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ACLU seeks legalcompensation inprayer anner case

Atr a judg ruld last w

in avor o a Cranston High School

Wst studnt who rqustd th

rmoval o a prayr bannr hanging

in hr school, hr attornys hav

asd th city to compnsat hr

lgal s, a sum o $173,000.

Th cas, which a dral

court ound violatd th First

Amndmnt arlir this month, was

ld by attornys Thomas Bndr

and Lyntt Labingr on bhal o

th Amrican Civil Librtis Union.

Th plainti was Jssica Ahlquist, a

junior, who rst spo out against

th 50-yar-old bannr last April.

This should com as no

surpris, Labingr said. Th city

was wll awar that i thy lost thiscas, thy would b rsponsibl or

th plaintis s, sh said.

Any court s would b

covrd by th Cranston School

Dpartmnt, Cranston Mayor Allan

Fung has said, according to WPRI.

com.

Th plaintis right to b

compnsatd has bn protctd

by th Suprm Court on many

occasions to ncourag attornys

to ta on cass rlatd to

constitutional rights and civil

librtis, Labingr said. Th city may

attmpt to ngotiat th $173,000

pric tag, but Labingr said it is

unlily th city will b abl to

rus th rqust.

Cranston city ocials wr not

availabl or commnt. Th city still

must dcid whthr to appal th

dral courts ruling.

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B soFia Castello y tiCkell

ContributingWriter

Tere is something or everyoneamong the zips, bangs and kabooms th Mha J. Carad C-t at th Jh Hay Lbrary. Tcollection, started by Cornell alumMichael Ciaraldi, eatures about60,000 comics, graphic novels andcomic-related memorabilia and isas mmrsg as t s duata.

Ciaraldi, a proessor o practiceat Worcester Polytechnic Institute mputr s ad rbtsengineering, said he has enjoyedcomics since he was in college.Tey combine a lot o the best ele-mts say, a bk ad a m,baus yu gt th wrds adthe pictures, but in nice bite-sizedhuks.

He donated the collection to

the University in 1996 and said he

s spay pasd t s aaabor collective use. I didnt wantto see it broken up and sold toindividual collectors, he said. Iwanted it to be a resource wherepeople could come and read aboutcomics, see how they portrayedAmra , hw thy hagdover the years and to have someu radg thm.

Te collection oers a wide va-riety o comic materials, includ-ing reissues o classic golden agecomics, Japanese anime and a rstprtg Art Spgmas P3acclaimed graphic novel Maus.Ciaraldi guessed that his signedcopy o the rst issue o Cerebusth Aardark s th rarst p hs ts t.

Its a way into American cultureand society, said Rosemary Cullen,uratr Amra Ltrary ad

Bite-sized chunks of history in Hay comic collection

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A small sampling o th nar 60,000 comics housd at th John Hay Library.

B nora mCdonnell

ContributingWriter

Aer sitting vacant since 2009du t a hrg rz, th autymbudsprs pst has b

lled, according to an email sentto the aculty Friday aernoon.Ruth Rosenberg, currently directoro student mediation in the Oceo Student Citizenship at the Mas-sachusetts Institute o echnology,w assum th r Fb. 22.

Te ombudsperson search com-mittee selected Rosenberg roma pool o 65 applicants, many owhom were lawyers. A numbero University-aliated individu-als also applied, said Harold Roth,chair o the search committee andprssr rgus studs.

But t was Rsbrgs sor what the ombudsperson po-

sition should be, as well has herexperience as a trained mediatorthat led to their hiring decision,Rth sad.

As the campus ombudsperson,Rsbrg w sr as a mda-tor or aculty and post doctorates.O fts ars just bauso lack o good communication,

Faculty

mediatorpositionlled aftertwo years

B david rosen

StaffWriter

Emily Eastlake never expected shewud b rd t a Brw.

When Eastlake, a ormer membero the class o 2014, reapplied oraa ad ar hr rst yar, shmpty ptd (hr shar-ship amount) to stay the same or getbttr, sh sad.

But when she received her aidoer rom the Oce o Financial

Aid in July, Eastlake said she wassurprised to discover her amilywould be required to contributetw as muh as thy had th yarbeore. Tough her amilys nancialstuat had t hagd, sh sadhr athr d ut th appatdierently than in the previous year.Her ather listed his military housing

m baus sghty drtwrdg th appat.

Eastlake led an appeal to thenancial aid oce but was unsuc-cessul, and she was consequentlyunable to return to Brown. Eastlakeis now enrolled in George MasonUrsty Fara, Va., ar hrhm. Tugh sh s t as am-rd Grg Mas as sh was Brw, sh sad thr was suha loss o trust that she would notrtur.

Roughly 12 percent o studentsappealed their aid oerings lastyear. Tis gure has been roughlyconstant over the last our years, ac-cording to Director o Financial AidJames ilton. Te nancial aid ocedoes not keep a record o the number

Failed aid appeals

send students home

s p r i n g f e v e r i n M i d w i n t e r

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Donning shorts and rolling up pant lgs, studnts playd pic-up soccr onth Main Grn in ystrday atrnoons balmy 45-dgr wathr.

B sona mkrttChian

SeniorStaffWriter

In his annual State o the Stateaddress last night, Gov. LincolnChaee 76 P14 concentrated onthe state budget and emphasized theimportance o optimism in the aceo Rhode Islands dire economicmat.

Chaee began his address byurgg adrs t prpar r thchallenges that lie ahead this year challenges that include unem-ployment, ailing municipal pen-s pas, duat rrms ad

pau uts t th budgt.Chaees speech veried reports

that he would introduce new taxesand tax increases in conjunctionwith the $7.9 billion budget plan

h rasd ystrday. Cha pr-sented the tax increases such asthose on meals and beverages daty, tg that th rucollected rom the increases wouldhelp nance additional educationudg.

Focusing heavily on education,the governor presented an addi-tional $40 million appropriationto education unding or cities and

towns to bring people together tompr aadm ahmt.

I we want our children tocompete or jobs in the uture, theymust have good schools, Chaee

said. Lets put our money whereur muth s.

Chaee emphasized Rhode Is-lands wealth o assets, citing theWarren Alpert Medical School as apart o the states bright uture, botheducationally and economically.Tere are only seven Ivy Leaguemda shs th wrd ad

Chafee to raise taxes and education funding

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ACROSS1 Bank heist4 Bedframe piece8 Beyond harmful

14 ... by __ othername ...

15 Bare bones16 Billiard ball

feature, abouthalf the time

17 Buzz-filled 2007animated film

19 Brings together20 Burdensomeadditional levy

22 Boldly states23 Birthplace of

Hans ChristianAndersen

26 Bakers meas.28 Behold, to Brutus29 Ball-shaped

frozen dessert30 Betty White

co-star in TheGolden Girls

32 Ben-Hur, e.g.33 Bedrock resident34 But then again ...35 Bug-bitten?36 Brown who wrote

The Da VinciCode

37 Billion-year period40 Brother of Judah42 Bump off43 Biotin, thiamine et

al.

47 Blinked the sleepfrom ones eyes48 Bothersome

parasites49 By order of50 Bigheaded sort51 Bing Crosbys __

You Glad YoureYou?

53 Baseball teamslist of players

55 Balanced state57 Behave candidly61 Black-tie wear62 Bardots the same63 Breathtaking

snake?64 Began, as a lawn65 Beachfront

property?66 Buddy

DOWN1 Boxers punch2 Binary digit3 Bon voyage!

4 Better half, so tospeak

5 Burgundy book6 Bickering7 Box office setting8 Baton Rouge sch.9 Blower of Sicilian

smoke10 Buffer between a

hot plate and adinner table

11 Built for NASA, say

12 Brief summary13 __ Bear: UrsaMinor

18 Broadcaster ofMorning Joe

21 Blackboardsymbols in thelocker room

23 Brides passpromise

24 Birdbrain25 Belch, say27 Blissful song30 Better for enjoying

the outdoors, asweather

31 BelshazzarsFeast painterRembrandt van __

33 Black Sundayairship

35 Biblical prophet:Abbr.

37 Blond sci-fi race38 Barrel sources39 Bolsheviks denial41 Bundles up (in)42 Bound by oath43 Blaring siren

sounds44 Basis of morality45 Belaying tool for

climbers46 Became edgy47 Belonging to an

ancient time

50 Blood Simpleco-screenwriterCoen

52 Bay of Fundywonder

54 Big name in videogames

56 Bald spot filler58 Backward flow59 Bronze coin

of oldFrance

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B adam asher

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A proposal to be introduced atthe Campus Lie Corporation

Committee meeting this monthcould make gender-neutral hous-ing available to irst-years as earlyas 2013. he proposal will not bebrought to the ull Corporationut May.

Dratd by th studt grupGenderAction, the proposalwould give incoming irst-yearsthe option o selecting gender-neutral housing on their housingpreerence orms, said Maddy Jen-newein 14, co-president o Gen-drAt. Jw sad thrwud b thr drt ptsregarding gender-neutral hous-

ing listed on the preerence orm one or students who need agender-neutral assignment to eelcomortable, one or students who

would like a gender-neutral as-signment and one or studentswho would not want a gender-neutral housing assignment. hiswould make it easier or people

who identiy as one gender butsupport those who do not to takepart in the program, Jenneweinsad.

GdrAt, a subgrup th Qur Aa, brught thproposal to the Oice o Residen-tial Lie and the Oice o CampusLie and Student Services last se-mester. he group will meet withthe Campus Lie Advisory Boardnext week. Margaret Klawunn,

vice president or campus lie andstudent services, will present theproposal at both Corporationmtgs.

Over 30 student organizationshave signed onto the proposal.O suh grup, th RsdtaCouncil, voted unanimously in

avor o it because it was hard tosee a negative, said ResCouncilChar Sam Bary 2.

A poll conducted by the Un-drgraduat Cu Studts

in the all ound that 79.6 percento students are in avor o oeringirst-years gender-neutral hous-g. hr s as a pt-tion that had 523 signatures osupport rom students and alumsas ast Nmbr.

But Jennewein said admin-istrators are more hesitant thanstudents to approve such a sweep-ing change. She added that or theoption to be put in place by 2013,t wud ha t b apprd byth Crprat ry quk y.

Between Corporation meet-ings, GenderAction will also take

the proposal to the Diversity Ad-sry Bard, a mmtt m-posed o aculty members andadmstratrs.

U. reviews gender-neutral housing proposal

sussu appas, t sad.According to the nancial aid

wbst, ah studt appa s pr-cessed by a nancial counselor whowill consider the individual circum-stas ah appa. O th ap-peals orm, a student can documentnew inormation regarding a amilys

aa status r ud rma-tion he or she eels should have beenconsidered in the original awardamut, ardg t th wbst.

But ling an appeal does not nec-essarily result in increased aid, iltonsaid. I students are not successulthrugh th appas prss, tsaid the nancial aid oce tries toassist the student by laying out otherpossible options available to the am-y, suh as takg ut a sma a.

Other students may take a semes-ter o in order to aord to attendBrw atr.

Aer health problems quicklychanged his amilys nancial situ-ation last spring, one sophomore who asked to remain anonymousdue to his ongoing discussions withthe nancial aid oce was orcedby hs stuat t tak a a.

While he tried appealing to theaa ad t tak hs am-ys w aa stuat t a-ut, hs sharshp ud t brasd du t dra guds,h sad. T aa ad hasno choice in the matter because ituses ederal grants in its scholarshipoerings and must ollow ederalguds, th sphmr sad.

He added that the nancial aid was rdby supprt

the process and really helped methink about other things I could do.

Te student enrolled in a localstate college or a semester. Whennot in class, he did everything hecould to return to Brown this se-mstr.

I jkgy ad t my u-tmjob last semester, he said. Everyminute that I wasnt in class I wouldspd t wrtg mas, r- as, ray tryg t d ry-thg that was pssb.

Aer identiying many local andnational scholarships, along withwrkg thr jbs, th studt wasable to come back to Brown thissmstr.

Its an ongoing process. Im basi-cally living semester by semester,h sad. I st sdr t a mrathat Im hr.

Roth said. An ombudspersonsrs as a rsur t whm or both aggrieved parties can goto talk in condence about whatth prbm s.

Te addition o an ombudsper-s t th auty w hp a-ate tensions within the University,Rth addd.

Rosenberg previously servedas spa assstat t th da biology and medicine at Brownbeore leaving or MI in 2007.While at MI, she held mediation-

ratd wrkshps ad ratd a

active bystander program, whichhps tra dduas hw t atin situations that require interven-tion, such as colleagues treatingagus uary, Rth sad.

Rsbrg has a bahrs d-gree rom Smith College and a lawdegree rom the University o Con-tut Sh Law, ardgt th ma st t auty.

Rosenberg said she has beeninterested in becoming an om-budsperson or some time. Form, t mbs a kds sksand experience that I nd interest-

g, sh sad. I k t b ab t

work with people in confict anddduay.

Sh addd that sh s attratdt Brws uqu ursty--lege atmosphere. It still retainsthat kind o community eeling,but with a high caliber university,sh sad.

Beore Rosenbergs appoint-ment, Brown remained the onlyIvy League university without anombudsperson. Brown is a littlebt bhd th tms hrg adestablishing an ombuds position,Roth said, adding that the other IvyLeague schools have ull-time om-budsprs psts. Rsbrgw hd a ha-tm pst rth t thr yars.

Roth said he hopes there willbe room to expand the position inth utur. Suh pas mghtud makg th pst pr-manent, ull-time or even availableto other community members suchas studts ad sta, h sad.

Rosenbergs new role wil l helprat a atmsphr pra-t ad arss, Rth sad. Wwill fourish as teachers and schol-ars in atmospheres in which weeel that theres a relatively levelplaying eld and that things are

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B sarah shrader

ContributingWriter

About 43.2 percent o students areaware o University sustainability

eorts, according to the results oa sury dutd by FatsManagement at the end o last se-mester. Te survey, which received1,280 responses, also ound that 80percent o students believe climatechange is one o the most imp or-tat ssus thr grat.

Te survey assessed aware-ness o initiatives approved byPresident Ruth Simmons in 2008.Tese include signicantly cut-ting greenhouse gas emissionsby 2020, creating more energy-ecient heating and lighting andsurg a w budgs mt

the silver standard o Leadershipin Energy and Environmental De-sign certication. It also sought toanalyze students attitudes towardsustainability and the environ-mt.

Facilities released the survey via Morning Mail last Decem-ber. Respondents included bothgraduate and undergraduate stu-dents. Te ull survey results willb udd th Fats A-ua Rprt.

According to the surveysresults, 87 percent o students

b thr hs ad bha-iors can aect the environment.About 70.3 percent o respondentssaid they recycled whenever theyud ad 7.5 prt sad thy

turned o lights whenever leav-g a rm.

But the survey also ound 48.2percent o students said they leavedorm windows open in the winter,though 65.3 percent o them saidthey ound their rooms comort-ably heated. Since all dorm roomsare controlled by the same heatingsystem, opening a window canaus th thrmstat t rhatthe entire building, said Kai Mor-rell 11, outreach co ordinator orFacilities. Overheating can causeall students to open their win-dows, creating a major waste o

rgy.Morrell said students should

instead call Facilities i they haveconcerns about dorm overheating.But according to the survey, only32.6 percent o students thinkag Fats w s drmprbms.

Alex Eve 15 called the energywaste shocking. I nd the dormrms t b t ht r mrtso I consistently keep the windowp th wtr, h sad.

Eve suggested the Universityimplement individual thermostats

in each dorm because studentshave no choice but to open theirwindows when the room is over-hatd.

Diman House is currently test-

ing room-specic thermostats,Mrr sad. Fats O Ergy ad Ermta Pr-grams will compare heating usein Diman to that in other dorms,according to an article published T Hrad ast Nmbr.

Te University has reducedgreenhouse gas emissions by 26.1percent since Simmons approvedthe sustainability initiatives, ac-cording to the last Facilities re-port. A large portion o this camerom switching rom oil-basedcentral heating to running onatura gas stad, Mrr sad.

Tough this made a high impactin the beginning, the rate o prog-rss has swd s th.

Facilities now intends to in-

crease visibility and become moreaccessible to the student body or instance, by identiyingand targeting student behaviorchoices that will really make adr, Mrr sad.

Im comorted by the act thatBrown students think that climatechange is a really important issueand eel empowered that their e-rts mattr, sh sad.

Survey shows students support sustainability

On Fe. 1, 1986:

ed Swt 87 and Joann Lmbrt 88 stagd a 12-hour sit-in at

th Sharp Rctory, or no othr rason than to accomplish thir

goal o spnding a whol day in th Ratty.

Thy bgan thir Saturday at 7:30 a.m. and stayd until th

vning at th sam tabl, playing Monopoly and watching

wrstling and pisods o Scooby-Doo on thir portabl tlvision.

W did it just or un, Swt said. W dont hav a protst, a

caus or anything.

Following th xprinc, Swt told Th Hrald that h

undrstood why studnts do not spnd th ntir day at th Ratty.

H said hr 12 hours thr gav him a chanc to obsrv studnts

habits.

Popl chang thir cloths, and popl ta showrs btwn

mals, h said.

But studnts dining nar Swt and Lmbrt had mixdractions to th sit-in.

Whos doing th spctating us or thm? said Pam Ptrs 88.

On Fe. 1, 1985:

Gologist kathryn Sullivan spo to studnts about hr

xprincs in spac with NASA and th 132 orbit trips sh had

tan around th glob.

Sullivan spnt ight days in spac in Octobr 1984 on a spac

shuttl mission and cam to Providnc to wor alongsid th

Univrsitys gology dpartmnt in analying data collctd during

hr trips.

During th tal, Sullivan showd Hasslblad photographs o th

arth rom th Himalayas to th Mditrranan Sa tan

rom an orbit hight o 218 mils. A photo rom spac o Nw

england in th all licitd a murmur o surpris rom th crowd.

According to Sullivan, Nw england appard brown not grn

rom spac in th all du to autumn oliag.

I somtims thin w larn mor about ourslvs in orbit than

w do about th arth, sh said.

On Fe. 1, 1963:

During a tal in Manning Hall, Jos Smoli, associat prossor

o practical thology at th Comnius Faculty in Pragu, calld or

a rvival o Christian valus in ordr to withstand th incrasing

infunc o th industrial ag on Christians. Smoli said th

europan church consistd o congrgations that wnt through

th rituals o participation but did not gnuinly undrstand what

it mant to b a Christian. Marxists blivd th church would

dclin and vntually disappar, but with a rturn to ocusing on

th gospl, th Church would b abl to provid answrs to issus

o th ra, h said.

On Fe. 1, 1900:

Th Univrsity bowling tam lost to edgwood by only two pins

in its last hom gam o th sason. Dspit a larg group o ans

prsnt, Brown was unabl to clinch th vic tory and scord 2,368

pins to edgwoods 2,370. edgwood had also triumphd in its last

mting with Brown, by a slight margin o svn pins. Th Brown

tam had two matchups lt or th sason, though according to

Hrald covrag, it was no longr lily that th tam would b

abl to nd th sason rand scond in th Intr-Club Lagu

ollowing this loss to edgwood.

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we have one o them, in a newlyrenovated and beautiul buildingin the Knowledge District, he said.

In response to Rhode Islandscurrent unemployment rate o 10.8percent the highest in New Eng-land Chaee announced the cre-at a Grrs Jbs Cabtt pr ways t mak th statmr attrat t w bussss

and industries that will create jobs.Teres no reason or Rhode Islandto be lagging behind its neighbors,h sad.

o have so many Rhode Island-ers out o work is unacceptable,Chaee said. Everything goodurs wh pp ar wrkg.

Chaee also addressed themunicipal pension problem ac-ing towns and cities in the state,imploring the General Assemblyt mpwr ths mupatsthrugh gsat.

Increased property taxes intowns and cities which havers prt r th past

yars rsutd rm 7 prtcuts in state aid to cities over thesame time period, Chaee said. Headded that the pension situation inthe state was a crisis, and he wasmet with raucous applause when hemprd gsatrs t mak thsth yar ur ts ad tws.

Chaee ended the address byasking legislators to work together,seek transparency and remain opti-mst as Rhd Isad as thwtr dspar ad hads tth sprg hp.

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attract jobsPpuar Cutur ts at th

Hay. Comics are a very quicklyproduced medium that refects thepreoccupations o its day, she said.

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His comic books have acquiredaadm prstg r th yars,but Ciaraldi began collecting themr a drt ras.

In college, one o my raternitybrothers was collecting comics, andI startd radg hs. I just srt got into it, Ciaraldi said. Eventu-ally I was buying all the comicsbeing published in the U.S. Temainstream Marvel and DC

then some o the underground anda t th dpdt ms.

hese unusual independentcomics, belonging to what Cul-len calls the small press periodin comics, emerged due to theunique nature o the comic me-dium. Te content o comics is lessstrad by budgt tha thrmedia, which acilitates more cre-atty, h sad.

Comics can eature specialeects like the destructiono the earth or characters withsuperpowers that would besty prstd ts rlm. From the point o the cre-

atrs, that ud b ry rg,Carad sad.

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Carad ddd t dat thcollection when he realized he didt ha ugh tm t kp upwth hs hbby.

I usd t b ab t rad thmall and keep all the storylinesstraight in my head. So i someoneasked me, When did Spidermanmeet Dr. Doom? I would be able totell them, Ciaraldi said. But somesrs, r amp X-M, bgato release issues too requently or

hm t kp up.It got really hard to ollow what

was happening, and you wonderedhw ay haratr r ma-aged to accomplish that much.Tey would never have time tosp thy wr hag a thsadturs, h sad.

Carad stmatd that h waspicking up 20 comics or more ina wk.

I had all these comics, youkw? Ad what ud I d wththem? I didnt want to break up

th st baus I had th tu-ous run maybe 20 years or more o Superman or Spiderman, butas th mr bsur s.

Te collection took about 10years to catalog and arrived inabout 250 cartons. It was in noorder, said Cullen, who led thets rgazata rts.Te cartons said things like com-s rm bak ha.

As yu upak ad srt thsthgs yu d yur prsa a-rts, Cu sad. T w just loved because its so cute isime Beavers. Tey are all in

spa suts, thr tas!Ater his initial donation,

Ciaraldi continued to send com-ics periodically even stoppingby rut t hs hym Narragastt Bay wth a up boxes and has visited his collec-t a up tms s.

Te day they went o it waskind o sad, Ciaraldi said. At rstI thought it was kind o like givingmy kids up or adoption. No, it waslike sending them o to college the kind o place they will behappy.

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T t has b put tgd us ts w hm. RhdIsland School o Design studentsworking on the set design o a com-ic book-inspired spaceship used itas a rr, ad thr studtshave ocused on the portrayal owm, mrts r thgyin comics. Sometimes studentswill just come in or a little breakrm aadm , Cu sad.

Comics went rom being a low-regarded art orm, hardly takenseriously at all and consideredbad or children, to a very high artrm s musums, sad Pau

Buh, sr turr mrtus American civilization, who used toinvolve the collection in his classes.

Some people just want to comein and read their old avorites,Cullen said, stressing that she knewth t w ad was aa-able or anyone who does not quitekw what thy watd.

Ciaraldi, who appreciates thatcomics are enjoyable to both thecasual and the more invested read-r, has hs w rmmdatsr ptta strs.

I yu wat s whr yuenjoy the artwork and theyll bepoetic the Sandman stories,h suggstd. I yu wat sm-thing like more real lie, go withAmerican Splendor. I you wantthe darker side o superheroes, tryWatchmen, and i you want the unside o superheroes, go or Spider-ma, th 0s. Yu wudt gwrg wth ths.

I you want something reallycosmic, go with the stu Jack Kirbydd, k th Fatast Fur ssus45-55. Tats a hgh pt. I dthave all o those, but I have therprts, h sad.

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Stanford professor leaves teaching to

create online startupRsarch Prossor o Computr Scinc Sbastian Thrun gav up

his taching position at Stanord Univrsity in ordr to ound Udacity,

an onlin startup oring classs at low costs. During his prsntation

at a Digital Li Dsign conrnc in Munich, Grmany, Thrun

announcd that his dcision was drivn in part by inctiv taching

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Atr maing his popular onlin articial intllignc cours

availabl through onlin vidos, h wantd to crat a cours using

th Wbs intractiv tools to simulat on-on-on tutoring, h said.

On o Udacitys rst cours orings, ntitld Building a Sarch

engin, will b taught ovr a svn-w priod by David evans, a

Udacity partnr and associat prossor o computr scinc at th

Univrsity o Virginia. Thrun said h hops that 500,000 studnts will

nroll in th cours.

I l li thrs a rd pill and a blu pill, and you can ta th blu

pill and go bac to your classroom and lctur your 20 studnts, htold th Chronicl o Highr education. But Iv tan th rd pill, and

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Yale seeks to implement gender-neutral housing

A survy conductd by th Yal Collg Council rfctd

studnts support or gndr-nutral housing options. Dspit th

Yal Corporations rjction o a similar proposal in 2011, th council

has consultd with mmbrs o th Yal Collg Dans Oc and

includd mor data in its nw rport.

Th councils survy rcivd rsponss rom 445 juniors and 443

sophomors, said Co-Chair o th Gndr-Nutral Housing Committ

Josph Yagoda. O th survys participants, 92.7 prcnt rspondd

in support o or as indirnt to gndr-nutral housing, whil 67.1

prcnt said thy would accpt rsiding in a mixd-gndr suit.

Svral rspondnts convyd a concrn that gndr-nutral housing

would lad to a highr ris o sxual harassmnt or assault, wrot

Mlani Boyd, assistant dan o studnt aairs, in a lttr attachd to

th rport, according to th Yal Daily Nws.

Th assault o a suitmat would b a vry risy act, lgally as

wll as disciplinarily, Boyd wrot. What w now o sxual ondrs

suggsts that thy ar mor lily to s out othr, lss risy targts.

Council Prsidnt Brandon Lvin said th council rqustd only

that th univrsity ma gndr-nutral housing availabl to juniors to

ncourag thm to continu living on campus, sinc juniors unli

undrclassmn hav th choic o moving o campus and living

with th opposit gndr. Th councils rport assrts that gndr-

nutral housing would in act improv th sxual atmosphr at Yal

and lssn th sxual implications o studnts o opposit gndrs

socialiing in a suit, according to th Yal Daily Nws.

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State Rep. Doreen Costa, R-Exeter and North Kingstown, in-trdud a b Ja. 2 th Rhd Isad Gra Assmby that

would prevent undocumented Rhode Island students rom receivingin-state tuition discounts. Te legislation is intended to nulliy adecision made last all by the Rhode Island Board o Governors orHigher Education that extended in-state tuition to such students. Westrongly oppose Costas bill not only because she lacks the authorityto introduce such legislation in the rst place, but also because it isdsrmatry ad uar.

Last Otbr, w pubshd a dtra supprt th tadecision. It is our belie that it is the responsibility o Americanstates to educate their citizens, regardless o their immigrationstatus especially when many undocumented students have livedin Rhode Island or virtually their entire lives. We cannot with-hold equal education rom residents who were raised here. It isth rspsbty Rhd Isad ad Amra mmuts ttreat undocumented residents with compassion and respect. TeBoard o Governors measure targeted exactly this class o students

by udg a prs that y mad udumtd studtsgb r -stat tut thy attdd a stat hgh sh ra minimum o three years and graduated with a high school orquat dgr.

Tis past December, Gov. Lincoln Chaee 75 P14, who mostrty sparrd wth Csta r th ssu ag th Rhd Is-land State House tree a holiday tree instead o a Christmas tree,deended the Board o Governors decision in the weeks aer it wasrasd. Cha argud that tut dss ar th rspsb-ity o the B oard o Governors rather than o the General Assemblyand said that, despite a lack o employment opportunities or illegalimmigrants, the cuts were an incentive to nish high school i youknow you might get in-state tuition. Ultimately, I am sure many ths udumtd studts w bm tzs smhw.

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ptzd gsatur.Further, in keeping with our theme rom Mondays editorial

about higher education costs, extending the in-state discount makesm ss. It s mprat r Rhd Isads ad th UtdStates long-term economic success to incentivize, not dissuade,tzs t attd g.

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T thr day I stumbd arss a art th ws wbst Gba Pst that a rd m had shard Y O Bk Fas.T k rad, Et Asa studts hat kmad U.S. g appats. Itrgudby ths fammatry ad smwhat -s had, I had t k.

Lk ay wh has appd t g,my rd was pd at what h prdas uar mapuat ur mstrustratg, thugh uadab, systms.

Ts stry sudd k a rrakr. A har-pur. A darat war. I rad .

T stry pas hw, a rasg-y gba ad mptt wrd, th prssur duat-addtd Asa studts -urags thm t mprms thr tgrty rdr t sud. Tugh Eastr -ms ha bgu t bm, Utd Stats -gs st mauatur th mst td srbb-ad rtats. A swg trdamg mmbrs Asa hgh sty sw t utz g prp mpas thatr asd trasrpts, ssays pr-wrtt prt Egsh, td awards ad sur-rgat guss r stadardzd tsts.

Hwr, payg s way t gds t m hap. Dpdg hw

muh agg s rqurd, th st rusrm $5,000 t $5,000. Ad, a agt whws a studts apta t a U.S. Nwsad Wrd Rprt tp-rakd g saps

athr $3,000 t $0,000 t hs pt gd.Apparty, rg utrs, th rga-

zat s mstak as part th Amragrmt.

Csdrg bth th at that ur b-d Brw s w at spt umbr 5 adthat strg arud ampus, I am r-whmd by a bautu mag aguag-s, I bga t wdr. Has Brw b sw-dd by ths brad trkry? T I saw thgurs.

Ardg t a 250-studt sury -dutd by Zh Cha, th rg brah

a stmd, Cara-basd duatsutg rprat, 0 prt rm-mdat ttrs that ar hadd rsasar akd, 70 prt ssays art wrttby appats ad ha a trasrpts artgu. As, th y studt qutd th art, a 7-yar-d sr rm Ta-ad ams, Ty a d rythg ryu. Ty a tak th SA r yu, prbm. Mst studts dt ray thk tswrg.

Cusd? I was smpy buddd. Frst,

I kw that 250 pp s thg mpardt th 5,000 Chs studts rd Amra gs ad that ths data hadt b skwd by sampg rrr. But t st

smd dat muh u pay. I had ttak a pk at whr ths rmat am

rm. Ts data wud ma that trat-a studts at ur sh ud ha gadtry as prts, rtay a dsturb-g t. Chatg s t mpatb wthth rgus ad mra tradts th East.Wth s muh mphass hr ad hardwrk that studts mprms sp ad s-a s, wud thk that wd-spradru-bdg wud b dmd. I wtt wrk.

Nw, I dt kw whats mr appag

that th wrd rus my r that a systm dsgd t b rruptb s tmmu rm th trumph dars rdg. Or wrs, s t that, wh ks bhd th ss at rg ts pr-trayd by mda as utthrat mstrs, stu-dts art th sur ths ssu?

T data tds t b atua wth thmtd s th arts rsarh.Hwr, wh I kd t th papr rmwhh mst th startg rmat wasdraw, I ud that ths ssata stats-

ts stm rm a ry drt prbm.T Gba Pst art as t mt

that Chs tahrs ad hgh shs aramst aways judgd th gs ad

srs th studts thy prdu. Smar pazd r pups thy sd r-

sas, whh s s as a ata ss, s thrs ra t t kp studts wth thutry. Ts ads t th wthhdg trasrpts ad sgaturs rm rmm-dats.

Athr tdbt that th jurast ast ud s that, th rprt h ts, thhad Zh Cha admttd that mst par-ts sdr 7-yar-ds t rrspsbt rdat thr w aars. O yhrd hads a ass th ma autsusd t mmuat wth shs ad rgs-tr r th Cmm Appat. May stu-dts art awd t g r w thmatras. Parts td t s ths as a bt,a bur thr hds Egsh sks ar pr.

T rbarg fu parts adth ar what w happ thr hdrd t sud ary atats th m-ta ptat rd parts rprsa prt. T prbm s ths,but t th studts bha, as th GbaPst art suats.

Ts kd au jurasm srs tstr up prjud ad phba a a-rady ts ara dsuss. T ats hab bsurd, ad th ra ssu appa-t raud has b usd as a ssata basr pubshr prt. S t Gba Pst, I say,sham ts am ur rhtr at whats r-ay t bam.

Adam Bouch 14 is a gology and archa-ology concntrator rom Ipswich, Mass.H can b contactd at adam_bouch@

brown.du.

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Wtr brak s ay r. E thughwathr-ws th wtr u s just startg,th y swy sps that mst us ws th t ur mths ar ths C-g H. T d prd as masth bgg athr: th sd s-mstr. Fr sm studts, ts as th asmstr. As srs ad graduat studtsmpt th a rqurmts r matr-uat, thr s burg qust thats psd aga ad aga: whats t?

Ts qust s partuary prttr mastrs studts, a grup that thpast has d r abut bg sm-what th dd ut at th Ursty.Wth ry tt udg ad argy wthutthr w ubs th prgrams ar t shrt t susta suh rgazats thy agat a twght z that s sm-whr btw that udrgraduat adPhD studts. Mastrs prgrams ar u-rat r ursts but t aways a-ud by prssas. Empyrs mr -t tha t gar thr rrutmt asstwards th tw grups, ag thmastrs studt y tw pts: t appyt trshps ad try jbs p tths wh mptd udrgraduat d-grs r t g r mr graduat shg.

S ar, t s msty ddua dpart-mts that gud ths studts r -amp, th Amra studs dpartmt,

whh s my hm hr, has apptd a

adsr r ts mastrs studts wh gsguda mattrs udg urs s-t t utur arr pas. It s gathat th dpartmts ha a arg r, asthy ar by ar th mst drt tat thstudts ha, ad as suh thy ar th bst

sutd t dtrm th sp ds th ddua mastrs studts.

Wh sm studts st rabut th Urstys stadg twardsmastrs studts, sgat mpr-mts ha b mad r th past yars.Bsds udg, whh w rqur a sub-stata rhau th ag systm

ad thus sms ar , mastrs studtsa a dut jb markt. Partuary rstudts th humats, a M.A. dgrds t aways ad ary t a t stag.Fr sm t s a stppg st t a PhD,wh r thrs t s a sus h asth a trma br trg th jbmarkt.

Fr th attr grup, t s partuaryg that th Brw Studt Jb ad I-

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drgraduats r PhD studts. Ts s d, as t mrrrs th hrg stru-turs mpas ad rgazats. R-rutmt rs attdg ampus arsrary ha aas sp r mastrsstudts, ad smtms thy a y pr-

d a ma addrss t whh t drt -qurs. T stmt tm attd-g ars th ts y mma rsuts.

Ts prbms ar arady rasg-y th radar th Ursty ts, adth Ctr r Carrs ad L ar Brwhas udd a adsry u t surthat ts atts bttr rrspd t th

sp ds mastrs studts. It s ur-rty ruatg a qustar abut tsprrma wth rgard t mastrs stu-dts t atag ay partuar ssus thyru t. Suh tats ar auab.

O a rgazata , th Gradu-at Studt Cu at Brw s thy Iy prgrams that has ratd a Mas-trs Studt Adat thugh thrshs ar w as mg ths dr-

t. Assa Haddaj GS, urrt adat

ad w Amra studs studt, s th rst t hd ths pst. T u-s w prsdt, Jay Murphy GS,s a pub py studt. Ty ar tgra makg th s mastrs studtshard ad shud b uy utzd by th

drt dpartmta rprstats whw d t aways drty rah ut t thrrt u r. Mst gas mas-trs studts rap wth ths thrgraduat studts, whh maks pra-t asy. I th d, a graduat studtsshar th bjt hgh quaty dua-t, rsarh ad dts t atatths.

Suss as rqurs attt rm stu-dts thmss. E w ar y hrr a yar r tw yars r w adhags tatd w mght t b mp-mtd ut atr, t s y thrugh d-bak that th Ursty a -tu tsps ad smth r ay gths thmastrs systm. Smtms hag s ya w mus ks away thrugh MrgMa CarrLABs sury r sta.Wth s may aumts s -b ry day, t a b a tt rwhm-g t at th appab . Nagat-g th sa aumts t dsrth sg spay addrssd t uss just part th art bg a mastr.

Suann enrin GS is a mastrs stu-dnt in Amrican studis. Th CarrLAB

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Whil som studnts still voic concrn about th

Univrsitys standing towards mastrs studnts,

signicant improvmnts hav bn mad ovr th past

yars.

This data would man that intrnational studnts at

our school could hav gaind ntry on als prtns,

crtainly a disturbing notion.

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A law that would require sus-pects arrested or certain elonyrms t submt thr DNA t aatwd databas has b r-trdud t th Rhd IsadGeneral Assembly. Te bills, spon-sored by state Sen. David Bates,R-Barrington, and state Rep. BrianKennedy, D-Hopkinton, are modi-ats Kats Law, rgaysttutd Nw M.

Te legislation is named or Ka-t Sph, a 22-yar-d wh wasrapd ad murdrd ad had hrbody set afame and le at a dumpin 2003. According to her mother,Jayann Sepich, the only conclusiveevidence that law enorcement o-cials could nd was the attackerssk ad bd udr Kats -gras. Tr yars atr, Katskiller was identied when his DNAwas mathd wth that ud u-der her ngernails, but Sepich saidhe could have been brought to jus-tice just three months aer Katiesdath wh h was arrstd ar

an aggravated burglary attempt gsat k Kats Law hadb pa.

Ater her daughters death,Sepich co-ounded DNA Saves,an organization that advocatesthe urther use o DNA in help-g t s rms ad sa s.According to the organizationswebsite, 26 states have adopted leg-islation modeled aer Katies Law.

Te legislation was rst in-troduced in Rhode Island threeyears ago, but it ailed to passthr brah th Gra As-sembly. Te bill was reintroduced

in 2010 and passed the Senate butwas halted in the House o Rep-rstats.

Sepich said taking a suspectsDNA has no downsides, but manyrgazats ad awmakrs aragainst the adoption o Katies Law.Some organizations, such as theAmerican Civil Liberties Union,believe that taking arrestees DNA

s a at pray ad rghts. T DNA trd t thdatabase has only 13 markers oth r 3 b dd hu-ma DNA, ad ths y thmarkr dtrmg gdr -tas gt rmat, Sphsad. T DNA s as t pardwith names or social securitynumbers, she added. Each uniqued s pard wth a dta-tion number, and the oendersname is revealed only aer theDNA s mathd.

Having a DNA match does notautomatically lead to a conviction,

since the arrestees still have everyright to a air trial, Sepich said.Teir rights are still intact. Con-versely, a lack o a DNA matchhelps protect the innocent. DNAis truth. Its scientic truth, sheadded. It exonerates immedi-aty.

Much o the public oppositionto Katies Law stems rom a lacko understanding o DNA testing,Sepich said. But she is currentlyworking to help dispel misconcep-ts, sh sad.

Most lawmakers in Rhode Is-land are now less worried aboutthe civil rights aspects o Katies

Law, Bats sad. It ary msdw t st, h sad. Csdr-ing the current state o the econo-my, may awmakrs ar hstatt adpt ps gsat matter how they eel about it ideo-gay, Bats addd.

Bates and Sepich said the ben-ets o DNA collection and testingar outweigh its monetary costs,which might not be as high assm ar.

he current annual cost ousing a DNA database in NewM s bary gratr tha thtaxpayer money spent on investi-

gating Katies murder, Sepich said.T stat as has th ptta treceive money rom the ederalgovernment to help oset the cost,Bats sad.

Both Bates and Sepich, who willbe visiting Providence next week,said they are optimistic about thelegislations prospects this timearud.

R.I. considers adoptingDNA database for felons B katherine Cusumano

StaffWriter

What do amplied cactus instru-ments, molecular gastronomy andpirate archaeology have in common?

Tey are just some o the sub-jts bg pursud ths smstr Grup Idpdt Study Prjts,studt-dsgd asss that thpast have included names like Il-ga Art: T Hstry, Cutur adPractice o Grati and South Park,Mark wain and Finding an Ameri-a Cutur.

In GISPs, students have an in-rasd rspsbty r thr wlearning because they must cra theirown syllabus in conjunction with

advising rom aculty sponsors, wroteEvan Schwartz 13, co-coordinator oindependent studies and indepen-dent concentrations at the CurricularRsur Ctr, a ma t THrad. Sm studts may us thprogram to network with proessors,h addd.

Sixteen GISPs will be oered thissemester, up rom seven GISPs in thea, ardg t Bar. T GISPoerings continue to demonstrateth arty trsts th udr-graduat studt bdy.

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nounced Sarah Schade 15 at a recentclass meeting or GISP0010: Scienceand Art: Seeking Consilience. Mak-ing an amplied cactus, a musicalinstrument constructed rom thespiky plant, is just one o the waysin which the GISP addresses boththeoretical and practical applications s ad art.

S ad art ar tw sds the same coin, two languages or thesame phenomenon, said VanessaRyan, assistant proessor o Eng-sh ad th auty spsr r thprjt. T GISP prds a rumor students many o whom are

double concentrating in vastly dier-ent subjects to combine their dis-ciplines and think about connections.

Artsts a hp ststs ramquestions in dierent ways, said IanGonsher, adjunct lecturer in engi-neering and ormer lecturer in visualarts, wh may gust tur r thGISP. Both the arts and sciences tellstrs sm way.

Usg s ad art t bud abetter platorm or knowledge is themain motivation behind the GISP,

according to Schade, a student inth GISP.

Schade will be leading the coursesdiscussion on the third culture, a cul-ture o scientists approaching theirdiscipline through arts and humani-ties in order to enhance it. A potential

visual arts and physics concentrator,she said she joined the project in or-der to discover new links betweenhr tw aadm trsts.

Grg Swtz 3, rgazr thGISP, said it was dicult to incorpo-rate everything rom music compo-sts t quatum mhas tthe syllabus. Te group members

wrkd tgthr t dd ttsad matras. Ty as pa t -pr d s by brwg thrown beer and working with miraclebrrs atr th smstr.

Swtz was studyg abrad astsemester, and he said working to cre-ate the GISP rom overseas presentedts w hags.

It took weeks to have one ullhag, Swtz sad. St, h sadhe was impressed by the unpoliticaland receptive nature o the pro-ssrs ad studts wth whm hworked. Students will come awayg k thy ratd smthgthat allows them to pursue their ownaadm trsts, h sad.

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It attracts a lot o members oARRR!!! Nick Bartos 13 said, reer-ring to the GISP0001: Underwa-ter Archaeology and its appeal tomembers o Browns pirate a cappellagrup.

Te syllabus varies in scope be-tw brad tm prds ad wdswaths o ocean, dealing with topicsragg rm asm t prayt mdr day arhagy ths.

B Js 3, wh sparhaddthe project, said he ound a group o

people who were interested throughprus arhagy asss r hsconcentration and peers he knewwho were scuba-certied. ChristophBachhuber, postdoctoral ellow in ar-chaeology and aculty sponsor to theass, bam d th GISPbecause it related to his area o study.

Last semester, Bachhuber taughta ass abut martm arhagy

which ocused specically on theMediterranean. Te GISP will com-plement this course with dierent

data sets and methodological oci, hesad. I addt t th prat sg-ers and archaeology concentrators,many o the programs students tookBahhubrs ass ast smstr.

Bahhubr sad h drs a r-tain satisaction rom being a lessormal guide and more o a mentorr ths grup studts, wh wmt r th rst tm ths wk.

Its th rsata gudathat I will really enjoy, he said, relat-g th strutur th GISP mrt a rum tha a rma tur bya ddua.

Jones said he has already seen

the rewards o the GISP program seeing what students can do mostlyindependently when theyre reallypassat.

He said he came up with the ideaand syllabus or the GISP in collabo-rat wth prssrs at Urstyo Rhode Island, exas A&M Univer-sity and Florida State University whohave taught similar classes. Bartosnoted that the toughest part o or-ganizing the GISP was striking thebalance between areas o expertisead w aras kwdg.

Te idea is to introduce yourselto new things, he said, and so it wasnecessary to search or new interests.

Tere is also an interdisciplinaryaspect to the GISP Bartos saidth grup hps t abrat wththe history department and bring ingust turrs.

Ts GISP s just aspt abroader curricular interest in un-derwater archaeology or Bartosand Jones. Both took Bachhubersclass, and both will participate in anexcavation this summer in urkey.Jones said the GISPs syllabus aims tocover the variety o time periods andrgs a prssa arhagstmay utr.

Te skills they develop in the

GISP are not just theoretical, butar prparat r appat tth ra wrd.

Te GISP program has the poten-ta t tah studts hw t tahthmss, bm a prt atopic and work in groups essentialsks a waks , Rya sad.

It is a uniquely Brown institu-t, Bahhubr sad.

Spring GISPs explore science, art and pirates

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