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When building Brown meant burning bridges

By Sophia Li Features Editor

Bracketed by the Van Wickle Gates and Soldiers Arch, Brown’s bustling campus 50 years ago reached little beyond the Main Green and Lincoln Field. A residential neighborhood of old colonial homes and stately Victorian mansions extended right to its doorstep.

Today, the University sprawls over most of College Hill, and has plans to expand even further into the city. But this growth has brought controversy as the University’s boundaries have blurred.

It was a shift that Ed Bishop ’54 P’86 P’91, a long-time Providence resident, witnessed as a student: the University’s struggle to grow in an urban neighborhood without, at the time, any “perspective on preser vation.”

Wriston Quadrangle was being built when he was a first-year student, and construction on Keeney Quadrangle had not yet begun.

Those projects, each landmark continued on page 6

Locals promote heirloom vegetables

The number of reported incidents involving underage drinking and copyright infringement at the University decreased this past year, according to Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services. Overall, violations declined slightly.

A summary of non-academic

cally grown heirloom fruits and vegetables to their menus.

Though Mardosa drove Red Looking forward to a comforting Planet Vegetables’ oblong pumpThanksgiving meal — that’s not kins, which resemble oversized at the Sharpe Refector y? Last zucchinis, a mere seven miles week, patrons of Providence res- to Local 121’s tables, the seed taurant Local 121 were treated stock reputedly has its origins to a unique version of a typical in the Azores Islands.

Thanksgiving dish: a pumpkin In 1832, whalers brought the pie that — from seed to restau- long pie pumpkin — once the rant table — had covered fewer only pumpkin used for pie in miles than many students trav- New England — to Nantucket. el to return home for the fall Over the next century and a half, holiday. long pie pumpkins The heirloom became increasSPOTLIGHT ingly rare — until pumpkins wer e grown over the the late 1980s, when summer in Johnston, on 150 farmer Ernest Leroy Souther feet of land owned by Catherine Jr. took his pumpkin seeds to Mardosa ’02 and Matt Tracy. Maine’s Common Ground Fair.

Together, the two run the local He sold them to a seed distribufarm Red Planet Vegetables, a tor, saving the prized stock from small business that got its start extinction. growing produce in downtown Several generations later, Providence’s vacant lots.

Souther’s seed stock had sproutMardosa and Tracy received ed into the pumpkins for Local the seeds as part of a New Eng- 121 chef David Johnson’s pie — land-area Grow-Out sponsored delicate desserts three inches

by Renewing America’s Food in diameter and ser ved with a Traditions, a coalition of sus- scoop of molasses ice cream. tainable food advocates. The Grow-Out culminated in Heir- Harvesting a local heritage loom Harvest Week, which was When cooking with heirheld Oct. 13-18 to celebrate the looms for the Har vest Week, season’s crop, to promote local Johnson said he tried “to keep food and to preserve heirloom it as simple as possible and ... produce. Seventeen Providence to highlight that particular heirrestaurants partnered with 13 continued on page 4 Rhode Island farmers to add loBy Leslie Primack Staff Writer

Courtesy of the University Archives

Surveying the demolished remains of the buildings that Brown knocked down to make room for Keeney Quadrangle. The effort to stop that demolition gave birth to the Providence Preservation Society.

town/brown

The Herald examines Brown’s multifaceted relationship with the city it calls home.

Second in a five-part series.

Brown students, minding their Ps and Qs

By Anne Speyer Senior Staff Writer

50 years old, and fresh as can be

disciplinar y proceedings for the 2008-2009 academic year, released recently, showed that the total number of alleged violations to the University’s non-academic behavior policy was 3 percent lower than in the year before.

A total of 171 violations to the Standards of Student Conduct were reported between July 2008 and June 2009, down from 177 incidents the previous year.

Reported cases are addressed in hearings before the Peer Community Standards Board, a dean or administrator, the University Disciplinary Council or a University administrative hearing officer.

The majority of the cases from the past year were resolved in hearings with a dean. Dean’s hearings are used to address incidents that continued on page 5

European health care model an inspiration, Prodi says

By Alex Bell Staff Writer

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The United States should follow Europe’s lead in recognizing that health care is a right, said Romano Prodi, professor-at-large and former prime minister of Italy, who spoke to a full Joukowsky Forum Thursday along with his wife.

Prodi and his wife, Flavia Franzoni, a professor of politics at the University of Bologna, compared the differences between the health care systems of the United States and European nations.

Prodi said the disproportionate amount of money spent on care in the United States is largely due to the high salaries of American phy-

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sicians relative to those in Europe.

But he also observed that the high cost of health care in America may be tied to the relatively high prevalence of malpractice suits, which forces physicians to spend more on insurance.

This process “increases costs and makes life unhappy,” Prodi said. “Don’t underestimate litigation.

This to me is one of the dangers of democracy.”

Prodi and Franzoni said the major ideological difference between American and European thinking is that Europeans consider health care a right, whereas Americans do not. continued on page 2

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Romano Prodi, professor-at-large and former prime minister of Italy, said the need for malpractice insurance in the United States “increases costs and makes life unhappy.”

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sugar and spice An NSF grant aims to help Brown support female science researchers

‘Anna Bella’ Um, uh...

word to the wise Brown students should embrace their inner elitists, says Anish Mitra ’10

195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island

Despite talented acting and thoughtful direction ‘Anna Bella Eema’ not up to par

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Friday, October 23, 2009

“I’ve always been interested in the revolution and its consequences.”

— Professor Emeritus of History Gordon Wood

Wood stays busy with book project

By Goda Thangada Contributing Writer

“Do you know the difference between a hedgehog and a fox?” asked Professor Emeritus of History Gordon Wood in a recent interview.

While the fox knows a lot of different things, the hedgehog knows only one major thing, Wood explained: “I’m a hedgehog.”

The American Revolution expert recently wrote “Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815,” the fourth book of the 12-volume Oxford History of the United States.

“I’ve always been interested in the revolution and its consequenc-

es,” he said, adding that he considers himself a colonialist.

Wood said he had the opportunity to work out the ideas in his book when he taught a class at Brown.

“It’s been with me for a long time,” he said.

Each volume of the Oxford series, published since 1982, covers 25 years of American history. Wood said he was given free rein over the content of the book, except for its time period. When his editors requested that 100 pages on art and literature be cut, Wood said he spent four months cutting pages throughout the book. “That was hard to do,” he said.

Wood calls the period covered

in his book a time of “extraordinary transformations” and unprecedented democratization — the North abolished slavery and women’s rights gained momentum. But the dreams of the revolutionaries were perverted, he said.

“It’s a period of great instability. Culture becomes more vulgar.

Drinking reaches an all-time high.

The whole college scene, including Brown, experienced a series of riots. Nassau Hall was gutted by fire, presumably set by students. There’s been nothing like that since,” he said.

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Franzoni said the health care system in Europe, where coverage is thought of as a right, is not only considered a way to control costs, but also “an instrument of government.”

They agreed that providing universal health care should be a priority of governments.

“In their moment of weakness, the citizen must be protected,” Prodi said. “I think this is civilization.”

Though coverage models differ in Europe from country to country, Franzoni said the universal right to health care is usually a major tenet.

In some models, she said, care is funded through contributions from employers and employees, whereas in others, the coverage is paid for by the government to better facilitate care for the unemployed.

At the base of the Italian system, Franzoni explained, is a family’s general practitioner. Visits to these family doctors are free to patients, and the National Health Center compensates the doctors based on the number of patients they see.

Family doctors are compensated more for certain patients who tend statistically to need more treatment, such as the elderly, and doctors cannot refuse patients, she said. Every

family chooses its own medical doctor and can switch at any time.

Aside from providing general care and prescribing drugs for patients — usually with co-payments for all but the poor — family doctors have the sole authority to refer patients to hospitals for no-cost procedures or to specialists for diagnostic exams — also usually with co-payments.

One problem of the referral system, Prodi pointed out, is the disparity between regional administrations of the system. Because patients can choose which hospitals and specialists to see, patients from the South often flock to hospitals in the more economically developed North for procedures, placing a burden on those local hospitals.

“It’s an enormous problem,” Prodi said. But it’s “legitimate to look for a hospital that’s better.”

Another point of contention in Italy is the coverage of illegal immigrants, which Prodi called “the great problem of today.” He said illegal immigrants can obtain emergency care, but in most cases, the physician must report them to the police afterward, thus discouraging most illegal immigrants from seeking care.

Despite the problems with Italy’s current system, Prodi said he hoped the event would “de-demonize people’s perception” of European

health-care models.

Asked by an audience member whether he thought a Europeaninfluenced model of health care could gain approval in the U.S., Prodi said he was skeptical of radical change, but was confident that the European models would have some influence.

“There’s much opposition in America to anything managed by the government,” he said.

By being flexible with the specifics of a health-care plan, President Obama has been able to raise support for reform, Prodi said. “But the majority of the American public is still suspicious about change.”

In his introduction of the speakers, Vice President for International Affairs Matthew Gutmann noted that the Italian health-care system ranked second in a World Health Organization report on 191 member countries, and the United States ranked 37th, the lowest of all industrialized nations.

But the most disturbing part, he said, was that the United States spends more than 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, compared to an average 8.6 percent in European countries.

“The United States can learn much by examining health-care systems like those found in Europe and elsewhere,” Gutmann said.

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“People are surprised there are even 800 women in Earth Sciences.”

— Meredith Hastings, assistant professor of geological sciences

Ivy receivers to duel as football faces Cornell

By Dan Alexander Senior Staff Writer

Coming off of a three-game homestand, the football team will hit the road to face Cornell on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

Wide receiver and returner Buddy Farnham ’10 put on a show last week, amassing 309 all-purpose yards in the Bears’ 34-17 victory over Princeton.

For his performance, Farnham was named the Ivy League Offensive

Player of the Week and received the Gridiron Club of Boston’s Gold Helmet Award as the outstanding player in New England.

The game against Cornell (2-3, 1-1 Ivy) will show if Brown’s defense has learned anything from facing Farnham in practice, as the Bears (3-2, 1-1 Ivy) will try to shut down Bryan Walters, Cornell’s star wide receiver and returner.

Walters is averaging 203 all-purpose yards per game this season, making him the only player in the Ivy League with more all-purpose yards than Farnham.

Walters, who also leads the Ivy League in return yards, may have a

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Buddy Farnham ’10 named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week after a breakout game against Princeton, in a 34-17 victory.

U. wins grant to aid women scientists

By Zung Nguyen Vu Contributing Writer

The University has received nearly $600,000 from the National Science Foundation to expand its support of a grassroots organization seeking to promote the development of women scientists.

The Earth Science Women’s Network, a self-identified international grassroots organization, was founded in 2002 by eight young women in the field of earth sciences who had met at various academic conferences and social venues, said Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences Meredith Hastings, the group’s cofounder and board member.

The young women, including Hastings, were in graduate school or starting their academic careers and struggling to find a place in science, she said. They found the opportunity to share experiences with one another so helpful that they decided to formalize their relationships by maintaining an e-mail list to keep in touch.

Seven years later, the original e-mail list has grown into a support network of 800 women from 19 countries. Most members are either in grad school or starting careers in research, management or consulting in various sub-fields related to earth science, according to Hastings.

The organization will use the foundation’s grant, which totals $1 million (including the $600,000 that will go to the University), to further formalize the network, through efforts such as reaching out to more women by publishing a newsletter

Pledge to respect one’s body kicks off annual women’s week

By Miriam Furst Contributing Writer

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Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences Meredith Hastings.

and holding career development workshops and impersonal networking events. The University will play host to many of the group’s activities.

“Many people are surprised there are even 800 women in earth sciences at all,” Hastings said, citing a study conducted by the National Science Foundation that reported that the number of women getting Ph.D.s in the sciences has increased, but the number of women entering research and holding positions at the university level is still small.

Brown’s Department of Geological Sciences, for example, has only two female junior professors and

three female tenured professors, who comprise one-fifth of the department’s faculty.

“The prime years of starting a family intersect with the years of starting a career — many women do not even think of starting a 10-year track in academia because they are afraid they can’t balance it, or that they will be the only women there,” Hastings said.

Being a part of the organization and knowing that other women face similar problems has helped Hastings become more confident and overcome the barriers and “invisible biases” she has faced in her field.

The unusually strong October sun that shone down on the Main Green Wednesday mirrored the enthusiasm of resident Women Peer Counselors as they started the first day of their annual women’s week. The WPCs, with Students for Choice and Brown Health Services, were observing national “Love Your Body Day” by creating awareness of body image issues.

Women’s Week events sponsored by the WPCs will continue until Wednesday. The week also coincides with national Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center has observed with lectures, movies and other events and plans to extend into early next month.

Women’s Week is an opportunity for WPCs, who live in first-year units, to offer their knowledge and advice on a range of topics to all students — including sexism, contraception, safe sex and healthy relationships — said Zoe Stephenson ’12, a WPC in Perkins Hall.

The body image “declaration of independence” was one of the main attractions at a booth staffed

by WPCs Wednesday. The declaration, which was a written promise to respect and take care of one’s body, was signed by students in large numbers.

“I made sign-up sheets, and I thought I put way more than we needed, but we’re on our last one,” Stephenson said during the last half-hour of the event. After signing the pledge, students were given a white bracelet made of string to serve as a reminder of their promise to protect their bodies.

“I’m shocked about the amount of people who signed the pledge with enthusiasm,” said Tashyana Thompson ’12, another WPC. “It really shows how much people appreciate themselves and what the W’s are doing on campus.”

The enthusiasm among students that Thompson mentioned was per-

haps a reflection of the WPCs’ own passion and zest, said Allison Iarocci ’13. “It was hard to resist signing the pledge with the excitement and support of the WPCs shouting ‘Love your body!’ across the Main Green,” she said.

This declaration is an important part of the idea behind Women’s Week because of the importance of self-esteem, said WPC Simren Kanwal ’12.

“It’s really important for everyone to have a good body image,” she said.

“I’m hoping that Women’s Week gets people to think about important issues that a lot of people wouldn’t think about on their own,” Stephenson added. “And there’s a lot of issues.”

Future events during the week include movies, lectures on subjects such as women in male-dominated fields and hands-on activities such as a self-defense workshop co-sponsored by the Department of Public Safety and the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center.

In addition to helping the WPCs organize the self-defense workshop, the women’s center is making an effort to honor Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Though the center is organizationally separate from the WPC program, the two groups share and support similar causes, said Veronica Lowe ’10, the publicity coordinator for the women’s center.

Throughout October, the center has hosted movies and panel discussions to raise awareness about domestic violence. Daniela Rodriguez DS ’10, the center’s coordinator for the Coalition Against Relationship Abuse, emphasized the importance of the awareness month.

“The complexity and frequency of relationship abuse is still unknown to many,” she said. “With the odds of one in three relationships turning abusive at some point, this is a pervasive problem that very continued on page 5

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Friday, October 23, 2009

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SciLi floors closed, with a chance of sprinklers

By Leonardo Moauro Contributing Writer

The closing of certain floors in the Sciences Library to install a new sprinkler system will continue through December, but students will still be able to check out books from those floors, according to Joanna Saltonstall, Facilities Management program manager.

The operation, which Cintas Fire Protection Services began on Oct. 5, started with the top floors and will continue down to the third floor. Two of the SciLi’s floors will be closed to the public every week from Monday through Friday. This week, the ninth and 10th floors are off-limits.

The library needs the sprinkler system to adhere to Rhode Island’s updated fire codes, Saltonstall wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. At the time of the construction of the Friedman Study Center and the installation of sprinklers on the lower floors of the library, Facilities Management committed to the completion of the sprinkler system throughout the building. The installation has an overall cost of $500,000.

“At the end of the sprinkler proj-

ect and the third-floor renovation into the Sciences Center, we anticipate that the building will (be) up to current codes,” Saltonstall said.

The Science Resource Center has been under construction this semester and is scheduled to be finished by the start of the spring semester.

Currently, those who wish to check out books on the closed floors can do so through the library’s call program. They can request materials online or solicit them at the librarians’ desks. The librarians retrieve desired books every day after the workers leave at 3 p.m.

Students and professors alike demand between five and 10 books per day through the call program, said Senior Library Specialist James Schlageter.

Though Facilities is working with the SciLi to minimize the impact on visitors, certain inconveniences will be unavoidable. SciLi patron Donglei Wei ’11, for instance, keeps a shelf of books on mathematics and a locker on the fifth floor. He said he will have to move out when the workers reach that floor in the future.

The SciLi will close floors seven and eight starting on Monday.

Relishing Rhody’s prized heirlooms continued from page 1 loom, not hide it.” The restaurant’s special menu last week also included such heirlooms as Marfax beans, Boston marrow squash and Jimmy Nardello peppers.

At Local 121, cooking and eating local food isn’t just a weeklong event. Johnson said the restaurant plans its menus seasonally to incorporate as much local produce as possible. In winter, its burgers go without their customary tomato slice — better no tomato than an inferior tomato, he said.

Down the street at Gracie’s, chef Joe Hafner added the same strain of pumpkin from a different local grower to slow-poached duck eggs with marrow squash and Jimmy Nardello peppers. Like its neighbor, Gracie’s strives to incorporate local food into its regular menu — in fact, much of its produce only has to be carried from the roof to the kitchen downstairs.

The restaurant grew its own heirloom marrow squash and Siberian watermelon for Heirloom Harvest Week in a garden on its building’s roof in downtown Providence, Hafner said. The garden also features other organic produce, including peppers, cherries,

herbs and more than 30 types of tomatoes.

The Ocean State was not the only place to get a taste of the Grow-Out. Chefs Collaborative, a non-profit supporter of sustainable food, also distributed seeds to growers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, according to the organization’s Web site. A total of 28 farmers and 35 chefs participated in the event.

While restaurant customers may have been excited for the unusual dishes they were able to enjoy last week, Mardosa said receiving free seeds to grow was one of the best aspects of the Grow-Out. “I think the gardeners probably made out the best,” she said.

Historic heirlooms Heirlooms are strains of fruits and vegetables that have been preserved for more than 50 years without crossbreeding or genetic modification. According to many chefs and farmers, heirlooms are often tastier than hybrid plants and sometimes unusual in appearance — for example, heirloom varieties include black rice, banana-shaped melons and green tomatoes with stripes. They are also often resistant to extreme climates or local pests, several farmers said.

“They’re part of our histor y.

They’re unique,” said Johnson, head chef at Local 121.

Though all types of vegetables come in heirloom varieties, heirloom tomatoes are perhaps the best-known, since many dif fer drastically from the average tomato.

“In the ’70s people thought of tomatoes as round red things,” Mardosa said, adding that people were surprised to find orange and green versions that weren’t created in a lab.

“They were bred that way, and grown in gardens and backyards,” she said.

Many heirlooms come with interesting stories, such as anecdotes about corn thieves and backstabbing neighbors, said Amy McCoy, chair of Slow Food Rhode Island, one of the GrowOut’s sponsors. “It’s kind of like art history, in a way,” she said. “It’s the history of a culture.”

Heirlooms, Mardosa said, can also be bred to withstand nature’s cur veballs. “In the Southwest, they’re growing things that can withstand amazing droughts,” she said. “Up here we’ve got to grow things that won’t rot.”

Last summer, Red Planet tried growing long pie pumpkins because the seeds came from Maine — Mardosa’s home state.

“In late summer it rained so hard, most people growing regular sugar pumpkins lost their crops,” she said. “They rotted. But the long pies … were ripe and stored in my barn by August.”

Still, heirlooms can be a risky investment. The farmers participating in the Grow-Out “received a lot of these seeds not knowing what the outcome would be,”

Johnson said, citing one farmer who lost his entire crop to this summer’s rainy weather.

Many local chefs choose heirlooms over their hybrid counterparts because of their taste.

“It’s not always better if it’s local, but I think 90 percent of the time that holds true,” Hafner said.

The chef said though heirlooms are more expensive because of their lower yield per plant, they offer more complex and unconventional flavors.

Buying local In the profusion of sustainable food jargon that fills today’s pop culture, words like “local,” “organic” and “heirloom” are used almost interchangeably. But few realize the dilemmas that their differences in meaning produce — for example, whether buying local, non-organic produce is more socially responsible than purchasing organic products from far away.

In fact, according to Brown Dining Ser vices’ Dietitian Gina Guiducci, most local Rhode Island growers are not exclusively organic due to financial constraints. Not only is it expensive to get certified as organic, she said, but many local farmers spray only minimally — not quite enough to qualify as “organic.”

“I think there’s a certain cachet to the term ‘organic’ that isn’t really reflective of the complexity of (the) food you buy,” said Sarah Gibson ’10.5, a member of the Sustainable Food Initiative and a volunteer at the Farmer’s Market on Wriston Quadrangle.

Buying from local farmers is “ultimately more responsible than buying organic produce from the other side of the world,” Gibson said.

Though Brown did not participate in the Grow-Out, in recent years the University has made efforts to incorporate local produce, meats and dairy to its menus.

But many small growers find the University’s appetite too big to satisfy.

“We’d wipe out Rhode Island in probably a month” if Brown tried to buy all its beef locally, said John O’Shea, Brown’s executive chef.

Red Planet used to receive salad bar leftovers from BDS for compost but was over whelmed by the quantity — “over a couple tons a week,” Mardosa said. Red Planet, which sits on a total of two acres, does not have the capacity to ser vice an operation as large as BDS. Though the University’s size poses a challenge to working with local farmers, supporting them is one of BDS’ priorities. Local food takes precedence over heirloom or organic produce, according to Guiducci.

“We take into consideration distance food has traveled or will be traveling (to decide) who we can help,” Guiducci wrote in an e-mail to The Herald, “and if our partnership will ultimately help local farms, food producers and vendors.”

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continued from page 1 do not result in separation — that is, suspension or expulsion — from the University, including those related to underage drinking, vandalism or first-time copyright violations for illegal file sharing or downloading.

Dean’s hearings result in a written reprimand, a period of probation or a deferred suspension, during which a student may be separated from Brown in the case of an additional violation. During the past year, 83 of the 137 cases heard by a dean resulted in reprimands. While 22 resulted in no finding of a violation, in 17 cases students were put on probation.

Klawunn said the number of cases related to infringement of copyright laws has decreased significantly in the past year.

“We think that students are more aware of what constitutes a copyright violation,” she said. “We have made increased efforts to make sure that people are aware of the policies.”

Terry Addison, associate dean of student life, said students are also more aware of legal alternatives to downloading that would violate copyright policies.

Computing and Information Services “has done a good job of promoting legal use,” he said. “They put a lot of information out and worked very hard at help desks, for example, when students brought in their laptops, to check that there was no illegal sharing or download-

ing equipment.”

Klawunn also pointed to a decline in alcohol-related violations, which she said is not indicative of reduced alcohol consumption, but rather an increased effort by residential staff to intervene in student alcohol use before a violation has to be reported.

Another notable difference between this past year and the year before is the increase, from zero to 10, in the number of University Disciplinar y Council Hearings, Addison said. While University Administrative Hearings and UDC hearings both address serious violations related to physical assault, sexual misconduct, theft and drug use, the formats of the hearings are different.

Only an administrative hearing officer and the student are present for an administrative hearing, while a disciplinary council hearing involves a panel of faculty members, students and administrators. Students have the option of choosing between the two types of hearings.

Klawunn said she could not explain why the number of UDC hearings increased.

“We’re definitely interested in why that would be,” she said.

In a high-profile case, eight members of Students for Democratic Society who forced their way into University Hall during an October 2008 Corporation meeting chose to have charges against them evaluated by the UDC in December.

lenges the perception that democratization didn’t occur until the Jacksonian era.

“I think it happened much earlier,” Wood said, “The Jacksonian era was one of consolidation.”

The Founding Fathers held varied views on democratization.

President Jefferson celebrated democratization while President John Adams was cynical about it, said Wood. While Jefferson never lost an election, Adams did.

“Many revolutionaries were disillusioned with what they had wrought,” he said. “They were surprised by how popular and vulgar society had become. It took a new generation of leaders to come to terms with it.”

Wood said he believes the Revolution is the most important event in American history because the

country’s noblest ideals emerged then.

“We go back to the revolution for our identity,” he said, “We want to know where we came from.” This shared identity, not individual ethnicity, is what holds Americans together, he said.

Wood said there are probably no immediate lessons to learn from history, but it is important to study where we come from to understand who we are.

“History teaches us humility,” he said, “They lived with illusions and we live with illusions too.”

He gained a new appreciation for President Madison’s tenure while writing the book because Madison “refused to enhance executive power under wartime conditions,” he said. “He has not had good press amongst historians.”

At the moment, Wood said he is compiling some of his past es-

says and is working on a Library of America volume on Adams.

Wood, who retired last year, had for many years been the only scholar at Brown studying the period from Christopher Columbus to Jackson until Associate Professor of History Seth Rockman and Assistant Professor of History Linford Fisher joined the department.

Wood is about to embark on a book tour for his latest book.

“We don’t expect just scholars to read it,” he said. “We hope that it reaches an educated audience.

Most books that historians write are monographic, but the Oxford series is designed for this.”

Though the Oxford series is considered a stalwart, Wood said he believes there is nothing definitive in history.

“This may last for a couple of decades at most,” he said. “It’s not the end.”

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Lowe said domestic violence happens on campus, too. “I would like people, even if they don’t go to the events themselves, if they just hear of the events, to be aware that domestic violence happens on campus,” she said.

One of the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center’s events is a screening of the film “Hush,” scheduled for Nov. 5. Made by three Brown

students in the fall of 2007, the documentar y portrays domestic violence on Brown’s campus, featuring two students’ stories of sexual assault.

Lowe said she did not know that domestic violence happened on campus before she became involved in Sarah Doyle activities.

“I had the perception that we’re at Brown — we have the happiest students in the U.S., according to the rankings,” she said. “Domestic violence wasn’t even a thought in

my mind.”

Rodriguez DS said the center’s goal was not only to spread awareness about domestic violence on campus, but also to provide students with resources to “combat relationship abuse.”

“Through diverse events like film series, discussion panels and self-defense workshops, we seek to provide students with the language and understanding that will allow them to help a friend, or themselves,” she said.

Bears look to change luck in road games continued from page 3 good chance to put the Big Red in favorable field position this weekend.

Brown Head Coach Phil Estes said his team’s punt and kickoff game has been “very hot and cold” through five games.

Punter Nate Lovett ’12 “has at times been very good,” Estes said.

“The last few games, he has struggled — just in where he places the ball.”

Estes said Lovett has also had some difficulties on kickoffs recently.

“We are trying to place it, and because those kicks have been shallow, we’ve given offenses great field position,” he said.

If Brown’s punt and kickoff teams continue to struggle, Walters could have a big day at the Bears’ expense.

Walters is not just a threat on special teams. He is second in the league in receiving yards, behind Farnham. He had 10 receptions for 178 yards and one touchdown in the Big Red’s 39-27 loss to Fordham last weekend.

But questions still remain about who will pass to Walters on Saturday.

Cornell’s starting quarterback, Ben Ganter, missed last week’s game due to injury and was replaced by Adam Currie and Stephen Liuzza and Chris Amhrern.

Cornell Head Coach Jim Knowles called Ganter “day-to-day” and said he’ll make a “game-time decision” as to who starts under center against Brown.

Last week Currie was 15-of-28 passing for 207 yards and one touchdown, but he also threw four interceptions — as many as Ganter had thrown in the previous four games combined.

“We had to play a couple of young quarterbacks,” Knowles said. “They threw the ball pretty well. Unfortunately they threw it to the other team pretty well a few times also.”

Liuzza, who is listed as a wide receiver on the team roster, took snaps at quarterback last week out of the wildcat formation. He was two-of-six passing for 55 yards and gained 166 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 14 carries.

The wildcat formation would not be anything new for the Bears’ defense, which is used to facing Bruno’s own wildcat formation in practice.

The Bears’ offensive attack has been dominated by the pass this season. Quarterback Kyle NewhallCaballero ’11 averages 41.8 passing attempts per game and leads the Ancient Eight in yards, touchdowns, completions and completion percentage.

“Brown is prolific on offense — very talented at the skilled positions,” Knowles said.

The Cornell coach said his defense can’t afford to miss tackles and must keep Brown’s receivers inside and in front of their defensive backs.

“They’re going to complete some passes,” Knowles said. “We’ve got to make sure … we’re able to not give up the big play.”

Cornell has used both three and four-man defensive lines this season.

Brown’s passing attack will likely see a combination of the packages.

“They really rock and roll on defense, whether they’re going with a three-down scheme or a four-down scheme,” Estes said. “Our quarterback is really going to have to make sure that we’re identifying the right people to pick up so that we can make the right plays downfield.”

Newhall-Caballero’s ability to read opposing defenses is one of his greatest strengths, according to coaches and teammates.

In the last three games — all of which Brown has won — Newhall has 910 yards, seven touchdowns and five interceptions.

The Big Red is coming off of its third consecutive loss, a game in which they gave up 420 yards and five touchdowns through the air.

Brown hasn’t had an away game in four weeks, and the Bears are 0-2 on opponents’ turf this season.

“We’ll see if we can change our luck on road games,” Estes said.

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Wriston, Keeney battles birthed preservation boom continued from page 1 expansions that left an indelible mark on the face of College Hill, set Brown on the path to becoming a major research institution that could accommodate a larger student body.

Bishop said he remembers being part of a student body that was largely indifferent to the historic property lost during the construction of the Sharpe Refector y and new residence halls. But Wriston, where 51 historic homes once stood, was the first major battlefield in the University’s conflict with neighboring communities as it started to expand.

At such times, there has been a feeling among College Hill residents, Bishop said, that “Brown is a 1,000-pound gorilla and is going to get what it wants in the long run.”

But since its early clashes with East Side residents, Bishop said, the University has altered its attitude toward College Hill’s preser vation and become more willing to compromise with its neighbors.

Brown has come a long way since its “scorched-earth policy,” said Peter Mackie

’59, an archivist at the John Hay Librar y, of the University’s approach of large-scale demolition in the 1950s. “I think the light has finally dawned on College Hill that we’re part of the fabric of this community,” he said.

Wriston’s wrecking ball The University began buying up parcels of land near its existing property in 1922, commencing a decades-long project that added on-campus housing for nearly 1,500 students. The University expected a post-war boom in enrollment that would increase the size of the student body to 2,000, and at the time, Brown’s residence halls lacked the capacity to ser ve so many students.

But then-President Henr y Wriston had additional reasons for beginning Brown’s first major expansion project — the “New Quadrangle” that later came to bear his name.

The behavior and less-than-ideal academic performance in Brown’s fraternities spurred University administrators to buy up the frats’ off-campus houses and move the students into University housing, according

1926: Hegeman Hall is built to expand Brown’s housing a capacity, a goal that would drive Brown’s planning in subsequent

to Bishop. Creating residence halls that consolidated the school’s frats in a single oncampus location gave administrators more control over their activities.

Creating the quadrangle required wrangling with the city of Providence, including obtaining the city’s approval to remove the section of Benevolent Street that lay between Brown and Thayer streets, running straight through the planned quad.

The greatest outcr y, though, was raised over the fate of the 51 historic homes that had stood for more than 100 years on the property, including eight colonial houses built before 1830 and several Victorian mansions.

In an attempt at preser vation, Brown moved two early houses to Benevolent Street and offered the rest up for sale and relocation. But only eight of the colonial homes were bought and moved, and in early 1949 Brown’s wrecking balls initiated the “first phase of one of the largest land clearing projects in the city’s histor y,” as the Providence Journal recorded on the first day of demolition.

“It was not so much the value of the indi-

vidual buildings,” said Victoria Veh, interim executive director of the Providence Preser vation Society. “It was the context of an entire neighborhood being eliminated.”

The preservation society formed partly as a response to the loss of historic buildings originally on Wriston.

Construction continued determinedly over the next three years. Upon its completion in 1952, the $6.5 million quad represented about a third of Brown’s physical campus — but marked only the beginning of President Wriston’s grand scheme for Brown’s transformation from a local New England college to a nationally competitive university.

Housing a growing institution Wriston’s successor, President Barnaby Keeney, continued expansion, provoking organized opposition from neighbors who remembered the demolition that laid the groundwork for Wriston Quad’s construction.

The University offered up for sale eight houses that would other wise be destroyed to make way for Keeney Quad. Though each

1947: West and East Andrews Halls are completed on the north side of Pembroke

decades

College’s campus

1951: The Sharpe Refectory, a 1949: Workers making way for Wriston Quadrangle demolish

center piece of the new quad, opens its doors for the first time

dozens of historic houses (1

1925

The now-demolished Howard House on the southwest corner of Thayer and George Streets. Also among the properties now replaced by Wriston Quad were a school (far left) and a carpenter’s shop (far right).

These townhouses once stood on the northwest corner of George and Thayer Streets, but they were demolished in the 1920s to make way for Hegeman Hall.

When Andrews Hall was built, in the 1940s, Pembroke College was still separate from Brown, which did not admit women.

Courtesy of the University Archives

A construction crew clears the future site of Wriston Quad, which was once filled with residential houses.

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Above: Courtesy of University Archives; below: Kim Perley / Herald

Angell Hall (above) housed biology labs before it was demolished in 1972, during construction of the Sciences Library, to make way for the landscaped courtyard (below) that now sits between the SciLi and MacMillan Hall.

Kim Perley / Herald

Hegeman Hall sits on a site that 100 years ago was at the heart of a residential neighborhood.

1975 1955-57: Construction of Keeney Quadrangle spurs controversy and inspires the creation of the Providence Preservation Society house was being sold for $1, it would have cost the purchasers $30,000 to $40,000 to move each building to a new location.

No buyers came forward for 125 Charlesfield St. or 17 Benevolent St. — both of which were built around 1823. In December 1955, East Side residents mobilized to tr y to forestall the historic homes’ impending demolition, amassing 106 signatures for a petition that asked the University to incorporate the two buildings into the new quad’s design.

Such a move, the petition stated, would “rejoice the hearts of many citizens saddened by the obliteration of so many homes which have for generations given this part of Providence a distinctive character.”

The University rejected the residents’ proposal. To meet the deadline for the quad’s completion — Februar y 1, 1957 — the demolition had to begin, President Keeney said. The cranes rolled onto Brown Street, razing the houses, the Monday after the petition was presented.

“When one is destroyed,” Antoinette Downing, an historian of local architecture and Brown faculty spouse, told the Journal in 1955, “it is like destroying the last copy of an irreplaceable book.”

Downing maintained that the preser vation of College Hill’s historic architecture did not impede the University’s need to expand — that, if anything, preser vation was the responsibility of an institution such as Brown.

“Preserving buildings doesn’t mean going back to live in the past but simply to enrich present-day life,” Downing told the Journal.

“It’s the sort of thing a university stands for when it stands for liberal education.”

1971: Pembroke College 1964: Workers complete con-

merges with Brown

1972: Angell Hall is razed to make room for the Sciences Library

struction on the Rockefeller Library Brown’s ‘conscience of history’ Having lost their fight, East Side residents were determined that similar destruction never happen again. In 1956, Downing helped found the Providence Preser vation Society, which has since been a major force in maintaining College Hill’s architectural heritage and transforming Providence into a city known for its historic feel.

“We like to say that Brown was responsible for the founding of the society,” said Robert Emlen, the University curator and senior lecturer in American Civilization, who was a member of the society’s board of directors from 1989 to 1995. “Brown was knocking down ever ything in sight,” he said.

One of the society’s first undertakings, though, did not directly concern Brown.

Instead, in the 50s and 60s the preser vation society faced off against the federal government, which proposed knocking down buildings on Benefit Street to build public housing projects.

At the time, the street looked nothing like it does today.

“Benefit Street was like a Halloween movie set.” Mackie recalled. “The houses were dilapidated, run-down.”

Mostly low-income families inhabited the “slum” that was Benefit Street, with many families living in single rooms, Mackie said.

The street was a place of poverty and prostitution, said Dietrich Neumann, professor of histor y of art and architecture.

The preser vation society encouraged local residents to buy property in the run-down area and restore it, saving it from destruction at the hands of the government, he said. But in the process, the street’s real-estate value

skyrocketed, making it too expensive for the families who lived on it.

While the street’s gentrification made it “economically more viable,” Neumann said, it also lost many of its former functions — once dotted with garages, businesses and a librar y, the street is now a “purely residential” neighborhood.

Despite its origins, the preser vation society and Brown have developed a more collaborative and cooperative relationship. The society has become “almost the conscience of histor y” for Brown, Mackie said, helping make the University and local residents “much more sensitive” to the historic value of their shared neighborhood.

Balancing competing priorities today Mackie and Emlen both said Brown has recently become more mindful of its neighbors’ needs during expansion.

The neighborhood surrounding Brown’s campus is an asset to the University, Emlen said. “You can walk across the street and be in a beautiful neighborhood,” he added.

But as the University expands, it still struggles to balance its students’ needs with local residents’ priorities.

“Sometimes the needs of the people in the neighborhood are diametrically opposed to what the institution needs,” Emlen said, citing handicap accessibility and modern security measures as much-needed features older buildings may not have.

Mackie and Emlen both said that the sciences in particular demand up-to-date facilities.

“It’s not that Brown is wrong,” Emlen said. “If you want to teach biochem, you can’t do it in a little beat-up house.” For

example, he said, laborator y spaces need modern climate control.

As Brown enters its latest phase of growth, it may have found a compromise that gives it the modern facilities it requires to leapfrog its immediate neighbors and expand into new areas of f campus. Last weekend, the Corporation gave the green light for renovations to begin early next year on a new Medical Education Building at 222 Richmond St. in the Jewelr y District downtown.

Two major factors influenced Brown’s decision to expand elsewhere, said Frances Halsband, the architect hired in 2003 to plan the campus’s growth. Because of an “institutional zone” that regulates how and where the University can build on its property, “there wasn’t the possibility that Brown could expand any more on College Hill,” she said.

Residents’ concern for their historic district also influenced Brown’s choice to move the Alpert Medical School off the Hill, Halsband said.

“I guess that we and the trustees ultimately realized that the neighbors were right — Brown is in a ver y fragile and beautiful setting,” she said, adding that the priorities of the neighborhood surrounding Brown are an important consideration in campus planning.

“I think that you’ve got to see any entity as part of a larger community and part of a larger environment,” she said.

No matter what, the University still has to grow.

“It doesn’t want to be an institution of the 1990s or the 1970s,” Emlen said. “It has got to keep up.”

Arts & Culture The Brown Daily Herald

‘Anna Bella Eema’ tells much, shows little

By Ben Hyman Arts & Culture Editor

Near the middle of “Anna Bella Eema” — currently running at Perishable Theatre — one character is about to embark on a psychological journey, a quest that will take her through a fairy tale world populated by animal beings, both helpful and threatening.

She leans toward the audience and whispers, “Just imagine everything I tell you as taking much, much longer and being much more intense.”

The problem with “Anna Bella Eema” isn’t exactly that it’s a bad play, but rather that it isn’t exactly a play. When a character has to telegraph that something important is about to happen by literally telling the audience something important is about to happen, it’s obvious that something is awry.

The playwright, Lisa D’Amour, a visiting lecturer in theatre arts and performance studies at Brown, missed the mark here, crafting narrators instead of characters and exposition instead of action.

“Anna Bella Eema” takes place in the remnants of a trailer park somewhere deep in the Southern Gothic tradition. (The eye-catching clutter of Kathryn Kawecki’s detailed set evokes the squalor.) Irene (Patricia Thomas), a professional stamp-licker, lives there with her 10-year-old daughter, Anna Bella (Elise Morrison GS, a doctoral student in theatre arts and performance studies). The close walls of Irene’s mobile home would seem to delimit her world, but they actually open up the possibility of a more extravagant — and more problematic

— escape method: storytelling.

“Outside is a state of mind,” Irene says multiple times, and her vivid, anxious imagination supplies the world beyond the trailer park with its full share of vampires, werewolves and monsters. But she refuses to acknowledge the real external threat menacing her unsound world: the looming construction of an interstate highway that will pass through the trailer park and wipe it off the map.

Cloistered and defiant, Anna Bella is exasperated by the limitations of life in the trailer. In a fit of pique, she builds a girl out of mud and breathes life into it. We know this because she tells us she did it.

The introduction of this new friend, Anna Bella Eema (Katie Mulholland), disrupts the fragile balance of Irene’s world and sets in motion Anna Bella’s passage out of childhood. Anna Bella Eema inducts her creator into adulthood, enabling Anna Bella to circumvent her mother’s authority. Again, all of this is explained to us, words piling on top of words. We want the characters to stop talking for once and just show us something.

If “Anna Bella Eema” were the Flannery O’Connor short story it yearns so desperately to be, it could succeed without ever leaving the subjective narration of the characters.

But this is theater, and, one way or another, speech has to be a space in which things happen, a space for the working out of conflict, not just for the description of action and sense. Occasionally, the characters in “Anna Bella Eema” break into a kind of speak-singing, with D’Amour’s words set to music by Chris Sidorf-

sky. These unaccompanied arias and ensembles are often striking and expressive, but they feel unmotivated, like a stopgap attempt to fill in, with song, the emotional void left by the absence of drama.

The truly sad thing is that the language of “Anna Bella Eema,” taken on its own, had to be so beautiful.

D’Amour soaks her text in unpretentious, elemental prose poetry, rich in detail and impact.

The three actresses, too, are exceptional. As Irene, Thomas projects a warm, easy and likable stage presence that highlights her character’s psychological complexity, and Mulholland’s Anna Bella Eema is arch and otherworldly. Irene’s discomfort with this archetypal Golem figure becomes understandable because Mulholland explores a territory that is both animalistic and machine-like, but never fully human.

Playing the preteen Anna Bella, Morrison capitalizes on her round face and bright, wide eyes. Her performance is extremely sympathetic, childlike without ever being condescending. And the direction — by Kym Moore, a visiting assistant professor of theatre, speech and dance — uses the space well, finding avenues within the script for evocative movement.

“Anna Bella Eema” really does have its heart in the right place. Its intentions are honorable: It wants to take a thin story and make it thick with resonance. It’s not schlock. But, sadly, it isn’t drama either.

“Anna Bella Eema” runs at Perishable Theatre (95 Empire St.) through Nov. 7.

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A still from “Cthulhu,” one of the movies screened at the Rhode Island Horror Film Festival in 2007.

Horror film festival offers nightmares on Bell Street

By Sarah Mancone Contributing Writer

Things are definitely going bump in the night as the Rhode Island International Film Festival unleashed its 10th annual Horror Film Festival Wednesday night.

The festival continues through Sunday night for a hair-raising cinematic experience.

Screenings of the festival’s 37 chilling and spine-tingling short films are taking place at the Bell Street Chapel (5 Bell St.), with additional events at the Providence Public Library.

The horror film festival began as an idea of an intern at the RIIFF and has grown into a major Providence event. George Marshall, executive director of RIIFF, said the festival has found “a very receptive audience” in Providence, with 2,000 people attending last year’s events.

The festival has “built a reputation on short films,” Marshall said. “Short films are very, very popular.”

He attributed the popularity of short films to the fact that, even if a viewer does not like one particular movie, he or she will still benefit from the variety of works being presented.

The films were selected from more than 250 submissions from around the world, which started pouring in not long after the last festival ended. “We have already started accepting films for next

year,” Marshall said.

In addition to horror films, this year’s festival includes an H. P. Lovecraft Walking Tour on Saturday. In its second year, the walking tour begins at Brown’s Van Wickle Gates and leads visitors through various locations, including the house where the Providence horror writer lived and the places “where Lovecraft had inspiration for his works,” Marshall said.

Also on Saturday, local horror author Christopher Rondina will be holding a book signing at the Providence Public Library beginning at noon. Rondina will discuss his newest book, “Ghost Ships of New England: Mysterious Tales of the Sea from Yankee History & Folklore.” The signing will also feature a screening of a “wonderful documentary,” said Marshall, and shows “who’s who in horror films.”

Outreach about the event has not been forgotten, with commercials running on Cox Cable 10, an article in the Providence Journal, and partnership with other festivals, as well as the social networking of the filmmakers themselves.

The RIIFF Web site has also received numerous hits, and on this site a full schedule of events in the festival can be found.

Guaranteed to be an eerie-sistable event, tonight’s films begin playing in Bell Street Chapel at 7:30 p.m., and are certain to keep you screaming for more.

World & Nation The Brown Daily Herald

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Georgetown student advertises for a personal assistant

By Jenna Johnson Washington Post

Pamela Constable / Washington Post

Students surround a teacher at an Islamic seminary in Lahore whose head opposes the Taliban. The city in Pakistan’s Punjab province has been gripped by violence recently.

In cultural hub, mixed feelings about army effort

By Pamela Constable The Washington Post

Police Superintendent Mobashir Ullah was en route to a graduation ceremony Thursday when word reached him that armed men had stormed a training academy under his command. Just seven months before, terrorists had seized the same compound near this provincial capital, taking 800 recruits hostage before being overpowered.

“This time they came straight from the main road, firing and trying to climb the walls. Our police acted fast and kept shooting until they finally killed themselves,” Ullah said. “The survival of our country is at stake now, and we have to fight it out. When a man has been trained and mentally prepared to blow himself up, nothing on Earth will stop him.”

The brazen daylight assault, quickly followed by two other deadly attacks on security facilities in Lahore that day, sent a fresh wave of panic through the city, known for its willow-lined canals, kite festivals and sandstone monuments to 19thcentury British rule. Elementary schools have been shut down; parks and shopping centers are empty.

Yet public and official reaction here has been very different from the gung-ho support most Pakistanis are giving their national army as it embarks on a crucial campaign to oust Taliban forces from South Waziristan, the embattled tribal region near the Afghan border that has served as the extremist group’s sanctuary for years.

Here in Punjab province, political reality is more complex. The region is home to the main opposition party, the Pakistan Muslim League-N, and an influential religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami. It is also the base for several militant Islamist groups, such as Lashkar-i-Taiba, that are now officially banned but were once sponsored by the state to fight India and other foes.

As a result, officials here tend to shy away from harsh condemnations. Instead, their explanations for the growing wave of terrorism are a mix of anti-government rhetoric and insinuations that outside forces, especially India and the United

States, are conspiring to weaken Muslim-ruled Pakistan, in part by forcing it into armed conflict with local militants.

“Pakistan continues to fall into the U.S.-laid trap of using the military option alone,” warned a lead editorial this week in the Nation, a newspaper based in Lahore. By jumping onto the U.S. bandwagon in a “misdirected war on terror,” it said, the government only generated more violence.

American pressure to use military force against militants in Punjab, the editors added, points to “a larger hidden anti-Pakistan agenda” and is a “recipe for civil war.”

Nationally, public opinion has turned decisively against the tribebased Pakistani Taliban forces in the northwest. After a series of negotiations failed to rein in the Taliban, the army won praise for driving the group out of the Swat Valley in the summer. Military officials hope to repeat that success in the larger, more intimidating Waziristan region, where they have been fighting for the past week.

After the spurt of terrorism across Pakistan this month, experts called it a clear indication of the growing alliance between northwestern Taliban forces and various banned extremist groups in the heartland. Yet Punjab officials rejected that assessment, saying that the attackers were serving unnamed “foreign masters.”

Not surprisingly, public opinion here is just as confused and contradictor y. Residents of Lahore, unner ved by the unaccustomed violence, frustrated by ubiquitous police roadblocks and fearful for their children’s safety, are looking to old wars, new allies and long-dead causes for explanations.

Some people blame the Reagan years, when the United States built up local Islamist groups to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and later abandoned the region. Others blame the Obama administration and Congress, conflating concerns about the ongoing war in next-door Afghanistan with current U.S. plans to shower $7.5 billion in economic — not military — aid on Pakistan.

“These are all militants that America left us,” Mohammed Ahmad, 43, a travel agent, said bitterly. “Islam is a peaceful and respectable religion.

These Taliban have no religion, no education. They just brainwash young boys to fight. Maybe they fought jihad against the Russians, but what they are doing now is not jihad at all. It isn’t even Islamic.”

Opinions are also mixed among religious groups in the Lahore area, largely depending on their sect or leadership. Some express sympathy for the Taliban-style campaign to impose strict Islamic law but stop short of publicly condoning the group’s violent methods. Others have been victimized by the extremists and regard them with suspicion.

“The terrorists are enjoying making people nervous,” said Raghib Naeemi, the director of a moderate Islamic seminary whose father, its founder, was assassinated in June.

“The war we are fighting now is between terror and Islam. These groups were banned, and now they are joining together against the state.

We can try and negotiate with them, but in the end they must be punished or killed.”

The peculiar political situation in Punjab has further muddied the waters. It is the stronghold of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N and a bitter rival of President Asif Ali Zardari of the Pakistan People’s Party. The tougher Zardari sounds on Islamist extremism these days, the more Sharif’s party deems him an American puppet, hoping eventually to force him from power.

Analysts said that despite Zardari’s growing public focus on the terrorist threat, and the army’s latest thrust into Taliban territory, many Pakistanis remain hesitant to criticize anything Islamic, ready to blame outsiders for their problems and bewildered by the official shift from patronizing to persecuting domestic Islamist militias.

“At the top levels, I think everyone gets it now, but below that there is a whole range of attitudes towards the militants within Pakistani society,” said Hasan-Askari Rizvi, a political analyst in Lahore. “Nobody likes the Taliban, but they don’t much like the Americans or their government either, and they aren’t convinced that using force is the right thing to do.

What prevails is mass confusion.”

Georgetown University sophomore Charley Cooper is busy. He has a full load of classes, hours of homework and a part-time job at a financial services company. He’s also worried about an illness in the family. And then there are all the other time-consuming aspects of college.

The solution? A personal assistant.

Cooper, 19, logged on to the university’s student employment Web site last week and posted an ad for someone to tackle “some of my ever yday tasks,” such as organizing his closet, dropping him off and picking him up from work, scheduling haircuts, putting gas in the car and taking it in for service, managing his electronic accounts and doing laundr y (although the assistant will be paid only for the time spent loading, unloading and folding clothes, not the entire laundr y cycle).

The successful applicant can expect to work three to seven hours a week and make $10 to $12 an hour, although “on occasion it will be possible to work additional hours and/or receive bonuses at my discretion.” Preference will be given to Georgetown undergraduates, Cooper says in the listing, and the assistant can spread his or her tasks throughout the day.

“As my PA you will receive an email once a day by 9:00 am with a task list for that day and a time estimate for each task,” Cooper wrote in the job listing, which was first reported by the student newsmagazine, Georgetown Voice. “Important tasks will be bolded on the list and must be done that day (even though ever ything on the list should theoretically be finished on a daily basis). At the end of the day you will send me an email telling me what tasks are incomplete or that all tasks have been completed.”

Could this be a publicity stunt?

Cooper said in a Facebook message to a reporter that he is serious and has heard from several interested students, in addition to a few prank applicants. A university spokesman confirmed that Cooper is a student and has posted the job listing.

Cooper would answer questions only through messages sent to his Facebook account, which features a photo of a man in a striped polo shirt holding a champagne glass. He provided only brief details about himself, his family and his job: He grew up in Bethesda, Md., and graduated from the Landon School, a private boys school, in 2008. He lives in

the dorms and hasn’t declared a major but is planning to doublemajor in finance and management. His Linked-In profile says he is considering jobs in finance, entertainment or both.

Cooper said he decided to post the help-wanted ad after a family member had a cancer diagnosis and began to make arrangements for treatment at Georgetown University Hospital. Cooper says he hopes to start interviews in a few days, after the craziness of midterms has passed. “I know that if I didn’t already have a job, I would definitely be interested in a job that pays 10 to 12 dollars per hour and is flexible in terms of hours,” he said.

The Georgetown Voice posted the listing on its blog Friday under the headline, “Georgetown sophomore seeks personal assistant, takes premature self-importance to whole new level.” Soon, dozens of derogator y comments popped up accusing Cooper of fur thering the stereotype that Georgetown is filled with wealthy kids who can’t do anything for themselves.

“Ever ybody probably knows who he is now,” said Sarah Murphy, 19, a sophomore English major who heard about the job listing from friends. “People are not happy. They think he’s just ridiculous and full of himself.”

But other students were more understanding. “Listen, I think if there’s a market for it, and someone wants to do it, all the more power to him,” said Corey Sherman, 20, a junior international politics major who has two jobs.

Although the posting created buzz, outsourcing dull duties is not a new thing at Georgetown or other universities. Some students pay to have their group houses or apartments cleaned, or contract with Soapy Joe’s, a company that will pick up dirty laundr y from the dorms and return it clean and folded within days.

Still, springing for a personal assistant is “definitely out of the ordinar y,” said Bonnie Low-Kramen, the longtime personal assistant to actress Olympia Dukakis.

Low-Kramen teaches workshops to aspiring celebrity personal assistants and wrote a book titled “Be the Ultimate Assistant.”

College students are rarely mature enough to handle the responsibility of managing a personal assistant, said Low-Kramen, whose son is a senior at the University of Mar yland (and does not have a personal assistant).

“There’s a benefit to learning to do things on your own,” she said.

“I know — college is stressful, there’s a lot to do. But the pressures are still nowhere near needing a personal assistant.”

Editorial & Letters The Brown Daily Herald

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Investment transparency is in everyone’s best interest To the Editor: As members of the Open the Books! Coalition, we are disappointed with the Herald’s editorial on the endowment (“Transparency and the endowment,” Oct. 20) that claims that more investment transparency is “undesirable.” Disclosing the nature of investments to the campus community is not an uncommon practice at other universities. According to the College Sustainability Report, one in five universities release the record of their investment holdings to students, and many even make this information available to the public. Wesleyan University, Amherst College and Haverford College all publish their portfolios to students, with no demonstrated loss in their investment returns. Maximizing returns to the endowment and increasing investment transparency are not mutually exclusive practices.

The editorial wrongly claims that Brown is “cognizant of the ethical implications of its investments.” Last year, students learned from a presentation given at Cornell University that Brown is invested in HEI, a hotel company that has become known for its unjust treatment of workers. Two hotels in California owned by HEI are currently under a worker-led boycott.

Several pro-union workers have been interrogated, disciplined and even laid off after workers began organiz-

ing publicly. HEI does not guarantee its workers affordable health care or job security, and it seeks to maximize its profits by laying off many employees. Members of the Student Labor Alliance presented the case against HEI before the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies , yet the University has refused to take action.

ACCRIP was created in part to allow members of the campus community to voice their ethical concerns about corporations in which Brown invests. Without investment transparency, it is impossible for ACCRIP to fulfill its mission. How can students and faculty raise their concerns about socially irresponsible investments if those investments are never disclosed in the first place?

The Brown Slavery and Justice Committee Report described the current lack of transparency as “troubling” and recommended that the University maintain “high ethical standards in regard to investments.”

Brown must adopt a policy of investment transparency. Keeping our portfolio undisclosed serves neither the interests of the Brown community nor those of HEI hotel employees.

Kate Hadley ’12 Mark Morales ’10 Oct. 22

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Food for thought Last week’s contract negotiations between the University and Brown Dining Services workers made for a surprisingly tense drama. BDS workers threatened to strike on Parents’ Weekend, and the two sides came to an agreement at 2 a.m. the night before the strike would have begun. Students held multiple rallies in support of the workers, one of which featured a giant puppet caricature of an administrator clutching dollar bills in each of his hands.

Now that a compromise has been reached and the dust has settled, we would like to reflect on the week’s events in hopes of extracting some lessons that might be useful going forward, as the University prepares to cut $30 million from next year’s budget.

The central point of dispute in the negotiations was over how to calculate BDS employees’ health care contributions, with the University insisting that the existing method be changed. However, the University never specified how much money could be saved as a result of the proposed change, and only vaguely suggested that the switch would allow for more “flexibility” in structuring costs.

We think the University owed the workers — and the community as a whole — a better explanation than this. BDS workers are tremendously important to Brown’s day-to-day functioning and earn less than many other University employees. These considerations heighten the University’s obligation to be clear and forthright about changes affecting BDS workers. Instead, the administration allowed itself to be portrayed as greedy and self-serving because it was not entirely transparent about its motives.

While the administration’s reputation certainly suffered last week, students should acknowledge that the University has thus far done a sound job of navigating through tough financial times and appreciate that high-level administrators have also

made sacrifices.

The administration has declared that it will not allow budget modifications to affect financial aid or academic programs. And so far, the administration has not resorted to massive tuition hikes to compensate for endowment losses — this years’ 2.9 percent increase in the overall undergraduate charge actually represents the smallest increase since the 1960s.

Moreover, all administrators have accepted a pay freeze, and several have followed President Ruth Simmons in voluntarily requesting reduced pay. Vacant administrative positions in the Office of the President, the Office of the Dean of the College and Human Resources have been eliminated, requiring current administrators to take on additional responsibilities.

While students had a right to be upset about the University’s treatment of BDS workers, the harsh portrayal of the administration at the student rallies was unfair and extreme. With many more budget cuts ahead, students may again need to mobilize to convey the community’s sentiment — they cannot afford to alienate administrators or undermine their own credibility.

Perhaps the clearest and most important lesson from last week’s events is this: The Brown community will not stand for the appearance that administrators are sparing themselves at the expense of less powerful or less prominent employees. When the Organizational Review Committee reports on proposed budget cuts this winter, they must take extra care to show that new burdens will fall on all University employees, from the highest levels of the administration all the way down.

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Friday, October 23, 2009 | Page 11

Stuff Brown students should like

Anish Mitra Opinions Columnist Recently, post- Magazine did a six-part series entitled “Stuff Brown Students Like.” Gmail, celebrity children, spandex, Nice Slice, shopping period and even ‘spicy with’ were all on the list, and rightly so. To their credit, post- was spot-on, and I hope they continue the series.

While Brown students (myself included) definitely do like Gmail and Nice Slice’s thin crust pizza, there is an even longer (and cooler) list of things Brown students should like.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Elitism should be on the top of the list. While many “hip” and “progressive” Brown students take solace in the fact that they are defying some sort of abstract social conventions by rebuking age-old Ivy League traditions, they do so from an Ivy League platform. Respect for natural elites is something that can do Brown students well, especially in difficult economic times.

Second, Brown students ought to like Wall Street. While there are a good number of students who pursue financial jobs, especially those related to management consulting, many Brown students grimace at the idea of working at an investment bank, equating the job to a soulless, greedy endeavor which apparently

does little to solve problems that are far more prescient, like “going green.”

Sadly, while these individuals mean well, they are gravely misinformed. Wall Street careers separate the strong from the weak and ultimately require the skills that Brown students often exude while at school: a strong desire to learn and a love for working with others.

In a similar vein, Brown students ought to like capitalism more. Since I have come to Brown, I have met more Marxist, socialist

Fashionably speaking, Brown students ought to like J. Crew more. For those with fatter wallets, classy yet simple selections from couture designers ought to be liked as well. While not all Brown students are guilty of scoffing at madras shirts, plaid patterns, Nantucket red, argyle designs, Dolce and Gabbana and Ralph Lauren, it is clear that there is an agenda against the clean-cut look these aforementioned items would imply.

Many Brown students are comfortable wearing very tight ripped jeans, dirty T-shirts,

While Brown students (myself included) definitely do like Gmail and Nice Slice’s thin crust pizza, there is an even longer (and cooler) list of things Brown students should like. and communist sympathizers than I have ever thought possible. While this has been a valuable learning experience, we must realize that the market needs Brown students to one day create growth opportunities which will benefit society as a whole. By consistently deriding the free market, characterizing capitalism as “evil” and vying for more misinformed government intervention and regulation, Brown students are only limiting their future opportunities for success.

farmer plaid and other hipster-esque forms of clothing. While this is not the worst possible scenario, and there certainly should not be any standard on what Brown students are expected to wear, it would be nice to have an atmosphere of appreciation, rather than militant resistance, toward refined clothing. Either way, J. Crew gives a 15 percent student discount.

Lastly, Brown students ought to like the Wall Street Journal and DrudgeReport.com.

While most Brown students seem fascinated

by the New York Times and CNN.com, both of which are satisfactory news sources, it might not hurt to check out the Journal and Drudge once in a while. The professionalism exhibited in the Journal, along with the excellent quality of their opinions section, the heavily researched features sections and the highly important market updates all make it an excellent news source (and one which should be in the Ratty, ahem).

Further, while everyone loves Sanjay Gupta, CNN.com’s “cool” approach to news simply does not cut it for me. Drudge lays it all out in his easy-to-read web format, and does a good job of finding unique but reliable news sources for his stories. Plus, the pictures on his Web site are truly classic. Many Brown students pride themselves on being extremely well informed in matters of public affairs; if so, then why the aversion to these news sources?

It is difficult to say which of the aforementioned items are most important, especially when I am sure the list could be elongated to a far greater degree. Ultimately, while Brown is a beautiful place, there is room for great improvement. I truly feel that with a small change in direction, Brown students could not only extract more value out of their undergraduate years, but they will be positioned well for future success.

Anish K. Mitra ’10 is an economics concentrator from Queens, New York. He can be reached at anish_mitra@brown.edu.

Feminism is not dead Kate Fritzsche Opinions Columnist

During our four years on campus, many students create new identities, and they find themselves drastically changed by the time of graduation. One of the experiences most central to my identity change in college has been coming out as a feminist. It sounds simple, but there are many reasons why I hope that other Brown students will come to the same realizations that I have.

I’m pretty sure I was born with feminist beliefs, but it wasn’t until recently that I was able to articulate them clearly and wanted to tell others about my views. My parents always made it clear that my sister and I were every bit as capable as my brothers, and that being female didn’t make us weak, stupid or worth any less than any boy was.

The first time I remember realizing that what my parents told me was not the same as what everyone else believed was when I told my parents that I wanted to be a secretary when I grew up. My mom immediately responded with horror, “You can do so much more than that!”

Don’t get me wrong, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a secretary; the problem was that I thought that since I was well-organized and a girl, a secretary was the only job for me. I had seen women doing more than that in my own family, but the mothers I read about in books and saw on TV weren’t

always high achievers.

Since that time, I have always pushed myself to work hard to achieve everything that I can. I have realized that a well-organized woman can do anything; I could get a Ph.D., I could become a lawyer or a doctor, I could lead an international NGO or I could be president.

Or I could work locally on anything that’s important to me. There is nothing that I have to do by virtue of being female and there is nothing I cannot do because I am female.

But feminism’s importance to me is predicated on much more than my personal goals and ambitions. Last fall, I saw Jessica Valenti,

second.

Feminism is not about hating men. Being a feminist means believing in the social, economic and political equality of all genders.

In practice, this idea of equality applies to all realms of our lives, including reproductive and sexual rights, pay rates and employment, behavioral expectations, political parity and even problems as simple as the language used to describe men and women.

There are many double standards that hurt women, and it’s imperative that Brown students stop promoting them. When groups advertise parties, they shouldn’t exploit women’s bod-

Feminism is not about hating men. Being a feminist means believing in the social, economic and political equality of all genders.

founder of Feministing.com, speak on campus.

That hour or two in MacMillan started something in me that is now irreversible.

Through reading Valenti’s books, “Full Frontal Feminism” and “He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know,” talking to the three girls I knew who stood up for themselves as feminists and noticing the world around me, I began to see just how pressing the issues of feminism are today. I have heard plenty of Brown students say that we live in a “postfeminist” world, but I don’t believe it for a

ies to appeal to students, like the 2011 Class Board’s proposed Lingerie Fashion Show did last spring. When students get involved with labor negotiations like they have with Brown Dining Services employees, they should fight to ensure that women and men are paid at the same rate.

When we consider future occupations, we should encourage women in our lives to aspire to great things, especially in areas where women are underrepresented, such as politics.

And, most easily achieved, we need to stop using gendered insults. Calling someone a

“slut,” “whore” or my personal least favorite, “pussy,” is insulting to all women. The mere fact that the term “man whore” exists shows that a “whore” is necessarily female, and we all know it’s a derogatory term. So next time you want to insult someone, can’t you use a word that doesn’t make generalizations about women?

And if you need any further motivation to understand that feminist issues are crucial, consider the 2006 shooting of 10 young girls at an Amish school in Bart Township, Pennsylvania. The shooter arrived at the school with three guns, two knives, and 600 rounds of ammunition, and allowed the boys to leave unharmed. He then lined up the girls, putting handcuffs on them and binding their feet, before shooting them in the back of their heads. The police later stated that the shooter “wanted to exact revenge against female victims.”

When people like this 32-year-old killer, Charles Carl Roberts IV, target women and girls simply because of their gender, it is clear that feminism is still necessary. When it is not universally believed that women should not be killed on the basis of something fundamentally out of their control, feminism is still necessary. And when women face less violent, but even more pervasive daily taunts, exploitative advertising, unequal opportunities, and unfair reward for their efforts, feminism is still necessary.

Kate Fritzsche ’10 is an applied math-economics concentrator from Kennebunk, Maine. She can be reached at katherine_fritzsche@brown.edu.

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d i a m o n d s a n d c oa l A cubic zirconium to the GCB, which just turned 40 but is still attracting lots of 21-year-olds. More power to you, but we hope we don’t find ourselves still stuck in the basement of Grad Center when we hit middle age.

Coal to engineering professors who claimed they were not consulted about a new cell phone antenna installed on the roof of Barus and Holley and were worried it would interfere with sensitive scientific instruments. We tried to call you, but it went directly to voicemail.

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A diamond to the sports marketing firm recently hired by Brown’s athletic department to identify revenue-generating opportunities. Too bad the only idea they’ve come up with is selling authentic water-damaged timbers from the old Smith Swim Center roof (autographed by Chris Berman ’77!).

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Coal to the Rhode Island General Assembly, which was not scheduled to meet again until 2010 but which will bravely reconvene for a two-day emergency session after a months-long recess. We’ll give you an A for effort, but it’s a little disillusioning to know that governing requires even less frequent attendance than a Russian literature independent study.

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2 Pm — Self Defense Workshop for Women, Arnold Lounge

11 AM — International Day of Climate Action At Brown, Main Green

10 PM — BCA Presents: Speakeasy Sessions, Grad Center Lounge

7 pm — W Week Screening: Ma Vie en Rose (My Life in Pink), Salomon 001

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Lunch — Hot Pastrami Sandwich, Roasted Herb Potatoes, Brussel Sprouts Casserole

Lunch — Chicken Fingers, Vegan Rice Pilaf, Peas

Dinner — Manicotti Piedmontese, Marinated Beef, Mashed Butternut Squash

Dinner — Seafood Jambalaya, Spinach Pie Casserole, Lemon Rice

A diamond to Yeasayer, the Brooklyn-based band that will headline BCA’s fall concert.

We know your “experimental psychadelic” music doesn’t please ever yone, and some will say you shouldn’t have been invited, but don’t listen to the ... well, the you-know-whats.

A cubic zirconium to the student in this week’s crime log whose iPod was stolen from his desk while he took an accidental three-and-a-half-hour nap at the SciLi. We’re not sure what was worse — getting your electronics stolen or realizing you just drooled all over a computer cluster (and got logged out!).

Coal to a leak in the roof in Salomon 101 that was only recently fixed. We’re lucky it wasn’t a problem last month — Musharraf’s security detail might have had to carr y guns and umbrellas.

A diamond to the enthusiastic moms and dads quoted — alongside the names of their children — in Monday’s Parents’ Weekend article. Thanks for helping our reporters out, even though your kids now hate you.

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