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“He’s sassy,” said Hannah Benen-son ’15 as she climbed over an-other student to get to the middleo the row, a ew seats closer toProessor o Physics Leon Cooper,Nobel Prize winner and instructor

o the irst-year seminar, PHYS0100: “Flat Earth to QuantumUrtaty: O th Natur adMeaning o Scientiic Explana-t.”

“It’s my avorite class,” saidAlex Bok ’15, another studenthappy with his choice to spendan hour and a hal every uesday and hursday listening to Cooper

passionately expound on someo history’s great scientiic dis-rs.

Dsussg Isaa Nwt adth wrtg Prpa, Cpr

could not contain his excitement.

“It sms ga wh yu wthe ideas in the textbook, but re-ally as it is being created, the sci- s just sprd jtur,”h sad a bth raspy admdus. Lkg aty ka strtypa physst — pk shirt beneath a green corduroy jacket, lyaway white hair — hes dappr ad wtty.

“Isprd jtur atr -sprd jtur ads t a wway kg at th wrd,” hsaid. “In this way, science is al-mst sr t art tha g.”

his is a man who understands

scientiic discovery. Ater gradu-ating with a PhD rom Columbia,Cooper began a quest to developth thry suprdutty.Superconductivity, a phenome- urrg at trmy dtemperatures, allows metals to

Nobel Prize-winning physicist enthralls frst-years

Crrine Szczesny / HerldNbel Prize winner Pressr Len Cper lectures rst-yers in physics seminr.

B Katrina PHilliPs

featureS editor

Students rom across the Ivy League arrived on campus yes-trday t partpat IyQ, aannual weekend-long conerencethat tackles issues o queer identity

rst hd tw yars ag at P.Brw s hstg th rr th rst tm ad pts 500students to participate in theweekend’s jam-p acked schedule

o lectures, panel discussions andsazg.

Conerence Co-Chairs AlpOzcelik ’13 and Drew Heckman’3 sad thy ar td th -r s at Brw ths yar adhp thr pag ths yar’sevent will help orm a ramework or uture hosts o the conerence

and ensure its continued growth.Tis year, Registration Chair

Ben Gellman ’14 said a limitednumber o registration slots wereallotted to non-Ivy League stu-dents. Te slots have been lledmostly by students rom RhodeIsland universities, but also a ewrom Vanderbilt University andth Ursty Nrth Caraat Chap H.

T r uds a s-ries o workshop sessions in which

participants can attend di erentpanels and lectures on topics suchas “enthusiastic consent,” the way “gay male physique magazines in- vented 1950s masc ulinity,” hig hschool anti-gay bullying and more.

In each workshop block, at-

IvyQ conference to

explore queer identity

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Senior StaffWriter

“What happens i no one showsup?”

Tat was the question I couldn’tbring mysel to ask Obuamah LaudAddy, lead singer and drummer o the AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra, or

Liam Sullivan, the group’s managerad gutarst.

But t was ary a hur arlast Tursday’s show was supposedto start, and there were only ourdistinctly uncomortable people inAS220’s perormance space, despitethe act that the Criss Cross Orches-

tra has perormed in this space thesecond Tursday o every monthr r a yar. Ha a hur may be acceptable lag time — but anhur s dsrtg.

wo band members changedtheir shirts. Te backup percus-sionist’s girlriend, wedged behinda ty tab, rssd ad rrssdher legs. Te keyboardist’s girlriend

mirrored her. Sullivan shied hisweight and rowned. Beers werebought, downed and relled. rum-

pet and French horn player GerardHeroux, a ormer Brown adjunct

Criss Crosscrosses

genres at AS220

B euniCe Kim

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Prssr Orthpads Ard-Peter Weiss was arrested in New York City last month or allegedly pos-sssg a at st rmItaly. Te coin remains the property o the Italian government, accordingt Itaa aw.

Weiss aces second-degree el-ony charges or knowingly acquir-ing and attempting to sell a lootedcoin called etradrachm, which is

valued at over $50,000, accordingt th rma mpat prddby Diem ran, senior press ocer o New York County District Attorney’sOce. Te criminal court set bail at$200,000, ad Wss s ptd tappear in court March 21 or possible

grad jury at, ra wrt ama t T Hrad.

etradrachm is a 4th century B.C.Itaa sr . T dpt the case stated that he observedWeiss “attempting to sell the same

(coin) or approximately $300,000 ina aut,” ardg t th rm-a mpat.

An Italian law — the Code o theCultural and Landscape Heritage —states that all antiquities ound inItaly aer 1909 are subject to the ab-sut wrshp th Itaa g-ernment. An inormant notied thecourt that “the Italian governmentnever gave (the) deendant or anyone

Med School prof arrested for coin theft

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StaffWriter

Grau mta skts, ash wdladders stretching skyward, wovenrattan curved into elegant silhou-ettes — the work o sculptor Martin

Puryear, who has been selected todsg a mmra t akwdgthe University’s links to the trans-atlantic slave trade, evokes a senseo minimalism even though he re-portedly rejects the movement. TeYale-trained artist, who has receivednumerous accolades or his work,including a John D. and Catherine. MacArthur Foundation Award,has been showcased in galleries rom

th Gugghm t th Musum Mdr Art.

Aer its February meeting, theCrprat, th Ursty’s hgh-est governing body, announcedPuryear’s commission to design a

mmra a ampus-wd ma.he announcement ollows theUniversity Steering Committee onSlavery and Justice’s 2006 recom-mendation to erect a memorial“inviting reflection and resh dis-ry wthut prkg parayssr sham.” T mmra shud b

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mpt ad stad th QutGreen by 2014, the University’s 250th

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“I kw pp ha b a ttconcerned,” said Jo-Ann Conklin, di-

rector o the David Winton Bell ArtGallery and member o the PublicArt Committee, o the delay. “We’vebeen working on (the selection pro-cess) in earnest or a couple o years.”

Te Public Art Committee be-gan deliberations in all 2009 aerth Cmmss Mmras ap-prd th sary ad just m-mtt’s rmmdat r a m-morial. Unlike the selection processor other public art installations, the

committee overseeing the slavery memorial did not accept submissionsr mmra dsgs.

“We began by looking at a lot drt artsts wh w thughtmight be able to do something,”Conklin said. “Some o them werene artists, some o them were land-scape artists, some o them weremr arhtts.”

he committee examined 65dierent artists “o all ethnicities,”Conklin said. “A lot o time in thegroup was spent trying to hone down

ad dd what ths shud b, b-aus th mmra a tak may drt typs rms.”

Aer the initial screening, thecommittee narrowed down the poolto ve artists, whom they invitedt ampus t “tak abut what thrapprah wud b t th mms-s,” Ck sad. T mmttsent the artists the Report on Slavery and Justice and images o possiblesites or the memorial on campusbeore inviting the artists to campust shar thr das.

At that stag, th mmtt b-gan to seriously consider Puryear,Conklin said. “We just elt like hiswork would appeal to a lot o di-rt pp,” sh sad.

Puryear’s previous work was alsoa draw or the committee, which

voted unanimously to award himth mmss.

“o nd someone who’s a very ne artist but also willing to think about the memorial is a wonder-

ul stroke o luck or Brown,” saidcommittee member Steven Lubar,director o the John Nicholas BrownCenter or Public Humanities andCultural Heritage and director o the Haenreer Museum o An-thrpgy.

Te memorial’s location was cho-sen or its proximity to both Univer-sty Ha ad th Va Wk Gats,which students march through dur-ing Convocation and Commence-ment. Puryear is slated to beginwrk th mmra a mth,Ck sad.

a jhe announcement ollows a

-yar gap s th sary ad justice committee was rst appointedto investigate the University’s historic

ts t th sa trad.“hat is a history that most

people in the West have contrivedto orget,” said James Campbell, aormer proessor o Aricana studiesad har th sary ad justcommittee. “Part o what we tried tod that rprt, as yu kw, wascarve out some space or thoughtulrefection about an issue that hasbeen dealt with, i at all, in a very parzd way.”

Te reaction to a March 2001advertisement placed in Te Her-ald by conservative writer-activistDavid Horowitz illustrated the con-troversial nature o the issue, saidCampbell, who now teaches histo-ry at Stanord. Te advertisement,which attacked the idea o repara-tions or slavery, was “designed toprovoke a response,” he said. Aerthe advertisement appeared, students

protested by condemning the paper’sats ad stag day’s prssru.

wo years later, President RuthSimmons appointed the slavery and

justice committee to examine theUrsty’s ts t th trasatat

slave trade. Te committee’s work eventually drew media attention,with coverage in national publica-ts k th Nw Yrk ms.

Te slavery and justice committee

released its ndings, which detailedthe University’s ormative ties to theslave trade, in October 2006. Tereport recommended the construc-tion o both a memorial and a “center

or continuing research on slavery and justice.” Te Herald has reportedthat th Ursty pas t am adrtr r th tr ths sprg.

“Te wheels o academia grindreally slowly,” Campbell said, addingthat he “never doubted” the Univer-sty wud w thrugh wth thrmmdat r a mmra.

“I still think almost 10 years latert was a rdby sary thg

t ha d,” Campb sad.Since the slavery and justice

committee’s report, more than 30other universities, including Emory Ursty, th Ursty Mary-land and the College o William andMary, ha auhd smar s-tgats t thr w hstrs.

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Te hope or the memorial is thatit will “add dimensions to the history Brw,” Lubar sad.

“Universities are ull o memori-als,” he said. “I you look around theBrown campus, there are probably 100 or 200. Te challenge is most o

them have aded into the woodwork.”Lubar suggested that the Univer-

sity might hold lecture talks to keepthe memorial relevant to the campusmmuty.

Campbell pointed out that be-cause universities tend to “put upmemorials and plaques that celebrate

the accomplishments o their stu-dents and their community,” thismmra s atypa.

“Brown was one o the ew in-stitutions in the world and one o th rst ursts t a ts wrole in the transatlantic slave tradead mmraz ts w r ts

ampus,” h sad. “I thk t’s suh atrbut t th sttut.”

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prmss st r authrty tremove said coin rom the groundor to remove it rom Italy,” accordingt th rma mpat.

“Tr s paprwrk, I kwths s a rsh ,” Wss agdy said in a recorded conversation with

the condential inormant. “Tis was

dug up two years ago. I know wherethis came rom.” Since Weiss said heknew that the coin was “reshly dug,”he is being charged with purposeully

possessing property o the Italiangrmt.

Weiss was planning to sell the

coin through Nomos AG, an auc-t hus r auab s whrWeiss is a partner, according to CoinWrd.

Nomos AG Director Alan Walkersaid, “All the coins are in the U.S.legally. All o the coins le Europelegally. It was all handled 100 percentby th aw, as ar as w kw.”

Walker also told Coin World that“he has very good counsel and is 100prt t.”

Weiss is a world-renowned handsurg. H btad hs bahr’sand medical degrees rom JohnsHopkins University. He is also theassociate dean o medicine or ad-mss at Aprt Mda Sh.

Mark Nickel, senior editor andwriter at the oce o public aairsand University relations, wrote inan email to Te Herald that Weisscontinues to serve as a proessor, butdue to “the pending resolution o thega mattr … h has b tmp-rary rd hs admstrat

duts.”

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tendees can choose rom six

events that all under one o sixthms ratg t qur dtty ad atsm. T thms ar I-ternationality and Culture; QueerHistories; Identity; Sex and Body Positivity; Health and Sexual As-saut ad Prata Appats.

Gellman said the workshopsrepresent a collection o “very di-

verse perspectives on queer iden-tity” to allow or the interests o asmany participants as possible, buthe acknowledged that some viewsw aways b udd.

“(It is) important to recognizethat not everybody will necessar-

ily eel like their identity niches supprtd by ths r,”h sad.

Heckman and Ozcelik saidthey attempted to include moreperspectives in this year’s coner-ence using eedback rom previousconerences expressed in the post-

conerence survey. Ozcelik saidthe group tried to increase rep-rstat rm pp rand “emale-identiying people” ts prgrammg.

Tis year, each student was as-signed to a “amily group,” bring-ing together 20 to 25 participants

in an attempt to “mix and mingleschool groups,” Ozcelik said. Eachgroup has a conerence coordi-

nator serving as the “parent” o the group. Te amily groups metlast night aer students arrivedor their initial group meetingsto open discussions. Heckmansad th ga brgg tgth-r grups rm drt shswas to “create discussions they wouldn’t have just with theirrds.”

Heckman and Ozcelik saidth amy grups ar as matto help participants branch outsocially, since socialization andnetworking are a large part o the conerence. Te conerence

includes a talent showcase, SexPower Queer dance, banquet, club

ght ad m srg t a-w partpats t saz.

Ozcelik and Heckman ex-pressed possible concern overparticipant saety while partying,but they also expressed condence

that the participants will be re-spsb.

Heckman said he hoped ther w mpwr ts par-ticipants to make a change “notnecessarily on a global scale — al-though that would be great — but thr w s.”

LGBTQ conference strivesfor more diversity this year

prssr mus, mad aussmall talk. Shirts were changedaga.

I’ r b t a shw wth-out an audience. What will they do, I wondered, i another 30 min-utes pass without anyone comingthrugh th dr? Pak up ad ghome? Addy was something o a

child star in his home country o Ghana, has toured with jazz mu-sician Wynton Marsalis and hasplayed at two presidential inaugura-

tions. Was he regretting moving toRhd Isad — whh h sad hdid or “the quiet and the beaches”?

Arrayed nervously on the stage,the Criss Cross Orchestra lookedmore like a group o tired menin various stages o mid-lie cri-ses than anything else. All o itsmembers, except or Addy, haveday jbs. S th ammbrs th rhstra wr atTursday’s perormance, while theother two had amily commitments.

I had to wonder i this orchestrawas doomed rom the start. Provi-dence is not exactly a Mecca orworld music, and the orchestra’sAro-reggae-highlie-jazz usionisn’t comparable to anything thathas come out o the city beore. And

talking with Addy — who oundedth grup 200 wth th hp AS220 artistic director Bert Crenca— I got the eeling that he is a manwh has mr s tha ss.

“When I ounded (the orches-tra),” he said, “I wanted a groupthat doesn’t discriminate and isabout learning everything that is

necessary.” He spoke o a major re-

cording session in the band’s uture— though Sullivan had never heardabout it. He mentioned a Europeantour — again, everyone in the bandhas a day job. And he promotedan upcoming documentary he isdirecting — but or which he hasno crew — about “the variety o uss r drum rhythms.” H m-pared the Criss Cross Orchestra toNigerian musician Fela Kuti. Every

Aro-usion band since beore FelaKuti was born has compared them-ss t Fa Kut.

Addy winks a lot when he talks.But the guy is inescapably

charming. “Paul!” he called to bassguitarist Paul Caraher in the middle

o our interview. “Tat woman isnaked! Put a skirt on her!” Carahergrinned guiltily and umbled to tiea skrt arud th drum.

Addy has a wide, gap-toothedsm ad a tus augh. Hexplained that the name o the band

comes rom the phrase “utu utu,”which in Ghana means “criss cross”but has connotations o “havingu, mg uturs wthut a t prssur.” A that wkg sug-gstd that h had a srt pt —maybe a plan to trick the rest o the band into thinking that no onewas mg t th shw ad th— surprs!

At the stroke o 9:30 p.m., ex-actly one hour aer the Criss CrossOrchestra was slated to perorm,an entire extended amily — aunts,uncles, cousins, grandparents, tod-drs — watzd thrugh th dr.

Addy aughd k that was thplan all along. Te orchestra startedt pay. Ty sud a t k Fa

Kut.

Modern orchestra bringsreggae-jazz to AS220 B louisa CHaee

ContributingWriter

T prrmg arts ar a amstuniversal language that can build abridge between China and the rest th wrd, As Frdma ’02told a small audience in PetterutiLug th Stph Rbrt ’62Campus Ctr Wdsday.

In 2009, Friedman created PingPong Productions — which cel-bratd ts thr-yar arsary

this past Tursday — as a way toencourage cultural exchange. Shesaid she noticed ew people werewrkg t atat ratshpsbtw Chs artsts ad thrprrmg artsts.

Drawing on a decade o experi-ence in management and dance,as w as sgat tm spt China, she decided to create thempay.

Friedman said the name is a nod

t pg-pg dpmay rm thNixon era and is pronounced thesam Chs ad Egsh. Shadded that since lie is supposed tob u, sh dd t wat a srusam r hr busss.

Calling themselves “artistic am-bassadrs,” mmbrs ths m-pany work to create lasting relation-

shps btw Chs artsts adthrs, sh sad.

Friedman said a lot o her work is putting out res and buildingbridges. People do things d ier-ently, and her company works tosoothe tempers and help perorm-rs udrstad thr uturs.

Frdma sad sh bs tharts are uniquely suited to bridg-ing the gap between China and theworld, even though not all cultures

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da.Choosing to study Chinese was

almost happenstance or Fried-man, she said. Her Washington,D.C. hgh sh rd Chs,and at 14, she decided to study thelanguage. Friedman stuck with itthrugh Brw, sh sad, but stwas t sur hw sh ud m-bine her love o dance with her loveo Chinese. “What am I doing tak-ing Chinese?” she recalled thinking.

An internship in 2001 or CNN

Bjg pd hr ys t hwsh ud mb hr tw tr-sts.

When she was not working,Friedman perormed with a dancecompany, the Living Dance Studio,and ound they had a shared cultureo modern dance. “I elt like I ound

amy,” sh td th aud.Aer that revelation, Friedman

applied or the Fulbright Fellowship

t study mdr da Cha.She wanted to know i other dancestudios were like the Living Dancestud, r t was uqu.

Aer her Fulbright unding ranout, Friedman opted to continueher work in China. One o her jobswas to help traveling companiesinteract with local perormers,she said, to acilitate a relation-ship between the companies, the

prrmrs ad th aud. Tprrmrs watd t hp th au-dience understand what was goingon so they could truly appreciateth bauty th shw, Frdmasad.

In 2005, Friedman was the pro-duction coordinator or the John F.Kdy Ctr Fsta Chain Washington, D.C., the largestestival o Chinese perormers inAmerican history. She said evencrew members backstage traded

ideas and tips on how to make ashw ru smthy.

Friedman drew on those experi-

s t hp hr ths mpay,she said. Ping Pong Productions hasbeen so successul that Friedman’sma prbm s t dg mrprojects, but hiring the support sta

t wrk thm.As a woman operating a com-

pany in China, Friedman said while

sh was dmd -thrat-g ad tratd ss aggrssy by male colleagues, it could alsobe dicult to be taken seriously.Frdma addd that hr ag wasmr a barrr tha hr gdr.She said she sometimes orgets thatshe has to play a role — namely theyoung, naive, emale oreigner —when dealing with some people Cha.

Alum uses dance as ‘artistic ambassador’

B tonya riley

StaffWriter

“Te poem is in my body, so inth prss radg t I try t

draw it out,” said Native Americanpoet Sherwin Bitsui to a crowd o about 50 at the McCormack Fam-y Tatr Tursday. T ptry reading and question and answersession that ollowed were part o the second installment o the Writ-ers on Writing series sponsored by

th Dpartmt Ltrary Arts.Bitsui has published two books

o poetry, and his list o accoladesincludes the 2011 Native Arts andCultures Foundation Artist Fel-lowship or Literature and a 2010PEN Op Bk Award.

“He is very in tune with in-

ternational concerns and has astrg mmtmt t hs atculture,” said Carolyn Wright,proessor o literary arts, whoteaches LIR 1200: “Writers onWrtg” ths smstr.

Sh sad th dpartmt dsnot oten bring writers romthe Southwest and cited Bitsui’sunique origins and its infuenceon his work as part o the deci-s t t hm t spak thsrs.

T Wrtrs Wrtg srsand the class allow students tointeract with writers whose work

they have studied, rather than thedepartment simply sponsoringuratd wrtrs, Wrght sad.

Bitsui, a Navajo o the Bitter

Water Clan, began with poetry rom his rst work “Shapeshi.”His perormance started out so-spoken, reserved and slightly umbd, but by th sd parto his poem he grew louder with asteady cadence o harder, syllabicsounds rom his native Navajoaguag.

Bitsui’s poetry, which he alsoread in English, juxtaposes theideas o nature and industry’s in-trusion into native lands. Withimagery like “gas-soaked doves”and multiple reerences to electri-cal cords, he ocuses heavily on

environmental actors such as gasad trty.

“It’s more o a sensation andless about the literal interpretation

o an image,” Bitsui said o his po-etry. “I’m more interested in howa ut ms ut ad aguaga hus a rta rgy.”

Unlike many poets, Bitsui saidhe primarily uses the computert mps.

“I like the sonic quality andhow it pops up on the screen,”h sad.

Bitsui cited Whitman andGinsberg as infuences in his writ-

g, but h sad h msty drawsrm hs Naaj tradt.

“T mtaphrs ar ry -nected to nature,” he said o the

fu Naaj aguag.Btsu sad h kps a ss

both English and Navajo language

in mind when he composes andhas learned more about the trans-atg prss s th puba-t hs rst bk.

Instead o an anthology, Bitsuisad h saw hs bk as a msa,wth hm tryg t put th pstogether like the broken shards o pttry h saw arud hs husgrwg up.

“I’m always political,” Bitsuisaid. “Everywhere I go, I’m repre-stg smthg.” H td th

extermination o native languagesad ad ad watr rghts ssusor the Navajo and other NativeAmerican tribes in Arizona as po-

litical issues refected in his work.Wh th bk dd t qut

work out like the mosaic heplanned, he said, he noticed athm fdg ad fudty his poetry. Tis appears in lineslike, “Te waters o my clans fash-

fdd / I rm th wht ts ys.”

T t radg th srsw atur pt Frrst Gadr,proessor o literary arts, Feb. 23.

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Sports Friday 4 the Brown Daily erald


B sam wiCKHam

SportSStaffWriter

Te men’s wrestling team earnedthree big home wins this pastweekend, putting the squad incontention or second place inthe Ivy League standings. Brunodatd Bst Ursty -6and Roger Williams 41-9 Saturday ad tk dw Iy ra Harard22-17 Sunday beore alling to Le-high 35-3. Te victories give theBears momentum heading intothe Eastern Intercollegiate Wres-tg Assat Champshps ary Marh.

Bru gt t a sw start 202, ag t Rutgrs ad Rdr

in early January. But decisive winsagainst Franklin & Marshall andSacred Heart, as well as an upset

victory against Princeton, have putBruno in a position to nish thesas strg dspt jurs.

“We’re kind o depleted,” saidHad Cah Da Amat. “W’rmssg tw r thr startrs, but

the people that are wrestling arestepping up and have done a great jb. Ty ha bdd as a tam,

and they wrestle hard every match.”By Wattrs ’4 ad Ophr

Bernstein ’15 won both o theirmatches Saturday to help Bruno totwo wins on the day. Ricky Baily ’12 also wrestled well, beating bothhs ppts.

But Bru’s bggst w thweekend was against Harvard,Wattrs sad.

“Everyone was saying they would beat us,” he said. “It camedown to the last two matches, andone o our guys who has been hurt,Strg H (’5) … am utand pinned (his) guy, basically with

arm. Tat was hug.”“All o these wins have been

team eorts,” Amato said. “Ourguys battd trmdusy.”

Despite success against theCrimson, Bruno could not mus-tr ugh strgth t tpp N.15 Lehigh. Watterson was the loneBar t pst a ddua try

in the loss, taking his match 10-6 in

th 25-pud wght ass.Bru w wm Cumba

Saturday beore travelling to theEIWA championships to close outthe season. A win against the Lions

wud g Bru s pssss sd pa th Iy Lagustadgs.

“I’m very proud o the wholeteam or being unselsh,” Ama-to said. “Guys have been asked

to wrestle out o weight classes,they’ve been asked to wrestlewhen injured. … Our team hasbeen through a lot the last year,and these guys have hung in there.I’m ray prud thm.”

Wrestlers pin down Crimson, fall to Lehigh

B sam sHeeHan

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As a sports columnist, I try towrite stories about people orevents in the sports world thathave slipped under the radar. Iset out this week to write aboutBrandon Roy, what he meant tothe rail Blazers, and how hisgenuinely sad retirement didn’t getthe attention it deserved because

w wr th mdd the craziest ree-agent periods o a tm. Taks, kut.

But there’s really only one story

th sprts wrd rght w.Rady Mss s mg ut

retirement! Just kidding. I mean,h s, but that’s t th bg stry.

Jeremy Lin. Te Linsane asy-lum. Te man keeping the Knicks

Lintact. Te player perormingLinception on me. Te dude whoLincludes everyone in the oense.

T guy wh ga Js CadrSpanish Linfuenza. Te pointguard makg Carm Athy a tt Lrr.

Most people who even remote-ly pay attention to sports eel pret-

ty Linormed about the sensation,but the act is that he is one o themst parzg gurs sprtsright now. He’s become the imebow o basketball. He’s prob-ably even bigger than that. He’sLinstigated a large debate abouthis skills as a basketball playerad whthr r t h a kpths pa up.

Jeremy Linhabits a specialplace in my heart that I neverthought any Knick would nd.New York basketball ans are abit Linamous or overly hypingtheir players and making a bigdeal about guys who are ultimate-ly average. Tis is not one o thoseLstas.

You can’t say enough about

how Linteresting he is. First o all, Lin is tearing down walls asone o the most impactul stars

o Asian heritage since Yao Ming.Lin act, amous boxer Floyd May-

weather is in hot water aer tweet-g that L “s a gd p ayr butall the hype is because he’s Asian.Black players do what he does ev-ry ght ad d’t gt th sampraise.” We are a country thathas a truy awu hstry wh tms t ssus ra, ad t’s ahot-button topic, to say the least.Which is maybe why it’s so amaz-ing that Lin’s race isn’t even themost Lintensely scrutinized as-pect o everyone’s avorite player.

He’s a Harvard graduate who

went undraed and spent timein the D-League. It’s a pretty Lin-sprg stry. T NBA s uqubaus th rstrs ar s sma,and with only 450 spots in thewhole league, even draees aren’tLinsured a spot. In act, pretty much the only way to get Lin-srtd t a NBA rstr ut th D-Lagu s r yur tam t

b raagd by Ljurs — kay,that’s enough Lin wordplay. Luck-ily or us, that’s exactly what hap-

pened with this Knicks team andnow we are being treated to thebest sports story in several years.

Naysayers are going to pointout that Lin is going to comerashg bak t Earth, ad t acertain extent, yes, it is likely thathe will regress rom his currentbstrg pa. Jrmy has smtrouble going to his le and hishgh turr rat s trubg.But rest assured — this guy is thereal deal. A guy who could cer-tainly be — and maybe already is — an NBA star and, at the very worst, will end up a solid sixth

man or many years to come. Withthe skills, basketball IQ, unfap-pability and gritty determinationh’s shw thus ar, that’s th ab-sut wrst I s hm dg.

Nw, tm r th phat the room about Lin’s meteoricrs.

his seven-game winningstreak that the Knicks are current-

ly on happened with alpha dogCarmelo on the bench. Tey wereas wthut Amar’ Studmror much o this win-streak. Tose

two players command nearly athrd th tam’s saary ah. I th tw rtur t th urt wthLin, and things go poorly, someconclusions are going to be drawnabut th utur ths ub adwhthr th stars ar dd. Iah gam whr L has paydmore than 30 minutes, he’s scoredat least 20 points and tallied sevenasssts. I Wdsday’s w rthe Kings, he averaged an assistevery two minutes. Is it really thatrazy t say that Carm has tgure out how to play with Linmore than Lin needs to includeCarm?

Yeah, probably. We are stilldealing with a seven-game sample

here, but you can at least make

that argument now. It’s just mind-boggling. Knicks ans love Car-m. T pr sts th at

that he was voted into the All-Star game as a starter this yeardespite currently shooting under.400 rom the foor and .300 romdowntown. It’s tough to make theas that h wud st b thAll-Star Game i he wasn’t beloved

by one o the most caring and a-natical anbases in the NBA. Apol-ogies to Kyrie Irving and Brandon

Jennings that you both play pointguard. Also, sorry to Pau Gasolad Rudy Gay r payg thWest. Seeing Roy Hibbert makethe East squad must have beentugh r yu.

T at that th sptght hasbeen yanked rom New York’sgo-to guy this quickly is not only mprbab, but I dd’t thk twas possible. Linsanity is aboutt gt a hathy ds Carmadded to it, and it’s not Jeremy wh shud b wrrd abut t.

Am I just a jaus Cts awho loves Lin and is trying to i g-nore his own train wreck o team?Most denitely. I also think I’mright though. Te acts are that the

Knicks have a winning percent-age o under .500 with CarmeloAnthony on the court but haven’tst wh Jrmy L starts. Yugotta play nice with Jeremy, Melo.I you do, the Knicks become atough team to out in the playos.

I you don’t, you make the anspick between you and Lin. Andyu d’t wat that.

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Hlpern ’13, Mtt Sullivn ’13

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Lin in the Pitz, he ws 1-6 with

ive pints. Tlks sprts with

him t sm_sheehn@brwn.

edu r llw him n Twitter @

SmSheehn.

Killer Linstinct: The onslaught of Linsanity

Tm Sullivn / Herld

The men’s wrestling tem upset Hrvrd lst Sundy 22-17 nd will ce Clumbi t hme this Sturdy.

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B lewis Pollis

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JJ Franco ’14 spent much o his

childhood in Shea Stadium, watch-ing his ather, John Franco P’14 —who will be inducted into the New

York Mets Hall o Fame this sum-mer — pitch or the Mets. ToughBrown’s Murray Stadium may notbe as glamorous as the stadium hegrew up in, JJ is making a name orhimsel here as the starting second

basma r th Bars.“I was kind o born into it,”

said JJ, whose ather had a 21-yearMajor League Baseball career asa r pthr wth th Mts, thCincinnati Reds and the HoustonAstros. His 424 career saves are the

urth-mst MLB hstry, adthe Mets announced last monththat he would be enshrined in thetam Ha Fam Ju 3.

Wathg basba was awaysgg t b part JJ’s , but hsaid his ather never pressured him

t pay th sprt. “My dad sad Icould do or be whatever I want tob,” h sad.

But JJ loved sports rom ayug ag, ad hs athr’s fu-ence instilled in him a passionor baseball. “Constantly beingaround that atmosphere … it wasamst k t was’t a h,” hsad.

John came to as many o hisson’s games as he could, and JJsaid he remembers the car rideswth hs dad mr tha h rasth gams thmss. E ar

John tore his Achilles tendon inNovember 2011, he still threw bat-

ting practice to JJ while wearinga bt.

Hag a basba payr r adad as had thr prks. “I bas-cally grew up in Shea Stadium,”JJ said. Until he began playingin travel leagues that required agratr tm mmtmt, t wasas though every day was “bringyur s t wrk day,” JJ sad.

Wh shadwg hs athr, JJwas able to take batting practice on

the eld and eld ground balls hitby Mts ahs. H gt t kwhis ather’s teammates and spent at tm wth hs athr’s wr pthrs.

He became closest to pitcher Al

Leiter, whose locker was next toJohn’s and also got to know several

outelders quite well, especially C Fyd, Jay Payt ad MkCameron through shagging fieswith them. “I denitely knew that I

was in a very small group o kids”to have this type o opportunity,h sad.

Jh sad that hs s t rght wth th tam, ad that hs -low players were happy to haveteammates’ kids around. “We’rea amy,” h sad.

Te opportunity was not wast-ed on JJ — he took ul l advantage th psur h gt t prs-

sa basba ad th ad hreceived rom Mets coaches, Johnsaid. “He was like a sponge, and tothis day, he’s like a sponge,” he said.“He’s a bright student o the game.”

JJ said he hopes to be draedand to sign with an MLB teamaer he graduates. It would not

be the rst time — in 2010, a-

ter he had already committed toBrown, the Mets picked him in the

47th rud th amatur dra.Tough he decided to go to col-g, th day h ud ut h wasdraed was “a very satisying day,”h sad.

“I think he’s got a bright uture,”

John said. “We’re very proud o hs ampshmts,” h addd,pointing to his son’s mental andphysical development, as well ashis improvements hitting anddg.

Tough ather and son havespent a lot o time with each other

th damd, thy ha rary been in competition. Te only timeJohn has pitched to JJ as though he

was actually playing in a game waswh JJ was 4. Jh, hs rstyar rtrmt, was ahghis son’s summer league team and day agrd t pth srusy t ah payr th tam.

JJ used his knowledge o hisather’s pitching style to his ad-

vantage. John was best known orthrowing a circle change-up, but JJwas looking or something else. “Ikw hs rst pth was gg tb a astba,” h sad. H gussdrrty ad gt a bas ht.

“He knows exactly how my ballms,” Jh sad.

oday, John “could probably get

hm ut rm 40 t. I I had tg rm 60 t, I’d b trub.”

Franco ’14 inspired by major league lineage

conduct electrons without any re-sistance. For years, scientists suchas Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg

and Albert Einstein attemptedto explain this strange physicalprss ad ad.

“Fortunately, I was unawareo these many unsuccessul at-tempts,” Cooper wrote in hismemoir, “Remembrance o Su-perconductivity Past.” In 1957,Cooper developed the irst mi-croscopic theory or explainingsuperconductivity, working withellow physicists John Bardeenand Robert Schrieer. Cooper

joined the Brown aculty in 1958.“I like it here,” Cooper said

wth a satsd d, kg utth wdw hs sth rBarus ad Hy .

Ater becoming a membero the aculty, Cooper was ap-pointed the director o the Centeror Neural Science. In 1981, hehelped to develop BCM, a the-ry that mds hw mmry screated and stored in the brain.Namd hr ts prpainvestigators — Elie Bienenstock,Cooper and Paul Munro — thetheory addresses neurons and thesynapses that allow them to com-

muat wth ah thr.Cpr’s thry s that mm-

ory is a unction o the relativestrgth r wakss th sy-aptic connections. A strong post-synaptic depolarization would in-

crease synaptic strength, whilea weak depolarization woulddecrease synaptic strength. enyars atr BCM thry was d-

veloped, Mark Bear, then a proes-

sor at Brown, proved this hypoth-ss thrugh prmtat.

Bear and Cooper’s researchtus tday. hy ha sub-mitted a paper or publication

that details what has happenedwith BCM over the past 30 years.I addt, Cpr ad hs -leagues are currently working

with scientists rom New York

and Geneva, attempting to tie thetheories o BCM to the ideas o “spike time-dependent plasticity,”Cooper said, or to the idea thatthe brain rewires based on thestrength and timing o intercel-uar mmuat.

We are “trying to tie the wholethg tgthr wth th udry-ing physiology o the cel l,” Cooper

addd.At the same time, the sel-pro-

claimed wanderer has developed a

new interest: radiation. Many sci-tsts b that smadss, radat a b harmu,

but Cooper does not think this isssary tru.

“We live in a sea o radiation,”Cooper said, adding that theremay b a thrshd bw whhradiation does not cause lastingdamag.

In pilot experiments with Dro-

sophila ruit lies, C ooper’s teamhas ound that though the liessustain some damage ater twodays o low-level radiation, cel-lular mechanisms kick in ater0 days t rpar t.

“We share two-thirds o therut y DNA, s t aws us tthk abut hw radat s a-

tg humas,” Cpr sad.Cooper encourages students

to challenge him and ask dii-cult questions. “I love teachingundergraduates,” he s aid. “Gradu-

ate students already know all thethrs ad das. It’s a w tundergraduates, so they still ques-

tion some o the basic conceptsgraduat studts just apt.”

Back in the classroom, one boy raised his hand. “I was wondering

why the world spins on its axis?”h askd.

Cpr std thr r a m-mt, thught.

“Well, love makes the worldgo round,” he said, unable to stopa wry smile rom litting acrosshs a.

Prof: ‘We live in asea of radiation’

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Editorial misrepresents voter fraudTo the Editor:

he Brown Republicans are stunned and dis-mayed by the inaccuracies present in uesday’seditorial (“Remnants o Jim Crow,” Feb. 14). In thecurrent system, voting requires nothing more thana signature, with absolutely no means to ensure vot-rs ar wh thy say thy ar. hs aws ayto vote while claiming to be someone else. Voterraud s ra, ad t s prsy ths raty that hasled 30 states to consider voter identiication lawsths yar a.

he obvious irst step to eliminating voter raud

is to require identiication. his upholds our demo-cratic principle o one person, one vote — protect-g ur dtts as trs ad prtg ayrom stealing our right to vote. o the apparentbeuddlement o he Herald’s editorial sta, this

policy o voter identiication is not intended todeter voters but rather to uphold the integrity o ur tra prss.

ID cards are distributed by state governmentsto their citizens regardless o race. Why, then, isit discriminatory to require ID to vote? IDs arerequired or driving, purchasing alcohol, air travel,taking the SA, entering a government buildingad rgstrg r sh. h argumt that thmr rqurmt ID r ay ths ats sracist is absurd. Similarly, requiring ID to vote iscommonsense, not discr iminatory. We are proudto say that the Republican Party is on the right side

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Cc zc t IyDat, a w wbst that haratrzs ts as“the Ivy League o dating” and claims to eature an admissions process“smar t hw Brw admts ts studts.” B aru, thugh — you join under the site’s “early decision” option, you could end upmmttd r .

A diamond to Johnson and Wales University, which announcedarr ths wk that t w ras ts utary trbuts t$6.4 m r th t dad, wth th pssbty prdgthe city $5 million more in coming years. Don’t tell Mayor Angelaras, but th uar y sh’s addta trbuts w takth rm ss.

C t Udrgraduat Cu Studts Prsdt Raada N-

s ’2, wh ad th ad sttuta amdmt t g thcouncil more control o its own unding an “on the ground, learning‘ps.’” Suds k yu shud ha tak t S/NC.

A diamond to Michael Clinton, a senior recruiter or the advertisingagy H Hday, wh sad that Brw studts ar adpt at ar-ticulating why their past experiences have prepared them or a careerin marketing. Similarly, POLS 1510: “Great Powers and Empires” hasprpard us r a arr wrd dmat.

Cubic zirconia to Proessor o Orthopaedics Arnold-Peter Weiss, who

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A diamond to students who long or more rom their concentrationadvisers. As Associate Dean o the College or Research BeseniaRodriguez said, “Concentration advisers can come and go.” Here’ssmthg that w ast rr.

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Ad t’s t rgt th bus dta thatmakg drugs ga ds’t gt rd drugs.Outawg thm smpy rats a trmy urat bak markt, s rma gagsdr th us rght t da. T prt-abty sg ga drugs ats k a mag-t that uprts hudrds thusads ts rm thr mmuts ry yar adurs thm t a rm. Ad th - ratd by ur drug aws s rtay t try tad wth ur brdrs.

Drug arts Lat Amra, ud by ur

gus ad ur my, ha murdrd thu-sads t pp ad tu t d-stabz th rg thr qust t suppy ur dmad r ga drugs.

s th prbm, ur grmtds ut mr yur hard-ard ash

th rm “ad” — that s, wapry ad mbat trag — t ths utrs,abg th U.S. t ght a pry war, thusprtg th trats ratd by thsthrg dustry .

E w w ths war drugs, t stdmstrats what hyprts w ray ar.Tk abut t r a sd — what brty smr udamta tha th rght t prad prmt wth ’s w sus-ss? I, wh udr th fu drugs,I sta a ar r assaut sm, I’m gg tb pushd r that wrgdg rgardss.What, th, ar th gruds r makg drugus ts a rm? I th g s that t’s thstat’s duty t shap th mra sus adwrdw ts tzry — w th, h,4.

I wat t supprt Prsdt Obama, butas g as h tus t ab ths atr-ts, h’s a ward my bk. Ad thsssu Rpubas ray dspay thr tatr dubspak — I thught sratskd ddua rdm, sma grmtad sa rspsbty? As w st t rt-sm grmts k Syra r atg t ad prsutry ampags agastts w tzs, w ught t paus ad r-ft ur w rms agast humaty.

Jred Mft ’13 is philsphy cncen-trtr rm Jcksn, Miss. He cn be cn-

tcted t [email protected].

U.S. drug policies are a crime against humanity

our drug lws, nd the institutins tht crry ut the

intent thse lws, cnstitute nthing less thn

cmpign er, crruptin, vilence nd mind-cntrl

— it is wr ter ll.

Csul sex is rpe. … all sex is rpe.

BY JaRED MoFFaTopinions editor

BY DaVID HEFERopinions Columnist



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Science Friday


B niCole graBel

Contributing Writer

At a recent conerence sponsored

by Rhd Isad’s Famy Curt,James Greer, clinical assistantproessor o psychiatry and hu-man behavior, and social workerRobert Hagberg, spoke about how

trauma can aect the brains o yug hdr.

Epsur t trauma hd-hood can actually inluence theway in which the developingbra s wrd, Grr sad. “Cr-ta aras th bra whh armore related to language, ratio-nal thought and analytical think-ing … those areas are relatively underdeveloped in the brains

o children who experiencedtrauma.”

his is because when a child isin a dangerous situation that callsr quk at, takg th tmt thk aruy ad ratay could actually be a disadvantage.he brain instead develops in a

way that is more responsive tohgh-strss stuats.

But this means when the childis in a non-traumatic situation,

the brain responds in the samereactionary way, which is otenmastd as msbhar. Adwhile trauma is not always thecause o misbehavior — in act,there are many cases in whichother actors are responsible —the link between the two is “ir-rutab,” Hagbrg sad.

h prbm wth tradtatratmts k psyhthrapy sthat young children oten don’tha ar mmrs thr -periences, so it is hard to discussthem, Greer said. And becausea lot o them develop language

disorders, talking will not getthem very ar. For this reason,psychotherapy and other meth-ods, such as behavioral therapy ad mdat, “a b hpu,but not a solution, to the prob-m,” Grr s ad.

Greer and Hagberg argued that

physa thqus, suh as -cupational therapy and sensory integration approaches, are moret tratmts.

“rauma lives in the body,”Hagberg said. o get to thattrauma, physa trt srequired. “We need to lo ok at in-trg drt ways thaw ha br,” h sad.

Hagberg and Greer are bothinvolved in the Mind and Body Project, an initiative based on thebelie that the brain cannot behealed without healing the body.h prjt rs thqussuh as yga t prmt rawss.

Greer and Hagberg said theeects o trauma on children can-

not always be completely washedaway but added that they are opti-

mistic in believing their methodsa hp.

“he hard-wiring is never go-ing to go away,” Greer said, but“we can help them change thetrajtry thr s.”

Conference explores effects of early trauma

B sanDra yan

StaffWriter

On a day most people rememberor the birth o Abraham Lincoln,a smaller group celebrated thebrth Chars Darw, authro the seminal 1859 work “On theOrg Sps.”

o commemorate Darwin Day,

the Brown Atheists, Skeptics andHumasts shwd “Crat,” am dtag Dar w’s struggsto write his amous book on evo-ut.

Prssr Bgy KthMiller ’70 P’02 has been i nvolved

in this debate or decades, eversince he irst debated Henry Mor-rs — th rmst ratst atthe time — on Brown’s campus in. Mr sad h apts -lution and thinks there is over-whelming evidence in support o the theory. But he acknowledgedthat people oten reject evolutionbaus thy thk t hagstheir religious belies — though as

a practicing Catholic, Miller saidh bs “ath ad ras arbth gts rm Gd.”

“I we are to accept reason,we should accept s cience,” Millersad.

In a recent blog post or theHugt Pst, Mr wrt his dismay over the “slandering o science” in the current presiden-tial debates. Miller pointed to JonHuntsman’s quick exit rom therace ater publicly stating he sup-ported science and also cited Rick

Perry’s speech in which he saidscientists were primarily drivenby grd r my t ud pr-sa rsarh prjts.

Miller has seen his air share rtsm as w. As a authro a textbook widely used in highshs thrughut th utry,

h sad that warg abs wrattached to his textbook in aschool district in Georgia because

ts haptr ut.“Our textbook has been wide-

ly criticized, and I take that as

a badge o pride,” he said. o

mpr pub p, h sug-gested getting better instructivematerial into schools and advo-cated political involvement by ststs.

“We as a scientiic community ought to be more involved in pub-

utrah,” h sad.Mr sad h bs ap-

tance o evolution is “very, very high” among Brown students butadded that he occasionally en-counters students with questionsabut hw ut prtas ttheir aith. But he said i studentsudrstad th d, hs jb

“is not to compel belie.” Instead,it is “to promote understanding,”h sad. “Ad that usuay mak sstudts ra.”

Henry Bodah, associate Uni- versity chaplain or the RomanCatholic community, said mostaiths today agree that there isno incompatibility between aithand science. Some Christians,especially undamentalists, takethe Bible to be the literal word o God and have “decided that theonly way to be loyal to the idea o God’s word is to say that it has tobe literally true, and so thereore,s must b wrg.”

Studts ha drg p-s th ag-d dbat.

“I think science and religion go

hand-in-hand, and you don’t need

to debate one with the other,” saidRba Mdsh ’4.

Evolution could have been atool God used to create mankind,she said, adding “I think the worldis too perect to have been cre-ated by an accidental collision atms.”

Others, such as Billy Shinevar’15, think evolution is “deinitely true.” He said a lot o people whodo not believe in evolution do not

really understand the theory andrsmpy t.

“I know a lot o people whotake (the Bible) more symboli-cally,” he said, “and they’re still wth ut.”

Darwin Day embraced by skeptics and believers alike

B alissa HaDDaJi

ContributingWriter

udrstad th squso global uranium trade in Arica,

th trat trat btwpolitical lobbying, governmentad huma trsts must b -plored, said Gabrielle Hecht, pro-essor o history at the University o Michigan, in a lecture hosted by the science and technology studies

prgram Tursday.Te presentation — held in

Smith-Buonanno 106 — waspart o the program’s lecture se-ries “Nothing Can Go Wrong: Re-thinking Nuclear Energy in the21st Century” and introducedthemes rom Hecht’s orthcomingbook, “Being Nuclear: Aricans

ad th Gba Uraum rad.”Hecht introduced the question

o what “nuclear” means today.Tere is still a tendency to reerto nuclear energy rom a perspec-t “uar ptasm,”she said, an expression that comesrom World War II, when nuclearweapons were presented as theutmat ad ds sut tending the war. Hecht emphasized

the importance o dening “nucle-

ar” t y thrugh ts pstdenition, but as a global concept— a sur rgy as w as apotential source o tracking andhath rs.

Tere is a popular belie thaturanium in Arica is directly linked to bomb production inIraq, Hht sad, addg that A-rica is still considered “the dark mysterious continent.” Her re-search and book sheds light onthe history o the uranium market.

From her visits to mines in Ga-bon to her expertise on Niger andFrench activities in the region,Hecht said the consequences o

uranium extraction in mines havet b amd rm a arty ags. Sh sad th tp shudbe examined rom historical, geo-graphical and political perspec-tives and also addressed as “anepistemology question — how dow kw what w kw?”

Hht sad sh takd drty with miners aected by long expo-

sure to dust rom Gabon uraniummines as part o her research. Oneminer exhibited respiratory symp-

toms and atigue rom his work inthe mines, she said, adding thatthere is no ocial governmentrecord documenting this problem.

She has also ocused part o her research on Rossing UraniumMine in Namibia, which can beseen as “the most controversialmine in this world,” she said. Andthe problem is ar rom beingsd, sh addd.

“Te most dicult part or the victims o uranium exposure ist pr that thr symptms ar

drty ratd t th wrk thy were doing in those mines,” Hechtsaid. Due to this diculty, workersdo not receive any compensation.

Hecht also discussed the politi-

cal implications linked to uraniumtrat.

“Since 2004, the uranium minenumber exploded in Namibia,”Hecht said. Problems that stemrm uraum trat ar d-rectly related to human behaviors,industrial interests and politicallobbying. Since the creation o th Itrata Atm Ergy Agency in 1957, the denitiono uranium has changed severaltimes, leading to changes in therguat ts prdut.

“In 1972, uranium (was) o-cially excluded rom the list o nuclear material rom the (energy agency) aer South Arica actively

lobbied or its exclusion,” Hechtsad. Ts hag d t grwgtrat uraum du t r-dud rguats.

Lecture tackles global uranium trade

Beth Mttel / Herld

afric’s urnium miners get no compenstion for work-relted helth problems,

sid Gbrielle Hecht in lecture n the glbl urnium trde lst night.

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