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Faculty continue
heated tenure debate
By Goda Thangada
Senior Staf f Writer
At an occasionally rowdy meeting
Tuesday, following an equally tense
debate at an April 13 forum, faculty
discussed proposed changes to
tenure policies preceding a May 4
vote on the proposal. Provost David
Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 called the
faculty to the discussion, which was
moderated by the ad hoc Commit-
tee to Review Tenure and Faculty
Development Policies.
The committee’s recommenda-
tions include extending the proba-
tion period for tenure candidates
from seven to eight years, solicit-
ing external letters about candi-
dates by the Dean of the Faculty
and increasing the provost’s role
in appointing faculty to the Ten-
ure, Promotions and Appointments
Committee.
The University is reviewing
its tenure policies in response
to a New England Association of
news in brief
Senior assaulted
on Brook St. did
not see attacker
A senior was assaulted
on Brook Street near Fones
Alley Monday at 8:30 p.m,
according to a Providence
Police report.
The victim, who wished
to remain anonymous,
was carrying a large cello
home from Orwig Music
Library. He told The
Herald he did not see his
attacker or have warning
of the assault.
Jara Crear ’12, who
was walking on Fones Alley
toward Brook Street, said
the attacker was walking
so close to the victim
she thought they were
together, until she heard
a loud “slapping sound,”
and looked up to see the
victim on the ground.
According to the report,
Crear saw a “thin white
male” fleeing the area and
jumping into a large white
vehicle, possibly a Ford
Crown Victoria parked at
204 Angell St.
Nothing was taken
from the victim, who said
he received only minor
abrasions on his face and
hands.
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Schools and Colleges report that
criticized the high rate of tenure at
Brown, though not all the recom-
mendations are aimed at reducing
the tenure rate.
Sharon Krause, professor of
political science and a member of
the ad hoc committee, opened the
discussion by saying, “We invite
questions of all sorts.” Each mem-
ber of the committee presented an
element of the proposal that was
individually discussed — or, more
often, criticized.
Susan Alcock, professor of
archaeology and classics and a
member of the ad hoc committee,
presented changes in the recom-
mended procedure for election to
TPAC. With the changes, the pro-
vost will finalize the nominations
for appointments in consultation
with the faculty.
“We would also like to note, the
final decision remains by faculty
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BIAP apps, unpaid internships rise
By Anne Artley
Staf f Writer
The Career Development Center
saw a 21 percent increase in appli-
cations for the Brown Internship
Award Program this year and gave
out nine more awards.
Fifty-nine students were cho-
sen out of 284 applicants for the
$2,500 award, which helps to de-
The wonders Rhode
Island Hall once held
By Brian Mastroianni
Features Editor
Last October marked another phase
in Rhode Island Hall’s ever-evolving
story. The hall, which was built in
1840, is the fourth-oldest building on
Feature
the Main Green — and in the fall was
rededicated the Artemis A.W. and
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World,
establishing it as a place dedicated to
the study of the past.
Ironically, many of the archaeol-
ogy students who pass through the
sand-colored Greek Revival building’s
doors and into its state-of-the-art inte-
rior are probably unaware of the build-
Feature, 3
Building Brown
A behind-the-scenes look
at the workers constructing
the University’s future
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
E as y, T i g ress
Heather Arison ’12, pictured in October, scored second-best for the
women’s golf team, behind Megan Tuohy ’12 at last weekend’s Ivy
League Championships. The team finished fifth.
fray the costs of working during
the summer as an unpaid intern.
Last year, 234 students applied
and 50 received awards.
Roger Nozaki MAT ’89, associ-
ate dean of the College and direc-
tor of the Swearer Center, said he
attributes the rise in popularity of
unpaid internships to students
recognizing the benefits of these
internships, and not to the eco-
ing’s own history and its past life as
the campus’s hub for scientific study.
From 1871 to about 1915, the build-
ing was home to Brown’s Museum of
Natural History, which was called “a
world of objects and facts,” designed
“both to charm and instruct,” in a No-
vember 1879 issue of “The Watch-
man,” a Boston publication.
The museum’s extensive collec-
tions, which included mounted birds
and mammals and cases of anthro-
pological exhibits, were the result
of one man’s work — the museum’s
curator, John Whipple Potter Jenks,
class of 1838.
Jenks’ adult life began and ended
at Brown. He came to the University
at the age of 16 and died at the age of
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Courtesy of David Silverman
nomic climate.
“These are opportunities that
students value,” he said. “And this
increasing interest started long
before the economy turned.”
To apply for a BIAP grant,
students had to write an essay
about how the internship would
serve as a stepping stone for their
continued on page 2
For over 40 years, Rhode Island Hall was home to Brown’s natural history
museum, a collection of stuffed birds, camels and other exhibits.
Sports, 6
training pays off
Bobby Sewall ’10 negotiates
a two-year contract with an
NFL team
Simmons
to address
RISD grads
by Heeyoung Min
Senior Staf f Writer
President Ruth Simmons will
deliver the keynote address
at the Rhode Island School of
Design’s commencement ceremony
June 5.
Simmons, who will also be
awarded an honorar y Doctor of
Fine Arts degree, was chosen to
speak “for her distinguished career
pursuing educational activism and
excellence,” said RISD spokesper-
son Jaime Marland.
The topic of the keynote address
is still in the works, Simmons wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald.
“I am still writing my speech, so
I can’t tell you yet what it is likely
to be,” Simmons wrote. “RISD has
asked that I address some dimen-
sion of the Brown-RISD relation-
ship in light of our recent efforts
to increase collaboration between
RISD and Brown.”
The design school’s selection
committee for honorary degree re-
cipients and commencement speak-
er — which includes representa-
tives from RISD’s faculty, student
body, Board of Trustees, the RISD
Museum of Art and the library —
reviewed nominees who were not
trained in the traditional art and
design fields, Marland said.
The committee “placed an em-
phasis on including a broad range
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Opinions, 11
‘open’ curriculum?
Hunter Fast ’12 makes an
argument for the return of
ROTC program to Brown
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C ampus N EWS “Power relations can affect how things can play out.”
— James Green, professor of history

Faculty votes on tenure policy in May

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ballot,” Alcock said. The provost’s
role in TPAC would resemble his
role in appointing members of the
Academic Priorities Committee
and the University Resources Com-
mittee, she said.
“I don’t see the problem with
adding the chief academic officer
into the mix,” Alcock said.
“The provost’s role is not a
veto role,” Krause said. “This is
an individual who has a unique
perspective on the University as
a whole.”
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald Repeating a sentiment that
President Ruth Simmons will speak at RISD’s commencement and had been expressed at the faculty
receive an honorary degree this June. forum, Professor of Comparative
Literature and French Studies Mi-
nate, names of external evaluators
and would reduce the minimum
number of letters from 10 to eight.
Candidates for tenure will still not
be informed of the list of letter-
writers nor of the vote tally.
“I find it ver y, ver y disturbing
that this is being proposed,” Bossy
said. “It increases the role of se-
crecy in the process.”
One of the few faculty mem-
bers supportive of the proposal,
Professor of Geological Sciences
Tim Herbert, said the discussion
was devolving and pitting faculty
against the administration.
“It’s not a democratic process.
It’s not an open election, it never
has been,” he said of tenure re-
view.
from seven years to eight years.
“What research did you consult
to come up with this magical num-
ber?” asked Associate Professor of
Africana Studies Corey Walker.
Krause said the number of years
was raised by one to accommodate
scholars in the sciences who may
need more time to establish them-
selves. A year can make a differ-
ence, she said.
Finally, Larmore spoke about
the division of TPAC into two sub-
committees of seven members,
one covering the sciences and the
other the humanities and social
sciences.
Professor of Cognitive and Lin-
guistic Sciences Jim Morgan said
that some scholars, like himself,

RISD to honor Simmons, chel-Andre Bossy said, “Having a

set of proposals that gives much
more power to the administration
Assistant Professor of Judaic
Studies Marcy Brink-Danan said
the faculty may seem paranoid be-
researched in a gray area that
could fall into either discipline. “I
think the principle behind this is

Granoff, Spiegelman P’13 is something that strikes at the

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of honorar y degree recipients,”
Marland said, “to reflect their
recognition that contemporar y
artists and designers are working
and vital in all areas of society.”
“Their focus was on selecting
nominees who embody RISD’s
most prized values and aspira-
tions, regardless of the field in
which they choose to express
them,” she added.
Simmons wrote that “ulti-
mately” the focus of her speech
is “likely to be on the importance
of bringing art and design to bear
on a wide range of fields of en-
deavor.”
Others who will be honored at
the ceremony include illustrator
sudoku
and graphic designer Seymour
Chwast, art collector and philan-
thropist Paula Granoff and comic
and graphic artist Art Spiegelman
P’13, who lectured at Brown April
14.
Past RISD commencement
speakers include Gore Vidal,
Laurie Anderson, Ken Robinson,
Kurt Andersen, Dave Hickey and
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Marland
said.
Simmons will also be awarded
an honorar y degree from Wes-
leyan University May 23.
She holds honorar y degrees
from more than 25 institutions,
including Amherst College, Princ-
eton, Har vard, Dartmouth, Co-
lumbia and Spelman College.
heart of faculty governance.”
“Power relations can affect how
things can play out,” said James
Green, professor of history. “There
is significant, sincere and honest
concern from the faculty about
these measures, and we’re not
being listened to in this regard. I
have not seen this in the six years
I’ve been here.”
The proposal recommends that
candidates for TPAC meet the
threefold criteria of strong schol-
arship, citizenship and teaching
ability. Sheila Blumstein, professor
of cognitive and linguistic sciences
and a member of the committee,
said the provost could enforce
these standards. She asked, “Is
it the case that consistently 100
percent of the members of TPAC
meet the criteria? I think that has
not been the case.”
The committee also discussed
recommended changes to the ten-
ure review process.
Changes from the last proposal
stipulate that the dean of the fac-
ulty can only add, and not elimi-
cause they were envisioning the
“worst-case scenario” of a petty and
vindictive dean. Even generally,
she said, “I don’t think the dean
has the knowledge to recommend
the right field of candidates for
writing the letters.”
Professor of Judaic Studies Ross
Kraemer rejected the recommen-
dation that the candidate not see
the final list, even if the department
can. Scholars encounter a number
of peers with whom they have dif-
ferences or even grudges, she said.
Members of the department “may
know where the professional ones
are, but not where the personal
ones are,” she said.
Professor of Philosophy Charles
Larmore noted that candidates
would be able to list scholars from
whom they would not want recom-
mendations. “It would be difficult
for me to imagine a person losing
track of all the personal enemies
they have or whose spouses they
stole,” he said.
The discussion moved on to the
issue of extending the probation-
ar y period for tenure candidates
well-founded, but the execution is
poor,” he said.
The point of the change, Lar-
more said, would be to “concen-
trate expertise and knowledge in
the decision-making process.” This
would benefit the candidate, he
said. Several professors expressed
concern that dividing TPAC would
split the sciences and humanities
across the University.
Joan Richards, professor of
histor y and TPAC chair, recom-
mended that ad hoc committees be
convened for evaluating individual
candidates or that TPAC be divided
into two subcommittees that sepa-
rately evaluated promotions and
tenures.
Professor of Comparative Lit-
erature Dore Levy suggested that
the tenure review process be stag-
gered and spread throughout the
year for different fields of candi-
dates.
Despite the many new recom-
mendations raised by faculty at
the forum, the committee’s rec-
ommendations will go to a faculty
vote May 4.

New guidelines for unpaid internships

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future goals and include a letter
from their potential supervisor stat-
ing that they were being strongly
considered for the internship or
had already been hired.
Winners of this year’s awards
will work in a variety of fields, in-
cluding law and education.
Sarah Schuster ’11 said she
nity,” Schuster said.
The CDC developed the BIAP
program in the late 1990s because
of the rising trend of unpaid intern-
ships, according to its Web site.
The program separately waives
the summer earnings requirement
for some students who receive fi-
nancial aid.
According to an April 2 New
York Times article, the number of
Depar tment of Labor require,
among other considerations, that
the intern must not take the place
of regular employees and that the
internship should be more for the
benefit of the intern than the em-
ployer.
Nozaki said CDC staff members
are reviewing the new criteria “to
see what the implications are for
our students.”

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f eature
For local contractors and workers, ‘Building Brown’ a boon
By Ashley Aydin
Senior Staff Writer
The site of the new Perry and Marty
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
building is bustling with sound, and
there are hard hats everywhere.
Inside the construction site office,
a sign reads: “The Five Stages of a
Construction Project: Enthusiasm —
Disillusionment — Panic — Search
for the Guilty, Punishment of the
innocent — Praise and honors for
the non-participants.”
Near this sign, a long sheet of
paper plastered along the wall reads:
“27 weeks to go.” Construction has
been omnipresent on campus since
many of us arrived — and is slated
to continue long after many of us
are gone.
‘Born a builder’
The passion that James Sisson,
senior construction manager for the
University, has for building began
with the influence of his grand-
mother, who was the daughter of a
ship builder. Sisson began his career
during college, and “it evolved after
that to where it is now,” he said.
Sisson facilitates the University’s
capital projects and supports project
managers. “I mitigate the disrup-
tions caused by construction such as
traffic, dust and noise,” he said.
Sisson, a resident of Providence
for most of his life, has 35 years of
experience in all kinds of construc-
tion. “I was a born a builder,” he
said.
Work for Sisson and the con-
struction workers he supervises
usually starts at 6:30 a.m. and runs
until 6:30 or 7 p.m. When a work site
is close to a residence hall, Sisson
said starting time is moved back to 8
a.m. to “diminish the noise levels for
students who want to sleep.”
If he’s not monitoring various
projects or overseeing building prog-
ress, Sisson is making sure people
can get from point A to point B. “I
update maps on the Web site so peo-
ple can navigate their way through
campus. I make sure everything is
going along smoothly,” he said.
Still, construction doesn’t come
without its obstacles. “The biggest
challenge for me personally is not so
much the technical aspects of the job
but getting people to work together
well enough to bring the project to
completion,” he said. Sisson said
the “human factor” is also difficult
to supervise, whether it is managing
money, dealing with contractors or
making sure everyone is cooperat-
ing with each other.
“We’re trying to put more people
to work to finish projects on bud-
get, on time and within reason,” he
said.
Though the University is already
“a destination,” Sisson said Brown’s
building initiative is also making the
campus “more beautiful.”
To Sisson, a career in construc-
tion is both fun and gratifying.
“For me, it’s knowing that you’re
part of something significant. The
most enjoyment I get is when I see
buildings being used for their de-
signed intent. It’s satisfying when
you see people using the spaces,”
he said.
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“I was born a builder.”
— James Sisson, senior construction manager
Coming home to the Hill Gomez said. He worked in construc-
For Michael Guglielmo, assistant tion independently before going to
director of project management, school and the Building Futures
College Hill is no foreign turf. The program then helped him get into
Rhode Island School of Design the union, he said.
graduate, trained in architecture, Sanders became involved in
“ended up at Brown as a marriage construction through dif ferent
between the design side and programs. “I got into construction
contracting side,” he said. through a program called Youth
As any young architect, Gug- Build. The people who worked in
lielmo said, his goal as a young Youth Build also worked with the
student was to design skyscrapers. program Building Futures,” he
Now, with more than 20 years of said.
experience in construction, Gug- Star ting at age 16, Sanders
lielmo manages and controls phases worked on roofing and then moved
of project design and construction on to carpentry. He also worked on
management. interiors in banks.
“This can involve hiring the “I was trying to get into the union
architects, soliciting architects, so- at that time and then found myself
liciting construction mangers and here,” he said.
working with agencies such as the Gomez, a pipe fitter, and Sanders,
fire department and the building de- a laborer, are both in their twenties
partment. I also work with facilities and have already begun to learn the
operations and the guys and girls rules of the trade.
who will maintain the facility once “In the beginning, I was doing
it’s constructed,” he said. excavations and digging the hole for
Guglielmo’s time in the office the (Creative Arts) building. Now
Ashley Aydin / Herald
consists of a minimum of 50 to 55 I’m doing whatever the general con- James Sisson, senior construction manager, on the site of the new
hours a week, where he spends the tractors need,” Sanders said. Creative Arts building.
majority of his days in meetings re- The University has allowed
lated to construction budget, design Gomez and Sanders to earn the ex- University plays a significant role $67 million spent on construction
and schedule. Outside the office, perience necessary to succeed in in terms of local employment with last year, $35 million went to Rhode
though, Guglielmo finds himself the construction trade. Both young its ongoing construction initia- Island-based contractors.
working through his BlackBerry. workers are currently continuing tives. “In the institutional market, Sisson said the University not
“There is always constant com- their labor at the Creative Arts Cen- including hospitals, universities only provides employment within
munication,” Guglielmo said. ter building site. and the bio-med field, there’s not a the state but draws workers from
Guglielmo said the University Under the Building Futures lot of building going on. Through Massachusetts and Connecticut.
does a lot of outreach with com- program, both Gomez and Sand- careful decision-making, the Cor- “It not only goes for the guys on
munity groups such as the Build- ers said their ultimate goal was to poration kept these projects on the ground,” Guglielmo said. “It’s
ing Futures program, which has be well-rounded in all facets of the line and adjusted to the economy,” also the suppliers and people who
brought several young construc- construction trade. he said. work in the supply houses. It could
tion workers to projects at Brown. According to its Web site, the be the iron shop or the roofing con-
“The Building Futures program Putting people to work University is the sixth-largest pri- tractors. The initiative keeps a lot of
allows younger individuals who Sisson emphasized that the vate employer in the state. Of the people busy.”
want to get into the building trade
to gain experience. They learn the
responsibility and safety involved
with working on constr uction
sites,” he said.
With an aging workforce of the
most skilled workers nearing retire-
ment, Guglielmo said that programs
such as Building Futures are crucial
to “transfer knowledge to the next
generation of workers.”
The new generation
Tim Sanders and Orlando Gomez,
who have lived in Rhode Island for
most their lives, are two of the many
young workers participating in the
Building Futures program.
The program — designed to pro-
vide career training opportunities in
construction for low-income adults
in urban areas, and specifically from
Providence — has partnered with
Brown since the renovation of J. Wal-
ter Wilson, and has remained for
work on the Joukowsky Institute for
Archeology and the Ancient World
and the Granoff Center projects,
Marisa Quinn, vice president for
public affairs and University rela-
tions, wrote in an e-mail to The Her-
ald. Quinn also mentioned that the
University will continue this partner-
ship through the construction of the
new Medical School building in the
Jewelry District, the Metcalf Chemi-
cal Laboratory building renovation
and construction of the Katherine
Moran Coleman Aquatics Center
and the Jonathan Nelson ’77 Fitness
Center.
“I always worked with my hands,”
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WiSE program takes tips from Meiklejohns
By Anne Artley
Staff Writer
The WiSE Mentoring Program for
women in science and engineering
is being revamped to make it more
accessible and to keep more students
involved.
The program was originally cre-
ated to provide one-on-one guidance
for female first-years from upperclass-
men. Next year, however, two or three
science or engineering concentrators
will lead groups of 10–12 first-years,
said Science Program Coordinator
Jodie Gill, who oversees WiSE. Men-
tors, who in the past have not received
formal training, will attend a one-day
session during the summer.
Gill wants to model the new
structure after the Meiklejohn peer-
advising program.
“I think (the group structure) will
take the pressure off a one-on-one
More undergrads drawn to neuro
by Casey Bleho
Staf f Writer
The number of undergraduate
concentrators in neuroscience has
grown enormously in recent years,
signaling increased interest in the
subject.
In the class of 2009, 47 students
concentrated in neuroscience, up
from 18 concentrators in the class of
1989, according to the department’s
2009 annual report.
The Department of Neurosci-
ence teaches and conducts research
on the various functions and dis-
eases of the ner vous system, ac-
cording to its Web site. Because
most concentrators intend to con-
tinue to medical school — and the
concentration incorporates many of
the prerequisites for medical school
— the interest in the relatively new
relationship,” Gill said. “It might be
easier for three mentors to bounce
ideas off each other, and the ment-
ees will feel more comfortable asking
questions in a group.”
The new structure will also allow
for more flexibility for first-years
whose interests change during the
school year.
“Someone may sign up who is in-
terested in (chemistry), and we will
match them with a chemistry concen-
trator, but then they may change their
mind and decide they are interested
in geology, and their mentor will not
have the resources to help them,” said
Program Coordinator Katie Roberts
’10.
The coordinators are also instat-
ing an application process for next
year’s mentors to make sure they
stay committed to the program, Gill
said.
“We found that, over a month or
field has increased substantially,
according to Professor of Medical
Science Barry Connors.
“Neuroscience is a relatively new
field. It’s generally become popular
at all levels of education,” Connors
said. As a result, the program re-
mains extremely interdisciplinary,
as concentrators study elements of
neurobiology, psychology, cognitive
science, physics and mathematics,
he said.
“Ever yone is fascinated with
why we do the things we do, and
why we think the things we think,”
he said.
“ The interdisciplinary nature of
the department is perhaps one of
the elements that make it so appeal-
ing to undergraduate students of all
areas of study, Connors said.
The first-rate research conduct-
ed by neuroscience faculty provides
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“It’s really great to see that wide spectrum of students.”
two, that mentees lose interest or
the mentor is overcome with other
responsibilities,” Gill said. There will
be about 30 mentors next year, she
added.
Roberts said that next year the
coordinators will schedule manda-
tory monthly meetings but will leave
it up to the groups to decide if they
want to meet one-on-one. They are
also continuing the discussion series,
during which a faculty member leads
a discussion about their research or
on the issues women face in the fields
of science and math.
One thing the group wants to main-
tain is the strong connection between
the mentors and the mentees.
“One fear I have is that we’ll lose
the level of personal contact if we don’t
meet one-on-one,” Roberts said. “But
we feel that the groups will still have
that feeling even though it’s a larger
group than before.”
students with first-hand experience
that likely acts as incentive as well,
Connors said. Unlike at other uni-
versities, the Brown neuroscience
faculty spend more time teaching
and advising undergraduate pro-
grams, he said, balancing this with
research that gives students op-
portunities to work hand-in-hand
with professors.
“I think there has always been a
great commitment to undergradu-
ate students,” said Professor of
Medical Science Edward Hawrot.
In classes like NEUR 0010: “The
Brain: An Introduction to Neuro-
science,” the number and variety
of students showing an interest in
the subject have become evident,
he said.
“As a faculty member,” Connors
said, “it’s really great to see that
wide spectrum of students.”
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
— Barry Connors, professor of medical science
higher ed roundup
by sarah forman
senior staff writer
Reed’s president tells students to lay off drugs
If students at Reed College are caught using any sort
of illegal drugs, they will face disciplinary action within the
college and may see criminal charges, according to an e-mail
Reed President Colin Diver sent to students, faculty and staff
on April 23.
According to the e-mail, undercover police will patrol the
campus this weekend at Renn Fayre, an annual festival at
the Portland school — analogous to Spring Weekend — with
three days of music, art and relaxation. The celebrations will
start on Friday when classes end for the semester and will
have a Jersey Shore theme.
Reed has a history of drug use, and two students have died
recently of heroin overdoses, including senior Sam Tepper in
March and freshman Alejandro Lluch in 2008.
“We cannot, and we will not stand by if Renn Fayre is a
repeat of years past — where even in the wake of Alejandro
Lluch’s death drug use and distribution were allegedly
rampant,” wrote Dwight Holton, U.S. Attorney of Oregon, and
Michael Shrunk, district attorney for Multnomah County, in a
separate e-mail to the Reed community.
Universities book same artists for spring concerts
Even though Snoop Dogg proudly wore a Brown jersey
when he performed on Saturday, he has been making the
rounds to several other colleges for spring shows.
On Sunday, he rapped at Trinity College in Connecticut, and
on Friday he was at a fraternity house at Indiana University,
according to his Web site.
The University of Pennsylvania even hooked him for their
Spring Fling last week, along with Kid Cudi and Schwayze,
according to the event’s Web site.
Harvard booked Kid Cudi the same weekend for its annual
Yardfest, according to the Harvard Crimson. Also headlining
the event was hip-hop act Wale, who came to Brown for
Spring Weekend.
Gambling in bars may support Colorado scholarships
In the search for higher education dollars, Colorado
lawmakers have proposed a bill that would expand gambling
opportunities. The bill would legalize the use of Keno video
games in bars and restaurants, and the estimated $100
million in revenue would fund college scholarships, CBS
News in Denver reported last week.
“We need to think of creative ways to keep education
affordable,” State Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver, said in a Denver
Post article last week. Romer said that he supports the plan
to allow the game — which is similar to the lottery and has
relatively low odds of winning — in bars and restaurants.
If two-thirds of Colorado’s state legislators approve
the bill, voters will have a chance to pass the measure in
November.
Rhode Island legislators are also considering several
different measures to expand gambling in the state in the
hopes of securing more revenue, the Providence Journal
reported earlier this month.
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f eature
Birds, camels, sharks — dedicated curator stuffed R.I. Hall
continued from page 1
75 at the steps of the museum where
he spent many years of his career. He
lived and breathed science in an era
of Darwin, and became as much of
a fixture on campus as the museum
itself. While he dedicated his life to
science and the study of the natural
world, nothing of his mark remains
on the building that once housed his
life’s work.
A shooting star
Jenks was born in 1819 in West
Boylston, Mass. The sixth child and
eldest son in his family, Jenks lived a
quiet, small-town life.
In Jenks’ unpublished autobiogra-
phy, he recounts one instance where
his love of the natural world showed
an early spark. In 1833, the self-pro-
claimed “student of science” woke
up to find a meteor shower streaking
across the sky above his home.
“The whole atmosphere was as
full of meteors as of snowflakes in a
snowstorm,” Jenks wrote, describing
brilliant colors lighting up the sky.
Excited by what he saw, Jenks rushed
through his home to wake his family
and then proceeded to shout to every
open window in the town.
As he called out to each window,
his neighbors poked their heads out
of their windows and walked out into
the street to view the sight. For that
one brief moment, Jenks shared his
love for the natural world with his
neighbors and family — a memory
that would stay with him for the rest
of his life, he wrote.
“Fifty years later I received the
thanks of some citizens for arousing
them from their slumbers to see the
glorious sight,” Jenks wrote.
That same year, Jenks was ac-
cepted as one of the 45 members of
Brown’s class of 1838 — the youngest
member of his class.
Jenks’ undergraduate years at
Brown were filled with hard work,
as he held down odd jobs — includ-
ing wheeling compost for President
Francis Wayland from the hog pen
and cow yard where Wilson Hall now
stands to Wayland’s personal Prospect
Street garden — to pay for his room
and board. He took a class on natu-
ral philosophy with future University
President Alexis Caswell that would
later influence Jenks’ own work as
an educator.
At 19, Jenks graduated ninth in his
class and spent two years teaching
in Georgia before marrying the well-
connected Sarah Tucker.
Because of his new family con-
nections, Jenks took over the failing
Pierce Academy in Middleborough,
Mass., which was founded by Tuck-
er’s grandfather. Under his tenure,
the school expanded from 15 to 300
students, and Jenks began the work
that would form the foundation for his
contributions to Brown’s science cur-
riculum in the second half of his life.
The path back to Brown
At Pierce, Jenks assembled a
cabinet containing specimens such
as dried plants and bird skins to teach
his students about natural history. To
expand his knowledge of natural sci-
ence, Jenks enrolled in a taxidermy
course in Boston and embraced the
“The whole atmosphere was as full of meteors as of snowflakes in a
The recently-renovated Rhode Island Hall was once home to a museum of
natural history curated by John Whipple Potter Jenks, class of 1838.
art of stuffing animal hides as a new
hobby. Jenks woke up each morning
before class to obtain new specimens,
ignoring the advice of his instructor
to “preserve (his) first and (his) hun-
dredth bird and throw away all the
rest,” he wrote.
Jenks soon amassed a large collec-
tion of specimens, and increased his
knowledge of zoology by going out
on excursions with Harvard professor
Louis Agassiz to study turtle embry-
ology. For the study, Jenks “planted”
600 different varieties of turtle eggs
in his garden to study their incubation
periods. At the end of the experiment,
Jenks found a growing interest in liv-
ing the life of a scientist and gained a
new kindred spirit in Agassiz.
By the 1870s, an emphasis on pri-
vate education shifted to public schools
across Massachusetts. Looking for a
career change, Jenks wrote to Cas-
well, his professor-turned-president,
describing his displeasure with what
he perceived to be Brown’s outdated
science curriculum.
In the 1871 letter, Jenks wrote,
“While it is one of the oldest Institu-
tions in the country, there is not one
hardly half as old that has not better
facilities for illustrating any branch of
Natural Science and I am positively
ashamed of my Alma Mater.”
In the letter, Jenks asked to return
to Brown to establish a museum on
campus, asking Caswell for a display
room consisting of “three cases of 23
and a half feet long, and five and a half
feet wide” for specimens that Jenks
would collect himself.
Caswell wrote back to Jenks in-
forming him that the University did
not have enough funding for his dis-
play. Jenks replied with a promise that
if Caswell could raise enough funding
in two weeks to pay for two cases of
minerals, fossils and shells, in addition
to one for mounted birds, he would fill
the cases at his own expense.
Caswell agreed, and Jenks spent
his remaining three weeks of his time
at Pierce shooting birds and trapping
mammals.
The Corporation did not raise any
money for the museum’s installation at
Rhode Island Hall, but Caswell man-
aged to raise $110 in private dona-
tions, enough to hire Jenks without a
title and pay him “the lowest Profes-
sor’s salary in the institution,” Jenks
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
snowstorm.” — John Jenks 1838, museum curator
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
wrote.
A one-man show
Jenks increased the fledgling
museum’s collections almost single-
handedly. He procured a large collec-
tion of 4,125 bird skins — giving 1,500
of those to his friend Agassiz — built
cases, mounted birds and mammals
and picked out quirky finds, including
a large-scale stuffed lioness that he
won in an auction, according to his
autobiography.
Though small, the museum was
aesthetically pleasing. Photographs
housed at the John Hay Library show
fish skins lining the ceiling above long
cases of stuffed birds and butterflies.
There was also a back room filled with
stuffed sharks and stingrays on one
side, and stuffed camels standing in
front of a giant stuffed walrus on the
other. A domed arch connected the
rooms, with big block letters reading
“Jenks Museum of Zoology.”
In the south corner of Rhode Is-
land Hall’s basement, Jenks created
a dissecting room, where he taught
students taxidermy. Jenks would
continue to add to the museum’s col-
lection, describing in his autobiogra-
phy yearly trips to Florida, where he
gathered new specimens.
Jenks found some obstacles in
funding throughout his time at Brown,
but was granted one special wish in
1890 — the University named the
zoology portion of the museum after
him. Jenks would later use his own
money to fund a skylight and install
30 new cases.
The twilight years
Jenks’ heart was never far from
the museum he created, even in his
final years. In a 1893 letter to the Cor-
poration, he willed $2,822.26 to the
museum to arrange “the Zoological
and Anthropological specimens in
separate rooms, and each in cases
more especially adapted to their re-
spective characteristics.”
A year later, Jenks was not in the
best of health. On September 26, 1894,
he walked across campus to Rhode
Island Hall with “sluggish steps,” ac-
cording to Reuben Aldridge Guild
during Jenks’ 1895 memorial address
held at Brown.
At 3:00 p.m. passersby shouted
to each other on the Main Green as
they found Jenks lying unconscious on
the steps of Rhode Island Hall. Jenks
had died of heart failure, sprawled in
front of the museum that housed his
life’s work.
A faded legacy
The museum floundered after
Jenks’ death. Mismanagement and
growing disinterest in the natural
sciences let the museum fade on the
University’s list of primary concerns.
According to the 1900 President’s re-
port, a fire did considerable damage to
the west room of the museum, which
gave the University an excuse to re-
move some of Jenks’ old displays.
By 1915, the growing biology de-
partment moved out of Rhode Island
Hall and into Arnold Laboratory, and
the hall was named the new home of
geology and philosophy, according to
the President’s report of 1915.
Jenks’ museum was now no more.
His collections were stored in various
locations around campus, but the Uni-
versity searched in vain for a perma-
nent home for his specimens.
What would happen to the mu-
seum? In a twist of fate, the Univer-
sity stayed true to its promise that
the collection would stay on Brown
property. According to the President’s
report of 1915, 92 truckloads of Jenks’
prized collections were transferred to
a dump on the banks of the Seekonk
River — land that was owned by the
University.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
‘Wanna be
on top?’
Talley ’73
already is
Fei Cai
Staff Writer
Andre Leon Talley MA’73, contrib-
uting editor and former editor-at-
large of Vogue magazine, recently
became a judge for the 14th season
of hit CW TV series “America’s
Next Top Model.” Talley, who
earned his master’s degree in
French at Brown, is replacing J.
Alexander and judging alongside
Nigel Barker and Tyra Banks.
Arts & Culture
He told Women’s Wear Daily
that Banks wanted him to be a
judge for the show’s first season,
but he refused because he “wanted
to see where (the show) goes.” Af-
ter 13 successful cycles, he finally
agreed, telling the magazine, “I just
felt that it was a way to step out
of the box and associate myself
with a very important American
success story, a very important
brand — Tyra Banks.”
Talley has been incredibly influ-
ential in the fashion world. He was
ranked number 45 in Out maga-
zine’s “50 Most Powerful Gay Men
and Women in America.” In 2008,
he introduced Michelle Obama to
designer Jason Wu, from whom
she bought her dress for the in-
auguration.
On “Top Model,” Talley is
sometimes brutally honest and
pays great attention to detail. On
the April 21 episode “Big Hair
Day,” he blatantly told a model,
“What bothers me is the stereotyp-
ical point of the toe on the left leg,
which could be sort of cliche.”
But when he loves a picture, he
lets the model know. In the same
episode, he told another contes-
tant, “The way you have your feet
positioned, it’s high fashioned, it’s
couture. … I would think Alexan-
der McQueen might have put this
in his runway show. It would end
up on the page of W magazine,
and we would think, this is a killer
dress. I applaud you.”
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C ampus N EWS
H ei controvers y Panel confronts Goldman
execs with evidence of fraud
By GREG GORDON & CHRIS ADAM
McClatchy Papers
WASHINGTON — A Senate inves-
tigations panel confronted Gold-
man Sachs executives Tuesday
with evidence that the firm peddled
subprime mortgage securities its
traders considered to be “crap” as
they secretly made huge bets on a
housing downturn.
World & Nation
Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan
Democrat, culminated more than 10
hours of often-contentious testimony
by telling Goldman’s top officer, chief
executive Lloyd Blankfein, that the
Alex Bell / Herald
Jose Landino, a cook at the Hilton Long Beach in California, holds up what he called one of many “letters
firm had “a fundamental conflict”
of intimidation” he received from his employer for trying to organize workers. The Student Labor Alliance with its clients’ interests as it exited
invited Landino to speak to its members Tuesday afternoon in Arnold Lounge about next steps following the home mortgage market in 2006
President Ruth Simmons’ letter last month to HEI Hotels and Resorts stating that if allegations of unfair and 2007.
labor practices against the company are found true, “this would be a matter of deep concern and con-
trary to our standards for investing.”
“And it raises a real ethical issue,”
said Levin, the chairman of the Sen-
ate Permanent Investigations Sub-
committee.
Blankfein, whose company is fac-
ing civil fraud charges from the Securi-
ties and Exchange Commission over
one of its subprime deals, declined to
give ground. He denied that Goldman
made massive “short,” or negative,
bets on subprime mortgage securities.
Further, he said, Goldman had no
obligation to divulge its short bets in
its role as a market maker for sophis-
ticated institutional investors.
“The investors we’re dealing with
... know what they want to acquire,”
Blankfein said. If they raise questions
about a deal, he said, “then the sales-
man owes them an honest answer.”
The subcommittee reviewed 2
million subpoenaed Goldman docu-
ments during an 18-month investiga-
tion of the world’s most prestigious
investment bank, which has become
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a poster child for Wall Street’s role in
fueling the housing bubble that burst
the global economy.
Levin and his subcommittee
colleagues spent much of the day
questioning four current and former
Goldman traders and the company’s
chief financial and risk officers about
more than 170 company e-mails and
documents describing how the firm
escaped the subprime market. Levin
contended that Goldman racked up
billions of dollars in profits in 2007 by
making exotic, insurance-like bets on a
housing collapse — sometimes wager-
ing against securities in offshore deals
that Goldman actually designed.
In one deal, which Levin raised
again and again, a Goldman execu-
tive labeled the mortgage securities
“shitty.”
Levin recounted for Blankfein a
litany of failed deals from 2006 and
2007 that totaled $3.5 billion in which
he said that “clients lost, Goldman
profited.”
At another point, Levin repeatedly
attacked Blankfein’s contention that
the firm was only modestly betting
against the housing market. “You were
short like crazy,” he said. “You came
out ahead in a market that crashed.”
Levin also attacked the firm’s
trustworthiness. “You want to be
trusted. I’m glad you want to be
trusted, but I think you can under-
stand why there’s a lot of folks who
have some real doubts.”
The panel barely noted that Gold-
man also reaped nearly $15 billion
during the past two years from addi-
tional bets with American Internation-
al Group against mortgage securities
in deals based in the Cayman Islands.
Most of those bets, Goldman says,
offset credit protection it wrote for
investors who took short positions
on those deals.
SportsWednesday
The Brown Daily Herald
Two football players drafted from College Hill to the NFL
After months Bobby Sewall ’10 has been drafted by the NFL.
Sewall ’10 trained for months
before contract with Titans
By Dan Alexander
Spor ts Editor
The first Monday after New Years
Day, Bobby Sewall ’10 walked into
Mike Boyle’s strength and con-
ditioning gym for his first day of
high-intensity training for the NFL.
The top football talents in New
England came in with him — from
Boston College, the University of
Massachusetts, the University of
New Hampshire, Harvard and Holy
Cross. The players all had the same
New Years’ resolution: to make it
to the NFL.
The workouts were a struggle
for all of them, even though they
were some of the most physically
fit, successful football players in
the region.
“Kids were puking the first day,”
Sewall told The Herald in Januar y.
“It hasn’t been easy.”
The workouts were, at times, un-
conventional because they tried to
simulate in-game tests of strength.
Sewall pushed 400-500-pound sleds
like he was blocking a linebacker,
squatted with just one leg like he
was springing up for a ball while
in midstride, and did intense core
workouts so that he could take the
brunt of a hit and keep motoring —
but never, ever, did a sit up.
“The only time you’re ever go-
ing to do a sit up in a game is when
you’re getting off of the ground,”
Sewall said. “It has certainly been
a little bit of a shock to my body,
and I like it.”
But what it all comes down to,
the commitment — five hours a
day, four days a week for eight
weeks — was mainly training to
jump one inch higher in his verti-
cal leap or run a few fractions of
a second faster in the forty-yard
dash.
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
NFL teams ask prospects to per-
form a number of different drills
— most famously, the vertical leap,
225-pound bench press and 40-yard
dash — as a baseline test of their
athleticism.
“The combine drills are kind of
like an SAT,” said Colin Cloherty
’09, a tight end for the Indianapolis
Colts who trained at Mike Boyle’s
gym when he was in Sewall’s shoes
a year ago. “But just like the Kaplan
or the Princeton review that you
can take to beat the test, I went to
Boyle’s to learn how to beat the
test.”
Sewall, who ran a 4.50 40-yard
dash as a junior, eventually got his
40 time down to a 4.41. It may not
sound like much, but nine-tenths
of a second is enough to make
the difference between beating a
defensive end to the sideline and
being tracked down for a four-yard
loss in the backfield.
But more importantly for Sewall,
nine-tenths of a second may mean
the difference between being over-
looked by the NFL and signing a
contract.
In addition to his 4.41 40-yard
dash, Sewall had a 41-inch verti-
cal leap and did 16 bench press
repetitions. Most Ivy League wide
receivers don’t even make NFL
scouts look up, but Sewall’s num-
bers were enough to turn heads
in the NFL.
“Ever y little test matters,”
Sewall said. “Ever y little full
step.”
It wasn’t just his numbers that
drew in the NFL scouts. Sewall was
a three-time All-Ivy selection and
was half of one of the best receiv-
ing duos in the nation with 2009 Ivy
League Player of the Year Buddy
continued on page 8
Walk-on Howard ’09.5 takes unlikely path
By Dan Alexander
Spor ts Editor
David Howard ’09.5 slept zero
hours the night before day three
of the NFL draft. He didn’t yet
know the Tennessee Titans would
select him in the seventh round.
He didn’t know which NFL city, if
any, would be his next home. He
didn’t know if the last four months
of high-intensity training — after
a lifetime of preparation — would
pay off.
“I tried to put through ever y
possible situation and every pos-
sible scenario” while lying in
bed, Howard said. “I can’t even
really begin to tell you what was
going through my mind. It was
too much.”
Still exhausted from the sleep-
less night, Howard received a
phone call in the middle of the
seventh round from the Titans.
It took him until midway through
the conversation to realize that the
team had just drafted him.
“Great feeling,” he said. “It was
wild.”
Indeed, his long road to the
NFL cer tainly wasn’t conven-
tional.
Howard never dreamed of play-
ing in the NFL as a child.
“I never really thought I was
good enough for this,” Howard
said. “I always thought that pro-
fessional athletes were beyond-
this-world athletes. I didn’t think
I was capable.”
In fact, he didn’t even come to
Brown to play football.
After verbally committing to
play football at Delaware, the
Brown track and field program
recruited Howard at the last min-
ute. His older brother — who had
played football at Harvard — and
his dad — who was a high school
guidance counselor for 30 years
— convinced him to head to the
Ivy League.
Once on campus, Howard
didn’t go unnoticed by the Brown
football team for long. On the day
he arrived, he found an e-mail in
his inbox from one of the assis-
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 | Page 7
tant coaches of the football team,
tr ying to recruit him to hit the
gridiron.
It took him a year before he
finally accepted the coach’s of-
fer, but when he did, he made an
immediate impact on the field.
Howard had 4 1/2 sacks his
sophomore year, the third-most
in the Ivy League.
The same year, he became
a two-time shot put Ivy League
champion, but after the track sea-
son, he dropped track in favor of
football.
Football “was just more fun,”
Howard said. “Football is a team
sport. Track is not a team sport, so
you don’t get that camaraderie.”
He didn’t realize at the time that
he was making a career choice,
too. It wasn’t until his junior year
that playing in the NFL began to
seem like a real possibility.
“Scouts started coming around
and agents would come up to me
after games and tr y and talk to
me,” Howard said. “At that point in
time, I was like, this is something
that I want to do. If this is possible,
I’m going to do it.”
The scouts started noticing
the 6-foot-3-inch, 295-pound se-
nior when he earned first team
All-Ivy honors and had 30 tack-
les, including 13 for loss, 6 1/2
sacks, three fumbles forced and
five quarterback hurries.
He had an extra year of NCAA
eligibility because he hadn’t played
football his freshman year, so How-
ard took off his senior spring and
interned at Gilbaine, a Providence
construction company.
It was during this time that the
first NFL team expressed explicit
interest in him. On the Sunday
after the 2009 Draft, a representa-
tive from the Cleveland Browns
called him. But when Howard told
the Browns that he was coming
back to Brown for a fifth fall, the
conversation ended.
“I think they were going to
invite me to a camp,” Howard
said. The Browns representative
“didn’t really say it, but there was
no other reason for him to be call-
ing me.”
The economics major returned
to the classroom for a fifth fall and
again dominated the trenches on
the football field. Despite being
double-teamed on what he esti-
mated was 85 percent of the snaps,
Howard had 29 tackles, including
six for losses and one sack. He
also led the team in quarterback
hurries with eight.
Throughout the season, the
NFL scouts kept taking notes.
“I can’t think of a team that
hasn’t been in to at least watch
film, talk to my coaches,” Howard
told The Herald in November. “I
talk to a good number of them. I
don’t get a chance to talk to all
of them.”
On draft day, it all came down
to the Baltimore Ravens, Oakland
Raiders, Dallas Cowboys and — at
the last minute — the Titans.
“It was kind of hectic getting
calls from scouts and teams”
during the draft, Howard said. “I
was just looking for the team that
would give me the best chance to
make the roster.”
His journey is far from over
now. As the 241st overall selec-
tion in the draft, Howard will
head down to Tennessee rookie
minicamp Thursday to begin the
battle for a spot on the Titans 53-
man roster.
It’s a challenge Howard has
been looking forward to for a long
time.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been
challenged to that level,” How-
ard told The Herald in November.
“In high school, I played varsity
as a freshman. I was just bigger
and a better athlete, wherever I
went. And you know, coming here
I started playing and starting as a
sophomore, making an impact as
a sophomore. I kind of want to go
in when I’m an underdog and see
what I’m made of.”
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S ports W ednesday
Bruno was off and running at Sunday’s invitational, scoring big for the track team.
Track
Throwers and distance runners shine
By Ben Noble
Staf f Writer
With another meet comes anoth-
er personal record for standout
thrower and quad-captain Dan-
ielle Grunloh ’10. Her shot put
of 15.93 meters last Sunday at
Brown’s Springtime Invitational
solidified her place at the top of
the Ivy League rankings.
Br ynn Smith ’11, currently
second in the league on the shot
put list, closely followed Grunloh.
Grunloh and Smith are ranked
18th and 31st nationally in the
event.
The duo has collectively held
the Ivy League shot put title over
the past year. Smith was victorious
last spring but Grunloh won the
indoor championship in February.
Grunloh said it will be a “toss up”
between the two this spring.
The entire men’s and women’s
track teams posted strong perfor-
mances on Sunday with less than
two weeks until the Ivy Heptagonal
Championship at Princeton. The
meet did not feature team scor-
ing.
“We’re really starting to fire on
all cylinders,” said Interim Head
Coach Michelle Eisenreich. “We’re
very excited about our prospects
for Heps.”
Grunloh dominated the discuss
throw with freshmen Victoria Buhr
’13 and Lacey Craker ’13 follow-
ing right behind for a Brown 1-2-3
sweep. Smith also picked up a sec-
ond win for Brown in the hammer
throw.
The women had a number of
other victories on Sunday, includ-
ing Samantha Adelberg ’11 in the
800-meter, Shannon Stone ’10 in
the long jump and Hannah Wallace
’13 in the pole vault.
Susan Scavone ’12 won the
100-meter hurdles in a personal
best of 14.29. She is currently
ranked second in the Ivy League
in that event.
The Bears also had several
outstanding performances in the
distance events. Megan Fitzpatrick
’11 won the women’s 3000-meter
by over 16 seconds with four
Brown athletes following her in
the top seven. Lauren Pischel ’11, a
former Herald staff writer, and Ari
Garber ’12 placed first and second,
respectively, in the 5000-meter.
Brown swept the triple jump
once again, with Gabriela Baiter
’13, Rachel Biblo ’11 and Shannon
Stone ’10 placing 1-2-3, all with
jumps of over 11 meters.
On the men’s side, All-American
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Craig Kinsley ’11 won the javelin
with a 64.21-meter throw, ranking
him 14th in the country.
Brian Powlen ’10 and Daniel
Smith ’13, placed first and second,
respectively, in both the shot put
and the discus.
However, it was the male dis-
tance runners who collectively
achieved arguably the most domi-
nating performances of the day.
Brown placed nine men under
four minutes in the 1500-meter,
led by seniors Brian Schilder ’10,
John Loeser ’10 and Duriel Hardy
’10, who each ran 3:51.
Then in the 5000-meter, Brown
placed eight in the top nine, with
freshman Austin Snyder ’13 win-
ning in 14:51.67.
Quad-captain Colin Brett ’10
credited Eisenreich and the en-
tire coaching staff for the team’s
recent success.
“Across the board, this is the
best I’ve seen in my three and a
half years here,” he said.
Grunloh also praised Eisen-
reich, who became interim head
coach after Craig Lake abruptly
resigned in February.
“We think she would make an
absolutely fantastic head coach for
next year,” Grunloh said. “She puts
her entire life into it.”
“Time to go to work.”
W. Golf
Bears rally to finish fifth
in Ivy Championship
By Chris Williams
Spor ts Staf f Writer
The women’s golf team finished
fifth at the Ivy League Champion-
ships last weekend, held at famed
Baltusrol Country Club in Spring-
field, N.J.
The Penn Quakers captured
their first-ever league champion-
ship, dominating the field en-route
to a 22-stroke victory.
For the Bears, Megan Tuohy
’12 once again turned in the team’s
top score, shooting 78-81-84 — 243.
Heather Arison ’12 played three con-
sistent rounds, shooting 81-81-84 —
246 to finish with the second-best
score for the Bears. Captain Susan
Restrepo ’11 shot a three-day total
of 257, while Carly Arison ’12 and
Sarah Guarascio ’11 shot 259 and
260, respectively, for the Bears.
Head Coach Danielle Griffiths
said she was especially pleased
with Tuohy’s performance, prais-
ing her for “consistently being our
top performer all season.” Griffiths
also lauded Heather Arison’s play,
noting “she did a great job of staying
in the present.”
Griffiths said she was definitely
happy with her team’s overall per-
formance, highlighting that “we
finished one place better than last
year. Every semester we have been
improving.”
The team prepared all season
for the fast and difficult greens at
Sewall ’10 negotiating
contract with Titans
continued from page 7
Farnham ’10, who earned a tr yout
with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
this weekend.
Brown Head Coach Phil Estes
said it also didn’t hurt that ever y
time a scout came to see Sewall,
Farnham, David Howard ’09.5 or
James Develin ’10, they got to see
all four prospects on the same
film.
Apparently the Titans liked
what they saw. As the Titans were
selecting Howard with the 241st
overall pick in the seventh round
of the NFL draft, they called Sewall
to begin negotiating what ended
up being a two-year free-agent
contract.
“It basically means that I’ll be in
camp come August, and I’ll get a
chance to earn my spot,” he said.
The phone call ended a scar y
period of waiting when Sewall said
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— Bobby Sewall ’10
Baltusrol, and their work certainly
ser ved them well, according to
Griffiths. “We were emotionally
prepared for six and seven-footers
for par,” Griffiths said. The team
as a whole also did a “good job of
staying positive and in the present,”
which had been one of Brown’s
goals heading into the champion-
ship, she said.
But Tuohy noted that the hard
and fast greens still did provide
some difficulty for the team. Tuohy
also remarked that “we need to
work on finishing strong and not
focus on the outcome.” Neverthe-
less, she shared her coach’s general
sentiment, noting that the cham-
pionship was “overall a positive
experience.”
Tuohy also said that “the com-
petition in the Ivy League is really
improving,” which will “encourage
our team to work really hard this
summer.”
The Bears said they were thank-
ful for the opportunity to play at
Baltusrol and hope the Ivy League
Championships will return there
in 2011.
Looking ahead to next season,
Griffiths said she wants her players
to “play lots of tournament golf.”
Moreover, she said she hopes all
of her players will “work out and
work with their swing coaches.” If
her players do so, she said she is
confident they will all “come back
ready to play in the fall.”
he didn’t know if any team would
want him.
Sewall said he “just said a prayer
and knew that somebody would be
out to hopefully show some inter-
est in me or take a chance on a
receiver from Brown.”
The Titans did, and Sewall will
report to minicamp on Thursday.
He may not be a receiver for the
team. He might have to become a
special teams player like former
Ivy League Player of the Year Sean
Morey ’99, who became an All-Pro
special teamer.
“They were talking to me about
returning some kicks and punts
as well as even holds, too,” Sewall
said. “I’ll do anything that makes
me valuable to the team. But I’m
just so excited and really grateful
for the opportunity.”
“It’s time to make the most of
this opportunity,” he added. “Time
to go to work.”
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The Brown Daily Herald
Colleges debate: is American Sign Language a ‘foreign’ language?
By Angie Leventis Lourgos
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — Twenty students are
holding several animated small-
group discussions, but no one in
this Northern Illinois University
classroom utters a word.
Their fingers weave in complex
patterns as they converse in American
Sign Language, which the university
has declared an official foreign lan-
guage.
To the students, the new label is
fitting: They say that American Sign
Language is distinct from spoken
English and that its coursework pro-
vides a new perspective akin to the
cultural immersion they’d experience
in French, Spanish or other traditional
language classes.
“It shapes how you view the world
around you,” said Christine Theobold,
a sophomore from Streamwood, Ill.,
who is taking the most advanced sign
class at NIU. “I guess it’s how you
view the word ‘foreign.’ ”
But the practice of awarding for-
eign language credit for American
Sign Language coursework has been
fiercely debated at universities across
the country. Some educators argue
an indigenous language by definition
can’t be considered foreign. Others
say a language must have literature
Arthur Wagoner, left, signs with classmate Krista Springer during their class at Northern Illinois University
for proper study.
The University of Michigan-Flint
several years ago denied a student’s
request of foreign language credit for
American Sign Language proficiency,
but the school reversed its stance in
the past year after about 14 months of
debate. Students at Boston University
are now able to apply American Sign
Language credits in this manner, but
for years some school officials were
against the practice because they said
it lacked the same elements of culture
as other foreign language courses.
“It’s not a foreign language,” said
Robert Belka, a former chair of the
foreign language department at We-
ber State University in Ogden, Utah.
Belka, who is now retired, long op-
posed requests for American Sign to
count as a foreign language, though
he said the university eventually ac-
quiesced.
“These are people ... dependent
on the English language,” he said.
American Sign Language “is not suf-
ficient to sustain a culture.”
The Pizza Hut at NIU is loud dur-
ing dinnertime, but one table of two
dozen students is conspicuously quiet.
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Lane Christiansen / Chicago Tribune
The patrons don’t speak. They order
by pointing at the menu.
This is a “silent dinner,” one of
many extracurricular events Ameri-
can Sign Language students attend for
additional practice. Their instructor
Sara Bianco, who is deaf, said these
events give students a taste of deaf
culture.
Kelsey Borg, a sophomore from
Maple Park, Ill., is in the beginning
American Sign Language class and
described her first silent dinner as
a bit nerve-racking. Signing felt dif-
ferent in public and she became lost
when more advanced students had
intricate conversations, she said.
“APPEAR tooth equals PAIN (plus
sign)(plus sign)BAD DENTIST GO
NEED”
This is written in gloss, a transcrip-
tion of American Sign Language, and
essentially means, “It seems I have
a toothache; I need to go to a den-
tist.”
While the sentence seems convo-
luted to most people who can hear,
it makes sense to Joe Lellman, an
NIU senior from Buffalo Grove, Ill.
He uses the sentence to show how
different American Sign Language
grammar is compared with spoken
English.
Lellman is considered legally deaf,
but with a hearing aid, he can hear
about two-thirds as well as the aver-
age hearing person. He was taught in
a deaf school until third grade, when
he entered regular public school.
Though he continues to think in
American Sign Language, he lost
many of his signing skills and is now
relearning much of the language at
NIU _ and embracing a part of himself
that was lost.
American Sign Language is the
fourth-most studied language other
than English at colleges across the
country, according to a 2006 Modern
Language Association study.
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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

Modern music has merits, too

To the Editor:
While it has a somewhat valid
premise, David Sheffield’s ’11 col-
umn (“Time for the Glorious Re-
capitulation,” April 26) about the
“decrepit music” that is pervasive
in modern society is a bit narrow-
minded. As an avid listener and
player of jazz and classical music,
I can understand his perspective
on the simplicity and repetitiveness
found in much of today’s music. At-
tempting to compare classical music
to more modern music, however, is
like comparing apples and oranges.
Both are legitimate art forms but are
intended for different audiences and
convey different emotions.
Snoop Dogg, for example, cap-
tures primal, instinctive emotions
— dealing with girls, having sex
and getting wasted or high — in
a way that one of Strauss’s waltzes
never could (or would). Addition-
ally, is there no value to simplicity?
Yes, the beat behind “The Next Epi-
sode” (the song Snoop opened with)
isn’t particularly complex, but that
doesn’t mean that it sounds bad or
didn’t require a painstaking amount
of thought, inspiration, and talent
to create. While it would be nice if
more people indulged in jazz and
classical music, condemning all
modern music for — at least accord-
ing to Sheffield — sounding bad
and not being complicated enough
is over the top.
Dan Morgan ’10
April 26

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Cuts at the Swearer Center

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Swearer Center for Public Service is being forced to proval. Students, alumni and others have started a
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The case for ROTC at Brown
Hunter Fast
Opinions Columnist
Since the height of the Vietnam War, the Re-
serve Officers’ Training Corps has been absent
from Brown’s campus, as it has from the cam-
puses of Harvard, Yale and Columbia. Much
of the current opposition to the existence of
a Brown ROTC chapter stems from the policy
of “don’t ask, don’t tell” — DADT — wherein
non-heterosexual soldiers are not allowed to
express their sexual orientations freely.
While this restriction represents a violation
of these soldiers’ rights, the best way to con-
front this and effect change for the better is not
by maintaining the expulsion of ROTC from
campus, but rather by giving Brown students
the ability to join the leadership of the military
and contribute to change from within.
Many, including former Herald executive
editor Chris Gang ’11, argue that the existence
of DADT precludes a Brown ROTC chapter
outright because of extant anti-discrimination
policies. Gang wrote in a letter to the editor
to The Herald (“No ROTC with ‘don’t ask,
don’t tell’ policy,” Feb. 18, 2009) that, “We
cannot allow (ROTC) on campus, just as we
wouldn’t allow a whites-only organization to
operate here (even if Brown’s involvement
might make it more progressive).”
While this is an unfair comparison for a
number of reasons, the fact remains that with-
out any new, progressive influence on military
culture, a potential repeal of DADT is likely
to cause a reversion to the state of affairs that
preceded it. Indeed, as things currently stand,
a plurality of troops oppose allowing homo-
NIDA
ABDULLA
Opinions Columnist
I was really pleased with the Undergraduate
Council of Students and the Office of Campus
Life and Student Services’ effort in coordinat-
ing Staff Appreciation Day. The staff appre-
ciation buttons were really cute, and it didn’t
seem condescending at all to present them to
our favorite Brown staffers. It felt kind of like
giving my mom flowers on Mother’s Day, but
you know what moms say on Mother’s Day:
“Every day is Mother’s Day.” So it should be
with the staff.
Someone wise once gave me good advice
when I told them I was feeling homesick at
school. They told me I should view the staff
like my family away from home. I’m glad-
dened, and I can’t help but be grateful when
I see those smiles of recognition from them.
I love sharing good news with them, shooting
the breeze, and getting to know little things
about their lives. These relationships are a
crucial part of my experience here, and I
urge other students not to miss out. They
make us nicer, more considerate people. We
would think twice before insulting the food
(sometimes within earshot of the staff) if we
cared about the people who prepared it. The
exit signs would certainly take less of a beat-
ing if students forged a relationship with the
sexuals to serve openly, with officers having
even higher rates of opposition. Another poll
conducted by the Military Times reported
that 10 percent of troops would leave the mili-
tary if DADT were repealed, with another 14
percent reporting that they would consider
such an action.
Though similar threats of desertion oc-
curred when Canada and Britain opened their
armed forces within the past 20 years (with
no such consequence), these polls still dem-
onstrate that for the repeal to have substance,
In the administration’s determination of which
academic pursuits hold value, the exclusion of
military science is not only arbitrary, but it also
severely limits Brown students’ ability to pursue
a noble cause at a time when national service is
needed most.
there must be an internal cultural transfor-
mation — especially among the ranks of of-
ficers — to accompany the external political
processes surrounding the end of DADT.
Gang also argues that the effect of a Brown
ROTC chapter would be negligible because
only “a handful of Brunonian officers” would
participate in the program. This is only half
true. Due to the overhead costs associated
with the ROTC program, there exists a crisis of
confidence among upper echelon institutions
vis-à-vis its return. A successful implementa-
tion of ROTC at Brown or another Ivy would
be a powerful force in persuading others to
follow.
Staff Appreciation Day: ‘Like’
custodians and other members of Facilities
Management. We would smuggle less food
from the Ratty if we thought of the Dining
Services workers as our family. We would be
more concerned about the 60 layoffs if more
of us knew the people who were being fired. I
have passed Stephen Gervais, a door guard at
the Rock — you know, the one with the long,
dirty-blonde hair — many times and not given
a thought to him. Now, as he is slated to be laid
off, I learn that he is in a band, a professional
artist and an actor! (“Staff members share,
reflect on their experiences,” Apr. 8)
These people shouldn’t be invisible to us while
they are on our turf, no more than we would like
to be invisible to them if we were on their turf.
A friend recently told me that, as students,
we are great multi-taskers, but she realized
it is largely because we have so many people
working to streamline our lives. We can grab
our food at the Ratty and read while we eat and
we never have to worry about cleaning up our
hallways and stairwells after we stomp in with
muddy boots. Have you seen the first-floor
entrance of Wilson Hall when it rains? It’s a
mess of mud and water, but it always man-
Thus, while Brown’s ROTC would itself
only produce a few new officers, the result
from other universities’ subsequent adop-
tion of the program would be transformative.
Although a strict interpretation of Brown’s
anti-discrimination policies for campus groups
is inconsistent with the existence of DADT,
this ignores the fact that increased interaction
between the Ivies and the military can be a
means by which discriminatory recruitment
policies can be ended once and for all.
While the presence of ROTC on elite col-
lege campuses can serve to increase the ef-
fectiveness of a repeal of DADT, this is far from
the only reason why ROTC should return.
Currently, Brown students who wish to serve
in ROTC must arrange their own transport
to Providence College in the early mornings
for training. Furthermore, according to the
Web site of the Dean of the College, “Credits
earned in ROTC programs do not transfer
back to Brown.”
Given that Brown’s New Curriculum is
designed to give “students the right to choose
… and above all the freedom to direct their
own education,” the resounding lack of sup-
port that the University gives to those who
ages to disappear. I’m not advocating a mass
rebellion because people are cleaning up after
us — let’s just make it easier on them.
Also, let’s not allow them to feel invisible.
We do a decent job in terms of acknowledging
Dining Services workers and custodians, but
what about landscapers, Facilities Manage-
ment, event coordinators, etc.? These people
shouldn’t be invisible to us while they are
on our turf, no more than we would like to
be invisible to them if we were on their turf.
Those of us who aspire for social equality, and
apply to programs like Teach for America,
certainly want to be acknowledged and ap-
preciated even when we work amongst those
who are in a different social class. To realize
these ideals, starting at home is always best.
If we made Brown the model society that we
want to see the world become, it would have
a better chance of being realized than if each
of us try to make a difference as individuals.
I would also like to propose that students
should do more work around campus — for
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wish to further their education through mili-
tary service demonstrates that, in this regard,
the administration is indifferent at best and
hypocritical at worst. In the administration’s
determination of which academic pursuits hold
value, the exclusion of military science is not
only arbitrary, but also severely limits Brown
students’ ability to pursue a noble cause at a
time when national service is needed most.
Therefore, short of the full return of ROTC
to Brown, the least the administration can
do is provide some modicum of support to
prospective student cadets in the form of
transportation to PC and credit for military
science classes. While a full ROTC chapter
at Brown would be most effective in persuad-
ing other universities to resume their own
programs, reducing the logistical barriers
to student participation is sufficient to keep
Brown consistent with the philosophy of the
New Curriculum.
Despite the existence of DADT, it is impera-
tive that Brown and other prestigious insti-
tutions support those students who wish to
advance their education while training to serve
in the armed forces. Indeed, the contribution
of some of the nation’s brightest minds to the
officers’ corps will only hasten DADT’s end.
It is shameful that in light of all the diverse
beliefs and ways of life on campus, to serve
one’s country in uniform is officially treated
as an alternative lifestyle.
Hunter Fast ’12 also thinks that
taking a military science class at
Brown would be really cool, even
if he isn’t in the ROTC. He can be
reached at hunter_fast@brown.edu.
instance, we could shovel the walkways after
a big snowfall or perhaps organize a clean-up
brigade on Sundays. Someone at a Student
Labor Alliance community meeting suggested
that the Brown University workers take a
weekend off so that students can see how
messy it gets. I believe a better idea would be
for students and workers to switch places for
a day, “Freaky Friday” style. Let them go to
our classes and eat in the dining hall, and we’ll
handle the clean up and dining services. How
sweet would that be? Of course, they would
also have to do some of our homework, they
couldn’t just sit out on the Main Green all day
throwing Frisbees and tanning.
This might seem a bit puerile and unneces-
sary, but the sooner we change our attitudes
toward the workers, the better. It will serve
us well later in life and make us less likely to
ignore the little people when we are the big
bosses in companies. I wonder if the people
who messed up the economy on Wall Street
were friendly with the workers and staff at
their colleges. If their attitudes towards in-
vestors and their money are any indication, I
would have to guess that they weren’t.
So, in conclusion, Staff Appreciation Day
and buttons: Like.
Nida Abdulla ’11.5 is an English
concentrator from New Jersey. She
can be contacted at
nida_abdulla@brown.edu.
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c a l e n da r comics
Today, april 28 tomorrow, april 29 Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline

12:00 p.m. — Applying to Law 7:00 P.M. — Palestine in Crisis: What

School Information Session, Career We Can Learn from Ghandi, Barus
Development Center and Holley 168

9:30 p.m. — LGBTQ Grad/Undergrad 8:00 P.M. — Ecological Intelligence:

Social, Graduate Center, Graduate The Hidden Impacts of What We Buy,
Lounge MacMillan 117

menu
Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Pepperoni, Spinach and
Feta Calzone, Bruschetta Mozzarella,
Raspberry Sticks
Dinner — Curried Beef Tips, Vegan
Chana Masala, Bismati Rice Pilaf,
Oatmeal Apple Crisp
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Fruitopia | Andy Kim
Lunch — BBQ Beef Sandwich,
Falafel in Pita, Sugar Cookies
Dinner — Salt and Pepper Jerk
Chicken, Egg Foo Young, Curried
Shrimp or Tofu with Coconut Ginger
Rice, Oatmeal Apple Crisp

crossword
Hippomaniac | Mat Becker

Island Republic | Kevin Grubb

Classic Deep-Fried Kittens | Cara Fitz Gibbon