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vol. cxlv, no. 23 | Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | Serving the community daily since 1891
PPD officer charged with assault
‘ H e y ho , homophobia’ s got to go ’
By Talia Kagan Senior Staff Writer
By Thomas Jarus Contributing Writer
Dorm sweet dorm Kim Arredondo ’11 began “Dorm Dwellings” as a final project idea for her studio art class last December. “My friend Christian Martell (’10) was also interested in interior design,” Arredondo said. “We started the blog to provide reasonably inexpensive solutions to making dorm life more like home life.” Posts on Arredondo’s blog contain interior design ideas as well as virtual dorm tours in the style of a popular blog, “Apartment Therapy,” she said. Arredondo said that these dorm tours — which often feature the rooms of her friends — have been very popular with the blog’s visitors. “My freshman roommate, Betty Wu (’11), posted pictures of our room from our freshman year, and people like them quite a lot,”
The IE Brown Executive M.B.A. Program, an experimental business master’s program resulting from a partnership between the University and the Instituto Empresa Business School, will begin next spring, Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 announced Monday. Instituto Empresa is a top-tier international business school located in Madrid and Segovia, Spain. The partnership will bring greater international recognition to the University and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, Kertzer said. The master’s program, intended for participants with over 10 years of work experience, will combine online and in-classroom interdisciplinary study with the core of a traditional master’s of business administration program, according to David Bach, the program’s academic director, dean of programs and professor of strategic management at IE. For the 25 to 30 students who will make up next year’s class, the program will “bend the M.B.A. without breaking it,” he said. “It’s like nothing we have here,” said Dean of Continuing Education Karen Sibley MAT’81 P’07 P’12, adding that the closest program Brown currently has to a business degree is the Engineering Department’s Program in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship. The program will begin next spring, according to Professor of Engineering Angus Kingon, a member of the faculty team developing the new program’s curriculum. Participants will be “typically middle managers making a transition into senior management,” he said. Most will be full-time corporate employees, though some may come from nonprofit organizations, he said. The 15-month M.B.A. program will consist of a total of five face-toface sessions adding up to a total of eight weeks, according to Bach. The five sessions will take place on the Brown and IE Madrid campuses, though it is possible that another international site will be added, he said. Online learning will also be a key component of the program, he said, noting that the Economist recently ranked the IE International Executive M.B.A. Program the number-one Distance Learning M.B.A. program in the world. IE runs several other collabora-
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Detective Robert DeCarlo, a 16year veteran of the Providence Police Department, was arraigned Wednesday at the Rhode Island Superior Court in Providence on two counts of assault. The charges stemmed from an incident last Oc-
METRO tober in which DeCarlo took part in the arrest of a trespassing suspect at the Rhode Island School of Design. Though a surveillance video allegedly shows DeCarlo beating the suspect in custody, he pled not guilty to both assault counts. In October, DeCarlo, along with other members of the Providence Police, responded to a call for assistance from RISD public safety officers. Luis Mendonca, a young Rhode Island resident, was arrested for trespassing in RISD dormitories. But, in making the arrest, DeCarlo allegedly beat the handcuffed suspect with his flashlight. Though Mendonca was found continued on page 4
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Students and other local activists rallied in Smithfield for gay rights on Saturday. See page 4.
Minds meet at Ivy Council Summit By Warren Jin Contributing Writer
Approximately 40 Brown student delegates were among the over 200 attendees who gathered at Yale this weekend for the 10th annual Ivy Leadership Summit. Organized by the Ivy Council, a nonprofit organization composed of students from each of the eight Ivy
League schools, the summit’s purpose is to “promote the exchange of ideas of the Ivy League and today’s leaders,” according to the organization’s Web site. Over two days, students met for a series of speeches, panels and discussions with speakers and panelists including Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, George Rupp, president
of the International Rescue Committee and Christopher Hitchens, a contributing writer to Vanity Fair. The theme of the summit, “Fearless Leadership,” was chosen because of the recent global economic crisis, as leaders will need to be “fearless” to face the challenges of new economic and political condicontinued on page 2
Student blogs shed light on life at Brown By Anish Gonchigar Staf f Writer
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Brown’s two co-operative housing facilities have undergone financial restructuring in an effort to gain more financial and maintenance stability.
After troubles, campus co-ops look to future By Casey Bleho Contributing Writer
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Watermyn and Finlandia, the two co-operatives that are part of the Brown Association for Cooperative Housing, have recently undergone significant changes, including financial restructuring and complete turnover of their residents since
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last September, the association’s coordinator said. The houses are looking to regain stability and restructure areas of weakness by making sure members pay their rent and contribute to the houses’ maintenance. Last year, the co-ops were plagued by economic continued on page 3
Last November, Christopher Unseth ’11.5 made a decision that many Brown students reach at some point — he decided to go of f meal plan. Unlike most of his Ratty-wear y peers, Unseth decided to document his food forays beyond meal plan. He said his blog was partially inspired by “Ratty Gourmet,” a blog begun last semester by twins Annie Wu ’13 and Connie Wu ’13.
FEATURE Unseth’s blog, “Of f Meal Plan,” reflects a growing trend among Brown students who have turned to blogging as an outlet for their interests — including topics like fashion and medical information. Whether informative, funny or personal, these Web sites have given Brown students a voice in the blogosphere.
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NEW GUYS IN CHARGE St. Mary’s and Baylor get new presidents, GWU makes acceptance e-mail oops
Lieutenant drama Robert Healey will abolish the lieutenant governor position if elected
The Real World Andrea Langlois ’10 ponders life and employment after Brown
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