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President Ruth Simmons and Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76 addressed
parents and fielded questions Saturday afternoon.
Parents get a Same-sex marriage supporters rally at State House
chance to quiz
Simmons
By Ellen Cushing
Senior Staf f Writer
President Ruth Simmons outlined
the University’s recent achieve-
ments and challenges and high-
lighted the importance of financial
aid to a standing-room-only crowd
of parents and students Saturday
afternoon.
The “Hour with the President”
— one of many events on College
Hill for Family Weekend — con-
sisted of a short speech followed by
a question-and-answer session and
drew an estimated 1,000 people to
the Main Green despite the chilly
weather.
In her speech, Simmons fo-
cused largely on making higher
education accessible to people of
all backgrounds.
“As a nation, we’ve got to keep
focused on making opportunities
possible for new families, for people
from below the poverty line to get a
first-class education,” Simmons said.
“Nothing is more important.”
“It’s central to Brown’s mission
to make that possible,” she said, be-
fore going on to discuss the impact
of financial aid — and the anony-
mous donors who make it possible
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Long-term focus at Corp. meeting
Members discuss
priorities, outlook
for tough times
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staf f Writer
The Corporation convened its
first meeting of the academic
year this weekend, welcoming
12 new members and approving
designs for two major capital proj-
ects, including a new Medical
Education Building in downtown
Providence.
About a year after the finan-
cial crisis slashed $740 million
from the University’s endowment,
prompting officials to seek long-
term budget reductions total-
ing approximately $90 million,
Brown’s highest governing body
focused on maintaining “forward
momentum” and accomplishing
the goals outlined by the Plan
for Academic Enrichment, said
Quinn Savit / Herald Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76.
continued on page 4
By Ana Alvarez same-sex marriage supporters Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Contributing Writer gathered on the south steps of the California.
State House demanding
Disappointment, anger and resil- legislation to legalize METRO
ience were among the sentiments same-sex marriage.
expressed Saturday at a gay mar- Despite cold weather, a spir- D-Dist. 3, who said that because
riage rally sponsored by Marriage ited crowd attended the rally and “all five other sister New England
Equality Rhode Island. About 150 included natives of Vermont, states have mandated that rights
At 40th birthday bash,
GCB raises a glass to itself
By Emma Berry The next year, the bar opened
Staff Writer as part of the Jelly Bean Lounge,
on the bottom level of what is now
On their 21st birthdays, Brown the Bear’s Lair. Along with the wide
undergrads often flock to the selection of beers for which the bar
Graduate Center Bar for a night is still known, the vividly colored
of celebration. This Saturday night, campus hangout offered sandwich-
the GCB threw a party for its own es, live entertainment and, accord-
birthday — and at 40, ing to a 1973 article in
the GCB is still looking FEATURE the Providence Journal,
pretty good. “stereo FM music.”
Susan Yund, who has been the In 1972, Rhode Island became
manager of the GCB for 15 years, one of several states to lower its
said business is strong and grow- drinking age from 21 to 18 on the
ing steadily. But the history of the basis that 18-year-olds were old
bar hasn’t always been smooth. enough to vote and be drafted to
In 1968, the city of Providence fight in the war raging in Vietnam.
denied the Faculty and Graduate Consequently, Yund said, the GCB
Student Council’s request for a li- was “very, very successful back in
quor license for a bar in the base- the 70s and early 80s.”
ment of the brand new Graduate But though the Grad Center
Center. The club appealed the city’s complex was originally designed
decision, and the state ordered the
license granted. continued on page 5
News, 3
open for business
With the Corporation on
campus, Rhode Island Hall
was rededicated Friday
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Med. education building approved
By BriGITTA GreenE
Senior Staf f Writer
Approval of plans for a new Medi-
cal Education Building occupied
the “lion’s share” of the Corpora-
tion’s time this weekend, Chancel-
lor Thomas Tisch ’76 said, along
with discussions about the Univer-
sity’s ongoing drive to expand into
Providence’s Jewelr y District.
The Corporation, which of fi-
cially endorsed design plans for
the new project, also heard further
details on the planned $45 million
renovation of the facility.
Construction work will begin
early next year on the existing
Brown-owned building at 222
Richmond St., pending approval
from the City Plan Commission
and the Providence Zoning Board
of Review.
The new home of the Alper t
Medical School — set to open in
August 2011 — will offer an anat-
omy lab, an area for the proposed
“academies” within the curriculum
Among the speakers
at the rally was State
Sen. Rhoda Perry P’91,
The GCB celebrated its 40th birthday this Saturday.
Arts, 7
the round
A new student
magazine calls for creative
conversation
and a “critical skills area” with a
replica of an examination room
for more effective patient-doctor
training, said Edward Wing, dean
of medicine and biological sci-
ences.
The Corporation approved de-
signs for the “academies” to oc-
cupy their own space on the second
floor of the new building, Wing
said, giving medical students “their
own social space,” complete with
lockers and offices for advisers.
The downtown location, Wing
said, was especially important for
the medical school because of its
proximity to local hospitals, many
of which are located in the area.
The school represents “one of
the big moves for Brown off the
hill,” Wing said, adding that the
University has plans to light up
the new building at night when it
is completed.
“It’s a symbol and a beacon for
Brown and medical education,”
continued on page 5
and privileges associated with civil
marriage extend to all of their
citizens,” Rhode Island too must
“move on, and ensure that the le-
gal rights to marriage uniformly
extend to all its citizens.” Perry,
continued on page 4
Herald File Photo
Opinions, 11
disingenuous
Simon Liebling ’12 says the
University owes its workers
and students more
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C ampus N EWS “My classes are fantastic and the homework is so much fun.”
— Colin MacGregor ’14, of the Brown-RISD dual degree program

Swearer Center to hire 20

new staffers with grant
BY Alex Bell
Contributing Writer
With nearly $63,000 in federal
stimulus aid, the Swearer Center
for Public Service is planning to
hire 20 new employees this year,
including tutors, mentors and com-
munity liaisons.
Though the stimulus money
will only last one year, officials at
the center said they hope to use
the funds to expand several pro-
grams in Providence schools.
“The programs aren’t necessar-
ily going to be radically different
from what we’ve been doing,” said
Roger Nozaki MAT ’89, director
of the Swearer Center. “But now
we can hopefully enlarge their ef-
fect.”
The grant is the only one Brown
has received from the Corporation
for National Community Service,
according to Tim Leshan, director
of government relations and com-
munity affairs.
“Most of (the stimulus funding)
is for scientific research,” Leshan
said. “Not much of it is around
community ser vice, so this is
pretty unique.” The University has
received nearly 70 awards from the
National Institutes of Health or the
National Science Foundation for
scientific research, he added.
Nozaki said the Swearer Cen-
ter’s involvement with the National
College Advising Corps, an orga-
nization that helps students from
low-income communities and un-
der-performing schools go to col-
lege, enabled it to apply for funds
from the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act.
sudoku
The advising corps, which
works in 11 high schools in ur-
ban areas in Rhode Island, is led
by full-time, paid “college guides,”
usually recent graduates of either
Brown or the University of Rhode
Island, and part-time “access schol-
ars” who lead SAT workshops and
other academic programs. Brown
students also volunteer as teach-
ers’ assistants or help run after-
school programs.
Nozaki, who is an associate
dean of the College, said the mon-
ey will pay for efforts in the city,
including 10 new positions at Hope
High School, four new positions for
the Parent Involvement Program
and six new positions at D’Abate Herald File Photo
Elementary School in downtown Project 20/20 members aim to bring high-efficiency light bulbs to 5,000 Providence homes.
Providence.
About 20 paid Brown students
already facilitate similar programs Earth-friendly light bulb project nears goal
at Providence’s Hope High School
through the center, such as the By Jamie Brew Steven Hamburg, Providence resi- more than 4,900.
Brown SAT/College Prep, the Col- Contributing Writer dent David Fox and a small group As the largest program under the
lege Guidance Project, Algebra in of students. umbrella of the Community Carbon
Motion, Brown Science Prep and How many Brown student groups The idea was simple: At no cost Use Reduction at Brown initiative,
the Rhode Island Urban Debate does it take to change 67,000 light to residents, the group would in- Project 20/20 has brought together
League. bulbs? stall compact fluorescent lamps a wide and diverse base of students
The Swearer Center’s Parent Just one. Project 20/20, a stu- in low-income households, saving and has garnered a great deal of
Involvement Program consists dent-run program that installs en- each family $10 to $15 on ever y support.
of four paid Brown students who ergy-efficient lighting in low-income monthly utility bill while reducing “It’s really raised more aware-
reach out to parents and advocate Providence households, is nearing the community’s greenhouse gas ness than a lot of other efforts,” said
the schools’ agendas through its goal of replacing light bulbs in emissions. Shane Easter ’10, one of the project’s
events and conferences, according 5,000 homes with compact fluores- Gradually, Project 20/20 ex- originators. “It has benefits that ap-
to center Associate Director Kate cent lamps. panded to include numerous paid peal to a lot of different students.”
Trimble, who is directly managing The project began in the spring staff and volunteers and continued a Project 20/20’s mix of environ-
the federal grant. of 2008, the brainchild of Associate steady march toward its initial target
Trimble called the program a Professor of Environmental Studies of 5,000 houses. It has now served continued on page 4
“grassroots organization effort” to
enhance parent’s participation in
their children’s academic lives.
continued on page 6
RISD dual-degree program enters 2nd year
By Brian Mastroianni
Senior Staff Writer

As a high school student, Colin

MacGregor ’14 thought he would
eventually push aside his love of art
in favor of a career in medicine.
That began to change after he
participated in summer art programs
and worked on more personal art
projects in his free time. When it
came time to apply to colleges, he
realized he wanted to have the tra-
ditional undergraduate liberal arts
experience without giving up on his
passion for art.
He found only one program that
fit perfectly with these academic
goals — the Brown-RISD dual de-
gree program.
“I’ve been having a great ex-
perience so far in the program,”

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Number of students from India grows
By Ellen Cushing
Senior Staf f Writer
As the University redoubles its ef-
forts to increase Brown’s profile
abroad and attract more interna-
tional students — particularly stu-
dents from India — the numbers
are beginning to show for it.
Though China still contributes
the most international students
— 33 enrolled in the class of 2013
— Brown’s Indian population is
steadily increasing.
According to data provided by
the Office of Admission, the num-
ber of first-year Indian students
has grown. Only three students
enrolled with the class of 2010
listed India as their nation of resi-
dence, while this year’s entering
class boasted 15 students from the
subcontinent.
Panetha Ott, director of interna-
tional admission, said the Univer-
sity was “actively trying” to inform
Indian students about Brown and
attract them to the school.
Matthew Gutmann, vice presi-
dent for international affairs, un-
derscored Brown’s interest in In-
dia. “Brown needs to have a bigger
presence in India,” he said, adding
that he plans to visit India himself
this year.
Bruins to study ruins at rededicated R.I. Hall
By Caitlin Trujillo
Staff Writer
In its long history, Rhode Island Hall
has housed a hodgepodge of depart-
ments, from Natural Philosophy to
Mineralogy.
Now, the Artemis A.W. and Mar-
tha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World
can be added to the roster after a
warm and genial rededication cer-
emony last Friday evening.
University Chancellor Thomas
Tisch ’76 opened the event under
Simmons talks finance, barbecue to parents
continued from page 1
— on her own academic career and
the lives of Brown students.
Simmons then cited the recent
appointment of famed African writer
Chinua Achebe as an example of
the quality of Brown’s faculty and
emphasized the University’s com-
mitment to being a “world-class
teaching institution.” She implored
parents to encourage their children
to forge relationships with profes-
sors.
“That is the single most im-
portant thing for your students’
learning experience — the quality
of faculty they have access to,” Sim-
mons said.
Simmons also addressed the
University’s finances in the wake
of the economic crisis and Brown’s
staggering endowment losses.
“We are trying to make adjust-
ments without having to sacrifice
the quality of your children’s edu-
cation,” Simmons said. “We’re try-
The number of international students from India has grown in recent
years, according to the Office of Admission.
“I would hope that we would
have more students from India
interested in studying here,” he
added.
Ott said a primary component
of the admissions office’s strat-
egy was sending officers to these
a packed tent in front of the build-
ing — the fourth oldest on the Main
Green. Other speakers included
President Ruth Simmons, Chancel-
lor Emeritus Artemis Joukowsky
’55 P’87, Joukowsky Institute Direc-
tor and Professor of Classics Susan
Alcock, Professor of Archaeology,
Classics and Art History at Bos-
ton University James Wiseman and
Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein,
Jordanian ambassador to the United
States.
The speakers alternated be-
tween praising the importance
ing to identify ways in which we
can be more efficient, and we’re
tr ying to be ver y sensible about
expenditures. We’re preserving the
essential elements of your students’
education but letting go of things
that are, frankly, not central to those
purposes.”
After her speech, Simmons and
other university administrators re-
sponded to questions from parents
and students and discussed sub-
jects as varied as Brown Dining
Services workers’ recent contract
dispute and the comparative qual-
ity of Texas- versus Kansas-style
barbecue.
Diane Fellman, whose daugh-
ter Lilly Mirviss ’12 transferred to
Brown this fall, called Simmons’
speech “ver y inspirational” and
praised the president’s candidness
and sense of humor. “She wasn’t
afraid to answer hard questions,
and she’s ver y funny,” Fellman
said.
Claudette Young Hinds, the
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Kayleigh Butera / Herald
countries. “Our strategy is to visit
countries from which we are trying
to get students,” she said.
Dean of Admission James Miller
’73 said his office has been focus-
continued on page 6
of archeology and honoring the
Joukowskys’ contributions to the
field.
Alcock said archaeology re-
quires establishing global connec-
tions and that the field required a
balance of “enormous exuberance
matched with enormous responsi-
bility.” Wiseman also spoke about
the relationships between archae-
ology and departments such as
anthropology, biological sciences
and others as archaeology itself
continued on page 6
mother of Chahney Hinds ’12, said
she was impressed by Simmons’
discussion of the University’s plans
to withstand the economic crisis.
“She has a plan that is dynamic
enough to respond to this kind
of thing,” Hinds said. “It says that
President Simmons is operating a
well-oiled machine.”
And Matt Handbury — who is
the father of Elisa Handbur y ’10
and traveled to Providence all the
way from Sydney, Australia — ap-
preciated Simmons’ advice.
“She’s ver y personal and ap-
proachable and accessible,” he said.
“For example, her call for parents to
encourage their children to estab-
lish rapport and contact with their
teachers is not only wise, she made
it seem achievable.”
Handbury continued: “Among
the expected self-congratulator y
hype about Brown, it was very per-
sonal. She is someone who’s obvi-
ously very powerful and assured,
but there was a human touch.”
Marketing firm brings big
bucks for Brown athletics
By Dan Alexander
Senior Staf f Writer
A par tnership forged between
Brown and a sports marketing com-
pany last year has helped soften the
blow to the athletics department in
the current recession, according to
a University official.
In May 2008, the department
signed a contract with Nelligan
Spor ts Marketing to increase
sponsorships and advertisements
for Brown athletics, said Director
of Athletics Michael Goldberger.
Before the contract, Rick Merriam,
then assistant athletic director for
marketing, had been largely re-
sponsible for soliciting outside
funding. But Merriam, who helped
bring in the company, left Brown
for another job soon after Nelli-
gan’s arrival to College Hill.
With a university-wide hiring
freeze in place, the Department of
Athletics could not refill Merriam’s
position. “Rick was ver y good,”
Goldberger said. “I can’t see how
we could have possibly done as
well as we’re doing right now” if
the company hadn’t been hired.
The company’s performance
has improved in the last three and
a half months. Since the start of
the current fiscal year, athletics
has already taken in more spon-
sorship dollars than it did in the
previous fiscal year. The money is
split almost equally between Brown
athletics and the company, Gold-
berger said.
National names such as Dunkin’
Donuts, AT&T, Domino’s Pizza and
Taco Bell were brought in by the
company, bringing the number of
Brown coporate sponsorships to
35. Nelligan Sports Marketing has
also minted ties with local restau-
rants, the Brown Bookstore and
the Brown Alumni Association.
The new sponsorships have
earned the University more than
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just money. When the Department
of Athletics hosted the Adidas-
Brown Soccer Classic last month,
it was able to give the Southern
Methodist University soccer team
free lodging because of sponsor-
ships established with local ho-
tels.
Advertising and sponsorship
revenue is factored into the ath-
letic depar tment’s base yearly
budget, which means that any ex-
cess income reduces the amount
of money the University gives to
the department.
Although the extra cost of hiring
the company has so far outweighed
the added revenue, Goldberger
said he remains optimistic.
“It’s one of those things that
we felt would take two or three
years to build up to a level where
it could really be beneficial for us,”
he said.
The five-year contract has a
renewable option if the company
meets revenue goals, according
to Goldberger. “If they achieve
what they set out to do, then we’ll
renew,” he said.
The idea to hire an outside
spor ts marketing firm was first
suggested by the President’s Advi-
sory Council on Athletics—a group
of trustees, former trustees and
experts in athletics, Goldberger
said.
The department chose Nelligan
Sports Marketing because of the
company’s already-existing part-
nership with nearby Providence
College, and because it had more
of a national presence than many
other firms under consideration.
“Some of the other groups that
we looked at were more local, and I
thought that one of the real pluses
of a school like Brown is its na-
tional reputation,” Goldberger
said. “To deal with organizations
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Long-term focus at Corporation meeting
continued from page 1
The Corporation approved
designs for the new Medical Edu-
cation Building in Providence’s
Jewelry District and authorized a
new model for a combined aquat-
ics and fitness center on the site
of the former Smith Swim Center.
Tisch said the Corporation also
discussed the design for the new
Perry and Marty Granoff Center
for the Creative Arts and plans to
renovate the Metcalf Chemistry
and Research Laboratory into a
new brain science building.
The Corporation made no other
major announcements. Tisch said
the board will discuss detailed bud-
getary issues at its next meeting
in February.
“This is generally not a meeting
of spectacular action points,” Tisch
said. “A large part of the meeting
was animated by gaining perspec-
tive on forces of the last couple of
years.”
“It was a ver y constructive
meeting,” he added. “I would de-
scribe the overall tone as reflec-
tion, challenge, opportunity and
optimism.”
Tisch said he was pleased with
the direction of the capital projects
given the economic situation, which
he said has forced the University to
implement changes including reno-
vating existing buildings instead
of constructing new spaces and
waiting to approve construction
until funding for new projects is
collected in full.
“In relation to what it would
have been a year ago, the projects
are done on a much more responsi-
ble and prudent basis,” Tisch said.
“The new construction has now
been reformulated wonderfully.”
Overall, Tisch said new capital
projects are focused on creating
new spaces in the heart of cam-
The Corporation met this weekend and approved new building plans for
Providence’s Jewelry District and a slew of donations.
pus — or “filling in the hole in the
doughnut.”
According to an e-mail sent by
President Ruth Simmons to the
Brown community Saturday, the
Corporation also received an up-
date from architect Frances Hals-
band on a planning study of the
Jewelry District. The expansion,
highlighting Brown’s aggressive
push into the downtown area, is
spearheaded by the renovation of
an historic building at 222 Rich-
mond Street for the new Alpert
Medical School building, Tisch
said.
“What it reflects is that fields
of knowledge expand,” Tisch
said about the University’s devel-
opment plans. “It’s an engine of
opportunity.”
In addition to extensive discus-
sion regarding the University’s
major construction projects, Tisch
said the meetings were marked
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“It’s brought people into the fold who are not traditional environmentalists.”
Herald File Photo
by “a dynamic of new fresh faces
and fresh voices,” which he said re-
sulted from a “bumper crop of new
members.” The Corporation wel-
comed three new fellows and nine
new trustees. Lauren Kolodny ’08
was sworn in as the first-ever young
alum trustee, a position which the
Corporation created in May.
The Corporation also approved
the idea to combine the planned
Jonathan Nelson ’77 Fitness Cen-
ter and a new pool in one facility.
The University will now move on
to the design stage of the project,
said Richard Spies, executive vice
president for planning and senior
adviser to the president.
“We are really optimistic,” he
said. “A lot of hard work was done
to find a way to achieve most of the
objectives of the project.”
Combining the two projects
will save the University about $25
million.
The Corporation heard a num-
ber of suggestions and questions
about the project’s specific design
elements, Spies said.
“There are compromises that
get made, and working through
those takes time,” he said. “But
the main objective was to start the
process.”
The Corporation also accepted
a slew of donations totaling nearly
$20 million for various projects,
including a $3 million gift for a new
endowed professorship called the
Intrepid Heroes Professorship in
Orthopaedic Surgery at the medi-
cal school.
The funds were donated by
Diane Weiss — a “friend of the
University,” according to Ronald
Vanden Dorpel MA’71, senior
vice president for University ad-
vancement — to support wounded
veterans returning from Iraq and
Afghanistan and to help them get
functional prosthetic limbs.
“She’s a grateful patient,” Van-
den Dorpel said.
Three of the accepted gifts were
from overseas, he said, including
one from a donor in Europe and
two from donors in Asia. The inter-
national gifts “demonstrate the fact
that we are reaching out to over-
seas alumni and parents,” he said.
“It was a good bunch of gifts.”
—Libby Kimzey ’09.5, Project 20/20 manager
Efficient lightbulb goal
around the corner
continued from page 2
mental, humanitarian and economic
goals make it more than just a green
effort, said Libby Kimzey ’09.5, the
current project manager.
“It’s brought people into the fold
who are not traditional environmen-
talists,” Kimzey said.
That includes Kimzey herself, an
international relations concentrator
who said she hadn’t been heavily
involved in environmentalism before
but now wants to work on energy
projects after graduation.
This summer, Project 20/20
teamed up with Providence’s Insti-
tute for the Study and Practice of
Nonviolence, whose Beloved Com-
munity Summer Jobs program helps
steer youth away from violence by
finding them employment. Erik
Duhaime ’10, internal coordinator,
Gay-rights supporters
rally for marriage equality
continued from page 1
whose district includes College Hill,
has repeatedly introduced legisla-
tion in the General Assembly to
legalize same-sex marriage.
Supporters were urged to take
action and send postcards to their
representatives — provided by
MERI — declaring their support
of same-sex marriage legislation.
Ken Fish, a gay-rights activist
and retired state education official,
advised the crowd, “Don’t just get
pissed off. Take some action.”
“I think that anger needs to be
expressed, because all of us have
been feeling that for a long time,”
said Andrew Winters, assistant to
the vice president of student affairs
and GLBT programs and services
at the University of Rhode Island.
“And this damn journey that we are
on is taking too long.”
Several speakers in the rally de-
nounced Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65,
who said at a Thursday fundraiser
for the Massachusetts Family In-
stitute that “gay marriage is not
a civil right” and that he gets “ag-
gravated” when people call it that.
On its Web site, the institute calls
homosexuality “destructive to fam-
ily, individuals and society” and sup-
ports “the healing of those plagued
by a same-sex attraction.”
State Rep. Frank Ferri, D-Dist.
22, a former chair of MERI and an
openly gay state legislator, respond-
ed to Carcieri at the rally, saying,
“Guess I know what one of my roles
is at the State House: I aggravate
Governor Carcieri.”
Fish, the gay-rights activist, said
in response to the governor’s re-
marks, that the word “aggravated”
did not approach the feeling of “how
deeply this loss is felt by members
of our community,” adding that the
governor reminded him of “the
Southern governors of a genera-
tion ago, attempting desperately (to
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organized the hiring of eight work-
ers through ISPN.
One of Project 20/20’s aims was
also to help Brown reduce its carbon
footprint. But because the process
for certifying emissions reductions
is cumbersome and expensive and
the University is far exceeding its
carbon reduction goals, the project’s
leaders have decided to concentrate
on communities outside of Brown.
The project will continue until
it hits the 5,000-house mark and,
perhaps, until it exhausts its surplus
of compact fluorescent lamps. But
it will soon come to a close, Kimzey
said.
With the end of its flagship pro-
gram, she said, the Community
Carbon Use Reduction at Brown
Initiative will direct $150,000 of its
remaining funds to new projects
this year.
defend) segregation, all in the name
of tradition.”
“I don’t want to be healed,” Fish
added. “I don’t think I’m sick and
I don’t think it’s the plague. The
plague is right-wing bigotry.”
Fish also expressed anger to-
ward Democratic legislators for
their failure to stand up for gay
rights.
“A greater villain lurks in the
legislature, and it’s so-called Demo-
cratic leaders,” he said. “We need
real progressive Democrats, not
conservatives that call themselves
Democrats. They would be Repub-
licans in any other state.”
Despite the governor’s resis-
tance, speakers at the rally were
hopeful that in the coming years
Rhode Island will join the rest of
New England in legalizing same-
sex marriage. Maine will hold a
vote Nov. 3 to uphold or repeal its
existing same-sex legislation.
“We have a lot of work to do to
get us there, but it will happen,”
said Patrick Crowley, chair of the
legislative committee of MERI. “We
will always last one day longer than
the other guys, because we are
right and our cause is just.”
“We are making progress, and
we are in a crescendo,” Winters
said. “It’s good to see the young
people working with the old people,
the straight people working with
the gay people, the students work-
ing with the community.”
M. Charles Bakst ’66, a former
Providence Journal political colum-
nist and Herald editor-in-chief, told
The Herald he was glad he attended
his first marriage equality rally as
a supporter.
“I find these rallies both depress-
ing and uplifting,” he said. “It is
dismaying to me that in 2009 there
is still an argument over this. Some-
day not too long from now people
will look back on this struggle and
say, ‘What was that all about?’ ”
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that have a much broader base, a
much wider spread network, we
think could be beneficial to us in
the long run.”
But the company was not able
to maintain all of Brown’s past
sponsorships. The University’s
General Manager of Sports Mar-
keting Tony D’Arcangelo, who is
also the company’s representative
on campus, said some sponsor-
ships were renegotiated and others
were dissolved.
Some businesses that had
been looking for exclusive part-
nerships with Brown, backed out
when the company signed national
competitors. For instance, Ronzio
Pizza and Subs stopped sponsoring
Brown athletics after its deal with
Domino’s Pizza.
But according to D’Arcangelo,
almost ever y local sponsor that
Brown lost was replaced by a na-
tional sponsor.
Goldberger added that the Uni-
versity will never sign a deal with
an alcohol or gambling company.
Nelligan Spor ts Marketing,
which also has par tnerships
with Princeton and UPenn, rep-
resents 25 schools, conferences
and bowls across the countr y. It
recently signed another contract
with Har vard.
ate students, it never really caught
on, said Professor of Biology Ken
Miller ’70 P’02, who lived there as
a junior. Consequently, he remem-
bers a GCB crowd that was “almost
overwhelmingly undergrads.”
At the time, Miller said, there
were no bars on Thayer Street
and only a few on the East Side.
When the bar opened, “people were
delighted with the novelty of hav-
ing a place on campus where you
could gather and you could also
have something to drink.”
Miller said he frequently went to
the bar on Saturdays with friends.
His wife, who graduated from the
Rhode Island School of Design
in 1972, “always found the Grad
Center Bar a good place to go over
and meet guys from Brown,” he
at the bar has continued to grow.
“Just in the last couple of years we
did some redesigning of the bars
that allows us to double our draft-
lines,” she said. The bar now carries
16 constantly changing varieties of
beer on tap.
In the past two or three years,
Yund said, the bar has also attracted
an increasing number of RISD stu-
dents, who can join for a discounted
fee because the design school has
purchased a bulk membership for
its students.
“When I started working here
(in 1990), it was almost exclusively
grad students and faculty,” Yund
said. “Med students are a fairly re-
cent phenomenon.”
While the bar is still popular
with undergrads, especially on
Thursdays, she said, over the past
15 years the balance has shifted
back toward its original goal — to
was donated to the Rhode Island
Community Food Bank.
“For many people, we’re the first
bar they’ve hung out in,” Yund said,
adding that this makes the bar’s
atmosphere unique — but also
means that patrons sometimes
leave small tips or don’t tip at all.
“It’s frustrating to be the bar that
trains them.”
Miller remembered one Sat-
urday afternoon in particular that
he spent at the GCB. As a senior,
Miller was captain of the water polo
team, then a club sport. “We were
expecting to play a game, I think
against Columbia,” he said. There
was a misunderstanding, Miller
said, and the opposing team called
to say they’d be a few hours late.
In the meantime, Miller and his
team went to the GCB — bringing
along the game’s referee. The other
team eventually arrived ready to

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But soon, a rise in drunk-driv-
be a social space for graduate stu-
dents.
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had spent a few hours in the bar and

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he said.
Because the building was not in-
cluded in the University’s 2006 five-
year Institutional Master Plan, the
University must now go through
a formal amendment process and
receive city approval for the proj-
ect, said Richard Spies, executive
vice president for planning and
senior adviser to President Ruth
Simmons.
University proper ties in the
Jewelr y District lie outside the
of ficial “institutional zone,” and
Brown must secure a special-use
permit before beginning construc-
tion, Spies said. Administrators are
hopeful that the city will approve
the project, he said, as it is consis-
tent with the city’s and the state’s
plans for the area.
The University hired the pri-
vate development consulting firm
Appleseed, Inc. to analyze the im-
pact of the renovation on the local
economy, Spies said. Though the
University traditionally performs
its own economic impact analyses,
administrators decided to take a
more formal approach for the Jew-
elr y District property, he added.
Renovation of the Medical Edu-
cation building will create approx-
imately 350 temporar y jobs and
generate $26.2 million of economic
output in the state, according to
the Appleseed report.
“The economy is such an issue
for everyone,” Spies said. “We want
to demonstrate to the community
that the project can serve the many
purposes we’ve described for it.”
Administrators and city officials
anticipate that increasing Brown’s
presence in the Jewelr y District
will contribute to a “knowledge
ing fatalities spurred many states “Our charter is to serve the consumed a couple of beers.
to raise the legal drinking age, a Brown community,” Yund said, “We won the game, by the way,”
change ultimately mandated by the which makes the bar different from he added.
federal government in 1984. Rhode for-profit ventures. “We do busi- Though he does not have many
economy” in the city, spurring fu- Island did so gradually, raising the ness honorably,” she said, noting memories of the GCB, Miller does
ture growth and development. limit to 19 in 1980, 20 in 1981 and that any profits from the bar are have a tangible record of his eve-
Planning architect Frances 21 in 1984. As a result, Yund said, donated to local non-profit groups nings there.
Halsband presented her report on the bar “suffered for a few years,” a such as the food bank and Amos “We still have a glass beer mug
Brown’s properties in the Jewelr y problem that was compounded by a House, which works to help the that I swiped from the Grad Center
District, focusing specifically on move to a smaller space in 1986. state’s poor and homeless. All the Bar,” he said. “I hope they’re not
the area around the medical educa- But since then, she said, traffic money collected at Saturday’s event going to come after me.”
tion building, Spies said.
Halsband’s study takes a com-
prehensive look at Brown’s future
presence in the area, examining
potential low-cost improvements
that would continue to foster eco-
nomic and community growth. The
University has long been looking
to the Jewelr y District for future
development, especially as a long-
anticipated highway relocation
project opens up new land.
But collaborative planning with
community groups, government of-
ficials and surrounding universities
has recently come into question
following debate on a bill pending
in the state legislature that would
allow the city to assess property
taxes on private universities.
For this reason, Spies said,
focus on Halsband’s report was
limited to areas surrounding 222
Richmond rather than the neigh-
borhood in its entirety.
“As long as there is this big
cloud on us in terms of the issue
of tax, were taking it one step at a
time,” he said. “We want to focus
on an area where we know we can
actually do something.”
The Corporation suppor ted
Halsband’s suggestions to look
at surrounding streetscapes, in-
cluding widening the sidewalks
on Richmond Street, improving
landscaping and encouraging retail
in the area, Spies added.
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R.I. Hall
dedicated
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continues to unify into a cohe-
sive pursuit.
Al-Hussein lauded the Jou-
kowskys’ role in the preserva-
tion of Petra, one of Jordan’s most
important archeological site.
In a short and appreciative
speech, Joukowsky took the
stage to testify to the “astonish-
ing power of education” in the
discipline.
Midway through the ceremo-
ny, four television screens showed
a short profile of the Joukowsky
Institute and the renovations of
Rhode Island Hall. The video
included the Joukowskys and
Alcock, as well as other archae-
ology professors and students.
Simmons closed the ceremo-
ny, but instead of giving a speech,
she invited the Joukowskys and
their children to the stage. The
children toasted their parents,
and Simmons thanked the Jou-
kowskys for their contributions
to Brown.
“You have done so much for
this university,” Simmons said.
“You are an inspiration to every-
body here. You’re an inspiration
to me.”
‘Year of India’ coincides
with recruitment effort
continued from page 3
ing on recruiting international stu-
dents. “We certainly are being a lot
more proactive in terms of interna-
tional recruitment,” he said.
“We’ve spent a lot of time in
Asia over the last four years,” he
added, “and we’ve been to India
every year for the last three or
four years.”
The University is also work-
ing to strengthen its relationship
with India by declaring 2009-2010
the “Year of India.” According to
Vasundhara Prasad ’12, one of the
event’s organizers, one of the goals
of the initiative — which includes
a year of events on campus — is
to increase awareness of Brown
in India.
Prasad, who is originally from
U. wins public service grant
continued from page 2
Similarly, the University is look-
ing to expand its involvement in
before- and after-school programs
at D’Abate Elementary School. No-
zaki said this is the first time he is
aware of that Brown is working so
closely with a local school.
According to Principal Brent
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Mumbai, said that through this
and other efforts, Brown was
“definitely making its presence
felt” in India.
Last spring, alums founded the
Brown Club of India, a group for
Brown alums and parents. “I think
they’re really making a conscious
effort,” Prasad said.
Prasad also said that while
Brown is not yet a household
name in India, recent ef for ts
have increased the University’s
profile.
“When people in India apply to
schools in the United States, they
only apply to the known names,
and Brown hasn’t had much of
a presence,” she said. “We need
people to aspire to get into Brown
as they aspire to get into Harvard
or Yale.”
Kermen, half of these programs
are facilitated by Brown students,
who also ran six-week-long class-
es this past summer for almost
200 students at the elementary
school.
Brown sees “us in need and
they step forward to fill that void
for us,” Kermen said. “And they
always look to do more.”
Dual degrees offer best
of up-hill and down
continued from page 2
what he will concentrate in at either
school, but, no matter what, he will
graduate with a Bachelor of Arts
from Brown and a Bachelor of Fine
Arts from RISD.
“Had I not been admitted to the
program, I definitely would not be
double-majoring in art and some
other subject,” MacGregor said.
“This is a great opportunity for me
to do what I love.”
The dual degree program is
unique to Brown and RISD, said
Deputy Dean of the College Stephen
Lassonde. While other programs
such as Tufts University’s dual de-
gree offerings with the New Eng-
land Conservatory of Music and the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
exist, they are “still programs within
the universities themselves,” said
Lassonde, who is Brown’s dual de-
gree coordinator. The Brown-RISD
degree, on the other hand, is a direct
partnership between two very dis-
tinct universities, he said.
Only in its second year, the dual
degree program consists of 13 stu-
dents in each class, with numbers
not expected to exceed 20 students
per class in the foreseeable future,
Lassonde said.
“Because it is such a complicated
program, it needs to be small so that
we can have the careful and com-
mitted advising that goes with it. It
is very difficult to navigate through
each institution,” he said.
To ensure that the class size re-
mains small, Lassonde said students
are not allowed to transfer into the
program. If transfers were accepted,
the program could grow beyond its
capacity for advising and instruc-
tion, which would make it difficult
for transfer students to earn their
degrees in five years, he added.
“It’s a program that was con-
ceived with students in mind who
were coming out of high school and
knew this was what they wanted to
do,” he said.
As a high school senior, Stephanie
Swart ’13 set her sights on art school,
thinking she would be content with
academic programs focused solely
on visual arts. Life as a dual degree
student changed her mind.
“Given my high school back-
ground, I found that I was not used
to doing only art and humanities
once I actually got to college. It was
frustrating just having entire days
working on art my first year here,”
said Swart, a potential cognitive sci-
ence concentrator at Brown and a
film, animation and video major at
RISD. With Brown’s science offer-
ings, “I feel like I have more of a
balance,” she said.
Beth Soucy ’13 had the reverse
experience. Approaching art more
as a hobby, Soucy anticipated pursu-
ing an undergraduate education at a
typical liberal arts university, instead
of at an art school.
After working on her RISD foun-
dation studies in her first year, Soucy
said she found an environment per-
fect for her academic needs.
“It is just such a great creative
Monday, October 19, 2009
atmosphere. Everyone is there creat-
ing something alongside everyone
else. What you’re learning is very
public — you learn from and share
with everyone else around you,”
she said.
Part of this learning environment
includes what Swart sees as a more
competitive climate at RISD than at
Brown. “I don’t feel like I’m compet-
ing with my classmates when I’m
here at Brown,” she said.
Soucy had a similar view of the
two institutions.
“RISD is more about adapting
and becoming better. Brown is more
an open exchange of ideas to solve
problems and come up with new
ideas,” Soucy said.
These differing academic philoso-
phies are part of the culture shock
that comes with moving up College
Hill from RISD to Brown.
Caitrin Watson ’13, who is a
dual degree student and Soucy’s
roommate in Keeney Quadrangle
for their first year on Brown’s cam-
pus, said she identifies more as a
“Brown person.”
“I like being at Brown more than
at RISD. In some ways it is harder to
be productive here at Brown because
work is social. The atmosphere is
just different here,” Watson said.
“As much as you don’t want to
stereotype, there is a definite Brown
and RISD ‘personality,’” she added.
Though MacGregor does feel dis-
connected from Brown’s campus,
he said he is thankful to have made
friends during orientation activities.
He is a member of the Brown club
tennis team and manages to see his
Brown friends on the weekends.
“It is harder to go out on weekdays
when you have your studio classes,”
he said. “Some of our Brown friends
have come down here to visit us, but
you can’t go up and see your friends
every day.”
Administrators who oversee the
dual degree program try their best to
lessen the culture shock that comes
from the campus-to-campus transi-
tion, Lassonde said. After complaints
from last year’s first dual degree
class, first-years now participate in
both Brown’s and RISD’s orientation
activities.
Students are also assigned fac-
ulty advisors at both institutions, and
the current first-year dual degree
students have peer advisors who
entered the program last year.
Though dual degree students
might not have as much of an op-
portunity to embrace the freedom of
the open curriculum as their peers,
Lassonde said, both dual degree
classes are filled with students who
know exactly what they want to get
out of the program.
“They know that they won’t be
able to fulfill graduation require-
ments in the same way,” Lassonde
said. “They have these great institu-
tions to flow between, which could
sometimes seem frustrating in its
lack of freedom.”
“But that’s who these kids are
— they are artists who want a large
education, and they can get that in
this program.”
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‘Anna Bella Eema’ tells a supernatural tale Campus journal brings

By Kristina Fazzalaro
Contributing Writer
Perishable Theatre opens its 2009-
2010 season tonight with the re-
gional premiere of “Anna Bella
Eema,” a musical with a great deal
of Brown artistic muscle behind it.
This “ghost story spoken and sung
in three voices” was written by
Lisa D’Amour, a visiting lecturer in
theatre arts and performance stud-
ies, and directed by Kym Moore,
a visiting assistant professor of
theatre, speech and dance.
The production features Elise
Morrison GS as Anna Bella and
Ron Cesario, a lecturer and cos-
tume shop manager in the the-
atre department, as costume de-
signer.
“Anna Bella Eema” looks
through the lens of the gothic to
examine different coping mech-
anisms people employ when
responding to impossible situa-
tions.
“People deal with crazy shit
happening in a huge range of
ways,” Morrison said. “It leaves
some people crazy and some peo-
ple with a crazy streak.”
The show tells the stor y of
Anna Bella and her mother, Irene,
who live in a broken-down trailer
park on the outskirts of a large
city. Their home is soon to be
demolished by the town to make
way for an expanded interstate
highway, but Irene, an eccentric,
hermit-like and slightly disturbed
individual, refuses to leave.
Anna Bella chooses to escape
this chaotic reality by creating
Anna Bella Eema, “a powerful,
supernatural thing that acts as
Anna Bella’s playmate and helps
her grow up,” Morrison said.
The introduction of the super-
natural is paralleled by Irene’s
method of teaching Anna Bella
about the evils of the outside
world — through books and sto-
ries of vampires, monsters and
werewolves. These ghost stories
are a source of entertainment for
the 10-year old Anna Bella. But, as
her 25-year old self explains, look-
ing back on the situation, she also
understands that the real world is
going to tear her family apart, and
her mother is not doing anything
productive to stop it.
At the same time, Anna Bella
is also maturing with Eema as her
guide, leaving the world of fairy
tales behind and entering reality.
The combination of a richly
layered script, innovative and ex-
perimental music and the introduc-
tion of a larger and more active
set design, promises a play that
is “unlike anything you have ever
seen or heard before,” according
to Morrison.
“The play is beautiful and
the language is gorgeous,” said
Moore, the director.
The original production of
“Anna Bella Eema” was set mainly
at the dining room table of Irene
and Anna Bella’s house with little
physical movement, but Moore
felt the stor y required a differ-
ent backdrop to support the lan-
guage.
“Our production has a lot of
physical action largely to help it,”
Moore said. “We needed a frame-
work to help people see the images
of the story.”
Moore said that, despite the
changes, the production team
remained as faithful to the text
as possible and was careful about
making any alterations. “The first
goal was to make the story as clear
as we possibly could,” she said.
The script is brought to life
by “three actresses that together
make their own magic,” Moore
said. “The acting is just phenom-
enal. They were the right three
actresses for these roles right now
in Providence. It makes directing a
lot easier and a lot more fun.”
Indeed, the work was largely
a collaborative effort of Moore,
D’Amour and the cast.
There was a true family feel
among the cast and crew, espe-
cially those coming from Brown,
Morrison said, adding that it was
fun to run into Moore or D’Amour
at Brown and discuss the play or
laugh about things that happened
at rehearsal. “It was so nice to
have those two worlds shared and
blended,” she said. “It’s so great to
see them around campus.”
“Anna Bella Eema” will be run-
ning from Oct. 19 through Nov. 7
at Perishable Theatre.
together students, writers
By Corina Chase
Contributing Writer
The publication of the first issue of
The Round adds a new magazine
to the University’s collection of
literar y and artistic journals. The
magazine — a collection of poetry,
prose and visual art — includes
work by Brown undergraduates,
graduates, students from other
universities and several pieces by
professional writers.
The founders of The Round
— Elizabeth Metzger ’11, Daniel
Loedel ’10, Frannie Hannan ’10
and Sylvia Linsteadt ’11 — came
up with the idea for the magazine
last fall and fundraised throughout
last year. Since publishing its first
issue a few weeks ago, The Round
has become an official student pub-
lication. The name of the magazine
comes from the idea of a musical
round, a “musical conversation
that draws on and responds to the
voices that have come before it,”
The Round’s editors wrote in an
e-mail to potential contributors.
The editors aim to recreate a simi-
lar conversation with writing and
visual art, featuring both critical
essays on the state of literature
and creative work.
Loedel, one of three prose edi-
tors and the design editor for The
Round, said this conversation is
the dialogue between writer and
reader, and between a writer and
all other writers — past, present
and future, amateur and profes-
sional.
To this end, The Round’s first
issue featured writing by poet Paul
Muldoon and novelists Mar y Gor-
don and Michael Burke, as well
as an epigraph from Nietzsche’s
“Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and a
poem by W.H. Auden.
Loedel said the editors hope
publishing student writing along-
side professional writing will en-
courage young writers to “take
themselves seriously.”
In her foreword to the new is-
sue, Gordon made a similar point,
urging writers to “risk large terms”
— to aim high, to never shirk the
“difficulties of writing” and to re-
mind readers of “what it is to be
most fully and richly alive.”
Loedel said The Round consid-
ers submissions from anyone, not
just artists and writers affiliated
with Brown. Its editors look for
works that are “far-reaching,” he
said — pieces of art and writing
from a range of voices, with a wide
potential audience.
Editors of The Round plan to
publish an issue at the beginning
of each semester. In the future,
Loedel said, they hope to expand
the presence of visual art in the
magazine while still publishing a
variety of writing.

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Monday, October 19, 2009 | Page 8

Bears tame Tigers with second-half offensive surge

By Dan Alexander
Senior Staff Writer
Most wide receivers would be hap-
py after having four catches and
30 yards in an upset of a nationally
ranked team.
Princeton 17 But Buddy
Brown 34 Farnham
’10 isn’t like
most receivers.
After Farnham’s 30-yard day
against Holy Cross last week, Brown
Head Coach Phil Estes said he could
tell Farnham wished he had played
a bigger role in the offense.
“Everybody has a day like that,
when the ball goes the other way,”
Estes recalled telling Farnham af-
ter the Holy Cross game. “I said,
‘But you know how impor tant
you are and the big plays that you
can make.’”
Now Princeton knows too. A week
after his relatively quiet performance
against Holy Cross, Farnham was ev-
erywhere on the field against the Ti-
gers, amassing 309 all-purpose yards.
He finished with 10 catches for 199
yards and one receiving touchdown.
He also returned a kickoff 92 yards
for a second touchdown in the Bears’
(3-2, 1-1 Ivy) 34-17 win over the Ti-
gers (1-4, 0-2 Ivy) on Saturday.
“Unbelievable,” Estes said. “Bud-
dy came up big.”
On Brown’s first play from scrim-
mage, Farnham caught a 35-yard
pass to put the Bears in field-goal
range. His catch killed the momen-
tum the Tigers had gained with their
67-yard drive to the end zone on their
first possession.
From the time the Bears first got
the ball, Farnham stole the show. By
the end of the first half, the 8,017
fans in attendance at Brown Stadium
had seen him make seven catches
for 184 yards.
“He’s just a good football player,”
said Princeton Head Coach Roger
Hughes. “If he weren’t on someone
else’s team, he’d be fun to watch.”
In the first half, Farnham had
more receiving yards than Princ-
eton’s total yardage. But despite
Farnham’s efforts, the Bears went
into halftime ahead only 20-17.
With a balance of outside rushes
and short passes, the Tigers man-
aged 179 yards of total offense in
the first half.
Princeton quarterback Tommy
Wornham was 17-of-22 passing for
135 yards, one touchdown and one
interception before halftime.
The Tigers got help in the battle
for field position from punter Joe
Cloud, who put the Bears inside
of their own 5-yard line on both of
his first-half punts, which averaged
54.5 yards.
But each time Princeton gave
Brown a long field, Bears’ running
back Zach Tronti ’11 managed to get
Brown away from its end zone with
runs up the middle.
“The trouble was we had them
pinned back inside the five, I think,
three or four times, and just didn’t
stop them down there,” Hughes
said. “That’s just something we have
to do.”
Defensively, the Tigers let off of
their frequent blitzes, which had de-
fined them this season. Instead, they
stayed back in coverage for much
of the day.
“We were just trying to mix it up,”
Hughes said. “You have to mix it up
with a good quarterback. Otherwise,
he’ll pick you apart.”
Brown quarterback Kyle Newhall-
Caballero ’11 was 13-of-20 passing for
255 yards and two touchdowns in the
first half. After the Bears went ahead
in the second half, Newhall-Caballero
handed off more than he dropped
back. He finished 23-of-36 passing
with 309 yards, two touchdowns and
an interception.
The Tigers went into halftime on
a high note after a questionable call
that negated a Brown touchdown and
led to a Princeton field goal.
Princeton dropped back to pass
with eight seconds left and the ball
at the Brown 33-yard line. But seeing
no one open, Wornham took off on
the ground, rushing to the 20-yard
line before being hit by cornerback
A.J. Cruz ’13. Cruz stripped the ball
and ran it back for a touchdown.
But the officials called a personal
foul on Cruz for a helmet-to-helmet
tackle, giving the ball back to Princ-
eton at the 10-yard line with :00 on
the clock and the chance for one
more play. The Tigers kicked a 27-
yard field goal and made it, making
the score 20-17 Brown.
“My job is to go in there and
make sure that that isn’t a mo-
mentum swing for Princeton,”
Estes said.
Estes couldn’t have done his job
any better.
On the opening kickoff after half-
time, Bobby Sewall ’10 received the
ball at the 8-yard line. He took a few Jesse Morgan / Herald
steps right and reversed the ball to Buddy Farnham ’10 amassed 309 all-purpose yards versus Princeton this weekend.
Farnham. After taking the handoff,
Farnham danced and dodged his tackle David Howard ’09.5 followed for opening up holes for Tronti, es-
way through Princeton defenders up with two tackles in the backfield pecially on the Bears’ final drive,
until breaking free at midfield. His on second and third down, forcing a 19-play, 74-yard campaign to the
92-yard touchdown return gave the the Tigers to punt. end zone that chewed up 11:08 of
Bears a 27-17 advantage. After Newhall-Caballero threw the fourth quarter, leaving just 1:32
The Princeton of fense an interception early in the third left in the game with a secure 34-17
couldn’t get anything going in the quarter, the Bears mostly kept it on lead.
second half. the ground for the rest of the game. With the lyrics “celebrate good
On Princeton’s final possession Tronti had 19 carries in the second times, c’mon” blasting out of a stereo
of the third quarter, defensive end half and finished with 29 carries for in the locker room after the game,
Jimmy Develin ’10, a co-captain, 134 yards. the Bears celebrated their first Ivy
had a sack on first down. Defensive Estes credited the offensive line League win of the season.

Field hockey falls to

no. 4 Princeton
By Andrew Braca
Spor ts Editor
The field hockey team fell to No.
4 Princeton, 5-1, on Saturday. The
Tigers (11-2, 4-0 Ivy League) held
advantages of 31-2 in shots and 18-1
in penalty corners, but Brown (4-
8, 0-4) outscored Princeton in the
second half.
As an icy wind whipped War-
ner Roof, the Tigers blew away
the Bears in the first half to gain a
five-goal lead heading into halftime.
Princeton scored three goals in the
first 13 minutes. After Brown’s de-
fense stiffened for nearly 19 min-
utes, the Tigers scored twice more
in the final four minutes of the half
to head into the break with a 5-0
the halftime lead could easily have
been 10-0, but the Bears frequently
kept the Tigers from penetrating the
circle and taking shots.
That culminated when Princeton
failed to score in the second half,
held to 13 shots and stonewalled by
Brown goalie Caroline Washburn
’12, who made 9 of her 13 saves in
the second frame. The Tigers’ 31
total shots were 18 fewer than they
took in last year’s game.
The Bears broke through with
4:21 left on Kelley Harrison’s ’13
first career goal. Leslie Springmeyer
’12 got the ball at midfield and took
it down the left side before pass-
ing down to Whitney Knowlton ’10.
Knowlton sent a crisp cross to Har-
rison at the right post, who beat

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Bruno’s offense was flat, gener-
ating little offensive pressure and
a diving Princeton goalie Cynthia
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duce the 5-1 final score.

twitter.com/the_herald not taking its first shot until the 33rd

minute, but the defense was playing
deceptively well. Princeton dominat-
ed in possession of the ball, spend-
ing enough time on offense that
The Bears will hit the road
twice this week, facing crosstown
rival Providence College (5-9) on
Tuesday and Cornell (8-3, 2-2) on
Saturday.
World & Nation
The Brown Daily Herald
Increase seen in flow
of Western terrorists
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post
BERLIN — Midway through a pro-
paganda video released last month
by a group calling itself the German
Taliban, a surprise guest made an
appearance: a cleanshaven, muscu-
lar gunman sporting the alias Abu
Ibrahim the American.
The gunman did not speak but
wore military fatigues and waved
his rifle as subtitles identified him as
an American. The video contained a
stream of threats against Germany
if it did not withdraw its troops from
the NATO-led mission in Afghani-
stan. Although the American’s part
in the film lasted only a few seconds,
it has alarmed German and U.S. in-
telligence officials, who are still puz-
zling over his background, his real
identity and how he became involved
with the terrorist group.
U.S. and European counterter-
rorism officials say a rising num-
ber of Western recruits — includ-
ing Americans — are traveling to
Afghanistan and Pakistan to attend
paramilitary training camps. The
flow of recruits has continued un-
abated, officials said, in spite of an
intensified campaign over the past
year by the CIA to eliminate al-Qaida
and Taliban commanders in drone
missile attacks.
Since January, at least 30 recruits
from Germany have traveled to
Pakistan for training, according to
German security sources. About 10
people — not necessarily the same
individuals — have returned to Ger-
many this year, fueling concerns that
fresh plots are in the works against
European targets.
“We think this is sufficient to
show how serious the threat is,” said
a senior German counterterrorism
official who spoke on the condition
of anonymity.
German security services have
been on high alert since last month,
when groups affiliated with the
Taliban and al-Qaida issued several
videos warning that an attack on
German targets was imminent if the
government did not bring home its
forces from Afghanistan.
There are about 3,800 German
troops in the country, the third-larg-
est NATO contingent after those
of the United States and Britain.
German officials say Taliban and
al-Qaida leaders are trying to exploit
domestic opposition in Germany to
the war; surveys show that a majority
of German voters favor a withdrawal
of their soldiers.
Last week, German officials dis-
closed that a 10-member cell from
Hamburg had left for Pakistan earlier
this year. The cell is allegedly led
by a German of Syrian descent but
also includes ethnic Turks, German
converts to Islam and one member
with Afghan roots.
Other European countries are
also struggling to keep their citizens
from going to Pakistan for paramili-
tary training.
In August, Pakistani officials
arrested a group of 12 foreigners
Monday, October 19, 2009 | Page 9
headed to North Waziristan, a trib-
al region near the Afghan border
where many of the camps are locat-
ed. Among those arrested were four
Swedes, including Mehdi Ghezali, a
former inmate of the U.S. military
prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Meanwhile, three Belgians and
a French citizen are facing trial in
their respective home countries after
they were arrested upon their return
from Pakistani camps last year. The
suspects deny they were part of a ter-
rorist conspiracy or plotting attacks
in Europe. But one defendant has
admitted to French investigators that
the group received explosives train-
ing while in Waziristan. Three other
Belgian and French members of the
alleged cell are still believed to be at
large in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
European security officials have
warned for many years of the threat
posed by homegrown radicals who
have gone to Afghanistan and Paki-
stan to wage jihad. Officials in some Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times
countries, such as Britain, said they Don Foley, center, joins the start of the AIDS fund-raising walk in West Hollywood on Sunday. Foley, 79, has
have successfully cracked down on participated in all 25 of the West Hollywood walks.
the number of would-be fighters go-
ing to South Asia. But others, such
as Germany, are seeing a significant
increase and struggling to contain
At 79, raising funds and awareness
it. By Gerrick Kennedy Aids Walk before he died in 1998. just ask to be sponsored really
In the past, such volunteers were Los Angeles T imes He and his sister took turns push- was an act of courage. They very
largely self-motivated and had to find ing. Foley wanted his nephew to well may have had the reaction of,
their own way to South Asia. Today, LOS ANGELES — Don Foley made experience the walk. `Oh, do you have AIDS? Maybe I
however, al-Qaida and its affiliates his first AIDS Walk Los Angeles 25 Foley said watching the dis- shouldn’t be working with you.’”
have developed extensive recruiting years ago, when the event started. ease spread in the 1980s was scary This year’s walk, which ben-
networks with agents on the ground And he hasn’t missed one since. and eye-opening. He lost at least efits Aids Project of Los Angeles,
in Europe, counterterrorism officials On Sunday, Foley, 79, joined 30 friends, including a former raised $3,146,206, funds that Craig
said. The agents provide guidance, 30,000 others who walked the partner. E. Thompson, executive director
money, travel routes and even letters 6.2-mile route to raise money and For the past six years Foley has for the organization, said are cru-
of recommendation so the recruits awareness to fight AIDS. been a “star walker” -- a participant cial. The organization lost $1.6
can join up more easily. While some marchers hoisted who raises more than $1,000; he million as the result of Califor-
In a recent report, the Dutch signs and others chanted, Foley, collected $1,400 from family and nia cutting money for AIDS/HIV
General Intelligence and Security moving with the others along friends this year. He wore all the programs.
Service said there were a “growing Melrose Avenue, reflected on how pins he has earned from walks Darr yl Stephens, 35, best
number of indications” that more much has changed. through the years, and through- known for his role on the televi-
Europeans were attending camps in In the early years of AIDS out the day people wanted to pose sion show “Noah’s Arc,” said that
the border region between Afghani- Walk, “It wasn’t much to do those for pictures with him and applaud with events such as the November
stan and Pakistan. days except watch your friends him. passage of Proposition 8, which
The Obama administration die,” Foley said. “It’s sad. One day, Foley, long active in the gay banned gay marriage, and budget
has said that al-Qaida’s command your friends would tell you they community, keeps a folder safely cuts in AIDS/HIV related funding,
structure and operations wing have were HIV positive, and the next tucked away in his nightstand with the state has taken a step back.
become weaker in the past year be- day you’re at their funeral.” his memories. The clippings and “We’re in an interesting point
cause many of its leaders have been But with progress being made other memorabilia include items in history. ... It’s important to stay
killed in drone missile attacks. But in treating those with the virus and about his running for a seat on the visible,” Stephens said. “We have
in its report, the Dutch intelligence with better understanding among Los Angeles County Democratic to work that much harder.”
agency offered a different assess- the general population, Foley sees Central Committee in the 1970s, As Foley crossed the finish
ment, saying that al-Qaida’s ability reason for optimism. registering voters at gay clubs line, he dabbed a bit of sweat from
to carry out attacks has generally “It’s nice seeing all these peo- and being named volunteer of the his brow. He said he was tired yet
improved in recent years largely be- ple. I think the first year there was year by the Stonewall Democratic exuberant.
cause it has successfully bolstered maybe 4,000 people -- mostly all Club. “Hopefully I don’t have to do
its alliances with other terrorist gay,” said Foley, who is gay. “No Craig Miller, founder and pro- this for another 25 years,” Foley
groups. one wanted to be associated with ducer of the walk, praised Foley’s said. “They need to find a cure for
“With the jihadist agenda of those us back then. But this is a good dedication. this thing.”
allies becoming more international, mix of people.” “For Don as an individual to When the walk came to a close,
at least at the propaganda level, the He remembers taking his walk with us in 1985 took cour- Foley went home, opting to skip
threat to the West and its interests nephew, who was in the late stages age,” Miller said. “To go around the celebration that went on after-
has intensified,” the Dutch report of AIDS, in a wheelchair to the to his friends and co-workers and ward. He had done his part.
found.
German officials said they have
discovered multiple recruitment
networks that work for al-Qaida,
the Taliban and other groups, such Morning Mail’s got
nothing on Herald Mail.
as the Islamic Jihad Union, which
has been issuing many of the online
threats against the German govern-
ment. But they said the recruiting
networks often operate independent- browndailyherald.com/register
ly, making it difficult for the security
services to detect or disrupt them.
Editorial & Letters
The Brown Daily Herald

Page 10 | Monday, October 19, 2009

chris jesu lee

e d i to r i a l
You never call, you
never write. A day off, not a day on
Last Monday, a motley crew of kooks and food he launched the enslavement and devastation of the
Come home, darling. vendors, watched by a handful of bemused students,
gathered on the Main Green to protest the University’s
peaceful native peoples of Hispaniola, and because the
holiday has served its purpose — bigotry is no longer
renaming of Columbus Day as Fall Weekend. The con- a serious threat to Italian-Americans.
letters@browndailyherald.com gregation was heralded by an ingeniously postmodern Maybe another name change is in order. Our deep-
flier campaign that omitted outmoded, deterministic blue faculty would be happy to rechristen Fall Weekend
details such as the time the event would take place. as Cuomo Day. We’re sure that the University’s morally
At stake, apparently, was the very foundation of upright dons could even scrape together enough cyni-
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d
the United States of America. President of the Brown cism to get behind Cicilline Day, if it finally buries the
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editors Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors
Republicans Keith Dellagrotta ’10 put it worst: “Ameri- student tax. What say you, wingnuts? Will you leave
Steve DeLucia Michael Bechek Nandini Jayakrishna Rachel Arndt
Chaz Firestone Franklin Kanin Isabel Gottlieb can Indians knew not Christianity, and thus lacked the us alone then?
Michael Skocpol Scott Lowenstein bedrock to construct a great United States of America Probably not. Whatever their motivations, the
editorial Business as we know it today. Columbus, however, was their crowd’s rabidly anti-Brown sentiment is obviously
Ben Hyman Arts & Culture Editor General Managers Office Manager
Sophia Li Features Editor Alexander Hughes Shawn Reilly saving grace.” Obviously, Dellagrotta knew not that deep-seated. Among the crackpots was Chris Young,
George Miller Metro Editor Jonathan Spector he was putting his foot in his mouth. Last we checked, a man whose major achievement is failing in more
Joanna Wohlmuth Metro Editor
Seth Motel News Editor
the establishment clause was still on the books. And than one electoral contest in a single year; he recently
Directors
Jenna Stark News Editor Ellen DaSilva Sales “saving grace” is a bit off the mark for the fellow whose volunteered to be Mayor Cicilline’s punching bag in the
Andrew Braca Sports Editor Claire Kiely Sales ships inadvertently brought the first of the European Democratic primary. The Herald reported that Young
Han Cui Asst. Sports Editor Katie Koh Finance
Alex Mazerov Asst. Sports Editor Jilyn Chao Asst. Finance microbes that would decimate the population of the made the risible claim that “Brown should pay property
Katie Wood Asst. Sports Editor Christiana Stephenson Alumni Relations Americas; most of the dead never saw a crucifix. taxes if they’re going to become politically active by
Certainly, the champions of Fall Weekend have removing a national holiday.” Young wasn’t alone:
Graphics & Photos Managers made equally clueless statements. Take Reiko Koyama Several other Columbus enthusiasts also embraced
Chris Jesu Lee Graphics Editor Kelly Wess Local Sales
Stephen Lichenstein Graphics Editor Kathy Bui National Sales
’11, who led the charge against Columbus Day at Brown the most misconceived justification yet for taxing one
Kim Perley Photo Editor Alex Carrere University Sales and told The Herald last week that the holiday “has of Providence’s biggest assets.
Max Monn Asst. Photo Editor Matt Burrows Credit and Collections nothing to do with Italian-American pride.” In fact, In fact, the name change bears no resemblance
Jesse Morgan Sports Photo Editor
Italian-Americans have long rallied to the Genoese to the types of consequential political advocacy —
production Opinions
Ayelet Brinn Copy Desk Chief Alyssa Ratledge Opinions Editor Columbus — celebrated here widely since before the such as endorsing and campaigning for candidates
Rachel Isaacs Copy Desk Chief Sarah Rosenthal Opinions Editor birth of the United States — to fight anti-immigrant and legislation — that would actually endanger the
Marlee Bruning Design Editor
Jessica Calihan Design Editor Editorial Page Board
and anti-Catholic persecution by groups such as the University’s tax exemption. As far as the law is con-
Anna Migliaccio Asst. Design Editor James Shapiro Editorial Page Editor Ku Klux Klan. Even in Providence, many citizens of cerned, we could consecrate our academic calendar’s
Julien Ouellet Asst. Design Editor Matt Aks Board member
Italian heritage turned to Columbus to counter the second Monday in October to the Flying Spaghetti
Neal Poole Web Editor Nick Bakshi Board member
Post- magazine Zack Beauchamp Board member prejudices of the pre-existing Irish and Anglo-Saxon Monster as long as we don’t officially admit that all
Arthur Matuszewski Debbie Lehmann Board member communities. Brunonians — even Dellagrotta — accept Obama as
Editor-in-Chief
Kelly McKowen William Martin Board member
Editor-in-Chief But the advent of Fall Weekend was no ethnic insult. their lord and savior.
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Opinions
The Brown Daily Herald
If I had two million dollars…
SIMON
LIEBLING
Opinions Columnist
…I’d improve financial aid in a recession. Or
mitigate next year’s tuition hike. Or avoid
firing University employees. Or pay Dining
Services workers what they deserve. Or I’d
give it back to the students I overcharged to
get it in the first place.
But I would not waste it on speeding up
the construction of a building that’s going
to get done anyway. Not when students are
struggling to stay at Brown, forced to take
on hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt
to continue with their education. Not when
the administration fires 30 employees to save
money. Not when it’s trying to deprive din-
ing workers of their health care and a living
wage.
It takes ruthless callousness to wield the
language of hard times to demand sacrifices
of all of us before turning around and wast-
ing found money. But these are administra-
tors’ clear priorities. Their first thought after
stumbling upon an unexpected windfall is not
to alleviate the burden they have mercilessly
levied on students and staff but to pour still
more money into their dear pet projects.
The Faunce House construction project
does not need two million more dollars. It will
be completed with or without the extra money
because it has remained entirely immune to
the budget cuts extracted from students and
staff. Speeding up the construction of Faunce
BY WILL WRAY
Opinions Columnist
Beware: you are being recruited for a war —
a deeply unjust war. It isn’t fought with guns
or bombs, but the consequences are no less
dire. What is at stake is nothing less than the
well-being of the nascent seed of international
justice and the future of sustainable develop-
ment in impoverished countries worldwide.
In 1964, Texpet entered into an “oil con-
cession” with the government of Ecuador, in
which Texpet was the minority shareholder
and operator. Upon termination of the conces-
sion in 1992, Texpet conducted a $40 million
environmental remediation campaign that
was validated by independent laboratories
and approved by Ecuador’s government. The
government then granted Texpet release from
any remaining liability related to the consor-
tium’s operations.
Chevron (which acquired Texpet in 2001) is
now being sued for $27 billion — 60 times Tex-
pet’s total earnings from the concession — for
alleged environmental damage and illnesses
resulting from the drilling operations.  Why should we care? If governments al-
“Crude” is a documentary which attempts
to reframe the story as a David vs. Goliath
battle of indigenous tribal Amazonians versus
a greedy, ruthless multinational corporation.
It was showcased at Brown on Oct. 3 by the
Amazon Defense Coalition and Esperanza
International, two non-governmental orga-
nizations who hope to cash in on damages
attributed to Chevron. Why do they bother
trying to win over Brown students’ hearts and
minds? Because they know their case has no
— with money extorted from students — is
precisely the kind of financial extravagance
that the administration says the rest of us must
learn to live without.
In better times, in the absence of more
pressing needs, we could understand using
a surplus to fast-track a construction project.
But today, while students desperately need
tuition relief and staff need steady jobs and
fair wages, spending two million scarce and
It takes ruthless callousness to wield the language
of hard times to demand sacrifices of all of us
before turning around and wasting found money.
precious dollars to finish a building faster is an
affront to basic human decency and any sense
of community this administration pretends it
promotes.
For students and staff, there can no longer
be any doubt. When the administration would
sooner spend its money on speeding up a
building than looking out for living, breathing
people, there can be only one conclusion: the
administration does not care about us. When it
can placate us without compromising its initia-
tives, it is happy to do so, but next to Building
Brown we are insignificant, even problematic.
Crude justice
chance in a court of law.  bons and metals. Why, then, is ill-health so
For starters, the case is not fought by
the indigenous people of the area, but by a
contingency-fee attorney from the Upper West
Side of Manhattan.      animal waste.  himself after video evidence showed him
The case was unapologetically filed ex
post facto, under a law passed seven years
after the concession was lawfully terminated.
The NGOs propagating “Crude” would have
us indefinitely delay the rule of law in un-
derdeveloped countries in favor of knee-jerk
reactions to transfer money from successful
corporations to the poor.
Why do they bother trying to win over Brown
students’ hearts and minds? Because they know
their case has no chance in a court of law.  the issue for most people before the facts are
low the invalidation of contracts they were a
party to, the resulting legal volatility will deter
any venture from developing capital-intensive
infrastructure or introducing modern services
to those who desperately need them.
Experts have concluded that there is no
significant risk to human health at the remedi-
ated well sites. There has been no increased
risk of cancer in or around the affected area
and water samples met U.S. EPA and World
Health Organization standards for hydrocar-
We are the furthest thing from a priority.
In these circumstances, the allocation of
still more money to regal construction projects
is cruel regardless of the provenance of the
cash, but what makes this impossibly outra-
geous situation still worse is that the admin-
istration is doing this with our money. They
have two million unbudgeted dollars because
they shamelessly overcharged us in the middle
of a recession. Every student paid $340 more
in tuition than the University needed.
The ethical thing to do would be to grant
every student a $340 refund or credit towards
future tuition, because this is a recession and
families need that money more than the ad-
ministration. But instead the administration
put even more money to its glam projects, as
if trying to see just how much bull it could
manage to pull on us before anyone objected.
And the $two million may not be enough to
speed up construction. University officials
warn that more money may have to be taken
from somewhere else.
prevalent amongst the indigenous tribes? The
answer is simple: 90 out of 100 water samples
contain dangerous quantities of human and
The locales shown in “Crude” were filmed
in areas that PetroEcuador, the government
oil company, has been operating since the
end of the concession. PetroEcuador has a
long and well-documented history of envi-
ronmental irresponsibility. Taking samples
from these areas and blaming Texaco is akin
to your current landlord calling you sixteen
years after you moved out and demanding you
pay a fine for a mess that subsequent tenants
left behind.
This PR war is fought with misleading
photography (transport a little girl in front of
PetroEcuador oil, press “record”), insidious
misnomers (“The Amazon Chernobyl”) and
shocking insinuations.
To wit: The Ecuadorean frontman for the
plaintiff, Pablo Fajardo, repeatedly implies that
Chevron murdered his brother and ominously
intones that the incident has “never been in-
Monday, October 19, 2009 | Page 11
At the very least, the administration could
have asked us how we wanted our money to
be spent. Beppie Huidekoper, the executive
vice president for finance and administration
and the University’s acting Marie Antoinette,
told the Brown University Community Council
that the administration allocated the money to
Faunce because it wanted to choose a project
that would benefit the students who provided
the funds. But this is the administration putting
words in students’ mouths.
The University didn’t ask students what
they thought because, as a matter of policy,
this University doesn’t ask students what they
think. If it had, it would have heard about
refunds and credits, better financial aid and
respect for the humanity of employees. But
the administration doesn’t want to hear about
any of those things. It wants to hear about
glitzy buildings and high-profile projects that
attract donor dollars and promote prestige
— the metric administrators use to measure
their success.
The waste of our money, the unfeeling
disregard for human needs, the giddy eager-
ness to sink more resources into buildings
— we must use the Faunce farce to finally
dispense with the myth that the administration
is concerned with our welfare. We must re-
member that we attend a university that would
sooner spend other people’s money on build-
ings that don’t need it than on people who do.
Simon Liebling ’12 is from New Jersey.
He can be reached at
simon.liebling@gmail.com.
vestigated.” In truth, Wilson Fajardo’s death
was investigated by the police, and the three
local men responsible were identified.
The presiding judge recently recused
soliciting bribes on the order of millions of
dollars, acknowledging that the verdict has
been pre-ordained and explaining how dam-
ages paid would end up in the hands of the
government — which would use the cash
windfall to drill more.
The plaintiff’s case is hopeless. The Ama-
zon Defense Coalition is clinging to “Crude”
as a last ditch effort to embarrass Chevron
into paying a handsome settlement.
Why are we Brown students so willing
to abandon our critical faculties and jump
to their aid? Because the way this story has
been packaged, as that of a successful, evil
capitalist company in a legal battle with ex-
ploited “underdog” indigenous people, fits into
a baseless Manichean narrative that decides
ever heard.
When the CIA came to recruit at Brown,
students writhed around in pools of fake blood
to protest. When “Crude” came to do the same,
students sat and imbibed two hours of con-
temptible propaganda.
Though less visible to the naked eye, the
costs of complacent sanctimony are dear. I
ask that we defy the temptation to indulge in
uncritical self-righteousness, and search for
truth and justice in places where our political
inclinations tell us not to look.
Will Wray ’10 is not (yet) employed
by Big Oil.
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Today, October 19 tomorrow, October 20 Birdfish | Matthew Weiss

11 am — Seasonal Flu Clinics, Jo’s 7:30 PM — BLAST! The Movie, List

5:30 Pm — A Panel Discussion with
Romano Prodi: “Toward a New Fed-
eral Italy or the End of a United Italy,”
Smith-Buonanno 106
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8 pm — Brown University Jazz Com-
bos Concert, Grant Recital Hall

menu
Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Pulled Pork Sandwich, Lentil
Croquettes with Spicy Raita, Cheese
Pizza
Dinner — Beef Pot Pie, Vegan Garden
Chili, Tomato Rice Pilaf
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman
Lunch — Cavatini, Tomato Basil Pie,
Sauteed Zucchini and Onions
Dinner — Chicken Pot Pie, Vegan
Ratatouille, Cranberry Wild and White
Rice Pilaf

crossword

Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline

Hippomaniac | Mat Becker

STW | Jingtao Huang