M O N D A Y APRIL 29, 2002
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Volume CXXXVII, No. 59
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Med School dean Marsh to resign BY KAVITA MISHRA
After a decade of service, Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Dr. Donald Marsh announced Thursday night he will step down as the University’s chief medical education officer. Marsh’s announcement comes after months of discussion with President Ruth Simmons, said Executive Dean for Administration of the medical school Francis McCrossan, a friend of Marsh who has worked closely with him. After a year-long sabbatical beginning in July, Marsh will retire as dean emeritus, McCrossan said. Chair of the Department of Neuroscience John Donoghue ’79, who said he was shocked by the announcement, praised Marsh for his ability to balance many difficult tasks. As the dean of medicine and biological sciences, Marsh is responsible for faculty, undergraduate and graduate biology programs, the medical school and its relationship with seven local hospitals and basic sciences and clinical research, he said. A person in that position must have “experience and sensitivity in all those realms,” McCrossan said. During Marsh’s tenure, the medical school experienced see MARSH, page 7
Charlie Hall
The testimony of former city tax official David Ead concluded Friday in the corruption trial of Mayor Vincent Cianci and three co-defendants.Standing is Cianci defense attorney Richard Egbert,who cross-examined Ead Thursday and Friday.Sitting in the foreground is U.S.attorney Richard Rose,the prosecutor in the government’s case.Cianci is seated to Egbert’s right.
THE CIANCI TRIAL
EGBERT, EAD TRADE WITS BY SETH KERSCHNER AND SHERYL SHAPIRO
Former city tax official David Ead, the government’s first witness in the corruption case against Mayor Vincent Cianci, left the witness stand Friday after he admitted to lies but stood by his accustations that Cianci accepted bribes. In his two days of cross-examination, Cianci’s lawyer, Richard Egbert, hammered Ead, who stood tough but often had difficulty responding to Egbert’s inquiries. It wasn’t until Friday’s afternoon session that Ead crafted more careful replies and appeared confident on the stand. Ead, the former vice chairman of the Providence Board of Tax Assessment Review, remained standing as Egbert — prepared with stacks of files full of Ead’s gambling records, personal and business tax returns and signed affidavits — aggressively questioned him.
An air of tension hung over the room as Egbert and Ead sparred — Egbert was always prepared with ammunition to counter Ead’s claims and further paint him as a liar. “You lied?” Egbert asked Ead about the false claim of residency he made on his 1993 Residency Affidavit. “If you look at it that way, yes,” Ead replied. “When someone deliberately says something that is false, that is a lie?” “Yes.” “What you did over here on this document was make a statement you knew was false and you did it intentionally?” “Yes.” Friday’s trial session included both tears and laughter. Egbert played a video of a 1999 interview during which
U. names Vanden Dorpel to head up capital campaign BY BRIAN BASKIN
Ronald Vanden Dorpel GS ’71, president for university development at Northwestern University, was named Friday as Brown’s senior vice president for advancement and the architect of the University’s next capital campaign. The newly created position will place responsibility for all fundraising and alumni relations programs under Vanden Dorpel, said Executive Vice President for Planning Richard Spies. At Northwestern, Vanden Dorpel orchestrated the university’s soon-to-be-completed $1.4 billion capital campaign and more than quadrupled annual alumni giving since joining the university in 1987. He also helped attract $773 million in donations of $5 million or more. Vanden Dorpel’s management of the campaign was part of the reason a Brown search committee composed of high-ranking administrators and Corporation members chose him, Spies said. “What we were hoping to identify, and were successful
see CIANCI, page 4 see DORPEL, page 8
Evelyn Hu-DeHart to head Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity BY JAMAY LIU
The appointment of renowned scholar Evelyn Hu-DeHart to lead the University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity could revitalize ethnic studies at Brown, students and professors close to the center say. The appointment of Hu-DeHart, whose “extraordinary energy and vision has made her one of the pillars of the ethnic studies movement in the U.S.,” marks a new stage for the center, said Professor of Education Cynthia Garcia Coll, who chaired the search committee. The center has been growing “slowly, but surely” since it was established in 1988, Garcia Coll said. Hu-DeHart, professor and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, will begin her work as the center’s new director July 1. The process for finding someone who was “a teacher,
scholar and administrator” to lead the center and give it the momentum it needed began two years ago. The process concluded after extensive faculty polling and study with Hu-DeHart as the number one candidate, Garcia Coll said. “Evelyn has incredible scholarship and a vision that will really invigorate all of us doing work here,” Garcia Coll said. Hu-DeHart, who has been invited to speak at Brown several times by student groups and who was part of the 1999 Visiting Committee on Diversity, said her decision to come to Brown was largely influenced by the presence of President Ruth Simmons. “It’s definitely a great moment to be at Brown, to work under President Simmons’s leadership,” she said. “I’m also excited to work with the students here, who have such a strong tradition of being interested in social justice issues and community-based studies.”
I N S I D E M O N D AY, A P R I L 2 9 , 2 0 0 2 Broadcaster Jay Allison tells audience about need for new, diverse voices in the media page 3
City plans Fools Ball parade to raise cash for AS220, an independent artist’s studio page 5
Aware of the center’s history and struggles, Hu-DeHart said she understands that it has “not really taken off” since its creation 15 years ago. The main setback the center has faced since its creation has been inconsistency, Garcia Coll said. Despite faculty interest across different departments and disciplines, ethnic studies, because of its lack of departmental status, has not enjoyed much continuity. The faculty that teach in ethnic studies have tenure in other departments and often are not replaced when faculty members take leaves of absences, Garcia Coll said. Jesus Hernandez ’03, an ethnic studies concentrator, said the development of the ethnic studies program has been “slow and lackadaisical” and said that not having any see HU-DEHART, page 6
TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T The Herald profiles this year’s three candidates for UCS presidency page 5
Peter Asen ’04 attacks the city’s new antipandhandling legislation column,page 11
Double overtime victory over Cornell puts men’s lacrosse into Ivy title game page 12
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