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Night football games may become a tradition
By Ashley McDonnell
Assistant Sports Editor
It took months of planning and
fundraising to put together Brown
Stadium’s first-ever night football
game — and already, some Univer-
sity officials are trying to transform
the successful one-time game into
an annual event.
SPORTS
The idea for the Sept. 26 night
football game against Harvard came
from the minds of the Brown Foot-
ball Association President Gerald
Massa ’77 and Vice President of
Marketing Jon Land ’79. Ironically,
the two were inspired by Harvard,
which had its first night game in
2007.
“It’s not something I ever re-
member talking about before,” said
Associate Athletic Director of Facili-
ties Tom Bold, who has worked in
Profs. try to Group aids applicants from abroad
connect God
and science
By Jake Comer
Contributing Writer
“Would a person committed to
seeking truth and avoiding error
believe in God, given the evidence
and reasons available to her? That’s
the real issue.” Assistant Professor
of Philosophy Jason Brennan’s ques-
tion at the outset of last night’s Janus
Conversation, “Can God Exist?” set
the tone for the evening, in which he
and Professor of Biology Ken Miller
’70 P’02 spoke for about 20 minutes
each to an energetic audience that
nearly filled List 120.
Brennan and Miller concerned
themselves less with the precise
question for which the event was
named than with an assessment of
the relationship between theism
and science. They shared the point
of view that religion and science
are compatible and agreed that, as
Miller said, it would be ridiculous
to make science the enemy of God.
It’s a stereotype, Miller said, that
“science is at war with religious
faith.” But neither his nor Brennan’s
positions were in line with that idea.
The question of the evening, was, as
Miller posed it, “Is religion reason-
able in an age of science?”
Brennan set out to prove that
each person should grapple with that
question for his or her own benefit.
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More than 17,000 people turned out for Brown’s first home football game, an event that may become annual.
Brown Athletics since 1984. “The
timing for the game was right this
year because of the fact that Har-
vard was the first Ivy home game.”
Massa’s original e-mail to Head
Coach Phil Estes at the end of this
By Anna Andreeva
Staff Writer
The Brown International Organiza-
tion Scholarship Committee is on
its way to complete fundraising for
its fifth endowed scholarship, to be
awarded by the Office of Admis-
sion to an international student as
part of the organization’s endowed
scholarship fund.
The committee is a student
group that aims to diversify the
international undergraduate popu-
lation through two programs — its
scholarship fund and an ambas-
Left of center, east of Slater: R.I. Socialists meet in Wilson
By AJ Warren
Contributing Writer
At 7 p.m. on Thursday nights, Wilson
301 transforms from a classroom
into a hotbed of radical political ac-
tivism. Bed sheets adorned with
black, stenciled letters drape from
the chalkboards, reading “Fight for
Civil Rights,” “Stop Israel’s Slaughter
FEATURE
in Gaza: Cut off U.S. Aid!” and “Tax
the Rich, Stop the Racism, Stop the
War.” An array of books set up like
a buffet lines a slim table along one
wall, covering topics from the Iraq
war to Mexican immigration.
Hanging from the classroom’s
open door is a red flag emblazoned
with a black fist and the letters
Cool chemistry
Chemists find
ways to biodiesel
development
News, 2
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
February proposed having the night
game in 2011. Estes replied, “Why
not Harvard 2010?” according to
Massa.
Estes’ e-mail may have been
simple, but planning for the game
sador program, according to the
group’s website.
The fund was created in 1997 by
a group of students, and since then
has funded four scholarships, said
Anne Francois-Poncet ’10.5, senior
adviser to the committee. “Ideally,
we would like to establish one fully
endowed scholarship every year,”
she said.
“The most important thing is to
create awareness,” said Angela Wu
’11, committee president.
The international organiza-
tion’s long-term vision is to have
Brown adopt a need-blind policy
“I.S.O.,” proclaiming this a meeting
of the Rhode Island Chapter of the
International Socialist Organization.
This semester, the ISO is revital-
izing its presence on campus. While
the organization has existed at Brown
periodically since the late 1970s, the
group’s numbers have swelled in at-
tendance this fall, attracting nearly 50
attendees to an Oct. 14 discussion on
Islamophobia.
Why, with Democratic control of
in both houses of Congress and the
White House, is socialism gaining
popularity?
“It’s the curse of getting exactly
what we want,” explains Josh Kilby,
a self described “community agita-
tor” from Providence and ISO party
member. Disillusioned with President
continued on page 6
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
in only seven months was not. It
required the support of many of
Brown’s administrative groups,
particularly the Department of Fa-
continued on page 8
for international students, Francois-
Poncet said. Unlike at some other
Ivy League schools — including
Yale, Princeton and Harvard —
international student admission is
not need-blind at Brown.
The organization’s scholarships
are generally funded by anonymous
Brown parents, alums and friends
of the University. Scholarship com-
mittee members give speeches at
events such as the Family Weekend
reception and during Commence-
ment to reach potential donors,
continued on page 3
The state chapter of the International Socialist Organization comprises
some students, but mostly non-affiliated community members.
Scoring goals
Soccer midfielder
Laura Pitney ’14 is
athlete of the week
SPORTS, 8
Negotiations
progress on
hours changes
Money still hurdle
in library talks
By Alex Bell
Senior Staff Writer
Negotiators for Brown and the librar-
ies union made headway Wednesday
on a disagreement over the proce-
dure for hours changes, said Karen
McAninch ’74, the union’s business
agent.
Originally set to expire Sept. 30,
the contract was extended until Oct.
14 and again until Oct. 28.
After an unproductive start to
the week’s negotiations Tuesday,
McAninch said Wednesday’s nego-
tiations focused on the University’s
desire to shorten the six-month
moratorium the union could impose
on changes to workers’ shifts. Union
workers could strike if the union and
the University were not able to reach
an amicable agreement during the
six-month period.
McAninch said bargainers
reached a “tentative resolution” to
shorten this period to three months.
The new agreement would stipulate
that hours changes could occur only
for “good business reasons,” that em-
ployees must have a certain amount
of notice and that workers could not
be forced to work past midnight, she
said.
The University was previously
pushing for a policy of only 45 days’
notice, according to McAninch.
“This was a big issue,” she said.
continued on page 5
AJ Warren / Herald
Feature film
Nicholson ’12.5
critiques response to
‘The Social Network’
Opinions, 11
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C ampus N EWS “Organic chemistry has applications even in alternative energy.”

— Jason Sello, assistant professor of chemistry

Chemists research improved biodiesel synthesis U. looks to

By Sahil Luthra
Contributing Writer
Two Brown chemists have devel-
oped a more efficient way to produce
biodiesel from waste vegetable oil.
Using two catalysts common in
organic chemistry, Assistant Profes-
sor of Chemistry Jason Sello and
Postdoctoral Fellow Aaron Socha
were able to synthesize biodiesel in
a single reaction vessel, according
to a University press release. Their
findings were published in the Oct.
7 issue of the journal Organic and
Biomolecular Chemistry.
Traditional methods of synthesiz-
ing biodiesel from waste oil require
two reaction vessels. The method
developed by Sello and Socha is six
times faster than current methods,
consumes less energy overall and
is more environmentally friendly,
according to the release.
“We wanted to do research that
had implications for alternative en-
ergy, and biodiesel is certainly an
attractive area,” Sello said.
Sello said he and Socha began
their research in the middle of 2009.
Their research was accepted by the
journal on July 19 and was published
online “almost immediately,” he said.
The biodiesel conversion re-
quires one reaction to convert free
fatty acids to biodiesel and another
to convert triacylglycerols to bio-
diesel. The former is traditionally
catalyzed by sulfuric acid, and the
latter by potassium hydroxide or
sodium hydroxide. The reactions
must be performed separately or
else the acid and base yield soaps.
In developing the new proce-
dure, the chemists considered
catalysts that could complete the
reaction in a single vessel and that
were readily available, low in cost,
sudoku
Aaron Socha, left, and Jason Sello conducted research to streamline biodiesel production.
low in toxicity and stable in the pres-
ence of water and air that might be
in the waste oil after cooking. They
opted to use bismuth triflate and
scandium triflate, in part because
bismuth was relatively cheap and his
lab had experience with scandium,
Sello said.
When the catalysts did not yield
biodiesel under standard conditions,
Socha suggested using a microwave
reactor. Socha said there were “not
many but (still) a few” papers that
set some precedent for using a mi-
crowave reactor.
The combination of the two cata-
lysts and the microwave reactor suc-
cessfully yielded biodiesel at 150 de-
grees Celsius. After demonstrating
a successful yield, the researchers
sought to minimize the temperature,
the amount of catalyst and the time
needed for the reactions. Sello said
they also tested “every possible
component of waste vegetable oil”
Courtesy of Mike Cohea / Brown University
to verify that the reaction would still
be successful.
The catalysts in the free fatty
acid reaction can be recycled up to
five times while still obtaining a 97
percent yield, according to the press
release.
Two external grants supported
the research. The National Science
Foundation provided Sello with a
grant for $170,000. Socha’s fellow-
ship, awarded by the American Com-
petitiveness in Chemistry, is also
funded by the NSF, with $200,000
split over two years. Sello said the
University’s $15,000 R.B. Salomon
award also funded several projects,
including this research.
“We often think about organic
chemistry in terms of making drugs,
but this is a very nice demonstration
that organic chemistry has applica-
tions even in alternative energy,”
Sello said. “It really does highlight
the power of organic chemistry.”
Few scientists are researching
biodiesel synthesis in an academic
setting, Sello and Socha said, which
is why they think nobody else had
tried this approach before. Addition-
ally, chemical engineers who look at
biodiesel do not necessarily know
all the current catalysts being used
in organic chemistry, Sello added.
“In principle, anyone could have
done this, but I think we were just
in a unique position just given our
perspective here,” Sello said.
Sello said that the report in the
journal was simply on “an academic
scale” and that he and Socha have
not yet started testing the chem-
istry on an industrial scale. Socha
said that until the price of biodiesel
becomes competitive with the price
of oil, biodiesel cannot become “the
next fuel.”
Socha said that he is “not really
jumping at the opportunity to com-
mercialize this” yet because of the
other advances needed before bio-
diesel becomes usable on a large
scale. But he said he does plan to
file a patent disclosure.
MyCourses
replacement
By Nicole Boucher
Senior Staff Writer
The Academic Technology Steering
Committee is soliciting student input
as it begins the process of replacing
the MyCourses site, said Catherine
Zabriskie, director of academic tech-
nology services and vice chair of the
committee, at the Undergraduate
Council of Students’ general body
meeting Wednesday.
The current version of MyCours-
es will not be supported by its vendor
beyond 2013. As a result, it must be
replaced, either with the new 9.0 ver-
sion of the Blackboard system — the
program currently used by the site
— or with a new system altogether.
Given the technical need for a transi-
tion, Zabriskie said, the committee
can now also address the “fact that
everyone hates the system we’re
currently offering” and decide if it
wants to move away from Blackboard
altogether.
The committee should serve as
the voice of the University commu-
nity in the realm of technology, said
Butch Rovan, associate professor of
music and the committee’s chair.
Feedback and assessment will be
a vital step in the transition, he said.
Students can fill out a survey,
available on MyCourses until Nov.
12, to provide their own visions of
change. One will win an iPad, Rovan
said.
Zabriskie said complaints range
from a simple dislike of the inter-
face to frustration with its limited
interactive capabilities. Professors
have expressed interest in a system
that facilitates interaction with other
universities and between classes, Za-
briskie said.
MyCourses also does not current-
ly have the capacity for to incorporate
Brown’s various technology systems,
she added. For instance, grades en-
tered on MyCourses must be entered
separately for official documentation
on Banner.
Several council members ex-
pressed support for adopting a sys-
tem that is not solely based around
courses. Some suggested a more
central site designed to coordinate
events, groups and general life on
campus with academia.
The committee plans to collect
feedback this fall and will move
to evaluating the options over the
winter. It hopes to make recommen-

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Ambassadors beef up
international recruiting
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Francois-Poncet said. Efforts are
also being poured into revamping
the scholarship committee website
to improve visibility, she said.
The committee is only in charge of
spreading awareness and fundraising,
not the selection process, Wu said.
The admission office allocates the
scholarships based on need and avail-
ability, Francois-Poncet said. “We’re
not in control of the finances, so the
different funds vary in terms of how
much they yield,” she said.
At any given time, four students
are receiving these scholarships,
Francois-Poncet said. The committee
doesn’t know who benefits because
all financial aid is confidential. “We
are not necessarily aware of how
many students have benefitted ex-
actly, but we think it’s been pretty
significant in the lives of a handful
of students,” she said.
Last year, the committee decided
to approach the other side of inter-
national admissions, establishing the
organization’s Ambassadorship Pro-
gram, which is open to any students
who anticipate spending an extended
period of time abroad. The purpose
of the program is “to raise awareness
about Brown abroad and to increase
Brown’s internationalization, global
presence and competition internation-
ally,” Francois-Poincet said.
Ambassadors reach out to high
schools not targeted by the admission
office and make a “Brown Near You”
presentation from the perspective of
students. They can also accompany
admission officers to complement
the official presentations.
The idea for the program came
from speaking to international stu-
dents about their experiences, Fran-
cois-Poncet said. “A lot of us were
unable to benefit from the students’
perspective,” she said. “This is an
important aspect of the whole applica-
tion and decision process.”
Having ambassadors speak to pro-
spective applicants “gives the school
a face,” Wu said.
“The best part was seeing the stu-
dents’ excitement,” said ambassador
Melissa Kiplagat ’13. Kiplagat gave an
informal presentation at the Hillcrest
Secondary School in Nairobi, Kenya,
which she attended. “In the U.K., you
can’t major in certain things without
the right A-levels. I think finding out
that they could come to Brown and
do whatever they wanted to was an
eye-opener,” she said.
“The most challenging thing was
to try to give a fair picture of the en-
tire community,” ambassador Urmila
Chadayammuri ’13 wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald. “The best part was
definitely when the questions started
coming in,” she wrote.
The scholarship committee acts
as the liaison between ambassadors
and the admissions office, Wu said.
“We want the program to be really
systematized and to create a whole
Brown network abroad,” Francois-
Poncet said. “If all the students get
together and do this in an organized
way, we can actually reach out to a
lot of high schools and students,”
Wu said.
A little over 100 trained ambas-
sadors have come out of the Ambas-
sadorship Program to date, and about
48 are currently abroad, Wu said. The
program also aims to help students
returning from abroad reconnect and
adjust to being back on the Brown
campus through welcome-back so-
cials, she said.
The Office of International Pro-
grams has been instrumental in mak-
ing the Ambassadorship Program
possible, Wu said. Associate Direc-
tor of International Programs Ned
Quigley has served as a mentor for
the program, providing feedback and
support in reaching out to students
going abroad, Wu said.
There has been an active move-
ment in admissions toward interna-
tionalizing, Quigley said.
“This kind of outreach is not done
by many colleges internationally,”
Quigley said. “That distinguishes this
program.”
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Love Your Body Day raises sex-ed awareness
By Ben Kutner
Contributing Writer
A lack of comprehensive sexual
education is one of the greatest
challenges facing today’s young
people, a feminist activist told
Macmillan 117 Wednesday eve-
ning as part of a day-long celebra-
tion of sexual health.
Love Your Body Day, held by Stu-
dents for Choice, was “a day of
celebration and a day to accept our
bodies for what they are, whatever
size,” said Cara Mones ’11, the
group’s co-president.
The event was co-hosted by the
Brown Sexual Health and Edu-
cation Empowerment Council,
Queer Alliance, Health Ser vices,
the Rhode Island National Orga-
nization for Women, the Sexual
Health Awareness Group, and
other organizations, according to
the event’s Facebook page. Many
of these organizations had tables
on the Main Green for much of
Wednesday afternoon.
Yoga and self-defense lessons
took place throughout the after-
noon. Students also had the op-
portunity to hear feminist activist
and writer Shelby Knox speak in
Macmillan 117 in the evening.
Knox, 24, spoke about sexual
education and was the subject of
the 2005 documentary, “The Edu-
cation of Shelby Knox.” She is a
blogger on feminism and sexual
health for the Huf fington Post
and is a contributor for the The
F-Word, a feminist quarterly.
“I’ll be talking to college stu-
dents about how they can be ac-
tive in the school community at
Brown and the schools where
they came from,” Knox told The
“Imagine teaching words without poetry.”
— Shelby Knox, feminist activist
Herald prior to her presentation.
Knox is from Lubbock, Tex.,
which she called the second most
conser vative town in the United
States. When she was 15, she took
a virginity pledge. It was “not
something I thought that much
about. It was something you had
to do,” she told the predominantly
female audience in Macmillan 117
on Wednesday night.
She explained that her interest
in activism began when a high
school friend became pregnant.
Knox witnessed the town and
school’s resulting castigation of
her friend. She explained that
young women would seem to
disappear in her high school and
come back the next year.
Knox was in a youth group that
challenged the town school board
over the school’s sexual education
program, which taught only that
students should be abstinent until
marriage.
“I realized no one was going
to speak for me or my peers,”
she said.
Many abstinence-based pro-
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grams teach blatantly incorrect
facts, she said. She was taught
that “half of homosexuals die be-
fore the age of 40,” she said.
“New York City still does not
mandate comprehensive sex-ed-
ucation,” she said. “The school
district is supposed to give us the
best education that they could
have.”
“Far too many schools are
teaching abstinence only,” Knox
told The Herald on Tuesday. “We
can’t have young people all over
the countr y getting different lev-
els of facts.”
Knox never meant to make a
career out of activism, she told
the audience. “I found myself as
the young activist face of sexual
education,” she said.
“Imagine teaching words
without poetr y or teaching mu-
sic without singing, clapping, and
dancing,” Knox said, comparing
this to teaching only abstinence.
“We have to stop treating sex
as if it’s this horrible evil thing
that we have to keep away from,”
she said.
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a r t s a n d c u lt u r e i n b r i e f
For college students, RISD hosts a night at the museum
For many college students, museums conjure
images of family outings or rainy days. For
few do they bring to mind wild nights out. But
“RISD Museum After Dark: College Night” is
geared especially toward college students,
intended to introduce them to all the museum
has to offer.
The event, tonight from 6 to 10:30 p.m., will
bring together student performers from the
Rhode Island School of Design and Brown to
create a night of mixed art forms, including
visual art, music and spoken word poetry. Local
food will be served throughout the night, and
several events will take place simultaneously,
allowing museum-goers to enjoy a variety of
performances.
The exhibit boasts do-it-yourself artwork,
RISD student musicians, a gallery talk by Hollis
Mickey ’10 GS about the museum’s Lynda
Benglis exhibit, a screening of RISD student
shorts and a discussion about the moon by
artist Tristin Lowe and Professor of Geological
Sciences Carle Pieters. Project V.O.I.C.E., a
spoken-word group composed of Sarah Kay
’10 and Phil Kaye ’10, will perform for the first
time in Providence since they graduated.
Deborah Clemons, assistant educator of
public programs at the RISD Museum, said the
night’s mixture of art forms occurs naturally in
their galleries.
“I think for us, being in the gallery spaces
and offering different art forms is something
that we do quite regularly, so that’s our first
instinct,” Clemons said.
Clemons said the auditory, visual and tactile
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components of the evening will fit together
nicely.
“It’s good to have as many senses as
possible being engaged,” she added.
Clemons and Mickey, who worked as an
intern at the museum this summer, designed
the event for college students to showcase their
work and appreciate one another’s talents,
though all are welcome. Mickey sees college
students and teenagers as demographics
“overlooked” by museums , she said. Since the
event is free, Mickey and Clemons said they
hope to attract students who have never been
inside the museum before.
Though the museum is open until 9 p.m.
once a month, this event is the first of its
kind organized for college students at night,
according to Clemons.
Information was given to nearly all colleges
in Rhode Island and several in Massachusetts,
and Clemons said the event can accommodate
hundreds of students.
Kaye urged students to visit the museum
tonight, if only for a few minutes. “What a
wonderful moment to have all these avenues,
all these forms of art in this space a 10-minute
walk away from you,” he said.
According to Mickey, “it’s a nice diversion
from the Rock.”
The RISD Museum entrances are located at 20
N. Main St. and 224 Benefit St. For a full schedule
of events, visit www.risdmuseum.org.
— Caroline Hughes
“It’s a nice diversion from the Rock.”
— Hollis Mickey ’10 GS, on the RISD Museum
By lowering its operational expenses and altering its workforce, the
Faculty Club managed to cut its budget.
Faculty Club reduces
expenses by $50,000
By Leonardo Moauro
Staff Writer
A joint effort between the Faculty
Club and the Brown Organizational
Review Committee succeeded in
reducing the club’s expenses by
$50,000 last fiscal year, said Richard
Bova, senior associate dean of resi-
dential and dining services.
The ORC repor t issued last
Februar y called for a transfer of
surplus funds from the Office of
Residential Life and Brown Din-
ing Services to the Faculty Club,
which corresponded to $100,000 and
$102,000, respectively, at the end of
the fiscal year ending June 30. As
part of this budget reduction plan,
the ORC — which along with the
University Resources Committee
was charged with cutting $30 million
from the University’s budget for the
past fiscal year — recommended
that the Faculty Club reduce the
Dining Services subsidy by $50,000,
Bova said. The ORC also recom-
mended that the club continue its
“ongoing revenue-enhancing initia-
tives,” according to the report.
Because the restaurant is finan-
cially affiliated with three other
University departments — ResLife,
Dining Services and Auxiliary Prop-
erties — the annual budgets for all
four units combined “are designed
to come out to zero,” Bova said.
When setting the Faculty Club’s
budgeting for the fiscal year, rev-
enue is not projected to meet ex-
penses, he added.
The funds that ResLife and Din-
ing Service contribute to the Faculty
Club are used to aid the restaurant
in meeting its expenses, Bova said.
The use of the contributions “is not
discretionary. I know exactly what
we are using that money for and
where it goes,” he added.
This goal to reduce the Dining
Services subsidy by half has been
reached because “of the Faculty
Club coming and working with the
ORC,” Bova said. The restaurant
adopted three broad measures to
attain its goal. The first was reduc-
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Stephanie London / Herald
tion in operational expenses, which
involved spending less on dining
equipment. The second was savings
from “creative workforce redistri-
bution,” which involved “some sal-
ary savings,” Bova said. The third
involved generating income from
external business.
But because the Faculty Club
is organized primarily as “service
to the University in providing for
faculty and student lunches,” it does
not aim at turning a profit, Bova
said. Most universities have some
form of faculty dining, and these
“are not necessarily stand-alone enti-
ties financially,” he added.
ResLife and Dining Services, as
University departments, are not de-
signed to net profit either, Bova said.
“If there are residual monies at the
year’s end, those monies are rein-
vested in the buildings,” he added.
The late-summer opening of the
restaurant to the general public on
Friday evenings had been part of the
third portion of the plan. The deci-
sion was designed to attract outside
business and to reduce disparity be-
tween revenue and expenses, Bova
said. “We’re opening up, people can
give a look and hopefully they will
like what they see,” he said, adding
that he hoped this would bolster
restaurant memberships and event
reservations.
But the program has since been
phased out due to lack of popularity,
Ann Hoffman, director of adminis-
tration for Dining Services, wrote
to The Herald in an e-mail.
As for future budgetary aims,
“our goal would be to get revenue
and expenses to combine to zero,”
Bova said, without contributions
from other departments. But he
added that this objective might not
be achievable in the current restau-
rant market.
The Faculty Club is “a great
hub” for the University, designed
to service students, faculty and staff,
Bova said. But without external de-
partment subsidies, it wouldn’t be
able to operate, and “there would be
nothing to take its place,” he added.
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C ampus N EWS “Everything is really contingent on that.”

— Karen McAninch ’74, of the library union, on money

U. continues negotiations with union

continued from page 1

“Getting it resolved was a big step.”

The University also offered to hire
a union door guard for the Sciences
Library during the day, McAninch
said. Since last year’s restructuring
brought the elimination of 12 positions
in the libraries’ bargaining unit, pre-
serving the union’s bargaining power
has been a high priority for the union.
With the issue of hours changes
mostly put to bed, McAninch said the
next issue will be language related to
the University’s ability to drop health
care providers with wide geographic
networks. But McAninch said that
based on informal conversations she
has had with University administra-
tors, workers’ abilities to seek out-
of-state care will likely be left intact.
The last major hurdle will in-
volve a quantitative disagreement
over the percentage of health care
premiums workers must contribute.
Library workers currently contribute
6 percent of health care costs, and
McAninch said the University is push- Lydia Yamaguchi / Herald file photo
Students, staff and others gathered Oct. 14 on the steps of the
ing to raise that portion to 15 percent Rockefeller Library in response to proposed contract changes.
in three years, with a 1.25 percent
increase in pay per year. and the University have “tentatively available for this week’s bargaining
“Until we know how the money resolved” issues important to both sessions. McAninch said negotiations
will all pan out, everything is really sides, and the University’s bargain- may or may not continue Thursday
contingent on that,” she said. ing team looks forward to “continu- afternoon, depending on the avail-
Director of Labor and Employee ing productive negotiations with the ability of the mediator.
Relations Joe Sarno ’91 wrote in an e- union.” McAninch projected the final www.blogdailyherald.com
mail to The Herald Wednesday night The federal mediator who has quantitative issues would be resolved
that over the past two days, the union been working with the parties was not by late this week or early next week.
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C ampus N EWS
UCS will
release
agenda
continued from page 2
The Academic and Administrative
Affairs Committee is also working
to see if more seminars should be
added in the morning to accommo-
date athletes.
The council will release its fall
agenda on Friday, encompassing all
its goals for the semester, said Molly
Lao ’12, the council’s communica-
tions chair.
Next week, UCS will hear a pre-
sentation from Kelly Garrett, coordi-
nator of the LGBTQ Resource Center.
From Wilson with love: Socialists gather on campus
continued from page 1
Obama who, in Kilby’s words, “has
performed staggeringly well for the
ruling class,” the group is hoping to
“build a political alternative to the left
of the Democratic Party.”
A diverse membership
Kilby, like many of the ISO’s new-
est recruits, is not a Brown student.
The group estimates that about 30
percent of its membership is local
residents or students with no af-
filiation to the University. Of the
members present Oct. 14, older at-
tendees included Brian Chidester,
a schoolteacher from Bristol, and
Shaun Joseph ’05, now pursuing a
doctorate in computer science at the
University of Rhode Island.
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“Who has the monopoly on violence? The state.”
— Paige Sarlin GS, of the International Socialist Organization
Prospective student Aaron Plave
and his mother saw posters advertis-
ing the meeting while touring campus
and decided to visit. “You probably
wouldn’t see this kind of discussion
at other schools,” Plave said, before
his mother added, “Well, maybe at
Wesleyan.” Plave said political activ-
ism and intellectual freedom attracted
him to apply, although he said he
finds the socialist group “hard to
judge.”
The recent resurgence of the ISO
is led by Paige Sarlin GS, a fifth-year
doctoral candidate in modern cul-
ture and media who also received
a master of fine arts in filmmaking
from the Art Institute in Chicago
and considers herself “thoroughly
overeducated.”
“I think what we suffer from at
Brown is status quo — the assump-
tion that we all agree,” Sarlin said.
Students refrain from honest politi-
cal discussions and are “wary to ask
what people really think,” she said.
Sarlin said she believes that
Brown students “are quite differ-
ent, and we should take a stand and
disagree.” In the spirit of the Marx-
ist tradition, the ISO believes that
“dialogue is the most democratic
process,” she said.
Unlike socialist reincarnations
of past decades, the Rhode Island
ISO is concerned with a variety of
current political and social agendas.
Kilby found the ISO through his in-
volvement with the LGBT movement
and the National Equality March. His
partner is a Dominican immigrant,
and the two became interested in
immigrant rights and labor issues
together.
“All LGBT aren’t all flabby old
white people,” Kilby said. “Some
of us are immigrants, and all of us
are workers. The oppression of one
group is directly tied to the oppres-
sion of another, and I’m here to tear
down the whole damn system.”
‘Tax the rich, end the wars’
The presentation on Islamopho-
bia was delivered by Lindsay Goss
GS, a second-year doctoral candidate
in theater and performance studies.
Goss passionately read from her lap-
top computer for nearly half an hour,
accusing a variety of politicians of
“whipping up racism against Islam
and Arabs,” decrying President
Bush’s “open-ended project of impe-
rialism in the oil-rich Middle East,”
and criticizing Obama’s weak-kneed
response to Florida pastor Terry
Jones’ threat to burn a Quran. The
crowd chuckled sardonically when
Goss quoted Bush or conservative
pundit Ann Coulter.
Towards the end of her speech,
Goss compared modern Islamopho-
bia to Richard Nixon’s use of the “dog
whistle of racism” to rally Southern
voters for his presidential bids. As if
by command, Krupskaya — Sarlin’s
dog, the group’s unofficial mascot,
named for Vladimir Lenin’s wife —
sprung to life from the floor and wan-
dered happily through the rows of
attendees, provoking laughter.
During the question-and-debate
portion, an attendee dressed in a
black hat covered in rows of buttons
with a matching, spray-painted coat
wondered, “What about capitalism
causes Islamophobia?” Another man
with a long beard discussed the pos-
sibility of undercover FBI informants
penetrating the group’s meetings.
Meanwhile, the group passed
around a bag collecting contributions
to fund its activities and provide child-
care for members during events. “It
costs money to host these meetings,”
one member said.
Sarlin’s response to one concern
was cut short when her allotted time
elapsed and the moderator promptly
rapped the table with a closed fist,
moving the meeting to its next topic.
The group uses this method to main-
Thursday, October 21, 2010
tain order during often-passionate
discussions.
‘Some kind of communists?’
The ISO does not currently sup-
port any political candidates, and is
unaffiliated with any parties running
for office this fall.
Kilby emphasized that the group
does not subscribe to the “watered
down” socialism practiced in some
European states. Rather, the ISO ad-
vocates for the complete “overturn-
ing of the capitalist system.”
But Sarlin said the group does not
currently advocate violence.
“Who has the monopoly on vio-
lence?” she asked. “The state.”
Sarlin said the ISO boasts a mere
1,100 members nationwide and
works solely for the “emancipation
of the working class.”
A political party “should be the
expression of the people,” she said.
“Right now, we are not an expres-
sion of the people.” Violence cannot
be a strategy while the ISO is small,
she said.
But, “at some point in the future,
when the numbers are big enough,”
Sarlin said, the people will have to
“defend themselves against the
state.”
The ISO stands simply for the
belief that “people don’t want a
small group to make decisions for
the majority,” she said. Instead, “ the
majority should make a system for
the majority.”
Sarlin pointed to the French
workers commune of revolutionary
France as an example of workers’
councils elected from the people. “We
don’t have a concrete plan,” she said.
“But we have some models to go by.”
At the end of the meeting, the
group invited its members to con-
tinue their discussion at the Trinity
Brewhouse downtown. ISO members
eagerly discussed political matters as
they hurried out the door, packing up
the flags and books that decorated
the classroom. One student called
out, “Comrades, let us go!” as he
headed out the door.
“Comrades?” joked another mem-
ber. “What are you guys, some kind
of communists?”
SportsThursday
The Brown Daily Herald
No Bad-games Allowed: NBA preview
NBA is a fantastic acronym. All of
the letters flow together and meld
with each other.
It almost always
makes for a
great phrase to
boot — Non-Bit-
ing Attack-dog,
New Bicycle
Sam Sheehan Aler t, Newly
Sports Columnist
Betrothed Aunt.
These are all great NBAs. But the
National Basketball Association is by
far the greatest of them.
If American sports were a group
of datable young people in a movie,
NFL would be the attractive airhead,
MLB would be the wrinkly, abrasive
chain-smoker, NHL would be the hot
one who isn’t actually hot to anyone
because of the time he got too drunk
and vomited into a radiator at a party
and the NBA would be the friend that
gets dressed up for homecoming and
then everyone suddenly realizes how
fine she is. (MLS is the shut-in with all
of the turtles who watches the Home
Shopping Network and reeks of cab-
bage.)
There’s been a surge in the popu-
larity of basketball in recent years,
and people are starting to notice just
how fun it is to watch. With all of the
fantastic plot lines swirling around the
league, there’s never been a better
time to be a fan. The NBA has taken
off its proverbial paint-covered over-
alls and glasses. This is the year of
basketball.
I remember promising myself, as
I watched Kobe Bryant go 6-for-24
shooting in the most important game
of his career and then still receive the
MVP award, that I would never care
about basketball ever again. I lasted
until the following morning, when
the video of an inebriated Ron Artest
giving the funniest postgame confer-
ence of all time circulated around the
Internet. How can I not love a league
where a man like that can be a star?
But what does the NBA hold in
store for us this season? The emer-
gence of the young man that is going
to save basketball? Carmelo Anthony
in a Knicks jersey? A possible dynasty
in Miami? A higher blood alcohol con-
tent for Artest?
The health of the aging Celtics
The Celtics are an old team. They
were a bunch of old guys when they
won the title in 2008, and adding
34-year-old Jermaine O’Neal and
38-year-old Shaq didn’t exactly shake
that stigma. But old or not, these guys
all play with the intensity of rookies.
It’s the Celtics’ fiery passion that al-
lows them all to play at the level they
do. Kevin Garnett brings the intensity
and it spreads like wildfire to every-
one else. While Rajon Rondo’s outside
shooting and team rebounding will be
other issues to keep an eye on, the
key for the Celtics will be the ability
of these older men’s bodies to keep up
their intensity — that and the amount
of arthritis medication that they keep
on the sidelines. I think if the Celtics
stay healthy, this team is one of the
best in the Eastern Conference. The
season opener with the Heat will be an
interesting contest and a great game
for newcomers to the NBA to watch.
Speaking of the Heat…
The expectations on the Heat
Anyone who watched more
than two minutes of SportsCenter
this summer knows about LeBron
James and his surprise signing with
the Heat. Anyone who consoled a
crying Cavaliers fan when the news
broke knows what a devastating blow
it was to Cleveland. But murdering
sports in his home state was just the
first step for James, who now shares
a team with two other All-Stars. No
team will be under heavier scrutiny
and face more boos this season than
the villainous Heat and their three-
headed monster of James, Dwayne
Wade and Chris Bosh. These guys
know that they are expected to win a
title, and it’s going to be interesting to
see how this team handles that pres-
sure. Oh, and how long it takes before
they realize Joel Anthony is a terrible
center who can’t rebound and plays
spotty defense.
Carmelo Anthony slowly ruining
the Nuggets
I was talking to a friend the other
day who didn’t know that free throws
came after fouls in basketball. That
same friend asked me the other day,
“Why haven’t the Denver Nuggets
traded Carmelo Anthony yet?”
That’s how public it is that Anthony
is demanding a trade to New York.
You see, this is a nightmare situation
for the Nuggets. With the exception
of the aging Chauncey Billups and
the departed Allen Iverson, Anthony
has been the lone superstar for the
Nuggets his entire career.
As an incentive to keep him in a
Nuggets jersey, his contract three
years ago was structured so he could
opt out of the contract at the end of this
season and declare for free agency.
The Knicks and Nets know that An-
thony wants out of Denver and that
continued on page 9
Thursday, October 21, 2010 | Page 7
Field hockey
No. 4 Princeton sticks it to
Bruno in weekend game
By Sam Sheehan
Contributing Writer
The field hockey team (2-10, 1-3
Ivy League) had no luck against
Princeton in the 2000s, losing all
10 games by wide margins. The
2010 contest was no different.
The team fell 7-1 to No. 4
Princeton (10-2, 4-0) over the
weekend at the Class of ’52 Sta-
dium. The Tigers dominated in
most aspects of the game, out-
shooting Brown 36-1. Tiger for-
ward Kathleen Sharkey led the
quick Princeton offense, notching
two goals (a conference-high 22
on the season) and an assist.
But there was at least one
bright spot on Saturday. Mid-
fielder Charlotte Small ’14 net-
ted her first collegiate goal in
the closing moments of the first
half of f a feed from for ward
Leslie Springmeyer ’12. The as-
sist was Springmeyer’s second
on the year, which set up the
strong counterattack one-timer
by Small.
“(Springmeyer) gave a beauti-
ful pass across circle,” said Head
Coach Tara Harrington ’94. “On
the reception, there was an im-
mediate shot by Charlotte. It was
to the opposite post, and it would
have been hard for anyone to stop
that shot. It was beautiful.”
Small’s goal was the first goal
by a player coming off Bruno’s
bench this year. After the goal,
Bruno’s defense was able to keep
the slipper y Princeton attackers
in front of them, and the ‘D’ only
allowed one goal in the second
half.
“With the speed that Princ-
eton possesses, it took us a little
bit to settle in, to communicate
and to be confident (on defense),”
Harrington said. “I think at half-
time we sorted some things out
and the women went back out in
that second half very determined
to communicate, be in good posi-
tions defensively and stick to our
game plan.”
Goalie Lauren Kessler ’12
recorded 13 saves between the
posts, with seven of those stops
coming in the second half. Tri-
captain midfielder Katie Hyland
’11 also recorded a defensive
save.
“A lot of what our team did in
the second half was ver y smart
play, very strong play against one
of the best teams in the country,”
Harrington said.
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S ports T hursday
athlete of the week
First night game puts
It’s all in the family for Pitney ’14
By Madeleine Wenstrup
football in spotlight
Sports Staff Writer
Midfielder Louisa Pitney ’14 led the
women’s soccer team in an undefeated
week, as the squad shut out URI last
Wednesday afternoon and beat defend-
ing Ivy League champions Harvard
on Saturday. As time was winding
down against the Crimson, Pitney
received a high cross from forward-
midfielder Mika Siegelman ’14 and
headed it in to give Brown a 2-1 lead
and eventual win. Pitney had a role in
tying the score, too, starting the play
by taking the corner kick to assist on
back-midfielder Diana Ohrt’s ’13 goal.
This week, Pitney has been named
the Ivy League rookie of the week
for the second time this year. Her
contributions to the team have been
substantial, and after this weekend,
she has earned a total of two goals
and three assists on the season.
For her outstanding performance
this season, and especially this week-
end, The Herald has named Louisa
Pitney our athlete of the week.
Herald: How and when did you
first get into soccer?
Pitney: Well, I’ve kind of always
played, so I can’t even remember
starting because my dad plays and
my older brother plays soccer, and so
together they kind of got me into it.
Your brother plays at Middlebury,
right?
Yeah, he’s a junior.
Do you guys ever play together?
Over the summer, yeah we do, we
go kick around together. Actually, on
Saturday, he scored the game-winning
goal for Middlebury, too, so it was a
good day for the Pitneys!
Herald Athlete of the Week Louisa Pitney ’14 has been named Ivy League
rookie of the week twice already this season.
When you play together, is it
friendly or is there some sibling
rivalry going on?
Well, he is obviously better than
me, but I don’t know, it’s usually
friendly. But I think the scoring thing
is kind of competitive. We always try
to one-up each other in terms of scor-
ing.
Do you know what you want to
concentrate in?
I was thinking probably environ-
mental studies or English. I really like
that — one of those two. That’s what
I am leaning towards right now, but I
still have no idea.
Do you have a favorite class right
now?
Yeah, my environmental studies
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
— Soccer’s Louisa Pitney ’14, on beating Harvard
Jesse Morgan / Herald
class is my favorite. It’s like interna-
tional policy — it’s really cool. It’s kind
of scary, though. I am the only fresh-
man in it, so that’s hard. It’s only 20
or 25 people — a little intimidating.
What is your favorite thing about
Brown?
The people (laughs). Is that lame?
I don’t have a whole lot of time right
now, actually. That’s kind of nice —
I’m always busy, always occupied. I
like that.
Let’s talk about this season.
You have a huge freshman class
this year. How have you guys
bonded?
Well, first (Head Coach) Phil
(Pincince) had the 10 of us come
in by ourselves for two days for pre-
season, which he’s never done before.
It’s always the whole team comes at
the same time, but he had the 10 of
us come together, which was a really
good idea because we weren’t intimi-
dated, and we kind of made friends
with each other before everyone got
there.
What has been your favorite
moment this season?
Beating Harvard, probably. The
game had been talked up so much.
All the alumnae were there, and they
were all like, “Beat Harvard!” And
we did. It was the best feeling, espe-
cially coming from behind. That was
so much fun.
“It was the best feeling.”
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cilities Management and the Office
of Government Relations and Com-
munity Affairs.
One of the most immediate
problems with having a night game
was that Brown Stadium is not de-
signed to hold a night event since
the stadium only has emergency
lighting, Bold said. Additional lights
were needed to illuminate the field
for the game. In order to judge just
how many light units needed to
be rented, Facilities Management
went out at 9 p.m. to judge how
dark it would be.
“If you take a look at the rugby
field, they have temporary con-
struction lights to practice,” Bold
said. “We had to bring 10 of those
units in to surround the football
stadium.”
The 10 light units cost roughly
$50,000, a sum that the football as-
sociation raised through e-mailing
and calling alums.
“They were very successful
pretty early in that campaign to
get that money,” Estes said. “The
alumni were very excited by the op-
portunity of having a night game.”
Even with the money and the
lights, the community affairs office
had to make sure the community
surrounding Brown Stadium would
not oppose a night game. The re-
sponse was generally positive, but
only “in terms of it being a one-time
thing and that we weren’t consider-
ing putting permanent lights in the
stadium,” Bold said.
In the end, all the preparation
paid off in more ways than one —
Brown defeated Harvard 29-14, the
Brown and residential communities
were brought together and 17,360
fans attended the game.
“We expected a big crowd,” said
outside linebacker Robert Gillett
’11. “But we didn’t expect it to be
as crowded as it was.”
Some dispute over the crowd’s
actual size remains — 17,360 was
too high of a number, according
to Bold, while Massa said the
numbers were “being revised up-
ward.” Regardless of what the exact
number was, the crowd was much
larger than at most home games,
which have an average attendance
of only 6,600 people, according to
Massa.
“It was the biggest crowd I’ve
Thursday, October 21, 2010
seen in all my years here at Brown,”
Bold said. “It felt like almost the
entire student body was there for
the game.”
The huge increase in fan sup-
port that night helped the team
crush Harvard, Estes stated.
“The players felt the atmo-
sphere on every snap,” he said.
After seeing the crowd during
warmups, “I thought they may have
been too excited,” Estes said. “I
thought that maybe we should calm
them down a little, but I’m glad I
didn’t.”
From the football association’s
standpoint, the increase in atten-
dance made the game a huge suc-
cess. Massa said one of the original
reasons for having the game was
to try to generate more interest in
Brown football and increase atten-
dance to all home games.
“Everyone had something to do
with winning that game that night,”
Massa said. “I’m hoping some of
those same students will come to
the game against Cornell,” which
will take place Saturday at 12:30
p.m.
Estes said players always have
more energy when they practice
at night.
Quarterback Joe Springer ’11
agreed.
“It’s just a change of pace,”
Springer said. “When we get the
opportunity to change it up a little
bit, we go out with a little more
energy.”
Having night practices and
games is also a nostalgic throwback
to high school years, when most
football games are played at night,
according to Gillett. He said night
games also tend to be more fun.
“I’d rather play a night game
any day,” Gillett said. “I think there
should be more night games —
that we should have at least one
a year.”
Though the football association
and the athletics department are
only at the early stages of future
planning, Massa said he hopes that
night games do become a yearly
tradition. He and others involved
have had informal talks about hold-
ing an annual night game. Next
year, and in all odd years follow-
ing, the game would be against the
University of Rhode Island for the
Governor’s Cup, while all the even
years would pit the Bears against
Harvard under that plan. Funding
for the lights would still come from
the football association.
Whether more night games are
to come still remains to be seen,
but even if they do become a tradi-
tion, the coaches, fans and players
— particularly the seniors — will
always remember their participa-
tion in this year’s game.
“I got to leave here with some-
thing to hold on to,” Gillett said.
“Whenever I look at it, my name
will be on the roster for the first
night game ever in Brown history.”
“It was really a remarkable expe-
rience,” Springer said, “and a game
none of us will surely ever forget.”
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C ampus N EWS “The first devotion of any person of faith should be truth.”
— Ken Miller ’70 P’02, professor of biology

Regardless of faith, profs push for truth and reason Sheehan ’12
continued from page 1
He pointed out that many beliefs
that are insulated from or simply
not incompatible with science, and
thus cannot be disproved, do not
necessarily merit serious consid-
eration. He used the example of a
hypothetical belief that an invisible
demon was living in his refrigerator
as an idea that cannot be disproved
by science.
“It would be dumb to actually
believe” such a notion, “and it would
even be dumb to be agnostic about
it,” he said.
Brennan added that many theis-
tic beliefs are just as impossible to
disprove as the existence of invis-
ible demons.
“I’m not here to argue against
theism, and I’m not saying that the-
ists are making a bunch of bunk
claims,” Brennan said. Instead, he
issued a warning for theists from
a philosophical standpoint. “You
want to make sure you have actual
reasons for what you say,” he said.
Miller took a different tack to
illustrate a similar position.
Miller sought to debunk the
“stereotype” he outlined of faith’s
necessary conflict with science,
saying, “It’s self-evident that sci-
ence can be done and done well by
people with faith,” specifically citing
the career of Georges Lamaitre, the
Belgian scientist and priest who
Miller said suggested the idea of
an expanding universe to Albert
Einstein. As far as religion and sci-
ence are concerned, a person need
not side with one and abandon the
other, he said.
His idea, rather, was that the
immaterial can be real in the same
way that truth can. He extolled the
virtues of thought and reason and
said that, just as scientists pursue
the truth of the material world, “the
first devotion of any person of faith
should be to truth.”
Though the two lecturers
walked the audience through two
different academic fields and ar-
guments, they ended up in simi-
lar places. Their shared message
was that there can be a place for
God in an age of science — Miller
asked those with faith to employ
their spirituality in the pursuit of
truth, while Brennan suggested that
people reach their beliefs through
reason.
The audience offered up a num-
ber of questions after the lecture,
including skeptical inquiries regard-
ing the compatibility of science and
religion.
Miller responded to an audi-
ence member’s questions about
why God would choose evolution,
a “really nasty way to make people,”
as the method for creating humans.
Miller’s response, indicative of the
tone of the evening as a whole, rec-
ognized the quest for truth inherent
in scientific material analysis and
religious immaterial experiences.
“It’s a reality of life that every
living thing will someday die,” Mill-
er said. In a world with no pain or
death, “there’s no need for medi-
cine, there’s no need to discover.
That is, to me, a world in which
human beings would be forever
held in a juvenile state ... (with) ab-
solutely nothing to struggle with
and nothing to strive for.”
The Janus Fellows organized
the evening’s conversation, their
second of the year.
previews
NBA season
continued from page 7
the Nuggets will have to oblige him
or risk getting nothing for him when
he opts out. With this knowledge, they
can offer Denver a “take it or leave
it” kind of trade in which they only
receive some non-impact players for
their star forward.
As you can see, the Nuggets must
choose between losing Anthony at the
end of the season or losing him now
and only getting some bad players
for him. It’s a terrible situation that is
going to set this franchise back three
or four years. So thanks from the Mile
High City, Carmelo! Be sure to let
everyone here know if you want your
knife returned when they pull it out
of their backs.

Undergrads pursue green degrees, but jobs lag
By Tim Barker
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
NEOSHO, Mo. — With the nation
investing billions of dollars in clean
energy, it stands to reason that tiny
Crowder College should be quite
popular these days.
HIGHER ED
After all, this is a place that’s been
educating students about alternative
energy for more than three decades.
The school offers degree tracks in
solar, wind and biofuels. It offers
courses both locally and through
its online program.
Yet fewer than 60 students are
pursuing green degrees from the
school. That’s not terribly surprising,
considering that jobs in this sector
have been slow to materialize. It’s a
market, instructors say, that depends
heavily on using government incen-
tives to get companies to invest in
green endeavors. And that’s just not
happening right now.
“Frankly, with these market con-
ditions, it’s turned out to be very hard
to make a living in this industry,” said
Daniel Boyt, whose uncle founded
Crowder’s alternative energy pro-
gram in the 1970s. Boyt studied wind
technology at Crowder and returned
last year as a full-time instructor.
It’s not that the government
hasn’t tried, at least on the money
side of the equation, with the Obama
administration setting aside $25 bil-
lion in stimulus money for clean
energy.
So far, the investment hasn’t
yielded the kinds of results the ad-
ministration had hoped for.
The community college near the
Ozark Mountains with 5,200 students
seems an unlikely place to serve as
the state’s go-to school for all things
green. Many schools around the
state have their own green-flavored
programs. But in 1992, Crowder was
designated by the Legislature as the
state’s renewable energy education
center. Later this year, school leaders
hope to break ground on a $7 million
home for its Missouri Alternative
and Renewable Energy Technology
Center.
Among the students enrolled in
Crowder’s alternative energy pro-
gram is Edwin Moore, a freelance
writer from nearby Anderson, Mo.
Like many students in the program,
Moore sees it both as an opportunity
to learn something that could help
his current job and something that
could lead elsewhere.
“As much as I enjoy my work, it
would be nice to have a steady pay-
check and health insurance,” said
Moore, who’s studying biofuels with
an eye toward working in a corn-
based ethanol processing plant.
It’s a similar story for Victorio
Angulo, a chemical engineer based
in Bentonville, Ark.
“I’d like to work more in that
area,” Angulo said. “And one thing
might lead to another.”
But figuring out whether Angulo
and Moore will get those green jobs
is a bit of a guessing game.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics only recently started tracking
the sector, figuring the nation had
around 2.2 million green jobs. The
bureau has not yet offered forecasts
on expected growth from the sector.
Economic experts, however,
aren’t optimistic.
The problem, some say, is that
the U.S. lags in green industries com-
pared to Europe and other parts of
the world. And it’s still cheaper to use
traditional energy sources — though
most expect that to change.
To some, it’s simply a matter of
making it happen. Dan Eberle, the
former director of Crowder’s alterna-
tive energy programs who’s building
a similar program at Johnson County
Community College in Overland
Park, Kan., sees parallels to the 1950s
when the country decided to build a
network of roads across the nation.
“When we wanted to build the
interstate highway system, we in-
centivized it. We made it possible,”
Eberle said.
The $25 billion set aside by the
Obama administration two years ago
has, thus far, produced little in terms
of job growth.
Things I would rather do than
watch the probable finals
matchup of Heat-Lakers
Walk on broken glass. Run my
hand through a wood chipper. Watch
a season of Two and a Half Men .
Allow the New York Times to print
the picture of me at my junior high
prom. Take an applied math class.
Hook up with Snooki. Fall down the
SciLi elevator shaft. Take a punch to
the face from Kimbo Slice. Clean the
floors in the Bio-Med building with
my tongue. Contract syphilis. Break
a thermometer into my eyes. ... You
get the point.
Check back next week for part two.
Sam Sheehan ’12 went 6-24 on a
Elie Gardner / St. Louis Post-Dispatch test once and got a letter that wasn’t an
A wind turbine turns behind a solar house, built in 2005 for the Solar M, a V or a P. Talk sports with him at
Decathlon competition at Crowder College in Neosho, Mo. sam_sheehan@brown.edu
“It’s happening. But it’s happen-
ing at a very slow and methodical
pace,” said Rico Kolster, a Kansas
City-based lawyer on Bryan Cave’s
energy industry team.
Kolster said efforts have been
hampered by the higher costs of
alternative energy. He said busi-
nesses also are leery of incentive
dollars, which they fear will come
with regulatory strings such as in-
creased scrutiny, mandatory federal
contracting guidelines and minor-
ity business requirements. At the
same time, smaller start-ups eager
to grab the federal money often lack
the resources and expertise needed
to secure the funds.
And it’s not even clear that new
jobs will do anything more than put
back to work those people who’ve
been idled by the move away from
coal-powered plants and other tradi-
tional power sources.
Others, however, say the problem
with creating green jobs is the same
one experienced by virtually every
other sector during these tough eco-
nomic times.
“It’s not good. But that’s because
the overall job market is not good,”
said Robert Pollin, economics pro-
fessor at the University of Massa-
chusetts and a consultant to the U.S.
Department of Energy on stimulus
spending.
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BY william tomasko
Opinions Columnist
In about two weeks, Americans will vote in
the Congressional midterm elections. The
media is focused on predicting how many
seats Democrats will lose, particularly wheth-
er the party will lose caucusing majorities in
the House and Senate.
Unfortunately, the media is also promot-
ing a myth about how the Senate works. Cur-
rent headlines, including “Senate control
leans toward Democrats,” “Republicans im-
prove chances for Senate control,” “Race to
control Senate,” and “New polls show Senate
control rests on four toss-up states,” all con-
tain a major misrepresentation: They assume
that the modern Senate is controllable.
Even if Republicans win a 51-seat Senate
majority in November, they will hardly have
the ability to manage the chamber. If Demo-
crats hold onto a similarly slim majority, they
will also be unable to have “control.”
One reason for any majority’s lack of pow-
er is the filibuster, a practice that requires a
three-fifths majority of 60 votes to end debate
on a bill and actually move to a vote.
The Constitution’s framers never planned
to allow for a de facto supermajority require-
ment to pass legislation. In Federalist No. 58
of “The Federalist Papers,” James Madison
rejected requiring “more than a majority” to
pass legislation, because then “power would
be transferred to the minority,” and “the fun-
damental principle of free government would
be reversed.”
Despite the founders’ intentions, the Sen-
ate still adopted the undemocratic practice of
the filibuster. “When we scour early Senate
‘The Social Network’: zeitgeist of our generation?
BY lorraine nicholson
Opinions Columnist
“The Social Network” hit theaters a couple
of weeks ago, capturing the number one slot
at the box office for two weeks and counting.
The “Facebook movie,” as my mother would
call it, was extremely well-done. Director Da-
vid Fincher relies on muted colors and a fast-
paced script penned by Aaron Sorkin to tell a
riveting tale of the socially inept Mark Zuck-
erberg. The film serves as a vehicle for some
of the hottest young stars in Hollywood right
now: Andrew Garfield (the new Spider-Man)
as Zuckerberg’s best friend, Eduardo Saverin;
Rooney Mara (the next “Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo”) as Zuckerberg’s ex-girlfriend Erica
Albright; and Jesse Eisenberg (future Oscar
nominee) as Zuckerberg himself. The bottom
line: You should go see it.
I did have some minor issues with the film
— for instance, did anyone notice the fake snow
or Garfield’s yellow face? My biggest concern,
however, lies with the critics’ response to the
film. In her review for the New York Times,
notoriously sharp film critic Manohla Dargis
describes, “ ‘The Social Network’ is less of a
biopic of the real Mr. Zuckerberg than a gloss
on the boot-up, log-on, plug-in generation.” She
represents one of many critics who have come
to the same conclusion: “The Social Network”
is the zeitgeist of our generation.
Sure, having grown up in the era of com-
puters, I know more about the “interweb” than
my parents do. I had no problem keeping up
Blame it on the filibuster?
history,” explained Sarah Binder, a George
Washington University professor of political
science in testimony before Congress, “we
discover that the filibuster was created by
mistake.” In 1806, a rule that could have let a
simple majority bring a bill to a vote was de-
leted, yet it took several decades before sena-
tors realized they had created a way to filibus-
ter.
During the rest of the 19th century, Sen-
ate minorities only undertook 23 filibusters.
For much of the 20th century, a filibuster oc-
curred on average just once a year. But the
frequency steadily increased in recent de-
cades, and after Republicans lost their Senate
majority in 2006, they filibustered twice as of-
The Constitution’s framers never planned to
allow for a de facto supermajority requirement
to pass legislation.
ten as Democrats had in the previous session,
bringing the total up to a record high of 139
for the 110th Congress. It’s now taken as a
given that a bill needs a 60-vote supermajority
to pass the Senate. However, even as recently
as 2003, then-President George W. Bush was
able to pass a significant expansion of Medi-
care with only 54 votes in the Senate. On that
bill, several members voted for cloture to end
the filibuster and bring a vote, even though
they later voted against the bill, allowing it to
pass by majority-rule.
However, when the Senate considered its
health care bill this past year, the Republi-
can leadership barred its members from vot-
ing against the party’s filibusters, effectively
with the fast-paced dialogue of the intensely
riveting script. Although I don’t have a Face-
book profile of my own, I know what member-
ship entails. However, despite the seemingly
modern subject matter, “The Social Network”
portrays a world filled with issues that are,
quite frankly, old-fashioned. Sexism? Financial
greed? Harvard? Say it ain’t so.
There are two college-aged female char-
acters in Sorkin’s masterpiece. The first one,
Erica, we meet immediately. After exchanging
some well-written, feisty words with her then-
boyfriend Zuckerberg, she is never heard from
again. Predictably, the Facebook creator takes
How could a movie that allegedly “defines
our time” be so driven by the degradation of
relationships and prominence of greed?
to his LiveJournal page (remember those?) for
a post-breakup rant, making misogynist cracks
about her breasts. The other female character,
played by ex-Disney star Brenda Song, starts
her relationship with Eduardo by performing
oral sex in a public restroom. The relationship
ends when she sets a silk scarf on fire while
Saverin tries to have a conversation on his cell
phone. Does Sorkin accurately depict a new
world defined by the derogation of the educat-
ed, sexually liberated female? Is misogyny not
passe? If forced to choose between the role of
the objectified girlfriend and psychopath, I se-
lect neither. In fact, based on the gender roles
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mandating that the reform needed a 60-vote
supermajority to pass. The chamber’s norms
have changed rapidly.
This practice, though, is unsustainable.
With the exception of the second half of 2009,
Democrats haven’t controlled 60 or more Sen-
ate seats since the 1970s. Republicans haven’t
had that big a majority since before the Great
Depression. If both parties continue to insist
upon supermajority votes for virtually every
bill, then neither party can expect to enact
its biggest priorities for any more than a few
years every century.
Of course, the new 60-vote requirement
isn’t the only tool the minority can use to stop
the majority from passing bills voters elected
them to pass. Any one senator can dramati-
cally slow down the chamber’s operation be-
cause any member is allowed to request a
hold on a piece of legislation or a nomination.
For example, one of President Obama’s
nominees to the Federal Reserve, Peter Di-
amond, has had to wait six months to get a
Senate confirmation vote because one sena-
tor, Richard Shelby, R-Ala., thinks Diamond
doesn’t have sufficiently broad macroeco-
nomic experience. Last week, Diamond won
the Nobel Prize in Economics, but Shelby still
won’t budge.
Similarly, Obama’s nominee to head the
Office of Management and Budget, Jack Lew,
has waited months for a Senate confirmation
detailed in the so-called zeitgeist “The Social
Network,” I long for the days of the sphere of
domesticity.
Throughout the narration, the film flashes
forward to two separate depositions brought
against Zuckerberg: one by the ex-best friend,
Eduardo, and one by the evil Winklevoss
twins. Because the material in the movie is in-
spired by court depositions, the producers did
not have to buy “life rights.” The entire frame-
work of the film, then, is defined by the giving
and receiving of money. In the end, Eduardo
gets his money. The lawyers get their money.
Mark Zuckerberg gets his money. Sean Park-
er, founder of Napster, gets his money. And
eventually, they all live happily ever after, with
ruined relationships, money and a defamatory
biopic.
The theme of corporate greed more appro-
priately belongs in “Wall Street 2,” or, more
idealistically, its ’80s predecessor. How could
a movie that allegedly “defines our time” be
so driven by the degradation of relationships
and prominence of greed? I imagine the typical
Brown student as someone who legitimately
wants to change the world. College life used to
be portrayed as a time of innocence and ideal-
ism. “The Social Network,” however, presents
vote because one senator, Mary Landrieu,
D-La., has placed a hold based on unrelated
concerns over an oil drilling moratorium.
According to a report from the Center for
American Progress, if senators used their full
powers of holds and filibusters on every pres-
idential nominee, it would take nine years
of floor debate before a presidential admin-
istration could be fully staffed. The report’s
author, Ian Millhiser, concludes, “So long as
unanimous consent — all 100 senators — is
required to move Senate business forward in
a timely manner, it will remain far too easy to
abuse the Senate rules and bring progress to
a standstill.”
The Senate would be ineffective enough
if it could only be controlled by 60-vote
supermajorities. However, holds and indi-
vidual obstruction mean that it often takes
complete unanimity to manage the chamber
smoothly. Because the Senate has not been
running smoothly, 420 bills were passed by
the House in the last two years that have nev-
er even been considered by Senate. Of those
bills, 404 passed the House with at least 60
percent support.
Unless Senate procedure can be reformed
to allow simple majorities to pass bills and
confirm nominees within a reasonable time-
frame, neither party can hope to enact its
agenda or run a presidential administration.
If neither party can fulfill the agenda it was
elected to fulfill, then elections become less
meaningful — and voters lose some of their
ability to influence the direction of govern-
ment.
William Tomasko ’13 is a political science
concentrator from Washington, D.C.
He can be reached at
william_tomasko@brown.edu.
a distinctly different picture.
One scene sticks out vividly in my memory
of the film. The exchange takes place in a ge-
neric nightclub between Zuckerberg and the
slimy Parker. Picture Victoria’s Secret mod-
els, fancy martinis and kitschy colored lights.
Parker, played a little too convincingly by
pop star Justin Timberlake, convinces an en-
tranced-looking Zuckerberg of Facebook’s po-
tential. While portraying the perks of the high
life, Parker’s face is illuminated by the whirling
colors of the nightclub below. He looks like the
love child of the Wizard of Oz and Satan, a role
Parker assumes proudly. Like the generation
before him, Zuckerberg bites the forbidden
fruit of financial succes and, as a result, throws
his friend under the bus.
Perhaps Fincher cannot properly make a
movie about our generation because he’s not
part of it. Unfortunately, this solution is too ide-
alistic. The terrible behavior of the characters
detailed is less a testimony to the filmmakers’
lack of prowess than to the backwardness of
the times. Hopefully, when a director of our
generation ventures to make a blockbuster
about contemporary culture, he’ll paint a dis-
tinctly different picture. Until then, it’s up to us
to provide the material.
“The Social Network”: zeitgeist of our gen-
eration? I certainly hope not.
Lorraine Nicholson ’12.5 is a literary arts
concentrator from Los Angeles, Calif.
She can be contacted at
Lorraine_Nicholson@brown.edu.
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