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As stimulus unds run dry and ederalagencies tighten their budgets, theUniversity plans to increasingly turnt rprat-spsrd rsarh.

he American Recovery andReinvestment Act o 2009 stimulus

oered increased unding throughederal agencies such as the NationalInstitutes o Health and the NationalScience Foundation, but elevatedudg s prdd y a brrespite rom ongoing nancial strain.Federal agencies are all expected to

have at budgets in the near uture,

ad th shrt-trm surg uds snearing its end, said Clyde Briant, vicepresident or research. In order topad rsarh pprtuts, u-rsts rywhr ar kg rnew sources o unding, and certainlydustry s pssbty, h sad.

Facing scarce unds rom the pub-lic sector, the University will expandcorporate support o research, in-cluding the possibility o a corpo-

rate associates program in the newly

established School o Engineering,ardg t th Otbr updat th Pa r Aadm Erhmt.

Rd C, trm da -gineering, said the University anddustry ak bt rm th part-nerships that emerge rom corporate-spsrd rsarh.

As we expand our research capa-bility, we become more attractive orindustry, he said. It is certainly inthe spirit o academic enrichment.

Te University wants to contribute toknowledge growth rather than ocussy tahg, h addd.

He pointed to the Universitys cur-

rent partnership with General Mo-tors, which is researching methods tomanuacture lightweight cars. Teycome here and spend some time, wego there and spend some time, hesaid. It is a good example o trulydustra abrat rsarh.

Crprat partrshps w hpmak up r th dras draresearch unding, said Ed Wing, dean md ad bga ss.

We had a huge boost rom stimulusunding, but that is going to go away,he said. Funding rom the NIH willdecrease, especially with the Repub-a grss.

Sponsored unding is a crucialpart o the Universitys research e-orts, Wing said. Its a very important

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T Cat Bads at Brw shoping to increase unds and equip-mt t bttr ammdat d-pdt musas ampus.

here is currently only oneaaab drum st ampus a small, windowless room in .F.Green Hall, where broken drumheads, splintered drumsticks, rottingbatteries, old earplugs, pedals and

broken stools litter the oor. Teres ag sta, ad th rm s rbkd.

But the room is the only su-ciently equipped venue on cam-pus or independent musicians topractice. Te Underground in theStephen Robert 62 Campus Cen-ter recently tightened its rules orbooking the room only musicianssponsored by a student group canpractice there. Te smaller roomsin the Steinert Practice Center aremore suitable or solo pianists andassa musas.

Student bands hoped the Perryand Marty Grano Center or theCreative Arts, with its mission and

design conducive to musical collabo-ration, would provide practice space,said Sam Roseneld 12, a Herald edi-torial cartoonist, ormer membero the coalition and co-ounder o

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Panelists offer perspective on earthquake and effectsB CLaire sChLessinger

Contributing Writer

A pa ur prssrs wth -pertise relating to the Japanese earth-quake and tsunami met yesterdayevening to ask how a country shouldpreemptively prepare or an eventthat may r may t happ butcould have a catastrophic eect. In

ront o a hal-ull MacMillan 115,the proessors gave an account o thescience behind the recent disasterand how the question o moneyversus likelihood aected preventivemasurs Japa.

Krry Smth, assat prssro history and East Asian studies,outlined the geography o Japan,stressing its extensive coastline, toexplain why the eects o the tsunamiwere so devastating. Te shoreline

s raty at up t th mutarags abut 0 ms , h sad, sthere are no high mountains or clisto stop the waves o the tsunami, andit doesnt take much to get past theast.

Te panelists said Japan had someo the most eective preventive mea-sures in place, but the orce o the

Marh arthquak whh hadone o the highest magnitudes onthe Richter scale in history wasdastatg.

Japan had built sea barriers toprotect against tsunamis, one owhh th dpst brakwatr the world was completed in 2009.But the amount o concrete and

money poured into this project was sstay prd ptss asthe waves swept over the wall, Smithsad. Tugh th barrrs wr -structed to withstand the signicantheight o tsunamis, the amount owater and sheer orce o the tsunamiwr ugh t rm th was.

Smith briey spoke about the ca-sualties, though he said he did notwat t appar aus dgth tragdy ths t trms umbrs. r a sbrg sso the dimensions o this disaster,Smith said the population o theUnited States is two and a hal timesthat o Japan, and Hurricane Katrinacaused 1,800 casualties, comparedt a stmat by th Japas g-ernment Monday that the tsunami

Off the mark: ditching grades for S/NCB reBeCCa BaLLhaus

City & State editor

During nals season, throngs obleary-eyed students ock to thelibraries and do not emerge or whatseems like eons. People stare angrilyat ttbks, wg thmss tabsorb the inormation and pray-g t just gt a gd grad thatass.

Now imagine a world devoid rprt ards, trasrpts ad thrantic checking o Banner duringaat t s dawdg prs-srs ha updatd th st. Imagtaking all classes Satisactory/No

Crdt.Jake Heimark 11, a h-year

student pursuing a joint bacheloro arts and bachelor o science inhuman biology and economics, didjust that.

In my senior year o high school,I was trying to decide which schoolto go to, Heimark said. When Ivisited Brown, I saw a unique op-portunity to pursue an educationthat was sel-designed and sel-mo-tatd. Hmark askd hs parts who also attended Brown ithey would be okay with him tak-g a hs asss S/NC. Wh thyasstd, h appd ary ds.

My parts had aways m-phasized that high achievement and

good grades can go together butdt aways, Hmark sad. Whatremoving grades rom the equationdoes is it orces the student to ocusmore on learning and education.He credited his ellow students withratg a rmt whr hsarg sty has urshd.

Heimark emphasized that nottaking his classes or grades hasnot made his college experienceless stressul despite many studentsassumpts. I rammd r rg

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Te University will not allow stu-dts t study abrad Japa thssprg, Kda Brstu, assatda th Cg ad drtr international programs, wrote lastnight in an email to Te Herald. Tes studts wh wud ha stud-d Japa w b rd spts atDartmuth r ts sprg quartr.

Te University elt genuine re-gret about suspending the program,Brostuen wrote, but with the un-predictability o the circumstances caused by the recent tsunami andensuing nuclear crisis in the country suspension o the term is themst prudt urs at.

Because Dartmouth operates onth quartr systm, studts w bab t trast t Dartmuthsspring term, which begins March28. Brostuen wrote that studentswho complete a Brown indepen-dent study program as well as thequarter at Dartmouth can count thecombination as a semester o credit.

Jak Bg 2, th stu-dents who was planning to go to Ja-pan, said he is leaning toward takingthe quarter at Dartmouth, though hest has t sdr atrs suh asthe dates, his options or the summerad th sts br h mmts.

Boeglin learned o the Univer-sitys decision yesterday through aphone call rom Ned Quigley, as-sociate director o international pro-grams. Quigley could not be reachedr mmt at ast ght.

Gili Kligr / HraldResearch grants from the National Institutes of Health have become increasinglycompetitive in the past ten years, as the agencys funding has been steady ordeclining. In 2010, just 21 percent of grant proposals reviewed were ap proved.

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erry ullis, proessor emeritus

o geological sciences, addressedthe technical aspects o the earth-quak ad Kar Fshr, prssro geological sciences, explained thetsunami. ullis and Fischer said whenthe earthquake occurred deep under-water 120 kilometers oshore, thestress accumulation built up, pushingup th a watr ad mgt upward ad utward. Tugh thwaves started o only one meter high,they were very long. Te movement th watr apprahg th shrcompressed the waves, increasingamplitude and speed, and decreas-g gth.

Fischer said though a warningwas issued just three minutes aer thearthquak, t tk y 5 mutsor the tsunami to reach land, leavinga mr 2 muts r pp th

most vulnerable areas to reach saety.She showed a CNN video o the waterwashing away all structures in its way.

A aud mmbr askd thgeologists what good their work wasi, despite being so prepared, Japan

was still unable to protect the popula-t. Bg adquaty prpard s aquestion o how much money yourewilling to spend and whether youcan politically convince people i youshould prepare or an unlikely event,us sad. I Japa, t s bus teveryone that they are sitting on aplate and the national psyche ismuh mr wg t put rsurs

t prparat tha, r amp,pp dsgg budg ds Hat, us sad.

George Seidel, proessor emeritus physs, ga th tha dtas

o nuclear reactors and what hap-pened to the Fukushima power plant.Te consequences o the disaster th ratrs ar ry srus, hsad, but th sa thgs, thss mma mpard t th arth-quake and tsunami. Te reactorsat a w wrkrs whs s wbe potentially shortened, but thatumbr s smar tha th umbratd by th atura dsastrs.

Seidel also discussed how thecoverage is being handled by themda th arts h sawon the Japanese disaster in uesdaysNw Yrk ms, dat wth th

nuclear reactors and only one dis-cussed the actual geological disaster.

Smth askd th aud thyknew people in Japan who had been tat wth thm abut hw thdsastr s atg thr s. Ostudt whs parts ad brthr Japa sad thr s a dsrp-ay rats t th arthquakbetween people in Japan who readinternational media who are veryconcerned, and those who ready Japas wspaprs, wh aramr.

Smth sad h thught th Japa-nese are probably underreacting theWestern media is probably overreact-

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tests, I stayed up late or presenta-

tions just as oen as anyone else,h sad. Its thg a bad sr

means you get a B instead o an A. Itsathr thg yu k yurttg yurs dw.

Raa Jua 2, wh s takgall his classes S/NC or the rst timethis semester, said he discovered a

smar trd.I dt thk th wrk hags

at all Im still concerned aboutmy hmwrk, h sad. I skrty ad strssd abut gttga dtrs t.

Juliano said he was not condenthe could earn an A in every class hes takg ths smstr, a whhall outside his concentration. By

taking them S/NC, he said he couldocus more on learning about themad ray gttg t kw th sub-jt tha strssg r a grad.

Hmark ad Juas h snot a common one. In a randomsubst ,500 studts rd at least three classes this semester,y 22 studts ss tha 2 pr-cent are taking every class S/NC,according to University RegistrarRobert Fitzgerald. I would imaginethat the percentage, i looking at theoverall population both currentlyand over time, would not deviaterom that relatively low gure, hewrt a ma t T Hrad.

Laur Kssr .5 sad takga hr asss S/NC wud b ry

prsay mbarrassg.I would never show up, she said.

I I was on a pass/ail standard, Iwouldnt be able to hold mysel toa higher standard o learning.

Mayb ts just baus I dt trustmysel, she added. I need to beadatd by th systm.

Heimark said he has encounteredsurprise and encouragement romproessors, and most have beenry supprt. My adsrs wrsometimes hesitant because theywere worried about what wouldhappen aer college, he said. ButHmark sad hs adsrs aptdhis choice because he wasnt doingt a whm.

Hmark dd t ask r ursprrma rprts rm hs pr-essors, an option many students

taking classes S/NC embrace. In-stad, h sad h maks a rt tdevelop personal relationships withproessors.Tats helped as I look orstu t d ar ursty, h sad.

Frank Altman 75 made a similarchoice during his time at Brown.Lk Hmark, h was draw t thNew Curriculum and decided totake ull advantage o its reedom.He concentrated in public policy,whh at th tm was a ry sma,trdspary trat.

Atma askd hs prssrs rcourse perormance reports, whichhe ound much more thorough andudrstadab tha grads.

T wrst thg I a mags gg t Brw ad tratg t as

i youre not at Brown, Altman said.You should take advantage o asmuh what that urruum hast r as pssb.

Job concerns oen deter students

rm sdrg th S/NC pt.Camille Duhamel 13 said he earedth rprusss suh a h.It wudt k gd my tra-script with applying to jobs or tograduat sh, h sad.

But Altman said his lack o gradesdid not aect his options aer gradu-at h was aptd t a but th graduat shs h ap-plied to. Altman took his classes orgrades in graduate school and is nowthe CEO, president and co-oundero Community Reinvestment Fund,a ata prt.

I thk that arg t b s-

reliant, to look inside o what youcan do, was a character-building ex-perience or me, he said. I learnedhw t tak rsks, ad that has -wd m a thrugh my arr.

He added that Brown alums havea ull institutional brand behindthm that thy mght t gt rmother universities. Tats denitely aconsideration that graduate schoolsga m.

Heimark said he has not haddifculty in his job search in thehigh-technology, biotechnologyand consulting industries. Tereare certain industries where beingtraditional is important, but there

are others where its not, he said.It a b hard t gt my t th

door, but once Im in, it can help thatI dt ray t th md.

Heimark said he ears studentsare not taking advantage o the New

Curriculum. Its like you have a re-ally high-powered car, but youre notdrg t, h sad. I wud tk I was wastg my tm.

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Campus ews4 the Brown Daily eraldednesday, March 23, 2011As stimulus dries up, U. aims to increase corporate partnerships

part o every medical schools prole,he said. We dont have enough ot, ad w ar aty sarhg r

partrs.he Alpert Medical School is

partrg wth th pharmautaindustry to develop treatments orinectious diseases, Wing said. Hesaid he hopes research will expand

t thr ds.Incoming Dean o Engineer-

ing Lawrence Larson said he plansto continue to push or corporate-supprtd rsarh wh h arrs

at Brown this summer. He said hewould support a corporate associ-ates program, in which companiespay a t s prstats abutUrsty rsarh ad ar awdt tak th das r dpmt.

A program like this is a very com-mon thing at most research universi-ts ad a sr as a prtty -tive tool or highlighting the greatresearch that the University does,

Lars sad.But Clion said he is hesitant

about such a program. Tough itcould serve as a possible revenuesur r th Ursty, h sad his not sure that is the best current

model or interacting with industry.Most corporate research opportu-

ts mpas wh wrkwth thgy, s th Ursty smost likely to orm industry partner-

ships with the School o Engineering,the Department o Computer Sci-ence and the medical school, Bri-at sad. T Ursty arady hasestablished partnerships with IBMad Mrs.

Public health could increasingly

be an area o ocus or corporate-supprtd rsarh, h sad.

Tough the expansion o researchoerings is oen ocused on graduate

students, Briant said undergraduates

will also benet rom an increasednumber o research opportunities.Te whole research picture at Browninvolves graduate and undergraduatestudents, he said. Teres nothingthat wud prhbt a udrgradu-ats rm partpatg.

Musicians@Brown, a networking siter studt musas. But thr ar drum sts th budg, mak-g t dfut r bads t tak uadatag th spa.

Te coalition oversees the practicespace in .F. Green, rents equipmentt studt grups, puts rtseaturing student bands and sendsout a weekly newsletter highlightingmusical events on and o campus. Ithink the space is great, said MichaelFrauenhoer 11, a member o theat, addg that th rm hashpd th mus s grw.

Studt rk musas a d-culties nding practice space andequipment. Te coalitions practice

room provides a drum set, ampli-

r ad sud-pr was. Fr $0a semester, members can book the

rm r ght hurs pr wk, I-drayudh Shome 11, co-director othe coalition, wrote in an email toTe Herald. COBAB raised the ee

rom $5 per semester in hopes obttr udg th rm.

Coalition members expressedr r th stat th rmand equipment. Because o over-booking, Frauenhoer can only prac-tice early in the morning or very lateat ght, h sad.

Te community o independentmusicians here was really lackingwhen I got here, Shome wrote.Teres no dean or director with in-dependent bands. Tere needs to besome level o community and aware-ss r t t ut ad grw.

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are invited to present their ideas topp trstd th trpr-neurial process. Peer critiques allow

studts t har rta qustsand suggestions and orce them tos th gaps ad strgths thrmds, Haram sad.

What were in the process ocreating is a true entrepreneurialcommunity, Beckman wrote. Teprogramming tied to the launchund will bring entrepreneurs to-

gthr t shar thr das adwhen entrepreneurially mindedpp gt tgthr t d that, thrsuts ar amazg.

Tugh a sa pa r dsus-s s rua, th ud as hpsstudents improve their pitches

honing the ability to sell an idea,not just trying to expose its aws

said Roger Nozaki, director o

th Swarr Ctr.im Natividad 12 plans to apply

with his project, Social Exposures.Te project is work in progress,he said, but involves combiningmobile applications with non-protrgazats. It w st phtessays rom a dierent nonproteach month, later compiling thepht ssays t a pubat.

Te unds three-tiered system

maks ss, h sad. Prjts gtth udg thy d t a thgrud, ad mr my s aa-ab atr ssary.

T appat prss trs t

gaug th abty ah prjt,he said. Can we transer this rompaper to practice? Tats the bigtak hm qust.

Hao ran 14, who is work-ing with an organization calledFUNDaFIELD, is also applyingto the und. FUNDaFIELD, runexclusively by students, aims tobuild soccer elds near primaryschools in South Arica, Ugandaand Kenya. Te organization hasbuilt seven elds, with an eighth a udrasg stag, ra wrtin an email to Te Herald. It hasraised $140,000 since 2007. An-

other goal o FUNDaFIELD is toprd hdr wth a sa pato play and to reintegrate ormerchild soldiers (and) victims o HIV/AIDs back into the communitythrugh sprt, h wrt.

ra pas t tra t Ugadaths summr ad hps t rsupport rom the und, he wrote.He has gained support rom theSprt ad Dpmt Prgramat the Watson Institute or Inter-ata Studs, ad h has bwrkg wth E W 00, a st-

ing ellow in international studies.o receive the rst level o und-

ing, ran must quantiy the poten-tial social impact o his program.

Te goal is to show the number

o kids who have access to elds,th hag attda ad -rollment at schools, the number ostudents moving onto secondaryschool and ofcials reactions to the

program, he wrote. I he receivesadditional unding, ran can inves-tigate how FUNDaFIELD impactsmmuts at arg.

He wrote he is optimistic he will

move on to the second- and third- grats ad pad th ta-tives operations to South Aricaand Kenya, where FUNDaFIELD

has arady bgu ts wrk.

T ud s kg rward tits rst round o applications, whichwill be evaluated on a rolling basis.Tere is a two to three week period

beore applications are accepted to

assure ideas are not simply basedon early applications. Harlam pre-dicts that the rst ofcial reviewprss w bg just ar sprgbrak.

Boeglin said aected students hehad talked to are also leaning towardenrolling or a quarter at Dartmouth.

T Of Itrata Pr-grams w hp studts trastinto Dartmouth with the help osp dpartmts at Brw adagus at Dartmuth, Brstu

wrote. Tese students will continuet r supprt thrughut thrstudy experience at Dartmouth anduntil their return to Brown or the

a smstr, h addd.Boeglin said digesting the Uni-

rstys ds was dty d-ut.

Its a t razy ws a ryshrt prd tm, Bg sad.

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Herbal remedies are drugs tooTo the Editor:

In Mondays Herald, you ran an article (Localapthary supps hrba rmds, gay, Marh2) by a studt dtag hr dsry ad atr uso herbal remedies rom a local supplier. Aer nish-g th art, I amtd at th ak aythg buttoken skepticism rom the authors riends. Te authortreated the subject with credulity, never mentioning thepossible counterpoints to using herbal and alternativemd. Nt dd th authr stat that hrbarmds suh as haa ad St. Jhs wrt haproven to be ineective or even dangerous in some

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Te author implies that she will continue to useherbal medicines since they havent killed me yet th sam rra usd by smkrs, ahs addrug addicts worldwide. Should this sort o sentimentray ampay a suppsd systm hag?

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pstry, whh w hp studts pursu w uss thgy adass mr dgtzd data.

W ar as ss tha a yar t th dbut MBUL, th Lbraryssmartph appat. Ts appat abs usrs t asy sarhJosiah, renew books and even see i more computers are available at theRockeeller Library or the Sciences Library. Tere is room or improve-ment a comprehensive display o computer availability includingats k th Ctr r Irmat hgy wud b but ts ary stags MBUL s a usu t. W rgz thatmay studts d t ha smartphs, but ths wh d shud trythe application. According to Bonnie Buzzell, senior knowledge systemsbrara, y abut 500 pp pr mth us MBUL.

Within days we should hear more about the Librarys eort to getstudts ass t th Nw Yrk ms tt ar th paprstabshs a pay wa. Tat th Lbrarys pa was rprtd y a dayaer the imes announced the pay wall again highlights a praiseworthymmtmt t hpg studts tak adatag dgta rsurs.

We hope administrators and departments work with librarians toensure that students are ully aware o the Librarys resources. MusicLibrarian Ned Quist told the editorial page board that the Library isworking to get more resource librarians into rst-year seminars, andsm braras ar thmss srg as rst-yar adsrs. But thrclearly remains a lack o awareness about Library resources just thinko how many rst-years arrive on campus without realizing that printings th Lbrarys mst bas srs.

Students have a role to play as well . Without our eedback, librarianswill have a difcult time making our research easier and more eective.T w qut spas at th SL ad Rk am t rut thaks t

student input. Working together, students, librarians, aculty and admin-stratrs a tu t mpr ur brars, whh rmr PrsdtHry Wrst ad th hart th Ursty.

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tm, ths was th md r aw ad md-a studts brrw ad srap w tar astudg amuts atr. Nw aw shs ar tg prspt stu-dts that w s t a gd tm t ap-py. Lt m rtrat awyrs ar tgmprssab pp t t spd m-y thy dt ha. Its srus stu adwhats th da wth ar d?

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Innovative students now have accesst a w sur udg, as thUniversity continues to increaseits entrepreneurial support. TeBrw Vtur Lauh Fud acollaboration between the Dean oth Cg, th Sa Iat

Initiative at the Swearer Center orPublic Service and the Entrepre-urshp Prgram has rdabout six inquiries rom studentssince its ofcial launch March 7,according to Alan Harlam, director sa trprurshp.

Te und provides students withcapital to transorm their ideas intonew enterprises. Funding is allo-atd thr tras $,500,$,500 ad $7,500. Studts appyor the rst level o unding and aregb t r mr my asthr da prgrsss.

Te Brown Venture LaunchFund is like a pipeline providing

students with a platorm to takethe rst steps. As the idea grows,students need more resources,Harlam said. As the idea passesthrugh w gats, studts a-complish the task they set out todo, (the und) will support them mr.

Te und will build on two exist-ing programs the Entrepreneur-ship Program, which holds ofcehurs t g studts ad, adthe Social Innovation Initiative,which oers boot camps ocused onskill-building workshops. Nothingexists in a vacuum. (Te und) is

the rst step or students to act outideas that have been developed in ahst ways, Haram sad.

Te und has enough money toallot six to eight $1,500 grants, threeto our $3,500 grants and one totw $7,500 grats ah yar, Har-lam said. But, still in its early stages,it is exible in the total amount omoney that it wil l provide students.

Wthut th ud, Haram sadhe ears that many great ideas maynever come to ruition and will sit shs tg dust.

Its hard as a trpr-neur to nd out where to go orunding, and when you do ndunding sources and the criteria aredrt, Jas Bkma , -prsdt th EtrprurshpProgram, wrote in an email to TeHerald. But the und is building asstt st ad amg t makth rmat ry assb.

Monetary support is just onegoal o the und. It also providesstudent entrepreneurs with a com-munity and a network to discussand develop ideas, Harlam said.Te Social Innovation Initiativeholds peer critiques, or round tablediscussions, where entrepreneurs

Students reestablish

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wo students have reactivated theBrown chapter o Kappa AlphaPsi Fraternity, Inc. this year. Tehistorically black raternity wasdeactivated in 2003 when itsast mmbr graduatd but hasbeen revived by Raymond Jackson2 ad Mar Hwad .

Because there were no KappaAlpha Psi brothers on campus,the pair sought out members oKAPsi at other Providence schools,including Johnson and Wales

University, who helped them gothrough the process o receivingrgt rm th ratrty asa haptr.

Part o our raternitys ocus isachievement, and thats what at-tracted both o us to our raternity,Jaks sad.

Both have personal connectionsto KAPsi Jackson counts hisather, uncle and several cousinsamong raternity members. How-land is rom Cleveland, whereCarl Stokes was the irst blackmayr a majr U.S. ty. Halmost adopted my sister beoremy amily did, and he saw himsel

as almost a godather to my sister,Howland said. In the course o mylie he has always inuenced me,

and hes sort o been another athergure to me. And I actually oundout in college that he was a membero Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Despite the raternitys primar-ily black membership, it has never

dd a prs tat thbass ra r rg, Hwadsad.

Jaks sad th ratrty hasa hstry bth ampus ad a-tionally. In the 1980s and 1990s,Browns race-based raternitieswere heavily involved in campuslie, particularly through the TirdWrd Ctr, h sad.

Kappa Alpha Psi was ounded in1911 at the University o Indiana, ata time and place when blacks wereag sgat dsrmat.In the 1930s, the raternity cametogether with eight other black ra-

ternities and sororities to orm theNata Pa-H Cu.

Tough the context in whichthe raternity now operates is inmay ways drt rm th in which the National Pan-HellenicCu rmd, Jaks sad thbdy s st mprtat t KAPssactivities. Our chapter is nevergoing to have enough members toll a dorm. I we wanted to do aproject, we would do it through theNational Pan-Hellenic Council,which can provide resources be-yond those available to the Brownhaptr, h sad.

While current undergradu-

ates may not be amiliar withrace-based raternities, the reli-gion-based Wriston Quadrangletur Apha Eps P, a Jwshratrty, s w-kw am-pus. AEPi National is unded by

Jewish philanthropists, and theywat us t b 00 prt Jwsh.But we do not pursue a 100 percent

Jewish rate we do not turn downguys because they arent Jewish,said Daniel Rome 13, a brother othe raternity. Still, the raternityis based on Jewish values, whichAEPi upholds in part by hostingevents such as Hillels Purim party,

a Passover Seder and Shabbat din-ners. As it happens, Rome said,mst th guys wh shw up trush happ t b Jwsh.

But it is hard to say much aboutmst th guys wh shw up rKAPsi. At the moment, KAPsisBrown chapter consists solely oHowland and Jackson, and they arenot actively advertising or recruit-ing. I theyve done their research,and they want to be a part o it,theyre going to come to us and

theyre going to talk to us aboutt, Jaks sad.

Quality over quantity, How-land added. Our raternity willstay tru t (ts) bjts ad snot going to sacrice its ideals andts aus t aw pp t minto the organization who arenttru t ths bjts.

T brthrs bth AEP adKAPsi said choosing a raternity

was a prsa h. I mt two the ounders at Brown, and theystartd t baus thy watd aAEPi they didnt want to joinSigma (Chi), they didnt want tojoin (Delta au), they wanted aJwsh ratrty, Rm sad. Itswhatever makes you eel comort-ab.

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Proessor o Physics HumphreyMars w r th 20 FrtzLondon Memorial Prize at the 26thInternational Conerence on Lowemperature Physics or develop-ing a method to track the activ-ity o a single electron in liquidhum.

he prize, irst awarded in1957, is given to scientists whohave made signicant accomplish-ments in low temperature phys-s. Mars w tra t Bjg August t apt th prz at thconerences opening ceremonies.

Its an outstanding award, saidJames Valles, proessor o phys-ics and chair o the department,adding that Maris is receiving thisaward r arr ahmt th d.

Mariss group began studyingth mt trs qudhum abut 0 yars ag.

Special chemical properties

cause electrons in helium to ormextremely small electron bubbles,Maris said. When sound pulsesrom an ultrasonic transducer areused to create a negative pressure

environment, the bubbles expand

to the point where they becomelarge enough to be imaged. As a

result, their individual positionsa b rrdd.

Lqud hum s a amazgsubstance, said Maris, adding thatit is interesting to understandelectron bubbles and how theym thrugh qud.

Maris and his group rst madea d th mt a sgtr 2006.

Its interesting to be able to vi-sualize something that is so smalland yet an important part o mat-ter, Maris wrote in an email toT Hrad. H sad trakg thmt trs ud ad tdevelopment o a quantum com-puter, which is more powerultha urrt mputrs.

He is receiving the prize pri-marily or his video o an electron,but he has also conducted notableresearch in other areas during hiscareer at Brown and other insti-

tuts.Te award brings great vis-

bty t th physs dpartmt,Valles said. Maris has been creat-ing results that have been turningheads or over 40 years. Peopleaways wat t har hm tak, h

sad.

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