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Living next door,
but a world apart
By Anne Speyer
Senior Staf f Writer
It can be easy to forget while
hurr ying from class to class that
not ever yone on College Hill is
a student.
But Providence is not just a
college town, and the streets sur-
rounding Brown are filled with
people who have long ago ceased
to lead the student life. Though
many of Brown’s neighbors enjoy
living near a university campus,
the dramatic differences in life-
style can lead to some tensions,
especially when Brown under-
graduates live side-by-side with
local residents in of f-campus
houses.
There are currently 1,263
students living off campus, ap-
proximately 900 seniors and 300
juniors, according to Richard
Bova, senior associate dean of
residential and dining ser vices,
and many of them share neigh-
borhoods — and even buildings
— with East Side residents.
“In general, our relationship
with the neighbors is pretty
Flu-like illnesses abate, but worst may be on the way
By Suzannah Weiss
Senior Staf f Writer
The frequency of influenza-like
illnesses on campus has dropped
since it hit a peak in late Septem-
ber, but Health Ser vices Director
Ed Wheeler said this improvement
is most likely “the calm before
the storm.”
Over two-thirds of the 487 ILIs
reported to Health Services since
Activities fee increase
proposed to UCS
By Kyla Wilkes
Senior Staf f Writer
A resolution proposed to the Un-
dergraduate Council of Students
last night would seek to raise the
student activities fee by $8.
Brady Wyrtzen ’11, student ac-
tivities chair for UCS, presented
the resolution to the full council
at Wednesday’s UCS general body
meeting. The increase would bring
the student activities fee to a yearly
total of $178. This increase would
not affect student tuition, Wyrtzen
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good,” said Tim Leshan, director
of government relations and com-
munity affairs. “But when there
are issues, it can get strained.”
Love thy neighbors
Brown is an important pres-
ence on the East Side, and some
homeowners say the prospect of
continued on page 4
Sept. 1 occurred last month. But
the increase in overall cases in
Rhode Island likely indicates that
cases at Brown have not subsided
for good, Wheeler said.
According to a report on the
Center for Disease Control and
Prevention Web site, New England
has been seeing an increase in ILI
patients over the past week.
“It would be pretty naive for
us to think that we’re not going
said, just the portion of student
tuition allocated to student activi-
ties.
The fee hike is necessitated by
the growing number of student
groups on campus, rising salaries
of public safety officers and increas-
ing costs for event ser vices and
staffing, according to Wyrtzen.
Wyrtzen said the current finan-
cial crisis also played a factor in
his decisions.
“Since funds are shrinking, now
continued on page 3
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Unfinished business
The General Assembly
meets for the first day of
a special session
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Kim Perley / Herald
Williams Street, a popular area for off-campus housing, is often a nexus
of town-gown relations, both positive and negative.
to get it,” Wheeler said of the cur- It has been relatively mild.”
rent wave of ILIs hitting the state. Wheeler said Brown’s H1N1
“Cases in Rhode Island are gener- task force, which meets ever y
ally starting to have an uptick and other week and includes repre-
I’m sure we’ll follow them.” sentatives from the University and
Of the 28 students tested for the Rhode Island Department of
the H1N1 virus, Wheeler said, 12 Health, discussed last week how
tested positive, with the majority to prepare for a potential rise in
of positive results in October. swine flu and other ILIs.
Only one student has been The state most likely will
hospitalized for an ILI this fall,
he said. “So far we’ve been lucky. continued on page 3
The increase proposed to UCS last night would bring the student activity fee to $178.
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Watson
program
facing
elimination
By Claire Peracchio
Contributing Writer
An almost decade-old program that
brings scholars from developing
nations to the Watson Institute is in
danger of ending after this semester
if it does not find future funding.
The Watson Institute Scholars
of the Environment come to Brown
for one semester to contribute to
dialogue on sustainability and gain
the knowledge and essential connec-
tions needed to improve conditions
in their home countries.
But the program’s funding cycle
ends this year, and the University
is searching for grant money or
donations that would allow it to
continue.
Launched in 2001, the environ-
mental scholars program began with
a $1.2 million grant from the Henry
Luce Foundation, a philanthropic or-
ganization devoted to “international
understanding,” according to its Web
site. That money sustained the pro-
gram’s first four-year cycle, but the
Luce Foundation is “not inviting new
proposals” for environmental initia-
tives as of 2007.
When the initial funds ran out,
it took the University two years
to secure another grant from the
Luce Foundation, this time with a
special land-use focus, said Laura
Sadovnikoff, project manager for
Watson. This second grant funded
the 2007 group of scholars and was
slated to cover a three-year cycle
ending this semester.
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Bridge to honor ‘Last
Lecture’ prof Pausch ’82
Suzannah Weiss
Senior Staf f Writer
A bridge honoring the late Randy
Pausch ’82, who became well-known
for his “Last Lecture” on achieving
childhood dreams, will be dedicated
Friday at Carnegie Mellon Univer-
sity, where Pausch was a professor
of computer science.
The architecture of the bridge,
which connects the Gates Center for
Computer Science and the Purnell
Center for the Arts, employs visual
metaphors from Pausch’s famous
speech. This talk became a You-
Tube sensation and was eventually
published as a book, according to
Guy Blelloch, associate dean for
the School of Computer Science
at CMU.
The railing on one side of the
Pausch Bridge is made of aluminum
with cut-out abstract penguin fig-
ures, alluding to Pausch’s metaphor
about the rewards of “being the first
penguin,” said Blelloch, who served
as the head of the committee for
the bridge and liaison between
the University and construction
company.
Pausch compared the first pen-
guin to jump into the water — which
has the highest risk for predation
but also the highest chance of catch-
ing fish — to the first person to at-
tempt something that has never
been done before, Blelloch said.
The side of the bridge next to
the Gates Center supports a brick
wall, which represents Pausch’s phi-
losophy that one must “climb” the
obstacles life presents, he added.
“Brick walls are there to show
how badly we want something,”
Pausch said in his talk.
The dedication will include a
7,000-LED-bulb lighting ceremony
on the bridge, followed by remarks
from Carnegie Mellon President
Jared Cohon and Pausch’s widow
Jai Pausch, according to CMU’s Co-
Director of Media Relations Byron
Spice.
The bridge’s construction began
before Pausch was known to have
pancreatic cancer, but the design
was altered after Cohon decided
to dedicate the bridge to Pausch,
Spice added.
Cohon announced his decision
about the bridge’s name right after
Pausch delivered his last lecture,
Spice said.
It is by coincidence that the
bridge connects buildings for
computer science and drama, two
departments in which Pausch was
involved, but the positioning accu-
rately represents Pausch’s advocacy
of “bridges between different top-
ics,” Blelloch said.
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Profs hopeful for Watson program’s future
continued from page 1
The WISE program counts
among its alumni almost 60 schol-
ars in 40 countries in the devel-
oping world, and the 2009 cycle
was the first time the program tar-
geted scholars from one specific
region, Africa. This year’s nine
scholars come from a pool of 100
applicants.
The nine scholars involved in
this semester’s program take AFRI
1060M: “African Environmental His-
tory” alongside undergraduates.
“We’re working like mad to find
funding,” said Associate Profes-
sor of History Nancy Jacobs, who
teaches the course. “Even in times
of budget crisis, we think that the
program is doing so much good
that it will be recognized.”
This year’s scholars, who are
drawn from six different African
nations, attested to the value of the
program.
“This program will definitely im-
prove my work back home,” said
Jane Nagayi Kalule Yawe, a lecturer
at Gulu University in Uganda. On
a recent visit to the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Yawe saw
energy-saving stoves and manually
operated maize mills that would im-
prove the day-to-day lives of people
in Uganda, she said.
Joachim Ibeziako Ezeji, chief
executive officer of the Rural Af-
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Alex DePaoli / Herald
The funding for Watson Institutes Scholars of the Environment ends
this year. The program sends scholars to Brown for one semester.
rica Water Development Project in J. Timmons Roberts, professor
Nigeria, agreed that the opportuni- of sociology and director of the
ties to interact with other scholars Center for Environmental Stud-
and students at Brown have been ies, said he remains “cautiously
beneficial. But he said there is un- hopeful” about fundraising efforts.
certainty as to the role of the WISE He pointed to a collaboration with
scholars and suggested that future WISE scholar Kawsu Jammeh, a
scholars could teach or work as project coordinator at the DBD
teaching assistants in courses to Programme of Work on Protected
further engage with the University Areas in the Gambia, in writing
community. a proposal on integrated climate
Other scholars, while generally change and biodiversity restora-
positive about the program, recom- tion as evidence of the program’s
mended that it run for a longer pe- unique ability to foster connections
riod of time, facilitate connections and development.
among alumni and ensure that the “What a resource it is to have
program’s benefits are not lost once nine Africans in mid-career, interact-
the scholars return to their home ing with undergraduates,” Roberts
countries. said. “There’s nothing like it.”
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C ampus N EWS “So far we’ve been lucky. It has been relatively mild.”
—Health Services Director Ed Wheeler, on H1N1 at Brown

University continues
planning for H1N1
continued from page 1
distribute the H1N1 vaccine to
Brown in early December. When
Health Services receives the vac-
cine, Wheeler said, “We’ll do a
blitz to let people know how to
get it.”
The health depar tment pri-
oritizes the distribution of the
H1N1 vaccine based on which
groups it considers most at
risk. The classification “young
adults 19 to 24 years of age” falls
fourth on the list, below groups
including pregnant women and
infants and children, according
to a release from the department.
Rhode Island public schools will
begin administering the vaccine
Nov. 2.
Students going home for
Thanksgiving break should get
the vaccine from their pediatri-
cians if they can, Wheeler said,
since doctors working with
younger age groups in some
states are likely to have the vac-
cine by then.
For now, students’ best bet
is “to continue with the hygiene
because we think it had some ef-
fect in flattening out the cur ve,”
he added.

Zung Nguyen Vu / Herald

According to the resolution, the increased activities fee is needed to offset rising costs.

Vote on activities fee hike expected

continued from page 1
more than ever it makes sense to
support student activities, since
the places that students usually
go for money have disappeared,”
he said.
The total UCS body is expected
to vote on the resolution at next
week’s meeting. As the initial feed-
back on the resolution from UCS
members involved only grammati-
cal issues, Wyrtzen said he antici-
pates “little to no resistance” from
the full council.
If the resolution is approved by
UCS, it will be sent to Vice Presi-
dent for Campus Life and Student
Ser vices Margaret Klawunn and
eventually to the University Re-
sources Committee, which will
review the resolution and use it
to inform their recommendation
to President Ruth Simmons and
the Corporation.
Whether the Corporation,
Brown’s highest governing body,
accepts UCS’s student activities
fee recommendations varies from
year to year, said UCS President
Clay Wertheimer ’10. Last year,
UCS requested an $8 increase and
received $6, he said. In 2007, UCS
recommended an unprecedented
$54 increase, but was only granted
$10 by the Corporation.
Wertheimer said the Corpora-
tion will be looking to keep costs
low, but he said he remains “hope-
ful” they will get the full amount
asked for.
The total funds raised by the in-
crease would surpass the expected
$44,343.04 increase in costs for
student activities. In his weekly
presidential update, Wertheimer
announced that the State of the
University Address by Simmons
is tentatively scheduled for March
18 from 4 to 6 p.m. In the address,
which is timed with the Corpora-
tion spring meeting, Simmons
plans to discuss University bud-
get cuts.

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For some College Hill residents, student are just too rowdy
continued from page 1
living near the University is part of
what drew them to the city.
Allison Spooner, president of
the College Hill Neighborhood
Association, said that when she
and her husband moved to their
house on Prospect Street seven
years ago, there was a lot of foot
traffic from college students living
near them.
“We knew that moving here,”
she said. “We were excited about
staying in that vibe.”
Victoria Fallon lives in the
Mount Pleasant neighborhood,
farther from campus, but works
in a restaurant in Wayland Square.
She interacts with students and
faculty daily, she said.
“A good portion of our clientele
are professors and students, as
well as people who just live in the
area,” she said. “It’s a nice mix.”
“When you’re on Thayer Street,
there’s definitely the sense that
you’re near a college campus,”
she said. “There’s a ver y young,
vibrant energy to college neigh-
borhoods.”
In the seven years she has lived
in Providence, Fallon has hired
three Brown students as babysit-
ters by posting in the off-campus
jobs section of the University’s stu-
dent employment Web site. She has
had good experiences with those
students, she said, and she always
enjoys interacting with them.
“I definitely think that college
students, or at least the ones I’ve
interviewed, are very responsible,”
she said.
Michael Shore, a landlord who
estimates that about seven of his
proper ties have Brown student
tenants, also said his experiences
have been positive.
“We have a lot of proper ties
and, personally, I wish we could
house Brown students in all our
buildings,” he said. “We’ve had
ver y good relationships with our
Brown students over the past 15
or 20 years.”
“They’re some of our best ten-
ants,” he added. “They pay their
rent on time.”
The party problem
When there are issues with
community members, they are
usually related to noise complaints
against students living off campus,
which often come from residents
on Williams Street, Leshan said.
Williams Street is “a mixed
neighborhood,” housing students,
faculty and many families, said Ev-
elyn Lincoln, an associate professor
of histor y of art and architecture
who lives there.
“There are a lot of little kids, and
their parents get up really early,”
she said. “Students don’t always
realize that, on the weeknights,
noise at 11:30 is disruptive.”
Lincoln said that “out-of-con-
trol” weekend parties also present
a problem.
“It’s not that we expect students
not to drink or whatever they do,”
she said. “I have parties, too. But
when I have a party, the only peo-
ple who have to know about it are
the ones I’ve invited.”
While loud music can be a nui-
sance, Lincoln said, students yell-
ing and singing in the street as
they travel to and from parties cre-
ates the biggest noise problem.
Lincoln explained that the con-
ditions of the street ser ve to exac-
erbate noise problems.
“These houses are all plain, old
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houses with wooden fronts and the
streets are very narrow,” she said.
“The acoustics are terrible.”
Indeed, she said, even noise
from regular foot traf fic during
the day can be disruptive.
“I can hear people talking at
a normal level from inside my
house,” she said. “Sometimes it’s
an interesting conversation and
sometimes it’s not, but it’s not what
I want to be hearing.”
Bova said he hears many com-
plaints about student carelessness
from Providence homeowners.
“Generally what we hear back
from off-campus folks is: ‘How can
students not know that there’s a
family living next door to them?
How do they not know that they
need to put their garbage out? How
do they not know?’” he said.
Both Bova and Leshan said
Providence homeowners con-
cerned with noise levels are en-
couraged to direct their complaints
to the Providence Police.
Lieutenant John Ryan, com-
mander of Providence Police Dis-
trict 9, which covers Brown and
much of the East Side, said that
while his office receives a lot of
noise complaints at the star t of
ever y academic year, the number
of complaints decreases as the year
progresses.
Of ficers typically respond to
10 loud music and party-related
complaints each weekend, Ryan
said, though that number spikes
in early September and at the end
of finals period.
Many noise violations seem to
be the result of thoughtlessness,
not direct disrespect, Ryan said.
“Students might not realize that a
guy next door has a 3 month-old
baby,” he said.
“There’s a few people that are
always going to be testing the line,”
Ryan said, adding, “95 percent of
the students I see are very respect-
ful.”
But Lincoln thinks most, if not
all, non-students living on Williams
Street have probably filed a noise
complaint with the police at some
point, she said.
A violation of noise level ordi-
nances usually results in a $200
fine to ever y name on the build-
ing’s lease, Ryan said. He does not
usually see repeat offenders and
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“most of the kids are polite” when
the police inter vene, he added.
Reece Chandler ’11 lives at
the corner of Williams and Hope
streets and said his house has
thrown “a few” parties since the
start of the semester.
Providence police officers inter-
rupted a party at his house once,
Chandler said, but it was unclear if
their intervention was caused by a
complaint from a neighbor.
Chandler said his relationship
with his neighbors is “neither
friendly or unfriendly,” but that
he and his roommates tr y to be
courteous.
“We definitely don’t want to
be assholes,” he said. “If we were
asked to keep it down at all, we’d
definitely turn it down. It’s some-
thing that we do think about.”
Landlords can also play a role.
Shore stressed that making expec-
tations clear to his student tenants
has enabled him to maintain good
relationships with them.
“The par ty students are told
that they either have to tone down
their modus operandi or not rent
from us,” he said. “We’re sort of
control freaks.”
“Instead of being reactive,
we star ted being proactive,” he
added. “Our thinking is that stu-
dents are primarily there to study.
Small parties that don’t spill out
into the hallways or the streets
are fine, but we don’t want parties
that would hinder other students
from studying.”
Sarah Huebscher ’10 lives in a
house on Williams Street that she
and her roommates share with a
“ver y nice” family, she said.
She and her roommates haven’t
thrown a lot of par ties and, for
her, living off campus is “a good
segue into graduation and having
to take care of your own things,”
she said.
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“It all works out quite nicely,”
she said of her relationship with
her neighbors.
A working relationship
Bova said students violating
noise ordinances face University
action in addition to a police fine.
But in six years, he said, he has
never had to deal with a repeat
offense from a student living off
campus.
All students living off campus
must go through an online tutorial
program to “let them know what
they can expect and how we expect
them to behave,” Bova added.
Due to the number of com-
plaints from Williams Street resi-
dents, Bova said the tutorial for
of f-campus living next year will
incorporate suggestions from local
homeowners.
Both Providence homeowners
and University representatives said
that open communication is the
most important part of maintaining
good relationships.
Spooner, who became president
of CHNA in August, said she has
been impressed by University ef-
forts to reach out to neighbors.
“We’re finding that the lines of
communication are wide open with
Brown if we have any questions or
concerns,” she said.
In an effort to further improve
the University’s relationship with
the College Hill neighborhood,
Spooner said she plans to hold
neighborhood block parties that
could include students. She also
wants to keep homeowners more
informed about Brown events that
are open to the public, she said,
and she welcomes student input.
“Dialogue between Brown and
the community has increased,”
Leshan said. “Neighbors are ver y
quick to let us know if they have
a problem.”
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Allison Spooner Michael Shore Lieut. Reece
President, College Hill Shore owns seven
John Chandler ’11
Neighborhood Assoc. buildings currently oc- Ryan 188 Williams Street
cupied by Brown stu- Commander of
Last August, Spooner dents. Providence Po- Chandler said his re-
was elected President “We have a lot of lice District 9 lationship with his neigh-
of CHNA, an organiza- properties and, person- bors was “neither friendly
tion that, historically, ally, I wish we could Ryan said or unfriendly.”
sometimes butts heads house Brown students he and his fel- “There are a couple of
with Brown. But Spoon- in all our buildings,” he low officers families we usually see,
er said she has enjoyed a mostly positive rela- said. “They’re some of respond to an but they don’t say hi to
tionship with the University. our best tenants.” average of 10 party-related complaints us, so we don’t say hi to
“We’re finding that the lines of communica- But, he said, “the per weekend. Violations of noise level or- them.”
tion are wide open with Brown if we have any party students are told dinances result in a $200 fine for every “We definitely don’t
questions or concerns,” Spooner said. that they either have to name on a building’s lease. want to be assholes,” he
She even plans to hold neighborhood block tone down their modus “There’s a few people that are always said, with regard to par-
parties that could include students to further operandi or not rent going to be testing the line,” Ryan said. ties. “If we were asked to
improve Town/Brown relations on College Hill. from us.” “95 percent of the students I see are very keep it down at all, we’d
respectful.” definitely turn it down.
It’s something that we do
think about.”

Victoria Fallon
Fallon works in Way-
land Square, where she
says the clientele is a mix
of students, professors,
and local residents.
“There’s a very young,
vibrant energy to col-
lege neighborhoods,” she
said.

Evelyn Lincoln
Associate Professor
of History of Art &
Architecture
Lincoln has lived on
Williams Street for fifteen
years and says that noise
levels from student par-
ties have gotten higher
during past years.
Still, she says it’s not
her job police student be-
havior. “My life is amongst
students. I teach them
and they teach me, but I
want to teach history, not
Remedial Behavior 101.”

Tim Leshan Richard Bova

Director of Senior Associate Dean Sarah
Government of Residential and
Relations & Dining Services
Huebscher ’10
175 Williams Street
Community Affairs
Bova, who coor- Huebscher shares
“In general, our dinates off-campus the house she is rent-
relationship with the housing, meets with ing with a family.
neighbors is pretty students and local resi- She said she and
good,” Leshan said. dents in the event of a her roommates do not
“But when there are noise complaint. throw a lot of parties,
issues it can get strained.” “Generally what we hear back from off-cam- and she prefers to think of living off-campus as “a
Leshan said that maintaining good relation- pus folks is, ‘How can students not know that good segue into graduation and having to take care
ships with the College Hill community is im- there’s a family living next door to them? How of your own things,” she said.
portant to the University. “We want Brown to do they not know that they need to put their gar- She says her living arrangement “works out quite
be a good neighbor,” he said. “Because we live bage out? How do they not know?’” nicely.”
right in the city, we try to be very respectful.”
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— William Simmons ’60, Providence Public Library

Thursday, October 29, 2009 | Page 6

City gets creative with arts plan
By Lauren Fedor
Senior Staf f Writer
It’s been a busy year for the arts in
Providence. The city’s Department
of Art, Culture and Tourism has
been working to draft, present and
implement “Creative Providence,”
an ambitious, 10-year cultural plan
designed to boost local arts-related
activities and investment.
The plan, which was publicly
released in June, is the product of
initiatives put in place by Mayor
David Cicilline ’83 last fall. Since last
September, the Creative Providence
team, composed of five members of
the arts, culture and tourism de-
partment, has sought the input of
more than 3,000 citizens, according
to its Web site. The official report
— which examines the city’s arts
scene in all forms, including visual
arts, music, theater and dance —
was produced with the help of two
regional consulting firms and the
Rhode Island State Council on the
on the official report, McCormack
said. They include promoting the
city as an arts and cultural desti-
nation and increasing arts-related
programming in local schools, as
well as positioning Providence as
a leader in creative disciplines like
filmmaking and graphic design.
McCormack said the department
has been guided by Cicilline’s pro-
posals since June — and has already
found much success.
“We’ve been pacing with those
priorities,” she said. “I think we’re
hitting the mark.”
She pointed to a summer youth
employment program as one initia-
tive in which the department was
able to quickly and effectively carry
out the mayor’s proposals.
Funded largely through fed-
eral stimulus dollars, the program
provided summer jobs in the arts
community for needy young adults,
aged 14 to 24. The initiative created
more than 300 temporary jobs, and
students worked at local creative es-
market. The pins feature works by
five different local artists.
Though both of these programs
have been relatively successful, Mc-
Cormack said Creative Providence
still has much more work to do.
She said the group’s primar y
focus in the coming months will
be to “look into different sectors”
and to “seek to establish a nonprofit,
downtown cultural authority,” an
organization for arts groups.
“A lot of other cities have them,”
McCormack said, mentioning Pitts-
burgh as an example. She said the
authority would aim to align smaller
arts events “under one roof” and
help to determine “how to fund
organizations while having them
accountable to some larger, outside
group.”
And in a smaller way, Creative
Providence has already taken steps
to bring local artists together, Mc-
Cormack said. Just last week, the
depar tment sponsored a social
event for all members of the cre-
Kennedy Plaza bus stops move Sat.
Bus stops at Kennedy Plaza will relocate starting Saturday
while the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority repaves the area
around the terminal. Kennedy Plaza will be closed, except for
ticketing and other services inside the terminal, from Oct. 31
to Nov. 26. In the meantime, as bus stops move to temporary
locations on Exchange Terrace, Exchange Street, Sabin Street,
Fountain Street, Eddy Street and Steeple Street.
• Routes 8, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 30, 31, 42, 49
and 66 will have stops on Exchange Terrace, on the other
side of Burnside Park from the Plaza.
• Routes 6, 11, 27 and 28, as well as the two trolley lines will
stop on Sabin Street — west of Exchange Terrace — and in
front of the Convention Center.
• Routes 1, 3 and 99 will stop on Fountain Street, which is
west of the Plaza.
• Routes 26, 50, 52, 53, 55, 60 and 72 will stop on Steeple
Street, which is north of the Plaza.
• Routes 9, 51, 54, 56, 57 and 58 will stop on Exchange Street
between Memorial Boulevard and Steeple Street.
• Routes 32, 33, 34, 35, 40 and 78 will stop on Exchange
Street between Westminster Street and Fulton Street, just
east of the Plaza.
RIPTA employees will be in the area to answer questions
through Nov. 4.

State name question

Arts, said Lynne McCormack, di- tablishments such as the Steel Yard ative community.
rector of the art, culture and tour- and AS220, McCormack said. “We’ve made the decision that
ism department. McCormack cited the city’s we want to have networking events

will go to ballot box

McCormack said the plan out-
lined programs and goals for the
next decade, but the current focus is
on a handful of initiatives proposed
by the mayor earlier this year. Fol-
lowing the June release of the plan,
Cicilline outlined 10 “priorities for
action” to be addressed by the end
of 2010.
Cicilline’s priorities are based
“Buy Ar t” initiative as another
successful outgrowth of Creative
Providence.
Launched last winter, the pro-
gram supplies participating artists,
arts retailers and vendors with Buy
Art pins. The venues distribute pins
to customers who purchase original
art, and supporters wear the pins
as a symbol of support for the arts
for people to gather and just talk,”
she said.
And McCormack said in the end,
the realization of Creative Provi-
dence will be in the hands of not
only the department, but also the
citizens.
“This is not a plan for the depart-
ment,” she said. “This is a working
plan for the community.”
By Lauren Fedor
Senior Staf f Writer
In a special session that began
Tuesday night and is expected to
continue through Thursday, the
Rhode Island General Assembly
has already addressed a wide
messaging while driving. A full
House vote on the measure is
slated for today.
Under the legislation, indi-
viduals caught texting behind
the wheel would face fines of up
to $85 for a first offense, $100 for
a second of fense and $125 for

Providence libraries change hands variety of issues, including bills

By Ben Shreckinger
Senior Staf f Writer
Four months after the takeover
of the city’s nine branch libraries
by the Providence Community Li-
brary, the transition is progressing
smoothly, according to Ann Robin-
son, the group’s executive library
director. The transition has “gone
very well” and the PCL has received
“ver y positive” public feedback,
she said.
The PCL, a private nonprofit
organization, formed earlier this
year in response to a budget crisis
that put the fate of five of the city’s
branch libraries in question. At the
time, the city’s main library and the
nine branches were administered
by the Providence Public Library,
another private nonprofit.
“The endowment took some
blows from the financial crisis,” said
William Simmons ’60, chair of the
Public Library’s board of trustees
and a professor of anthropology.
In the face of financial con-
straints, the Public Librar y’s —
which still administers the central
librar y on Empire Street — pro-
posed to continue its administra-
tion of the main librar y and four
branches, while turning the five
smaller branches over to other
sources of funding.
“I think it would have been a
great idea,” Simmons said of the
Public Librar y’s plan to “create
adoption-type links” between the
five smaller branches and local
universities in order to keep those
branches operating.
But “working with the city was
kind of like a dead-end street,”
Simmons said. “The city basically
wanted control of the library system
as a whole,” and “became an adver-
sary to the (PPL) for not spending
its endowment,” he said.
The office of Mayor David Cicil-
line ’83 could not be reached for
comment.
The PCL was given municipal
and state funding to run all nine
branch libraries — now renamed
community libraries — and as-
sumed control July 1. Less than
12 percent of the PCL’s nearly $5
million budget must come from
private sources, with the rest paid
for publicly.
Though the administration of
the city’s libraries is now divided
between two autonomous organiza-
tions, patrons may not notice much
of a difference. “With either library
card they can use any librar y in
Rhode Island,” thanks to the Ocean
State Libraries consortium, Robin-
son said.
Behind the scenes, the transition
has been more exciting.
“It’s almost like a startup busi-
ness,” Robinson said. “We had no
paper trail,” and so had to create
systems for statistical records and
budgets from scratch, she said.
Robinson said she hopes Provi-
dence residents will take note of
the PCL’s efforts to increase com-
munity programming and involve-
ment. She cited the creation of a
manga and anime club and “Game
Zone,” an electronic g aming club
at the Rochambeau Library, as ex-
amples.
The PCL has also called on local
college students to get involved.
Five Providence College students
and four Johnson and Wales Uni-
versity students currently volunteer
at community libraries. So far, no
Brown students have volunteered,
Robinson said.
The organization has showed
early success garnering corporate
sponsorship. Today at 3:30 at the
Wanskuck Library there will be a
dedication for a computer learning
lab donated by GTECH, a multina-
tional corporation based in Provi-
dence. The PCL’s partnership with
the company includes the donation
of computer learning labs at two ad-
ditional libraries and 13 computers
for internal use.
When the PCL moves beyond
the transition phase, it will “look
long term — eventually — at what
each neighborhood needs,” and
consider more substantial changes,
Robinson said.
As for the the PPL, which has
seen its responsibilities within Prov-
idence reduced from ten libraries
to one, “We’re now looking off in
other directions” to provide more
services on a statewide level, Sim-
mons said.
on the state name, indoor prosti-
tution and driving while texting.
The special session marks the
return of the state Senate and
House to the State House after
a four-month break.
The House voted Wednes-
day night to adopt a measure
that would allow Rhode Island
voters to strip the words “and
Providence Plantations” from
the state’s of ficial name. As a
result of the vote, the decision
to change the state name will
now be in voters’ hands in the
2010 elections.
In a June vote, the House and
Senate approved dif ferent ver-
sions of the bill. The House’s 52-4
vote on Wednesday remedied the
difference.
Also Wednesday night, the
House voted 59-8 to pass a bill
to outlaw indoor prostitution in
Rhode Island. The vote repre-
sents a significant step toward
the measure — which includes
criminal penalties for prostitutes
and their customers — becoming
law. Earlier in the day, the Senate
Judiciar y Committee approved
the bill.
The legislation now awaits ap-
proval by the Senate and a sig-
nature from Governor Donald
Carcieri ’65, who has already said
he approves of the measure.
In another impor tant deci-
sion, the House Corporations
Committee approved a bill
Wednesday that would prohibit
Rhode Island drivers from text
a third of fense. Drivers would
still be allowed to use handheld
cell phones and smar t phones
to place phone calls. The bill
outlaws writing, sending and
reading text messages while
driving.
The Senate has approved the
bill, which the House will vote
on today.
At the end of this week’s
proceedings, the General As-
sembly will break again until
Januar y. Any legislation that is
not resolved by the end of the
special session would need to be
re-introduced in 2010 in order to
remain active.
But despite Wednesday’s full
calendar, discussions are far
from over. Legislative leaders
have scheduled hearings or floor
votes for 196 individual propos-
als, according to the Providence
Journal.
Two bills that could cost
Brown and its students mil-
lions were noticeably absent at
Wednesday’s session, and there
are no plans to discuss the legis-
lation today, House Spokesman
Larr y Berman told The Herald
last night.
One bill would allow cities to
assess a “student impact fee” of
$150 per semester for out-of-state
students who attend private col-
leges in Rhode Island. The other
proposed legislation would allow
cities to collect a fee of up to 25
percent of property taxes from
nonprofits with properties valued
at over $20 million.
 SportsThursday
The Brown Daily Herald
Muddy course no obstacle for young runners
By Fred Milgrim
Contributing Writer
The cross country teams traveled to
New Britain, Conn., for the Central
Connecticut State Invitational and
returned home Saturday night after
proving their worth.
The women placed second over-
all with 42 points, besting eight
other teams, while the men took
fourth place out of 11 teams with
a total of 117 points.
Head Coach Craig Lake decided
to leave her experienced upper-
classmen at home with only a week
before the Ivy League’s Heptago-
nal Championships. This gave the
younger runners a chance to show
Brown’s depth. This was the first
college race for some, while others
had competed in a few meets this
season.
It was a rainy day for the Bears,
which made for a muddy course,
but the conditions didn’t discour-
Phils and Yanks looking to repeat history
The last five World Series have
been classified as predictable, bor-
ing ends to the baseball season
— three out of the last five have
ended in sweeps, the other two
in five games.
Matt Doyle The 2009 Se-
O’Doyle’s Rules
ries promises
to be a different stor y, where the
nation — not just two cities — will
tune in and enjoy America’s great
pastime played between arguably
the two best teams in baseball.
While the Yankees muscle other
teams around and buy the best
players available on the market —
some of which have used steroids
— the Phillies are a bunch of young
boy scouts selling lemonade on a
summer afternoon in July. The Phil-
lies can be classified — at least in
juxtaposition to the Yankees — as
“the nation’s team” fighting against
the corporate, evil empire.
The Phillies come into this post-
season with a dominant resume.
They have won all five series of
the last two postseasons in fewer
than six games, winning all the
home-openers. The stars of the
Phillies’ lineup, Ryan Howard and
Jayson Werth, have combined for
seven homers, 18 runs and 24 RBIs
throughout the ALCS, with Howard
notching another RBI last night.
Further, the Phillies had the high-
est successful steal rate in the MLB
this season at 81 percent, with 119
bases stolen and only 28 runners
caught stealing.
The Yankees have had a memo-
rable season in their new stadium.
Witnessing Derek Jeter pass Lou
Gehrig with hit No. 2722, Mariano
Rivera record his 500th save as well
as his 1,000th strikeout, 15 walk-off
wins during the regular season and
two during the post season, Yan-
kees fans for first time in six years
have something to cheer about in
late October.
Yet, Yankees fans expect their
age the competitors.
The women’s squad, which fin-
ished only 10 points behind first-
place finisher Quinnipiac, was led
by Bree Shugarts ’13. She came in
fourth place in the three-kilometer
race with a time of 10:25.22. Me-
gan Fitzpatrick ’11 finished four
tenths of a second behind Shugarts,
taking fifth in 10:25.62. Two more
Brown runners finished back-to-
back. Elaine Kuckertz ’13 finished
10th (10:37.41) and Eliza Webber
’12 took 11th (10:37.45). Also finish-
ing in the top 20 were Carolyn Ranti
’13 (10:49.28) and Angela Rugino
’13 (10:52.25).
“Ever yone on the team that
raced did a good job and worked
together to finish well,” Shugarts
said. “I’m really excited for our
team because we have some re-
ally great runners who have a lot
of potential and ability to go far
this season.”
The men were led by Scott
team to make it to the World Series
ever y season, so in their minds,
these records are wor th ver y
little if the season ends without a
championship ring. Yankee play-
ers who have already excelled this
postseason — like Alex Rodriguez,
who has 5 home runs and 12 RBI,
and Rivera, who carries the lowest
postseason ERA 0.77 and has given
up one run this postseason, need to
keep it up for the Yankees if they
want to win their 27th World Series
championship.
The biggest question marks for
both teams lie within their bullpen
— more specifically, the ability for
each team’s late inning pitchers to
throw strikes early in the count.
For the Phillies, Brad Lidge is go-
ing to want to set up his nasty slider
for later in the count, but won’t be
able to do so if his early fastballs
are not in the zone. Lidge blew two
saves against the Yankees this past
May — one of the first weekend
series at the new stadium — be-
Thursday, October 29, 2009 | Page 7
s p o rt s i n b r i e f
Friedlander ’12. He took sixth
place in a time of 15:25.45 despite
W. ice hockey claims Mayor’s Cup
taking a fall on the wet, slipper y
five-kilometer course. Friedlander, The women’s ice hockey team could have let Friday’s 8-1
who had started in the middle of blowout against Connecticut get them down. They could
the pack, slipped further back after have given up at the fact that Providence College outshot
the fall. Ultimately, he was able to the Bears 19-7 in the first period. All of these things could
regain his positioning. have stopped the Bears dead in their tracks, but they didn’t
“Our race plan is always to start quit.
conservatively and move in the sec- Bruno shocked the Friars Saturday night with a 5-1
ond half of our race,” Friedlander victory in the Mayor’s Cup rivalry. An impressive showing by
said. “I felt really relatively fresh a host of rookies edged PC on both sides of the puck. Katie
after going out conservatively over Jamieson ’13 had an impressive 29 saves, with 18 coming
the first mile, so I was able to pick in the first period. Erica Farrer ’13 hit a shot in the second
up the pace as the guys in front of to tie the game and kept the team’s spirit high as the Bears
me started slowing down.” headed into the locker room at half time.
Ben Stephenson ’13 and Nathan The Bears came out firing in the third with Laurie
Chellman ’12 finished 21st and Jolin ’13 and Alena Polenska ’13 each scoring their first
22nd with times of 15:44.07 and collegiate goals. Erin Connors ’10 and Kath Surbey ’10 also
15:44.72, respectively. Close behind contributed a goal apiece in the rivalry win.
were Erik Berg ’13 (15:55.00) and Saturday’s performance was a tremendous improvement
Anthony Schurz ’13(15:59.77). after a depressing 8-1 home opener loss to the Huskies
The Bears will be back in action of UConn on October 23rd. The Huskies tallied up eight
on Friday at the Ivy Heptagonals at goals before Sasha Van Muyen ’10 finally found the net for
Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, Brown’s only goal of the game.
N.Y. The Bears travel to upstate New York this weekend, where
they will take on the 7-1-1 Golden Knights of Clarkson on
Friday and the 3-2-3 St. Lawrence Saints on Saturday.
— Zack Bahr
cause he was missing early with
his fastball.
As a setup man for the Yankees,
Phil Hughes has not been nearly as
consistent as he was in the regular
season. In the American League Di-
vision Series against the Twins, he
struggled with control problems,
in situations both early and late
in the count. In this World Series
Hughes and the Yankees need to
work on not falling behind batters
and not failing to hit the strike zone
late in the counts.
The Yankees have appeared
in 40 World Series, winning 26 of
them, while the Phillies have ap-
peared in six World Series and have
won two. The Phillies are going to
tr y to do what the Yankees did in
1999-2000: Repeat a World Series
triumph. The Yankees are going to
tr y to win once again in a new sta-
dium — their first Series franchise
win occurred in 1923, the first year
of their then-newly constructed
stadium in the Bronx.
Page 8 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
S ports T hursday
West Coast trip a rough one for m. water polo
By Liza Jones
Contributing Writer
The men’s water polo team trav-
eled to California this past weekend
to play some of the country’s top
ranked teams in the Santa Clara
Bronco Invitational. Ultimately,
Brown fell to four ranked teams in
no. 20 California Baptist, no. 15 Air
Force, no. 16 Santa Clara and no. 13
UC Davis, but was able to pick up a
win against unranked Fresno Pacific.
Despite the results, the Bears gener-
ally improved with each game.
Bruno first faced the California
Baptist Lancers last Friday and fell
by a score of 11-8. The Bears put
up a fight and the game remained
close up to the half, with California
Baptist in a narrow 5-4 lead. The
Lancers stepped up their game in the
third quarter, out-scoring Bruno 3-1.
But the Bears did not give up, and
both teams scored three goals in the
third quarter, leading the Lancers
to an 11-8 victory. Kent Holland ’10
stuck it out in goal the whole game,
accumulating six saves. Svetozar
Stefanovic ’13 led the offense with
four goals, while Gordon Hood ’11
contributed two. Dean Serure ’13
and Michael Hartwick ’13 scored
one each for Bruno.
On Saturday, Brown played well
against Fresno Pacific and Air Force.
The Bears had an impressive perfor-
mance against the Sunbirds, with a
10-0 lead by the beginning of the
fourth quarter. Both teams scored
House panel OKs Iran petroleum import sanctions
By Paul Richter
Los Angeles T imes
A House committee, seeking to
pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear
ambitions, approved a bill Thursday
aimed at punishing Iran by cutting
off its access to gasoline and other
refined petroleum products.
The measure, which would give
the president powers to take ac-
tion against foreign companies that
sell refined petroleum to Iran, is
popular on Capitol Hill, and three-
quarters of House members have
co-sponsored the legislation.
But the measure could under-
mine Obama administration efforts
to negotiate with Iran over its nu-
clear development program. If talks
fail and further sanctions become
necessary, administration officials
would rather enact measures sup-
ported by many countries.
“We prefer this be done in a mul-
tilateral fashion,” said Ian Kelly, a
State Department spokesman.
The legislative measure still
must win passage by the full House
and Senate. But initial approval by
the House Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee came at an important moment.
The Iranian leadership is expected
to announce Thursday whether it
accepts an international proposal
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two in the final quarter, resulting
in a 12-2 victory for Bruno. Hood
was the player to look out for in this
game, with six goals and two assists.
Stefanovic added three goals, two
assists and four steals, while Corey
Schwartz ’11 handed Bruno two
goals and three steals. Once again,
Holland, who was recently named
CWPA Player of the week, com-
manded the defense with nine saves
on goal throughout the game.
Later that day, the Bears put up
a good fight against Air Force but
lost, 9-8, in overtime. After the first
quarter the team was behind 3-1, but
the Bears did not give up and instead
tied the game 3-3 by the half. The
score was 7-7 after the fourth quar-
ter, bringing the game into a forced
overtime. While the Falcons scored
one goal in the first overtime, Ste-
fanovic was the hero of the second
overtime, scoring a goal to even the
score once again. The teams fought
till the very end. With 18 seconds left
Air Force scored, finishing the game
with a 9-8 win over Brown. The ma-
jor offensive players were Schwartz
with four goals, Stefanovic with three
and Hartwick with one.
As the final day of the tournament
approached, the team grew weary.
“Ultimately, five games in 48 hours
was a lot to ask of the team but they
responded by giving it everything
they had and got better each game,”
Mercado said. Although Brown fell
to Santa Clara in game four, they
kept a steady lead throughout the
to modify its existing stocks of
enriched uranium for medical and
research purposes.
If Iran accepts, the deal could
delay what the West suspects is a
push to develop nuclear weapons.
Western governments hope ac-
ceptance would open the way to
further agreements on the nuclear
program, which Iran says is for civil-
ian purposes only.
Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif.,
chairman of the Foreign Affairs
Committee, said the bill will “at
least, force the Iranians to think
twice about continuing to flout the
will of the international commu-
nity.”
Even though Iran is a leading
crude oil producer, it must import
40 percent of its gasoline, a point
of economic vulnerability.
Mark Dubowitz, executive di-
rector of the Foundation for the
Defense of Democracies, said that
the harsh measures “may not be the
silver bullet that ends the regime’s
illegal nuclear weapons program,
but they can be silver shrapnel
which can severely wound the re-
gime.”
Advocates contend that Iran has
been stringing the West along on
efforts to secure a nuclear deal.
Tough economic measures, they
Thursday, October 29, 2009
first half with a halftime score of
7-5. As the game went on, the Bears
could not hold on to their lead and
were only winning 8-7 by the third.
The Broncos persevered through
the fourth, outscoring Bruno 3-0
and winning the game 10-8. Zach
Levko ’10 and Hood each scored
two goals and Stefanovic was right
behind them with one goal. Holland
continued his solid performance in
goal with eight saves.
It is important that the team “find
consistency we need to be the domi-
nant team we need to be, we are
overall still feeling self out as a unit,
and hopefully we can find that con-
sistency sooner rather than later”
Mercardo said.
The Bears’ final game was against
their toughest opponent in the invi-
tational, UC Davis. Bruno fell to but
still put up a sterling fight. Stefanovic
notched two of the team’s four goals,
while Hood and Levko contributed
one each. In the cage, Holland had
seven saves and three steals. Despite
the four losses, Mercado said he was
still pleased with the team’s perfor-
mance this weekend. While they did
not exceed his expectations, “every
game was a vast improvement, and
the team overall met every expecta-
tion I had for them.”
On Sunday the team will travel
to Wheaton College to face the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology in
their final game before the Northern
Division Championship on Nov. 7.
believe, will force the Iranian public
and leadership to decide whether
the nuclear program is worth the
hardship and international isola-
tion.
Critics contend that the mea-
sures would punish average Irani-
ans without affecting the leader-
ship. They say that sanctions also
could disrupt Western unity by
pressuring European companies
to give up their sales to Iran, open-
ing the way for China and Persian
Gulf states to provide much, if not
all, of the supply.
The bill also would allow the
president to go after companies
that provide ships to transport the
fuel or that underwrite or finance
the cargo.
Even so, some analysts are skep-
tical about the persuasive power of
such steps with the Iranians, who
have ignored a series of punish-
ments from the United Nations and
various countries acting on their
own.
“Iran is a risk-acceptant country
that believes the wind is still very
much at its back,” said Cliff Kup-
chan, a former congressional aide
now at the Eurasia Group, a private
analysis company. “There’s rea-
son to be skeptical that this would
change Iranian policy.”
World & Nation
The Brown Daily Herald
Before Wednesday, Edward Brooke, 90, the first African-American to be voted a U.S. senator by the people, had
never met Barack Obama, the first African-American to be voted president. Obama presented Brooke the Con-
gressional Gold Medal in the Capitol Rotunda.
Senate pioneer Brooke honored
By Ann Gerhart
Washington Post
The crisp cadence of a fife-and-
drum corps reverberated through
the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday
morning, the august room packed
with nearly 500 people craning their
necks to see the remarkable tableau
arranged on a stage before them.
There sat Edward William
Brooke, who grew up in a segre-
gated neighborhood not far from
the Capitol, fought in a segregated
Army in World War II and returned
to Washington in 1967, the first Afri-
can American elected to the Senate
by popular vote — and on this day,
the recipient of the highest honor
Congress can bestow, the Congres-
sional Gold Medal.
And there sat President Obama,
whose stunning electoral journey to
the White House seemed no more
improbable than the one made four
decades earlier by the 90-year-old
man who sat beside him, a black
Protestant Republican who won in
the overwhelmingly white, Catholic,
Democratic state of Massachusetts.
After Obama heralded Brooke for
a life spent “breaking barriers and
bridging divides,” the two men em-
braced tightly. It was a reminder of
how much this country has changed
in their lifetimes.
Brooke is a tall and expressive
man, unstooped by age, quick to
smile and careful to put others at
ease. His voice carries more of his
youth at Shaw Junior High than his
adulthood in Boston. Wednesday,
he wore a bold gold-striped tie and
a dark jacket. And he turned his
full charisma on Nancy Pelosi, not-
ing, with some wonderment, “now
the speaker of the House is ... a ...
lady!”
In his two terms in the Senate,
Brooke took up the causes of low-
income housing, increasing the
minimum wage and furthering mass
transit. He took on big tobacco. A
strong proponent of civil rights
from his days as Massachusetts’s
attorney general, he was a lonely
Republican voice against school
segregation and for reproductive
rights for women. Eventually, he
took on his own president. Brooke,
noted Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., on
Wednesday, introduced legislation
to name a special prosecutor in the
Watergate scandal, and he became
the first senator in either party to
call for President Richard Nixon’s
resignation.
Such a coalition-builder was
Brooke, the president said, that his
“fan base includes Gloria Steinem,
Barney Frank and Ted Kennedy —
as well as Mitch McConnell, Mitt
Romney and George W. Bush,” who
awarded Brooke the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 2004.
“He didn’t care whether a bill
was popular or politically expedi-
ent, Democratic or Republican —
he cared about whether it helped
people, whether it made a difference
in their daily lives,” Obama said.
Brooke’s way was “to ignore the
naysayers, reject the conventional
wisdom and trust that ultimately,
people would judge him on his
character, his commitment, his re-
cord and his ideas,” the president
said. “He ran for office, as he put it,
`to bring people together who had
never been together before.’ And
that he did.”
It was a far different time, of
course. A third of the Republican
caucus was considered to be liberal
or moderate. The South was still a
Democratic stronghold.
Melina Mara / Washington Post
Wednesday was the first time
Brooke had met the president.
When entered the Senate, the two
men talked on the phone once. They
exchanged their books, “each with
kind inscriptions,” Brooke said in an
interview. “He wrote, `You paved the
way for us’ or something like that,
and I said something like, `You are
a worthy bearer of the torch.’ “
He is proud of what Obama has
accomplished, he said. “What re-
ally pleases me is that he is trying
his best and succeeding with what
he said he would do. The problem
people have with politicians is that
they say what they are gonna do,
and that is the end of it.”
Brooke added that he was par-
ticularly touched that Obama signed
legislation Wednesday that extends
protection from hate crimes to gays
and lesbians, a cause he first ad-
vanced in the 1960s.
Brooke said the two men “share
a pragmatism” that enabled each of
them to vault over old fears. When
he first sought statewide office as
attorney general, he said, “I heard
it: `White voters will never vote for
you.’ And I would say: `We’ve been
voting for whites all these years. I
can’t see any reason why if the can-
didate has integrity and intelligence
and commitment and ideas, he can’t
be elected to statewide office.’ “
Brooke, too, angered supporters
who felt he was not moving quickly
enough or speaking loudly enough
as the lone black in the Senate.
But, he said: “While I could
rabble-rouse in my time, I made a
lot of enemies by saying, `I am not
a civil rights leader, I am a politi-
cian. They are doing their job, and
I welcome it. My job is to be a leg-
islator, and to get things done in the
Congress.’ “
Thursday, October 29, 2009 | Page 9
Polygamous sect member
Jessop’s trial begins
By Nicholas Riccardi
Los Angeles T imes
The first criminal prosecution
stemming from a controversial
raid on a polygamous sect’s com-
pound here began Wednesday,
as a state prosecutor told jurors
he would prove that a key mem-
ber of the group had sex with a
16-year-old girl.
Raymond Merrill Jessop, now
38, is charged with sexual assault
on a minor for allegedly fathering
a child with the daughter of the
sect’s self-styled prophet, War-
ren Jef fs. The girl was one of
Jessop’s wives, but prosecutors
argue that the marriage is not
legal in Texas.
“We will ask you to conclude,
beyond a reasonable doubt, that
Raymond Merrill Jessop is guilty
of sexual assault on a woman less
than half his age,” Deputy Attor-
ney General Eric Nichols told the
jury of eight men and four women
in a brief opening statement.
Under Texas law, someone
can be convicted of sexual assault
of a minor even if the relation-
ship was consensual, provided
the victim was younger than 17
and not lawfully married to the
assailant.
Defense attorney Mark Ste-
vens countered that the state
did not have enough evidence
to prove a crime occurred.
“In this countr y, we don’t tr y
people based on their clothes or
their hairstyles. And we don’t
tr y people on their beliefs or
the churches they worship in,”
he said. “I believe if we stick to
the facts and the evidence in this
case, that Raymond will do just
fine.”
Neither side mentioned the
explosive circumstances that
brought Jessop — whose father
is acting as the sect’s leader while
Jeffs serves a life prison term for
his conviction in Utah as an ac-
complice to rape — to court.
In April 2008, Texas authori-
ties launched a massive raid on
the Yearning For Zion Ranch, a
compound that the Fundamen-
talist Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints was building
outside this hamlet. The FLDS,
a breakaway sect not recognized
by the Mormon church, believes
that polygamy brings glorification
in heaven.
Of ficials said they were re-
sponding to a call for help from
a girl who expected to become a
child bride. They removed 439
children from the compound, say-
ing it was for the youths’ safety.
But the call turned out to be
a hoax. Appellate judges ques-
tioned whether Texas had a
right to hold the children, and
eventually all the children were
returned to the FLDS. Authori-
ties, however, took DNA samples
to prove that men in the sect were
impregnating underage girls.
They charged 10 sect mem-
bers with various crimes. Jessop’s
case is the first to go to trial.
At the time of the raid, there
was widespread local distrust
of the FLDS. Selecting a jur y in
the county, which has 2,800 resi-
dents, proved difficult.
The process started Monday,
when 153 prospective jurors, in-
cluding 17 FLDS members, came
to a community center that was
converted to a courthouse for the
trial. Wednesday, after lawyers
and Judge Barbara Walther labo-
riously inter viewed 85 of them,
a jur y was seated. All the FLDS
members were dismissed.
The trial is expected to take
two weeks. Testimony is sched-
uled to begin Thursday.
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Opinions
The Brown Daily Herald
High concerns about Iraqi higher education
DAN DAVIDSON
Opinions Columnist
I sometimes call Brown my “dream school.”
We benefit from vast academic and social
freedoms, and can explore countless disci-
plines in a safe environment. For our peers in
Iraq, however, college life is often more like a
nightmare than a dream.
The State Department’s 2008 Human
Rights Report on Iraq noted that universi-
ties are yet another battleground for sectar-
ian factions. Militias and terrorist groups use
violence to control schools’ operations and
policies. Hundreds of professors have been
killed, and countless more have fled the
country.
At one of Iraq’s most storied universities,
Baghdad’s Mustansiriya University, around
24,000 students risk their lives to pursue their
educations. They see their friends blown up
in suicide attacks on campus. A blast wall
surrounds their school buildings. The New
York Times reported that since 2007, “more
than 335 students and staff members” have
been killed or maimed. Policymakers in the
United States are surely aware of the terror
Iraqi students face every day. Yet the current
administration’s rhetoric seldom suggests
Iraq’s higher education woes are on the ra-
dar.
When President Obama announced his
plan to end the war in Iraq earlier this year,
there was no mention of supporting the coun-
try’s educational infrastructure.
BY ADRIENNE LANGLOIS
Opinions Columnist
If you’ve been at Brown longer than, say,
three days, you’ve probably noticed that
there is always a significant amount of con-
struction on campus. Indeed, wherever one
turns, there are tarp-covered fences labeled
“Building Brown” — the undeniable sign of
all sorts of construction, from new science
buildings to the future Faunce student cen-
ter. There’s only one constant to these con-
struction projects — if you’re in a hurry to
get somewhere fast, they’re probably in your
way and bound to make you grumble a lit-
tle.
Recently, a new construction site sprang
up on what I thought to be the finished Pem-
broke Walk. Those hurrying around the tarp-
covered fence will notice a sign proclaiming
the current pile of dirt to be the site of the fu-
ture Creative Arts Center, an exciting-look-
ing glass building that will feature a record-
ing studio, multimedia lab and recital hall.
While the CAC is sure to be a boon to
Brown’s artistic community, there are more
urgent needs than a new recital hall. The
University already has a beautiful and acous-
tically sound space for recitals and small
concerts: Grant Recital Hall. What Brown
doesn’t have — and sorely needs — is a con-
cert hall.
“What’s a concert hall?” you may ask.
“Why do we need another performing space?
Don’t we already have Sayles Hall, Stuart The-
atre, Alumnae Hall and Grant Recital Hall?”
Meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki last week, Obama stressed that se-
curity, good government and fair elections
are the keys to success. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton appeared at a conference
aimed at spurring investment in Iraq, and
underscored the importance of economic de-
velopment.
The administration is certainly not wrong
in placing great emphasis on Iraq’s security,
government and economy. After meeting
with the Prime Minister, however, Obama
claimed that focusing on these issues will
help turn Iraq into a country where “children
The administration should consider a strong
Iraqi higher education system a prerequisite
for stability and prosperity, not a benefit to be
reaped in the future.
are well educated.”
I believe the administration should con-
sider a strong Iraqi higher education system
a prerequisite for stability and prosperity, not
a benefit to be reaped in the future.
The 9/11 Commission Report found that
poor education and violent extremism are of-
ten linked. If the administration is concerned
about security in Iraq, they must support ed-
ucation at all levels.
Educational attainment is one of the stron-
gest predictors of electoral participation — if
more Iraqis pursue and acquire college de-
grees, we should expect more civic engage-
ment. As for economic progress, it is self-ev-
ident that Iraq will struggle to compete glob-
A sound decision
Well, yes. But these spaces are far from
adequate. Brown is blessed with a vibrant
community of musical groups but cursed by
its lack of performance space. Those spaces
that do exist are, as a rule, either acoustical-
ly unsound or overbooked.
Because Sayles, the orchestra’s typical
performance space, is almost always in use,
the 80-plus member musical group must
practice in the acoustically poor interior of
Alumnae Hall and then switch to Sayles the
week before. The 40-plus member Wind
Symphony frequently has to squeeze onto
Brown is blessed with a vibrant community
of musical groups but cursed by its lack of
performance space. Those spaces that do exist
are, as a rule, either acoustically unsound or
overbooked.
the tiny Grant stage. And I’ve attended more
than one a capella concert in Salomon 001
where the solos have been trumped by the
noise from concerts upstairs. A real concert
hall would be acoustically sound, signifi-
cantly larger than a recital hall, and accom-
modate groups of all sizes and instrumenta-
tions.
Lest those of you who dislike hour-and-
a-half-long Mahler symphonies dismiss the
plight of Brown’s small but mighty music
community, let me assure you that a concert
hall on campus would benefit more than just
those who love music. Brown’s administra-
tion recognizes this; the Plan for Academic
Thursday, October 29, 2009 | Page 11
ally without growing its college-educated
population.
Though, even as we are told Iraq is im-
proving, the situation at Mustansiriya re-
mains grim. Last week, Prime Minister al-Ma-
liki ordered the school temporarily closed in
an effort to dismantle the Students League, a
gang terrorizing the community.
Professors and administrators say that
the group “controls campus activities and se-
curity, as well as aspects of grading, admis-
sions and even which courses professors
teach.” Those who speak out publicly against
the Students League are often killed.
The U.S. must put pressure on Prime
Minister al-Maliki to resolve this situation.
His decision to close the school came after
years of compelling evidence that Mustan-
siriya was spiraling out of control. Al-Maliki
finally acted only after a professor came to
him covered in blood from a beating the Stu-
dents League gave him.
Some allege that the prime minister’s
hesitance to act stems not just from a lack of
concern (which would be alarming enough).
Certain administrators and professors at
Mustansiriya, along with Iraq’s minister of
higher education, claim that there are close
ties between al-Maliki’s Dawa party and the
Students League.
Enrichment calls for concert halls as one el-
ement of its goal for “improved infrastruc-
ture.”
It’s not only Brown’s music groups that
are suffering for lack of performance space.
Since the Department of Theatre Arts and
Performance Studies closed Ashamu to use
by student groups, the University’s many
student dance groups have struggled to find
appropriate practice spaces on campus. Solu-
tion: Build a concert hall with a sprung floor
and acoustic dampening panels and you au-
tomatically have another safe stage that Im-
pulse, Fusion, Badmaash and all the rest can
use for practice and performance.
Even those students who avoid artistic
performances at Brown would benefit from
the construction of a concert hall. Every time
an influential or interesting leader comes to
speak, hundreds of students are shut out of
the speech for simple lack of facilities. But if
architects outfit the concert hall’s spacious
interior with a projector, retractable screen
and moveable podium, it could also accom-
modate the inevitable massive crowds the
next time John Krasinski and Barack Obama
come to give a dual comedy routine/speech
together.
Allegations aside, what is happening at
Mustansiriya University and other schools
throughout Iraq is of grave concern. Stu-
dents and professors are frequent victims of
civil and human rights violations. It is hard to
imagine how Iraq can fully recover from the
ousting of Saddam Hussein and ensuing sec-
tarian warfare if the higher education system
is left to rot.
U.S. Agency for International Develop-
ment touts monetary assistance to Iraqi uni-
versities and a program designed to build
professors’ skills as major successes of their
efforts in higher education. While these pro-
grams are well-intentioned, at a place like
Mustansiriya, they are useless. Professors’
skills are of little relevance if gangs use vi-
olence to control every aspect of teaching.
Students may appreciate a newly renovated
classroom, but they still have to risk beatings
or worse just walking around campus.
The U.S. must continue to work for a
peaceful and prosperous Iraq. Our focus,
however, should be deeper than keeping
tabs on how many bombs go off a day and
how much foreign investment is occurring.
Strengthening Iraq’s universities is one of
the best ways we can help that country sta-
bilize, by building critical human capital. Ig-
noring the problems at institutions like Mus-
tansiriya will only undermine our efforts to
foster a better future for the region.
Dan Davidson ’11 is a political science
and music concentrator from Atlanta,
Georgia. He can be reached at
daniel_davidson@brown.edu
There is, of course, the question as to
whether there is room for such a sizeable
building on Brown’s campus. My purely un-
scientific assessment is this: Since Brown
seems to be able to conjure up space for
other buildings where it doesn’t exist, they
should be able to do the same thing for a
concert hall, even if it involves moving a cou-
ple dozen houses around. After all, they’ve
done it before.
Even if the concert hall did have to be
built on the outskirts of campus, there would
be an added benefit to this scenario. A new
concert hall would attract nearby residents
to productions, thus encouraging greater
community involvement and cooperation
with the University.
Building a concert hall is an initiative that
would benefit everyone at Brown and in the
surrounding community. Whether or not
students even enter the doors of the concert
hall, they would undoubtedly benefit from
the prestige such a building would impart
on our school.
I will graduate this spring, long before
the University will probably even consider
erecting those tarp-covered fences around a
concert hall construction site, and as a rule,
I’ll be happy to leave those Building Brown
roadblocks behind. Still, I’d gladly celebrate
rather than grumble about a concert hall
construction site, even if it was on my way to
class — its benefits would far outweigh the
minor inconvenience of changing one’s daily
routine.
Adrienne Langlois ’10 advises you not to
knock hour-and-a-half-long Mahler sym-
phonies until you’ve tried them.
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