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BY JAMAY LIUThe appointment of renowned scholar Evelyn Hu-DeHartto lead the University’s Center for the Study of Race andEthnicity could revitalize ethnic studies at Brown, studentsand professors close to the center say.

The appointment of Hu-DeHart, whose “extraordinaryenergy and vision has made her one of the pillars of theethnic studies movement in the U.S.,” marks a new stagefor the center, said Professor of Education Cynthia GarciaColl, who chaired the search committee. The center hasbeen growing “slowly, but surely” since it was established in1988, Garcia Coll said.

Hu-DeHart, professor and chair of the Department ofEthnic Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, willbegin her work as the center’s new director July 1.

The process for finding someone who was “a teacher,

scholar and administrator” to lead the center and give it themomentum it needed began two years ago. The processconcluded after extensive faculty polling and study withHu-DeHart as the number one candidate, Garcia Coll said.

“Evelyn has incredible scholarship and a vision that willreally invigorate all of us doing work here,” Garcia Coll said.

Hu-DeHart, who has been invited to speak at Brownseveral times by student groups and who was part of the1999 Visiting Committee on Diversity, said her decision tocome to Brown was largely influenced by the presence ofPresident Ruth Simmons.

“It’s definitely a great moment to be at Brown, to workunder President Simmons’s leadership,” she said. “I’m alsoexcited to work with the students here, who have such astrong tradition of being interested in social justice issuesand community-based studies.”

Aware of the center’s history and struggles, Hu-DeHartsaid she understands that it has “not really taken off” sinceits creation 15 years ago.

The main setback the center has faced since its creationhas been inconsistency, Garcia Coll said. Despite facultyinterest across different departments and disciplines, eth-nic studies, because of its lack of departmental status, hasnot enjoyed much continuity. The faculty that teach in eth-nic studies have tenure in other departments and often arenot replaced when faculty members take leaves ofabsences, Garcia Coll said.

Jesus Hernandez ’03, an ethnic studies concentrator,said the development of the ethnic studies program hasbeen “slow and lackadaisical” and said that not having any

Evelyn Hu-DeHart to head Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity

Med School deanMarsh to resignBY KAVITA MISHRAAfter a decade of service, Dean of Medicine and BiologicalSciences Dr. Donald Marsh announced Thursday night hewill step down as the University’s chief medical educationofficer.

Marsh’s announcement comes after months of discus-sion with President Ruth Simmons, said Executive Deanfor Administration of the medical school FrancisMcCrossan, a friend of Marsh who has worked closelywith him.

After a year-long sabbatical beginning in July, Marshwill retire as dean emeritus, McCrossan said.

Chair of the Department of Neuroscience JohnDonoghue ’79, who said he was shocked by theannouncement, praised Marsh for his ability to balancemany difficult tasks.

As the dean of medicine and biological sciences, Marshis responsible for faculty, undergraduate and graduatebiology programs, the medical school and its relationshipwith seven local hospitals and basic sciences and clinicalresearch, he said.

A person in that position must have “experience andsensitivity in all those realms,” McCrossan said.

During Marsh’s tenure, the medical school experienced

BY BRIAN BASKINRonald Vanden Dorpel GS ’71, president for universitydevelopment at Northwestern University, was namedFriday as Brown’s senior vice president for advancementand the architect of the University’s next capital campaign.

The newly created position will place responsibility forall fundraising and alumni relations programs underVanden Dorpel, said Executive Vice President forPlanning Richard Spies.

At Northwestern, Vanden Dorpel orchestrated the uni-versity’s soon-to-be-completed $1.4 billion capital cam-paign and more than quadrupled annual alumni givingsince joining the university in 1987. He also helped attract$773 million in donations of $5 million or more.

Vanden Dorpel’s management of the campaign waspart of the reason a Brown search committee composedof high-ranking administrators and Corporation mem-bers chose him, Spies said.

“What we were hoping to identify, and were successful

see MARSH, page 7

see DORPEL, page 8

see HU-DEHART, page 6

U. names VandenDorpel to head upcapital campaign

BY SETH KERSCHNER AND SHERYL SHAPIROFormer city tax official David Ead, the government’s firstwitness in the corruption case against Mayor VincentCianci, left the witness stand Friday after he admitted tolies but stood by his accustations that Cianci acceptedbribes.

In his two days of cross-examination, Cianci’s lawyer,Richard Egbert, hammered Ead, who stood tough butoften had difficulty responding to Egbert’s inquiries. Itwasn’t until Friday’s afternoon session that Ead craftedmore careful replies and appeared confident on thestand.

Ead, the former vice chairman of the Providence Boardof Tax Assessment Review, remained standing as Egbert— prepared with stacks of files full of Ead’s gamblingrecords, personal and business tax returns and signedaffidavits — aggressively questioned him.

An air of tension hung over the room as Egbert and Eadsparred — Egbert was always prepared with ammunitionto counter Ead’s claims and further paint him as a liar.

“You lied?” Egbert asked Ead about the false claim ofresidency he made on his 1993 Residency Affidavit.

“If you look at it that way, yes,” Ead replied.“When someone deliberately says something that is

false, that is a lie?”“Yes.”“What you did over here on this document was make a

statement you knew was false and you did it intentional-ly?”

“Yes.”Friday’s trial session included both tears and laughter.Egbert played a video of a 1999 interview during which

THE CIANCI TRIAL

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The testimony of former city tax official David Ead concluded Friday in the corruption trial of Mayor Vincent Cianci and threeco-defendants.Standing is Cianci defense attorney Richard Egbert,who cross-examined Ead Thursday and Friday.Sitting inthe foreground is U.S.attorney Richard Rose,the prosecutor in the government’s case.Cianci is seated to Egbert’s right.

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MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2002 · PAGE 3

BY ELENA LESLEYIndependent broadcast producer andjournalist Jay Allison talked about the needfor new voices in radio during a Saturdayevening lecture in Alumnae Hall.

Allison told the crowd of radio enthusi-asts that he wants “to get a range of voicesand a range of ways of talking in themedia.”

Radio in particular, he said, is a mediumthat is rooted in public service and shouldsometimes exist independently of mone-tary goals.

However, acquiring radio time for pro-grams aimed at service rather than profithas become increasingly difficult, he said.

“It’s harder and harder to get sidewayswork into programs like ‘All ThingsConsidered,’” he said.

Allison said this less commercial kind ofwork brings honest, genuine and poeticvoices to the air, while combating the over-arching façade of mainstream media.

“If you were to imagine Peter Jenningspausing in the middle of a story and figur-ing something else out — saying, ‘Ah, I’dnever thought of it that way before — hishead would explode,’” he said.

To demonstrate these kinds of newvoices, Allison played audio selectionsfrom a series called “Life Stories: First-Person Portraits and Essays” that he pro-

duced for public radio. In order to create the series, Allison gave

tape recorders to ordinary citizens oftenoverlooked by commercial reporting, hesaid.

The first selection Allison played wassubmitted by a woman named Carolinewho was confronting her racist upbring-ing.

“She took the tape recorder out with hercheerleader friends and recorded this inthe back seat of a car while they were talk-ing to each other,” Allison said.

Most of her friends discussed the racialsegregation they experienced as childrenand made discriminatory comments onthe recording. One woman admitted thatthe first time she saw a black man, sheasked, “What was that?”

Caroline stood out as a lone voice urg-ing more accepting views of other raceswhile her friends harangued her.

“She’s trying to measure it out,” Allisonsaid. “You can see her slip and fall.”

Another audio selection that Allisonplayed was recorded by the brother of aTom Jones impersonator. Though thepiece could have mocked the imperson-ator, it had a different tone because a fam-ily member made it, Allison said.

Makini Chisolm-Straker / Herald

THE BARD ON THE GREENThis weekend’s performances of Shakespeare plays included ‘As You Like It,’‘TheTempest’ and ‘Othello,’ which were performed on Sciences’ Green and on the stepsof Marston Hall.The shows were staged for the annual Shakespeare on the Greencelebration.

Broadcaster calls for new radio voices

see ALLISON, page 4

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“He wasn’t a particularly suc-cessful Tom Jones impersonator,but the story became about thebrother encouraging him andsupporting him,” he said.

Another selection Allisonplayed revealed a minister’s per-sonal reflections and fears. Sheexplained that if she were to messup while performing a wedding,people would probably laughabout it for years to come.

But you “should do everythingyou can not to mess up at afuneral,” she said.

When she transferred to a newchurch, the minister said thecongregation had never seen afemale minister perform a funer-al service.

But after she had finished one,a church member remarked that“I can go back and tell everyoneyou don’t have to be afraid to die— she can do a funeral.”

Allison said that listening tothe recording was like reading aminister’s journal.

Those in media should contin-ue searching for these kinds ofnew, authentic voices and stories,he said.

“I’ve come to believe in thepower of shared story,” he said.“Everyone has at least one (storyworth telling) — I have to believethat. Can any human life beutterly boring?”

Herald staff writer Elena Lesley ’04is arts and culture editor. She canbe reached at elesley@browndaily-herald.com.

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Allison

Ead said with tears running downhis face, “I never did anythingwrong in my life, and I helped a lotof people.”

After showing the video, Egbertasked Ead — an admitted felonnow cooperating with the govern-ment — if the interview “represent-ed the truth as you know it.”

“It’s part of saying things at thetime,” Ead said. “If that’s what youcall a lie, I accept it as a lie.”

There were also momentswhere hints of smiles appeared onthe defendants’ faces.

Ead described a moment whenhe was in Cianci’s office trying toarrange for the mayor to giveChristopher Ise, who is expected totestify today, a job in return for a$5,000 bribe.

Ead testified that an older Italianman walked into Cianci’s office,dropped to his knees, kissedCianci’s hand and cried, “Thankyou very much, Vincenzo.”

Ead said he looked at Cianci andsaid, “I haven’t seen that in a longtime.”

“When was the last time yousaw that?” Egbert asked.

“The Godfather movie,” Eadsaid matter-of-factly.

The courtroom filled withlaughter — even Judge Ernest

Torres chuckled.Often Ead, who avoided directly

answering questions, was instruct-ed by Torres to respond to the issueaddressed.

Egbert and Ead quipped at oneanother throughout the session.

When Egbert accused Ead oftaking the initiative to arrangebribe schemes only for money, Eadwas quick to cut him off.

Ead said he arranged the bribes“for friendship.”

Egbert questioned Ead about a$10,000 bribe he allegedlyarranged between the mayor andProvidence businessmen and FBIinformant Anthony Freitas inreturn for the purchase of propertyand future tax breaks.

Egbert hinted, as he hadthroughout the session, that Eadarranged the bribe for himself andnot for the mayor.

“If I’m the kind of guy you are try-ing to paint, wouldn’t I have takenthe money?” Ead retorted at Egbert.

Egbert was quick to respond.Cianci “would have squawked likethe devil and you would have goneto jail,” Egbert said.

“Those are your words, sir,” Eadspat back.

Egbert continued to suggest Eadarranged the bribes for his ownbenefit and Cianci was not awareof the deals.

“This was your deal, wasn’t it?”Egbert asked about the propertyFreitas expressed interest in pur-

chasing.“It was the deal I told to the

mayor,” Ead said. Ead asserted he was trying to

help out the mayor and was nottaking money for himself.

Egbert asked Ead why he con-tinued to pursue the deal withFreitas after he received an anony-mous phone call from a womantipping him off that Freitas was anFBI informant on April 23, 1999.

“Even after you thought thatFreitas was with the FBI you wereso hungry for the ten grand thatyou went back?” Egbert asked.

“The call I got from that womanat first had a husky voice so Ithought it was from (former chair-man of the Providence Board of TaxAssessment Review) JosephPannone’s girlfriend,” Eadanswered.

The courtroom burst intolaughter.

Egbert forced Ead to admit thathe never discussed resurrecting theFreitas deal with the mayor after hecontacted the FBI informant.

“You didn’t talk to the mayorabout resurrecting the deal, didyou?” Egbert asked.

“No,” Ead replied.“How was it you thought you

could resurrect the deal on yourown, but you couldn’t bring themoney to the mayor?”

“I already warned the mayorthat I got the phone call and if Iwalked in with the ten grand he

would have known.”“That’s your testimony, but it

doesn’t fit right now?”“Correct.”“The whole game would have

been over if you would have walkedin there with the ten grand andMayor Cianci said, ‘I don’t knowwhat you’re talking about. Get outof here,’ and called the police?”

Egbert attempted to portray Eadas someone who had overstated hisinfluence with Cianci and City Hall.

Ead admitted that he wasunsuccessful in offering to not tes-tify against the mayor if Ciancigave his wife a job after his April 28,1999 arrest.

Ead agreed with Egbert and saidit was true that Director of CityAdministration Arthur Coloiantold an associate of Ead’s, “we don’twant to hear David Ead’s name inthis building.”

Egbert ended his cross-exami-nation forcefully, reminding thejury of the image he created of Eadthroughout his questioning.

“Would you lie to stay out of jail?… Would you lie to keep your busi-ness? … Would you lie to keep yourproperty?” Egbert asked.

“No, sir” Ead replied to eachquestion.

Ead’s last words from the stand:“I’m telling the truth from begin-ning to end, so help me God.”

The trial resumes at 10 a.m. inU.S. District Court when Ise isexpected to testify.

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Cianci

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Herald

Allen Feliz ’03, Anna Stern ’04, and Rodrick Echols ’03 are running for UCS president. Voting takes place today and Tuesday.

Three face off for UCS presidency

BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZPresidential candidate and currentUndergraduate Council of StudentsRepresentative Allen Feliz ’03 said hehopes to build community on every level,both within the student body and theUniversity at large.

This year was Feliz’s first as a UCS repre-sentative. A member of the Campus LifeCommittee, he organized games for the VanWickle Gates birthday celebration, he said.He worked with the Admission and StudentServices Committee to develop proposals torecruit and retain faculty of color andencourage minority applicants, he said.

Feliz said he also served as a UCS liaisonto the Spring Weekend Committee, whichsuccessfully petitioned to extend weekendsocial hours to 2 a.m.

As a new representative, Feliz said hethinks he has “more energy and a morecritical eye” than his opponents, currentUCS President Rodrick Echols ’03 andCampus Life Coordinator Anna Stern ’04.

Feliz said UCS members celebrated thisyear’s successes without studying how toimprove the council.

Second semester has been “a celebra-tion of the council’s accomplishments,especially for those who have been therefor a while,” Feliz said. “For me, it was justanother step in creating a better council.”

Feliz said he hopes to improve studentservices and build community.

His plans for student services includeyear-round access to a computer lab in theCIT, now only available to students duringreading period, he said.

Feliz would also petition for a weightroom near the Bear’s Lair and for morespace for student groups, he said.

At the same time, he plans to draft pro-posals for more long-term projects, includ-ing a new athletic complex and new stu-dent center, he said.

Feliz’s plans to build community

BY JULIA ZUCKERMANIn high school, Undergraduate Council ofStudents Campus Life Coordinator AnnaStern ’04 was voted biggest perfectionist.

“That was my superlative,” she saidwith a laugh. “I don’t know if that tells youanything.”

One of three UCS presidential candi-dates, Stern, who hails from the suburbsof Orlando, describes herself as “honest,”“open,” “responsible” and “enthusiastic.”Her organizational and motivationalskills, she said, are her greatest strengths.

Regarding her qualifications as aleader, Stern said she looks to both thepast and the future. “I think you need afresh outlook. I think this year I reinvigo-rated … the council and re-enthused it. Ithink that (I’m) going to do it next year,too,” she said.

Stern’s leadership experience began inhigh school, where she was president ofthe Key Club, a community service organ-ization. She organized an annual talentshow for charity and served on the KeyClub’s Florida State board.

This year, she was head of the CampusLife Committee during her second year asa UCS member. She organized campus-wide events that included Wellness Week,the Carberry Music Festival and the VanWickle Gates birthday party.

Stern said she views these events asmore than study breaks. A party based ona Brown tradition is a medium to bringtogether Brown’s diverse communities,she said.

The idea for the Carberry MusicFestival arose when students complainedto UCS that there was no Fall Ball and “alack of tradition and spirit at Brown,”Stern said. She encouraged those groups— who had never worked together before— to work on the festival and make it“appealing to a diverse audience,” shesaid.

BY JULIETTE WALLACKAs Rodrick Echols ’03 wraps up histerm as president of theUndergraduate Council of Students,he is looking ahead to next year andbeyond as the incumbent candidate intoday’s UCS elections.

“Brown is different,” the Memphis,Tenn., native told The Herald. “Peoplecome to this place, and they leaveindividuals.”

Echols has become one of thoseindividuals, he said, having come toProvidence as a student in the Progamin Liberal Medical Education. Now, asa junior, he has left the PLME programto focus on his double concentrationin political science and religious stud-ies. But Echols said he has grownbeyond the academic aspects ofBrown.

“I’m still about the books,” he said,“but now I have all these interests,”which include the ministry and teach-ing. “If it wasn’t for Brown, I’d probablystill be pre-med.”

Echols said his extracurricularactivities including WBRU and theAfrican American StudentsAssociation showed him medicinewas not the right career for him. Aftergraduation he will enter divinityschool to become a minister, he said.

But the path to religious leadershipdoes not necessarily veer from thepath to political leadership, andEchols said he has not ruled out acareer in politics after spending hisfirst three years at Brown as a UCS rep-resentative, UCS treasurer and UCSpresident.

“Ministry is the first step,” he said,but eventually becoming a politician is“something I’ve been thinking aboutfor a long time.

“I’m open to it. I feel that I can com-

Allen Feliz ’03 plans equalfocus on student concernsand administrative affairs

As incumbent, RodrickEchols ’03 plans for nextyear and beyond

With standards of aperfectionist, Anna Stern ’04looks to organize, motivate

see FELIZ, page 8 see STERN, page 7 see ECHOLS, page 8

BY MARIA DI MENTOOn a gray spring morning, a FedEx deliverytruck is parked in front of the Smith Buildingon the corner of Fulton and Eddy streets,directly behind Providence City Hall. Twoconstruction workers on their way to theirjob rebuilding Kennedy Plaza look throughthe glass walls of the building’s ground floorand chuckle as they pass by. A tall, middle-aged businessman in a London Fog raincoatpauses briefly to peer through the window,shakes his head and walks away smiling tohimself. A FedEx man stands in front of histruck checking the label on a package, obliv-ious to what’s catching the eye of the pedes-trians.

Through the glass walls, a larger-than-life-sized, portly green monster stands onthe cement floor of 1 Fulton St. With anembarrassingly long nose, a profusion ofbrown warts and bulging veins and the kindof toothy, insincere grin you would expectfrom a third-rate street hustler, this foamand latex lime-colored creature is affection-ately named Hogg.

Hogg shares this space with a giant blackand yellow crocodile, a lanky vulture and hiscreator Erminio Pinque, the artistic directorof this year’s eighth annual Fools BallParade. Pinque is the owner-director of thisspace, the Big Nazo puppet studio.

“The parade and the ball have becomepart of the seasonal cycle of significantevents in Providence, so we thought weneeded a space with big windows, and Iwanted a space that had a real aquarium,hamster-cage kind of feel to it,” Pinque says.

Scattered throughout the studio are redand white, round bull’s eye targets that willeventually adorn the big eyeglasses andshiny bald head of the Fool, a recluse whosetrue identity Pinque won’t reveal. The Fool,Pinque says with a good-natured grin, livesdeep beneath the debris of the Johnston,R.I. landfill, and every year he plots the

Fools unitein name ofcharity, art

Marion Billings / Herald

The Fools Ball Parade is part of an annualtwo-day fundraising event for Providence’sAS220, a nonprofit artist’s organizationthat provides gallery, performance andliving space for Rhode Island artists.

see AS220, page 6

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faculty contractually obligated toteach ethnic studies courses hasmade it hard for concentrators toplan their schedules from semes-ter to semester.

For instance, he said, as of now,there will be no faculty teachingLatin American Studies coursesnext semester due to departingprofessors, which is “unaccept-able because Latin Americancourses are the most basic to eth-nic studies.”

Hernandez recognized Hu-DeHart’s appointment as a goodstep toward the ultimate goal ofethnic studies becoming a depart-ment, with funding and a regularfaculty.

Hu-DeHart “seems like a reallydynamic person who will listen tostudent opinions and be able to

galvanize faculty,” Hernandez said.As the new director, Hu-DeHart

said she is looking forward tomaking Brown the leading institu-tion in ethnic studies on the EastCoast.

“Brown is poised and ready totake the lead,” she said. “We havePresident Simmons, the infra-structure and really fine faculty.The potential is there, and it’s timefor it to become a reality.”

Replacing William Simmons,the center’s interim director, Hu-DeHart will oversee the ethnicstudies concentration, run pro-grams out of the center, bring inexternal funding and hire faculty,Garcia Coll said. Hu-DeHart willalso teach two courses per semes-ter as a tenured professor in theDepartment of History, beginningnext spring.

Hu-DeHart holds a B.A. withHonors in Political Science fromStanford University and a Ph.D. inLatin American History from the

University of Texas-Austin. Herwork includes three books on theYaqui Indians of northern Mexicoand Arizona and numerous arti-cles on race, ethnic and genderissues. She testified before theU.S. Civil Rights Commission,appeared as a speaker on nationaltelevision and radio programs,founded the Asian/PacificAmerican Women’s LeadershipInstitute and lectured at over 50U.S. educational and culturalinstitutions in the past five years.

Hu-DeHart is fluent in English,Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin,Cantonese and Szechuanese,reads French and German and hasbeen published in English,Chinese, Spanish and ZoqueMayan. Her current research is onthe Asian Diaspora in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean.

Herald staff writer Jamay Liu ’05can be reached at jliu@browndai-lyherald.com.

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Fools Ball Parade there.Peter McCullough, a 15-year-

old Met School student, works inPinque’s studio as an intern. Todayhe sits at one of the work tablesdrawing the plans for a float andpuppet he is making for theparade, while Brazilian artist HildaBorem meticulously cuts out sec-tions of foam, shaping and gluingthem together to make the wingedlizard-like creature who adornsthis year’s fliersfor the parade.

This spring’sparade will takeplace on May10 at noon. Theparade will beled as always,by the Fool andhis entourage,an often motleymob Pinquecalls “a wholegroup of myste-rious freak dependents, paparazziand hangers-on who follow theFool wherever he goes and laughhysterically at everything he says.”

The parade is part of an annualtwo-day fundraising event forProvidence’s AS220, a nonprofitartist’s organization that providesgallery, performance and livingspace for Rhode Island artists.

As artistic director of the parade,Pinque and his studio generatenearly all of the giant puppet cos-tumes for the parade. He organizesindividual artists, students, organi-zations and local schools to comeinto his studio and help make thepuppetry that will be worn byAS220 artists, musicians and any-one interested in participating inthe parade. This year’s artistsinclude Borem and New York-based artist Garland Farwell.

Pinque has recruited a theatergroup from Hope High School,Warwick’s Aldrich Junior High, theMet School and students from theRhode Island School of Design.Pinque teaches a class at RISDcalled “Creature Creation” to helpdesign and build the floats andpuppets for the Fools Ball Parade.

Mayor Vincent Cianci, honorarychair of the Fools Ball, will inaugu-rate the start of the parade with aribbon cutting at Big Nazo studio.The Fool will then lead his “march-ing mob” of musicians and revelersin Pinque’s puppet head costumesand floats down Eddy Street and

left onto Washington Street. Theparade will turn left on EmpireStreet and travel down WeybossetStreet, stopping briefly in front ofthe Arcade. The Fool and his fol-lowers will then lead the parade upDorrance Street, where they willcircle Kennedy Plaza beforemarching back to Fulton Street andending at Big Nazo studio.

The Fools Ball sponsors’ recep-tion will take place the next day,May 11, in the back parking lot ofAS220 where elegant white tentswill be set up. Four thousandsquare feet of sod will cover theground inside the tents where

guests can sip cocktails, samplehors d’oeuvres and be seen by amix of Rhode Island society anddowntown artists from 8 to 10 p.m.

About 600 people attend theFools Ball each year according toAS220 artistic director LizzieAraujo and communicationsdirector Geoff Griffin. Araujo andGriffin start preparing for the FoolsBall in January, while Pinque isplanning the parade.

Araujo said ticket sales from theball, the after-party bash andsponsorship donations haveamounted each year to about$40,000, with AS220 being able tokeep approximately $20,000.

Sitting in the first floor café ofAS220, Araujo, 37, and Griffin, 32,look more like hip, casual collegestudents than organizers of one ofProvidence’s more affordable soci-ety events of the season. Araujocalls the event “controlled chaos.”

“A fundraising party is a staplefor many nonprofits and mostplaces have a dinner and a speak-er,” Griffin says, “AS220 decided todo something different. We want-ed it to be genuinely fun andreflective of our commitment tothe community, and a venue forRhode Island artists.”

“It gets really crazy,” Araujo says,“and part of the fun is the mix ofpeople. There are no rules of behav-ioral decorum and our constituentsget to express themselves.”

Araujo and Griffin say they have

never had any security problems,but always have severalProvidence Police officers on handto make sure it stays that way.

“We hire a lot of security but it’sa very relaxed thing,” Griffin says.And, Araujo adds, “it’s hands-offsecurity, making sure no one’s hurtor being hurt.”

AS220 was founded in 1985 bylocal Providence painter Umberto“Bert” Crenca. Now 51 and stillinvolved in the Fools Ball celebra-tions, Crenca started AS220 with$800 and a mission, Griffin says, tocreate a permanent place forRhode Island artists who don’t

have the con-nections ormeans to showtheir work else-where.

“Our com-mitment is towhatever walksin the door,”Griffin says.“We’re just ashappy to havetraditional penand ink draw-

ings on our walls as we are to havethe edgy stuff.”

AS220’s five gallery spaces andstudios are used by individualartists, the Groundworks DanceEnsemble and the PerishableTheater. The spaces include a dark-room and a computer lab, avail-able free of charge, and TV220, anAS220 public access television sta-tion. AS220 has organized youthoutreach programs with the RhodeIsland Training School, New UrbanArts and the Broad Street studio,which offers after-school work-shops for at-risk kids.

The Fools Ball, however, is foradults. Although AS220 does a lotfor kids, Araujo says, the ball is agrown-up’s night out. She quips,“It’s definitely not for the tinies.”

The Fools Ball Parade, though,is for everyone. And Pinque, whohas worked with AS220 since itsinception and has served on itsboard of directors for four years,says that although the parade hastraditionally been the domain ofaffiliates and residents of AS220,he always tries to bring in elemen-tary school children and highschool students as a way of expos-ing them to art and introducingthem to AS220.

The theme of this year’s FoolsBall and parade is “The Jungle: Eator Be Eaten.” But Pinque insiststhat with the Fool’s help, “the realtheme is always about celebratingthe arts.”

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“Our commitment is to whatever walks in

the door. We’re just as happy to have tradi-

tional pen and ink drawings on our walls as

we are to have the edgy stuff.”

Geoff GriffinDirector