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vol. cxliv, no. 36 | Monday, March 16, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891

w By sydney emBeR

SeniorStaffWriter

More than a year into his tenure,

Vice President or International A-

airs David Kennedy 76 has alienated

colleagues over the direction o the

Watson Institute or International

Studies by pushing a legal studies

program staed by close personal

acquaintances with non-traditional

academic credentials.

In multiple interviews, aculty

members and administrators inside

and outside Watson expressed grow-

ing discontent with Kennedys ac-

tions in advancing his agenda, which

has included a global governance

program, the hiring o lawyers to Wat-sons aculty and a proposal largely

rebued to allow the Institute to

grant tenure to its appointees.

Kennedy, a proessor at HarvardLaw School, joined the Brown admin-

istration in January 2008, charged

with bringing his expertise in interna-

tional aairs and global governance

to bear on the Universitys eorts to

raise its global prole. The adminis-

trative structure surrounding his new

position meant the director o Watson

would report directly to him.

But just months ater Kennedy

started, the director, Barbara Stall-

ings, unexpectedly resigned, prompt-

ing Provost David Kertzer 69 P95

P98 to ask Kennedy to serve as

interim director in her place.

Since then, Kennedy has been

illing two jobs, overseeing new

partnerships between Brown and

international institutes o higher

education while leading the busy

Watson Institute balancing what

some have called an extremely de-

manding workload. The search or

a new ull-time director o Watson is

in progress.

David Kennedy already has a

major job as vice president or in-ternational aairs, Kertzer said,

adding that Kennedy would most

likely not be asked to ulll both jobs

permanently.

Though Kennedy said in an in-

terview last month that many o his

original plans to advance the Univer-

sitys international programs were

still on track, aculty opposition has

stymied the implementation o key

elements o his agenda.

Faculty members at Watson and in

related departments have expressed

concern that Kennedys proposedglobal governance program tilts the

Institute too ar in the direction o

legal studies, a sentiment echoed by

Abbott Gleason, an adjunct proessor

at Watson and proessor emeritus

o Russian history, who served as

director o the Institute rom 1999to 2000.

I think a certain number o people

dont understand what it is, Gleason

said o the program. Theyre suspi-

cious o a program that they dont

have an idea what its about.

Though a global governance

program would be well-situated in

todays international political climate,

Gleason said, some aculty members

see Kennedys particular vision or

the program as more betting o a

law school.

He came to build a legal institu-

tion, said Ross Cheit, an associate

proessor o political science, addingthat Watson oered a way or Ken-

nedy to create a strong legal studies

program without a law school.

Watson looked like a good place

to create a law school, said Proessor

o Sociology Mark Suchman, who

heads a legal studies colloquium at

Brown and was hired around the

same time as Kennedy to promote

legal studies.

Kennedy played the politics

wrong, Suchman said, and so was

unable to gain the support o col-

leagues or an academic program

that ew in theory opposed and

many backed.

He did a lot o things that werepolitical mistakes, Suchman said.

Institution building is a political

P DBy ellen Cushing

SeniorStaffWriter

A emale student was photographed

by a stranger while she was show-

ering in the rst-foor bathroom o

Diman House on Thurs., March 12,

Department o Public Saety ocials

conrmed this weekend.

The alleged peeper was a college-

age guy that had been in Diman previ-

ously, as reported by residents o the

house, according to Amanda Filiberto

11, vice president public relations oKappa Alpha Theta, the sorority that

occupies the rst foor o Diman.

In an e-mail to The Herald, Fili-

berto wrote that the alleged peeper

entered the bathroom on Thursday

morning and tried to take pictures o

the showering woman. According to

an e-mail sent by sorority president

Ellen Loudermilk 10 to members o

Theta on Thursday morning and ob-

tained by The Herald, he also tried

to open the shower curtain beore

getting on his hands and knees to take

pictures with a cell phone.

The woman was not hurt, accord-

ing to Mark Porter, director o public

saety or Brown.The woman screamed, and the

peeper let immediately ater, running

S S By kevin pRatt

Contributing Writer

Though the 2010 gubernatorialelection in Rhode Island is more

than a year away, potential candi-

dates are already gearing up or

the race.

Former Republican Senator Lin-

coln Chaee 75, a visiting ellow at

the Watson Institute or Interna-

tional Studies, told The Herald he

was very seriously considering

entering the race as a potential In-

dependent candidate. But he said

he would wait until April to nalize

his plans.

I want to nish my Brown com-

mitments and then make a deci-

sion, he said, adding, I know that

the University does not want any

mixing o political activities with

Brown duties.

Chaee said he had trouble at-

tracting college students to his

ormer campaigns as a Republi-

can. I anticipate now running as

an Independent (to be) a little bit

easier, Chaee said. I would wel-

come any support that might come

rom Brown students.

State nances and Rhode Is-

lands high unemployment rate

will gure prominently in the 2010

campaign, Chaee said.

Republican Gov. Donald Car-

cieri 65 aces terms limits in 2010

Aest y fiends! Its oK its f chaityBy matthew kleBanoFF

StaffWriter

At 11 a.m. last Saturday, Evan

Smith 09 awoke to a series o

knocks on his bedroom door and

a gru voice: DPS! Open up!Smith opened his door to nd two

Department o Public Saety o-

cers waiting or him.

I answered the door in my

bathrobe, Smith said. They told

me I had to get dressed because

they had to take me away.

Luckily or Smith, he wasnt re-

ally arrested. He was just a target

o Jail and Bail, one o the latest

pranks carried out by Browns Re-

lay or Lie committee, which orga-

nizes an overnight walk each year

to raise money and awareness or

the American Cancer Society.

Jail and Bail is an event where,

i you give us ve dollars and give

us the location o a riend at some

point on Saturday, we will have a

DPS ocer go and arrest them,

said Margaret Watson 11, co-chair

o Browns Relay For Lie commit-

tee and a Herald senior business

associate.

DPS ocers presented all de-

tainees with a warrant or their

arrest and brought some to a jail

in Wilson Hall 205, Watson said,

where they had mug shots taken

while wearing handcus. Other

captives were released on the site

o their arrest, ater posting a $2

bail.

The committee decided to pro-

mote awareness or Relay or Lie

Kim Perle / Herald

David Kenned 76 has alienated man colleagues at the WatsonInstitute in his efforts to create a legal studies program.

Min Wu / Herald File PhotoVisiting Watson fellow Lincoln Chafee 75

is considering a run for governor in 2010 .

Courtes of Rela for Life

Students were arrested b DPS as part of Jail and Bail, a prank to raisemone for the American Cancer Societ.

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CAPS wS Man of the leaders in m organization for m next electionwill be ounger people R.I. General Treasurer Frank Caprio

through the hallway and past several

rooms beore leaving the building, ac-

cording to Loudermilks e-mail, which

went on to say that DPS ocers ar-

rived quickly ater being called and

took descriptions rom Diman resi-

dents and the buildings custodian.

The department has two witness-

es, Porter said, and is working with a

description o the alleged perpetrator.

Porter called the matter under active

investigation.

Detectives are working on it

interviewing students, ollowing up

on a couple o leads on the description

that we have, he said.Under Rhode Island law, peeping

is considered disorderly conduct and

is punishable by up to six months in

prison and a $500 ne. University judi-

cial policy denes sexual misconduct

as non-consensual physical contact o

a sexual nature and does not explic-

itly reer to peeping.

Loudermilks e-mail indicated that

similar incidents have happened else-

where on campus beore.

Earlier this semester, a man en-

tered a womens bathroom while

someone was using the acility, Por-

ter said. The event is currently under

investigation.

We have had another report o asimilar incident with a similar descrip-

tion, so were ollowing up on that as

well, he said.

Though Thursdays matter is still

under investigation, DPS will work to

get the word out about the incident

among students, Porter said.

As a precautionary measure,

we want students to know what hap-

pened, he said.

While DPS does the investigative

work, ResLie has worked with DPS

and will continue to help in the eor t

to notiy students and provide support

to those who need it, said Dean o

Residential Lie and Dining Services

Richard Bova.

Bova and Filiberto both empha-

sized the importance o taking precau-

tionary saety measures. I would ask

that students continue to be as vigilant

as possible in identiying strangers

that are in their buildings, Bova said,

adding that students should lock bath-

room doors and be careul about let-

ting strangers into dorms.

We have taken the necessaryprecautions such as locking all bath-

room doors, and making sure that no

doors are ever propped open, so that

hopeully this incident will not happen

again in the uture and other dorms

can learn rom it, Filiberto wrote.

This serves as a reminder that this

can happen anywhere at anytime and

all college students need to be aware

o that.

and cannot seek reelection.

Brown students hoping toget involved with a Republican

campaign will probably join Rep.

Joseph Trillo R-Dist. 24, which

includes Warwick, said Brown Re-

publicans president and Herald

opinions columnist Sean Quigley

10. Trillo is now the only promi-

nent Republican in the eld since

Cranston Mayor Steve Laey an-

nounced earlier this month that he

would not enter the race.

Among potential Democratic

candidates, General Treasurer

Frank Caprio came out on top in

a recent public opinion survey

asking Rhode Islanders whichDemocrat they would choose or

governor. Caprio, with 30 percent

o the preerence, was ollowed by

two other possible Democratic

candidates, Attorney General Pat-

rick Lynch 87 and Lt. Governor

Elizabeth Roberts 78. Providence

Mayor David Cicilline 83, a Dem-

ocrat who was once speculated

to enter the race, announced on

Tuesday that he will not enter

the race and will instead seek a

third term as mayor, The Herald

reported last week.

Caprio said Brown students

will gure prominently in his pos-

sible run.When I ran or state treasurer

in 2006, my campaign was staed

and run by college students

mostly Brown students with some

other local colleges represented,

he said. I plan on using that mod-

el again. Many o the leaders in my

organization or my next election

will be younger people, college-

aged and recent graduates.

Many o the advertisements

used in Caprios 2006 campaignwere designed by Brown visual

arts students, said Xay Kham-

syvoravong 06, Caprios deputy

chie o sta. The Treasurers

oce uses Facebook, YouTube,

Twitter and a blog to engage col-

lege students, he said.

Caprio is seriously thinking

about entering the race, he said,

and has been preparing or the

2010 election cycle or the last

two years.

Ive raised over a million dol-

lars that I have on hand, and thats

substantially more than any other

candidate in Rhode Island now,Caprio said. Were well-positioned

to make the decision, he said.

Caprios campaign leads

the other potential candidates

campaigns in available unds,

with $1,001,062 in cash assets,

according to the state Board o

Elections Web site. The closest

runner-up is Lynchs campaign,

with $391,647.

Lynch aces term limits on

his current position as attorney

general and told The Herald he is

absolutely considering entering

the race or governor. Im stay-

ing in Rhode Island, Im raising

money, but the rst thing I haveto take care o is the job that I

have, he said, ci ting the economy,

consumer protection and crime as

prominent election issues.

Lynch said he ound working

with college students rereshing

and rewarding and would involve

them in a possible run or the

State House.

The Brown Democrats will not

endorse a candidate until a ront-

runner emerges ater the partyprimary, said the groups presi-

dent Harrison Kreisberg 10, add-

ing that the organization will use

its contacts within the oces o

state Democrats to connect Brown

students to candidates.

We have contacts with the

possible campaigns, and can put

students in a place where they can

have an impact, Kreisberg said.

Ali Wolson 12, the reshman

whip o the Brown Democrats,

said she was undecided among

the three potential candidates, but

expected her group to canvass,

phone bank and make householdvisits in support o the eventual

Democratic candidate.

Republicans on campus are ex-

pected to do the same once their

candidate emerges rom the pri-

maries, Quigley said.

Wolson, who campaigned ex-

tensively or Barack Obama with

the Brown Democrats, said the

gubernatorial race would be a lot

more local, but would include a

lot o the same kind o activities

as the national election, such as

person-to-person campaigning.

Citing the states 10 percent

unemployment rate, Wolson said

the ability to pull Rhode Islandthrough the economic crisis will

be her top consideration in decid-

ing between candidates.

Kreisberg said progressive

taxation and a ormula or state

education spending will be im-

portant in the 2010 gubernatorial

race.

across campus through unusualundraisers, as a sort o publicity

stunt, Watson said.

Part o the idea behind do-

ing these undraisers is to get the

word out or Relay or Lie and

make sure people are signing up

or teams, she said.

The oicers explained to

the targets o Jail and Bail that

they were not really under ar-

rest, but a ew people got really

scared, Watson said. Once we

explained everything, they were

ne, though.

Akira Rattenbury, who was vis-

iting riends at Brown, witnessed

the arrest o his riend Adam

Epstein 09 and was denitely

scared by the prank.

We had hosted a party the

night beore, and I was lying on

the couch, in and out o sleep, and

I woke up and looked up to see po-

lice out the window, Rattenbury

said. I just thought, Uh oh. What

did we do last night?

According to Campus Police

Ocer Elayna Boucher and Se-

curity Ocer Jarret DAmato, tar-

gets o the prank were all good

sports, but some were discon-

certed at rst.

The most disoriented were

the ones who had a long night

last night, DAmato said. They

look at the arrest warrant and say,Okay, Im still conused.

Some targets o the Jail and

Bail prank were not scared upon

arrest, because they were aware

o the undraising eort.

When Ethan Risom 10 was ar-

rested in his room in New Dorm,

he said he was a little conused at

rst, but, he added, One o my

riends rom Relay or Lie was

with (the DPS ocers), so I g-

ured it out pretty quickly.

Some victims o the prank de-

cided to get even with their riends

by issuing a counter-warrant,

Watson said. She added that, in to-

tal, DPS ocers arrested about

30 people Saturday.

Browns Relay or Lie commit-

tee also organized another out o

the box undraiser last week, Wat-

son said, when it chicken cooped

16 rooms on campus.

The committee thought it

would be unny and hilarious

to charge students $5 to cover the

doors to their riends rooms in

duct tape, Watson said.

People got really excited

about it, Watson said. We had a

table in the mail room, and people

signed up.

Roxanne Knapp 11, one o

the targets o the chicken coop-

ing prank, said she was alarmed

when she heard strange noisesoutside her door late at night.

I heard creepy ripping noises,

and weve had people try to get

in our door beore drunkenly,

so I was really creeped out,

Knapp said.

She was relieved when she

opened her door and ound mem-

bers o the Relay or Lie commit-

tee covering her door rame in

tape.

When she woke up the next

day, Knapp had to army crawl

under her tape-covered doorway

to leave her room, she said.

The committees co-chairs

Watson, Greg Young 11 and

Dominique Ferraro 11 came

up with their crazy undraising

ideas at a Relay or Lie summit

last November, Watson said. At

the convention, the committee

learned that the chicken coop-

ing and Jail and Bail are common

undraisers or other Relay or Lie

chapters.

Participants in the relay, set to

take place April 10 rom 6 p.m. to

6 a.m., orm 8- to 15-person teams,

which then collect donations.

Past Relay or Lie events at

Brown have raised over $100,000,

Watson said.

Kim Perle / Herald

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I , By Qian yin

Contributing Writer

The Ivy Council, a nonprot organi-zation o students rom all eight Ivy

League schools, will send about 20

students to Brussels, Geneva and

Istanbul to participate in the Ivy-

Europe-Middle East Summit.

The summit, which runs rom

May 22 to June 1, will bring to-

gether Ivy League students with

those rom the European Stu-

dents Union and Istanbul to es-

tablish an open dialogue on po-

litical and economic issues and

to promote cultural exchange, ac-

cording to Columbia sophomore

Taimur Malik, one o the events

co-chairs.The participants are very likely

to be the people that are leading

the world sooner rather than lat-

er, said co-chair Amelia Mango, a

Harvard junior. The idea behind

this is to set up a really great tone

or any sort o diplomacy in the

uture.

Participants will visit several

institutions, including the United

Nations oice in Geneva, gov-

ernmental oces in Istanbul and

local universities, and will havethe opportunity to interact with

political and economic leaders and

academics.

Mango said the summit pro-

vides a very unique opportunity

or undergraduates to get a rst-

hand experience o inter national

government.

The application or the summit

is due today and includes several

short essay questions and a pro-

posal or a project to be completed

during the trip. Two or three appli-

cants who demonstrate leadership

skills, commitment and a strong

interest in international issues willbe selected rom each school, de-

pending on unding, the organiz-

ers said.

Student representatives on the

council will try to acquire unding

rom each Ivy to send its students

to the summit, according to the

organizers.

We want it to be accessible to

everyone regardless o their nan-

cial situation, Malik said, but its

been very arduous or us to get

unding because o the economictimes.

Though the Brown chapter o

Ivy Council is not involved in orga-

nizing the summit, it is publicizing

the event on campus.

What Brown is doing is mainly

helping to publicize this event or

the community here, said Aaron

Foo 11, chair o external aairs at

Brown Ivy Council.

Foo said he was unsure whether

any Brown students are applying

to the summit.

To promote international ex-

change, in years past the Ivy Coun-

cil previuosly organized the 2008Ivy-China Summit, when more

than 20 Ivy League students vis-

ited China to hold a dialogue with

their Chinese peers and meet with

Chinese political leaders.

Malik said the council is looking

to build bridges with other Middle

East countries and Latin America

in the uture.

T () By matthew sCult

Contributing Writer

A tiny particle makes its way intothe bloodstream and latches onto

a newly dividing cancerous cell.

The particle is specially designed

to show up on a diagnostic scan,

allowing doctors to easily locate the

growing tumor. The particle may

even have its own set o cancer-

ghting drugs, which it could in-

sert directly into the cell, avoiding

the side e ects o chemotherapy.

This scenario may soon be a

reality thanks to the work o re-

searchers like Chenjie Xu GS, who

is the lead author o a recently pub-

lished paper about a new nano-

particle he and other researcherscreated. Xu, a student in Proes-

sor o Chemistry Shouheng Suns

lab, collaborated on the paper with

Baodui Wang, a visiting scientist

at Brown. The nanoparticle they

describe was developed with two

parts: one containing a protein an-

tibody that attaches to a cancerous

cell and the other with cisplatin, a

common chemotherapy drug.

Though both the antibody and

the drug are commonly used sep-

arately in cancer treatment, this

novel approach combines the two.

The combination uses the speci-

city o the antibody and the po-

tency o the drug to directly attack

cancerous cells without harming

healthy ones.

Current treatments use the

antibody to inhibit the growth o

tumor cells, but the patient must be

given an antibody injection on an

almost weekly basis, Xu said, add-

ing that the new treatment inhibits

the growth o the cell.

But, he said, you want the

tumor to shrink, not just stop

growth. Thats where Cisplatin

comes in.

The drug, commonly used in

chemotherapy, shrinks tumors, but

is problematic because it is non-

specic. Usually it is injected into

the body in large quantities and

harms both healthy and cancer-

ous cells. The new technique willallow doctors to release Cisplatin

directly at the site o the tumor,

avoiding the general side eects

o chemotherapy.

Another advantage o the new

particle is its clear visibility on di-

agnostic scans. The core o the

particle is made o iron and gold,

which give it a distinct magnetic

signature, making it easy to iden-

tiy with magnetic resonance im-

aging and computed tomography

scans.

A tumor cell used to be a

healthy cell, Xu said, noting that

in the early stages o tumor devel-

opment it is dicult to distinguish

cancerous tissue rom healthy tis-

sue through basic imaging alone.

Since early detection o cancer

can vastly improve the ecacy otreatment, having better ways to

detect cancerous cells early on

can be very valuable, Xu said. The

particle will show up on both MRI

and CT scans, giving more precise

inormation about the state o a

tumor aster, Xu said.

Currently, the particles have

not let the test-tube stage o devel-

opment, but Xu said animal testing,

in collaboration with Rhode Island

Hospital, is scheduled to begin

shortly. The researchers will rst

test whether the particles show

up on diagnostic scans, and then

examine how eective the particleis at administering the drug.

The particle will not be tested

on humans or several years, Xu

said.

Later, other antibodies and

drugs could be substituted into

the basic particle to allow di erent

medications to be administered to

other types o cells, he said.

The lab has received calls rom

several news stations and has been

contacted by science-business com-

panies about the new particle.

We publish a lot o papers

every year, this is the rst time

people are excited, Xu said. This

means our work is important.

K 7 ,

process.

Kennedy agreed to an interview

with The Herald late last month or

a related article, but reused on

multiple occasions over the past

two weeks to be interviewed again

or this article. Reached at his home

Saturday, he said, No comment.

When asked again yesterday i he

would be willing to comment or

the record, he replied in an e-mail,

I think we should leave it that I am

unavailable or comment.

Last month, when asked about

his agenda or the Watson Institute,Kennedy said, Its an open conver-

sation.

There are 700 aculty at Brown,

and probably 700 views, he add-

ed.

Because o widespread discon-

tent as well as budgetary connes

Kennedys global governance

program has not taken o as an-

ticipated.

There isnt really a global gov-

ernance program yet, said a Brown

proessor aliated with the Watson

Institute, who agreed to speak only

on condition o anonymity. Though

the program is in theory a good

t or us at Brown, the proessor

said, I think that a new director will

give it some content that will look

dierent rom what David Kennedy

wanted.

n-r

Part o Kennedys plan to cre-

ate a global governance program

has involved appointments to the

Watson aculty that were seen as

controversial, Suchman said.

Recent appointees to the criti-

cal legal studies program include

Dan Danielsen, a senior lecturer in

public policy, and Nathaniel Berman,

who will arrive at Watson in July,both o whom have close personal

relationships with Kennedy and

have Harvard J.D. degrees but not

doctorates.

Danielsen is in a romantic rela-

tionship with Kennedy, and Berman

is a ormer student o Kennedys.

Multiple aculty members ap-

pointed in the last year were also

Kennedys close riends beore they

joined the Institute, said the proes-

sor who spoke anonymously.

Weve never had so many law

visitors beore, the proessor said.

Most o them in one way or another

have Harvard connections.

Having so many o these appoin-

tees coming to Brown rom the same

place is not the epitome o diver-

sity, the proessor said.

Many aculty members also

questioned the reasons or lawyers

attraction to Brown, given that it

does not have a law school. Many

said they oppose Kennedys tenure

proposal because they ear he plans

to lure high-prole lawyers without

Ph.D.s to Watson with the promise

o job stability.

Multiple proessors said Berman,

a ormer proessor at Brooklyn Law

School and Northeastern University

School o Law, signed a short-term

renewable contract but was prom-ised a job at Watson or 15 years.

None o those sources agreed to be

identied as saying so.

But Berman said he received no

such promise. What I have ormally

is a ve-year renewable contract,

he said, adding that i discussions

about tenure were to occur at Wat-

son, he would love to participate

in them.

Danielsen, who said he is not re-

turning to Brown next year because

o administrative issues relating to

the unding or my employment,

has also generated questions be-

cause o his close personal ties withKennedy. He denied having been

oered a tenure-track position and

said he was willing to come to Brown

assuming that my renewal would be

based on my perormance.

Gleason said it was possible that

the lawyers were attracted to Brown

because Watson oered them a wide

range o expertise to which they

might not have access at other uni-

versities.

Theyd rather be in a situation

where they can interact with people

rom dierent elds, he said.

Theyre interested in not just le-

gal topics, said Stallings, the ormer

director who remains a researchproessor at Watson. In some ways,

i theyre not in law school, they have

more space to do more things.

l

When a new Watson director is

hired, he or she may report to the

provost instead o the vice president

or international aairs represent-

ing a reversal o the policy imple-

mented at Kennedys arrival last

year. An announcement o a new

director is expected beore the sum-

mer, Kennedy said last month.

You oten nd people who would

like to report to the highest positionthey can, Kertzer said. The decision

regarding the hierarchical structure

will be decided once a new director

is in place, he added.

Theres a dierence between

someone being your boss, and

someone to (whom) you report,

Kertzer said.

Faculty members and adminis-

trators also suggested that some

othe tensions at Watson could be

attributed to uncertainty surround-

ing the budget and the search or a

new director.

Its sort o hard to know what

Watson will look like even a year

rom now, Stallings said, adding that

she expected big changes.

Though budgetary constraints

have led to rumors that Watson

may eliminate the international

relations and development studies

concentrations, Kennedy has con-

tinued to push or new initiatives

and programs.

Kertzer said it was unortunate

that more o Kennedys ideas have

not been realized, he said it was im-

portant to keep it in the broader

context rather than ocusing on

individual grievances.

David is a dynamo, Kertzer

said.


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ochesta pefms r.I. pemiee f Chasing Light...By Rosalind sChonwald

StaffWriter

Joseph Schwantner educa-

tor, musician and Pulitzer Prize-

winning composer bestowed

some o his creativity and intellect

on Browns campus during his

residency last week. The Brown

University Orchestras spectacu-

lar perormance o Schwantners

newest symphonic work, Chas-

ing Light..., was the pinnacle o

the weekend. The piece, commis-

sioned by 58 orchestras rom all 50states, is the largest consortium-

commissioning project in U.S.

history.

Brown was one o several small-

er contributors that jointly unded

the composition, which received

signicant support rom the Ford

Motor Company Fund.

Schwantner has served on the

aculties o several conservato-

ries in the country, including the

Juilliard School and the Eastman

School o Music. Though he has

ocially retired rom teaching to

devote the rest o his lie to com-

position, Schwantners natural

anity or learning and teaching

is undeniable. He clearly derives

satisaction rom spreading music

as well as rom learning about oth-

ers musical experiences, saying,

A wide range o types o musi-

cians are participating in this proj-ect. We dont know what happens

in the big middle o the country,

and in some ways Im learning

about how much activity there

is, because o the consortium Im

involved with.

The concert was the Rhode

Island premiere o Chasing

Light..., which depicts a morn-

ing in the New Hampshire woods.

In perormance, the piece was

fanked by Tchaikovskys Piano

Concerto No. 1 in B-fat minor

with soloist Bryan Chu 11

and Stravinksys Firebird Suite.

Schwantners clear, direct style

was smartly ramed by Tchaik-

ovskys obsessive thematic devel-

opments and Stravinksys prancing

and brooding ballet music.

With all the colors, smells and

textures you experience in the ear-

ly morning I wanted to capturethat, Schwantner explained in a

speech beore the orchestra per-

ormed Chasing Light....

Though there is no pause

between each o the works our

movements, they are easily di-

S , By anita mathews

StaffWriter

This years Student Art Exhibition,

which opened in the David Winton

Bell Gallery Saturday and runs un-

til March 29, is most striking or

the variety o media, traditional and

otherwise, employed by the artists.

Flannel, soda can tabs and eggshells

are just some o the materials the art-

ists have creatively incorporated into

the pieces eatured in the collection.

The diversity o media used seems

appropriate, given the heterogeneity

o subjects eatured and the style inwhich they are rendered.

Jesse Cohns 10 untitled work,

or example, is composed o chains o

linked paper clips, silver and brightly

colored, which together create a

large-scale map o the United States.

(Rhode Island is represented by just

two red paper clips.) Cohn uses rep-

etition o a mundane household item

to represent an ordinary image, but

in the process creates a piece that is

unusual and truly compelling.

Next to Cohns map stands Zach-

ary Smiths 11 piece, also untitled

a combination cabinet-table-lamp

made o wood, as economical as it is

aesthetically pleasing.Bart Dessaint 11 has two photog-

raphy pieces, American Dream: 100

Year Old Providence Grocery and

three distinct photos that together

make up Elementary Language.

According to the posted artists

statement, the series documents a

paper trail o revealing curiosities

enigmatic phrases and texts that

Dessaint ound at Reservoir Avenue

Elementary School in Providence.

In his statement, Dessaint also

said his primary goal with Elemen-

tary Language was nding the

simple beauty in an establishment

that enables the children to eel sae

and escape dicult situations.

The interactive pieces drew small

pockets o inquisitive viewers at the

exhibits opening. John Szymanskis

09 Interace is a swirling, bubbling

hurricane in a glass bottle sitting

atop an antique magnetic stir plate.

Ironically, written in capital letters

around the neck o the bottle are the

words Federal Law orbids sale or

reuse o this bottle.

Persephone by Galen Broderick

09 is an engineering eat as well as a

work o art. Two giant infated hands

are connected to a table where the

invitation Please Caress is printedaround a patch o aux ur. As view-

ers pat the patch, ans beneath the

table blow air into the infated arms,

causing the hands to move.

Slightly more traditional is Anne

Blazejacks 09 oil painting, Bathtub

Ritual. In this beautiul depiction o

a woman in a bathtub with a goldsh

swimming near her toes, Blazejack

uses perspective to achieve a playul

yet elegant eect.

Emily Martin 11 plays a dual role

in this years exhibition. Her piece

is an untitled lithograph o a mask

and baby dress. Martin is also the

subject o a portrait by Erica Palm-

iter 09, hung beside Martins ownlithograph, entitled Emilys Flan-

nel. The portrait is done in oil on

fannel, and Palmiter said she chose

an alternative to canvas to better

incorporate the person that I was

painting.

Palmiter also said she thought the

fannel represented not only Martins

style but also that o many others

at Brown.

Palmiters work is one o many in

this years student exhibition that il-

lustrates the praiseworthy talent and

multiarious perspectives o not only

the artists but also that o the larger

Brown community.

P bBy saRah Julian

Contributing Writer

To create his amous painting o a

Japanese oot-bridge, Claude Monet

used oil on canvas. Thomas Dein-

ingers interpretation uses Legos,

plastic beads, toy soldiers, soda

caps and other assorted recycled

items.

Deiningers creation is part o an

exhibit at the Providence Art Club

that eatures the work o New Eng-

land artists. The common theme:

Each piece o art is made o re-

cycled materials.

The idea o an exhibit made

entirely o trash might give rise

to conceptions o strange modern

art creations made o bottles and

cans, but the Art Clubs collection

eatured many surprising and even

beautiul works.

Mary Jane Andreozzis work,

called Joshua Tree, was a spoon-

shaped sculpture made entirely

o red, orange, brown and green

scraps o abric, mounted on a

wall.

In her ar tists statement in the

exhibition catalogue, Andreozzi

wrote, My work is inspired by

the grace, strength and beauty o

the natural world. She wrote o

her piece, you will see that each

change in color is a change in

abric.

The Reverend Bill Comeaus

entry, an acrylic painting entitled

Christmas on Water Street, was

one o the ew works that used re-

cycled cans. Comeau painted on top

o crushed Budweiser, Sprite and

Pepsi cans to depict visitors to the

inant Jesus Christ.

The exhibit included works in

almost every medium. A collage

by Lyn Hayden entitled Dutch

Painting Recycled was made o

book pages, stamps and dried tu-

SHALL W E DANCE ?

Katherine Regalado / HeraldNeeta Pal 09 danced in last weekends South Asian Students Association culture show in Salomon 101.

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AS CL Its the sense of exploration that excites me aboutpercussionists. Joseph Schwantner, composer of Chasing Light...

lips. Erik Goulds entry includedan untitled street photograph he

took using his other entry, Trash

Can Camera. Adrianne Evans used

sunlight and thermal exposure to

write the words sugar maple on

a maple lea.

According to Gallery Coordi-

nator Kristin Grimm, each year

the Art Club works with Fidelity

Investments, the exhibits spon-

sor, to come up with a theme or a

group show.

This year we both elt that we

had gone through most types o me-

dia and wanted to do something di-

erent and current, Grimm said.The result o their discussions

was the theme green works.

For each years show, Fidelity

gives awards to the artists o the

top three pieces. This year, rstprize went to Deininger or Study

or Stroking Monet, second prize

to Walt Chaney or Two Wooden

Renderings o a Building and third

prize to Jerold Ehrlich or his steel

sculpture entitled The Give and

Take.

In his ar tists statement, Dein-

inger wrote, I am an ardent envi-

ronmentalist not because I think

nature cares about us. Fact is we

are a product o it and art is, in es-

sence, humans refecting on their

own condition.

He explained Study or Strok-

ing Monet writing, With this se-ries o work based on already well-

known images rom art history, I

raise questions about value and

consumption, beauty and banal.

The consensus seemed to bethat Deiningers work was extraor-

dinary.

Grimm said o the painting, It

really embodies what this show

is all about. To take these cast o

objects and create this mesmer-

izing piece is a testament to the

artist.

Providence resident John Birtic

said he liked the top three pieces

and agreed with the order in which

they were awarded.

Barbara Green, an artist rom

Barrington, said she was intrigued

by the experimental work in the

exhibit, particularly by the startlingresemblance o Deiningers work

to the original Monet.

V k b

erentiated by variations in tone

and pattern. Though Schwantners

music is tonally and rhythmically

complex, it is accessible to general

audiences because o his emphasis

on clarity, direct communication

and sharing in the musical pro-

cess.Schwantner said promoting mu-

sic education was not his explicit

goal in writing Chasing Light....

But his avuncular attitude and will-

ingness to discuss process and orm

make him a natural teacher.

In a lecture in Grant Recital Hall

last Thursday, Schwantner enthusi-

astically drew the music students

who attended into a discussion on

the composition process.

Praising the fexibility and cre-

ativity o percussionists, Schwant-

ner asked, Are any o you percus-

sionists?

When one student raisedhis hand, Schwantner joked, I

you ask them to walk across the

foor on their hands, theyll do it

or you.

Its the sense o exploration that

excites me about percussionists,

he added.

Schwantner showed the same

spontaneity and responsiveness in a

workshop sponsored by Communi-

ty MusicWorks, a musical education

and outreach center in Providencethat was started by Brown gradu-

ates. The composer who based

Chasing Light... on a poem he

had written described his cre-

ative process in a simplied orm so

that the elementary school children

could understand and relate to it.

He selected a poem one o our

students wrote and did a really

rough version o what he did with

his piece, said Sarah Stalnaker, a

resident musician at Community

MusicWorks. He composed a piece

with us. The teachers were in the

ront o the room, and the students

were in a horseshoe around him.It was an awesome eight-line poem

and we were able to get through six

lines with him.

Schwantner told The Herald his

early experiences probably led to

his gushing enthusiasm or music,

especially on the subject o teacher-

student exchange. He credits his

high school band director who

also arranged music or a Chicago

radio orchestra with inspiring

and enabling several students to

become proessional musicians.

He set a very high bar in terms

o his work as a proessional com-

poser, Schwantner explained.

Some musicians in my high school

wound up being quite prominent in

the Count Basie band.

Schwantner extolled the impor-

tance o teachers in turning young

talent into mature, experienced

musicians.

People in music invariably start

quite young, he said. Two things

happen: Their talent is identied,

and their parents see to it that their

talent is advanced. How many chil-dren do you know who want to be

economists?

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The Brown Dail Herald

G f By elisaBeth avallone

SportS StaffWriter

Following a second-place nish at

Ivies last weekend, the Bears came

back even stronger or senior night

against West Chester University.

Earning rst through ourth in each

event, the Bears totaled 188.350

compared to West Chesters 179.400

in their last meet beore the ECACChampionships.

Captain Jennier Sobuta 09,

though sad to see her Brown ca-

reer nearing an end, refected on

how proud she was o the team.

Weve come a long way since

September and the conidence

and pride I see in all the girls eyes

this year is something Ill always

remember, said Sobuta. Its really

an exciting time or our program

and I think weve shown not only

the other Ivies but the other teams

in the ECAC that we are capable

o giving them a real run or their

money. I hope that next weekend at

ECACs we can make all the smalladjustments that are necessary to

nally nish o the season with a

190 team score.

Carli Wieseneld 12 started o

the Bears on vault, nishing in rst

with a 9.525. For second place, Lau-

ren Tucker 12 and Chelsey Binkley

11 earned a 9.425. Helen Segal 10

earned a personal best and ourth

place with a 9.400, and Lilly Siems

12 (9.300) nished in th. Brown

tallied 47.075 on the event.

On bars, Victoria Zanelli 11

earned rst, scoring a 9.650. Siems

posted a personal best o 9.475 or

second place. Isabelle Kirkham-

Lewitt 10 (9.225) placed third, Vida

Rivera 11 (9.100) ourth and Sobuta

(8.950) th. Again winning the

event, Brown posted a combined

46.000.

The Bears continued to domi-

nate on the beam, tallying 47.225.Binkley and Sobuta each posted

a 9.500 or irst, while Tucker

(9.475), Zanelli (9.425) and Siems

(9.324) placed third through th,

respectively.

In Browns best event o the

night, the foor exercise, Segal led

the way with a 9.725. Binkley se-

cured second with a 9.700, ollowed

by Katie Goddard 12 in third with a

9.500. Tucker (9.375) placed ourth,

and Whitney Diederich 09 (9.350)

took sixth.

Zanelli won the all-around title,

tallying a 37.375.

Yesterday was a great closure

or a home meet, Zanelli said. We

still had a couple mistakes, but the

team has denitely progressed so

much this season. The consistency

and condence refected at prac-

tice and at the meets will make this

weekend at ECACs very exciting.All the hard work has absolutely

paid o.

The Bears compete next at the

ECAC championship on Mar. 21

at Yale.

Friday night was our best over-

all team perormance this season,

said Head Coach Sara Carver-Milne.

We counted the ewest mistakes o

any competition. ... The team did

a great job perorming or a large,

enthusiastic and supportive crowd

o Brown ans in our nal home

meet o 2009. It was a great tribute

to our seniors, or their our years

o dedication to the program.

. By katie wood

aSSiStantSportS editor

The womens tennis team rolled

to a 6-1 victory over St. Johns and

a 7-0 whitewashing o Albany on

Saturday at the Pizzitola Center to

extend the teams winning streak

to eight matches.

The Bears (12-2) controlled the

two matches rom start to nish,

losing only 16 games in six doubles

matches. Five players earned three

wins apiece or the team.

The great thing about our team

is that we get along really well, and

it shows, said Bianca Aboubakare

11. It has a lot to do with our team

chemistry out on the foor.

Br 6, s. J 1

Bianca Aboubakare and Cassan-

dra Herzberg 12 took care o busi-

ness in the No. 1 doubles match,

winning 8-3. Carissa Aboubakare

12 and Sara Mansur 09 handled

their opponents by the same total

o 8-3. Emily Ellis 10 and Kathrin

Sorokko 10 claimed the doubles

point over the Red Storm, 8-2.

Ira Aleksova was ready or her

match at No. 1 singles against Bi-

anca Aboubakare. Aleksova battled

through her serve, sending the rst

game into deuce multiple times

beore Aboubakare broke herserve. Aboubakare dropped only

two games in the rst set, winning

6-2, and played fawlessly in the

second as she pulled out an impres-

sive 6-0 win.

I became more rugal with

my decisions, Bianca Abouba-

kare said. I didnt make as many

errors and nished points more

quickly, orcing her to make more

errors.

No. 2 Mansur, No. 3 Tanja

Vucetic 10 and No. 5 Catherine

Stewart 12 each pulled away rom

their opponents and cruised to easy

wins, never giving up more than

three games in each set. No. 4 Ju-

lie Flanzer 12 won her rst set,

6-4, but ound a little trouble in thesecond , alling 3-6. She persevered

through the tie breaker or a 10-6

win. No. 6 Brett Finkelstein 09 lost

a close match ater pulling out a

tight win in the rst set, 6-4. She

ell 3-6 and could not come back

rom her strong start, losing the tie

breaker, 10-8. Finkelsteins loss was

the only match the Bears dropped

the entire day.

Br 7, ab 0

The Bears continued their hot

streak and dominated Albany rom

start to nish.

Bianca Aboubakare and Herz-berg won in a convincing ashion,

8-1, at No. 1 doubles. No. 2 doubles

team Carissa Aboubakare and Man-

sur and No. 3 Ellis and Sorokko

also pulled away with wins to take

an early 1-0 lead.

Bianca Aboubakare sat out the

singles play against Albany ater

supporting her team with a solid

three wins on the day. Herzberg

took over her duties at No. 1 sin-

gles, controlling her opponent rom

the rst serve, 6-0, 6-0. Vucetic

lled in or Mansur at No. 2 singles,

battling through three sets or the

4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win.

All the new players have lledin when needed and have brought

up the teams level o play, Bianca

Aboubakare said. We have great

practices because everyone is ght-

ing or a spot.

Flanzer moved up a spot to No.

3, pulling out a tight victory, 6-4, 7-6

(2). At No. 4, Carissa Aboubakare

tallied her third win o the day as

she cruised to a 6-1, 6-1 win. No.

5 Ellis also rose to the challenge,

staying alive or a 6-4, 7-6 (4) win.

Alexa Baggio 09 closed out the

day or the Bears with a three-set

W. lacrosse opens Ivyseason with a winBy andRew BRaCa

SportS editor

The womens lacrosse team beat

Harvard, 12-8, in its Ivy League

opener Saturday on Berylson Fam-

ily Fields home tur, exorcising the

demons o our straight losses to

the Crimson.

Weve lost by one goal (to Har-

vard) or the last two years, so to

come out and win by a ew was a

huge testament to how ar weve

come as a program and how hard

our team works, said Head Coach

Keely McDonald 00.

Ater enduring a 14-13 loss in

Cambridge the previous season,

the win was especially sweet or

the seniors, said Jesse Nunn 09.

Its something we deinitely

wanted to do, she said. Last

year kind o let a bad taste in our

mouth, so getting back out there

and getting a win over them today

was great.

Nunn, who had missed the

previous two games because o

an injury, returned to lead eight

Brown scorers with our goals and

an assist.

Shes a senior leader or us,

McDonald said. It was really nice

to have her back.

The Bears (3-2, 1-0 Ivy) domi-

nated the Crimson (2-3, 0-1) over

the irst 21 minutes. Nunn got

Bruno o to a ast start, striking

just 1:11 into the game to give

her team a lead it would never

relinquish.

Kelly Robinson 09 picked o

a Harvard pass and took the ball

right to the net 1:22 later. Ater

Katelyn Caro 12 scored twice in a

row, Brown had a commanding 4-0

lead just 8:07 into the game.

McDonald credited her teams

Herald File Photo

Chelse Binkle 11, along with Lauren Tucker 12, earned a 9.425to finish in second place.

Justin Coleman / Herald

The womens lacrosse team beat Harvard this weekend after losing to the Crimson 14-13 last season.

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SPSonday The knew it was going to be a bloodbath. Keel McDonald 00, w. lacrosse head coach

ast start to the players ocus and

ortitude.They knew it was going to

be a bloodbath, she said. They

knew they had to be ready, and I

think they took that to heart and

went ater the ground balls and

the draws and put us ahead early,

which I think really made the game

or us.

Jess Halpern inally put the

Crimson on the board with one

o her three goals, but Nunn an-

swered just 37 seconds later o a

beautiul pass rom Molly McCa-

rthy 10, one o her three assists.

The game was scoreless or

9:28 beore Alexa Caldwell 11increased Brunos lead to 6-1 on

a ree position shot. When Nunn

notched her third goal o the game

just 1:18 later, the rout appeared

to be on. The Bears had built a

7-1 lead with 9:12 still remaining

beore haltime.

Our ocus (was) to take care

o the ball on the attack (and) stay

composed, Nunn said. Our mid-

ield transition was great. Another

thing we also ocused on was the

ride, our deensive ride out in

transition. I think we did a really

good job o that and caused a lot

o turnovers.

But the Crimson came roaringback with ive straight goals, as

the Brown oense succumbed to

tighter Crimson deense around

the net to suer through a score-

less stretch o 15:03.

Halpern scored two o Harvards

three goals in the waning minutes

o the irst hal to cut the deicit tothree heading into haltime. Ater

Sarah Bancrot struck 1:31 into the

second hal, Kaitlin Martin scored

on a ree position shot 39 seconds

later to cut Browns lead to 7-6.

The momentum appeared to be

squarely on the side o the Crim-

son, but Nunn said the Bears were

not azed by Harvards run.

Theres going to be ups and

downs, (but) I think we responded

to that really well, she said. We

kept our composure, and we were

really conident throughout the

whole game that we knew we could

take it, so it was all right.The Bears never allowed the

Crimson to tie the score, answer-

ing each time Harvard scored.

Bethany Buzzell 09 extended the

lead to 8-6 on a ree position shot

5:51 into the second hal. Martin

again cut the lead to one goal on

a ree position shot 2:35 later, but

Nunn answered 1:17 later to give

Brown a 9-7 lead.

Bancrot again cut the lead to

one goal on a ree position shot

1:38 later, but the Crimson would

not score again or the inal 18:39

o the game.

Brown took a 10-8 lead with

13:29 remaining when KaelaMcGilloway 12 scored o a eed

rom Buzzell.

Isabel Harvey 10 then made

the most important o her eight

saves, stopping Sara Floods ree

position shot with just over 11

minutes remaining to preserve

Browns two-goal lead.The Bears were able to milk

the clock with patient oense

or much o the remainder o the

game. Paris Waterman 11 and co-

captain Lauren Vitkus 09 tacked

on goals with 6:24 and 29 seconds

let, respectively, to produce the

12-8 inal score.

Brown outshot Harvard, 35-19.

The Bears were also aster hold-

ing a 25-17 advantage in ground

balls and smoother with the ball,

committing only 11 turnovers to

the Crimsons 24.

Val Sherry 09 led the Bears

with three caused turnovers andadded three ground balls, while

Robinson secured ive ground balls

and Vitkus had our. Co-captain

Noelle DiGioia 09 won our draw

controls.

The Bears will play three games

over spring break, traveling to

Storrs, Conn., to ace UConn (0-

7) on Saturday. They will then host

Oregon (4-2) next Tuesday and

ace Dartmouth (2-2) March 28

in Hanover, N.H. McDonald said

the team would use the ull week

o practices ahead to ocus on get-

ting back to the basics, a prospect

Nunn said the team welcomes.

Weve seen how well wecan play, Nunn said. I think

everyones just excited to get

out there on Monday and get

practicing again.


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thriller. She won, 6-4, beore losing

the second set, 6-7 (5). She kept

the ght up in the tie breaker and

came away with a tight 10-7 win to

claim the match.

Ellis, Herzberg and Mansur

also tallied three wins apiece or

the Bears.

The Bears will look to extend

their winning streak against Da-

vidson, Charlotte and Furman

over spring break beore return-ing home or an Ivy League battle

against Yale on March 29.

The road trip will give the Bears

a lot o experience needed or the

last stretch o games to nish out

the season, according to Bianca

Aboubakare.

They will probably be think-

ing that we wont be as good as

them because were rom the Ivy

League, she said. But we have a

lot o ght in us.


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unde pesse, obama tns t his e-mail listBy ChRis Cillizza

WaShington poSt

WASHINGTON President Obama

will kick o an all-out grass-roots e-

ort Monday urging Congress to pass

his $3.55 trillion budget, activating

the extensive campaign apparatus

he built during his successul 2008

candidacy or the rst time since tak-

ing oce.

The campaign, which will be run

under the aegis o the Democratic Na-

tional Committee, will rely heavily on

the 13 million-strong e-mail list put to-

gether during the campaign and now

under the control o Organizing or

America (OFA), a group overseen bythe DNC. Aides amiliar with the plan

said it is an unprecedented attempt to

transer the grass-roots energy built

during the presidential campaign into

an eort to sway Congress.

David Ploue, who was Obamas

campaign manager and is now an

adviser to OFA, called this eort the

rst major engagement o the group

in the legislative process and said in a

statement that it will call on support-

ers to help the President win the

debate between those who marched

in lockstep with the ailed Bush eco-

nomic policies and now have no new

ideas versus the Obama agenda which

will help us manage the short termeconomic crisis and puts us on the

path to long term prosperity.

Ploue, who passed up a ormal

role in the White House but remains a

conduit to the army o Obama volun-

teers, sent an e-mail to the OFA mail-

ing list over the weekend signaling

the ramping up o the campaign or

the presidents budget. In the next

ew weeks well be asking you to do

some o the same things we asked o

you during the campaign talking

directly to people in your communi-

ties about the Presidents ideas or

long-term prosperity, he wrote.

That push begins Monday with ane-mail asking volunteers to go door to

door Saturday to urge their neighbors

to sign a pledge in support o Obamas

budget plan.

A new online tool, to be unveiled

this week on the DNC/OFA Web

site, will help constituents nd their

congressional representatives con-

tact inormation so they can call the

lawmakers oces to voice approvalo the proposal. A midweek ollow-up

message to the mailing list will ask

volunteers to call the Hill the rst

time the OFA e-mail database has

been used to urge direct contact with

Congress in support o legislation.

Members are going to be sur-

rounded by this, and this is going to

carry on or the next several weeks

on this budget ght, said one source

amiliar with the strategy.

Several people closely involved

in this campaigns planning made it

clear that they believe this is the mo-

ment Democrats have been waiting

or since Obamas election the de-ployment o the volunteer army that

helped catapult a reshman senator

to the presidency.

When Obama announced the or-

mation o Organizing or America

via YouTube in January, he said the

group will build on the movement

you started during the campaign and

added: Thats why I am asking people

like you who ought or change during

the campaign to continue ghting or

change in your communities.

Obamas closest aides have been

plotting or months when to make

the move. Bringing Organizing or

America under the umbrella o the

DNC and installing a group o Obamaloyalists including Democratic Vir-

ginia Gov. Tim Kaine as chairman

and Jen OMalley Dillon, a highly

regarded campaign operative, as

executive director were aimed at

re-creating the disciplined organiza-

tion o the campaign.

This is exactly the scenario

OFA was moved into the DNC or,

to take on the toughest tasks, the

most transormational moments,

said one party source. Remember,

everything Obama wants to accom-

plish rom a substantive perspective

requires him to pass this budget as

a down payment and to draw linesin the sand.

Passing Obamas budget will not

be an easy task. Republicans have

lined up in near-unanimous resis-

tance, and even some Democrats

have voiced concerns about the huge

decit $1.75 trillion or this scal

year and the spending priorities

outlined in the proposal.

During an appearance yesterdayon ABCs This Week, Senate Minor-

ity Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,

said Obamas plan taxes too much,

it spends too much, it borrows too

much.

Obama is getting help in the bud-

get ght rom liberal interest groups,

led by Americans United or Change.

The group launched a television ad

Sunday, titled Crickets, that high-

lights the Republican opposition to

Obamas budget proposal and says

that GOP leaders have no new ideas

to oer. Tell the Republicans that

Americans wont take no or an an-

swer, the narrator says in the ad.Tell them we want our president

and America to succeed.

It remains to be seen, however,

whether the millions who volunteered

or and donated to Obamas presiden-

tial campaign will bring that same

energy and dedication to bear on the

ar more mundane task o trying to

orce a budget through Congress.

Volunteering to help turn out the vote

in a battleground state is one thing;

knocking on doors to seek pledges

o support or a budget proposal is

entirely dierent.

It is harder to inspire action on

policy issues than it is in a campaign,

said Terry Nelson, a senior GOP o-cial who managed part o Sen. John

McCains presidential campaign in

2007. Generally, ewer people are

responsive to the appeals, and the

environment that the appeal takes

place in is dierent than an election,

where volunteers are actually advocat-

ing to ellow citizens who also have

a vote. In legislative advocacy, the

actions are not as connected to the

legislative outcome.

The Organizing or America team

has held several dry runs to test the

ecacy o their volunteer apparatus,

including a call or supporters to hold

economic recovery house meetingslast month to highlight challenges

presented by the recession. The

house parties were designed to co-

incide with the congressional debate

over Obamas $787 billion stimulus

package, which passed with near-

unanimous Democratic support and

just three Republican votes.

Pk

jBy pamela ConstaBle

WaShingtonpoSt

LAHORE, Pakistan Unable to

crush street protests Sunday that

spilled out o this city and threatened

to reach the capital, the Pakistani

government announced early Mon-

day morning that it would restore

the ormer chie justice o the Su-

preme Court and a group o other de-

posed judges in a major capitulation

to opponents.

The move refected the weak-

ening position o President AsiAli Zardari, a key U.S. ally. Zardari

had resisted bringing back ormer

chie justice Itikhar Mohammed

Chaudhry or months, but he aced

mounting pressure rom a broad co-

alition o opponents who demanded

the reinstatement o Pakistans inde-

pendent judiciary and threatened

to march on the capital, Islamabad,

until Chaudhry was brought back.

The decision marked an ex-

traordinary victory or Pakistans

legal community, which has been

agitating peaceully or the judges

reinstatement or the past two years,

and or Zardaris major political rival,

ormer prime minister Nawaz Shari.He deed house arrest Sunday to

lead supporters in a boisterous pro-

test caravan along the 150-mile route

to Islamabad.

As word spread early morning

Monday that Prime Minister Yousa

Raza Gillani would announce the

judges restoration to oce, Paki-

stani television stations showed

jubilant crowds gathering around

Chaudhrys house in Islamabad.

Celebrations also erupted in the

Shari-led caravan, which was

traveling through the night rom

Lahore. The prime minister made

the ocial announcement at dawnMonday in an address to the nation,

saying Chaudhry would be reinstat-

ed March 21, and that lawyers and

activists arrested in the past week

would be reed.

This will restore stability to Pak-

istan, Athar Minallah, a spokesman

or Chaudhry, said early Monday,

as analysts suggested the move

and other concessions oered by

the government might heal the rit

between Zardari and Shari.

Pakistan, a nuclear-armed Mus-

lim nation o 172 million, aces a rag-

ing Islamist insurgency and a deep-

ening economic crisis. The growing

conrontation between Zardari and

a coalition o primarily secular op-

ponents has alarmed Washington

and raised the prospect o a pos-

sible army coup, just one year ater

Pakistan emerged rom a decade o

military rule.A spokesman or Sharis party,

the Pakistan Muslim League-N,

had said that he expected an o-

cial pardon o Chaudhry and the

other judges, in accordance with an

agreement signed by Zardari and

Shari last year.

Muslim League ocials had sug-

gested that once the decision was

ocially announced, they would call

o their long march to the capital

Monday and cancel a long-planned

protest. The government had sealed

o Islamabad with shipping con-

tainers and other barricades late

Saturday in an attempt to prevent the

marchers rom entering the ederalgovernment district. But as rumors

o Chaudhrys restoration spread,

many police barricades were with-

drawn rom the Grand Trunk Road

and hundreds o people joined the

procession in towns along the way.

Chaudhry and the other judges

were red in 2007 by Pakistans

ormer military ruler, Pervez

Musharra, because they reused

to take an oath under his amended

constitution.

Zardari had publicly insisted that

the judges could not be restored

until Pakistans Parliament had a

chance to make broader changes inthe constitution. But many Pakistan-

is and oreign observers believed the

president reneged on his pledge to

restore them because he eared that

the independent-minded Chaudhry

would reopen old corruption cases

against him and might also overturn

many o his actions as president.

C By melissa healy

LoS angeLeS timeS

Ater years o rustration, allergists

meeting in Washington, D.C., pro-

claimed a small but signicant vic-

tory against lie-threatening peanut

allergies.

Five children, long urged to

avoid peanuts like the plague, to-

day tote peanut-butter-and-jelly

sandwiches in their lunch boxes,

blithely share candy with riends

and accept snacks at other peoples

homes without quizzing their hosts

on the treats ingredients.

The children appear to have

lost their allergies, said Dr. WesleyBurks, a Duke University pediatric

allergist, who presented the results

o two clinical trials Sunday at a

meeting o the American Academy

o Asthma and Immunology.

The unpublished trials tested

whether peanut-allergic patients

could be helped to tolerate peanuts

by consuming tiny but increasing

doses o the ood, which induces

hives, itching or swelling and is

responsible or about hal the 150

annual ood-allergy-associated

deaths in the United States each

year. The studies are the rst in a

series o promising eorts to push

back this dangerous, and growing,

ood allergy.

As many as 3 million Americans

have an allergy to peanuts. The per-

centage o U.S. children with a ood

allergy jumped 18 percent in the

decade leading to 2007, according

to the Centers or Disease Control

and Prevention. Researchers have

puzzled over the cause o this rap-

id rise; some have suggested that

childrens dwindling exposure to

dirt, soil and animals has driven

the increase.

Although the studies are small

and preliminary, Burks said the

group plans to expand the num-

ber o children enrolled in the re-

search, and he hoped that within

two to three years the rst o several

treatments or peanut allergies will

be available to physicians.

Were encouraged, said Robert

Pacenza, executive director o the

Food Allergy Initiative, a patient

group active in promoting research

and educating the public about the

dangers o ood allergies. Although

only ve children so ar have had

a seemingly complete reversal o

their allergy, thats ve that have

achieved results not seen beore,

he said.

In the studies, conducted by a

joint team o researchers rom Duke

University Medical Center and the

Arkansas Childrens Hospital Re-

search Institute, children started

on the equivalent o 1/1,000th o a

peanut and progressively worked

their way up.

In the initial study, 33 highly al-

lergic children underwent the so-

called oral immunotherapy treat-

ment. Burks reported on nine who

had been ollowed or 21/2 years.

Five had weathered several ood

challenges without incident, eating

a substantial helping o peanuts un-

der the eyes o a researcher armed

with a syringe ull o epinephrine to

counter any sudden reaction.

All ve started the trial with

slightly lower allergic sensitivity

than the average subject. They have

been allowed to discontinue daily

therapy, although their peanut in-

take is still monitored, as are im-

mune reactions that might signal a

return o their peanut sensitivity.

Burks said he is unsure how

long the eect will last, but that

the ve children are the rst ever

to exhibit long-term tolerance o

peanuts ater having been diagnosed

as allergic.

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Students rom Brown/RISD Hillel and the Muslim Students Associa-tion recently engaged in one o the most innovative attempts to deal with

Browns segregation problem in recent memory. Its no secret that Browns

student body is stratied along racial and re ligious lines. Groups o riends

are oten homogenous, and many students extracurricular activities and

coursework are ocused on areas primarily or exclusively designed or

students o a par ticular ethno-religious background.

O course, this isnt all bad. Specially tailored groups help some students

eel at home in a new and alien environment. However, such comort should

be accompanied by dialogue with other segments o Browns population.

One o the most important benets o a diverse campus is the exchange o

ideas among people o distinct backgrounds who approach the world in di-

erent ways. Homogeneity among social groups threatens such interactions

at Brown by limiting oppor tunities or student-to-student conversation.

This problem was, in a subtle ashion, the target o yesterdays Hillel-MSA

event. Roughly 20 Jewish and Muslim students gathered on Lincoln Field

to talk, share Meeting Street cookies and play a game o pickup ootball.Unlike many events designed to create links between campus Jews and

Muslims (like the rank conversations on Middle East issues sponsored by

the unortunately now-deunct group Open House), there was no set topic

or weighty issue or the crowd on Lincoln to discuss. Instead, the students

acted like, well, students talking about their hometowns, avorite movies

and their intense disappointment at this years Spring Weekend lineup.

By not setting an agenda, Hillel and MSA leadership allowed students to

interact organically, creating a space where political and religious tensions

were orgotten and real personal connections could be orged. Such inter-

actions are the key to creating real bonds between the two communities,

and we applaud Hillel and the MSA or working to create them.

Other groups, both those that do and do not represent communities

with a history o confict, should emulate this model. For example, there

was mention in 2006 o a potential collaboration between College Hill or

Christ and the Queer Alliance on an AIDS testing drive, an initiative we

would welcome. Ultimately, though, its not about the precise orm o the

event, so long as par ticipants get to talking. And MSA and Hillel have justgotten o to a great start.

Editorials are written by The Heralds editorial page board. Send comments

to [email protected].

NAB works for Native students

t er:

We would like to thank The Herald or the recent

editorial (A Columbus Day by any other name, March

9) in which aculty members were urged to attend the up-

coming aculty meeting to vote on the motion to change

the name o the current all holiday to Fall Weekend.

Despite majority support, lack o a quor um prevented

the motion rom being passed at the last aculty meeting

on March 3. As reported in another article (Columbus

Day proposal still in limbo, March 4), Provost David

Kertzer 69 P95 P98 told The Herald that in order to

achieve a quorum o 100 voting members, students will

have to lobby aculty members to attend the next meet-

ing. Thank you or helping in these eorts.

The editorial also urged Native Americans at Brown

not to stop with simply renaming Browns vacation

days. NAB wholehear tedly agrees. Indeed, the eor tto remove Columbus Day rom Browns calendar is

simply one o many steps in our current eorts to pro-

mote awareness o Native American issues. We work to

strengthen the Native voice on campus in a number o

other ways, including advocacy or the recruitment o

Native American students, the bettering o our retention

and graduation rates, the employment o Native proes-

sors and the addition o courses ocused on American

Indian studies.

Furthermore, regardless o the outcome o the mo-tion, NAB plans to help organize several events in early

October to engage the Brown and larger communities

in discussions about the varied perspectives on Colum-

bus Day, and to bring attention to the Native American

histories which or too long have been neglected. It isour hope that these will become annual events.

The Herald specically suggested that NAB should

hold panels and talks on campus to urther educate

students about the eects o colonization in this country

and about the status o Native American tribes and land

today. NAB does just this through the year-long Native

American Heritage Series. This years theme is Native

Americans in the 21st Century, and our nal event is

the Annual Spring Thaw Powwow. A vivid demonstra-

tion o the beauty and importance o Native arts and

culture, Powwow is a unique opportunity or interaction

between members o Indigenous nations and o the

Brown community outside o the lecture hall. It also

draws visitors o all ages, who have oten never seen a

powwow, rom throughout the city o Providence.

NAB invites all o you to join us on April 4-5 onLincoln Field to celebrate our heritage and to learn

more about Native cultures at the 8th Annual Spring

Thaw Powwow.

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Programmer, 2008-9 Native American Heritage Series

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An opinions column in last Tuesdays Herald (Why the Corporation matters and how they get paid, March10) incorrectly identied Annette Nazareth as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner.Nazareth stepped down rom her position as commissioner in Jan. 2008.

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pinionsThe Brown Dail Herald

Theres been a lot o talk recently on this page

about the essence o the Brown student. But

what about the identity o Brown University?

University administrators and students o-

ten compare Brown to the ultra-prestigious

trio o Harvard, Yale and Princeton. They

mourn as that authority o authorities, the

U.S. News and World Report, mercilesslydrops Browns annual ranking among Nation-

al Universities rom 14 to 16. Last place in the

Ivy League!

But high school students, at least, see

something else in Brown. For despite the

U.S. News ranking, Brown ranks sixth as

high schoolers dream college, ahead o

Columbia, Penn and MIT. A 2004 revealed

preerence study by Harvard researchers,

which compared schools by how oten stu-

dents choose to attend them over other col-

leges, ranked Brown seventh. (Unsurprising-

ly, they put Harvard rst.) And or what its

worth, Brown is perennially among the top

three on the Princeton Reviews Happiest

Students list.

So what is it that causes Brown to perormso much better in those more illuminating

rankings than its basic statistic

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