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Months after scuttling plans to build an ambitious new brain science building in the wake of financial losses, the Corporation has approved a “schematic design” for the renovation of Metcalf Chemistry and Research Laboratory into a new “mind brain behavior” center, according to Vice President for Facilities Management Stephen Maiorisi. The approval of plans for Metcalf represents the official abandonment of plans to construct an entirely new building along the newly completed Walk, said Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning and senior advisor to the president. The University first announced its intent to renovate rather than undertake new construction for both the center and a planned medical education building in Februar y. The medical education building is to be located in

U. will seek to trim $30m more from next budget By Seth Motel News Editor

hospitals, are typically exempt from property taxes. Rhode Island and its cities have been suffering from the economic crisis that has swept the country, putting pressure on government coffers. Providence has a substantial budget deficit and city leaders are looking to raise additional revenue. The two bills represent a potential $27 million in annual revenue for the city, according to the Providence Journal. Both proposals originated in the office of Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83. “It is a basic principle of fairness,” Cicilline said. The residents of Rhode Island who pay property taxes are being unfairly burdened and those who take advantage of city services

Months after the Corporation approved a reduced budget for the fiscal year that began July 1, the University is now looking to cut another $30 million from next year’s budget, administrators said. Of the cuts sought, about $15 to 20 million would be realized through organizational changes, Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 and Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Beppie Huidekoper said in interviews. For fiscal year 2011, which begins a year from now, the University estimates it will save about $7 million from revisions to planned capital projects and an additional $5 to 10 million through policy changes. The Organizational Review Committee, which comprises 10 administrators, three faculty members and two students, will be responsible for finding an extra $15 to 20 million in savings. “What I perceive is that the University is trying to reorganize internally, which is a different strategy than simply cutting the budget,” ORC member Jason Zysk MA’07 GS wrote in an e-mail. Kertzer said the revisions will still allow for an increase in the budget over the next several years, though not as much as anticipated. The education and general budget, which consists of the entire budget except for that of the Division of Biology and Medicine, will increase from $550 million in 2010 to $600 million in 2011. But that figure represents

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Workers broke ground on the Creative Arts Center on Olive Street. See summer construction photos, page 6.

a University-owned building in Providence’s Jewelr y District. The renovation, which will begin in June 2010, will gut Metcalf, leaving only its structural walls and transforming the interior to

suit research needs, Maiorisi said. Additionally, the renovations will develop the previously unused attic space, upgrade lecture halls, establish common areas and create more spacious stair wells.

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Taxes on private colleges advance in R.I. legislature By Anne Simons Senior Staff Writer

Two bills have made progress in Rhode Island’s General Assembly that could cost Brown and its students millions of dollars if they become law. One bill would allow cities to assess a “student impact fee” of $150 per semester for out-of-state students who attend private colleges in Rhode Island. The universities would pay the municipal governments directly, allowing them to raise the funds as they see fit. The other proposed legislation would allow cities to collect a fee of up to 25 percent of property taxes from nonprofits with properties valued over $20 million. Nonprofits, such as private universities and

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David Kennedy (right), hired to lead the University’s efforts to raise its global profile, will be replaced by Michael Kennedy (left), no relation.

Watson’s Kennedy abruptly quits post By Sydney Ember Senior Staff Writer

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David Kennedy ’76 resigned abruptly last month as vice president for international affairs and interim director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, shortly after University of Michigan sociologist Michael Kennedy was selected as Watson’s new director. Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 informed the faculty of Kennedy’s resignation in an e-mail on June 10. David Kennedy will return to Harvard Law School, where he was a professor of law and director of Harvard’s European Law Research Center when he was selected in late 2007 to head Brown’s internationalization effort. Kennedy’s resignation has left

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uncertainty regarding Brown’s internationalization agenda, forcing the administration to scramble to fill the vacancy before the academic year. The position of vice president for international affairs will be filled from within the University, Kertzer said, in contrast to the more highprofile search that yielded Kennedy’s appointment. “We’ve gotten various things going,” Kertzer said of Brown’s recent internationalization efforts. “It’s going to be imperative to get another vice president quickly so we don’t lose that momentum.” David Kennedy’s decision to return full-time to Harvard, where he continued to teach as an adjunct

‘Hermione’ to go from Hogwarts to College Hill speculation and rumor, that she will attend Brown this fall. Watson’s decision became public It has been perhaps the most obses- when ‘Potter’ star Daniel Radcliffe sively scrutinized college decision told the U.K.’s The Guardian newsprocess ever enpaper about his dured. ARTS & CULTURE co-star’s college plans in a July 4 Emma Watson, the British actress who plays interview. The actress herself verithe bookish but valiant Hermione fied her impending matriculation Granger in the Harry Potter movcontinued on page 7 ies, has confirmed, after months of By Ben Hyman Arts & Culture Editor

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without paying taxes are not doing their “fair share,” he said. “I think it is fair for every person who is a member of a community to contribute to the well-being of the community,” Cicilline said. State Rep. Gordon Fox, D-Dist. 4, sponsored the student impact fee legislation in the House. “While acknowledging the many contributions of the colleges, I believe that everyone will have to contribute their share in order to meet these challenges,” he wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “Having these institutions share some of the burden will lessen the impact on homeowners and businesses that already pay their fair share of taxes,” Fox wrote. Opponents of the new fees for nonprofits argue that private universities are already contributing their “fair share.” “We feel as though we are already doing our part,” said Marisa Quinn, Brown’s vice president of public affairs and University relations. “We understand and appreciate the difficult financial challenges that are being faced in Providence,” Quinn said. “We’re feeling it as well. We’re making difficult decisions based on challenging economic circumstances.” The University has opposed the proposed legislation and has worked to persuade legislators that private universities and their students contribute to Providence and Rhode Island economically and culturally. President Ruth Simmons has made appeals to students and others to lobby legislative leaders to abandon the proposal. “Higher education is a top engine of economic growth,” Quinn said. Brown, along with other colleges in the state, has tried to develop a “knowledge economy,” building a long-term economic strategy for Rhode Island, she said. In the shortterm, the University is creating jobs by continuing to build and renovate on campus, she added. Daniel Egan, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Rhode Island, a group advocating for the common interests of the eight private schools in the state, questioned the fairness

of the proposals. “The mayor’s budget shortfall” is the motivation behind this legislation, Egan said. His group’s member schools, also facing financial troubles, are making “drastic changes” to cut costs. Providence should do the same, he said. The four private universities of Providence — Brown, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence College and Johnson and Wales University — signed an agreement in 2003 committing to contribute nearly $50 million to the city of Providence over twenty years. The only thing that has changed since that agreement is the economic situation, Egan said. Private colleges and universities represent the only sector of the economy that contributes “time, talent and treasure,” he said. The other private schools in the state are Bryant University, New England Institute of Technology, Roger Williams University and Salve Regina University. The proposals, if passed, would mean a dramatic change in the status and treatment of nonprofits, Egan said. This legislation would undo centuries of thinking that a nonprofit’s contributions to the area merit tax-exempt status, he said. Quinn said the fees assessed on nonprofits raise “questions of legality and constitutionality.” “We’re at a crossroads,” said State Sen. Lou DiPalma, D-Dist. 12, a member of the body’s finance committee. DiPalma opposes both pieces of legislation and called the student impact fee “inappropriate.” Before the General Assembly went into recess in late June, versions of both proposals were introduced to the state House of Representatives and Senate. The finance committees in both bodies heard the bills, but only the House Finance Committee voted 11-4 to pass the student impact fee legislation. When the General Assembly returns from its recess later this month, the legislation may reappear on the agenda. In order for these bills to become law, both would need to be approved by the finance committees and by the full House and the Senate, then signed by Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65. “This is an issue that will not go away,” Cicilline said.

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“It’s going to be a very busy fall.” — Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, on the need to find $30 million in savings

Additional cuts sought for ’11 budget continued from page 1 a reduction from a previously anticipated budget, which had the budget reaching $690 million by 2014. In a June 29 memo to the Brown community, Kertzer and Huidekoper cautioned that the University has lost more than 25 percent of its endowment in the past 12 months, and that “full recovery from that loss will take several years.” Huidekoper said the review committee is attempting to make the budget-trimming process as transparent as possible, with various subcommittees explaining potential cuts to relevant groups before finalizing proposals. “We’ll talk to the committees that are on campus that are responsible for looking at those areas and make sure that they have input on it,” she said. “It’s a process that people will think is fair and open in a very difficult time.” “It’s going to be a very busy fall,” Kertzer said. Huidekoper said the ORC is waiting until the fall to do most of its work and will be updating students and

parents throughout the process. “We don’t want the community to get the sense that we’re making decisions without the people here to get involved,” she said. ORC member Sarah Rutherford ’12 said she is intent on making students aware of ways to get involved in the process and to “see the bigger picture” by inviting student feedback during the semester. Huidekoper said it was unclear whether this process will have to occur again in future years because of the difficulty of predicting the economic climate or the number of faculty vacancies for the next several years. But “if the endowment doesn’t start rebounding or some other things don’t happen,” future reductions can be expected, she said. The University saved about $9 million on this year’s budget by instituting a faculty salary freeze, but the University “can’t keep doing that forever,” Kertzer said. It has not yet been determined how long the freeze will remain in effect, he said. Professor of Physics Robert Pelcovits, another member of the ORC, said he understands the need for the

freeze as long as it is comparable to what is happening at peer institutions. “Mostly you have to worry about what’s going on elsewhere,” he said, adding he thinks that the freeze might last another year. The “academic functioning” of the University remains the top priority for the group, Pelcovits said. He added he anticipates that the organizational budget reduction will have few noticeable effects in classrooms or labs. “Things are different, but we can be flexible and live with it,” he said. “It’s not like we’re going to be less productive.” The Division of Biology and Medicine, which is less dependent on the endowment and more dependent on grants than the rest of the University, will need to reduce its projected budget for 2014 by $10 million, Kertzer said. But unlike the general budget, the division will not need to find organizational savings to meet its 2011 target — a freedom largely made possible by the decision to scrap plans to build a new medical education building and opt for a renovation project instead.

Kennedy resigns Watson job unexpectedly continued from page 1 professor during his time at Brown, was largely based on his desire to return to teaching, Kertzer said. “He’d rather be back at Harvard as a faculty member than at Brown,” Kertzer said. “For him, in the end, I think he missed his role as a full-time faculty member.” David Kennedy did not reply to inquiries last week. But Kertzer said David Kennedy will continue to advise President Ruth Simmons and provide assistance on international initiatives if the opportunity arises. Kennedy “has a special place in his heart for Brown, his alma mater,” Kertzer said. Kennedy came to Brown in January 2008 as the first vice president for international affairs, a position from which he was to spearhead the University’s effort to enhance its international cachet. He was also a professor international relations. When former Watson Director Barbara Stallings resigned from that post only months after Kennedy’s appointment, Kertzer asked him to step in as interim director of the institute. Kennedy’s dual responsibilities included managing Brown’s global image as well as leading Watson. Many of the proposals tilted Watson in a legal studies direction, including his global governance program and the appointment of several close personal acquaintances with legal backgrounds. He also made

an unsuccessful bid to get Watson the power to grant tenure to its appointees. Unlike previous Watson directors, Michael Kennedy — who is not related to David Kennedy — will report directly to the provost, said Kertzer. This is a change from the previous administrative structure, under which the director technically reported to the vice president for international affairs. The new structure will still allow the director to work closely with the vice president, but less formally. The appointment of Michael Kennedy as Watson’s new director resulted from an international search that began when Stallings stepped down last summer. Professor of Sociology Michael White, who chaired the search committee, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that the recruitment process included an extensive multi-discipline, international search across many policy areas. “We are delighted that Michael Kennedy has now joined us at Brown, bringing his considerable scholarship, extensive international experience and formidable organizational skills,” he wrote. “We are assured of an exciting new era for the Watson Institute.” As Watson’s director, Michael Kennedy will be responsible for the institute’s general direction, strategic planning and a “very active series of public events,” Kertzer said. “The Watson Institute is a somewhat large and complicated institu-

tion,” Kertzer added, which makes it difficult to predict how the new director will affect its orientation. At Michigan, Michael Kennedy was the director of the school’s Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. From that experience, he said in an interview, he learned the importance of learning about a place and getting to know about institutions before determining his goals for the institute. He also served as vice provost for international affairs. “My background as a sociology professor is important, but my role as an administrator is also important,” he said. “I bring a kind of experience to Watson that is pretty unusual.” “One of the things that’s distinct about Brown is that it has a Watson Institute,” Michael Kennedy added. In particular, Michael Kennedy said the international relations and development studies concentrations offer a unique opportunity for undergraduates to prepare to tackle global questions. “One of the things I’m looking at is how Watson enhances what Brown has beyond Watson’s walls,” he said. Kennedy said he hopes to advance the collaboration between faculty inside and outside the institute. But he said it was too soon to know exactly what he would like to do as director. “The only way to know is to keep watching Watson,” he said.

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“I hate going through and deleting old e-mails.” — Sarah Bolling ’11, on Brown’s current e-mail system

CIS trying out Google for e-mail service

‘Pot centers’ get green light By Anish Gonchigar Contributing Writer

By Brian Mastroianni Senior Staf f Writer

Gmail may finally make its official entrance into Brown’s e-mail system as a pilot program makes the next step toward a transition to the Google, Inc. mail server. About 200 students have been asked to test Brown’s Google Ser vices program this summer. The pilot, which began June 30, is the first step in Computing and Information Ser vices’ proposed conversion of all Brown e-mail accounts to Gmail, said Donald Tom, director of IT support. To ease the transition, students participating in the program can forward their e-mail from their current Brown accounts to their new, trial Gmail accounts. Tom said CIS is hoping that it will get as much feedback from students as possible. “This program has only been in effect for about two weeks, so we haven’t had enough time to collect student responses, but we hope the program is well-received,” Tom said. Colleges nationwide — including the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University — have outsourced their e-mail to Google for the past three years, Tom said, providing the impetus for Brown to hop on the bandwagon. College students drawn to

A new Gmail-based email system is being piloted with a group of 200 students. The service would include access to Google’s Web-based applications and over 7,000 megabytes of email storage per person.

Google’s applications and storage space are already reluctant to rely exclusively on their college e-mail accounts, Tom said. “We’ve been looking at this for about a year now,” Tom said. Google’s storage space and applications make the switch both costeffective and beneficial for Brown’s e-mail users — not to mention the fact that buying more storage for Brown e-mail “might not be the best use of University dollars” during the recession, he said. For some students, the conversion to Gmail would be a welcome change. “I think the Gmail idea is great because my mailbox is always filling up, which is incredibly frustrat-

ing. It’s impossible to send larger files with the current e-mail,” said Francis Gonzales ’11. Sarah Bolling ’11 said she understands Gonzales’ frustration with the current system’s small storage. “The combination of all the listservs I’m on, personal e-mails, e-mails from professors, and the fact that I hate going through and deleting old e-mails means that my inbox gets filled up ridiculously quick,” she said. The pilot is currently funded internally by University resources. If the pilot program is successful and Brown officially adopts Gmail, the University will not incur costs other than those of managing the

e-mail service, Tom said, explaining that Brown will not have to buy new ser vers since they are provided by Google. Right now, it is unclear exactly when the transfer to Gmail would go into effect. Tom said CIS wants to figure out contract deals with Google before the shift becomes official. “Clearly we will not do anything until we have a signed legal agreement. Sometimes it takes a long time, sometimes it doesn’t,” he said. Before any contract is settled, both CIS and Google would have to get more student feedback about privacy concerns and Google applications, Tom said.

‘Indoor prostitution’ may be coming to an end in R.I. By Ben Schreckinger Senior Staff Writer

Rhode Island is one of just two places in the union where prostitution is currently legal. But legislators could vote to put an end to that when they return from recess before the end of the summer. While the state has laws forbidding public solicitation and the operation of brothels, there is no language explicitly barring the act of prostitution itself. In 1998 the state supreme court ruled that prostitution was legal if it took place indoors. In the United States, only Rhode Island and some parts of Nevada do not ban the practice. The state’s House and Senate have separately passed bills that target all forms of prostitution. The bills include punishments for prostitutes and their customers, but they differ significantly in the types of penalties allotted. Legislators must reconcile the two pieces of legislation into a single bill to send it to the desk of Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65, who has indicated his support for ending legal prostitution. The Senate bill carries fines for

first and second violations and up to six months in prison. Criminal charges cannot be brought before a third offense. For those “permitting prostitution” on the premises of their property, the bill provides for up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine for a third offense. The bill passed 35-0 in June.

METRO The Senate version of the bill cracks down on the practice without excessively penalizing women in the sex trade, said State Sen. Rhoda Perry P’91, D-Dist. 3, whose district includes College Hill. The House bill carries up to six months in jail for a first offense and up to a year for subsequent offenses for both prostitutes and their customers.

The bill also provides victims of human trafficking immunity from prosecution. Police “struggled” to make arrests under a previous human trafficking law “because trafficking victims generally are not cooperative with police because they are afraid of arrest or retribution,” according to a press release from the office of State Rep. Joanne Giannini, D-Dist. 7, who sponsored the House bill. But Perry said the House bill “places an unfair and heavy burden on the victim.” “Threatening women … will not deter them from prostitution,” she said. Prominent officials have voiced their support for the House bill, including Carcieri, Attorney General Patrick Lynch ’87 and Police Superintendent Brendan Doherty.

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The American Civil Liberties Union is among those groups which oppose both versions of the bill. “We believe that if individuals are engaged in consensual sexual conduct it shouldn’t be the state’s business,” said Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island chapter. “More women are at the (Adult Correctional Institutions) for prostitution-related offenses than any other crime,” Brown said, calling such arrests a “drain” on state resources. Giving prostitutes a criminal record will only make it more difficult for them to find other forms of employment, Brown said.

The Rhode Island General Assembly passed a bill last month to allow the creation of up to three state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries, becoming the third state in the country to legalize so-called “compassion centers” after both the House and Senate voted to override the veto of Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65. The use of medical marijuana for gravely ill patients was legalized by the General Assembly in 2006. But without a legal means to obtain marijuana, patients have to grow it themselves or buy it illegally. “It’s an opportunity for people to live out their lives in a more peaceful way,” said State Rep. Thomas Slater, D-Dist. 10, who sponsored the bill in the House. “The only people who seem to be prevented from getting marijuana are the people who need it for their diseases.” Stephen Hogan, executive director of the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition, also praised the bill. “Rhode Island now has the best law throughout the country for medical marijuana,” Hogan said. Unlike in California, he said, “these are state-regulated, non-profit organizations. All you need in California is a license.” According to Hogan, there should be three dispensaries statewide by 2011. Amy Kempe, a spokeswoman for Carcieri, said the governor continues to oppose the bill. “First and foremost, it tends to weaken the laws governing and the perceptions of illicit drugs,” Kempe said, adding that Rhode Island has one of the highest rates of drug use among teenagers. She added that California has seen an increase in crime in the areas surrounding compassion centers, as patients leaving the centers are vulnerable to muggers. Dan Bernath, spokesperson for the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C., said that evidence of increased crime in areas around dispensaries in California is merely “anecdotal.” The bill, he said, is “a reflection of the understanding that these compassion centers have worked very well” in other states. “I think it is an acknowledgement that the mood is changing,” Bernath said. “Obama and his attorney general have shown that they’re not interested in using federal law enforcement resources against people operating within the laws of the state.”

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“I found the selection process inspiring” — President Ruth Simmons on the White House Fellowships program

Times reporter, alum, escapes Taliban prison

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Simmons, Gregorian tapped by Obama President Ruth Simmons and former Brown President Vartan Gregorian have been appointed to President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, the White House announced last month. They are among 28 members President Barack Obama selected for the commission, which recommends candidates for the White House Fellows program. Fellows in the program — which emphasizes leadership and public service — work for top-level government officials. “I found the selection process inspiring,” Simmons wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “It demonstrated that when experienced, creative, and innovative individuals have an opportunity to explore the workings of government at the highest levels, their positive experience can lead them to make a significant mark in their chosen professions and in public service.” In a press release, Obama

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called the members of the commission “diverse, nonpartisan and committed to mentoring our next generation of public servants.” Other commission members include former Sen. Tom Daschle, Gen. Wesley Clark, news anchor Tom Brokaw and Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng. According to the press release, the commission will select between 11 and 19 fellows from a pool of 30 finalists. Over a thousand applications were received for the 2009-2010 class. Prominent alumni of the White House Fellows program include Gen. Colin Powell, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta. Gregorian was president of Brown from 1989 to 1997, and currently serves as the president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. —Kelly Mallahan

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David Rohde ’90, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, escaped a Taliban prison June 19 after more than seven months of captivity by jumping over the wall of the compound where he was being held. Rohde was abducted, along with a local reporter and their driver, outside of Kabul in November while en route to a meeting with a Taliban commander for a book the Brown alum was writing on American involvement in Afghanistan, the Times reported the day after Rohde’s escape. Although news of the kidnapping spread, the Times asked that news outlets refrain from publicizing the incident, which could have endangered the lives of Rohde and his colleagues, according to the paper. Rohde was reporting for his book at the time he was captured, but he had been writing for the Times on a freelance basis from Kabul, David McCraw, vice president and assistant general counsel for the Times, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. The Times worked with crisis firms, government officials and other organizations that have had abducted affiliates to secure Rohde’s release, Catherine Mathis, senior vice president of corporate communications at

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David Rohde ’90 jumped over a wall in a Pakistan prison while guards slept.

the Times, added in an e-mail. At some point during the seven months of captivity the men were moved from Kabul, where they were captured, to Pakistan. “We don’t know how and when they were moved,” Mathis wrote. Attempts to contact Rohde for an interview were unsuccessful. On the night of their escape, Rohde and the local reporter, Tahir Ludin, waited until the guards of the compound fell asleep and then jumped over the building’s walls into the desert of the North Waziristan region of Pakistan, according to Mathis. They then found their way to a nearby Pakistani Frontier Corps base and were then flown to the American military base in Bagram, Afghanistan.

The driver did not escape and “as far as we know, he is still being held,” Mathis wrote. Rohde enrolled at Brown for his junior year as a transfer from Bates College. After graduating in 1990, he worked a number of low-profile jobs until he was hired at the Christian Science Monitor in 1994. At the Monitor, he reported on the massacre of Bosnian Muslims. In 1996, shortly after accepting a job at the Times, Rohde was awarded his first Pulitzer Prize for uncovering mass graves of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. In May 2009, he was recognized again when a Times reporting team won a Pulitzer for their coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan last year.

Legislature moves to shorten state’s name Recent grads planning

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Question may be put to a vote in a statewide referendum in November 2010

By Brigitta Greene Senior Staf f Writer

By Ben SChreckinger Senior Staf f Writer

The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations might lose the distinction of having the longest name of any state if lawmakers and residents favor an amendment to the state constitution. The Senate and the House of Representatives have passed identical bills to shorten the state’s official name to the State of Rhode Island. Last month, they also approved a proposal to allow residents to vote on the change in a statewide referendum in November 2010. Though the bills are identical, one chamber will have to pass the bill approved by the other after the summer recess for the issue to move to the referendum. “It’s high time for us to recognize that slavery happened on plantations in Rhode Island and decide that we don’t want that chapter of our histor y to be a proud part of our name,” Rep. Joseph Almeida, DDist. 12, who sponsored the House bill, said in a statement. State Sen. Rhoda Perry, D- Dist. 3 said she supported putting the question of a change to the state’s name to a referendum so that “all citizens could make that determination.” Perr y, a co-sponsor of the Senate bill, said she was “inclined to

vote for the changes” when the referendum reaches the ballot. But not ever yone is in favor of the name change. In a July 11 editorial in the Providence Journal, Keith Stokes, director of the Newport County Chamber of Commerce wrote, “For me, it is profoundly ironic that the name Plantations in Rhode Island would be reviled as a symbol of oppression, when in historical truth the name should be synonymous with civil liberty and rights, not African slaver y.” If amended, the preamble to Rhode Island’s constitution would read “We, the people of this State which state shall henceforth be known as the state of Rhode Island, grateful to Almighty God for the

“It’s high time for us to recognize that slavery happened on plantations in Rhode Island” Joseph Almeida State Representative, D-Dist. 12 civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and to transmit the same unimpaired to succeeding generations, do ordain and establish this Constitution of government.”

While the United States and other nations struggle to respond to Nor th Korea’s recent aggressive militar y posturing, three recently graduated seniors are still moving for ward with their planned trip to bring a group of about 18 students and professors to the secretive state by way of China in August. Jonathan Warren ’09, Matthew Reichel ’09 and Nicholas Young ’09, who all concentrated in East Asian Studies, received permission this spring from the Nor th Korean government to bring Americans into the country to attend the Mass Games — a nationalistic, highly regimented form of performing arts. Their original plan was to run two separate trips, according to Warren. But now, because fewer people enrolled than expected, Warren, Reichel and Young have altered their plans to condense their two planned trips into one. Some individuals who expressed interest in the trip this spring were unable to follow through for a variety of reasons, Warren said. He said he did not think any enrollment decisions were influenced by recent nuclear tests in Nor th Korea or the sentencing of two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor in the countr y.

Though attracting international attention to the region, these events have done absolutely nothing to change the agenda of the trip, Warren said, adding that the 11-day trip should go by “without a hitch.” The students’ company, called “5 Passes” after the mountainous region in western China where it will be based, combines studying abroad and tourism. Participants will fly into China to spend their first six days traveling the countr y before moving on to North Korea. Once across the border, a native guide will take over for the graduates. Two North Korean “government minders” will also join the group. The three founders have over five years of combined experience living in China and have come to establish personal contacts in, as well as cultural and business knowledge of, the region. A major attribute of the trip, Reichel said, is its focus on experiences not available to the average tourist. “There are sections of the Great Wall that people will never be able to get to if they don’t know where they are,” Reichel said. “They’re not tourist areas. You don’t buy a ticket. You can’t find a bus to get there.” “You have to know someone who knows about the wall, and then you find a little village and walk.”

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one year after their graduation, said they always loved the idea of getting married at Manning. “We decided to do Manning beDestination weddings have become increasingly popular in recent years. cause we both loved Brown,” Blanco Today, brides- and grooms-to-be often said. travel to exotic locales in the United “We met at Brown, we got enStates and abroad. The tropical is- gaged at Brown and his parents got lands of the Caribbean, the roman- married at Brown,” she said. “And I tic cities of Europe and the pristine loved the idea of Manning.” beaches of Hawaii are all frequent Abbey Barrett Bloom ’03 and destinations for couples seeking a Jonathan Bloom ’03 also had family getaway for their big day. ties to Brown, and likewise decided But then again, so are the green to get married at Manning. lawns of College Hill. “We live in New York,” Abbey Brown has been said, “but we have so FEATURE hosting destination many friends from weddings of sorts for school, and Brown was decades. On average, at least 40 the obvious choice.” couples — often recent alums — reAbbey said their wedding, on turn to College Hill for their special May 30 of this year, was full of alumday each year, according to the Rev. ni who enjoyed returning to campus. Janet Cooper-Nelson, the University Her father, grandparents and greatchaplain. grandparents are graduates and Though weddings have been many of the couple’s friends from held at Hillel, the Faculty Club and Brown were in the bridal party. the Crystal Room, Manning Chapel, Another alumna friend became situated on both the Main and Quiet an online minister for the occasion, Greens, is the most popular choice and officiated the ceremony. for couples, Cooper-Nelson said. Abbey said she and Jonathan “It’s a beloved space,” she said. tried to incorporate small details “People love the space — we all of their college experience into the occasion. For instance, they wrote do.” With students gone, summer is their names and the date of their the peak time for couples to return wedding on the sidewalk in front to Providence to exchange vows. of the Van Wickle Gates, and sent Though Cooper-Nelson said most a photograph of the message to all couples who marry in Manning are of their guests as a “save the date” alumni of the college, others are cur- card. They also used their yearbook rent graduate students or faculty as a sign-in registry for guests on members. their big day. “This is the whole mixed generaCooper-Nelson said the nondetion of Brown,” she said. nominational space can also serve Mixed generations were prac- as a common ground for couples tically the theme of the July 2005 who have different religious backnuptials of Jessie Blanco ’03 and grounds. Michael Busam ’03. Michael’s parManning did just that for Kristen ents, Stanley James Busam ’75 and Langdon Cohen ’89 and Lee Cohen Margaret Hayes, had been married ’89, who were married in the chapel in Manning 30 years earlier. in October 1999. The couple lived one floor apart Blanco and Busam, who met during the fall of their junior year continued on page 7 and got engaged at Campus Dance

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RISD museum to close for August; layoffs to come

By Lauren Fedor Senior Staff Writer

Courtesy of Abbey Barrett Bloom (top), Robert Aubin (bottom)

Abbey Barrett Bloom ’03 and Jonathan Bloom ’03 used sidewalk art to announce their wedding to guests (above). Jessie Blanco ’03 and Michael Busam ’03 tied the knot in Manning Chapel, just as Michael’s parents had.

In challenging job market, art students hit hard, too By Rosalind Schonwald Staff Writer

This year, it wasn’t just economics majors who were dutifully monitoring changes in the economy and the job market. College students pursuing arts and media internships found they were just as affected by the downturn as those hoping to spend their summers on Wall Street. Harvard sophomore Daniel Villafana has felt the effects of ailing markets this summer at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, where he is an intern. Well, not quite. “They would not take an intern,” Villafana said. “You have to pay interns. I am volunteering. I work, like, 12 hours a week.” As a volunteer, Villafana’s responsibilities include standard intern duties, such as filing and organizing, as well as a few slightly less routine tasks

linked to downsizing at the prominent museum. “Two days ago, my job was to clear out the office of somebody they had to lay off,” Villafana explained. “It was a person in charge of the membership department.” Summer festivals, staples of the arts world, have also experienced shifts as a result of reduced funding. Matt Acoin, another Harvard sophomore, described his experience as a coach and pianist in the opera division at the Caramoor Music Festival. “Essentially, my job consists of playing the orchestra’s part at all non-orchestra rehearsals and coaching the singers,” he said. Money, or lack thereof, has forced the festival to restrict its hiring to individuals who already have local housing. “I’m the only non-New Yorker on the staff,” Acoin said. “Normally, Caramoor gives its employees places to stay, but the budget was badly hurt

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this past year, and most jobs had to be given to people in the city.” Acoin’s classmate, Ian Kumekawa, on the other hand, is interning at a small New England artists’ colony that seems to be weathering the downturn, with help from strong community support. “It’s in a fairly wealthy town,” Kumekawa says. Plus, “it’s a small museum, so the overhead isn’t very high, compared to a large museum.” Michelle Gomes, in her final semester as a graduate student in media studies at The New School, is interning with CNN Senior Correspondent Richard Roth, who reports on the United Nations. Her duties — which include creative, editorial and writing responsibilities and grueling workdays — seem to go above and beyond the standard filing fare of most internships. “As an intern, I only see budget cuts in various news-producing depart-

ments and fewer job openings,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Interns are definitely given more responsibilities. We end up doing most of what a person in an entry-level position would do.”

Having seen its endowment shrink by nearly a third, the Rhode Island School of Design is shuttering its renowned museum for the entire month of August. In a May 13 e-mail and statement to faculty and students, RISD President John Maeda announced that the school would also reduce the size of the museum’s staff by up to 20 people through layoffs, early retirement incentives and other measures. The museum closing came in response to what its director, Hope Alswang, called “a truly harrowing drop in the museum’s endowment portfolio,” with earned interest dropping from $6 million to around $5 million in the span of one fiscal year. “We knew we couldn’t just nibble around the edges,” Alswang told the Providence Journal in a July 12 article. “We knew we had to find a solution that matched the problem.” RISD Museum attendance in August has typically been the institution’s lowest of the year, and the summer closing means the school’s academic programs will be mostly unaffected. Nevertheless, in the past two months, eight museum employees have been laid off, and six chose early retirement. When the museum does reopen in September, it will be to an exciting season that includes an installation by Arnie Zimmerman in the new Chace Center, as well as an exhibit of early modern engraving and an ongoing show of Japanese landscape prints. — Ben Hyman

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C ampus N EWS

Jesse Morgan / Herald (above) , Hang Nguyen (below)

Above, crews began excavating the site of the new Creative Arts Center. Below, renovations to Faunce House.

Metcalf will be next for construction crews continued from page 1

Kim Perley / Herald (above), Jesse Morgan / Herald (below)

Above, a stairway near the top of aging Metcalf Hall, which was approved for renovations after plans for a new brain science building were scuttled. Below, a worker examines a drill at the site of the Creative Arts Center.

last year as a student ser vices building. Construction should last about three semesters, during which the faculty currently residing in Metcalf will move to a University building on Waterman Street near Wayland Square, Maiorisi said. The building currently houses faculty in the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences. The Metcalf renovations are projected to cost around $42 million, while the original plans for a new building at the current site of the Urban Environmental Lab would have cost over $70 million, Maiorisi said. Although top administrators had originally considered the building a high-priority project, the University had been able to raise just $27 million for it by the end of last semester. “Holding on to the previous dream under the current circumstances would have meant a long and uncertain wait,” said Spies. On the other hand, “the question of if (faculty) do their work in a renovated Metcalf or in a new building is almost irrelevant,” he said. “We can still achieve almost 99 percent of what we had intended to do,” Spies said. The current plan also avoids the “double whammy” of expensive constr uction and higher long-term operating costs, he added. Built in the 1920s, Metcalf was already in need of renovation, and the changes will give the building another 75 or 100 years of life, Spies said. Utilizing existing space is a “ver y green thing to do,” Maiorisi

added. The plan for the renovated building is certainly green in one way — the UEL, previously set to be demolished or relocated to make room for a new building, will be spared — for now. But building on that site is still in the University’s long-term plan, Spies said. “Fifty years from now, there will be a (new) building there,” he said. Busy summer Meanwhile, the construction of the new Creative Arts Center between Angell and Olive streets, exterior changes to Faunce House and renovations to dormitories have begun elsewhere on campus. After a groundbreaking ceremony during Commencement Weekend, preliminary work on the $40 million arts building — funded entirely by gifts — has begun. “They are still in effect excavating,” Spies said. The Walk has been re-routed around the site and will remain that way until the Center’s completion, slated for December 2010. Construction on Faunce House to transform it into the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center is also continuing. Work on the Faunce exterior and the former mailroom is on course for completion by September. The bricks from the exterior front steps have been completely removed, while workers have started converting the old mailroom into a social space. A temporar y eater y to replace the Blue Room will open this fall in the former mailroom, Ann Hoffman, director of administration at Dining Services, wrote in an e-mail

to The Herald. The room will still be available for events in the evening, she wrote. Similarly, a “small snack shop” in J. Walter Wilson will temporarily replace the Campus Market, she wrote. The renovation of Faunce Arch, slated for November, will cause the biggest disruption to student life, Maiorisi said. Facilities Management will attempt to minimize any blockage of pedestrian access through the arch to Waterman Street, he said. Students living in Hope and Slater Halls during the upcoming year do not need to be concerned about early morning construction noise, said Thomas Forsberg, associate director of housing and residential life. Though Faunce will be covered in scaffolding when students arrive on campus, all outdoor work on the building should be completed when the semester begins. Renovation work on Caswell and Slater Halls is also proceeding as planned, though Forsberg cautioned that “it will be a challenge” to finish before the first early-arriving students reach campus. The renovations will convert kitchens in Caswell to double rooms while expanding the basement lounge and adding a kitchen to it, Forsberg said. Slater will gain bathrooms on the first and fourth floors. Overall, the University will spend around $30 million on 131 separate projects between May and September, Maiorisi said. That amount is about standard for summer spending, he added.

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“As long as there are no Harry Potter posters on the wall, I will be fine.” — Actress Emma Watson ’13, on coming to Brown in the fall

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A vendor took advantage of the warm weather to capture the attention of Thayer Street pedestrians.

It’s not magic: ‘Harry Potter’ star bound for Brown continued from page 1 at Brown in recent interviews with MTV, Paste magazine and other media outlets. As early as August 2008, The Daily Telegraph, one of Britain’s biggest papers, was reporting on the high results of Watson’s A-level exams.With such stellar grades, Watson was expected to attend Oxford or Cambridge, following in the footsteps of her parents, not to mention generations of talented English teens. But in September, the Telegraph quoted Watson as saying she had applied to a few American universities as well. “I never thought that I would want to go to America for university,” Watson told Interview magazine this April. “As a child, I aspired to go to Oxbridge, because that’s where my parents went. When my dad talks about his time there, he says it was the most incredible experience.” Watson’s interest in exploring her American options was confirmed in October when she swung through the northeast on a college tour that took her to Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Brown, leaving a trail of excited buzz in her wake. “‘Hermione’ Enchants Campus With Visit,” the Harvard Crimson reported, quoting one sophomore who was “distraught” because he absentmindedly missed a chance to give Watson a tour of his dorm room. In New Haven, Watson’s visit caused an “uproar,” the Yale Daily News wrote. “Everyone just got out their phones and started calling people,” sophomore John Song told the Daily News. “There was kind of a … little buzz around, everyone was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s Emma Watson,’ but no one went up to her.”

Watson was spotted at Yale again in December, leading the Daily News to speculate, “She just can’t get enough of Yale … perhaps this is good news for Yale’s future class of 2013?” Misdirection And Muddle By the end of January, though, it looked like Yale’s hopes had been in vain. The Telegraph’s gossip blogger, “Mandrake,” revealed that Watson would not be crossing the pond at all. Rather, she would be studying English literature at Cambridge University’s Trinity College. The Telegraph quoted a friend of Watson’s mother who said the young actress had balked at the prospect of moving so far away from home. But then, in early March, Twitter user “mwtsnx” — an account registered under the name “Emma Watson” — produced the terse, blase tweet, “Did I tell you I got accepted to Yale,” hinting perhaps that the actress was New Haven-bound. E! Online picked up the story, which quickly oozed out into the blogosphere. Within a day, the story had been completely debunked. An announcement on Watson’s Web site read, “We would like to inform you that Emma does not have a Twitter account and that these rumours are false. Emma is still trying to decide whether she wants to attend university in the U,K. or the U.S.A. and hasn’t accepted any placements at this time.” Nevertheless, the pseudo-story that Watson was headed to Yale continued to ricochet around the Internet echo chamber for weeks. One Scottish culture site was still repeating it at the end of April. In the meantime, an April 13 article appearing in the popular British tabloid News of the World had it that Watson had settled on Brown. But

the actress stayed mum, neither confirming nor denying the rumors. As if the situation weren’t already complicated enough, in June, multiple celebrity blogs picked up the story that Watson was going to Columbia. The proof? A “Charlotte E. Watson” was listed in Columbia’s student directory — meaning, of course, that Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (the actress’ full name) had enrolled under a pseudonym! Never mind the fact that the Charlotte Watson in question had a corresponding LinkedIn profile, or the fact that she was clearly listed as attending the Columbia’s School of Continuing Education, not its college. By early July, then, Watson had been pegged as a member of the class of 2013 at Cambridge, Yale, Brown and Columbia. The Frenzied Farce’s Finale On July 4, it started to look like Brown had won out. In an interview with The Guardian, Radcliffe — in between dispelling rumors about his sexuality and discussing his love of the BBC Parliament channel, the British C-SPAN — mentioned the Potter cast members’ respective academic achievements. Watson was “incredibly academic, it’s frightening,” he said. “Me and Rupert (Grint, who plays Ron Weasley) to all intents and purposes dropped out of school. And she’s going to Brown.” Watson herself had still not confirmed the story when the Providence Journal picked it up on July 7. In July 8 and July 9 interviews with David Letterman and the U.K.’s Jonathan Ross, respectively, Watson said she had settled on a school in the states, feeling that, for someone who hasn’t had a ‘normal’ educa-

tional life since she was nine years old, a broader American university curriculum would be better than a more specialized English one. She still avoided naming the school she had chosen — though she did drop the word “concentration” in the Letterman interview. On July 12, Potter producer David Heyman also let slip to the Chicago Sun-Times that Watson was headed to Brown. And then, on July 14, Watson finally revealed, in Paste magazine, that Brown was in fact her choice. Two days later, she told MTV the same thing. With the months of wild speculation now at an end, all that remains is Watson’s actual matriculation at her chosen school, and she’d like her future roommate to keep things low-key, please. “As long as there are no Harry Potter posters on the wall, I will be fine and happy,” she told People. Watson has worked her filming schedule for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — which will be split in half to form the seventh and yes, eighth installments of the epic franchise — around the fall semester. “I’ll be doing bits and bobs at Christmas, but September feels like my cut-off point, when I’ll really stop,” she told Elle U.K. After that, she’s not planning to forswear film acting entirely, but she would like to balance her career and her education. Watson told Paste she’s excited to be leaving home for a new environment, where she might get to experience “a bit of ‘normality’ for a while.” “I do hope that it will be only a short time before I am known as ‘Emma Watson, the student from the U.K.’ rather than ‘Emma Watson who starred in those Harry Potter films,’” she said.

from each other during their junior year in Hegeman Hall. Though they remained “just friends” in the years following graduation, the two began dating in the late ’90s and decided to get married soon thereafter. “We wanted to get married at Brown because it was a commonality,” Kristen said. “It was something from our history.” In light of her Protestant background and Lee’s Jewish upbringing, Manning seemed like the perfect place to bring together their two families. Kristen and Lee have continued to make Brown part of their family — Cooper-Nelson has baptized the couple’s four boys in Manning. “Brown is a family,” Cooper-Nelson said. “We may not be a religious family, but there is a way that we really are tied together.” Cooper-Nelson said the openness and acceptance couples find in Manning matches the spirit of the University community — namely, though the state of Rhode Island does not recognize gay marriage, many gay couples have held ceremonies in Manning Chapel. “It doesn’t matter to us if you’re straight or gay,” she said. Cooper-Nelson’s open attitude encouraged Jasmine Waddel ’99 to have her wedding in Manning. Though her partner, Jodi, was not an alumna, Waddel could not have imagined getting married anywhere other than Brown. She and her partner were officially married on Nantucket in September 2007, where the marriage would be legally recognized, before having a “proper ceremony” in Manning. “September is a glorious time at Brown,” Wadell said, adding that the “Roots” sculptures were installed the weekend of the ceremony, and the two women were able to take photographs in front of the artwork. “It was just so fun,” she said. “And you certainly don’t get that at a traditional church or community center.”

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Bears send three to track finals

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By Andrew Braca Spor ts Editor

Three Brown athletes competed at the Division I NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship in June, led by Craig Kinsley ’11, who finished third in the nation in the javelin to earn AllAmerican honors. Br ynn Smith ’11 and Br yan Powlen ’09 both finished in the top 20 nationally in the hammer throw and discus, respectively. The coach who guided all three Brown NCAA par ticipants, assistant throws coach Michelle Eisenreich, was named the Northeastern Region Assistant Track and Field Coach of the Year. Kinsley’s throw of 73.31 meters trailed only those of Chris Hill of Georgia (81.80) and Corey White of USC (75.72). Kinsley said the result was the validation of a year’s worth of effort, but he wasn’t completely satisfied. “I was excited about my finish, but I was also a little disappointed and left wanting for more because … with the way I was throwing and the way my body felt, I felt that (second place) was within reach and that I had more in me that day,” he said. Kinsley said he did not set a specific goal for himself. “Instead of thinking about putting a number on a distance on how far I throw it, I usually just think, I’m going to throw it into the stands on the other side of the track,” he said. “My goal going into it was to not get swallowed up by the meet itself and focus on the approach and then just let ever ything else fall into shape as I have done for the rest of the season.” All three Bears improved on the seeds they received when they stepped onto John McDonnell Field at the University of Arkansas on June 10. Smith was seeded 27th in the hammer throw, but finished 20th in the nation with a throw of over 183 feet. Powlen was seeded 26th in the discus, but moved up to finish 18th in the nation with a throw of over 179 feet. Kinsley entered the NCAAs as the fourth seed in the javelin. The top eight finishers were named All-Americans by the United States Track and Field and Cross Countr y Coaches Association. Kinsley said he had often been one of the two best throwers in his previous meets, leading to extra jitters against a talented field. “Definitely, when it came down to it I was hit pretty hard with some pressure — ner ves — that I hadn’t had the rest of the season,” he said. “I think it kind of showed in my first day of competition, but I was able to get through it and come out the other side.” Now Kinsley is shooting for more. “There’s no doubt this whets my appetite for bigger and better things,” he said. “Just going to a big meet is a hell of an experience. It really makes you want to get to the next big meet and the next big meet … I think about it just about ever y single day — where can I get next year, where can I get in the next few years with javelin throwing.”

Courtesy of Digit Murphy

Women’s hockey head coach Digit Murphy was among 44 who applied for the vacant men’s hockey coaching job. However, she is not among the finalists (sidebar), according to the Providence Journal.

Men’s hockey looking for a new coach By Dan Alexander Sports Staff Writer

Men’s hockey head coach Roger Grillo resigned from his position on July 1 to become the Regional Manager for USA Hockey’s American Development Model. The athletic department immediately began searching for Grillo’s replacement after he resigned. According to the Providence Journal, 44 individuals have applied for the position, including the women’s hockey head coach, Digit Murphy. Murphy, however, is not a finalist for the position. According to the U.S. Hockey Report, the finalists are Dartmouth Assistant Coach Brendan Whittet ’94, Boston College Associate Head Coach Mike Cavanaugh, UMass-Amherst Assistant Red Gendron and Union College Associate Head Coach Rick Bennett. In an e-mail to The Herald, Athletic Director Michael Goldberger wrote he hopes the new head coach will be chosen by July 25. Whittet, a former Brown defenseman, won an Ivy League championship in 1992 and made it to the ECAC Final Four Championships in 1993 and 1994. He has been an assistant with the Big Green for 11 seasons. Cavanaugh, who also spent two years as an assistant at Dartmouth, has been with the high-profile Eagles program for 14 seasons, during the last five of which he has been the associate head coach. During his time at BC, the team has won six Hockey East Championships and two national championships. Gendron made a return to college hockey in 2005 when he took an assistant coaching job at UMass, after spending 11 of the previous 12 seasons as an assistant, scout and AHL head coach in the New Jersey Devils organization. The Devils hoisted the Stanley Cup three times while Gendron was on their staff. Bennett, who was a Hobey Baker finalist at Providence College in 1990, went on to have a 10-year professional career before becoming an assistant at PC for five years. He left Providence to join the ECAC for the 2005-2006 season with Union College, where he has coached since. Goldberger formed an 11-person committee comprised of faculty, administrators, coaches and players to find the next coach. Assistant captain Aaron Volpatti ’10 and Scott van der Linden ’10 — neither of whom could be reached for comment — joined Goldberger as members of the committee. Grillo won’t be behind the Brown bench for

the first time since 1997. In his 12 seasons at Brown, Grillo went 120-205-52. “Initially, it was a shock,” said Jordan Pietrus ’10, whom Grillo named assistant captain for the upcoming season. “I don’t think anyone really expected it.” “It’s disappointing,” said Mike Clemente ’12. “He’s a good coach and an awesome guy.” He led the Bears to three straight winning seasons from 2003-2005. But his teams struggled in recent years, going 11-44-9 over the last two seasons. Grillo’s assistant coaches, Mark Workman and Scott Stirling ’00, agreed that Grillo will be missed most for something far less tangible than wins and losses. “He’s got a real strong passion for the game and for the team,” Workman said. “He deeply, deeply cares for all of the guys in that locker room.” Grillo joins the ADM, which was created by USA Hockey, with support from the National Hockey League, in order to provide a structure in which teams throughout the country can develop young talent, using age-appropriate training techniques. The coaching vacancy has left recruits wondering who will lead Brown’s locker room next year, but Workman and Stirling both said the coaching transition should not harm Brown’s recruiting. “Coach Workman and I are still up there and we’re doing our thing,” Stirling said. “We’re talking to kids and showing the kids around the school and showing all of the great things that Brown has to offer.” The incoming class of freshmen, recruited by Grillo’s staff, are all honoring their commitments to come to Brown. The recruiting class below them still has plenty of time to decide, as many of them will not commit until next spring. That doesn’t mean the athletic department is taking it slow, however. “Things are going to start to heat up with hockey and recruiting and stuff like that come August,” Stirling said. By then, Goldberger expects to already have the new coach. Workman and Stirling don’t know what the future holds for them. “I’m not going to lie to you, I mean I’ve talked to some other people about some other jobs and stuff like that, but nothing has really happened on that front,” Workman said. Both he and Stirling said they would consider staying if asked. “Certainly if given the opportunity to stay,

Men’s hockey head coach finalists Rick Bennet After personal success as a player at Providence Colege, Bennet had a 10-year professional career befre becoming an assistant at PC and then a coach at Union College. Mike cavanaugh After two years as an assistant for Dartmouth, Cavanaugh has been an associate head coach at Boston College for the last five years out of the 14 he has been with BC. Red Gendron Gendron spent 11 seasons working for the New Jersey Devils, before becoming an assistant coach at UMass Amherst. brendan Whittet Currently an assistant for Dartmouth, the Brown alum won an Ivy League title and made it to the ECAC Final Four twice while a defenseman for the Brown. I would like the chance to, you know, reapply or re-interview or stay on board, but that’s not up to me,” Stirling said. The players will have to learn new drills and prove themselves to a new coach. But right now, they don’t know what lies ahead. “There’s definitely some stress and anxiety involved because you don’t know what to expect,” Pietrus said. “Everyone is going to be like freshmen again,” Workman said.

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“We had a few terrific races over there” — Men’s crew Head Coach Paul Cooke ’89

Crew rows to multiple successes across the pond By Andrew Braca Spor ts Editor

The men’s crew team had a fantastic finish to its season on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. After placing third in the nation at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship Regatta, the freshmen eight placed second and the varsity eight won the Ladies’ Plate at the prestigious Henley Regatta in England. “We had a few terrific races over there,” said Head Coach Paul Cooke ’89. “The freshmen did a great job, making it to the final, and the varsity rowed some terrific races to win the Ladies Plate. It was a big step for ever yone, a big victory.” It was especially sweet for the graduating seniors. “Henley is just one of the most special rowing events in the world,” said Matt Wheeler ’09. “I couldn’t think of a better way to end my rowing experience at Brown.” The Bears began the postseason on a roll, sweeping all five races at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Sprints on May 10 to win the Ivy League title, before traveling to Sacramento the following month to face the best colleges in the country at IRAs. June 6 began slowly for Brown, as the four placed second in the

petite final, good for eighth overall. But all three of Brown’s eights made their grand finals, reserved for only the top six boats. The freshmen eight placed third, just 0.437 seconds behind second-place Har vard and nearly 2.6 seconds ahead of fourth-place finisher Cal. The second varsity eight took the silver and the varsity eight placed fourth, less than 2.3 seconds off the medal stand. Brown’s 174 points were good for third, just four points behind runner-up Cal. The University of Washington won the national championship with 198 points, sweeping the eights. “Other than Washington, I really thought we had about as good a performance as any crew,” Cooke said. “I was ver y proud of the effort out there; the guys raced very well. We would have liked to be closer in the varsity in the final than we were, but it was a great performance team-wide.” Brown was one of only four crews, along with Cal, Har vard and Washington, to place all three eights in grand finals. “That was pretty amazing,” said Rob O’Leary ’09, the varsity eight coxswain. “It really showed how strong and how deep the team was this year.” Coming off that strong showing, the Bears traveled to England to

spend the Fourth of July weekend racing a field loaded with international powers on the River Thames. The freshmen advanced to the finals of the Temple Cup before falling to Princeton. After passing a stiff test against Leander in the semifinals on Saturday, the varsity eight advanced to the championship the following day. “The whole finals day in Henley definitely has a unique feel to it — you’re racing in front of hundreds of thousands of people,” O’Lear y said. “There’s nothing like that anywhere in America, where there are so many spectators and it’s such a high-profile event. Going into that race, everyone was really motivated. We had the whole team behind us.” Their teammates were among the few supporters the Bears had at Henley. Brown was facing the British under-23 national team, and opinion was squarely against the Yanks. “The shores were packed all the way down the 2000-meter course with people cheering against us, so it was very tense at the line and there was a lot riding on it,” Wheeler said. “Going down the course, the crowd got so loud at the end we couldn’t hear our coxswain who was steering us.” But the Bears disappointed the

throngs. Pushing hard off the starting line, Brown took a small lead in the first third of the race and held on through the middle. But the current of the Thames shifted for the last third of the race. “Coming into the last part of the race the river was against us … and the other crew sort of had an advantage coming for them, but we were able to really dig in hard and just kind of hold them,” O’Lear y said. “We won by a half-length, which was a really close margin. It basically came down to a really tough, hard-fought race, just really aggressive all the way down the course.” The victor y earned Brown its four th Ladies’ Plate, following championships in 1984, 1993 and 2000. Cooke coached the freshmen in 2000 and said both titles were special. “The race in 2000 to win was closer,” he said. “It was just a few feet that Brown won by.” “But actually they were ver y similar experiences,” Cooke added. “It was an opportunity for the varsity to race against some really good crews, and to see them win those races was gratifying, in both cases.” It was an unforgettable way for the seniors to end their Brown careers. “It was definitely great to finish

with such a big win,” O’Leary said. “Personally, (it’s) hard to come off such a big win and have to be done with the sport now. But (it was) definitely the most memorable experience I’ll have here at Brown.” Three Brown rowers are not done yet for the summer. Wheeler, Scott Morgan ’10 and Lindsey McAlpine ’09 will travel to the Czech Republic to represent the United States at the 2009 World Rowing Under 23 Championships starting on July 23. The rest of the Bears will soon turn their attention to next year. Cooke said he was unsure that the success would carry over, but he knows that the foundation is strong. “Every year is a new year,” he said. “It will be interesting and different. It will depend on the leadership of the guys and an understanding of what they want to do so that they have another good year. We certainly have some depth with the people returning, and we’re excited about the coming year.” Wheeler believes his former teammates will go far. “There are a lot of great leaders on this team right now,” he said. “I feel like I’m graduating with the team in extremely good hands and a really committed coaching staff. I know the guys are going to get right back to work next year and aim for

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A tax on learning

If Mayor David Cicilline ’83 has his way, Providence will become the first city in America to tax private colleges for, of all things, enrolling students. At the mayor’s urging, the Rhode Island House of Representatives recently approved a bill that would let cities impose a $150-per-student fee on private colleges for each semester of the academic year. Another bill under consideration would remove Brown’s tax-exempt status and cost the University additional millions of dollars annually. The two bills are meant to ensure payment for road maintenance, police, firefighters and other city services utilized by students and institutions of higher education. Cicilline calls it the “Fair Share Plan.” We’ll call it a double standard. Colleges in Providence lose about $1,200 per student to taxes, colleges everywhere else in the country do not. Clearly playing fair isn’t Cicilline’s main concern. A balanced budget (by any means necessary) is a more urgent priority for the mayor as he prepares for his upcoming reelection bid. According to a May article by the Associated Press, Cicilline’s office couldn’t point to any studies establishing what it costs the city to provide students with basic services. The total cost is unlikely to exceed students’ indirect contributions to state and local government coffers. A 2005 report by Appleseed Inc., a consultancy, found that Brown students spent an estimated $40 million locally in 2005. The University paid over $100 million to Rhode Island companies for construction, goods and services that year and spent over $144 million on research. A significant proportion of that money funneled back to the city through taxes on sales and income. The University also paid $12.8 million directly to state and local governments. Students at Brown and other local colleges devote thousands of hours to volunteer work in the city. The Swearer Center for Public Service runs a number of projects alongside community organizations and keeps students informed of service opportunities. Given the current economic climate — Rhode Island currently has the second highest unemployment rate in the country — it is especially important that members of the Brown community continue their efforts to make a difference in and beyond Providence. We fear that Cicilline’s decision to blame students for the city’s financial predicament will only foster resentment and weaken students’ felt obligation to their communities. The tax on learning should serve as a pointed reminder of the importance of student involvement in the political process. Should either bill become law, local officials might smell blood and further increase taxes on students and colleges when funding runs low. Providence students should start to consider voting in local elections, preferably for candidates who don’t take universities for granted. Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.

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The Brown fantasy tour

JONATHAN TOPAZ Opinions Columnist Sitting on the steps of Faunce during peak high school visiting, a couple friends and I began talking about a few rough patches we encountered in our first semester at Brown. One had trouble finding small, intimate classes. One felt disconnected from his professors. One felt that Providence was inaccessible and difficult to navigate. Almost on cue, a visiting mother and daughter who caught some wind of our conversation sat down and asked if they could briefly talk to us about Brown. These types of conversations with real students, they explained, often proved to be the most valuable way of discovering the school. Amidst the whirlwind of college visits, the prospective student confessed a familiar sentiment: “Every tour started to sound the same.” So that begs the question: What are these student tours attempting to accomplish? Certainly they physically show the Brown campus and give sound information as to how Brown works. But it appears that tours at Brown (and at most every university) are propaganda machines, hour-long sessions that promote the agenda of getting the largest number of students to apply as possible. What is fascinating about all of this is that the admissions office has very little to do

with the tours themselves. The extremely organized group behind this — the Bruin Club — is completely student-run, and the ranking officials on the committee merely supply tour guides with mostly logistical information. Sure, some of these pieces of information are misleading — for example, the low student-to-faculty ratio and average class size we brag about are deflated due to a few very small seminars and departments. But on the whole, it seems that most of the embellishment isn’t coming from the script. Wherever the inflated language comes from, its presence in everyday tours is harmful for

worried about, such as professors’ attention to undergraduates. Thus, when people take a tour of Brown (no doubt with qualified and intelligent guides) many seem to respond the way that the mother and daughter on the Faunce steps did — with a convoluted vision of it. The second, and graver consequence, however, is that embellished language and a purely positive portrayal of Brown leads to disbelief and skepticism from prospective students. If a guide states that teaching assistants are minor players in most classes, what happens when prospective students

If guides admit some shortcomings about Brown, their portrayal of a great university with minor flaws will be significantly more trusted.

two reasons. First, it blurs Brown’s distinction from other schools. The reason that every tour “sounds the same”, according to this one student, is that there is an unwritten trajectory to how tours work. Students emphasize important locations such as student unions and freshman dorms, call attention to university traditions, throw in some mild jokes and brag about things all prospective students are

ask who grades exams in lecture classes? If these embellishments are proven to be false (by something as simple as talking to a non-tour-guide student), why should the prospective student believe anything he or she has heard? I am not suggesting that tour guides highlight all things negative at Brown for fear of committing a sin of omission. However, how much trust would a guide earn if he or

she stated, “Teaching assistants in fact do much of the grading, but professors almost exclusively perform lectures and are readily available for meetings after class”? That simple acknowledgement of a small negative is a sign of candor that both expresses respect for prospective students and paints a realistic picture of Brown. If guides admit some shortcomings about Brown, their portrayal of a great university with minor flaws will be significantly more trusted. So, to what extent do we sell the school as fantasy? To what degree are we attempting to give prospective students a realistic picture of Brown, and to what degree are we attempting to achieve a higher application rate? Do we really want students applying if they have a false impression of our institution? And if tour guides aren’t indebted to the admissions office, why do they function as an extension of it? Brown’s recent decision to accept the Common Application underscores a crucial point. We seem to be blurring the lines between Brown and the other elite universities in the country. Much of what makes Brown brilliant is that its distinct message attracts students who strongly identify with it. By appealing to the masses, and perhaps abandoning a bit of truth in the process, it seems that we are losing a piece of our public identity.

Jonathan Topaz ’12 is from New York City. He can be reached at Jonathan.Topaz@gmail. com

Li’l Rhody’s big name change SARAH ROSENTHAL Opinions Editor Rhode Island is the littlest state with the longest name. I tell people this and watch as they try to figure out whether “Rhode Island” has more letters or syllables than “Pennsylvania” or “South Carolina.” Usually, they conclude that it doesn’t, and then I bust out that arcane but wonderful fact about Brown’s home state — its full name is “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.” Soon, our oft-slighted little state may lose even that distinction. The Rhode Island legislature is considering a bill that would allow voters to drop the “and Providence Plantations” from the state’s name, and it’s likely to pass. This is not the first time that controversy over naming has roiled Providence this year. In April, the Brown faculty voted to change the name of the Columbus Day holiday to Fall Weekend, much to the consternation of those who saw it as a slight to the Italian-American Providence community. Such luminaries as Curtis Sliwa said on Fox News that while Columbus was guilty of all offenses and may in fact have been “a barbarious slave trader,” it didn’t matter because a) Columbus stood for the spirit of exploration and b) Brown students think that his ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa and the Maria. (He wasn’t giving Brown students enough credit — we all know that Columbus’ ships were called the Groucho, the Harpo and the Chico.) Fox News aside, it seemed like a fairly obvi-

ous decision. We’re mostly good little liberals here, cautious about offending anything or anyone, and since no university would celebrate Vlad the Impaler Day or Pol Pot Day, 67.2 percent of students polled by The Herald favored the change. For Native Americans at Brown and others who lobbied for the name change, this was a major victory. For most of the student body, the change will be cosmetic. For me, this seems like a lost opportunity, one that soon may be repeated on a statewide scale. Reiko Koyama ’11, a proponent of the Fall

founders. To them, a plantation was indeed a place of labor, but fruitful labor in the service of God, not black slavery in the service of a white master. The Rhode Island state charter of 1663 (which I know Brown students peruse nightly), says of the land: “(B)y the good Providence of God, from whom the Plantations have taken their name, upon their labor and industry, they have not only been preserved to admiration, but have increased and prospered...” On the other hand, it’s not up to me, Curtis Sliwa or anyone else to judge what people are allowed to find hateful or offensive. Yet that’s

The intense focus on political correctness seems to be a well-meaning distraction. It stirs up controversies that polarize the population and does not do anything concrete

Weekend change, said in The Herald, “I didn’t really see what the reasoning could be for keeping the name … It definitely exposes the need for increased awareness” (“Student favor scrapping ‘Columbus Day,’ Apr. 2). But I think Koyama has it backwards. There will be no “awareness” if we don’t own up to the past. On the one hand, the battle to rename the state appears to be manufactured controversies, since it ignores the historical meaning of the word “plantation” as used by Rhode Island’s

no excuse for whitewashing the past. Imagine if we cut out all the potentially unpalatable parts of our history — for instance, that the man who penned the stirring words of the Declaration of Independence also kept slaves. Yes, we’d be sparing ourselves a sense of discomfort and betrayal, but we’d also be lying. Just as interested citizens could use Columbus Day as an opportunity for programming and education about Native American history, culture and issues, so too could they channel

curiosity about Providence “Plantations” or the Brown family’s livelihood into an opportunity to pierce the smug Northeastern attitude about American slavery. Yes, there was slavery in Rhode Island, and even more slave trading; it didn’t only happen down South. It’s nothing to be proud of, but it’s far worse to ignore or forget it. The Slavery and Justice Commission is a positive model for the kind of action Rhode Island could take on the matter. Rather than ignoring the past or getting bogged down in symbolism and abstract arguments, the University shone the sun on an ugly chapter of its history, pledged to cement its findings into the public historical record and took concrete steps to help those in the community who are descendents of slaves or whose lives have been affected by racism and inequality. All in all, the intense focus on political correctness seems to be a well-meaning distraction. It stirs up controversies that polarize the population and does not do anything concrete. Removing the phrase “and Providence Plantations” doesn’t provide one more job in a state with a 12.4 percent unemployment rate (except maybe the guy who goes around removing the lettering from state buildings; he might be very busy). It doesn’t help pay the teachers or halt the rapidly rising foreclosure rate or address any of the other problems plaguing the state. If the name change gets through, we will soon be the littlest state with the biggest problems — and nothing else.

Herald Opinions Editor Sarah Rosenthal ’11 is offended by this column.

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Tuesday, july 21 Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson — Performing with John Mellencamp at McCoy Stadium, Pawtucket, 5:30 p.m.

saturday, july 25 waterFire— Installation art, music and ballroom dancing. Lighting in Waterplace Park, 8:07 p.m.

Friday, July 24 Int’l Tree Climbing Championship — Climbers compete for the coveted World Champion title. Roger Williams Park, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

saturday, august 1 50th Newport Folk Festival — Performers include Pete Seeger, the Decemberists and Neko Case. Fort Adams State Park, Newport, 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

fa l l dat e s saturday, september 5 First-year move-in, 8:30 a.m. Orientation begins.

wednesday, september 9 Fall semester classes begin. Opening Convocation, 4 p.m.

Sunday, september 6 Dorms open for returning students. On-campus move-in through Wednesday, September 9.

Tuesday, september 22 Last day to add a course without a fee, 5 p.m.

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