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B MaRk RayMond

Senior Staff Writer

Summer programs run throughth O Ctug Edua-tion brought in around $4 millionor the University this summer,up rm $2. m summr2.

Over the past ve years, theamount o revenue taken in bythe University rom summer pro-grams has more than doubled,

said Laurie Ward, director onance and administration orcontinuing education. In sum-mer 2007, the University received$1.95 million rom the Oce oCtug Eduats summrprgrams.

p admstratrs ha b looking to identiy additional rev-enue streams as part o an eort to

s th budgt gap brught by th 2 aa dwtur.Expanded oerings in continuingeducation represent a key part oths pa.

Our ga s t prd hgh-quality, top-notch educationalexperiences, said Robin Rose, se-nior associate dean or continuingduat. A addta bj-tive is to be able to generate addi-tional revenue or the University.

Revenue rom summer pro-

grams is divided between theO Ctug Eduat,which manages various pre-college education programs, in-cluding Summer@Brown, and theUniversity, Ward said. Te Uni-versity as a whole gets a greatershare o the revenue than the

Summer programs

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B Sahil lUthRa

Senior Staff Writer

For a backpack containing GrantsAtlas o Anatomy, JunquierasBasic Histology and Bates Guideto Physical Examination and His-tory aking , Corey Spiros MD15bag is remarkably light. Combined,

the books weigh less than 1.33

puds th -bks, that s.Tis year or the rst time, Alp-

ert Medical School required everyincoming rst-year to purchasean iPad 2. Te Med School hasrsd ts urruum t urthrrprat tabt thgy.

Admstratrs ar urag-g rst-yars t us th Pads tread electronic versions o text-books and take notes in class.Some aculty are also piloting iPaduse in three second-year patho-physgy asss.

First-years were required tobuy Pad rss sra tt-books through Inkling, a Cali-ornia start-up. Combined, thecost or these e-books totalled $30more than the cost o new printeditions through Amazon $150more than the cheapest used ver-sions. Combined with the iPads

In lieu oftextbooks,

studentslug costs

B kRiStina FazzalaRo

artS & Culture editor

Te Brown Concert Agencys FallCrt ths Saturday w b auprdtd t ad tnecessarily because o the dub-stepping talents o Starkey or thepsychedelic strumming o Real

Estat. T ra surprs r stu-dents this time around is the ticketpr: grats, r, r.

As ar as I know, its neverbeen ree, said Gillian Bras-s 2, BCA bkg har, whrrrd t th Fa Crt as ababy Sprg Wkd.

Te Undergraduate FinanceBoard usually provides undingor the cost o the talent, Bras-sil said, and production costs arepad r by rus rm tktsas. Ts yar was suppsd t

be no dierent, but over the sum-mr, th gam pa hagd.

BCA mpd a st artststhy wr trstd brggt ampus ad put th shrt stbeore the student body on Blog-DailyHerald July 31, Brassil said.T rsuts rad u-Yards,

With cheap

artists, FallConcertgoes free

B katRina PhilliPS

Senior Staff Writer

International students were respon-sible or a disproportionately highnumber o academic code viola-ts brught br th AadmCode Committee last academic year,prompting the University to im-pr th supprt ad rmatprovided to international studentsths yar.

Te committees report, releasedApril 14, concluded that interna-

tional students are dispropor-tionately likely to appear beorethe committee and to be ound tohave violated the academic code.T rprt shwd that wh -American citizens make up less than10 percent o the student body, theyrepresent nearly 20 percent o theapparas br th mmtt

ast yar.Students in computer science

urss aut r th majrty academic code violations decided byth mmtt. T Dpartmt Cmputr S uss pagarsmdtt swar, whh maks teasier or the department to identiyinstances o academic dishonesty.Te two ndings might be connect-ed, said Kathleen McSharry, associ-ate dean or writing and dean orissues o chemical dependency anda case administrator or the commit-tee. I dont think theyre actuallyatg th d mr, sh sad,but international students may bedisproportionately represented inmputr s urss.

But wth y 5 ass rwdby the committee last year, McShar-

U. explains academic

code to intl students

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High school students participating in Summer@Brown firt with college lie onth Main Grn. Th program is gnrating mor rvnu or th Univrsity.

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C-SPAN pulled into campus Tuesday after visiting Hope High School. Thentwork is on a tour to amiliari studnts and th public with its covrag.

B ElizaBEth CaRR

Senior Staff Writer

Te Senate Corporations Commit-tee approved Gov. Lincoln Chaees75 P14 nominations to the I-195Redevelopment District Commis-sion at its hearing yesterday, green-lighting the roster or a vote by theu Sat Tursday.

Colin Kane, principal o the de-pmt rm Prgr GrupLLC, will serve as chairman o

the commission. Te committeeapproved six other commission

members: Adjunct Assistant Pro-essor o Biotechnology BarrettBready 99 MD03, Women and

Inants Hospital nurse BarbaraHunger, art consultant DianaJohnson MA71, President andCEO o Meeting Street SchoolJohn Kelly, Principal at the law

rm Moses and Aonso Mark Ryanad CEO a Rhd Isad -prt Mha Va Lst.

State Sen. Bethany Moura, R-Cumberland and Lincoln, sub-mitted the only nay vote o thear agast Hugr.Making sure talented peopleare working in collaboration is

very important as we go orward,Chaee said at the hearing. All

I-195 commission set for Senate approval

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O Ctug Eduat,Ward sad.

Te proportion o unds givent th Ursty has t atrdin recent years, Ward said. Testeady increase in revenue allo-cated to the University simply re-fects the growth o the programs.

We certainly work on try-

ing to increase our number ostudents, Ward said. We havebeen successul in growing theprgrams ah summr.

Tis past year, the Universitywelcomed around 3,300 highschool students or its Summer@Brown program, which allowshigh school students to live onampus ad tak asss.

Te summer programs havebeen enormously successuland benecial or the studentsand or the University, said Bep-pie Huidekoper, executive vicepresident or nance and admin-istration. Revenue has increased

sgaty r tm.Despite concerns, the econom-

ic climate o the past ew yearshas not diminished the growth othe Universitys summer oerings,Ward sad.

G th m rum-stances, we werent sure i wewould be able to sustain the level rmt, sh sad. But whave been exceeding our t argets.

Beyond its current summerprograms, the Oce o Continu-g Eduat pas t tuexpanding its oerings to servedierent populations and open

new revenue streams or the Uni-versity, according to Ward. Shecited educational opportunitiesr aduts as a ptta ara rpas.

W aways k at thr r-u strams wthut watg tinterere with anything alreadyhappening at the University,Ward sad.

Te University has reportedplans to launch proessional mas-ters degree programs, with in-struction primarily taking place, 22.

Curren$y and Teophilus Londonas the student bodys top threehs.

Real Estate came in seventh,receiving only 40 votes out o 616.Starkey was not listed on the poll BCA had arady bkd hmaer last years positive reaction tothe similar-sounding Stegosaurus.

Going down the list o acts,each one was either alreadybooked or unable to make it to theconcert, Brassil said. Curren$y,or example, recently broke hisak, sh sad.

As a result, the combined cost

or booking Real E state and Star-key was much less than expected,Brass sad.

We had only spent about halo our budget on talent, she said.UFB allotted $20,000 to pay orthe acts this year. Te organiza-t sdrd tryg t bk athird act but decided against itt kp tkt prs dw, Bras-s sad.

W wr k, grat tktsw y ha t b r sdollars, Brassil said. But thenthey thought, why not make itmpty r?

Ad s th grup apprahd

UFB Chair Jason Lee 12 and ViceChair Mike Perchonok 12 with

the idea o using the remainingbudget to und production in ad-

dt t th tat.Ty watd t wr prs

so more people would come, Leesaid, and UFB was on board. Wedont want money to b e a prohibi-tive actor or students to attendts, h sad.

Its worth it to have cheaperbands i its ree, Brassil said, cit-ing the greater number o studentswho would come to the event andbe exposed to lesser-known musi-cal talents i cost were not a actor.Based on student reactions, it wasa ry gd a.

Last year I paid money, and

I hatd t, s I wast gg t gthis year, said Becky Specking3. But w, baus admssis ree, she said she is likely to go.

I have trouble orking overmoney or Spring Weekend, add-d Kaygh Butra 3, s ggt a smar rt wth ssr-known acts or a similar price wast hgh hr t-d st.

Wh ts r, I a mak aappara ad th a, sadRaqu Bryat 5.

BCA would love to have anoth-r r Fa Crt, Brass sad.

UFB didnt want to set a prec-edent with this, she said. But i

this year goes well, she said, whokws?

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Campus ews 3he Brown Daily eraldednesday, September 21, 2011

$699 price tag or 64 gigabytes a gur that ds t ud

the AppleCare service package,keyboard, cover and stylus recom-mended by the Med School thetotal purchase was less cost e-ective than the traditional print-dt rut.

But mmzg sts r stu-dts was t th mtat rthe iPad initiative, said PhilipGruppuso, associate dean ormda duat.

he additional eatures othe Inkling virtual textbooksprdd a majr t, sadPaul George, director o thesecond-year basic science cur-

riculum. Afer reading about arta physa dagss am,or instance, students using thee-book can watch a video abouthw t prrm t ad th taka comprehension quiz. Regularttbks dt aw that srt tratty mprtat r atarg, Grg sad.

In class, students can use theirPads a arty ways thycan look at slides during a virtualmicroscopy or pull up instructionsr a ab prmt. abts aas b usd a a sttg.Most hospitals are moving towarddigitalization, in line with ederal

mandates to establish electronichealth records by 2014, Georgesad.

Te old Med School acilitieslacked the power outlets necessaryto support heightened technologyuse in the classroom, Gruppusosaid. But with this summers moveto a new building, students andauty a tak u adatag dgta pprtuts.

Spiro said his biggest gripewth th tat s th at thatit was mandatory. EverythingI d wth (th Pad) s ar ssmthg I ud ha d

a aptp, Spr sad.But Gruppuso said administra-

tors needed to require iPads toactor the cost into nancial aidcalculations. He acknowledgedthat students most likely knewthy wr t truy madatd tpurchase the tablets. Studentsknow there are no iPad policerunning around threatening

to throw them out o medicalsh, h sad.

Ar makg th ds astsprg t adpt Pads r th a,administrators called on Rahul

Barj MD4 ad MhaKim 10 MD 14. Both had workedor the technology support helpdesk and were asked to aid withthe transition and to act as l iaisonsbetween students and adminis-tratrs.

Barj ad Km tstd appsand wrote support documenta-tion this summer. Te two oeredwrkshps ad hd hursduring orientation and the rstweeks o the year. Te recentlylaunched I Fellows program willmake sure iPad technologies atthe Med School are up to date,

Barj sad.Tough some students were

initially reluctant to adopt theApple product, they have byand large embraced it, Banerjeesaid. Having the community onth sam thga patrmstreamlines tech support, he said.Ad s a th w assrmtechnology was chosen with the

iPad specically in mind, it is notnecessarily compatible with otherds, Grg sad.

Administrators are now gather-g studt dbak s th Md

School can urther integrate iPadsinto the curriculum, Gruppusosad.

So ar, eedback has been gen-erally positive, George said, add-g that admstratrs w -tu t st put thrughutth yar. Abut a quartr s-ond-year students have adoptedPads as w, h addd.

Banerjee and Kim anticipate

the Med School will soon put

pressure on its aliated hospi-tas t adpt Pads as w. Mayhospitals have already started theprocess iPads can be a great re-source or doctors, Banerjee said.

On the wards, you want to beab t k up rmat ryquickly, whether its dosage o adrug r whthr ts pssb sdts mdat r a r-tain treatment regiment, he said.

Grgtw Ursty, Sta-ord University, the Universityo Caliornia and other majoruniversities have also begun ex-prg Pad us thr mdashs.

ry said the statistics may not evenshw atua trds.

Te University has made changesto help international students in re-cent months, including creating aull-time position or a coordinatoro English as a Second Languagewriting support. Te coordinatorposition is currently held by EstherBuhr-Yp.

Boucher-Yip hosts oce hours th Wrtg Ctr r -a-tive English speakers and is lead-ing a series o writing workshopsthroughout the semester cateredspecically to these students. Tethird workshop is titled, Usingsurs yur ssay.

Students have mostly seenBoucher-Yip or general writinghp s ar, but sh sad sh ptsmr us tats wh stu-dents are assigned longer papersatr th smstr.

T Ursty rsd Itra-tional Orientation, which was man-datory or the rst time this year, to

ud a rmat sss pagarsm.

International students are dis-proportionately represented inacademic code violations becausethy ar uawar r d t u-derstand American standards oacademic honesty, McSharry said.Te burden is on the Universityto help these students understandwhat t mas t b a studt aAmra systm.

Wstr ts wrshpo ideas by the individual are some-thing that students rom East Asianuturs partuar d t ar

about, she said. In some Asian cul-tures today, being a good studentmeans basically reproducing whatauthorities have said about thingswithout assuming to assert your ownp abut t.

Once international students un-drstad th Urstys aadmcode, they are happy to comply witht, Buhr-Yp sad.

Med students required to buy iPads

Tom Clancy / Hrald

Alprt Mdical School rst-yars wr ach askd to purchas an iPad 2 instad o print-dition txtbooks this yar.

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Fitn yars atr his dath, rap icon Tupac Shakur has bn

honord by th opning o a collction in his nam at th Atlanta

Univrsity Cntr, a consortium o our historically black collgs andunivrsitis.

Th collction includs 30 boxs o Shakurs writtn and vido

work, prsonal lttrs and mmorabilia as wll as work by Shakurs

amily mmbrs and collaborators, according to th cntrs prss

rlas. Artiacts within th collction dat rom 1969 to 2008.

Th collction is intndd or rsarch purposs, according to th

prss rlas. It is housd in th Robrt W. Woodru Library in Atlanta.

Studnts clbratd th opning o th collction at a block party

Spt. 13, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog post.

Carnegie mellon to launch capus inRwanda

Carngi Mllon Univrsity will stablish a branch campus in

Rwanda, th countrys Prsidnt Paul Kagam announcd at Carngi

Mllons Pittsburgh campus Friday.

With its Rwanda branch, th univrsity will bcom on o only ahandul o Amrican institutions with locations in Arican nations.

Th announcmnt attractd protst groups against th

univrsitys involvmnt in Rwanda as wll as supportrs o th

projct. Th history o Rwandas govrnmnt policis rstricting

civil librtis spurrd human rights groups to issu an opn lttr to

th univrsity discouraging it rom pursuing a rlationship with th

country.

Th nw branch will launch nxt all with 40 Amrican graduat

studnts and will sk to rcruit studnts rom Rwanda and othr

Arican countris, according to a Carngi Mllon prss rlas.

Th program will or a mastrs dgr in inormation tchnology

alongsid local ducation, training and rsarch programs.

Harvard opens Naval ROTC ofceHarvard wlcomd th opning o a Navy satllit ofc on its

campus with a r ibbon-cutting crmony Tusday, launching th

Rsrv Ofcrs Training Corps rintroduction to th univrsity.

Atr Congrss rpald Dont Ask, Dont Tll a mili tary

policy that violatd Harvards own policy o anti-discrimination in

Dcmbr 2010, Harvard announcd in March that ROTC would b

wlcomd back on its campus atr a narly 40-yar absnc.

Yal and Columbia hav also movd toward rinstating ROTC in

th past yar.

Tupac lives on in lirary archives

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B hak RiM kiM

Contributing Writer

Afer nishing ourth in the IvyLeague last year, the womens ten-s tam s rady t rdm tsths sas.

T tam w tst ts mtt atthe Brown Invitational Sept. 23-24, ts pg turamt th a ampag.

Five o the top six players romlast year have returned this sea-son Julie Flanzer 12, Micha-lina Misia Krasowski 13, Casey

Hrzbrg 2, Jssa Harrw 4ad E Cadw 4. Fur rst-years are expected to contributead mpt r th sth spt sgs pay.

Our returners have comeback better than they le, and our

reshmen are very strong, saidAssistant Coach Cecily Dubusker.

Kraswsk hd hr ahsstmt, tg a ras th maturty that th r-turning players have in their at-titude towards practice and com-ptt.

W ha grat rshm thatwill add a lot o depth to our line-up, sh addd.

Dubusker acknowledged thetugh mptt th tam wace this season. All teams we playare working extremely hard toseparate rom the pack, she said.

W a ar strg t w thIvy League Championship andalso get into the NCAA tourna-ment, Harrow said. Every matchuts, ad thr s t just person who can win it or thetam.

Bears hoping to hold court

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Th womns tam, looking to rbound rom last sason, will host th Brown Invitational this wknd.

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Monday specials

at Jos returnB GREG JoRdan-dEtaMoRE

Senior Staff Writer

Fr ths wh mssd t, Jsahsserved stued French toast lastsemester. And this semester, itsback again, aspart o a serieso rotating spe-cials on Mondaynights at theampus atry.

Fillings in-clude chocolatechips, raisins,

ruit, jelly andham. Syrup, tater tots and sausagea b srd th sd.

Stued French toast is justone o the culinary innovationsbrught t th Urstys rtaeateries by Aaron Fitzsenry, cu-linary manager o retail diningat Brw Dg Srs. H sth ma bhd sh k brad

pudding, Kabob and Curry andShanghai at the Blue Room andthe macaroni and cheese specialsat th Iy Rm.

Stued French toast will bearound or the next ew weeks,

and Fitzsenrysaid he is plan-ning other spe-cial nights at Jos.

A baked po-tato bar eatur-g bth rguarand sweet pota-toes with top-

pings like lobsterbisque starts Oct. 17. he lastMday spa r th smstrw b a grd hs bar wthsup ad dps N. 2. Nt s-mester, there will be a ramen barwith soba noodles, pho and currybrth, a burrt bar ad a barb-cue special to welcome the warmwathr th sprg.

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In line with University goals, Pro-essor o Ecology and Evolutionary

Bgy Dad Rad P2 says hwill take an interdisciplinary ap-proach to expanding research inhis new role as director o the Cen-ter or Computational MolecularBiology. Rand, who replaced thecenters ormer director, Proessoro Computer Science Sorin Istrail,ths August, tds t str -laborative research projects acrossdisciplines like applied math, com-putr s ad bgy.

he CCMB was ounded in2003 to ocus on computationalapproaches to molecular biologyand evolutionary genetics enabled

by adas gms.Rad sad h hps t tu-

ally institute a postdoctoral ellowprgram at th tr.

Te University has access toexcellent human capital, he said.Availibility o tremendous amountso public genomic data and datagratd at Brw mbd

with new approaches to data anal-ysis will allow researchers tocompete or more grants rom theNata Isttuts Hath adthe National Science Foundation

th utur, h sad.But puttg th CCMB th

map has not always been easy,Rand said. Browns relatively smallsize meant the University couldt aat a mptt rsurs t th d.

Increasing the centers visibilitywas one o Istrails main goals dur-ing his period as director o theCCMB. A big an o Steve Jobs,Istrail summarized his iVisionas engaging the world, one inspir-ing course, one innovative student,one infuential research leader at atime. He said encouraging criti-

cal discourse was essential to hisplan or the center. o urther thisend, the CCMB organized sympo-sia that oered access to distin-gushd turrs stp.

Under Istrails leadership in2009, the CCMB announced theaaabty a dtra prgram mputata muar b-

gy.Despite its challenges, Rand

said the center has used Brownsacademic environment to its avor.

Undergrads are happier here

than in most other places, hesaid. One o the CCMBs goals ist rrat ths thusasm at thgraduate, postdoctoral and acultyrsarh .

In November 2009, the Uni-rsty aud Rhd Isadsonly supercomputer. Rand said theCCMB currently has a computercluster distinct rom the Center orComputation and Visualizationssupercomputer, but he hopes toshare resources more in the uture.

Consolidation and eciencyare key priorities or Rand. He saidthe CCMB would like to reduce

rdudas arss urss.In addition to his leadership po-

sition at the CCMB, Rand will con-tinue teaching undergraduates andis working to integrate computerscience, ecology and evolutionarybiology and genomics under an In-tegrative Graduate Education andRsarh rashp NSF grat.

Bio center to focus on collaboration

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projects completed, Dietel said.Im ry pasd wth ur prg-rss.

A ew summer projects wereput on hold due to budget con-strats, Dt sad. Sm thcrosswalks on Tayer Street wereslated to be repainted in a simplerdesign, but based on the pric-ing, that project was put on holdwhile alternatives are considered,h sad.

Solar panels were supposed tohave been installed on the roo oth GChm Budg, but dut sm strutura ssus, t ddnot make sense economically tomove orward by the time thedesign on the project was nished,

Dt sad.A plan to create new exit p ath-

ways th ast sd CaswHall was deerred until next sum-mr.

Te University was busy atwork o College Hill as well. Tenew Medical Education Buildingpd Aug. 5 t muh aar.Rats 2 Suth MaSt. or the Institute or Computa-tional and Experimental Researchin Mathematics were completed inJuy, ad wrk tus Dyr St., th utur hm thO Ctug Eduat.

Were getting ready to start

strut th rato 315 Tayer St., which will house

abut 6 studts wh t psnext all, Dietel said. And therenovation o Hunter Laboratorys urrty th dsg phas,

wth ts mprhs ra-tion planned to start in April

2012. Te project will involve theconstruction o a new greenhouseon the roo and the removal othe existing Plant Environmental

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Caernet Voltaire | Ab Prssman

Fraternity o Evil | eshan Mitra, Brndan Hainlin and Hctor Ramir

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sociation o Schools and Collegesreport stated that psychologicalrsurs at th Ursty wr a wr abr tha at pr sttu-ts.

Since then, Psychological Ser-vices has increased the number oree visitations to seven and hiredathr psyhthrapst.

Overall, students are open todiscussion about psychological is-sues, said Ash Soman 12, a ormerpy dtr r Pst- magaz. Hsaid he had to nd the courage to

go to the oce the rst time be-aus t was srt k admttg

weakness. He had to wait a weekor each o the two consultationshe scheduled. Despite the wait, hesaid he had no problems with thesr h rd.

Student awareness has increasedover the past ew years, Johnsonsad. T s m rm RhdIsad Ha t J. Watr Ws twyas ag was a addd bst t tsvisibility. Students are also moreeducated about the resources avail-able and the importance o therapy,sh sad.

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A hallmark o Brown students is their proclivity to orge uniquembats studs. Yt as ths us pursug dub tra-ts, dpdt trats r dpdt studs kw, urgas smtms pr ry ambtus.

Wth ths md, w wr tay skpta a w partrshpbtw ah r Amra ad th Urba Eduat Py prgram.Combining practical teaching experience with education policy studiesmaks ss. But w wr rd that th tw trmy rgrusprograms would not complement each other and would instead bemptg strssrs r partpats tryg t sud bth.

Ar urthr rsarh, w ar ptmst that th abrat windeed be a worthwhile addition to the Universitys degree oerings.Director o the Urban Education Policy Program Kenneth Wong,prssr duat ad har th dpartmt, sad th prgramsstructure was designed with the demands o FA in mind. Participants

will not begin their Urban Education Policy studies until their rstyar FA s mpt, awg FA rps mmbrs t gt thrughth struus rst yar tahg br bgg graduat studs.

Prospective students will apply in January but do not have to commitut th sprg. Staggrg th appat prss agast th sh-year calendar gives applicants valuable time on the job to help themauat whthr t tak addta graduat studs.

Tis non-traditional schedule should allow participants to betterhad th dmads smutausy tahg ad gttg a mastrsdgr. Wg sad th py prgrams strutur ad utur g hmd that studts w t sp thrugh th raks ad s thrclassroom perormance struggle either as teachers or as students.With a low student-aculty ratio, the policy program keeps studentsand proessors in close contact, increasing the likelihood that problemshadg th dua prgram w b sussuy rsd.

Furthrmr, Wg sad th py prgram aturs a strg ad-ministrative sta ocused on assisting students with logistical issues.

Ts pt s partuary mprtat a urrt FA rps mmbrtd us that pr mmuat ad rdat btw FA adgraduat prgrams s a rd fag r ths sdrg dgrs.

Still, it is crucial that new University programs demonstrate theyare achieving their aims, no matter how good they sound on paper.Wg sad h s ry mdu th d t auat th prgram as tprgrsss. Amg th rtra h td, w wr pasd t har thathe will pay attention to how involved participants are in extracurricularUrban Education Policy activities and how much they are collaboratingwith other students. Focusing on actors like these will help ensure thatparticipants are ully involved in the Brown degree program and are notsarg thr rt hr r th dmads tahg.

I successul, we believe this program could help make Rhode Islandmr attrat t prspt FA rps mmbrs. It mght hprta a w w-quad dduas th stat ar thy mptthr studs. Bruas rquty str t mb thrta ad

prata studs, ad w k rward t trakg th prgrss thsw rt.

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Ct bargag rghts th rght mpys t prat t ah agr-mts ssus suh as wags, wrkghurs, wrkpa saty ad gra mh-asms ha rty mad hads. Ytbyg suh mastram mda attt s aat t bargag rghts that s armr rat t may studts day s:th rght pad prat Ursty mpy-s, udg tahg r rsarh assstats,t uz.

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T g th Brw as s trubgbaus t justs rghts ats by arb-trary assat. Whthr a ddua s2 prt studt ad prt mpyr prt studt ad 2 prt mpy- sms a magr dstt up whh tdy t bargag rghts rghts sudamta that thy ar guaratd by thUrsa Darat Huma Rghts.

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prst th systm, sdr tw hyp-thta graduat studts dg dt-a wrk as studts ad mpys. Owrks at Brw, th thr at th Ursty Rhd Isad. As a mpy a pub- ursty, th attr s prttd by statt bargag aws. Yt by attdg a

prat sttut, th rmr s dd that sam rghts. Wh th au d-tga argumts rsds thr ursaappabty, t sms tuty ujust t a-w suh sgat atrs t dstgushbtw thrws dta dduas.

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mta rght t r sph. By th sam gthat ur Fudg Fathrs saw t ssary tguarat th rght th pp paabyt assmb ad t ptt th grmtr a rdrss gras, th rght t -ty barga aws wrkrs t assat,thrby hkg th pwr mbaas thatst mpyr-mpy ratshps.

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B alEX MaCFaRlanE

Staff Writer

Tr has b a ras stu-dent demand over the past ve yearsor Psychological Services, accordingto Director Belinda Johnson. John-son largely attributed the increase to

gratr studt awarss aa-ab rsurs.

About 17 percent o the total stu-dent body, 1,460 students, soughthelp or psychological or emotionalssus ast yar.

Tis gure is typical o the lastve years between 16 and 18 per-cent o the student body typicallyseek help annually, Johnson said. Butthe stable gures understate demandbaus th studt bdy grw sg-aty that tm prd.

Visitations were at their lowest inthe 2007-08 academic year, when thecenter saw 16 percent o the popula-t, Jhs sad.

Studts ar awd s rconsultations, though the averagestudent who visits PsychologicalServices attends three. It is rare that astudent will reach the seven-consul-tation limit, Johnson said. About 30prt th studts ar rrrdto an external therapist, either be-cause they want ongoing regularconsultation or have exceeded theUrstys mt.

In 2006, when the number oree visits was capped at ve, stu-dents were ofen asked to wait aslong as two weeks or a consultation,Johnson said. Psychological Services

hired an additional psychotherapistat that tm t rdu th wat.

But in 2009, a New England As-

PsychServicesuse onthe rise

B GREG JoRdan-dEtaMoRE

Senior Staff Writer

he Department o FacilitiesManagement completed nearlyall o its planned projects thissummer, bringing new sidewalks,lighting and bicycle racks to cam-pus along with other upgrades andmprmts.

Including capital projects, thetotal cost o summer work wasabut $4 m, sad Pau D-t, drtr prjt maag-mt.

Nw bk raks ha b -stad a umbr atsaround campus, including theMain Green and the BioMed Cen-

tr. hs staats rprstprogress but are not inished, Di-etel said. Facilities hopes to installmr raks th utur t mtdmad.

h Ma Gr s w saror nighttime pedestrians, thanksto the installation o additionalghtg, partuary ar Saysand Wilson halls. here weresome areas that were a little bitdarker than they should be,Dietel said. We think weveachieved a much more consis-tent lighting level throughout theGr.

Gillian Horwitz 14 said the

Green is deinitely brighter atght.

hough the renovation o theMetcal Chemistry and ResearchLaboratory w ill continue untilOtbr, th pathway rt the building on Lincoln Field wasrpd ths s mstr.

It s that thats a d,Horwitz said, noting the reopenedwakway s ss a mss.

he sidewalks on Lincoln Fieldand elsewhere on campus wereas rpad.

Outsd th Oy-MargsAtht Ctr, what was a

parkg t s bg trasrmdinto Ittleson Quadrangle, a newgreen space or the athletic com-p st t p th sprg. Aportion is now open, while the

remainder is still under construc-t.

Some classrooms, such as Mac-Millan 117, received new paintingad arptg.

Facilities repainted 456 roomsin 24 residence halls this sum-mer, according to Dietel. Someresidence halls also received light-ing upgrades, part o a larger ini-

tiative to make the Universitysbudgs mr rgy-t,Dietel said. he showers in someGoddard House bathrooms werecompletely gutted out and ren-

ovated, Dietel said. Several othese showers were leaking to thepoint where we couldnt maintainthm.

ropical Storm Irene did not

inhibit summer work. here wasno impact on construction as aresult o the storm, Dietel said.All o our construct ion sites weresecured in advance o the storm

t prt damag, h sad.Ora, rythg wt a-

cording to plan with over 100

Facilities completes summer upgrades

B MaX ERnSt

Staff Writer

he University will make a majorannouncement within the nextsra wks rgardg th Hu-mats Itat, a mutds-plinary eort launched last year tostrengthen teaching and research th humats.

A working group includ-ing Dean o the Faculty KevinMLaugh P2, Prst MarkSchlissel P15, Dean o the CollegeKatherine Bergeron, Deputy Pro-

vost Joseph Meisel and Director othe Cogut Center or the Humani-ties and Proessor o History andMusic Michael Steinberg is stillmaking inal decisions about howto attract six new aculty membersand spend the anonymous dona-t $3 m attd t th

When implemented, the ini-tat w urag abratryresearch in the humanities byproviding venues or researchacross disciplines, Steinbergsad. I addt t ratg p-sitions or six renowned scholarso the humanities, the initiativewill provide unding or collab-orative programming, multidis-ciplinary graduate research andw urswrk.

We made an announcementlast all that we would hire six newaculty, each o whom would havea degree o lexibility in teachingso they could develop projects,MLaugh sad. hs yar, ware scaling up the initiative to in-clude a wider set o proposals orth humats trd -laborative research and teaching.

he Humanities Initiative

Faculty Rajiv Vohra P07, nowa proessor o economics isstill in the planning phase. hewrkg grup must r ap-proval rom the Academic Priori-ties Committee beore disclosingull details about the project tothe community, McLaughlin said.

No new aculty members haveyet been hired and none o themy datd t th aus hasb spt.

h Ursty hps t hatdd a up rs utor aculty hires and initiatedsome interdisciplinary researchprojects by the end o the year,McLaughlin said. O the threet ur addats sdrd asinalists last year or these acultypositions, only one remains undersdrat, h sad.

he hiring procedure or the

entail soliciting nominationsrom aculty, but nominees willhave to be named by proessorsrom at least two departmentsto be considered, McLaughlinsaid. Ultimately, the Universityis searching or younger and mid-arr shars wh ar usdon what they could do here thatthey could not do where they arew, h sad.

he announcement coming th t w wks w kyinclude urther inormation onhiring and how the $3 millionw b spt.

We havent worked out anya dta s, Shss sad. Wha just thught mr dtaabout how to help the initiativeah ts gas.

he initiative will build on theUniversitys tradition o academic

ness, Steinberg said. he CogutCenter or the Humanities willprd th hm ad rsursor initiative projects by creatingpprtuts r abrat.

he initiative will eed intothe Cogut Centers eorts to cre-at trats amg drtsubjts, Shss addd.

By dedicating resources tostrengthen the humanities, theUniversity is ultimately hopingto encourage innovation in thehumanities on par with advance-ment in the sciences, McLaughlinsaid. his priority, he added, isuqu t Brw.

Brw s makg a bg stat-ment about the humanities thatother universities arent making,MLaugh sad. h tatwill help us continue to keepstrength in the humanities part

Announcement pending on Humanities Initiative


Walkways on Lincoln Fild wr rplacd, and nw bik racks wr addd around campus. Ittlson Quadrangl willb a nw grn spac or th athltic complx, and th nw tnss and aquatics cntr ar schduld to opn inth spring.

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