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Path through Faunce House to reopen Monday Simmons By Shara Azad Staff Writer
Perhaps the most noticeable change on campus since students have returned from winter break is the construction on the temporarily closed Faunce Arch, first announced in Morning Mail in late December and again on Monday. Ricky Gresh, senior director for student engagement, said he is “99.99 percent certain” the arch will reopen by Monday. After the closing was postponed indefinitely last semester, construction began over break due to the “significant amount of structural work” needed in the arch for the creation of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, Gresh said. After the renovations, the interior will be lined with clear glass. While in the past the arch’s interior was primarily used for displaying posters of various student organizations, with the renovations, one side will open into the new campus center. Further details of the con-
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struction plan can be found on the campus center’s Facebook page. When the arch reopens, the pathway that opens through the arch will only be approximately six feet wide as renovations for the campus center continue. A temporary wall will be put up around the narrower path and construction will go on through the end of the semester, Vice President for Facilities Management Stephen Maiorisi wrote in an e-mail to The Herald, adding that the full width of the arch would be open during Commencement for the procession to pass through, per Brown tradition. Students interviewed by The Herald said they were not particularly inconvenienced by the temporary closing. Pedestrian routes on either side of Faunce — by Hope College and Hunter Lab — are open for use. Faunce Arch “is an essential way to get through campus,” Roman Gonzalez ’11 said, but he added, “It’s only temporary, so I think kvetching
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lege for science education and the center’s director. “There’s no place quite like it.” The resource center features flat-screen televisions, glass-paneled walls, a central meeting room with three projectors, individual wood study carrels, an outreach laboratory and six group study rooms,
On Thursday, President Ruth Simmons made Brown a signatory of the Sustainable Campus Charter, an agreement stipulating “campuswide principles and measurable goals for sustainable development, construction and operations” as well as pledging to integrate “the study of sustainability principles and practice” in the University’s academic options, according to a University press release. Simmons joined 24 other university presidents at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland for the signing, an event sponsored by the Global University Leadership Forum. Chris Powell, director of sustainable energy and environmental initiatives and the chairperson of the Energy and Environmental Advisory Committee, said the University’s proactive approach to adopting environmentally friendly policies meant the charter represented a continued commitment to sustainability. Thanks to Simmons’ endorsement of recommendations from the committee, in January 2008 the University embarked on an ambitious path to “reducing existing emissions from a 2007 base level 42 percent by 2020,” Powell said.
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Pedestrians will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel starting Monday.
is kind of pointless.” Certain students seemed unaware of the closing altogether. As
Liban Mohamed ’12 said, “The only place I go is Barus and Holley, so why do I care?”
SciLi offers new space for students to gravitate By Sydney Ember News Editor
The new science resource center on the third floor of the Sciences Library will open Feb. 5 after months of extensive renovations shuttered the floor during the fall, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron will announce in a campus-wide e-mail Friday. The multi-purpose
space will serve as the home base for science education, outreach and support and provide a state-of-the art technological hub for the entire Brown community. “By next Friday most of the space will be up and running, and we’d like students to be able to start using it right away,” Bergeron wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. The center, which has an official
launch party planned for March 3, marks the culmination of a yearslong effort stemming from the Undergraduate Science Education Committee’s recommendation in 2007 to create a space for science support at the University. “It’s going to bring faculty and students together across different science disciplines,” said David Targan, associate dean of the col-
From College Hill to Kilimanjaro By Brian Mastroianni Features Editor
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Geology student Ulyana Horodyskyj braves the cold on Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro.
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Ulyana Horodyskyj GS won’t let a few bruises keep her at sea level. Last October, the geology graduate student suffered a concussion from a bicycle accident on Brown Street. She was not wearing a helmet during the accident and was treated with nine staples in her head. A month later, she made a six-day climb of 19,340 feet to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. “The way to succeed in grad school and in climbing are the same,” she said. “You have to set long-term goals and keep working harder week by week.” Horodyskyj handled her injur y with the same mentality. Only briefly did she doubt her ability to climb Kilimanjaro. “I remember thinking, ‘Is my dream over?’ ” she said. “That was the first time I didn’t think I could do something.”
Losing precious time to train before her climb, Horodyskyj opted to go up and down the stairs in her apartment ever y day and regularly trained on the elliptical at the gym. “I just kept thinking, ‘I can do this,’ ” she said. Horodyskyj said Mt. Kilimanjaro was her most difficult, yet rewarding, climb to date. Tackling a major mountain once every six months,
FEATURE Horodyskyj plans on climbing Mt. Rainier in Washington this summer. She plans on climbing Mt. Everest in about 10 years, on her way to conquering the rest of the “seven summits” — the highest peak on each continent. “When I got to the top of the mountain, I was near tears when I saw the sign for the summit in the distance. I took out my Flip cam and recorded what I saw,” Horodyskyj
said. The video takes its viewers through Horodyskyj’s physically grueling climb through rainforest, moorland and alpine desert areas, until she and her companions finally reach the snow-covered grounds near the top of the mountain. “Hello, Norton Middle School,” Horodyskyj says on the video as she holds up a white flag signed by the 250 sixth-grade students at the Norton, Mass., school where Horodyskyj had spoken a few weeks earlier. Horodyskyj met Peter Berard — whose daughter is a Norton Middle School sixth grader — a year ago on an ice-climbing trip. Berard, who was impressed by Horodyskyj’s stories of her various climbing expeditions and geological work, brought some pictures from her trips to Nepal and Antarctica to his continued on page 3
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