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StaffWriter

Sanna Vohra 12 wants to give

Brown students even more reedom

o choice by oering some al-

ternatives to caeteria dining. With

the help o three riends, Vohra

has launched 2020, a business thatseeks to make it moe aordable

or students to eat in restaurants

on Thayer Street.

We want to make it easier orstudents to eat out, Vohra said.

They should be able to do so at a

good price.

The company grew out o a busi-

ness plan that Vohra wrote with

Luke Sherwin 12 or Proessor

Emeritus o Engineering Barrett

Hazeltines class, ENGN 0900:

Managerial Decision Making.

Their riends Muhammad Saigol

12 and Parth Jindal 12 joined the

company later.

Brown students pay $20 or a

membership card that gives them

a 20 percent discount at restau-

rants along Thayer. The cards

will be valid until May 2010, said

Vohra, a ormer Herald contribut-

ing writer.

So ar, Kabob and Curry, Spice,

Andreas, Phonatic and Byblos and

its hookah bar have agreed to work

with 2020. Paragon and Spats may

join later once the business is more

established, Sherwin said.

The discount, which works all

day rom Monday through Thurs-

day and until 3 p.m. on Fridays,

lowers the price o restaurant ood

to roughly the price o a meal

credit, Vohra added. Currently,

each meal credit is worth $5.75.

Because the discount doesnt

work during weekends, and stu-

dents still need to eat, 2020s ound-

ers do not think their discount will

replace meal plans, Vohra said.

Even so, the group thinks its

possible that people will start to

get cheaper meal plans, Saigol

said.

Ann Homan, director o ad-

ministration or Brown Dining Ser-

vices, wrote in an e-mail to The

Herald that, at this stage, it is im-

possible to tell the eect that 2020

will have on the number o students

who choose the Universitys din-

ing program. Dining Services will

by Joanna WohLmuth

Metroeditor

As the global economy continues to

struggle, questions about the pos-

sible impact on higher education are

becoming more pressing particu-

larly ollowing last years dramatic

unveiling at many top universities o

expanded nancial aid programs.

Among the students surveyed

in a recent Herald

poll, 30.9 percent o

undergraduates are

very condent in their ability to -nance their education, 29.3 percent

are somewhat condent, 27.5 per-

cent are somewhat worried and 10.5

percent are very worried about their

ability to nance their education.

Approximately 41 percent o

students qualied or nancial aid

this year, according to the Brown

Web site.

Dick Spies, executive vice presi-dent or planning and senior adviser

to the president, said he was not

surprised by these gures. Paying

or college is a large part o a am-

ilys expenses, and as their incomes

come under pressure, it becomes a

greater concern, he said.

Despite this, administrators

have been pleasantly surprised

that there have been ewer cases

o students contacting the Oce oFinancial Aid about increased nan-

cial need than some had expected,

Spies added.

Regardless o

economic circum-

stances, Brown will

remain committed to supportingstudents, he said.

In October, Brown announced

a temporary policy allowing many

students with outstanding tuition

balances to pre-register or spring

classes. Approximately 360 students

beneted rom the temporary mea-sure, Elizabeth Gentry, assistant

vice president or inancial and

administrative services, told The

Herald in a Jan. 26 article.

-M T Sby monique Vernon

Contributing Writer

Bajas, a Tex-Mex restaurant,

will soon be opening its doors

on Thayer Street. Ray Hugh, the

owner o Shanghai and Xtreme

Pizza and Wings, is now expand-

ing with a venue at 273

Thayer St., where Spikes

Junkyard Dogs used to

be housed.

The establishment will be un-

veiled in about six weeks, providing

a wide selection o oods, Hugh

said. With the option o eating there

or taking out, patrons will be able to

enjoy Philly cheesesteaks, burgers,

salads, ries and burritos, Hugh

said.

Everythings cooked in ront

o you, Hugh said, because the

kitchen aces the customers, pro-

viding them with the opportunity

to watch the ches at work.

There will also be a lot o things

imported directly rom Mexico,

he added.

Hughs last venture,

Shark Sushi Bar and Grill,

encountered trouble with city or-

dinances over parking spaces. ButHugh said that since Bajas is in the

old Spikes Junkyard Dogs location,

the parking is already provided.

I think this street can use a

good Mexican ast-ood place, he

said.

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Bajas will be omin to Thaer Street in abot six weeks.

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UCS by ben Schreckinger

SeniorStaffWriter

The Undergraduate Council o Stu-

dents unanimously passed a resolution

Wednesday to oer limited unding

to Category I student groups and to

create a new ununded category or

club sports.

Category I organizations, which

have the lowest level o ocial UCS

recognition, previously received no

unding. But they may now apply or

$100 every two years. I every current

Category I group received unding, it

would cost the Undergraduate Finan-

cial Board about $5,000 a year.

UCS Academic and Administra-

tive Aairs Chair Tyler Rosenbaum

11 said an initial proposal to provide

groups with hal that amount present-

ed an awul lot o work to go through

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by kriStina fazzaLaro

ContributingWriter

The newly renamed Oce o Con-

tinuing Education may soon oer

online courses and courses targeted

at proessionals as part o a broader

eort to expand the Universitys role

in postgraduate studies, said Dean oContinuing Education Karen Sibley

MAT81 P07 P12.

The University recently received

approval or certicate programs to

benet proessional learners, Sibley

said, adding that these postgraduateclasses would oer an interesting

mix o classes or proessionals in

specic elds.

The idea is to create a platorm

that allows Brown to engage in con-

tinuing education, she said.The new certicate programs

will be the Universitys rst courses

intended to help proessionals stay

abreast o developments in their

elds, Sibley said. Things move and

change so quickly today that people

have to be constantly learning, she

added.

Sibley said the department has

been working with the Alpert Medi-

cal School and the Department o

Public Health on possible courses,

among other potential oerings,

though nothing is nalized.

The proposal or the programs

had to be approved by the Academic

Priorities Committee, the aculty and

the Corporation in order to be imple-

mented, Sibley said.

U. k

by Sarah JuLianContributingWriter

The graduating class that gathered

in Pembroke Hall last December

was smaller than one might have

expected.

And unlike Commencement, there

were neither caps nor gowns nor

overzealous parents rantically snap-

ping photos. This group o graduates

was composed o 24 members o the

Universitys aculty and sta.

Dressed in their normal work

clothes, they gathered in Pembroke

to receive their completion certicates

rom the Brown University Ambas-

sadors Program.

Currently in its second year, the

program was created to give aculty

and sta an opportunity to learn more

about the University outside o their

own departments and divisions. Em-

ployees apply to be part o the pro-

gram, and i accepted, attend a day-

long session every month, starting

in January and ending the ollowing

December.

Each session aimed to give the

ambassadors a personalized look into

the daily workings o some aspect o

Brown. To see the school rom the

student perspective, the ambas-

sadors traveled to the Sharpe Reec-

tory, where they were treated to abehind-the-scenes tour that included

the butcher shop and the bakery.

There, Jennier Slattery-Bownds,

a 2008 ambassador and the TaubmanCenter or Public Policys manager or

career and employment development,

learned that chicken ngers are the

ultimate dinner.

To experience another part o

student lie, last years ambassadors

completed roommate questionnaire

orms and were paired with one an-

other based on their answers, said

Judith Nabb, manager o learning and

proessional development at Brown

and the programs coordinator.

The programs goals are to pro-

vide recognition to sta members,

promote employee retention and help

participants understand their value as

University employees, Nabb said.

Last years participants also trav-

eled to the Olney-Margolies Athletic

Center, visited Brown Student Radio,

picnicked with current Brown stu-

dents and received a private concert

rom the a cappella group Shades o

Brown, said Jamie Kendrioski, a 2008ambassador and the assistant director

o the Oce o International Student

and Scholar Services. To learn about the graduate

school, ambassadors lled out ake

applications and received acceptance

and rejection letters, Nabb said. Theyalso attended classes or grad students

at the Trinity Repertory Theatre, ac-

cording to Nabb.

Its really great learning about

all these things because theres so

much that, as a sta member, youre

not exposed to, said Alison DeLisi, an

administrative assistant in the O ce

o the Dean o the College. Its helped

me to learn things that arent in my

area, said DeLisi, who experienced

her student day on Tuesday with

the other 2009 ambassadors.

The program was such a blast,

said Kendrioski, who described seeing

air pumped into cow lungs at the Bio-

Medical Center and visiting archives

in Browns libraries.

We were inundated with inorma-

tion just constantly, but it was always

great, he said.

The program helped him build a

network o riends and contacts that

he can use in his proessional and

personal lie. It was the best thing

that happened to him at Brown, Ken-

drioski said.

certainly monitor meal plan trends

when students select meal plans

or next year during the summer

and early all, she wrote.

Homan wrote that, though it

doesnt seem likely that 2020 can

meet the broad and varied dining

needs o the student body, the

businesss discount can nicely

complement the dierent meal

plans oered.

We encourage these kinds o

student initiatives! she wrote.

The cards went on sale Mon-

day on the Main Green, and aso Wednesday, the business had

sold about 70. The group has alsobeen selling the cards on commis-

sion through three other riends,

Sherwin said.

We gave three people we trust

cards, he said. They will receive

$4 o the prot or each card they

sell. They have been doing mod-

erately well.

Nehal Dorshi 12 bought a

membership card on Monday.

He eats out at least a ew times a

week, he said, so this seems like

a good deal.

It works perectly or me,

Dorshi said. I save money.Neil Parikh 11, Vohra and

Sherwins teaching assistant in

ENGN 0900, said he thought 2020

was an excellent idea rom the

start. Not only will he buy the

card, he said, but he has been

spreading the word about his

students business.

The team said the deal will also

benet the restaurants involved,who will have the chance to adver-

tise in 2020s weekly newsletter.

Bas Wirassamee, manager o

Spice, said the deal with 2020 will

benet everybody involved.

I can get more customers at

no cost, Wirassamee said.

Students can get more ood,

she said, adding that students

make up most o the restaurants

customers.

In the past three days, 2020

has sold over 70 cards or a total

o $1,400, which the business will

use to pay or start-up costs such

as printing the cards and adver-tising. More than that, though,

the group wants to have money

in reserve, Vohra said.

We want to make a sel-su-

cient business and have enough

money to have a cushion to all

back on, she said.

I the business is successul,

the team will look or possible

ways to expand beyond eating

venues, Vohra said. The team will

try to partner with the Avon Cin-

ema, and it is considering working

with transportation companies orcheaper tickets to New York or

Boston. Developing the business

into a ranchise is also an option,she said.

Were looking into other

schools, like Georgetown, that

have a similar set-up to Browns,

she said.

We really want this project to

last more than Hazeltines class,

Vohra said. We want it to be or

the long run.

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Normally, students who owe more

than $1,000 are blocked rom pre-registering or classes the ollowing

semester, and those who owe more

than $5,000 are barred rom living in

residence halls or attending classes.

Ten students, who were in danger

o exceeding the temporary upper

limit o $7,500 in unpaid dues, were

able to remain enrolled ater working

closely with nancial aid ocers to

work out payment plans, said James

Tilton, director o nancial aid, in the

Jan. 26 article.

Spies said he expects those mea-

sures to remain in place.

Administrators are hopeul that

the University will not have to scaleback the nancial aid program, Spies

said. There is a eeling that it was a

really important thing we were able

to do a year ago, he said. Those are

hard-ought gains that you dont want

to give up.

I administrators decide that

changes are necessary, they wouldnot go into eect until the 2010-11

academic year, Spies said.

Though students interviewed by

The Herald had mixed opinions about

the number o Brown undergraduates

concerned about nancing their edu-

cation, most noted that it is not oten

discussed among peers.

People are talking about the

economy in general but you dont

really hear about how its aecting

people on a personal level, said Re-

bekah Bergman 11.

Sean OLoane 11 said the number

o concerned students seemed high,

though not surprising. Brown is re-ally expensive and the economy is

very bad right now, he said.

Maria Capecelatro 10 said she

was not surprised by the number o

students concerned about nancing

their education.

I think there is the common

assumption that people here arerom amilies that dont need help,

Capecelatro said, but now its very

apparent that the economy is aect-

ing everyone.

I would think more (students)

would be concerned, but I guess I

dont have a good idea o what peo-

ples backgrounds are, said Christie

Louie 12.

The poll, conducted rom March

16 through 18, had a 3.6 percent

margin o error with 95 percent

condence. A total o 676 Brown

undergraduates completed the poll,

which The Herald administered as a

written questionnaire to students inthe University Mail Room at J. Wal-

ter Wilson, outside the Blue Room

in Faunce House and in the Sciences

Library.

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We want to reate the fastest pool in the Iv Leae.

Ronal Vanen dorpel, senior vie presient

changes on the way for ode of ondut

news inbrief

A committee o students and administrators is reviewing the

code o student conduct.The committee began its work in March and is currently f-

nalizing its recommendations. University rules require that the

code o student conduct be reviewed at least once every three

years, according to the Ofce o Student Lie.

The group which is run through Student Lie includes

undergraduate, graduate and medical students, as well as mem-

bers o the University Disciplinary Council and senior sta, said

Yolanda Castillo-Appollonio, associate dean o student l ie.

The committee hopes to fnish its revisions to the code in the

next ew weeks and present the changes to the Corporation at

the Corporations May meeting, Castillo-Appollonio said.

Though she declined to comment on the specifc changes

the committee plans to present to the Corporation, Castillo-

Appollonio said she believes the changes will be signifcant.

Other members of the committee were also reluctant to

comment on the changes. Vice President or Campus Lie andStudent Services Margaret Klawunn wrote in an e-mail to The

Herald that she did not yet eel comortable releasing inorma-

tion on the committees decisions.

Administrators tried to put people with knowledge of the

Universitys existing disciplinary system on the committee to

make the recommended changes as helpful as possible tostudents, Castillo-Appollonio said.

Allen Ward, senior associate dean or student lie, took over

responsibility or the non-academic disciplinary system as a result

o a vacancy in the Ofce o Student Lie that will not be flled.

The Dean o the College will continue to have responsibility

or issues o academic violations, Castillo-Appollonio said.

Andrew Sia

Astin Freeman / Heral

A temporar pool, seen here, was onstrte after the Smith Swim center was lose.

G By Talia Kagan

Contributing Writer

Construction on a new aquatics cen-

ter could begin soon, thanks in part

to a $1 million challenge git received

in early Februar y.

The git rom an anonymous do-

nor could push pledged donations

or the planned aquatics center pastthe 90 percent undraising threshold

required or construction to begin on

the project, said Senior Vice Presi-

dent or University Advancement

Ronald Vanden Dorpel MA71.

So ar, the Campaign or Aca-

demic Enrichment has raised 85

percent o the $25 million needed

or the acility, Vanden Dorpel said.

The challenge git donor is oering

a dollar-or-dollar match on gits to

the aquatics center campaign, which

could result in a total donation o $2

million, which would put the und at

93.2 percent o the total needed.

Last October, the Corporationestablished a requirement that 50

percent o gits must be received by

the University and 90 percent o the

necessary unds must be commit-

ted in pledges beore ground can

be broken or a git-unded building,

Vanden Dorpel wrote in an e-mail to

The Herald.

These construction requirements

are more stringent than in the past,

said Executive Vice President or

Finance and Administration Bep-

pie Huidekoper, citing the current

economic situation as a contributing

actor.

The Corporation also requires

that all pledged donations be received

by the University beore a project iscompleted, though Huidekoper said

she does not think ullling this obli-

gation will be a problem in the case

o the center.

The 90 percent undraising mark

could be reached as early as this

summer. Vanden Dorpel said the

campaign is making a maximum

eor t to raise the $1 million by June

30, though this recent challenge

grant will continue to accept match-

ing donations until the Campaign

or Academic Enrichment ends in

2010.

Meanwhile, he anticipates that

the recent $14.75 million bequestrom the estate o Raymond Moran

41 will come in beore June 30,

ullling the 50 percent require-

ment. He added, Once they get

that, groundbreaking can begin.

While there may soon be su-

cient unds, the building has not been

designed yet, so actual construction

wont start this summer, Huidekoper

said. An architect will be chosen at

the Corporation meeting in May,

she said.

Its still early on regarding plans

or the center, said Associate Ath-

letic Director or Facilities Thomas

Bold.

This was the challenge git do-

nors second major git to the aquat-ics center project, according to Van-

den Dorpel. Both the donor and his

wie are alums.

Theyve been very interested

in this project and they want to see

it completed as soon as possible,

Vanden Dorpel said. The campaign

is targeting alums o the swimming

and water polo teams to match the

challenge git and donate the remain-

ing unds, he said.

Fundraising is looking ver y en-

couraging, Huidekoper said, Ev-

erybodys trying to raise the money

as soon as we possibly can.

According to the Boldly BrownWeb site, the Olympic-size pool will

have 800 spectator seats, a diving

area with 1-meter and 3-meter diving

boards and new technology meant to

reduce water turbulence.

We want to create the astest

pool in the Ivy League, Vanden

Dorpel said.

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In addition to new postgraduate

programs, the department is alsobeginning to explore the possibil-

ity o online courses, said Deputy

Provost Vincent Tompkins 84. Ad-

ministrators are hoping to learn rom

the successes and ailures o other

universities in their implementation

o their online programs, he added.

Though online courses are only in

the initial planning phases, adminis-

trators plan to incorporate them only

where it advances the pedagogy o

the classes, said Tompkins.

We are not going to simpliy and

package classes online, but we can

still use the technology in interesting

ways, Sibley said. Its exciting.

The oces new name it was

ormerly the Oce o Summer and

Continuing Studies will better re-fect the increasing breadth o the

departments jobs, Tompkins said.

The name changed in January, ac-

cording to Sibley.

The department also now reports

to the provost instead o to the dean

o the College, Sibley said.

The switch urther refects the

oces new ocus on graduate and

postgraduateuate studies, Tompkins

said. It was a natural evolution or

the department to report to the pro-

vosts oce, which is responsible

or academic programs throughout

the University, whereas the Oce o

the Dean o the College is primarily

concerned with undergraduate a-

airs, he added.

Though the new course oeringswill bring in revenue, they were not a

strategic response to the Universitys

nancial woes, Sibley said.

Each new program is at a dierent

stage o implementation. The certi-

cate programs take time to develop

because the department wants to

make sure that the right mix o

classes is oered, Tompkins said,

adding that an online program may

be approved in the next year.

Im excited about the potential

there or Brown, Tompkins said.

This is an area o strength we can

build on.

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CMUS wS Not to et overl hees, bt it feels like or little fraternit. Jamie Kenrioski, on the Brown universit Ambassaors Proram

My experience at Brown as an

employee is much more satisying,

Kendrioski said. I eel more owner-

ship, like I have a role here. This is

my university.

Nabb said she is responsible or

gauging the progress o the program.

Though there has not yet been a or-

mal report because its second year

has only just begun, she said she can

see there is quite a bit o engage-

ment.

According to Nabb, ormer ambas-

sadors have become more involved

in the community as a result o the

program. One ambassador applied

to be on the Brown University Com-

munity Council, and another decided

to volunteer, teaching English as a

second language.

I think everyone, or the most

part, has become more engaged,

Nabb said. This can be as simple as

going to a sporting event to support

students when they wouldnt havethought to beore.

Slattery-Bownds said the program

made her eel much more knowledge-

able about the University and its stu-

dents, aculty and sta.

The whole program was like get-

ting a ast-orward through 20 years o

inormation in one year, she said.

I Slattery-Bownds has a ques-

tion, she said, her rst call might be

to another ambassador.

I eel like I have my network,

Kendrioski agreed. Not to get overly

cheesy, but it eels like our little ra-

ternity.

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or a negligible amount o money at

the councils April 1 meeting.

Rosenbaum, also a member o

UFB and a Herald opinions col-

umnist, estimated that even i all

student groups took advantage o

that proposal, it would represent a

drop in the bucket o UFBs an-

nual budget, which is more than

$1 million.

In contrast, the newly catego-

rized club sports will not be eli-

gible or unding in any way, shape

or orm, said UCS Student Activities

Chair Ryan Lester 11, the resolu-tions sponsor, at the meeting.

Uncategorized club sports want

to be able to compete under the

school name, Lester said, explain-

ing the decision to categorize the

groups without unding them.

Currently, club sports are ad-

ministered and unded by the De-

partment o Athletics and Physical

Education. But the department has

yet to recognize recently ormed

club sports, such as polo and

gymnastics.Theyre just dodgy, Lester said

at the meeting in response to a ques-

tion about the athletic departmentslack o a system or categorizing and

unding new club sports. Theyre

an incredibly rich department.

The nal resolution also dropped

language rom the proposed resolu-

tion that required campus religious

groups, which oten have o -campus

leaders, to meet with the Oce o

the Chaplain beore receiving cat-

egorization. Lester said the require-

ment was intended to prevent reli-

gious groups rom misrepresenting

their purpose to gain categorizationand would only codiying existing

practice.

Some UCS members had raised

concerns about the requirement.

Diane Mokoro 11 said she was wary

o measures that could unduly limit

the ree exercise o religion.

In an interview with The Her-

ald, Lester said excluding the re-

quirement rom the nal resolution

ensured that UCS was treating all

groups equally.

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The rama will ontine. Tonia Mason, marketin iretor for the Proviene Pbli Librar

.I. k by anne Speyer

StaffWriter

State representatives have intro-

duced a bill in the General Assembly

intended to increase the availability

o ater school and summer-learning

programs or children in Rhode

Island.

The bill, which was introduced in

February by House Majority Lead-er Gordon Fox, D-Dist. 4, would

require the states Department o

Elementary and Secondary Educa-

tion to begin researching and plan-

ning new aterschool and summer-education initiatives. The House

Committee on Health, Education

and Welare met last Thursday to

discuss the bill, recommending that

it be held or ur ther study.

According to the bill, 74 percent

o children between the ages o six

and 17 in Rhode Island do not havea parent who is not in the work-

orce. Nationwide, the average is

only 68 percent.

The bill states that the hours be-

tween 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. ater the

school day ends and beore parentsget home are peak hours or

juvenile crime and experimenta-

tion with drugs, alcohol, cigarettes

and sex.

The bill also reers to the impor-

tance o ater school and summer-

learning programs in the educa-

tional and emotional development

o students. It directs the Depart-

ment o Elementary and Secondary

Education to research activities that

are interesting and un, but that also

help students develop skills and a

sense o competence.Proessor o Education Cyn-

thia Garcia Coll said aterschool

programs are important because

they can give students a place to

excel.

Involvement in sports, or ex-

ample, is tremendous or kids in

terms o working hard at a goal,

achieving in a group (and) disci-

pline things that are really impor-

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by george miLLerMetro editor

Providence Public Library, the

non-prot corporation that runs

the citys public libraries, moved

closer to being able to continue

service at all nine neighborhood

branches last week when its board

o trustees voted to explore trans-

erring control o the branches to

a community group.

The status o any transer to

the group, known as Providence

Community Library, is very

much in fux, said Tonia Mason,the public librarys director o

marketing. The drama will con-

tinue, she said.

Conversations between the

two organizations, which have

already started, will ocus on

making a seamless transition,

she said.

It would benet everybody

to have those discussions earlier

rather than later, Mason said.

In December, the library de-

veloped what they said was a

nancially sustainable plan that

would have closed ve neigh-

borhood branches. In response,

community members created the

Providence Community Library

and asked to take control o the

nine neighborhood branches,

leaving only the central branch

in the hands o the PPL.

The library is plugging an

anticipated $1.4 million decit

or scal year 2009. William Sim-mons 60, proessor o anthropol-

ogy at Brown and chair o the

librarys board o trustees, said

in a PPL press release that the

library has been covering decits

with money rom its endowment,

but that the economic crisis has

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SeniorStaffWriter

Gender Action, a subgroup o

Browns Queer Alliance, attended

a hearing at the State House Tues-

day to lobby or a bill to expand the

states denition o hate crimes.

Calling or the state to classiy

crimes based on gender identity

or expression as hate crimes, the

bill, sponsored by Rep. Edith Ajello,D-Dist. 3, and our other representa-

tives, was introduced in the RhodeIsland House o Representatives in

early February. The committee de-

cided Tuesday to hold the measure

or urther study.

Though current hate crime leg-

islation includes protection against

crimes based on sexual or ientation

and gender, there is no protection

or transgender or gender-variant

people. These groups are presently

covered under the states discrimina-

tion statutes.

The bill would also mandate

that Rhode Island maintain statisti-

cal records on gender identity- and

expression-related hate crimes and

train state police ocers to recog-nize discrimination.

Katie Lamb 10, head chair o

Gender Action and QA secretary,

said the subgroup rst got involved

in lobbying or the bill when a Rhode

Island-wide listserv or LGBTQ is-

sues sent out a notice about the

bill.

For a group dedicated to educa-

tion and advocacy o LGBTQ issues,

it was perect, so we got involved,

Lamb said, adding that the nations

smallest state is ahead o its time.

Rhode Island sort o sets itsel

apart rom many other states be-

cause it includes gender identityin its discrimination legislation. So

adding it to the hate crime legislation

makes sense since transgendered

people are oten victims o violence,

she said.

Gender Action has advertised

(the bill) to the student body at

large by using table slips, Lamb

said. There hasnt been a humon-

gous amount o support on campus,but I think thats pretty typical or

o-campus issues.

The bill is very important or

Rhode Island, Lamb said, and pass-

ing it will be helpul in preventing

violence against transgender or

queer individuals both on- and o-campus. Only nine other states have

trans-inclusive non-discrimination

acts, according to the Web site o

Pride At Work, an LGBT labor group

in the AFL-CIO.

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tant in lie and, o course, in schools,

she said.

The bill states that the new pro-

grams should ocus on children who

attend high-poverty, low-perorming

schools.

The two times when kids who

are living in poverty lose momen-

tum on what schools are giving

them is during summers and ater

school, Garcia Coll said. Middle-

class parents have the means and

the knowledge to know that these

are important times to enrich their

(childrens) experiences.Finally, research would also o-

cus on developing age- and grade-

appropriate programming or stu-

dents between kindergarten and

12th grade.

The needs are very dierent,

Garcia Coll said. The elementaryschools give you a certain set o

skills that are really critical in termso reading, math skills and eeling

good about yoursel. In middle

school, we need to keep students

engaged in school so that they dont

drop out, and we need to keep ado-

lescents busy and excited about

something.

All three ages are important,

she added. Adequately providing

or the dierent needs o the age

groups takes a lot o money.

Its crucial that we do it well,

she said.

The bill stipulates that the newprograms be publicly unded and

operate through a diverse network o

already-existing initiatives, including

community learning centers, child

opportunity zones, community-based

organizations and public schools.

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ravaged that und.

The trustees recognized thatthey could not continue to main-

tain all the branches with the en-

dowment and unding rom the

city and wanted to oer the com-

munity group the opportunity to

run the branches as long as it was

a viable entity, Mason said.

City ocials, who have the -

nal say in the matter, have made it

clear they will not accept closing

branches, she said.

The money is going to de-termine whos operating what,

Mason said.

Linda Kushner, a ounding

member o Providence Commu-

nity Library, said in the press re-

lease that she was very pleased

with the vote, adding that the

two groups would examine how

we can provide the best library

services to the people o Provi-

dence.

A possible transer could occurby the start o the next scal year

this summer, Mason said.

Meanwhile, library operations

will continue while the two groups

sort out details.

Were not just sitting here

waiting to close doors, Mason

said.

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w. b by dan aLexander

SportS StaffWriter

The womens lacrosse team had an ex-

plosive week, scoring 30 goals in three

halves against Columbia on Saturday

and Bryant on Tuesday. The Bears

rallied to erase an 8-4 haltime decit

to the Lions ater surrendering eight

goals on nine shots.

Despite diculties in goal, the

Bears oensive irepower was

enough to beat Columbia, 15-10, and

overwhelm Bryant, 21-6.

Leading scorers Katelyn Caro 12

and Kaela McGilloway 12 led the

Bears attack, with McGilloway com-

piling ten points and Caro eight points,over the two games.

The Bears (6-4, 2-1 Ivy) went into

Saturdays game coming o a 16-1

loss to No. 13 Dartmouth the week

beore.

The Dartmouth loss was denitely

embarrassing, McGilloway said. We

had a hard week o practice, but I de-

nitely think it made us stronger and

want to win more. It was like a turning

point in our season or sure.

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Columbia (5-5, 0-4) entered the

game on a rough note, too. Ater

winning their rst ve games o the

season, the Lions had dropped our

consecutive games, including three

Ivy League games.

They couldnt pick up their rst

Ivy League win this season against

Brown, thanks to the Bears attack

led by Caro and McGilloway.

But goalie Isabel Harvey 12 didnt

support her teams attackers as much.

She stopped only one o the 11 shots

she aced.

Just 13 seconds into the game, Al-exa Caldwell 11 put the Bears on the

scoreboard rst. But Columbia didntlet Brown run away with it, scoring the

equalizer just over two minutes later.

Ater Caldwell scored her second goal

at 8:16 to put the Bears up 2-1, the

Lions struck again just 20 seconds

later, starting a three-goal run over

the next 1:40, to take a 4-2 lead.

Caro scored her rst goal o the

night at 12:13, but Columbia answeredwith two more goals, extending its

lead to 6-3 almost 20 minutes into the

game.

McGilloway scored her rst o the

game with less than ve minutes let

in the hal, but two more Columbia

goals beore haltime made it an 8-4

game at the break.

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SportS StaffreportS

Bruno cleaned up on the awards

scene this week.

Two baseball players were

honored ater the Bears swept

our games rom Penn and Co-

lumbia over the weekend. Robert

Papenhause 09 was named the

Ivy League Player o the Week

and Matthew Kimball 11 snagged

Pitcher o the Week honors.

Papenhause was red hot at

the plate. He improved on a 5-or-

10 showing in three non-league

games earlier in the week byrapping out seven hits, our o

which let the yard, in 11 at-bats

against Penn and Columbia. He

scored ive runs and drove in 11

to power the Bears past their Ivy

League oes.

Ater Kimball picked up a

win with a solid inning o relie

against URI last Wednesday, he

pitched 4.1 innings and earned apair o saves in three games over

the weekend.

Joanna Wohlmuth 11, a Her-

ald metro editor, was named

the CWPA Northern Division

Player o the Week ater she led

the womens water polo team toa 4-0 record over the weekend.

Wohlmuth illed the stat sheet

with seven goals, three steals

and 14 ejections drawn, but she

made her biggest impact in two

o the games.

Wohlmuth scored the game-

winning goal in an 8-7 overtime

victory over No. 12 Hartwick

College on Friday to snap the

Hawks 92-game Northern Divi-

sion winning streak, which dated

back to 2000. Ater leading her

team with three goals in that

game, she scored a season-high

our goals the ollowing day in a

13-3 drubbing o Utica College.

Two mens lacrosse players

were named to the Ivy League

Honor Roll ater the Bears won

twice, securing an 11-7 victory

over Bryant last Tuesday and a

dramatic 13-9 triumph over Yale

on Saturday. Attacker Thomas

Muldoon 10 notched our goals

in each game to run his consecu-tive point-scoring streak to 29

games, the sixth-best mark in

the nation. Midielder Rob Schle-

singer 12 starred on oense and

deense against the Bulldogs,

tallying a goal and an assist and

corralling our ground balls.

Midielder Alexa Caldwell

11 was named to the Honor

Roll on the womens side ater

an impressive perormance in a

15-10 victory over Columbia on

Saturday. Caldwell, who entered

the game with ive points on theseason, poured on the oense

with three goals and an assist.

She added our ground balls,three draw controls and three

caused turnovers.

Kelsey Wilson 09 led the sot-

ball team to a 4-2 record against

URI, Penn and Columbia last

week with an 8-or-16 showing

at the plate. She was locked in on

Sunday against the Lions, going 5

or 7 with two runs, two doubles,

a home run and ive RBIs.

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SportS StaffreportS

es

The equestrian team competed

at the Zone 1 Championships on

Saturday, nishing third as a teamand narrowly missing qualiying

or Nationals. Two riders qualied

individually or Nationals Kona

Shen 10 won the Walk Trot and Liz

Giliberti 10 took second place in

the Open Fences.

Brown also saw strong peror-

mances rom Rachel Grith 10,

who nished second in the Inter-

mediate Fences, Dakota Gruener

11, who came in third in the In-

termediate Flat, and Cara Rosen-

baum 12, who earned a win in the

Walk Trot Canter. This Saturday,

the team will travel to Westord,

Mass. to compete in the Ivy League

Championships.

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Over the weekend, the womens

gol team hosted the inaugural

Brown University Womens Gol

Invitational, nishing ourth out

o ve competing teams. Ater the

rst round, Brown was in second

place with a total score o 327, led

by a score o 77 rom Carly Ari-

son 12, but Dartmouth and Bos-

ton College rallied on the secondday o competition to edge out the

Bears. Arison was the teams top

nisher with a two-round score o

157, placing th individually, and

Julia Robinson 11 ollowed with a

165, including an 80 in the second

round. Rounding out the lineup or

Brown were Heather Arison 12,

who shot 167, Sarah Guarascio 11

at 172, Megan Tuohy 12 at 174 and

Deborah Lipson 12 at 193.

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The mens track and ield

team made a strong showing at

the UConn Invitational over the

weekend, with our athletes pick-

ing up individual titles and several

others earning high nishes.

Matt Jasmin 09 ran a time o

14.94 seconds to take home the

victory in the 110-meter hurdles,

the only individual title on the track

or the team. Other strong peror-

mances on the track came rom

John McManus 10, who nished

sixth in the 400m in 51.49, and

Sean OBrien 09, who ran a time

o 1:56.12 to earn ourth place in

the 800m. Brown also competed

well in the 1500m, as Alex Stern

10 nished third in 4:05.29 and An-

thony Schurz 12 was right behind

in ourth place with a 4:05.44.The Bears were equally impres-

sive in the eld, where Andrew

Chapin 10 won the triple jump with

a 14.54-meter jump. Bryan Powlen

10 won in the discus throw with athrow o 53.41 meters, a two-meter

personal record, and Craig Kings-

ley 11 threw 63.10 meters to take

home the javelin throw title, a two-

and-a-hal meter personal record.

Both Kinsley and Powlen qualied

or Regionals with their rst place

throws. Powlen also got third place

in the shot put with a throw o 15.78

meters, and Jordan Maddocks 11

and Greg Hunter 09 nished sec-

ond and third, respectively, in the

high jump with jumps o 1.94 me-

ters and 1.89 meters.

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On the womens side, Rosie

Fleming 12 had two o the stron-

gest races on the track, nishing

second in the 800m in 2:15.65 and

third in the 1500m in 4:44.84. Susan

Scavone 12 also ran well, nish-

ing second in the 100m hurdles in

15.17, while Nicole Burns 09 ran

a 25.23 or a second-place nish

in the 200m. Lucy Higgins 11 r an

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It was all just about the team

coming together and staying ocusedand knowing that we were denitely

capable o beating Columbia, Caro

said.

Columbia won the draw to start the

hal, but the Bears orced a turnover

and scored their rst goal just 1:26

ater the draw. The Bears added eight

more unanswered goals to make it

a 13-8 game, including two by Jesse

Nunn 09 and two by Caro, who has

tallied a team-high 23 goals this sea-

son.

The Lions scored their rst goal o

the hal with less than eight minutes

remaining. Caro answered with her

ourth goal o the night, and LaurenVitkus 09 added her second goal

to put the game out o the Lions

reach.

We went on an 11-2 run in the

second hal and I think it proved to usthat we can score as many as we can i

we just play with each other and with

condence, McGilloway said.

Columbia scored a goal with three

seconds let or a nal score o 15-

10.

It elt really great to come back,

Caro said. You know, Ivy games are

so competitive, so to be able to come

back and reestablish ourselves in the

Ivy League ater the Dartmouth game

elt really great.

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Bryant (3-8) entered the game

coming o a 14-9 loss to Quinnipiacon Friday. The Bulldogs have had a

season o great highs and horrible

slumps. In mid-March, they outscored

two opponents by a combined total o

35-14, but they have been on the losing

end o blowouts more oten.

They were unlucky again Tuesday

night.

Callie Lawrence 09 netted her rst

goal o the season just 23 ticks into

the game to put Brown ahead, 1-0.

Lawrence was the rst o six Bears

to score their rst goal o the season

against Bryant.

Though it had taken Lawrence al-

most 10 games to score her rst goal,it took her less than ve minutes more

to get her second, which put Brown

up by a 4-0 margin.

In an incredibly balanced attack,

eight dierent players had multi-point

games and 12 players scored. Nunn

led the team in goals or the game

with ve, while no other player scored

more than two.

The Bryant game was huge or us

because it showed how much depth

we have, Caro said. Everyone was

really a threat.

Bryants attack was ar less bal-

anced, as Delia Glover scored hal o

her teams six goals.

Glovers rst came 12:34 into the

game to cut Browns lead to 5-1.

But the outcome was never in

doubt, as the Bears rattled o ve

more goals beore the nineteenth min-ute. During that stretch, Nunn scored

three goals in under three minutes.

With Brown ahead 10-1 and less

than ten minutes let in the hal, the

teams traded two goals apiece over

the next our minutes to make the

score 12-3.

Brown scored three consecutive

goals beore the break and added an-

other our in the rst 10:44 o the sec-

ond hal to extend its lead to 19-3.

Our coach gave us a scouting

report and we denitely took advan-

tage o their weaknesses, McGilloway

said. They werent really good at slid-

ing and helping, and I think our pass-ing was denitely the key contributor

in our success.

With the game well out o ques-

tion, Bryant nished strong, outscor-

ing Brown 3-2 in the last 16 minutes

to make the nal score 21-6.

The Bears will take the eld againin Ithaca, N.Y. to ace Cornell (6-4, 1-3)

on Saturday. The last time the Bears

aced Cornell was on April 11, 2008,

when the Big Red won, 17-9.

Its going to be a tough game,

Caro said. But, you know, were

denitely up to the challenge and

I know that i we just execute and

play our best that we can denitely

beat them.

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a time o 59.00 to nish third in

the 400m.

In the eld, Danielle Grun-

loh 10 took home the teams

only individual title o the day,

winning the discus throw with

a toss o 47.24 meters. Grunloh

also threw 13.53 meters to earn

second place in the shot put,

while Brynn Smith 11 was r ight

behind in third place with a throw

o 12.96 meters.

Herald Assistant Sports Edi-

tor Katie Wood 10 was ourth in

the javelin throw, with a throw o

36.18 meters. In the triple jump,Shannon Stone 10 was second

with a jump o 11.38 meters and

Rachel Biblo 11 ollowed in third

place, jumping 11.23 meters. Bib-

lo earned a second-place nish

in the long jump with a jump o

5.45 meters, while Cassie Wong

10 was third in the pole vault,

clearing 3.20 meters. Anja Her-

grueter 10 cleared 1.60 meters

to pick up a third-place nish in

the high jump.

This weekend, both sides will

compete at the Brown Invitation-

al, held on Saturday at Brown

Stadium.

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The womens tennis team, nowranked No. 60, split road matches

with Ivy League oes Penn and

Princeton over the weekend to

run its record to 16-3 overall and

2-1 in conerence play.

Playing at Penn on Friday, the

Bears knocked o the Quakers,

5-2, to earn their 12th straight

victory. Bruno took an early 1-0

lead, as Bianca Aboubakare 11

and Cassandra Herzberg 12, the69th ranked doubles tandem in

the nation, and Carissa Abouba-

kare 12 and Sara Mansur 09 won

the top two doubles matches. In

singles play, No. 1 Bianca Abou-bakare, No. 2 Herzberg, No. 4

Carissa Aboubakare and No. 5

Julie Flanzer 12 each won in

straight sets.

Facing the Tigers the ollow-

ing day in Princeton, N.J., the

Bears started o on the right oot,

as both Bianca Aboubakare and

Herzberg and third doubles tan-

dem Emily Ellis 10 and Kathrin

Sorokko 10 won to give the Bears

the doubles point. But Princeton

rallied to blank Brown in singles

play or the 6-1 drubbing.

The Bears will host Columbia

on Friday at 2 p.m. and Cornell

on Saturday at noon.

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LoS angeLeS tiMeS

JAKARTA, Indonesia With a

dizzying choice among 38 political

parties, millions o Indonesians

were expected at the polls Thurs-

day in an election capping more

than a decade o democracy in a

vast country with the worlds larg-

est Muslim majority.

As polls opened, voters umbled

with ballots nine pages long in

cramped polling booths, trying to

nd their preerred candidates orthe 560-member National House

o Representatives and provincialassemblies.

The election, the third since

ormer dictator Suhartos 32-year

rule ended when he was toppled

by violent street protests as the

economy collapsed in 1998, marks

the end o transition, said analyst

and author Julia Sur yakusuma.

The panorama is changing.

Voting behavior is changing, she

said. The primordial type o poli-

tics is no longer there.

A group o leading Muslim

moderates recently warned that

oreign-unded Islamic extremistsare inltrating key institutions

here. But Islamic parties are not

expected to do well in the electionbecause so many are competing

with each other that they will split

the vote, Suryakusuma said.

Across a vast archipelago o

some 17,500 islands, rom the

troubled territory o Aceh in the

west to the jungles o Papua where

guerrillas prowl in the east, more

than 150 million Indonesians are

eligible to vote. Public opinion polls

suggest many are conused by the

myriad choices, which could lead

to a low voter turnout.Polls also indicate President

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyonos

Democratic Party is likely to win

the most seats in the countrys

legislature, the House o Repre-

sentatives, but will all short o the

outright majority.

A second election or president

is set or July. Yudhoyonos chie

rival, ormer president Megawati

Sukarnoputri, took an early lead in

public opinion polls, but it quickly

eroded as the election campaign

picked up pace. Yudhoyono is a-

vored to win re-election to a secondve-year term.

Wimar Witoelar, a popular TV

host and commentator, said he

doesnt expect Thursdays vote

to change the political landscape

signicantly because there is no

real ideological issue and the par-

ties have no explicit platorms. It

is all about power sharing.

Although the global economic

recession has cut demand or some

exports rom Indonesia, South-

east Asias largest economy, the

country has ared relatively well.

Its economy is expected to grow

by as much as 4.6 percent in therst quarter, Finance Minister Sri

Mulyani Indrawati predicted this

week.

There are 11,000 candidates

running or seats in the House o

Representatives, and some 1.5 mil-

lion are contesting provincial and

local council elections. Their mas-

sive spending on T-shirts, posters,

rallies and other activities to woo

voters has been a signicant boost

to consumption, Indrawati said.

Cuts in uel prices and increases

in government workers salaries

have also helped spur growth, headded. Voters main concerns are

about public accountability, politi-

cal reorm and economic improve-ment, Witoelar said. But they are

not dened and the responses are

not rigorous. The government is

doing a air job and the country

has not yet been as hard hit as the

advanced economies.

Retired civil servant Nurjamil,

74, said he plans to vote or Yud-

hoyono in July, but didnt cast his

ballot Thursday or any candidates

in the presidents party.

I choose a party or its track

record, he said, one whose can-didates stay out o trouble and are

not only active during election sea-

son.

Yudhoyono, a ormer army

general, gets widespread credit

or taking steps against govern-

ment corruption, while steering

the economy through troubled wa-

ters. But experts say corruption

remains a signicant problem andreorms must continue i Indonesia

is to develop into a more air and

stable society.

The country was rated Asias

most corrupt economy this week

in a survey o international execu-

tives, conducted each year by the

Hong Kong-based rm Political

and Economic Risk Consultancy.

The presidents son Edhie

Baskoro Yudhoyono, who is run-

ning or a seat in the House o Rep-

resentatives, is being investigated

or possible vote buying, election

ocials said Sunday as campaign-

ing came to a close.

The presidents spokesman de-

nied the allegation that one o his

party workers was seen handing

out rupiah bank notes worth about87 cents each to potential voters,

insisting the claim was part o an

extortion plot.

The one big issue is still cor-

ruption, Suryakusuma said. Peo-

ple wont vote or anybody i they

nd any hint o corruption. The

people are savvy now.

Dinda Jouhana in the Times

Jakarta bureau contributed to this

report.

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by karen deyoung

WaShington poSt

WASHINGTON The United

States said Wednesday that it would

directly participate rom now on in

international talks with Iran over its

nuclear activities, the latest move in

the Obama administrations prom-

ised diplomatic outreach to the

Tehran government.

Theres nothing more impor-

tant than trying to convince Iran to

cease its eorts to obtain a nuclear

weapon, Secretary o State HillaryRodham Clinton said. The United

States, she said in brie commentsat the State Department, would be a

ull participant with Britain, France,

Germany, Russia and China in any

uture Iran negotiations.

The announcement, made in

London ater a meeting among the

negotiating partners, broke with

the Bush administrations policy

o supporting talks between Iran

and the others but not participat-

ing in them. Although President

George W. Bush made an excep-tion to the policy in July, allowing

a senior U.S. diplomat to attend a

meeting at which Iran was present,his administration later said that

Iran was not serious and that the

eort would not be repeated.

A senior administration ocial,

who agreed to discuss the issue on

the condition o anonymity ater

the London statement and Clintons

comments, said there was no inter-

nal debate over whether to ully

join the negotiations i and when

another round is scheduled. It was

kind o silly that we had to walk

out o the room when the Iranianswere present, the ocial said.

Iran oered no immediate public

response to the announcement. Its

ocial statements since President

Obama oered in his inaugural

speech to extend a hand i you are

willing to unclench your st have

vacillated between hard-line and

moderate. In comments Wednes-

day beore the London statement,

Iranian President Mahmoud Ah-

medinejad said his country wouldwelcome direct engagement with

the United States, providing Obama

was honest.

But Ahmedinejad also said he

planned to announce good nuclear

news to the nation Thursday, the

Reuters news agency reported rom

Tehran, and some experts said he

would claim progress in uranium

enrichment. Iran has said that it

seeks enrichment only to the level

needed or energy production rather

than what the West says is the much

higher weapons-grade level.

The July round o talks was the

last in the years-long eort by thenegotiators to persuade Iran to give

up what the West says and Iran

denies is a nuclear weapons de-

velopment program. Last all, the

Bush administration ailed to per-

suade the U.N. Security Council to

support a ourth round o interna-

tional sanctions against Iran. Rus-

sia, in particular, resisted.

Obama has said he seeks diplo-

matic rapprochement with Iran on

a range o issues. U.S. special en-voy Richard Holbrooke met briefy

with Irans deputy oreign minister

at an international conerence on

Aghanistan last month, and the

administration earlier sent a lower-

level ocial to a separate meeting

on Aghanistan in Moscow.

Obama issued a video message

on March 19 to the government

and people o the Islamic Republic

o Iran to mark Nowruz, the Per-

sian new year. He acknowledged

strained relations but spoke o the

common humanity that joins us to-

gether.

Seeking cooperation rom Mos-cow, Obama has told Russian Presi-

dent Dmitry Medvedev that i Irancan be dissuaded rom pursuing

nuclear weapons, it would lessen

the need or a Europe-based U.S.

missile deense system that Russia

opposes.

Although oicials have said

there are no immediate plans to

seek additional U.N. sanctions

against Iran, they have let the

door open to unilateral economicsanctions, including expanding U.S.

restrictions on Irans international

banking activities.

Ater their meeting in London,

senior diplomats, including William

Burns, the U.S. undersecretary o

state or political aairs, said they

have told Javier Solana, the Euro-

pean Union oreign policy chie

who has also been involved in the

talks, to extend an invitation to

the Iranian Government to meet

representatives o the E3+3, so that

together we may nd a diplomatic

solution to this critical issue. The

E3+3 is the original negotiatinggroup o Britain, France and Ger-

many, plus the United States, Russia

and China.

The other members o the

group warmly welcome the new

direction o US policy towards Iran

and their decision to participate

ully in the E3+3 process and join

in any uture meetings with repre-

sentatives o the Islamic Republic

o Iran, the statement said.

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Sayles Hall is a sea o rantic aces. Beneath the din o deeated sighs and

anxious banter, there sounds a cacophony o overlaid ring tones that evenGirl Talk would nd annoying. Every once in a while, a call is answered. The

response is uniorm, rushed the speaker annoyed. It just got taken, he

says. What now?

To those students who attended this years housing lottery, this should

be a amiliar scene. Each year, the renzy o selection night begins at the

very rst pick and doesnt subside until the last rooms are blacked rom the

board three hours later. The interim is a maelstrom o stressing, screaming,

cheering and jeering our characteristic insouciance replaced by anxious

sel-interest.

Not only is this method o selection stressul, its also outdated. Brown

could very easily move the lottery online and save us all the hassle. The

groundwork has already been laid. Prototypes o online lottery systems

abound. Take Yahoo! Fantasy Sports online drat system, or instance: all

you have to do is compile a list o preerred picks beore the drat starts,

and the program takes care o the rest you dont even need to be at your

computer. Granted, the housing lottery has its nuances. For the sake oparty splits and last minute decisions, most would probably choose active

participation over preset picks. It seems clear, however, that participating

rom home would signicantly decrease the anxiety and pressure o decid-

ing where to live.

Some might argue that, given the state o the economy, now is not the

time to address issues o luxury. But with summer internships drying up, the

University has the opportunity to aid job-seeking undergraduates and revamp

an antiquated system at the same time. With the success o Mocha, its clear

what student programmers are capable o. By awarding a ew UTRA-like

grants to qualied applicants, the University could oversee the production

o a top-o-the-line lottery program without the proessional price tag.

It should also be noted that theres already a system in place that allows

students to monitor the lotterys progress in real time, online. I we were

able to piggyback the new lottery on the existing program, wed need only

to create an interace or students to remotely enter data.

A diminished endowment shouldnt spell the end o progress. With our

traditional, profigate strategy out o the question, were going to have to startthinking o new ways to solve problems. Switching the lottery to an online

ormat would be a strong start.

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correction

An article in Wednesdays Herald (Faculty vote to rename Columbus Day in all, April 8) incorrectly stated

that more than two-thirds o students in a Herald poll said they suppor ted changing the holidays name to Fall

Weekend. In act, while two thirds o respondents in the poll said they did not support the current name o

Columbus Day, 45 percent supported the name Fall Weekend rom a list o options.

An article in Wednesdays Herald (Concealed weapons may be made legal at U. Texas schools, April 8) incor-

rectly attributed a quotation opposing allowing guns on campuses to Deepak Mahbubani, a junior at the University

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graduate student at UT Austin. Mahbubani supported the proposal to allow concealed weapons. Additionally, a

quotation attributed to an e-mail sent by Mahbubani was in act rom a telephone interview.

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Coming rom a Republican congressional

district in Virginia, I happily welcomed

the change brought by going to school in

a strongly Democratic state. And over the

course o the year, I have grown accustomed

to the generally accepted liberal atmosphere

in the area.

With this, I now carry a sort o newound

pride or our little Ocean State, a sense that

has only been heightened by the increasingmentions o Sen. Jack Reed in national poli-

tics and news. Though Reed has said that he

would rather support the new administration

rom his current position, I was excited over

the prospect alone o his lling an appointed

position.

Yet with this excitement came a slight

worry over what would happen back here

in Rhode Island. Being admittedly a little out

o touch with the intricacies o Rhode Island

politics, it took about an entire semester at

Brown and rumors o Reed being appointed

to President Obamas administration or me

to ully realize that our governor is, in act,

a Republican.

Initially, I regarded the act as more

strange than consequential in any signi-

cant way. The State House is lled with the

liberal Democrats I had come to associatewith most things Brown and thereore, in

my eyes, most things Rhode Island. How-

ever, the possibility o Reed leaving made

me realize that this political oddity was ar

rom inconsequential.

I Reed had accepted an oer to join the

Obama administration, Gov. Donald Carcieri

65 would then have been able to appoint

a senator to ll his seat, at least until the

next general election. Not only would it just

seem undamentally, well, out o character, or

Rhode Island to boast a Republican governorand senator, the issue o special elections

extends urther than simple party politics.

Support or legislation calling or the

special election o senators, stripping the

governor o the power to appoint interim

replacements, fared especially ater ormergovernor o Illinois Rod Blagojevich attempt-

ed to sell Obamas newly vacated Senate seat.Clearly, the issue is no longer a numbers

game between Republicans and Democrats to

gain power in Congress, but rather one with

potential or ar-reaching eects.

And ar-reaching eects are certainly

as important in Rhode Island, the state with

the th-highest unemployment rate in the

country, as in Washington. However, even

in our current situation, Carcieri has called

these elections otentimes unnecessary.

O all times, it seems most necessary now

that representation in Congress refects vot-

ers. Allowing the continuation o appointed

replacements would be a step back rom any

progress that the 17th Amendment made.

For one, appointed senators are oten

not reelected. For another, special elections

would lessen the potential or special inter-ests in government, on both the local and

national levels. Since 1949, there have beentwo appointments to vacant Senate seats in

Rhode Island. Interestingly, both may have

served more than just the general publics

interests.

In 1949, appointed Senator Edward Leahyseemed to have served as a mere placeholder

or the then-governor beore the next elec-

tion. Fity years later, in 1999, Lincoln Chaee

75 was appointed to his late athers seat in

the Senate. When considering these acts, it

ollows that Rhode Island cannot allow the

states voice in national government to be

dictated by a single person or party.

While opponents o the measure, currently

maniested in what Carcieri calls the Blago

Bill, argue that such elections are an un-necessary cost, the benets would outweigh

these estimated monetary burdens. Though

they may belong to the smallest geographic

state in the country, Rhode Island residents

deserve to elect their representation in Con-

gress.

Further, this is an equally critical issue on

a national level. Beyond party politics, voters

o all states red, blue or purple should be

able to elect their senators. And Rhode Island,

in its role as a progressive state, should lead

in this initiative.

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The gay rights movement might be in or

a celebration this week. The last ve years

have been a nightmare, with state ater state

passing constitutional amendments banning

same-sex marriage.

Most gains made by gay rights advocates

have been restricted or reversed, as with

Proposition 8 in Caliornia last all and the

debate over recognizing same-sex marriages

perormed out o state.

But the gay rights movement still has some

cause to be optimistic. Iowa became the latest

state to legalize same-sex marriage ollowinga State Supreme Court ruling last Friday. The

coverage by many major media outlets has

highlighted the importance o this ruling

oremost as a victory or gay rights, but also

as proo that same-sex marriage is not just a

New England phenomenon and can succeed

in Americas heartland.

In the coming days, I suspect that Brown

students will generally be in avor o the Iowa

Supreme Courts decision, i they are aware

o it. Brunonians have a tendency to support

most issues that are liberal or avant-garde.

In public discourse, gay marriage has oten

been described as the metaphorical third rail

o politics or Democrats: those in avor lose

the moderate votes, and those opposed lose

the liberal base.

As good, radical college students, many

Brown students eel that adopting that liberal

stance is the biggest priority when picking

political sides. In so doing, students at Brown

and other colleges around the country have

taken a back seat in politics. By ollowing thepolitical rhetoric, some youth have ailed to

consider the issue beyond the pro-vs.-con

level. How many Brown students have asked

themselves: Is the gay marriage debate the

best way to advance gay rights?

I think that at Brown, it would be di cult

to nd many students who do not agree with

equal rights or gays. But we approach the

issue in dierent ways. For many, especially

those who pay attention to the liberal politics

espoused by gay rights groups such as the

Human Rights Campaign or, locally, Marriage

Equality Rhode Island, gay marriage seems

to be the denitive issue. For others, equal

rights is a broader term involving opportunity

and recourse under the law.

Equal rights is a purposeully vague

term and each generation has the power

to redene it. We, then, have the power to

change what it means to include gay, lesbian,

bisexual and transgender Americans.

Gay marriage, by itsel, neglects a number

o important concerns or those who identiyas LGBT. It only benets a subset o the LGBT

community those who want to get mar-

ried. Support or gay marriage has become

emblematic o support or gay rights, despi tethe act that there are a number o more press-

ing concerns.

Brown students should be ocusing

more on employment non-discrimination, or

transerability o health care and insurance

benets to partners, or the disproportionate

violence and prejudice that LGBT youth ace

in schools. Simply being pro-same-sex mar-

riage is not enough.

College students have ramed the debate

and been the true radicals on many issues,

rom lowering the voting age to ending the

Vietnam War to promoting civil rights. As

Brown students, rather than being tr uly liberal

thinkers who rerame the argument and ght

or equal rights in every sense, weve taken

the easy path. Weve picked the correct side

on the hot-button issue, loading our political

docket with all the correct choices. Butwe havent introduced any new options, and

most o us are apathetic about less publicized

issues.

Gay marriage is unlikely to become a

national reality in the near uture. But in

the meantime, there are more meaningul

ways to increase equality or gay citizens.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act,

which would extend to gays some civil rights

protections put in place by the Civil Rights Act

o 1964, is a ederal possibility that stumbled,

in part, because constituents did not convey

to their representatives that it was important

to them. While not every gay person gets

married, most are employed and many ace

discrimination.

We have become conservatives, or at bestmoderates, on the stalwart, liberal issue o gay

marriage. We ollow the political red herring

rather than ocusing on concrete issues that

we can have an impact on. I being a liberal

now means picking the let side rather than

trying to be radical in our approach and nd-

ing the new side, Im not sure I still embrace

that label.

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