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Metcalf overhaul planned after new building scrapped
By Sara Sunshine
Senior Staf f Writer
Months after scuttling plans to
build an ambitious new brain sci-
ence building in the wake of finan-
cial losses, the Corporation has
approved a “schematic design” for
the renovation of Metcalf Chemis-
try and Research Laboratory into a
new “mind brain behavior” center,
according to Vice President for
Facilities Management Stephen
Maiorisi.
The approval of plans for Met-
calf represents the official aban-
donment of plans to construct an
entirely new building along the
newly completed Walk, said Rich-
ard Spies, executive vice president
for planning and senior advisor to
the president.
The University first announced
its intent to renovate rather than
undertake new construction for
both the center and a planned
medical education building in
Februar y. The medical educa-
tion building is to be located in
Courtesy of Brown.edu (left), Herald File Photo
David Kennedy (right), hired to lead the University’s efforts to raise its
global profile, will be replaced by Michael Kennedy (left), no relation.
Watson’s Kennedy
abruptly quits post
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staff Writer
David Kennedy ’76 resigned abrupt-
ly last month as vice president for
international affairs and interim
director of the Watson Institute for
International Studies, shortly after
University of Michigan sociologist
Michael Kennedy was selected as
Watson’s new director.
Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95
P’98 informed the faculty of Ken-
nedy’s resignation in an e-mail on
June 10. David Kennedy will return
to Harvard Law School, where he
was a professor of law and direc-
tor of Harvard’s European Law
Research Center when he was se-
lected in late 2007 to head Brown’s
internationalization effort.
Kennedy’s resignation has left
inside
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Workers broke ground on the Creative Arts Center on Olive Street. See summer construction photos, page
a University-owned building in suit research needs, Maiorisi said.
Providence’s Jewelr y District. Additionally, the renovations will
The renovation, which will be- develop the previously unused at-
gin in June 2010, will gut Metcalf, tic space, upgrade lecture halls,
leaving only its structural walls establish common areas and cre-
and transforming the interior to ate more spacious stair wells.
Taxes on private colleges
advance in R.I. legislature
By Anne Simons
Senior Staff Writer
Two bills have made progress in
Rhode Island’s General Assembly
that could cost Brown and its stu-
dents millions of dollars if they be-
come law.
One bill would allow cities to as-
sess a “student impact fee” of $150
per semester for out-of-state students
who attend private colleges in Rhode
Island. The universities would pay
the municipal governments directly,
allowing them to raise the funds as
they see fit.
uncertainty regarding Brown’s The other proposed legislation
internationalization agenda, forc- would allow cities to collect a fee of
ing the administration to scramble up to 25 percent of property taxes
to fill the vacancy before the aca- from nonprofits with properties
demic year. valued over $20 million. Nonprof-
The position of vice president its, such as private universities and
for international affairs will be filled
‘Hermione’ to go from Hogwarts to College Hill
from within the University, Kertzer
said, in contrast to the more high-
profile search that yielded Ken-
nedy’s appointment. By Ben Hyman
“We’ve gotten various things Arts & Culture Editor
going,” Kertzer said of Brown’s
recent internationalization efforts. It has been perhaps the most obses-
“It’s going to be imperative to get sively scrutinized college decision
another vice president quickly so process ever en-
we don’t lose that momentum.” dured. ARTS &
David Kennedy’s decision to Emma Wat-
return full-time to Harvard, where son, the British actress who plays
he continued to teach as an adjunct the bookish but valiant Hermione
Granger in the Harry Potter mov-
continued on page 2 ies, has confirmed, after months of
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6.
“We compare it to the trans-
formation of J. Walter Wilson,”
Maiorisi said, referring to the for-
mer laboratory space that opened
continued on page 6
hospitals, are typically exempt from
property taxes.
Rhode Island and its cities have
been suffering from the economic
crisis that has swept the country, put-
ting pressure on government coffers.
Providence has a substantial budget
deficit and city leaders are looking
to raise additional revenue.
The two bills represent a poten-
tial $27 million in annual revenue for
the city, according to the Providence
Journal. Both proposals originated
in the office of Providence Mayor
David Cicilline ’83.
“It is a basic principle of fairness,”
Cicilline said. The residents of Rhode
Island who pay property taxes are
being unfairly burdened and those
who take advantage of city services
continued on page 2
speculation and rumor, that she will
attend Brown this fall.
Watson’s decision became public
when ‘Potter’ star Daniel Radcliffe
told the U.K.’s The Guardian news-
paper about his
CULTURE co-star’s college
plans in a July 4
interview. The actress herself veri-
fied her impending matriculation
continued on page 7
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U. will seek
to trim $30m
more from
next budget
By Seth Motel
News Editor
Months after the Corporation ap-
proved a reduced budget for the fiscal
year that began July 1, the University
is now looking to cut another $30
million from next year’s budget, ad-
ministrators said.
Of the cuts sought, about $15 to
20 million would be realized through
organizational changes, Provost Da-
vid Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 and Execu-
tive Vice President for Finance and
Administration Beppie Huidekoper
said in interviews.
For fiscal year 2011, which begins
a year from now, the University es-
timates it will save about $7 million
from revisions to planned capital proj-
ects and an additional $5 to 10 million
through policy changes. The Orga-
nizational Review Committee, which
comprises 10 administrators, three
faculty members and two students,
will be responsible for finding an
extra $15 to 20 million in savings.
“What I perceive is that the Uni-
versity is trying to reorganize inter-
nally, which is a different strategy
than simply cutting the budget,” ORC
member Jason Zysk MA’07 GS wrote
in an e-mail.
Kertzer said the revisions will still
allow for an increase in the budget
over the next several years, though
not as much as anticipated. The edu-
cation and general budget, which
consists of the entire budget except
for that of the Division of Biology
and Medicine, will increase from
$550 million in 2010 to $600 million
in 2011. But that figure represents
continued on page 2
Sergiy Galonkin
‘Harry Potter’ star Emma Watson.
Opinions, 11
Open Tour
Topaz ’12 argues for a
more even-sided view for
tours of College Hill
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Tax would make Brown pay
each semester for students
continued from page 1
without paying taxes are not doing
their “fair share,” he said.
“I think it is fair for every person
who is a member of a community to
contribute to the well-being of the
community,” Cicilline said.
State Rep. Gordon Fox, D-Dist.
4, sponsored the student impact
fee legislation in the House. “While
acknowledging the many contribu-
tions of the colleges, I believe that
everyone will have to contribute
their share in order to meet these
challenges,” he wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald.
“Having these institutions share
some of the burden will lessen the
impact on homeowners and busi-
nesses that already pay their fair
share of taxes,” Fox wrote.
Opponents of the new fees for
nonprofits argue that private univer-
sities are already contributing their
“fair share.”
“We feel as though we are already
doing our part,” said Marisa Quinn,
Brown’s vice president of public af-
fairs and University relations.
“We understand and appreciate
the difficult financial challenges
that are being faced in Providence,”
Quinn said. “We’re feeling it as well.
We’re making difficult decisions
based on challenging economic
circumstances.”
The University has opposed the
proposed legislation and has worked
to persuade legislators that private
universities and their students con-
tribute to Providence and Rhode
Island economically and culturally.
President Ruth Simmons has made
appeals to students and others to
lobby legislative leaders to abandon
the proposal.
“Higher education is a top engine
of economic growth,” Quinn said.
Brown, along with other colleges
in the state, has tried to develop a
“knowledge economy,” building a
long-term economic strategy for
Rhode Island, she said. In the short-
term, the University is creating jobs
by continuing to build and renovate
on campus, she added.
Daniel Egan, president of the As-
sociation of Independent Colleges
and Universities of Rhode Island, a
group advocating for the common
interests of the eight private schools
in the state, questioned the fairness
sudoku
of the proposals.
“The mayor’s budget shortfall”
is the motivation behind this legisla-
tion, Egan said. His group’s member
schools, also facing financial trou-
bles, are making “drastic changes”
to cut costs. Providence should do
the same, he said.
The four private universities of
Providence — Brown, Rhode Island
School of Design, Providence Col-
lege and Johnson and Wales Univer-
sity — signed an agreement in 2003
committing to contribute nearly $50
million to the city of Providence over
twenty years. The only thing that has
changed since that agreement is the
economic situation, Egan said. Pri-
vate colleges and universities repre-
sent the only sector of the economy
that contributes “time, talent and
treasure,” he said.
The other private schools in the
state are Bryant University, New
England Institute of Technology,
Roger Williams University and Salve
Regina University.
The proposals, if passed, would
mean a dramatic change in the status
and treatment of nonprofits, Egan
said. This legislation would undo
centuries of thinking that a nonprof-
it’s contributions to the area merit
tax-exempt status, he said.
Quinn said the fees assessed on
nonprofits raise “questions of legality
and constitutionality.”
“We’re at a crossroads,” said
State Sen. Lou DiPalma, D-Dist. 12,
a member of the body’s finance com-
mittee. DiPalma opposes both pieces
of legislation and called the student
impact fee “inappropriate.”
Before the General Assembly
went into recess in late June, versions
of both proposals were introduced to
the state House of Representatives
and Senate. The finance committees
in both bodies heard the bills, but
only the House Finance Committee
voted 11-4 to pass the student impact
fee legislation.
When the General Assembly
returns from its recess later this
month, the legislation may reappear
on the agenda. In order for these bills
to become law, both would need to
be approved by the finance commit-
tees and by the full House and the
Senate, then signed by Gov. Donald
Carcieri ’65.
“This is an issue that will not go
away,” Cicilline said.
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— Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, on the need to find $30 million in savings
Additional cuts sought for ’11 budget
continued from page 1
a reduction from a previously antici-
pated budget, which had the budget
reaching $690 million by 2014.
In a June 29 memo to the Brown
community, Kertzer and Huidekoper
cautioned that the University has lost
more than 25 percent of its endow-
ment in the past 12 months, and that
“full recovery from that loss will take
several years.”
Huidekoper said the review
committee is attempting to make
the budget-trimming process as
transparent as possible, with various
subcommittees explaining potential
cuts to relevant groups before final-
izing proposals.
“We’ll talk to the committees that
are on campus that are responsible
for looking at those areas and make
sure that they have input on it,” she
said. “It’s a process that people will
think is fair and open in a very dif-
ficult time.”
“It’s going to be a very busy fall,”
Kertzer said.
Huidekoper said the ORC is wait-
ing until the fall to do most of its work
and will be updating students and
Kennedy resigns Watson job unexpectedly
continued from page 1
professor during his time at Brown,
was largely based on his desire to
return to teaching, Kertzer said.
“He’d rather be back at Harvard
as a faculty member than at Brown,”
Kertzer said. “For him, in the end, I
think he missed his role as a full-time
faculty member.”
David Kennedy did not reply to
inquiries last week.
But Kertzer said David Kennedy
will continue to advise President
Ruth Simmons and provide assis-
tance on international initiatives if
the opportunity arises. Kennedy
“has a special place in his heart for
Brown, his alma mater,” Kertzer
said.
Kennedy came to Brown in Janu-
ary 2008 as the first vice president
for international affairs, a position
from which he was to spearhead
the University’s effort to enhance
its international cachet. He was also
a professor international relations.
When former Watson Director Bar-
bara Stallings resigned from that
post only months after Kennedy’s
appointment, Kertzer asked him
to step in as interim director of the
institute.
Kennedy’s dual responsibilities
included managing Brown’s global
image as well as leading Watson.
Many of the proposals tilted Watson
in a legal studies direction, includ-
ing his global governance program
and the appointment of several
close personal acquaintances with
legal backgrounds. He also made
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“It’s going to be a very busy fall.”
parents throughout the process. “We
don’t want the community to get the
sense that we’re making decisions
without the people here to get in-
volved,” she said.
ORC member Sarah Rutherford
’12 said she is intent on making stu-
dents aware of ways to get involved
in the process and to “see the bigger
picture” by inviting student feedback
during the semester.
Huidekoper said it was unclear
whether this process will have to
occur again in future years because
of the difficulty of predicting the
economic climate or the number of
faculty vacancies for the next sev-
eral years. But “if the endowment
doesn’t start rebounding or some
other things don’t happen,” future re-
ductions can be expected, she said.
The University saved about $9
million on this year’s budget by in-
stituting a faculty salary freeze, but
the University “can’t keep doing that
forever,” Kertzer said. It has not yet
been determined how long the freeze
will remain in effect, he said.
Professor of Physics Robert Pel-
covits, another member of the ORC,
said he understands the need for the
an unsuccessful bid to get Watson
the power to grant tenure to its ap-
pointees.
Unlike previous Watson direc-
tors, Michael Kennedy — who is
not related to David Kennedy — will
report directly to the provost, said
Kertzer. This is a change from the
previous administrative structure,
under which the director technically
reported to the vice president for
international affairs. The new struc-
ture will still allow the director to
work closely with the vice president,
but less formally.
The appointment of Michael Ken-
nedy as Watson’s new director re-
sulted from an international search
that began when Stallings stepped
down last summer.
Professor of Sociology Michael
White, who chaired the search com-
mittee, wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald that the recruitment process
included an extensive multi-disci-
pline, international search across
many policy areas.
“We are delighted that Michael
Kennedy has now joined us at
Brown, bringing his considerable
scholarship, extensive international
experience and formidable organi-
zational skills,” he wrote. “We are
assured of an exciting new era for
the Watson Institute.”
As Watson’s director, Michael
Kennedy will be responsible for the
institute’s general direction, strate-
gic planning and a “very active series
of public events,” Kertzer said.
“The Watson Institute is a some-
what large and complicated institu-
Monday, July 20, 2009
freeze as long as it is comparable to
what is happening at peer institu-
tions. “Mostly you have to worry
about what’s going on elsewhere,”
he said, adding he thinks that the
freeze might last another year.
The “academic functioning” of
the University remains the top prior-
ity for the group, Pelcovits said. He
added he anticipates that the organi-
zational budget reduction will have
few noticeable effects in classrooms
or labs.
“Things are different, but we can
be flexible and live with it,” he said.
“It’s not like we’re going to be less
productive.”
The Division of Biology and Medi-
cine, which is less dependent on the
endowment and more dependent on
grants than the rest of the University,
will need to reduce its projected bud-
get for 2014 by $10 million, Kertzer
said. But unlike the general budget,
the division will not need to find or-
ganizational savings to meet its 2011
target — a freedom largely made
possible by the decision to scrap
plans to build a new medical educa-
tion building and opt for a renovation
project instead.
tion,” Kertzer added, which makes
it difficult to predict how the new
director will affect its orientation.
At Michigan, Michael Kennedy
was the director of the school’s Weis-
er Center for Europe and Eurasia
and the Weiser Center for Emerging
Democracies. From that experience,
he said in an interview, he learned
the importance of learning about
a place and getting to know about
institutions before determining
his goals for the institute. He also
served as vice provost for interna-
tional affairs.
“My background as a sociology
professor is important, but my role
as an administrator is also impor-
tant,” he said. “I bring a kind of ex-
perience to Watson that is pretty
unusual.”
“One of the things that’s distinct
about Brown is that it has a Wat-
son Institute,” Michael Kennedy
added.
In particular, Michael Kennedy
said the international relations and
development studies concentrations
offer a unique opportunity for under-
graduates to prepare to tackle global
questions. “One of the things I’m
looking at is how Watson enhances
what Brown has beyond Watson’s
walls,” he said.
Kennedy said he hopes to ad-
vance the collaboration between
faculty inside and outside the insti-
tute. But he said it was too soon to
know exactly what he would like to
do as director.
“The only way to know is to keep
watching Watson,” he said.
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C ampus N EWS “I hate going through and deleting old e-mails.”

— Sarah Bolling ’11, on Brown’s current e-mail system

CIS trying ‘Pot centers’

out Google get green light
for e-mail By Anish Gonchigar
Contributing Writer

service The Rhode Island General Assembly

By Brian Mastroianni
Senior Staf f Writer
Gmail may finally make its official
entrance into Brown’s e-mail sys-
tem as a pilot program makes the
next step toward a transition to the
Google, Inc. mail server.
About 200 students have been
asked to test Brown’s Google
Ser vices program this summer.
The pilot, which began June 30,
is the first step in Computing and
Information Ser vices’ proposed
conversion of all Brown e-mail ac-
counts to Gmail, said Donald Tom,
director of IT support.
To ease the transition, students
participating in the program can
forward their e-mail from their cur-
rent Brown accounts to their new,
trial Gmail accounts.
Tom said CIS is hoping that it
will get as much feedback from
students as possible.
“This program has only been
in effect for about two weeks, so
we haven’t had enough time to
collect student responses, but we
hope the program is well-received,”
Tom said.
Colleges nationwide — includ-
ing the University of Notre Dame
and Northwestern University —
have outsourced their e-mail to
Google for the past three years,
Tom said, providing the impetus
for Brown to hop on the band-
wagon.
College students drawn to
A new Gmail-based email system is being piloted with a group of 200 students. The service would include
access to Google’s Web-based applications and over 7,000 megabytes of email storage per person.
Google’s applications and storage
space are already reluctant to rely
exclusively on their college e-mail
accounts, Tom said.
“We’ve been looking at this
for about a year now,” Tom said.
Google’s storage space and applica-
tions make the switch both cost-
effective and beneficial for Brown’s
e-mail users — not to mention the
fact that buying more storage for
Brown e-mail “might not be the
best use of University dollars” dur-
ing the recession, he said.
For some students, the conver-
sion to Gmail would be a welcome
change.
“I think the Gmail idea is great
because my mailbox is always fill-
ing up, which is incredibly frustrat-
ing. It’s impossible to send larger
files with the current e-mail,” said
Francis Gonzales ’11.
Sarah Bolling ’11 said she un-
derstands Gonzales’ frustration
with the current system’s small
storage.
“The combination of all the
listservs I’m on, personal e-mails,
e-mails from professors, and the
fact that I hate going through and
deleting old e-mails means that my
inbox gets filled up ridiculously
quick,” she said.
The pilot is currently funded
internally by University resources.
If the pilot program is successful
and Brown officially adopts Gmail,
the University will not incur costs
other than those of managing the
e-mail service, Tom said, explain-
ing that Brown will not have to
buy new ser vers since they are
provided by Google.
Right now, it is unclear exactly
when the transfer to Gmail would
go into effect. Tom said CIS wants
to figure out contract deals with
Google before the shift becomes
official.
“Clearly we will not do any-
thing until we have a signed legal
agreement. Sometimes it takes a
long time, sometimes it doesn’t,”
he said.
Before any contract is settled,
both CIS and Google would have
to get more student feedback about
privacy concerns and Google ap-
plications, Tom said.
passed a bill last month to allow the
creation of up to three state-licensed
medical marijuana dispensaries, be-
coming the third state in the coun-
try to legalize so-called “compassion
centers” after both the House and
Senate voted to override the veto of
Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65.
The use of medical marijuana
for gravely ill patients was legalized
by the General Assembly in 2006.
But without a legal means to obtain
marijuana, patients have to grow it
themselves or buy it illegally.
“It’s an opportunity for people to
live out their lives in a more peaceful
way,” said State Rep. Thomas Slater,
D-Dist. 10, who sponsored the bill
in the House. “The only people who
seem to be prevented from getting
marijuana are the people who need
it for their diseases.”
Stephen Hogan, executive di-
rector of the Rhode Island Patient
Advocacy Coalition, also praised
the bill. “Rhode Island now has the
best law throughout the country for
medical marijuana,” Hogan said. Un-
like in California, he said, “these are
state-regulated, non-profit organiza-
tions. All you need in California is a
license.”
According to Hogan, there should
be three dispensaries statewide by
2011.
Amy Kempe, a spokeswoman for
Carcieri, said the governor continues
to oppose the bill. “First and fore-
most, it tends to weaken the laws
governing and the perceptions of il-
licit drugs,” Kempe said, adding that
Rhode Island has one of the highest
rates of drug use among teenagers.
She added that California has

‘Indoor prostitution’ may be coming to an end in R.I.
By Ben Schreckinger
Senior Staff Writer
Rhode Island is one of just two plac-
es in the union where prostitution is
currently legal. But legislators could
vote to put an end to that when they
return from recess before the end
of the summer.
While the state has laws forbid-
ding public solicitation and the op-
eration of brothels, there is no lan-
guage explicitly barring the act of
prostitution itself. In 1998 the state
supreme court ruled that prostitution
was legal if it took place indoors. In
the United States, only Rhode Island
and some parts of Nevada do not ban
the practice.
The state’s House and Senate
have separately passed bills that tar-
first and second violations and up
to six months in prison. Criminal
charges cannot be brought before
a third offense. For those “permit-
ting prostitution” on the premises
of their property, the bill provides
for up to three years in prison and a
$10,000 fine for a third offense. The
bill passed 35-0 in June.
METRO
The Senate version of the bill
cracks down on the practice with-
out excessively penalizing women in
the sex trade, said State Sen. Rhoda
Perry P’91, D-Dist. 3, whose district
includes College Hill.
The House bill carries up to six
months in jail for a first offense and
up to a year for subsequent offenses
The bill also provides victims of
human trafficking immunity from
prosecution.
Police “struggled” to make arrests
under a previous human trafficking
law “because trafficking victims
generally are not cooperative with
police because they are afraid of ar-
rest or retribution,” according to a
press release from the office of State
Rep. Joanne Giannini, D-Dist. 7, who
sponsored the House bill.
But Perry said the House bill
“places an unfair and heavy burden
on the victim.”
“Threatening women … will not
deter them from prostitution,” she
said.
Prominent officials have voiced
their support for the House bill, in-
cluding Carcieri, Attorney General
The American Civil Liberties
Union is among those groups which
oppose both versions of the bill. “We
believe that if individuals are engaged
in consensual sexual conduct it
shouldn’t be the state’s business,”
said Steven Brown, executive director
of the Rhode Island chapter.
“More women are at the (Adult
Correctional Institutions) for prosti-
tution-related offenses than any other
crime,” Brown said, calling such ar-
rests a “drain” on state resources.
Giving prostitutes a criminal re-
cord will only make it more difficult
for them to find other forms of em-
ployment, Brown said.
Daily Herald
the Brown
seen an increase in crime in the ar-
eas surrounding compassion centers,
as patients leaving the centers are
vulnerable to muggers.
Dan Bernath, spokesperson
for the Marijuana Policy Project in
Washington, D.C., said that evidence
of increased crime in areas around
dispensaries in California is merely
“anecdotal.” The bill, he said, is
“a reflection of the understanding
that these compassion centers have
worked very well” in other states.
“I think it is an acknowledgement
that the mood is changing,” Bernath
said. “Obama and his attorney general
have shown that they’re not interest-
ed in using federal law enforcement
resources against people operating
within the laws of the state.”

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get all forms of prostitution. The bills
include punishments for prostitutes
and their customers, but they differ
significantly in the types of penalties
allotted.
Legislators must reconcile the two
pieces of legislation into a single bill
to send it to the desk of Gov. Donald
Carcieri ’65, who has indicated his
support for ending legal prostitu-
tion.
The Senate bill carries fines for
for both prostitutes and their cus-
tomers.
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Simmons, Gregorian tapped by Obama
President Ruth Simmons
and former Brown President
Vartan Gregorian have been
appointed to President’s
Commission on White House
Fellowships, the White House
announced last month. They
are among 28 members
President Barack Obama se-
lected for the commission,
which recommends candi-
dates for the White House
Fellows program.
Fellows in the program
— which emphasizes lead-
ership and public service
— work for top-level govern-
ment officials.
“I found the selection
process inspiring,” Sim-
mons wrote in an e-mail to
The Herald. “It demonstrat-
ed that when experienced,
creative, and innovative indi-
viduals have an opportunity
to explore the workings of
government at the highest
levels, their positive experi-
ence can lead them to make
a significant mark in their
chosen professions and in
public service.”
In a press release, Obama
Legislature moves to shorten state’s name Recent grads planning
Question may be
put to a vote in a
statewide referendum
in November 2010
By Ben SChreckinger
Senior Staf f Writer
The State of Rhode Island and Prov-
idence Plantations might lose the
distinction of having the longest
name of any state if lawmakers and
residents favor an amendment to
the state constitution.
The Senate and the House of
Representatives have passed identi-
cal bills to shorten the state’s of-
ficial name to the State of Rhode
Island. Last month, they also ap-
proved a proposal to allow residents
to vote on the change in a statewide
referendum in November 2010.
Though the bills are identical,
one chamber will have to pass the
bill approved by the other after
the summer recess for the issue
to move to the referendum.
“It’s high time for us to recog-
nize that slavery happened on plan-
tations in Rhode Island and decide
that we don’t want that chapter of
our histor y to be a proud part of
our name,” Rep. Joseph Almeida, D-
Dist. 12, who sponsored the House
bill, said in a statement.
State Sen. Rhoda Perry, D- Dist.
3 said she supported putting the
question of a change to the state’s
name to a referendum so that “all
citizens could make that determi-
nation.”
Perr y, a co-sponsor of the Sen-
ate bill, said she was “inclined to
called the members of the
commission “diverse, non-
partisan and committed to
mentoring our next genera-
tion of public servants.”
Other commission mem-
bers include former Sen.
Tom Daschle, Gen. Wesley
Clark, news anchor Tom
Brokaw and Obama’s sister,
Maya Soetoro-Ng.
According to the press
release, the commission will
select between 11 and 19
fellows from a pool of 30 fi-
nalists. Over a thousand ap-
plications were received for
the 2009-2010 class.
Prominent alumni of the
White House Fellows pro-
gram include Gen. Colin
Powell, Sen. Sam Brown-
back, R-Kan., and CNN
medical correspondent San-
jay Gupta.
Gregorian was president
of Brown from 1989 to
1997, and currently serves
as the president of the Car-
negie Corporation of New
York.
—Kelly Mallahan
vote for the changes” when the
referendum reaches the ballot.
But not ever yone is in favor of
the name change.
In a July 11 editorial in the
Providence Journal, Keith Stokes,
director of the Newport County
Chamber of Commerce wrote, “For
me, it is profoundly ironic that the
name Plantations in Rhode Island
would be reviled as a symbol of op-
pression, when in historical truth
the name should be synonymous
with civil liberty and rights, not
African slaver y.”
If amended, the preamble to
Rhode Island’s constitution would
read “We, the people of this State
which state shall henceforth be
known as the state of Rhode Island,
grateful to Almighty God for the
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— President Ruth Simmons on the White House Fellowships program
Times reporter, alum, escapes Taliban prison
By Gaurie Tilak
Higher Ed Editor
David Rohde ’90, a Pulitzer Prize-win-
ning reporter for the New York Times,
escaped a Taliban prison June 19 after
more than seven months of captivity by
jumping over the wall of the compound
where he was being held.
Rohde was abducted, along with
a local reporter and their driver, out-
side of Kabul in November while en
route to a meeting with a Taliban com-
mander for a book the Brown alum
was writing on American involvement
in Afghanistan, the Times reported
the day after Rohde’s escape.
Although news of the kidnapping
spread, the Times asked that news
outlets refrain from publicizing the in-
cident, which could have endangered
the lives of Rohde and his colleagues,
according to the paper.
Rohde was reporting for his book
at the time he was captured, but he
had been writing for the Times on
a freelance basis from Kabul, David
McCraw, vice president and assistant
general counsel for the Times, wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald.
The Times worked with crisis
firms, government officials and other
organizations that have had abducted
affiliates to secure Rohde’s release,
Catherine Mathis, senior vice presi-
dent of corporate communications at
“It’s high time for
us to recognize that
slavery happened on
plantations in Rhode
Island”
Joseph Almeida
State Representative,
D-Dist. 12
civil and religious liberty which He
hath so long permitted us to enjoy,
and looking to Him for a blessing
upon our endeavors to secure and
to transmit the same unimpaired to
succeeding generations, do ordain
and establish this Constitution of
government.”
“I found the selection process inspiring”
David Rohde ’90 jumped over a wall in a Pakistan prison while guards slept.
the Times, added in an e-mail.
At some point during the seven
months of captivity the men were
moved from Kabul, where they were
captured, to Pakistan. “We don’t know
how and when they were moved,”
Mathis wrote.
Attempts to contact Rohde for an
interview were unsuccessful.
On the night of their escape,
Rohde and the local reporter, Tahir
Ludin, waited until the guards of
the compound fell asleep and then
jumped over the building’s walls into
the desert of the North Waziristan
region of Pakistan, according to Ma-
this. They then found their way to a
nearby Pakistani Frontier Corps base
and were then flown to the American
military base in Bagram, Afghanistan.
trip to North Korea
By Brigitta Greene
Senior Staf f Writer
While the United States and other
nations struggle to respond to
Nor th Korea’s recent aggres-
sive militar y posturing, three
recently graduated seniors are
still moving for ward with their
planned trip to bring a group of
about 18 students and professors
to the secretive state by way of
China in August.
Jonathan Warren ’09, Mat-
thew Reichel ’09 and Nicholas
Young ’09, who all concentrated
in East Asian Studies, received
permission this spring from the
Nor th Korean government to
bring Americans into the country
to attend the Mass Games — a
nationalistic, highly regimented
form of performing arts.
Their original plan was to run
two separate trips, according to
Warren. But now, because fewer
people enrolled than expected,
Warren, Reichel and Young have
altered their plans to condense
their two planned trips into
one.
Some individuals who ex-
pressed interest in the trip this
spring were unable to follow
through for a variety of reasons,
Warren said. He said he did not
think any enrollment decisions
were influenced by recent nu-
clear tests in Nor th Korea or
the sentencing of two American
journalists to 12 years of hard
labor in the countr y.
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Courtesy of Brown Archives
The driver did not escape and “as far
as we know, he is still being held,”
Mathis wrote.
Rohde enrolled at Brown for his
junior year as a transfer from Bates
College. After graduating in 1990, he
worked a number of low-profile jobs
until he was hired at the Christian
Science Monitor in 1994. At the Moni-
tor, he reported on the massacre of
Bosnian Muslims.
In 1996, shortly after accepting a
job at the Times, Rohde was awarded
his first Pulitzer Prize for uncover-
ing mass graves of Bosnian Muslims
in Srebrenica. In May 2009, he was
recognized again when a Times re-
porting team won a Pulitzer for their
coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan
last year.
Though attracting internation-
al attention to the region, these
events have done absolutely noth-
ing to change the agenda of the
trip, Warren said, adding that the
11-day trip should go by “without
a hitch.”
The students’ company, called
“5 Passes” after the mountainous
region in western China where it
will be based, combines studying
abroad and tourism.
Participants will fly into China
to spend their first six days trav-
eling the countr y before moving
on to North Korea. Once across
the border, a native guide will
take over for the graduates. Two
North Korean “government mind-
ers” will also join the group.
The three founders have over
five years of combined experi-
ence living in China and have
come to establish personal con-
tacts in, as well as cultural and
business knowledge of, the re-
gion.
A major attribute of the trip,
Reichel said, is its focus on ex-
periences not available to the
average tourist.
“There are sections of the
Great Wall that people will nev-
er be able to get to if they don’t
know where they are,” Reichel
said. “They’re not tourist areas.
You don’t buy a ticket. You can’t
find a bus to get there.”
“You have to know someone
who knows about the wall, and
then you find a little village and
walk.”
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Monday, July 20, 2009 | Page 5

Wedding bells ring news in brief

out on College Hill

RISD museum to
close for August;
By Lauren Fedor one year after their graduation, said
layoffs to come
Senior Staff Writer they always loved the idea of getting Having seen its endow-
married at Manning. ment shrink by nearly a
Destination weddings have become “We decided to do Manning be- third, the Rhode Island
increasingly popular in recent years. cause we both loved Brown,” Blanco School of Design is shut-
Today, brides- and grooms-to-be often said. tering its renowned mu-
travel to exotic locales in the United “We met at Brown, we got en- seum for the entire month
States and abroad. The tropical is- gaged at Brown and his parents got of August.
lands of the Caribbean, the roman- married at Brown,” she said. “And I In a May 13 e-mail and
tic cities of Europe and the pristine loved the idea of Manning.” statement to faculty and
beaches of Hawaii are all frequent Abbey Barrett Bloom ’03 and students, RISD President
destinations for couples seeking a Jonathan Bloom ’03 also had family John Maeda announced
getaway for their big day. ties to Brown, and likewise decided that the school would also
But then again, so are the green to get married at Manning. reduce the size of the mu-
lawns of College Hill. “We live in New York,” Abbey seum’s staff by up to 20
Brown has been said, “but we have so people through layoffs,
hosting destination FEATURE many friends from early retirement incentives
weddings of sorts for school, and Brown was and other measures.
decades. On average, at least 40 the obvious choice.” The museum closing
couples — often recent alums — re- Abbey said their wedding, on came in response to what
turn to College Hill for their special May 30 of this year, was full of alum- its director, Hope Alswang,
day each year, according to the Rev. ni who enjoyed returning to campus. called “a truly harrowing
Janet Cooper-Nelson, the University Her father, grandparents and great- drop in the museum’s en-
chaplain. grandparents are graduates and dowment portfolio,” with
Though weddings have been many of the couple’s friends from earned interest dropping
held at Hillel, the Faculty Club and Brown were in the bridal party. from $6 million to around
the Crystal Room, Manning Chapel, Another alumna friend became $5 million in the span of
situated on both the Main and Quiet an online minister for the occasion, one fiscal year.
Greens, is the most popular choice and officiated the ceremony. “We knew we couldn’t
for couples, Cooper-Nelson said. Abbey said she and Jonathan just nibble around the
“It’s a beloved space,” she said. tried to incorporate small details edges,” Alswang told the
“People love the space — we all of their college experience into the Providence Journal in a
do.” occasion. For instance, they wrote July 12 article. “We knew
With students gone, summer is their names and the date of their we had to find a solution
the peak time for couples to return wedding on the sidewalk in front that matched the prob-
to Providence to exchange vows. of the Van Wickle Gates, and sent lem.”
Though Cooper-Nelson said most a photograph of the message to all RISD Museum atten-
couples who marry in Manning are of their guests as a “save the date” dance in August has typi-
alumni of the college, others are cur- card. They also used their yearbook Courtesy of Abbey Barrett Bloom (top), Robert Aubin (bottom) cally been the institution’s
rent graduate students or faculty as a sign-in registry for guests on Abbey Barrett Bloom ’03 and Jonathan Bloom ’03 used sidewalk art to lowest of the year, and the
members. their big day. announce their wedding to guests (above). Jessie Blanco ’03 and Michael summer closing means
Busam ’03 tied the knot in Manning Chapel, just as Michael’s parents had.
“This is the whole mixed genera- Cooper-Nelson said the nonde- the school’s academic
tion of Brown,” she said. nominational space can also serve programs will be mostly
Mixed generations were prac- as a common ground for couples unaffected.
tically the theme of the July 2005 who have different religious back- Nevertheless, in the
nuptials of Jessie Blanco ’03 and grounds. past two months, eight
Michael Busam ’03. Michael’s par- Manning did just that for Kristen museum employees have
ents, Stanley James Busam ’75 and Langdon Cohen ’89 and Lee Cohen been laid off, and six
Margaret Hayes, had been married ’89, who were married in the chapel chose early retirement.
in Manning 30 years earlier. in October 1999. When the museum
Blanco and Busam, who met The couple lived one floor apart does reopen in Septem-
during the fall of their junior year ber, it will be to an excit-
and got engaged at Campus Dance continued on page 7 ing season that includes
an installation by Arnie
Zimmerman in the new

In challenging job market, art students hit hard, too
By Rosalind Schonwald
Staff Writer
This year, it wasn’t just economics
majors who were dutifully monitoring
changes in the economy and the job
market. College students pursuing
arts and media internships found they
were just as affected by the downturn
as those hoping to spend their sum-
mers on Wall Street.
Harvard sophomore Daniel Villafa-
na has felt the effects of ailing markets
this summer at the Museum of Con-
temporary Art in Los Angeles, where
he is an intern. Well, not quite.
“They would not take an intern,”
Villafana said. “You have to pay in-
terns. I am volunteering. I work, like,
12 hours a week.”
As a volunteer, Villafana’s responsi-
bilities include standard intern duties,
such as filing and organizing, as well
as a few slightly less routine tasks
linked to downsizing at the promi-
nent museum. “Two days ago, my job
was to clear out the office of some-
body they had to lay off,” Villafana
explained. “It was a person in charge
of the membership department.”
Summer festivals, staples of the
arts world, have also experienced
shifts as a result of reduced funding.
Matt Acoin, another Harvard sopho-
more, described his experience as a
coach and pianist in the opera division
at the Caramoor Music Festival. “Es-
sentially, my job consists of playing the
orchestra’s part at all non-orchestra
rehearsals and coaching the singers,”
he said.
Money, or lack thereof, has forced
the festival to restrict its hiring to indi-
viduals who already have local hous-
ing. “I’m the only non-New Yorker
on the staff,” Acoin said. “Normally,
Caramoor gives its employees places
to stay, but the budget was badly hurt
Chace Center, as well as
an exhibit of early modern
engraving and an ongoing
this past year, and most jobs had to be ments and fewer job openings,” she show of Japanese land-
given to people in the city.” wrote in an e-mail. “Interns are defi- scape prints.
Acoin’s classmate, Ian Kumekawa, nitely given more responsibilities. We
on the other hand, is interning at a end up doing most of what a person in — Ben Hyman
small New England artists’ colony that an entry-level position would do.”
seems to be weathering the downturn,
with help from strong community sup-
port. “It’s in a fairly wealthy town,”
Kumekawa says. Plus, “it’s a small mu-
seum, so the overhead isn’t very high,
compared to a large museum.”
Michelle Gomes, in her final Does this bohter you?
semester as a graduate student in
media studies at The New School,
is interning with CNN Senior Corre-
Come copy edit!
spondent Richard Roth, who reports
on the United Nations. Her duties —
which include creative, editorial and
writing responsibilities and grueling
workdays — seem to go above and
beyond the standard filing fare of most
internships. herald@browndailyherald.com
“As an intern, I only see budget
cuts in various news-producing depart-
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Above, crews began excavating the site of the new Creative Arts Center. Below, renovations to Faunce House.
Metcalf will be next for construction crews
continued from page 1
last year as a student ser vices
building.
Construction should last about
three semesters, during which
Kim Perley / Herald (above), Jesse Morgan / Herald (below) the faculty currently residing in
Above, a stairway near the top of aging Metcalf Hall, which was approved Metcalf will move to a University
for renovations after plans for a new brain science building were scuttled. building on Waterman Street near
Below, a worker examines a drill at the site of the Creative Arts Center.
Wayland Square, Maiorisi said. The
building currently houses faculty
in the Department of Cognitive and
Linguistic Sciences.
The Metcalf renovations are
projected to cost around $42 mil-
lion, while the original plans for a
new building at the current site
of the Urban Environmental Lab
would have cost over $70 million,
Maiorisi said. Although top admin-
istrators had originally considered
the building a high-priority project,
the University had been able to
raise just $27 million for it by the
end of last semester.
“Holding on to the previous
dream under the current circum-
stances would have meant a long
and uncertain wait,” said Spies. On
the other hand, “the question of if
(faculty) do their work in a reno-
vated Metcalf or in a new building
is almost irrelevant,” he said.
“We can still achieve almost 99
percent of what we had intended
to do,” Spies said. The current plan
also avoids the “double whammy”
of expensive constr uction and
higher long-term operating costs,
he added.
Built in the 1920s, Metcalf was
already in need of renovation, and
the changes will give the build-
ing another 75 or 100 years of life,
Spies said.
Utilizing existing space is a
“ver y green thing to do,” Maiorisi
Jesse Morgan / Herald (above) , Hang Nguyen (below)
added.
The plan for the renovated
building is certainly green in one
way — the UEL, previously set
to be demolished or relocated to
make room for a new building, will
be spared — for now.
But building on that site is still
in the University’s long-term plan,
Spies said. “Fifty years from now,
there will be a (new) building
there,” he said.
Busy summer
Meanwhile, the construction
of the new Creative Arts Center
between Angell and Olive streets,
exterior changes to Faunce House
and renovations to dormitories have
begun elsewhere on campus.
After a groundbreaking cer-
emony during Commencement
Weekend, preliminary work on the
$40 million arts building — funded
entirely by gifts — has begun.
“They are still in effect excavat-
ing,” Spies said. The Walk has been
re-routed around the site and will
remain that way until the Center’s
completion, slated for December
2010.
Construction on Faunce House
to transform it into the Stephen
Robert ’62 Campus Center is also
continuing. Work on the Faunce
exterior and the former mailroom
is on course for completion by
September. The bricks from the
exterior front steps have been com-
pletely removed, while workers
have started converting the old
mailroom into a social space.
A temporar y eater y to replace
the Blue Room will open this fall
in the former mailroom, Ann Hoff-
man, director of administration at
Dining Services, wrote in an e-mail
Monday, July 20, 2009
to The Herald. The room will still
be available for events in the eve-
ning, she wrote.
Similarly, a “small snack shop”
in J. Walter Wilson will temporar-
ily replace the Campus Market,
she wrote.
The renovation of Faunce Arch,
slated for November, will cause
the biggest disruption to student
life, Maiorisi said. Facilities Man-
agement will attempt to minimize
any blockage of pedestrian access
through the arch to Waterman
Street, he said.
Students living in Hope and
Slater Halls during the upcoming
year do not need to be concerned
about early morning construction
noise, said Thomas Forsberg, as-
sociate director of housing and
residential life. Though Faunce
will be covered in scaffolding when
students arrive on campus, all out-
door work on the building should
be completed when the semester
begins.
Renovation work on Caswell
and Slater Halls is also proceeding
as planned, though Forsberg cau-
tioned that “it will be a challenge”
to finish before the first early-arriv-
ing students reach campus.
The renovations will convert
kitchens in Caswell to double
rooms while expanding the base-
ment lounge and adding a kitchen
to it, Forsberg said. Slater will gain
bathrooms on the first and fourth
floors.
Overall, the University will
spend around $30 million on 131
separate projects between May
and September, Maiorisi said. That
amount is about standard for sum-
mer spending, he added.
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A vendor took advantage of the warm weather to capture the attention of Thayer Street pedestrians.
It’s not magic: ‘Harry Potter’ star bound for Brown
continued from page 1
at Brown in recent interviews with
MTV, Paste magazine and other
media outlets.
As early as August 2008, The
Daily Telegraph, one of Britain’s
biggest papers, was reporting on
the high results of Watson’s A-level
exams.With such stellar grades,
Watson was expected to attend
Oxford or Cambridge, following
in the footsteps of her parents, not
to mention generations of talented
English teens. But in September, the
Telegraph quoted Watson as saying
she had applied to a few American
universities as well.
“I never thought that I would
want to go to America for university,”
Watson told Interview magazine this
April. “As a child, I aspired to go to
Oxbridge, because that’s where my
parents went. When my dad talks
about his time there, he says it was
the most incredible experience.”
Watson’s interest in exploring her
American options was confirmed in
October when she swung through
the northeast on a college tour that
took her to Harvard, Yale, Columbia
and Brown, leaving a trail of excited
buzz in her wake.
“‘Hermione’ Enchants Campus
With Visit,” the Harvard Crimson
reported, quoting one sophomore
who was “distraught” because he
absentmindedly missed a chance
to give Watson a tour of his dorm
room.
In New Haven, Watson’s visit
caused an “uproar,” the Yale Daily
News wrote. “Everyone just got
out their phones and started call-
ing people,” sophomore John Song
told the Daily News. “There was
kind of a … little buzz around, ev-
eryone was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s
Emma Watson,’ but no one went
up to her.”
T ee time
Watson was spotted at Yale again
in December, leading the Daily
News to speculate, “She just can’t
get enough of Yale … perhaps this
is good news for Yale’s future class
of 2013?”
Misdirection And Muddle
By the end of January, though, it
looked like Yale’s hopes had been in
vain. The Telegraph’s gossip blog-
ger, “Mandrake,” revealed that Wat-
son would not be crossing the pond
at all. Rather, she would be studying
English literature at Cambridge Uni-
versity’s Trinity College.
The Telegraph quoted a friend of
Watson’s mother who said the young
actress had balked at the prospect of
moving so far away from home.
But then, in early March, Twitter
user “mwtsnx” — an account regis-
tered under the name “Emma Wat-
son” — produced the terse, blase
tweet, “Did I tell you I got accepted
to Yale,” hinting perhaps that the
actress was New Haven-bound. E!
Online picked up the story, which
quickly oozed out into the blogo-
sphere.
Within a day, the story had been
completely debunked. An announce-
ment on Watson’s Web site read, “We
would like to inform you that Emma
does not have a Twitter account and
that these rumours are false. Emma
is still trying to decide whether she
wants to attend university in the U,K.
or the U.S.A. and hasn’t accepted any
placements at this time.” Neverthe-
less, the pseudo-story that Watson
was headed to Yale continued to
ricochet around the Internet echo
chamber for weeks. One Scottish
culture site was still repeating it at
the end of April.
In the meantime, an April 13 ar-
ticle appearing in the popular British
tabloid News of the World had it that
Watson had settled on Brown. But
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“As long as there are no Harry Potter posters on the wall, I will be fine.”
the actress stayed mum, neither con-
firming nor denying the rumors.
As if the situation weren’t already
complicated enough, in June, mul-
tiple celebrity blogs picked up the
story that Watson was going to Co-
lumbia. The proof? A “Charlotte E.
Watson” was listed in Columbia’s
student directory — meaning, of
course, that Emma Charlotte Duerre
Watson (the actress’ full name) had
enrolled under a pseudonym! Never
mind the fact that the Charlotte Wat-
son in question had a corresponding
LinkedIn profile, or the fact that she
was clearly listed as attending the
Columbia’s School of Continuing
Education, not its college.
By early July, then, Watson had
been pegged as a member of the
class of 2013 at Cambridge, Yale,
Brown and Columbia.
The Frenzied Farce’s Finale
On July 4, it started to look like
Brown had won out.
In an interview with The Guard-
ian, Radcliffe — in between dispel-
ling rumors about his sexuality
and discussing his love of the BBC
Parliament channel, the British
C-SPAN — mentioned the Potter
cast members’ respective academic
achievements.
Watson was “incredibly aca-
demic, it’s frightening,” he said. “Me
and Rupert (Grint, who plays Ron
Weasley) to all intents and purposes
dropped out of school. And she’s
going to Brown.”
Watson herself had still not con-
firmed the story when the Provi-
dence Journal picked it up on July
7.
In July 8 and July 9 interviews
with David Letterman and the U.K.’s
Jonathan Ross, respectively, Watson
said she had settled on a school in
the states, feeling that, for someone
who hasn’t had a ‘normal’ educa-
— Actress Emma Watson ’13, on coming to Brown in the fall
Kim Perley / Herald
tional life since she was nine years
old, a broader American university
curriculum would be better than a
more specialized English one. She
still avoided naming the school
she had chosen — though she did
drop the word “concentration” in
the Letterman interview.
On July 12, Potter producer
David Heyman also let slip to the
Chicago Sun-Times that Watson was
headed to Brown. And then, on July
14, Watson finally revealed, in Paste
magazine, that Brown was in fact
her choice. Two days later, she told
MTV the same thing.
With the months of wild specula-
tion now at an end, all that remains
is Watson’s actual matriculation at
her chosen school, and she’d like
her future roommate to keep things
low-key, please.
“As long as there are no Harry
Potter posters on the wall, I will be
fine and happy,” she told People.
Watson has worked her film-
ing schedule for Harry Potter and
the Deathly Hallows — which will
be split in half to form the seventh
and yes, eighth installments of the
epic franchise — around the fall se-
mester. “I’ll be doing bits and bobs
at Christmas, but September feels
like my cut-off point, when I’ll really
stop,” she told Elle U.K.
After that, she’s not planning to
forswear film acting entirely, but she
would like to balance her career and
her education.
Watson told Paste she’s excited
to be leaving home for a new envi-
ronment, where she might get to
experience “a bit of ‘normality’ for
a while.”
“I do hope that it will be only a
short time before I am known as
‘Emma Watson, the student from
the U.K.’ rather than ‘Emma Watson
who starred in those Harry Potter
films,’” she said.
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bells ring on
College Hill
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from each other during their junior
year in Hegeman Hall. Though they
remained “just friends” in the years
following graduation, the two began
dating in the late ’90s and decided to
get married soon thereafter.
“We wanted to get married at
Brown because it was a commonal-
ity,” Kristen said. “It was something
from our history.”
In light of her Protestant back-
ground and Lee’s Jewish upbringing,
Manning seemed like the perfect
place to bring together their two
families.
Kristen and Lee have continued
to make Brown part of their family
— Cooper-Nelson has baptized the
couple’s four boys in Manning.
“Brown is a family,” Cooper-Nel-
son said. “We may not be a religious
family, but there is a way that we
really are tied together.”
Cooper-Nelson said the openness
and acceptance couples find in Man-
ning matches the spirit of the Univer-
sity community — namely, though
the state of Rhode Island does not
recognize gay marriage, many gay
couples have held ceremonies in
Manning Chapel.
“It doesn’t matter to us if you’re
straight or gay,” she said.
Cooper-Nelson’s open attitude
encouraged Jasmine Waddel ’99 to
have her wedding in Manning.
Though her partner, Jodi, was
not an alumna, Waddel could not
have imagined getting married any-
where other than Brown. She and
her partner were officially married
on Nantucket in September 2007,
where the marriage would be legally
recognized, before having a “proper
ceremony” in Manning.
“September is a glorious time at
Brown,” Wadell said, adding that the
“Roots” sculptures were installed the
weekend of the ceremony, and the
two women were able to take photo-
graphs in front of the artwork.
“It was just so fun,” she said.
“And you certainly don’t get that at
a traditional church or community
center.”
 SportsSummer
The Brown Daily Herald
Bears send
three to
track finals
By Andrew Braca
Spor ts Editor
Three Brown athletes competed at the
Division I NCAA Outdoor Track and
Field Championship in June, led by
Craig Kinsley ’11, who finished third
in the nation in the javelin to earn All-
American honors. Br ynn Smith ’11 and
Br yan Powlen ’09 both finished in the
top 20 nationally in the hammer throw
and discus, respectively.
The coach who guided all three Brown
NCAA par ticipants, assistant throws
coach Michelle Eisenreich, was named
the Northeastern Region Assistant Track
and Field Coach of the Year.
Kinsley’s throw of 73.31 meters trailed
only those of Chris Hill of Georgia (81.80)
and Corey White of USC (75.72).
Kinsley said the result was the valida-
tion of a year’s worth of effort, but he
wasn’t completely satisfied.
“I was excited about my finish, but
I was also a little disappointed and left
wanting for more because … with the
way I was throwing and the way my body
felt, I felt that (second place) was within
reach and that I had more in me that
day,” he said.
Kinsley said he did not set a specific
goal for himself.
“Instead of thinking about putting a
number on a distance on how far I throw
it, I usually just think, I’m going to throw
it into the stands on the other side of
the track,” he said. “My goal going into
it was to not get swallowed up by the
meet itself and focus on the approach
and then just let ever ything else fall into
shape as I have done for the rest of the
season.”
All three Bears improved on the seeds
they received when they stepped onto
John McDonnell Field at the Univer-
sity of Arkansas on June 10. Smith was
seeded 27th in the hammer throw, but
finished 20th in the nation with a throw
of over 183 feet. Powlen was seeded 26th
in the discus, but moved up to finish
18th in the nation with a throw of over
179 feet.
Kinsley entered the NCAAs as the
fourth seed in the javelin. The top eight
finishers were named All-Americans by
the United States Track and Field and
Cross Countr y Coaches Association.
Kinsley said he had often been one
of the two best throwers in his previous
meets, leading to extra jitters against a
talented field.
“Definitely, when it came down to it I
was hit pretty hard with some pressure
— ner ves — that I hadn’t had the rest of
the season,” he said. “I think it kind of
showed in my first day of competition,
but I was able to get through it and come
out the other side.”
Now Kinsley is shooting for more.
“There’s no doubt this whets my ap-
petite for bigger and better things,” he
said. “Just going to a big meet is a hell of
an experience. It really makes you want
to get to the next big meet and the next
big meet … I think about it just about
ever y single day — where can I get next
year, where can I get in the next few
years with javelin throwing.”
Women’s hockey head coach Digit Murphy was among 44 who applied for the vacant men’s hockey coaching job. However, she is not among
the finalists (sidebar), according to the Providence Journal.
Men’s hockey looking for a new coach
By Dan Alexander
Sports Staff Writer
Men’s hockey head coach Roger Grillo re-
signed from his position on July 1 to become
the Regional Manager for USA Hockey’s Ameri-
can Development Model.
The athletic department immediately be-
gan searching for Grillo’s replacement after
he resigned. According to the Providence
Journal, 44 individuals have applied for the
position, including the women’s hockey head
coach, Digit Murphy.
Murphy, however, is not a finalist for the
position. According to the U.S. Hockey Report,
the finalists are Dartmouth Assistant Coach
Brendan Whittet ’94, Boston College Associate
Head Coach Mike Cavanaugh, UMass-Amherst
Assistant Red Gendron and Union College As-
sociate Head Coach Rick Bennett.
In an e-mail to The Herald, Athletic Director
Michael Goldberger wrote he hopes the new
head coach will be chosen by July 25.
Whittet, a former Brown defenseman, won
an Ivy League championship in 1992 and made
it to the ECAC Final Four Championships in
1993 and 1994. He has been an assistant with
the Big Green for 11 seasons.
Cavanaugh, who also spent two years as
an assistant at Dartmouth, has been with the
high-profile Eagles program for 14 seasons,
during the last five of which he has been the
associate head coach. During his time at BC,
the team has won six Hockey East Champion-
ships and two national championships.
Gendron made a return to college hockey
in 2005 when he took an assistant coaching job
at UMass, after spending 11 of the previous 12
seasons as an assistant, scout and AHL head
coach in the New Jersey Devils organization.
The Devils hoisted the Stanley Cup three times
while Gendron was on their staff.
Bennett, who was a Hobey Baker final-
ist at Providence College in 1990, went on
to have a 10-year professional career before
becoming an assistant at PC for five years.
He left Providence to join the ECAC for the
2005-2006 season with Union College, where
he has coached since.
Goldberger formed an 11-person com-
mittee comprised of faculty, administrators,
coaches and players to find the next coach.
Assistant captain Aaron Volpatti ’10 and Scott
van der Linden ’10 — neither of whom could
be reached for comment — joined Goldberger
as members of the committee.
Grillo won’t be behind the Brown bench for
Monday, July 20, 2009 | Page 8
Courtesy of Digit Murphy
the first time since 1997. In his 12 seasons at
Brown, Grillo went 120-205-52. Men’s hockey head
“Initially, it was a shock,” said Jordan Pi- coach finalists
etrus ’10, whom Grillo named assistant captain
for the upcoming season. “I don’t think anyone Rick Bennet
really expected it.” After personal success as a player
“It’s disappointing,” said Mike Clemente ’12. at Providence Colege, Bennet
“He’s a good coach and an awesome guy.” had a 10-year professional career
He led the Bears to three straight win- befre becoming an assistant at
ning seasons from 2003-2005. But his teams PC and then a coach at Union
struggled in recent years, going 11-44-9 over College.
the last two seasons.
Grillo’s assistant coaches, Mark Workman Mike cavanaugh
and Scott Stirling ’00, agreed that Grillo will be After two years as an assistant
missed most for something far less tangible for Dartmouth, Cavanaugh has
than wins and losses. been an associate head coach at
“He’s got a real strong passion for the game Boston College for the last five
and for the team,” Workman said. “He deeply, years out of the 14 he has been
deeply cares for all of the guys in that locker with BC.
room.”
Grillo joins the ADM, which was created by Red
USA Hockey, with support from the National Gendron
Hockey League, in order to provide a structure Gendron
in which teams throughout the country can spent 11
develop young talent, using age-appropriate seasons
training techniques. working
The coaching vacancy has left recruits for the
wondering who will lead Brown’s locker room New Jersey
next year, but Workman and Stirling both Devils,
said the coaching transition should not harm before
Brown’s recruiting. becoming an assistant coach at
“Coach Workman and I are still up there UMass Amherst.
and we’re doing our thing,” Stirling said.
“We’re talking to kids and showing the kids brendan
around the school and showing all of the great Whittet
things that Brown has to offer.” Currently an
The incoming class of freshmen, recruited assistant for
by Grillo’s staff, are all honoring their commit- Dartmouth,
ments to come to Brown. The recruiting class the Brown
below them still has plenty of time to decide, as alum won an
many of them will not commit until next spring. Ivy League
That doesn’t mean the athletic department is title and
taking it slow, however. made it to
“Things are going to start to heat up with the ECAC Final Four twice while a
hockey and recruiting and stuff like that come defenseman for the Brown.
August,” Stirling said.
By then, Goldberger expects to already I would like the chance to, you know, reapply
have the new coach. or re-interview or stay on board, but that’s not
Workman and Stirling don’t know what the up to me,” Stirling said.
future holds for them. The players will have to learn new drills and
“I’m not going to lie to you, I mean I’ve prove themselves to a new coach. But right
talked to some other people about some other now, they don’t know what lies ahead.
jobs and stuff like that, but nothing has really “There’s definitely some stress and anxi-
happened on that front,” Workman said. ety involved because you don’t know what to
Both he and Stirling said they would con- expect,” Pietrus said.
sider staying if asked. “Everyone is going to be like freshmen
“Certainly if given the opportunity to stay, again,” Workman said.
Page 9
S ports S ummer
Crew rows to multiple successes across the pond
By Andrew Braca
Spor ts Editor
The men’s crew team had a fantastic
finish to its season on both sides of
the Atlantic Ocean.
After placing third in the nation
at the Intercollegiate Rowing As-
sociation Championship Regatta,
the freshmen eight placed second
and the varsity eight won the La-
dies’ Plate at the prestigious Henley
Regatta in England.
“We had a few terrific races
over there,” said Head Coach Paul
Cooke ’89. “The freshmen did a
great job, making it to the final,
and the varsity rowed some ter-
rific races to win the Ladies Plate.
It was a big step for ever yone, a
big victory.”
It was especially sweet for the
graduating seniors.
“Henley is just one of the most
special rowing events in the world,”
said Matt Wheeler ’09. “I couldn’t
think of a better way to end my
rowing experience at Brown.”
The Bears began the postseason
on a roll, sweeping all five races at
the Eastern Association of Rowing
Colleges Sprints on May 10 to win
the Ivy League title, before travel-
ing to Sacramento the following
month to face the best colleges in
the country at IRAs.
June 6 began slowly for Brown,
as the four placed second in the
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petite final, good for eighth over-
all. But all three of Brown’s eights
made their grand finals, reserved
for only the top six boats. The
freshmen eight placed third, just
0.437 seconds behind second-place
Har vard and nearly 2.6 seconds
ahead of fourth-place finisher Cal.
The second varsity eight took the
silver and the varsity eight placed
fourth, less than 2.3 seconds off
the medal stand.
Brown’s 174 points were good
for third, just four points behind
runner-up Cal. The University of
Washington won the national cham-
pionship with 198 points, sweeping
the eights.
“Other than Washington, I really
thought we had about as good a
performance as any crew,” Cooke
said. “I was ver y proud of the ef-
fort out there; the guys raced very
well. We would have liked to be
closer in the varsity in the final
than we were, but it was a great
performance team-wide.”
Brown was one of only four
crews, along with Cal, Har vard
and Washington, to place all three
eights in grand finals.
“That was pretty amazing,” said
Rob O’Leary ’09, the varsity eight
coxswain. “It really showed how
strong and how deep the team was
this year.”
Coming off that strong showing,
the Bears traveled to England to
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spend the Fourth of July weekend
racing a field loaded with interna-
tional powers on the River Thames.
The freshmen advanced to the fi-
nals of the Temple Cup before fall-
ing to Princeton.
After passing a stiff test against
Leander in the semifinals on Sat-
urday, the varsity eight advanced
to the championship the following
day.
“The whole finals day in Henley
definitely has a unique feel to it —
you’re racing in front of hundreds
of thousands of people,” O’Lear y
said. “There’s nothing like that any-
where in America, where there are
so many spectators and it’s such a
high-profile event. Going into that
race, everyone was really motivat-
ed. We had the whole team behind
us.”
Their teammates were among
the few supporters the Bears had
at Henley. Brown was facing the
British under-23 national team, and
opinion was squarely against the
Yanks.
“The shores were packed all the
way down the 2000-meter course
with people cheering against us,
so it was very tense at the line and
there was a lot riding on it,” Wheel-
er said. “Going down the course,
the crowd got so loud at the end
we couldn’t hear our coxswain who
was steering us.”
But the Bears disappointed the
“We had a few terrific races over there”
— Men’s crew Head Coach Paul Cooke ’89
throngs. Pushing hard off the start-
ing line, Brown took a small lead
in the first third of the race and
held on through the middle. But
the current of the Thames shifted
for the last third of the race.
“Coming into the last part of the
race the river was against us …
and the other crew sort of had an
advantage coming for them, but we
were able to really dig in hard and
just kind of hold them,” O’Lear y
said. “We won by a half-length,
which was a really close margin.
It basically came down to a really
tough, hard-fought race, just really
aggressive all the way down the
course.”
The victor y earned Brown its
four th Ladies’ Plate, following
championships in 1984, 1993 and
2000. Cooke coached the freshmen
in 2000 and said both titles were
special.
“The race in 2000 to win was
closer,” he said. “It was just a few
feet that Brown won by.”
“But actually they were ver y
similar experiences,” Cooke add-
ed. “It was an opportunity for the
varsity to race against some really
good crews, and to see them win
those races was gratifying, in both
cases.”
It was an unforgettable way for
the seniors to end their Brown ca-
reers.
“It was definitely great to finish
Monday, July 20, 2009
with such a big win,” O’Leary said.
“Personally, (it’s) hard to come off
such a big win and have to be done
with the sport now. But (it was)
definitely the most memorable ex-
perience I’ll have here at Brown.”
Three Brown rowers are not
done yet for the summer. Wheel-
er, Scott Morgan ’10 and Lindsey
McAlpine ’09 will travel to the
Czech Republic to represent the
United States at the 2009 World
Rowing Under 23 Championships
starting on July 23.
The rest of the Bears will soon
turn their attention to next year.
Cooke said he was unsure that
the success would carry over, but
he knows that the foundation is
strong.
“Every year is a new year,” he
said. “It will be interesting and dif-
ferent. It will depend on the leader-
ship of the guys and an understand-
ing of what they want to do so that
they have another good year. We
certainly have some depth with the
people returning, and we’re excited
about the coming year.”
Wheeler believes his former
teammates will go far.
“There are a lot of great leaders
on this team right now,” he said. “I
feel like I’m graduating with the
team in extremely good hands and
a really committed coaching staff. I
know the guys are going to get right
back to work next year and aim for
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e d i to r i a l
A tax on learning
If Mayor David Cicilline ’83 has his way, Providence will become the first
city in America to tax private colleges for, of all things, enrolling students. At the
mayor’s urging, the Rhode Island House of Representatives recently approved
a bill that would let cities impose a $150-per-student fee on private colleges for
each semester of the academic year. Another bill under consideration would
remove Brown’s tax-exempt status and cost the University additional millions
of dollars annually.
The two bills are meant to ensure payment for road maintenance, police,
firefighters and other city services utilized by students and institutions of
higher education. Cicilline calls it the “Fair Share Plan.” We’ll call it a double
standard. Colleges in Providence lose about $1,200 per student to taxes, col-
leges everywhere else in the country do not. Clearly playing fair isn’t Cicilline’s
main concern. A balanced budget (by any means necessary) is a more urgent
priority for the mayor as he prepares for his upcoming reelection bid.
According to a May article by the Associated Press, Cicilline’s office couldn’t
point to any studies establishing what it costs the city to provide students with
basic services. The total cost is unlikely to exceed students’ indirect contribu-
tions to state and local government coffers. A 2005 report by Appleseed Inc., a
consultancy, found that Brown students spent an estimated $40 million locally
in 2005. The University paid over $100 million to Rhode Island companies for
construction, goods and services that year and spent over $144 million on
research. A significant proportion of that money funneled back to the city
through taxes on sales and income. The University also paid $12.8 million
directly to state and local governments.
Students at Brown and other local colleges devote thousands of hours to
volunteer work in the city. The Swearer Center for Public Service runs a number
of projects alongside community organizations and keeps students informed ALEX YULY

of service opportunities. Given the current economic climate — Rhode Island

currently has the second highest unemployment rate in the country — it is
especially important that members of the Brown community continue their
efforts to make a difference in and beyond Providence. We fear that Cicilline’s
decision to blame students for the city’s financial predicament will only foster
resentment and weaken students’ felt obligation to their communities.
The tax on learning should serve as a pointed reminder of the importance
of student involvement in the political process. Should either bill become law,
local officials might smell blood and further increase taxes on students and
colleges when funding runs low. Providence students should start to consider
voting in local elections, preferably for candidates who don’t take universities
for granted.
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TOPAZ
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Sitting on the steps of Faunce during peak high
school visiting, a couple friends and I began
talking about a few rough patches we encoun-
tered in our first semester at Brown. One had
trouble finding small, intimate classes. One
felt disconnected from his professors. One
felt that Providence was inaccessible and
difficult to navigate.
Almost on cue, a visiting mother and
daughter who caught some wind of our con-
versation sat down and asked if they could
briefly talk to us about Brown. These types
of conversations with real students, they ex-
plained, often proved to be the most valuable
way of discovering the school. Amidst the
whirlwind of college visits, the prospective
student confessed a familiar sentiment: “Every
tour started to sound the same.”
So that begs the question: What are these
student tours attempting to accomplish? Cer-
tainly they physically show the Brown campus
and give sound information as to how Brown
works. But it appears that tours at Brown (and
at most every university) are propaganda
machines, hour-long sessions that promote
the agenda of getting the largest number of
students to apply as possible.
What is fascinating about all of this is that
the admissions office has very little to do
Li’l Rhody’s big name change
SARAH ROSENTHAL
Opinions Editor
Rhode Island is the littlest state with the lon-
gest name. I tell people this and watch as they
try to figure out whether “Rhode Island” has
more letters or syllables than “Pennsylvania”
or “South Carolina.” Usually, they conclude
that it doesn’t, and then I bust out that arcane
but wonderful fact about Brown’s home state
— its full name is “State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations.”
Soon, our oft-slighted little state may lose
even that distinction. The Rhode Island legisla-
ture is considering a bill that would allow voters
to drop the “and Providence Plantations” from
the state’s name, and it’s likely to pass.
This is not the first time that controversy
over naming has roiled Providence this year.
In April, the Brown faculty voted to change
the name of the Columbus Day holiday to Fall
Weekend, much to the consternation of those
who saw it as a slight to the Italian-American
Providence community.
Such luminaries as Curtis Sliwa said on
Fox News that while Columbus was guilty of
all offenses and may in fact have been “a bar-
barious slave trader,” it didn’t matter because
a) Columbus stood for the spirit of exploration
and b) Brown students think that his ships
were called the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa and
the Maria. (He wasn’t giving Brown students
enough credit — we all know that Columbus’
ships were called the Groucho, the Harpo and
the Chico.)
Fox News aside, it seemed like a fairly obvi-
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The Brown fantasy tour
with the tours themselves. The extremely
organized group behind this — the Bruin
Club — is completely student-run, and the
ranking officials on the committee merely
supply tour guides with mostly logistical
information. Sure, some of these pieces of
information are misleading — for example,
the low student-to-faculty ratio and average
class size we brag about are deflated due to a
few very small seminars and departments.
But on the whole, it seems that most of the
embellishment isn’t coming from the script.
Wherever the inflated language comes from,
its presence in everyday tours is harmful for
If guides admit some shortcomings about Brown,
their portrayal of a great university with minor
flaws will be significantly more trusted.
two reasons.
First, it blurs Brown’s distinction from
other schools. The reason that every tour
“sounds the same”, according to this one
student, is that there is an unwritten trajec-
tory to how tours work. Students emphasize
important locations such as student unions
and freshman dorms, call attention to univer-
sity traditions, throw in some mild jokes and
brag about things all prospective students are
ous decision. We’re mostly good little liberals
here, cautious about offending anything or
anyone, and since no university would cel-
ebrate Vlad the Impaler Day or Pol Pot Day,
67.2 percent of students polled by The Herald
favored the change. For Native Americans at
Brown and others who lobbied for the name
change, this was a major victory. For most of
the student body, the change will be cosmetic.
For me, this seems like a lost opportunity,
one that soon may be repeated on a statewide
scale.
Reiko Koyama ’11, a proponent of the Fall
The intense focus on political correctness seems
to be a well-meaning distraction. It stirs up
controversies that polarize the population and
does not do anything concrete
Weekend change, said in The Herald, “I didn’t
really see what the reasoning could be for
keeping the name … It definitely exposes the
need for increased awareness” (“Student favor
scrapping ‘Columbus Day,’ Apr. 2). But I think
Koyama has it backwards. There will be no
“awareness” if we don’t own up to the past.
On the one hand, the battle to rename the
state appears to be manufactured controver-
sies, since it ignores the historical meaning of
the word “plantation” as used by Rhode Island’s
worried about, such as professors’ attention
to undergraduates. Thus, when people take
a tour of Brown (no doubt with qualified and
intelligent guides) many seem to respond
the way that the mother and daughter on
the Faunce steps did — with a convoluted
vision of it.
The second, and graver consequence,
however, is that embellished language and
a purely positive portrayal of Brown leads
to disbelief and skepticism from prospective
students. If a guide states that teaching as-
sistants are minor players in most classes,
what happens when prospective students
ask who grades exams in lecture classes?
If these embellishments are proven to be
false (by something as simple as talking to
a non-tour-guide student), why should the
prospective student believe anything he or
she has heard?
I am not suggesting that tour guides high-
light all things negative at Brown for fear
of committing a sin of omission. However,
how much trust would a guide earn if he or
founders. To them, a plantation was indeed a
place of labor, but fruitful labor in the service of
God, not black slavery in the service of a white
master. The Rhode Island state charter of 1663
(which I know Brown students peruse nightly),
says of the land: “(B)y the good Providence of
God, from whom the Plantations have taken
their name, upon their labor and industry, they
have not only been preserved to admiration,
but have increased and prospered...”
On the other hand, it’s not up to me, Curtis
Sliwa or anyone else to judge what people are
allowed to find hateful or offensive. Yet that’s
no excuse for whitewashing the past. Imagine if
we cut out all the potentially unpalatable parts
of our history — for instance, that the man who
penned the stirring words of the Declaration
of Independence also kept slaves. Yes, we’d be
sparing ourselves a sense of discomfort and
betrayal, but we’d also be lying.
Just as interested citizens could use Colum-
bus Day as an opportunity for programming
and education about Native American history,
culture and issues, so too could they channel
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she stated, “Teaching assistants in fact do
much of the grading, but professors almost
exclusively perform lectures and are read-
ily available for meetings after class”? That
simple acknowledgement of a small negative
is a sign of candor that both expresses respect
for prospective students and paints a realis-
tic picture of Brown. If guides admit some
shortcomings about Brown, their portrayal
of a great university with minor flaws will be
significantly more trusted.
So, to what extent do we sell the school
as fantasy? To what degree are we attempt-
ing to give prospective students a realistic
picture of Brown, and to what degree are we
attempting to achieve a higher application
rate? Do we really want students applying if
they have a false impression of our institu-
tion? And if tour guides aren’t indebted to
the admissions office, why do they function
as an extension of it?
Brown’s recent decision to accept the Com-
mon Application underscores a crucial point.
We seem to be blurring the lines between
Brown and the other elite universities in the
country. Much of what makes Brown brilliant
is that its distinct message attracts students
who strongly identify with it. By appealing
to the masses, and perhaps abandoning a bit
of truth in the process, it seems that we are
losing a piece of our public identity.
Jonathan Topaz ’12 is from New York City. He
can be reached at Jonathan.Topaz@gmail.
com
curiosity about Providence “Plantations” or the
Brown family’s livelihood into an opportunity
to pierce the smug Northeastern attitude about
American slavery. Yes, there was slavery in
Rhode Island, and even more slave trading; it
didn’t only happen down South. It’s nothing
to be proud of, but it’s far worse to ignore or
forget it.
The Slavery and Justice Commission is a
positive model for the kind of action Rhode
Island could take on the matter. Rather than
ignoring the past or getting bogged down in
symbolism and abstract arguments, the Uni-
versity shone the sun on an ugly chapter of
its history, pledged to cement its findings into
the public historical record and took concrete
steps to help those in the community who are
descendents of slaves or whose lives have been
affected by racism and inequality.
All in all, the intense focus on political cor-
rectness seems to be a well-meaning distrac-
tion. It stirs up controversies that polarize the
population and does not do anything concrete.
Removing the phrase “and Providence Plan-
tations” doesn’t provide one more job in a
state with a 12.4 percent unemployment rate
(except maybe the guy who goes around re-
moving the lettering from state buildings; he
might be very busy). It doesn’t help pay the
teachers or halt the rapidly rising foreclosure
rate or address any of the other problems
plaguing the state. If the name change gets
through, we will soon be the littlest state with
the biggest problems — and nothing else.
Herald Opinions Editor Sarah Rosenthal ’11 is
offended by this column.
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s u mm e r e v e n t s s u mm e r i n i m a g e s
Tuesday, july 21 saturday, july 25
Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson — Per- waterFire— Installation art, music and
forming with John Mellencamp at Mc- ballroom dancing. Lighting in Water-
Coy Stadium, Pawtucket, 5:30 p.m. place Park, 8:07 p.m.

Friday, July 24 saturday, august 1

Int’l Tree Climbing Championship — 50th Newport Folk Festival — Perform-
Climbers compete for the coveted ers include Pete Seeger, the December-
World Champion title. Roger Williams ists and Neko Case. Fort Adams State
Park, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Park, Newport, 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

fa l l dat e s
saturday, september 5 wednesday, september 9
First-year move-in, 8:30 a.m. Fall semester classes begin.
Orientation begins. Opening Convocation, 4 p.m.

Sunday, september 6 Tuesday, september 22

Dorms open for returning students. Last day to add a course without a
On-campus move-in through Wednesday, fee, 5 p.m.
September 9.
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