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Additionally, 5.1 percent of respondents said they are eligible to vote Strongly Don’t know / Somewhat butSomewhat are not registered. approve Don’t know / The approve no answer approve Herald poll indicates that 29.1% no answer 43.8% 39.4% Brown undergraduates overwhelm- students have generally not been 33.0% Somewhat ingly support Sen. Barack49.3% Obama promiscuous this semester. 80.9 perapprove Somewhat in the 2008 presidential election, ac- cent of Brown undergraduates have 9.4% disapprove cording to a Herald poll conducted had zero or one sexual partner so far 36.7% earlier this week. this semester, according to the poll. 21.4% 86.1 percent of students said they 44.1 percent of respondents reported Somewhat support Obama for president of the 3.2% having had zero partners. This time Strongly disapprove disapprove United States, versus 6.3 percent Strongly who last year, 88.1 percent of students reJustin Coleman / Herald said they favor Sen. John McCain. ported that they’d had between zero disapprove Former Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee struck an affable tone Ruthand two sexual partners, compared Do you approve or disapprove of the Independent party candidate Ralph last night, speaking and answering questions for just over an hour. UCS Council of Nader received 1.4 percent of the with 86.9 percent this year. Only 1.5 way the Undergraduate Students (UCS) is handling its job? Don’t know / vote, while Libertarian candidate Bob percent of respondents reported that Strongly approve Strongly Barr garnered only 0.5 percent.no answer they’ve had six or more partners this TAs The Heralddisapprove poll was conducted semester. Oct. 27 and Oct. 1.1% 28 and has a 3.6 President Ruth Simmons’ popuDon’t know / No answer percent margin of error with 95 larity stayed fairly consistent from 15.3% Very dissatisfied percent confidence. 3.2%A total of 649 last year. 80.4 percent of students Strongly Somewhat By Melissa Shube pleased by his willingness to Brown undergraduates completed approved of the job Simmons is doSomewhat Somewhat Don’t know / approvewith 84.9 percent this Senior Staff Writer crack jokes. Huckabee received which was administered as ing, compared approve Very the poll,disapprove dissatisfied a standing ovation at the end of a written questionnaire to students in time last year. Only 4.3 percent said no answer 43.8% 33.0% satisfied 14.0% Former Arkansas Gov. Mike his talk. the University Post Office atSomewhat J. Walter they somewhat or strongly disap49.3% 34.1% Wilson, outside the Blue Room Huckabee spoke to a packed SaHuckabee ser ved ten-and-ain proved of the job Simmons is doing, approve lomon 101 Thursday night about half years as governor. He then Faunce House and in the Sciences 9.4% 36.7% and 15.3 percent didn’t know or had his experience as a presidential ran for the 2008 Republican presiLibrary. no opinion. Somewhat candidate, the impor tance of dential nomination, satisfied winning eight Of students polled, 86.1 percent The Undergraduate Council of Very Somewhat improving health care and the states before ceding the nominareported that they are registered to Students does not enjoy the same 3.2% Somewhat 42.5% 1.4 0.9 implementation of tax reform. tion to Sen. John McCain. vote in the United States, with 72.6 support. 38.1 percent of students 0.5 Strongly disapprove Students seemed both enHuckabee said he remained percent of students polled registered disapprove tranced by his message and relatively unknown throughout in a state other than Rhode Island. continued on page 6 By Anne Simons and Sara Sunshine Senior Staff Writers
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What a difference one month can make. On Sept. 29, Wachovia Bank told the 1,007 colleges — including Brown — that had assets in its short-term investment account that they would only be able to access 10 percent of their money, sending some schools scrambling to make sure they could cover operating costs. As of Oct. 27, colleges can access 52 percent of their portion of the $9.3 billion in the account. At the time of the freeze, Brown had about $5 million in a Commonfund account, a small portion of the amount — which fluctuates throughout the year between $50 to $150 million — it invests in similar funds, said Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration
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On Thursday, Iraq War veteran Camilo Mejia described watching an Iraqi man violently beating an eight-year-old boy. The boy had thrown a rock at American soldiers, and in response, Mejia’s lieutenant was going to take him into custody. The man, just a bystander, pleaded with the lieutenant not to
know take away the boy. The lieutenant Don’t out — about/ No his answer experiences in Very dissatisfied told the man the boy could remain Iraq, his decision to refuse reif he would do something worse deployment and what he says is Somewhat to him than what the soldiers had America’s “criminal and illegal” Very dissatisfied planned for him — taking him back occupation there. Speaking to an satisfied 14.0% to the American base, where Mejia audience of more than 70 students, 34.1% said he would face “God knows faculty and community members what.” in List 120, Mejia talked about the Somewhat The man brutally beat the boy current “poverty draft” and both as Mejia looked on, too afraid tosatisfied presidential candidates’ plans for speak out to his lieutenant. the war. 42.5% But last night, Mejia did speak “The truth of the matter is the
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majority of the people we are killing is civilians,” Mejia said. “And this is not natural.” Mejia, 33, came to Brown as part of the Resisting Empire Tour, sponsored locally by Brown’s antiwar group Operation Iraqi Freedom, to speak about his experiences during his six-month tour in Iraq and his subsequent decision Somewha
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CAMPUS NEWS
BYE BYE BICYCLE Rusty bikes in moldy rooms: No longer a fixture in five Wriston dormitories
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It’s a big month for wastewater in Rhode Island. This doesn’t make the bus ride out to Warwick to visit a sewer on a Saturday morning any more pleasant. Actually, it’s called a wastewater treatment facility. The plant usually hosts field trips of elementary school students, and most of the people coming through the day’s open house have been families, says Janine Burke, the plant’s executive director. But there are two full-grown men chatting up the employees, and they don’t appear to work at the plant. They’re talking wastewater
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lingo — knowledgeably and excitedly. In fact, everybody at the plant is excited. While there’s a day for bringing your daughter to work and the rat gets its own year, the month of October belongs to the sewers. It’s Wastewater Infrastructure Awareness Month in Rhode Island — didn’t you know? The month’s festivities coincide with the industry’s big conference and technology expo in Chicago — including the “wastewater Olympics” — and features the release of “Liquid Assets” and “Hidden Assets,” two Public Broadcasting Services documentaries about “the story of our water infrastructure,” as touted by a dramatic glossy flyer. The two men couldn’t be happier.
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balls and pucks Chaz Firestone ’10 gets verbally assaulted at a hockey game in Toronto ... in Boston
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