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vol. cxxi, no. 119
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
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Times editor: Europe did not learn from 2008 crisis By Shefali Luthra Senior Staff Writer
Rachel A. Kaplan / Herald
Andrew Ross Sorkin compared the 2008 financial crisis to the current situation in Europe during last night’s lecture in Salomon 101.
By Morgan Johnson Senior Staff Writer
Newly elected Providence City Councilwoman Carmen Castillo is no stranger to victory. As a union leader and room attendant at the Providence Westin hotel for more than 15 years, Castillo played an instrumental role in settling disputes between her co-workers and Westin management, including bringing about a successful end to the workerorganized public boycott of the hotel in spring 2010. Now, Castillo will take the fight to City Hall, where she said she hopes to focus on defending workers’ rights and improving education and city services. Castillo, elected last Tuesday in a race that saw a total turnout of fewer than 650 voters, has a record of taking up the cause of other workers on the Westin’s housekeeping staff — she once convinced nearly 45 other room attendants to stop working for the day and to wait together until the general manager arrived to hear their grievances. In the contest for the city council, Castillo benefited from the support of Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, who campaigned with her. During the 2010 boycott, she organized and led several negotiations to facilitate discussion between managers and employees. “It’s clear to me she’s not just someone who says she’s going to
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While faculty and students remain divided over the University’s policy on the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, many community members said they are in favor of the formation of the office for ROTC called for by the Corporation at its October meeting. The on-campus resource, whose name and exact mission are still uncertain, would support student veterans and may direct prospective cadets to ROTC programs at nearby institutions. Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron said supporting student veterans is a priority for the Uni-
versity that the ROTC office will hopefully institutionalize. The office, which is likely to begin operating next year, will “make visible the support the University is already giving,” she said.
the herald poll “I’m not totally against it,” said Bradley Silverman ’13, an economics, political science and public policy concentrator. “I guess it is a good thing that we try to accommodate (students interested in ROTC) somehow.” Despite support for the ROTC office, recent poll results indicate strong polarization on whether the
By Jake Comer Senior Staff Writer
University should allow ROTC on campus. In an October Herald poll of the faculty, 44 percent of respondents indicated they would somewhat disapprove or strongly disapprove of lifting the University’s campus ban on ROTC, with only 38.3 percent indicating they would somewhat or strongly approve. In a separate student poll, 81.5 percent of respondents indicated no interest in joining an on-campus ROTC program. Many community members said they want to keep ROTC out of Brown because they see a history of discrimination in the military continued on page 3
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Campus ROTC office gains favor By jake comer Senior Staff Writer
Move comes after protest of the investment bank at Harvard made headlines
Following Occupy Harvard’s protest of a Goldman Sachs recruiting event Nov. 28, the firm canceled an information session for Brown students scheduled for last night. Hours before the event was scheduled to begin, the firm replaced its planned function at the CareerLAB with a webinar. The firm denied the move was made in response to the recent protests. A Goldman representative sent an email to students who had RSVP’d for the event saying the inperson event had been canceled to offer “a more in-depth presentation.” Another representative wrote in an email to The Herald that Goldman Sachs abandoned the session “due to attendance.” But Julian Park ’14, an Occupy College Hill organizer, said he believes finance firms are “really thinking twice about recruiting on campus” because of demonstrations like the protest at Harvard last week. Sandra Korn, a sophomore at Harvard and an Occupy Harvard organizer, said the Harvard demon-
After life on the streets, Mama Kim’s settles down By gadi cohen Contributing Writer
Evan Thomas / Herald Mama Kim’s is expanding with a second truck and a sit-down location.
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By the time students start trickling onto campus after winter break, Mama Kim’s — the Korean barbecue truck that usually sets up shop near Thayer Street and serves hearty, savory portions of beef bulgogi and homemade kimchi — will have expanded to a second truck and a sit-down restaurant. One truck will park on campus and the other will visit other spots
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“I know I’ve depressed the hell out of everyone here,” said Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times columnist and editor, to a full Salomon 101 last night. The event, half lecture and half question-and-answer session, assessed the impact of the 2008 financial collapse and its resemblance to the current financial crisis in the Eurozone. Sorkin wrote the account of the 2008 financial meltdown “Too Big to Fail” in 2009. Both crises, Sorkin said, ultimately stemmed from the same problem: uncontrolled debt. And
while he said the U.S. has learned from the mistakes of the past decade, Europe did “the exact opposite.” “They didn’t get at the real issue, which was capital,” Sorkin said. Sorkin also stressed the necessity of the financial bailouts. He recounted a story when a man from the McDonald’s corporation phoned Ken Wilson, a former Goldman Sachs banker who advised the Treasury Department. Because of the meltdown, Bank of America could not continue giving money to McDonald’s and the man was worried he could not pay his
Goldman cancels campus event
in Providence, according to owner Hyun Kim ’01. The new truck will mostly cater to the Rhode Island School of Design and areas downtown, said Leah Chung, a sophomore at RISD who works at Mama Kim’s. By feeding rising demand for barbecued Korean food, the new truck will reduce the long lines at the oncampus truck, Kim said. “With two trucks, the original truck will now be solely dedicated to serving the Brown community,” Kim said. Along with the new truck to relieve on-campus lines, the business plans to increase late-night shifts continued on page 4
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