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Face the music

B Katrina PhilliPs

Senior Staff Writer

he walls o t he Petteruti Loungeechoed with the deliberationso Undergraduate Council o Students members late into last

night and this morning as they determined the path o this year’scouncil in their irst general body meeting o the semester. UCS

President Ralanda Nelson ’12 ledthe group in electing eight new

internal positions and appointingthree representatives in a record-long meeting that had passed theive-hour mark as o press time

ad shwd sgs dg.Among the positions elected

wr u srtary, wUniversity Finance Board at-largerepresentatives, the appointments

chair and a communicationschair. he competitions ranged

in intensity rom Bonnie Kim’s’12 unopposed bid or Ivy Council

py har t th 0-addatbattle to ill the ive open UFBspts.

Nwy td UFB rprs-tatives Spencer Jae ’14, DavidCha ’2, Abba Chrt ’5,Oy Odwum ’4 ad Stpha-nie Hennings ’15 promised greatreorms to UFB. Chanin, who hasserved on the board the past two

years, said he wants to see on-line budgets ully launched in themg yar.

hough Alex Quoyeser ’15 was

unopposed in his run or appoint-

UCS elects

eight tonew posts

B MarK rayMond

Senior Staff Writer

President Ruth Simmons received$656,683 in total compensation dur-ing the 2009 calendar year, downrm $4, 200. Cmpsa-t gurs r tp as 200,

including salaries, bonuses, benetsand deerred compensation, are listed

on the Internal Revenue Service’sForm 990, which all nonprots mustle each year. Te 2009 orm reectssm th ts th 200 -nomic downturn or the rst time,including Simmons’ salary reduction.

Afer the nancial downturn in

2008, Simmons voluntarily requesteda pay ut. But baus thr s a agperiod between the tax lings andthe year the report is made availableto the public, the cut has not been

rtd ut ths yar’s rprt.“During the crash, many o us

voluntarily took salary cuts,” saidBeppie Huidekoper, executive vicepresident or nance and admin-strat.

Aside rom the signicant de-crease in Simmons’ compensation,

the most recent tax ling largely mir-rors the previous year’s. Tough com-

pensation is reported or the 2009calendar year, the Form 990 containsnancial inormation or the 2010

Tax lings

show 2009salaries for

top ofcials

B Kat thornton

Senior Staff Writer

It has no building yet, but witha $15 million endowment andhudrds s-t-b aatdresearchers, the Norman PrinceNurss Isttut prmssto make its presence elt in thewrd mda rsarh.

Te institute does not have a

mss statmt, but t sks t“build a strong clinical institutearound the neurosciences that hasa strong academic and researchbas,” ardg t Jh Rbs,the newly hired administrativedrtr r th sttut. H washired jointly by the University andRhode Island Hospital, and hispayhk s spt btw th twsttuts.

Development o the new in-sttut bga just r a yar agwith a $15 million grant romth Frdrk Hry Pr 32rust, which was the largest grantRhode Island Hospital has everreceived, according to a hospital

prss ras.Tugh th grat was g t

Rhode Island Hospital, it “stipu-

ats that Brw s t b d th ra pag ad strat-

New institute

merges study,

practice of

brain science

B sheFali luthra

Senior Staff Writer

One comes rom an Americanpolitical dynasty. One won thePulitzer Prize — twice. Another isthe most translated Arican author

a tm.And as o this spring, all o

thm w tah at Brw.

T thr — rmr grss-man Patrick Kennedy, journal-ist David Rohde ’90 and author

Chua Ahb — ar part thUniversity’s recent string o high-prole appointments. But JohnDonoghue, who is the directoro the Brown Institute or Brain

Science, where Kennedy is a visit-

ing ellow, said he does not like tous th trm “amus prssr”t dsrb Kdy. T phrasconjures up images o moviestars and musicians — celebritieswhose connection to academics istuus at bst, h sad.

Idd, hp-hp artst Wy Jean, who was named a visitingw t th Ursty ast yar,did not teach or interact muchwith students, said Corey Walker,associate proessor o Aricanastudies and chair o the depart-

ment. Jean’s impact on campusmight be best remembered by hissurprs appara at ast yar’sSprg Wkd.

“It was a one-year appoint-mt r hm t spd tm hr

High prole, high prestige:

U. courts celebrity profs

Rachel Kaplan / Heral

Last night’s Unergrauate Council o Stuents meeting broke the group’s recor or latest en time.

Alex Bell / Heral

Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy is one o several high-profle fgures who haveae Brown to their resumes.

B elizaBeth carr

Senior Staff Writer

S g r bakrupty Aug. ,Central Falls has been engaged inan arduous negotiation process as

city employees ght to protect the

benets included in their currenttrats.

“We’re making progress towardsrahg a agrmt abut sm

o the things we’d like to do in the

bankruptcy plan,” said Robert Flan-

drs Jr. ’, th ty’s apptd r-ceiver. Flanders, a ormer assistantadjunct proessor o public policy,

was appointed in February to helphandle the city’s impending bank-

ruptcy. Te city’s determination toavoid deaulting on its loans has putits employees’ pensions and benets jpardy.

Wh t d r bakrupty August, the city eared employeeswould sue, Flanders said. Te city

convinced the teachers union, the

re department and the police de-

partmt that t wud b bttr ttry “t gtat a rsut rathrtha gg thrugh a g, draw-out litigation contesting the bank-

rupty g,” h sad.“We’re listening to what they have

to say about various cost-cuttingproposals,” Flanders said. For ex-ample, instead o outsourcing rescuesrs, th r dpartmt ud

Central Falls struggles through bankruptcy

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hursday, September 22, 2011

lookie lookie by zoe Wheeer ‘12ACROSS1 Like Ken

JenningsRockoutcropping

10 Earth force,informally

14 Errand runnger15 Record, as

“Glee”

16 Shetland17 Rich dessert18 Staple character

in many crimedramas

0 “Jersey Shore”nickname

2 Controversieswith RichardNixon and TigerWoods, to nametwo

3 State with apanhandle:Abbr.

5 Directional suffix

6 Put down7 Gear for shaping

dough2 N.Y.C.’s Park or

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salary4 Take it easy8 Musical with

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out of1 Stackhouse of

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65 Skip school67 Canine woe68 Tidbit in Toledo69 The Golden

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72 Canadian brandof gas73 Not the sharpest

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DOWN1 Some NCOs2 Show too much,

say3 Big haircut4 Filled in again,

as a test5 Shatner-

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6 Basketballposition: Abbr.

7 Streams of agua8 Long-legged

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11 Dieter’sphrase

12 ___ Gay(W.W.II plane)

13 Disney’s

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relationshipanymore

29 Wine: Prefix

30 A friend, inFrance

31 Yank’s foe35 Org. in “The

Closer”and “LethalWeapon”

36 Jai ___37 Warrior

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41 Ooze

42 Pitchers45 Borrow,

slangily47 Parodied50 Baltimore

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at Brown to learn rom Brown,”

Walker said. “But he was not amember o the aculty. He was

r a mmbr th auty.”But in general, Walker said, a-

mous proessors bring distinctionand “intellectual excitement” to

th Ursty.“Students’ levels o curiosity

ar pqud,” h sad.

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Donoghue, a renowned neu-rstst hs w rght, m-phasized that big-name proessorsare hired or their experience, notgamur. “W’r brgg p-ple with dierent perspectives,”he said. “Not even dierent — it’s

unique perspectives.” Tese ap-pointments, he said, add richnesst ampus , brgg w-points that “arenot ordinarily ampus.”

Kennedy, orinstance, is nota neuroscientistby training. Hisnational initia-tive, One Mindor Research,which ightss tress-re latedbrain disorders,brought him to

the University.Kennedy willco-teach an up-per-level seminaror undergradu-

ate and gradu-ate students on eectively using

resources to research cures ordsass.

Donoghue said Kennedy brings

“many years o experience,” —rom his work in Congress, knowl-

edge o health care and amily history o brain disorders. Heas hps t Kdy ampus s that “may pp

a bt” rm hs prs.Rhd, wh w tah ENGL

1160E: “Advanced Journalism: In- vestigative and Online Reporting”this spring, said a amous proes-sor can add expertise and enhancea student’s learning experience.A ormer New York imes cor-rspdt ad authr a bk detailing his several months o captivity in Aghanistan, Rohde

is now a oreign aairs columnistat Rutrs.

Brw s t th y Ur-sity to hire well-known proes-

sors. For example, Jill Abramson,ut dtr th Nw Yrk imes, was ormerly a member Ya’s auty, ad wrtr JyCar Oats wrks th auty

at Prt.

‘t -22’

Tough real-world knowledgea b auab, Rhd sad pr-essional work could also distracta amous proessor rom teaching.

“Tat’s the catch-22,” he said.

“You’re away rom campus, soyou’re bringing a certain exper-

tise, but when you’re there oneday a week, it could be dicultr studts t t sg m tthr shdus.”

Rohde will have to travelabroad to research his column

during the semester. Tough hesaid he hopes to spend as muchtime with students as he can — he

pas t hd hurs ad bassb by ph ad ma —he knows it may not always beasy t d s.

“I think being there all the timemakes it easier or students to in-trat wth yu,” h sad.

Donoghue also acknowledgedthat students may not have asmuh ass t bg-am prs-

srs — Kdy, k Rhd, wtu wth hs w wrk adtats wh at Brw.

“I don’t know i it’s a drawback,but it’s a limitation that you don’tha as muh ass as yu’d kt ha,” Dghu sad.

Achebe, a proessor o Ari-cana studies and the author o many novels including “TingsFall Apart,” joined the aculty twoyars ag. H -tahs a tra-ture course and speaks in variouscolloquia and panels, Walker said.

Tough Walker said Achebe

holds oce hours and is a “vis-

ible” presence in the department,hs shdu smtms maks tdicult or him to interact with

students. Achebe was not available

or comment because he is prepar-g r a ampus spakg t.

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Jssa Bdt ’2 shppd aAricana studies class in spring2010 because Achebe was listed

as the instructor. But she soonound out the class was beingco-taught. Achebe attended two

classes the whole semester andpartpatd a sympsum thstudents attended, she said. Mostclasses, though, were led by Mi-

chael Telwell, a University o Massachusetts Amherst proessor.

Tough Achebe was not avail-ab t studts durg th ass,his “presence was elt,” Bendit

sad. Lstg thim and havinghim in classes wasan “incrediblehonor,” and shesaid his involve-ment al lowedher to connectuniquely with theass matra.

Sergei Khrush-

chev, senior el-low in interna-tional studies

and son o ormerSoviet PremierNikita Khrush-chev, said teach-g s ay auty member’s most

important obligation, regardless

am.“We belong to the past — soon-

er or later, we will go and you willcome,” he said. “Te qual ity o theknowledge we will present youwth s mst mprtat, s t mI’m putting my students in the rst

place and all other activity outsideBrw just sd r thrd.”

Khrushchev, who teaches theundergraduate seminar INL1800R: “Post-Soviet States From

th Past t th Futur,” sad hsexperiences in Soviet Russia might

make him a more eective teacher.“I came rom that environment,

rm that utur,” h sad. “S Ican tell students how it looked likerm th sd.”

Khrushh’s ass s targtdprimarily or seniors, though he

sad udrassm ar as w-m t tak t.

Dghu sad mst studtsh had spk t wr trstdin Kennedy’s course because o ts subjt mattr — t bausthey wanted to “rub shoulders”wth a bg am.

Gillian Horwitz ’14 said sheound Kennedy’s class interestingbecause it might introduce hert a w prspt s.I gra, sh sad, studts ardrawn to courses by a combina-tion o the subject matter and theprssr’s am.

I a amous proessor taught the

“worst class ever,” Horwitz said,the person’s name alone wouldn’tb ugh t draw hr . At thend o the day, you still want a

prssr wh “ts yu.”

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Famous profs bring ‘unique perspectives’

“The qualit o the knowlege we willpresent ou with is most important, soto me I’m putting m stuents in therst place an all other activit outsieBrown just secon or thir.”

Sergei Khrushchevsenior ellow in international stuies



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scal year, which began July 1, 2009.A prt th uds th -

dowment in scal year 2010 wererarragd t mt w rguatsadptd by th stat.

“Tere is a ederal law that says

how endowment unds are supposedto be managed and accounted or,”Huidekoper said. “Some states ad-

opted one set o rules while others

adptd athr.” Rhd Isad ad-opted new regulations or managingdwmts Ju 30, 200. Tstate used to ollow guidelines calledth Urm Maagmt Ist-tuta Fuds At ad w ws

th Urm Prudt Maagmt Isttuta Fuds At.

Huidekoper said the move to UP-MIFA by th stat w t adrsy aect the University’s ability to man-ag ts assts.

“It helped with our ratings andga us mr bty wth ur as-sts,” sh sad.

In 2008, the IRS began recordingmpsat gurs r th a-dar yar, rathr tha th sa yar,making comparisons with earlieryears dicult. Both the 2008 and

200 ta gs rt ths hag.Huidekoper said the University

managed to withstand the economicrss bttr tha may ts prs,argy du t rsk assssmts -dutd just mths br th rssbegan to take hold. “We had already d a t th aayss,” sh sad.

Former provost David Kertzer ’69P’95 P’98 earned $512,771 in total

compensation in 2009, up slightly rom $508,496 in 2008. Huidekoperearned $425,681 in total compensa-tion, down rom $436,024, largely due to a decrease in her deerredmpsat.

Te highest paid employee in200 was Cytha Frst, prs-

dent and chie investment ocer. Sheearned $1,011,351 in total compensa-

t, up rm $,2 200.Other top earners in 2009 includ-

ed more members o the nancialoce, including Kenneth Shimberg,managing director or private eq-uity, who earned $773,059 in total

compensation, down rom $834,554 200. Dad Shd, maaggdirector or marketing securities,earned $635,067, and Andrew Wert,managing director or marketablesurts, ard $640,02.

CIO Frost washighest paid in 2009

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continue to provide these services

but ut rtm pay.Public Saety Strategies Group,

located in Massachusetts, released arprt Spt. 6 that rmmds thty sdr sdatg r sr- s wth stats arby twsand contracting out its emergency

mda sr as.Te city is “trying to preserve jobs

and not go to outsourcing … because

that’s the best way to save money,”

Flanders said. Functions currently indanger o being outsourced include jatra ad satat srs.

“T hag s t try t mup with a plan that’s workable despitethe act that we’re not going to be able

to provide the same level o benets

and other nancial inducements thatwere provided in the past,” Flanderssaid. “Tere’s going to be more cost-sharing and the benets are going tob urtad.”

Te report also recommendedthat the re department standard-

ize shifs to prevent unnecessary overtime and cut the positions o th thr batta hs — whhst th ty a tta $200,000 d-ars a yar — ar pubsaty admstratr.

Central Falls Police Chie JosephMoran III issued a nine-page rebuttalin response to the report. In it, he

expressed his concern that the report

“dd t ud trws, rwo job descriptions or surveys.” He

added that the report did not citeride-alongs with police ocers oray sts t th p dpartmtas d r ts ams.

“Nrmay wh yu d a study,you try to nd out about a placebr yu rp t apart,” Mra tdT Hrad.

Tis week, Flanders and his teamare ling a ve-year plan or balanc-ing the city’s budget, which includesbudgt uts ad gra rstrutur-g.

Flanders recently obtained an

extension to continue negotiationsthrugh th d Otbr bra judge hears the unions’ case that

bankruptcy law does not give thedistrict the right to renege on itsmpys’ trats.

“Te next month-and-a-hal isgoing to be the critical period ordag wth a ths,” h sad.

Tough the negotiations withteachers are still in preliminary stags, Jams Pars, d rprs-

tative in Central Falls or the RhodeIsland Federation o eachers and

Hath Prssas, sad h hpsthe negotiations will t within the

tm.

“It would be important or theteachers to have an understanding

what thr trat s,” h sad.Te city’s initial ocus was “try-

g t agr a trm pa thatwould allow the teachers to work and things to proceed as normally aspssb wh w try t wrk ut alonger-term arrangement,” Flanderssaid. At the end o August, he re-placed the school’s negotiation teamwith his own group: his Chie o Sta Gayle Corrigan, David Abbott,deputy commissioner and general

counsel or the Rhode Island Depart-ment o Elementary and Secondary

Education, and Joseph Whelan, aPrd awyr wh uss abr aw ad t-bargaggtats.

“Both sides are talking — thereare a lot o issues that are still out-

standing but the act that they’re stillat the table negotiating is a very posi-t thg,” sad Frak Fy, prs-dent o the Rhode Island Federationo eachers and Health Proessionals.

“You hope to get something that’sair or teachers, air and good toth studts ad ar r tapayrs.”

“Tere are a lot o language is-sues surrounding job transer and

reassignment and teacher evalua-tion” in contract negotiations, Flynnsaid. eachers who have retired or

resigned have not been replaced, headdd.

“Te teachers are looking to pre-serve their rights. Tey’re lookingt gt a ar bts pakag agrdto, and we are hoping to use thebargag prss t gt prgramsthat would help students,” Parisi,the teachers’ union representative,

said. “We would love to see com-prehensive review o curriculum.”T tahrs wud as k t sprgrams k mus, sua dua-t ad gfd ad tatd asssaddd r tdd.

Te Central Falls school district,

whh rs ts udg rm thstat, st a t my th m-plementation o the new undingrmua, Fy sad.

“Basay, t’s a stat-ru shtty,” h sad th dstrt.

“We have ollowed the budgetproblems o the Central Falls munic-paty, but ha aways udrstdour budget comes rom the state gov-ernment, not the local government,”Pars sad. “T Gra Assmby has signicantly reduced municipaludg th ast w yars.”

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Bankrupt city negotiates with workers

10 highestpaid University

eployees (2009)

Cynthia FrostVice Presient an Chie Investment Ocer

$1,011,351

Kenneth ShibergManaging director o Private Equit

$773,059

Ruth SionsPresient

$656,683

Andrew WertManaging director o Marketable Securities

$640,027

David SchofeldManaging director o Marketable Securities

$635,067

michael SpeidelManaging director o Real Assets

$619,822

Edward Wingdean o Meicine an Biological Sciences

$594,113

Eli AdashiProessor o Biolog, Former dean o Meicinean Biological Sciences

$514,737

David KertzerProvost

$512,771

Rajiv Vohradean o the Facult

$489,995Got tips? [email protected]



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morse ’11 wins ayoral priary by one vote

Four months ater Commencement, Alex Morse ’11 still has a

was to go beore laning a job.

But Tuesa, he brought himsel one step closer b winning the

preliminar election or maor o Holoke, Mass., his hometown.He nishe ahea o incumbent maor Elaine Pluta b just one

vote. He an Pluta will both be on the ballot or the general

election. The other two caniates in Tuesa’s election will not

be on the ballot.

Morse will ace of with Pluta, who is 67, in the general election

Nov. 8. I electe, Morse woul become the cit’s rst openl ga

maor an the oungest in its histor.

“M age is an increible asset,” Morse tol a Massachusetts

television station. “I’m the onl caniate raise in the igital

age,” he sai. “I haven’t been aroun or 20 ears. I’m not tie to

special interests — m special interest is the people o the cit o

Holoke.”

With 22 percent voter turnout in Holoke, Morse receive 2,023

votes, an Pluta receive 2,022. Both nishe signicantl ahea

o the other two caniates, who garnere 806 an 310 votes

respectivel.Morse, who was an urban stuies concentrator an the rst

college grauate in his amil, announce his caniac in Januar

ater hiring a campaign manager last ear an moving to start a

grassroots campaign.

Morse’s involvement in public lie stretches back several ears.

He has serve as a irector or several local commissions an

currentl hols positions on the Friens o the Holoke Public

Librar, the Holoke Communit Lan Trust an the Latino

Scholarship Association. Morse also oune the rst LGBT non

prot organization in Holoke.

While at Brown, Morse spent three ears working at Cit Hall,

where he was mentore b davi Cicilline ’83, the rst openl ga

maor o a state capital an now a U.S. congressman rom Rhoe

Islan.

As maor, Morse woul ocus on improving public saet,

spurring economic evelopment an promoting eucation b

ocusing on ropout prevention, accoring to his campaign

website. He also hopes to improve the cit b creating an arts

istrict, revitalizing major cit streets an engaging citizens in

government afairs, accoring to the site.

“I’m hoping to change the conversation in Holoke politics,”

Morse tol The Heral in Januar. “It’s reall a tale o two cities

— there is the cit o people who get opportunities, go to college

an get ecent jobs, an then there’s the cit where there is

povert an people on’t get eucate,” he sai. “I want to brige

that gap, make it a place where everone has equal opportunities.”

— shi luth

N E W S I N B R I E F

mts har, Ns mphaszdthe importance o this position

ad that th Crprat a-s pst th mg yar.Both students will be responsibleor providing student eedback inthe search or a new University

president or what one candidatedeemed “the post-Simmons era.”

Sam Gilman ’15 was electedthe new communications chairover two upperclassmen, since

the council elt his resh ideasoutweighed his inexperience.“My jb s t ray y yurmssags,” h sad.

hough Nelson tried to con- vince the group that class yeardoes not determine passion orskill, the majority o the delib-eration or Corporation liaisondwelled on the candidates’ classyears and the trade-o between

a sr’s pr ad a rst-year’s greater personal stake in the

Crprat’s dss.

“Once you’re a Brown student,you’re always a Brown student,”

said one UCS member, addingthat even an alum would have

interest in the selection o anew University president. heu argy smd t agr,inally electing Jennier Bloom’2, a dputy maagg dtr BlogDailyHerald, ater one o theght’s gst dbrats.

Alex Friedland ’15 was electedalumni liaison ater remindingthe council that UCS alums wereresponsible or the adoption o the Open Curriculum and “really contributed to everything we’re

prg w.”he position o the UCS/UFB

liaison went to Daniel Pipkin ’14,

who served on the Student Ac-tts Cmmtt ast yar adprssd a trst usg th atts dwmt.

Gregory Chatzino ’15 wasnamed the parliamentarian pro

tempore in an unopposed con-test. Gaurav Nakhare ’15 wonthe webmaster position, alsouppsd, th a t,giving a speech that began atermdght wth, “Gd mrg,ry.”

An unusually large number th g’s addats wrrecent transers. “his is a phe-nomenon,” Anthony White ’13,

a UCS member, told he Herald,rmarkg that trasr studtstypically do not participate inUCS.

he meeting was interspersedwth rqut strth ad dabraks durg t tayg. N-son began the meeting with sternadmts t hr w bardmembers to maintain proessional

composure, but she eventually jd th u, sgg ppu-ar sgs wth th rwd durgbraks.

UCS meeting runs until morning

egy,” said Ed Wing, dean o medi-cine and biological sciences and aproessor o medicine. “We all plantgthr,” h sad.

Te institute will be managed

through Rhode Island Hospital by a steering board and two directors.Robson reports to Rees Cosgrove,th sttut’s a drtr.

Csgr s prsty har th Dpartmt Nursurgry at Alpert Medical School and chie o neurosurgery at Rhode Island

Hospital and the Miriam Hospital.H w tu t hd a thrtts.

Previously, Robson was the vice president o operations orthe Caliornia Institute or Regen-erative Medicine. At the institute,h trd a $3 b budgtr mbry stm rsarh.He will also be the associate di-rector o the Brown Institute or

Bra S.Both Robson and Cosgrove

worked at the Montreal Neurologi-

cal Institute at McGill University atsparat tms prr t mg t

th Ursty, ardg t Rb-

son. He said this institute consoli-dated neuroscience research and aurga hspta th sampa. Rbs addd that h adCosgrove hope to create some-thg smar hr Prd.

“We believe that when you havery tgthr k that, a the same place, you get interac-tions between researchers at alldrt s that yu d’t gtwhen people are across town romah thr,” Rbs sad.

Cosgrove said that while col-

laboration already exists betweenscientists conducting basic re-search at the University and thosepursuing clinical applications at

Rhode Island Hospital, they are“not rubbing shoulder to shoulderin the same place,” which wouldbe “the best way to encourage col-abrat.”

Te two directors and the steer-ing committee are now working toaz a budgt ad a adms-trat strutur. Ty th hpt dty a w ky prgrams th Ursty’s bra s d-partments in which they can ocus ratg a abrat

ad jt rsarh prjts.

Udrgraduats a pt thave a role in this new institute.

Wing said there are already sev-eral undergraduates in labs in theJwry Dstrt ad th NrmaPrince Neurosciences Institute willollow suit. “Tey are welcomeand there will be opportunitiesin each o those departments, aswell as in the labs on campus,”he said. “Tat’s one o the goodthgs abut bg a udrgradat Brown. It’s pretty open.” He saidundergraduates should ask their

proessors about these opportu-nities, especially when summerbms sr.

“Having the chance to work hads- w b a ry drtexperience or undergrads,” said

Clara Kliman-Silver ’13, a cog-t urs tratrwho has worked in University labss hr rshma yar.

“Something like this, in a hospi-

tal environment, will be good,” sheadded. “Working in a University lab gives you an expectation o ra-wrd rsarh, but wrkgin a hospital would be a good newpr.”

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via UWire

Udrgraduats watg r th rstsmar “Ctzshp ad Dm-ocratic Development” at Penn lastweek received some unexpected newsas they waited or class to begin: Teir

prssr, Hry u, had passdaway ve months previously, andth Ursty had rgtt t a- th ass, ardg t th ma

students received in the middle o th uad ass.

“PSCI 291-301 is canceled. Wear s srry r ths ast mut a-cellation. With Dr. Henry eune’spassing, this course should have beenad r th summr ad wasan oversight,” the brie email, sentby P durg th ass, rad tstrty.

u, a pta s prs-sor at Penn, passed away on April 12.H was 5. Afr jg th ur-

sity’s political science department in6, h had as srd as har

the department rom 1975 to 1979as w as da th GraduatSchool o Arts and Sciences rom1967 to 1969. eune’s research inter-ests included democracy, technology ad mparat urba studs.

Despite the oversight and delay

in announcing the tragic news, Pennplans to hold a memorial service orth prssr smtm ths a, a-cording to Te Daily Pennsylvanian.

Penn undergrads not told of professor’s death until rst day

B eMily stePhen

cavalier Daily, U. virginia via UWire

T Studts r Pa ad Justo Palestine led a Bias IncidentReport and notied the Minority Rights Coalition at the University o

Virginia yesterday aer the organi-zation painted Beta Bridge, a bridgeon campus oen used as a messageboard, to support Palestine’s UnitedNat’s bd r stathd, y tnd that the message had beendesecrated the ollowing morning.

he students inished paint-ing “Palestine deserves a state” th brdg by 2 a.m. Spt. 5.By a.m., a wht bk had b

patd r th wrd “Past”ad th wrd “dsrs” had bstruck through, SPJP OutreachChar Sara Amusa sad.

“I’ b gttg a t -cerns rom the community,” saidVirginia senior Omer Abdulhamid,a SPJP mmbr wh rst saw thpainted-over message. “A lot o pp ar ry hurt by ths.”

Amusa rprtd th dtthrough the “Just Report It” eatureon the University website, which

aws studts t submt Bas I-dt Rprts.

“It’s not that they had writtensadr t, but thy spay

targeted (our message) and tried tomake sure it was ruined,” Almousasad.

SPJP members met with As-

sociate Dean o Students AaronLaushway usday.

“We’ll have a conversation withthe students and support them andlisten to their concerns,” Laushway sad.

Allen Groves, associate vicepresident and dean o students,explained that afer students lea rprt, th O th Da Students meets with those studentsand investigates the incident basedon available evidence beore devel-pg “a apprprat rsps.”

“At times the appropriate resolu-t s t urag a mmuty rsps t th dg sph,consistent with the First Amend-

mt,” h sad.Groves said interpreting this in-

cident is challenging because it is

unclear whether the changes to themssag st a pta statmtr wr bas-mtatd. H adddthat someone could potentially say his action was a political statementmade in response to another politi-a statmt.

Groves added the best responseto situations like these is morespeech. “Anytime things like thishappen, it’s very upsetting to the

students involved,” he said. “Wed’t s a t ths at UVA, butasay ats d ur targt-

ing dierent groups and dierent viewpoints. We want a community where everyone respects each other thy dsagr.”

Spat at UVA after pro-

Palestine message erased

B JaMes chang

the Daily Princetonian, Princeton U.

via UWire

One o cosmology’s greatest un-solved mysteries is the nature o dark matter, a mysterious and invisiblesubstance that dominates over 20percent o the universe’s observ-able mass. But recent ndings by Princeton’s Shravan Hanasoge, apost-doctoral student in the geo-sciences department, and New York

University’s Michael Kesden aboutprimordial black holes — theoreticalremnants o the Big Bang and oneo a handul o potential sources ordark mattr — may g ststs anew way to unlock the secrets o theus substa.

Haasg ad Ksd ha u-covered a new method or detectingcollisions between stars and primor-dial black holes, which may provideconcrete, observable proo o theexistence o dark matter. Primordialbak hs ar sra magtudssmaller than the more widely knownstellar black holes. Te scientists

ound that because o the diminishedmass, a prmrda bak h dst swaw up a star a sas wud a star bak h.

Istad, th graty a prmr-dial black hole squeezes the star andcauses vibrations on the star’s suraceas t saps bak t pa afr thblack hole has passed through — andthe ability to detect these vibrationscould lead astronomers to nally bsr a bak h.

“T hp s that th bratscaused … are unique,” Hanasogesaid. “I you were able to conclusive-ly see a primordial black hole, this

would have proound consequencesin our understanding o early uni-

rs smgy ad dark mattr.”But the discovery, according to

Ksd, s st y a “prmary”step in actually identiying a primor-da bak h. A prmrda bak h passg thrugh a star suh asthe sun is a very rare event — one

that happs ry 0 myears, Kesden said. Given such a lowrequency o occurrence, Kesdenadmttd that th tam’s das may

not be entirely practical and thatthey now need to determine whetherthr smuats a b appd tstars thr tha th su.

“Since other stars are so mucharthr away (tha th su) ad wcannot see them with as much detail,w d t d auats that ahad ths argr sas,” Ksdsaid. He noted that the staggering

number o stars in the galaxy meansit is likely that every so oen a black h ud b s passg thrugha star i a suciently large sample o stars was bsrd.

“However, having said that much,

t s as hard as t s mprss t dit,” Hanasoge said o their endeavor.

o make their models, Hana-soge and Kesden simulated anddiagrammed the waves and oscil-lations that might be created be-tween a primordial black hole and

th su, th masss a prmrdabak h ad th ky path thobject through the sun. Meanwhile,NASA’s im Sandstrom used the Ple-iades supercomputer at the NASA

Ames Research Center in Caliorniato provide video simulations o theirauats.

Haasg ad Ksd sad thy

hope to nd inormation about otherstars rom existing NASA telescopesthat ar amg trasar pa-ets, but that big questions remainabut th asbty sa up thsamp sz.

“he bottom line is, no oneknows what dark matter is and soeverything should be considered,”

physics proessor Frans Pretoriussad, addg that utur rsarh th subjt w dpd whthrthe scientic community nds a di-

rt sur r dark mattr.T rprt was pubshd th

September issue o Physical ReviewLttrs.

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about a place beore ou rip it apart.”— Joseph Moran III, Central Falls police chie

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Rhode Island’s transportation unding dilemma is old news. In 2008,the Providence Journal mentioned the city’s consideration o “drastic

masurs” suh as mpsg ts majr hghways t ras my taddrss th stat’s wrsg trasprtat budgt dt. T pt-ta ts wr sm th pts bg trtad by th-GrrDad Carr’s ’65 Bu Rbb Pa r rasprtat Fudg.

In December 2008, the panel produced its report. Tey aulted an

r-ra dra udg — $220 m dra ad — adhgh dbt sr paymts — $6 m a yar — amg th atrscontributing to Rhode Island’s “unsustainable” unding system, and they provided alternative unding scenarios. Tese scenarios included measures

like increasing vehicle registration ees and certain taxes, introducing h mag s ad, ys, tg.

Dsuss a t Itrstat 5 rmrgd Ju ths yar,when Rhode Island Department o ransportation Director Michael

Lewis made a request to the Federal Highway Administration or permis-

s t t th Itrstat. T uds wud b usd t mata stgtrasprtat struturs.

Hs rqust has b dsy uppuar amg Rhd Isadrs,wth thr-quartrs ths pd ppsg th da. T rqust wasmet with cries o indignation rom taxpayers who eel they have already pad r th rads ad bam msmaagmt r th urrt stuat.Tis indignation is not without justication, as Rick Reed and Gary Sasserecently demonstrated in an opinion piece in the Providence Journal.It’s ar that th addta aa stra th t w b grat rsm th drrs wh ry th trstat r thr day mmuts.

It’s not ideal, but it looks like the toll might be necessary medicine ora struggg Rhd Isad trasprtat systm. A study rasd astOctober reported that Rhode Island will ace a $4.5 billion transportationdecit by 2020. At the same time, the need or maintenance and improve-mts t stg radways ad brdgs s gratr tha r, wth raddts kd t rythg rm hghr-tha-arag rura traataty rats t a stmatd $,300 pss pr Prd drr.

Imprd ass t duat, srs ad jbs, rasd r-mental sustainability and greater appeal to businesses are just some o therua adatags a w-utg trasprtat systm. Wht may t ha th mta tug thr tats, mprg RhdIsland’s transportation is essential or the long-term development o thestat ad ud ras rturs t thr mprmt prjts.

It’s estimated that a toll o $3 or cars crossing into Rhode Island romCtut Itrstat 5 ud yd abut $50 m auay rRhode Island transportation. olls have an element o “airness,” becausethey use money rom those enjoying the advantages o roads to undtheir maintenance. Improved saety and road conditions will have posi-tive eects on drivers’ wallets, and the toll could reduce over-reliance dra uds.

W ar dt that rsarh ad dbat w tu arud thsimportant issue, and we hope or the emergence o easier-to-swallowsolutions or improving Rhode Island transportation. In the meantime,

i coupled with a strong emphasis on accountability to taxpayers, wethink this toll is worth considering — a medicine worth swallowing,

s t spak — as part a w udg md r trasprtat.

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Tayr a Frday ght. Yu’r yurway t a adtur — yu hp — rmayb just burrt-bud. Yu’r ut wthyur rds ad mayb a bt mr ddup tha usua. Tr’s a dd m r-g bkrs, th asa hmss prsad yur w studts ut sarhg ra tt tmt. Ad th t happs —th tab y rm a ha-rd dwar wdw. T rpatd up-ad-dwk rm th grup guys trg ut-sd CVS. Yah, yu thk. I wr a shrtskrt. I sdr t a brat th sty wathr ad th at that I d tyt ha ut. “N gs, baby,” thy shut.

I wdr yu’ st k thm afrthy’ kkd yu th a.

Nt a my w studts md —sm s t as tab — but th ats that mst m ar physay strgrtha wm. Bg harassd a rwd-d strt a g ampus s uky t rsut , but t a b a sary pr thss. Ad t happsrywhr — rma sury by agraduat studt at th Grg Washg-t Ursty ud that prt wm ha b harassd th strt.Why s t that, a dpd utry whr wm suppsdy ha th sam

rghts as m, ur bds ar st sd-

rd ar gam r pub sruty — tth pt whr t’s sdrd rma tb harassd th strt wh yu’r justtryg t gt rm pt A t pt B?

Ad yt w usuay just r ur ysad wak , hs kg, baus that’s

th pr yu pay, rght? Nt rythks s. Ihabak.rg s a st whrpp pst pturs thr harassrs -. T ‘abut’ st purprts, “W b- that ry has a rght t sa

ad dt wthut bg bjtd.Sua harassmt s a gatway rm thatrats a utura rmt that maksgdr-basd kay.”

T at s that ssm ad agast wm ar ra, but thy ar w- mr subty t th thrads md-r utur tha thy wr 20 yarsag. W sg ag t ppuar sgs wthyrs k “bths a’t sht but hs ad

trks.” W’r dd wth ads a rgu-

ar bass, may whh atur wm’sbds as bjts usd t s rythgrm ay ass t sadwhs t pw-r ts. I ms, wm gt t k prtty ad m r m as thy ghtrm, sa th wrd, ha harus ad-

turs ad pursu thr drams.T mda ds t rt a qua

utur, yt mr wm tha r argg t g ad prrtzg arrsr hag ams. Ours s a sty u

tradts whr “msm,” as atrm ad as a mmt, s hard t d.At Brw, w ha th FmS wrkshpas a sa spa t dsuss ma suaty,but pty us — rm bth gdrs —st tss th wrd “sut” arud asuarsat t dsrb ur prs. Fm-sts ar t ghtg r th rght t tr gt drd r ha ass t tra-pt aymr — t Amra, at

ast — w’r ghtg r th rght t just

b.Sm mght say, “I yu drss a rta

way, yu’r askg r t.” “Rap utur”s th trm usd t dsrb bs kths — bs that urag sua ag-grss ad agast wm. O

urs, ry w pp ar atuay -dg rap. It’s muh ss rt tha that— t’s ratg a sty whh w bamth tms suh rms r ‘tg’thmss t b rapd. Fr drssg a r-ta way. Fr bg t sy.

Is ry ata a prursr t sua -? O urs t. Smtms t s justsmthg t r yur ys at. Fr sm,t s just a sg that thy k gd. Butt s f muh darkr tha that, baust mas that w ar tahg yug mthat bys w b bys — uab t trthmss th prs smthy thk s attrat. Ad w’r tahgyug wm that thy shud b arad,baus that’s just hw th wrd wrks.

I d’t ha a dt sut r at-ag r harassmt r sua ,but I d prps that w a thk mrrtay abut th ryday dtas urs. Wath r yur w dub sta-dards. Ar yu bamg sm r at-g wth hs r hr mst bas rghts s-prss? T t tm yu’r ut a wkd ght, pay attt t thpart yu’r payg as yu wak dw thatrwdd strt.

Camille SpencerSalmon ’14 is aneuroscience concentrator rom Miami,

Floria. She can be reache at

[email protected]

The problem with Thayer on a Friday night

T Brw Crt Agy as a t rtsm. Sprg at Brw s markd ty by warmr wathr ad mr ug-g th Ma Gr but as by th -tab ras mpats drtd atths studt-ru rgazat. Smstudts ar uhappy wth th st musa ats r th Sprg Wkd -rts. Othrs t thr rustrat wth atkt-purhasg prss that rqut-y prsts prbms. It f sms as

th BCA a y d wrg th ys may studts. But t shud b -dt that thy d prd auab sr-s, suh as prmtg th mus Brwstudts thrugh ts Spakasy Ssssad dag wth th may gsts - d puttg th Sprg Wkdrts.

Last wk, th BCA aud thup r ts Fa Crt, whh w takpa ths Saturday. Wh sm studtsmght t appr BCA’s st Starky ad Ra Estat, thy ha ttras t mpa s admss t thrt s r. It w st thm thgt g hk ut th prrmrs LFd — r th Rhd Isad Sh

Dsg Audtrum th as ra —ad s ths tw ats put a gd

shw, t th rwd ad th skpta ar. It’s dut t mpaabut r mus, spay a Sat-

urday ght.But what studts a dsappr

s th way whh th BCA ddd whh ats t wud brg r ts Fa C-rt. It startd ut rasaby w. Orth summr, thy, abrat wthBgDayHrad, put ut a p whh studts ud t r thr

prrrd at rm a st that wr“aaab ad ardab.”

S ar s gd. Oy 66 studts t-d th p, whh mas that rughy y 0 udrgraduats prssda p. T studt bdy thrrhas ry tt rm t mpa abut ay st baus thr wr s w trs.O urs, t must b ptd ut that th

p was dutd durg th rst wk August, whh s hardy a tm wh

may us ar rgusy hkg Bg-DayHrad.

T BCA sad at th tm th

p that thy had arady surd at.But th prbm s thy ga da-t wh t mght b. Why wud thatb mprtat? Fr th smp ras thatI, ag wth th thr 65 trs, mghtha td drty had I kw thatth arady bkd at was Starky, a dub-stp artst.

Mayb th trms Starky’s tratprtd ay aumt. But thatwud t prud th BCA rm sayg ts p aumt that th arady bkd at was rm th dubstp gr— a at that wud ha b su-t r trs th p t mak a mrrmd ds. put t bry, yud’t par a w wth th ma wh yu

ha da what yu’r atg.Athr prbm ars wh Ga

Brass ’2, BCA’s bkg har, sad aSpt. 2 Hrad art that th ats thatshd ab Starky, wh shd s-

th, wr “thr arady bkd r u-ab t mak t t th rt.”

Wh thr was a dsamr statgthat bkg th p’s wr was way guaratd, thr was as da-t that th sth ut ptswud b hs. Gratd, Curr$y brk hs ak, but th am th rg-a BgDayHrad p pst that th atswr “aaab” sms a tt t strg.

It’s a mmt that’s b mad b-r, but t’s wrth makg aga: Att mr traspary wud’t hurt thBCA. Othr studt grups wth m-parab u th Brw mmu-ty ar mr p. Ad wh ps ar

gd, wthut a u sat rmatt’s hard t b a rmd tr thm.E kg at th BCA’s wbst, thr’s “Abut” st — y adar, ga-ry ad tat sts.

Tr’s dubt that traspary a b tak t a trm. Ad wth thmay dtas d puttg -rts, t wud b uar r us t ptmpt traspary rm th BCA. ButI thk t wud b ar t ask r a ttmr.

Sam Carter ’12 is a philosoph anHispanic stuies concentrator who

vote or Atlas Soun.

He can be reache [email protected].

Up on the stage

It’s a comment that’s been mae beore, but it’s one

worth making again: A little more transparenc wouln’t

hurt the BCA.

Wh is it that, in a rst worl countr where women

supposel have the same rights as men, our boies are

still consiere air game or public scrutin — to the

point where it’s consiere normal to be harasse on

the street when ou’re just tring to get rompoint A to point B?

By SAM CARTERopinions editor

By CAMILLESPENCER-SALMON

opinions Columnist



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City & Statehursday, September 22, 2011

B Morgan Johnson

Senior Staff Writer

Rhode Island House and Senatenance committees met yesterday or the second o three joint hear-ings on xing the state’s escalat-

ing pension problems. Sen. DanielDapt, D-East Prd adPawtucket, and chair o the Senatecommittee on nance, announcedthat the General Assembly may hd mr jt hargs p-ss, addt t th tw thatha arady urrd.

Te problem — which the Gen-eral Assembly will likely convene aspecial session to address — is thegrowing gaps between the undsthat th stat ad ts mupa-ties have set aside to und theirpension plans and the amountspromised to public employees. Tediscrepancies between promised

and available unds threaten bothgrmt sy ad th r-

trmt surty thusads

wrkrs.T harg ystrday usd

entirely on municipal pensionplans, which are more challeng-

ing to reorm than the state-runpension plan, according to StateAuditor General Dennis Hoyle and

Gra Assmby sa adsrsPeter Marino and Sharon Ferland,wh d th harg.

One critical challenge to re-orm is the sheer number o unique plans that exist in the state.Municipal pension plans are di-

vided into two basic categories.he state-run pension systemincludes 110 municipal pensionplans covering public employees

in the state’s cities and towns, inaddition to the pension plan orstate employees. While the state

administers this group o munici-pal pension plans, known as the

Municipal Employees RetirementSystem, local governments are re-sponsible or ensuring their plans

stay udd.

But the outlook is most direor the 36 municipal plans notincluded in the state system. In2010, these plans were 40.3 percent

unded overall. wo-thirds o thesemunicipal plans — including those

o Cranston, Pawtucket, Provi-dence and Warwick, the state’slargest cities — are considered “atrisk” by the state’s auditor general.

Tese “at risk” plans are urtherdivided into our categories o se- verity, rom “I” indicating bank-

ruptcy to “IV” indicating that localgovernments are making contri-

buts rprstg ss tha 0percent o the amount required tomaintain the plans at an adequateudg . Wth a $2 m-lion ununded pension liability,Providence has been designated

a “III” ths systm.“Not all o the news is necessar-

y bad,” Mar sad, ptg tur a amps pas thatar ary uy udd.

As with state pensions, Marino

sad t s ry uky that grw-g stmt rturs wud a-w mupats t grw ut their pension liabilities. He addedthat bond rating agencies’ nega-

tive growth outlooks or RhodeIsland municipalities will prob-ably increase the municipalities’

brrwg sts.Reorming pension plans ad-

mstrd by th stat w b areasier than reorming indepen-dent municipal plans, Marino said.Te state can withhold undingr pas th stat-ru systm mupats a t mt 00percent o their annual required

trbut. La grmtscurrently cannot be penalizedr ag t mt thr rqurdcontribution and instead are only required to send documentation

to the state. “It’s sort o a paperhas,” Hy sad. H addd thatorecasting needs to be updatedt rt urrt gurs, suh as

increased longevity, which has

a adrs t uudd -abts.

Rep. Frank Ciccone, D-Prov-

idence and North Providence,ptd t th prtab busssnancial advisers have made o the state’s pension problems. He

said the $156 million paid to -

nancial advisers could be “creatinga prbm.”

Several members o the com-

mittee recommended reducingth umbr pas ad psconsultants as a way to rein in un-unded liabilities. “Tere’s tremen-dous opportunity or consolida-

tion,” Hoyle said. Absorbing localpas t th stat systm s asan enticing option, he said, thoughthe 100 percent required contribu-t madatd ths systm wmake transerring pension plansrom local to state control dicultor more nancially troubled lo-

cal plans. “Te distance seems in-surmountable in (the) near-term,”

Hy sad.

Hearing examines municipal pensions

B nicole graBel

contribUting Writer

NABsys, a Providence biotechnol-ogy company with Brown con-ts whs rsarh ud bused to treat cancer, recently raised$10 million in venture capital. Lo-cated in the Jewelry District, the

company sits in a biotechnology

research and lie sciences hub thatpolitical leaders say is key to the

state’s long-term economic vitality.T udg w u th -

tinued growth o the company,which ocuses on DNA sequenc-

ing and analysis. “Te company hasbeen doubling in size every year

or the past two years,” said Bar-

rtt Brady ’ MD’03 , prsdtad CEO NABsys ad adjutassistant proessor o physiology.Te company was started in 2005.

A signicant portion o the $10million will go toward hiring, saidEli Upal, consultant to NABsysand a Brown proessor o computerscience. Te company needs the“best people in chemistry, biology,hap dsg ad agrthms,” hsad, addg that attratg hgh-quaty tat rqurs a sdr-able amount o money. Te unding

w as b usd t purhas wmachinery and sofware, Upalsad.

But the money will not justacilitate urther company de-

velopment — it also serves as atestament to how much NABsyshas grown already, he said. “Ev-ery round o unding shows that

utsd rsarhrs ad strshave more and more condencein the direction o the company,”h addd.

Wh th my wgo to Brown directly, the University

has had ts t th mpay s

its inception. Te company was

started with technology licensedrom Brown and its original ound-er was Brown physics proessorSean Ling, now no longer involvedin managing the company. Many

Brown proessors — including No-b aurat ad physs prssrLeon Cooper and Franco Prepara-ta, prssr mputr s— serve as advisers to NABsys.John Oliver, the company’s vicepresident o research and develop-ment, is a ormer assistant proes-sr hmstry.

he unding will ultimately bt th Ursty, Upa sad.

Te company hires many Browngraduates, and its growth wouldmean more demand or Brown’sbmda rsarh, h addd.

Te timing o the unding coin-cides with the creation o a seven-member commission to oversee the

development o land in the Jewelry Dstrt mad aaab by th r-location o route I-195. Bready hasbeen nominated by Gov. LincolnChaee ’75 P’14 to serve on thecommission and was conrmedby the state Senate Corporations

Committee uesday. He aces aull Senate vote on his conrma-

tion today. Upal said development

th dstrt w mak t a mrattractive location or NABsys’tud pas.

hough Bready declined tocomment on specic plans or thedistrict until he is ocially con-rmed, he said he sees great po-

tential or the technological rebirtho the district and Providence as awhole. In the past, he said, “Provi-dence was arguably the wealthiestplace o its size in the entire world,”the “technology leader o the day.”As the biotechnology industry con-

tinues to expand, he said he seesa pprtuty r Prd t

aga.

Local biotech startupraises $10 millionB liz Kelley

contribUting Writer

he hassle o abandoning wetclothing to rell a vending stripe in

one o the University’s o-brokenCard Value Center machines may become a thing o the past nextsmstr. A systm udr rw,which would make the vending

stripes on Brown ID cards obsolete,

would be “a revision and update o the current system — moving the

vending inrastructure rom ofine

t ,” sad Stt Tahr, d-rtr rmat thgy

in the Oce o the Vice President Campus L ad Studt Sr- s.

Brown’s current vending stripesystem — which can be used to pay

or copies, laundry and vending

machine purchases — dependson old magnetic stripe writers,Tahr sad.

Currently, students must add

my t th strp rm d-ing balance accounts or withash thrugh th CVC mahslocated around campus, whichth sd th w amut t thstripes. In the proposed system,students would be able to allo-

cate money online or servicesthat used to require the vending

stripe, without the need to writew amuts t thr ards.

“Ts s a pprtuty t m-prove student services on campus,”sad Rhard Ba, sr ass-ate dean o residential and diningservices. Te change would create“a samss systm,” h sad.

he new system — whichwould not require students toget new ID cards — needs ap-proval rom the University’s IProject Review Committee nextmonth beore being implemented,

which could be as early as January.

Tacher said the rst services to beintegrated would likely be printingad pyg baus thy ar academic interest to both studentsad tahrs.

“It will be a one-card system

ad ams t rat a as usacross the board,” Bova said . “It isa trasrmat prjt drtresponse to students’ questions,rs ad mmts that w

as bt sta.”

Vending accounts may go online

Emil Gilbert / Heral

Becca Gevertz ‘14 loads money on her card using a CVC machine. The Universityis evaluating a proposal that woul make these machines obsolete.

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