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Green
initiatives
gain steam
Budget crunch won’t
stop plans to make the
U. more sustainable
By Brian Mastroianni
Senior Staff Writer
Leaders of Climate Action Plan ini-
tiatives and officials from Facilities
Management are continuing their
goals to make Brown more sustain-
able, despite the University’s budget
squeeze. Since the release of the
2007 Energy and Environmental Ad-
visory Council report, Brown has
reduced its carbon dioxide emissions
footprint by 7.7 percent.
The report showed that Brown’s
total greenhouse gas footprint is
82,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide
equivalents, with 46,000 tons emitted
from on-site burning of fossil fuels
and 36,000 tons from electricity.
“Those findings two years ago
really jumpstarted a big student
movement centered on carbon neu-
trality,” said Michael Glassman ’09, a
member of Community Carbon Use
Reduction at Brown.
CCURB started as a pilot pro-
gram in 2007 funded by a $350,000
pledge by the Office of President
Ruth Simmons and the Sidney E.
Frank Foundation, as well as an
additional $50,000 from Wal-Mart.
As a result of the various CCURB
initiatives, Brown was able to re-
duce its carbon dioxide emissions
footprint.
The 7.7 percent reduction is the
first step in reaching a total reduc-
tion of 42 percent by 2020, said Kurt
Teichert, manager of environmental
stewardship initiatives.
Teichert said CCURB’s effort to
make Brown a more energy-efficient
university is a continuation of the
environmentally friendly trends that
have been a part of the campus cul-
ture for decades.
“Since the early ’90s, Brown has
had the Brown is Green initiative
— as a result, we’ve always used
less energy than our peer institu-
tions,” Teichert said. “Throughout
the years we had an Energy and
Government Advisory Committee,
an Energy Task Force — all of those
early initiatives all led to the mindset
of, ‘What can we do to establish long-
term goals?’”
CCURB engaged in several stu-
dent-run projects, such as Project
20/20, where students and faculty
installed high-efficiency lightbulbs
in 5,000 low-income Providence
homes, Teichert said.
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dar w in so m e , yo u lose so m e Activities
fee going
up by $6
By Sophia Li
Features Editor
The student activities fee will increase
by $6 next year, part of a University
budget the Corporation approved on
Saturday. The small increase, which
will bring the mandatory fee for all
students up to $170, will generate an
estimated $34,000 in additional annual
funding, according to the University
Resources Committee.
Projected inflation and growth
in the number of student groups
account for the fee’s increase, said
Ryan Lester ’11, student activities
chair of the Undergraduate Council
of Students.
Last year, the fee increased $18.
The student activities fee funds on-
campus events run through the Stu-
dent Activities Office, which includes
Max Monn / Herald
Professor of Biology Kenneth Miller ’70 P’02 moderated a panel on evolution and religion Tuesday.
everything from Spring Weekend
to the Human Rights film festival,
Lester said.
Econ. profs discuss financial crisis Lester and his committee wrote
a resolution in the middle of last se-
mester to ask the URC to increase
By Colin Chazen financial sector. what they tell us to expect in the the fee.
Senior Staff Writer Howitt noted that last fall he years ahead. For example, simi- Though the original resolution
called this financial crisis the worst lar crises preceded by specula- requested an increase of $8, Lester
Three economics professors since the Great Depression. “That tive bubbles were followed by four said the URC decided to take into
sounded off on the economy and was when the Dow Jones was still to six years of stagnation before account overall student charges and
the federal stimulus bill Tuesday above 10,000,” he said. “Things housing prices recovered, he limit the fee’s increase.
afternoon before a large audience are a lot worse now.” said. Lester said UCS is trying to for-
in Salomon 001. But he noted that economic cri- He said he believed that gov- malize the process of lobbying the
Professors of Economics Peter ses like the current one have been ernment interventions, like the URC to increase the student activi-
Howitt, Ross Levine and David regular occurrences since the late stimulus bill, are necessary re- ties fee.
Weil ’82 each spoke for around 19th century. “This fits the pattern sponses to these large crises and “Over the past two years, we’ve
15 minutes, discussing their views of a big speculative run-up,” he that the government’s failure to really tried to be involved,” he said.
on the stimulus package and shar- said. “The core of the problem is act immediately exacerbated the Ideally, the fee “should adjust for
ing their overall outlooks for the simply that a lot of these assets downturn that led to the Great inflation every year,” Lester said.
economy. All three took part in a should never have been purchased Depression. “Even Adam Smith re- UCS is currently working on an
similar panel discussion in Octo- in the first place.” alized there were limits to what he initiative with the University to endow
ber following the passage of a $700 Howitt compared the current the Student Activities Fund and to
billion government bailout of the crisis to past ones and explained continued on page 2 someday eliminate the fund.
Protest stalls NYU
By Ellen Cushing The group blocked the doors
Senior Staff Writer to the dining room with tables and
chairs and pledged to stay inside
Roughly 65 students from New until a list of 13 demands was met.
York University and nearby col- The demands included public re-
leges, all affiliated with a campaign lease of NYU’s budget and endow-
called “Take Back NYU,” barri- ment figures, student representa-
caded themselves in tion on the school’s
the John Ben Snow HIGHER ED board of trustees,
dining room at the scholarships for
university’s Kimmel Center for Palestinian students, tuition sta-
University Life for about 40 hours blization, universal public access
last week. to the school’s main library and
The protest, which began last amnesty for those involved with
Wednesday and ended Friday, has the protest.
led to the suspension of eighteen “What really united the list of
students, and none of the group’s Courtesy of Alexis Johnson / Washington Square News
various demands were met. continued on page 6 Protestors took over New York University’s Kimmel Center for University Life.
News, 3 Sports, 7 Opinions, 11
better odds Bad n.y. times stay out of jail free
Applications for Residential The women’s basketball Dan Davidson ’11 says
Peer Leader positions are team dropped two games a conviction should be
down despite new perks. on the road in New York. required for any jail time.
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C ampus N EWS “Brown in general has always been more progressive than its peers.”
— Christopher Powell, director of sustainable energy and environmental initiatives

Microwave found, Campus gets greener in 2008

laptops not so lucky
The following summary includes
all major incidents reported to the
Department of Public Safety between
Feb. 5 and Feb. 18. It does not in-
clude general service and alarm calls.
The Providence Police Department
also responds to incidents occurring
CRIME LOG
off campus. DPS does not divulge
information on open cases that are
currently under investigation by the
department, the PPD or the Office of
Student Life. DPS maintains a daily
log of all shift activity and general ser-
vice calls which can be viewed during
business hours at its headquarters,
located at 75 Charlesfield St.
Friday, Feb. 6
1:09 p.m. A Facilities Manage-
ment employee reported a micro-
wave stolen from a kitchen in Grad
Center Tower A between Feb. 5 at
1 p.m. and Feb. 6 at 1 p.m. On Feb.
11, while investigating the case, a
detective found that the microwave
had been returned.
Tuesday, Feb. 10
12:02 p.m. While conducting a
fire safety check in Barbour Hall,
an employee found in plain view
on the coffee table in the common
area of a suite a glass pipe and a
bag of what could have been an il-
legal substance. The case has been
turned over to Student Life.
5:23 p.m. An employee reported
that a projector was stolen between
Feb. 4 and Feb. 8 from Grad Center
sudoku
Tower E. On Feb. 11, while inves-
tigating the case, a detective was
informed that the projector had
been found in another location in
the building.
Wednesday, Feb. 11
10:51 p.m. A student reported
that his laptop computer was sto-
len from his room in Emery Hall.
The victim suspected the laptop
was taken while he was in the bath-
room taking a shower. He stated
that he left his door unlocked. He
left his room at approximately 10:15
p.m. and returned at approximately
10:35 p.m. There are no suspects
at this time.
Friday, Feb. 13
5:49 p.m. While performing a se-
curity check, an officer noticed that
several window screens were dam-
aged in the stairwells of Andrews
Hall. They appeared to have been
kicked out. There was heavy dam-
age to all the window sills. Facilities
Management was notified.
Monday, Feb. 16
10:02 a.m. A student reported
that on Feb. 16, between 2 a.m.
and 7 a.m., an unknown person en-
tered her unlocked room in Diman
House while she was sleeping and
removed her laptop from her desk.
She stated that she heard someone
open the door while she was sleep-
ing, but she did not open her eyes
to see who it was.
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“We know there are more than
5,000 households, but there’s always
more for us to do. We’re still in the
early phase of what CCURB will ac-
complish,” Teichert said.
Besides student-led efforts to
make Brown and the surrounding
community more energy-efficient,
of ficials at Facilities Manage-
ment have been working to make
buildings across campus energy-
sustainable.
“At Brown we’ve always paid at-
tention to the need to be more sus-
tainable and energy-efficient,” said
Vice President for Facilities Man-
agement Stephen Maiorisi. “Energy
conservation increases with the cost
of fuels. It forces you to look harder
and more strategically at how to con-
serve energy.”
This past year, Facilities institut-
ed an energy efficiency program,
taking an initial loan of $5 million to
reach targeted emissions reductions
each fiscal year and to support new
design standards to ensure energy
efficiency in future construction and
renovation projects, Maiorisi said.
Facilities has been working to
reduce University-wide carbon emis-
sions by installing energy-efficient
lighting throughout all University
buildings as part of a $2-million
Professors weigh in on stimulus bill
continued from page 1
called the invisible hand,” he said.
Weil offered a detailed lesson in
macroeconomics and talked about
the effects the Obama administra-
tion hopes the stimulus package
will have.
“The U.S. economy is still very
productive. We have a problem with
aggregate demand,” he said. “Every-
one wants to save and no one wants
to spend.”
Weil said the standard response
in a situation like this is to wield
monetary policy to fight the crisis.
But with interest rates near zero,
“the Fed is out of bullets,” he said.
The goal of the stimulus package
is to generate growth by increasing
government spending, Weil said.
Although he disagreed with aspects
of the package, he said he believes
it was necessary.
“Will it prevent a recession? Ab-
solutely not,” he said. “But it’s hard
to tell a story where the next year or
two would not be better” with it.
Weil, who described himself as a
lighting efficiency program and by
applying a “Retro-Commissioning
program” to certain buildings, said
Director of Sustainable Energy and
Environmental Initiatives Christo-
pher Powell.
“With Retro-Commissioning, we
deal with heating, ventilation, air
conditioning — we take existing
buildings and try to bring them back
to more energy-efficient standards,”
Powell said.
While the economic recession
has been affecting other Univer-
sity initiatives, Maiorisi and Powell
both said they have not encountered
many obstacles in terms of reaching
their energy efficiency goals.
“Since we are now doing mostly
renovations, rather than building
new structures, it is much easier,”
Maiorisi said.
Powell agreed. “Twenty-five to
50 percent of the buildings are up
to these efficiency standards,” he
said. “It makes it more efficient and a
better use of space to renovate these
old structures and bring up to the
new standards.”
Powell said the economic climate
has also altered the procurement of
cleaner fuel, the price of which has
dropped in recent months.
All of these initiatives will work
to make Brown even more of an
example of energy efficiency to its
will be very wasteful,” he said.
He emphasized that cer tain
aspects of the bill, like lending to
state governments, are a good idea.
Many state and local governments
have balanced budget provisions
that force them to reduce spending
in response to declining revenues,
which he said exacerbates the prob-
lem.
The wisdom of the stimulus plan
will ultimately depend, he said, on
whether the country is able to gen-
erate enough economic growth to
cut the budget deficit and justify
borrowing billions of dollars from
abroad.
Levine spoke primarily about
difficulties facing financial institu-
tions and the need for government
inter ventions at the taxpayer’s
expense.
“We’re unlikely to have well func-
tioning banks in the near term unless
the government gets involved,” he
said. “The U.S. economy is founded
on private entrepreneurship, and
that entrepreneurship is founded
on a well-functioning banking sys-
peer institutions than it already is,
Teichert said.
“Brown in general has always
been more progressive than its
peers, especially in the ’70s and
’80s — it’s due to the students that
we bring in here to this university,”
he said.
But no matter how environmen-
tally friendly Brown becomes, Te-
ichert said, there is still much more
that can be done.
“There is certainly more that can
always be done in terms of making
Brown a more energy-ef ficient
school,” he said. “For instance, we’ve
got a lot more that we can do with
water. How many gallons of water do
we use? It costs more for the outside
treatment of water than to bring in
fresh water.”
Glassman said that in order to
ensure that advocacy for energy ef-
ficiency on campus continues, stu-
dents have to remain active, whether
in emPOWER, CCURB or in other
venues.
“There are some great under-
classmen who come to emPOWER
meetings with great ideas,” he said.
“However, it takes a lot of work and
there is a high learning cur ve.
The question is, ‘How do we bring
people up to the curve so that they
can start their own initiatives in
the future?’”
The Obama administration’s plan
is to invest directly in the banks and
to team up with private investors
to purchase bad assets. In such a
plan, the government would support
private investors by sharing in any
losses while allowing those inves-
tors to hold onto almost all profits.
One problem with this plan, Levine
said, is that it will enrich the banks’
current owners.
“Many of the same people that
helped orchestrate the current crisis
will be rewarded,” he said.
Levine also said he believes that
the plan will hurt the future opera-
tion of the financial system by re-
ducing the incentives for people to
effectively monitor the banks and
by creating a financial aristocracy
immune to the market.
“One of the good things about
the Obama plan is that it’s vague,”
he said.
Levine said the government
would be better off getting common
stock in return for their investments
and forcing uninsured investors to
suffer, though that would likely be

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C ampus N EWS “It looked like a double, but two people already lived there.”
— Grace Jun ’11, on being assigned to an occupied room

RPL apps down despite incentives For transfers, home is

By Heeyoung Min
Staf f Writer
where the vacancies are
The number of new applicants for By Lauren Pischel were there no other transfers on
Residential Peer Leader positions Staf f Writer the floor, there were not even any
fell to 91 this spring from 117 last sophomores.
year, according to Natalie Basil, When Grace Jun ’11, a spring trans- “It used to be awkward at first,
associate director in the Office of fer, arrived at her new room in Slater but I got used to it,” Jun said. “At the
Residential Life, suggesting that the Hall, she found it already occupied. same time, I felt like I was missing
allure of an RPL’s biweekly stipend “It looked like a double, but two peo- on the hall atmosphere.”
hasn’t necessarily increased despite ple already lived there,” Jun said. For some transfers, living with
recent economic turmoil. Jun went to the Office of Resi- returning students has worked out.
Although numbers were down, dential Life to clear up the confu- “It’s really nice to have someone
“competition continues to be high,” sion, and was told there had been who ‘knows the ropes,’ ” Alexandra
Basil said, adding that student in- a mistake. The woman Gilbert-Bono ’11 wrote
terest varies ever y year. working at ResLife “had FEATURE in an e-mail to The Her-
ResLife will extend offers to 63 no idea where to put me,” ald. But when Gilbert-
of the 91 new applicants and rehire Jun said. Bono transferred this semester from
42 current RPLs, Basil said, add- Transfers who arrive in either se- Swarthmore College, her new room-
ing that they have hired a total of mester are accommodated wherever mate was not notified that someone
22 Women’s Peer Counselors, 35 there is room. In the fall, transfers else would be moving in.
Residential Counselors, 40 Com- are placed in the pool of students “She first thought she had walked
munity Assistants and eight RPL who were not assigned housing in into the wrong room, and then she
Representatives. The selection the lottery, said Natalie Basil, as- was just shocked,” Gilbert-Bono
committee convened on Feb. 20 sociate director of ResLife. Spring wrote in her e-mail. “She was really
and 23 to make decisions and will transfers fill rooms that become nice, just surprised to see another
notify applicantstoday. vacant after students leave to study person in her room.”
Applicants submit an applica- abroad or take time off. Though there were snags in
tion, resume and two recommen- Basil said that whenever possible, transfer housing this spring, these
dations and are inter viewed by ResLife tries to pair transfers with problems were not necessarily
professional and student staffers, other transfers and with students unique to transfers, according to
according to Basil. of the same semester level to ease Basil. Any student who did not live
RCs, WPCs and CAs receive a their transition to Brown. on campus last semester — includ-
stipend of $2,450 a year. Kim Perley / Herald Not all are so lucky. Jun was given ing transfers, students who studied
Applicants for peer leaders positions will be notified soon of decisions. a room on a mostly graduate-student
continued on page 4 floor on Pembroke campus. Not only continued on page 4

Phi Beta Kappa Evolution, religion subjects of Darwin panel

announces inductees By Anne Speyer
Staff Writer
The following 36 members of the class of 2010
Students and faculty crowded into a
were elected to the Rhode Island Alpha chapter
Pembroke Hall classroom Tuesday
of Phi Beta Kappa on Feb. 11: evening to hear a panel discussion
about interplay between religion and
Gregory Anderson Alex Kruckman the theory of evolution around the
200th anniversary of Charles Dar-
Zohar Atkins Henry Liu win’s birth.
The panel featured four scholars
Amanda Bauer Scott Lowenstein from around the country who each
presented on a different aspect of
Matthew Bauman Tyler Lucero evolution and its implications for
those who believe in a biblical sto-
Benjamin Chagnon Alexis Mancini ry of creation. Professor of Biology
Kenneth Miller ’70 P’02 acted as
William Chen Andrew Mathis moderator.
“This topic is important because
Kien Chong Cara Mazzucco evolution is still controversial in this
country,” Miller said in an interview
Jessica Dai Mark Morales before the event. “For most people, Max Monn / Herald
SUNY, Stony Brook’s Massimo Pigliucci participated in a Darwin panel.
the reason that evolution is contro-
Alena Davidoff-Gore Joy Neumeyer versial is a religious reason. They of the book of Genesis, he said, is a the existence of God, theories that
find it contradictory to their religious more recent belief. say science and religion have nothing
Keith Dellagrotta Gregory Olson beliefs, and they find that evolution Massimo Pigliucci, professor of to do with each other and the theory
carries an unwelcome message.” ecology and evolution at State Uni- of physicist Richard Feynman, who
Sophie Elsner William O’Neil First to speak at the panel was versity of New York Stony Brook and believed science’s “attitude” was in-
Edward Larson, the Hugh and Hazel co-author of “Making Sense of Evo- compatible with that of religion.
Kieran Fitzgerald Kyle Poyar Darling chair in law at Pepperdine lution,” titled his portion of the talk Mary Bergstein, a professor of
University and the author of “Sum- “Science and/vs./with/as opposed renaissance art and historiography
Rebecca Haberman Grace Price mer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial to Religion” and explored the range at the Rhode Island School of Design
and America’s Continuing Debate of positions that are most commonly and author of “The Philippson Bible:
Ruth Heindel Divya Samuel Over Science and Religion.” Larson held today. A World of Science and Art,” spoke
provided a historical background Pigliucci first discussed the about the significance of the Philipp-
Daniel Herbst Paola Servado for the conversation, outlining the theory of mathematical physicist son Bible, an edition of the Hebrew
development of religious opposition Frank Tipler, who believes that sci- Bible dating from the 19th century
Mannan Jalan William Shore to evolution. ence proves the existence not only that illustrates the scriptures with
Larson explained that early op- of a god, but of the Christian God. scientific drawings of the plants and
Asad Jan Sarah Stein position to the theory of evolution “This sounds ridiculous, because it animals that are mentioned.
was based on fears that evolution is ridiculous,” Pigliucci said. “Sci- Miller was the last panelist to
Jeffrey Kang Rachael Venn would undermine a belief in God ence cannot prove the existence of speak and chose to address the
and in practical morality. The argu- God.” conflict between religion and evolu-
ment that evolution is false because Pigliucci also considered theories
it contradicts a literal interpretation which hold that science disproves continued on page 4
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RCs gain leadership experience
continued from page 3
But students interviewed by The
Herald emphasized the opportunity
to give back to the community and
to gain leadership skills over finan-
cial considerations among their
reasons for applying.
“The main thing that motivated
me to apply for the RC position
was a feeling of responsibility to
pass along some of the things
I’ve learned over my first year at
Brown,” said Zintis Inde ’12. “I’ve
gotten a lot out of my experience,
and I hope that I can share what
I know to help the first-years next
year have an equally rewarding
year.”
Rims and tires lifted off vehicle
continued from page 2
10:40 a.m. Student reported that
his laptop computer was stolen from
the desk in his room in Keeney Quad-
rangle sometime between 1 p.m. on
Feb. 15 and 8 a.m. on Feb. 16. The
room was left unlocked.
10:57 a.m. A custodial supervisor
reported damage on the first, third
and fourth floors of Chapin House.
Multiple men’s rooms were littered
with garbage. And a hallway had
chicken bones, beer cans and other
RCs also gain “useful skills”
such as mentoring and problem
solving, Inde said. “The guaranteed
single is sort of icing on the cake,”
he added.
Current RC Jamal Hill ’11 ap-
plied to be a CA, a residential
leader for upperclassmen, for next
year. Being a RPL has “practical
benefits,” Hill said, like gaining
leadership skills and networking.
“I liked the general idea of be-
ing in a leadership position,” he
said. “It’s a great way to establish
your ideas of an ideal community.
Also, I had a nice, smooth tran-
sition freshman year so I wanted
to help others to have a similar
experience.”
garbage on the floor. There were bro-
ken exit signs and there was also
damage to a fire door. The hinges
were disconnected.
Tuesday, Feb. 17
2:30 p.m. Officers were dis-
patched to the softball field in refer-
ence to damage to the press box.
Investigation revealed that an un-
known person or persons broke the
window between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
on Feb. 17.
4:21 p.m. Reporting party stated
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“The guaranteed single is sort of icing on the cake.”
Andrew Hunt ’10, a current CA,
decided to apply for the position
after ser ving as a RC the previ-
ous year because “being a CA is a
smaller time commitment.”
But some students prefer the
responsibilities that come along
with being a RC, Hunt said, adding
that “some CAs feel underworked”
with only “super visorial” duties.
Sandra Mastrangelo ’12 said
that being surrounded by positive
female role models throughout her
life motivated her to apply for the
WPC position. “I’ve also been in
leadership positions throughout
my life on female sports teams and
have had to foster a supportive en-
vironment,” she said.
that her factory rims and tires were
stolen from lot 77A. On Feb. 16 at
approximately 7 p.m. she parked her
vehicle. When she returned Feb. 17
at approximately 9:30 a.m. she real-
ized that her rims and tires had been
stolen.
Wednesday, Feb. 18
4:15 p.m. An employee reported
that her Brown-owned laptop comput-
er was stolen from her office at 110
Elm St. between 3:45 p.m. and 4:10
p.m. No one was seen entering or
leaving the office within that time.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Transfers try to make
a new home — again
continued from page 3
abroad and students who took a
leave of absence — could have
experienced similar issues.
In the past, fall transfers have
had worse housing placements
than the spring transfers, Chel-
sea Harris ’09, who transferred
in the fall of 2007 and is now a
transfer coordinator, wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald. Priority for
unfilled rooms goes to incoming
first-years and returning students
who participated in the housing
lottery but did not select rooms,
according to Harris.
According to Basil, the qual-
ity of housing for spring and fall
transfers is similar and depends
on which rooms are vacant.
Some transfers have found
these assignments, which are of-
ten scraped from the bottom of the
barrel, less than ideal.
Melea Atkins ’10 moved into
a triple in Keeney Quadrangle
Evolution not a faith
challenge for Miller
continued from page 3
tion directly.
“Evolution is an issue that di-
vides Americans,” he said.
Miller, who describes himself
as a Catholic, addressed the mis-
informed idea that evolution is a
theory of creation based on the
“mistakes” of nature. “Evolution
is an inherent and predictable
property of nature,” he said, and
therefore not a mistake.
— Zintis Inde ’12
when she transferred in fall 2007.
“Things were pretty bad,” she
said.
The triple aside, being in a
dorm with mostly freshmen was
sometimes uncomfortable. “You
come in already having done
freshman year. You come in at a
very different place than the other
freshmen,” Atkins said.
When Harris first came to
Brown, she lived on the first floor
of Minden Hall with another trans-
fer. A non-transfer lived in a single
across the hall.
“The roommate situation ac-
tually proved to be a really nice
combination because I had another
person who was just as desperate
not to eat meals alone, and eager
to meet people, and then someone
who knew how Brown worked,”
Harris wrote.
When Jun was asked if she
would move out of graduate-stu-
dent housing if given the chance,
she said she wouldn’t.
In closing, Miller added, “An
evolutionary ‘design’ to life is part
of the inherent fabric of the natural
world. The capacity for evolution-
ary change … can be understood
by religious people (as) part of
God’s plan for the natural world.”
The discussion was co-hosted
by the Cogut Center for the Hu-
manities and the Committee on Sci-
ence and Technology and held in
honor of Darwin’s birthday, which
was earlier this month.
Higher Ed
The Brown Daily Herald
Hampshire leadership New CUNY campus still a dream
disputes divestment claim
By Matthew Varley
Higher Ed Editor
Hampshire College’s divestment
from a mutual fund this month
has sparked controversy on its
Amherst, Mass. campus. The ad-
ministration has said the decision
was based on a comprehensive
audit of the fund, while the Hamp-
shire chapter of the activist group
Students for Justice in Palestine
says the divestment is rooted in
their campaign to cut the college’s
financial ties to the Israeli occupa-
tion.
Hampshire’s Board of Trust-
ees voted Feb. 7 to divest from a
State Street mutual fund that “held
stocks in well over 200 companies
engaged in business practices that
violate the college’s policy on so-
cially responsible investments,” ac-
cording to Hampshire’s Web site.
Six of those companies — Caterpil-
lar, Terex, Motorola, ITT, General
Electric and United Technologies
— have contracts with the Israel
Defense Forces, and SJP has previ-
ously lobbied Hampshire to divest
from them.
Five days after the divestment,
the Climax — Hampshire’s stu-
dent newspaper — reported that
“Hampshire is the first college in
the United States to cut its financial
ties to Israel’s armed forces and
activities in Gaza.” Hampshire SJP
claimed “victory” on its Web site,
asserting that the Board’s decision
was “a direct result of pressure and
efforts” by the group.
Hampshire Board of Trustees
chairman Sigmund Roos MA’80
called SJP’s assertion “disingenu-
ous.”
“It was very clear,” Roos said.
“We had a lot of investments in that
mutual fund that we did not want to
be holding” because they violated
Hampshire’s socially responsible
investment policy.
Roos said a report by the in-
dependent investment research
firm KLD drove the divestment
decision and the Board “never got
to the merits of the SJP proposal.”
According to Hampshire’s Web
site, the college does not invest
in corporations with records of
“unfair labor practices, environ-
mental abuse, military weapons
manufacturing and unsafe work-
place settings policy.”
In an online statement entitled
“Statement of Clarification Regard-
ing Trustees’ Actions on College In-
vestments,” Roos and Hampshire’s
president and vice president said
that a review of the State Street
fund was initially undertaken by
the school’s investment commit-
tee “to address a petition from ...
Students for Justice in Palestine.”
But the investment committee’s
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By Andrew Sia
Contributing Writer
marketing for CUNY.
The new CUNY college will
American Association of Commu-
nity Colleges, an advocacy orga-
decision “did not pertain to a po- have an enrollment around 5,000 nization. Boggs said he supports
litical movement and it was not Admissions inter views, full-time students and a curriculum that re- any initiative that will improve the
made in reference to Israel,” the enrollment and a four- to six-week quires students to enroll full-time nation’s community colleges.
statement concludes. summer orientation are all part of a in a limited number of programs Boggs said he was not ready to
“The board was absolutely clear proposal for a new community col- that incorporate the theme of accept the concept of the new com-
that no one country was singled lege by the City University of New “creating and sustaining a thriv- munity college as a full solution to
out,” Roos said. He added that un- York. But in the current economy, ing New York City,” according to the problems faced by community
dergraduate representatives were there is a lack of funding for the the concept paper. colleges. Likewise, CUNY’s con-
present at the investment commit- initiative. Unlike other community col- cept paper warns against using the
tee meeting. According to a 120-page con- leges, the new school will require school as a “one-size-fits-all model
Hampshire SJP posted a re- cept paper released in August admissions inter views. But unlike for community colleges.”
sponse to the administration’s 2008, the new campus should most four-year universities, these “There are problems of scal-
statement on its Web site. In part, yield higher graduation rates inter views will not be used to dis- ability,” Boggs said, adding that
it states, “Hampshire College and students better prepared for qualify applicants — they are to nationwide, the majority of com-
divested from the mutual fund employment. Currently, only 11 educate the applicant about the munity college students study
for many reasons, yet the Pales- percent of students enrolled at program. part-time, and it would be unrea-
tine-Israel conflict was the most CUNY’s six community colleges “Open access should not be un- sonable to require students to
prominent reason behind divest- graduate within three years. And informed access,” read the concept enroll full-time.
ment; the decision to divest was the system is currently facing its paper. “Many students have jobs and
not outside of the context of SJP’s highest enrollment in 30 years, The proposal for the school cannot be full-time students,”
efforts. It does not matter if the said Michael Arena, university is a “worthy cause,” said George
Hampshire administration issues director of communications and Boggs, president and CEO of the continued on page 6
a public statement condemning
the occupation; the Hampshire
community understands how and
why we came to divest.”
Hampshire SJP member Ilana
Rossoff said it was “unfortunate”
the school administration — which
she said once supported the SJP
initative — took “a step back” in
order to “avoid political repercus-
sions.”
“It’s really important in this
time of great injustice to take a
stance,” Rossoff said. “There are
colleges all around the country
that have been working on divest-
ment campaigns.”
On its Web site, Hampshire SJP
calls the divestment “a direct result
of a two-year intensive campaign”
by the group. The site also claims
“over 800 students, professors, and
alumni have signed SJP’s ‘institu-
tional statement’ calling for the
divestment.”
Rossoff said SJP’s agenda was
to end Hampshire’s investment
in companies “complicit specifi-
cally in the occupation” of the
West Bank and Gaza. “We in no
way claim to be divesting from
Israel,” Rossoff said.
Roos told The Herald that
Hampshire invests in a number
of Israel-based companies and for-
eign corporations that do business
in Israel.
Since Feb. 7, Hampshire SJP
has received statements endors-
ing their efforts from a variety of
academics, activists and leaders,
including South African anti-apart-
heid leader Desmond Tutu and
Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters.
In 1977, Hampshire became the
first academic institution in the
country to divest from apartheid-
era South Africa. Rossoff said the
recent divestment set a similar
precedent.
“This move was historic,” Ros-
soff said of Hampshire’s divest-
ment, “no matter what they say.”
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H igher E d
Protests, confrontation shut down student center at NYU
continued from page 1
demands was a desire for student
empowerment, transparency, ac-
countability and attention to human
rights,” said Emily Stainkamp, a
freshman at NYU who was inside
Kimmel for the duration of the pro-
test.
Locked in
The TBNYU campaign began
in 2007 when a campus group, Stu-
dents Creating Radical Change,
joined with about two dozen other
groups to form a coalition, Stain-
kamp said.
The dining room was closed
Thursday. The number of students
inside the dining room during the
protest remained steady, although
students left throughout the day
Thursday and on several occasions
evaded guards to enter the eatery.
According to a statement re-
leased Friday by James Devitt, the
university’s deputy director for me-
dia relations, the university offered
to have a dialogue with students if
they left early Thursday night — an
offer the protestors rejected.
“We had all these back-and-forths
— they’d tell us to leave, and we’d
say no. They’d tell us to leave again
and we’d say no again,” Stainkamp
said. She said students on four oc-
casions requested to discuss their
demands with the administration,
but on each occasion were told the
university would not negotiate be-
fore students left the eatery.
Late Thursday afternoon, Direc-
tor of Student Activities Bob But-
ler told the protestors that anyone
remaining in the room after 1 a.m.
would be considered a trespasser.
Throughout the course of the
protest, those inside conveyed what
was happening through a live video
feed and updates to the group’s Web
site. NYULocal, an NYU blog, main-
tained a live blog and used Twitter
to document the occupation from
inside the Kimmel Center.
At the 1 a.m. deadline, word of
a planned rally had spread to the
NYU community, and approximately
200 demonstrators gathered on the
street below the Kimmel Center
both to endorse and to criticize the
occupation, according to the Wash-
ington Square News, NYU’s student
newspaper. Police also converged on
the scene, and one student demon-
strating outside was arrested.
“We were chanting from the
balcony, people were singing in the
streets. Lots of folks showed up to
support us,” Stainkamp said.
Emma Kaywin, a junior at NYU
who was in the crowd during the
rally, described the scene outside
the building as “intense,” and said
that the police officers used pep-
per spray to control the crowd, an
account confirmed by other media
reports.
With the protest still in progress
on Friday morning, NYU closed the
entire student center. According to
Stainkamp, administrators told the
remaining protestors at that time
they would be willing to negotiate.
“We sent five (student) nego-
tiators out in good faith,” she said.
But upon leaving the dining hall,
the students were told they were
suspended, and the university would
not negotiate. Shortly thereafter, the
remaining protestors were unwill-
ingly escorted from the building.
“The gates to the room opened
up and about 30 (administrators and
public safety personnel) rushed in.
They were pretty physically rough
with us, and they told us we were
all suspended,” she said.
By 2 p.m., about 40 hours after
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“They were pretty physically rough with us.”
Protestors took over New York University’s Kimmel Center for University Life in support for a number of demands.
the demonstration began, all the
protestors had been cleared from
the building, their demands unmet.
According to Stainkamp, 18 students
were temporarily suspended, and
they have been banned from all
campus buildings, cut off from
meal plans and work-study jobs
and removed from campus hous-
ing, while any final punishment is
determined.
‘A big risk’
In an official statement, Devitt
said NYU condemned the actions
and explained the university’s re-
sponse.
“Robust dialogue is a customary,
normal and expected part of the in-
teraction between students, faculty
and administration at NYU. But it is
not appropriate for it to take place
while there is an ongoing violation of
university rules,” Devitt’s statement
said. “Despite specific warnings to
stay off the Kimmel Center balcony,
(protestors) broke the lock to gain
access to the balcony. The protesters
also injured an NYU security officer
during a scuffle.”
“Despite the protesters’ stated
principles that the protest was to
be non-destructive and non-violent
... these actions dishonor NYU’s
commitment to free exchange of
ideas, reasoned debate and legiti-
Economy delays new CUNY campus
continued from page 5
Boggs said.
The idea for the college is based
on the Accelerated Study in Asso-
ciate Program, which was created
by New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg as a way to improve
graduation rates of community col-
lege students. The 1,132 students
who currently participate in ASAP
have higher grade-point averages
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
— Emily Stainkamp, New York University student
Courtesy Alexis Johnson / Washington Square News
mate forms of protest,” the state-
ment said.
Stainkamp, who is currently liv-
ing with a friend off campus, believes
the punishment was unfair.
“This was all without any kind of
due process. All of this happened
without a hearing or any charges
being formally brought against us,”
she said.
Stainkamp said students involved
in the protest may face expulsion.
“We knew we were taking a big
risk in doing this,” she said.
The campus reacts
Reaction to the demonstration at
NYU has been mixed.
As of yesterday afternoon, Stain-
kamp said about 600 people had
signed TBNYU’s online petition
in support of the occupation, and
a separate petition circulating among
faculty currently had more than 170
signatures. In a Washington Square
News poll of 211 students published
yesterday, 65 percent of respondents
say they did not believe the students
should be expelled.
Kit Gallant, a junior at NYU,
opposed the occupation and the
group’s demands.
“As for their specific proposals,
I think they were pretty misguided.
Some were pretty valid, but they
also had some really strange and
and more credits than students not
enrolled in the program, accord-
ing to a Januar y New York Times
article. CUNY hopes to duplicate
this success at the new community
college, the Times reported.
But Arena said that while there
is interest for the school, there is
currently no funding.
Meanwhile, money for ASAP
is disappearing. The program was
funded with a one-time appropria-
excessive demands,” he said, citing
the groups’ call for scholarships for
Palestinians as an example.
He also said the group does not
have broad support among stu-
dents.
“They speak for a very small part
of the NYU community,” he said,
adding that he believed the group’s
tactics “turned off about 90 percent
of students.”
Scott Kaufman ’11, who trans-
ferred to Brown this year from NYU
and said that he had never heard of
TBNYU before last week, agreed.
“Just because they’re willing to
do something over the top doesn’t
mean they have the support of stu-
dents,” he said.
Kaywin, who briefly joined
the protesters inside but is not a
member of TBNYU, said she be-
lieves many students supported the
group’s general efforts, but not the
occupation.
“I think a lot of people agree with
the demands but don’t agree with
the way it went down,” she said.
But she said the demonstration
was important in that it started
students and faculty talking about
campus issues. “This was a radical
thing, but it was something that hap-
pened and now a dialogue can start,”
she said. “It’s action compared
to inaction.”
tion that was not guaranteed to be
renewed, Arena said. He added
that he hopes students’ graduation
from ASAP will show its success
and lead to continued funding.
Students in ASAP currently
receive free textbooks and Met-
roCards, an initiative CUNY hopes
to match at the new community
college, the Times reported, but
Arena declined to comment on the
likelihood of such benefits.
SportsWednesday
The Brown Daily Herald
W. tennis cleans up in
weekend doubleheader
By Meghan Markowski
Contributing Writer
The women’s tennis team (7-2) domi-
nated on Saturday at the Pizzitola
Center, beating both Seton Hall and
Quinnipiac, 7-0. The team won all 18
matches and had 13 different players
contribute to the team effort.
“With only one senior graduat-
ing from last year and five first-year
players arriving, we knew we were
going to have a deep squad, so I
tried to put together a schedule
that would allow us to play as many
players as possible throughout the
spring,” Head Coach Paul Wardlaw
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
“We are currently playing nine play-
ers in the lineup when we travel, so
we’re already making sure there
are playing opportunities for the
players.”
Seton Hall was no challenge
for the Bears. Sara Mansur ’09 and
Cassandra Herzberg ’12 confirmed
they are a dominating doubles team,
winning 8-1. The second doubles
tandem of Emily Ellis ’10 and
Kathrin Sorokko ’10 — who usu-
ally play third doubles — and the
third doubles team of Julie Flanzer
’12 and Catherine Stewart ’12 also
controlled the courts, winning 8-4
and 8-3, respectively.
The singles players didn’t let up
on their opponents, either. Bianca
Aboubakare ’11 played first singles
and effortlessly won, 6-0, 6-0.
Against Quinnipiac, Aboubakare
Road split sets m. tennis up for homestand
By Erin Frauenhofer
Spor ts Staf f Writer
The men’s tennis team faced two
foes on the road over the weekend,
coming away with a 7-0 loss to No.
32 Virginia Tech on Saturday and a
7-0 win over Georgetown the next
day.
Virginia Tech 7, Brown 0
“Going into the Virginia Tech
match, we knew we had both a
great opportunity and a big chal-
lenge ahead of us,” said captain Sam
Garland ’09. “We needed to all have
great days in order to have a chance
of upsetting the 32nd-ranked team
currently in the nation. They are
deep throughout their lineup and
fight hard for every point.”
Unfortunately, the Bears lost
an integral member of their lineup
with captain Chris Lee ’09 suffering
from a back injury.
“We played the whole weekend
without Chris,” said Head Coach
Jay Harris. “That maybe tripped
the guys up a little bit the first day.
It took a while to adjust to that.
We competed pretty well, but we
missed having Chris out there.”
The Bears dropped all of the
doubles matches to give the Hokies
a 1-0 lead. First doubles team Noah
Gardner ’09 and Garland fell by a
score of 8-4, and at second doubles,
Skate Gorham ’10 and Jonathan
also won her singles match, 6-3, 6-1,
as well as her doubles match with
Herzberg, 8-3. The other doubles
wins came from second doubles
Ellis and Sorokko, 8-5, and third
doubles Alexa Baggio ’09 and Stew-
art in a closer match, 8-7.
“I’ve been most impressed with
our third doubles team of Kathrin
Sorokko and Emily Ellis,” wrote
Wardlaw. “The two juniors are
good friends off the court and have
become a really cohesive team on-
court. They’ve both come in for ex-
tra training individually and together
and their hard work has clearly paid
off. I would say right now they are
playing the best pure doubles of
our three teams based on how they
are moving and controlling court
position.”
Mansur, Flanzer, Stewart, Ellis
and Marisa Schonfeld ’11 all easily
beat their opponents in their singles
matches, ending Saturday’s victori-
ous doubleheader.
“We’ll continue to focus on our
doubles as we prepare for (UMass)
as our improved doubles play will
decide most of our Ivy matches
this spring,” Wardlaw wrote. “The
team will also continue to build on
our attacking skills in singles. I like
where we are at this time of year,
and I’m most impressed with how
strong our team chemistry is. This
is easily one of the best ‘teams’ I’ve
coached.”
The Bears will host UMass next
Tuesday at 4 p.m.
Pearlman ’11 lost 8-5. Kendrick Au
’11 and Charlie Posner ’11 dropped
an 8-2 match at third doubles.
“In the doubles, all of our teams
were caught off guard by (the Hok-
ies’) conservative style and ability
to play great defense in order to
lob or pass us at net,” Garland said.
“Not having our top doubles lineup
is never easy either, and with Chris
Lee out, we had to mix up our No. 2
and 3 teams with new pairings.”
The Bears lost four of the sin-
gles matches in straight sets. Au
and Jimmy Cr ystal ’12 dropped
their respective matches at fifth
and sixth singles by scores of 6-2,
6-2 and 6-3, 6-3. At third singles,
Garland fell to Pedro Graber, 6-1,
6-4, while at fourth singles, Gardner
lost to Luka Somen by a score of
6-4, 6-3.
“The Virginia Tech players
played big during the points that
matter the most,” Garland said.
At first and second singles, re-
spectively, Pearlman and Gorham
pushed their opponents to third
sets. After losing the first set, Pearl-
man rebounded to claim the sec-
ond set, but dropped the third set
super-breaker for a final score of
7-5, 5-7, 1-0 (9).
Meanwhile, Gorham battled
back at second singles after
also dropping the first set, but
like his teammate, Gorham lost
the super-breaker for a score of
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | Page 7
Justin Coleman / Herald
The women’s basketball team still has one Ivy victory on its resume, but failed in two chances to grab another.
Two games, two losses for w. hoops
By Nicole Stock extremely hard as a team to fight
Spor ts Staf f Writer Columbia 88, Brown 57 for every board and to contest each
As the first half ended, the Bears shot,” said Shae Fitzpatrick ’10.
The women’s basketball team (3- were lagging 49-27, and were un- Fitzpatrick led the Bears in the
21, 1-9 Ivy league) traveled to New able to close the gap in the second first half with nine points, includ-
York this past weekend to take on half. ing two three-pointers. The Lions
Columbia Columbia’s superior rebounding started the second half on a 14-5
Brown 57 and Cornell. performance was a major factor as run to extend their lead to 30 with
Columbia 88
The Bears the Lions out-rebounded Bruno 47- 15 minutes remaining. The Lions
fell 88-57 on 27. Columbia’s Judie Lomax, the na- ended the game with 88 points to
Brown 58 Friday night tion’s leading rebounder, grabbed Brown’s 57.
Cornell 68 to the Lions 17 boards in the game — only ten Columbia shot 51 percent from
of Columbia less than the entire Brown team. the field in the game, also shoot-
(13-11, 6-4 Ivy), then dropped a 68- “Columbia is a very strong team ing well from behind the arc. For
58 contest to the Cornell Big Red with a solid inside presence on both
(9-13, 5-5 Ivy). ends of the court, but we worked continued on page 8
6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (5).
“Even though we lost to Virgin-
ia Tech, we had a lot of chances,”
Crystal said. “It showed us that we
could compete with teams at that
level.”
Brown 7, Georgetown 0
Against Georgetown on Sunday,
the Bears jumped out to a 1-0 lead
after clinching the doubles point.
“Right from the start against
Georgetown, we had more energy
and were more confident,” Crystal
said.
At first doubles, Gardner and
Garland trounced Michael Clarke
and David Tillem, 8-2. Gorham
and Pearlman dropped the second
doubles match, but Au and Crys-
tal earned an 8-5 victor y at third
doubles.
“It came down to Kendrick and
Jimmy,” Harris said. “It was one of
the first times they ever played to-
gether, but those guys really came
through.”
The Bears went on to sweep all
six singles matches.
“I think (the doubles matches)
deflated Georgetown’s confidence a
ton going into the singles matches,
where we dominated throughout,”
Garland said.
Pearlman defeated Tillem by
a score of 6-3, 6-3 at first singles.
continued on page 8
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S ports W ednesday
Bears blank Hoyas to
secure weekend split
continued from page 7
At second singles, Gorham tri-
umphed over Andrew Bruhn,
6-4, 6-2.
“We won the singles matches
really convincingly,” Harris said.
“All the guys played exception-
ally well.”
Garland, Au and Cr ystal all
took straight-set wins at fourth,
fifth and sixth singles, respective-
ly. Garland had a 6-3, 6-1 victory
over Adam Gross, and Au defeated
Kenneth Wong by a score of 6-0,
6-4. Meanwhile, Crystal overpow-
ered Rafael Notario, 6-1, 6-3.
“Going into the Georgetown
match, we wanted to work harder
than our opponents on all the big
points, so we stressed consistency
and discipline in all the singles
matches,” Garland said.
At third singles, Gardner took
the first set, 6-1, and was ahead
3-1 in the second set when his
opponent retired.
“We learned a lot from the Vir-
ginia Tech match in terms of what
a good team does, and we were
able to use some of that against
Georgetown,” Harris said.
Next on the Bears’ schedule is a
doubleheader at home on Saturday.
Brown will take on Binghamton at
12 p.m. and UConn at 5 p.m.
“Binghamton is going to
be a huge match,” Harris said.
“They’re really hot coming in.
It’s probably the best team that
they’ve had.”
Garland said the Bears are
“hoping to have Chris Lee injury-
free by then. Binghamton always
fights hard as a team, and we’ll
need our best to beat them.”

Justin Coleman / Herald

The women’s hoops team had a difficult weekend road swing, losing to Columbia and Cornell.

Big Red comeback downs w. hoops

continued from page 7
the Bears, Fitzpatrick finished the
game with 13 points. Sarah Delk
’11 and Christina Johnson ’10
each grabbed five rebounds for
the game.
“Columbia shot well from the
floor, and when you are on the road
in front of a packed house, it is as
if you are already working to over-
come a deficit,” Fitzpatrick said.
“As a team, we had a good offensive
performance, working well to get
each other open and capitalize on
our individual strengths.”
Cornell 68, Brown 58
The game on Saturday night was
tightly contested, though it ended
with the Bears on the losing end.
Just five minutes in, the game
was already proving to be a close
match-up. Karly Grace ’11 contrib-
uted to the Bears’ offensive play,
knotting the game at 10 early on.
Brown and Cornell dueled for the
lead, but the Bears ended the first
half with a two-point advantage,
32-30.
“Our focus going into the game
was to contain 23 (Lauren Benson)
and 53 (Shannon Scarselletta), and
the emphasis was on getting three
defensive stops in a row as many
times as possible,” said Courtney
Lee ’10. “So doing both of those
things allowed us to stay focused,
which kept it a close game.”
The Bears started the second
half on a 9-2 run to take a 41-32
lead in the first three minutes. With
just over four minutes remaining
in the game, Cornell was able to
take the lead for the first time
in the second half. The Big Red
tacked on an extra jumper to take
a three-point lead, forcing Brown
to start fouling in the last minutes
of the game. Clutch free throws
from Cornell continued to build the
lead at the end of the game to put
Brown away after a close match.
The game ended with Cornell on
top, 68-58.
“In the last part of the second
half, we lost our focus of three stops
in a row,” Lee said.
Lee led the Bears with 13 points
and six rebounds, followed by Fitz-
patrick and Delk with 12 points
each. Although the Bears were
once again out-rebounded, 37-29,
Betsy Jacobson ’11 was able to pull
down a team-high eight.
“We played some great team ball
and executed at both ends of the
floor. Of course, we certainly wish
we could have made the long trip
home with a victory, but we showed
great resiliency and fight on the
weekend,” Fitzpatrick said.
Next weekend the Bears will
play their final home games of the
season, hosting Princeton (9-14,
4-5) on Friday and Penn (6-17, 3-6)
on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Piz-
zitola Center.
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The Brown Daily Herald

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e d i to r i a l

Arm the police

Guns are on the table for the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher
Education. The board is weighing a proposal to arm the police forces of the
state’s public colleges — Rhode Island College, the University of Rhode Island
and the Community College of Rhode Island. The three institutions’ police
departments have embraced the plan as a surefire way to improve campus
security.
Many students and faculty have understandable reservations about this
idea. Violent crime is rare at the three schools, and firearms always pose a
risk, even in the holsters of well-trained and responsible officers. However,
Brown’s experience with armed campus police provides an encouraging
example for the nearby colleges. After an intensive two-year training and ac-
creditation effort, Department of Public Safety officers first carried arms on
duty in January 2006.
Though statistics don’t tell the whole story, Brown has seen an appreciable
decline in violent crime since then.
Common sense also backs up the proposal. It is vital for a security officer to
be able to take control of a violent or potentially violent situation, and firearms
are indispensable for that purpose. Currently, campus police at the three schools
cannot adequately react to incidents involving a deadly weapon and instead
have to alert local police departments when they occur. This allows dangerous
situations to get further out of hand as the requests makes their way through
the lines of communication and the municipal police respond.
Armed campus police can also protect against improbable but devastating
tragedies like the massacre at Virginia Tech in April 2007, when a student gun-
man took the lives of 32 classmates and professors. Yes, the carnage served as
a reminder that police firearms are not a panacea: A hesitant police response
allowed the killing to continue, and the shooter eventually took his own life.
But even flawlessly directed police responders would have been helpless to
stop the gunfire without guns of their own. Every school thinks it’s immune
to the horror at Virginia Tech. No school really is. But arming campus police
is an effective and worthwhile precaution that might save many lives if the
worst happens.
The Board of Governors is scheduled to make its decision this spring.
Its soundest option is to approve the plan and allay the fears of its critics by
ensuring that Rhode Island’s public colleges carefully and rigorously prepare
their campus officers for this new responsibility.

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Incarcerating innocents in Rhode Island
Dan Davidson
Opinions Columnist
As Americans, we expect the right to a fair trial
to the point where we sometimes take it for
granted. If someone is accused of a crime but
acquitted of the charges, he is not ordinarily
punished. But this is not the case for all Rhode
Islanders. Under current state law, citizens
on probation can be imprisoned after being
charged with a crime, regardless of whether
they’re actually found guilty.
How can such an injustice occur? When
a Rhode Islander is on probation, he must
adhere to the terms of his sentence or face
imprisonment for their violation. Sentenc-
es often mandate that a probationer “keep
the peace.” This is reasonable enough — if
someone is on probation for committing a
crime, the state should demand that he not
cause any trouble.
In practice, however, this stipulation
allows the state to incarcerate probation-
ers for simply being accused of a crime,
regardless of whether they’re guilty. The
standard of proof judges follow is “reason-
able satisfaction,” not the more stringent
“reasonable doubt” generally afforded to
defendants in a criminal trial.
The ‘Brown student’ shows up at the Janus Forum lecture
ANTHONY
STAEHELIN
Opinions Columnist
Last Thursday, the Janus Forum hosted
a lecture around the question: “Are there
universal human rights?” As is usual for
Janus Forum lectures, the talk involved two
speakers with opposing views. On one side,
Larr y Cox, executive director of Amnesty
International USA, argued that there are
indeed such things as universal human rights
and that no matter the context or challenges
at hand, these rights are inalienable.
On the other side, John Yoo, Professor of
Law at University of California, Berkeley and
a legal advisor to the Bush administration,
argued that in the world we live in, there are
no such things as universal human rights
and that, as with most other questions in
life, the issue of human rights really boils
down to a cost-benefit analysis and there
is no such thing as a universal inalienable
human right.
I should specify here that this is a gross
oversimplification of their arguments. I
should also add, in the interest of full dis-
closure, that I am a co-director of the Janus
Forum.
Although the speakers were engaging,
the topic was fascinating and the lecture
thought- provoking, what personally thrilled
me the most was the type of Brown student
on display that afternoon.
It’s hard to believe that someone could
face prison time without a conviction, but
it happens in Rhode Island. The Rhode Is-
land Family Life Center, a local non-profit
that ser ves ex-offenders and their families,
produced a documentar y, “Violated: Guilty
Though Proven Innocent,” last year that
highlights a few shocking examples.
One man featured in the video, Rich-
ard Beverly, recalls being arrested and
charged with breaking and entering while
on probation. He was acquitted, but still
Under current state law, citizens on probation
can be imprisoned after being charged with a
crime, regardless of whether they’re actually
found guilty.
ser ved three years in prison. Another in-
mate, Joey Perr y, was given a 10-year sen-
tence on a charge that was dismissed by
the judge.
Anthony Donald, a Rhode Island pro-
bationer, summed up the current state of
affairs succinctly in a Providence Journal
article last year. The way the law operates,
Much ink has been spilled recently in
the columns of The Herald to tr y and come
up with the right definition of the “Brown
student.” But the truth is that there is no
solitary definition or single mold that can fit
the broad range of Brown students.
I couldn’t agree more with columnist
Tyler Rosenbaum’s assertion that “on our
campus there are liberals, conser vatives,
libertarians, socialists and ever ything in
between. Nonconformity is appreciated and
even encouraged” (The reality of the ‘Brown
student,’ Feb. 20). But then how could we,
At Brown, we don’t avoid intellectual
disagreements or opposing views; on the
contrary, we seek them out.
and, more importantly, why would we tr y
to come up with a specific definition that
describes all the students of a university
that prides itself on diversity? If you ask the
6,000-odd students at our school to define
the “Brown student,” you may well get 7,000
different answers.
Unbeknownst to these rival columnists,
the debate over who or what a “Brown stu-
dent” is highlights what may be some of the
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probationers can end up spending years in
prison “just for being in the wrong spot at
the wrong time,” he said.
Fortunately, this practice may end soon,
though it may be an uphill battle. State
Rep. David Segal, D-Dist. 2 introduced leg-
islation earlier this year that would require
the state to release people incarcerated for
violating their probation by failing to keep
the peace if they are acquitted or exoner-
ated of their crime. Segal proposed similar
legislation last year that Governor Donald
Carcieri ’65 vetoed.
The governor and Attorney General’s
office argue that the way the state cur-
rently deals with probationers accused of
crimes is reasonable because, in the words
of Assistant Attorney General Stacey Vero-
ni, they are on “a conditional liberty sta-
tus.” They have struck a bargain with the
most defining characteristics of the “Brown
student”: an independence of thought and a
willingness to engage people with differing
views. I firmly believe that this is what is
special about Brown University.
Brown students actively engage each
other as independent thinkers. Not only
do students stand up for their convictions,
they are willing to question them as well by
confronting one another respectfully and
with open minds.
At Brown, we don’t avoid intellectual
disagreements or opposing views; on the
contrar y, we seek them out. President Ruth
Simmons put it best when she said, “While
other types of communities devise covenants
so as to avoid conflict, our covenant is rooted
in quarrel, in opposition. We encourage
ideas and opinions to collide in the ser vice
of learning.”
And I believe that the Brown student,
as an independent thinker willing to en-
gage with people that disagree with him or
state whereby they will receive probation
instead of time in prison, and in return
they must keep the peace.
“Even if that’s the case,” Segal wrote in
an e-mail, “when we’re considering crimes
whose penalty will entail substantial time
in prison we should give (probationers) a
fair trial. We have really long probation-
ar y terms, and a particular ease of putting
people back in prison. In combination, that
means people are often on a leash and in-
and-out of prison for an inordinate amount
of time, and often for less-than-convincing
reasons.”
With Democratic supermajorities in
both houses of the state legislature, Se-
gal is optimistic about the bill’s chances.
Asked about the prospect of another veto,
he wrote, “I hope we can pass it early, so
we can override it early.”
Rhode Islanders’ collective conscience
should not be saddled with the knowledge
that people have ser ved long terms in pris-
on for crimes they did not commit. Segal’s
bill should have been passed long ago.
Dan Davidson ’11 is a political sci-
ence and music concentrator from At-
lanta, Georgia. He can be reached at
Daniel_Davidson@brown.edu
her, showed up last Thursday at the Janus
Forum Lecture where people with diverse
viewpoints came together and discussed a
contentious issue freely and passionately.
Although the lecture did stir up protest
outside the event, this was to be expected
with a figure as controversial as Yoo. More-
over, the protest was small, was not mainly
comprised of Brown students and did not
inter fere with the event. A much larger
demonstration might have been expected
from a university considered the most liberal
in the Ivy League.
Admirably, Brown students realized that
a speaker who holds views uncommon at
our school represented more of an oppor-
tunity to learn than a threat to their convic-
tions. Rather than physical protest, intellec-
tual dissent was a major part of the night.
Brown students epitomizing independence
of thought and a willingness to engage in
discussion quietly and attentively listened
to both speakers before challenging both
of them by asking tough questions, seizing
upon weak spots in their arguments or even
questioning their premises.
Whether it be in the pages of The Herald
or at the microphones in a Janus Forum
lecture, it is our commitment to engaging
each other and defending and questioning
our convictions that defines us most.
Anthony Staehelin ’10 is a political
science concentrator from Geneva,
Switzerland.
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