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Death devastates community
Schaefer ’13 left his mark Charges filed
By Brian Mastroianni
Features Editor
Soldier, student, leader — these are
some of the words that define the
life of Avi Schaefer ’13.
The son of Rabbi Arthur Gross-
Schaefer and Laurie Gross-Schaefer,
of Santa Barbara, Calif., Schaefer
and his twin brother, Yoav, served
in the Israeli Defense Forces. After
three years of service, Schaefer
came to Brown, where he planned
to pursue concentrations in interna-
tional relations and Middle Eastern
studies.
Before coming to Brown and
while on campus, Schaefer was
dedicated to promoting peace
and understanding in the Middle
East. A leader among his peers,
Schaefer had a vision for the future
of Israeli-Palestinian relations, a
vision embodied in his academic
work and participation in College
Hill’s Jewish community.
“Avi didn’t wait. He knew that
Brown would go by quickly,” said
University Chaplain Janet Cooper
Nelson. “I just love the fact that
even in the short time he was
with us, how much of an impact
he made.”
A promising peacemaker
For Sami Jarbawi ’12, Schaefer
was an unexpected friend.
Schaefer allowed Jarbawi, a Pal-
estinian student who grew up in
the West Bank, “to break so many
cultural constraints,” he said. “He
was a catalyst — now he’s gone.”
Jarbawi met Schaefer early last
ORC recommends ending overnight inpatient care
By Sarah Forman
Contributing Writer
The Organizational Review Com-
mittee, a body created last spring to
seek $14 million in savings for the
fiscal year beginning in July 2010,
issued a report earlier this month
that included recommendations to
discontinue overnight inpatient care
at Health Services. Members of the
ORC’s Student Services team, which
made the recommendation, said
students will not lose access to any
important medical aid if the measure
is approved by the Corporation — the
University’s top governing body — at
its meeting later this month.
The Student Services team was
charged with finding $500,000 in
savings, either through “identifying
budget reductions” or through new
inside
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fall on less-than-friendly terms. The
two both attended the year’s first
meeting of Common Ground, an
organization for students to discuss
the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict.
At that first meeting, Jarbawi
got into an argument with Schaefer.
Though the two saw one another at
the group’s subsequent meetings,
they did not become friendly until
Jarbawi was a teaching assistant for
an introductory Arabic course that
Schaefer took.
“One day he came up to me and
said, ‘Sami, I want to have coffee
with you.’ That was the beginning
point,” Jarbawi said.
Their friendship grew when
Professor of Judaic Studies David
Jacobson invited the pair to his of-
fice, Jarbawi said. Jacobson was
interested in pursuing an Under-
graduate Teaching and Research
Award with the two students that
would examine narratives from
both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
“There’s just a uniqueness about
having an Israeli and a Palestinian
citizen working together — they
come from two groups that have a
problematic relationship,” Jacob-
son said.
“I was delighted that the two of
them had this open mind, and they
really became friends,” he said. “It
was quite a thing to see.”
Though it has yet to be ap-
proved, both Jarbawi and Jacob-
son want to continue the project
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The Organizational Review Committee proposed terminating overnight
inpatient service during the weekdays.
sources of revenue, said team leader
Margaret Klawunn, vice president
for campus life and student ser-
vices.
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sections to salsa
Professors show of
their moves in dance
competition
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
against driver
after crash
By Sydney Ember
News Editor
Avi Schaefer ’13 was struck and
killed by a vehicle at approximately
1:40 a.m. Friday at the intersection of
Thayer and Hope streets, according
to Vice President for Public Affairs
and University Relations Marisa
Quinn. The driver of the vehicle,
Daniel Gilcreast, was charged Friday
with driving under the influence,
death resulting and driving under
the influence, serious bodily injury
resulting, according to a press re-
lease from the Rhode Island Attorney
General’s press office.
Quinn said there were two other
students walking with Schaefer at the
time, one of whom was also struck
by the vehicle. Marika Baltschef-
fsky ’13 suffered injuries during the
continued on page 5
SAO Director O’Hara ’55
to take early retirement
By Goda Thangada
Senior Staff Writer
Phil O’Hara ’55, director of stu-
dent activities, is one of over 100
experienced staff members who
have decided to accept early re-
tirement packages offered by the
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
Klawunn would not say how
much money the University could
save by dropping inpatient care.
“It was a huge portion of our
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senior day loss
W. hockey drops tough
losses to Cornell and
Colgate
D A N C in g T H E N I G H T A W AY
Assistant Professor of Sociology Nancy Luke and Daniel Hackney
’12 jive away at “Dancing With the Profs.” See page 6.
University. Active at Brown dur-
ing four different decades, O’Hara
received an excellence award on
Feb. 5 at Brown Employee Appre-
ciation and Recognition Day.
O’Hara said he was planning
to retire in 2011, but decided to
continued on page 4
cuts,” said Chelsea Waite ’11, one
of the student representatives on
the team, though she said she did
not know the exact figure.
According to Klawunn, the team
was not allowed to raise fees, so they
had to look for cuts that would not
“reduce the quality of student experi-
ence,” Klawunn said.
Klawunn also said an external
consultant examined Health Ser-
vices in 2007 and recommended that
Brown close the inpatient clinic in
order to save money and reduce li-
abilities. When students spend the
night at Health Services, one nurse
cares for all of the patients, none
of whom are deemed ill enough to
warrant treatment from a doctor,
she said.
continued on page 3
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Simmons
leaving
Goldman
By Alex Bell
Senior Staff Writer
Goldman Sachs announced in a
press release Thursday that Presi-
dent Ruth Simmons has decided
not to stand for re-election to its
Board of Directors at its annual
shareholder meeting later this year.
The date of the meeting has not
yet been announced, according to
a Goldman spokesperson.
The release cited “increasing
time requirements associated with
her position as President of Brown
University” as the reason for Sim-
mons’ departure. Vice President
for Public Affairs and University
Relations Marisa Quinn declined
to comment further.
According to the release, Sim-
mons will continue to chair the
advisor y board of the company’s
“10,000 Women” initiative, a Gold-
man program that seeks to educate
and empower female entrepreneurs
around the world.
Simmons told The Herald in an
inter view earlier this month that
she did not expect negative public-
ity about Goldman’s practices to
continued on page 2
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first-year blues
Nida Abdulla ’11.5 says
freshman year at Brown
not all fun and games
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C ampus N EWS “It’s been such a great partnership”

— Michael Ward, floor manager at Jo’s, on JWU and Brown

ORC proposes JWU student job cuts proposed

new recreation fee
By Fei Cai
Contributing Writer
In a report released Feb. 2, the
athletics subcommittee of the
Organizational Review Committee
proposed a new $65 recreation
fee that would be implemented
for the 2010-11 school year and
would apply to all undergraduate
and medical school students.
The money will go toward the
Department of Athletics and the
upkeep of University gyms, said
Margaret Klawunn, vice presi-
dent for campus life and student
ser vices.
“The way the committee was
thinking about this was in terms
of the opportunities available to
all students to par ticipate in a
recreational activity,” Klawunn
said. “We were looking at what
other schools charged, and oth-
ers are charging considerably
more than this.”
The athletics subcommittee
was one of 12 teams charged last
spring with finding ways to elimi-
nate $14 million from the Univer-
sity budget — and the only one
that did not meet its savings goal,
according to the ORC report.
The subcommittee dedicated
to reviewing the Department of
Athletics called its current var-
sity program unsustainable and
recommended a closer look at
the program “to determine the
proper size and scope” that would
“provide a stronger experience
sudoku
for student athletes.”
In addition to reducing oper-
ating expenses and administra-
tion and staff expenditures, the
team recommended increasing
revenue by introducing a recre-
ation fee for students beginning
next year and annual recreation
fees for faculty and staff after the
new aquatics and fitness centers
open in 2012.
“The athletics team reviewed
the depar tment, and they saw
that the varsity situation was
problematic,” said Sarah Ruther-
ford ’12, the only undergraduate
representative on the committee.
“We have the third-largest num-
ber of varsity teams amongst our
peers, with the smallest budget
for staff and other things.”
“But the fee is not just sup-
posed to be a Band-Aid to cover
the over-extension of varsity
sports,” Rutherford said.
The ORC intends to revisit the
question, in hopes of coming to a
more permanent decision about
the athletics department.
“The fee was better than a
rash decision,” Rutherford said,
“though we will need to make
tough decisions in the future.”
Despite the University’s finan-
cial situation, Klawunn confirmed
there would not be any other new
fees for the next school year.
“We tried really hard to make
sure that the student experience
was not impacted,” Rutherford
said.
By Ben Schreckinger
Metro Editor
The vast majority of Johnson and
Wales University students working
for Brown Dining Ser vices will
lose their jobs if, in its Februar y
meeting, the Corporation approves
a budget-cutting measure recom-
mended by the Organizational
Review Committee.
The recommendation was is-
sued by the ORC’s Auxilar y Ser-
vice Units team — whose pur view
includes Dining Ser vices and the
Faculty Club — as par t of the
ORC’s larger effort to reduce the
budget for the upcoming fiscal
year. If approved, the measure
would close the Gate during lunch
hours and reduce the Ivy Room’s
midday offerings. Union workers
displaced by the changes would
receive shifts currently filled by
JWU students.
The University currently has
a partnership with JWU to bring
two students in the fall and two
in the spring to work at Brown’s
dining facilities as part of JWU’s
co-op program, which requires
students to take time of f from
classes and work in an industr y
related to their field of study. This
program would not be affected by
the change, but all other positions
Simmons steps down from Goldman Sachs
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mar the University’s image. The
company has received harsh criti-
cism internationally for doling out
high bonuses to its executives after
receiving money from the federal
bailout program.
“I don’t see how it could funnel
into the University,” she said of the
negative publicity. “It could funnel
to me, but not to the University.”
During the interview, conducted
a week before the announcement
from Goldman, Simmons made
no mention of plans to leave the
company.
“What I’d like my students to
understand is that we all make de-
cisions about what we are going
to commit to doing,” she said. “In
making that decision, and a com-
mitment, our obligation is to do the
best we can and to do it ethically,
but not to be buffeted about. I try
very hard to be motivated by what
I see and by my own judgment,
held by JWU students would be
terminated at the end of this aca-
demic year, said Michael Ward, a
senior at JWU and floor manager
at Josiah’s.
Ward said he was “completely
devastated” by the change. “I
understand that financially it’s a
smar t decision … but it’s been
such a great partnership.”
“I’ve made so many close
friends at Brown,” he added.
Jo’s and other dining facilities
could save money by focusing on
student theft, efficiency and waste,
Ward said, adding that cutting
jobs should be a last resor t. He
predicted a “major decline in the
quality of ser vice” at Jo’s.
JWU students in Dining Ser vic-
es were notified of the recommen-
dation in a letter from Gretchen
Willis, director of dining ser vices,
on Feb. 4, two days after the ORC
released an executive summar y of
its report, Ward said. Jo’s manager
Sean DeBobes informed JWU stu-
dents that Dining Ser vices would
tr y to find positions for them in
catering, Ward said, but nothing
concrete has been offered.
“It was determined that these
two modest changes (to Gate and
Ivy Room lunch) would have the
smallest impact comparatively to
the closing and/or restr uctur-
“At this juncture, I sort of think
I would like to devote most of my
time to Brown. My guess is that
if I leave boards, I’m not going to
replace them,” she said.
In the same interview, Simmons
said she originally joined Gold-
man’s board in 2000, while presi-
dent of Smith College, at the urging
of Smith’s Board of Trustees.
“I think we had a good discus-
sion about whether or not the time
allocation and the involvement with
corporate boards would do any-
thing for my position as president
of Smith,” she said. “They were
persuaded that it would, and so
with some reluctance I acceded
to that.”
Simmons said she joined the
board around the time Smith start-
ed a center for financial literacy on
campus.
She called the work she does on
Goldman’s board related to women
and minorities “meaningful to me in
a way that probably a lot of people
ing of any other unit in Dining
Ser vices,” the Auxiliar y Ser vice
team — which was charged with
cutting the $59.2 million combined
auxiliar y ser vices budget by $1.5
million —­ wrote in its report.
In an e-mail to The Herald,
Richard Bova, senior associate
dean for residential and dining
ser vices and leader of the ORC’s
Auxiliar y Ser vice Units team,
declined to comment on the rec-
ommendation until it is reviewed
by the Corporation at its meeting
Feb. 25 through 27.
Ward, a nutrition major with
an associate’s degree in culinar y
ar ts, said workplace experience
in food preparation is “extremely
important” for getting a job after
graduation.
“Anyone can have a degree,”
he said.
In an e-mail to The Herald, Lisa
Pelosi, director of communications
and media relations at JWU’s Prov-
idence campus, wrote, “We have
many students who work part time
and have found part-time jobs in
Providence and other locations so
if our students aren’t being hired
by Brown, they will find employ-
ment elsewhere.”
But “it’s not easy to find a job
in Providence” in the restaurant
industr y, Ward said.
When asked what is left for her
to learn from Goldman’s board,
Simmons responded: “I don’t know.
That’s a good question. And that’s
a question I’ll have to think about.
Maybe I’ll learn as much as I need
to learn from the experience.”
“I feel very strongly that I don’t
know enough as an individual —
a sole individual — to make that
decision alone,” she said of when
to make the decision to call it quits
with Goldman. “I do go back to the
Corporation to have this discussion
periodically.”
Simmons left her position as a
member of Pfizer’s Board of Direc-
tors in 2007, citing time constraints
as the reason for her departure.
“I left Pfizer because I wanted
to have more time as president
of Brown,” Simmons said in the
inter view earlier this month.
“But I did say to the Corporation
when they invited me to come to
Brown, ‘What do you think about
the boards that I’m on?’ I always

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C ampus N EWS
J u st chillin ’
More snow sculptures mysteriously appear on campus.
Online network helps
alums find jobs
By Caitlin Trujillo
Senior Staff Writer
Justin Traxler ’90 was laid off in 2008.
After months of hunting for employ-
ment, Traxler secured a position with
Sapient Consulting in May 2009 —
thanks to the other Brown alumni he
contacted during his search.
The firm, which according to its
Web site offers business and technol-
ogy consulting, was coincidentally a
client of Traxler’s previous company.
He already knew some of the people
at his new job, but he still credits
Brown’s alumni network with help-
ing him in his search.
“I guess this whole experience
taught me that — wow — I wish
someone had taught me this 20 years
ago,” Traxler said.
Traxler is not the only alum tak-
ing advantage of Brown’s services
and connections in the tough eco-
nomic climate — and in the months
since Traxler’s own search, the Uni-
versity’s Alumni Relations staff has
launched more initiatives to help
alums search for new jobs.
In June 2009, Eve Ornstedt, the
director of alumni services and ca-
reer programs, and her team debuted
the “Career Navigator” Web site.
Thousands of alumni, from a range
of graduation years, have used the
site since then, she said. According
to numbers provided by Ornstedt,
as of last month, use of the site has
more than doubled since July.
The Career Navigator site has
four major components: a self-as-
sessment that lets users evaluate
their work interests, personalities
and skills; an industry research tool;
a job board for alumni to post posi-
tions for other Brown alumni; and
BRUnet, which helps users network
with alumni volunteers.
Ornstedt said the site also fea-
tures an online seminar, which she
and her colleagues are looking to
extend into a series, she said.
In addition to Alumni Relations’
efforts, individual alumni themselves
have extended a helping hand to
other Brown graduates in need of
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jobs.
Jay Candelmo ’99 participated in
a “career week” and several sessions
and panels designed to help alumni
and seniors find jobs.
Candelmo, who is also on the
Alumni Association’s Board of Gover-
nors, said he understands the impor-
tance of networking from personal
experience — he got his current job
with Lincoln Financial Group in 2008
after connecting with a Brown grad
from the class of 1973.
“I benefited from the informal
alumni network in a very tangible
way,” Candelmo said.
“You can be helpful with each
other,” Ornstedt said. “That’s part
of the value of what Brown is.”
Candelmo said he was impressed
with Brown’s efforts to help alumni
connect and find jobs by creating
the Career Navigator site, holding
panels and informational sessions
and promoting Web sites that facili-
tate networking, like LinkedIn and
Facebook.
When Traxler secured his new
job, he also planted a seed for helping
other Brown graduates looking for
employment. He told his employer
about Brown’s Career Navigator so
they could post their own job listings
to the site. Traxler also said Sapient
Consulting now has a recruiter who
collaborates with Brown’s Alumni
Relations to help alums looking for
jobs.
“What better way to help my alma
mater and employer at the same
time?” Traxler said.
In the future, Ornstedt said Alum-
ni Relations will maintain the Career
Navigator site and is considering
offering counseling for alumni who
have been unable to find jobs, though
she noted that Alumni Relations is
not staffed for one-on-one counsel-
ing. They also continue to track what
job search and networking services
other Ivy League schools offer to
their alumni.
“There’s just so much energy go-
ing on that we’re just trying to be
as proactive as possible,” Ornstedt
said.
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“That’s part of the value of what Brown is.”
— Justin Traxler ’90 on the helpful alumni network
Seniors donate in record numbers
By Crys Guerra
Contributing Writer
Among red and black balloons, Her-
shey’s Kisses and mozzarella sticks,
the class of 2010 held its Senior Gift
Kick-Off in Sayles Hall last Friday.
With special appearances by the
Jabberwocks and President Ruth
Simmons, the kick-off was organized
by a 12-person committee headed by
co-chairs Joan Wernig Sorensen ’72
and Ralph Rosenberg ’86.
Every year, the kick-off aims to
break the previous year’s money rais-
ing achievement and tries to “inspire
giving that will become a life-long
habit,” Simmons said in her address
to the class. Fundraising may not fol-
low the traditional idea of senior gift
giving, but since the establishment
of the Brown Annual Fund in 1914,
senior gifts have taken this form.
The annual fund uses challenges
as a key strategy for fundraising.
According to Sorensen, this year’s
challenge is a dollar-per-dollar
match up to $25,000, provided by
an anonymous parent donor. In ad-
dition, Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76,
Cuts proposed to health services
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But at the time, Brown’s financ-
es were more stable and it was not
necessary to immediately cut the
program, she said.
Instead, the University decided
to begin reducing inpatient care, and
since September the unit has been
closed Monday through Thursday
nights.
Sarah Rutherford ’12, another
member of the ORC’s student
services team, said she supported
eliminating the program because
Health Services had reported to the
committee that the reductions in
inpatient care this fall had not left
students without access to good
health care.
“The most convincing factor for
me was that they’d already closed
it Monday through Thursday, and
they didn’t feel like that had factored
in,” she said.
Most people using inpatient care
could just as safely spend the night
in their rooms, she added. “My im-
pression is that if Health Services
were seriously concerned with a
student, they would send them to
the hospital anyway,” she said.
The ability to stay overnight at
Health Services is “a convenience
service,” Waite said.
“A part of me definitely real-
izes that the convenience of having
Health Services right here with beds
if you don’t want to stay in your room
is really nice,” Waite said, adding
that the overnight care provided
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through the fund’s Chancellor’s Par-
ticipation Challenge, has agreed to
give $200,000 for every 6,500 donors
up to $1 million.
The money raised by the fund is
“unrestricted,” Sorensen said. The
Corporation, of which she is also a
member, decides in advance how
the money will be divided, she said.
Under the current guidelines, 40
percent of what is raised goes to fi-
nancial aid, 40 percent to supporting
faculty and 20 percent to improving
student living, Sorensen said.
According to the fund’s Web site,
this year’s goals are to raise $36 mil-
lion — up from last year’s $35 million
goal — from 32,839 donors. Another
goal is for senior class participation
to reach 75 percent.
Although student donations may
seem rare, Class Campaign Associate
Stephanie Boyce, who worked at the
kick-off, said that this year “there has
been record participation. (Students)
get it, what they donate now will help
the kids in the future. There are a
ton of students who stand behind
the staff and help out.”
Sheela Krishnan ’10 agreed, add-
students with the assurance and
supervision they might receive
from parents at home. But it is “not
cost-effective.”
“The staff at Inpatient Services
is not trained to do a lot of what
people would need,” she said. “It’s
a huge liability to have people stay-
ing overnight when they’re not in
a hospital.”
Brown’s infirmary-style over-
night care is “an outmoded model,”
Klawunn said. The ORC report de-
tailed several existing alternative
services — including physicians,
psychotherapists and nurses on call,
expanded Health Services hours on
evenings and weekends and a new
overnight nursing triage service —
that will continue to serve students
if the team’s recommendation is ap-
proved by the Corporation.
Emergency Medical Services
First Responder Connor Barnhart
’13 said he thought the proposed
cuts might negatively impact stu-
dents’ ability to seek out care and
could perhaps make them more
reluctant to call EMS.
“Generally we only respond to
E.R. emergencies, but very often
we’ll forward people to Health Ser-
vices if we don’t think it warrants
an E.R. visit,” Barnhart said of the
patients he sees through EMS. Be-
cause hospital visits are so expen-
sive, EMS prefers not to send people
to the emergency room, he said.
Without Health Services available
at night, he predicted more students
would need to go to the hospital.
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ing that “participation in the class gift
is important, regardless of the size.
I’m not in a place to be a big donor,
but making a contribution before I
leave would be nice.”
Other seniors said they would
wait to give money.
“I would love to donate to Brown,
after I earn some money,” Lawrence
Chan ’10 said. Donating right now
would be like trying to squeeze or-
ange juice from “the last few pieces
of pulp,” he said.
The importance of donations for
future generations and the challenge
to break last year’s records were the
focus of the Senior Gift Kick-Off.
“The generosity of others made
your experience at Brown possible,”
Simmons said.
While the amount of money
raised at the kick-off has not yet
been announced, the mood among
the organizers was optimistic.
As the event ended, Christian
Martell ’10, senior gift committee
co-chair with Ellie Cutler ’10, noticed
that “someone just made a $1,000
gift. I think that puts us up from (the
kick-off event in) 2009.”
Currently, students are respon-
sible for financing their own hospital
care, which means that students on
their parents’ insurance generally
need to inform their parents of hos-
pital care. Under Rhode Island law,
EMS cannot bring dangerously ine-
briated students to Health Services,
but must send them to the hospital
even when University inpatient care
is available, Klawunn said.
But students can currently by-
pass EMS and instead walk their
friends to Health Services on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday nights if they
worry their friends have consumed
too much alcohol, Klawunn said.
Although inpatient caregivers will
send students to the hospital if they
need intensive treatment, under cur-
rent guidelines some less-critical
students are able to stay the night
and avoid the cost of a hospital visit
and the parental notification it usu-
ally entails, she said.
Costs for hospital visits vary
widely by procedure and insurance,
but the Brown University Student
Health Insurance Plan demands a
$100 co-payment for emergency
room visits, according to its Web
site. There is no such cost associated
with Health Services.
Most colleges and universities
have dropped inpatient health care
services and depend mainly on
area hospitals to care for students
at night, Rutherford said.
“All of our peers have shifted to
a different model, and they did that
for a reason,” she said.
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Early retirement popular choice for longtime staff
After being offered an
early retirement package
in November, 139 longtime
staff members have made
the decision to retire later
this year.
The package was only
made available to those
who would be 60 years old
by June 30, 2010, and had
worked at Brown 10 years or
longer. Beppie Huidekoper,
executive vice president
for administration and
finance, said the University’s
expectation was that those
who took the package would
take it “voluntarily and
positively.”
The package was
comparable to those
offered by peer institutions,
Huidekoper said, adding that
over 50 percent of those who
were offered the package
last year accepted it. “The
individuals who chose to take
it are really quite pleased,”
Huidekoper said.
She suggested that many
of those who decided to retire
had already paid for their
children’s educations and did
not have much demand on
their income. The package
included continued health
insurance benefits if retirees
were under 65.
Advising Central hosts more events
By Ashley Aydin
C ontributing Writer
It’s not ever y day that you can
walk into the Sharpe Refector y,
eat with professors and talk to
them about whatever you want.
But as the University continues to
expand and improve its advising
ef for ts, events such as these din-
ners provide students and faculty
with a chance to interact in a more
casual way than the typical advis-
ing appointment allows. Advising
Central, which opened in Septem-
ber and is located on the second
floor of J. Walter Wilson, is the
central clearinghouse for these
and other advising events.
According to Yolanda Rome,
director of co-curricular advising
and tutoring programs, Advising
Central is a place where students
can get to know faculty, talk about
future plans, connect with aca-
demic advisors and receive gen-
eral advice.
“Advising is an essential com-
ponent in suppor ting students as
they seek to make the ver y most
of their experience at Brown,”
Rome wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald.
Rome wrote that the Of fice
of the Dean of the College and
the Of fice of Student Life aim to
provide a range of entr y points
and opportunities so that students
can seek advising in ways that
are most supportive, relevant and
convenient. The Faculty Advising
Not all the positions
vacated by early retirees can
be filled because budgetary
considerations played a opportunity for departments
significant part in last year’s
offer of the package. At the
moment, there are 100 vacant
positions at the University in
addition to the positions that
will be vacated by retirees at
the end of the year.
If departments seek to fill
a position, University protocol
requires that they submit the
request to the Organizational
Review Committee, which
reviews whether the position
is needed and recommends
how the position description
can be modified. Huidekoper,
who sits on the committee,
added that the ORC has
typically assented to requests
to fill positions in the
Department of Public Safety
and departments that handle
research funding.
The ORC released a report
on Feb. 2 that included $14
million in suggested cuts
that President Ruth Simmons
could recommend to the
Corporation later this month.
The group proposed that at
least $1.15 million of the
proposed savings come from
unfilled vacancies.
But the committee is not
Fellows program, which began
putting on the lunches and din-
ners at the Ratty in September,
is “one example of this,” she
added.
The Faculty Advising Fellows
program invites par ticipating
professors to focus lunches and
dinners on the topics that are rel-
evant to their field and interests
— making for a wide range of of-
ferings for students. Rome wrote
that the program also allows for
guest speakers, along with the
Faculty Advising Fellows, to have
a meal with students.
Last year, the program in-
cluded study breaks and some
dinners with the Faculty Advis-
ing Fellows. However, this year
Advising Central is expanding the
program even more, Rome wrote.
The program coordinated about
30 events last term, and has about
40 planned for this term.
“We decided to expand by of-
fering more dinners this year and
adding in lunches,” Rome wrote.
She explained that almost all
events have been full, with a ca-
pacity of twenty students.
Gregor y Elliott, professor
of sociology, par ticipated in an
event held Feb. 9 at the Presi-
dent’s Dining Room at the Ratty
about sophomore concentration
declarations. Elliott said the fact
that faculty members speak about
topics related to their field makes
for a good discussion.
“Faculty members are present
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“I help students learn to fish, not just give them the fish.”
strictly driven by budgetary
concerns, she said.
Vacancy reviews provide an
to reorganize in order to be
more efficient and flexible,
Huidekoper said.
“We shouldn’t be static,”
she said, “The work is
changing and the organization
has to change.”
The benefits of this
dynamism are mitigated by
the loss of many employees
who have become part of the
University’s culture. “We need
to ensure that we don’t lose
all that knowledge when they
go,” Huidekoper said.
But Huidekoper said new
employees are still able to
adapt to the University’s
environment. “I think this
place acculturates quite
quickly,” she said. “Most
people who aren’t Brown
alums wish they were.”
The coming months may
feature special efforts to
recognize the staff who
are leaving. “We want to
celebrate those who want to
go,” Huidekoper said.
— Goda Thangada
from all different fields. We tr y to
encourage a mix for ever yone’s
interests,” he said. He said many
students who came to the event
had impor tant concerns about
their concentrations, asking ques-
tions such as “Should I double
concentrate?” and “Am I making
the right move?”
“It’s a social occasion to see
faculty and a chance to get quick
advice,” he said.
Kayla Urquidi ’11 par ticipated
in a Faculty Fellows event over
dinner at the Ratty for students
who had just returned from study-
ing abroad. She said it was a nice
transition back to Brown and she
had the opportunity to speak with
faculty from all fields.
“I heard about people’s experi-
ences abroad,” she said. “There
was no set agenda. It was really
informal.”
Urquidi said she thinks Advis-
ing Central is doing a better job
this year of encouraging faculty
and student communication.
“I think it’s impor tant to have
as many opportunities as possible
to get to know faculty at a more
personal level, and I think faculty
should get to know students on
a more personal level too,” she
said.
Spots at faculty fellow events
are available on a first-come, first-
ser ved basis through the Dean
of the College’s Web site. The
events’ topics include all aspects
of academic life.
— Phil O’Hara, director of student activities
O’Hara served student
activities for 22 years
continued from page 1
retire early when the University
administration introduced the
package in November as part of
its efforts to cut costs.
Looking back at his time as
an undergraduate, O’Hara said
he chose his concentration in in-
ternational relations not because
he wanted to be a professional in
that field, but because he wanted
to learn “how people interacted
with each other.”
“Compromise is essential
for us to get along as different
peoples,” he said.
It was in this spirit that
O’Hara began Brown University
Mediation Project decades after
he graduated. “I help students
learn to fish, not just give them
the fish,” he said.
O’Hara remembers the Uni-
versity that he attended as a very
dif ferent place from what it is
today, most of all because the
New Curriculum did not exist
when he was an undergraduate.
“I think Brown is, from my point
of view, a wonderful place now in
terms of diversity, not just ethni-
cally or religiously, but in terms
of the interests of students,” he
said.
But what has been consistent
is an environment that instilled
the value of civility in students. “I
was raised in the era when we re-
ally lived by the Golden Rule,” he
said. “We have to give something
back to our society.”
O’Hara worked in the book
publishing industr y for 30 years,
but grew disillusioned by increas-
ing commercialization. O’Hara
said he had volunteered in youth
centers and decided to embark
on a new career path.
“My life has always been com-
mitted to working with young
people,” O’Hara said.
In par ticular, he wanted to
give back to his alma mater
and returned to the University
in 1987. After spending his first
year in the Department of Athlet-
ics, O’Hara joined the Student
Activities Office, where he has
remained. Despite his willing-
ness to work with students, he
was uncertain about his ability
to perform well at the SAO.
“I was really unsure whether
a man of my age could really con-
nect with young people.”
O’Hara said he decided he
would just tr y. “I realized if I
just listened to the students, this
could be a second career for me,”
he said. “I’ve been listening ever
since.”
O’Hara said many people call
him blunt or transparent, but he
takes the comment in a positive
light. “What you see is what you
get,” he said.
When O’Hara became director
in March 2009, he did not take
it “for the long-term future,”
though he said he intended to
support the long-term goals of
the office.
“It was something I could do
Monday, February 15, 2010
with distinction and vigor. If I
could not do the job, I would not
have accepted it.”
Neil Parikh ’11, president of
the 2011 Class Board, has worked
with O’Hara in his role as fac-
ulty adviser to the class boards.
“He’s one of those incredibly
inspiring people,” Parikh said.
“He really, really cares about the
students.”
Parikh said O’Hara was instru-
mental in the board’s successful
effort to bring Swedish musician
Gunther to campus in 2008, an at-
tempt that did not seem possible
to many students. The event was
the first collaboration between
class boards at Brown and the
Rhode Island School of Design,
O’Hara said.
The New Curriculum lets stu-
dents construct their academic
careers, but “in the Student
Activities Office, the field isn’t
quite so open,” he said. Finance
and logistics can prevent student
groups from realizing their vi-
sions.
“I really tr y to listen to what
you want to do,” O’Hara said. “I
may have a lot of doubts in my
mind, but I’m not going to dis-
miss you.”
Parikh said the incoming
director will have to be fully
dedicated to maintaining good
relationships with students. “A
lot of what Phil does is probably
not in his job description.”
Ricky Gresh, who oversees
the SAO as senior director for
student engagement, said he was
confident that the position will be
filled, but that he expected the
Organizational Review Commit-
tee to reevaluate the position’s
description.
Gresh, who was O’Hara’s pre-
decessor, said O’Hara will leave
his stamp on the office. O’Hara
has mentored many current staff
members, including Gresh, who
has been at the University for
over five years.
Gresh said O’Hara influenced
many in the SAO. “Phil has a lot
of institutional knowledge and we
can carr y that for ward,” Gresh
said. “When a new director comes
in, there’s people who know how
to do that work.”
O’Hara had a personal com-
mitment to Brown students that
was inspiring to his peers, Gresh
said. “If he wasn’t sure that stu-
dents could be ser ved at a high
level, he wouldn’t retire,” Gresh
said. “He’s put a lot of his life
into this.”
O’Hara said he understands
the budget constraints that have
led to some “sad” outcomes, but
he personally feels “blessed” to
have the oppor tunity to retire
early.
“On June 30th, I’m gone, but
I’m not gone to questions,” said
O’Hara, who plans to continue
living near campus.
“My leaving is bittersweet,
but aging is bittersweet,” he said,
“I’ll be out of sight, but not out
of mind.”
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Brown reels at sudden death of student on Thayer Street
continued from page 1
collision, Keith Tucker, command-
ing officer in the Providence Police
Department’s Homeland Security
Division, confirmed in an e-mail to
The Herald.
Schaefer and the second student
were taken to Rhode Island Hospi-
tal after the accident by Providence
rescue, according to Quinn. Schaefer
was pronounced dead around 2 a.m.
from injuries he sustained during
the accident. The second student
was released from the hospital on
Friday, Quinn said.
PPD is investigating the circum-
stances surrounding the accident,
Quinn said.
PPD officers declined to com-
ment on the specifics of the accident
because a fatality was involved. Ac-
cording to the attorney general’s
press release, Gilcreast was released
on $25,000 bail with the provision
that he abstain from alcohol con-
sumption and not drive. He will ap-
pear in Providence District Court
on Feb. 26.
According to the release, Gil-
creast, who has no prior convictions,
refused a Breathalyzer test at the
police department and was given a
Schaefer ’13 hoped to work on Israeli-Palestinian relations
continued from page 1
in Schaefer’s memory.
“I spoke to his father on the
phone, and he told me to continue
what Avi did — to continue on work-
ing on peace on this dialogue. I gave
my word to continue with this project.
I don’t think there’s any leaving — I’ll
do whatever it takes,” Jarbawi said.
Schaefer first came to Jacobson’s
attention in November when Schaefer
wrote an opinions column in The
Herald titled, “To those interested in
creating peace in the Middle East.”
“I am here, ready and anxiously
waiting for you to work with me, not
against me,” Schaefer wrote at the
end of his column. “Do not give me
another reason to lose hope, because
my patience is sadly running out.”
He ended by quoting Isaiah 2:4, “Na-
tion shall not lift up sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war
any more.”
The column echoed many of Ja-
cobson’s own long-held beliefs. “All
the time I’ve been part of the faculty
at Brown, I’ve been concerned about
the way we talk about the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict,” he said. The
debate on campus is one that in-
volves students and faculty members
“choosing sides, and not listening
to one another — arguing for one
side, and not hearing the other side,”
Jacobson said.
“With Avi I thought, ‘Here’s an
undergraduate who shares a lot of
the concerns that I do.’ ”
An inspiring idealist
Nir Knoller, a soldier who served
with Schaefer in the Israeli army,
observed his friend’s maturity, lead-
ership and sense of purpose first-
The corner of Thayer and Hope streets, where two students were hit by a drunk driver.
blood test to determine his blood al-
cohol level. The administration of the
blood test was mandated by a new
law, which was enacted in November
by the General Assembly, allowing
police officers to mandate a blood or
breath sample for accidents resulting
in death or serious injury.
hand.
Schaefer was the first person to
greet Knoller when he arrived in Is-
rael and made him feel “at home in a
group that had already been together
for about 3 months,” wrote Knoller,
who is currently in Israel, in instant
messages to The Herald.
Schaefer’s gifts as a leader made
him a role model for the other sol-
diers. “We all sort of looked to Avi for
answers to everything, and he always
had something important and wise to
answer you,” Knoller wrote.
Three years later, as a 21-year-
old freshman living in Keeney
Quadrangle, Schaefer “had a way of
getting people to follow him,” said
Joshua Deshais ’12, his residential
counselor.
Since his death, students have
hung Israeli flags around Keeney,
Deshaies said, demonstrating the
level of respect Schaefer’s peers had
for him. “It’s a perfect example of
the community coming together,”
he said.
One member of Deshaies’ fresh-
man unit, Gabi Lewis ’13, is helping
Schaefer’s family compile a book
called “Letters to Avi.” Reminiscences
and thoughts on Schaefer’s life can
be e-mailed to Lewis, he said.
Knoller, along with fellow soldier
Stuart Oden, created a Facebook
group called “RIP Avi Schaefer” to
honor his friend. The group currently
has about 2,600 members.
The page is a way to commemo-
rate Schaefer’s vision for peace in the
Middle East, Knoller wrote. “It’s sad
to know that Avi was taken from us,
but in his life, he has laid down the
foundation for peace in the future.”
Building bridges
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— Rabbi Mordechai Rackover, associate University chaplain
The University has been in touch
with Schaefer’s family, Quinn said,
adding that the Office of the Chap-
lains and Religious Life offered sup-
port services at Brown/RISD Hillel
Friday and Saturday. A memorial is
being planned for later this spring.
“At this point, we’re really just try-
Respect for Schaefer as a stu-
dent leader is evident throughout
the Brown community. In honor of
Schaefer’s death, the opening of the
student-run Israeli Film Festival has
been postponed until later this week,
said Danya Chudacoff ’11, one of the
festival’s directors.
“He was able to accomplish in
a short time here more than most
people can achieve in a lifetime,”
Chudacoff said.
Schaefer was a person who in-
spired others to cause change, col-
laborating with other student leaders
to prove that “he wasn’t a one-man
show. He was working with people
at all times,” she said. “He was mov-
ing people from the moment he got
here,” she added.
Just last weekend, Schaefer or-
ganized a benefit party for Haiti.
“It’s people like Avi who can bring a
community together and get things
accomplished,” said Troy Shapiro ’10,
another of the party’s planners.
The people Schaefer brought to-
gether were often those “who would
be perceived as opposite, and en-
emies,” said Rabbi Mordechai Rack-
over, associate University chaplain
for the Jewish community.
At the memorial service held for
Schaefer at Brown/RISD Hillel on
Friday night, Cooper Nelson saw
“a bond of Brown family members
across lines,” she said.
Schaefer’s gift for bridging the
gap between two sides of a conflict
also helped Knoller, Schaefer’s fel-
low soldier, look at his opposition
differently.
“When I first came to Israel to
volunteer in the army, it was to pro-
tect my country from ‘the enemy,’ ”
Knoller wrote. “I learned from Avi
“Avi was not just a dreamer, but a doer.”
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
ing to offer support for students who
knew and loved Avi,” Quinn said. “In
his very short time, he knew and
touched so many people.”
Quinn said there had been in-
cidents involving pedestrians on
campus before, but none had been
fatal.
and his father that ‘an enemy is just
someone (whose) story you haven’t
heard yet.’ ”
“It’s very difficult to have been
able to cross bridges and cross to the
other side,” Rackover said. “Avi was
not just a dreamer, but a doer.”
Knoller wrote that he and
Schaefer’s other companions from
the army “will definitely work toward
building that future he so wanted.
That better world.”
A never-ending debate
Jarbawi was with Schaefer 11 min-
utes before he died. Heading back to
College Hill together from downtown
Providence, Jarbawi said he had no
idea that the next day, life at Brown
would be so different.
Jarbawi received a call at 9:30
a.m. from an acquaintance who also
knew Schaefer. “I didn’t believe it,”
he said. “It didn’t hit me all day until
the 6 p.m. memorial service at Hillel”
on Friday.
The sophomore planned to live
with Schaefer this summer as they
worked on their research with Ja-
cobson — a project that promised
Jarbawi a chance to learn more about
his unlikely friend.
“He was mysterious. He had a
bright smile and could charm any-
one, but there was a lot underneath.
There’s a lot I wanted to learn,” said
Jarwabi, who is currently in Califor-
nia for the funeral services.
The friends’ last e-mail exchange
ended the same way their first meet-
ing began — with a debate.
Schaefer sent Jarbawi an editorial
from the Jerusalem Post about a re-
cent speech by Palestinian National
Authority Prime Minister Salam
Fayyad. “I told Avi I needed to see
Monday, February 15, 2010
According to a campus-wide e-
mail sent by President Ruth Sim-
mons late Friday morning, Schaefer
had excelled in courses on religion,
politics and Arabic.
“A young man of inordinate
strength and integrity, Avi had al-
ready begun to have an impact on
the Brown community,” Simmons
wrote. “By all early signs, he was a
student who was going to make the
most of his time at Brown and his
mark on the world after Brown.”
Schaefer came to Brown after
serving for three years in the Israeli
Defense Forces, she wrote, adding
that he was an influential member
of the Hillel community and was
working with a professor to devel-
op a class on the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
“All the officers of the Providence
Police Department who worked with
him will miss him,” said PPD Chief
Dean Esserman, who met Schaefer
when he approached the chief about
helping the department’s SWAT
team after returning from Israel.
“I will miss my friend, who, over
this past year, I’ve gotten to know,”
Esserman said. “It’s a great loss for
the Brown community and the com-
munity of Providence.”
the speech itself before I made a re-
sponse. The Jerusalem Post is not
the most credible source for this,”
he said.
Schaefer did not reveal his own
opinion on the speech to his friend.
“Dialogue is a two-way speech,” Jar-
bawi said. “I told him, ‘I want your
point of view.’  ” Schaefer “rarely
shared his point of view — that’s part
of his mystery,” Jarbawi said.
“But he wanted to learn — to
put his feet in the Palestinian man’s
shoes and understand the Palestinian
person,” he said. “People like him are
necessary.”
A simulcast of Avi Schaefer’s ’13 fu-
neral in Los Angeles will be broadcast
at Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St.,
at 2 p.m. today, preceded by opening
remarks at 1:45 p.m. A few words and
a short candle-lighting ceremony will
follow the simulcast.
In memory of
Avi Schaefer ’13
The Herald is accepting
submissions from friends,
family and other loved
ones for a memorial to
Avi Schaefer ‘13, who
was struck by a car and
died Friday morning.
The Herald will publish
all submissions on
BlogDailyHerald.com and
print a selection in this
week’s paper. Please send
messages, photographs
or artwork to memorial@
browndailyherald.com.
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The Brown Daily Herald
Professors shimmy into spotlight Work of M.F. Husain
By Anne Speyer
Arts & Culture Editor displayed on campus
There’s something vaguely discon-
certing about seeing the professors
you know and respect dressed in
fancy suits and spangled dresses,
whirling around on the dance floor —
for the first 10 minutes, you long for
the comfort of chalk-dusted blazers
and lecture halls.
But at “Dancing With the Profs,”
hosted Friday night by the Brown
Ballroom Dance Team, Assistant
Professor of Sociology Nancy Luke
danced an enthusiastic jive that not
only won the night, but also proved
beyond a shadow of a doubt that
here at Brown, the professors have
got the moves.
“That’s what makes it fun. When
you first hear the idea of professors
dancing, you kind of chuckle a bit,”
said Joseph Bahlman GS, a senior
member of the Ballroom Team.
“But it turns into a great show.”
“Dancing With the Profs” takes
its inspiration from the ABC televi-
sion show “Dancing with the Stars,”
but instead of pairing celebrities
with professional dancers, the Ball-
room Team matches six professors
with members of the team.
“Brown’s stars are the profes-
sors,” Bahlman said.
After three months of hard re-
hearsal, the six pairs danced before
a panel of three judges in a packed
Alumnae Hall. The night was a re-
sult of “blood, sweat and sequins,”
Chihiro Ikegami ’10 told the crowd.
Ikegami acted as master of ceremo-
nies with Eva Kolker ’10.
Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts
and Per formance Studies Julie
Strandberg and Senior Lecturer in
Neuroscience John Stein, who per-
formed in the first “Dancing with
the Profs” two years ago, judged the
competition along with the team’s
coach Russell Monk, who “looks
and sounds like the old British guy
on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ ” Bahl-
man said. All three judges said they
were looking to see teams having
fun, and stressed the importance of
coordination and teamwork.
The audience certainly had fun,
as the dancers seemed determined
to keep the judges on their toes.
Assistant Professor of Biology Ger-
wald Jogl began a sedate waltz with
Ivana Miao ’11 to the tune of “Moon
River,” but stripped off his tailcoat
halfway through to finish the dance
with a sassy, modern interpretation
of a waltz set to Lady Gaga’s “Just
Dance.”
“If I came into your classroom
and I was as good at that as you are
at this, I’d be over the moon,” Monk
said to Jogl in his evaluation of the
pair. “If you were a lightbulb, you’d
be 120 watts.”
The Dance Alliance of Rhode Island performed at “Dancing with the
Profs” on Friday night.
Bahlman and Barbara Tannen-
baum, senior lecturer in theatre
arts and performance studies, also
danced a waltz with a twist. Midway
through their elegant dance, Tan-
nenbaum ripped off the skirt of her
sequined black ballgown to dance
in black pants, while Bahlman re-
moved his suit to reveal a glitzy
white dress. Tannenbaum then
took the lead as the two waltzed
to “(You Make Me Feel Like) A
Natural Woman.”
“Brown is a great place,” Tannen-
baum said to the audience after the
two finished their dance to whoops
and cheers from the audience.
“The waltz like I’ve never seen
it before,” Monk told Tannenbaum
and Bahlman.
But these were not the only
teams that took delight in surpris-
ing the audience with mid-dance
costume changes. Professor of
Medicine Jody Rich, who danced
with Hilary Treadwell ’01, started
the night dressed in a doctor’s coat
and carrying a stethoscope. As the
dance began, he took off the coat
to dance a sultry samba in a form-
fitting black shirt.
Treadwell was clearly an expe-
rienced dancer, and the two moved
together beautifully. “Your solo will
be spoken of,” Stein said to Rich
when the dance was over.
Stein also complimented John
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McGear y, assistant professor of
psychiatry and human behavior, on
his “suave and sophisticated look”
when he danced a jazzy foxtrot with
Angela Hua GS.
Professor of Computer Sci-
ence Pascal van Hentenryck, in a
fedora and white socks, and Lan
Shiow Tsai ’10 danced the cha-cha
to Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.”
While Strandberg praised the pair’s
“creativity and wonderful sense of
humor,” Monk said he would have
liked to see “a little more ‘cha.’ ”
In the end it was Luke and her
partner Daniel Hackney ’12 who
stole the show with their spirited
jive. Luke looked the part in a flap-
per dress as Hackney, in a purple
blazer, maneuvered her expertly
around the floor. The two seemed
to be having more fun than anyone
else in the room — Luke blew a
mid-dance kiss to a wildly applaud-
ing audience.
Whether it was the kiss or their
fancy footwork that put them over
the top, when the night came to an
end, the audience voted Luke and
Hackney the winning couple.
After her dance was finished,
Luke announced that she had some-
thing to say to everyone who had
stayed home to watch the Winter
Olympics. “Eat your heart out!” she
shouted, shimmying in her pink-
fringed dress.
Monday, February 15, 2010 | Page 6
By Sara Chimene-Weiss
Contributing Writer
If you haven’t checked out the new-
ly renovated Pembroke Hall yet,
now there is an extra incentive —
an exhibit of the works of Maqbool
Fida Husain, considered India’s
most famous living painter.
Born in 1915 in Pandharpur,
India, Husain first rose to promi-
nence in the 1950s. His works now
hang in museums and galleries
around the world, including the
Museum of Fine Art in Boston, and
have sold for up to $2 million.
The works in Pembroke Hall
come from the collection of Indi-
an art expert Amrita Jhaveri ’91,
whose company consults on Indian
art sales.
The exhibit runs until March
26 in Pembroke Hall, and Jhaveri
will give a lecture on “M.F. Hu-
sain and Indian Modernism” on
March 22.
The exhibit was curated by
Visiting Professor of History of
Art and Architecture Mallica Kum-
bera Landrus and Jo-Ann Conklin,
director of the David Winton Bell
Gallery, and sponsored by the Year
of India, the Cogut Center for Hu-
manities and the Bell Gallery.
The idea for the exhibit initially
arose in September. Professor of
Political Science Ashutosh Varsh-
ney, the chair of the Year of India,
came to the Cogut Center and the
Bell Gallery with the idea of incor-
porating something artistic into
Brown’s year-long celebration of
India’s past and present.
According to Conklin, it was
Professor of Histor y Michael
Steinberg, the director of the
Cogut Center, who suggested
Husain. It seemed like a good fit,
Steinberg said, not only because
of Husain’s prominence, but also
because Husain portrays a “mul-
ticultural India,” including ancient
and modern themes, secular and
religious influences and images of
daily life on the street.
Jhaveri, whom Conklin has
known for several years, shipped
the selected works from England
to Providence.
Pembroke Hall provides an
attractive venue and atmosphere
for the exhibit, with its white and
glass walls and wood floors. The
paintings, distributed between the
first and second floors, represent
Husain’s work from the 1950s to
the 1970s, the early years of his
prolific career.
Many of these paintings display
what the exhibit’s introductory
plaque, written by Kumbera Lan-
drus, lists as Husain’s favorite sub-
jects: “life on the streets, women
and horses (together and apart)
and mythological and religious
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personages.” These features are
well-represented in this exhibit,
along with some more atypical
works, such as the abstract land-
scape “Black Hill.”
The exhibit’s most striking
works include “Chariot of the Sun
God,” a large white horizontal can-
vas with horses painted in shades
of gray. That there are seven of
them is not immediately apparent,
but the description explains that it
depicts the seven horses that carry
the Sun God across the sky.
Husain painted this shortly
after his visit to China in 1951,
though this painting seems most
reminiscent of a large-scale Picasso
work, such as the famous “Guer-
nica.” Husain is often compared
to the Spanish painter, along with
Picasso’s French contemporary
Georges Braque, because all three
artists emphasize form and color.
The exhibit includes the piece
“Draupadi,” painted for the Sao
Paulo Art Biennal in 1971 — for
which only Husain and Picasso
were requested to exhibit their
paintings.
This painting, full of bright
colors, browns and female forms,
is part of a series depicting the
ancient Indian epic “The Mahar-
habata,” a central Hindu text.
Though born Muslim, Husain
grew up immersed in Hinduism,
and much of his work reflects this.
The painting “Durga” depicts the
goddess as a brightly colored tiger
baring her teeth and hangs on the
first floor of the exhibit.
Some of Husain’s work has at-
tracted controversy for its depic-
tion of Hindu goddesses, some-
times nude.
Steinberg attributed this reac-
tion to the often-tense relationship
among Hindus, Muslims and secu-
lar culture in India.
“Important works on sensitive
issues can draw controversy,”
Steinberg said. That Husain is
Muslim but paints Hindu images
is a crossover “welcomed by some,
threatening to others,” Steinberg
said.
Conklin said that though the
local reaction has been very posi-
tive, she has received some e-mails
protesting the show, mostly from
people in India. She explained that
“folks that don’t like his stuff are
very organized” and are likely to
have posted the gallery’s contact
information on an anti-Husain ac-
tivist Web site.
The somewhat controversial
nature of Husain’s art did not dis-
suade the Cogut Center, Bell Gal-
lery and Year of India from bring-
ing it to Brown. “This university
welcomes difficult issues being
debated — that is not a problem
for us,” Steinberg said.
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M. Track
M. HOCKEY Wrestling M. Squash W. Squash 4th out of 11
Brown 3 Harvard 12 Dartmouth 9 No. 9 Dartmouth 7
Cornell 5 Brown 33 Brown 0 No. 10 Brown 2 W. Track
4th out of nine
Brown 2 Lehigh 33 Tufts 2 No. 12 Mt. Holyoke 2
Colgate 6 Brown 6 Brown 7 No. 10 Brown 7 Gymnastics
ScoreS 2nd out of four

M. Basketball

Leffelman ’11 propels team to split

By Erika Mueller
Contributing Writer
Heading into this weekend, Garrett
Leffelman ’11 had started just three
games all season. It didn’t show on
Friday and Saturday night.
Leffelman scored the men’s
basketball team’s first 14 points
of the game on Friday against
Dar tmouth and had a career-
high 16 the following night ver-
sus Har vard. Behind Leffelman
and Peter Sullivan ’11, the night’s
leading scorer, the Bears defeated
Dartmouth, 75-60, before falling
to Har vard the following night,
81-67.
Brown 75, Dartmouth 60
Heading into Friday’s matchup,
Dartmouth was looking to cap-
ture its first Ivy League victor y,
and Brown was hoping for its
second.
The players ended up spending
nearly as much time on the ground
as the ball did, making for a very
scrappy game. The fouls added
up for both teams, and Brown
was able to capitalize on the situ-
ation, making 33 of 37 free throw
attempts.
Following the tipoff, Leffelman
was hot from the field. Though
he was shut down after his ini-
tial spurt, the Bears were able to
maintain the lead going into the
second half, 39-29.
Sullivan went 14-16 from the
line and totaled 23 points to lead all
scorers. He also grabbed a team-
high 11 rebounds.
Dar tmouth crept within 3
points of Brown, 49-46, with 9:54
on the clock, but the Big Green
was never able to overtake the
Bears.
Matt Muller y ’10 added 17
points and 10 rebounds for
Brown.
Harvard 81, Brown 67
The Bears took the Pizzitola
Center court looking to shut down
Harvard’s big star, but the Crim-
son’s other weapons blindsided
Brown.
Harvard’s Jeremy Lin, who is
averaging 17.3 points per game,
was expected to play a starring
role for the Crimson on Saturday
night. But with the Brown defense
double-teaming him early, Lin was
held scoreless in the first half.
Ever y time that he touched the
ball, the Bears’ student section re-
minded him of his struggles on the
night by chanting “overrated.”
“I got in foul trouble. That
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Lindsay Nickel ’13 and the women’s basketball squad were even with
continued on page 8 Dartmouth at halftime, but the Big Green prevailed by four.

W. hockey
Icers let 3-1 lead slip on Senior Day
By Andrew Braca
Assistant Spor ts Editor
The women’s hockey team suf-
fered a heartbreaking Senior Day
defeat, losing a 3-1 lead to fall to
Colgate, 4-3, in the squad’s final
home game of the season on Sat-
urday.
“It’s always tough to lose on se-
nior night,” said Sasha Van Muyen
’10. “We were really hoping we
could pull out a win here, but it is
what it is. We played our hearts
out. You can’t ask for much more
than that.”
A day earlier, the Bears were
blanked by Cornell, 4-0. With
two games left, Brown’s record
stands at 2-20-4 overall and 0-17-3
in ECAC Hockey play.
Cornell 4, Brown 0
On Friday, the Bears gave the
ECAC-leading Big Red (13-8-6,
12-2-6) a first-period fight. Bruno
generated its best scoring op-
portunity four minutes in when a
shot by Vika Mykolenko ’12 was
deflected and landed on top of the
net. Cornell posted only an 11-6
advantage in shots that period,
but scored a late goal to go into
intermission with a 1-0 lead.
Brown lost blueliner Paige Py-
ett ’12 in the closing seconds of
the first period, and Cornell took
control of the remainder of the
game. The Big Red scored two
goals in a one-minute span early
in the second to pull away.
“Ever y game — we’re ver y
young and we let up those two
quick goals that just bury us,” said
Head Coach Digit Murphy. “You
look at the one that landed on top
of the net with Vika, it’s like, you
just can’t get a break. All that stuff
just adds up.”
Cornell tacked on a third-peri-
od goal. Katie Jamieson ’13 made
36 saves, but the Bears totaled
only 15 shots.
“We need to take control of our
destiny earlier and make the most
of our opportunities,” Murphy
said. “I thought our first period
was very good, yet we still come
out losing 1-0. I think we’ve got to
come out strong in the first period
and then take it from there. That’s
how we win.”
Colgate 4, Brown 3
On Saturday, Bruno started
strong but could not maintain the
lead, as Katie Stewart scored all
four of the goals for Colgate (10-
18-4, 6-10-4).
Playing in front of one of their
largest crowds of the season
and the Brown Band at Meehan
Auditorium, the Bears came out
energized, scoring twice in a 1:03
span to take a 2-0 lead into the
first intermission. With 10:03 left,
Alena Polenska ’13 scored on a
feed from Laurie Jolin ’13, with
each player finishing the game at
10 points on the season, which is
tops on the team. Soon after, Van
Muyen doubled Bruno’s lead with
her team-leading sixth goal.
Nicole Brown ’10 “took a nice
shot from that point that hit the
post,” Van Muyen said. “I was just
trying to get the puck to the net,
and there was a big scramble, and
I managed to get it over the line
just enough for the refs to call it
a goal.”
The Raiders struck back in the
second period, as Stewart notched
a hat trick in a 13-minute span.
The first goal came on a miscue by
the Bears. Jamieson went behind
the net to stop the puck, but Col-
gate’s Beth Rotenberg beat Bruno
to the puck and fed Stewart, who
put the Raiders on the board five
minutes into the period.
The Bears appeared to deflate
after surrendering the goal, as
Colgate roared to 16-9 advantage
in shots in the middle frame. The
Bears appeared to have stopped
the bleeding five minutes after
the goal, making quick work of
a power play as Jenna Dancewicz
’11 scored off assists by Jolin and
Polenska to take a 3-1 lead.
But Stewart scored twice more
in the second to tie the game, both
goals coming after Bruno took
penalties to kill power plays.
“You don’t take a penalty when
you’re on a power play,” Murphy
said. “It’s those little things, those
continued on page 8
W. Basketball
On the road, Bears drop two
games in conference play
By Zack Bahr
Sports Staff Writer
It literally came down to the line Fri-
day night for the women’s basketball
team.
With the Bears down by two points
and just six seconds left, Hannah Pas-
safuime ’12 — Brown’s leading scorer
— stepped up to the free throw line
with a chance to tie the game at 64
and send it to overtime. But that’s not
the way it went.
Brown fell to Dartmouth, 67-63,
on Friday night and Harvard, 66-51,
the next night.
Dartmouth 67, Brown 63
Brown got off to a 12-4 lead on
Dartmouth’s home court, at one point
holding the Big Green scoreless for
nine minutes. But the home team
stormed back with an offensive attack
to gain a one-point advantage over
Brown with 2:14 left in the half.
Before the halftime buzzer, both
teams went basket-for-basket and
ended the half in a 26-26 tie. The
Bears shot 75 percent from the line
but missed all six shots from behind
the arc in the first half.
The battle for the lead continued
through the night with seven ties in
the game. Dartmouth held the largest
lead of the second half, leading 52-
45 with 5:53 left on the clock before
Brown came back to life.
With the game on the line, Pas-
safuime bounced her first free throw
off the iron and sunk the second one.
Bruno had no choice but to foul for
the remainder of the game. The Big
Green made three of four free throws
to end the game ahead, 67-63.
Leading scorers from the Bears
were Passafuime, Aileen Daniels ’12
and Lindsay Steele ’12 with 15, 14 and
10 points, respectively.
“Right now, our team is really click-
ing because we are playing together
and utilizing each other’s strengths,”
Passafuime said. “We have had lead-
ing scorers and rebounders from dif-
ferent players almost every game.”
Harvard 66, Brown 51
Saturday night was a tough chal-
lenge in Cambridge for the Bears.
The Crimson, who are among the top
contenders for the Ivy League title
this year, came out hot and jumped
out to a 16-4 lead in the first eight
minutes.
Bruno fought back and held
Harvard scoreless for nearly three
minutes to cut the deficit to just three
with 2:27 remaining in the first half.
Brown came within one with 1:49
left in the half before the Crimson
ran away with the lead. The Bears
never came within four for the rest
of the night.
Bruno shot only 10 percent from
three-point range and 29 percent from
the field. Passafuime led Brown with
14 points, making her the only Bear
in double figures. Harvard placed
three players in that category, and
the team’s top scorer racked up 27
points.
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The Bears were stymied in an attempt to net their first conference win.
Tough loss for w. hockey
continued from page 7
mental mistakes — we beat our-
selves there.”
Stewart scored 2:50 into the
third period on a nifty wraparound
to give the Raiders a 4-3 lead they
would not relinquish.
“The miscommunication with Ja-
mieson behind the net and not pick-
ing up hurt us, but I thought that
was the only mistake we made from
a coverage perspective,” Murphy
said. “They had three individual ef-
forts that beat us. Those two shots
that (Stewart) took, you can’t stop
that, and then the wraparound.”
Brown pulled Jamieson, who fin-
ished with 33 saves, for an extra at-
tacker with 2:31 left and generated
heavy pressure, but could not notch
the equalizer.
“That was really tough,” Van
Muyen said. “We had a couple re-
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ally good chances in front. I wish we
could have buried them and gotten
the tie or a win out of it, but we
played our hearts out, and I can’t
ask my teammates to do much more
than that.”
A ceremony after the game
honored the senior class of Erin
Connors ’10, Kathleen Surbey ’10,
Brown and Van Muyen. The Bears
will have two more shots to close
out the season with an ECAC win
when they hit the road to face
Princeton (12-11-4, 10-6-4) on Fri-
day and Quinnipiac (16-8-8, 9-4-7)
on Saturday.
“I think we just have to work
hard,” Van Muyen said. “We need
to play a little more soundly de-
fensively, and then just bur y our
chances when we get them. And if
the other team scores a goal, not
deflate, just keep going the way we
were going.”
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
— Sasha Van Muyen ’10 on Saturday’s game against Colgate
Men’s hoops falls in league play
continued from page 7
was my fault,” Lin said. “I mean
as long as we’re taking good shots
it doesn’t matter who’s taking
them.”
Instead, Harvard’s Kyle Casey
— last week’s Ivy Rookie of the
Week — netted a game-high 27
points.
“I thought Kyle Casey was
spectacular,” said Harvard Head
Coach Tommy Amaker. “For
a freshman to have the kind of
weekend he’s had is pretty darn
special for us.”
The game was tightest in the
first half, when there were six lead
changes and seven ties.
“Give Brown a lot of credit,
they took it right at us, and were
ef fective and got open shots,”
Amaker said.
Coming out of the locker room
after halftime down by three, the
Bears took off on a torrid 9-0 run to
regain the lead. But they slowly let
the game slip away. Harvard was
dominant on the boards, posting a
36-19 advantage for the game.
One consistent spot for Brown
Mistaken killing of 12 Afghan civilians
By Saeed Shah
McClatchy Newspapers
KABUL, Afghanistan — Twelve
Afghan civilians died Sunday af-
ter U.S. rockets mistakenly hit a
house during the much-trumpeted
offensive to clear the last Taliban
stronghold in Helmand province, a
loss of life that is likely to seriously
undermine the operation and the
renewed American-led mission to
win the trust of the population.
The use of the rockets has been
suspended pending a “thorough re-
view” of the incident, the U.S.-led
International Security Assistance
Force said in a statement.
An Afghan soldier and a Marine
were injured in the firefight that
preceded the rocket attack, on the
second day of an operation to take
control of the town of Marjah and the
surrounding district of Nad Ali.
Operation Moshtarak, which
means “together,” is the biggest as-
sault on the Taliban since the fall of
the Islamic extremists’ government
in 2001 and the first major test of the
new U.S. strategy for quelling the
insurgency and stabilizing Afghani-
stan. A centerpiece to the offensive
has been to minimize civilian casual-
ties and the use of force.
A combined force of U.S., Afghan
and British soldiers continued to
come under sporadic fire Sunday,
while facing constant danger from
Taliban-laid mines, roadside bombs
and booby-traps.
The large number of civilian
deaths in a single incident calls into
question the approach to the opera-
tion, and provides easy propaganda
points to the Taliban enemy. Most
of the 80,000 residents of Marjah
stayed in their homes, despite weeks
of public build-up to the assault.
“We played our hearts out.”
Men’s hoops defeated Dartmouth, 75-60, for their second Ivy victory.
was Sullivan, who tallied 21 points
and six rebounds.
“He played like a man all week-
After managing to avoid civil-
ian casualties on the first day of
the operation, which was declared
a success, Sunday — Day Two —
brought disaster.
A Marine unit embedded with
Afghan soldiers, which came under
sustained fire from two directions,
called in a strike from heavy-duty
munitions known as a Himars, which
is a rocket system fired from a truck.
Two rockets landed some 300 yards
off target, killing the 12 civilians and
wounding one.
“We deeply regret this tragic loss
of life,” said Stanley McChrystal, the
U.S. general who leads international
forces in Afghanistan. “The current
operation in Central Helmand is
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aimed at restoring security and sta-
bility to this vital area of Afghanistan.
It’s regrettable that in the course
of our joint efforts, innocent lives
were lost.”
McChrystal telephoned Afghan
President Hamid Karzai to apologize
for what he called the “unfortunate
incident.” The Afghan leader had
cautioned the forces, as the opera-
tion began, to “exercise absolute
caution to avoid harming civilians.”
The death of innocent Afghans in the
war, often caused by misdirected air
strikes, has inflamed public opinion
in Afghanistan.
At issue is whether the use of
the rockets was proportionate to the
threat and why the weapon went so
far wide of its intended target. The
wrong co-ordinates could have been
fed into the rocket launcher, or it suf-
fered some technical failure, military
officials believe.
An ISAF official, who could not
be named because of the sensitivity
Monday, February 15, 2010
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
end,” said Brown Head Coach
Jesse Agel. “He was really tre-
mendous.”
of the issue, said the rockets were
used after enemy fire made it impos-
sible for helicopters to come in to
evacuate the two injured soldiers.
As evening fell in Afghanistan on
Sunday, the Marine and Afghan unit
were still under fire, more than 10
hours after the engagement began,
he said.
“This (Himars) is a heavy thing
to use under these circumstances
but they used something that is
usually very precise,” the NATO
official said. “They probably felt
this was better than calling in an
air attack.”
The scale of operation, involv-
ing 15,000 soldiers, a large civilian
presence, together with hundreds of
Taliban fighting desperately against
hopeless odds, and a town rigged
with booby-traps, make civilian
losses inevitable, analysts believe.
McChrystal, the pioneer of a new
counter-insurgency strategy in Af-
ghanistan, is faced with a delicate
balance: the need to safeguard his
own forces and the imperative of
preventing civilian casualties. He
has issued a series of directives to
rein in the use of force, in an effort to
win over an Afghan population often
alienated and terrified by the use
of air strikes and raids on homes.
But that has brought criticism from
within the military and in the U.S.
that he was hamstringing soldiers
in the field and putting their lives
at risk.
“Civilian casualties have been
one of the big issues that have been
troubling the relationship between
President Karzai, the Afghan people
and international forces,” said John
Dempsey, head of the Afghanistan
office of the U.S. Institute of Peace,
an independent research organiza-
tion.
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The Brown Daily Herald
Sex offender law could go global
By Rob Hotakainen
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Megan’s Law
soon could go international.
The law, named after Megan
Kanka, a 7-year-old New Jersey
girl who was raped and killed by a
neighbor in 1994, requires convicted
sex offenders to be registered with
the government, making it easier
to track their whereabouts. Their
names can then be put into data-
bases, allowing the public to do a
quick online check to determine
where offenders reside.
While the law now applies to all
states, California Republican Rep.
Dan Lungren is proposing a world-
wide crackdown on high-risk sex
offenders and sex trafficking.
Under his bill, convicted sex of-
fenders would have to tell local law
enforcement of their travel plans 21
days before leaving their country.
That information would then be
shared with diplomatic officials in
foreign countries, who could keep
track of the offenders. Lungren is
already working with the Mexican
government on the proposal.
“The idea is to notify law enforce-
ment officials in those countries that
people are traveling,” said Lungren,
who called sex trafficking “a plague
on our region and our nation.”
The American Civil Liberties
Union opposes the plan, saying it
would be wrong to impose new re-
strictions on people who already
have served their sentences.
However, Michael Macleod-
Ball, the ACLU’s chief legislative
and policy counsel, said he fears
the bill will pass because no one in
Congress will want to cast a vote
that could be interpreted as sup-
porting sex offenders.
“Absolutely, we’re worried about
something like this passing because
Lawmakers fight for payments to farmers
By Halimah Abdullah
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Southern law-
makers are pushing back against
a proposal in President Barack
Obama’s budget that ends compensa-
tion to cotton and peanut farmers for
storage costs when they hold back
on selling crops until they can net
better market rates.
“The credits allow producers to
store their cotton and peanuts at the
government’s cost until prices rise.
Therefore, storage credits have a
negative impact on the amount of
commodities on the market,” said a
White House Office of Management
and Budget analysis released earlier
this month.
“Because storage is covered by
the government, producers may
store their commodities for longer
than necessary,” according to the
analysis. “There is no reason the
government should be paying for
the storage of cotton or peanuts,
particularly since it does not provide
it’s very easy to get a yes vote,” he
said. “Maybe we should say the con-
verse: If you vote against something
like this, you sort of stick out like a
sore thumb.”
Lungren said his bill is an at-
tempt to get tough with U.S. sex
offenders who leave the country
and then commit similar crimes
overseas.
Nicholas Sensley, the chief of
police in Truckee, a mountain town
near the state’s border with Nevada,
authored human-trafficking guide-
lines for the U.S. Justice Depart-
ment. Sensley said Lungren’s plan
is good because it would fight sex
offenders who move across borders
“undetected, unnoticed and really, in
a large part, unconcerned.”
“It’s really just another tool,
bottom line, to put another clamp
on those who are committing this
crime,” Sensley said.
Sensley is a recognized expert in
the field, having established the first
human-trafficking task force in New
York in 2001 and authoring human-
trafficking guidelines adopted by
the U.S. Justice Department.
If Lungren’s plan is passed, Sens-
ley said, the most significant hurdle
would be trying to gain the coop-
eration of other countries, many
of which have different laws and
different cultural norms.
“What we define in the United
States as a sex offender may not
necessarily be defined as such in
other countries,” Sensley said.
Partly because of the success
of Megan’s Law, Lungren said, sex
offenders increasingly are preying
on young victims overseas, where
they’re out of reach of U.S. law en-
forcement agencies. He said child
sex tourism has evolved into a
multibillion-dollar “industry” involv-
ing millions of children around the
world, particularly in Mexico, South
this assistance for other commodi-
ties.”
Cotton and peanuts — crops that
contribute heavily to the Southern
economy — are the only commodi-
ties that receive such subsidies.
Southern lawmakers have long
sought to insert the subsidies into
federal farm bills, with mixed re-
sults.
Storage compensation to cotton
and peanut farmers was negotiated
as part of the 2008 farm bill.
“To come back and have to fight
that after the cotton and peanut
industry took big hits in the farm
bill is unconscionable,” said Rep.
Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., who sits on
the House Appropriations agricul-
ture subcommittee. “When you pull
the rug out from under farmers at
the beginning of a new farm bill,
when they’ve made plans based on
issues resolved in the farm bill, it’s
unfair.”
The Obama administration likely
will face an uphill battle in trying to
maintain the cuts. The administra-
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America and Southeast Asia.
“These cities are global hubs
of human sex trafficking, where
young children are bought, sold
and abused in a manner that de-
fies all human decency,” Lungren
said. “Recently, I was shocked to
learn that many of these transac-
tions are made with U.S. dollars and
U.S.-issued credit cards.”
Macleod-Ball, of the ACLU, said
that there are always concerns about
accuracy in a large database and that
there would be lasting repercus-
sions if anyone were mistakenly
included. He said countries would
have to work closely to make sure
there’s consistency about who’s in-
cluded, particularly since local laws
can differ widely.
Lungren, who has yet to deter-
mine a cost estimate for his legisla-
tion, said he expects other countries
to cooperate, citing Mexico’s early
involvement as an example. How-
ever, he said, only time will tell.
“We’ll find out,” he said. “I have
very little sympathy for them if they
think it’s appropriate for 12-year-old
kids to be forced to have sex with Freddy Lu / Herald
tourists. That’s not my idea of tour- Celebrants kicked off the Chinese New Year in Andrews Dining Hall
ism. I have no sympathy for it, and at an event hosted by the Chinese Student and Scholar Association.
I think we ought to do everything
we can to get rid of it.”
Lungren, a member of the House
of Representatives Judiciary Com-
mittee, worked to get California’s
Megan’s Law passed when he was
state attorney general in the 1990s.
He often sponsored booths at fairs,
where the public could punch in an
address or a name to check for sex-
related offenses. He said he often
saw good results from making pub-
lic information more accessible.
In one case, he said, “This wom-
an was surprised to see that the man
she was with, her boyfriend, was a
registered sex offender.
“She had no idea.”
tion made little headway last year
on similar attempts, and President
George W. Bush was unsuccessful in
his attempts to uphold his veto of the
2008 farm bill, which had subsidies
— including the cotton and peanut
compensation — to which the Bush
administration objected.
“As with last year, the adminis-
tration unfairly targets farmers and
ranchers to achieve savings and fund
Washington-based programs,” said
Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the
ranking Republican on the Senate
Agriculture Committee.
The Obama administration says
that the cotton and peanut storage
credit cuts will save $2 million over
the next decade, and that broader
farm subsidy cuts could net more
than $2.3 billion over the next 10
years.
The National Cotton Council,
which represents cotton growers,
says the administration’s proposal
to cut the cotton storage credits “is a
failure to discern critical differences
between commodities.”
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U. presidents don’t need

Goldman association
To the Editor:
When I saw The Herald’s edito-
rial headline (“President Simmons
and Goldman Sachs,” Feb. 12) my
heart sort of jumped: The editors
were going to do something cou-
rageous, such as respectfully sug-
gest that Ruth Simmons resign from
Goldman’s board. Alas, the piece is
an accommodation. As a working
journalist in Washington for nearly
three decades I have come to real-
ize that Goldman’s does more than
affect public policy here. With their
massive campaign contributions and
lobbying, they have come to exem-
plify the wholesale corruption of
our government. Their influence in
Congress and in the White House,
since Bill Clinton named Goldman
CEO Bob Rubin head of his econom-
ics team in 1993, has contributed to
a series of terrible decisions. These
acts have stripped our factories of
their machines and our workers of
their jobs, and stripped from our
laws the New Deal codes that pro-
tected ordinary investors and home-
town banks from the self-dealing
corruption that has helped create
a jobless rate of ten percent, and a
jobless/discouraged worker rate of
16 percent plus.
The Brown presidents of my
day, Henry Wriston and Barnaby
Keeney, men who rebuilt our Uni-
versity, would never have served
on such a board, especially with the
controversy now whirling around
Goldman’s head. I hope in time the
Editorial Board will take another
whack at this question and come
up with a better answer.
A be pressman
Douglas L. Turner ’54
Feb. 12
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Sun rises, sun sets In the aftermath of a bloody fight that broke out at establishments like Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel. Rich
Herald inbox waits for you. the downtown Club Elements in the early hours of Lupo, the owner of the concert venue, told the Provi-
New Year’s Day, city officials have been thinking dence Journal last week that a ban on the under-21
Your letters, your love. hard about how to address nightclub violence in crowd would put him out of business. Even if it didn’t,
Providence. They should keep thinking. The proposal smaller audiences would mean smaller budgets to
floating around right now — banning everybody bring in bands. A ban on the under-21 crowd could
letters@browndailyherald.com under age 21 from clubs that serve alcohol — will severely cripple the live music scene in Rhode Island,
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patrons has come up. State legislators introduced a idea. Legislation has not been introduced, and city
bill in 2001 that would have banned those under 21 officials have been thinking about other approaches
from nightclubs, but the legislation was ultimately as well, such as cracking down on compliance and
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NIDA ABDULLA
Opinions Columnist
As a freshman, homesick and heartsick, I
hated it when people would gush at me, “Don’t
you just love Brown?” Er, not really, I would
think, while I stretched my facial muscles into
a wide grin and nodded enthusiastically. In-
stead of eliciting my fake enraptures, I should
have been viewed as a resource, able to look
at Brown with a critical eye. My suggestions
should have been sought and my unmet ex-
pectations addressed.
Instead, our counsels to freshman often
involve sympathetic nods and assurances that
they’ll get used to things, and that everything
works out in the end. As far as advice goes,
this is pretty vague and unhelpful. We would
do well to consciously remember how difficult
freshman year is, in terms of unmet expecta-
tions and jarring new experiences that we
were expected to take in stride.
In the interest of jogging our memories, I
will list a few of my most jarring experiences,
comments that I extend to Brown freshmen.
To begin, our daily interactions with adults
are limited to two kinds: the self-assured and
successful professors we are trying to impress,
and those that are serving and cleaning up
after us. The absence of adults with an educa-
tion between a high school diploma and an
advanced degree is disorienting.
Decriminalization is not enough
HUNTER FAST
Opinions Columnist
On Feb. 2, a bill was introduced in the Rhode
Island House of Representatives that would
eliminate criminal penalties and prison sen-
tences for small-scale marijuana possession
and replace them with a $150 fine.
Decriminalization of marijuana at the state
level is a good initial step in the overall reform
of drug policy, but it does very little to correct
the colossal market failure that the current
“war on drugs” has wrought. By continuing
to treat cannabis production and consumption
as punishable offenses at all, the state govern-
ment forgoes vital tax income and quashes the
formation of legitimate sources of employment
during a time of fiscal and economic crisis.
Decriminalization by itself is likely to yield
some savings for the Rhode Island state gov-
ernment. However, even decriminalization
proponents admit that these savings would be
modest — estimates range from $232,000 to
$3 million out of a state budget deficit of over
$400 million. Full legalization carries with it
the ability to generate state revenue through
sin taxes as well as the ability to create jobs
and taxable income. If legalized and regu-
lated, cannabis could serve as a desperately
needed engine of productive wealth creation.
A legal marijuana production sector would put
money in the hands of law-abiding citizens and
would deprive those who operate within the
violent black market of their massive profit
margins.
Freshman frustrations
Furthermore, kids younger than ourselves
are wiping down our tables and picking up
the fettuccine we spill as we fill our plates. I
think about how a family’s income can make
the difference between serving food at the
cafeteria and eating there. The arbitrariness
of success smacks me in the face every time
I see them. Where I once just sat down at the
dinner table and had my parents to thank for
my meal, I suddenly have to thank a faceless
chef and countless immigrant workers.
Oh, and we hardly ever see young children
We would do well to consciously remember how
difficult freshman year is, in terms of unmet
expectations and jarringly new experiences that
we were expected to take in stride.
unless we get the memo to start volunteering
in Providence.
Those famous conversations that are sup-
posed to keep us up at night — and that we
learn to avoid in subsequent years — just
give us a headache, and the next morning
we wish we had slept earlier. Personally, I
usually walked away in frustration from (or
worse, remained stuck in) conversations with
people who just talk too much and listen toow
little and think they are so open-minded when
really their mind is already made up.
Furthermore, legalization would allow the
state government to eliminate expenditures on
the enforcement of marijuana laws altogether.
In a 2005 paper, noted Harvard economist
Jeffrey Miron calculated that complete legal-
ization would save the Rhode Island govern-
ment over $21 million in enforcement and
legal costs, and generate an additional $4.6
million in tax revenue. However, the reduc-
tion in enforcement costs only takes into ac-
count arrests for charges directly related to
cannabis, not the costs attributable to other
crimes caused by the existence of the black
market. Thus, the real savings would likely
be much higher.
Decriminalization of marijuana at the state level
is a good initial step in the overall reform of
drug policy, but it does very little to correct the
colossal market failure that the current “war on
drugs” has wrought.
Obviously, this is a much larger issue than
that of Rhode Island’s fiscal woes; if it weren’t,
then marijuana legalization would be enacted
simply on the merit of being good economic
policy. In essence, arguments over marijuana
legalization represent not an economic debate,
but a conflict between those who see drugs
as a matter of personal responsibility, and
those who see the image of the abominable
drug addict — an image created during the
xenophobic tide of the 1930s and enshrined
in law by Richard Nixon’s psychotic political
paranoia.
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Living with a roommate is also one of those
jarring freshman experiences. Many fresh-
men go from living with their families (with
whom they share common values, interests
and traditions) to living with a randomly as-
signed stranger, whose values and interests
may be completely at odds with their own. It’s
an experience that we half-expect and (to the
outside observer) seem to take in stride, yet
it is a difficult transition to make.
As far as support goes, I know we have
many avenues for freshmen currently, such
as Meiklejohns and advisors for academic
matters, and Residential Counselors, Minority
Peer Counselors and Women Peer Counsel-
ors for all types of crises in the dorms. Also,
freshmen will often seek out older students
as mentors and friends to talk to about their
struggle. However, it’s often not enough. Few
young people can open up with strangers (i.e.
their residential peer leaders) even if helping
them is in the RPL job description. Further-
more, upperclassmen (even the RPLs) are
pretty busy and may only have time for one
The prevalence and influence of this image
give rise to a circular rationality wherein the
negative consequences of drug prohibition
are used to justify its continued existence.
The expectation that drug users will engage
in delinquency molds the formation of drug
policy such that the expectation creates the
reality.
Indeed, this cycle is salient in the opposi-
tion to the current decriminalization bill. The
state Attorney General’s office official Mat-
thew Dawson was quoted by the Providence
Journal as stating that marijuana users “don’t
have the ambition or the desire to contribute
to society.”
This obtuse view is countered by the fact
that Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Michael
Bloomberg and Sarah Palin have all admit-
ted to using cannabis at some point in their
lives, and have all — except arguably in the
last case — made significant contributions to
society. Ironically, Claiborne Pell, the name-
sake of a federal higher education grant that
can be revoked over a drug conviction, also
admitted to past cannabis use.
An unsettling truth about the nature of the
economic consequences of cannabis prohibi-
tion follows from this amusing fact. While
or two meaningful conversations with strug-
gling freshmen.
Here’s a proposition: Why not make an
online forum where freshmen can counsel
one another and relate to each other’s feel-
ing? It might be that just reading accounts
from other freshmen, experiencing the same
exact emotions, will alleviate some of their
own stresses and anxieties. I imagine there
would be a forum for discussing homesick-
ness (with a possible topic being, “What do
you miss most about home?”). Others might
deal with academics, sexuality and spirituality.
Also, forums could be moderated by a few
upperclassmen interested in offering limited
but helpful advice. This advice could include
information about resources freshmen can
use and deans to whom they can talk. Why
not make digital the kind of graffiti that we
see in the bathroom stalls at the Rockefeller
Library and the Gate. Anything would be bet-
ter than the current culture of silence and
loneliness.
Beyond the personal nature of freshmen
problems, we should take seriously their com-
plaints about Brown. Their fresh eyes can see
things to which our own have become so ac-
customed, as we are so blinded by our love and
affection for our home away from home.
Nida Abdulla ’11.5 is an English
concentrator from New Jersey. She can be
contacted at nida_abdulla@brown.edu
prohibitionists often base their views on the
rhetoric of rescuing people from themselves,
the policies that they implement curtail the
ability of drug offenders to develop their own
human capital through higher education.
Moreover, the criminalization of marijuana
and the recording of drug arrests ensure that
a single act can become a lifetime flaw in the
eyes of potential employers. Thus, offenders
are stigmatized and alienated from the overall
economic structure, thereby perpetuating
their involvement with drugs by encourag-
ing their reliance on the parallel economic
structure of the black market.
This process is one of many ways in which
the federal government, as preeminent econo-
mist and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman put
it, “enforces a drug cartel.” The prohibitionist
rationale employs the existence of the violent
black market as a justification for the massive
infringements on personal freedom that the
drug war has brought about. But the black
market exists only because the current state
of drug policy prevents the legitimate private
sector from occupying the cannabis industry.
Decriminalization solves many — but far from
all — of the problems caused by prohibition,
but under marijuana legalization, disputes
among marijuana producers and sellers would
be solved by price wars, not turf wars.
While the state of California only toys with
the idea of real legalization under the threat of
complete fiscal collapse, Rhode Island has the
potential to take a revolutionary step through
complete legalization.
Hunter Fast ’12 is an economics
concentrator who does, in fact,
understand the difference between a
million and a billion.
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