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Public health S h o far , so g oo d Lawyers debate 2008

school closer
to realization
By Anish Gonchigar
Staf f Writer
Plans are moving for ward to es-
tablish a self-sufficient school of
public health within the University,
according to Fox Wetle, associate
dean of medicine for public health
and public policy.
The University is working to
gain accreditation from the Coun-
cil on Education for Public Health
to expand the current master’s in
public health program into a Brown
School of Public Health. Brown has
only offered a master’s in public
health since 2002, but plans for
the school of public health have
been in the works for at least eight
years, Wetle said.
The school would be based on
a three-part mission: to conduct
research that will be translated
into improved policy, to train and
educate future generations of re-
searchers and public health of-
ficials and to assist organizations
in public health practice and poli-
continued on page 3
D.C. handgun case
By Caitlin Trujillo
Staff Writer
Two lawyers who litigated a land-
mark 2008 Supreme Court case
debated the merits of firearm
regulation and the role of the Sec-
ond Amendment before a packed
crowd in Salomon 101 Thursday
afternoon.
The event, held by the Janus Fo-
rum in honor of Constitution Day,
featured Joseph Blocher, a Duke Uni-
versity law professor who worked on
the merits briefing for the District of
Columbia, whose regulations were
struck down by the court’s decision
in D.C. v. Heller, and Alan Gura, the
lead counsel for the defendant in the
case. Each gave a 25-minute lecture
on the case and the ramifications of
its decision.
The case, decided 5-4 by the
Supreme Cour t in June 2008,
declared D.C.’s ordinances pro-
hibiting civilian ownership of
handguns and other firearms un-
constitutional and in violation of the
Second Amendment.
Gura argued that the Constitu-
Frederic Lu / Herald tion’s framers intended the right
Orthodox Jews from Chabad House trumpeted traditional “shofars” yesterday
in celebration of the Jewish new year. to bear arms to apply directly to in-
dividual citizens and that the D.C.
statute effectively abolished that
constitutionally protected individual
right.
Blocher said that limitations on
the First Amendment and other con-
stitutional rights currently exist, and
are not considered unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court. The D.C. reg-
ulation, he argued, did not contradict
Second Amendment principles, it
merely constrained them.
Gura placed emphasis on the
exact wording of the Constitution,
saying that if a matter is “spelled
out” in the text of the document, the
amendment should receive particu-
lar protection, as he said the First
Amendment does.
Gura rejected the idea that the
Heller decision represented “judicial
activism” in the negative sense. He
said the justices engaged in a thor-
ough judicial review to enforce a vital
part of the Constitution.
The Second Amendment is
spelled out, Gura argued, whereas
the right to privacy relied on in Roe
v. Wade, the 1973 case that estab-
lished a right to abortion, does not
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Homeless camp tenants 78 report ‘flu-like symptoms’ this month

battle for a no-man’s-land
By Suzannah Weiss
Senior Staff Writer

By Sophia Li erty is not zoned for recreational Flu-like illness is spreading around
Features Editor camping, and a hearing into the campus, with 78 students diagnosed
tent community’s fate began since Sept. 2, according to Health
The lot of land Mark Falugo’s fam- Thursday. Services Director Ed Wheeler.
ily owns is nearly deserted during But Falugo, who gave the Though the University does not
the day, but the signs of human group permission to use his fam- have permission from the state of
habitation are obvious. The down- ily’s property, has become their Rhode Island to test students for
town property holds about a dozen advocate, and he refuses to give H1N1, also known as “swine flu,”
tents, the dwellings of 18 homeless in. Since the controversy arose ten students have been tested in a
men and women. over the tents, the hospital for the virus. Of those tests,
During the day- SPOTLIGHT Barrington resident three turned up positive, accord-
light hours, the has been spending ing to a campus-wide e-mail sent by
Kim Perley / Herald
inhabitants of Provitents — as long hours at the encampment in Vice President for Campus Life and
The University has installed hand sanitizer dispensers in high-traffic areas
the encampment is known — go solidarity. Why? Student Services Margaret Klawunn on campus in an effort to prevent the spread of germs.
about their business. Some work, “Compassion,” Falugo said. Thursday night.
and others look for jobs. They go “They’ve been conditioned to The diagnostic criteria for an Bergeron said the University’s fight Different groups within the Uni-
to Crossroads, the state’s largest lose every fight they come up influenza-like illness, which may against swine flu has been a collab- versity are involved in caring for the
service provider for the homeless, against.” or may not be the H1N1 virus but orative effort involving the Rhode students while they are isolated.
to take showers. One 19-year-old demands the same treatment, are a Island Department of Health, Com- Bergeron and Klawunn sent out a
goes to local concerts to sell his Providence versus Provitents fever of 100 degrees or higher and puter and Information Ser vices, campus-wide e-mail last week detail-
artwork, dreamscapes created The series of events that brought a cough or sore throat, Wheeler Dining Services, heads of academic ing an online reporting system that
entirely with spray paint. the lot’s current residents in said. departments and professors, among allows students with flu-like symp-
But after only two weeks of ex- contact with Falugo — who had “We treat them the same way if others. toms to notify Health Services so
istence, the tent city has already started volunteering at the Rhode they have the symptoms, whether The health department empha- they can be excused from classes
met with resistance from local Island Coalition for the Homeless they’ve been tested or not,” said sized that the best advice to give and get follow-up care.
residents and business owners just a few days before — began Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, the senior someone with flu-like symptoms “We’re making sure people
concerned about the Westminster with an eviction, similar to the vice president for Corporation affairs is to “just stay put and take care of have what they need to stay iso-
Street property. Charles J. Falugo, one they are facing again. and University governance who also yourself,” Bergeron said. lated,” Klawunn said. Measures
Inc. — the family-run corporation Provitents is, in fact, a settle- serves as chief risk officer on the The 78 students diagnosed were taken to ensure that sick students
that owns the land — has been Emergency Preparedness and Crisis advised to remain in their rooms or recover and that the disease does
cited by the city because the prop- continued on page 4 Committee. to go home until they were symptom-
Dean of the College Katherine free for 24 hours, Wheeler said. continued on page 2
inside

News.....1-4 News, 3 Arts, 5 Opinions, 7

Ar ts........5
Editorial.....6 job quest Life is a cabaret Fading magic
Opinion......7 Students debut Web Trinity Rep. takes on Mike Johnson ’11 calls on
site to help combat a golden oldie in their youth to support President
Today........8
unemployment performance of Cabaret Obama once more

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C ampus N EWS “It’s a smart disease.”

— Eric Stix ’12, on the H1N1 virus

Speakers debate gun rights law Health Services looks to

continued from page 1

have a clear basis in the Constitu-

tion’s text.
“I think we need to have a lot
more activism out there,” he said,
if activism means the Court take
its job to enforce the Constitution
seriously.
While Blocher said that the in-
tent behind the Constitution should
be taken into account, he criticized
complete reliance on the school of
legal thought known as original-
ism, which he said underpinned
Gura’s arguments and the decision
in Heller.
“Originalism can’t and doesn’t
have to give us all the answers,”
Blocher said. “It just needs to give
us something to work with.”
In the specific case of the Sec-
ond Amendment’s wording, he ar-
gued that the text was intended to
address the need for a well-trained
militia — not a need to arm regular
citizens out of fear of governmental
tyranny or for self-defense.
He also said the Second Amend-
ment was unnecessary to ensure a
right to self-defense, because the
amendment doesn’t address self-
defense, which he said has always
existed as a common-law right.
“Do we now have a constitution-
al right to defend ourselves with
guns but not to defend ourselves
with our fists?” Blocher asked.
He criticized the Supreme Court
for lacking a clear rationale for si-
multaneously declaring the D.C.
ordinance unconstitutional and al-
lowing other limitations on Second
Amendment rights for groups rang-
ing from felons to children.
Gura disagreed with Blocher’s
argument that the militia had sole
or primary rights to firearms. The
framers of the Constitution, he
said, believed the term “militia”
referred to members of the gen-
eral public who could defend their
communities.
“It’s the people who have the
right — not the militia, not the
state,” Gura said.
After the lecture, each speaker
had the opportunity to ask the
other a question. Blocher asked
Gura whether a law that required
guns to be unloaded or otherwise
inoperable when not in use would
be constitutional. The D.C. statute
struck down in Heller contained
such a provision.
Gura said he thought such “self-
storage” laws were reasonable, but
that such a restriction could not
extend to a person when he or she
is home.
“We argued that if you have the
right to arms, you have the right to
arms you can actually use,” Gura
said.
During the audience question-
and-answer session, Adam Frees
’13 asked Gura why the Second
Amendment does not contain the
words “for the people” instead of
“militia” if it was meant to refer to
all citizens. Gura said the militia was
referred to directly by the framers
because militia forces had just been
used successfully in the American
Revolution.
Another audience member ques-
tioned Blocher’s assertion that, ac-
cording to an originalist interpreta-
tion, the Second Amendment would
only protect white men’s ability to
carry arms. Blocher responded
that he thought his argument was
a valid example of why originalism
could not be relied upon in full, say-
ing the framers’ intentions could
only go so far.
When one student asked the
speakers if they thought the coun-
tr y would be better off with or
without the Second Amendment
as it applies to individuals, Gura and
Blocher agreed that, even though
the matter was complicated, the
Second Amendment is an important
part of the Constitution. Gura said
the document should not limit how
people defend themselves, while
Blocher said the ability to curtail
the Second Amendment through
regulation is vital.
control H1N1 spread
continued from page 1
not spread include the delivery of
food packages by Dining Services
to students’ rooms, permission for
friends of ill students to bring ex-
tra dining hall food to their peers,
follow-up calls from Health Services
and deans’ notes to faculty excusing
students from class when they report
symptoms.
Health Ser vices will soon of-
fer students a free vaccine for the
common seasonal flu, according to
Wheeler. “We don’t want people to
have both illnesses in the same sea-
son,” he said.
Eric Stix ’12, who began to ex-
perience flu-like symptoms last Fri-
day, spent the weekend at home in
Massachusetts. He said it seemed
difficult to keep the recommended
distance of six feet from his friends
in his suite.
“I can’t imagine what it would be
like to stay in your room,” he said,
adding that he returned to school
more cautious on Monday. “When
I got back I bleached everything I
remembered touching.”
Stix said that his professors were
sympathetic and that Health Services
was able to fit him in on an already
busy day. Health Services also was
meticulous about limiting his contact
to prevent the spread of the virus,
he added. “They make you put on a
mask if you show any one of those
(flu-like) symptoms, and they have
Purell all over the place.”
There are over 100 public loca-
tions on campus with hand sanitizer
dispensers, Carey said. The dispens-
ers are there for people in crowded
locations without immediate access
to soap and water to clean their
hands, and for “reinforcing the mes-
sage that hand-washing is one of the
most important things people can do
to prevent the spread,” he added.
Klawunn said basic hygiene,
healthy living habits and staying
out of public areas when sick are
the most important measures an
individual can take to avoid spread-
ing the flu.
The administration started brain-
storming preventative measures for
H1N1 last year but stepped up the ef-
forts after the World Health Organi-
zation declared it a global pandemic
in June, Bergeron said. Between col-
lege students’ high susceptibility to
illness and the H1N1 virus’s ability
to spread before symptoms appear,
students and faculty alike must ex-
ercise caution, she said.
“It can spread before people know
they have it,” Stix said. “It’s a smart
disease.”

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C ampus N EWS “Our Web site personalizes job applications.”

— Walker Williams ’11, co-founder of Jobzle.com

Widespread swine flu Students launch job search site

hits college campuses By Heeyoung Min
Staff Writer
the feedback we get. We are so small
that it’s easy for us to adjust.”
Though the University’s Student
employees, was designed by previ-
ous Brown students “specifically
for Brown students,” Tilton said.
As the nation’s unemployment rate Employment Office runs its own job “There are clearly things that our
Ellen Cushing Northeast to catch up soon. soars, a group of Brown students search Web site, Williams described current system does that Jobzle
Senior Staf f Writer “The Northeast has been a bit have come up with a response: start it as “outdated.” doesn’t do.”
slow on the uptake,” he said. a job search company. “Brown has one standard ap- The University will stick with the
As the school year and the fall flu The association’s data also in- Inspired by his own frustrating plication for all jobs. Someone can present system for now, but will be
season begin, colleges and universi- dicate that the virus is spreading. search for a part-time job as a first- be applying for a lifeguarding job, open to Jobzle’s input, according
ties nationwide have already seen The percentage of schools report- year, Walker Williams ’11, along and the application would ask to list to Tilton.
tens of thousands of reported cases ing new cases went from 72 percent with cofounders Kevin Durfee ’11 computer skills,” he said. “Our Web The student site creators —
of swine flu, and they are bracing to 83 percent this week. and Ben Mathews ’11, spent his site personalizes job applications. joined by marketing director Domi-
for more. Koren Kanabian, director of sophomore year designing and We also recommend jobs based on a nique Ferraro ’11 — turned Jobzle
Government officials are partic- emergency management at Provi- developing Jobzle.com, a Web site profile system like Facebook’s.” into the focus of an Independent
ularly concerned about the impact dence College, said he was expect- tailored to students and employers Williams said he hopes the site Study Project last fall under the su-
of the H1N1 virus on schools be- ing an increase in the number of in the Providence area. The site will, “far down the line,” replace the pervision of Professor Emeritus of
cause, unlike most flus, it appears cases at the school, which has only counts 170 registered students and employment office’s current Web Engineering Barrett Hazeltine.
to affect young people dispropor- seen one case thus far. “We really 40 unique job listings since its Sept. site, which is operated by NextGen Though they still count Jobzle as
tionately. Because the haven’t seen anything 2 launch. Web Solutions LLC. part of their courseload, the project
flu is spread through HIGHER ED yet,” he said. “My feel- Unlike large job search services, Jobzle would offer its services bears more resemblance to a full-
personal contact, any ing is that it’s coming, such as Monster.com and SnagAJob. “completely free” to the University time job than a course credit. While
environment in which people share but we haven’t seen anything.” com, the startup allows for closer in the pilot stage — an important continuing to develop the Web site,
close quarters — such as a college Seventy-eight Brown students interaction between jobseekers and proposition given the University’s the four juniors juggle the marketing
dormitor y — is a potential breed- have reported influenza-like symp- employers, Williams said. The Web budget deficit, he said. and public relations side of running
ing ground for the virus. toms so far this school year, ac- site makes the most of its small size Director of Financial Aid James a company, attracting press cover-
The virus is responsible for at cording to Russell Carey, senior by continually test-driving features Tilton said he has talked to students age from the Wall Street Journal, the
least three college students’ deaths vice president for Corporation af- with its targeted users, said Wil- from Jobzle about the possibility of Boston Globe and Xconomy in three
this flu season, according to the fairs and University governance. liams, who freelanced as a graphic collaboration since last year, most consecutive days last week.
online magazine InsideHigherEd. Figures var y at other similar designer during high school. recently at a Wednesday meeting. Durfee said the students are
com, The most recent death was institutions. Kim Thurler, director “We’ve talked to employers, peo- But he said it is “too early” to talk interested in scaling up operations
the Sept. 11 death of Cornell soph- of public relations at Tufts Univer- ple up and down Thayer, students about the startup’s replacement of at an opportune time before their
omore Warren Schor. sity, said the 10,000-student school at Brown and at other schools in the present system. Brown careers end. Their ultimate
According to data from the had seen between 50 and 60 cases Providence,” Williams said. “The The current employment Web goal is to bring Jobzle to campuses
American College Health Associa- since May, and an additional 10 site is rapidly changing based on Site, serving about 2,500 student nationwide, he said.
tion — which has been tracking to 20 cases since the start of the
the spread of the flu at a sample academic year.
of colleges and universities since Turner said most schools were
the beginning of this month — handling the flu in three primar y
83 percent of the 253 participat- ways — by “managing the surge”
ing institutions saw new cases of with extended hours and additional
influenza-like illness in the week supplies and staff at campus health
ending Sept. 11. centers, by educating those who
James Turner, the association’s are ill about what they should do
president, said the sample — which to prevent infecting others and by
includes some 3 million students helping healthy students avoid ex-
— is representative. posure.
Rates of infection have been At Providence College, Kanabi-
highest in the southeast and north- an said, administrators prepared
west parts of the countr y. for an outbreak by providing stu-
At least 2,500 students at Wash- dents with information — in addi-
ington State University have re- tion to hand sanitizer, disposable
ported flu-like symptoms already. thermometers and masks — and
The university has a total enroll- by setting up a 28-bed “isolation
ment of about 25,000, according room” for infected students.
to its Web site. Carey said he believed Brown’s
Turner said he suspects that the response to the threat of the vi-
comparatively low rate of incidence rus was in line with that at other
in New England and the mid-Atlan- institutions.
tic is correlated with northeastern “My sense is that we’re pretty
schools’ relatively late start dates, consistent for the most par t,”
and that he expects rates in the he said.

Plans for public health

school underway
continued from page 1
cies.
“We have a ver y broad ser vice
mission as well as our research
mission,” Wetle said.
The accreditation criteria in-
clude the size and specialization
of faculty members. By the end of
this year, Wetle said, the University
hopes to fill 17 new tenure-track
positions approved in 2004 by the
Corporation.
Funding for the school has been
coming through various means,
both internal and external. “Much
of the cost is being paid through
graduate student tuition, exter-
nal funding through grants and
contracts and philanthropy,” Wetle
said.
Wetle said Brown has not sched-
uled any additional construction
for the school, but plans for it to
be located at 121 S. Main St., the
current location of the master’s in
public health program.
Though the completion of the
school will continue to depend on
the University’s budget, Wetle said
she hopes it will be established in
the next couple of years.
“We’re making good progress,”
she said.
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C ampus N EWS
Tents give city’s homeless shelter, safety, friendships
continued from page 1
ment that splintered off a larger tent
city, Camp Runamuck, which until
recently was located beneath an I-95
overpass near Fish Co.
A decision by Rhode Island’s Su-
perior Court gave the residents of
Runamuck until Sept. 8 to disband.
They split into two groups, Camp
Runamuck II and Provitents.
The lawyer for the tent city resi-
dents introduced Richard Jackson, the
leader of Provitents, to Falugo, who
offered the land as a place to stay.
Almost immediately, they began to
clear the grass on Falugo’s land — it
was as “tall as the port-a-john,” Jack-
son said. The members of Provitents
moved onto the property within days,
during Labor Day weekend.
“I spoke to the neighbors first,”
Falugo said. When they had no objec-
tions, he moved ahead.
But the West Broadway Neighbor-
hood Association began to receive
calls from residents.
“Some are concerned about the
welfare of the people,” said Kari
Lang from the association. “Some
are concerned that they’re on a city
lot that doesn’t have facilities for the
people.”
Lang brought the settlement to the
attention of the city of Providence. “I
called the city because the tent city is in
our neighborhood,” she said. “Neigh-
bors had called concerned about it, so
I called the city to see what they were
doing about the situation.”
Late last week, Falugo received
a subpoena to appear at yesterday’s
hearing, where he was informed that
his lot was not zoned for “recreational
tents.”
Later, the city’s case was put on
hold because of a procedural error: Pa-
pers were served to the wrong mem-
ber of Falugo’s family, he said. The
hearing will resume next Thursday.
“The lady with the Mercedes?”
“Not every member of Provitents
has been to a homeless shelter, or
intends to. Deborah, who became
homeless in mid-July, has heard too
many stories about local shelters —
their filth and overcrowdedness, their
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“Why can we not catch people before they hit rock bottom?”
— Deborah, a homeless resident of a downtown tent city
drug addicts and violence — from the
camp’s other inhabitants to consider
going to a shelter.
Deborah, who asked that her last
name not be used because her teenage
daughter does not know she is home-
less, said she was left with numerous
medical bills when her mother died
in May 2008. Her mother suffered
from cancer for about a decade before
her hospitalization, Deborah said, and
died as a consequence of her illness,
which was compounded by kidney
failure.
Deborah stopped working during
her mother’s illness, and the hospital
expenses and funeral costs left her
destitute. She sold her home last sum-
mer to pay the medical bills, and be-
gan to stay with family members.
But this summer, she found her-
self with nowhere else to go.
Initially, she slept in her car and
frequented Roger Williams Park to
read, write and walk. But after a few
days, she noticed a church nearby.
“It just piqued my curiosity,” she
said. “I went in, and I found it was a
soup kitchen. I said, ‘Geez, I’m not
working right now — can I possibly
volunteer and help out?’”
After a couple of weeks, she heard
about Camp Runamuck from other
volunteers at the soup kitchen, and
she visited to look around.
“It was strange,” she said. “It was
different.”
Still, Deborah, who, despite her
college education had run out of op-
tions, needed a place to stay. Though
she felt out of place, she moved into
Camp Runamuck.
“‘What the hell is she doing
here?’” she said, recalling the reac-
tions of some people. “‘The lady with
the Mercedes?’”
Deborah has returned to her job,
working intermittently. She has found
a potential home to rent as well, a
small cottage in Barrington.
But the months she has spent in
a tent, moving from encampment to
encampment in Providence, have
transformed her perspective on her
local community — and committed
her to a future of advocating for the
homeless.
“It’s been a life lesson,” Deborah
said. “I look at life differently. I look
at people differently.”
An uncertain future
Mark Falugo’s generosity may
have given Deborah and others a
temporary harbor, but the larger
problem she faces is one that will
persist no matter the result of next
Thursday’s hearing.
Deborah said she thinks Provi-
tents’ current battle against the city
has “nothing to do with the tents. It
has to do with the homeless problem
Friday, September 18, 2009
in Rhode Island.”
She called the state’s system of
services for its homeless population
“obsolete.”
“It doesn’t work,” she said. “Why
can we not catch people before they
hit rock bottom?”
Brenda Clement, the executive
director of Housing Action Coalition
of Rhode Island, said tents were not
the solution, noting that support for
programs and policies that create
long-term housing is necessary.
“We simply don’t have enough
affordable housing units for very low-
income people,” Clement said.
Rhode Island has just been award-
ed federal stimulus funding for home-
less prevention and rapid re-housing,
she added.
But “we’ve clearly got lots more
work to do,” Clement said, such as
restoring funding to the Neighbor-
hood Opportunities Program, Rhode
Island’s only state program to create
affordable housing for low-income
people.
Meanwhile, the days wear on for
Provitents residents. They survive on
donated food and on one another’s
companionship.
“I’m not alone,” said Kevin, an-
other Provitents inhabitant, who also
asked that his last name be withheld.
“I’m with people that I can talk with, I
can cry with, I can reminisce with.”
Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald
At Trinity Rep, a chilling ‘Cabaret’
By Rosalind Schonwald
Arts & Culture Editor
In Trinity Repertory Company’s
current production of “Cabaret,” the
gilded proscenium leans menacingly
forward, jarring and topsy-turvy. It’s
a fitting choice: This classic musical,
by John Kander and Fred Ebb, is set
in the fragile fantasy world of Weimar
Germany and overshadowed by the
specter of Nazism.
“Cabaret” is oversexed and over-
reaching, and maybe flat-out over-
done, but Trinity Rep’s rendition of
the iconic musical is spectacular, in
spite of an uneven cast. Under the
direction of Curt Columbus, this pro-
duction stays true to tradition while
exploring new avenues of interpreta-
tion and meaning.
“Cabaret” takes place against
a pre-World War II backdrop. It is
Berlin in the 1930s, and the cultural
life’s a-kicking amidst the social and
economic tumult that followed the
first World War. Nazism slowly infil-
trates the drama, at first appearing
innocuous, but gradually increasing
in power and aggression. Fascism is
becoming a reality, yet the musical’s
characters hide in the cloud-world of
cabaret, parties and performance.
Some will eventually self-destruct,
while others flee in disgust. At the
center of this ensemble show is Eng-
lish singer and ticking time bomb
Sally Bowles (Rachael Warren). The
plot follows her ill-fated romance with
Clifford Bradshaw, an American writ-
er (Mauro Hantman).
While Bowles and Bradshaw play
out their tempestuous affair, multiple
subplots reveal the horrific reality
creeping in. Facing anti-Semitic pres-
sure, Fraulein Schneider, an elderly
German woman (Phyllis Kay) decides
not to marry Herr Schultz, the Jewish
man she loves (Stephen Berenson).
Meanwhile, bigoted Fraulein Kost
(Janice Duclos), Sally’s prostitute
neighbor, considers servicing good
German sailors to be her patriotic
duty.
Both Hantman’s singing voice and
Kay’s inability to keep the Triboro
out of her wavering German accent
left something to be desired. But Joe
Wilson, Jr., as the Emcee, the em-
bodiment of gender-bending cabaret
culture, was a brilliant beacon in a
mostly dull cast. He first appears in
the opening number, “Wilkommen,”
instantly captivating the audience
with his cutesy, manic, ridiculous
sass.
At the beginning of the song, he
descends a dark staircase, his profile
in shadow. Only a suit and a hat atop
a blond pompadour are visible. But
as soon as he hits the stage, dancers
in lingerie remove his hat, wig and
jacket to reveal a shiny, bald head and
a black satin corset. The ringmaster
is here.
Wilson was the star of the cast
throughout, showing nuance and
range. He was the embodiment of
the fantasy and frivolity that prevailed
before fascism takes hold. The rise
of Nazism breaks up several couples
over the course of the show through
harassment, anti-Semitism and fear,
jolting people out of the world of night
and pretend. The Emcee embodies
that broken dream.
The show is divided into two
mirror-image acts, the first dripping
in sexuality and celebration; the sec-
ond is its soulless, militant caricature.
The greatest strength of Trinity Rep’s
production is the way Columbus em-
phasizes this crucial distinction.
An incredible moment of transi-
tion occurs at the end of Act I, during
Schultz and Schneider’s disastrous
engagement party. After Nazi Party
member Ernst Ludwig (well-acted
by Stephen Thorne) arrives and
expresses his disapproval of their
pending union, everyone else in at-
tendance joins him in singing “To-
morrow Belongs to Me.” This song
was sung sincerely earlier, but at this
point it gains an air of horror. The cast
become automatons, stomping and
clapping the rhythm like robots, smil-
ing. They’ve been brainwashed.
This passage from exuberance to
despair is exemplified in the charac-
ter of Schultz, the Jewish fruitseller.
At the beginning, he raves about the
“peaches, delicious” he has brought
as a treat for Schneider. His voice is
Friday, September 18, 2009 | Page 5
full of vivacity and excitement, fitting
the moment in the play. But after he
has lost his fiancee to her own fear of
the Nazis, he repeats this line, and it
rings false. At that moment, he seems
to lack conviction that anything can
be delicious or good in any way.
Even the orchestra takes part in
this dichotomy. A full band plays in
the pit throughout the first act, but
for the second act, all that’s left is a
musician-less player piano.
Wilson shines while embodying
this duality, and his role as master
of ceremonies is crucial. During the Courtesy of Trinity Rep
first act, he glimmers, carefully man- The classic musical “Cabaret” will
aging the cabaret. In the second act, run at Trinity Repertory Company
through Oct. 11.
he is stripped of his powers and even
his costume. He wears only a light
pink slip. The cabaret dancers are out
of his control, marching like Nazis.
His beautifully controlled voice wails
and whispers “I Don’t Care Much,”
eulogizing the joyousness that has
yielded to apathy. Wilson captures all
of that in a genuinely tear-inducing
moment.
The first thing that happens in this
“Cabaret” is the firing of a cannon,
releasing confetti out of the darkness
with a loud bang.
In the darkness, at the end, a can-
non is lit, and nothing happens.
“Cabaret” runs at Trinity Reper-
tory Company (201 Washington St.)
through Oct. 11. Student tickets are
available from $10 to $20.
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The Brown Daily Herald

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l e t t e r s to t h e e d i to r
Against intolerance in academia
To the editor:
I was pleased to see Kate Fritz-
sche’s ’10 thoughtful column regard-
ing the difficulties facing religious
students at Brown (“The secret life
of Catholics at Brown,” Sept. 17). I, too,
have noticed that God is generally un-
popular in academia. This is either the
chicken or the egg of the erroneous
belief that intellectualism and faith are
irreconcilable, a myth that Fritzsche
appropriately denounces.
Despite my overall agreement with
Fritzsche’s assessments, I thought her
analysis of Jewish students at Brown
could stand to be more nuanced.
I agree that how Jewish students
identify “culturally,” and the religious
practices that might be part of that
identification, are widely accepted and
tolerated at Brown, which is of great
benefit to those who experience their
identity in dynamic ways. But when it
comes to being “religious” in the more
common sense of the term, where
appeals to cultural heritage alone do
Advocacy for local school reforms
To the editor:
In your editorial regarding the
debate over seniority-based sala-
ries (“Seniority and its discontents”,
Sept. 16), your recommendation that
students at Brown involve them-
selves in programs to improve edu-
cation in Providence and elsewhere
is praiseworthy.
I would like to offer another op-
portunity to students to improve lo-
cal schools that was not mentioned.
There is growing community sup-
port for a number of major educa-
tional reforms, such as creating a
not capture the essence of a particular
student’s identity, I think Jewish stu-
dents face the same problems ­— as do
students of all religious backgrounds.
Those who identify “culturally” are
more accepted than those who make
belief, faith and/or doctrine a stronger
part of what it means to identify with
a particular religion or ethnoreligious
group.
This attitude toward any religious
group represents a certain “soft intol-
erance” that is often masked in the
guises of liberal academia, but is in fact
an adulteration of the very meaning of
pluralism. If we are only “pluralistic”
to others who share our views of what
pluralism means and who it includes,
we allow ourselves to falsely congratu-
late our “tolerance.” I know Brown
students are intellectually responsible
enough to work harder to avoid this
delusion so that we can all learn from
one another, which is truly what we
are here to do.
Jana Jett Loeb ’08
system for equitable school funding
and improving school capacity to
put the best teachers in every class-
room, among others reforms. Local
education coalitions are working to
support these changes, and involve-
ment in such advocacy would allow
Brown students to influence policies
that could improve education for
thousands of students.
I would invite students interested
in education to consider advocacy as
another way to make a difference.
Michael MacCombie ’11
e d i to r i a l
First-years first
The University has been planning a new residence
hall since 2007, and administrators told The Herald this
week that they plan to move forward with construction
sometime in the next five years. Residential life at Brown
is in great need of attention, and we are happy that the
University has made housing a priority. But we’re not sure
a new residence hall is the best way to address Brown’s
housing woes.
There is no question that the University’s existing
dormitories need work. Common space is utterly lacking,
especially in the riot-proof Graduate Center buildings.
In other dorms, lounges and kitchens are converted to
student rooms each year because of housing shortages.
The Plan for Academic Enrichment acknowledges this,
recommending that the University create “more and bet-
ter community spaces” in residence halls for academic
programs, social gatherings and recreation. But the Plan
also recommends that the University increase the percent-
age of students living on campus, and that’s where the
University has focused its housing policy.
The new dorm in the works would create 300 to 400
new apartment-style rooms for upperclassmen, with the
goal of luring more seniors into on-campus housing. Ad-
ministrators say having more seniors on campus would
strengthen the Brown community, giving underclassmen
an opportunity to talk to older students and seek advice.
They also cite complaints from neighbors and concerns
about student safety in off-campus houses.
All this is great, and at some point it will make sense
for the University to build more housing for upperclass-
men. But before going after seniors, Brown should focus
its attention on improving the underclassman residential
experience.
Dorms are the center of the freshman experience at
P ao l a E i s n er
Brown, and if designed appropriately, they could strength-
en communities and facilitate friendships at a critical time.
The freshman unit system is a laudable attempt to bring
students together during their first year at Brown. But
even inside units, it can be hard to meet people and make
friends in the absence of common rooms and lounges.
Though dorms in Keeney Quandrangle have a few
lounges scattered throughout, other buildings have al-
most no common space. Emery, Woolley, Morris and
Champlin halls, for example, all share one large lounge
that’s located far from student rooms. Freshmen are
forced to retreat into their doubles to socialize with their
hallmates, making units less communal and making it
harder to meet people.
Freshmen and sophomores will surely benefit from
having more seniors on campus. But they will gain much
more from lounges and common spaces in their own
dorms than they will from living near a residence hall full
of seniors. Underclassmen already mingle with juniors
and seniors all the time in classes and extracurricular
activities. They also receive support from their Meikle-
john advisers. The problem with Brown’s housing is not
that it creates rifts between on-campus and off-campus,
or between Keeney and New Pembroke. The problem
is that the lack of common space creates rifts between
students inside each dorm.
Rather than building a new residential hall for seniors,
the University should renovate existing dorms and im-
prove the residential experience for the students who
depend on it most for friendship and community. Before we
solidify the University community as a whole, we should
make sure our residence halls promote smaller, more
intimate communities for the freshmen and sophomores
who are still finding their place at Brown.
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Take your self-sacrifice and shove it
Simon
Liebling
Opinions Columnist
To those unfamiliar with the way Brown does
business in a recession, the administration
has to sound pretty prudent and responsible
right now.
The news last week that University bu-
reaucrats would car ve $30 million out of
next year’s operating budget carried all the
appropriate airs of self-sacrifice in times
that demand it — improving ef ficiency,
sacrificing superfluous expenses — while
administrators said all the right things about
including students and faculty in their ever-
careful financial deliberations. Any budget
cuts that might be painful in the slightest
were treated in euphemism — layoffs are
now “consolidating some people’s jobs” —
or not at all.
It seemed for a moment that the admin-
istration was living up to President Ruth
Simmons’ assurance at the beginning of
the recession-provoked bloodletting: that
throughout the budget cutting process “the
pain must begin at the top.” Provost David
Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 described cuts com-
ing almost exclusively from administrative
priorities — reduced bureaucratic spending
and $7 million salvaged from scaled back
Building Brown initiatives, the adminis-
tration’s dearest pet project. This year’s
cuts, the provost promised, should only
marginally affect students. Executive Vice
President for Finance and Administration
Beppie Huidekoper, Kertzer’s colleague on
The lost power of Barack Obama
Mike Johnson
Opinions Columnist
Look out! Obama is everywhere. He stares at
us from our computer screens every time we
browse a news Web site. His name rings out
from our televisions whenever we turn them
on. The front corner of the Ratty is inundated
with countless news reports of him and his
shorts-wearing wife. Yet his poll numbers slip,
his critics redouble their efforts and his ambi-
tious agenda seems bogged down in the mire
of Washington, D.C. bureaucracy.
Pundits everywhere declare “the honey-
moon is over,” and I begin to wonder where
the magic went.
It went on summer vacation. It’s no se-
cret that, statistically speaking, the biggest
supporters of President Barack Obama in last
year’s election were we, the voters aged 18-25,
some of us voting in our first election and oth-
ers making up for previous elections. Young
voters were electrified by the young senator
from Illinois, and saw in him a changing of the
guard, a man who would represent the gen-
erational shift from Baby Boomer to Genera-
tion X.
All things considered, we weren’t wrong
about him. In his first months in office, he
reversed some of the more — let’s call them
“conservative,” for lack of a better word —
policies of his predecessor, and has made a
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the Organizational Review Committee, wrote
The Herald to promise that faculty would
be largely immune as well (“Organization
changes will provide support, efficiency,”
Sept. 15). The message from administrators
was clear: This year, budgetar y discipline
would be focused right where Ruth prom-
ised, the bureaucratic “top.” How noble.
But this comes after a year of firings,
tuition hikes and inadequate financial aid
without so much as a thought given to turn-
ing back the bulldozers. Brown’s administra-
Every student and staff member must remember
that every budget cut, no matter how benevolent
and selfless the administration may seem now,
comes only after 30 firings and a three percent
tuition increase.
tion has no right to the moral high ground
in this round of triage, however improved
their cynical messaging may be. Ever y stu-
dent and staff member must remember that
every budget cut, no matter how benevolent
and selfless the administration may seem
now, comes only after 30 firings and a three
percent tuition increase — which means the
administration has come around to making
its sacrifices only after dropping the heaviest
burdens on us.
The Herald’s report on the impending
budget cuts cites Kertzer as claiming that
the University could save between $5 and
$10 million next year by “changing poli-
genuine effort to be bipartisan with his eco-
nomic and health care reforms.
In spite of all this, however, the love is
gone. No more youth activists march in the
street; no more useless yet inspiring Face-
book groups exist. Instead of powering the
president to a smoother, more elegant reform
process, the youth of this nation pat them-
selves on the back, sink back into the very
apathy of which we’re accused and watch
The evaporating youth movement has left
a vacuum our elders have gleefully filled,
consistently spitting out their dated and stale
ideas.
Obama go down with the ship. After Novem-
ber, we all said “Mission Accomplished,” not
realizing the irony.
After months of debate in the House and
Senate and across the country, the President
appears to have moved toward the center. The
simple fact that there are 535 people in Con-
gress precludes extremism. Obama seems to
have realized that there is more to health care
reform than just what the far left wants. De-
spite the Joe Wilsons of the world, the right
does bring something to the table.
Unfortunately, the President carries the
cies related to travel and other costs.” I
just want to pause to make sure we capture
the breadth of the absurdity here. The ad-
ministration can save up to $10 million by
tightening the purse strings on its expense
accounts and didn’t want to do that before it
cavalierly fired 30 dedicated staff members
to save money. Classy.
Each instance of the efficiency improve-
ments that supposedly will save us millions
is equally farcical — too little much too late.
We, the students who pay higher tuition in
a recession, along with the staff whose col-
leagues were unceremoniously fired, must
ask the administration why they came calling
on us first when all along they could have
saved so many millions with a few simple
organizational improvements. But the ques-
tion is rhetorical and the answer obvious:
The bureaucracy, of course, asks sacrifices
of itself last.
What else should we expect when the
organization tasked with finding cost reduc-
tions, the organization leading a process that
administrators say will include “extensive
input from students, faculty and staff,” is
made up of 10 administrators, three faculty
burden of an overwhelming majority in both
houses of Congress — it seems there can in-
deed be too much of a good thing. Those in
Congress farther to the left than our Presi-
dent keep chomping at the bit to unleash their
crazy onto the American people, and it seems
he is withering under the constant pressure to
get something passed.
The evaporating youth movement has
left a vacuum our elders have gleefully filled,
consistently spitting out their dated and stale
ideas. Until the youth of the nation, the ones
who will benefit the most from health care
reform, come out and pledge their support,
the president can turn only to those who are
closest at hand, the ultra-left, who want to use
their Congressional muscle to strong-arm the
reform debate.
If that happens, reform is doomed. No one
can govern alone in our system — that’s the
genius of it. For health care, especially, there
is no duality of Democrat vs. Republican —
there’s a spectrum of support and criticism,
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members and precisely two students — only
one an undergraduate?
It all starts to make sense when you think
of it that way. The administrators with au-
thority over budget cuts have targeted those
cuts to protect themselves and have left
the pain to the powerless and underrepre-
sented — students, faculty and staff. It’s
why financial hardship means firings and
merciless tuition hikes first and administra-
tive sacrifices second. It’s why no one talks
about curbing the three major construction
projects whose combined $90 million price
tag would cover ever y budget cut from now
to 2014.
This is why the administration pays only
lip ser vice to community participation in
decision making. By protecting its unilateral
power — in the form of the unaccountable
Corporation and the unrepresentative ORC
— the administration protects its own initia-
tives and interests, despite the needs of the
vast majority of the Brown community. And
as long as power remains consolidated in
the hands of bureaucrats, that vast majority
— students, staff and faculty — will be the
first group to come to administrators’ minds
whenever painful decisions must be made.
So to Provost Kertzer, to the ORC, to ev-
ery administrator behind these budget cuts,
I say, take your self-congratulator y attitude
and righteous self-sacrifice to the 30 staff
members you fired last year. Take it to the
families struggling to pay your outlandish
tuition. Take it to all of them and see if you’re
still patting yourself on the back.
Simon Liebling ’12 is from New
Jersey. He can be reached at
simon.liebling@gmail.com
ranging from the Blue Dogs to Pennsylvania
Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Penn. It’s undeniable
that we need health care reform. Too many
people are sick with no way to get help, and it’s
our responsibility as a country to help them.
The far left cannot push through their ex-
pensive, overwhelming plan; they simply don’t
have enough votes, no matter what they claim.
So if Obama is pressured into following his
leftist cronies, we can kiss the dream of uni-
versal coverage goodbye for another decade,
or longer. That decade will be our decade, and
it’s our choice whether or not we want to be
insured for it.
So it’s time we broke out of our funk and
started getting active again. With the laziness
and relaxation of the summer fading away
for the next nine months or so, it’s time to fo-
cus our energy on being productive. Reform
doesn’t happen from the top down, and when
we agreed to vote for the man who realized
that, we implicitly promised we’d be there to
help. We’re the ones who have the most to
gain from health care reform, and conversely,
the most to lose from its defeat. In a few short
years, this will be our nation. It’s time we take
hold of our future, and ensure it’s one in which
we want to live.
Mike Johnson ’11 was unanimously
elected president of the Brown
Apathetics. He can be reached at
michael_johnson@brown.edu.
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A cubic zirconium to the Gmail blunder that mixed up the inboxes of a few unfortunate
Brunonians. We missed the first meetings of all those clubs we signed up for at the activities fair,
but we found your Google Alert for “Brown University campus sighting Harry Potter” fascinating,
Ruth.

A diamond to Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Gilad Barnea, who was recently awarded a
$1.3 million grant for “high-risk, high-reward” research. Barnea’s forthcoming publication, “The
neural correlates of professors bringing all their grant money to Vegas,” is sure to be a hit.

Coal to Brown intramural sports organizers, who say the new online registration system, which

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costs nothing to operate, “fits the Brown budget.” A free product “fits the Brown budget” sort of the
way ripped corduroy pants and rusty fixed-gear bikes fit the college student aesthetic.

A diamond to the University for hiring renowned African writer Chinua Achebe, author of the
Pulitzer-winning “Things Fall Apart.” Now all he has to do is write the sequel, “But Then They Turn
c a l e n da r Out OK,” and all those endowment troubles will disappear.

Today, september 18
5 pm — Thanksgiving Disaster Relief
Trip Info Session, Salomon 003
8:30 pm — MHOP Presents: Boubacar
Diabate Live in Concert, Sayles Hall
tomorrow, september 19 Coal to the 10 amateurish research labs found guilty of safety violations this summer by the
Office of Environmental Safety, according to a report. “Open hazardous waste materials”? “Blocked
ALL DAY — Rosh Hashanah egress”? Sounds like the Ratty during shopping period.
7 pm — Sugar Bears Pom Team A diamond to the fact that the University is looking to add “300 to 400 new beds” through ad-
Tryouts, Alumnae Hall Crystal ditional residence hall construction in the next few years. But coal to the fact that it will probably
Room just be designated a swine flu dorm.

Coal to the new policy whereby graduate students from one department can serve as TAs in
another. We see where you’re coming from, but a seminar on “deoxyribo-nuclear proliferation” is
menu just too terrifying.

Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Brussel Sprouts Casserole,
Hot Pastrami Sandwiches, Sausage
and Mushroom Pizza
Dinner — Manicotti Piedmontese,
Marinated Beef, Rice with Peas and
Coriander
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Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Lunch — Chicken Fingers, Vegan
Rice Pilaf, Peas
Dinner — Seafood Jambalaya, Spin-
ach Pie Casserole, Lemon Rice
A diamond to Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar ’87, the Corporation trustee who is now serving as Ruth
Simmons’ personal assistant. We’d say that sounds like a demotion, but there’s always the chance
your sleeve will end up in the corner of a Glamour cover shot.
A cubic zirconium to the team of Brown alums who run a small business making book jackets
to conceal readers’ literary choices. Best of luck, but we have a feeling that the conspicuous reader
population on College Hill will prefer to read their dog-eared copies of “A Heartbreaking Work of
Staggering Genius” without your product.

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20 Camera bag 13 Revolutionary ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
accessory Allen
22 “Carmen,” e.g. 19 Traveler’s haven
23 Quite large 21 Auto mechanic’s
24 In a while job
26 Peruvian 24 Onion relative
worshiper? 25 New Balance rival
30 “... the two shall 26 Falls behind Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman
be __”: “Wedding 27 Maui or Kauai
Song” lyrics 28 Barrier at a zoo
31 “Sweet Caroline” 29 Big name in chips
singer Diamond 32 Chicken __:
32 Krazy of comics deep-fried dish
35 Delighted 33 Wood-shaping
36 Former Alaska tool
Territory capital 34 Greenish blue
38 Baked beans, e.g. 36 Navigators and
39 Collector’s goal Explorers
40 Il __: Mussolini 37 “Cool” rap artist?
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41 Talk show host
Gibbons
42 Knock a
motorcycle
daredevil flat?
45 One you won’t
find in a foxhole?
48 Prepares to shoot STW | Jingtao Huang
49 Bank claims
50 Ready
54 Kid going nuts
with building
blocks?
57 Insolvent S&L
company
58 Roman road
59 Die down
60 Novelist Hunter
61 One and only
62 Hotel
conveniences
63 Archaeology
projects

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1 Austria’s second
largest city
2 San __, Italy
3 Peek-__
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