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Planned budget cuts
concern faculty
By Nicole Friedman
Senior Staff Writer
The proposed budget cuts outlined
in President Ruth Simmons’ e-mail
to the Brown community last week
came as no surprise to some mem-
bers of the faculty, who had already
anticipated slowed hiring rates.
But the cuts could make it dif-
ficult for the University to meet fac-
ulty and student needs, especially in
popular departments, said Professor
of Philosophy James Dreier, who
chairs the Faculty Executive Com-
mittee.
In her e-mail, Simmons an-
nounced a “reduction in the planned
increase in the size of the faculty.”
Faculty growth was a major compo-
nent of the Plan for Academic En-
richment and the University now
boasts a faculty of 689 members,
compared with 589 in the 2002-2003
academic year, Dean of the Facul-
ty Rajiv Vohra wrote in an e-mail
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Dreier said this rapid faculty
growth worried the committee last
January.
During its review of the Plan for
Academic Enrichment, the commit-
tee found that faculty growth had
not been matched by increased
research funding, graduate school
growth or infrastructure support,
Dreier said.
Some faculty members said
that the postponement in Graduate
School growth could hurt depart-
ments, especially those that already
have few teaching assistants. Those
without graduate programs, such as
the International Relations program
and the Center for Language Stud-
ies, could also feel the pinch as they
depend on other departments for
graduate TAs.
“We’ll have to work closely with
the grad school to make sure that
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$15k donation stirs controversy
By Jenna Stark
News Editor
The University spent $15,000 to
register Vice President for In-
ternational Af fairs David Ken-
nedy ’76 for the Clinton Global
Initiative’s annual meeting last
September, according to a list
released by the Clinton F ounda-
tion in mid-December.
Questions were raised over the
circumstances and purpose of the
contribution — which appeared
as a donation on the Foundation’s
Web site — when the information
was released.
Despite the then-declining
economic conditions, Kennedy’s
registration fee was covered by
the President’s office, said Marisa
Quinn, vice president of public af-
fairs and university relations.
Psychiatry resident talks cadavers
By Britta Greene
Senior Staf f Writer
A body, bearing racist tattoos, is
donated to a medical school for
dissection. One shoulder bears a
swastika. On the other is written
“KKK.”
Should the body be presented
to the students for anatomical dis-
section? Should the tattoos be cut
off first? Should students even be
doing dissections when they could
just use computer models of the
human body?
Arguing for the continued use
of cadavers in medical training,
Christine Montross MD’06, a
resident in psychiatry, discussed
these questions with thoughtful
reflection and poetic eloquence
before a small crowd in Salomon
“Fifteen thousand dollars is
a fair amount of money,” Quinn
said, adding that it allowed “for
this tremendous opportunity to
meet with people from around the
world and engage in thoughtful
dialogue on issues of interest to
higher education and the broader
society.”
President Ruth Simmons also
attended the annual meeting, but
did not have to pay the registra-
tion fee as she was an “invited
guest,” Quinn said.
The University chose to send
Kennedy to the meeting to “en-
hance Brown’s profile in the inter-
national community, and to make
valuable connections with world
leaders,” Quinn wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald.
Kennedy said the meeting pro-
vides “a terrific oppor tunity to
101 Monday night.
Her lecture, entitled “Dissec-
tion and Doctoring: What The
Dead Teach Us About Healing The
Living,” followed the 2007 publica-
tion of her book “Body of Work:
Meditations on Mortality from the
Human Anatomy Lab.”
Montross argued that using
cadavers in medical training pre-
pares students for the physical and
emotional stress they are likely to
face in their careers.
Human dissection is “at times
awe-inspiring and at times pro-
foundly upsetting,” she said, add-
ing that calmness in the face of
emotional distress is a “learned
response.”
Her own experience with dis-
section, she said, recorded in full
in her book, was at first terrifying,
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meet a wide range of people who
could be helpful to the University
in one fell swoop.”
“There’s no conference like
CGI,” he added.
But the $15,000 registration
fee, or so-called donation, has
sparked some controversy, high-
lighted by a Dec. 23 Wall Street
Journal column that raised ques-
tions about nonprofits making
charitable donations to the Foun-
dation, and mentioned Brown by
name. The Herald had reported
two months earlier that the Uni-
versity received $205,000 in grant
money from the Foundation in
September, through the Clinton
Global Initiative University, a pro-
gram started by the Foundation
to promote leadership on college
continued on page 2
but in the end extremely valuable.
She said she holds deep respect for
those who donate their bodies to
science, though she is unsure of
whether she would do so herself.
She went on to examine the
evolution of attitudes toward
medicine among medical students,
many of whom enter the field out
of altruism and empathy, she said.
Over time, after prolonged lack of
sleep, loss of personal time and
continued exposure to emotionally
traumatic experiences, many stu-
dents begin to lose this empathy
and personal connection to their
patients, she said.
She said students are often
“depleted,” and that the fears of
failure and inadequacy force mem-
bers of the medical field to push
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Faculty reacts to budget cuts
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departments that provide the most
TAs for IR-related courses, such
as political science, don’t experi-
ence more of a TA shortage than
is already the case,” Peter Andreas,
associate professor of political sci-
ence and international studies and
director of the International Rela-
tions program, wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald.
Though the University has ex-
tended the staff and administrative
hiring freeze in place since Novem-
ber, Simmons has refrained from
freezing faculty hires. But in her
e-mail she noted that some depart-
ments may not be able to fill vacant
spaces “in order to pursue targets of
opportunity or meet extraordinary
teaching needs in other areas.”
According to Andreas, any va-
cancies in the IR program would
have to be filled immediately.
“The current faculty ‘supply’
simply does not adequately meet
the high student ‘demand’” for the
Frederic Lu / Herald
IR program, one of the University’s
Christine Montross delivers a lecture in Solomon 101.
largest concentrations, Andreas
sity’s endowment loss than other
departments, since the institute,
unlike the rest of the University,
“relies largely on its endowment
to cover operating expenses,” An-
dreas wrote.
In its report on the Plan for Aca-
demic Enrichment last January,
the Faculty Executive Committee
also noted that language classes at
Brown are “significantly larger than
those of our peers” and that there
“seems to be no normal or explicit
mechanism for adding lecturers as
enrollments grow.”
The Center for Language Stud-
ies is offering classes in Persian
this year due to outside funding,
but the donation will only cover
three years of instruction, said
Merle Krueger, associate director
of the center.
The faculty seemed divided on
the importance of the Target of
Opportunity hiring program, which
gives the University the flexibility
to hire academics who are leaders
in their fields.
Dreier said “some people are
skeptical” of the program because
the opportunity arises would be a
“mistake” for Brown, placing it in
an “environment of stagnation.”
So far, the program has not
prevented the school from hiring
most of its faculty at the junior level,
Vohra wrote in his e-mail, adding
that the program is now “more im-
portant than ever.”
Simmons’ proposed budget
cuts should not affect students in
the short term, since most of the
planned faculty growth is complete,
said Hesthaven, who is also a mem-
ber of the University Resources
Committee.
But “all the things that go along
with a better faculty student ratio,”
like smaller class sizes, more re-
search opportunities and better
advising, will “not be improving the
way we had hoped,” Dreier said.
In her e-mail, Simmons also rec-
ommended a salary freeze for “es-
sentially all faculty and staff.” She
noted exceptions for pre-existing
contracts with built-in pay raises
and base salary increases associ-
ated with promotions. She also
made an exemption for “specific

Montross draws insight from wrote. Simmons’ e-mail implied that

it might be more difficult for the
it would allow the University to hire
a famous professor instead of fill-
market pressures,” retaining the
University’s ability to compete if a

‘inevitability of death’
continued from page 1
themselves too hard. “We should
allow the inevitability of death to
remind us that we are every bit as
human and every bit as fallible as
our patients,” she said.
The cadavers — “lying on their
stainless-steel tables” and donated
out of sheer philanthropy — can
themselves “ser ve as symbols of
sudoku
the altruism of young doctors-to-
be,” she said.
Montross received a master’s
of fine arts in poetry from the Uni-
versity of Michigan, and her manu-
script “Embouchure” was a final-
ist for the National Poetry Series.
She told the crowd of her struggle
to balance her medical training
with her “stolen treasure” —
her writing.
department to fill some “gaping
holes” in its curriculum, he wrote,
adding that the program might not
have funding to hire short-term
visitors to teach “key IR courses not
offered by regular faculty.”
The IR program, which is
housed in the Watson Institute
for International Studies, could
be more vulnerable to the Univer-
Universities’ donations draw scrutiny
continued from page 1
campuses, and the Wal-Mar t
Foundation. The grant was meant
to expand a partnership between
Brown and Dillard University
in New Orleans. The initiative
also granted $2,000 each to four
Brown students — more than any
other university received.
Apart from Brown, universities
such as Columbia, Tufts Univer-
sity and the University of Califor-
nia at Los Angeles gave money to
the Foundation, according to the
Foundation’s donor list.
The column also raised ques-
tions regarding the transpar-
ency of the Clinton Foundation,
noting that the organization did
not have to release its donor list
ing several vacancies with junior
faculty.
“Sometimes when you try and
recruit a superstar, those super-
stars are not inspired to teach
undergraduate classes,” Dreier
said.
But Professor of Applied Math-
ematics Jan Hesthaven said that
not hiring the best professors if
prior to this year and still does
not specify the intended purpose
for the money. The donor list was
released as part of President Ba-
rack Obama’s vetting of Secretary
of State Hillar y Clinton, who was
then being considered for her
current cabinet position.
But there is no law barring uni-
versities from donating money to
a foundation, said David Brennen,
professor of law at the University
of Georgia School of Law.
“I am not aware of any prohi-
bition on a university donating
money to a foundation and the
foundation in turn providing a
grant back to the same univer-
sity,” he said.
The Clinton Foundation could
not be reached for comment.
faculty member is offered a posi-
tion elsewhere.
While the proposals outlined in
Simmons’ e-mail may not be met
with enthusiasm from the faculty
and staff, Hesthaven said, the most
important part of Simmons’ plan
was her effort to avoid placing the
financial burden on the students
as much as possible.
In addition to the registration
fee, conference attendees are ex-
pected to donate more money,
FoxNews.com reported in Sep-
tember 2007.
“Those who attend pay a
$15,000 registration fee and
are also expected to commit
time or money to the confer-
ence’s big issues. Those who
do not fulfill their pledges are
not invited back,” according to
FoxNews.com.
Still, the University only gave
the Foundation the money need-
ed to cover the registration fee,
Quinn said, adding that she is
“not aware” of plans to donate
further funds.
Kennedy said he does not plan
to attend the conference again.

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C ampus N EWS “We rarely ever get positive feedback.”

— Adam Cambier ’09, Brown Daily Jolt site manager

Continuing Ed turns to Facebook

By Talia Kagan
Contributing Writer
The question is familiar to many
an event organizer or program co-
ordinator: how do you keep Brown
students informed? For University
offices, the answers are also familiar
— table slipping, posters, mailbox
flyers and Morning Mail. But for
one office, add to that list: Face-
book.
Courtesy of DailyJolt.com The Office of Continuing Educa-
The new Brown Daily Jolt announces events on a “flyerboard.“ tion has used the Facebook paid
advertising feature to inform stu-
book, said she decided to use the
site to advertise at the suggestion
of a graduate assistant. Judging the
ad a success, Newcomb said when
she interviewed students for the RA
position last year, many mentioned
hearing about the job application
through Facebook. She said she
plans to run a similar ad again this
year.
Geoffrey Chisholm, director of
marketing for the office of continu-
ing education, also began running
Facebook ads for Summer Study
Abroad programs after personal
selling a product on the spot. But
unlike a flyer, Facebook is a reliable
presence, he said, adding that the
site allows him to continue promot-
ing deadlines during the holidays
— a time when many students make
decisions about vacation plans.
Facebook advertising is also ef-
fective because “it is highly target-
ed, so our ads can be relevant and
contextual,” Chisholm said. Accord-
ing to Facebook, advertisements
can have specific “demographic
and psychographic filters” for its
150 million active members, includ-

Daily Jolt makeover dents about Summer Study Abroad

programs and resident advisor hir-
ing for Summer at Brown, a sum-
experience with the site. Since last
November, he said he has run seven
ads for the program, “with nearly
ing those for location, education,
sex, age, relationship status and
relationship interests. Another fil-

to go live today mer study program for high school

By Dan Alexander
Staff Writer
The Brown Daily Jolt, an online forum
for the University community, is unveil-
ing a new look today.
The Web site’s new design aims
to increase participation and build
community among student users,
said Daily Jolt General Manager Max
Woolf.
The new Jolt’s centerpiece is a “fly-
erboard” — a bulletin board which
will feature events, announcements
and classified ads. Directly below the
flyerboard is a forum where users can
post comments.
“Right now, the events and an-
nouncements and all of that are kind
of hidden in the back parts of the Jolt,”
Adam Cambier ’09, site manager for
Brown’s Jolt site and a former Herald
opinions columnist, said. “The way
the new Jolt works out, there is a lot
more opportunity to see what people
around the Brown community have
to say — things they’re promoting,
things they believe in — just all kinds
of stuff.”
Cambier said the new Jolt will be
“a lot like eating at the Ratty minus
students.
Facebook first introduced its
a million total impressions,” or the
number of times the ad has been
viewed. He is also experimenting
ter option for advertisers can be
“keywords,” which are part of the
information listed in a user’s profile,
targeted advertising initiative in with running ads for the office’s such as favorite music or movies.
having to eat at the Ratty.” He likened November 2007. The ads appear pre-college programs. Chisholm and Newcomb said they
the flyerboard to a table full of slips on the right-hand side of the screen Newcomb and Chisholm said both targeted their ads at Brown
advertising events, activities and stu- when users view profiles. They can that advertising through Facebook undergraduates. Chisholm has also
dent groups. The forum is designed to include an image and allow for a is very cost-effective, especially be- run his ads for college students at
emulate Ratty conversation, he said. maximum of 135 characters. cause their offices are more con- peer institutions.
The Jolt released a beta version, a Jacqueline Newcomb, assistant cerned with the number of impres- It is difficult to estimate how
site that looks like the new Jolt but is director of continuing education, sions that an ad gets than with its many students have noticed the
still not fully functional. The new Jolt said she first ran a Facebook ad number of clicks, which are more ads. Sasha David ’10, said she saw
has caused complaints on the Daily last February to invite Brown un- expensive, they said. the Summer Study Abroad ad, and
Jolt blogs, Cambier said, and some dergraduates to apply for an RA Chisholm said he sees the ads as clicked on it for more information,
users have threatened to never visit position for Summer at Brown. The “a paperless flyer, not an ad” since though she is still unsure about her
the Jolt again after its new version text-only ad ran for a week. they are meant for “creating aware- summer plans. She has also seen
goes live. Newcomb, who is listed as a ness and reminding about (program
“We rarely ever get positive feed- member of “Brown staff” on Face- application) deadlines” instead of continued on page 4
back because people who are happy
don’t feel the need to say anything,
whereas people who are unhappy feel
the need to say a lot,” Cambier said.
“A lot of what we’ve heard back from
people directly at Brown is that they
hate the new site and that it’s going
to be awful,” he said. But, according
to Cambier, the Jolt has launched its
new format at all but seven of the 200
Daily Jolt campuses nationwide, and it
has been well-received thus far.
Jolt user Justine Stewart ’11, who
has accessed the site’s beta version,
said it was an improvement. “I think
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Researcher makes two

face breakthroughs
By Luisa Robledo
Staf f Writer
Michael Tarr, professor of cogni-
tive and linguistic sciences, had a
vision ­— or two. Conducting two
research projects simultaneously
regarding visual perception, Tarr
and his fellow researchers con-
cluded not only that visual training
can lead to a reduction of racial
bias, but also that it is possible to
distinguish men from women us-
ing only color patterns shown on
a person’s skin.
In the first project, Tarr, co-
director of the Center for Vision
Research, and Sophie Lebrecht GS
used research conducted at the
University of Victoria to analyze the
“unconscious biases” that Cauca-
sians have toward other races and
performed visual training exercises
on subjects to help them identify
members of the opposite race, ac-
cording to the study released in the
journal PLoS One on Jan. 21.
Jim Tanaka, professor of psy-
chology at the University of Victo-
ria, and McGill University graduate
student Lara Pierce conducted the
experiments on 20 Caucasian vol-
unteers.
“Our emphasis is the idea of
face recognition as a form of ex-
pertise,” Tanaka said.
The experiment used the Affec-
tive Lexical Priming Score, a test
designed to measure unconscious
social biases, Pierce wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald. The test sub-
jects were presented with a series
of African-American and Caucasian
faces, which were followed by a
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C ampus N EWS “I don’t know anyone who looks at the ads. I know I haven’t.”
Summer@Brown on Facebook
continued from page 3
several local Facebook ads for jobs
in Providence, as well as advertise-
ments to sell college class notes.
On the usefulness of Facebook ads,
David said, “a lot of times we try
to block them out, but people do
read them,” noting the success of
the Obama campaign’s Facebook
ads.
Katharine Mead ’12 said that
Mixed reviews for new-look Jolt
continued from page 3
it’s a lot easier to read,” she said.
But Stewart had some complaints.
“This home page is still really long.
Who is going to scroll through all of
that?” she said.
Cambier said he had doubts
about the new Jolt initially, though
he now supports the changes.
“Nobody likes change, you know.
I’ve been working at the Jolt for two
and a half years, and it’s always been
the same format,” Cambier said. “So
it’s tough to readjust, but I think it
will be worth it.”
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usually “we’re trained to ignore ads
online because they don’t apply to
us, but Facebook seems to have
identified that and made them ap-
ply (to) us.”
But Jake Maxon ’12, said he
didn’t find advertising on Facebook
to be effective. “I don’t know any-
one who looks at the ads. I know I
haven’t,” he said.
Despite the positive initial re-
sponse to their Facebook ads, Ch-
The new site has been a long time
coming. Cambier said he first heard
of impending changes to the site’s
design when he started working for
the Jolt in 2006. But Woolf, the site’s
general manager, said they began
making changes to the site in the
fall of 2007.
The Jolt began by surveying us-
ers on all the campuses it serves
and asking them what changes they
would like to see. A team at the Jolt
headquarters in Boston began cod-
ing for the new site, keeping in mind
users’ suggestions.
Prof: training reduces bias
continued from page 3
string of letters from the alphabet
that formed either non-words or
words with a positive or negative
connotation.
“If racial bias is present, Cau-
casian participants are faster at
responding to a negative word
when it is preceded by an African
American face,” Pierce wrote.
The participants then under-
went training during which they
learned to identify and name the
different African-American faces,
Tanaka said. The team concluded
that after such training, partici-
pants were less likely to identify
African-American faces with nega-
tive words.
“I think it’s a ver y optimistic
result,” Tanaka said. “Hopefully,
it’s a way for us to break racial
stereotypes.”
Lebrecht and Tarr said this
training might be used to decrease
racial profiling by police and immi-
gration officers in the future.
“By learning how to tell (races)
apart, they are less likely to stereo-
type them,” Tarr said.
Lebrecht has already begun
using the knowledge gained from
her and Tarr’s research in a “real
world” study. As part of a collab-
orative project led by Leslie Roos
’09, Lebrecht visits Amos House,
a soup kitchen and shelter in Provi-
dence, to improve the staff’s “social
interactions,” Roos said.
Amos House is a ver y “multi-
cultural environment,” Lebrecht
said, adding that she and Roos “are
going monitor how the training af-
fects interactions of the staff.”
In addition to his work on racial
biases, Tarr also collaborated on a
research project with Adrian Nestor
GS that examined the differing skin
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
isholm and Newcomb said they will
continue using traditional methods
of campus advertising such as ta-
bleslipping and mailbox stuffing,
along with Facebook.
As for the future of targeted ads,
Chisholm said he has noticed an
increasing number of commercial
ads on Facebook.
He said, “Will those ads become
less effective over time when there’s
more noise?”
The site’s administrators at Brown
had limited influence on the new de-
sign, Cambier said. “We’ve helped to
show them what people want out of
the Jolt, and what people come to the
Jolt for, but as far as direct input, we
haven’t had as big of a say.”
Woolf said the Jolt headquar-
ters held off on implementing the
changes at Brown because Brown’s
Jolt has such high traffic, and they
wanted everything to run smoothly
when it launched.
“We’re saving the best for last,”
he said.
Courtesy of Brown.edu
Training in face identification may-
reduce covert racial biases at play
in racial profiling.
tones of men and women.
Tarr and Nestor analyzed over
200 images of Caucasian male and
female faces to determine that, con-
trar y to popular belief, Tarr said,
men have more reddish skin while
women have more greenish skin.
The researchers’ findings,
which were published in the jour-
nal “Psychological Science,” could
help determine why women wear
make-up, he said.
“Women may be putting on red
make-up to highlight green areas,”
Tarr said.
The information could also be
used in advertising and facial rec-
ognition technology, according to
a Brown press release.
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The Providence Police are working with the College Hill Neighborhood Association to prevent and remove
graffiti from local buildings.
Fighting Hill graffiti a group effort
By Rachel Starr
Contributing Writer
The College Hill Neighborhood
Association has teamed up with
Providence Police to revamp graf-
fiti removal and prevention on Col-
lege Hill in response to a perceived
increase in tagging.
All of the major historic homes
in the neighborhood have been hit
by taggers, according to co-chair of
the CHNA Graffiti Initiative Susan
Hardy.
“They’re just opportunists out
there to destroy private property,”
Hardy said, adding that the initiative
“doesn’t consider them artists by
any means.”
The group has focused its efforts
on raising community awareness
about graffiti, Hardy said. When
the CHNA first created the initiative
three years ago, she and Co-Chair
Steven Heck compiled information
about graffiti removal and made it
publicly accessible on the Internet.
The initiative’s page on the CHNA
Web site provides the phone number
of the police graffiti hotline and tips
to help residents clean up hard-to-
remove spray paint. Calling to report
an incident or a suspicious behavior
is “a great way for the citizens of Col-
lege Hill to help out,” Hardy said.
In addition to providing informa-
tion on the Web site, members of
the initiative distribute informative
flyers and brochures at community
events.
According to Hardy, Lieutenant
John Ryan, commander of District 9,
which includes Brown and much of
the East Side, “has made graffiti one
of his priorities,” because he recog-
nizes that it is an ongoing problem
and receives “plenty of complaints”
from residents. The Police Depart-
ment has “really reached out to the
community” due to Ryan’s “style”
and his desire to listen to neighbors’
concerns, she added.
Ryan agreed that the police de-
partment has adopted graffiti as “a
top priority” due to its “good work-
ing relationship with the College
Hill neighborhood.” He said the
amount of tagging has increased
significantly, especially “within the
last three months,” which has forced
the police department to dedicate
significant time and resources to the
“sometimes daily” problem.
At a meeting Monday night about
graffiti on College Hill, members
of the CHNA, public safety officers
from both Brown and the Rhode Is-
land School of Design, Providence
police officers and local mural artists
joined Ryan in discussing solutions
to tagging. Dauna Noble, one of the
mural artists in attendance, said
Providence needs to have a “public
education campaign,” echoing the
objectives of the CHNA initiative.
“It seems to me that the only
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“The biggest thing we can do with murals is take away their canvas.”
— Dauna Noble, local mural artist, on preventing graffiti
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thing that’s really going to help with
the really gratuitous tagging is get-
ting them caught much more often,”
Noble said.
Providence Police Officer Nicole
Darling said it is nearly impossible to
know when tagging occurs. She said
taggers do not limit their activities to
nights and weekends.
Due to the difficulty of catching
perpetrators in the act, the group
discussed alternative deterrents to
vandalism, such as painting murals
around the city on walls that taggers
would normally claim.
“The biggest thing we can do with
murals is take away their canvas,”
Noble said.
Jennifer Rydwansky, the other
mural artist at the meeting, said mu-
rals would “get the neighborhood
to respect the wall and respect the
artwork.”
RISD Public Safety Officer Kris
Paglio said the “rush of getting away
with it” could be “channeled into do-
ing something positive for the com-
munity,” adding that art programs at
schools could serve that purpose.
Hardy said it is both important
and effective to educate the com-
munity about “how destructive this
mode of so-called ‘artistic expres-
sion’ is.”
Darling agreed, saying the best
way for citizens to get involved is to
call the graffiti hot line if they ob-
serve someone tagging.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | Page 5
State grapples with new
changes to Medicaid
By Melissa Shube
Senior Staf f Writer
Rhode Island became the first
state to gain control of its Med-
icaid program last month when
the General Assembly approved
an unprecedented deal between
Governor Donald Carcieri ’65 and
the Bush administration. The Med-
icaid waiver provides the state with
greater flexibility in exchange for
a cap on federal funding for the
program.
“The waiver takes (Medicaid)
out of the federal bureaucracy and
gives the state the ability to run it
itself,” said Amy Kemp, Carcieri’s
press secretary.
Medicaid is a federal aid pro-
gram which pays for medical care
for low-income families and indi-
viduals.
Before the waiver was passed,
the state had little say in how Med-
icaid operated, and the federal gov-
ernment contributed just over fifty
cents for every dollar spent by the
state on Medicaid. With the waiver,
the federal government’s spending
will be capped at $12 billion over the
next five years in exchange for fuller
state control of the program.
The rising costs and inefficien-
cies within the program made an
overhaul necessary, Kemp said, call-
ing the expenses “unsustainable.”
The waiver will help decrease
the costs of the program, Kemp
said. Rhode Island will be able to
cut costs by sending fewer people to
long-term care facilities and obtain-
ing better prices for medication and
medical services, she added.
Previously, Medicaid did not pay
for home care, so an elderly person
in need of additional care had no
choice but to move into a nursing
home, Kemp said.
Allowing able individuals to be
cared for at home is “much more
cost-effective,” she said, but added
that no one will be forced to leave
his or her institutional facilities un-
der the waiver.
Mary Linn Hamilton, president
of the Visiting Nurse Association of
Rhode Island, said her organization
supports the waiver, adding that if
possible, “everyone would prefer to
be taken care of at home.”
Steve DeToy, director of Gov-
ernment and Public Affairs for the
Rhode Island Medical Society, said
his organization supports the flex-
ibility of the plan but is concerned
about the spending cap.
“Giving elderly, disabled people
and others the opportunity to have a
more appropriate site for their care
is what we need to do,” he said.
“We didn’t need to take the
cap in order to get the waivers we
needed.”
If the need for Medicaid funding
exceeds the $12 billion allocated by
the federal government, the state
will either have to find additional
funding or cut the number of people
on Medicaid by adjusting eligibility
requirements.
“When the federal money runs
out, the state will be responsible
for the Medicaid costs and more
than likely they will start decimat-
ing the entire Medicaid system,”
DeToy said. “That is what we’re
most fearful about.”
Edward Miller, assistant profes-
sor of Public Policy, Political Sci-
ence and Community Health, said
the waiver was risky in light of the
economic downturn.
Noting Rhode Island’s high un-
employment, Miller said, “People
lose their jobs and they lose their
income, so there might be a grow-
ing demand for people to be on
Medicaid.”
“This could become something,
I think, that would come back to
bite them in the rear end down the
road,” he said.
Kemp said the state is “ver y,
very comfortable” with the agree-
ment to cap federal spending.
Though the waiver has gone into
effect, it could take some time for
issues of oversight and implementa-
tion to be addressed, she said.
“In general, the assembly does
not act very quickly,” DeToy said.
“I’m a little fearful that they swing
the pendulum a little too far and
create a bottleneck in the state’s
ability to keep making the changes
necessary in a timely fashion.”
The Providence Journal reported
Monday that the governor didn’t yet
have enough personnel, including
long term care specialists, nurses,
case workers and implementation
aids, to move for ward with the
changes to Medicaid.
While Hamilton is concerned
about the state’s ability “to manage
and efficiently execute the waiver,”
she remains positive. “I think it’s a
really good opportunity for the state
of Rhode Island to do really new and
different things to provide services
and stay cost effective.”
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The Brown Daily Herald
Senate opens $885b
stimulus plan debate
By Janet Hook
and Maura Reynolds
Los Angeles T imes
WASHINGTON — With the econo-
my still spiraling downward and the
political landscape in flux, the Senate
on Monday opened debate on an
$885 billion stimulus plan that faces
bipartisan questions about whether
it spends too little on housing and
infrastructure and too much on other
things.
President Barack Obama’s ambi-
tious plan is headed for more than a
week of robust debate in the Senate,
where it faces a stronger possibility
of winning at least some bipartisan
support than it had in the House. Not
a single House Republican voted for
it last week.
Senate Republicans will propose
a panoply of amendments to make
the bill more palatable — including
moves to strip out spending they con-
sider inappropriate in an economic
stimulus bill. One such target: $75
million to help people quit smoking.
Such changes, if accepted, could win
support for the plan from conserva-
tive Democrats such as Sen. Ben
Nelson, D-Neb., as well as Republi-
cans. Both groups want to keep the
program focused on short-term job
creation.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., suggested that
Obama also believes the bill could
be focused more sharply — or that
the president is at least open to com-
promise. “Republicans agree with
President Obama that we should
trim things out that don’t put people
back to work,” McConnell said as he
opened debate.
To increase the bill’s focus on
problems in the housing market,
members of both parties are consid-
ering liberalizing and expanding a
tax credit for first-time home buyers
that was approved last year in other
legislation but had little immediate
impact.
Under the reformulation be-
ing discussed, the credit would be
doubled, to $15,000, and it would
not have to be repaid, as the earlier
measure required.
The home-buyer provision re-
flects a seeming paradox: Although
Republicans and conservative Demo-
crats complain that the bill’s price
tag is too high, the Senate probably
will produce a bill significantly more
expensive than the House’s $819- bil-
lion version.
The Obama administration is
keen on passing the bill as soon as
possible, not only to speed relief to
the economy but to avoid having
the plan become entangled in an-
other, far more difficult and divisive
issue: new action to shore up the
still-unstable financial system.
The possibility that at least two of
the nation’s biggest banks might be
in danger of collapse could force the
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administration to ask Congress for
another eye-popping bailout.
Tactically, the White House wants
to have the stimulus plan approved
and out of the way before any such
proposal is made. Given the wide-
spread anger over Wall Street bo-
nuses and what are seen as other ex-
cesses, proposing to shell out more
tax dollars could trigger extreme
sticker shock in both parties.
Treasur y Secretar y Timothy
Geithner is expected to lay out the
framework of the administration’s
financial sector plan early next
week.
Obama met with top Democratic
congressional leaders Monday to
discuss the stimulus bill and other
upcoming legislation. A Democratic
source familiar with the meeting said
that there was a consensus that when
all possible additions or changes to
the bill have been decided, the total
cost should not exceed $900 billion.
That means some of the spending
items would have to be jettisoned.
Congressional Democrats indi-
cated that they would be willing to
drop some of the business tax breaks
in the bill, but that the administration
wanted to keep them in hopes of at-
tracting Republican support.
Republicans plan to propose ad-
ditional income tax cuts for middle-
class workers, McConnell said.
That might be hard to pass in the
Democratic controlled Senate, but
the GOP might garner more sup-
port for efforts to strip out spending
that they do not believe will generate
jobs quickly.
Nebraska Democrat Nelson is a
fiscal conservative who is working
with Republican Sen. Susan Collins
of Maine and other senators to iden-
tify spending proposals that could
be removed — such as the smoking
cessation funding or $400 million for
testing and prevention of sexually
transmitted diseases.
“I’d have a great deal of difficulty
voting for the bill as written,” Nelson
said, “but I am looking for a way to
say yes.”
Once the Senate passes the bill,
expected early next week, negotia-
tors will have to iron out differences
with the House version.
Members of both parties have
complained that both the House and
Senate bills give short shrift to fund-
ing for highway construction and
repair, the traditional cornerstone
of efforts to spur job creation. Only
$27 billion was included in the Sen-
ate bill for road projects.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,
plans to propose another $25 bil-
lion for highway, transit and water
projects.
In providing aid to workers
who have already lost their jobs,
the House bill is more generous.
It provides more far-reaching
expansions of health insurance
coverage.
Daschle’s network one of D.C.’s largest
By Ceci Connolly
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — As he battles
this week to save his nomination
to be secretar y of Health and Hu-
man Ser vices, one thing is cer-
tain: No one in Washington has a
better-positioned network of allies
in the Obama administration than
Thomas A. Daschle.
Over three decades on Capitol
Hill, including 10 years as the Sen-
ate Democratic leader, Daschle
has nurtured one of the largest,
most experienced talent pools
in the city. They guided Barack
Obama from his first days in the
Senate, through the presidential
race and into the White House.
His tentacles, moreover, stretch
far beyond the agency Obama
picked him to lead, reaching
across the entire administration
from the upper echelons of the
White House to mid-level de-
partmental positions to Obama’s
kitchen Cabinet.
The network is being tapped
this week as Daschle and his al-
lies scramble to explain why he
did not pay more than $100,000
in back taxes, primarily for the
use of a car and driver for three
years. After a 75-minute closed-
door meeting Monday with the
Senate Finance Committee, he
emerged ashen-faced and apolo-
getic. His confirmation vote has
been postponed until at least the
middle of next week.
Republicans remained non-
committal Monday, weighing the
cost benefits of perhaps killing
the nomination of a former col-
league and close personal friend
of the president. Democrats rose
to Daschle’s defense, including,
most notably, the man who would
be without much of his top staff
were it not for Daschle.
Asked Monday morning if he
stands by Daschle, Obama said
firmly: “Absolutely.”
If he weathers the tax contro-
versy, Daschle probably will take
office as one of the best-connected
Cabinet secretaries in the admin-
istration, if not histor y.
At least a dozen Daschle alum-
ni are stepping into the highest
positions of the federal govern-
ment. Already, Obama and Vice
President Joe Biden have tapped
Daschle veterans to manage their
staffs, guide foreign policy and
craft public relations strategy. In
addition to the new HHS chief of
staff, the chiefs of staff to Biden,
the National Security Council and
Treasury Secretary Timothy Gei-
thner all worked for Daschle. His
allies oversaw Obama’s transition
team — including vetting Daschle
himself — and one ser ves as the
president’s personal lawyer.
“This is notable for the breadth
and scope and number,” said Chris
Jennings, who was the Clinton ad-
ministration point man on health
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | Page 6
care and knows the challenges
of navigating the White House
bureaucracy.
As news broke over the week-
end that Daschle had made sev-
eral tax errors, many of those
former colleagues and aides
helped mount a defense, prais-
ing his integrity on talk shows,
in press releases and whispered
asides. Not a single lawmaker has
called for him to withdraw.
But the real potency of the
network will come if Daschle is
confirmed, said Ross Baker, a
political scientist at Rutgers Uni-
versity. With such well-placed,
trusted advisers, he would be in a
position to promote his priorities
and shape policy well beyond the
contours of his department.
“The fact that he has eyes and
ears in the White House, rather
than way down in the HHS bu-
reaucracy, is really an advantage,”
Baker said. He likened Daschle’s
sphere of influence to the broad
power that Secretary of State Hen-
r y Kissinger held in the Nixon
administration.
“Geography is determinant
of influence,” he said. “To have
people proximate to the president
is a real advantage.”
Like Daschle, Secretar y of
State Hillar y Rodham Clinton
can lay claim to an impressive
network of insiders, developed
during her husband’s eight years
in the Oval Office and her eight in
the Senate. Many have worked for
Daschle as well. But the Clinton
coalition has become fractured
and she carries the lingering
scars of a contentious fight with
Obama in the Democratic presi-
dential primaries.
By contrast, Daschle and
Obama share an uncommon
bond, forged during the 2004
campaign. Many — including
Daschle’s aides — had expected
him to seek the White House. But
the South Dakotan lost a nasty
re-election fight and the young
Illinois legislator burst onto the
national scene and into the U.S.
Senate.
“Tom was the first guy to go
with Obama” in the pre-presiden-
tial campaign season, said Fred-
erick Graefe, a Washington lob-
byist and one of Daschle’s oldest
friends. “He told him, `Run now,
don’t wait, don’t make the mistake
I made. I’ll give you ever ybody I
have — the campaign team, the
personal staff, leadership staff,
fundraising lists — lock stock
and barrel.’
“It was a ready-made team,”
Graefe added.
As a Senate leader with author-
ity over not just his personal staff
but several policy and campaign
committees as well, Daschle
employed more than 100 people
at any given time. From 1994 to
2005, even more than the Clinton
White House, “the University of
Daschle” was the place to learn
the inner workings of governing,
Baker said.
More than half a dozen Daschle
veterans hold high-ranking White
House positions, most notably
Pete Rouse, who was his chief of
staff and is now senior adviser to
the president, and Phil Schiliro,
Obama’s legislative liaison.
Daschle-ites are also taking
positions at the Agriculture De-
partment and the Democratic Na-
tional Committee. Some of his
closest allies are among Obama’s
most trusted outside advisers,
a select group whose influence
comes not from a title but from a
personal bond. They include John
Podesta, president of the Center
for American Progress who mas-
terminded Obama’s transition,
lawyer Robert Bauer and political
consultant Anita Dunn.
“The spokes of the wheel all
lead to Pete Rouse,” said Dunn,
who has deep ties to both men.
“When Pete went to work for Ba-
rack, what Barack got — and I
don’t think he realized it — was
the only network in Democratic
circles that from both a policy and
political perspective came close
to the Clinton network.”
Rouse got his start in Wash-
ington in the early 1970s when
he and Daschle were young aides
to then-Senator James Abourezk,
D-S.D. In 1986, he began an 18-
year stint with Daschle.
When Daschle lost in 2004,
he encouraged his team to sign
on with Obama. Rouse agreed
and eventually recruited many
of Obama’s top aides, including
Schiliro and the husband-and-
wife team Dan Pfeiffer and Sarah
Feinberg.
If confirmed, Daschle will be
“HHS secretary plus,” said Dunn,
referring to the additional role as
head of the new White House Of-
fice of Health Reform, which has
a small but well-situated office in
the basement of the West Wing.
If Daschle were working at
HHS headquarters, his “embeds,”
as Dunn calls them, could pro-
vide “an extraordinar y level of
information and access that most
Cabinet secretaries don’t have.”
“It’s a matter of him not having
to go in and forge relationships,”
she said. “Daschle gets to deal
directly with people he knows and
is comfortable with.”
If as HHS secretary he wanted
to tweak health tax policy, his
longtime chief of staf f, Mark
Childress, would need only pick
up the phone and call former col-
league Mark Patterson, Geith-
ner’s chief of staff. If there were
an international health issue to
resolve, Childress could contact
Daschle alums Mark Lippert at
the NSC and Denis McDonough
on the White House staff.
And if Daschle needed assis-
tance from Biden, he could turn
to Ron Klain, the vice president’s
chief of staff, who oversaw the
Senate Democratic Leadership
Committee for Daschle in 1995.
Biden was making calls on Dasch-
le’s behalf Monday.
The Daschle hires that Obama
has made are the “cream of the
crop” of the Democratic establish-
ment, Jennings said.
SportsTuesday
The Brown Daily Herald
Strong finish
for track and
field at Harvard
By Benjy Asher
Spor ts Editor
The men’s and women’s track and
field teams both competed at the
Harvard Select Meet on Saturday af-
ternoon. The women’s team earned
second-place out of four with solid
showings across the board. The
men had several strong individual
performances, but as a team fin-
ished fourth out of five teams.
Leading the way for the wom-
en’s team was Nicole Burns ’09,
who competed in the 200-meter
dash and the 400-meter dash. In
the 400m, Burns ran to a first-place
finish in 55.53 seconds, just over
half a second ahead of Cornell’s
Jessica Weyman.
“I was satisfied with the 400.
I think I held back a little, and I
could’ve run faster, but the most
important thing was to beat Cor-
nell,” Burns said. “I wanted to hit
55 flat, and I was a little short of
that, but it’s a good start early in
the season.”
Burns also turned in a second-
place finish in the 200m with a time
of 25.29, but was disappointed with
her race, particularly her start.
“I wasn’t happy at all with the
200 — I was a little hesitant off the
blocks,” Burns said.
The Bears also dominated the
800m in which Samantha Adelberg
’11 and Roseanne Fleming ’12 man-
aged a one-two finish, with times
of 2:10.29 and 2:14.89, respectively.
Galia Dietz ’12 was close behind in
2:16.49, good enough for fourth
place.
Kesley Ramsey ’11 continued
the strong middle-distance running
for Brown, earning a second-place
finish in the mile with a time of
5:00.59.
The Bears also got strong con-
tributions from the field athletes,
led by Br ynn Smith ’11, Danielle
Grunloh ’10 and Natasha Smith
’11, who finished first, second and
fourth in shot put, respectively.
Natasha Smith, a pentathlete who
is currently limited to shot put
due to a foot injury, threw 11.70m,
while Grunloh threw 13.73m, and
Smith took the win with a toss of
14.76m”.
“Harvard has a really good cir-
cle, so traditionally I’ve been able
to throw well there,” Smith said.
“I was really happy with how the
team’s placing turned out.”
Smith also competed in the
weight throw, where she finished
fourth with a distance of14.93m,
behind Molly Hawskley ’09, who
came in third with a personal-best
throw of 50’.
“Hawksley had a huge (personal
record) this weekend, and she’s
been working so hard, so that was
very exciting for her,” Smith said. “
The throwing squad has such great
potential,” she added.
The jumpers performed well,
too, led by Grace Watson ’11, who
continued on page 8
Natalie Bonds ’10 gave a strong performance under the basket this
past weekend, averaging 14 points and 8.5 rebounds per game.
M. basketball stumbles on weekend road trip
By Katie Wood
Assistant Spor ts Editor
The men’s basketball team (6-12,
0-4 Ivy) continued the middle por-
tion of a five-game road stretch
by taking on Cornell (14-6, 4-0
Ivy) and Columbia (7-11, 2-2 Ivy)
this past weekend. But Brown
could not overcome the defend-
ing champion Big Red and the
physical play of the Lions, losing
both games.
Cornell showed it was a team
on a mission to repeat its suc-
cess from last season, handling
the Bears, 90-58, and extending
its conference winning streak to
18 games — now at 19 after a win
over Yale on Saturday. Brown kept
the Columbia game close through-
out but could not pull away with
the win, falling 65-59.
The Bears headed to Cornell
in search of their first conference
win, as they came out ready to play
in the first five minutes, building
up a 14-9 lead. Tri-captain Scott
Friske ’09 spear-headed the quick
start, contributing six points and
an assist during a 12-2 run early
on. But the Big Red answered the
Bears’ hot start with a 14-0 run to
build a comfortable lead, 23-14,
with 10 minutes remaining in the
first half.
“At that point, they stepped up
their intensity on defense, and we
didn’t match the intensity,” Friske
said. “When a team shoots as well
as they do, it feels like ever y shot
Justin Coleman / Herald
Tri-captain Peter Sullivan ’11 led the Bears in scoring with 16.5 points
per game in their two losses to Colombia and Cornell this weekend.
is going in.”
The Bears found themselves
down by a margin of 18 points
shortly before the half, but Matt
Muller y ’10 stepped out from his
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | Page 7
W. basketball
struggles in N.Y. trip
By Nicole Stock
Sports Staff Writer
Strong point guard play from Cornell
and Columbia handed the women’s
basketball team (3-15, 1-3 Ivy) two
more losses this past weekend.
Brown looked evenly matched with
both teams, but lacked consistency
and was unsuccessful in pulling out
a victory.
In the match-up with Cornell (7-9,
3-1 Ivy) the Bears came out of the
gate strong, matching Cornell basket
for basket in the beginning of the
half, but the Big Red started to pull
away from Brown at the 12-minute
mark when they opened up a six-
point lead.
Cornell would continue to attack
on the offensive end, boosting its
lead to as high as 13 with less than
four minutes to play in the first half.
Although the Bears fought back, the
Big Red scored six points in the last
minute of the stanza to head into the
locker room with a 38-25 lead. Cornell
shot 60 percent from the field in the
first half, while Bruno shot just 31
percent.
Brown turned it around in the sec-
ond half, outscoring Cornell 37-36 in
the final 20 minutes of play. Courtney
Lee ’10 and Nataile Bonds ’10 led the
way for the Bears. Lee ended the
Justin Coleman / Herald
normal position underneath the
basket and canned a three-pointer
with seconds remaining to close
the deficit to 15.
Mullery scored 13 points in the
game with her first career double-
double, scoring 11 points and picking
up 10 rebounds, while also recording
three steals and four assists in 40
minutes of play. Bonds also sparked
the Bears offense with 18 points and
nine rebounds of her own.
“Coming into the game we knew
how they played post defense, so we
isolated Natalie down low, which al-
lowed her to score, and once the in-
side scores, it opens up the outside
shots,” Lee said.
The duo combined for half of
Brown’s points in the second half,
as the team shot 50 percent from
the field and held Cornell to just 36
percent.
“Consistency from both Courtney
and Natalie is something that the
team depends on,” said Head Coach
Jean Burr. “They have faced the chal-
lenge and stepped up.”
The Bears would come no closer
than nine points to the Big Red, and
their second half push was just a
little too late as Brown fell by a final
score of 74-62. Despite the relatively
lopsided final score, the Bears had
strong showings in other aspects of
the game as Brown out-rebounded
Cornell 34-32, while the teams fin-
ished with an even turnover margin,
continued on page 8
first half to lead the Bears, while
Cornell’s Louis Dale, reigning Ivy
League Player of the Year, added
13 of his game-high 23 points be-
fore the break.
The Big Red picked up right
where they left off as they opened
up with a 17-6 run, extending their
lead to 57-31 with just under 14
minutes remaining in the game.
They continued their domination
of the Bears as they finished off
the game with a 90-58 rout, includ-
ing an impressive 54 percent from
the floor and an 11-of-22 perfor-
mance from behind the arc.
“Obviously Friday night we ran
into a great team,” Friske said.
“For anybody to beat Cornell, they
have to play great basketball —
we didn’t do that.”
Tri-captain Peter Sullivan ’11
led the way for the Bears with 15
points, to go along with four re-
bounds. Muller y, the Ivy League
leader in field goal percentage,
managed just one point after in-
termission to finish with 14, and
a team-high six rebounds while
Friske finished the game with
eight points.
The Big Red held a 43-25 re-
bound advantage over the Bears,
who, only one day later, out-re-
bounded Columbia by a margin
of 42-25.
The Columbia game got of f
to a slow start as each team re-
corded one field goal in the first
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W. hoops drops two
over weekend
continued from page 7
with 18 each.
“The biggest differences were
the uncontested shots we gave up,
especially behind the arc,” Lee said.
“They also got a lot more points from
the free throw line than we did.”
Cornell’s Shanna Scarselletta
scored a game-high 22 points, fol-
lowed closely by teammate Lauren
Benson’s 20 points. Benson contrib-
uted solid point guard play with a 50
percent mark from behind the arc
with a 2-for-4 effort and a solid 10-
of-14 showing from the free-throw
line.
“It was disappointing that the
point guard and center came away
with the best games, and we knew
they were their best players. We
needed to make other players step
up on their team,” Burr said.
Columbia 76, Brown 51
The next evening the Bears faced
the same challenge from Columbia
(9-9, 2-2 Ivy). Strong point guard and
center play by the Lions would end up
being the deciding factor in another
hard fought game. Columbia’s Sara
Yee had a career-high 20 points, along
with seven rebounds, to push Colum-
bia past Brown, 76-51, on Saturday.
The first 10 minutes of the game
were tight with neither team able
build a substantial lead. Christina
Johnson ’10 helped keep the Bears
close with strong outside shooting.
It wasn’t until the last five minutes
of the half that the Lions would pull
away from the Bears, going on a 12-4
run to open up a 31-21 lead.
In the final minute of the first half
Sarah Delk ’11 drained a three to pull
the Bears to within seven points head-
ing into halftime. In the first half the
Bears shot 36 percent from the field,
while Columbia managed to shoot
slightly better at 42 percent.
“We could have been more ag-
gressive against Columbia, but we
did a good job breaking their press
and we got good looks at the basket
on offense,” Burr said.
Bruno started the second half on
fire, creating offensive opportunities
and cutting the Lions’ lead to just
three. Sadiea Williams ’11 and Lee
sparked the Bears in the early going,
but Columbia’s Yee and Judie Lomax
proved to be too much to handle as
they took over the game. Lomax
ended the game with 18 points and
15 rebounds, to compliment Yee’s 20
points on the night.
The Lions extended their lead to
53-35 with nine minutes remaining
to put the game out of reach for the
Bears. Rebounds turned out to be
costly for the Bears, as they were
out-rebounded 41-28 by the Lions,
whose rebound total included 13 of-
fensive boards.
“We worked hard to force missed
shots, but we just needed to grab the
boards,” Burr said. “It is a team effort
to limit rebounds. We need to bring
confidence and fight to that part of
our game.”
Johnson and Delk each finished
the game with 11 points to lead the
Bears. Bonds had another strong
game finishing with 10 points and
eight rebounds.
Following the two losses, the
Bears have begun to prepare for
this weekend, when they will take
on Ivy rivals Harvard (10-7, 2-1 Ivy)
and Dartmouth (8-9, 3-0 Ivy).
“This week the emphasis will be
on defense and holding ourselves
accountable for forcing a weak shot,
a contested shot, but never an open
shot and also limiting teams to one
shot and done,” Lee said.
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Track and field teams raise the bar
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grabbed second place in the high
jump by clearing 1.70m. Anna
Cook ’11 also had a strong day
in high jump, finishing fourth at
1.55m. Rachel Biblo ’11 rounded
out the field performances with a
pair of fourth-place finishes, with
jumps of 5.46m in the long jump
and 11.23m in the triple jump.
The top per former on the
men’s side was Matt Jasmin ’09,
who continued his excellent sea-
son with a first-place finish in the
60m hurdles, in a time of 8.18.
“I didn’t have the greatest start,
but I’m happy with how it turned
out,” Jasmin said. “Getting the win
definitely helps my overall confi-
dence with my running, and boosts
the team’s confidence, too.”
Marc Howland ’11 claimed
third place in the 60m dash in a
M. cagers trip over road challenges
continued from page 7
seven minutes of play. Ten min-
utes before intermission, Brown
extended its lead to 12-6, the larg-
est lead for either team in the first
half. Adrian Williams ’11 closed
out the first half with a three-point
field goal to put the Bears on top,
29-28.
“We had it in our mind that
we weren’t going to be out-re-
bounded,” Friske said. “We need
to learn how to sustain that effort
throughout the whole game.”
The Lions came out with a 24-9
run to open the second half, and
led 59-46 with 5:11 remaining.
Midway through the half, how-
ever, they got into foul trouble,
and Brown put together a 10-1
“We’ve definitely got a long way to go.”
— Matt Jasmin ’09, hurdler
time of 6.98, drawing praise from
Jasmin.
“Marc Howland ran great,”
Jasmin said. “He’s come in the
top five in a few meets now, and
it’s good to see him do well.”
Brown also had a strong show-
ing in the mile, where Duriel
Hardy ’10 and Anthony Schurz ’12
finished fourth and fifth, respec-
tively, in 4:17.45 and 4:19.21.
The only points in the field
came from Andrew Chapin ’10,
who jumped 14.47m — good for
second place in the triple jump.
Though it is early in the sea-
son, both squads already have
their sights set on the Ivy League
Heptagonal Championships, which
will take place at Harvard on Feb.
28 and Mar. 1.
“We’ve definitely got a long way
to go, but we’re getting there,” Jas-
min said. “Our team has a lot of
run of its own to pull the game
to within four. The Bears could
not close the deficit as the Lions
prevailed, 65-59, with some strong
defensive stops and impressive
free throw shooting in the game’s
final minutes.
Sullivan led the way for the
Bears with a game-high 18 points
and Friske put together a strong
performance and had a double-
double, with 11 points and a
game-high 12 rebounds. Williams
joined them in double digits with
12 points.
Muller y struggled down low
as the defense converged on him
and held the Bears’ leading scorer
to just eight points, seven below
his season average, on 2-of-11
shooting from the field.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
potential, but we need to be more
confident.”
The women’s team, which fin-
ished second at the 2008 Indoor
Heps, will have to step up in or-
der to beat Cornell, who took first
place as a team this weekend, but
Brynn Smith is confident that the
Bears will see the pay-off from
their training schedule come
championship season.
“Every single one of the girls
is working hard right now, and
we’re at a weird point in the sea-
son where, while we want to be
competitive, all of our training
is focusing on Heps,” she said.
“People might not be seeing the
times or distances that they want
to see right now, but I know it’s
going to be there.”
“This team has the best heart
out of all the teams in the Ivy
League,” she said.
“We knew they were going to
be physical, probably the most
physical team in the League,”
Friske said. “We really wanted
to pound the ball inside, but they
buckled down.”
The Bears will end their five-
game road trip next weekend as
they travel to Dartmouth (4-14,
2-2 Ivy) to face a team fresh off a
win over Penn for the first time
in 23 meetings, and Har vard (9-
9, 1-3 Ivy), who owns a win over
the Atlantic Coast Conference’s
Boston College.
“We have a group of guys
capable of winning games,”
Friske said. “We’re last place in
the league and that is what it is.
By no means are we going to go
away.”
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e d i to r i a l

To the 2011 Class Board

Look around you. This is Brown University, a member of the presti-
gious Ivy League and a veritable bastion of feminism, in the year 2009.
Gone are the days when female students had to return to their dorms
by a certain hour, and along with those days went the idea that women
exist for the pleasure and ser vice of men.
Even if we did have to write this editorial from Pembroke College
under the watchful eye of a house mother, your planned event for the
Super Bowl halftime show would still have been vulgar.
The Herald reported that the planned halftime show for the Super
Bowl watching party in Salomon 101 was to be a “lingerie fashion show,”
but that the event was cancelled after nine of the 15 models dropped
out at the last minute. One might hope that the decision of over half
the models not to participate would cause the Class Board to re-think
the philosophy behind the concept. Unfortunately, this does not seem
to be the case — sophomore class president Neil Parikh ’11 said he
hoped to re-schedule the event for Spring Weekend.
Let’s be clear — this isn’t Brigham Young University. Students who
consent to participate in fundraising or other events that involve pos-
ing or performing nude or semi-nude (such as SuFI’s Ripe calendar)
should have the right to do so, provided they are in compliance with
University policies. But, Class Board of 2011, you really should have
a little more taste.
The Super Bowl, already a hyper masculine institution, doesn’t need CHRIS JESU LEE
any help perpetuating gender stereotypes. Some of the commercials
during Sunday’s game seemed to have been reading from the same
gender studies textbook as the Class Board: One notable commercial
featured Mr. Potato Head using a particular brand of tires to stop his
l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r s
car on a dime, causing Mrs. Potato’s Head mouth to fly out of her head
so she would stop nagging him. And let’s not forget Sigma Chi’s Super
Bowl party last year, featuring two “exotic dancers.” Class Board of
Clarifying Graphic Services’ ‘Brown First’ policy
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Opinions
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Don’t banish student groups from Morning Mail
Nick Werle
Opinions Columnist
I’ll admit, it’s been a long time since I read
ever y word of Morning Mail ever y day. I
think the mountain of listserv e-mails I re-
ceived after my first fall activities fair may
have crowded out that pastime. Yet for me,
and I believe most of the Brown community,
Morning Mail remains an unrivaled connec-
tion to the happenings on campus.
It’s true. Each issue of Morning Mail pre-
sented me with more activities — whether
academic lectures or mid-day backrubs on
the Green — than I could ever attend. But
seeing how many different things happen on
campus every day reminded me of the Brown
Community’s dynamism and diversity.
All of this, however, is threatened by the
University’s new Morning Mail policy, which
restricts use of the system to events expect-
ing more than 300 people. The restriction
was intended to combat the rapid growth of
Morning Mail, according to Marisa Quinn,
vice president for public affairs and Univer-
sity relations.
While it is undeniable that some of last
semester’s Morning Mails were quite long,
this solution does more to harm our vibrant
community than help clarify what’s happen-
ing. We need Morning Mail to remain ac-
cessible for Brown student life to remain
accessible. The new restriction should be
overturned as soon as possible.
As a founder of the Critical Theory Proj-
ect, I can testify to the primary importance
of Morning Mail to anyone running a student
group. Even with a fairly large listserv and
If you can’t stand the surface plasmon resonance, get out of my class
BY MIKE JOHNSON
Guest Columnist
Say you’re in your biology class and your
neighbor asks the professor, “What’s a phy-
lum?”
The Undergraduate Council of Students,
in its infinite wisdom, is petitioning the Uni-
versity to lift the restriction on Banner that
prevents a student from registering for a class
if he or she has not taken the prerequisite
courses. They claim that this is an effort to
protect Brown’s vaunted “New Curriculum”
and preserve the ideals of academic and intel-
lectual freedom that are the very essence of
our University.
However, what UCS is proposing threat-
ens to destroy the very source of the freedoms
we enjoy. The “New Curriculum” is not merely
freedom for the sake of freedom — rather,
it is an effort to free the students at Brown
from the need to take courses in which they
have no interest.
The thought behind this innovative ap-
proach to learning is that, when armed with
the power to take only those courses he or she
chooses, the student will take more owner-
ship of his or her studies. I seriously doubt
that when the Curriculum was conceived
and proposed, students had any ambition to
jump into courses of study for which they
a budget that permits us to make posters
and table slips for our events, Morning Mail
remains the most effective and reliable way
to get Brown students’ attention.
Few student groups consistently sponsor
events that would meet the 300 and up re-
quirement to make it into the newly slimmed-
down dispatch. To compensate for this drastic
loss of free publicity, student groups will be
forced to resort to more expensive, labor
intensive and wasteful advertising methods.
Both posters and table slips, the media most
We need Morning Mail to remain
accessible for Brown student life to
remain accessible.
likely to make up for groups’ lost access to
Morning Mail, are expensive to produce, es-
pecially considering that the administration’s
Brown First procurement policy functionally
requires all University organizations to pa-
tronize the Metcalf Copy Center instead of
possibly cheaper community vendors.
While the Critical Theor y Project has
enough support from Brown departments
to afford to blanket the campus with post-
ers for ever y event, many student groups
will not be able to keep up. At a time when
we are told that Brown’s severely limited
resources demand all possible cost-savings,
it seems foolish to require student groups
to spend more money to just attract people
to their events.
And even if a group can afford to print
had not been fully prepared, simply because
they could.
Now, a quick survey of the course catalog
on Banner will reveal that most of the courses
requiring prerequisites are in mathematics
and the sciences. As a literary arts concen-
trator, I do not pretend to know the plight of
the chemistry or neuroscience concentrator.
But it is obvious that prerequisites protect the
integrity of the upper-level classes in those
disciplines.
The prerequisite courses for a class are
merely shorthand for the concepts needed to
fully appreciate a course — in order to pro-
It is obvious that prerequisites protect
the integrity of the upper-level classes.
ceed effectively, one must have a mastery of
these concepts. Surely one would not presume
to take organic chemistry without a cursory
knowledge of chemical reactions.
Extreme examples for the sake of rhetoric
aside, it is imperative that these benchmarks
for study remain in place. Professors of these
high-level classes are among the best in their
respective fields; at an Ivy League institution
we should expect no less. They do not want
posters, sustaining a proper advertising cam-
paign on campus is a nearly Sisyphean task.
Between Facilities Management’s regular re-
moval of posters hung on unapproved doors
and walls and the race to keep other posters
from covering my own, I usually need rehang
posters every day or two. Table-slipping is
even more time consuming.
Worse than the cost is the waste generated
by these 20th century advertising methods.
Eliminating access to Morning Mail will only
increase the University’s use of paper and
energy just as there is an growing emphasis
on conservation.
The events that do qualify for inclusion
in this shorter Morning Mail are hardly the
ones that need advertising help. The majority
of the events held in Salomon 101 and Sayles
— just about the only non-athletic venues that
can hold more than 300 people — are well
funded and already have access to unique
adver tising oppor tunities including big
poster boards on the Main Green and snail
mail invitation cards. But Mike Huckabee’s
speech last semester certainly didn’t need
the Morning Mail to be a success.
Obviously, these big University-spon-
sored lectures are some of the best events
on campus and I’ve always been grateful for
the high-caliber speakers that come to the
their time wasted explaining concepts that an
over-ambitious student should have learned
in a prerequisite class.
Additionally, those patient students who
have taken prerequisite classes and mastered
the “building block” concepts are enrolled in
higher-level classes in order to expand their
knowledge of a certain topic. They would
not want their time wasted as the professor
is forced to explain a concept that a student
skipping prerequisites should have learned
beforehand. Would you?
Now, this isn’t to say that all students must
be forced to follow certain programs of study
simply to fulfill checkboxes on their transcript.
That indeed would be against the spirit of our
delightful “New Curriculum.” But there are
already measures in place to allow students
to skip introductory classes if they can prove
a mastery of needed concepts.
For example, incoming freshmen can
use their AP scores as indicators for place-
ment. For those who didn’t take the AP test,
there is a placement exam. In literary arts,
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | Page 11
University. But what makes Brown a great
community is the huge range of things that
happen every day.
Student groups’ events are direct reflec-
tions of the interests of the student body
and are responsible for much of Brown’s
mid-week vitality. The administration should
aim to foster an environment in which a small
group of people with a common interest and
an idea can start a successful student group.
After all, the University heavily advertises
this ethic on the campus tour.
Indeed, this policy’s greatest victims are
probably the student groups that haven’t
even started yet. Before a club qualifies for
official UCS recognition and advertising
money it must show that it has developed
sustained interest from the community at
large. Without access to Morning Mail’s
free publicity, it’s hard to imagine how a new
group might be able to gain enough traction
to get moving.
However, the biggest loss might be a be-
loved part of Brunonian culture itself. Morn-
ing Mail is more than a mere list of daily
activities; it is a crucial connection to the
University community. Every night at 1:00
a.m. the next day’s Morning Mail arrives
in inboxes and triggers a wave of beeps,
chimes and vibrations from Gmail notifiers
and Blackberries. This shared experience is
a comforting one. I like knowing what’s going
on tomorrow. And even if I can’t make it to
the Main Green to pet sled dogs, I’m glad
to know it’s still happening.
Nick Werle ’10 is a physics and mod-
ern critical philosophy concentrator
from New York. Read more at
www.runningthezoo.com/blog.
enrollment into intermediate and advanced
workshops is done on the basis of a submit-
ted writing sample. These measures have
long preserved the quality of classes above
the basic level.
Granted, there are no placement tests to
get into, say, PHYS 0170. This is where it gets
potentially dicey. Students interested in the
class would have to physically meet with the
professor and prove a mastery of the concepts
on which the class is based. Professors at
Brown are reasonable people; they teach here,
after all. I’m quite sure that upon meeting with
a prospective student and being assured that
the student knew the prerequisite concepts
well enough, he or she would gladly enroll
the student, overriding Banner.
The true issue at stake is whether or not
we as students wish to take the time to protect
the integrity of the learning environment we
pay so much for. Prerequisites help ensure
that the higher-level classes remain just that.
We should be wary of freedom for freedom’s
sake, lest we lower the high standards that
make Brown an environment of rigorous
learning and academic enrichment.
Mike Johnson ’11, a literary arts con-
centrator from New Jersey, plans to
take MATH 2720: Multiple Dirichlet Se-
ries next semester. He can be reached
at Michael_Johnson@brown.edu
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4 P.M. — “Israel in a Changing Middle 4:30 P.M. — “Geographies of

East” with Nadav Tamir, Joukowsky
Forum, Watson Institute
6 P.M. — “Nitrogen: A Story of Food,
Fuel and Fiber” with Dr. James Gal-
loway, 115 MacMillan Hall
Latinidad,” John Nicholas Brown Center
7 P.M. — “Freedom Beyond Sover-
eignty,” Janus Conversation with
Professor Shannon Krause

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38 Mickey, for one 31 Mine, in Metz
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personified
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