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Former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi spoke about the struggle for
federalism during a roundtable discussion Monday.
Prodi: Economic disparities
complicate Italian federalism
By Dana Teppert
Staf f Writer
Former Italian Prime Minister
Romano Prodi spoke about the
challenges facing his countr y as
it attempts to achieve a more ef-
ficient federal structure during a
roundtable discussion Monday
night in a nearly full Smith-Buo-
nanno 106.
After expressing his happiness
at returning to Brown after his
appointment last year as a profes-
sor-at-large based at the Watson
Institute for International Studies,
Prodi immediately began to talk
The man behind the ‘voice of WBRU’
By Joe Milner
Contributing Writer
When Jude Corbett gets ready to read,
his voice changes. Like a defensive
lineman, it crouches and sneers at
his opponent, daring him to make
the first move.
“95.5 WBRU,” his voice says. “The
soundtrack to that stuff” — a pause
punctuates the track — “you do in
the shower.”
The edge of Corbett’s voice slides
off into the silence of the radio sta-
tion’s production room.
Corbett, a professional voice-over
artist, is known locally as the “voice
of WBRU,” a commercial alternative
radio station operated by Brown stu-
dents.
Encompassing fields as diverse as
station promotions and nature docu-
mentaries, voice-over represents a
talkative yet rarely talked-about facet
inside
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about the “deep political problem”
of federalism and Italian unity. The
debate over how to increase re-
gional autonomy is occurring not
only in Italy, he said, but in other
European countries as well.
The question of federalism in
Italy is deeply connected to the
problem of economic disparity
between the states of the nor th
and the south, he said.
The former leader said he be-
lieves federalism is possible but
that strict rules must be imple-
mented to encourage greater eco-
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of mass media. Behind the scenes
with production teams, voice-over
artists help to explain and enhance
messages both on the radio and on
the screen.
Finding a voice
Corbett found his interest in voice-
over early. As a kid, he liked to mimic
the voices he heard on television.
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“I didn’t know you could actually
do this for a living,” he said.
Later, he joined his college radio
program, which ran KCLC, as a part
of his mass communications major.
After graduating, he worked as a disc
jockey and in production at radio sta-
tions before landing his first freelance
voice-over job in Philadelphia.
“People started liking what I was
doing there, and I branched out into
News, 2
anti-plastic crusade
Members of “Beyond
the Bottle” say they have
reduced water sales
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Fundraising pipeline suffered in last year
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staff Writer
Though administrators have hailed
the University’s most recent fund-
raising numbers as a bright spot dur-
ing an otherwise gloomy period, the
approximately $180 million raised
last year was partially attributable to
expedited pledges from high-profile
donors, according to Ronald Vanden
Dorpel MA’71, senior vice president
for University advancement.
The University called in many
outstanding pledges — structured
commitments that sometimes span
several years — and ultimately re-
duced the number of pledges in the
pipeline for this year, he said, though
the accelerated gifts provided a boost
to the fundraising total for the fiscal
year 2009, which ended June 30.
Even with the slightly buoyed
numbers, fundraising decreased
by about 23 percent from the previ-
R.I. spends less on higher ed, report says
By Claire Peracchio
Contributing Writer
Rhode Island ranks among the
nation’s top spenders in Medicaid
and fire protection, while hovering
near the bottom for expenditures
on higher education, highways and
transportation, and parks and recre-
ation, according to a report released
last week by the Rhode Island Public
Expenditure Council.
Using the latest U.S. Census
Bureau data, the council, an inde-
pendent public policy organization,
generated the 2009 state expendi-
Pittsburgh and Providence,” he said.
WBRU was one of Corbett’s first cli-
ents.
In radio, voice-over artists play
multiple roles. Some, like Corbett,
have standing relationships with sta-
tions and are hired to record promo-
tions and sweepers — segues between
songs that provide the station’s call
letters and frequency — on a regular
basis. Other voice-over artists find
work recording commercials for busi-
nesses that are played on multiple
stations.
According to Ann DeWig, a Phoe-
nix-based artist who voices for WPRO
in Providence, the trade’s practitioners
tend to focus on niches, ranging from
quick sound bites to feature-length
documentary narration.
“There is crossover,” she said. “It’s
just more common to find someone as
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ous 12 months, when the University
raised approximately $230 million,
Vanden Dorpel said.
Before last year’s financial crisis,
which crippled the national economy
and sheared $740 million from the
University’s endowment, Brown’s
average annual fundraising haul
during the Campaign for Academic
Enrichment was about $235 million,
Vanden Dorpel said, adding that the
diminished returns had reduced that
average to $227 million.
“We had a very good year last
year, and we weathered the reces-
sion,” Vanden Dorpel said. “But we
did hit a very strong headwind in
raising pledges for next year.”
It is too early to speculate about
this year’s expected fundraising to-
tal, he said, but some donors are
expected to give less this year be-
cause they paid out their pledges
in advance.
In May, the University surpassed
ture report, which shows the Ocean
State’s long-term spending patterns
and compares its expenditures with
those of other states.
Medicaid spending was the big-
gest red flag in this year’s report, the
council’s Executive Director John
Simmons said, noting the danger of
ballooning health care costs given
the state’s economic woes and di-
minishing tax base. This report’s
findings are in line with those of a
recent report from the council that
found Rhode Island’s tax burden,
fueled by high property taxes, to be
15th highest in the nation.
in a w or d
Rose Simpson, a RISD graduate student, gave a spoken word
performance for the Native American Heritage Series’ convocation.
Metro, 5
counting trees
A local project seeks to
increase local canopy
coverage
the Campaign’s goal of $1.4 billion
19 months before its official end
point in December 2010, but Vanden
Dorpel said he expects the financial
climate to again diminish returns
this year.
“Our cash may be somewhat
down from last year,” he said.
“Fundraising is always a lagging
indicator.”
But he is confident the goals out-
lined by the University for next year
will be met despite the economy,
he added.
“Our pledges were off last year,”
said Beppie Huidekoper, executive
vice president for finance and admin-
istration. “We’ve got to make sure
we keep having pledges.”
Despite the deflated projections,
Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76 said
he was impressed with last year’s
numbers, adding that he expects
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“There has been a continued
climb in the rate of Medicaid spend-
ing at the same time as a decline
in government revenue,” Simmons
said. “This means that there will be
less of a capacity for state and local
government to respond to challenges
in the future.”
Rhode Island’s public welfare
vendor payments, which include
Medicaid, have more than doubled
over the past 10 years and have in-
creased at a rate four times faster
than the national average, eclipsing
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bombing the moon?
Michael Fitzpatrick ’12
says some misunderstand
recent lunar research
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C ampus N EWS “Rhode Island water is very good.”

— Jason Harris ’10 of Beyond the Bottle, a student group

Budget suffers consequence

of early pledge receipts
continued from page 1
the University to continue to weather
the economic storm.
“I am assured that the initiatives
and plans for the University are deep-
ly engaging to the people who are at
Brown,” Tisch said. “That’s the most
exciting thing of all.”
Though across-the-board fundrais-
ing may be taking a hit, the University
has raised its goals for two fundrais-
ing initiatives. A campaign to raise
money for financial aid — initially
launched to generate $300 million
— was increased to $400 million last
October, and this year’s goal for the
Brown Annual Fund was increased
to $36 million from last year’s goal
of $35 million.
Of the initial $300 million target
for financial aid, $292 million has al-
ready been procured, said Richard
Barker ’57 P’03 P’05, who is spear-
heading the financial aid campaign.
He is confident the University will
meet the enlarged goal, he said, even
though the original goal is still techni-
cally unrealized.
“We have some work to do, but we
also have some time,” Barker said.
In addition to a better economic
climate — which Barker said would
foster an influx of donations to his
campaign — the University is also
planning a number of campaign din-
ners and events for potential donors,
he said.
For example, Barker said, Presi-
dent Ruth Simmons will speak at an
“all-constituents gathering” in San
Francisco this week to tout the cam-
paign. Simmons will also make ap-
pearances in Seattle, Houston, Dallas,
sudoku
Boston and India in the next year,
he said.
Using these events as the driv-
ing force behind the increased cam-
paign target, Barker said he hopes
to tap into the passion donors felt
last October, when the new goal was
announced. And given the economic
situation, Barker said it is increasing-
ly necessary to support the students
most affected by hard times.
“It’s imperative,” he said. “It’s ab-
solutely crucial to the mission of the
University.”
As for the Annual Fund — the
University’s general fundraising
campaign for small donors, which
supports its operating budget —
this year’s goal was increased to $36
million from nearly 33,000 donors,
said Joan Sorensen ’72 P’06 P’06, a
member of the Corporation’s board
of trustees and one of the Annual
Fund’s chairs.
Kim Perley / Herald
Last year, the Fund raised $35 Members of Beyond the Bottle have been working since last spring to reduce bottled water usage at Brown.
million from 31,276 donors, though
the goal had been to procure dona-
tions from 34,000 donors, she said.
The total represented a 0.3 percent
Drink it up — but not from bottles
decrease in dollars from the previ- By Jessie LaFargue is free. jor buildings on campus.
ous year, she said, and a 6.6 percent Contributing Writer “It seems so wasteful to buy Over the course of the next
decrease in donors. bottled water,” he said. “Rhode year, group members hope to
Despite the downward trend, So- Beyond the Bottle, a student group Island water is ver y good.” encourage the University to give
rensen said leaders behind the an- founded last spring, has helped re- The group’s first big push students more — and more vis-
nual campaign are actively striving duce the use of bottled water on came in the form of a “pilot phase” ible — places to fill water bottles
to meet the new goal through more campus and has high hopes for its at Josiah’s in April. with tap water across campus,
targeted solicitations. She said the conser vation projects, according In collaboration with Jo’s man- Rubenstein said.
University is specifically looking to to the group’s organizers. agers, the group made informa- The group is optimistic it can
reunion groups for increased par- Brown Dining Ser vices told tion available in Little Jo’s and make big strides, Harris said.
ticipation. the group that it obser ved a 35 sold more than 300 reusable metal To aid the group’s efforts, stu-
“We’re going to try the same to 40 percent drop in water bottle water bottles for five flex points dents can buy a reusable water
things” to secure funds, Sorensen sales at the end of the spring se- each. bottle and seek to educate their
said. “But we’re going to be a little mester, said group member Jason That project “went really well,” friends who regularly purchase
more aggressive this year.” Harris ’10. Rubenstein said. “We were all bottled water, Harris said.
The group aims to reduce and pretty pleased.” “We need people to individu-
ultimately eliminate the consump- The University has responded ally have that collective conscious-
tion of bottled water on campus, positively to Beyond the Bottle’s ness,” he said.
said group leader Ari Rubenstein efforts thus far, Rubenstein add- The elimination of bottled
’11, because its members believe ed. “Dining services last semester water is an attainable goal, both
that bottled water “gets an F” on was really great,” he said. Rubenstein and Harris said. A
at least four criteria: “health, The group is preparing to few universities have completely
economics, environmental and present information about bottled stopped selling bottled water on
social.” water on campus to the Brown campus, they said, such as Wash-
To illustrate, Harris said, bot- University Community Council ington University in St. Louis. The
tled water is tested less rigorously next month. It also plans to hold group hopes Brown will soon fol-
than tap water, costs more and taste tests, host a movie screening low suit.
wastes a lot of plastic. and recruit students to pledge not Brown has “a real opportunity
Helping the environment to buy bottled water. to be one of the first Ivy League
can often be expensive, Harris The group is also examining universities to take the step,”
said, but avoiding bottled water the availability of tap water in ma- Rubenstein said.

Former Italian PM talks federalism, unity

continued from page 1 a professor of anthropology and current head of a joint United Na-
Italian studies. tions panel established to investi-
nomic equality between the north Riva began the event by briefly gate peacekeeping in Africa.
and the south. Though the Lega situating the question of federal- Ker tzer commented on the

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Finding your ‘voice:’ act,
improvise, be confident
continued from page 1
an expert in a certain field.”
Both Corbett and DeWig have ex-
plored beyond radio’s bounds. Both
have voiced TV commercials — Cor-
bett usually does ads for Budweiser
during the NCAA basketball tourna-
ment, and DeWig is working on ads
for Johnson and Johnson. Corbett also
voices most of HBO’s “First Look”
segments, while DeWig worked on
NBC’s promotions for the Super Bowl
last winter.
Though she said she feels proud of
her high-profile work, DeWig estab-
lished the instability of freelancing.
“We always get fired from every
single job we’ve ever done,” she
said.
DeWig said she is interested in
narrating documentaries. Because
narrations run considerably longer
than television or radio spots, the artist
has the opportunity to experiment and
make the piece his or her own.
“You can seat yourself into a story,”
she said.
Corbett has narrated television
programs, but he said he still likes
radio because he has the most experi-
ence in it. He has developed several
delivery styles for radio, and he enjoys
applying them to stations’ scripts.
In the production room
When Corbett works with WBRU,
voice-over follows a set process that
begins when the station sends him
copy for a promotion or a sweeper.
Corbett records a read at his studio
in Chicago, saves it as an MP3 file and
uploads it for the station.
The sweepers and promos voiced
by Corbett contribute toward building
an audio identity that listeners identify
with the station — the voice of WBRU.
His voice introduces shows, songs and
bands throughout the day.
“When listeners hear Jude doing a
promo, they think, ‘Oh, that’s BRU,’”
said Diana Wollach ’10, production
director at WBRU.
While Corbett forms the main fo-
cus of each voice-over track, Wollach
said the production team manipulates
the track in a variety of ways. Sound
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“We always get fired from every single job we’ve ever done.”
— Ann DeWig, a voice-over artist, on the instability of freelancing
effects and music “beds” — tracks
that play under the voice — enhance
Corbett’s recording. In some cases,
the casual listener will not even notice
the changes.
“We actually take out all the
breaths in between sentences,” Wol-
lach said.
“A promotion typically takes me
two hours to do,” she added.
While the immediate purpose of
production is to create an engaging
sweeper or promo, Wollach said the
work more intimately acquaints her
and her team members with music.
This heightened sensitivity to audio
tracks not only serves to maintain Herald File Photo
Advocates of “real food” advertised their cause at a Brown University Community Council meeting last year.
WBRU’s own standards but also helps
U. funds ‘Real Food’ dining options
production team members in the post-
collegiate world in any industry that
requires sound editing.
“You really get a feel for music and
sound and beats,” Wollach said. By Goda Thangada Real Food group member. “This embodies the merging of
WBRU’s commercial production Contributing Writer The group presented its goals to Community Harvest and the Real
group creates commercials in-house the Brown University Community Food Challenge,” said Schwartz,
for some businesses that adver- The Brown chapter of the Real Food Council in November 2008. The referring to BDS’s own local food
tise with WBRU, giving students Challenge, a national campaign to group asked the University to create initiative, founded in 2002, which
an opportunity to try voice-over bring more local and organic food eight paid student jobs in BDS and makes local food available at student
themselves. to university dining halls, obtained to allocate $2 million to sustainable dining halls and facilitates the Farm-
“We have some people who are $25,000 from President Ruth Sim- food over five years. ers’ Market on Wriston Quad.
really, really into voicing and crank mons’ discretionary fund for a two- “Our goals are twofold,” said Da- “This is not only a source of
out these amazing voices,” Wollach year pilot project and created four vid Schwartz ’09, a member of both economic development for Rhode
said. paid student positions within Dining the Brown chapter and the national Island, it’s a great learning oppor-
Services. The students will research committee of Real Food. tunity for students,” Schwartz said.
Learning to speak sustainable dining options and help “We want to capitalize on success “There is a lot to do, whether it’s
For his part, Corbett said he en- determine how the $25,000 will be from last year and work with BDS research, designing new menus or
courages students to try voice-over, spent. to make dramatic changes to sup- ensuring fair labor standards are
even if they do not know how their Real Food will soon begin work- port farmers and workers and use implemented. We invite everyone
voices will sound on air. ing with BDS to hire students for the dining dollars to promote a healthy,
continued on page 4
“The more unique your voice, the positions, said Andrea Gaines ’10, a sustainable environment.”
more successful you’ll probably be,”
he said.
DeWig said all successful voice-
over artists share one trait in common:
confidence. Both artists agreed that
training in acting helps create and
deliver a voice.
“If you can do some acting, take
some improvisation classes, that
teaches you to be more flexible,”
Corbett said.
And reflecting on the various sub-
jects he voices, Corbett added one
final piece of advice to aspiring artists
searching for confidence. “Know what
you’re talking about. Even if you don’t
know what you’re talking about.”
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Rhody health, education
spending more than half
of state budget
continued from page 1
the spending of neighboring states
such as Connecticut and Massachu-
setts.
Earlier this year the state was
approved for the Medicaid Global
Waiver, an agreement that caps fed-
eral funding in exchange for greater
state authority in shaping health care
policy.
But the waiver still assumes that
Medicaid spending will continue to
grow as a portion of the state budget.
The restructuring of the state health
care system needed to curb costs
won’t be realized for at least another
two years, Simmons said.
Besides Medicaid, other high state
outlays included fire protection and
elementary and secondary school
education.
Rhode Island ranks first in the na-
tion in fire department expenditures,
a finding that the council’s policy an-
alyst, Ashley Denault, attributed to
“some level of redundancy” caused by
many small municipalities maintain-
ing autonomous stations as well as
the fact that Rhode Island is a highly
urban state.
With fire protection spending
coming in at almost double the na-
tional average, local leaders such as
North Providence Mayor Charles
Lombardi are looking for ways to
cut down costs.
Lombardi has proposed greater
“regionalization,” which would entail
an increased collaboration with neigh-
boring fire departments in Johnston
and Pawtucket and a reduction in
personnel, said Lombardi’s chief of
staff, Richard Fossa.
No need for binders as
library digitizes documents
By Samer Muallem
Contriuting Writer
The Center for Digital Initiatives
is preparing to launch the Brown
Digital Repositor y, an online data-
base to allow faculty members to
easily and safely store thousands of
documents — and share them with
their students and colleagues.
The ser vice, which aims to
make faculty research and teach-
ing materials more accessible in
the present as well as preser ve
them for posterity, could be op-
erational as soon as next semester,
according to Patrick Yott, head of
the librar y’s digital ser vices de-
partment and the Center for Digital
Initiatives.
Though many universities offer
similar databases, librar y officials
have delayed implementing one at
Brown in order to take advantage
of a program that only recently
became available. Many digital re-
positories, such as the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology’s, use
a program called DSpace, which
Yott said is less flexible. The new
Elementary and secondary educa-
tion is the largest portion of the state’s
expenditure, putting Rhode Island in
the same range as its regional peers
and above the national average, ac-
cording to the report. When com-
bined with Medicaid spending, the
two categories make up almost half
of state expenditures.
Though Rhode Island has tradi-
tionally spent at high rates on elemen-
tary and secondary education, it is
the only state without a formula to
allocate funds to schools.
A bill approved in June by the
state Senate would establish a fund-
ing formula that takes into account
student enrollment, the respective
abilities of communities to fund their
schools and the need to funnel ad-
ditional resources to the neediest
students, said Simmons, one of the
bill’s authors. House action on the
legislation is pending.
But spending on higher educa-
tion lags in comparison, making up
roughly a quarter of all education
spending, and is significantly be-
low the national average. Still, it is
higher than that of Connecticut and
Massachusetts.
The governor’s office is taking the
report’s numbers in stride.
All states are struggling to find
cost savings and ways to achieve
these savings are constantly being
monitored, said Amy Kempe, spokes-
person for Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65.
“The information contained in
(the council’s) report is nothing new,”
Kempe said. “The issues touched
on by the report continue to be ad-
dressed by the governor.”
program, Fedora, improves on
older repositor y software.
“We were waiting for some of
the technologies to mature,” Yott
said. “We just waited to do it the
way we wanted to do it.”
Fedora will allow programmers
at the University to augment the
basic software, letting them tai-
lor the repositor y to better suit
Brown’s specific purposes, Yott
said.
The repositor y will allow us-
ers to upload faculty papers, re-
search data, electronic disserta-
tions, teaching materials and other
files.
One feature of the Fedora plat-
form allows files to be updated
into newer formats should old
ones become obsolete, preser v-
ing the documents for generations
to come.
“Ideally, we’d love to start the
ser vice by spring 2010,” Yott said.
The first phase of programming is
nearly complete, and several de-
partments will get access to a trial
version of the repository within the
next month, he added.
“The proportion of sustainable food is still relatively low.”
— Andrea Gaines ’10, of Real Food Challenge, on dining options at Brown
Hope High School students are thankful the JROTC program survives despite other structural changes.
JROTC survives, thrives at Hope
By Alicia Dang
Staf f Writer
Hope High School’s Junior Reserve
Officers’ Training Corps — the
only elective course that has sur-
vived from the school’s now-defunct
Leadership academy — remains as
popular as ever among students.
In 2005, the Rhode Island De-
partment of Education took con-
trol of the underperforming high
school and divided it into three
separate “learning communities”
— Leadership, Arts and Informa-
tion Technology. As of this year, the
Leadership community’s students
and faculty have been merged into
the other two.
The school, which now offers
eight JROTC classes with a total
of 157 students, is the only high
school in Providence and one of
1,650 high schools nationwide to
offer the program, said Lieutenant
Colonel Raoul Archambault, senior
instructor of JROTC at Hope.
The level of enrollment has
“always been about the same,”
Archambault said, adding that it
Real Food group thinks sustainable
continued from page 3
to get involved.”
Real Food members supported
dining workers during negotiations
last week. “We want to see food dealt
with in a comprehensive way, with
all the pieces of justice,” Gaines
said. According to the national Real
Food campaign — which assesses
food for four qualities, “local, fair,
ecologically sound and humane”
— a variety of factors determine
the sustainability of food.
Four student groups — the Sus-
tainable Food Initiative, emPOWER,
the Student Labor Alliance and
Students for a Democratic Society
— collaborate on the initiative at
Brown.
Gaines said she hopes the group
can extend beyond Brown and im-
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | Page 4
fluctuates between 130 and 180.
JROTC is “open to all students,
regardless of physical abilities or
sexual orientation,” Archambault
said.
The course offers a sequence
of military training programs that
aims to develop six core abilities —
the capacity for life-long learning,
communication skills, responsibil-
ity for individual actions and choic-
es, good citizenship, self-respect
and critical thinking, according to
the program’s brochure.
The students also have the op-
portunity to participate in public
demonstrations, interscholastic
competitions, summer camps
and community service activities.
Outside of class, students, who
take JROTC as one of their eight
courses, can participate in the color
guard and other drill teams. Each
team has student commanders,
while Archambault supervises the
organization, participation and per-
formance, he said.
While students are thankful
that the program survives, at least
one misses the old structure. With
prove local food accessibility. “Parts
of Providence are a food desert,”
she said.
BDS recently received an A-
for overall sustainability and an A
for “food and recycling” from the
College Sustainability Report Card
2010. According to the report, BDS
Campus News
spends $150,000 on locally grown
food and $58,000 on organic food
out of a total annual food budget of
$6.2 million.
BDS “is thinking about these
things, but the proportion of sus-
tainable food is still relatively low,”
Gaines said.
Other Real Food Challenge par-
ticipants include Yale, Cornell, John-
son and Wales University and the
Kim Perley/ Herald
the elimination of the Leadership
School, “the classes are much
more packed,” said Kayle Zarzu-
ela, a Hope sophomore who moved
to the Information Technology
community from the Leadership
School.
Though the JROTC program
was open to students from the oth-
er schools earlier, the majority of
participants were from Leadership,
Zarzuela said. Now that there is a
mix of students from two communi-
ties in JROTC classes, “there are
now a lot of altercations, yelling
and screaming,” she said.
But Archambault said the
change of school “doesn’t really
affect” JROTC.
“Before it was open to three
communities, now it’s open to two,”
he added. “It doesn’t make any
difference.”
Some students agreed that they
were not greatly affected by the
new structure.
“It doesn’t matter to me, as long
as this program stays here,” said
Neki Fernandez, a sophomore and
JROTC rifle commander.
Rhode Island School of Design.
Real Food members said they
are looking to other schools as mod-
els for sustainable dining. Yale, for
example, maintains a dining hall that
exclusively serves regional food,
and the University of California sys-
tem has set a goal of reaching 20
percent sustainable food by 2020.
Schwartz said he hopes 20 per-
cent of Brown’s food budget will be
dedicated to sustainable food.
Schwartz said there was much
more in the proposal created by the
Real Food Challenge last year and
that his team will continue to work
on the university’s commitment to
sustainable food.
“We will be evaluating all the
way, updating Ruth Simmons and
the community on our progress,”
he said.
Page 5 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Metro
Turning over a new leaf with Trees 2020
By Mitra Anoushiravani
Senior Staf f Writer
Providence is getting greener.
Trees 2020, a local nonprofit
st arted about a year and a half ago,
has been working toward a goal
to increase the city’s average tree
canopy to 30 percent — an increase
of about 40,000 trees — by 2020
by encouraging individuals and
companies to plant trees on private
property, said Ray Perreault, one of
the group’s directors. The program
sells trees at a subsidized price and
gives free consultations to potential
tree-planters to determine the ap-
propriate species for the specific
plot of land.
“I envision a way for Trees 2020
to be a community-building exer-
cise,” Perreault said. “I want the
program to also educate people
so that they can do plantings in a
group.”
The capital city on the whole
has 23 percent urban tree canopy
coverage, according to statistics
formulated using assessments by
the University of Vermont at Bur-
lington, along with the Maryland
Department of Natural Resources
and the U.S. Department of Ag-
riculture’s Forest Ser vice. Tree
canopy coverage depends on the
distance that a tree’s branches ex-
tend outward, as well as the height
of the tree, since taller trees cast
longer shadows and provide more
shade.
The assessment of Providence
shows that the Washington Park
neighborhood, in the southeastern
corner of the city, only has 5.9 per-
cent tree canopy — the lowest of
all the neighborhoods — whereas
College Hill and Wayland Square
both have tree canopy coverage of
30 percent or more. The Blackstone
neighborhood, which encompasses
Swan Point Cemetery, the Black-
stone jogging path and Blackstone
park, has a tree canopy coverage of
40.1 percent — the highest of any
Providence neighborhood.
So far, Trees 2020 has been in-
volved in planting 1,744 trees in
Providence, Perreault said. The
program offers about 30 varieties
of trees to meet many different
spatial needs and preferences. An
emphasis is placed on planting large
trees that will produce the largest
tree canopy, but the program is
also concerned with making sure
residents continue to care for their
trees in the future, Perreault said.
The 2006 Providence Tree Tally,
a report documenting the health of
all street trees, prepared by City
Forester Douglas Still, estimated
that the trees provide $2,932,731 in
benefits annually — which comes
to $118.23 for each of the city’s
24,999 street trees. Natural gas
and electricity cost savings make
up $1,228,660 of the total and an
increase in property values adds
roughly the same amount.
If trees on private property were
included in the tally, the total value
would be even greater, Perreault
said. Trees 2020 focuses on planting
trees on private property because
the size of street trees is limited
by underground electrical, gas and
water infrastructure, he said.
Like most cities in the United
States, Providence was once much
more densely forested than it is
today, according to Perreault. Many
of the elms that lined the streets of
the city were killed off by Dutch
elm disease. The city replaced
these trees with Norwegian maples
that are now coming to the end of
their lives. Perreault said he would
like a new generation of indigenous
Max Monn / Herald
elm trees planted around the city 40,000 new trees would increase Providence’s tree canopy 30 percent —
to help return Providence to its the goal set by Trees 2020, a local nonprofit.
former glory.
But he said he is war y of cre- to diversify the species that are Trust of The Rhode Island Foun-
ating a monoculture of elms that planted through the program. dation, as well as through grants
could be susceptible to a possible Trees 2020 is funded by the and individual contributions, Per-
disease in the future and is trying Helen Walker Raleigh Tree Care reault said.

Browse, buy, sell.

Craig doesn’t
have the only
list in this town.

Well, we’ll leave the

erotic escorts to him.

Morning Mail’s got nothing on Herald Mail.

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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

Columbus Day protestor

showed hypocrisy
To the Editor:
As a member of the Undergradu-
ate Council of Students last year,
I was present as Jerry Wolf Duff
Sellers ’09 came before that body to
advocate changing the University’s
recognition of Columbus Day, on
the basis that it memorializes racial
injustice and perpetuates harmful
historical inaccuracies. For Duff Sell-
ers, however, putting an end to un-
fair or inaccurate characterizations
apparently stops with Columbus
Day. I was outraged to read that Duff
Sellers was perfectly content to pro-
test the holiday last Monday beside
the statue of a caricatured Italian
chef, with a sign reading “Columbus
spilled BABIES (sic) BLOOD like I
spill tomato sauce” (“Rally against
‘Fall Weekend’ takes on U.’s name
change,” Oct. 13).
As an Italian-American and a
member of the Brown community,
I was offended by this display of in-
sensitivity and arrogance. But what
angered me even more was the un-
mitigated hypocrisy it demonstrates.
You can argue what you please re-
garding Columbus Day and its rec-
ognition at Brown; there are valid
and respectable opinions on both
sides of this issue. What I do not
respect, however, is Duff Sellers’s
willingness to vehemently argue that
the holiday must end because of the
harm it does to certain racial or eth-
nic groups, only to turn around and
promote caricatures and stereotypes
of another such group.
Jerry Cedrone ’11 franny choi
Oct. 15
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Transparency and the endowment

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managers made publicly available, as Investment Office
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Thanks in advance. Report, an assessment of environmental practices at

hundreds of colleges. Brown’s grade was set back
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Nobel Obama and his ignoble opposition
Anthony
Badami
Opinions Columnist
Last week, five Nor wegians convened in
Oslo to decide which of their distinguished
nominees deserved to win the Nobel Peace
Prize.
As you no doubt have heard from the blitz-
krieg of national news, President Obama is
this year’s recipient.
Just hours after his selection, critics from
the left and the right assembled as well —
though not to heap praise. Rather, they con-
vened to hurl rebukes aplenty at the eccentric
Nobel Committee.
The Scandinavians fired back that the
prize was meant to enhance Obama’s efforts
in international diplomacy, an agenda that
includes the sizable task of reducing nuclear
proliferation globally as well as ending our
intervention in Mesopotamia.
I myself take slight issue with Nobel Com-
mittee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland’s reason-
ing that they “are not awarding the prize for
what may happen in the future, but for what
he has done in the previous year.” Pundits are
partially correct in chiding this justification,
especially considering Obama was nominated
for the prize just two weeks into his tenure.
So far, Obama has done little more than buoy
centrist policies abroad.
Let’s check the foreign policy scorecard:
His speech in Cairo made a splash, but he
must adopt further hard policy in countries
with anti-Western feelings before real ideo-
How I learned to stop worrying and love the moon bomb
MICHAEL
FITZPATRICK
Opinions Columnist
On Oct. 9 at 7:31 a.m. EDT, the world wit-
nessed a momentous occasion: NASA’s Lu-
nar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite
(LCROSS) fired two large projectiles into
one of the moon’s polar craters to study the
composition of the lunar surface.
The lunar impact was hailed as a huge
success in the scientific community. The
most significant discovery by far has been
the existence of water molecules that were
kicked up with the debris from the crash.
This finding has been deemed crucial to the
continued exploration of the solar system as
astronauts could mine the abundance of lunar
water as a source of rocket fuel.
News of the impact has not been entirely
well-received across the globe. Several na-
tions have shown a great concern for the
United States’ apparent “bombing” of the
moon, citing a fear of violent retaliation from
any potential lunar inhabitants. A United Na-
tions committee is prepared to engage the
moon men in peaceful negotiations, but the
whereabouts of a Lunar Embassy on Earth
are largely unknown.
The moon bombing has also incited moral
outrage among various polytheistic and earth-
based religions, many of whom believe that
the moon goddess or other celestial spirits
will be greatly angered by NASA’s activities.
“We (moon-worshippers) have been making
ritual sacrifices to Selene and praying for her
logical change can occur. He was right to
urge Israeli leaders to freeze settlements, but
further support for the disastrously debilitated
population of Palestine is essential. And little
can be said about Obama’s support of the
Iranian democratic revolution, mostly because
he has said nothing.
Compound these dilemmas with an ailing
global economy and you will start to under-
stand the titanic job our 44th president has
in front of him. Such a hefty burden, then, is
why I must support the Committee’s decision.
Obama needs the symbolic power bestowed
by this prize now more than ever.
Malevolent forces abound from North Korea to
Iran to Libya to sub-Saharan Africa. Be it hard
or soft, literal or symbolic, Obama needs all the
ammunition he can obtain.
He seems to understand this responsi-
bility. In his acceptance speech, he viewed
the accolade as “an affirmation of American
leadership on behalf of aspirations held by
people in all nations.”
Though it was surprising, let us not dis-
miss this honor so immediately. In 2008, the
American public gave Obama our mandate to
rule. Earlier this month, the international com-
munity emblematically extended its mandate
as well. The Nobel will serve as a calibrator, a
metric by which Obama will be judged. From
this point on, he will enter foreign nations as
a statesmen and a peacemaker. It is his title
forgiveness,” said one such follower, who
wished to remain anonymous.
America’s heartland shares a different per-
spective on the negative consequences of the
lunar impact. “The moon bombing is the lat-
est in a long line of violent offenses that man
has made against God’s beautiful creation,”
said an angry pastor from Landover, Iowa.
“These so-called ‘scientists’ are overstepping
the boundaries that the good Lord has set
for them. First they created an atomic bomb.
Then they invented greenhouse gases. Then
came the cloning, the stem cell research, the
genetically engineered tomatoes … and now
Around the world, several nations have shown a
great concern for the United States’ apparent
‘bombing’ of the moon, citing a fear of violent
retaliation from any potential lunar inhabitants.
this? Sweet merciful Jesus, they’re playing
God with their moon bombs, and we’ve got
to stop them!”
At Brown, the general student body was
sharply divided over the issue, which eclipsed
other dinner-table discussions about the econ-
omy, midterm exams and the controversial
decision of the Nobel Prize committee to
award the 2009 Nobel Peace prize to Presi-
dent Barack Obama.
Supporters of the LCROSS impacts largely
cited the scientific merits of the project, in-
cluding the chance discovery of water on the
to sully.
Admonishment of this selection should be
directed at the committee itself, not at Obama.
Conservative pundits like Limbaugh who will
use this award to denounce Obama as a social-
ist radical or Taliban sympathizer should be
met with the harshest castigation.
But while it is easy to give in to this over-
whelming stricture (if not for agreement, at
least for comfort), bear in mind that Obama
will be confronting this censorious chorus as
well. Some have stated correctly that Obama
does not meet the standard outlined by Alfred
Nobel. The official standard states that the
Peace Prize be awarded to the individual that
“shall have done the most or the best work for
fraternity among nations.” The “shall have”
part of that statement is difficult to avoid.
Dominic Mhiripiri ’12 wrote in Friday’s
column (“Of Obama, Tsvangirai and a Nobel
war,” Oct. 16) that Obama didn’t deserve the
comparison to past laureates like Mother Te-
resa — an individual who seldom preached
‘peace,’ and declared to the world during her
Nobel speech that ‘abortion’ was the ‘great-
est enemy of peace.’ I hope it isn’t too brash
of me to imagine that Obama could do better
than this.
moon. “Finding water on the moon is just so
amazing,” said one enthusiastic freshman.
“The environment is becoming so polluted
nowadays, it’s comforting to know that there’s
still potable water in the solar system. Just
don’t let the bottled water companies get to
it first.”
Others saw the lunar impact as a revival of
the old doctrine of Manifest Destiny, thinking
that the United States has a divine mandate
to colonize the moon. “Just as Christianity
was important in the founding of the United
States, so shall it be important in the founding
of the first Lunar Colony,” said a particularly
fanatical senior. “The Moon Men know not
Christianity, and thus lack the bedrock to
construct a great United States of the Moon.
The LCROSS project has been their saving
grace.”
On the other side of the fence, many stu-
dents fear that the moon bombing is going to
be the start of a long, unjustified war against
the lunar inhabitants. “We’re all for peace
and love, dude!” shouted a raucous hippie.
“Don’t let the Man start another war, dude!
Bomb exams, not moon-people!”
A more serious junior remarked, “I’m defi-
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | Page 7
Yes, Obama’s current record is generally
unremarkable. But, in an attempt to qualify
such cold cynicism, I must say that Obama
has done something no other political figure
in recent history has been able to do — he
refused the maxim, especially salient in the
last eight years, that one should not “negotiate
with terrorists.”
On the campaign trail, Obama was asked
repeatedly whether diplomatic engagement
with the likes of Iran, Syria and Venezuela was
advisable. He responded that refusal to talk to
these nations in order to punish was simply
“ridiculous.” Obama is right to reproach this
archaic and destructive vision of diplomacy
promulgated by war criminals like Henry
Kissinger. This mentality has been respon-
sible for creating international quagmires in
the Middle East and Latin America that still
persist today.
We stand at a critical juncture in interna-
tional politics. Malevolent forces abound from
North Korea to Iran to Libya to sub-Saharan
Africa. Be it hard or soft, literal or symbolic,
Obama needs all the ammunition he can ob-
tain.
I applaud the Norwegian committee for
their intrepid, albeit unexpected, selection.
Obama’s presidency is moving this country
decidedly and unabashedly towards a long-
awaited diplomatic reorientation. Thus, I sug-
gest we stop all of this petulant condemnation
and move with it.
Anthony Badami ’11 is a political theory
concentrator from Kansas City, MO.
He can be reached at
anthony_badami@brown.edu.
nitely against this moon-bombing business. I
think it represents the hegemony of Western
culture and its oppressive geocentric views.
We should embrace the ethnic diversity of the
moon and come to a mutual understanding
with them through intellectual discourse.
By bombing them, we are perpetuating a
wave of neo-imperialism that dictated much
of our international relations during the Bush
administration.”
Rumors have already begun to spread
throughout campus that human-rights groups
are planning to launch various campaigns for
the fair treatment of the indigenous peoples
of the moon. One such campaign, the Lunar
Liberation Project, is planning several exhi-
bitions throughout the course of the year
urging students to demand the welfare of
the lunar inhabitants by refusing to eat them.
Various pro-lunar peace student groups are
gathering support, but it is currently unclear
if any existing organizations are planning to
protest the LCROSS project. Students for a
Democratic Society could not be reached
for comment.
Fortunately, the burden of diplomacy falls
on the shoulders of our most beloved leader,
Obama. When asked if the Nobel laureate
would facilitate peace talks with the moon
men, he responded, “Look, I received a Nobel
Prize for world peace — not cosmic peace. I
fear that peace accords may be years in the
making, but I promise that my 2012 platform
will be strongly pro-moon.”
Michael Fitzpatrick ’12 hates geocentric
oppression, neo-imperialism, and scien-
tific illiteracy. He can be contacted at mi-
chael_fitzpatrick@brown.edu
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Today, october 20
7 pm — Bollywood Film Series Pres-
ents “Monsoon Wedding,” Carmichael
Auditorium
8 pm — Brown University Jazz Combos
Concert, Grant Recital Hall
menu
Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Tortilla Casserole, Vegan
Stuffed Acorn Squash, Couscous
Dinner — Curry Chicken with Coco-
nut, Vegan Chana Masala, Basmati
Rice Pilaf
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Wednesday, october 21 Birdfish | Matthew Weiss
7 PM — Multiracial Identity Week
Interracial Dating Forum, Salomon
101
8 pm — Brown University Wind Sym-
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Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman
Lunch — Hot Ham on a Bulkie
Roll, Vegetarian Pot Pie, Spinach
with Lemon
Dinner — Roast Beef au Jus, Vegan
Vegetable Couscous, Roasted
Rosemary Potatoes
Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline
Hippomaniac| Mat Becker
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