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Talks begin on slave trade memorial

Faculty committee to review tenure policies

By Nicole Friedman Senior Staf f Writer

Brian Mastroianni Senior Staff Writer

The University’s Public Arts Committee has begun considering building a public memorial to the historical ties of Brown and of Rhode Island to the slave trade, almost two years after the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice convened

by President Ruth Simmons recommended one.

The committee is set to discuss ideas for the nature and placement of a memorial at a meeting next month, said committee member JoAnn Conklin, director of the David Winton Bell Gallery.

“The memorial is in recognition of a period in our history that, for many, is very painful,” said Artemis Joukowsky ’55 P’87, chancellor emeritus and chair of the committee. Joukowsky said the project represented a brave undertaking for the University and would “make us one of the few in the country to have such a memorial.”

So far, plans for the project — which lacks a specific deadline — have consisted of informal brainstorming among committee members.

Joukowsky said having a memorial near the planned Alpert Medical School complex in downtown’s Jewelry District is “an especially exciting idea.”

“The memorial could somehow be on or near the bridge connecting our campus to the new proposed medical school area,” he said, noting that the committee will consider several ideas, including installing a plaque in memory of the slave trade.

If placed near the bridge, Conklin said the installation would remind people of the slave trade given that “slave memorials are usually on a waterfront” since “the people were brought here on ships.”

Other members of the committee include Professor of Visual Arts Richard Fishman, Professor of History of Art and Architecture Dietrich Neumann, Senior Lecturer in American Civilization and University Curator Robert Emlen and Susan Freedman ’82, president of the New York-based Public Art Fund.

Though the exact cost of a memorial remains to be determined, Conklin said it would be funded by Simmons’ discretionary fund, reserved for uses deemed especially appropriate by the president’s office.

The memorial will also recognize the state’s connection to slavery, Conklin said, noting that it is important to open a broader discussion

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Wide receiver Buddy Farnham ’10 and the football team look to take down Harvard for the second straight year tonight.

For rival Harvard, Brown game is ‘just another one’ of the Ivy championships. Both teams went 6-1 in the Ivy League last fall. The only league team that Harvard and Brown, the defend- defeated Har vard last year was ing Ivy football coBrown. champions, will meet It is not surprising, sports each other at 7 p.m. then, that Brown-Hartonight under the lights of Har- vard is a rivalry game. At least, it is for Brown. vard Stadium.

In the last five seasons, the continued on page 2 teams have had a share in four

By Dan Alexander Senior Staf f Writer

A newly formed committee will review the University’s tenure and faculty development policies after an outside monitor called attention to those areas, according to an e-mail Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 sent to faculty Thursday afternoon.

When the University was reaccredited in the spring by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the evaluation committee identified aspects of Brown’s tenure processes as an area of concern, Kertzer said.

The committee, comprised of administrators at peer institutions, noted in particular that Brown awarded tenure to professors at a ver y high rate.

In response, the Academic Affairs Committee of the Corporation asked the administration to form a faculty committee “to look at whether there is any real basis for concern,” Kertzer told The Herald.

“Certainly it is the impression of this committee that Brown has historically granted tenure to a higher proportion of the people who enter into the tenure track positions than at least most” of its peer institutions, he said.

But actual data are hard to come by, he added, since tenure negotiations are often not made public, and there are “a million

Newark mayor: Individuals can change cities

By Caitlin Trujillo Staff Writer

Local action is the key ingredient to affect urban change, Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker told a Salomon 101 audience Thursday that included Providence’s own mayor, David Cicilline ’83.

Booker, whose reforms since his election in 2006 have improved conditions in one of the country’s most violent cities, delivered the annual Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Taubman Center for Public Policy.

“I think every person in this room has the ability to make a profound impact on the world,” Booker said.

Quoting figures from Shakespeare to Chris Rock, Booker’s 45-minute address described his experiences trying to revitalize the crime-ridden city and what he learned about the power of

dif ferent ways of dealing with tenure” among universities.

“One of the challenges the committee will have is to tr y to get as good data as we can to see whether the comment by the NEASC seems to be borne out by evidence,” Kertzer said.

Tenure clock too short?

The ad hoc committee, which plans to issue recommendations in the spring, will consider three central issues, Kertzer said. Its members will first examine “the set of issues around our tenure processes and whether they are as strong as they could and should be,” Kertzer said.

Kertzer will chair the committee, which includes eight faculty members. Dean of the Faculty Rajiv Vohra P’07 and Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Edward Wing will ser ve as ex officio members, according to the e-mail.

Since tenure is officially granted by the Corporation, “they obviously want to feel confident that we have the strongest methods of ensuring the highest quality of faculty at Brown,” Kertzer said.

But a high tenure rate is not necessarily a negative thing, he added.

On the one hand, the University should reserve its “relatively few” tenured positions for “the continued on page 3

Where do the magic bars go?

Why pigs love your dinner scraps

By Gaurie Tilak Staf f Writer

Frederic Lu / Herald

Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., urged students to become active in their communities, calling democracy a “full-contact” sport.

individuals to improve their communities.

Improving the conditions in American cities will ultimately benefit the nation as a whole, Booker said, imploring all audience members not to be deterred by obstacles and setbacks. Ameri-

Got too much on your plate? Brown Dining Services does, too — that’s why it donated 737 pounds of baked

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cans too often let an inability to do everything undermine their willingness to do anything, Booker said.

Booker faced a number of hurdles when he first sought to

goods to local charities last year alone.

BuDS donates usable leftovers to a number of charities and sends “plate waste” — table scraps from the Sharpe Refector y and the

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Arts, 5

News, 3

Opinions, 11

full circle A “wickeds” premier Saturday for Brown TV’s mini-series

REsource-Ful Construction has begun on a new science resource center in the SciLi

Happy New Year?

Ethan Tobias ’12 says Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur should be days off

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“(Brown is) always extremely highly motivated to play us.”

— Tim Murphy, Harvard head football coach

Former world leaders see hopefulness in new age

By Sarah Julian Staf f Writer

Two of Brown’s world-leaders-inresidence, former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos and former Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, seemed to offer a hopeful view of current geopolitical affairs at a forum Thursday morning at the Watson Institute for International Studies.

Lagos, a professor-at-large at Watson, pointed to the fall of the Berlin Wall as the beginning of a new era in which cooperation between nations forms a cornerstone of foreign policy.

Gusenbauer, a visiting professor of international studies, said for his part that “the 21st century begins now” — as opposed to nine years ago — because only now do nations have a uniform progressive international agenda and a willingness to fully address matters such as global warming, human rights and nuclear proliferation.

Indeed, if there was one thing in common between the two speakers, as one questioner pointed out, both had very hopeful views of the near future. The lectures, jointly titled “The Obama Age and Progressive New Policy for a PostCrisis World,” gave both speakers a chance to expound their ideas about the meaning of an “Obama Age.” Lagos praised Obama for being the first American president to chair a meeting of the UN Security Council, saying the decision communicates the message, “I believe in the UN,” something he said had gone unsaid during President George W. Bush’s administra-

tion. Generally complimentary of the president, he called Obama’s June speech in Cairo a “wonderful” address that “embraced” the Muslim world.

Gusenbauer focused less on Obama and more on the world community as a whole, which he said was finally addressing “the most ardent political and the most ardent social and economic issues.”

One of those issues, he said, is nuclear nonproliferation, a subject about which he seemed hopeful — especially with regard to Iran, where he said an “out of touch” President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad was making his “last expressions.”

But Gusenbauer also warned of the danger of thinking that the economic crisis was over. He warned that governments might be deterred from continuing much-needed stimulus packages by the prospect of assuming huge amounts of debt.

Lagos emphasized the need for dialogue in international relations.

He said Obama does not want to police the world and noted that engaging in discourse and sharing the burden to fight common problems are essential. He said the United States would expect international cooperation on a number of issues, and gave the example of the Kosovo conflict as a time when European nations could have helped the United States.

Laura Kammel ’12, who attended the panel discussion, said the two leaders’ talks seemed focused on “keeping people going on the right path as we start to head out of crisis.”

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With four All-Ivy linemen playing, coaches for Brown and Harvard expect an especially physical game.

Bears ready to line up at Harvard continued from page 1 “There would be nothing better than to go up to their place and beat them there,” said wide receiver Bobby Sewall ’10.

It’s likely that the night game will be in front of one of the biggest crowds Har vard Stadium will host all season, according to Har vard Head Coach Tim Murphy. In preparation for the night atmosphere, Brown practiced at 7 p.m. on Monday, instead of taking its usual Monday day-off.

Murphy said he doesn’t see the Brown game any differently from other games. The importance of it, for Murphy, comes from it being the league-opener.

Brown “is a team that’s always extremely highly motivated to play us,” Murphy said. “But it doesn’t matter who you open with in our league, you know, it’s a big game.

And this is just another one.”

Murphy said many teams, inside and outside the Ivy League, look at Harvard as their rival. But he said his team is used to playing against teams that consider Harvard to be their rival. And his veteran players will expect a game with the intensity of a rivalry game.

“It is something that you have to constantly remind your team about,” Murphy said. “The upperclassmen, they get it. … But some of the young guys are surprised by the intensity of how teams play us, no matter what the situation.”

Harvard won’t face what Mur-

phy sees as its biggest rival until the last week of the season.

“Our big rival obviously is Yale,” he said. “Traditionally, Princeton, as well.”

Sewall said if Harvard doesn’t think of Brown as its rival now, “they’re about to see that maybe they should consider differently.”

The Matchup The Bears and Crimson share more in common than last just last year’s Ivy championship trophy.

They are both coming off close

SPORTS PREVIEW losses that, according to Brown Head Coach Phil Estes, could have gone either way.

In last week’s loss to Holy Cross, Harvard’s offense was completely balanced in its attack — passing 37 times and rushing 37 times. But according to Murphy, his team is still a “pass first, run second” team.

Against a Brown team that was fourth in the nation in rush defense last year, but last in the Ivy League in pass defense, the Crimson might look to the air often tonight. But Estes said his defense can’t focus on the pass too much.

“You can’t just limit yourself on trying to contain the quarterback, because they can run the football as well,” Estes said.

The Bears went to the air 45 times against Stony Brook and kept it on the ground 32 times. But Estes said Brown, like Harvard, has weap-

ons at quarterback and running back, so defenses can’t concentrate on just one too much.

Both teams are led by rookie starting quarterbacks trying to fill big cleats. Kyle Newhall-Caballero ’11 took over Brown’s huddle after 2008 second team All-Ivy quarterback Michael Dougherty ’09 graduated. In his first collegiate game making a pass, Newhall-Caballero was 29 of 45 passing for 267 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions in last week’s 21-20 loss.

Harvard’s Collier Winters made his starting debut under center after the departure of last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year, Chris Pizotti. In his first outing, Winters was 22 of 37 passing for 195 yards and two touchdowns.

The battle in the trenches in front of Winters will feature four 2008 All-Ivy linemen, including two players coaches call NFL prospects, defensive tackle David Howard ’09.5 of Brown and left tackle James Williams of Harvard.

“I guarantee you this: We won’t see a better defensive front than Brown has this year,” Murphy said. “Dave Howard and James Develin … are probably two of the three best linemen in the entire league.”

Both Murphy and Estes compliment each others’ teams often when they speak of tonight’s matchup.

“They play us hard,” Murphy said of Estes’ team. “They play us down and dirty right down until the last snap.”

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C ampus N EWS Ratty dishes out leftovers to pig farm, local soup kitchens continued from page 1 Verney-Woolley Dining Hall — and other unusable leftovers to a local pig farm, BuDS Director of Administration Ann Hoffman wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

According to Hof fman, the scraps — along with extra food from the serving lines, which is not considered safe for human consumption — and trimmings from food preparation are used as animal feed.

While BuDS regularly throws its table scraps to the same farm’s pigs, it also donates to local soup kitchens.

Several local soup kitchens receive bakery products that are left unserved or unsold at the end of the day, said Elizabeth Mersereau, production manager and head of the BuDS bakeshop, who personally visits the Providence Rescue Mission on her way home from work and delivers leftover food.

Following Mersereau’s example, Alicia Iracks, a bakeshop employee, said she began taking food to Providence’s Crossroads Family Center more than a year ago. Iracks said she usually visits the center once or twice a week to deliver food, which ranges from a dozen loaves of bread to cakes, pastries and muffins.

During the holidays, when there is an especially high volume of unused food, she said she often brings food to other centers operated by Crossroads, the state’s largest provider of services for the homeless.

The tradition of donating food to Crossroads started as a serendipitous act of kindness, Iracks said.

One day, the bakeshop had a lot of leftovers, but Mersereau wasn’t available to make her usual trip to the Rescue Mission.

“We called a lot of shelters and Crossroads picked up,” said Iracks, who has been taking food to the center ever since.

Mary House, a local food pantry, is another organization that makes sure the Blue Room’s extra muffins don’t go to waste. Janice Luongo,

executive director of the pantry, said her organization typically receives food from Brown around Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Though the donations she receives from the University are infrequent and inconsistent, she said they are of high quality and greatly appreciated.

“Oh my God — it’s like, amazing,” she said of the donated food.

BuDS doesn’t only support individual charities in Providence.

It also donates large volumes of unused ingredients to the Rhode Island Food Bank before closing the bakeshop for winter break, Mersereau said. A lot of fresh food cannot stay in storage for the entire break, she said, so BuDS sends it to the Food Bank to be resold to soup kitchens and charities at a heavily discounted rate.

“I don’t want to send something that I wouldn’t eat myself,” Mersereau said.

People outside of BuDS have also realized that unused magic bars deserve a better fate than being tossed in a dumpster. Almost two years ago, Annajane Yolken ’11 started an organized delivery of leftover food from the University’s eateries to the City Meal Site, a soup kitchen run by homeless people at the Cathedral of St. John in Providence.

Yolken said she came up with the idea after volunteering at a soup kitchen near her home in Maryland.

She noticed other volunteers would bring in food from grocery stores that would other wise have been thrown away.

“It’s really surprising how much food would be thrown away if it weren’t donated,” she said.

Yolken then began collecting food from local restaurants and grocery stores near her home and decided to create a similar arrangement upon returning to school.

Last year, the student group Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere took over the program started by Yolken and organized weekly deliveries to the City Meal Site, Yolken said.

U. may seek community input on memorial continued from page 1 about the historical slave trade with local residents.

“It would be great to have forums and discussions for the community,” she said. “We will want a lot of input from all different groups as to how the memorial will be presented.”

Conklin and Joukowsky said that even though a plan for the memorial might be agreed on in the near future, the question of its location will still remain.

“We don’t have that much space on our main campus,” Conklin said.

Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University relations, said the committee will eventually make its recommendations to the Corporation’s Committee on Facili-

“It would be great to have forums and discussions for the community” Jo-Ann Conklin, director of the David Winton Bell Gallery ties and Design.

“Clearly, Brown, the city and the state’s history with slavery and the Atlantic slave trade has been meaningful,” Quinn said. “It is important to our culture and who we are to constantly re-examine this past.”

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“We don’t have that much space on our main campus.”

— Jo-Ann Conklin, Public Art Committee member, on a slave trade memorial

Construction of SciLi resource center underway

By Ana Alvarez Contributing Writer

Construction began this week on a new advising and tutoring resource center on the third floor of the Sciences Librar y, the creation of which was recommended in 2007 by the Undergraduate Science Education Committee to better support students taking science and math classes.

Barbara Schulz, the University Librar y’s head of facilities and business ser vices, said the space was emptied and closed early this summer. Though there is no fixed date of completion, she said construction could be completed as early as Januar y.

David Targan, associate dean of the College for science education, said one of the center’s main features will be a central area for large study sessions led by professors. The space, which will include seven closed rooms with smar tboards, can also be employed as a meeting place for smaller study groups.

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Signs announce asbestos removal from the third floor of the Sciences Library in preparation for a new advising and group-study space.

The front will feature a reception area staffed by a new science program coordinator, said Harriette Hemmasi, Joukowsky Family University Librarian. A large open space near the front of the center will be able to host lectures held by professors, Targan said.

Other design features of the center include televisions — one of which will broadcast a live feed from NASA — individual study

cubicles, a kitchenette and diagrams and pictures of different scientific processes.

As construction begins, workers are removing asbestos from the third-floor area. Though some students were alarmed by signage announcing the asbestos work, Hemmasi said the removal was “ver y contained.” continued on page 4

U. awaits tenure committee’s review continued from page 1 intellectual leaders in their field, nationally and internationally,” he said. But on the other hand, if junior faculty members know they have little chance of earning a tenured position, they “don’t necessarily have a long-term interest in the institution.”

The committee’s second task is to compare the University’s tenure clock — the length of time between when a professor is hired and when the University must decide whether to grant tenure — to those of peer institutions. Because faculty members in the Division of Biology and Medicine in particular have raised concerns that the tenure clock is too short, the committee will also consider whether Brown needs a uniform tenure clock or whether the timeline could var y among departments, according to Kertzer’s e-mail to faculty.

The University currently follows the American Association of University Professors’ guidelines for tenure, which dictate that tenure-track faculty should not “ser ve for more than seven years without tenure,” Kertzer said. The guideline aims to ensure that faculty will not be kept in limbo indefinitely about their tenure prospects.

But because faculty members must be warned in their sixth year if they will not receive tenure, the guidelines “really mean you only have about five years … to be evaluated,” Kertzer said. For a professor in the biological sciences, it can be difficult to obtain external funding, establish a laboratory and earn a reputation as “a significant scholar in their field” in just five years, Kertzer said.

But outside of some BioMed

departments, most faculty members oppose a longer tenure clock, Kertzer said. Professors without tenure are more likely to leave the University for the stability of a tenured position at another institution. Many faculty members also arrive at Brown with years of postdoctoral work under their belts and would not want to wait even longer than they currently do to be granted tenure, he added.

The committee will also examine the support system for junior faculty and seek out areas in which the University can improve.

In particular, Kertzer’s e-mail said, the committee will evaluate research suppor t, leave-taking policies and teaching expectations for junior faculty, drawing comparisons with peer institutions.

Unlike changes to the actual tenure-granting process, which would have to be approved by the Corporation, adjustments to faculty development policies can probably be implemented through administrative action alone, Kertzer said.

“Personally I think this is a healthy exercise for us to look at our processes and resources for supporting junior faculty,” he said. “Regardless of NEASC, it’s not a bad idea for us to be doing this.”

Seeking input The tenure committee is set to convene for the first time “within the next couple of weeks” and will meet every few weeks thereafter, Kertzer said. When asking the Faculty Executive Committee to recommend professors to ser ve on the committee, he requested faculty who are both “clearly viewed as nationally prominent scholars” and “excellent teachers at Brown,” he said.

Members of the ad hoc committee to review Brown’s tenure practices • David Kertzer, provost (chair) • Susan Alcock, Joukowsky Institute and classics • Sheila Blumstein, cognitive and linguistic sciences • Barry Connors, neuroscience • Sharon Krause, political science • Charles Larmore, philosophy • Arto Nurmikko, engineering • Tricia Rose, Africana studies • Andy Van Dam, computer science Ex officio members: • Rajiv Vohra, dean of the faculty • Edward Wing, dean of biology and medicine To solicit widespread faculty input, the committee will meet with faculty governance bodies and department chairs. It will also host an open forum for faculty members to ask questions and voice comments, suggestions and concerns.

The committee hopes to complete its work “sometime next semester,” Kertzer said. Its members will produce a report with recommendations, which will be sent to the full faculty for consideration.

If any changes are recommended and approved, they could be implemented as early as the next academic year.

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C ampus N EWS New resource center to support science students continued from page 3

The abatement began Monday, Schulz said, adding that it “should be done by the end of the week.”

The need for better academic support for students in science classes, which the science education committee identified, was later endorsed by the Task Force on Undergraduate Education in its final report last fall.

In a summar y of its recommendations, the task force wrote that the center could “bring together, under one roof, Brown’s many departmentally based peeradvising and tutoring networks in math and science, while also enhancing opportunities for students to work with faculty on research projects and community outreach activities.”

The center was “designed to encourage people to come,” Hemmasi said. It was important that the center have “a variety of spaces, and also spaces that would be flexible,” she said.

In addition to the full-time staf fer, professors will ser ve shifts in the third-floor area to provide students with “coaching and teaching as well as advising,” Hemmasi said. Their jobs will include ever ything from helping students with homework to

advising them as to how to fund research projects.

Unlike other study centers, like the SciLi’s Friedman Study Center, the new resource center will focus especially on science and give students interested in science a space to interact, Targan said.

The center will also extend the resources of several campus programs aimed at helping science students achieve their goals, such as the Math Resource Center and the Women in Science and Engineering program, Targan said.

Blake Monroe ’13, who is concentrating in chemical physics, said he had heard of the project deans had planned but had “no idea what they are hoping to do.”

Monroe said he was ver y receptive to the idea of the small group-study rooms in particular, adding that it would be nice to have a place “where you could go and talk without being afraid of disrupting people around you.”

Lu Zeng ’12, an applied mathematics and economics concentrator, agreed that the SciLi would benefit from more such spaces.

“Especially for science and math you need medium-volume spaces where you can kind of argue over a problem,” she said.

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“Democracy is not a spectator sport.”

— Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, N.J.

Newark mayor on how to effect change continued from page 1 effect change in Newark, he said.

He moved to the city while enrolled at Yale Law School in hopes of becoming a community organizer, he said.

He faced pessimism when he first entered politics. The major concern most Newark residents had was the high crime rate, and people advised him not to measure his success as a city councilman or mayor in terms of the crime rate, he said.

But Booker sought places where improvements could be made and strove to open up communication within the community. He investigated the police department and found it operated “like an episode of ‘Barney Miller,’” with outdated technology.

He also noticed that more than 70 percent of police officers worked day shifts even though most crime happened at night. He worked to remind the night-shift officers of their importance. Booker even insisted upon accompanying officers on their shifts, recalling one such trip that ended with the suspects apprehended and the mayor crawling on the ground, searching for the drugs they had scattered.

Booker said fixing problems required taking action in ways that had never been tried before and viewed such unorthodox measures as successful. Recent statistics indicate that shootings have declined 42 percent on his watch, and the murder rate

has fallen by two-thirds, according to Booker.

He acknowledged that he experienced “dark days” in his efforts to improve Newark, particularly as a councilman. Fed up with the apparent stagnation, Booker pitched a tent in a public area and vowed to sleep there and fast until matters started to improve.

Even this extreme step, though, proved to have a positive effect — the next day, correctional officers joined him in his endeavor, and ministers joined him later still. Dozens of citizens came to investigate the situation, and news quickly spread as more people became curious about what he was doing. Together they all fasted and prayed, which Booker said was the moment in his life during which he felt the strongest, despite being racked with hunger.

As people held hands and prayed in multiple languages, Booker said, he saw the group was united for a common hope. “I felt like I was hearing the voices of my ancestors,” Booker said.

“Whenever I hit a dead end, or a cliff, I find people who help me move forward,” he said later.

Booker answered audience members’ questions after he finished his speech. Asked if he was looking to advance further in politics, Booker stressed that he viewed aiding the Newark community as his primary objective at the moment.

“Life is about purpose, not position,” he said.

The same questioner asked for his thoughts on former President Jimmy Carter’s recent statement that much of the criticism currently being leveled against President Obama was racially motivated.

Booker said he respected Carter, but did not view the debate over the role of racism in assessments of Obama’s presidency as productive in its current form. Though racism is still a societal problem, he said, it is efforts like educating Newark’s children — 85 percent of whom are black or Latino according to Booker — that best help to combat prejudice.

In response to another question, Booker said his long-term plans for education in Newark include expanding charter schools and urban scholarships. Asked about the role of ar ts in urban revitalization, Booker said he approved of establishing more cultural institutions — such as ar t galleries — to create a more vibrant atmosphere in local neighborhoods.

For the bulk of his appearance, however, Booker stressed grassroots participation as the vital component of change.

Earlier, during his lecture, Booker urged the room to consider wisdom he said his mother imparted to him: that the makers of history were ordinary people who took action and accomplished extraordinary feats.

“Democracy is not a spectator sport,” he said. “It’s a full-contact, participatory endeavor.”

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BTV mini-series to debut this weekend

By Jeremy Jacob Staf f Writer

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Members of “Beyond the Bottle” held a Water Carnival yesterday to raise awareness of the environmental consequences of using disposable water bottles. Students could answer trivia questions, play bottle ring toss, or “water pong” (below).

Dramatic possibilities of ‘Repeat after me’

By Rosalind Schonwald Arts & Culture Editor

A detached voice repeats phrases in English and Hungarian. Actors have fits of emotion and take off their clothes; it’s not quite clear why.

This is the fictional universe of Maria Irene Fornes’ “The Danube” as directed by Jessica Goldschmidt ’10, presented this weekend at Production Workshop.

Viewers can always expect to see something edgy in PW’s black box theater, but “The Danube,” staging a

discomfiting and intellectually challenging disintegration of reality, pushes that edge even further in a meticulously imagined production.

Goldschmidt has managed to create a rendering of the play that is both spare and complex. The simple set — a slanted platform with a stair winding round the side — becomes a nuanced tool in the actors’ skilled grasp.

“The Danube” takes place in Hungary on the cusp of World War II, in a Budapest divided by the Danube River. The first scene starts in

complete darkness. Then, four lights snap on, illuminating the four actors, who stand stiffly and speak with a detached automatism that pervades the rest of the play. The three men wear suits, and the woman is in a simple dress, her hair pulled back in an austere bun. They march robotically to showtune music. Something is not right.

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“The Circle,” a new mini-series created for Brown Television, is set to premiere Saturday at the Cable Car Cinema and Cafe. The show’s first three episodes, which were directed by Daniel Byers ’08, feature Brown students and alums, as well as Rhode Island School of Design students and professional actors.

The mini-series is set in a postapocalyptic world in which dark forces, known as “wickeds,” are able to transform their victims, zombie-style, into new wickeds, Byers said. In his view of the future of earth, small pockets of humanity remain. Each community — including Cronn University, where the series takes place — is protected by a supernatural force known as “the weird.” The story follows Sebille, an orphaned child from the borderlands where factions of soldiers in gas masks fight the evil wickeds. Upon arrival at Cronn, Sebille finds that something is not quite right with the university. As wickeds start to break into the eponymous Circle that protects the school, students feared to have been infected by them are taken away. But suspicion mounts that these removals are related to a school administration plot.

Byers said the idea for “The Circle” came to him while he was still an undergraduate. He wanted to work on a large-scale project that would bring together the many people he had met, includ-

ing actors, artists, set designers and other filmmakers. Byers said he only had enough time to make shorter films while at Brown, due to the difficulty of coordinating his busy schedule with those of others involved in the various projects.

During last spring break, Byers got together with Harry Aspinwall ’11 and Alex Feldman ’10 to start writing the script for the first three episodes. Before that, in mid-February, Feldman said, he and Byers started to work on a four-page story arc of the series, in which they bounced initial ideas for the story off each other. Feldman has continued to be involved with the series and will be delivering a speech during the premiere.

The project started with the writing process, then moved to casting last March once the creative team felt it knew where the work was going, Byers said.

Byers and the others put up eye-catching posters to announce the auditions, which sparked much interest in the project.

“It’s important to grab people’s attention visually with something like this, even if they don’t really know what they’re getting into, to be magnetized from the start,” Byers said.

They also advertised on several professional actors’ listservs in New England and the MidAtlantic. Byers was surprised by the amount of adult interest in the audition — one of their lead adult actors, Eric Eastman, drove two hours from Connecticut just continued on page 6

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Kim Perley / Herald Students signed pledges and sported T-shirts as part of the University’s first Consent Day on Thursday.

Emotions abound in PW production continued from page 5 Anita Badejo ’12). Mr. Sandor (Ned Riseley ’12), an avuncular, middleaged Hungarian man, sits at a table repeating the words. American ex-

patriate Paul Green (Daniel Gonon ’12) appears, and their conversation continues, duplicating the language tape that plays throughout. When Eve (Lily Spottiswoode ’09) arrives onstage, it’s clear, despite her unanimated demeanor, that she and Paul have immediately hit it off.

Through the first few scenes, the adherence to the language tape has the feeling of an awkward parody, deployed for comedic effect. But then there’s a sharp turn, where language and emotion start to part ways. Paul asks a nervous Eve out to a cafe, their first date. She adopts a jittery tone, responding with rushed descriptions of Budapest’s geography. This one moment could be dismissed as a nervous girl’s response, but the rest of the play is plagued by an impersonal dialogue, slave to the narration of the Hungarian instruc-

tion tape. Emotions pour out, raw and without the frame of a coherent narrative. Eve and Paul fall into inexplicable bouts of illness and madness, while Mr. Sandor and other characters (all played by Sam Alper ’11) become increasingly absurdist in this abstract world.

Goldschmidt said she first discovered the text of “The Danube” in a playwriting class and felt drawn in by a connection with the play’s emotional contours and setting. She liked that it incorporated “performing dancing, performing stereotypes.”

Goldschmidt studied abroad in Budapest during the fall of her junior year and found the city “wonderful, confusing, full of grime and gorgeousness.”

That exact combination of qualities describes “The Danube” as well.

‘Circle’ features Brown, Providence buildings continued from page 5 to try out.

Byers and his team began filming in April, and they were able to get most of the shooting done before the end of last semester, using the summer to edit the footage, as well as to add special effects. Most of the filming was done at Brown, Byers said, with a focus on places “that aren’t seen by most Brown students on a regular basis,” like the inside of the John Carter Brown Library. They also staged scenes in some abandoned buildings in downtown Providence and at the so-called “Rhode Island Desert” in West Greenwich, and arid area about two miles in diameter.

There were “aspects of production that didn’t come together until very late,” Byers said. “We were still filming some scenes until a few weeks ago, a couple filler shots now.”

So far, Byers and others working on the project have financed it

themselves, but they’re hoping to receive some subsidiary funding.

They have submitted the project to the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts — which may retroactively finance the shooting that has already taken place — and to Brown’s Creative Arts Council.

As for when “The Circle” may be coming to BTV, producer Sam Eilertson ’12 said the last two episodes of the series still have to be shot before the series can air, which could take anything from a few weeks to a few months.

Byers said he has always wanted the project to remain studentfocused and be tied as closely to Brown as possible.

“In a way its about Brown,” he said. “It’s about this fictional university that is Brown.”

“The Circle” premieres at the Cable Car Cinema and Cafe (204 S. Main St.) Sat., Sept. 26 at 11:30 p.m., with a second screening Mon., Sept. 28 at 9:30 p.m.

World & Nation The Brown Daily Herald

Friday, September 25, 2009 | Page 7

Researchers report AIDS vaccine progress

By Karen Kaplan and Thomas H. Maugh II Los Angeles T imes

Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times

Amber Oberg, center, helps daughter Megan, 12, with her homework while son, Adam, 8, plays in the background at their home in the Citrus Heights community of Sacramento, Calif. Oberg left the U.S. Army after eight years of active duty and went back to school after a personal bankruptcy and the loss of her home to foreclosure.

New GI Bill, same old delays

By David Zucchino Los Angeles Times

When Amber Oberg left the U.S. Army after eight years of active duty, her timing seemed perfect. Congress was creating a Post-9/11 GI Bill, with generous payments for veterans seeking higher education.

But a month into her first semester at the University of California, Davis, Oberg has yet to receive her tuition, housing and book money from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

“I didn’t expect to get out of the military and then have to wait and wait for the education money that was promised me,” said Oberg, a single mother of two. She said she went back to school after a personal bankruptcy and the loss of her home to foreclosure.

Many veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are struggling to make ends meet because of delayed education payments, according to veterans groups. But VA officials said they are moving as quickly as possible to process a flood of last-minute applications under a complex, two-step process required by the law.

Some veterans have had to get part-time jobs or borrow money from family and friends, said Ryan Gallucci of AMVETS, an advocacy organization. A few have reported dropping out of school due to a lack of cash, Gallucci said. In cases where schools were not willing to wait, some veterans have had to use non-GI bill loans and scholarships to pay their tuition.

Most colleges have allowed veterans to attend classes while they await the government payments they’re due. But without housing money, veterans can’t cover basics like rent and food. And many cannot afford to pay for books without those stipends.

“Schools may be willing to wait for tuition payments, but creditors and landlords don’t have a deal with the government. They want their money now,” said Isaac Pacheco, an AMVETS employee and former Ma-

rine who is attending graduate school at Georgetown University under the latest GI Bill.

Veterans were eligible to apply for the education assistance beginning May 1, but most waited until late summer to file, according to the VA. After receiving the proper paperwork, the government must certify that a veteran qualifies for the program based on his or her military service. Payments cannot go out, however, until the school certifies that the veteran has been approved for enrollment. Because of state budget cycles, most schools could not do that until mid-August.

From that point, it takes an average of 35 days to process and send payments, said Keith Wilson, the VA’s director of educational services. A recorded VA phone message tells veterans to expect payments six to eight weeks after they are certified.

P.W. Dunne, a VA undersecretary, has written schools to thank those that have kept veterans enrolled while awaiting late tuition payments.

“The learning curve has been steep for us all,” Dunne wrote.

About 24,500 veterans have been approved for enrollment at colleges this year under the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

The VA says it has processed about 11,500 payments so far. Wilson said he did not know how many veterans had received tuition and book stipends.

The bill covers veterans who have served since Sept. 11, 2001. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush in June 2008 but did not take effect until Aug. 1 of this year.

Previous GI bills pay a flat rate.

The new bill provides var ying amounts for tuition, fees, housing and books — based on a veteran’s service, the university and other factors.

“It’s a great new program, but it doesn’t do us much good if they don’t provide the benefits,” said Robert Barker, 35, a Navy veteran attending Rhode Island College who said he has not received tuition, housing or book money.

Book stipends pay up to $1,000 per academic year. Housing payments range from about $800 a month to $2,700 a month.

Because housing payments issued at the end of the month are intended to cover the previous month’s costs, veterans are not due money for September housing costs until Oct. 1. Wilson said he could not predict how many veterans would receive those payments.

Mike DeVaughn, who served five years in the Army, including a tour in Iraq, said his parents had to pay for his books at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland because he has not received his stipend. And since he is awaiting his housing payment, he is living at home.

“I need that payment,” he said.

“There’s no way on Earth I can afford to live in an apartment on my own.”

Pacheco, an Iraq veteran, said Georgetown has received his tuition money, but only because he was one of about 30 veterans who applied in May under a VA pilot program. Even so, he’s still awaiting payments for living expenses and books.

“If I’m the test case to make sure they get this right, well, they haven’t,” Pacheco said.

At UC Davis, Oberg, 34, said she doesn’t know how long she and her children can remain in her foreclosed home while she pursues a double major in psychology and sociology.

She said she desperately needs the $1,736 monthly housing payment to make ends meet.

Oberg said she enrolled in early August but did not receive a prorated housing payment as expected on Sept. 1 — and has been unable to reach anyone at the VA to tell her when she can expect it.

Although Wilson said that the goal of the Department of Veterans Affairs was to make sure that every GI bill payment goes out as quickly as possible, Gallucci said that AMVETS is focusing on the Oct. 1 date.

“That’s the day we find out just how serious this problem is,” he said.

Hours after HIV researchers announced the achievement of a milestone that had eluded them for a quarter of a century, reality began to set in: Tangible progress could take another decade.

A Thai and American team announced early Thursday in Bangkok that they had found a combination of vaccines providing modest protection against infection with the virus that causes AIDS, unleashing excitement worldwide. The idea of a vaccine to prevent infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, had long been frustrating and fruitless.

But by Thursday afternoon, initial euphoria gave way to a more sober assessment. There is still a very long way to go before reaching the goal of producing a vaccine that reliably shields people from HIV. Some researchers questioned whether the apparent 31 percent reduction in infections was a statistical anomaly resulting from the small number of HIV cases observed in the trial.

And if the protection was real, how did the vaccine do it? Researchers have never observed antibodies or other blood molecules that could block HIV infection.

Experts predicted it will take two to three years to identify the biological molecules linked to the protection, and another five to 10 to produce a vaccine to test in people.

Despite the many questions, researchers are ecstatic. After 26 years, they have finally made progress on demonstrating the feasibility of an HIV vaccine, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which largely funded the $120 million study. But “is it a vaccine that is ready for prime time? No.” The trial, which began in 2003, had been disparaged by many as a waste of time because the two vac-

cines used in it had been shown in individual trials to produce no benefit.

But a some researchers speculated that using them together, with one priming the immune system and the second boosting the response, might work better.

The primer is Alvac, by Sanofi Pasteur, which uses a defanged canar ypox virus to carr y three synthetic HIV genes into the body.

The boost is from Aidsvax, made

by VaxGen and now owned by the nonprofit Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases. It contains a genetically engineered version of an HIV surface protein.

The study was of more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand, all from the general population, not high-risk homosexuals and intravenous drug users used in past studies.

Half received four priming doses of Alvac and two boosts of Aidsvax over six months; half received placebos.

After three years, new HIV infections were seen in 74 of the 8,198 people who received the placebo, but in only 51 of the 8,197 given the vaccine, a statistically significant 31 percent reduction.

Full details will be released next month at a Paris conference. Dr. Salim S. Abdool Karim, an epidemiologist at Columbia University and director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa in Durban, said he was eager to know if people who were vaccinated and stayed healthy had a bigger response from blood cells called cellular T lymphocytes.

And if not, then “what kind of compounds were the cells making when you inoculate them with the vaccine?” asked Dr. Spoyros Kalams, director of the HIV Vaccine Trials Program at Vanderbilt University.

Researchers will begin to sift through the blood of those who were vaccinated and resisted infection and those who did not, seeking molecules more abundant in the healthy people, Fauci said. Then they can look for ways to make a more effective vaccine.

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U.S. indicts Denver man in bombing conspiracy case

By Tina Susman and Josh Meyer Los Angeles T imes

NEW YORK — A federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicted a 24-year-old Denver man on a terrorism charge Thursday after federal authorities alleged that he and at least three other men had gone on a buying spree of bomb-making chemicals and were preparing an attack on U.S. soil.

The one-count terrorism indictment against 24-year-old Najibullah Zazi alleges that he worked for more than a year on the plot to detonate a “weapon of mass destruction.”

Justice Department documents did not specifically name other alleged co-conspirators, but it said three other Denver-area men had bought unusual amounts of chemicals from beauty supply stories, including hydrogen peroxide and acetone, that could be used to make explosives.

Authorities are searching for at least a dozen individuals for questioning in what they describe as the first al-Qaida-linked plot on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

“Zazi remained committed to detonating an explosive device up until the date of his arrest” last Saturday evening, nine days after arriving in New York City, allegedly to meet with other members

of the plot, according to a Justice Department document.

The document was part of a motion filed Thursday to keep Zazi detained in Colorado without bail.

A federal judge agreed, setting the stage for his transfer to New York to face the terrorism charge.

While Zazi was ordered held, his father Mohammed Zazi and Ahmad Wais Afzali, a Queens imam and New York Police informant, were ordered released on bail.

They were arrested along with Zazi on charges of lying to authorities in the intensive terrorism investigation.

“We will continue to work around the clock to ensure that anyone involved is brought to justice,” said Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. in announcing the indictment. “We believe any imminent threat arising from this case has been disrupted, but as always, we remind the American public to be vigilant and to report any suspicious activity to law enforcement.”

In the last two weeks, Zazi sought “urgent” help on making homemade bombs, according to the detention motion. On Sept. 6 and 7, he tried multiple times to communicate with another individual “seeking to correct mixtures of ingredients to make explosives.”

“Each communication,” the detention motion alleged, was “more urgent in tone than the last.”

Prosecutors said Zazi had traveled overseas to receive bombmaking instructions and conducted extensive research on the Internet regarding components of explosive devices.

They said that on multiple occasions Zazi bought unusually large amounts of components to make TATP (Triacetone Triperoxide) and other explosives before arriving in New York City on Sept. 10.

TATP is the explosive used in the deadly 2005 London train bombings that killed 52 people and was intended for use in a 2005 plot to blow up a jetliner traveling from London to the United States and a 2001 plan by Briton Richard Reid to detonate a shoe bomb on a similar flight. Both schemes were linked to al-Qaida.

The government alleged that at least three still-unidentified men purchased suspicious quantities of hydrogen peroxide or acetone from beauty supply stores in the Denver area.

Zazi went twice to the Beauty Supply Warehouse in Aurora, Colo., to purchase highly concentrated hydrogen-peroxide-based products, said Karan Hoss, chief executive officer of the beauty supply chain.

Zazi bought 12 bottles of Clairoxide on July 25 and six bottles of Ms. K Liquid 40 Volume on Aug. 28, Hoss said.

Hoss said his employees did

not realize the significance of the purchase until FBI agents visited earlier this month asking questions about anyone who’d made large purchases of hydrogen peroxide. He said they supplied tape and equipment from 48 cameras mounted throughout the store, and agents spotted Zazi.

“Forty-eight cameras in a beauty supply store is not common. I’m glad we invested the money and were able to provide the evidence, assuming this guy is guilty,” Hoss said. “It gives me some comfort. ... Thank God for good technology and good camera systems.”

Authorities also said that they found evidence that Zazi had heated the chemicals on the stove of an Aurora apartment he had rented Aug. 28. Authorities said in court documents that notes on bomb making were found on Zazi’s laptop computer discussed heating the chemicals to make them more concentrated.

The documents noted that Zazi’s fingerprints on the kind of small electronic scale and batteries often used in the making of homemade bombs.

In public statements, Zazi has denied being part of any terrorist plot. But the FBI alleges that he admitted under questioning to receiving explosives and weapons training by al-Qaida in the tribal areas of Pakistan that are considered to be the headquarters for the

“We will continue to work around the clock to ensure that anyone involved is brought to justice.”

Eric Holder U.S. Attorney General terror network headed by Osama bin Laden.

FBI agents in Colorado first arrested Zazi on Sept. 19, after prosecutors filed a criminal complaint charging him with knowingly and willfully making false statements to the FBI in a matter involving international and domestic terrorism.

The arrests came after the FBI raided numerous locations in New York and Colorado, looking for evidence of explosives and other suspects. Federal agents are still poring over evidence seized in those raids, including computers and cellphones.

The FBI and Depar tment of Homeland Security in recent days have sent out a flurr y of alerts, warning authorities around the countr y to be on the lookout for such explosives, and any evidence of a possible attack on mass transit, sports arenas and entertainment complexes.

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G-20 leaders reach consensus on Justice Ginsburg financial reform amid protests hospitalized as precaution Thursday

By Annys Shin and Michael Shear Washington Post

By Robert Barnes The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was taken to Washington Hospital Center on Thursday when she fell ill at the court after being treated for an iron deficiency.

Ginsburg, 76, “developed light headedness and fatigue” in her chambers about an hour after receiving an iron sucrose infusion, according to a statement from the court. A court physician determined that Ginsburg’s blood pressure was slightly low and administered fluids. Ginsburg’s symptoms improved, the cour t said, but the justice was taken to the hospital as a precaution at 7:45 p.m. Thursday.

Ginsburg’s health has been an issue since she battled pancreatic cancer earlier this year. In Februar y, doctors removed her spleen and a tiny tumor on her pancreas.

Ginsburg said that the operation was a complete success and that she was cancer-free. She underwent what she called a precautionary round of chemotherapy in the spring but never missed a day of the court’s public sessions.

The court said Ginsburg underwent a comprehensive examination in July that involved “medical evaluations, imaging scans, and comprehensive blood tests.” It said she was pronounced to be “in completely normal health with the exception of a low red blood cell count caused by deficiency of iron.”

She has kept up a rigorous schedule of speaking engagements and work on the court and has said she does not plan to leave the court for years. She participated in the investiture of new Justice Sonia Sotomayor and a special hearing on campaign finance laws earlier this month, and she just returned from speaking to law students at Northwestern University in Illinois.

Settlement in Google Books case delayed by court

By David Sarno Los Angeles T imes

The millions of out-of-print books scanned by Google Inc. and now sitting unread on the company’s cyber-bookshelves will have to sit a while longer.

A New York judge on Thursday ordered the postponement of an October hearing meant to address a settlement between Google and a group of authors and publishers that sued the company more than four years ago.

In response to concerns raised by federal antitrust regulators, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers are likely to make “significant changes to the current settlement agreement,” wrote Judge Denny Chin. Holding a hearing on the agreement as currently written, he concluded, would make little sense.

Earlier this week, the publisher and author groups requested a delay

in the proceedings so they could address copyright and antitrust issues raised by the Department of Justice in a brief filed last week.

That brief, which called the agreement “one of the most far-reaching class-action settlements of which the United States is aware,” cautioned the court not to act hastily given the complexity and import of the issues, but also acknowledging the “public benefit” of a vast database of easily accessible books.

In a statement issued after the order was released, Google did not object to the delay of the hearing.

Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group that has been an active opponent of the terms of the settlement, praised the delay, noting that “the proper place to solve many of the case’s thorniest problems ... is in Congress,” not the courts.

There will be a status hearing Oct. 7, when the court will discuss how to “proceed with the case as expeditiously as possible.”

PITTSBURGH — The Group of 20 largest economies will permanently replace the G-8 as the main forum for international economic cooperation in a move expected to give greater clout to developing nations, a senior White House official said Thursday night.

The change, which has been pushed by President Obama, will be announced Friday by world leaders attending the G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh. It would make of ficial a growing consensus that the G-20’s broader membership better represents a new global economy.

Traditionally, the G-8 has ser ved as the gathering place for the world’s top economic powers, but in recent years its makeup — dominated by the United States and other Western nations — has increasingly been criticized for leaving out several of the world’s fastest-growing countries.

The G-20’s ranks include nations such as Brazil, China, India and South Africa — all of which have expanded their economies at a meteoric pace during the past two decades. The G-8 will continue to meet on matters important to those countries, according to the of ficial, who discussed the move on condition of anonymity because it has not been formally announced.

As leaders gathered on the eve of Friday’s meetings, U.S. Treasur y Secretar y Timothy Geithner said that officials had reached “a strong consensus” on strengthening oversight of the global financial system.

Before the summit, the United States and European nations had emphasized different elements of reform, with U.S. officials stressing the need to raise the quality and quantity of capital held by banks to cover potential losses

and the Europeans pushing hard for tough restrictions on bankers’ pay. But Geithner said the parties were close and that their differences were not insurmountable.

“We are not going to walk way from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and leave unchanged and leave in place the tragic vulnerabilities that created this crisis,” he said.

Geithner said the United States had made progress toward achieving another top priority: getting G-20 members to commit to economic policy changes that could help avoid a repeat of the financial crisis.

The United States thinks that reducing export-dependent economies’ reliance on U.S. consumers is vital to sustained global growth. The Obama administration has proposed requiring the United States to commit to saving more and getting countries such as China and Germany to boost domestic consumption. Under the proposal, the International Monetary Fund would help monitor whether countries comply, but the measure is largely unenforceable.

Geithner also said that the G-20 members were closer to an agreement on phasing out subsidies for fossil fuels, a proposal raised by Obama earlier in the week at the United Nations that could help significantly reduce carbon emissions.

Despite the upbeat repor t from U.S. officials, expectations for the summit remained modest. G-20 leaders already agreed to sidestep the thorny issue of when to begin withdrawing the hundreds of billions of dollars spent to jump-start their economies. Nor were they expected to commit huge new sums of money as they did in April, when they agreed to triple the IMF’s resources. Instead, attendees cast

this meeting as a moment to take stock of what they have done and to discuss how to avoid similar crises in the future.

The spirit of transformation is what inspired Obama to choose Pittsburgh as the summit site.

The city has reinvented itself from one heavily dependent on the steel industr y to one with vibrant clean-technology, finance and health-care sectors.

On the eve of the summit, Pittsburgh’s streets were filled with motorcades ferr ying dignitaries and marches by demonstrators. Security was tight, and protesters were at times met by phalanxes of riot police wielding pepper spray.

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has implemented a massive security operation in the city. About 4,000 police have been brought in from across the countr y, some on loan from cities including Chicago and Philadelphia. The extra security will cost $19 million, Ravenstahl estimated.

Many of the residents who braved the streets near the convention center where the G-20 meetings were to take place appeared to be less awed by the dignitaries than by the sight of Pittsburgh under siege. Several bridges connecting the city to its downtown business core were closed to passenger vehicles.

Sidewalks were deserted as most workers stayed home. An afternoon Pirates game at PNC Park attracted only 3,000 spectators.

Just outside the secured zone, hundreds of police in full riot gear clashed Thursday afternoon with demonstrators who had come to protest a variety of issues, including climate change and bank bailouts.

The protest began quietly but turned violent after demonstrators were joined by another group, many of them dressed in black and waving anti-government banners.

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Tolerance goes both ways To the Editor: I am writing in wholehearted support of Michael Fitzpatrick ’12 (“The secret life of atheists at Brown,” Sept.

24). As an atheist, I completely agree with his view that just because Brown is a liberal school, it does not mean that atheists are not stereotyped, often extremely hurtfully. Sitting at the Ratty with my peers, I see that people are willing to acknowledge their stereotypes about atheists without hesitation. “Wait, so you don’t believe in God? How are you not depressed all the time?” is relatively common. I am a Religious Studies concentrator, a fact which elicits even greater confusion from friends and acquaintances.

Religion is a crucially important force in human history, and is arguably the most influential social structure that has shaped modern society. So, in my quest to be an educated person, why shouldn’t I study it? The Bible is a work of literature and a historical

document, and studying it as such is even more possible if one does not believe that it is divinely inspired.

The truth is, in my opinion, that people, even those getting an education at an elite school, embrace their stereotypes against atheists so freely because they do not consider atheists to be a true minority. If someone acknowledged their stereotypes about Jews in the way I described above, they would be ridiculed as anti-Semitic (I should hope). The same consideration is not given to atheists, because atheism is not seen as an inherent part of one’s identity the way other religions are, and thus stereotyping it is not considered bigotry. People of all races, religions, ethnicities, sexual preferences and gender identities should be judged on an individual basis, and atheists are no exception.

To the Editor: It is, of course, unfortunate that Brown’s endowment has shrunk by $740 million, a figure that I’m sure is on the extreme end of what could realistically have been anticipated.

What is less clear is why the University has a financial plan whose health depends so intimately on the whims of the investments to which the endowment is committed.

As with any prudent household or government, successfully navigating hard times means being prepared for them. The government of my own country, Britain, proved singularly incapable of taking advantage of years of excellent economic growth from

the mid-’90s to 2007 by building a fund to draw on in the current environment; instead Britain is more indebted than ever and will face painful choices very soon.

It would be a shame indeed if Brown had fallen into the same trap.

Brown’s own endowment brochure claims average annual returns of 11.9 percent in the 10 years to June 2006; the community must ask why the University was not prudent enough to use these good years to prepare for the possibility of bad, so that next time our choices might be less painful.

James Campbell GS Sept. 24

Lise Rahdert ’10 Sept. 24

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A new hope An encouraging new force has emerged in local politics. Last month, the Moderate Party of Rhode Island received official certification after turning in over 30,000 supporters’ signatures, well beyond the required 23,500. The party’s ambitious short-term goal is to put forward a candidate for the governorship and every General Assembly seat in 2010.

The Moderates’ platform contains many solid proposals that the current partisan system has shelved.

The party suggests a carefully calibrated reduction of the excessive taxes that have helped make Rhode Island the seventh-worst state in the Union for business. To improve the state’s lackluster education system, the Moderates offer a fair, multi-criterion teacher pay scale that will reward high performance and give underachieving educators the assistance they need to provide quality classroom instruction. To break with the state’s dismal history of public corruption, the platform targets several prerogatives of state officials that enable graft without providing a significant public benefit.

These positions stake out a practical middle ground between Republican Governor Donald Carcieri ’65 and the deep-blue General Assembly, which has 102 Democrats out of 113 members. Last spring, Carcieri advanced a radical proposal to abolish the state’s taxes on inheritances and corporate profits. The Assembly’s tax-friendly Democratic supermajority balked, and while the two sides ultimately reached a compromise on the estate tax, the much more important corporate tax remains unaltered.

But the Carcieri years will not last forever. The governor’s final term will end in 2011, and his successor is likely to be a Democrat. With both the Assembly and the governor’s mansion in their grasp, the Democrats will be dangerously unaccountable, threatening a return to Rhode Island’s bad old days

of stagnation and corruption under one-party rule.

Even a small Moderate bloc in the Assembly, backed up by a robust grassroots organization, would be well positioned to advance pragmatic solutions and remind overly comfortable Democrats that the two national parties aren’t the only game in town.

The campaign to establish a third party in the political center may seem quixotic, and it certainly faces enormous challenges. The Moderates will never have the funding and publicity conferred by affiliation with one of the two major national parties. They will be spread thin across the 113 races for Assembly seats, and even strong bids may serve only to fracture the centrist vote or allow the Republicans and Democrats to write off moderate voters and commit to more extreme policies to stoke their respective bases. The Moderates should remember that they can be an enormously positive force for Rhode Island without being electorally competitive in every corner of the state. They can endorse centrist candidates from the major parties and publicize sound ideas that break with liberal orthodoxy without the ill repute of the Republican brand.

The woman who will be making many decisions crucial for the Moderates’ future is Brown alumna Christine Hunsinger MPA ’08, whose accession to the party’s executive directorship was announced last Saturday. Her example is a reminder to us all that Rhode Island is more than a picturesque backdrop for our college years. It is a commonwealth facing troubled times, whose fortune is bound up with our own. We can’t all be crusaders in Hunsinger’s mold, but if we don’t give back to the community around us, there will be a price to pay.

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correction An article in Thursday’s paper (“Flu cases spreading quickly, BUCC hears,” Sept. 24) incorrectly stated that the University would begin offering seasonal flu vaccines to the entire Brown community Thursday.

Only the staff and faculty clinics started Thursday. Student flu clinics are set to start Monday at Josiah’s from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Friday, September 25, 2009 | Page 11

A simple fix for your shopping needs JONATHAN TOPAZ Opinions Columnist The following is a fairly common narrative of the first day of class at Brown: Hordes of students, many of whom will neither take the class nor know remotely what the class is about, pile into a small room.

The professor and teaching assistants pass out syllabi that, in most cases, have been sitting in the instructor’s hard drive since the previous spring. The professor then proceeds to go over the aforementioned syllabus to the college students assembled in the room, with minimal elaboration. At the conclusion of this recitation, students become restless and pack their things, and the professor releases them to hear other professors perform renditions of their own syllabi.

Welcome to the first week of shopping period. It’s a waste of time. And it is a shame, because the concept — and many working aspects — of shopping period are brilliant.

Shopping period puts less emphasis on spring registration, which gives students an entire summer to think more clearly about what they are interested in. It allows for logistical experimentation, as students can figure out if they can indeed make it from List to Smitty B in the 10 minutes their proposed schedule has allotted. It encourages students to try out classes well outside of their comfort zone with no risk of a binding agree-

ment. And, of course, shopping period puts professors to the test, as students can judge for themselves (without completely relying on the Critical Review) how engaging their lecturers are.

However, because shopping period represents a period of flexibility and impermanence, professors feel compelled to discuss logistical information and reading lists and give overly general introductory lectures.

though, syllabi are completed before the first day of classes. There is no reason for secrecy or confidentiality.

The trade-off would be that interested students would have to show some initiative and read through the online syllabus instead of merely having to show up for 10 minutes. At the very least, this proposal would eliminate the conventional opening classes at Brown, which frustrate professors (who

There is no reason why Brown should not mandate its professors to put their syllabi on a digital forum by the beginning of school.

These rituals not only waste time, but also force students to shop more classes for a longer period of time.

Only select professors put their classes’ syllabi on MyCourses for all Brown students to see. Brown’s most comprehensive forum for such documents, courses.brown.edu, is unknown to much of the student body and lacks the necessary information for all classes. There is no reason why Brown should not mandate that its professors put their syllabi on a digital forum (such as MyCourses or courses.brown.edu) by the beginning of school. In many classes, syllabi remain unchanged from year to year. In all cases,

cannot begin the course material immediately) and students (who learn little about the professor’s teaching style) alike. Professors would have the ability to lecture as classes commenced. Producing these syllabi online would also waste less of students’ time, as they would have a better idea of the class without needing to attend the first day. Such a proposal would also decrease the number of people who attend classes on the first day, which is often astronomical and contributes to standing-room situations.

Perhaps the greatest problem exists for Monday and Tuesday seminars. These classes have just two meetings for the entirety of

shopping period, one of which is devoted to the aforementioned abbreviated introduction. Thus, the only truly substantive class exists during the third week of classes. It is an unfair burden to force students to shop classes for three weeks, as it adds significantly to workload at an already hectic time when clubs and sports teams have practices, meetings, and tryouts. My friend and I shopped a seminar at the beginning of the second week, where the professor simply passed out syllabi, lectured for five minutes and let the class out after a mere half-hour (cutting professor’s own total class time by two full hours). When we were walking back to our respective dorms, I asked if he was going to take the class. “I have no idea what this professor is all about,” he said, “and I don’t really have the time to find out.” Needless to say, he isn’t showing up to class this week.

The wasted time that comes along with shopping period is a legitimate problem. But the greater issue is that students are overworked throughout shopping period. Classes are taking too long to develop, and as a result students end up doing work for six or seven classes. With the simple fix of providing syllabi online and getting lectures started immediately, Brown can solve these major problems in mere minutes.

Jonathan Topaz ’12 is a political science concentrator from New York City. He can be reached at Jonathan.Topaz@gmail.com

Not just a day off Ethan Tobias Opinions Columnist Next week, Brown students may observe an interesting phenomenon. Students will change lab sections. The deadlines for papers will be extended. Tests will be given at alternative times. And for one full day the dining halls might seem a little less crowded. Do not panic! This is not an outbreak of pandemic flu. Rather, it is an ushering in of the Jewish holiday season.

Last Saturday and Sunday, Jews welcomed in the year 5770 by eating apples and honey and sitting in services for as long as humanly possible. They then will do it all over again ten days later, minus the food, on Judaism’s holiest day, Yom Kippur.

On both occasions, observant Jews are not allowed to do work, which includes homework, writing and using electronics.

Traditional observance of these holidays means missing classes.

This is especially difficult since the Jewish Holidays usually happen to fall between the end of shopping period and the first round of midterms. It is right when courses are getting into the swing of things, and no one wants to miss class.

According to Hillel, there are approximately 1350 Jewish undergraduates on campus. That is over 20 percent of the undergraduate population, meaning there is a

large conflict between religious services and classes for a significant portion of students.

Fall semester is inherently more stressful than spring semester. There are fewer weeks of classes and no week-long vacation like spring break. This year, fall semester was subject to an even greater crunch because Labor Day fell so late. In order to make up for lost time, many professors have

rooms or choosing to spend the money to move in early. People cannot wait to return to school.

Luckily, there is a simple solution to all these problems. If the fall semester began a week earlier, students would avoid late summer angst and professors would not feel as rushed. In exchange, students should be given days off for the Jewish High Holidays of

If the fall semester began a week earlier students would avoid late summer angst and professors would not feel as rushed. In exchange, students should be given off for the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. assigned more work earlier in the semester.

By missing classes for two days, Jewish students — perhaps all students — may find themselves drowning in coursework.

Meanwhile, most Brown students probably did not spend the last week before school started doing something extremely exciting. Many people I have spoken to say they were bored at home. Most of their friends and neighbors had already started school, and they could not wait until they were allowed to move into the dorms. In some instances, people were camping out in friends’

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The small increase in class days at the beginning of the semester would be more than remedied by an extra break. Most students could use the extra days to catch up on work and study for midterms, while Brown’s large Jewish minority could enjoy the freedom to observe their ancient religious traditions. It is truly a win-win solution for everyone.

Of course, some would say that this compromise unfairly rewards Brown’s Jewish students as compared to other religious groups. However, the University already

makes arrangements for other religious groups on campus. For example, since the first few weeks of classes coincided with Ramadan, the University, through a collaborative effort, was able to accommodate Muslim students by providing iftars, the nightly break-fast.

I applaud the University for undertaking such an effort to make life easier for one religious minority. It only makes sense that the University also accommodate the needs of one-fifth of students by giving off for the Jewish High Holidays. Besides, how unfair can it be when all students — not just Jewish students — get the day off?

The Jewish Holidays are already disruptive to classes. Students are forced to move sections, get extensions and ultimately miss valuable class time. The University can keep on ignoring them or it can recognize the fairest, simplest solution to a problem that exists for hundreds of students.

By giving days off for the Jewish High Holidays in conjunction with beginning classes a week earlier, the fall semester would be less of a squeeze for professors, less stressful for students and consistent with other displays of religious accommodations on campus. It is only a start, but it will go a long way toward improving academic life.

Ethan Tobias ’12 wants to go home to New York for the Holidays. He can be reached at Ethan_Tobias@brown.edu

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8 pm — “Katrina, Katrina” Fundraiser for New Orleans, Salomon 101

12 pm — Field Hockey vs. Dartmouth, Pizzitola Sports Center

8 pm — Brown University Theatre presents Tartuffe, Leeds Theatre

3 PM — New Works/World Traditions Auditions, Ashamu Dance Hall

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‘Bottle’ rocks it on the Green

Love and drama on the Danube

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Lunch — Chicken Fingers, Sticky Rice, Butter Cookies

Dinner — Noodle Kugel, Baked Stuffed Pollock, Garlic and Butter Infused Rice

Dinner — Cajun Baked Fish, Golden Corn and Rice Casserole, Red Potatoes with Fresh Dill

That said, coal for choosing the wrong dining venue.

Attempting to inoculate students who have spent the night making out with strangers at Fish Co. is probably a waste, and if we had to bet on a place to catch swine flu, it would be the Ratty. (We hear Polynesian Pork Piglets have been banned in at least 10 countries since the pandemic started.)

A sympathetic diamond to local small-business owners, who have banded together as part of a campaign to encourage people to spend at least $50 a month at their three favorite local businesses. That’s almost what the state legislature is considering, as long as you count the municipality of Providence as your first, second, and third favorite businesses.

A cubic zirconium to David Coolidge ’01, the University’s new Muslim chaplain, who told The Herald that he found his faith as an undergrad in Grad Center. While we admire your positive attitude, those faint, angelic voices telling you how right your new path felt were probably just your upstairs neighbors having sex.

Coal to the planners of yesterday’s “consensual sex” rally, Wednesday’s annual corn-shucking competition and Monday’s climate change “flash mob” for missing a golden opportunity to collaborate. Next year around this time we expect to see dozens of Brown students converging on the Main Green for a nice, spontaneous, consensual shuck.

Coal to Hope High School, which recently reorganized itself for the second time in four years. In case you haven’t seen the polls lately, “Hope” and “change” isn’t half the winning combination it used to be.

A diamond to the FDA for banning clove cigarettes earlier this week, to the chagrin of hipsters everywhere.

As if the Indy’s four-game losing streak weren’t reason enough for them to be jittery before our kickball showdown this weekend.

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31 Game with Skip cards 34 Wrist twists, e.g.

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41 Friend of Frodo 45 Summer drink with a lemon twist, maybe 47 Bopped on the bean 48 On the go

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who suggested that researchers looking for a “gay gene” would better spend their time trying to “find a gene for warmongering assholes.” You’re on the right track, but why stop there? If we found the gene for authors-slashactivists, more people might one day get real jobs.

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ACROSS 1 Held (on) by stitches 5 Cavalry weapon 10 Farm females 14 Multinational official currency 15 Starting unit 16 Retail come-on 17 Gear up for Halloween?

20 Heart-to-heart talk 21 Hurricane feature 22 Maui strings 23 Pin near the gutter 24 Per se 27 “Frankenstein” author Shelley 29 Swings around 32 Mahmoud Abbas’s gp.

33 Navy ship letters 36 How ballerinas dance 38 Yokel resting in the woods?

41 Split up 42 “I figured it out!”

43 Withdrawal site, for short 44 Arcade games trailblazer 46 Univ. sports organizer 50 Any one of Cinderella’s stepfamily, e.g.

52 Expert on IRS forms 55 Fest mo.

56 Wood of the Rolling Stones 57 Enter stealthily 60 Steals the dinner cloth from Garfield’s lap?

63 Rink jump 64 Husband and wife 65 Ballesteros of the PGA 66 Queens team 67 Dental filling 68 Poetic tributes

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A diamond to the University’s decision to offer flu vaccines at Jo’s. It’s sure to be the most popular menu addition since mozzarella sticks, although we’ll all have to be more careful when ordering our spicies “with.”

Hypodermic needles aren’t as tasty as cheese.

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Lunch — Swiss Corn Bake, BBQ Beef Sandwich, Oven Browned Potatoes

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A cubic zirconium to author and activist Sherry Wolf,

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