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A fire destroyed the Edgewood Yacht What does a Brown degree mean in
Clubhouse — home to the Univer- the job market today? According to
sity’s nationally ranked co-ed sailing Lauren Rivera, not much.
team — but members of the team When competing for high-end
say they do not expect the fire to positions at law firms, consulting
adversely affect their season. firms and investment banks, Brown
While the team lost approxi- graduates fall behind students at the
mately $60,000 in equipment in top-four “super-elite” universities,
the Jan. 12 fire, none of the boats according to Rivera’s recent study
were damaged, said Head Coach in the journal “Research in Social
John Mollicone. Members of the Stratification and Mobility.”
team lost personal racing equip- Rivera, assistant professor of
ment, new lockers, uniforms, boat Hilary Rosenthal / Herald management and organizations at
Dr. Ronald Ferguson spoke about civil rights and racial achievement gaps for the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture.
supplies and coaching equipment, Northwestern University, examined
LETTERS..................5
editorial...............6 Despite heavy snow, Brown’s UWC alums
Opinions...............7 facilities sticks to budget. reminisce
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The Edgewood Yacht Club, home to Brown’s sailing team, was destroyed by a fire in January. No boats were lost.
Sudoku
Fire destroys trophies, equipment
continued from page 1 captain of the team. After the fire, Brown sailing back on the water,”
team members helped Mollicone said Sue Toland, vice-commodore
released by Jeff Lamphear, Edge- shovel snow off the docks and take of Edgewood.
wood’s commodore. the powerboats for maintenance. The sailing team will move into
The loss of the building came as Team member Colin Smith ’13 a 24-by-36 foot heated trailer on
a shock to members of the Edge- said it was “pretty sad” to see the Edgewood’s property and use it as a
wood Yacht Club and the Brown clubhouse burned down, but added, temporary classroom and changing
Sailing Team, Mollicone said. The “(The fire) shouldn’t affect us at all, area. “It’s our base for now,” Mol-
team rented two locker rooms and a really. All of our boats, our most licone said. “It will be a minor in-
classroom at Edgewood. Everything important assets, are fine.” convenience not having the setup we
stored and displayed there was de- Mollicone said he is working had, but we’ll get through it.” He said
stroyed in the fire, he said. with the Edgewood Yacht Club and that the team wants to stay at Edge-
Half of the team’s boats were the Athletics Department at Brown wood and support the yacht club.
stored in the parking lot 200 feet to find a temporary shelter for the Mollicone said he expects the
away from the clubhouse, and the sailing team so that it can continue team to be able to practice at Edge-
rest were flipped over on the docks, to sail out of Edgewood’s docks. wood before their first race Feb. 26
said Fred Strammer ’11, a former “Our immediate concern is to get and 27. He said the “overwhelm-
ing” support of parents and alumni
Cr ossword helped ease the transition. “The
Daily Herald
the Brown
school has been really great helping
us get back on our feet,” Mollicone
www.browndailyherald.com added. “I don’t think we’re going to
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Ben Schreckinger, President Matthew Burrows, Treasurer Plans to host the Women’s Brad
Sydney Ember, Vice President Isha Gulati, Secretary Dellenbaugh Trophy in April re-
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Copyright 2011 by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. All rights reserved. The team has sailed out of Edge-
editorial Business wood since 1974. “It was basically
(401) 351-3372 (401) 351-3360 our home,” Smith said. The club-
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house was added to the National
Historic Register in 1989 and was
the oldest yacht clubhouse in Rhode
Island.
“It was an icon for Brown sailing
for a very long time,” Strammer said.
“It is devastating to see it go.”
Edgewood Yacht Club will work
with the city of Cranston and the
Coastal Resources Management
Council to rebuild the boathouse.
Toland said the first step will be to
clear the site and reconnect the cat-
walk to the docks. “The pilings are
there, we just need to make good use
of them,” she said. Their offices will
relocate to a cottage the club owns
on the same property.
“The building is gone, but the
club is still here,” said Toland. “It’s
the right group of people to steer
that thing and get it done. It will
take a lot of money and effort, but it
will be totally worth it. We’re highly
optimistic.”
The Brown Daily Herald
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Campus News 3
Speaker addresses civil
Q&A with Ronald Ferguson
rights and ‘glass ceiling’ Renowned scholar Ronald Fer- We need to affect the lived experi- sense of injustice in our educa-
guson gave the 14th Martin Lu- ences of children. tion system. They do not accept
continued from page 1 generation students from even ap- ther King Jr. Lecture Tuesday I have a four-box model for the conditions of public, inner-
plying to college in the first place. afternoon. Before the lecture, he this. The first is schools, in which city education anymore. When
ment gap. Ferguson also spoke about cre- sat down with The Herald to talk teacher participation is critical. I read admissions essays for the
During a question and answer ating opportunities for students about a social movement for equity The second is peer dynamics and Graduate School of Education
session after the lecture, Ferguson who do not pursue college edu- in education. how children interact. The third is at Harvard, the stories that TFA
addressed the issue of education cation and instead study in voca- parenting and their home life. The graduates tell are very emotional.
perpetuating social hierarchy. tional programs. Jonathon Acosta The Herald: How did you get fourth is the leadership that holds They describe the sense of injus-
“People who already have privi- ’11 asked how schools could ensure interested in studying issues of these together, aligns resources tice they felt. I understand the
lege tend to award it,” he said, and that Latino and black students are racial inequality? and determines what children criticism of the program, that it
the students whose parents are not not disproportionately encouraged achieve in these settings. What takes a longer time for people to
as well-off most need to be advo- to pursue vocational programs in- Ferguson: I have been interested do students need to experience learn how to be teachers, but the
cated for. stead of attending college. “That’s in helping the folks in my neigh- in order to be good learners? We schools they are going to need
Paul Tran ’14 asked Ferguson the million dollar question,” Fer- borhood in Cleveland, Ohio, need to work on adult learning. help. And TFA is certainly not
about the “glass ceilings” that stu- guson responded. since I was eight years old. I asked The teacher needs to be educat- doing any harm.
dents of color and first-genera- Ferguson advocated a social people, “What can I do to make ed on the level of instructional
tion college attendees must break movement that creates a new things better?” The response leadership. The mechanisms Can you talk about the thesis
through to succeed in college. national identity in the arena of was city planning, so I went into needed to reach parents must be of your book, “Toward Excel-
Ferguson, himself the son of a bus education, which would entail a Cornell as an undergraduate, respectful of their world vision. lence with Equity: An emerging
driver and stay-at-home mother different lifestyle and renewed planning to study engineering. We must reach parents through vision for closing the achieve-
from Cleveland, Ohio, encouraged commitment to helping students I ended up studying economics, every institution on the topic ment gap”?
Tran to “just keep pushing” and ad- realize their full potential. and later got my PhD in econom- of effective parenting, from the
vocate for himself at Brown. Tran, One of the goals of this lecture ics at (the Massachusetts Institute workplace, to places of recreation, The thesis of my book is that we
who was raised by his mother, a was to initiate a dialogue in the of Technology). I then started to beauty salons and shops. We need a 21st Century movement
Vietnamese refugee who came to Brown community on issues of race teaching at the Kennedy School, must saturate communities with built around helping students
the U.S. in 1989, told The Herald in education, Maria Pacheco, direc- working on the issue of inner- images of effective parenting so from all different backgrounds to
he is interested in the forces that tor of equity and diversity projects, city economic development. In that it becomes the norm. We realize their full potential. Com-
prevent students of color and first- told The Herald. the late ’80s, I worked on how need to organize things to engage munities that in the past were
differences in test scores predict parents. Lots of people are now discriminated against because of
differences in earnings, and the working on this issue — many white supremacy now have new
Individuals’ health
should concern society Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman
To the Editor: Indeed, the very opposite of
what Fast writes is true. There is
In his opinion article (“Just say no more basic argument for the
‘no’ (to the nanny state),” Feb. 4), existence of the state than that it
Hunter Fast ’12 states that the jus- advances the welfare of its constit-
tification for sin taxes rests “on the uents — and what is welfare but
erroneous belief that one person’s health? Whether or not sin taxes
health is the concern of the whole are useful in this regard is a debate
of society.” This is wildly absurd. unto itself that I do not have space
One need only imagine a similar to address here. However, as any-
statement concerning the Ameri- one familiar with the basic rules of
can judicial system, that it rests logic knows, an argument based
“on the erroneous beliefs that one on a flawed premise can only be
person’s injustice is the concern of flawed itself.
the whole society,” to see the vast
faults in such logic. Kerem Trolander ’14
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The Brown Daily Herald
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Opinions 7
Walk a mile in my waterproof boots
substance we call ice. Perhaps it is not until wandering piece of equipment, we should marched from Kansas to Michigan and
a hapless student slips on the ice and breaks buy one. Should storm drains be cleared up into northern New England. It makes
BY MIKE JOHNSON an arm or leg that an adequate snow-re- and sidewalks plowed of any residual slush, sense: “Big Rainstorm Hits Providence —
moval policy will be enacted. the sidewalks would be dry, safe and filled Again” is not as flashy as “Blizzard Strikes
Opinions Columnist Still worse, students attempting to avoid with happy pedestrians. Traffic would flow Snow-Weary Northeast.” But this is no ex-
the inconvenience of soggy shoes and fro- smoothly, unburdened by the stressful and cuse for ignoring the thermodynamics of
zen metatarsals take to walking directly hazardous crossings near the J. Walter Wil- water and the physics of spatial relation. In-
It starts with a sinking feeling in your chest down the street, because that is where one son and Barus and Holley buildings. stead, the University cursorily plowed and
that moves all the way up to your throat. can actually see the asphalt rather than the As I prepared for the storm that crushed dumped piles of sand everywhere. If there
You’re not sure whether to cry out in de- translucent culprit of the concrete. Driv- the Midwest Feb. 1 and made its way to- is anything worse than slush, it is mud.
spair or to stoically weather the embarrass- ers that are already upset by the snow- ward Providence, I noticed that the tem- Frigid water is just as good as snow at
ment. After a few seconds, a chilling throb narrowed streets must now slalom their peratures would be above freezing. As such, causing frostbite. Steps can become slick
of pain seizes your foot, making it seem way around bustling students, all the while I unpacked my umbrella and prepared for inside of buildings as well as outside when
to weigh six tons. What is drowned be- watching for black ice. the coming rain. But it seems that such log- students must wade through two inches of
neath the inevitable string of unspeakable standing water to cross the street. While I
words that flow from your pursed lips and count the University fortunate that a leaky
clenched teeth is the stunning reality that roof in the Ratty was the only indication
you have just stepped in the deepest side- of an ice storm that knocked out power
walk puddle imaginable. to thousands, the University should count
It’s winter in Providence, which brings
Perhaps it is not until a hapless student slips on the ice itself fortunate that no one was seriously
with it the entire gamut of precipitation and breaks an arm or leg that adequate snow removal hurt.
from snow to pouring rain. The tempera- Every student pays exorbitant tuition to
ture hovers just over freezing, ensuring a policy can be enacted. come to this school. We do so in the under-
mysterious wintry mix blankets our fair standing that we will be protected while in
city in inches of sloppy goo. And despite attendance. The shoddy display of road and
the weather patterns being fairly fixed since sidewalk clearance Feb. 1 and 2 makes me
the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago, wonder where the money is going at a col-
Brown and the City of Providence seem At the risk of sounding patronizing, the ic was lost on the University, as the side- lege in a historically snowy environment.
powerless to prevent pedestrian puddle solution to all these winter woes is simple. walks remained slushy as Tuesday turned The weather is nothing new, and sadly, the
production. The storm drains are clogged with snow. into Wednesday. The lower layers froze, the University’s inability to cope with it is just
Granted, Brown hasn’t been around Rather than funnel the snowmelt and rain- upper layers melted, and as the rain con- as old. I just hope that it does not take a
since the last ice age. The University only water down the gutters of the streets to the tinued to pour down on our hapless heads, lawsuit or potentially grievous injury in or-
has had about 240 years of evidence that bay to our south, they are rendered power- students skidded and sloshed their way to der to see tangible change.
proximity to the ocean leads to as much less by hastily plowed snow. The prowling class, lucky to have all their bones in proper
sleet or rain as it does snow. It is under- backhoe that I have seen around campus order.
standable, then, that the sidewalks around would perform marvelously in this task, It is true that the rain portion of the
campus are continually covered in slush lifting snow off the storm drain and piling it storm did not receive as much air time in Mike Johnson ’11 is sick of stepping
that at night re-freezes into that slippery onto the snow bank. If we do not own that the press as the blizzard conditions that in cold puddles.