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Ater a ederal judge expressed ap-prehension earlier this month over the University’s decision to handlea rape allegation internally without
notiying law enorcement, repre-sentatives rom a students’ rightsorganization and a sexual assault victims’ advocacy group have bothcriticized universities’ practices in
handling rape cases. Both a current
and a ormer University employee
have questioned Brown’s ability
to investigate and adjudicate rape
cases.But universities are in a dicult
position. According to guidelines set
orth by the Department o Educa-
tion’s Oce or Civil Rights, Title IX
mandates that in cases o sexual mis-
conduct, universities take “prompt
and eective action calculated to end
the harassment, prevent its recur-
rence, and, as appropriate, remedy its eects.” An ad hoc University committee
charged with reviewing Brown’s
disciplinary system issued a report
in 1997 reuting the argument that
the University was not suited to hear
sexual misconduct cases and stating
that declining to do so would “senda chilling message that there are a range o actions or which the Uni-
versity may not hold the perpetrator
accountable.” And a policy requiring adminis-
trators to notiy the police o rape
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At Brown today, bared navels are
a more common sight then naval
ocers — but that wasn’t always
the case.
Brown was once home to a Naval Reserve Ocer Training
Corps, but 40 years ago the aculty
voted to expel the program rom
College Hill. Now, some students
want to bring it back, though
they’re acing opposition.
In 1969, amid erce dissatisac-
tion with American involvement in Vietnam, the Faculty Execu-tive Committee voted to phaseout ROTC, a military programthat commissions students asocers in the U.S. military andtrains them during their univer-
sity years.
By 1972, the Brown ROTC
program — once headquartered
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The administration will be ocusing
more energy on new residence hallsnow that several major constructionprojects have gotten underway, saidDick Spies, executive vice president
or planning and senior adviser to
the President.“As some o the early prioritiesmove along, and we get the budget back in balance,” Spies said, “then you can begin to ocus” on projects
such as expanding dorm options.Now that the ground has been
broken on the new Alpert MedicalSchool building and plans to begin
building the Katherine Moran Cole-man Aquatics Center have been ap-
proved, Spies said, the ocus can
shit to projects in their early stages
o planning.
The University originally began
looking into expanding dorm op-
tions on campus in 2006 and 2007,said Margaret Klawunn, vice presi-
dent or campus lie and student ser- vices. “We had a lot o conversations
with students” about what would be
needed to keep upperclassmen oncampus, she said.
“What we ound in 2007 is you
need apartments and suites to makestudents stay in Brown housing,” she
said, adding that as o now, “when
we look at our inventory, we nd
more traditional residential lie.”
A 2003 report which outlinedconstruction goals to support thePlan or Academic Enrichment
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The College Curriculum Council
met last month to discuss changes
to the academic calendar that might
permanently start the school year the Wednesday beore Labor Day
in order to make the all and springsemesters the same length. The spring semester is currently our days longer than the all semes-ter.
The motion was initially to start the academic years o 2010–11 and
2013–14 earlier because Rosh Hasha-nah alls during the rst week o Sep-
tember in both those years. But when
the Council met to discuss this pro-posal in May 2009, aculty members
asked whether the University shouldconsider making every all semester
begin beore Labor Day. The questiono starting the 2013–14 academic year
beore Labor Day has been droppedrom the motion in order to give the
Council an opportunity to consider
the permanent change. The council did pass a motion to
move the all 2010 semester up. It
will begin on Wednesday, Sept. 1, ve
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For David Rohde ’90, addressing the
class o 2010 during Brown’s 242nd
Commencement marks another step
in a journey that has taken him rom
Providence to Pakistan and back
again.
Rohde, who will also receive an
honorary degree, is slated to deliver this year’s baccalaureate address on
May 30, according to a University
press release issued Wednesday.Nobel laureate and ormer Presi-
dent o South Arica Nelson Mandela will also receive an honorary degree.Mandela will accept his degree in ab-
sentia, with the charge d’aaires at the
South Arican embassy receiving the
honor in his place, according to the
press release.
“I think it’s quite unusual to reach
out to someone who cannot come to
accept the degree,” said University
Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson, who
organizes and hosts the Baccalaureate
event. She said she believes the Uni- versity wants to “send that very deep
bow and thank you” even i a recipient
is not well enough to come.
Rohde, an author and two-time Pu-litzer Prize–winning New York Times
reporter, graduated rom Brown in
1990 with a degree in history.He survived almost a year o cap-
tivity under Taliban combatants beoreescaping back to the U.S. in June 2009.
His November visit to the University
marked his rst public speech, just
our months ater escaping captivity.
Rohde earned Pulitzer prizes or
his 1996 coverage o the Srebrenica
massacre in Bosnia and as part o a New York Times team o reporterscovering Aghanistan and Pakistan
in 2009. Rohde was captured twice in
his career, once in Bosnia and again in
Pakistan. He has also penned a novel
about his experience in captivity — “A
Rope and A Prayer: The Story o a
Kidnapping” — that will be published
in all 2010, according to the press
release.
Joining Rohde and Mandela as
honorary degree recipients is a distin-
I WISH!
Nick Sinnott-Armstron / Herald
Some fair tales come true while others turn sour in ProductionWorkshop’s musical, “Into the Woods.”
Emm Liss / Herald file photo
Now that renovation projects are well underwa, the Universit will havea chance to focus on expandin and renovatin dorms, as with Minden in2007-08.
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Jason Lee ’12 will serve as
vice chair o the Undergraduate
Finance Board ater deeating
Tyler Rosenbaum ’11 in a runo election, the elections board an-nounced Wednesday aternoon.Lee garnered 58.2 percent o the 455 votes cast to win.
“I’m really grateul or winning,and I’m thankul to everyone who
supported me,” Lee said.
Lee originally received 49.1percent o the vote in the irst
election held last week, UCS Pres-
ident Clay Wertheimer wrote in
an e-mail to The Herald, less than
1 percent away rom the amount needed to win a simple majority. All election results were rati-
ied at the Undergraduate Councilo Students general body meeting
Wednesday night.
“This has been the smoothest
election in the last our years,”
Wertheimer said.
Members o the Student Labor
Alliance also gave a presentation
at the meeting, calling or UCS
support next year or establishing
a protocol to deal with holding
events at venues where employ-
allegations could discourage report-
ing o sexual assault, an already un-
derreported crime, according to a February report by the Center or
Public Integrity.
Brown itsel has had a contro- versial history o mishandling andallegedly mishandling sexual as-
sault allegations, including William
McCormick III’s current lawsuit against the University or its con-
duct concerning a 2006 rape accusa-tion against him — which promptedRhode Island District Federal Court
Judge William Smith’s concern about
lack o police notication.
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Citing the ailure o universities to
provide proper protection to victimsor, conversely, to aord the accused
due process, representatives rom
both the Rape, Abuse and Incest Na-
tional Network and the Foundation
or Individual Rights in Education
have said that sexual assault inves-tigations should be handled by thepolice rather than universities.
“Universities and colleges are not
equipped to handle allegations o
rape and sexual assault,” said Eliza-
beth Crothers, communications man-
ager or the Rape, Abuse and Incest
National Network.
“Overwhelmingly, victims arenot well served by these internalprocesses,” Crothers said. College
administrators are “most likely not
trained in the intricacies o thiscrime” and too oten treat sexual
misconduct “like an overdue library
book,” she said.But Crothers said her organiza-
tion does not have a stance on chang-
ing the law to require universities to
report alleged sex crimes when they
become aware o them. She called
the issue “complicated” and said thedecision to report a sex crime to the
police is “always up to the victim.”
“We encourage victims to report
to the police” and “to get orensicrape kits done,” she said. But “a rape kit is a very lengthy, invasive
procedure” and, again, “it’s really up
to the victim and the victim alone,”she said.
Both Crothers and Azhar Majeed,
associate director o legal and pub-lic advocacy or the Foundation or
Individual Rights in Education, said
that universities do not do a better
job protecting victims’ identities than
police and the courts.
“You can carry out a prosecution without revealing the identity o the
accuser,” Majeed said.
Majeed said universities arenot equipped to handle diicult “he-said-she-said allegations” with
“very serious repercussions both or
the alleged victim and the accused
individual.” Law enorcement has
the “necessary expertise and back-
ground” while university ocials do
not, he said.
According to Majeed, universi-ties requently do not provide ulldue process to the accused, andoten operate with a less rigorous
standard o evidence than the legal
system, which requires accusations
to be proved beyond a reasonable
doubt.
He called the McCormick case
“bizarre” and said it represents “an
extreme example” o a university
treating an accused student “without
any due regard or his rights.”
“The University and its ocers
have acted appropriately in this mat-
ter,” Vice President or Public A-
airs and University Relations Marisa
Quinn wrote in an e-mail to The Her-ald April 12. “As in all instances, the
University respects and maintainsthe condentiality o student and
employee records.”Quinn did not comment or thisarticle.
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McCormick’s case is not the rst
to bring criticism to Brown or itshandling o sexual misconduct al-
legations.
In 1996, a special late-semester
edition o The Herald revealed the
suspension o Adam Lack — who was then a member o the class o
1997 but did not graduate until years
later — or sexual misconduct. A picture o Lack with his name ran
on the ront page.
The alleged victim, Sarah Klein’99, said she was intoxicated andcould not remember i she hadgiven Lack consent to engage insexual intercourse. Lack claimed
that Klein had initiated intercourse,
engaged in lucid conversation andgiven him her phone number the
next day, and that he did not know she was intoxicated.
Associate Proessor o Music Da-
vid Josephson suspected Lack hadbeen treated unairly and became
both his adviser and public advocate,
helping to attract media attention to
the case.
That attention included a disor-derly on-campus conrontation be-tween ABC’s John Stossell — who was lming an episode o “20/20”
— and Klein’s supporters over thedenition o rape. Josephson said there was a “re-gime o ear” on campus surround-
ing the issue o sexual assault that
discouraged anyone rom advocating
on behal o accused students.
He pointed to the spring 1997
issue o the campus publication “Is-
sues,” in which Vice President or Campus Lie and Student Services
Margaret Klawunn, then director o
the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center,said that men advocating or Lack“are araid that they have already
been or will be the next Adam Lack.Many men see themselves as poten-
tially in that situation or have already
been in that situation. This case hasbecome a magnet or men who have
skeletons in the closet.”
Since then, Klawunn has worked
in and overseen the Oce o Student Lie, which is responsible or dealing with allegations o sexual misconduct
on campus. Klawunn, who is namedas a deendant in McCormick’s law-
suit, agreed to an interview with TheHerald, but later cancelled it. She did
not respond to questions then sent to her in an e-mail.
Lack — who died in 2008 in a car
accident — was eventually exoner-ated by the University and went onto le a lawsuit against Brown and
his accuser. The suit resulted in a settlement, the terms o which are
undisclosed.
A 1997 University news release
about the settlement states “BrownUniversity regrets that its disciplin-
ary system was unable to resolve
the dispute between the parties sat-isactorily.”
Josephson said he expected that a university would not insist that the
settlement’s terms be secret and that
it would issue a public apology. In-
stead, Brown “sounded like a bloody
corporation,” he said.Not long ater the Lack case hit,
in the all o 1996, Brown again drew criticism or its handling o a sexual
assault allegation. The University
Disciplinary Committee declined tohear a emale student’s complaint o
sexual assault against a male student,citing the complexity o the evidence.
The male student, her ex-boyriend,
was a relative o Jordan’s royal amily
whose ather had donated money to
the University. The UDC’s decision
led to an investigation by the Depart-
ment o Education’s Oce or CivilRights. According to a 1997 Univer-sity press release, the investigation was later dropped at the request o the parties.
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The ad hoc committee to review
Brown’s disciplinary procedures was convened in the atermath o
these two cases, though according to
Josephson, the University never ac-
knowledged a relationship between
the Lack case and the committee’screation.
The committee’s ndings rea-
rmed the UDC’s right to decline to
hear a case, sought to “distinguish
the UDC rom courts o law” and
made several procedural recommen-
dations, including instituting a con-
sistent standard o a “preponderance
o evidence” needed or conviction. Josephson — who believes alle-gations o student misconduct that
rise to the level o a crime shouldbe handled by police — called the
recommendations “Band-Aids on a severely wounded animal.”
Josephson said he thought that
the Oce o Student Lie would be-
gin to handle sexual assault cases
dierently ater Lack’s episode, but
he said McCormick’s experience
“stinks o the Adam Lack case.” In
the all o 2006, Josephson was briefy
involved with McCormick’s disci-plinary proceedings at the request o Michael Burch GS, a ormer as-
sistant wrestling coach who acted as
McCormick’s adviser in the disciplin-
ary process.
In September 2006, Josephson
wrote a letter that was orwarded to
University administrators involved in
McCormick’s case stating that there
had been “no equal treatment” o
McCormick and his accuser because
he had been removed rom campus
while she had not been. He wrotethat McCormick suered a “puni-
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This summer, the University will
make substantial progress on a
number o capital projects, while
smaller projects, such as resi-
dence hall renovations, will alsobe completed during the coming
months. “The nancing has been
put together, the planning has been
done and we are ready to do the
construction,” said Richard Spies,
executive vice president or plan-
ning and senior adviser to President
Ruth Simmons
The Stephen Robert ’62 Campus
Center in Faunce House will be
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By sarah forman
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Just like the card-swiping, Bad-
maash-dancing, triple-concentratingstudents on campus, several dually-
appointed University executivestry to juggle multiple roles andresponsibilities by taking on ad-
ditional administrative positions.
Dual appointments are “quite
common on an interim basis,” said
Toni Tinberg, director o employ-ment services or the Human Re-sources Department.
When one o the sta members
an administrator oversees leavesthe University, the administrator will oten ll the empty position
in addition to their regular dutiesuntil a replacement can be ound,she said.
Such is the case or Roger Nozaki MAT’89, associate dean
o the College and director o the
Swearer Center or Public Service,
who took on an additional role as
acting director o the Career Devel-
opment Center in September ater
Barbara Peoples retired rom her role as interim director.
“We were already in the search
or a permanent director” whenPeoples retired, Nozaki said. Be-
cause he already oversaw the CDC
as associate dean o the college,
it was decided that Nozaki would
ll the empty position temporarily
until they could “get the absolutely
best person or the job,” he said.
The search or a permanent director is still in progress, saidDean o the College Katherine
Bergeron, adding that she hopedit would end soon.
Similarly, Matthew Gutmannhas remained the director o theCenter or Latin American andCaribbean Studies, even though
he became vice president or inter-
national aairs in September.
Brown is one o only 18 insti-tutions nationwide to receive a
Federal Title VI grant or its Cen-ter or Latin American and Carib-
bean Studies, and it had to reapply
or the grant this year, Gutmann
said.
“It just didn’t make sense tohave somebody completely new come in and do that,” Gutmann
said, because the 400-page applica-
tion is “a monster.”
A new director o the Center
or Latin American and Caribbean
Studies will relieve Gutmann in
July, he said.
“Usually these are cases where
Max Monn / Herald
Matthew gutmann is servin as both director of the Center for LatinAmerican and Caribbean Studies and vice president for internationalaffairs.
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For more than three millennia,
Sanskrit served as the primary
written language o major Indian lit-
erary works, but since 2002, Peter Schar, senior lecturer in Classics,has revolutionized the way people
can access the language today.
Schar is expanding his digi-tal Sanskrit library to include anadditional 100 original classical
works and 163 manuscripts o ma-
jor Indian literature, he said. The
revamped Sanskrit library Web site
— set to be unveiled some time inthe next ew weeks — builds uponthe current online Sanskrit library
that Schar and his colleagues con-
structed. In addition to digitizingat least a hundred more Sanskrit
texts, Schar is working on new
linguistic sotware and integrating
lexical sources.
He received unding romthe National Endowment or theHumanities in coordinating the
project.
Schar so
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ht to provide the
public with the tools to accurate-
ly translate and analyze Sanskrit texts. Unlike with the Englishlanguage, most digital mediumsdid not possess the necessary sotware to process Sanskrit. Toaddress this problem, Schar and his colleagues developed a
variety o encoding and computa-
tional phonology and morphology
techniques to digitize original San-
skrit transcripts, Schar said. He
also noted that digitizing Sanskrit
texts has greatly acilitated the way
students do research on Sanskrit literature.
“We don’t just want to duplicate
or imitate the print media in mak-ing Sanskrit available on the web. We want to take advantage o thethings that the … digital mediumcan do that print media could not do,” Schar said.
The current Sanskrit Library
also provides links to online San-
skrit dictionaries, such as Monier-
Williams, Apte and Macdonnel. The Web site urther eatures
extensive grammatical resourcesand analyzers.
The group is trying to “buildthese kinds o tools that allow
someone to bring linguistic analysis
to bear on texts in an environment
where it’s easy to use all these tools
or the benet o the normal read-
ing public,” Schar said.
This past winter, Schar said,he also traveled to India to giveseveral presentations regarding
his research and the library. Schar
spoke at the International Coner-
ence on Natural Language Process-ing at the University o Hyderabad,
the Indian Institute o Technology and gave various other talks in Ka-
lady and Madras.Schar also said he hopes that
the University’s Year o India program will shed more light on
Sanskrit and Indian literature, and
added that “Brown could become
an important center o Indological
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Community service is a part o
many Brown students’ extracurric-ular experience, but new programs
— such as the Engaged Scholars
Initiative — at the Swearer Center or Public Service support service
learning in courses and research. The center is particular about us-
ing the term “engaged scholars”
instead o “service learning,” said
Roger Nozaki MAT’89, associate
dean o the college and the center’s
director.
“The language o service learn-
ing does not fy with aculty,” said
Kerrissa Heernan, director o ac-ulty engagement at the center. “We
have to talk about it in language
that makes sense to them.”
“Just the term eels like it’s
something dierent, oreign or not
rigorous,” Nozaki said. Thoughindividual aculty members have
taken initiative to incorporate com-
munity projects into their coursesand research, Nozaki said the new program can add to the visibility o
such individual initiatives. “I you
Google ‘service learning,’ you’re
not going to get a lot on Brown,”he said.
Not every student or proessor
is an “engaged scholar” and not
everyone should be, Nozaki said.“I don’t see our job as convincing
people to do this,” he said. “I don’t
think that’s a realistic goal.”For some proessors, engagedscholarship “doesn’t t with their
teaching style” and “could be a big
disaster,” Heernan said. While the Swearer Center pro-
vides resources such as unding,
proessors like Phil Brown, proes-
sor o sociology, actively promoteengaged scholarship among their
peers. Brown said he would tour
several University departments todescribe engaged scholarship and
dispel misconceptions.
Brown, who teaches a reshman
seminar on environmental justice,
received unding rom the Engaged
Scholars Initiative to teach a nine-
week course on environmental jus-
tice to local high school students.
Though public outreach is re-quired o any proessor who re-ceives a grant rom the NationalScience Foundation, service is
otherwise an obligation or the Uni-
versity, Brown said. “Brown gives
a lot to Providence, and this is part
o the thing it has to give.” Many
aculty are driven by “a moral sensethat we really have to make scienceand scholarship and academic abili-
ties available to as wide a range o people as possible,” he said.
There is a tendency in academia
or scholars to think o the local
community as a test subject, Brownsaid. When aculty think about link-ing service to learning, it must take
the orm o a partnership because
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