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Facilities to subcontract,
libraries to lay off staff
By Alex Bell
Senior Staff Writer
Brown will restructure the University
Library and the Department of Facili-
ties Management July 1, Director of
Labor and Employee Relations Joe
Sarno ’91 wrote to the two depart-
ments’ unions on March 25 and
March 29, respectively.
More than a dozen workers will
be laid off from the library — the
library union’s first-ever layoffs,
according to Karen McAninch, the
United Service and Allied Workers
of Rhode Island business agent who
represents both unions. While the
much larger facilities department
will only suffer one layoff — a non-
union engineer, according to Vice
President for Facilities Management
Stephen Maiorisi — McAninch said
she was concerned with next year’s
increase in subcontracting, which
will eliminate the need to fill some
vacancies in the department.
The restructuring of the two de-
partments is expected to save $3 mil-
lion next year, according to Sarno’s
s p ot l i g h t
ZOOMING IN ON
STAFF AT BROWN
Monday, March 22 was
a difficult day for some
Brown staff members. That
morning, the University
sent an e-mail notifying
staff that approximately
60 employees would
be laid off by the end
of June. Coupled with
139 staff members who
have accepted early
retirement packages
from the University, last
month’s announcement
signified that Brown staff
members are not immune
to the University’s cost-
cutting responses to the
economic recession.
The attention paid to
Brown staff in the past
few weeks has turned the
campus’ focus to a portion
of the Brown community
not often given much
notice. Today, The Herald
sheds a spotlight on the
staff at Brown.
Look inside on
pages four and five for
the stories of these
individuals.
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University officials announced in
March that it would lay off 60 staff
members in June, while offering them
severance packages, health coverage
and career counseling, among other
services.
The University plans to subcon-
tract custodial services for six off-
campus locations, including 70 Ship
St., the future site of the Alpert Medi-
cal School in the Jewelry District.
“It’s our work, and there’s no jus-
tification for taking our work away,”
McAninch said.
She said she was skeptical about
whether subcontracting the labor
would really save money in the
end.
“It begs the question of whether
it could be an anti-union thing in that
respect,” she said.
But Maiorisi said requiring the
limited number of custodial super-
visors to go so far off campus is a
strain on resources, making subcon-
tracting more economical in remote
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University libraries face staff cuts
By Anish Gonchigar
Staff Writer
While many students feel like they’ve
spent their entire undergraduate ca-
reers in a library, for Brown librarians
such as Gayle Lynch, a senior library
specialist at the John Hay Library,
the libraries have been home for half
their lives.
Lynch has spent the past 43
years working at the Hay, archiving
documents pertaining to Brown’s
Students weigh in on workers’ rights
By Sara Luxenberg
Senior Staff Writer
Many Brown students have lim-
ited relationships with University
staff. They know Gail and Jose at
the Ratty, or are vaguely aware of
who cleans up the trashed lounges
in their dorms after a weekend
night, or have made friends with
the woman at the Blue Room who
toasts their onion bagels. While
relationships between students
and Brown staff may not be per-
fect, the general campus sentiment
aspires to respect and equality
— and one group, the Brown Stu-
dent Labor Alliance, campaigns
actively for the rights of University
employees.
News, 3
letter campaign
Students praise President
Simmons nationwide for
workers’ rights response
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The baseball team lost their two games against Siena
Wednesday. They play a doubleheader against Princeton at
home Saturday.
history.
Throughout the years, Lynch has
enjoyed her work at the Hay, she said,
calling Brown’s library system “one
of the best departments on campus
to work for.” Her day-to-day archival
work includes sifting through past
student and faculty publications,
as well as working with University
alumni to preserve Brown’s past.
While Lynch will continue to be
a familiar face at the Hay, by the end
of June, some of her long-time col-
Spotted at Brown
A stroll past outdoor trash cans
on Friday afternoon, dorm kitchens
on Saturday morning or the Ratty
omelet line at Sunday brunch would
hint at a less than perfect relation-
ship between those who attend the
University and those who work for
it. “I’ve seen people yell at the Ratty
workers,” said Aurora Durfee ’10,
and “everyone sees the Main Green
and Wriston Quad, especially when
it’s nice out, covered in litter.”
“I don’t think people realize that
their litter is someone else’s bur-
den,” she added.
“I see more of people just com-
pletely ignoring and not thinking
about the workers,” said Matt
Scult ’10. “They’re leaving trash all
Sports, 9
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leagues will no longer be part of the
library system.
In the wake of the University’s
budget crunch, some library staff
will lose their jobs as part of the 60
planned layoffs, estimated to cut $14
million from the budget by 2011, ac-
cording to an e-mail to The Herald
from University Librarian Harriette
Hemmasi.
While some library staff members
continued on page 4
around, not really interacting with
and saying hi to workers as they go
through the dining hall.”
While Durfee and Scult observe
these issues, they both said incon-
siderate actions are not the norm. “I
don’t know if there’s a community
ethos that is one way or another,”
Durfee said.
“I think the vast majority of the
student population is respectful,
but there’s a small minority that
I guess isn’t,” said Rachel Bloom
’13. “And I know that the majority
of people who are respectful do
notice the minority.” Bloom pointed
to public forums such as the missed
connections Web site Spotted at
continued on page 4
Opinions, 11
UNCOMMON DECENCY
Adrienne Langlois ’10 calls
out op-ed columnists for
crossing the line
news in brief
Gala will be
hard to move
Though Tuesday night’s
negotiations between the
Student Labor Alliance
and the organizers of next
week’s Gala concluded on a
promising note, the chances
of moving the event — to
honor a worker-led boycott at
the event’s location — looked
slim late Wednesday night.
SLA members met
Tuesday with members of
the 2011 Class Board and
the Key Society, as well as
with administrators, to warn
them that if they held the
April 17 Gala at its currently
scheduled location of the
Westin Providence hotel, they
would face a picket line of
hotel workers, who have called
for a boycott of the hotel in
light of a labor dispute.
SLA members met late
Wednesday night to discuss
an e-mail from 2011 Class
Board Secretary Salsa Ahmed
’11 to members of SLA, in
which she wrote that finding
another location for the event
would be unfeasible. SLA
invited the event’s organizers
to their meeting, but none
could attend.
President of the 2011
Class Board Neil Parikh ’11
told The Herald Wednesday
night that the organizers of
the event are willing to keep an
“open dialogue” with the SLA,
but, in a series of meetings
with University administrators
and general counsel, the
organizers found out that
in addition to the logistical
difficulties of switching
venues late in the game, not
using the Westin would cost
them their $5,000 deposit,
and a $20,000 minimum fee
for the event.
“We really have put all our
hearts and souls into finding
another venue,” Parikh said.
“If we could, we would move
it in a heart beat.”
But SLA member Sam
Adler-Bell ’12 warned that
Brown’s image is at stake if
the Gala is held at the Westin.
He said he wasn’t convinced
all avenues had been
exhausted, and thinks Brown
should try using its “clout in
the community to get out of
the contract.”
Parikh said he may know
more after meeting with
Westin management Thursday
morning.
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C ampus N EWS “Nobody from the administration bothered to, you know,
tell us.” — Andy Moul, library associate specialist

Forum discusses and explores interfaith relationships

By Sofia Castello
Contributing Writer
The Interfaith Dating Forum, which
featured a diverse panel of speakers,
drew over 20 students into a conversa-
tion about pivotal points in interfaith
relationships. The event, which was
held in Arnold Lounge in Keeney
Quadrangle Wednesday night, tackled
topics that included religious ceremo-
nies, negotiations over holidays and
how to raise children when the parents
belong to different faiths.
Panelist Carol Cohen ’83, associate
dean of the college, described herself
as “the Jewish girl at the church …
and the priest’s wife.”
“The public aspect (has been)
much harder to negotiate than the
private,” Cohen said.
The key to an interfaith relation-
ship is “about knowing where your
lines are … the meaningful lines,”
she said.
Panelist Ceceley Chambers, who
is Jewish and married to an atheist,
said she has realized in the last year
that she wishes to become a rabbi. In
order for her to do so, her husband
must convert to Judaism. She said he
is willing to consider the switch, but
no matter his response, she already
knows where her boundary lies. “If
I was asked to choose between my
husband and being a rabbi, I would
choose my husband,” she said.
Experience with serious romantic
relationships did not dominate the pan-
el, as panelist Nathaniel Johnson ’10
addressed the topic hypothetically.
“I have been and I am in many
interfaith relationships, but I have
yet to be in a romantic interfaith
relationship,” he said. There would
probably be issues with his parents
if he wanted to marry “a nice Hindu
girl,” he said. “There would be a long
conversation.”
It is also very important to clarify
the difference between dating and
marriage, he said.
Panelist Mary Yang ’13 spoke
about her experience with interfaith
parents. “Just growing up with them,
I could see their relationship had a
tension,” she said. In her current
relationship, “the question of faith
has come up as the main problem,”
Yang said.
Reasons for attending also varied.
Audience member Mathew Reiss ’12
said, “I’m here because I’ve been
dating a Catholic girl for three years,
and I’m Jewish.”
Christopher Huynh ’10 “was just
kind of interested in seeing what
interfaith dating is,” he said.
Chelsea Waite ’11, one of the
event’s coordinators, said the “as-
sumptions that go along with a cer-
tain faith … are confronted when
dating someone not of your faith.”

Libraries will outsource guard positions

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locations.
“This will change in future years
as we get more concentrated in the
Jewelry District and other areas,”
Maiorisi said. Custodians currently
working in the areas to be subcon-
tracted will be moved back on cam-
pus when the changes take effect
July 1.
Maiorisi said the University is
contractually allowed to subcontract
any work as long as it is not done so
arbitrarily and the union is notified.
Both Maiorisi and McAninch said
they plan to meet soon to discuss
the subcontracting.
“We go into any discussions with
the union with an open mind,” Maiori-
si said. “If they have a better solution,
I’d be happy to listen to it.”
The other letter from Sarno to
McAninch outlines an increased re-
liance on subcontracting for library
guards.
Though one part-time building
sudoku attendant has accepted voluntary
retirement, one full-time and three
more part-time attendants will be
laid off.
Instead, “Sterling guards will be
utilized at the Sciences Library dur-
ing all hours of operation, and at the
Rockefeller Library after 10 p.m. to
enhance security at critical times,”
the letter says, noting that “additional
measures will be taken to increase
the security of the building.”
Chief of Police Mark Porter wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald that there
has been no significant increase re-
cently in major crimes in the librar-
ies.
Trish Dumin, a senior library spe-
cialist working in the Rock as a com-
puting consultant, has worked at the
University Library since 1978, with
an eight-year gap starting in 1990 to
serve as the union’s full-time treasur-
er. She said she has witnessed many
incidents in which having in-house
door guards has been important for
handling difficult situations and for
helping people on a day-to-day basis,
as “ambassadors” to library guests.
The letter also suggests moving
Dumin’s position and that of another
computing consultant out of the Uni-
versity Libraries and into Computing
and Information Services. These em-
ployees assist staff and sometimes
students with computing issues such
as installations and training, Dumin
said.
Vice President for Computing
and Information Services Michael
Pickett said the details of the pro-
posal have not yet been worked out,
but the goals are to make computing
consultants from various adminis-
trative departments better at their
jobs by centralizing them in CIS to
provide training, certification, and
other support.
But Dumin and her coworker
stand to lose their union affiliation if
they are transferred out of the librar-
ies department, even though much
of their job description could remain
the same.
McAninch called this a “potential
implication that there is an anti-union
decision.”
Dumin would have the opportuni-
ty to move into another union position
through a process called “bumping”
if the decision were made to move
her position.
Vice President for Human Re-
sources Karen Davis said there is
“absolutely nothing in the organi-
zational review that was meant to
diminish the bargaining power of
the unions.”
But McAninch said that come July
1, when the position eliminations take
effect, the libraries union will have
only two-thirds of the positions it had
10 years ago.
Andy Moul, a library associate
specialist at the John Hay Library
whose position is being eliminated,
said he was upset with the way the
layoffs were carried out. He said he
found out about his position’s elimina-
tion from an e-mail sent out to library
employees listing the positions to
be eliminated, but not mentioning
names.
“Nobody from the administration
bothered to, you know, tell us,” he
said. “Are they really concerned with
what we provide, or are they just try-
ing to fill a quota?”
McAninch agreed that the reor-
ganization of the libraries was not
carried out in a respectful way.
“If they’re restructuring things
in the library, there are ways to do
it while being respectful to people’s
experience and contributions,” she
said.

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Simmons praised for leadership on worker rights
By Sarah Forman
Senior Staf f Writer
Sixty-three students from seven
universities sent a letter Tuesday
to President Ruth Simmons, com-
mending her leadership in publicly
responding to allegations of work-
ers’ rights violations by HEI Ho-
tels and Resorts and asking her to
encourage their schools to follow
Brown’s example and reconsider
their investments in HEI.
In Februar y, Simmons sent a
letter to the CEO of HEI stating that
any mistreatment of employees by
the company “would be a matter of
deep concern and contrary to our
standards of investing.” Since then,
Brown has become an example of
campus activism against HEI, which
is accused by some of its workers
of using intimidation and threats to
prevent unionization.
“Universities kind of copy each
other and listen to each other,” said
Olivia Singer ’12, a member of the
Student Labor Alliance, explaining
why other universities have recently
rethought investing in HEI. “On
this issue, we’re definitely the lead-
ers.”
Yale’s Advisory Committee on
Investor Responsibility recently de-
cided to reconsider its investments
in HEI, which was “largely a result
of Ruth Simmons’ letter,” said Jona-
than Macey, professor of law and
chair of the committee.
“The fact that she wrote the let-
ter suggested to me that she must
have some new information,” Macey
said, since both Brown and Yale had
decided a year ago that there was
not enough substantive evidence
against HEI to merit divestment.
“We’re going to take a number
of steps to reach out to our counter-
parts at Brown” to understand that
information and the motivation for
her letter, he said.
Though Brown has not divested
from HEI, and Simmons’ letter did
not indicate any plans to divest, “she
wouldn’t have written this letter un-
less she had some basis for doing
so,” Macey said.
Eleven Yale students signed
Tuesday’s letter to Simmons, in
which they wrote, “Anything you
can do to encourage our own uni-
versities to follow Brown’s lead-
ership and support the rights of
HEI hotel workers will be much
appreciated.”
“The fact that both Brown and
Yale have taken public steps and
questioned HEI is really impor-
tant,” said Sarah Furman, a junior
at the University of Notre Dame
who signed Tuesday’s letter and is
a member of the unofficial student
group Campus Labor Action Proj-
ect at Notre Dame. “Clearly there’s
something questionable about what
they’re doing because these two
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“We stand by our record as an employer.”
— Jess Pettit, HEI spokesman
huge universities have already ques-
tioned them.”
Furman and the other members
of the group hope to meet with
Notre Dame’s chief investment of-
ficer over the next week, she said,
adding that she plans to use Sim-
mons’ letter to refute his past claims
that there were not any substantial
complaints against HEI.
“That’s one of the first things
we’re going to bring up,” she said.
According to a March 15 press
release from the Brown Student
Labor Alliance, Simmons’ letter
marked the first time that any uni-
versity had publicly questioned
HEI’s labor practices.
“We’re certainly ver y pleased
with the letter President Simmons
has written,” said Jesse Strecker
’10, a member of SLA.
“We stand by our record as an
employer,” HEI spokesman Jess
Pettit told The Herald in March.
He called the allegations against his
company “hearsay and not truthful,”
according to a Feb. 16 article in the
Daily Pennsylvanian.
Strecker said he was convinced
that HEI has committed workers’
rights violations, adding that he and
students from other schools will
continue to work towards complete
divestment.
“A big part of what we’ll do is www.blogdailyherald.com
trying to induce other universities
to follow our suit,” he said.
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Student group advocates for worker rights
continued from page 1
Brown, where students often call
out other students for mistreating
the staff.
Both Durfee and Bloom said
their dorms’ residents have good
relationships with their custodians.
In South Wayland, where Bloom
lives, students “generally” clean any
messes they make, she said.
But Bloom said there is more
that Brown students can do. “I think
it’s important to make sure that the
people who make this experience,
for us, as good as it possibly can be,
have a good experience themselves,”
she said.
“We’re just elitist kids at an elitist
school and these people are here
to make our lives better or easier,”
Durfee said. “We should treat them
as well as we can, because they de-
serve it.”
Students stand up
While many students express
hope that campus workers will be
treated with respect, the Student La-
bor Alliance works to turn this hope
into action. “Working is part of ev-
eryone’s life,” said SLA group mem-
ber Rebecca Rast ’13, “and everyone
deserves a just workplace.”
To move toward this vision,
“Brown SLA works in solidarity with
workers on campus, in the greater
Providence community and glob-
ally,” Rast said. “We really try to
stand with workers all over the world
who are connected to the Brown
community.”
The SLA consists of 15 to 20
members who work actively on
its campaigns, and can garner the
support of 30 to 40 members in one
night to attend events, Rast said.
“We have a pretty committed base,”
said SLA member Elizabeth Caldwell
’12.
A committed base is necessary
for the SLA to function, as the group
works concurrently on several large
campaigns. Currently, they are
campaigning for the University’s
divestment from hotel management
company HEI and for the relocation
of Gala 2010, which is slated to be
held at the Providence Westin hotel,
where employees are on strike.
Another prominent SLA cam-
paign addresses University con-
tracts with Nike. The University is
a member of the Designated Suppli-
ers Program, which was created by
the Worker Rights Consortium and
requires that each member “abide
by certain codes of conduct” when
choosing suppliers for university-
branded clothing, Caldwell said. Two
Nike sweatshops in Honduras have
FROM THE ARCHIVES
• May 1964: A 17-day workers’
strike delayed construction
on University buildings,
including the new Rockefeller
Library. The striking workers
— laborers and plasterers’
helpers — sought a wage
increase of $0.50 per hour
from the Associated General
Students protested the University’s proposed changes to Brown Dining Services workers’ health-care plans last
fall.
been flagged recently for violations
of this code when workers were not
awarded proper severance pay.
“Nike still owes them over $2.1
million,” Caldwell said. This week,
the SLA is bringing workers from
Honduras to a meeting with Brown’s
bookstore. “We’re demanding that
they terminate their contract” with
Nike until workers receive just com-
pensation, she said.
Other large campaigns in which
the SLA is actively involved include
United Students Against Sweatshops,
the Coalition of Immokalee Workers,
which advocates for low-wage work-
ers throughout the state of Florida,
and Rhode Island Jobs with Justice,
a coalition working toward fair treat-
ment in labor markets throughout
the state.
More than just ‘making noise’
While the SLA works on many
large-scale campaigns, it is also very
involved in efforts for fair treatment
of workers on College Hill. Last se-
mester, the SLA worked with several
on-campus organizations to ensure
fair health care benefits in contract
negotiations for Dining Services
workers, Caldwell said.
“One of the big ways that we help
work with workers when there are
complaints is working directly with
the union,” Rast said. The SLA will
often “take symbolic action,” which
includes everything from getting
student signatures on workers rights
petitions, like it did during the dining
services contract negotiations, to
Contractors of Rhode Island.
• November 1973: Brown’s non-
appointed library workers went
on strike for three weeks. The
day after a settlement was
reached, Jonathan Farnum,
assistant vice president for
finance and operations and
university negotiator during
the strike, resigned. He “denied
that the strike situation had
raising awareness through teach-
ins, Rast said.
The SLA checks in regularly
with on-campus workers unions and
maintains strong “relationships with
workers on campus to see if things
are going okay,” Rast said.
Another important SLA campus
campaign surrounds the recent
announcement about library staff
layoffs. “We’re concerned that we
don’t really know where all these
cuts are coming from. We know this
isn’t the end, and we don’t want this
to set a precedent for future layoffs,”
Caldwell said.
“It’s sad that Brown is starting to
cut these corners, because we can
be this proud university that pays its
workers well — we have been in the
past,” Rast said.
“The economic situation should
never be an excuse for cutting cor-
ners” in the treatment of workers,
Trupin added.
All of the campaigns in which
the SLA is involved require relation-
ships with the student body, other
on-campus groups and the admin-
istration. The group maintains a
strong relationship with the Third
World Center, has worked with a
handful of student groups — such
as in the Open the Books campaign
seeking budget transparency from
the Corporation — and has a “pretty
sustainable” relationship with the
office of President Ruth Simmons,
Caldwell said.
“People have a perception that
we’re just making noise to make
any influence on his decision,”
according to a Nov. 20, 1973
article.
• December 1973: “Go f—
yourself,” said Michael Brown,
the head of the University’s
negotiating team as he
prepared to leave a meeting
between union and University
representatives. The union for
non-appointed library workers
Thursday, April 8, 2010 | Page 4
Claire Huang / Herald
noise,” she said. “But we are will-
ing to work through the designated
bureaucracy when it’s the right thing
to do.”
“And we always tr y to start
there,” Rast said.
Student awareness is another
critical part of SLA efforts. “We want
to centralize workers in our fight
and not forget that we are students
who have a privileged position at
this university,” Caldwell said. The
SLA often explores the issue that
students “don’t always treat workers
well,” she added.
“We want to change the Brown
environment so that there is more
justice for workers … and equality
between workers and students,”
Rast said.
Students inter viewed by The
Herald said they knew little about
the SLA’s efforts or other workers’
rights activism on campus. Scult said
he remembered “signing a couple
petitions in the fall,” but added that
he had no other knowledge of SLA
efforts.
“I have no idea what they’re do-
ing,” Durfee said of the SLA, adding
that she is surprised she does not
hear much about activism for work-
ers’ rights because Brown is “such
an active campus.”
“I think that a lot of people are
pretty much aware of poor condi-
tions elsewhere,” Bloom said. The
lack of campus activism on such is-
sues is “more of a sense of apathy,
or ‘Why should I do anything?’ ” she
added.
refused to sign the University’s
proposed contract at the Dec.
19 meeting, though the two
parties reached an agreement
and signed a two-year contract
in February 1974.
• December 1990: Following four
months of negotiation and a
five-week strike, the University
and the library workers union
signed a contract under
Long-time
employees to
leave libraries
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have been laid off, some long-time
employees have taken advantage
of Brown’s “early retirement op-
tion.” Even with this option, some
long-time employees like Lynch
decided to keep their positions.
This early retirement plan was
offered to Brown employees who
had worked at least 10 years con-
tinuously at the University and who
were turning 60 by the date the plan
was offered, said Beth Coogan, a
senior library associate specialist
at the Rockefeller Library.
“What they offered was anyone
who was turning 60 by a certain
date would be offered a year’s sal-
ary and $15,000,” Coogan said,
adding that the plan would cover
medical insurance for a certain
length of time after the employee
retired.
Though Coogan declined the
early retirement plan, she said
about 20 employees in the library
system had taken the offer.
Among the library employees
that did accept the offer was Ste-
phen L.Thompson ’71, scholarly
resources librarian at the Rock-
efeller Library. Thompson, who is
the library’s liaison for the English
and comparative literature depart-
ments, has been a full-time Brown
employee since 1972. Though he
has been a member of the Brown
community for the past four de-
cades, Thompson said he thought
the early retirement plan “seemed
like a good offer at a good time.”
Janet Crager, a scholarly re-
sources librarian, also took ad-
vantage of the early retirement
option. Crager, who has been
with the University for nearly 30
years, has a positive outlook on
her decision.
“I was thinking about retiring in
a couple years anyway, and I have
two small grandchildren,” Crager
said.
Crager said she hopes to spend
her time with her family after leav-
ing Brown and looks forward to
new people and new ideas in her
field.a
“It’s better for someone young-
er to come in with more up-to-date
ideas and training,” she said.
At the same time, Crager said,
leaving Brown is a hard decision
for someone who has called it
home for so long.
“I feel privileged to be a part
of all that — I’m really going to
miss it.”
which the union would co-
pay for health insurance and
Brown would raise wages for
unionized library employees.
• October 2009: At 2 a.m.,
negotiators for Brown Dining
Services workers and the
University agreed to a three-
year contract about wages,
health care and retirement
benefits.
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F eatures
Staff members share, reflect on their experiences
By Talia Kagan
Senior Staff Writer
Brown employs over 3,000 non-
faculty workers. Some of them
are campus legends (think of a
certain card-flipping dining hall
worker), some are familiar faces
and many operate behind the
Rock-solid guardian
He has shoulder-length dirty-blonde
hair and a welcoming smile — and
no, he won’t let you bring in food.
He is Library Clerk Stephen
Gervais, and even if you don’t
frequent the Rockefeller Library,
where he guards the entrance three
days a week, you might recognize
him from a recent cameo in “SciLi
State of Mind” — a student-pro-
duced music video that Gervais
found to be “a delight.”
A regular fixture at the Rock,
Gervais sees his job as more than
just guarding. “In a way, I’m a wel-
comer,” he said.
Gervais began working as a
shelver at the Rock 12 years ago,
but moved to his current position
within two years.
You may have noticed him
sketching intricate, realistic draw-
ings of Bernini statues and Hiero-
nymous Bosch paintings while he
sits at his desk.
“I love drawing statues because
of the way the light hits them,” he
said.
But for Gervais, art isn’t just a
hobby — he is a professional. Ger-
vais has illustrated the covers and
interiors of over 15 books, including
novels by best-selling authors like
Stephen King and Clive Barker.
Some of his work was recently fea-
tured in the book “Knowing Dark-
ness,” a compilation of art inspired
by Stephen King, and Gervais even
has his own chapter.
Gervais also plays lead electric
guitar for a band called Pancake.
On the subject of his group’s name,
he is apologetic: “Sorry to say it
wasn’t my choice.”
Costuming chic
Located on the Main Green, hidden
amid familiar academic buildings is a
world of bobbins, sequined fabric and
tape measures. It is the Brown cos-
tume shop, found in Stuart Theater.
This is Costume Coordinator Fran
Romasco’s world. The shop is where
she, alongside other staff and student
costumers, creates varied costumes —
from period vests to flouncy skirts —
for Brown’s mainstage productions.
Romasco is a draper and cutter,
which means she constructs costumes
rather than designs them.
“It’s like the architect comes with
the design, and the head carpenter
builds it,” she said. “I’m the carpenter.”
To create a costume, she will either
come up with a completely original
dress pattern, or modify an existing
pattern. To put together the actual
costume, she sometimes drapes fab-
ric on a mannequin and often makes
several sample pieces before arriving
at the finished product.
scenes. But who are they, what do
they do and how did they end up
on College Hill? In these profiles,
The Herald takes a closer look
at three of the personalities that
make Brown tick.
Recently, he gained another title:
actor. A friend cast Gervais as the
lead in a documentary on Gilbert
Stuart, the artist who painted the
George Washington portrait that is
on one-dollar bills. Gervais “already
had the long hair” necessary for the
role, he said.
Throughout his years at the
Rock, Gervais has turned away
“weirdos,” witnessed student break-
downs and overheard relationship
drama. Contrary to the usual Brown
stereotype, he said he has only once
smelled the scent of marijuana com-
ing from an incoming student. “I’m
amazed at that,” he added.
But he won’t be welcoming
studious Brunonians forever. Last
week, Gervais was told that his Uni-
versity job is being terminated even
though he is a union member. He
said he will work at the library until
July 1, but does not know what will
happen to his job after that.
Ger vais said he will miss
working at Brown, but he looks
forward to the chance to pursue
new opportunities. He is joining
the Providence Art Club, working
on a personal Web site to feature
his art and hopes to soon teach an
art class at the Rhode Island School
of Design.
Gervais finds his hip-hop ce-
lebrity status from “SciLi State of
Mind”— which has almost 6,000
YouTube views — to be a fitting
end to his Brown career.
Come July, Gervais said, he will
walk away with a positive memory
of his time at Brown.
“It’s been a real pleasure sitting
out here.”
Romasco learned her construction
skills at the Fashion Institute of Tech-
nology in New York City, where she
studied fashion construction before
moving into the regional theater world
in Washington, D.C.
After D.C., she went to New York
where she made costumes for “the
biggest flops of the 70s.” One memo-
rable show she worked on was a Bob
Fosse musical about the Dauphin of
France. “It closed in two days,” she
said.
While in New York, Romasco
also created dance costumes for the
American Ballet Theater and the Al-
vin Ailey American Dance Theater,
among others.
After moving to Providence with
her husband years later, where all
eight of her children were born, Ra-
masco ran her own clothing business
for two years. During that time she
sold clothes to Ann Taylor, Bergdorf
Goodman and smaller boutiques. For
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Thursday, April 8, 2010
“I love drawing statues because of the way the light hits them.”
— Stephen Gervais, library clerk
Enduring at the
eatery
Brown Dining Services Production
Manager Steven Monast has worked
in the Sharpe Refectory for 30 years.
He has seen many modifications dur-
ing his time there — for example,
all four Ratty lines used to serve the
exact same entrees. But some things
— such as the popularity of chicken
fingers — haven’t changed.
As production manager, Monast
oversees the catering department,
creating menus and organizing ca-
tered functions. He also oversees
operations at the Ratty, researches
new recipes and coordinates pro-
grams with staff at Brown’s satellite
eateries.
Monast is the man behind many
special Ratty events, such as last se-
mester’s Texas BBQ Ratty dinner, a
night complete with chili, corn bread
and polyester-clad “fancy dancers.” Talia Kagan / Herald
Brown Dining Services Production Manager Steven Monast stands next to
Monast’s recipes can be adven- one of the Sharpe Refectory’s 60-gallon kettles.
turous. Last year, for a special luau
night, he created Spam Sushi. Stu- Today, Dining Services has a enough that the Ratty goes through
dents were skeptical, but after trying database of over 4,000 recipes its 800 pounds of them in one meal —
it, “they came back,” he said. That employees have tasted and vetted. are one of very few pre-prepared
opportunity to be creative is what he Monast has created many of those — Ratty menu items, according to Mo-
loves most about his job, he added. either by modifying existing recipes, nast. Dining Services grinds its own
Monast started cooking at an or starting from scratch. One of his hamburgers, bakes its own brownies
early age, preparing dinner for his favorites is a salmon dish served with and even makes its own buffalo wing
mom when he got home from school. a reduction of balsamic vinaigrette, sauce.
Soon he got a job as a dietary aide in pear liqueur and fennel seeds that he That is something many students
a hospital in New Bedford, Mass. “By created for the catering menu. don’t understand, Monast said. Ratty
the time I was 18,” he said, “I was the Monast is currently working workers prepare 5,000 to 6,000 meals
weekend cook.” to plan the new Blue Room menu. from scratch each day. He dislikes it
In 1975, Monast moved to Provi- Lately he has been busy planning when students complain about the
dence where he catered at the Mar- Thursday’s special visiting chef din- food and asks them to be specific in
riott and later worked at a nursing ner at the Ratty. their critiques. Students could ask,
home. He began work at Brown in When he first worked at the Ratty, “Is the chicken too dry?” he said,
1980 as a cook’s helper and moved lunch was “a single entree item with instead of voicing their general un-
up to the position of lead cook for a vegetable, a starch and a vegetar- happiness.
breakfast and lunch within six years. ian option,” he said. “It was a totally But while complaints are inevi-
He held that union position for 22 different menu.” table, student reactions to Dining
years, and though he enjoyed it, by An example of culinary change Services cover the entire spectrum,
the end, he was ready to leave. “My during Monast’s tenure is the process according to Monast.
plan was to sell my house and move of making chicken fingers. Currently, During a recent trip to Montreal,
to California,” he said. Dining Services buys the chicken he ran into an alum wearing a Brown
Realizing that plan wasn’t eco- fingers pre-breaded, but back in the T-shirt. Monast told the alum that he
nomically feasible, he applied and day, workers breaded them by hand. worked for BDS, he said.
was accepted to his current man- It was a job that took five workers five “The Ratty rocks,” the alum said,
agement role, which he has held for hours, Monast said. before he and his friends broke into
two years. These chicken fingers — popular chanting: “Ratty! Ratty!”
a short time, she also sold antiques
and did some kitchen design.
But, “I like dresses better,” she
said.
She returned to costuming, briefly
working at Providence College and
Rhode Island College before coming
to Brown in May 2004, and by the
following January, she was a full-time
employee.
The pace of costume construction
is quick — the shop usually has about
four to six weeks to build a show, she
said. Costumes vary from altered T- Talia Kagan / Herald
shirts to a roller girl super hero cos- Costume Coordinator Fran Romasco works on a romper pattern for the
Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies’ Festival of Dance.
tume she created several years ago.
Wednesday afternoon, Romas- coincidence, according to Romasco. are employed by the University to
co’s attention was occupied with the Dance show styles are often influ- work in the shop, and there are more
creation of a romper pattern for the enced by current trends, she said. who volunteer. The students are often
Department of Theatre Arts and Per- “If it’s a fashionable look, it finds its encouraged to take a role in design-
formance Studies’ spring Festival of way into dance.” ing, she said.
Dance. If the costume resembled the Brown’s isn’t Romasco’s first “There’s a lot of teaching involved,
one-piece outfits worn by students costume shop, but what she didn’t even though it’s not a teaching posi-
lounging on the Main Green in the af- expect to find was the level of student tion,” she said. “And I find that very
ternoon’s 90-degree weather, it was no involvement in the shop. Six students satisfying.”
Metro
The Brown Daily Herald
Arts festival kicks
off in Pawtucket
By Anita Badejo
Contributing Writer
The second annual Southeast
New England Film, Music and
Arts Festival kicked off last night
in Pawtucket and will continue
until Sunday.
The festival is organized by
the Southeast New England Film,
Music and Arts organization, a
Providence-based nonprofit and
stemmed from the desire to pro-
vide Southeast New England
residents with an experience
not available to them before, ac-
cording to Philip Capobres, the
festival’s ar tistic director and
co-founder.
Caprobres said there had been
individual festivals in the area fo-
cused on art, music or film, but
not one that “really combined
all three.” The festival’s ultimate
goal is to “get people into dif-
ferent things” that they may not
have other wise had an interest
in, he said.
One way the festival attempts
to promote this goal is by fea-
turing all three mediums of ex-
pression in the same events. For
instance, Wednesday’s opening
night was held at PeaceLove Stu-
dios, an art galler y in Pawtuck-
et, but also featured live music
and showings of experimental
films.
To select artists, musicians
and filmmakers to feature in the
festival, Capobres said, organiz-
ers looked for a “wide variety”
without focusing on any particu-
lar criteria or genres, but rather
judging candidates and submis-
sions on their own merits.
Film submissions were re-
ceived from 40 countries around
the world, and more than 70 in-
ternational filmmakers are sched-
uled to attend festival events. Al-
though music and art features
are more locally focused because
of the logistics involved in their
organization, United Kingdom-
based artist Michelle Gates will
display her expressionist paint-
ings at the festival.
“This is my first opportunity to
exhibit overseas, and what better
way to start than a multi-faceted
event,” she wrote in an e-mail to
The Herald.
For Connecticut-based ar t-
ist Joe Niderno, the festival is
a brand-new oppor tunity that
allows him to show work that
he only began producing a year
ago. According to his Web site,
Niderno is involved with a num-
ber of art forms, including paint-
ing, digital art, graphic design,
art on skin and conceptual art.
But his four pieces featured in
the festival are oil, acr ylic and
digital paintings, he wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald.
On being featured with musi-
cians and filmmakers as an artist,
Niderno wrote, “Great music and
movies can create an atmosphere
that I find to be inspiring. The
proper atmosphere can help art-
work achieve another level.”
“I am a great believer (that)
diversity is the key to enrich-
ment, through film, music or art,”
wrote Gates, echoing Niderno’s
sentiments. “In saying this, they
are all inter woven by a common
thread, emotional expression.
They complement and contra-
dict each other, but always in-
spire us and challenge the way
we think.”
“By having more to offer, (the
festival) will attract more of a
crowd,” Niderno added.
And attract it does. According
to Capobres, around 2,000 people
attended the festival’s various
events in its opening year last
spring. This year, festival orga-
nizers are expecting a 50 percent
increase in attendance, he said.
While most attendees hail from
the Providence area, organizers
have expanded festival promo-
tion to dif ferent areas such as
Boston.
Many of the films to be fea-
tured Sunday were created by
continued on page 7
“We are quite excited to be part of the knowledge district.”
— Dayle Joseth, dean of the URI College of Nursing
New nursing school in the mix
By Leonardo Moauro
Staff Writer
Rhode Island College and the Univer-
sity of Rhode Island have announced
plans for a new $60 million shared
nursing school facility in the Jewelry
District downtown, near the future site
of Brown’s Medical Education Build-
ing. The two nursing schools would
remain separate, but would share the
same building, said Dayle Joseth, dean
of the college of nursing at URI.
RIC and URI had planned to build
separate nursing schools on their
campuses before the Rhode Island
Office of Higher Education proposed
that the institutions combine their
individual designs “to save $20 mil-
lion of taxpayer money,” said Ray
Di Pasquale, higher education com-
missioner and the president of the
Community College of Rhode Island.
Both institutions are in “dire need of
upgraded facilities,” and the shared
building would allow 50 additional
students to attend each of the two
nursing programs, he added.
The 120,000-square-foot edifice
would be much larger than the
buildings both of the universities
had initially envisioned, Joseth said.
“It’s three times the size of what we
would’ve had on this campus,” she
added.
“We could share classroom space,
have our classes on different days
at different times,” she said, but “I
don’t think we’re going to share a
curriculum. Both schools have a
very different mission statement,”
she said, noting that URI’s mission
statement places weight on research
and practice.
A nursing school in the Jewelry
District would also place RIC and
URI students in close contact with
local hospitals and the Brown medical
community. Such proximity would
add a cooperative dimension to the
students’ education that has so far
been lacking, said Joseth. Universi-
ties “tend to work in silos of our own
discipline, but there are really a lot of
things we can begin to work together
on,” she added.
“We are quite excited to be part of
the knowledge district,” Joseth said,
highlighting the proximity to hospi-
tals, other educational facilities and
Thursday, April 8, 2010 | Page 6
RIC and URI have announced plans for a new shared facility in the Jewelry
District, near the site of Brown’s future Medical Education building.
the downtown area. Though most
of the faculty at the two institutions
are eager to participate in the joint
endeavor, “there are some people
that aren’t as enthusiastic about it,”
Joseth said.
The venture received a thumbs-up
from Mayor David Cicilline ’83 and
widespread support from “important”
health care providers such as Care
New England and Lifespan, said Di
Pasquale.
The new facility would be a con-
crete response to the shortage of
nurses in the state, Joseth said. Ev-
ery prediction claims that there will
be a dire need for more nurses in the
future, she added, “when we look at
2020 it’s frightening, because nurses
are aging fast.”
Brown’s Dean of Medicine and
Biological Sciences Edward Wing
shared Joseth’s enthusiasm for the
prospect of collaboration. “Nursing
and medical education are coming
closer and closer together,” he said,
stating that in a hospital setting “the
group takes better care of the patient
than one person can.”
In this regard, Brown’s Med School
will “be able to have joint courses and
sessions with the nurses” in order to
foster the “team concept,” he added.
Wing also said that the hospitals in
the area would benefit greatly from
a deep relationship with the nursing
and pharmaceutical research that URI
provides.
Collaboration between the various
institutions would allow them to ap-
ply for additional grants, Di Pasquale
Kim Perley / Herald file photo
said. “This would be a great thing
for public universities and the nurs-
ing programs,” he added, and “we’re
hopeful that Brown would see it in
that way as well.”
The Jewelry District Association,
established in 1993, claims the nurs-
ing school would increase the hustle
and bustle of the emerging neighbor-
hood. “I think the school would be
very helpful in generating people on
the street and night-time activities
as well,” said Arthur Salisbury, vice
president of the association. “It will
bring in a bunch of people from out-
side to get to know the district and eat
at its restaurants,” he added.
The association has not had any
contact with either of the universities
so far, and only became aware of the
nursing school project “when it was
in the paper two or three weeks ago,”
Salisbury said. Though the universi-
ties’ plans will likely “complement”
the association’s efforts breathe new
life into the Jewelry District, Salisbury
also said “one of the major issues we’d
have is about the location and design
of the building.”
Before construction can get the
go-ahead, the plan must pass through
both the State House of Represen-
tatives and the Senate, Di Pasquale
said. If approved, the proposal would
then move to a public vote on Nov.
10, he said.
Either way, “the building probably
wouldn’t break ground until 2012,
which still allows for a lot of plan-
ning between the two institutions,”
Di Pasquale said.
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M etro
Plans for new pedestrian bridge approach completion
By Caitlin Trujillo
Senior Staff Writer
Construction on a $2 million pedes-
trian bridge over the Providence
River is slated to begin by October
2011, said Providence Parks De-
partment Superintendent Robert
McMahon ’68. Construction of the
bridge — a collaboration between
the Rhode Island Department of
Transportation, the Providence
Parks Department and William D.
Warner Architects and Planners —
represents one of the final stages
of the Iway project, the relocation
of I-195 and I-95.
The bridge will be built over the
Film, art and dance
festival in Providence
continued from page 6
filmmakers from other par ts of
Rhode Island, Connecticut and
Massachusetts.
Many festival events and
screenings will take place at the
Cable Car Cinema, including some
free screenings of international
documentaries and award-winning
supports left behind once the old
I-95 roadbed is removed, McMa-
hon said.
The construction is expected to
take six to nine months to complete,
he said.
A Rhode Island School of Design
student suggested reusing the sup-
port structures left over from the
highway, said Lambri Zerva, the De-
partment of Transportation’s design
project manager for the Iway project.
The idea started to look more fea-
sible to planners when they realized
the unnecessary cost of removing
the existing granite supports, Zerva
said.
Construction is estimated to cost
short films on Friday and Saturday,
respectively. Feature films will cost
$5 for students and $8 for the gen-
eral public, the cost of admission to
the majority of festival events.
Other events will take place
at the Hampton Inn and Suites
in downtown Providence and the
Slater Mill Theater, YMCA and
PeaceLove Studios in Pawtucket.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“(The new bridge) shouldn’t be monumental, it should be
accommodating.” — William Warner, bridge architect
$2 million, and removing the piers
would have cost an additional $2
million, he said. The state will also
save money by not needing to build
a foundation, he said.
The narrow strip of park on the
eastern side of the river will be ex-
panded south to Point Street, and
a park on the western bank will be
created as well. The parks will go
through a more extensive design
process once construction on the
bridge has progressed further,
Zerva said.
The bridge is still in the design
phase, said William Warner, presi-
dent of the architectural firm. War-
ner’s firm is reviewing designs and
making recommendations to the
Providence River Pedestrian Bridge
Committee.
Warner said they are trying to
take into account sustainability
and comfort for pedestrians in the
bridge’s design. It is also important
for the bridge to complement other
Providence bridges without copying
them, he said.
“It shouldn’t be monumental, it
should be accommodating,” he said,
adding that the bridge also needs to
Thursday, April 8, 2010
allow boats to go underneath and
be a graceful link between the two
parks on the opposite sides of the
river.
McMahon said it was important
that the bridge provide another way
to cross the river and connect park
spaces in the city. But he added it
was important for the bridge to be-
come more than just another route
— it could also become a new central
gathering point for citizens, such as
for farmers’ markets, he said.
SportsThursday
The Brown Daily Herald
Athlete of the week scores big
By Seth Motel
Senior Editor
It has been a busy several days for
women’s lacrosse attacker Kaela
McGilloway ’12. After a disappoint-
ing two-goal loss to No. 9 Dartmouth
(8-1, 3-0 Ivy League) on Saturday, the
Sea Cliff, N.Y., native led the Bears
(5-4, 1-3) to a 19-4 muzzling of the
Bryant Bulldogs (2-10) on Tuesday
night. Her three goals and four as-
sists gave her a career-high in points
in a game. The overall team leader
in points, with 27, also had the most
goals and points in last week’s wins
against Harvard (4-6, 1-3) and St.
Mary’s of California (3-7).
McGilloway’s recent 13-goal,
five-assist tear has helped Brown
win three of its last four games. On
top of that, she just managed to fill
out her forms to declare herself a
human biology concentrator. For
the sophomore’s outstanding pro-
duction, not to mention getting her
concentration forms filled out two
weeks early, The Herald is naming
her Athlete of the Week.
Herald: Congratulations on
beating Br yant this week, 19-4,
to take home the Ocean State
cup. Did your team get a physi-
cal cup?
McGilloway: We did. It was a
pretty big cup, actually. It was a big
deal for Rhode Island. It was the first
ever one, so everyone was excited.
So where is the cup right
now?
I’m not sure. I think maybe in our
coach’s office, but I’m not positive.
Do you have any big plans for
it? Are you going to fill it with
milk and have cereal in it?
I don’t know. The seniors are
trying to get possession of it, but
we’ll see.
You are one of four girls in
the family. What was that like at
home when you were a kid? What
are the age differences?
The age differences are 33, 31,
22, and I’m 20. … I grew up with a lot
of role models, I guess you could say.
They were always around, and as a
result, that’s how I was introduced to
lacrosse early on because they were
playing it and I was always at their
games. It’s really fun having older
sisters, almost like two generations
of families, ’cause you learn a lot.
Did they all play lacrosse?
They all played lacrosse in high
school. … Two of my sisters did club
in college, but I’m the only one who
did it competitively.
As the baby of the family, did
they taunt you a lot? Did they put
you through the ropes?
Just my sister who is 22. She put
me through a lot in high school. We
would fight on the field. I think she
drove me to be better, but at the
same time she took a number on
my confidence, probably, when I
was growing up. It wasn’t until she
graduated and went to college when
I really blossomed.
Fighting on the field, during
practice or during games?
During everything. We were re-
ally competitive. On Christmas, we
watched a clip of our county game,
and you just see her coming up be-
hind me and decking me into the
ground because I guess I annoyed
her earlier on.
In high school, you were a
star in both field hockey and la-
crosse. How did you decide what
to pursue in college?
I guess there are more opportuni-
ties through lacrosse. Coming from
Long Island, it’s more of a hotbed for
lacrosse, so you get more options.
I like them equally — it was just a
Thursday, April 8, 2010 | Page 8
matter of I wanted to come to Brown
and lacrosse was here for me, so it
seemed like the right fit.
There’s no hitting allowed in
U.S. women’s lacrosse, right?
No hitting, just checking — con-
trolled checking.
What does controlled check-
ing mean?
You have to release quickly from
it. It can’t be towards the face. I don’t
play defense, so I don’t check as of-
ten. … Obviously, it’s not as intense
as men’s lacrosse.
Do you wish it were?
I feel like I’m a baby when it
comes to checking. When someone
hits me in practice, I don’t take it
well. So no, I kind of like our rules.
Do you think the name “at-
tacker” sounds too vicious? Not
vicious enough?
I think it’s a good description of
what we do. We’re always attacking
the play. That’s what the coaches
say, so I think it fits for us. We’re
not trying to attack people, but you
never know.
Are there any games left that
you have marked on your cal-
endar?
Our biggest game coming up is
against No. 6 Penn (9-2, 4-0), and
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
they’re the top Ivy school, so we’re
Lacrosse attacker Kaela McGilloway ’12 scored career high points and
really looking forward to that. Beat- dreams of beating Northwestern.
ing them would be absolutely amaz-
ing and I think we really can this What’s something that a nor- keep going. That’s great. There are
year. mal Brown student doesn’t know powerhouses in lacrosse, too, like
Going back the last 30 years, about a lacrosse game? (No. 1) Northwestern, and I think
Brown has never won the Ivy I don’t think they think that it really elevates the game.
Championship. What’s the deal women’s games would be as excit- Why is Northwestern (9-0)
with that? When are we going to ing as men’s games. I think women’s so good in women’s lacrosse,
win one — soon? games are more exciting for the women’s golf, women’s tennis?
Soon. This year is the first Ivy beauty of our plays instead of just I don’t know what they’re feeding
League Tournament for women’s hitting and stuff. them over there. They’re incredible.
and men’s, actually, so we can get to Is it more of a team game than They’re just all athletes and they
that if we win our next few games. men’s? have a great sense of the game. I
And then, if we win that, we get to Not necessarily. … For women’s, think they just finish their game
go to NCAA, which I think would when you play with your whole team plans and do the little things right.
be the first time in Brown history. and everybody gets a touch of the To be honest, I think if everyone just
We’re just trying to make history one ball, it’s definitely more rewarding. perfected the little things, they could
game at a time. Hopefully, by the end UConn (women’s basketball) beat them. But I guess everyone’s
of the year we can say that we have won its 78th straight game (Tues- still trying to do that.
our first Ivy Championship. day). What do you think about One of these days?
Do you have any intention on that kind of dominance? Is that I would love to play Northwestern
keeping up with the sport when good or bad for a sport? (in the) next few weeks. I think we
you graduate? More power to them. They’re a could hold our own against them.
Probably not. There are not great program. Obviously, you want And they haven’t even won
many options after college to play some underdog to come up and beat 78 in a row. They’re not invin-
lacrosse. I would love to play for fun them, but I mean, if they’re that pre- cible.
afterwards. pared and that good, I would say Exactly. So you never know.
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S ports T hursday
W. tennis
Women’s tennis drops
three matches, wins one
By Han Cui
Assistant Sports Editor
The No. 62 women’s tennis team had
a tough spring break schedule, facing
three higher ranked teams — No. 13
Miami, No. 41 Florida International
and No. 28 Princeton, last year’s Ivy
League champion. In the end, the
Bears could not pull any upsets, though
they came close against Florida Inter-
national. They lost their competitions
to Miami, Florida International and
Princeton, 7-0, 4-3 and 5-2, respectively
and dominated Penn, 7-0.
No. 13 Miami 7, Brown 0
The Bears traveled to Florida to
start their spring break against Miami.
The Hurricanes dominated the Bears
in every category in straight sets.
“We played well in doubles,” said
Head Coach Paul Wardlaw P’13. “The
transition to outdoor courts was def-
initely a factor too. Miami was too
strong of an opponent.”
No. 41 Florida International 4,
Brown 3
The team tried to regroup the next
day against Florida International. Be-
cause the two teams split the singles
matches, doubles proved to be the
deciding point. After the first doubles
tandem dropped their match, 8-5, to
their No. 53-ranked opponents, the
second doubles team of Julie Flanzer
’12 and Misia Krasowski ’13 put the
Bears back in the game, winning 8-4.
But the Panthers came through in the
final doubles match and defeated the
Brown pair, 8-3, to win the decisive
doubles point.
“We played well enough to win the
matchup,” Wardlaw said. “That was
one of my more disappointing losses
because we kind of let it slip away.”
Brown 7, Penn 0
After the tough loss to the Golden
Panthers, the Bears returned home
to prepare for the Ivy League opener
against Penn. Against the struggling
Quakers, who were 4-9 in the season
heading into the April 2 matchup, the
Bears did not let up and took every
opportunity to score. After taking all
three doubles matches, the women
went on to win all six single matches.
Catherine Stewart ’12 closed out the
No. 5 singles match and the final
match of the day, 10-3, in the third
set.
“We were confident going in
against Penn,” Wardlaw said.
No. 28 Princeton 5, Brown 2
The Princeton Tigers came to
Brown last Saturday on a five-game
winning streak, having just defeated
Penn and Yale, 7-0 and 6-1, respec-
tively. They extended their winning
streak to six after winning all three
doubles matches and four of the six
singles matches against the Bears.
Bianca Aboubakare ’11 and Marisa
Schonfeld ’11 earned the two team
points for the Bears after they won
the No. 2 and No. 6 singles matches.
Flanzer came close in the No. 4 singles
match, splitting the first two sets, but
eventually lost the final set, 10-3.
“It was a winnable game,” Wardlaw
said. “We got off to a slow start on
doubles, but we had some good wins
in singles.”
With a 1-1 record in Ivy League
play, the Bears will travel to New
York this weekend to face off against
Columbia on Friday and Cornell on
Saturday.
“Both teams will be tough,” Ward-
law said. “Cornell is the stronger op-
ponent. We will have our hands full
since teams always perform better
with home advantage.”
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“The transition to outdoor courts was definitely a
factor.” — Paul Wardlaw, women’s tennis head coach
Donahue leaves Cornell hoops
By Andrew Braca
Assistant Spor ts Editor
Steve Donahue, who led the Cor-
nell men’s basketball team to three
consecutive Ivy League titles and
a trip to the 2010 NCAA Sweet
16, accepted the head coaching
position at Boston College, the
schools announced in separate
press releases on Wednesday.
Donahue’s 10 seasons were
among the most successful in Big
Red history. Taking over a team
with just two winning seasons in
the 12 years prior to his arrival, he
posted a 146-138 record to place
third on the school’s career wins
list. His 78 Ivy League victories
rank 10th all-time in conference
history and top all Cornell coach-
es. He is one of only eight coaches
to win three Ivy League titles.
The 2007-08 and 2009-10 NABC
District Coach of the Year and the
2010 Clair Bee National Coach of
the Year, Donahue will move up
to the Atlantic Coast Conference
to replace Al Skinner at BC. In 13
seasons at the helm, Skinner led
the Eagles to a 247-165 record,
seven NCAA Tournament berths
and one NIT appearance.
Cornell will begin a national
search for Donahue’s replace-
ment immediately, according
to a Cornell Sports Information
press release. The new coach will
face a major rebuilding process,
as the Big Red will graduate nine
seniors this May, including four
starters.
Harvard Head Coach Tommy
Amaker in midst of contract
extension negotiation
Another highly regarded
men’s basketball coach will not
be leaving the Ivy League: Tommy
Amaker, who led Har vard to a
school-record 21 wins this season,
is working with the school on a
multi-year extension, according to
a statement released by Harvard
Sports Information.
Amaker led the Crimson to the
CollegeInsider.com Tournament,
its first postseason berth since
1946, and was named a finalist for
the Ben Jobe Award, presented an-
nually to the top minority coach in
Division I college basketball.
In other Ancient Eight coach-
ing news, Colleen Quinn Fink was
named Penn’s head field hockey
coach, and Cornell’s Rob Koll was
named InterMat Wrestling’s Head
Coach of the Year for leading the
Big Red to a second-place finish at
the 2010 NCAA tournament.
Danis ’04 named Brown’s
lone representative on ECAC
All-Decade team
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Yann Danis ’04 was named the
goaltender of the ECAC Hockey
men’s All-Decade team last month.
Danis earned first team All-Amer-
ican honors after a 2003-04 season
in which he set ECAC records for
single-season save percentage
(.948) and career shutouts (13),
and tied Kevin McCabe ’77 for
the most career wins by a Brown
goaltender, with 43.
Princeton, Gillette stadium
have big events in future
Following Princeton’s 9-7 vic-
tor y over Brown on Saturday at
the New England Lacrosse Clas-
sic in Gillette Stadium, both the
Tigers and the stadium are headed
for special events.
No. 4 Princeton will travel to
East Rutherford, N.J., on Saturday
to play in the Konica Minolta Big
City Classic, the first event that
will be played in the new Mead-
owlands Stadium, the future home
of the New York Giants and Jets.
The Tigers will take on No. 3 Syra-
cuse, after games pitting Delaware
against Hofstra and No. 1 Virginia
against No. 2 North Carolina.
Gillette will host the 2011
NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse
Quarterfinals and the 2012 NCAA
Division I, II and III Champion-
ships. Har vard will ser ve as the
host school for both events.
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Anyone who follows national politics closely prob- 2002, the Public Policy Institute of California col-
ably doubts that Congress will achieve bipartisan lected information on first-generation immigrants
consensus on a major issue this year. Nonetheless, in Silicon Valley and found that 52 percent of those
there has been some discussion that Congress may sur veyed had been involved with founding or run-
soon turn its attention to the nation’s immigration ning a start-up company.
system. If it does, there is at least one reform that’s Despite this logic, some members of Congress
highly relevant to students and universities and is might still worr y that critics on the right could
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d worthy of broad-based support. characterize the change as harmful to American
Senior Editors
In a March 19 op-ed in the Washington Post, Sen- workers. But last year Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. — one
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Deputy Managing Editors
Sophia Li Ellen Cushing ators Lindsay Graham, R-S.C. and Charles Schumer, of the most conser vative members of the House
George Miller Chaz Kelsh
Emmy Liss Seth Motel D-N.Y. presented an outline of immigration reform of Representatives — introduced legislation that
Joanna Wohlmuth
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Brian Mastroianni Features Editor Katie Koh technology, engineering or math (STEM). tive Union. Moreover, he hails from a border state
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Brigitta Greene Metro Editor Kelly Wess Sales “It makes no sense to educate the world’s fu- where residents are extremely passionate about
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Opinions
The Brown Daily Herald
Of scandals, religion and forbidden sex
DOMINIC
MHIRIPIRI
Opinions Columnist
It is somewhat very reluctantly that I find
myself penning an article related to religion.
Not that I consider it to be an unimportant
issue unfit for community-level conversation
at Brown, or that I lack interest in the tried,
tested and yet still unexhausted “theories” and
“proofs” that are replete in many a religious
discourse in the college setting. I have fol-
lowed quite a number of these discussions
and in fact, I do struggle with difficult ques-
tions and experiences of my own as a result of
having particular religious beliefs in a culture
different from mine.
Rather, I’m reluctant because newspaper
commentary by itself is not a sufficient tool to
address religious issues and bring the often-
needed tolerance and understanding to very
diverse communities like Brown. People, out of
ignorance or sheer apathy, are often reluctant
to engage discussion of religion and approach
tolerance and compromise (the inflammatory
graffiti left by a stranger on the door of my
Keeney dorm room in response to a Christian
sticker plausibly backs this assertion).
The ongoing worldwide controversy sur-
rounding the Roman Catholic Church and
the reaction it has provoked, however, leave
me with no choice but to make a clarification
that the papacy is independent and not repre-
sentative of the entire Christian religion. Its
failures, like its successes, should be treated
in view of that distinction.
Adrienne
Langlois
Opinions Columnist
Time to get meta. What’s the opinions page
for, anyway?
To summarize the words of many recent
critics, not much. On March 15, the Washing-
ton Post’s own blogger, Ezra Klein, criticized
the policy of many newspapers (including the
Post) of publishing commentaries from politi-
cians and Washington insiders, noting that
“with the rise of the Internet,” politicians “can
put their opinions online.” Three days later,
Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic took Klein’s
argument further, calling it “a case for abolish-
ing op-ed pages altogether. Before, of course,
they abolish themselves by irrelevance.”
Faced with the charge of irrelevancy from
Sullivan and others, columnists, editorial writ-
ers and cartoonists are responding. In March,
Milt Priggee, a syndicated editorial cartoonist,
drew a provocative cartoon about the health-
care debate which ran online on Daryl Cagle’s
Political Cartoonists Index. The cartoon pic-
tured an angry mob around a tree, marked as
healthcare reform, with a noose dangling from
its branch. Holding the other end of the rope,
a man asks a member of the mob, “If this is
Waterloo, then where is the (n-word)?”
The cartoon, which Priggee did not submit
for print publication, received many comments
debating the use of the controversial term, as
well as Priggee’s clear reference to racism in
the healthcare debate. In response, Priggee
wrote, “How can an editorial cartoon be too
provocative when the very essence of an edito-
A strong wave of Catholic sex scandals has
swept across Europe and the United States,
drawing much controversy within both reli-
gious and non-religious circles worldwide.
The scandal has assumed such enormous
proportions that it clouded the worldwide
Easter holiday mood and threatened the legacy
of one of the most powerful and influential
men in the world — Joseph Alois Ratzinger,
otherwise known as Pope Benedict XVI.
I should address in passing the underpin-
ning issue behind the controversy, namely the
alleged cover-up of hundreds of sexual abuse
In spite of such commanding size and influence,
the Catholic Church is neither the flag bearer for
the Christian faith, nor the complete definition
thereof.
cases over many years and the pontiff’s shock-
ingly indifferent stance in the scandal’s after-
math. Sexual assault is no laughing matter. A
global clerical sexual abuse epidemic is com-
pletely unconscionable, and both Ratzinger (as
the figurehead of such an extremely powerful
organization) and the entire bureaucracy be-
low him should be held accountable.
However, within the ensuing anger and
criticism directed at the Catholic establish-
ment (and quite justifiably so), we should draw
an important line between the Catholic Church
and other Christian groups. Catholicism is
easily approximated to the entire Christian
religion; in fact, it has not been uncommon
Something to think about
rial cartoon is to provoke…?”
Indeed, provocation seems to be the name
of the game among all commentators lately.
On March 28, The Eagle, American Univer-
sity’s campus newspaper, ran a column by
sophomore Alex Knepper that responded to
recent allegations of homophobia and sexism
regarding a candidate for student body who
had posted an online message with a jokey
statement about getting “booty.”
In the column, Knepper called the com-
plainants, many of whom were members of
feminist and gay rights groups, “a sniveling
When commentators take that extra step beyond
a controversial argument with a personal attack,
vitriolic tone or controversial term, they cross the
line from provocative to offensive.
bunch of emotional cripples” and declared
date rape to be “an incoherent concept.” The
column ended with the allegation that “femi-
nists don’t understand history, psychology,
biology or sexuality.”
In response, Women’s Initiative, a campus
feminist group, collected the hard copies of the
newspaper and dumped them at the newspa-
per’s office. A forum was organized to discuss
the “Knepper question” as angry comments
piled up on the column’s online version.
The incident quickly made its way into the
national media due to its volatility. Knepper
was invited onto several television shows to
explain his views. In columns for the Frum
Forum and Newsbusters, Knepper grimly
recently to hear people talking about losing
respect for “the Christian faith” in the wake of
recent problems engulfing the “Holy” See.
The Catholic Church is indeed the big-
gest religious body in the world; its history
and heritage are equally enormous, spanning
centuries, civilizations and empires since the
first century. Its pontiffs have shaped history
and commanded the adoration and reverence
of both ordinary men and the most powerful
leaders on the planet. Ratzinger’s more char-
ismatic predecessor, the famous John Paul
II, stands in recent memory as a towering,
modern epitome of the authority and universal
influence that is the Pope of Rome.
Yet in spite of such commanding size and
influence, the Catholic Church is neither the
flag bearer for the Christian faith, nor the
complete definition thereof. Understanding
this distinction should be the first step to-
wards attaining religious tolerance within
diversity.
Catholicism is rooted in human tradition
that has perpetuated over the centuries. Per-
haps the most fundamental difference between
it and other Christian groups lies in the tra-
dition of the “infallible,” global authority of
a deified human figure — the pope. While
described the hostile treatment he received
during his interviews, lamenting the “media
storm” and sound bite culture that prevented
him from expressing his opinions in full.
When angry comments, protests and in-
terviews become the normal responses to
commentary, something is clearly wrong with
the system that disseminates it. Both Priggee
and Knepper seem to recognize this as they
criticize different aspects of the media, but
they also contribute to the hostile environment
with their own antagonistic tactics.
Clearly, fighting fire with fire isn’t working.
So should commentators stop being provoca-
tive? Not at all. I actually agree with Priggee’s
charge: The goal of all commentary should
indeed be to provoke. Where we differ, how-
ever, is in my definition of the word “provoke.”
Far too many commentators — from cartoon-
ists to columnists to pundits of all ages and
backgrounds — have confused the need to
provoke with a need to offend.
When commentators take that extra step
beyond a controversial argument with a per-
sonal attack, vitriolic tone or controversial
term, they cross the line from provocative to
offensive. Crossing this line alienates many
people whose opinions are relevant to the
debates in which commentators seek to foster
Thursday, April 8, 2010 | Page 11
common logic would dictate that churches
based on Christian teachings should follow the
Bible — the true authority of the religion —
Catholicism establishes itself as an authority
above the Bible, with the pope as its “unfailing”
leader. The “Holy Father” is regarded as an
equivalent of God on earth, as a representative
or “vicar of Christ” — assertions for which
there is absolutely no Biblical basis.
In fact, what makes Ratzinger’s current
scandals ridiculously logic-defying, yet some-
what very amusing, is his erstwhile portrayal
as infallible and the inevitable consequential
effect it had on revering faithful worldwide
when the veneer of godliness encountered a
rough brush with “sinful” reality.
The Catholic Church also stands apart
from Christian groups as a religiopolitical
organization. The sovereignty of the Vatican
state, and the pope’s assured place as a fixture
of influence and an international diplomatic
entity are consequences of the implicit state-
hood of the Vatican. No Protestant group is
recognized as a political entity, nor do they
have geopolitical influence on the same mag-
nitude as the Catholic Church.
Christianity is very diverse and complex,
and while Catholicism reigns supreme within
it, many other Christian groups exist outside of
it. Before we at Brown or those beyond assign
blame or praise while discussing religious af-
fairs, we should probably build an appreciation
of such important distinctions first.
Dominic Mhiripiri ’12 is an applied
math-economics concentrator from
Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. He can
be reached at dominic_mhiripiri@
brown.edu
dialogue.
That’s not to say that making an offensive
argument doesn’t leave any room for produc-
tive dialogue; in the aftermath of the media
attention to both situations, both Knepper
and Priggee have indeed sparked many less
volatile conversations. But in their initial on-
slaughts, they sacrificed the potential to make
a truly powerful argument.
Such an argument provokes without mak-
ing personal attacks, without resorting to gross
generalizations or hyperbole. It pushes, pulls
and stretches the opinions of its readers, but
never shoves. It makes its proponents nod in-
stead of wince, and its opponents pause rather
than immediately fire back. Most significantly,
it is convincing, and it is precisely this quality
which makes it far more subversive than a
so-called “provocative” piece.
An argument that simply offends misses
out on the opportunity to do what all commen-
tators hope to do — to change the way people
think. Yes, getting people with opposing opin-
ions to respond to one another is an important
step of the journey, but it’s not the first step.
The first goal of commentators should not be
to make people talk, but think.
Returning to these goals will make all
pieces, online and offline, more relevant and
more useful. If we as commentators dedicate
ourselves to making arguments that are more
provocative in their ideas than in tone, we can
save ourselves from irrelevance and give our
readers — and ourselves — something much
more valuable to think about.
Adrienne Langlois ’10 knows some
people may think she’s a boring old
fart, but quite frankly, doesn’t care.
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1 Latin dance
workout Island Republic | Kevin Grubb
6 4, 16, or 256:
abbr.
9 Rolling utensil
12 Moon gazers,
on some ironic
t-shirts
13 Descartes’s
agreement
14 Way to go, briefly
15 *Ratty
17 Bruno, e.g., to
Pablo
18 Set member, for
short
19 Actor Nick of
“The Spiderwick
Chronicles”
20 “Fight Club” motif
21 Beginner knitting Hippomaniac | Mat Becker
project
24 Shmexy
26 Boring Toyota
29 Camp out for,
perhaps 63 Palindromic poetic 15 Offspring: abbr. 38 One who lurks
30 Simple retort to preposition 16 “Ambling __” 41 Onetime Jay-Z
10-Down 64 He’s gotta (Yeasayer hit) feuder
34 Julio or junio catch’em all 20 Horror flick 43 Put on the line
35 *Gate 65 Did some featuring a 44 They hit
37 Football org. manscaping, villain on a smooth
whose current perhaps tricycle 45 Barus and
champion is 22 Rice-A-__ Holley denizen,
Bama’s Crimson DOWN 23 Eighth month for short
Tide 1 Fortune telling in the French 47 Most people
39 Occassion for machine in “Big” Republican get them with
major lolz 2 Form suffix Calendar that both flavors
40 Youngest of 3 Star athlete, for sounds like a mixed
“Three Sisters” short cosmetics brand 48 55-Across sight
42 Give the heebie 4 “You’ll __ my 25 FEMA f*ck- 49 What one might
jeebies heart” (Tarzan up/39-Across do at any of the Classic Deo | Daniel Perez
46 “Go find soundtrack song) 27 Electronic starred clues
something better 5 “__ I” music artist Eliot 53 Like the salad
to do!” (“Same here”) (rhymes with line at Jo’s
50 Notable flu 6 __ voce Crip) 54 Catcher Tony
51 Next best reason 7 Not 28 Yours, in Tours 57 Obstacle on the
to read the Herald heteronormative 31 IM service with way to second
52 Clutch 8 Free (of) channels and base?
55 Brown’s biggest 9 Like those nicknames 58 Expressive
bacchanal, briefly chanting “Yes We 32 “Be quiet!”, to compilation
56 Donkey Kong, e.g. Can!” IMers 59 Middle-
57 *VDub 10 “I did no such 33 Curry antidote, schooler’s
60 Sea, to Sartre thing!” perhaps fragrance
61 Latin thing 11 Decade old web 35 So to speak
Solutions and
62 Pokémon that are fad 36 It says how archive can be
able to learn Rock 12 “Yankee Hotel high: abbr. found online at
Throw Foxtrot” band 37 Celeb blogdailyherald.com