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vol. cxliv, no. 63 | Monday, September 14, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891
Apartments damaged in small fire
A fire last Thursday night at the building at 669-685 North Main St. destroyed a furniture store and left residents living in apartments upstairs, including two Brown graduate students, looking for other places to stay. Also among the 21 people displaced by the fire were Johnson and Wales students, according to the Providence Journal. The Brown students stayed in a hotel for one night and have found another apartment over the weekend, Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn said Sunday. Their apartment had not been damaged by the “small fire,” she said. The windows of the furniture store at 685 North Main St. were boarded up Sunday, but those were the only visible signs of the fire. The cause of the fire has not been determined, Providence Fire Chief George Farrell told the Journal. — George Miller
By Sydney Ember Senior Staff Writer
Starting this semester, a new space on the second floor of J. Walter Wilson, known as Advising Central, is available weekday afternoons for students seeking advice from faculty and deans without prior appointments. The project, an extension of the Faculty Advising Fellows Program, brings together different advising resources in one space where students and faculty can have informal conversations, according to Dean of
Human Rights. The study showed that only half of the nation’s prison systems offer opiate replacement therapy through methadone and buprenorphine treatments, even though these drug treatments are recognized to be more effective than drug-free methods. The researchers also ad-
The Graduate School recently formalized ways to relieve the TA crunch that has plagued many departments at Brown, creating a new position for part-time TAs and encouraging related departments to work together. In a decision that has sparked debate between professors and the Grad School, departments that lack enough teaching assistants can now officially be assigned grad students from related departments. The process is an attempt to alleviate the dwindling size of many graduate programs, which has left some departments without enough TAs in many classes, said Dean of the Graduate School Sheila Bonde. The Grad School has been forced to compensate by using TAs from relevant departments, Bonde said, noting that it has tried to make “sensible matches.” The Grad School has also created a new position of “Master’s TAs,” who are, according to Bonde, “essentially half-time TAs,” but who do not receive the stipends and tuition remission that other grad students receive. Since the program is so new, though, there is only one such Master’s TA — in the Africana Studies department, since it has “no allied graduate program,” she said. Though the Grad School has always held a partial role in assigning TAs, the recently modified assigning process necessitates more communication between professors and the Grad School to guarantee an
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Alex Dipaoli / Herald
The most talented new students on campus took a nosedive into a pie during first-year “unit wars” Sunday.
New space brings advisers directly to students By Qian Yin Contributing Writer
In crunch, departments share TAs
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Researchers find prisons lack addiction resources
the College Katherine Bergeron. Advising Central is aimed at students who have important — but not “burning” — questions to work out, Bergeron said. Students can discuss academic plans, campus life and other subjects with Faculty Advising Fellows, Randall Advisors, deans, Graduate Advising Fellows or Meiklejohn Peer Advisors. Peter Vail ’13 recently ran into trouble registering for a history class and visited Advising Central’s open
By Anish Gonchigar Staf f Writer
Though more than 200,000 heroin addicts are incarcerated every year in the United States, many prisons still lack pharmaceutical treatment for opiate addiction, according to a new study by researchers from Miriam Hospital, Brown and their cooperative Center for Prisoner Health and
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Athletic department fills slots despite hiring freeze vacancies this summer. “Things went very well for us,” Goldberger said. Under the freeze, all hires must Michael Goldberger can breathe easier now. be approved by a Vacancy Review The Director of Athletics had Committee of top administrators. expected his department But given that assistant to lose about 30 coaches SPORTS coaches are given one-year and staff members over contracts, and the athletic the summer and was hardly sure if department had already made the he would get the approval to replace necessar y cuts to its budget for exiting coaches given the Univer- the next year, the department did sity’s hiring freeze. not need to have the filling of each To his relief, the athletic departcontinued on page 5 ment was able to refill all coaching
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