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By AlexA PughSenior Staff Writer

The percentage of undergraduates re-ceiving bachelor of science degrees has nearly doubled from 2003 to 2012 as the number of humanities and social sciences concentrators has continued to decline over the past ten years. The percent of Sc.B. degrees spiked to 31 percent in 2012 compared to 17 percent in 2003. This uptick reflects a gradual increase over the past ten years while students completed an average of 280 Sc.B. degrees per year between 2003 and 2007, the average climbed to 406 students over the past five years.

If youre in a discipline that has a Sc.B. and (Bachelor of Arts degree option),students will often choose the Sc.B. because they think it looks bet-ter, said Dean of the College Kather-ine Bergeron. The shift accompanies a creeping desire of people to enhance their credentials, she said.

increase in life and physical sciences

The cumulative shift may be at-tributable to an increasing number of concentrators in the hard sciences overall, Bergeron said. An average of 17.4 percent of the total undergradu-ate population concentrated in the life sciences between 2003 and 2007, com-pared to 19.2 percent over the last five years. Averaged over the same periods, the percent of physical science con-centrators went from 11.8 percent to 14.6 percent, while the average percent of humanities concentrators declined from 25.2 to 23.2 percent.

The world is much more intercon-nected through science and technol-ogy than it used to be, which could draw more students to concentrate in the sciences, said Larry Larson, dean of the School of engineering. Though what draws students to concentrate in the humanities versus the sciences is a very complicated issue, he said.

Specific concentrations have also tended to

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Professors prepare online courses for summer launch

By jAsmine fullerStaff Writer

writer and professor Bill McKibben P16 presented strong arguments for pressuring the University to divest from major coal companies during the 15th stop of his Do the Math tour Monday night. Professors, students and community members filled Sa-lomon 001 as McKibben highlighted the realities of climate change and urged his audience to take action to combat it.

were past the light bulb-chang-ing moment, he said. As of tonight, were going after the fossil fuel in-dustry.

The earths temperature has al-ready risen by one degree Celsius, which has caused half of the Arctic polar ice caps to melt, McKibben said, adding that a maximum two-degree

increase remains before a climatologi-cal disaster. If one degree melts the Arctic, we really shouldnt be finding out what two degrees does, he said.

Climate change affects everyone, McKibben said, especially those who have no control over it. In last months hurricane Sandy, more people died in haiti than in new York, he said though theres nothing people in haiti can do to solve this problem. Impoverished haitians have no fossil fuel emissions to reduce, and they have no say in the financial support University endowments provide for the fossil fuel industry, he said.

Fossil fuel companies currently have the resources to burn five times the amount of fossil fuels that scien-tists say should not be exceeded in or-der to stay below a two-degree Celsius increase, McKibben said. The num-bers show that

mcKibben urges divest coal campaign to stay strong

By mAthiAs hellerSenior Staff Writer

After rhode Island Democrats pulled off a strong showing in this years elec-tions all three incumbent U.S. con-gressional delegates up for reelection defeated their republican opponents the states two senators are weigh-

ing their pri-orities for the next session in

Congress. After garnering 65 percent of the vote, Sen. Sheldon whitehouse, D-r.I., is entering his second term. And while Sen. Jack reed, D-r.I., currently the longest-serving member of the states congressional delegation, was not on novembers ballot, the Democratic Partys net gain of three seats in the U.S. Senate means he will have greater seniority when the new Senate convenes in January.

President obamas reelection and the Democrats expanded majority in the Senate has led analysts to specu-late about reeds and whitehouses political futures. Political commenta-tors have floated the names of both senators as potential new members of obamas second-term cabinet. reed has been discussed as a possible replacement to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta or to former Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus, and whitehouse has been mentioned as a possible successor to Attorney General eric holder, accord-ing to the wall Street Journal and the washington Post.

Both senators have publicly denied interest in any Cabinet post. white-house told The herald he remains focused on fulfilling his pledge to work for the voters of rhode Island and is not

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three professors are each creating one distinctive class to be offered this summer as part of the Universitys debut on the free-online learning site, Coursera, this summer.

the professors Susan Alcock, professor of archaeology and classics, Arnold weinstein, professor of com-parative literature, and Philip Klein, professor of computer science will adapt their courses to fit the Cours-era platform while maintaining the elements that define a Brown course.

weinstein is adapting his signa-ture course entitled the Fiction of relationship, which focuses on exploring different forms of relation-ships through a variety of literary works.

to fit the online format, wein-stein said he plans to break his lec-tures into eight- to 12-minute mini-bytes as Coursera suggests. he will film each given lecture to comple-tion while indicating break points as he speaks, adding that separating a lecture based on a single novel into discrete parts will be inherently chal-lenging.

the online course site will likely incorporate discussion videos with 10 to 15 students and a teaching assistant to facilitate conversation, weinstein said. he intends to hold Coursera students to the same stan-dards as he would in the classroom, he said, assigning papers as he usu-ally would. Grading and validity of evaluations continues to be a chal-lenge, he said, adding that he is con-sidering using peer assessment as part of the grading.

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attract more students in recent years. Graduates of the engineering pro-

gram, which has experienced a jump in concentrators in recent years, have had great success in the job market despite a struggling economy, Larson said.

The poor economy is also a likely cause for recent high enrollment in the economics department, said ro-berto Serrano, chair of the econom-ics department, though he added that explaining these trends can be difficult. The economics concentration has been the most popular for past three years, despite an overall decline in the num-ber of social science concentrators over the past decade.

Theres a lot of students that come to economics that rightly perceive theyll be able to work and be able to use a good chunk of their economics education in the business that they work for, Serrano said. A good eco-nomics student will be someone who has the capability to solve problems and thats a very valuable set of skills.

Students growing interest in the financial sector has also contributed to the increase in the number of con-centrators, he said.

Theres no question that in the financial sector there have been very lucrative jobs, so from the point of view of our students, its a good job op-portunity for them, he said. I would very much hope that more students in economics became more interested in the economic science itself, in un-derstanding exactly what are the eco-nomic problems of the world.

The increased number of econom-ics concentrators has put a strain on the departments resources, Serrano said. The department has recently in-stituted caps on several upper-level classes and urged the University to hire more professors in order to combat a rising student-professor ratio. while new math requirements recently intro-duced to the program are expected to decrease the number of concentrators, Serrano said he expects the concentra-tion to remain popular.

This is not just at Brown, but a na-tional trend, he said. More students want to come to economics to get a better understanding of whats going on in the world.

A declining number of humani-ties concentrators is also the trend nationwide, sources said.

I feel like theres a lot of hand-wringing about this (trend), Bergeron said. Brown is a great place to study humanities and arts, and theres a long history of excellence in the humani-ties.

on the opposite end, increasing the number of students majoring in the hard sciences in the U.S. has been an

interest for some educators and lead-ers in business and government, said richard Morrill 61, president of the teagle Foundation and former presi-dent of the University of richmond.

America doesnt graduate as many students in SteM fields science, technology, engineering and math-ematics than many other industrial countries around the world, and that has been a source of concern for some who want the U.S. to remain competi-tive in scientific advancement, he said.

Decline in humanities and social sciences

The history department has seen a comparatively substantial decline in its average number of concentrators over the last ten years, going from 166 in 2003 to 72 in 2012. A sharp drop in the number of concentrators in 2008 could be a result of the increase in the number of classes required by the department, nancy Jacobs, former director of undergraduate studies in the Department of history, told The herald in 2010.

we live in a very presentist world, said Kenneth Sacks, chair of the his-tory department. People now are in charge of their own history. The popu-larity of social media and resources like wikipedia has influenced how people approach the study of history, he said.

The department is currently under-going a self-evaluation to investigate these trends and understand how it can attract more concentrators. wed like to do anything we can to make history more appealing, Sacks said.

enrollment in non-language classes within the classics department have also faced a significant decline over the last decade, said Joseph Pucci, as-sociate professor of classics and com-parative literature. outreach classes, courses specifically targeted to non-concentrators, have been impacted the most. enrollment in the traditionally popular CLAS0900: Greek Mythol-ogy has decreased by half since the 1990s, he said.

Still, Pucci said that the number of classics concentrators remains extremely healthy. Brown has by far the largest number of classics con-centrators of any Ivy League school and has been a historically strong and renowned program, he said. The num-ber of classics concentrators has only varied slightly over the last 10 years, with the lowest being 22 in 2006 and the highest 34 last year.

The departments outreach pro-gram, which has sought to attract high school students studying classics to Brown since the mid-90s, has also kept concentration numbers robust, he said.

Pucci said the overall decline in humanities enrollment and concentra-

tion numbers may reflect conscious decisions on the part of the University. when the University decided to grow the faculty by 25 percent as part of ruth Simmons Plan for Academic enrichment in 2002, the majority of hires were not humanists, and there has been an effort to get more students interested in the sciences, he said.

The University is currently work-ing to strengthen the humanities and facilitate faculty collaboration through the humanities Initiative, Bergeron said. harvard has also formed an Arts and humanities Curriculum Commit-tee that is currently looking to institute a new interdisciplinary humanities concentration.

Interdisciplinary education has always been a hallmark of a Brown education, Bergeron said.

Preparing for life after BrownMorrill said the liberals arts back-

ground he built at Brown as a history concentrator prepared him for a ca-reer as a college president that has demanded skill in many fields.

Ive had to learn everything about budgets and finance and accounting leadership and labor law and construc-tion, and its not ever been difficult to do those things because at Brown I fell in love with learning, he said.

Despite changes in overall concen-tration trends at Brown, Larson said that students still continue to take a wide breadth of courses across divi-sions.

we have a lot of students in sci-ence who come here because theyre really interested in merging their in-terests in humanistic study with their studies in science, Bergeron said.

A study conducted in 2008 found that science concentrators often take two or more non-required classes in the humanities.

Jason Buckley 15, who is pro-posing bioethics as an independent concentration and plans to receive a bachelors of science in neurosci-ence, has always favored the sciences, but he said he thinks considering the arts as the opposite of the sciences is a mistake. having a background in the humanities can help those in the sciences to better communicate their ideas, he said.

Bergeron said that though students may be drawn to concentrations they regard as more practical, employers even ones like Goldman Sachs are often attracted to candidates who have strengths that are typically developed by studying the humanities.

A particular course may also influ-ence a students choice in concentra-tion. ezra Licthman 15 said he be-came interested in the neuroscience concentration after taking neUro 0010: Introduction to neuroscience during fall semester of his freshman year.

nothing really drew me away from doing a humanities concentration it just never seemed like something I could pull off, he said, adding that the sciences have always been more innately interesting to him, and the material has come slightly easier. But the opportunity to take classes in the humanities was one of the reasons he wanted to go to a liberal arts school, he said.

The powers of mind that are de-veloped through liberal education are tremendously practical, but you do have to go through a translation process to make the connection with specific pro-

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campus news 3the Brown DAILY herALDtUeSDAY, noveMBer 27, 2012interested in becoming U.S. Attor-ney General.

It would be hard not to at least consider it, but Im virtually certain the answer would be no, whitehouse said, adding that if offered the job, he would weigh the offer only as a courtesy to the president.

whitehouse pledged to spend his next term in office fighting against re-publicans proposed cuts to Medicare and Social Security, saying he believes many rhode Islanders feel like they have not received a fair deal from washington in recent years.

Im excited about being able to rebalance the economy so middle-class families feel like theyre getting a fair shot, whitehouse said. he cited investments in infrastructure, leveling the playing field for U.S. manufac-turers against unfair competition from Chinese companies and fos-tering small business innovation as key ways to spur economic growth in rhode Island and the country as a whole.

A former rhode Island state attor-ney general and U.S. federal prosecu-tor, whitehouse has emerged in the last few years as a key Democratic figure on the Senate Judiciary Com-mittee, using his legal background to advocate for obamas Supreme Court appointees Sonia Sotomayor and ele-na Kagan during their confirmation processes. whitehouse also serves on the Budget Committee, environment and Public works Committee, the Select Committee on Aging, the Com-mittee on the Judiciary, the health, education, Labor and Pensions Com-mittee, and the Select Committee on Intelligence.

with Democrats lacking the 60 votes required to enact cloture and shut down republican threats to fil-ibuster legislation, the 55-member majority caucus will need at least five republican votes to advance most bills. whitehouse, who has witnessed the partisan paralysis in the Senate in recent years, said he is confident Democrats will be able to reach across the aisle in the new Senate next year.

Theres plenty of room where the other side is prepared to be reason-able, whitehouse said, adding that he has managed to work on a bipartisan basis in the past. he cited his work with Sen. John McCain, r-Ariz., on campaign finance reform as evidence that compromise is possible.

whitehouse predicted that

obamas reelection will weaken the atmosphere of fear created by right-wing tea Party supporters who si-lenced more rational republicans inclined to work with the president. The more reasonable voices in the republican Party are now going to find a little more courage, white-house said.

reeds office could not be reached for comment, but the senator has publicly denied interest in becom-ing either CIA director or secretary of defense. reed told wPro this month that the president had not called him about either position and that he had made clear that he is uninterested in joining the cabinet.

But the senators public denials do not necessarily mean they would turn down an offer, said wendy Schiller, associate professor of political science and public policy.

Its rare when people turn down the president when theyre asked to serve, she said. I think anybody in the Senate would be interested in a cabinet role. Schiller added that though both are in contention, neither reed nor whitehouse are likely the frontrunners for the defense secretary or attorney general positions.

Political maneuvering consider-ations may be a decisive factor for obama as he reshuffles his cabinet. Sen. John Kerry P02, D-Mass., has also been mentioned as a possible de-fense secretary, but in picking Kerry, obama would leave a vacancy in one of Massachusetts U.S. Senate seats. Some Democrats fear that former senator Scott Brown, who lost his bid for reelection to Sen. elizabeth warren, D-Mass., could be a strong contender in a special election to fill Kerrys seat and subsequently nar-row the Democrats newly expanded majority.

Its a safer choice to take either reed or whitehouse out of rhode Island than it would be to take Kerry out of Massachusetts, Schiller said, adding that Democrats would be bet-ter positioned to win a special election to keep a Senate seat in rhode Island than they would be in Massachusetts, where Brown remains a viable threat.

victor Profughi, professor emeri-tus of political science at rhode Island College, said reed and whitehouse are both likely more interested in re-maining in the Senate because they would have a greater impact on policy than they would in four-year cabinet posts. But Profughi added that if a Senate seat did open up in rhode

Island, many candidates would con-sider jumping into a special election.

Profughi predicted that rhode Island General treasurer Gina rai-mondo and Providence Mayor Angel taveras, both of whom are thought to be likely candidates for the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nomina-tion, would consider running if a Senate seat became vacant. Profughi said Gov. Lincoln Chafee75 P14, who served as a republican in the U.S. Senate from 2000-07 before losing reelection to whitehouse, could also join the race to return to Congress.

Chafees almost certainly going to have a difficult time running for reelection as governor, Profughi said, noting it is hard to predict whether Chafee would run for the Senate as an Independent or as a Democrat. Chafee, an Independent who served as a national co-chair of obamas re-election campaign and spoke at the Democratic national Convention, has publicly criticized his former party for becoming too conservative.

Schiller also said taveras and raimondo would likely contest the Democratic nomination. there would be a domino effect so other positions would open up, she said. But she said she expects Chafee has no interest in returning to the Senate.

Special elections tend to catch ev-erybody by surprise, and unexpected things happen, said tony Affigne, a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of race and ethnicity in America at Brown and a professor of political science at Providence Col-lege. But Affigne noted that despite this uncertainty, Democrats would have a clear advantage in retaining their control over both Senate seats, given the Democrats strong showing in the 2012 elections.

Affigne said both reed and white-house have strong incentives for re-maining in the Senate whitehouse stands to benefit from his reelection by gaining more seniority, and reed is in line to chair the Senate Armed Services Committee if the current chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, D-r.I., retires. reed, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at west Point, n.Y., and a retired U.S. Army officer, has focused on defense policy issues since entering the Senate in 1997.

For west Point graduates who are combat veterans, theres probably no position in the world other than president that would be more attrac-tive than Armed Services Committee chairman, Affigne said.

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By DOrA ChuContributing Writer

The University will partner with the Knowledge is Power Program, a network of charter schools, following a $2.5 mil-lion donation from Bruce and Martha Karsh P14 that will aid KIPP alums at Brown through increased academic and financial support. The partnership will focus not only on preparing under-served students for college, but also on providing the resources necessary to complete college.

Brown and KIPP will develop pro-grams, projects and activities that will address college-persistent challenges for scholarship students, said Bill Layton, executive director of Browns office of Corporate and Foundation relations.

After KIPP contacted former presi-dent ruth Simmons about a possible partnership, Layton said he researched KIPPs compatibility with Brown. we wanted to use the KIPP partnership and the support from the Karshes to sup-port, leverage and expand upon existing really good programs that Brown has for scholarship students already, he said.

The Karshes have donated a total of $10 million in support of KIPP and its alums: $2.5 million to Brown, $2.5 million to Penn and $5 million to Duke University. Brown is the 18th university to partner with KIPP, which comprises 125 open-enrollment public charter schools across the country.

with the $2.5 million donation, Browns endowment now includes a KIPP Scholarship Fund. The donation will support a main financial aid fund and three smaller funds to support KIPP students who want to conduct research projects, pay for emergency trips and laptop repairs and finance KIPP students who want to experience Brown through a pre-college summer program at the University, respectively.

The gifts are intended to help further

KIPPs mission of increasing college completion rates by focusing on five factors: academic readiness, character strengths like optimism and self-con-trol, finding the right match between the student and college, integrating social life and academics and college affordability, said Steve Mancini, KIPPs director of public affairs. Some of these resources include application fee waiv-ers, mentorship programs and research support.

President Christina Paxsons support played a key role in the formation of the KIPP partnership. Shes been empha-sizing financial aid as a top priority for everyone to work on across Brown. She said right away when she started at Brown that cost should not be a barrier for those students who come to Brown, Layton said.

were grateful to her leadership, her vision and her commitment to helping kids regardless of their background, Mancini said, adding that her devotion to Browns diverse and academically excellent student body made the part-nership possible.

The partnership helps identify stu-dents from KIPP schools who have the potential to succeed in Browns environ-ment but does not promise admission to Brown for KIPP alums. It helps re-cruit and expand the channel of possible scholarship students, Layton said.

The academic standards that KIPP holds, I wouldnt have been able to find that at any other school in my area, said Danielle Phan 16, who attended KIPP heartwood Academy, a KIPP middle school in San Jose, Calif. her first visit to Brown was through a KIPP trip, she said, adding that she is still in con-tact with her KIPP adviser, a valuable resource for questions she has regarding college or internships. It changed my outcome and the opportunities I was given, Phan said, adding that KIPP is a place where being smart was cool.

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fessional opportunities, Morrill said. Through 25 years at Brown and

two decades of advising, Pucci said he has found the relationship between a students concentration and their employability to be virtually mean-ingless, with the exception of certain pre-professionally oriented programs like pre-med and engineering.

Declining enrollment in the hu-manities is not necessarily bad, Pucci said.

humanists do want our courses peopled, of course, but the business of the humanities is I think better suited to smaller classes, he said.

Still, faculty agreed that a signifi-cant decline in student interest in the

humanities would be a serious con-cern.

It is possible that now more stu-dents, perhaps because of their own thinking, perhaps influenced by their parents, think humanities are a waste of time, Serrano said. If thats the case, thats a sad development for hu-manity, he said.

There is a trend in society at large that tends to fund the sciences much more than the humanities, Serrano said, and the government will always fund more grants to the hard sciences.

Continuing a discussion on how to best balance priorities is paramount, Bergeron said.

Thats education, she said. Find-ing new ways to talk about what is important in the liberal arts.

By AlexAnDer BlumContributing Writer

though the nations unemployment rate rose slightly last month, the ocean States unemployment rate dropped slightly for the sixth consec-utive month, falling from 10.5 to 10.4 percent, according to reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But despite this progress, rhode Island still has the second-highest unemployment rate in the country, and the number of rhode Island-based jobs fell by 2,500 during the same time period.

over half of these lost jobs were from seasonal industries that had held onto workers for longer than expected, said Laura hart, communi-cations manager for the rhode Island Department of Labor and training. She also said it is important to note the method by which rhode Islands unemployment rate is calculated, which represents the number of un-employed residents compared to the entire labor force of both employed and unemployed residents.

Because rhode Islands unem-ployment rate is decreasing as the total labor force increases, were going down for the right reasons, hart said. If the number of rhode Island-based jobs and number of em-

ployed residents was going down, it would be worrisome. But the fact that there have been well over 8,000 employed rhode Island residents in two months is a very encouraging statistic, she said.

though the job loss statistics are not what we want to see, hart said, it is not a total doom-and-gloom situation.

of the 2,500 rhode Island-based jobs lost during in october, 1,500 of them were from the accommodation and food services sector. hart said the drop was expected after more workers than usual were hired in May and they stayed on longer.

richard Luchette, communica-tions director for rep. David Cicil-line 83, D-r.I., said the lower unem-ployment rate is encouraging, but it doesnt mean were out of the woods, adding that Cicillines recent reelec-tion demonstrates voters desire for continued economic improvement.

ever since the 2008 national eco-nomic recession, rhode Island has been burdened by more formidable economic challenges than those faced by other states, Luchette said. rhode Island was formerly a hub of manu-facturing, he said, but many of those jobs have been outsourced to foreign countries like China.

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course should translate pretty well since weinsteins lectures are gener-ally not question-based, said Ce-leste Cahn 15, who took weinsteins course CoLt 0810o: Civilization and its Discontents. But she added that the discussion sections were her favorite part of the course and that she would be disinclined to take an online version that lacked this person-to-person contact.

Kleins course, Coding the Ma-trix: Linear Algebra through Com-puter Science Applications, will fo-cus on the more hands-on aspects of computer science. he said he hopes to make learning more real in the context of computer science applica-tions and to enable students to see how this more precise modality can be useful.

the Coursera version of this course will be based on the mate-rial Klein has taught for about five years. It will adopt a mastery-based approach, Klein said, adding that

five- to eight-minute video chunks will be complemented by small quiz examples that enable students to test their understanding. this mastery of skills along the way is critical in such a course, Klein said, noting that computer science is a very cumu-lative subject. he said he is look-ing forward to receiving feedback from his online students, as he will be able to better grasp the student perspective.

there will be a heavy emphasis on the applications of the work, said Anson rosenthal 15, who is working with Klein to develop the course. rosenthal, who said he would be very interested in the online version of this course, said, If theyre done intelligently, online courses can be really helpful. he added that he is confident Kleins enthusiasm in the classroom will carry through online.

Archaeologys Dirty Little Se-crets is the third Coursera course the University will offer, and it will generally capitalize on peoples in-nate curiosity about archaeology,

said Alcock, who will teach the class.this course will also take the

form of short film modules, several of which will be presented each week. In addition to these more lecture-focused clips, Alcock said she hopes to incorporate case studies with Uni-versity faculty members and clips of real digging taking place this semes-ter on the Quiet Green. She added that she will be using a course she is teaching next semester to help guide her creation of the online course.

the material objects and archae-ological sites will translate pretty readily to Coursera, said Andrew Dufton GS, who is working with Al-cock and will serve as a tA for the course next semester. he added that he is looking forward to exploring different digital technologies and how we can use them in teaching and in archaeology.

this is a course that really could speak globally, Alcock said, adding that she hopes to encourage students to think about the past and recognize archaeologys presence everywhere.

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harrington hall in Cranston is home to the largest mens homeless shelter in rhode Island, a state that saw its rates of foreclosure grow dramatically during the recent recession. A swirl of legislative and social controversy arose in october, when Gov. Lincoln Chafee 75 P14 made the executive decision to leave the shelter in its current loca-tion and to pay for building renova-tions. For the past year, overcrowding and strained facilities have prompted discussions about a potential move.

originally opened as a temporary shelter, harrington hall was never meant to be a permanent fixture in the community. But as times grew hard through the economic downturn and more people spiraled into homeless-ness, the hall was never closed, said Leonard Chen 13, community fellow at housing opportunities for People everywhere, a Swearer Center for Pub-lic Service program that runs a range of services for the homeless commu-nity. There is a general consensus that something needs to be done either the shelter must be relocated, or the hall needs to be fixed up.

Some town residents who have long opposed the shelters move are pleased with Chafees decision, but others would still like to see the shel-ter moved far away from the towns center. Suzanne Arena, a community advocate and activist, as well as mother to children who go to school in the area, said she and other community members are concerned about the potential threat posed by the five to ten registered sex offenders housed by harrington hall.

My goal has always been to have sex offenders not in the same shelter as the homeless people, Arena said. Sex offenders had been sighted at the local library, she said, a source of concern for the safety of the area. The shelter should be relocated, but not to a highly trafficked area.

But Chen said he disagrees. hoPe first got involved with the harrington hall situation this year and advocates a move to the Gloria McDonald Build-ing, a former womens prison in Crans-ton that was recently emptied, he said.

The arguments going to exist everywhere people are going to say not in my backyard, he said, re-garding concerns about sex offenders. There are a lot more unsupervised registered sex offenders living in Cran-ston, who outnumber (those) living in the shelter. If we have this new facility and run programs with services for these sex offenders, we can know what theyre doing, monitor their activity, which is a lot safer than the current situation.

Despite their differences, Chen and Arena both deplore the governors re-cent decision, calling it a band-aid solution.

A representative for the governor could not be reached for comment.

renovations are going to cost the state much more than relocation would, Chen said, describing the choice to keep harrington hall as maintaining a broken system. There are currently no emergency response, detox or medical services at the over-crowded shelter and cold weather is rapidly approaching, he said.

The number of people who need services is fast outgrowing the re-sources we have, he added.

If you are going to have a homeless shelter, you need to provide some kind of programs, Arena said, referring to the lack of rehabilitation or detox treatments at the current facility. we have to be able to live together, she added.

hoPe is currently canvassing around the Cranston region to seek resident opinions on a potential move to the Gloria McDonald building to spread information on the issue and to form a petition, Chen said.

Most of the people living in Cran-ston dont know the full facts, Chen added.

Controversy surrounds homeless shelter expansionBy CAleB miller

Contributing Writer

the rhode Island Climate Change Commission, created by the Climate risk reduction Act of 2010, issued its first progress report to the state house of representatives nov. 13. the report is the first of what will be annual updates made by the Commis-sion, headed by Sen. Joshua Miller, D-Cranston, and rep. Christopher Blazejewski, D-Providence.

the account detailed rhode Is-lands current measures to combat climate change and identified vulner-abilities in the states defenses. Blaze-jewski described the reports mis-sion as two-pronged protecting the state from the effects of current climate change and stopping future climate change, he said.

the report comprised components from each of the Commissions sub-committees Key Infrastructure

and the Built environment, natural resources and habitat and human health and welfare.

the commissions piece did not, however, suggest specific measures to reach its aims. As a preliminary report, it is much more concerned with explaining the structure of the commission and summarizing the concerns of the different subcommit-tees, Miller said. It hasnt gone as far as making specific proposals yet.

the report comes in the wake of hurricane Sandy, which Miller said incited a public call for legislative action. theres a lot of reaction from concern of climate change, he said. If theres going to be a legislative component to what people think, that legislation must be proposed in a timely manner.

though this was just an initial report, Blazejewski said the commis-sion plans to make specific proposals in the near future, possibly as early as

the end of this legislative year.It sets up a structure for the com-

munity and the experts to chime in on priorities going forward, Miller said, elaborating on the reports ability to spawn future measures. he added that combating steps need not be legislative.

In the past, rhode Islands envi-ronmentally-conscious nature has made it a leading state in the race to halt further climate change. Past leg-islation has tackled subjects including renewable energy requirements and permeable parking surfaces, Miller said. Because of this, both congress-men said that they believe measures will be quickly accepted and imple-mented when the house begins to examine specific policies stemming from the report.

rhode Islanders are attuned to the need to protect our resources, Blazejewski said. I anticipate the rec-ommendations will be well-received.

report explores climate change

the fossil fuel industry has become a rogue force, he added.

McKibben also targeted the Uni-versitys claims of sustainability, saying, If youre going to green the campus, there is no logical reason you would not green the portfolio at exactly the same time.

The new student group Brown Divest Coal which emerged this summer along with several other coal-divestment student groups across the nation invited McKibben to cam-pus. we want Brown to be a leader in coal divestment, said Sonya Gurwitt 16, a member of the group.

Divest Coal coordinator rebecca rast 13.5 said she is disappointed that the University has yet to act upon these recommendations, especially following Unity College of Mains nov. 12 pledge to divest from coal, oil and gas companies. Coal divest-ment is about health, its about miti-gating climate change, and its about making (people) aware the power of coal in our communities, she said. A harvard representative told the harvard Crimson earlier this week

that it would not consider divestment. The University may be reluctant

to divest from coal because energy companies can be a major endowment source for universities, said Dawn King, visiting assistant professor in the Center for environmental Studies, though she predicted that the coal industry will likely no longer be viable within the next 20 years. But King cautioned that divesting from coal-fired power plants is just a teeny-tiny baby step to addressing global warm-ing an issue with which America will be grappling for the next half century, she said.

McKibben said the battle to con-vince the University to divest will not be an easy feat.

Its going to be a very hard fight, he said. were going to be asking peo-ple to do things that are hard for them to do, and were going to be putting them on the spot.

Still, McKibben emphasized that the fight for coal divestment is pos-sible. Ultimately, students are asking the University to put its money where its mouth is, McKibben said. when they say no, youre going to have to steel yourselves to say yes.

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e d i to r i a ltwo weeks ago, the Brown Advisory Committee on Corporate responsibility in Investment Policies, or ACCrIP, petitioned President Christina Paxson for a sustained dialogue regarding the Universitys continued investment in corporations that do business with Israel. This petition,a product ofyears of discussion between ACCrIP and Brown Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP),calls out major corporationsincluding Caterpillar, Boeing and, in past iterations, General electric, Motorola and others. The call for divestment, according to SJP,is motivated by these companies alleged violations ofhu-man rights in the Israeli-occupied territories. however,both ACCrIP and SJPappear to beconspicuously silent on divestment from other nations that have committedsimilarknown human rights violations. Potential divest-ment from companies that do business with the state of Israel, a politically charged issuein itselfthat lacks a consensus on campus and nationwide, should not be considered until we have reached a conclusion on divesting from companies that do business with oppressive governments.

Last weeks article (Committee seeks campus discussion on divestment, nov. 19) noted that hampshire College became the first American institution ofhigher educationto divest in 2009.however, anopen letter written by hampshire President ralph hexter and Board of trustees Chair Sigmund roos clarified that the college had chosen to divest from the problematic mutual fund not because of its ties to Israel, but because it violated the investment committees socially responsible investment policies. The letter reads, no other college or university should use hampshire as a precedent for divesting from Israel, since hampshire has refused to divest from Israel. hampshires decision to divest does not and should not represent the first stone cast to a nationwide trend ofuniversities considering divestment.

Brown, in recent years, has only divested from three major causes: tobacco, Sudan and heI hotels and resorts,allfor labor violations. Di-vestment hasproven effective in the past, notably in South Africa during the apartheid nelson Mandela himself referred to the University of California at Berkeleys $3 billion divestment as a catalyst for its abolition. however, anger at the state of Israel alone is misdirected. In response to a 2009 divestment petition by hampshire students, harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz argued that the campaign, in ignoring hampshires in-volvement with companies that work with other oppressive regimes, has absolutely nothing to do with human rights, saying that it was instead motivated purely by hatred for the Jewish state.

This issue is not new in 2002, following renewed violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, many student groups advocated the same type of divestment. Then-harvard President Larry Summers at the time said, Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent. That same year, new York times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote, Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle east is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.

neither Friedman nor weare suggesting thatthose who seek divestment from Israelharboranti-Semiticbeliefs.Investment in companies that do business with Israel should be debated in a forum that incorporates those supporting both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The act of divestment should be the result of further reflection, andthe single-minded focus on thisparticularconflict is intensely hypocritical and should be reconsidered.

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Last month, Zach Ingber 15 criticized the collaboration between two student groups on campus over an Immigration week fence installation (An unsavory alliance, oct. 31). Ingber argued that the alliance be-tween Brown Immigrant rights Coalition and Brown Students for Justice in Palestine was detrimental to the legitimacy of both groups, asserting that the only thing that the wall between the United States-Mexico border and the west Bank separation bar-rier have in common is their extreme effec-tiveness.

Ingber, a self-proclaimed believer in bor-ders and international law, conveniently ig-nored the fact that Israel is the only country that has never declared its borders and that the separation barrier which expropri-ates Palestinian land, steals water resources and separates families is considered illegal under international law. Similarly, he propa-gates a historically incorrect view of borders as part of civilization. Finally, it is clear that Ingber did not so much as make eye contact with any BIrC or BSJP members, as his por-trayal of the collaboration is deeply preju-diced and almost willfully misinformed.

But the intention of this article is not to refute Ingbers many erroneous points most of those rebuttals are self-evident. rather, we would like to challenge and ex-pose the worldview that serves as a basis for his argument and for many oppressive poli-

cies that have affected immigrants and indig-enous peoples worldwide.

Indeed, borders are extremely effective effective in dehumanizing people, rhetori-cally, imaginatively and physically. They are effective at massacring populations and jus-tifying these massacres, effective at enforcing terror in the name of national security and effective at keeping out of the nation-state the very people whose exploited labor sustains it. Borders are an instrument of control used by societies that value some human lives more

than others. In these societies, existence itself can be considered a crime, if one possesses the wrong skin color or religious affiliation.

It is the shared belief of BIrC and BSJP in a different society a society in which no life is more important than another that unites us. to be sure, the ideals we share are unsavory for those who wish to keep the world as it is. Ingber is right in fearing our alliance, for it represents a fundamental chal-lenge to the carefully segregated universe he inhabits. Threatened by the possibilities of a different vision of society, he seeks to dismiss us as naive.

But we are far from naive. At the heart of our alliance lies the understanding that we are tied together not merely by abstract ide-ology, but by very material connections. In the 1970s and 80s, a network of oppression

developed between Israel, the United States and Latin American dictatorships. The net-work consisted of arms trade, exchange of military technologies and teams of Israeli advisers sent to assist Latin American dicta-tors. General efrain rios Montt, a notorious Guatemalan despot, stated in an ABC news interview that the coup through which he came to power would not have been possible without the aid of Israeli advisers.

Under the human rights policy of Presi-dent Jimmy Carter, a deep military relation-

ship emerged with Israel stepping in as an alternative supplier of arms to Latin Ameri-can dictators. The United States provided old weapons and capital Israel needed in order to develop its own arms industry, and Israel in turn served as a liaison. This gave the United States plausible deniability regarding its ties to the dictatorships. Israel supplied Guate-mala with urban counterinsurgency tech-nology that allowed the government to wipe out activists and organizers. They also helped design model villages to which populations were forced to migrate, often through massa-cres and genocide.

The United States and Israel supported civil wars in Central America that resulted in massive displacements, forcing millions of people to seek refuge in the United States itself. As they migrate north, they are met

once more with Israeli technology: the wall between the United States and Mexico, built by the Israeli company elbit. Interestingly, elbit is the same company that constructed the west Bank separation barrier. Inside the United States, the immigrants encounter Is-raeli oppression a third time, in the form of Israeli weapons used by Immigration and Customs enforcement deportation forces.

Thus the real unsavory alliance is the mil-itary relationship between Israel, the Unit-ed States and Latin American dictatorships. This alliance has destroyed countless lives, enabled war and genocide and displaced millions. It unleashes unimaginable terror on entire populations, controlling move-ment, bodies and ultimately life itself for im-migrants and indigenous peoples. Yet un-like two student groups tabling on the Main Green, this alliance is largely invisible.

Therefore, wed like to say thank you to In-gber. Thank you for reminding us why it is that we work together and for demonstrating the power that this alliance gives us. Thank you for bringing us closer together and al-lowing us the opportunity to re-articulate the beliefs that joined us in the first place. we hope to provide you with many, many more unsavory collaborations in the months and years to come.

Brown students for Justice in Palestine and Brown immigrant rights Coalitionbelieve strongly that no human life is

more valuable than another. they can be reached at brownusjp@gmail.com and

BrownimmigrantrightsCoalition@gmail.com.

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when new Jersey Gov. Chris Christie teamed up with President obama to man-age the crisis wrought by Superstorm Sandy on new Jerseys shoreline, it was heralded as a prime example of bipartisanship. In-deed, it seems bipartisanship has become the buzzword of the day, associated with a pragmatic and commendable approach to political issues.

It is unfortunate, then, that one glaring example of bipartisanship policies stands as a stain on the record of political parties both nationally and locally: the marginal-ization of education. According to the new York times analysis of obamas plans for fiscal year 2013, education represents a pal-try 1.5 percent of his total budget. It was therefore ironic that the Brown Demo-crats in their recent article (why were vot-ing Democratic this election day, oct. 31) identified education first and foremost in their argument for supporting obama. This is, of course, not a partisan issue the re-publicans track record is no better on edu-cation.

while the importance of education is not lost on Brown students, the relative lack of focus on education at a national level represents a far more disturbing oversight inherent in our political structure. Both po-litical parties have an intrinsic generation-al bias that has marginalized the youngest

and most vulnerable of our society. Contrast education spending with entitle-ment programs to the elderly. Social Secu-rity alone consumes nearly a quarter of the federal budget. Medicare accounts for an-other 15 percent.

This case study, however, represents a larger trend in the public distribution of funds. A 2011 study by the Urban Institute found that public spending per child both state and federal was $11,300 per year, while spending per senior was more than double that at $24,800. This includes

much more than just education it is a universal truth across domestic and social policy that spending on the elderly far out-strips spending on children.

This imbalance is even more disturb-ing given the financial position of these two generations. As census data shows, pover-ty among children is growing at a dramatic pace. while 9 percent of the elderly fall be-low the poverty line, 22 percent of children 15.75 million are currently living in poverty.

The political determinants of this gener-ational bias are obvious. The elderly are one

of the most solid voting blocks at the core of both parties election prospects, where-as the youth are effectively disenfranchised albeit for obvious reasons. It is for this reason that Social Security has become the effective third rail of politics, practically untouchable for both parties despite being fiscally unsustainable. As money set aside for Social Security proves increasingly in-sufficient to cover the expectations of the elderly, debts and payroll taxes will rise ex-ponentially. In effect, Social Security is an intergenerational transfer of money from

tomorrows youth to todays elderly.But this is about much more than just a

numbers game and is not simply the youth versus the elderly. These startling facts are part of a larger ideological focus that spans across political boundaries. Unfortunate-ly, neither party has paid much attention to the increasingly alarming poverty rate among children, nor has political or social capital been devoted towards their plight.

In a democratic society that values indi-vidual opportunity, the marginalization of the interest of the youth is extremely dis-heartening in a fundamental way. The youth

are the most defenseless generation of our society, born into a social and economic class structure that is entirely beyond their individual control. There are also pragmatic economic reasons to support a greater in-vestment in our children, since the oppor-tunities for growth and development in-crease as these children mature with better resources and human capital.

The term investment conjures up im-ages of dollar bills, but the necessity of fo-cusing on the youth extends much further. we need to invest in our youth not only fi-nancially but also psychologically. we need to invest our time and energy in the youth by encouraging them to make choices that will help them build wealth and find future success. Being born into poverty-strick-en environments makes children far more likely to make decisions that compromise future financial success dropping out of high school, sidestepping contraception or de-emphasizing education.

There has been a great deal of talk re-cently about the decline in social mobility and the lack of opportunities for tomor-rows America. to fix this problem, we need to espouse the importance of education, teach Americas youth the importance of hard work and back up these lessons with the financial and social opportunities they need to best utilize their potential.

alex drechsler 15 hopes contemporary politics can have a real discussion about the poverty facing americas youth. He

can be reached at alex_drechsler@brown.edu.

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In back-to-back home games last week-end, the mens hockey team suffered a 7-0 loss to Providence College Saturday

but survived to rebound for a 3-2 win over holy Cross Sunday.

The Bears (3-4-2) took the ice Sat-urday afternoon looking to capture the coveted Mayors Cup against Provi-dence College (6-5-1). The game was

the 27th annual battle for the trophy, and Bruno was hoping to repeat last years victory, which came on the Friars home ice.

But Providence returned the favor by dismantling the Bears at home Sat-

urday en route to taking the Cup. head Coach Brendan whittet 94 attributed the loss to a lack of effort and mental toughness.

It was not Brown hockey. Its not what we represent, he said. we were weak mentally, lost a lot of battles, and we took absolutely hideous penalties.

Those penalties proved especially costly for Bruno in the second period. The Bears were hanging tight with the Friars, trailing 1-0 late into the second, when a fight broke out involving most of the players from each team. After a couple of minutes, the referees managed to sort out the mayhem, sending a total of six players to the penalty box.

The ruling took a major toll on the Bears with starting defensemen Den-nis robertson 14 and Matt wahl 14 each serving ten-minute penalties. The Friars capitalized on the depleted Bruno defense with two power-play goals in three minutes to take control of the game after two periods.

The game went from bad to ugly for the Bears in the final stanza. Four dif-ferent Friars scored goals in the period, the last of which came with two minutes remaining, capping the touchdown-sized victory. The loss is the worst in whittets tenure as coach.

It was a debacle from the drop of the puck, whittet said. You dont forget the way you played. Youve got to come back within 24 hours against a really, really high-end team and not let history repeat itself.

The Bears did just that, shaking it off and bouncing back to beat holy Cross (7-3-1) Sunday in a comeback victory to salvage a weekend split.

The Crusaders went into the first intermission with a two-goal advantage despite Brunos control of the game for most of the first period. holy Cross managed their two goals on just six shots, while the Bears fired off 15 shots without scoring. The intermission con-cluded a four-period stretch in which the Bears were outscored 9-0, but they

showed resilience in the second period.At times, it gets a little frustrating

when you can clearly see we are control-ling the play, said forward Matt harlow 15. It was tough to get down 2-0 at the beginning, but we kept working and kept working, and just showed great character by all the guys in the room to be able to come back and get a w.

Forward Garnet hathaway 14 end-ed the scoring drought with his first goal of the season four minutes into the second period. A tremendous back-handed pass by ryan Jacobson 15 set hathaway up with an open shot from just outside the crease. Forward Matt Lorito 15, the Bears leading scorer, then contributed his seventh goal of the season to tie the game going into the final period.

A relentless Bruno offense would not be denied in the third, as Mark naclerio 16 notched his first career goal with seven minutes remaining in the game. once again, the score came as a result of good passing. wahl pushed the puck up the left wall to harlow, who centered the puck to naclerio for the decisive blow.

It felt amazing, naclerio said. harlow made a great pass to me, and I just shot it as hard as I could. It was fortunate enough to go in.

Following the Crusaders two early goals, the Bruno defense tightened up against the holy Cross attacking units. The Bears dominated in shots, more than doubling the Crusaders shot at-tempts in each of the three periods.

whittet said the comeback gave Bruno some much-needed confidence before they travel to new haven next Saturday for a bout against conference foe Yale.

now were in a positive frame mov-ing into the week, whittet said. This win is a great win, its a team effort, but what it should do is set us up to have a great week of practice to play a very good hockey team in their barn on Saturday night.

bruno slips to PC on ice, recovers against Crusadersm. hOCKeY

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Despite winning the trophy last year, Brown dropped the mayors Cup saturday when they fell to PC.

By BrunO ZuCCOlOSPortS Staff Writer

Cedric Kuakumensah 16, who hails from worcester, Mass., is one of the newest additions to the mens basketball team. In a squad that finds itself in the midst of reconstruction with a brand new coach and a fresh starting lineup Kuakumensah has managed to find his place with solid performances at the start of the season.

In the past week, he notched dou-ble-doubles against Bryant University and St. Francis University. he scored a career-high 14 points against Bryant, rewarding head Coach Mike Martins 04 decision to place the first-year in the starting lineup. For this impressive start to his college career, Kuakumensah has been named Athlete of the week.

Herald: Whats been your impres-sion of brown in these first couple months?

Kuakumensah: Brown has been a great place for me. I just fit in perfectly

with the team. outside of basketball, I just felt that Brown has welcomed me with open arms. Its just been a really fun experience.

How does playing in college com-pare to high school?

everythings a step faster. early in the season, I was just a step behind, a second behind, and I need to adjust to the speed.

When did you start playing bas-ketball?

I started playing basketball in fourth grade. I was kind of tall, so one of my teachers thought that I should play basketball. At first, I was very unco-ordinated I was tripping over my own feet. But as time went by, I started to get better.

do you have any idols, either ath-letes or otherwise?

Athletes my idol, I would have to say, is Kobe Bryant. hes just an amazing athlete. And non-athlete probably

my mother.

do you have a favorite professional team?

The Lakers. Its kind of weird, be-cause Im from the Boston area, where everyone loves the Celtics, and Im just that one guy that loves the Lakers.

What did you think of your perfor-mance in these past two games, where you had back-to-back double-doubles?

I feel that having a double-double sounds good and all, but I feel that I didnt play as well as I could have. There were just some things that I slacked on defensively, some open layups, shots that I missed offensively. to me it was just showing myself that, Yeah, you can get a double-double, but you cant be satisfied with that.

How have your performances been compared to your expectations?

Personal expectations: my perfor-mances have been pretty bad. And considering the fact that we had the

double-doubles and we lost the two games, it didnt mean much to me. I think the expectations are set high for me, and Ill reach them eventually.

What are some of your goals and

dreams going forward?This season, a goal of mine is defi-

nitely to win the Ivy League champion-ship, and I think thats a goal were going to have all four years here. I just want to win as much as possible.

Kuakumensah 16 scores twin double-doubles as rookie starterAthlete Of the WeeK

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Kuakumensah 16 registered a double-double in each of his last two games.