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By DaviD Chung
Senior StaffWriter
he Brown University Commu-t Cu hard th atst up-date on the 2011 SustainabilityProgress Report in a nearly emptyKasper Multipurpose Ro om ues-day aternoon. Approximately 10
community members were in at-tda r th mtg, whh
also eatured a recap o the Corpo-rations airmations o PresidentRuth Simmons recommendations athts ad th Rsr O-icers raining Corps releasedast wk.
Stephen Maiorisi, vice presi-dent or acilities management,presented this years SustainabilityProgress Report, which was re-leased Oct. 18. He underscoredthe progress the University hasmade in recent years toward itssustainability goals. On Jan. 24,2008, Simmons set greenhousegas rdut gas r th U- versity. She called or a cut ingrhus gas msss b-tween 15 and 30 percent in ac-
quired buildings and a reductionto 42 percent below 2007 levelsby 2020 in existing buildings. Shealso recommended new buildingsprat at s btw 25 ad50 percent below the energy codead atta a mmum sr rat-ing rom the Leadership in Energyand Environmental Design certi-at sstm, whh auatsbuildings on a variety o sustain-abt atrs.
he University has reduced itsgreenhouse gas emission by 26
percent since 2007 and bottledwaters purchased by 83 percentsince 2008, according to the re-port. It has also identiied $27million worth o conservationprojects which will eventuallyallow the University to save $4million each year. Currently, eightbuildings have either obtainedr ar trak t r LEEDcertiication, Maiorisi said. heUniversity was presented with theSustainable Campus ExcellenceAward rom the InternationalSustaab Campus Ntwrk 2011 and was among only eightinstitutions to receive an A graderom the Sustainable EndowmentsInstitute in its most recent assess-mt.
Earlier in the meeting, Sim-ms spk abut th Crpra-tions response to her recommen-
U. makes
inroads ongreen goals
By ELi Okun
ContributingWriter
I th urrt m, ar -erything except the national de-cit is shrinking. But to hear DeroyMurdk t t, th ats aptas st g arg. Its happ huron the Potomac, declared Murdock,a nationally syndicated columnist,
while the rest o us tighten our belts, ut jb appats ad pra.
In last nights debate on PresidentObamas recent American Jobs Act,hstd b th Aadr HamtSociety in conjunction with the Re-puba Cub Brw, Murdklobbed several such accusations at
Washington. But the tenor o his dis-course with Wendy Schiller, associ-ate proessor o political science andpublic policy, remained grounded inmprms ad pragmatsm.
Te debate, held in Salomon 001
in ront o about 40 students andcommunity members, was the inau-gural event o the Alexander Hamil-ton Societys new University chapter.
T st s a ata part-san organization that seeks to osterstrut dbat tmp-rary issues and basic principles, saiderrence George 13, president oboth the Alexander Hamilton So-ciety and the Republican Club oBrown. George said he chose the
debate topic in light o the recentpta trrs r Obamasjbs b, whh th prsdt s tr-g t pass ps ar a tagrssa rjt.
Schiller and Murdock took radi-cally dierent approaches to theirpresentations. Schiller, seated at atable and quoting rom a copy othe Federalist Papers, consistently
rrrd t th psts Hamtmight have staked on contempo-rary issues. Murdock, who spokerom a lectern, used a PowerPointd wth harts ad statsts adocused on the specic economic
Experts debate Obama policies
By nEELkiran YaLamarThYContributingWriter
Fity-seven percent o acultymmbrs thk studt atsmis lower or much lower todaythan when they attended col-lege, according to a aculty pollconducted by he Herald this all.O abut 5 prt datdactivism is higher or much higher.O aculty who have worked atBrown or more than 20 years,82.6 percent reported studentatsm s wr r muh wr.
he aculty poll was conductedonline rom Sept. 25 to Oct. 8 andhas a 6.6 percent margin o errorwth 5 prt d.
Robert Sel, associate proes-sor o history and instructor oHIS 1760: Political Movements wtth-Ctur Amra,said he is not sure there has beena drop in student activism but
would attribute such a declineto the lack o a uniying issuek th rghts ad at-warmovements o the 1960s and1970s. But he said it is diicult toestablish i activism has decreasedor increased without a set timeprd r mpars.
I trast, Vazra Zamdar,associate proessor o history, saidshe is impressed with the level ostudent activism on campus. Inmpars t th ak at-ism o her own classmates in col-lege, Zamindar lauds her studentsconcern or the world and citedth 200 prsdta t asan example o high student en-ergy. She called or everyone tobe more engaged and increasesb prtsts as has b din countries like France, India andBrazil. Students should be innova-
Profs see decliningstudent activism
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to diversityposts
Jabba Bennett, assstant
dean o ecutng and
poessonal development o
the Gaduate School, wll take
ove as decto o the Oce
o Dvesty and Multcultual
Aas at Alpet Medcal School
Nov. 1. Bennett has also been
named assocate dean o
dvesty n the Dvson o
Bology and Medcne.
Bennett wll coodnate
dvesty eots and
poessonal developmento medcal and gaduate
students n hs new oles,
accodng to a jont emal
om Dean o Medcne and
Bologcal Scences Edwad
Wng and Dean o the
Gaduate School Pete Webe
P12. Bennett wll also povde
suppot o mnoty aculty
membes.
Beoe jonng the Gad
School n 2009, Bennett
woked at Havad Medcal
School and seved as decto
o the Oce o Multcultual
Faculty Caees at Bgham
and Womens Hosptal. He also
held the poston o eseach
and scence specalst n the
Havad Medcal School Oce
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Wendy Schlle and Deoy Mudock debated the Amecan Jobs Act and Obamas polces last nght n Salomon 001.
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dations regarding the athleticsprogram. he Corporation ap-proved her suggestions againstcutting the mens and womensencing, womens ski and menswrestling programs this year. Butin response to the rather seriousgaps in unding, the Corporationdetermined the teams must pres-ent a budget to allow the Univer-st t mak ssb dss
whh tams wud b ab tmt thr gas, Smms sad.
he Corporation also deter-mined administrators will berspsb r sttg aadmstandards or athletes and ensur-ing athletes are at least being rep-rstat th studt bd,Smms sad. Da th C-lege Katherine Bergeron will workwith Jim Miller 73, dean o ad-
mission, and Margaret Klawunn,vice president or campus lie andstudent services, to determine theappropriate academic standardsand admissions policy to keep inspirit with the Ivy League, saidPrst Mark Shss P5.
wenty admission slots orathletes will eventually be cut,Simmons said, and the Universitywill monitor the eects o thischange on the competitiveness othe athletics program. Klawunn
and Michael Goldberger, direc-tr athts, ar dpg athr-ar pa t rah th ga 205 spts r atht rruts,reduced rom 225, Schlissel said.
Simmons also discussed theCorporations response to her rec-mmdats ROC, hgh-ghtg th arus ps th ssu.
She said Corporation mem-
bers agreed that ROC programsdiscriminate against transgenderindividuals. But members ques-tioned how to balance the Uni-
versitys role in educating leaders,udg ths r th mtar,with its commitment to the anti-discrimination policy, she said.While some supported the es-tabshmt a ROC prgramon campus, others were willingto back student participationthrugh thr mas. h bt-
tom line is we ought to expandthe opportunities, Simmons said.
he University is seeking tobrad th pts aaab tstudents by looking into navalad ar r ROC prgrams atnearby campuses, and the C orpo-ration called on the University toopen an oice on campus to assist
veterans and students participat-g ROC prgrams.
BUCC recaps athletics, ROTCcu mg 1
tive in addressing the growinginequalities in the world in yearst m, sh sad.
Bth Cadw 2, a mmbro the Student Labor Alliance andProvidence Fair Food, said shethinks there has been a generald studt atsm. It srustrating that more students andaculty are not activists, she said,but th d a b dptbecause there are more issues nowr studts t supprt.
Alejo Stark 13, a member othe Brown Immigrant Rights Co-at, sad th grup has wrmembers than it did last year.Stark said this problem couldbe a result o BIRC not pursu-g sp gsat ths ar.Last year, the group lobbied orth Dram At, whh Stark sadinspired many students activelyparticipate in rallies. College Hillis not ully exposed to race andass ssus prat swhr,h sad.
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t prsnal accunts f 902 facultySpt. 25 and advrtisd n t fac-y M M S. 27, c.4 c. 7. c c.8. only faculty tat tac, advis c ugustudnts wr invitd t rspnd, 174 c. 6.6 c f rrr wit 95 prcnt cnfidnc.
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Poll points to drop in student activism
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At a teach-in held yesterday in Wilson 102, Professor Jack Mustard of Geological Sciences spoke about the environmentalconsequences o the poposed Keystone XL ppelne.
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Baus and Holley was evacuated ate a fe alam sounded yesteday.
ramications o Obamas policiesad pas.
Schiller argued that Hamilton,
amously a proponent o ederal in-tervention in the economy, wouldhave believed in the responsibility th grmt t stabsh -nomic stability in deense o thecommon good. Tough she con-ceded that Obamas rst stimulusincluded needless waste, Schillersaid the exigency o the crisis wouldha prpd Hamt t at.Hamilton would have not sup-ported simply doing nothing, shesad, whh sh td s th sta Hus Rpubas.
Murdock chose to ocus on whathe deemed the ailure o Obamas
rst stimulus to jump-start the econ-omy, pointing to graphs that showedth dra grmts rasdhiring since the economic crisis andthe burgeoning debt under both or-mr Prsdt Grg W. Bush adObama. He also attacked Obamashealth care reorm or its complexity,citing its 2,800 pages and inscrutabil-ity. Its like War and Peace withoutthat warm, happ g, h sad.
ake that entire law, throw it o thebks, start rm srath.
Tough the debaters sparred overthe best way to aid the unemployedand insure the impoverished, they
agreed that the decit is too high andthat entitlement programs like Medi-care and Social Security need majorreorm. Schiller also attempted tohstrz th rts th rss. Irsps t Murdks hargs thatReagan lied the country out o highunemployment more quickly thanObama, she said shis in the joblandscape have made the contrast ir-relevant. Our economy cannot evenbe compared to the economy o 1982and Reagan, she said. echnologyhas suppatd a t th jbs thatpp usd t b ab t gt.
Murdock responded with a plan
r th utur: th a-Fr PattAt 20, hs thrta da tencourage innovation and manuac-turg wthut strag taparswallets. Tose two words eco-nomic growth need to be rein-troduced into the American political, h sad.
Ater an hour o debate, thesession opened to questions romth aud, ad th rsat
turned to the role o the Federal Re-sr, hath ar ad th rat-ship between ination and mon-etary policy. ina McKendall, 58,
a ormer nurse practitioner rom
North Kingstown, punctuated Mur-docks speeches with applause andasa shuts Eat! adTak u!
I saw s 75 md adthe whole health care industrydriven away rom taking care o thepatients, she said, citing the growth awsuts ad paprwrk ad thintrusion o insurance companies.Sh sad Murdks us statstsilluminated the changes over the pastseveral decades. Numbers makesense to me, she said. I didnt knowt was as bad as t was. Tat kd mad m har stad d.
Murdock and Schiller agreed thatpta adrs d t sarh rmore compromise and greater re-spt. Campb Hush 5 sad thdebate itsel went a long way towardattag that ga. Gttg pprom opposite ideological sides othe table to agree on undamentalproblems that have developed inAmerican society has opened mys t th ra ssus, h sad.
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2:40 a.m. A student reportedhe was walking north on hay-er Street when a silver-colored vehicle, possibly a our-door,passed him traveling south. Aw muts atr, h sad h waspushed down rom behind andth ght kkd th stm-ach beore the unknown suspectsled. He received a small scrape
on his elbow and declined medi-cal attention. he case is understgat.
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7: p.m. A studt statd hlet his backpack on the bleacherseats while he went out to the ath-letic ield with his riends. He saidsometime between 6 p.m. and7:30 p.m., someone removed acomputer tablet and cell phone
rm hs bakpak.
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10:15 a.m. An employee re-ported the oil spill shed at theUniversitys Central Heating Plantwas broken into and a pressurewasher valued at $1,500 wastaken. he pressure washer waslast seen two weeks beore theincident. he case is under in-stgat.
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3:14 p.m. A student reported alarge picture o Sigma Chi Frater-
t was st rm th attroom in the basement o OlneyHouse. he lock on the door wasud damagd.
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0 p.m. A studt sad h wassitting by the window at Star-bucks. He placed his silver laptopmputr t hs bakpak adwent to buy a drink. When hereturned, he ound that his back-pack was open and his computerwas missing. PPD responded totake a report. he departmentsdtts rwd th surt
video and have a possible suspect.
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:3 a.m. A studt statd hsroommate notiied him that hislaptop was stolen rom his apart-ment. he roommate said he sawa male in his 20s running romthe room with the laptop in hand.He attempted to run ater the sus-pect but was unable to catch him.PPD tk a rprt.
Pressure washer,laptops stolen
Crime Log
Smith said, the initial EAMgroup was enthusiastic about theprograms results. Its participants
watd t shar thr kwdgand experience with a greatertgt th aut, as thagreed there was somethingintense about this experience,Smth sad.
Le to led
EAM expanded to two groupso advisers in 2010, comprising28 members. It has now tripled sz s ts pt, Bhat-tahara sad.
In addition to discussionsabout specic challenges acedby underrepresented students,
EAM meetings address topicsrelating to lie at Brown and dif-culties o the transition to colleger a studts, rm ths whgrw up r-t prt tothers who have never known liewithout maids and butlers, saidJason Sello, assistant proessor ochemistry and one o last yearsgrup dsuss adrs.
Participants read A Hope inthe Unseen, a non-ction bookby Ron Suskind that chronicles aninner-city high school studentspr at Brw, sad Kath- Hss, turr hmstr.
Other members o the commu-
t ha b td t EAMmeetings to amiliarize advisers
with the resources available tostudents, such as PsychologicalServices and the Ofce o Stu-dt L.
While most o the invited
speakers have been Brown acultyand sta, an expert rom SmithCollege gave a seminar abouthow unintended acts o racismand stereotyping can maniest on
college campuses, Bhattacharyyasad. T rt grat ud hpto bring in more outside speakerst th prgram, sh sad.
James ilton, director o -nancial aid, gave a presentationlast year about Browns supportsstms r aa ds. Nwa EAM member himsel, he hasbeen an academic adviser ormore than three years. He ini-
ta had ma qusts abutconcentrations and other aspectso student lie, he said, but heeels more supported aer join-ing EAM at Dean o the CollegeKatherine B ergerons invitation,he added. ilton said he nds thegroup to be a useul orum orelding questions and hearinghow others have dealt with par-tuar adsg stuats.
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Te identities o individual ad-visees are immaterial to EAM,whh mpats studts -drt, S sad.
EAM allows Hess to makeconnections with aculty and
administrators in other depart-mts, whh tur maks hrbetter able to connect her adviseeswith the right resources, she said.
Trugh EAM, Hss ats as
an ambassador or the chemistrydepartment to advisers in otherdisciplines whose advisees maytake chemistry classes as a con-centration requirement. Sello wasable to connect one o his adviseeswho was interested in anthropol-g t a EAM agu thanthropology department, hesad.
S ud EAM r hp-u amarzg hms wththe many resources available atBrown, he said. Tough advis-ers attend an inormation sessionbeore the start o each academic
ar, h sad t s t shrtto provide a ull sense o the sup-prt twrks th Urst -ers. Te training is comparable totrying to drink rom a re hose,h addd.
he advisees and adviserscombined knowledge o resourcesat th Urst s sdm m-prehensive, said Matthew Rutz,
assistant proessor o Egyptologyad at Wstr Asa stud-ies, who is currently in his rstar as a EAM adsr.
EAM osters a sense o com-munity among aculty highlycommitted to advising who had
prts t shar wth ah th-r, Bhattahara sad.
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Fraternity of Evil | Eshan Mta, Bendan Hanlne and Hecto ramez
C O M i C S
A umo that Smth Colleges dnng sevces would begn sevng
only vegetaan and locally gown optons had the campus n an upoa
last week, the Boston Globe epoted. Students aled aganst the dnngsevces manage, chalked gat onto sdewalks and patcpated n
both potests and counte-potests. But the umo was alse t was
hatched by two logc poessos as a way to teach hetoc and agument
to the classes.
The poessos, Jay Gafeld and Jm Henle, assgned hal o the
students to convnce the campus that the umo was tue and the othe
hal to ague aganst the umo.
Wee just bllant and slghtly wed, Gafeld told the Globe.
New York City seeks hightech edge
roosevelt island n New Yok Cty may soon see a satellte campus o
Conell o Stanod Unvesty. The cty wll open 10 aces o land o the
development o a gaduate school o appled scences, accodng to the
New Yok Tmes. Though Columba, New Yok Unvesty and many othe
schools have submtted expanson poposals, Conell and Stanod aethe top contendes due to the eputatons as leades n scence and
technology, the Tmes epoted.
New Yok Cty lacks compettve engneeng students o employes
to ecut, accodng to the Choncle o Hghe Educaton. A gaduate
school o appled scences could tun New Yok nto the wolds next
geat hgh-tech hub, accodng to the Tmes.
UNm orders (Un)Occupy out
The Unvesty o New Mexco told (Un)Occupy Albuqueque
potestes Monday to leave the pak whee they have camped o
ou weeks. The equest ollowed the aest o a man who theatened
potestes wth a kne.
(Un)Occupy takes ts name n esponse to negatve connotatons
o the wod occupy n a cty wth a lage Natve Amecan populaton,
accodng to KOB-TV.
As o Tuesday atenoon, the movement had not decded whethe
t wll comply wth odes to leave by Tuesday nght, accodng to
KOB-TV. The unvesty sad t was concened wth the heghtened
homeless populaton and nceasngly dangeous condtons n the
pak, accodng to the Hungton Post. Potestes mantaned t s the
captalst system n ths county that has bought the condtons, not the
potestes, the Hungton Post epots.
College newspapers build pay walls
Two oganzatons have oeed to cove the stat-up costs o college
newspapes lookng to establsh dgtal pay walls. Pess+, a dgtal-
subscpton company, and the John S. and James L. Knght Foundaton
wll sponso the fst 50 newspapes that apply, accodng to an atcle
om the Choncle o Hghe Educaton.
The eot ollows those made by natonal and local newspapes,
ncludng the New Yok Tmes and the Povdence Jounal, whch haveecently added pay walls to the webstes. Patcpatng newspapes can
choose to chage eades o access to atcles o collect donatons on a
voluntay bass, accodng to the Choncle.
Oklahoma State Unvestys Daly OCollegan became the fst
campus publcaton to expement wth a pay wall when t began
chagng non-local, egula eades o access n Januay, the Choncle
epots. Syacuse, Boston and Tuts unvestes ae among the othe
colleges whose campus newspapes ae patcpatng n the Pess+ pay
wall pogam, accodng to padContent.
University of California nixes
SAT subject testsThe Unvesty o Calona system s no longe equng SAT subject
tests as pat o ts undegaduate applcaton pocess. Accodng to
the Los Angeles Tmes, the change s ntended to educe stess caused
by the applcaton pocess and expand the ange o students who can
apply. But some students and college counselos ae conused as to how
to espond.
The unvesty system says poo o absent scoes wll not hut a
students chances o admsson, accodng to the Tmes. But UC ocals
told the Tmes that hgh scoes wll be seen as a plus acto, smla to
how extacucula actvtes ae vewed. Ths has made some students
beleve that takng the tests and scong well wll ncease the chances
o admsson.
Alan radoncc told the Unvesty o Southen Calonas Annenbeg
TV News that he wll be takng the tests, as he also plans to apply to
schools that eque the subject exams. The subject tests ae desgned
to gauge ones ablty n that cetan subject, makng the pocess moe
selectve, he told the Annenbeg TV News. But now ths s asng the
ba competton-wse o all o us.
Sith College loco about locavores
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The changing reasons for banning ROTCTo the Editor:By continuing to ban Reserve Ofcers raining Corp
programs, Brown again shows its lack o leadership andts uttrd bd t rada brasm. Frst, twas Dont Ask, Dont ell that kept the military oampus. Nw, th ssu s trasgdrd dduas.
What will be next? Te militarys use o rearms or thaturms uar mmaz ddua prss?
I dubt that ths whg ad mpag abutthe military recognize the bitter irony in that theirright to do so is protected by the very military thatds thm s.
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Agencies should use powers properlyTo the Editor:
Tere is much to laud in Ian rupins 13 article inTe Herald (A case or community investment, Oct.
25) about the Oct. 12 Occupy teach-in at Brown, butt wud b hs rprstat m ws wrreality-based. He writes, Te entire room listened withrapt attt as L adsd mr rguat.
But ths s at th ppst what I sad adwhat I ha b argug r ars. Idd, m rmarkshave been posted online since the teach-in, as I havermd sra Hrad rprtrs. Hr s what I sad:
But, the problem is not too ew regulations. Te
prbm s t t w rguatrs. Ad, th prbm snot too little regulatory power. Te problem is that exist-g rguatr ags d t us thr amp pwrsproperly. Te problem is that our institutions do not
adquat mp aa rguatrs t wrk r us.rups w-wrtt, mpassd art maks -
t pts, ad t s urs apprprat r hm trtz hw I hs t spd m muts ad tharguments that I made many people do. But it is inap-prprat t msrprst m ws s stark.
Ross Levine
Poesso o Economcs
Letters, [email protected]
W Brw j th raks sm 35 sttuts wth p-ass rsarh madats? As Urst fas stgat thspssbt, w drt thr attt t Brws mss: srth mmut, th at ad th wrd b dsrg, mmu-atg ad prsrg kwdg ad udrstadg a sprt r qur. Op-ass rsarh ps ar wth urmss, ad w a bttr sr th mmut, at ad wrdb makg rsarh dgs aaab t r.
T h rata r p-ass ps s t mak rsarhr assb. T ps, whh ud prmss dstrbut rghts t th urst, prss r wag ths r-qurmt ad th dpst rsarh a sttuta dps-tr, a as urag bttr trakg rsarh utputs b u-rsts. Fr assb rsarh s mr wd rad, ad thr-r has a argr ptta mpat. Op-ass ps as supprt
us b surg that rsarh s mad aaab t a pp.Wth rasg gaps btw aadm matras aaab at pub- brars ad prat sttuts k Brw, ths s wa tmbat th us -afatd dduas rm sharkwdg.
Sm prss wrr abut what p-ass ps udma r shars pubat pts ad, b ts, thr a-rrs. Ts rs td t b rstatd. Isttuts adptgp-ass rsarh ps a duat thr rsarhrs hwt gtat wth juras, ad sttuta mmtmts t pass ma hp t ras rsarhrs bargag pwr. I ass whh a jura w t sdr pubat wthut usrghts, ps that aw rsarhrs t app r a war thp ass rqurmt ab thm t pursu pubat thus thr h. Ts pt-ut pt prtts rsarhrstrsts a tm trast, wh st makg a strg ad -uta stad ar p ass.
W rspt th mpt th mpmtat ad th mp-ats p-ass ps. W ar rtuat t b ab t draw a wath supprt rsurs ad th prs ma prsttuts as w sdr th bst m r ur Urst. But kpg wth ur mss, w mata that th qust s twhthr Brw shud supprt p ass t rsarh, but hw.
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Garrt Jhs maks a as r wh thOup mmt s msgudd ad stupd(G bak, t, but dt Oup, Ot.2). I thk hs rass ar mst bad s.Hrs wh.
Hs ma thrust s that w shud stptrg t hag st ad stad startutrg at a r s ad supkths. I thk utrg at sup kth-s s grat. But sag w shud d that -stad prtstg s k sag w shud
drk watr r da stad ppg tts. T bth mattr, ad th ar bthprtt muh uratd.
Ts s k th pp wh utr Mart Luthr Kg Jr. Da. Kg was a a-tst. H spt hs ghtg agast ra-st sstms, ghtg r wrkrs ad justad gra bg a awsm atwarsast. Lk r atprt atst, hkw that wh hpg ut at sup kth-s s grat, a st that rs ts tzst sup kths wh drppg m-dar bmbs rgrs s udamtadragd. Tat s what bg a rada s aabut kg at a prbm ad dgts tru rts.
Tr was ths tm ad th th -
tur wh prat harts Amra ad-mstrd prhuss ad mad dgad husg th pr thr prmar
msss. Tat was grat. What was t sgrat was that Amra was a hdus, hr-
ra uqua st whr a w whtm wth trr ats wd r-thg. Or th t 200 ars, t gt bttr,t baus ugh pp utrd atsup kths, but baus ugh ppsad t thmss, Ss, mab ts a ttmssd up that a w pp w a thad as w as th darkr-skd pp t. Mab atr wrs shud t b abt pa wrkrs t a wk r mp
sma hdr. Mab just mab s-t shud rspt th au hrt -r huma , ad I a tak a w hurs rm th sup kth t wrk that.
T rbbr bars ad sahdrs adatr wrs wud ha d r- wh trd t brak thr straghd st had spt a thr tm s- utrg ad w ugh a.Wa Strt CEOs wud b tkd pk Ouprs turd Zutt Park t bg -dga hmss shtr. WhJhs ts us t utr, h has a dt
pt, but mab w a as tr t hagth dts that mak suh dsma u-trg ssar th rst pa.
Shg gars, Jhs ts th muhtakd abut ratshp btw Wa
Strt ad th Urst. Brws -ts t Wa Strt ar thr bad rgd, but th must b akwdgd. A-tua, pp d akwdg thm, ads, th ar bad. T ar bad baus WaStrt has spt th ast w dads bugup Washgt ad th ausg a -m aps ud b shrt-sghtdssad gd d hd-but-tru rpratgrd a aps that hurt a wh t
pp. I prsa am t tta thrdabut a mdst that ts dars ab as, ad I d t wat t s t prtd tBrw. A wh gas arud ur -prprt-ta-pag, Wa-Strt-stg,rasg SEM-g Urst ad st a tt rd ds t ga hardr.
S s, w a grp ad ma wth -tgrt abut th hug wath prst Wa Strt ad rprat Amra whsm ths Urst was but thatwath baus that s what pp wh arabut thgs d. T tr t hag th wa
thgs ar t mak thm just a tt bt ssdt.
Fa, w ha Jhss prsrpt
r makg rthg bttr tg! Ap-part, r Amra studt at th
Urst w ha a ha t t agastptas wd b Wa Strt. Atua,w w t ha that ha, t ra, b-aus r sg majr addat r prs-dt s wd b Wa Strt. Hs sut?Fr ma Bruas, ths ma ma tg r th dradd Rpubas. ys!Lts t r th addat wh s st wdb Wa Strt, but mab b a sght ssrdgr! Tat shw thm.
S whr ds that a us? ta hsds whr that as us. T ras pp arut thr th strts s baus tg ts w s t wrkg. Our pta sstms s mpt dmatd b rpratm that ptg a sussu at-
a addat t srus pps Wa Strtat ths pt s rduus ptmst.
T wa t hag ths s t mak asrus dt th a ad ata r-sat. Mab Oup w a. Mst thgsa. Mab t wt. W had r a thusadpp dwtw Prd hatgabut rstrg dmra ad dg wars.s thusads mr arss th utr.Er da, thusads pp ar takgad stg ad gurg ut what t dabut thgs.
Its a start, ad t s rta bttr thaJhss prsrpt tg pus supkths pus thg.
Danel Moa 14 thnks that soup susually knda goss and that emal
s the devls medum.
Injustice and soup kitchens
I th summr 200, Rp. BarFrak, D-Mass., wrt a ttr t Prs-dt Obama: I b t s r mpr-tat r th Isra pub t kw thatthr s strg dsagrmt wth thUtd Stats t just wth ur g-rmt r at hw t da wthth qust sttmts th WstBak I thk t wud b a da amprtat prp dmra r thIsra trat t t kw what thstat Amra p s rgardgth sttmts. Frak h d ths st-mt hs Ot. tur, a g r ap ad hst dsuss Isra adIsra p Capt H.
Wth mmuts ad sttu-s arss th U.S. bth Jwsh adthrws thr sts a hug drs-t p Isra. h sam s truhr, whr studts ad aut mrm r 00 drt utrs adrm a 50 U.S. stats. Amg th hu-drds studt grups, ur da p-t ad us wth th Isra-Pa-sta t. As mmbrs PuzzPa, Brws H-aatd J StrtU grup, w sk t d-parz th ds-urs th Isra-Pasta t,partuar wth th Jwsh mmu-t, ad t ada a s a pauutur whr Isras ad Pastas
sd-b-sd tw srg, dp-
dt stats. ths d, w t dsagrwth ad rtz th ps th Is-ra grmt. W rm b thatths maks us mr r ss Jwsh rpr-Isra tha a stabshd Jwsh -sttuts.
But th sad truth s that U.S. ptadsurs abut Isra rar s up tth stadard p dbat that Frakas r. Amra td as harg ar ad p dsuss a-
r a mptt t shw th mstuwarg supprt r Isra. ak thrt spa t Nw yrksth dstrt, whh a Rpuba adDmrat basa attmptd t ut-Z-st ah thr rdr t sur thsupprt th dstrts Jwsh sttu-. I suh a pta tt, a
wh qusts th ats th Isra
grmt s quk bradd as at-Isra ad at-Jwsh, dspt th b-us ast ths abs spag a g Jwsh hstr p d-bat dut ssus. A quk Ggsarh ras that Frak hms has
b ad a s-hatg Jw r rt-sm Isras 200 rad th Gaza AdFta. Suh abs a t bak-st ptas, aadms ad rg ma U.S. Jwsh sttuts. Whats
mr, th trbut t a std ds-urs Capt H ad t a pts tmdat that udrms th dm-rat au p dsuss.
J Strt, a mrgg pr-Isra P-ta At Cmmtt th U.S., hasshw ts apab pg up a d-ut rsat th tt
th asa utthrat pta pr-
ss. As a a at grup J Strts -g ampus arm, J Strt U, w razthat w a b pr-Isra atsts w as sk ut a strg ad astgpa th rg. Suh a pa atb ahd thrugh udta sup-
prt a ad a Isras ps, but thrugh p dagu ad strgdpmat gagmt. hs w t bpssb ut w a hag th urrts-mdd apprah t th U.S.-Isra- ratshp ur pta dsurs.W must b p t a w rsat,ad w must b p t a pau rs-ut.
W appaud Fraks urag spak-g ut agast Isra sttmts, butths s just ma stps dd thp th dagu Cgrss bttr r-t th drst ps arss thU.S. I w trat that drst as a ppr-tut r mutua grwth ad arg,rathr tha as a thrat, w a wrk t-gthr t prdu ra hag r thsd th t, b t Isras -g wth th da thrat trrr ad r Pastas g udr asmg dss upat. Its tmr ur ptas t tru rprst thdrst thr sttuts ps.h magtud ths t dmadsthg ss.
Hapo Jaege 14 and Hay Samuels13 can be ound on J Steet, whch scode o Wlson 303, evey Tuesday at8 p.m. They thank othe membes oPuzzle Peace o the bllant and
always nuanced nsghts.
A Frank conversation about Israel on Capitol Hill
Peace cannot be acheved though uncondtonal
suppot o any and all o isaels polces, but only
though open dalogue and stong dplomatc
engagement. Ths wll not be possble untl we can
change the cuent close-mnded appoach to the U.S.-isael elatonshp n ou poltcal dscouse.
Wall Steet CEOs would be tckled pnk
Occupes tuned Zuccott Pak nto one bg
non-deologcal homeless shelte.
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Faculty leaders o the GlobalHealth Initiative, a University-wide eort to combat health in-equalities locally and internation-ally, are preparing a proposal toupgrade the initiative to a per-mat tr.
Te September status reportor the Plan or Academic En-richment, President Ruth Sim-mons blueprint or Universityimprovement and expansion, liststh trasrmat th GbaHath Itat t th Gba
Health Center as a priority to
ensure Brown is a truly globalurst.
We thought being a centerwould give us more legitimacy,will give us more visibility andg us mr rsurs, sad Su-sa Cu-U, drtr th -tiative and proessor o obstetricsad gg.
Edward Wing, dean o medi-cine and biological sciences, isalready on board with the expan-sion, Cu-Uvin said. Te next phaseto urther the proposal requiresthe support o Provost MarkShss P5, sh sad.
It is unclear when Schlissel will
mak hs ds th mattr.
When Cu-Uvin and Wing metwith him in July, he was support- th da, Cu-U sad, buth has s muh hs pat asthe new provost that he is notready to ormally entertain theprpsa.
Te Global Health Initiativeoversees global health activitiesand acilitates communication onglobal health throughout the Uni-
versity community, Cu-Uvin said.Because addressing global healthis an interdisciplinary pursuit, co-operation among departments, in-dividuals and University-afliatedhsptas s mprtat, sh sad.
Since its inauguration in 2009,
the Global Health Initiative hasattratd stg shars, sp-sored a lecture series on globalhealth and medicine and attractedgrant and ellowship money romorganizations like the U.S. Agencyor International Developmentand the Fogarty InternationalCtr at th Nata Isttutso Health. With the NIH unding,the initiative has awarded scholar-ships to 36 Brown students study-ing in 19 countries, Cu-Uvin said.
Te initiative has also acted asthe Universitys liaison with therst th gba hath mmu-t, Cu-U sad. Fr sta,
with the support o the initiative,
the University has signed memo-randa o understanding with insti-tutions around the world, she said.
But growing into a center couldampliy the initiatives eorts. Wewat t mak sur th tr -compasses all the dierent depart-ments o the community, she said.Cu-U sgd ut th WatsInstitute or International Studiesad th Sh Egrg asparts o the community she wouldlike to see more involved in globalhath.
Cu-U w mt wth Wgand Matthew Gutmann, vice pres-ident or international aairs, Nov.
t dsuss th prpsa.
Global Health Initiative seeks permanent home
By kaTE DESimOnE
ContributingWriter
Frst-ars ar assgd adsrsbeore they even set oot on cam-pus in the all. But who advisesth adsrs?
eam Enhanced Advising andMtrg, w ts thrd ar,is an advising collective o 45aculty and administrators whoadvise rst-years and sophomores,said Maitrayee Bhattacharyya, as-sociate dean o the College ordiversity programs and directoro EAM. Te participants are di-
vided into three groups that meetor monthly discussions about thebst adsg prats.
EAM received a $100,000grant or its expansion, accord-ing to the September update to thePa r Aadm Erhmt.
TEams bes
T Of th Da thCg rrutd th rst grupo EAM members in September2009. Te ofce sought out ad-
visers who had indicated interest
in advising rst-generation, un-drrprstd mrt r w-m studts r graduats
low-achieving high schools, ac-cording to the 2009 annual reportrom the Committee on AcademicStadg.
EAM advisers meet to talkabout real situations they havead wth adss ad th bstprats suh sars.
Eah ths adsrs was as-sgd sra rst-ar adsswhom the committee identiedas having similar backgrounds tostudts wh ha, hstra,struggled at Brown, according toth rprt.
EAMs premise was that
studts rta bakgrudsace particular difculties in theirtrast t Brw ad stad tbenet rom advanced mentor-g, sad Da Smth, assatprssr athrpg ad amember o EAM since its in-pt.
While the Committee on Aca-demic Standing knew which stu-dents were o the EAM-matched
subset, their advisers oen didnot, and the students were alsounaware, Smith said. Te idea was
not so much to single out any stu-dents, he said, but to make theadvisers more aware o the issuesthat exist or students rom under-rprstd bakgruds.
For example, students rompr mmuts u a-a ad mss ut tra-urruar pprtuts suh assummer internships, researchwith proessors, study abroadprograms and Undergraduateeaching and Research Awards,Smth sad.
But Bhattacharyya describedEAM drt. Wh dsus-
sions about how to advise diversegroups o students are integralto EAM, she said, they are inthe context o improving advis-g r a studts. T tt the initiative is simply to enhanceadvising, especially or rst-years,Bhattahara sad.
By the end o the rst year,
TEAM initiative fosters camaraderie
a d r e a m a c t d e f e r r e d
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Students on the Main Green joined a nationwide protest yesterday against the deportation of Florida resident Shamir Ali.
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Jared Diamonds 1998 PulitzerPrize-winning Guns, Germs andSt trdud th t thatthe axial orientation o the con-tinents signicantly aected thecourse o human history. Now,a Brown researcher has put thathypothesis to the test and ound
gd d r ts adt.
Diamond hypothesized thatEurasias east-west orienta-tion allowed reer movement opp ad amas tha dd thAmericas north-south orienta-tion because o the greater climate
variability when moving north tosouth. Tis gave Eurasia an advan-tage in the spread and develop-mt thg.
In a Sept. 13 article in theAmerican Journal o PhysicalAnthropology, Sohini Ramach-adra, assstat prssr b-ology, and Noah Rosenberg, anassociate proessor o biology atStanord University, report on data
rom 678 sites in the human ge-nome exhibiting a high level o ge-netic variance. Tese sites provide
inormation about genetic simi-larities and dierences betweenppuats th Amras adin Eurasia. Te researchers studiedhw ggrapha arabs, suhas latitude and longitude, aectedths arats.
Tr rsuts shw gratr g-t drtat pp th Amras, datg a wrrate o migration. I two popula-tions remain isolated, then theyhave an opportunity to diverge intheir patterns o genetic variationr tm, Rsbrg sad.
Assuming migration o humanpopulations is accompanied byth mgrat thg, thresearch provides evidence thatth tta as wr atrsin the diering rates o techno-ga dus th Amrasad Eurasa.
I pp wr mgratg ssrequently rom north to south in
the Americas compared to eastto west in Eurasia, then its rea-sonable to suppose that technolo-gs that pp wud ha bbrgg wth thm as tradat a swr rat th Amras,Rsbrg sad.
Ramachandran said she cur-rently has no plans to build onth rsarh.
Research bolstersmigration theory
Sanda Yan / Heald
Sohn ramachandan, assocate poesso o bology, publshed eseachthat confms lnks between genetc vaance and geogaphcal locaton.
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