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Campus prepares for visit from controversial strongman Musharraf By Mitra Anoushiravani Senior Staff Writer
Pervez Musharraf, the former president of Pakistan who resigned last year as opposition parties threatened to impeach him, is set to deliver a lecture tonight to what may be a skeptical American audience. Musharraf, who took power in the South Asian nation in a nonviolent military coup in 1999, will speak at 7 p.m. in the De Ciccio Family Auditorium at the Salomon Center. The former leader, whose controversial policies on fighting terrorism and attempts to maintain his hold on power in the unstable country led to his ouster, has already attracted enormous interest. Tickets for the lecture, distributed last week, ran out, though those without passes can try to grab a seat at a simulcast in Sayles Hall. The Brown Lecture Board, which is sponsoring the address, hopes Musharraf’s appearance will be “enriching to the Brown experience,” said Andrew Chapin ’10, one of the presidents of the board.
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“Bringing him isn’t any political statement, and it isn’t trying to send a message by any means,” he said. “We aren’t trying to get him to talk about some specific issues. He has a unique perspective and interesting experiences,” Chapin said. Musharraf’s talk will be followed by a question-and-answer moderated by Nina Tannenwald, associate professor of international relations. Security is one of the main concerns with hosting a high-profile political figure on campus. The Department of Public Safety, the U.S. State Department and Musharraf’s own security detail from Pakistan are working together to make sure the event runs safely, according to Chapin. Unlike with most major speakers who come to campus, a recording of the event will not be made available online because of the terms of the contract with Musharraf. Moreover, the Lecture Board will not allow media into Salomon. continued on page 3
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The twice-monthly mainstay of Providence’s cultural life requires the effort of more than 100 volunteers.
WaterFire: a festival from the ashes
By Ben Schreckinger Senior Staf f Writer
It’s 5 a.m., more than 12 hours before WaterFire’s first brazier is set ablaze, and Director of Events and Operations Paul Kochanek — or PK, as the ID card clipped to his belt identifies him — is already on site, beginning the hundreds of manhours that go into a lighting.
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More than 20 East Side businesses have signed up to promote the 3/50 Project, a national grassroots organization that encourages consumers to spend $50 a month at three of their
METRO favorite independent retailers, restaurants or other local businesses. “It’s an excellent movement, and we’ve been doing our part to bring light to it,” said Asher Schofield, co-owner of Hope Street’s Frog & Toad, a novelty gift shop and one of the numerous businesses on Wickenden and Hope Streets and in Wayland Square to have joined the cause. According to the organization’s Web site, if half the United States’ employed population spent $50
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FEATURE fires that dot the Woonasquatucket, Moshassuck and Providence rivers downtown. The simple idea — lighting fires
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Students organized a “flash mob” for climate change awareness Monday.
on the waters of downtown Providence — was conceived by artist Barnaby Evans ’75 in 1994. Initially intended as a one-time installation, WaterFire was brought back for a second lighting in 1996. The next year, the event expanded to several lightings. Since then it has grown in frequency and size, attracting continued on page 2
Capitalism linked to sexual oppression, activist says By Sydney Ember Senior Staf f Writer
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Three hours later, Kochanek is out on Memorial Boulevard enjoying coffee and doughnuts with the volunteers who build the 100 or so
President Obama may not like being called a “socialist,” but Sherr y Wolf does. Spor ting a gray T-shir t emblazoned with the words, “Tax the Rich,” the author and activist spoke Monday night to an eclectic audience in List 120 about sexual oppression and the histor y of the LGBT liberation movement. During Wolf’s hour-long talk, peppered with a potpourri of sarcastic quips about topics ranging from the economy to sex, she shared her views on capitalism’s role in sexual oppression. She also touched on what she called the “new posture” of the LGBT movement in light of the samesex marriage battle and the recent challenge to the militar y’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Wolf said sexual oppression stems largely from capitalism and its materialistic influence on family structure. The struggle over gay rights — and gay marriage
— results from the concept of a traditional family structure held by a capitalist society, which she said “privatizes things that ought to be social needs.” “The nuclear family,” she said, “is a means for a capitalist system.” Wolf said the constant rush of today’s professionals is not conducive to sexual experimentation. “We actually lead lives that materially constrain us,” she said. “As a result, many of our sex lives suck.” But she said this repression could be alleviated under a socialist structure, which she said would solve the interplay between a desire for ideological change and what she called a constant material struggle. She also spoke about her detestation of the “biological argument” pertaining to sexuality, eliciting audience approval when she asked about the merits of searching for a “gay gene.” continued on page 4
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suspect in yale murder Police have arrested a lab technician suspected in a grad student’s murder
the middle party? An alum is elected the new head of the state’s Moderate Party
against ‘hegemony’ Jonah Fabricant ’10 says students should shy away from useless jargon
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
“Providence was a dump.” — Jane Carlson, remembering her hometown in 1978
Genre-bending artists kick off international reading series By Anne Speyer Senior Staf f Writer
Artists Sandy Baldwin and Caroline Bergvall performed excerpts from their most famous literar y works to a group of undergraduates, graduate students and professors who crowded into the intimate McCormack Family Theater Monday evening. Baldwin, director of the Center for Literar y Computing and associate professor of English at West Virginia University, said he preferred to call his works “emissions” or “states of information” that are “fuzzy, unbound.” He performed two such emissions, “The Pilgrims Continue Their Journey” and “The Profanity Glossary.” Both featured Baldwin reading his own poetry over a projection of videos and sounds taken from computer games, which he said he uses as “scores” for his work. Caroline Bergvall, a FrenchNorwegian writer and artist visiting from London, began by playing an audio recording of her work “Ride.” In the piece, she reads a poem that manipulates the sounds of words to form a connection between “riding” and “writing.” The backdrop for the piece is the sound of her hand writing the words. Bergvall also read three works in which she interacts with Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.” The first, entitled “The Host Tale,” is a compilation of the references to food and drink in the book , Bergvall said. In another Chaucer-related work, Bergvall drew on lyrics from various popular songs, including Cole Por-
ter’s “Night and Day” and Kelis’s “Milkshake” in order to explore the interaction between the Middle English of “The Canterbury Tales” and contemporary English. The event was the first of a semester-long series of readings that will bring scholars and artists from around the world to add “an international perspective” to Brown’s existing Literar y Arts programs, said John Cayley, visiting professor in the department. Adam Veal GS, who hosted the event along with Cayley and Claire Donato GS, said Bergvall was the inspiration for the event. He said he and Donato read her work, “Fig,” in Cayley’s class, LITR 1230J: “Writing Material Differences.” “We took a liking to “Fig,” and John suggested that we apply for a grant,” Veal said. “It was a long and complicated process, but it came off.” The reading was funded by a University Graduate International Colloquia Grant, Cayley said. Veal said he and Donato were drawn to “the way in which (Bergval) treats language as artifice.” Miguel Morales ’10, who came to the reading, said he “needed time to digest” what he had seen, but thought it was “interesting.” He said he particularly appreciated the way Bergvall interacted with “The Canterbury Tales” and “tried to incorporate her own voice into the text itself.” “What I liked most was, it took me a while to get on her wavelength, but once I did she made the text come alive in a new way,” Morales said.
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Though Halloween was still weeks away, jack-o-lanterns illuminated Providence River at WaterFire Saturday night.
WaterFire unites a revitalized city continued from page 1 millions of revelers and boosting Ocean State tourism. An independent non-profit arts organization, WaterFire relies primarily on donors for funding, according to its Web site. The 2009 season includes a planned total of 17 lightings, each of which is run by 18 paid employees and over 100 volunteers. “There are a million stories” behind people’s decisions to volunteer, Kochanek says. His own story starts in the late 1990s, when he was planning an expansion of his construction business. But after a meeting with Evans turned into a four-hour conversation, he changed his plans. “The rest is history,” he says. Charged with supervising the setup and dismantling of the event, Kochanek arrives at 5 a.m. on Saturday and leaves at about 4 a.m. on Sunday. “It’s two full-time jobs,” says Kochanek, who works 70 to 90 hours a week to ensure that each lighting will run smoothly and to maintain equipment and process paperwork during the offseason. Boat captain Ihor Slabicky has put his fair share of time into WaterFire as well. “I met Barnaby, and I wanted to get a T-shirt,” Slabicky says as he recounts the encounter that kindled more than a decade of dedication to the event. During their conversation all those years ago, Slabicky gave Evans his phone number. The next spring, Evans called Slabicky to offer him the chance to volunteer, and he jumped at the opportunity. While WaterFire’s creator has recruited many volunteers, others seek out the event as another way to contribute to the local community. Tim Messer, an EMT and firefighter who has attended WaterFire for several years, is volunteering for the first time by assisting with public safety. Nitza Garcia was a paid employee of the Woonsquatucket River
Watershed Council this summer, but offered to work the council’s WaterFire booth for free on Saturday. To her, the event represents “what the river is used for.” And if people in Providence continue to appreciate the value of a clean river, “maybe one day we could swim in it,” she says. For Jane Carlson, participation in WaterFire allows her to be part of the revitalization of the city in which she was born and raised. Carlson — in her fifth season as a volunteer and third as a boat captain — commands the Aphrodite, a motor boat, up to the braziers in the shadow of the Providence Place Mall. Each boat’s name is an homage to the significance of fire and water in classical mythology. When she graduated high school in 1978, Carlson says, “Providence was a dump.” Like many people who grew up or studied in Providence in the late 1970s, Carlson left — first for New York, then Virginia. When she moved back home in 2003 to be closer to her parents, she returned to a changed city. In stark contrast to Carlson’s memories of the city’s crime-ridden downtown, WaterFire was “the most peaceful gathering of thousands of people you’d ever want to see.” Luis Campos ’12, of California’s Central Valley, is involved with theWaterFire of today as a captain-in-training. Campos attended a couple of lightings as a first-year and started to get involved over the summer when he stayed in Providence for summer research. Sometimes he is allowed to drive the boat, but today he sets up the fire, lighting it with loose newspaper, kindling made from old fence posts, firewood and a long wick of rolled-up newspaper. Minutes after Saturday’s 6:51 sunset, a tr umpet call blares over the speakers hidden along the length of the rivers, signaling WaterFire’s opening. Soon the riverfront is filled
with revelers. The crowd consists of young families, the occasional group of college students and couples — more and more of the latter as the night wears on. As Campos explains, “Earlier on, it’s families, then it’s people trying to make families.” While some couples consider WaterFire a romantic date, not everybody is happy about that aspect of the event. “They all come down here and make out with their boyfriends,” Carlson says of her 16-year-old daughter’s friends. For one gaggle of first-years, WaterFire ser ves as a prelude to a night out. Rachel Bloom ’13, who hails from Wisconsin, had heard about the event on campus and decided to see what it was all about. One of her companions, Chris Janigian ’13 of Woonsocket, is attending his fourth WaterFire. But attending the lighting with friends instead of parents is “much more fun,” he said. Over the years, all sor ts of additions have grown up around WaterFire. Saturday night, canoes and kayaks traverse the length of the fires with glowing fish made of silk attached to the boats to symbolize the city’s recent efforts to clean up the river. Lightings also frequently feature jazz shows and ballroom dancing. At the Maker Faire, another of Saturday night’s attractions, an artist from upstate New York shows off a creation he calls a “pentablaster” — a rifle with five barrels spread out like fingers — as two on-duty police officers look on appreciatively. Despite the vendors and activities that have sprung up as WaterFire has expanded, the fires are still the center of attention. Just after sunset, a toddler watches transfixed, attentive and well-behaved. At first he sits and stares. Then, without any prompting, he begins to clap. Maybe WaterFire has won over a future captain-in-training.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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C ampus N EWS higher ed news round-up by ellen cushing and sarah husk senior staff writers
Suspect in custody in Yale strangling The investigation into the Sept. 8 strangling of Yale graduate student Annie Le has progressed quickly since late last week. On Thursday, animal lab technician Raymond Clark III was arrested and charged with Le’s murder. He is currently being held on $3 million bond and is expected to face a hearing Oct. 6, according to the Yale Daily News. On Sunday, a New Haven Police Department spokesman told the Daily News that police were still looking for a motive in the killing and that there are currently no other suspects in the case. Le’s body was flown back to her native California over the weekend, and her family told the Daily News that a funeral has been planned for Sept. 27. U. of California system plans to hike fees, slash budget The University of California, facing a budget shortfall between $1.5 and $2 billion, may be forced to increase fees by 32 percent next year, the system’s Board of Regents announced last week. The increase, which comes after a 9.3 percent increase approved in May, would bring the price of tuition to $10,302 for in-state undergraduates and is expected to be voted on in November. The UC system, which includes nine campuses and serves about 150,000 undergraduates, is also looking into admitting fewer freshmen and transfers. It has already implemented staff furloughs, salary freezes, fee increases and a number of other cost-cutting measures. Students have reacted to news of the increases with dismay, several of the UC campus newspapers have reported, and 14 activists were arrested at the regents’ meeting in which the proposal was announced. “Students ought to be angry about the fee increase proposal,” UC President Mark Yudof told the Los Angeles Times. “I’m angry about it too.” “I like the old system: The closer it was to being free, the happier I’d be,” he added. “But that’s not the world I live in.” Bill to reform student aid advances in Congress Legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week would restructure student loan programs and inject billions of dollars into federal education programs, including many designed to ease financial burdens on college students. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009, which passed 253 to 171, has been attacked by many Republicans as a “federal takeover of the student loan industry,” according to the online magazine InsideHigherEd.com. Legislators opposed to the bill have also voiced concerns that the legislation will cut jobs and needlessly expand the government to the detriment to private lenders. The bill seeks to increase Pell Grant funding by $40 billion over 10 years, restructure the Perkins Loan Program, make $10 billion available to community colleges, institute variable interest rates on federal student loans, create a grant program to increase college attendance and graduation and streamline federal financial aid in general. The bill would also inject funding into early-childhood education programs and provide $4.1 billion to repair a variety of educational facilities. Though the bill passed by a wide margin in the House, it is expected to meet stiffer opposition in the Senate. Princeton plans review of eating clubs Princeton plans to review the relationship between the university and its eating clubs, the school announced Thursday. A task force, which will be formed within the next week and is slated to begin meeting next month, will include undergraduate students, faculty, staff and alumni. Sometimes targeted as bastions of elitism, Princeton’s 10 eating clubs serve as both dining halls and social groups. Each operates on private property and is financially independent of the university. According to a university press release, the goal of the review is to examine how eating clubs fit into Princeton’s social fabric and to determine if there are ways to improve ties between the university and the eating clubs. In an interview with the Daily Princetonian, President Shirley Tilghman stressed that the review should not be taken as an effort to eliminate or radically change the eating clubs.
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“We want to see what Musharraf thinks about Pakistan today.” — Farrukh Malik ’11, member of the Pakistani Students Association
Larceny, break-ins hit campus in Sept. The following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Sept. 2 and Sept. 8. It does not include general service and alarm calls.
CRIME LOG The Providence Police Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information on open cases that are currently under investigation by the department, the PPD or the Office of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily log of all shift activity and general service calls which can be viewed during business hours at its headquarters, located at 75 Charlesfield St. Sept. 6 3:01 a.m. A Brown University police officer responded to assist the Providence Police Department at a private residence at 169 Cushing St. with a larceny report. The Brown student reported that sometime between 7 p.m. on Sept. 5 and 3 a.m. on Sept. 6 an unknown person entered her locked bedroom on the third floor and removed her laptop from her desk. The hasp on the outside of her bedroom door was torn off the door and the padlock remained locked and intact. The officer then
met with another Brown student who lives on the second floor and stated that her purse was stolen from her unlocked bedroom. She stated that her Brown ID, driver’s license and two credit cards were in the purse. It should be noted that there was a large party at the residence earlier in the night and there were numerous people in and out of the house throughout the night and the front door to the residence was open during this period of time. 5:35 p.m. A Student reported that he left the residence at 99 Benevolent St. at approximately 11 p.m. on Sept. 5 and when he returned on Sept. 6 at approximately noon he noticed that the rear outside door had been kicked in. Damage sustained was to the door jam, lock and to the door window. He advised the officer that nothing was taken and neither he nor any of the other tenants knew anyone who could have done it. Sept. 7 3:46 p.m. Of ficers were dispatched to Olney House to meet with a student who stated that he left his room at approximately 12:30 a.m. and arrived back at 3 p.m. Upon his arrival, he observed the door to his room open approximate-
ly six inches with the lock set on the floor. Nothing was taken from his room. There are no suspects at this time. Sept. 8 4:34 p.m. A Brown student who is also the Alpha Chi Omega house manager stated that last Monday evening she discovered that the 60-inch plasma television belonging to Alpha Chi Omega was not where it was left for summer break. She said that during Senior Week the television was unplugged, turned around and positioned on a stand. She informed the officer that she waited to notify DPS because she wanted to wait for her fellow house members to return so that they could help her go through the basement storage. It was also stated that Facilities viewed two people carr ying the television to the basement during Senior Week, but no description of these individuals could be provided. The case is under investigation. 7:47 p.m. A student stated that at 9:30 a.m. he locked his hybrid bicycle to the bike rack at Barus and Holley. He used a wire lock to secure the bicycle. At 11:30 a.m. he returned and the bicycle was missing.
Pakistani students prepare for Musharraf continued from page 1 Before Musharraf gives his lecture, he will attend a small reception with members of the Pakistani Students Association, which was cleared by the former president several days ago, according to Chapin. “Once things were all approved, it wasn’t a big deal, and they’re meeting with him for a few minutes prior to the lecture,” he said. Members of the organization said they met last night to discuss the logistics of the reception and how they wanted to present themselves to the former president. Arsalan Ali Faheem GS, the group’s president, said the members were grateful for the opportunity to meet privately with Musharraf. He said he hopes
Musharraf’s presence on campus will foster further discussion about Pakistan. “We look for ward to hearing about what in his opinion are the most pressing needs of Pakistan today,” Faheem said. “And what he thinks young Pakistanis, or any young person, can do to improve the situation.” Faheem emphasized that the organization is a “nonpartisan and apolitical student group” and said it did not have a formal position toward Musharraf or his policies. Farrukh Malik ’11, a member of the organization, said, “Our objective is to better understand the events that happened in Pakistan during his time in power.” “He’s obviously not popular these
days in Pakistan, but there was a time when he was,” Malik said. “Political figures rise and fall in terms of popularity — that doesn’t make them more or less important. We as an organization are happy that he is coming because it spreads awareness about Pakistan.” “We want to see what Musharraf thinks about Pakistan today,” Malik added. Chapin said the Lecture Board had not been considering inviting anyone else to speak this fall after an agency representing Musharraf successfully pitched him to the board last spring. “The opportunity arose and we saw that this was something pretty unique that we hadn’t done before,” Chapin said.
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“The nuclear family is a means for a capitalist system.” — Activist Sherry Wolf, author of “Sexuality and Socialism”
Activist lauds new LGBT movement continued from page 1 “Finding a gay gene kind of pissed me off,” she told the nearly 60-member audience. “Why don’t they tr y to find a gene for warmongering assholes?” Wolf came to Brown as part of a national tour to promote her new book, “Sexuality and Socialism.” The talk was sponsored by the Pembroke Center, the Queer Alliance, the International Socialist Club and the departments of English and Modern Culture and Media. Given the political context — and the 40th anniversar y of the notorious Stonewall riots that have come to represent the LGBT movement of the 1960s — Wolf said she hoped the coincidental timing of her book’s release would inspire discussion. “It was just dumb luck,” she said. “I don’t see this book as something that should just be sitting on a shelf.” But she warned audience members the book was nothing like other “dull” books about sexuality that she said she had read. “If you are a fan of long, plodding, impenetrable prose, I swear you will not like this book,” she said. After reading excerpts from various chapters aloud, Wolf moved her discussion to the reinvigorated LGBT movement. She said she thought the new movement was sparked by California’s passage of Proposition 8, which established the constitutional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. Despite the current generation’s increasing level of acceptance toward the LGBT community, the shock of seeing its rights taken away — coupled with the recent increase in police raids on gay bars that she likened to the one that sparked the Stonewall riots in 1969 — whipped up a new wave of anger among the movement’s participants, Wolf said. “The posture of this movement is so important and such a depar-
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Ousted Honduran leader returns to country By Alex Renderos and Tracy Wilkinson Los Angeles T imes
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Sherry Wolf, an activist and author, spoke about LGBT oppression and its historical context in List 120 yesterday.
ture from previous years. And I think that it’s a reflection of this generation,” Wolf said. “This is not new, the attacks are not new, the backlash is not new. What’s new is the posture, the outrage.” To ef fect change, she said people must demand civil rights instead of waiting for others to make important decisions. “This is our Rosa Parks moment,” she said, “and we are insisting on sitting in the front of the bus.” “She certainly knows how to fire up a room,” Hannah Boettcher ’12 said after the lecture. “If
“This is our Rosa Parks moment, and we are insisting on sitting in the front of the bus.” Sherry Wolf activist and author
everybody had that same passion, we wouldn’t need these types of talks.”
CULIACAN, Mexico -- Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a coup nearly three months ago, pulled a fast one on his enemies Monday, sneaking back into the countr y in an effort to reclaim his office and taking refuge in the Brazilian Embassy. “I am urging the people who participated in the coup, together, we can attempt to open dialogue,” Zelaya said in one of a number of interviews he gave from inside the Brazilian diplomatic mission in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. Journalists in Tegucigalpa confirmed seeing Zelaya in the embassy. Supporters rallied outside. The U.S. government and others urged all sides to remain calm and avoid violence. The de facto government of Honduras has ignored the international community’s demand WORLD & that Zelaya be reinstated after the June 28 coup. It threatened to arrest him if he set foot on national territor y. Interim President Roberto Micheletti, who replaced Zelaya, initially denied Monday that he was back in the countr y, calling such claims “terrorist propaganda.” Later, he simply said that if Zelaya returns “a trial awaits him.” Micheletti’s government imposed a 4 p.m. curfew Monday, banning Hondurans from the streets of Tegucigalpa until 7 a.m. Tuesday morning. Zelaya, a timber magnate whose turn to the left unsettled Honduras’ traditional elite, refused to divulge details of how he got back into Honduras. He said he traveled 15 hours, hinted vaguely at help from army rank-and-file and thanked the president of Brazil. There were also reports of help from groups in Central American neighbors. “I entered Honduras evading thousands of obstacles,” he said. Two previous attempts failed, including one operation in which the Honduran militar y planted vehicles along the runway at the Tegucigalpa airport, forcing pilots to abort their landing. In another, he briefly crossed the border from Nicaragua. “I am not afraid of justice; I’ve always said I’d submit myself to a fair trial,” Zelaya said. “My plan now is to initiate a dialogue for reconciliation and to restore democracy to Honduras.” It was not clear how Zelaya expected to govern from a foreign embassy. National elections are scheduled for November, which would have replaced Zelaya anyway, but the United States and much of the rest of the world have said they will not recognize the vote if the crisis over the coup is not resolved first. Some analysts suggested Zelaya’s return, on relatively neutral
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Honduran President Manuel Zelaya
and safe grounds, might facilitate a way out of the crisis. “This might be the beginning of a peaceful deal,” said Leo Valladares, a Honduran law professor and former human-rights ombudsman. “President Zelaya can’t do it alone. He has to seek an integrated dialogue with all the components of Honduran society. This is the chance to begin a new dialogue and find a new social pact.” Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, one of the first NATION officials to confirm Zelaya’s return, said in New York that he hoped a “rapid solution” was on the horizon. He said his government did not help Zelaya enter Honduras. Others, like Honduran businessman Jorge Canahuati, who owns some of the country’s major newspapers and supported the coup, said he feared the Zelaya return would provoke violent reactions. “I have no doubt that this is going to unleash disturbances,” he said. The army seized Zelaya from his home in late June and deported him on a flight to Costa Rica. Congress and the courts opposed Zelaya’s efforts to explore reforming the constitution and believed it was a power grab. Despite a long histor y of considerable influence over Honduras, the U.S. has proved itself impotent in reversing the coup. The Obama administration cut off some aid and canceled the visas of top Hondurans who supported the coup. But Zelaya’s fier y rhetoric and sometimes erratic behavior, plus his close alliance with Venezuela’s anti-American president, Hugo Chavez, has it tough for many in Washington to embrace him. Vicki Gass, senior associate for rights and development at the Washington Office on Latin America, a non-governmental group that focuses on democracy and human rights, said that although the de facto regime in Honduras has been imper vious to international pressure, Zelaya’s move throws down the gauntlet. “Despite human rights concerns (of possible violence), this might just break the impasse,” she said. Renderos, a special correspondent, reported from San Salvador, El Salvador. Staff writer Paul Richter in Washington contributed to this report.
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each month in a locally owned independent business, the sales would generate more than $42.6 billion in revenue. For every $100 spent in locallyowned independent stores, the Web site notes, an average of $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll and other expenditures. By comparison, the organization says that $43 of every $100 spent in chain stores benefits the local community, while online purchases from national companies yield no local profit. “It’s really amazing,” Schofield said of the project. “It’s the first time someone has put some hard, fast numbers on why shopping local is important.” And he isn’t the only one taking notice. Since its launch in March 2009, the 3/50 Project has garnered national recognition. It has been featured in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports and the Chicago Tribune, and boasts a list of thousands of participants and supporters in every state. Participants are independent businesses, while supporters include community organizations, vendors and sales agencies, according to the organization’s Web site. Registering as either a participant or a supporter of the 3/50 Project is free. Participants and supporters are encouraged to share the mission of the 3/50 Project with other local businesses and community organizations. Schofield said he has done just that since signing up as a participant last spring. “I talked to people about it a lot,” Schofield said. “I’ve also been spreading the message on Facebook.” Tara Solon, the owner of Mignonette, a European gift shop on Wickenden Street, said she proudly displays a 3/50 Project sticker in her store’s front window. “One of the great draws of Providence is the quirky businesses that are here,” Solon said. “They make Providence charming.” “People need to begin preserving the places they like,” she added. Solon said today’s challenging economic climate has made support-
by George Miller Metro Editor
The newly minted Moderate Party of Rhode Island has hired Christine Hunsinger MPA’08 as its new executive director, the party announced in a Sept. 18 press release. Since the party, whose platform focuses on what it calls “the four Es:” economy, ethics, education and the environment, was formed in early 2008, it has pursued official status in court and at the State House and collected signatures on the street. It challenged state requirements for ballot access in court, saying that a Jan. 1 start date and signature threshold placed an undue burden on new parties, and pushed for bills in the General Assembly to change the requirements. In May, a judge struck down the
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Many East Side businesses are promoting a drive to support local business.
ing independent businesses difficult for the local community. “In this economy, it’s just been an unbelievable roller coaster,” she said. “Everything I’ve invested is in this store. My life is on the line.” To save businesses such as hers, consumers “have got to get out there,” Solon said. But Solon said her support of the 3/50 Project does not ensure increased profits. “There’s no financial gain other than raising the consciousness of
the consumer,” she said. Even so, Schofield said the project has served as “a launching pad for thought” among East Side business owners. He said they hope to launch a “Providence: Buy Local” movement within the next year. “For me, it’s about preserving what it is about our culture that I like,” he said. “Providence has a wealth of really distinct, unique small businesses. I love that, and I don’t ever want that to change.”
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Jan. 1 start date provision, but left in place the 5 percent signature requirement, which numbers about 23,500 signatures. The state Senate passed a bill lowering that number to 10,000, but the House did not pass the companion bill before it left for the summer recess. Still, the party submitted over 30,000 signatures last month and the board of elections certified enough of them to qualify the party as official. The party is now looking forward to the 2010 elections. The group hopes to front candidates for every seat in the state legislature and for governor, Hunsinger said. A veteran of political campaigns, Hunsinger said her job will entail, among other things, recruiting candidates and building a grassroots foundation to support them.
R.I. unemployment third in country BY GEORGE MILLER Metro Editor
Rhode Island’s unemployment rate dropped from second highest to third highest in the nation — a hollow victor y for the countr y’s smallest state, which still had the highest number of jobless workers in its histor y, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Though the Nor theast claimed the lowest unemploy-
ment of any region, 12.8 percent of Rhode Islanders were without work in August — a 4.5 percentage point increase from the year before that equates to a loss of about 19,000 jobs. The nationwide unemployment rate was 9.7 percent. Michigan and Nevada were the worst of f, with unemployment rates of 15.2 and 13.2 percent respectively. California and Oregon rounded out the top five, both with rates of 12.2 percent.
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In support of young activists To the Editor: We were dismayed to see Mike Johnson ’11 write on Friday that “the youth of this nation pat themselves on the back, sink back into the very apathy of which we’re accused” (“The lost power of Barack Obama,” Sept. 18). If he believes that youth activism is dead in the Age of Obama, he has not been looking in the right place. At the Democrats’ first meeting last week, for example, we had the highest turnout we have seen in years. Once we broke into committees, more people joined the advocacy committee than any other. Whether they want to fight for universal health care with a strong public option, marriage equality in Rhode Island or legislation to protect our environment, these students are not giving up the fight. With respect to health care, the
focus of Johnson’s piece, the Dems found many allies on campus. Last spring, in conjunction with Organizing for America (an official arm of the Democratic National Committee), we walked around campus asking people to sign up in support of health care reform. We were thrilled when hundreds did so. We encourage Mike and anyone else concerned about the future of youth activism to join us at our meetings and see what we are talking about. Passionate advocacy is alive and well in the Brown Democrats.
Jeremy Feigenbaum ’11 President, Brown Democrats Raphaela Lipinsky DeGette ’11 Vice-President F ranny choi
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Questions for Mr. Musharraf Tonight’s speech by former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is an opportunity. Musharraf, who came to power in a coup in 1999 and held on to power until his resignation amidst impeachment threats in 2008, is one of the most significant and controversial figures in contemporary international politics. The crucial issues surrounding his legacy include Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan, the stability of Pakistani democracy and India-Pakistan relations. And though his speech’s anodyne title, “Leadership Experiences,” isn’t conclusive, we expect him to address them. Given the importance of such topics, we expect Brown students to approach the questionand-answer with characteristic thoughtfulness and intellectual curiosity. There will be a few exceptions, but we’d hope the harangues-posing-as-questions or, ahem, baked goods exhibitions will be kept to a minimum. Students learn nothing from such outbursts except that you can be “that guy” without being in section, and that it’s even worse when more people are watching. So if you’re working on a rambling, poorly disguised attempt to show off how smart you are instead of a real question, we’d ask that you avoid embarrassing yourself and reconsider. To help, we’re providing you with a list of five questions you could ask instead: 1. Many Pakistanis strongly oppose the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, principally because of the U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan that President Obama is considering escalating. Do you think the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan and tactical deployment of drones are justified? 2. Criminal charges have been filed against you for detaining Pakistani Supreme Court justices. You have defended your firing of the Chief Justice on the grounds that it was a poor policy decision but the result of an action required by Pakistani law. Could you explain this position and its connection
to the charges against you? 3. The recent call by Indian nuclear scientist K. Santhanam to resume nuclear testing, based on his contentious claim that India’s 1998 nuclear test was a failure, has set off a firestorm in the Indian press. This debate has created significant concern among Pakistani policymakers that India is thinking about restarting tests, ratcheting up regional tensions. Incidents like these raise red flags about the desirability of the nuclear stalemate between India and Pakistan. More succinctly, do you think India and Pakistan ought to retain their nuclear arsenals, given their volatile history? If so, how do you feel about broader proliferation? If not, how would attempt to eliminate them? 4. There is significant evidence that some powerful elements of Pakistan’s largest intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, are aiding al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. To what extent do you think these links are real or exaggerated and how would you propose to deal with them? 5. Based on your interaction with American policymakers, how concerned are they about securing Pakistan’s nuclear weapons from terrorists? And, in your own opinion, how concerned do you think they should be? We’re sure students will come up with other questions that are more interesting and enlightening. But we also think some of you ought to take our advice. Or you could ask Musharraf whether his “hegemonic perspective takes into account the lived experiences” of all the ordinary Pakistanis that you met summering in the Hamptons. Your call. Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.
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A Portrait of the Consultant as a Young Man BY ANDREA MATTHEWS Opinions Columnist Allow me to tell you about my friend Rob. Rob is an exemplary fellow: a recent graduate, he has found success in this time of economic tumult by securing a position with Bain and Company, one of the most successful management consulting firms in the country. He has spent the past few months moving from the United States to Sydney, Australia to London, working at non-profit organizations on a Bain stipend. By most accounts, he is the model of a successful college graduate; after four years of hard work, he competed in a pool of well-groomed and highly educated individuals in a cutthroat labor market, and emerged victorious. What Rob has achieved is a goal familiar to many of us, particularly given our attendance at an Ivy League university. One may protest Brown’s differences in character from peer institutions like Harvard, which reported sending 39 percent of its class of 2008 to positions in consulting firms and financial-sector companies. But consulting and investment banking firms also represented the “top employers” at Brown, especially in the late ’90s, according to an article in Brown Alumni Magazine. Whether there is a difference in Brown’s character from those of peer institutions or not, students at universities like ours expect significant advantages in the recruitment process
for these firms. Where better can one attain the personal development, intellectual growth and social capital necessary to be successful in a highly competitive labor market than at a prestigious university with a reputation for academic excellence? Perhaps at one of the nation’s top 10 party schools. Rob didn’t attend Brown. He paid his own way through the University of Iowa (despite his acceptance to Northwestern, which he could not afford), joining student government and becoming president of a business fraternity. Rob financed his own education not
cutout of him in Iowa’s admissions office. Rob’s theory with respect to his college experience was simple. Let’s assume that Rob and I are of equal intelligence. If he, with a state school on his resume, could achieve the same ends as I (possibly) could with Brown University and its $200,000 price tag, why would I ever choose a “prestigious” private education? It’s a question I’ve been pondering since my return to campus. As freshmen took their first walk through the Van Wickle Gates (welcome!) I wondered what they hope to attain
Whatever the justification, what convinced us that Brown offered the most suitable education available? How did we come to believe that $50,000 per year was an appropriate price to pay for it? because of family financial issues — his father is a CEO — but because his parents informed him as a child that he would be responsible for his own post-secondary education. I met Rob when he moved into the building in which I was living this summer, and it was immediately apparent that we were nearly polar opposites in terms of our college experiences. I described my attempts at being “average” in Brown’s academic environment, and the constant challenges presented to me by my peers. He described the life-size cardboard
here. Do some subscribe to Rob’s view that college attendance should be determined by which school is the most cost-effective gateway to a desired career? Do others seek personal enrichment through rigorous intellectual or extracurricular pursuits? Whatever the justification, what convinced us that Brown offered the most suitable education available? How did we come to believe that $50,000 per year was an appropriate price to pay for it? The answers to these questions will not be the same among Brown students. But if Rob’s
experience is indicative of the opportunities available to intelligent and capable graduates from large state schools, simple incentives like high-powered careers should not be the only ones behind attaining a Brown education. That is not a suggestion that everyone abandon Brown for a less expensive alternative. Firstly, a lucrative career is not the only or ultimate motivation for attaining an education. Secondly, the calculus of whether the utility gained from a Brown education is worth the tuition paid can only be done on an individual basis, as it is impossible for one to accurately gauge another person’s preferences. Even then, there’s a bit of a wrinkle in the system. Can an 18-year-old, barely on the brink of adulthood, make an accurate and fully informed decision on how to best spend money that (in most cases) isn’t even theirs? Perhaps a vestige of the hyper-competitive college admissions process is that those students and families who attain a favorable outcome in the face of incredible odds feel compelled to utilize their admission, regardless of their cost-benefit calculation. But given that you are already here at Brown, reading this newspaper, what do you do? Perhaps you can indulge in a little exercise: taking the prospect of a typically “successful” career (consulting, financial services) off the table, what motivates you to complete your Brown education? If you already know the answer, I have the feeling you might be ahead of your peers.
Andrea Matthews ’11 could think of a
A retreat from pedantry BY JONAH FABRICANT Opinions Columnist As shopping period ends and books are cracked open, most new members of the Brown community make an acquaintance they didn’t encounter during orientation. This meeting is a veritable rite of passage: an introduction to the strange academic jargon that reverberates off the walls of every department and classroom on campus. Professors at Brown and their admiring students are incredibly fond of developing jargon. Sitting down in an introductory class in any discipline is likely to feel like stepping into a new country with its own language, norms and expectations. Learning how to talk the talk in your area of study is half the challenge of your first year. This is all well and good. Working with complex ideas and methods would be nearly impossible if we didn’t have shorthand ways of referencing them, and academic buzzwords are hardly unique to Brown. However, when used outside of the classroom, academic jargon has a different and rarely desirable effect. This is what the editors of GQ magazine were implying when they labeled Brown the “douchiest” college in America this summer, partly because our students are most likely to toss around the word “hegemony.” The Herald’s editorial rebuttal (“A letter to the editors of GQ,” Sept. 9) did a fantastic job of defending us from the charge of “douchiness” on most fronts, but declined to take on GQ’s charge that Brown graduates annoy their coworkers
with self-important verbosity. There’s a good reason for this: the description of the offense is probably true and definitely “douchey.” This particular GQ criticism cuts deep because many Brown students do tend to get carried away with their use of complex terms. Empowered by their new academic lexicon, students from the Ratty to the SciLi start to sprinkle these terms about indiscriminately. Words discovered in discussions of French literary criticism or theoretical physics seep
exclude the uninitiated from the conversation. This leads to the other reason casual use of specialized vocabulary should be avoided. As the GQ editors observed, using these words makes you sound like a douche. Even if the usage is perfectly appropriate, the more erudite among us could do everyone a favor by doing a cost-benefit analysis before dropping the big ones. Think: Is the added precision I would gain by introducing an unusual term
Academic jargon is intended to increase clarity; used in the wrong social context, it instead serves to obscure simple points and exclude the uninitiated from the conversation. into our everyday conversations — where they don’t belong. The most obvious reason these terms shouldn’t be thrown into casual conversation is that it often leads to their abuse. I cringe every time I overhear someone in line at Jo’s talking about a process that is “totally dialectical” or “subversively heteronormative.” More often than not, usages like these are just fancy ways of dressing up mundane observations, like “those two things are opposed” or “I’m gay, and that offends me.” When this is the case, bringing these words into the picture is unnecessary at best. After all, academic jargon is intended to increase clarity; used in the wrong social context, it instead serves to obscure simple points and
worth the resulting loss of simplicity? Including everyone around you in a conversation is an undervalued courtesy. While some people on campus are tempted to throw in references to their studies in order to impress their friends, they would do well to remember that just knowing and using academic vocabulary is not a point of pride. Though misuse of academic jargon is grating, my criticism shouldn’t be taken as advice to avoid the difficult concepts these terms are meant to describe. One of the unique aspects of life at Brown is the opportunity to make friends with people in other disciplines and to learn from them. You might have noticed that there’s a decided lack of certain kinds of jargon in this piece. I tried to avoid using as
examples terms I wasn’t completely comfortable with. Any familiarity I have with concepts from outside my discipline comes from conversations with friends immersed in different fields and jargons. People can and should discuss what they are studying and how their fields might intersect or conflict. Instead of using rarified language to have these exchanges, undergraduates have the opportunity to sit down and really explain difficult ideas to their peers. Such conversations can be infinitely more informative than trying to pick apart arguments in an unfamiliar field on your own. Also, first-years who do run into a lot of particularly verbose jargon fiends should know that Brown provides resources to help demystify their musings. Undergraduates living on campus can make free use of the Oxford English Dictionary online. The OED covers specialized academic words you won’t find in Webster’s. Once you start using it, you’ll quickly realize how much you’ll miss it once you move off campus or leave Brown. I have nothing against intelligent and rigorous discourse, but students at Brown would do well to think about whom they are speaking to and whether academic jargon is the best way to reach their audience. If they did, we might be able to work our way down to seconddouchiest college next summer.
Jonah Fabricant ’10 is a public policy and philosophy concentrator from West Orange, New Jersey. He can be reached at jonah_fabricant@brown.edu.
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