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he University will announce asteering committee to plan its250th arsary tday, ad r-atd ts ud bg as ary as all 2013. Chartered in 1764, theUniversity is the seventh-oldest

institution o higher education th utry.

he 20-person committee —std by Prsdt Ruth Sm-mons and Chancellor homasisch ’76 P’07 — is comprised o two undergraduate students, agraduat studt, a mda stu-dent and members o the Cor-poration, aculty, administrationand sta, according to today’s

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B JosePh rosales

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S th sg mdwk htspt th Fsh Cmpay, Wds-day ghts ha swd dw rstudts ad sta ak.

Te Department o Public Sae-ty is aware that Fish Co. closedad has hagd sm ts p-erations accordingly, said PaulShanley, deputy chie o public

saety. Beore the bar’s closing,DPS would deploy two extra o-cers to patrol the area betweenPwr ad Wkd strts tsur th saty th studtsgoing to and returning rom thebar, Shanley said. But this semes-tr, DPS has s a “dramat d-ras t tra” that araand has stopped assigning ocersthr, h sad.

Josiah’s managers have also ad-

justed to Fish Co.’s closing, AnnHoman, director o administra-t r dg srs, wrt a -ma t T Hrad.

I th past, J’s rquty r-quested that DPS station an ocernear the cashiers on Wednesday nights, but the eatery has notmade such a request recently,Shay sad.

Te work environment at Jo’shas also changed dramatically

because sta members are nolonger dealing with a large un-derage drinking crowd, said MikelWiggins ’12, the eatery’s assistantunit manager. “We usually get therush on Wednesday nights, butthat dd’t happ.”

Michael amayo ’14 workedth Wdsday ght sh at J’slast semester. In the beginning, he

Fish no: staff adjust to quieter Wednesdays

B Jordan hendricks

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Assembling “Barbecuban” pork sand-wiches at Josiah’s, introducing a Bel-gian wae station at the Blue Roomad strutg wrkrs kgtechniques — Aaron Fitzsenry ismakg hs mark as th ursty’srst-ever culinary manager or retailoperations. And now students canw hs Gg adar thrbrw.du auts.

Fitzsenry came to Brown in Sep-tember aer 20 years behind kitchendoors, which included a ew stints asut h at arus Nw Eg-ad rstaurats.

He has already introduced chang-s t ampus dg suh as Kabbad Curry at th Bu Rm, a-sional macaroni and cheese bars at

the Ivy Room and thin crust pizzaspecials made rom local ingredientsat th Gat.

“S ths pst s a w ,I’ve been nding my way as I go,”Fitzsenry said. “I can train, I can work with people, I can teach. With any other ree time, I get to develop somethgs th d wrd.”

He uses as many local ingredientsas pssb, as part a Brw D-ing Services initiative or “real ood.”

Some o his creations are evenconcocted rom leovers, like breadpudding at the Blue Room maderom the previous night’s unsoldss.

Much o Fitzsenry’s ocus hasbeen on the newly renovated BlueRoom, said Ann Homan, Dining

New culinary manager

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Abot 75 stdnts attndd a mting at th Watson Institt whr changs to th intrnational rlations anddvlpmt stdis cctratis rqirmts wr xplaid.

B GreG Jordan-detaMore

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Te international relations con-centration requirements have beenadjusted or sophomores, programdirectors announced at an openmeeting yesterday. Many sopho-mores will now have more fexibility ullling core class requirements,

and they will not have to align theirrga urss wth thr hsrg aguag.

About 75 students, mostly soph-omores, packed into the Joukowsky Forum at the Watson Institute orInternational Studies or a meetingwth th adrs th IR ad d-

velopment studies programs. Mark Blyth, proessor o political science

and director o undergraduate stud-s r IR ad DS, ad Cr Ba, stg w ad dputy drtro the DS program, presented therecently announced changes to thetw prgrams.

Te IR changes caused a stiron campus when they were an-

Watson tweaks changes to IR reqs

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On Jan. 29, aer a sleepless nightin the girls’ dormitory next to theUniversity o Alexandria in the parto the city called Shatby, the morningar th Frday prtsts that swptarss Egypt, I sat th rst frsteps o the building with my 25-yeard Arab prssr. H had mt hk us.

Aer exchanging a ew pleas-atrs, I askd hm, “Hw ar yudg, Zhad?”

He paused or a moment andspk t m Egsh r th rsttm.

“M?” h askd.“I don’t know how I eel. I’ve lost

rythg. I’ b hag prb-lems with my dad and he kicked meout yesterday so I’ve lost my amily.I’ve lost my riends. I’ve lost my job.My students are leaving, and whokws th my th bak swrth aythg?”

H pausd.“I like to be helpul. I like to

teach. Now what can I do? I havethg t r.”

“Don’t get me wrong. … I hate

th grmt, but I k arudme, and I don’t recognize my city.It ks strag. Ts s’t my ty,”he said, shaking his head. “I I dietday, t wud b bttr.”

Within the cultural context o Egypt, that conversation was an im-possible one. For an Egyptian man,spay a prssr, t tak t us— a grup rg wm — saddy was ubab.

Frm th bay my drm-tory’s h-foor prayer room, wewere aorded a view o the Egyp-tian Revolution as it unolded. Inth abs uar phs adItrt, whh had b ut by th grmt Ja. 2 t prtprotest mobilization, I relied onsght t udrstad what was hap-pening. I knew that the army hadtaken over Alexandria on Friday ght y baus I wathd thm

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can continue unding its ellowshipar surg tw substata gsths mth.

Tough the project — which in- vites a ellow rom a country wherehs r hr wrtgs ha b -sored to the University —has ex-std r 20 yars, t ds t haa prmat dwmt.

Fudg a yar-g wshpcosts about $70,000, said RobertCoover, visiting proessor o literary arts and director o the project. Itprds hath bts, a stpdand living expenses or the ellow

ad th w’s amy. Tat guras uds uds t rm thellow rom his or her country o or-g ad, ssary, rm prs.

Te ellowship gives persecutedttuas a sa spa t urthrthr wrk. T w s as gan oce at the Watson Institute orItrata Studs.

Te program was rst unded by ormer University President VartanGrgra, th by th Wam H.Donner Foundation and a combina-t aymus grats.

Since securing the two large gis,the program is working to obtain athird, Coover said. “Until now, withthese two gis, we couldn’t know orsure in February i we could oer

ellowships,” he said. “We are setr th rst tw yars rtay. I’dlove to have something more steady tha that.”

he Oice o Advancementhas wrkd t ras my r thproject or the last two years, butprgrss has b sw, h addd.

Coover said his goal is to endowth prjt ad th t hr a u-tm mpy t admstr t.

“I ha a t wrt, sdmy writings to my students in Cam-bodia, write or the blogs and mediar pp t rad thm,” sad Khararith, this year’s ellow. arariths a Cambda pt, wrtr, pub-lisher and educator whose writingsand promotion o human rightsand democracy in Cambodia hadattracted death threats and verbalattaks at hm. H as hpd tound PEN-Cambodia, an interna-tional organization that promotesreedom o expression and con-dms srshp.

T Itrata Wrtrs Prj-ect regularly collaborates with PEN-Amra t st ws t tt Brw.

“I wrote about contemporary issues in Cambodia,” ararith said,rrrg t hs ptry ad t.

Tr wud b t muh prs-sur h stayd Cambda b-cause it is dangerous or intellectu-

Project for persecuted writers nds funds

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trbutd amg rta prats th utur.

Blue Room breakast specials willbecome a permanent xture, and the“Barbuba” barbu prk sad-wiches at Jo’s will probably ollow.With the all harvest, Fitzsenry hopest start a utr at th Bu Rmeaturing resh produce rom Brown’sstudt gard.

o inorm students what specialsto expect, Fitzsenry has made his per-sonal Google calendar available to thepublic. His next appearance will be atJo’s on Monday. As his calendar says:“Breakast or supper! Every Monday

night we’ll be serving specialty stuedFrench toast with home-ry-seasonedtatr tts. PBJ r brrs, hy adram hs? Ys, pas.”

Stued French toast was a avorite Ftzsry’s durg hs tm wrk-ing as executive che at the VanderbiltMini-Mansion in Newport. “A lot o the specials we’re running here arethings I’ve bench tested in other work experiences, which adapt pretty wellhr,” h sad.

But t a hs das ar m-pletely his own. Some o the bestideas come rom BuDS studentworkers, like the Blue Room breadpudding, he said. “Other places in

the ood service world do not getthe type o workers we have here,” hesaid. “Te student workers are smartand ambitious. Tey’re extraordi-ary ddatd baus thy wrk tgthr wth thr prs. It’s a gratrmt t b .”

Food service changes were stu-

dent-driven even beore Fitzsenry ar-rd ampus, udg ppuarsupport or the Real Food Challenge,whh hpd ad t th rat Fitzsenry’s position, Homan said.Having a culinary manager has al-lowed Executive Che John O’Shea toocus more on the Sharpe Reectory and the Verney-Wooley Dining Hall,sh sad.

“W’ grw s muh, ad thexpectation o our customers tostaty b dg w thgs adgetting involved in more initiativeshas made it such that (O’Shea) is un-able to have a signicant presence

rta,” Hma sad. “T d-s t rat (Ftzsry’s) pstwas argy du t th at that thr just was’t ugh (O’Sha) t garound and not enough culinary at-tention devoted to those operations.”

“W gt sm studt put astsmstr as w wr thkg abut

menu concepts and developing whatthe operations would look like lastspring o 2009 beore we opened,”Homan continued. “Tose weren’trandom decisions. Tey were drivenby eedback about what studentswud d dsrab pts.”

Joshua Marcotte ’11 said he hast th mpat Ftzsry’s rts.

“I eel that the retail operationsar a t mr attrat t studtsnow,” Marcotte said. “Te old BlueRm, r sta, was dty ahagut spt, but pp wr’t aspumpd abut thgs rd thror ood. A lot o students are now

sdrg t a gtmat pt.”Fitzsenry said he is also excited

by students’ enthusiasm. “Te jobhere is antastically rewarding,” hesaid. “Te number one thing I cant yu s that I’m happy t b hr.T atmsphr s what maks t s,s grat.”

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uCS talked abot potential improvements to eateries, the Career Development Center and lighting on the Main Green.

Js Ram d La Trr, prsidt th uivrsity Prt Ric,

rsigd last w amidst a wav gig vilt stdt prtsts.Sic Dcmbr, stdts hav b bycttig classs i

rsps t a cmplsry $800 impsd by Gv. Lis Frt. Th

charg, dsigd t hlp rdc Prt Ric’s gapig bdgt dcit,

is mr tha hal what stdts alrady pay i aal titi. ovr

60 prct th stdt bdy cms rm amilis arig lss tha

$20,000 pr yar, accrdig t th nw Yr Daily nws.

Mr tha 200 ppl hav b arrstd as a rslt th

prtsts ad ivrsity aclty rctly stagd a t w-day walt i

spprt th stdts. util Frt rdrd a pllt Mday,

plic rcs ccpid th 11 campss r th rst tim i vr 30

yars.

Tennessee school lowers tuition

I a prcdtd mv amg tp-raig u.S. istittis

highr dcati, Swa uivrsity i Tss is slashig its$46,000 titi bill by 10 prct.

ofcials rm th ivrsity said thy hp th mv tward

lwr titi will hlp it cmpt with thr privat cllgs whs

titi grally riss 4 t 5 prct aally, as wll as with pblic

ivrsitis that dtract rm Swa’s applicat pl.

Figrs rm th natial Assciati Idpdt Cllgs ad

uivrsitis shw that Swa is th ly schl t lwr titi this

yar. ovr th xt thr yars, th ivrsity will ls apprximatly

$6 t $8 milli as a rslt th ct, accrdig t th nw Yr Tims.

Changes to U.S. News ranking systerankle adinistrators

A rct chag t th u.S. nws ad Wrld Rprt’s raig

systm, which cld ail schls highr dcati r t

rspdig t rsarchrs, has agrd cllg fcials acrss th

ctry.

util rctly, th rprt did t icld schls that chs t t

participat. Th chag, mad by u.S. nws ad Wrld Rprt ditr

Bria klly, allws th systm t prvid a “stimatd” raig r

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edcati fcials rm 36 dirt istittis — icldig

svral Big 12 Crc mmbrs — sigd a lttr t th

magazi prtstig th chag as “icsistt with prssial

jralistic practics.” kat Walsh, prsidt th natial Ccil

Tachr Qality — a c-spsr th raig systm — rspdd

i a lttr that schls ca chs t t participat, bt thy will still

b icldd i th raigs.

Protests force UPR president to resign

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Te Undergraduate Council o

Students elected a representativeto the Campus Access Advisory Committee, reviewed potentialchanges to the UCS Code o Opera-ts rgardg studt attsand discussed projects currently inprgrss at ts mtg ast ght.

Kimberly Wachtler ’13 willsr th adsry mmttwith aculty, sta and other stu-dts t mpr assbty campus. Te committee will reviewand rene not only physical, butas tr ad thgaass, sad B Farbr ’2, UCS

vice president. All candidates em-phasized their personal concern

or and awareness o these matters,but in the end, the council electedWachtler over Leah Bromberg ’11ad Samatha Erquz ’4.

UCS also discussed changes tots Cd Oprats that wrprpsd by mmbrs th Stu-dent Activities Committee in lighto the new student group appli-cation process. Ralanda Nelson’12, student activities chair, andAnthony White ’13 spearheadedthe discussion on the content and

arty th hags.At th mtg, Frak Rad

’2, aadm ad admstrataairs chair, and Chris Collins ’11,

admissions and student serviceshar, aud that thr m-mittees were working with the Ca-reer Development Center to im-pr ts srs. Rad sad hpas t trw studts abutthr prs wth th tr,while Collins said he will comparethe center’s services to those atthr sttuts. Cs sad has hps t am th arty arr paths that studts takin a number o industries to de-trm aras whh th trcould oer more support. Te rststp wud b t “gur ut whatt s that studts ar dg hr,”

Cs sad.Campus Lie Chair David Rat-

tner ’13 and Farber are workingwith Richard Bova, senior associ-at da rsdta ad dgservices, to bring a printer to Pem-

broke campus, extend weekendhurs at th Gat, ras ght-g th Ma Gr ad brgseating to the patio o the SciencesLibrary. Te Campus Lie Com-mtt has as b mpg alist o suggestions or how the BlueRoom and the Sharpe Reectory could be improved and plans toorward student opinions to those harg.

UCS w b mpmtg -ce hours and increasing outreachto up its presence on campus,Communications Chair Molly Lao’13 said. Representatives rom thecouncil will be stationed weekly

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Crtsy Brw uivrsity

Jams Manning, th univrsity’s frst prsidnt, srvd rom 1765 ntil hisdath i 1791.

ud Fb. . O th throcus tracks was eliminated, ther urss wr hagd, a ad-

ditional regional course is requiredand senior capstone experiencesmust rprat studts’ rglanguages o study, according to theIR wbst. Ts hags wr tbe eective or all students who hadnot yet declared their concentra-tions, starting with the class o 2013.

Many sophomores were out-raged that they had already spenttwo years ullling a dierent seto requirements, Te Herald re-ported Feb. 15. In response, somestudts ratd a Fabk grupcalled “IR students against the newIR prgram” ad put rth a st

grievances, which gathered about65 sgaturs.

Te “Facebook idea was genius,”Blyth said, because it allowed theprogram to get a sense o what upsetstudts.

In response to eedback romstudents, the IR program decidedto ease the requirements or sopho-mores. Student eedback was “in- valuable” in leading to that decision,Byth td T Hrad.

he original concentrationchanges stated that HIS 1900:“American Empire Since 1890”wud b rqurd r a studts,ad SOC 620: “Gbazat ad

Sa Cft” wud rpa thprevious requirement to choose

rom a list o ve courses. A newrequired course, ANH 0400:“Anthropology and Global SocialConfict,” will be oered or the rsttm ths a.

Now sophomores who havealready taken a modern history course that qualied or the old corew b usd rm takg HIS1900. Tose who have taken ANH0100: “Introduction to Cultural An-thrpgy” r ANH 232: “Warad Sty” w b usd rmANH 0400, and those who havetaken SOC 0150: “Economic Devel-opment and Social Change” will beusd rm SOC 620.

“We don’t want you to be in aposition where you’re being doubletad,” Byth sad.

But sophomores who have not

arady tak ths asss r thold core will need to take the newly rqurd urss stad, h sad.

T w hags as madatthat rga urss must t tth rg aguag that ah stu-dent has used to ulll the 600-levelaguag pry rqurmt.Sphmrs w b usd rmths rqurmt as w.

Sophomores who already de-ard thr IR trats wulll the old requirements, saidCauda Ett MA’ PhD’, as-sat drtr th IR prgram.

First-year students will use thenew requirements regardless o what r urss thy ha tak,Byth sad.

“As a reshman, I think you’ll be,” Ett sad.

Sm studts wr upst rthe elimination o the “politics,culture and identity” track. Blyth

mphaszd that ths trak w tb brught bak. H haratrzdit as “40 people doing whatever they want.” Students that were in thattrack still have “lots o options,”Byth sad.

Tere was little discussion aboutthe DS changes. Te Herald re-ported Feb. 15 that students largely smd t b happy abut th up-dated requirements to the program.

T DS hags udd a w600-level oreign language pro-y rqurmt. Mst DS -centrators are already taking lan-guages, but or sophomores who

are not, individual accommodationsmay b mad, Ba sad.

At th d th mtg, y a sma mrty studts rasdtheir hands aer Blyth asked i any- was “st ray upst.”

“I think it’s really reasonable,”Aa Makartz ’3.5 sad. Sh sadshe is glad the IR program was ableto accommodate sophomores,though she would have preerredi the changes had been announcedbr th smstr.

Bo Grozdanic ’13 said he thinksmst pp wr pasd wth thchanges, and he hopes the programw b ab t mak ddua a-

commodations or those who arest dssatsd.

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prss ras.he steering committee will

begin planning the semiquincen-tenary this semester and eventsmay begin in all 2013, a ull yearbeore the anniversary, accordingt th prss ras.

hough details o the celebra-tion are yet to be determined, JaneLancaster PhD’98, a historian and stg assstat prssr, s a-rady wrkg a w hstry o the University, which will bepublished in time or the anni- rsary.

he University approached

Lancaster in 2009 with the ideat wrt a updatd hstry, adshe began working on the project ary 200.

Lancaster said the last com-prehensive history o the Univer-sity was published in 1914, and ashrtr pampht was pubshdin 2000 or a wider audience. Shesaid she expected her history tob gr tha th pampht butshorter and more readable thanth 4 pubat.

“Part o the reason Brownasked me to do it is because Iha a trak rrd prdugreadable history,” Lancaster said.She said the anniversary will bea apprprat tm t put ut anew history that represents themany changes that have occurreds 4.

“One o the recommenda-tions o the (Steering Commit-tee on Slavery and Justice) was

that a new history be written, andBrw s mg up ts 250thanniversary, so it’s about time wedid something or the 21st cen-tury,” sh sad.

Lancaster, who taught HIS1974: “heory and Practice o Lo-cal History” last semester, will

teach a research seminar on the

history o the University in thea. Studts th smar w

have the chance to contribute re-search to the new history, she said.

Lancaster said she is not look-ing to create controversy in herwriting, though she is also notrd abut bg srdby th Ursty.

“It’s t my r as a hstrato criticize — it is to uncover whatthe acts are and let the acts speak or themselves,” she said. “I I candocument what I’m saying, no oneshud ha ay duty.”

he Brown Alumni Associa-t s as wrkg a arh-tectural guide to the campus that

will come out or the anniversary,said odd Andrews ’83, vice presi-dent o alumni relations and ammbr th strg mmt-t.

He added that Brown and Co-lumbia are the only remaining Ivy League schools without this typeo guide and that the anniversary w b a gd tm t pubsh t.

Besides Lancaster’s new his-try ad th arhttura gud,Andrews said the overall planningor the anniversary is “just gettingudrway.”

“Anniversaries like this one areunusual in America, and one o th uqu aspts bg -td t Brw s bg part such a historic institution,” An-drws sad.

Andrews said he hopes thisserves as an opportunity to engagealums that may have not been in- d r sm tm.

“We hope to see a surge inalumni interest and alumni pridein the University,” he said. “We’reconsidering alumni lectures,special programming around re-unions and using social mediato engage alumni who are per-haps t ab t mak t bak t

ampus.”

Professor to publishupdated U. history

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als, he said. “When we are inside,we don’t have connections abroad.”

“I I can continue to stay abroad,t’s bttr,” h addd.

Past ellows have come romcountries such as China, Cuba,urkey, Iran and the DemocraticRpub th Cg.

o raise additional money, theprgram rus a sta ry yarthat ocuses on the ellow’s work and the art and culture o his orhr rg.

Planned or mid-March, this

year’s estival will ocus on Cam-bda ad Suthast Asa ad winclude authors whose writings per-tain to issues o the region. Te es-ta w ud a prmr thm “Ems th Pp” ad adiscussion panel about Cambodianliterature with writers includingEnglish author Geo Ryman andauthr Aa Lghtma, a adjutprssr at th Massahustts I-sttut hgy.

Te ellows, who are actively involved with the estival, help tobrg pp thy kw t th s-tival, give readings, participate indiscussion panels and are invited

t tak asss.“Te eort to keep the voice

alive is worthwhile,” Coover said.“Te program serves as a beacon pssbty r ths trub.”

Coover said the ellows arenot the only beneciaries o theprogram because it also providesstudents a unique opportunity tourthr thr udrstadg thworld and reedom o expressionabrad.

“T bt gs tw ways,” hsad.

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B Brielle friedMan

StaffWriter

It has been over a year since Alex

Wilpon ’10 spent her junior springstudying abroad in Prague, buther desktop background is stilla phtgraph th ty. “I hapictures o Prague all over my room. I’m homesick or Prague allthe time. I know everyone doesn’thave a great experience abroad,but I rtay dd,” sh sad.

Instead o participating inthe brown-approved alternativeprogram in Prague, Wilpon pe-titioned to participate in New

York University’s study abroadprogram. And Wilpon is one o may studts wh ha hsto petition a program to the Oce Itrata Prgrams.

“Over the last ew years, weha had arag btw 40and 50 students who study abroadon petition programs,” KendallBrostuen, director o internationalprgrams, wrt a -ma tT Hrad.

here are currently Brownprograms in 10 countries andapproved alternative programs 50 utrs. But th OIP r-alizes that “there may be times

when a student’s overall academicobjectives abroad may be bet-ter met by a petition program,”Brstu wrt.

A petition can be dismissed th studt ds t mt thUniversity’s language requirementr a g utry r th p-tition program does not ulllaculty guidelines regarding con-tat hurs study, ardg tBrostuen. “Te program needs toprovide an academic opportunity the quality o which cannot be du-

plicated by the Brown-sponsoredor Brown-approved program(s) inthe students proposed country o study,” h wrt.

Students usually choose to pe-tition a program because there ist arady a pr-apprd pr-gram in that country, said Brostu-en. But a student can successully ptt a prgram a utry with a competing Brown programi the student has a compelling

academic reason, he said. Tiss mr mm amg sconcentrators who may not meeta language requirement but want asite-specic experience, he added.

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Petitioning a program requires

a signicant amount o work, butBrostuen said most students whoput th rt t submt a r-ma appat ar sussu.

Julia Kim ’12, currently abroadat the School or Internationalraining program in Peru, saidthe overall petition process wastedious. “Tere was a lot o paper-work to get signed and lled out,”she wrote in an e-mail to Te Her-ald. Kim, who is a ormer Heraldsta writer, wrote that she elt theOIP was somewhat supportive,but that they did not make “theentire petitioning process superar.”

Wilpon said she also oundth ptt prss dut. By th tm sh ddd t study Pragu, sh had mssd th U- versity’s program deadline. TeOIP eventually told her she couldapply or the Brown program, but,by that point, Wilpon had already researched the NYU program andddd sh kd t, sh sad.

T ptt prss sa written academic rationale,several meetings with academicadvisers and many orms. Wilpon

sad t tk hr amst th trsemester to obtain approval. “Istarted the process o petitioningthe rst week back at Brown in

September, but it wasn’t approvedut at Nmbr r ary D-mbr,” sh sad.

“It was really rustrating,” Wil-p sad. “Drt pas hat appr drt parts thptt appat,” sh addd.“I d’t thk thy mt ry -ten, which slows down the entireprss.”

Wilpon was required to putdw a dpst — a a wthousand dollars — or NYUbr Brw apprd thprogram, she said, adding that shewould have lost her deposit i the

Ursty rjtd hr ptt.Despite the rustrating pro-

cess o petitioning, Wilpon saidstudying abroad was worth it. “Itwas one o the best decisions Iever made,” she said. “I would doit again, even i it meant goingthrugh th sam rustrats.”

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St, mst th rughy 500studts wh study abrad ahyear do so through Brown or pre-approved programs either becausethy d a gd t amg thschoices or simply because it ismore convenient. Brown pro-grams prd -st sta t had rgazata mattrsad supprt studts.

Mariel Heupler ’12 studiedabroad in Buenos Aires last allthrugh Butr Ursty’s pr-gram. One o the reasons shedid not petition a program wasbaus sh dd t wat t dawith the hassle o transerringcredits, which she had heardud b dut, sh sad. Hu-pler also said the OIP providedher with resources, including

bks, fyrs ad a rturd stu-dt tat st.

Cody Cutting ’12 recently returned rom the Brown-in-

Barcelona program where hesaid he spent an unorgettablesemester. He was drawn to theprogram because o his interestin architecture.“Barcelona andth arby ts Vaa adZaragoza are hotbeds or mod-ern and contemporary design,” hewrote in an e-mail to Te Herald.Tugh Cuttg was happy wththe experience, he was dissatisedwth th urswrk ad t dstd rm tha studt bdy, h wrt. Hsaid a mandatory pre-departuresemester o Catalan “could prove

very benecial and help studentsbetter communicate with the Cat-aa yuth.”

Brown-in-Barcelona is runthrough a larger consortium withthree sta members responsibleor administration, Sam Johnson’12, who also studied in Barce-lona, wrote in an e-mail to TeHerald. Everyone in the programloved the sta members, who wereeective at handling the oen ag-gravating task o matriculation toth ty’s ursts, h wrt.

Regardless o which study abroad option a student con-siders, the guiding principle or

choosing a program should be“aadm t,” Brstu sad.

Tat “academic t” might beound in a more thematic, re-sarh-basd prgram. Km sadshe ound the hands-on approacht utura studs sh was k-g r th SI Pru prgramwhere she lives in a home-stay and does her own eldwork . “Iwanted to experience the culturead d smthg I wud’t bable to do at Brown,” she wrote.“S ar, t has b grat ra.”

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r t th ty.Te only source o news was

the television, which the Egyptianwm wth us — ur rmmatsand foor mates — had managed tohotwire, and one Blackberry thatcould receive text messages rom theUtd Stats. T stat-ru Egyp-tian television provided no coverageo the protests and Al-Jazeera, whichprovided the best coverage by ar,was ocusing largely on Cairo and

was being targeted by the state. Teact that people were still able to as-smb ad prtst was rdb.With a direct view o the Corniche,

the road that stretches along theMediterranean Sea in Alexandria,I was ab t tra rm th prayrroom the movement o peopleacross the city as they marched romprtst t prtst.

Fr hurs d, thusads people trekked across Alexandriachanting and singing while beingsubjected to tear gas and police beat-

gs. May thm wr ughgad wpg thr ys wh uth-g a masks that had apparty ad t prtt thm rm th r-

patd gassgs.Frm th bay, w ud s

government buildings and policestations go up in fames, spewingblack smoke across the city to ourbuilding. We later learned that theseattacks were among the many state-orchestrated bombings that took place in major cities throughoutEgypt.

Tough the Egyptian govern-ment tried to portray the popularmovement as a violent one, theprtsts I wtssd wr pau.Neighbors brought down water andoranges or protestors and Chris-

tians protected Muslim protestorsrom the police as they prayed.Prtsts y bam t r-sponse to violence rom governmentagtatrs.

Tough I was at times earul ormy saety, I was never araid o Egyp-ta as. Rathr, t was th p- that trrd m. Ty targtdoreigners they believed might be journalists so as to prevent reports o state violence rom reaching a West-ern audience. Alexandrians who sawme and the students in my programin the streets repeatedly went out o thr way t gud us t saty adwar us abut p brutaty.

Wh trs ad rasd prs-oners overran the city, Alexandrians

rm a waks tk bak thght. Ty rmd ghbrhdwatches across the city to protecttheir amilies and property. Tey

banded together wielding sticks,bricks and even chair legs, antici-pating the arrival o governmentatrs armd wth sm-autmatwaps.

I owe my lie to the Alexandri-ans who kept us sae in the dorm

on Saturday night. As we huddledtogether, Egyptians and Americans,trying to ignore the volley o gunreutsd, w wr mrtd by thknowledge that neighborhood youthhad volunteered to guard the build-ing. Without them, it would haveb urab.

From one day to the next, Iwatched the lives o my Egyptianriends and teachers all apart.Students at Alexandria University had b th mdd thr -a ams. Sra th grs whstayd wth us Frday ght hadexams the next morning but were

too terried to leave the building.My next-door neighbor Amira camebak rm hr am tars.

“I’ve never seen anything like this my ,” sh sad.

“Te police are tear gassing peo-ple. Tere are ainted people lying inth strts. O my rds was just wakg th strt, mdghr w busss wh a p -cer clubbed her on the neck. Hewas drssd k a a.”

Instead o studying or exams,engineering and medical studentstook up posts as neighborhoodwathm.

“W’r prttg th trty suppy s that at ast, thy m,we can see who we’re ghting,” saidKarim, a psychology major at theAmra Ursty Car, aphone call on Saturday night aer ph sr was rstrd.

As I sat in the dorm, watchingthe news with the Egyptian wom-, hdg thr hads ad rygwith them, I couldn’t help but eel

ashamed or being protected by rguar Egyptas, wh wr bgpprssd by a Amra-bakddictatorship. I couldn’t help but eelsick when I saw that the tear gasastrs rad “Mad th U.S.A.”

“Yu ha t udrstad,” I tdthem, “Just like there is a dierencebtw th Egypta grmtad th Egypta pp, thr s adierence between the American

government and the Americanpp.”

Emphasizing the distinction wasunnecessary. On more than a ewoccasions, I ound that Egyptians

were more capable o distinguish-ing between a government and itspeople than many Americans. In any event, in that moment, we were justscared people taking care o eachthr.

Lag th t mrg t gt th arprt a mmadrdtourist bus, we surveyed the aer-math o the night’s events — theburt-ut arasss p h-cles strewn along the streets, brokenshop windows and makeshi barri-cades. Alexandrians were wanderingthe streets, stocking up on water andd. I t arad r Egypt..

Labora ’12 provides account of Egyptian revolution

Crtsy Sydy Silvrsti

Tahrir Sqar in Cairo, egypt, srvd as cntr stag or anti-govrnmntprtsts.

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City & State8 the Brown Daily erald


B sofia castello

StaffWriter

Students searching or a newWdsday ght u ar thDecember closing o the FishCmpay ha ud a pttaalternative in the Colosseum, aP Strt ghtub.

Last week, a handul o stu-dents created a Facebook eventprmtg a w “Brw Nght”at the Colosseum, one o the ven-ues vying or students’ Wednesday night business. Te South MainStreet restaurant Olives has alsoattracted groups o Brown students Wdsdays ths smstr.

“Fsh C. dty a dr pp th sa adar,”said Jesse Frank ’12, one o theorganizers o the Colosseum event.“We wanted to create a place wherethe entire Brown community couldcome together or social purposesdurg th wk.”

And come together they did— over 400 students attended theevent last Wednesday, according toAnthony Santurri, one o Colos-

sum’s wrs.“We didn’t expect that many,”

Saturr sad. “Ty aught us guard. Even the coat room wasoverwhelmed. We ran out o hang-rs.”

“It seemed to be a huge suc-cess,” he added. “We had no trou-b, ry was grat.”

Frak ad th t “grat,”but addd, “w’r st dp-ment stages.” He described the e-rt as a “up-wk tra. W’rgg t s hw t gs.”

Te Colosseum allows entry toanyone 18 years old and up, givingass t th “wh Brw m-muty,” h sad.

Te venue does have one sig-at dr rm Fsh C.,where several students were ar-rstd r udrag drkg astDecember. “We are going to be very, very strict about the drinkingpolicy,” Santurri said. “I peopleha a drk ad brat, wtak t away.”

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Hundreds ock to new Wednesday night spot

did not understand why an infuxo people started streaming intoJo’s late on Wednesday nights, but

said he eventually realized it “mustb th Fsh C. rwd.”

He said he dreaded the rushbecause lines continued to stack up, ad thr was tm t takbreaks. But toward the end o lastsemester, as rumors o Fish Co’sclosing spread, amayo noticeda sudden decrease in customersdurg that tm prd.

Sph Sway ’3 wrkd atthe salad station at Jo’s last semes-ter, but said she ound the rowdi-ness “more entertaining than abthr.”

“Millions o drunks would

m stramg ,” sh sad. Omost Wednesdays, Soloway wouldhave to deal with issues like emalestudts spg drks r thcounter and male students askingor impossible salad orders, shesaid. Tough she no longer worksat Jo’s, Soloway said the eatery hasa muh amr Wdsday ghtrwd ths smstr.

For students, the loss o FishCo. has le a void in the middle o thr wk. Cam Parss ’4 sadhe has seen “a lot more aimlesswalking” on Wednesday nightstha ast smstr. “Pp d’tnecessarily know what to do with

themselves,” he said. “Fish Co.ga thm a dstat.”

But potential successors haverecently emerged. Adam Weinrib’2 has g t a w th wlocations and said he sees Col-ssum as th utur dstator students. “I’m no expert, butit’s bigger,” Weinrib said. “Teresms k thr’s mass appa.”

Camila Pacheco-Fores ’14described Colosseum as a moreupscale, classier version o FishCo. and said she sees hersel goingthr aga.

DPS has yt t har abut ay w ats studts ar gg

t Wdsdays, Shay sad.But he said he has heard about anincrease in students on Tayer St.

Te campus buzz might returnonce students settle into a newpattern or Wednesday nights,Weinrib said. “Maybe Jo’s will be-m mr what t usd t b pp start razg whrrythg s,” h sad.

But amayo, who now worksat Jo’s on weekends, said his shisar gr as tu. “Nth-

ing ever got as busy as Fish Co.Wdsday ghts.”

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Letters 9the Brown Daily erald


Dot Coic | esha Mitra ad Brda Haili

bb & Z | Cl Pritt, Adrw Sid, Valri Hsig ad Da Ricr

C o M I C S

Herald coverage of womenin CS sensationalizesTo the Editor:

I was a teaching assistant orthe course CSCI 0310: “Introduc-tion to Computer Systems,” whichFiona Condon ’12 took last se-mester, and I wrote the premiseo the computer science problemdescribed at the beginning o thearticle (“Algorithms can’t solveCS gender gap,” Feb. 16). WhileFiona was aware o the contexto the problem and I am sorry sh was dd, yur artdoes not mention the actual con-text whatsoever. I would like topa th tt th hm-wrk prbm, s I thk h

Herald — whether it was t hroughignorance o the acts, or it wasdone intentionally to provoke theradr — msrprstd t.

Every semester, the teachingassstats r ah mputr s-ence course choose a theme orthe course to add un or both thestudts ad As. Sm mm-rable themes rom the past ewyears have included Harry Pot-ter, Futurama, Snow White, JamesBd ad Ipt. W updatthe course website and somehomework and exam problems toit in with t he theme, and the Asand students enjoy it immensely.Last smstr, I was th A whwas the most excited about choos-g a tgu--hk pardy wilight or the theme, and I add-d uy prmss t hmwrk problems and exams making un th ud btw amprs rwrws, th rduus spar-kg ad thr thgs amprsin wilight do, and in this casethe annoying, pathetic main char-atr Ba. Csdrg that thwilight series consists o ourbooks, hundreds o pages long,that describe Bella being help-less and whiny, I think context is

important here. She is depictedas a helpless person. Yes, she isa woman, but that isn’t what isunny about the situation. We in-discriminately made un o all thecharacters, especially Edward andJacob, or their ridiculous person-aty trats, ad t s smpy a atthat a th haratrs ar rsbad Ba s thm. Cagit a topical joke without giving any thr tt s mpty ms-adg. Dd yu ask abut whatth tp was ad hs t tprt t, r dd yu t b thr tind out at all? I think making un

o the melodramatic characters inwght s a drastay drtsituation rom “A woman is up-set because she cannot igure outth aswr t a prbm ad hrboyriend is not around to helphr” wthut ay thr tt.

What did you hope to ac-

mpsh by prtg that thrst pag yur wspapr?

write a sensational — sensationalmeaning inciting an emotionalresponse through cheap thrills,t t — art? Dd yusdr what gat ts tmight have on the problem o thescarcity o women in CS? Con-sider whether writing that sort o dangerous, sensationalist intro-duction to an otherwise mundanearticle that brings nothing newto an established issue is worththe trouble it causes. I you hadbeen airly representing an actualproblem with Brown’s CS depart-ment or CS in general, I could not

eel the same rustration, but its th as that yu dstrtd thstuat mpty.

I also wonder why you quot-ed Ashley uccero’s ’11 e-maildeclining to comment. Ashley indicated in the e-mail excerptthat you printed that she was c on-cerned about misunderstandings,ad I thk rghty s. Athughit is diicult to write about theunderrepresentation o women mputr s th ttspace a newspaper article aords,I would have expected a better at-tempt to avoid misunderstandingsk ths.

I I wr Luthra, I wud hawondered why many students de-clined to be interviewed or thearticle. he Herald has writtenarticles in the past that misquotedand misrepresented the opinionso women, including mine, in thecomputer science department.his is exactly the reason why Ideclined to be interviewed or thearticle and why I question the in-tegrity o reporting at he Herald.

Alexandra Schultz ’11

Sieffert GS off-point on ROTC concernsTo the Editor:

As a West Point dropout andBrw graduat, I spd my -

wh radg A-CarSrt’s ttr t th dtr (“E-panding education preerable toROC,” Feb. 8). But the truth is,you don’t need a Brown degree,r muh kwdg th m-tary, to catch the two glaring errorssh mad.

First, Sieert argued that Brownneeds better scholarships andmentoring. Tose are admirable

gas, but ths s t a dbat b-tw rg ROC t studtsor increasing need-based aid. Re-

jecting Reserve Ocers’ raining

Corps will not increase the amounto need-based aid or the poorest.Accepting ROC will not limit theamount o community outreachand mentoring that the Brownmmuty a prd.

Second, Sieert expressed con-r abut kds wh ar 6 yarsold joining ROC. In act, youha t b yars d ad haparta prmss t r a

ROC sharshp. Furthrmr,most college reshmen are at least — d ugh t t ad denough to be draed under the

aw. I my md, thy’r as dugh t j ROC.

While I don’t agree that serving th mtary s ak t dyg asa ddr, Srt s ttdto her own opinion. But the Browncommunity is entitled to the actsas they have this very importantrsat.

Jon Hillan ’09

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”— Sphi Slway ’13, Wdsday ights at Jsiah’s, s fish pag 1

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Last weekend, the Corporation convened. Tis meeting was

especially momentous — in December, the University’s seven-yearCampag r Aadm Erhmt udd. Prsdt RuthSmms aud sm mprss gurs — th udrasgeort raised $1.61 billion, including $311 million or undergradu-at aa ad.

But o all the numbers coming out as part o the budget theCorporation set, there is a single gure that is the most importantor Brown students and their amilies. Te cost o tuition and eesr t yar’s udrgraduats w b $53,36. ut at Brw,k at may thr U.S. gs ad ursts, has skyrktd rt yars, rsg ary $20,000 — r 53 prt — thast dad.

Tis announcement comes at a moment when controllingcosts is on nearly everyone’s minds. Brown adjusted ambitiouscapital projects in response to the reality o its nancial situation.Ad ast wk, st-sus Rpubas ud a spdg

b r th rst 20, prpsg what wud b “th argst utin student-aid unds in the history o the Pell Grant program,”according to the Chronicle o Higher Education. Te proposedgsat wud ut th mamum amut a P Grat — arm d-basd aa ad awardd by th dra gr-mt — by $45, r 5 prt.

T prpsa s gudd by a udrstadab dsr t r the government’s soaring debt, and the backers o the bill havehs t ut a th budgt that has grw sdraby rt yars. Abut .6 m studts ar prjtd t rth grats t yar, mpard t 6 m studts 200. Butbr makg uts t a prgram smpy baus t has bmcostly, the House would do well to examine the reasons or theincreases. Te recent economic crisis, the growth o the or-protsector in higher education and the increasing importance o havingan advanced degree or job prospects all undeniably contribute toth prgram’s bag pr tag.

Considering the uncertain uture o student aid rom the ederalgovernment, we would like to applaud the University’s consistentcommitment to making a Brown education aordable or studentsrm a arty m stuats. I th 200-02 aadmyear, the average University scholarship was $16,288. Tis year,t s $3,22, mag aa ad has rasd at amst twthe rate o tuition. Brown’s ability to oer such aid is o courseratd t ts status as a prat sttut wth a raty argendowment — but it is also the result o a deliberate choice onth part th Ursty.

But we remind the administration that its commitment tomprg th ad Brw rs ds t d wth th Campagr Aadm Erhmt. N yars ag, 35 prt udr-graduats wr rg sttuta aa ad. Currty, 43percent o undergraduates are receiving nancial aid rom theUrsty — ad rrspdgy, 5 prt ar t rg

any. As the members o the administration look into Brown’s bolduture, we hope they remember the University’s greatest strength, that s t as sb as a w rat arts tr r athtmp: th studts wh ar ab t attd.

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pinion 11the Brown Daily erald


G. L Cha ’5 P’4 rty a-ud that Rhd Isad stat mpy-s wud b rbdd rm spakg wthtak rad hsts, argug that pub r-surs shud t “supprt r-prt, rat-gs-dr prgrammg.”

Ts ba rgs th rght t rsph r pub str wrkrs ad s-rs a k mmuat btw thstat ad th ppua that s ta r ta-payrs t kw what th grmt s d-

g thr am. Furthrmr, by pat-g a tak rad hsts wth th sam brush,Cha s hbtg th ry typ thk-g r whh h tds t shw dsda.

But th mst bus faw Cha’s ra-ta s that th Utd Stats, th astmajrty mda ar “ratgs-dr.” Itrast wth, say, Brta, whr th pub-y udd BBC’s dmat brad-astg s y startg t wa, Amrarad, ts ad wspaprs — ud-g T Hrad — ar rat a arg au-d t mata ru. Ar a, ay mda utt at rah wrs, th tsadrtsg spa bms wrthss.

Cha as as t mprhd thatth stat supprts prat trprs ry

tm t spds my gds ad sr-s (s Kysa ms). G thatth grr s hurry t ut spdgt s th stat’s budgt gap (“Cha ’5P’4 days agda, ss d,” Fb.

5) ad that hs dr ds t td trms mda thr tha tak rad,

a y spuat as t hs tru mts.Frtuaty, Cha’s prus rmarks

rgardg tak rad pat a tg ptur.Ardg t a Ja. 4 Prd Juraart, Cha’s spksma Mha ra-r pd that “tak rad tds t b d-s. Prd.” Asd rm rar’s amusgus “prd” t udrsr a wak assr-

t, th w py rad s dst rft th tdy that rar d-srbs.

Cha’s -sz-ts-a prpsa ds-uts th ry st rasab ra-d hsts th ry sam mmt that trjts th st hystra prsa-ts ts r prt.

I th trst u dssur, I mustadmt that my athr s hms a tak ra-

d hst WJBC Bmgt, I. T jutapst th s qusts hhas askd suh ttuas as Na Fr-gus, Fard Zakara ad Jh Maham— yu d’t b m, st r yur-

s — agast G Bk’s mpar-ss rythg udr th su t Ht-

r s a that s dd t dmstrat thwrg-hadd atur Cha’s prjudagast tak rad as a rmat.

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ab t th tzry, whh uds pp wh d assrt ar that PrsdtObama s Htr, as w as thr strs.

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ats, Cha s dsprprtaty hurt-g rghtst mmtatrs’ abty t r

Rhd Isad’s pta sphr as thy st. Utmaty, ths s srshp, as Chads srat rad ahrs th samass t rmat that thr brautrparts thr mda st pssss.

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By makg th stat grmt mrtraspart, th rmat dd tdmstrat th hystra rags Bk ad thr tak rad hsts t b as wb rady aaab. Wh th stat ds

rmat t ths wh sk t, th thrata assumpt s that th stat hassmthg t hd. Ts mdst awspp t b whatr thy wat wth-ut th sghtst shrd d whats-r.

I Cha truy wats rataty tpra, th h shud spar ps rahg tak rad strs, may whm ry rad as thr prmary sur pta thught. By uttg suh st-rs rm ta rmat rgardgth ats th stat, Cha y hadsthm r t th ry dmaggus that hsught t mpd.

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City & Statethursday, February 17, 2011

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Tr Brw aums — L G’03, Matthew Madison ’05 andJs Frt-Rys ’0 — haapplied to open a medical mari-

juana compassion center in NorthKingston. Submitting one o 18applications or at most three com-passion center licenses, the alumsproposed to create the ChronicPain Management Center. Te stateDepartment o Health will decide th appats Marh .

Golini, who is listed as the cen-ter’s ounder on its application,said he wants to open it becausepatts “a’t dpd th ur-

rent caregiver system” or procur-ing medical marijuana. Under thecurrent system, medical marijuanapatts a hs a argr tgrow their marijuana and providethem a certain amount. Crit-ics charge that this system is notadequately regulated by the stategrmt.

G sad mst patts a-not aord to pay the street valueor medical-grade marijuana,which is $400 to $500 per ounce. I his center’s application is approved,it will be able to sell medical marijuana at $280 per ounce, Golinisaid. He said he expects to serve

600 patients and projects annualru $2 m by th -tr’s thrd yar prat.

In comparison, the applicationr Summt Mda CmpassCenter anticipates raising $25 mil- ad srg 3,000 patts ts thrd yar prat .

Te proposed Chronic PainManagement Center would beatd Nrth Kgst, whits acility or growing the drugwould be located in Cranston. Go- sad h hs Nrth Kgstbaus h watd t prd a-cess to a compassion center in a

location where there were no otherappats.

Te location has generated con-troversy. Jared Moat ’13, presi-dent o Students or Sensible DrugPolicy, said Rep. Doreen Costa,R-North Kingston and Exeter,had not been contacted to seek her opinion on the proposed com-pass tr.

Moat said Costa expressedr at th Fb. pub har-g th mpass tr ap-plications that her constituentswould be apprehensive about

hag a tr thr tw. “It’sirresponsible to have one i it’s notokay with the local community,”Mat sad.

Moat said he thought Costa isparticularly opposed to Golini’s ap-plication because the Chronic PainManagement Center logo pairs animage o a cannabis lea with an

ahr, Rhd Isad’s mbm.JoAnne Leppanen, executive di-

rector o the Rhode Island PatientAday Ctr, rmd thatthe potential locations or ChronicPain Management Center haverasd ppst.

But the state Department o Health preers applicants to speciy proposed locations. Te depart-ment is looking or applicants withdetermined locations, so that aproposed compassion center canopen immediately i approved, shesad.

T dpartmt a award up

to three licenses or compassiontrs udr a 200 stat aw. Itwill decide on this round o ap-plicants 30 days aer the public

hearing that occurred in February.During the rst round o ap-

pats Sptmbr 200, thdepartment rejected all applica-tions because they were eitheror-prot or exceeded the appli-cation page limit, said AnnemarieBeardsworth, spokeswoman orthe Rhode Island health depart-mt.

Leppanen said her main con-

r s th day th rw appats r mpass -trs. “Ts shud ha happdby 200,” sh sad.

Tough Maine’s law authoriz-ing compassion centers passedar Rhd Isad’s, ts stat g-ernment has already handed outlicenses or compassion centers,

Leppanen said. But because o localopposition, Maine’s compassioncenters have been unable to beginprats, sh sad.

“People in Rhode Island arepretty well-educated about theprogram,” she said, adding thatmost towns and cities have beensupportive o the centers. Warwick has wrtt tw ttrs supprtt th Dpartmt Hath, adProvidence and Fordsmith havenot expressed any concern, shesad.

Cmpass trs ar a ds-tinct improvement over the current

systm, ardg t Mat.Wth th argr md, t s

easier or medical marijuana to besold illegally because the state doest mtr th umbr ar-givers and the number o plantsthy grw, Mat sad.

“With the compassion centers,it will be more apparent i they areselling through the back door,” hesaid, adding that as long as the ap-plicants want to set up compassioncenters as non-prot operations,Studts r Ssb Drug Py uy supprts th sr.

Alums apply to open pot center

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Rct alms hav badd tgthr t p a mdical marijaa ctr.

B katherine lonG

StaffWriter

Gospel music, a speech by Proes-sor o Economics Glenn Loury and a surprise appearance by Gov.Lincoln Chaee ’75 P’14 markedth sd aua Bak Hstry Month celebration at the StateHouse last night. Te celebration,which also eatured a perormanceo Martin Luther King Jr.’s “DrumMajor Instinct” sermon, was at-tended by nearly 60 state legislatorsad a mmuty adrs.

Chaee’s short speech, whichollowed a rendition o “Li Every

Voice and Sing” by the administra-tr arts th PrdPublic School District, set the toner th t.

“We must set aside this time toaspr t a s tru quaty r a Amras,” Cha sad.

I th Sat sss mmd-ately preceding the celebration,Sen. Harold Metts, D-Providence,trdud th aua rsutcalling or the recognition o Feb-ruary as Bak Hstry Mth Rhd Isad. T rsut haspassd ry yar s 6.

I th rsut, Mtts — thsecond Arican American elect-

ed to the Rhode Island GeneralAssembly — stressed PresidentObama’s election and his “message hp” as dat prgrssr Ara Amras.

“Black History Month is a won-derul time o year to recognize thepositive contributions o everyonewho helped to build this countr y,”Mtts td T Hrad. “T -tributions o Arican Americansthroughout history have been im-portant. Black history is Americanhstry.”

“Tis month is a reminder thatwe stand on great shoulders o all

the people who have ought orcivil rights. Our generation needsto be reminded that many haveought or the reedoms that weha,” Sat Prsdt Pr m-pore Juan Pichardo, D-Providence,sad at th t.

Loury highlighted institution-alized discrimination in the crimi-a just systm ad r-ty schools in his remarks, calling ora rwd mmtmt t saatsm.

“Yes, we’ve elected Barack Obama — but baus h’s bak,

h has t tak a w pr ra-

cial issues. Because he was elected,people are inclined to pat them-selves on the back and say, ‘See,America’s doing just ne,’” he said.“Lt us t b s mpat, ssatised, so smugly content. … Letus look careully at our society andt a ay bhd.”

Loury told Te Herald he is“not a big an” o Black History Mth.

“A month is both way too longand not long enough to look atblack history in the context o Amra hstry. O had,how much are you going to talk

abut? Yu a’t r a drtsubject every day. On the otherhand, the examination o black history should not be conned toa sg mth,” Lury sad. “It’simportant to be aware o black hstry t y th mth Fbruary.”

Te celebration was sponsoredby th Rhd Isad Gra As-sembly and the Rhode Island Black ad Lat Cauus.

“Arican Americans and Lati-nos have many issues in common.Both ace poverty and high drop-out rates. Both live in the sameneighborhoods and ace similar

economic challenges,” said Metts,the vice chair o the Black and La-t Cauus.

Drs D Ls Sats, th had th Rhd Isad Lat CFund and the Latino PoliticalAction Committee, attendedthe event to “show support andto celebrate the history that theblack community represents inthe state.” She said she sees an op-portunity or social progress i thetw mrty mmuts wrk tgthr.

“Te change that we ght oris an equalizer. … What makes us

drt s hw w s urss,ad that rfts bak hw ws ah thr,” sh sad.

Metts agreed, adding that hesupprts gsat dag wthdiscriminatory oreclosures, ex-ploitative loans, criminal recordpugmt ad qua mpy-mt pprtuts.

“W ha’t mt wth th wgovernor about these issues yet,but I believe that the will or actioncomes rom the top,” Metts said.“Meet with him, and things willbg t hag.”

Black History Month

celebrated at State House

B katrina PhilliPs

ContributingWriter

President Ruth Simmons will travelto Houston early next week on aact-nding trip with Gov. LincolnChaee ’75 P’14 and other RhodeIsland leaders. Tis is the rst o several trips to innovative U.S. citiesthat the Chaee administration sayswill inorm the governor’s plans toenhance Rhode Island’s knowledgemy.

Chaee also plans to visit Bal-

according to a press release romChaee’s oce. On the Houstontrip, he will be accompanied by Prd Mayr Ag aras,Ursty Rhd Isad Prs-dent David Dooley, Chaee’s Chie o Sta Patrick Rogers and KeithStokes, executive director o theRhode Island economic develop-mt rprat.

Developing the knowledgeeconomy means taking advan-tag ursty ad hspta r-surs t rat jbs ad prd

sad Rhard Sps, ut prsdt r pag ad sradsr t th prsdt.

“N us has a rmua” rRhode Island’s economic growth,he said. hough the state hasmany assets, the goal o the trips t “trasat ths das t aat pa.”

hese eorts could helpstrengthen Brown’s position asa top-tier research institute, saidMarisa Quinn, vice president orpublic aairs and university rela-

he University has already launched collaborative eortsaimed at jump-starting the state’seconomy. Trough the Ocean StateConsortium o Advanced Resourc-s, a at 40 rgazatsled by Brown and IBM, the Uni- versity has announced a plan to“gr” what grmt ashave termed the Knowledge Dis-trt, trd arud th Jwry District downtown. Spies said heexpects the trip to illustrate theptta smar prjts.

the (consortium) eort at theseother places,” he said. Althoughthr w ky b ky drsowing to the cities’ respective as-sets, Spies said he expects the groupw d prgrams wth th “samundamental goals” in Houston andth thr ts that Cha sts.

Ora, Qu sad th ga sor these trips to result in “moreopportunities” in Rhode Island andor the University to continue to“rat a strgr Brw, strgrProvidence and stronger Rhode

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