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McCormick
witness
files police
report
By Alex Bell
News Editor
Michael Burch, a former assistant
wrestling coach, filed a criminal
complaint for alleged harassing
phone calls Tuesday against the
father of the female alum who ac-
cused William McCormick of rape
in 2006. In connection with the
same incident, Burch was denied
a civil restraining order against
the father, also an alum, in Rhode
Island Superior Court on Friday.
The complaint, filed with the
Pawtucket Police Department and
under investigation by Detective
Charles Devine, accuses the father
of the female alum of harassing
phone calls, a misdemeanor. Al-
though the female alum’s father
is named as the suspect, the calls
were allegedly made by a private
investigator at his behest. Burch —
who was appointed an adviser to
McCormick by the University after
McCormick was accused of rape
in 2006 ­— is a witness in McCor-
mick’s suit in federal court against
the University and the two alums.
He said he expects the criminal
investigation to be transferred to
the Rhode Island Attorney Gen-
eral’s office in the next few days.
He complained of “numerous
phone calls from blocked phone
numbers harassing him about his
A more peaceful Tahrir Square, as seen from the lens of Sydney Silverstein ’12, who studied abroad in Cairo, Egypt last semester.
This weekend, the square was the site of violent demonstrations demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s rule.
Students evacuate Egypt
By nicole boucher
News Editor
Two Brown students studying
abroad in Alexandria, Egypt through
a Middlebury College program are
being evacuated today from the
country by plane in light of the
ongoing violent protests against
President Hosni Mubarak’s regime.
“All 22 students studying with
Middlebury’s program in Alexan-
dria, Egypt, have made it safely to
the Alexandria airport, which is
At the RISD Museum,
secure and guarded by the army,”
wrote Middlebury’s Dean of In-
ternational Programs Jeff Cason
Sunday, in a statement on Middle-
bury’s website. “We expect that the
students will be leaving the Alex-
andria airport tomorrow, and that
their first stop outside Egypt will be
Athens, from where students will
travel back to the United States.”
The Middlebury program — a
Brown-approved alternate study-
abroad option — decided to evacu-
ate the students and stop the pro-
Courtesy of Sydney Silverstein
gram, given the continued volatility
of the situation in Egypt, according
to another statement released Satur-
day by Michael Geisler, vice presi-
dent for language schools, schools
abroad and graduate programs at
Middlebury.
Michael Dawkins ’12 and Aman-
da Labora ’12 — the Brown students
studying in Egypt this semester —
could not be contacted due to the
virtual blackout of the internet
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T o u g h S h ot
DPS: No
plans to
halt Naked
Donut Run
By Jake comer
Senior Staff Writer
Despite interference with the Na-
ked Donut Run last December,
there is no indication the tradition
will be put to a permanent end.
Sciences Library security guards
interfered with one run this past
semester, but University officials
say there is currently no intention
of shutting down the run.
Runners successfully completed
runs in the Rockefeller Library
and the Center for Information
Technology during the most re-
cent finals period, but encountered
an obstacle at the SciLi when se-
curity guards demanded their
names, campus addresses and
Brown identification cards. Blog-
DailyHerald originally reported
the incident Dec. 14.
After the encounter with secu-
rity guards, the runners — by then
clothed — decided to complete the
run, in which participants deliver
donuts to students studying for
final exams. No University or le-
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involvement in the case,” according

to the police report. Documents
filed in the federal civil suit show
one of the numbers belongs to
Manhattan-based private inves-
tigator Patrick Brosnan, who had
been hired by the female alum’s
father to investigate Burch.
The calls came after a package
was anonymously hand-delivered
to the house of Burch’s girlfriend
in Cranston, the report states. The
package contained flowers and a
card inviting him to a free dinner
at the Downcity Diner in Provi-
dence.
Burch turned over to the Paw-
tucket Police copies of Brosnan’s
notes, which had been subpoe-
naed by McCormick’s lawyer, Scott
Kilpatrick, after Kilpatrick filed a
motion for default judgement in
McCormick’s suit that cited the
alleged witness intimidation. That
motion has since been withdrawn.
According to the notes and a
deposition taken from Brosnan,
the female alum’s father paid sev-
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you control the show
By EMMA WOHL
Senior Staff Writer
A family with three small children
enters a room at the Rhode Island
School of Design Museum. The
youngest child, Karis, 3, sees a
bright red button on the wall and
squeals, “Can I touch it?”
Arts & Culture
The children amuse themselves
for several minutes running from
one wall to another, seeing how
they can make the pictures on the
walls move faster, grow larger or
spin in circles.
In this particular exhibit, Brian
Knep’s ’90 GS’92 “Exempla,” such
behavior is encouraged. The ex-
hibit is made up of four installa-
tions projected onto the walls of
the Anne, Michael and Amelia
Spalter New Media Gallery. It is
interactive — by pressing a but-
ton, stepping down on a pedal or
turning a dial, guests can make the
images come to life. The drawings
themselves are strikingly simple,
childish stick figure cartoons.
Knep’s work “is not like any-
thing else I’ve seen,” said Judith
Tannenbaum, Richard Brown
Baker curator of contemporary
art at the RISD Museum. That may
be because Knep’s background is
in science and technology, and
he was “a science guy” before he
ever considered pursuing a career
in visual art, she added.
In “Escape,” the most surpris-
ing and dynamic of Knep’s in-
stallations, two big red buttons
activate the drawings within two
separate pools of light, causing
them to explode out and invade
each other’s space. “Escape” packs
Knep’s signature egg-shaped stick
figures so tightly together that
they are hard to identify indi-
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
vidually. Rather, they resemble
Lindsay Nickel ’13 hits a three over Princeton’s Alex Rodgers. Nickel and the
Bears lost twice this weekend.
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2 Campus News The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, January 31, 2011

calendar McCormick witness alleges intimidation

Today January 31 ToMORROW February 1
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Salomon 203 Petteruti Lounge have Burch followed. In the depo-
sition, Brosnan says the purpose
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of the surveillance was to ensure
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Science Center The Underground female alum, then a senior.
Anna Cordasco, a friend of the
alums’ family authorized to speak
menu on its behalf, said “the family was
really concerned about the vic-
SHARPE REFECTORY VERNEy-WOOLLEY DINING HALL tim’s safety on campus, and that’s
LUNCH the reason that (Brosnan) was re-
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The Herald is withholding the From court records
DINNER The above note was allegedly sent to intimidate former assistant wrestling
names of the female alum and her
Beef Pot Pie, Baked Potatoes, Vegan Chicken Broccoli Szechuan, Sweet father because she is the possible coach Michael Burch and convey the message that he is being watched.
Garden Chili, Vegan Chinese Stir Fry, and Sour Tofu, Mediterranean victim of a sex crime. include a picture of Burch taken formally petitioned them for a
Birthday Cake Salmon Stir Fry, Birthday Cake from the Internet. restraining order.
The civil restraining order “I don’t object to the clients’ try- “I’m just seeking to be a wit-
Sudoku Burch said he was advised to file
the criminal complaint by Rhode
ing to investigate me,” Burch told
the judge. “But this was an attempt
ness and feel protected,” Burch told
Taft-Carter.
Island Superior Court Associate to intimidate me.” “In a federal court,” the judge
Justice Sarah Taft-Carter when she Burch testified that he has never responded.
granted a temporary restraining attempted to speak to the female Taft-Carter ruled against
order Jan. 19, the week before de- alum. Burch’s request for a restraining
nying Burch’s request for a perma- Joe Cavanagh, a lawyer for the order because he failed to meet
nent restraining order. female alum’s father, called Burch the burden of proof that he had
Taft-Carter denied Burch the “self-absorbed” and a “self-pro- no adequate remedy at law other
permanent restraining order claimed victim” seeking publicity. than the restraining order.
against the female alum’s father “To come over here and get a “Because of that, you won’t suf-
because he has already raised the restraining order from you would fer any harm,” she told Burch. “You
issue in federal court, where Mc- fit right into his plan,” Cavanagh have a remedy available to you.”
Cormick’s suit is being heard. told the judge. “The last thing in Burch told The Herald he raised
Burch told Taft-Carter he the world (the investigators) ever his concerns in federal court “in
would represent himself because wanted was to have Mr. Burch even desperation” during a hearing in
he hoped not to incur exorbitant know they were there.” which he pleaded for an extension
legal fees as a witness in the Mc- Cavanagh noted that Burch had of time to respond to a subpoena
Cormick case. previously raised the issue of in- issued to him. He said he believed
He testified that he believed timidation before a federal judge he was out-maneuvered Friday by
Brosnan made attempts to “threat- and federal magistrate Dec. 10 and the alum’s lawyers.

Cr ossword en and intimidate” him, and that

he believed the investigator’s goal
was to “impart knowledge” to him
that he and his girlfriend were be-
ing followed.
He called the investigator’s pur-
ported plan of taking a photograph
of him “far-fetched” because — ac-
cording to a deposition taken of
Brosnan and obtained by The Her-
ald — no picture was ever taken
and because photos of Burch are
available online through his past
employment at Brown. Brosnan’s
notes, which were subpoenaed by
Kilpatrick in the federal civil suit,
Jan. 7, respectively, arguing Burch
has means of protection under law
other than a restraining order from
the Superior Court.
“This court should just not be
involved in this,” he said.
Taft-Carter said she was not
aware that Burch had raised the
issue in the federal suit when she
issued the temporary restraining
order, and was “a bit taken aback”
that Burch did not reveal it earlier.
Burch maintained that, though
he had mentioned his concerns
over intimidation to the federal
judge and magistrate, he never
Judge’s recusal explained
Rhode Island District
Federal Court Judge William
Smith recused himself from
William McCormick’s case
against the University and
two alums earlier this month
because his daughter is apply-
ing to Brown, according to Joe
Cavanagh, a lawyer for the
alums named as defendants
in the case.
Cavanagh revealed this in-
formation during a hearing
Friday in Rhode Island Supe-
rior Court in which Michael

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The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, January 31, 2011
Apps Students studying in Egypt to leave today
from U.K.
increase
By Brielle Friedman
Staff Writer
Undergraduate applications to
Brown from citizens of the United
Kingdom have risen nearly 40 per-
cent in the past two years, almost
twice the rate of increase in total
applications to the University.
This year, Brown received 160
applications from U.K. citizens, 14
more applications than in 2010,
and 44 more than in 2009, wrote
Panetha Theodosia Nychis Ott,
director of international admis-
sion, in an e-mail to The Herald.
The total number of undergradu-
ate applications this year came out
to about 31,000, as compared to
30,136 the year before, and 25,000
in 2009.
The increase in U.K. applicants
may be a result of the University’s
increased international presence
and international alumni network-
ing, according to Ott.
The rising costs of higher edu-
cation in the U.K. could also have
contributed to the increase in ap-
plicants, she wrote.
Brown is not the only institu-
tion that has experienced an in-
crease in U.K. applicants in the
past several years. According to a
press release from the Institute of
International Education, the Unit-
ed Kingdom was the thirteenth
most common place of origin for
students studying in the United
States in 2010, a 2 percent increase
since 2009. The report also stated
a 3 percent total increase in the
number of international students
at colleges and universities in the
U.S. during the previous academic
year.
Cheno Pinter ’14, a citizen of
both the U.S. and the U.K., said
she believes the recent increase
in tuition has encouraged more
U.K. students to consider attend-
ing university in the U.S.
“Financial aid basically doesn’t
exist in England like it does in
America, and people are starting
to realize that,” Pinter said, adding
that students who cannot afford to
attend university in the U.K. are
often offered financial aid at big
American universities.
A decision last month in the
British Parliament amid student
protests increased the cap on uni-
versity fees from $4,800 to $14,500
a year. The new fees, especially
coupled with the expensive liv-
ing costs associated with some
U.K. cities, have diminished the
cost differential between the coun-
tries’ university systems, Ott wrote,
which could further increase ap-
plications in the future.
Rhianna Shaw ’11, another U.K.
student, said even though some
American universities like Brown
do not offer need-blind financial
aid to international students, U.K.
students may still be able to get
more support in the U.S. While
it is possible to take out student
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Campus News 3
continued from page 1
and cell phones. Landline usage
has been at least partly restored,
allowing communication with the
United States.
The program has been in contact
with parents of the students and in
touch with the program in Egypt
through limited landline use.
Protests against Mubarak’s 30-
year rule began last Tuesday, largely
spurred on by social networking
sites and coverage from Al-Jazeera,
an international news station locat-
ed in the Middle East. The protests
escalated Friday in Cairo’s Tahrir Courtesy of Sydney Silverstein
Square as civilians continued to Brown students studying in Alexandria, Egypt are being evacuated as Egyptian President Hosnia Mubarak’s authoritarian
retaliate against police forces. regime teeters on the bring of collapse.
Protests at this level are “vir- but she did not expect the protests with their thoughts and prayers to Egypt, though he has fired other
tually nonexistent” in the Middle to happen. the students currently in Alexan- government officials and replaced
East due to the enforcement of the Andrew Leber ’12, who studied dria. them with new leadership. Cammett
police state in the region, said Mel- in Alexandria through the same Middlebury did not immediately said this is a “standard” move by the
ani Cammett, director of Brown’s program as the two Brown stu- decide to evacuate the students. government, meant as an attempt
Middle East studies program and dents currently there, said “people On Friday, Middlebury released a to “pick a scapegoat and continue
associate professor of political sci- thought things would change some- statement saying Saturday’s classes with business as usual.” But she said
ence. “The military is the backbone day, but no one knew how.” were cancelled with the potential it appears that the Egyptian people
of the state,” she added. But last week, he said Facebook to resume the following week. But are not buying it this time.
The protests are grounded in friends began writing about “some when Saturday came, Middlebury The protest does not appear to
frustration over the economic con- type of revolution.” He added that announced the evacuation. The have been started by the opposition
ditions in Egypt, where about 50 this all occurred before “everyone safety protocol is carried out by parties in Egypt, though notable re-
percent of people live on less than $2 cut out on Facebook” due to govern- the school sponsoring the program, sistance leaders, such as Nobel Peace
a day under a corrupt government ment blackout of social networking wrote Kendall Brostuen, director of Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei,
system, Cammett said. But the cur- sites. international programs at Brown have expressed their support.
rent economic conditions alone did On Sunday, the Al-Jazeera office and associate dean of the College, in “This is clearly a youth protest,”
not cause the eruption of protests in Cairo was also shut down by the an e-mail to The Herald. He added she said, noting that “at a certain
30 years after Mubarak took office, government, although Al-Jazeera that Brown has been in close con- point you have nothing left to lose”
she added. A combination of factors correspondent Dan Nolan tweeted tact with both Middlebury and the as many Egyptians cannot even af-
— including the recent overthrow that they would continue to find families of the students in Egypt. ford to get married.
of President Zine El Abidine Ben ways to give updates, according to The U.S. Embassy recently re- Cammett said she could not
Ali in Tunisia and the influence of the Huffington Post. leased an advisory recommending predict the outcome, but added,
social media and Al-Jazeera — all Leber has been coordinating Americans leave Egypt, according “Each moment that it continues and
fueled the intensity of the protests. with students involved in the pro- to the Associated Press. each confrontation is another step
The overthrow of the govern- gram last semester to send e-mails Mubarak still holds power in in what seems like a tipping point.”
ment in Tunisia was “utterly shock-
ing,” Cammett said, since Tunisia is
an even stronger police state than
Egypt. Cammett, who has spent
years living in countries through-
out the Middle East, said she was
less surprised when the protests
broke out in Egypt due to the suc-
cess in Tunisia and the response of
the police who eventually backed
down, rather than stomping out
resistance. While there were local-
ized protests in Tunisia covered by
the Human Rights Watch in 2008,
protests “on a national scale with
this much energy and violence” are
largely unprecedented, she added.
Social networking energized
protesters until the government
shutdown of the internet. Sydney
Silverstein ’12, who studied at the
American University in Cairo last
semester, said she started to see
hints that something might hap-
pen through her Egyptian Facebook
friends about a week ago.
“There was a lot of activity from
people I still know in Egypt,” Silver-
stein said, including initial postings
about the protests.
Silverstein lived only 10 min-
utes away from Tahrir Square by
car last year, taking the 6th of Octo-
ber Bridge — one of the epicenters
of this week’s turmoil — to get to
classes in the city.
“We literally were just there,” Sil-
verstein said, adding that it is shock-
ing to “see the bridges we crossed,
the buildings we were in.” She said
she witnessed resentment against
the government, particularly after
parliamentary elections appeared
rigged against the opposition party,
4 Campus News
Bookstore debuts rental service Research team draws
By Caitlin Trujillo
Senior Staff Writer ‘portrait’ of America
Following the lead of other uni-
versities — and responding to fre-
quent requests from students — the
Brown Bookstore has implemented
a new textbook rental service this
semester.
Select new textbooks are avail-
able to rent at prices marked down
from their posted sale prices in the
store, Steven Souza, director of
bookstore administration, wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald. He ex-
plained that under the new system,
students renting textbooks pay the
rental price in full upon checkout
and must return any rented books
to the store by the last day of finals
at the end of the semester.
All of the textbooks available
for rental are new books, though
their rental prices are marked below
both new and used prices. Book-
store administrators decided which
books would be rentable based on
markdown possibility, edition and
“the likelihood that a student would
not retain the book” at semester’s
end, Souza wrote. The popularity
of textbook rentals at other institu-
tions and businesses helped spur
the program’s birth, he added.
Students who wish to rent text-
books must sign a rental agree-
ment that stipulates the service’s
rules. The book must be returned
in its original or saleable condi-
tion, though a limited amount of
highlighting and notes are allowed,
according to the agreement’s provi-
sions. The store has “been advising
students to please return the book
in a condition that they would buy
it in,” Souza wrote.
Students will incur a late charge
of $5 per day if a textbook is not
returned to the store by the time
it closes on the last day of finals,
with a maximum charge of $25.
If the book is not returned within
five days of the last day of finals, the
bookstore will charge the student’s
For the first time, students can rent, rather than buy, from the bookstore.
account the difference between the
rental price and the sale price of a
new copy, plus an additional 10
percent handling fee.
So far, the service is proving
more popular than the bookstore
had anticipated, Souza wrote.
Rentable textbooks are leaving the
shelves quickly, and students have
asked about expanding the list of
rentable texts, Souza added.
In the past, students have used
the library as a temporary but free
source of course materials. Jose Ro-
driguez ’12 said instead of renting
textbooks, he has checked them
out at the library or bought them
from students who have already
taken the course.
“We have a borrow system inter-
nal to our friends,” he said.
Melissa Bowe ’11 has also
bought books from friends for a
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
lower price and borrowed from the
library. She said the rental service
will be useful.
Another rental service on cam-
pus, Sheep Textbooks, is working to
capitalize on steep book prices. Jaap
Ruoff ’13, who started the business
venture three semesters ago, said
the high cost of books surprised
him when he first came to Brown.
Ruoff said he wanted to make text-
book renting more popular on cam-
pus if it would save students money.
Because Ruoff ’s stock is limited
in part to what he can buy from stu-
dents, the stocks of the two rental
services do not overlap much at
the present time. But that could
change if both ventures expand in
the future, Ruoff said. He added
that he tries to go below the book-
store’s prices when overlap between
rentable books does occur.
Though the bookstore’s new ser-
vice might take transactions away
from Sheep Textbooks, which rent-
ed around 50 books last semester,
Ruoff said he was pleased to see that
students now have more options
for obtaining cheaper textbooks.
“We’re only happy that the
Brown Bookstore is responding
to that,” he said.
Monday, January 31, 2011
By Margaret Yi
Staff Writer
Professor of Sociology John Lo-
gan and the Russell Sage Foun-
dation have teamed up to create
the US2010 project, a research
initiative that aims to study de-
mographic changes in the United
States in the past decade using
information from the 2010 census
and the American Community
Survey.
Logan’s part of the US2010
project, titled “Separate and Un-
equal,” studies trends in segrega-
tion. Logan said his study — one
of 14 under the US2010 project
— has found that desegregation
of blacks and whites has come to
a standstill. In the case of Asians
and whites, segregation has sub-
stantially increased since 2000.
Segregation between Hispanics
and whites has also increased,
though not as significantly. “Seg-
regation is not fixing itself,” Logan
said.
Logan is using data at the
neighborhood level, which will
show where different groups of
people are living, he said. His
work also focuses on inequali-
ties among racial groups, immi-
gration and the advantages and
disadvantages of where people
choose to live.
The US2010 project was partly
inspired by Logan’s research on
the 2000 Census. Three years ago,
he said he had the idea to expand
on that project for the 2010 Cen-
sus. His goals for the 2010 project
were to analyze information and
be able to provide data as quickly
as possible to the public, thereby
“shaping the public discussion of
the issues,” Logan said.
Logan approached his former
student from the University of
Albany, Brian Stults, now an as-
sistant professor at Florida State
University, with the idea of orga-
nizing a project that would paint
a portrait of the United States in
2010, Logan said. They obtained a
grant from the Russell Sage Foun-
dation, which has a history of sup-
porting social science research.
With new information being
released regularly, the research
The Brown Daily Herald
team — which began its research
last January after an advisory
committee was set up to oversee
the project’s organization — is
working quickly to analyze the
data and make its findings avail-
able online, Logan said. Every
month, researchers will release
“census briefs” — short, early re-
ports from each project. Logan
said he hopes that by 2013, the
researchers will be able to publish
a final set of reports detailing all
their data, findings and analysis.
Because the findings of US2010
will be available to the public, each
project will have different impacts
on many areas of public policy
and individual interests, Logan
said. Certain projects, such as one
that studies the effects of the re-
cession on joblessness, will have
significant effects on federal and
state policies, he said. Other proj-
ects, such as Logan’s own on racial
segregation, may influence advo-
cacy groups focusing on specific
community issues and “help guide
them in understanding what the
important issues are,” Stults said.
A number of characteristics
set this project apart from others,
Logan said.
The project — which empha-
sizes “getting results out fairly
quickly and in the public eye,”
he said — involves collaboration
among many researchers, a char-
acteristic that has created a slight
challenge for the organizers be-
cause many of the researchers are
used to working independently,
Stults said.
This semester, Logan is bring-
ing the project to undergradu-
ates through a sociology course
called SOC 0871V: “Update on
American Society: Social Trends
in the Last Decade,” which will
draw heavily upon materials and
research from the US2010 project.
Students will deal with one topic
from the project each week, Logan
said. Logan also said he plans to
have the students create their own
projects that will track specific
trends in national statistics.
“It’s a whole lot of fun to actu-
ally find something yourself —
that’s what sociology really is,”
Logan said.
The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, January 31, 2011 Campus News 5
Jobzle looks to expand beyond Rhode Island bounds
By Morgan Johnson
Contributing Writer
The founders of Jobzle, a job search
website designed to help Rhode Is-
land students find jobs while still in
college, said they plan to expand the
website’s reach to other New England
locations this summer.
Kevin Durfee ’11 and Walker
Williams ’11 founded Jobzle in 2009
to serve as “the butler of job services”
by connecting local employers and
students looking for jobs, Williams
said.
Though Jobzle’s growth was ini-
tially slow, it surged in popularity last
September, Williams said. They said
their goal is now to reach 25,000 us-
ers by the end of 2011, as they expand
the website to other locations. After
graduating in the spring, they plan to
move Jobzle’s headquarters to Boston
and bring Jobzle’s services to the rest
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald of New England.
Kevin Durfee ’11 and Walker Williams ’11 plan to expand their job search site. In addition to overhauling the
website last September, Durfee and
Williams — along with three other
head staffers — have worked to ex-
pand the site’s popularity through
social networking and innovative
features. Jobzle uses Facebook and
Twitter to help promote its services.
Social networking “is probably our
most useful tool in acquiring college
students,” Durfee said.
Jobzle — which provides a simple
yet comprehensive way to link stu-
dents to jobs — acts somewhat like
an online adviser for students with
specific job interests. For example,
the site has a recommendation fea-
ture that accounts for a student’s
interests and then suggests jobs
that might appeal to that student.
Students can opt to receive periodic
e-mails from Jobzle with new job
listings, Durfee said.
Jobzle also allows employers a
personalized experience by offering
“gold accounts,” a premium service
which allows companies faster com-
munication and access to statistics
about students who viewed their pag-
es. These features allow employers to
find the most qualified students more
easily, Durfee and Williams said.
In addition to helping top fi-
nance and consulting firms, Jobzle
also makes it affordable for start-up
companies to post internship jobs,
and even allows families looking to
hire a babysitter the ability to create
a listing.
To attract employers, Jobzle main-
tains partnerships with the Rhode Is-
land Chamber of Commerce and the
Rhode Island Tech Collective. Durfee
and Williams said they also plan to
introduce a campus representative
program to promote Jobzle, along
with small viral marketing events.
Andrew Simmons, director of the
Career Development Center, said he
is familiar with Jobzle and believes it
is a useful tool for students, especially
those searching for jobs in the Rhode
Island area.

Katz ’14 tells family tale in anthology

By elizabeth carr
Contributing Writer
Many students aspire to be pub-
lished in the future, but after only
one semester at Brown, Jaclyn
Katz ’14 already has her story in
a book. Or at least she will when
Andrea Buchanan’s anthology
“Live and Let Love” — which in-
cludes Katz’s short story about
her family tragedy — is released
Feb. 1.
“My chapter of the book, en-
titled ‘Fragmented Pieces,’ is an
autobiographical essay that cen-
ters on the loss of most of my
immediate family and my journey
to finding peace and stability in
the aftermath with a new family,”
Katz wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald. “The story is really about
how I learned that families are
not bound by blood, but by love.”
Originally, it was a story no
one else was supposed to read.
“I’m a little apprehensive
about people around me reading
the story,” Katz said. “I don’t
want people to treat me with
pity.”
The story happened when Katz
was eight years old, and Buchan-
an said it is the most intense story
published in the book.
“At first, I wrote down my
story as a way to express my
emotions and sort of let things
that were stirring inside me come
out in a healthy way, as opposed
to acting out or rebelling,” Katz
said. “It was a good outlet for my
emotions.”
This was when Katz was 15.
Then Buchanan began working on
“Live and Let Love,” and a friend
said she knew a young girl with
an amazing family story.
“At first, it didn’t seem like
what I had could fit the book,”
Katz said. But she spent the sum-
mer of 2010 working with Bu-
chanan and her editors to make
it fit.
“I had to part with some para-
graphs that I think should be in
the story. But I know this is not
my book, this is an anthology,
so I had to be cooperative. And I
was, I think,” Katz said. “It was
hard for me to see all of the red
on my papers, but I know that this
is what happens in the publish-
ing industry, so I tried to just go
with it and take their suggestions
but keep things in that they cut
because I knew they were vital.”
Now the story has a complete-
ly different structure. “I actually
wrote this when I was 15, and
because I had to go through an
extensive editing process, the
story is completely different,”
Katz said. “I think my writing
skills have improved since my
sophomore year of high school.”
Katz was “incredibly profes-
sional and very quick,” Buchanan
said. “She was the fastest writer
I’ve ever worked with.”
And Buchanan thinks the story
remains close to Katz’s original
intentions.
When first approaching “Live
and Let Love,” “my vision was
that it was going to be love sto-
ries,” Buchanan said. “But it turns
out that love comes in all shapes
and sizes and forms.”
“The love story for her is
recreating a family from a tragic
loss,” Buchanan said.
“My family’s really support-
ive, and everyone’s really excited
about the book,” Katz said. “It’s
10 years since the tragedy, so it’s
sort of a milestone in a sense. The
book is a good way to put what
happened behind us.”

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6 Campus News
No DPS intervention in Academic freedom a plus for Brits
December donut runs
continued from page 1
gal action has been taken against
any of the runners or the group
as a whole, Dylan ’13, a partici-
pant in the run, told The Herald.
Dylan requested that The Her-
ald refrain from printing his last
name because the Naked Donut
Run involves public nudity and
because he feels the anonymity of
the runners adds to the “magic”
of the run.
Although several runners re-
ported interference from the SciLi
guards, the Department of Public
Safety did not participate in that
interference.
“Brown police were not in-
volved with any efforts to inhibit
this activity,” wrote Marisa Quinn,
vice president of public affairs and
University relations, in an e-mail
to The Herald.
According to Dylan, the run-
ners completed their circuits
around the Rock and the CIT
building before proceeding to the
SciLi. The runners were in the pro-
cess of removing their clothes in
one of the rooms when SciLi secu-
rity guards arrived and demanded
the runners’ personal information,
he said.
The guards informed the run-
ners that, with this information,
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continued from page 3 class, and the first year is taken
completely pass/fail. “It’s just so
take all these different classes,” she
said. “I’ve done theater to history
loans or receive special academic much more of any experience,” to environmental science, eco-
they would be able to identify the grants, she said the idea of direct she said. nomics, dance, photography.”
students by monitoring the closed- financial assistance does not exist Pinter also said university stu- She said she thinks U.K. appli-
circuit video system in the SciLi, in the same way. dents in the U.K. have to choose cations will continue to increase.
Dylan said. But, he said, “They Pinter said another consider- their field of study in the middle “Comparatively, American
didn’t stop us from doing it.” ation for U.K. students is what type of their senior year of high school. university isn’t that much more
Dylan added that the officers of college experience they want “I wasn’t ready to do that,” she expensive,” she said, adding that
did threaten to inform the police, to have. said. though Oxford is “really the creme
but, “that was more a response to “My friends that are in school Shaw said her decision to apply de la creme of the U.K.,” the repu-
people being smart-asses.” in the States are much happier than to Brown was based on the open tation of many American universi-
Mark Porter, chief of public my friends who are in school in curriculum and the appeal of a ties probably has had just as much
safety, said DPS did respond to a England,” Pinter said, adding that liberal arts education. of an effect on the increase in ap-
call from the SciLi about the run U.K. colleges have fewer hours of “I just loved the fact that I could plications.
but found nothing to report by the
time officers arrived.
“We’re not looking to stop the
tradition,” Porter said, adding that
DPS did not have a report on the
incident.
Dylan expressed concern over
what the incident in December
might mean for the run and how
people perceive the tradition.“If
there are people really complain-
ing, that’s something to take into
account,” he said. But, he said,
“We’re not handing out drugs —
we’re handing out donuts.”
Scout Willis ’13, who partici-
pated in last spring’s Naked Do-
nut Run, called it “a long-standing
Brown tradition.” Because the run
takes place in private University
buildings, she said she felt it was
“for the Brown authorities to de-
cide what’s appropriate regarding
nudity.”
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Monday, January 31, 2011
a&C in brief
This Friday:
Hinder at Lupo’s
This Friday, the ’80s metal
flashback group Hinder will
throw “a big old party” at Lupo’s
Heartbreak Hotel, said Mark
King, the group’s guitarist.
“We try to give it our all. We
try to make every song sound
like the album recording,” King
said.
With a lineup that features
a mix of songs from all of its
albums, Hinder plans to rock
its first concert in Rhode Island.
The group will play its most
notable hits, “Get Stoned” and
“Lips of an Angel,” the second
of which reached the number
one spot in New Zealand and
number three in the United
States in 2005.
Critics have described
‘Gerrymandering’ film premieres at Cable Car
By AMY CHEN
Staff Writer
Jeff Reichert’s ’00 film “Gerryman-
dering,” which explores what he
considers a significant flaw of the
American democratic system, will
be screened at the Cable Car Cin-
ema Feb. 2. Inspired by a 2003
electoral debacle in Texas, Reichert
decided to create a documentary to
make his audience wonder “why
Washington doesn’t work as well
as it should,” he said.
The film explores the history
— and many dimensions — of
ethical, moral and racial prob-
lems raised by redistricting. It
draws on perspectives from dif-
ferent individuals, reporters and
distinguished politicians including
Arts & Culture 7
Howard Dean and former Cali-
fornia Governor Arnold Schwar-
zenegger. It analyzes redistricting
problems including the 2003 elec-
tions in Texas and the passing of
Proposition 11 in California in
2008, which dealt with the state’s
electoral boundaries.
Matthew Sawh ’08 assisted in
the making of “Gerrymandering”
and researched the topics relevant
to the film.
“A lot of it was finding the right
visuals,” he said.
To do so, he searched materials
in library archives and reached
out to politicians. Like Reichert,
Sawh believes that there was “a
lot at stake” in the 2003 elections
in Texas.
“If people knew what was go-
ing on, they could do something
to change it,” Sawh said.
But creating a political docu-
mentary is not without its chal-
lenges. In the process, Reichert
learned different strategies in
showing how redistricting works,
such as using maps to clearly por-
tray the shift of boundaries during
political battles. He also said he
learned to find just the right kind
of stories to bring home the issue
of redistricting to the audience.
“As a filmmaker, the best thing
you can do is to create a real politi-
cal change,” Reichert said. “It’s a
good example of how people —
regular people — can end up tak-
ing actions in a way that has an
impact.”
According to Daniel Kamil,
owner of the Cable Car Cinema,
this film will bring “a better under-
standing of how politicians from
both parties manipulate census
data to retain power.” With the
support of Common Cause, an
organization that lobbies for con-
gressional reforms, Kamil was able
to invite Reichert to the screening.
“I think (the film) gives a well-
balanced, nuanced view of a very
complicated subject that people
might not necessarily understand
but affects our democracy in a fun-
damental way,” Kamil wrote in
an e-mail to The Herald. “It is an
important film to see to better un-
derstand how our political system
works, and the fact that Jeff will be
here to answer questions will make
it a very special event.”

Museumgoers control stick figures at RISD

Hinder as “dude rock”
reminiscent of Guns N’ Roses
and Motley Crue. King said
the group’s biggest influences
include these bands as well as
Aerosmith.
“We love rock and roll,” King
said. Hinder aims to be like
bands “from the ’80s when rock
and roll was at the top of the
world,” he added.
Strong, raspy male vocals
and heavy guitar riffs dominate
most of Hinder’s songs, with
the exception of the occasional
light rock love song.
Booze, tattoos and high-
energy rock are featured in “Up
All Night,” a music video, which
the band members filmed.
King said college students
are Hinder’s largest target
audience, but he has seen
people from all across the
age spectrum at the group’s
concerts.
“We’ve seen a 45-year-old
mother bring her 15-year-old
daughter,” King said. “We like
to have a good time — it’s
basically like one big party.”
The show, which starts at
8:30 p.m., will include special
guests Saving Abel, My Darkest
Days and Kopek. Tickets cost
$25 in advance and $30 on the
day of the concert.
— Katherine Thornton
continued from page 1 is that it can appeal to an adult or supervisor in security for the mu- The pieces are simple, joy-
a child,” Donna Desrochers, the seum. ful fun for children or the older
the contents of a giant Petri dish. museum’s director of marketing, Knep’s pieces are thought- viewer’s inner child.
In “Embark,” composed of two wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. provoking, but they also have a
cylinders of light filled with fig- “We didn’t market it that way, sense of whimsy. “Identifying with
ures, the movement of the draw- it’s the nature of the artist’s work. and laughing at the creatures’ be-
ings is more leisurely and depends You can look at it, ponder it, in- haviors allows me to accept and This exhibit is definitely worth
on the length of time the viewer teract with it,” she added. laugh at my own, similar, behav- checking out if you are already at
presses the button. Every viewer’s “We can tell when children are iors, which can lead to change and the museum, but it’s too small to
experience is unique. down here. Even from upstairs, a more mindful experience of life,” make the trek for just one room.
“Excel” speeds up gradually we can hear them squealing,” Knep said in the museum’s press “Exempla” will be at the RISD Mu-
when guests step on a pedal em- said Francine Ferrante, assistant release. seum through March 6.
bedded in the floor. The images
simply spin faster within a circle
of light, constantly drawn towards
the center of a vortex.
“Expand” may not look like
much when left to its own devices,
but when the viewers turn the dial
below the installation, the stick
figures swarm and scatter as excit-
edly as the rest.
But the dial looks more like a
device to control the room’s tem-
perature than a part of the piece —
the only technical difficulty with
this work. Guests can be forgiven
for leaving the piece alone, or star-
ing in confusion while wondering
what their role should be.
While influenced by Knep’s sci-
entific background and including
digital technology in its execution,
“Exempla” is by no means inac-
cessible to the casual viewer. “The
great thing about this exhibition
8 World & Nation
U.S. hardens position on Egyptian ‘transition’ Freshmen
By Erika Bolstad, Jonathan
Landay and Warren Strobel
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton on Sunday
called for a “peaceful, orderly tran-
sition to greater democracy” in
Egypt that includes the military,
the ruling party and the Egyptians
who have taken to the streets to
call for an end to President Hosni
Mubarak’s leadership.
Yet even as she was careful to
say the U.S. was not advocating
any specific outcome, Clinton and
the White House made it clear
that support is dwindling for
Mubarak’s authoritarian regime.
Their use of the word “transi-
tion” appeared to signal a harden-
ing of U.S. policy toward Mubarak
in the course of just 48 hours. On
Friday, neither Clinton nor Presi-
dent Barack Obama used the word
when they publicly called on the
Egyptian leader to initiate “con-
crete steps that advance political
reforms.”
That changed over the week-
end, as protests continued across
Egypt, and as those demonstrat-
ing as well as opposition leaders
called on the U.S. to drop its sup-
port for the 82-year-old president
who shut down Internet access
and limited cell-phone service
for the country of more than 80
million.
In conversations over the week-
end with King Abdullah of Saudi
Arabia and the prime ministers
of Turkey, Israel and Britain, the
White House said the president
called for “supporting an orderly
transition to a government that
is responsive to the aspirations
of the Egyptian people.”
“I want the Egyptian people
to have the chance to chart a new
future. It needs to be an orderly,
peaceful transition to real democ-
racy,” Clinton said on NBC’s “Meet
the Press.” “Not faux democracy,
like the elections we saw in Iran
two years ago, where you have one
election 30 years ago and then the
people just keep staying in power
and become less and less respon-
sive to their people.”
Clinton emphasized during
several appearances on Sunday
morning talk shows that Egyp-
tians have a timetable in place for
reform, with elections scheduled
for September. At one point, she
suggested the orderly transition
should include Mubarak, who dis-
missed his cabinet and this week-
end appointed a vice president for
the first time in his 30-year term.
“We want to see a real democ-
racy that reflects the vibrancy of
Egyptian society,” Clinton said on
NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And we
believe that President Mubarak,
his government, civil society, po-
litical activists need to be part of
a national dialogue to bring that
about.”
She also acknowledged that
the White House walks a fine line
with Mubarak, who has supported
U.S.-led efforts to make Middle
East peace, fight Islamic radicals
and contain Iran. They are also
concerned about the ideology of
future regimes.
“We do not want to see a change
toward a regime that would actu-
ally continue to foment violence
or chaos, either because it didn’t
exist or because it had a different
view that it wished to impose on
the Egyptian people,” Clinton said
Sunday afternoon in Haiti. “This
is a very complex situation, and
we want to be clear about what
we expect. And I think that both
President Obama and I have done
so numerous times”.
Although successive U.S.
administrations have pressed
Mubarak to adopt reforms, that
pressure has mostly been rhetori-
cal and has wavered over time.
Mubarak’s government is
scheduled to receive about $1.3
billion in U.S. military aid and
more than $200 million in eco-
nomic assistance in the current
fiscal year. It was not until the ten-
ure of President George W. Bush
that the United States publicly
upbraided Egypt over its lack of
political and personal freedoms.
That “name and shame” ap-
proach largely backfired, causing
Mubarak and his associates to dig
in their heels. The U.S. did little
but complained when the regime
imprisoned opposition politician
Ayman Nour in 2005 after a dis-
puted presidential election. Nour
was released in 2009.
The administration’s tougher
language came as a leading op-
position figure, Nobel laureate
Mohamed ElBaradei, said on U.S.
television programs that Mubarak
“absolutely has to leave,” and
called on the U.S. to “side with the
people,” not a dictator, as Egypt
enters a new era.
ElBaradei left house arrest to
speak at a demonstration at Cairo’s
Tahrir Square, where protesters
held signs in English, aimed at
American eyes. They included
“America: Support the people, not
the tyrant” and “Mubarak: You go
away, I go home. The End.”
The language about a peaceful
transition toward new elections
shows the Obama administration
understands that Mubarak’s days
are numbered and the decision
on a successor government lies
with the Egyptian people, said
Nader Hashemi of the University
of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of
International Studies.
“There seems to be a shift in
Monday, January 31, 2011
U.S. policy where the Egyptian
people are given respect and their
right to determine their future is
finally being acknowledged by the
American government,” he said
“There is going to be a period of
contestation and internal debate.
But that is what Egyptians are le-
gitimately entitled to.”
Mubarak’s political future is
up to the Egyptian people, Clin-
ton said, but she also acknowl-
edged on Fox News that the U.S.
is concerned that any transition
be orderly to avoid a fear of some
in Washington, particularly on
the right: a takeover by Muslim
radicals.
The administration, Hashemi
said, must be prepared to ac-
cept the inclusion of the Muslim
Brotherhood, Egypt’s best orga-
nized opposition party, in any new
government, and resist any efforts
by Israel and its U.S. supporters to
cast it as a radical Islamic move-
ment.
The brotherhood is banned in
Egypt and its leaders have been
targeted by frequent crackdowns,
but members have been elected to
the country’s parliament as inde-
pendents.
Hashemi said there’s signifi-
cant popular support in Egypt for
the brotherhood, which espouses
democracy based on a moderate
interpretation of Islamic law —
including women’s right to work
and hold elective offices except the
presidency — runs social service
networks and denounces al Qaida
and violent Islamic extremism.
Any U.S. approach that doesn’t
include the Muslim Brotherhood
would be a misreading of the fun-
damental reality of the situation
in Egypt, Hashemi said, pointing
out that the U.S. is working closely
with an Iraqi government com-
prising Islamic religious parties.
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pressure
By Larry Gordon
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — This year’s col-
lege freshmen report feeling higher
levels of emotional and financial
stress than their predecessors did,
according to a national survey con-
ducted by researchers at the Uni-
versity of California, Los Angeles.
The annual “American Fresh-
man” report, released Thursday,
showed that only about half of
current first-year students, 51.9
percent, rated their emotional
health above average or higher,
down from 55.3 percent last year
and the lowest since the question
was first asked 25 years ago. Just
45.9 percent of women in the class
described themselves as emotion-
ally strong, compared with 59.1
percent of the men.
In addition, nearly two-thirds
of this year’s freshmen, 62.1 per-
cent, said the recession had affected
their choice of college, and 73.4
percent, up from 70 percent last
year, are depending on grants and
scholarships to help them through.
The young people, interviewed just
before they started classes in the
fall, also reported relatively high
rates of parental unemployment.
“What it means is that going
into college, students are already
feeling more stress and feeling
more overwhelmed and have lower
emotional reserves to deal with
that stress,” said John H. Pryor, lead
author of the report and managing
director of UCLA’s Higher Edu-
cation Research Institute, which
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Popular anger sweeps north of Sudan
By Alan Boswell
McClatchy Newspapers
JUBA, Sudan — Sudan will split into
two countries later this year, officials
announced Sunday, marking the cli-
max of a decade-long peace process
meant to end 50 years of conflict in
Africa’s largest country. But political
protests raised questions about the
north’s stability.
Southerners celebrated their up-
coming independence with dancing,
but anti-government protesters in
the north clashed with police, re-
flecting a wave of popular anger that
has swept across the Arab world in
recent weeks.
Student-led demonstrations
against Omar al Bashir’s regime in
Sudan’s northern capital, Khartoum,
are the latest protests against au-
thoritarian governments that began
with Tunisia and has since spread
to Egypt and Yemen.
Southern Sudan voted 99.57 per-
cent for separation in the Jan. 9-15
referendum on independence, poll
officials announced on Sunday in
Juba, the southern capital. Added
to a smaller pool of Southern Su-
danese voters living in the northern
region and across the globe, the final
tally for separation is 98.83 percent,
according to the referendum com-
mission’s website.
“These results lead to a change
of situation, that’s the emergence
of two states instead of one state,”
Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil, the head
of the Southern Sudan Referendum
Commission, announced in Juba.
Upon hearing the final results,
the Southern Sudanese attendees
jumped up from their chairs, cheer-
ing and waving their arms into the
air, until a moderator urged them
over the microphone to let the pro-
ceedings continue.
“People have been struggling for
so long. Everything was death,” said
Reec Agok, a 27-year old business-
man. “Now I’m so happy, the words
won’t even come out.”
The referendum was the core
provision of a U.S.-brokered 2005
peace deal that ended the second of
two long civil wars fought between
Sudan’s mostly Muslim Arab-ruled
north, and its non-Muslim and eth-
nic African south. More than 2 mil-
lion people died in the wars, mostly
southerners, and more than twice
that number were displaced.
With the referendum nearing,
tension had remained high between
Sudan’s northern government under
Bashir and the former rebels in the
south. World leaders feared that the
vote could bring the country back
to civil war.
These concerns have subsided as
Bashir, under heavy international
pressure, promised to recognize the
result and the referendum began on
time with few incidents.
“What is left (is) just formalities,”
said Salva Kiir, leader of southern
Sudan, speaking after the announce-
ment of the results in Juba, con-
gratulating his people for choosing
independence. “You have already
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said it and done it.”
Northern rule had treated south-
erners as “subhumans,” Kiir said.
According to the 2005 deal, the
formal division of Sudan will take
effect on July 9. Kiir urged southern-
ers to stay patient and refrain from
over-celebrations until the date of
full independence.
“We are still moving forward,”
he said. “The struggle continues.”
Meanwhile, as southerners
celebrated, northern Sudanese
police beat back student-led pro-
tests against rising food prices and
Bashir’s regime, which some blame
for the country’s partition and eco-
nomic difficulties. The youthful
crowds, which gathered in pockets
of hundreds in several locations in
Khartoum and in other university
towns outside the capital, aimed to
replicate the ongoing popular upris-
ings in Tunisia and Egypt.
A website created for the dem-
onstrations mapped the site of the
protests and published on-site re-
ports of police actions.
The crowds in Khartoum eventu-
ally dispersed Sunday after police
fired tear gas into crowds and sur-
rounded a number of universities
to prevent further unrest.
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operates the survey.
First given in 1966, the annual
survey is considered the nation’s
most comprehensive assessment
of college students’ attitudes. This
year’s report was based on the re-
sponses of more than 201,000 in-
coming freshmen at 279 four-year
colleges and universities around
the United States.
Pryor said he was struck this
year by the gap between young
men and young women in dis-
cussing whether they frequently
felt overwhelmed by all they had
to do at school, home and jobs as
high school seniors. Nearly 39 per-
cent of women said they were often
overwhelmed, more than twice the
share of the men. Overall, more
than 29 percent said they had felt
such stress, up two percentage
points from the year before.
The gender gap, Pryor specu-
lated, may be attributed to what
young people do at home. “The
guys are spending more time in
comics
stress-relieving activities, like
watching TV and playing video
games. The girls are more likely
to be helping out with chores at
home,” he said, citing responses
to other questions in the survey.
But on the positive side, record-
high proportions of the freshmen
said they expected to participate
in clubs and community service in
college and to receive good grades.
A strong majority, 57.6 percent,
said there was a “very good chance”
they would be satisfied with their
college experience, the highest
share since 1982.
The report also looks at political
attitudes of students, finding that
46.4 percent describe themselves as
middle-of-the-road, 30.2 percent
liberal or far left and 23.5 percent
conservative or far right. Research-
ers say that shows a modest shift
from the liberal and left side of
the spectrum to the middle, and
may indicate a slight waning of
the enthusiastic youth activism
surrounding President Barack
Obama’s election in 2008.
10 Editorial & Letter The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, January 31, 2011

Editorial Editorial comic by julia streuli

Does college actually
teach us anything?
Last week, sociology professors Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
made national news with a provocative op-ed in the Chronicle of Higher
Education, entitled “Are Undergraduates Actually Learning Anything?”
The article previewed their book documenting some unsettling studies
on undergraduate education. In the book, “Academically Adrift: Limited
Learning on College Campuses,” Arum and Roksa claim that colleges
might not be the havens for academic development and civic engage-
ment that they seem.
Arum and Roksa surveyed over 2,000 students at 24 four-year col-
leges of considerable geographic and academic diversity. The authors
examined results from the College Learning Assessment, a standardized
essay examination that tests writing and reading proficiency. An alarm-
ing 36 percent of survey respondents showed no improvement in their
performance on the assessment between their freshmen and senior years.
That said, we have significant reservations about this study’s applica-
bility to Brown students. First, we are skeptical of the yardstick. While
standardized tests are useful in creating a somewhat even metric, they
should certainly not be taken as gospel. Arum and Roksa’s dependence on
just one standardized test is troublesome, and overlooks all university-wide
assessments that would invariably test their conclusion. Some students
do not test well, some essay examinations are subjective regardless of
grading format and some days are just better than others for different
students. Given this, producing conclusive findings based on a few hours
of student testing is reckless and misleading.
Further, Arum and Roksa report a dearth of undergraduate reading-
and-writing-intensive courses, both of which have a positive correlation
with the assessment’s results. But Brown has taken drastic measures
to explicitly offer writing-intensive courses and create online writing
portfolios that can be shared with advisers, among other developments
that we applauded last Spring. Further, Arum and Roksa’s definition of
“reading-intensive” courses is at least 40 pages a week, an amount that
the average Brown class almost certainly requires. letter to the editor
One overlooked aspect of the study is Arum and Roksa’s dismal
statistic on civic engagement on college campuses. Thirty percent of
recent graduates polled reported reading a newspaper “monthly or Column overstates privileges of the
never.” Though, in this information age, young people in particular get
their news fix from various other sources, this statistic is distressing. academic elite
Colleges and universities have an obligation to teach students that being
educated citizens is crucial to becoming responsible members of society. To the Editor: institution whose “iconoclastic roots … predate the
Given this statistic, we would like to emphasize again the importance of nation itself,” but one whose students will go on to
continuing to offer the Providence Journal and the New York Times in Herald opinion writers tend to broadcast sharp “serve as the leaders of our generation.” Well! Here I
the Ratty, even in this period of fiscal belt-tightening. As Arum asked criticisms of Brown, and while these are valuable, it’s was thinking that it would be tough to get a job in this
in an interview with the Chronicle, “How do you sustain a democratic also nice to see the occasional upbeat perspective. It economy, but it’ll be awfully nice to have the “control”
society when large numbers of the most educationally elite sector of your was with pleasure, then, that I read the recent column of “modern industrial society” to fall back on.
population are not seeing it as a normal part of their everyday experience by Oliver Doren ’14 (“The myth of Brunonian progres-
to keep up with the world around them?” sivism,” Jan. 27). To Doren, not only do we attend an Alex Rosenberg ’11
Given the less-than-conclusive and limited findings of the study, we
would encourage the Chronicle of Higher Education to perhaps be a
bit more tactful. The headline that made it to the New York Times —
“Are Undergraduates Really Learning Anything?” — is both hyperbolic
and irresponsible. We are certain that Brown students will continue to
prove that undergraduates — at least on College Hill — are engaged and
quote of the day
“My friends that are in school in the
learning quite a lot.

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Monday, January 31, 2011
By Lorraine Nicholson
Opinions Columnist
I went to Disneyland this winter break
and was shocked by what I saw. Sure,
there were plenty of obese children,
deep-fried dough and Mickeys made in
China. But of course that was to be ex-
pected. The real shocker of the evening:
an organic food stand. Pineapple skewers
at the happiest place on earth? Certainly
a sign of an impending apocalypse. Sure,
there was only one healthy stand to every
50 selling churros. But even on my one-
hour drive home, I counted more than
10 “get thin fast” billboards. Is the self-
proclaimed “fast food nation” changing
its ways?
What gives, America? Am I the only
one who watched the Golden Globes and
couldn’t help but question stick-thin Me-
gan Fox’s status as a “sex symbol” of our
time? Just this morning, I read a very
clever article on NYMag.com calling
out the alien population in blockbust-
ers for its ever-shrinking waistlines. The
Ivy Room sells health food and there is a
farmers’ market on Wriston Quadrangle.
By Heath Mayo
Opinions Columnist
This past December, as the “lame duck” ses-
sion of Congress rolled back the Clinton-
era “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding
the service of gays and lesbians in the mili-
tary, elite universities were encouraged to
rethink campus bans on Reserve Officers’
Training Corps programs that resulted
from reaction to the Vietnam War. Leading
the pack, Harvard’s President Drew Faust
declared her support for “Harvard’s full
and formal recognition of ROTC.” While
Harvard and many other schools have
seized the moment to correct a problematic
and insensible political statement to affirm
their support for our armed forces, Brown
has failed to follow suit. The delay to rec-
ognize ROTC on our campus suggests to
the rest of the nation that Brown continues
to place its impractical standard of politi-
cal correctness above patriotic support for
our military.
As the University and Undergraduate
Council of Students begin to consider re-
vising their ban on ROTC, it is imperative
they understand the connotations of con-
tinuing the ban after the recent repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Without question,
failing to support students who wish to
serve our nation in combat after their edu-
cation will represent an inexcusable aver-
sion to the honorable institution that pro-
tects and defends us on a daily basis. More-
over, it effectively bars academically ca-
pable students from pursuing a route that
would allow them to satisfy the financial
requirements of an Ivy League education
while serving our nation.
Now that the military lacks any type of
A weighty issue
The once-spiritual practice of yoga has
become an exercise regime for hot moms,
and Glenn Beck is on a diet. It’s official:
America has become weight-obsessed.
All this comes within a week of
Walmart’s announcement last Thurs-
day of its commitment to “provide its
customers with healthier and more af-
fordable food choices.” By reducing the
cost of fresh food and packaged healthy
The once spiritual practice of yoga has become an
exercise regime for hot moms, and Glenn Beck is on a
diet. It’s official: America has become weight-obsessed.
snacks, the corporation hopes to inspire
other multinational companies to fol-
low its lead. Of course, Walmart’s pledge
to promote healthy eating has been met
with mixed reviews. Many question its ef-
fectiveness and subsequent consequences
for farmers. Some, on the other hand,
including First Lady Michelle Obama,
commend the much-vilified corporation
The ROTC answer
official and concrete discriminatory pol-
icy, it is difficult to see why opponents of
the ROTC program continue to reject its
reinstatement. Indeed, when asked why
they thought Brown refused to reinstate
the ROTC program after the “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal, many of my friends were
hard-pressed to come up with a compel-
ling reason. This is absolutely unacceptable
and will continue to plague Brown’s image
throughout the nation if we do not alter our
course soon.
Support for our armed forces should transcend our
ideological differences and unite us.
Prior to repeal, many opponents of
ROTC rejected it on the grounds that ac-
ceptance of the program would connote
endorsement of what many considered of-
fensive discrimination against select sexual
orientations. Others noted alleged “crimes
against humanity” that somehow crimi-
nalize our armed forces more than those
of other nations. Even then, the Universi-
ty was missing the point. Support for our
armed forces is not a political statement. It
is not the result or product of certain ideol-
ogies, or an all-encompassing endorsement
of every decision the military makes. Most
importantly, it is not an avenue by which
a collection of the most respected academ-
ic institutions in our nation should seek to
impose their standard of political correct-
Opinions 11
for taking a step in the right direction.
Walmart’s promotion of healthy lifestyles
indicates one thing for sure: Thin is in.
It’s been roughly five years since “Su-
per Size Me” and Us Weekly’s obsession
with Nicole Richie’s waistline. It’s been al-
most twenty years since Kate Moss mod-
eled for Calvin Klein, thirty since Jane
Fonda’s exercise tape made it big, forty
since the late, great Jack LaLanne invent-
ed his Power Juicer and more than a half-
century since Lord Northbourne first ap-
plied the word “organic” to food. All this
time has passed, and only today has cor-
porate America begun to respond. What
was once considered a niche market has
become the status quo. Americans have
spoken, and they want healthier options.
Since the financial crisis, these big
ness on others and snub those who support
the overarching purpose and goals of the
U.S. military.
Instead, support for our armed forces
should transcend our ideological differenc-
es and unite us. While individual citizens
and, in this case, students of Brown Univer-
sity might disagree with some of the mili-
tary’s policies, our academic institutions
should not be serving as a mouthpiece for
dissidents. Rather, as major institutions
within the most prosperous and free na-
tion in the world, elite universities should
save their political statements for other are-
nas and unite in a gesture of full support
for our nation’s primary functional muscle
abroad.
To those who hold deep-seated con-
cerns over current wars the United States
is fighting and supporting abroad, Brown’s
acceptance of an ROTC program on cam-
pus will not be offensive and should be
seen as nothing more than patriotic sup-
port for the defense of our nation. Indeed,
the contention that opponents use to at-
tack the proposal, which suggests that an
ROTC program runs counter to campus
culture, seems to contradict the sacred
concept of diversity that Brown routinely
heralds. Just as any conservative Protestant
businesses have been vilified for being
opportunistic. Today, however, corpora-
tions are becoming increasingly health-
conscious. Coca-Cola has announced a
plan to begin selling “healthy soda.” Even
McDonald’s has begun selling apples and
oatmeal.
Nevertheless, one cannot help but
question the authenticity of the corpo-
rate trend towards promoting healthy
lifestyles. Sure, it’s only timely that these
large companies begin to do their part,
but perhaps there is more to the sto-
ry. Perhaps the movement has gotten
big enough for corporations to take no-
tice. Perhaps the health craze has gained
enough critical mass that these large
companies can’t afford not to tweak
their products. Perhaps these humanity-
friendly initiatives are just another mar-
ket angle to get us to buy the same prod-
ucts over again, but with a twist. Perhaps
organic food, green products and the like
are just another way to get people to con-
sume at the same levels as before and not
feel guilty about it… Or perhaps not.
Lorraine Nicholson ’12.5 is a literary arts
concentrator from Los Angeles,
Calif. She can be contacted at
lorraine_nicholson@brown.edu.
should respect groups on campus that pro-
mote lifestyles that run counter to her faith,
so should an anti-war student be expected
to respect her peers who wish to serve the
military. By this analysis, the only choice
that is consistent with Brown’s culture and
celebration of diversity is to allow students
who wish to serve our country the oppor-
tunity to do so.
It should be noted that this will require
a certain level of intellectual maturity to
realize where and when we should appro-
priately assert our opinions, and moreover,
when, if ever, we should impose them on
others. Unfortunately, there will always be
those who lack the capability of making
such a leap, but I have confidence that, in
keeping with their own tradition of provid-
ing an impartial acceptance of all appropri-
ate student pursuits, members of the Uni-
versity and the UCS have the fortitude to
do what is right.
Brown’s recognition of ROTC and its
consequent support for the United States’
military is not an appropriate arena in
which to assert a certain political ideology
at the expense of someone else’s ability to
freely serve. As has only been made more
evident after the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell,” the persistence of elite universities
like Brown in keeping ROTC programs off
campus suggests a close-minded and self-
serving approach to an issue that asks only
what our school and its students can do for
our country. In the spirit of patriotism and
diversity, and for lack of any justifiable rea-
son to do otherwise, Brown should rein-
state the ROTC program on campus with
all haste.
Heath Mayo ’13 is a political science and
economics concentrator from White-
house, Texas. He can be reached at
james_mayo@brown.edu.
12 Sports Weekend
M. Basketball
Still without a league victory, hoops drops two more
By sam rubinroit
Sports Staff Writer
The men’s basketball team endured
a grueling road trip, falling to 0-4
in Ivy League play with a 78-60
loss to Princeton Friday night and
an 80-78 loss to Penn the next day.
Princeton 78, Brown 60
Despite taking an early 21-13
lead, the Bears (7-11, 0-4 Ivy) saw
it slip away as Princeton (14-4, Ivy
2-0) went on a 24-2 run.
“They made shots, and we
didn’t,” said Head Coach Jesse
Agel. “It’s pretty much as simple
as that. Princeton is a very good
team, and they were just clicking
on all cylinders.”
The Bears offense missed co-
captain Peter Sullivan ’11, Brown’s
11th all-time career scorer, who
sustained an injury during the
game and played only 18 minutes,
compared to his average 28.5 min-
utes per game. In Sullivan’s absence,
his brother, guard Matt Sullivan
’13, stepped up for the Bears and
scored a career-high 22 points on
7-of-11 shooting .
“He did a phenomenal job,” Agel
said. “It was the first chance he’s
had to play extended minutes off
the ball with the injury to Peter,
and he has the ability to score a
M. Hockey
Bruno winless on weekend trip Offense struggles,
By garret johnson
Sports Staff Writer
The men’s hockey team went win-
less on a New York road trip this
weekend, falling to No. 10 Rens-
selaer, 3-0, and No. 12 Union, 4-2.
RPI 3, Brown 0
Bruno (7-10-4, 5-8-1 ECAC)
began the game strong, leading
the Engineers 8-5 in shots after 12
minutes, but RPI (17-6-3, 9-5-0)
goalie Allen York was a force in
net, stopping every puck sent his
way. Brown gained a man advan-
tage late in the first period, but
gave it back when captain Harry
Zolnierczyk ’11 was sent to the
box for charging the goalie. Only
15 seconds later, assistant captain
Jack Maclellan ’12 was charged
with a slashing penalty, giving RPI
a 4-3 man advantage. The Engi-
neers were able to capitalize on
the penalties when Chase Polacek
blasted one by Bears’ goalie Mike
Clemente ’12 at 14:23 in the first.
Only four minutes later, RPI
doubled its lead with a power-play
goal by Bryan Brutlag. Over the
next two periods, Brown pounded
the RPI net, totaling 36 shots to
the Engineers’ 16, but York did
not give in. The Engineers added
an empty-net goal with 2:15 re-
maining, securing the shutout
win.
Union 4, Brown 2
At the outset on Saturday
night, the Bears seemed poised to
grab an early lead with eight shots
on net in the first 13 minutes. But,
Even Adrian Williams‘ ’11 season-high 22 points weren’t enough as the Bears fell at Penn in overtime on Saturday.
lot of points.”
Penn 80, Brown 78
After the loss to Princeton,
Brown traveled to Philadelphia to
face the Penn Quakers (8-8, Ivy
2-0). The Bears looked like they
were headed for their first Ivy victo-
ry with just two minutes remaining
in regulation and a 73-67 lead, but
Jack Maclellan ‘12 has powered the Brown offense this year and tallied his
14th goal of the year in Saturday’s loss at Union.
in what has become a recurring
theme for the Brown squad, the
opponent capitalized on a pow-
er-play opportunity. After Bruno
defenseman Marc-Antoine Car-
rier ’14 was sent to the box for
tripping midway through the first
period, Union (18-7-3, 10-3-1)
forward John Simpson beat Brown
goalie Marco De Filippo ’14 to
grab the early lead. Maclellan tied
the game, 1-1, early in the sec-
Penn rallied back with a six-point
run to send the game into overtime.
With the Bears trailing by two
points with under a minute left in
overtime, co-captain Adrian Wil-
liams ’11 missed a contested three-
point shot and, despite getting the
rebound and calling a timeout, the
team was unable to convert.
“I thought we played great the
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
ond period, but the Dutchmen
responded with a goal just over
four minutes later.
Union went on to score two
more throughout the game, while
the Bears answered with only one
of their own.
The loss to Union was Bruno’s
third-straight defeat. They hope
to regain momentum with a home
game against Harvard (4-16-0,
3-12-0) Wednesday night.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
whole way,” Agel said. “I thought
we played well enough to earn the
win, but unfortunately we didn’t
get the W.”
With the absence of Peter Sulli-
van still looming, Bruno had to find
points from new sources. Williams,
who has been averaging less than
20 minutes per game, exploded off
the bench, finishing with 22 points
W. BasketBall
Bears blown out twice
By madeleine wenstrup
Sports Staff Writer
The women’s basketball team was
clearly missing something on of-
fense in its weekend games against
Princeton and Penn. With point
guard Lauren Clarke ’14, the third-
highest scorer on the team, out
with an injury, the Bears’ offense
struggled, and they handed easy
wins to both opponents.
Princeton 70, Brown 48
The Bears started off strong,
using the combined shooting skills
of guard Lindsay Nickel ’13 and
co-captain Hannah Passafuime
’12 to capture their only lead of
the game, 12-11, in the first ten
minutes.
But the Tigers stormed back.
They went on a 12-2 streak to take
a 26-14 lead and went into the half
ahead 13 points.
Princeton came out of the lock-
er room and increased the tempo,
taking a 13-2 run to establish a safe
lead, 48-24.
“We lost track of their shooters
and transitions,” said co-captain
Aileen Daniels ’12. “What got us
was that we had to work harder
for our shots.”
Daniels stepped up to start a
9-2 streak with a jumper at 14:29,
but the Bears’ attempt was too little
and too late, and the Tigers rees-
tablished their power, eventually
winning comfortably, 70-48.
Bruno shot only 30 percent
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in 41 minutes. He shot 60 percent
from the field and 6-of-8 from be-
yond the arc, with 19 of his points
coming in the first half.
“He had a spectacular first half,”
Agel said. “He hit shots like I’ve
seen him do before, and it was a
thrill to just be able to watch him.
Our guys did a tremendous job to
make the extra pass to find him.”
Another recent standout for the
Bears is rookie forward Dockery
Walker ’14, who made his first
collegiate start for Bruno against
Princeton. He finished the game
against the Tigers with eight points
and seven rebounds and was two
points shy of a double-double
against Penn with eight points and
10 rebounds.
“He’s been playing well,” Agel
said. “He’s doing a great job on the
glass and scoring with his back to
the basket.”
After a tough road trip, the
Bears return to the Pizzitola Center
for two home matchups. They will
face Columbia on Friday at 7 p.m.
and a struggling Cornell team the
following night at 6 p.m.
“In our first four league games,
three have been on the road,” Agel
said. “Obviously we’ll be happy to
come back and play in front of our
home fans in our familiar confines,
but we still have to play well to win.”
from the field and were led offen-
sively by Nickel with 11 points.
Daniels added seven points.
Penn 52, Brown 32
The Bears kept up with Penn
early on, trailing by only two
points, 11-9, after seven minutes.
The Quakers then ran away after
a 10-2 streak that was left un-
matched by the Bears. Penn ended
the half with a 30-17 lead.
Bruno pulled it together in the
second half with ferocious defense
that limited the Quakers’ scoring.
But Brown did not have the offense
to match, and the Bears were only
able to bring the deficit down to
10.
“We played really great de-
fense,” Daniels said. “They didn’t
score for nine straight minutes,
but our shots just weren’t falling.”
The Bears shot just 27 percent
from the field on Saturday night
and only 22 percent in the sec-
ond half. In contrast, the Quak-
ers ended the game shooting 36
percent from the field.
Penn was able to overcome
Bruno’s tough defense and take a
25-point lead with six minutes on
the clock. Brown made one last at-
tempt in the final minutes, cutting
the lead to 17, but the Quakers had
already secured the win.
The Bears will go on the road
to face more Ivy challengers next
weekend. They take on Columbia
Friday night before heading to Cor-
nell for a 7 p.m. tip-off Saturday.