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By PhoeBe DraPer
Senior Staff Writer
urn to the sta member next to
you and let them know they areawesome, Beppie Huidekoper,executive vice president or nanceand administration, told a jam-packed Salomon 101 at the start othe eighth annual Brown EmployeeAppreciation and Recognition DayTursday aernoon. Wearing din-ing caps, jeans, suits and orangests, hudrds Ursty m-pys gathrd at th t hd
to celebrate sta contributions toth Ursty.
BEAR Day, which PresidentRuth Simmons started in 2005,has become an annual traditionthat honors exceptional sta mem-bers and puts people on stage whoha d grat thgs, sad A-gela Hilliard, manager o employeeprgrams.
he ceremony began with a video eaturing this years thirtyExcellence Award recipients. Eachyear, the ceremony honors peer-nominated sta members who
were department standouts with awards. Eah rptreceives $2,500. Among the recipi-ents was Maria Araujo, a custo-
dian with acilities managementwho was lauded or caring or thebudgs as thy wr hr whome and bringing homemadepastrs t wrk.
Smms spk t th thu-sast aud abut th mpr-tance o maintaining the Univer-stys spa ss mmuty.
Staff celebrated on BEAR day
By Sahil luthra
Science editor
Te University will not supportan eort to retract a controversialstudy co-authored by Proessoro Psychiatry and Human Behav-ior Martin Keller, wrote EdwardWg, da md ad b-ga ss, a rt ttrto the global nonprot Healthy
Skptsm.Te study commonly re-
erred to as Study 329 identied
the drug Paxil as an eective com-batant o adolescent depression.S ts pubat 200, thstudy has rasd rs du tdgs that k Pa t hghrrats suda tds.
Citing claims that Kellers studyttay msrprstd theectiveness o Paxil by suppress-ing data, Healthy Skepticism askedthe University to write to the Jour-a th Amra Aadmy Chd ad Adst Psyhatryand request a retraction o thedgs, T Hrad rprtd Nmbr.
Jon Jureidini, a co-author othe Healthy Skepticism letters and
U. will notsupport
Kellerretraction
By Kat thornton
city& State editor
Providence Mayor Angel averasaud Tursday mrg thatthe city could ace bankruptcy in Juneunless it reins in its $22.5 millionbudget decit, in part by increas-ing payments rom nonprots likethe University. Later that day, Gov.Lincoln Chaee 75 P14 conveneda mtg wth Prsdt Ruth Sm-mons, Chancellor Tomas isch 76P07 and averas to address the issue.
At the meeting, representativesrom the city and the Universityagreed to renew conversations re-gardg th Urstys paymts,said Marisa Quinn, vice presidentr pub aars ad Ursty r-ats. aras has thratd gaaction i an agreement with nonpro-
ts at b rahd praty.averas also demanded sacrices
rom retirees at the morning pressconerence, calling or the suspension st--g rass rtrpensions, and he said the city mayneed to increase residents taxes,though he did not speciy when orby hw muh.
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averas will again ask the Uni-versity or an additional $4 millionper year or the next ten years, hesad at th prss r. Ussbth parts m t a agrmt
voluntarily, the General Assemblywill pursue a legislative alternative,averas said. Te mayor will meetwith the state legislatures Providencedelegation today to discuss legislativepts.
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Bankruptcy looms as mayor threatens legal action
By lauren PoPe
contributingWriter
Bruas kg t sak thspirit o Providence now do nothave to venture ar rom CollegeHill. Te Postcard Project, currently dspay sma shs gtw was th wr thPerry and Marty Grano Center orthe Creative Arts, is a collection opostcards eaturing Providence resi-
dents recollections o areas aroundPrd.
T prjt s th brahd Betsey Biggs, a postdoctoral el-w, wh put tgthr th hbto 1,000 postcards eaturing 100photographs o areas around Provi-dence. On the back o the postcardsare letters written by Providencersdts abut mmrs r m-mts that tk pa at th a-
ts shw th rt.
I was interested in the waysthat memories and stories circulaterom generation to generation,wrote Biggs, a Providence and NewYork-based artist, in an email toTe Herald. I was thinking aboutthe way that the postal system putsthis kind o circulation into physi-a r matra rm.
Rather than hoping to projecta certain message, Biggs wrotethat she acted as a listener whilempg th prjt ad tk the memories rom places acrossPrd.
One intention o the PostcardProject is to explore personal mem-ories and show how the collectiveaumuat ths strs asmtms rat mr ptt -ect and social importance thanany historical monument, wroteIan Alden Russell, curator o theDad Wt B Gary th
Postcards mark sights and stories of city
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Taveras threatened legal action to orce nonprots to up contributions to the city.
Rachl Kaplan / HralA postcard exhibit in the Granof Center provides glimpses into Providence lie.
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By Claire SChleSSinger
Staff Writer
About 30 classes will be trying ur-nitin, an anti-plagiarism programthat mpars studt wrk wthmillions o other student papers,jura arts ad Itrt sts.
Students in classes participatingin the semester-long trial submittheir assignments to urnitin.com, which then highlights textthat matches content rom othersources and quanties the matcheswith a percentage, according tothe website. Proessors can thenlook over the paper to judge itsrgaty.
Te initiative to use sowareto detect plagiarism began inarst wh Tmas Dppr,associate proessor o computerscience, co-chaired the StandingCommittee on the Academic Code.In his 2009-10 end o year Aca-
demic Code Committee Report,Doeppner suggested that a service
such as urnitin might reveal a hatg thr dpart-mts smar t that mputrs, whh du t ts us Masur Swar Smarty, aprgram that rguary hks rcheating consistently turns over
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just the way it is, Simmons said.We know you are out there in thiscommunity working hard to makeBrw k bttr.
Simmons said she was in sucha good mood because she had justmet with Providence Mayor Angelaras, wh ad r rasdcontributions to the debt-strappedty rm prts k th U-
versity at a press conerence Turs-day mrg.
Sta members were also hon-ored based on long-term service toth Ursty ad wr ad upby ve-year intervals o service. As
the ten-year group was announced,Simmons said, Were a bit older,s w tak sm mr tm t gt stag.
Simmons, who has served as theUrsty prsdt r t yars,was presented with a bouquet oroses by Chancellor Tomas isch76.
You set the standard like aratchet, isch told Simmons. Wekp rasg th bar, ad w kpexceeding the bar as a community
and as individuals because o your
leadership and the inspiration thatyu st r a us. Smmswas hrd wth thudrg ap-paus ad a stadg at.
Tat was a little surprise, Sim-ms sad.
Several sta members havewrkd at th Ursty r r40 years. Te 30 years are nearbabs, Smms jkd.
Te program was ollowed witha rpt at Says Ha.
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its very nice to have something like
this to recognize those people whoput tm ad ray jy bghere at Brown, said Julieta TomasDsta, a prat assstat the department o biomedicinewho was celebrating 25 years osr.
Te event was sponsored by thedepartment o Human Resources.
W wat t rat a utur appreciation where saying thankyou is not only common sense, butmm prat, Hard sad.
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a disproportionately high numbero students to the Academic CodeCmmtt.
Usg urt s a rsps twatg t kw th aswr tth qust th prassso cheating at Brown, said KeithBrown, associate proessor o in-trata rats ad -har ast yars aadm d m-mtt.
According to a 2009 Heraldpoll, 17 percent o students admit-ted to cheating, mostly by copy-
ing another students homeworkrspss.
urnitins services would costthe University $13,000 per year oruse in unlimited courses, said Dep-uty Dean o the College StephenLassonde. He said the Universityhas a r tra prd r ths s-mester with the company, whichoered its services to any interestedproessor. According to Lassonde,about 20 to 30 proessors opted, wth sm usg t mutpclasses. Most o the participatingurss ar arg turs.
David Sobel, associate proessoro cognitive, linguistic and psycho-logical sciences, is teaching twocourses but only using urnitin orCLPS 0200: Human Cognition,the larger o the two. He said he hasaught sra studts pagarz-ing in the past about one studentevery semester he has taught thecourse, though he once discoveredur a sg smstr.
Conor Kane 14, a student inENGL 0210: Beowul to AlphaBh: T Earst Brtsh Ltra-turs, a ass partpatg thtrial, said using urnitin makes
sense. He said his high schoolteachers used the soware, andh sad t s a rab systm aslong as proessors understand thatth st smar stsdoes not automatically indicateplagiarism. urnitin also highlightsdirect quotations, so proessorsmust veriy themselves whetherthe student cited a quote correctly.
Ka sad ths wh had usdthe program beore kind o chuck-led when they heard about its useat Brw baus t mght abit like overkill. He said he doubt-
d th prgram wud at hm.Students in Human Cognition
ha arady submttd paprt urt. Nam Hw 2, ateaching assistant or the course,was responsible or putting theone-page papers through theprgram, sh sad. S ar, sh sadsh has t ud ay pagarsm,though it is early in the game. Shesaid she thinks the program workswell or its purpose and added thatit eliminates paper copies, whichsh apprats.
In the age o Wikipedia and Girlak, pts suh as rgaty,
mm kwdg ad t-tua prprty ar rasgy -dened and misunderstood. Butignorance isnt an excuse orpagarsm, Lassd sad.
Some students cheat knowingly,justiying their behavior by say-ing that everyone is doing it, hesaid. But honest students maintaintheir upright practices, thinkingeveryone is playing by the rules, hesad. Lassd sad studtcheats, others might be compelledto do the same in order to gain thesam adatag uss thr sa dtrrt k urt.
Consequences or plagiarismrange rom receiving a warning toreceiving no credit or the class anda t th studts trasrpt,Lassd sad.
Proessors using the sowarestressed that they do not believecheating at Brown to be the norm,but th sma prtag wh d(cheat) greatly impact the vastmajrty studts wh d t,Sobel said. He added, anythingthat can be done to weed out thatsmall subset is a worthwhiledar.
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By alexanDra MaCFarlane
Senior Staff Writer
Te number o tenure cases up orreview this year ell sharply as revi-sions to the tenure review processcame into eect this semester. Lastyear, there were 23 cases up orreview, but this year there are onlys r ght, wrt Da thFaculty Kevin McLaughlin P12 inan email to Te Herald. Previously,the University had averaged about15 cases per year over the last veyars, ardg t data rm thO th Da th Fauty.
Te shi in the number o casesis directly related to the option
given to junior aculty membersto extend their rst contracts byone year, one o the changes ap-prd th w tur rgua-ts, MLaugh sad.
Junior aculty members whohave been with the Universityor three years and would be upr rw r a trat rwaunder the old policies now havethe option to wait an extra yearbeore their case is evaluated bythr dpartmt ad th adm-istration. Assistant proessorsa w hs thr a thr rour-year contract beore they arerst reviewed by the University,
allowing them to extend an as-sistant proessorship rom sevenyears to eight years beore theyar rwd r tur.
Tough both the oer o ex-ts ad thr tur hagswere met with considerable debate,almost everybody took the exten-
sion, said Peter Shank, chair othe Faculty Executive Committeead prssr mda s.I think the overall solution is agd , h sad.
James Hays, assistant proes-sr mputr s, sad hsdepartment was not keen on
tdg th tur k. Armeeting with other junior acultymembers in his department, Hayss rd that th hags aran attempt to lower the tenure rate.
It is the place o the senior ac-ulty to dec ide about tenure, Hayssaid, adding that he was puzzled
junior aculty members were askedto provide input on the issue when
thy had t b hr as g.When Mark Dean, assistant
proessor o economics, decidedto extend his contract by a year,he said,it didnt seem like therewas any downside to doing so. Foreconomists, publication timelines
are oen much longer than orlie sciences, he said, so a our-yar ta trat s bttr thaa thr-yar .
Tere are some mixed eel-ings, McLaughlin said. But headded that it takes many pro-ssrs th tra yar rdr tprovide strong evidence o theirteaching and research. Te option-a tra yar s t a udam-
ta hag th way w auatjunior aculty or tenure, he said.
Most junior aculty membersjust wanted to clariy the crite-ria or a tenure track ollowingthe changes, McLaughlin said.McLaughlin, Shank and several
administrators met with junioraculty members to discuss thetenure changes since their ap-pra.
hough the administrationad th dpartmts a prdguidelines regarding the quan-tity o work that is required tobuild a strong resume, it is di-ut t b ar abut th ra
quaty dd t r tur,MLaugh sad. Wth th tr-nal review o a reviewed proessorswork, there is no automatic or-mua t bm turd, h sad.
Because the University has highptats r studts, th ad-ministration should also have highexpectations or aculty members,McLaughlin said. He added thatth hags ar mat t mpha-size teaching and research. We arecommitted to the teaching part,ad w ar t mprmsg that, h sad.
As ths hags ha just b-
gu t at auty mmbrs, Idont think its clear what will hap-pen yet, Shank said, though hesad h hps th tur hagswill not aect the level o teaching.
One o Browns strengths is theak barrrs btw studtsand proessors, Shank said. Itwould be tragic i Brown lost itsmphass tahg studts.
By MathiaS heller
Senior Staff Writer
Te Medical College Admission esthas b markdy sstt ts
material since 1991, with subjectmattr draw rm bgy, hm-istry, organic chemistry and physics.But ths s satd t hag 205.
A proposal to revamp the MCA,th am a mda sh app-cants must take, was draed lastyear by the Association o AmericanMda Cgs ad s ky t bapproved by the organizations gov-rg bard th mg wks.Although the revised version oth MCA w t tak t ut2015, the changes will be signicant.
Te new exam will place moreemphasis on psychology, sociology
and biochemistry, three areas thatar t udd th urrt tstversion, according to the associa-tion, which creates and administersthe test on behal o medical schooladmss s. I at, th 205MCA is set to place twice as muchemphasis on psychology as organicchemistry and more on sociologytha physs. It w as b gth-d t arud s hurs, rmts urrt ad a ha.
Te proposed exam requires stu-dents to have taken semester-longurss ah th w aras, addition to two semesters o each othe our science areas already tested.
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Since most medical school ap-pats tak th am durg thrsenior undergraduate year, pre-medstudents entering college this allwill be the rst to experience therevised MCA in large numbers.But current rst-years and sopho-mrs pag takg tm aer graduation beore completingthe MCA will also have to deal withth 205 rs.
Te change will be signicantenough to aect everyone thinkingabut appyg t mda sh,
said George Vassilev, director o pre-prssa adsg ad assstatdean o the College. Vassilev said hebelieves the revised MCA is based th dsr mda shs tadapt to vast changes in the medicaleld since 1991, the last time theam udrwt a hag.
We live in a highly diversiedsociety, and there is a need or phy-sas bg ab t mak th -nections between science and thesocial contexts o medicine, Vassilevsaid, citing the rise o new medi-a thgy ad th mprtao health specialists developing agreater understanding or the hu-manities and behavioral sciences.Te new MCA aims to captureths hags.
Je Koetje, director o pre-healthprograms at Kaplan est Prep,agreed that the changes would bebenecial. Focusing on the addition-al subject matter will help physiciansappreciate the infuence o sociologyand psychology on caregiver-patientrelations. Te prevalent mindsetamongst the academic leadership mda shs s that studtsd t udrstad ths subjts,h sad.
Frankly, at this point, we can
say that almost any student is going
to be impacted by these changes,Ktj sad, tg a Kapa suryshowing that 73 percent o medicalschool admission ocers believethese changes will help medical stu-dents have a better understanding oth bhma bass dsass.He said he views the new MCAas aiming to make students lookbyd th bas pr-md trak.
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Pre-med students and healthcareer advisers have expressedr that th w sts w
leave medical school applicants withss tm t dt t aras k thhumats baus th d tsatisy the additional course require-ments. Many colleges and universi-ts ha startg pag ways tassst studts ug bth thtradta hard s ad wbehavioral science requirements,Ktj sad.
Anxiety about the changes hasalso reached Brown undergraduates.
Wr arady strssd, ad wha a t rqurmts arady,said Kelly Shan 15, who is pre-med.It does put a damper on things,
although de-emphasizing physicsw hp r sm th strss.But she added that as a human biol-ogy concentrator, she was alreadyplanning on taking courses in someo the newly prioritized areas o theMCA.
Philip Gruppuso, associate deanor medical education and proes-sor o pediatrics, said Browns open
curriculum blunts the impact othe proposed changes, since mostpre-med students at Brown alreadytake courses in a wide array o disci-plines. I dont think this is going tohurt studts at Brw, ad t mayactually be to their advantage, hesaid. I think that commitment toeducation and the behavioral andsocial sciences is really critical tothe overall outcome o educatingmpassat argrs.
Wh pr-md studts shudconsider how the changes to theMCA could aect their schedules,Gruppuso said, Browns Program inLbra Mda Eduat aradyserves as a catalyst or implementingthe new requirements, as it providesuture physicians with a broad in-trdspary duat.
Noting that around hal o Brownundergraduates who apply to medi-
a sh dd t trat
non-science areas, Vassilev said thediversity o students extracurricularand academic interests already putsthm a strg pst t adaptto the new MCA requirements.Consequently, there are currentlyno plans to revamp the pre-medcourses or departments at Brown,Vass sad.
We already encourage studentsto ocus on exploring psychologyor the behavioral sciences, Vassi- sad. I addt, hath arrsadvisers hold six workshops each
academic year to assist pre-medrst-years and sophomores in plan-ning their undergraduate education.Vassilev said the Universitys supportstructure or pre-med students willaddrss ay addd prssur ratdt th w MCA.
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Many pre-med students ex-pressed similar views, saying theyalready had an interest in the newlyemphasized areas o the exam. EmilyWilkins 14 said there are alreadymany required classes or pre-meds,but sh as ss th bt ha-ing a background in psychology and
sgy.Pre-med student Kwame Mc-
Cain 15 noted the benet o anexpanded area o study. It adds anew dimension to preparation ormed school, he said, adding thathe does not expect the changes toatr hs udrgraduat prat Brw.
Still, some students said theythought that although it was im-portant to study the behavioralsciences to become more capablecaregivers, they elt the lengtheningo the test by an hour and a hal wasussary.
I think the MCA is alreadylong enough, said Libby Stein15, a likely biology concentrator.Teres a point when mental acuitygoes down the toilet. Stein said shewas excited about taking courses
in psychology, biochemistry andsociology, but that the new sectionssmpy add strss r pr-mds.
Acknowledging these criticisms,Ktj sad h s th w MCAis a step in the right direction. No-bdy wats ay ths prpsdchanges to reduce the diversity oexperiences or opportunities or pre-md studts, h sad. T ga sto help students become more di-
verse in their educational pursuits.
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By eli oKun
Senior Staff Writer
In its second year, the UniversitysSh Egrg has st ts
sights on ullling a number olong-term priorities, includingexpanding space, renovating labo-ratories, hiring new aculty andimplementing curricular changes.Udr th drt LawrLarson, dean o engineering, thesechanges are coinciding with anras rsarh udg adin undergraduate and prospectivestudt trst th prgram.
Were poised at a very excit-ing moment, said Kenny Breuer,assat da r aadm pr-grams at th Sh Egr-g.
But the road to impendingchanges and expansions is notwithout some growing pains, saidUrsty as.
epc ps
o ully utilize its increasedudg, th Sh Egr-g w d mr ts adhigh-quality laboratory and re-search space, said Eric Suuberg,associate dean or research andgraduat tats at th Sho Engineering. Much o Barusand Holley, where most o theschool is currently based, hasutdatd qupmt.
As th sh ks t padits aculty ranks, there is simplynot enough room to conduct cut-ting-edge research, said NancyCarroll, chie administrative o-cer or the School o Engineering.
Space is critical. You cantexpand without it, Carroll said.Barus and Holley is outdated,so it does make it very dicultr us admstrat t assstauty wh w ha thg t
r th m.Students said they have elt the
eects o overcrowding. For oneo the engineering classes I did lastsmstr, w dd up t dg
part o a design project becausethr wr t may studts the class or the resources avail-ab, sad Haah Varr 4, amhaa grg -tratr.
Te School o Engineering hasalready begun addressing thesers.
Improvements include renova-tions on the Prince EngineeringLabratry, whh w hus r-search acilities or two recentlyhired aculty members. Begun 2005 ad gg thrugh thrphases o renovations, the labora-
torys upgrades are expected to becompleted by May. Engineeringalso expects to benet rom thershufg thr dpartmts the ormer Medical ResearchLab and part o the now-emptyHunter Laboratory will houseparts th sh as w.
Ts s th way t has t b an urban campus environmentlike this where there simply arentopen, empty lots on which you canbud, Suubrg sad.
Te School o Engineering isalso exploring possible options oran eventual new building. Sincespa ampus s sar, a-
tions in downtown Providence udg th Jwry Dstrt ha b sdrd add-t t ptta sts CgHill. Richard Spies, vice presidentor planning and senior adviser toth prsdt sad t was uarhow current tensions between thety ad Brw mght at suhplans i an o-campus site werehs.
What I will say is that we rec-
ognize in engineering that anynew building is several years o,Suuberg said. Its not going tohappen any sooner than ve yearsand can easily be longer than that.
Lars ad thrs ar aradyengaged in undraising or pos-sible uture expansion. Untilweve achieved some level o suc-cess, you cant start the process ospecic planning, Spies said. Tegreatest share o the unds willky m rm aums ad par-ents, but the school will also lookt rprat ad dra surs,Spies said, especially or researchad qupmt grats.
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Another long-term priorityor the School o Engineering is
the expansion o its aculty ranks.Current plans call or 12 new ten-ure-track aculty positions overthe next 10 or more years. Terst two proessors are scheduledto start as early as July, though noone has been hired yet. Toughthe 12 spots are not specicallyallocated to certain branches oengineering, the new aculty pro-posal emphasized certain up-and-coming areas, including energyand biomedical engineering, Car-r sad.
Te engineering aculty is alsoinvolved in discussions about cur-ricular changes. In addition to ex-
ploring the expansion o graduateoerings, including masters pro-grams, proessors are consideringadjustments to the undergraduateconcentration. Tese include stepsto make it easier or students toenter the program during sopho-more year, attempts to modernizeclasses and keep students up todate with recent trends like theinfux o biology and nanotech-gy, Brur sad.
Tugh arg hags ar t th tab, Brur sad, autyhave discussed making the coreclasses smaller and providing di-erent favors o courses. Tough
the number o engineering under-graduates is increasing, the rate ohag s t sgat ughto suggest any major upheaval. Ihope that well see some invigora-tion o the curriculum, Breuersad.
Sccss ss
Many o the School o Engi-neerings changes are still in thepag stags, but a umbr improvements have already ap-pard. Ch amg ths s thschools enhanced ability to attracthgh-pr prssrs.
Proessor o Engineering Ni-tin Padture, who will be one othe beneciaries o the renovatedPr Lab ats, am t thUniversity last month rom OhioStat Ursty, whr h r-saw a $17 million research center.
What really attracted me toBrown is the expansion o theSchool o Engineering, Padturesad.
Padture said the UniversitysSchool o Engineering stands outrom most programs because it issmall enough not to be ragment-ed into separate departments,allowing or greater interaction
arss subjt aras. Its bm-ing more useul because o theinterdisciplinary nature o uturersarh, h sad.
Te establishment o the schoolhas as d t a ras r-search unding and expenditures.Rsarh pss ad rhadgenerated rom grants and con-tracts are a good gauge o how welook at our research, Carroll said.By that measure, expenses were
up about 16 percent in scal year20, wh rhad rs abut3 prt, ardg t Carr.T majrty th grats mrom the ederal government, Car-
r sad, but th sh has asb prg gratr rpratpartrshp rt yars.
Amg th studts aptdearly or the class o 2016, en-gineering was the most populartdd trat. Da Admission Jim Miller 73 told TeHerald in December t hat interestin engineering had risen amongboth applicants and admittedstudts.
Annie Cappuccino, director admss r s rrut-ment, attributed the rise to a com-bination o the national economic
climate and University recruit-ment eorts. Weve really triedto promote Brown sciences andphysical sciences even more heav-ily, and the news o engineeringbecoming the School o Engineer-ing has reached a lot o studentppuats, sh sad.
In recent years, the emphasisamong prospective students hasshied somewhat rom an attrac-tion to the open curriculum toan attraction to the engineeringprogram specically, she said,wh th hghtd sbty the school has helped infuenceams.
A continuing challenge or theengineering school is boostingthe ranks o women and minoritystudents. Cappuccino said currenteorts include attending national
conerences centered on diver-sity in the sciences. Tirty-ourprt rst-yar grgstudents are women, a proportionhigher than at many peer engi-neering programs, C appuccinosad.
As interest blooms, School of Engineering seeks room to grow
List Art Center, in an email to TeHrad.
he process through whichBiggs chose the 100 places shephotographed refects the amount
o time that went into the proj-ect. Aer nding a list o all theneighborhoods in Providence,
Biggs drove, bused or biked to eachneighborhood, asking people aboutmprtat pas thr tw.
Biggs distributed the postcardswith the help o the librarians atthe Providence Community Li-brary. She also distributed themat yuth rgazats ad rtr-ment homes, hoping to reach allage groups. Biggs added that there
ar st bak ards dspay th hbt th Gra Ctr,and she encourages students torrd thr mmrs.
Russell, Biggs and project co-rdatr Jss Ugr GS hs tdspay th hbt th GraCtr baus t was mprtatt us th hbt th pst-ards Brws ampus as a way tg th a mmutso Providence to Brown and hope-uy ha sm th sparats that are experienced betweenBrown and the rest o the city,Russ wrt.
Te Grano Center is a greatat r th hbt baus twill help students urther under-stand the city in which they live,wrote Steven Lubar, proessor oAmerican civilization, in an emailt T Hrad.
Its easy or the Brown com-muty t rgt hw satd wcan be rom the rest o the city,Bggs wrt.
Te exhibit is interactive viewers can pick up each postcardand read the letter on the back.Ardg t Lubar, th abty ttrat wth th hbt s ky. Itallows or story-telling between
people, he wrote. Te writer is
takg t th radr.I theres any message I have,
ts smpy that ur prsa sare important, Biggs wrote, addingthat history is made rom small
personal bursts o narrative suchas rst kisses, avorite meals and
day rtuas.Te exhibit will be displayed in
th Gra Ctr ut Fb. 24.
Exhibit links Brown to community through postcards
Rachl Kaplan / Hral
Provinc Postcar Projct brings imags o th cit to th Grano Cntr.
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Arts & Culture 5the Brown Daily eraldFriday, February 3, 2012
By Kah Yangni
artS & culture Staff Writer
Wh Laura Cas GS pay L-quorland hits the stage Friday eve-g, t w p th thrd auaWriting Is Live, a ree playwrit-g sta aturg w wrk bygraduate and undergraduate stu-dents. Colella and ve other studentplaywrights in the Departmentso Teater Arts and PerormanceStudies and Aricana Studies will bepremiering their work over the nextten days in Leeds Teatre, Rites andReason Teatre and the ProductionWrkshp Dwspa.
Ardg t a sta prss r-
lease, Writing Is Live stresses andpays wth th da th L. Tplays themselves are still in fux, rawad mrgg.
Te audience is crucial, saidVanessa Gilbert, the estivals di-rtr ad a APS turr. Srao the workshop plays will includeFolkthought discussions aer theperormances. Teatergoers, Gilbertsaid, will have the distinct oppor-tuty t s a pay grw.
T sta prss bgs ahyear when graduate students are ad-mttd t th Wrtg r Prr-ma prgram, Gbrt pad.Te writings o the masters students
are the seeds that are nurturedthroughout the year and becomethe productions shown at the estival.Te students themselves become thestas uratrs, sh addd.
Te themes o the plays are as
varied as the backgrounds o theplaywrights themselves. Te play-
wrights come rom Uganda andthe Sundance Institute and rombackgrounds in art history, radioad atg. Ty ha abratdon projects such as Bothness and aPay: a gg d. Othrs udcollege sophomores and experiencedmmakrs.
Everyone is grappling with whatit means to be alive today, Gilbertsad. I thk th graduat studtsar wrtg t a wrd thy wudk t s.
Past playwrights have had theirwork grow into new things, bothptd ad uptd, ar th
estival ended. Playwright Jackie Sil-s Drury w b pg th payshe premiered at the Writing Is Livesta tw yars ag at th VtryGards Tatr Nw Yrk tmth. Sh has as shw t at thPrud Fsta Nw Yrk Cty.
wo multimedia artists play thatdbutd at Wrtg Is L bmdt a shrt m basd th pay.It will be shown at the Rhode IslandState Council on the Arts exhibition a w days.
Teater is a collaborative artrm, Gbrt sad. T Wrtg IsLive Festival is one o the only placeswhere graduate students and under-
graduate students truly collaborate.Mst mprtaty, th jyus
and productive environment oWriting Is Live, they can collaborateas peers, she pointed out, becausethy ar quas as wrkrs.
Playwriting festivalcelebrates raw theater
By niCole graBel
contributing Writer
You dont know who you areuntil you experience tragedy,Deborah Salem Smith, playwright-in-residence at rinity Repertory
Company, told students and medicalproessionals crowded in PembrokeHall as she spoke about complicatedreactions to medical malpracticeWednesday. Te lecture, entitledBut Im a Gd Dtr: A Pay-wrght aks Mda Mapra-t, was part th Cgut Ctror Humanities Creative PhysicianSeries. Smith discussed her play,Love Alone, excerpts rom whichwr rad by tw atrs th payand three actors in the Brown/rin-ty MFA prgram.
Love Alone portrays the a-termath o an unsuccessul surgery
when the patients amily sues thedoctor or malpractice. It all beginswith a personal story in my am-ily, Smith said o her motivationor writing the play. She went onto tell the story o her uncle, whowas tragically hit and killed by abus. Hr gradmthr rga thbus drr ad dd up rgg as ratshp wth hm.
You can be empowered byorgiveness, Smith said, but or-giveness can also be dicult andcomplex. Tis idea, along with manymedical malpractice depositionsshe read, became her inspirationr wrtg th pay.
Te our excerpts perormedwere pulled rom scenes that provid-d bth prspts. w thmshowed a amilys coping process,and the other two showed how doc-trs da wth sg a patt adag a mda maprat sut.
Aer each scene was read, Smithspoke about her writing choices. Forexample, she explained her inclu-sion o the bag o a patients valu-ables that his or her amily receivesrom the hospital i he or she diesin surgery. Te bag can becomea symbol to the patients amily othe absolute moment their lives
hagd. Fr ths ras, t s prs-
ent on stage throughout the play,Smth sad.
Smiths inspiration came romher rustration with people simpliy-g suh stuats t bak adwht trms, sh sad, addg thatshe wanted to show the multiplesides o the story. Smith also saidthat thatr s th prt utt rrmdg us th humaty wa pssss ad shar.
Smith allotted time at the end ohr tur r qusts ad m-mts, ad th aud prssddiverse reactions. Many relayedunderstanding and gratitude that
Smith was taking on such a topic,but others questioned how some as-pects were portrayed. One audiencemember commented that variouscomponents o the story seemeddisconnected, but Smith respondedthat the play when shown in its en-tirety displays a more complicatedstuat.
L A, whh was rg-zd wth a Hrab Mtby th Ja Chambrs PaywrtgAward and received the EdgertonFoundation New American PlayAward, will be perormed at rinityRp rm Fb. 2 t May 27.
Play explores the drama of medicine
By Katherine long
Senior Staff Writer
Samina Quraeshi is a Renais-sance woman in every sense o the
phrase. A native o Pakistan, shehas wr th hats authr, art-st, arhtt, spakr, aadm,photographer, curator and now
mmakr.Quraeshi presented clips rom
her upcoming documentary, heOther Hal o omorrow: WomenChanging Pakistan, to a rapt au-dience o roughly 30 students andRhode Island natives Wednes-day night in the Perry and MartyGra Ctr r th CratArts. he richly detailed and ten-derly shot ilm tells the storieso women in Pakistan trying to
make positive changes in theirsurroundings as entrepreneurs,public health workers and dancestrutrs, amg thr jbs.
In an address beore the
screening, Quraeshi said her mo-tive behind producing the ilmwas to present the human aceo a region oten viliied in themda.
I want to use art to introducecomplex cultural nuances, shesaid. Sensationalist portrayalsbegin to warp the publics con-sciousness o the people who live (Paksta).
Sot-spoken and oten drylyhumorous, Quraeshi also empha-sized that understanding a placeshistory is essential to understand-g ts utur.
During the past Bush era,there was a culture o ear on top a ak awarss, sh tdhe Herald. It made people wantto get into their houses and watch
their Vs, but all the media cov-erage was doing was propagatingstrtyps.
he ilm preview was part o aata srs ad Caraa-
serai: A Place Where CulturesMeet, which aims to introduceAmerican audiences to con-temporary Muslim artists. heProvidence nonproit FirstWorks
competed iercely with organiza-ts arss th utry t hstCaravanserai in the city, saidKath Pthr, ut ar-tistic director o FirstWorks. Onlyour other U.S. nonproits earneda spt as a stp th tur.
heres this idea o a caravan-serai as a place where weary trav-elers along the road stop and restand share their stories, Pletcher
said. Its a very collective act.Ad thats what wr hpg td hr t art wth au-d.
he next Caravanserai event
s a Fb. 7 srg Mad Pakistan, a documentary romPakistani ilmmaker AyeshaKhan. Quraeshis ilm is slatedt b rasd Otbr.
Granoff hosts Pakistani Renaissance woman
Stphani Vasqz / Hral
Lov Alon picts th strggl an sanss that ollows a atal opration.a proessor at the University o
Adelaide in Australia, receivedWings most recent reply on Mon-day. In an email to Te Herald, Ju-reidini wrote that Healthy Skepti-cism would not be discouraged bythe Universitys response, thoughh addd h was usur hw thgrup wud prd.
One hopes that universitiesare leaders in moral and scien-tic integrity, but how can theyexpect students to acquire suchvalues when their behavior di-rectly contradicts their stated poli-cies? wrote Healthy Skepticismco-author Leemon McHenry inan email to Te Herald. McHenrys as a rsarhr, turr adpart-tm prssr at CaraStat Ursty Nrthrdg.
Wing declined to comment,tg dtaty rass.
I ts ta ttr t th U-versity last October, Healthy Skep-ticism expressed concerns thatthe studys continued citation ismsadg dtrs ad harmgadolescents. Te letter accusedPaxils parent company Glaxo-SmithKline o ghostwriting thestudy ad agd that th studysauthors withheld data connectingPaxil usage to suicidal tenden-
cies to protect GlaxoSmithKlines
prts.Te allegations have their roots
in several ethical examinations
Study 32, udg a s-tigation by the Senate FinanceCommittee, a documentary bythe BBC, a 2008 book and severaljura arts.
Keller acknowledged in a 2006deposition that he had receivedtens o thousands o dollars romGlaxoSmithKline and its aliatesover the years, Te Herald report-d 200.
Wing irst responded toHealthy Skepticisms letter inNovember. Te University takesseriously any questions about thesoundness o aculty-conductedrsarh, Wg wrt th t-ter. I would caution you not toconuse the Universitys policy odtaty wth atty.
Hathy Skptsm rpd Dmbr, rtratg ts a ra p ttr rqustg rtra-tion and asking or a date by whichthe University would completets tra rw th hargsagainst Keller. Wings most recentreply did not include an estimateddat.
Keller, who stepped down aschair o the psychiatry departmentin 2009 but remains a proessor,did not respond to multiple re-
qusts r mmt.
U. dees critics ofprofs Paxil study
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Science6 the Brown Daily eraldFriday, February 3, 2012
By SanDra Yan
Staff Writer
Lg-trm gba mat shs arcorrelated with the successive rise
and all o dierent evolutionarymammal groupings, according to re-cent research by a team that includesProessor o Biology Christine Janis.
T rsarhrs kd at NrthAmra mamma ppuats the Cenozoic Era which coversthe past 65 million years andound correlations with long-termclimate patterns in an article pub-lished in the Proceedings o the Na-ta Aadmy Ss.
Te scientists identied six as-sociations o large mammals thatshared similar patterns o popula-t rs ad a ad grupd thm
tgthr as auas. Ty th m-pard th ut ths auast past tmpraturs rrd rmoxygen isotopes. Tey ound that,with the exception o two aunas,the transitions between groups wererratd wth mat hags.
When that group rst appeared,rose to prominence and then dis-appeared is tied by and large withmeasurable changes in the globalmat, Jas sad. T tw auasthat showed a lesser correlation wereperhaps infuenced by migrations olarge mammals to North Americarm thr tts.
Janis cautioned against usingthese results to predict uture trendsin mammal populations in the con-tt gba warmg.
St, th dgs hp us bttrunderstand something about how
rgasms ar rspdg t gbaclimate change, said David Polly,associate proessor o geologicalsciences at Indiana University atBmgt, wh mmtd a arr dra th art.
I a ma t T Hrad, JhAlroy, uture ellow in the Depart-ment o Biological Sciences at Mac-quarie University in Sydney, Austra-a, rtzd sm th statstamethods used in the study includ-ing perorming no correction orarat samp sz as was the studys ailure to look at smallmammas.
Janis deended her work. We did
not include the small mammals withths study baus t s w kwthat the collection biases or smallmammals are dierent to those o thelarger ones, she wrote in an email
t T Hrad.However, we do intend to in-
clude them at a later date in act tostudy thm sparaty ad s thsam pattrs hd up, sh wrt.
Te act that they could quantiyth auas th way that thy ddad th b ab t rrat th r-rd wth th yg stp urwas clearly innovative and producedw rsuts, sad Tmps WbbIII, proessor emeritus o geologicalsciences at Brown, who also com-mtd a arr rs thmausrpt.
Future research directions in-clude looking at herbivores versus
carnivores, as well as studying thesignicance o certain kinds o aunato understand the underlying struc-ture o whats causing those kinds oanimals to group together, Janis said.
Climate change linked to extinction
Corts o Carl Bll
Prhistoric mammal poplations corrlat with longtrm climat chang.
the past year, Carney said. Asmore and more gaps in the ossilrecord are ound, the distinctionbecomes blurred. Dierent studieshave placed the archaeopteryx ondierent sides o the divide betweenbrds ad thr dsaurs.
Tough some articles have calledthe archaeopteryx the missing linkbetween dinosaurs and modernbirds, both Carney and Padian saidthis is a misnomer. Tings in ossilrrds ar r at trmd-
ates, Padian said. Tough the ar-
chaeopteryx has many intermediatestructural eatures and may be closet th drt astr brds, wwud r say ts a drt as-tr, h addd.
o celebrate both his nding andthe 150th anniversary o the namingo the archaeopteryx, Carney had anmag th athr ss tattd hs arm, magd by a sa pi. Te actual eather is airly small(arud s tmtrs), Car-ney wrote in an email to Te Herald.I watd th tatt t b rughythe same size as my old bands guitar
tatt my thr arm t baa
it out, he wrote. Te proportiondd up bg abut thr tmss I usd th mr mathmataymagu p r th rat.
Carney scouted out dierentas br sttg whm ttrust wth hs athr tatt. Hdecided on Black Lotus on Wick-enden Street when, aer bringingin a picture o the eather, tattooartst Mk mmdaty dtdit as belonging to the archaeopteryx.
Carney said the eather may notbe his nal tattoo he has potentialpas t gt th u arha-
ptry.
But there are oreseeable challeng-es in developing this technology intoa uta d. T tams tstswere carried out using solutions con-taining only glucose, but theres a lot
thr stu saa, Pa sad.Tere are several ways to get aroundthat, he said, such as incorporating atr t th d.
Alternatively, you could nd aglucose signature in the ngerprintad sat that sga t dtrmth gus trat, Pamrsad.
Te project did not start out withthe goal o creating a device or diabe-tes. Originally, the team was ocusedon ways to monitor cytokines, whichar datrs rasd th bdar a jury, sad Mhta.
Palmore was the one who sug-gested trying to monitor glucose,which she said presents a biggerand simpler target than cytokines.In scientic research, diabetes is th hy gras, Pa sad.We got a lot o emails rom parents,
asking us, Please keep working onths. Espay r yug hdr,nger pricks can be a painul andunpleasant way o checking glucose,so diabetes patients are eager or abttr pt.
Ava Runge 15 was diagnosedwth yp dabts hgh shand still tests her blood ve or sixtimes a day. Tough Runge said she isused to the sensation o pricking thesam spt hr had a th tm,she said that she does not alwayscheck her blood when she should,baus ts a tra
and a lot o setup. Runge said shewud us a d t rqurd hrt hk hr gus ss rquty.
One question that remains iswhether saliva glucose concentra-tions are accurate indicators o bloodglucose concentrations and this
correlation is essential or the use-ulness o the potential device. Tetam ud t d ay systmatstuds dty kg th tw,sad Pa, but thr d udd up bg a t suh a study.
Even i the device is not applicableto diabetes, Palmore said, the poten-ta r ths thgy s mms,since it can measure the amount o asubstance with incredible sensitivity.
For example, doctors could even-tually do ull blood screening testson the same chip, Pacici said. Forengineers, this is dreaming, he said.
Sm drmatgsts may t sp-ay rrd duar mamawhen they turn in their pathologyrprts, th study rprtd.
But dermatologists remain hope-ul that uture research might targetnodular melanoma specically withthe goal o detecting it in its early
stags.As research progresses, der-
matologists will continue to workthrugh th aphabt.
O w gt t Z w ha tgo to Greek letters, joked RobertKirsner, proessor and vice-chair-man o dermatology and cutaneoussurgry at th Ursty MamSh Md.
Prof highlightsmelanoma subtype
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City& State 7the Brown Daily eraldFriday, February 3, 2012
By elizaBeth Carr
city & State editor
he Board o Regents o the Rhode
Isad Dpartmt Eduattd 5-4 ast ght ar aproposal to allow AchievementFrst, a prt that has stab-lished charter schools throughoutNw Egad, t tu pasto bring two corporate chartershs t Prd.
City Councilman Bryan Prin-cipe hosted a press conerenceyesterday morning urging theBoard o the Regents to post-p th t. Prp has b
a leader in the movement againstAchievement First and spoke toth bard at ast ghts mtg.
here is widespread commu-nity opposition to this plan, hesaid. Principe presented a longlist o those opposed to Achieve-ment First, including 22 memberso the General Assembly, sevenmmbrs th Prd CtyCouncil and 33 various communi-ty, parent and labor organizations.
Megan Hines, a mother otwo living on the West Side oPrd whr ur pubschools were closed last year dueto budget shortages told the
bard sh ard th addt a rprat hartr sh t thcity would lead to urther clo-sures because o the state edu-cation unding policy, wherebythe unding ollows the child. I achild were to leave a public school ar a hartr sh, thatschool would lose the unds itreceived or that child. It is es-timated that the charter school
would siphon an additional $6million rom public schools,she said, which would lead to adomino eect, with school atersh bg sd.
I wr gg t ha a har-ter school, lets do it right, Hinesadded. Instead o a corporatemodel, she said the city shouldpursue community-based models.
Achievement First is wrongor my city and wrong or RhodeIsad, sh sad.
Chris Mastrangelo, a mem-ber o Occupy Providence andlongtime Providence citizen, alsoquestioned how the city could a-ord to transer unds rom publicshs t a Ahmt Frstcharter school ater last yearssh surs.
hese arent reormers, theseare vultures which smell, hon-sty, h sad.
h pp wh ar pushgr ths rrm art gg t baround when the damage is done.he (Providence Mayor) Angelarass, th (Eduat Cm-missioner) Deborah Gists, theyret gg t b arud wh thdamage is done, Mastrangelosaid. hey will have moved onto sunnier pastures, as they al-ways d.
he corporate model has
consistently exploited special-
ds studts, h addd, rr-ring to accusations that Achieve-ment First schools have a historyo neglecting the needs o dis-abled and English language learn-g studts.
his is robbing students orth bt Wa Strt, Mas-trag sad, whh s a r m.
Aaron Regunberg 12 shared attr rm May Frrw-Msh,a parent leadership committeeboard member at an Achieve-ment First school in New York.In the letter, she wrote that thestrict disciplinary measures at the
school had a negative eect onth studts.
Children will have lost thelove o learning and never havedreams, Regunberg read. I haves prusy ry smart h-dr sk t dprss.
She also accused the charterschool o sending students homewith letters just weeks beore stateexaminations asking parents totat dtrs t g studtsts t aw r tdd tm th tsts.
Br th t, C Ca-aha, srtary r th Bard Regents, voiced her own concerns
abut th prpsa. W d tgo back to the drawing board,sh sad. W d t k at ththgs pp ha sad.
Callahan was one o our boardmembers to vote against allow-ing Achievement First to moverward Prd.
Dugas Gabsk, prsdto Appraise R.I., a residential ap-prasa sr, spk supprt Ahmt Frst.
I d t b that hartrschools are the end-all and be-all o education, he said at themeeting. But charter schools are
a very important component inchanging the direction o educa-tional outcomes in Rhode Island.
Charter schools strive orexcellence and are innovative,h sad, baus thy ar hd-trd, t adut-trd.
Board o Regents ChairmanGeorge Caruolo recognized thevote was tied beore casting thedeciding vote in avor o the pro-posal. Ater he announced the de-cision, cries o disapproval brokeut rm th rwd.
People have the right to ac-tua shs that wrk r thm,Mastrangelo shouted at the board.Children have the right to actualshs that wrk r thm.
Ater the vote was announced,Bill Fischer, spokesman or theRhd Isad Mayra Aadmy,dd t mmt th a-cusations made during the meet-ing. Were more concerned aboutlooking orward at this point intm, h sad.
he board was able to cutthrough the noise and choosewhats best or Providence stu-dts, h addd.
Providence to gain twomore charter schools
ad ty, aras sad.In 2011, Brown paid about $1.2
million in voluntary payments to the
ty. I th Ursty wr tad tthe ull-assessed value o its propertyhdgs, ts ta b wud tta $3m.
Te city has recently been out-spk ag r th Urstyto make additional contributionsto Providence. averas alleged lastmonth that the University renegedon a deal to provide $4 million inadditional contributions to the cityah yar. T Ursty utrdthat such a deal was never reached, letalone presented to the Corporation,the Universitys highest governingbdy, r appra.
ogether, Providences nonprotswould pay $105 million i taxed tothe value o their properties, averassad at th prss r, addgthat he is seeking or nonprots tocontribute an additional $7.1 milliontoward paying down the citys decit.
he Providence City Councilpassed a resolution Jan. 19 that wouldstrip Brown o its tax-exempt status.It also issued a report that recom-mdd rasg paymts t thcity made by local universities andhsptas.
I Brown were to increase itsurrt trbut by $4 m,that would all within the range o
what were recommending, said CityCuma Sam Zurr, Ward 2.
Te meeting with Chaee andUrsty admstratrs ystrdaywas prdut, sad Dad Ortz,the mayors press secretary. But thiss t y abut Brw, h addd.
Te mayor has requested that all tax-mpt sttuts pth t hpth ty, h sad.
T Ursty matas that talready contributes enough to Prov-idence, but that it would considermakg addta trbuts tthe city i such payments alignedwith its educational mission. I thety grmt pursus ga strat-gs t mak Brw pay mr, thUniversity will argue that targetinginstitutions o higher education isdetrimental to Providences economicw-bg, Qu sad.
I think its a very challenging
time or the city, Quinn said, add-ing that the University depends onPrds suss.
Simmons spoke briefy about themtg a t hrg Ur-sity employees yesterday. I had avery, very good meeting with themayr, whr happy h rarmdthat h ray wats t wrk wth usto develop the right ideas or howBrw a tu t supprt thty, sh sad.
Ps pbms
T mayr w hd a tw hastyle meeting March 3 to discuss sus-pending yearly increases in employee
pension payments. Retiree pensionsras by 5 t 6 prt auay
t adjust r at.As a ty, w gr ha th
ability to sustain these benets, av-ras sad at th prss r. Itmust stp w.
Te Rhode Island Superior Courtruled Monday against a motion bythe city to shi eligible retirees romprivate insurance to Medicare, whichwould have cut costs. Te city will lean appeal against the ruling, averassad.
Paul Doughty, president o Provi-dence reghters Local 799, said themayor has not yet asked retirees tomake a change. Im adamant thatthere has to be conversation, hesad, addg that h s dt thrtrs w b wg t wrk wthth mayr.
Te mayor has taken the rst right
step by announcing the town hallmtg, h sad.
Wh suspdg st--gincreases would hurt retirees, Dough-ty said it would be worse or everyone th ty dars bakrupty.
averas said he will let the courtstake care o pension costs i he cannotwork with the retirees. Either theretirees will accept the suspensiono their guaranteed yearly raises andchanges in health care, or they willollow the path o Central Falls retir-ees, who have had their ull pensionsslashed drastically in bankruptcyurts, aras sad.
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By ethan MCCoY
SportS editor
As the puck slid through thecrease and into the net, the Brownmens hockey team erupted intocheers. Te goal wasnt an overtimegame-winner. It wasnt a goal toupset a ranked opponent. It wasnot even a goal in a game. But thisga was spa.
Tat goal on the Bears homeice at Meehan Auditorium wasth rst tm Etha Bars t thlamp. Te mens hockey rosterincludes the names, years andhometowns o 30 players. In truth,that umbr s 3. T am Ba-rs wt shw up ay srg
sheets or scouting reports, but its th am th wst BrwBear to join the mens hockey am-y. Etha s a s-yar d byrm arby Brky, Mass., whor the last year has been undergo-ing treatment in his battle againstAcute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. InOctober, Ethan joined the menshockey team, and or the past ewmonths, the two have developeda bd thr w s rgt.
Te rst time he got on that, wh thy taught hm hw tskate, it was awesome, said DebbieBairos, Ethans mother. When hescored, they cheered just like they
had srd a ga thr bggstgam. Ty hrd r hm, adwhen we watched that, the tearsam t ur ys.
Ethan and the team werebrought together through eamIMPAC, a non-prot organiza-
tion in Quincy, Mass. that matcheshdr wth -thratg -nesses with collegiate sports teamsin the New England area. heprgram has ratd tswth hsptas ad mda pra-titioners, as well as a network o100 colleges and universities, withBrown being one o 24 schools thathave added a child to one o itsteams. Both Dan Walsh, executivedirector o eam IMPAC, andBobby Farnham 12, assistant cap-tain o the team, said the closeness g athts s what maksthe program so powerul or both
th hd ad th payrs.Te vibrancy and the support
o each other through good andbad that comes with being parto a team, whether its in treatmentor aer treatment, Walsh said.Tats what bts th h d.
I think in college sports, thecamaraderie and everything aboutbeing on a college sports teamwrks s w wth ths rgaza-tion, Farnham said. Itd be dier-ent at a proessional level becauseitd be a dierent atmosphere. Incollege, everybody is best buddies.Ery gs thrugh th samthings together, and its just a way
mr tghty-kt grup.Te hockey team became in-
d wth am IMPAC arFarnham heard o the program
rom a high school teammate nowpayg at St. Asms Cg Mahstr, N.H.
Ethan and his amily have sincebecome a mainstay at Meehan.Ethan has been out on the ice atteam practices and can be seenin his own jersey, with his nameand number on it, high-ivingpayrs ad wshg thm uk asthy had ut t th brry hm gam. Last wkd,the amily hit the road with theteam or its games against Dart-mouth and Harvard, with Ethanriding on the bus and his amilydrg bhd.
He doesnt think o himselas the kid rom eam IMPAC
whs wth th tam, Bars sad.He thinks o himsel as a membero the Brown University hockeyteam, and the guys make him eelthat way, t.
Farnham in particular hasemerged as a role model andmentor or Ethan. Since takingth tat t th tam th prgram, Farham, wh sa ast r g hkys Hu-manitarian Award, has spent timewith Ethan at the amilys homehanging out, playing video gamesand even helping build an ice rink th bakyard.
I was distracted the whole time
by Etha baus h just watdt pay a th tm, s I ddt gtenough work done as I shouldha, Farham sad.
Bobby has gone above andbyd what w ptd thsprogram, Bairos said. He takes
calls rom Ethan whenever, andtalks to him or two seconds, ortaks t hm r a ha hur.
Bairos said the impact the teamhas had on Ethan has been incred-ible or his condence, sel-esteemand energy, and that the amilysees the team as the 30 big broth-rs hs r had.
We live, breathe, eat, sleep,wak up ad ts tm r hkynow, she said. It gives him some-thg t k rward t.
Hearing his parents talk aboutit, I think is the true tell ing o whatts d r hm, Farham sad.
Tey say all he wants to do ism t th rk. A h wats tdo is be around the guys. He lovesevery guy on the team so much,ad h s payg hky. It sthe best possible therapy he canha.
Farnham also pointed out howthe relationship has worked in theopposite direction, adding thatEthas prs has a astgmprss th tam.
For us, on the other end, itsbeen pretty rewarding to see a kidwh has a -thratg ssto be as strong as he is and haveas muh rgy as h has, Far-
ham sad.Te challenges the Bairos am-
ily ace have inspired them to takeaction, as well. Tinking o the
support the amily received whenEthan was rst diagnosed, DebbieBairos ounded the Kids Kickin
Cancer Foundation in April.Bairos says the oundation hostsudrasrs ad ts, ad wththe money raised, provides $500grants to amilies with childrenunder the age o 18 undergoinghmthrapy r radat trat-ment. In less than a year, Bairossays the organization has givengrats t r 30 ams.
As or eam IMPAC, Walshsaid the organization is hopingboth to expand geographically andt ud hdr ag dr-t typs adrsty. Tugh other Brown team has added a
child to its roster, Farnham saidthe program is lie-changing andthat he hopes more Bruno squadsw gt d.
With under a month remain-ing in the hockey regular seasonshdu, Ethas rst sas as aBear will soon be reaching an end.But Farnham, who will be graduat-ing in May, said he has developed alielong relationship with Ethan,and the seasons end will by nomas sga a hth th tamsbd wth th Bars amy.
We have dierent guys in di-erent classes all the way downwho are going to take the lead,
h sad. Ery guy s s s tEthan, and he is going to be a parto Brown hockey or as long as hewats t b a part t.
Mens hockey team leaves an IMPACT on kidsm. HOCkEY
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Fraternity of Evil | eshan Mitra, Brnan Hainlin an Hctor Ramirz
Dreadful Cosology | Oira Macmit
C O M I C S
By SaM Sheehan
SportS columniSt
It was a snowy night in Foxborough,Mass. Ja. , 2002. It was a
snowier night along the coast oeastern Maine. Te seventh-gradeincarnation o mysel sat on the fooro my aunt and uncles house andwatched the ourth quarter o theNew England Patriots AFC Divi-sional Game against the OaklandRaiders. An unimposing, awkwardpre-teen, I wasnt typically interested wathg mst sprts baus Iwas so uncoordinated and unableto play them mysel. Te exceptionwas the Patriots, a tortured teamthat had st tw Supr Bws adwon none. I had been watching theteam or our years. And it was only
the second time they had made thepays.
I was as rdby upst.Our rookie quarterback, om
Brady, had just umbled the ballwh h was ht by Hsma r-phy winner Charles Woodson ona rr btz. Dp dw, I kwwhat that meant. Oakland recoveredthe ball. Te game was over. All thatdd t happ was a rma-t rm th rr that th paywould stand as called. Since I was a2-yar-d kd wh had prbabyy wathd 40 tba gams upuntil this point, I was optimisticallyhrg r th ba bak. I st r-
member my dads riend leaning inrom the recliner he sat in and rmlytg m, Its r.
But ad bhd, th a wasoverturned on an obscure, rarelyusd but rrt a kwas a the uck Rule. Te Patriotskept the ball and won the gamebaus t.
A week later, the Patriots werein the AFC Championship gameagainst the Pittsburgh Steelers. Evenas a snotty-nosed seventh-grader,I can remember thinking, Weshudt b hr. But th Patrtsw that gam, t, ad suddy
they were in the Super Bowl. It wasthen I thought, No, but we reallyshouldnt be here. I you want tobelieve that the only reason the Pa-trts bat th St. Lus Rams thatday was because o alleged signalstealing, you go right ahead, but thatst what happd.
No, this was something dierent.It was a power that I saw at work sixyears later. A power that we were upagast Supr Bw XLII agastth Nw Yrk Ftba Gats.
Tat Super Bowl was a matchupo one o the three greatest oot-ball teams ever assembled againsta tam that was rtuat t makthe playos. What happened nextwas a string o miracles that stillhaunts me to this day. When EliManning scampered out onto thed t ad th Gats a dro the game, they were down 14-10.T Gats kd st s.Suddenly, it was ourth and one.Stppg Brad Jabs ds thgam. But
Vince Wilork slips and the holehe leaves gives Jacobs the rst down.Next play, a terried Eli Manningfees a collapsing pocket, runningwith the unprotected ball outsideo his body. Adalius Tomas knocks
the ball rom his hands or a umble,
butTe ball bounces underneath
Eli and the Giants retain posses-sion. Next play, a similarly scaredE whps a ba hs bak t
t th Patrts sdary. AsatSamuel measures up the intercep-t, but
Te ball bounces o o his handsand harmlessly to the ground. Nextpay
T yr ath.Im incredibly bitter about this
ss as yu udt t but its tough to argue that the Patri-ots were supposed to win that gamewith the overwhelming evidencein the string o miracle plays thathappened. Just as the lowly Patriotso 2001-02 were destined to beatthe Rams, the Giants o 2007-08
wr dstd t bat th Patrts.Tis sounds like Im joking, but Imnot. At a certain point, an underdogootball team reaches a belie that its thr dsty t w th hamp-onship, and that certainty maniestsitsel into an unbeatable aura thattrumps all else. Look at the 2005Steelers championship team, theGreen Bay Packers 2011 champion-ship team, or even this Giants 2012pay tam.
In ootball, its almost alwaysbetter to be the team who is notsuppsd t b thr. T thg s,that team doesnt exist in this SuperBowl. Tats whats so interesting.
Ts Supr Bw shud ha bsome combination o the Steelers,Houston exans, New OrleansSaints, Packers or even the SanFrancisco 49ers. But the Steelersand the exans were robbed by theirinjuries, and the Saints, Packers andNiners were undone by miscues.Suddenly, the Super Bowl is betweena team that needed an 11th-houreld goal block to keep their seasonalive and a team who didnt beat anopponent with a winning recordut ast wk.
Te Patriots are or some rea-son three-point avorites despite
being beaten in their own house bythe Giants earlier this year. Tesesame Patriots had the incrediblegood ortune o an easy schedule,in which they played two above .500teams all year, had a rst round bye,and had the easiest playo win everover the Denver Broncos. Everyonekws ths, ad th Gats ar thpopular pick to win the Superbowl.
ButTat makes the Patriots the a-
vorites and the underdogs. It makesthe Giants the underdogs and theavorites. Both teams are incred-by rtuat t b whr thy artoday, and both truly seem to believethat ths tt s thr dsty. Bthteams seem to have this powerthat I mentioned beore workingr thm ad tams that ha thatpwr dt s.
ButSomething has to give, and I per-
sonally hope its one o those passesE thrws hs bak t.
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We shouldnt be here
By MaDeleine wenStruP
SportS Staff Writer
Te ceiling o womens basketballHead Coach Jean Marie Burrs oceis a furry o color. Aer Burr pickedup hr 300th arr w r Dart-mouth Jan. 27, her squad decoratedhr wth sgs ad stramrsand baked her a cake. From the ceil-ing, 300 pieces o paper hang down,one or each win, each displaying thename o the opponent and the scoreo the game. As the winningest coachin Brown basketball history, Burr has
had 15 winning seasons in her 24yars as a Bar. Fr hr ddatt Brw ad brat hrcareer milestone, Te Herald has
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Burr: I just know that when Icame to Brown, I just really wantedbalance. Te year beore I came, theywere 6-20, so my expectations werethat sm my payrs that I wasrecruiting or (the) scholarship pro-gram wud pay th agu. Tattraction would be the quality oduat w ha, th prssrs,th baa. I just kw w wuddo well. But I think its more thepayrs I rmmbr tha (th sp-
gams). I thk Krsta But-tereld 89 taking charges or lookingat Margaret Fuchs 91 on the bus andthkg, Tak Gd shs myteam. It is the experience o workingwith people you work with and whatthy brg, sstty at Brw. Iam proud o the players that havebeen on both the sides o the tri-umphs ad th sss.
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Its the student-athletes. Its thequality, the commitment, their pas-
sion or the game. You really havet wrk hard as a ahg sta tnd the right balance o players thatcan be the best basketball playersand have that type o dedication,
polish and skills and help us winan Ivy League Championship andplay at the NCAA level. And thenha suss, a dr, a pass ada work ethic or their academics.You look at players like HannahPassaum 2, A Das 2,Caroline King 13, Sheila Dixon
3 ad Ldsay Nk 3 thyar ray th mds r a studt-atht at Brw. Ad that s whatreally has kept me here. Tats whatmaks t tg.
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Its as the season is getting started I love practice. I love the develop-ment. And then when the gamesstart up it is almost like going to atest everyday. You want to get testedand you want to get ready. Its reallydriven by the players, everything wed s dr by th payrs whattheir goals are. Each game, the next
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I played whatever position thecoach wanted me to play. I thinkwhen you are in that position youjust k payg th gam ad yuhope that people recognize yourstrengths, and when someone askedyou to do something, you do it, and just appreciated the opportunity.What you nd when you are able tostp bak rm ths payg yarsis the connection you made with all
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I love the (Boston) Celtics. I grewup in Massachusetts, so I am veryloyal to my New England teams. Imrooting or the Patriots this week-end (in the Superbowl). In terms ocollege basketball, I probably nd
mysel ollowing coaches more thanI ollow teams I just nd it a goodway to grow your game. I like study-g th gam.
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wo o them were rst team All-State in volleyball, i you believe it, inRhd Isad. O thm s pay-g Ds I yba at GrgWashington University. My husbandahd my grs thrughut thryouth in my community in Cov-try, Rhd Isad. But my amygrw up buss. Ty ha tadmany o my players like Krista But-
trd wh graduatd I athink o Judee, her rst words be-g Krsta. T Jssa wgaround Kate Veronneau 06 and Jo-anna with Julie Amato 99 and Jennawith Shae Fitzpatrick 10. Aer theygraduated, they were like, Wheredid they go? Tey have been a verypst u my amy.
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Bat Prt Frday ght.Weve got our hands ull with a teamthat mad t t th turamt astyear. Im very condent with theteamwork and energy and bonding
that this team has, and I am verytd t ha th pprtuty tcoach them and work with them toachieve our goals this year. Im living th mmt.
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m t Erk Eh, had th graduat paywrtg prgram,who said he would love to see Brown become a puppet powerhouse.With the Perry and Marty Grano Center or the Creative Artsmptd, w s a pg r Budg Brws t prjt: thRuth Smms Puppt Paa.
Cc zc t Vstg Assstat Prssr Hstry Drk S-dma AM05 PhD0, wh askd, Whats a bra arts duatr t r tryg t tak th burg ssus yur day? Tatexplains Modern Culture and Medias new reghting concentrationrqurmt.
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Ah, th sprg at Brw s ay upus. I yu ar a upprassma, yu arprbaby kg rward t what shudb a grat tm. I yu ar a rshma, thssprg ud dtrm th way th rst yur g pr ks. S yumust hs whr t yur sphmryar. Mst studts tr th husg t-try wth a sma grup ad pray r thbst. Tr s, hwr, a attrat atr-at t kp md: prgram huss
ad Grk .It may sm tra, but whr ad wth
whm yu at Brw dtrms whyu s, what yu hs t d ad thways whh yu spd yur tm. Ism ways I am makg a bg da abutthg. Yu w ky b happy at Brw mattr whr r wh yu wth. Oth thr had, by radm ha, Brwspamt yu yur rshma hawayrtay ud th dss yu u-tmaty mad, ad ths s t t b takghty.
I yu ar a rshma radr wh thksthat yu ha ud yur prt rdgrup r thks that yu ha t a gurdut, tak a sd ad p yur ys. Yu
ha b g r a w mths. Yuha prbaby y just ard th ams a th sh budgs. Mr mpr-
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Hr s what w ky happ yuhs th husg ttry rut. Yu wha a grup t t rds that yu mrtab wth. Yu may gt a dtumbr ad wd up Graduat Ctr.
Yu may gt a sg! Hurray! Yuha surd th ttry usathd. Tsthkg bs th truth th mattr. Yuha mad a ry brg h. Yu ham t g, a pa whr th mstudamta thg yu a d s tratwth thrs ad ar rm yur prs, adwth yur rst majr ds, yu ha d-dd t a ugy twr wth arrwhaways wth a w pp yu just mt.I ud srt sm humrus mtaphrhr t urthr pa my g, but I b-
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Dermatologists have long promotedthe ABCDs o melanoma detection A or asymmetry, B or border ir-regularity, C or color variation andD or diameter larger than six milli-meters. But a recent study on nodular
melanoma an aggressive subtype th sk ar rd MartWeinstock, proessor o dermatologyad pdmgy, t suggst a wmr ttrs r th aphabt.
Te EFG elevated, rm, grow-
ing criteria were developed byWeinstock to describe the uniqueeatures o nodular melanoma,whh s dut t ath ary. Tstudy was pubshd prt thArchives o Dermatology this Janu-ary.
Weinstock and his associatesspent months siing through theSurveillance, Epidemiology andEnd Results Program, a databasemanaged by the National CancerInstitute. Tey analyzed 111,478invasive melanoma cases that oc-curred between 1978 and 2007. Teygrouped each case by subtype andcompared the incidence, survival
and ultimate atality rates o eachsubtyp.
What they ound was a statisticalred fag, signaling nodular mela-nomas disproportionately largeataty rat.
Tugh duar mama a-counted or only 14 percent o totalmelanoma cases, it was the cause o37 prt utmaty ata ma-nomas. While only one in 19 cases othe common melanoma is ultimatelyatal, one in ve cases o nodularmama ds dath.
Its nice to be able to analyze thedata and get denitive numbers,
said Michael Xiong MD14, who
wrkd sy wth Wstk th study.
Nodular melanoma accountsr a arg prprt daths b-cause it is dicult to detect early. Temelanoma initially grows deep intoth sk stad spradg atr-ay arss th sks sura. I thmelanoma remains undetected, it ismore likely to metastasize, spreadingt thr aras th bdy.
Cathg t ary ad surgayremoving it early is critically impor-tant to surviving the melanoma,Weinstock said. We need to pay
more attention to catching the nodu-ar mamas ary.
Nodular melanomas resembleblisters and are most oen oundon the sun-exposed head and neck.Males over the age o 50 are mostsusptb, ardg t th study.
Nodular melanoma rates o inci-d, sura ad ataty rmagrudgingly static. In analyzing long-term trends, Weinstocks team oundnodular melanoma rates have notbudged or 30 years. Tese stagnantrates underscore the importanceo making progress against nodu-lar melanoma, the authors wrote.Public health eorts should include
a us (duar mama) rmamum rdut mamamrtaty.
Te study has been met withpositive response rom other pro-ssas th d.
Tis study conrmed what a loto dermatologists suspected, saidKeri Chaney, instructor o derma-tgy at Harard Mda Sh.
Te studys authors recognizedthat their statistics were subject tovariability due to remaining con-troversy about whether nodularmelanoma is a distinct subtype.
Melanoma study
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By Kate DeSiMone
contributing Writer
Instead o unpleasantly pricking theirngers, diabetics may one day simplyspit onto a sensor in order to keepthr gus s hk, thaksto technology being developed byBrw rsarhrs.
Te team o aculty, graduate stu-dts ad udrgraduats rprtdits ndings in a paper published D. 26 th jura NaLttrs.
Tough they have not yet made aprototype, the team has a provisionalpatent and is seeking a way to developtheir idea into an actual product, saidDm Pa, assstat prs-sr grg ad a authr th papr. T thgy s thr,its just a question o design, he said.
W wr dramg, what yucould do it on an iPhone? Pacicisaid. In theory, the teams experi-mta stup ud b sad dwt a sg hp that ud th bimplanted onto a smartphone. A user
th hp ad mmdaty kw hsor her glucose levels. Tat would bea app, h sad.
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Te underlying concept behindthe teams idea is the interaction oelectromagnetic waves on the suraceo a silver lm. Devices that mea-sure these wave intererence patternsare called intererometers, and theteam built thousands o them intosensors. Each intererometer, onlymicrometers long, consists o a slitand two shallow grooves etched ontoth sr sura.
When light strikes the lm, thewa pattrs th sura rata specic ngerprint depending hw th grs ad sts ar ar-ranged, said ayhas Palmore, proes-sr grg ad a authr the paper. A liquid on top o the lmchanges how the waves interere, andthus shis the ngerprint. Te sizeo the shi can be directly correlatedto the glucose c