontestable, he was reularl applaue an

enerall treate muh better than the

more ontroversial yoo.

By FATIMA AQEEL

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