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THE BROWN Dvol. cxliv,aily no. 72 | Friday, September 25,H 2009 | Servingerald the community daily since 1891 Talks begin Faculty committee to on slave trade review tenure policies memorial BY NICOLE FRIEDMAN different ways of dealing with BRIAN MASTROIANNI SENIOR STAFF WRITER tenure” among universities. SENIOR STAFF WRITER “One of the challenges the A newly formed committee will committee will have is to try to The University’s Public Arts Commit- review the University’s tenure and get as good data as we can to tee has begun considering building faculty development policies after see whether the comment by the a public memorial to the historical an outside monitor called atten- NEASC seems to be borne out by ties of Brown and of Rhode Island tion to those areas, according to evidence,” Kertzer said. to the slave trade, almost two years an e-mail Provost David Kertzer after the University Steering Commit- ’69 P’95 P’98 sent to faculty Thurs- Tenure clock too short? tee on Slavery and Justice convened day afternoon. The ad hoc committee, which by President Ruth Simmons recom- When the University was re- plans to issue recommendations mended one. accredited in the spring by the in the spring, will consider three The committee is set to discuss New England Association of central issues, Kertzer said. Its ideas for the nature and placement Schools and Colleges, the evalua- members will first examine “the of a memorial at a meeting next tion committee identified aspects set of issues around our tenure month, said committee member Jo- of Brown’s tenure processes as processes and whether they Ann Conklin, director of the David an area of concern, Kertzer said. are as strong as they could and Winton Bell Gallery. The committee, comprised of ad- should be,” Kertzer said. “The memorial is in recognition ministrators at peer institutions, Kertzer will chair the commit- of a period in our history that, for noted in particular that Brown tee, which includes eight faculty many, is very painful,” said Artemis awarded tenure to professors at members. Dean of the Faculty Joukowsky ’55 P’87, chancellor emeri- Herald File Photo a very high rate. Rajiv Vohra P’07 and Dean of tus and chair of the committee. Jou- Wide receiver Buddy Farnham ’10 and the football team look to take In response, the Academic Medicine and Biological Sciences down Harvard for the second straight year tonight. kowsky said the project represented Affairs Committee of the Corpo- Edward Wing will serve as ex a brave undertaking for the Univer- ration asked the administration officio members, according to sity and would “make us one of the For rival Harvard, Brown to form a faculty committee “to the e-mail. few in the country to have such a look at whether there is any real Since tenure is officially grant- memorial.” basis for concern,” Kertzer told ed by the Corporation, “they obvi- So far, plans for the project — game is ‘just another one’ The Herald. ously want to feel confident that which lacks a specific deadline — have BY DAN ALEXANDer of the Ivy championships. Both “Certainly it is the impression we have the strongest methods consisted of informal brainstorming SENIOR STAFF WRITER teams went 6-1 in the Ivy League of this committee that Brown has of ensuring the highest quality of among committee members. last fall. The only league team that historically granted tenure to a faculty at Brown,” Kertzer said. Joukowsky said having a memo- Harvard and Brown, the defend- defeated Harvard last year was higher proportion of the people But a high tenure rate is not rial near the planned Alpert Medical ing Ivy football co- Brown. who enter into the tenure track necessarily a negative thing, he School complex in downtown’s Jew- champions, will meet SPOrtS It is not surprising, positions than at least most” of its added. elry District is “an especially exciting each other at 7 p.m. then, that Brown-Har- peer institutions, he said. On the one hand, the Univer- idea.” tonight under the lights of Har- vard is a rivalry game. At least, it But actual data are hard to sity should reserve its “relatively “The memorial could somehow be vard Stadium. is for Brown. come by, he added, since tenure few” tenured positions for “the on or near the bridge connecting our In the last five seasons, the negotiations are often not made campus to the new proposed medi- teams have had a share in four continued on page 2 public, and there are “a million continued on page 3 cal school area,” he said, noting that the committee will consider several ideas, including installing a plaque in memory of the slave trade. Newark mayor: Individuals can change cities Where do If placed near the bridge, Conklin said the installation would remind BY CAITLIN TRUJILLO people of the slave trade given that STAFF WRITER the magic “slave memorials are usually on a waterfront” since “the people were Local action is the key ingredient brought here on ships.” to affect urban change, Newark, bars go? Other members of the committee N.J., Mayor Cory Booker told a include Professor of Visual Arts Rich- Salomon 101 audience Thursday Why pigs love ard Fishman, Professor of History of that included Providence’s own your dinner scraps Art and Architecture Dietrich Neu- mayor, David Cicilline ’83. mann, Senior Lecturer in American Booker, whose reforms since BY GAURIE TILAK Civilization and University Curator his election in 2006 have improved STAFF WRITER Robert Emlen and Susan Freedman conditions in one of the country’s ’82, president of the New York-based most violent cities, delivered the Got too much on your plate? Brown Public Art Fund. annual Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Dining Services does, too — that’s Though the exact cost of a memo- Lecture, sponsored by the Taub- why it donated 737 pounds of baked Frederic Lu / Herald rial remains to be determined, Conk- man Center for Public Policy. Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., urged students to become active lin said it would be funded by Sim- “I think every person in this in their communities, calling democracy a “full-contact” sport. FEATURE mons’ discretionary fund, reserved room has the ability to make a for uses deemed especially appropri- profound impact on the world,” individuals to improve their com- cans too often let an inability to goods to local charities last year ate by the president’s office. Booker said. munities. do everything undermine their alone. The memorial will also recognize Quoting figures from Shake- Improving the conditions in willingness to do anything, Booker BuDS donates usable leftovers the state’s connection to slavery, speare to Chris Rock, Booker’s American cities will ultimately said. to a number of charities and sends Conklin said, noting that it is impor- 45-minute address described his benefit the nation as a whole, Booker faced a number of “plate waste” — table scraps from tant to open a broader discussion experiences trying to revitalize Booker said, imploring all audi- hurdles when he first sought to the Sharpe Refectory and the the crime-ridden city and what ence members not to be deterred continued on page 3 he learned about the power of by obstacles and setbacks. Ameri- continued on page 4 continued on page 3 News.....1-4 Arts, 5 News, 3 Opinions, 11 Arts........5-6 FULL CIRCLE RESOURCE-FUL HAPPY NEW YEAR? 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Generally complimentary of STAFF WRITER the president, he called Obama’s June speech in Cairo a “wonder- Two of Brown’s world-leaders-in- ful” address that “embraced” the residence, former Chilean Presi- Muslim world. dent Ricardo Lagos and former Gusenbauer focused less on Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusen- Obama and more on the world bauer, seemed to offer a hopeful community as a whole, which view of current geopolitical affairs he said was finally addressing at a forum Thursday morning at “the most ardent political and the the Watson Institute for Interna- most ardent social and economic tional Studies. issues.” Lagos, a professor-at-large at One of those issues, he said, is Watson, pointed to the fall of the nuclear nonproliferation, a subject Berlin Wall as the beginning of a about which he seemed hopeful new era in which cooperation be- — especially with regard to Iran, tween nations forms a cornerstone where he said an “out of touch” of foreign policy. President Mahmoud Ahmedine- Herald File Photo Gusenbauer, a visiting profes- jad was making his “last expres- With four All-Ivy linemen playing, coaches for Brown and Harvard expect an especially physical game. sor of international studies, said sions.” for his part that “the 21st century But Gusenbauer also warned begins now” — as opposed to nine of the danger of thinking that years ago — because only now do the economic crisis was over. He Bears ready to line up at Harvard nations have a uniform progressive warned that governments might phy sees as its biggest rival until ons at quarterback and running continued from page 1 international agenda and a willing- be deterred from continuing the last week of the season.