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B Alison silver

Senior Staff Writer

he University will soon becometh sd Amra sttutwth a tr dtd try tsocial sciences in India, due toan anonymous parent donationo $6 million made last year. he

Brw-Ida Rsarh Itatwill promote academic research

and teaching on contemporarypolitical, economic and socialissues in India, according to anoverview document preparedby Ashutosh Varshney, the ini-tiatives leader and proessor otrata studs ad th s-cial sciences. he program will behoused by the Watson Instituteor International Studies and wasapproved by the Corporation, theUniversitys highest governingbdy, May.

he initiative evolved througha series o conversations among

the anonymous donors, the Oiceo Advancement and Varshney,who will be the programs director

until 2016. Its ounding ollowsthe Universitys Year o India in

the 2009-10 academic year, anevent that brought major literaryigures, intellectuals and artists oth aturd utry t ampus.h Yar Ida srd partas a springboard or a serious

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T Oupy mmt rturdto College Hill Monday aernoon,

but neither protesters nor bannerswere in sight. Instead, about 20students could be ound in Wilson

101 discussing the social and eco-nomic grievances that sparked themmt ast Sptmbr.

Tis semester, Derek SeidmanAM05 PhD10 , visiting assistantproessor o history, is teachingHIS1977O: Te Occupy Move-ment in Historical Context, aseminar that will examine theOupy mmts pa thinternational community andAmerican history and trace itsrts as ar bak as th Nw Da

th 30s.In light o the social, economic

and political developments o thepast year rom the Arab Springt th m rss suth-ern Europe to Occupy Wall Streetts, a whh trbutd time magazine deeming theprtstr th prs th yar Seidman called this a crucialmoment in history, as the eco-m ad pta tss thathave built up over decades aretaking visible orm. It is unclear

i and how the concerns will beaddressed and the problems dealtwth, h td T Hrad.

Whats a liberal arts educa-t r t r tryg t tak

Seminar aims to tracehistory behind Occupy

Emil Gilbert / Heral

Occupy Provience protesters hol a general assembly meeting in Burnsie Park.

B Ju MyounG kiM

Staff Writer

Stanord proessor and authorClaude Steele knows irst-handth prssurs bg a udr-represented minority on a col-g ampus. At th 5th auaMartin Luther King Jr. lectureWednesday aternoon, Steele dis-ussd th u gatstereotypes on minority academic

perormance and urged a packedaudience o students, acultymembers and local teachers toembrace their identities rather

than succumb to preconceptions.Steele opened the lecture,

delivered in the Marty GranoCenter or the Creative Arts audi-torium, by pointing out a problem

the academic underperor-mance o individuals belong-ing to certain minority groupsdstgushd by ra, gdr r

religion. Highlighting topics inhis book, Whistling Vivaldi andOthr Cus t Hw StrtypsAect Us, Steele pointed outthat even highly motivated andcapable individuals can be dis-couraged by negative inluences,ad thr prrma surs asa result. He talked about his ownexperience, speciically the pres-sure and anxiety o being the onlybak graduat studt studygpsychology at Ohio State Uni-rsty.

Steele, a social psychologist,said stereotypes can be combatted

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versity o perspectives alwaysmakes it better, he said. Steeleadded that interracial exchangebetween students at the beginning

o their college experiences helps

MLK lecturer addresses stereotype threat

Rachel A. Kaplan / Heral

Stanor proessor Claue Steele speaks about the harmul efects o stereotypes.

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City & State editor

Te Rhode Island General As-smby apprd a b ast ghtthat would redraw the boundarieso the voting districts or elections

t Cgrss ad th Gra As-sembly ollowing an estimated4,000-person population increase

th stat r th past dad.Redistricting happens every tenyears to account or demographichags rrdd th sus.

he bill was introduced inthe House o Representatives by

Dputy Majrty Ladr StphUcci, D-Cranston and Johnston.

Prior to the vote, he said the redis-trtg mmtt mt 2 tms arus parts Rhd Isadbr prpsg th gsat.

U sad 0 prt ppwould not be moved rom theiroriginal districts, and 69 districtswould see a population change oup to 25 percent. Only ve dis-tricts would be altered by 30 to3 prt. Oppts th bhave said the shis would movemr Rpuba trs t thdstrt Rp. Jm Lag, D-R.I., while supporters have said

R.I. GeneralAssemblyredraws

voting lines

B MArGAret niCkens

Senior Staff Writer

Ralanda Nelson 12 has called serv-

ing as president o the Undergradu-at Cu Studts amg thhardest things she has ever done,and one semester into her term, Nel-

s has ahd tab prgrss.She has pushed the University toseriously consider the dire state o

undergraduate housing on campus,an issue she touted as her highestpriority during her presidentialcampaign last year. And thoughthe student activities endowmenthas stad ad s ar rm rahg

ts $ m ga, UCS mmbrsad auty ha prssd supprtor Nelsons accomplishments thispast smstr.

I Otbr 20, UCS passd astatement criticizing the embar-rassingly substandard Universitydorms and urging the Corporation,the Universitys highest governingbody, to allocate more money toward

drm rats. Rsd hasneed to go up to the level o ourcompetitors because its reached apoint that prospective studentsknow that Brown has terrible hous-ing, said Michael Schneider 13,UCS ampus har.

Margaret Klawunn, vice presi-dent or campus lie and student ser-s, sad th statmt aught thUniversitys attention, and beginning

this summer, a number o dorms inKy Quadrag ad Pmbrkcampus will undergo renovations.T trrs Mr ad MtaHalls will be completely redesigned,ad Adrws, Emry-Wy adMorriss-Champlin residence hallsw r smar rpars.

In the upcoming semester, theu pas t wrk wth RhardBa, sr assat da rs-

At midpoint, Nelson 12 refects on term

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Occupy Wall Street and themovements it has spawned in cit-ies across the globe are notablebecause they reect widespreaddssatsat amg th pub,Seidman told Te Herald. But dueto its sheer size and spread, the

Oupy mmt as a wh svery messy. It has no singularset o demands, and the strategiesOccupiers adopt in tackling issues

vary by location. Te seminar willprd studts a pprtutyto take a sober look at the move-mt rm a aadm prsp-tive, he said, letting them unpackt ad aayz t.

Te course will not only explore

history but also draw rom sociol-ogy, political economy and politi-cal and moral philosophy to ostera dbat what kd wrdw shud , Sdma sad

during the seminars rst meetingMonday. Students will examineth tats 20th tury sammts th Utd Stats,including the labor and civil rights

movements and that o wealthybusinessmen against the NewDa. T smar w as uson more recent developments such

as the recession o 2008, searchingor answers behind the growingdbt, rsurs ad quaty th U.S. Sdma ad studtsw pa th Oupy mmtwth ths hstra ramwrkand then dive in urther to explore

ts dbats tray.Sdmas prts s th

history o social and politicalmmts. H s as urrtyteaching HIS1754: Democracyand Inequality in the United States

Since the New Deal, and as a doc-tra studt at Brw, h wrths dssrtat th hstry active-duty protest during the war Vtam.

Ovidia Stanoi 15, who is en-

rd th ass, sad that armeeting a homeless man withvery intellectual thoughts asOccupy Providence was starting

up last year, she became interestedin learning more about the move-ment. Stanoi, who hails rom Ro-mania, an ex-communist country,told Te Herald protests in her

country had previously been rare.But wth th sprad th m-ment across Europe, Occupy pro-tests hit the country during winterbreak. What led to the changes?sh askd.

Jessica Papalia 13 is also in-terested in viewing the Occupymovement in an academic setting.Papalia attended Occupy Provi-dences general assemblies and

dmstrats ad partpatd wrkshps wth studts rma gs t dsuss th ways whh thy ud trbut.

But she said she is looking or-ward t amg aspts thmovement she had questioned inan academic and historical con-

tt.Sdmas ass s t th y

one to ocus on the Occupy move-ment. Te Department o Social

and Cultural Analysis at New York

University is also ofering a courseon Occupy Wall Street this semes-tr, ad Adam Saks AM0 w

teach a course this summer or theUniversitys Pre-College Programthat will chart the history o coun-trutur th at rm th50s t th prst day.

Tom Sullivan / HeralVisiting Assistant Proessor derek Seiman AM05 Phd10 briges sociology an philosophy in his class on the Occupy m ovement.

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them gain an understanding odierent backgrounds and ight

thr prd ts.On an individual level, mi-

rts a rm th u- strtyps by ratg apositive narrative about theiridentities. Steele described an ex-periment with black students at

Yale in which participants vieweda d athr bak studt

pag hw h ram thinitial alienation and distressstemming rom his minority sta-tus at th g. h aadmperormances o many studentsimproved ater viewing the video.

At the end o his lecture, Steelesuggstd sra smp ways thelp students embrace their iden-tts.

Simple things can have pro-

ud ts, Da th C-lege Katherine Bergeron said ater

th tur.Steele covered the subject in

a manner that was accessible to

people o many dierent back-

grounds, Lina Fruzzetti, proessoro anthropology and interim pro-st ad drtr sttutadrsty, sad atr th tur.

Valeria Lopez, a mastersstudent in urban education,said Steele identiied importantpractical implications or schools,where these issues are very rel-at.

he annual Martin LutherKing Jr. Lecture commemorates

Martin Luther King Jr.s legacyby tg shars whs wrkexamines how race and other so-a dtrs tu t at

our society, said Maitrayee Bhat-tacharyya, associate dean o the

Cg r Drsty Prgrams.he lecture was intended to

enhance the work o aculty advis-

ers, Bergeron said. Advisers readSteeles book and learned aboutcircumstances that prevent stu-dts rm sudg.

It is our hope that his insightswill inspire urther thinking about

actions each o us can take toimprove ourselves, our campuscultures and larger society or thecommon good, Bhattacharyyasad.

Steeleencouragespositive

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tat, Varshy sad.President Ruth Simmons 2010

st t Ida was as ratd tth rsg Brw trst I-dia, o o which the Year o Indiawas sparked, and the India Initia-t was a utgrwth, h sad.

he program will emphasizecontemporary India, primarilythrough the social science lens,Varshney said, though subjectslike comparative literature andhistory will play a complementary

role. he initiative will engagestudents in ellowships and ex-changes with partner institutions

in India, including the Center orPolicy Research in New Delhi andthe Center or Public Policy at theIndian Institute o Management

Bagar, Varshy sad.he Watson Institute has allo-

cated our rooms to the program ts ad has as surdwrk spa Dh. Wh s-eral activities will occur thisspring, the initiative will be inull swing beginning next all,Varshy sad.

he program will ocus onresearch pertaining to ive ma-

jor themes. he primary project,entitled Urban India: Governance,

Politics and Political Economy,examines Indias rising cities

and governance problems in col-laboration with the Center orPublic Policy and Janaagraha, anon-proit organization that seeksto improve the quality o urban

Ida. C -d by Varshyand Proessor o Sociology Patrick

Hr, th prjt s arady u-derway as a result o a seed grantrom the Oice o the Vice Presi-dent or Research, according toth dumt.

Othr thms ud pura-ism and diversities; democracyand development and security;t ad pta rdr; ad

rga m quats.he initiatives spring sched-

ule includes a joint seminar onSouth Asian politics with Harvard

and the Massachusetts Institute hgy ad a t wthProessor Siddharth Swaminathan

rm th Isttut Sa E-nomic Change in Bangalore, whowill be in residence or severalwks startg md-Fbruary.

A conerence entitled woDecades o Indias Economic Re-orm: Politics, Economics, Society

is estimated to take place earlynext all to kick o the Initiative,Varshy s ad.

Program to studycontemporary India

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B GADi Cohen

Staff Writer

S th prgrams pt 1964, recipients o the Arnold Fel-

lowship established in honoro Samuel Arnold, who gradu-ated in 1913 have immersedthemselves in oreign countriesor months at a time, gleaningexperiences they could share withthe University community upontheir return. Over the years, el-

lows have studied the rinidad and

obago Carnival, become embed-ded in Egypts Bedouin societyand embarked on a nine-monthpgrmag t bt.

Te University last awardedth Ard Fwshp 200 tDaria Marinelli 10, who used her

$18,000 stipend to study tango Bus Ars, Argta. Tswas th ast tm th Ard F-wshp w r b rd, sadLinda Dunleavy, associate deano the College or ellowships and

pr-aw.It just ran out o unding,

Dunleavy said. It was a one-time,large gi that just got used up yearaer year. It never converted into

a dwmt.Te ellowship was rst ofered

64, wh Tmas J. WatsJr. 37 presented the Universitywith a gi that supplied annual el-

lowships named aer Arnold, theUniversitys rst provost. Now that

the unds rom Watsons gi haveb drad, th Ursty hasstppd rg th wshp.

Tere have been eorts torah ut t th Wats Fuda-tion, Dunleavy said. We wantedt s thy st had a trst trbutg t th wshp.Teyve just shied their ocus

ts gr a prrty r thmt ud t.

day, a that s th -lowship is a legacy o research andthe experiences that its winnersha amassd r th yars.

I think its a wonderul institu-

t that Brw had, sad JryYoskowitz 07, who received theellowship in 2007. It was veryBrw, rwardg studts wh

were seeking transormative ex-prs.

Yskwtz trad t Isra tresearch the pork industry, insert-ing himsel into the taboo under-belly o the countrys ood culture.While there, Yoskowitz moved toa pig arm that operated underthe guise o a research institute,where he conducted research thatdemonstrated how even ood canserve as a political metaphor thatats Isra day .

Arnold ellows went o ontheir own, Yoskowitz said. Ev-rythg I had t d, I had t d

on my own. Tat was the mostchallenging part o my experience.

But because o that, the ellowshipallowed you the reedom to dis-cover other worlds and to discover

yurs.

Arnold Fellowship leaves lasting legacy

dential and dining services, to review

prgram husg, ad ts mmbrswant to look into adding communallounges to individual residence halls,

said David Rattner 13, UCS viceprsdt.

Nelson has also been working toincrease the councils presence onampus by pag drm ruds,during which council representatives

will go door-to-door in residencehalls to keep students updated onUCS atts. Tugh th uhas tried dorm rounds under previ-ous presidents, it has or the last ew

years ocused more on reaching outt studts dg has.

During her campaign, Nelsonalso expressed a desire to increase

unding or the student activities en-dwmt. But th past smstr,she said there have been no dona-

tions to the endowment. ToughNelson said the council has reachedout to possible donors, the conversa-ts ha t prgrssd bydmtgs ad ph as.

Sh sad sh hps t uragmore prospective donors to visitBrowns campus in the upcomingsemester to see how it would benetarus studt grups ampus.

In the past semester, Nelson alsooversaw the January Career Labo-

ratory, a project that began underthe previous UCS administration.he our-day event, which tookpa durg th a days w-ter break, eatured discussions withBrown alums about how to leverage

your Brown education in this joband economic market, Nelson said.Panelists also ofered advice on net-wrkg as w as wrtg rsumsad r ttrs.

Schneider said he believes Nel-

son has been a very eective UCSpresident due to her likability and

ratty, tg hr abty t g-

erate new project ideas, like this

semesters goal o building a UCSPh appat.

Hannelore Rodriguez-Farrar87 MA90 PhD09, assistant to the

president, also said Nelson seemsto engage students across a lot odrt grups.

Shes just un and unny and very

straght-up sh w t t k ts, ad thrs pts d,Rodriguez-Farrar said. She reallycares about the things that mattert th studts.

Inside the council, Rattner said

Nelson has brought the UCS mem-bers closer together. I have never

seen a council that got as close toeach other as they did this year, andI think that was because o Ralandasadrshp, h sad.

People, I can tell, look up to herin a way they didnt look up to inthe last president, Rattner also said.

Nelson said many studentsmad hr durg th a sms-ter when they took issue with theus ats, tg sm stu-dents were displeased that UCS didt ssu a statmt abut th O-cupy movement. Others, she said,were unnerved by how quicklythe council appointed a presidentialsarh mmtt.

Its just nice to be able to sitdw ad tak t thm ad pato people where we are coming rom,

w dt agr, Ns sad.In the upcoming semester, she

sad sh ks rward t tagbresults in many o the councils cur-rent projects and hopes to continueprmtg ts wrk.

Now, I have ownership over thesuccess o the entire machine andhw t prats, ad s Im tdor people to get invested in projectsthat I spt my tm dg hr.she said. Im excited to see how (ourwork) inspires other people to think

abut partpatg UCS.

Rachel A. Kaplan / HeralUCS president Ralanda Nelson 12 plans to address student housing this

semester.

Fellow UCS memberspraise Nelson 12

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Fraternity o Evil | Eshan Mitra, Brenan Hainline an Hector Ramirez

Dreadul Cosology | Oira Macmit

C O M I C S

th w budars w g m-nority communities more politicalut.

Several House leaders proposedamendments. House MinorityLeader Brian Newberry, R-NorthSmitheld and Burrillville, urgedthe chamber to keep villages indistricts 47 and 48 intact. None othe proposed amendments passed.

Nwbrry sad thr wud blegal repercussions to the pas-sage o the legislation without hisamdmt.

Other representatives com-

plained the process behind the leg-sat was paqu. Ts whprocess has been very closed,said state Rep. Karen Macbeth,D-Cumberland, displaying a signthat ormerly hung on the dooro the Reapportionment Ofce,

which was tasked with overseeingthe redistricting process. Te signrad, Kk rst.

Aer an hour and a hal o de-bate, the House voted overwhelm-

ingly in support o the legislation.T Sat td 34-2 ar the companion bill. Te legisla-t w t g t G. LChaee 75 P14, who has not taken

a public stance on the proposedpas.

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Kat Thornton / Heral

The General Assembly last night approve a reistricting bill that woul shit voting istrict populations by up to 37 percent.

Maor Angel Taveras is holing a press conerence toa to

iscuss the cits buget woes. In the past ear, Taveras has ace

the task o closing a $110 million structural buget ecit, accoringto WPRI.com. Recent evelopments have set back eorts to rein in

the ecit. State pension legislation that passe last ear i not

inclue a provision to allow or the suspension o rising cost-o-

living ajustments or emploees enrolle in the cit s pension plan.

The Universit reuse to make aitional paments o $4 million

to the cit last ear, an Superior Court Associate Justice Sarah

Tat-Carter rule that the cit coul not orce retire reghters

an police ofcers to sign up or Meicare, a move that woul have

save the cit $6 million. Consiering Proviences looming $22.5

million buget shortall, some have preicte that it will soon le

or bankruptc an put itsel uner state receivership. Accoring to

GoLocalProv, ormer maors have suggeste that the cit shoul

look into borrowing mone or cutting spening beore it resorts to

bankruptc, but the press conerence toa ma suggest that such

options are not available. The cit is slate to run out o mone in

June, accoring to a memo obtaine b GoLocalProv, though citofcials have not commente on this allegation.

bills address chronic hoelessness

Sen. John Tassoni Jr., d-Smithel an North Smithel, an Rep.

Scott Slater, d- Provience, have introuce legislation to increase

uning to the Neighborhoo Opportunities Program to combat the

cits chronic homelessness problem, accoring to a press release.

NOP was create in 2001 an is now prominent in combating

homelessness. It ocuses its uning in three areas proviing low-

rent housing or amilies earning wages near the state minimum,

oering support services an housing to isable iniviuals an

revitalizing local communities through grants encouraging home

ownership. The uning level or the program has ecline rom $7.5

million to $1.5 million over the past ecae, but legislators note that

this has not correspone with a rop in homelessness, which has

in act become more prevalent in the past ew ears. The propose

legislation which is currentl uner consieration in the House

an Senate Committees on Finance woul increase uning or

NOP to $12.5 million or the next scal ear, accoring to the press

release.

bank to aandon downtown oce

Bank o America has announce that it will en operations in

its iconic builing locate at 111 Westminster Street b April 2013,

accoring to the Provience Journal. Leaving a vital builing in the

owntown area unoccupie coul have negative implications or an

alrea suering real estate market. The issue is compoune b the

builings eterioration it is estimate that it woul require $25

million to $35 million worth o renovations beore it coul be lease

to another business, accoring to the Journal. The banks esertion

o the builing also represents lost revenue in the orm o properttaxes or a cit acing a severe buget crisis.

City aces dire fnancial outlook

B y E L I z A B E T H C A R R

CI Ty & STATE EdI TOR

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Humanities are not the only way to humanityTo the Editor:

Jard Mat 3 taks abut th dagrs shug

the humanities in avor o elds like science, biology andengineering, etc. that equip students with better prospectsar graduat (A dsturbg trd, Ja. 3). Matpoints out that education should involve developingcommunication skills, maturing into a well-roundedadut ad bmg a rat ad rta thkr.

While these are certainly desirable qualities, are theyonly attainable through humanities courses? Whengroups o students congregate in the Sciences Libraryworking on that organic chemistry quiz, debuggingcode or a computer science project or thinking throughthat unsolvable math problem, they are communicatingefciently, helping their peers and uriously exercising

thr bras, a at th sam tm. Is t th wh pt

o scientic research to acilitate communication, col-

laboration and the discovery o new knowledge throughrat ad rga thkg?

Humats urss may b usu r a umbr reasons, but it is rather dangerous to declare that the

aim o studying humanities is to produce a better humanbeing. Should we depend upon college courses to teachus hw t b bttr huma bgs?

People learn to be good human beings rom theirparents, through interactions with their peers, proessorsad pp arud thm. I wud argu that g,who your riends are, whether you get to know yourproessors and what you do outside o class is muchmr rat t makg yu a gd huma bg thaaty what subjt yu ar takg.

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E d I TOR I A L CA R TOON by andrew antar

Simple things can have prooun eects. Katherine Bergeron, dean o the College

s Speaker pag 3

E d I T O R I A L

While students were enjoying their holidays, tensions ared betweenth ty Prd ad Brw. Mst taby, thr was a dsagr-

ment between Mayor Angel averas and President Ruth Simmons overthe Universitys voluntary payments to the city. Since the beginning othe semester, Providence has passed a resolution that proposes removing

Brws bakt prprty ta mpt, ad Oupy Prd hasset its sights on the issue as well. While we sympathize with Providencesm stuat, w th ty at ask studts, ams adauty mmbrs t ba t ut.

Under Rhode Island law, private non-prot colleges and universitiesare exempt rom taxes on most property used or educational purposes.But Brw utary pays tas sm ts prprts ad maksadditional contributions to the city, totaling approximately $2.5 million.

We recognize that Providence is in dire nancial straits. Te city

urrty as a $22.5 m budgt dt, ad tag Brws astholdings o untaxed property may seem like an obvious solution. I

the Providence City Council gets its way, the University could paymr tha $4.6 m t th ty addta tas. I Brw wr

t pay tas a ts prprty, as may Oupy Prd harqustd, th tta b wud b mr tha $30 m.

We hope averas realizes that Providence will suer i Brownsrsurs ar dptd. As Smms put t a rsat wth thdtra pag bard, Brw s th w assts Prd hasto improve its economic standing. Brown is the second-biggest em-

ployer in Providence and osters economic activity in the city. Furtherrasg Brws aa burd wud hampr th tys abty taat ts m hardshp.

Supporters o dramatically increasing Browns property taxes orvoluntary payments should ask themselves this undamental ques-tion: Where will this money come rom? With a tight budget and highexpenditures on nancial aid, Brown has limited nancial leeway. Giv-g mr my t th ty wud ky ma muh th wg:increasing already expensive tuition, higher student loan bills thatwould limit students occupational reedom aer graduation, loweraculty salaries that would make recruiting and retaining high-level

tat mr dfut ad muh mr.We cannot support this resolution because the nancial conse-

quences to the University and its inhabitants are simply too damaging.Prtstrs justy thr ams by ptg t urat admstratsalaries but these very same people have noted the administrationstendency to look outside the walls o University Hall when acedwith budgetary challenges. Brown has also been criticized by thesemmts r payg a smar amut utary dats thaother private universities pay to their cities, but when one controlsr sz dwmt ad aua budgt, th Ursty at paysmparab rats. Wh Ouprs ad th Prd Cty Cumag thmss takg a wathy prat ursty rg spare cash, we urge them to bear in mind that Brown is populatednot just by administrators with six-gure salaries, but also by studentsarady struggg t pay tut ad sta arady askd t mak sg-nicant sacrices. While we support Brown in increasing its voluntary

payments slightly, we cannot support any dramatic change that wouldaay jpardz ur sttut.

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Sciences stimulate creative thought, tooTo the Editor:

At a time when humanities unding is getting harderad hardr t m by, I was happy t s Jard Mats13 stirring deense o the liberal arts (A disturbing trend,

Jan. 31). However, he errs in dividing academics intotwo categories: the sciences, which are career-ocused

ad rud by prps markt g ad mmd-cation, and the humanities, which love learning orts w sak. I raty, muh th st rsarh

d at Brw s udrtak pury t ar abut thuniverse and our world, and the researchers who pursueit are motivated more by a love o natural beauty than bypractical concerns. Tere is as much creative and criticalthinking in biology as in history, and the inner workingso an atom are as beautiul as any poem. I Mofat were totake a theoretical physics course, he would see that it hasar more in common with philosophy than he presumes.

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Kevin Cart 15 is rom Washington, d.C.an woul love to hear an responses. He

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[email protected].

Is Sex Power God counterproductive?

Te Massachusetts Bay ransportationAuthority the agency that runs thoseBoston-Providence trains we like is pro-psg t ras ars ad ut srs a tand a lot, respectively. Tis is stupid. Publictrast s grat r a bg bud rass,but quickly: ransit reduces congestion andmakes cities more compact, more walkable,mr ab ad ss rmtay d-structive. People without cars or the money

to buy cars still get to have lives. Everybodywins. In a heavily urbanized area like East-ern Massachusetts, having people all buy

their own little metal boxes and drive themarud s a sy way t d thgs.

ransit helps create cities that dont spewarb dd t th ar a wy-y.W shud k t, bth as g studtswho dont have cars and as humans who like

not having our stuf under water. From theprsdt dw, a bg huk th s-called le wh ich supposedly dominatesMassahustts akwdgs that masstrast shud b hay subsdzd.

Nevertheless, here we are. Te MBAhas ad ut tw awu sars. I trass ars ad uts srs. I th thr

t rass ars mr ad uts srs

a little less. In both, ridership reductions

ar prjtd th ts ms a-

ua trps.People like to rag on the MBA. Teyve

run up a $5 billion decit! What a bunch odudrhads! urs ut, thugh, w atreally blame the MBA or this. But wea bam sm thr pp. Hrs why.

Tere are two big reasons why the MBA

has no money. Number one: en years ago,the Massachusetts state legislature decided,stupdy, that stad gg th MBAhowever much money it actually needed

ah yar, th gsatur wud just tss t20 prt sas ta rus. I ppstppd buyg thgs, rasd th statlegislature, the MBA could just use itssrt stash prat gd. T th sastax started underperorming, and then 2008

happened, and then people stopped buyingthings and everything went rom bad to

ray, ray bad.

Number two: When the state decided tod th Bg Dg, a dumb prjt that suk

a highway underground and made someghbrhds a tt mr assb ronly $22 billion, it made the MBA payr a buh mtgat, msty trastpass that udd a mmutr raline through a bunch o rich suburbs alongwith a couple really nice bus routes. omake matters worse, billions in state and

ederal unding were tied up in the Big Dig,mag th MBA was wth a tab tth tu $. b. It w ha t pay

interest on this every year and it is in no

way th MBAs w aut.T MBA has spt th ast yars

cutting everything it didnt need and somethings it did, and here we are. Te debtstands at a tidy $5.5 billion. Annual debt

sr paymts ar rug, as sayar 20, at $33 m, r a whppg

whopping! 88 percent o total are rev-

enues. So are we talking about how, maybe,as a sty, w shud spd a tt mr

on mass transit? Nope. Were talking abouthw muh w shud ras ars ad hwmuh w shud ut sr. Its as wdecided that were going to shove razorbads up ur ss. W ud tak abutmaybe nding ways to keep razor blades

outside o our noses, but no were goingto spend the next ew months debatinghow many razor blades we should buy, andwhthr w shud us a twstg mtor a gentle in-and-out cycle once theyresd.

I wsh MBA adrs wr mr ag-grss bbyg th stat, but thy arudrstadaby autus. Bsds, that st ray thr jb. Its urs. Grups k

th MBA Rdrs U Bst d r-ay grat wrk ths ssu, as d smargrups arss th utry, ad ts wrthgttg d ths atuay mattrst yu. Fr ths wh Massahu-stts, ag gsatrs r hurts. Frths swhr, ths ghts ar bgpayd ut amst ry ty. Tr shug mmtum bhd ths prpsdar ras, ad t may ry w b thatt at b stppd. W shud kp try-g, thugh, baus thr s thg sw a d.

daniel Mora 14 attens thisUniversit an writes or this

newspaper.

Transit cuts, fare increasing: two extra-dumb ideas

Were talking about how much we shoul raise ares anhow much we shoul cut service. Its as i weve ecie

that were going to shove razor blaes up our nose.

In the uture, while it attempts to challenge hetero-

normativit, Sex Power Go shoul be careul not to

simultaneousl valiate et another equall estructive

social construct.

By dANIEL MORAFFopinions Columnist

By KEVIN CARTyopinions Columnist


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City& Statethursday, February 2, 2012

B sonA MkrttChiAn

Senior Staff Writer

I a srs pub hargs hdarss th stat ast mth, mm-bers o a special commission o theRhode Island House o Representa-

tives explored the lack o aord-ability and accessibility plaguingth stats pub hghr duatsystm.

Te hearings held at the Uni-versity o Rhode Island, Rhode Is-ad Cg ad th CmmutyCollege o Rhode Island, the threepublic institutions o higher educa-t th stat rprstd a

opportunity or students, acultyad th pub at arg t prstssus t th mmss.

Te orums were organized in

an attempt to urther the com-missions research and acilitatediscussion, said state Rep. FrankFerri, D-Warwick, who leads themmss.

Yu ha t k at th whptur, h addd. W dd thar rm rybdy th stat.

T st tut was a majrissue presented during the commu-

nity orums, said state Rep. Spencer

Dickinson, D-South Kingstown, ammbr th mmss.

Its really hard or the kids todo the program and pay the tuitionand keep a job, Dickinson said.W har that pt ts a rayad pt.

House Speaker Gordon Fox,D-Prd, spsrd th r-ation o the House Commissiont Study Pub Hghr EduatArdabty ad Assbty mandated by legislation passed a

yar ag ast Marh. T m-mission was ormed as a compre-hensive study o administrative and

academic conditions in the state oRhd Isad, Frr sad.

Te commission is studyingways to prevent students rom

incurring massive amounts o

debt and to ensure that studentsgraduating rom Rhode Island high

schools are prepared or higherduat, h addd.

Many o the issues acing thestate are interrelated and con-td, sad Lr Adra, har-man o the Board o Governors orHigher Education. He added that ahealthy education system is integralto improving the economy and thattaxpayers need to view education as

an investment in the states uture.I we want a competitive econ-

omy, i we want companies movinghr t d busss w ha t

provide them with a ready and ablewrkr, Adra sad.

URI Student Senate PresidentDavid Coates wrote in an emailto Te Herald that he was disap-

pointed by the commissions ocuson cutting costs at the university

level instead o increasing undingrm th stat.

Wh URI s rtay a gratau mpard t thr ur-sts, Cats wrt, mr tha 0percent o students in 2010 gradu-atd wth r $20,000 dbt.

Robert Weygand, vice presidento administration and nance atURI, said tuition rates or Rhode

Islands only public research uni-versity have been steadily risingr th past s yars. ut atURI currently comes in at just un-der $13,000, compared to $7,000six years ago, according to the uni-rstys wbst.

With the number o degreesrequired or jobs outpacing theumbr graduats, I b tsclear Rhode Island needs to make amassive investment in education,Coates wrote. We no longer live ina wrd whr a g duats a uury. Its a ssty rdrto ulll the expectation that we

will someday earn a competitivewag.

Commission addresseshigher ed affordability

B ADAM tooBin

Senior Staff Writer

In 2005, smokers received somebad news Rhode Island had joined a number o other statesin banning smoking inside barsand enclosed workspaces. Now,state Rep. Richard Morrison, D-Bristol, wants to take that law astep urther and make it illegalto smoke in any outdoor publicstabshmt.

Te proposed legislation wouldkp smkrs rm ghtg up public parks, beaches and play-grounds. Te regulation wouldonly extend to property under the jurisdiction o the state govern-mt, prsrg studts rghtst smk th Ma Gr adthr utdr aras ampus.

I you have your kid on ablanket on the beach and some-one comes up next to you and

starts smoking thats not a good

thg, Mrrs sad.Some students said they

thought the legislation would un-airly penalize smokers. I under-stand why they make it illegal, butthen again it is a public space. I

someone doesnt want to be near asmoker, they can get up and leave,said Erika Manouselis 15. Smok-rs wat t b ut a day asmuh as ay s.

People shouldnt be limitedin their rights as long as it doesnthurt thr pp, sad B Va15. Smoking in a public spacedoes not directly afect other peo-p, s thy shudt utaw t.

But Morrison disagreed withthe notion that smoking in a parks a rght. I a pub pa, ts aprg t smk, h sad.

Morrison cited health concernsover exposure to secondhandsmk as th prmary ras rintroducing the bill. Secondhand

smoke is more dangerous to the

prs brathg tha t th pr-son smoking the cigarette, he said.

Tat (assrt) wud b aoverstatement in terms o em-pirical evidence, said Christo-pher Kahler, chair and proessor

o behavior and social sciences.But mr pp ar psd tsecondhand smoke than smokethemselves. One smoker can afect

multiple people and the overall e-t thrs may b wrs thathat on the original smoker, headdd.

A general consensus existsamong researchers that second-had smk assd as a ar-g by th U.S. ErmtProtection Agency is dangerous.

Rhode Island would not bethe rst state to outlaw smoking

pub aras. A bradraw utawg smkg pubpassed the New York City Councilast yar.

T b s st udr dbat

committee, but Morrison said it maks t t a t, h ds tsee any reason why it would not

become law. Its gotten a lot ointerest and a lot o support, hesaid. Te bill has yet to meet public

ppst.Te goal o the bill is not to

orce people to stop smoking,Mrrs sad. But t maks tmore inconvenient to smoke, andso they decide to quit, thats a greatthg, t, h sad.

Lawmakers oen consider rais-ing taxes on cigarettes as an alter-native method to reduce smok-ing. But Morrison said he neverconsidered raising taxes because

it would not solve the immedi-ate problem o smoke pervading

public places. I youre waitingor a bus, and youre allergic orskd by smk, yu at gtaway rm t wthut mssg thbus, h sad.

Tough Morrisons primary in-

trst s t ssary t rdusmoking, Rhode Island lawmakershave taken a number o steps to re-

duce the number o smokers in the

stat. Rhd Isad urrty hasthe second-highest rate o taxationper pack o cigarettes, trailing onlyNw Yrk. A pak gartts Rhode Island is currently taxed$3.46, and Gov. Lincoln Chaee75 P14 proposed a our-cent per-pack increase in his State o theStat addrss usday ght.

Rhode Island has in the pastreceived poor marks rom theAmerican Lung Association orits eorts to curb smoking. Testate received a ailing grade orts udg r prgramsdesigned to help people quit smok-

g. But Rhd Isad dd ra A r ts smk-r ar arbag smkg wrkspas,bars and a number o other places.Te state also received an A rating

r ts hgh ta gartts.

Rep. proposes ban on smoking in public spaces

B MArGAret niCkens

Senior Staff Writer

Tree representatives rom theUniversitys chapter o the Ameri-can Civil Liberties Union spoke

about the possibility o imple-

menting a student public deend-

rs prgram at th gra bdymeeting o the UndergraduateCouncil o Students Wednesday

ght.Te program, modelled aer a

similar service ofered by the Uni-rsty Cara at Brky,would train students in University

aws ad rguats s thy arepresent their classmates duringgrad appas, dspary har-gs ad thr trats wth

th admstrat.Skylar Albertson 13, one o the

ACLU presenters, said the pro-gram would give participants pub-

py pr that wudbe helpul or students interested appyg t aw sh.

Te Admissions and StudentServices Committee announced

that w CVC mahs ar wrunning. Te new machines allowstudents to add money to theirBar Buks aut ra tm,but students still must use the oldmahs t add my t thrard r dg ad audry.

T mmtt as dsussdbrk CVC mahs ad r-cise equipment around campus.

May u mmbrs afrmdthat the broken machines did notsupply students with a number tocall to report the damaged equip-ment, an oversight President Ra-landa Nelson 12 said they should

wrk tward g.Campus Lie Chair Michael

Shdr 3 sad h s mtgwith Richard Bova, senior associ-ate dean o residential and diningsrs, t dsuss addg watrountains to the satellite gyms.Te Campus Lie committee isalso looking into making the meal

plan system more attractive tostudts. Udr th urrt sys-tem, students on the cheaper meal

plans pay more per meal than stu-dents on the more expensive mealpa, Shdr sad.

Te council began sending outa Mkjh p th Wk its weekly advising email to as-sist students with topics such as

takg asss ad shppgperiod. reasurer Aa Kwakwa14 also said UCS will be host-ing a leadership conerence orRhode Island high school students

Apr 2. Studts rm hgh

schools will participate in ther.

UCS considers public defenders program

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Members o Browns ACLU chapter iscusse the possibilit o a new public eeners program at the UCS meetingWenesa night.

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