The Brown Daily Herald F riday, S eptember 19, 2008
Volume CXLIII, No. 74
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Determining costs, timing and staff next for task force
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the Corporation, Brown’s highest governing body, approved a $550,000 increase to the Dean of the College’s After over a year of deliberations and budget, including money for advising, a first set of recommendations last curricular development and the scispring, some of the goals of the Task ence resource center. Force on Undergraduate Education The next step is to discuss the recare already being completed, while ommendations with the appropriate others will have to wait — perhaps groups on campus and outline their indefinitely — for planning, funding associated costs, Vice President for or more staff. Public Affairs and University RelaMany of the task force’s recom- tions Marisa Quinn wrote in an e-mail mendations for improving the under- to The Herald. Some recommendagraduate experience tions would only may not cost money require shuffling NEWS ANALYSIS — for example, a piexisting resources, lot PIN program rewhile others would quiring sophomores to visit their ad- need new money, staff or technology, visers before registering for classes. she wrote. Many others will — including funds Any extra funds for the recomto foster creation of new courses, a mendations would be allocated by new science resource center in the the University Resources CommitSciences Library, additional staff for tee, which presents a budget to the various programs, research stipends president early in the spring semester for advisers and a huge increase in before the Corporation votes on it in the number of Undergraduate Teach- February. That money would come in ing and Research Awards. a lump sum, meaning that if the dean The task force did not discuss of the College’s office receives less cost during its meetings, said Dean than what it requests — a distinct of the College Katherine Bergeron, possibility — Bergeron will allocate who chaired the committee. Its job the funds based on her priorities, was first to identify goals, she said, she said. while “implementation is something Bergeron was adamant that those that can be worked on.” projects marked as priorities by the Some recommendations put forth task force will come to fruition. in the draft report of the task force, “However we can do them, we’ll released this January, are already get them done,” she said, later addbeing implemented, including the ing, “We need to get these things creation of a new Faculty Advising done.” Fellows program to foster better adMeanwhile, a centerpiece of the vising and informal relations between continued on page 4 faculty and students. In February, By George Miller Senior Staff Writer
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The Rhode Island Blood Center collected more than 318 pints during its three-day drive on campus this week. See Campus News, page 5
SPOTLIGHT
On Wickenden, food once meant for a princess By Chaz Firestone Features Editor
Angkor Restaurant doesn’t look much like a palace. Nestled in a colonial-style house with a wrought-iron fire escape snaking up its facade, the restaurant modestly promises “authentic Cambodian cuisine” on a practical blue-paneled sign. The inside is a bit more ornamental — wooden Buddhist sculptures adorn the yellowish
walls alongside an authentic print of the restaurant’s namesake temple — but the chairs are not thrones and the silverware is really ironware, just like everywhere else. Close your eyes when the spicy Nam Yaa soup arrives, though, and you just might feel like royalty. That’s because Angkor’s chef, 57-year-old Bopha Kem-Ban, is the niece of one of Cambodia’s royal cooks from the days before
Lyman Hall renovations continue past deadline By Jenna Stark Senior Staff Writer
The curtain remains closed at Lyman Hall as renovations on the theatre, speech and dance department’s building will continue into October. The summer renovations of Lyman Hall, which began in May and were slated to finish in August, were part of a University initiative to restore buildings in the historic core of main campus, The Herald reported last October. The physical changes come at a time when the department is considering revamping itself as well as its building, possibly changing its name, tweaking its courses and expanding its purview. The renovations include remodeling the exterior of the building, providing more administrative office space and upgrading the quality of the classrooms, said Rebecca Schneider, associate professor and chair of the department. “The building was unbearable,” Schneider said. Problems include vermin, mold and heating issues, she said. Still, Schneider called the newly
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ARTS & CULTURE
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Student groups facilitate absentee voting By Sarah Husk Contributing Writer
renovated building a “really wellloved stuffed animal that just got all its hair rubbed off.” The University is “trying to bring out the old accents of the building,” she said. Students and professors both said that, though the renovations are inconvenient, they are willing to pay the price for an updated building. “The downstairs space will be more welcoming and my students will be better served by the administrative office because it will be more accessible to them,” said Patricia Ybarra, associate professor of theatre, speech and dance. For Professor of Theatre, Speech and Dance John Emigh, who has been holding his acting class at the Brown/RISD Hillel instead of Lyman Hall, the show must go on. “It seems to me that we’re still functioning just fine,” he said. Still, Ybarra said that the renovations have interrupted her ability to teach. “There’s often loud drilling and noise,” she said, adding that in the summer she was unable to work in
No ‘living room drama’ Production Workshop’s “J.B.,” based on the Book of Job, offers a thought-provoking tale
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the Khmer Rouge took over the countr y and killed more than seven million of its citizens. As millions of Cambodians fled the oppressive communist regime in the late 1970s, Bopha scribbled down her aunt’s recipes before traveling halfway across the world to Rhode Island. Now, the young Wickenden Street eatery serves up food fit for a king at prices more befitting
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CAMPUS NEWS
For most Americans, voting means a quick trip down to the local polling center and marking a box or two on a ballot. But many college students’ states of residency may be miles away from their schools’ campuses. Two student initiatives that aim to streamline absentee ballot requests are helping students easily find the resources they need to vote. One such initiative, BeCounted, is a Facebook application that allows its users to register to vote and request absentee ballots. It also helps students compare whether their votes counts more in their home or school states. Noah Kraft ’09, a friend of Stanford senior Andrew Ehrich, who helped create BeCounted, said the site was made in response to the frustration he and others felt when trying to find information online for registering to vote. After gathering each state’s information about registering to vote and signing up for absentee ballots, the creators of BeCounted Kim Perley / Herald
Aaron Becker ’09 fills out paperwork to vote in the Rhode Island primaries.
Crime log Safewalk radios, glasses, pills, bicycles, room keys among things stolen Sept. 2 to 10
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OPINIONS
Absentee voters Jeremy Feigenbaum ‘11 thinks students registered in R.I. should vote in local elections
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Kick off Bruno football plays its first game of the season Saturday at Brown Stadium
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