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Watson director’s unpopular agenda draws ire
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staff Writer
More than a year into his tenure,
Vice President for International Af-
fairs David Kennedy ’76 has alienated
colleagues over the direction of the
Watson Institute for International
Studies by pushing a legal studies
program staffed by close personal
acquaintances with non-traditional
academic credentials.
In multiple interviews, faculty
members and administrators inside
and outside Watson expressed grow-
ing discontent with Kennedy’s ac-
tions in advancing his agenda, which
has included a global governance
program, the hiring of lawyers to Wat-
son’s faculty and a proposal — largely
rebuffed — to allow the Institute to
grant tenure to its appointees.
Kennedy, a professor at Harvard
Law School, joined the Brown admin-
istration in January 2008, charged
with bringing his expertise in interna-
tional affairs and global governance
to bear on the University’s efforts to
raise its global profile. The adminis-
trative structure surrounding his new
position meant the director of Watson
would report directly to him.
But just months after Kennedy
started, the director, Barbara Stall-
ings, unexpectedly resigned, prompt-
ing Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95
P’98 to ask Kennedy to serve as
interim director in her place.
Since then, Kennedy has been
filling two jobs, overseeing new
Several alums prepare
for race to State House
By Kevin Pratt
Contributing Writer
Though the 2010 gubernatorial
election in Rhode Island is more
than a year away, potential candi-
dates are already gearing up for
the race.
Former Republican Senator Lin-
coln Chafee ’75, a visiting fellow at
the Watson Institute for Interna-
tional Studies, told The Herald he
was “ver y seriously” considering
entering the race as a potential In-
dependent candidate. But he said
he would wait until April to finalize
his plans.
“I want to finish my Brown com-
mitments and then make a deci-
sion,” he said, adding, “I know that
the University does not want any
mixing of political activities with
Brown duties.”
Chafee said he had trouble at-
tracting college students to his
former campaigns as a Republi-
can. “I anticipate now running as
inside
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David Kennedy ’76 has alienated many colleagues at the Watson
Institute in his efforts to create a legal studies program.
partnerships between Brown and
international institutes of higher
education while leading the busy
Watson Institute — balancing what
some have called an extremely de-
manding workload. The search for
a new full-time director of Watson is
in progress.
“David Kennedy already has a
major job as vice president for in-
ternational affairs,” Kertzer said,
adding that Kennedy would most
likely not be asked to fulfill both jobs
permanently.
Min Wu / Herald File Photo
Visiting Watson fellow Lincoln Chafee ’75
is considering a run for governor in 2010.
an Independent (to be) a little bit
easier,” Chafee said. “I would wel-
come any support that might come
from Brown students.”
State finances and Rhode Is-
land’s high unemployment rate
will figure prominently in the 2010
campaign, Chafee said.
Republican Gov. Donald Car-
cieri ’65 faces terms limits in 2010
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Arts, 5
walking on eggshells
Students show off art made
of flannel, eggshells at the
Student Art Exhibition
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Kim Perley / Herald
Though Kennedy said in an in-
terview last month that many of his
original plans to advance the Univer-
sity’s international programs were
still on track, faculty opposition has
stymied the implementation of key
elements of his agenda.
Faculty members at Watson and in
related departments have expressed
concern that Kennedy’s proposed
global governance program tilts the
Institute too far in the direction of
legal studies, a sentiment echoed by
Abbott Gleason, an adjunct professor
Arrest your friends! It’s OK — it’s for charity
By Matthew Klebanoff
Staf f Writer
At 11 a.m. last Saturday, Evan
Smith ’09 awoke to a series of
knocks on his bedroom door and
a gruff voice: “DPS! Open up!”
Smith opened his door to find two
Department of Public Safety of-
ficers waiting for 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 for Smith, he wasn’t re-
ally arrested. He was just a target
of Jail and Bail, one of the latest
pranks carried out by Brown’s Re-
lay for Life committee, which orga-
nizes an overnight walk each year
to raise money and awareness for
the American Cancer Society.
Jail and Bail “is an event where,
if you give us five dollars and give
us the location of a friend at some
point on Saturday, we will have a
DPS officer go and arrest them,”
said Margaret Watson ’11, co-chair
of Brown’s Relay For Life commit-
tee and a Herald senior business
at Watson and professor emeritus
of Russian history, who served as
director of the Institute from 1999
to 2000.
“I think a certain number of people
don’t understand what it is,” Gleason
said of the program. “They’re suspi-
cious of a program that they don’t
have an idea what it’s about.”
Though a global governance
program would be well-situated in
today’s international political climate,
Gleason said, some faculty members
see Kennedy’s particular vision for
the program as more befitting of a
law school.
“He came to build a legal institu-
tion,” said Ross Cheit, an associate
professor of political science, adding
that Watson offered a way for 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 Professor
of 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 of col-
leagues for an academic program
that few in theory opposed — and
many backed.
“He did a lot of things that were
political mistakes,” Suchman said.
“Institution building is a political
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Students were arrested by DPS as part of Jail and Bail, a prank to raise
money for the American Cancer Society.
associate.
DPS officers presented all de-
tainees with a warrant for their
arrest and brought some to a “jail”
in Wilson Hall 205, Watson said,
where they had mug shots taken
while wearing handcuffs. Other
Sports, 7
Beaming to the podium
W. gymnastics dominates
in last meet before the
ECAC Championship.
Peeping Tom
snaps shower
pics in Diman
By Ellen Cushing
Senior Staff Writer
A female student was photographed
by a stranger while she was show-
ering in the first-floor bathroom of
Diman House on Thurs., March 12,
Department of Public Safety officials
confirmed this weekend.
The alleged peeper was “a college-
age guy that had been in Diman previ-
ously, as reported by residents of the
house,” according to Amanda Filiberto
’11, vice president public relations of
Kappa Alpha Theta, the sorority that
occupies the first floor of 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 of
the showering woman. According to
an e-mail sent by sorority president
Ellen Loudermilk ’10 to members of
Theta on Thursday morning and ob-
tained by The Herald, he also tried
to open the shower curtain before
getting on his hands and knees to take
pictures with a cell phone.
The woman was not hurt, accord-
ing to Mark Porter, director of public
safety for Brown.
The woman screamed, and the
peeper left immediately after, running
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Courtesy of Relay for Life
captives were released on the site
of their arrest, after posting a $2
bail.
The committee decided to pro-
mote awareness for Relay for Life
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Opinions, 11
GRAD Center GRIEF
Ivy Chang looks back on two
years living in the “stony
fortress” of Grad Center
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C ampus N EWS “Many of the leaders in my organization for my next election

will be younger people” — R.I. General Treasurer Frank Caprio

Peeping Tom incident under Candidates look to students for support

‘active investigation’
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through the hallway and past several
rooms before leaving the building, ac-
cording to Loudermilk’s e-mail, which
went on to say that DPS officers ar-
rived quickly after being called and
took descriptions from Diman resi-
dents and the building’s custodian.
The department has two witness-
es, Porter said, and is working with a
description of the alleged perpetrator.
Porter called the matter under “active
investigation.”
“Detectives are working on it —
interviewing students, following up
on a couple of 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 fine. University judi-
cial policy defines sexual misconduct
as “non-consensual physical contact of
a sexual nature” and does not explic-
itly refer to peeping.
Loudermilk’s e-mail indicated that
similar incidents have happened else-
where on campus before.
Earlier this semester, a man en-
tered a women’s bathroom while
someone was using the facility, Por-
ter said. The event is currently under
investigation.
“We have had another report of a
similar incident with a similar descrip-
tion, so we’re following up on that as
well,” he said.
Though Thursday’s 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.
Kim Perley / Herald
A woman showering in Diman was
photographed by a stranger last
Thursday.
While DPS “does the investigative
work,” ResLife has worked with DPS
and will continue to help in the effort
to notify students and provide support
to those who need it, said Dean of
Residential Life and Dining Services
Richard Bova.
Bova and Filiberto both empha-
sized the importance of taking precau-
tionary safety measures. “I would ask
that students continue to be as vigilant
as possible in identifying strangers
that are in their buildings,” Bova said,
adding that students should lock bath-
room doors and be careful about let-
ting strangers into dorms.
“We have taken the necessary
precautions such as locking all bath-
room doors, and making sure that no
doors are ever propped open, so that
hopefully this incident will not happen
again in the future and other dorms
can learn from it,” Filiberto wrote.
“This serves as a reminder that this
can happen anywhere at anytime and
all college students need to be aware
of that.”
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and cannot seek reelection.
Brown students hoping to
get 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 field since
Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey 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 sur vey
asking Rhode Islanders which
Democrat they would choose for
governor. Caprio, with 30 percent
of the preference, was followed by
two other possible Democratic
candidates, Attorney General Pat-
rick L ynch ’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 figure prominently in his pos-
sible run.
“When I ran for state treasurer
in 2006, my campaign was staffed
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 of the leaders in my
organization for my next election
will be younger people, college-
aged and recent graduates.”
Many of the advertisements
used in Caprio’s 2006 campaign
were designed by Brown visual
ar ts students, said Xay Kham-
syvoravong ’06, Caprio’s deputy
chief of staf f. The Treasurer’s
office 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 for the
2010 election cycle for the last
two years.
“I’ve raised over a million dol-
lars that I have on hand, and that’s
substantially more than any other
candidate in Rhode Island now,”
Caprio said. “We’re well-positioned
to make the decision,” he said.
Caprio’s campaign leads
the other potential candidates’
campaigns in available funds,
with $1,001,062 in cash assets,
according to the state Board of
Elections Web site. The closest
runner-up is L ynch’s campaign,
with $391,647.
L ynch faces term limits on
his current position as attorney
general and told The Herald he is
“absolutely considering” entering
the race for governor. “I’m stay-
ing in Rhode Island, I’m raising
money, but the first thing I have
to take care of is the job that I
have,” he said, citing the economy,
consumer protection and crime as
prominent election issues.
L ynch said he found working
with college students “refreshing
and rewarding” and would involve
them in a possible run for the
State House.
The Brown Democrats will not
endorse a candidate until a front-
runner emerges after the party
primar y, said the group’s presi-
dent Harrison Kreisberg ’10, add-
ing that the organization will use
its contacts within the offices of
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 Wolfson ’12, the freshman
whip of the Brown Democrats,
said she was undecided among
the three potential candidates, but
expected her group to canvass,
phone bank and make household
visits in support of the eventual
Democratic candidate.
Republicans on campus are ex-
pected to do the same once their
candidate emerges from the pri-
maries, Quigley said.
Wolfson, who campaigned ex-
tensively for Barack Obama with
the Brown Democrats, said the
gubernatorial race would be “a lot
more local,” but would include “a
lot of the same kind of activities”
as the national election, such as
person-to-person campaigning.
Citing the state’s 10 percent
unemployment rate, Wolfson said
the ability to pull “Rhode Island
through the economic crisis” will
be her top consideration in decid-
ing between candidates.
Kreisberg said progressive
taxation and a formula for state
education spending will be im-
portant in the 2010 gubernatorial
race.

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across campus through unusual
fundraisers, as a sort of “publicity
stunt,” Watson said.
“Part of the idea behind do-
ing these fundraisers is to get the
word out for Relay for Life and
make sure people are signing up
for teams,” she said.
The of ficers explained to
the targets of Jail and Bail that
they were not really under ar-
rest, but a few people “got really
scared,” Watson said. “Once we
explained everything, they were
fine, though.”
Akira Rattenbury, who was vis-
iting friends at Brown, witnessed
the arrest of his friend Adam
“the ones who had a long night
last night,” D’Amato said. “They
look at the arrest warrant and say,
‘Okay, I’m still confused.’”
Some targets of the Jail and
Bail prank were not scared upon
arrest, because they were aware
of the fundraising effort.
When Ethan Risom ’10 was ar-
rested in his room in New Dorm,
he said he was a “little confused at
first,” but, he added, “One of my
friends from Relay for Life was
with (the DPS officers), so I fig-
ured it out pretty quickly.”
Some victims of the prank de-
cided to get even with their friends
by issuing a “counter-warrant,”
Watson said. She added that, in to-
tal, DPS officers “arrested” about
the targets of the chicken coop-
ing prank, said she was alarmed
when she heard strange noises
outside her door late at night.
“I heard creepy ripping noises,
and we’ve had people tr y to get
in our door before drunkenly,
so I was really creeped out,”
Knapp said.
She was relieved when she
opened her door and found mem-
bers of the Relay for Life commit-
tee covering her door frame 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 committee’s co-chairs
— Watson, Greg Young ’11 and

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Kennedy ’76 clashes Ivy summit in Europe, Middle East
with faculty, University
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process.”
Kennedy agreed to an interview
with The Herald late last month for
a related article, but refused on
multiple occasions over the past
two weeks to be interviewed again
for this article. Reached at his home
Saturday, he said, “No comment.”
When asked again yesterday if he
would be willing to comment for
the record, he replied in an e-mail,
“I think we should leave it that I am
unavailable for comment.”
Last month, when asked about
his agenda for the Watson Institute,
Kennedy said, “It’s an open conver-
sation.”
“There are 700 faculty at Brown,
and probably 700 views,” he add-
ed.
Because of widespread discon-
tent — as well as budgetary confines
— Kennedy’s global governance
program has not taken off as an-
ticipated.
“There isn’t really a global gov-
ernance program yet,” said a Brown
professor affiliated with the Watson
Institute, who agreed to speak only
on condition of anonymity. Though
the program is in theory “a good
fit for us at Brown,” the professor
said, “I think that a new director will
give it some content that will look
different from what David Kennedy
wanted.”
Non-traditional appointments
Part of Kennedy’s plan to cre-
ate a global governance program
has involved appointments to the
Watson faculty 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 of 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 former student of Kennedy’s.
Multiple faculty members ap-
pointed in the last year were also
Kennedy’s close friends before they
joined the Institute, said the profes-
sor who spoke anonymously.
“We’ve never had so many law
visitors before,” the professor said.
“Most of them in one way or another
have Harvard connections.”
Having so many of these appoin-
tees coming to Brown from the same
place “is not the epitome of diver-
sity,” the professor said.
Many faculty members also
questioned the reasons for lawyers’
attraction to Brown, given that it
does not have a law school. Many
said they oppose Kennedy’s tenure
proposal because they fear he plans
to lure high-profile lawyers without
Ph.D.s to Watson with the promise
of job stability.
Multiple professors said Berman,
a former professor at Brooklyn Law
School and Northeastern University
School of Law, signed a short-term
renewable contract but was prom-
ised a job at Watson for 15 years.
None of those sources agreed to be
identified as saying so.
But Berman said he received no
such promise. “What I have formally
is a five-year renewable contract,”
he said, adding that if 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
of administrative issues “relating to
the funding for my employment,”
has also generated questions be-
cause of his close personal ties with
Kennedy. He denied having been
offered a tenure-track position and
said he was willing to come to Brown
“assuming that my renewal would be
based on my performance.”
Gleason said it was possible that
the lawyers were attracted to Brown
because Watson offered them a wide
range of expertise to which they
might not have access at other uni-
versities.
“They’d rather be in a situation
where they can interact with people
from different fields,” he said.
“They’re interested in not just le-
gal topics,” said Stallings, the former
director who remains a research
professor at Watson. “In some ways,
if they’re not in law school, they have
more space to do more things.”
Looking ahead
When a new Watson director is
hired, he or she may report to the
provost instead of the vice president
for international affairs — represent-
ing a reversal of the policy imple-
mented at Kennedy’s arrival last
year. An announcement of a new
director is expected before the sum-
mer, Kennedy said last month.
“You often find people who would
like to report to the highest position
they can,” Kertzer said. The decision
regarding the hierarchical structure
will be decided once a new director
is in place, he added.
“There’s a difference between
someone being your boss, and
someone to (whom) you report,”
Kertzer said.
Faculty members and adminis-
trators also suggested that some
ofthe tensions at Watson could be
attributed to uncertainty surround-
ing the budget and the search for a
new director.
“It’s sort of hard to know what
Watson will look like even a year
from 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 for new initiatives
and programs.
Kertzer said it was “unfortunate”
that more of Kennedy’s ideas have
not been realized, he said it was im-
portant to “keep it in the broader
context rather than focusing on
individual grievances.”
“David is a dynamo,” Kertzer
said.
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“There’s a difference between someone being your boss
and someone to which you report.” — Provost David Kertzer
By Qian Yin
Contributing Writer
The Ivy Council, a nonprofit organi-
zation of students from 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 from
May 22 to June 1, will bring to-
gether Ivy League students with
those from 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 of the event’s
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
Har vard junior. “The idea behind
this is to set up a really great tone
for any sort of diplomacy in the
future.”
Participants will visit several
The (nano)future of cancer treatment
By Matthew Scult
Contributing Writer
A tiny particle makes its way into
the 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 of cancer-
fighting drugs, which it could in-
sert directly into the cell, avoiding
the side effects of chemotherapy.
This scenario may soon be a
reality thanks to the work of re-
searchers like Chenjie Xu GS, who
is the lead author of a recently pub-
lished paper about a new nano-
particle he and other researchers
created. Xu, a student in Profes-
sor of Chemistr y Shouheng Sun’s
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-
ficity of the antibody and the po-
tency of the drug to directly attack
institutions, including the United
Nations of fice in Geneva, gov-
ernmental offices in Istanbul and
local universities, and will have
the opportunity to interact with
political and economic leaders and
academics.
Mango said the summit pro-
vides “a ver y unique opportunity”
for undergraduates to get a first-
hand experience of “international
government.”
The application for the summit
is due today and includes several
short essay questions and a pro-
posal for 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 will
be selected from each school, de-
pending on funding, the organiz-
ers said.
Student representatives on the
council will tr y to acquire funding
from each Ivy to send its students
to the summit, according to the
organizers.
“We want it to be accessible to
cancerous cells without harming
healthy ones.
Current treatments use the
antibody to inhibit the growth of
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 of the cell.
But, he said, “you want the
tumor to shrink, not just stop
growth.” That’s where Cisplatin
comes in.
The drug, commonly used in
chemotherapy, shrinks tumors, but
is problematic because it is non-
specific. Usually it is injected into
the body in large quantities and
harms both healthy and cancer-
ous cells. The new technique will
allow doctors to release Cisplatin
directly at the site of the tumor,
avoiding the general side effects
of chemotherapy.
Another advantage of the new
particle is its clear visibility on di-
agnostic scans. The core of the
particle is made of iron and gold,
which give it a distinct magnetic
signature, making it easy to iden-
tify 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 of tumor devel-
opment it is difficult to distinguish
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everyone regardless of their finan-
cial situation,” Malik said, “but it’s
been ver y arduous for us to get
funding because of the economic
times.”
Though the Brown chapter of
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 for
the community here,” said Aaron
Foo ’11, chair of external affairs 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 2008
Ivy-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 future.
cancerous tissue from healthy tis-
sue through basic imaging alone.
Since early detection of cancer
can vastly improve the efficacy of
treatment, having better ways to
detect cancerous cells early on
can be ver y valuable, Xu said. The
particle will show up on both MRI
and CT scans, giving more precise
information about the state of a
tumor faster, Xu said.
Currently, the particles have
not left the test-tube stage of devel-
opment, but Xu said animal testing,
in collaboration with Rhode Island
Hospital, is scheduled to begin
shortly. The researchers will first
test whether the particles show
up on diagnostic scans, and then
examine how effective the particle
is at administering the drug.
The particle will not be tested
on humans for several years, Xu
said.
Later, other antibodies and
drugs could be substituted into
the basic particle to allow different
medications to be administered to
other types of cells, he said.
The lab has received calls from
several news stations and has been
contacted by science-business com-
panies about the new particle.
“We publish a lot of papers
ever y year, this is the first time
people are excited,” Xu said. “This
means our work is important.”
Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald
Student art expo features
flannel, eggshells
By Anita Mathews
Staff Writer
This year’s Student Art Exhibition,
which opened in the David Winton
Bell Gallery Saturday and runs un-
til March 29, is most striking for
the variety of media, traditional and
otherwise, employed by the artists.
Flannel, soda can tabs and eggshells
are just some of the materials the art-
ists have creatively incorporated into
the pieces featured in the collection.
The diversity of media used seems
appropriate, given the heterogeneity
of subjects featured and the style in
which they are rendered.
Jesse Cohn’s ’10 untitled work,
for example, is composed of chains of
linked paper clips, silver and brightly
colored, which together create a
large-scale map of the United States.
(Rhode Island is represented by just
two red paper clips.) Cohn uses rep-
etition of a mundane household item
to represent an ordinary image, but
in the process creates a piece that is
unusual and truly compelling.
Next to Cohn’s map stands Zach-
ary Smith’s ’11 piece, also untitled
— a combination cabinet-table-lamp
made of 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 artist’s
statement, the series documents “a
paper trail of revealing curiosities”
— enigmatic phrases and texts that
Dessaint found at Reservoir Avenue
Elementary School in Providence.
In his statement, Dessaint also
said his primary goal with “Elemen-
tary Language” was “finding the
simple beauty in an establishment
that enables the children to feel safe
Monet goes green at
Providence art club
By Sarah Julian
Contributing Writer
To create his famous painting of a
Japanese foot-bridge, Claude Monet
used oil on canvas. Thomas Dein-
inger’s interpretation uses Legos,
plastic beads, toy soldiers, soda
caps and other assorted recycled
items.
Deininger’s creation is part of an
exhibit at the Providence Art Club
that features the work of New Eng-
land artists. The common theme:
Each piece of art is made of re-
cycled materials.
The idea of an exhibit made
entirely of trash might give rise
to conceptions of strange modern
art creations made of bottles and
cans, but the Art Club’s collection
featured many surprising and even
beautiful works.
Mar y Jane Andreozzi’s work,
called “Joshua Tree,” was a spoon-
shaped sculpture made entirely
Monday, March 16, 2009 | Page 5
shall we dance ?
and escape difficult situations.”
The interactive pieces drew small
pockets of inquisitive viewers at the
exhibit’s opening. John Szymanski’s
’09 “Interface” is a swirling, bubbling
hurricane in a glass bottle sitting
atop an antique magnetic stir plate.
Ironically, written in capital letters
around the neck of the bottle are the
words “Federal Law forbids sale or
reuse of this bottle.”
“Persephone” by Galen Broderick
’09 is an engineering feat as well as a
work of art. Two giant inflated hands
are connected to a table where the
invitation “Please Caress” is printed
around a patch of faux fur. As view-
ers pat the patch, fans beneath the
table blow air into the inflated arms,
causing the hands to move.
Slightly more traditional is Anne
Blazejack’s ’09 oil painting, “Bathtub
Ritual.” In this beautiful depiction of
a woman in a bathtub with a goldfish
swimming near her toes, Blazejack
uses perspective to achieve a playful
yet elegant effect.
Emily Martin ’11 plays a dual role Katherine Regalado / Herald
in this year’s exhibition. Her piece Neeta Pal ’09 danced in last weekend’s South Asian Students Association culture show in Salomon 101.
is an untitled lithograph of a mask
and baby dress. Martin is also the
subject of a portrait by Erica Palm-
iter ’09, hung beside Martin’s own Orchestra performs R.I. premiere of ‘Chasing Light...’
lithograph, entitled “Emily’s Flan-
nel.” The portrait is done in oil on By Rosalind Schonwald Schwantner has served on the Light...,” which depicts a morn-
flannel, and Palmiter said she chose Staf f Writer faculties of several conser vato- ing in the New Hampshire woods.
an alternative to canvas to better ries in the country, including the In performance, the piece was
“incorporate the person that I was Joseph Schwantner — educa- Juilliard School and the Eastman flanked by Tchaikovsky’s Piano
painting.” tor, musician and Pulitzer Prize- School of Music. Though he has Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor
Palmiter also said she thought the winning composer — bestowed officially retired from teaching to — with soloist Bryan Chu ’11 —
flannel represented not only Martin’s some of his creativity and intellect devote the rest of his life to com- and Stravinksy’s “Firebird Suite.”
style but also that of many others on Brown’s campus during his position, Schwantner’s natural Schwantner’s clear, direct style
at Brown. residency last week. The Brown affinity for learning and teaching was smartly framed by Tchaik-
Palmiter’s work is one of many in University Orchestra’s spectacu- is undeniable. He clearly derives ovsky’s obsessive thematic devel-
this year’s student exhibition that il- lar performance of Schwantner’s satisfaction from spreading music opments and Stravinksy’s prancing
lustrates the praiseworthy talent and newest symphonic work, “Chas- as well as from learning about oth- and brooding ballet music.
multifarious perspectives of not only ing Light...,” was the pinnacle of ers’ musical experiences, saying, “With all the colors, smells and
the artists but also that of the larger the weekend. The piece, commis- “A wide range of types of musi- textures you experience in the ear-
Brown community. sioned by 58 orchestras from all 50 cians are participating in this proj- ly morning — I wanted to capture
states, is the largest consortium- ect. We don’t know what happens that,” Schwantner explained in a
commissioning project in U.S. in the big middle of the country, speech before the orchestra per-
history. and in some ways I’m learning formed “Chasing Light....”
Brown was one of several small- about how much activity there Though there is no pause
er contributors that jointly funded
the composition, which received
significant support from the Ford
is, because of the consortium I’m
involved with.”
The concert was the Rhode
between each of the work’s four
movements, they are easily dif-
of red, orange, brown and green Motor Company Fund. Island premiere of “Chasing continued on page 6
scraps of fabric, mounted on a
wall.
In her artist’s statement in the
exhibition catalogue, Andreozzi
wrote, “My work is inspired by
the grace, strength and beauty of
the natural world.” She wrote of
her piece, “you will see that each
change in color is a change in
fabric.”
The Reverend Bill Comeau’s
entry, an acrylic painting entitled
“Christmas on Water Street,” was
one of the few works that used re-
cycled cans. Comeau painted on top
of crushed Budweiser, Sprite and
Pepsi cans to depict visitors to the
infant Jesus Christ.
The exhibit included works in
almost ever y medium. A collage
by L yn Hayden entitled “Dutch
Painting Recycled” was made of
book pages, stamps and dried tu-
continued on page 6
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A rts & C ulture “It’s the sense of exploration that excites me about
percussionists.” — Joseph Schwantner, composer of “Chasing Light...”
Visitors praise ‘green works’ exhibit
continued from page 5
lips. Erik Gould’s entr y included
an 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 leaf.
According to Galler y Coordi-
nator Kristin Grimm, each year
the Art Club works with Fidelity
Investments, the exhibit’s spon-
sor, to come up with a theme for a
group show.
“This year we both felt that we
had gone through most types of me-
dia and wanted to do something dif-
ferent and current,” Grimm said.
The result of their discussions
was the theme “green works.”
Kids love music, not economics
continued from page 5
ferentiated by variations in tone
and pattern. Though Schwantner’s
music is tonally and rhythmically
complex, it is accessible to general
audiences because of 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 form
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 flexibility and cre-
ativity of percussionists, Schwant-
ner asked, “Are any of you percus-
sionists?”
When one student raised
his hand, Schwantner joked, “If
you ask them to walk across the
For each year’s show, Fidelity
gives awards to the artists of the
top three pieces. This year, first
prize went to Deininger for “Study
for Stroking Monet,” second prize
to Walt Chaney for “Two Wooden
Renderings of a Building” and third
prize to Jerold Ehrlich for his steel
sculpture entitled “The Give and
Take.”
In his artist’s statement, Dein-
inger wrote, “I am an ardent envi-
ronmentalist not because I think
nature cares about us. Fact is we
are a product of it and art is, in es-
sence, humans reflecting on their
own condition.”
He explained “Study for Strok-
ing Monet” writing, “With this se-
ries of work based on already well-
known images from art history, I
floor on their hands, they’ll do it
for you.”
“It’s the sense of 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 Providence
that 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 simplified form so
that the elementary school children
could understand and relate to it.
“He selected a poem one of our
students wrote and did a really
rough version of 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
front of 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
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raise questions about value and
consumption, beauty and banal.”
The consensus seemed to be
that Deininger’s work was extraor-
dinary.
Grimm said of the painting, “It
really embodies what this show
is all about. To take these cast off
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 from
Barrington, said she was intrigued
by the experimental work in the
exhibit, particularly by the startling
resemblance of Deininger’s work
to the original Monet.
lines with him.”
Schwantner told The Herald his
early experiences probably led to
his gushing enthusiasm for music,
especially on the subject of teacher-
student exchange. He credits his
high school band director — who
also arranged music for a Chicago
radio orchestra — with inspiring
and enabling several students to
become professional musicians.
“He set a very high bar in terms
of his work as a professional 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 of teachers in turning young
talent into mature, experienced
musicians.
“People in music invariably start
quite young,” he said. “Two things
happen: Their talent is identified,
and their parents see to it that their
talent is advanced. How many chil-
dren do you know who want to be
economists?”
SportsMonday
The Brown Daily Herald
Gymnastics
dominates
in finals
home meet
By Elisabeth Avallone
Spor ts Staf f Writer
Following a second-place finish at
Ivies last weekend, the Bears came
back even stronger for senior night
against West Chester University.
Earning first through fourth in each
event, the Bears totaled 188.350
compared to West Chester’s 179.400
in their last meet before the ECAC
Championships.
Captain Jennifer Sobuta ’09,
though sad to see her Brown ca-
reer nearing an end, reflected on
how proud she was of the team.
“We’ve come a long way since
September and the confidence
and pride I see in all the girls’ eyes
this year is something I’ll always
remember,” said Sobuta. “It’s really
an exciting time for our program
and I think we’ve shown not only
the other Ivies but the other teams
in the ECAC that we are capable
of giving them a real run for their
money. I hope that next weekend at
ECACs we can make all the small
adjustments that are necessary to
finally finish off the season with a
190 team score.”
Carli Wiesenfeld ’12 started off
the Bears on vault, finishing in first
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 fourth
place with a 9.400, and Lilly Siems
’12 (9.300) finished in fifth. Brown
tallied 47.075 on the event.
On bars, Victoria Zanelli ’11
earned first, scoring a 9.650. Siems
posted a personal best of 9.475 for
second place. Isabelle Kirkham-
W. lacrosse opens Ivy
season with a win
By Andrew Braca
Spor ts Editor
The women’s lacrosse team beat
Har vard, 12-8, in its Ivy League
opener Saturday on Berylson Fam-
ily Fields home turf, exorcising the
demons of four straight losses to
the Crimson.
“We’ve lost by one goal (to Har-
vard) for the last two years, so to
come out and win by a few was a
huge testament to how far we’ve
come as a program and how hard
our team works,” said Head Coach
Keely McDonald ’00.
After enduring a 14-13 loss in
Cambridge the previous season,
the win was especially sweet for
the seniors, said Jesse Nunn ’09.
“It’s something we definitely
wanted to do,” she said. “Last
year kind of left a bad taste in our
mouth, so getting back out there
and getting a win over them today
Chelsey Binkley ’11, along with Lauren Tucker ’12, earned a 9.425
to finish in second place.
Lewitt ’10 (9.225) placed third, Vida
Rivera ’11 (9.100) fourth and Sobuta
(8.950) fifth. 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 for first, while Tucker
(9.475), Zanelli (9.425) and Siems
(9.324) placed third through fifth,
respectively.
In Brown’s best event of the
night, the floor exercise, Segal led
the way with a 9.725. Binkley se-
cured second with a 9.700, followed
by Katie Goddard ’12 in third with a
9.500. Tucker (9.375) placed fourth,
and Whitney Diederich ’09 (9.350)
took sixth.
Zanelli won the all-around title,
tallying a 37.375.
“Yesterday was a great closure
was great.”
Nunn, who had missed the
previous two games because of
an injur y, returned to lead eight
Brown scorers with four goals and
an assist.
“She’s a senior leader for 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 first 21 minutes. Nunn got
Bruno off to a fast start, striking
just 1:11 into the game to give
her team a lead it would never
relinquish.
Kelly Robinson ’09 picked off
a Har vard pass and took the ball
right to the net 1:22 later. After
Katelyn Caro ’12 scored twice in a
row, Brown had a commanding 4-0
lead just 8:07 into the game.
McDonald credited her team’s
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for a home meet,” Zanelli said. “We
still had a couple mistakes, but the
team has definitely progressed so
much this season. The consistency
and confidence reflected at prac-
tice and at the meets will make this
weekend at ECACs very exciting.
All the hard work has absolutely
paid off.”
The Bears compete next at the
ECAC championship on Mar. 21
at Yale.
“Friday night was our best over-
all team performance this season,”
said Head Coach Sara Carver-Milne.
“We counted the fewest mistakes of
any competition. ... The team did
a great job performing for a large,
enthusiastic and supportive crowd
of Brown fans in our final home
meet of 2009. It was a great tribute
to our seniors, for their four years
of dedication to the program.”
The women’s lacrosse team beat Harvard this weekend after losing to the Crimson 14-13 last season.
Monday, March 16, 2009 | Page 7
Two wins for w. tennis
By Katie Wood
Assistant Sports Editor
The women’s tennis team rolled
to a 6-1 victory over St. John’s and
a 7-0 whitewashing of Albany on
Saturday at the Pizzitola Center to
extend the team’s winning streak
to eight matches.
The Bears (12-2) controlled the
two matches from start to finish,
losing only 16 games in six doubles
matches. Five players earned three
wins apiece for 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 floor.”
Brown 6, St. John’s 1
Bianca Aboubakare and Cassan-
dra Herzberg ’12 took care of 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
of 8-3. Emily Ellis ’10 and Kathrin
Sorokko ’10 claimed the doubles
point over the Red Storm, 8-2.
Ira Aleksova was ready for her
match at No. 1 singles against Bi-
anca Aboubakare. Aleksova battled
through her serve, sending the first
game into deuce multiple times
before Aboubakare broke her
serve. Aboubakare dropped only
two games in the first set, winning
6-2, and played flawlessly in the
second as she pulled out an impres-
sive 6-0 win.
“I became more frugal with
my decisions,” Bianca Abouba-
kare said. “I didn’t make as many
errors and finished points more
quickly, forcing her to make more
errors.”
No. 2 Mansur, No. 3 Tanja
Vucetic ’10 and No. 5 Catherine
Stewart ’12 each pulled away from
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 first set,
6-4, but found a little trouble in the
second , falling 3-6. She persevered
through the tie breaker for a 10-6
win. No. 6 Brett Finkelstein ’09 lost
a close match after pulling out a
tight win in the first set, 6-4. She
fell 3-6 and could not come back
from her strong start, losing the tie
breaker, 10-8. Finkelstein’s loss was
the only match the Bears dropped
the entire day.
Brown 7, Albany 0
The Bears continued their hot
streak and dominated Albany from
start to finish.
Bianca Aboubakare and Herz-
berg won in a convincing fashion,
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 after
supporting her team with a solid
three wins on the day. Herzberg
took over her duties at No. 1 sin-
gles, controlling her opponent from
the first serve, 6-0, 6-0. Vucetic
filled in for Mansur at No. 2 singles,
battling through three sets for the
4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win.
“All the new players have filled
in when needed and have brought
up the team’s level of play,” Bianca
Aboubakare said. “We have great
practices because everyone is fight-
ing for 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 of the day as
she cruised to a 6-1, 6-1 win. No.
5 Ellis also rose to the challenge,
staying alive for a 6-4, 7-6 (4) win.
Alexa Baggio ’09 closed out the
day for the Bears with a three-set
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W. tennis hits the W. lax heads into spring break with a win
road for spring break
continued from page 7
thriller. She won, 6-4, before losing
the second set, 6-7 (5). She kept
the fight 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 for
the Bears.
The Bears will look to extend
their winning streak against Da-
vidson, Charlotte and Furman
over spring break before return-
ing home for an Ivy League battle
against Yale on March 29.
The road trip will give the Bears
a lot of experience needed for the
last stretch of games to finish out
the season, according to Bianca
Aboubakare.
“They will probably be think-
ing that we won’t be as good as
them because we’re from the Ivy
League,” she said. “But we have a
lot of fight in us.”
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“They knew it was going to be a bloodbath.”
continued from page 7
fast start to the players’ focus and
fortitude.
“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 after the ground balls and
the draws and put us ahead early,
which I think really made the game
for us.”
Jess Halpern finally put the
Crimson on the board with one
of her three goals, but Nunn an-
swered just 37 seconds later off a
beautiful pass from Molly McCa-
rthy ’10, one of her three assists.
The game was scoreless for
9:28 before Alexa Caldwell ’11
increased Bruno’s lead to 6-1 on
a free position shot. When Nunn
notched her third goal of 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
before halftime.
“Our focus (was) to take care
of the ball on the attack (and) stay
composed,” Nunn said. “Our mid-
field transition was great. Another
thing we also focused on was the
ride, our defensive ride out in
transition. I think we did a really
good job of that and caused a lot
of turnovers.”
But the Crimson came roaring
back with five straight goals, as
the Brown offense succumbed to
tighter Crimson defense around
the net to suffer through a score-
Thanks for reading.
— Keely McDonald ’00, w. lacrosse head coach
less stretch of 15:03.
Halpern scored two of Harvard’s
three goals in the waning minutes
of the first half to cut the deficit to
three heading into halftime. After
Sarah Bancroft struck 1:31 into the
second half, Kaitlin Martin scored
on a free position shot 39 seconds
later to cut Brown’s lead to 7-6.
The momentum appeared to be
squarely on the side of the Crim-
son, but Nunn said the Bears were
not fazed by Har vard’s run.
“There’s 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 confident 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 Har vard scored.
Bethany Buzzell ’09 extended the
lead to 8-6 on a free position shot
5:51 into the second half. Martin
again cut the lead to one goal on
a free position shot 2:35 later, but
Nunn answered 1:17 later to give
Brown a 9-7 lead.
Bancroft again cut the lead to
one goal on a free position shot
1:38 later, but the Crimson would
not score again for the final 18:39
of the game.
Brown took a 10-8 lead with
13:29 remaining when Kaela
McGilloway ’12 scored off a feed
from Buzzell.
Isabel Har vey ’10 then made
the most important of her eight
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saves, stopping Sara Flood’s free
position shot with just over 11
minutes remaining to preser ve
Brown’s two-goal lead.
The Bears were able to milk
the clock with patient of fense
for much of the remainder of the
game. Paris Waterman ’11 and co-
captain Lauren Vitkus ’09 tacked
on goals with 6:24 and 29 seconds
left, respectively, to produce the
12-8 final score.
Brown outshot Har vard, 35-19.
The Bears were also faster — hold-
ing a 25-17 advantage in ground
balls — and smoother with the ball,
committing only 11 turnovers to
the Crimson’s 24.
Val Sherr y ’09 led the Bears
with three caused turnovers and
added three ground balls, while
Robinson secured five ground balls
and Vitkus had four. Co-captain
Noelle DiGioia ’09 won four draw
controls.
The Bears will play three games
over spring break, traveling to
Storrs, Conn., to face UConn (0-
7) on Saturday. They will then host
Oregon (4-2) next Tuesday and
face Dar tmouth (2-2) March 28
in Hanover, N.H. McDonald said
the team would use the full week
of practices ahead to focus on “get-
ting back to the basics,” a prospect
Nunn said the team welcomes.
“We’ve seen how well we
can play,” Nunn said. “I think
ever yone’s just excited to get
out there on Monday and get
practicing again.”
World & Nation
The Brown Daily Herald
Under pressure, Obama turns to his e-mail list
By Chris Cillizza
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — President Obama
will kick off an all-out grass-roots ef-
fort Monday urging Congress to pass
his $3.55 trillion budget, activating
the extensive campaign apparatus
he built during his successful 2008
candidacy for the first time since tak-
ing office.
The campaign, which will be run
under the aegis of 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 of Organizing for
America (OFA), a group overseen by
the DNC. Aides familiar with the plan
said it is an unprecedented attempt to
transfer the grass-roots energy built
during the presidential campaign into
an effort to sway Congress.
David Plouffe, who was Obama’s
campaign manager and is now an
adviser to OFA, called this effort the
“first major engagement” of 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 failed Bush eco-
nomic policies and now have no new
ideas versus the Obama agenda which
will help us manage the short term
economic crisis and puts us on the
path to long term prosperity.”
Plouffe, who passed up a formal
role in the White House but remains a
conduit to the army of Obama volun-
teers, sent an e-mail to the OFA mail-
ing list over the weekend signaling
the ramping up of the campaign for
the president’s budget. “In the next
few weeks we’ll be asking you to do
some of the same things we asked of
you during the campaign — talking
directly to people in your communi-
ties about the President’s ideas for
long-term prosperity,” he wrote.
That push begins Monday with an
e-mail asking volunteers to go door to
door Saturday to urge their neighbors
to sign a pledge in support of Obama’s
budget plan.
A new online tool, to be unveiled
this week on the DNC/OFA Web
site, will help constituents find their
congressional representatives’ con-
Controlled exposure shows promise for reversing peanut allergy
By Melissa Healy
Los Angeles T imes
After years of frustration, allergists
meeting in Washington, D.C., pro-
claimed a small but significant vic-
tory against life-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 friends
and accept snacks at other people’s
homes without quizzing their hosts
on the treats’ ingredients.
The children appear to have
lost their allergies, said Dr. Wesley
Burks, a Duke University pediatric
allergist, who presented the results
tact information so they can call the
lawmakers’ offices to voice approval
of the proposal. A midweek follow-up
message to the mailing list will ask
volunteers to call the Hill — the first
time the OFA e-mail database has
been used to urge direct contact with
Congress in support of legislation.
“Members are going to be sur-
rounded by this, and this is going to
carry on for the next several weeks
on this budget fight,” said one source
familiar with the strategy.
Several people closely involved
in this campaign’s planning made it
clear that they believe this is the mo-
ment Democrats have been waiting
for since Obama’s election — the de-
ployment of the volunteer army that
helped catapult a freshman senator
to the presidency.
When Obama announced the for-
mation of Organizing for America
via YouTube in January, he said the
group “will build on the movement
you started during the campaign” and
added: “That’s why I am asking people
like you who fought for change during
the campaign to continue fighting for
change in your communities.”
Obama’s closest aides have been
plotting for months when to make
the move. Bringing Organizing for
America under the umbrella of the
DNC and installing a group of Obama
loyalists — including Democratic Vir-
ginia Gov. Tim Kaine as chairman
and Jen O’Malley Dillon, a highly
regarded campaign operative, as
executive director — were aimed at
re-creating the disciplined organiza-
tion of the campaign.
“This is exactly the scenario
OFA was moved into the DNC for,
to take on the toughest tasks, the
most transformational moments,”
said one party source. “Remember,
everything Obama wants to accom-
plish from a substantive perspective
requires him to pass this budget as
a down payment and to draw lines
in the sand.”
Passing Obama’s 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
deficit — $1.75 trillion for this fiscal
year — and the spending priorities
of two clinical trials Sunday at a
meeting of the American Academy
of Asthma and Immunology.
The unpublished trials tested
whether peanut-allergic patients
could be helped to tolerate peanuts
by consuming tiny but increasing
doses of the food, which induces
hives, itching or swelling and is
responsible for about half the 150
annual food-allergy-associated
deaths in the United States each
year. The studies are the first in a
series of promising efforts to push
back this dangerous, and growing,
food allergy.
As many as 3 million Americans
have an allergy to peanuts. The per-
centage of U.S. children with a food
allergy jumped 18 percent in the
outlined in the proposal.
During an appearance yesterday
on ABC’s “This Week,” Senate Minor-
ity Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,
said Obama’s plan “taxes too much,
it spends too much, it borrows too
much.”
Obama is getting help in the bud-
get fight from liberal interest groups,
led by Americans United for Change.
The group launched a television ad
Sunday, titled “Crickets,” that high-
lights the Republican opposition to
Obama’s budget proposal and says
that GOP leaders have no new ideas
to offer. “Tell the Republicans that
Americans won’t take no for 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
for and donated to Obama’s presiden-
tial campaign will bring that same
energy and dedication to bear on the
far more mundane task of trying to
force a budget through Congress.
Volunteering to help turn out the vote
in a battleground state is one thing;
knocking on doors to seek pledges
of support for a budget proposal is
entirely different.
“It is harder to inspire action on
policy issues than it is in a campaign,”
said Terry Nelson, a senior GOP of-
ficial who managed part of Sen. John
McCain’s presidential campaign in
2007. “Generally, fewer people are
responsive to the appeals, and the
environment that the appeal takes
place in is different than an election,
where volunteers are actually advocat-
ing to fellow citizens who also have
a vote. In legislative advocacy, the
actions are not as connected to the
legislative outcome.”
The Organizing for America team
has held several dry runs to test the
efficacy of their volunteer apparatus,
including a call for supporters to hold
“economic recovery house meetings”
last month to highlight challenges
presented by the recession. The
house parties were designed to co-
incide with the congressional debate
over Obama’s $787 billion stimulus
package, which passed with near-
unanimous Democratic support and
just three Republican votes.
decade leading to 2007, according
to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. Researchers have
puzzled over the cause of this rap-
id rise; some have suggested that
children’s dwindling exposure to
dirt, soil and animals has driven
the increase.
Although the studies are small
and preliminar y, Burks said the
group plans to expand the num-
ber of children enrolled in the re-
search, and he hoped that within
two to three years the first of several
treatments for peanut allergies will
be available to physicians.
“We’re encouraged,” said Robert
Pacenza, executive director of the
Food Allergy Initiative, a patient
group active in promoting research
Monday, March 16, 2009 | Page 9
Pakistan announces
reinstatement of judges
By Pamela Constable
Washington Post
LAHORE, Pakistan — Unable to
crush street protests Sunday that
spilled out of this city and threatened
to reach the capital, the Pakistani
government announced early Mon-
day morning that it would restore
the former chief justice of the Su-
preme Court and a group of other de-
posed judges in a major capitulation
to opponents.
The move reflected the weak-
ening position of President Asif
Ali Zardari, a key U.S. ally. Zardari
had resisted bringing back former
chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed
Chaudhry for months, but he faced
mounting pressure from a broad co-
alition of opponents who demanded
the reinstatement of Pakistan’s inde-
pendent judiciary and threatened
to march on the capital, Islamabad,
until Chaudhry was brought back.
The decision marked an ex-
traordinary victory for Pakistan’s
legal community, which has been
agitating peacefully for the judges’
reinstatement for the past two years,
and for Zardari’s major political rival,
former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
He defied 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 Yousaf
Raza Gillani would announce the
judges’ restoration to office, Paki-
stani television stations showed
jubilant crowds gathering around
Chaudhry’s house in Islamabad.
Celebrations also erupted in the
Sharif-led caravan, which was
traveling through the night from
Lahore. The prime minister made
the official announcement at dawn
Monday 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 freed.
“This will restore stability to Pak-
istan,” Athar Minallah, a spokesman
for Chaudhry, said early Monday,
and educating the public about the
dangers of food allergies. Although
only five children so far have had
a seemingly complete reversal of
their allergy, that’s five that have
achieved results not seen before,
he said.
In the studies, conducted by a
joint team of researchers from Duke
University Medical Center and the
Arkansas Children’s Hospital Re-
search Institute, children started
on the equivalent of 1/1,000th of 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 followed for 21/2 years.
as analysts suggested the move
and other concessions offered by
the government might heal the rift
between Zardari and Sharif.
Pakistan, a nuclear-armed Mus-
lim nation of 172 million, faces a rag-
ing Islamist insurgency and a deep-
ening economic crisis. The growing
confrontation between Zardari and
a coalition of primarily secular op-
ponents has alarmed Washington
and raised the prospect of a pos-
sible army coup, just one year after
Pakistan emerged from a decade of
military rule.
A spokesman for Sharif’s party,
the Pakistan Muslim League-N,
had said that he expected an offi-
cial pardon of Chaudhry and the
other judges, in accordance with an
agreement signed by Zardari and
Sharif last year.
Muslim League officials had sug-
gested that once the decision was
officially announced, they would call
off their “long march” to the capital
Monday and cancel a long-planned
protest. The government had sealed
off Islamabad with shipping con-
tainers and other barricades late
Saturday in an attempt to prevent the
marchers from entering the federal
government district. But as rumors
of Chaudhry’s restoration spread,
many police barricades were with-
drawn from the Grand Trunk Road
and hundreds of people joined the
procession in towns along the way.
Chaudhry and the other judges
were fired in 2007 by Pakistan’s
former militar y ruler, Per vez
Musharraf, because they refused
to take an oath under his amended
constitution.
Zardari had publicly insisted that
the judges could not be restored
until Pakistan’s Parliament had a
chance to make broader changes in
the constitution. But many Pakistan-
is and foreign observers believed the
president reneged on his pledge to
restore them because he feared that
the independent-minded Chaudhry
would reopen old corruption cases
against him and might also overturn
many of his actions as president.
Five had weathered several food
challenges without incident, eating
a substantial helping of peanuts un-
der the eyes of a researcher armed
with a syringe full of epinephrine to
counter any sudden reaction.
All five 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 of their peanut sensitivity.
Burks said he is unsure how
long the effect will last, but that
the five children are the first ever
to exhibit “long-term tolerance” of
peanuts after having been diagnosed
as allergic.
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e d i to r i a l

Uniting Brown
Students from Brown/RISD Hillel and the Muslim Students Associa-
tion recently engaged in one of the most innovative attempts to deal with
Brown’s segregation problem in recent memory. It’s no secret that Brown’s
student body is stratified along racial and religious lines. Groups of friends
are often homogenous, and many students’ extracurricular activities and
coursework are focused on areas primarily or exclusively designed for
students of a particular ethno-religious background.
Of course, this isn’t all bad. Specially tailored groups help some students
feel at home in a new and alien environment. However, such comfort should
be accompanied by dialogue with other segments of Brown’s population.
One of the most important benefits of a diverse campus is the exchange of
ideas among people of distinct backgrounds who approach the world in dif-
ferent ways. Homogeneity among social groups threatens such interactions
at Brown by limiting opportunities for student-to-student conversation.
This problem was, in a subtle fashion, the target of yesterday’s Hillel-MSA
event. Roughly 20 Jewish and Muslim students gathered on Lincoln Field
to talk, share Meeting Street cookies and play a game of pickup football.
Unlike many events designed to create links between campus Jews and
Muslims (like the frank conversations on Middle East issues sponsored by
the unfortunately now-defunct group Open House), there was no set topic
or weighty issue for the crowd on Lincoln to discuss. Instead, the students
acted like, well, students — talking about their hometowns, favorite movies
and their intense disappointment at this year’s Spring Weekend lineup.
By not setting an agenda, Hillel and MSA leadership allowed students to franny choi
interact organically, creating a space where political and religious tensions
were forgotten and real personal connections could be forged. Such inter-
actions are the key to creating real bonds between the two communities,
and we applaud Hillel and the MSA for working to create them.
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Other groups, both those that do and do not represent communities
with a history of conflict, should emulate this model. For example, there
was mention in 2006 of a potential collaboration between College Hill for NAB works for Native students
Christ and the Queer Alliance on an AIDS testing drive, an initiative we
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Nick Hagerty
Opinions Columnist
There’s been a lot of talk recently on this page
about the essence of the Brown student. But
what about the identity of Brown University?
University administrators and students of-
ten compare Brown to the ultra-prestigious
trio of Harvard, Yale and Princeton. They
mourn as that authority of authorities, the
U.S. News and World Report, mercilessly
drops Brown’s annual ranking among Nation-
al Universities from 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 of
Columbia, Penn and MIT. A 2004 “revealed
preference” study by Harvard researchers,
which compared schools by how often stu-
dents choose to attend them over other col-
leges, ranked Brown seventh. (Unsurprising-
ly, they put Harvard first.) And for what it’s
worth, Brown is perennially among the top
three on the Princeton Review’s “Happiest
Students” list.
So what is it that causes Brown to perform
so much better in those more illuminating
rankings than its basic statistical indicators,
as aggregated by U.S. News, would other-
wise predict?
The standard answer is, of course, the
New Curriculum. But perhaps equally im-
portant are Brown’s commitment to under-
graduates and its “university-college” model.
I chose Brown because yes, I would be able
to do cutting-edge science research and see
Dear current and future Grad Center residents:
Ivy Chang
Opinions Columnist
Fellow Grad Center residents, I can under-
stand why having your own little single can
be exciting. After what seemed like eons of
living in a kitchen-turned-triple, you suddenly
feel as though you have all the freedom in
the world.
You can change out of your PJs in the pri-
vacy of your own living space. You can blast
your favorite Jonas Brothers CD without fear
of judgment. You no longer have to worry
about awkwardly sexiling your silent, glaring
roommate. You have your own room now! You
and your fellow suitemates are finally free to
run through the tiny corridors of your suite
shrieking like monkeys if you so please.
I speak on behalf of us all when I tell you
this: Don’t get too excited.
Unfortunately for you and the rest of
Grad Center, there is an important fact that
most new residents forget — the dorms are
about as soundproof as cardboard boxes.
As you blast your favorite disco mix in the
Picnics or John Edwards?
speakers like John Edwards and Ricardo La-
gos, but at the same time, professors would
know my name.
Jan Tullis, a professor of geological sci-
ences, attended Carleton College and later
UCLA. At Carleton, she said, faculty were out
of date with the material, while at UCLA, un-
dergraduates were not valued. Brown gets
the balance just right.
Despite the current recession, though,
Brown is in a substantial long-term expansion
of its faculty, graduate school and research
power. So will moving further away from Car-
If the University really wants to improve science
education and retain its focus on undergraduates
amidst ambitious expansion, academic growth
must be managed carefully and deliberately.
leton bring us closer to UCLA?
No, Tullis said, and I agree: not necessar-
ily. Only preeminence in research can give
undergraduates such opportunities as recent
fieldwork trips to Greenland and the Galapa-
gos. Research and teaching are not a zero-
sum game, said Chung-I Tan, professor of
physics and chair of the department.
But the current scene of teaching at
Brown, especially in quantitative subjects like
physical sciences and economics, is already
far from the university-college ideal. Any
concentrator in these fields can name sever-
al professors who were clearly not hired for
their teaching abilities.
Some professors are not comfortable
enough with English to engage the class.
Some have good intentions but are unable to
safe comfort of your own room, the people
living above and below you are cursing you,
looking you up on Facebook and passive-
aggressively plotting your demise as they
rant about you on the Daily Jolt. It would be
in your best interest to try and keep your
speaker volume down to a reasonable level.
Weekend parties are understandably a
necessity, and it is rather amusing at first
After what seemed like eons of living in a kitchen-
turned-triple, you suddenly feel as though you
have all the freedom in the world.
to feel the walls of the tower vibrate with
thumping bass and the screams of happy
revelers from somewhere within its stony
depths. Weekdays are a different case. It’s
great that you and your night owl friends can
congregate in the hall or in your suite’s larg-
est room to have impromptu dance parties
or chat about life, politics, philosophy, reli-
gion, etc. into the wee hours of night. But
your fellow residents will not appreciate
your yelling, stomping and howls of laugh-
explain concepts at a fundamental level. Oth-
ers simply appear not to care about teaching
— for example, rarely do the worst instruc-
tors ask for course feedback.
One semester I tried to take ECON 1210:
“Intermediate Macroeconomics,” only to find
that the professor had not written a syllabus,
couldn’t answer organizational questions and
hadn’t given any prior thought to the course
beyond selecting a textbook. I know several
students who were too discouraged by inter-
mediate economics courses to continue in the
department.
I could easily go on — similar scenarios
are all too common. However, it is not all bad
news; there are many excellent professors
throughout Brown.
Tan told me that the physics department
provides graduate teaching assistants for
the introductory physics courses. But when
I took PHYS 0160: “Introduction to Relativity
and Quantum Physics,” the professor taught
the problem sessions himself because he
wanted to get to know his students better.
Particularly exemplary is the geologi-
cal sciences department. Renowned nation-
ally for a top research and graduate pro-
gram, it is also known around campus for
being close-knit and especially supportive of
undergraduates.
“There’s definitely a lot of attention paid
ter at 4 a.m. when they have an Arabic exam
five hours later.
I am in awe of people who are able to
wake up early to do things such as studying,
going out for a run or getting breakfast. But
I can guarantee you’ll inspire hatred if you
and your friend living on the other side of
the earth rouse everyone around you while
Skyping at 7 a.m. by carrying on at the same
decibel level you would use in your room
back home.
Alarm clocks are another issue. They’re
necessities for those who need to wake up
early. An alarm clock can even help wake
up the rest of the building when its owner
leaves before the siren and completely for-
gets about it, letting it ring and ring and ring
and ring.
Obliviousness doesn’t just affect those
living near you, it may also affect your per-
Monday, March 16, 2009 | Page 11
to undergraduates,” said Jon Wang ’10, a geo-
bio concentrator. The department hosts nu-
merous community building events, he said,
including a holiday party, a fall picnic and de-
partmental field trips. No matter how busy
professors are, they’re always willing to talk.
“I can just wander around, find them and talk
to them,” he added.
When it comes to hiring decisions, under-
graduates actually have an important voice,
said Timothy Herbert, professor and chair of
the department. Candidates for a faculty posi-
tion meet for an hour with a group of under-
graduate concentrators. The students then
submit written summaries, which are consid-
ered in the final deliberations.
If the University really wants to improve
science education and retain its focus on un-
dergraduates amidst ambitious expansion,
academic growth must be managed care-
fully and deliberately. It is critical that fac-
ulty hiring, promotion and tenure decisions
more strongly take into account teaching
skills and enthusiasm for undergraduates.
Other departments, especially in quantitative
fields, should look to geological sciences as
a model.
Brown’s unique identity rests on not hav-
ing to choose between picnics and John Ed-
wards, and all they represent. But unless the
University remembers that first-rate higher
education requires all professors to be gen-
uinely dedicated to undergraduates, we risk
losing that identity and becoming just one
more “top research university.”
Nick Hagerty ’10 is a biological physics
and economics concentrator from
Portland, Oregon. He can be reached at
nicholas_hagerty@brown.edu.
sonal life. I can’t even begin to count the
number of times that I’ve clearly heard ev-
ery word of a heated argument between a
couple or a heart-to-heart chat by just sit-
ting in my room, despite my best efforts to
drown it out.
Grad Center residents should be aware of
other threats to their privacy. Although this
happens less frequently, I’ve accidentally
glimpsed some students in various states of
undress while simply walking back into my
building. The Grad Center room windows
are quite large, and just because you can’t
see people doesn’t mean they can’t see you.
This is my second year of living in Grad
Center. I don’t want to say that it’s a terrible
place. I enjoy not having to clean the private
bathroom, and having my own room pretty
much makes up for all of the building’s flaws.
I just want to ensure that my last semester in
this stony fortress is a pleasant one, for my-
self and all other Grad Center residents.
Ivy Chang ’10 is a human biology
concentrator from Los Angeles,
California. She can be reached at
Ivy_Chang@brown.edu.
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6:30 P.m. — “Unlocking the Present:
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Convocation, Salomon 101
8 p.m. — Howard Dean Lecture,
MacMillan Auditorium
5:30 P.M. — “Hannah Arendt: Reflec-
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Gottlieb, Pembroke Hall 305
7:00 P.m. — “Stronger Than Their
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