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With President Ruth Simmons’impending resignation and Execu-t V Prsdt r Pagad Sr Adsr t th Prs-dent Richard Spies’ subsequentplans to step down, the University will see signiicant administra-tive turnover in the upcomingyear. Such senior-level turnover

is consistent with the University’shistory o presidential transitions,current and ormer administratorssad, ad th Ursty s wrk-ing to ensure a smooth transitionbtw adrshp.

Senior-level administrators areoten implicitly tied to workingwith the president who chooses

them, said Marisa Quinn, vicepresident or public aairs and

University relations. President-

elect Christina Paxson will bemeeting with members o thesenior sta over the comingmonths to determine the bestpath rward r th Ursty,Qu sad.

“Senior sta at Brown, or any-where else rankly, are selected tobe part o a particular president’sadmstrat,” Qu sad.

A requent reason or highturnover at the time o a presi-dta trast s th d rincoming presidents to assembletams that a bst raz thrgoals or the University, Quinnsaid. “Leading the University is asigniicant responsibility, and it’sessential or a president to have anadministration that understands,appreciates and can implementthe vision established by thatadrshp,” sh sad.

Presidents sometimes create

Admin turnover may mark presidential transition

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o mark the one-year anniversary

o the earthquake and tsunami thathit Japan March 11, the JapaneseCultural Association invited studentst pa a ra th Ma GrSunday to show solidarity with vic-tims o the tragedy. Te installationkicked o the Japan EarthquakeCommemoration Series, a montho events that will commemorateth dsastr, whh had a prudimpact on students with amily in

Japan and several undergraduateswho were studying abroad in Japan

at th tm.“I had riends (in okyo) that

I haven’t heard rom since, and itstill aects me until this day,” saidyler Mantaring ’12, a member o

the JCA whose study abroad pro-gram Kyt, Japa was ut shrtbaus th atura dsastr astsprg. T armath th arth-quake and tsunami is “still aecting

riends and amily. I know people

hr wh wr sry atd by t,” h sad.

Mantaring was one o threestudts studyg abrad Kytabout 450 miles away rom thequake’s epicenter. Tough Kyotorsdts dd t th drt -ects o the earthquake, the programboard decided to cancel classes andultimately evacuated the studentsrom Japan. Te students were re-

quired to move out o their hostamilies’ homes and return to theUnited States immediately ollowingth ds.

“It made sense that they made

all the students go back,” said HelenDiagama ’12, though “at the time,

I was really disappointed.” heBrown students in the ColumbiaUniversity-acilitated program wentdirectly home upon returning tothe U.S., where they nished theremainder o their classes online,

Students commemorate Japanese earthquake

B sArAh PErElMAN

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Aer winning an Academy Awardor Best Actress last month, MerylStrp datd $0,000 t SguInstitute or Learning, a publiccharter school in Central Falls,

R.I., hr w mViola Davis, a Central Falls na-tive whose niece attends Segue.Te donation boosted the school’seort to raise enough money tobuy th budg t urrty -cupies, which the bankrupt city

is selling as part o its nancialrry pa.

Segue Institute hopes to buy the plot o land containing both

th sh’s urrt budg ada recreation center next door, saidAngelo Garcia, ounder and direc-tor o the school. Te recreation

center would provide additionalclassroom space and serve as acenter or perorming arts. Garciasaid he hopes Streep’s donationwill serve as a “springboard to nd

ActressStreepdonates$10,000

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A b that wud rqur wmt gt a utrasud br ha-ing an abortion was introducedths Jauary th Rhd IsadHouse o Representatives. hebill is being sponsored by Rep.Karen MacBeth, D-Cumberland,who said she has introduced asimilar bill every year or the lastur yars.

Under the legislation, physi-cians would ace a civil penalty o up t $00,000 r a rst s

and up to $250,000 or subsequentoenses or ailing to perorm

a utrasud a patt sk-ing an abortion. he physicians

would also be required to display ultrasound images to a patientand provide a medical descrip-

tion o the images, including “thedmss th mbry r -tus ad th prs tra

mmbrs ad tra rgas.”But the bill explicitly states

that it would not require a womanto look at her ultrasound images.

MacBeth characterized the billas “pro-inormation or women.”She said that she was motivated

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Bill would require ultrasound before abortion

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Dspt gg udatd samall season, the women’s ski team wasa “major” underdog at the United

States Collegiate Ski and SnowboardAssociation National Championshipslast week, said Head Coach MichaelLeBlanc. But the squad deed theodds and kept its streak going to the ry d, wg th sam tamtitle — Brown’s rst ever nationalskg hampshp.

Tough the skiers dominatedsam a sas, LBa sad thsquad dd t pt t bat th a-

vorite, Sierra Nevada College, basedin Lake ahoe, Nev. — a prime skiinglocale, especially when compared toPrd.

Deeating Sierra Nevada “wassort o the women’s collegiate ski-

ing version o the US beating Russiain the 1980 Olympics,” LeBlanc said.Srra Nada dgd ut th Barsin the giant slalom in a eld o 20schools, but Brown got the best o thm th sam as.

Capta Ka Mstha ’2 sadthe team did not eel pressure to keep

Ski teamsecuresnationaltitle

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Students placed cranes on the Main Green one year ater the tsunami in Japan.

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A new policy allows graduate stu-dents to opt or a two-year embargo

on the automatic digital publication thr dssrtats, whh a brwd r up t a dad.

Te policy change was triggeredwhen the Graduate Council receivedcomplaints rom alums o the gradu-ate programs in English, who hadencountered problems in publishingtheir rst books. Tese complaints

put the need or a policy change “onthe radar screen,” said John yler,associate dean o academic aairsand associate proessor o education,pub py ad ms at thGraduat Sh.

Te Graduate Council draed

and ratied the policy change inMay 2011 and passed it on to theGraduate Student Council or in-ormal approval last September. Testudent council gave the new policy anod, approving its “spirit,” said Mat-teo Riondato GS, president o theGraduate Student Council. Te newpolicy is already ormally enacted,but yr ad rprstats thbrary ar drag th py’s -cial language or the Graduate SchoolHandbook this week, yler said. Un-

der the old policy, dissertations wereautmatay pubshd — a“problematic” system, said Khris-tina Gonzalez GS, a ormer member

o the Graduate Student Council.Digitally stored dissertations aremade readily available to the pub-lic and subjected to web searches,downloads and copying. Because

dissertations requently make up asgat prt graduat stu-dents’ rst books, publishing compa-nies may become hesitant to publishthe material in hard copy orm whenit is already available on the web,Gzaz sad.

“Alumni, especially out o Eng-lish, were concerned, and theirpublishers were concerned that i their dissertations could be Google-searched and downloaded, then thatwas going to aect their ability to geta pubat trat,” yr sad.

Unless the author renews the em-bargo or another two years, the work

w autmatay b strd .“It’s a pt-ut py, s th d-

ault is that your dissertation will bepublished and go into digital stor-ag,” yr sad.

In cases where the dissertationinvolves joint scholarship and an em-bargo disagreement arises between astudt ad a adsr, th Gradu-ate Council will adjudicate the case,according to the council’s 2010-11Aua Rprt.

“Studts ar w gg t haautonomous control over whetherthr dssrtat gts pubshd, asg as thy stay tat wth thUrsty,” Gzaz sad.

Wh th mbarg pt may appeal to students in the humanitiesand social sciences who are lookingt pubsh bks up graduat,other students may choose not to

pursue the embargo option, Gon-zaz sad. Fr studts dutgarha rsarh, autmat dgtastrag ats as a rrd thr ds-covery. Sometimes these ndings aretm-sst, ad th dssrtatbecomes evidence that the student

made the discovery rst. Automaticonline dissertation publication is a

mas t gt rmat ut astrthan the traditional publication pro-ss, Gzaz sad.

T d dssrtat pubatpolicy was “developed in an environ-ment where all dissertations werestudied either in hard copy or mi-

croche ormats” and stipulated thatall dissertations would be copied andput at th Ursty brary,ardg t th Aua Rprt.

“It was just a dierent world,”yr sad.

With the bulk o today’s researchurrg , th w dssrta-t py prtts th trsts graduat studt authrs.

“In the end, one o the goals o the University and or research ingeneral is to disseminate the ruits

o the work, the ruits o the researchad at sm pt, th rmatmust b mad aaab t th pub-,” Rdat sad.

Policy eases alums’ publishing woes

communicating with proessors viaSkyp ad submttg a assg-mts by ma.

Tough the damage was dev-astating in the designated dangerzones, Mantaring and Diagama saidthey never elt unsae while in Japan.

“L Kyt rmad aty th sam,” Matarg sad.

At the time o the earthquake, 18

udrgrads as rprtd Japa astheir current residence, accordingto a 2011 press release. Much o thedebris rom the earthquake has beenremoved and the country is “movingin a positive direction,” said JCA Co-President Ashley Adams ’12, whosehometown is okyo, according tothe JCA website. Notwithstanding

th prgrss that has arady bmade, Adams said her grandmother,who volunteers in aected areas,tells her there are still “a lot o peoplewh ha dspar, ad hp s ta asy thg t m by.”

With the help o the Brown Uni- versity Committee on Japan Earth-quake Relie created in the aermatho the quake, the JCA raised $12,000,which it donated to the Japanese RedCross and Architecture or Human-ity, according to the organization’s

wbst.Adams said the group did not

hold many events last year due toth dsastr’s sudd mpat. Sthen, she said the community o the

JCA has “really bonded and cometogether” to achieve a common goal.

Te series aims to raise aware-ness and remembrance o the ongo-g stuat Japa, Adams sad.

o continue to promote hope andsupport or eorts to rebuild Japan’satd aras, th JCA s hdg amain undraising event that involvesselling tee shirts designed and creat-ed by Brown students. Te project ispart o a collaboration with 11 otherursts rm th U.S., Caadaand Japan, and the money raised willbe donated to Power o Japan and

JEN, two non-governmental organi-zats that g ad t hdr r-phaned during the natural disaster,ardg t th JCA’s wbst. Tshrt dsg was hs thrugh aworldwide online poll o Americanad Japas studts.

Other events in the series in-clude a talk by several Japanese highschool students who were orphaned

during the tsunami and a lecture se-ries, “Rethink, Rebuild, Remember,”

which eatures three experts whowill discuss existing misconceptionsabout the earthquake. Te speak-rs w tur thr gs adursts addt t Brw.

Tere are “a lot o intercollegiatethings happening, and I think that’swhat makes it really special,” Adamssaid. “We’re here or this one cause.”

“Seeing Japan pull together ata tm rss just maks m Japan more,” said Mantaring, who

returned to Japan last summer. Man-taring received a grant to conduct

independent research in Kyoto,whh was utsd th dagr zor nuclear radiation, a concern aerth tsuam damagd tw uarpower reactors. In addition to doingresearch, Mantaring participated a wk-g summr amp adspent time visiting riends and am-y arss th utry.

“Kyoto and that area became likea sd hm t m,” h sad.

In hindsight, he said it was prob-aby bst that h ad th thr stu-dents came back early rom studyingabrad. But “my dt pa s trtur t Japa,” h addd.

“I there’s one thing I learnedrom my time there,” Mantaringsad, “t s that th sprt Japa s

something that just can’t be broken.”

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others who will match it and con-

trbut.” T sh s kg traise $250,000 to buy the buildingsad $.2 m t $2 m trat th rrat tr. I they do not receive enough dona-tions, the school is consideringtakg ut as.

Robert Flanders, the state-appointed receiver overseeingCentral Falls’ recovery, said his pas t rat th shand sell the current building aspart o the city’s eort to consoli-date its land to “deray the costs

rug th ty, ts budgsand school system.” Flanders said

hs has t dtrmd p-tential locations. His ofce alsopas t mb sh ad ty admstrats, prd ta utsor businesses improving the value thr prprty ad shar smpub srs wth Pawtukt.

Tough Segue Institute cur-rently holds the only ormal bidon the school building, others alsoha prssd trst, Fadrssad.

Segue Institute does not yethave the money to pay or thebd, Gara sad, but t s wrkgthrugh sa mda t rasdats.

Te Central Falls library also

rty rd brty att-tion — Alec Baldwin donated

$10,000 to help preserve the lo-a brary ast a.

Te school hopes to receive a

decision rom the city soon, sinceit must be ready when the newschool year begins in August, saidLucy Rios, chairperson o Segue

Isttut’s bard drtrs. Tboard established a Building Com-mittee to oversee the sale, and thesh maks wky as t thcity to stay abreast o the process.

Segue Institute was oundedin 2009 as a community-startedcharter school to provide studentsrom sixth to eighth grade with

individual attention, academicrgr ad parta abrat.

“(Tis building) is where westarted, and there is room to grow,”sad Ny Hs Vargas, a par-ent and board member at SegueIsttut. Hs Vargas sad shears a new building might notb as sutd t th sh’s ds,and it might not eel as much likehm t th studts as th ur-rt budg.

Flanders said he is not sureyet whether the building will besold to Segue Institute or anotherbuyr, but h assurd that SguInstitute will still have “a home inCtra Fas.”

Charter school aided by celebrity donation

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“We take more than our share o thebiosphere,” said Winona LaDuke,

environmental rights activist, authorand member o the Anishinaabe Na-tion, during a lecture in Salomon 101ast ght. T tur, “S G-erations: Te Intersection o Ecologi-cal and Indigenous Economics,” waspd by a Mashp Wampaagdrum group perormance and was thesecond in the “Catalyzing Conversa-tions on Diversity” series sponsoredby the Ofce o Institutional Diversity and supported by Native Americansat Brown and the Tird World Center

LaDuk addrssd th uturaproblems the United States is acingwth rgard t sustaabty.

In America, there is oten a“commodiication o all — theperception that everything is sometangible market economy,” LaDukesaid. Instead o having an environ-mental economy based on cyclicalpatterns in nature, people see the

environment primarily in terms o

ts us t humas, sh sad.LaDuk usd th amp th

waste industry to demonstrate thelinearity and short-sightedness o most environmental thinking, tak-

g ssu wth th da wast as apt humas apt as a g.

Sh as addrssd th prbmso non-renewable energy, depen-dence on oil, genetically modiedoods, unsustainable crop growthand transportation practices. Whenpopulations rely on ood productsrom distant sources, their oil de-pendency and reliance on outsidesources increase and local economiessur, sh sad.

o counter these problems,LaDuke outlined the basic tenets sustaabty, whh sh has b-served while studying indigenous

practices. It is important to under-stand humans were the last to arriveon earth, she said. Te ecosystemcould survive without humans,but humas dpd atur, shsaid. Within the indigenous culturesLaDuke studies, people believe allbgs ar ratd ad “mst ur

world is animate,” which she saidads t a ss autabty rhuman actions that does not exist ina athrptr w.

Currently, LaDuke is working

on the White Earth Indian Reser- at Msta t put t a-t sustaabty tats t “r-ga tr r d ad rgy,”sh sad. Ts tats ud ammt t rstr th grwth indigenous crops that can tolerateclimate change, the construction o awind turbine and the continual battleagainst the production o genetically grd d. LaDuk s as a-tive in national environmentalism e-orts, serving as executive director o Honor the Earth, a Native Americanrmta rghts rgazat.

It is important not to have a “ron-

tier” state o mind, where one canmove on to a dierent location i therst s dstryd, LaDuk sad.Wh makg a ds, must“sdr th mpat th gra-tion seven generations rom now.You take only what you need, anda th rst,” sh sad.

Eco activist emphasizes culture’s role

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wants to make nding o-campushousing easier or college studentsarud th utry. Ch h-nology Ofcer and co-ounderKyle Nichols-Schmolze said whenhe and the other ounders wereundergraduates at us Univer-

sity, they were dismayed with thedifculty o nding o-campushousing and saw a business op-prtuty.

JumpOCampus has already paired with ive universitiesaround the country to providethr studt bds wth tralocations to learn about o-cam-pus options. Nichols-Schmolzesaid the company has contacted

Brown and oicials have ex-pressed interest in signing orthr srs.

Betapsring oers companies aunique opportunity to integrate

themselves into Providence, Nich-s Shmz sad.

“Te guys who are running thisknow everyone in Providence,”h sad. “W’r ray dggg t.”

averas asked the crowd tolook out the windows o the ofcebudg at th “Kwdg Ds-trt” surrudg t a sds.“I promise you in ve years it’snot going to look like that — andin ten years nothing like that,”averes said, adding that the com-panies in the room would helpbrg abut that hag.

Betaspring program attractscompanies to Rhode Island

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new positions, as was the casewith Spies when he arrived at theUniversity in early 2002. Spies,

who originally worked withSimmons at Princeton, came toBrown to assume his current posi-t at Smms’ bhst.

Most senior administratorsserve at the discretion o thepresident, especially those whoreport directly to the president.

hs psts ud th pr- vost, the dean o medicine andbiological sciences and most viceprsdts.

May ths admstratrslack ormal, written contracts,and tenure agreements that arereached tend to be lexible on ei-

ther end, said Rajiv Vohra, proes-sor o economics and dean o theaculty rom 2004 to 2011. Vohra,wh rprtd t rmr prstDavid Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, saidhe served a ull ive-year contractbut opted out partway through hissecond ive-year contract, a movehe said was not unusual. His pre-dssr, Prssr Sgy Mary Fennell, served our years

th pst.“o be an administrator ... is

not something that a lot o peoplethink o doing long-term,” Vohrasaid. “It’s important not to see thisas the way in which typical ac ulty

apptmts ar struturd.”In past years, many top ad-

mstrat trasts ha -incided with the appointments w prsdts. Wh rmrPresident Gordon Gee came toth Ursty , turr

was widespread with the hiring a w da g ad twprovosts in the span o two years.Ad ss tha tw mths atr

Simmons assumed oice in 2001,Proessor o Cognitive and Lin-

guistic Sciences and Public Policy Kathryn Spoehr ’69 resigned asprovost. Spoehr’s successor, Rob-ert Zimmer, was one o ive senioradministrators who announcedtheir resignations in the summerad a 2006.

“When the president irstcame, the rhetoric was that ev-erything has to change and that

nothing that has happened beorewas any good,” Spoehr told he

Hrad 2006 at th tm th rsgats.

Paxson told he Herald in arecent interview that it was toosoon to determine whether therewould be leadership changes inth ar utur.

During such transitions, thepreservation o institutionalknowledge and academic conti-

uty s a r ad a prrty,administrators said. his processis oten made easier when boththe predecessor and successorm rm wth Brw, Vhrasaid. “here needs to be a good

balance between new energy andcontinuity, so that means typically that you don’t have wholesale,

mpt hags,” h sad.Since leaving oice, Vohra said

he has communicated oten withhis successor, Dean o the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P’12. “We’vebeen in airly requent touch,”Vohra said. “here are issues that

don’t very neatly end on June 30.”Quinn said Simmons has

partuary mphaszd th m-portance o ensuring a smooth

trast upmg mths.“here’s always attention paidto succession planning, and it’ssomething that President Sim-mons has encouraged in hersenior team,” she said. “Every situation is dierent, but there iscertainly signiicant thought andsupprt prdd t sur thatthe leadership o the University have the resources they need to

b sussu.”he injection o new ideas can

oten be a positive orce or the

University, Spoehr said. “Someinstitutional knowledge is always

lost, especially i a replacementcomes in rom the outside o Brw, ad ry t, that’s -tta. Vry t, yu mghtwant to bring in some new ideas,”sh sad. “Yu d’t wat ppwh ar stuk th past.”

At the same time, a balancemust be maintained, Spoehrsaid. “It’s a delicate art o howmuch you can move an institu-tion orward,” she said, citingrmr Harard Prsdt Larry Summers as a leader who tried tochange too much too quickly andsquty ad.

Regardless o the particular

leader, changes at a university areoten slow and laborious, Spoehrsaid. “Moving a university is a lotlike moving a cemetery,” she said.“It taks a t spad wrk adheavy liting, and you get no helprm th habtats.”

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pr as a sg ad prg-nant woman seeking advice abouther pregnancy, which she had noplans to terminate. She said she

wt t th Pad Parthdtr r ad at th tm.

“I saw Planned Parenthood,ad I thught t hpd yu payour parenthood,” she said. “Iwent in, explained what I wasthr r, ad thy kd at mand said, ‘Oh, you’re in the wrongplace, we don’t do that here.’”MaBth sad sh razd thrwere women “going to Planned

Parenthood or other organiza-tions and not getting the inorma-t thy shud.”

MacBeth compared abortionto other surgical procedures,pointing out that usually doctorsprovide an extensive explanationo every step in a surgery. She saidshe worried there were womenskg abrts wh wr tbeing ully inormed o their op-ts r wh dd t kw thy could view their own ultrasoundmags.

“his (bill) is just saying to thewoman, you know, ‘you can look at this,’” said MacBeth. “here

may be women who say ‘absolute-ly not,’ but what about the womanwho says ‘yes, I’d like to’ and whenshe sees the pictures says, ‘Oh my goodness, I had no idea, this isn’tth rght h r m?’”

“I don’t see this as a pro-lieor pro-choice bill,” said MacBeth.“It’s neither. It’s a bil l to give wom- rmat.”

he bill is also supported by Rhode Island Right to Lie, a stateadvocacy group that lobbies or

pr- gsat. Barth Bray,executive director o the advocacy grup, wrt a ma t h

Herald that the bill would helpprevent women rom making un-

inormed decisions, only to regret

thm atr.“ens o thousands o post-

abortive women around Americahave come orward to say thatthey deeply regret their abor-tion,” Bracy said. “Since the law

urrty rgzs th wmaas the one who must make thisds, sh dsrs a th -rmat aaab.”

he bill has been met with crit-icism rom medical proessionalsand women’s rights groups. PaulaHdgs, pub py ad ad-cacy director or Planned Parent-hd Suthr Nw Egad,

said the bill was unnecessary and political. Rhode Island lawalready requires physicians toexplain the abortion procedureto patients, and ultrasounds are

given to most patients anyway because they are used to deter-mine the gestational age o thetus, sh sad.

“h at th mattr s thatthis bill is not grounded in scien-tiically-based or medically-basedstandards o care,” Hodges said.

“It’s a pta statmt.”Hdgs as rtzd th b

as harmu t wm. “It stsa judgement on women who havealready been through their de-cision-making process,” Hodges

sad. “hs s a dsgustg abus pwr my p.”

Lily Goodspeed ’13, a membero Feminists at Brown, an umbrel-la group or students working onssus ratg t ssm ad thsupport o women, said the billmade her uncomortable. “Abor-tion is a serious decision — it’sa ray hard ds,” sh sad.“I d’t thk wm shud bmade to eel guilty or that anyoneshould add diiculty to the choicethat ultimately is t heirs.” he bill

is being held or urther review by th Hus Judary Cmmtt.

Ultrasound billstirs controversy

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I th spa wk, m’s hky apta Jak Maa’12 went rom losing a disappoint-ing rst-round series in the ECACplayos — his nal games in aBrw urm — t razg hsdream o joining hockey’s premierproessional league. Saturday night,

Maclellan nalized a one-year dealwith the National Hockey League’sNashville Predators, a team he isamiliar with aer attending itsSummr Dpmt Camp astsummr. Maa has jd thteam and will practice with them

r th rmadr th sas.

“It’s pretty surreal. It didn’t sink — t st has’t,” Maa sad.“It’s a eeling I can’t explain. I’vedramt abut t my tr . Frt t ay happ, t’s prtty sp-a — t was prbaby th bggstmmt my .”

Maclellan nished his nal sea-s as a Bar as th tam adr gas (5), asssts (5) ad rapoints (30). Te captain joined the100-point club or his career duringthe season, with a nal tally o 101,making him one o only 23 players Brw hky hstry t rahthe century mark. Maclellan alsoard Frst am A-Iy hrs

and is a nominee or the Lowe’s Se-nior CLASS Award or Ice Hockey.

Tough the individual statisticsand honors all belong to Maclellan,he said he eels he owes a great dealo his success to the Bruno hockey prgram.

“I owe everything to Brown andBrw hky,” Maa sad. “Itwas thg shrt amazg rm.”

“Beore I came, I didn’t have any kd prssa trst — t’sgenerated over the last ew seasons,”h addd.

Head Coach Brendan Whittet

’94 said he was unsurprised by Ma-clellan’s signing aer yet anotherstar sas.

“Jack was a very high-end skilledcollege player and received a lot

o interest aer his junior year,”Whttt sad. “H’s b ur mstcomplete and skilled player, provenby the points he was able to putup despite being a marked man by mst dss w payd.”

But th trasrmat Ma-clellan into a team standout andNHL prspt s a th mr m-prss sdrg hs rst-yarcampaign, during which he only thd s pts.

“When I came into the headcoaching job, I came in with anopen mind, and Jack caught my eyerom the drop o the puck,” Whittet

sad. “I had d hm b-cause he was a player who couldcreate on the oensive side — he

allowed us to put up a lot o pointsad w gams. ...H dd amazgthgs r ur prgram.”

Maa w k t trasathis oensive prowess at the col-gat t th NHL, as h b-comes the third Brown player inthe last three seasons to sign anNHL contract. In 2010, Aaron Vol-patti ’10 signed with the VancouverCauks ad ast yar, Harry Z-rzyk ’ agrd t trms wththe Philadelphia Flyers. Whittet

ptd t ths thr payrs as atstamt t th Brw prgram’sability to “develop and showcasepayrs.”

Tough Maclellan has closed

the book on a memorable Brown

arr, h sad h s td t takthe next step in the development hs arr.

“It’s already kind o a bittersweeteeling to know that those ouryears are over,” Maclellan said. “It’sth start athr haptr my . I’m urrty Ph wththe team, and I’ll be practicing withthe team or the rest o the season.”

Te signings o Maclellan, as-sistant captain Bobby Farnham’12 and goalie Mike Clemente’12 with the Providence Bruinso the American Hockey League

ad dsma J Buw ’2with the renton itans o the EastCoast Hockey League represents

the depth o talent moving romth Bru ass 202 t thprssa raks.

“You don’t replace players o Jack’s ability. It’s going to take ateam eort,” Whittet said. “We’ve

laid a oundation and created autur.”

And the head coach said he is

now looking orward to seeing howthe now-experienced underclass-

men will be able to mesh with atalented incoming class o recruits.

“We’ve created that culture thatlooks to succeed,” Whittet said.“Nw w d t mpmt t.”

For Maclellan, that culturehelped earn him a spot in the NHL.

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up its unprecedented winning streak at Natas.

“W hadd th prssur ray well and treated the race as any otherrace,” she said. “We just told our-selves, ‘Stay calm and enjoy it andapprat th pr...”

Individually, Mosenthal camein rst in the slalom, ahead o thesecond-place nisher by 2.2 secondsaer both runs. Initially, it seemed

like Matea Ferk — who competed th 2006 ad 200 Oymps rCrata ad w sks r Srra N-

vada — was in rst aer the rst run.But ar d rw, th as

determined that Ferk had straddleda gat ad was dsquad.

“It was suh a bssg” t shin rst aer not having completed

her second run last year, Mosenthalsad.

Mstha s th bst sk-ers in slalom nationwide, LeBlancsaid. With her rst-place nish inslalom and ourth-place nish ingat sam, Mstha s gg tb th USCSA rprstat at USNatas.

“She basically gets to go and raceagainst the whole (US) nationalteam” as well as against oreign com-petitors, LeBlanc said. “We haven’t

quad a skr t d that br.”But Mstha was t th y

Bear to turn in a strong perormance— the underclassmen put up impres-sive times that propelled the team to

th tp th stadgs. I sam,

Mara Mastadu ’4 ad EmmaLBa ’4 am 2th ad thplace, respectively, out o the 89 ski-rs wh mptd bth rus.

In giant slalom, LeBlanc came in10th place, while Kia’s sister, NikaMstha ’5, am 2th.

Te underclassmen “made a hugeimpact in terms o giving us depth,”Kia Mosenthal said. “It was greathag mr pp ths yar ray trbut t th tam.”

T squad’s suss at Natascomes only a year aer the team wasrecommended to be eliminated by

the Athletics Review Committee. Im-

mediately aer that announcement,th tam usd tryg t rasmoney to keep the program alive,ardg t Mha LBa. Butt as dr th skrs t dmatthe slopes to prove they deserved tob a arsty sprt, h sad.

“Every single kid on the teamwanted to prove their worth,” Mi-chael LeBlanc said. “Tey sure ash dd t. … It mat th wrd tth prgram, that’s r sur.”

Kia Mosenthal echoed her coach’sstmts.

“We proved momentously thatwe deserve to be with the varsity sports at Brown,” she said. “o comeback and then win a national cham-pshp ad b sd ra wasth mst satsyg pr ay-one could hope or. I hope we madea astg mprss.”

Mosenthal ’12leads Bears to top

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Jack Macea ‘12 sged a oe-ear etr eve cotract o Satrda.

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Te Inspire Fund, Brown Student

Agencies’ new unding initiative, o-ers up to $1,000 or students working prjts t bt th Ursty or Providence communities, accord-g t th BSA wbst.

BSA tds r th d-basdud t “spr sa hag,” sadEllen Pederson ’13, assistant director BSA.

he BSA management teamwrks tgthr t st addatsr th Ispr Fud. Studts mustll out an application, answeringquestions about their project andhow it will benet the community,Pederson said. BSA is looking orstudents who have experience intheir project areas or students who

ar adsd by a auty mmbr -perienced in the project’s eld. Fundswill be awarded to ongoing projects,rather than single events, she said.“We are looking or someone who isgoing to make a long-standing di-

erence and help provide a lastingimprovement or the community,”sh sad.

BSA has not distributed any und-g yt baus th appats rth Ispr Fud wr pstd just a

w wks ag, Pdrs sad. BSA

plans to begin awarding unds withinseveral weeks to as many students asthr budgt w aw, sh sad. Sar, the majority o applicants have

been small groups o students, butthe und is open to individuals asw, sh sad.

Tr s appat dad,and students will be chosen on a“rst-come, rst-serve basis,” accord-g t th BSA wbst. T my or the Inspire Fund comes romprts rm BSA’s srs, sh sad.

Earr ths yar, BSA spsrdanother ellowship, the C.V. StarrSocial Entrepreneurship Fellow-ship, which provided undergraduateentrepreneurs unds and guidance.

Pilar Garcia-Brown ’14, one o thestudts std r th wshp,is working with a group o women

Euadr t susta thr jwry-making business. She said she couldnot have traveled to Ecuador this pastsummer without the unding romBSA. “I wouldn’t have been able to

d my t buy jwry rm thwomen and maintain the inrastruc-ture to keep the project sustainable,”sh sad.

BSA’s established services are de-signed to make student lie easier, butth udg tats r a dr-t kd supprt, Pdrs sad,adding, “We have our own programst mpr studt , but w watt hp studts b ab t hp th

mmuty ways w a’t.”

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skg verso o the u.S. beatg Rssa the 1980 Ompcs.”— Head Coach Mchae leBac

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On March 5, the Kony 2012 campaign launched when thenonproit, Invisible Children, created a 30-minute video in or-

dr t a attt t Jsph Ky, th w-amus adr

Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army. We ully support the intentionsbehind the video, as there is no doubt in our minds t hat Kony andhis crimes are heinous. hat said, we have rese rvations about theInvisible Children campaign and are alarmed at the way in whichmay g studts ha mbrad th mmt smgy wthut muh thught.

At th bgg th d, -udr Jas Russ tsthat “today, there are more people on Facebook than there were onthe planet two hundred years ago.” He goes on to discuss how thisdesire and ability to connect can and should be used or good — inths as, t prmt awarss ad stp Ky’s rg trrr.hs s a w ad gd, but w ar srusy rd that thease o spreading awareness has caused a decrease in the depth o activist knowledge o the issue. In the wake o the SOPA and PIPAampag, w must qust th prps a tharg dgtaprotest culture ostered by such easy accessibility o inormation.

With one-click options such as liking, sharing and orwarding,it has become an incredibly simple matter to pass something alongt thrs wthut hag t tak rspsbty r th auray r squs ts tt. W thrr urag pp,rgardss whthr thy ar r r agast Ky 202 r sm-where in between, to do their own research beore hastily jumpingto conclusions. he ease o communicating and connecting on

th Itrt a rsut mpay w b that mry clicking a button — what some call “slacktivism” — is alwaysugh t mak a hag.

As prmt as th d has b a ur wsds,bakash agast Isb Chdr ad th ampag wt raamst as quky. May tak ssu wth th prd asg “white man’s guilt” in Arica, and others cl aim that the campaigns a abrat spray mtatd by ass t Ugada.May, udg majr jurasts ad atsts Ugada, hacomplained that the movie has considerably oversimpliied the

ssu, ad th LRA has t b rthr Ugada s 2006.Sm wrry that ths w y mbd Ky. Whatr staone takes on this issue, or any issue or that matter, it must berahd thrugh rta ad autus sdrat th atsad t udd ts r p puarty.

Russell claims that through the organization’s eorts, “awarenessturned into action. We started something.” We hope that the recentawarss rasd abut Ky ds dd yd pst, tagbresults. As one blogger wrote, “Invisible Children is right when itsays that the power o i ndividuals is increasing. As a donor, voterand social networker, you have power. With that power comesrspsbty.” But th pwr w ha s t y th sharg ks ad th spradg awarss. As duatd dduasin the digital age, it is our responsibility to be comprehensive anddsrg th atsm w hs t prmt.

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Fr th past 20 yars, thr has b a -ssus a startg pt t rs th Is-ra-Pasta ft: “w stats rtw pps” s smthg that prts -udg grmt as, aadmsad jurasts ha spusd. T Jwshpp dsr a srg at as d thPastas. Yt thr s a grwg m-mt amg Isra’s dtratrs ad ampuspr-Pasta mmts r a “-statsut” th rg.

T prpsd stat wud b a sgu-ar at wth rghts r a tzs. Trwud b rgus dtty ad ds-tgushg haratrsts th utry.Wh ths prpsa suds ar ad just thry, ths wud ma th d Isra asa Jwsh stat — ad t sms that mst pr-Pasta mmts ar kay wth ths.But ths w b-ata stat wud k drt tha Bgum r Swtzrad.Isra was ratd th wak th grat-st tragdy huma hstry baus thrwr y Bgums ad Swtzrads. TJwsh aspt Isra s th udamtampt Isra as a Jwsh hmad.

Urtuaty, th rgt ththr sd’s srgty s ubaad. I

urrty sr as V Prsdt BrwStudts r Isra — whh s a-usd bg Brw’s mst rght-wg

pr-Isra grup — ad I a dty say BSI drss ad supprts a tw-stat

sut. BSI spsrd a tur arr th yar by Bary Frak, a ry bra r-mr mmbr grss, wh prahd atw-stat sut as th y ga way tm rward. I at, BSI wr t brga spakr wh adatd r a gratr Israrm th Mdtrraa Sa t th JrdaRr, t wud b dsmssd as rght-wgss.

Yt, as part “Isra Aparthd Wk,”

Brw Studts r Just Pastbrught A Abumah, a shar wh sup-prts th rat just stat th r-g. T pubats hs wbst, “E-tr Itada” — whh jurs asty mmrs busss pdg ad sudbmbrs Isra — adat a stat wth-ut a rgus dtty. Tat mas Is-ra as a Jwsh stat. Fudamtay, as -dd by Abumah, SJP ds t rsptJwsh srgty. I d t qut udr-stad why thr s rprty btwStudts r Isra ad Studts r Just

Past. BSI has b a abut Pa-sta srgty, but w gt rtur.

“Isra Aparthd Wk” s t abut thsurty barrr, r s t abut Isra stt-

mts. SJP’s prtsts ar t abut humarghts ats, r ar thy abut Isra- ad grabbg. Ts sma py ssusar a drs rm thr udamta b- jt t a Jwsh stat. Abumah’s twt,“Is’t t tm r a ppuar Pasta r-ut th rm a thrd tada?” ur-thr umats hs ppst t Isra ads prhaps a tmptat t .

I udamtay rspt th rghts

thrs t ha a p, ad I am gadSJP has th rght t rgaz. But pasd’t mask yur da th rght t a Jw-sh stat udr th gus “d th upa-t.” Tat s smpy dpt.

I yu wat t mpa abut th-rgus prg — what SJP s ag“Aparthd” — I suggst yu us SaudAraba, whr -Musms at trMa, r Egypt, whr Cpt Chrstasha b prsutd r dads. T y tm Jrusam’s hy sts ha b pt a rgs has b udr Jwsh ru.

Ut 67, Jws dd t ha ass t thWstr Wa, th hst st Judasm,whh was udr Jrdaa tr.

T thr day th Ma Gr I hada studt SJP t m sh s that what

has b d t th Pastas graty ds th pa ausd t Isra tzs. Iwsh sh wud t that t th rmadr th Fg amy, whs s rats wrmurdrd arud yar ag by tw Pa-sta mtats th Isra tw Ita-mar. Ys, thy d a sttmt, but thats hardy justat r suh bruta at.

Wh pp ask m why thr s a su-rty barrr, r “Aparthd Wa,” as SJP kst a t, sparatg th Wst Bak rm Is-ra prpr, I strugg t d th wrds tpa th aswr ty. Surprsgy,I ud my aswr Wkpda. Lk-g r th stry surrudg th dath th Fgs, I sarhd “Itamar attak,” ad

t brught m t a pag. I was struk by thwrds “t t b usd wth ‘Itamar at-tak (2002).’” I 2002, Pasta mtatsmurdrd a mthr ad hr thr ss Itamar. T at that thr sts tw Wk-pda pags ttd “Itamar attak” s why a surty barrr stads tday. Prttgyur tzs s hardy aparthd. Lt us -tu t ha a p dagu abut thIsra-Pasta ft, but I urg bthsds t rspt th srgty th thr.It s y th that dsurs w m r-ward th mst prdut way pssb.

Zach igber ’15 wod ke to dedcate

ths artce to the Foge am as we

mor or them oe ear ater.yo ca ema hm at

[email protected].

Since when has the two-state solution become passe?

Marh s Wm’s Hstry Mth. Etsspsrd by th Sarah Dy Wm’sCtr w b happg a mth, r-gzg past ad prst trbutsad prs wm wrdwd.Wh ths ts rprst a pst ap-prah t th us wm aa-dma, thy rmd m what I prt b a urtuat pauty atsmratg t wm’s r gdr ssus ampus.

I am t Brw td t gt - d what I prsumd wud b a -brat mst mmuty ampus. ButI ha ud mys dsapptd by thak a pwru pub suh agrup.

Ts s mg rm sm wh hasaty attmptd t sk ut studtrgazats targtg mst ssus.Wh ths grups st ad d gdwrk, thr ds t b mr a u-tur supprt r thr rts, as w asgratr sbty mst atsm.

It has b my bsrat, thugh Ihp I am mstak, that a rta amut amba surruds th trms “m-sm” r “wm’s ssus.” Othr ats atsm sm muh mr pratamg th studt bdy, suh as qur s-sus r rmta sustaabty.

I d t wat t dtrat rm th s-

russs r ssty thr ruts

aday, but w d t rgz thats ad gdr quaty ar st ry m-prtat ssus that at b abadd.T umbr attaks wm’s rghts— spay rprdut rghts — -urrg th ata s s atrus

ad at g uhagd.T Vrga Stat Gra Assmby

rty md t pass a b rqurg atrasaga utrasud r a wmskg abrts. Du t sgat pub- utry, th masur has b hagdt y rqur a tra utrasudrathr tha th mr as trasaga

prdur.Ts typ gsat as rght

wth thr utragus attmpts t d-tr wm rm hag abrts, a whh ha rprusss byd th d-ma rprdut rghts.

Currty, s stats rqur awm skg a abrt t udrga utrasud. O ths, as s th y stat that as rqurs th prdr t ds-pay th mag th tus t th wm.

T thr s ha grusy ardd th

wm th rdm t tur away whudrgg a mday ussary pr-dur tdd t gut thm t hs-g t t abrt.

Br addrssg th skgy pa-trast t ths aws, t th hy-

prsy ay prpt ths pswh as ams t b rd wth r-dug hath ar spdg. rqurby aw th sam tratmt patts r-gardss dts r tt s tdu t prpr mda utzat,r ds t aw a apprprat dgr pray ad autmy r physa’s

prats. As w ar th mdst try-g dspraty t ut hath ar sts, twhs bt s t t rqur -u-ssary tsts ad prdurs?

Rturg t th patrarha rts suh ps, t appars that th gr-a t that has szd th ata da-gu rprdut rghts s that wm- at b trustd wth thr w d-ss, ad byd ths, that a rt wm-a’s r s rst that a ubatr, th

a ddua.

Csdr aws rppg up stats kGrga that wud rqur stgats th auss msarrags rdr tdtrm thr was “huma ausat” th part th mthr. Wm udguty suh “prata murdr” w a

rma hargs.Ys, that’s rght, ar gg thrugh th

ry mtay pau prss msarryg, wm w b stgatdt s thy ausd t. Ts prdursm as prduts th w “PrshdAt” bg prpsd sra stats -udg Okahma ad Msssspp whhwud grat u rghts tzshp t artzd gg. I addt t makg abr-t ga, th Prshd At pasmtats aaabty brth tras w as tr rtzat.

Cary, w ha t shak th dr dagu abut msm, gdr s-sus, wm’s rghts r whatr amyu wat t g t.

W as ursty studts ar trusr stadg up r auss w ar mdby ad takg pta at t brgabut hag. It wud b a grat ss tth sprt bra duat t s thsss prtst ad rtqu rm urampus.

G th urrt rrs t thSt Ag wth rgard t rprdutrghts, t s mprat that w t rgtth mprta ad ssty atsmwth th ram wm’s rghts.

legh Thomas ’15 s rom irvgto, newyork. She ca be reached at

[email protected].

A call for women’s activists

Gve the crret reverso to the Stoe Age wth regard

to reprodctve rghts, t s mperatve that we ot orget

the mportace ad ecesst o actvsm.

i dameta respect the rghts o others to have a

opo, ad i am gad SJP gets the rght to orgaze. Bt

pease do’t mask or dea o the rght to a Jewsh

state der the gse o “ed the occpato.” That ssmp deceptve.

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Members o the Rhode Island

General Assembly worked withG. L Cha ’75 P’4 tdrat legislation that would allowcompassion centers — medicalmarijuana dispensaries — to op-erate by holding them to morestrgt rguats.

h gsat, spsrd by state Sen. Rhoda Perry P’91, D-

Providence and state Rep. ScottSlater, D-Providence, is designedto minimize the risk o ederal in-tervention, such as raids or shut-downs, in the compassion centers.

Rhode Island legalized theuse o medical marijuana by li-

censed patients in 2006, but thereare no state-regulated distribu-trs th drug, s patts ry on caregivers to grow and sup-ply them with the drug. Chaeesigned the Medical MarijuanaAct in 2009, an amendment tothe law that permits the RhodeIsland Department o Health to

register three compassion cen-trs t grw ad s th drug rmedicinal purposes. But beoreay mpass trs pd,U.S. Attorney Peter Neronha senta letter to Chaee, inorming himthat th dspsars bga tprat, thy wud b a-

t dra aw ad ud bsubjt t rads.

At the ederal level, marijuanais not legal under any circum-sta. It s assd as a Shd-ule I controlled substance, mean-ing it has no accepted medicalus th Utd Stats. Shd-ule II controlled substances havesm aptd mda uss adcan thereore be prescribed and

distributed. hough marijuanais decriminalized or medicaluse in Rhode Island, situationscould arise in which the ederal

government might eel compelled

to act, said Christine Huntsinger,spksprs r Cha.

he new legislation wouldallow the Rhode Island Depart-

ment o Health to regulate aspectso the compassion centers thatconcern ederal oicials. he De-partment o Health would deter-mine a limit on the amount o marijuana a compassion centerud grw ad str, as w as

th amut ash kpt st.Proits generated by the privately-ru dspsars ar a mattr unease among ederal oicials,Hutsgr sad. h gsat

would also attempt to preventga marjuaa sas by aw-ing caregivers and patients to sellthr ss prdu t mpas-s trs.

Compassion centers are need-ed in Rhode Island because the

vast majority o licensed medicalmarijuana users have to get theirmedicine illegally, Perry said. “Wewanted to have a methodology available to these patients whohave incredible pain and terriblesymptoms associated with their

diseases and medications,” shesaid. heir suering is “deinitely

amratd as a ut b-ing able to take their medication,which is medic al marijuana,” sheaddd.

he legislation attempts to ad-drss rs d by draas, but t sms urastthat they could be completely re-solved, Perry said. “he ederalgovernment will do what they doand the state will do what it does,”

sh sad.he U.S. Attorney’s support

or the Department o Justice’spolicy on medical marijuana hasnot changed, according to a state-

ment released by Neronha’s o-. h ds t pa tevaluate or discuss the recently prpsd gsat.

In a step toward reconcilingth dsrpay btw draad stat aw rgardg mdamarijuana, Chaee, along withWashington Governor Chris-t Grgr, has pttd thdra grmt t rassy marjuaa as a Shdu II -trolled substance, making it ac-

ceptable or medical use at thedra .

“h grr has b sup-

portive o medical marijuana andunderstands that there is a popu-at that ds t,” Hutsgrsad.

aking a dual approach,Chaee has agreed to work with

the legislature to alter legislationas w as t addrss th ssu atthe ederal level so that drug pol-icy adheres to the needs o RhodeIsadrs.

Gov. collaborates on marijuana legislation

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Goveror Chaee spports a aw to regate medca marjaa saes.

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Rhode Island’s health insurancecommissioner Chris Koller or-dered Blue Cross and Blue Shield o Rhode Island to lower its direct pay rats by . prt at Fbru-ary, a move that would aect about14,000 Rhode Islanders. Te com-missioner issued his decision aerdeliberating on an earlier request

by Blue Cross or a 2.4 percent rateincrease, according to the ofcialprss ras.

Drt pay rats at ustm-

ers who purchase their own health

insurance. Te rate change is anaverage across customer payments,s Bu Crss rs pas wthhghr patt st-sharg.

“Tey weren’t asking or prots,”

Koller said, adding that Blue Cross’rga rqust r a rat raswas based on concerns about the

economy. “Blue Cross put up some thr w umbrs. I thk wound that they were a little con-

srat sm thr mdapss,” h sad.

Te commission’s evaluationound that the company’s costs willprobably not increase much over

th mg yar ad may atuay

dras, h sad.Te Ofce o the Attorney Gen-

eral noted nancial inefcienciesin the Blue Cross administrationdepartment, according to a com-

mss prss ras. Dspt threduction, Blue Cross will not sus-ta sgat sss.

“In our estimation, the ratesthat we came up with are whatBlue Cross needs to maintain anadequate prot,” Koller said. “SoI think the eect on Blue Crossinancially should be relatively mma.”

Blue Cross originally requested

a 4.4 percent increase but volun-

tarily lowered it by two percent-ag pts ar gtatg a wpharmaceutical contract, accordingt a prss ras.

“(Bu Crss) shars th O th Hath Isura Cmms-sioner’s concern or the vulnerabil-ity o the direct pay population, andwe continue to look or ways to helpmdrat th st ar wthutcompromising quality,” wrote KimReingold, press contact or BlueCrss, a ma t T Hrad.Blue Cross has decreased its admin-istrative and overhead costs by over$30 million in recent years without

aecting services, Reingold wrote.

Customers o the direct paymentpa w ha t b aru whdeciding on new coverage options,Koller said. Since patients share thests Bu Crss pas, th ratdras ud ras -paymts utur Bu Crss pas. Whsome will benet, others may see

rat rass.“It’s important or customers to

kw that th prduts grawill involve a lot more cost-sharing,ad thy shud b hsg ry aruy,” Kr sad.

Blue Cross will not appeal the

decision in superior court, Rein-

gd sad.

Commissioner cuts insurance direct pay rates

B AdAM tOOBiN

Senior StaffWriter

Prd adrs wmd 6new companies brought to the city by Betaspring, a start-up accelera-tr basd th Jwry Dstrt,during an open house attended by 300 people Tursday. ProvidenceMayor Angel averas said he sawthe new group o companies asexamples o a prospering and revi-talized Providence. Also in atten-dance were Rhode Island Generalreasurer Gina Raimondo andEut Drtr th RhdIsland Economic Development

Crprat Kth Stks.T 6 mpas m rm

various cities including Boston,San Francisco, Milwaukee andel Aviv. While some o the com-panies have already entered themarket, others are still ne-tuningthr pts.

Betaspring held hursday’sevent in its new ofce space inth hart th Jwry Dstrt,a larger physical location thathas allowed it to bring in twiceas may mpas. T ty hastrd t brg mda ad th-gy mpas t th dstrtas part o a larger initiative to di- rsy th ty’s m bas.

Each company will spendthr mths Prd as apart o the Betaspring programad s uragd t stay thcity aer the term expires. Be-tasprg sts up t $20,000 every company and provides themwith a structured environment whh t pad thr dsgad stmt ptta. O thprevious companies that havecompleted the Betaspring pro-gram, approximately two-thirds o th mpas ar st pratgwith varying degrees o success,

according to B etaspring’s website.One-third ailed within two years graduat, th st sad.

Betaspring highlights its useo mentors — previous graduates th prgram — t ad urrtstart-ups in their development.Max Winograd ’09, a graduateo the B etaspring program, spoketo the value o Betaspring and hisexcitement o being a mentor now

that his company has begun to

thr. H ad tw thr Brwgraduates invented a new sticky

label that does not use a backing.Tat invention led to the creation start-up NuLab, whh wtthrough the Betaspring program.Tey now employ 15 people inProvidence and pay more than $1m saars, h sad.

While Betaspring’s mission o-cuses on technology and design

companies, it has a diverse group start-ups. T start-ups ragrom political sites like AgileQR,whh aws pta adrs tconnect with voters who share

thr aus, t hd-war r-ganizations like Spoutrel, which

creates toys that aid children withhr dsass.

Athr ths yar’s part-pants is MoveableCode, a start-upounder Nicholas Napp said hehopes will become the “Hasbro o mb.” MabCd has r-ated games or children to helpwith phonics and other academicskills, Napp said. Its creations areall available or both the Appleand Android mobile products,Napp sad. T mpay tamdup with the popular televisionshow Veggie ales to incorporate

the program’s characters into thegam. Phtgraphr m Arma,known as “the most-publishedbaby photographer in the world,”according to his website, joinedwith MoveableCode or a gamewhere the animals in the story areportrayed by Arma’s photographso babies in animal costumes.Chd dpmt prts halauded the game’s pedagogical au, Napp sad.

Kevin Mowrer is the chie cre-ative ofcer or MoveableCodeand ormer vice president o worldwide research and develop-

mt r th Rhd Isad basdcompany, Hasbro. Moveable-Code’s ties to Rhode Island aredeep, Napp said, adding that itplans to stay local aer graduatingrm Btasprg.

Another company workingthrough the Betaspring processis JumpOCampus, a start-up that

Program draws startupcompanies to Providence

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