Daily
Herald
the Brown
vol. cxlvi, no. 96
Friday, October 28, 2011
City hands eviction DPS gets notices to Occupiers radar gun to clock traffic By elizabeth carr Senior Staff Writer
Commissioner of Public Safety Steven Pare distributed eviction notices to the members of Occupy
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Occupiers of Burnside Park may face arrest if they do not vacate by Sunday.
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Providence residing in Burnside Park yesterday afternoon, mandating that they vacate the park within 72 hours. The notices list a series of ordinances the group violates — including hosting a large gathering in the park without a permit, failing to keep off the grass and littering — and states that the park
is closed between the hours of 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. The Occupiers, most of whom seemed unsurprised by Pare’s announcement, discussed how they would respond to the eviction notice at the group’s General Assembly meeting yesterday afternoon. Miriam Weizenbaum, a lawyer at DeLuca and Weizenbaum, Ltd., explained possible options to the meeting’s attendees. The group can bring its case to court prior to the eviction, wait to act until after the eviction or opt not to involve the judicial system at all. Weizenbaum said the group’s chances of winning in court are slim, but she said a court case could buy the group time and provide a venue for further demonstration. “They can move people off this
Though it was known that marine taxa took a huge hit, with somewhere between 70 and 80 percent going extinct, no studies had looked closely at the effects on land. So Whiteside and Irmis set out to settle the debate. They looked at 70,000 specimens from two of the best-preserved locations in the fossil record, one in South Africa and one in Russia. Their analysis revealed the impact on land was similar to that at sea. The end-Permian extinction
Department of Pubic Safety has added a new gun to its arsenal. DPS officers have begun using radar guns to enforce traffic laws on and near campus this semester, according to Mark Porter, chief of police and director of public safety. Last spring, DPS trained officers in conducting traffic stops and furnished its police cruisers with ticket-printing equipment, he said. “This is the first semester we’ve fully implemented strategies for traffic enforcement,” Porter said. “We’re being more proactive with traffic controls.” In previous years, DPS has worked with Providence police on traffic enforcement. The addition of radar guns is part of a greater effort to improve pedestrian safety on campus. Porter said he is interested in increasing pedestrian safety in other ways, such as improving the visibility of speed limit signs. The initiative follows two recent traffic-related accidents — a drunken driving accident that killed Avi Schaefer ’13 in Feb. 2010 and a hit-and-run that seriously injured two female students in April, Porter said. Officers can monitor traffic
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Bears look Extinction more massive than thought to snap streak tomorrow Science By Natalie Villacorta Senior Staff Writer
Two hundred and fifty million years ago an egg-laying mammallike reptile the size of a German shepherd dominated land ecosys-
The football team will look to break Penn’s 18-game Ivy winning streak — currently the second-longest streak in Ivy League history — tomorrow at Brown Stadium. Though the Quakers (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) are two-
tems. “It doesn’t really look like the guy you would bet on for being the champion survivor,” said Jessica Whiteside, assistant professor of geological sciences. But this now-extinct species, called Lystrosaurus, was able to
Richard ’09 founds ‘NPR of India’
Sports time defending Ivy League champions and are currently tied with Harvard for first place, the Bears (5-1, 2-1) are doing anything but quaking under the pressure. “We’re not getting all amped up to play Penn,” said wide receiver Jimmy Saros ’12. “We’re not focusing on what they’ve done in the past or what they’ve done this year — we’re focusing on what we need to do.” Brown’s defense will again be put to the test against a potent offense. Penn’s offense is averaging over 25 points per game, but the Bears’ defense ranks sixth nationally in scoring defense and has surrendered an average of 17 points per game to their opponents.
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By aparna bansal Senior Staff Writer
Thane Richard ’09, a self-proclaimed “NPR Junkie” was sitting in a crowded train from Bandra to South Mumbai, listening to downloaded podcasts, when he
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Courtesy of Nonie Tuxen Ravi ‘Shekar’ Chandrashekar interviews individuals in Dharavi, India for Dabba Radio, India’s first independent station which was created by Thane Richard ’09.
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was struck by a realization. “Why am I listening to shows about Chicago and Boston when I am in Bombay?” he asked himself. “Why aren’t there these kind of podcasts about India?” So Richard founded Dabba Ra-
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survive the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe in Earth’s history. During this event, 78 percent of all land-dwelling vertebrates went extinct, Whiteside and co-author Randall Irmis from the University of Utah and the Utah Museum of Natural History reported Tuesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Before this study, the impact of the end-Permian mass extinction on terrestrial species was highly debated — some scientists said land vertebrates were devastated and others said they were not affected at all, Whiteside explained.
By Lucy Feldman Senior Staff Writer
dio, India’s first independent news radio station. The station, which broadcasts online, features shows about Indian art, news and politics and brings in guests from different pockets of Indian society. Richard’s interest in India began his freshman year at Brown, when he shopped an introductory Hindi class a friend had recommended. Two years later, he spent a semester abroad at St. Stephen’s College in Delhi. Cornel Ban, postdoctoral fellow in international studies, worked with Richard on his senior thesis continued on page 2
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