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Mayor hopefuls debate economy, education

By Claire Peracchio Senior Staff Writer

Democrat Angel Taveras and independent Jonathan Scott kept the discourse civil Tuesday night during the first head-to-head mayoral debate of the general election campaign.

Metro Economic issues took center stage in MacMillan 117 as the candidates shared their plans for spurring employment, attracting businesses and closing Providence’s budget shortfall.

Answering questions from moderator Marion Orr, director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy, the candidates struck a cordial tone, expressing broad agreement on the need to lift the city out of economic

A stormy heath on the Quiet Green

By Anna Lillkung Contributing Writer

The Quiet Green, usually little more than a walkway for busy students, is transformed into a stage for actors dressed in clothes from the 16th century. Blankets on the grass form a space for the audience and lamps mark

Arts & Culture the boundaries of the stage as Shakespeare on the Green, Brown’s only open-air theater troupe, shares the tragic story of “King Lear” Oct. 21–24.

The play was chosen partly because it has not been produced as often as many of Shakespeare’s plays and because there are “a lot of intertwining plots” with multidimensional characters, according to director Shana Tinkle ’11.5.

The play focuses primarily on two power battles within families.

Primarily, it is about the dying King Lear (Harry Aspinwall ’11), who is preparing to step down as king. He divides his kingdom between his three sisters in return for proclamations of their love for him.

Though Shakespeare wrote Lear as the father of the three

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‘Car czar’ Rattner ’74 talks bailout

doldrums and to improve the quality of its schools.

Taveras, a lawyer and former Providence Housing Court judge, bested three opponents to win nearly 50 percent of the vote in a hard-fought Democratic primary this September. His opponent, Scott, is the president of the political consulting and public relations firm Liftline Group. Scott ran unsuccessfully as a Republican challenger to Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., in 2006 and 2008.

Taveras stressed his “Head Start to Harvard” life story that took the son of a single mother from Providence’s Classical High School to the Ivy League and then to law school.

“I believe in education because I would not be standing here as the continued on page 6

By Alex Bell Senior Staff Writer

“We think there are lots of different ways we can collaborate,” Simmons said. “The one thing we didn’t want to do is define it too clearly, because there may be opportunities we cannot foresee for department programs, for scholarto-scholar programs and so on.”

The student exchange, which

Former “car czar” Steven Rattner ’74 P’10 P’13 — who oversaw President Obama’s 2009 government bailout of the automobile industry — says he’s been a “free market guy” since his days in ECON 0110: “Principles of Economics.”

How he ended up overseeing the auto bailout, he said at a talk Thursday evening, was somewhat of a fluke.

“I was not a car guy at all,” Rattner said. “I live in Manhattan.”

He hadn’t even been to Detroit in 30 years.

“There was no one in the government who knew anything about autos,” Rattner said. “No people, no analyses, no nothing.”

The government’s disinterest in the auto industry wasn’t necessarily a bad thing — Americans take pride in the government’s separation from private industry, Rattner said.

Rattner was asked by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers in February of last year to head a team to draft a course of action for the faltering U.S. auto industry. He said the offer came with

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Marion Orr, left, moderated the debate between Jonathan Scott, center, and Angel Taveras in a packed MacMillan 117 Thursday night.

U. partners with Indian tech school

By Shefali Luthra Contributing Writer

The University formalized a twopart partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay Oct. 5, according to a University press release.

The partnership is based on two memoranda establishing an undergraduate exchange and promoting

“academic and faculty collaboration,” the press release said.

The idea of academic and faculty collaboration is not specifically defined, but it will probably include joint research, President Ruth Simmons said. Vice President for International Affairs Matthew Gutmann said collaboration may also include joint papers and faculty exchanges.

Campus ranks 5th in sexual health survey, gets 3.5 ‘GPA’

By Kat Thornton Contributing Writer

Brown ranked fifth out of 141 schools surveyed on Trojan Condoms’ annual Sexual Health Report Card this year, with a 3.50 sexual health “GPA.” Columbia took the number one spot, with a 3.70 GPA. Naomi Ninneman, health educator at Health Services, said she is not sure if Trojan does a “comprehensive survey,” since she said she only remembers receiving a survey for the first time two years ago. Surveyors Sperling’s BestPlaces and Rock the Vote could not be reached to comment on their methodology.

The Herald reported in 2009, when the last survey was released, that Sperling polls students and surveys the “quality and cost of sexual health resources and services at schools” using Facebook, questionnaires and evaluations of health departments’ websites.

Columbia’s Health Education is best known for its “Ask Alice” ques-

tion-and-answer service. Ninneman said she and many other health educators across the country turn to this service to answer some questions they receive.

Brown climbed to fifth place from last year’s ninth, and Ninneman agrees that campus health education is “on the rise.” Brown has increased its ranking each year the survey has taken place.

“Each year we try to tweak and improve,” Ninneman said.

Changes this year include Residential Peer Leader workshops about sexual health, new guest speakers, a new manual — the “Little Brown Book” — and a new student group, the Sexual Health Awareness Group, or SHAG. “Little Brown Book” provides information on resources at Brown, definitions and risks of sex and explanations of sex supplies. Zach Marcus ’10 wrote the pamphlet and SHAG plans annual revisions. continued on page 2

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Brown’s 3.5 sexual health GPA was averaged from 12 individual grades, including a “B” for condoms and an “A” for sexual assault programs.

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Blogging R.I.

An archaeology class has students digging up Brown’s past

The Men’s football team looks to defeat the Cornell Big Red

Kurt Walters ’11 advocates exploring R.I. — blog-style

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Friday, October 22, 2010

“I’m off the payroll now, and I can say whatever I want.”

— Steven Rattner ’74 P’10 P’13

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Wireless routers reported missing in Barbour During Fall Weekend, 10 wireless routers were removed from Barbour Hall leaving residents without wireless internet access, Doug Wilkinson, a network technology manager at Computing and Information Services, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

By Thursday, seven routers had been anonymously returned, one of which was non-functioning. The six working routers were re-installed and are operational, Wilkinson wrote.

On Oct. 13, after the routers went missing, Community Director Marc Lo wrote in an e-mail to Barbour residents obtained by The Herald, “We would very much like the routers returned so as to avoid the significant cost of replacement.” He also wrote that it was unclear “whether this act was one of thievery or tomfoolery.”

In the e-mail, Lo urged Barbour residents to return the routers to a box, “no questions asked,” writing, “Any reports or information on what happened are similarly welcome.”

Lo wrote that the opportunity to return the routers would be guaranteed through 9 a.m. Friday. After that point, the Office of Residential Life “will begin exploring other means of reparation,” Lo wrote.

Wilkinson wrote that an additional four routers should be in operation by sometime next week at the latest, whether the original routers are returned or Residential Life is required to purchase new ones. Senior Associate Dean of Residential and Dining Services Richard Bova said his office would pay for new routers and related costs if necessary.

Bova said that whoever took the routers harmed themselves as well as other Barbour residents. Before the lost wireless routers are put back in use or replaced, some Barbour residents will have to use a wired connection to access the Internet.

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Steven Rattner ’74 P’10 P’13 discussed the government’s decision to bail out the auto industry in MacMillan 115 Thursday night.

Rattner ’74 defends auto bailout continued from page 1 a guarantee that he would not have to involve himself in the politics surrounding the bailouts, and could focus on doing what needed to be done.

“For whatever reason, the president and his team lived up to that,” Rattner said. “I’m off the payroll now, and I can say whatever I want, but I still think this is a fine example of government at its best.”

Rattner said he had an interest in government since his work as a New York Times reporter in Washington.

But Rattner described his first days in Detroit as a “revolving door of meetings” to brief himself and his team of primarily other financiers on the auto industry.

“Many people on Wall Street aren’t industry experts,” the privateequity investor said. He said he handled the restructuring much as a private investor would have lent money to the companies, had private-sector credit been more readily available.

He said it quickly became clear to him that General Motors Corp. and Chrysler “had only a very tenuous grip on reality.” The chief financial officer of GM, Rattner said, couldn’t tell him on any given day how much cash the company had within $500 million.

“They really did not have a plan to get themselves back to profitability,” he said.

Rattner defended the govern-

ment’s decision to bail out the auto industry by saying that if the government let companies like GM and Chrysler fail and eventually liquidate themselves with no private capital available to restructure, the damage to the economy would be systemic.

Auto suppliers would shut down, and eventually stronger parts of the American auto industry, like Ford, would be forced to shut down due to a shortage of parts. In all, the failing of the entire industry would have resulted in a loss of 2 to 3 million jobs “easily,” Rattner said.

Rattner praised the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, which contained funding for the auto bailout, as “the single most importance piece of economic legislation passed in 70 years.”

Before directing taxpayer money to GM and Chrysler, Rattner said, he needed the same assurances as any private investor would need that funds would be properly managed.

GM CEO Rick Wagoner had to go, Rattner said, and Chrysler was left in the capable hands of Italian car company Fiat, led by CEO Sergio Marchionne.

“We ultimately got comfortable because Sergio is a man of great ambition,” Rattner said. “He’s really the kind of guy we’d like to back in the investment business.”

Afraid of the fall in consumer confidence and an ensuing drop in demand for American cars that could

come with prolonged bankruptcies of the car companies, Rattner said he created a “surgical bankruptcy.”

Chrysler was bankrupt for just 42 days, and GM for 39.

“Our plan worked, in essence,” Rattner said.

Rattner, a fellow of Brown’s Corporation and a former top Herald editor, is settling a corruption charge involving his role in kickbacks paid by the Quadrangle Group, an investment firm he co-founded, to win deals with New York’s pension fund. Part of the deal may stipulate that Rattner be banned from certain work in the securities industry.

During the question-and-answer period, a man identifying himself as a Brown alum asked if Rattner will be barred under the Securities and Exchange Commission settlement from involving himself in Brown’s investments.

Rattner said he did not want to talk about the subject, but noted he is not on the Corporation’s investment committee.

The lecture, attended by economics professors, students and members of the community in a half-full Macmillan 115, was sponsored by the Economics Department. Rattner, who concentrated in economics, released a book earlier this year entitled “Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry.”

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SHAG is a new group on campus that offers peer-to-peer counseling on sexual issues. The group offers a confidential e-mail question service, with “responses promised within one week during the semester,” according to its card.

“Ask us anything!” it proclaims.

The group is focused on community outreach. “I believe the ‘A’ in SHAG is really critical,” wrote Ben Winkler ’11.5, one of SHAG’s founders, in an e-mail to The Herald. “Beyond being advocates for sexual health, we are trying to foment awareness of these topics.”

“Brown has a great deal of re-

sources that are easily accessible for those who have the awareness and motivation to utilize them,” Winkler wrote. “What we are missing is an effective mechanism for bridging the gap between those resources and the student population as a whole.”

When asked about Brown’s sexual health resources, many students had little to say.

Representatives from Students for Choice said they thought Brown’s Health Services were accessible, and they had heard from friends that Brown’s gynecologists were good. The group co-sponsored Wednesday’s Love Your Body Day,

“a day of celebration and a day to accept our bodies for what they are, whatever size,” Cara Mones ’11, the group’s co-president, told The Herald.

In regard to future improvements to Health Education and Services, Ninneman said, “the steps aren’t made in regard to the survey, but what will help Brown students.”

“Inasmuch as our sexual health work is inherently tied to a specific population, every college program must reflect the needs and desires of its students. The gold standard of sexual health is dictated by the unique situation of every college, not by Trojan,” Winkler wrote.

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“This is 20 times better than a Grad Center suite.”

— Laura Ucik ’13, on her auxiliary housing assignment

Auxiliary housing offered to students on summer waiting list

By Margaret Yi Staff Writer

Ending up in summer assignment is a dreaded situation for many. But for some lucky students, it could mean living in Brown-owned auxiliary housing.

Each year, students who cannot obtain housing through the housing lottery enter the summer assignment process. This year, around 200 students were put through the process, Senior Associate Dean of Residential and Dining Services Richard Bova estimates.

There were several factors contributing to this year’s shortage of on-campus housing. Some undergraduate students who were granted off-campus housing permission later decided to live on campus, and there were a number of students readmitted to Brown who needed on-campus housing, Bova explained.

With an increase in University admission, housing administrators were once again faced with a shortage of on-campus housing. Some students ended up in temporary spaces, usually converted lounges or kitchens. Other students, typically rising sophomores and juniors, were offered vacancies in Brown-owned auxiliary properties.

These vacancies came up for two related reasons.

Glenn Lutzky / Herald

Auxiliary housing has opened its doors to sophomores due to overflowing dormitories.

Every year, a number of rising seniors and juniors apply for offcampus housing. Those who are approved have a choice of living in Brown-owned auxiliary housing or renting through independent landlords, Bova said.

“Generally, every year we’re pretty much full on day one,” Bova said, referring to Brown-owned properties.

Several Brown-owned auxiliary properties became available later

because some undergraduate students opted to live on campus even though they had off-campus permission, Bova said.

Brown also reserves certain auxiliary properties for graduate students, some of whom ultimately chose to live elsewhere. The Office of Residential Life offered these vacancies to students who did not have housing, said Gail Medbury, director of auxiliary housing.

Partnership to include student exchange continued from page 1 Gutmann called “the heart” of the partnership, is targeted to start next fall, when two students from Brown will study for a semester at IIT-Bombay, while two from IITBombay will come to Brown.

Gutmann and Simmons said they hoped the exchange would benefit science and engineering students, who Gutmann said might be less likely to study abroad because of concentration requirements.

“This will provide our students an opportunity to go to one of the world’s best science and technology universities,” Gutmann said.

Simmons said that the plan to form a partnership in India began before last year’s Year of India initiative.

“We needed to develop a stronger understanding of the strengths of the higher education system in India, and we needed to have stronger relationships with institutions in India,” Simmons said.

Brown currently has partnerships with over 100 institutions in dozens of countries, as formal

agreements or as collaborations, Gutmann said.

The origins of the partnership came out of a meeting at IITBombay when Simmons and other administrators visited India last March. Though the terms of the partnership were not determined then, the meeting established a “commitment” to developing such terms, Simmons said.

Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron said the process for selecting students for the exchange has not yet been determined. Other details to work out include residential aspects of the exchange.

“Normally when we have Brown programs that send students abroad, we have on-site contact people,” Bergeron said. “We want to establish some of those services to make sure that students don’t get lost in a system that’s unfamiliar to them.”

IIT-Bombay Director Devang Khakhar said he expected the international aspect of the exchange to be valuable to students.

“The students come from ver y dif ferent cultures, and I think this kind of experience is useful,”

Khakhar said. “More students that come out of institutions like ours, they end up doing something that has an international element to it.”

Given the selectivity of IITBombay, Simmons said, the University is fortunate to have established the partnership. Bergeron said IIT-Bombay receives about 450,000 applications per year, and that the school accepts less than 1 percent of its applicants.

“It’s a credit to them that they want to see this exchange because every place and university in India is ver y precious, because the proportion of spots that are available to the population are relatively restrictive,” Simmons said. “I think that the involvement in the international community is very important for all universities — their interest in this indicates very strongly their interest in being an international university.”

Though the Times of India reported in August that Brown had plans to set up an office in Mumbai — the site of IIT-Bombay’s campus — Gutmann said the University has not established any plans to do so yet.

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“I think there’s a total of 22 students from the waitlist — from the summer housing assignment process — who were able to go into auxiliary properties,” Bova said.

Students assigned to auxiliary housing have access to the same accommodations as students who applied for off-campus Brown-owned housing, Bova added. That means access to custodial services, facilities management, campus police and

medical services.

To Laura Ucik ’13, obtaining an auxiliary unit was “literally the best thing that could have happened” to her housing group. Unable to select housing through the lottery, they were placed in the summer assignment process. Ucik was not notified until a few days before school started where she was going to live. But it was worth the wait. “We were hoping for a (Graduate Center) suite, but this is 20 times better than a Grad Center suite,” she said.

Ucik and her housemates live in the three-floor house at 72 Charlesfield Street. Her housing group, which consists of six sophomores, inhabits the second and third floors.

They all have a room to themselves, and each bathroom is shared by only two people.

“We live in a house, but we don’t have to pay our bills separately. It’s taken care of. We still have facilities if something breaks,” Ucik said.

Ucik said she does not mind that there are increased responsibilities, such as cleaning the house and washing the dishes. “It’s definitely worth it. You have a house to come back to.”

Allen Kramer ’13, who is in Ucik’s housing group, said he also very satisfied with the housing arrangements. “I think it’s a really good opportunity to start living independently earlier.”

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U. buildings feel the heat It’s that time of year again — to stop worrying about staying cool and to start worrying about staying warm.

Heat has been turned on in most University buildings, according to administrators. Vice President of Facilities Management Stephen Maiorisi said the “heat plant is turned on the same time every year,” around late September or early October. He said air conditioning is no longer an option after heat has been turned on.

The decision to turn on heat is “weather dependent” and based on University policy, said Carlos Fernandez, assistant vice president of facilities operations and engineering. One reason heat is turned on is if a temperature of 50 degrees or lower is “sustained for a period of time,” Maiorisi said.

Cost is not a factor in the decision to turn on the heat, Maiorisi said. “The decision has an impact on cost, but cost never drives the decision,” he said.

Fernandez said upgrades to campus infrastructure will help the University reduce carbon emissions.

“All pipelines are new and insulated, efficient in all aspects — carbon emissions, energy, cost,” he said.

Fernandez advised to “check the Facility webpage” to see when the heat will be turned on in specific buildings and to “keep windows closed at night to keep the temperature in the building.”

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Friday, October 22, 2010

“I love when I find things.”

— Olivia Petrocco ’13 on ARCH 1900

Square by square, class is digging up Brown’s dirt

By Tiffany Zabludowicz Contributing Writer

Krysta Ryzewski, postdoctoral fellow in archaeology, and her class meet every Monday afternoon on the lawn of the John Brown House — to dig.

The class, ARCH 1900: “The Archaeology of College Hill,” aims to bring archaeology home, looking

FEATURE deeper at the sites on the Brown map. Class begins as the students walk across Power Street, clad in Wellington boots with shovels in hand. Once they reach the site, they quickly get to work on square patches of dirt. What initially seems like random digging soon reveals itself as a very serious task, as students begin their arduous calculations and decide where and how to dig.

Under the watchful eye of Ryzewski, students sift and shift dirt in an excited search for anything left over from history. Though the three patches of dirt may seem haphazardly placed, they were chosen very intentionally.

Beneath one patch lie the remnants of a 19th-centur y fountain from the Robert Hale Ives House.

Beneath another lies a wall that had not appeared on any maps yet and was — the class believes — a previously undiscovered outhouse of the John Brown House.

The class is not without its challenges, whether they be hacking at giant, intruding roots, attempting to

Courtesy of Krysta Ryzewski

Students explore College Hill’s past in ARCH 1900: “The Archaeology of College Hill.”

decipher what a mysterious black piece of rock is or avoiding skunks in the tool shed.

When a tiny, seemingly irrelevant shard of white ceramic was found among the clutter of rocks and roots, it caught the attention of everyone in the area. After an initial inspection, the piece of ceramic was put aside for later analysis.

“I love when I find things,” said Olivia Petrocco ’13. “It is exciting when it actually means something.

You know it was worth it!”

“This class gives you a really tactile connection to the past,” Petrocco said. “They had bricks and we have bricks, things like that.”

The class is exploring different

periods of history dating back to the 1700s and occasionally even earlier. Brown is located in an “important area of New England, which dates all the way back to prehistoric times,” Ryzewski said.

The class aims to help the John Brown Museum — which is mostly concerned with the time of John Brown, a co-founder of the University — “to understand the broader history” of the house, she said.

The class’s work will highlight the many different owners of the house, including the Brown family, and the changes they made to the house.

Another aim of the project is to find “certain groups of people that

history has failed to record,” such as staff, women and children, Ryzewski said.

The work is ver y “hands-on,” said Jenneth Igbokwe ’11, and “requires a lot from me physically, but we have made several discoveries.”

The students all recommended the course, calling it a lot of fun.

Though many said it requires a lot of work and is physically demanding, they said it provides great hands-on practical experience.

During Family Weekend, the dig will be open from 12:30 to 3 p.m. on Saturday. This isn’t your typical meet-the-teacher activity — passersby may even be able to take part in the digging.

Med School to host behavioral epigenetics conference

By Nick Lourie Contributing Writer

Alpert Medical School and the New York Academy of Sciences will sponsor a conference on the emerging field of behavioral epigenetics Oct. 29 and 30, according to a recent announcement on the New York Academy of Sciences website.

The conference will take place at the University of Massachusetts Boston Campus Center, bringing together a host of world-class leaders

in the field, as well as people who are just starting out in it, said Carmen Marsit, assistant professor of pathology and lab medicine, who will speak at the conference. Epigenetics, the study of how environmental changes can affect the expression of genes, has only recently been used to discern the relationships between the environment and the behavior of an organism.

The new field, behavioral epigenetics, is “the application of epigenetic principles to the study of be-

havior” said Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Barry Lester, who is organizing next week’s conference. Hopefully these ideas can provide an objective way of understanding the importance of the environment to behavior, Marsit said.

In addition to marking the start of a new discipline, Marsit said, the conference ideally should be a forum for the exchange of techniques and methods of researching and developing the field, as well as a way to introduce younger members of the

scientific community to behavioral epigenetics. For example, Marsit has two undergraduates that will attend.

Lester said that while behavioral epigenetics is a highly promising field — dealing with such issues as drug abuse, abnormal development and psychological disorders such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder — hopefully the conference will not only communicate the basic mechanisms and concepts of the field, but also what it can and cannot do.

Despite hot summer, less energy consumed

By Qian Yin Staff Writer

During summer 2010 — the second hottest on record in Rhode Island — Brown consumed an additional 1.6 million kilowatt hours of electricity compared to the summer before, according to Christopher Powell, director of sustainable energy and environmental initiatives for the Department of Facilities Management.

Powell said the amount of energy needed to cool a room soared to 57 percent higher than last summer and 42 percent higher than the 30-year average. “I’ve never seen it that high,” he said.

Despite the surge in electricity

consumption in the summer, the total energy consumption so far this year is lower than the usual level in the past because Brown has managed to lower consumption of other utilities such as water and natural gas, Powell said.

Powell said better pricing and, more importantly, the impact of efficiency investments have decreased Brown’s unit costs of energy. “It would have been a lot worse had we not done a lot of energy efficiency work in the past year,” he said.

Powell said 75 percent of the increase in electricity consumption over the summer can be attributed to the unusually high temperatures, since more energy needs to be consumed to maintain the room temperature at

a given level when it is hotter outside.

The laboratories and offices equipped with air conditioning are major electricity consumers in summer, while residence halls, 95 percent of which do not have air conditioning, do not have a significant impact, Powell said.

Another factor leading to the increase in electricity consumption is the newly installed air conditioning in a few buildings, including the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, the Science Resource Center and the High Performance Computing Center, Powell said.

Powell said the early start of classes this semester has caused a very small increase in utility costs compared to its usual level.

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‘King Lear’ tackles loyalty, greed in updated production continued from page 1 women, Tinkle said, she decided to make him their brother in this production to allow students to relate to the plot more easily. By making Lear a younger character dying of an unnamed sickness, instead of an elderly man dying of old age, the play’s focus shifts away from aging to better examine the other characters and the different themes they represent.

When Lear’s most beloved sister (Gillian Michaelson ’14) refuses to put her love into words, Lear disowns her. He realizes he has made a mistake as the remaining sisters take control of the kingdom, and he flees their house.

The other power struggle plays out between two brothers: Edmund (Emma Johnson ’14) and Edgar (Austen Hyde ’14). Edmund is the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester (Andrew Favaloro GS) and is trying to inherit his father’s land by convincing the Earl that Edgar, his legitimate brother, is trying to kill him. Gloucester is enraged by Edmund’s lies, and Edgar is forced to flee.

The play also addresses themes of loyalty, greed and family. Kent

(Kirsten Ward ’12), a supporter of the king, symbolizes loyalty in her endless willingness to follow him.

Under Tinkle’s direction, Kent, while normally a man, is portrayed as a woman. Tinkle said she wanted to play with “unusual gender twists,” experimenting with the idea that Kent’s extreme loyalty towards the king stems from her secret love for him.

Edmund, while not inherently evil, is driven to act selfishly by what he perceives as the injustice of his illegitimacy. “(Edmund and the King’s sisters) are driven by ambitions, greed and power,” Tinkle said.

This message came across to the audience partly through the efforts of the actors, but also through the well-chosen costumes. The “evil” sisters and Edmund wear darker colors and formal clothing, while the less selfish characters wear more neutral colors and simple costumes.

As the king is dying, he becomes more affected by the mistakes he has made and appears to be driven mad, allowing Aspinwall to show off a wide-ranging talent. But over the course of the play, Lear also begins to feel compassion. He becomes more sensitive, but his new sensibility causes him to fully realize the

weight of his mistakes, driving him to insanity.

The actors in general do a good job. Despite many distractions on the Green, they managed to stay convincingly in character. However, sound pollution from noise and human traffic proved an issue. While it was sometimes difficult to hear what the actors were saying, they did not let the noise disturb them and projected well.

Favaloro and Hyde were both particularly impressive as Gloucester and Edgar. Favaloro acted out his anger, despair and pity believably.

Hyde had a trickier part as the runaway Edgar, who had to pretend to be someone else and therefore take on several characters, but he was convincing in all his roles and very entertaining.

Because of the difficulty in hearing the actors, audience members who are not familiar with the play may be at a disadvantage in following the plot. But “King Lear” is a compelling story about the implications of power struggles on relationships, and Shakespeare on the Green performs it well, bringing the play’s many elements together to create an engaging production.

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Shakespeare on the Green transforms the back of Manning Chapel and the Quiet Green into a stage for their open-air production of “King Lear.”

Three chairs, two cubes and one stage in new play festival

By Suzannah Weiss Ar ts & Culture Editor

A flame flickers on and off as Jon Gordon ’11 and Sam Usher ’12 muse about East Providence street names. Nicola Ryan ’13 slaughters Conor Kane ’14 at the audience’s request in a gladiator match. It rains puzzle pieces. A teacher painfully stumbles through a discussion of a bad “apple” with his parents.

Businessmen break down over Sandra Bullock, lip balm and the mind-body duality.

Since many flavors blend to create this year’s production of the annual undergraduate theater festival, “Three Chairs Two Cubes,” it appeals to diverse tastes.

It also incorporates fresh ingredients. Over the past month, the Production Workshop board reviewed about four dozen new one-act plays by students and narrowed them down to five, said producer Abby Colella ’12. “It’s really incredible to see what people come up with.”

The festival’s name comes from the fact that directors are given three chairs and two stage cubes to incorporate into their staging — while directors may choose not to use the pieces, they may not use anything else, Colella said.

Kathleen Braine ’11.5 composed “Klondike Bars” in response to a “need to put emotions on paper,” she said. Partaking in the rehearsal process, Braine said, she was surprised to “see all the different incarnations that my play could have.”

Ben Freeman ’13, director of Braine’s surrealistically poetic piece about friends mourning

a loved one while assembling a jigsaw puzzle, said he envisioned the play “almost like a fugue” or symphony. “I was sort of imagining ocean waves,” he added, which “ebb and flow” like the stages of grief.

To Jillian Jetton ’14, who acts in “Klondike Bars,” it is about “dif ferent ways that people can deal with grief.” Braine said she hopes it leads viewers to “value the people they love.”

But the production also includes comedic and nonsensical selections. “Wednesday Afternoon,” a parent-teacher dialogue

by Charlotte Crowe ’11, progresses from contrived politeness to unrestrained barbarism that leaves audience members squirming in their seats. The impeccable comic timing of Rafael Cebrian ’11 satirizes parents who transmit their childishness to their kids.

Writer Justin O’Neill ’11 used absurdist humor to comment on a success-obsessed society in “Orlando Brokedown Meltdown: A Parable.” Director Sam Alper ’11 said the characters, who synchronously descend into existential crises at a business conference, are plagued by inability to construct their own identities.

Their unprompted meltdowns are intentionally “unnatural,” he said, to accentuate the externally-driven workaholic’s feeling of “turning yourself into a robot … a version of yourself that’s unnatural, that you don’t recognize.”

The businessmen’s sur face frenzy over their place and purpose in Orlando gradually reveals itself as the torment of minds caught in a material universe. John Racioppo’s

’11 monologue about the centrality of drugstores to modern life makes the audience painfully aware of human powerlessness over the body. The actors also comically and tragically address the limits of interpersonal connection. “Do you guys love me?” asks Jared Rosa ’14. “Don’t answer if it’s awkward.”

“The Gladiator Game” by Justin Kuritzkes ’12 — “more of a game that the audience plays than a play,” according to director Doug Eacho ’11 — defamiliarizes a glorified Roman spectacle and asks viewers to decide what they value more: compassion or entertainment. Eacho said he was interested in locating the line between “enjoyable” violence and brutality that is “difficult to watch.”

Max Posner’s ’11 “Benevolence” puts a twist on the lore of local streets, exploiting people’s curious psychological tendency to correlate names with personality traits. When your name is Arnold, for instance, “they’re so glad you’re dead they’ll name anything after you.” But “Benevolence” also becomes a stor y about the guilt of a passive bystander.

The collaboration among student writers, actors, directors and crewmembers accomplishes what Colella cited as PW’s goals: to produce “ver y much a variety show” and “offer opportunities for undergraduate playwrights.” It also sparks contemplation and laughter along the way. Some of the performances are a bit messy and not quite absorbing, perhaps reflecting the cast’s limited rehearsal time.

The first few, in particular — “Benevolence,” “The Gladiator Game” and “Klondike Bars” — fall short

of provoking thought or conveying clear messages, but the energy picks up in “Wednesday Afternoon” and “Orlando Brokedown.” The entire cast’s enthusiasm shines through and makes the experience fun for spectators as well.

Eacho said the delight of the show for those who worked on it

was its examination of topics that “interest all of us and concern all of us.”

Freeman said he finds it “exciting to see that our peers are capable of great things.”

“Three Chairs Two Cubes” runs at T. F. Green Hall Oct. 22–25. Admission is free.

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Mayoral candidates speak with The Herald Jon Scott Jon Scott, independent candidate for mayor, spoke with The Herald following Thursday’s mayoral debate.

The Herald: If elected mayor, how would you engage college students in Providence?

Scott: I think students are no different than anybody else. Brown students are different in that they actually register to vote here and they are an important voting block. They got David Segal elected to the city council as the first non-democrat in ages. So I think you ignore Brown students at your own peril. You ignore students in general at your own peril.

One issue many Brown students care about is the environment.

Would creating green jobs be a priority for you?

The reality of it is that the workforce development folks tell me that if we create jobs in this state, real green jobs are hard to create. Bicycle repairman is called a green job, but the reality of it is that that is not the kind of job we need to create. So having a green kind of outlook on anything that we do is important, but it’s not the end all and be all. Now, within that, I just talked tonight about a 21st-century transit system and I think we have opportunities to be on the cutting edge of design. Design jobs aren’t necessarily green jobs, but if they’re designing products that the city can then turn around and sell for economic development for our city, then that becomes a green job and that’s the important piece to look at.

How do you plan on rooting out corruption in the city?

I don’t owe anybody any favors. I’m the true outsider here. I don’t have the usual folks or the usual suspects behind me. My opponent is a great guy but he’s the handpicked successor to Mayor (David) Cicilline ’83. You get rid of corruption by getting rid of folks that are

Angel Taveras

corrupt. I worked with gangbangers for years in the inner city. They didn’t particularly scare me. Corruption doesn’t scare me either. So I think you deal with it head on, you don’t back down from anything, and you go in with a moral compass that tells you that we need to have a clean city, because true opportunity comes out of an even playing field for everybody, and we don’t have a better city until we have true opportunity. I don’t think we can continue the corruption and rebuild the city. The two just don’t go together.

What can the city do to keep college students from leaving Providence once they graduate?

It’s about jobs. The problem is that creating jobs means attracting companies. Attracting companies means having a good workforce. Having a good workforce isn’t just about a college-educated workforce, but a K-12 educated workforce. If we don’t reform that K-12 education system, we don’t have a qualified workforce, a support workforce. And if we don’t have that support workforce, then we don’t attract companies and we don’t have jobs. It’s this vicious cycle.

I need to see if I can let loose some of those creative minds and create entrepreneurial opportunities for students.

There are a lot of folks that have graduated from Brown that have created great companies. They might employ four or five people, but I would rather have 1000 companies that employ 5 people than have one company that employs 400.

You mentioned in the debate that you’ve been falsely accused of being ver y conser vative. How would you describe yourself ideologically?

Scott MacKay from the (Providence) Journal once described be as a fiscal conser vative, social moderate with a strong libertarian streak. I like that. I’ll go with that.

— Mark Raymond

Angel Taveras, Democratic candidate for mayor, spoke with The Herald following Thursday’s mayoral debate.

The Herald: What do you think are the most important issues facing the city of Providence and what would you do to tackle them?

Taveras: The most important issue is jobs, is getting people back to work.

We’ve got so many people who want to work, and we have an unemployment rate in the double digits and in some of our neighborhoods it’s 20 or 30 percent. So we have to focus on retaining the jobs, recruiting, and reforming.

With respect to retaining, having a small revolving loan fund so we can help people get loans, having a tax suspension program to really motivate people or have an incentive to have people improve their property, working on workplace development to keep recruiting as part of our knowledge district. Part of what we need to do is build a place where people want to do business and attract people from not only around the state, but around the region.

Could you talk about your plans for reforming education in Providence, particularly with regard to using the Harlem Children’s Zone as a model?

We have, for example, right now funding that we applied for for Providence Children’s Initiative. It’s basically based on the Harlem Children’s Zone. It’s called P.C.I. And I’ve actually started to support that already. The P.C.I. would allow us to really start the Providence Children’s Zone and take a group of schools or an area to do that. What I’d like to see happen … I talked to you about the Bailey School. The Bailey School is doing that well. There’s an article in the July 2010 Providence Journal that actually talks to you about what has happened at the Bailey School, where sports are going on, where kids start school early and they’re there until late, where the parents

are involved. And what you’re seeing is kids are doing better, and we should use that as an example and expand on it into other places.

I think part of it is, I’ve already learned this as a candidate for mayor, ‘what are your priorities, what do you think is important.’ I think people in the city have to know, this is what the mayor wants to do, and I will put people in positions to get it done. I’m going to have to provide the vision and make sure that the vision is implemented, and that’s what I plan on doing.

Given the scandals that have befallen the police department, would you be in favor of changes to the police force? Could you give a yes or no answer to whether you would retain Police Chief Dean Esserman?

I’m upset about what’s happened with the police department as well, but I don’t want to take away from the fact that we have a police department with almost 500 members, and we’re talking about a handful of officers who’ve been charged with crimes or wrongdoing. I want to also point out something else — what has happened in terms of the result of the alleged crimes is exactly what should happen. That is, when you find wrongdoing, you bring it out into the light of day; you prosecute them and you hold people accountable.

That’s what we’re seeing, and that’s what we should be seeing.

And we should make sure that it’s not more systemic than that. That’s why we’d want to do a top-down review of the police department. With respect to the chief, and I said this before, I’m going to evaluate this on a full record. I don’t think it’s fair, in the middle of a campaign, to make a decision on what I’m going to do.

Until you are mayor, and you have all the information in front of you and really have a chance to assess the full record, that’s when I think you make the best decision.

— Claire Peracchio

Mayoral candidates debate debt, unions, education continued from page 1 Democratic candidate for mayor but for education,” Taveras said.

Scott emphasized the difference between constructive action and unfulfilled campaign promises and vowed that he would address the city’s problems upon taking office.

“What I’m going to tell you about tonight is action, and I want you to listen for the action because there are not very many new ideas in politics,” Scott said.

Asked to cite a major economic challenge facing Providence, the candidates gave different answers but agreed on the fundamental need to jumpstart the city’s economy.

“The number one problem facing the city is the massive debt,” Scott said. Providence’s unstable financial footing jeopardizes its ability to make progress in other areas like education, social services and

economic growth, Scott said.

Taveras pointed to job creation as Providence’s biggest challenge and highlighted his economic development plan, which focuses on making doing business in the city easier and more appealing to prospective companies.

Responding to a question asking the candidates to specify how they would bring economic development to the city’s neighborhoods, Scott stressed the need for a viable transportation system that connects communities and links residents from their homes to their jobs.

Taveras advocated creating a “small loan revolving fund” to provide access to credit and capital for small businesses and establishing a real estate tax suspension to incentivize business property improvements.

The candidates expressed agreement on the unsustainable nature

of Providence’s $1.2 billion pension liability and the need to bring public sector unions to the bargaining table to reform how the city provides retirement benefits to its employees.

“In a lot of cases, the union leadership and the union rank-and-file are not in agreement,” Scott said, adding that many union members are eager to reform the pension system to ensure that it maintains solvency for future retirees.

Taveras vowed to “work in good faith with the unions” to negotiate a reformed pension system that will set the city’s “financial house in order,” and expressed support for a hybrid pension system based on a federal program.

Both candidates expressed opposition to including in union contracts compounded cost-of-living adjustments that have strained the city’s purse strings.

The candidates also discussed

proposals for fixing Providence’s failing schools. Scott highlighted the need for more after-school programs and jobs for students. Taveras expressed his desire to make the Harlem Children’s Zone a model for Providence. He said he would focus on strengthening early childhood education, improving access to charter schools and establishing more rigorous standards for evaluating teachers.

Taveras and Scott diverged on whether to retain embattled Chief of Police Dean Esserman, who has presided over a police department plagued by scandal. Taveras said he would give the decision careful study on taking office, while Scott committed to replacing Esserman.

Both candidates also opposed the “head tax” on Providence college students attending private schools, proposed by current Mayor David Cicilline ’83 to alleviate the city’s

budget deficit.

But Taveras and Scott disagreed on another issue important to the city’s college students — 18-andover clubs.

“There may be some 18-year-old Brown students in here. I hate to disappoint you,” Scott said, adding that while he would like the drinking age to go back to 18, he is opposed to clubs that serve alcohol but admit those not yet old enough to drink.

Taveras said he opposed penalizing all clubs simply because some illegally allowed underage drinking.

Despite the candidates’ divergence on some issues, the debate ended on a friendly note.

“I like Mr. Taveras, and we’ve become fairly friendly over the course of this race,” Scott said in his closing statement, adding that while he differs from Taveras, he hoped to remain friends because “both of us have something to bring to the city.”

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Friday, October 22, 2010 | Page 7

Colleges struggle to recruit more men

By Trish Wilson The Philadelphia Inquirer

Jonathan Bateman / Herald

Running back Zach Tronti ’11 cautioned Bruno against underestimating Cornell in Saturday’s game.

Football prepares for Ivy showdown with Cornell

BY Chan Hee Chu Sports Staff Writer

After three weeks on the road, the football team will return home to face the Cornell Big Red. Bruno (3-2, 2-0 Ivy League) will look to extend its perfect record in league play while the Big Red (1-4, 0-2) enter the game seeking their first conference win.

Even though Cornell heads into the game with a less-thanstellar overall record, running back Zach Tronti ’11 cautioned against underestimating the Big Red. “Cornell is a solid football team that we cannot overlook, despite their record,” Tronti wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “It is going to be very important for us to get things going on offense early, especially since we have struggled during the past few games.”

Though Cornell is star ting several freshmen on offense, they do have the talent and potential to scare — and potentially surprise — the Bears as Princeton did last weekend, said Head Coach Phil Estes.

“They have good overall team speed, especially their wideouts,” he said. “They are ver y young

and inexperienced, but they are getting better each game.”

One of the challenges heading into Saturday’s game will be the aggressive scheme employed

by Cornell. Unlike previous opponents, Cornell plays mostly man-to-man and relies heavily on blitzes to disrupt opposing offenses.

To win, the Bears will need their receivers to get off jams and win the one-on-ones on the outside. Correctly diagnosing blitzes and picking them up — a problem earlier in the season — will also be key.

The defense, on the other hand, will look to build upon their performance in a stifling second half against Princeton, in which they limited the Tigers to only 43 total yards. The Bears will look to exploit Cornell’s young offensive line, which has already surrendered 27 sacks and features two freshman tackles. By putting pressure on Cornell’s starting quarterback Jeff Mathews — another freshman — the Bears hope to force mistakes and create turnovers.

The Family Weekend game will kick off at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

PHILADELPHIA — As a white male from the suburbs of New York, Brendan Scheld had never felt like a minority.

But that was before he enrolled as a freshman at the University of Delaware.

In last semester’s calculus course of 40 students, he said, only five men would show up for class.

“We’d all kind of look at each other, and we’d have each other’s backs,” Scheld said over a recent lunch at the university’s crowded food court, where he and a fraternity brother were the only pair of men sitting together.

Not that he and his friend, Ryan Helthall, are complaining. “We both have girlfriends we met here,” said Helthall, a senior from Sparta, N.J. “We did not have slim pickings.”

When it comes to finding enough men to fill their freshmen classes, it is the nation’s admissions officers who have to hunt hard.

Twenty years after women became the majority on campus, college administrators are struggling to strike a gender balance even as female applicants outnumber men by nearly 30 percent.

Nationally, as at Delaware, about 58 percent of college undergraduates are women, with some campuses at 70 percent.

That’s well beyond the point where the character of a college shifts, and may make a school less appealing to some of the highly qualified students it seeks to attract.

“Colleges will then be unable to attract the female students they want most — or so they fear,” wrote Gail Heriot, a professor of law at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Alerted by media reports that some admissions officers may be accepting less-qualified male students over female applicants, the Civil Rights Commission is investigating whether women are being discriminated against in college admissions.

“Everybody should feel very uncomfortable by the notion that it is more difficult for a woman to get into a college than a man,” Heriot said in an interview.

Last year, the commission subpoenaed the admissions records of 19 colleges, including the University of Delaware and five in Pennsylvania.

All but one were picked at random within different categories, including

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elite universities, religious schools, and historically black universities.

The University of Richmond was chosen after U.S. News and World Report said its admission rate for men was 13 percentage points higher than for women.

Frank Mussano, a dean at York College of Pennsylvania, thought his

Higher Ed institution was in deep trouble when he heard it would get a subpoena.

Then he realized the picks had been random. At York, 54 percent of freshmen are women.

“We are completely gender blind, so there is no reason the commission would be worried about bias at this institution,” Mussano said.

“We admit students when they meet the admission requirements, and we admit them until we are full.”

But he fully understands why many colleges would try to keep the genders even.

At Delaware, Alpha Phi sorority sisters recently stood outside their house, raising money with a lemonade stand. They certainly notice the missing men. Their pledge class of 60 is larger than the entire membership of many fraternities.

“It’s a little harder to find a good group of guy friends,” said sophomore Gabrielle Portera, from Greenwich, Conn.

Outside the food court, Kellye Foulke, 18, said she hadn’t even considered attending a college with 70 percent women.

“In the real world,” she said, “you aren’t going to be working with a majority of females.”

Where are the men?

Ivory Nelson, president of Lincoln

University in Chester County, Pa., one of the subpoenaed schools, said that he would love to have an even gender balance but that his historically black college had long been 60 percent female.

“The pool is not there,” Nelson said.

And fewer men make it to graduation, too. Nelson shakes each graduate’s hand as seniors cross the stage, and recently he caught himself counting the men graduating from a college that once served only male students.

“The women outnumber them, 4-1,” he said. In truth, 65 percent of graduates last spring were women.

Why? Because minority men have the highest high school dropout rates in the nation, face crushing urban poverty, and land in prison at alarming rates.

“We’ve lost two generations of black males to the penal system,” Nelson said.

Margaret Anderson, a sociology professor and an acting associate provost at Delaware, echoed a common sentiment among students and administrators when she said women seemed more motivated to go to college and more assertive about how to get in.

“I think women do know they need some education to have security in their lives,” she said. “If you don’t get an education, you know you’re going to be dependent on someone.”

But that is not the same message young men seem to be getting.

“There are different opportunity patterns for men than women,” said Anderson, noting, as did Nelson, that men are more inclined to join the military or seek work in the skilled continued on page 8

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Friday, October 22, 2010 | Page 8

‘Blackout in a can’ worries colleges

By Patricia Alex The Record

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Binge drinking among adolescents and young adults is not new, but authorities are warning about a dangerous new twist with an increased use of spiked energy drinks that deliver a potent mix of stimulants and booze.

The fruity drinks, such as Four Loko, lead to a quick and intense high that has been dubbed “blackout in a can.”

Ramapo College this month banned the caffeinated alcoholic beverages, tightened restrictions on guests and increased penalties for underage drinking after a raucous start to the fall semester in which 23 people were hospitalized for alcohol intoxication, school officials said.

Four Loko was involved in some of the incidents at the Mahwah, N.J., campus, and the township’s police chief is warning that the drink is being used by even younger students.

Complaints were brought against three juveniles from Mahwah High School last week after they were found to be in possession of or intoxicated by Four Loko, Chief James Batelli said.

“The bottom line on the product is it gets you very drunk, very quick,” Batelli said. “To me, Four Loko is just a dangerous substance.”

The drink comes in 23.5-ounce cans and has an alcohol content of 12 percent — the equivalent of four beers. Four Loko is cheap — generally selling for less than $3 per can. It’s carbonated and comes in a variety of fruity flavors — making it popular with underage drinkers, experts say.

It is sold only in liquor stores in New Jersey, but it can be sold in convenience stores in other states,

where clerks may not be as vigilant about checking for underage drinkers.

The packaging is similar to that of non-alcoholic energy drinks — colorful and graphic — which appeals to teenagers but could also allow the drinks to fly under the radar of parents and educators.

“I think it’s clear they are marketing to young people,” said David Schardt, of the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington.

Batelli said his department is working with officials in nearby Rockland County, N.Y., just across the state line from Mahwah, about stepping up enforcement of drinking age prohibitions there.

The chief also said he is preparing a letter to ask the state attorney general to look into the marketing of Four Loko and other caffeinated alcoholic beverages. Attorneys general in New York, Connecticut and California have begun similar probes, and the federal Food and Drug Administration is evaluating the safety of Four Loko and caffeinated alcoholic beverages made by 29 other companies.

Four Loko and Joose are among the biggest brands in the category.

The makers of three of the drinks: Sparks, Tilt and Bud Extra, withdrew or reformulated their products after the FDA began looking at them.

Those products were made by larger companies, such as MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch, while Four Loko and many of the other drinks are made by smaller breweries less responsive to public pressure, experts said.

“There doesn’t seem to be a concerted effort to deal with this,” Schardt said.

He added that the FDA has said mixing alcohol and caffeine had

never been approved by the agency.

The FDA has estimated that as many as a quarter of college students drink the alcohol-laced energy drinks. Other colleges in North Jersey surveyed this week did not report specific problems with the beverages, but the head of the New Jersey Prevention Network said the drinks were “on the radar. We are concerned ... it is a problem here,” said Diane Litterer, executive director of the group.

“It’s certainly a trend, and we need to raise awareness,” she said.

“We’re looking at what we can do.”

The drinks generally have alcohol contents ranging from 6 percent to 12 percent, with Four Loko at the high end of the range. Students have also been mixing up their own concoctions — adding alcohol to regular energy drinks — for some time, she said.

The stimulants in the drinks initially mask the effects of the alcohol, so people keep drinking until they are severely intoxicated, the experts say.

“Caffeine clearly makes people more alert, but that doesn’t make you less drunk,” Schardt said.

“There’s a real risk of these kids getting hurt.”

Schardt, Batelli and others say they worry about the effects of the combination and the possibility of sexual assaults and other attendant problems that come with serious intoxication.

Batelli praised Ramapo President Peter Mercer for being aggressive in banning the drinks on campus.

“He’s admitting the problem; the other colleges put the blinders on,” Batelli said. “I don’t think Mahwah is any different than anywhere else.

You’re sticking your head in the sand if you don’t think it’s in your school.”

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Gabrielle Portero, Hannah Morse and Lindsay Domino, from left, are all sophomores at the University of Delaware, where women outnumber men.

‘Man shortage’ tests college admissions continued from page 7 trades — though those jobs are no longer as plentiful as they once were.

Michael Kimmel is a sociologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and author of “Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men.” Kimmel notes that, in fact, more men are going to college than ever before — those numbers are rising for both genders.

And a recent report shows the gender gap is no longer widening.

But inside the numbers is another story.

According to Kimmel, upperincome men are going to college at the same rate as their female counterparts. But black men make up only 35 percent of black college students.

Latino men make up 40 percent of Latino students. And working-class men make up only one-third of workingclass students.

“The crisis of attendance is not uniform but affects poor and minority students more significantly,” Kimmel said.

Men, he believes, have not figured out how to navigate a changed economy that increasingly demands a college degree for a good job.

And more often, studies show, they shrug off the value of a college education, Kimmel said.

“They think that studying is wimpy, that studying and caring about what happens in classes is sissy.”

Discrimination?

Heriot, who is leading the Civil Rights Commission’s investigation, said Title IX bars sexual discrimination on college campuses with one exception: in admissions by private liberal arts schools.

“That’s why you can have a Smith or a Mount Holyoke,” she said.

The commission selected a mix of schools as a starting point.

“Right now,” Heriot said, “we’re just trying to establish: Is it happen-

ing? And how widespread is it?”

She said the reasons were not well understood.

“I believe that schools are very sincere in being concerned about gender balance and they’re worried that if they don’t have enough men, eventually they won’t have enough women, but they are competing with each other for a limited pool of male applicants.”

State-supported undergraduate schools, graduate programs, and professional schools are not allowed to discriminate in admissions.

The trick is in the law, the numbers, and the ripple effect. If liberal arts colleges do legally discriminate in admissions to achieve gender parity, that means even fewer men are available for the public institutions, where such discrimination would be illegal.

If widespread discrimination against women is found, Heriot said, the commission will likely ask the college presidents for ideas on how to ease the man shortage in other ways, such as adding more disciplines attractive to them.

“If we’re not satisfied with that, we may try to come up with some ideas ourselves,” Heriot said.

Any illegal activity would be turned over to another agency for enforcement.

First, the commission needs to collect the data. Four of the subpoenaed schools, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Messiah College and Gettysburg College — the latter two in Pennsylvania — have not turned over records. Heriot said that she expected they all would, but that they were worried about disclosing their secret formulas for creating the ideal freshman class.

A final report is expected in 2011.

Meanwhile, the women are marching on to advanced degrees.

Last month, the Council of Graduate Schools reported that in 2009, for the first time, women received more doctorates than men.

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Friday, October 22, 2010

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A bit of tarnish on marijuana’s benign reputation in Calif.

By Shari Roan Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — In 1969, Carol McDonald was 28, married and the mother of two young children, out for an evening of fun with a couple who smoked marijuana. By the end of the evening she was on her way to a 19-year addiction.

“Within a few months, I was smoking every day,” said McDonald, a retired bookkeeper, now 69.

“I had to smoke before going to work. If something was upsetting, I smoked over it. If there was a celebration, I smoked over it.”

People like McDonald may be largely overlooked in the statewide debate over legalizing marijuana.

The drug has a benign reputation: Many baby boomers smoked and emerged unscathed, and medical marijuana facilities with their friendly images of seven-fingered leaves have popped up all over Los Angeles.

That might be why Proposition 19, the Nov. 2 ballot measure that would legalize marijuana and regulate it similarly to alcohol, has generated scores of reports and debates regarding the potential effect on business revenue, tax dollars and law enforcement but scant discussion on the potential fallout on people’s health.

In California, addiction counselors are split on the legalization issue largely because of their longstanding support of treatment over jail and legal penalties for marijuana addicts. Yet nationally, public health experts mostly are against legalization. They say it will increase the number of people who become addicted to the drug, contribute to more automobile accidents and erode school performance.

“It’s bizarre to me when people say, ‘Make marijuana legal, and we’ll have no problems with it,’ ” said Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatr y and behavioral science at Stanford University who recently served as a White House senior adviser on the nation’s drug control policy.

Because the science of marijuana’s health effects is in many cases unclear, experts on each side of the legalization debate can point to scientific studies that support their own position.

They do agree that marijuana should be avoided during pregnancy and that it is harmful for people with mental illness or who are at risk for developing a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia.

And they agree, too, on some basic statistics: Marijuana is addictive for about 9 percent of adults who use it — compared with about

15 percent who use alcohol and 15 percent who use cocaine — according to federal data. Because it is the most widely used illegal substance in the country, marijuana dependence is more common than addiction to either cocaine or heroin despite its lower addiction potential.

“We generally think the problems with marijuana aren’t as serious as the problems you tend to see with cocaine or heroin,” said Alan J. Budney, a leading researcher on marijuana at the Center for Addiction Research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences who opposes legalization. “But they are still pretty substantial.”

The science of marijuana becomes murky when one steps beyond addiction statistics to examine effects on health.

A series of studies conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published in 1998 found that the effects of marijuana alone on driving were small or moderate, but severe when combined with alcohol.

But other studies show little impairment from a moderate dose: A 2004 study in the journal Accident, Analysis and Prevention found no increased risk of motor vehicle accidents causing traumatic injur y among drivers using marijuana.

“Even after smoking, there aren’t any real deficits in driving ability that we can detect in the laboratory,” said Mitch Earleywine, an associate professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Albany who ser ves as an advisory board member at the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

The data on lung damage and smoking-related cancers are similarly mixed, in part because a large portion of heavy marijuana users also smoke tobacco, which muddies the picture of marijuana’s effects. And though experts tend to agree that smoking marijuana causes short-term memor y loss, they disagree widely on the overall cognitive effects of the drug.

Several studies have also dismissed the fear that marijuana is a “gateway” drug that will lead children and adolescents to experiment with harder illicit drugs — although numerous studies suggest that the earlier in life someone uses marijuana, the riskier it becomes.

Among 14- and 15-year-olds who start to smoke, 17 percent will be dependent within two years, said Dr. Tim Cermak, an addiction psychiatrist and president of the California Society of Addiction Medicine.

The ef fect on school per for-

mance and learning could be significant if more minors use the drug, Cermak added. “Marijuana is not devastating in the same way alcohol is,” he said. “But to an adolescent, it can impact their life permanently. When you take a vacation from development in school for five years, you just don’t get to the same endpoint that was available to you earlier in life.”

The fact is, however, that no one knows how many more people will tr y marijuana if it becomes legal.

Some experts predict a 50 percent increase while others say that the numbers are unlikely to rise because California’s relaxed medical marijuana laws have already made the drug easy to obtain.

“It’s a vast exaggeration that more people will take this up,” said Stephen Gutwillig, California director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a national group that advocates for changes in the nation’s approach to illicit drugs. Gutwillig supports legalization.

“The bottom line is that marijuana is far less dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes,” Gutwillig added. “It’s far less addictive than either of them. People tend to use marijuana in smaller amounts. It does not have alcohol’s noxious association with violence and reckless behavior. And you can’t overdose.”

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A good-luck diamond to student-parents. Here’s hoping professors continue to buy my-kid-threw-up-on-myhomework as a viable excuse. But hey, where are you going for Family Weekend?

A diamond to night football games maybe becoming a tradition. Here’s hoping kicking Harvard’s ass every year becomes a tradition, too.

Coal to independent candidate for mayor Jon Scott who “worked with gangbangers for years in the inner city.”

Though that does sound salacious, it also seems like

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A sympathetic diamond to the library contract negotiators who said they “just wanted to get through those two issues and put them to bed.” We know how you feel — and we only have to put out one issue a night.

Coal to the possibly record number of yellow cards handed out in Saturday’s soccer game against Harvard.

If the Facebook movie taught us anything, it’s that everyone at Harvard’s a gentleman — or so we thought.

Speaking of fouls, a good-sports diamond to the College Hill ’Dependent for putting up your best shot at last weekend’s kickball game. With an 8-3, Herald, all-time record, you can take that diamond to the bank — or to the Undergraduate Finance Board.

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Your guide to R.I.’s blogosphere

BY Kurt walters Opinions Columnist So you all know BrownFML and Spotted@ Brown, but how about a website where you can procrastinate and actually end up knowing about what’s going on in Rhode Island?

Let me start by saying that yes, I think the word blogosphere is just as silly as you do.

However, regardless of its linguistic merits, never before has there been such an easy way to keep a handle on things important to us. I’ll try to break down for you a few of the better blogs in Rhode Island and mix some arts and culture blogs in with the political ones I love.

Rhode Island’s Future (rifuture.org) — This is Rhode Island’s premier political blog.

There is a definite progressive bent, but as a source of information about what’s going on in state politics, this site is second to none.

Its mission is to foster healthy debate on the issues facing the state, and there is an entire community of people who write posts and often engage in lengthy debates in the comments section. Also, RI Future’s number-one rule is “don’t be an ass.” It’s hard not to like a site like that.

Providence Daily Dose (providencedailydose.com) — Self-described as “high powered news and nonsense,” this blog is your one-stop-shop to find out what’s going on in Providence. It features all sorts of local music, films and events in the capital city. Recent posts span from shows at Lupo’s and Club Hell to the teach-in at Brown in response to recent gay teen suicides.

The Providence Journal (projo.com) — Certainly the most “establishment” of this bunch, even after massive downsizing in the newsroom, the ProJo is Rhode Island’s biggest media voice. Besides the normal articles, the website also features a business blog (bizblog.projo.com) for all you C.O.E. concentrators as well as blogs about cars, music, food, politics, fitness and pretty much anything else you can imagine.

Rhode Island Policy Reporter (whatcheer. net) — Tom Sgouros, erstwhile candidate for

has a strong offering of classes aimed at improving the cultural literacy of Providence youth. As a side-note, the owner of the space has the coolest beard you’ve ever seen.

Greater City: Providence (gcpvd.org) — Oh, the puns. This blog is dedicated to helping greater Providence become a greater city, mainly by turning from a car-centric city into a more urbanized space. There’s some really fascinating content with, for example, a vision for revamping Kennedy Plaza into an urban oasis. There’s also a great year-end

Never before has there been such an easy way to keep a handle on things important to us.

Treasurer and author of the celebrated “Ten Things You Don’t Know About Rhode Island,” is the driving force behind this site. It features some brilliant analysis of policy and of the problems facing Rhode Island. Sgouros has an amazing knowledge of the government’s role in economics and of the ramifications of debt, so I can fully recommend this to Econ folks as well as policy-minded people.

AS220 (as220.org) — This site chronicles the goings-on of what is arguably Rhode Island’s coolest cultural location. The omnibus community arts space has art installations, frequent performances on its stage and a great restaurant inside to boot. AS220 also

“What Cheer/What Jeer” section that celebrates positive happenings in Providence and disparages the bad.

Anchor Rising (anchorrising.com) — Are you a conservative feeling a little bit out of place in Rhode Island (not to mention Brown)? Or do you just want a look inside the mind of the right wing? Either way, Anchor Rising is a center of conservative thought in Rhode Island. Best of all, the content is generally well-written and intelligent, the exact opposite of the screed Fox News puts out.

Strangely, all the contributors have cartoon portraits of themselves next to each post.

Not for Nothing (thephoenix.com/blogs/ notfornothing) — You’ve all seen the Provi-

dence Phoenix at the Rock, right? This is their blog on politics. It’s got great analysis of the horse race in the campaigns for governor, mayor and the rest. Founded by the incomparable reporter on Rhody politics, Ian Donnis, the site is now run by David Scharfenberg.

WRNI “On Politics” (wrnipoliticsblog. wordpress.com) — If Not for Nothing was Ian Donnis’s old gig, then this is his new one.

He and Scott MacKay run this blog from the auspices of Rhode Island’s NPR station.

What’s cool about this blog is that it mixes some opinion in with the news, like why voters actually should care about the character of candidates.

Blog Daily Herald (blogdailyherald.com) – Yeah, so my editors would probably kill me if I didn’t include this. But in all honesty, the site does have pretty good lists of what’s going on each weekend and also has links to a ton of student blogs that I didn’t have space to mention here.

Far from being a mere distraction like some websites, each of these blogs can help you maximize the time you spend outside of cyberspace, letting you be that one friend that always knows about cool things happening downtown. So log on, bookmark some favorites and, if you’re feeling especially adventurous, start a blog of your own and join the conversation.

Kurt Walters ’11 is a philosophy, politics and economics concentrator from Charlottesville, Va. He may be contacted at kurt_walters@brown.edu.

V-Dub machine crisis

BY Siqi Sun Opinions Columnist The weekday lunch and dinnertime rush at the entrance to Brown’s Verney-Woolley Dining Hall is well known to students on and off meal plan. The line of students winds through the hallways of the Emery-Woolley Hall, moving at a snail’s pace, due in no small part to the fact that at the start of the line, there is usually a student card-swiper trying to please an apparently non-cooperative card reader.

To everyone’s dismay, the student fails at this task all the time, repeatedly edging the card through the slot and hoping the machine will not emit a disappointing beep of failure. In the face of the long lines, the trialand-error-based operation only perpetuates waiting time and the hunger of the impatient patrons.

While the continuous inefficiency of the service makes the hungry population wonder why students get paid to do this one job and still don’t seem to be doing it well, to a large extent they are blameless. One fulltime Brown Dining Services staff member serving the Sharpe Refectory’s entrance said she once served at the V-Dub entrance and found that their machines are particularly hard to work with. Anyone not welltrained would find it impossible to get a card through without multiple trials and a very delicate swiping movement through the

card slot.

Dining Services not only has failed to update the ridiculous V-Dub machines, but they also seem to have forgotten to prepare student employees for the difficulties of their work. A friend of mine works as cardswiper at the V-Dub on Fridays, when popular chicken fingers attract constant traffic.

On her first day of work, she was just pushed into this crucial card-swiper position without training or notification of any of the challenges she might face.

they consider how fit she was as a first-day worker to handle the double stress of an impossible card reader and an endless line of groaning patrons. As a result, she was left completely helpless in face of the lunchtime crunch.

The V-Dub crisis is but one instance of Dining Services’ poor training and quality control system behind the muffin tables or salad bars. Some evenings at Josiah’s, the salad station works with streamlined precision. On other days, only one worker slouch-

How do we balance BuDS’s generosity with job offers and a potential end result of screwing up students’ meals because they did not provide enough training for student workers?

As a result, she had to swipe each card very slowly, usually more than three times, while the line continued to build up. In her frustration at the card reader and stress at the fact that she was holding up the traffic, she exclaimed in great distress that the machine hates her.

I wondered why Brown Undergraduate Dining Services did not have a better training and placement program that prepares student employees for service jobs.

Clearly BuDS did not prepare my friend for what was coming as a card-swiper, nor did

es behind the bar, sluggishly assembling the salads while being frequently confused about the orders given.

We all remember BuDS’s student hiring tables at popular campus locations at the start of the semester. We appreciate the idea that every student can work for Dining Services. But whomever they hire, it is their responsibility to make sure their staff work with some level of professionalism, regardless of their part-time status. It is not acceptable, for instance, for the Ivy Room cashiers to chat away endlessly with an acquaintance

while a long line of customers is in a lastminute rush to purchase food.

According to the BuDS Student Worker Handbook, student workers are evaluated over time by student supervisors. BuDS attempts to control the quality of performance via student management, who “give written commendations to student workers who go above and beyond the standards of work performance.”

But we don’t know who makes up this student management, what those commendations are based on, or if student patrons’ feedback was part of the evaluation process at all. How do we balance BuDS’s generosity with job offers and a potential end result of screwing up students’ meals because they did not provide enough training for student workers?

But there might be hope for an improvement in the V-Dub crisis. BDS is getting several new card readers, and this time, they should be assigned to the rescue of VDub’s hungry population and the sweating card-swipers. Hopefully with the kindness of Dining Services, those students, already weighed down as they multitask text messages and class readings at their jobs, can soon master the art of card-swiping, so that each card does not require the level of high concentration, precision and patience required in their science labs.

Sissi Sun ’12 is a theater and mathematical economics concentrator from Chicago. She can be reached at siqi_sun@brown.edu.

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