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A ma sphmr wh dt-s as gay trasrrd ut Sars

House in response to a homophobicremark written on the whiteboard th rt hr dr. T stu-dent, who asked that her name notbe used, said she saw the commentwhen she woke up the morning o Sept. 24. Te comment read “OMG

IM SO HAPPY YOU CAME OUOF HE CLOSE, GAY PARay.”

Tough the student said she has

experienced some homophobia o campus, she said she had not comeacross much antagonism romBrw studts ut ast mth’sdt.

Aer the student emailed her

Community Assistant, the Depart-mt Pub Saty ad th O-ce o Residential Lie got involvedto help investigate the incident andprovide support. A dean called and

mad th studt t r tm-prary rsds ut sh udm t a drt drm.

Te identity o the student whowrote on the whiteboard is stillukw.

Students writing oensive state-

ments on whiteboards is not a newproblem, said Margaret Klawunn, prsdt r ampus adstudt srs.

“Usually it’s an unpleasant or

biased or discriminatory state-

mt, ad thy a d t a way where they’re not identied witht,” sh sad. “It’s wardy, ad t’scounter to the values that we try

to promote, but unortunately it

ds happ rm tm t tm.”he student said she thinks

comments such as the one written hr dr ar basd a sso entitlement. “Tat just made me k thy wr aughg at mand laughing at my identity, whichis not something I really want to

,” sh sad.Te comment alls under O-

s IV Brw’s Cd C-duct, which states that studentsmust not subject another person

r grup t “abus, thratg,intimidating or harassing actions,including, but not limited to those

based on race, religion, gender,disability, age, economic status,ethnicity, national origin, sexual

orientation, gender identity orgdr prss.”

I the student responsible iscaught, he or she will ace non-academic disciplinary charges, said

Natalie Basil, associate director o ResLie. Te severity and nature

th pushmt wud dpdup th sats th studt shargd wth, ad subsqut d-terminations by ocers hearing

th as.Bas attrbuts th majrty

whiteboard vandalism to poor de-

s-makg wh studts ar

tatd. Wh may studtsare open-minded and progressive,their judgment and rationalizationmight be impaired while underth fu ah, sh sad.

It is not clear whether alcohol wasd ths sp stuat.

Te LGBQ Resource Centers sdrg rgazg a m-munity program in response tothis situation, said Kelly Garrett,rdatr th tr.

While bias-related incidentsd ur ampus, Garrtt sadsuch displays o discrimination arenot requent. “I don’t want to painta ry rsy ptur, but I thk we’re very lucky here,” she said.“Mst Brw studts au sup-prtg LGBQ studts.”

Garrtt sad may studts d

not understand the consequenc-es o actions they may think are

harmless or unny. She said shethinks this problem can be im-proved with the help o individualand community education. “Stu-

dts d thgs wthut thkgsometimes,” she said. “Individualshave the right to their opinions,but it’s when they do something

to harm others that it becomesprbmat.”

Te LGBQ Resource Center

oers support or students acedwith homophobia. “We want peo-p t sk ut that supprt,” Gar-rett said. “We don’t want people to

sur s .”

Homophobic scrawl spurs room change

great-grandparents were slaves.Te daughter o sharecroppers,Simmons said the discovery madeth at ag Brw’s rat-shp wth sary “udamtay mr trstg.”

But she said the project did notdene her presidency — that ideahas b mpsd by thrs.

“I I were white, people prob-ably wouldn’t even mention that in

connection with my presidency,”

she said. “I’m very open-eyedabut ths.”

Pp apprah hr d-erently because o her race orgender, she said. Sometimes she

examines her male presidentialcounterparts, wondering what it

s k “t b that spa.”

“Te experiences I’ve had —sury rd by th at that I’ma woman and Arican-American —

have been antastic ,” she said. “I’mpretty happy with my lie, and I’mpretty happy with what I’m able toexperience. But I do get that senseo ‘what would it be like’ i none o that were in play. I’ll never know.”

Wm utsd th Ur-sity call Simmons’ example inspir-

ing. Rep. Karen Bass, D-Cali., andJa Gats, prst ad aadm

vice president o Western Con-necticut State University, bothidentied Simmons as someone

who opened new paths or women r.

Bass said Simmons opened thedoor or all colored women to en-ter academia, while Gates called

Smms’ prsdy “ th

most amazing accomplishments hghr duat.”

Smms s a mprtat rmodel, Gates added. Her presi-dency “reinorces the possibility o what can happen not only inmy lie, but in the lives o other

yug wm ad yug wm r r ay thr udrrpr-std grup ths utry.”

But Simmons disagrees with

that thry.“Te idea is because you are

black, or because you are a woman,you oer a special inspiration topeople because they are women

and because they are black,” shesaid. “And I guess I don’t believein that because all o my lie, I have

been inspired by people who are sodissimilar to me. I don’t buy it.” She

cited Aaron Lemonick — a ormerdean o the aculty at Princeton

who was a white Jewish male — asher most infuential mentor. Shead hm “bg ad bustry adaggrss,” sm sh atuay ard.

Despite these dierences, shecredits Lemonick’s infuence as the

reason she became a university prsdt.

“It’s nding that shared per-spt that w urag yu,inspire you, make you eel like a

human being,” she said. “So I hopethat people don’t treat me like a

role model because they think there’s something supercial likerace or gender that binds us to-

gthr.”

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Uvy? Strongly arove: 41.1%

Somwhat approv: 31.4%Somwhat isapprov: 11.4%Strongy isapprov: 6.9%Not amiiar nough to answr:7.4%No opinion: 1.7%

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Strongy satis: 3.4%Somwhat satis: 8.6%Somwhat issatis: 12.0%Strongy issatis: 16.6%Not failiar enough to answer: 37.7%

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Strongy satis: 4.6%Somwhat satis: 14.3%Somwhat issatis: 18.9%Strongy issatis: 10.9%Not failiar enough to an

swer: 31.4%No opinion: 20.0%

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Fwr than 5 yars: 12.0%510 yars: 16.6%Until I retire: 44.0%

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H much yu k m yu h g? pk m m m-cumg (1) m-cumg (5).

M m-cumg:

Teaching (including retie, grading, etc.): 44.0%

Rsarch: 42.3%Grant writing: 10.9%Govrnanc (srving on committs, tc.): 7.4%Avising (incuing ochours: 8.6%

l m-cumg:

Taching (incuing prp tim,graing, tc.): 5.1%Rsarch: 7.4%Grant writing: 34.9%

Govrnanc (srving on committs, tc.): 22.9%Avising (incuing ochours: 8.6%

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science and social science teach-

ers. In the humanities, 67.8 percentstated they spend most o their time

teaching, compared to 31.5 percentand 34.1 percent in the science andsa ss, rspty.

O ths tur trak — as-sistant proessors, associate proes-sors and proessors — 39 percentspd mst thr tm tahg,compared to 81 percent o those

t th tur trak. Frty-s-en percent o tenure-track aculty

mmbrs spd mst thr tmresearching. O those not on thetenure track, only 9.5 percent statedthat thy spd mst thr tm rsarh.

Members o the science ac-

uty ar th kst t spd tmwriting grants, with 15.1 percent

stating it takes most o their timeand 24.7 percent stating it is their

second-largest priority. Humanitiesauty mmbrs ar mst ky tb d auty gra,with 30.5 percent indicating serving

mmtts s thr rst r s-d prrty. Sa s auty members spend most time advising— 12.2 percent stated advising is

thr ma atty, wh 2.3 pr-cent reported it was their secondhghst prrty.

A total o 59.4 percent statedthat they approve o the Univer-

sity’s revised tenure process, with19.4 percent stating they strongly

approve and 40 percent stating they somewhat do. wenty-nine percentdisapprove o the new process, with13.7 percent stating they somewhatdisapprove and 14.9 percent that

thy strgy dsappr.Sixty-ve percent o tenured

prssrs appr th w t-ur prss. O uturd auty,46.3 percent stated approval, and

24.1 percent stated they are notamiliar enough to answer. About

76 prt sa s auty mmbrs appr th w pr-

cedure, compared to 57.5 percent s auty ad 50. prt humats auty.

he tenure revisions — ap-proved by aculty vote last spring— hagd hw ttrs supprtar rwd ad atrd th tm-line or when junior aculty comeup r tur rw.

While 37.7 percent stated they

ar t amar wth hdar r-sources available to aculty, 28.6percent expressed some level o dis-satsat. w prt statdthey are “somewhat dissatised”with childcare resources, while 16.6percent are “strongly dissatised.” Atta 2 prt prssd sats-at.

Fiy-two percent stated thatchanges made under the Plan or

Academic Enrichment — a cor-nerstone o Simmons’ presidency

— have improved the quality o un-drgraduat aadms, mpardto 10.9 percent who think it haswrd th quaty aadms.

A majrty auty mmbrsstatd that rst-yars ar prpardor Brown academics, with 30.9percent stating students are “very

prepared” and 47.4 percent stat-g thy ar “smwhat prpard.”

Eighty-six percent o humanities

aculty members nd students pre-pared, while 78 percent o social

s auty ad 7.3 prt science aculty do. But 14.6 percento social science aculty indicated

thy thk studts ar udrpr-pared, compared to 13.7 percent o s auty ad . prt humats.

Sty- prt th auty approve o the Corporation’s gov-ra th Ursty, wth 6percent expressing strong approvaland 44.6 percent stating they some-what approve. Seventeen percent

stated they are not amiliar enought aswr th qust.

Sixty-one percent o aculty members approve o the Faculty Executive Committee’s execution ts jb, wh 2.7 prt statd

thy ar t amar ugh wththe committee. Tose who haveworked at the University longerare more likely to approve o the

FEC — ths wh ha wrkdat the University longer than 20years, 71.8 percent approve o the

committee, compared to 41 percento those who have been here ve

yars r wr.A majrty auty mmbrs

also stated the level o student activ-ism has decreased since they were in

college — 57.7 percent think activ-ism has declined, while 14.8 percentthink it has increased. O those who

have worked at the University 20

r mr yars, 2.6 prt statdt has dd.

Tirty percent o aculty ex-pressed dissatisaction with spousesupport, while 18.9 percent o acul-ty members stated they are satised.

Tirty-one percent indicated they

ar t amar ugh t aswr.Forty-our percent o aculty

anticipate working at Brown untilretirement, while 16.6 percent statedthey will stay or ve to 10 more

years and 12 percent plan to stay

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c. 7. y fcy h “ch,v c h g-at studnts” wr invitd to rspond.T h 6.6 c g f rror wit 95 prcnt confdnc. Tmargin o rror or t subst o malsis 8.0 prcnt and 12.0 prcnt or tsubst o mals. T margin o rror is 11.3 prcnt or t subst o aculty fcg h h, 10.5 -cnt or t subst o aculty ocusing in

scinc and 14 prcnt or t subst o fcy fcg c cc. Tg f 9.0 c f hsubst o ull prossors and 6.7 prcnt

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smp p s m- gpc sm Uvstacing aculty population as a wol.T sampl was 68.6 prcnt mal and

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to paid service has ensured a ull

sta, Willner said. wo teams work ah sh, pt rm 0:5 p.m.to 11 p.m. — the service’s busiesttime — when two shis overlap and

eight Saewalkers are on the streets.Tough some students may eel

that Saewalk is usually used only

when walkers have riends on duty,Saewalker Adaeze Nwakobi ’14said that is not the reality. “Most o th pp that w wak, I’ rs thm my ,” sh sad.

But t a studts s th sr- vice as an essential component o

campus saety. On Monday at 12:45a.m., Na Nssm ’3 ad GdLsh ’2 wr amg thswho turned down a Saewalk o-

r as thy wakd hm rm thSciences Library. Nessim said i shewere alone, she might have accepted

but not because she would have eltunsae. “I think it’s a un way to getrm pt A t pt B,” sh sad.“For me personally, I don’t nd(Sawak) ssary t b sa.”

O Sawak’s gratst attr-

butes is its ability to mitigate dangerwithout rightening students, Will-ner said. “We don’t want to scare

people into being sae,” she said.“We’d rather do that in a positive

way, s stad hag mr -rs ad sura, w’d rathrdpd thr studts.”

Te program has come a long

way rom its inception in 1988,when it was established as a vol-

unteer program to protect women’ssaety on campus. Now, the serviceis a paying campus job that works to

mak a wakrs sa at ght,Wr sad.

Besides providing an extra seto saety monitors or DPS on cam-pus, Saewalkers make students eelmore comortable through either

their companionship or their pres-ence, Macarlane said. “Even i they brush us o,” he said, “In their head,

they see two people with yellow vests on, and they’re reminded thatthy ar a ty, ad thy shudbe aware o their surroundings atght.”

sh sad.Caadas as hd drt

cultural attitudes towards alcohol.

Because Canadians can legally purchase alcohol at 18, “mostyoung people make their mistakesearlier, which does have an im-pact on the general maturity,” saidNick Shulman ’14 o Montreal.

In America, students who have

never had experience with socialdrinking are just “going wild withpprtuty,” h sad.

Bg dcs

Cultural dierences extendpast social lie. Most Canadian

students choose a program o study beore entering college,

which does not allow or the s amedegree o reedom as Americangs, studts sad.

But Canadian schools are

ree and generally easier to ap-ply to than American ones, which

means the decision to come to

Amra r g s a dbr-at h.

Many Canadian students boasto hanging a national lag in theirrms, but t a ur gh-brs t th rth pa t rturhm atr graduat. Studtssaid they would go wherever jobstak thm atr Brw.

Halpern is applying to theone law school in Canada, theUniversity o oronto, and many aw shs th U.S., but dsnot eel attached to one or thethr, sh sad.

Jack Maclellan ’12, who hopesto play proessional hockey whenh graduats, sad h wud t

mind ending up in the U.S. “hey ha grw m,” h sad.

Some students, like Anna Rot-ma ’, mr pu t rtur

home. She said she will deinitely g bak t Mtra.

hey certainly do not all say

“eh” or love im Hortons, butat least one stereotype appearsto hold true at Brown — about

ha th wm’s hky tamand nearly one-third o the men’s

hky tam has rm Caada.

— A g byzbh Kh

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“It’s a unny catgoryo intrnationa stu

nt.”

Innessa Colaiacovo ’12

Prim Ministr o thCanaian Socity at

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C O M I C S

ets students who are continuing

their research aer graduation, said

Stpha Obdda, assstat ma-agr mmuats ad m-puter education. All documents,emails and inormation remain with

th aut.Lietime email will improve

alumni relations as well, Andrews

wrt. Udr th prus systm,the University lost contact withsome alums because it did not havean active email address on le, he

wrt.Te Undergraduate Council o

Students passed a resolution Sept. 26

supprt tm ma, whh

marked a signicant step toward the

implementation o the project. CISis currently handling conversion orth ass 20. By th bgg

early 2012, the 20,000 alums whourrty us th ma rwardgservice will be transerred to theaum.brw.du dma as w.Class o 2012 accounts, and those

o all uture classes, will be trans-erred in the September ollowing

th Cmmmt ah ass.Dspt th utur bts, -

time email has encountered logisti-cal problems in its implementationstag. “T prgrammg t brgabout the lietime email service hasb ry mpatd ad has r-quired CIS to put in many, many

hours o programming and trouble-shtg,” Adrws wrt.

“Tere is a slight distinctionbetween what UCS initially asked

or and what CIS was able to de-liver,” said John Spadaro, director

o technical architecture and out-

reach. UCS wanted students tomaintain the exact addresses o their brown.edu accounts orever,but concerns rose about how theUniversity would distinguish be-

tw urrt studts ad aums.o solve the problem, alumni ac-

uts w b dstgushd by thalumni.brown.edu domain name.I someone tries to contact an alumat thr d brw.du addrss, aautomatic email response will indi-

at th addrss has b mddt aum.brw.du.

Another problem arose withgraduates who remain directly a-

liated with the University, either asgraduat studts r sta. Bausthese individuals are both alumsand current University community mmbrs, thr dma pamtremains ambiguous. Spadaro reersto these individuals, who representapproximately 10 percent o each

class, as “edge cases.” Te transitionto alumni.brown.edu is currently

t s ar-ut r ths auts.CIS is still working to nd an

automated solution to the problem,but Spadar sad h s dt CIS’s ability to ace these challenges.

“We’re plumbers,” he said. “We justmak t wrk.”

T prjt w rqur t-ued costs related to customer ser-

vice, including a new Help Desk sta to handle questions rom alums.Tough the project has garnered

signicant support rom students,

others are critical o the University’sallocation o resources. “CIS shouldprobably ocus more on things thatimmediately impact us, such as Ban-

ner not crashing when I’m tryingto register or classes,” said Lorin

Smth ’5.But “wh yu ha bth UCS

and the Oce o Alumni Relationssayg thy wat ths, t bms aCIS prrty,” Spadar sad.

ull-year American students were

much better integrated into the stu-dent body than those who came ory smstr. Bg thr rthe entire year allowed her to makeastg rdshps, sh sad.

But or other students, a yearabroad is too long. Ethan Reed ’12,sad h “a’t mag” t hagattended Cambridge during thesprg smstr hs jur yar,but his decision to study abroad

was dependent on the semesterpt. H sad h wud t hagone or a ull year because students

rturg t Brw ar a tr jur yar abrad “ht th grudrunning and immediately have to

start thkg abut jbs.”Te November deadline to apply

t study abrad r th u yar atOxord or Cambridge is too early

r sm studts sdrg thyear-long commitment. Currently,students hoping to study at Oxordor Cambridge in the ollowingspring semester need to apply by

May.“You need to give people the op-

prtuty t dsr thmss,”said Mica Fidler ’12, who studied atCambrdg sprg smstr hr

junior year. “Te desire to study abrad am at r m, ad I gtth bst t.”

Students in avor o the semesterpt as sad t s mr dutr dub-tratrs t spda tr yar abrad baus thy have more requirements to ulllat Brw.

Te London School o Econom-ics and Political Science, ImperialCollege London and the University o Durham also only oer year-long

study abroad programs. Te Oce

o International Programs still oerssemester-long programs at 25 otherinstitutions in the United Kingdom.

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Occupy Wa Strt has gain nw support with th announc

mnt o “soiarity” rom th Amrican Association o Univrsity

Prossors, accoring to a prss ras post on th association’s

wbsit Oct. 7. Nationa wath isparitis, rising costs o ucation

ami bugt cuts an atring support or coctiv bargaining

wr among th main rasons th association voic its support.

Both th group’s Bargaining Congrss an nationa Counci an

nounc support or th movmnt, accoring to Th Chronic o

Highr eucation.

California adots Drea ActInstat univrsity tuition an statsponsor schoarships ar

now opn to iga immigrants in Caiornia. Gov. Jrry Brown sign

th scon ha o th Caiornia dram Act into aw Oct. 8. Th aw is

th scon ha o a “gisativ packag” rst sign in Juy that aso

aows unocumnt stunts to appy or oans an privat scho

arships, accoring to th Nw York Tims. To quaiy, stunts must

prov rsincy an b on track to obtain ga immigration status,

accoring to th Tims.

Svra stunts at th Univrsity o Caiornia at los Angs

to th daiy Bruin, UClA’s stunt nwspapr, that th nw aw wi

aow thm to rturn to cog or pursu grauat schoo. Th Cai

ornia dram Act “wi mak it mor iky that I wi not hav to tak a

quartr of,” UClA stunt Mariana Vga to th daiy Bruin.

But groups ik th Fration or Amrican Immigration Rorm

hav voic concrn ovr th “misus o Caiornia taxpayr uns,”spoksprson Kristn Wiiamson to th daiy Bruin.

France ais for its own Ivy League

Thr univrsitis in Franc hav bgun rciving mony rom a

nationa invstmnt schm aim at raising sct univrsitis to an

intrnationay comptitiv v, accoring to Insi Highr e. Th

7.7 biion uro Initiativs ’excnc un, which wi vntuay b

awar to v to svn “Sorbonn lagu” schoos, is part o an

ort rivn by Frnch Prsint Nicoas Sarkozy to crat a hirarchi

ca systm o ucation.

Th pan signas a chang in th rationship btwn univrsitis

an businsss. Fun univrsitis must “work mor cosy with

businss to commrciaiz rsarch an orm spinof companis,” ac

coring to Insi Highr e. Th pan is “vita” or Frnch univrsitis

to b top payrs in intrnationa ucation, eouar Husson, vic

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Redefning the security issueTo the Editor:

Usg th trm “surty” wh mas “tmanagement” is inaccurate (“Possible security shiraks sm,” Ot. 5). Ts rta hag a bmr auraty dd as udrgraduat atts’“t maagmt,” t “surty.” T Dpartmto Athletics and Physical Education initially and later

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o Public Saety has always been available or security.Undergraduate games and undergraduate-sponsoredevents continue to need the quality event managementservices they have been receiving. Please redene thessu ad th m rward.

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princip o it, I just on’t biv in.”— Ruth Simmons

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When Brown last went searching or a new president, it sought a

clean break with the unpopular, authoritarian Gordon Gee. Now, theUniversity aces a much dierent challenge — nding a successor to

th mst bd ad rsptd ts prsdts. As wth ay rgazat skg t rpa a , Brw at sk PrsdtRuth Simmons’ carbon copy. As the Undergraduate Council o Studentsprpars t am th studt rprstats t th Campus Adsry Cmmtt, w wud k t add ur t th ampus dsussabut th kd adr w wud k t s.

Simmons will leave a distinctive legacy at Brown. Her ambitious

Campag r Aadm Erhmt padd th sz th auty,increased research support, made the College need-blind and improvedats. At th sam tm, hr ata stadg has btd Brwby increasing its prole and attracting donors. We judge her tenure asuss t b sur, thugh t a uquad .

Tere have been real trade-os associated with Simmons’ agenda.T rasd us rsarh has m at th st th tradtamphass udrgraduats, th mt that dstgushs Brw asa ursty-g. Bg pas t mpr ats ha dstratd rmsma quaty-- ssus that shud tak wks, t yars, t addrss.Simmons’ extensive travel has also diminished her presence on campus,makg hr a rmt — ursay admrd — gur.

Ts ar thr ssta rs w hp Smms’ sussr waddress. First, we would like a president who prioritizes the undergraduate

pr, wh sdatg Brw’s gas as a rsarh sttut.Ts mas a mphass auty mmbrs’ udrgraduat tahg,advising and mentorship, as well as increased support or undergraduatestudents’ research, projects and organizations. We cannot let the pressureto compete with our “peer institutions” distract us rom Brown’s uniquead ta udrgraduat us.

Sd, w hp th t prsdt w ha a gratr prs ampus. A prsdt aty gagd wth studt ad auty w

energize and enrich the community. It is important that the next presidentpay a mr sb r Brw’s day-t-day .

Tird, student lie is an essential priority or our next president.

Tough new dorms will benet uture students, they will do little to

improve the lives o current students. We hope the student representativest th mmtt addrss ryday, quaty-- ssus. I studts dt mphasz ths mdst but sgat rs — rpag gymqupmt, surg that g-trm rat ad strut dst m at th ps urrt studts’ prs, makg mapa mr ma — wh s th mmtt w?

Smms aswrd th hags hr tm trardary w.Now, Brown is a dierent place acing dierent demands. It thus requiresa leader with dierent priorities. We could not have asked or a person o bttr haratr t ad us — Smms’ gratas, sprata prsaarrat, warmth ad thughtuss ar quats w sk hr su-ssr. Pp suh statur ar rar — w ha b uky t ha hr

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Last Wdsday, th wrd ard thpassg St Jbs — trprur, -sary ad g-tm CEO App. Fw th hstry makd ha dard t a-tr th way th tr wrd s thr day s, ad wr ha sudd. I hs56 yars, Jbs hagd th way w tr-at wth ah thr, th way w ar, thway w st t mus, th way w pay adqut raky, th way w thk. As Prs-

dt Obama sad th g Jbs’dath, “Tr may b gratr trbut tSt’s suss tha th at that muh th wrd ard hs passg a d- h td.” I a y mag whath wud ha ampshd had h d mr dad.

As a asprg trprur, I am dp-y saddd by ths ss. Jbs was a rmd t m ad t asprg atrsarss th wrd. H shk th statusqu tm ad tm aga, was bd ught b that hs w s r th wrdwas th way t shud b ad was ddat-d ugh abut hs drams t s thmthrugh t rut. As I thk abut Jbs’pst gba hstry ad th gay

h w a bhd, ams suh as Ga-dh, da V, Est ad Cprusm t md. Ts ar dduas whught agast ta wsdm, ad

w hr thm baus ah ushrd hu-maty t a w ra. Ad I wud argu

that ths grat dduas dd tha a drt mpat as may ppdurg thr tms as Jbs dd durghs. ra t ary ay utry thwrd ad thr s a App prdut t bud.

I b that Brw wud ha ba atura t r a trabazr k Jbs.H wud ha mbrad th Nw Cur-ruum, ad h wud ha ud m-

trs ad rds wh wud ha ur-agd hm t pursu hs drams ad t arthg, just as I ha durg my tmhr. Jbs drppd ut Rd Cg Org ar smstr, but usd hswud rdm t tu attdgth asss that trgud hm, suh as thgdary agraphy ass that d t th arty typas aaab th rst

App mputrs. Prhaps h ud haas ud a way t rprat Ghaa-a drummg t hs may - ts. I at, thr s dubt my

md h wud ha.Jbs wud ha hagd hs Brw

assmats t dar t hag th wrd.I ha b td that shs kBrw k t apt studts wh dm-strat a mmtmt t arg adhard wrk ad pssss th mms pas-s ad dr t d smthg wth thratura abts. Jbs wud ha urgd ust t wast ths atura gs ad t maku us th uqu pprtuty that wha a b g as Brw studts, just

as h td th Stard ass 2005 ammmt addrss. H wud hatak adatag th rsurs t whhw ha a b gratd tmprary a-ss, mt as may studts ad prssrsas h ud ad tak asss ar ut hsmrt z, as h dd at Rd. H wudha rmdd us that ur yars s t a ry g tm.

O a th wsdm Jbs mpartd ths Stard graduats, pt stdut t m ab th rst: “Yu’ gt td what yu .” Ts s a mssag w

ar td by aum spakrs ad ad- srs, but I thk t s wrth rtrat-

g. W shud pursu th das ad at-ts abut whh w ar mst passatr urus, t just ths that ur rdsad rats mght prsuad us t pursudu t thr w prs r prp-ts. I th abs a r urruum,Brw as th rspsbty r p-rat th hads ts studts. Tsa smtms k a hay burd,but t dmstrats mr ath th ma-turty th studt bdy tha th adm-strats at mst thr ursts wud sdr. Lk may yu, I hst attd Brw baus I au ths -dpd, s muh s that I t hasbm grad m. I hp t w

Jbs’ path ar I graduat ad d sm-thg abut whh I am dpy passatwh budg up th may sss Iha ard thus ar at Brw.

Fr a Jbs has g us ad a hs -rdb md w tu t g us rth mg dads, w w ths t hm.Jbs rpatdy hagd th wrd t“thk drt,” ad at Brw, prhapsmr tha at ay thr ursty thwrd, w ar uragd t d s. W arJbs’ atura sussrs, but w w y sud w ar t arad t b bd adt tak th rad ss trad. W must b-g ur jurys w, as w d t kwhw muh tm w w ha.

Gab Pay ‘12 is an conomics concntrator rom Nw York. H is coounr

o th Brown Sports Businss Cub.

Remembering Steve

I hs mst rt um (“Rk batsSL,” Ot. 7), Chp Lbtz ’ assrt-d that th g mmua tabs, bus-tg bby ad grup study rms at thSs Lbrary rat a atmsphrmr du t sa atts akt “hagg ut” as ppsd t tru, asr-ptd, marath-sss-sty studyg.H pas, rasaby, that th Rk-r Lbrary s mr dus ad has“pst-Zmb apayps s qut,”makg t th bst pa t study.

Nt t kk th Rk, but th SL’swhr t’s at.

Lt’s am th tw brars. Tr’sth SL, whh ts ry arhtturs ambtus as t rahs up t th sky,thugh t admttdy ms as a bt a brut. T Rk, trast, s sdy grudd th arth, rkg thsd Cg H ad th rst Pr-d.

But bth brars ar mprsd ma-y staks, whh ar fakd by sads study thr hgh up r sprad ut. Swhy d w s har studts assrt,“I’m mr a Rk prs”? I wud sug-gst that Brw mauatur -shrts ds-

gatg thr warrs as “am Rk” r

“am SL,” but that uds th kswh g bth ways. Ad shud w b d-g ur w Brw studts by a S-

L-Rk bary ayway? Cud t b thatthr pas t study st? Csdr up-pr Fau Hus, whr ys w asyur tstps h thrugh th rm, pas Tayr Strt r, harbd, yur w rm.

W w stray rm th brars wthsuh pas ry s , but wh ts tm t ht th bks r buk dw

r r up yur ss r put th pdat th mta r ay thr dms r “gtard,” may studts prr th brar-s. W wat studyg t k k ts.But t prbaby wud t mak ay d-r w study a ra-wrd ady ad wh surrudd by ags sdgdw rabws s g as th ags art shutg at th tps thr ugs.

Smary, bg surrudd by staks

dusty bks s uky t hp yu sraput th tra w pts yu d t batthat ur.

But bak t why th SL s bttr. Its ry drsty study spa s ts gratstadatag. I th basmt a, aur up a uh ag a wdw, sprawut a mmua tab r hd away a rr. Ys, t s t zmb qut — t th hy zr db z. T -pr as a wh tds t b, at, s-a.

Ts wrks baus, a at ght,yu a asy d yurs a rr— thr ar may — ad hug thrughyur wrk. Wh th rushg ssbrught by th harsh ghtg ad u-rssd tms yur t-d st sts , yua gt up ad shmz wth thrds yu ha mad r may shardhurs sty rakg ut by ah th-

rs’ sd. Ar takg t athr huma

bg, yu w day ha pushd thstta aty away r a bt ad wb ab t tu tryg t ha rga

thughts — r mmrz sm s’s— r a tt gr. Ad yu d da tt mr stud tha th wr frsr, t s t hard t m up t th qutspa th urth fr, whh rsmbsa zr ad qutr basmt, r th -rab staks.

Ys, th SL s t th Ma Gr a suy ad tmprat day. Yu w trad a bk th mbra that abstratady statu rt Fau. Yu w twath pp jugg, pay rsb r su-saut thr ways thrugh a grus ar-. Yu w b swathd rt. TSL, mr rab tha a r, w hdyu r hurs. But th yu w mrg trus, prhaps a tt mr -dbut as wy awar what has b g-g yur a.m. ass.

T SL s t, I b, a Smth-Bu-a Ha bdy dub r a Bu Rmrpamt — th rmr hag ths hakbards ad th attr rggrat mus. But t s a pa mms-rat wth th struggs ’s ass-mats, a asay spdd w th sust r ths th uppr frsad, urs, may a at-ght ramsss ud by th kwdg that b-g a studt s a shard pr.

Cami SpncrSamon ’14 probaby

spns too much tim in ibraris.

In defense of the SciLi

Th Scili, mor riab than a ovr, wi

ho you or hours.

Jobs rpaty chang th wor to ‘think ifrnt,’

an at Brown, prhaps mor than any othr univrsity inth wor, w ar ncourag to o so.

BY CAMIlle SPeNCeR-

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Campus ewsednesday, ctober 12, 2011

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ContributingWriter

Sawak has s a markd surgin walks this semester and is aiming

or increased unding to expandto weekend service in the uture,

said Becky Willner ’12, Saewalk rdatr.

he program completed 60waks th ght Tursday, Spt.29, and the ollowing Tursday had41 walks by 12:30 a.m., said Rory

Macarlane ’14, a saewalker andone o ve shi supervisors. Turs-day nights last semester averagedwr tha 30 waks, ardg ta Saewalk internal report compiledast sprg.

Tough numbers vary by month,weather and time o night, teams

consider 10 walks per two-hourshi to be a good benchmark, Mac-arlane said. Saewalk oers walking

companions to students traveling

alone or in pairs on weeknightsrm p.m. t 2:5 a.m.

One o Saewalk’s major goals

is to oer service on Friday andSaturday ghts, but th addt-al unding necessary has provenelusive, and Willner said it would

b dut t d studts wgt wrk ths ghts. Sawak

s urrty usd rasgstudent use, especially or its call-inservice, and augmenting awarenesso the program through outreach

events, Willner said. A greater pres-ence would help Saewalk convincethe Department o Public Saety togrant additional unding, she added.

Currty, DPS uds Sawak based on a proposal compiled eachspring by the Saewalk coordina-

tor and Michelle Nuey, managero public relations and outreachor DPS. Nuey declined to reveal

how much unding Saewalk re-ceives. DPS provides Willner about$,00 yary t ud appar, pr-mta tms, spa ts ads-ds trag, Wr sad.But the department covers payroll, sts ad rads drty.

Te program employs 60 stu-dts rguary, ah whm hasa weekly shi with a partner, and10 substitute walkers. Saewalk pays

ts wrkrs a startg rat $.70pr hur. T sh rm utr

Funding stagnant as Safewalk numbers rise

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Sawak coorinators hop to xpan th srvic to Friay an Saturay nights but hav not yt mt succss.

By aLexanDra MaCarLane

StaffWriter

Fa Wkd was a tm t gthanks — the Canadian way. Ca-nadian hanksgiving, which alls th sd Mday Ot-ber, brought together dierentheritages, identities and, mostdusy, p.

Fr studts at Brw, Caa-dian identity seems to be a dier-t typ assat — -ther totally amiliar nor totally

rg.Sunday night, roughly 30 stu-

dts bth Amra ad Ca-nadian origins gathered in FaunceHouse to eat and give thanks at anevent hosted by the newly ormed

Caada Sty at Brw.he iconic maple lea hung

above Faunce Arch, attractingstudents rom as ar as NovaScotia and Vancouver. he lag

was later oered as one o theprizes or the Canadian triviagam, whh udd qustson wide-ranging topics such asParamt ad Caada aks.

Lk ts Amra quat,the Canadian hanksgivingcelebration eatured apple and

pumpkin pies, apple cider and

whipped cream, because pie is“all that matters,” said InnessaColaiacovo ’12, prime minister

th Caada Sty.

up n, ?

When Colaiacovo irst came

to campus, she said other stu-dts wud jk, “Ar yu a utry?”

“It’s a unny category o inter-national student,” said Colaia-.

Canadian students apply through the same process as all

international students and are in- vited to the University’s oicialinternational student orientation.Canada had the ith largest num-

ber o admitted students or inter-

national countries or the class o 205, wth 2 admts, ardgt a Ursty prss ras. I-ternational students have made

roughly 10 percent o the studentbody in recent years, accordingt th O Isttuta R-sarh.

Canadian student Lydia Halp-r ’2 mpard hr rgs tths a rd rm Hawa —“cool and unusual, but not dier-t,” sh sad.

But students stressed that Can-

ada is dierent — even among theutry’s w rgs.

revor Smyth ’13, who hails

rm Abrta, ds hms asrom “out west,” where the experi- s ry drt tha thr

parts Caada.Canadian students are dei-

ty t th sam as Amrastudents, said Rayna Chandaria

’14, a act driven home duringthe State o the Union address herreshman year. As her whole loor

crowded into a small lounge inLittleield Hall to watch President

Obama, Chadara razd thatsh was t Caada aymr.“Patrtsm s s muh drtin the United States,” she said,addg that “ ” Caadawatches the speech rom thethrone, their country’s equivalent.

For many, bilingualism andaguag d may th twcountries’ dierences. WhenHaakm Narar ’ askd t usthe “washroom” one o his irst

nights at Brown, he was takent th audry rm th bas-mt, rathr tha th bathrm,h sad.

Halpern remembers the shock she elt ater seeing real cheerlead-

ers at her irst University ootballgam. Br that, “hradrsonly existed in movies,” she said.And Canadian university studentscall pre-gaming, ‘pre-drinking’,

Canadians give thanks for not-quite-international identity

By aDaM tooBin

ContributingWriter

Te International eaching Fel-lowship, a joint venture between

Brown and the Instituto de Em-presa, will provide those who havereceived a doctoral degree rom

Brown with an opportunity totah Spa startg t Sp-tember. Organizers o the teach-

ing ellowship at IE, an institutionkw r ts graduat prgramsand especially its business school,said they hope the infux o Brown

PhD recipients will boost the cre-

dtas thr fdgg udr-graduat prgram.

he teaching ellowship re-quires that the ellows teach 130

hours in either undergraduateor graduate humanities classesat IE’s campus in either Madrid

r Sga. I addt t tah-g Spa, th ws w hath pt wrkg at Brw’sCgut Ctr r th Humatsor one month. Te ellowship lasts

mths tta but ud brwab.

IE’s business school is ranked

eighth in Europe, according tothe Economist. Its undergraduate

school opened in 2009 and has yett atta th sam prstg. Bththe undergraduate and graduateprograms stress liberal arts, but

s th humats dpartmtis young and has ew aculty mem-

brs, Brw ws w aw IEto expand in scope and content,

wrt R Strm-Os, drtro humanities at IE, in an email toT Hrad.

Mha Stbrg, drtr the Cogut Center, said he is excited

abut th prgram. IE has awaysb “ry adturus ad r-ward-thinking,” he said. Steinbergsad h thught th tahg -lowship will benet the ellows asmuh as th ws w hp IE.

“We don’t have a businesssh — thy’r kw r thrbusiness school,” he said. “We arekw r humats — thy’r

just building their humanities

prgram.”Fws w dsg a urru-

lum or one or two classes in theireld. Strom-Olsen wrote that IEintends to give the ellows “consid-

erable latitude in designing a classthat refects her or his scholarly

trst.”Te collaboration comes on

the heels o another partnershipbetween the two universities —

the IE Brown Executive MBAprogram, whose inaugural classbegan courses earlier this year. Te

jt MBA prgram hds asss Spa ad Prd, but stu-dts d mst th urswrk

online, allowing them to work while earning the degree. heprogram combines IE’s businessschool with Brown’s humanitiesdepartments to create a degree thatincorporates a liberal arts com-

pt t th tradta MBAprgram.

Partnership allows

PhDs to teach in Spain

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Thanksgiving.

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