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Sanna Vohra 12 wants to give
Brown students even more reedom
o choice by oering some al-
ternatives to caeteria dining. With
the help o three riends, Vohra
has launched 2020, a business thatseeks to make it moe aordable
or students to eat in restaurants
on Thayer Street.
We want to make it easier orstudents to eat out, Vohra said.
They should be able to do so at a
good price.
The company grew out o a busi-
ness plan that Vohra wrote with
Luke Sherwin 12 or Proessor
Emeritus o Engineering Barrett
Hazeltines class, ENGN 0900:
Managerial Decision Making.
Their riends Muhammad Saigol
12 and Parth Jindal 12 joined the
company later.
Brown students pay $20 or a
membership card that gives them
a 20 percent discount at restau-
rants along Thayer. The cards
will be valid until May 2010, said
Vohra, a ormer Herald contribut-
ing writer.
So ar, Kabob and Curry, Spice,
Andreas, Phonatic and Byblos and
its hookah bar have agreed to work
with 2020. Paragon and Spats may
join later once the business is more
established, Sherwin said.
The discount, which works all
day rom Monday through Thurs-
day and until 3 p.m. on Fridays,
lowers the price o restaurant ood
to roughly the price o a meal
credit, Vohra added. Currently,
each meal credit is worth $5.75.
Because the discount doesnt
work during weekends, and stu-
dents still need to eat, 2020s ound-
ers do not think their discount will
replace meal plans, Vohra said.
Even so, the group thinks its
possible that people will start to
get cheaper meal plans, Saigol
said.
Ann Homan, director o ad-
ministration or Brown Dining Ser-
vices, wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald that, at this stage, it is im-
possible to tell the eect that 2020
will have on the number o students
who choose the Universitys din-
ing program. Dining Services will
by Joanna WohLmuth
Metroeditor
As the global economy continues to
struggle, questions about the pos-
sible impact on higher education are
becoming more pressing particu-
larly ollowing last years dramatic
unveiling at many top universities o
expanded nancial aid programs.
Among the students surveyed
in a recent Herald
poll, 30.9 percent o
undergraduates are
very condent in their ability to -nance their education, 29.3 percent
are somewhat condent, 27.5 per-
cent are somewhat worried and 10.5
percent are very worried about their
ability to nance their education.
Approximately 41 percent o
students qualied or nancial aid
this year, according to the Brown
Web site.
Dick Spies, executive vice presi-dent or planning and senior adviser
to the president, said he was not
surprised by these gures. Paying
or college is a large part o a am-
ilys expenses, and as their incomes
come under pressure, it becomes a
greater concern, he said.
Despite this, administrators
have been pleasantly surprised
that there have been ewer cases
o students contacting the Oce oFinancial Aid about increased nan-
cial need than some had expected,
Spies added.
Regardless o
economic circum-
stances, Brown will
remain committed to supportingstudents, he said.
In October, Brown announced
a temporary policy allowing many
students with outstanding tuition
balances to pre-register or spring
classes. Approximately 360 students
beneted rom the temporary mea-sure, Elizabeth Gentry, assistant
vice president or inancial and
administrative services, told The
Herald in a Jan. 26 article.
-M T Sby monique Vernon
Contributing Writer
Bajas, a Tex-Mex restaurant,
will soon be opening its doors
on Thayer Street. Ray Hugh, the
owner o Shanghai and Xtreme
Pizza and Wings, is now expand-
ing with a venue at 273
Thayer St., where Spikes
Junkyard Dogs used to
be housed.
The establishment will be un-
veiled in about six weeks, providing
a wide selection o oods, Hugh
said. With the option o eating there
or taking out, patrons will be able to
enjoy Philly cheesesteaks, burgers,
salads, ries and burritos, Hugh
said.
Everythings cooked in ront
o you, Hugh said, because the
kitchen aces the customers, pro-
viding them with the opportunity
to watch the ches at work.
There will also be a lot o things
imported directly rom Mexico,
he added.
Hughs last venture,
Shark Sushi Bar and Grill,
encountered trouble with city or-
dinances over parking spaces. ButHugh said that since Bajas is in the
old Spikes Junkyard Dogs location,
the parking is already provided.
I think this street can use a
good Mexican ast-ood place, he
said.
Shristi Pane / Heral
Bajas will be omin to Thaer Street in abot six weeks.
Kim Perle / Heral
Sanna Vohra 12 has lanhe a ompan to make Thaer eatin moreafforable.
UCS by ben Schreckinger
SeniorStaffWriter
The Undergraduate Council o Stu-
dents unanimously passed a resolution
Wednesday to oer limited unding
to Category I student groups and to
create a new ununded category or
club sports.
Category I organizations, which
have the lowest level o ocial UCS
recognition, previously received no
unding. But they may now apply or
$100 every two years. I every current
Category I group received unding, it
would cost the Undergraduate Finan-
cial Board about $5,000 a year.
UCS Academic and Administra-
tive Aairs Chair Tyler Rosenbaum
11 said an initial proposal to provide
groups with hal that amount present-
ed an awul lot o work to go through
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Michael Bechek, Vice President
Jonathan Spector, Treasurer
Alexander Hughes, Secretary
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THuRSdAy, APRIL 9, 2009THE BROWN dAILy HERALdPAgE 2
CMUS wS I an et more stomers at no ost. Bas Wirassamee, manaer of Spie, on a new stent isont ar
by kriStina fazzaLaro
ContributingWriter
The newly renamed Oce o Con-
tinuing Education may soon oer
online courses and courses targeted
at proessionals as part o a broader
eort to expand the Universitys role
in postgraduate studies, said Dean oContinuing Education Karen Sibley
MAT81 P07 P12.
The University recently received
approval or certicate programs to
benet proessional learners, Sibley
said, adding that these postgraduateclasses would oer an interesting
mix o classes or proessionals in
specic elds.
The idea is to create a platorm
that allows Brown to engage in con-
tinuing education, she said.The new certicate programs
will be the Universitys rst courses
intended to help proessionals stay
abreast o developments in their
elds, Sibley said. Things move and
change so quickly today that people
have to be constantly learning, she
added.
Sibley said the department has
been working with the Alpert Medi-
cal School and the Department o
Public Health on possible courses,
among other potential oerings,
though nothing is nalized.
The proposal or the programs
had to be approved by the Academic
Priorities Committee, the aculty and
the Corporation in order to be imple-
mented, Sibley said.
U. k
by Sarah JuLianContributingWriter
The graduating class that gathered
in Pembroke Hall last December
was smaller than one might have
expected.
And unlike Commencement, there
were neither caps nor gowns nor
overzealous parents rantically snap-
ping photos. This group o graduates
was composed o 24 members o the
Universitys aculty and sta.
Dressed in their normal work
clothes, they gathered in Pembroke
to receive their completion certicates
rom the Brown University Ambas-
sadors Program.
Currently in its second year, the
program was created to give aculty
and sta an opportunity to learn more
about the University outside o their
own departments and divisions. Em-
ployees apply to be part o the pro-
gram, and i accepted, attend a day-
long session every month, starting
in January and ending the ollowing
December.
Each session aimed to give the
ambassadors a personalized look into
the daily workings o some aspect o
Brown. To see the school rom the
student perspective, the ambas-
sadors traveled to the Sharpe Reec-
tory, where they were treated to abehind-the-scenes tour that included
the butcher shop and the bakery.
There, Jennier Slattery-Bownds,
a 2008 ambassador and the TaubmanCenter or Public Policys manager or
career and employment development,
learned that chicken ngers are the
ultimate dinner.
To experience another part o
student lie, last years ambassadors
completed roommate questionnaire
orms and were paired with one an-
other based on their answers, said
Judith Nabb, manager o learning and
proessional development at Brown
and the programs coordinator.
The programs goals are to pro-
vide recognition to sta members,
promote employee retention and help
participants understand their value as
University employees, Nabb said.
Last years participants also trav-
eled to the Olney-Margolies Athletic
Center, visited Brown Student Radio,
picnicked with current Brown stu-
dents and received a private concert
rom the a cappella group Shades o
Brown, said Jamie Kendrioski, a 2008ambassador and the assistant director
o the Oce o International Student
and Scholar Services. To learn about the graduate
school, ambassadors lled out ake
applications and received acceptance
and rejection letters, Nabb said. Theyalso attended classes or grad students
at the Trinity Repertory Theatre, ac-
cording to Nabb.
Its really great learning about
all these things because theres so
much that, as a sta member, youre
not exposed to, said Alison DeLisi, an
administrative assistant in the O ce
o the Dean o the College. Its helped
me to learn things that arent in my
area, said DeLisi, who experienced
her student day on Tuesday with
the other 2009 ambassadors.
The program was such a blast,
said Kendrioski, who described seeing
air pumped into cow lungs at the Bio-
Medical Center and visiting archives
in Browns libraries.
We were inundated with inorma-
tion just constantly, but it was always
great, he said.
The program helped him build a
network o riends and contacts that
he can use in his proessional and
personal lie. It was the best thing
that happened to him at Brown, Ken-
drioski said.
certainly monitor meal plan trends
when students select meal plans
or next year during the summer
and early all, she wrote.
Homan wrote that, though it
doesnt seem likely that 2020 can
meet the broad and varied dining
needs o the student body, the
businesss discount can nicely
complement the dierent meal
plans oered.
We encourage these kinds o
student initiatives! she wrote.
The cards went on sale Mon-
day on the Main Green, and aso Wednesday, the business had
sold about 70. The group has alsobeen selling the cards on commis-
sion through three other riends,
Sherwin said.
We gave three people we trust
cards, he said. They will receive
$4 o the prot or each card they
sell. They have been doing mod-
erately well.
Nehal Dorshi 12 bought a
membership card on Monday.
He eats out at least a ew times a
week, he said, so this seems like
a good deal.
It works perectly or me,
Dorshi said. I save money.Neil Parikh 11, Vohra and
Sherwins teaching assistant in
ENGN 0900, said he thought 2020
was an excellent idea rom the
start. Not only will he buy the
card, he said, but he has been
spreading the word about his
students business.
The team said the deal will also
benet the restaurants involved,who will have the chance to adver-
tise in 2020s weekly newsletter.
Bas Wirassamee, manager o
Spice, said the deal with 2020 will
benet everybody involved.
I can get more customers at
no cost, Wirassamee said.
Students can get more ood,
she said, adding that students
make up most o the restaurants
customers.
In the past three days, 2020
has sold over 70 cards or a total
o $1,400, which the business will
use to pay or start-up costs such
as printing the cards and adver-tising. More than that, though,
the group wants to have money
in reserve, Vohra said.
We want to make a sel-su-
cient business and have enough
money to have a cushion to all
back on, she said.
I the business is successul,
the team will look or possible
ways to expand beyond eating
venues, Vohra said. The team will
try to partner with the Avon Cin-
ema, and it is considering working
with transportation companies orcheaper tickets to New York or
Boston. Developing the business
into a ranchise is also an option,she said.
Were looking into other
schools, like Georgetown, that
have a similar set-up to Browns,
she said.
We really want this project to
last more than Hazeltines class,
Vohra said. We want it to be or
the long run.
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Normally, students who owe more
than $1,000 are blocked rom pre-registering or classes the ollowing
semester, and those who owe more
than $5,000 are barred rom living in
residence halls or attending classes.
Ten students, who were in danger
o exceeding the temporary upper
limit o $7,500 in unpaid dues, were
able to remain enrolled ater working
closely with nancial aid ocers to
work out payment plans, said James
Tilton, director o nancial aid, in the
Jan. 26 article.
Spies said he expects those mea-
sures to remain in place.
Administrators are hopeul that
the University will not have to scaleback the nancial aid program, Spies
said. There is a eeling that it was a
really important thing we were able
to do a year ago, he said. Those are
hard-ought gains that you dont want
to give up.
I administrators decide that
changes are necessary, they wouldnot go into eect until the 2010-11
academic year, Spies said.
Though students interviewed by
The Herald had mixed opinions about
the number o Brown undergraduates
concerned about nancing their edu-
cation, most noted that it is not oten
discussed among peers.
People are talking about the
economy in general but you dont
really hear about how its aecting
people on a personal level, said Re-
bekah Bergman 11.
Sean OLoane 11 said the number
o concerned students seemed high,
though not surprising. Brown is re-ally expensive and the economy is
very bad right now, he said.
Maria Capecelatro 10 said she
was not surprised by the number o
students concerned about nancing
their education.
I think there is the common
assumption that people here arerom amilies that dont need help,
Capecelatro said, but now its very
apparent that the economy is aect-
ing everyone.
I would think more (students)
would be concerned, but I guess I
dont have a good idea o what peo-
ples backgrounds are, said Christie
Louie 12.
The poll, conducted rom March
16 through 18, had a 3.6 percent
margin o error with 95 percent
condence. A total o 676 Brown
undergraduates completed the poll,
which The Herald administered as a
written questionnaire to students inthe University Mail Room at J. Wal-
ter Wilson, outside the Blue Room
in Faunce House and in the Sciences
Library.
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We want to reate the fastest pool in the Iv Leae.
Ronal Vanen dorpel, senior vie presient
changes on the way for ode of ondut
news inbrief
A committee o students and administrators is reviewing the
code o student conduct.The committee began its work in March and is currently f-
nalizing its recommendations. University rules require that the
code o student conduct be reviewed at least once every three
years, according to the Ofce o Student Lie.
The group which is run through Student Lie includes
undergraduate, graduate and medical students, as well as mem-
bers o the University Disciplinary Council and senior sta, said
Yolanda Castillo-Appollonio, associate dean o student l ie.
The committee hopes to fnish its revisions to the code in the
next ew weeks and present the changes to the Corporation at
the Corporations May meeting, Castillo-Appollonio said.
Though she declined to comment on the specifc changes
the committee plans to present to the Corporation, Castillo-
Appollonio said she believes the changes will be signifcant.
Other members of the committee were also reluctant to
comment on the changes. Vice President or Campus Lie andStudent Services Margaret Klawunn wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald that she did not yet eel comortable releasing inorma-
tion on the committees decisions.
Administrators tried to put people with knowledge of the
Universitys existing disciplinary system on the committee to
make the recommended changes as helpful as possible tostudents, Castillo-Appollonio said.
Allen Ward, senior associate dean or student lie, took over
responsibility or the non-academic disciplinary system as a result
o a vacancy in the Ofce o Student Lie that will not be flled.
The Dean o the College will continue to have responsibility
or issues o academic violations, Castillo-Appollonio said.
Andrew Sia
Astin Freeman / Heral
A temporar pool, seen here, was onstrte after the Smith Swim center was lose.
G By Talia Kagan
Contributing Writer
Construction on a new aquatics cen-
ter could begin soon, thanks in part
to a $1 million challenge git received
in early Februar y.
The git rom an anonymous do-
nor could push pledged donations
or the planned aquatics center pastthe 90 percent undraising threshold
required or construction to begin on
the project, said Senior Vice Presi-
dent or University Advancement
Ronald Vanden Dorpel MA71.
So ar, the Campaign or Aca-
demic Enrichment has raised 85
percent o the $25 million needed
or the acility, Vanden Dorpel said.
The challenge git donor is oering
a dollar-or-dollar match on gits to
the aquatics center campaign, which
could result in a total donation o $2
million, which would put the und at
93.2 percent o the total needed.
Last October, the Corporationestablished a requirement that 50
percent o gits must be received by
the University and 90 percent o the
necessary unds must be commit-
ted in pledges beore ground can
be broken or a git-unded building,
Vanden Dorpel wrote in an e-mail to
The Herald.
These construction requirements
are more stringent than in the past,
said Executive Vice President or
Finance and Administration Bep-
pie Huidekoper, citing the current
economic situation as a contributing
actor.
The Corporation also requires
that all pledged donations be received
by the University beore a project iscompleted, though Huidekoper said
she does not think ullling this obli-
gation will be a problem in the case
o the center.
The 90 percent undraising mark
could be reached as early as this
summer. Vanden Dorpel said the
campaign is making a maximum
eor t to raise the $1 million by June
30, though this recent challenge
grant will continue to accept match-
ing donations until the Campaign
or Academic Enrichment ends in
2010.
Meanwhile, he anticipates that
the recent $14.75 million bequestrom the estate o Raymond Moran
41 will come in beore June 30,
ullling the 50 percent require-
ment. He added, Once they get
that, groundbreaking can begin.
While there may soon be su-
cient unds, the building has not been
designed yet, so actual construction
wont start this summer, Huidekoper
said. An architect will be chosen at
the Corporation meeting in May,
she said.
Its still early on regarding plans
or the center, said Associate Ath-
letic Director or Facilities Thomas
Bold.
This was the challenge git do-
nors second major git to the aquat-ics center project, according to Van-
den Dorpel. Both the donor and his
wie are alums.
Theyve been very interested
in this project and they want to see
it completed as soon as possible,
Vanden Dorpel said. The campaign
is targeting alums o the swimming
and water polo teams to match the
challenge git and donate the remain-
ing unds, he said.
Fundraising is looking ver y en-
couraging, Huidekoper said, Ev-
erybodys trying to raise the money
as soon as we possibly can.
According to the Boldly BrownWeb site, the Olympic-size pool will
have 800 spectator seats, a diving
area with 1-meter and 3-meter diving
boards and new technology meant to
reduce water turbulence.
We want to create the astest
pool in the Ivy League, Vanden
Dorpel said.
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In addition to new postgraduate
programs, the department is alsobeginning to explore the possibil-
ity o online courses, said Deputy
Provost Vincent Tompkins 84. Ad-
ministrators are hoping to learn rom
the successes and ailures o other
universities in their implementation
o their online programs, he added.
Though online courses are only in
the initial planning phases, adminis-
trators plan to incorporate them only
where it advances the pedagogy o
the classes, said Tompkins.
We are not going to simpliy and
package classes online, but we can
still use the technology in interesting
ways, Sibley said. Its exciting.
The oces new name it was
ormerly the Oce o Summer and
Continuing Studies will better re-fect the increasing breadth o the
departments jobs, Tompkins said.
The name changed in January, ac-
cording to Sibley.
The department also now reports
to the provost instead o to the dean
o the College, Sibley said.
The switch urther refects the
oces new ocus on graduate and
postgraduateuate studies, Tompkins
said. It was a natural evolution or
the department to report to the pro-
vosts oce, which is responsible
or academic programs throughout
the University, whereas the Oce o
the Dean o the College is primarily
concerned with undergraduate a-
airs, he added.
Though the new course oeringswill bring in revenue, they were not a
strategic response to the Universitys
nancial woes, Sibley said.
Each new program is at a dierent
stage o implementation. The certi-
cate programs take time to develop
because the department wants to
make sure that the right mix o
classes is oered, Tompkins said,
adding that an online program may
be approved in the next year.
Im excited about the potential
there or Brown, Tompkins said.
This is an area o strength we can
build on.
THuRSdAy, APRIL 9, 2009THE BROWN dAILy HERALdPAgE 4
CMUS wS Not to et overl hees, bt it feels like or little fraternit. Jamie Kenrioski, on the Brown universit Ambassaors Proram
My experience at Brown as an
employee is much more satisying,
Kendrioski said. I eel more owner-
ship, like I have a role here. This is
my university.
Nabb said she is responsible or
gauging the progress o the program.
Though there has not yet been a or-
mal report because its second year
has only just begun, she said she can
see there is quite a bit o engage-
ment.
According to Nabb, ormer ambas-
sadors have become more involved
in the community as a result o the
program. One ambassador applied
to be on the Brown University Com-
munity Council, and another decided
to volunteer, teaching English as a
second language.
I think everyone, or the most
part, has become more engaged,
Nabb said. This can be as simple as
going to a sporting event to support
students when they wouldnt havethought to beore.
Slattery-Bownds said the program
made her eel much more knowledge-
able about the University and its stu-
dents, aculty and sta.
The whole program was like get-
ting a ast-orward through 20 years o
inormation in one year, she said.
I Slattery-Bownds has a ques-
tion, she said, her rst call might be
to another ambassador.
I eel like I have my network,
Kendrioski agreed. Not to get overly
cheesy, but it eels like our little ra-
ternity.
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or a negligible amount o money at
the councils April 1 meeting.
Rosenbaum, also a member o
UFB and a Herald opinions col-
umnist, estimated that even i all
student groups took advantage o
that proposal, it would represent a
drop in the bucket o UFBs an-
nual budget, which is more than
$1 million.
In contrast, the newly catego-
rized club sports will not be eli-
gible or unding in any way, shape
or orm, said UCS Student Activities
Chair Ryan Lester 11, the resolu-tions sponsor, at the meeting.
Uncategorized club sports want
to be able to compete under the
school name, Lester said, explain-
ing the decision to categorize the
groups without unding them.
Currently, club sports are ad-
ministered and unded by the De-
partment o Athletics and Physical
Education. But the department has
yet to recognize recently ormed
club sports, such as polo and
gymnastics.Theyre just dodgy, Lester said
at the meeting in response to a ques-
tion about the athletic departmentslack o a system or categorizing and
unding new club sports. Theyre
an incredibly rich department.
The nal resolution also dropped
language rom the proposed resolu-
tion that required campus religious
groups, which oten have o -campus
leaders, to meet with the Oce o
the Chaplain beore receiving cat-
egorization. Lester said the require-
ment was intended to prevent reli-
gious groups rom misrepresenting
their purpose to gain categorizationand would only codiying existing
practice.
Some UCS members had raised
concerns about the requirement.
Diane Mokoro 11 said she was wary
o measures that could unduly limit
the ree exercise o religion.
In an interview with The Her-
ald, Lester said excluding the re-
quirement rom the nal resolution
ensured that UCS was treating all
groups equally.
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The rama will ontine. Tonia Mason, marketin iretor for the Proviene Pbli Librar
.I. k by anne Speyer
StaffWriter
State representatives have intro-
duced a bill in the General Assembly
intended to increase the availability
o ater school and summer-learning
programs or children in Rhode
Island.
The bill, which was introduced in
February by House Majority Lead-er Gordon Fox, D-Dist. 4, would
require the states Department o
Elementary and Secondary Educa-
tion to begin researching and plan-
ning new aterschool and summer-education initiatives. The House
Committee on Health, Education
and Welare met last Thursday to
discuss the bill, recommending that
it be held or ur ther study.
According to the bill, 74 percent
o children between the ages o six
and 17 in Rhode Island do not havea parent who is not in the work-
orce. Nationwide, the average is
only 68 percent.
The bill states that the hours be-
tween 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. ater the
school day ends and beore parentsget home are peak hours or
juvenile crime and experimenta-
tion with drugs, alcohol, cigarettes
and sex.
The bill also reers to the impor-
tance o ater school and summer-
learning programs in the educa-
tional and emotional development
o students. It directs the Depart-
ment o Elementary and Secondary
Education to research activities that
are interesting and un, but that also
help students develop skills and a
sense o competence.Proessor o Education Cyn-
thia Garcia Coll said aterschool
programs are important because
they can give students a place to
excel.
Involvement in sports, or ex-
ample, is tremendous or kids in
terms o working hard at a goal,
achieving in a group (and) disci-
pline things that are really impor-
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Providence Public Library, the
non-prot corporation that runs
the citys public libraries, moved
closer to being able to continue
service at all nine neighborhood
branches last week when its board
o trustees voted to explore trans-
erring control o the branches to
a community group.
The status o any transer to
the group, known as Providence
Community Library, is very
much in fux, said Tonia Mason,the public librarys director o
marketing. The drama will con-
tinue, she said.
Conversations between the
two organizations, which have
already started, will ocus on
making a seamless transition,
she said.
It would benet everybody
to have those discussions earlier
rather than later, Mason said.
In December, the library de-
veloped what they said was a
nancially sustainable plan that
would have closed ve neigh-
borhood branches. In response,
community members created the
Providence Community Library
and asked to take control o the
nine neighborhood branches,
leaving only the central branch
in the hands o the PPL.
The library is plugging an
anticipated $1.4 million decit
or scal year 2009. William Sim-mons 60, proessor o anthropol-
ogy at Brown and chair o the
librarys board o trustees, said
in a PPL press release that the
library has been covering decits
with money rom its endowment,
but that the economic crisis has
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SeniorStaffWriter
Gender Action, a subgroup o
Browns Queer Alliance, attended
a hearing at the State House Tues-
day to lobby or a bill to expand the
states denition o hate crimes.
Calling or the state to classiy
crimes based on gender identity
or expression as hate crimes, the
bill, sponsored by Rep. Edith Ajello,D-Dist. 3, and our other representa-
tives, was introduced in the RhodeIsland House o Representatives in
early February. The committee de-
cided Tuesday to hold the measure
or urther study.
Though current hate crime leg-
islation includes protection against
crimes based on sexual or ientation
and gender, there is no protection
or transgender or gender-variant
people. These groups are presently
covered under the states discrimina-
tion statutes.
The bill would also mandate
that Rhode Island maintain statisti-
cal records on gender identity- and
expression-related hate crimes and
train state police ocers to recog-nize discrimination.
Katie Lamb 10, head chair o
Gender Action and QA secretary,
said the subgroup rst got involved
in lobbying or the bill when a Rhode
Island-wide listserv or LGBTQ is-
sues sent out a notice about the
bill.
For a group dedicated to educa-
tion and advocacy o LGBTQ issues,
it was perect, so we got involved,
Lamb said, adding that the nations
smallest state is ahead o its time.
Rhode Island sort o sets itsel
apart rom many other states be-
cause it includes gender identityin its discrimination legislation. So
adding it to the hate crime legislation
makes sense since transgendered
people are oten victims o violence,
she said.
Gender Action has advertised
(the bill) to the student body at
large by using table slips, Lamb
said. There hasnt been a humon-
gous amount o support on campus,but I think thats pretty typical or
o-campus issues.
The bill is very important or
Rhode Island, Lamb said, and pass-
ing it will be helpul in preventing
violence against transgender or
queer individuals both on- and o-campus. Only nine other states have
trans-inclusive non-discrimination
acts, according to the Web site o
Pride At Work, an LGBT labor group
in the AFL-CIO.
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tant in lie and, o course, in schools,
she said.
The bill states that the new pro-
grams should ocus on children who
attend high-poverty, low-perorming
schools.
The two times when kids who
are living in poverty lose momen-
tum on what schools are giving
them is during summers and ater
school, Garcia Coll said. Middle-
class parents have the means and
the knowledge to know that these
are important times to enrich their
(childrens) experiences.Finally, research would also o-
cus on developing age- and grade-
appropriate programming or stu-
dents between kindergarten and
12th grade.
The needs are very dierent,
Garcia Coll said. The elementaryschools give you a certain set o
skills that are really critical in termso reading, math skills and eeling
good about yoursel. In middle
school, we need to keep students
engaged in school so that they dont
drop out, and we need to keep ado-
lescents busy and excited about
something.
All three ages are important,
she added. Adequately providing
or the dierent needs o the age
groups takes a lot o money.
Its crucial that we do it well,
she said.
The bill stipulates that the newprograms be publicly unded and
operate through a diverse network o
already-existing initiatives, including
community learning centers, child
opportunity zones, community-based
organizations and public schools.
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ravaged that und.
The trustees recognized thatthey could not continue to main-
tain all the branches with the en-
dowment and unding rom the
city and wanted to oer the com-
munity group the opportunity to
run the branches as long as it was
a viable entity, Mason said.
City ocials, who have the -
nal say in the matter, have made it
clear they will not accept closing
branches, she said.
The money is going to de-termine whos operating what,
Mason said.
Linda Kushner, a ounding
member o Providence Commu-
nity Library, said in the press re-
lease that she was very pleased
with the vote, adding that the
two groups would examine how
we can provide the best library
services to the people o Provi-
dence.
A possible transer could occurby the start o the next scal year
this summer, Mason said.
Meanwhile, library operations
will continue while the two groups
sort out details.
Were not just sitting here
waiting to close doors, Mason
said.
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SportS StaffWriter
The womens lacrosse team had an ex-
plosive week, scoring 30 goals in three
halves against Columbia on Saturday
and Bryant on Tuesday. The Bears
rallied to erase an 8-4 haltime decit
to the Lions ater surrendering eight
goals on nine shots.
Despite diculties in goal, the
Bears oensive irepower was
enough to beat Columbia, 15-10, and
overwhelm Bryant, 21-6.
Leading scorers Katelyn Caro 12
and Kaela McGilloway 12 led the
Bears attack, with McGilloway com-
piling ten points and Caro eight points,over the two games.
The Bears (6-4, 2-1 Ivy) went into
Saturdays game coming o a 16-1
loss to No. 13 Dartmouth the week
beore.
The Dartmouth loss was denitely
embarrassing, McGilloway said. We
had a hard week o practice, but I de-
nitely think it made us stronger and
want to win more. It was like a turning
point in our season or sure.
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Columbia (5-5, 0-4) entered the
game on a rough note, too. Ater
winning their rst ve games o the
season, the Lions had dropped our
consecutive games, including three
Ivy League games.
They couldnt pick up their rst
Ivy League win this season against
Brown, thanks to the Bears attack
led by Caro and McGilloway.
But goalie Isabel Harvey 12 didnt
support her teams attackers as much.
She stopped only one o the 11 shots
she aced.
Just 13 seconds into the game, Al-exa Caldwell 11 put the Bears on the
scoreboard rst. But Columbia didntlet Brown run away with it, scoring the
equalizer just over two minutes later.
Ater Caldwell scored her second goal
at 8:16 to put the Bears up 2-1, the
Lions struck again just 20 seconds
later, starting a three-goal run over
the next 1:40, to take a 4-2 lead.
Caro scored her rst goal o the
night at 12:13, but Columbia answeredwith two more goals, extending its
lead to 6-3 almost 20 minutes into the
game.
McGilloway scored her rst o the
game with less than ve minutes let
in the hal, but two more Columbia
goals beore haltime made it an 8-4
game at the break.
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SportS StaffreportS
Bruno cleaned up on the awards
scene this week.
Two baseball players were
honored ater the Bears swept
our games rom Penn and Co-
lumbia over the weekend. Robert
Papenhause 09 was named the
Ivy League Player o the Week
and Matthew Kimball 11 snagged
Pitcher o the Week honors.
Papenhause was red hot at
the plate. He improved on a 5-or-
10 showing in three non-league
games earlier in the week byrapping out seven hits, our o
which let the yard, in 11 at-bats
against Penn and Columbia. He
scored ive runs and drove in 11
to power the Bears past their Ivy
League oes.
Ater Kimball picked up a
win with a solid inning o relie
against URI last Wednesday, he
pitched 4.1 innings and earned apair o saves in three games over
the weekend.
Joanna Wohlmuth 11, a Her-
ald metro editor, was named
the CWPA Northern Division
Player o the Week ater she led
the womens water polo team toa 4-0 record over the weekend.
Wohlmuth illed the stat sheet
with seven goals, three steals
and 14 ejections drawn, but she
made her biggest impact in two
o the games.
Wohlmuth scored the game-
winning goal in an 8-7 overtime
victory over No. 12 Hartwick
College on Friday to snap the
Hawks 92-game Northern Divi-
sion winning streak, which dated
back to 2000. Ater leading her
team with three goals in that
game, she scored a season-high
our goals the ollowing day in a
13-3 drubbing o Utica College.
Two mens lacrosse players
were named to the Ivy League
Honor Roll ater the Bears won
twice, securing an 11-7 victory
over Bryant last Tuesday and a
dramatic 13-9 triumph over Yale
on Saturday. Attacker Thomas
Muldoon 10 notched our goals
in each game to run his consecu-tive point-scoring streak to 29
games, the sixth-best mark in
the nation. Midielder Rob Schle-
singer 12 starred on oense and
deense against the Bulldogs,
tallying a goal and an assist and
corralling our ground balls.
Midielder Alexa Caldwell
11 was named to the Honor
Roll on the womens side ater
an impressive perormance in a
15-10 victory over Columbia on
Saturday. Caldwell, who entered
the game with ive points on theseason, poured on the oense
with three goals and an assist.
She added our ground balls,three draw controls and three
caused turnovers.
Kelsey Wilson 09 led the sot-
ball team to a 4-2 record against
URI, Penn and Columbia last
week with an 8-or-16 showing
at the plate. She was locked in on
Sunday against the Lions, going 5
or 7 with two runs, two doubles,
a home run and ive RBIs.
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es
The equestrian team competed
at the Zone 1 Championships on
Saturday, nishing third as a teamand narrowly missing qualiying
or Nationals. Two riders qualied
individually or Nationals Kona
Shen 10 won the Walk Trot and Liz
Giliberti 10 took second place in
the Open Fences.
Brown also saw strong peror-
mances rom Rachel Grith 10,
who nished second in the Inter-
mediate Fences, Dakota Gruener
11, who came in third in the In-
termediate Flat, and Cara Rosen-
baum 12, who earned a win in the
Walk Trot Canter. This Saturday,
the team will travel to Westord,
Mass. to compete in the Ivy League
Championships.
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Over the weekend, the womens
gol team hosted the inaugural
Brown University Womens Gol
Invitational, nishing ourth out
o ve competing teams. Ater the
rst round, Brown was in second
place with a total score o 327, led
by a score o 77 rom Carly Ari-
son 12, but Dartmouth and Bos-
ton College rallied on the secondday o competition to edge out the
Bears. Arison was the teams top
nisher with a two-round score o
157, placing th individually, and
Julia Robinson 11 ollowed with a
165, including an 80 in the second
round. Rounding out the lineup or
Brown were Heather Arison 12,
who shot 167, Sarah Guarascio 11
at 172, Megan Tuohy 12 at 174 and
Deborah Lipson 12 at 193.
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The mens track and ield
team made a strong showing at
the UConn Invitational over the
weekend, with our athletes pick-
ing up individual titles and several
others earning high nishes.
Matt Jasmin 09 ran a time o
14.94 seconds to take home the
victory in the 110-meter hurdles,
the only individual title on the track
or the team. Other strong peror-
mances on the track came rom
John McManus 10, who nished
sixth in the 400m in 51.49, and
Sean OBrien 09, who ran a time
o 1:56.12 to earn ourth place in
the 800m. Brown also competed
well in the 1500m, as Alex Stern
10 nished third in 4:05.29 and An-
thony Schurz 12 was right behind
in ourth place with a 4:05.44.The Bears were equally impres-
sive in the eld, where Andrew
Chapin 10 won the triple jump with
a 14.54-meter jump. Bryan Powlen
10 won in the discus throw with athrow o 53.41 meters, a two-meter
personal record, and Craig Kings-
ley 11 threw 63.10 meters to take
home the javelin throw title, a two-
and-a-hal meter personal record.
Both Kinsley and Powlen qualied
or Regionals with their rst place
throws. Powlen also got third place
in the shot put with a throw o 15.78
meters, and Jordan Maddocks 11
and Greg Hunter 09 nished sec-
ond and third, respectively, in the
high jump with jumps o 1.94 me-
ters and 1.89 meters.
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On the womens side, Rosie
Fleming 12 had two o the stron-
gest races on the track, nishing
second in the 800m in 2:15.65 and
third in the 1500m in 4:44.84. Susan
Scavone 12 also ran well, nish-
ing second in the 100m hurdles in
15.17, while Nicole Burns 09 ran
a 25.23 or a second-place nish
in the 200m. Lucy Higgins 11 r an
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It was all just about the team
coming together and staying ocusedand knowing that we were denitely
capable o beating Columbia, Caro
said.
Columbia won the draw to start the
hal, but the Bears orced a turnover
and scored their rst goal just 1:26
ater the draw. The Bears added eight
more unanswered goals to make it
a 13-8 game, including two by Jesse
Nunn 09 and two by Caro, who has
tallied a team-high 23 goals this sea-
son.
The Lions scored their rst goal o
the hal with less than eight minutes
remaining. Caro answered with her
ourth goal o the night, and LaurenVitkus 09 added her second goal
to put the game out o the Lions
reach.
We went on an 11-2 run in the
second hal and I think it proved to usthat we can score as many as we can i
we just play with each other and with
condence, McGilloway said.
Columbia scored a goal with three
seconds let or a nal score o 15-
10.
It elt really great to come back,
Caro said. You know, Ivy games are
so competitive, so to be able to come
back and reestablish ourselves in the
Ivy League ater the Dartmouth game
elt really great.
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Bryant (3-8) entered the game
coming o a 14-9 loss to Quinnipiacon Friday. The Bulldogs have had a
season o great highs and horrible
slumps. In mid-March, they outscored
two opponents by a combined total o
35-14, but they have been on the losing
end o blowouts more oten.
They were unlucky again Tuesday
night.
Callie Lawrence 09 netted her rst
goal o the season just 23 ticks into
the game to put Brown ahead, 1-0.
Lawrence was the rst o six Bears
to score their rst goal o the season
against Bryant.
Though it had taken Lawrence al-
most 10 games to score her rst goal,it took her less than ve minutes more
to get her second, which put Brown
up by a 4-0 margin.
In an incredibly balanced attack,
eight dierent players had multi-point
games and 12 players scored. Nunn
led the team in goals or the game
with ve, while no other player scored
more than two.
The Bryant game was huge or us
because it showed how much depth
we have, Caro said. Everyone was
really a threat.
Bryants attack was ar less bal-
anced, as Delia Glover scored hal o
her teams six goals.
Glovers rst came 12:34 into the
game to cut Browns lead to 5-1.
But the outcome was never in
doubt, as the Bears rattled o ve
more goals beore the nineteenth min-ute. During that stretch, Nunn scored
three goals in under three minutes.
With Brown ahead 10-1 and less
than ten minutes let in the hal, the
teams traded two goals apiece over
the next our minutes to make the
score 12-3.
Brown scored three consecutive
goals beore the break and added an-
other our in the rst 10:44 o the sec-
ond hal to extend its lead to 19-3.
Our coach gave us a scouting
report and we denitely took advan-
tage o their weaknesses, McGilloway
said. They werent really good at slid-
ing and helping, and I think our pass-ing was denitely the key contributor
in our success.
With the game well out o ques-
tion, Bryant nished strong, outscor-
ing Brown 3-2 in the last 16 minutes
to make the nal score 21-6.
The Bears will take the eld againin Ithaca, N.Y. to ace Cornell (6-4, 1-3)
on Saturday. The last time the Bears
aced Cornell was on April 11, 2008,
when the Big Red won, 17-9.
Its going to be a tough game,
Caro said. But, you know, were
denitely up to the challenge and
I know that i we just execute and
play our best that we can denitely
beat them.
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a time o 59.00 to nish third in
the 400m.
In the eld, Danielle Grun-
loh 10 took home the teams
only individual title o the day,
winning the discus throw with
a toss o 47.24 meters. Grunloh
also threw 13.53 meters to earn
second place in the shot put,
while Brynn Smith 11 was r ight
behind in third place with a throw
o 12.96 meters.
Herald Assistant Sports Edi-
tor Katie Wood 10 was ourth in
the javelin throw, with a throw o
36.18 meters. In the triple jump,Shannon Stone 10 was second
with a jump o 11.38 meters and
Rachel Biblo 11 ollowed in third
place, jumping 11.23 meters. Bib-
lo earned a second-place nish
in the long jump with a jump o
5.45 meters, while Cassie Wong
10 was third in the pole vault,
clearing 3.20 meters. Anja Her-
grueter 10 cleared 1.60 meters
to pick up a third-place nish in
the high jump.
This weekend, both sides will
compete at the Brown Invitation-
al, held on Saturday at Brown
Stadium.
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The womens tennis team, nowranked No. 60, split road matches
with Ivy League oes Penn and
Princeton over the weekend to
run its record to 16-3 overall and
2-1 in conerence play.
Playing at Penn on Friday, the
Bears knocked o the Quakers,
5-2, to earn their 12th straight
victory. Bruno took an early 1-0
lead, as Bianca Aboubakare 11
and Cassandra Herzberg 12, the69th ranked doubles tandem in
the nation, and Carissa Abouba-
kare 12 and Sara Mansur 09 won
the top two doubles matches. In
singles play, No. 1 Bianca Abou-bakare, No. 2 Herzberg, No. 4
Carissa Aboubakare and No. 5
Julie Flanzer 12 each won in
straight sets.
Facing the Tigers the ollow-
ing day in Princeton, N.J., the
Bears started o on the right oot,
as both Bianca Aboubakare and
Herzberg and third doubles tan-
dem Emily Ellis 10 and Kathrin
Sorokko 10 won to give the Bears
the doubles point. But Princeton
rallied to blank Brown in singles
play or the 6-1 drubbing.
The Bears will host Columbia
on Friday at 2 p.m. and Cornell
on Saturday at noon.
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LoS angeLeS tiMeS
JAKARTA, Indonesia With a
dizzying choice among 38 political
parties, millions o Indonesians
were expected at the polls Thurs-
day in an election capping more
than a decade o democracy in a
vast country with the worlds larg-
est Muslim majority.
As polls opened, voters umbled
with ballots nine pages long in
cramped polling booths, trying to
nd their preerred candidates orthe 560-member National House
o Representatives and provincialassemblies.
The election, the third since
ormer dictator Suhartos 32-year
rule ended when he was toppled
by violent street protests as the
economy collapsed in 1998, marks
the end o transition, said analyst
and author Julia Sur yakusuma.
The panorama is changing.
Voting behavior is changing, she
said. The primordial type o poli-
tics is no longer there.
A group o leading Muslim
moderates recently warned that
oreign-unded Islamic extremistsare inltrating key institutions
here. But Islamic parties are not
expected to do well in the electionbecause so many are competing
with each other that they will split
the vote, Suryakusuma said.
Across a vast archipelago o
some 17,500 islands, rom the
troubled territory o Aceh in the
west to the jungles o Papua where
guerrillas prowl in the east, more
than 150 million Indonesians are
eligible to vote. Public opinion polls
suggest many are conused by the
myriad choices, which could lead
to a low voter turnout.Polls also indicate President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyonos
Democratic Party is likely to win
the most seats in the countrys
legislature, the House o Repre-
sentatives, but will all short o the
outright majority.
A second election or president
is set or July. Yudhoyonos chie
rival, ormer president Megawati
Sukarnoputri, took an early lead in
public opinion polls, but it quickly
eroded as the election campaign
picked up pace. Yudhoyono is a-
vored to win re-election to a secondve-year term.
Wimar Witoelar, a popular TV
host and commentator, said he
doesnt expect Thursdays vote
to change the political landscape
signicantly because there is no
real ideological issue and the par-
ties have no explicit platorms. It
is all about power sharing.
Although the global economic
recession has cut demand or some
exports rom Indonesia, South-
east Asias largest economy, the
country has ared relatively well.
Its economy is expected to grow
by as much as 4.6 percent in therst quarter, Finance Minister Sri
Mulyani Indrawati predicted this
week.
There are 11,000 candidates
running or seats in the House o
Representatives, and some 1.5 mil-
lion are contesting provincial and
local council elections. Their mas-
sive spending on T-shirts, posters,
rallies and other activities to woo
voters has been a signicant boost
to consumption, Indrawati said.
Cuts in uel prices and increases
in government workers salaries
have also helped spur growth, headded. Voters main concerns are
about public accountability, politi-
cal reorm and economic improve-ment, Witoelar said. But they are
not dened and the responses are
not rigorous. The government is
doing a air job and the country
has not yet been as hard hit as the
advanced economies.
Retired civil servant Nurjamil,
74, said he plans to vote or Yud-
hoyono in July, but didnt cast his
ballot Thursday or any candidates
in the presidents party.
I choose a party or its track
record, he said, one whose can-didates stay out o trouble and are
not only active during election sea-
son.
Yudhoyono, a ormer army
general, gets widespread credit
or taking steps against govern-
ment corruption, while steering
the economy through troubled wa-
ters. But experts say corruption
remains a signicant problem andreorms must continue i Indonesia
is to develop into a more air and
stable society.
The country was rated Asias
most corrupt economy this week
in a survey o international execu-
tives, conducted each year by the
Hong Kong-based rm Political
and Economic Risk Consultancy.
The presidents son Edhie
Baskoro Yudhoyono, who is run-
ning or a seat in the House o Rep-
resentatives, is being investigated
or possible vote buying, election
ocials said Sunday as campaign-
ing came to a close.
The presidents spokesman de-
nied the allegation that one o his
party workers was seen handing
out rupiah bank notes worth about87 cents each to potential voters,
insisting the claim was part o an
extortion plot.
The one big issue is still cor-
ruption, Suryakusuma said. Peo-
ple wont vote or anybody i they
nd any hint o corruption. The
people are savvy now.
Dinda Jouhana in the Times
Jakarta bureau contributed to this
report.
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by karen deyoung
WaShington poSt
WASHINGTON The United
States said Wednesday that it would
directly participate rom now on in
international talks with Iran over its
nuclear activities, the latest move in
the Obama administrations prom-
ised diplomatic outreach to the
Tehran government.
Theres nothing more impor-
tant than trying to convince Iran to
cease its eorts to obtain a nuclear
weapon, Secretary o State HillaryRodham Clinton said. The United
States, she said in brie commentsat the State Department, would be a
ull participant with Britain, France,
Germany, Russia and China in any
uture Iran negotiations.
The announcement, made in
London ater a meeting among the
negotiating partners, broke with
the Bush administrations policy
o supporting talks between Iran
and the others but not participat-
ing in them. Although President
George W. Bush made an excep-tion to the policy in July, allowing
a senior U.S. diplomat to attend a
meeting at which Iran was present,his administration later said that
Iran was not serious and that the
eort would not be repeated.
A senior administration ocial,
who agreed to discuss the issue on
the condition o anonymity ater
the London statement and Clintons
comments, said there was no inter-
nal debate over whether to ully
join the negotiations i and when
another round is scheduled. It was
kind o silly that we had to walk
out o the room when the Iranianswere present, the ocial said.
Iran oered no immediate public
response to the announcement. Its
ocial statements since President
Obama oered in his inaugural
speech to extend a hand i you are
willing to unclench your st have
vacillated between hard-line and
moderate. In comments Wednes-
day beore the London statement,
Iranian President Mahmoud Ah-
medinejad said his country wouldwelcome direct engagement with
the United States, providing Obama
was honest.
But Ahmedinejad also said he
planned to announce good nuclear
news to the nation Thursday, the
Reuters news agency reported rom
Tehran, and some experts said he
would claim progress in uranium
enrichment. Iran has said that it
seeks enrichment only to the level
needed or energy production rather
than what the West says is the much
higher weapons-grade level.
The July round o talks was the
last in the years-long eort by thenegotiators to persuade Iran to give
up what the West says and Iran
denies is a nuclear weapons de-
velopment program. Last all, the
Bush administration ailed to per-
suade the U.N. Security Council to
support a ourth round o interna-
tional sanctions against Iran. Rus-
sia, in particular, resisted.
Obama has said he seeks diplo-
matic rapprochement with Iran on
a range o issues. U.S. special en-voy Richard Holbrooke met briefy
with Irans deputy oreign minister
at an international conerence on
Aghanistan last month, and the
administration earlier sent a lower-
level ocial to a separate meeting
on Aghanistan in Moscow.
Obama issued a video message
on March 19 to the government
and people o the Islamic Republic
o Iran to mark Nowruz, the Per-
sian new year. He acknowledged
strained relations but spoke o the
common humanity that joins us to-
gether.
Seeking cooperation rom Mos-cow, Obama has told Russian Presi-
dent Dmitry Medvedev that i Irancan be dissuaded rom pursuing
nuclear weapons, it would lessen
the need or a Europe-based U.S.
missile deense system that Russia
opposes.
Although oicials have said
there are no immediate plans to
seek additional U.N. sanctions
against Iran, they have let the
door open to unilateral economicsanctions, including expanding U.S.
restrictions on Irans international
banking activities.
Ater their meeting in London,
senior diplomats, including William
Burns, the U.S. undersecretary o
state or political aairs, said they
have told Javier Solana, the Euro-
pean Union oreign policy chie
who has also been involved in the
talks, to extend an invitation to
the Iranian Government to meet
representatives o the E3+3, so that
together we may nd a diplomatic
solution to this critical issue. The
E3+3 is the original negotiatinggroup o Britain, France and Ger-
many, plus the United States, Russia
and China.
The other members o the
group warmly welcome the new
direction o US policy towards Iran
and their decision to participate
ully in the E3+3 process and join
in any uture meetings with repre-
sentatives o the Islamic Republic
o Iran, the statement said.
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Sayles Hall is a sea o rantic aces. Beneath the din o deeated sighs and
anxious banter, there sounds a cacophony o overlaid ring tones that evenGirl Talk would nd annoying. Every once in a while, a call is answered. The
response is uniorm, rushed the speaker annoyed. It just got taken, he
says. What now?
To those students who attended this years housing lottery, this should
be a amiliar scene. Each year, the renzy o selection night begins at the
very rst pick and doesnt subside until the last rooms are blacked rom the
board three hours later. The interim is a maelstrom o stressing, screaming,
cheering and jeering our characteristic insouciance replaced by anxious
sel-interest.
Not only is this method o selection stressul, its also outdated. Brown
could very easily move the lottery online and save us all the hassle. The
groundwork has already been laid. Prototypes o online lottery systems
abound. Take Yahoo! Fantasy Sports online drat system, or instance: all
you have to do is compile a list o preerred picks beore the drat starts,
and the program takes care o the rest you dont even need to be at your
computer. Granted, the housing lottery has its nuances. For the sake oparty splits and last minute decisions, most would probably choose active
participation over preset picks. It seems clear, however, that participating
rom home would signicantly decrease the anxiety and pressure o decid-
ing where to live.
Some might argue that, given the state o the economy, now is not the
time to address issues o luxury. But with summer internships drying up, the
University has the opportunity to aid job-seeking undergraduates and revamp
an antiquated system at the same time. With the success o Mocha, its clear
what student programmers are capable o. By awarding a ew UTRA-like
grants to qualied applicants, the University could oversee the production
o a top-o-the-line lottery program without the proessional price tag.
It should also be noted that theres already a system in place that allows
students to monitor the lotterys progress in real time, online. I we were
able to piggyback the new lottery on the existing program, wed need only
to create an interace or students to remotely enter data.
A diminished endowment shouldnt spell the end o progress. With our
traditional, profigate strategy out o the question, were going to have to startthinking o new ways to solve problems. Switching the lottery to an online
ormat would be a strong start.
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that more than two-thirds o students in a Herald poll said they suppor ted changing the holidays name to Fall
Weekend. In act, while two thirds o respondents in the poll said they did not support the current name o
Columbus Day, 45 percent supported the name Fall Weekend rom a list o options.
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quotation attributed to an e-mail sent by Mahbubani was in act rom a telephone interview.
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Coming rom a Republican congressional
district in Virginia, I happily welcomed
the change brought by going to school in
a strongly Democratic state. And over the
course o the year, I have grown accustomed
to the generally accepted liberal atmosphere
in the area.
With this, I now carry a sort o newound
pride or our little Ocean State, a sense that
has only been heightened by the increasingmentions o Sen. Jack Reed in national poli-
tics and news. Though Reed has said that he
would rather support the new administration
rom his current position, I was excited over
the prospect alone o his lling an appointed
position.
Yet with this excitement came a slight
worry over what would happen back here
in Rhode Island. Being admittedly a little out
o touch with the intricacies o Rhode Island
politics, it took about an entire semester at
Brown and rumors o Reed being appointed
to President Obamas administration or me
to ully realize that our governor is, in act,
a Republican.
Initially, I regarded the act as more
strange than consequential in any signi-
cant way. The State House is lled with the
liberal Democrats I had come to associatewith most things Brown and thereore, in
my eyes, most things Rhode Island. How-
ever, the possibility o Reed leaving made
me realize that this political oddity was ar
rom inconsequential.
I Reed had accepted an oer to join the
Obama administration, Gov. Donald Carcieri
65 would then have been able to appoint
a senator to ll his seat, at least until the
next general election. Not only would it just
seem undamentally, well, out o character, or
Rhode Island to boast a Republican governorand senator, the issue o special elections
extends urther than simple party politics.
Support or legislation calling or the
special election o senators, stripping the
governor o the power to appoint interim
replacements, fared especially ater ormergovernor o Illinois Rod Blagojevich attempt-
ed to sell Obamas newly vacated Senate seat.Clearly, the issue is no longer a numbers
game between Republicans and Democrats to
gain power in Congress, but rather one with
potential or ar-reaching eects.
And ar-reaching eects are certainly
as important in Rhode Island, the state with
the th-highest unemployment rate in the
country, as in Washington. However, even
in our current situation, Carcieri has called
these elections otentimes unnecessary.
O all times, it seems most necessary now
that representation in Congress refects vot-
ers. Allowing the continuation o appointed
replacements would be a step back rom any
progress that the 17th Amendment made.
For one, appointed senators are oten
not reelected. For another, special elections
would lessen the potential or special inter-ests in government, on both the local and
national levels. Since 1949, there have beentwo appointments to vacant Senate seats in
Rhode Island. Interestingly, both may have
served more than just the general publics
interests.
In 1949, appointed Senator Edward Leahyseemed to have served as a mere placeholder
or the then-governor beore the next elec-
tion. Fity years later, in 1999, Lincoln Chaee
75 was appointed to his late athers seat in
the Senate. When considering these acts, it
ollows that Rhode Island cannot allow the
states voice in national government to be
dictated by a single person or party.
While opponents o the measure, currently
maniested in what Carcieri calls the Blago
Bill, argue that such elections are an un-necessary cost, the benets would outweigh
these estimated monetary burdens. Though
they may belong to the smallest geographic
state in the country, Rhode Island residents
deserve to elect their representation in Con-
gress.
Further, this is an equally critical issue on
a national level. Beyond party politics, voters
o all states red, blue or purple should be
able to elect their senators. And Rhode Island,
in its role as a progressive state, should lead
in this initiative.
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The gay rights movement might be in or
a celebration this week. The last ve years
have been a nightmare, with state ater state
passing constitutional amendments banning
same-sex marriage.
Most gains made by gay rights advocates
have been restricted or reversed, as with
Proposition 8 in Caliornia last all and the
debate over recognizing same-sex marriages
perormed out o state.
But the gay rights movement still has some
cause to be optimistic. Iowa became the latest
state to legalize same-sex marriage ollowinga State Supreme Court ruling last Friday. The
coverage by many major media outlets has
highlighted the importance o this ruling
oremost as a victory or gay rights, but also
as proo that same-sex marriage is not just a
New England phenomenon and can succeed
in Americas heartland.
In the coming days, I suspect that Brown
students will generally be in avor o the Iowa
Supreme Courts decision, i they are aware
o it. Brunonians have a tendency to support
most issues that are liberal or avant-garde.
In public discourse, gay marriage has oten
been described as the metaphorical third rail
o politics or Democrats: those in avor lose
the moderate votes, and those opposed lose
the liberal base.
As good, radical college students, many
Brown students eel that adopting that liberal
stance is the biggest priority when picking
political sides. In so doing, students at Brown
and other colleges around the country have
taken a back seat in politics. By ollowing thepolitical rhetoric, some youth have ailed to
consider the issue beyond the pro-vs.-con
level. How many Brown students have asked
themselves: Is the gay marriage debate the
best way to advance gay rights?
I think that at Brown, it would be di cult
to nd many students who do not agree with
equal rights or gays. But we approach the
issue in dierent ways. For many, especially
those who pay attention to the liberal politics
espoused by gay rights groups such as the
Human Rights Campaign or, locally, Marriage
Equality Rhode Island, gay marriage seems
to be the denitive issue. For others, equal
rights is a broader term involving opportunity
and recourse under the law.
Equal rights is a purposeully vague
term and each generation has the power
to redene it. We, then, have the power to
change what it means to include gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender Americans.
Gay marriage, by itsel, neglects a number
o important concerns or those who identiyas LGBT. It only benets a subset o the LGBT
community those who want to get mar-
ried. Support or gay marriage has become
emblematic o support or gay rights, despi tethe act that there are a number o more press-
ing concerns.
Brown students should be ocusing
more on employment non-discrimination, or
transerability o health care and insurance
benets to partners, or the disproportionate
violence and prejudice that LGBT youth ace
in schools. Simply being pro-same-sex mar-
riage is not enough.
College students have ramed the debate
and been the true radicals on many issues,
rom lowering the voting age to ending the
Vietnam War to promoting civil rights. As
Brown students, rather than being tr uly liberal
thinkers who rerame the argument and ght
or equal rights in every sense, weve taken
the easy path. Weve picked the correct side
on the hot-button issue, loading our political
docket with all the correct choices. Butwe havent introduced any new options, and
most o us are apathetic about less publicized
issues.
Gay marriage is unlikely to become a
national reality in the near uture. But in
the meantime, there are more meaningul
ways to increase equality or gay citizens.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act,
which would extend to gays some civil rights
protections put in place by the Civil Rights Act
o 1964, is a ederal possibility that stumbled,
in part, because constituents did not convey
to their representatives that it was important
to them. While not every gay person gets
married, most are employed and many ace
discrimination.
We have become conservatives, or at bestmoderates, on the stalwart, liberal issue o gay
marriage. We ollow the political red herring
rather than ocusing on concrete issues that
we can have an impact on. I being a liberal
now means picking the let side rather than
trying to be radical in our approach and nd-
ing the new side, Im not sure I still embrace
that label.
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