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Talks begin Faculty committee to

on slave trade
memorial
Brian Mastroianni
Senior Staff Writer
The University’s Public Arts Commit-
tee has begun considering building
a public memorial to the historical
ties of Brown and of Rhode Island
to the slave trade, almost two years
after the University Steering Commit-
tee on Slavery and Justice convened
by President Ruth Simmons recom-
mended one.
The committee is set to discuss
ideas for the nature and placement
of a memorial at a meeting next
month, said committee member Jo-
Ann Conklin, director of the David
Winton Bell Gallery.
“The memorial is in recognition
of a period in our history that, for
many, is very painful,” said Artemis
Joukowsky ’55 P’87, chancellor emeri-
tus and chair of the committee. Jou-
kowsky said the project represented
a brave undertaking for the Univer-
sity and would “make us one of the
review tenure policies
By Nicole Friedman
Senior Staf f Writer
A newly formed committee will
review the University’s tenure and
faculty development policies after
an outside monitor called atten-
tion to those areas, according to
an e-mail Provost David Kertzer
’69 P’95 P’98 sent to faculty Thurs-
day afternoon.
When the University was re-
accredited in the spring by the
New England Association of
Schools and Colleges, the evalua-
tion committee identified aspects
of Brown’s tenure processes as
an area of concern, Kertzer said.
The committee, comprised of ad-
ministrators at peer institutions,
noted in particular that Brown
awarded tenure to professors at
Herald File Photo a ver y high rate.
Wide receiver Buddy Farnham ’10 and the football team look to take In response, the Academic
down Harvard for the second straight year tonight.
Affairs Committee of the Corpo-
For rival Harvard, Brown ration asked the administration
to form a faculty committee “to
dif ferent ways of dealing with
tenure” among universities.
“One of the challenges the
committee will have is to tr y to
get as good data as we can to
see whether the comment by the
NEASC seems to be borne out by
evidence,” Kertzer said.
Tenure clock too short?
The ad hoc committee, which
plans to issue recommendations
in the spring, will consider three
central issues, Kertzer said. Its
members will first examine “the
set of issues around our tenure
processes and whether they
are as strong as they could and
should be,” Kertzer said.
Kertzer will chair the commit-
tee, which includes eight faculty
members. Dean of the Faculty
Rajiv Vohra P’07 and Dean of
Medicine and Biological Sciences
Edward Wing will ser ve as ex
officio members, according to
the e-mail.

game is ‘just another one’

few in the country to have such a
memorial.”
So far, plans for the project —
which lacks a specific deadline — have
consisted of informal brainstorming
among committee members.
Joukowsky said having a memo-
rial near the planned Alpert Medical
School complex in downtown’s Jew-
elry District is “an especially exciting
idea.”
“The memorial could somehow be
on or near the bridge connecting our
campus to the new proposed medi-
cal school area,” he said, noting that
the committee will consider several
ideas, including installing a plaque in
memory of the slave trade.
If placed near the bridge, Conklin
said the installation would remind
people of the slave trade given that
look at whether there is any real Since tenure is officially grant-
basis for concern,” Kertzer told ed by the Corporation, “they obvi-
The Herald. ously want to feel confident that
By Dan Alexander of the Ivy championships. Both “Certainly it is the impression we have the strongest methods
Senior Staf f Writer teams went 6-1 in the Ivy League of this committee that Brown has of ensuring the highest quality of
last fall. The only league team that historically granted tenure to a faculty at Brown,” Kertzer said.
Harvard and Brown, the defend- defeated Har vard last year was higher proportion of the people But a high tenure rate is not
ing Ivy football co- Brown. who enter into the tenure track necessarily a negative thing, he
champions, will meet sports It is not surprising, positions than at least most” of its added.
each other at 7 p.m. then, that Brown-Har- peer institutions, he said. On the one hand, the Univer-
tonight under the lights of Har- vard is a rivalry game. At least, it But actual data are hard to sity should reserve its “relatively
vard Stadium. is for Brown. come by, he added, since tenure few” tenured positions for “the
In the last five seasons, the negotiations are often not made
teams have had a share in four continued on page 2 public, and there are “a million continued on page 3
Newark mayor: Individuals can change cities Where do
the magic
By Caitlin Trujillo
Staff Writer

“slave memorials are usually on a
waterfront” since “the people were
brought here on ships.”
Other members of the committee
include Professor of Visual Arts Rich-
ard Fishman, Professor of History of
Art and Architecture Dietrich Neu-
mann, Senior Lecturer in American
Civilization and University Curator
Robert Emlen and Susan Freedman
’82, president of the New York-based
Public Art Fund.
Though the exact cost of a memo-
rial remains to be determined, Conk-
lin said it would be funded by Sim-
mons’ discretionary fund, reserved
for uses deemed especially appropri-
ate by the president’s office.
The memorial will also recognize
the state’s connection to slavery,
Conklin said, noting that it is impor-
tant to open a broader discussion
continued on page 3
inside
Local action is the key ingredient
to affect urban change, Newark,
N.J., Mayor Cory Booker told a
Salomon 101 audience Thursday
that included Providence’s own
mayor, David Cicilline ’83.
Booker, whose reforms since
his election in 2006 have improved
conditions in one of the country’s
most violent cities, delivered the
annual Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial
Lecture, sponsored by the Taub-
man Center for Public Policy.
“I think every person in this
room has the ability to make a
profound impact on the world,”
Booker said.
Quoting figures from Shake-
speare to Chris Rock, Booker’s
45-minute address described his
experiences trying to revitalize
the crime-ridden city and what
he learned about the power of
bars go?
Why pigs love
your dinner scraps
By Gaurie Tilak
Staf f Writer
Got too much on your plate? Brown
Dining Services does, too — that’s
why it donated 737 pounds of baked
Frederic Lu / Herald
Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., urged students to become active
in their communities, calling democracy a “full-contact” sport. FEATURE
individuals to improve their com- cans too often let an inability to goods to local charities last year
munities. do everything undermine their alone.
Improving the conditions in willingness to do anything, Booker BuDS donates usable leftovers
American cities will ultimately said. to a number of charities and sends
benefit the nation as a whole, Booker faced a number of “plate waste” — table scraps from
Booker said, imploring all audi- hurdles when he first sought to the Sharpe Refector y and the
ence members not to be deterred
by obstacles and setbacks. Ameri- continued on page 4 continued on page 3

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C ampus N EWS “(Brown is) always extremely highly motivated to play us.”
— Tim Murphy, Harvard head football coach

Former world leaders see

hopefulness in new age
By Sarah Julian
Staf f Writer
Two of Brown’s world-leaders-in-
residence, former Chilean Presi-
dent Ricardo Lagos and former
Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusen-
bauer, seemed to offer a hopeful
view of current geopolitical affairs
at a forum Thursday morning at
the Watson Institute for Interna-
tional Studies.
Lagos, a professor-at-large at
Watson, pointed to the fall of the
Berlin Wall as the beginning of a
new era in which cooperation be-
tween nations forms a cornerstone
of foreign policy.
Gusenbauer, a visiting profes-
sor of international studies, said
for his part that “the 21st century
begins now” — as opposed to nine
years ago — because only now do
nations have a uniform progressive
international agenda and a willing-
ness to fully address matters such
as global warming, human rights
and nuclear proliferation.
Indeed, if there was one thing
in common between the two speak-
ers, as one questioner pointed out,
both had very hopeful views of the
near future. The lectures, jointly
titled “The Obama Age and Pro-
gressive New Policy for a Post-
Crisis World,” gave both speakers
a chance to expound their ideas
about the meaning of an “Obama
Age.”
Lagos praised Obama for be-
ing the first American president to
chair a meeting of the UN Security
Council, saying the decision com-
municates the message, “I believe
in the UN,” something he said had
gone unsaid during President
George W. Bush’s administra-
sudoku
tion. Generally complimentary of
the president, he called Obama’s
June speech in Cairo a “wonder-
ful” address that “embraced” the
Muslim world.
Gusenbauer focused less on
Obama and more on the world
community as a whole, which
he said was finally addressing
“the most ardent political and the
most ardent social and economic
issues.”
One of those issues, he said, is
nuclear nonproliferation, a subject
about which he seemed hopeful
— especially with regard to Iran,
where he said an “out of touch”
President Mahmoud Ahmedine-
jad was making his “last expres-
sions.”
But Gusenbauer also warned
of the danger of thinking that
the economic crisis was over. He
warned that governments might
be deterred from continuing
much-needed stimulus packages
by the prospect of assuming huge
amounts of debt.
Lagos emphasized the need for
dialogue in international relations.
He said Obama does not want to
police the world and noted that
engaging in discourse and shar-
ing the burden to fight common
problems are essential. He said the
United States would expect inter-
national cooperation on a number
of issues, and gave the example
of the Kosovo conflict as a time
when European nations could have
helped the United States.
Laura Kammel ’12, who attend-
ed the panel discussion, said the
two leaders’ talks seemed focused
on “keeping people going on the
right path as we start to head out
of crisis.”
With four All-Ivy linemen playing, coaches for Brown and Harvard expect an especially physical game.
Bears ready to line up at Harvard
continued from page 1
“There would be nothing bet-
ter than to go up to their place and
beat them there,” said wide receiver
Bobby Sewall ’10.
It’s likely that the night game
will be in front of one of the big-
gest crowds Har vard Stadium
will host all season, according to
Har vard Head Coach Tim Mur-
phy. In preparation for the night
atmosphere, Brown practiced at 7
p.m. on Monday, instead of taking
its usual Monday day-off.
Murphy said he doesn’t see the
Brown game any differently from
other games. The importance of it,
for Murphy, comes from it being
the league-opener.
Brown “is a team that’s always
extremely highly motivated to play
us,” Murphy said. “But it doesn’t
matter who you open with in our
league, you know, it’s a big game.
And this is just another one.”
Murphy said many teams, inside
and outside the Ivy League, look at
Harvard as their rival. But he said
his team is used to playing against
teams that consider Harvard to be
their rival. And his veteran players
will expect a game with the inten-
sity of a rivalry game.
“It is something that you have
to constantly remind your team
about,” Murphy said. “The upper-
classmen, they get it. … But some
of the young guys are surprised by
the intensity of how teams play us,
no matter what the situation.”
Harvard won’t face what Mur-
phy sees as its biggest rival until
the last week of the season.
“Our big rival obviously is Yale,”
he said. “Traditionally, Princeton,
as well.”
Sewall said if Harvard doesn’t
think of Brown as its rival now,
“they’re about to see that maybe
they should consider differently.”
The Matchup
The Bears and Crimson share
more in common than last just last
year’s Ivy championship trophy.
They are both coming off close
SPORTS PREVIEW
losses that, according to Brown
Head Coach Phil Estes, could have
gone either way.
In last week’s loss to Holy Cross,
Harvard’s offense was completely
balanced in its attack — passing 37
times and rushing 37 times. But ac-
cording to Murphy, his team is still
a “pass first, run second” team.
Against a Brown team that was
fourth in the nation in rush defense
last year, but last in the Ivy League
in pass defense, the Crimson might
look to the air often tonight. But
Estes said his defense can’t focus
on the pass too much.
“You can’t just limit yourself on
trying to contain the quarterback,
because they can run the football
as well,” Estes said.
The Bears went to the air 45
times against Stony Brook and kept
it on the ground 32 times. But Estes
said Brown, like Harvard, has weap-
Herald File Photo
ons at quarterback and running
back, so defenses can’t concentrate
on just one too much.
Both teams are led by rookie
starting quarterbacks trying to fill
big cleats. Kyle Newhall-Caballero
’11 took over Brown’s huddle after
2008 second team All-Ivy quarter-
back Michael Dougherty ’09 gradu-
ated. In his first collegiate game
making a pass, Newhall-Caballero
was 29 of 45 passing for 267 yards,
three touchdowns and two intercep-
tions in last week’s 21-20 loss.
Harvard’s Collier Winters made
his starting debut under center af-
ter the departure of last year’s Ivy
League Player of the Year, Chris
Pizotti. In his first outing, Winters
was 22 of 37 passing for 195 yards
and two touchdowns.
The battle in the trenches in
front of Winters will feature four
2008 All-Ivy linemen, including two
players coaches call NFL prospects,
defensive tackle David Howard ’09.5
of Brown and left tackle James Wil-
liams of Harvard.
“I guarantee you this: We won’t
see a better defensive front than
Brown has this year,” Murphy
said. “Dave Howard and James
Develin … are probably two of the
three best linemen in the entire
league.”
Both Murphy and Estes compli-
ment each others’ teams often when
they speak of tonight’s matchup.
“They play us hard,” Murphy
said of Estes’ team. “They play us
down and dirty right down until
the last snap.”

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Friday, September 25, 2009
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Ratty dishes out leftovers to
pig farm, local soup kitchens
continued from page 1
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall — and
other unusable leftovers to a local
pig farm, BuDS Director of Admin-
istration Ann Hoffman wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald.
According to Hof fman, the
scraps — along with extra food from
the serving lines, which is not con-
sidered safe for human consumption
— and trimmings from food prepa-
ration are used as animal feed.
While BuDS regularly throws
its table scraps to the same farm’s
pigs, it also donates to local soup
kitchens.
Several local soup kitchens re-
ceive bakery products that are left
unserved or unsold at the end of
the day, said Elizabeth Mersereau,
production manager and head of
the BuDS bakeshop, who personally
visits the Providence Rescue Mis-
sion on her way home from work
and delivers leftover food.
Following Mersereau’s example,
Alicia Iracks, a bakeshop employee,
said she began taking food to Provi-
dence’s Crossroads Family Center
more than a year ago. Iracks said
she usually visits the center once or
twice a week to deliver food, which
ranges from a dozen loaves of bread
to cakes, pastries and muffins.
During the holidays, when
there is an especially high volume
of unused food, she said she often
brings food to other centers op-
erated by Crossroads, the state’s
largest provider of services for the
homeless.
The tradition of donating food to
Crossroads started as a serendipi-
tous act of kindness, Iracks said.
One day, the bakeshop had a lot
of leftovers, but Mersereau wasn’t
available to make her usual trip to
the Rescue Mission.
“We called a lot of shelters and
Crossroads picked up,” said Iracks,
who has been taking food to the
center ever since.
Mary House, a local food pantry,
is another organization that makes
sure the Blue Room’s extra muffins
don’t go to waste. Janice Luongo,
U. may seek community
input on memorial
continued from page 1
about the historical slave trade with
local residents.
“It would be great to have forums
and discussions for the community,”
she said. “We will want a lot of input
from all different groups as to how
the memorial will be presented.”
Conklin and Joukowsky said that
even though a plan for the memorial
might be agreed on in the near future,
the question of its location will still
remain.
“We don’t have that much space
on our main campus,” Conklin said.
Marisa Quinn, vice president for
public affairs and University relations,
said the committee will eventually
make its recommendations to the
Corporation’s Committee on Facili-
executive director of the pantry, said
her organization typically receives
food from Brown around Thanksgiv-
ing and Christmas.
Though the donations she re-
ceives from the University are in-
frequent and inconsistent, she said
they are of high quality and greatly
appreciated.
“Oh my God — it’s like, amaz-
ing,” she said of the donated food.
BuDS doesn’t only support in-
dividual charities in Providence.
It also donates large volumes of
unused ingredients to the Rhode
Island Food Bank before closing
the bakeshop for winter break,
Mersereau said. A lot of fresh food
cannot stay in storage for the entire
break, she said, so BuDS sends it to
the Food Bank to be resold to soup
kitchens and charities at a heavily
discounted rate.
“I don’t want to send some-
thing that I wouldn’t eat myself,”
Mersereau said.
People outside of BuDS have also
realized that unused magic bars de-
serve a better fate than being tossed
in a dumpster. Almost two years
ago, Annajane Yolken ’11 started an
organized delivery of leftover food
from the University’s eateries to the
City Meal Site, a soup kitchen run
by homeless people at the Cathedral
of St. John in Providence.
Yolken said she came up with
the idea after volunteering at a soup
kitchen near her home in Maryland.
She noticed other volunteers would
bring in food from grocery stores
that would other wise have been
thrown away.
“It’s really surprising how much
food would be thrown away if it
weren’t donated,” she said.
Yolken then began collecting
food from local restaurants and
grocery stores near her home and
decided to create a similar arrange-
ment upon returning to school.
Last year, the student group
Housing Opportunities for People
Everywhere took over the program
started by Yolken and organized
weekly deliveries to the City Meal
Site, Yolken said.
“It would be
great to have
forums and
discussions for
the community”
Jo-Ann Conklin,
director of the David
Winton Bell Gallery
ties and Design.
“Clearly, Brown, the city and the
state’s history with slavery and the
Atlantic slave trade has been mean-
ingful,” Quinn said. “It is important
to our culture and who we are to con-
stantly re-examine this past.”
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“We don’t have that much space on our main campus.”
— Jo-Ann Conklin, Public Art Committee member, on a slave trade memorial
Construction of SciLi resource center underway
By Ana Alvarez
Contributing Writer
Construction began this week
on a new advising and tutoring
resource center on the third floor
of the Sciences Librar y, the cre-
ation of which was recommended
in 2007 by the Undergraduate
Science Education Committee
to better support students taking
science and math classes.
Barbara Schulz, the University
Librar y’s head of facilities and
business ser vices, said the space
was emptied and closed early this
summer. Though there is no fixed
date of completion, she said con-
struction could be completed as
early as Januar y.
David Targan, associate dean
of the College for science edu-
cation, said one of the center’s
main features will be a central
area for large study sessions led
by professors. The space, which
will include seven closed rooms
with smar tboards, can also be
employed as a meeting place for
smaller study groups.
U. awaits tenure committee’s review
continued from page 1
intellectual leaders in their field,
nationally and internationally,”
he said. But on the other hand,
if junior faculty members know
they have little chance of earn-
ing a tenured position, they “don’t
necessarily have a long-term inter-
est in the institution.”
The committee’s second task
is to compare the University’s ten-
ure clock — the length of time
between when a professor is hired
and when the University must de-
cide whether to grant tenure — to
those of peer institutions. Because
faculty members in the Division of
Biology and Medicine in particu-
lar have raised concerns that the
tenure clock is too short, the com-
mittee will also consider whether
Brown needs a uniform tenure
clock or whether the timeline
could var y among departments,
according to Kertzer’s e-mail to
faculty.
The University currently fol-
lows the American Association
of University Professors’ guide-
lines for tenure, which dictate
that tenure-track faculty should
not “ser ve for more than seven
years without tenure,” Kertzer
said. The guideline aims to en-
sure that faculty will not be kept
in limbo indefinitely about their
tenure prospects.
But because faculty members
must be warned in their sixth year
if they will not receive tenure,
the guidelines “really mean you
only have about five years … to
be evaluated,” Kertzer said. For
a professor in the biological sci-
ences, it can be difficult to obtain
external funding, establish a labo-
ratory and earn a reputation as “a
significant scholar in their field” in
just five years, Kertzer said.
But outside of some BioMed
Signs announce asbestos removal from the third floor of the Sciences
Library in preparation for a new advising and group-study space.
The front will feature a recep-
tion area staffed by a new science
program coordinator, said Harri-
ette Hemmasi, Joukowsky Family
University Librarian. A large open
space near the front of the center
will be able to host lectures held
by professors, Targan said.
Other design features of the
center include televisions — one
of which will broadcast a live feed
from NASA — individual study
departments, most faculty mem-
bers oppose a longer tenure clock,
Kertzer said. Professors without
tenure are more likely to leave
the University for the stability of a
tenured position at another institu-
tion. Many faculty members also
arrive at Brown with years of post-
doctoral work under their belts
and would not want to wait even
longer than they currently do to
be granted tenure, he added.
The committee will also exam-
ine the support system for junior
faculty and seek out areas in which
the University can improve.
In particular, Kertzer’s e-mail
said, the committee will evaluate
research suppor t, leave-taking
policies and teaching expectations
for junior faculty, drawing com-
parisons with peer institutions.
Unlike changes to the actual
tenure-granting process, which
would have to be approved by
the Corporation, adjustments
to faculty development policies
can probably be implemented
through administrative action
alone, Kertzer said.
“Personally I think this is a
healthy exercise for us to look
at our processes and resources
for supporting junior faculty,” he
said. “Regardless of NEASC, it’s
not a bad idea for us to be doing
this.”
Seeking input
The tenure committee is set to
convene for the first time “within
the next couple of weeks” and will
meet every few weeks thereafter,
Kertzer said. When asking the
Faculty Executive Committee to
recommend professors to ser ve
on the committee, he requested
faculty who are both “clearly
viewed as nationally prominent
scholars” and “excellent teachers
at Brown,” he said.
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Kim Perley / Herald
cubicles, a kitchenette and dia-
grams and pictures of different
scientific processes.
As construction begins, work-
ers are removing asbestos from
the third-floor area. Though some
students were alarmed by signage
announcing the asbestos work,
Hemmasi said the removal was
“ver y contained.”
continued on page 4
Members of the
ad hoc committee
to review Brown’s
tenure practices
• David Kertzer, provost
(chair)
• Susan Alcock,
Joukowsky Institute and
classics
• Sheila Blumstein,
cognitive and linguistic
sciences
• Barry Connors,
neuroscience
• Sharon Krause,
political science
• Charles Larmore,
philosophy
• Arto Nurmikko,
engineering
• Tricia Rose, Africana
studies
• Andy Van Dam,
computer science
Ex officio members:
• Rajiv Vohra, dean of the
faculty
• Edward Wing, dean of
biology and medicine
To solicit widespread faculty
input, the committee will meet
with faculty governance bodies
and department chairs. It will also
host an open forum for faculty
members to ask questions and
voice comments, suggestions and
concerns.
The committee hopes to com-
plete its work “sometime next
semester,” Kertzer said. Its mem-
bers will produce a report with
recommendations, which will be
sent to the full faculty for consid-
eration.
If any changes are recommend-
ed and approved, they could be
implemented as early as the next
academic year.
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New resource center to
support science students
continued from page 3
The abatement began Mon-
day, Schulz said, adding that it
“should be done by the end of
the week.”
The need for better academic
support for students in science
classes, which the science edu-
cation committee identified, was
later endorsed by the Task Force
on Undergraduate Education in
its final report last fall.
In a summar y of its recom-
mendations, the task force wrote
that the center could “bring to-
gether, under one roof, Brown’s
many departmentally based peer-
advising and tutoring networks
in math and science, while also
enhancing opportunities for stu-
dents to work with faculty on re-
search projects and community
outreach activities.”
The center was “designed
to encourage people to come,”
Hemmasi said. It was important
that the center have “a variety
of spaces, and also spaces that
would be flexible,” she said.
In addition to the full-time
staf fer, professors will ser ve
shifts in the third-floor area to
provide students with “coaching
and teaching as well as advising,”
Hemmasi said. Their jobs will
include ever ything from help-
ing students with homework to
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advising them as to how to fund
research projects.
Unlike other study centers,
like the SciLi’s Friedman Study
Center, the new resource center
will focus especially on science
and give students interested in
science a space to interact, Tar-
gan said.
The center will also extend
the resources of several cam-
pus programs aimed at helping
science students achieve their
goals, such as the Math Resource
Center and the Women in Sci-
ence and Engineering program,
Targan said.
Blake Monroe ’13, who is con-
centrating in chemical physics,
said he had heard of the proj-
ect deans had planned but had
“no idea what they are hoping
to do.”
Monroe said he was ver y re-
ceptive to the idea of the small
group-study rooms in particular,
adding that it would be nice to
have a place “where you could go
and talk without being afraid of
disrupting people around you.”
Lu Zeng ’12, an applied mathe-
matics and economics concentra-
tor, agreed that the SciLi would
benefit from more such spaces.
“Especially for science and math
you need medium-volume spaces
where you can kind of argue over
a problem,” she said.
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Newark mayor on how to effect change
continued from page 1
effect change in Newark, he said.
He moved to the city while enrolled
at Yale Law School in hopes of be-
coming a community organizer, he
said.
He faced pessimism when he first
entered politics. The major concern
most Newark residents had was the
high crime rate, and people advised
him not to measure his success as a
city councilman or mayor in terms
of the crime rate, he said.
But Booker sought places where
improvements could be made and
strove to open up communication
within the community. He investi-
gated the police department and
found it operated “like an episode
of ‘Barney Miller,’” with outdated
technology.
He also noticed that more than
70 percent of police officers worked
day shifts even though most crime
happened at night. He worked to
remind the night-shift officers of
their importance. Booker even in-
sisted upon accompanying officers
on their shifts, recalling one such
trip that ended with the suspects
apprehended and the mayor crawl-
ing on the ground, searching for the
drugs they had scattered.
Booker said fixing problems re-
quired taking action in ways that had
never been tried before and viewed
such unorthodox measures as suc-
cessful. Recent statistics indicate that
shootings have declined 42 percent
on his watch, and the murder rate
“Democracy is not a spectator sport.”
— Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, N.J.
has fallen by two-thirds, according
to Booker.
He acknowledged that he expe-
rienced “dark days” in his efforts
to improve Newark, particularly as
a councilman. Fed up with the ap-
parent stagnation, Booker pitched
a tent in a public area and vowed to
sleep there and fast until matters
started to improve.
Even this extreme step, though,
proved to have a positive effect —
the next day, correctional officers
joined him in his endeavor, and min-
isters joined him later still. Dozens of
citizens came to investigate the situ-
ation, and news quickly spread as
more people became curious about
what he was doing. Together they
all fasted and prayed, which Booker
said was the moment in his life dur-
ing which he felt the strongest, de-
spite being racked with hunger.
As people held hands and prayed
in multiple languages, Booker said,
he saw the group was united for a
common hope. “I felt like I was hear-
ing the voices of my ancestors,”
Booker said.
“Whenever I hit a dead end, or a
cliff, I find people who help me move
forward,” he said later.
Booker answered audience mem-
bers’ questions after he finished his
speech. Asked if he was looking to
advance further in politics, Booker
stressed that he viewed aiding the
Newark community as his primary
objective at the moment.
“Life is about purpose, not posi-
tion,” he said.
Friday, September 25, 2009
The same questioner asked for
his thoughts on former President
Jimmy Carter’s recent statement
that much of the criticism current-
ly being leveled against President
Obama was racially motivated.
Booker said he respected Carter,
but did not view the debate over
the role of racism in assessments
of Obama’s presidency as produc-
tive in its current form. Though
racism is still a societal problem,
he said, it is efforts like educating
Newark’s children — 85 percent of
whom are black or Latino accord-
ing to Booker — that best help to
combat prejudice.
In response to another question,
Booker said his long-term plans for
education in Newark include expand-
ing charter schools and urban schol-
arships. Asked about the role of ar ts
in urban revitalization, Booker
said he approved of establish-
ing more cultural institutions —
such as ar t galleries — to create
a more vibrant atmosphere in
local neighborhoods.
For the bulk of his appearance,
however, Booker stressed grassroots
participation as the vital component
of change.
Earlier, during his lecture, Book-
er urged the room to consider wis-
dom he said his mother imparted to
him: that the makers of history were
ordinary people who took action and
accomplished extraordinary feats.
“Democracy is not a spectator
sport,” he said. “It’s a full-contact,
participatory endeavor.”
 Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald
weanin g fro m the bottle
Members of “Beyond the Bottle” held a Water Carnival yesterday to raise awareness of the environmental
consequences of using disposable water bottles. Students could answer trivia questions, play bottle ring
toss, or “water pong” (below).
Dramatic possibilities of ‘Repeat after me’
By Rosalind Schonwald
Arts & Culture Editor
A detached voice repeats phrases
in English and Hungarian. Actors
have fits of emotion and take off
their clothes; it’s not quite clear why.
This is the fictional universe of Ma-
ria Irene Fornes’ “The Danube” as
directed by Jessica Goldschmidt ’10,
presented this weekend at Produc-
tion Workshop.
Viewers can always expect to see
something edgy in PW’s black box
theater, but “The Danube,” staging a
discomfiting and intellectually chal-
lenging disintegration of reality,
pushes that edge even further in a
meticulously imagined production.
Goldschmidt has managed to cre-
ate a rendering of the play that is
both spare and complex. The simple
set — a slanted platform with a stair
winding round the side — becomes
a nuanced tool in the actors’ skilled
grasp.
“The Danube” takes place in
Hungary on the cusp of World War
II, in a Budapest divided by the Dan-
ube River. The first scene starts in
Kim Perley / Herald
complete darkness. Then, four lights
snap on, illuminating the four actors,
who stand stiffly and speak with a
detached automatism that pervades
the rest of the play. The three men
wear suits, and the woman is in a
simple dress, her hair pulled back in
an austere bun. They march roboti-
cally to showtune music. Something
is not right.
The next scene begins with au-
dio from an intrusive Hungarian-
language instruction tape (voiced by
continued on page 6
Friday, September 25, 2009 | Page 5
BTV mini-series to
debut this weekend
By Jeremy Jacob
Staf f Writer
“The Circle,” a new mini-series
created for Brown Television, is
set to premiere Saturday at the
Cable Car Cinema and Cafe. The
show’s first three episodes, which
were directed by Daniel Byers ’08,
feature Brown students and alums,
as well as Rhode Island School of
Design students and professional
actors.
The mini-series is set in a post-
apocalyptic world in which dark
forces, known as “wickeds,” are
able to transform their victims,
zombie-style, into new wickeds,
Byers said. In his view of the
future of earth, small pockets of
humanity remain. Each commu-
nity — including Cronn Univer-
sity, where the series takes place
— is protected by a supernatural
force known as “the weird.” The
story follows Sebille, an orphaned
child from the borderlands where
factions of soldiers in gas masks
fight the evil wickeds. Upon ar-
rival at Cronn, Sebille finds that
something is not quite right with
the university. As wickeds start to
break into the eponymous Circle
that protects the school, students
feared to have been infected by
them are taken away. But suspi-
cion mounts that these removals
are related to a school administra-
tion plot.
Byers said the idea for “The
Circle” came to him while he was
still an undergraduate. He wanted
to work on a large-scale project
that would bring together the
many people he had met, includ-
ing actors, artists, set designers
and other filmmakers. Byers said
he only had enough time to make
shorter films while at Brown, due
to the difficulty of coordinating his
busy schedule with those of others
involved in the various projects.
During last spring break, Byers
got together with Harry Aspinwall
’11 and Alex Feldman ’10 to start
writing the script for the first three
episodes. Before that, in mid-Feb-
ruary, Feldman said, he and By-
ers started to work on a four-page
story arc of the series, in which
they bounced initial ideas for the
story off each other. Feldman has
continued to be involved with the
series and will be delivering a
speech during the premiere.
The project started with the
writing process, then moved to
casting last March once the cre-
ative team felt it knew where the
work was going, Byers said.
Byers and the others put up
eye-catching posters to announce
the auditions, which sparked much
interest in the project.
“It’s important to grab people’s
attention visually with something
like this, even if they don’t really
know what they’re getting into,
to be magnetized from the start,”
Byers said.
They also advertised on sev-
eral professional actors’ listservs
in New England and the Mid-
Atlantic. Byers was surprised by
the amount of adult interest in
the audition — one of their lead
adult actors, Eric Eastman, drove
two hours from Connecticut just
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A rts & C ulture
Students signed pledges and sported T-shirts as part of the University’s first Consent Day on Thursday.
Emotions abound in PW production
continued from page 5
Anita Badejo ’12). Mr. Sandor (Ned
Riseley ’12), an avuncular, middle-
aged Hungarian man, sits at a table
repeating the words. American ex-
Y es , we can !
patriate Paul Green (Daniel Gonon
’12) appears, and their conversation
continues, duplicating the language
tape that plays throughout. When
Eve (Lily Spottiswoode ’09) arrives
onstage, it’s clear, despite her unani-
mated demeanor, that she and Paul
have immediately hit it off.
Through the first few scenes, the
adherence to the language tape has
the feeling of an awkward parody,
deployed for comedic effect. But
then there’s a sharp turn, where
language and emotion start to part
ways. Paul asks a nervous Eve out to
a cafe, their first date. She adopts a
jittery tone, responding with rushed
descriptions of Budapest’s geogra-
phy. This one moment could be dis-
missed as a nervous girl’s response,
but the rest of the play is plagued by
an impersonal dialogue, slave to the
narration of the Hungarian instruc-
‘Circle’ features Brown,
Providence buildings
continued from page 5
to try out.
Byers and his team began film-
ing in April, and they were able to
get most of the shooting done be-
fore the end of last semester, using
the summer to edit the footage, as
well as to add special effects. Most
of the filming was done at Brown,
Byers said, with a focus on places
“that aren’t seen by most Brown
students on a regular basis,” like
the inside of the John Carter Brown
Library. They also staged scenes
in some abandoned buildings in
downtown Providence and at the
so-called “Rhode Island Desert”
in West Greenwich, and arid area
about two miles in diameter.
There were “aspects of produc-
tion that didn’t come together until
very late,” Byers said. “We were
still filming some scenes until a
few weeks ago, a couple filler shots
now.”
So far, Byers and others work-
ing on the project have financed it
Friday, September 25, 2009
Kim Perley / Herald
tion tape. Emotions pour out, raw
and without the frame of a coherent
narrative. Eve and Paul fall into in-
explicable bouts of illness and mad-
ness, while Mr. Sandor and other
characters (all played by Sam Alper
’11) become increasingly absurdist
in this abstract world.
Goldschmidt said she first dis-
covered the text of “The Danube”
in a playwriting class and felt drawn
in by a connection with the play’s
emotional contours and setting. She
liked that it incorporated “performing
dancing, performing stereotypes.”
Goldschmidt studied abroad in
Budapest during the fall of her ju-
nior year and found the city “won-
derful, confusing, full of grime and
gorgeousness.”
That exact combination of quali-
ties describes “The Danube” as
well.
themselves, but they’re hoping to
receive some subsidiary funding.
They have submitted the project
to the Rhode Island State Council
of the Arts — which may retro-
actively finance the shooting that
has already taken place — and to
Brown’s Creative Arts Council.
As for when “The Circle” may be
coming to BTV, producer Sam Eil-
ertson ’12 said the last two episodes
of the series still have to be shot be-
fore the series can air, which could
take anything from a few weeks to
a few months.
Byers said he has always want-
ed the project to remain student-
focused and be tied as closely to
Brown as possible.
“In a way its about Brown,” he
said. “It’s about this fictional univer-
sity that is Brown.”
“The Circle” premieres at the
Cable Car Cinema and Cafe (204
S. Main St.) Sat., Sept. 26 at 11:30
p.m., with a second screening Mon.,
Sept. 28 at 9:30 p.m.
World & Nation
The Brown Daily Herald
Amber Oberg, center, helps daughter Megan, 12, with her homework while son, Adam, 8, plays in the back-
ground at their home in the Citrus Heights community of Sacramento, Calif. Oberg left the U.S. Army after
eight years of active duty and went back to school after a personal bankruptcy and the loss of her home to
foreclosure.
New GI Bill, same old delays
By David Zucchino
Los Angeles Times
When Amber Oberg left the U.S.
Army after eight years of active duty,
her timing seemed perfect. Congress
was creating a Post-9/11 GI Bill, with
generous payments for veterans seek-
ing higher education.
But a month into her first semes-
ter at the University of California,
Davis, Oberg has yet to receive her
tuition, housing and book money
from the Department of Veterans
Affairs.
“I didn’t expect to get out of the
military and then have to wait and
wait for the education money that
was promised me,” said Oberg, a
single mother of two. She said she
went back to school after a personal
bankruptcy and the loss of her home
to foreclosure.
Many veterans of the conflicts
in Iraq and Afghanistan are strug-
gling to make ends meet because
of delayed education payments,
according to veterans groups. But
VA officials said they are moving as
quickly as possible to process a flood
of last-minute applications under a
complex, two-step process required
by the law.
Some veterans have had to get
part-time jobs or borrow money
from family and friends, said Ryan
Gallucci of AMVETS, an advocacy
organization. A few have reported
dropping out of school due to a lack
of cash, Gallucci said. In cases where
schools were not willing to wait, some
veterans have had to use non-GI bill
loans and scholarships to pay their
tuition.
Most colleges have allowed veter-
ans to attend classes while they await
the government payments they’re
due. But without housing money, vet-
erans can’t cover basics like rent and
food. And many cannot afford to pay
for books without those stipends.
“Schools may be willing to wait
for tuition payments, but creditors
and landlords don’t have a deal with
the government. They want their
money now,” said Isaac Pacheco, an
AMVETS employee and former Ma-
rine who is attending graduate school
at Georgetown University under the
latest GI Bill.
Veterans were eligible to apply
for the education assistance begin-
ning May 1, but most waited until
late summer to file, according to
the VA.
After receiving the proper paper-
work, the government must certify
that a veteran qualifies for the pro-
gram based on his or her military
service. Payments cannot go out,
however, until the school certifies
that the veteran has been approved
for enrollment. Because of state bud-
get cycles, most schools could not do
that until mid-August.
From that point, it takes an aver-
age of 35 days to process and send
payments, said Keith Wilson, the VA’s
director of educational services. A
recorded VA phone message tells vet-
erans to expect payments six to eight
weeks after they are certified.
P.W. Dunne, a VA undersecretary,
has written schools to thank those
that have kept veterans enrolled
while awaiting late tuition payments.
“The learning curve has been steep
for us all,” Dunne wrote.
About 24,500 veterans have been
approved for enrollment at colleges
this year under the Post-9/11 GI Bill.
The VA says it has processed about
11,500 payments so far. Wilson said
he did not know how many veter-
ans had received tuition and book
stipends.
The bill covers veterans who have
served since Sept. 11, 2001. It was
signed into law by President George
W. Bush in June 2008 but did not take
effect until Aug. 1 of this year.
Previous GI bills pay a flat rate.
The new bill provides var ying
amounts for tuition, fees, housing
and books — based on a veteran’s
service, the university and other
factors.
“It’s a great new program, but it
doesn’t do us much good if they don’t
provide the benefits,” said Robert
Barker, 35, a Navy veteran attending
Rhode Island College who said he
has not received tuition, housing or
book money.
Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times
Book stipends pay up to $1,000
per academic year. Housing pay-
ments range from about $800 a
month to $2,700 a month.
Because housing payments is-
sued at the end of the month are in-
tended to cover the previous month’s
costs, veterans are not due money for
September housing costs until Oct.
1. Wilson said he could not predict
how many veterans would receive
those payments.
Mike DeVaughn, who served five
years in the Army, including a tour
in Iraq, said his parents had to pay
for his books at Anne Arundel Com-
munity College in Maryland because
he has not received his stipend. And
since he is awaiting his housing pay-
ment, he is living at home.
“I need that payment,” he said.
“There’s no way on Earth I can af-
ford to live in an apartment on my
own.”
Pacheco, an Iraq veteran, said
Georgetown has received his tuition
money, but only because he was one
of about 30 veterans who applied in
May under a VA pilot program. Even
so, he’s still awaiting payments for
living expenses and books.
“If I’m the test case to make sure
they get this right, well, they haven’t,”
Pacheco said.
At UC Davis, Oberg, 34, said she
doesn’t know how long she and her
children can remain in her foreclosed
home while she pursues a double
major in psychology and sociology.
She said she desperately needs the
$1,736 monthly housing payment to
make ends meet.
Oberg said she enrolled in early
August but did not receive a prorated
housing payment as expected on
Sept. 1 — and has been unable to
reach anyone at the VA to tell her
when she can expect it.
Although Wilson said that the
goal of the Department of Veterans
Affairs was to make sure that every
GI bill payment goes out as quickly as
possible, Gallucci said that AMVETS
is focusing on the Oct. 1 date.
“That’s the day we find out just
how serious this problem is,” he
said.
Friday, September 25, 2009 | Page 7
Researchers report
AIDS vaccine progress
By Karen Kaplan and Thomas
H. Maugh II
Los Angeles T imes
Hours after HIV researchers an-
nounced the achievement of a mile-
stone that had eluded them for a
quarter of a century, reality began
to set in: Tangible progress could
take another decade.
A Thai and American team an-
nounced early Thursday in Bangkok
that they had found a combination
of vaccines providing modest pro-
tection against infection with the
virus that causes AIDS, unleashing
excitement worldwide. The idea of
a vaccine to prevent infection with
the human immunodeficiency virus,
HIV, had long been frustrating and
fruitless.
But by Thursday afternoon, initial
euphoria gave way to a more sober
assessment. There is still a very long
way to go before reaching the goal
of producing a vaccine that reliably
shields people from HIV.
Some researchers questioned
whether the apparent 31 percent
reduction in infections was a sta-
tistical anomaly resulting from the
small number of HIV cases observed
in the trial.
And if the protection was real,
how did the vaccine do it? Research-
ers have never observed antibodies
or other blood molecules that could
block HIV infection.
Experts predicted it will take
two to three years to identify the
biological molecules linked to the
protection, and another five to 10 to
produce a vaccine to test in people.
Despite the many questions, re-
searchers are ecstatic. After 26 years,
they have finally made progress on
demonstrating the feasibility of an
HIV vaccine, said Dr. Anthony Fauci,
director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
which largely funded the $120 mil-
lion study. But “is it a vaccine that is
ready for prime time? No.”
The trial, which began in 2003,
had been disparaged by many as a
waste of time because the two vac-
cines used in it had been shown in in-
dividual trials to produce no benefit.
But a some researchers speculated
that using them together, with one
priming the immune system and the
second boosting the response, might
work better.
The primer is Alvac, by Sanofi
Pasteur, which uses a defanged
canar ypox virus to carr y three
synthetic HIV genes into the body.
The boost is from Aidsvax, made
by VaxGen and now owned by the
nonprofit Global Solutions for Infec-
tious Diseases. It contains a geneti-
cally engineered version of an HIV
surface protein.
The study was of more than
16,000 volunteers in Thailand, all
from the general population, not
high-risk homosexuals and intrave-
nous drug users used in past studies.
Half received four priming doses of
Alvac and two boosts of Aidsvax over
six months; half received placebos.
After three years, new HIV infec-
tions were seen in 74 of the 8,198
people who received the placebo,
but in only 51 of the 8,197 given the
vaccine, a statistically significant 31
percent reduction.
Full details will be released next
month at a Paris conference. Dr.
Salim S. Abdool Karim, an epide-
miologist at Columbia University
and director of the Centre for the
AIDS Programme of Research in
South Africa in Durban, said he was
eager to know if people who were
vaccinated and stayed healthy had
a bigger response from blood cells
called cellular T lymphocytes.
And if not, then “what kind of
compounds were the cells making
when you inoculate them with the
vaccine?” asked Dr. Spoyros Kalams,
director of the HIV Vaccine Trials
Program at Vanderbilt University.
Researchers will begin to sift
through the blood of those who
were vaccinated and resisted infec-
tion and those who did not, seek-
ing molecules more abundant in the
healthy people, Fauci said. Then they
can look for ways to make a more
effective vaccine.
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U.S. indicts Denver man in bombing conspiracy case
By Tina Susman and
Josh Meyer
Los Angeles T imes
NEW YORK — A federal grand jury
in Brooklyn indicted a 24-year-old
Denver man on a terrorism charge
Thursday after federal authorities
alleged that he and at least three
other men had gone on a buying
spree of bomb-making chemicals
and were preparing an attack on
U.S. soil.
The one-count terrorism indict-
ment against 24-year-old Najibul-
lah Zazi alleges that he worked
for more than a year on the plot
to detonate a “weapon of mass
destruction.”
Justice Department documents
did not specifically name other al-
leged co-conspirators, but it said
three other Denver-area men had
bought unusual amounts of chemi-
cals from beauty supply stories,
including hydrogen peroxide and
acetone, that could be used to
make explosives.
Authorities are searching for at
least a dozen individuals for ques-
tioning in what they describe as
the first al-Qaida-linked plot on
U.S. soil since the Sept. 11, 2001
terrorist attacks.
“Zazi remained committed to
detonating an explosive device up
until the date of his arrest” last
Saturday evening, nine days after
arriving in New York City, alleg-
edly to meet with other members
of the plot, according to a Justice
Department document.
The document was part of a mo-
tion filed Thursday to keep Zazi
detained in Colorado without bail.
A federal judge agreed, setting the
stage for his transfer to New York
to face the terrorism charge.
While Zazi was ordered held,
his father Mohammed Zazi and
Ahmad Wais Afzali, a Queens imam
and New York Police informant,
were ordered released on bail.
They were arrested along with Zazi
on charges of lying to authorities
in the intensive terrorism inves-
tigation.
“We will continue to work
around the clock to ensure that
anyone involved is brought to
justice,” said Attorney General
Eric Holder Jr. in announcing the
indictment. “We believe any im-
minent threat arising from this
case has been disrupted, but as
always, we remind the American
public to be vigilant and to report
any suspicious activity to law en-
forcement.”
In the last two weeks, Zazi
sought “urgent” help on making
homemade bombs, according to
the detention motion. On Sept. 6
and 7, he tried multiple times to
communicate with another individ-
ual “seeking to correct mixtures of
ingredients to make explosives.”
“Each communication,” the de-
tention motion alleged, was “more
urgent in tone than the last.”
Prosecutors said Zazi had trav-
eled overseas to receive bomb-
making instructions and conducted
extensive research on the Internet
regarding components of explosive
devices.
They said that on multiple occa-
sions Zazi bought unusually large
amounts of components to make
TATP (Triacetone Triperoxide)
and other explosives before arriv-
ing in New York City on Sept. 10.
TATP is the explosive used
in the deadly 2005 London train
bombings that killed 52 people and
was intended for use in a 2005 plot
to blow up a jetliner traveling from
London to the United States and a
2001 plan by Briton Richard Reid to
detonate a shoe bomb on a similar
flight. Both schemes were linked
to al-Qaida.
The government alleged that at
least three still-unidentified men
purchased suspicious quantities
of hydrogen peroxide or acetone
from beauty supply stores in the
Denver area.
Zazi went twice to the Beauty
Supply Warehouse in Aurora,
Colo., to purchase highly concen-
trated hydrogen-peroxide-based
products, said Karan Hoss, chief
executive officer of the beauty sup-
ply chain.
Zazi bought 12 bottles of Clai-
roxide on July 25 and six bottles of
Ms. K Liquid 40 Volume on Aug.
28, Hoss said.
Hoss said his employees did
not realize the significance of the
purchase until FBI agents visited
earlier this month asking ques-
tions about anyone who’d made
large purchases of hydrogen per-
oxide. He said they supplied tape
and equipment from 48 cameras
mounted throughout the store, and
agents spotted Zazi.
“Forty-eight cameras in a beau-
ty supply store is not common. I’m
glad we invested the money and
were able to provide the evidence,
assuming this guy is guilty,” Hoss
said. “It gives me some comfort.
... Thank God for good technology
and good camera systems.”
Authorities also said that they
found evidence that Zazi had heat-
ed the chemicals on the stove of an
Aurora apartment he had rented
Aug. 28. Authorities said in court
documents that notes on bomb
making were found on Zazi’s lap-
top computer discussed heating
the chemicals to make them more
concentrated.
The documents noted that
Zazi’s fingerprints on the kind of
small electronic scale and batter-
ies often used in the making of
homemade bombs.
In public statements, Zazi has
denied being part of any terror-
ist plot. But the FBI alleges that
he admitted under questioning to
receiving explosives and weapons
training by al-Qaida in the tribal
areas of Pakistan that are consid-
ered to be the headquarters for the
“We will continue
to work around
the clock to en-
sure that anyone
involved is brought
to justice.”
Eric Holder
U.S. Attorney General
terror network headed by Osama
bin Laden.
FBI agents in Colorado first ar-
rested Zazi on Sept. 19, after pros-
ecutors filed a criminal complaint
charging him with knowingly and
willfully making false statements
to the FBI in a matter involving
international and domestic ter-
rorism.
The arrests came after the FBI
raided numerous locations in New
York and Colorado, looking for
evidence of explosives and other
suspects. Federal agents are still
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World & Nation
Justice Ginsburg G-20 leaders reach consensus on
hospitalized as financial reform amid protests
precaution Thursday
By Robert Barnes
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was
taken to Washington Hospital Cen-
ter on Thursday when she fell ill at
the court after being treated for an
iron deficiency.
Ginsburg, 76, “developed light
headedness and fatigue” in her
chambers about an hour after re-
ceiving an iron sucrose infusion,
according to a statement from
the court. A court physician de-
termined that Ginsburg’s blood
pressure was slightly low and
administered fluids. Ginsburg’s
symptoms improved, the cour t
said, but the justice was taken to
the hospital as a precaution at 7:45
p.m. Thursday.
Ginsburg’s health has been an
issue since she battled pancreatic
cancer earlier this year. In Febru-
ar y, doctors removed her spleen
and a tiny tumor on her pancreas.
Settlement in
Google Books case
delayed by court
By David Sarno
Los Angeles T imes
The millions of out-of-print books
scanned by Google Inc. and now
sitting unread on the company’s
cyber-bookshelves will have to sit
a while longer.
A New York judge on Thursday
ordered the postponement of an
October hearing meant to address
a settlement between Google and
a group of authors and publishers
that sued the company more than
four years ago.
In response to concerns raised
by federal antitrust regulators, the
Authors Guild and the Association
of American Publishers are likely
to make “significant changes to the
current settlement agreement,”
wrote Judge Denny Chin. Holding
a hearing on the agreement as cur-
rently written, he concluded, would
make little sense.
Earlier this week, the publisher
and author groups requested a delay
Ginsburg said that the operation
was a complete success and that
she was cancer-free. She under-
went what she called a precaution-
ary round of chemotherapy in the
spring but never missed a day of
the court’s public sessions.
The court said Ginsburg under-
went a comprehensive examination
in July that involved “medical evalu-
ations, imaging scans, and compre-
hensive blood tests.” It said she was
pronounced to be “in completely
normal health with the exception
of a low red blood cell count caused
by deficiency of iron.”
She has kept up a rigorous
schedule of speaking engagements
and work on the court and has said
she does not plan to leave the court
for years. She participated in the
investiture of new Justice Sonia
Sotomayor and a special hearing on
campaign finance laws earlier this
month, and she just returned from
speaking to law students at North-
western University in Illinois.
in the proceedings so they could ad-
dress copyright and antitrust issues
raised by the Department of Justice
in a brief filed last week.
That brief, which called the agree-
ment “one of the most far-reaching
class-action settlements of which the
United States is aware,” cautioned
the court not to act hastily given the
complexity and import of the issues,
but also acknowledging the “public
benefit” of a vast database of easily
accessible books.
In a statement issued after the
order was released, Google did not
object to the delay of the hearing.
Consumer Watchdog, an advo-
cacy group that has been an active
opponent of the terms of the settle-
ment, praised the delay, noting that
“the proper place to solve many of
the case’s thorniest problems ... is
in Congress,” not the courts.
There will be a status hearing
Oct. 7, when the court will discuss
how to “proceed with the case as
expeditiously as possible.”
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
By Annys Shin and
Michael Shear
Washington Post
PITTSBURGH — The Group of
20 largest economies will perma-
nently replace the G-8 as the main
forum for international economic
cooperation in a move expected to
give greater clout to developing
nations, a senior White House
official said Thursday night.
The change, which has been
pushed by President Obama, will
be announced Friday by world
leaders attending the G-20 eco-
nomic summit in Pittsburgh. It
would make of ficial a growing
consensus that the G-20’s broader
membership better represents a
new global economy.
Traditionally, the G-8 has
ser ved as the gathering place for
the world’s top economic powers,
but in recent years its makeup —
dominated by the United States
and other Western nations — has
increasingly been criticized for
leaving out several of the world’s
fastest-growing countries.
The G-20’s ranks include na-
tions such as Brazil, China, India
and South Africa — all of which
have expanded their economies
at a meteoric pace during the past
two decades. The G-8 will contin-
ue to meet on matters important
to those countries, according to
the of ficial, who discussed the
move on condition of anonymity
because it has not been formally
announced.
As leaders gathered on the
eve of Friday’s meetings, U.S.
Treasur y Secretar y Timothy
Geithner said that officials had
reached “a strong consensus” on
strengthening oversight of the
global financial system.
Before the summit, the United
States and European nations had
emphasized different elements of
reform, with U.S. officials stress-
ing the need to raise the quality
and quantity of capital held by
banks to cover potential losses
and the Europeans pushing hard
for tough restrictions on bank-
ers’ pay. But Geithner said the
parties were close and that their
differences were not insurmount-
able.
“We are not going to walk
way from the worst financial cri-
sis since the Great Depression
and leave unchanged and leave
in place the tragic vulnerabili-
ties that created this crisis,” he
said.
Geithner said the United
States had made progress toward
achieving another top priority:
getting G-20 members to commit
to economic policy changes that
could help avoid a repeat of the
financial crisis.
The United States thinks that
reducing export-dependent econ-
omies’ reliance on U.S. consum-
ers is vital to sustained global
growth. The Obama administra-
tion has proposed requiring the
United States to commit to saving
more and getting countries such
as China and Germany to boost
domestic consumption. Under
the proposal, the International
Monetary Fund would help moni-
tor whether countries comply,
but the measure is largely unen-
forceable.
Geithner also said that the
G-20 members were closer to an
agreement on phasing out sub-
sidies for fossil fuels, a proposal
raised by Obama earlier in the
week at the United Nations that
could help significantly reduce
carbon emissions.
Despite the upbeat repor t
from U.S. officials, expectations
for the summit remained mod-
est. G-20 leaders already agreed
to sidestep the thorny issue of
when to begin withdrawing the
hundreds of billions of dollars
spent to jump-start their econo-
mies. Nor were they expected to
commit huge new sums of money
as they did in April, when they
agreed to triple the IMF’s re-
sources. Instead, attendees cast
Friday, September 25, 2009
this meeting as a moment to take
stock of what they have done and
to discuss how to avoid similar
crises in the future.
The spirit of transformation is
what inspired Obama to choose
Pittsburgh as the summit site.
The city has reinvented itself
from one heavily dependent on
the steel industr y to one with vi-
brant clean-technology, finance
and health-care sectors.
On the eve of the summit,
Pittsburgh’s streets were filled
with motorcades ferr ying dig-
nitaries and marches by demon-
strators. Security was tight, and
protesters were at times met by
phalanxes of riot police wielding
pepper spray.
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has
implemented a massive security
operation in the city. About 4,000
police have been brought in from
across the countr y, some on loan
from cities including Chicago and
Philadelphia. The extra security
will cost $19 million, Ravenstahl
estimated.
Many of the residents who
braved the streets near the con-
vention center where the G-20
meetings were to take place ap-
peared to be less awed by the
dignitaries than by the sight of
Pittsburgh under siege. Several
bridges connecting the city to its
downtown business core were
closed to passenger vehicles.
Sidewalks were deserted as most
workers stayed home. An after-
noon Pirates game at PNC Park
attracted only 3,000 spectators.
Just outside the secured zone,
hundreds of police in full riot gear
clashed Thursday afternoon with
demonstrators who had come to
protest a variety of issues, includ-
ing climate change and bank bail-
outs.
The protest began quietly
but turned violent after demon-
strators were joined by another
group, many of them dressed in
black and waving anti-govern-
ment banners.
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l e t t e r s to t h e e d i to r

Tolerance goes both ways

To the Editor:
I am writing in wholehearted sup-
port of Michael Fitzpatrick ’12 (“The
secret life of atheists at Brown,” Sept.
24). As an atheist, I completely agree
with his view that just because Brown
is a liberal school, it does not mean
that atheists are not stereotyped, often
extremely hurtfully. Sitting at the Ratty
with my peers, I see that people are
willing to acknowledge their stereo-
types about atheists without hesita-
tion. “Wait, so you don’t believe in
God? How are you not depressed all
the time?” is relatively common. I am
a Religious Studies concentrator, a fact
which elicits even greater confusion
from friends and acquaintances.
Religion is a crucially important
force in human history, and is arguably
the most influential social structure
that has shaped modern society. So,
in my quest to be an educated person,
why shouldn’t I study it? The Bible is
document, and studying it as such is
even more possible if one does not
believe that it is divinely inspired.
The truth is, in my opinion, that
people, even those getting an educa-
tion at an elite school, embrace their
stereotypes against atheists so freely
because they do not consider atheists
to be a true minority. If someone ac-
knowledged their stereotypes about
Jews in the way I described above,
they would be ridiculed as anti-Semitic
(I should hope). The same consider-
ation is not given to atheists, because
atheism is not seen as an inherent
part of one’s identity the way other
religions are, and thus stereotyping it
is not considered bigotry. People of
all races, religions, ethnicities, sexual
preferences and gender identities
ale x yuly
should be judged on an individual
basis, and atheists are no exception.
e d i to r i a l
Lise Rahdert ’10

A new hope
a work of literature and a historical Sept. 24

U. should save for lean years

To the Editor: the mid-’90s to 2007 by building a
It is, of course, unfortunate that fund to draw on in the current en- An encouraging new force has emerged in local of stagnation and corruption under one-party rule.
Brown’s endowment has shrunk by vironment; instead Britain is more politics. Last month, the Moderate Party of Rhode Even a small Moderate bloc in the Assembly, backed
$740 million, a figure that I’m sure indebted than ever and will face pain- Island received official certification after turning in up by a robust grassroots organization, would be well
is on the extreme end of what could ful choices very soon. over 30,000 supporters’ signatures, well beyond the positioned to advance pragmatic solutions and remind
realistically have been anticipated. It would be a shame indeed if required 23,500. The party’s ambitious short-term goal overly comfortable Democrats that the two national
What is less clear is why the Uni- Brown had fallen into the same trap. is to put forward a candidate for the governorship and parties aren’t the only game in town.
versity has a financial plan whose Brown’s own endowment brochure every General Assembly seat in 2010. The campaign to establish a third party in the po-
health depends so intimately on the claims average annual returns of 11.9 The Moderates’ platform contains many solid pro- litical center may seem quixotic, and it certainly faces
whims of the investments to which percent in the 10 years to June 2006; posals that the current partisan system has shelved. enormous challenges. The Moderates will never have
the endowment is committed. the community must ask why the The party suggests a carefully calibrated reduction of the funding and publicity conferred by affiliation with
As with any prudent household or University was not prudent enough the excessive taxes that have helped make Rhode Island one of the two major national parties. They will be
government, successfully navigating to use these good years to prepare the seventh-worst state in the Union for business. To spread thin across the 113 races for Assembly seats, and
hard times means being prepared for for the possibility of bad, so that improve the state’s lackluster education system, the even strong bids may serve only to fracture the centrist
them. The government of my own next time our choices might be less Moderates offer a fair, multi-criterion teacher pay scale vote or allow the Republicans and Democrats to write off
country, Britain, proved singularly painful. that will reward high performance and give under- moderate voters and commit to more extreme policies
incapable of taking advantage of years James Campbell GS achieving educators the assistance they need to provide to stoke their respective bases. The Moderates should
of excellent economic growth from Sept. 24 quality classroom instruction. To break with the state’s remember that they can be an enormously positive force
dismal history of public corruption, the platform targets for Rhode Island without being electorally competitive
several prerogatives of state officials that enable graft in every corner of the state. They can endorse centrist
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d without providing a significant public benefit. candidates from the major parties and publicize sound
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The Brown Daily Herald
A simple fix for your shopping needs
JONATHAN
TOPAZ
Opinions Columnist
The following is a fairly common narrative of
the first day of class at Brown:
Hordes of students, many of whom will
neither take the class nor know remotely
what the class is about, pile into a small room.
The professor and teaching assistants pass
out syllabi that, in most cases, have been sit-
ting in the instructor’s hard drive since the
previous spring. The professor then pro-
ceeds to go over the aforementioned sylla-
bus to the college students assembled in the
room, with minimal elaboration. At the con-
clusion of this recitation, students become
restless and pack their things, and the pro-
fessor releases them to hear other profes-
sors perform renditions of their own syllabi.
Welcome to the first week of shopping pe-
riod. It’s a waste of time. And it is a shame,
because the concept — and many working
aspects — of shopping period are brilliant.
Shopping period puts less emphasis on
spring registration, which gives students an
entire summer to think more clearly about
what they are interested in. It allows for lo-
gistical experimentation, as students can fig-
ure out if they can indeed make it from List
to Smitty B in the 10 minutes their proposed
schedule has allotted. It encourages stu-
dents to try out classes well outside of their
comfort zone with no risk of a binding agree-
Ethan Tobias
Opinions Columnist
Next week, Brown students may observe
an interesting phenomenon. Students will
change lab sections. The deadlines for pa-
pers will be extended. Tests will be given at
alternative times. And for one full day the
dining halls might seem a little less crowd-
ed. Do not panic! This is not an outbreak of
pandemic flu. Rather, it is an ushering in of
the Jewish holiday season.
Last Saturday and Sunday, Jews wel-
comed in the year 5770 by eating apples and
honey and sitting in services for as long as
humanly possible. They then will do it all
over again ten days later, minus the food, on
Judaism’s holiest day, Yom Kippur.
On both occasions, observant Jews are
not allowed to do work, which includes
homework, writing and using electronics.
Traditional observance of these holidays
means missing classes.
This is especially difficult since the Jew-
ish Holidays usually happen to fall between
the end of shopping period and the first
round of midterms. It is right when courses
are getting into the swing of things, and no
one wants to miss class.
According to Hillel, there are approxi-
mately 1350 Jewish undergraduates on
campus. That is over 20 percent of the un-
dergraduate population, meaning there is a
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ment. And, of course, shopping period puts
professors to the test, as students can judge
for themselves (without completely relying
on the Critical Review) how engaging their
lecturers are.
However, because shopping period rep-
resents a period of flexibility and imperma-
nence, professors feel compelled to discuss
logistical information and reading lists and
give overly general introductory lectures.
There is no reason why Brown should not
mandate its professors to put their syllabi on a
digital forum by the beginning of school.
These rituals not only waste time, but also
force students to shop more classes for a lon-
ger period of time.
Only select professors put their classes’
syllabi on MyCourses for all Brown students
to see. Brown’s most comprehensive forum
for such documents, courses.brown.edu, is
unknown to much of the student body and
lacks the necessary information for all class-
es. There is no reason why Brown should
not mandate that its professors put their syl-
labi on a digital forum (such as MyCours-
es or courses.brown.edu) by the beginning
of school. In many classes, syllabi remain
unchanged from year to year. In all cases,
Not just a day off
large conflict between religious services and
classes for a significant portion of students.
Fall semester is inherently more stress-
ful than spring semester. There are fewer
weeks of classes and no week-long vaca-
tion like spring break. This year, fall semes-
ter was subject to an even greater crunch
because Labor Day fell so late. In order to
make up for lost time, many professors have
If the fall semester began a week earlier students
would avoid late summer angst and professors
would not feel as rushed. In exchange, students
should be given off for the Jewish High Holidays
of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
assigned more work earlier in the semester.
By missing classes for two days, Jewish stu-
dents — perhaps all students — may find
themselves drowning in coursework.
Meanwhile, most Brown students proba-
bly did not spend the last week before school
started doing something extremely excit-
ing. Many people I have spoken to say they
were bored at home. Most of their friends
and neighbors had already started school,
and they could not wait until they were al-
lowed to move into the dorms. In some in-
stances, people were camping out in friends’
Friday, September 25, 2009 | Page 11
though, syllabi are completed before the
first day of classes. There is no reason for
secrecy or confidentiality.
The trade-off would be that interested
students would have to show some initiative
and read through the online syllabus instead
of merely having to show up for 10 min-
utes. At the very least, this proposal would
eliminate the conventional opening classes
at Brown, which frustrate professors (who
cannot begin the course material immediate-
ly) and students (who learn little about the
professor’s teaching style) alike. Professors
would have the ability to lecture as classes
commenced. Producing these syllabi online
would also waste less of students’ time, as
they would have a better idea of the class
without needing to attend the first day. Such
a proposal would also decrease the number
of people who attend classes on the first day,
which is often astronomical and contributes
to standing-room situations.
Perhaps the greatest problem exists for
Monday and Tuesday seminars. These class-
es have just two meetings for the entirety of
rooms or choosing to spend the money to
move in early. People cannot wait to return
to school.
Luckily, there is a simple solution to all
these problems. If the fall semester began a
week earlier, students would avoid late sum-
mer angst and professors would not feel as
rushed. In exchange, students should be giv-
en days off for the Jewish High Holidays of
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The small
increase in class days at the beginning of the
semester would be more than remedied by
an extra break. Most students could use the
extra days to catch up on work and study for
midterms, while Brown’s large Jewish mi-
nority could enjoy the freedom to observe
their ancient religious traditions. It is truly a
win-win solution for everyone.
Of course, some would say that this com-
promise unfairly rewards Brown’s Jewish
students as compared to other religious
groups. However, the University already
shopping period, one of which is devoted to
the aforementioned abbreviated introduc-
tion. Thus, the only truly substantive class
exists during the third week of classes. It is
an unfair burden to force students to shop
classes for three weeks, as it adds signifi-
cantly to workload at an already hectic time
when clubs and sports teams have practic-
es, meetings, and tryouts. My friend and I
shopped a seminar at the beginning of the
second week, where the professor simply
passed out syllabi, lectured for five minutes
and let the class out after a mere half-hour
(cutting professor’s own total class time by
two full hours). When we were walking back
to our respective dorms, I asked if he was
going to take the class. “I have no idea what
this professor is all about,” he said, “and I
don’t really have the time to find out.” Need-
less to say, he isn’t showing up to class this
week.
The wasted time that comes along with
shopping period is a legitimate problem. But
the greater issue is that students are over-
worked throughout shopping period. Class-
es are taking too long to develop, and as a
result students end up doing work for six or
seven classes. With the simple fix of provid-
ing syllabi online and getting lectures start-
ed immediately, Brown can solve these ma-
jor problems in mere minutes.
Jonathan Topaz ’12 is a political science
concentrator from New York City. He can
be reached at
Jonathan.Topaz@gmail.com
makes arrangements for other religious
groups on campus. For example, since the
first few weeks of classes coincided with Ra-
madan, the University, through a collabora-
tive effort, was able to accommodate Mus-
lim students by providing iftars, the nightly
break-fast.
I applaud the University for undertaking
such an effort to make life easier for one re-
ligious minority. It only makes sense that
the University also accommodate the needs
of one-fifth of students by giving off for the
Jewish High Holidays. Besides, how unfair
can it be when all students — not just Jewish
students — get the day off?
The Jewish Holidays are already disrup-
tive to classes. Students are forced to move
sections, get extensions and ultimately miss
valuable class time. The University can keep
on ignoring them or it can recognize the fair-
est, simplest solution to a problem that ex-
ists for hundreds of students.
By giving days off for the Jewish High
Holidays in conjunction with beginning
classes a week earlier, the fall semester
would be less of a squeeze for professors,
less stressful for students and consistent
with other displays of religious accommoda-
tions on campus. It is only a start, but it will
go a long way toward improving academic
life.
 
 
Ethan Tobias ’12 wants to go home to
New York for the Holidays. He can be
reached at Ethan_Tobias@brown.edu
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A diamond to the University’s decision to offer flu
vaccines at Jo’s. It’s sure to be the most popular menu
addition since mozzarella sticks, although we’ll all have
to be more careful when ordering our spicies “with.”
Hypodermic needles aren’t as tasty as cheese.
who suggested that researchers looking for a “gay gene”
would better spend their time trying to “find a gene for
warmongering assholes.” You’re on the right track, but
why stop there? If we found the gene for authors-slash-
activists, more people might one day get real jobs.

That said, coal for choosing the wrong dining venue.
Attempting to inoculate students who have spent the
night making out with strangers at Fish Co. is probably
a waste, and if we had to bet on a place to catch swine
flu, it would be the Ratty. (We hear Polynesian Pork
A sympathetic diamond to local small-business own-
ers, who have banded together as part of a campaign to
encourage people to spend at least $50 a month at their
three favorite local businesses. That’s almost what the
state legislature is considering, as long as you count the

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Piglets have been banned in at least 10 countries since municipality of Providence as your first, second, and
the pandemic started.) third favorite businesses.

c a l e n da r
today, september 25
8 pm — “Katrina, Katrina” Fundraiser
for New Orleans, Salomon 101
8 pm — Brown University Theatre pres-
ents Tartuffe, Leeds Theatre
tomorrow, september 26
12 pm — Field Hockey vs. Dartmouth,
Pizzitola Sports Center
3 PM — New Works/World Traditions
Auditions, Ashamu Dance Hall
A cubic zirconium to David Coolidge ’01, the Univer-
sity’s new Muslim chaplain, who told The Herald that he
found his faith as an undergrad in Grad Center. While we
admire your positive attitude, those faint, angelic voices
telling you how right your new path felt were probably
just your upstairs neighbors having sex.
Coal to Hope High School, which recently reorga-
nized itself for the second time in four years. In case you
haven’t seen the polls lately, “Hope” and “change” isn’t
half the winning combination it used to be.
A cubic zirconium to author and activist Sherry Wolf,
Coal to the planners of yesterday’s “consensual sex”
rally, Wednesday’s annual corn-shucking competition
and Monday’s climate change “flash mob” for missing
a golden opportunity to collaborate. Next year around
this time we expect to see dozens of Brown students
converging on the Main Green for a nice, spontaneous,
consensual shuck.
A diamond to the FDA for banning clove cigarettes
earlier this week, to the chagrin of hipsters everywhere.
As if the Indy’s four-game losing streak weren’t reason
enough for them to be jittery before our kickball show-
down this weekend.

menu comics
Sharpe Refectory Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman
Lunch — Swiss Corn Bake, BBQ Beef Lunch — Chicken Fingers, Sticky
Sandwich, Oven Browned Potatoes Rice, Butter Cookies

Dinner — Noodle Kugel, Baked Dinner — Cajun Baked Fish, Golden

Stuffed Pollock, Garlic and Butter In- Corn and Rice Casserole, Red Pota-
fused Rice toes with Fresh Dill

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