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Corporation will consider ‘young alum’ positions Health is a
By Brigitta Greene
Senior Staf f Writer
The Corporation will set aside
space in its membership for young
alums for the first time later this
year, Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76
told the Brown University Com-
munity Council Tuesday.
The University’s highest gov-
erning body will consider — and,
Tisch said, likely approve — a
proposal to create “a new class of
young alumni trustees” at its May
‘Modes’ courses re-thought how we learn, but didn’t last
By Sophia Li
Features Editor
With little ceremony, the faculty last
month took the final step in laying to
rest what was once a major compo-
nent of the New Curriculum.
The New Curriculum at Forty:
Part two of four in a series
In an uncontroversial resolution,
Modes of Thought courses, which
have been virtually absent from
Brown’s curriculum for two decades,
were formally removed from the fac-
ulty’s rules. The decision to delete
the section was a “bookkeeping is-
sue,” Dean of the College Katherine
Bergeron said.
Though few students today are
familiar with Modes of Thought
courses — deleted by the same gov-
erning body that originally enacted
the New Curriculum — the story of
their creation sheds light on the spirit
of experimentation that gave rise to
the New Curriculum’s adoption.
Modes of Thought courses were
created as introductory seminars de-
Layoffs of 31 U. employees made official
By Nicole Friedman
and Brigitta Greene
Senior Staff Writers
All 31 University employees who were
scheduled to be laid off by June 30
have now been informed of their ter-
mination, according to an e-mail sent
by top administrators to faculty and
staff Tuesday morning.
An undetermined number will re-
ceive other jobs within the University,
Executive Vice President for Finance
and Administration Beppie Huideko-
per told The Herald Tuesday.
The layoffs finalize the immediate
budget cuts planned for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, the e-mail said. In
order to cut $30 million in projected
spending from the general budget and
$10 million from the Division of Biol-
ogy and Medicine’s budget for next
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meeting, he said. It will also vote
on unsealing its official minutes
sooner than under the current
policy, he said.
Only alums less than seven
years removed from their stud-
ies will be eligible for a young
alum position, Tisch said. Though
the proposal does not specify
the number of young trustees,
Tisch said, he estimated that two
or three of the Corporation’s 54
members would be recent alums
at any given time.
signed to underscore ways of think-
ing about a certain topic, instead of
about a topic’s foundational body of
knowledge. They were graded ex-
clusively on a Satisfactory/No Credit
basis, and the New Curriculum’s cre-
ators intended that first-years and
sophomores to take five to seven of
them ­— a requirement Professor of
Computer Science David Laidlaw ’83
said now might seem “antithetical” to
year, the University also eliminated 36
vacant positions and froze most salary
increases and staff hiring.
No jobs in academic departments
were eliminated, she said, though the
number of positions cut in Facilities
Management was relatively high be-
cause the University is reducing its
planned construction projects.
Eight people were laid off in the
approximately 30-person Planning,
Design and Construction Office of
Facilities Management, according
to Karen McAninch, the business
agent for United Service and Allied
Workers of Rhode Island, the union
that represents facilities and library
employees.
Four vacant custodial positions will
not be refilled, and the contracts of
temporary library employees will not
be extended, McAninch added.
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A second proposal, which
recommends that Corporation
records be released 25 years af-
ter their creation instead of 50,
will also be presented in May,
Tisch said. If passed, the 25-year
lag would be comparable to the
shortest such waiting period ob-
ser ved by Brown’s peer institu-
tions, Tisch said.
The more expedient release
of minutes follows the creation
of a new Corporation Web site in
Februar y, and adds to recent ef-
the spirit of Brown’s curriculum.
“One of the selling points of the
New Curriculum today,” Laidlaw
said, “is the lack of formal require-
ments.”
From the start, the faculty hesi-
tated to endorse Modes of Thought
courses in the form the curriculum’s
framers envisioned. Though the
courses were approved on May 7,
1969, the faculty decided to leave out
No union members were laid off,
according to McAninch. Brown has
union contracts with some workers in
Dining Services, the Department of
Public Safety, the libraries and Facili-
ties Management.
Two of the planning office employ-
ees let go were project managers, ac-
cording to another project manager,
who asked to remain anonymous.
Huidekoper did not provide spe-
cific numbers on where cuts occurred
throughout the University. The jobs
cut were “pretty equally dispersed
across campus,” she said.
Severance packages, which nor-
mally include the equivalent of two
weeks’ pay for each year an employee
has worked at Brown, were “effec-
tively doubled” for those being laid
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forts to improve communication
by the Corporation, said Russell
Carey ’91 MA’06, senior vice presi-
dent for Corporation affairs and
governance.
Tisch said the Corporation
began discussing young alum
membership following a lunch
with Undergraduate Council of
Students leadership last year.
UCS President Brian Becker
’09 called Tisch’s announcement
continued on page 3
the clause that required students to
enroll in them.
For the next 20 years, the Univer-
sity struggled to find the resources
to offer these courses, which were
intended to revitalize introductory-
level learning.
“There were never enough Modes
of Thought courses,” said Sheila
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After starting with one win
against Dartmouth, things
went south in N.H.
global right,
says Kim ’82
By Sophia Li
Features Editor
Physician and public health leader
Jim Yong Kim ’82 discussed global
health’s future — and his own as the re-
cently elected president of Dartmouth
— in Andrews Dining Hall Tuesday
afternoon, stressing the importance
of broad-based health solutions over
tackling diseases one-by-one.
Students and faculty filled the room
for Kim’s first public lecture since his
appointment last month as the first
Asian American to lead an Ivy League
school.
Kim said he graduated from Brown
believing in the power of individuals
to change the world.
“There’s no question that Brown
University made me think that any-
thing was possible,” Kim said. “I hope
to provide the undergraduates of Dart-
mouth College with the same inspira-
tion I found here.”
His lecture, “Global Health and
Human Rights: A Time for Change,”
focused on health care and its delivery
in developing countries.
“It’s so important that we took on
HIV, TB and malaria,” said Kim, one
of the world’s experts on tuberculo-
sis and former director of the World
Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS
initiative.
But Kim emphasized the impor-
tance of improving health care systems
instead of focusing on a single disease
or condition.
“It’s my personal belief that every
human being on the face of the earth
deserves access to health care,” Kim
continued on page 3
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C ampus N EWS “Shapes of snail shells and sheep horns, structure of skulls and cells, will be typical
topics in this investigation,”— Course description for a Modes of Thought class

‘Modes’ courses didn’t last forever

continued from page 1
Blumstein, a professor of cognitive
and linguistic sciences and former
dean of the College. Her 1990 review
of the New Curriculum declared that
the Modes of Thought concept had
failed in its “primary mission” to be
Brown’s new approach to general
education.
Still, the program remained on the
books — until March 3 of this year.
Bergeron said she noticed its inclusion
in the faculty rules and regulations and
brought the out-of-date section to the
attention of Professor of Philosophy
James Dreier, chair of the Faculty
Executive Committee.
Dreier and Bergeron moved that
the section be deleted. The faculty
passed the motion with little debate
— an uneventful end to the most sig-
nificant component of the New Cur-
riculum that never fully took root.
Rethinking general education
The Modes of Thought courses,
like the rest of the New Curriculum,
grew out of students’ dissatisfaction
with the educational model the Uni-
versity offered them.
“Undergraduate education at
Brown, and in general in the country,
was not serving students well enough,”
said Ira Magaziner ’69 P’06 P’07 P’10,
who, along with Elliot Maxwell ’68, led
the Group Independent Study Project
that would transform Brown’s under-
graduate curriculum.
The proposed Modes of Thought
courses were intended to address two
particular inadequacies in Brown’s
curriculum that students perceived:
the idea of general education require-
ments and the poor quality of introduc-
tory courses.
At the time, Brown students had
to take 14 courses to fulfill their distri-
sudoku
bution requirements. But Magaziner
and Maxwell rejected that traditional
model, instead developing an under-
graduate experience that reflected
individual students’ interests and
backgrounds.
They planned to transform the
first-year experience by revamping
Brown’s existing introductory course
offerings, putting Modes of Thought at
the forefront of their proposal.
Before 1969, the responsibility of
teaching entry-level courses gener-
ally fell to junior faculty members,
Maxwell said.
The students in such courses
were often uninterested in the sub-
ject because they were taking them
to fulfill distributional requirements,
said Edward Ahearn, a professor of
comparative literature who has taught
at Brown since 1963.
The Modes of Thought courses
were the New Curriculum’s answer to
the weaknesses of Brown’s introduc-
tory classes, Maxwell said.
Unlike a traditional survey course
in history, for example, a Modes of
Thought course would teach students
“how to learn historically, how to ana-
lyze problems historically,” Magaziner
said.
The small size of the courses,
which were limited to 20 students,
gave students the opportunity to
work closely with a faculty member,
according to Maxwell. The courses
were to emphasize “ways of looking at
the world, ways of organizing knowl-
edge,” he said.
“What was important was that peo-
ple had an opportunity to understand
what it meant to be a sociologist, a
biologist, a physicist,” he added.
The program was based on the
premise that professors would propose
courses on topics and ideas to explore
with first-years and sophomores from
any discipline, said Professor of Math-
ematics Thomas Banchoff P’91.
“Teachers teach best when they’re
teaching about things they’re inter-
ested in,” Maxwell said.
“I think the spirit of the (Modes of
Thought) courses reflected an attitude
of openness during the 1970s,” said
Professor of Art Richard Fishman,
who joined Brown’s faculty in 1965,
“and all the principles of the New
Curriculum — risk-taking, crossing
boundaries.”
The ‘principle of student
choice’
In April 1969, the Special Com-
mittee on Educational Principles
synthesized the GISP’s recommen-
dations and developed the Modes of
Thought courses as a viable solution
to the college’s shortcomings. The
committee, chaired by then-Assistant
Provost and Professor of Engineering
Paul Maeder, proposed the Modes of
Thought courses as a requirement
for students.
Under the committee’s recommen-
dations, students would be expected to
take five to seven Modes of Thought
courses during their first two years.
They would then be expected to take
at least one course from each of the
four areas of study: Humanities, Social
Studies, Natural Sciences and Formal
Thought.
“We did require them because we
felt that was the only way to ensure that
they happened,” Magaziner said.
But when the faculty met in the
spring of 1969, professors pointed out,
according to Magaziner, that imple-
menting a Modes of Thought require-
ment contradicted the “principle of
student choice” that was at the heart
of the New Curriculum.
Though the committee’s report
had laid out provisions for phasing in
the Modes of Thought courses, the
faculty still objected to the overhaul of
Brown’s course offerings that would
have been necessary to implement
the courses as requirements.
“If you require five to seven Modes
of Thought courses, we’d have to have
a couple of hundred Modes of Thought
courses,” Banchoff said.
On May 7, 1969, the faculty voted.
It adopted the Modes of Thought
courses — as optional, both for pro-
fessors to teach and for students to
take.
“Not every faculty member was
interested in teaching Modes of
Thought courses,” Banchoff said. But
“there were some of us who thought
it was a great idea,” he added.
A novel idea
The first year Modes of Thought
as cool, different, ‘Brown’ things to
do,” said Laidlaw, who took Banchoff’s
course on the fourth dimension his
junior year.
Banchoff also collaborated with
faculty from other departments to
create other interdisciplinary course
offerings.
In the second year of the program’s
existence, Banchoff taught “Growth
and Form in Mathematics, Biology
and Art,” with Fishman and Peter
Stewart, who taught biology.
“Shapes of snail shells and sheep
horns, structure of skulls and cells,
will be typical topics in this investiga-
tion,” the professors wrote in their
course proposal.
The course was proposed as an
“experimental” Modes of Thought
course that would take advantage of
first-year residential units. “We taught
in a dormitory in Littlefield Hall. We
met in the lounge there,” Banchoff
said.
Professors ran the courses on top
of their regular teaching duties, Ban-
choff said. But it was stipulated that a
Modes of Thought course be offered
“only as long as a professor is willing
to teach it,” according to the section
recently deleted from the faculty rules
and regulations.
Eventually, enthusiasm for the
courses waned.
“There was a certain novelty fac-
tor,” Banchoff said. “A number of
people tried (teaching) them once
or twice and found that was enough
rather than continuing it.”
Magaziner called the decision not
to institute Modes of Thought courses
as a requirement “unfortunate.”
“It did not bring the full result that
we had hoped for,” he said.
Liberal learning today
As the program declined, the Uni-
versity sought other ways to fulfill its
Julien Ouellet / Herald
with faculty members.
“What we have in the first-year
seminar program is a … curricular
offering that carries on the spirit of the
Modes of Thought courses,” Bergeron
said, adding that first-year seminars,
too, emphasize knowledge outside of
a “strict disciplinary frame.”
While students are not required
to take first-year seminars, enroll-
ment reached an all-time high this
year, according to University Registrar
Michael Pesta. Over 1,100 students
signed up for 74 first-year seminars,
nearly mirroring the success of the
Modes of Thought program at its
peak.
Unlike the Modes of Thought
courses, though, first-year seminars
are part of a faculty member’s regular
teaching load, Bergeron said.
First-year seminars are not the only
curricular program the University ad-
opted to fill the gap left by the Modes
of Thought program. In the mid-1970s,
several programs were created to fos-
ter interdisciplinary learning: Special
Themes and Topics, Modes of Analy-
sis and Foundations courses, accord-
ing to Blumstein’s report.
But the boundaries that distin-
guished these course categories from
one another were unclear, according
to the report, and by 1993, these spe-
cial designations had disappeared.
University Courses, originally es-
tablished as the upper-level counter-
part to Modes of Thought courses, still
exist in Brown’s curricular offerings,
though few courses still bear that label.
Liberal Learning courses, an offshoot
of the University Courses program,
also “focus on thinking” instead of
“absorbing content,” Bergeron said,
and emphasize an interdisciplinary
approach.
The idea of “liberal learning pro-
motes the making of connections
across the curriculum,” she said.

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C ampus N EWS “Brown is here for the students”

— Mike da Cruz ’09, Students for a Democratic Society member

BUCC meeting details tight budget Young alums likely to

By Brigitta Greene
Senior Staff Writer
Providing a glimpse at preliminary
planning for the University’s fiscal year
2011 budget, Executive Vice President
for Finance and Administration Beppie
Huidekoper emphasized to the Brown
University Community Council Tues-
day that budget cuts will loom large
for planners well into next year.
Earlier in the meeting, the BUCC’s
last of the year, Chancellor Thomas
Tisch ’76 told the council that the
Corporation will likely include young
alums in its membership next year
(see story, page 1).
The University cut about $35 mil-
lion from projected budgets this year,
leaving an additional $60 million to
be cut by June 2014 in order to meet
goals set by the Corporation at its
meeting in February.
The University is looking to elimi-
nate an additional $30 million from the
projected budget for the fiscal year
beginning in July 2010, Huidekoper
said.
Tightened budgets are a function
of both endowment losses and the
“flattening of the net tuition line” —
the amount the University takes in
from tuition less financial aid — Tisch
told The Herald after Huidekoper’s
presentation. This flattening is not just
a result of the economic downturn,
he said, but a result of the recent in-
creases in undergraduate financial aid
offerings, which he called a “paradigm
switch.”
Though some expenses — such as
utilities costs and contract-mandated
salary increases — are relatively im-
mutable, Huidekoper said the Uni-
versity needs to be “more aggres-
sive” in managing other areas of the
budget.
Revised projections place yearly
general revenue growth at about 2
percent per year, resulting in a total
revenue increase of only $50 million
over the next five years. “Financial
aid alone could eat up most of that,”
Huidekoper said.
The six-member Organizational
Review Committee will expand to en-
compass a larger body of faculty, stu-
dents and staff, and will work through-
out the summer and fall to analyze
areas in which the University can cut
back, she said. The committee, which
Huidekoper said was formed before
the depth of the economic downturn
became fully clear, is responsible for
identifying areas where the University
can cut costs.
“We will look for … opportunities
for consolidation,” Huidekoper said.
A total of 67 staff positions were
eliminated this year, saving the Uni-
versity a total of $6 million, according
to an e-mail sent to University faculty
and staff Tuesday morning by Hu-
idekoper and Provost David Kertzer
’69 P’95 P’98.
“A lot of sacrifice has been made,”
Huidekoper said.
She emphasized that all budget
cuts are considered in the context of
the University’s broader goals and
are aimed at maintaining undergradu-
ate academics and a commitment to
financial aid.
“We’re very lucky to have a clear
plan to guide our behavior and priori-
ties,” Tisch said. “Not all schools have
the same clarity.”
Requesting divestment
Also during the meeting, members
of the Student Labor Alliance gave a
presentation about possible invest-
ments by Brown in HEI Hospitality,
LLC, a national chain of hotels and
resorts that the group says violates
workers’ rights.
The group told the BUCC that the
University has a moral obligation to di-
vest from HEI because of the union’s
employment practices. Though the
University has not said any such
investments exist, the group’s rep-
resentatives said Tuesday that HEI
officials have listed Brown among
the company’s investors.
The SLA has been working with
the University’s Advisory Commit-
tee on Corporate Responsibility in
Investment Policies to determine what
action, if any, the University should
take with regard to HEI.
The group also said Brown’s in-
vestment portfolio should be more
transparent.
Tisch said after the meeting that
the larger question raised by the
group was an important one. “The
bigger issue,” he said, “is whether
the composition of the University’s
portfolio should be public.”
get Corporation seat
continued from page 1
about the young alum positions
“incredibly exciting news.”
The process of getting UCS’
idea to the Corporation’s leader-
ship was “a really great example
of how receptive the Brown ad-
ministration and governance is
to student ideas,” he said.
The most recent undergradu-
ate class currently represented
on the Corporation is the class
of 1992.
Tisch said the Corporation
has not included an alum less
than a decade removed from
Brown since 1938.
“We wanted to make sure we
had voices in the Corporation
room who were ver y close to
students,” he said.
Mike da Cruz ’09, a member
of Students for a Democratic So-
ciety ­— a group that has lobbied
for increased Corporation trans-
parency — said he did not think
the proposal went far enough.
“Brown is here for the stu-
dents, and the students are what
make Brown a functional institu-
tion,” he said. “Giving that voice
to one person under the age of
30 is the epitome of ‘tokeniza-
tion.’”
The Corporation is made up
of 12 fellows and 42 trustees. Of
the 42 trustees, 14 are elected by
alums in voting overseen by the
Brown Alumni Association.
Young tr ustees would be
elected in the same manner,
Tisch said.
Candidates would be selected
for their experience and leader-
ship on campus and would be
expected to bring knowledge and
skills representative of the stu-
dent experience, he said.
Tisch said he expects the first
young trustee to begin ser vice
July 1, with a second to be se-
lected in the next year.
Younger Corporation mem-
bers who have experience with
new Internet technologies will
bring with them a set of skills
cur rently lacking within the
Corporation, he said, citing the
increasing importance of social
hubs like Facebook and Twit-
ter.
“There’s a lot of power in
these capabilities,” he said. “Like
any organization, we have to find
ways to find our place and work
with it in a positive way.”
Following the completion of
their three-year terms, young al-
ums would have the possibility
of remaining on the Corporation,
Tisch said.
— With additional reporting
by Joanna Wohlmuth and Ben
Schreckinger

Lagos discusses recession Kim: Health care is a universal right

impact on South America
By Jeremy Jacob
Contributing Writer
Though its end is nowhere in sight, the
current recession could lead to an increas-
ingly globalized world in which devel-
oped and developing states will be more
inclined to coordinate their economic
decisions and policies, former Chilean
President Ricardo Lagos Escobar told
nearly 50 students, faculty and commu-
nity members at Smith-Buonanno Hall
Tuesday night.
Lagos, who has been a professor-at-
large at the Watson Institute for Interna-
tional Studies since July 2007, also said
Latin America, in particular, is ready to
play a greater role in the international
economic arena.
Lagos started his lecture, “Latin Amer-
ica’s economic setback: a global downturn
overtakes local progress,” by presenting
a brief over view of the Latin American
economy in the last ten years, noting its
higher growth and lower poverty rates
compared to past years. But while Latin
American states had followed the econom-
ic policies recommended by institutions
such as the International Monetary Fund,
he said the current economic crisis will
make it difficult for them to maintain the
same level of economic development.
Describing the current situation as the
“Latin American frustration,” Lagos said
many states in the region believed they
had “done their homework” and “been
good students.” But he said they are now
suffering despite those efforts.
Latin America experienced an uninter-
rupted growth rate of 5 percent from 2003
to 2008, Escrobar said, adding that the
six-year streak will probably be broken
in 2009. in Boston and as the director of the Francois Xavier
“Now there is a sense that it will take
a long time to know when we are going
to get to the bottom of this crisis,” he
said.
But Latin America, which has faced
difficult times in the past such as the
Mexican economic crisis in 1994 and the
Argentine financial crisis in the last de-
cade, is prepared for the challenges that
might come its way in the near future,
Lagos said.
The current crisis, he said, illustrated
the need for globalized institutions and
regulations, adding that it was important
for developing states to have a say in
global decision-making. He also pointed
to the fact that global economic decisions
are now being discussed by the G20, a
group of the world’s 19 largest economies
and the European Union. Unlike the G8,
the G20 includes Latin American states
such as Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.
Lagos currently heads the Club of
Madrid, an organization of former presi-
dents that promotes democracy, and is a
special United Nations envoy for climate
change.
John Walsh ’12, who attended the
event and is a Herald designer, told The
Herald he enjoyed listening to Lagos,
but wished the former president had
discussed his personal experiences in
greater detail.
“I wish he had spent more time going
into specifics about Chile,” Walsh said.
said.
continued from page 1
The physician and medical anthropologist cur-
rently serves as chief of the Division of Global
Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.
On Tuesday, Kim discussed his work with
Partners in Health, the non-profit organization he
co-founded in 1987 with Paul Farmer — now an
internationally known physician, anthropologist
and public health leader — while the two were
medical students at Harvard.
He and Farmer strove to raise the standard
of medical care in rural Haiti, where Partners in
Health established a clinic to serve the impover-
ished, Kim said.
“Our first project was building functioning
health care systems that took care of people in
their entirety,” he said.
Partners in Health built houses and provided
education. “Health is not just medical care,” Kim
said. “Health is all these things at once.”
Kim also discussed the “implementation bottle-
neck” in health care, noting that many people don’t
have access to existing technology and medicin.
The past two decades have seen a surge in
funds committed to global health, posing an impor-
tant question for the field’s leaders, Kim said.
“Now what do we do?” he asked. “We’ve got
all this money. Are we really doing what we need
to do?”
Kim emphasized the need to collaborate, share
knowledge and take an interdisciplinary approach
to guide the projects that recent funds and commit-
ments to global health have made possible.
“Just about every problem of (health care) deliv-
ery has been solved somewhere in a really brilliant
fashion,” he said. “But we need a lot more.”
In 2007, in order to address this need, Kim
and his colleagues founded the Global Health
Delivery Project, an organization that researches
and spreads knowledge about effective health care
systems, he said.
Kim said strengthening education about health
care delivery and implementation can also change
how public health leaders approach health care
systems.
This year, Harvard’s public health program and
medical school launched a collaborative program
to teach students about what he calls “health care
delivery science,” he said.
But “teaching about the complexity of global
health delivery” has to start at the undergraduate
level, he said.
Kim said he thinks the purpose of an under-
graduate education is “to make people feel that
there’s no problem that they can’t take on — and
to give them the teeth to do that,” he said.
Kim was selected to give Tuesday’s 10th annual
memorial lecture in honor of Professor Emeritus
of Medical Science Frederick Barnes Jr. and his
wife before Kim was announced as Dartmouth’s
next president, said Terrie Wetle, associate dean
of medicine for public health and public policy,
who helped organize the event.
Wetle said Kim’s recent appointment indicates
that public health and internationalization are re-
ceiving recognition at schools such as Brown and
Dartmouth.
“Dr. Kim is just a wonderfully internationally
acknowledged leader in ... global health and human
rights,” Wetle said.
Kim, who spoke for about 40 minutes, took a
few questions at the end of the lecture that touched
on a variety of topics, including the role of public
and private organizations in global health issues.
He apologized for not being able to speak for a
long time, saying that in addition to his three jobs
in Boston and his new appointment at Dartmouth,
he has a six-week-old child at home.
“I had canceled most everything else,” he said.
“But I didn’t cancel Brown.”
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Chris Berman ’77 P’08 P’09 visited Salomon 101 Tuesday to discuss the media’s role in the sports world.
Q &A with Bill Russell
Legendary Boston Celtics center
Bill Russell spoke in Salomon 101
yesterday about the media’s role in
sports. Before the symposium, he sat
down with The Herald to answer
questions about President Obama,
his relationship with Boston and
championship rings.
Herald: What was your re-
sponse like when you found
out that NBA Commissioner
David Stern wanted to name
the NBA Finals MVP trophy
after you?
Bill Russell: Well, I was mildly
surprised. David and I have been
friends for years. Before he was
commissioner, he was the assis-
tant attorney of the league. ... We
always got along. So I was mildly
surprised because in this coun-
tr y, there are very few awards
named for the workers. (Laughs)
I think in baseball, the only one
I can think of is the Cy Young
Award. I don’t know if there are
any others. But there’s no award
for Babe Ruth or any of those guys.
In football, there’s just the Vince
Lombardi Trophy. But I was mildly
surprised.
What’s your take on Presi-
dent Obama’s basketball game?
Because that’s a big issue that
people are worried about right
now.
He’s a left-handed jump shoot-
er.
He’s pretty good, right?
Now, you say he’s pretty good,
where would he start? The NBA,
the WNBA? But seriously, he
seems to be pretty good.
When you were a player,
your relationship with Boston
wasn’t necessarily the best.
How is your relationship
now?
Well, in this case, everybody
thought I was having a difficult
time. But I was having the time
of my life. Today, the only people
I’m concerned with is a guy named
Tom Menino. He’s the mayor of
Boston. And since Tom has been
there with the city, the whole im-
age has started to change. And
the Red Sox — I have an excel-
lent relationship. But when I was
in Boston, I would have nothing
to do with the Red Sox because
the owner of the Red Sox said he
would never have a black player.
And I found that a little offensive.
But now, I go to Red Sox games,
and I have an excellent relation-
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“No one wants to know how a sausage is made.”
— ProJo columnist Bill Reynolds, on the dark side of college sports
Eunice Hong / Herald
ship with them.
Mahatma Gandhi said once, “I
do not concern myself with being
consistent. I concern myself with
being consistent with the truth
as it reveals itself to me.” So as
things change, you must evolve
with them.
Was it surreal last week at
Fenway Park with Sen. Ted
Kennedy throwing out the first
pitch to Jim Rice?
That would be indicative of how
the Red Sox are today — basically,
that would demonstrate where the
Red Sox are today in terms of hu-
man relationships. So the guys I
know at the Red Sox now, include
the owners and the management
and the players. It’s a good bunch
of people. And I’m very glad that
I have a positive relationship with
them.
I must be getting old.
Why do you only wear two
of your NBA championship
rings?
Well, this one, David Stern gave
me as a birthday present about
five years ago. So this is all 11
championships in one ring. And
this is my rookie year. And I can’t
get it off.
All-star panel tackles
sports media issues
By Seth Motel
Staf f Writer
Individual opinions now overshad-
ow the true essentials of sports
coverage, said Hall of Fame bas-
ketball player Bill Russell to a full
Salomon 101 auditorium Tuesday
night.
The Boston Celtic great was
one of four members of a panel
that discussed the role of the me-
dia in spor ts. He was joined by
ESPN sportscaster Chris Berman
’77 P’08 P’09, Providence Journal
sports columnist Bill Reynolds ’68
and HBO Sports President Ross
Greenburg ’77 P’10.
The event, titled “The Role of
the Media in Constructing the
Public Perception of Sport,” was
moderated by Luther Spoehr, a lec-
turer in education and history who
studies intercollegiate athletics.
Russell, a youthful-looking 75,
dominated the stage with his 6-foot-
10-inch frame. The five-time Most
Valuable Player and 11-time NBA
Championship winner reflected on
his mixed emotions regarding the
media, especially their coverage of
race in sports.
“The media approached me and
talked to me as if I was part of a
group,” he said. “But they wanted
me to respond to them as an indi-
vidual. I didn’t think that that was
quite kosher.”
Members of the media some-
times get preoccupied giving their
opinions and don’t report on the
facts of the games, Russell said,
adding that journalists said they
knew more about professional bas-
ketball than Russell did on “at least
two dozen occasions.”
“That was one of the dumbest
things I ever heard,” he said.
The three media professionals
each discussed their excitements
and concerns regarding today’s
sports culture.
Berman, who has worked at
ESPN since its inception in 1979,
said today’s “24/7” culture is blur-
ring the line between immediate
information and privacy.
In their haste to break stories,
Berman said, some members of
the spor ts media don’t wor r y
enough about getting the facts
straight.
“Accuracy is another line that’s
being blurred,” he said. “The pos-
session arrow may be going in the
wrong direction.”
Reynolds remarked that sports
coverage when he was younger
only reported on “hits, runs and
errors.” In the age of satellite tele-
vision and the Internet, fans know
much more about athletes outside
of the game.
“We have all types of access to
people, obviously sometimes too
much,” he said.
One problem of over whelm-
ing spor ts coverage is that it
focuses heavily on professional
sports and major college teams.
Reynolds said coverage of Brown
football games always used to be
on the front of the sports section
of the Providence Journal, but too
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
many people now have a percep-
tion that “if it’s not on TV, it doesn’t
count.”
Spoehr turned the discussion
to the media’s increased coverage
of college sports and the changing
expectations colleges have of their
student-athletes. Because enough
people will watch, television net-
works now encourage schools to
have their athletes play games dur-
ing the school week, he said.
Berman responded that the
public demand for spor ts con-
tinues to grow and networks can
be hard-pressed not to broadcast
more sporting events.
“Does that mean we need
to have a quadruple-header on
Wednesday night?” Berman said.
“No, not necessarily.”
Reynolds said schools are ig-
noring their athletes’ educations
in order to make money, but the
public chooses to look the other
way.
“No one wants to know how a
sausage is made,” he said. “This
is a business. This is what we
want.”
Russell expressed concern that
student-athletes don’t get salaries
and can only make $2,000 a year
working other jobs while colleges
and high-paid coaches are profit-
ing from their work.
“The student-athlete, unless he
comes from a wealthy family, is
compelled to live a life of poverty,”
Russell said.
Greenburg, of HBO, said me-
dia professionals highlight the
glamour that comes with being
a professional athlete but ignore
the fates of the vast majority of
collegiate athletes.
“For ever y Carmelo Anthony
or LeBron James,” he said, “there
are hundreds of thousands of kids
who are lost.”
Just in the last generation,
Reynolds said, too many college
players assume their careers after
college will involve playing profes-
sionally.
“Professional sports hangs over
too many kids like it’s the only
option,” he said.
Russell said he encourages
student-athletes to finish college
before attempting to become pro-
fessional athletes. Even those who
become professional athletes need
to enjoy a full college experience,
he said.
“The night before final exams
— there’s nothing in the real world
that’s going to top that,” Russell
said.
The panel took questions from
two audience members, discussing
rising ticket prices in sports and
the ramifications of age restric-
tions in the NBA.
After the panel discussion,
many audience members headed
to Salomon 001 to watch a screen-
ing of HBO’s 2000 documentar y
“Bill Russell: My Life, My Way.”
Tuesday’s event, sponsored
by the Depar tment of Athletics
and the Student Athlete Advisor y
Committee, was the third recent
symposium on sports.
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Thayer St. shop pierces the spirit
By Lauren Pischel
Staff Writer
Alongside the jewelry in the display
cases of Rockstar, the piercing shop
on Thayer Street, there hangs a pic-
ture of a man with long spikes pro-
truding from each side of his chest.
The spikes project upward and cross
each other to form a halo around the
man, Fakir Musafar, who is one of
the founders of modern piercing and
has trained all of the body piercers
who work at Rockstar.
“For Fakir, there is no such
thing as pain. There is only sensa-
tion which can bring you into differ-
ent states of perception,” said Billy
Wood, a piercer at Rockstar who
took Fakir’s basic body piercing
class in 2006.
Musafar is considered the found-
er of the Modern Primitive Move-
ment, which uses body modification
practices such as piercing, branding
and tattoos to change one’s body. A
pioneer of modern piercing tech-
niques, he is also the director of the
Fakir Body and Branding Intensives
in San Francisco — a school that
offers courses in basic branding as
well as basic and advanced body
piercing. The Fakir School currently
provides the only comprehensive
introduction to body piecing in the
country.
Musafar incorporates shaman-
istic beliefs as a means to “letting
the flesh be a pathway to the spirit,”
Wood said.
“Everybody owes something to
Fakir,” Wood said. “If it wasn’t for
him there wouldn’t be body pierc-
ing.”
The ‘flow of energy’
There are about 10 students and
multiple instructors in Musafar’s ba-
sic course, which lasts for one week
and covers all basic body piercing as
well as health and safety, anatomy,
aesthetics and the spiritual aspect
of piercing.
While the instructors focus on
the technical aspects of piercing,
“the thing Fakir really focuses on is
the magic behind the piercing, the
flow of energy,” Wood said.
“Unless you have been there,
I can’t ever really describe it,” he
added.
A student can also become a pro-
fessional body piercer through an
apprenticeship. By going through
the Fakir school, though, students
have the advantage of seeing dif-
ferent instructors’ techniques, ac-
cording to Jef Saunders, owner of
Rockstar and assistant at the Fakir
School. Students do not need any
prior experience to participate.
When he took the class, though
Wood already had several years of
piercing experience, “I think I got
a lot more of the spiritual connec-
tion,” he said.
But just because the school does
not require previous experience for
its basic class does not mean the
course is easy.
The course begins with basic tu-
torials on health and safety as well
as piercing techniques and introduc-
tory shamanism. The students begin
practicing by piercing cardboard,
and then move on to practicing on
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Wednesday, April 15, 2009
“We know we aren’t done yet.”
— VP of Finance Beppie Huidekoper, on future cuts
More cuts and layoffs
each other.
“It is tough though. It is not
American sun dance in which two
hooks are inserted into the skin
possible in future years
easy,” Saunders said. “The tools are and the person is suspended by continued from page 1 years, according to Huidekoper.
totally foreign,” and the jewelry can the hooks. He also performs the “We know we aren’t done yet,”
be counter-intuitive and difficult to Kavadi Dance, a Hindu torture ritual off now, Huidekoper said. she said.
handle. involving a halo of spikes inserted Savings from the salary freeze Decisions about further budget
After hours of practicing further into the body. will be the “major source” of budget reductions will be made next year
on oranges and clay models both in In the 1970s, Fakir teamed up reductions next year, according to and will go into effect in July 2010,
class and in hotel rooms, on the final with ­­­­Jim Ward to experiment and de- the e-mail. Administrators expect the according to the e-mail, which was
day of class, the public is invited for velop modern piercing techniques. layoffs and eliminated vacant positions sent by Huidekoper and Provost Da-
a free piercing by the students. Among other endeavors, they exper- to save the University $6 million in the vid Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98. Decisions
imented with using hospital forceps upcoming fiscal year. about further position eliminations
FEATURE designed to hold gauze as a tool for Union members are also not sub- will probably not be made until next
navel piercing. ject to the current salary freeze be- spring, the e-mail said.
“The place is mobbed for volun- “It just happened to work beauti- cause union contracts stipulate yearly The current round of cuts repre-
teers,” Saunders said, “partly be- fully,” Saunders said. “The entire salary increases, Huidekoper said. sents a stark turnaround from the
cause it is free, partly because they community of body piercing owes Those contracts are not scheduled to last several years, during which the
will leave with a good piercing.” a lot to him.” come up for review in the near future, University enjoyed robust fiscal health
An instructor observes each Though they draw on Fakir’s she said. under President Ruth Simmons and
student while they are piercing teachings, the piercers at Rockstar And Huidekoper admitted there sought to grow aggressively.
the volunteer, and will stop them do not incorporate all of his tech- would be “some costs” associated with “Brown hasn’t been doing layoffs
if the student is doing something niques and spirituality into their the cuts from severance packages and in a long time,” McAninch said.
wrong. work. commitment to transitional assistance. Some of Brown’s peer universities
“The school does not make you a “In an East Coast-based shop, Those costs will remain unclear until have also recently had to lay off em-
good piercer, I wish it could,” Saun- people do not want to you burn in- it is determined how many employees ployees. Dartmouth cut 60 staff mem-
ders said. “You have to bring experi- cense and chant, ‘Ohm,’” Saunders will receive other positions at Brown, bers and reduced hours for 28 more in
ence and intelligence to the table. said. “We focus on our personal she said. February. Yale may have to lay off as
It gives them the tools to become a intent — part of it is just treating The administration foresees more many as 300 employees, the Yale Daily
good piercer.” people well.” cuts and possible layoffs in future News reported in February.
The calling
Saunders did not become in-
terested in piercing until he was in
college and, one day, went to get his
ears pierced with his girlfriend.
“If anything felt like a calling in
my life, this was it,” he said.
Saunders then apprenticed at a
piercing shop in Connecticut from
1997 to 1999. He took the Fakir In-
tensives Basic Piercing Intensive in
1999 and the Advanced Intensive
in 2000.
Wood, on the other hand, first
pierced himself when he was 13
years old in a church on Mardi Gras.
He then went on to apprentice at sev-
eral shops around Providence and
took the basic Fakir course in 2006.
He is currently waiting for the next
advanced course to be offered.
Piercing the ‘spiritual one-
ness’
The spiritual aspect taught at the
Fakir School plays an important role
at Rockstar, though it may not be
obvious to some clients.
Saunders tries to incorporate the
spiritual aspect to become a better
piercer. If a piercer were to have the
mentality that they are simply pierc-
ing a navel, “then things tend not to
heal well,” Saunders said. “If you get
taught from day one that you are
making a hole in someone’s spiritual
oneness as well as their physical
oneness, it really does help.”
The spiritual side of piercing al-
lows one to “go beyond just pierc-
ing someone and sticking a piece of
jewelry in them,” Wood said.
The advanced class covers more
unusual body piercing techniques
and also delves more deeply into the
shamanistic side of piercing. To get
into the class, students must have
a portfolio and have attended the
beginner class. In this course, there
are usually eight students and 10 to
12 instructors.
“The advanced class is in many
ways a family reunion,” Saunders
said.
Fakir is also known for his use
of O-Kee-Pa suspension, a Native
Higher Ed
The Brown Daily Herald
Higher ed in brief
Pornographic film sparks controversy
By Amy Chen
Presidential commencement Contributing Writer
addresses trigger debate Mar yland state legislators threat-
ened to withhold funding from the
Two of President Obama’s planned commencement University of Mar yland after the
addresses — at the University of Notre Dame and at student union planned a screen-
Arizona State University — have engendered controversy ing of the X-rated film “Pirates II:
in recent weeks. Stagnetti’s Revenge.” After the uni-
At Notre Dame, a conservative Catholic group started an versity cancelled the event earlier
online petition calling for the Indiana university to rescind this month, a group of student activ-
its invitation for Obama to give a speech and receive an ists screened a portion of the film
honorary degree at its May 17 commencement. anyway in response to the proposed
The petition, which according to the Washington Post legislation.
has some 87,000 signatures, reads, “It is an outrage and The original screening, planned
a scandal that ‘Our Lady’s University,’ one of the premier for April 4 by the student union,
Catholic universities in the United States, would bestow was canceled by Linda Clement,
such an honor on President Obama given his clear support vice president of student affairs,
for policies and laws that directly contradict fundamental after the legislation to withhold
Catholic teachings on life and marriage.” funding was introduced. Clem-
The petition was started by the Cardinal Newman ent’s assistant Kathy Broady said
Society, a Virginia-based college Catholic advocacy Clement would not comment on
group, and supported by other groups including the decision.
CatholicVote.org and Operation Rescue, which identifies Despite the official cancellation,
itself as “the leading pro-life Christian activist organization a group of student activists unaffili-
in the nation.” ated with the student union chose
Notre Dame, however, has defended Obama’s invitation. to show 30 minutes of the film on
In an online statement, the university’s president, the Rev. April 6, Mar y Yanik, president of
John Jenkins, said Obama’s speech should spark dialogue the university’s Feminism Without
about these issues at Notre Dame. Borders group wrote in an e-mail
“The invitation to President Obama to be our to The Herald. Yanik co-organized
commencement speaker should not be taken as the event and her group officially
condoning or endorsing his positions on specific issues endorsed the screening.
regarding the protection of human life, including abortion In response to the first planned
and embryonic stem cell research,” Jenkins said in the screening, State Sen. Andrew Har-
statement. “Yet, we see his visit as a basis for further ris, R-Baltimore County and Hart-
positive engagement.” ford County, proposed an amend-
The university has a tradition of inviting new presidents ment to the capital budget that
to speak, and has hosted Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan aimed to encourage universities
and George W. Bush in past years. to develop policies restricting pre-
At Arizona State, where Obama is scheduled to speak sentations of pornographic films on
May 13, controversy has centered on whether the university campus, Harris’ assistant, Kathy
will grant the president an honorary degree. ASU’s policy Szeglia said.
is to not award honorary degrees to sitting politicians, Harris did not oppose student
according to ASU’s student newspaper, the State Press. groups showing pornographic
“Because President Obama’s body of work is yet to films, Szeglia said. Rather, the leg-
come, it’s inappropriate to recognize him at this time,” islation aimed to restrict university-
university spokeswoman Sharon Keeler told the State sponsored events during which
Press. adult content would be shown.
Some members of the ASU community and the public Kenton Stalder, another co-or-
have since protested, and university officials are now ganizer of the second screening,
considering granting the president an honorary degree expressed disappointment that
despite the school’s policy. the university “caved in” to Har-
Obama will also deliver the commencement address at ris’ threat.
the United States Naval Academy on May 22. “It seemed absolutely ridiculous
… and a waste of Senate time,”
— Ellen Cushing Stalder said.
“I think withholding funds was
a clear overreaction and made the
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showing of this movie into a much
bigger deal that it ever would have
been,” Jonathan Sachs, the presi-
dent of the University of Maryland
Student Government Association,
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
Although he did not attend the
Monday screening, Sachs wrote
that he was surprised the screen-
ing had turned into a big event on
campus.
Before the attention from the
legislature, “this movie was a joke
and a lot of Greeks were going to
go see it,” he wrote, referring to
members of the Greek fraternity
system.
The second screening included
a panel of professors who spoke
about censorship and academic
freedom, Stalder said.
“Censorship does not help to
resolve the potential problems
with pornography, and certainly
isn’t helpful to women involved in
the industr y,” Yanik wrote. “The
autonomy of this university is es-
sential to its academic freedom,
educational integrity and demo-
cratic dignity.”
Since 2005, more than 50 uni-
versities and colleges in the US and
Canada have requested copies of
either Pirates II, or its predecessor,
“Pirates I,” according to Christo-
pher Ruth, spokesperson for the
film’s production company, Digital
Playground.
Ruth said no school had encoun-
tered this degree of resistance to
showing the film in the past, add-
ing that he did not know of any
other school’s canceling screen-
ings of the film. The University of
California, Davis; Northwestern;
and Carnegie Mellon University
are among the other colleges that
have screened Pirates II.
Ruth said Pirates II is unique
among pornographic films in that it
“appealed to different people.”
“These screenings allow stu-
dents to gather together in an aca-
demic environment to discuss ... all
kinds of issues as such sexuality,
gender roles and pornography,”
Ruth said.
But Szeglia said the screening
did not of fer educational value.
“The students (at the University of
Maryland) invited Planned Parent-
hood to talk about safe sex but the
irony is that the movie is not about
safe sex,” Szeglia said, referring
to plans for the original, canceled
screening.
“I know some students would
like to portray this as a free speech
issue,” Harris said in a statement.
“It is not. This is about the use of
taxpayer dollars and the Maryland
General Assembly acts ever y day
on issues concerning the use of
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taxpayer dollars. Just because
someone is on a college campus
they do not have a right to spend
the hard-earned money of Mar y-
land’s taxpayers on something as
detrimental to our society as hard-
core XXX pornography.”
In response, Stalder said the
screening was entirely funded by
student fees and not university
money.
At Carnegie Mellon, screen-
ing pornographic films has been a
decade-long tradition, according to
Tomasz Skowronski, a senior and
current chair of the university’s
Activities Board.
“Pornography is so pervasive in
American society and it’s nothing
new,” Skowronski said. Students
ranked Pirates II, which was shown
last semester at the university,
among one of the most popular
films — alongside “WALL-E” and
“The Dark Knight” — out of about
40 films shown last semester.
Pornographic films are “largely
for entertainment,” Skowronski
said. “The films are funny and
people laugh and cheer and have
a great time,” he said.
Though some students pro-
tested the showing of Pirates II at
Carnegie Mellon, Skowronski said
school officials did not express any
concerns to the Activities Board.
“I’m sure there is a line, but we
have not crossed that yet,” Skow-
ronski said.
At Brown, pornographic films
have been screened in a more
private setting: Male Sexuality
Workshop classes. The films were
shown in an educational setting
with goals for the exploration and
discussion of pornography, MSex
facilitator Cameron Rementer ’10
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
Rementer wrote that universi-
ties should be a place of free ex-
pression, adding that legislature
and administration have no role in
stripping students of such rights.
“I believe that undue govern-
ment influence in universities and
colleges is a grave threat to intel-
lectual freedom,” he wrote.
Andrew Vottero ’09, a former
MSex facilitator, wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald that he personally
would consider screening porno-
graphic films to the general public
at Brown.
“There are many cases in which
such a screening could be educa-
tional and interesting and fun, de-
pending on how it was structured
and what the goals of the presenta-
tion were,” he wrote. “If it bothers
you or you are not interested, don’t
go. I think that it’s as simple as
that. And I think that Brown stu-
dents would probably love it.”
SportsWednesday
The Brown Daily Herald
M. tennis beat Columbia Softball braves tough loss to Green
in ‘monumental’ match
By ERIN FRAUENHOFER
Spor ts Staf f Writer
The men’s tennis team nabbed its
most thrilling win of the season
in New York on Friday, upsetting
No. 57 Columbia, 4-3, in a battle
decided by a third-set tiebreaker
at first singles.
“I believe that Columbia — es-
pecially after winning at Harvard —
was the favorite to win the league,
so to go into their house and knock
them off of that pedestal was ex-
tremely gratifying,” said Head
Coach Jay Harris.
The Bears dropped a 5-2 deci-
sion to Cornell in Ithaca the next
day, but are still competitive in
the Ivy League standing, half a
game back of Columbia for the
top spot.
Brown 4, Columbia 3
The Bears clinched the doubles
point to begin the battle, persist-
ing in spite of an unfriendly atmo-
sphere at the match.
“Our team came out knowing
we would need to play our best to
beat a good Columbia team, and we
knew that started with the doubles
matches,” said captain Chris Lee
’09. “To play away at Columbia with
a tough crowd was difficult. We
knew we had to stay focused and
not be distracted by the activity
that can sometimes occur with a
hostile crowd.”
Kendrick Au ’11 and Charlie
Posner ’11 took a quick 8-1 win over
Rajeev Deb-Sen and Dan Urban at
third doubles, but when captains
Noah Gardner ’09 and Sam Gar-
land ’09 dropped the first doubles
match to Bogdan Borta and Mi-
hai Nichifor by a score of 8-6, the
doubles point hinged on the second
doubles match.
The No. 55-ranked duo of Lee
and Jonathan Pearlman ’11 readily
handled the pressure. The Bears
edged out Haig Schneiderman and
Jon Wong in a tiebreaker for a final
score of 9-8 (5), giving Brown a
1-0 lead.
The close contest continued in
singles play. After Skate Gorham ’10
fell at third singles to Ekin Sezgen,
Gardner defeated Sho Matsumoto
at sixth singles by a score of 7-6 (6),
6-3 to maintain the Bears’ lead. At
fourth singles, Garland triumphed
over Schneiderman, 7-5, 7-6 (2),
and at fifth singles, Au dropped a
6-4, 7-6 (5) decision to Deb-Sen.
Pearlman’s three-set loss to
Nichifor at second singles tied the
match at 3-3, setting the stage for a
showdown between Lee and Borta
at first singles.
“Chris battled one of the top
players in the region,” Harris said.
“Borta advanced to the finals of
the ITA Regionals in the fall and is
ranked No. 2” in the region.
Lee dropped the first set, 2-6,
but bounced back to take the sec-
ond set, 6-2.
“I lost the first set pretty badly,
and the coaches told me that I
had to impose my game on my op-
ponent rather than the other way
around,” Lee said. “I came out on
fire and won the second.”
Lee’s fier y streak put him up
5-1 in the third set. Then, accord-
ing to Lee, “I played a pretty poor
five games to find myself down 5-6
and 0-15.”
But Lee held his serve to drive
the match to a tiebreaker. Accord-
ing to Harris, Lee struggled with
his ner ves to the point of cramp-
ing, and while leading 6-3 in the
tiebreaker had to call an injur y
timeout, with three match points
continued on page 8
By KATIE WOOD
Assistant Sports Editor
The softball team (10-18, Ivy 4-8) be-
gan its four-game series in Hanover,
N.H., on a positive note with a 2-1
win but fell in the next three games
to Dartmouth (18-14, 9-3 Ivy) as the
Bears were outscored 20-6 in those
three losses.
Brown 2, Dartmouth 1
Michelle Moses ’09 dominated
the Big Green through five-and-a-
third innings in game one on Sat-
urday, giving up only one run on
nine hits.
“The tone starts with what the
pitchers are doing in the circle, and
the pitchers on Saturday were ex-
ecuting,” said Head Coach DeeDee
Enabenter-Omidiji.
Brown’s offense produced the
first run of the game in the top
of the third inning with two outs
when a single to third by Elaina
Atherton ’12 brought home Sandra
Mastrangelo ’12.
Katie Rothamel ’10 then began
the fourth inning with a double to
left center before Kate Strobel ’12
came through for the Bears with
two outs. Strobel ripped the ball
down the left field line to bring
home Rothamel for the 2-0 lead.
A home run in the fourth by
Dartmouth’s Alyssa Parker tight-
ened the game up, but the Bears
outlasted the Big Green for the
2-1 win.
Jessica Iwasaki ’10 closed out the
game for the save with two strike
outs in the sixth inning.
Dartmouth 4, Brown 0
Iwasaki stayed on the mound for
the start of game two, but did not
have as much luck as she did in the
first game. After a costly Dartmouth
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Page 7
error, Brown had the first base run-
ner of the game in the top of the
third inning. But the Bears were
unable to capitalize on the runner’s
position, and the score remained
knotted at zero.
The Big Green loaded the bases
in the bottom half of the inning for
Molly Khalil, who hit a line drive
to third to score two runs on an
error.
“We had a few mental lapses that
snowballed,” Enabenter-Omidiji
said. “That definitely affects our
pitchers’ psyche. If we’re playing de-
cent defense and giving the pitcher
some run support, it affects our
approach at the plate — built-up
pressure to get runs. It will take
some growth to learn from our
mistakes.”
Bruno put another two runners
on board in the fourth but fell short
again.
Another error by the Bears put
the Big Green up 3-0 in the fifth
before it added one more run to
earn the convincing 4-0 win.
Iwasaki gave up four runs on
three hits in the loss. Brown also
committed four errors in the
game.
Dartmouth 5, Brown 4
On Sunday, Moses got the start
again and gave up all five Dartmouth
runs in the first two innings, four
of them coming in the first. Trish
Melvin ’12 took over the game in
the middle of the second, allowing
no runs.
The visiting Bears began their
comeback in the third when Kelsey
Wilson ’09 singled up the middle,
followed up by a sacrifice fly from
Jackie Giovanniello ’12 to bring the
game to within three.
After two more scoreless innings,
the Bears fought back again with a
two-run sixth. Andrea Browne ’10
singled to short to bring home a
run and close the Dartmouth lead
to 5-3. A single by Lindsay Rice ’11
brought home the final run of the
game, as the Bears fell short, 5-4.
“We put too much pressure on
ourselves after digging ourselves
into a five-run hole,” Enabenter-
Omidiji said.
Dartmouth 11, Brown 2
The first inning in game two of
the Sunday doubleheader turned
out to be even worse for the Bears,
as Dartmouth tallied seven runs.
The Big Green went on to score
another two runs in the second to
extend its lead to 9-0.
Melvin started for Brown and
did not fare well after her impres-
sive relief effort in game one, giving
up seven runs on seven hits in only
two-thirds of an inning pitched.
Iwasaki and Emily Chaddock ’11
tried to stop the Big Green, but the
Bears found themselves in the hole
11-0 after the fourth inning.
Brown added two runs after Wil-
son reached on a fielder’s choice,
scoring Mastrangelo and Atherton.
The Bears fell after only five innings
of play, 11-2.
Dartmouth’s offense compiled
an impressive 15 hits, while Brown
struggled from the plate with five.
“We want to continue to get bet-
ter — it’s been our goal from the
beginning,” Enabenter-Omidiji said.
“We’re going to take that mentality
into the next few series.”
The Bears will play in a resched-
uled doubleheader in Connecticut
against Central Connecticut State
University on Thursday before re-
turning home for a weekend series
of doubleheaders against Harvard.
Play starts at 12:30 p.m. on both
Saturday and Sunday.
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M. tennis loses momentum against Cornell
continued from page 7
upcoming.
“I was cramping so bad that I
actually had to pr y my finger off
my racket,” Lee said.
Borta won the next two points to
bring the score to 6-5, but Lee pre-
vailed in his third match point.
“We played a pretty long point,
and then after nine or 10 rallies,
he missed it long,” Lee said. “I got
mobbed by my teammates, alumni
and coaches. It was a feeling I will
never forget.”
According to Har ris, Lee’s
victor y “will be remembered as
monumental.” Harris called the
Bears’ win over Columbia “our best
team effort of the season for sure.
We battled a great team, a hostile
crowd and some egregious officiat-
ing, but we still came out with one
the best efforts and wins in the
history of our program.”
Cornell 5, Brown 2
The Bears were unable to con-
tinue their domination the next day
against Cornell.
“As hard as we worked to stay
away from a letdown after the amaz-
ing win at Columbia, I believe the
energy we expended to capture
that win actually wore us down a bit
and hurt us in the Cornell match,”
Harris said. “But having said that,
Cornell has a great team, and they
played extremely well.”
The Bears ceded the doubles
point to the Big Red, despite an
8-6 win by Gardner and Garland
at first singles. Lee and Pearlman
fell, 8-2, to Jeremy Feldman and
Andy Gauthier at second doubles,
while Au and Posner dropped an
8-4 decision to Mirza Klis and Marc
Asch at third doubles.
“I felt we came out a little flat,”
Lee said. “Jon and I did not play at
the level we are capable of playing,
and the result reflected that.”
Lee and Pearlman were the
only Bears to record singles wins
that day. At first singles, Pearlman
trounced Jonathan Jaklitsch, 6-1,
6-1.
“Jon Pearlman played his best
singles match of his career, win-
ning 11 straight games,” Harris
said.
At second singles, Lee soundly
defeated Joshua Goldstein, 6-3, 6-4.
Gorham, Gardner and Au dropped
straight-set matches at third, fifth
and sixth singles, respectively.
Meanwhile, at fourth singles,
Garland narrowly lost to Feldman
in a third-set super-breaker, for a
final score of 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (10-8).
“The loss to Cornell will actu-
ally help us, not in the Ivy stand-
ings necessarily, but for our team’s
growth and development,” Harris
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
said. “We kind of needed one more
kick in the pants to remind us what
kind of effort it takes to win any Ivy
match, and I believe we will hold
on to that lesson for the rest of the
season no matter who we play.”
The Bears will next face of f
against Har vard in Cambridge,
Mass., on Friday.
“I feel a little different than in
years past about Har vard,” Har-
ris said. “In the past — even last
year — we got up for the other Ivy
matches, but we always treated the
Har vard match like the pinnacle
of the season. Now that the Ivy
League has so much more parity,
we have to treat ever y Ivy match
like it is the pinnacle of our season
just to win one. Because we have
done that to go 3-1 so far in the
league, we are ver y battle-tested
and ready to take on just another
Ivy League battle.”
The Bears will then return to
Providence to play Dartmouth on
Sunday. Sunday will also be Senior
Day, featuring a reception after the
match.
“I know Noah, Sam, Basu (Rat-
nam ’09) and I are all going to be
pretty emotional,” Lee said. “To
have played in front of our dedi-
cated fans and home crowd these
last four years has been such a
privilege. I will miss the team so
much next year.”
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propositional lo g ic
New York University Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis Lisa Duggan spoke about California’s Prop-
osition 8 and the future of legislated love during a talk in MacMillan 117 on Tuesday.
N. Korea kicks out inspectors
By Paul Richter and
John Glionna
Los Angeles T imes
WASHINGTON — North Korea
on Tuesday ordered international
nuclear inspectors out of the coun-
try and said it would “never again”
take part in denuclearization talks,
dealing a harsh, early setback to
the Obama administration’s hopes
of disarming the defiant regime.
In a strident reaction to a U.N.
rebuke over its recent missile
launch, the government took a
sequence of provocative steps,
including making an announce-
ment that it would resume build-
ing nuclear weapons.
The White House said North
Korea had taken “a serious step in
the wrong direction” but offered
Drug fight will be main topic of Obama’s Mexico visit this week
By William Booth and
Scott Wilson
The Washington Post
MEXICO CITY — President Ba-
rack Obama will travel to Mexico
on Thursday in a show of solidarity
with his Mexican counterpart, Felipe
Calderon, who has asked the new U.S.
administration to do more against a
thriving drug trade that threatens
the integrity of his government and
country.
In advance of the one-day visit,
Obama administration officials have
said the president will pledge to do
more to stop the flow of U.S.-made
firearms to the drug cartels fight-
ing for control of smuggling routes
along the border. Officials say he also
wants to broaden the U.S. relation-
ship with Mexico, dominated in the
past by drugs and immigration, to
include economic and environmental
interests.
But Mexican analysts say Calde-
ron, who is frustrated by delays in
no hint Tuesday on how it plans
to restart the long-stalled drive
to abolish Pyongyang’s nuclear
program.
The presence of international
inspectors and ongoing multina-
tional negotiations provide U.S.
officials a partial sense of security,
even without significant steps to-
ward a final agreement.
North Korea periodically seeks
to avoid the constant gaze of in-
spectors and diplomats. It also may
have used such periods to press
for technological advances.
For instance, North Korea sus-
pended talks for most of 2006, say-
ing it was protesting U.S. financial
sanctions. During that period, it
test fired seven missiles and con-
ducted an underground nuclear
test.
delivery of promised U.S. counter-
narcotics aid, will want more. Calde-
ron, who two years ago became the
first Mexican president to so fully
deploy the army against the cartels,
will seek from Obama an emphatic
expression of confidence that the
Mexican government will succeed
against the cartels after a Defense
Department report last year said
Mexico was on its way to becoming
a “failed state.”
“Drugs will be at the top of the
agenda. It will dominate the agenda,
because the drug fight is all that Cal-
deron talks about, all that he thinks
about,” said Jorge Castaneda, foreign
secretary under Calderon’s prede-
cessor, Vicente Fox. “He wants to
hear (Obama) say that Mexico was
never a failed state, is not a failed state
today and even in their deepest, dark-
est fears, will never, ever be a failed
state.”
The violence in Mexico captured
the early attention of the Obama ad-
ministration, which in March sent
Max Monn / Herald
Analysts said this week’s
developments could force U.S.
officials to take steps they have
long avoided, such as approach-
ing North Korea with one-on-one
negotiations in order to rekindle
broader negotiations involving
China, Russia, Japan, the United
States and North and South Ko-
rea, a process known as the six-
party talks.
The North Koreans took the
formal step Tuesday of giving of-
ficial notice to the U.N.’s nuclear
watchdog agency that it wanted its
inspectors to leave, and disclosed
plans to restart its plutonium pro-
duction facility.
“There is no need for six party
talks anymore,” said a statement
by the Nor th Korean Foreign
Ministr y.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder
and Homeland Security Secretary Ja-
net Napolitano to Mexico to meet with
Calderon and his drug-war cabinet.
More than 10,100 people have
died in the conflict since Calderon
unleashed military battalions and fed-
eral agents against the traffickers, and
the extreme violence dominates the
news about Mexico north and south
of the border.
This visit “is designed to send a
very clear signal to our friends in
Mexico City that we have a series of
shared challenges as it relates to the
economy, as it relates to security, inse-
curity, the threat of violence, and the
impact of drug trafficking on both our
countries,” said Denis McDonough,
the National Security Council’s direc-
tor for strategic communications.
“The president admires (Calde-
ron’s) work as it relates to confronting
violence and impunity by criminal
drug trafficking networks,” he contin-
ued. But Obama also wants to “more
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Page 9
Global warming ‘very
real for us,’ Palin says
By Kim Murphy
Los Angeles T imes
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin acknowledged
Tuesday that global warming was
harming her state but said stepped-
up natural-gas production could
mitigate its effects.
Speaking at a hearing before
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar —
the third of several he is holding
to consider renewed oil and gas
leasing on the Outer Continental
Shelf — Palin said that relatively
clean-burning natural gas could
supplant dirtier fuels and slow the
discharge of greenhouse gases into
the atmosphere.
“We Alaskans are living with the
changes that you are observing in
Washington,” she said. “The dra-
matic decreases in the extent of
summer sea ice, increased coastal
erosion, melting of permafrost, de-
crease in alpine glaciers and overall
ecosystem changes are very real
to us.”
Palin previously had questioned
the science behind predictions of
sea ice loss. Her administration
sued the federal government to
block endangered species protec-
tions for polar bears, whose habitat
is melting. When she was the Re-
publican vice presidential nominee
in 2008, partisan crowds cheered
her on by chanting, “Drill, baby,
drill.”
But at Tuesday’s hearing, she
dispelled any doubts that she was
committed to combating global
warming.
She cast energy development as
part of the answer.
“Stopping domestic energy
production of preferred fuels does
not solve the issues associated with
global warming and threatened or
endangered species, but it can make
deeply develop our bilateral relation-
ship on economic matters, as well
as on matters related to energy and
climate change.”
This will be the third meeting
between Calderon and Obama. Cal-
deron was the first foreign leader to
meet with Obama after his election,
and the two saw each other again at
the Group of 20 summit in London
this month.
“The question now is what is
President Obama going to do to
back up all the nice speeches about
how confronting the drug and arms
trafficking is a shared responsibility
between the two nations,” said Andres
Rozental, a former Mexican deputy
foreign minister.
On the specifics of fighting the
cartels, Mexico’s law enforcement of-
ficials have complained that the high-
caliber weapons used by the drug
gangs are smuggled into Mexico from
the United States. Holder, during his
visit to Mexico, said the Obama ad-
ministration would not push for an
them worse,” she said.
Palin acknowledged that “many
believe” a global effort to reduce
greenhouse gases is needed.
“Simply waiting for low-carbon-
emitting renewable capacity to be
large enough will mean that it will
be too late to meet the mitigation
goals for reducing (carbon dioxide)
that will be required under most
credible climate change models,”
she warned.
“Meeting these goals will require
a dramatic increase ... to preferred
available fuels, including natural
gas, that have a ver y low carbon
footprint. ... ,” she said. “These avail-
able fuels are required to supply
the nation’s energy needs during
the transition to green energy al-
ternatives.”
The Interior Department will
be looking with interest at alterna-
tive energy prospects, Salazar told
the more than 1,000 Alaskans at
the hearing, but traditional oil and
gas will remain part of the energy
program.
“I understand the passion I feel
in this room today,” he said. “I un-
derstand the point of view of people
who have subsisted in the fishing
industr y from time immemorial
and the importance of wanting to
maintain that way of life. I under-
stand the sense I hear also from
many of the people here that we
need to have economic develop-
ment, we need to have jobs, and
oil and gas can be part of that job
development.”
Alaskan officials say opening
offshore waters to petroleum pro-
duction will create 35,000 jobs with
a payroll of $72 billion over the next
50 years. Hundreds of oil industry
workers marched in hard hats out-
side the hearing with signs urging
the government to “Drill Here, Drill
Now.”
assault-weapons ban in Congress.
But Holder and Napolitano, in a
meeting with their counterparts, an-
nounced that they would begin to
work to tighten border security, spe-
cifically on traffic heading from the
United States into Mexico. Mexican
Attorney General Eduardo Medina
Mora said at the meeting that one
in 10 vehicles entering Mexico is
searched, though that figure appears
to be inflated, based on observations
of traffic crossing into Mexico at ma-
jor ports of entry in California and
Texas.
A source of tension between the
governments is the Merida Initiative,
a $1.4 billion, three-year U.S. aid pack-
age for Mexico and Central America
passed in June 2008. So far, only $7
million has been spent on projects
and equipment. The big-ticket items,
including fast-response helicopters,
reconnaissance aircraft and scanners
to search for drugs and weapons at
the border, have been promised but
not delivered.
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e d i to r i a l

Beyond forgiveness
The current state of the economy is taking a toll on all levels of the
University — the endowment has already shrunk from $2.8 billion to $2
billion, employees are being laid off and, most pervasively, students and
their families are having trouble paying tuition. University administrators
have recently shown that they are not ignorant of this problem and will
allow students to pre-register for classes even if they have outstanding
tuition balances in excess of $1,000.
This move is a continued suspension of the University’s previous policy,
which did not allow such students to pre-register for the next semester.
According to Herald coverage, about 360 students benefited from this
policy. The administration should be lauded for keeping this policy in
touch with the needs of students and their families, and we hope that
the University will continue to be lenient with tuition payments until the
economy improves.
However, we think that Brown could go further in its forgiveness of
penalties for unpaid balances. For example, the Registrar’s Office is still
not allowed to issue an official transcript for students who have an unpaid
balance of more than $100. This is obviously problematic for students who
are currently applying to jobs, internships, summer programs and grad
schools. In fact, this policy could ultimately prove counterproductive — if
students cannot access official transcripts, they are at a disadvantage when
it comes to applying for summer jobs, fellowships and other sources of alex yuly
funding which could possibly help them pay down their tuition balances.
There are several other courses of action that the University could take
to assist students in paying down their balances. The Office of Financial Aid
has already offered to assist families, regardless of aid status, by providing
l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r s
advice on financing options and federal loans. While this is a helpful gesture,
if the University is really concerned about students paying off their debts,
they should be expanding work-study programs. They should also look to
No divestment at Hampshire, no divestment at Brown
provide opportunities for students to stay in Providence during the sum- To the Editor: self-determination.
mer, when they can work for the University. Though forgiveness programs, Israel has adopted official policy supporting a two-state
such as the one currently in place regarding pre-registration, are helpful Tuesday’s column, (“Student power for Palestine,” Apr. solution based the right to self-determination for Palestin-
and appreciated, administrators should look further ahead and consider 14) contains factually incorrect and vitriolic information. ians and Jews in their own respective states. Those com-
how they can ultimately help students meet their obligations. It claims, “Students at Hampshire College won a two-year mitted to peace in the Middle East should not associate
campaign for their university to divest from Israel.” This themselves with BDS: boycott, divestment and sanctions,
Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments lie is propagated by anti-Israel students on Hampshire’s a movement that denies Israel’s right to exist. BDS writes
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dent Ralph Hexter and their Board of Trustees Chair participation, whether individual or institutional, in any
Sigmund Roos plainly refutes this untruth: “Hampshire activity that contributes, either directly or indirectly, to
College has made a strenuous, good-faith effort to explain the ‘celebrations’ of Israel’s establishment, as collusion
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d its decision to exit a problematic mutual fund. We make in the perpetuation of the dispossession and uprooting
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TYLER
ROSENBAUM
Opinions Columnist
Many of you have probably heard that two
more states will join Massachusetts and Con-
necticut in recognizing same-sex marriages
this year. For those of you who haven’t, can
you guess which ones they are? One is Ver-
mont. And the other? Oregon, perhaps? Ha-
waii? Another coastal bastion of liberalness,
like, say, Rhode Island? No — it was Iowa.
Almost more strikingly, the Iowa Supreme
Court’s decision to strike down the state’s
statutory prohibition on same-sex marriage
was unanimous. The other three courts that
have reached the same conclusion did so with
bitterly divided 4-3 majorities.
Iowa, which is squarely located in Amer-
ica’s usually conser vative heartland, has
left many states on the nation’s more liberal
coasts in the dust, putting places like New
York and Rhode Island to shame.
The rest of New England is preparing to
follow in Iowa’s footsteps. New Hampshire
and Maine look likely to approve marriage
equality bills this year, and Vermont’s legisla-
ture already overrode Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto
of its marriage equality bill by a two-thirds
vote. Where is Rhode Island?
Ever since I first arrived at Brown, I have
continually been taken aback by how “liberal”
Rhode Island is, which means something
coming from a Seattleite. It seems you aren’t
allowed to bat an eye without obtaining a
BY JEREMY
FEIGENBAUM
Opinions Columnist
For most Jews, Passover provides an oppor-
tunity to spend time with friends and fami-
ly — and to grumble about how much they
miss eating bread. But Passover also pro-
vides important lessons for modern Jews
and non-Jews alike about the freedoms they
enjoy.
Jews are not just required to remember
that their ancestors were slaves in Egypt, they
must also see themselves as if they were those
slaves. In doing so this year, I’ve been thinking
about the freedoms that Brown students hold
dear. Passover helped me realize that I rarely
take the time to appreciate the choices I am
offered each day, both the superficial and the
truly essential.
Although I could survive without it, I have
the freedom to chart my own academic path.
A prospective student visited this week and
asked me why I loved the New Curriculum.
Answering helped me to realize that, in addi-
tion to the trust Brown places in me, I love
that everyone in my classes wants to learn
about the subject. And I was able to explore
a new interest, environmental studies, which
I might not have done if I had been forced
to take a math class, for example, as a core
requirement.
The chance to take courses Satisfactory/
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Rhode Island falls behind
permit from both the State of Rhode Island
and the city of Providence, but when it comes
time to vote, they’ll give a ballot to anyone
with a pulse. (No identification, proof of resi-
dence, age, citizenship or that you haven’t
already voted? No problem!). And though
the governor is a Republican, both houses
of the General Assembly have more than 89
percent Democrats, a claim no other state
can make.
Given all this, it would seem logical that
Rhode Island would be at the forefront of
efforts to end marriage discrimination, es-
pecially considering that Rhode Islanders
Quite simply, it’s a lack of political will, not
popular support, that is holding Rhode Island
back from guaranteeing marriage equality.
support same-sex marriage 49 percent to
37 percent. Unfortunately, however, a se-
ries of factors are conspiring to keep the
Ocean State from following its neighbors in
New England.
The most obvious obstacle, of course, is
Gov. Donald Carcieri’s ’65 promise to veto any
same-sex marriage legislation the General
Assembly might pass. After the Vermont deci-
sion, Carcieri clearly staked out his position
by joining the National Organization for Mar-
riage and supporting its anti-gay marriage
campaign. Gubernatorial opposition signifi-
The Passover story
No Credit is an essential part of this freedom.
When I hear students claim that the option is
silly, and that graduate schools do not want
prospective students to take a class S/NC,
I shake my head. Just as I had the freedom
to take ECON0110: Principles of Economics
S/NC, because I was nervous about taking
five classes for the first time, they had the
freedom not to.
Brown students, hailing primarily from the
United States, also enjoy important political
freedoms. Most clearly, students actively par-
ticipated in the 2008 elections by voting and
Passover helped me realize that I rarely take time
to appreciate the choices I am offered each day,
both the superficial and the truly essential.
making calls to voters across the nation. By
contrast, in some authoritarian states student
political organizations are virtually non-exis-
tent. Students don’t even have the chance to
affiliate with the opposition. I am a Democrat,
but I think this campus is more vibrant for
having groups like the Brown Republicans
and journals like the Brown Spectator.
For anyone reading this article right now,
freedom of the press should be obvious. I
am allowed to write this op-ed, and others
about recycling, gay rights and female lead-
cantly raises the number of votes same-sex
marriage supporters need in both houses
of the Assembly. Theoretically, though, this
should not pose a significant problem, given
Democrats’ overwhelming majorities. Fully
one-third of Democrats could vote with the
Republicans to sustain Carcieri’s veto and it
would still be overridden.
So, if the real problem does not lie with
the people, or even with the governor (who is
ineligible for re-election), then where is it?
Quite simply, it’s a lack of political will,
not popular support, that is holding Rhode
Island back from guaranteeing marriage
equality. The Legislature doesn’t have the
votes to explicitly ban gay marriage; nor
does it have the will to allow it. Even after
the Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled that
two Rhode Island women who were married
in Massachusetts could not get divorced in
Rhode Island, the people’s representatives
couldn’t find it in their hearts to allow them
to end their marriage.
In Februar y, the Judiciar y Committee
of the Rhode Island Senate held a public
hearing on two bills. One of the bills would
ban same-sex marriage, and the other would
ers, without having to fear that Joe Biden will
show up in Caswell and whisk me away in the
middle of the night.
And many at Brown live a life free from
real need. Students sometimes complain about
gaining weight because food is always avail-
able. I am no exception. Yet we are not forced
to eat Ratty food — we can refill our plates
to our hearts’ content, but we don’t have to.
Many across this city, state, nation and globe
would envy that choice.
I am not writing this column to make stu-
dents feel guilty about the freedoms that they
enjoy. But this community must recognize that
these are freedoms that many do not share.
Since Brown students are so blessed, it is our
responsibility to bring freedom to others.
Hu Jia, a Chinese human rights activist, has
protested environmental degradation in China
along with attempts to cover up the AIDS
crisis there. In December 2007, the Chinese
government detained him for “incitement to
subvert state power.” His wife was placed
under surveillance.
Try to imagine the FBI storming into Wil-
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permit it. Hundreds of people turned out to
tell their stories, but in spite of the impas-
sioned testimony, the committee killed both
bills, and the lack of support in committee is
indicative of the situation in the Legislature
as a whole.
In fact, both House Speaker William Mur-
phy and Senate President Teresa Paiva-Weed
are opposed to allowing gay couples to get
married. They claim to be in favor of civil
unions, but no bills implementing those sug-
gestions have even been introduced in the
12 years since the legislature first debated
same-sex marriage.
At a marriage rally at the Capitol in
Providence, I spoke with a lawmaker who is
heavily involved in the struggle to recognize
same-sex marriage, who told me that many
Rhode Island legislators believe that their
constituents are much more conser vative
than they actually are. Many think that the
state’s over whelming Catholicism implies
that their constituents would be opposed
to marriage equality, despite opinion polls
indicating the contrary.
When it comes down to it, the majority
of current Rhode Island policymakers and
jurists do not have the political will to fulfill
the Rhode Island Constitution’s guarantee of
equal protection of the laws. Unless there is a
sea change in the current legislature, Rhode
Island will continue to fall behind such trend-
setters as Massachusetts, Connecticut and,
yes, even Iowa. And that is truly a shame.
Tyler Rosenbaum ’11 is more than
89 percent Democratic.
son on a Sunday night, interrupting the weekly
emPOWER meeting and arresting the attend-
ees. We take freedom for granted, so we forget
to help others fight for theirs. While human
rights should not be our only foreign policy
concern, we should insist that our leaders
fight for activists like Hu, who simply want
to attain our everyday freedoms.
The story of Shauna Newell might hit closer
to home. She was kidnapped in Florida, raped
and, although she was saved, was about to be
sold to a man in Texas. She was a victim of a
human trafficking network. During the past
few elections, this issue has been neglected,
and few are aware of its prevalence. Brown
students should fight for these women and
inform others that slavery, specifically sex
slavery, is alive and well in this home of the
free and the brave.
It is not enough to simply recognize that
these events occur. As Jews do during the
first two nights of Passover, everybody must
see themselves as slaves — a difficult but
necessary task given the freedoms and com-
forts we enjoy. Without putting ourselves in
the shoes of those who live in authoritarian
countries or who are enslaved in the United
States, we can never truly dedicate ourselves
to helping them.
Jeremy Feigenbaum ‘11 is a political
science concentrator from Teaneck,
New Jersey. He can be reached at
Jeremy_Feigenbaum@brown.edu.
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