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McCormick lawyer failed
to report U. connection
By Ben Schreckinger
Metro Editor
After William McCormick III was
accused of rape by a fellow student,
his first lawyer represented and ad-
vised him in the Brown disciplinary
process at the same time his law firm
was representing the University in
another matter, court records show.
Walter Stone did not inform Mc-
Cormick of the ties between his firm
— Providence-based Adler Pollock
& Sheehan — and the University,
while representing McCormick
when he was accused of rape in
2006, according to J. Scott Kilpat-
rick, McCormick’s present attorney.
Rhode Island’s rules of profes-
sional conduct for lawyers prohibit
lawyers and law firms from repre-
senting two clients if the representa-
tion of one is “directly adverse” to
the interests of the other.
E-mails released during discov-
Early start Victors gear up for general election
gets mixed
reactions
By Ana Alvarez
Senior Staff Writer
Like every year, the first week of
classes was filled with bustle and en-
ergy as new and returning students
shopped through classes and moved
into dorms. The only difference was
that this year it all happened one
week earlier — making life easier
for some, but causing conflicts for
others.
In previous years, the first day
of classes has fallen on the Wednes-
day after Labor Day. But this year
the start day was moved to Sept. 1,
the Wednesday before Labor Day,
since the Jewish New Year of Rosh
Hashanah began the night of the
following Wednesday, Sept. 8.
Happy new year
The change was made “in order
to avoid hardships for both students
and faculty that observe Jewish holi-
days and would subsequently not be
able to participate on the first days
of shopping period,” said Dean of
the College Katherine Bergeron.
Normally, Rosh Hashanah falls
on the later weeks of September,
therefore not conflicting with the
beginning of the school year. But
since the date of the holiday is set
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ery indicate that several University
administrators, including lawyers
in the Office of the Vice President
and General Counsel, were aware
of Stone’s representation of Mc-
Cormick.
“In terms of conflicts of interest,
it would be incumbent upon the
attorney to disclose any potential
conflicts to his client,” said Marisa
Quinn, vice president for public
affairs and University relations.
“Brown neither recommended nor
participated in the engagement of
Mr. Stone as counsel to Mr. Mc-
Cormick.”
McCormick, a former member of
the class of 2010, brought suit last
fall against the University follow-
ing a 2006 accusation of rape made
against him by a female member of
the class of 2010 and his subsequent
withdrawal from Brown.
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By Claire Peracchio
Senior Staff Writer
As primary tallies trickled in late
Tuesday evening, it appeared the
night belonged to two men con-
nected by Providence’s top office
— Mayor David Cicilline ’83 and
his likely successor, former Hous-
ing Court Judge Angel Taveras.
Cicilline — whose hard-fought
four-way Democratic primar y
garnered national attention —
coasted to victory in the contest to
replace retiring 1st Congressional
Smokin’? For good
or ill, some partake
By Suzannah Weiss
Arts & Culture Editor
Despite the associated risks and stig-
mas, cigarette, cigar and tobacco
smoking have found their niche on
Brown’s campus.
Risky business
Students make up the majority
of buyers of cigarettes and other
tobacco products at Thayer Street
supermarket Tedeschi, according
to cashiers Tim Hidalgo and Albert
“Big Bertus” Saldana.
Hidalgo and Saldana agreed that
cigarette sales amount to about 100
packs per day, give or take 50.
“Brown students definitely
smoke a lot of cigarettes,” Hidalgo
News, 3
BuD$
Alum aims to create
per manent fund for
student workers
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
h oly c o w !
Dahlia made an appearance on Wriston Quadrangle to promote
Rhody Fresh Milk at the Farmer’s Market.
District Rep. Patrick Kennedy, also
a Democrat.
Taveras, a Cicilline appointee
to the Providence Housing Court,
soundly defeated his three oppo-
nents to become the overwhelm-
ing favorite against Independent
METRO
Jonathan Scott in the mayoral
general election.
Voters across Rhode Island
and in seven other states plus
the District of Columbia cast bal-
said.
He added that most of their rev-
enue comes from tobacco products,
which also include cigars, chewing
tobacco and rolling tobacco.
Roshan Baral, the owner of Thay-
er Street convenience store Metro
Mart, said he sells about 80 packs
of cigarettes and 30 cigars per day.
About 75 percent of people buying
these products are students, he said.
Students who smoke commented
that cigarettes are far more expen-
sive in Rhode Island than in other
states, and some roll their own ciga-
rettes to save money.
The Obama administration out-
lawed flavored cigarettes last year
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Evan Thomas / Herald
lots Tuesday to determine which
candidates the two major parties
would field in the November gen-
eral election.
Turnout, which was expected
to be lighter than in previous years
due to general voter malaise and
the lack of a presidential contest
and a competitive Democratic gu-
bernatorial primary, was 18 per-
cent statewide, the lowest since
1998, according to unofficial state
Board of Elections data. But the
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M u st- S ee T v
A new ABC series, “Body of Proof,” filmed in Providence this
summer. See metro, page 7.
Sports, 8
no problem bears
Even after star players
graduated, the football
team is still going strong
After layoffs,
staff shuffled
to fill voids
By Alex Bell
Senior Staff Writer
Last year’s 66 layoffs and 139 staff
who opted for early retirement have
left administrators looking closely
at which positions to refill and what
new positions to create as part of
the organizational review process.
The outcome of these measures
represents an 8 percent reduction
in Brown’s non-faculty workforce,
according to a message on the Uni-
versity’s Brown and the Economy
website.
The Herald previously reported
that 60 filled staff positions were
eliminated at the end of last year
stemming from the Organizational
Review Committee’s February re-
port, but this figure was “never set
in stone,” according to Vice Presi-
dent for Human Resources Karen
Davis.
Though the ORC focused on
12 areas deemed most critical by
officials, the areas “didn’t literally
touch every part of the University,”
Davis said. “There were some posi-
tion eliminations that did not come
directly from the University-wide
organizational review, but emerged
in that same period for the same
reasons from units that were sort
of left to do their own thing.”
Davis said she was not sure
which departments the additional
layoffs were in, but gave the Admis-
sion and Financial Aid offices as ex-
amples of areas that might not have
fallen under any of the 12 specific
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Courtesy of ABC
Opinions, 11
Ratty no more?
Kshitij Lauria ’13 proposes
major overhaul of dining
services
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C ampus N EWS “There are more cigarette butts outside of the Rock than the Sci Li.”
— Timothy Nassau ’12, on smoking around campus

For a minority, smoke is in the air University examines

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because of suspicions that they were

personnel decisions
marketed to children and got them
addicted at a young age.
Metro Mart lost a few customers
due to the ban, but Baral said their
tobacco-related business has been
steadily increasing overall.
Tedeschi switched to flavored
cigars. “It’s the same thing. You just
can’t call them flavored cigarettes,”
Saldana said.
“They market them as cigars now,
but they are cigarettes,” Timothy Nas-
sau ’12 said. “Sorry, Obama.”
‘A rebellion thing’
Some students said they began
casually smoking during their early
adolescence, but did not become
regular smokers until college granted
them the freedom to buy their own
cigarettes.
“Most people who smoke in col-
lege smoked already occasionally,”
said Julie Cardenas ’13, who began
smoking in high school with a friend
whose parents always had cigarettes
around the house.
Ann Kremen ’13 smoked her first
cigarette on her 18th birthday because
“it was the most aggressively inde-
pendent thing that I could think to
do,” she said.
Rory MacAneney ’14, on the other
hand, became a smoker at age 14 as
“a rebellion thing” but quit just in time
for college.
MacAneney said college made it
easier to quit because she was chang-
ing a lot of lifestyle habits anyway.
She added that she knows very few
students who smoke regularly, but
several who smoke exclusively when
they drink alcohol.
Some students thought the distri-
bution of smokers on campus depend-
sudoku
ed on their academic fields. “English
kids and (Modern Culture and Media)
kids and all of those seem to smoke
significantly more than science kids,”
said Andrew Doty ’12.
“After my English class, like half
the class is smoking,” he said.
Doty added that this trend might
occur because science students see
“the fact side of it,” whereas humanities
students more likely think of “Hum-
phrey Bogart smoking cigarettes in
‘Casablanca’ ” and “romanticize it.”
“There are more cigarette butts
outside of the Rock than the (Sciences
Library),” said Nassau. “Most in front
of List, if anything.”
According to the Office of Student
Life website, “smoking is prohibited
in all Brown residential and dining
facilities.”
Nassau said he wishes the school
would have more ashtrays around
campus so that he could at least smoke
without littering.
An appealing aroma?
Several student smokers said they
enjoy the social aspect of cigarette
breaks.
“It’s really relaxing,” Kremen said.
“When you’re at the steps of the
Rock or something, there’s always
someone smoking,” Cardenas said,
adding that she is “trying to cut back”
and wants to quit someday.
“When you think about the future,”
she said, “you don’t want to be 70 and
still chain-smoking.” Still, she said,
“I always felt like I was going to die
young anyways.”
“I want to quit right now,” Nassau
said, having picked up the habit during
high school when he studied abroad in
France. “I always thought I could stop
when I wanted to,” but quitting has
proved more difficult than expected,
he added.
On one hand, smoking “is bad for
your health, obviously,” doesn’t work
as “an emotional crutch when I’m feel-
ing depressed or stressed” and “makes
me smell bad,” Nassau said. On the
other, smoking is “like going to get a
coffee at a cafe. It’s a social activity that
you can do with someone else and that
you can enjoy,” he added.
Nassau also said smoking has the
allure of “feeling like you look cool
with a cigarette,” adding that he knows
people “who don’t smoke but hold a
cigarette in their hands and feel better
about themselves.”
Smoking scorn
Many students said they didn’t pick
up cigarettes under peer pressure,
though some feel pressured to stop.
A 2002 study published in College
Student Journal found that two-thirds
of college students in Florida found
smoking unattractive and about half
considered it socially unacceptable.
In the fall 2009 Herald poll, 18.3 per-
cent of undergraduates said they had
used tobacco in the previous month.
About one-third of all Rhode Island
college students responding to a 2008
University of Massachusetts study said
they had smoked in the prior 30 days.
College students generally overes-
timate the prevalence of smoking on
their campuses, Director of Health
Education Frances Mantak wrote in
an e-mail to The Herald. Though 7
percent of Brown students in 2009
reported using tobacco 1-3 times
per month, Mantak wrote, the popu-
lar perception would be closer to 50
percent. The same survey found that
6.6 percent of Brown undergrads use
tobacco weekly.
“College can be a time when people
develop habits around smoking that
can be very hard to change once they
graduate,” Mantak wrote.
For the Brown student body, smok-
ers constitute a minority. “Patterns of
smoking at Brown tend to be lower
than the national norms for their age
group and for local college students,”
wrote Nancy Barnett, associate pro-
fessor at Brown’s Center for Alcohol
and Addiction Studies, in an e-mail to
The Herald.
“The general Brown culture is anti-
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categories looked at in the ORC’s
report and so would have been left
to do their own internal reviews.
Of the 66 staff who lost their
jobs last year, Davis said at least 10
had applied for and found another
job at Brown.
Julie Haworth, who used to
manage events for the Office of
Continuing Education, lost her
job but was able to secure a posi-
tion heading the University’s new
Events and Conference Service
Center.
“We strongly encouraged her
to apply for this new position,” Da-
vis said. “She was absolutely the
best person for the job.”
Other positions could not be
filled in-house.
After Deborah Berlo left her
post as director of Graphics Ser-
vices to lead Princeton’s printing
and mailing operations this winter,
no lower-level employees were
ready to step up to the position,
Davis said. Leslie Rutledge came
this summer from San Diego State
University’s graphics department
to head the office.
According to messages on the
Brown and the Economy website,
all of the laid-off employees re-
ceived severance packages effec-
tive July 1 to provide four weeks
of compensation, including health
benefits, for ever y year they
worked at Brown up to 40 weeks.
The package included additional
compensation for staff with more
than 10 years of service.
The University also agreed to
provide workshops and training
programs regarding job seeking
and transitioning as part of its
outplacement support services.
“We’ve had some real suc-
cess stories over the summer of
people finding jobs elsewhere,”
Davis said.
Of the 139 positions vacated by
those who took advantage of the
voluntary staff retirement incen-
tive offered last year, Davis said
about 40 have been approved to
be refilled.
“The whole point (of the early
retirement incentive) was to free
up positions that could be used
for different things, but some of
those positions needed to be filled
anyway,” Davis said, noting that
there was no way to control who
participated in the program.
The University created a Va-
cancy Review Committee in the
fall of 2008 when President Ruth
Simmons announced a hiring
freeze on all vacant staff and ad-
ministrative positions.
Davis said the committee,
which carefully reviewed which
vacancies had to be refilled during
the tough economic times, has
been eliminated. Because the
freeze is currently still in effect,
Davis said the Human Resources
Department will take over the
committee’s function, but in a “less
bureaucratic way,” without asking
for all the forms and documenta-
tion the committee had required.
As the University undergoes
a process of reorganization and
consolidation to adapt to a weak-
ened economy, Davis said there
is also talk about restructuring
to mitigate the effects of future
economic downturns.
“The other thing the Organiza-
tional Review Committee said to
us is just to make sure our normal
processes — filling vacancies, re-
cruitment or whatever — allow
us to change over time,” Davis
said. “The committee said, ‘Don’t
make us go through this painful
process again. Figure out how, in
the normal course of business, to
design processes, discussions and
vehicles for reorganizing to keep
up with the times in a way that
doesn’t get everybody in a tizzy.’ ”

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smoking,” Kremin said. Still, “having
somebody tell you to stop isn’t actually
very helpful,” she said, adding that her

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friends are “respectful enough not to
make it an issue.”
“There’s a total social stigma at-
tached to smoking,” MacAneney said.
Cardenas said that some strangers
once approached her while she was
smoking outside a party, informing
her that she would get cancer.
The risk of cancer isn’t enough to
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the event occurs at a different time
every year.
Having the first day of shop-
change) because it made life
easier,” Shtull-Leber said. “Still,
I understand the frustrations and
complications that came with it.
While it was beneficial for the ob-
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Alum creates internship fund to benefit BuDS workers
By Abby Kerson
Contributing Writer
Brown Dining Ser vices’ student
employees can win compensation
for low-paying and unpaid summer
internships through a fund created
by a former BuDS worker and recent
alum.
If the fund reaches at least
$25,000 by the end of the academic
year it will be endowed and continue
“for as long as Brown is around,”
said Dora Ruiz ’06, who created the
fund. But Ruiz is hoping to raise
$50,000 in order to provide for more
students.
If the endowment goal is not
reached, whatever is raised will be
used to fund the program until the
money runs out.
Students applying for the grant
must demonstrate financial need,
have worked for BuDS for at least
a year, and have a recommenda-
tion letter from a BuDS supervi-
sor. Hopeful workers must apply
to receive the grant for a specific
internship.
Ruiz worked for BuDS for over
three years when she was at Brown.
She wanted to give back, but there
was “nothing yet set up for donat-
Muslim adviser to Obama urges interfaith cooperation
By Ana Alvarez
Senior Staff Writer
In his lecture Wednesday night,
Eboo Patel urged interfaith coop-
eration and pluralism in America,
especially in response to last sum-
mer’s tension between the Muslim
and Christian faiths. Patel founded
the Interfaith Youth Core in Chi-
cago and was recently appointed
to President Obama’s Advisor y
Council on Faith-Based and Neigh-
borhood Partnerships.
He spoke to a half-filled but spirited
crowd of students and community
members in Salomon 101.
Patel’s lecture, titled “Acts of
Faith: Interfaith Leadership at a
Time of Global Religious Crisis,”
was part of the Catalizing Conver-
sations on Diversity series spon-
sored by the Office of Institutional
Diversity.
Patel began his discussion with
a description of the current rise of
bigotr y in America against Mus-
lims. Today, “Muslims are afraid
to be Muslims,” he said.
Following 9/11, the national de-
Brown Dining Services’ student employees are now eligible for stipends for unpaid summer internships.
ing to BuDS or BuDS employees,”
she said. Now anyone can donate to
the fund through the University’s
website.
Ruiz and a fellow alum, Cindy
Swain ’09, have each pledged to do-
nate a dollar for each member who
joins a Facebook group that Ruiz
created to raise awareness about
the fund when the group reaches
bate about the planned interfaith
center near Ground Zero and the
recent controversy over a proposed
Quran-burning in Florida, “forces
of bigotr y have built a hate ma-
chine for the past 10 years,” Patel
said.
However, Patel added, the next
10 years will change.
Patel outlined steps that needed
to be taken to cement interfaith
cooperation in the United States.
He advocated for a new defini-
tion of “us and them.” Instead of
making “us” one religious group
and “them” another, “us” should be
those who support pluralism, and
“them” those who support extrem-
ism, he said.
Quoting Martin Luther King
Jr., Patel reminded the audience
that we can either “live together
as brothers or perish together as
fools.”
Patel also promoted making in-
terfaith cooperation a social norm.
Patel referenced the interfaith co-
operation that arose as a response
to the threat of Quran-burning in
Florida. Leaders from all religions
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2,000 members.
The Brown Internship Award
Program, which provides grants
to undergraduates with low-paying
and unpaid internships, saw a 21
percent increase in applicants last
year, according to an April 28 Herald
article. Ruiz pointed to this increase
in demand for internship grants as a
main reason for setting up the fund.
joined to denounce the burning,
Patel said.
If we can make this response a
social norm, like environmentalism
or human rights, Patel said, we can
defeat bigots by making them im-
mediately marginalized.
Patel also encouraged believers
of every faith to find the theological
basis for interfaith cooperation in
their religions.
He described an anecdote
from his childhood in which he
neglected a Jewish friend that had
been bullied for his faith. When his
father realized this, he told Patel
that he had “failed as a Muslim.”
His Muslim faith, Patel said, called
for him to stand up for his Jewish
friend and par take in inter faith
cooperation.
Today, some Christian children
are being taught that hatred to-
wards Muslims is part of Christian
theology, Patel said. These teach-
ings are extremely detrimental to
interfaith cooperation, he added.
“We need to give our kids the
tools to positively engage in a world
of theological diversity,” Patel said.
Alex DePaoli / Herald
“It was hard when you were
working all year to make ends meet,
let alone to let go and do what you
want for the summer,” Ruiz said.
When Ruiz was a student, she
applied for a BIAP grant to work for
a nonprofit in Boston that worked to
prepare high school students for the
coming school year, but was wait-
listed. She ended up working as a
In order to further enact the
movement to interfaith coopera-
tion, Patel said, we need to under-
stand the tradition of America as
a pluralist nation.
Recent behavior would have
been a “slap in the face on our
founding fathers,” Patel said. “We
cannot let America be defined” as
only Christian, he added.
“American tradition is a tradi-
tion that speaks to pluralism,” Patel
said. “The world needs to see from
America that this model of plural-
ism can work.”
Patel urged members of dif-
ferent religions to find common
ground in their theologies. He
pointed to the golden rule and the
cannon of mercy as two common
points between various religions.
Patel closed his address by
calling on Brown students to ap-
ply interfaith cooperation in the
University and in the Providence
community. If students do this, Pa-
tel said, they can become a model
for interfaith cooperation for the
nation.
“What better moment than now?
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summer RC instead.
“It was OK, but it wasn’t my pas-
sion. I like to work with underprivi-
leged youth,” Ruiz said.
Ruiz contacted Ann Hoffman, di-
rector of administration for Dining
Services, who said she was “bowled-
over, not surprised, but struck by
the fact that four years after (Ruiz)
graduated, her BuDS experience
had still been so meaningful that
she wanted to give something back.”
“Dining Ser vices wouldn’t be
able to financially support the fund,”
Hoffman added, but the fund will
have her “full support”.
Ruiz has also been in contact with
Melanie Masarin ’12, the general
manager for BuDS, in order to help
facilitate fundraising on campus.
According to Masarin, the fund-
raising is still in the early planning
stages but a few local businesses
have already donated to the cause.
Avon Cinema has contributed 50
movie tickets, which Masarin said
she hopes to raffle off at a benefit
in the spring.
BuDS employees will also soon
have the opportunity to work at the
Gate on Friday or Saturday night
and donate their wages to the fund,
she said.
What opportunity is more right?”
Patel asked the crowd.
In the question-and-answer ses-
sion, an audience member asked
Patel about the recent controversy
over the community center near
Ground Zero and whether the
mosque took into consideration
the sensitivities of 9/11 victim’s
families.
While he thought these sensi-
tivities were important, Patel said,
he thought that the sensitivities of
families of Muslim victims were
also impor tant. These families
should be able to go to the burial
site of their loved ones with head
scar ves and walk a few blocks to
pray without fear, Patel said.
Patel also added that the center
would not be a “mega mosque” as
extremists described, but would in-
stead be “an institution that serves
common good and is inspired by
faith.”
He noted that the controversy
over the mosque was not caused
by the acquirement of the property
near Ground Zero, but by extremist
bloggers.
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Lawyer may have had Veteran students look for support
conflict of interest
continued from page 1
McCormick maintains that the
accusation was made falsely and
that, partly because the female stu-
dent’s father is a major fundraiser
and donor to Brown, the Univer-
sity failed to properly investigate the
claim and actively interfered with his
ability to exonerate himself.
A lawyer for the female alum and
her father — also defendants in the
suit — maintains that his client was
in fact raped.
The University has denied any
wrongdoing in the matter.
The Herald is withholding the
name of the female alum because
she may have been the victim of a
sex crime.
According to court records, two
lawyers from Stone’s firm repre-
sented the University in Touret, et
al. v. National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, et al., in which it was
named as a defendant. The suit was
before the court from 2004 to 2007.
Stone represented McCormick in
the fall of 2006.
In a January 2009 article in the
National Law Journal, Brown’s gen-
eral counsel, Beverly Ledbetter,
named Adler Pollock & Sheehan
among four law firms the University
typically turns to for outside legal
work.
Stone — who estimated he has
represented 15 to 20 Brown students
in disciplinary hearings over the past
25 years — said he was “not aware”
that his firm was representing the
University in the case at the time he
represented McCormick. He said
he did not list the University as an
adverse party when checking for
conflicts of interest.
According to David Grossman,
a Harvard Law School professor
who teaches ethics, Stone should
have disclosed the conflict of inter-
est created by representing both
Brown and McCormick under the
American Bar Association’s model
rules for professional conduct. The
Rhode Island rules are the same as
the bar association’s model rules
in the area of conflicts of interest.
“The lawyer shouldn’t represent
the client if it would be directly ad-
verse to another client,” Grossman
said.
Rhode Island rules allow lawyers
to represent two clients who may
present a conflict of interest only
after getting both parties’ written
permission and only when their in-
terests are not “fundamentally an-
tagonistic.” But McCormick never
gave this permission, said Kilpatrick,
McCormick’s current lawyer.
According to Michael Burch, a
former assistant wrestling coach
who acted as McCormick’s adviser
in the disciplinary process, Stone
directed his efforts towards negoti-
ating an agreement with the female
alum’s lawyer rather than preparing
for a Brown disciplinary hearing.
Burch said Stone “would scream
and raise his voice at me about get-
ting the McCormicks to sign the
agreement.”
Stone said attorney-client privi-
lege prevents him from discussing
the details of his work for McCor-
mick.
Grossman said Brown would
have had an interest in the negotia-
tions even if they were performed
directly with the female alum. For
example, McCormick’s withdrawal
from Brown relieved the University
of the onus of adjudicating a conten-
tious rape allegation.
In an October 2006 e-mail re-
vealed in the current case’s discov-
ery process, the female alum’s father
wrote to President Ruth Simmons,
“Ruth … I am working to resolve
the matter with the student who at-
tacked (the female alum) — the goal
is to have him withdraw from Brown
and not have a University hearing.”
During negotiations of the agree-
ment that led to McCormick’s with-
drawal, the female alum’s attorney
wrote to Stone, “To have (McCor-
mick) decide not to follow the course
that you and I have been discussing
for a week is unfair and unreason-
able,” after McCormick signalled
reluctance to withdraw and release
his accuser of any legal liability. “I
can only hope that you are able to
persuade him and his family of what
a mistake this is.”
In response, Stone wrote, “I don’t
think anyone is more upset than me.
I acted in good faith, as did you. My
gut reaction tells me that someone
else is giving this family very bad
advice.”
Stone said that McCormick never
signed a release barring him from
legal action against the University,
despite University efforts to com-
pel him to do so. “If anything, I was
working against Brown,” he said.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
By Lindor Qunaj
Senior Staff Writer
In the few years leading up to the
momentous ice-cream social and
other equally memorable orientation
festivities, many Brown students
are caught up in an over-scheduled
world of sports, theater, standard-
ized exams and, of course, the usual
high school drama. For Staff Ser-
geant Chaney Harrison ’11, though,
that was not the case.
On Aug. 22, 2007, just three or
four days before embarking on the
Brown Outdoor Leadership Train-
ing program, Harrison separated
from active duty in the U.S. Air
Force’s 23rd Special Tactics Squad-
ron. Based out of Hurlburt Field in
the Florida Panhandle, he served as
a Special Operations Pararescue-
man prior to enrolling in Brown’s
Resumed Undergradute Education
program.
Finding support
“Coming directly from the mili-
tary onto a campus with the re-
sources like those we have here at
Brown, the opportunities to explore
my interests in almost any direction
have been almost overwhelming,”
Harrison wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald.
And Harrison, a public policy
and education concentrator and avid
rugby player, has certainly had the
opportunity to pursue a wide range
of interests in his first three years
here at Brown.
After beginning his study of
Portuguese, he won the Oliver
Kwon Research Award through
the Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies. With funding
from this award, Harrison was able
to travel to Rio de Janeiro in the
summer after his freshman year
to film a documentary that was
then featured at Providence’s Latin
American Film Festival the follow-
ing spring. The following year, a
C.V. Starr Social Entrepreneurship
Fellowship from the Swearer Center
for Public Service allowed him to
return to Brazil the following year
for nonprofit work.
Though Harrison soon learned
how to make the most of his Brown
experience, the beginning was not
entirely easy. “My freshman year
I quickly realized that there was
nothing on campus, either in the
administration or among the stu-
dent groups, that was prepared to
help veterans make the transition
into campus life,” he wrote in an
e-mail to the Herald.
That is where the Brown Univer-
sity Student Veterans Society comes
in. In spring 2008, Harrison — along
with veterans Chris Baker ’09, John
Hermansen ’10 and Miranda Sum-
Thursday, September 16, 2010
mers MA’09 — created the society
to provide a peer support network
for current veteran students as well
as veterans considering Brown for
their college education.
But “due to the extremely small
number of veterans we have in the
undergraduate community, it has
been ver y challenging for our
organization to put on numerous
activities or programs,” said Har-
rison, who serves as the group’s
president.
Fortunately for veteran students,
FEATURE
it seems that the administration is
taking notice of this lack of social
support. Last fall, Vice President for
Campus Life and Student Services
Margaret Klawunn and Dean of the
College Katherine Bergeron hired
Harrison as a veterans liaison to
the administration. In this position,
his role has been to make faculty
and other administrators cognizant
of the various issues that veterans
face.
Becoming ‘veteran-friendly’
Brown has made significant
progress in veteran affairs in terms
of financial aid. While veteran stu-
dents have always been able to
bring in their standard GI Bill ben-
efits to help pay the cost of tuition,
they have also become eligible to
receive supplementar y funding
through the newly-formed Yellow
Ribbon Program, an initiative set
forth in the Post-9/11 GI Bill.
Run by the United States Depart-
ment of Veteran Affairs, the Yellow
Ribbon Program forms partner-
ships with schools willing to provide
additional funding for veterans who
want to attend college. Brown, for
instance, annually provides twenty
$10,000 scholarships for undergrad-
uates, ten $14,000 scholarships for
graduate students, and three $5,000
scholarships for medical students.
These amounts are then matched
by government funds.
Director of Financial Aid James
Tilton, who is a veteran himself,
praised the Yellow Ribbon Program.
“We believe this is a great opportu-
nity for students who are talented
and interested in coming to Brown
to have the resources necessary to
do so,” he said, adding that the Uni-
versity was immediately interested
in a partnership when approached
by the program two years ago.
Brown’s commitment to finan-
cial aid for veterans is apparent
after a comparison of scholarship
amounts awarded by similar insti-
tutions. “Some of our peers have
more students that are eligible, but
the total amount of scholarship they
can receive is lower,” Tilton said.
Harvard, for instance, provides fifty
scholarships to undergraduate vet-
erans through the Yellow Ribbon
Program, but each award is only
$3,000. Yale gives out fifty $5,000
scholarships, for undergraduates
and graduates combined.
Financial aid aside, Brown has
more to do to draw veterans to the
Van Wickle Gates, Harrison said.
“When it comes to the public atti-
tude of the institution towards vet-
erans, the policies and programs in
place for veterans, and the presence
of a student veteran community as
a whole, then Brown is definitely
behind some of its peers,” he wrote.
He cited Columbia University as
a specific school that has actively
tried to make itself veteran-friendly
and as a result, has increased its
veteran enrollment to approximate-
ly 140. Brown, by comparison, has
veteran enrollment in the single
digits, according to Harrison.
“One of the biggest barriers to
creating the necessar y support
structures is simply the lack of
demand,” wrote Harrison. And
“unfortunately, Brown is simply
not doing a good job of attracting
student veterans.”
Future directions
When asked about any changes
in the number of veterans applying
and coming to Brown, Admission
Officer Peter Newcomb was opti-
mistic. “We have not seen big in-
creases in our enrollment numbers,
but we have fielded many inquiries
from service members and vets in
the past year,” he wrote in an e-
mail to The Herald, adding that the
University “may have an increase
in the number of applications from
vets this admission season.”
The Resumed Undergraduate
Education program, designed for
students who have been out of high
school for six years or longer, is the
most common route of application
and admission for veteran students
coming to Brown, Newcomb wrote.
When veterans apply as RUE stu-
dents, admission officers “have
more time to carefully consider and
discuss their experience” because
the RUE applicant pool is “much
smaller,” Newcomb wrote. “Spe-
cific training and experience in the
military is considered, especially in
terms of how it relates to choosing
Brown and a potential field of study.”
Overall, Harrison explained that
his time on College Hill has been
an “incredible experience from day
one.”
“Despite its reputation as an anti-
military school,” Harrison wrote,
“the Brown community has been
incredibly welcoming and support-
ive of myself and my fellow veteran
students.”
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Asbestos Some dismayed, others ambivalent after early start
removed continued from page 2 tion starting the Thursday before
Labor Day, when Brown classes
Monday blues
The change also caused prob-
Lowry Marshall, professor of
theatre, speech and dance, said that

from dorms But some faculty have wanted

to “reexamine the fall schedule to
make it more in line with spring,”
usually are not in session.
“Last year, we had 1,246 stu-
dents taking courses from us in
lems for students and professors
with Monday-only seminars. Be-
cause shopping period starts on
while the change did not affect her
once she was back at Brown, it did
affect her summer. Marshall helped
said University Registrar Robert the fall,” Morone wrote, so it’s been a Wednesday, Monday seminars run a summer theatre program at
Fitzgerald, noting that the fall se- “an incredible scramble for us to normally are not held that week. Brown that ended very closely to
By Mark Raymond mester is often shorter than the juggle everything — shopping pe- However, since the first Monday the early start of the school year.
Senior Staff Writer spring semester because of Labor riod, advising and our professional of shopping period fell on Labor “The change throws the whole
Day and Rosh Hashanah. A pro- obligations.” Day and classes were cancelled, semester off,” Marshall said. “The
The University completed asbestos posal to make the earlier start According to Associate Profes- Monday seminars did not meet un- distance between summer and
abatement procedures in 22 resi- permanent never went to a faculty sor of Political Science and Public til Sept. 13, making shopping for Brown was miniscule.”
dence halls over the summer, ac- vote, he said. Policy Ross Cheit, when professors these classes difficult for students. Marshall added that students
cording to Facilities Management’s To make this change perma- from the Department of Political “I liked the fact that we had a who participated in the same sum-
Director of Project Management nent, Fitzgerald added, “we would Science heard of the change and long weekend to ease into school,” mer program were also affected
Paul Dietel, though none were in need more feedback from students, realized the conflict, the depart- said Kara Kaufman ’12. “But at the negatively by the early start.
response to an imminent problem. teachers, parents and alums.” ment met and concluded that every same time it was very frustrating Other professors, like Douglas
The procedures, which the Uni- According to Fitzgerald, the professor would individually decide because I had a Monday seminar Brown, director of writing support
versity conducts as part of renova- calendars for the 2011–12 and how to best handle the conflict. that didn’t start until two weeks programs and adjunct lecturer in
tion projects, are also sometimes 2012–13 school years will return Some professors, Cheit said, de- after school started.” English, had mixed feelings about
conducted proactively in buildings to normal. But, he added, the ad- cided to cancel the first class. This Kaufman said that in order to the change.
that are not under renovation. ministration will run into the same caused confusion among students make up for the missed classed “I liked getting Labor Day off,
“None of the work was done problem again in the fall of 2013, — some of whom thought their time, her professor assigned read- but I didn’t like starting early,”
because of a hazard, but part of when Rosh Hashanah starts the class was meeting when it was not ing before the first class met. Brown said. “Thankfully, it didn’t
an ongoing maintenance of the night of Wednesday, Sept. 5. and others who did not attend class Students who wanted to shop affect my classes.”
buildings,” said Director of Envi- “Maybe another year that pos- because they thought all political a class at the time, however, were Myles Coleman ’13 not only
ronmental Health and Safety Ste- es similar challenges, we may be science classes were cancelled. still restricted because they could appreciated the extra day off, but
phen Morin. “We coordinated it asked to vote again,” Bergeron said. Laura Stumhofer ’13 ran into not shop the class until near the thought that having a free day
around the summer programs and this very problem. While she en- end of shopping period. helped him reconsider his classes.
had a closely planned schedule.” Poli sci problems joyed having the long weekend off, The conflict with Monday semi- “The long weekend is nice,”
Morin said that projects like the Not ever yone welcomed the she said, she was annoyed that her nars “has been an unfortunate side Coleman said. ”You have time to
current renovation of the Metcalf change. One big conflict that arose political science classes were af- effect,” Bergeron said. To make up think about classes during the day
Chemistry and Research Labora- from starting earlier was that pro- fected. for the conflict, the Office of the off.”
tor y include a standard asbestos fessors from the Department of “There were some poli sci class- Dean of the College “tried to accom- As a first-year, Atiuh Cervantes
abatement procedure, but the Political Science were attending an es that didn’t even start until a week modate registration” for Monday ’14 liked having a small break while
University also takes a proactive important conference during Labor later,” Stumhofer said. seminars by extending by a week shopping period was still getting
approach in dealing with asbestos Day weekend. Though faculty have discussed the deadline of registration without started.
when students are not using certain “The early start date has been making the change permanent, a fee for those classes, she said. “Because of the day off, it’s not
buildings. a nightmare for political science,” Cheit said that making the change so intense right away,” Cervantes
“For asbestos in buildings, wrote James Morone, professor of permanent would cause a large Nice long weekend? said. “I ended up changing one of
the (Environmental Protection political science and chair of the problem for the Department of Other professors expressed dis- my classes over the weekend.”
Agency)’s policy is to not impact department, in an e-mail to The Political Science. content with the change, but many Taran Raghuram ’14 was pleas-
asbestos unless you are doing Herald. According to Morone, po- “If this was a one-time thing, it students who didn’t have any con- antly surprised by the break.
renovation,” Morin said. “We took litical science professors normally wouldn’t be that bad,” Cheit said. flicts with classes said they appreci- “We already have a three-day
a proactive approach in Hegeman attend the annual convention of the “But if it’s permanent, that’s a whole ated it, especially the long weekend weekend? That’s awesome,” he
(Hall), for example, because we American Political Science Associa- different story.” it provided. said.
wanted to prevent the potential for
students to impact the asbestos.”
Dietel and Morin emphasized
that the University takes into ac-
count all necessar y safety mea-
sures when conducting an asbestos
abatement, including air contain-
ment and minimization of exposure
to hazardous materials.
“It’s all highly regulated,” Dietel
said. “All of the abatement sites are
completely contained.”
Morin said the University en-
sures that all necessar y precau-
tions are taken into account and
that they go above and beyond re-
quired measures to make sure the
safety of both students and faculty
is met.
“We definitely expect more than
the minimum,” Morin said. “We
have a consultant who makes sure
the contractors are doing their job
properly and that safety measures
are followed.”
He said the project must also
meet set regulations for its work-
ers outlined by the EPA and the
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration.
Dietel said there are other
buildings being considered for
abatement, and the availability of
funding will determine how soon
the University can move forward
on treating those.
“There is a possibility that we
may move forward with more proj-
ects over winter break and next
summer,” Dietel said.
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With a new year, newly appointed representatives join UCS
By Nicole Boucher
Senior Staff Writer
Seasoned council members and
freshly minted first-year represen-
tatives came together for the first
official general body meeting of the
Undergraduate Council of Students
Wednesday. The council filled its
vacant executive board positions
and liaison roles through internal
elections at the meeting.
David Rattner ’13 and Molly Lao
’13 were voted in as Campus Life
Committee Chair and Communica-
tions Chair, respectively, filling the
two vacancies of the executive board.
“Campus life is supposed to be
Few surprises in R.I.’s gubernatorial, congressional, local elections
continued from page 1
results showed voter turnout in
Providence jumping to 27 percent,
the highest since Cicilline earned
his first Democratic nomination for
mayor in 2002.
A series of withering last-minute
attacks from businessman Antho-
ny Gemma criticizing Cicilline’s
record as mayor and blasting him
for accepting erroneous pay raises
threatened to undermine Cicilline’s
frontrunner status heading into the
primary contest.
right in the campus,” Rattner said.
“It is about changing our day-to-day
life,” so no student concern will be
too small, he said.
Lao said she helped to increase
interaction with students last year
with Twitter, Facebook and blogging
mechanisms, and she will continue
to increase communication this year.
Rattner and Lao join Council
President Diane Mokoro ’11, Vice
President Ben Farber ’12, Academic
and Administrative Affairs Chair
Eden Castro ’12, Student Activities
Chair Ralanda Nelson ’12 and Admis-
sions and Student Services Chair
Chris Collins ’11, who were voted
in by the student body at the end of
But Cicilline weathered Gemma’s
assault, earning 37.2 percent of the
vote to Gemma’s 23.1 percent. Pro-
gressive state Rep. David Segal, D-
Providence, and former state Demo-
cratic Party Chairman Bill Lynch
both trailed at nearly 20 percent.
Cicilline will face the former state
House minority whip from Tiver-
ton, Republican John Loughlin II,
in November.
But Gemma’s strong showing
among blue-collar voters “could
spell serious challenges for Cicil-
line’s campaign come November,”
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last semester.
The council also elected its li-
aisons to other groups serving in
various capacities across campus
and beyond. Jessica Liss ’13, a for-
mer Herald staff writer, will serve
as the Corporation liaison. Liss said
“direct dialogue” with Corporation
members must increase rather than
allowing information to pass through
a filter to the Council.
Michael Schneider ’13 assumes
the role of appointments chair, pro-
viding a link between UCS and the
various student committees they ap-
point on campus. Stephanie Pak ’12
will connect Brown with the other
Ivy League schools as the new Ivy
according to Victor Profughi, Rhode
Island College professor emeritus of
political science and director of the
polling firm Quest Research.
While no conclusive polling
exists on the impact of Cicilline’s
sexual orientation, the fact that the
Providence mayor is openly gay is
likely “not helpful” among these vot-
ers, Profughi said.
Taveras also faced a tough pri-
mary, though the results tell a dif-
ferent story. The Providence lawyer
nabbed almost 50 percent of the vote
against opponents City Councilman
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Council policy chairperson.
Former Herald Senior Staff Writ-
er Mitra Anoushiravani ’11 will serve
as the liaison between UCS and the
Undergraduate Finance Board. UFB
President Adam Kiki-Charles ’11
said this role would be especially
important this year in “revamping
the relationship between UCS and
UFB.”
Last March, there was debate
on the relationship between UCS
and UFB after UFB proposed con-
stitutional changes that would grant
them more say in various aspects
of control, The Herald reported at
the time.
Brandon Tomasso ’13 was elect-
John Lombardi; state Rep. Steven
Costantino, D-Providence; and re-
peat mayoral candidate Chris Young.
Lombardi came in second with 29.0
percent, while Costantino and Young
took 20.0 percent and 1.6 percent,
respectively.
“The biggest surprise of the eve-
ning was the margin of Taveras’ win
in Providence,” Profughi said, add-
ing that significant majorities on the
East Side, which includes Brown,
were key to his victory. There is “no
question” that the Brown commu-
nity, if construed broadly as not only
students and faculty but also alums
and Taveras advisers associated with
the University, played an important
role in Taveras’ win, Profughi said.
Taveras’ victory also means vot-
ers are seeking a change in city
government, according to Wendy
Schiller, associate professor of politi-
cal science.
“It showed that voters in Provi-
dence really want a changing of the
political guard,” Schiller said, adding
that the win represents an “opportu-
nity for Providence to become more
coherent politically” if Taveras can
live up to his message of being able
to bridge ethnic divides.
Taveras benefited from the
competition between Costantino
and Lombardi “for the same core
voter base,” according to Schiller.
Taveras’ effective get-out-the-vote
effort and a successful coalition of
South Providence, East Side and
Fox Point voters was instrumental
as well, she said.
Tuesday’s voting also made John
Robitaille, former communications
adviser to Gov. Donald Carcieri
’65, the winner of the Republican
gubernatorial nomination with 70.3
percent of the vote. Robitaille de-
feated Victor Moffitt, a former state
representative from Coventry.
State Treasurer Frank Caprio
took the Democratic nomination for
governor in an uncontested race. He
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ed the council’s alumni liaison.
Mokoro said she would like to bet-
ter “reach out to people who were
‘you’ ­— one, five or 25 years ago.”
Communicating with alums can tap
into a resource of knowledge for the
council in the future, she said.
UCS also elected Remy Robert
’13 as secretary; Holly Hunt ’13, who
was responsible last year for devel-
oping a UCS website, as webmaster;
and Kyra Mungia ’13 as parliamen-
tarian pro tempore.
Next week, the council will hear
presentations from Vice President
for Campus Life and Student Ser-
vices Margaret Klawunn and Dean
of the College Katherine Bergeron.
and Robitaille will face off against in-
dependent candidate Lincoln Chafee
’75 P’13 in November.
Incumbent Rep. Jim Langevin,
D-R.I., fended off challengers Betsey
Dennigan and Ernie Greco to re-
claim his party’s nomination for the
2nd District Congressional seat, with
57.4 percent of the tally, compared
to Dennigan’s 33.9 percent. Den-
nigan, a former state representative
from Pawtucket, attacked Langevin
from the left, galvanizing support
among progressives and women’s
rights groups angered by Langevin’s
stalling on the health care bill due
to his anti-abortion stance. Greco,
a conservative Democrat, criticized
Langevin for not sufficiently defend-
ing pro-life values.
Langevin will have a November
rematch against North Kingston
businessman Mark Zaccaria, who
bested three opponents — William
Clegg III, Michael Gardiner and
Donald Robbio — in the Republican
primary. Langevin handily defeated
Zaccaria in the 2008 general election.
Yet Langevin’s margin of victory
in his Democratic primary means
the race could be closer this time
around.
“I think it’s an opportunity for
the Republicans in the 2nd Congres-
sional District even more than in
the 1st,” Schiller said, adding that
Dennigan’s strong showing despite a
lack of campaign advertising reveals
“dissatisfaction to some extent with
Langevin.”
Primary defeats of 10 incumbent
Democratic state legislators may
also suggest openings for state Re-
publicans, Schiller said.
“Republicans are relatively weak
in Rhode Island in state legislative
races, but this gives them an op-
portunity,” she said. “If voters were
willing to take out the incumbent and
put in a replacement Democrat, they
might be willing to put in a replace-
ment Republican in November.”
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M etro
ABC drama filmed in Marijuana school goes up in smoke
R.I. set to premiere
By Anne Simons
Staff Writer
People familiar with Rhode Island
sights will want to add a new tele-
vision show to their list this year.
“Body of Proof,” a new drama on
ABC, has been filming in and around
Providence since July, and will most
likely premiere at the end of October,
said Matthew Gross, an executive
producer of the show.
The drama, which stars Dana
Delany of “Desperate Housewives,”
is about a workaholic Philadelphia
neurosurgeon with plenty of personal
problems who sustains a hand injury
in a car accident. She can no longer
operate on the living, but “she can
operate on the dead,” said Gross,
so she becomes a medical examiner.
Each week, she and her fellow de-
tectives will solve crimes, he added,
but she will also be seeking personal
redemption for her past. He said the
show is in some ways a female ver-
sion of “House,” though featuring a
medical examiner.
The show is set in Philadelphia,
but is filmed in Rhode Island. Shows
are often filmed in cities other than
where they take place, said Patrick
Preblick, an ABC publicist for the
show. Providence was one of “a num-
ber of places” where filming could
have been possible, he said, and
there were “terrific fiscal reasons”
for choosing Rhode Island.
Gross said he calls Providence
“Providelphia” for how well it has
worked as a substitute for Phila-
delphia. The production was lured
by what he called “incredible tax
incentives” that helped bring down
the bottom-line cost. Thanks to the
“magic” of filmmaking, set exten-
sions or computer generated images
can be added to shots to make them
look like they were filmed elsewhere,
Gross said.
A pilot for “Body of Proof” was
filmed in R.I. in April, and — after the
network ordered 12 more episodes
in May — production returned to the
area in July, Preblick said.
Much of the filming took place in
a production facility in nearby War-
wick. The sets used images of the
Philadelphia skyline in windows to
help establish the location, Preblick
said.
Other R.I. filming locations in-
cluded Roger Williams Park, Iron
Works Tavern in Warwick, Rhode
Island College, Twist Restaurant in
Warwick and Bold Point Park in East
Providence, according to Preblick.
“If Rhode Islanders watch (the
read
share
recycle
show), they’ll definitely see local
spots in Rhode Island,” Preblick said.
While some scenes have been
filmed in the areas around Brown,
there has not been any filming on
the campus proper, Gross said. “We
would love to shoot on Brown lo-
cations,” he said, though it can be
difficult for television shows to get
approval from the University to shoot
on campus.
Gross also pointed to the eco-
nomic benefits of the show for the
state. “We’ve spent a ton of money
here,” Gross said. “We’re offering
jobs and goods and services.”
Many cast and crew members
and extras were drawn from the lo-
cal talent pool, Preblick said, though
he did not have exact figures on the
number of jobs the show provides.
Being in Providence has its ad-
vantages for the actors, Delany —
the lead actress — said at an ABC
Press Tour event in August. “The
great thing about being on location
is it really makes the actors form a
team because we’re all new in town.
… So we’ve all been to the mall a lot
together,” she said.
Providence is a “well-kept secret”
in the filming world, Gross said. “It’s
got a tremendous ability to double”
for other cities, he said. The city en-
compasses many different looks and
styles “within spitting distance,” he
said. “We’ve had a great experience. I
will shout it from the mountaintops.”
“Body of Proof” will continue to
film the 12 episodes ordered by the
network through December. If the
network orders another nine epi-
sodes, the show will continue to film
through April, Preblick said.
Currently, the network plans to air
the show on Fridays at 9 p.m., with
a premiere on Oct. 22, Gross said.
But the network has been so pleased
with the product that it is discussing
moving “Body of Proof” to another
night — a move that could affect the
date of the premiere, he said.
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“There was something there of value.”
— Luis Hernandez, on his canceled pot-growing school
By Rebecca Ballhaus
Senior Staff Writer
if I like it.’ ”
Hernandez added that he has
neither the resources nor the time
Ultimately, Hernandez chose to
err on the side of caution. “Given
the subject matter and the contro-
The New England School of Alter- to deal with a lawsuit if it were to versial factor of it, it would not be
native Horticultural Studies — pre- come to that. wise to move forward without the
viously billed as Rhode Island’s first He has consulted an attorney, state’s (explicit) approval,” he said.
medical marijuana school — has he said, adding that “we all came “I would love to help the com-
decided to cancel its inaugural class to the agreement that without the munity, and I think I have some-
and indefinitely postpone opera- approval of the state there was thing of value to bring — there
tions over concerns that the Rhode nothing much further to do.” are a lot of accidents, fires, things
Island Department of Health has Though Hernandez noted like that,” arising from the cultiva-
not offered it explicit approval. the “controversial” aspect of his tion of marijuana, he said. “There
Luis Hernandez, the school’s school, he said as far as he could was something there of value and
founder, cited a Sept. 2 Herald arti- ascertain, there was nothing ille- still is something there of value
cle in which a spokeswoman for the gal about it. “We’re just showing for someone who wants to take on
state Department of Health raised somebody how to do something the powers that be to try to spear-
reservations about the school as without hurting themselves. You head the (cause). But it’s not going
the impetus for his concerns. could almost argue that the state to be me.”
The health official, Annemarie should be showing them how to not “Frankly, I’d rather spend time
Beardsworth, said of the school, hurt themselves,” he said. with my daughter,” he said.
“From the Health Department’s
point of view, our one concern is
that accurate information is pre-
sented, not only about what the
law permits in terms of growing
(marijuana) but about the rules
and regulations for caregivers and
patients.”
In addition to The Herald’s ar-
ticle, the abortive school had re-
ceived extensive coverage in local
media and on the internet.
Hernandez said he was unable
to reach any official at the Health
Department to seek the depart-
ment’s approval of his business.
“I didn’t really get a response
— not at all, not a thing,” he said.
“I thought it would be a good idea
to let them know that I’m not going
to go teaching in your backyard
until we get some communication
going.” He said he would be will-
ing to reopen the school if he does
receive approval from the Health
Department.
Hernandez said he had always
had concerns about the issue of
state authorities, but “sometimes
the implications of these things
don’t become clear to you until
you’re down the road a bit,” he
said. “I got a better look at things,
and (thought), ‘Oh, this is a much
clearer picture — and I don’t know
SportsThursday
The Brown Daily Herald

Thursday, September 16, 2010 | Page 8

Old QB, new wideouts look to improve on record year

By Chan Hee Chu
Sports Staff Writer
No Buddy Farnham ’10. No Buddy
Sewall ’10. No problem — at least
according to football coaches and
players heading into the new foot-
ball season.
Despite having to replace close
to 2,500 all-purpose yards provided
by the two All-Ivy receivers, the
Bears are confident that the offense
will be as explosive as ever. The
Bears’ offensive unit led the Ivy
League in total production with
396.6 yards per game last year. To
maintain their high-powered attack,
the Bears will rely on a number of
new faces to help fill the void left
by Farnham and Sewall.
While admitting to the need
to adjust to the graduation of the
two star wideouts, Head Coach
Phil Estes spoke highly of their
replacements.
“There are routes we can’t run
anymore but we have enough guys
to replace all that we lost,” Estes
said.
Many receivers will look to
fill the void left by Farnham and
Sewall, including Matt Sudfeld ’11,
Alex Tounkara ’11 and Jimmy Saros
’12. While Sudfeld has the most
game experience, the coaches ex-
pect all the receivers to contribute
significantly this year.
Helping to ease the receivers’
transition is tri-captain Kyle Ne-
whall-Caballero ’11 at quarterback
— a First Team All-Ivy selection
in his first year as a starter last
season.
Some people “look at what we
lost, and not so much what we
have,” Newhall-Caballero said. “We
have talent. We just haven’t had a
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Part three of three
chance for those guys to show it.”
Despite setting numerous team
and Ivy League records in 2009,
Newhall-Caballero still believes he
has room for improvement.
“The biggest thing about the
second year is you’re experienced,”
he said. “You know what to expect
and how to react. You’re seeing
what the defense is giving you and
not so much trying to get through
each play.”
A revamped cast of offensive
linemen will provide Newhall-Ca-
ballero with enough time to find
open receivers. While left tackle
and tri-captain Patrick Conroy ’11
and right guard Brian Ellixson ’11
return as starters, the Bears will
have to replace three All-Ivy play-
ers on the line. Joining Conroy
and Ellixson this year will be John
Cook ’11, Jack Geiger ’12 and Evan
Johnson ’12.
While Brown’s passing attack
has gained much of the acclaim
in recent years, the Bears return
Second Team All-Ivy selection Zach
Tronti ’11 at running back. Return-
ing from an ACL tear that kept him
out of the last two games of 2009,
Tronti is healthy again and ready
to contribute.
The Bears are also excited about
the maturation of running back
Mark Kachmer ’13 — an “explo-
sive” athlete, Tronti said, who will
be integrated into the offense this
year. The Bears will also benefit
from the return of Alex Prestley ’11,
a tight end adept at both blocking
and catching.
With the season fast approach-
ing, coaches and players alike
have highlighted the importance
of completing drives and being
more efficient in the red zone.
Despite finishing second in Ivy
League scoring last year, trailing
only Harvard, Estes still believes
the team left too many points on
the field. This year, the Bears will Jesse Morgan / Herald
try to improve on that scoring mark Running back Zach Tronti ’11 returns to the field this season after a torn
with a retooled offense. ACL ended his 2009 season prematurely.

M. Water Polo

Team hopes to grow from

tough losses at invite
By Garret Johnson
Contributing Writer
Heading into the Bucknell Univer-
sity Invitational, the men’s water
polo team (5-2) knew challenging
teams were waiting for them. The
tough tests of the weekend were
games against No. 16 Navy (11-1)
and No. 20 Bucknell (7-2).
And tough they were. Bruno fell
13-9 to Bucknell and 8-7 to Navy in
a weekend of mixed results. The
Bears were able to defeat Diablo
Valley College 9-3, the University
of Toronto (0-4) 13-8 and Penn
State at Behrend (1-7) 16-2.
“We really had two big games,
and we lost both of them,” said
Head Coach Felix Mercado.
Mercado said he was disap-
pointed with how Bruno started
off its games against Bucknell and
Navy, but said that he saw “a lot of
great things that we can build on.”
The Bears played the second
half of the game against Bucknell
without offensive leaders James
McNamara ’14 and Svetozar Ste-
fanovic ’13, both of whom were
ejected during the second quarter.
In light of being shorthanded,
Mercado praised the depth of the
team.
“We actually rose to the occa-
sion and played better in the sec-
ond half,” Mercado said. “In the
past we might not have been able
to respond well. We are a more
complete team now.”
Co-captain Gordon Hood ’11
led the offense against Bucknell,
scoring four goals, while Walker
Shockley ’14 made eight saves in
his 32 minutes in net. Even with
these efforts, the team was unable
to overcome Bucknell’s 5-0 lead
early in the game.
Despite the losses, Mercado
did find silver lining in the tourna-
ment, saying that “we found out a
lot about ourselves.” He said the
invitational revealed the team’s
“areas that need improvement.”
Br uno will have to address
these issues quickly, as the sched-
ule does not get easier. Mercado’s
squad will head to the Eastern Col-
lege Athletic Conference Cham-
pionships at Har vard tomorrow.
“We are going against the top
teams on the East Coast,” he said
of this weekend’s matchups.
And the following weekend, the
Bears will clash with the Collegiate
Water Polo Association North’s
top-ranked St. Francis College (7-
0) at a tournament held by Con-
necticut College.
As Mercado tells his team about
the tough upcoming schedule:
“Here comes the gauntlet.”
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The Brown Daily Herald

Page 10 | Thursday, September 16, 2010

l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

Column oversimplifies
Prop 8 ruling
To the Editor:
I have some objections to the
information and views contained in
the September 10 column “What
Brown can learn from Prop 8” by
Terrence George ’13.
In my opinion, George’s col-
umn misrepresents the legal basis
of Judge Walker’s ruling in the re-
cent Perry v. Schwarzenegger case
regarding the constitutionality of
California’s Proposition 8. George
writes that Walker’s decision “de-
clared California’s law in violation of
the Fourteenth Amendment, citing
a lack of legitimacy given its basis
in ‘private moral(s)’.” He then goes
on to assert that private morals are a
perfectly legitimate basis for law, and
that the will of the majority should
prevail in cases such as this.
However, Walker’s decision was
significantly more nuanced than
George acknowledged in his col-
recognized the right to marriage as
a fundamental right, so this test is
applicable to the case.) To meet the
conditions of strict scrutiny, a law
“must be justified by a compelling
governmental interest”, a condition
which Walker ruled was not satisfied
by Proposition 8. Thus, Walker’s
ruling was deeply rooted in legal
precedent and procedure, rather
than merely “about [Walker’s] own
urge to castigate the people of Cali-
fornia for their ‘antiquated’ morality,”
as George asserts.
I also object to George’s overall
conclusion, which is, as I understand
it, that “gay marriage is wrong for
California … because the people
of California said so.” This state-
ment ignores an important function
of government, which is to protect ALEX YULY
minorities from abuse at the hands
of the majority. Just as in the case of
interracial marriage half a century e d i to r i a l
ago, the legal principles underlying

How to throw a legal party

umn. Walker specifically found that our democratic system sometimes
the law did not satisfy the require- need to overrule the will of the ma-
ments of “strict scrutiny”, the stan- jority to ensure the full protection
dard for testing the constitutionality of law for all citizens.
of a law that infringes what has been If you live in an off-campus house or just like to visit on residential property must have an average of 15
deemed a fundamental right. (The Nicholas Gaya ’14 on weekend nights, you might have noticed that square feet of space.
U.S. Supreme Court has previously Sept. 11 police are breaking up party after party, fining hosts Of course, most complaints from neighbors are on
and dispersing disappointed guests into the streets. the basis of noise and not overcrowding. Still, if the
The police say they are responding to noise com- police come to your house to investigate a complaint
plaints, which are up 7 percent this year, according and see clear signs of an overcrowding violation,
to Lt. John Ryan, commander of Providence Police they can enter and break up the party.
District 9. As a result of the increase in calls from
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d neighbors, the police are now instituting a zero toler- Be a nice neighbor.
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors ance policy on violations and fining the residents of We suggest you contact your nearest neighbors
George Miller Chaz Kelsh Emmy Liss Ben Hyman noisy homes. They’ll go back to giving warnings to to let them know you plan to throw a party and give
Joanna Wohlmuth Seth Motel
first offenders when things quiet down, Ryan said. them a way to contact you if the noise becomes
editorial Business If you’re planning to throw a party this weekend, bothersome. This simple courtesy could help you
General Managers Office Manager
Anne Speyer Arts & Culture Editor here are some tips: avoid a hefty fine. Another option is to drop off a
Suzannah Weiss Arts & Culture Editor Claire Kiely Shawn Reilly
Sara Luxenberg Features Editor Katie Koh nice gift at your neighbors’ houses before the party
Brian Mastroianni Features Editor Directors Keep the noise down. starts. Given the high cost of a fine, a token of ap-
Brigitta Greene Metro Editor Kelly Wess Sales
Ben Schreckinger Metro Editor Matthew Burrows Finance
Most complaints that the police receive are due preciation for those living within earshot could be
Sydney Ember News Editor Margaret Watson Client Relations to noise. This isn’t just music coming from inside very economical.
Zack Bahr Sports Editor Christiana Stephenson Alumni Relations the party — many neighbors call the police because But don’t only be nice to your neighbors. If you
Tony Bakshi Sports Editor Managers
Ashley McDonnell Asst. Sports Editor Isha Gulati Local Sales
of noise outside homes. Warn partygoers not to talk do get busted, be nice to the cops as well — they’re
Erika Mueller Asst. Sports Editor Arjun Vaidya Local Sales loudly as they arrive or depart. just doing their jobs — and be thankful you don’t
Graphics & Photos Rajiv Iyengar National Sales
A city ordinance mandates that noise not exceed go to the University of Rhode Island.
Stephen Lichenstein Graphics Editor Aditi Bhatia University Sales
Alex Yuly Graphics Editor Jared Davis University Sales 50 decibels between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m. Noise viola- At URI, students that have been fined for hosting
Stephanie London Photo Editor Trenten Nelson-Rivers Recruiter Sales tions carry a fine of $200 to $500, so it’s in your best parties must have an orange sticker placed on their
Max Monn Photo Editor Maximilian Barrows Business Operations
Hilary Rosenthal Photo Editor Jilyn Chao Business Analytics interest to avoid them. If you don’t have a decibel homes to mark the site of an unruly gathering. If
Jonathan Bateman Sports Photo Editor Danielle Marshak Credit and Collections meter, here’s a way to know if your party is definitely residents of the house remove or tamper with the
Jesse Morgan Asst. Sports Photo Editor Alexander Carrere Special Projects
Kathy Bui Staff
too loud: Go 200 feet away from your property — sticker, they face a $100 fine. The URI Student Senate
Production
Kelly Mallahan Copy Desk Chief Opinions about the distance between two telephone poles — is currently challenging the constitutionality of the
Julien Ouellet Design Editor Michael Fitzpatrick Opinions Editor and have a listen. If your party is audible, you need practice in a federal appeals court with backing from
Gili Kliger Asst. Design Editor Alyssa Ratledge Opinions Editor
to turn it down. the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island.
Katie Wilson Asst. Design Editor
Neal Poole Web Editor Editorial Page Board Fortunately, we haven’t seen any stickers here
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Post- magazine Anita Mathews Board member Keep the numbers relatively low. yet. The Providence Police suddenly don’t look so
Sam Carter Editor-in-Chief Tyler Rosenbaum Board member Smaller parties are less likely to attract attention, bad after all.
Kate Doyle Editor-in-Chief Melissa Shube Board member
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and larger parties are technically in violation of a
Rhode Island law prohibiting overcrowded assem- Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board.
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Opinions
The Brown Daily Herald
BY ANTHONY BADAMI
Opinions Columnist
The view of Athens from atop the Acropolis,
more accurately known as the Citadel of Ath-
ens, is heart-stirring and breathtaking. The
matrix of bleached-white stone which com-
prises the city below provides an impressive
foreground, while the surrounding ceru-
lean sea is pleasant and welcoming in com-
parison, a description proven even more ap-
propriate as the city’s furthest points seem
to submerge into the shimmering water.
Eyeing the bay, it is as if you are watching
a shower of minute diamonds drizzle into an
undulating azure pool. All of these wondrous
components taken together have the effect
of rendering the scene cinema-like. It is truly
a view worth seeking.
Unfortunately, much of the cultural and
political accompaniments to this surreal
scenery are either ruined or relocated or
both. Through centuries of pillaging, theft,
tribal conflict and religious warfare, a signifi-
cant portion of Athenian classical art and ar-
chitecture has been ransacked and stolen.
There is much discussion surrounding
the idea of who should be held account-
able for this legacy of destruction. I decid-
ed to take part in this conversation this past
July when I traveled to Athens to witness
the wreckage myself. My focal point for the
journey was a particularly salient and con-
troversial set of pieces known as the Elgin
Marbles. Captured by Thomas Bruce, the
Earl of Elgin, in the late 18th century, the
BY KSHITIJ LAURIA
Opinions Columnist
If you really love the food at the Ratty, you
can stop reading right now: we have fun-
damental disagreements that no opinions
column of mine can change. I spent all of
freshman year avoiding the Ratty, camp-
ing outside the V-Dub waiting for the doors
to open, going through my flex points way
too fast, patronizing every eatery on Thay-
er and Wickenden and most of all, hating
every weekend because the V-Dub wasn’t
open.
Can you imagine the cognitive disso-
nance involved in hating every weekend? I
was a wreck. At first I attributed it to dis-
mal, but sound, economics: after all, good
ingredients are expensive, and when you
have a whole university to feed, I might un-
derstand the compromised gastronomy. But
from friends who work in the back-rooms of
Brown Dining Services, at the catering arm,
making pizza at the Gate and falafel at the
Ivy Room, I heard the same thing: Brown
is buying everything one needs in order to
make good food. And turning it into Ratty
food. As the old pilot manuals would say, the
problem is probably sitting in the cockpit.
The assumptions under which we are
operating are flawed. I think Brown Univer-
sity should not be in the business of mak-
ing food at all. Real-life organizations often
benefit from adopting the Unix philosophy
of doing one thing and doing it well — and
unless everyone has a huge change of heart
and we become the largest open-air cafe in
Arguing against Elginism
92 original pieces depict either a festival
for the Goddess Athena or a story in which
man and beast, human and god, celebrate an
Athenian victory in the period of Pericles.
Regardless, the Parthenon frieze is the ex-
emplar of the High Classical style and a mon-
umentally beautiful piece.
I had ventured to London just a few days
earlier, and I had the opportunity to see the
single largest collection of these Parthenon
sculptures in the world. A stale pamphlet
distributed nearby provided the rationale
It would be absurd to think that cultural theft is
redeemed only by the circumstance that such
theft is abundant.
for keeping the display housed in the Brit-
ish Museum. I wish to respond to that, and
some other arguments, here.
First, the Museum claims that the sculp-
tures are a component of “everyone’s shared
heritage and transcend cultural boundaries.”
But what makes the British Museum the
bastion of such cosmopolitanism? Why not,
then, move the sculptures to New York, or
China, or India, for that matter, where more
viewers may frequent the display?
In this instance, transcendence seems
to be, at best, an empty euphemism for An-
glo superiority. Does the British Museum
Refactoring the Refectory
Providence, that one thing would be the
business of educating students. The prob-
lem of turning land and sunlight into raw in-
gredients was outsourced long ago to other
sectors of the economic system, and I think
it’s time to go all the way up the chain now.
Of course, Brown still needs an organiza-
tion to represent its food needs. I suggest
Dining Services evolve towards becoming
an administrative and financial body that
acts as a liaison between interested parties
at Brown (administrators, finance people,
and the student body) and private parties
Brown University should not be in the business
of making food at all.
that are already in the food business. I envi-
sion some kind of buffer between us and the
outside world, as well as a body that stan-
dardizes across campus eateries for qual-
ity and student-friendliness. Someone still
needs to set up cards, manage accounts and
all that boring stuff, and it might as well be
Dining Services.
I think this would be a fantastic thing
from the students’ point of view. Dining Ser-
Thursday, September 16, 2010 | Page 11
have better facilities? Does a museum with a
large collection by definition have the legiti-
mate right to whichever historical artifacts
it chooses? To the second, of course they do
not. It would be absurd to think that cultural
theft is redeemed only by the circumstance
that such theft is abundant.
The slippery slope argument (“If these
sculptures were returned then the Museum
would have to return every artifact”) does
not apply either. The Byzantines or the Bab-
ylonians are no longer around to make simi-
lar claims, nor are hundreds of other looted
ancient civilizations. But the Athenians have
kept this claim alive and well, and one should
not put too much stock in logical fallacies.
To the first question, though, the Brit-
ish have had some foundation upon which
to rest their case. For a long while, Athens
did not have adequate facilities to maintain
the Parthenon sculptures. Indeed, had the
pieces been kept on Greek soil for the last
century or so, there is little doubt that they
would have suffered significant degradation
and decay.
However, as I can personally attest, since
vices already cannot compete with and is
expensive compared to Thayer street and
whereabouts. One meal credit (6.15 Flex
Points) comes to either $6.36 or $7.65 out of
your pocket for the two most cost-effective
meal plans. It gets better: like many other
educational institutions that have gone this
way, it would make sense for Brown (rather,
the large number of allied food customers
that make up the Brown community) to use
our financial clout and the dependence of lo-
cal businesses on us to set up sweet deals.
The Ratty can, and should, still physical-
ly be the main dining hall on campus. One
way to improve the system would be to auc-
tion catering licenses to a few companies,
rather like a food court. Presumably, stu-
dents would spend meal credits (or points
or whatever other fake money system the
accountants come up with for tax reasons)
at individual stalls of their own choosing, so
that we are back in that happy, happy land
where economic success is tied to pleased
the christening of the sparkling new Acropo-
lis Museum, Athens is more than equipped
to house its historical sculptures. As I made
my way through this sparkling, sleek and
super-modern repository, I was awed by the
immaculate exhibitions, efficient staff and
security, and the artful, minimalist décor. It
blew the Greek Antiquities section of the
British Museum out of the water.
In this situation, we must not make the
best the enemy of the good. In other words,
a little bit of good can be done towards recti-
fying a historical injustice; though we cannot
correct all historical inequities and exploita-
tion, it is still worth pursuing those minor
misdeeds that can be resolved.
When I arrived at the few pieces of the
frieze on show, I sighed deeply and paced
quickly through it. I tried with great difficul-
ty to transplant mentally the London exhibi-
tion of the marbles, but I was too discour-
aged to configure in my mind a reasonable
image. I remember reading a cancer-strick-
en Christopher Hitchens compare this trav-
esty to the Mona Lisa being sawed in half. I
can tell you the comparison is suitable.
Thus, I add my two cents to the discus-
sion, and I encourage the British Museum
to take due steps as quickly as possible to
return the stones. There is no longer any ex-
cuse for such negligent conduct.
Anthony Badami ’11 is a political theory
concentrator from Kansas City, Mo.
He can be reached at
anthony_badami@brown.edu.
and returning customers.
A pleasant side-effect of setting things up
closer to how they are in the real world is
that everyone pays for what and how much
they eat. I don’t know about you, but after
tuition and housing, food is my biggest ex-
pense; if you go to school with a bunch of
athletes and other people who eat way more
than you do, you’re subsidizing their up-
keep. It’s just not fair. It’s also unhealthy, be-
cause you want to stuff as much food inside
of you as you can while you’re still inside,
instead of making prudent, healthy, tasty
choices. I’m sure everyone on a meal plan
has done exactly that in the past.
It is unclear how this would affect the lo-
cal economy — what if people stopped eat-
ing on Thayer because (gasp!) the Ratty
was actually good? — but I do think it would
be great for student employment, because
we’re cheap, live close by and have been
working for BuDS for years. Brown could
probably twist some arms and get minimum
guaranteed employment numbers for stu-
dent workers.
You know what else would be really
great for student employment? Ditching
that whole plan, ditching the current Dining
Services bureaucracy and letting students
run the whole thing. After all, if students
can independently produce a daily publica-
tion such as The Herald, why can’t we feed
ourselves, too?
Kshitij Lauria ’13 is off meal plan,
at least for now.
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5:30 P.M. — Memorial Service for Paige 4 P.M.-6 P.M. — Constitution Day
Hicks ’11, Manning Chapel Lecture: “Free Speech? Citizens
United v FEC Revisited,” Salomon 101
7 P.M. — Joukowksy Forum Screening
of “Prince of Persia: Sands of Time,” 8 P.M.-11 p.M. — Brown Taiwan
Salomon 001 Society Nightmarket, Sayles Hall
Auditorium

menu
Sharpe Refectory Verney-Woolley Dining Hall

Lunch — Vegan Tofu Raviolis with Lunch — Hot Roast Beef on French Bat & Gaz | Sofia Ortiz
Sauce, Curried Beef Tips, Grilled Ham Bread, Baked Macaroni and Cheese,
and Swiss Sandwich Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies

Dinner — Roast Turkey with Gravy, Dinner — Meatloaf with Mushroom

Cheese and Corn Strata, Mashed Sweet Sauce, Butternut Squash with Sage
and White Potatoes and Shallots, Marble Squares

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