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Students’ eyes on Super Tuesday prize

U. budgets for a weak economy

By Joy Neumeyer Contributing writer

Faculty evaluates Plan for Academic Enrichment

Whether doing last-minute campaigning at sunrise, watching election results in a balloon-strewn Salomon 101 or simply doing work at the Sciences Library, Brown students found themselves swept up in yesterday’s Super Tuesday presidential primaries.

The primaries, in which the Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls competed for their parties’ nominations in 24 states, marked the high point of months of work by campus political groups hoping to win voters from nearby participating states such as Massachusetts and Connecticut.

The day started early for some members of Brown Students for Barack Obama, which shuttled students back and forth beginning at 6 a.m. from New Bedford, Mass., all day to hold signs at street corners and polling places and make phone calls to local voters. Herald Opinions Columnist Max Chaiken ’09, coordinator for Students for Barack Obama, estimated that he had put 200 miles on his car driving back and forth between the group’s meeting place at Bagel Gourmet on Brook Street and New Bedford.

“Students are really trying to sort of catch the wave,” Chaiken said, adding that in the last week and a half Brown’s Obama supporters have become “a true movement.”

Nick Greene ’10, who said that he

By Jenna Stark Senior Staff Writer

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Students gathered in Salomon 101 to watch election returns from Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses. had been planning to join the 6 a.m. trip but slept through his alarm, held a sign in front of a New Bedford middle school. “We’ve been getting a lot of honks all day,” he said. They would be less lucky with votes, as Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., won the state.

Walker Ray ’11, who campaigned in New Bedford over the weekend and returned yesterday afternoon, said with a laugh, “if the election were to be decided by who honks the most, I think we would definitely win in a landslide.”

Ian Nappier ’10, who spent the afternoon making calls to voters in Colorado and North Dakota, said he got involved with politics for

the first time on Friday after hearing Obama’s victor y speech for the South Carolina primaries. He spoke with enthusiasm of his recent campaign experiences, such as an event in Massachusetts on Saturday at which Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick spoke from a podium, close enough so that “when he was waving his arm it felt like he was going to hit me.”

“It’s just so weird to go from not really caring to meeting the governor of a big state,” he said.

Members of Students for Hillary congregated in Minden Lounge yesterday evening to walk over to Salomon 101, where the Janus Forum was hosting an event to watch

the primary results as they were announced. Though choosing not to campaign yesterday, the handful of members of Students for Hillary that gathered looked with expectation towards the primaries after weeks of phone-banking.

Ivy Martinez ’10 said the group’s Bring Your Own Phone calling events — or “BYOP” ­— have been successful in attracting young people to the campaign. Martinez estimated that the group has grown slightly of late but added that she was surprised when “a ton of people” came up to her yesterday to wish the Clinton campaign good luck. continued on page 6

Carey steps up as U. seeks Homeless advocates protest state budget cuts new head of student life

By Jenna Stark Senior Staff Writer

By George Miller Senior Staff Writer

Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, interim vice president for campus life and student services, has been named senior vice president for Corporation affairs and governance, a new position that begins July 1, President Ruth Simmons announced at Tuesday’s faculty meeting.

Carey’s new role will make him responsible for leading and coordinating the University’s policies, governance, Corporation affairs and risk management. His duties will include overseeing the Department of Public Safety and the Office of Environmental Health and Safety, addressing issues of risk avoidance and providing direction in University governance and Corporation affairs.

“In the area of governance it has long been a strong interest of mine to concentrate on an integrative approach to governance across faculty governance, student governance, Corporation governance and administration governance,” Simmons said.

“It is a deeply held value at Brown that students, staff, faculty and even

Holding signs reading “This Budget Is An Immoral Document” and “Don’t Balance The Budget On The Backs Of The Poor,” activists, developers, the homeless and about 20 Brown students filled the State House yesterday morning

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Russell Carey ‘91 MA’06 alumni should be welcomed into the process of debating the goals of the institution. There has to be a very robust and sincere effort and I’ve always wanted someone who could carry the banner that way.”

Carey will take over some of the duties that are currently handled

by Walter Hunter, vice president for administration and chief risk officer, whose resignation was announced

Safety in phones Students can download software to their phones, allowing them to be tracked if in danger

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to voice their opposition to cuts in Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65’s supplemental budget affecting support for the homeless and affordable housing programs.

The supplemental budget, designed to fill a $150 million shortfall in the fiscal year ending in June, was released by the governor last month. In his Jan. 22 State of the State address, Carcieri told Rhode Islanders they must make sacrifices in order to turn around the state’s weak fiscal health, according to a Jan. 23 Providence Journal article.

Rhode Island is experiencing its worst budget deficit since a crisis in the early 1990s, according to the Journal.

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The budget would eliminate the $7.5 million budget of the Neighborhood Opportunities Project, which provides funds for construction and rent subsidies.

It would also require Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation, which acts to prevent homelessness and provides financial assistance to low-income tenants, to give $26 million back to the state. Other measures include a six-day unpaid furlough for state employees and an assortment of extra fees.

At the demonstration, co-sponsored by the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless and the Statewide Housing Action Coalition, a crowd of more than a hundred listened to a series of speeches before moving to three different rooms to watch a House finance committee hearing on the supplemental budget.

“We are being locked out ... and doors are being opened for the rich,” said Duane Clinker, a pastor at the Hillsborough United Methodist Church in Warwick.

“We’re all related.” He recalled his 2001 arrest for staging a sit-in at the continued on page 4

No Cheating For U. Graham Anderson ‘10 wonders why some students still cheat

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The University is budgeting for a tight economy and a changing government attitude toward higher education, expecting “more risk in the next year, more need for scholarship support” and a more difficult fundraising environment, President Ruth Simmons told the faculty in its monthly meeting Tuesday. Faculty also discussed a reassessment of the Plan for Academic Enrichment, which has guided the University’s growth for the last few years, with many professors expressing concern over the strength of the Graduate School.

The changes in next year’s budget, which the Corporation will approve later this month, include a slower growth in tuition, an increase in endowment payout and a smaller increase in faculty and staff salaries than in previous years, Simmons said. She also noted there would be more financial aid for both undergraduate and graduate students, but not in an imitation of the financial aid packages of Harvard and Yale.

Next year’s budget will reflect the significantly worsening economy, Simmons said. She added that the ongoing debate about how universities should use their endowments is here to stay. “I would like to be able to say that it will depart with the administration in Washington, but it’s taken root in an extraordinary way,” she said.

Simmons said she is not worried about government inquiries into endowment spending. “Unlike many of our peers, I think we have a powerful story to tell,” she said.

“That’s why (other universities) jumped so quickly to dump all this money into financial aid.”

Reassessing the plan Along the lines of spending priorities, the faculty also discussed a reassessment of the University’s development and expressed a desire to strengthen the Graduate School, following reports on the Plan for Academic Enrichment from Simmons and members of the Faculty Executive Committee.

Ruth Colwill, associate professor of psychology and FEC chair, began the meeting with a discussion of the FEC’s report to Simmons on the Plan for Academic Enrichment. Colwill reported four major themes in the faculty’s input on improving the plan, including the need for a stronger graduate continued on page 4 tomorrow’s weather Rainy weather as gloomy as your favorite candidate losing on Super Tuesday

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Sallie Mae tightens loan policies

By Patrick Corey Staff Writer

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Students can use Campus Guardian Emergency Notification if they want to be tracked by the police when in danger.

Scared of the dark?

Schools look to GPS phones for comfort

BY Rachel Arndt Metro Editor

Northeast college students who get ner vous walking home alone in the early hours of the morning may soon be able to find comfort in a phone call. Starting soon, campus police departments at some area schools will support the Campus Guardian Emergency Notification system, a GPS tracking system that would alert campus security to a caller’s whereabouts after an emergency phone call.

The company will begin testing at Roger Williams University this spring, and use at Brown is not far away.

Brown has been working with Campus Guardian for over a year and a half, said Mark Porter, director of public safety and chief of police.

“We’re looking to test it out,” Porter said. “We think we’re going to do it.”

If a student with a GPS-enabled phone calls an emergency number, it alerts the campus security dispatcher and gives the caller’s location, said Michael Glier, who founded Campus Guardian with business partner Mark Laird. The caller’s location is periodically updated so the software can “determine who is closest to the caller to respond to them,” Glier said.

The Campus Guardian Emergency Notification system, a project that began in 2003, won the 2007 Rhode Island Business Plan competition. The award was based on the “commercial potential of the business,” according to Peter Lowy, business manager for the competition.

The project began when Glier and Laird started looking at the “crime on campus problem,” Glier said. He and Laird inter viewed

campus security officers and administrators in schools throughout the Nor theast. They also interviewed current students, alums and rising freshmen.

Glier and Laird also addressed the legal issues of the technology before embarking on the project.

The people they consulted with found it “ver y appropriate,” Lowy said.

The technology aims to get “campus security involved in the response … (so) people have a chance of getting a much faster response,” Lowy said. “We like to look at it as feet away, not miles away.”

Students who download Campus Guardian’s software onto their cell phones — currently only Sprint phones are supported — can choose to have the program either automatically turn on or turn on only when they want. Glier compares installing the software to downloading a ringtone.

Like ringtones, the software is voluntar y, Glier said. “It never sends your location under any circumstances unless you dial for help,” he said. “There’s no Big Brother attached to this, nor is there any way that campus security … can ask for your location.”

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Sallie Mae, the nation’s largest student loan company, announced late last month that it would cut back loan programs to students at colleges with poor graduation rates. The company, which lost $1.6 billion last quarter, is also reviewing its underwriting criteria to keep loans out of the hands of students with poor credit.

In a letter sent to President Ruth Simmons and other college administrators across the country, new Sallie Mae Chief Financial Officer C.E. Andrews attributed the policy shift to “new legislation (that) has significantly reduced the margins of all lenders on federally guaranteed loans, and the tightening of world-wide credit markets,” which is responsible for a “steep rise in borrowing costs for financial services companies.”

Tom Joyce, Sallie Mae’s vice president for corporate communications said no current borrowers would be affected by Sallie Mae’s new policy.

“Going forward, we’re just going to be more careful,” he said.

Joyce said Sallie Mae’s policy is still evolving, but non-standard private lending — part of Sallie Mae’s private lending for lower-credit customers — will definitely cease.

Andrews’ letter said Sallie Mae has already informed certain schools that the company will no longer offer certain loan programs to the schools’ students.

Sallie Mae singled out schools with low graduation rates because of the strong inverse correlation between graduation rates and loan defaults, Joyce said, adding that graduation rate is the “number one” indicator for whether a student will pay back his or her loan.

“Sixty-five percent of our defaulted loans came from dropouts or those students who reduced to less than half-time study,” he said.

While all of Sallie Mae’s federal loan programs will continue, Joyce said the private loan cutbacks could be good for low-income students at schools with poor graduation rates.

“The bottom line for us is that we want to lend money to people who are going to succeed,” he said.

“We want them to be in better shape rather than in worse shape — debt loads don’t do a student any good.”

Joyce said Sallie Mae is helping colleges through the transition

process.

“We offer a great deal of borrower counseling products and services,” he said. “Our hope is that there will be other sources” for students who no longer qualify for Sallie Mae assistance.

Tony Pals, a spokesman for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, said that, though the decision makes sense from a business standpoint, “it’s still disappointing for what it could do to good students at good institutions.”

“Students who would be most affected will be those that attend lesser-known regional schools — often schools that more or less specialize in educating low-income students,” Pals said.

To ease the burden on needy students, the NAICU is lobbying to raise federal funding for student aid. For the first half of this decade, there was no increased funding for some of the most important aid programs, Pals said. Twenty years ago, students generally received half of

aid money from their private institution and half from the government.

Today, schools provide five times as much aid as the government.

“Students need government to redouble their efforts to make up for lost ground,” Pals said.

Harris Miller, president of the Career Colleges Association, said that Sallie Mae’s cutbacks could also have a disproportionately large impact on the most needy students. “The cutbacks in student lending could have an adverse impact,” he said. “They can’t just go out and get a loan on their own. They need some support given their circumstances.”

In the short term, Miller said, colleges will take on the loans themselves where they cannot find alternate lenders.

“They’re very committed to their students, but they aren’t bankers,” he said. Some colleges with low graduation rates and smaller endowments will be hit the hardest, Miller added, as they won’t have the means to replace the financial aid previously provided by Sallie Mae.

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Carey to take over U. governance issues Grad School, expansion on faculty meeting agenda continued from page 1

to University officials Jan. 24.

Carey has filled his current interim position since 2006 so as not to disrupt campus life projects already in motion, Simmons said. He previously served as a student life officer and assistant dean of student life, assistant to the provost, assistant to the president and secretary of the University. Simmons gave Carey the option of returning to the administration or standing for appointment as the permanent vice president for campus life and student services.

Carey chose the new position.

“I can tell you why that was very attractive for us,” Simmons said.

“First of all, the areas of governance and safety and risk have become much more complex even in the past two years. Russell’s strength is in the management of these areas because he has long experience at the University, he has a legal background and he is very attentive to an integrated approach to problem solving, and his varied experience fits well with this kind of responsibility.”

“I know how the University op-

erates,” Carey said. “I have a lot of experience in risk on campus that will be valuable for the new role, and I have a deep and broad understanding of Brown.”

As interim vice president for campus life and student services, Carey has taken part in the creation of the temporary pool and planning for the new aquatics center, new turf athletic fields, renovation of J. Walter Wilson, new housing and the Nelson Fitness Center.

Carey said he is excited about the new position. “I think it’s a great professional opportunity for me,” he said. “It really builds on a lot of other things I’ve done at Brown but also takes on a bunch of new challenges.”

Associate Professor of Sociology Ann Dill, a past chair of the Faculty Executive Committee, will chair the search committee for a new vice president for campus life and student services. The committee is made up of five faculty members, three students and a group of administrators that includes Associate Provost and Director of Institutional Diversity Brenda Allen and Associ-

GPS phones can track students continued from page 3 Glier said, students’ locations will be protected. “The company’s integrity about Big Brother issues is ver y important,” Glier added.

“Part of the technology in the cell phone software is software that allows the cell phone to remain autonomous … without sending the location information back to campus security.”

Porter emphasized that the software will be optional at Brown, too.

“Of course it’ll only be students who want” the software who will use it, he said.

According to Glier, the Campus Guardian’s cell phone technology is popular. “We’ve received interest from virtually ever y school we’ve talked to,” he said.

The company’s shor t-term plan is to limit its expansion to the Northeast. After the second year of operation, however, the company plans to expand to other cities, Glier said.

ate Dean of the College for Science Education David Targan.

“We need to find someone as able (as Carey) to run this very complex operation,” Simmons said. “The students want to be assured that when the search commences that students will play an important role in the search, and I’m delighted to say they will. Ann Dill is very sensitive to that and that is one of the reasons why I appointed her to chair this committee.”

The new vice president will need to continue much of the work started

by Carey, Simmons said. “Faunce will be extensively renovated. We have the fitness center, and we have a swim center to be replaced,” she said. “It’s a big job and a demanding one.”

Carey said he will try to make the transition smooth for the new vice president and will continue working on campus life for the remainder of the year.

Simmons told the faculty that the committee has already had an initial meeting and would like to make a recommendation for a replacement by early April.

Protest over plight of the homeless continued from page 1 State House after the state froze $5 million in affordable housing funding.

“When you talk about cutting these initiatives, you talk about breaking the legs of people who have just learned to walk,” Linda Watkins, associate director of the Amos House homeless shelter, told the crowd.

Jim Ryczek, executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless, said that emergency room visits and incarceration of the homeless cost the state already, so subsidized affordable housing actually saves the state money.

“We want to stop being a shelter state and start being a housing state,” Ryczek told the finance committee.

Victims of domestic violence depend on affordable housing as well, Donna Williams of Sojourner House, an organization that supports victims of domestic violence, told The Herald.

“The poorest people are getting it on both ends”—in their personal lives and now in the proposed cuts, Jill Moniz ’04, an Amos House employee, told The Herald. “It’s a double bind.”

Brown members of the student group Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere and some Johnson and Wales University students attended the rally, said Meghna Philip ’11.

“The worst part is the funding they’re taking away from programs that have already proven to be so successful,” Philip said.

Fiona Heckscher ’09 called the cuts “a shortsighted abdication” of the state’s responsibility to the homeless and low-income families. She said the turnout speaks to how many people the cuts will affect.

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continued from page 1 school, additional support for the expanded faculty, continued faculty expansion and greater recognition of excellence in teaching and advising.

Professors in attendance seemed unanimously concerned about the vitality of the Grad School. “I would like to emphasize the viability,” said a junior faculty member. “My bread and butter is doing research and without the graduate students to do that research, I might not be sitting in this seat much longer.”

Colwill called for the need of a vision to distinguish the Grad School, much like how the undergraduate College is notable for its unique educational vision.

Professors were divided, however, on the issue of expanding teaching and research infrastructure. Some faculty members said the University should emphasize the needs of the faculty for additional research and classroom space, whereas others seemed more concerned about the “neglect” of non-academic buildings, such as the dormitories or athletic facilities.

“For many years Brown neglected the more glamorous aspects of the infrastructure,” said one professor. “I think we need to be very careful about neglecting the infrastructure. It is one thing to delay the building of a sports palace, but another thing to neglect the lights that aren’t working and the walls that are leaking.”

Another faculty member mentioned that ignoring the non-academic infrastructure may make the University a less appealing choice in the future. “Our competitors­— the schools we lose students to — we already have the worst athletic facility in the Ivy League,” he said. “We need to do more about the academic infrastructure, but I don’t think it should be either-or.”

Other faculty members disagreed. “If we don’t provide (researchers) with the space to do their work and to do their teaching, I think we will fail,” said Richard Moore, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology.

One professor emphasized the need for interdisciplinary subjects to be housed in the same building.

“I would be very concerned if they were to put a hold on the plan that will house the new building for the merged cognitive and linguistic studies,” said Sheila Blumstein, a professor of cognitive and linguistic studies, former dean of the College and interim provost and president.

“With a new department we need to live together to work together.”

Professors also spoke up regarding the need to improve the overall quality of the interdisciplinary programs. “It’s extremely difficult to sustain the interdisciplinary classes,” said James Green, associate professor of history. “We need to find viable solutions to sustain these programs.”

The faculty’s comments were mirrored in a presentation on the Plan for Academic Enrichment created by Assistant to the President Marisa Quinn and Executive Vice President for Planning and Senior Adviser to the President Richard Spies. “The issues that we’ve been working on correspond with what you were just talking about ­— that’s not an accident,” Spies told professors. “The goal is to set a direction for the University for the next five to 10 years.”

The presentation highlighted

Faculty meeting at a glance Simmons discussed: • Slower tuition increases • Changes in financial aid for undergraduate and graduate students • Slower salary raises for faculty and staff • Increased spending of the endowment Faculty expressed concerns about: • Graduate School expansion and revitalization • Money to improve the infrastructure of academic or non-academic buildings • Continuing the expansion of the faculty without expanding the facilities the University’s objectives, emphasizing the need to expand the Grad School, strengthen the undergraduate education, ensure the University’s position as a global university and enhance academic excellence.

The administration will accomplish some of these goals by improving the community spaces in residence halls and expanding the international opportunities for students, according to the presentation.

Colwill was pleased with the amount of faculty feedback. “I was really pleased that faculty had so many comments on the report. It is really helpful for the administration to hear it firsthand and not through the FEC,” she told The Herald.

Other business Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron followed Simmons with a discussion on the Task Force on Undergraduate Education’s report.

The motivations for the timeliness of the report include the original Plan for Academic Enrichment and the upcoming reaccreditation of Brown in 2009. The administration’s goals for the report are to prioritize its recommendations, add missing recommendations and revise the overall report to reflect wider campus views.

Simmons and Colwill also announced the honorees for the first annual President’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Governance.

This years honorees are Professor of English Nancy Armstrong, Professor of Biology Anne FaustoSterling, Professor Emeritus of Engineering Barrett Hazeltine, Professor of Anthropology Marida Hollos, Professor of Physics ChungI Tan and Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Comparative Literature Luiz Valente. The honorees, chosen by a subcommittee chaired by Professor of History Evelyn Hu-Dehart, have made outstanding contributions to the University through their distinguished service on faculty committees, councils and advisory boards, according to a press release.

The recipients will be honored with a dinner, and each will receive a $2,000 research stipend.

“The FEC came to me and asked if there were ways that we could signal the importance of people’s participation in government,” Simmons told The Herald. “It’s something that I’ve always spoken about and emphasized because I want people to feel that they not only have a stake in the decisions made at Brown, but also that their participation is meaningful to us,” she said.

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Hunter to leave U. in June for law practice

By Stefanie Angstadt Staff Writer

Walter Hunter, vice president for administration and chief risk officer, will resign at the end of the semester to return to private law practice. Elizabeth Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, announced the resignation in a Jan. 24 e-mail to the Administrative Leadership Group, which comprises heads of administrative departments.

Hunter was appointed to the post in August 2000 and was charged with the supervision of a diverse range of areas, including human resources, facilities management, real estate, public safety and labor relations. Hunter was previously a partner at the Providence law firm Edwards and Angell, where he specialized in labor and employment law.

Hunter said he is currently “in discussions with some premier firms.” He said he hopes to work in labor and employment law and expects the field to grow.

“This is clearly terrific for his future firm, but a big loss for Brown,” Huidekoper wrote in the e-mail.

Hunter said he will remain in his post until the end of the semester so that he can help with the transition to the next person to hold his position.

During his seven-and-a-half-year tenure at Brown, Hunter spearheaded efforts to promote campus security. Amid increased crime on campus and allegations of police corruption, Hunter oversaw initiatives to arm Department of Public Safety officers and increase their presence on campus; increase the availability of safeRIDE services; design and implement an emergency contact information database; and initiate the testing of an emergency siren system.

Hunter also worked with DPS, the Providence Police Department and the Providence Fire Department on improving several safety measures.

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Students capture unseen in exhibits

By Marisa Calleja Staff Writer

There’s a good chance you’ve heard about Brown’s impressive collections on the admissions tour — the fabled human skin-bound books and the extensive toy soldier collection at the John Hay Library have long been selling points for Brown tour guides. But have you seen any of it since arriving on campus?

Likely not. The majority of Brown’s collections are not generally on display and enjoy carefully protected lives in one of a number

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Walter Hunter, who oversees the Department of Public Safety and various other University departments, is leaving the University for private legal practice.

In addition, Hunter has worked to improve police accountability and transparency. He instated a new procedure that requires DPS officials to distribute business cards with their name and information about stops to all people they ask for identification during field stops.

Hunter has also helped keep the Brown Bookstore independent and has been a principle actor in some of the biggest labor union negotiations at Brown. He worked to negotiate agreements on the labor union issues for library workers in October 2004 and the Dining Services union, Ser vice Employees International Union Local 615, in October 2006.

Faced with student protests about fair wages for “limited duration employees” at Dining Ser vices, Hunter amended worker contracts to include higher wages and some union rights over the summer of 2005. The amendment unionized 45 limited duration employees and

changed their titles to “assistant food service workers.”

Hunter was also part of a working group on the Designated Suppliers Program. The program is a collaborative effort among U.S. colleges and universities to ensure that school apparel is manufactured in factories that uphold certain standards, such as paying workers a “living wage” and giving workers freedom to unionize. He briefed the Brown University Community Council on the national debate surrounding the DSP and urged the council to recommend Brown support for the program.

“There were some tough decisions to be made,” Hunter said of his time at Brown. “But if you focus on doing what’s best for the University and what’s best for students, the rewards come back to you.”

He added, “This is a wonderful place doing wonderful things, and it’s been a terrific experience.”

of departments or institutes. But an exhibit at the Annmary Brown Memorial, “From A.A. to Zouave: Collections at Brown,” seeks to display a cross-section of the broad range of artifacts and documents the University has amassed over the course of its history.

The exhibit is curated by students in AMCV 1550: “Methods in Public Humanities,” with Professor of American Civilization Steven Lubar, and taps into the individual interests of the exhibit’s many curators. Each student picked one collection at Brown and worked with the librarian responsible for its preservation to tell a story with three to five items from the collection.

The collections range from dance costumes to Alcoholics Anonymous memorabilia to work by street photographer Gary Winogrand. The objects can be exhibited as long as they are an appropriate size and durable enough to withstand damage from transport to the display cases and several months of light exposure.

“One of the purposes of this exhibit was to show off the wonderful things at Brown,” Lubar said.

“Probably nothing in the exhibit

has ever been on display before. My hope is that people start to realize what great collections there are at Brown.”

Jonathan Olly GS, the teaching assistant for the class, followed his long-standing interest in the history of whaling as a contributor to the exhibit. He made selections from the Carleton D. Morse Whaling Collection at the John Hay Library, which comprises hundreds of books, prints, logbooks, letters and photographs of whales and their hunters.

Donated to the university in 1957, the Morse Collection offers research material on the whaling industry from three continents and dozens of cultures. Morse’s hometown of New Bedford, Mass. once boasted a vibrant whaling industry, but the trade had dwindled by the time Morse entered Brown. Upon graduation, he simultaneously launched a business career and a diverse collection of whaling artifacts inspired by his childhood in the world’s former whaling capital.

Olly’s selections include prints of whales from the 18th century.

He said, though, that while the Morse collection is important, it is not one of the University’s top priorities.

“Not all collections at Brown are created equal,” he said. “Some collections are liked more by the libraries. There’s a stamp collection that has a $50,000 endowment.

Other collections are so large they can’t be cared for, so the library can’t afford to accept them.”

Kai Morrell ’11 studied an entirely different type of collection.

Working with Fred Jackson, director of the Plant Environmental Center, Morrell studied the plant specimens in both Brown’s Greenhouse and the Brown Herbarium continued on page 8

Local gourmands gather at food forum to talk shop

Event aims to boost R.I. agriculture

By Alex Roehrkasse Senior Staff Writer

Over plates of black bean ravioli and hearty steamed vegetables, around 200 farmers, restaurateurs, food service workers and activists shared stories, strategies and business cards Tuesday in Andrews Dining Hall.

“It’s all local,” organizer Jenn Baumstein ’08 said of the feast. But so were the feasters themselves, all gathered for the fourth annual Local Food Forum.

The event included various discussions and a “speed networking” session and was meant to connect local food producers with local consumers, developing better systems for agricultural cooperation, said Noah Fulmer ’05, executive director of Farm Fresh Rhode Island, one of the event’s sponsors.

“The state is so small that getting people to know each other can make

all the difference,” Fulmer said.

Many of the participants wouldn’t otherwise find the time to communicate and collaborate, so a day off designed for just that can go a long way,” he added.

Mostly jean-clad — except for a cadre of chefs from Johnson and Wales University — the participants swapped advice about everything from barrel sizes to product labels.

Some recognized a number of friendly faces, while others found themselves surrounded by mostly new acquaintances.

“It builds on itself through friends,” Baumstein said of the idea behind the forum. “Half of these people have known each other for 25 years,” she said, but a catalyst like yesterday’s event helps them solidify a “framework” for those relations to develop in profitable terms.

Among the topics discussed at the forum were distribution strategies for produce, the benefits of cooperation and intercommunication in local agriculture and the importance of knowing where food comes

Chris Bennett / Herald File Photo

Local farmers and food professionals gathered at Andrews Dining Hall on Tuesday for “speed networking.” from and ends up.

Farm Fresh RI hopes to address all these issues with a project it is currently developing — a local foods “hub” that would serve as a storage facility, distribution site and community center all at once. The hub would create a “year-round market

space,” said Sheri Griffin, the organization’s development director, that would help to “repair and recreate” an agricultural and consumer climate in Rhode Island that values the local.

In addition to food storage rooms, the building is slated to in-

clude classrooms for workshops, a library for resources on grantwriting and waste management and perhaps even a kitchen. Now on the drawing boards, the building will be located somewhere near Olneyville, continued on page 8

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Residents of South Wayland held a Super Tuesday party, tuning to CNN to watch the election returns come in.

“I was like, ‘Where were you before?’” she said with a laugh.

The Students for Hillary group was greeted by a buzzing Salomon 101, where students sampled quickly disappearing pizza while watching Wolf Blitzer announce incoming primary results on a big-screen projector. Jesse Maddox ’08, director of the Janus Forum, a group that promotes political discussion on campus, said the event was created to “bring together people of different ideologies” to watch the election returns.

“What better way than to have a big political party?” he said.

Abe Halpert ’09 planned to do some homework while intermittently watching the political coverage in Salomon. He thought that “about half (the campus) is pretty excited for Obama,” while “the other half can’t really tell the difference between Obama and Clinton,” but added that either way, the excitement was “way more than you’d usually see” for political elections.

Mark Fuller ’09, who said he voted in the New Jersey primary for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said he wasn’t bothered by the vocal presence of Democratic groups like Students for Obama on campus. Fuller said he thought that McCain was doing well in national polls against either potential Democratic nominee.

“I’m not too worried,” he said.

Meanwhile, other students across campus responded to the political coverage with a variety of intensity.

N.J., Ariz. voters stumble over the rules

By Ann Scott Tyson and Joby Warrick Washington Post

Voters turned out in droves in New Jersey and Arizona, two states where the Democratic primary contest is tight, but many forgot one key detail: registering to vote.

In New Jersey, poll officials said they saw an unusually large number of would-be voters who had either failed to register with a political party at all or wanted to vote for a candidate from a different party (only registered party members may vote in primaries in the Garden State).

Blame it on the earlier-than-usual primary, which was moved from June to February. Similar confusion arose in California, where independent voters are allowed to vote in the Democratic

contest but not on the Republican side.

Traditionally, New Jersey primaries attracted relatively few voters, because the presidential nominees were nearly always already decided.

This year’s race was a stark contrast, drawing a flood of voters, many of whom had never participated in a primary, according to election officials and observers.

“We’re seeing unaffiliated voters trying to vote, and others who can’t remember what party they registered with,” said one GOP official monitoring the polls. “One lady said she thought she had been a Republican for 10 years, but she had never actually changed her registration.”

Gov. Jon S. Corzine, D, had planned to cast his vote at 6:15 a.m. at his regular polling place in Hoboken,

N.J., but had to wait after two voting machines malfunctioned. About a dozen voters were turned away before the machines were fixed, election officials said.

Corzine, who has endorsed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., for president, cast his vote shortly before 7 a.m.

In Arizona, confusion over voter registration also meant that some voters arrived to cast ballots, only to be told their vote would not count or to be turned away.

The glitch occurred because Arizona’s independent voters mistakenly believed that since they are allowed to vote for Democrats or Republicans in other elections, they could do so in presidential primaries. But by state law, the vote Tuesday was open only to registered party members.

Overeager voters in Va., Md., suffer a super let-down

By Tim Craig and John Wagner Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of confused Virginians and some Marylanders jumped the gun Tuesday, showing up at polls or calling elections officials to find out where to cast ballots, even though the presidential primary is a week away.

Virginia and Maryland were not among the 24 Super Tuesday states that voted Tuesday, but that word apparently did not make it to some voters. Virginia, Maryland and the District vote Tuesday the 12th.

More than 700 people called the Virginia State Board of Elections to ask, “Why aren’t my polls opened and where do I go to vote?” according to Susan Pollard, a spokeswoman for the board. On a typical day, the

board fields 150 to 200 calls.

The Fairfax County, Va., elections board was getting about five calls an hour Tuesday morning from voters asking where they should go vote.

“To receive so many calls asking about Super Tuesday and when do we vote in Virginia is unheard of,” Pollard said. “Granted, we have to wait and see, but I think turnout (next Tuesday) will be a bit more than people originally anticipated.”

Maryland Election Administrator Linda Lamone said that “the phones have been ringing all day” but that she had no way to quantify what percentage of the callers were confused about the primary date.

Donna Duncan, director of election management for the Maryland State Board of Elections, said that “it’s possible that the overall media

coverage of Super Tuesday led some people to think” Maryland was also voting.

Tuesday’s so-called national primary also confused some voters in Texas. Elections officials in San Antonio told reporters they got more than 1,000 calls, even though Texas’ primary is March 4.

Election offices in Virginia are reporting a spike in applications for absentee ballots, and new registration figures show a surge in interest from voters under 25.

That could be good news for Sen. Barack Obama, Ill., in his matchup against Sen. Hillary Rodham, Clinton, N.Y., for the Democratic nomination. National public opinion polls indicate Obama leads Clinton by wide margins among young voters.

While Sean Bagge ’10 said he had “no plans whatsoever” to watch media coverage, Carla Cornejo ’10 said that she’d been “glued to CNN all day.” One could hear the faint sounds of televisions tuned to the primaries throughout the halls of Keeney Quadrangle.

Steve Holman ’11, who tuned into CNN in his Keeney double, said that he voted for Clinton in his home state of Utah. He said he chose not to participate in campaigning before the primaries with the Clinton group on campus mostly because he “hadn’t really heard of it,” while he “heard a lot about the Obama one.” He added that everyone on his hall seems to be “a really big fan” of Obama.

Some students prepared for primary festivities going far beyond the occasional peek at the television or Internet. Halpert said at the Janussponsored event that he heard of betting pools as well as drinking games where participants take shots when their candidate wins a state. With 24 states and two Democratic candidates, he said, “it could get ugly.”

At Alpha Epsilon Pi on Wriston Quadrangle, several fraternity brothers were participating in one such drinking game, which involved a complex set of rules where the type of alcohol to be consumed was based on how candidates fared in various states, in addition to “wild card” shots where all participants were supposed to drink. For example, “If Obama says, ‘yes we can,’ you take a shot,” said Herald Opinions

Columnist Zachary Beauchamp ’10, who said he spent about two hours creating the game. “It was a lot of fun making it, so even if no one plays it, I’m happy.”

As the day drew to a close, members of Students for Obama and Students for Hillar y looked forward with nervous excitement to the results. Jeremy Feigenbaum ’11, who attended the Salomon event with Students for Hillary, said he thought every group was looking forward to today’s final results “with cautious optimism.” He said he had “promised not to go to sleep” until the California results are in. “Thankfully I don’t have much class tomorrow,” he added.

Chaiken said that it would be “hard to dissociate” the personal energy he’s invested in the primaries from watching the results at the end of the day, and that he would try to concentrate on the fact that neither Clinton nor Obama will garner enough delegates to become the “de facto nominee.”

Students from both Democratic political groups said they were looking forward to continuing to prepare for upcoming primaries, such as Rhode Island’s on Mar. 4, with more phone calls and events. “I don’t think it will be over tonight,” said Craig Auster ’08, a member of the Clinton group.

No matter the outcome, Chaiken said, his group will continue laboring to bring voters into their candidate’s cause. “We’ll wake up in the morning and keep going.”

Tricks go techie: e-mails spread false statements about candidates

By Matthew Mosk Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Campaign dirty tricks found a new outlet on primary day, as several misleading attacks on presidential candidates were spread via cautionary, last minute e-mails in mass mailings among friends.

Some of the electronic messages that flashed onto computer screens Tuesday were in circulation for weeks — including one that suggested, falsely, that Sen. Barack Obama had not affirmed Israel’s right to exist. But Monday night, those messages started arriving in many e-mail inboxes with subject lines such as “FW: Something to consider before voting tomorrow.”

A number of candidates were targeted in e-mails forwarded to the Washington Post. One e-mail attacked Republican Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith. Another described Sen. John McCain as a “Manchurian candidate.” An e-mail with the subject line, “The truth about Hillary Clinton,” said Clinton opposed the Civil Rights Act as a teenager — she didn’t.

Some were unsigned and impossible to trace. “Clearly, the speed of delivery has enabled these last minute attacks to become much more potent,” said Peter Pasi, executive vice president of Emotive LLC, a firm that specializes in online communication strategies.

Zephyr Teachout, who served as director of Internet organizing for Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign and now teaches law at Duke University, said “what’s different, even from four years ago, is that across the board people are

using e-mail to talk about the election. ... Because you’re getting them from friends, they take on an air of authenticity.”

Sherry Saffer, a Los Angeles attorney, said in an interview that she sent a group of Jewish friends an email about Obama that she received from her aunt in New York. The message, from the Republican Jewish Coalition, criticized an interview Obama gave in the French publication Paris Match in which he proposes organizing a summit of heads of state in the Muslim world.

The coalition’s executive director then notes that, “Nowhere in the Paris Match article does Senator Obama affirm Israel’s right to exist.

Nor does he condemn the repeated terrorist strikes against Israel — the only stable democracy in the region.”

A top foreign policy adviser to Obama, Denis McDonough, said Tuesday the suggestion that Obama does not support Israel is “baseless, groundless and without merit.”

“Barack has strongly condemned terrorist attacks against Israel, has strongly affirmed Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and just last week was firmly on the record urging our U.N. ambassador to veto any resolution out of the Security Council that did not condemn missile attacks on Israel from Gaza,” McDonough said.

Saffer, who is not affiliated with any campaign and said she was already leaning towards supporting Clinton, explained that she “assumed anyone who gets an e-mail would make their own independent investigation into the accuracy or inaccuracy of it.”

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Super Tuesday a prelude to drawn-out nomination battles

By Doyle McManus and Peter Wallsten Los Angeles T imes

Clinton, Obama each gain strong victories

most conservative voters, notably those who see illegal immigration as the top issue. But Huckabee ran strongly among white evangelicals, a major conservative bloc.

“The two of them are splitting the conservative vote, and as long as they continue to do so, John McCain can shoot right up the middle,” said Republican strategist Dan Schnur, who worked for McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000 but has been neutral in the 2008 race.

McCain started the day with 102 delegates, Romney, 93, Huckabee, 43, and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, four, according to the Associated

WASHINGTON -— Not long ago, Super Tuesday was considered the day that would coronate the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees, the 24-state voting extravaganza that would surely mark an end-point to a chaotic primary campaign season.

That has proved wrong. Instead of producing nominees, Tuesday’s voting set the fault lines for a continuing fight within each party.

The crazy quilt of primary and caucus results finally gave Republicans a clear frontrunner in Sen. John McCain — but no sign that his rivals, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, would drop out soon, and no sign of peace among the party’s bitterly divided factions.

Democrats who once thought their race would wrap up early found themselves facing a potentially lengthy duel between Sens.

Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton — with votes divided not by ideology but, in many states, by race and ethnic group.

Clinton and Obama divided the nation almost down the middle, with Clinton winning at least eight states, including California and New York, Obama at least 10 states, including Illinois and Georgia -- a close result that guaranteed days of uncertainty over the delegate count, followed by weeks more of spirited campaigning.

With the two candidates separated by only modest policy differences, Tuesday’s results illuminated, instead, divisions of what scholars call “identity politics.” Hispanics turned out in large numbers and overwhelmingly supported Clinton; black voters turned out and voted overwhelmingly for Obama; and white voters divided, giving pluralities to Clinton in some states, and to Obama in others.

McCain advanced several significant steps toward his party’s nomination, winning at least six states, including delegate-rich New York, Illinois and New Jersey, with California too close to call. But exit polls showed that he has still not won the hearts of the party’s most loyal conservatives, who divided most of their votes between Romney and Huckabee.

That left the GOP closer to making McCain its nominee, but no closer to joining ranks behind him.

The overall outcome: These primary races are not over, in either party. The battle between Clinton and Obama will continue, probably through the March 4 primaries in Ohio and Texas, and possibly beyond. McCain appears almost certain to win his party’s nomination, but only after battling Romney and Huckabee for delegates in more states.

For Democrats, Tuesday’s results showed both candidates strengthening their natural bases of support, with Clinton exerting dominance among Hispanics and Obama beginning to show progress among white voters.

Look no farther than their home states to see each candidate’s biggest weakness: In her own New York, Clinton lost the black vote overwhelmingly to Obama. In Illinois, which Obama won handily, he barely won a majority of the Hispanic vote.

Nationally, according to the Associated Press, Obama won eight in 10 black voters while Clinton won six in 10 Hispanics.

Obama, though, proved once again, just as he did last month in Iowa, that many whites will vote for a black candidate. His wins in overwhelmingly white states such as Connecticut, Utah, Idaho, Minnesota and North Dakota — along with his success among nearly half of white voters in California — will help the Obama campaign convince potential donors and voters in future contests in the coming weeks that he can go the distance.

Nationally, according to an AP analysis, Obama won four in 10 white voters, an improvement from the South Carolina primary

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By Mark Z. Barabak Los Angeles Times

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama dueled to a Super Tuesday draw, capturing states big and small and padding their delegate counts in a Democratic contest that remains highly competitive after the biggest day of balloting in presidential primary history.

Their victories were scattered.

Clinton won big in the Northeast: her home state of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. She carried Oklahoma, Arizona, Tennessee and Arkansas, where she served as first lady alongside then-Gov. Bill Clinton.

Obama ran strongly in the Midwest, capturing his home state of Illinois along with Minnesota, North Dakota and Kansas. He also won Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Georgia and Utah.

Clinton was leading comfortably in early returns in California, the day’s biggest prize.

Under Democratic Party rules that award nominating delegates on a proportional basis, both candidates boosted their totals enough to claim victory, and the race seemed no more settled that it had been 24 hours earlier. The Democrats move on to contests Saturday in Louisiana, Nebraska and Washington state, and Tuesday in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Beyond that, both sides foresee a protracted battle extending into March and perhaps much longer.

Speaking in soft, even tones — possibly to spare her strained vocal chords -- Clinton acknowledged that the results were far from decisive. “I want to congratulate Sena-

Tracy Woodward, Preston Keres / Washington Post

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both captured several states last night. tor Obama for his victory tonight, and I look forward to continuing our campaign and our debates about how to leave this country better off for the next generation,” Clinton told an ebullient crowd packed into a ballroom in midtown Manhattan.

Obama returned the favor in Chicago, congratulating Clinton on her performance and praising her for “running an outstanding campaign.”

But, he went on, “We have to choose between change and more of the same. We have to choose between looking backward and looking forward. We have to choose between our future and our past.”

Democrats, and some independents, went to the polls in 22 states and American Samoa in the biggest single primary day ever.

At stake were 1,681 pledged delegates, or nearly three-quarters of the total needed to secure the Democratic nomination. Clinton won 173 delegates Tuesday to Obama’s 149 in incomplete results, according to The Associated Press, giving her 436 delegates to Obama’s 352.

The vote Tuesday showed Obama broadening his coalition while Clinton continued to show strength among Hispanics and voters worried about the economy.

He received the support of more than 4 in 10 women and about the same number of whites, according to exit polls conducted in 16 states for television networks and The Associated Press. That was a marked improvement from earlier contests. Obama also ran strongly among voters under age 44 and won the backing of about 8 in 10 blacks, matching his earlier performance.

Clinton won support from about 6 in 10 Hispanics and also led among voters most concerned about the economy, who made up half the Democrats voting Tuesday. Obama led among those most concerned about Iraq, who made up about 30 percent of voters surveyed.

From sunny Southern California to blustery Chicago to rainy New York, Americans took to the polls in huge numbers. In continued on page 8

McCain stakes leading claim but can’t shake rivals

By Michael Finnegan Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — John McCain rolled to victory in big-state contests Tuesday, but rivals Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney notched enough wins to keep the race for the Republican presidential nomination alive.

On the biggest single day of party balloting in history, Sen. McCain won primaries in California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Oklahoma and Arizona, his home state.

Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, finished better than expected across a large stretch of the Bible Belt. He won Alabama, West Virginia and delegate-rich Georgia and Tennessee — major trophies for a man who long ranked as an afterthought in the race for the White House.

The 21 Republican contests on Super Tuesday proved a disappointment, however, for Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts.

He took his home state, but his other victories in early returns were in the relatively small states of Utah —where he was buoyed by fellow Mormons — Minnesota, Montana and North Dakota.

McCain was counting on winning enough delegates Tuesday to establish himself firmly as the presumptive nominee. In Phoenix, he took to the stage at the Arizona Biltmore with the “Rocky” anthem playing and told cheering supporters he was glad to give up the role of underdog.

“I think we must get used to the idea that

we are the Republican Party front-runner,” he told the crowd.

“Mac is back!” his supporters hollered.

At his election-night party in Boston, Romney told supporters that he would stay in the race no matter the delegate count after Super Tuesday.

“I think there’s some people who thought it was all going to be done tonight,” he told the crowd before promising: “We’re going to go all the way to the convention and we’re going to win this thing, and we’re going to go to the White House.”

Huckabee, like Romney, vowed to keep on fighting.

“Tonight we’re proving that we’re still on our feet,” Huckabee told a boisterous crowd in Little Rock, Ark. “And much to the amazement of many, we’re getting there, folks.”

With 1,023 delegates to the party’s summer convention at stake Tuesday, it was mathematically impossible for McCain to reach the 1,191 needed to win the Republican nomination.

Among the important contests ahead are Virginia and Maryland next Tuesday, Wisconsin and Washington a week later and Ohio and Texas on March 4.

For Romney, who has portrayed himself as a more conservative alternative to McCain, the coast-to-coast voting offered an opportunity to stop McCain’s momentum. Early results suggested he fell well short of that.

Romney’s main obstacle appeared to be Huckabee. Exit polls conducted for television networks and The Associated Press found that Romney had an advantage with the party’s

Melina Mara / Washington Post

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., won big in several states, but his two top competitors are still in it.

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Singer ’09: An ex-pat’s tale of watching the Pats continued from page 12 this was not the high-powered offensive matchup everyone anticipated. Other than Wes Welker and the Giants D-Line, nobody showed up until the fourth quarter. Then, with less than three minutes to play, down 10-7, No. 12 found Randy Moss in the endzone. The bar erupted into shouts and cheers of jubilation.

Everything felt right, familiar, as it should be.

Until Eli Manning, against all odds, managed to shake off four blue shirts and hurl up a third down prayer to David Tyree, who did his best Moss impression to bring the Giants back to life. After that, the underdogs marched down the rest of the field, and the team that held San Diego to four field goals in the red zone two weeks earlier got burned by a crippled Plaxico Burress. Four downs later, the other half of the bar erupted again.

I walked out onto the street, and the world inside the bar disap-

peared. There would be no banners here, no people running through the streets screaming, nobody bemoaning the implausible upset. In a way, it’s very comforting to wake up, walk outside, and have nobody know about what just occurred. The newspapers will read: Barcelona 1, Osasuna 0, and the headlines will center on FC Barcelona trying to make up ground on Real Madrid.

It’s as if what 148 million witnesses just saw never happened. Yet, at the same time, it’s dumbfounding. Just like Tom Brady marching down the field to put his team ahead with under three minutes left and not having it stick. Or over ninety Americans creating an enclave in a British bar in the middle of Spain. I don’t know how to explain it.

No se. Es locura.

Ben Singer ’09 would rather watch Pierce Brosnan sell laxatives than sit through a commercial featuring both Manning brothers.

A collection for the ages continued from page 5 in Arnold Laboratory.

Until she came to Brown, Morell said, the subject “wasn’t something I realized I had an interest in.”

“I’m from Hawaii, and I didn’t recognize a lot (of) plants here,” she said. “Then I went into (the) greenhouse and saw plants from home.”

Founded in 1877, the Herbarium was part of a 19th century movement to catalog and preserve plants and other natural history artifacts. The Herbarium houses thousands of pages of dried, mounted plants — some of which predate the Civil War — in the basement of Arnold Lab. Living plant specimens have been kept around Brown’s campus since 1912, when a small greenhouse was erected on George Street, the first of four greenhouses the University built over the next century.

While most collections at Brown can expect to be protected and sheltered for decades to come, the future of the greenhouse is unclear.

Construction plans for The Walk, the greensward that will connect Pem-

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broke Campus with Lincoln Field, will demolish the current greenhouse without making provisions for a new home for Brown’s living specimens.

“Now is the time to invest in these collections,” Morrell wrote in an abstract for her portion of the exhibit, “to provide them with the support they need to fulfill their unique potential as cultural and research assets to the University community.”

Morrell selected a number of live plant specimens for “From A.A. to Zouave,” but could not display them due their fragile nature. Instead, she is trying to to raise awareness about the greenhouse’s fate — with a modern twist to traditional museum curation. She has created a cell phone tour, where anyone can call a number to hear an audio tour of the living collection.

“Collections are the basis of research,” Olly said. “They capture either a moment or a place or the understanding of people at a point in time. You can’t get it through secondary sources. This is the raw data of history.”

Drawn-out nomination battle likely to ensue continued from page 7 last month, when he won just about a quarter of whites.

There were, however, danger signs for Obama.

In Oklahoma, for example, an overwhelmingly white state won easily by Clinton, CNN exit polls showed that Obama won just 28 percent of whites. The result was similar in Tennessee, another socalled “red” state that Obama strategists have pointed to as a general election battleground should the Illinois senator win the nomination.

And while his campaign devoted a great deal of time and money courting Hispanics from California to Colorado, it seems he did not make much progress, losing California Hispanics across all age groups.

Strengthening a Hispanic-black coalition could be crucial in a big upcoming primary in early March — in Texas — that many strategists now believe could be decisive.

Strategists for both Democratic campaigns said Tuesday they were encouraged by the results, but both said they expected the

race to continue for weeks if not months as the campaigns scrap for delegates to the nominating convention.

“We’re both prepared for a long, drawn-out affair,” said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe.

The Republicans’ divide was ideological -- and familiar. It was the same division between moderates, most of whom favor McCain, and conservatives, most of whom don’t, that marked the results in earlier primaries from New Hampshire to South Carolina.

Across the nation, McCain led among Republicans who identified themselves as moderates or liberals, but Romney led among the larger group who called themselves conservatives, according to exit poll results published by The Associated Press.

In California, McCain won less than a third of the vote among conservatives, who made up most of the Republican electorate; Romney won a plurality of conservatives’ votes. That result was repeated in most other states; even in his home state of Arizona, where McCain won overall, he lost among conservatives.

Clinton, Obama strengthened continued from page 7 Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood, voters of assorted ethnic backgrounds hobbled on canes, carried backpacks, pushed children in strollers or stopped by on their lunch break, some still in uniform.

Lisa Paten, 39, an independent journalist, took the day off from work and skipped the New York Giants’ Super Bowl parade to volunteer for Obama’s campaign, standing on a sidewalk in front of an elementary school polling center exhorting passersby to vote for the Illinois senator. “It’s difficult because you want to celebrate,” she said of the Giants’ upset win, “but today is important. I want to be a part of history.”

In Atlanta, Kimberley Griffieth said she was convinced that Clinton’s years in Washington — especially as first lady -- made her best qualified to lead the country starting in January. “Hillary has been president before,” said Griffieth, 42, as she headed to vote in the Kirkwood neighborhood. “She’s familiar with the process. I believe she’s going to go in and get us out

of this hot mess with the war and the economy.”

After spending months parked in Iowa and New Hampshire, the candidates resorted over the past 10 days to a form of drive-by campaigning: a rally, a news conference, a wave and then back on the plane for the next stop. Clinton and Obama spent prodigiously on TV advertising and generated all the free publicity they could muster, Obama getting the better of that competition by rolling out endorsements from, among others, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and California first lady Maria Shriver. (Although Kennedy could not deliver his home state.)

Clinton relied on high-profile volunteers to broaden her reach, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; her daughter, Chelsea, and her surrogate-inchief, former President Clinton, who took a humbler approach than the combative stance he struck during the contest in South Carolina. “I’m not against anybody,” the ex-president told a black church audience in Los Angeles. “I’m just for her.”

That suggested that the Arizona senator has not yet won over substantial numbers of his party’s most loyal supporters, despite weeks of effort on his part to show that he is a genuine conservative.

“McCain wanted to use Super Tuesday to silence his critics and become the consensus nominee, but he fell a little short,” said Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster.

“McCain moved the ball forward, but he didn’t score a touchdown.

It’s not a bad showing, but it’s not especially strong.”

As a result, he says, there is no particular reason for Romney or Huckabee to get out of the race at this point. “They can’t look at these results and say, ‘I’ve had enough, I’m throwing in the towel,’” he said.

McCain’s poor showing among conservatives “is a formidable number to overcome,” agreed veteran GOP strategist Eddie Mahe. “If Romney comes close in California, I think the conservatives will push to keep him in. They do not want McCain to be the presumptive nominee. ... The animosity toward McCain (among conservatives) is very broad and very deep.”

No Republicans down for the count — yet continued from page 7 Press. By late Tuesday evening, McCain led with 439 delegates, to 199 for Romney and 136 for Huckabee.

The day’s first victory went to Huckabee, who won a vote of 1,133 Republicans at the state party convention in West Virginia. That came as a blow to Romney, who had taken a red-eye from Long Beach, Calif., to Charleston, W.Va., to appeal for their support Tuesday morning. He told the crowd that he had fought in Massachusetts against abortion, gay marriage and gun control.

“Every action I took was to protect life, protect family, protect marriage -- by the way, also to protect Second Amendment rights,” Romney said, not mentioning his approval of an assault-weapons ban when he was governor.

Romney drew the biggest share of votes on the first ballot but fell short of the majority. On the second ballot, McCain’s supporters defected to Huckabee, who leapfrogged past Romney to a 51.5 percent victory.

Local farmers gather to discuss their craft continued from page 5 Griffin said.

By providing a chance for local growers to “get their names out there,” the forum has drawn many participants back several times.

Perry Raso, who owns and operates Matunuck Oyster Farm, said that he made two crucial contacts at last year’s meeting — one who invited him to sell his shellfish at a farmers’ market and another who has bought oysters from him every week since.

Raso said he sells most of his oysters and scallops to larger markets in Boston, Washington, D.C., and New York, but that he likes to sell locally to diversify. What’s more, he said, he enjoys getting positive feedback about his work on a community level.

“I like walking into a restaurant

and hearing, ‘Oh, your oysters are great!’” he said.

Kristin Lewis of Rabbit’s Dance Farm in Cumberland maintains her farm’s ties to the community through a system of communitysupported agriculture. Her customers pay upfront for a seasonal share of the crop, and then come to the farm to pick up a variety of organic produce every week.

“They like the experience of connecting with the farm,” Lewis said of her clients. She said she often invites them to pick their own vegetables when they come, and gives them recipes for the food they take home. “People say they eat a lot better,” Lewis said, adding that she thinks it’s because the experience isn’t just nutritional but educational as well.

Baumstein, who interns with the University’s Community Har-

vest program, said she hopes that Brown Dining Services can continue to expand its relationship with the local food community, and noted that events like the forum present a way to make that happen better.

Lewis said she meets more and more people who are familiar with the concept of communitysupported agriculture, perhaps an indication that awareness of the local food movement in Rhode Island is growing.

“More people are coming to me saying ‘This is what I want,’ not ‘What are you doing? I’m curious,’” she said.

Reminiscing about the nowvanished farms of his New Jersey childhood, Fulmer said his inspiration for taking a greater interest in promoting local food communities is quite simple.

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CIA director confirms use of waterboarding

By Greg Miller Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said publicly for the first time Tuesday that his agency had used the harsh interrogation technique known as “waterboarding” on three al-Qaida suspects, and he testified that depriving the agency of coercive methods would “increase the danger to America.”

In the most detailed public comments to date on a CIA program that had been shrouded in secrecy for years, Hayden said the agency had used simulated drowning to extract critical information from terrorism suspects in 2002 and 2003.

He also testified that only three detainees were ever subjected to the method: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept.

11 attacks; Abu Zubaydah, an al-Qaida operative tied to the Sept. 11 plot; and Abd al-Rashim al-Nashiri, a Saudi suspected of playing a key role in the bombing of the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole in Yemen in 2000.

Appearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Hayden said the CIA had ceased using waterboarding nearly five years ago, but he made a vigorous case for preserving the agency’s ability to use so-called “enhanced” interrogation techniques.

Information provided by two of the prisoners who underwent waterboarding -- Mohammed and Zubaydah -- accounted for 25 percent of the human intelligence reports circulated by the CIA on al-Qaida in the five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Hayden said.

At a time when Congress is considering imposing sweeping new restrictions on the CIA, Hayden warned of potentially deadly consequences.

“If you create a box, we will play inside the box without exception,” he said. “My view is that would substantially increase the danger to America.”

Hayden’s testimony came during a hearing that was supposed to focus on national security threats.

Instead, the session was dominated by a renewed debate over spy powers the Bush administration asserted after the Sept. 11 attacks, particularly interrogation methods.

The hearing exposed persistent fault lines between the political parties on the interrogation issue. Some Democrats on the panel have said that waterboarding amounts to torture.

The panel’s chairman, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., questioned whether the CIA’s harsh methods “undermined our moral standing” and reduced cooperation in the war on terrorism.

But even among administration officials testifying Tuesday, there were signs of shifting positions and divisions on the issue.

At one point, J. Michael McConnell, the nation’s top intelligence officer, sought to back away from recent comments in a magazine article indicating that he considered waterboarding a form of torture.

McConnell acknowledged the severity of the technique, saying, “waterboarding, taken to its extreme, could be death.” Even so, he said, there are scenarios in which it might still be employed.

“It is a legal technique,” he said, “used in a specific set of circumstances.”

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Moments after McConnell’s comments, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III seemed to undercut the case for using extreme methods, testifying that FBI agents had extracted critical information from high-value detainees, including former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, without resorting to coercive techniques.

Asked whether the FBI’s more controlled methods were effective, Mueller said, “We believe so.”

The sparring came during testimony in which the nation’s top intelligence officials offered a mixed assessment of the security environment confronting the United States.

They contrasted security improvements in Iraq with growing violence and unrest in Pakistan. McConnell testified that 1,360 Pakistanis were killed by suicide bombings and other extremist attacks in 2007, more than in the previous six years combined.

The December assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto “could embolden Pashtun militants, increasing their confidence that they can strike the Pakistani establishment anywhere in the country,” McConnell said.

The troop surge in Iraq has brought significant gains in stability, McConnell said, but it remains unlikely that the Iraqi government can resolve divisions among sectarian and ethnic groups over the next year.

Al-Qaida remains the most dangerous threat to the United States, the senators on the panel were told.

But the terrorist network has begun to “lose some of its luster” among Muslims around the world because of setbacks in Iraq, McConnell said.

Nevertheless, he continued, alQaida has strengthened its ability to strike targets in the West, because of a steady flow of recruits from Western countries into al-Qaida’s base in the tribal region of Pakistan.

“Al-Qaida is improving the last key aspect of its ability to attack the U.S.,” McConnell said, citing “the identification, training and positioning of operatives for an attack in the homeland.”

Those dire words served as a backdrop for the debate on intelligence-gathering methods, including McConnell’s push for expanded authority to intercept calls and e-mails overseas, as well as Hayden’s vigorous defense of the CIA’s interrogation program.

President Bush signed an executive order last summer imposing new restrictions on the CIA, but many lawmakers say the agency should be reined in further.

As soon as next week, the Senate is poised to consider legislation, already passed by the House, that would require the CIA to abide by the tighter rules adopted by the Army in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

Hayden scoffed at the suggestion, saying it made no more sense to apply the Army’s interrogation rules to CIA operatives “than it would ... to take the Army Field Manual on grooming and apply it to my agency.”

Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., called on Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey to conduct a Justice Department investigation into whether laws were violated in the waterboarding cases Hayden acknowledged.

— Staff writers Josh Meyer and Richard B. Schmitt contributed to this report.

Bids for spectrum pass $4.7 billion

By Cecilia Kang Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Bidding on a coveted block of wireless frequencies continued Tuesday, as unidentified companies continued to compete for rights to build the nation’s first open wireless network.

By the end of day, aggregate bids in the Federal Communications Commission auction of the C Block of airwaves had exceeded the $4.7 billion bid last week. Those air waves, in the 700-megahertz range, now used for transmitting analog television broadcasts, will be redesignated for high-speed wireless traffic. They are considered especially valuable because broadcasts on that band can carry further than other signals.

The FCC is auctioning of f several blocks of spectrum in the 700-MHz range, and total bidding for those blocks has reached $18.9 billion. The commission’s goal had been $10 billion.

When the C Block, the largest swath of airwaves up for auction, reached its minimum reser ve price on Thursday, the bid trig-

gered the commission’s rule that the airwaves be used to build an open network, which would allow the operation of any device or software application. Currently, cellphone companies can restrict which types of phones consumers use with their networks, and what kinds of services they can use on those phones.

The openness condition was endorsed by such companies as Google, which hopes that fewer restrictions will enable customers to use its services more easily.

Paul Gallant, an analyst at Stanford Group in Houston, said the block of spectrum will be key to competition in high-speed wireless over the next few years. “It will help establish who has the best network and can offer the best applications to consumers,” he said.

Gallant said Verizon Wireless needs more air waves than its chief competitor AT&T, which has accumulated spectrum more rapidly than other companies in the business. Separate from the auction, AT&T said Tuesday that the FCC approved its $2.5 billion

purchase of spectrum licenses from Aloha Spectrum Holdings in 281 markets.

The auction’s winners will not be announced until bidding on each of the five blocks of spectrum is complete, a process that could last weeks. One big holdup could be that the FCC has not received a minimum bid for licenses it hoped would be purchased by a company that would build a network to be shared with public-safety agencies.

Speculation about the identity of bidders remains intense.

Google likely is not trying to win the auction but may have placed the $4.7 billion bid last week to ensure that the winning bidder would open the network, said Rebecca Arbogast, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus in Washington.

Google is unlikely to want to build and operate a network — which would cost billions of dollars — on top of buying the licenses, she said.

If Google placed last week’s bid, then Verizon Wireless is the most likely company to have outbid it, she said.

Rebel leaders call for cease-fire in Chad

By Craig Timberg Washington Post

JOHANNESBURG, S. Africa — Chad’s rebel leaders called for a cease-fire Tuesday as their attempted coup against President Idriss Deby continued to falter in the face of military resistance and international condemnation. Red Cross officials in Geneva said the recent fighting had caused more than 1,000 casualties.

With the rebels confined to the outskirts of N’Djamena, the capital, Deby’s government said it had the situation under control.

France, which has 1,900 troops in Chad, a former colony, declared willingness to use them to protect the government, as allowed by a U.N. Security Council resolution approved Monday.

As fighting eased, humanitarian groups warned that conditions continued to deteriorate for hundreds of thousands of Darfuri refugees in Chad’s east and for tens of thousands of N’Djamena residents who fled the city in recent days for neighboring Cameroon.

Human rights groups in Chad, one of the world’s poorest nations, denounced what they called increasingly aggressive tactics by Deby’s government, including detention of unarmed opposition leaders.

The human cost of the attempted coup remained uncertain.

Red Cross officials who estimated more than 1,000 casualties had no word on how many of those were fatalities. The Associated Press quoted Chadian Red Cross officials on the scene as saying that hundreds of people had died.

The rebels say they are trying to overturn a brutal dictatorship; Deby’s government maintains they are backed by Chad’s eastern neighbor Sudan and that their attack represents a declaration of war. Foreign analysts say the fighting is in part an struggle to gain control of Chad’s oil production.

Last week, the rebels raced west across the Chadian desert on hundreds of machine-gun mounted tr ucks to reach the capital, where they opened fire on Deby’s palace. The attack faltered on Sunday, and on Monday France received U.N. authority to aid the government.

On Tuesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned of possible militar y action if the rebels resumed fighting: “If France must do its duty, it will do so ... Let no one doubt it.”

Rebel leaders announced interest in a cease-fire.

“Conscious of the suffering of the Chad population and respecting the peace initiatives of fraternal countries Libya and Burkina Faso, the forces of national resistance give their assent to an immediate cease-fire,” rebel spokesman Abderaman Koulamallah said on Radio France Internationale.

Mahamat Nouri, head of the rebel UFDD faction, told the radio: “Our biggest handicap is the French army, not Idriss Deby.

Without France, we are ready to chase Deby away today.” He said his group was “not ready to return to Sudan.”

Deby did not immediately agree to the cease-fire offer, although N’Djamena fell largely quiet, reports said.

Tens of thousands of Chadians, meanwhile, were huddled in northern Cameroon, having fled across bridges that span the river border at N’Djamena. Aid officials had begun to work in the region, assessing needs for food, shelter and medical care.

Conditions also were problematic in eastern Chad, where hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced by the conflict in Sudan’s neighboring Darfur region live in camps. The attack on Chad’s capital and resulting instability had disrupted the flow of food and other supplies to the region.

“If we do not manage to pro-

vide aid at sufficient levels, the humanitarian crisis might become a humanitarian catastrophe,” said Maurizio Giuliano, a spokesman for Chad’s office of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance.

Government of ficials spoke with increasing confidence about the coup having been defeated.

“All threat to the security of the city of N’Djamena can now be put aside,” Chad’s Foreign Minister Ahmad Allam-mi told reporters in Paris, according to the Associated Press.

Nine foreign journalists who were detained on landing at the capital’s international airpor t Monday were released Tuesday, according to French militar y spokesman Capt. Christophe Prazuck. The group included reporters for the Associated Press, the New York Times and a French television station.

The slowing of combat did nothing to ease the underlying tensions in the volatile heart of Africa. Chad and Sudan remain bitter enemies, and Sudan accuses Chad of supporting rebels that operate in Sudanese territor y.

In Washington, U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told reporters that the governments of Chad and Sudan must “end the support of these reciprocal rebel groups and allow the international community in to ensure people can be resettled and humanitarian assistance can get in place.”

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Getting in touch Yesterday, hundreds of Brown students watched the results of primaries across America, waiting to see if the person they think can change the country will have a chance to do so. Last week, one New York Times reporter received a subpoena from a federal grand jury to disclose the sources he used when reporting on a CIA attempt to access Iran’s nuclear program.

Those students probably haven’t heard of James Risen ’77. This Times reporter who won a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Bush administration’s attempt to improve national security by wiretapping people in the U.S. as they made international phone calls and sent international e-mails. But they share one quality with this alum: They care about America becoming a better place. That’s why some of them got up at 6 a.m. to canvass for their preferred candidate or went to Salomon 101 to watch the primary results come in. Risen cares enough about the truth of America to attach his name to highly controversial information that could land him in jail.

We admire Risen for his tenacity, but we admire his sources as well.

When he spoke on campus in November 2006, he emphasized that government officials in the Bush administration are afraid to talk to reporters.

Those who divulged those secrets cared enough about the direction of their government to overcome that fear. They put their jobs, their reputations and their freedom on the line when they gave him information that helped Americans better understand the people running their country.

Brown is a liberal Ivy League school. We don’t think wiretapping would exactly fly with administrators here — most of whom just want to make Brown a better place. But sometimes well intentioned people with power make mistakes. It’s up to the rest of us to find those mistakes and do something about it.

Maybe that means getting in touch with your friendly community publication about something that concerns you, whether it’s the way the University picks a new dean, or its manner of suggesting improvements to the undergraduate experience. We’re not the New York Times, but we’d like to keep readers as informed as possible. Students have a lot of simple ways to say what they feel, and we’re not counting late-night posts on the Jolt. Care about attempts to revise our undergraduate experience? Get in touch with the task force that’s heading the effort. Care about how much funding your student group or department gets? Write a letter President Simmons and the Corporation members who will be making budget decisions later this month. Even talking about something that bothers you with friends or classmates will get people thinking about it.

We talk a lot about making a difference in this space. But that doesn’t mean you have to storm University Hall. Write a letter, attend a forum, or send us a news tip. Information, like they say, is power.

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Letters BRUnet will add volunteers, continue steady growth To the Editor, Pronouncing BRUnet, the new volunteer alumni networking tool, a “failure” (“BRUnet limits access to alums,” Jan. 24) was a premature epitaph for a powerful program still in its infancy.

BRUnet is less than nine months old and is adding new alumni volunteers every day. The program improves upon comparable networking tools offered by our peer institutions and the rate of growth parallels that experienced by Yale, which successfully introduced a similar program.

Though BRUnet’s largest audience is alumni, its design was strongly influenced by the feedback of student focus groups. Students told us they wanted pre-drafted e-mails of introduction to help “break the ice.” They asked for in-depth information about each volunteer, including career path details and Brown-related student activities. Students also wanted the volunteer profiles to be up-to-date to ensure the best chance of making a meaningful connection. Following successful peer examples, we used the BRUnet launch as an opportunity to renew the commitment of our volunteers, while creating a leading edge networking tool that stands up to — or exceeds — peer comparisons.

BRUnet is only one component in the job search

process. We also help students by bringing committed alumni volunteers to campus annually for the Career Conference, slated for March 1 this year. However, the Herald is right to remind us that BRUnet’s alumni contacts could help buffer economic uncertainty for the Class of 2008. In response, we are doubling all BRUnet-related paid advertising in upcoming issues of the Brown Alumni Magazine. We will also prominently feature BRUnet on the front page of our monthly alumni electronic newsletter, the Brown Insider, for the remainder of the academic year. Finally, we will intensify our targeted communications to specific alumni audiences, urging them to sign up as BRUnet volunteers.

It is hard not to be impatient when you are looking for your first job during an economic downturn.

BRUnet is a significant leap forward for Brown’s career networking tools and, with more alumni volunteers, it will become even stronger. The answer to challenging times is to keep growing this sophisticated tool that will help students establish meaningful connections with alumni for years to come.

Todd Andrews ’83 Vice President, Alumni Relations Feb. 5

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The New Curriculum and cheating at Brown

BY GRAHAM ANDERSON Opinions Columnist At the Task Force on Undergraduate Education’s open forum in November, I asked whether the task force had considered the topics of academic dishonesty in its comprehensive review of the Brown curriculum. My question was admittedly strange and a bit out of place, but I do particularly appreciate task force member Professor Arnold Weinstein’s consideration for my concerns. Ultimately, I asked the question because incidents of academic dishonesty represent small moments where the educational process completely fails, particularly within Brown’s unique academic environment. When a student cheats, the bonds of trust and mentorship between student and professor dissolve, learning assessment loses meaning and knowledge is devalued.

I was thus disappointed, although not surprised, that the Task Force on Undergraduate Education’s report rough draft did not address academic dishonesty and cheating at Brown.

Maybe I should concede that the topic of academic dishonestly does not belong in a formal, comprehensive review of the Brown curriculum. Nonetheless, studying and analyzing the topic of academic dishonesty within the context of the Brown educational experience would offer new insights into the successes and failures of the New Curriculum, and perhaps eventually offer a powerful model for addressing cheating at colleges worldwide.

There is obviously nothing new about cheating at colleges. It is of course difficult to quantify the amount of cheating on college campuses, although recent studies

generally conclude that over 50% of college students have cheated at some point. Even though an Apr. 25, 2007, Brown Daily Herald article (“Is cheating on the rise?”) reported a sharp increase recently in the number of reported cheating incidents at Brown, I am not suggesting that Brown has any more of a problem with academic dishonesty than other universities.

Indeed, Brown probably has a lower incidence of cheating because of the general

succumbed to and rewarding academic risks without the usual consequences of failure.

After all, Brown students can choose whether or not they take classes for a grade, neither an NC nor a dropped class appears on one’s transcript and the graduation requirements allow significant leeway for failed credit attempts. Still, there is an elephant in the room; why do some Brown students still cheat?

I cannot answer that question well, nor probably can anybody else at Brown right

Do Brown’s curriculum and academic climate reduce cheating, or is there no effect? Does our grading system discourage cheating? Do some Brown students cheat to overachieve, or to simply survive academically? qualities of our student body and the academic environment of the New Curriculum. Brown in particular attracts independent-minded students who go to school for the sake of learning, not for the sake of the grade, and the Brown Admission Office seems to do a good job ensuring that our student body is composed of students with the utmost moral integrity. These characteristics ensure the success of the New Curriculum. Our curriculum in turn has created an environment comparatively void of academic competition, lacking the disgusting resume-ornamenting mentality that most of our generation has

now. Therefore, Brown would do itself much good to make it an explicit, serious and fearless goal to study how and why academic dishonesty exists on our campus, in an interdisciplinary manner involving the perspectives and expertise of faculty, administration and students. Brown continues to prove itself capable of addressing uncomfortable, potentially embarrassing questions, as seen with the recent University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. Brown should rise above our university peers and address the issue of academic dishonesty head-on, by means of self-reflection.

Do Brown’s curriculum and academic climate reduce cheating, or is there no effect? Does our grading system discourage cheating? Do some Brown students cheat to overachieve, or to simply survive academically? These are the sorts of questions that Brown should tr y to answer, and it is my instinct that such answers will reveal a lot more positive than negative about Brown, its students, and the New Curriculum. Perhaps Brown can discover ways to expand upon its qualities to better discourage and prevent cheating, whether by enacting new policies or simply better communicating the absurdity of choosing to cheat when one has all the advantages and safeguards of the New Curriculum. Maybe Brown can simply find yet another reason to subtly tell the world that our approach to university education is the best approach.

Finally, I am no angel — I admit to stealing the occasional dessert off of a friend’s tray in the Ratty instead of getting my own and to ignoring stop signs when nobody is around — and so I am a bit reluctant to offer my peers some moral evangelizing about academic dishonesty. Still, for whatever it is worth, here is a statement that Brown might consider including in its Academic Code: You are at Brown. There is no reckless culture of academic competition here. It is okay to fail every once in a while here, as long as you tried. There is no reason to be taking classes here that do not interest you.

If you care more about your resume than about learning, then just leave now. Of all the elite universities in the world, none offer less of a reason to cheat than Brown. The consequences are ugly.

Graham Anderson ’10 typically asks awkward questions at the wrong times.

Cheap oil is the scourge of the earth

BY TYLER ROSENBAUM Opinions Columnist It was heartening to hear that Brown has agreed to go green by cutting its carbon emissions significantly over the next decade.

The authors of the emissions reduction recommendations touted the long-term cost effectiveness of their plan when presenting it to the Undergraduate Council of Students.

Isn’t that amazing? The relative affordability of using oil and natural gas as fuel sources has always been weighed against the litany of drawbacks to using them, but it seems that finally — finally! — this may no longer be the case. Nevertheless, it can’t be expected that ordinary Americans and small businesses will be willing or able to commit the substantial initial investment that switching from fossil fuels will require. Many people, myself included, remain unconvinced that the market can provide the necessar y momentum to overcome the inertia without a push.

Though the average gallon of gasoline throughout the United States has cost more than three dollars for quite some time now, when the price of a barrel of oil topped $100 on Jan. 2, a fresh sense of media-fueled hysteria gripped the country. Almost every American can remember the idyllic days of yore when gas cost a dollar per gallon and a Humvee or a gigantic pick-up truck could be driven from Los Angeles to New York for less than $300. Traveling that distance for the same price today would require a car that gets three times the gas mileage, and which would therefore be intrinsically uncool and vaguely European (read: anti-American).

Policy makers have latched onto the idea that minimum standards for fuel efficiency should be established because they penalize

the unlovable automotive industry without directly taxing consumers. Compared to the rest of the developed world, U.S. fuel efficiency regulations are woefully lax. But that doesn’t stop the industry from complaining fiercely whenever the government increases its standards. Whereas current U.S. mandates require the average gas mileage of each company’s fleet to be about 25 miles per gallon, the European Union’s minimum gas mileage is more than twice as high. Eu-

efficient method of driving. This might even have the perverse effect of increasing emissions; as the average vehicle becomes more efficient, driving becomes cheaper and more attractive. Extra miles offset added efficiency.

We need to create a concrete financial disincentive to burning fossil fuels in order to promote clean energy. In economic terms, the government must step in where the market has failed by putting a price on pollution from coal and oil.

We need to create a concrete financial disincentive to burning fossil fuels in order to promote clean energy. In economic terms, the government must step in where the market has failed by putting a price on pollution from coal and oil. rope isn’t alone in exceeding the United States’ environmental standards — China’s fuel economy requirements are 48 percent more stringent than America’s. This is not proof that China really is the paragon of environmental stewardship, this is proof that the United States is shamefully (if not criminally) behind when it comes to protecting the environment.

We should not limit our efforts to regulating fuel efficiency. It does nothing to discourage consumption of gasoline. Rather, it simply forces consumers to pay for a more

I’ll cut to the chase. Yes, I am advocating a carbon tax, which would mean that the gas tax would go up. In the United States, gas taxes vary significantly by state, but nowhere is the combined federal and state tax higher than 51 cents per gallon (in Wisconsin). By contrast, English taxes are slated to increase another 18 cents in April to $5.09 per gallon, (about ten times as heavy as the highest U.S. gax taxes). Americans could certainly afford higher fuel taxes. The Department of Energy estimates that the average American spends $1,300 on gasoline per year, which accounts

for 2.7 percent of his annual income. If the federal gas tax were quintupled, it would still amount to less than one fifth of Europe’s fuel taxes, and cost the average American less than one percent more of his income.

A carbon tax at this rate would not only discourage much unnecessar y burning of fossil fuels, but it would also raise, by some estimates, as much as $350 billion per year.

Though this amount would certainly diminish as consumption declined (thus fulfilling the primar y goal of the tax), some of the money could be used to alleviate the burden for low-income families. Funds could be used to subsidize electric or hybrid cars for poorer Americans. Most importantly, the government could use the money to fund research on more efficient solar power generation and power transmission technologies, and to finance or subsidize the construction of clean power plants.

In the long run, we must wean our economy off fossil fuels entirely. This means powering our vehicles with electricity primarily generated with solar and nuclear power. America has squandered the last eight years, and it’s far past time we acted.

Climate change poses a greater threat to the United States than any terrorist ever has and ever will. An increase of just several feet in the sea level would flood hundreds of costal cities throughout the world, including many on the Eastern seaboard and would inundate much of Florida’s coast. When the fatal consequences of long-term inaction are added to the shorter term benefits of a carbon tax, such as less dependence on Middle Eastern oil and cleaner air, there seems little justification for a continuation of current policies other than an immoral and unthinking avarice.

Tyler Rosenbaum ’11 is the paragon of environmental stewardship.

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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

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Swimming loses to Lions Though the men’s swimming and diving team dropped its meet on Saturday at Columbia, the 161.5-138.5 mark shows improvement as the team gears up for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships March 7-8.

The Bears leapt out to a quick start in the three-meter dive. Jonathan Speed ’11 won the event for the second straight week with a score of 313.43. Speed’s score blew away the rest of the field, which was led by CJ Kambe ’10 in second place with a score of 268.50. The Speed-Kambe combination followed up with an equivalent one-two finish in the onemeter dive later in the meet.

Bruno also saw continued success from Daniel Ricketts ’09, who won two events for the second week in a row. His time of 1:40.45 in the 200-meter freestyle was good for first, and he also scored a first-place finish in the 100-meter butterfly with a time of 49.50.

Brian Kelly ’08 also swam well for Bruno, earning a victory in the 50-meter freestyle and second place in the 100-meter freestyle, and participating in the first-place finishing 200-meter medley relay team. In total, the Bears won eight of the 16 events, but the Lions outdid Bruno in second- and third-place finishes, leading to the small margin of victory.

The women did not fare as well against Columbia. The team managed a number of third-place finishes, but was unable to crack the top two in most of the events.

Many of the swimmers who performed well last week against Harvard performed well again this week. For the second straight meet Natascha Mangan ’11 won the 200-meter fly with a time of 2:06.76.

Brown swept the 200-meter individual medley as Stephanie Pollard ’11 netted Brown its only other victory of the weekend with a 2:10.74 time. She was followed in second and third place by Bailey Langner ’10 and Aly Wyatt ’08, respectively.

Both teams head to Cornell next weekend before returning for a home meet against Yale on Feb. 16 to finish out the regular season.

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Dan Rosen ‘10 was named ECAC Goalie of the Week for his role in Brown’s victories over Harvard and Dartmouth this past weekend. He had a combined 68 saves.

Rosen named ECAC Goalie of the Week Instrumental to the men’s hockey team’s first back-to-back wins of the season was goaltender Dan Rosen ’10, who was named Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Goalie of the Week for his strong performances last weekend against rivals Harvard and Dartmouth.

Friday against the Crimson, Rosen had 32 saves, many coming at crucial moments. Rosen made 16 of those stops in the third period, which helped Brown cling to its lead, something it has struggled with all season, en route to a 4-2 victory. In addition, the Brown net-minder helped the Brown penalty kill unit stave off the Harvard attack, which benefited from 12 Bear penalties. He also shut down a Harvard breakaway in the second period.

Just as important as his strong first performance was Rosen’s ability to come back strong the next day against Dartmouth. With a 2-14-4 record, the Bears had just their second chance all season to string together some wins and build momentum.

Rosen didn’t just match his play from the day before — he bettered it, coming up with a total of 36 saves. Again, Rosen became stronger in net as the game went on, accumulating 14 of his saves in the third period as the Big Green attempted to tie the game. In the end, Rosen and the Brown defense held, and the Bears came away with the 4-3 win.

Rosen’s performance was particularly interesting because the games were his second and third in a row. For much of the season he has split time with Mark Sibbald ’09, and the last time he started two nights in a row was Nov. 16-17.

Bruno will need more strong performances from Rosen and the rest of the squad if they hope to build on last weekend’s momentum. The team has its work cut out this weekend, with tough games on the road at No. 19 Princeton on Friday and No. 16 Quinnipiac on Sunday.

Track uses unscored meet to improve

By Nicole Stock Contributing Writer

Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams competed at the Giegengack Invitational at Coxe Cage in New Haven, Conn. this past Saturday, hoping to build on the momentum of the Harvard Select Meet a week ago. Although the events over the weekend were not scored, the Bears took the opportunity to focus on individual improvement.

There were several strong showings for both teams, including several personal bests.

The women had another great weekend, especially in the field. Cocaptain Tiffany Chang ’08 finished first in the pole vault after clearing 11 feet, 9.75 inches, setting a personal best, and Brynn Smith ’11 placed second in the shot put with a distance of 45-5.25. In the high jump, Grace Watson’s ’11 jump of 5 feet, 7 inches earned a third-place finish. Akilah King ’08, competing in her first-ever long jump, came in fifth with a 17-foot, 10.75-inch jump.

“Senior co-captain Akilah King is trying the long jump for the first time in her collegiate career to try to diversify and score as many points for us at the Ivy League Championships, as every point will count,” said Head Coach Craig Lake.

On the track the Bears also excelled. In the 200-meter dash, Thelma Breezeati ’10, King and Nicole Burns ’09 secured the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-place finishes with times of 25.07, 25.12 and 25.12 seconds, respectively. Breezeati also finished third in the 60-meter dash to top off the day.

In the 1000-meter run, Caitlin Clark ’11 crossed the finish line with a time of 2:58.43, earning her a fourth-place finish. Right behind her was Kelsey Ramsey ’11, finishing fifth with a time of 2:59.23.

Meanwhile, Samantha Adelberg ’11 finished in third in the 500-meter run, and Lucy Higgins ’11 posted a time of 57.59 seconds, good for a fifth-place finish in the 400-meter.

She also placed 10th in the onemile. Michaeline Nelson ’11 set a personal best in the 800-meter run, finishing with a time of 2:13.

The women are already looking

Ashley Hess / Herald

David Howard ‘09 led the way for the track and field team at the Giegengack Invitational, finishing a strong third in the weight throw and fourth in the shot put.

ahead to next weekend’s Valentine Invitational at Boston University.

“The women’s team’s in a really good place right now. Even though it’s an individual sport, we really are a unified team,” Chang said.

The men’s side also had some strong performances. In the field events, David Howard ’09 made an impact with his third-place finish in the weight throw and a fourth-place finish in the shot put.

“David Howard has been very consistent this year, and we expect for him to make a huge impact for us,” Lake said.

Although Howard was a top finisher, he said there was still room for improvement. “I am not truly satisfied with how I did. I’m never actually satisfied unless I (hit a personal record) or win my event depending

on the meet,” Howard said.

Eric Wood ’09 posted a fifthplace finish in the weight throw, and Andrew Chapin ’10 took home fourth in the triple jump.

Over on the track, John Loeser ’10 finished the 1000-meter run in 2:27.86, earning third place. Alex Stern ’10 was close behind Loeser, coming in sixth with a time of 2:30.08. Kevin Cervantes ’10 placed seventh in the 400-meter run, and Sean O’Brien ‘09 was Brown’s top finisher in the 500-meter dash, coming in fourth.

This weekend at the Valentine Invitational the men will look to improve on their individual scores.

“BU is a really big meet with a lot of competition so I think the big key is to be a competitor and rise to the occasion.” Howard said.

Super Bowl: ‘I don’t know, it’s craziness’ At 12:30 a.m. Monday morning, most people in Barcelona were either watching FC Barcelona play against Osasuna in the Spanish soccer league or already asleep.

But you wouldn’t have known it if you were sitting inside George and Dragon.

The English bar, located in Ben Singer ’09 the middle of High Notes Barcelona, was (over high seas) packed over 90 percent full with Americans. We were all there for the same reason: to become part of the 148 million around the world to view the mostwatched sports game ever. Actually, there we came for two different reasons: to either cheer on the first NFL team to finish a season 19-0 or to root for that team’s season to crumble at the hands of a 14-point underdog. Shimmying through the crowd wearing my Benjamin

Watson jersey, I was there for the former.

As I jammed my way into a booth next to the massive TV projector, a guy sitting to my right raised his palm towards me. He was wearing a familiar navy blue jersey with the number 12 emblazoned on the front. This was unusual. I’ve lived through four previous Patriots Super Bowl appearances in New England, and nobody’s ever acknowledged my presence in a crowd, except to tell me to move.

“Let’s go Pats!” he shouted. We exchanged high-fives. I sat back down.

A couple moments later, some American Idol winner appeared onscreen and sang the national anthem. Pretty standard stuff. But when she finished, nearly everyone in the bar remained standing as a chant of “USA, USA” roared through the crowd. For whatever reason, being separated by 3,000 miles of ocean from home instilled

the room with a sense of national pride and camaraderie that you would never see in a bar in the U.S. I looked to the guy sitting next to me in the booth, who smiled in puzzled amusement. I asked him what he thought of the whole thing.

“No sé; es locura,” he said, shrugging his shoulders and smiling. Or as most of those in the bar might say it: “I don’t know; it’s craziness.”

He didn’t stick around for the game, but that guy might have been on to something. SkySports, the British television channel broadcasting from Arizona, managed to bring import Joe Buck but not the American commercials. Ludicrous.

I realize that there are fewer people watching this game in England, but Pierce Brosnan marketing deodorant does not meet my expectation of a Super Bowl ad.

As most people were well aware by the time the 7-3 halftime score, continued on page 8