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vol. cxliv, no. 68 | Monday, September 21, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891

Med School awaits move in 2011by MonIque vernon

Staff Writer

The Alpert Medical School is set to move into a new home and implement a novel “academy” system for first- and second-year students in August 2011, administrators said last week.

This coming March, the Univer-sity will begin renovating a former factory at 222 Richmond Street in Providence’s Jewelry District into a brand-new medical education build-ing. “This will, for the first time, give the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University a defined space,” said Edward Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences. “We are go-ing to create the new strength of Providence in education, health care and research.”

In concert with the physical move, the Med School will divide students in the first two years into three acad-emies or groups, each with a specific study space and senior doctors as advisors.

Those divisions “will be their so-cial groups for the first and second year,” Wing said.

Acquired by Brown a few years ago, the building near Rhode Island Hospital and other University-owned research buildings will provide park-ing and adequate space for students and faculty, Wing said. The building will also have a cafe open to the pub-lic, a new first-floor entryway, audi-toriums and seminar and case-study rooms. It will house an anatomy suite with natural lighting, showers and areas for clinical diagnosis.

The building will additionally house a new fitness center and Med School administrative offices, currently located in Arnold Labora-tory.

The complete renovation, includ-ing a small addition to the building’s front, will cost about $45 million, said Vice President for Facilities Manage-ment Stephen Maiorisi. A portion of the funding will come from the $100 million gift of the Alpert Foundation in 2007, said Dick Spies, executive vice president for planning and senior adviser to President Ruth Simmons. The Plan for Academic Enrichment calls for an additional fundraising goal of $20 million.

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Fewest students in years choose to study abroadby anne sIMons

Senior Staff Writer

The number of students studying abroad this semester or the last hit the lowest levels in at least a decade, according to data provided by Uni-versity Registrar Michael Pesta.

This fall, just 199 undergradu-ates are abroad, down from 220 last fall — the fewest for a fall semester since at least 1999, the earliest date for which numbers were available. Last spring, the number of students abroad, 268, was down from 366 in spring 2008. That was the small-est number of students abroad in a spring semester since at least 1999.

Kendall Brostuen, director of the Office of International Programs, said the decrease in students study-ing abroad could be attributed to the economic downturn in the last year. “The fact that we were able

to maintain (enrollment) is a very positive thing,” he said. “It would not be surprising to have the number considerably drop.”

Brostuen cited a recent survey by the Forum on Education Abroad that reported that 58 percent of pri-vate U.S. colleges and universities had experienced a drop in participa-tion in their study abroad programs due to the economy.

The data provided by the reg-istrar’s office, which describe the enrollment of undergradu-ates over the last decade in both Brown-sponsored and “approved alternate” study abroad programs, also show that the proportion of stu-dents choosing Brown-sponsored programs has not changed signifi-cantly since a new policy took effect for students who matriculated in fall 2006 or later.

overachievers? Maybe. Busy? You bet they are.by Matthew Klebanoff

Senior Staff Writer

For about one in five students at Brown, one concentration isn’t enough. And for a very small minority on campus, even two concentrations don’t cut it.

About 12 triple concentrators graduated last spring, according to Deputy Dean of the College Ste-phen Lassonde. He said that num-

ber remains relatively stable from year to year.

The absence of requirements in Brown’s curriculum permits students to triple concentrate in

diverse fields — but some wonder if doing so is antithetical to the

spirit of the open curriculum.Jeremy Goodman ’10 is one

triple concentrator whose interests

Kim Perley / HeraldThe Alpert Medical School will move into its new Jewelry District home once a $45 million renovation is complete.

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Kim Perley / HeraldA handmade bass guitar offered by a vendor at Saturday’s Maker Faire downtown, featuring artisans’ work.

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whitehouse makes visit to U. labs, meets with adminsby MIchael sKocpol

Deputy Managing eDitor

Rhode Island’s junior senator took a break from the health care de-bate on Capitol Hill Friday to learn a little more about where future medical breakthroughs may come from.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat elected in 2006, visited campus for about two hours Fri-day afternoon to view research fa-cilities hold closed-door meetings with deans and researchers.

His agenda included a tour of research facilities in the $100 mil-lion Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sci-ences, which opened in 2006, and a talk about climate change with two of the top climate researchers

on Brown’s faculty, according to an agenda released by the Uni-versity.

He also met for about half an hour with Dean of Medicine Ed-ward Wing, Vice President for Re-search Clyde Briant and Director of Governmental Relations Tim Leshan.

Whitehouse’s visit also includ-ed a tour of Associate Professor of Medical Science Tricia Serio’s lab.

Serio, who studies the prion proteins that are responsible for diseases like Mad Cow, planned to tell Whitehouse about the “difficul-ty of obtaining research funding,” according to the agenda released by the University.

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MONDAy, SEPTEMBER 21, 2009THE BROwN DAILy HERALDPAgE 2

CaMpUS newS “I saw college as an occasion to specialize, so that’s what I did.”— Teodor Moldovan ’09, triple concentrator

Under the new policy, students going abroad must pay full Brown tuition whether they choose a Uni-versity-sponsored program or not. Previously, students had the option of shopping around for a less expensive, alternative program if they chose to do so.

Despite the change, the propor-tion of students in Brown-sponsored and alternate programs remains roughly half and half, with 51 percent choosing alternative programs this semester. That balance has remained true historically over the period mea-sured by the registrar’s data.

Students who matriculated before the fall 2006 semester paid Brown

tuition for study abroad programs run by Brown. For programs run by other institutions, they paid only what that program asked, which could be more or less than Brown tuition, as well as a “study abroad fee” of about $1,800 to the University.

While some students complained about the policy change around the time it was implemented, it does not seem to have affected students’ deci-sions on what kind of program they choose.

“If the Corporation’s approval of a revised fee structure were a primary factor, one would assume that these decreases would be prevalent in ap-proved programs but not necessar-ily in Brown programs. This has not been the case,” Brostuen added in an e-mail to The Herald.

Brostuen said the motivation for the policy change was “an equity is-sue.” OIP advisers were worried that some students chose programs that were not a good fit simply because they were less expensive, he said.

Selection of a study abroad pro-gram should be based primarily on

an “academic criterion,” not cost, he said. “It’s important that all students have access to study abroad.”

Before the policy change, students who chose approved alternate pro-grams had to take a formal leave of absence from the University during that time, which could cause a variety ofproblems, Brostuen said. Under the new policy, students on approved alternate programs remain in contact with Brown, he said.

The policy is also consistent with Brown’s general tuition policy, Bro-stuen said. Students are required to have eight semesters of tuition credit to graduate. Students on approved alternate programs had to seek tuition credit retroactively for that semester, he said.

The OIP has received some stu-dent complaints about the policy and has had to explain the rationale behind it, Brostuen said. The policy and its reasoning is also spelled out on the OIP Web site and in admissions literature, he said.

For students worried they will not be receiving a Brown-quality educa-

tion for their Brown tuition, Brostuen emphasized the careful selection pro-cess for the alternate programs the University approves. Any approved program must have proven it can pro-vide academic rigor and support to its students, he said, adding that Brown wants “quality programs around the world.”

Asked if some students were choosing more prestigious programs or universities abroad to get a better bang for their buck, Brostuen said, “My sense is that hasn’t been the case.”

Terry Kho ’12 said she thought it was “kind of silly” that a student would have to pay full Brown tuition for a school that might be of lesser quality. The cost and uncertainty of the program “kind of make you want to stay at Brown,” she said.

Carolyn Crisp ’12, who plans to study abroad, said cost would not be a deciding factor for her. “I’m more concerned about the experience,” she said, adding that she would not choose an inferior program just be-cause it was cheaper.

span several divergent disciplines. Initially, Goodman declared a dou-

ble concentration in cognitive neu-roscience and philosophy. It wasn’t until the winter of his junior year that he declared his third concentration, physics.

Goodman said he chose to major in physics after discovering that he had already fulfilled all but two re-quired courses for the concentration through his college coursework and advanced math and science classes in high school.

To fulfill all his academic require-ments and graduate in four years, Goodman packed his schedule with five classes each semester. Despite the heavy course load, he is studying abroad in London this semester.

Unlike Goodman, who used his three concentrations to pursue in-terests across the humanities and sciences, Teodor Moldovan ’09 took on three concentrations to provide himself with a highly-focused edu-cation.

“I come from Romania, where the high school is really supposed to be about breadth,” said Moldovan, who concentrated in computer science, mathematics and physics. “I saw col-lege as an occasion to specialize, so that’s what I did.”

His concentrations required him to take about 28 courses — leaving Moldovan, who took a standard load of four courses a semester, with little time in his schedule for classes out-side his concentrations. Moldovan took two French language classes, but other than that, his time at Brown was packed mainly with math and science classes.

Moldovan said he wasn’t planning on declaring three concentrations when he arrived at Brown — he only decided to pursue computer science in addition to physics after taking

an introductory course in computer vision, the study of machines that recognize images and motion.

Moldovan said his concentration in math was a “byproduct” of the courses he had already taken. By the end of his junior year, he had already taken so many math courses as part of his computer science and physics concentrations that he needed to take only a few more to declare a third concentration.

Now that Moldovan has gradu-ated, he is a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he works in a field of computer science that investigates how ma-chines learn and use information to make decisions. Though Moldovan said he would have been more pre-pared for his current graduate work if he had focused solely on computer science in his undergraduate stud-ies, he thinks his triple concentration gave him an advantage over other candidates when he applied to Ph.D. programs.

“The kind of computer science I did at Brown was mostly computer vision. Machine learning is a separate topic,” Moldovan said. “I guess they accepted me even though I had no solid background in machine learn-ing because they saw a solid back-ground in mathematics.”

In some cases, triple concentrat-ing could be an effective way for students to achieve both breadth and depth in their studies, two fun-damental goals of a Brown education, Lassonde said.

Lassonde said he disapproves of students declaring multiple concen-trations based solely on the number of concentration requirements they have already completed.

“Some people who double-con-centrate or triple-concentrate look at the courses they’ve taken and say, ‘Hey, I’ve almost got a second concen-tration here,’ or, I should say, ‘three

concentrations,’” he said. “In that way, it’s almost like bingo. Just one more letter, and I can win.”

Lassonde said he approves of triple concentrators as long as their academic ambition represent the end result of a “thoughtful process.”

The University does not require students to attain any special permis-sion to triple concentrate, Lassonde said. Students declare second and third concentrations in the same way they would declare a single concen-tration — by filing petitions with both the Office of the Dean and the Office of the Registrar.

Advising for triple concentrators is also similar to advising for students with one or two concentrations. Ac-cording to Lassonde, triple concentra-tors receive advisers in three depart-ments. The advisers are not required to communicate with one another. For Goodman and Moldovan, hav-ing three different advisers wasn’t a problem, and both said they were able to receive whatever help they needed.

Some students’ qualms about triple concentrating may not be about advising or administrative is-sues, though. More than anything, students fear that having three con-centrations would prevent them from fully taking advantage of the open curriculum.

Last year, Phil Arevalo ’11 planned to triple concentrate in biology, math-ematics and classics. Now, he has decided on applied math-biology as his only concentration, a choice that he said reflects his goal of becoming a professor of biology.

Arevalo said he also chose to declare only one concentration to take some courses in a wider range of subjects. “The point of the open curriculum is that you can do that.”

He admits, though, that he still considers declaring classics — fulfill-ing a second concentration, at least.

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“I’ve got it at 91 percent that Obama will get something through.”— Professor James Morone, on health-care reform

prof offers advice for obama on health careby Kyla wIlKes

Senior Staff Writer

If he wants to successfully pass health-care reform, President Obama should move quickly and disregard his economic advisers, says Pro-fessor of Political Science James Morone in his recent book on past presidents and their attempts to re-form the system.

The release of Morone’s book — which he co-authored with Har-vard professor and Obama adviser David Blumenthal — could hardly be more timely. In “The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office,” the authors look at at-tempts at reform by each president since Franklin Roosevelt and explain why most of them failed. The retro-spective ends with lessons Obama and future presidents should learn from past efforts.

Since the release of the book in June, Morone has done interviews with several news organizations in-cluding CBS and National Public Radio. He and Blumenthal were also mentioned in a recent article in the New York Times.

Morone teaches the popular class POLS 0220: “City Politics”, and has extensive background in health-care policy. In fact, Morone said, he and Blumenthal foresaw the current con-troversial push for health care now dominating national politics.

“We had a sense that a Democrat was going to be elected (president), and we had a sense that the health-care crisis was going to come to the fore,” Morone said.

Based on their predictions, the authors came up with the idea for the book three years ago and timed its publication with the start of the new administration. Morone knew the book would be relevant, he said, but he still “didn’t expect it to hit quite this hard.”

After Morone and Blumenthal flooded the White House with copies of “Heart of Power,” Blumenthal was told Obama had been seen read-ing the book at Camp David. But Morone said it was “just rumor and inside stuff.”

The first lesson Obama should take from the book is the need to act fast, Morone said. He cited President Lyndon Johnson, known for working

well with Congress, as saying with regard to health-care reform, “Every day I lose some power.”

Morone said Obama must also brace himself for spectacular op-position. The president must rally his base as he did with his televised speech to Congress earlier this month, Morone said.

Morone’s final piece of advice to Obama is to “tell the economists to hush.” Medicare never would have passed under Johnson if the correct cost estimates had been available, according to Morone.

The advice to quiet inner-circle economic advisers has become the most controversial part of the book, Morone said, igniting a “media storm.” Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich called it the “most pro-vocative” part of the book, in a Sept. 6 review in the New York Times.

Wendy Schiller, an associate professor of political science who teaches POLS 1130: “The American Presidency,” said she does not think there is an impetus for Obama to move quickly. She said Obama can-not accomplish all his policy goals at once and must “take incremental steps.”

“He’s got a bigger agenda,” she said. “He’s got the economy and two wars. Health care is one of the a few major policy spheres that policy is active in. He’s balancing more major policy initiatives than Clinton did, so he’s less likely to suffer as much as Clinton.”

Because the administration is dealing with a plethora of issues, a failure in this one policy area would not be too crushing, Schiller added.

Schiller did not agree that past presidents have failed at health-care reform — saying only Clinton was damaged by his attempt to push a health-care bill through Congress. “He’s the only one where the health-care initiative was such a big part of his agenda that it made people think that he wasn’t that success-ful,” she said.

Each of the presidents studied in the book built on past presidential accomplishments, Schiller said, al-lowing for incremental progress.

Morone said he and Blumenthal initially wanted the book to look at the connection between presidents’

personal health and their attempts to pass health reform bills. But after preliminary research, they found no apparent connection.

“No president cares about their own illness,” said Morone. “But they are incredibly moved by the illness of loved ones.”

According to Morone, President Kennedy cared very little for health-care reform until his father had a stroke, when he made it one of his top priorities.

In preparation for the book, Mo-rone and Blumenthal visited every existing presidential library. Their biggest find was tapes of Johnson’s phone calls while in office. John-son was one of the only Democrats successful at health-care reform, Morone said.

Blumenthal declined to comment on the book, citing his government job.

Though media focus may make it seem that only the Democrats are under pressure, in the book Morone says the Republicans, too, could be in trouble.

“Republicans today have not left themselves any kind of wiggle room, so if (the health care bill) passes and proves popular, they’re going to have a problem for a whole generation, and that’s something no one has mentioned,” he said.

According to Morone, there is cause for Republicans to worry. “I’ve got it at 91 percent that Obama will get something through and 53 percent that it will be something significant,” he said, “although, my figures change daily, so check with me again tomorrow.”

eral solutions to the lack of a distinct medical school building, and con-sidering the economic climate, the University decided to renovate the Richmond Street building instead of constructing a new facility, Spies said. The renovated building’s design will be energy-efficient, Maiorisi said.

“The most green thing is the re-use of an old building,” he said. Ener-gy will be harnessed from the friction generated by the elevators, and 70 percent of the building’s surface will have new windows, he added.

At night, “it will be a beacon that

is seen all over the city ... a marker, a keystone in the area of medical education,” Wing said, noting that the relocated building will provide more jobs to the city. A few years ago, the Medical School and its af-filiated teaching hospitals employed 15,000 people, Vice President for Pub-lic Affairs and University Relations Marisa Quinn wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

Students said they were excited for the building’s completion.

“The new building is really close to the hospital, so the hospital will be more accessible to medical students,” April Wilhelm MD’12 said.

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by qIan yIn

Contributing Writer

Sophia Tintori ’09 was once scared of the idea of becoming a scien-tist.

Perhaps this is why Tintori is contributing to CreatureCast, a blog created this past summer that seeks to make science more acces-sible to the general public through podcasts and posts.

Recently, an animated video produced by Tintori on how squids change their skin color rapidly at will was featured on National Public Radio’s program “Science Friday.”

The episode is the first of many such podcasts featured on a blog created by Assistant Professor of Biology Casey Dunn.

Dunn said his lab group posts anything about animals the cre-ators find “interesting, fun or beautiful.” It takes a narrative ap-proach to science communication by means of text, image, audio and video.

Tintori, a research assistant in Dunn’s lab, drew all the pictures for the animated video by hand, she said. The soundtrack of the video was inspired by an interview with Alison Sweeney, a post-doc-toral student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In the interview, conducted on a boat trip in June, Sweeney discussed a squid’s skin color.

Tintori said she picked squid color change for the podcast be-

cause it was relatively conceivable through audio and because squids appeal to many people.

Dunn said the blog is indepen-dent of the research at his lab.

“When people think of science, they are so used to what are often very boring, computer generated, cold and hard graphics,” Dunn said. “We wanted to do something that was a lot more approachable, and just fun.”

A noticeable disconnect exists between scientists and those out-side the field, Tintori said.

The podcasts are suitable for high school teachers to use in their science classes, she said. She hopes the recordings will make sci-ence more accessible and friendlier to high school students, with “sci-entists light-heartedly explaining things that are really interesting in a casual way.”

Dunn said all podcasts on the blog are under a Creative Com-mons License, designed for exactly this kind of accessibility — people are welcome to use them for any non-commercial purpose.

Tintori said she hopes to even-tually get more blog contributors to build it into a useful learning resource. People can use any form of expression they think will best communicate their stories, she said.

More videos will be posted in the future, Tintori said. The second episode, currently under produc-tion, she said, will introduce a type of embryonic cell.

Blog brings animal science to wider audience

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MONDAy, SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 | PAgE 4

at Steel Yard, local artists cook up metal sculpturesby ben hyMan

artS & Culture eDitor

A screaming came across the sky. It was the circular saw’s squeal, settling into a ragged, mechanical snarl as it sliced through a steel rod, sending off a jet of orange sparks. There was the clank of metal hitting metal, the thud of a rusty gear dropped to the ground, the rattle of chicken wire and the bang of hammer on anvil. And there was the static buzz of the welding torch, muffled behind a canvas screen.

Local artist Monica Shinn, wearing a heavy welding jacket over her loose work clothes, wriggled one hand into a thick glove while, with the other hand, she sliced through sheet metal with an oxyacetylene torch — 6,000 degrees in a pinpoint of acid-blue flame.

With twenty minutes remaining until judging, Shinn was trying to lead her four-person team to victory in the third and final round of the Iron Chef fundraiser, a head-to-head sculp-ture competition at the Steel Yard on Saturday.

A few feet away from Shinn, sculp-tor David Cole, her counterpart on the other team, rummaged through the “pantry” for metal domes.

The Iron Chef, now in its second year, gets both its vocabulary and its structure from cooking shows. Contestants have five minutes to plan and forty minutes to execute a metal sculpture based on a given design

theme and a “secret ingredient.” Be-tween the two teams’ workspaces was a “pantry” of materials laid out on the ground: empty gas cylinders caked with rust, slices of chain link fence, giant mooring chains, an old anchor and piles of bolts, chains, gears, wire and steel, lots of steel.

“We’re really good at collecting stuff,” said Dave Sharp, the Steel Yard’s program director, as he sur-veyed the pantry before the competi-tion began. Much of the material was just scrap, but the newer steel bars and sheet metal came from regional suppliers, whose donations go to the Steel Yard’s youth programs and its public events, like Iron Chef.

The Steel Yard has been around since 2001, when its parent company, the Woonasquatucket Valley Commu-nity Build — founded by Clay Rock-efeller ’03 and industrial arts teacher Nick Bauta — began offering training and studio time on a defunct manu-facturing property in Providence’s Industrial Valley neighborhood.

Once the home of the Providence Steel and Iron Company, the site is a three-acre dirt lot lined by the old building’s stripped skeleton, rows of giant beams and girders. The Steel Yard is involved in a project to cover the lead-contaminated ground with a new layer of topsoil, making the space safer and allowing plants to grow.

“It’s never going to be pretty like somebody’s yard,” explained Brian Dowling, the Steel Yard’s shop man-

ager. “It’s always going to have this burly quality to it.”

The Iron Chef crowd, which peaked around 100 people, had shrunk to around 50 by the competi-tion’s fifth hour. Among those left were Ariel Schecter ’10.5 and Lee Corley, shading their eyes from the setting sun with a small black para-sol. Their team, led by artist Anna Shapiro, had been eliminated in the second round, though only after Sha-piro lost to Cole in a one-on-one, ten-minute tiebreaker.

Schecter, an engineering and vi-sual arts concentrator, became inter-ested in metalworking after studying it at the Rhode Island School of Design one semester. He started working at the Steel Yard as a studio monitor and helping out with public projects. He had been a teaching assistant under Shinn, whose team was welding that round’s “secret ingredient” — 20 steel rings, each about 18 inches in dia-mater — into a hanging sculpture.

Born and raised in Providence, Corley now teaches classes at the Steel Yard and works for the city, fabricating bike racks.

“I used to design and make jew-elry,” she said, “but it’s just too fragile and prissy.”

Pawtucket resident Marguerite Pile sat nearby with her 14-year-old standard poodle, Oscar. Like many in the crowd, she was one of Shinn’s former Steel Yard students.

Pile’s father had owned a manufac-

turing company, so she had always felt close to mechanical work, she said. Once a consultant, but now an artist, Pile said she took Shinn’s welding course. “It got me to decide that I really wanted to do sculptural stuff,” she said.

Pile said what keeps her coming back to the Steel Yard is the way it brings people of different ages to-gether. “It fosters community,” she explained. “It’s very freeing.”

Looking on from the sidelines was Daniel Mejia-Onat, a business sys-tems analyst and local league rugby player. An “artisan-homeowner,” he had started coming to the Steel Yard to use equipment he couldn’t get elsewhere.

Mejia-Onat said the Steel Yard wasn’t just for people who work primarily as artists. “I’m trying to keep up and make a good home,” he explained. “For me, this is just as important a resource.”

With seven minutes remaining in the round, David Cole’s “apprentice” from Camp Metalhead — the Steel Yard’s summer youth program — was using a grinder to smooth out the base for a rotating, angled dish. In response to the design theme, “wax-ing and waning,” Cole’s team had threaded the steel rings through each other to produce spheres of differing fullness, like the cycles of the moon. The dish was supposed to represent the sun, and Cole — a showman with a penchant for playing with fire, and

winner of last year’s Iron Chef — was tearing apart planks of wood from the pantry to burn in what was going to become an elaborate fire pit.

Shinn’s team had taken a more abstract route, latticing the rings and welding them together into flat rhizomes to produce a hanging sculp-ture.

When time ran out, the judges — two local artists and an arts organizer — came down from their platform, wearing paper toques (otherwise known as the hats chefs wear), to inspect the sculptures. Explaining her team’s piece, Shinn said — with a gentle nudge to Cole’s maximalism — that she “wanted to do something with just these materials.” They had edited a decorative sheet metal spiral out of their design to focus attention on the steel rings.

But, in the end, it was Cole’s piece that won out. The teams exchanged hugs and high-fives as Sharp began auctioning off all the day’s sculptures to the remaining spectators.

Standing near the back was Jesse Riley, Cole’s “apprentice.” He had started taking classes at the Steel Yard at the urging of his older brother and had volunteered to compete in Iron Chef, which happened to fall on his nineteenth birthday.

“I fell in love with this place,” he said. “It teaches you to think in ab-stract ways, think on your feet, do whatever you can to make a piece come together.”

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arts & Culture “Everyone has different disabilities.” — Nathan Fitch, on his collaborating artists in “Double Vision”

Confronting social isolation through artKrIstIna fazzalaro

Contributing Writer

In the photograph, Lindsey Ponte stares into the camera lens wide-eyed, her brown orbs radiating sur-prise. She covers her mouth with a paint-smudged hand. In the next frame, the photo’s duplicate still draws the viewer in, but it is now criss-crossed with color — purple, green, blue, black and white cover the image haphazardly.

The viewer can’t help but smile at this young woman’s take on her portrait. It is simple, refreshing and endearing, as are the rest of works in Nathan Fitch’s new exhibit, “Double Vision,” currently showing in the main gallery at AS220.

Fitch’s subjects — and collabo-rators — are students at East Provi-dence’s Top Drawer Art Center, a nonprofit visual arts organization providing art programs for adults with developmental disabilities. The center aims to promote the idea that adults with developmental disabili-ties can confront feelings of social isolation through art.

Fitch first heard about Top Drawer two years ago while look-ing for a job. He was immediately interested in the program’s work, he said, and took a job “facilitating the students’ work and helping with materials.”

It’s hard for outsiders to under-stand the students of Top Drawer, Fitch said. The difficulty of com-municating with his students reminded him of his challenges working across a language bar-rier as a Peace Corps volunteer in

Micronesia. “Everyone has different disabili-

ties,” he said. “You have to gradually learn the language and the culture before you really understand the way they communicate.”

The project started organically, Fitch said. After working at Top Drawer for some time, he became friends with the students and real-ized he wanted to capture the mo-ments he saw every day. Over the next year, Fitch compiled a portfolio of the students at work in the vari-ous studios.

“After leaving, I began send-ing them the portraits that I had made of them and they colored over them, turning my photos into self-portraits.”

The show at AS220 pairs Fitch’s photos with the students’ self-por-traits, which he hopes will make for an interesting interplay, he said.

The moments Fitch has cap-tured draw the viewer in with their sincerity and depth.

The students at Top Drawer used a variety of materials to draw, paint and embellish the portraits Fitch took. The results are wonder-fully individualized: not only Ponte’s surprised and sporadic scribbling, but also Katrina Cathcart’s care-

fully painted, realistic self-portrait and Emmet Estrada’s offering, a portrait completely covered with black paint in various shades and textures.

“He’s pretty amazing,” Fitch said of Estrada. “This doesn’t even show the depth of his work.”

It is these surprising, inventive results that keep viewers interested and guessing just what they’ll see in the next frame.

In the photographs that show the students at work on their art, it is great to see what they are accom-plishing. Viewers can perceive the joy and focus in their eyes as they work or pose for Fitch’s camera.

“The artists whom I photo-graphed are pretty excited about having photographs of them and their self-portraits up in a public space, and I think it would only enhance their pleasure (and mine too I confess) if people show up,” Fitch wrote in an artist’s statement. “It would also be great to bring this group of interesting people who are well out of the mainstream of soci-ety into contact with some of the nice people living in Providence.”

The exhibit will be on display in the main gallery at AS220 at 115 Empire St. through this Saturday.

Courtesy of Nathan FitchA portrait, reconsidered as part of “Double Vision” at AS220.

Field hockey drops Ivy opener, lacking rhythmby andrew braca

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The field hockey team lost its Ivy League opener to Columbia, 2-0, on Saturday in New York. Catherine Campbell scored twice on penalty

corners, and the Lions (2-2, 1-0 Ivy) out-shot the Bears

by a 22-3 margin to drop Bruno to 2-3 on the season.

“There was a definite disconnect between our lines,” said tri-captain Michaela Seigo ’10. “It wasn’t a lack of effort, but we definitely just didn’t ever get into a rhythm of-fensively.”

In a quiet first half, Columbia out-shot Brown by just 5-1 and the teams were even at four corners apiece, but it was the Lions who converted on one of them. Campbell gave the home team the lead 12:02 into the game, with assists by Katie DeSan-dis and Caitlin Mullins. The Lions’ success on the set play foiled the Bears’ early intensity.

“We were very energetic and we came out hard,” Seigo said.

Campbell doubled Columbia’s lead 7:21 after halftime on yet an-other penalty corner, getting assists from Christine Buszczak and Mul-

lins. Seigo said breaking down only on corners frustrated the Bears.

“I thought that was especially tough because corners are some-thing that we can control,” she said. “If we hadn’t given up those corners they wouldn’t have scored. I think that’s definitely something that we’re going to be working on at practice this week.”

The Lions controlled the second-half action, rolling to advantages of 17-2 in shots and 11-1 in corners, but could not build on the 2-0 lead, stymied by Bruno’s defense and

goalie.Although Columbia

tallied 22 shots, only six of those reached the cage, while 10 were blocked. Caroline Washburn ’12 stopped a penalty stroke midway through the second half for one of her four saves.

The Bears will look to bounce back with a pair of home games this week. Brown will host Sacred Heart (1-7) on Wednesday at 4 p.m. and Dartmouth (1-4, 0-1) on Saturday at 12 p.m. on Warner Roof.

“We’re going to watch video and see exactly what went wrong against Columbia, and we’ll try to fix that,” Seigo said. “I know we’ll be working a lot on our circle defense and just (trying) to connect better between our lines.”

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Despite what your high school English teachers may have led you to believe, he’s more than just “Things Fall Apart.” He’s a poet and an essayist, a national hero and a Man Booker Prize winner. More importantly, though, he’s a teacher.

In 1965, Chinua Achebe wrote an essay in which he outlines the relationship between the novelist and his audience. Regarding his own relationship with the Nigerian people, he writes, “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past — with all its imperfections — was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.” In Achebe’s own mind, he was a teacher long before he was a professor — before he was a novelist, even.

There is a reason Achebe has elected to teach Africana studies, rather than, say, literary arts. He views his writing as “applied art, as distinct from pure art” and believes that art and education are not mutually exclusive. “After all,” he writes, “the novelist’s duty is not to beat this morning’s headline in topicality, it is to explore in depth the human condition. In Africa he cannot perform this task unless he has a proper sense of history.”

Over the years Achebe has developed a strong philosophy on teaching. “A good teacher,” he writes, “never prescribes; he draws out.” Which is exactly why the novel suits his style so well. The novel twists and turns; it poses questions, offering only hints of answers. It expects something of its reader

— the same way Achebe expects something of us, his future students.

In a 1987 interview, Achebe underscored his belief that the relationship between teacher and student, like the relationship between novelist and audience, is reciprocal. “We are interacting,” he said. “The teacher is learning from his pupils at the same time, so that he can sharpen his tools.”

Which brings us back to our initial point: Chinua Achebe is not one book.

We’re all (understandably) thrilled about the opportunity to study with the most prominent Af-rican writer of our time. But how can we act as his whetstone, how can we help him sharpen his tools, when we can’t name more than one of his works?

Through its Target of Opportunity hiring pro-gram, the University has done its share of the hard work. Now the burden falls on us.

Throughout the spring semester, the Africana Studies department plans to host a “series of events based on dramatic readings of Achebe’s work,” as part of the new Chinua Achebe Colloquium on Africa. We urge all students — but especially those intending to take Achebe’s classes — to attend these events. If you can’t make it, pick up one of his books or essays. Read a poem or two. At very least, check out his Wikipedia page.

But more than anything, get excited. This is the start of something good.

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We are the head teaching assis-tants for CSCI 0150: Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Computer Science. Our course, Brown’s largest introductory comput-er science course, previously relied on the Brown University Tutoring Program to offer additional help to our students by making individual tu-tors available to those in need. These tutors were mostly current or pre-vious teaching assistants for CSCI 0150, and were able to help students in ways that teaching assistants hold-ing office hours could not. One of us, as a tutor and tutee herself in past years, knows from experience that one-on-one tutoring keeps students motivated and pulls students through a challenging course that they might have otherwise dropped. And she is not alone — there are undoubtedly many experiences like hers.

We were extremely saddened, dis-appointed and frustrated when we discovered that Brown was no longer offering one-on-one tutoring, instead forcing everyone into study groups organized by the Dean of the College. We say “discovered” because the Dean of the College never informed our course’s professor at any time that this change, directly affecting our course, would happen. The tu-toring@brown.edu address seems to dump e-mail into the void of cy-berspace, lacking even an automatic response. The Web site for the tutor-

ing program gives all indications that the program remains unaltered. It still erroneously states that “Brown’s Tutoring Program provides free tu-torial support for over two hundred courses in the Brown curriculum. Every student is eligible for these one-on-one tutoring sessions.” After many failed attempts to get in contact with the program’s coordinator and to access the tutor application form, we discovered a note taped to the door informing us that “Tutoring is chang-ing to Facilitated Study Groups” for a select group of classes.

This means that our students will not be able to receive the extra help they need. Our class policy does not allow students to work together on projects. While students previously could work with their tutors on a project’s specific details, these study groups will not allow for the same help. Additionally, these groups are only being organized for a specific set of classes, and CSCI 0150 and other courses are not listed.

We understand that in these dif-ficult economic times cuts must occur somewhere. We strongly disagree this cut was a wise choice, but the most reprehensible aspect is the total failure to inform the Brown commu-nity at large.

Kelly newton ’10.5alex unger ’11

Joshua Kaplan ’11CSCI 0150

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Call me pugnacious, but I believe in argu-ment for argument’s sake. Sit me across from someone with a remotely interest-ing political opinion, and I will have to challenge it.

National health care? “Necessary but not sufficient.”

Legalization of marijuana? “Not in our lifetime.”

Israeli-Palestinian conflict? “Oh, do get me started.”

What can I say; it’s one of my more splen-did habits.

And it’s a habit I wish more would em-brace. Unfortunately, opportunities to exer-cise one’s polemic muscle during the school year are few and far between. The occasion-al Janus debate may whet one’s appetite, but it can never satiate one’s hunger for dispute like a full-on, multi-hour, verbal tug-of-war. I get excited just thinking about it.

The value of argument cannot be over-stated. It is the cornerstone of philosophy and politics. It is the pacemaker that keeps the heart of the scientific method beating. It is the fuel for risk, for experimentation, for Galileo, for Einstein, for Nietzsche, for Rawls.

Yet, the most I can expect during the se-mester is a once-a-week discussion section, which, more often than not, devolves into an inane bull session with each student trying to assert his or her frivolous opinion. If you can’t tell, I’m a bit perturbed.

So, it is with the utmost seriousness that I propose that Brown should institute a year-long debate league, open to all undergradu-ates, that pits student against student in ar-guments over school policy and other perti-nent subjects.

This is not unprecedented. The Brown Debate Union hosts a very similar contest. Students enter the debate unaware of the specific topic, which is later selected by a coin flip. One student is given time to pre-pare a short opening speech affirming or ne-gating the prompt, and his or her opponent must respond, engaging the arguments di-

rectly and possibly proposing alternatives. Doesn’t that sound delightful?

I don’t fault Brown completely for the lack of argumentative encouragement. Rat-ing-hungry anchors and over-zealous pseu-do-pundits saturate American daytime news talk with hackneyed and colorless “commen-tary.” Indeed, the only colors they seem to see are red and blue, and the only nuance they seem to understand is us versus them.

In the United Kingdom, there exists a constitutional convention requiring the Prime Minister to sit down for thirty min-utes each week and answer questions be-

fore the House of Commons. In Canada, a similar mandate known as “Question Peri-od” puts the Prime Minister in front of the federal Parliament on a daily basis. In this country, the President is simply an actor in a rehearsed performance, unaccountable and, for all practical purposes, inaccessible.

Thus, it is not surprising that American campuses share this frictionless behavior. Would subjecting Ruth to weekly question-ing really be so novel? We didn’t elect her, but we do pay her salary. A campus-wide de-bate league would be yet another avenue of communication between students and the

administration. Of course, times are tough economically.

Is a debate league financially feasible? I think so. Students could moderate the debates; I would venture to guess that a fair number of undergraduates find these sorts of activities intellectually and academically stimulating. And it certainly wouldn’t be compulsory.

Another guess: Brown would be able to finagle the necessary classroom space. Walk past the Main Green after seven and you are sure to see plenty of lonely, darkened class-rooms. Can’t we provide them some compa-ny? Remember, the source of light is heat!

The specifics of the league are up for dis-cussion. But if I had my druthers, the com-petition (if it were competitive) would culmi-nate in a grandiose wrangle, center stage in Salomon. Like the BDU contest, a panel of faculty members and administrators would adjudicate. Peers would look on, cheering and jeering their classmates when appropri-ate. It would be truly a celebration of the ce-rebral, an exaltation of the logos.

Perhaps it is a lofty idea. However, it is not without warrant. The job market is a tricky place, but graduating seniors who can communicate confidently, articulately and persuasively will be better served. As the league develops, so too will Brown’s repu-tation. We will be considered a truly liberal arts institution, known for producing Renais-sance men and women capable of vivacious, dialectical argumentation.

To end, I recall the words of Michel Fou-cault in a 1982 essay entitled “The Subject and Power.” He writes, “Thought is free-dom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches oneself from it, es-tablishes it as object, and reflects on it as a problem.”

Critical awareness is the root of edu-cation. Questioning ideology, making our thoughts the object, rather than the subject, and taking for granted nothing, will only el-evate the collective intellect of our school. Brown must institute a debate league.

Anthony Badami ’11 is a politi-cal theory concentrator from Kan-sas City, MO. He can be reached at

anthony_badami@brown.edu.

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In case we don’t get enough administrative e-mails at the beginning of the school year, swine flu warnings have infiltrated Brown inboxes this fall. At first, I skipped reading the messages. After all, schools across the U.S. went through the same scare last year, and in response, Brown chose to display antibacterial hand sanitizer stands to constantly remind us of the threat. So I figured this year would be no different, with even more people, regret-tably, failing to wash their hands around cam-pus in favor of using the more time-efficient sanitizer.

But like the quick spread of the flu, these e-mails have become increasingly more alarming, laying down the rules for self-quarantining and most recently, self-diag-nosing, based on a combined integrity and internet system. The idea of an “influenza-like illness,” or “ILI” has set precedent for many with flu-like symptoms — obviously — declaring that they probably have swine flu.

For the few that have not yet had a swine-flu scare, I’ll touch on the basics. Sick stu-dents shouldn’t leave their rooms until 24

hours after flu-like symptoms have disap-peared. They should stay far from their roommates and friends, demand delivery service for Ratty food and, if possible, wear a face mask before urgently evacuating a building. These are, for the most part, things I could have guessed, though I think grab-bing a mask might not be my first response to a fire alarm. Then again, if the alarm is coming from Wriston Quad fraternity hous-ing, as alarms on this campus so often are,

you might be used to the noise anyway. In such a case, you might as well make swine-flu protection a part of your standard proce-dure.

My initial reaction was to feel sorry for the infected, for obvious reasons. Aside from the physical side effects, they carry with them the stigma of the flu and an invi-tation for many bad jokes. But the friends and roommates of the infected may have it worse. Just knowing that a roommate has swine flu is enough to make you get it, too.

At a point where it seems everyone on cam-pus has the flu or is closely related to some-one with it, one feels rather hopeless.

But don’t lose hope yet — I’m sure there are some perks. With luck, those with swine flu will be able to flaunt immunity as some small consolation for their early-onset illness and consequently have less to worry about right before mid-terms and exams. Others will proudly claim their once-infected status as a badge of honor and bravery, though the

effects are entirely similar to the seasonal flu.

While I would like to self-quarantine my-self from class to avoid getting the flu in the first place, it is not only wrong, but seems to be an almost futile effort. Though the in-creasingly familiar cases around campus are unnerving, there isn’t much to do but take our chances and hope the hype is just that and nothing more. Like the administration, I am not an advocate of sick students cough-ing contagiously around campus, but I re-

main skeptical of the extent to which the un-vaccinated and vulnerable can resist contam-ination while continuing with daily activities. After all, once I even begin thinking of the possible ways swine flu could be spreading, I start to feel a little more under the weather than I did five minutes prior. There are only so many intervals during which I can sani-tize my hands while I type on a public key-board, and only so many seconds I can hold my breath in fear of breathing in germs be-fore I feel suffocated.

As with many other cases, it is recom-mended to be on guard and protected for fear of contracting disease. But for now, the scope of the flu is uncertain, as is the effec-tiveness of reasonable measures to avoid it. Though “just in case” self-diagnosing may sound appealing before the side effects oc-cur, it sounds like a combination of bad kar-ma and useless precautions. Yet in the mean-time, some of us might want to exercise more discretion on certain Wednesday eve-nings at an unnamed bar that is a breeding ground for disease, though that may have been a good idea even before the swine flu came around.

Jeanne Jeong ’12 is wondering what hap-pened when pigs were found on a plane.

(Answer: Swine flew.)

another column about swine flu

Though the increasingly familiar cases around campus are unnerving, there isn’t much to do but take our chances and hope the hype is just that

and nothing more.

The occasional Janus debate may whet one’s appetite, but it can never satiate one’s hunger for

dispute like a full-on, multi-hour, verbal tug-of-war.

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