News..... 1-4 Metro........5 Sports...7-8 Quakers triumph Sports, 7 mayor in the ’hood Metro, 5 Court Costs Opinions, 11 i d e D aily Herald the Brown vol. cxliv, no. 51 | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891 CbBy Lauren Fedor SeniorS taffWriterThe aculty’s decision last week to rename Columbus Day “Fall Weekend” on the University cal- endar has garnered more attention both locally and nationally than the average code revision, with Provi- dence mayor David Cicilline ’83 and Rush Limbaugh, the high-prole conservative pundit, among those decrying the move. Though the aculty’s vote lastTuesday seemed to refect stu- dent opinion — a recent Herald poll suggested that the majorityoBrown students disapproved ocontinuing to call the holiday Co- lumbus Day — the resolution has prompted a wave ocriticism rom city leaders, who said the move was hypocritical and disrespectul to Italian-American s. “Brown University made itselan eample to the nation by careullyexploring its ties to the slave trade and using that process to promote greater understanding,” Cicilline said in a press release Thursday. But the decision to “simply erase the celebration oan incredibly sig- nicant moment in world historyand Italian-American culture or the sake opolitical correctness does just the opposite,” he said. Cicilline added that “as an Ital- ian-American,” he took “particularoense” to the decision. Cicilline’s communications di- rector, Rhoades Alderson, told The Herald Monday that the mayor be- lieves the role ohigher education is to “get at the truth” o“complicated parts oour nation’s history.” Brown “set the standard or do- ing that” with its work exploring its historical ties to the slave trade, Alderson said, but Cicilline elt the Columbus Day decision was done “in the opposite spirit.” “It was just kind odeleting (the event) rom history, rather than us- ing it to promote understanding,” Alderson said. Cicilline was not the only one upset with the aculty’s decision. Members olocal Italian-American organizations epressed their dis- satisaction in a Providence Jour- nal article last week. The Italian- UCS By Ben sChreCkinger SeniorS taffWriterThis year’s Undergraduate Council oStudents and Undergraduate Finance Board elections are the most com- petitive in years, with more candidates contesting or more spots than in otherrecent elections. Five o10 UCS and UFB leader- ship positions are contested this year, while a year ago only the races orUCS president, UCS vice presidentand UFB chair were contested. There are our candidates running or UCS president and three or vice president, up rom just two each in 2008. The combined seven candidates competing or UCS’ top two positions are the most since at least 2005. Twelve students are running orsix at-large seats on UFB. Those posi- tions were uncontested last year, as only ve students ran. Two candidates are runni ng or UFB chair, unchanged rom last year, and the position oUFB vice chair will be contested or the rsttime since 2007. “Usually — or UCS especially — alot othe races have been uncontest- ed,” said Elections Board Chair LilyTran ’10, also the cur rent UFB chair. This year, races or the chairs othe UCS Campus Lie, Admissions and Student Services and Student Ac- tivities committees are uncontested. There are no candidates or UCS treasurer or or head delegate to the Ivy Council. Previously, Brown’s head delegate to the Ivy Council has been internally elected by UCS. Tran said she hopes the increased competition othis year’s races and a greater number oactive endorse- ments announced by student groups will translate into higher voter par- ticipation. Just 1,346 ballots were castin last year’s election, representing about a quarter othe undergraduate student body. The elections board has tried to acilitate greater student interest byintroducing a debate or UFB candi- dates, held at last week’s Brown Uni- versity Activities Council meeting, and moving the UCS presidential debate to Wriston Quadrangle, Tran said. Almost every candidate or UCS president and vice president has named Brown’s nancial situation or nancial aid as his or her primaryocus or the coming year. The elections board enorces acomplex set orules governing everyaspect ocampaigning. Candidates are U. By anne simons SeniorS taffWriterThe University has extended apolicy allowing students to pre- register or all classes regardless ooutstanding tuition balances, according to an e-mail sent to stu- dents Monday by Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98. According to Kertzer’s e-mail, students will be able to pre-reg- ister or the all semester even ithey have an unpaid balance in excess o$1,000, which has been the limit or pre-registration eligibility in previous years. Students will continue to ac- crue late ees on their outstanding balances. The University changed the existing policy last semester in response to the concerns osome amilies whose nancial situation was seriously changed by the eco- nomic downturn, The Herald re- ported in November. “The economic challenges and uncertainties acing our students and their amilies have not dimin- ished in the intervening months,” Kertzer wrote in his e-mail. About 360 students beneted rom the changed policy last se- mester, The Herald reported in January. Kertzer’s e-mail also reminded students that nancing options are available or amilies who did not qualiy or University aid, in- cluding ederal loan programs. “The Oce oFinancial Aid is available to provide advice on nancing options to both aided and non-aided amilies,” the e- mail said. The Herald reported in No- vember that the University would allow students with an outstand- ing balance oup to $7,500 to return to campus or the spring semester, increasing the limitrom $5,000. Kertzer’s e-mail Monday did not say whether that speciic policy would be etended. Courtesof Librarof Congress John Vanderln’ s 1847 painting depicts Columbus landing on the West Indies island called Guarnahani bthe natives — which he named San Salvador — on Oct. 12, 1492. Skk, bBy aLiCia Chen Contributing WriterIn high school, her classmates’ par- ents hired her to make cakes — butit wasn’t until last semester that KellySchryver ’11 created TillieCakes, herown cake-baking company. “Kids on campus cannot get cus- tom cakes rom scratch very eas- ily,” Schryver said. “Either you go to Coldstone’s or trek all the wayout somewhere.” Ater developing a business proposal in ENGN 0090: “Manage- ment oIndustrial and NonprotOrganizations,” Schryver started her own company to make cakes orbirthdays, baby showers, holidays and other occasions. Schryver named TillieCakes aterthe cook in the movie “Pollyanna.” “There was this scene I loved as a kid,” she said. “She has a cake booth where she gives out giantslabs ocake.” Though her roommates some- times pitch in, Schryver bakes and decorates all othe company’s orders hersel. Her creations — including vanilla “pupcakes” with conection- ary canines and a bold blue Obamacake — have earned rave reviews rom her customers, helping herbusiness spread through word omouth, she said. “I really like how she can custom- ize it,” said Jessica Fadale ’10, recall- ing a brightly hued cake that she ordered or a riend’s birthday. Schryver has about one cake or- der a week, she said, and students on campus oten recognize her as the “cake girl.” Schryver has even seen one oher cakes as the back- ground image oanother student’s Qidong Chen / Herald “Pupcakes” are popular items from KellSchrver’s ’11 bakerbusiness, TillieCakes. Her “custom cakes from scratch” earn rave reviews, she said. continued onpage 2 continued onpage 4 continued onpage 3 Read The Herald’s profiles of the candidates for UCS and UFB leadership p3 Feature
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vol. cxliv, no. 51 | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891
Cb By Lauren Fedor
Senior S taff W riter
The aculty’s decision last week
to rename Columbus Day “Fall
Weekend” on the University cal-
endar has garnered more attention
both locally and nationally than the
average code revision, with Provi-
dence mayor David Cicilline ’83 and
Rush Limbaugh, the high-prole
conservative pundit, among those
decrying the move.
Though the aculty’s vote last
Tuesday seemed to refect stu-
dent opinion — a recent Herald
poll suggested that the majority
o Brown students disapproved o
continuing to call the holiday Co-lumbus Day — the resolution has
prompted a wave o criticism rom
city leaders, who said the move
was hypocritical and disrespectul
to Italian-Americans.
“Brown University made itsel an
eample to the nation by careully
exploring its ties to the slave trade
and using that process to promote
greater understanding,” Cicilline
said in a press release Thursday.
But the decision to “simply erase
the celebration o an incredibly sig-
nicant moment in world history
and Italian-American culture or the
sake o political correctness does
just the opposite,” he said.Cicilline added that “as an Ital-
ian-American,” he took “particular
oense” to the decision.
Cicilline’s communications di-
rector, Rhoades Alderson, told The
Herald Monday that the mayor be-
lieves the role o higher education is
to “get at the truth” o “complicated
parts o our nation’s history.”
Brown “set the standard or do-
ing that” with its work exploring its
historical ties to the slave trade, Alderson said, but Cicilline elt the
Columbus Day decision was done
“in the opposite spirit.”
“It was just kind o deleting (the
event) rom history, rather than us-
ing it to promote understanding,”
Alderson said.
Cicilline was not the only one
upset with the aculty’s decision.
Members o local Italian-American
organizations epressed their dis-
satisaction in a Providence Jour-
nal article last week. The Italian-
UCS
By Ben sChreCkinger
Senior S taff W riter
This year’s Undergraduate Council o
Students and Undergraduate Finance
Board elections are the most com-
petitive in years, with more candidates
contesting or more spots than in other
recent elections.
Five o 10 UCS and UFB leader-
ship positions are contested this year,
while a year ago only the races or
UCS president, UCS vice president
and UFB chair were contested. There
are our candidates running or UCS
president and three or vice president,up rom just two each in 2008.
The combined seven candidates
competing or UCS’ top two positions
are the most since at least 2005.
Twelve students are running or
six at-large seats on UFB. Those posi-
tions were uncontested last year, as
only ve students ran. Two candidates
are running or UFB chair, unchanged
rom last year, and the position o UFB
vice chair will be contested or the rst
time since 2007.
“Usually — or UCS especially — a
lot o the races have been uncontest-
ed,” said Elections Board Chair Lily
Tran ’10, also the current UFB chair.
This year, races or the chairs o
the UCS Campus Lie, Admissions
and Student Services and Student Ac-
tivities committees are uncontested.
There are no candidates or UCS
treasurer or or head delegate to the
Ivy Council. Previously, Brown’s head
delegate to the Ivy Council has been
internally elected by UCS.
Tran said she hopes the increased
competition o this year’s races and
a greater number o active endorse-
ments announced by student groups
will translate into higher voter par-
ticipation. Just 1,346 ballots were cast in last year’s election, representing
about a quarter o the undergraduate
student body.
The elections board has tried to
acilitate greater student interest by
introducing a debate or UFB candi-
dates, held at last week’s Brown Uni-
versity Activities Council meeting, and
moving the UCS presidential debate to
Wriston Quadrangle, Tran said.
Almost every candidate or UCS
president and vice president has
named Brown’s nancial situation
or nancial aid as his or her primary
ocus or the coming year.
The elections board enorces a
complex set o rules governing every aspect o campaigning. Candidates are
U. By anne simons
Senior S taff W riter
The University has extended a
policy allowing students to pre-register or all classes regardless
o outstanding tuition balances,
according to an e-mail sent to stu-
dents Monday by Provost David
Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98.
According to Kertzer’s e-mail,
students will be able to pre-reg-
ister or the all semester even
i they have an unpaid balance
in excess o $1,000, which has
been the limit or pre-registration
eligibility in previous years.
Students will continue to ac-
crue late ees on their outstanding
balances.
The University changed the
existing policy last semester in
response to the concerns o some
amilies whose nancial situation
was seriously changed by the eco-
nomic downturn, The Herald re-
ported in November.
“The economic challenges and
uncertainties acing our students
and their amilies have not dimin-
ished in the intervening months,”
Kertzer wrote in his e-mail.
About 360 students benetedrom the changed policy last se-
mester, The Herald reported in
January.
Kertzer’s e-mail also reminded
students that nancing options
are available or amilies who did
not qualiy or University aid, in-
cluding ederal loan programs.
“The Oce o Financial Aid
is available to provide advice on
nancing options to both aided
and non-aided amilies,” the e-
mail said.
The Herald reported in No-
vember that the University would
allow students with an outstand-
ing balance o up to $7,500 to
return to campus or the spring
semester, increasing the limit
rom $5,000.
Kertzer’s e-mail Monday did
not say whether that speciic
policy would be etended.
Courtes of Librar of CongressJohn Vanderln’s 1847 painting depicts Columbus landing on the West Indies islandcalled Guarnahani b the natives — which he named San Salvador — on Oct. 12, 1492.
S k k, bBy aLiCia Chen
ContributingW riter
In high school, her classmates’ par-
ents hired her to make cakes — but
it wasn’t until last semester that Kelly
Schryver ’11 created TillieCakes, her
own cake-baking company.
“Kids on campus cannot get cus-
tom cakes rom scratch very eas-
ily,” Schryver said. “Either you go
to Coldstone’s or trek all the way
out somewhere.”
Ater developing a business
proposal in ENGN 0090: “Manage-
ment o Industrial and Nonprot
Organizations,” Schryver started
her own company to make cakes or
birthdays, baby showers, holidays
and other occasions.
Schryver named TillieCakes ater
the cook in the movie “Pollyanna.”
“There was this scene I loved
as a kid,” she said. “She has a cake
booth where she gives out giant
slabs o cake.”
Though her roommates some-
times pitch in, Schryver bakes and
decorates all o the company’s orders
hersel. Her creations — including
vanilla “pupcakes” with conection-
ary canines and a bold blue Obama
cake — have earned rave reviews
rom her customers, helping her
business spread through word o
mouth, she said.
“I really like how she can custom-
ize it,” said Jessica Fadale ’10, recall-
ing a brightly hued cake that she
ordered or a riend’s birthday.
Schryver has about one cake or-
der a week, she said, and students
on campus oten recognize her as
the “cake girl.” Schryver has even
seen one o her cakes as the back-
ground image o another student’s
Qidong Chen / Herald
“Pupcakes” are popular items from Kell Schrver’s ’11 baker business,TillieCakes. Her “custom cakes from scratch” earn rave reviews, she said.
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CUS wS “I watched a lot of Martha Stewart as a kid.” — Kell Schrver ’11, TillieCakes founder
F F By CaitLin trujiLLo
Contributing W riter
The inaugural Providence Palestin-ian Film Festival wraps up Wednes-
day ater a week o screenings
designed to draw attention to the
Israeli-Palestinian confict.
Since it kicked o last Thurs-
day, the week-long estival has
shown three eature lms, a series
o short documentaries and an
exhibit o photographs taken by
students at Palestinian universi-
ties. The event was sponsored by
Common Ground, a student group
dedicated to bringing “marginal-
ized and unique voices” about the
confict to campus, according to
the lm estival’s Web site.Saturday aternoon in Carmi-
chael Auditorium, Nitin Sawhney,
a research ellow at the Massachu-
setts Institute o Technology, pre-
sented short lms rom his project
“Voices Beyond Walls.” The short
movies were made by Palestinian
children during storytelling work-
shops in reugee camps over the
last several summers.
The short lms portray aspects
o chaotic Palestinian lie, ranging
rom the tragedy o a girl losing
her arms in a land mine explo-
sion to the joy another girl derives
rom releasing a captured bird,
and encompass everything rom
the intensity o a youth basketball
tournament between Palestine and
Jordan to the maturation o a boy
who learns to value his educational
opportunities.
Sawhney said in a discussion a-
ter the screening that the children
concentrated the stories’ narrative
ocus on the compelling stories o
Palestinian lives, with the wide-
spread violence pressed into the
background. He said he learned
many lessons rom the children
and hoped to extend the program
to Gaza and to spread awareness
o modern Palestinian lie.“This is really a crucial issue,
and the American psyche isn’t rec-
ognizing it as such,” Sawhney said
during the discussion.
Other screened documentaries
and shorts included the rst two
o Maryam Monalisa Gharavi’s
“Inessential” series, lms that
attempt to illustrate how Israeli
government restrictions have
devastated shing and arming
industries in the region, and Phil-
ip Rizk’s “This Palestinian Lie,”
which documents the nonviolent
protests o some rural Palestinians
as they reuse to vacate their land
and homes.
On Sunday night, Avon Cinema
hosted the independent lm “Salt
o this Sea,” in which a Palestinian-
American woman named Soraya returns to her amily’s homeland in
an attempt to regain her deceased
grandather’s assets, which were
lost upon his 1948 eile. The lm
explores the issues o Palestinian
treatment at the hands o Israelis
and the contrast between Soraya’s
desire to regain her history and
her riend Emad’s wish to leave
Palestine behind him.
Film estival co-chairs Joanna
Abousleiman ’09 and Chantal Ber-
man ’10.5 said they were inspired
by events like the Boston Palestine
Film Festival, which ran last Oc-
tober, and wanted to expand thescope o eatured lms to include
lesser-known works and more re-
cent releases.
“We wanted to present a new
perspective,” Abousleiman said.
In order to support the estival
and help acquire the lm rights,
Common Ground received a grant
rom Brown’s Malcolm S. Forbes
Center or Research in Culture and
Media Studies, she said.
“Film’s a great way to get
people interested in the issues,”
Berman said, adding that she
and other group members were
pleased with the turnout this year
and were hoping to be able to r un
the estival again net year.
Monday night, also at Avon, the
estival screened part our o the
six-part documentary “Chronicleso a Reugee,” which, like “Voices
Beyond Walls,” delves into the
lives o Palestinian reugees and
their dilemmas o identity and
citizenship. Director Adam Sha-
piro, a human rights activist, led
a discussion o the lm ater the
screening.
The estival began last Thurs-
day with a screening at Avon Cin-
ema o “Slingshot Hip Hop,” a 2008
documentary that ollows a variety
o Palestinian hip-hop groups.
Last Friday Common Ground
also hosted an exhibit at the Cogut
Center or the Humanities o pho-tographs taken by Palestinian stu-
dents. The artists are students at
Birzeit University, near Ramallah
in the West Bank, and An-Najah
University, in Nablus.
On Wednesday, the last day
o the estival, the flm “Private”
will be shown at Avon Cinema at
9 p.m. It will be ree and open to
the public.
Bk By sydney emBer
Senior S taff W riter
The Brown Bookstore will begin
reviewing applications or a new
director this week, said Assistant
Vice President or Financial and
Administrative Ser vices Elizabeth
Gentry. Former director Manuel
Cunard abruptly resigned in early
February.
Gentry and several bookstore
employees declined to comment on
Cunard’s sudden resignation.
“It’s not something to be dis-
cussed,” Gentry said about Cunard’s
decision to step down. “When it’s
a personal situation, it’s not some-
thing we discuss,” she said. “He
did a lot when he was here. He’s
not here anymore.”
The bookstore has been operat-
ing without a permanent director
since Cunard’s resignation, though
Gentry said the Bookstore’s man-
agement team has been under her
guidance. Her position at Brown
oversees bookstore organiza-
tion, she said, adding that she is
currently “standing in with the
management team in place” until
a new director is ound to ll the
vacancy.
Cunard, who could not be
reached or comment, stepped in
as director o the Bookstore in late
November 2006, seven months ater
he resigned as director o auxiliary
services and campus services at
Wesleyan University, a position he
held or our years. According to
the Wesleyan Argus, Wesleyan’s
student newspaper, Cunard re-
signed to pursue consulting work
ull-time and to visit his daughter
and granddaughter requently in
Virginia.
During his two-and-a-hal year
tenure at the Bookstore, Cunard
Jesse Morgan / Herald
The Providence Palestinian Film Festival showcased films at the AvonCinema about the lives of modern Palestinians.
cell phone, she said.
Despite the growing popularity o
her baked goods, Schryver is hesi-
tant to call TillieCakes a ull-fedged
business.
“The reason why I don’t entirely
call it a business is because the prot
margin is really slim. But I’m not
doing it or the money,” Schryver
said.
Schryver calls hersel a sel-
taught baker. “I watched a lot o
Martha Stewart as a kid,” she said.
“Food Network’s my avorite.”
Schryver said she oten impro-
vises decorative techniques to makeher unique cake stylings. One o her
avorites was a cake adorned with
President Obama’s ace.
To create the Obama image,
Schryver said she experimented
with a variety o methods beore
hitting on the innovative technique
she used to make the large decora-
tion. She rst created the design in
royal icing on top o wax paper. Ater
she allowed the decoration to set,
she transerred the image — based
on Shepard Fairey’s iconic posters
— to the cake.
Schryver bakes all o her cakes
rom scratch, without any shortcuts.
“The homemade aspect is very im-portant to me,” she said.
She adds special ingredients,
like almond extract to her vanilla
buttercream rosting, to make the
cakes etra favorul.
“In the end you’re eating a cake,
so it has got to taste good too,”
Schryver said.
Though her company has been
getting more recognition on cam-
pus, Schryver said she is not sure
how much she wants to expand. She juggles other activities like being a
tour guide and playing on the club
lacrosse team with baking or Till-
ieCakes.
But Schryver is experimenting
with other avenues to pursue her
culinary passion.
She has started lming a cook-
ing show or Brown Television and
is considering working at a pastry
shop this summer, she said.
Last Tuesday, Schryver could be
ound in the Minden Hall ground-
loor kitchen, putting the inal
touches on two cake orders. Ater
she spread buttercream rosting on
each cake and added piped bordersand other decorations, Schryver’s
unique culinary creations began to
take shape.
She plans to take TillieCakes
“one step at a time, testing out the
ropes and then taking it one step
urther,” she said, as she careully
ashioned a rose rom pink butter-
cream rosting. “It’s right where it
needs to be r ight now.”
Qidong Chen / Herald
One of Schrver’s cake designs,depicting the 44th president.
CUS wSTUESDAy, APRIL 14, 2009 THE BROWN DAILy HERALD PAGE 3
S UCS, UFB
allotted a certain number o pointsand a spending limit o $45 or their
campaigns. Table slips, events and
even Facebook groups cost a certain
number o points.
Violations o campaign rules also
cost candidates points.
During this year’s campaign, a
member o the elections board was
made an administrator o the cam-
paign Facebook group o UCS Com-
munications Chair Clay Wertheimer
’10, a candidate or UCS president.
The rules violation cost
Wertheimer 15 o the 100 points
allotted to UCS presidential candi-
dates, though, according to Tran, theelections board member “accidently
joined the Facebook group and was
made an administrator by someone
other than Clay.”
Tran said the system ensures
that each candidate has access to
equal resources, preventing any
unair advantage.
But some candidates have ound
creative ways around the restrictive
guidelines.Supporters o UCS Student Ac-
tivities Chair Ryan Lester ’11 and
Wertheimer, or eample, have put
up campaign-themed prole pictures
on their Facebook accounts.
Campaigning ends and voting
begins today at noon. Students can
vote online on MyCourses until noon
Thursday. Results will be announced
Thursday at midnight on the steps
in ront o Faunce House.
The candidates or UCS presi-
dent are Paris Hays ’10, UCS Vice
President Mike MacCombie ’11,
Lester and Wertheimer. UCS vice-
presidential candidates are UCSmember Evan Holownia ’11, UCS
Treasurer Harris Li ’11 and UCS
member Diane Mokoro ’11.
Candidates or UFB Chair are
current UFB members Salsabil
Ahmed ’11 and Jose Vasconez ’10.
Vice-chair candidates are Neil Parikh
’11 and Juan Vasconez ’10.
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Hays wants to include underrepresented campus constituencies and improve
Brown’s image among peer institutions. The major internal change Hays would
propose to UCS is the implementation o task orces to ollow through on impor-
tant priorities.
Hays, rom Los Angeles, is the only presidential candidate not already on UCS’s
executive board. He served as a general body member last year. He currently
serves on Greek Council and has chaired the Ivy Leadership Summit.
“I’m running because I eel I owe it to the student groups to have a chair who will listen to each student,” Ahmed says.
Ahmed would rely less on precedent and instead evaluate proposals “on a case-by-case basis.” Ahmed, who hails rom Connecticut, says she sees no roomor personal politics on UFB and writes in her platorm, “I would not tolerateblock voting based on personal dierences/alliances.” An at-large UFB member and the board’s secretary, Ahmed has ser ved or two semesters on UFB.
“I love Brown,” Wertheimer says. Wertheimer says he has had “the quintes-sential Brown education,” arriving as a student o the sciences beore deciding to
concentrate in English literature and nally doubling up with economics.
Wertheimer says that o the candidates or president, he has “the strongest
relationships with administrators.” He cites his eperience with internal reorm
chairing a UCS assessment task orce last year. Wertheimer, rom Juneau, Alaska,
is the UCS communications chair.
MacCombie sees “the potential that UCS has to improve the lives o college
students in meaningul ways” and wants the council to be more responsive to
the student body. An advocate o the council’s “Ratty oce hours,” he says the
dialogue with students resulting rom the hours has shaped his platorm. He plans
to continue to ght against pre-requisites and to improve advising.
MacCombie, rom Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is the current UCS vice president, and
has served on the council or two years.
Lester says UCS does not need to improve its priorities as much as it needs to
improve its ability to make change real. He is running a process-oriented campaign
“based on the idea that I know how to accomplish” the council’s goals, he says.
He would create a UCS “liason” to University committees and invite representa-tives o those committees to UCS meetings or requent consultation.
Lester, who hails rom Logan, Utah, currently serves as UCS Student Activities
Chair and has ser ved as appointments chair.
p h ’10
slbl a ’11
Cl W ’10
m mcCb ’11
r L ’11
UCS Vice Presidential Candidates: A transer student, Evan Holownia ’11 served this year as a
general body member on UCS’ Admissions and Student Services committee. He wants to improve the
council’s “internal and eternal communication,” he says. He would like to see a stricter UCS attendance
policy and increased accountability or general body members’ individual roles in the council’s projects.
Harris Li ’11 says he would complement an administration-oriented president. He says he has the most
experience dealing with administrators and the personality to uniy eorts across the council’s various
committees. Li, the current UCS treasurer, has served two years on the council. UCS has elected him
Brown’s head delegate to the Ivy Council both years. Diane Mokoro ’11 says she has not missed “a
single meeting” o UCS. “I know ever ybody’s name. I know the code like the back o my hand,” she says.She says she will prioritize the University’s nancial situation net year and work to preserve students’
Brown eperience as well as retaining as many sta and aculty as possible. Mokoro ser ves on UCS’ com-
munications committee.
Vote on mycourses.brown.edu beginning at 12 p.m. today. Voting ends Thursday at 12 p.m.
UCS President
By Ben Schreckinger, with additional reporting by Brian Mastroianni
UFB Chair
Vasconez, UFB’s longest-serving member at ve semesters, plans to distributea list o guidelines to student groups to give them a more solid idea o how to con-struct unding requests. “I groups knew how the board has historically unded”dierent types o requests, they could “better prepare budgets,” he says. Vasconez,rom Northridge, Cali., cites his eperience on both the nancial and student groups sides o campus aairs. He has served as UCS treasurer and Ivy Council -nance chair and has been a member o the UCS student activities committee.
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UFB Vice Chair Candidates: Neil Parikh ’11 wants to address the “rustration and distrust” with which
student groups view UFB, according to his platorm. He believes the solution is to have UFB take a more active
role in the planning o student group events, to reach “a solution that benets everyone.” Parikh is the president
o the Class o 2011. Vice-chair candidate Juan Vasconez ’10 is running because he wants to “help lead and
teach” a young UFB “to allocate money responsibly.” Vasconez, brother o Jose, says he would open a dialogue
to help student groups understand the hard decisions UFB has to make and to create an atmosphere in which
UFB is “not dictating policy, but creating policy with student groups.”
Vasconez has also served previously on UCS and raised $25,000 or Brown at the University call center.
TUESDAy, APRIL 14, 2009THE BROWN DAILy HERALDPAGE 4
CUS wS “Are we going to stop Presidents Da because Thomas Jefferson had slaves?”
— Michael Hogan ’11, on Brown’s renaming Columbus Da
American community has long
regarded Columbus — an Italian
explorer who made his rst voy-age to the Americas in 1492 — as
an important historical gure and
cultural icon.
“Columbus was the one that
opened up this part o the world
to Western civilization,” Raymond
Dettore, Jr., ormer president o the
Italo-American Club in Providence,
told the Journal.
Anthony Baratta, president o
the Commission or Social Justice
o the group Sons o Italy, told the
Journal that Columbus Day is a
“patriotic” holiday. “I don’t know
why the aculty would have chosen
this route,” he said.Bob Kerr, a columnist or the
Journal, said Monday that he
thought the aculty’s decision was
“a little detached” rom the local
community, especially considering
that a large number o Providence’s
residents are o Italian descent.
Kerr wrote an opinion piece or the
Journal on Friday, headlined “Di-
erent ways o looking at the same
guy,” mocking the measure.
“I didn’t think it was a great
decision,” he said yesterday. “I’m
amazed that people at Brown
wouldn’t realize, ‘Whoa, wait a
minute, this is going to make us
look a little silly.’” The story quickly reached the
national media. On Thursday, two
days ater the aculty’s vote, r adio
personality Rush Limbaugh at-
tacked the decision.
Reerring to Brown students
who supported the aculty’s deci-
sion as “spoiled, rotten little skulls
ull o mush with brains that repre-
sent the arid expanse o the Sahara
Desert,” Limbaugh said the change
was “idiocy.”
“Next they’re going to come
along and get rid o Halloween,”
he said.
The Associated Press and Fo
News were among the national
media organizations to pick up
the story.
Meanwhile, most Brown stu-
dents continued to support the ac-
ulty’s move, despite the way it was
received outside College Hill.
“I denitely support the deci-
sion,” Avi Kenny ’11 said. Colum-
bus is “undeserving o a holiday,”
he said.“What they teach us in elemen-
tary school is misleading — hero
worshipping,” said Josh Marcotte
’11, calling the aculty’s decision “a
progressive step.”
Araceli Mendez ’12 said she too
supported the change, but under-
stood why some groups, such as
Italian-Americans, might see it as
oensive. “It’s not that complicated
o an issue, but I understand where
they’re coming rom,” she said.
Michael Hogan ’11 said he gen-
erally approved o the decision to
rename Columbus Day, but ex-
pressed some concern about the
precedent such a move might set.
“Are we going to stop Presidents
Day because Thomas Jeerson had
slaves?” he asked.
The aculty vote was preceded
by months o pressure rom a small
group o students who wanted the
University to stop recognizing
Columbus Day. The students had
originally proposed that the Univer-
sity take a dierent day o , but themonths o dialogue ended with the
proposal to change only the name
o the holiday, in part because some
aculty and sta wanted the Univer-
sity’s October holiday to coincide
with that o local schools.
Columbus Day, observed
on the second Monday in Octo-
ber, has been a ederal holiday
since 1971.
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Last month a Brown Daily Herald poll ound two-thirdso the spoiled, rotten little skulls ull o mush with brainsthat represent the arid epanse o the Sahara Desert sup-ported changing the holiday’s name. ... ‘That’s right, Mr.Limbaugh, you don’t want to admit it, but the multiculturistshave been right all along. This is because Columbus brought syphilis; Columbus brought racism, sexism, homophobia,environmental destruction.’ I know it’s unny, but it’s sad torealize this level o idiocy is being rewarded. Net they’regoing to come along and get rid o Halloween.
— Radio transcript of April 9 episode of “The Rush Limbaugh Show”
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oversaw the store’s recent r enova-
tions and the opening o the College
Hill Cae.
Cunard has also held positions
at Wake Forest University, Loyola
University in New Orleans and Colo-
rado State University. He was the
executive director o the National
Association o College Auxiliary
Services, a support organization
that osters inormation sharing andthe development o proessional re-
lationships in higher education.
Gentry said the search or a new
director is currently underway.
“The position is open, and we are
accepting applications,” she said.
Though the nal hiring decision
will belong to Gentry, she said a
search committee o people rom
around campus will provide input
about the hiring. Her decision willbe based on the committee’s rec-
ommendation ater applicants un-
dergo a ormal inter view process,
she said.
But Gentry said a nal selec-
tion could take “another month or
two.”
She said it was unclear when a
new director would be in place.
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S- k By mattheW sCuLt
Contributing W riter
Ask a child i he would rather do
physical therapy or play with a re-
mote control car and the answer will
be obvious. But now researchers at
Brown and the Rhode Island School
o Design have designed a way or
him to do both, by creating toys
specially developed or children
with neuromuscular diseases.
The toys, originally designed
by students in a joint Brown-RISD
course, are meant to complement
the benets o physical therapy or
children with Cerebral Palsy, said
Proessor o Orthopaedics Joseph
Crisco o the Warren Alpert Medi-
cal School.
By using the toys, the children
eectively “have therapy or a much
longer period o time,” Crisco said,
adding that the key o the project is
to disguise therapy as play.
The development o the toys re-sulted rom a collaboration between
Crisco, Clinical Assistant Proessor
o Clinical Neurosciences Karen
Kerman ’78, RISD Associate Pro-
essor o Industrial Design Khipra
Nichols and students in Crisco’s
course, “Toys or Rehabilitation.”
Crisco said he and his colleagues
came up with the initial concept or
the product in the all o 2006. His
students designed the actual toys
throughout the all semester. The
students worked on several dier-
ent concepts, including specially
designed walking shoes to help
children with climbing disabilities
and remote-controlled toys or chil-
dren with hemiplegia, he said.
According to Crisco, many
children with neuromuscular dis-
eases are unable to use the same
toys as their riends and siblings
because these toys requently re-
quire the use o ne motor skills,
such as pulling a trigger or press-
ing a button. To overcome this
problem, Crisco’s students pulled
out the wires o common toys and
redesigned them to be controlledthrough movements o the wrist
or arm.
The result is similar in concept
to the Nintendo Wii remote, Crisco
said, ecept that the new toys re-
spond only to movements made by
the orearm — which is enclosed in
a brace — rather than to ull-body
and arm movement.
As the goal o the project was
to use the toys or “targeted joint
therapy,” Crisco said, the designers
did not want the toys to respond i
the child were “standing on (his)
head.”
The researchers’ goal is to sendthe toys home with the children to
augment their other therapy, Crisco
said, adding that the toys have data
logging capabilities which can tell
doctors how much the children
have been using them.
In 2008, the group received a
grant to develop prototypes o the
toy controllers and began conduct-
ing a small pilot study. Now the
researchers are applying or und-
ing rom the National Institutes
o Health to upgrade the toys to
commercial quality.
I the researchers get und-
ing, Crisco said he would like to
involve students in urther develop-
ing the toys and researching their
eectiveness.
Courtes of Brown.edu
A line of tos designed b Brown and RISD students in a 2006 coursetargets children with neuromuscular diseases and impaired motor skills.
“The longer the wait, the worse it will be.” — Cit Councilman John Igliozzi on the Providence budget supplement
B b CBy sara sunshine
Senior S taff W riter
Governor Donald Carcieri ’65 an-
nounced last week he would nei-
ther sign nor veto the Rhode Island
legislature’s budget-balancing pro-
posal, passed two weeks ago by both
houses. Without his signature, the
$7.2 billion plan became law last
week.
In a statement to state lawmak-
ers, Carcieri said, “I am allowing this
bill to become law, but without my
signature and noting my concerns.
For the sake o all Rhode Islanders,
I epect all these concerns will be
addressed by the end o the legisla-
tive session.”
Though the governor’s decision
drew criticism rom state Repub-
licans, a veto would not have pre-
vented the budget’s implementation,
as there were enough votes in the
General Assembly to easily override
any veto, according to an April 8
Providence Journal article.
The supplemental budget cuts
millions rom municipal unding and
limits changes to the state’s public
pension system.
The plan also contains an addi-
tional $1-per-pack tax on cigarettes,
making Rhode Island’s the highest
such ta in the country.
The increased cost could lead
to a drop in sales, resulting in de-
creased revenue or Rhode Island
businesses, said Bill Felkner, ex-
ecutive director o the Ocean State
Policy Research Institute, a liber-
tarian-leaning group.
Rhode Island already has one
o the highest cigarette-smuggling
rates, Felkner added, and prohibi-
tively expensive cigarettes will only
cause that to increase.
The budget’s provisions about
labor contracts also caused some
concern among Rhode Islanders.
A stipulation requiring all con-
tracts be presented to the public
beore government approval, which
Felkner said would have saved the
state a signicant amount o money,
was removed rom the nal budget,
he said. It was removed because
“the unions have a great deal o
control,” Felkner added.
In a press conerence last week,
Carcieri said labor issues such as
“minimum manning” provisions that
were unaddressed in the budget are
still harmul to cities and towns.
But many legislators were con-
tent with the nal budget. “Some-
times under very, very dicult
economic times, you have to put
aside your dierences and move the
state orward, and I think this was a
very good rst step,” House Finance
Committee chairman Steven Costan-
tino told the Journal, according to
the April 8 article.
But “a lot o the money… has
strings attached to it,” Felkner said.
“It’s not the nancial relie it’s been
portrayed to be.”
C, C By anish gonChigar
S taff W riter
About 40 members o the College
Hill Neighborhood Association
turned out to discuss city and
neighborhood issues with Provi-
dence Mayor David Cicilline ’83 at
Moses Brown School last night.
The mayor emphasized the
eects o the recession on
Providence.
“It would be an understatement
to say that we’re in a really chal-
lenging budget time,” he said.
Cicilline said the city’s immedi-
ate ocus should be on creating jobs
and laying the oundation or eco-
nomic recovery. He said the key torebuilding Providence’s economy
will be investing in knowledge-
based industries, adding that he
has been working in Washington,
D.C., to unnel stimulus money
to Brown and the Rhode Island
School o Design.
Cicilline also commended
the Providence Police Depart-
ment or being a model city po-
lice orce, saying “the police de-
partment is and continues to be
etraordinary.”
Chie o Police Colonel Dean
Esserman, who was in attendance,
added that the Providence police
orce is on the road to becomingthe irst teaching police orce in
the United States.
Another issue on the agenda
was the public school system.
Cicilline said he is working hard
with Providence Public Schools
Superintendent Tom Brady to ad-
dress key ailings in the system.
A major goal, said Cicilline, would
be to work on bridging the per-
ceived separation between school
and ater-school activities.
Members o the CHNA raised
concerns about graiti. Cicilline
agreed that graiti is a serious
problem but said there is no solu-tion other than to continue ight-
ing it.
Esserman said a majority o
vandals are high school students
tagging their own neighborhoods.
The police department is taking
new initiatives to prevent graiti,
such as talking directly to parents
and school oicials, he added.
A more divisive issue brought
up at the meeting was parking
enorcement. Cicilline said park-
ing complaints are split between
people claiming that parking en-
orcement is too strict and peoplecomplaining that parking enorce-
ment is too lenient.
“Everyone I’ve asked this ques-
tion to has strong views one way or
another,” Cicilline said, adding that
he is a big proponent o on-str eet
parking and that he is working on
pilot programs in several neighbor-
hoods to reorm parking.
College Hill resident Alan Gore
told The Herald that this was his
irst time attending a neighbor-
hood meeting, and he thought
the mayor seemed very on top o
things.“I thought it was very inorma-
tive,” Gore said.
C
b By joanna WohLmuth
Metro editor
With less than three months re-
maining in the city’s scal year,
Providence must rush to close a
$16.1 million decit resulting rom
slashed state aid and unmet rev-
enue goals.
Ward 7 Councilman John Ig-
liozzi, chairman o the City Council
Finance Committee, said he hopes
to see a supplemental budget pro-
posal rom the oce o Mayor
David Cicilline ’83 by the council
meeting this Thursday.But Igliozzi said city ocials
seemed “noncommittal” about
their timeline or presenting bud-
get revisions when he last spoke
with them.
The City Charter requires that
the budget be balanced at the end
o each scal year, which runs rom
July 1 to June 30.
Because o the procedural steps
required — including the certica-
tion o the decit and presentation
o a supplemental budget by the
mayor’s oce, as well as multiple
votes and public hearings in the
council — the budget revision
process will likely take a monthto complete, Igliozzi said.
With only 11 weeks to make
up the deicit in Providence’s
$641-million operating budget or
the current year, the city will need
to work quickly. About 55 percent
o the total budget is allocated
or education with the remainder
going or city ser vices, including
recreational activities, police and
re departments, parks and snow
removal, Igliozzi said.
The decit will not aect the
allocation o money to schools, so
the city must nd a way to make
it up through savings elsewhere,Igliozzi said. Due to Rhode Island’s
crippling oreclosure and unem-
ployment problems, raising taes
is also not a possibility at this time,
he said.
O the total decit o $16.1 mil-
lion, about $7 million comes rom
unmet city goals or revenue rom
taxes, property sales and consolida-
tion o city departments, Igliozzi
said. The other $9 million was
cut rom state unds allocated to
make up or lost revenues rom
tax-exempt properties, such as
hospitals and institutions o higher
education, which make up about
52 percent o land in Providence,
he said.
“Some o it was sel-inficted and
some o it is something that wasn’t
in our control,” Igliozzi said.
Though Providence o cials
have known or months that thestate may cut the city’s unding,
the eact amount was not known
until early April, when the General
Assembly voted to restore about
hal o the state’s revenue-sharing
money or cities and towns.
There has been discussion o
selling city properties, consolidat-
ing city departments and seeking
concessions rom unions, Igliozzi
said, adding that retroactive pay
raises given to nonunion employ-
ees may also be cut.
Cicilline’s director o adminis-
tration, Richard Kerbel, told the
Providence Journal last week that
closing the decit will be a “signi-cant challenge.” The mayor’s oce
is primarily ocusing on conces-
sions rom unions and nonunion
personnel to achieve a balanced
budget, he told the Journal.
The mayor’s oce could not be
reached or comment Monday.
Kerbel is largely responsible or
drating the supplemental budget
proposal, Igliozzi said.
Providence is already strug-
gling to ll the projected decits
in the budget or the next scal
year, and the problem will only
be compounded by any lingering
decits, Igliozzi said“They are going to have to be-
come more rugal and put together
a serious nancial plan on how to
run the city without the additional
$16 million or the net quarter,”
Igliozzi said. “The longer they wait,
the worse it will be.”
Anish Gonchigar / Herald
Providence Maor David Cicilline ’83 spoke at a meeting of the CollegeHill Neighborhood Association last night, covering issues from parking toschool vandalism.
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