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Crime roundupThree crimes were reported over the weekend, including two thefts

Career CrazeThe Fall Career Fair Wednesday will offer networking opportunities

By GABRIELLE DEESENIOR STAFF WRITER

Though the Center for Careers and Life After Brown has historically been criticized for its focus on technology, finance and consulting jobs, Director Andrew Simmons said it has continued making efforts to help students find links between their education and career opportunities.

But some students said they still feel CareerLab has more work to do in terms of diversifying its offerings for undergraduates.

“What I’m most interested in is the middle ground between finance and PeaceCorps — companies that aren’t either of these polar extremes,” said Sage Green ’14.5

Finding that breadth remains “a challenge in a sense because we have such a diverse student body in terms of where students come from and what they want to do,” Simmons said.

Though Simmons did not com-ment on the center’s specific plans for expansion this year, CareerLAB has taken recent steps in an effort to increase its campus presence and services and to rebrand its image on campus.

In 2011, CareerLAB established a nonprofit career fair and increased the number of postings on the Job

CareerLAB looks to diversify offeringsSome students have criticized the center, saying it focuses on a narrow set of fields

By EMMA HARRISCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Blue Room has remained open to customers after one of its doors was shattered Sunday at 5 p.m. A tempo-rary wooden wall has been constructed where the glass door used to stand.

Anthony Kanellopoulos ’16 was leaving the Blue Room at 5 p.m. Sun-day when a cashier told him to use the side door to exit, he said. Kanellopoulos wanted to help the cashier by closing the glass doors all the way, but when he grabbed the door handle, “it just

Lacking door, Blue Room remains openIn the aftermath of the door shattering, the Blue Room’s service is uninterrupted

By MICHAEL DUBINSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The University may name an interim replacement for Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron while a search committee looks for her long-term successor, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 and UCS President Todd Harris ’14.5 confirmed.

The announcement of an interim dean of the College could come within the next two weeks, Schlissel said.

“I’m hoping later this month to be able to put out an announcement discussing the search committee, the

search process, the notion of whether we’ll need an interim, and perhaps even who that would be,” Schlissel said. “But it won’t happen until at least next week or the week after.”

Harris said he did not know when an announcement regarding an interim dean would be made but said he was in the process of scheduling a meeting this week with Schlissel and UCS Vice President Sam Gilman ’15 to discuss the position and the search process.

Gilman said his knowledge of the possibility that an interim dean of the College could be chosen was limited.

“We’re going to try to find out in-formation as soon as possible, but we don’t really have anything right now,” he said.

When Professor of English Paul Armstrong announced he would step down as dean of the College in January

2006, the University had almost six months to find his replacement. For-mer Provost Robert Zimmer told The Herald at the time that finding Arm-strong’s replacement by June 30 was an “ambitious timeline.” Despite the time pressure, Bergeron assumed the dean of College position July 1 of that year, The Herald previously reported.

With the August announcement that Bergeron will assume the presi-dency at Connecticut College on Jan. 1, the University would have to work on an even tighter deadline if it were to have a long-term successor in place by the time of her departure.

Brown is not the only university currently searching for a new dean of the college. Following the resignation of former dean Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard is also looking for someone to fill the position.

U. considers naming interim dean of the CollegeAn announcement about the search for Bergeron’s successor might be made within the next two weeks

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Undergrads left fall stress behind as they snuggled animals at a Monday event sponsored by the 2015 Class Coordinating Board.

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Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron will leave the University to assume the presidency at Connecticut College, effective Jan. 1.

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CareerLAB has made efforts to bring in more specialized advisers, including those with expertise in coaching pre-law and pre-med students.

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After the glass door to the Blue Room shattered Sunday night, maintenance staff members arrived to clean up and assess the damage. Herald file photo.» See BLUE ROOM, page 2

» See CAREERLAB, page 4

Fall Career FairTomorrow

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Coverage of the industries represented at the fair

Maps of the fair tables and a list of employers

Tips for before, during and after the fair

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broke before I even pulled it,” he said. “We do not anticipate any inter-

ruption of service and expect the Blue Room to continue operating on a nor-mal schedule,” wrote Ann Hoffman,

director of administration of Brown Dining Services, in an email to The Herald.

Jacques Larue, director of retail dining, has requested that Facilities Management replace the broken door, Hoffman wrote.

Blue Room Unit Manager Victor Chang ’14 and Assistant Unit Man-ager Krissia Rivera ’15 both declined to comment.

The Blue Room remains fully func-tional. “I had the exact same experi-ence” as always, said Emma Pastore ’14.

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For two and a half hours on Monday, students gathered on Wriston Quad to hold and cuddle animals including puppies, ducklings, bunnies and even a goat wearing a diaper.

university news 3THE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

By JILLIAN LANNEYSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The following is an account of crime events that took place this weekend, reported to The Herald by Deputy Chief of Police for the Department of Public Safety Paul Shanley:

Between Thursday and Friday afternoons

In the first of two reported residence hall thefts this weekend, money and other items were stolen from a Way-land House resident’s unlocked room sometime between 4 p.m. Thursday and 2 p.m. Friday. There are cur-rently no suspects, and DPS detec-tives are investigating the case.

Friday eveningA female student saw a man in a vehicle exposing himself around the area of 201 Williams St. DPS officers responded to the scene and stopped the vehicle. The department is cur-rently working with the Providence Police Department to determine whether to pursue criminal charges. DPS remains in contact with the initial witness.

Saturday eveningA laptop was taken from an unlocked Chapin House room sometime be-

tween 10 p.m. and midnight. No suspects have been identified, and the investigation is ongoing.

Weekend crime updateThis weekend saw two residence hall thefts and one incident of indecent exposure

By SONA MKRTTCHIANCITY & STATE EDITOR

Documents made public last week reveal that the Rhode Island Economic De-

velopment Cor-poration hired legal representa-

tion last fall in response to inquiries from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the state’s $75 million loan to now-defunct 38 Studios, a video game development firm founded and led by former-Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling.

The documents indicating the trans-action had occurred were acquired by local news outlet WPRI.

Schilling’s company defaulted on its loan in 2012 — two years after receiving the funds and moving its headquarters to Rhode Island as a part of the loan agreement. The company subsequently declared bankruptcy, and the state now owes upwards of $100 million on bonds used to fund the loan, a burden many speculate will ultimately fall on the state’s taxpayers.

The EDC’s financial records show

the state spent more than $100,000 on services from the law firm Cohen & Gresser LLP over a five-month span at the end of 2012, WPRI reported, but neither the EDC nor the SEC has commented on the nature of the legal proceedings. The SEC has not launched a formal investigation into the state agency.

Overall, the state spent more $700,000 on legal representation as-sociated with the 38 Studios case last year, according to EDC records. Ap-proximately $520,000 was spent on general counsel, with the remaining $87,000 going to the local Providence firm working on the open case against 38 Studios executives and former top-ranking EDC officials. The suit claims individuals on both sides of the loan deal continued with the agreement, despite knowing 38 Studios would be unable to turn its ambitious agenda into a functional business.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 and other top-ranking politicians have previously supported the lawsuit against the leaders of the deal in hopes of claim-ing funds to offset the state’s loan debt.

This summer the General Assembly approved $2.5 million of this year’s state budget to begin to repay the 38 Studios bonds. Under the approved plan, the state would have to continue payments every year until 2020.

EDC hires counsel in face of SEC inquiryThe inquiry comes after 38 Studios went bankrupt and defaulted on a $75 million state loan

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university news4 THE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

and Internship Board through greater employer outreach, Simmons said. Formerly the Career Development Center, CareerLAB changed its name in 2011 to reflect a move toward more services for students beyond just job postings, The Herald reported at the time.

CareerLAB has also expanded its summer networking events, adding new events in Boston and on the West Coast, Simmons said.

The center has been recruiting more specialized advisors, he added, and offering pre-professional medi-cal and law advising — which were previously provided by the Office of the Dean of the College. CareerLAB reaches out to academic advisors and departments, providing them with information and resources to pass on to students about their careers, Sim-mons said.

Simmons said he has seen more student participation in CareerLAB programs during his time as director, perhaps due to the center’s efforts to publicize its activities. Students and parents are more organized “about (their) educational planning and how that works on a continuum with your life long goals,” he added.

The center’s busiest months are September — when seniors come in for information sessions on writing their resumes and cover letters — as well as October, when students then seek advice for interviews, said Re-becca Gevertz ’14, a receptionist at CareerLAB.

Though it is “difficult to get ap-pointments,” Gevertz said her ex-perience with CareerLAB has been positive.

Advik Iyer Guha ’16 said he did not like having to wait in line for walk-in hours but found the CareerLAB “help-ful” in improving his resume.

He said while the center has effec-tive advertising, it needs to reach out to those who are not as interested in getting jobs yet. “Those are the ones who need to hear about it most,” he said.

Eugene Lee ’15 said he only knows about CareerLAB through the regular emails sent out and has never partici-pated in any of its programs, suggest-ing better publicity would increase student participation.

Some students choose not to attend the center’s programs because “a lot of people don’t want to think about getting a job,” Gevertz added.

Others suggested lack of interest could stem from dissatisfaction with the career options most commonly represented.

“I know the career fair has a lot of finance firms and pre-professional stuff,” Ben Gastevich ’16 said. “The offerings seemed a little skimpy.”

Career LAB receives informal feed-back from students, and is “working toward developing more systematic program evaluations,” Simmons said.

“I think we are continuing to look at ways to meet the needs of students in this domain.”

— Additional reporting by Abigail Savitch-Lew and Isobel Heck

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Student participation in CareerLAB programs has increased following the center’s renewed publicity efforts.

university news 5THE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

By ABIGAIL SAVITCH-LEWSTAFF WRITER

The Center for Careers and Life After Brown will host its annual Fall Ca-reer Fair Wednesday, with more than 90 organizations aiming to introduce undergraduates to potential jobs and internships.

For the first time, students will have access to a photo booth to take profes-sional pictures for LinkedIn profiles, said Andrew Simmons, director of the CareerLAB.

The fair is not only for seniors search-ing for jobs or students looking for in-ternships, but also for other undergradu-ates who want to explore the range of opportunities available, Simmons said.

As in previous years, technology, fi-nance, retail and consulting companies will make up about two-thirds of the employers present. These companies tend to have the resources for large-scale recruiting, Simmons said, adding that students not interested in those fields are encouraged to take advantage of the CareerLAB’s other resources, such as the peer-to-peer internship showcase in December, the January Career Labora-tory, the nonprofit fair in the spring and various online tools.

In smaller numbers, organizations from fields including education, com-munity development, environment, medicine, advertising, health care, law and government will also be present.

Zach Carroll, a representative from

Citizen Schools, a nonprofit that pro-vides after-school enrichment for low-income public middle schools, said he would be present to discuss careers in education, network with underclassmen and recruit seniors to a two-year teach-ing fellowship. He said Brown students have historically demonstrated great interest in the organization.

“Brown does a good job of broad-ening students’ interests to what’s out there,” he said.

Sheyda Bautista-Saeyan ’14 said she has been in contact with several of the consulting companies that will be pres-ent Wednesday. The fair is a perfect op-portunity to “put a name to your face” while handing resumes to employers, she said.

John Brewer ’17, who said he is inter-ested in business, said he heard about the fair during orientation and was planning on attending to get “an introduction to opportunities for this summer.”

Akshaya Avril-Tucker ’15, who said she hopes to pursue a career in music, said she did not intend to attend because there won’t be many arts organizations at the fair. She has already found career opportunities through the music depart-ment and other connections, but she might reach out to the CareerLAB to find alums in her field, she said.

The fair will take place from noon to 4 p.m. in Sayles Hall and in a tent on the Main Green. Students interested in law school can also interact with admis-sions officers from 20 law schools in the Kasper Multipurpose Room from noon to 2 p.m.

Students who attend the fair should “be sure to do a little research ahead of time and to dress appropriately — business-professional,” Simmons said.

Tech, consulting, finance to dominate career fairTwo-thirds of the firms at the fair will represent consulting, finance, retail and technology

 

How to Prepare for the Career Fair BEFORE

• Prepare a brief personal introduction about your academic and other relevant experiences, including why you are interested in the organization, alum, school, or career field.

• Compose questions you want to ask so you can use your time effectively (see below). • Plan the clothes you will wear - business casual is suggested. • If you plan to bring one, have your resume ready in a folder.

You should also research the organizations you are interested in. Participating organizations are noted below. This research should help you understand the goals of the organization, its structure, current issues faced, and how it is positioned in its industry. Here are some questions to research:

• What does this organization do? What is its mission? How does it go about executing its mission? • What is the organization’s position in its sector? How does it relate to other organizations in the industry? • What is the organization’s structure? (for profit, non-profit, government, private foundation, family business, etc.) • Number of employees? Location(s)? Impact? (sales volume, operating budget, number of clients served, etc.) • What types of professionals work for the organization? What are some of the opportunities?

DURING • Give a firm handshake when it is your turn to introduce yourself. Maintain eye contact. • Speak concisely and don’t forget to smile—it shows enthusiasm! • Feel free to take notes, and ask for a business card.

After you introduce yourself, you’ll want to have a few questions prepared to start the conversation. Indicate through your questions that you have done your research and know something about the employer. Here are some questions you may want to ask:

• What types of entry level positions or internships are available? • What skills, background or experiences are you looking for in an entry level employee (intern)? • What types of people succeed in your environment? • What is a typical career path? • How important is an internship in your industry? • What is the culture like? The lifestyle?

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sports tuesday6 THE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

By BRUNO ZUCCOLOSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s and women’s cross country teams opened their 2013 seasons Sat-urday at the Dartmouth Invitational in Hanover, N.H., finishing third and fifth, respectively. The men’s team earnedits bronze with 90 points overall, and the women’s team finished with 141.

“We performed reasonably well,” said men’s Head Coach Tim Springfield. “It was a solid opener … (that) fulfilled its purpose.”

Women’s Head Coach Mitchell Baker said he was pleased with the women’s performance.

“I thought the women did a solid job of competing, even though they knew they wouldn’t have every bit of their physical ability sharpened and ready to go,” Baker said.

The Bears’ best individual time on the women’s side came from Heidi Caldwell ’14, who finished the 6 kilometers in 10th place with a time of 21 minutes, 21 sec-onds. The winner of that race was, for the third time in a row, Dartmouth’s Abbey D’Agostino, who managed a 51-second advantage over the second place runner, Bentley University’s Tara Dooley.

“We kind of went to find out what we

had to work on … to see where we are physically and mentally and work from there,” Caldwell said.

Bruno’s fastest runner for the men’s 8 kilometer race was Stephen Bourguet ’17. Bourguet finished with a time of 25:08, earning 20th place. Dartmouth’s Will

Geoghegan was the individual winner for the second straight year.

“I’m definitely happy with the overall result,” Bourguet said. “But I think I can do better, which is a pretty encouraging thing.”

Brown’s team was made up mostly of

freshmen and some upperclassmen with less experience, Springfield said. “It was an opportunity for our younger athletes to compete” he said.

Springfield said he is “very excited” about the incoming freshmen, who have “a lot of potential,” adding that “the team as a whole is training really well — really hard” in order to have a successful season.

“It’s a great group of guys, and we all get along really well,” Bourguet said. Bourguet said he hopes to be able to run at the Ivy League Heptagonal Champion-ships in November.

“There’s something really special about (the Ivies),” Caldwell said. She finished fourth in 2012.

Last year, the men’s team placed last in the Ivies and 11th in the NCAA Region-als and did not qualify for the NCAA Championship. The women’s team man-aged a third-place finish in the Ivies and a top-ten finish in the region but were also

unable to go to nationals.“We’re really focused this year on our

own development and maximizing our capabilities,” Springfield said.

The women’s team has few return-ing athletes from last year’s top seven, Caldwell said. “I think it’s going to be a building year … The season itself is kind of an unknown, but I’m really excited. Our team is really close this year and I think we’re going to do well.”

Baker said these first meets are still a “testing period” for the team.

“Our sport is entirely directed to-wards the end of the season,” Baker said. “(We’ll) have a little bit more clear objectives when we get to October (and) November.”

Bruno’s next challenge will come Saturday in New York, when the team travels for the Iona Meet of Champions.

“We’re ready to get out there and race and see where it takes us,” Baker said.

Squads start season with strong finishes at DartmouthAfter falling short of nationals last season, the cross country teams hope to highlight young talent

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The women’s cross country team captured a fifth place finish in the inaugural event of the season. The men’s team medalled at the invitational, scoring 90 points. Both teams are seeking NCAA berths after falling short last year.

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sports tuesday 7THE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

By LLOYD SY SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s soccer team moved to 2-2-0 after last week’s action, continu-ing to split non-conference match-ups.

Brown comes from behind, wins

in overtimeBruno defeated Northeastern Uni-

versity (0-5-2) last Thursday night at Stevenson Field. The team fell behind 1-0 in the first half but bounced back and won six minutes into overtime, 2-1.

Chloe Cross ’15 scored the game-winning goal in the extra period. Cross led the team in points last season, but this was her first goal of the year.

“We all know that overtime has the golden goal rule,” Cross said, referring to the sudden-death nature of scoring in overtime. “When we get chances to put it away, we have to do it.”

Bianca Calderone, a back for North-eastern, scored in the 39th minute, giv-ing the Huskies the one-goal lead at halftime.

The Bears responded with an equal-izer by midfielder Erin Katz ’16 in the 79th minute, setting up Cross’s game-winner in overtime.

Head Coach Phil Pincince said he believes that his team “definitely brought the intensity level” needed to win.

“I think we learned a lot from the

St. John’s game,” Pincince said. “Play-ers understood what had to be done and stepped up to the challenge of the week.”

Bruno shot 17 times, compared to Northeastern’s nine shots. Captain Mika Siegelman ’14 said the differential resulted from Brown’s new offensive formations, which use three forwards, as opposed to the more standard two.

“We had a tough time scoring last year,” Siegelman said. “Now we have more numbers forward. Our backline and midfield has been great too, show-ing how you can still slow down an offense with less players.”

Goalkeepers Amber Bledsoe ’14 and Mary Catherine Barrett ’14 split time in the net, continuing a trend that has stuck throughout the season. Bledsoe was credited with two saves.

Penalty knocks Bruno down against UCF

The Bears traveled to Orlando Sun-day afternoon, where they lost to the University of Central Florida (6-2-0) at the UCF Soccer and Track Stadium, with a final score of 2-0.

The two goals for the Knights both resulted from penalty kicks. Jennifer Martin scored in the 14th minute after Brown was penalized for tripping a player in the box. Tatiana Coleman was sent to the line — four minutes later, after the Bears were called for a handball — sending the penalty kick past Bledsoe.

“I’ve been here a long time, but I’ve never seen two penalty kicks called on one team in a half,” Pincince said. “That was difficult to take.”

Pincince said he was proud of “not letting UCF score from the field.” The Knights — ranked among the top 20 teams in the country last year — had won three in a row before defeating Bruno.

“We did well not to let up,” Siegel-man said. “Your defense is doing well when you’re only allowing five shots on goal from Central Florida.” Siegelman and Cross each had two shots.

As non-conference play continues, Cross said, the key to success will be “our team’s leaders.”

“We have so many of them on the field,” Cross said. “We’ve all worked really hard, and I think that’s going to show throughout the season.”

Bruno travels Thursday to the Uni-versity of Massachusetts at Amherst (2-4-1) for its next contest.

Bears win thriller over Northeastern, fall to UCFThe team’s new offensive strategy has seen some success prior to facing new tests in league play

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Ducklings were among the many farm animals present at the 2015 Class Coordinating Board’s Super Heavy Petting event Monday.

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sports tuesday 9THE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Class Notes | Philip Trammell

Let’s Talk | Nava Winkler and Regine Rosas

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Wide receiver Tellef Lundevall ’13.5 figures to be a major target in the passing game as Brown seeks its sixth winning season in a row this year.

a major addition for the ground game, and he is expected to get most of the carries early in the season, Estes said.

“Spooney’s a guy that can break open a ball game,” Estes said. “Easily, he is the best running back we have.”

Controlling the line of scrimmage will be up to the team’s experienced offensive line. Returning tackles Cole Hooper ’14 and Clayton Paino ’14 anchored last season’s front line, which did not allow a single sack in

the season’s final four games. Joining them is all-Ivy guard Dan Austin ’14. The middle of the line will be con-trolled by center Nathan Svensson ’14, while Ryan McCourt ’14, Abe Dube ’15 and Nicholas Codrea ’15 will add depth to the unit. Donnelly said the experienced offensive line was “all you could ask for as a quarterback.”

Not to be overlooked is Bruno’s biggest scoring threat: All-Ivy place-kicker Alex Norocea ’14. The kicker is a valuable weapon for the Bears, leading the team in points with 51

points and the league in field goal percentage at 81.8 percent last season.

The Brown offense will take the field next Saturday with a combined 43 years of college football experi-ence, five preseason All-Ivy team selections, and the fastest man in the Ivy League in the backfield. The offense is more experienced than last year’s squad, so they can build off what they did last season, Donnelly said.

All that remains is “execution,” Es-tes said. “Execution will make it go.”

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As the University weighs and looks to further its commitment to internationalization, the concept of studying abroad — and the way in which it is actually practiced at Brown — merits fresh scrutiny. Though opponents of studying abroad characterize programs as endless parties or continuous field trips, the truth remains that the chance to study in a foreign country offers valuable lessons about independence, diversity and cultural sensitivity. Nearly 600 students study abroad each year, and the University has approved 136 international programs in 47 countries. The administration clearly understands the value of studying abroad and seems to realize it is an option all students should have a chance to pursue. But this realization is insufficient: The University should work to better facilitate the study abroad process and make it more feasible for students to apply to international programs and receive transfer credit once back on campus.

Students understandably may express qualms about leaving Brown for a semester or even a year. Spending a semester’s tuition for an education from another university can seem unwise, or a semester away could arguably cause students to miss out on valuable experiences available on campus. To be certain, the cost of a Brown education is substantial, and financial constraints are a legitimate disincentive to studying abroad. But studying abroad does offer lessons that cannot be learned on Brown’s campus, and doing so can become an important part of the Brown education.

Studying abroad allows students to gain a better understanding of different places, peoples and cultures. It is one thing to engage in a classroom discussion at Brown with religiously, ethnically and culturally diverse students, but it is another thing entirely to live among a population foreign to one’s own. Studying international landmarks and events in a humanities class cannot be compared to witnessing those places in person and being among their history. Students who study abroad often return to Brown with a nuanced and fresh view into diverse cultures and traditions.

But despite the value of studying abroad, the University does not do enough to make doing so easy and accessible. Given the lessons one amasses from studying abroad, both academic and otherwise, the Univer-sity should attempt to facilitate the process for students. Understandably, certain pre-professional tracks such as engineering and pre-med have rigorous curricula that are difficult to wed to a study abroad experience. Still, advisers should prioritize helping students identify the strongest international programs to fit their academic interests and needs.

In addition, while gaining study abroad approval for most Brown-approved programs is simple, the post-abroad approval process should be simplified and fine-tuned to make it easier to receive credit. Currently, students wishing to receive transfer credit must go though the time-con-suming and difficult process of receiving signatures from faculty members in many academic departments. The process could be easily simplified if each student’s personal concentration adviser were responsible for signing off on post-study abroad credit.

With the University making a push to expand its international pres-ence, administrators must enhance and facilitate the procedures behind studying abroad. These programs give students valuable resources to further their liberal educations in diverse, challenging new settings. To hinder students from pursuing this option is a shame and contradictory to the educational spirit that defines Brown.

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Why is it that thousands of Brown graduates are struggling to find jobs suited to their skills? It could be simply due to job-killing legis-lation, but perhaps there is more to the story. Lost in the debates over fiscal policy, monetary pol-icy, health care policy and oth-er legislation is an often ignored, yet strikingly important, feature of these discussions: uncertainty. There’s no doubt that deliberation over spending cuts versus tax in-creases, continued Federal Reserve bond-buying or tapering and pub-lic health care expansion versus free market solutions are essential for equitable and efficacious out-comes. Nevertheless, the way the U.S. government operates may be just as important as the policy it enacts.

Policy uncertainty seems to be the norm at present, whether the narrowly averted fiscal cliff earli-er this year or the recent delay in the Affordable Care Act’s employ-er mandate. Even now, speculation and debate surround the Federal Reserve’s future role in the slowly recovering U.S. economy. The in-herent uncertainty over legislation may, in fact, be exacerbating the very problems these policies aim to address.

For example, take the effects

of uncertainty on the economy. Washington aims to upend a slug-gish recovery where labor force participation rates and median househould income are declining. Yet because of the government’s in-ability to provide definite solutions to our financial woes, investors are unsure what the near future holds in terms of interest rates, yields, taxes and regulation. An uncertain future makes investors less willing to commit capital, made evident by the near-re-cord cash reserves still sitting on the balance sheets of U.S. companies. If firms aren’t will-ing to put their cash to work or fully employ re-sources, hiring will continue to drag along and organic growth opportuni-ties will remain constricted.

Moreover, the negative effects of uncertainty affect millions of personal lives. Americans spend a total of 7.6 billion hours annu-ally complying with the nearly 70,000 page U.S. tax code. More than eight in every 10 Americans end up paying for a person or soft-ware to handle their taxes. In fact, the Internal Revenue Service’s own commissioner even outsources to a preparer to handle his filings. Here, uncertainty takes form in unin-tended information asymmetry — most people just don’t have the

time to fully synthesize all the gov-ernment’s different deductions and reporting standards. The result is a highly unproductive use of both time and money that adds little so-cial value.

Similarly, the Affordable Care Act is an immensely complex piece of legislation not fully understood by many. With price controls, risk regulations, health care exchang-es, alterations to Medicare benefits and more, the current state of the

bill has, undoubt-edly, varied from its initial state. President Obama had implied that those who were satisfied with their insurance policy could keep it. This was clearly not the case at IBM, which shifted 110,000 employ-

ees off its corporate program to-wards health care exchanges using subsidies earlier this month. Some of IBM’s workers remained con-fused, thinking this was a ploy by the company to save on its health care costs. In reality, this had been a foreseen result of the tax increas-es and penalties of the bill, provi-sions not clearly or effectively pre-sented to many Americans.

We, as students, are harmed by this uncertainty. Nearly half of all college graduates are either un-employed or work in a position that doesn’t require a college de-

gree. Some of this is a product of the schools students attend and the degrees they earn, and some of it is due to skilled immigration and international competition. Still, part of this stems from uncertainty amongst businesses.

When hiring a full-time em-ployee into a skilled position, firms ask themselves what the marginal cost of adding that person will be compared to the benefit. While the benefit side may be a little more clear, much of the cost side is un-known. Businesses must forecast health care expenses and payroll taxes, two areas which have seen numerous changes as of late. Pair this with uncertainty over corpo-rate tax rates and firms who aren’t willing to utilize current assets, and college graduates are left to face an increasingly hard challenge in find-ing jobs that suit their skills.

I believe the focus of both pub-lic opinion and our politicians is overly centered on the “what” side of legislation as opposed to the “when.” There is frequently a delay between the occurrence of an economic problem and politi-cians’ recognition of the problem. Compound this with ever-present posturing and partisanship from both parties, and Americans are left with the raw end of the deal. Republicans and Democrats need to remove themselves from their ideological perches. Numbers pro-cured from nonpartisan sources, like the Congressional Budget Of-fice, are what should drive changes

in policy, not partisan dribble.Because of our politicians’ in-

ability to reach solutions in a rea-sonable amount of time, Americans are left unsure where to put their money, how their health insurance policies will be structured or how to properly pay taxes to avoid pen-alties. Students are left not knowing what their futures hold, a particu-lar concern for those saddled with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. Ultimately, despite the dif-ferent political parties these ideas stem from, spending and tax in-creases are a combination of con-tractionary and expansionary fis-cal policy, as are spending and tax decreases.

Markets will eventually have to adjust to a post-Fed world where interest rates, yields and borrow-ing rates aren’t so closely con-trolled. The Affordable Care Act is mostly here to stay — for better or worse. These are facts our leaders in Washington need to recognize. When they do, Americans will go back to work, markets will become less volatile and the U.S. economy will break free of its anemic growth rate. Once certainty returns, Brown graduates will be able to find the jobs they deserve.

Jay Upadhyay ’15 believes a more transparent and efficient govern-

ment is something people from all political parties can come to ap-preciate. He can be reached at

jay_upadhyay@brown.edu.

Last semester, an online user by the name of “sowhere” comment-ed on my article (“On Abortion,” Apr. 15) asking “Why this though? … There are pressing, real-world developments on this issue, and yet (The Herald) published an ar-ticle which appears to be a per-sonal though (sic) experiment.” I initially dismissed this comment, but I now realize that many other readers might have also had the same reaction — that the thought experiment is no more than an es-oteric, pretentious and self-indul-gent exercise philosophers engage in as they look smugly down upon the unenlightened brutes beneath their ivory towers. To address this concern, we will first need a better understanding of philosophy.

Broadly speaking, philoso-phy is the study of problems that cannot be tackled by empirical means. Originally, this included the entirety of fields such as biol-ogy, physics, chemistry and even mathematics. Book V of Aristot-le’s “The History of Animals” fa-mously used thought experiments to deduce, incorrectly, that “with animals, some spring from par-ent animals … whilst others grow

spontaneously … from putrefying earth.” Obviously, this claim was based not in observation but rath-er in philosophical consideration. Without any data that could an-swer questions regarding the or-igin of life, this was Aristotle’s best inference. What would now be viewed as a strictly scientific question was then a philosophi-cal one.

It follows from this under-standing that the advancement of technology directly encroach-es upon the realm of philoso-phy. As we discover new tools and techniques, we garner new ways of empirically discriminat-ing among theories that were pre-viously equally supported by the evidence — or lack thereof. Our current understanding of cell bi-ology allows us to answer a ques-tion about which Aristotle could form only a baseless conjecture. Yet this does nothing to demon-strate the invalidity of the thought experiment as a useful tool. It merely exhibits the nature of its ever-decreasing scope.

A more modern instance that serves as a testament to the con-tinuing usefulness of the thought experiment can be found in the case of Einstein and his work on special relativity. By imagining following a beam of light, Einstein came up with a non-empirical hy-pothesis, which is now one of the

most empirically corroborated scientific theories.

In fact, all novel research ne-cessitates the use of the thought experiment. Whenever we have unexplained observations, we can arbitrarily construct many explanations that are consistent with the data. We then try to collect more informa-tion, allowing us to eliminate some possibilities, but there will always remain arbitrarily many potential — if seemingly ridic-ulous — theories consistent with all the data we could ever have.

Additionally, this process of exclusion is not always an op-tion — either as a result of cur-rent technological limitations or even those of the laws of physics. The former constraint temporar-ily limited Aristotle and Einstein. Perhaps quantum mechanics is an instance of the latter’s perma-nent restrictions. That being said, I would imagine Aristotle’s con-temporaries would have imag-ined the existence of many expla-nations of modern science in a similar light.

Thus, in a sense, philosophy

complements science — it tries to say something where empiri-cism can’t and is an integral part of the expansion of scientific ex-planation.

Now, there would appear to be a strict, if not easily defined,

demarcation be-tween scientific and non-scien-tific consider-ations, such as the one referred to in “sowhere’s” origi-nal comment, but the value of the thought experi-ment is only more evident as we move into these decreasingly sci-entific cases.

Notably, many people are dismissive about what philosophy has to say with respect to public policy. I think these cas-es in particular engender the an-tagonistic attitude toward phi-losophers previously described, yet I think it is these same cases — non-scientific ones — to which philosophy has the most to con-tribute.

All public policy supervenes upon morality. It is this moral val-ue that establishes an evaluative differentiation among the vari-ous outcomes being put in place. Policy’s relevance is derived only

through ethical goals. Therefore, it would seem prudent to give critical thought to these underly-ing issues. The usefulness of the thought experiment to this end was demonstrated in my original article.

If a well-defined goal has al-ready been established and agreed upon, it then does become an em-pirical matter of engineering to find the most efficacious means of achieving said goal. But it’s non-sensical to scrutinize primarily these questions of engineering — certainly at the expense of com-prehensively eschewing the cru-cial questions regarding the goal itself. It would be analogous to de-bating the relative utility of a fork or spoon while disregarding your preference for soup or salad.

Some might prefer ignoring these fundamental and more dif-ficult questions in order to tack-le the more “pragmatic” ones, but these people embark upon an in-trinsically meaningless enter-prise. Personally, I’d rather fruit-lessly grapple with these problems than delude myself into thinking they either don’t exist or don’t matter.

Andrew Powers ’15 specializes in logic and philosophy of science

and can be reached at andrew_powers@brown.edu.

commentary 11THE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Philosophical and scientific explanation

The need for certainty

“Philosophy complements

science — it tries to say something where empiricism

can’t and is an integral part of the expansion

of scientific explanation.”

“Both public opinion and our politicians focus

overly on the ‘what’ side of legislation as opposed to the

‘when.’”

ANDREWPOWERS

opinions columnist

JAYUPADHYAY

opinions columnist

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

By CALEB MILLERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

As it aims for a sixth-straight winning season, the football team will rely on a heavily experienced offense this fall, possibly starting seniors at all 11 positions — including seven who will return from an offense that ranked fourth in the Ivy League last season for total yards per game.

Spearheading Bruno’s attack will be quarterback and co-captain Pat-rick Donnelly ’14. The field general was the third-rated passer — both in passing yards and by quarterback rating — in the Ivy League a season ago, and his return brings the Bears experience leading the offense, said Head Coach Phil Estes.

“Patrick Donnelly is the key to what we do,” Estes said. “We’ve got to be able to execute our plays, and it starts with the quarterback.”

Donnelly will be joined by his two favorite targets from last year — receivers Tellef Lundevall ’13.5 and Jordan Evans ’14. Lundevall is a first-team All-Ivy selection and enters his senior campaign with 155 career receptions, the fifth most in Brown history. Estes called the 6-foot-4 re-ceiver a “physical” specimen who will be a key target in the team’s passing game.

Donnelly said Lundevall’s pres-ence makes his job easier. “He’s the guy that I trust,” he said. “Whenever

I throw it to him, I have 100 percent confidence that he is going to catch it.”

A group of newcomers — Stian Romberg ’15, Brian Strachan ’15 and Reily Higgins ’15 — will complement Lundevall and Evans in the receiving corps. The trio had a strong spring and will compete for playing time throughout the season, Estes said.

Bruno also returns experience at the tight end position with Andrew Marks ’14 and Alex Viox ’15. The ends combined for 17 catches and four touchdowns last year.

Returning starters are plentiful in the passing game, but before Donnelly and Lundevall can break any records through the air, the Bears will have to prove their ground attack, Estes said.

“The biggest thing about any game is you need to go in and establish the run,” he said. “If you can establish a run game, it opens up everything else.”

The Bears graduated their top three backs — Spiro Theodhosi ’13, Jeffrey Izon ’13 and Mark Kachmer ’13 — leaving a hole in the backfield. But other returners show promise. Jordan Reisner ’14 ran for 256 yards last season, the most for any returning back. Reisner wowed Brown Stadium last October with an explosive 193-yard performance against Cornell, but he was sidelined by an injury for much of the season.

The running game will get a boost from the return of John Spooney ’14. The lightning-fast Spooney placed second on the team in rushing with 375 yards two seasons ago but didn’t play last season to focus on his deco-rated track career. Spooney’s return is

Bears look to veteran offense in pursuit of league dominanceQB Donnelly and WR Lundevall are among players to receive preseason accolades

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Quarterback Patrick Donnelly will be the heart of Bruno’s offense this year. Head Coach Phil Estes said that the team’s scoring “starts with the quarterback” and will also rely on an established, consistent running game. » See OFFENSE, page 9

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#6: Patrick Donnelly ’14 (QB)Donnelly is the key cog in an o�ensive unit that will use its experience to try to improve on its third-ranked o�ense in the Ivy League.

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#71: Cole Hooper ’14 (RT)Hooper will be protecting Donnelly's blind side this year, returning as a key part of an o�ensive that allowed only one sack this past season.

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Powering the o�enseHere are a few of Brown’s players hoped to be integral to the team’s pursuit of an Ivy League title this year.

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