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BROWN DAILY HERALD vol. cxlix, no. 14 W. ICE HOCKEY

Bruno goes 2-for-2 against RPI and Union Moore ’14 records first shutout for Bruno in over a year against Engineers, allows one goal to Union

By LAINIE ROWLAND SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s ice hockey team defeated Rensselaer and Union this weekend to secure its second and third conference wins of the season. Bruno shut out RPI 3-0 before taking down Union, the ECAC’s lowest-ranked team, 2-1.

RPI entered the weekend riding a four-game losing streak, while Union had lost seven of its last eight. All three teams have sat near the bottom of the conference throughout the season, though Union leads the ECAC in shots per game and Brown leads in saves, due to Moore’s impressive goaltending. “It was an unbelievable weekend,” said cocaptain Jennifer Nedow ’14. “We finally got the fruits of our labor. … Our hard work and perseverance finally paid off.”

Brown 3, RPI 0 A scoreless first period Friday had Aubree Moore ’14 on her toes, blocking 14 shots, while Brown (4-16-5, 3-12-3 ECAC) managed just four on the opposing net. It seemed like the Engineers (10-16-3, 6-10-2) were set to control the game as they took five unanswered shots » See W. HOCKEY, page S5

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Corporation approves 3.8 percent tuition hike Financial aid expenditures set to increase 5.5 percent, surpass $100 million

By MICHAEL DUBIN AND TONYA RILEY UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITORS

The Corporation approved a 3.8 percent increase in undergraduate tuition and fees as part of the University’s fiscal year 2015 budget, President Christina Paxson announced in a community-wide email Saturday afternoon.

The tuition hike will raise next year’s total undergraduate costs per student to $59,428.

The Corporation also approved a 5.5 percent increase in financial

aid expenditures, supporting about $104.1 million in undergraduate scholarships for the estimated 44 percent of students eligible for needbased aid. The decision marks the first time in University history that the financial aid budget has eclipsed $100 million.

The expansion of financial aid will allow the average student scholarship to grow by about 5 percent, according to a University press release.

The University’s fiscal year 2015 operating budget will climb 3.2 percent from this year’s, bringing total expenditures to $941.5 million. This spending will be offset by only $937.7 million in revenues, requiring the University to draw from its reserves to compensate for the $3.8 million deficit. » See CORPORATION, page 2

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The Corporation approved an expansion of the University’s budget to $941.5 million — which will create a deficit — at its meeting this weekend.

Israel boycott sparks campus debate Student Community, university site aims to leaders split over boycott of Israeli higher education publicize institutions U. events

By EMILY WOOLDRIDGE SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The American Studies Association’s recent vote to boycott Israeli higher education institutions to protest the country’s treatment of Palestinians has ignited debate nationwide in recent months. At Brown, many professors, students and administrators said they believe the boycott inhibits academic freedom, but others expressed support for the ASA’s decision.

Academic freedom In a statement released Dec. 24,

President Christina Paxson joined over 80 presidents of U.S. colleges and three prominent scholarly organizations in the United States — the American Association of University Professors, the American Council on Education and the Association of American Universities — in opposition to the boycott, the New York Times reported.

In her statement, Paxson wrote that the boycott “would be antithetical to open scholarly exchange and would inhibit the advancement of knowledge and discovery.”

The organization’s vote aligns the ASA with the movement known as B.D.S. (Boycott, Divest and Sanctions), initiated by elements of Palestinian civil society in 2005 to call for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel.

“I feel that the boycott undermines

a lot of things that academic freedom should represent,” said Jason Ginsberg ’16, vice president of engagement for Brown Students for Israel. Secretary of State John Kerry is leading negotiations currently, and the boycott impedes these conversations, he added.

“If you are critical of Israel’s occupation and policies towards Palestinians, universities are where conversations about these issues are likely to occur,” said a professor of history who asked to remain anonymous to avoid appearing biased in class. “By preventing these conversations from happening, you are potentially turning against your allies,” the professor said, referencing the perception of some intellectuals in those universities as supportive of the Palestinian cause.

But others, like Associate Professor » See ISRAEL, page 2

Med School student sets sights on Congress

By EMMA HARRIS STAFF WRITER

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Stan Tran MD’15, running for Congress, has no previous political experience but plans to focus on fixing existing inequities in the political process.

Stan Tran MD’15 intends to run for congressional office in Rhode Island’s first district, setting him up to challenge fellow Brunonian Rep. David Cicilline ’83, D-R.I., who currently holds the seat.

Currently registered as an independent, Tran said he might affiliate with a party during the campaign if one gives him its support.

A Stanford University alum, high school teacher for a year and current third-year student at the Alpert Medical School, Tran will take a break from his

studies at the University beginning in April to campaign for the Nov. 4 election.

Tran said he is planning to file a notice of organization — a legal document required for a campaign to begin fundraising — and officially declare his candidacy in “a month or two.” Though Tran has a campaign website with a video introducing himself to voters, he said he has yet to identify his specific positions on many issues, find a campaign manager or begin to fundraise because of his busy schedule as a med student.

“I’m coming into (the campaign) totally differently. Here are my ideas and here’s what I think is wrong — now who’s going to support these ideas? It’s a more pure way of doing it,” he said.

Tran, who has no previous political experience, said he had little interest in politics until two years ago. He » See TRAN, page 4

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Creators hope Ventfull’s user-friendly structure will help student groups reach target audience

By ELANA JAFFE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Student groups frequently seek to maximize turnout at their events, but the task of filling seats can prove difficult. To address this dilemma, two undergraduates have created the website Ventfull, which aims to increase awareness and attendance of campus events.

The site, which launched Wednesday, was created by Pete Simpson ’14 and Joe Stein ’16, The Herald’s web producer. Steve Carmody, an IT architect, Amrit Mazunder, a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, and staff at the Brown Entrepreneurship Program’s Venture Lab also helped build the platform, Simpson said.

The site features a colorful campus calendar that is organized horizontally by day. Users can also access features that let them anonymously “upvote” goings-on and provide them with customized emails about upcoming events.

“We made it super simple” from a user’s perspective, Stein said, adding that the optional email service is customizable and easy to navigate. Users can filter events on their calendars by » See VENTFULL, page 3

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2 university news » ISRAEL, from page 1 of History and American Studies Naoko Shibusawa, said they feel the boycott does not hinder academic freedom, because it targets “institutions and not individuals.”

Shibusawa is a member of the American Studies Association and voted in favor of the boycott, though she continues to work with a colleague in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The University’s membership expired June 30, but Shibusawa said she has maintained an individual membership and called the ASA an important space for professors and students to present their work, hold conferences and network.

Mika Zacks ’15, a member of Brown Students for Justice in Palestine and a former Herald opinions columnist, said she is “disappointed but not surprised”

by Paxson’s statement.

“It’s interesting to see what kind of academic freedom is valued,” Zacks said.

“Academic freedom is denied for the Palestinians,” who are underrepresented in Israeli higher education institutions some of which, like the Hebrew University in Jerusalem,­exist on occupied territory, she added.

Universities have a role in the occupation — they build technology and support the military, Zacks said. “There is intellectual exchange happening, but

the (Israeli) institutions themselves still take a pro-Israel stance.”

‘A much wider problem’ Others argue that the boycott ignores wider problems in the Middle East.

“Israel commits human rights violations, but isolating Israel’s behavior is ignoring a much wider problem in that region,” said the history professor.

“Israel’s neighbors also engage in these abuses.”

“By singling out Israel and ignoring neighboring countries with horrendous human rights records, the ASA’s boycott of Israeli academic institutions is an offensive attempt to hide bigotry behind the mask of progressivism,” Jennifer Sieber ’14 wrote in an email to The Herald.

But Zacks called the ASA boycott a “courageous step” and another victory for B.D.S. Rising tensions The ASA boycott has created some tension among faculty members, students and ASA members.

Despite receiving support from over 60 percent of ASA members present at the vote, some of the organization’s members disagree with the boycott. “There is a generational divide,” Shibusawa said,

adding that many older scholars are opposed to the boycott.

Prior to the ASA’s vote, the Association for Asian American Studies also voted to boycott Israeli higher education institutions, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association plans to follow suit at its annual conference in May, according to the New York Times.

Zacks said some students within the Jewish community feel conflicted. They desire to be part of a Jewish community but feel their personal support of the Palestinian cause can sometimes isolate them from some Jewish groups — particularly Hillel, she added.

“What’s painful is I have friends on the other side,” Shibusawa said, adding that she knows people who have lost friends over this issue, she added.

In her statement, Paxson wrote that “faculty, students and staff are free to express their own ideas and opinions on any issue.”

But Shibusawa said professors nationwide are afraid to speak their minds about the boycott, because it may jeopardize their chances of getting tenure or lead to accusations of being anti-Semitic.

“I’m a little scared, and I’m a tenured professor,” Shibusawa said. “We shouldn’t feel scared.”

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» CORPORATION, from page 1 Budgeting and growth The projected use of reserves is down from the $4.4 million budgeted for this year and the $9 million in fiscal year 2013 but is still unsustainable over the long haul, Paxson wrote.

Though the University has drawn on its reserves each of the last three years to make up for an operating deficit, it achieved a balanced budget as recently as fiscal year 2012, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 told The Herald.

The anticipated use of $3.8 million in reserves constitutes just under half of one percent of total expenditures, Schlissel said, adding that larger-thanexpected research grants or financial gifts could create a balanced budget.

But expenses are often unpredictable as well. “Unexpected things come up,” Schlissel said, citing this year’s heightened campus safety concerns, which led the University to increase spending in order to extend the Brown University Shuttle service and hire additional yellow jacket security officers.

Financial aid expenditures this year also exceeded the budgeted amount.

Next year’s financial aid projection marks an increase of 9.3 percent over the current budget’s allotment.

“Things come up that outstrip our ability to cover the costs by increasing revenue,” said Schlissel, who chairs the University Resources Committee, which recommends a budgetary blueprint to the president each year.

Balancing the University’s needs with the desire to curb tuition increases is “always a hard trade-off every year,” Schlissel said. “We try to increase the budget as little as possible, and then figure out how to use our various sources of revenue to pay for what’s necessary. And in the current economy, it’s a challenge.”

Paxson said the scale of future tuition increases would depend largely on inflation. Next year’s tuition hike is about 2 percent above the current inflation rate, but Paxson said she hopes to be able to bring tuition increases more in line with inflation in the years to come.

Renovations on dorms and other projects drove this year’s budget uptick, said Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration. But budget increases have remained steady over the past few years and are smaller than those of the last decade, she said.

The budget for next year will be the first to include the new School of Public Health, Huidekoper said.

Next year’s budget accounts for the 1 percent growth of the undergraduate population — from 6,040 to 6,100 students — that Paxson outlined in her strategic plan approved by the Corporation last fall. The growth will provide the University with an expanded tuition base.

The plan also calls for corresponding faculty growth, but hiring will be slowed this year after “spectacularly successful” faculty searches last year led to greater expansion than intended, Schlissel said. The University aims to average 1 percent faculty growth per year over the next decade in order to maintain the current faculty-tostudent ratio, he said.

The pool for faculty and staff salaries will increase by about 3 percent, Huidekoper said. Graduate stipends are also slated to increase 3.7 percent, Paxson wrote in her email.

Capital campaign The Corporation authorized Paxson, the Corporation’s Committee on Advancement and the University’s Division of Advancement to begin “preliminary planning” for a capital campaign but did not give serious thought to a launch date or fundraising target, Schlissel said.

Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76 said the Corporation gave its “resounding support” for a comprehensive fundraising campaign as part of a larger effort of “working in an organized and active way to fulfill the goals of ‘Building on Distinction.’”

Huidekoper said she does not know the details of the timeframe for launching a new capital campaign, but added that Corporation members discussed the need for one at their meeting.

“There is an awareness of the 250th (anniversary) as a moment for the community to look back and also to look forward,” Tisch said of general timing for a campaign.

The University expects a small decline in Brown Annual Fund donations due to the lack of an ongoing campaign, she said. The University also expects a 5 percent decline in sponsored research, according to the press release.

Gifts and development The Corporation gave the University the go-ahead to hire an architect for a new engineering building, Tisch said, calling it “a very big step.”

Tisch said the Corporation also discussed the University’s “tremendous capacity” for interdisciplinary engagement, teaching and research, citing brain science as a particularly dynamic area of integrative scholarship.

One of the gifts the University accepted was $1 million to support fellowships for doctoral students conducting research in collaboration with the Brown Institute for Brain Science, Paxson wrote in the email.

The Corporation also discussed the implementation of the Laboratory for Educational Innovation — another component of the strategic plan — which will develop online content for courses taught on campus and will exist under the umbrella of the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Schlissel said.

The Corporation considered “preliminary sets of data and surveys and assessments” the University could employ to measure the progress of the strategic plan, Paxson said.

The University accepted over $26 million in total gifts and created several new endowed professorships, including positions for a professor on nuclear security policy and an assistant professor at the School of Public Health who will focus on the intersection of health care, technology and communications.

The University accepted a gift of $1 million from Ron Beller ’83 and Jennifer Moses ’83 to support a new initiative to provide students on financial aid with one guaranteed summer of internship or research funding.

The Corporation expressed “a lot of enthusiasm” for the new internship program, as well as a pilot program to attract more top-notch graduate students, Paxson told The Herald.

“We raised about $170 million in total last year and I think (we expect) to raise that much this year again overall,” Huidekoper said. “We’re feeling pretty good about the donations.”

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» VENTFULL, from page 1 different color-coded categories such as social, organization, performance, sports, academic and free food.

Simpson said he and Stein worked to build the most user-friendly system they could “to get people actually into the events ecosystem where they can accidently browse more.”

After a year of development, Ventfull went live Wednesday in a “stealth launch” so student group representatives could put up events before users visited the site, Simpson wrote in an email to The Herald. The iOS app was released Sunday, he wrote.

The problem of how to publicize events on the day they occur has been a concern for the Undergraduate Council of Students in the past, said UCS Vice President Sam Gilman ’15, who served as the primary liaison between UCS and the website’s developers.

The Council has found that student groups “really struggled to get students out to events, particularly students who aren’t in their group,” Gilman said. He added that there was “no real way to get through the clutter.”

“Student groups now have an avenue to reach students who are interested in their general topic area and activity in a way that they’ve never had before,” Gilman said, calling Simpson and Stein “two Brown students with a vision to improve campus.”

The Student Activities Office hopes Ventfull will become one of the main portals for information about campus activities, said Timothy Shiner, director of student activities and the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center.

When Simpson and Stein were developing Ventfull last spring, Shiner connected them with Gilman. Together, they worked to make the site a “university-specific product,” Shiner said.

“For the first time, there was really an opening for a group of innovators and for us to help them scale their platform, get it endorsed by Brown and help build the infrastructure to help it succeed,” Gilman said.

When the idea was first presented to UCS, some Council members expressed concern that the site’s upvoting system would increase big events’

popularity while further hampering small events’ turnout, The Herald previously reported.

UCS organized focus groups in response to this concern, Gilman said As a result of the focus groups, Simpson and Stein changed the website interface to show a horizontal daily calendar with all of the day’s events, instead of a vertical calendar that showed only the most popular events, he said.

Because of the upvoting feature, “it’s way more reasonable now for particular event organizers to climb to the top of their niche or category,” Stein said.

Upvotes are anonymous and not designed to serve as an indicator of attendance, Simpson said.

So far, student responses have been positive, Simpson said.

“For someone who feels like they’re busy all the time, it will be really nice to have something sent to me, so I can have something readily available to pick events from in a category that I am interested in,” said Charlie Figueroa ‘16.

Emma Murray ’16 called the site “tremendously brilliant.”

Though UCS members voiced concern last spring that the site would compete with Morning Mail, UCS President Todd Harris ’14.5 said Ventfull could peacefully coexist with the University’s official events mailing.

Keeping viewers’ attention to the site often presents a challenge for tech start-ups. Ventfull’s creators are interested in making sure that “in two or three weeks once the new shiny toy effect wears off, people will still come back and derive value out of it,” Simpson said.

The creators also hope the site lets the University collect data on which types of events students are interested in attending, Simpson said. “Basically, this will help schools be able to understand what their students want, and then give them those events,” he said.

Looking ahead, the SAO is developing an idea to have screens displaying Ventfull in public spaces, such as J. Walter Wilson or under Faunce Arch, Shiner said. These screens will likely be implemented this semester, Harris said.

Expanding the site beyond the University to other schools, groups and even cities may be another longterm goal, Simpson said.

COURTESY OF VENTFULL

Ventfull, a website and mobile app created by Pete Simpson ‘14 and Joe Stein ‘16, provides users with a straightforward and constantly updated interface to learn about student groups’ daily events.

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» TRAN, from page 1 highlighted combating the injustices he sees in the political system — mainly “the way the game is played” — as a key goal, adding that he “believe(s) in ideas, not experience.”

Recognizing the long odds against him as a candidate challenging a partysupported incumbent, Tran said “winning is not the goal here.”

“The goal is to start the conversation. It’s to make the government a better place,” he said, adding that even if people opt not to vote for him due to his lack of experience, he hopes to “plant the seed” and force Cicilline to listen to the ideas of the people.

Tran said though he does not yet have specific issues to fight for, he has “big-picture things” he wants to achieve.

“I’m young and part of me still thinks I can change the world,” he said. “When I’m done, I can go back to medicine.”

Tran said he strongly dislikes the lack of authenticity within campaigns.

“When you try to vote for a candidate, you don’t know what they stand for,” he said, adding that the change in candidates’ political messages between the primary and general elections to appeal to different constituents is dishonest.

Tran also spoke out against the

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A training program hosted by the Brown Human Rights Asylum Clinic this weekend focused on providing physicians with skills to identify refugees’ physical and psychological signs of persecution.

Panelists explore aid for asylum seekers Legal and medical professionals join students in Human Rights Asylum Clinic training day

By RILEY DAVIS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Tens of thousands of people flee their home countries every year to avoid persecution, seeking asylum in the United States. But the United States does not grant asylum to all of these individuals because many of them lack hard evidence of abuse.

For this reason, the Brown Human Rights Asylum Clinic hosted a training event Saturday to educate more physicians on how to provide pro bono forensic evaluations to people seeking asylum in the United States.

The clinic plans to use this training day as a launch pad for expanding its presence in Rhode Island. “This training is the starting ground for our Human Rights Clinic. We’re starting pretty much from scratch and building our bases of support,” said Rebecca Slotkin MD’16, co-executive director of the Brown Human Rights Asylum Clinic. “Until recently, this type of training for physicians didn’t really exist, so the resources available to them were much more limited.”

Currently, there are only three physicians in Rhode Island who belong to the Physicians for Human Rights network and who qualify to conduct forensic medical and psychological evaluations, Jillian Tuck, asylum program manager in Boston for Physicians for Human Rights, told The Herald.

Refugees often face great struggles when trying to provide proof of persecution without a medical exam, she said.

“Sometimes (refugees) flee their country in the middle of the night, and they don’t have anything but the clothes on their back, so they don’t have the evidence they need,” Tuck said. “They don’t make photocopies of death threats, and they don’t take photographs of the license plates of the people that kidnapped them or whatever the situation is, so they often have very little to submit to the court.”

Signed affidavits from licensed physicians are often the only thing people have to help make their case for asylum, as their “physical scars and psychological evidence” need professional evaluation for credibility, Tuck said.

“So it’s really important that we have the expertise of health professionals to see this population and document the only evidence that really exists that corroborates their story,” she added.

The training program consisted of several different presentations, including one from Tuck entitled “Asylum Law and Human Rights.” Her talk was followed by presentations on gynecological and psychiatric evaluation training and an explanation of the medical affidavit and court preparations. The day ended with a panel discussion on the experiences of asylum seekers.

At the beginning of the program, the 72 audience members each spoke about themselves, their professions and what they hoped to get out of the day’s training. Attendees ranged

from practicing physicians and forensic psychologists hoping to expand their areas of expertise to lawyers seeking more information on creating asylum affidavits. Medical school students interested in human rights or learning about another branch of medicine also attended.

Joseph Rabatin, associate professor of medicine and one of the panelists, called the event “a wonderful opportunity for lawyers and doctors to work together.”

Many of the audience members spoke amongst themselves about their satisfaction with the event, but some expressed a desire for a more focused end to the training, with separate medical and legal discussion groups.

Overall, the event was “really comprehensive, and gave everyone who attended a feeling that they could help asylum-seekers,” Rabatin said.

“Medical students at Brown have a lot of experience of service before they get to medical school, and I think this (event) really gave them a place to satisfy their hunger for service,” he said.

Though undergraduates were not eligible to attend the training, premedical students said they were interested in learning more about the topic.

“I think it would be interesting to hear about, even if it’s just to understand a different realm of medicine that you can go into,” Caryn Cobb ’15 said.

Leah Pierson ’16 said, “I definitely would like to work with people all over the world, and it would be kind of cool to have people from developing countries coming to the U.S. and seeing what they’ve been through.”

self-esteem, well-being and academic adjustment, and was negatively related to factors such as anxiety.

“We were able to synthesize results of studies across a very broad spectrum of indicators of youth development,” Rivas-Drake wrote. “We see similar benefits across this broad spectrum.”

While it may be obvious that a positive affect relates to higher selfesteem, it is less obvious that it negatively correlates with substance abuse or risky behaviors, Yip said. “I think the breadth of the outcomes is an important contribution,” she added.

The majority of studies in the metaanalysis examined middle school and high school students because most psychological theories support the idea that ethnic-racial identity begins to take shape during adolescence, Yip said.

About half the studies included black youths, but Hispanic, American Indian and Asian American and Pacific Islander youths were also represented.

But according to the meta-analysis, findings were consistent across age, gender and ethnic-racial groups.

Next steps The meta-analysis “offers one of the most highly sophisticated analyses over age and developmental levels that exist in the field on ethnic and racial identity and the phenomenon of exclusionary practices,” said Lewis Lipsitt, professor emeritus of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences, who was not involved in the study.

influence of money in politics.

“Right now, I think what’s happening is that special interests with deep pockets get their way. Money runs the world,” he said. “As a normal person working a (blue-collar) job, you don’t have money to give to campaigns. You’re at the whims of these people. That’s not a democracy at all.”

“Politicians should be citizens first and politicians second,” Tran said, adding that his work with patients gives him a strong connection to everyday people, a tie that career politicians lose.

“I came to med school to help people, and I realized that by the time they get to the hospital, it’s too late. The system has screwed them over,” he said.

Tran said his medical studies have familiarized him with health care, the issue that spurred his interest in politics.

The soon-to-be candidate added that he also qualifies for and receives Medicaid coverage.

“People can’t afford health care, and one reason for that is that everyone is getting a cut,” he said.

The race for Congress will “make me a better physician and it’ll plant some seeds in people’s minds,” Tran said.

Campaigning is “better than studying anesthesia. … I’d rather do an elective about people.”

The findings will “really move the field forward,” said Aerika Brittian, assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who was also not involved in the study. In the future, more longitudinal research on different aspects of identity would be beneficial, she added.

The working group may consider adding a longitudinal component to future endeavors, Yip said, though such studies present logistical and financial challenges.

“I would also like to see more work done in different parts of the country. I think context is really important,” Brittian said. For example, ethnic-racial identity for minorities in Los Angeles functions differently than it does in Chicago, she added.

Pierce said though some of the findings may seem obvious, the researchers’ “statistically significant” correlations are important for the field.

As a result of this meta-analysis, there is a lot schools can do, such as providing the opportunity for students to learn about their cultural groups, Brittian said. “Educators can consider how to facilitate positive affect … in a classroom setting,” she added.

In the future, Rivas-Drake wants to examine how positive ethnic-racial identity is supported in schools and local communities, she wrote.

Lipsitt said he hopes the metaanalysis will spark further discussion.

“As long as the talk continues, inspired by good science, I think we can’t go wrong in developing a further and complete understanding on how it is growing up under conditions of group exclusion,” he said.

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SPORTS BULLETIN

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014

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Bears bring home win and loss, fall to third in Ivy League After disappointing loss to the Crimson, Bears respond by leading Dartmouth wire-to-wire

By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The men’s basketball team finds itself a game out of first place in the league after a weekend of mixed results. Bruno dropped its first meeting of the season with Harvard 52-45, but recovered from the stinging loss to push past Dartmouth 75-62 the following night.

Harvard 52, Brown 45 Bruno (12-8, 4-2 Ivy) had an opportunity to take control of the conference entering their battle against Harvard (18-4, 5-1). But the Crimson’s defense proved too strong for the Bears, stifling Bruno’s attempts at scoring throughout the game in front of a Harvard crowd of over 2,000 fans.

Ivy Player of the Year frontrunner Wesley Saunders and the Crimson held the Bears to a measly 27.3 field goal

percentage. Brown was the eighth team to be held under 40 percent from the field this season by the Crimson, who are now 8-0 when holding opponents below that mark.

“I thought Saunders did a good job,” said Head Coach Mike Martin ’04. “We got dump down passes for layups, but we didn’t convert. We convert on those most of the time — but you also have to credit their defense.”

Harvard’s forwards did not allow Bruno any easy layups, swatting eight shots. Steve Moundou-Missi led the team with three blocks to go along with his eight points and nine boards.

“They’re very well-schooled defensively,” Martin said. “Their big guys are really active, and they protect the rim well.”

The game remained close for much of the first half as both teams struggled to find any offensive rhythm. Officials were constantly stopping play — 12 fouls were called in the first 10 minutes.

With 13 minutes remaining in the half, Rafael Maia ’15 was hit in the face under the basket. Maia immediately » See M. BASKETBALL, page S2

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Dockery Walker ‘15 looks on during a game break. He recorded eight total rebounds over the weekend as Brown out-rebounded its opponents 92-81.

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Bears fall flat on road weekend Loser of three straight, Bruno drops to eighth in ECAC and risks losing tournament home ice

By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Natalie Ball ’16 surveys the defense against Dartmouth. She started both games, scoring 17 total points on 8-of-16 shooting with six rebounds.

Bears blown out by Harvard, but rebound with double-digit win over Dartmouth

By BRUNO ZUCCOLO SPORTS STAFF WRITER

For women’s basketball, a win and a loss this weekend were good enough to hold onto sixth place in the Ivy League, though the team had hoped for better.

After being foiled by lights-out shooting from Harvard, the Bears rebounded to with a victory over Dartmouth.

Harvard 91, Brown 71 Recent history has not favored the Bears (8-12, 2-4 Ivy) against Harvard (15-5, 5-1): The Crimson had won 12 of its past 14 games going into Friday’s

matchup. It quickly became another one of those nights. Harvard opened the game with an offensively astounding first half, giving itself enough of a cushion to coast through the second.

The Crimson took the lead right off the bat, scoring 12 points in three and a half minutes as they kept the Bears scoreless. Bruno’s late start proved fatal, as the lead only increased over the first half.

Despite 13 first-half points from Lauren Clarke ’14, the Bears were still vastly outscored by the Crimson, who went into halftime with a 20-point lead, 53-33, and an impressive 76 percent field goal percentage.

The second half was much more balanced, as both teams scored at about an even pace. However, 38 second-half points would not be enough » See W. BBALL, page S5

The men’s hockey team struggled away from home this weekend, falling 4-3 to No. 4 Union and 4-1 to Rensselaer, losing crucial ground in the conference race.

The Bears are now seven points out of fourth place, and with six games to play, it would take a monumental effort for them to get back in the conversation. At the end of the season, the top four teams in the ECAC standings receive a first-round bye in the conference tournament, meaning that Brown’s chance is all but gone.

The next four teams get home-ice advantage in the first round, a luxury Bruno is barely holding onto. The Bears are tied with St. Lawrence for eighth place, but hold a tiebreaker over the Saints by virtue of their 1-0-1 record against them. Should the Saints pass Bruno, the Bears will have to travel for the first round of the ECAC tournament, making their road to the championship that much harder.

With two wins this weekend, the Bears would have pulled into a tie for sixth with Yale, but they failed to match their tough competition.

No. 4 Union 4, Brown 3 To their credit, the Bears (9-11-3, 6-9-1 ECAC) played Union (19-6-3, 13-3-0 ECAC) close the entire game, leading 2-1 at the end of the first period and tying the score at three by the end of the second. But Bruno

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Michael Juola ’14 takes the puck up the boards. The team scored only four goals this weekend while allowing eight, and Juola had a -4 rating. conceded one final goal in the third period, leaving it with no team points for the game.

Union struck first with a powerplay goal just over six minutes into the game, but less than a minute later, the Dutchmen’s Charlie Vasaturo was assessed a five-minute major and ejected for hitting Massimo Lamacchia ’15. On the ensuing man advantage, Mark Naclerio ’16 and Nick Lappin ’16 scored goals 15 seconds apart to turn the deficit into a lead.

In the second, Union scored two goals to take the lead, but Zack Pryzbek ’17 scored with under a minute before intermission to tie the game at three.

Union scored just one minute into the third, and Brown never responded.

“We couldn’t find a way to tie it,” said Matt Lorito ’15.

Lorito registered two assists in the game and spoke positively about how the team held its own against such a tough opponent.

“I actually thought we played pretty well,” he said. “We probably should have beaten them.”

Naclerio was less happy with the performance, saying, “It wasn’t what we wanted.”

He put less weight on Union’s ranking, saying the Bears should be able to hang with any team.

“We know we can compete with anyone, no matter what rank they are,” he said. “The fact that they’re the No. 4 team didn’t mean much.”

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“One of their players tried to block my shot but missed it and hit me with his elbow,” Maia said. “After the game I got a few stitches, but I was glad that I could keep playing.”

Harvard managed to pull away in the last few minutes of the half to take a six-point lead into the intermission.

Coming out of the break, the game was highlighted by two scoring runs, the first by Harvard. The Crimson started the half on a 9-0 run, coming off a couple layups and a trey. Bruno answered right back on an 18-8 stretch to cut the lead to five.

At the final media timeout, Harvard clung to its five-point lead. A pair of free throws from Tavon Blackmon ’17 reduced the lead to three, but two missed layups and a travelling violation on the Bears sealed the team’s fate. Harvard dribbled the clock out, handing the Bears just their second conference loss.

Brown 75, Dartmouth 62 The Bears, fueled by the loss to Harvard, came out firing against Dartmouth (9-11, 2-4).

Bruno took a 17-3 lead in the first six minutes, with eight of the 17 points coming from Steven Spieth ’17.

Spieth “was aggressive in looking for his offense early,” Martin said. “He’s a capable scorer who took advantage of what Dartmouth gave him.”

The Big Green battled back into the game, pulling within five of the Bears late in the first half. But Bruno boosted the lead to nine before the halftime buzzer sounded.

The Bears’ 42 first-half points nearly matched their total of 45 against Harvard. Leland King ’17 made his first career start in place of Cedric Kuakumensah ’16 — who came off the bench after arriving late to a team breakfast — and collected seven rebounds and a block in the first half.

The second half of play yielded a similar result to the first, with Bruno leading for its entirety. Dartmouth pulled within five at one point, only to see the lead blown back to 13, a run capped off by a three-pointer from co-captain Sean McGonagill ’14.

McGonagill, who struggled against Harvard, found his stroke against the Big Green, connecting on 4-of-9 from behind the arc. He added two rebounds and two assists to his best performance since Bruno took down Cornell earlier this season.

Spieth also had a productive game, using a 11-of-13 night from the free-throw line to net a career-high 20 points. His four steals and five rebounds should put the reigning Ivy Rookie of the Week in contention for a second consecutive reception of this award.

“I had a more aggressive mindset (than usual),” Spieth said. “I think when I can add scoring to my game, we’re going to just be that much better. I was able to get into the lane and draw contact, and guys were really looking for me in the post against the smaller Dartmouth guards.”

The Bears held off any attempts at a comeback from Dartmouth to win their fourth of the last five Ivy League games. Twenty-seven of the Bears’ 75 points came from the charity stripe, an aspect of their game that has been lacking all season.

Bruno also collected 46 rebounds, improving on their league-leading 41 boards per game.

Bruno will return home next weekend to face Penn (6-13, 3-2) and Princeton (13-6, 1-4).

The matchups offer the squad an opportunity to catch Ivy leaders Yale (11-9, 5-1) and Harvard in the standings.

9-11, 2-4 Ivy

Breaking down Bruno: an impressive conference split Second-chance points do Brown in against Harvard, but balanced attack helps them rebound over Dartmouth

By SAM RUBINROIT SPORTS STAFF WRITER

In its first full-weekend conference road trip, the men’s basketball team posted two impressive showings, narrowly losing to Harvard 52-45 before bouncing back with a resounding 75-62 win over Dartmouth. Here is a breakdown of the team’s performance on the road.

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What’s strong The Bears displayed a tremendous amount of resilience in their two games over the weekend. Despite falling behind by 15 to a topranked Harvard team, Bruno clawed its way back to close the margin. The two teams were neck-and-neck for much of the first period, and though the Crimson went on a 9-0 run to open the second half, the Bears held their ground and managed to cut the lead to three with just over two minutes remaining.

“We’ve been down before, so it wasn’t an unfamiliar position for us,” said Head Coach Mike Martin ’04. “Unfortunately we had just dug ourselves too big of a hole.”

Coming off of the loss the following night, the Bears showed few signs of dejection, springing an early 17-3 advantage over the Big Green and never relinquishing their lead thereafter.

“Anytime you play such an emotional game Friday nights, it’s always nice to come back and get the win on Saturday,” Martin said.

For a young Brown squad, the ability to play with a short-term memory shows maturity.

Earlier in the season, after dropping their Ivy League opener to Yale, the Bears managed to avenge the loss the following week in their second showdown against the Bulldogs. Brown will close its season with a rematch at home against Harvard, and the team’s ability to learn from its mistakes may prove beneficial down the road.

What’s wrong Despite winning the battle of the boards in both games over the weekend, the Bears struggled to convert on second-chance opportunities.

In Rafael Maia ’15 — the Ivy League’s leading offensive rebounder — and Cedric Kuakumensah ’16 — the conference’s leading shot blocker — the Bears boast one of the most imposing frontcourts in the Ancient Eight. On the season, Bruno is pulling down

an average of 4.9 more rebounds per game than its opponents.

“Their interior guys are tremendous,” said Harvard Head Coach Tommy Amaker. “Kuakumensah and Maia, those two kids are strong frontline players.”

The Bears out-rebounded Harvard and Dartmouth 46-39 and 46-42, respectively, but the Bears struggled to convert this advantage into offensive production. Despite pulling down two more offensive rebounds than the Crimson, the Bears were outscored 18-6 on second-chance points. The Big Green wrangled one less offensive board than Brown, but still built a 14-13 advantage on secondchance points.

“I don’t see anything wrong with the way we rebounded,” Martin said after the loss to Harvard. “The difference is they converted when they got offensive rebounds, and we did not.”

As Bruno continues conference play in a wide-open Ivy League, it is crucial that the Bears capitalize on every possible scoring opportunity, particularly under their own basket on second-chance points.

What’s new Though Bruno boasts the Ivy League’s leading scorer — guard Sean McGonagill ’14 tops the conference with 18.0 points per game — the squad has seen consistent offensive production from throughout the lineup in recent games.

McGonagill was the top scorer in the Bears’ first two conference matchups against Yale, but since that time, four other players have led the team in scoring. Steven Spieth ’17 and Norman Hobbie ’17 scored 18 apiece against Cornell, Maia netted 18 against Columbia and Tavon Blackmon ’17 finished with 11 points Friday night against Harvard. Spieth and McGonagill led the Bears with 20 points apiece against Dartmouth.

Particularly in conference play, teams have been planning ways to make McGonagill a non-factor. So, the ability of other players to step up and fill the offensive void has been integral to the Bears’ success.

“We have more than Sean on this team,” Martin said. “We have eight guys that average seven points a game or right around there.

So when teams focus on (McGonagill), we think that opens up other opportunities for other guys.”

The Bears now rank third in the conference behind Harvard and Yale. After this weekend, every Ivy team will have seen what Bruno is capable of on the court. If the Bears hope to make a run at the top spot in the conference, they must continue to employ a balanced offensive attack in order to keep opponents on their toes.

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Bears continue to improve in preparation for Heps Personal achievement rules the day as Bruno stays on track with excellent showing despite tough competition

By EMILE BAUTISTA SPORTS STAFF WRITER

A deep field of competitors could not stop several Bears from shining bright this weekend, as the men’s and women’s track and field teams competed at Boston University’s David Hemery Valentine Invitational. The Invitational is one of the largest meets in the nation and includes a mixture of collegiate and post-collegiate athletes.

Bruno had a multitude of athletes post top-20 finishes and extend personal records. For the men, numerous runners posted strong showings in the 800-meter race in a field of 233.

Ned Willig ’16 continued his streak

of top-10 performances with a time of 1 minute, 50.04 seconds in the 800, good for a 10th-place finish and a new personal best. Willig’s time ranks him third all-time at Brown and 35th in the NCAA this year. Henry Tufnell ’15 and Matt Bevil ’14 finished 12th and 14th with times of 1:50.29 and 1:50.41, respectively. These showings move them to fourth and fifth place all-time in Brown history and 40th and 43rd in the country this year. The trio of Willig, Tufnell and Bevil finished as the top three collegiate performers in the race.

Three other runners set personal records in the 800: Reuben Feinman ’15 (1:53.28), Will Conway ’15

(1:54.48) and Christian Bermel ’16 (1:55.96).

Director of Track and Field Tim Springfield said he was “happy to see Tufnell get back to being aggressive.”

“It was also very encouraging to see our depth at 800 meters improve,” he added.

Some long-distance runners also turned in quality performances.

Jordan Mann ’15 placed 16th in the 3,000-meter race, setting a personal record of 8:14.80. In the 5,000-meter race, Jeff Bush ’14 crossed the finish line in eighth place with a time of 14:20.95, a personal best and good for the eighth-fastest all-time mark at Brown. Mark McGurrin ’15 also improved his personal record in the 5,000 to a time of 14:28.58.

The men also had strong outings in the field events. In the men’s long jump,

Evan Weinstock ’14, Peter Rhodes ’15 and A.J. Anderson ’15, a Herald staff writer, finished eighth, 11th and 12th, respectively, with jumps of 6.84, 6.69 and 6.61 meters. In the men’s shot put, Matthew O’Hara ’16 and Aaron Comery ’17 came in 18th and 19th with throws of 14.46 and 14.42 meters.

The women posted a number of personal records and displays of excellence. In the 800, Sasha Teninty ’14 set a new personal record time of 2:10.65, good for 15th place. Taylor Worthy ’17 and Lucy Van Kleunen ’17 also lowered their personal bests to 2:13.63 and 2:14.94, respectively.

In the one-mile race, Kate DeSimone ’14, a former Herald senior staff writer, finished in 13th with a new personal milestone of 4:49.45. Two competitors in the 3,000, Leah Eickhoff ’15 and Kat Grimes ’14, followed the

trend of besting personal feats with times of 9:52.38 and 9:59.17. The Bears placed second in the distance medley relay with a time of 11:49.98, secured

by DeSimone, Worthy, Van Kleunen and Alexandra Stanton ’15.

Springfield commended the athletes for their efforts. “We had some strong performances from our middleand long-distance groups for both men and women this weekend. That will be crucial when we put our (Ivy League Heptagonal Championship) relays together,” he said. “The 3K and 5K runners also did good work. They’re coming off a hard training cycle, so it was gratifying to see their hard work rewarded with some significant” personal records.

Bruno hopes to carry this momentum into next weekend when the teams host the Brown Invitational.

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Daswick ’16, Glenn ’14 shine as Bruno falls to Bulldogs Men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams drop hard-fought duel against Yale in Ivy Champs tune-up

By CORMAC CUMMISKEY SPORTS STAFF WRITER

When the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams took to the pool against Ivy foe Yale in their final dual meet of the season Saturday, the Bull-

dogs ultimately proved best in show: Brown’s men lost 175-125, while the women dropped by a narrower margin of 156-144. Altogether, the Bears won 13 of 32 events.

“We just wanted to see where we are a few weeks out from the (Ivy League)

championships,” said co-captain Kate Dillione ’15. “Typically our meets against Yale have been very close — it was a great challenge.”

The Bears did not bow to the Bulldogs without a fight. Strong individual showings abounded on both the men’s and the women’s side.

As he has done so often this season, Tommy Glenn ’14 dominated all competitors across multiple events.

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Cory Mayfield ’16 swims freestyle. Mayfield entered three events — the 500 free, 1000 free and 200 free relay — and finished third, fifth and sixth. Brown men’s swimmers won six of their 14 events.

Swimming with the celerity of a swordfish, Glenn took home individual titles in both the 100-yard freestyle and the 200-yard butterfly, winning the latter race by more than four seconds.

Still thirsty for more, Glenn contributed legs to the first-place 200-yard medley relay, a Brown record, and the second-place 400-yard freestyle relay.

When scores were tallied at the end of the meet, Glenn stood responsible for more than 25 percent of the men’s total points.

Glenn was not the only Bear who enjoyed success this weekend. The dynamic duo of Christopher Meyers ’16 and Connor Lohman ’17 finished first and second, respectively, in the 100-yard breaststroke. Another high point for Brown took place in the 50yard freestyle, as Jeffrey Strausser ’15 and Jack Nee ’17 finished one and two.

Nee’s second-place finish in that race was the tightest of the meet. The first-year managed to out-touch Yale’s Andrew Heymann at the pool wall, securing the silver by 0.01 seconds.

On the diving platform, Billy Rosenberg ’15 acquitted himself well, taking second in the 3-meter event.

Jonathan Schlafer ’17 matched Rosenberg’s result, taking second in the 1-meter dive.

Alexis Daswick ’16 was perhaps the most valuable contributor on the women’s side, notching first-place finishes in the 100-yard and 200-yard backstroke. But Daswick did not cruise to her victories, gritting it out against Yale first-year Michelle Chintanapohl in order to taste her triumph.

Chintanapohl dogged Daswick’s every stroke in both their meetings.

Daswick finished ahead of her Yale rival by only 0.08 seconds in the 100 back, while the 200 back was decided by 0.10 seconds. Daswick’s efforts added a much-appreciated 18 points to the Bears’ score.

Daswick “was rested a bit for this meet, and she was wearing a fast suit,” Dillione said. “It was good that she was able to score those points for us.”

Daswick’s teammates rallied behind her strong showing. In the 100 breast, Briana Borgolini ’14 and Katie Roach ’17 finished one and two, respectively.

In the 200 breast, by contrast, Roach

claimed the title, while Borgolini faded to fourth.

Not to be outdone, Gina Matsumoto ’16 and Caroline Vexler ’17 swept the 200-yard individual medley. Matsumoto was first to the wall, with Vexler following not far behind.

Though she experienced a breakout performance last weekend at Cornell, Reia Tong ’16 could not find her way to the top of the victory stand against Yale.

Still, the sophomore swam strongly and recorded the closest second-place finish of the day in the 50 free, coming within 0.06 seconds of the win.

For her part, Dillione led the team by example. She began the meet by anchoring the Bears’ 400 medley relay, then followed that up by winning the 200 free.

Dillione said her races afforded her an opportunity to compete against rivals whom she will race alongside at the Ivy League Championships. “It’s good to get a taste of what’s in the conference,” she said. “In two weeks we’ll be ready to go.”

But at the end of the day, Brown was in the losing column on both sides of the meet. The defeats were the latest in a line of Ivy losses. Neither the men nor the women managed to top any conference opponents in dual meets this season.

Still, the Bears remain “within an arm’s length” of several of their Ivy rivals, Dillione said. “We’ve had super close meets with three or four teams at this point,” she said. “I’m excited for how it’ll all shake out.”

The team proceeds apace toward the Ivy championship meet, where several team members could contend for individual titles. For the men, Glenn is the two-time defending champion in both the 100 and 200 fly races. For the women, Borgolini returns as a two-time runner-up in the 100 breast and one-time runner-up in the 200 breast. Both could win their events at the championships.

Swimmers who have not qualified to race at the Ivy championships will compete next weekend at the feBRUINvite, hosted by Brown. Qualifying athletes will train through that event, preparing for the conference championship meet Feb. 27-28 at Harvard.

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The team’s reaction “should have been positive,” he said, but he added that he felt such a close defeat left the team frustrated.

“We knew we were right there. We just couldn’t find a way to win,” Lorito said.

Captain Dennis Robertson ’14 agreed with his teammates, saying the Bears “expect to win every night.”

“We’re not a team that pats itself on the back for having close games,” he said.

Bruno did not let its discontent go easily, and it showed as the team came out flat the following night at RPI. RPI 4, Brown 1 After playing so well at Union, Bruno came up far short against the Engineers (12-12-4, 6-7-3 ECAC).

RPI scored 34 seconds into the game and again 13 minutes later, leaving the Bears in an early 2-0 hole.

“We just didn’t start off very well,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94.

But two minutes later, Bruno was handed a golden opportunity as RPI was called for two simultaneous penalties, leading to a 5-on-3 power play. Thirty-five seconds later, Robertson scored to halve the deficit and give Brown a chance to tie the game with still over a minute left on the now 5-on-4 power play. As the man advantage neared its end, a Lappin shot ended up in the net but was reviewed and ruled no goal.

Brown would not score for the rest of the game, getting outshot 22-9 over the final two periods as the Engineers added two more goals to bring the final score to 4-1.

“We were a little unprepared,” Robertson said.

Naclerio agreed, saying the team had “a few mental mistakes.”

“We broke down and gave them the win by beating ourselves,” he said.

The players all agreed that the team was not as focused and got off to a slow start, allowing RPI to jump on them early. Robertson noted how after going down two goals, the Bears sank into a malaise that dogged them all night.

“We couldn’t seem to climb out of that funk,” he said. Whittet seconded his captain’s words, and said the Engineers were “on our heels, and we never really recovered.”

Lorito felt the performance was nothing like what the team showed against Union. “We kind of got away from some of the stuff that made us successful,” he said.

Whittet agreed with his players, saying the team lacked “the type of effort you need to be successful.”

Though they suffered a setback this weekend, the Bears’ outlook has not dampened. Lorito said the team still wants to “finish as high as we can” in the ECAC, citing home-ice advantage in the first round of the conference tournament as “really important for us.”

Robertson said the weekend “doesn’t change our goals one bit.” He compared it to a similar mid-February weekend last season, when Union and RPI swept the Bears on their New York road trip. Bruno then went 2-1-1 to end the regular season, sparking an improbable tournament run all the way to the ECAC championship game.

The Bears have similar hopes this season.

“All the guys in that locker believe that’s where we’re headed,” Robertson said.

The team returns home next weekend to take on Princeton (4-19-0, 3-13-0 ECAC) and No. 3 Quinnipiac (20-5-5, 10-3-3 ECAC).

12-12-4, 6-7-3 ECAC

Breaking down Bruno: its own worst enemy Talented Bears must stay composed to repeat last year’s unlikely conference championship game run

By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

This weekend was a disappointing one in many ways for the men’s hockey team. Brown not only failed to get any points and keep pace in the ECAC, but it also played one of its worst games of the season during its Saturday visit to Rensselaer after a strong showing against Union Friday.

Inconsistency has reared its ugly head at the most inopportune times this season. Two weeks ago, Bruno pulled off a big home win against Yale, only to travel to New Haven the next night and get pounded 6-0. The Bears committed five penalties in the first period of that game. “We kind of shot ourselves in the foot,” said forward Mark Naclerio ’16.

This weekend, the Bears outshot No. 4 Union in Schenectady N.Y. and came very close to pulling off the win Friday.

Understandably, the Union loss deflated Bruno Saturday, but good teams do not let these things affect them. Yale came back after a tough loss to Brown, but the Bears came in unprepared against RPI following Friday’s defeat.

“We didn’t play Brown hockey,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “It was not one of our better efforts.”

Whittet had attempted to ensure his team’s readiness, saying he and the team “had talked about having a good start.” But the message did not translate to the ice.

Compared to the game against Union, captain Dennis Robertson ’14 said the team “didn’t have that same energy” against RPI. Situations like these are the exact ones Brown must avoid. A lack of mental preparation can be fatal for any team and proved to be so again this weekend for Bruno.

“You want to be mentally tough,” Whittet

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said. “The goofiness of not playing each game with urgency and dedication needs to stop.”

Despite poor execution in games like Saturday’s, many of the Bears’ losses have shown the team’s great potential.

Bruno outshot No. 9 Cornell last weekend 34-20 and Union this weekend 37-31. Outshooting your opponent is a good indicator that you played better than they did, though that may not necessarily be reflected in the final score.

Whittet said his team “outplayed” Cornell, a statement the shot totals back up, and that they “outplayed (Union) for a lot of stretches” as well. Excelling against top-10 teams, both at home and on the road, demonstrates the Bears’ tantalizing potential. Naclerio has blossomed into one of the best players in the ECAC, and the team has remained competitive despite what Whittet called “an incredible number of injuries.”

The scary and exciting thing about this team is that they are the main obstacle to their own success. When the Bears click, they give the best teams a run for their money and run over anyone worse, like they did in last weekend’s 5-2 win over Colgate. But all too often they trip over their own feet.

Fortunately, the Bears seem to recognize their shortcomings.

“We have to be better,” Lorito said. “We have to reevaluate our team and work harder in practice.”

Robertson said, “We need to raise our level to be where we want to be.”

“We just have to forget the results of a lot of these games and focus on the task at hand,” Whittet said.

Identifying their problems is one thing, but fixing them is easier said than done. There is no way to know whether the Bears will be able to learn from their mistakes as they did last year, when they fell one game short of an ECAC championship.

Dangerous once again, Bruno should have the rest of the conference on its toes. But in the end, the Bears themselves, not their opponents, will determine if a return trip to the title game is in the cards.

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Men and women finish second-to-last in Ivy Champs Both squads enter the competition with just one loss, but struggle against talented Ivy foes

By JESSICA ZAMBRANO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The men’s and women’s fencing teams hosted the Ivy League Championships Saturday and Sunday at the OMAC, with the men taking fifth place out of six teams and the women bringing home sixth out of seven.

Bruno challenged some of the best teams in the nation — as four of each of the men’s and women’s competitors rank in the top ten in the country.

“After competing against them for years, we start to know the players of the other schools,” said women’s captain Kathryn Hawrot ’14. “They’re tough competitors, but they’re not impossible to beat. We tried to keep our heads in the game.”

The team competed in three weapon areas: saber, foil and epee. Each team sends three competitors to each weapon group, and each competitor fights every person in their division.

In a match against Princeton, the three Bears would each fight the opposing three Tigers — for a total of 27 bouts, with a win earning a point.

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Though Harvard suffered a slight dip in the second half, it still finished the game with over a 60 percent conversion rate in all offensive categories, making 30 of 47 from the field, 10 of 16 on three-pointers and 21 of 31 on free throws.

Four Harvard players scored over 10 points, and Crimson guard Christine Clarke led all scorers with 19 points. Clarke — who was recognized before the game for having set a Brown record with 183 career three-pointers — led the Bears with 17 points. Sophie Bikofsky ’15 scored another 14, and Jordin Juker ’14 added a career-high 10 points, despite only being on the court for 12 minutes.

Brown 71, Dartmouth 55 After hosting the Ivy leaders, the Bears faced off against last-place Dartmouth (3-17, 0-6) Saturday. The Big Green have struggled mightily against Ivy opponents this season, conceding over 70 points and losing by at least 10 every game.

Saturday was no different, and the Bears took advantage of the fragile Dartmouth squad to secure their second Ivy victory.

After scoring the first points of the

Saber fencing is characterized by more aggressive tactics and fast footwork. Foil fencing involves more movement of the body to avoid the opponent’s weapon. Epee fencing emphasizes clean blade work and maintaining proper footwork.

Both the men’s and women’s squads jumped out to strong starts Saturday morning, taking down Yale 17-10 and 14-13, respectively. But that was all the team success the Bears would taste, as both the men and women would struggle the rest of the weekend. The men fell to Columbia, Princeton, Penn and Harvard to round out their 1-4 meet. Similarly, the women fell to Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, Penn and Harvard. The Bruno losses were not without drama, as the women battled Cornell to a 14-13 final and Penn to a 15-12 decision.

“I thought we had a strong performance,” Hawrot said. “We did drop a few places since last year, so we were kind of bummed about that.

This year was a little harder than past years, though, so I still thought we had a strong performance.”

Despite mediocre team finishes, many Brunonians turned in respectable individual performances.

In women’s saber, Caitlin Taylor ’14 earned a spot on the All-Ivy second team, leading the Bears with 12

wins. Taylor rode a 12-6 record to fifth place in saber. Taylor’s saber success was echoed by teammates Lauren Altman ’16 in seventh place and Christine Whalen ’15 in ninth place. With an impressive 5-4 record on day one of the tournament, Hawrot turned in a tenth place finish in women’s foil.

“I was pretty happy,” Hawrot said. “I didn’t do as well as last year, but there are new, high-ranked freshman so the competition was definitely harder this year. I have some places to improve in.

Overall, it was a good way to go out as a senior.”

Women’s epee witnessed a notable performance from Laney Caldwell ’14.

Caldwell finished Saturday in eighth place and rounded out Sunday in twelfth.

Leading the way in men’s saber was Alex Palabrica ’17. The first-year notched a 6-9 record, good enough for 10th place in the evenly-matched field. Barrett Weiss ’15 took eleventh place in men’s foil, with a record of 7-8.

Twin 9-6 finishes from epee swordsmen Simon Jones ’16 and James Yoon ’17 placed the teammates in a tie for seventh place.

The meet comes after an impressive regular season for both squads.

The men carried a 13-1 record into the conference final, while the women posted a 14-1 regular season mark.

night, Dartmouth soon fell behind and trailed for the rest of the game. Dartmouth could not regain the momentum, as Bruno’s lead steadily increased as the night went on.

Around the 12-minute mark in the first half, Dartmouth had its best chance of taking back the lead when Fanni Szabo’s two consecutive threepointers brought the Big Green to within one point, trailing only 14-13.

But after two scoreless minutes, it was Clarke who once again distanced the Bears from Dartmouth. Her coastto-coast layup, followed by another lay-in seconds later, put the Bears up 18-13 with 8:46 to go in the half.

Bruno had more than twice as many assists as Dartmouth, 13-6, reflecting the Bears’ efficient passing.

One such assist was an agile play by Ellise Sharpe ’16, who dribbled past her defender and dished the ball between two Dartmouth players into the hands of an incoming Carly Wellington ’14, who needed only to flip the ball over the rim for another two points.

Despite collecting no offensive rebounds in the first half, the Bears still finished the period ahead 29-24, a reflection of their superior field goal conversion rate — 57.8 percent to the Big Green’s 38.1 percent.

Coming out of the locker room, Bruno quickly took definitive control

of the game, reaching a 10-point lead for the first time at 16:44.

Forced to play more offensively, the Big Green left its defense vulnerable to counterattacks, and the Bears took notice. Around the eight-minute mark, Sharpe finished three consecutive fast breaks in a minute.

The Bears attained the largest lead of the game with 4:55 left, as Sophie Beutel ’14 made a layup to put the Bears up 62-40. The Big Green tried to catch up with a 7-0 run, but ran out of time before it could close the deficit.

The Bears had their highest field goal conversion rate of the season, 55.6 percent. The team was led by Bikofsky, who scored 14 points going 4-of-8 on treys, maintaining her position as the nation’s best shooter from behind the arc at 51.1 percent this season. Clarke also scored 13 points. She now finds herself 10 points short of entering the top-10 scorers in Brown history, with 1,194 career points.

With the weekend’s combined results, Brown maintains its sixth-place ranking in the Ivy League, while Harvard leads, and Dartmouth remains at the bottom.

The Bears will travel to Princeton (13-6, 4-1) and Penn (14-5, 4-1) next weekend. Both teams are tied for second in the league.

TOM SULLIVAN / HERALD

The men’s and women’s fencing teams faced a tough weekend, losing to all competitors but Yale at the Ivy League Championships.

The struggles this weekend after both teams’ dominance all season are a testament to the caliber of Ivy competition. The men improved one place on last season’s sixth-place finish at the Ivy meet, while the women fell two places from their fourth-place rank last season.

In team competition, Harvard and

Columbia tied for the Ivy title with matching 4-1 records. On the women’s side, defending national champion Princeton took the title with an untouchable 6-0 record.

While the Ivy meet is often the climax of the season, it is not the end. The Bears will fence again in the NCAA Regionals March 9 in Wellesley, Mass.

» W. HOCKEY, from page 1

similar chances on its way to victory.

on goal within the first two minutes of the second period. But Moore successfully defended against several scoring chances, including a dangerously close shot that careened off the goalpost.

Twelve minutes into the period, RPI took a penalty, giving the Bears a man advantage. Kaitlyn Keon ’15 capitalized on the power play, knocking the puck into the net off assists from Sarah Robson ’15 and Jessica Hoyle ’14 to score her fifth goal of the season, giving Bruno the go-ahead tally. The team almost scored again with a minute to go but was denied by RPI goalie Kelly O’Brien, who plucked the puck from midair.

The third period began with a Bruno power-play carried over from the second. Five shots from four players in one minute tested the RPI defense, but Brown failed to find the back of the net. Two minutes later, neither team could convert on a four-on-four situation, and the Bears hung on to their 1-0 lead. Near the end of the period, Robson added a point when she scored on a penalty shot to give Bruno a twogoal lead. The Engineers pulled O’Brien with two minutes left but committed a penalty seconds later, negating the advantage. Maddie Woo ’17 took advantage of the situation and fired the puck into the back of an empty net to sure up the 3-0 victory.

Despite being outshot by 25, the Bears found a way to win the game.

By capitalizing on two power plays and one penalty shot while relying on a solid defense, the Bears sealed their victory and earned their first shutout since December 2012.

The last time Bruno faced off against RPI, the Engineers triumphed 4-1. At the time, Head Coach Amy Bourbeau told The Herald that, while the Bears could not make up the deficit, they created good offensive scoring chances.

This weekend, Brown capitalized on

Brown 2, Union 1 Taking the ice Saturday, the Bears quickly fell in a hole, allowing Union (9-20-1, 4-14-0) to score early in the first period. The Dutchwomen held off Bruno for the rest of the frame until Hoyle took control of the puck with less than a minute to go, hitting a slap shot that sent the puck screaming into the back of the Union net. Entering the second period tied at one, Union came out of the locker room aggressively. Of the game’s seven penalties, six came in the second period — five to Brown’s advantage. The Bears, though, did not capitalize on any power plays. Instead, Monica Masucci ’16 claimed the puck seven minutes into the period off a blocked shot from Janice Yang ’15.5 and slipped it into the Union net, scoring the go-ahead goal for Brown, her first score of the season.

The Dutchwomen came on strong in the third, looking to regain the momentum. Despite outshooting the Bears 11-6 in the third period, Union failed to generate any offensive momentum and was forced to pull its goalie with less than two minutes to play. While Bruno could not score on the empty net as it had the day before, it resisted a ferocious Union charge and maintained the narrow lead. In the last minute of play alone, the Dutchwomen took seven unanswered shots, including a shot off the pipe, to threaten the Bears’ advantage.

Brown’s defensive efforts finally cemented the victory for them, giving the team a four-point weekend and an important confidence boost. “We definitely played as more of a team this weekend, and that’s the reason we have been successful,” Nedow said.

The Bears will take on Princeton (12-9-4, 8-7-3) and Quinnipiac (175-8, 8-4-6) next weekend in their last away trip of the season.

S6 wrestling

THE SPORTS BULLETIN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Bruno picks up two wins in season’s first home meet Bears beat Penn for second EIWA and first Ivy win before falling to Princeton

By CALEB MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

The wrestling team grappled in front of a home crowd for the first time this season at the Pizzitola Center over the weekend. College Hill proved a favorable setting, as the Bears captured two wins and suffered one narrow loss.

“We’ve been looking forward to our first home meet for a while,” said Ophir Bernstein ’15. “There were so many alumni, family and kids chanting — we really thrived on it.”

The season’s first home match ended in dramatic fashion with a come-from-behind win over Penn.

The Bears jumped out to an early 6-0 lead with wins by Vincent Moita ’14 at 125 pounds and Anthony Finocchiaro ’16 at 133 pounds. But Penn answered with victories in the next four classes, grabbing a comfortable » See WRESTLING, page S8

TOM SULLIVAN / HERALD

Key wins from Augustus Marker ’16 and Ryder Cavey ’17 catapulted Bruno over Penn in a come-from-behind victory Saturday afternoon. Marker and Cavey also tallied victories against Johnson and Wales Sunday.

Moyes’ moves, management have doomed Man U. OTIS BOOZ AND BEN ORF sports columnists

Looking back on the Premier League season so far, one can safely describe this season as one of the most hotly contested in years. At the top, at the bottom and everywhere in between, British soccer is witnessing a rare case of genius.

Indeed, the current season is developing into perhaps the most open Premier League title race of the last decade, as Luis Suarez, Sergio Aguero, Mesut Ozil and company continue to torment Europe’s most competitive defenses with their acute tactical awareness and raw technical skill.

The emergence of a new generation of genuinely world-class talents adds further intrigue and excitement to this year’s Premier League. Eden Hazard, Daniel Sturridge and Aaron Ramsey continue to build upon promising individual campaigns last term and seem poised to make the step to bona fide superstars.

While the competitive nature of the title race appears to have brought out the best in some clubs — see Arsenal, Liverpool and Everton — others have faltered in the face of the reinvigorated competition at the top of the table.

It’s safe to say that no club has been as affected by the changing landscape of power at the top of the Premier League as Manchester United.

Long the gold standard of English soccer — and last year’s champions — United has endured a nightmare season plagued by inept transfer market dealings, injury crises and undeniably poor performances on the pitch. Not since the 2004-05 season has Manchester United finished outside of the top two in the league, but that distinguished streak appears destined

to end this time around as the team languishes in seventh place, 15 points from the league’s summit and seven from the top four. United is in an unfamiliar position of weakness.

Understandably, many have pointed the finger at David Moyes — United’s newly appointed manager following Alex Ferguson’s retirement — as a key catalyst of the team’s decline. Despite taking charge of virtually the exact team that won the league last season, Moyes has thus far been unable to produce the results that his predecessor achieved year in and year out.

But is this lack of the so-called “Fergie Factor” the sole contributor to United’s formidable regression? In one word, absolutely.

Excuses for the club’s troubles are manifold: United fans are quick to point to an aging squad, slow adap-

pinnacle of European soccer.

As for those who claim the team needs more time to implement new tactics, it must be noted that Moyes had an entire preseason to work with an experienced group of winners.

Surely a full summer of preparation would be enough for a quality manager to instill his ideas in the playing style of a championship club. Moyes’ successor at Everton, Roberto Martinez, has shown how a good coach can — in the space of just this most recent preseason — bring his tactics to a new team, having infused Goodison Park with an innovative, free-flowing, incisive and attacking soccer that is already showing results.

Finally, injury troubles can only be blamed to a point. While any team would suffer from the absence of players of the caliber of Robin Van Persie

lous hairstyle have been lackluster at best. Zaha failed to start a league game before his move to Cardiff, while Fellaini has struggled with both form and fitness in his short time at the club, leading some to question whether his obsession with looking as much like a shrub as possible is affecting his performance.

Meanwhile, United’s back four have suffered from rampant inconsistency, devoid of the defensive stability that had become such an influential facet of their enduring success under Ferguson. The center-back partnership of Vidic and Ferdinand has dwindled in significance, as figures like Evans, Smalling and Phil Jones have provided adequate rather than championship-caliber replacement.

The team has already allowed 29 goals this season, nine more than Chelsea,

Is this lack of the so-called “Fergie Factor” the sole contributor to United’s formidable regression? In a word, absolutely. tation to new tactics and unfortunate injuries to key players as potential explanations for the club’s poor performance. But on further examination, these claims appear desperately hollow. The average age of Manchester United’s entire team is middling — 27.4 years old. While stalwart centerhalves Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic are 35 and 32 respectively, their drop-off in form this season can hardly be blamed on age. Both performed admirably for the entirety of last season’s title charge.

Certainly, players like Ferdinand, Vidic and even Patrice Evra will need to be replaced in the coming years, but the decline of the club cannot be pinned on players like these who, on the evidence of the last 12 months, are still more than capable of delivering performances at a level befitting the

or Wayne Rooney, United is blessed with riches at the forward position and have two respectable back-ups: Javier Hernandez, a proven scorer at the Premier League level, and Danny Welbeck, who — though raw — offers a tremendous upside and is already a regular for Roy Hodgson’s English national team.

So how is one to judge Moyes’ reign thus far? While it’s impossible to comment on Moyes’ training methods — though they likely involve psychologically torturous attempts to undermine Shinji Kagawa’s confidence and quite possibly a great deal of verbal abuse aimed at the ineffective, spiky-haired Tom Cleverley — evaluating his transfer market dealings is not as difficult.

The summer additions of Wilfried Zaha and Marouane Fellaini’s fabu-

the League’s top ranked defense, and four more than this season’s combative and industrious underdogs Everton. As is so often the case in soccer, a club’s successes hinge heavily upon the solidity of the back four, and, as is obvious judging by their current form, United is suffering from a dearth of young, spritely talent who could reinvigorate an aging defense that stands in considerable contrast to what was achieved under Ferguson.

So where does this place United in the context of the rest of the season?

Supporters of the club will certainly be lifted by the January arrival of Juan Mata, a supremely talented player capable of unlocking even the most impregnable of defenses. Mata’s skill set has already been put to good use: In his first two games with United, he registered two assists as a much-

needed attacking outlet for a previously weak midfield. Still, questions remain as to whether he, Rooney and Van Persie can effectively play together, as Mata revels in the No. 10 role that Rooney has handled effectively so far this season. Indeed, the only game the three have started together ended in a shocking 2-1 defeat to lowly Stoke City a week ago.

Another obvious talking point is how Mata’s presence will affect the burgeoning development of United’s promising young attacking midfielder Adnan Januzaj. The 18-year-old’s performances, full of energy and imagination, have provided a silver lining to what has thus far been a largely underwhelming season for the champions. In light of all this, one can only assume Moyes’ objectives have shifted from bringing home the season’s silverware to limiting damage and maybe finishing in the top four.

Given the financial power, winning tradition and global prominence of Manchester United, one would likely judge this season to be a minor hiccup after an era of tremendous success. That said, missing out on Champions League soccer places the owners of the club, as well as Moyes, in a precarious situation. Recruitment of top-quality players in the summer is dependent upon offering a high standard of competition, and the Europa League simply does not set the heart racing. The plight of Liverpool — a European giant condemned to the relative irrelevance of second-tier European soccer the past five years — should certainly serve as an ominous reminder of the importance of ensuring that one poor season does not instigate a prolonged period of mediocrity.

Otis Booz ’16 and Ben Orf ’16 can be reached at otis_booz@brown.edu and benjamin_orf@brown.edu.

scoreboard S7

THE SPORTS BULLETIN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014

MEN’S BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Brown (12-8, 4-2 Ivy) Harvard (18-3, 5-0) 1st

Brown (8-12, 2-4 Ivy)

Dartmouth (9-11, 2-4) 2nd

F

1st

Harvard (14-5, 4-1)

2nd

F

1st

Dartmouth (3-17, 0-6) 1st

2nd

F

Brown: Harvard:

21 27

24 25

45 52

Brown: Dartmouth:

42 33

33 29

75 62

Harvard: Brown:

53 33

2nd

38 38

91 71

Dartmouth Brown:

24 29

31 42

55 71

Brown

Pts.

Rebs.

As.

Brown

Pts.

Rebs.

As.

Brown

Pts.

Rebs.

As.

Brown

Pts.

Rebs.

As.

Kuakumensah

2

10

0

King

7

9

0

Juker

10

3

0

Juker

2

2

0

Maia

4

7

0

Maia

13

10

0

Ball

9

4

0

Ball

8

2

1

Speith

4

6

2

Spieth

20

5

1

Bikofsky

14

2

4

Bikofsky

14

6

1

Blackman

11

0

2

Blackman

4

2

5

Musgrove

2

1

0

Musgrove

6

3

2

McGonagill

8

4

1

McGonagill

20

2

2

Clarke

17

4

3

Clarke

13

1

6

King

8

6

0

Hobbie

0

0

1

Beutel

6

7

1

Welllington

10

2

0

Hobbie

8

1

0

Madigan

2

2

0

Weledji

5

0

6

Beutel

8

2

0

Madigan

0

2

0

Kuakumensah

9

4

1

Veldman

4

1

0

Veldman

6

2

1

Walker

0

2

0

Walker

0

6

1

Wellington

2

2

4

Sharpe

2

1

1

Total

45

46

5

Total

75

46

10

Total

71

30

19

Total

71

23

13

M W MEN’S HOCKEY

Brown: Union: SHOTS: Brown: Union:

F

1st

2nd

3rd

F

2 1

1 2

0 1

3 4

1st

2nd

3rd

F

12 9

13 11

12 11

37 31

Brown: RPI: SHOTS: Brown: RPI:

WOMEN’S HOCKEY 1st

2nd

3rd

F

1 2

0 1

0 1

1 4

RPI: Brown: SHOTS: RPI: Brown:

1st

2nd

3rd

F

0 0

0 1

0 2

0 3

Union: Brown: SHOTS: Union: Brown:

1st

2nd

3rd

F

1 1

0 1

0 0

1 2

1st

2nd

3rd

F

12 11

4 10

11 6

27 27

M W

- 1st -

Brown 11:14 - Mark Naclerio (PP) (a: Nick Lappin, Massimo Lamacchia)

Brown 11:29 - Nick Lappin (PP) (a: Matt Lorito, Dennis Robertson)

- 2nd -

1st

2nd

3rd

F

10 7

5 10

4 12

19 29

- 1st -

Brown 17:01 - Dennis Robertson (PP) (a: Matt Lorito, Massimo Lamacchia)

- 2nd -

Brown 19:29 - Zack Pryzbek

No Brown Scoring

- 3rd -

- 3rd -

(a: Garnet Hathaway, Matt Lorito)

No Brown Scoring

No Brown Scoring

1st

2nd

3rd

F

14 4

19 14

18 8

51 26

- 1st -

- 1st -

No Brown Scoring

Brown 19:17 - Jessica Hoyle (a: Kaitlyn Keon, Lauren Vella)

- 2nd -

- 2nd -

Brown 12:10 - Kaitlyn Keon (PP) (a: Sarah Robson, Jessica Hoyle)

- 3rd -

No Brown Scoring

- 3rd -

Brown 16:13 - Sarah Robson (unassisted)

Brown 19:32 - Maddie Woo (EN)

No Brown Scoring

(a: Vanessa Welten, Kelly Kittredge)

GYMNASTICS Brown: 192.825, 1st Springfield: 181.075, 2nd

SWIMMING & DIVING

All-Around

Men Brown 125 - 175 Yale Top performer:

Nicholas Johnston - 1st, 100 backstroke

Bars

Women Brown 144 - 156 Yale Top performer:

Kate Dillione - 1st, 200 free

Diana Walters: 39.050, 1st Michelle Shnayder: 38.875, 2nd

Diana Walters: 9.800, 1st Tori Kinamon: 9.725, 2nd

Beam

Diana Walters: 9.775, 1st Michelle Shnayder: 9.725, 2nd

Floor

Caroline Morant: 9.800, T1 Michelle Shnayder: 9.800, T1

Vault

Diana Walters: 9.800, 1st Michelle Shnayder: 9.700, 2nd

TRACK & FIELD Men’s Individual Top performers: Courtland Clavette: 6th, Shot Jeffrey Bush: 8th, 5000m Women’s Individual Top performers: Kate DeSimone: 13th, mile Sasha Teninty: 15th, 800m

MEN’S / WOMEN’S SQUASH Men’s vs. Dartmouth L, 8-1

Men’s @ Harvard L, 9-0

1 Reinson: W, 11-4, 11-5, 11-5

1 Reinson: L, 8-11, 5-11, 12-14

2 Blasberg: L, 11-5, 8-11, 4-11, 9-11

2 Blasberg: L, 2-11, 5-11, 1-11

3 Booth: L, 11-8, 6-11, 3-11, 11-4, 0-11

3 Booth: L, 7-11, 6-11, 7-11

4 Hoff: L, 2-11, 8-11, 7-11

4 Hoff: L, 1-11, 3-11, 5-11

5 Baldock: L, 11-5, 9-11, 9-11, 11-7, 10-12

5 Baldock: L, 10-12, 9-11, 7-11, 10-12, 12-14

6 Holberton: L, 11-6, 8-11, 9-11, 2-11

6 Holberton: L, 3-11, 0-11, 4-11

7 O’Neill: L, 3-11, 8-11, 0-11

7 Talbott: L, 6-11, 5-11, 0-11

8 Talbott: L, 4-11, 6-11, 5-11

8 Lebovitz: L, 6-11, 2-11, 8-11

9 Lebovitz: L, 6-11, 4-11, 10-12

9 Gorgi: L, 2-11, 3-11, 1-11

Women’s vs. Dartmouth L, 6-3

Women’s @ Harvard L, 9-0

1 Rahbar: L, 11-8, 11-8, 8-11, 10-12, 6-11

1 Rahbar: L, 4-11, 4-11, 0-11

2 Domenick: L, 7-11, 7-11, 9-11

2 Domenick: L, 3-11, 4-11, 5-11

3 Hay-Smith: L, 10-12, 6-11, 5-11

3 Hay-Smith: L, 5-11, 5-11, 4-11

4 Richmond: W, 5-11, 11-7, 11-9, 10-12, 11-9

4 Richmond: L, 2-11, 5-11, 2-11

5 Shakarshy: W, 11-2, 11-8, 6-11, 11-6

5 Shakarshy: L, 8-11, 11-4. 9-11, 0-11

6 Schmidt-Fellner: L, 3-11, 11-8, 2-11, 7-11

6 Schmidt-Fellner: L, 5-11, 8-11, 8-11

7 Elliot-Moskwa: L, 10-12, 9-11, 8-11

7 Elliot-Moskwa: L, 8-11, 5-11, 7-11

8 Murphy: L, 5-11, 11-7, 6-11, 9-11

8 Murphy: L, 3-11, 2-11, 6-11

9 Scherl: W, 12-10, 12-10, 11-7

9 Scherl: L, 7-11, 6-11, 12-14

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS BULLETIN

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014

squash

Squash teams continue to struggle in Ivy League Both men and women fall to top-15 opponents Dartmouth and Yale and drop to 0-7 in conference

By DANTE O’CONNELL SPORTS EDITOR

The men’s and women’s squash teams continued to struggle last week, each falling to Yale, Dartmouth and Harvard. Both teams started their week of matches with 7-2 losses to the Bulldogs at Pizzitola Sports Center Tuesday.

After falling to both Brown teams in Hanover last season, the Big Green returned the favor on Bruno’s home turf Friday, defeating the women 6-3 and the men 8-1. The Crimson swept both teams 9-0 Sunday afternoon.

“All three matches were just a little too tough to win, but overall, our play was solid,” said assistant coach Christopher Sachvie. “Overall, I think we have a good momentum moving into the playoff weekends.”

Despite posting respectable nonconference records, both teams remain winless in Ivy League play after losing their past four meetings.

Women’s squash (10-7, 0-7 Ivy) Bruno’s first challenge of the week came against No. 4 Yale (15-3, 5-2), a team then in contention with No. 1 Harvard (12-0, 7-0) for the Ivy League crown. The Elis justified their ranking, allowing just two individual victories from the Bears.

Isabel Scherl ’17 and Alexandra White ’15 snared Brown’s only wins — from the eight and nine spots, respectively. Yale won every other match in four games or fewer.

When the No. 10 Big Green (47, 2-5) came to town Friday afternoon, No. 10 Bruno hoped to turn around its Ivy League season with a win against a comparable opponent.

Instead, several Bears suffered disappointing losses amid another weekend

» WRESTLING, from page S6 13-6 lead. Bruno 174-pounder Ricky McDonald ’15 earned the squad three points with a 3-1 decision to trim the margin. But after Bruno’s top wrestler No. 9 Bernstein fell to No. 13 Lorenzo Thomas, the outlook seemed bleak for the Bears, as they trailed 16-9 with two classes left. At this point, Bruno needed two wins, including a pin or major decision, to crawl out of the hole.

Momentum came in the form of 197-pounder Augustus Marker ’16.

The sophomore battled Penn’s Frank Mattiace late into the third period before sticking him with just 50 seconds left in the match. Marker’s pin narrowed the deficit to one point for heavyweight Ryder Cavey ’17, who capped the comeback with a 7-2 decision, vaulting the Bears over the Quakers 18-16 for their second duel win in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association.

Head Coach Todd Beckerman commended Marker’s grit in pinning Mattiace despite falling behind earlier in the bout and noted that his 197-pounder employed a new maneuver to force the pin.

of struggles.

Emily Richmond ’16, Mina Shakarshy ’15 and Scherl led the Bears with individual victories. After dropping her first set to Dartmouth’s Katherine Nimmo 11-5, Richmond stormed back, winning the next two games 11-7 and 11-9. Nimmo took the fourth set with a narrow 12-10 advantage, but Richmond finished her off in the fifth, 11-9.

Friday’s matchup was the second time Richmond beat Nimmo in five games this season.

“It was a really tough match,” Richmond said. “I was determined to win, because I knew the match was very important for our team. I thought I played really well and was focused.”

Shakarshy took down Kensy Balch in four stanzas, while Scherl posted Bruno’s only straight set victory over Sarah Caughey.

The rest of the team did not have the same success. After taking the first two games of her match, captain Dori Rahbar ’14, a former Herald contributing writer, lost the next three to Dartmouth’s number one, Jacqueline Barnes.

Sarah Domenick ’14 fell in straight sets to Melina Turk from the second spot, and Hannah Hay-Smith ’17 also fell in three games to Nina Scott from the third position. The Big Green finished off its 6-3 victory with wins in the six, seven and eight slots.

The top-ranked, undefeated Crimson smothered Bruno Sunday afternoon in its seventh 9-0 sweep of the season, clinching sole possession of the Ivy League championship. Shakarshy highlighted the day, winning Bruno’s only individual game.

“We all played pretty well, and we all tried really hard,” Richmond said.

“We weren’t expecting a whole lot against Harvard.”

COURTESY OF DAVID SILVERMAN

Co-captain Chip Lebovitz ’14 plays a ball along the left side of the court Friday in his match against Dartmouth’s Bayard Kuensell. Lebovitz fell in straight sets in one of eight Brown losses against the Big Green.

Men’s squash (4-14, 0-7) The No. 19 men’s team posted its best of three dismal performances

against No. 3 Yale (14-2, 6-1) Tuesday evening. The bottom of Bruno’s lineup supplied the team’s two victories against the Elis.

Co-captain Chip Lebovitz ’14, a former Herald opinions columnist, led the Bears from the eighth spot with a five-set victory over Yale’s Peter Dewire. Ross Freiman-Mendel ’16 tallied the team’s other win with a four-game triumph over Huw Robinson. The Bulldogs defeated every other Bear in four games or fewer.

Against No. 12 Dartmouth (3-9, 1-6), co-captain Blake Reinson ’14

“It’s a move he’s been working on for a while,” Beckerman said. “He saw a place, an opportunity, and he took it. Gus found a way to win.”

The Bears were unable to carry their success from Saturday’s dramatics into their Sunday morning matchup with Princeton, as the Tigers bested Bruno 21-16. A pin by Finocchiaro gave Bruno an early lead, but Princeton captured four consecutive weight classes to open a 18-6 edge. A McDonald win and Bernstein major decision cut the Princeton advantage to 18-13, but the Bears could not complete a comeback in the final two classes.

The defeat at the hands of an Ivy foe stings, especially given an unlucky break that may have cost the Bears six points. During the duel’s first match, Miota, a stalwart for the Bears at the 125-pound class, rammed heads with his Princeton competitor. Both players sustained injuries, but Miota’s was more serious and the senior was forced to forfeit the match, ceding six crucial points that would end up being the difference in the match for the Tigers.

Miota “has been so tough lately,” Beckerman said. “I would have liked to see the end of that match.”

In its last pairing of the weekend, Bruno triumphed 33-15 over Johnson and Wales University. The match went back and forth through the first six classes, with Bruno clinging to a 16-15 lead. The dynamic duo of McDonald and Bernstein propelled the squad with consecutive wins by major decisions. Marker and Cavey finished off the Wildcats with victories of their own, widening the margin to 33-15.

The Bears remain at home for the next two weekends, hosting Harvard, Boston University and Lehigh University. Bruno ranks near the bottom of the EIWA with a 2-5 conference record, but the homestand offers the grapplers a chance to climb the standings, as Harvard and BU also dwell in the cellar.

Bernstein and Beckerman expressed optimism about the team as the season enters its final month.

“I’m happy with this week. The guys fought hard,” Beckerman said.

“I think we’re headed in the right direction for March,” Bernstein said, adding that the goal of the season is to peak for the NCAA Tournament in Oklahoma City March 20-22.

“We still have our eyes on O.K.C.”

mustered Bruno’s only individual victory. The Bears’ top player took down Dartmouth’s number one, Alexander Greer, in straight sets.

“I was just focused and feeling good,” Reinson said. “It was a good day. I was kind of able to pull it together and play really well and never let my opponent get anything going.”

Oliver Booth ’16 and Alex Baldock ’17 both took their matches to five sets but could not finish off their Big Green opponents.

No. 2 Harvard (15-0, 7-0) rolled over the Bears 9-0 Sunday afternoon,

sweeping Bruno for the sixth consecutive meeting and clinching an Ivy League title. Baldock led the Bears in defeat, taking his match to five games but losing in a tiebreaker.

The men and women will both take on Williams at home Tuesday.

“Both should be good matches,” Sachvie said. “The women are trying to keep their spot, and the men are trying to move up.”

“The way we’ve been playing we can take a bunch of matches from them,” Reinson said. “It’s a big match.

It should be fun.”

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Rating the raters Last Thursday, the Obama administration released more information about its proposed system to rate colleges and universities in the United States. So far, these standards have come under a barrage of criticism, as various players all over higher education wonder how such a ranking can incorporate the diverse elements of higher education in America. Some groups, such as the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, are opposed to a national rating system outright.

There are distinct benefits to a national rating system, particularly for students who are not college-savvy or are first-generation college students.

But the system is scheduled to be completed in four months, which is not enough time to fully address concerns and rectify any flaws. Ratings can be a valuable tool for students, but the administration should avoid rushing a substandard system just for the sake of deadlines.

One major concern with the proposed guidelines is that they would measure success partially by alums’ average salary and employment rate following graduation. While these metrics could prevent students from entering programs with notoriously low employment rates, they could also punish institutions for training students who enter lower-paying but socially useful occupations, such as teaching and social work. President Christina Paxson was quoted in Inside Higher Ed noting that these benchmarks would “undervalue graduate student attendance” along with other post-graduation pursuits.

This concern is particularly acute for specialized institutions, particularly art schools. Grafton Nunes, president of the Cleveland Institute of Art, wondered to Inside Higher Ed, “How can we, who are presidents of art and design colleges, trust fair and accurate representation in a one-sizefits-all metric?” Such concerns should be addressed by the Department of Education to avoid antagonizing these kinds of schools.

Another major flaw of these ratings is that they have the potential to inadvertently target institutions that are populated by underserved and disadvantaged students. Thomas Fallo, president of El Camino Community College District, has noted that community college enrollment is typically dependent on “location and convenience” rather than rankings, Inside Higher Ed reported, urging the administration to pursue state-by-state models that would better take into account distinct populations. Other observers are concerned that ratings, and the attendant consequences, would reduce college opportunities for disadvantaged students. Audrey Dow at the Campaign for College Opportunity cautioned that students in an area with a low-rated community college could receive less federal aid, Inside Higher Ed reported. Such an outcome is obviously deeply unfair and undesirable.

Concerns aside, there is no denying that college students are taking on unprecedented levels of debt for uncertain returns. Young Invincibles, a youth advocacy group, has expressed similar concerns, noting on its website that ratings could address the deep financial pressures on recent college graduates, because “employment prospects … (and) graduates’ ability to repay their debt” were ranked as the two most important factors students consider when selecting a college, but students still find this information almost impossible to find. The proposed rating system has significant concerns that must be addressed, but altogether, it is reflective of the financial needs of college students and graduates. While the ratings should be tailored, they have the potential to become a much-needed tool to aid a struggling generation.

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Courtside influence NICO ENRIQUEZ opinions columnist

A friend of mine got arrested last month for drunk driving. She endangered other people, she went to jail, and her job prospects are damaged. Growing up, my parents and my friends’ parents always said “Don’t Drive Drunk Ever.” Obviously, they are right. What we don’t usually hear is the arrested person’s perspective on the whole experience. I had an opportunity to hear it.

She told me that Massachusetts law stipulates that her license is suspended for 45 to 90 days. She also pays a massive fine — the DMV website says $500 to $5,000 depending on the severity of the offense. In addition, she pays $550 for an alcohol awareness class and $780 in probation fees. She is also required to send a letter to her officer every month to verify that she is in the state. If she wants, she can apply for a “hardship license” that will allow her to drive during the suspension period — if she pays an additional $400.

You know what I found most interesting?

Just how unjust the justice sys-

tem is.

Our courts are set up to take in money. First, the fines, then the fees for classes, then the probation fees.

Oh, and did I mention that if you cannot afford to pay the probation fees up front, then you don’t get to simply send a letter to verify residency? Instead, you have to take several hours of public transportation to meet your probation officer during the time when you could be at work.

Every part of the punishment sys-

one mistake — a DUI — when you are young, stupid and blind to your mortality. You are done.

You can’t find employment, because you were arrested, and employers screen for criminal history almost before they read your name.

When you do find employment, there is no convenient way to get there, because you can’t drive, and the public transportation system is a joke. You also still have to pay every month to trek across the state to

to crime data from 2009 in a recent Pew study. On top of that fact, there are millions and millions more people in jail than 20 years ago. The War on Drugs has put away nonviolent offenders to the point that they make up 60 percent of our prison population. Three-strike laws put people away for life for nonviolent offenses.

Because the vast majority of those incarcerated are males, these policies create broken homes without fathers, jobs or hope. Kids without a stable

Every part of the punishment system is about the turning the victim upside down, shaking until the coffer is full and hammering that person into the ground. tem is about turning the victim upside down, shaking until the coffer is full and hammering that person into the ground. It’s a nuclear method of justice. And if an individual is poor and cannot afford defense and the upfront fees, then the blast throws them into a deeper drainage ditch than their original poverty. This phenomenon is not isolated to DUIs. It occurs in drug offenses, in petty crimes, in manslaughter, in every brick of our judicial system.

Imagine you are poor. You are trying to make your way. You make

visit someone who is so overworked and overburdened that they treat you like a checklist. Could you hold your head up when the entire system is pushing it down? One reliable way out is through drugs. Or you could win the lottery.

Our entire system is set up to entrap these less fortunate individuals. Politicians use fear tactics and “tough on crime” rhetoric to win votes from more moderate, levelheaded candidates. As a result, inmates spend 36 percent more time in jail than 20 years ago, according

home are more likely to do poorly in school and commit crimes. The nuclear option of justice leaves nothing but broken souls in its wake.

Our war on crime has gone so awry, so fast, that if we wanted to return to the level of incarceration that we had in the 1970s, we would have to free four out of every five inmates. Bear in mind that the 1970s were much more violent times, due in part to the rise of gangs like the Bloods and Crips.

The answers to our incarceration epidemic are obvious. Reform

the law so poor people receive equal representation and treatment. Don’t require punishments that force people into bankruptcy or make it impossible to hold a job. Don’t make our punishments so draconian and harsh that one mistake or fit of anger ruins an entire life. Mandate that employers cannot ask about nonviolent criminal history in initial job applications so good people who need jobs to stay afloat are able to find them.

Heck, maybe we should stop incarcerating nonviolent offenders.

Focus on reform rather than punishment by putting them in rehab and vocational schools. It sounds expensive, but if we just shifted the $31,000 we spend federally per inmate a year toward these types of reform, we may be able to afford basic job training. New York City would be able to subsidise several hundred college scholarships for inner city kids with the $168,000 per year they spend on each of the 12,800 people who run through their jail system.

We can’t just hide our mistreated citizens in warehouses.

Nico Enriquez ’16 can be reached at nenriquez3@gmail.com.

Real-world anxiety causes split ends and semesters RIA MIRCHANDANI opinions columnist

Brown is a wonderful place — perhaps even a tad too wonderful. Proof of this lies in the fact that many graduating students, as they walk through the Van Wickle gates, are filled with a feeling of remorse that equals, if not trumps, their excitement for the real world. I estimate that they do not feel ready to leave Brown. As a current junior, I know I am not ready to even think about making that ominous march in cap and gown, through “those sacred gates and into oncoming traffic,” as the old tour guide wisecrack goes.

For many reasons, graduating from any college can be a bittersweet experience. At Brown, however, it seems to be more bitter than sweet.

Brown’s four-year graduation rate is the lowest in the Ivy League — 83 percent, as reported by U.S. News and World Report. While this could be due to the University’s considerable support for students who consider taking semesters off for medical and personal reasons, there has recently emerged a new source of “point-fivers.” Behold the “split semester,” whereby seniors can divide their eighth semester into two, taking at most five classes across two semesters for no additional cost besides housing.

It is hard to find official information on Brown’s policy about the split semester, partly because it is not something the University actively encourages. Molly Schulson reported in a Herald article last semester (“Approvals to ‘split’ eighth semester decrease,” Oct. 10) that Chris Dennis, deputy dean of the College and chair of the Committee on Academic Standing, said such an option would now be provided only when a student wishes to pursue an academic opportunity that cannot be done any other way, such as research

for a capstone or thesis. Medical reasons are also permissible.

Though this opportunity to prolong one’s time in college has been around for years, only recently has there been a noticeable hike in the number of students petitioning for it. Last academic year, 29 students split their eighth semesters, compared to 33 total over the years between 2008 and 2011.

Dennis said he was unsure of the precise reason for this hike. I don’t know either, but I have a growing skepticism of Brown’s ability to prepare us for the real world.

Medical reasons are valid, but it is unlikely that people are facing significantly more illnesses now than in 2008. There is definitely a sickness that abounds, but it is one that plagues the job market, not people. Thus, like a fetus unwilling to leave the

swimming alone, with the hope that a few more months in Brown’s cocoon will give them more time to search, prepare and apply for opportunities.

A senior independent concentrator recently decided to split his semester so he could continue his Providence internship as a part of his capstone project. There is no denying his passion for this project, but part of his decision stemmed from a hesitation to enter the real world.

“I am struggling to find a way to effectively communicate to potential employers that I have the ability to excel at whatever job they’re interviewing me for,” he told me, because his course selections and concentration do not seem to do so. Though this senior says he has no regrets about how he spent his time here, he does wish

An extra six months in college and consequent six-month delay into the real world are unlikely to jeopardize career paths in the hindsight of 30 or 40 years. mother’s nurturing womb, Brunonia’s babies are potentially more discouraged by the push factors of the real world than the pull factors provided by Brown’s free food events and intellectually stimulating dialogues.

Rather than speculating about the causes of the hike in the number of semester-splitters, I would like to focus on what this has to say about the University. This hike is not a pat on the back for Brown, but an indication of the University’s failure to effectively prepare some of its graduates with a sense of readiness to take on a tough, competitive market. Drowning in the anxiety that this results in, some seniors try to hold on to Brown’s water wings a bit longer so as to avoid the risk of

someone had better advised him as a first-year on which classes he should have taken to make himself more appealing to existing career options. Instead, he was swept away by Brown’s idyllic philosophy of education, where learning should be for the very sake of it and not strategized to net a high starting salary on graduation. Brown’s lack of pre-professionalism can become almost blinding and perhaps contributes toward graduating seniors’ feeling of nausea, often interpreted as nostalgia.

One could argue that the mere fact that we attend a world-renowned Ivy League institution like Brown is enough to tide us over. This sentiment was reiterated a number of times at JanLab, Ca-

reerLab’s student-alumni networking conference last month, by successful Brown alums from a wide array of industries. To delay leaving college would then be foolishness, because one would delay seizing the opportunities that beckon. But to blindly depend on the brand name that is Brown University is presumptuous, to say the least. There are innumerable colleges of comparable brand names out there — seven others easily come to mind — each of which annually churns out students who comfortably meet the Brown caliber and covet the same opportunities as our graduates.

An extra six months in college and the consequent six-month delay into the real world are unlikely to jeopardize career paths in the hindsight of 30 or 40 years. By then we would presumably have enough experience under our belts to know what we’re meant to be doing with our lives — or at least have become exhausted from trying to figure it out. But at this stage, at the tender age of 22, six months is 4.6 percent of our existence, making splitting a semester no small decision. Yet it is one that more and more Brown students are leaning toward.

For the University, this could be a financial and logistical burden that, given its available resources, it may not be able to sustain. The administration has become more cautious in granting permission for “split eighths,” but this will not solve the more fundamental issue that comes each May: An increasing number of intelligent and perfectly capable Brunonians would rather stand on the inside of the Van Wickle gates, safe from crazy Providence drivers and real-world hardships.

Ria Mirchandani ’15 is not much of a gymnast, but she has never been more split in her opinions on Brown, the open curriculum, concentrations and the disappearance of the Gate.

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Lee ’00 combines art and craft at Offerman studio Independent woodcraft commissioner blazes trail to find niche in maledominated world

By MARCUS SUDAC STAFF WRITER

RH Lee ’00 has carved up the artistic and philosophical stratosphere of Los Angeles. An independent commissioner of woodcrafts in California, Lee manages Offerman Woodshop, established by the Hollywood-famous Nick Offerman, of “Parks and Recreation” fame.

In a saga that began when she was seven, Lee has moved from coast to coast, from theater to studio and from conception to creation. Her odyssey reflects a lifelong development of aesthetic ingenuity — diverging from the conceptual to the physical — and a career on a trail traditionally overlain with male domination.

The artistic spark went off early for Lee, whose sprint down the path to carpentry began as a young girl in Berkeley, Calif. “My parents really encouraged it,” says Lee. “They set up a little woodshop in the basement.”

At seven, her parents enrolled her in a youth program, “Kids’ Carpentry,” where a nascent interest received real cultivation. Her passions continued through college, where she studied art semiotics, a now-defunct concentration that emphasized visual and artistic styles’ interplay

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with philosophy and culture, according to the Office of the Registrar’s website.

“I basically started at Brown in video art” — another passion of hers — says Lee, “then got into theory the last couple of years.”

Lee’s transition from conceptual to craft also evolved at Brown, where she worked as a technical assistant for the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. With fond memories, Lee recalls, “It wasn’t fancy or anything — we got paid three dollars an hour when we calculated it.”

But Lee says her theoretical background has remained important during her whirlwind career, especially in a workshop so “media-related” as Nick Offerman’s.

After Brown, Lee returned to San Francisco, working in an administrative role for the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts, a nonprofit that mobilizes artistic expression from multiracial communities, according to the institute’s online mission statement. She later returned to theater, set-building for Brava Theater Center before moving to Los Angeles, where she joined Offerman and the self-declared sustainable woodworking collective.

At the Offerman Woodshop, Lee acts as both an independent commissioner and workshop manager. She describes her works as “all over the map,” and her only consistent projects are pieces for San Francisco’s Exploratorium science museum.

Lee says the woodshop atmosphere is “kinetic and interactive,” as the majority

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RH Lee ’00, who studied art semiotics at Brown, has continued to pursue her passion for culture and art as an independent commissioner of woodcrafts and as manager of Offerman Woodshop in Los Angeles. of her pieces are commissioned independently alongside eight other artists in residence.

Though Lee feels the workshop is “a place that is outside of Hollywood,” Offerman’s popularity has a certain influence on the workshop’s online success.

Lee herself has built props that have

appeared on “Parks and Recreation” and filming has occasionally taken place at the workshop.

Reflecting on her experience in carpentry, a typically male-dominated industry, Lee expresses gratitude for her success. “I do feel like I’ve carved my own path, but I still think that there are

certainly challenges. Earlier on, you make a lot of mistakes, and it’s especially hard when you’re the only woman in the shop.”

Despite following a winding career path, Lee seems to have finally found a stable niche. “Here at the shop, we all get along great, and I feel lucky for that,” she says.

Spring orientation acclimates new students Studies show ethnic pride Program includes Van Wickle Gates entrance, Apple Pie Social and book discussion

By ANDREW JIANG CONTRIBUTING WRITER

On the morning of Jan. 21, the Van Wickle Gates opened but not to welcome incoming first-years or bid farewell to departing seniors. Instead, those who assembled in front of the Quiet Green to mark their debut on College Hill were spring transfer, visiting and Resumed Undergraduate Education students, who are now headlong into their first semester at Brown.

Opening Procession is part of a broader transfer, visiting and RUE orientation program held during the beginning of both the fall and spring semesters. The program welcomes students to the University and tries to acclimate them to their new academic and extracurricular environment, said Maitrayee Bhattacharyya ’91, associate dean of the College for diversity programs, transfer, visiting and RUE students.

Bhattacharyya and Carol Cohen ’83, associate dean for first-year and sophomore studies and transfer, visiting and RUE students, as well as Transfer Coordinators Aneesha Mehta ’14 and Camille Briskin ’14, organize and run transfer student orientation, Briskin wrote in an email to The Herald. Coordinators make sure

orientations go smoothly and work to improve events as well as occasionally introduce new ones, Briskin wrote.

This spring, the transfer coordinators worked with International Mentoring Program leaders to expand orientation activities. Together, they opened the Apple Pie Social, a traditionally IMP-only event, to all new students this semester, Briskin wrote.

“Many students came despite the blizzard that night, so we think that we’ll continue to do this in upcoming spring orientations,” she added.

Visiting students usually study at Brown for up to two semesters, and hail from a range of domestic and international institutions, Cohen said.

Some of these institutions, such as the historically black Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., have partnered over the years with the University to facilitate student exchanges, Bhattacharyya added.

Unlike the longer fall orientation, where transfer and RUE students are invited to their own version of Unit Wars and mingle with first-year students at the ice cream social, spring orientation spans only two days.

Larger events such as the president’s convocation speech, which occurs on the first day of classes in the fall semester, are intended for a broader audience and cannot be replicated in the spring, Cohen said.

This year’s spring orientation began in Salomon Center with speeches given by Bhattacharyya and Cohen, said Emily Schwartz ’16, a transfer student. Students were then split into

groups of five or six, with each group led by a student who had previously transferred to Brown. “Everyone seemed very excited and nervous,” she said.

The orientation program also featured a pizza dinner and a seminar to discuss Eyal Press’ novel “Beautiful Souls,” which all incoming students were required to read, Schwartz said.

Schwartz, who transferred this spring from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, said Brown is “really the college experience that I’m looking for — I think there’s a unique kind of student that goes here that’s really rare, and everyone’s been really kind and welcoming.”.

Kevin Chen ’15, who transferred last fall from New York University, said adjusting to life on College Hill takes time, but added that transfers have access to several resources along the way.

“By nature it was easier to meet transfers at first, and some of my best friends now are transfers, but I am slowly building up relationships in other areas on campus,” Chen said.

“The deans and transfer advisors did a great job in helping us acclimate.”

Chen said some of his old friends on NYU’s urban, decentralized campus have joked that he has “traded down” to a quieter city, but he expressed confidence that he “made the right choice” in coming to Brown.

“There’s definitely a more tightknit community here,” Chen said.

“Being on a campus has really enhanced my college experience.”

linked to success in youth Meta-analysis concludes positive feelings toward ethnicity improve academics, well-being

By MOLLY SCHULSON SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Researchers combed through the abstracts of over 6,000 studies to analyze youth ethnic-racial affect — how positive a person feels about their own race or ethnicity — in a metaanalysis published Feb. 3 in the journal Child Development. They concluded that feelings of ethnic pride and happiness in minority youths positively affect their behavior and academic success.

Deborah Rivas-Drake, a former assistant professor of education and human development who is now an associate professor at the University of Michigan, and Adriana Umana-Taylor, professor at Arizona State University, formed the Ethnic and Racial Identity in the 21st Century working group, which authored the paper, “to incorporate diverse perspectives” on ethnic and racial identity, Rivas-Drake wrote in an email to The Herald.

In two meetings, held May 2012 and January 2013, the group discussed what they knew about racial-ethnic identity research in adolescents and identified gaps in the literature, said Tiffany Yip, associate professor of

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psychology at Fordham University and a member of the group. The metaanalysis sought to fill these gaps.

Synthesizing studies In a meta-analysis, “you do a thorough review of all types of research on a particular topic and you analyze those studies,” Yip said. “Instead of collecting data from people, your data points are other people’s research papers.”

The working group picked 46 studies eligible for inclusion in the metaanalysis, Rivas-Drake wrote.

Single studies sometimes restrict researchers from generalizing their findings so “it is important from time to time to synthesize the findings from all available studies,” she wrote.

Marley Pierce ’13, Rivas-Drake’s research assistant for the project, double-checked that articles focused on youths, took place in the United States and discussed positive ethnicracial affect. “My job was to go through articles a little more deeply to make sure they fit,” she said.

Pride matters “Across all of these studies, (researchers) found that having a positive sense of identity and feeling proud about your ethnic-racial group led to a host of positive measures,” Yip said.

Results from the meta-analysis showed that positive ethnic-racial affect correlated with measures of high » See IDENTITY, page 4