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By Morgan JohnSon

StaffWriter

Mayor Angel averas and Provi-dence Public School District Super-intendent om Brady announcedtheir recommendations to closeour elementary schools in a press

conerence Monday aernoon. Tesh bard must appr th r-ommended closings beore they can

b azd.Te recommendations ollow

aras’ ds t ssu dsmssanotices to all 1,926 Providence teach-

rs.

Te mayor recommended closingour elementary schools Flynn

Elementary School, Windmill Street

Emtary Sh, Asa Mssr E-ementary School and the Asa Messer

Annex and converting BridghamMiddle School into an elementary

sh.“Ts s srt th bgg

the pain,” averas said at the pressconerence. “Tis is the rst o the

many dicult days. No one likessg shs. It has t b d.”

Te schools recommended or

closing were chosen on the basis physa quaty ats, stu-dent perormance, potential costs

o school renovations and ease o

trasrrg studts, Brady sad.I th sh bard apprs th

recommendations, 40 to 70 teachersare expected to lose their jobs, school

ocials told the Providence Journal

Mayor announces four elementary school closings

By ShEfali luthra

Senior StaffWriter

Tough the $1.61 billion Campaignor Academic Enrichment concludedin December and this May will mark

President Ruth Simmons’ 10th yearin oce, Corporation members ex-pt hr t stay wth th Ursty “or the oreseeable uture,” saidChar Tmas sh ’76 P’07.

he average tenure or Ivy

Lagu prsdts as smwhrarud 0 yars, ardg t St-phen Nelson, associate proessor o educational leadership at Bridgewa-ter State University and a scholar atBrown’s Leadership Alliance. But

isch said numbers o years are notas mprtat as ttua atrs,such as the vigor and enthusiasm

the president brings to the position.“For some presidents, two weeks

is too long. For some presidents, 20years might be too short,” he said.

“Te principle is not one o time t s rgy, rshss, sad prspt.”

See sess

In February 2010, Simmons an-nounced she would remain as presi-dent at least through the 2011-12academic year. Tough Simmons

has not publicly discussed her plansor subsequent years, ChancellerEmrtus Stph Rbrt ’62 P’,wh srd th mmtt thatselected her in 2000, said she wouldday au ay tts trtr abut a yar br sh pasto ocially step down. With a year’snotice, the Corporation could havesut tm t d a w prs-dt.

Smms dd t mmton when she plans to step down butwrote in an e-mail to Te Herald

that she will continue to discussplans or her succession with the

Corporation leadership. A smallgroup within the Corporation is re-sponsible or presidential succession

plans, according to Maria ZuberMA’83 PhD’86 P’11, a member o

the Corporation’s Board o Fellows.Zuber hersel is not a member o

that grup.“Any outstanding institution

always has a succession plan at all

s,” Zubr sad.Tough isch said there were too

many “hypothetical characteriza-

tions” in discussing what the searchprocess would be like or nding

Simmons’ successor, he commendedthe University’s precedent o seeking

“broad-based” community input in

No plans for

Simmons tostep down

By EMMa Wohl

SeniorStaffWriter

On a Friday morning at rinity Rprtry Cmpay dwtwProvidence, the proessional the-atr trup prrmd a mat Arthur Miller’s “Te Crucible.” Itsaudience consisted o over 500 highschool students rom public schoolsaround the city. Many o the students

had already studied the play in work-

shps put thr assrms by

rty Rp’s duat prgram.But ths prgram, a um-

ber o education initiatives runthrough rinity Rep and other or-

ganizations in the city, may be indanger. With unding reduced across

a dsps pub shs, t s

unclear how areas like the arts

whs suss at b masurdthrough standardized tests will

ar th t rud uts.

reqemes d ey

Te Providence Public SchoolDistrict requires all its schools tor art asss, wrt Earst C,administrator o ne arts or thePrd Sh Dpartmt,

Prov. schools’ art budget dwindles

Lydia Yamaguchi / Herald

Local students (above) participate in a program run by CityArts, a community organization dedicated to supplementingart educatio i public schools.

Stephaie Lodo / Herald

The University hosted early-admitted students Monday for a panel and lunch.See full coverage on page 3.

By aparna BanSal

SeniorStaffWriter

S pasts dbatd hagsto Israeli-Palestinian relations last

night in the nal event o a two-day conerence titled “Israelis and

Palestinians: Working ogether ora Better Future.” Te conerencealso included “Neighbors,” a the-

ater production Sunday night by the Galilee Multicultural Teater,

and inormation sessions on variousorganizations working toward peace

th Mdd East.David Jacobson, proessor o

Judaic studies, organized the con-

erence and moderated the panel.He asked the panelists to talk aboutthe “most likely scenario to unold” Isra-Pasta rats adwhthr ts ar mg twarda - r tw-stat sut.

Eyal Naveh, co-director o the

Panelists

addressMiddle Eastconfict

E d u c a t i o n i n c r i s i s

Putting Rhode Island’s

public schools to the test Fh fv-

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By linDor QunaJ

SeniorStaffWriter

wo armed guards stood near the

dr a pakd Smth-BuaHall 201 last night as Maryam Al-

Khawaja, a prominent Bahrainihuman rights activist, approachedth pdum t spak. Ma Cam-mett, associate proessor o politicalscience and director o the Middle

East Studies program, received “tonso e-mails” in the days leading up

t th tak urgg hr t a, shsaid when introducing Al-Khawaja.

Te messages Cammett receivedincluded concerns that the commu-ty wud r a basd w th stuat Bahra ad aga-

tions that Al-Khawaja and her am-y wr trmsts r “Iraaterrorists,” she said. Te event was

hd as shdud.Al-Khawaja received a Fulbright

Foreign Language eaching Assis-

tats Prgram grat t study at thUniversity last year and served as anArabic teaching assistant. She be-

ga hr tak by prdg hstratt r th gg uprsg Bahra, whh bga Fb. 4, adthen gave her rsthand account o

the events. Tough protesters origi-ay tdd t r th gr-ment to create a new constitution,

they shied their demand to total

Former TA recountsBahraini protests

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presidential selections. When the

University last held a search or apresident, candidates were identi-

ed and interviewed by two com-

mtts th Crprat sarhcommittee and a campus committee

composed o aculty members, sta and undergraduate, graduate and

medical students. Robert said heound the process useul because

the incoming president already hadsupport rom several constituencies ampus wh sh arrd.

‘Y e t-s’

Ns, whs rsarh uss ursty prsdts, sad thrare three main actors or determin-ing when presidents will step down ag, suss th ys thr

constituents and how much they jy th jb. I trms ag, N-s mphaszd hath ad rgy rathr tha a sp ut-.

Simmons, who is 65, has a 74percent approval rating rom thestudent body, according to a poll

dutd by T Hrad ast a.Brw studts ha a rmark-

ab ratshp wth Smms comparison to students at otherschools, said Michael Stewart ’13.

“W g t a sh whr kds s-shirts with just Ruth Simmons onit,” he said. “We mean it in a ‘We love

you, we want to have your ace on a-shrt’ way.”

Barrett Hazeltine, proessoremeritus o engineering, addedthat auty mmbrs as appro Simmons, saying he would be“surprised” i many members o theauty “ra y d’t k hr.”

“I’ve been at Brown 52 years, andthis is really the rst president where

I ha’t hard a t grumbg,”Hazt sad. “Aythg I har s‘Gee, we’re lucky to have her she’ssst ad ar.’”

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But Hazeltine said though helikes Simmons and it would be “a

real loss” i she le the University,he does worry that leaders o educa-ta sttuts a stay ps-tions or too long. wenty years is

“clearly too long,” while 15 is “prob-aby strthg t,” h sad.

Ns, th thr had, sadhs rsarh dats gr trmsa b bttr.

“I yu’ d rasaby su-cessully, you can say to your campusconstituencies, ‘rust me,’ and they trust you, because they know that inaagus prus stuats, yuha d thm w,” Ns sad.

Richard Levin, president o Yale, echoed Nelson’s statements.

L, wh s urrty srg hsth yar as Ya’s prsdt, s thlongest-serving president in theAssat Amra Urs-

ts. “It taks a g tm t mak amark on great institutions like Yale,Harvard and Brown,” Levin wrotein an e-mail to Te Herald. “Mostpresidents with a major impact serve

5 yars r mr.”Levin wrote that he believes Sim-

mons has done an “outstanding” jobat th Ursty, ad t w btrm hr tud sr.

Vartan Gregorian, who served aspresident rom 1989 to 1997, said hends it hard to generalize the appro-priate term length or a university

prsdt. Ery prsdt, h sad,has a goal to accomplish during his

r hr tur sm gas smpy tak gr tha thrs.

But Roger Brown P’13, president th Brk Cg Mus Boston, warned against staying toog . Brw td th ps-sibility o a generation gap betweenstudents and presidents, as well as astat d r “rsh das adw thkg.”

‘Se ves w se’s d’

Rbrt, wh has b aatdwith the University or over 50 years,

said he has never seen growth com-parable to that during Simmons’tenure. Robert called Simmons’

presidency “extraordinary” and saidthugh sh has ard th rght tleave, he hopes she stays or a while.

He added that objectives like thePlan or Academic Enrichment canbe cited as reasons to stay, but therew “aways” b mprtat ssus aursty has t da wth.

“Tere’s all these reasons youud g why t’s t a gd tmor a president to leave,” he said. “ButI think that the real reason she is

staying is that she’s accomplishing at, ad sh s what sh’s dg.”

isch also mentioned Simmons’thusasm r th Ursty ad

academia. “I think she sees the com-bination o curriculum and com-munity in glorious terms that are

wrthy brat ad statnurturing,” he said. “And that issmthg that has b, ad -tinues to be, an extraordinary gi

r Brw.”hough Stewart said he had

initially thought Simmons would

serve through his undergraduateyars, h has aty bgu t thk “t wud’t b ttay uptd” sh wr t a.

“She began giving this speech

on the Main Green during Par-ts’ Wkd,” Stwart sad. “Adshe started talking about how she

wanted to spend more time withher grandchildren. And I rememberkg r at my athr ad g-g hm a k ad bg k, ‘Oh,geez, here it comes. She’s going to

au t.’”Even though Simmons did not

announce any intention to stepdown, Stewart said that momentsparked the idea in his head thatshe may leave in the next ew years.

“I d’t wat t s hr g, but Iudrstad,” h sad. “It’s hr d-

s.”

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In 2002, Simmons introduced

the Plan or Academic Enrichment,a sweeping agenda or achieving“excellence in research, educationand public leadership” at the Uni-versity. Tough many o its goals

have been reached, the plan outlineswhat students should expect romher oce in coming years, Simmons

wrt hr -ma.Te Campaign or Academic En-

richment, a undraising initiative

aligned with the plan, concluded

Dec. 31 aer raising $1.61 billion orthe University $200 million morethan its original goal. Te University

s w pag th t stps rudrasg.

Lkg rward, th pa sp-cically targets undergraduate issues

such as independent learning op-portunities, nancial aid, housing

ad rsurs r urruar d-opment, particularly in multidis-

pary ad st tra-ts.

o increase the University’sgba rah, th pa ts rm-mends bringing in more interna-

tional scholars, supporting research trata ssus, padgexisting programs and resourcesad hstg dagus amg “thwrd’s adg thkrs.”

T pa as as r strgth-ening academic departments by adding to postdoctoral programs,

attracting unding or research-ori-ented departments and increasing

resources or departments based ontheir ability to “achieve academic

.”But Simmons wrote that “many

things” will be added to the plan,such as increased emphasis on hous-

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C A L E n D A R

number o presidets: 18

Average term legth:13.4 yes

Logest term: 30 yes (William Herbert Perry

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By KYlE McnaMara

ContributingWriter

Approximately 140 members o theclass o 2015 arrived on College Hill

ystrday r th rst-r admt-ted students event geared toward

early decision applicants. Admittedstudents attended panels, toured

a rst-year residence hall and atelunch with admissions ocers andBruin Club members at the one-

day t spsrd by th Oo Admission and hosted by theBru Cub.

Chris Belcher ’11, president o

the Bruin Club, said the club de-

cided to plan the event aer theUniversity released early admissiondecisions in December. Te club

sent invitations to the students “a

w wks ag a -ma,” h sad.Students accepted by early decisionare not allowed to attend A Day on College Hill and are requiredto matriculate, so it was less o a

priority to hold an event catering

to these students. But the BruinClub thought such an event wouldmaintain excitement or early deci-sion students aer their Decemberadmtta, h sad.

Tough the event is modeled a-ter ADOCH which is held whileregular decision students are stillmakg g dss t b-gan in the morning and lasted only through the aernoon. Studentsattdd a pa aadm at Brown with Senior Lecturer in

Neuroscience John Stein, VisitingAssstat Prssr Athrp-

ogy Bianca Dahl and Associate

Da th Cg r Frst Yarad Sphmr Studs A Gay-lin. In lieu o an overnight stay, oneo ADOCH’s hallmarks, students

wr tak a tur a rst-yarrsd ha.

Other events included a panel on

student lie at Brown and a lunch inAuma Ha durg whh Da

Admss Jm Mr ’7 ga awmg addrss. I hs sph,Miller said he was “very excitedabout this class,” adding that this

class not only has the “opportu-ty t b th bst asss ths sttut,” but t as has th“sg bst grup studts I’ever seen in my lie.” Miller also saidthe admissions oce is currently

choosing rom about 30,000 ap-pats t th addta sptscomprising the class o 2015. Millersaid his oce will probably con-

tu ths t th utur.Studts at th t wr pr-

dominantly rom northeasternstats. La Batt ’5, wh attdsNatk Hgh Sh Massahu-stts, sad sh was attratd t thNw Curruum ad hps t -plore both the neuroscience and A-

ricana studies departments over the

t ur yars. Abby Butg ’5,who goes to Wellesley High Schoolin Massachusetts, will be playing on

th wm’s arss tam.Ob Owuamagbu ’5 ad I-

eoma Kamalu ’15, both rom Mas-sachusetts, said they had only seenBrown’s campus through pictures

ad wr hr t w t prs.Steven Meng ’15, also rom Mas-

sachusetts, said his main reason orattending was to “meet new people.”

Studts wh appd ary d-cision in previous years said they would have appreciated a similar

event. Many early decision studentslast year focked to Facebook groupmessage boards in attempts to cre-ate smaller gatherings o early deci-s studts, sad Prr Katzma’14. Exclusion rom ADOCH le

her eeling as though “Brownds’t ar as muh” abut hp-g th studts gt t kw ahthr, s thy d t ha t b“won over,” she said. She said sheconsidered hersel lucky because

sh s rm Nw Yrk Cty, whhhad a large concentration o admit-td studts.

Adrw Kuas ’2 as sad hwould have attended a similar event

i it had occurred his senior yearo high school. Although he said

h tay dd t ut, hbga t udd up start-ing reshman year when “everyone

kw ah thr” rm ADOCH.Both Katzman and Kunas said

they would like to see ADOCHopened to early decision students

because their input might helpregular decision students decidewhthr r t t matruat.

First-ever admit event for early decision lures students to U.

regime change aer a demonstrator

was kd by rt p, ardgt A-Khawaja.

“O course, there’s a lot o inspira-tion that came rom the uprisings

Egypt ad usa,” A-Khawajasad. “But th way I s t s that thmovement in Bahrain is very old,”

she added, citing long-standing ten-sion between the Sunni royal amily and the country’s Shiite majority.Br thr Mdd Eastr dm-onstrations gave the Bahrainis hope,there had been “a wave o depres-sion … where people elt that change

wasn’t something that could actually happ.”

Al-Khawaja said the initialgrowth o the movement was “amaz-ing to see.” Demands to put the kingon trial and remove the regime wereparticularly stunning in Bahrain, she

said, where public opposition againstthe royal amily is oen met with

srus dsp. “I Bahra, thatusually doesn’t happen,” she said.“Ty brk th barrr ar thathad b thr br.”

Although Al-Khawaja witnessedth bggs th uprsg, shwas orced to leave the country aerreceiving death threats through wit-ter, which she reerred to as “hatetweets.” Tese threats rst came rom

the royal amily itsel and then romusrs th wbst. Ardg tAl-Khawaja, she now receives at least

50 suh twts ry day.Al-Khawaja has been cited in re-

t mda rag th Bahra

uprising by news outlets includingthe New York imes and the Aus-

trialian Broadcasting Corporation.While in the U.S., Al-Khawaja has

met with ocials at the Departmento State to present reports on thestuat Bahra ad push r astrgr mmtmt Amrasupprt ad mt.

At Monday’s talk, Al-Khawajaspoke extensively about the recently rasg prpt amg Bah-raini protesters that the U.S. is in-volved in the confict. “Te Bahrainis

are convinced that their governmentwill not do anything unless there

is a green light or lack o a redght rm th U.S.,” A-Khawajasaid. Tis opinion was ueled by aresurgence in violence against the

protesters that began immediately aer U.S. Secretary o Deense Rob-ert Gates’ visit to the island nation

ast wk, sh sad.For that notion to change, Al-

Khawaja said the U.S. must takea stronger stance in the confict.American students in particular“ha th apaty t ha a fu-ence in the Middle East” through

outreach to elected ocials, she said.Al-Khawaja was critical o stu-

dts at th Ursty ad ad t

“urtuat” that studts “wudrather sit in a classroom and discussa ssu tha tak ra stps.”

Controversy surroundsBahraini speaker

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Panel addresses Israeli-Palestinian outcome

Peace Research Institute in theMiddle East, suggested the term“sut” b add. “Tr s

solution to the human condition,” hesaid, explaining that people, states

and regions exist in confict all overthe world. “Te issue is how to man-age this confict to move rom

a paradigm o confict solution toft maagmt.”

But Hanna Siniora, co-CEO o

the Israel/Palestine Center or Re-

search and Inormation, rejectedthis terminology. “What we have

now is management and not a reso-ut,” h sad.

Gershon Baskin, co-director andounder o Israel/Palestine Centerr Rsarh ad Irmat, sad

th rt uprsgs th MddEast made him realize how dicultit is to make predictions. “People aregg ut th strt ad makgchanges,” he said. “I anyone believes

this will stop at West Bank and Gaza,

thy ar graty mstak.”“I would like to be controversial

tonight,” Siniora said, eliciting a ewlaughs rom the audience and otherpanelists, “but also constructive.” He

pointed to the example o the SwissConederation, where French, Ger-man and Italian people live togetherin a “viable, productive and prosper-

us” way ad prpsd th da a thr-stat sut wth a utur

Palestinian state, an Israeli state anda separate state or Palestinian Arabs

that ar Isra tzs.

“It is the rst time that I havebrought such an idea out into the

open,” Siniora said, “because I’mrustrated. I’ve been working on thisor almost 40 years, and we’re going

bakward stad rward.”Galia Golan, a proessor in the

Lauder School o Government,Dpmay ad Stratgy at th I-terdisciplinary Center, an Israeli col-lege, said though there is a sense that

the option o a two-state solution isdsapparg, Isra ata psdat thr has b d supprt.

“Te only thing in the way isaction by the Israeli government,”she said. She added recent events inth Arab wrd w strgth thrs t stt th ft.

“What I see happening is an

awakening o youth in unisia,Lbya, Egypt,” sad Maysa Baras-Siniora, co-director o All or PeaceRadio. “I would like to see that hap-pen in Israel or the youth to say,‘Enough, I’ve had it with this oc-

upat.’ T pwr th ppwill eventually come and it’s going to

be very soon.” She added she hopesIsraeli youth vote or a leader who ismmttd t sg ths ft.

T U.S. a pay a arg r pressuring the Israeli government

to reach a two-state solution, Golansaid. She added during the question-and-answer session ollowing the

panel that the Israeli government

s dgay ppsd t suh ada, thugh thy pay t p sr.

But, Siniora said, “We can’t ex-

pect the U.N. or U.S. to do it or us.”Gorshon said he was disappoint-

ed President Barack Obama has notdone more about Israeli-Palestinianissues, but he hopes the Palestin-

a pp w rs t th as.“When they protest nonviolently,

they will be shut down by the Israeliarmy, which will respond violently,”he said. “We have to be on the rontline with them. Instead o just push-ing the ‘like’ button on Facebook, we

d t b th strts.”Tough the discussion was seri-

ous, it had lighthearted moments

Sra dd h was t-tay bg “prat” s thdiscussion would be less “boring,”

the other panelists nished or him.Jacobson said the conerence

and panel were held to “challenge

th parzd dsurs” rgardgIsraeli-Palestinian relations on cam-pus, baus “Brw studts taktrm psts.”

He said he wished more studentshad attended the conerence, addinghe hopes to have similar events in

th utur.Te conerence was partly in-

spired by Avi Schaeer ’13, who diedlast year and had suggested the idea.“A udrstd th mprta bringing people on dierent sides

o the confict together,” said Yoav

Schaeer, Avi’s twin brother, whoattended the event. “Tis conerence

s th kd thg h was wrkg

towards creating at Brown ant that prds r aptaand mutual recognition o the other.”

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an e-mail to Te Herald. Gradua-

tion requirements were amendedin 2010 to include a baseline arts

competency in the school district’sgeneral education standards. Tecurrent standards or graduation re-qur u-yar rdt udr thassat “art ad thgy.”

But members o the arts com-muty st s a ak ddatt th arts shs.

Sm shs ha arts rqur-mts r grads -2 but ha utarts programs or lower grade levels,said yler Dobrowsky, ormer educa-

tion director and current associateartistic director at rinity Rep. “In

Cranston, a lot o (arts) programshave been cut altogether,” he added.

rty Rp prds r tktsto groups rom Providence public

schools through outside undingsources like Community Develop-

ment Block Grants, a ederal pro-gram that provides unding to citiesand towns or housing and com-muty ds.

Tough students can easily walk to the theater, saving the cost o rent-g a bus r d trps, Dbrwsky said such trips are becoming in-creasingly dicult or teachers to

rgaz. Ery yar has s a rsin “the amount o red tape teach-

rs ha t g thrugh,” sad JrdaButtereld, rinity Rep education

prgrams maagr.“I think that arts teachers have

a rdb abty t d a t wtha little, but the little keeps gettinglittler,” said Caroline Azano, the com-

pay’s duat drtr.

p by mbes

Stadardzd tsts ha payd amajr part drasg arts ud-g, Dbrwsky sad. “T ast u-ple o years hasn’t been un,” he said.

Specically, the No Child Le Be-

hd At, atd 2002, mpha-

sizes standardized testing as a way tomeasure school prociency. ToughPresident Barack Obama announced

the act will soon be replaced, his newRace to the op initiative also stresses

the importance o testing or schoolsad stats t quay r udg.

Baus th bts arts du-cation “don’t show up in test scores,”Dobrowsky said, art is not prioritizedwhen schools and districts are al-

atg uds.“Innovation can only hap-

pen through creativity and imagi-nation … which is where the arts and

arts duat pay a r urtur-ing,” wrote Lisa Carnevale, executivedirector o Rhode Island Citizens orthe Arts, a lobbying organization,

in an e-mail to Te Herald. Raceto the op has a ocus on science,

thgy, grg ad math,so these disciplines tend to get moreattt, sh addd.

But these distinctions can beproblematic because they de-empha-

size the importance o critical think-g sks that ar taught thrugh avariety o subjects, Dobrowsky said.“I yu wat t ha a at r-ative thinkers … then you have to

aw studts t b rat.”

a eve se

“Wtss a wrd dd r-ativity, imagination and thought,”reads the website o Culture Stops,

an organized eort to “call attention

to the deep and widespread cuts, pro-posed by Congress and the President

to ederal unding or the arts andhumats.”

Last Tursday, Cutur Stps r-ganized a number o events in whichparticipants including perormers

at AS220 ad rty Rp, as w asthe RISD Museum stopped work,demonstrating what a world withoutth arts wud b, ardg t thwbst.

Tis is just one example o the

mmuty-basd rts that ha

ars t mbat th d artseducation and appreciation. Whileschools struggle to make ends meet,independent programs within and

outside o schools are lling in the

gaps, Cara wrt.Groups at Brown, arts centers

suh as rty Rp ad thr m-munity organizations have organized

aer-school and other independentprograms that give school-aged chil-dr a utt r ratty.

Brown Arts Mentoring, a stu-dent-led organization run throughthe Swearer Center or Public Ser-

vice, oers aer-school programs intwo Providence elementary schools.Ts prgrams ud art, da,music and theater classes and cul-

minate each year with a showcase studt wrk.

Providence CityArts or Youth,a community group, is primarily an extended-day program but also

prats wth th sh day, sadBarbara Wong, the program’s execu-t drtr.

CityArts ocuses on proessionaldevelopment as well as on lighteningth burd tahrs, Wg sad,adding that public school teachers

ar “strthd a t.”Rhode Island Citizens or the Arts

lobbies against proposed budget cutsat the state level to the Rhode Is-land State Council on the Arts. “Ourpst … trms mg thneedle or arts education has been

to support initiatives (such as theunding ormula last year) that work to create a healthier environment oreducation in our state,” Carnevale

wrt.

Sdeed

Funding levels in next year’s bud-get or school arts programs remainurta. “It s t ary t ha aconversation about what will hap-

pen in the arts going orward at thispoint,” Cox wrote. He said he hopesto know more about the budget in

Apr.Gov. Lincoln Chaee ’75 P’14 an-

nounced his budget in an address tothe Rhode Island General Assem-

bly March 8. Te budget proposes

increasing state aid to schools by $17.1 million, in keeping with the

state’s unding ormula, according toa Marh art th PrdJura.

Mayor Angel averas announceda new plan to combat the city’s two-year $180 million decit March 3. Itis still unclear whether the budget

will target arts education specically,Cara wrt.

“We have had a declining under-standing o arts and creativity in ourcountry or some time,” she wrote.

“W may ha st a ss (art’s)pa ur sty.”

Baus udg r th arts hashagd rm yar t yar, tahrsha t “had a stady udrstad-ing o their allotted unding,” sheaddd. “Ts maks t ry hard rany community to plan and strat-

gz arud thr gas.”Tough schools have consistently

received less unding in the arts overthe past several years, non-prot artsorganizations continue to receivegrats rm th Rhd Isad StatCouncil on the Arts and other sourc-

s t g t shs ad tah arts,Cara wrt.

rinity Rep, or example which

rus ar-sh ad summr pr-

grams as well as workshops andd trps durg th sh day still hopes to expand its programsthrough more outside grants, But-

trd sad.Cara addd that may ad-

ministrators in the district are dis-

tratd by thr prbms pagugthe education system. “I nd su-perintendents and education lead-

ers wanting arts inside schools,”sh wrt, “but thy ar sumdwith working to get the whole system

hathy.”

Community groups lobby for arts funding in schoolscotiud fom ag 1

ystrday. Ty addd that tahrseligible or retirement will be oereda one-time stipend to leave at the

d th sh yar t rdu thumbr tahrs rd t ainvoluntarily. Te ocials expect thesgs ad ays t sa th ty $2 m.

Six community orums haveb shdud t dsuss th s-ings starting March 22, according tosra ws surs.

“Te Providence eachers Unions st ppsd t th sgs as a

attempt to address the inancialcrisis,” Debra Morais, a union rep-

resentative, told Te Herald. Teunion views collective bargaining

agrmts ad atrat ways tcut spending as better solutions to

th ty’s budgt rss, Mras sad.Morais said the union is currently

usg “tryg t t ads tahrs.”

Te school closings “should al-

low the retention o the best andbrightest among teachers,” saidVtr Prugh, Rhd Isad C-lege proessor emeritus o politicalscience and director o the polling

rm Qust Rsarh. Prugh sad

the smaller number o schools wouldallow or greater concentration o

apab tahrs.averas’ actions demonstrate

a willingness to make tough deci-

ss t tak th ty’s hags,Proughi said. “Obviously the city has a tremendous scal issue that has

t b addrssd, ad makg thsrather bold steps and bold initiativesearly in the administration sets a tone

that ths mayr s gg t attmptto deal with the scal issues acing

the city in a serious manner,” he said.

Teachersunion opposesschoolclosings

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BB & Z | Cole Pruitt, Adrew Seide, Valerie Hsuig ad Da Ricer

Cloud Buddies! | David Emauel

Dot Coic | Esha Mitra ad Breda Hailie

C O M I C S

Reactions to yesterday’s full-page advertisementTo the Editor:

I rsps t th “PastaWa Ls” adrtsmt, I amstruck by three signicant untruths

th adrtsmt.O, radrs ar g th m-

prss that Isra s a tand powerless victim. Tis is arrom the truth. Israel is a nation

with a standing army, powerulallies around the world and 60yars dma r Past-a pp. Ts s t th NCAAbasketball tournament, where

teams are matched according torrds ad sks.

w, th ad as th wa a “s-urty but t kp ut tr-rorists, not Arabs.” Te implication

o this is that Israeli people must beprttd rm Pastas, a whom are believed to be terror-sts. Whthr ths wa s mad concrete or chain link is irrelevantbecause movement through thewa s tghty trd by th Is-ra Ds Frs.

Tr, th ad dars that Pa-estinians are kept in reugee status

by Arab utrs “as a wap their war against the Jews.” First

and oremost, this advertisement

quats Isra t a Jws, grgJewish dissent against Israeli occu-

pat ad ps. Sdy, threugee “problem” can be solved by ratg a Pasta stat. I k orward to learning more aboutsuts t prbms that a usinstead o reading an advertisementlike this one which conveniently leaves out crucial aspects o history.

Jesse mcGleughlin ’14

To the Editor:

I ound the advertisementrun on page 8 o the March 14issue o Te Herald to be highly s,t th pt whr I b-lieve that Te Herald should not

have run such an ad. Te ad that Iam reerring to, “Palestinian Wallo Lies,” is worded in an extremely aggrss, rtata ma-

r ad gs s ar as t -ud a Isamphb dpto a shadowy gure brandishinga mah gu had ad aQura th thr. I that thad was intrinsically oensive in

nature and that Te Herald shouldt ha ru t r ths ras not merely because it might o-

end some individuals. Tis adis an aront to every student at

Brown who supports peace in theMiddle East, regardless o his or

hr partuar ws th ssu.I ully support Te Herald’s

First Amendment right to reedom

th prss, ad I d t dsputthat Te Herald has the right torun such an ad as this. Still, TeHerald remains accountable or

everything it decides to publish,udg adrtsmts.

Consider, by analogy, i Fred

Phelps o the Wesboro Baptist

Church approached Te Heraldwith a request to publish an adpramg that AIDS was Gd’sway pushg hmsuaty.Should Te Herald accept such anr? I say . Tr ds t bsome kind o sanity threshold inplace to prevent the paper rom

becoming a general orum or pub-lishing hate speech and political

tr.

Nicholas Gaya ’14

To the Editor:

As a student at Brown who iden-ts as bth Jwsh ad Zst, I

was both prooundly angered anddisappointed at yesterday’s “Pales-tinian Wall o Lies” advertisement inTe Herald. Te sponsor’s claims are

not only inaccurate and distorted,but infammatory, incendiary and

provocative. It should be clear romthe onset that the advertisementds t rprst th ps the Jewish community at Brown,particularly that o Hillel. Te ad

was completely sponsored by andpdt thrd party.

Perhaps most egregiously oen-sive is his characterization o theMuslim Students Association as a

hate group and his implicit equation

o Palestinian activists with Nazism.His characterization o the claim

“Isra ups Arab Past” asgda s a attmpt t fatcriticism o Zionism with those who

maliciously plot or the destruction

o the Jewish people. Tis is perhapsequivalent to the claim that Jewswho are critical o Israeli policy, likemysel, are guilty o sel-hatred. Tisis enormously oensive to Jews andnon-Jews, Zionists and non-Zionistsand makes a mockery o the Jew-ish tradition o tolerance and ac-

pta.Te advertisement has enormous

ramications or the Jewish com-munity at Brown, particularly orstudents in Hillel who have been

wrkg t rpar tr- ad tra-mmuty rs that ha rsutdrom the Israeli-Palestinian confict.Te advertisement pigeonholes the

Jwsh mmuty t a rgd p-litical ramework one that is both

aggressive and hateul. He excludesstudents, like mysel, who believe

in sel-determination or the Jew-sh pp, yt mpathz wth th

gtmat ams th Pastapeople and the suering that they have endured in this long-standingft. H s as mpt -structing a fawed binary o oppres-sor-oppressed as the anti-Zionist

atsts h ams t dsda.As a Zionist and humanist, I

am embarrassed by the sponsor’sportrayal o the Zionist narrative.

I urg th Brw mmuty, bthZionist and anti-Zionist, to movebeyond the categorical demoniza-

tion o the other and engage in civildsurs that rgzs bth thsuering and aspirations o bothmmuts.

Harry Sauels ’13

To the Editor:

Te ull-page advertisement“Palestinian Wall o Lies” in the

March 14 edition o the paper

crosses the line rom advertise-mt t u-r hatrd.

I understand that Te Heraldmust operate with business interest

in mind: Nothing is ree and we allappreciate access to the University newspaper. However, that the ban-ner across the top reads “Adver-

tisement” in no way serves to ame-liorate the oense I took to this

graphic display o anti-Palestiniansentiment. I would not object to an

editorial espousing belies in theIsraeli state, but I cannot stand idly

by as such propaganda identies

an entire population as terroristic,

as “supporters o Hitler” and in-trs a “rug ‘ssu’” thatthey use “as a weapon in their waragast th Jws.”

Ts ad y srs t aatbeloved members o our Brown

community and manipulate read-ers with generalizations and claims

backed by zero actual evidence.

I shud hp that yu hd yuradrtsmts t th sam jur-nalistic standards as your writers,let alone moral and ethical stan-dards. Despite the act that it is

a adrtsmt, ts apparain Te Herald implies a level o complicity that refects very poorly on this University. Tis orm o

hatred stands in direct contrastt Brw’s gas mututura-ism and community. I hope thisdisturbing incident can serve as

th mptus t rst yur py on advertisements in the uture toensure that such oensive remarks

d t tu t appar urUrsty wspapr.

David Adler ’14

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E D I T O R I A L C O M I C by frances cho i

“Arts teachers have a icredible ability to do a lot

with a little, but the little eeps gettig littler.” Triity Repertory Compay Educatio Director Carolie Azao

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Ystrday, T Hrad ra a u-pag adrtsmt rm th Da-d Hrwtz Frdm Ctr abut th Isra-Pasta ft.It am th 0-yar arsary athr adrtsmt ru by Hrwtz T Hrad that ppsd th da payg rparats

r sary. T adrtsmt that was pubshd ystrday, k thatpubshd 200, has b dud as rast ad fammatry.Many members o the Brown community have criticized Te Herald’sds t pubsh t.

T Hrad ds t drs th sph tad th adr-tisement or the message contained in any advertisement we publish.But we do support the principle o reedom o expression and do

t sr sph ur pags that s t praty r hat sph.T Hrad wud t ad rg a -ampus spakr b-

cause that speaker’s views were abhorrent to some or all members o th mmuty. Nr wud w ad uy ad auraty ygsuch a speaker’s views in our coverage. Just as we would report ideasthat could oend some readers, we do not reject advertisements thatud d radrs.

Te Herald supports the right o individuals to express wordsand ideas that are controversial, provocative or highly oensive in

th ys sm r a mmbrs th Brw mmuty. It s urposition that a newspaper, especially a newspaper serving a university mmuty, shud t sr sph uss t s praty r hatspeech and that the standard or labeling speech as hate speech shouldbe a very high one. We determined that the speech in yesterday’sadrtsmt dd t mt that stadard.

Aer the 2001 advertisement ran, the interim president o the

University, Sheila Blumstein, now a proessor o cognitive, linguisticand psychological sciences, wrote in a statement, “Consistent with itscommitment to the ree exchange o ideas, the University recognizesad supprts T Hrad’s rght t pubsh ay matra t hss,even i that material is objectionable to members o the campuscommunity.” Tough we are independent rom the University, we

apprat that t rgzd th mprta r prss adb th prp s as mprtat w as t was 0 yars ag.

Support or reedom o expression rests on the aith that good

das w bt rm psur ad dbat ad that bad das w

sur rm psur ad dbat.We welcome letters about the advertisement and Te Herald’s

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Brown-RISD Hillel denounces Horowitz adTo the Editor:

Te student leadership at Brown-RISD Hillel would

like to express its disapproval o an advertisement thatran on page 8 o yesterday’s Herald. Te advertisementpropagated several Islamophobic, racist and hurtul

untruths by linking all modern Arab leadership to Nazidgy ad quatg Isam wth .

Tough neither Hillel nor any aliated studentshad anything to do with the advertisement, we eelcompelled to declare that there should be no place

or these spiteul, bigoted words in the Brown orany community, even under the guise o political

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We trust that the Brown University community w b ws ugh t w th “Wa Ls” adr-tsmt as a urtuat amp hatrd ad asurprstat H r th Jwsh mmuty.

The BrownRISD Hillel Student Executive Board

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sesible-opiio ratio o this colum.He ca be cotacted at

[email protected].

Advice from a young fogey

It is a truth airly widely acowledged that me ted to

reach a poit i their early 20s where their owledge

o pop culture comes to a screechig ad particularly

embarrassig halt. How else does oe explai the

edurig success o U2?

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moth or so o witer, ad ow we have three radiators

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Senior StaffWriter

One week aer Gov. Lincoln Chaee

’75 P’14 unveiled a budget thatwould impose new taxes and cutservices to close the state’s $331 mil-

lion budget decit, observers are stilltryg t srt ut what th budgtmas r Rhd Isad.

Tough the General Assembly

will most likely modiy Chaee’sbudget, the state legislature andth grr “appar t b thsame page,” said Maureen Moakley,Ursty Rhd Isad prs-sr pta s.

Te two-tiered sales tax which

wud wr th urrt 7 prtrate to 6 percent and expand the taxbase by imposing a 1 percent tax onsm urrty mpt gds adservices is similar to the sales taxexpansion Chaee proposed duringhs ampag. “T wh pakagcame as no surprise,” Moakley said.

By recommending the introduc-t a bradr sas ta, Chais “providing political cover” orthe General Assembly, so legislators

may be more willing to approve the

rass t rdu th dt, shsad. But awmakrs w st ky adjust some o Chaee’s propositions

to appeal to the public, Moakley sad.

Ashley Denault, policy analyst

at th Rhd Isad Pub Ep-diture Council, called the budget

“extremely ambitious.” It clearly sts ut Cha’s prrts ad wt y r th dt but asstabz th my th g-trm, sh sad.

Te proposed two-tiered taxwud b a “mdrzat urtax structure” and would providethe state a stable revenue source,

Daut sad.But Chaee’s budget does not

truy rprst a “shard sar,”Donna Perry, spokeswoman or theRhd Isad Statwd Cat,a tapayr aday rgazat,wrote in an e-mail to Te Herald.

“Cha s prpsg w tas everyday goods and transactions

that will hurt the struggling middleand lower class Rhode Islandersand struggling small businessesthe most. We don’t see how put-

ting new taxes on ordinary goods

and services will jumpstart the localmy.”

Chaee’s budget also addresseseducation. Te budget ully undsthe state’s education unding or-

mula which allocates nearly $700million to schools starting July 1

and dedicates an additional$0 m t hghr duat Rhode Island. While Denault re-

gards additional contributions tohghr duat as a “mprtatstep orward,” she said she wondersi the timing is right given the state’sdbt burd.

Even i Chaee’s proposed taxrass ar atd, sm thconditions aecting state nancesare out o the governor’s control,

ardg t Rp. Edth Aj, D-Providence. “It can be balancedtday ad t baad tmrrwbaus futuats ruand absolute need or services,” shesad.

T budgt prpss masursto increase employee contribu-

tions to the state’s ailing pension

prgram. Wth a $5 b t $0billion estimated gap between the

state’s obligations to pensioners andth my t has st asd t udthm, th grr prpsd thata stat mpys pa thr Juy pay rass tward ag thps prgram. Hs budgt asas r grmt mpys tcontribute 11.75 percent o their

pay t th systm.In his address to lawmakers last

uesday, Chaee announced thatgovernment spending or healthand human services must be re-dud. As spdg ths stris projected to grow by $96 mil- btw 200 ad 202 thhighest growth rate or any portion th stat’s pdturs smsrs must b ut, h sad.

“Tere will be people who are

ry uhappy,” Maky sad, par-ticularly i Chaee’s budget results inspdg rduts r Mdad,the public health insurance pro-gram which provides aid primar-

y t w-m dduas adchildren. But Mike rainor, Chaee’s

communications director, wrote in

an e-mail to Te Herald that the

governor’s budget does not addressissues o eligibility or access, butrather seeks to standardize the state’s

paymts t hath ar prdrs.“Te governor did not try to dis-

mantle any o the services in that

regard,” said Sen. Rhoda Perry P’91,D-Prd. I uts ar mad the Medicaid program, the resulting

reduction in preventive care or thestate’s neediest patients will ulti-maty t sa my, sh addd.Calling the program “one o thebest things in the state,” she saidshe would oppose any attempt to

sa bak Mdad.But Perry said she thinks the

budget is an improvement overpast budgts that ha sught utsin the state’s entitlement programs.“All in all, this is the rst budget that

I has ray t tuhd sm th ry, ry dy prgrams,”sh sad.

Recognizing the enormous task Cha has t rt, Prry sadhis proposal succeeds in reconciling

the state’s competing interests. “Al-thugh t sury w ha hagsmad by th Gra Assmby, t’s

prtty w baad,” sh sad.

Daily H eraldt B

Sports uesday tuesday, March 15, 2011

By aShlEY McDonnEll

SportSeditor

For the past nine seasons, the skiingteam has made it to the United StatesCgat Sk ad Swbard As-sat ata hampshps.Last season, the Bears came in thirdplace in the Alpine division their

best nish since 2004-2005. Butthis winter, the team was unable

to repeat its past success and ellto a 17th place nish in a eld o

20 shs.Captain Krista Consiglio ’11

said the Bears struggled becauseth urss at Su Vay Rsrt Idah wr tughr tha th thrslopes they had taken on this season.

“hey were very demandingcourses,” she said. “You had to be

ray tp yur gam. … Wmight have psyched ourselves outa bt, s w rashd ad burd.”

Te giant slalom course had the

maximum vertical drop permissible

or the event, Consiglio said. Prob-ms gat sam ha pagudthe team throughout the season, and

th duty th urs y -acerbated these issues or the Bears.

Consiglio said the team was even

more rustrated with its peror-mance in slalom. In the last our car-

nivals o the regular season, Brownhad nished in rst place in slalom

at each race. But the Bears could notdominate the event at nationals andshd th.

“Sam was dty a shk,”Consiglio said. “Giant slalom was

the event we struggled in all year ingetting girls down the hill. It was notas much o a shock, but just as disap-

pointing. When push came to shove,w st ud’t gt t tgthr.”

Tough the team ended the sea-son on a low note, Consiglio hersel posted strong perormances. In aeld o over 100 skiers, she came

in h in slalom and seventh ingat sam, wth tms :7.05and 2:26.98, respectively. Aer all

the skiers’ individual race pointswr addd, sh was th thrd-bstskier overall, earning rst team All-Amra hrs.

“It was nice to end my skiingarr that t,” sh sad. “Butt was dsapptg that th tamwas’t as sussu as I was at a-

tas,” sh addd.Ka Mstha ’2 as dd w

in giant slalom, coming in 12th with

a tm 2:2.. But sh was u-able to complete her second run sam.

Te team’s results at nationals

d t rft ts ptta, Cs-g sad.

“It was disappointing to see thatrsut, but at th d th day, t’sjust a umbr a pag,” sh sad.“We know that we’re still one o thetp tams th at.”

Skiers fail to repeat last season’s success

By alEX MittMan

SportS StaffWriter

Te Bears traveled to Vassar Collegeor the NCAA Northeast RegionalChampionship Sunday. Te bestencers at regionals qualied or thenational NCAA Fencing Champion-

shps, whh w tak pa Marh24-27 at Oh Stat Ursty.

“W ha had th bst rgasin the last 11 years,” Head CoachAtilio ass wrote in an e-mail to TeHrad.

Four encers rom the women’s

team qualied or nationals Kath-ryn Hawrot ’14 and Avery Nackman’ rm th squad, Cry Abb’13 rom epee and Caitlin aylor ’13rom sabre. eddy Weller ’13 o men’ssabre who came in 12th couldst r a at-arg tat tth turamt.

Hawrot came in third place, net-ting a medal nish or the team. Teother qualiying women all placedwth th tp 0.

ass said qualiying in this com-petition and moving onto the NCAA

championships was “one o our ma-jr gas” ths sas.

“Most o our season has been in-

tense … mostly in preparation orths mptt,” Nakma sad.

Te slew o tournaments “build-ing up to this was really helpul,”Hawrt sad, but sh “wt wth ptats” r quayg.

She was “pretty nervous at the

start th day,” Nakma sad.“You had to keep up with the pace

t,” sh sad. T tam was the foor or six hours, and women’sp d r s hurs.

Te rst round o the tournament

consisted o ve pools o seven enc-

ers, which got narrowed down in

th sd rud t thr ps s rs. T a rud wasa sg p 2.

Despite the long wait, the encers’placements in nationals came “downto the last minute,” Nackman said.

Te encers’ results or the wholesas, as w as th day thqualiers, actor into their selectionr th hampshps.

“Four women is a school record,”ass sad. I th past, th tam hasadad a sg ma mpt-tr at mst.

Both squads collectively have nothad more than our encers advanceto the championships in the past sixyars, Hawrt sad.

Regarding Weller’s possible spot,ass said he is “very anxious to know

whthr (th bd) w m.”“I am waiting as we speak,” he

sad.he women’s oil squad took

rst overall at the National SquadChampionship Feb. 27 at New York University, a presage to the team’s

quayg prrmas. Wm’sepee took third. Weller’s squad men’s sabre tied or third place

wth Ya.

Nackman said she was “excitedbecause (the championship) is a re-ally intense competition.” She saidshe is looking orward to encing

“the best people” and “hopeully trag a t,” but mst a taksprd “rprstg Brw w.”

“We’ve been preparing or this

or the whole season,” ass said,stressing that the team members’good preparation would carry themthrugh.

“I think we have a good shot,”

Hawrt sad.

Four fencers qualify forNCAA Championship

Courtesy o Bob Story

kia Mosenthal ’12 was one of two siers to perform well at the national competition, coming in 12th in the giant slalom.

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