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Beaming to the podium
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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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MONDAy, MARCH 16, 2009THE BROWN DAILy HERALDPAGE 2
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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Theres a difference between someone being our bossand someone to which ou report. Provost David Kertzer
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.
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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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correction
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