Daily
the Brown
vol. cxlvi, no. 6
News in brief
Nearly 400 bumped
from poli sci course
More than 380 students will
have to search for a new course
to take this semester, as the
Department of Political Science
has capped POLS1510: “Great
Powers and Empires” to 300
students.
“I’ve taught this class before
and I’ve never had a problem
giving overrides or students not
being able to take the course,”
said Minh Luong, the adjunct
lecturer of political science who
teaches the course. “Right now
there are 680 people enrolled in
this class, which way exceeds the
capacity of (Salomon 101).”
The capacity of Salomon 101,
including the balcony area, is
594 people.
According to Luong, another
125 students who had not yet
registered were also trying to
enroll in the class.
Luong said James Morone,
professor of political science and
chair of the department, told
him the class must be capped
and that only juniors and seniors
will be allowed to enroll. Luong
said that he felt this was “within
continued on page 4
Five science profs elected to national society
By TeD Burke
Contributing Writer
Five Brown professors were elected
fellows of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science this
December.
Professor of Medical Science
Edward Hawrot, Professor of Geo-
logical Sciences Timothy Herbert,
The Fish Company, always a scene on Wednesday nights, has closed.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
r ot c r e co n s i d e r e d
Amidst heavy student protest, the faculty voted to abolish Naval ROTC in the spring of 1972. Now, after Congress’
repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” 24 students have applied to sit on a committee to consider the program’s return.
Questions linger in alleged intimidation
By Jake comer
Senior Staff Writer
While the owner of the security
firm accused of participating in
witness intimidation in the Wil-
liam McCormick case denies
wrongdoing in a November de-
position obtained by The Herald,
his testimony fails to put the issue
Professor of Medical Science Agnes
Kane, Professor of Geological Sci-
ences John Mustard, Professor of
Biology Gary Wessel and the other
498 fellows honored this year were
recognized for their “meritorious
efforts to advance science or its ap-
plications,” according to the associa-
tion’s website.
The association describes itself
Courtesy of Miriam Furst
Monsters Ink
In Prof ’s new children’s
book, math can bite
Campus news, 8
Herald
to rest.
In the deposition, Pat Brosnan
— the owner of Brosnan Risk Con-
sultants — states that an investi-
News analysis
gator in his employ anonymously
hand-delivered a package to the
home of witness Mike Burch’s
as an “international non-profit or-
ganization dedicated to advancing
science around the world.” It also
produces Science, one of the world’s
most widely read science maga-
zines. The association “facilitates
and greases the wheels of science,”
Mustard said.
The association’s Council elects
fellows based on nomination by
Fish Co. goes belly up
A retrospective
By Miriam Furst
Staff Writer
For 10 years, students have ventured
off campus seeking the overcrowded
dance floor, the blaring pop mu-
sic and the copious drinks. But
Brown’s Wednesday-night tradition
has come to an end with the closing
of the Fish Company.
After a month of rumors about
renovations, a New Year’s Eve re-
opening and conflicting Blog Daily
Herald reports, Fish Co.’s web-
site has confirmed that Brown’s
Wednesday night hot spot no lon-
ger exists.
Herald archives
See more coverage on page 2.
girlfriend to get a photograph of
Burch. But the investigator already
possessed a picture of Burch from
the internet, and did not take a
picture of him after delivering the
package. Brosnan states the pur-
pose of the ploy was to covertly
surveil — not threaten — Burch,
continued on page 3
other members of the association.
“It is wonderful that these five
faculty members have been selected
as fellows of (the association).” Clyde
Briant, vice president for research,
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “It
recognizes them for the outstand-
ing contributions that they made
continued on page 2
The Rhode Island State Police
Underage Drinking and Nightclub
Safety Task Force raided Fish Co.
Nov. 4, and arrested 26 people for
“Unlawful Drinking and Misrepre-
sentation by an Underage Person,”
according to a Nov. 5 press release.
Three Brown students were arrested
at the bar.
Raymond White, deputy su-
perintendent and chief of field
operations for the Rhode Island
State Police, told The Herald that
he was unaware of the direct effects
of these arrests on the bar. “Night-
continued on page 4
weather
Unique?
Examining Brown’s
need to compete
opinions, 7
Since 1891
U. to
offer int’l
master’s
to juniors
By Ashley Aydin
Senior Staff Writer
The Office of International Pro-
grams will announce today the
launch of “Brown Plus One” — a
program that will allow juniors to
begin earning a master’s degree from
either the Chinese University of
Hong Kong or The University of
Edinburgh.
Juniors will complete the first
half of a master’s during a semester
or year abroad and then return for
another year after graduating Brown
to complete the degree.
The program will offer degrees
in the hard sciences, social sciences
and humanities, Kendall Brostuen,
associate dean of the College and
director of international programs,
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
The application process for the
program will be similar to the stan-
dard study abroad application pro-
cess, with one addition — students
will need to declare their intention
to return to a foreign university to
complete the degree after graduat-
ing Brown.
Students will also be asked to
explain their objectives for the fifth-
year international master’s program
and how the program will help them
develop their liberal learning foun-
dation at Brown, Brostuen wrote.
The program includes require-
ments for those enrolled. “While
abroad as juniors, students must
complete a full-time course of study,
including a Global Independent
Study Project, or a GLISP, linked
to their area of concentration,”
Brostuen wrote.
The program’s coursework will
include at least one graduate-level
offering, which will be accepted in
partial fulfillment of the master’s
requirements, he wrote.
The program — which is part of
Brown’s internationalization initia-
tive — aims to provide students with
the opportunity to incorporate a
global perspective into their bac-
calaureate studies and build upon
that knowledge by adding a focused
fifth year of study, Brostuen wrote.
“Brown undergraduate students
have demonstrated over the years
that they have the maturity and the
self-discipline to excel at gradu-
ate level courses delivered here in
Providence,” he wrote. This pro-
gram, he added, will allow them to
do so at “two globally recognized
universities.”
t o d ay tomorrow
38 / 15 30 / 10
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

calendar Twenty-four apply to ROTC committee

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By Bradley Silverman
Staff Writer
Twenty-four undergraduates have
applied for the two student seats on
the University committee formed
to consider the return of the Re-
serve Officers’ Training Corps
to campus. According to Diane
Mokoro ’11, president of the Un-
dergraduate Council of Students,
the two undergraduate committee
members will be chosen by Friday
morning.
While all the details of the pro-
cess by which the committee will
reach its recommendation have yet
to be announced, undergraduate
committee members can expect
to attend 10 90-minute meetings,
Mokoro wrote in an e-mail to the
student body announcing the ap-
plication process.
The committee was announced
in the wake of Congress’ vote to
repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the
policy under which gays could only
serve in the military if they did
not reveal their sexual orientation.
Since the vote, Brown and
other Ivy League schools have an-
nounced intentions to reconsider
their bans on campus chapters of
ROTC.
In early January, the University
announced plans for the formation
of a committee to consider its re-
sponse to the policy’s repeal. Dean
of the College Katherine Bergeron
will lead the committee, which will
submit recommendations to the
faculty and administration on fu-
ture ROTC and military recruit-
ment on campus.
ROTC students were not held
to the same high academic stan-
dards as others. Since then, the
1993 passage of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” has resulted in resistance to
re-implementing ROTC on many
campuses.
According to a University state-
ment, the original decision to end
Air Force and Naval ROTC in 1971
and 1972, respectively, stemmed
from academic concerns, such as
whether the program should have
its own department and whether
or not its courses should carry aca-
demic credit.
“It will be an open and rigor-
ous process in line with Brown’s
academic goals and policies, as
well as its responsibility to serve
the nation’s needs for outstanding
leadership,” the statement said.
Many other schools, including
Harvard, are considering allowing
the program to return.
“The repeal of (“Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell”) is a historic step,”
wrote Harvard President Drew
Faust in a statement. “I look for-
ward to pursuing discussions with
military officials and others to
achieve Harvard’s full and formal
recognition of ROTC.”
But obstacles to the reintroduc-
tion of ROTC still exist on many
campuses. At some schools, it is
not clear whether there is strong
enough interest on the part of stu-
dents, faculty or the military to
justify ROTC’s return.
Currently, Brown students
may participate in ROTC train-
ing through a unit at Providence
College. As of last Spring, only one
But Lynn Della Grotta ’13, who
is currently spearheading efforts
to bring ROTC back to Brown
through a group called Students
for ROTC, wrote in an e-mail to
The Herald that it was never fair to
hold the military responsible for a
policy imposed by civilian elected
representatives, noting that the
armed services take their orders
from Congress, which originally
passed the policy.
“The absence of ROTC may
have been a reflection of students’
sentiments in the sixties and sev-
enties, but now I believe Brown
students, along with the entire na-
tion, are aware of and thankful for
the sacrifice these courageous men
and women in uniform make in
order to keep our country safe,” she
wrote. “Therefore, it only seems
right to have in this decade the
return of ROTC, in order to reflect
students’ sentiments today.”
“Having a greater presence of
Brown students in leadership posi-
tions in the military would allow
for input into how the military
would evolve in the future,” she
added.
Abbott Gleason, professor
emeritus of history and slavic
studies, began teaching at Brown
in the fall of 1968, shortly before
ROTC was banned on campus. He
said that the program was wildly
unpopular at the time due to stu-
dent attitudes about U.S. foreign
military involvements.
“At almost all of what you would
call liberal colleges in the United
States,” he said, “attitudes flung
wildly against ROTC because of

Crossword Brown, along with many other

universities, banned ROTC in the
student — Joy Joung ’11 — was
participating in the program, ac-
the Vietnam War.”

1970s in the midst of anti-Vietnam cording to an Apr. 29 article in The — With additional reporting by
War protests and allegations that Herald. Nicole Boucher

Science association welcomes profs

continued from page 1
to their fields.”
The five faculty members — who
will be formally welcomed as fellows
at the association’s annual meeting
Feb. 19 — all said the honor came
as a surprise.
Being named a fellow is “more of
an acknowledgement” than a new
job, Wessel said.
Hawrot said it is a “great honor
to be recognized for science over
ones career.”
He said the election of five pro-
fessors puts the University on the
national stage, and that the Univer-
sity should “receive some praise for
the investments they have made for
the high quality of research going
on here.”
Wessel researches sperm and
how eggs are activated at fertiliza-
tion. He also studies germlines,
which eventually become a stemcell
and then an egg or sperm.
“I love doing my job here,” Wessel
said. “Students are the background
for research. The process of educat-
ing is two ways.”
Hawrot, who is also the associate
dean for the program in biology, fo-
cuses on understating the “structure-
function relationship of nicotinic
acetylcholine receptors,” he said, the
basis for nicotine addiction. He also
studies alpha-neurotoxins, which are
derived from snake venom.
Mustard, who studies how the
surfaces of planets are shaped and
looking for major changes, said he
is interested in both planetary and
environmental science. He also said
he hopes to answer the question of
whether life ever existed elsewhere
in the solar system.
Kane, who is also the chair of
the department of pathology and
laboratory medicine, directs and
helps build graduate training pro-
grams and gets funding for them.
Her research is focused on asbestos

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Private investigator’s testimony fails to settle allegations
continued from page 1 He states delivery of the package After Clatch finished the ploy,
A timeline of events in the McCormick case was not a threat but a ploy to lure Brosnan says Clatch called him
but the investigator called Burch Burch into a situation in which to tell him, “it worked; he went
August 30, 2006 — First-year orientation begins for about the incident the following Clatch could take a picture of him, to dinner. And unfortunately, she
William McCormick, then a member of the Class of 2010 and a day from a blocked phone number. and that neither he nor the female still didn’t get the picture.”
wrestling recruit. He testifies that the investigator alum’s father were aware of the When asked why Clatch failed
was offered money to obtain the ploy until after it had taken place. to get a photograph of Burch, Bros-
Sept. 6 — A female classmate of McCormick’s makes a picture in 2009, but the investiga- But according to Clatch’s notes nan first responds that he does
complaint to the University that he has been stalking her. tor did not attempt to do so until — subpoenaed in connection with not know. When asked why Clatch
late 2010. He testifies that he was the deposition — Brosnan’s firm said she did not get a photograph,
Sept. 13 — The female student alleges that McCormick unaware Burch had spoken in the already possessed a picture of Brosnan responds “lighting.”
raped her on the night of Sept. 6. McCormick is forced to leave press about the case, but he had Burch taken from the internet. “Maybe because she tried to
campus. received news articles — attached And according to Brosnan’s de- draw him on at 7:30 at night,” Kil-
to e-mails — about the case. position, Clatch did not take any patrick replies. Clatch’s invitation
Sept. 14 — Russell Carey, senior vice president for The deposition was taken Nov. photograph of Burch after deliv- requested Burch come to dinner
Corporation affairs and governance, hands McCormick a 3 by McCormick’s lawyer, Scott ering the package, even though at 7:30 p.m.
plane ticket home to Wisconsin. He is not informed that Kilpatrick, two weeks after he filed Burch went to the restaurant after Later in the deposition, the
he has been accused of rape. Over the following days, a motion alleging that Burch had receiving the invitation. questioning turns to Clatch’s
McCormick is made aware of the accusation, begins preparing been subject to witness intimida- Brosnan says he asked for the phone call to Burch the follow-
a defense with his adviser — assistant wrestling coach Mike tion. Burch — a former assistant photograph “because I suspected, ing day, and the role it played in
Burch — and hires attorney Walter Stone to advise him. wrestling coach and the Univer- particularly when the civil case the ploy.
According to federal court records, Stone’s law firm — Adler sity-appointed adviser to McCor- came above ground, that there may When first asked why Clatch
Pollock & Sheehan — was representing the University in a mick when he was accused of rape be a possibility this may evolve at called Burch the following day
separate matter while Stone was advising McCormick in the in 2006 — received an anonymous some later date for the client into from a blocked number, Brosnan
disciplinary process. package Sept. 27 inviting him to a a focused surveillance … and it responds, “I don’t know.” When
free dinner at the DownCity Diner would certainly be very handy to asked again about the purpose
Oct. 3 — The female student’s father — a University alum, “to show our appreciation for ev- have a recent photograph.” of the call, Brosnan says Clatch
donor and fundraiser — e-mails President Ruth Simmons, erything you do.” Brosnan states that his em- “wanted to convey to (Burch) that
“Ruth … I am working to resolve the matter with the student The following day, Burch re- ployees performed surveillance there was no ulterior motive to
who attacked (the female student) — the goal is to have him ceived a phone call about the pack- of Burch in September of 2009, but the extent that she thought that
withdraw from Brown and not have a University hearing. This age from a blocked number. Using “never got a photograph.” this would be helpful to him to
will enable (the female student) and the other students to subpoenas, Kilpatrick’s law firm Kilpatrick asks Brosnan, “You understand in some way. That’s
avoid having to come in contact with the student and face traced the call to a phone owned needed a picture of him because what she said to me.”
questioning from his advocate.” by Pat Brosnan, the founder of you didn’t have one and didn’t Brosnan states in the deposition
a New York private investigative know what he looked like; right?” that he did not know that Burch
Oct. 15 — McCormick withdraws from Brown, citing firm known to work for the father to which Brosnan responds, “I was a witness in a lawsuit “until re-
medical reasons. In court documents, he will later allege the of the female alum who accused didn’t have a picture, no. There cently.” He also states that although
experience aggravated an existing seizure condition. McCormick of rape. McCormick was no picture.” the female alum’s father had sent
is suing the female alum, her father According to the deposition, him news articles in which Burch
September 2009 — McCormick’s new lawyer, Scott and the University in federal court. Kilpatrick then brings Brosnan’s talks to reporters about the Mc-
Kilpatrick files a complaint under seal in Rhode Island Superior In the deposition, Brosnan attention to notes from Clatch’s Cormick case, he did not read the
Court. The claim alleges that McCormick was falsely accused states he was retained in 2009 2009 surveillance of Burch, which articles and was unaware Burch
and that the University mishandled the accusation because to surveil Burch and ensure his include a headshot of Burch taken had been vocal in the media about
of the financial relationship of the female alum’s father to daily patterns would not bring from the internet. the case.
the University. The motion to seal is granted, and there is him into contact with the female Brosnan confirms the photo- Brosnan says he does not think
no public record of the suit. The case is soon transferred to alum, then a senior. Brosnan says graph is of Burch and responds, the package — which consisted of
federal court, where it is again placed under seal. the surveillance ended in 2009, “We didn’t feel that the photos an invitation and flowers — could
but that at that time he offered the were of sufficient quality and clar- reasonably have been considered
April 12, 2010 — The Herald prints a story based on a investigator assigned to the case, ity and crisp enough in case that scary.
leaked copy of the complaint. The case is unsealed later that Sharon Clatch, $1,000 to obtain a we had to go on a surveillance, on He did not respond to e-mails
day at a hearing in front Judge William Smith. picture of Burch if she were to find a focused surveillance, at a later and a phone call seeking comment
herself in Providence in the future. date.” for this story.
Sept. 27 — A package addressed to Burch — who has
been named a witness in the case — is hand-delivered
anonymously to the home of Burch’s girlfriend, a single
mother. It contains an invitation to a free meal at Downcity
Diner — a restaurant across the street from the law firm
representing McCormick. Burch shows up for dinner, where
he finds out the restaurant was given cash by two women to
pay for his meal. The next day, Burch receives an anonymous
phone call about the package.

October 2010 — Using subpoenas, McCormick’s lawyers

trace the number used to call Burch about his satisfaction
with the gift to former New York Police Department Detective
Pat Brosnan, owner of a private security firm. Brosnan works
regularly for the female alum’s father.

Jan. 6, 2011 — Well over a year into the suit, Federal Judge
William Smith recuses himself without explanation.

Jan. 19 — Burch is granted a temporary civil restraining

order against the father of the female alum in Rhode Island
Superior Court in connection with the package and phone Stephanie London / Herald
call. Mike Burch, a former assistant wrestling coach, alleged witness intmidation after a private investigator delivered
a package to the home of his girlfriend with an invitation to a free dinner at the DownCity Diner (pictured above).
Jan. 25 — Burch files a criminal complaint against the
female alum’s father with the Pawtucket Police in connection
with the same incident. The investigation is currently
ongoing.

Jan. 28 — Burch is denied a permanent restraining order

in Superior Court because he had already raised the issue of
witness intimidation in Federal Court. At the hearing on the
restraining order, the female alum’s father says Judge Smith
recused himself from the federal case because his daughter is
applying to Brown.
4 Campus News
News in brief
Students exceed
auditorium capacity
continued from page 1
reasonable limits of what the
University believes is best for
the students,” adding that an
oversized class makes it difficult to
grade exams and goes against fire
safety regulations.
“It’s upsetting obviously, I think
everyone is upset about it,” said
Rachel Rosenfeld ’13, who — as a
sophomore — will not be allowed
to take the course. She said she
had heard Luong is “amazing.”
“Given the unprecedented
situation, there was a tough
choice to be made and Professor
Morone made it,” he said. “The
people affected this year will have
the opportunity to work with me
in an improved version of the
course in the future.”
According to Luong, the
Office of the Registrar was so
sure that the class would have
low enrollment that events
had already been scheduled
in Salomon 101 on some
Wednesday and Friday evenings
during class time.
“I am both shocked and very
humbled,” Luong said. “The last
time I taught this class there were
a little over 300 students and the
time before that around 267.”
Luong said that he has “no
idea” why the course was so
popular this year, suggesting that
it was perhaps due to a resurgent
interest in period movies, human
rights and international relations.
He added it might also be due
to an impression that this course
will not be taught again, as he
had initially indicated in his first
lecture. But given the popularity
of the course, it will likely be
offered again, he said.
— Aparna Bansal
Fish Co. property to reopen under new ownership
continued from page 1
clubs will be under scrutiny by us,
but the licensing board will be the
one who can make the decision.
We had members of Providence
Police with us (on the night of the
Fish Co. bust), and they turn that
information over to their respective
licensing board,” he said.
After the arrests, rumors circu-
lated through the Brown commu-
nity that Fish Co. was permanently
closed. But according to the bar’s
website at the time, it was only
closed for renovations and was set
to reopen on New Year’s Eve.
At that point, the information on
the website was true, according to
Blaine Grinna ’11. Grinna had been
organizing Brown Night at Fish Co.
and knows the bar’s former own-
ers, Jay and Gene, though he said
he does not know their last names.
While Fish Co. did get fined a total
of $650 as a result of the Nov. 4 raid,
according to Providence License
Administrator Serena Conley, that
night did not directly lead to the
bar’s ultimate closing.
A decision made between Fish
Co.’s two owners months before the
raid played a larger role in the end
of Fish Co., Grinna said.
The famous riverside building
will reopen in March, but under a
new name and new management,
according to TonightinRI.com.
Neither the former nor the
new owners of the venue could be
reached for comment.
‘An equal opportunity place’
“Fischco was an institution,”
Grinna said. Fish Co. has been
a staple of Brown’s social scene
since 2002, when a few members
of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity
started Brown Night at the bar to
earn money working as bouncers,
he said.
“All the alumni are sad about the
closing. It’s a formative part of the
Brown cultural experience,” said
Kate Whalen ’07.
Whalen said the first time she
went to Fish Co. as a first-year,
she did not know what to expect.
“You walk in, and it’s completely
overwhelming,” she said. “It’s not
like the rest of your Providence bar
experience.”
“I remember having so much
fun dancing there freshman year,”
she said. “You just go and get lost
in the crowd. I think we did more
dancing freshman year than senior
year. Senior year was just more chill
at Fish Co..”
The news of Fish Co.’s closing
circulated among Whalen’s friends
within hours of it being posted on
Blog Daily Herald, she said. “Fish
Co. was so different than going out
on Thayer Street or going to a house
party,” she said.
“Fish Co. was one of those places
that regardless of who your friends
were — whether you were a sports
person or a frat person — everyone
would go,” she said. “Fish Co. was
an equal-opportunity place.”
Even though she graduated
Brown, Whalen said she cannot
imagine not being able to return to
the bar. “We wanted to rent Fish Co.
to have a party for our fifth-year re-
union. Everybody loved that place.
I don’t know where else you could
get dressed up and go out with 20 of
your friends on a Wednesday night.”
“And Halloween Fish Co. and
all those special Fish Co.s — what’s
going to happen?” she added.
Mourning the ’Co.
Students on campus had simi-
lar concerns about Fish Co.’s fate.
Walker Williams ’11 started a “Free
Fish Co.” campaign Dec. 1, when
Blog Daily Herald first reported a
rumor that it was closing.
“Whether you love it or hate it,
Fish Co. was part of Brown culture,”
Williams said.
Williams designed a “Free Fish
Co.” T-shirt and, within the first
night of launching the website, there
were 200 preorders, he said. “We
wanted to show the owners of Fish
Co. how much support they had
behind them.” There were 1,500 hits
to the website on the first night — “a
quarter of the Brown student body,
which gives you an idea of how big
Fish Co. was on campus,” Williams
said.
Whalen and most of her friends
purchased “Free Fish Co.” T-shirts
to mourn the loss of the bar.
The Brown Daily Herald
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Students celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at Fish Company.
Swathi Bojedla ’07 said that two
years ago, one of her friends rented
a party bus in New York City to take
recent alumni back up to Brown
to celebrate a birthday at Fish Co..
Bojedla still remembers her first
night at the bar. “I thought Brown
was the best place on Earth partly
because of Fish Co.,” she said. “I also
met so many of my good friends
there.” During her senior year, Bo-
jedla and her friends all signed up
for the same existentialism class
Thursdays at 1 p.m. so they could
recap the night at Fish Co. together
every week, she said.
“Obviously, Brown’s an amazing
school, and everyone is so smart,
but it was great to have an off-
campus crazy college bar to go to,”
Bojedla said. “I don’t think a lot of
other Ivys have that.”
Bojedla and Whalen both said
that memories of Fish Co. are some-
thing that alumni and current stu-
dents can bond over and share.
The end of an era
“Wednesday nights will never
be the same,” Dave Rosen ’14 said.
“Fish Co. was a great way to break
up the school week . . . you can’t
really dance at frats. Fish Co. was
definitely the most wild and it was
fun to chill on the porch there.”
The University administra-
tion knew that “Fish Co. was the
Wednesday night thing,” said Mar-
garet Klawunn, vice president of-
campus life and student services.
The University had to deal with
Courtesy of Miriam Furst
several incidents a year that oc-
curred either at Fish Co. or as a
result of an event that took place
at the bar, she said. A policeman
was also stationed at Josiah’s on
Wednesday nights to handle any
problems, which were more likely
to occur when students returned
to campus from Fish Co., she said.
While Brown students domi-
nated 515 S. Water St. on Wednes-
days, Thursdays were Providence
College Night.
“Thursday nights were definitely
Fish Co. nights and were a blast,”
said Amanda George, a sophomore
at PC. “It was the melting pot for
all the schools and was physically
bigger than the other bars we go to.”
In addition to the end of an era
of Wednesday nights at Fish Co., the
closing will have further implica-
tions for Brown’s social scene. “Not
having Fish Co. definitely changes
rush,” said Adam Driesman ’12, the
recruitment chair of the Sigma Chi
fraternity. “It was a great place to
meet a lot of the potential rushes
and was an equal playing field for
all the fraternities.” He added that
the fraternity is seeking a new loca-
tion for its “annual disco inferno
party,” which is nicknamed “Disco
Fish Co..”
Even though “Fish Co. was the
spot,” Grinna said he hopes students
“can continue to have incredible
experiences like we did at Fish Co.
as a student body, not just as small
cliques in respective College Hill
bars.”
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
NPR Prof’s book explores
features Peruvian kinship bonds
kids’ book
continued from page 8
Peters said.
“We saw absolutely fantastic il-
lustrations,” Peters said. “I told ev-
erybody in our company that this
book would become a real classic
children’s book.”
A K Peters sold the book to
mathematicians at various confer-
ences, Peters explained.
“I showed the book to (Keith
Devlin) at the last mathematics con-
ference,” Peters said, adding that
NPR responded very quickly.
“I believe mathematics is some-
thing that is completely misunder-
stood by the public because of bad
teaching,” Peters said.
He said he recalled an e-mail he
received in which Schwartz was de-
scribed as “a new Dr. Seuss.”
“You Can Count on Monsters”
won first prize in the children’s cat-
egory in the annual Book Builders
of Boston competition this spring,
Peters said.
Schwartz said he believes that his
previous publications with A K Pe-
ters allowed him to get his children’s
book “in the back door,” he said.
“The children’s book market is
brutally competitive.”
BB & Z | Cole Pruitt, Andrew Seiden, Valerie Hsiung and Dan Ricker
Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman
Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline
continued from page 8
“I think she does a good job of
understanding kinship as something
to do with bonds that are more than
just biological,” said Alfredo Aguirre
’10, who did independent research
with Leinaweaver in 2009. “So kin-
ship is more than just a blood type.
But it’s also a social phenomenon.”
Aguirre said it was “really impor-
tant” to move away from the “very
Western” view that kinship is “purely
biological.”
Leinaweaver found that parents
often sent their kids away to provide
them with opportunities, perhaps
at a better school in an urban area.
In other cases, a godparent would
request to take care of the kids to
have companionship, to gain extra
help around the house or to help out
the child’s family. Some of the kids
she spoke to expressed a desire to
leave to ease their parents’ burden.
Leinaweaver told The Herald she
found many “layers of motivation”
that were in the end “difficult to un-
tangle.”
“The thing I miss most about
Peru is the people I got to know,”
Leinaweaver said. “One of the
strange things about anthropology
is we’re trying to find out about inter-
esting anthropological (phenomena),
but because we stay there so long . . .
often it becomes a friendship.”
comics
Campus News 5
Leinaweaver is on leave this
semester. While she was studying
families in Peru, she was a single,
childless PhD student. Now, she’s
taking phone calls with her newborn
baby in hand. She writes articles in
between the baby’s naps, she told
The Herald, and her latest work is
on Peruvian immigrants in Spain.
She said she spent the last two sum-
mers in Spain, comparing young Pe-
ruvians who have been adopted by
Spanish families to the children of
Peruvian families who migrated to
Spain. Some of these families were
the ones she encountered during her
work in Peru.
“In some sense, it’s a continuation
of the earlier study,” she said. “I’m
looking at the same question in a
transnational sphere: adoption ver-
sus migration, how are they similar
or different.”
Next year, Leinaweaver will bring
her “communication skills into the
classroom” by teaching an introduc-
tory anthropology course, Lutz said.
“I love to talk about my research
when I’m teaching,” Leinaweaver
said. “That is a way to make an-
thropology more real to students,
to show pictures and say this is me
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Brown’s independent bookstore has long been a point of pride among
members of the community. Most other Ivy League schools’ official
bookstores are actually specialized outposts of Barnes & Noble.
In fact, the Brown Alumni Magazine reported that a University
committee recommended outsourcing the bookstore to a chain like
Barnes & Noble or Borders in 2007 before a protest movement sprang
up arguing that “an independent bookstore would be more responsive
to the community’s needs.” Ultimately, this position carried the day.
Students and administrators have put up with some of the drawbacks
of this arrangement — not the least of which is the significantly higher
price for textbooks — for various reasons. Indeed, the current situation
is buttressed by the pride of independence and an almost automatic,
typically Brunonian opposition to the kind of corporatization that a
Borders takeover of the bookstore would represent.
And for the most part, the bookstore actually was refreshingly easy
to use. The generous textbook return policy in particular often made the
bookstore competitive with other textbook vendors despite the greater
cost of textbooks. With unlimited returns throughout shopping period,
ten-day returns after shopping period and no questions asked through-
out, the bookstore facilitated a liberal shopping schedule and eliminated
a lot of stress that would otherwise attend the purchase of textbooks.
This is why we were so disappointed to learn of the bookstore’s recent
change to its return policy. The Herald recently reported that under
the new policy, returns will only be allowed three days after purchase
during shopping period, only for dropped courses for the next two

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weeks and not at all for the remainder of the semester. What’s worse,
all returns must be accompanied by physical proof in the form of an
official transcript, course schedule or drop slip.

“Fish Co. was an equal-opportunity place.”

This is a tremendous change for the worse at the bookstore. We
understand that, as Director of Bookstore Administration Steven Souza
told The Herald, some students previously abused the generous return
policy to avoid actually paying for books. Some alternatives to the
new policy come to mind; the bookstore could prevent a student from
buying a book he or she has already bought and returned, for example.
However, this new policy is a serious overreaction that immediately — Kate Whalen ’07
eliminates any advantages the bookstore may have had over other
retailers like Amazon.com. At Amazon, textbooks are usually signifi-
cantly cheaper than at the bookstore, as students can see from Mocha’s
side-by-side comparison, and two-day shipping is free for all students
through the new Amazon Student program. Perhaps most importantly,
though, Amazon permits returns for a full month after purchase, and
we’ve heard the mailroom can help with shipping. Ever wondered what it’s like to work
In our view, the bookstore has shot itself in the foot with this new
return policy, which will undoubtedly cause many students to try out
alternative methods for their textbook purchases. It might even lose
at a student-run business? Do you
more revenue from disappointed customers than the previous return
policy cost. like FREE PIZZA?
Like many Brown students, we support the continued independence
of the bookstore. It’s actually a nice place, especially after the recent
renovations. But this misguided change in the return policy has seri-
ously damaged its appeal to students and undermines the argument
that an independent store can be responsive to our needs. We urge the
bookstore to reconsider the changes and look into other, more sensible
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Politics and patriotism in the ROTC issue? No thanks
BY CHELSEA WAITE
Opinions Columnist
Two recent opinions columnists have ex-
pressed different views on the Reserve Of-
ficer Training Corps issue. Chris Norris-
LeBlanc (“The ROTC Question,” Jan. 28)
paints a political picture: Brown should not
endorse the army by allowing an ROTC
presence on campus. Heath Mayo (“The
ROTC Answer,” Jan. 31) rejects the politi-
cized view in favor of one centered around
patriotism: Brown has a responsibility to
support the forces protecting us abroad.
The issue, while it can be made about
politics and patriotism, should be about
neither. As much as Brown students tend
to be of a liberal persuasion, the University
would be going a step too far in continuing
to ban ROTC based on an apparently uni-
versal disapproval of our military’s actions.
We send many students each year to be in-
vestment bankers and consultants on Wall
Street — the actions and moral choices of
whom I frequently question. But it would
be ridiculous to stop Goldman Sachs from
recruiting at Brown. Clearly, the situa-
tions have differences, but the point is that
Brown has little business unilaterally op-
posing the military and everything it does
through a ban on ROTC.
Does that mean we have a patriotic
duty to support our military in all of its
By kurt walters
Opinions Columnist
In President Obama’s recent State of the
Union address, we heard repeated appeals
to renew America’s long-term competitive-
ness and to “win the future” against emerg-
ing rivals like India and China. Similarly, in
the decade following Ruth Simmons’ hir-
ing as President in 2001, Brown has seen
a heightened emphasis on becoming more
competitive with other schools in the fight
to attract the best students in the country
and from around the world.
After inheriting a stalled and stagnant
campus, the Simmons administration
quickly initiated a raft of reforms under
the Plan for Academic Enrichment. Many
of them were incredibly beneficial, ranging
from need-blind admissions for domestic,
non-transfer students, to impressive in-
creases in fundraising and faculty hiring.
But with the huge changes the school has
seen comes a significant risk of losing the
educational culture and university-college
model that make Brown so attractive in the
first place. In many cases, Brown’s leader-
ship seems to be taking its cues more from
trying to copy Harvard, Yale and Princeton
— the “HYP(e)” schools for short — than
from trying to improve Brown’s unique cul-
ture. Just take how the recent tenure reform
debate was sparked by the fact that Brown
has a considerably higher rate of tenure ap-
proval than other Ivy League schools, and
how a principal argument for establishing
the new school of engineering was “well, all
endeavors? No. As a Brown student gener-
ally skeptical of much of our internation-
al activity in the past few decades, I stand
strongly by the claim that my skepticism
does not preclude my patriotism. Brown
students can and should continue to ques-
tion our policy abroad. We can continue to
do that even with an ROTC option here —
in fact, it might make our questioning even
more relevant.
Ay, there’s the rub, and now we come
to what will likely be the most controver-
sial part of this column. I think we gener-
ally have very little direct experience with
Frankly, if more students at universities like Brown were
to enter ROTC and by extension the U.S. military, I think
we just might give that military — and the missions it
undertakes — a little more rapt attention.
or connection to the U.S. military. Relative-
ly few of us have acquaintances, let alone
close friends or siblings, in the armed forc-
es. An ROTC presence on campus would
be exactly that — a presence that we hardly
ever see now. It makes me cringe on Veter-
ans’ Day when Brown students uncomfort-
ably give a wide berth around uniformed
men or women, wondering what business
the army has on a campus like ours.
How we compete
the other Ivy League schools have one.”
Now, I don’t mean to suggest here that
Simmons has some agenda to undermine
the New Curriculum and the university-
college model. Far from it — although Si-
mon Liebling’s columns such as “Brown,
Inc.” do have significant merit. Rather, the
risk is that in the rush to make improve-
ments, Brown’s culture will be overlooked
through neglect and die a slow “death by
a thousand cuts.” By the time we realize a
shift has happened, it will already be too
late.
Brown has long had an emphasis on the
liberal arts rather than professional or vo-
cational training. In 1946, then-president
In the midst of these changes, we seem to have lost sight
of the best way for Brown to compete — by staking out
a position that is uniquely “Brown” rather than
becoming an also-ran “Yale Jr.”
Henry Wriston lauded the University’s in-
clusion of engineering within the liberal
arts college rather than “segregating it in
a separate school.” Similarly, Wriston not-
ed how Brown had eliminated previous
experiments with programs in medicine,
agriculture, business and forestry because
they were found to be “fundamentally in-
compatible” with Brown’s commitment to
liberal arts learning.
Today, of course, it is no secret that
Brown has a rapidly expanding medical
school, which soon will be geographically
separated from the main campus and is in
Opinions 7
Frankly, if more students at universi-
ties like Brown were to enter ROTC, and by
extension the U.S. military, I think we just
might give that military — and the missions
it undertakes — a little more rapt attention.
Perhaps if more of us actually knew about
U.S. military presences the world over and
had met some of the women and men mak-
ing up those presences, we would be in a
better position to make the changes we
want to see in our foreign policy.
Countless articles in recent years have
exposed how much of the U.S. military is
made up of recruits from rural America,
most of whom are from poor or lower-
middle-class families. For all that Brown
students tend to criticize the military, we
certainly don’t have much of a role in it. If
we, and others like us, had more of a pres-
ence in, or exposure to, the armed forces,
perhaps — dare I say it? — we would do
more than passively disapprove of its ac-
tions. Coming at the same point from an-
other angle, our judgment of our current
the process of de-emphasizing the Program
in Liberal Medical Education that kept it
unique and relevant to the liberal arts. Add
to that the new school of engineering (ev-
eryone else was doing it!) and rumors of a
future School of Community Health, and
we see a subtle yet fundamental transfor-
mation away from Brown’s university-col-
lege identity.
In the midst of these changes, we seem
to have lost sight of the best way for Brown
to compete — by staking out a position that
is uniquely “Brown” rather than becoming
an also-ran “Yale Jr.”
For the subset of present and future stu-
dents who are looking for a self-directed
liberal arts education at a school with a
strong focus on undergraduates and the
resources of a university (as I once was), I
don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that
Brown is the best choice in the world. There
are plenty of great options for pre-profes-
sionals, but if you try to think of other true
university-colleges, it’s hard to get much
further than perhaps Wesleyan or Dart-
mouth. If Brown abandons its unique fo-
cus and model, it would leave a gaping void
in the college landscape. By instead com-
peting with ourselves to be the best Brown
University possible, we will be de facto
military leadership and decision-making
does not have to color our judgment of
peers interested in such a career, nor does
it have to color the program in which they
have chosen to enroll in order to achieve
their goals. An ROTC presence at Brown
would invite, I believe, a more dynamic dis-
cussion about the U.S. military and a more
nuanced perspective from those inside and
outside the program.
In sum, I see the ROTC issue as one
of choice and awareness. No one would
be forced to enter the program, and quite
honestly, I don’t predict it would be very
big here. But allowing that option would
open the range of experiences and perspec-
tives on our campus. It could also help to
populate the top tiers of the military with
some well-educated Brown students who
have trained in an environment of great
ideological diversity. Furthermore, a clos-
er-to-home experience with army recruit-
ment and training might spur those of us
opposed to certain military choices to back
up our arguments more and take them far-
ther.
Whether it’s about politics or patrio-
tism, I stand where I usually do: Let’s have
a healthy debate about it. I believe that de-
bate would be enriched by the participation
of Brown students also interested in a mili-
tary career.
Chelsea Waite ’11 could have put this
article on a sign at the Rally
to Restore Sanity.
competitive with both colleges and univer-
sities by offering the best of both worlds.
With so much change, we are at a tenu-
ous crossroads. But there are steps we can
take to preserve our educational culture
while still improving the school. First, let’s
make sure that we aren’t promoting the
segmenting of the University into many
schools without good reason. Liberal edu-
cation thrives at the intersection of many
different disciplines, so we should be wary
of putting up barriers to interdisciplinary
contact by breaking up the University.
Second, we must create incentives for
professors to engage in undergraduate
teaching and especially advising over ex-
clusively prioritizing their research. Stu-
dents come to Brown looking for under-
graduate excellence, and faculty members
must be here for the same reason. The New
Curriculum, with its characteristic free-
dom and resulting reliance on strong ad-
vising, dies without a faculty deeply com-
mitted to undergraduates.
Finally and most importantly, we need
vigilance, energy and passion from the stu-
dent body regarding the University’s gov-
ernance and future. We should promote
and be proud — not suspicious — of our
differences from other schools. We cannot
expect faculty and administration to main-
tain the New Curriculum and a culture that
most benefits undergraduate students —
we must fight for that ourselves.
Kurt Walters ’11 was ecstatic to see a
page labeled “The university college” in
the bookstore’s Brown promo pamphlet.
Here’s looking at you, Brown PR team.
Daily Herald Campus News
the Brown
Libraries get
improved
study spaces
By Kristina KLARA
Staff Writer
The fourth floor of the Sciences
Library and a small area on Level
A of the Rockefeller Library were
recently renovated to create ad-
ditional places for quiet study.
“Recently we’ve had more
students ask us for quieter study
spaces,” said David Banush, associ-
ate University librarian for access
services, adding that demand for
such spaces in the SciLi was par-
ticularly high. The new space is
divided into four rooms of varying
size, which Banush said are “first-
come, first-served,” and a larger,
open space which is designated
for quiet study.
In the main room, several white
tables dot the variegated purple
and brown rug. Freestanding white
boards intersect the tables, and
there are moveable purple divid-
ers that can be used to section off
study spaces.
“I’m a fan,” said Sumitha Ra-
man ’13. “It’s quiet and big and
open.”
Steven Lavallee, head of the
Friedman Study Center, said re-
quests for more space were voiced
multiple times at a Friedman-Rock
Advisory Council meeting. The
committee consists of four stu-
dents appointed by the Under-
graduate Council of Students and
four appointed by Brown’s library
faculty.
Stacks on the A level of the
Rock were removed to make room
Math and monsters add up in children’s book
By Ben kutner
Staff Writer
From the author of “The Pentagram
Integrals for Inscribed Polygons”
and “Spherical CR Geometry and
Dehn Surgery” comes “You Can
Count on Monsters,” a colorful
picture book featuring 100 math-
themed monsters. Professor of
Mathematics Richard Schwartz’s
first children’s book offers young
children a unique math experience.
The book, recently featured on
National Public Radio, is filled with
colorful graphics of monsters that
correspond with the numbers one to
100, presenting young children with
a unique and exciting way to learn
about concepts like prime numbers
and factoring. The graphic of each
monster is related to the number it
represents — the number five mon-
ster, for example, is a five-sided star.
The project originally took the
form of a poster of the 100 monsters,
which Schwartz said he had made
for one of his daughters.
“I wanted to just make some-
thing for her,” he said.
Schwartz said he made several
comic books when he was in his 20s
and that creating graphics is a hobby
of his. He created the pictures of the
Renovations to parts of the Sciences Library and Rockefeller Library have created increased study space for students.
for the new study space, and many
shelves of books were moved to the
Library Collections Annex. “It re-
ally reflects the changing nature of
the use of library facilities,” Banush
said. “We’re not acquiring as much
printed material as we used to and
people aren’t using it as much.”
Banush said SciLi attendance
figures from the last academic year
were some of the highest ever. “We
could probably sell seats at auction
during exam period.”
There will be seating for 96
people on the fourth floor of the
SciLi, Banush said. New chairs are
scheduled to arrive soon.
The fourth floor of the SciLi
will be open the same hours as
the rest of the building — until
2 a.m. Sunday through Thursday
Monsters, like this one representing a factoring tree, fill Schwartz’s book.
monsters using X Fig, a program
used by many mathematicians that
brings up shapes and geometrical
patterns, he said.
The book contains three sec-
tions — an introduction explain-
ing the concepts in the book, the
and until 10 p.m. on Friday and
Saturday.
“I’m just anxious to see how
students like it,” said Lavallee.
“We will certainly try to make
our facilities more friendly to stu-
dent needs,” Banush said.
While the fourth floor of the
SciLi was renovated primarily due
to student requests, the renova-
tions at the Rock had more practi-
cal reasons.
The renovated space on Level A
is right near the art books, many of
which are large and on reserve for
use in the library only. The tables
near the books will allow people
to look at them with more ease,
Banush said, although he added
that students had requested more
comfortable study spaces in the
Courtesy of Richard Schwartz
actual graphics of the 100 monsters
and two appendices at the end of
the book containing the Sieve of
Eratosthenes and Euclid’s proof for
prime numbers.
“I kind of did it in bursts,”
Schwartz said. “I’d estimate the
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Evan Thomas / Herald
Rock. The new area will seat 15 to
20 students, and a new L-shaped
rug has been ordered for the space.
The lobby of the Rock has also
undergone renovations — the re-
ception desk where visitors previ-
ously presented their identification
for entry has been replaced with a
set of electronic doors that open
automatically when the proper
identification card is swiped.
Banush said he wasn’t sure
where the money for the reno-
vations came from, but that “the
money from these sorts of things
typically comes from donations.”
Raman said it was her second
time in the space, adding that she
thought she would probably return
to the fourth floor. “It’s always a
good thing to have more space.”
whole book took a thousand hours.”
After receiving coverage Jan.
22 from Keith Devlin on NPR, the
book leapt to the number-one posi-
tion on Amazon for the children’s
math book category for over a day,
Schwartz said, one year after the
book was published.
The NPR coverage was “essen-
tially a four-minute glowing ad-
vertisement,” Schwartz said. “It was
on a Saturday morning, I actually
overslept.”
Schwartz published the children’s
book with A K Peters, Ltd., a pub-
lishing company that focuses on
books related to computer science
and mathematics. Schwartz had sev-
eral previous publications with the
company, but he said they were very
mathematically complex.
“You Can Count on Monsters” is
the first book for very young chil-
dren published by A K Peters, said
Klaus Peters, a co-founder of the
company and a former professor
of mathematics at the University
of Erlangen in Nuremberg, Ger-
many. The company had previously
published other books for middle-
school children, but this book is
intended for children six and up,
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Prof’s book
wins 2010
Mead award
By Julia Longoria
Contributing Writer
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Jessaca Leinaweaver won the 2010
Margaret Mead Award for her first
published book, “The Circulation of
Children: Kinship, Adoption, and
Morality in Andean Peru.” The award,
given each year by the American
Anthropological Association and the
Society for Applied Anthropology,
will be formally presented in April.
“It’s the most prestigious award
for a junior scholar in anthropol-
ogy,” said Professor of Anthropology
Catherine Lutz, chair of the depart-
ment. Leinaweaver has “a very acute
sensibility as to the lives of other
people,” Lutz added. “She has a real
ear for how people think and experi-
ence the world in different ways and
a very strong ability to write what
she’s learned.”
The award bears the name of an-
thropologist Margaret Mead, who
had a “knack for communicating her
findings to the public,” Leinaweaver
said. According to the association’s
website, winners “interpret anthro-
pological data and principles” in
a way that is accessible to a world
audience, not just anthropologists.
Leinaweaver, who joined the faculty
in 2008, is the second member of
Brown’s anthropology department
to receive this award. Professor of
Anthropology Dan Smith accepted
it in 2008.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Leinaweav-
er said. “To me, it says I was suc-
cessful in writing a book that can be
read by many people. So it’s not just
for my anthropological colleagues
with extensive training in theory
and methods of the discipline. For
example, my husband’s grandmother
read it.”
Her book opens, “This child is
abandoned.” Leinaweaver brings
readers along on the journey she
took from 2001 to 2003 as a PhD
student in Ayacucho, Peru. The book
examines a phenomenon she calls
“child circulation,” where Peruvian
children live away from home, often
with an aunt or a friend of the family.
Peruvian government and adoption
officials would sometimes view these
children as abandoned.
“I was interested in finding out
why that was so common,” Lein-
aweaver said. “I saw it as a sort of
adoption, even though sometimes
kids would only move temporarily,
like for a year or two.”
The book compares this phenom-
enon to another method of relocat-
ing children: legal adoption. Ulti-
mately, Leinaweaver was interested
in “how the government and Que-
chua-speaking people thought dif-
ferently about where people should
be and who should take care of their
children,” she said. She gathered a
wealth of perspectives, interview-
ing social workers, parents of the
children, receiving families and the
kids themselves.
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