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Man shot Four months later, Rohde ’90 recounts captivity
near Brown
Stadium
By Joanna Wohlmuth
Metro Editor
A man was seriously wounded dur-
ing a drive-by shooting Monday
morning on Camp Street — about
four blocks from Brown Stadium —
and was taken to Rhode Island Hos-
pital where he underwent surgery,
according to Providence Police
Detective Lt. Paul Campbell.
The victim, identified by neigh-
bors as Kenton Perry, is in his early
20s, according to the Providence
Journal.
PPD Chief Dean Esserman told
the Journal that the victim sus-
tained “life threatening injuries”
after being shot twice while walk-
ing near Camp and Grand View
Streets around 10:30 a.m.
Esserman said police do not
think the shooting was a random
act.
As of 6 p.m. Monday night, the
victim remained in recover y, and
detectives were waiting to speak to
him further, Campbell said.
Police are looking for a “blue,
four-door Volvo with a sunroof that
fled the scene,” Campbell said, add-
ing that detectives are working on
the case.
The location of Monday’s shooting
on Camp Street (top left).
On alum’s farm, vegetables are from Mars
By Joe Milner
Contributing Writer
It all started with a single home-
grown radish.
“There were six kids in this
apartment next door to us, and they
always hung out in the backyard all
the time,” said Catherine Mardosa
’03, who founded Red Planet Veg-
etables, an urban farm operation
dedicated to bringing fresh, local
and chemical-free produce to Provi-
dence residents.
“They saw me pull a radish and
rinse it off and eat it, and they were
disgusted,” she said. “They were so
revolted that I had taken something
out of the ground and put it in my
inside
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David Rohde ’90 gave his first public lecture since his escape from the
Taliban in Pakistan four months ago.
DPS used pepper spray to break up weekend brawl
By Ellen Cushing
Senior Staf f Writer
Department of Public Safety of-
ficers used pepper spray to break
up a fight at a party in Alumnae
Hall Saturday night, according to
a campus-wide e-mail sent Mon-
day night by Vice President for
Campus Life and Student Services
Margaret Klawunn.
mouth.”
Mardosa’s desire to engage
the curiosity of the children in her
neighborhood and educate them
about where food comes from
inspired her to grow beyond her
backyard garden. Along with her
partner Matt Tracy, Mardosa began
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gardening in a neighbor’s backyard
in Providence’s West End. Currently
in its sixth year of operation, the
local organization has expanded
from its humble roots to harvest-
ing year-round from urban plots and
an acre of farmland in Johnston. It
sells the vegetables it grows to lo-
Higher Ed, 4
gee whiz
Former U. President Gordon
Gee named “Big Man on
Campus” by Time
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Quinn Savit / Herald
There were at least two small
fights at “Scandalous,” a par ty
hosted by the Delta Sigma Theta
sorority, The Herald repor ted
Monday. After the second alter-
cation, a student told The Her-
ald, “there was a kind of powder
in the air” that made partygoers
cough.
The student also said she saw a
blood on another attendee’s shirt
cal restaurants, the Armory Park
Farmers’ Market in the West End
of Providence and local residents
in shares.
Sowing seeds
Besides the kids next door, Mar-
dosa said the West End’s urban envi-
ronment also inspired her and Tracy
to begin farming in Providence.
Tracy and Mardosa had bought a
house in the West End surrounded
by litter-strewn vacant lots. Both had
kept gardens before their move and
wanted to use gardening to trans-
form the urban landscape.
“We saw so much possibility,”
continued on page 4
By Jenna Stark
News Editor
Few people captured by the Taliban
live to tell the tale.
David Rohde ’90, a New York
Times journalist who four months
ago escaped from the Taliban in a
tribal area of Pakistan, spoke to a
packed List 120 Monday about his
experience.
Rohde gave his first major pre-
sentation since his return to the
United States at his alma mater,
speaking to members of the Brown
community about his seven months
and 10 days in captivity and shar-
ing his thoughts on the future of
journalism.
“I hope to spark a discussion
about the United States’ really
complex decisions and issues in
Afghanistan and Pakistan,” Rohde
said at the beginning of his lecture,
adding that he previously had “not
talked ver y much about all this.”
Rohde has already authored a
five-part series about his kidnap-
ping, life in captivity and ultimate
escape that ran in the Times in
October.
“Any good story has to be about
a character that people identify
with,” Rohde said of his writing
about his experience. “It’s just odd
after leaving the party.
Klawunn’s e-mail confirmed
that a fight erupted and that DPS
responded. She also noted that
pepper spray is rarely used by
campus officers and that “when
it is discharged, there is a full re-
view of how and why it was used
to determine if the use was con-
sistent with departmental policies
and protocols.”
Red Planet Vegetables brings chemical-free produce to Providence.
Metro, 5
Jac of all trades
Jac’s, an apparel store,
is the newest addition to
College Hill businesses
that it’s me.”
The lecture, which was orga-
nized by Brown’s Nonfiction Writ-
ing Program, lasted for about a
half-hour. For another hour, Roh-
de answered questions, which
spanned a variety of topics includ-
ing his experience in Pakistan, his
thoughts on journalism and the
state of international af fairs in
South Asia and the Middle East.
Rohde began his lecture dis-
cussing his kidnapping in Afghani-
stan by Taliban Commander Abu
Tayyeb, a man Rohde was sched-
uled to inter view for a book he
was writing on the region. Rohde,
a local Afghan reporter and their
driver were held at gunpoint and
driven for 48 hours from Afghani-
stan to Pakistan, he said.
Once in Pakistan, Rohde said he
was amazed to find a “Taliban mini-
state,” a place where his guards
took bomb-making classes from
foreign militants, Arabs and Uz-
beks “strolled through local mar-
kets” and Taliban construction
crews worked on the roads.
The tribal areas in Pakistan have
become far more fundamentalist
than anyone previously thought,
Rohde said. “What was troubling
continued on page 3
This investigation will be
spearheaded by Director of
Public Safety Mark Por ter, ac-
cording to the e-mail, which also
mentioned the Student Activities
Office and the sponsoring orga-
nization would conduct a review
of the party’s management plan,
which is standard practice when
problems break out at student
events.
Joe Milner / Herald
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NOT TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL
Ivy Chang ’10 says those
seeking a college education
should have access to it
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C ampus N EWS “‘You wanted to get Superman to walk again.’”

Diane Hoffman-Kim, on how the dean of medicine described

higher ed news roundup

by ellen cushing and sarah husk
senior staff writers

American students going abroad at

record rate, survey shows
College students — both American and foreign — are
studying abroad in record numbers, according to an
exhaustive annual survey of international education.
According to the report, “Open Doors,” which was
released Monday by the Institute of International
Education, the number of foreign students studying
in the United States increased 8 percent in the 2008-
2009 school year, for an all-time high of 671,616.
At the same time, the number of American students
studying abroad increased in the 2007-2008 school
year, for a total of 262,416 — an 8.5 percent increase
over the previous year.
Data on where Americans tend to study abroad and
where foreign students tend to originate remain largely
unchanged, according to a Nov. 16 article on the online
higher education magazine Inside Higher Ed. The list of
most popular study-abroad destinations for Americans
was the same in 2007-2008 as it was the previous year,
with Britain, Italy, Spain, France and China topping the
list.
Julia Kim / Herald Like in the previous year, India, China and South
Diane Hoffman-Kim (far right) and her research team have made an artificial environment to grow nerve cells.
Korea were the top three countries sending students to

Research explores nerve cell regeneration study in the United States.

Assault over ‘white privilege’ by Columbia prof

By Julia Kim
Contributing Writer
A team of scientists led by a Brown
professor is conducting research
that could lead to the regeneration
of injured nerve cells and renewed
feeling in numb, damaged body
parts.
Headed by Associate Professor
of Medical Science and Engineering
Diane Hoffman-Kim, the study has
the potential to change the under-
standing that, unlike other cells in
the body, nerve cells do not regen-
erate and can remain damaged for
sudoku
the rest of one’s lifetime.
The research consists of mul-
tiple projects and is modeled after a
“more complicated approach” from
a biomedical engineering perspec-
tive, Hoffman-Kim said.
Unlike many biomedical re-
search approaches, there has been
no animal testing or clinical trials,
as much of the work is done “in a
dish,” she added.
In encouraging the regeneration
of injured nerve cells, the mecha-
nisms of normal development are
“recapitulated,” she said, adding
that this is possible with greater
technology and the more “compre-
hensive and robust understanding”
scientists now have of cell mecha-
nisms and cell biology.
The team has made artificial ma-
terials that look just like Schwann
cells — brain cells that aid transmis-
sion of neural signals by wrapping
around neurons. Hoffman-Kim said
she could not tell the difference
between the ar tificial and real
Schwann cells — and neither could
the nerve cells.
She said when she researched
tissue regeneration as a graduate
student, she and colleagues were
“doomed” to fail because of the lack
of knowledge in the area.
The other members of Hoffman-
Kim’s research group include Julie
Richardson ’07 GS, Cristina Lopez-
Fagundo GS, Jennifer Mitchel GS,
Yu-Ting Liu ’06 GS, Talisha Ram-
chal ’11, Cameron Rementer ’10
and a senior research assistant,
Liane Livi.
The research group is very in-
terdisciplinary, Hoffman-Kim said,
with members from such diverse
backgrounds as molecular biology,
mathematics and biotechnology.
Rementer and Richardson previ-
ously held Undergraduate Teach-
ing and Research Assistantships
worked with Hoffman-Kim. The
“value of the UTRA program” needs
to be stressed, Hoffman-Kim said.
Brown is a “great place to have
smart people work together.”
A Columbia professor has been charged with
assaulting a female colleague after a discussion about
race relations between the two turned violent at a bar
on the night of Nov. 6, the New York Post reported last
week.
According to the Post, Lionel McIntyre, who is black,
was engaged in a conversation about white privilege and
racial issues with Margaret Camille Davis, a production
manager who works in Columbia’s theater department,
and another white male, who has not been identified.
McIntyre allegedly began to shove Davis, and when
onlookers attempted to restrain him, punched Davis in
the face.
McIntyre is a 59-year-old associate professor
in Columbia’s urban design program, part of the
University’s architecture school, according to the
Columbia Spectator, which also reported the story.
The professor was released the night of his
arraignment without bail. “It was a very unfortunate
event,” McIntyre told the Post. “I didn’t mean for it to
explode the way it did.”
UMass backtracks on terrorist invitation
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
which incited a debate about free speech earlier this
month when faculty members invited a convicted
terrorist to speak at an on-campus event scheduled for
last Thursday, has announced that the terms of the
prospective speaker’s parole prevent him from traveling
between states, according to the Boston Globe.
The school’s Social Thought and Political Economy
program invited Roy Luc Levasseur, co-founder of the
extremist United Freedom Front and a convict in the
1980s of terrorism and bombing. The decision incited
the criticism of university administrators and state
officials, the newspaper reported.
The institution had already officially revoked the
invitation earlier this month, but within several days
of the university cancelling Levasseur’s appearance on

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C ampus N EWS “Go interact with the world.”

— David Rohde ’90, New York Times reporter and escaped Taliban prisoner

Rohde shares dark Q&A with David Rohde

tale of his kidnapping New York Times reporter David
Rohde ’90 escaped from the Tali-
the end when I was increasingly
frankly angry with them and what
book will have the same tone of
the series, which I tried to keep
ban four months ago after being they were doing to my family and dispassionate. The important
continued from page 1 Despite his harrowing experi- kidnapped while on assignment in just convinced they would never thing is not us and our story and
ence in Pakistan, Rohde said he Afghanistan. Rohde gave his first make an agreement. And I think our experience. What I’m trying
was my guards expressed a burn- was hopeful about the future of the public lecture about his experience that if we hadn’t escaped then, we to do is use the kidnapping as a ve-
ing desire to carr y out suicide region, because there are moder- on Monday in List 120. He also sat would still be over there today. hicle to inform people more about
attacks in the United States,” he ate Afghans and Pakistanis who down with The Herald to discuss the Taliban and the region.
said. disagree with the Taliban and with how his perspective has changed You have been writing a
The “hardline” men living in militancy in general. since the ordeal and how it feels to book on Afghanistan and Pak- How has it been, having to
the tribal areas of Pakistan exist “Since I’ve been home I’ve got- share his story with the public. istan for several years now. relive this experience for your
in an “alternative reality,” Rohde ten many calls and apologies from How has what you’re including series, for lectures, to write
said, adding that the people with moderate Pakistanis and Afghans,” What have you been doing in the book changed? your book?
whom he interacted while in captiv- Rohde said. with your time since you re- I want to finish the book I was It’s a mixed bag, but I think
ity believed that Islam was under While his hardline captors turned from captivity? How researching when we were kid- that it’s worth doing because the
a “world-wide assault by America, “hated Barack Obama more than have you been spending the napped. A primary part of it is situation that exists in the tribal
Europe and Israel.” George W. Bush” for sending more last four months? going to be the kidnapping. I’m areas today is so dangerous to
But instead of being part of a troops and drones into Afghanistan The initial focus was trying to just trying to figure out how to Pakistanis and Afghans and Amer-
pious religious movement, his cap- and Pakistan, Rohde said many get Asad (Mangal), our driver, restructure the outline I had for icans. It’s very important to tell
tors “operated more like a criminal moderate Pakistanis were encour- released. And after five weeks the book before. The kidnapping people about the reality there. So,
organization,” Rohde said. aged by Obama’s election and his he returned to Kabul, which was occurred on my last reporting trip I hope this is a positive thing that’s
Many of the guards had ex- widely watched address in Cairo just absolutely wonderful. And for the book. I was ready to go and helping inform people. The prob-
treme misconceptions regarding this summer. then after that, it was a very long ready to write the whole thing, and lem is even more complex than I
American culture and the Christian In addition to discussing his process of writing these stories. this has obviously changed the realized before the kidnapping.
faith, he said. A Pakistani suicide time in captivity, Rohde addressed It took me longer than I thought. focus of the book. I’m surprised
bomber with whom Rohde lived for the new opportunities and chal- And most importantly, trying to and encouraged by the reaction Do you have any advice for
six weeks believed that a necktie lenges of modern journalism as spend time with my wife and my of the story. Telling the story of Brown students who are in-
was a secret symbol of Christian- many print newspapers downsize family. I’m just very lucky, and our captivity seems to have gotten ternational relations majors
ity. or fold. very happy to be home. people interested in the Taliban or interested in the region or
The guards were also ver y He said there is an even greater and Pakistan and Afghanistan are future journalists?
poorly educated. None of his need for objective, on-the-ground There was a lot of informa- — and more interested than in Don’t give up. Don’t get dis-
guards had “seen the world be- repor ters, especially in regions tion for you to put in your se- the past. And it’s an incredibly couraged. Good, accurate, com-
yond Afghanistan and Pakistan” that would other wise remain un- ries. How did you decide what important issue for Afghans and pelling stories will rise to the top
and “suicide bombers were like covered. to share with your audience? Pakistanis and Americans. whether they’re on a blog or in a
local celebrities,” Rohde said. “You are the generation that I actually tried to keep it pretty podcast or in a newspaper or on
But the guards were initially will re-invent and save journalism,” accurate in terms of the flow of Do you mind telling us a a Web site. It’s great reporting
friendly to Rohde, who said they Rohde said, citing creative use of events as they actually occurred. bit more about how the book and storytelling that will succeed,
called him the “golden hen.” But print publication, Web sites, blogs I did, and I said this in the story, has changed from what you and you just have to believe that’s
when his capture did not lead and podcasts as potential ways to I did withhold certain details originally conceptualized? going to happen. When I was at
to millions of dollars in ransom revitalize media. that I thought would endanger The original book had virtually Brown I never imagined I’d be
money, the guards complained that Despite the danger he faced, people, and it was a process of nothing about me, no first-person in any situation like this — both
he was “wor thless” and “physi- Rohde recommended that Brown just frankly telling a story of how sections. The question now is how the good sides and the bad sides.
cally dir ty” because he was not students consider journalism as a my own perceptions of the Tali- much of it will be on the kidnap- There always has been a need
a Muslim. potential career. ban changed. What they were in ping. And I think a very large part for storytellers and journalists
Emphasizing that he did not “Go interact with the world,” he the beginning — they seemed to of it is now going to be about the throughout human history, and
want to make political statements said. “It’s an extraordinar y place be reasonable, and they seemed kidnapping with more context, I that will continue.
during his talk, Rohde said the filled with extraordinar y people.” like maybe they would agree to think, and background and nu-
Predator drones — remotely pi- some kind of compromise — until ance, I hope. My goal is that the —Jenna Stark
loted aircrafts — used by the U.S.
militar y in Pakistan are “not the
solution” to the growing fundamen-
talist threat in the region.
Predator air-strikes, some of
which fell close to Rohde’s loca-
tion in Pakistan, led the Taliban
to blame a local farmer in the area
for being an American spy and tor-
ture him until he confessed. The
drones, Rohde said, are “creating
a stalemate.”
After seven months, Rohde
said he grew to believe the Tali-
ban would never reach an agree-
ment for his release. He and Tahir
Ludin, the local reporter who was
captured along with him, decided
to tr y to escape to a nearby Paki-
stani government militia base.
Rohde and Ludin used a cow
towrope to lower themselves over
the wall ringing the compound in
which they were held.
“It was very dangerous,” Rohde
said. “If we had been caught, they
might kill me, but they definitely
would kill Tahir.”
The two journalists were able to
call their families from the base.
“I’m so lucky to be home,”
Rohde said.
Accompanied by both his moth-
er and his wife Kristen Mulvihill
’91, Rohde said his family “kept
him going” throughout his cap-
tivity.
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violence is not the answer
Lewis Lipsitt, a professor emeritus of psychology, appeared Tuesday afternoon in MacMillan 117 at the
annual lecture that bears his name. Panelists discussed the origins of youth violence and what can be done
to prevent it.
Time names former U. president ‘Big Man’
By Brigitta Greene
Senior Staf f Writer
Former Brown president Gordon
Gee, the current president of Ohio
State University, was named “The
Big Man on Campus” one of the
top 10 college presidents by Time
Magazine earlier this month.
Gee’s tenure at Brown lasted
only 25 months — he resigned
abruptly in 2000 to take the po-
sition of chancellor at Vanderbilt
University, the school’s top admin-
istrative post.
His path to “Big Man” status
has been anything but average.
A 2006 article in the Wall Street
Journal described his “recurring
pattern,” which was to “disrupt the
status quo, lift the university’s im-
age, raise a lot of money and leave
for another job.”
But Time described Gee as
“campaigning for a revolution” to
bring higher education to a new
frontier, transforming the nation’s
universities into economic power-
houses of the future.
As the economy becomes in-
creasingly knowledge- and ser-
vice-based, universities have the
potential to shape not only the
future of research and economic
development, but also the direc-
tion of public policy, according to
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“I don’t know if you can imagine how much 17 pounds of salad is.”
— Laura Brown-Lavoie ’10.5, who works twice a week at Mathewson Farm
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
the magazine.
“Being president of a major
public university is the most
political nonpolitical of fice
around,” Gee told the magazine.
“We’re campaigning on behalf of
our mission.”
The itinerant university presi-
dent is also a well-compensated
one. His total pay at Ohio State
was $1.35 million in the fiscal year
ending in June 2008, according to
the Chronicle of Higher Educa-
tion — the highest figure for any
president of a public university in
the United States.
And though his tenure at Brown
was marked with controversy, Gee
has been well-received by the stu-
dents of Ohio State.
“If you invite him to any party,
he’ll be there,” Sam McCoy, a ju-
nior at Ohio State, told The Herald.
“You would be hard-pressed to find
someone who didn’t like him.”
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Trip to France fueled
interest in organic farming
continued from page 1
Mardosa said.
The operation’s name came
to Mardosa and Tracy as a result
of a very different sort of experi-
ment — the Mars Rover landings
in 2004. Mardosa said they used
to sit in their backyard at night
and look at Mars while they talked
about starting the farm. They re-
membered that the Roman deity
had once been a god of agriculture
before he was changed into a god
of war.
“It was the beginning of the war
(in Iraq), and we were just thinking
that we could make people think …
about agriculture instead of war,”
Mardosa said.
Red Planet Vegetables officially
began that year in a neighbor’s
backyard and in a hay field in
North Rehoboth, Mass. Mardosa
has avoided tractor farming be-
cause of the vehicles’ dependence
on fossil fuels, she said, so she and
Tracy purchased hand tools and
a roto-tiller to turn the earth and
set to work.
Starting a farm from scratch
created a unique set of challenges
and opportunities, Mardosa said,
citing their attempts to try new
methods of growing their veg-
etables.
“We don’t have a sense of how
it’s supposed to work, so we just
try to use what we’ve got and bor-
row things and build things,” she
said.
Since 2004, the organization
has changed locations frequent-
ly. It maintains two urban plots,
growing perennials such as ber-
ries, asparagus and herbs, but
the vast majority of its produce
is now grown on a 1.5-acre plot in
Johnston. Located on a farm owned
by the Mathewson family since
1780, the suburban plot has offered
Mardosa and Tracy more space to
grow but has also set them out-
side the urban community they
intended to serve.
“I loved it when I could spend
more of my days in the neighbor-
hood talking to the people that
walked by,” Mardosa said. “But it
makes a lot more sense to have a
piece of land big enough to grow
for enough people.”
A growing movement
Over the past few months, Lau-
ra Brown-Lavoie ’10.5 has learned
just how much “enough” is. Twice
a week, she bikes to Mardosa’s
house in Providence, rides out to
the Mathewson farm and spends
about five hours harvesting pars-
ley, radishes, lettuce, greens, beets
and carrots.
“I don’t know if you can imag-
ine how much 17 pounds of salad
is,” she said about a recent har-
vest.
Brown-Lavoie’s interest in
farming began last fall, when she
took a semester off and traveled
in France through the World Wide
Opportunities on Organic Farms
network. Although her decision
to “WWOOF” began as a way to
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see the countr y, Brown-Lavoie
said that when she returned for
the spring semester, she realized
how much she missed working
on a farm.
She began working with City
Farm, a project run by the South-
side Community Land Trust. Over
the summer, she spent Tuesdays
and Thursdays working with Mar-
dosa for Red Planet Vegetables.
Brown-Lavoie said she found grow-
ing food in the city fulfilling, so
she created an independent study
project that allowed her to con-
tinue working twice a week this
semester.
While Brown-Lavoie has vol-
unteered her time, most of the
people who work in the fields with
Mardosa and Tracy participate in
Red Planet Vegetables’ Community
Supported Agriculture, a business
model in which members pay for
a share of vegetables in advance
and then receive a portion of each
week’s produce. Red Planet Veg-
etables’ CSA members also con-
tribute a given number of hours
to working on the plots.
After being impressed by Mar-
dosa’s and Tracy’s produce at the
Armory market, Sarah Bernstein
’04.5 participated in the farm’s win-
ter CSA and joined its inaugural
summer CSA this year.
“They’re being innovative in
how they structure it and trying
to be in conversation with the
members of the CSA as much as
possible,” she said.
Over the course of the sum-
mer season, Bernstein said she
helped harvest three or four times.
Like Brown-Lavoie, on each har-
vest Bernstein dedicated the bet-
ter part of the day to picking and
preparing vegetables — including
arugula, parsley, herbs, greens and
squash. In addition to receiving
her share of the produce, Bern-
stein said she also benefited from
Mardosa’s knowledge about grow-
ing plants.
“That was an added incentive
to me as a gardener and a curi-
ous person who wants to know
more about the food that I eat,”
Bernstein said.
Farming for the future
Sunday afternoon found the
Mathewson plot drenched in No-
vember sunlight. Rows of lettuce
and greens peeked out from the
soil, their leafy heads covered
in dew droplets. Nearby, Tracy
worked on building the metal hoop
house that will allow Red Planet
Vegetables to continue to grow its
produce through the winter. The
bulk of these vegetables will end up
being served in local restaurants.
In turn, scraps from some of those
restaurants will become compost,
like the heaps Brown-Lavoie has
helped build at City Farm.
Brown-Lavoie said she appreci-
ates being able to participate in
this cycle of growth and re-use.
“Citizens of cities have to stop
assuming that what we need will
be brought to us,” she said. “We
have to grow our own food.”
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“The institutions are starting to stretch their capacity.”
— Steve Maurano, state commissioner for higher education

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | Page 5

College Hill sports new apparel store metro in brief

More students at R.I. public schools despite cuts

By Sydney Ember
Senior Staff Writer
Friday the 13th wasn’t so unlucky for
the storefront at 183 Angell St.
The retail space, which has sat
empty since Planned Parenthood Ex-
press closed last fall, is now home to
a newly opened apparel store called
JAC’s.
“We’re definitely looking to at-
tract people that are from this area,”
said owner Christina Marsland, add-
ing that she chose to open her store
on the auspicious day because it was
her “luckiest day.”
JAC’s — which stands for jewelry,
accessories and clothing — offers
“fashion on a budget,” Marsland
said, with apparel marked at a “lower
price-point, so it’s affordable to ev-
erybody.” The store also features an
area with coffee urns and cookies for
customers looking to snag a bite as
they peruse the retail selection.
Marsland said she first noticed
the empty location, directly across
from Spats Restaurant, in Septem-
ber as she walked around the East
Side of Providence in search of open
storefronts. A month later, “it was still
open, and I went for it,” she said.
But Marsland said only a handful
of customers visited the new shop
in its first few days, which she at-
tributed to the weekend rain.
“A lot of people said we had good
prices,” she said.
Marsland is only using the front
of the store to display her selection
of coats, T-shirts and jewelry, but she
said she has plans to create a sale
room or provide “another service” in
the back area, which she said would
add to her repertoire of low-priced,
“youth-oriented” offerings.
“We try to (keep prices) low for
JAC — which stands for jewelry, accessories and clothing — opened on An-
gell Street in the space formerly occupied by Planned Parenthood Express.
the students,” she said. “We just
want to be part of the neighborhood
around here.”
The clothing store’s opening
kicks off the wave of stores and
restaurants that are set to open in
the next few months on or around
Thayer Street. Better Burger Com-
pany will open at 215-217 Thayer St.
in January, owner Andy Mitrelis told
The Herald last month. New busi-
nesses are also set to move into the
spaces previously containing Roba
Dolce and Geoff’s sandwich shop,
according to property manager Kent
Kim Perley / Herald
Stetson ’01.
Stetson said the storefront, which
he also manages, remained unoc-
cupied for more than a year before
a new tenant expressed interest in
the space.
“There are a lot of risks in start-
ing a new business,” he said. “The
rent’s really very good there, but it’s
a very difficult retail market now.”
With a $36 million budget decrease over the past two
years, Rhode Island’s three public institutes of higher
education have been left with unfulfilled staff positions and
falling financial aid per recipient despite rising enrollment.
The University of Rhode Island, the Community College of
Rhode Island and Rhode Island College cumulatively enroll
43,412 students — a record high — according to a Nov. 9
press release from the state’s Board of Governors for Higher
Education. The figure includes a 488-student increase in
URI’s enrollment over last year.
Steve Maurano, the state commissioner for higher
education, pointed to the recession as a major reason for high
enrollment.
“These trends are accelerated,” he said. “Many people look
at it as a good time to return to school.”
Students are searching for more economical ways to get
an education, Maurano added. Not only are more in-state
students enrolling, but many are first spending time at
community college “to get a handle on what they want to
study,” he said.
But the institutions are also facing budget constraints
and are leaving staff positions unfilled. After offering early
retirement packages to employees, the institutions have
left 330 (mostly staff) positions vacant — all of which they
define as necessary — “in order to balance their respective
budgets,” according to the press release.
“The institutions are starting to stretch their capacity,”
Maurano said. “They’re going to be at a breaking point very
soon.”
But as enrollment increases, financial aid has not kept
up. “Students are getting hit at both ends,” Maurano said —
tuition rose 9 to 10 percent across the three schools, but as
the financial aid budget was divided among a larger student
body, the average package per student has decreased.
Still, Maurano said the state is committed to educating “as
many Rhode Islanders as possible.”
“I think it’s critical that everyone receives some post-
secondary education or training,” he said. “ The days of
someone being able to carve out a living with a high school
education are gone.”
—Goda Thangada

Rising expenditures, lower

revenues fuel R.I.’s deficit
By Ana Alvarez
Staff Writer
Despite attempts to balance the
budget, Rhode Island’s deficit is
estimated at $219.8 million for the
current fiscal year, according to an
official memo from the State Budget
Office last Friday.
That projection comes after the
office held its semi-annual Revenue
Estimating Conference Nov. 5 and
10. The conference, which by law
must be held twice a year to up-
date state revenue and spending
estimates, attributed the deficit to
a large drop in expected revenue and
an increase in expenditures, both
products of the economic recession,
according to the memo.
Since the 2010 fiscal year began
in July, Rhode Island has developed
a revenue shortfall of $130.4 mil-
lion, according to the budget office’s
findings. That was in part due to
decreases in revenue of $64 million
from the sales tax, $44 million from
the income tax and $18.9 million
from the business corporation tax.
After accounting for $34.9 million
in overspending and the $61.8 mil-
lion deficit left over from the last
fiscal year, the conference reached
its $219.8 million estimate.
Last week, the Pew Center on the
States released a report, “Beyond
California: States in Fiscal Peril,”
that identified Rhode Island as one
of 10 states headed toward economic
disaster.
In a statement issued Nov. 10,
Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 called the
revenue forecast “poor,” adding that
the deficit proves that the state is
“still in the throes of an economic
recession.”
Amy Kempe, the governor’s
spokeswoman, said in an interview
that the deficit was not “unexpected,”
calling the large drop in revenue and
spending increase “a direct result”
of the recession.
The General Assembly sent a
joint resolution calling on Carcieri to
submit a plan to balance the budget
by this week, Kempe said.
While the governor acknowl-
edged in his statement that “there
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budget woes, Carcieri says
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are more difficult decisions to be
made,” Kempe confirmed that the
governor does not plan to meet that
deadline.
“The joint resolution is not statu-
tory,” Kempe said. “There is no way
to throw together a complete correc-
tive plan in such short time.”
In the statement, Carcieri said
he plans to work on a budget plan
with the legislature in the coming
months and stressed that he does
not support a tax increase.
“We must avoid raising taxes to
solve this problem,” he said in the
statement. “This is not the time to
ask Rhode Island families to pay
even more of their hard-earned dol-
lars to state government.”
Kempe added that Rhode Island-
ers “need to tighten our belt” to cut
expenditures before considering a
tax hike.
A clear plan of action from the
legislature will not be available until
the General Assembly reconvenes
in January. But the House Finance
Committee announced last week
it would hold a hearing Nov. 23 to
further review the budget situation,
according a Nov. 11 Providence Jour-
nal article.
“State and local officials may wish
for a rosier picture,” Carcieri said in
the statement, “but as leaders, and
stewards of our future, we have the
very unpleasant but critical task of
managing our way through what is
the worst economic downturn since
the Great Depression.”
By statute, the governor has until
Jan. 21 to submit a supplemental
appropriations act to the General
Assembly, Kempe said.
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w o r l d a n d n at i o n i n b r i e f
Obama brings broad agenda to meeting with China’s Hu
President Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, met officially for more than an
hour Tuesday at China’s Great Hall of the People, and the U.S. president was expected to
press the Chinese leader for possible new sanctions on Iran, a stepped-up Chinese role in
Afghanistan and the relative strengths of the countries’ respective currencies.
The two leaders were also trying to find agreement on some modest climate-change goals
for the upcoming environmental summit in Copenhagen and on edging North Korea back to
multilateral talks over its nuclear program.
“I’m very happy to have talks with you,” Hu told Obama at the start of the meeting. “You
have worked actively to promote this relationship.”
Obama replied, “We believe strong dialogue is important not only for the U.S. and China,
but for the rest of the world.”
The two already met once over dinner Monday night, shortly after Obama arrived in the
frigid Chinese capital from Shanghai. National security adviser James Jones described that
meeting between as an “informal dinner discussion” in which the two leaders discussed “the
evolution and histories of China and the United States.”
Panel Recommends Women
Jones said the two also spoke at length about education, but he did not elaborate.
— Keith B. Richburg
Washington Post
Panel recommends women receive fewer mammograms
Women in their 40s should stop routinely having annual mammograms and older women
should cut back to one scheduled exam every other year, an influential federal task force has
concluded, challenging the use of one of the most common medical tests.
In its first re-evaluation of breast cancer screening since 2002, the independent
government-appointed panel recommended the changes, citing evidence that the potential
harm to women having annual exams beginning at age 40 outweighs the benefit.
Coming amid a highly charged national debate over health-care reform and simmering
suspicions about the possibility of rationing medical services, the recommendations
immediately became enveloped in controversy.
— Rob Stein
Washington Post
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Deep divisions still remain on health care legislation
By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen
The Washington Post
As the Senate prepares to take up
legislation aimed at overhauling the
nation’s health-care system, Presi-
dent Obama and the Democrats
are still struggling to win the battle
for public opinion. A new Wash-
ington Post-ABC News poll shows
Americans deeply divided over the
proposals under consideration and
majorities predicting higher costs
ahead.
But Republican opponents have
done little better in rallying the
public opposition to kill the reform
effort. Americans continue to sup-
port key elements of the legislation,
including a mandate that employers
provide health insurance to their
workers and access to a govern-
ment-sponsored insurance plan for
those people without insurance.
Over the past few months, pub-
lic opinion has solidified, leaving
Obama and the Democrats with
the political challenge of enacting
one of the most ambitious pieces
of domestic legislation in decades
in the face of a nation split over the
wisdom of doing so. In the new
poll, 48 percent say they support
the proposed changes; 49 percent
are opposed.
With the bill through the House,
Senate Democrats are now looking
for the votes to enact their version of
the legislation and keep the reform
effort moving forward. Whatever
the outcome of the health-care de-
bate, it will have a powerful influ-
ence in shaping the political climate
for next year’s midterm elections.
The House bill contains a highly
controversial provision prohibiting
abortion coverage for those insured
under a new public insurance plan
as well as those who receive federal
subsidies to purchase private in-
surance. In the poll, 61 percent say
they support barring coverage for
abortions for those receiving public
subsidies, but if private funds were
used to pay for abortion expenses,
the numbers flipped. With segre-
gated private money used to cover
abortion procedures, 56 percent say
insurance offered to those using
government assistance should be
able to include such coverage.
The new poll provides ammuni-
tion for both advocates and oppo-
nents of reform. For opponents, a
clear area of public concern centers
on cost – 52 percent say an altered
system would probably make their
own care more expensive, and 56
percent see the overall cost of health
care in the country going up as a
result.
Few see clear benefits in ex-
change for higher expenses. Rather,
there has been a small but signifi-
cant increase in the number (now
37 percent) who anticipate their care
deteriorating under a revamped
system, putting that number in line
with opinion in July 1994, just before
President Bill Clinton’s health-care
reform efforts fizzled.
Among those with insurance,
three times as many continue to see
worse rather than better coverage
options ahead (39 to 13 percent),
and fewer than half of those who
lack insurance see better options
under a changed system. Six in
10 see it as “very” or “somewhat”
likely that many private insurers
would be forced out of business by
a government-sponsored insurance
plan, a potential result that GOP
leaders frequently warn about.
But reform proponents have
other findings to bolster their case.
Two-thirds of those surveyed sup-
port one of the basic tenets of the
reform plan, a new requirement
that all employers with payrolls of
$500,000 or more provide health
insurance coverage for their em-
ployees or face fines.
As in previous polls, a majority
supports a government-sponsored
heath insurance plan to compete
with private insurers, although the
percentage supporting the general
idea has slipped slightly over the
past month to 53 percent. Support
for the scheme jumps to 72 percent
when the public plan is limited to
those who lack access to coverage
through an employer or the Medi-
care or Medicaid systems.
While Americans overall are
divided on reform legislation, the
Democrats have made some prog-
ress among at least one key group.
Support among senior citizens,
while still broadly negative, is up
13 points since September to 44
percent.
Seniors have also tilted back to-
ward Obama when matched head
to head with congressional Repub-
licans on dealing with health-care
reform, helping the president to a
13-point advantage over the GOP
on this issue.
Republicans appear to be ham-
pered by a widespread perception
that they have not offered clear
choices: 61 percent of those polled
say the GOP is “mainly criticizing”
without presenting alternatives to
Democratic proposals.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | Page 7
Looking toward next year’s mid-
term elections, 25 percent say they
more apt to back a candidate who
supports the proposed health-care
changes; 29 percent are less likely
to do so. More, 45 percent, say the
vote will not make much of a differ-
ence. Independents are nearly twice
as likely to be swayed away from
rather than toward a candidate who
supports the changes (31 percent to
17 percent).
Beyond health care, Obama con-
tinues to garner broadly positive
ratings from the public. His overall
approval rating stands at 56 percent,
holding steady in Post-ABC polls
since the late summer. More, 61
percent, say they have an overall
favorable impression of him, and a
slim majority continues to see him
as “about right” ideologically (four
in 10 consider him “too liberal.”)
The president, who is on a 10-day
visit to Asia, gets his top mark on
handling international affairs, and
also picks up majority approval on
dealing with the threat of terrorism.
But Americans are more divided
over his performance on other key
issues, with nearly even splits in
satisfaction with his work on health
care, the economy and the situation
in Afghanistan.
On each of these three issues,
intensity runs against the president,
with significantly higher numbers
expressing “strong” disapproval as
strident approval. Obama receives
generally negative reviews on his
handling of the federal budget defi-
cit, with 53 percent disapproving of
his actions on that front.
Obama continues to be lifted
by weakness in the opposition. In
addition to his double-digit lead
over congressional Republicans
on health care, the president has a
15-point advantage on handling the
nation’s still-struggling economy.
More broadly, Democrats continue
to have the edge as the party more
trusted to deal with the country’s
main problems over the next few
years and when it comes to being
more empathetic and more in tune
with people’s values.
But there are also evident signs
of an anti-incumbent mood in the
new survey, which would dispropor-
tionately hurt the majority Demo-
crats next fall should they hold.
Most see the countr y as headed
pretty seriously off on the wrong
track and half of all Americans say
they are inclined to look around for
someone new to support for Con-
gress; just 38 percent are inclined to
re-elect their member of Congress.
These numbers are similar to those
from November 1993, one year be-
fore Republicans took back control
of the House and Senate and close
to those from May 2006, six months
before Democrats re-captured the
Congress.
The poll was conducted Nov.
12-15 by conventional and cellular
telephone among a random national
sample of 1,001 adults. The margin
of sampling error is plus or minus
three percentage points.
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Bernanke offers gloomy job outlook, help for dollar
By Neil Irwin and Ylan Mui
The Washington Post
Federal Reser ve Chairman Ben
Bernanke waded Monday into the
debate among policy-makers over
the vigor of the economic recovery,
offering a sobering view of what
lies ahead in his most detailed com-
ments on the economy in months.
Bernanke’s focus on the weak
job market and his opinion that in-
flation will remain subdued show
that he is looking to keep the Fed
focused on supporting growth for
quite a while longer by leaving in-
terest rates at rock-bottom levels.
Financial markets may be soaring
and the economy expanding. But,
he said, “the best thing we can say
about the labor market right now is
that it may be getting worse more
slowly.”
Speaking at the Economic Club
of New York, Bernanke also offered
rare remarks about the value of the
U.S. currency, saying the Fed’s
policies will “help ensure that the
dollar is strong.” Stepping into an
arena usually reserved for Treasury
secretaries, he signaled that the
central bank is paying close atten-
tion to the dollar’s rapid decline and
lent some of his own credibility to
Obama administration efforts to
maintain confidence in the dollar
on international markets.
Bernanke’s remarks about the
dollar came one day after China’s
top bank regulator criticized the
Fed’s handling of monetary policy,
blaming the weak dollar and low
interest rates for creating a global
bubble in asset prices.
The U.S.-China economic rela-
tionship is under particular scru-
tiny this week as President Obama
visits Beijing. China is the largest
foreign holder of U.S. government
debt and thus would be exposed to
massive losses if the dollar were to
plummet.
The overriding takeaway from
his speech, however, was that the
Fed should continue aggressive
efforts to stimulate economic ac-
tivity.
“Continued growth next year
is likely,” Bernanke said. But he
added, “Some important headwinds
– in particular, constrained bank
lending and a weak job market –
likely will prevent the expansion
from being as robust as we would
hope.”
In the past week, several other
Fed officials have given their views
of the economic outlook, voicing a
range of concerns. Some view the
economy as fundamentally weak
and see little reason to fear rising
prices as long as the jobless rate is
high. But others have argued the
Fed should soon reverse direction,
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
raising interest rates before there
is much improvement in economic
conditions, lest there be a burst of
inflation.
Bernanke’s comments position
him in the center. He agrees with
those who see a weak recovery and
think inflation is unlikely to be an
immediate threat. Bernanke, how-
ever, did give a nod to concerns
about rising prices in the future,
noting that expectations of inflation
can “be early warnings of actual
inflation” and “must be monitored
carefully.”
“He touched a lot of bases and
acknowledged a lot of concerns but
didn’t really sway from the central
view that there will be moderate
growth and subdued inflation,” said
Peter Hooper, chief economist for
Deutsche Bank Securities.
The jobless rate rose to 10.2
percent in October and is widely
forecast to keep edging upward.
Indeed, as Bernanke said Monday,
“the unemployment rate will decline
only slowly if economic growth re-
mains moderate, as I expect.”
Bernanke emphasized the hu-
man toll of the continued weak job
market, noting the astronomical
unemployment rates among some
subsets of the labor force, such as
the 19 percent jobless rate among
16-to-24-year-olds. This widespread
unemployment among young adults
could have long-lasting implica-
tions, he said, as they lose out on
work experience and on-the-job
training.
In addressing the dollar, Ber-
nanke said the recent decline is
partly due to investors who had
poured money into the safety of
U.S. currency during the depths
of the financial crisis and are now
more comfortable investing else-
where. The dollar is down 16 per-
cent against a basket of other major
currencies since March 5. That de-
cline has helped make U.S. exports
more competitive but has raised
fears that what has been an orderly
decline could become a rout.
“We are attentive to the implica-
tions of changes in the value of the
dollar and will continue to formu-
late policy to guard against risks
to our dual mandate to foster both
maximum employment and price
stability,” Bernanke said. He said
that Fed policy will help ensure that
the dollar is strong and a “source
of global financial stability.” Also
Monday, in a sign that the economic
expansion is continuing this fall, the
Commerce Department reported
that retail sales in October grew
1.4 percent compared with the pre-
vious month, driven by a jump in
auto sales.
Car sales had spiked over the
summer because of the govern-
Tuesday, november 17, 2009
ment’s popular “cash for clunkers”
program, which gave consumers
with certain trade-ins a credit of
up to $4,500 toward the purchase
of a new, fuel-efficient vehicle. But
sales slumped in September after
the stimulus ended. Analysts said
sales were returning to normal in
October.
General merchandise and de-
partment stores also got a lift last
month, rising 0.8 percent. Restau-
rants had a 1.2 percent rise, while
health-care stores’ sales were up
0.5 percent.
But several long-suffering cat-
egories continued to experience
sales declines. Electronics stores
fell 0.6 percent, furniture retailers
were down 0.8 percent, and building
materials dropped 2.4 percent.
Still, the overall increase was
higher than anticipated, which
some analysts interpreted as a hope-
ful sign. “Despite the consumer’s
gloomy mood, spending is improv-
ing,” said Nigel Gault, chief U.S.
economist for IHS Global Insight.
Two data releases on Tuesday
will give new insights into growth
and inflation in October. The Fed’s
industrial production data are fore-
cast to show a continued expan-
sion, while the producer price index
is expected to show an uptick in
wholesale prices, due mostly to
higher energy costs.
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Ft. Hood has been leader in soldier well-being
by Peter Slevin
The Washington Post
Families from Georgia to California
buried their Fort Hood dead over the
weekend, but here on the nation’s
largest military installation, the pace
of operations did not slow. Soldiers
by the hundred bid tearful farewells
and shipped out to war as others
returned to joyous homecomings.
For those who made it back, the
Nov. 5 attack that made Fort Hood
a symbol of the collateral damage
of two faraway conflicts is also re-
minder of the battle the Army post
has been waging against the mental
demons unleashed by combat.
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psy-
chiatrist charged in the killings, was
a recent arrival to a mental health
corps that had won recent plaudits
from the Pentagon’s highest ech-
elons for its innovative thinking
about soldier health. Yet the violence
he allegedly unleashed only weeks
before his own deployment under-
scores the depths of the military’s
challenges and the limits of its most
well-intentioned reach.
More than 75 people based at
Fort Hood have committed suicide
since the Iraq war began in March
2003, including 10 this year, one
of the highest rates in the Army.
Divorce, depression and violence
are increasingly common among
the thousands of soldiers who cycle
through here, officials say.
Yet spaces exist for only a frac-
tion of the soldiers who need help,
officials say. For a soldier not consid-
ered in urgent psychiatric distress,
it takes three to five weeks to begin
counseling sessions, a senior staff
psychiatrist reported. Resistance
to seeking treatment can be fierce
in a world where steeled emotions
are typically considered a sign of
strength.
To heal the corps, Fort Hood
commanders are moving beyond
standard commands that soldiers
simply suck it up. Sending a mes-
sage that to hurt is human, to seek
help divine, they hope to draw re-
turning warriors into networks of
support. It is too early to know if
the programs will succeed.
For example, on the vast Army
post cloaked in drab, Fort Hood’s
new Spiritual Fitness Center offers
color. Inside, sunlight filters through
stained glass of lavender and blue.
Candles are surrounded in dishes
of polished stones and George Win-
ston piano solos flow from speakers
above.
“We like to call this place ‘listen-
ing and love,’” Lt. Col. Ira Houck, a
chaplain, explained from deep in an
overstuffed armchair, one week the
shootings left 13 people dead and
dozens wounded.
If the concept sounds New Age, it
is. The converted chapel in the heart
of the newly christened Resiliency
Campus offers a refuge for broken
and distressed soldiers.
Yet Sgt. Matthew Spencer, a com-
bat veteran who works as a greeter
at the center, laughs when he says
he and his buddies would never seek
help here.
“I am from the infantry. We don’t
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Tuesday, november 17, 2009
come to places like this,” Spencer,
24, said above the strains of an Ennio
Morricone composition. “Why don’t
we come? We’ve got each other.”
“That’s the battle right there,”
said David Rudd, a former Fort
Hood psychologist who is studying
post-combat stress for the Defense
Department. He cites the military’s
macho culture as one reason.
Within sight of where President
Obama led a memorial service for
the Nov. 5 victims, psychiatrist Adam
Borah, who runs the Resilience and
Restoration Center, sees firsthand
the difficulty in making warriors
whole.
“There are issues with stigma.
There are issues with feeling judged.
There are issues with feeling that
you are somehow less of a person if
you require help,” Borah said.
One of his clinics renders imme-
diate care to soldiers who report Melina Mara / Washington Post
they are considering hurting them- At Fort Hood, Tex., concern over the effects of combat stress led to the building of the resiliency campus, which
selves or others. He said a soldier offers features encompassing mental, physical and spiritual health. Above, new age music plays for a soldier in
the spiritual center.
will be seen within 45 minutes of
arrival. Hood,” Borah said. intensity former field artillery bat- individual’s self-discovery.”
A prime worry for the Army is Over at the Resiliency Campus, talion commander whose neighbors “We’d like to think this is some-
the upward trend in suicides, Borah Col. William Rabena oversees com- tease that “Mr. Non-Touchy-Feely” thing that could help anybody out.
said. In the first 10 months of the pletion of a “reflection pond” com- has been given a surprising mis- We want it make it so people want
year, 133 active-duty soldiers were plete with a pair of small, arching sion. to come,” he said. To that end, he
reported to have committed suicide, wooden footbridges and babbling His response: “I know, I know.” is recruiting massage and aroma-
nearly as many as all of 2008. water. Rabena is very much onboard, de- therapy specialists and is convert-
Fort Hood and other posts dis- “There’s no blueprint for build- scribing the mission as a “synergy of ing a racquetball court into a Wii
tribute “suicide prevention cards” ing a Resiliency Campus. Whatever mind, body and spirit.” The Spiritual video-game arena. A putting green
with instructions about talking with makes sense,” said Rabena, a high- Fitness Center’s focus, he said, is “an is coming.
friends who may have suicidal in-
clinations. The acronym is “ACE,”
for “ask your buddy, care for your
buddy, escort your buddy.”
Not since Vietnam have U.S.
soldiers seen so many years of sus-
tained combat. At Fort Hood at any
given time, one-third of the roughly
53,000 soldiers are deployed, one-
third are returning from war and
one third are preparing to go.
Recent research suggests that
warriors’ repeated exposure to
trauma is more likely to weaken a
soldier than to build up mental im-
munity.
“This is not a practice-makes-
perfect situation,” Borah said, de-
scribing wartime trauma. “This is a
situation where with every succes-
sive event, a little bit more of our
resiliency is utilized.”
To address the fallout of war for
active-duty soldiers, with the goal
of returning them to the fight, Fort
Hood last year established the War-
rior Combat Stress Reset Program,
modeled on a six-month approach
at Fort Bliss, Texas. Here, soldiers
devote three weeks to what Borah
calls “traditional and nontraditional
therapies.”
That means options from one-
on-one counseling, group therapy
and medication to yoga, acupunc-
ture, massage and Japanese Reiki.
The results are being evaluated as
they emerge. Three graduates of
the program, which treats a dozen
soldiers at a time, are serving in Iraq
or Afghanistan.
He said Fort Hood could not meet
the post’s need for professional help
without making referrals to civilian
counselors outside the gates.
“There is no question that our
demand for services is greater than
our ability to supply them on Fort
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Atheist perspective welcome

in multi-faith discussion
To the Editor: ligious identity in public discourse
is notably absent. Students have felt
We would like to respond to misunderstood as practicing Catho-
Michael Fitzpatrick’s column high- lics, Jews observing high holidays,
lighting the New York City subway or atheists (“The secret life of Catho-
campaign stimulating conversation lics at Brown,” Sept. 17; “Not just a
around atheism (“Good without day off,” Sept. 25; “The secret life of
God,” Nov. 10). As members of the atheists at Brown,” Sept. 24). As an
Multi-Faith Council, we were par- institution that values diversity and
ticularly compelled by Fitzpatrick’s aims to empower students to bring
sincere hope that “religious groups their individual identities to the table,
take advantage of the ad campaign we are missing out on a unique op-
to foster friendly discussion between portunity to truly ask each other and
atheists and theists.” We would like ourselves, “Who are we?” and “What
not only to assert that we are cer- do we believe?”
tainly interested in fostering just this Whether we see ourselves as “good
kind of discussion, but also to explain without god,” or “good due to god,”
how we see atheist perspectives as or anywhere in between, we are all
vital in the larger context of building searching to define that “good” and
religious pluralism. act as we feel compelled to do good in F ranny choi
We define religious pluralism as the world. There is no doubt that we
three things: first, building respect have much to learn from one another.
for religious or spiritual identity (in- To begin envisioning what a Brown e d i to r i a l
cluding atheistic beliefs); second, community uniting the religious and
building mutually enriching relation-
ships among people of different faith
backgrounds; and third, common
atheistic should look like, we hope
to host an open conversation with
Brown Freethought and others. We
The departed
action for the common good. This hope this forum provides a starting Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 made prodigious use of than callous political grandstanding when he claimed
phenomenon is largely not theologi- point for continued conversation and his veto powers last week. Carcieri nixed more than that the bill represents “the incremental erosion of
cal, but rather sociological. It is about engagement. two dozen of the 243 bills that the General Assembly the principles surrounding traditional marriage”
challenging the narrative of inter- passed during the recent special session. Some of and demanded that the Assembly put domestic part-
religious conflict around the world Rachel Cohn ’10, these vetoes were reasonable, some were question- nerships on the ballot instead. In reality, the bill is
by creating a counter-narrative of Brown Hillel able and a few were downright wrong. Particularly narrowly tailored to mitigate the grief of unmarried
cooperation for the betterment of Chelsea Waite ’11, blameworthy were Carcieri’s attempts to delay impor- partners, gay and straight, and preserve them from
society. Brown Unitarian tant reforms of state policy on probation violations, pointless bureaucratic hurdles placed in their way
There is much work to be done Universalist Group domestic partnership benefits and the replacement at the worst possible time. Playing politics with this
building religious pluralism at Brown. Nate Johnson ’10, Brown of U.S. senators. measure is nothing short of despicable.
While discussions of “diversity” are Christian Fellowship Under existing state law, convicts released on The third ill-advised veto wasn’t as obviously
quite common, engagement with re- Nov. 15 probation can be sent back to prison to serve the rest reprehensible, but it constituted a disservice to the
of their sentence if they are charged with a parole people of Rhode Island nonetheless. Carcieri acted to
violation — even if a jury finds them not guilty or preserve the power of his office by rejecting a bill that
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Who deserves to go to college?
BY IVY CHANG
Opinions Columnist
I spotted the headline, “Are Too Many Stu-
dents Going to College?” while browsing the
New York Times online and, for a second,
thought that I’d accidentally clicked on the
Onion’s site instead.
Despite my initial reaction, I’ll admit that
the anti-college stance intrigued me. We’re
constantly being reminded that the eco-
nomic forecast is grim, and that even our Ivy
League degrees are not reliable flotation de-
vices for weathering the storm.
The article quotes several academics who
debated the merits of going to college. Rich-
ard Vedder, a college professor and director
of the Center for College Affordability and
Productivity, notes that graduating students
out-number available degree-requiring jobs,
causing many to take positions for which
they are overqualified.
Bryan Caplan, another professor, views
college as a “wasteful status contest” that “de-
prives the economy” of output from students
who could be working instead, considering
all the infrastructure-rebuilding jobs that the
Obama administration is making available.
I don’t agree with the viewpoint of college
as purely utilitarian, as I’ve always hated talk
about the “hardest” majors — usually refer-
ring to the sciences — being more useful
and intellectual than “easier” ones. But these
arguments are valid in attacking the belief
that a college education is the only defense
against unemployment and the only guaran-
tee of future wealth. Merely focusing on in-
It’s my car and I’ll text if I want to
BY SEAN QUIGLEY
Opinions Columnist
On several occasions this past summer, as
I was making the trip from my internship
office in Princeton to my family’s house in
Rhode Island, pride for my state consumed
me. I was not sure about the laws in New Jer-
sey or New York, but I was certain that Con-
necticut had made texting while driving ille-
gal, and that my state had not.
And as Connecticut was the longest part
of the trip, I had much time to consider what
I was being forced not to do, as well as how
the stench of unadulterated state power
made me feel.
Crushed, I now write that my state has
joined the ranks of the authoritarian by also
prohibiting the use of a data-transmission de-
vice (e.g., a cellular phone) for the sending,
reading or writing of text messages while
driving. Rhode Island has been a pretty sad
place for liberty for generations, but still, it
should bring a tear every time that the bar-
barians in the General Assembly further em-
power the avaricious badges with more ways
to pull over drivers (especially the young).
There are literally so many reasons to op-
pose this sort of slavish legislation that I can
only touch upon a few.
First, and perhaps most relevant for a
legislative body that should be concerned
with precedent and historical liberties, this
law seems to violate the common-law right
to travel — a right jealously guarded by the
Anglo-Saxons even before the Magna Carta.
creasing rates of college attendance will not
improve the job market.
The assumption of a correlation between
college and success results in disappoint-
ment and resentment, aptly demonstrated
by the infamous case of the Monroe College
grad who is suing her school for failing to se-
cure her “full-time job placement” after grad-
uation.
Attending college is not a requirement for
success and happiness later in life. Students
should not be pressured to attend four-year
Numbers and letters alone cannot reveal a
person’s affinity for a college education.
institutions, as there is nothing “wrong” with
attending trade schools or choosing other
paths, according to the article.
I was nodding in agreement until it came
time for them to discuss exactly who they
thought was “fit” for a college education. The
opinions supported a status quo benefitting
the already privileged.
In the 1970s, there were concerns that an
overemphasis on bachelor of arts degrees
favored upper class students with access to
educational resources, while leaving lower
class students behind. Troublingly, most of
today’s critics believe that this is the way it
should be — that students with poor grades
who attend public institutions are a potential
“waste of human and financial resources.”
Marty Nemko, a career counselor, advis-
Time and time again, the English courts
before our rebellion and the American courts
after it affirmed the right to travel as so fun-
damental that it could only be abridged for a
free man on the basis of its presenting a di-
rect threat to public health, safety or morals.
Even then, there had to be a specific reason,
with specific facts supporting it, and the be-
havior in question had to lead directly to the
undesirable harm.
I repeat: The behavior in question had to
lead directly to harm. The mere possibility
of harm is not enough. Otherwise, should
we not outlaw driving while drowsy, while
It should bring a tear every time that the
barbarians in the General Assembly further
empower the avaricious badges with more ways
to pull drivers over (especially the young.)
talking, while hung over or, if relying on evi-
dence about spatial abilities, while female? If
the state should police our preferences re-
garding how others exercise their right to
travel, I see no valid reason not to do so.
To be fair, the legislators, besides rely-
ing on un-empirical, anecdotal evidence, did
invoke a study from the Harvard Center for
Risk Analysis, which reported that “2,600
people are killed each year from driver dis-
traction incidents stemming from cell phone
use.” However, legally, this completely
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | Page 11
es that underachieving students be warned
of their likelihood of failure and steered away
from pursing a degree. Charles Murray, a
political scientist, cites IQ scores and judg-
es some students too stupid to merit higher
education. He advises them to channel their
energies elsewhere to be more useful to so-
ciety.
Huxley would term them Deltas and Ep-
silons, perhaps.
These pundits all seem relatively well-ed-
ucated. It’s easy for them to wax existential
about the true value of a college education
and bemoan the difficulties of finding a “re-
liable plumber” with so many unfit students
wasting their time in school.
For these privileged individuals, a college
education can amount to nothing but four
years of learning skills inapplicable to real
life. They cannot understand that education
is an equalizer for marginalized groups, a
way to transcend society’s imposed limits. It
is not their right to decide the value of a col-
lege education for other people.
Numbers and letters alone cannot reveal a
person’s affinity for a college education. The
recent declines in test scores nationwide are
probably better indicators of our poor educa-
tional infrastructure than of the intelligence
of the students.
misses the point.
A person who crashes a car because he
was distracted by texting — which is not
most, considering the study said that 23 per-
cent of drivers, 50 percent of those aged 16-
29, engage in this habit — should be, and is
under existing law, culpable for the crash.
Whatever the driver was doing or whoever
the driver is, what matters is that he crashed
a car. All that new legislation does is man-
ufacture a crisis and inject the law into one
more aspect of life.
Am I the only one who smells a rat, in the
form of a real-world Minority Report? The
use of the state’s police powers should not
be exercised unless a direct harm has al-
ready taken place, or is imminent from the
very nature of a given act.
Second, this sort of legislation further
erodes the proper understanding of the com-
mon law principle that a man’s home, or car,
is his castle. That is, it perverts a proper un-
derstanding of what constitutes the private
sphere.
That principle, of course, is routinely vi-
olated elsewhere — we need only look to
Students from disadvantaged back-
grounds often end up with similarly unequal
education opportunities. They aren’t neces-
sarily stupider than their more accomplished
peers. They’re often well aware of what ob-
stacles they face. A professor of a develop-
mental English class observes that they
are “conditioned from birth to accept their
place.”
I’m sure that Nemko’s well-meaning but
ignorant idea of reminding such students
of their likelihood for failure would not help
matters much, to say the least.
The emphasis on individual responsibility
in determining the outcome of one’s life can-
not be applied in all cases. A student from a
low-income family living in the slums of an
overcrowded neighborhood has reasons for
poor educational performance that a finan-
cially comfortable, well-educated college
professor or career advisor could never fully
understand.
With many public colleges already great-
ly incapacitated by funding cuts, the mere
notion that college is unnecessary, especially
for public school students, could lead to edu-
cation being even less of a priority.
The concern about “wasting” funds on the
“undeserving” mirrors the fears that nearly
incapacitated — and, mind you, still ended
up botching — health-care reform. It’s easy
for those in power to blame the underprivi-
leged, rather than admit that there is some-
thing wrong with the system as a whole.
Ivy Chang ’10 is a human biology con-
centrator from Los Angeles. She can be
reached at ivy_chang@brown.edu.
mandatory seat-belt laws and the shockingly
inane BAC level of .08. Yet if we are to de-
fend seriously, as opposed to fashionably,
the right of property, we must also defend
the right to use that property in ways we
may find unwise.
We used to believe that property was sa-
cred, that a man could be free to live as he
saw fit, so long as his actions did not directly
harm another or constitute a direct threat to
public health, safety or morals. But I guess
the pursuit of utopia through legislation
has made liberal life, with people who make
choices different from our own, a thing of
the past. People, after all, are unpredictable;
legislated force is not.
Lastly, a person’s character and sturdi-
ness are debauched when the state takes
on such an intrusive, salvific role. Whether
the debate concerns health care, old-age “in-
surance,” temperate living or safety on the
roads, the modern solution is tragically to
legislate and coerce.
If you think that texting while driving is
destructive or at least fraught with undue
peril, then persuade, convince, urge. But do
not prostitute out your responsibility to our
pathetic political class and its tax-gobbling
boots on the ground.
You have no right to be made safe, or to
force others to comply with the erratic de-
mands arising from your fears. So if you in-
sist on being a child, please do it privately.
Sean Quigley ’10 swears that he is not
a libertarian. He can be reached at
sean.b.quigley@gmail.com.
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