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vol. cxliv, no. 25 | Thursday, February 26, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891
recognition
Contributing Writer He added that the shift was not the
product of one political ideology.
These are “dark times” for the Re- “The same force weakened the
publican party, David Frum told a List traditional family and also weakened
BY George Miller Auditorium audience last night, but trade unions,” he said.
Metro Editor one way into the light is a less polar- Though he called the election
izing stance on social issues. of Barack Obama as the first black
A lawsuit and bills in the state Gen- Recognizing homosexuality as a president “remarkable and gratify-
eral Assembly may allow the Moder- “reality” and calling for a “workable ing,” he said the president’s Chicago
ate Party of Rhode Island, a year-old consensus” on the abortion debate, background was a stronger indicator
political organization, to gain official Frum — a former speechwriter and of his political identity than his race.
recognition by the next election. special assistant to President George Referring to that city’s reputation
W. Bush — maintained a moder- for “abuses of the political process,”
METRO ate tone throughout much of his Frum said that the “idealistic young
lecture. people who rallied to Barack Obama”
Under current state law, a party Frum, who worked in Bush’s can expect to be shocked at the de-
can gain official status by collecting White House in 2001 and 2002, gree to which political practices re-
signatures of voters equal to 5 percent criticized the former president for main unchanged in the Democratic
of the turnout of the previous presi- leading “his party to the brink of di- party.
dential or gubernatorial election. The saster” in his latest book, “Comeback: The Republican party suffers from
signatures can be gathered only dur- Conservatism That Can Win Again,” a “thin bench of talent” because of
ing an election year. Parties are also which Frum signed copies of in the its stringent screening of potential
recognized if they fielded a candidate List lobby. candidates, he said.
for president or governor who got at Frum told The Herald before the Frum told The Herald that Loui-
Qidong Chen / Herald
least 5 percent of the vote. The Avon Cinema stopped its long-running tradition of screening lecture that a cultural shift toward self- siana Governor Bobby Jindal ’91.5, a
Rhode Island has “the most restric- midnight movies. expression and individualism in the
tive ballot access laws in the United See News, page 3 1970s has become “part of the reality continued on page 3
States,” said Ken Block, chairman of
Recyclemania
require for a group seeking recogni-
tion as a statewide party, he said. The
lawsuit also names Secretary of State
underway again
A. Ralph Mollis and Attorney General
Patrick Lynch ’87.
“The statute that the Moderate
Party has an issue with is a well
thought-out statute and it’s a reason- By Mitra Anoushiravani program’s main goals are to “in-
able statute,” said Mike Healey ’87, Senior Staf f Writer crease recycling participation by
spokesman for the attorney general. students and staff” and to “lower
He said case law shows that states Brown hopes to improve on its waste generated on-campus by re-
can require organizations to show a recycling record with a strong ducing, reusing and recycling.”
“significant modicum of support” to performance in this year’s Recy- Each week, participating schools
be granted the privileges of a politi- clemania. self-report the weight of waste
cal party. Recyclemania, a ten-week long produced and materials recycled
Bills introduced in the General national college-campus recycling by their community. Schools can
Assembly this month seek to lower and waste minimization compe- track their progress online at Re-
the signature threshold to 1 percent tition, began its eighth annual cyclemania’s Web site and see
contest on Jan. 18. Kim Perley / Herald File Photo
continued on page 6 According to its Web site, the continued on page 2 College Hill bins may not be empty for long — Recyclemania is back.
inside
News.....1-4
Inside Metro, 5 Opinions, 11
post-
Metro........5-6
Spor ts...7-8 post- scatters dat Brown city gets greener Oh To be young
Editorial..10 seed till it flowers all Providence Councilman Seth Sean Quigley ’10 dissects
Opinion...11 pop-culture like, and Yurdin proposes a law to clean the role of young people in
Today........12 69s. up diesel fuel emissions political discourse.
C ampus N EWS “Things (in Iceland) are pretty volatile right now.”
— Lee Stevens ’12, who plans on traveling to Iceland
Applicants to U.
summer programs
show no increase
By Anish Gonchigar ing for the Starr Fellowship this
Contributing Writer year, wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald that the economy was
The number of applications for not a factor in her decision to
the Swearer Center for Public apply.
Ser vice’s summer fellowships The fellowship “seemed like
is expected to remain stable this the perfect opportunity for me to
year, according to Roger Nozaki stay in Providence and do mean-
MAT’89, director of the Swearer ingful work,” Stark wrote. “I think
Center and associate dean of the the Fellowship, if I get it, will be a
College. good experience for me to learn
According to Nozaki, the how to work independently and
fellowships give out between outside of school.”
five and 20 scholarships each Stark wrote that her friends
— depending on the particular who are applying for similar pro-
program — and there are ap- grams are probably not doing so
proximately two to three times as for economic reasons.
many applicants as awards given. “I’d guess ... that most people
Swearer Center fellowships are are applying because they have
generally multi-staged processes, a project they really want to do
as students come in months be- — not because of the economic
forehand to begin consulting on crisis,” she wrote.
their projects. The Undergraduate Teaching
“You have to have a really and Research Awards program is
strong commitment to the proj- not expecting a major increase in
ect you are working on,” Nozaki applicants this year either, said
said. Christina Furtado, assistant dean
Alan Harlam, director of social for Upper Class Studies and di-
entrepreneurship and director of rector of the program. Furtado
the C.V. Starr Social Entrepre- said there were over 350 applica-
Courtesy of Andreas Tille
neurship Fellowship, said stu- tions for about 200 spots. Reduced costs are making Iceland an increasingly attractive travel destination.
dents applying to these programs Teach for America, a public
don’t seem to be influenced by
the economic uncertainty.
“I think most of the people
ser vice program that allows
recent college graduates and
professionals to work in public
Iceland’s collapse makes for cheap airfare
who come through the door are schools for two years at a time, continued from page 1 Reykjavik, due to limited knowledge is the world’s most developed coun-
motivated by the work they want is expecting a 60 to 70 percent in- of how to get around the country. try and one of the most egalitarian,
to do,” Harlam said. crease in applicants from Brown, such as StudentUniverse. Among Stevens said the group is not based on income inequality metrics,
Lucy Stark ’10, who is apply- The Herald reported last week. their plans is a trip to Iceland’s most worried about the collapse of the which measure income distribution
famous geothermal spa, the Blue economy and does not think the and economic inequality.
Lagoon. The spa, which Stevens trip includes many risks, noting Stevens estimated that the trip
sudoku said has health benefits in addition that a new government was re- will cost anywhere from $700 to
to its naturally warm water, is one cently set up in Iceland. She did $900 per person. The group’s fixed
of the most popular attractions in admit that “things are pretty volatile costs include $400 for their round
Iceland. Other natural sites, includ- right now” but added that Iceland trip airfare, as well as $23 per night
ing Iceland’s geysers, glaciers and doesn’t “seem to be slipping into for their hostel accommodations.
the island of Videy, which contains anarchy yet.” “I could go to Mexico or
a large variety of bird life, are also “Things could still change before Florida anytime,” Stevens said.
high on the group’s to-do list. we get there,” she said. “But this may be the only chance
Stevens said she thinks the According to the United Nations’ that I could go to Iceland for this
group will spend most of its time in Human Development Index, Iceland much money.”
Daily Herald
middle of the pack in past years. pounds. and were surprised to learn that it
the Brown
“Brown’s goal is to generally im- O’Neill wrote that EcoReps started roughly five weeks ago.
prove over last year, particularly in plans on using the statistics to cre- “I haven’t seen any tableslips
Editorial Phone: 401.351.3372 | Business Phone: 401.351.3260 the waste minimization category,” ate educational programs such as or noticed anything,” said Ipsita
wrote Madeleine O’Neill ’12, stu- information sessions for Residential Krishnan ’11, adding that had she
Stephen DeLucia, President Jonathan Spector, Treasurer
dent co-coordinator for EcoReps in Peer Leaders and first-year units. known about the competition, she
Michael Bechek, Vice President Alexander Hughes, Secretary
an e-mail to The Herald. EcoReps She added that the group recently would have recycled more over the
The Brown Daily Herald (USPS 067.740) is an independent newspaper serv- coordinates Brown’s participation conducted an audit of the school’s past few weeks.
ing the Brown University community daily since 1891. It is published Monday in Recyclemania. Brown ranks as recycling bins to make sure that the Prabenzo Martadarma ’11 said,
through Friday during the academic year, excluding vacations, once during
the top Ivy in waste minimization bins were in the most convenient “They should advertise better. I’m
Commencement, once during Orientation and once in July by The Brown Daily
Herald, Inc. POSTMASTER please send corrections to P.O. Box 2538, Provi- for the fourth week of competition, locations. really surprised.”
dence, RI 02906. Periodicals postage paid at Providence, R.I. Offices are located with 8.71 pounds of waste per per- “Other schools tend to use Re- But Martadarma said that he
at 195 Angell St., Providence, R.I. E-mail herald@browndailyherald.com. son — down from 9.40 pounds last cyclemania as a short-term focus would not have changed the amount
World Wide Web: http://www.browndailyherald.com.
year and much lower than Princ- for improvement,” wrote O’Neill. he recycled even if he had known
Subscription prices: $319 one year daily, $139 one semester daily.
Copyright 2009 by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. All rights reserved. eton’s 12.08 pounds for the same “Brown, on the other hand, uses it about the competition because he
week, according to the Web site. as a platform for improvement in already recycles what he can.
Thursday, February 26, 2009 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Page 3
C ampus N EWS “It’s like a Cold War scenario played out again in South Asia.”
— Farrukh Malik ’11, on India-Pakistan tension
M etro
Councilman wants cleaner diesel engines Party seeks recognition
continued from page 5 research engineer and senior lec- any negative reactions to the pro- continued from page 1 in the House.
turer in engineering, who has been posed ordinance, he said he antici- Current law places “very de-
he said. involved in projects to promote clean pates resistance from certain contrac- and eliminate the requirement that manding requirements,” including
In addition to hosting programs diesel technologies. tors who may not want to retrofit or signatures be collected no earlier a short time and “inordinate num-
for cities and town in Rhode Island Students in ENVS0410: “Envi- replace older equipment, he said. than Jan. 1 of an election year. ber of signatures,” on new parties,
with groups like Clean Water Action, ronmental Stewardship,” taught by According to Costner, retrofitting State Sen. Ed O’Neill, I-Dist. 17, Driver said.
Brown students, faculty and staff are Lecturer in Environmental Studies costs roughly 0.5 percent of the total who co-sponsored the Senate bill on Changing the law would also give
also getting involved in projects to and Manager of Environmental Stew- cost of projects over $2 million but behalf of the Moderate Party, said the Moderate Party the chance to
limit diesel pollution. Brown is cur- ardship Initiatives Kurt Teichert, are can become a significant portion of third parties deserve access to what raise money earlier, especially if the
rently looking to develop a policy working with Clean Water Action this the budget of smaller projects. is basically a “one-party system” in start date for collecting signatures
requiring construction contractors semester to improve efficiency and “If (contractors) want the city the General Assembly. Currently, is removed, Block said.
working on University projects implement green building strategies jobs, they are going to put (the fil- only 5 of 38 state senators and 13 Current law means that his group
to abide by clean emissions stan- on campus, Teichert said. ters) on and pass that cost along to of 75 representatives are Republi- would lose out on a year or more of
dards, said Christopher Bull, senior Though Yurdin has not yet heard the city,” she said. cans. fundraising that the established par-
“There’s no checks and balances ties get, he said. The Moderate Party
within the legislature to reel legisla- operated as a political action com-
tion back toward the middle,” Block mittee during last year’s election,
agreed. supporting Democratic, Republican
State Sen. David Bates, R-Dist. and independent candidates.
32, who introduced the bill, said, The preliminary start date for the
“Rhode Island has a very, very dif- trial is Mar. 16, though Block said it
ficult situation. It’s almost impos- probably wouldn’t begin that early.
sible for a new party to get started.” Bates said he was “optimistic” about
Bates was endorsed by the Moder- the Senate bill’s passage, but added
ate Party in November’s election, that composing the state budget is
as was Rep. Rodney Driver, D-Dist. taking up most of the legislature’s
39, who introduced an identical bill time.
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Investments in well-being
to actively discourage reports of rape and of August of last year, Brown welcomed a cilitate contact with the Providence Police
other sexual assault. new Health Education staff member whose or the Brown Department of Public Safety
BY ANDREA MATHEWS As victims who feel extremely vulner- arrival was not nearly publicized enough. or both.
Opinions Columnist able, sur vivors can often be easily deterred Trish Bakaitis-Glover, Brown’s (relatively) The position of Sexual Assault Response
from reporting or continuing with ongo- new Sexual Assault Response and Prevention and Prevention Program coordinator is a
I remember hearing, in my days as a pro- ing claims. I’m not making any assertions Program coordinator, fulfills a position that new one to Brown, and is a valuable step in
spective student, about how Brown Univer- about the best course of action for a victim of I wish ever y college would offer. making Brown more responsive to sexual
sity is home to some of the happiest stu- sexual assault. That is up for the victim him As Glover describes it, her first prior- assault. But it should not be a solitar y one.
dents in the country. (According to the 2008 or herself to decide. What I am advocating ity is to attend to a victim’s physical and Prevention and deterrence are objectives
Princeton Review, Brown is No. 2 behind is easily available support that satisfies any emotional needs and then to inform him or that should not be allocated to just one per-
to Clemson University. First is the worst, physical and emotional need and provides her of the options available. This includes son in this university, and we can certainly
second is the best, I say.) advice for victims on their options inside addressing health concerns of injur y, un- ask questions about how Brown treats stu-
Thanks to lists like the Princeton Re- and outside of the college setting. wanted pregnancy and STDs. Glover also dents who have been convicted of sexual
view’s, school reputation and word of mouth, assault, particularly if they are repeat offend-
it seems that colleges in general have strong ers. Beyond this, a Brown RC recently noted
incentive to keep their students happy. It that though Glover’s position is important,
makes sense that a healthy, safe and fulfilled it is perhaps under-utilized because so few
student body would translate to a better In at least one aspect of sexual assault people seem to know who she is.
university. Trish Glover probably wasn’t a resource
But incentives can be tricky; in the col- responsiveness, the University has come down on that the Princeton Review took into account
lege setting, it is possible that the motivation when it calculated its “Happiest Students”
to provide the most appealing environment the side of its students. rankings, and perhaps it would have been
for students may not translate directly to inappropriate to do so. After all, a Sexual As-
preser ving the welfare of ever y person. sault Response and Prevention Coordinator
Attributes like good food, low student is responsible for something far more seri-
to teacher ratios and quality advising are all ous than making sure students are smiling
things over which universities have clear It’s not difficult to see how a school’s in- makes known the options available in terms as they mill around the Main Green. But by
control. But what about quasi-exogenous centive to take care of its students may break of reporting what happened, addressing the investing in Glover’s position, our University
things like campus crime? Robber y and as- down in this situation. Providing inadequate time limit attached to collecting physical has sent the message that recognizing rape
sault are not things that can be cleared up care to victims of sexual assault is detrimen- evidence. “It’s really important that when does not mean a trade-off in ensuring its
directly with additional funding, and yet col- tal to their well-being, but acknowledging someone’s sexually assaulted that they make students’ well-being, and that makes me
leges are still held responsible for them. occurrences of such behavior, particularly if their own decisions,” she said, acknowledg- pretty happy.
I heard a troublesome tidbit over winter the perpetrators are students, could damage ing that the information she delivers can be
break from a friend at a California liberal arts a school’s reputation. (What college would crucial to that process.
school. As their equivalent of an RC, she had want to be on a Princeton Review list titled Glover ser ves as more than a resource
learned quite a bit about her college’s policy “Most Assaulted Students”?) to victims of sexual assault; she can also act Andrea Matthews ’11 is an economics
regarding sexual assault, which apparently What has Brown done about this jumble as an advocate for the victim to the Office and public policy concentrator from
is not much of a policy at all. Lobbying a of incentives? In at least one aspect of sexual of Student Life and other Brown actors to Santa Barbara, California. She can be
reached at
substantial accusation, she claimed that assault responsiveness, the University has preser ve the confidentiality of the student.
andrea_matthews@brown.edu
her school went beyond unresponsiveness come down on the side of its students. As Furthermore, she has the capacity to fa-
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