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50 extra b rr - ra w r ! U. considers cutting

transfers
next year
By Kate Monks
S enior S taf f Writer
The University plans to in-
crease next year’s transfer
class by 50 students, accord-
ing to the Admission Of fice,
bringing the expected number
of incoming transfer students
from 120 to about 170.
Provost David Ker tzer ’69
P’95 P’98 said the University’s
decision to increase the trans-
fer class was based in par t on
the high quality of applications
received so far.
More than two weeks before
the March 1 deadline, Brown
has already received over 1,400
transfer applications, accord-
ing to Dean of Admission Jim
Miller ’73.
“We have a large number
of highly qualified applicants,”
Ker tzer said.
He said the decision was
also a result of the University’s
success in welcoming transfer
varsity sports teams
BY Amy Chen
Staf f Writer
The University should re-evaluate
the “number and mix” of varsity
sports programs to save money
and improve athletes’ experiences,
the athletics subcommittee of the
Organizational Review Committee
recommended to President Ruth
Simmons in its report released
last week.
SPORTS
The subcommittee was one of
the 12 review committee teams
charged last spring with finding
ways to save the University $14
million. The team also proposed
recreation fees for students, fac-
ulty and staff after the opening the
new Nelson Fitness Center.
The athletics team was the
only subcommittee not to meet
Brigitta Greene / Herald its savings goal, according to the
The company of a snowy doppelganger kept Bruno warm Wednesday. Organizational Review Commit-
tee report.
“If we’re going to offer a varsity
To bolster budget, U. looks sport, we should do that correctly,
with all the protections that stu-
wrote. “No teams have been iden-
tified and no timeline has been
established.”
The committee “felt that any
consideration of a reduction to the
varsity program required more
time and a process that would
include coaches and student ath-
letes,” Klawunn wrote.
The athletics team recommend-
ed a process to look at whether
the University should reduce its
number of varsity teams. Brown
offers 37 varsity sports, but the
Department of Athletics has the
smallest budget and staff of any
athletic department in the Ivy
League, Klawunn said.
Despite having the lowest bud-
get in athletics, the University has
the “third largest commitment to
Division I sports in the League,”
according to the executive sum-
mar y of the review committee
report.
When asked how they would
react if their teams were to be cut,
student athletes expressed shock
and dismay.
“I don’t think that’s even fath-
omable,” said football co-captain

for more research grants

students in the past.
The addition of 50 more
transfers, for whom the admis-
sion process is not need-blind,
also means additional revenue
for the University.
Miller said the decision
“helps to alleviate some finan-
cial pressure.”
“There are clearly budget-
ar y considerations,” Ker tzer
said. “Other peer institutions
have been increasing the size of
continued on page 2
By Sydney Ember
News Editor
As part of its plans to reduce next
year’s budget, the University is look-
ing to streamline research support
and boost its revenue by securing
more grant funding. The academic
administration team of the Organi-
zational Review Committee — one of
the 12 teams formed last September
to identify ways to cut $14 million
from the University’s budget —
outlined its recommendations in a
report released Feb. 2.
The full set of recommendations
will be submitted to President Ruth
Simmons and to the Corporation for
approval when it convenes Feb. 25
to finalize next year’s budget.
The Organizational Review Com-
mittee report detailed proposals for
continued on page 4
dents should have for competing
in a sport,” Simmons said. “That’s
the wake-up call for us, to face up
to the fact that we simply don’t
have the resources to mount the
number of team sports that we
offer.”
No cuts are finalized yet,
Vice President for Campus Life
and Student Services Margaret
Klawunn wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald.
“It is not definite that a reduc-
tion will be made, although we
think it is possible,” Klawunn
Jimmy Develin ’10. “Football is
everything to me.”
“It would be devastating to me,”
said Jordan Pietrus ’10, tri-captain
of the ice hockey team.
Other student-athletes said that
sports are an integral part of their
experience at Brown.
“I’d say that my experience
with the equestrian team has been
one of my favorite things about go-
ing here and definitely one of the
things that will keep me feeling
continued on page 7

Polls show Chafee ’75 Minority, first-gen apps increase

in good shape in race By Talia Kagan
S enior S taf f Writer
By Bradley Silverman Previously, Chafee had loaned
Contributing Writer his campaign $110,000, according Minority students and first-gen-
to the campaign finance data — eration college students applied
Independent Lincoln Chafee ’75 $60,000 in May 2009 and $50,000 to Brown in greater numbers this
loaned his campaign $200,000 in in September. year than ever before, according
December, as polls continue to Chafee told The Herald that his to Dean of Admission Jim Miller
show him on top of loan was meant to ’73, who attributed the rise to Uni-
the race for gover- METRO serve as a signal versity ef for ts to recruit a more
nor. that he is serious diverse applicant pool.
Chafee, a former U.S. senator about his candidacy, and intends “We made a ver y conscious
and fellow at the Watson Institute to remain in the race. decision to focus recr uitment
for International Studies, made “I wanted to send a message almost exclusively in schools
the loan on Dec. 29, according to that I’m committed to this race,” and populations with students of
the quarterly finance report filed he said. color and first-generation college
by his campaign with the Rhode Chafee’s campaign began the students,” he said of high school
Island Board of Elections, two fourth quarter of 2009 with a bal- visits made by admissions officers
days before the end of the fourth ance of $200,122.26 and ended in the past year.
fundraising quarter. Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
continued on page 6 continued on page 2 Minorities and first-generation students applied in record numbers.

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C ampus N EWS “There are clearly budgetary concerns.”

— Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98

news in brief

UCS elects new secretary and UFB

representative
The Undergraduate Council of Students elected a new
representative to the Undergraduate Finance Board and a
new secretary at its general body meeting on Wednesday
night.
Mae Cadao ’13 ran unopposed to fill the secretary seat
left open by Alyaa Alkhadhar ’13, who resigned at the
beginning of the semester.
“I’m responsible, I’m committed, and I take really good
notes,” Cadao said in her brief speech to the council.
UCS also elected Herald Sales Director Kelly Wess ’11
as the newest representative to the finance board. Wess
defeated two other candidates — Cecilia Strombeck ’11
and Lisa Berlin ’12 — for the position.
“I can bring a fresh new perspective to the UFB,” Wess
said in her speech. “I can add some new ideas.”
UFB Chair Jose Vasconez ’10 was in attendance at the
meeting and delivered a brief statement to the candidates
and general body before the contenders gave their
Phoebe Neel / Herald speeches.
Sophie Netanel ‘11.5, a transfer student, will be joined by 170 more transfers next year. “We need someone who will vote based on reason and
logic, not based upon their biases,” he said. “We want to be

Transfer class increase will garner cash for U.
continued from page 1 said, because resources for fresh-
men are limited.
the student body as well.” For instance, University ad-
Miller said the number of ministrators want all freshmen
transfer students each year rang- to be able to par ticipate in first-
es from about 40 to 180, depend- year seminars, Ker tzer said. A
ing on the University’s var ying larger freshman class would also
student population and ability to af fect introductor y classes that
provide for additional students. typically are filled with freshmen,
“It’s not a progression one way he said.
or the other,” he said. Overall, more freshmen “would
The decision to increase the risk having a negative impact on
transfer class will not af fect the student experience for first-year
size of next year’s freshman class, students,” he said.
which Miller anticipates will be Along with the decision to
about 1,485 students, a number increase the size of the incom-
consistent with previous years, ing transfer class is a plan to add
he said. 97 more beds by conver ting of-
“We decided not to increase fices in Wayland Arch back into
the number of freshmen,” Kertzer dorms or conver ting Saunders
sudoku
Inn at Brown in Vartan Gregorian
Quad, Ker tzer said.
When housing first-year stu-
dents, the University prioritizes
placing freshmen together, but
Brown currently does not have
the facilities to accommodate
more first-years, according to
Ker tzer.
Unlike freshman admissions,
transfer admissions are not need-
blind. This “need-aware” admis-
sions process means that a stu-
dent’s ability to pay is a factor
in the University’s decision to
accept an applicant, according
to the Web site of the Of fice of
Financial Aid.
“We have a finite number of
dollars that we can spend,” Miller
said, adding that the University
is hoping to increase the amount
of funding available for financial
aid for transfer students by about
$400,000.
fair in all of our decisions, so we need someone who really
cares about making decisions.”
UCS President Clay Wertheimer ’10 then moved the focus
of the meeting to the upcoming UCS Midyear Report, which
the council will tableslip Thursday.
The report details UCS’s accomplishments throughout
the first semester, the council’s overall goals and its goals
for second semester.
Among the accomplishments listed from first semester
are the $46,000 increase in student activities funding, the
continental breakfast offerings at the Verney-Woolley Dining
Hall and the launch of the Matched Advising Program for
Sophomores.
The council’s goals for the second semester include
continuing efforts to launch a new student services Web
directory, plans to better the equipment and hours of
satellite gyms and the creation of UCS office hours at the
Sharpe Refectory every week.
The Student Activities Committee, chaired by Brady
Wyrtzen ’11, approved two student groups for Category I
recognition: the Capital Good Fund development team, a
nonprofit micro-lending organization started by Brown
students that gives loans to small businesses, and the
Brown Aerial Arts Society, which practices different types of
aerial arts including static trapeze.
— Max Godnick

U. focuses on minority applicant rates

continued from page 1
The University received about
48 percent more African-American
applicants this year than last year
and 42 percent more Latino appli-
cants, in both early and regular
decision rounds, Miller said. Ap-
plications from first-generation
college students increased by
about 40 percent, he said.
Applications increased overall
by about 20 percent, he said.
When visiting high schools,
admissions of ficers stressed the
availability of resources such
as the Third World Center and
University suppor t ser vices for
first-generation college students,
Miller said.
Another point admissions offi-
cers emphasized was the availabil-
ity of financial aid at Brown, due
to recent University initiatives to
increase aid and eliminate loan
packages, he said.
The decision to focus ad-
missions of ficer visits to these
schools meant that others had
to be passed over. “There are a
finite number of dollars we have
to recruit, and a finite number of
days and people,” Miller said.
While admissions of ficers are
still reading the more than 27,000
regular decision applications, the
demographic shift in applicants
can already be seen in the group
of students admitted early deci-

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C ampus N EWS “Brown’s mission is to give education to people.”

— Karen Sibley, Dean of Continuing Education

Pfizer partnership offers workers Brown classes news in brief

By Goda Thangada
Senior Staf f Writer
Since 1993, some 100 Pfizer em-
ployees have earned degrees from
Brown, and many more have taken
a single course, through the Univer-
sity’s long-running partnership with
the pharmaceutical giant.
While it may seem odd that the
makers of Viagra are taking classes
at Brown, the partnership is about
research, not business, administra-
tors said.
Through the special continu-
ing education program, Pfizer em-
ployees can take courses towards a
master’s degree in biology without
setting foot in Providence.“The pro-
gram is delivered to them,” said
Karen Sibley, dean of summer and
continuing education.
Because Brown faculty members
travel to two Pfizer labs in southeast
Connecticut to teach courses, stu-
dents — who pay almost $5,000 per
course — can earn degrees without
leaving their workplace.
“It’s a wonderful model for the
kind of education that Brown can
and should do more of,” Sibley said.
“Brown’s mission is to give educa-
tion to people.”
Nancy Thompson, associate
dean for graduate and postdoctoral
studies in the Division of Biology
and Medicine, selects the courses
offered each semester and per-
sonally approves the topics of the
culminating exercises required of
master’s candidates. Two of eight
courses must be in the areas of cell
biology, biochemistry, genetics or
pharmacology, with the remaining
six courses coming from anywhere
in Biology and Medicine.
Typically, the University only
offers two courses a year and en-
rolls about 30 students per semes-
ter. But due to increased faculty
availability and a hiring boom at
Pfizer, an average of 42 students
enrolled in four different classes
last year, according to Adjunct As-
sistant Professor in Neuroscience
Jennifer Aizenman.
The program starts when the
employees enroll as continuing
education students and then ap-
ply to enter the master’s program.
Though students pay the tuition
for the courses, Pfizer subsidizes
the program if students receive a
grade of “B” or better. A bachelor’s
in any major qualifies students to
enroll.
Though Thompson said she is
satisfied with how the program is
running, she said administrators
did not anticipate its longevity at the
beginning. Pfizer approached mem-
bers of Brown’s faculty in 1993 for
a special lecture on pharmacology.
After that point, “nobody stopped
it,” she said.
Thompson said she recalled the
“vigorous discussion” about the
program when it was first proposed.
She said the more traditional fac-
ulty asked, “How can it be a Brown
course if it’s not on campus?”
But with the advent of online
courses, distance education is no
longer an anomaly, Thompson
said.
“Back then, it did seem ver y,
very strange,” she said.
Mutual symbiosis
Professor of Biology Peter Hey-
wood has taught his course on cell
biology at Pfizer every four years,
most recently in the spring 2009
semester. In his most recent class,
he had 49 students, up from 25 in
2005, he said.
Heywood said he was impressed
by how hard his students worked
while holding down a full-time job
and maintaining a family life.
Though an advanced degree
could lead to promotions at Pfizer
and other job opportunities, the
Brown courses are also a way for
employees to learn more about the
field they work in, Heywood said.
“It’s career advancement in a Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
A new Samsung charging station in the back cave of the Ratty.
very broad sense,” he said. “They
gain key knowledge to apply in day-
to-day work.”
Courses offered at Pfizer are Samsung jolts campus with
identical in content to Brown
charging stations
courses, but the format differs.
The classes take place one day per
week. With the distance between Students coming back to campus this semester may
have been surprised to find brightly lit Samsung charging
continued on page 4 stations in the Sharpe Refectory, the Gate and the Olney-
Margolies Athletic Center.
Samsung approached Brown with the idea, and the

Sophomore advising program in high demand
By Zung Nguyen Vu
Contributing Writer
Last Saturday at the Faculty Club,
an intimate brunch attended by
participating sophomores, seniors
and faculty kicked off the Match
Advising Program for Sophomores.
The program has paired 40 selected
sophomores with 40 seniors who
share their interests and will provide
them with advice and mentoring
throughout the semester.
Molly Jacobson ’10, the pro-
gram’s coordinator, said she saw
the need for a sophomore-oriented
advising program while working as
an outreach coordinator at the Cur-
ricular Resource Center.
“Being a sophomore at Brown is
being in a uniquely precarious posi-
tion,” Jacobson said. “Your freshman
faculty advisor might no longer fit
you, you no longer have a Meikle-
john, many have not registered for
a major to receive departmental sup-
port, yet you are still a legitimately
anxious student at Brown.”
Encouraged and supported by
the CRC, Jacobson drafted a propos-
al that received support and funding
from the Dean of the College’s office
and enabled the MAPS program to
start this semester.
The program sent out applica-
tions to sophomores and seniors
during winter break. According to
Jacobson, the program received
about 360 applications — roughly
230 sophomores and 130 seniors.
Jacobson said this number not only
demonstrated a high demand for
advice in the sophomore class, but
also a willingness to help from the
seniors.
“I decided to join the program
because I remembered what it felt
like to be a sophomore,” wrote Anjali
Rao ’10 in an e-mail to The Herald.
“It was almost like being in academic
no-man’s-land.”
MAPS chose the 40 students in
each of the two classes based on
their range of needs, experiences
and interests, Jacobson said. Last
Saturday’s brunch, when seniors and
sophomores had the chance to meet
their match for the first time, was the
culmination of the process. Besides
maintaining a close and constructive
relationship with their advisees, the
seniors involved will also organize
four panels during the semester on
issues particularly relevant to the
sophomore class.
“I was worried that the program
might just be an empty buzzword to
throw out on a campus tour, but it
actually seems like a really useful
and much-needed addition to the
advising system,” wrote Amit Jain
’12 in an e-mail to The Herald.
University agreed to host the consoles for two years, said
Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential life and
dining services. Brown is receiving about $4,500 a year
for the deal, which is going toward student programming,
Bova wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
“All money that comes in because of the Samsung logo
will be going to the student programs budget,” Bova said.
“They were installed at no cost to us.”
Samsung is already hosting similar stations in 27 other
universities across the nation, according to Bova.
“Dining Services was approached in the fall, and told
that the Gate and the Ratty were selected as installation
sites for these charging stations,” said Ann Hoffman,
director of administration for Brown Dining Services. “We
are pleased to be able to host the units.”
Students, however, were not ecstatic about the stations.
“I think that they are ugly,” Shannon Parker ’12 said. But
she said she realized they might be helpful for others who
may need them for their electronics. “I see people doing
work in the Ratty all the time.”
William Schweitzer ’12 agreed. “They are useful for
people who like this environment to work,” he said. “But I
think it’s kind of shameless promoting for Samsung — like
a brand infiltrating the Ratty. I don’t like that.”
— Fei Cai
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C ampus N EWS “The first priority is to students on campus.”

— Peter Heywood, Professor of Biology

New office for grant support proposed heads u p !

continued from page 1
a consolidated administrative center
that would help strengthen support
for research in all departments by
providing more unified services and
guidance. By improving the avail-
ability of staff resources, the cen-
ter would ultimately help to relieve
the University’s budget crunch by
providing an increased source of
revenue through supported grants,
according to the report. The group
also suggested increasing staff in
the Office of Sponsored Projects, the
arm of the University that helps fac-
ulty identify grant opportunities.
The team was asked last fall by
members of the review committee
to find ways the current model of re-
search support could be streamlined
to make better use of the University’s
administrative capacity, said Associ-
ate Provost Nancy Dunbar, who led
the team along with Professor of
Engineering Rod Beresford.
Expanding on Brown’s already
aggressive push to improve its re-
search capacity, Dunbar said the
group is proposing ways to strength-
en research support through a new
academic administrative service cen-
ter. If the center is approved later
this month, it will relieve staffing
pressure by joining administra-
tors and staff from various depart-
ments in a centralized office. This
consolidation would provide better
resources and financial advice for
grant support, Dunbar said.
“There’s an effort to figure out
how to make the current system
more efficient,” she said, adding that
the center would make the research
support process “less error-prone”
and lift some of the burden from
individual departments.
The center would most directly
aid the humanities and social sci-
ences, departments which the team
found were most lacking in grant-
support expertise, Dunbar said.
In addition, the center could solve
staffing problems for the depart-
ments that have lost members who
decided to accept the University’s
voluntary retirement program, Dun-
bar said, adding that these depart-
ments could seek assistance from
the center’s staff instead of relying
on members within their academic
fields.
Since the Organizational Review
Committee’s teams first assembled
in September, the groups have been
trying to find better ways to allocate
the University’s available resources
to alleviate existing financial pres-
sures, said Executive Vice President
for Administration and Finance Bep-
pie Huidekoper. She added that the
team’s goal was to identify ways to
enhance efficiency without having
to make cuts.
Huidekoper said the team’s pro-
posals — which also include increas-
ing training and pay for existing ad-
ministrators — will allow fewer staff
to more effectively provide more
services.
“The focus was to improve op-
erations as much as we could,” Hu-
idekoper said.
But she said the recommenda-
tions have not been fully embraced,
especially the plan for the new ad-
ministrative center. Some University
officials feel research support should
be implemented through depart-
ment chairs and through the Dean
of the Faculty, rather than through
an administrative hub, she said.
“The president’s response was
to pursue (the center) carefully and
Brigitta Greene / Herald
slowly,” Huidekoper said. “This is a Undergraduates gathered for an impromptu snow fight on the Main
set of recommendations based on a Green late Wednesday.
highly consultative process.”

Partnership connects Pfizer to U.

continued from page 3
Pfizer’s Connecticut locations and
Brown, regularly attending office
hours is difficult for full-time em-
ployees. Heywood said he arrives
at class early to take questions and
that students otherwise can contact
him through e-mail.
Unlike on campus, there is no
lab component to the courses, but
Heywood said he compensates
by “making the lecture and text
rich in experimental detail.” Since
most Pfizer employees have prac-
tical experience in a laborator y
environment, Heywood said, they
are at an advantage in learning the
material because “they can see the
relevance of what’s going on in the
lectures.”
Heywood described the program
in terms of the biological concept
of mutual symbiosis: Pfizer gains a
more educated workforce, students
gain knowledge and Brown faculty
can interact with a different and
more mature student body with
clear career goals.
Heywood said the benefit of
teaching for the Pfizer program is
that he gets to know and teach a dif-
ferent type of student. Because the
pharmaceutical industry is an ap-
pealing prospect for many graduate
students in biology, Heywood said it
was useful for him to observe “how
a large pharmaceutical company
operates in the 21st century.”
Heywood said his students
at Pfizer approach research in a
slightly different way than his other
students. He said the difference be-
tween pharmaceutical research and
research at Brown is that scientists
“have different end goals in mind,”
including a focus on marketable
products.
His Pfizer students “work very
hard to conquer the material,” Hey-
wood said.
Stacey Boyer, who began tak-
ing classes in 2006, received her
master’s through the Pfizer pro-
gram in 2009. The courses gave
her “the tools I needed to seek out
new opportunities in the industry,”
she said. Despite not being on the
Brown campus, she said “I felt like
a Brown student since the profes-
sors always incorporated the Brown
influence into their teachings.”
A Pfizer employee is “a different
type of student, but not too different
from Brown students,” Thompson
said. Still, she said, in determining
which faculty member and which
course would be offered at Pfizer,
“the first priority is to students on
campus,” she said.
The University generates signifi-
cant revenue from the program. But
Thompson said the benefits also
include the possibility of scholarly
collaboration between the two in-
stitutions.
The existence of the program
has motivated some Pfizer employ-
ees to go beyond the master’s de-
gree. Three students have already
completed doctorates while another
one will finish at the end of semes-
ter, but students have pursued those
degrees on campus.
Sibley, the dean of summer
and continuing education, said
the model could be replicated at
other businesses. But she said the
University would not pursue “a
program that we aren’t made for.”
The Pfizer program makes sense
because biology is one of Brown’s
strengths, she said.
“The next evolution may be on-
line courses,” Sibley said. “My hope
would be a blended program with
some delivery online and some time
face-to-face.”
Heywood said he may not be
ready to teach the course online
just yet. “I actually prefer the hu-
man contact,” he said.
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streets are nearing completion.
The old highway will be com-
pletely removed by 2011, at which
point streets formerly connecting the
Jewelry District to downtown will be
restored, said Lambri Zerva, design
project manager for the Iway relo-
cation project at the Rhode Island
Department of Transportation.
Restored roads will include
Chestnut, Richmond, Ship and Eddy
streets, according to Department of
Transportation planning documents.
The plans are meant to emphasize
a sense of continuity between “the
old and the new,” Zerva said.
The old I-195 arched just north
of Providence’s Jewelry District,
creating a physical barrier be-
tween the district and downtown.
City, state and University officials
have expressed hope that removal
of the highway — combined with the
growth of Brown’s Medical School
facilities — will inspire renewed eco- Courtesy of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation
nomic development in the Jewelry Streets fragmented by construction of the old Interstate 195 will once again be restored to their full length, renewing key connections to downtown.
District.
“The streets are going to provide for Rhode Island Public Transporta- mond and Ship streets — the fu- width of Eddy Street, a “major north- the Providence River will be re-
the infrastructure for those develop- tion Authority’s proposed streetcar ture home of the Alpert Medical south artery” through the district, placed by a pedestrian and bike
ments to happen,” Zerva said. system, which Zerva said remains School — would be restrictive to allows for potential streetcars in the bridge, Zerva said. Construction on
But roadwork will not include in- in “very conceptual” stages. the installation of streetcar lines, he future. the new bridge will begin “sometime
frastructure, such as in-road tracks, The narrow span of both Rich- said. But he added that the planned The former I-195 bridge across after 2011,” he said.

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M etro
metro in brief
Same-sex marriage a hot issue in
the race for governor
Three gubernatorial candidates — former U.S. Sen.
Lincoln Chafee ’75, Attorney General Patrick Lynch
’87 and General Treasurer Frank Caprio — planned to
declare their support of a same-sex marriage bill at the
Marriage Equality Rhode Island rally set for Wednesday
at the State House until it was postponed until March 3
due to poor weather conditions.
Current Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65, meanwhile, has
vowed to veto any such bill.
But a bill providing for same-sex marriage has never
passed through either the House or Senate Judiciary
Committees for a vote in the past 13 years, according
to an article in Edge Boston.
Chafee plans to run as an independent, while Lynch
and Caprio will compete in the Democratic primary.
Margie O’Brien, a spokeswoman for Caprio’s
campaign, said the candidate’s declaration would not
affect his electability.
“This is something that has been very public for a
while. People who support him would also support that
decision,” she said.
According to Marriage Equality Rhode Island’s Web
site, 49 percent of Rhode Island voters favored marriage
rights for same-sex couples in a 2008 telephone poll,
up four points from 2006.
— Rebecca Ballhaus
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— Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller, on Lincoln Chafee ’75
Chafee leads in polls, lags in fundraising
continued from page 1
with $396,482.74. His total cash is
$441,717.38 and his total liabilities
amount to $310,000 as of the end of
the fourth quarter, according to the
finance report.
These numbers fall short of those
reported by his two Democratic
rivals, Attorney General Patrick
Lynch ’87 and General Treasurer
Frank Caprio, who are competing
for their party’s nomination.
Republican Gov. Donald Carcieri
’65 is prevented by term limits from
running again.
L ynch reported a balance of
about $620,000, with total cash of
about $777,000. Caprio reported an
even more impressive haul, ending
the fourth quarter with a balance of
over $1,540,000, with total cash com-
ing to about $1,707,300, according
to his report.
Chafee also lags both Democrats
in contributions from individuals,
raising only $39,546 from individ-
ual donors, as opposed to Lynch’s
$208,874 and Caprio’s $179,825,
according to campaign finance re-
ports.
Republican candidate John Ro-
bitaille, currently Carcieri’s com-
munications director, joined the race
in January, and does not need to file
his first campaign finance report
until April 30.
Chafee attributed his low fund-
raising numbers to the fact that he
has been out of office and thus not
raising money for a number of years,
while both Democrats are current
elected officials and have been rais-
ing money continuously for years.
“I could argue back that (my op-
ponents) have been campaigning
for the last three years, while I’ve
been at the Watson Institute,” Cha-
fee said, acknowledging that Lynch
and Caprio have a “head start” in
“Rhode Islanders know him, they like him.”
terms of fundraising.
To underscore his point, Chafee
said that he has only hired a pro-
fessional fundraiser in the last few
days.
He also said that because he has
been out of office and is no longer
affiliated with a party, Rhode Island-
ers might need more time to get
reacquainted with him. He said he
feels confident that once they do,
his fundraising will pick up.
“We haven’t had an independent
governor in Rhode Island,” Chafee
said, “and people want to watch a
little bit longer in circumstances
such as these.”
Although Chafee trails his op-
ponents in fundraising, his poll
numbers should give his campaign
optimism. A new poll by WPRI-TV
shows him leading the race no mat-
ter which Democrat wins the nomi-
nation. Against Lynch, Chafee has
the support of 34 percent of regis-
tered voters, Lynch has 23 percent,
with Robitaille taking 18 percent and
22 percent undecided.
Chafee said that as he continues
to perform favorably in the polls, his
fundraising numbers will increase,
as voters gain confidence that he
can win as an independent.
Against Caprio, the poll shows
a much closer race. Chafee leads
by only 1 percent, 31 percent to 30
percent, a statistically insignificant
difference. Robitaille comes in third
with 13 percent, while 23 percent
remain undecided.
These results are similar to those
of an internal poll released last No-
vember by the Chafee campaign,
which showed the independent can-
didate beating Lynch by 13 percent
and Caprio by 2 percent.
With voter backlash against the
Democratic Party and candidates
of all stripes looking likely in 2010,
Chafee believes he is well-poised
Thursday, February 11, 2010
to benefit from the current political
environment.
“I think the recent elections in
Virginia and New Jersey and Mas-
sachusetts have shown that (inde-
pendent voters) rule,” Chafee said.
“Independents are very influential.
I can make the case very clearly
that I am one of them — my record
reflects it.”
Chafee’s relatively low fundrais-
ing figures should not be seen as a
sign that he is unpopular or that his
campaign is flagging, said Wendy
Schiller, professor of political sci-
ence. It was widely assumed that
he would in part self-finance his bid,
she said, as he has never been an
enthusiastic fundraiser.
Schiller also said that fundraising
is not a crucial priority for Chafee,
as he already possesses widespread
name recognition and a deep reserve
of goodwill among Rhode Island-
ers — two main aims of campaign
spending. Exit polls taken during the
2006 Senate election showed Cha-
fee’s approval rating at 63 percent,
even as he lost to Democratic Sen.
Sheldon Whitehouse 46 percent to
54 percent.
In addition, Chafee’s decision
to campaign without party support
complicates his fundraising efforts,
Schiller said, as office-seekers typi-
cally rely on the institutional support
of political parties to raise money.
Schiller said she also believes
that Chafee would have been bet-
ter off by running as a Republican.
Rhode Island voters have in recent
years elected Republican gover-
nors, she said, such as Carcieri
and Lincoln Almond, who served
from 1995 to 2003, to counterbalance
the Democrat-dominated General
Assembly.
Caprio’s superior performance to
Lynch in match-ups against Chafee
is a reflection of voter anxiety about
the economy, Schiller said. His stew-
ardship of the state’s finances as
general treasurer is an advantage,
she said, with many voters approv-
ing of his performance. In contrast,
voters are less concerned with the
law and order issues that are dealt
with by the attorney general.
“People are worried about the
economy, not crime,” she said.
Schiller identifies Chafee’s main
challenge now as showing what he
would do about the budget and un-
employment.
“Rhode Islanders know him,
they like him,” she said. “Now he
has to show what he would do as
governor.”
Although voters nationwide
are growing wary of Democratic
governance, and despite the rise of
the right-wing tea-party movement,
Schiller says such developments are
unlikely to play a significant role in
the gubernatorial race.
Because Rhode Island is such a
small state, she said, and because
voters have more opportunities than
in larger states to meet the candi-
dates personally, they are very aware
of who the candidates are.
“Rhode Islanders have a localized
view of elections,” she said. “They
are not swayed by national trends.
They use their own personal judg-
ment.”
SportsThursday
The Brown Daily Herald
s p o rt s i n b r i e f
Mullery ’10 passes 1,000-point mark
Third alum in three years makes it to
By Dan Alexander
Super Bowl Sports Editor
For the third straight season, a former Brown football player
suited up for the Super Bowl. Colin Cloherty ’09 made the Super Matt Mullery ’10 became just the
Bowl roster as the fourth-string tight end for the Colts. 23rd player in Brown histor y to
Last season, Sean Morey ’99 played in the big game for the score 1,000 career points, hitting
Cardinals as a wide-receiver and special teams player. And Zak the milestone in the men’s basketball
DeOssie ’07 won a Super Bowl ring as a long-snapper with the Gi- team’s game against No. 22 Cornell
ants the year before. Both DeOssie and Morey also played for the last weekend. The Bears were ahead
2009 NFC Pro Bowl team. in the second half against the Big
Red, but Cornell ultimately won,
Men’s lacrosse ranked No. 16 in preseason national poll 74-60. Mullery led all scorers with
The men’s lacrosse team is one of five Ivy League teams ranked 21 points.
in the top 20 by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Associa- The for ward leads Brown in
tion. No. 6 Cornell took the highest spot of the Ivies. points (15.3 per game), rebounds
In addition to the four Ivies, Brown will face three other ranked (6.0 per game), assists (3.0 per
teams this season: No. 2 Duke, No. 10 Hofstra and No. 17 UMass. game), blocks (1.5 per game) and
Syracuse earned the top spot. field goal percentage (55.3) on the
season. Last weekend, he led the
Top two Ivy League basketball teams tip off this weekend Bears in points and rebounds for
Princeton (13-5, 4-0 Ivy) will host No. 22 Cornell (20-3, 6-0 Ivy) both the Cornell and Columbia
on Saturday night in a matchup of the only Ivy League teams yet to games. The Herald has named him
lose a conference game. Athlete of the Week.
The Big Red defeated Brown, (7-16, 1-5 Ivy) 74-60, last in weekend
in Cornell’s closest league game yet. Still, the No. 22 team in the na- Herald: What was going through
tion has won its six Ivy League games by an average of 25 points. your head when you guys were
ahead against Cornell last
Yale men’s hockey takes down Harvard, shares lead in ECAC weekend?
standings Mullery: I mean, they took the
Harvard (6-14-3, 6-7-3 ECAC Hockey) defeated Brown (7-13-3, lead about five minutes into the sec-
5-8-3 ECAC) in Meehan Auditorium on Friday, but the Crimson fell, ond half, but it was really a close
6-3, to their archrival, No. 7 Yale, the next night. game throughout. It would have
Also on Saturday, Princeton upset No. 6 Cornell, 5-3, opening been great to pull it out, but they’re
the way for a three-team tie for first in the ECAC standings between so deep that they just keep bringing
Cornell, Yale, and No. 16 Union. guys in and out. They’ve got fresh
legs, and I think that had a lot to do
Men’s hockey’s Fratkin ’11 gets banged up with it as the game went into the
Jesse Fratkin ’11 spilled a puddle of blood on the ice Friday second half. But we were all — you
night after taking a hit from behind by Harvard’s Danny Biega in know, you get a little excited inside
the second period. Biega was given a five-minute major penalty and at that point, when you’re beating a
kicked out of the game for the hit. It took 46 stitches to close the team that’s ranked, on the road.
cut on Fratkin’s face, which was still bleeding 24 hours later, but Did you realize during the
Fratkin said he will be able to play this weekend. game that you had scored your
1,000th point?
— Dan Alexander I knew going into the game that
I was close. It wasn’t until after the
game that I knew exactly when I had
Squash falls to Yale but emerges gotten it … It was nice, for me per-
victorious against MIT and Tufts sonally. It’s really a — you know, it’s
an honor — to be along with other
The No. 13 men’s and No. 10 women’s squash teams both names in the program’s history who
opened the week by hosting Yale’s No. 2 men’s and No. 5 women’s have done it also.
teams. I’m sure you’ve seen Cornell on
In the women’s matches, the Bulldogs beat the Bears, 8-1. SportsCenter and ESPN. What’s
Sophie Scherl ’11 had the Bears’ lone victory, after her opponent it like to be an Ivy League play-
was forced to withdraw due to an injury. Sarah Roberts ’10, Sarah er and see the conference get-
Beresford ’13 and Laura Pyne ’10 each took one game from their ting that kind of press?
opponents but eventually lost their best-of-five-game matches. Any time that you can get that
The men’s team also fell to Yale, 6-3. Tucker Bryan ’12, Alex kind of press, I mean obviously it’s
Heitzmann ’10 and Chris Holter ’13 all had big individual wins. great for them, but it’s also great for
On Tuesday, the Bears traveled to Boston, and the men took on the league. It gets the league — not
MIT while the women faced No. 19 Tufts. Both squads returned just the team — but the conference
home triumphant with 9-0 victories. and the league in the minds of a lot
The next home match for the Bears is Saturday when the
men take on No. 9 Dartmouth and the women play No. 6 Dart-
mouth.
— Jesse Frank
Proposed sports cuts elicit protests
continued from page 1
tied to the University in the years
to come,” wrote Elizabeth Giliberti
’10 in an e-mail to The Herald.
Another rider, Marissa Fuerst
’12, wrote, “This sport is unique
and interesting. Our team has over-
whelming alumni support, and we
work just as hard as many other
Brown athletes.”
Pietrus said that — if his sport
were cut and he were an under-
classman — he would “strongly,
strongly consider transferring to
other schools.”
Giliberti wrote that eliminating a
Thursday, February 11, 2010 | Page 7
Last weekend Matt Mullery ’10 hit a milestone in his Brown career.
of people.
The Ivy League is the only Di-
vision I conference without a
postseason tournament. What
are your thoughts on an Ivy
League tournament?
I don’t know how soon it will hap-
pen or if it will happen, but I think
it should happen. When you have
eight teams, the reality of it is that
after five games, you have a couple
of teams that are kind of out of it
already. I think the league would be
more competitive down the stretch
if there were one because there are
teams that are basically eliminated
from any chance of having a post-
season.
You guys are 1-5 in the league
and obviously not where you
want to be in the standings.
Do you feel like you’re one of
those teams this year?
You could do the math and real-
ize that we’re a far cry from first
place right now. But we still have
some stuff to play for. We want to
beat some teams in the top half of
the league and finish well. I’m not
going to be here next year, but to
sort of set the precedent for what
Brown basketball is going to be and
how they’re going to compete next
year. From a competitive standpoint,
nobody — especially me, in my last
year — wants to go out losing games
team could affect admissions.
A “large percentage of the stu-
dent body is in some way involved
with Brown athletics and perhaps
a great percentage of those people
based their decision about where
to apply … based on the expecta-
tion of being part of that program
at Brown,” Giliberti wrote.
The Organizational Review
Committee report, with its savings
goals and recommendations, was
discussed Tuesday at the Brown
University Community Council
meeting, a forum for students, fac-
ulty and other members of the Uni-
versity community. Athletics were
Herald file photo
left and right. I want to beat some
teams in the top half of the league.
What was the funniest moment
for the team this season?
I would say secret Santa was
definitely one of the highlights this
year.
What happened?
Oh, I don’t want to get into too
much detail. The gifts are not tradi-
tional gifts, they’re gag gifts … We
have a guy who can’t really focus too
well — he kind of zones out a lot.
You’ll be talking to him, and he’ll be
on the BlackBerry instead of listen-
ing, and then he’ll be like ‘Oh, what?’
So someone got him a ginkgo biloba
or something — it’s like a memory,
mental sharpening pill — a remedy
for people who can’t focus.
What do you want to do after
you graduate?
Right after I graduate, I want to
give playing a shot. I’m hoping to go
overseas for at least a year and try
it out and see where it goes. But if
that doesn’t work out, I’m not sure. I
have a degree in history, so I might
want to go to law school, I might
want to start working somewhere
— I’m not really sure. I think I’m not
going to know what exactly I want
to do for a living unless I actually
start working.
not mentioned until the question-
and-answer session near the end
of the meeting.
At the council meeting, Klawunn
— weighing the athletic program’s
needs and the ability of the Uni-
versity to financially support the
program — recommended a fee
for athletes which would prevent
the University from having to make
“deeper cuts.”
Simmons said at the meeting that
discussions for the athletics pro-
gram will continue to next year.
— With additional reporting
by Alex Bell
World & Nation
The Brown Daily Herald
In tough times, college students turn to food pantries
By Patricia Montemurri
D etroit F ree P ress
DETROIT — Michigan State Uni-
versity student Nichole Wickens
never imagined standing in line to
get staples from a food pantr y.
But that’s what the 21-year-
old is doing this night at MSU’s
Olin Health Center, where the
student-run food bank has seen
a 25 percent jump in need from
the 2007-08 school year.
In three bags, Wickens car-
ries away boxes of instant mashed
potatoes and dried pasta, a loaf
of baker y bread, applesauce and
a box of shredded wheat cereal.
At retail, it’s only worth about $20
— but it makes a big dif ference
to Wickens.
“My student account was in
stocks, and stocks were hit hard,”
Wickens said. “And I’m the oldest
of five.” She has a par t-time job
on campus as a night reception-
ist, and gets some financial aid
for tuition. “But I’m paying for a
car, phone, computer, rent and
ever ything else,” she said, “so
coming here really helps. It’s a
resource to students.”
College campuses aren’t places
where you expect to find a food
bank. But students are turning to
college-sponsored food banks for
help because of ever-increasing
tuition costs, the loss of financial
aid programs like state scholar-
ships and financial suppor t from
home being cut-off or diminished
because parents have lost jobs.
“This perception that students,
because they’re going to college,
have money isn’t accurate and
never was,” said Dennis Mar tell,
Nichole Wickens, 21, of Walled Lake, picks out food while waiting for her groceries from a food bank in the Olin
Health Center cafeteria on the Michigan State University campus, Jan. 13. The food pantry is run by students
for students.
the MSU health education ser-
vices coordinator and the food
bank’s faculty adviser.
‘Eat or pay bills’
Grand Valley State University
in Allendale, Mich., opened a
food pantr y last April, following
a suggestion from student Susana
Villagomez-Barajas.
“One of the girls I worked with
... told me she never had food —
that it was either eat or pay bills,”
said Villagomez-Barajas, 20, of
Grand Rapids, Mich., who is ma-
joring in clinical lab science. “I
heard my friends talking about
the same thing and students in
my classes, so I came up with that
idea.”
Villagomez-Barajas talked to
the director of GVSU’s Women’s
Center, who put together a task
force of school counselors and
financial aid of ficials, who con-
firmed that a food pantr y would
be beneficial to students.
The GVSU food pantr y has
helped more than 200 students
since it opened, said Rachael
DeWitt, who runs the food bank
while pursuing a master’s degree
in social work and public admin-
istration.
“Students feel the br unt of
tough economic times,” said De-
Witt. “Their parents were able
to suppor t them before, but now
their parents have lost their
jobs.”
The GVSU pantr y is supported
by cash donations and food that’s
donated. DeWitt posts items she
needs on an electronic bulletin
board. “If I say we’re in need of
toiletries and peanut butter, peo-
ple respond to that,” she said.
Emergency funds available
While other large Michigan
schools don’t operate food banks,
many are reporting a surge in stu-
dents asking for more financial
aid.
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has experienced an increase in
students showing demonstrated
financial need, said school spokes-
woman Kelly Cunningham. “We
occasionally see a student who is
in need of emergency funding. In
those cases, we provide an emer-
gency grant to cover immediate
needs like food, money to move
into an apartment, purchase medi-
cation, etc.,” Cunningham said.
“If the student comes for ward,
we can help them. We always re-
ser ve funds for emergencies, and
we can disburse emergency funds
as quickly as the same day the stu-
dent asks for help,” Cunningham
said. “Students can apply online
and receive up to $500 the next
morning.”
In Marquette, Mich., Salvation
Army director of operations Wal-
ter Sleeter said about 100 students
a month from Northern Michigan
University pick up donated boxes
of food, and four or five come to a
weekday free lunch program. On
Saturday, its Salvation Army Thrift
Store offers a 20 percent discount
to college students.
Diane Anderson, Wester n
Michigan University’s vice presi-
dent for student affairs, said WMU
explored the notion of opening
a food bank, but decided that it
duplicated resources that already
exist in the Kalamazoo area. The
school of fers shor t-term emer-
gency loans to help with living
expenses, she said.
At Wayne State University of
Detroit, there are no food banks
specifically for students. But there
are safety nets and food programs
throughout the city, of fered by
nonprofits and church groups,
said Kami Pothukuchi, a Wayne
State associate professor of urban
planning.
Peanut butter, tomatoes,
corn
Earlier this month, 256 people
lined up at MSU’s Olin Health
Center, where the food bank op-
erates biweekly, to haul away bags
filled with peanut butter, canned
tomatoes and cor n. Michigan
State University students have
run a program for needy students,
fueled by cash and food donations,
since 1993.
On this pick up day at MSU,
about 30 student volunteers pack-
aged food, stocked shelves and
ser ved customers, who range
from undergrads to students pur-
suing graduate degrees while rais-
ing families. Many of those in line
were international students.
Kater yna Ananyeva, 28, from
Kiev, Ukraine, is a doctoral stu-
dent in crop and soil sciences. She
picked up a box of Cocoa Pebbles
cereal, a favorite of her 1-year-old
son, Mark. Her husband, Dmytro,
also is a graduate student.
“If you’re totally alone, or if you
have a child or dependents, it’s
really tight,” Ananyeva said.
Lauren Jones, 21, of Cuyahoga
Falls, Ohio, is a senior studying
communications and hospitality.
She has a par t-time job on cam-
pus and said the food bank “helps
you get from one paycheck to the
next.” Her father, who works in
a business clearing land for con-
struction, has seen his hours cut,
and “you don’t want to ask them
for money.”
Director Kristin Moretto said
the MSU food bank’s budget is
about $40,000. The food bank
purchases items in bulk from the
Mid-Michigan Food Bank, which
is operated by the American Red
Cross. Retailers sometimes donate
perishable items, such as milk or
baked goods.
“This is a grass-roots student-
run organization,” Moretto said.
“The food isn’t being taken away
from anyone else who needs it.”
Students need only prove that
they’re enrolled at MSU and
haven’t purchased a university
food plan.
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W orld & N ation
Scientists uncover genetic link to stuttering
By Thomas H. Maugh II
Los Angeles T imes
LOS ANGELES — Government
researchers have discovered the
first genes linked to stuttering — a
complex of three mutated genes
that may be responsible for one in
every 11 stuttering cases, especially
in people of Asian descent.
Studies of stuttering in both
families and twins had long sug-
gested that stuttering has a sig-
nificant genetic component. But
until now, scientists had not been
able to identify specific genes that
might cause the disorder.
The finding is important, ex-
perts said, because it shows that
stuttering, which affects as many
as 1 percent of all adults worldwide,
is biological in origin and not the
result of poor parenting, emotional
distress or other nebulous factors
that many physicians have cited
as causes.
“We hear every day from par-
ents worried that they have caused
their child’s stuttering,” Jane
Fraser, president of the Stutter-
Tech leaders reinvent themselves for a ‘cleantech’ revolution
By Scott Duke Harris
San Jose Mercur y News
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Brent Con-
stantz’s last startup, Skeletal Kinet-
ics, created a bone-fracture cement
that costs $200 per gram and helps
orthopedic surgeons heal their pa-
tients.
His new startup aims to churn
out billions of tons of market-price
construction cement that Constantz
says can help heal planet Earth
by embedding billions of tons of
greenhouse gases into concrete.
And it will deliver desalinated water
as a byproduct.
Constantz is founder and CEO
of Calera, a 3-year-old Los Gatos-
based startup with a demonstration
operation at a Moss Landing facility
that once helped make incendiar y
bombs during World War II. His
move from the medical device field
illustrates how Silicon Valley’s dy-
namic, risk-taking business culture
has quickly turned a region best
known for computer technology
and life sciences into America’s
top incubator of clean, green in-
novations.
Reinvention is at the heart of
cleantech, and several of the sec-
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ing Foundation said in a statement.
“Parents don’t cause stuttering, and
this research could lift the burden
of guilt from their shoulders.”
Surprisingly, the newly identi-
fied genes play a role in clearing
metabolic wastes out of brain cells,
and when a person has two mu-
tated copies of them, they cause a
lethal disease.
Down the road, the research
could help identify children who
are likely to develop stuttering
problems, allowing early initiation
of treatments that can minimize
or eliminate the problem. Even
further in the future, it could lead
to new treatments to overcome
the biological underpinnings of
the disorder.
But those goals are still far in
the future. “The task of connect-
ing the dots between genes and
stuttering is just beginning,” wrote
geneticist Simon E. Fisher of Ox-
ford University in an editorial ac-
companying the report in the New
England Journal of Medicine.
Stuttering is marked by the
involuntary repetition or prolon-
tor’s leading entrepreneurs have
transformed themselves to pursue
these massive new market oppor-
tunities.
Elon Musk, the CEO of electric
carmaker Tesla Motors and chair-
man of Solar City, first prospered
as a young dot-com mogul whose
credits include PayPal. Better
Place, a buzz-making electric car
ser vices startup in Palo Alto, was
founded by Shai Agassi, who previ-
ously had been a rising executive at
software giant SAP. Bloom Energy,
an innovator in fuel cells, is led
by K.R. Sridhar, formerly a Uni-
versity of Arizona professor who
helped NASA explore the potential
of life-sustaining technologies for
Mars.
Marc Porat had been a key play-
er at Apple and an e-commerce en-
trepreneur before launching three
green building materials startups
— Serious Materials, Zeta Com-
munities and CalStar Products.
Kevin Surace, the CEO of Serious
Materials, had previously led an
e-commerce company.
As Surace tells it, he did not
have great expectations when
he accepted Porat’s invitation in
2002 to build a business around a
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gation of sounds, syllables, words
or phrases, as well as frequent
pauses, impeding the fluency of
speech. An estimated 5 percent
of children develop stuttering
between the ages of 3 and 6, but
most either grow out of it or are
successfully treated.
The problems can be exacerbat-
ed by stress and anxiety, but most
researchers now believe that those
are not the underlying causes.
Researchers estimate that about
50 to 70 percent of stuttering is
genetic in origin, so there must
be many other genes that play a
role.
The lead author of the study,
geneticist Dennis Drayna of the
National Institute on Deafness and
other Communication Disorders,
speculated that it might eventu-
ally be possible to screen at-risk
children for the presence of the
gene so that therapy can be initi-
ated earlier. It may be possible also
to develop therapies in which the
affected enzymes are replaced with
healthy ones that would clear out
the cellular garbage.
polymer patent: “It started out as
a hobby,” he said.
Today, Serious Materials is
producing energy-saving glass,
window and dr ywall products at
five manufacturing facilities in
California, Colorado, Illinois and
Pennsylvania. The company has
raised more than $120 million in
venture capital and won praise from
the Obama administration for creat-
ing green jobs amid environmental
and economic troubles.
Several valley entrepreneurs see
potential in reinventing “the built
environment.” Conventional means
of producing cement, bricks and
dr ywall are energy-intensive and
give off vast amounts of carbon di-
oxide, which scientists view as the
chief accelerant of climate change.
Surace and Porat cite a Department
of Energy report that found the
full life-cycle of buildings, roads
and bridges — the production of
materials, the construction and op-
eration — accounts for 51 percent
of the nation’s energy use.
Constantz, who is also a consult-
ing professor at Stanford, said it
was at Stanford’s Woods Institute
for the Environment that he first
became aware that the cement in-
Lawsuit claims student
detained for Arabic cards
By Raja Abdulrahim
Los Angeles T imes
LOS ANGELES — A college stu-
dent who says he was detained at a
Philadelphia airport because he was
carrying English-Arabic flashcards
filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday
against employees of the Trans-
portation Security Administration,
the FBI and the Philadelphia Po-
lice Department, according to the
American Civil Liberties Union.
Nicholas George, a senior major-
ing in physics and Middle Eastern
studies at Pomona College in Clare-
mont, Calif., was returning to Cali-
fornia from Philadelphia in August
when he was randomly selected
for extra screening at Philadelphia
International Airport, according to
the lawsuit.
When George emptied his pock-
ets, he took out the flashcards.
Authorities detained him in the
screening area for 30 minutes be-
fore he was questioned by a TSA
dustr y produces 5 percent of the
world’s carbon dioxide emission,
ranking it a third leading cause
behind transportation and power
plants. Constantz developed a radi-
cally different chemical process
that eliminates carbon dioxide
production.
Then he placed a call to venture
capitalist Vinod Khosla, whom he
had known since the 1980s, when
Khosla was among the founders of
Sun Microsystems. Khosla, known
for investing in experimental tech-
nologies aimed at big markets,
quickly embraced the project
and has provided an undisclosed
amount of funding.
Calera was founded in 2007 to
bring Constantz’s brainstorm to
market. While conventional cement
production requires kilns that heat
limestone to 1,400 degrees Celsius,
Calera’s process recycles power
plant emissions, scrubbing the car-
bon dioxide with alkaline water to
create a raw material for cement.
The result, Constantz says, is a
“negative carbon” product because
it both cleanses power plant emis-
sions and eliminates carbon diox-
ide in cement production.
At its demo operation beside
Thursday, February 11, 2010
supervisor, the lawsuit states.
At one point, the super visor
asked George if he knew who com-
mitted the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
according to the lawsuit.
“Do you know what language
he spoke?” the supervisor asked,
according to the document.
“Arabic,” George answered.
The supervisor then held up the
flashcards and said, “Do you see
why these cards are suspicious?”
George said he was handcuffed
and held for almost five hours, dur-
ing which time FBI agents asked if
George was “Islamic” or a member
of a “communist group,” according
to the complaint.
“I don’t understand how lock-
ing me up and harassing me just
because I was carrying the flash-
cards made anybody safer,” George
said in statement released by the
ACLU.
TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis
said she could not comment on
pending litigation.
Dynegy’s natural gas-burning
power plant at Moss Landing,
Calera is fed by two old pipelines
with seawater and a new pipeline
from the power plant that redirects
10 percent of its flue gases. (The
goal is to eventually use it all.) The
chemical process, which Constantz
says is akin to converting milk into
powdered milk, produces cement
powder. The byproduct of desali-
nated water is sold to the Pajaro
Valley Water Management Agency
or returned to the ocean.
Calera also has pilot projects
in Australia, using underground
brine water, and in Dubai, using
seawater. In those locales, Con-
stantz said, the water byproduct is
a much-coveted bonus. Calera has
inked a partnership with Bechtel,
the San Francisco-based construc-
tion giant, to bring the technol-
ogy to global market. Power plant
operators facing pressure to curb
carbon emissions may do so by get-
ting into the cement business.
Calera also spread the word by
delivering a set of benches made
from its green concrete to the plaza
outside the recent Copenhagen cli-
mate summit. Viewed from above,
the benches spell: HOPE.
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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

One day at Brown not

enough
To the Editor:
While I appreciate the sentiment
of Yue Wang’s ’12 column (“For the
sake of Hope,” Feb. 9), it neverthe-
less left me feeling uneasy.
The implicit suggestion that all
Hope High School students need to
succeed is the inspiration provided
by a day on Brown’s campus pres-
ents two problems. First, it belittles
the drive and motivation to succeed
embodied by many of Hope’s stu-
dents despite significant odds, both
statistical and otherwise. Second,
it downplays the very challenges
described by Wang that stand be-
tween most Hope High students and
a Brown education. Students who
enter high school with literacy and
math scores well below grade level
need sustained academic support if
they are to graduate “college ready.”
They also need consistent, positive,
mentorship — both academic and
personal — to support their efforts
and their desire to succeed.
While a one-day visit to College
Hill may leave both visitor and host
feeling good about themselves, it can
hardly be described as a sustainable
or adequate intervention. To truly
provide hope to underprivileged stu-
dents at Hope High and other urban
schools throughout Providence, I
would strongly urge you to consider
a longer-term commitment such
as those offered through Brown’s
Swearer Center or other local or-
ganizations. Even a few hours each
week can have a marked impact on
their life and yours.
Michael Ewart ’11 R ichard stein and paul tran
Feb. 9
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What Toyota can teach Brown
ETHAN TOBIAS
Opinions Columnist
Things are not looking too good for Toyota.
After having worked relentlessly on building
up its image as the safest and most reliable car
company, edging out General Motors for the
top spot in car sales in 2007, the company’s
foundations seem to be crumbling at every
turn.
Toyota received complaints from European
customers in late 2008 about sticky accelerator
pads, but was slow to correct the problem. Only
last month, over a year later, did Toyota finally
recall the vehicles — a whopping 2.3 million
cars in the United States and over 9 million
worldwide. And, this episode seems to be only
the beginning. Most recently, Toyota is being
investigated for problems with the brakes on
its latest model of the Prius hybrid.
The stunning problems facing Toyota
should be a stark warning to others. While
Toyota had previously spent decades creat-
ing the image of reliability, the veil over the
simmering issues beneath has finally been
exposed. Most detrimentally, Toyota’s slow
response to this crisis and its lax handling of
a defect present in its most popular models
threaten to ruin the company.
What can the troubles facing Toyota teach
Brown? Like Toyota, Brown has been steadily
improving its image over the last several years.
The Plan for Academic Enrichment, the renova-
tions and the building of new facilities have all
Entitled naivete remains on College Hill
TYLER
ROSENBAUM
Opinions Columnist
Over the course of my last five semesters at
Brown, I have found that it falls far short of
the hype that its ultra-liberal reputation and
conservative detractors led me to expect.
Though the general apathy that pervades
much of the student body is certainly nothing
to cheer about in itself, I certainly believe that
the disappearance of activism for the sake of
activism has been a positive development.
I’m sure many of you, then, will understand
and share the dismay I felt upon reading Simon
Liebling’s ’12 column last week demonizing
the Providence Police Department, and police
officers generally (“Police brutality comes to
College Hill,” Feb. 5).
Last October, in the course of apprehend-
ing a suspect, Luis Mendonca, the Providence
Police were caught on a surveillance camera
treating Mendonca roughly. I saw the tape
myself — it’s not pretty. But neither is it clear
cut. Whether Mendonca was innocent or a
felon, his treatment appears to be unaccept-
able. But there is no context, and Liebling’s
straightforward and vivid portrayal of Men-
donca’s victimization as if he were present at
the time of the incident is unwarranted.
Rather, Liebling takes this incident — one
officer (Police Detective Robert DeCarlo)
apparently kicking a man and punching him
several times — and blows it up into a bitter
been a significant part of the effort to improve
the quality of a Brown education.
The results of Brown’s determined push for
academic enrichment are all around us. Early
decision applications were up 21 percent, and
the number of total applicants has gone up
by 46 percent over the past two years. At the
same time, steady and observable progress
continues to be made on the construction of
the new Creative Arts Center and the renova-
tions of Faunce House.
Brown must insist on doing everything in
its power to maintain the high caliber of its
education. Toyota has already demonstrated what
can happen to a company when it starts to skimp
on the little things.
However, there have been setbacks looming
just underneath the surface. The cancellation
of the proposed Mind, Brain and Behavior
Building and the collapse of the roof of the
swimming pool were symptomatic of these
issues. Most recently, a burst pipe in Alum-
nae Hall has indefinitely put the Gate out of
commission, and left students on Pembroke
campus in deep dismay over how to spend
meal credits, especially late at night and on
weekends.
While these small problems will not make
or break Brown’s reputation, they should be
dealt with swiftly. Imagine what a prospective
diatribe against “cops.” Reading his column,
one gets the impression that the police are
some sort of unwelcome invaders, preying
relentlessly on a helpless community.
In order to further this offensive and out-
rageous narrative, Liebling attempts to gloss
over the shortcomings of DeCarlo’s target. For
example, he mentions Mendonca’s conviction
for assault in a context that insinuates the
conviction was an unfair result of the alterca-
tion with DeCarlo, instead of punishment for
assaulting two RISD officers after attempting
People don’t sign up to be police officers if
they’re interested in secretly attacking people.
Such people join gangs — you know, the guys
police shut down.
to break into a RISD dorm at night.
Liebling also takes issue with Mendonca’s
imminent deportation, highlighting his status
as a legal immigrant. But for non-citizens,
residency in the United States is a privilege,
not a right. This privilege is (and should be)
revoked upon conviction of a violent felony
such as assault.
Liebling’s column also implies that the
incident will go without a fair investigation by
the Providence Police Department — after all,
not everyone can be as just and fair a judge
as Liebling.
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student staying in Andrews would think upon
visiting Brown and realizing that the only late-
night eatery is on the complete opposite side
of campus. Any visitor who wonders aloud
about going for an occasional swim is going
to be sorely disappointed.
To make matters worse, President Ruth
Simmons has recently announced budget
cuts in order to close a gap in the University’s
budget for fiscal year 2011. While President
Simmons has asserted that these budget cuts
will not come at the expense of the plan for
academic enrichment, there are several pro-
posals that suggest otherwise.
The Organizational Review Committee,
which was charged with finding savings and
cost reductions, has released a report with
many proposals, most of which will likely be
endorsed by President Simmons and approved
by the Corporation.
Some of the more egregious proposals
include ending lunch at the Gate (which is
obviously not an issue right now due to the
great infrastructure already present), elimi-
nating the current subscriptions to the New
Of course, the column also neglects to
mention that the Attorney General of Rhode
Island is also conducting an investigation (2).
But that would spoil the narrative that police
always get away scot-free in their relentless
crusade to brutalize “innocent” felons who
are merely seeking to escape from the scene
of their crime.
Amazingly, however, Liebling does not stop
there. Later in the column, he laments that
“police are often the perpetrators” of violence.
Take a minute to let that statement and all of
its implications soak in. The men and women
who risk their lives every day to enforce our
laws and defend us all from murder, rape, theft
and other violent crimes are “often” perpetra-
tors as well.
And finally, as if to prove that the column
could indeed be more offensive and libelous,
Liebling ends with the conclusion that “the
Providence Police Department has shown that
its officers can beat defenseless citizens with
impunity,” and therefore “more cops means
more situations like this one.”
I am not related to anyone who works in
York Times and the Providence Journal (or
charging Undergraduate Council of Students
to keep it available) and ending inpatient care
at Health Services. Additionally, President Sim-
mons has gone as far as to state that layoffs
are coming soon.
While these may not seem like a huge deal,
they must not be ignored. Brown has earned
its reputation as one of the premier institutions
of higher education by constantly improving
on its offerings. Even little things, like reading
the paper in the morning or having the choice
of a panini for lunch, can have a big impact on
the experience of a prospective student.
Brown must insist on doing everything in
its power to maintain the high caliber of its
education. Toyota has already demonstrated
what can happen to a company when it starts
to skimp on the little things.
Once known for its dependability, Toyota
now finds itself trying to put back together the
shards of its reputation. The long and torturous
process of assuaging the newfound doubts and
fears of consumers is going to be a lot tougher
and costlier than just fixing sticky brakes.
President Simmons better take a long look
at Toyota and make sure that Brown does
not start to lower the quality of its product.
If Brown sacrifices its reputation in order to
make a few budget cuts, fixing it will not be
so simple.
Ethan Tobias ’12 cannot wait until The
Herald is the only daily publication in the
dining halls and everyone will have to
read his columns. He can be reached at
Ethan_Tobias@brown.edu
law enforcement, and I am not a knee-jerk
law-and-order, throw-’em-all-in-jail conserva-
tive. I’m simply a law-abiding American. And
it is on that simple level that Liebling’s article
offended me.
People don’t sign up to be police officers if
they’re interested in secretly attacking people.
Such people join gangs — you know, the guys
police shut down. Neither are officers abusive,
paternalistic overlords. Their only duty and
concern is to keep the peace and apprehend
lawbreakers.
But like everyone else, the police are hu-
man. Sometimes in the course of events, an
individual can make poor decisions or abuse
his authority. This should be investigated and
punished, as the DeCarlo incident will be.
But suggesting, as Liebling does, that of-
ficers are just as bad as violent criminals and
should be kept out of our community, simply
because one man might have overstepped the
bounds of propriety in the heat of a chase, is
akin to saying that Dr. Kevorkian proves that
all doctors are deliberate murderers.
Being from a somewhat conservative town,
I appreciate Brown’s liberal atmosphere as
much as anyone. I certainly contribute to it
on this page. But the entitled, naive and petu-
lant disrespect that Liebling’s column demon-
strates brings Brown into disrepute.
Tyler Rosenbaum ’11 is reluctant to leave
his room for fear of being assaulted by
the police.
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Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman
6:00 P.M. — Mellon Mays Undergradu- 12:00 P.M. — Lecture by Orin Starn,
ate Fellowship Info Session, Brown Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum
Faculty Club
7:30 P.M. — Dancing with the Profs,
7:00 P.M. — 1st Annual Environmental Alumnae Hall
Activities Fair, Salomon Lower Lobby

menu
Sharpe Refectory Verney-Woolley Dining Hall

Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline

Lunch — Hawaiian Pizza, Hot Turkey Lunch — Ginger Chicken and
Sandwich with Sauce, Chicken Salad, Pasta, S’mores Bars, Asian Vegetable
Cajun Potatoes Blend

Dinner — Pasta Primavera, Dinner — Cherry Kuchen Cake,

Hamburgers, Cheese Pizza, Rice Pilaf, Roasted Honey and Chili Chicken,
Spinach and Feta Pizza Anadama Bread

crossword

Excelsior | Kevin Grubb

Fruitopia | Andy Kim

Hippomaniac | Mat Becker