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Plans are moving for ward to establish a self-sufficient school of public health within the University, according to Fox Wetle, associate dean of medicine for public health and public policy. The University is working to gain accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health to expand the current master’s in public health program into a Brown School of Public Health. Brown has only offered a master’s in public health since 2002, but plans for the school of public health have been in the works for at least eight years, Wetle said. The school would be based on a three-part mission: to conduct research that will be translated into improved policy, to train and educate future generations of researchers and public health officials and to assist organizations in public health practice and policontinued on page 3
Frederic Lu / Herald Orthodox Jews from Chabad House trumpeted traditional “shofars” yesterday in celebration of the Jewish new year.
Homeless camp tenants battle for a no-man’s-land erty is not zoned for recreational camping, and a hearing into the tent community’s fate began The lot of land Mark Falugo’s fam- Thursday. ily owns is nearly deserted during But Falugo, who gave the the day, but the signs of human group permission to use his famhabitation are obvious. The down- ily’s property, has become their town property holds about a dozen advocate, and he refuses to give tents, the dwellings of 18 homeless in. Since the controversy arose over the tents, the men and women. SPOTLIGHT During the dayBarrington resident light hours, the has been spending inhabitants of Provitents — as long hours at the encampment in the encampment is known — go solidarity. Why? about their business. Some work, “Compassion,” Falugo said. and others look for jobs. They go “They’ve been conditioned to to Crossroads, the state’s largest lose every fight they come up service provider for the homeless, against.” to take showers. One 19-year-old goes to local concerts to sell his Providence versus Provitents artwork, dreamscapes created The series of events that brought the lot’s current residents in entirely with spray paint. But after only two weeks of ex- contact with Falugo — who had istence, the tent city has already started volunteering at the Rhode met with resistance from local Island Coalition for the Homeless residents and business owners just a few days before — began concerned about the Westminster with an eviction, similar to the Street property. Charles J. Falugo, one they are facing again. Inc. — the family-run corporation Provitents is, in fact, a settlethat owns the land — has been continued on page 4 cited by the city because the prop-
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Lawyers debate 2008 D.C. handgun case Two lawyers who litigated a landmark 2008 Supreme Court case debated the merits of firearm regulation and the role of the Second Amendment before a packed crowd in Salomon 101 Thursday afternoon. The event, held by the Janus Forum in honor of Constitution Day, featured Joseph Blocher, a Duke University law professor who worked on the merits briefing for the District of Columbia, whose regulations were struck down by the court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller, and Alan Gura, the lead counsel for the defendant in the case. Each gave a 25-minute lecture on the case and the ramifications of its decision. The case, decided 5-4 by the Supreme Cour t in June 2008, declared D.C.’s ordinances prohibiting civilian ownership of handguns and other firearms unconstitutional and in violation of the Second Amendment. Gura argued that the Constitution’s framers intended the right to bear arms to apply directly to in-
dividual citizens and that the D.C. statute effectively abolished that constitutionally protected individual right. Blocher said that limitations on the First Amendment and other constitutional rights currently exist, and are not considered unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The D.C. regulation, he argued, did not contradict Second Amendment principles, it merely constrained them. Gura placed emphasis on the exact wording of the Constitution, saying that if a matter is “spelled out” in the text of the document, the amendment should receive particular protection, as he said the First Amendment does. Gura rejected the idea that the Heller decision represented “judicial activism” in the negative sense. He said the justices engaged in a thorough judicial review to enforce a vital part of the Constitution. The Second Amendment is spelled out, Gura argued, whereas the right to privacy relied on in Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that established a right to abortion, does not continued on page 2
78 report ‘flu-like symptoms’ this month By Suzannah Weiss Senior Staff Writer
Flu-like illness is spreading around campus, with 78 students diagnosed since Sept. 2, according to Health Services Director Ed Wheeler. Though the University does not have permission from the state of Rhode Island to test students for H1N1, also known as “swine flu,” ten students have been tested in a hospital for the virus. Of those tests, three turned up positive, according to a campus-wide e-mail sent by Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn Thursday night. The diagnostic criteria for an influenza-like illness, which may or may not be the H1N1 virus but demands the same treatment, are a fever of 100 degrees or higher and a cough or sore throat, Wheeler said. “We treat them the same way if they have the symptoms, whether they’ve been tested or not,” said Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, the senior vice president for Corporation affairs and University governance who also serves as chief risk officer on the Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Committee. Dean of the College Katherine
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The University has installed hand sanitizer dispensers in high-traffic areas on campus in an effort to prevent the spread of germs.
Bergeron said the University’s fight against swine flu has been a collaborative effort involving the Rhode Island Department of Health, Computer and Information Ser vices, Dining Services, heads of academic departments and professors, among others. The health department emphasized that the best advice to give someone with flu-like symptoms is to “just stay put and take care of yourself,” Bergeron said. The 78 students diagnosed were advised to remain in their rooms or to go home until they were symptomfree for 24 hours, Wheeler said.
Different groups within the University are involved in caring for the students while they are isolated. Bergeron and Klawunn sent out a campus-wide e-mail last week detailing an online reporting system that allows students with flu-like symptoms to notify Health Services so they can be excused from classes and get follow-up care. “We’re making sure people have what they need to stay isolated,” Klawunn said. Measures taken to ensure that sick students recover and that the disease does continued on page 2
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job quest Students debut Web site to help combat unemployment
Life is a cabaret Trinity Rep. takes on a golden oldie in their performance of Cabaret
Fading magic Mike Johnson ’11 calls on youth to support President Obama once more
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“It’s a smart disease.” — Eric Stix ’12, on the H1N1 virus
Speakers debate gun rights law Health Services looks to continued from page 1 have a clear basis in the Constitution’s text. “I think we need to have a lot more activism out there,” he said, if activism means the Court take its job to enforce the Constitution seriously. While Blocher said that the intent behind the Constitution should be taken into account, he criticized complete reliance on the school of legal thought known as originalism, which he said underpinned Gura’s arguments and the decision in Heller. “Originalism can’t and doesn’t have to give us all the answers,” Blocher said. “It just needs to give us something to work with.” In the specific case of the Second Amendment’s wording, he argued that the text was intended to address the need for a well-trained militia — not a need to arm regular citizens out of fear of governmental tyranny or for self-defense. He also said the Second Amendment was unnecessary to ensure a right to self-defense, because the amendment doesn’t address selfdefense, which he said has always existed as a common-law right. “Do we now have a constitutional right to defend ourselves with
guns but not to defend ourselves with our fists?” Blocher asked. He criticized the Supreme Court for lacking a clear rationale for simultaneously declaring the D.C. ordinance unconstitutional and allowing other limitations on Second Amendment rights for groups ranging from felons to children. Gura disagreed with Blocher’s argument that the militia had sole or primary rights to firearms. The framers of the Constitution, he said, believed the term “militia” referred to members of the general public who could defend their communities. “It’s the people who have the right — not the militia, not the state,” Gura said. After the lecture, each speaker had the opportunity to ask the other a question. Blocher asked Gura whether a law that required guns to be unloaded or otherwise inoperable when not in use would be constitutional. The D.C. statute struck down in Heller contained such a provision. Gura said he thought such “selfstorage” laws were reasonable, but that such a restriction could not extend to a person when he or she is home. “We argued that if you have the right to arms, you have the right to
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arms you can actually use,” Gura said. During the audience questionand-answer session, Adam Frees ’13 asked Gura why the Second Amendment does not contain the words “for the people” instead of “militia” if it was meant to refer to all citizens. Gura said the militia was referred to directly by the framers because militia forces had just been used successfully in the American Revolution. Another audience member questioned Blocher’s assertion that, according to an originalist interpretation, the Second Amendment would only protect white men’s ability to carry arms. Blocher responded that he thought his argument was a valid example of why originalism could not be relied upon in full, saying the framers’ intentions could only go so far. When one student asked the speakers if they thought the countr y would be better off with or without the Second Amendment as it applies to individuals, Gura and Blocher agreed that, even though the matter was complicated, the Second Amendment is an important part of the Constitution. Gura said the document should not limit how people defend themselves, while Blocher said the ability to curtail the Second Amendment through regulation is vital.
control H1N1 spread continued from page 1 not spread include the delivery of food packages by Dining Services to students’ rooms, permission for friends of ill students to bring extra dining hall food to their peers, follow-up calls from Health Services and deans’ notes to faculty excusing students from class when they report symptoms. Health Ser vices will soon offer students a free vaccine for the common seasonal flu, according to Wheeler. “We don’t want people to have both illnesses in the same season,” he said. Eric Stix ’12, who began to experience flu-like symptoms last Friday, spent the weekend at home in Massachusetts. He said it seemed difficult to keep the recommended distance of six feet from his friends in his suite. “I can’t imagine what it would be like to stay in your room,” he said, adding that he returned to school more cautious on Monday. “When I got back I bleached everything I remembered touching.” Stix said that his professors were sympathetic and that Health Services was able to fit him in on an already busy day. Health Services also was meticulous about limiting his contact
to prevent the spread of the virus, he added. “They make you put on a mask if you show any one of those (flu-like) symptoms, and they have Purell all over the place.” There are over 100 public locations on campus with hand sanitizer dispensers, Carey said. The dispensers are there for people in crowded locations without immediate access to soap and water to clean their hands, and for “reinforcing the message that hand-washing is one of the most important things people can do to prevent the spread,” he added. Klawunn said basic hygiene, healthy living habits and staying out of public areas when sick are the most important measures an individual can take to avoid spreading the flu. The administration started brainstorming preventative measures for H1N1 last year but stepped up the efforts after the World Health Organization declared it a global pandemic in June, Bergeron said. Between college students’ high susceptibility to illness and the H1N1 virus’s ability to spread before symptoms appear, students and faculty alike must exercise caution, she said. “It can spread before people know they have it,” Stix said. “It’s a smart disease.”
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“Our Web site personalizes job applications.” — Walker Williams ’11, co-founder of Jobzle.com
Widespread swine flu Students launch job search site hits college campuses By Heeyoung Min Staff Writer
Northeast to catch up soon. “The Northeast has been a bit slow on the uptake,” he said. As the school year and the fall flu The association’s data also inseason begin, colleges and universi- dicate that the virus is spreading. ties nationwide have already seen The percentage of schools reporttens of thousands of reported cases ing new cases went from 72 percent of swine flu, and they are bracing to 83 percent this week. for more. Koren Kanabian, director of Government officials are partic- emergency management at Proviularly concerned about the impact dence College, said he was expectof the H1N1 virus on schools be- ing an increase in the number of cause, unlike most flus, it appears cases at the school, which has only to affect young people dispropor- seen one case thus far. “We really tionately. Because the haven’t seen anything flu is spread through yet,” he said. “My feelHIGHER ED personal contact, any ing is that it’s coming, environment in which people share but we haven’t seen anything.” close quarters — such as a college Seventy-eight Brown students dormitor y — is a potential breed- have reported influenza-like symping ground for the virus. toms so far this school year, acThe virus is responsible for at cording to Russell Carey, senior least three college students’ deaths vice president for Corporation afthis flu season, according to the fairs and University governance. online magazine InsideHigherEd. Figures var y at other similar com, The most recent death was institutions. Kim Thurler, director the Sept. 11 death of Cornell soph- of public relations at Tufts Univeromore Warren Schor. sity, said the 10,000-student school According to data from the had seen between 50 and 60 cases American College Health Associa- since May, and an additional 10 tion — which has been tracking to 20 cases since the start of the the spread of the flu at a sample academic year. of colleges and universities since Turner said most schools were the beginning of this month — handling the flu in three primar y 83 percent of the 253 participat- ways — by “managing the surge” ing institutions saw new cases of with extended hours and additional influenza-like illness in the week supplies and staff at campus health ending Sept. 11. centers, by educating those who James Turner, the association’s are ill about what they should do president, said the sample — which to prevent infecting others and by includes some 3 million students helping healthy students avoid ex— is representative. posure. Rates of infection have been At Providence College, Kanabihighest in the southeast and north- an said, administrators prepared west parts of the countr y. for an outbreak by providing stuAt least 2,500 students at Wash- dents with information — in addiington State University have re- tion to hand sanitizer, disposable ported flu-like symptoms already. thermometers and masks — and The university has a total enroll- by setting up a 28-bed “isolation ment of about 25,000, according room” for infected students. to its Web site. Carey said he believed Brown’s Turner said he suspects that the response to the threat of the vicomparatively low rate of incidence rus was in line with that at other in New England and the mid-Atlan- institutions. “My sense is that we’re pretty tic is correlated with northeastern schools’ relatively late start dates, consistent for the most par t,” and that he expects rates in the he said. Ellen Cushing Senior Staf f Writer
Plans for public health school underway continued from page 1 cies. “We have a ver y broad ser vice mission as well as our research mission,” Wetle said. The accreditation criteria include the size and specialization of faculty members. By the end of this year, Wetle said, the University hopes to fill 17 new tenure-track positions approved in 2004 by the Corporation. Funding for the school has been coming through various means, both internal and external. “Much of the cost is being paid through
graduate student tuition, external funding through grants and contracts and philanthropy,” Wetle said. Wetle said Brown has not scheduled any additional construction for the school, but plans for it to be located at 121 S. Main St., the current location of the master’s in public health program. Though the completion of the school will continue to depend on the University’s budget, Wetle said she hopes it will be established in the next couple of years. “We’re making good progress,” she said.
As the nation’s unemployment rate soars, a group of Brown students have come up with a response: start a job search company. Inspired by his own frustrating search for a part-time job as a firstyear, Walker Williams ’11, along with cofounders Kevin Durfee ’11 and Ben Mathews ’11, spent his sophomore year designing and developing Jobzle.com, a Web site tailored to students and employers in the Providence area. The site counts 170 registered students and 40 unique job listings since its Sept. 2 launch. Unlike large job search services, such as Monster.com and SnagAJob. com, the startup allows for closer interaction between jobseekers and employers, Williams said. The Web site makes the most of its small size by continually test-driving features with its targeted users, said Williams, who freelanced as a graphic designer during high school. “We’ve talked to employers, people up and down Thayer, students at Brown and at other schools in Providence,” Williams said. “The site is rapidly changing based on
the feedback we get. We are so small that it’s easy for us to adjust.” Though the University’s Student Employment Office runs its own job search Web site, Williams described it as “outdated.” “Brown has one standard application for all jobs. Someone can be applying for a lifeguarding job, and the application would ask to list computer skills,” he said. “Our Web site personalizes job applications. We also recommend jobs based on a profile system like Facebook’s.” Williams said he hopes the site will, “far down the line,” replace the employment office’s current Web site, which is operated by NextGen Web Solutions LLC. Jobzle would offer its services “completely free” to the University in the pilot stage — an important proposition given the University’s budget deficit, he said. Director of Financial Aid James Tilton said he has talked to students from Jobzle about the possibility of collaboration since last year, most recently at a Wednesday meeting. But he said it is “too early” to talk about the startup’s replacement of the present system. The current employment Web Site, serving about 2,500 student
employees, was designed by previous Brown students “specifically for Brown students,” Tilton said. “There are clearly things that our current system does that Jobzle doesn’t do.” The University will stick with the present system for now, but will be open to Jobzle’s input, according to Tilton. The student site creators — joined by marketing director Dominique Ferraro ’11 — turned Jobzle into the focus of an Independent Study Project last fall under the supervision of Professor Emeritus of Engineering Barrett Hazeltine. Though they still count Jobzle as part of their courseload, the project bears more resemblance to a fulltime job than a course credit. While continuing to develop the Web site, the four juniors juggle the marketing and public relations side of running a company, attracting press coverage from the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe and Xconomy in three consecutive days last week. Durfee said the students are interested in scaling up operations at an opportune time before their Brown careers end. Their ultimate goal is to bring Jobzle to campuses nationwide, he said.
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“Why can we not catch people before they hit rock bottom?” — Deborah, a homeless resident of a downtown tent city
Tents give city’s homeless shelter, safety, friendships continued from page 1 ment that splintered off a larger tent city, Camp Runamuck, which until recently was located beneath an I-95 overpass near Fish Co. A decision by Rhode Island’s Superior Court gave the residents of Runamuck until Sept. 8 to disband. They split into two groups, Camp Runamuck II and Provitents. The lawyer for the tent city residents introduced Richard Jackson, the leader of Provitents, to Falugo, who offered the land as a place to stay. Almost immediately, they began to clear the grass on Falugo’s land — it was as “tall as the port-a-john,” Jackson said. The members of Provitents moved onto the property within days, during Labor Day weekend. “I spoke to the neighbors first,” Falugo said. When they had no objections, he moved ahead. But the West Broadway Neighborhood Association began to receive calls from residents. “Some are concerned about the welfare of the people,” said Kari
Lang from the association. “Some are concerned that they’re on a city lot that doesn’t have facilities for the people.” Lang brought the settlement to the attention of the city of Providence. “I called the city because the tent city is in our neighborhood,” she said. “Neighbors had called concerned about it, so I called the city to see what they were doing about the situation.” Late last week, Falugo received a subpoena to appear at yesterday’s hearing, where he was informed that his lot was not zoned for “recreational tents.” Later, the city’s case was put on hold because of a procedural error: Papers were served to the wrong member of Falugo’s family, he said. The hearing will resume next Thursday.
“The lady with the Mercedes?” “Not every member of Provitents has been to a homeless shelter, or intends to. Deborah, who became homeless in mid-July, has heard too many stories about local shelters — their filth and overcrowdedness, their
drug addicts and violence — from the camp’s other inhabitants to consider going to a shelter. Deborah, who asked that her last name not be used because her teenage daughter does not know she is homeless, said she was left with numerous medical bills when her mother died in May 2008. Her mother suffered from cancer for about a decade before her hospitalization, Deborah said, and died as a consequence of her illness, which was compounded by kidney failure. Deborah stopped working during her mother’s illness, and the hospital expenses and funeral costs left her destitute. She sold her home last summer to pay the medical bills, and began to stay with family members. But this summer, she found herself with nowhere else to go. Initially, she slept in her car and frequented Roger Williams Park to read, write and walk. But after a few days, she noticed a church nearby. “It just piqued my curiosity,” she said. “I went in, and I found it was a soup kitchen. I said, ‘Geez, I’m not working right now — can I possibly volunteer and help out?’” After a couple of weeks, she heard about Camp Runamuck from other volunteers at the soup kitchen, and she visited to look around. “It was strange,” she said. “It was
different.” Still, Deborah, who, despite her college education had run out of options, needed a place to stay. Though she felt out of place, she moved into Camp Runamuck. “‘What the hell is she doing here?’” she said, recalling the reactions of some people. “‘The lady with the Mercedes?’” Deborah has returned to her job, working intermittently. She has found a potential home to rent as well, a small cottage in Barrington. But the months she has spent in a tent, moving from encampment to encampment in Providence, have transformed her perspective on her local community — and committed her to a future of advocating for the homeless. “It’s been a life lesson,” Deborah said. “I look at life differently. I look at people differently.” An uncertain future Mark Falugo’s generosity may have given Deborah and others a temporary harbor, but the larger problem she faces is one that will persist no matter the result of next Thursday’s hearing. Deborah said she thinks Provitents’ current battle against the city has “nothing to do with the tents. It has to do with the homeless problem
in Rhode Island.” She called the state’s system of services for its homeless population “obsolete.” “It doesn’t work,” she said. “Why can we not catch people before they hit rock bottom?” Brenda Clement, the executive director of Housing Action Coalition of Rhode Island, said tents were not the solution, noting that support for programs and policies that create long-term housing is necessary. “We simply don’t have enough affordable housing units for very lowincome people,” Clement said. Rhode Island has just been awarded federal stimulus funding for homeless prevention and rapid re-housing, she added. But “we’ve clearly got lots more work to do,” Clement said, such as restoring funding to the Neighborhood Opportunities Program, Rhode Island’s only state program to create affordable housing for low-income people. Meanwhile, the days wear on for Provitents residents. They survive on donated food and on one another’s companionship. “I’m not alone,” said Kevin, another Provitents inhabitant, who also asked that his last name be withheld. “I’m with people that I can talk with, I can cry with, I can reminisce with.”
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At Trinity Rep, a chilling ‘Cabaret’ By Rosalind Schonwald Arts & Culture Editor
In Trinity Repertory Company’s current production of “Cabaret,” the gilded proscenium leans menacingly forward, jarring and topsy-turvy. It’s a fitting choice: This classic musical, by John Kander and Fred Ebb, is set in the fragile fantasy world of Weimar Germany and overshadowed by the specter of Nazism. “Cabaret” is oversexed and overreaching, and maybe flat-out overdone, but Trinity Rep’s rendition of the iconic musical is spectacular, in spite of an uneven cast. Under the direction of Curt Columbus, this production stays true to tradition while exploring new avenues of interpretation and meaning. “Cabaret” takes place against a pre-World War II backdrop. It is Berlin in the 1930s, and the cultural life’s a-kicking amidst the social and economic tumult that followed the first World War. Nazism slowly infiltrates the drama, at first appearing innocuous, but gradually increasing in power and aggression. Fascism is becoming a reality, yet the musical’s characters hide in the cloud-world of cabaret, parties and performance. Some will eventually self-destruct, while others flee in disgust. At the center of this ensemble show is English singer and ticking time bomb Sally Bowles (Rachael Warren). The
plot follows her ill-fated romance with Clifford Bradshaw, an American writer (Mauro Hantman). While Bowles and Bradshaw play out their tempestuous affair, multiple subplots reveal the horrific reality creeping in. Facing anti-Semitic pressure, Fraulein Schneider, an elderly German woman (Phyllis Kay) decides not to marry Herr Schultz, the Jewish man she loves (Stephen Berenson). Meanwhile, bigoted Fraulein Kost (Janice Duclos), Sally’s prostitute neighbor, considers servicing good German sailors to be her patriotic duty. Both Hantman’s singing voice and Kay’s inability to keep the Triboro out of her wavering German accent left something to be desired. But Joe Wilson, Jr., as the Emcee, the embodiment of gender-bending cabaret culture, was a brilliant beacon in a mostly dull cast. He first appears in the opening number, “Wilkommen,” instantly captivating the audience with his cutesy, manic, ridiculous sass. At the beginning of the song, he descends a dark staircase, his profile in shadow. Only a suit and a hat atop a blond pompadour are visible. But as soon as he hits the stage, dancers in lingerie remove his hat, wig and jacket to reveal a shiny, bald head and a black satin corset. The ringmaster is here. Wilson was the star of the cast
throughout, showing nuance and range. He was the embodiment of the fantasy and frivolity that prevailed before fascism takes hold. The rise of Nazism breaks up several couples over the course of the show through harassment, anti-Semitism and fear, jolting people out of the world of night and pretend. The Emcee embodies that broken dream. The show is divided into two mirror-image acts, the first dripping in sexuality and celebration; the second is its soulless, militant caricature. The greatest strength of Trinity Rep’s production is the way Columbus emphasizes this crucial distinction. An incredible moment of transition occurs at the end of Act I, during Schultz and Schneider’s disastrous engagement party. After Nazi Party member Ernst Ludwig (well-acted by Stephen Thorne) arrives and expresses his disapproval of their pending union, everyone else in attendance joins him in singing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me.” This song was sung sincerely earlier, but at this point it gains an air of horror. The cast become automatons, stomping and clapping the rhythm like robots, smiling. They’ve been brainwashed. This passage from exuberance to despair is exemplified in the character of Schultz, the Jewish fruitseller. At the beginning, he raves about the “peaches, delicious” he has brought as a treat for Schneider. His voice is
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full of vivacity and excitement, fitting the moment in the play. But after he has lost his fiancee to her own fear of the Nazis, he repeats this line, and it rings false. At that moment, he seems to lack conviction that anything can be delicious or good in any way. Even the orchestra takes part in this dichotomy. A full band plays in the pit throughout the first act, but for the second act, all that’s left is a musician-less player piano. Wilson shines while embodying this duality, and his role as master of ceremonies is crucial. During the first act, he glimmers, carefully managing the cabaret. In the second act, he is stripped of his powers and even his costume. He wears only a light pink slip. The cabaret dancers are out of his control, marching like Nazis. His beautifully controlled voice wails and whispers “I Don’t Care Much,” eulogizing the joyousness that has yielded to apathy. Wilson captures all of that in a genuinely tear-inducing moment. The first thing that happens in this “Cabaret” is the firing of a cannon, releasing confetti out of the darkness with a loud bang. In the darkness, at the end, a cannon is lit, and nothing happens. “Cabaret” runs at Trinity Repertory Company (201 Washington St.) through Oct. 11. Student tickets are available from $10 to $20.
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The classic musical “Cabaret” will run at Trinity Repertory Company through Oct. 11.
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Against intolerance in academia To the editor: I was pleased to see Kate Fritzsche’s ’10 thoughtful column regarding the difficulties facing religious students at Brown (“The secret life of Catholics at Brown,” Sept. 17). I, too, have noticed that God is generally unpopular in academia. This is either the chicken or the egg of the erroneous belief that intellectualism and faith are irreconcilable, a myth that Fritzsche appropriately denounces. Despite my overall agreement with Fritzsche’s assessments, I thought her analysis of Jewish students at Brown could stand to be more nuanced. I agree that how Jewish students identify “culturally,” and the religious practices that might be part of that identification, are widely accepted and tolerated at Brown, which is of great benefit to those who experience their identity in dynamic ways. But when it comes to being “religious” in the more common sense of the term, where appeals to cultural heritage alone do
not capture the essence of a particular student’s identity, I think Jewish students face the same problems — as do students of all religious backgrounds. Those who identify “culturally” are more accepted than those who make belief, faith and/or doctrine a stronger part of what it means to identify with a particular religion or ethnoreligious group. This attitude toward any religious group represents a certain “soft intolerance” that is often masked in the guises of liberal academia, but is in fact an adulteration of the very meaning of pluralism. If we are only “pluralistic” to others who share our views of what pluralism means and who it includes, we allow ourselves to falsely congratulate our “tolerance.” I know Brown students are intellectually responsible enough to work harder to avoid this delusion so that we can all learn from one another, which is truly what we are here to do.
Jana Jett Loeb ’08
Advocacy for local school reforms To the editor: In your editorial regarding the debate over seniority-based salaries (“Seniority and its discontents”, Sept. 16), your recommendation that students at Brown involve themselves in programs to improve education in Providence and elsewhere is praiseworthy. I would like to offer another opportunity to students to improve local schools that was not mentioned. There is growing community support for a number of major educational reforms, such as creating a
system for equitable school funding and improving school capacity to put the best teachers in every classroom, among others reforms. Local education coalitions are working to support these changes, and involvement in such advocacy would allow Brown students to influence policies that could improve education for thousands of students. I would invite students interested in education to consider advocacy as another way to make a difference.
Michael MacCombie ’11
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First-years first The University has been planning a new residence hall since 2007, and administrators told The Herald this week that they plan to move forward with construction sometime in the next five years. Residential life at Brown is in great need of attention, and we are happy that the University has made housing a priority. But we’re not sure a new residence hall is the best way to address Brown’s housing woes. There is no question that the University’s existing dormitories need work. Common space is utterly lacking, especially in the riot-proof Graduate Center buildings. In other dorms, lounges and kitchens are converted to student rooms each year because of housing shortages. The Plan for Academic Enrichment acknowledges this, recommending that the University create “more and better community spaces” in residence halls for academic programs, social gatherings and recreation. But the Plan also recommends that the University increase the percentage of students living on campus, and that’s where the University has focused its housing policy. The new dorm in the works would create 300 to 400 new apartment-style rooms for upperclassmen, with the goal of luring more seniors into on-campus housing. Administrators say having more seniors on campus would strengthen the Brown community, giving underclassmen an opportunity to talk to older students and seek advice. They also cite complaints from neighbors and concerns about student safety in off-campus houses. All this is great, and at some point it will make sense for the University to build more housing for upperclassmen. But before going after seniors, Brown should focus its attention on improving the underclassman residential experience. Dorms are the center of the freshman experience at
Brown, and if designed appropriately, they could strengthen communities and facilitate friendships at a critical time. The freshman unit system is a laudable attempt to bring students together during their first year at Brown. But even inside units, it can be hard to meet people and make friends in the absence of common rooms and lounges. Though dorms in Keeney Quandrangle have a few lounges scattered throughout, other buildings have almost no common space. Emery, Woolley, Morris and Champlin halls, for example, all share one large lounge that’s located far from student rooms. Freshmen are forced to retreat into their doubles to socialize with their hallmates, making units less communal and making it harder to meet people. Freshmen and sophomores will surely benefit from having more seniors on campus. But they will gain much more from lounges and common spaces in their own dorms than they will from living near a residence hall full of seniors. Underclassmen already mingle with juniors and seniors all the time in classes and extracurricular activities. They also receive support from their Meiklejohn advisers. The problem with Brown’s housing is not that it creates rifts between on-campus and off-campus, or between Keeney and New Pembroke. The problem is that the lack of common space creates rifts between students inside each dorm. Rather than building a new residential hall for seniors, the University should renovate existing dorms and improve the residential experience for the students who depend on it most for friendship and community. Before we solidify the University community as a whole, we should make sure our residence halls promote smaller, more intimate communities for the freshmen and sophomores who are still finding their place at Brown. Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.
corrections An article in Thursday’s Herald (“A Banner year for registration, despite bumps,” Sept. 17) incorrectly stated that 70 percent of Brown courses are capped at 20 or fewer students. In fact, 70 percent of courses have an enrollment of 20 or fewer students, but are not necessarily capped courses. Roughly 30 percent of University courses are capped at 20 or fewer students. An article in Wednesday’s Herald (“Famed Nigerian writer joins faculty,” Sept. 16) incorrectly quoted Professor of Africana Studies Tricia Rose PhD’93. Chinua Achebe, David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana Studies, is not the only African writer in the Department of Africana Studies. In fact, there are two African writers in the department: Achebe and Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Creative Writing Ama Ata Aidoo, from Ghana.
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Take your self-sacrifice and shove it Simon Liebling Opinions Columnist To those unfamiliar with the way Brown does business in a recession, the administration has to sound pretty prudent and responsible right now. The news last week that University bureaucrats would car ve $30 million out of next year’s operating budget carried all the appropriate airs of self-sacrifice in times that demand it — improving ef ficiency, sacrificing superfluous expenses — while administrators said all the right things about including students and faculty in their evercareful financial deliberations. Any budget cuts that might be painful in the slightest were treated in euphemism — layoffs are now “consolidating some people’s jobs” — or not at all. It seemed for a moment that the administration was living up to President Ruth Simmons’ assurance at the beginning of the recession-provoked bloodletting: that throughout the budget cutting process “the pain must begin at the top.” Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 described cuts coming almost exclusively from administrative priorities — reduced bureaucratic spending and $7 million salvaged from scaled back Building Brown initiatives, the administration’s dearest pet project. This year’s cuts, the provost promised, should only marginally affect students. Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Beppie Huidekoper, Kertzer’s colleague on
the Organizational Review Committee, wrote The Herald to promise that faculty would be largely immune as well (“Organization changes will provide support, efficiency,” Sept. 15). The message from administrators was clear: This year, budgetar y discipline would be focused right where Ruth promised, the bureaucratic “top.” How noble. But this comes after a year of firings, tuition hikes and inadequate financial aid without so much as a thought given to turning back the bulldozers. Brown’s administra-
cies related to travel and other costs.” I just want to pause to make sure we capture the breadth of the absurdity here. The administration can save up to $10 million by tightening the purse strings on its expense accounts and didn’t want to do that before it cavalierly fired 30 dedicated staff members to save money. Classy. Each instance of the efficiency improvements that supposedly will save us millions is equally farcical — too little much too late. We, the students who pay higher tuition in
Every student and staff member must remember that every budget cut, no matter how benevolent and selfless the administration may seem now, comes only after 30 firings and a three percent tuition increase. tion has no right to the moral high ground in this round of triage, however improved their cynical messaging may be. Ever y student and staff member must remember that every budget cut, no matter how benevolent and selfless the administration may seem now, comes only after 30 firings and a three percent tuition increase — which means the administration has come around to making its sacrifices only after dropping the heaviest burdens on us. The Herald’s report on the impending budget cuts cites Kertzer as claiming that the University could save between $5 and $10 million next year by “changing poli-
a recession, along with the staff whose colleagues were unceremoniously fired, must ask the administration why they came calling on us first when all along they could have saved so many millions with a few simple organizational improvements. But the question is rhetorical and the answer obvious: The bureaucracy, of course, asks sacrifices of itself last. What else should we expect when the organization tasked with finding cost reductions, the organization leading a process that administrators say will include “extensive input from students, faculty and staff,” is made up of 10 administrators, three faculty
members and precisely two students — only one an undergraduate? It all starts to make sense when you think of it that way. The administrators with authority over budget cuts have targeted those cuts to protect themselves and have left the pain to the powerless and underrepresented — students, faculty and staff. It’s why financial hardship means firings and merciless tuition hikes first and administrative sacrifices second. It’s why no one talks about curbing the three major construction projects whose combined $90 million price tag would cover ever y budget cut from now to 2014. This is why the administration pays only lip ser vice to community participation in decision making. By protecting its unilateral power — in the form of the unaccountable Corporation and the unrepresentative ORC — the administration protects its own initiatives and interests, despite the needs of the vast majority of the Brown community. And as long as power remains consolidated in the hands of bureaucrats, that vast majority — students, staff and faculty — will be the first group to come to administrators’ minds whenever painful decisions must be made. So to Provost Kertzer, to the ORC, to every administrator behind these budget cuts, I say, take your self-congratulator y attitude and righteous self-sacrifice to the 30 staff members you fired last year. Take it to the families struggling to pay your outlandish tuition. Take it to all of them and see if you’re still patting yourself on the back. Simon Liebling ’12 is from New Jersey. He can be reached at simon.liebling@gmail.com
The lost power of Barack Obama Mike Johnson Opinions Columnist Look out! Obama is everywhere. He stares at us from our computer screens every time we browse a news Web site. His name rings out from our televisions whenever we turn them on. The front corner of the Ratty is inundated with countless news reports of him and his shorts-wearing wife. Yet his poll numbers slip, his critics redouble their efforts and his ambitious agenda seems bogged down in the mire of Washington, D.C. bureaucracy. Pundits everywhere declare “the honeymoon is over,” and I begin to wonder where the magic went. It went on summer vacation. It’s no secret that, statistically speaking, the biggest supporters of President Barack Obama in last year’s election were we, the voters aged 18-25, some of us voting in our first election and others making up for previous elections. Young voters were electrified by the young senator from Illinois, and saw in him a changing of the guard, a man who would represent the generational shift from Baby Boomer to Generation X. All things considered, we weren’t wrong about him. In his first months in office, he reversed some of the more — let’s call them “conservative,” for lack of a better word — policies of his predecessor, and has made a
genuine effort to be bipartisan with his economic and health care reforms. In spite of all this, however, the love is gone. No more youth activists march in the street; no more useless yet inspiring Facebook groups exist. Instead of powering the president to a smoother, more elegant reform process, the youth of this nation pat themselves on the back, sink back into the very apathy of which we’re accused and watch
burden of an overwhelming majority in both houses of Congress — it seems there can indeed be too much of a good thing. Those in Congress farther to the left than our President keep chomping at the bit to unleash their crazy onto the American people, and it seems he is withering under the constant pressure to get something passed. The evaporating youth movement has left a vacuum our elders have gleefully filled,
The evaporating youth movement has left a vacuum our elders have gleefully filled, consistently spitting out their dated and stale ideas. Obama go down with the ship. After November, we all said “Mission Accomplished,” not realizing the irony. After months of debate in the House and Senate and across the country, the President appears to have moved toward the center. The simple fact that there are 535 people in Congress precludes extremism. Obama seems to have realized that there is more to health care reform than just what the far left wants. Despite the Joe Wilsons of the world, the right does bring something to the table. Unfortunately, the President carries the
consistently spitting out their dated and stale ideas. Until the youth of the nation, the ones who will benefit the most from health care reform, come out and pledge their support, the president can turn only to those who are closest at hand, the ultra-left, who want to use their Congressional muscle to strong-arm the reform debate. If that happens, reform is doomed. No one can govern alone in our system — that’s the genius of it. For health care, especially, there is no duality of Democrat vs. Republican — there’s a spectrum of support and criticism,
ranging from the Blue Dogs to Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Penn. It’s undeniable that we need health care reform. Too many people are sick with no way to get help, and it’s our responsibility as a country to help them. The far left cannot push through their expensive, overwhelming plan; they simply don’t have enough votes, no matter what they claim. So if Obama is pressured into following his leftist cronies, we can kiss the dream of universal coverage goodbye for another decade, or longer. That decade will be our decade, and it’s our choice whether or not we want to be insured for it. So it’s time we broke out of our funk and started getting active again. With the laziness and relaxation of the summer fading away for the next nine months or so, it’s time to focus our energy on being productive. Reform doesn’t happen from the top down, and when we agreed to vote for the man who realized that, we implicitly promised we’d be there to help. We’re the ones who have the most to gain from health care reform, and conversely, the most to lose from its defeat. In a few short years, this will be our nation. It’s time we take hold of our future, and ensure it’s one in which we want to live.
Mike Johnson ’11 was unanimously elected president of the Brown Apathetics. He can be reached at michael_johnson@brown.edu.
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d i a m o n d s a n d c oa l A cubic zirconium to the Gmail blunder that mixed up the inboxes of a few unfortunate Brunonians. We missed the first meetings of all those clubs we signed up for at the activities fair, but we found your Google Alert for “Brown University campus sighting Harry Potter” fascinating, Ruth. A diamond to Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Gilad Barnea, who was recently awarded a $1.3 million grant for “high-risk, high-reward” research. Barnea’s forthcoming publication, “The neural correlates of professors bringing all their grant money to Vegas,” is sure to be a hit. Coal to Brown intramural sports organizers, who say the new online registration system, which costs nothing to operate, “fits the Brown budget.” A free product “fits the Brown budget” sort of the way ripped corduroy pants and rusty fixed-gear bikes fit the college student aesthetic.
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A diamond to the University for hiring renowned African writer Chinua Achebe, author of the Pulitzer-winning “Things Fall Apart.” Now all he has to do is write the sequel, “But Then They Turn Out OK,” and all those endowment troubles will disappear.
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5 pm — Thanksgiving Disaster Relief Trip Info Session, Salomon 003
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Coal to the 10 amateurish research labs found guilty of safety violations this summer by the Office of Environmental Safety, according to a report. “Open hazardous waste materials”? “Blocked egress”? Sounds like the Ratty during shopping period.
7 pm — Sugar Bears Pom Team Tryouts, Alumnae Hall Crystal Room
A diamond to the fact that the University is looking to add “300 to 400 new beds” through additional residence hall construction in the next few years. But coal to the fact that it will probably just be designated a swine flu dorm.
8:30 pm — MHOP Presents: Boubacar Diabate Live in Concert, Sayles Hall
Coal to the new policy whereby graduate students from one department can serve as TAs in another. We see where you’re coming from, but a seminar on “deoxyribo-nuclear proliferation” is just too terrifying.
menu Sharpe Refectory
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Lunch — Brussel Sprouts Casserole, Hot Pastrami Sandwiches, Sausage and Mushroom Pizza
Lunch — Chicken Fingers, Vegan Rice Pilaf, Peas
Dinner — Manicotti Piedmontese, Marinated Beef, Rice with Peas and Coriander
Dinner — Seafood Jambalaya, Spinach Pie Casserole, Lemon Rice
A diamond to Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar ’87, the Corporation trustee who is now serving as Ruth Simmons’ personal assistant. We’d say that sounds like a demotion, but there’s always the chance your sleeve will end up in the corner of a Glamour cover shot. A cubic zirconium to the team of Brown alums who run a small business making book jackets to conceal readers’ literary choices. Best of luck, but we have a feeling that the conspicuous reader population on College Hill will prefer to read their dog-eared copies of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” without your product.
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