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Undergrads Social venture ideas spotlighted at Ashoka U Exchange Participants discuss develop intersection of social entrepreneurship and passions higher education across fields By KHIN SU

Interdisciplinary students blur the lines between science and the humanities By RILEY DAVIS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

When she is not pole vaulting for the track and field team or overseeing the Women’s Peer Counselor program at Brown, Hanna McPhee ’14 is doing what many other seniors are doing — completing her thesis. The only difference for McPhee is that when she encounters problems, she doesn’t have a department to turn to for help. Her independent concentration, titled “Biologically Inspired Design,” is an amalgamation of biology, engineering and arts courses. For many students like McPhee at Brown, studying science in the “traditional” sense is not enough. She wanted to do something with science that allowed her to solve problems and use her creativity to help people, she said, so she decided to create her own concentration to achieve that goal.

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An interdisciplinary legacy Brown’s traditional science program is something the University prides itself on, highlighting its status as an internationally ranked science research university on its website. On the “Science at Brown” webpage, visitors find information on how Brown consistently ranks in the “top five Fulbright Fellowship-producing research institutions nationally,” and on the number of Undergraduate Teaching » See SCIENCES, page 4

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As social entrepreneurship gains prominence around the world, 650 faculty members, students and social entrepreneurs from nearly 25 countries descended on Brown’s campus this weekend for the fifth annual Ashoka U Exchange to share ideas about creative solutions to complex issues. “This is the only place where students can sit next to university presidents and share their ideas as an equal about what the future of higher education should look like,” said Marina Kim, co-founder and executive director of Ashoka U.

The conference began Thursday at the Omni Hotel with a panel featuring President Christina Paxson, Mayor Angel Taveras, Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, and Diana Wells, president of Ashoka U. The panel revolved around collaboration between higher education institutions and their surrounding communities. The conference comprised keynote panels of speakers, other smaller workshops and a variety of talks. The conference’s goal was to showcase the best examples of social innovation initiatives and ideas from 150 universities, Kim said.

Tomorrow’s talent Friday’s panel, entitled “Tomorrow’s Talent,” featured six social entrepreneurs who shared stories of their inspiration and success, TEDtalk style, to a full audience in the

Narragansett room of the Omni. Aaron Hurst, an Ashoka fellow and founder of Imperative, an organization that helps individuals find passion in their careers, sought to address the question, “What is the meaning of work?” “Universities have a responsibility to teach students about what their purpose is for their work,” Hurst said. Without a purpose, he added, people in the early stages of their careers are “at a disadvantage.” David Castro, founder and CEO of I-LEAD and an Ashoka fellow, expressed a different vision of what college should be. “College is not a place, a test or a building,” he said, but rather a “human learning community.” I-LEAD brings the college learning experience to local churches, hospitals and community centers in low-income neighborhoods, advancing the idea that college is a process that can take place anywhere, he said.

The next generation of leaders should embrace “those thousands and thousands of learners who right now are not at the table,” Castro added. Rafael Alvarez, founder and CEO of Genesys Works, an organization that provides training to high school seniors and helps place them in internships, said the nonprofit aims to transform the lives of “kids without options.” Rebecca Garcia, co-founder of CoderDojo NYC, said her organization also targets youth. Operating on an annual budget of less than $2,000, CoderDojo NYC gives youth the opportunity to attend technology education workshops, where they learn about topics such as building websites, video games and apps. She encouraged young social entrepreneurs to generate “ideas that start small and grow.” In addition to youths, the 1.8 » See ASHOKA, page 3

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Bears claim second consecutive Ivy title Walters ’16 wins solo honors, with Shnayder ’14 and Moran ’17 finishing third and fourth By CALEB MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Diana Walters ’16 launches into the air, flips and sticks the landing, beaming as her teammates mob her and the crowd erupts. It was a scene that seemed to repeat itself with each Bruno performance in the packed Pizzitola Center Sunday as the Bears ran away from the field at the Ivy Classic with a season-high 193.375 to capture their second consecutive Ivy League championship. The dominant team display was highlighted by Walters’ first-place finish in the individual all-around competition. The talented sophomore followed one

personal best with another, setting career highs in every event to amass a 39.000 all-around score. But Walters’ routines were not the only fireworks from the Bears. Michelle Shnayder ’14, last year’s Ivy all-around champion, wrapped up her impressive record at the Ivy Classic with a third-place finish in the all-around. Close behind Shnayder, but on the other end of her collegiate career, Caroline Morant ’17 continued her remarkable first-year campaign by winning the vault and finishing fourth in the all-around. “It was truly a group effort,” said Rebecca Freedman ’14. “As a senior captain, I could not have asked for a better way to leave a legacy.” Bruno’s day opened on the bars, where Walters led the squad with a second-place 9.775. Bar specialists Alexandra Chretien ’16 and Tori Kinamon ’16 buoyed the Brown total, Chretien » See GYMNASTICS, page S3

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Danielle Hoffman ’15 and the Brown gymnasts had cause to celebrate this weekend, setting personal records en route to an Ivy League victory.

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Overtime thriller highlights Bruno’s weekend action By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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A weekend filled with tension, drama and late-game heroics boiled down to a split for the men’s basketball team. Columbia came back from an 11-point deficit Friday to beat the Bears by two with a pair of last-second free throws. Bruno took down Cornell the next night

in a nationally televised game that went into overtime.

Friday: Columbia 70, Brown 68 In the first game of the two-day road trip, the Bears (14-10, 6-4 Ivy) traveled to the Levien Gymnasium to take on the Lions. Rafael Maia ’15 was sidelined by a shoulder injury, so Leland King ’17 made his second career start for Bruno. The Bears jumped out to an early lead that grew to nine points when Steven Spieth ’17 sunk a hook shot. Spieth collected seven points and six rebounds on the night. Columbia’s Meiko Lyles responded to

Spieth’s pretty post move with a trey. The Lions’ ball movement often left Bruno scrambling and resulted in a number of open looks from downtown. Columbia (17-10, 6-4) managed to knock down 9-of-23 from beyond the arc — better than most teams fare against Bruno — led by Lyles, who shot a perfect 5-of-5 from three-point territory. A layup by Dockery Walker ’15 gave Bruno a one-point lead heading into the half. Walker has taken a backseat to King in the rotation in recent weeks, but with Maia out, the junior forward played 15 minutes and picked up nine points and five boards in his time on the court.

In the second half, neither team could build a lead. Walker hit a jump shot, extending Bruno’s advantage to four points with 12 minutes left in the game. But a dunk and a layup plus a foul gave Columbia a one-point lead just two minutes later. With a minute left, the game was tied at 68. Spieth missed a trey that would have put Bruno ahead with just 18 seconds remaining. The Lions’ Maodo Lo collected the defensive rebound and was fouled by Spieth, after both players dove after the loose ball. With the Lions in the bonus, Lo sank both free throws to give Columbia a two-point edge with 14

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ticks remaining. On the other end of the floor, King missed a potential game-tying jumper. Walker collected the offensive board and the Bears quickly called timeout. Coming out of the timeout, Spieth inbounded with a long overhead pass to Sean McGonagill ’14. McGonagill tried to maneuver into a more manageable shot but was defended well and forced to chuck up a 30-foot prayer that fell short. The Lions came away with the win after scoring the last six points of the game. Despite the loss, the Bears had a reason to celebrate in the middle of the » See M. BBALL, page S2 t o d ay

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Faculty, students offer mixed opinions on Coursera Massive open online courses offer opportunities to explore new fields without academic credit

“What I really want to convey in this class is not just what archaeology is, but how you do it and how you can do it anywhere in the world,” Alcock said in an introductory video for her MOOC.

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‘Promising’ perspectives Deputy Dean of the College Christopher Dennis is currently registered for a MOOC on Coursera himself. He said MOOCs “democratize access to education,” allowing anyone to learn about a specific field. But most people registered for MOOCs are generally already well-educated rather than those without access to formal resources, he added. Because MOOCs are available to the public for free, registered students receive less individual attention, wrote Arnold Weinstein, professor of comparative literature, in an email to The Herald. Weinstein taught “The Fiction of Relationship” as a MOOC on Coursera last summer. Because thousands of students were signed up for the course, Weinstein was unable to establish close connections with his students, he wrote, adding that many students signed up without the intention of fulfilling the course requirements but rather to gain access to the readings, lectures and online discussion forums. Patrick Carey ’16, an English concentrator who registered for Weinstein’s MOOC but decided not to complete it, said the reading list was his primary motivation for taking the course. Carey dropped the MOOC because he had trouble staying motivated for a course that did not provide credit, he said.

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For Susan Alcock, professor of archaeology and classics, archaeology does not need to be practiced amidst dusty ruins in an exotic country. Her students explore the field from behind their computer screens in Alcock’s massive open online course, “Archaeology’s Dirty Little Secrets,” on Coursera. Alcock’s second iteration of the course begins today after an initial debut last summer. The class has a projected workload of four to six hours per week over eight weeks, and students who finish the course will receive a certificate of completion signed by Alcock, according to the Coursera website. Alcock’s Coursera course is based on a class that she has taught numerous times at Brown, ARCH 0100: “Field Archaeology in the Ancient World,” Alcock wrote in an email to The Herald. Teaching the class online allowed her to provide students more creative materials like recordings of trips to the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology and conversations with fellow Brown professors, including Laurel Bestock, professor of archaeology, and Stephen Houston, professor of anthropology and archaeology, Alcock wrote. These new resources will also be helpful during her regular courses at Brown, she added.

“The problem with MOOCs is when you have 1,000 people in it, the energy of the teacher is spread over that many people,” he said. “I felt like I was writing a lot of things, but not getting the same experience as I would have at Brown.” The future of MOOCs lies in the hybridization of courses, incorporating an in-person component into online classes, Dennis said. Alcock hopes to hybridize her archaeology MOOC by simultaneously teaching an online class on Coursera and teaching the physical class at Brown using the same material, Alcock wrote. “This kind of blended class experience seems exceptionally promising, though everyone is still a bit of a guinea pig,” she wrote.

Transfer credit The University approved a policy allowing students to transfer credits from approved online courses offered by other institutions in December, The Herald reported at the time. But the new policy does not apply to MOOCs. The University’s policy on transfer credit for online courses mirrors its procedure for approving study away programs in the United States, Dennis said. Courses approved for transfer must be “highly vetted” and “carefully approved,” unlike MOOCs, which are “completely open,” he said. Kathleen McSharry, associate dean of the College for writing and curriculum, said the University maintains high standards for accreditation of courses. Many levels of approval exist, beginning with the administrative level, she

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Professor of Archaeology and Classics Susan Alcock’s second iteration of her Coursera course, “Archaeology’s Dirty Little Secrets,” starts today. said, adding that courses must come from a college of arts and sciences, rather than a specialized school, such as a business school. Specific departments must then approve the courses by examining the syllabi, reading lists and assignments, said Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services and acting dean of the College. Students should check with the University before expending effort

on an online course that might not be credited, McSharry advised, adding that no letter grades appear on student transcripts for transfer credit. Klawunn said the University’s decision to allow transfer credits from online courses merited little response from professors. Attitudes toward the policy will be difficult to gauge until students have the chance to take more online courses over the summer, she added.

Program looks to boost postdoc diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program set to launch first phase with hiring of six fellows By WING SZE HO SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Six postdoctoral fellows will be appointed in the next two years as part of the President’s Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, said Kevin McLaughlin P’12, dean of the faculty. The hiring of these fellows is the first phase of a three-part program aimed at expanding the faculty’s diversity. Originally, the program was slated to award three one-year fellowships, but President Christina Paxson agreed to provide extra funding last week to enable the program to fund six postdocs for two years each, McLaughlin said. The program will recruit scholars from underrepresented minority groups and who are studying questions related to race, ethnicity and gender in order to further the University’s mission of increasing diversity in hiring. The University will target recruitment efforts at African Americans, American Indians and women in the sciences and economics, he added.

Most fellowships will be awarded to “scholars at the very beginning of their career,” including graduate students in the final phases of their dissertations, McLaughlin said. During the first phase, which is beginning now and will last roughly two years, various centers and institutes will each hire a postdoctoral fellow, and each fellow will be affiliated with one academic department, McLaughlin said. The departments will be encouraged to retain the fellows on tenure-track positions after two years, he added. Director of the Haffenreffer Museum Robert Preucel has recruited a new postdoctoral fellow to facilitate research on American Indian artifacts and the development of the museum, McLaughlin said. The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Watson Institute for International Studies will be the next three centers to hire new postdoctoral fellows under the program, McLaughlin said. The University’s ability to retain the postdocs as faculty members after two years will receive a boost from Paxson’s plan to grow the faculty by 1 percent per year over the next decade and from the Target of Opportunity program, which allows departments

to hire new faculty members before positions become vacant, McLaughlin said. The postdoctoral fellows are expected to spend approximately two-thirds of their time on expanding their doctoral theses into books, conducting additional research and publishing academic articles, said Liza Cariaga-Lo, associate provost for academic development and diversity. Each postdoctoral fellow will also teach one course, likely a seminar, every semester, she said. The fellows are expected to participate in events and discussions in their affiliated centers or institutes, she added. After the program’s initial phase, administrators hope to expand the number of fellowships awarded over a five-year period, Cariaga-Lo said. The administration intends to support the second phase with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, an organization that provides higher education grants, McLaughlin said. The University applied for the grant and expects to receive results within the next week, he added. The final phase of the program seeks to establish these fellowships as a regular, ongoing program funded by an endowment supported by donors, McLaughlin said.

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» ASHOKA, from page 1 million educated and skilled immigrants represent another source of untapped potential, said Nikki Cicerani, president and CEO of Upwardly Global. Her venture trains qualified immigrants in building resumes, acing interviews and networking to help the “engineer driving a cab” attain a “high-impact career,” she said. There are three million open jobs in the country that seek applicants with these immigrants’ skill sets, Cicerani added. Alan Harlam, director of innovation and social entrepreneurship at the Swearer Center for Public Service, called for universities to thoroughly “integrate courses, students, extracurriculars and real-world problems,” redefining the landscape of college learning to make space for social innovation. The new scholar The weekend’s program was “unlike any other conference I have attended,” Harlam said. “Learning is so bi-directional” because while mentors gave advice, they also learned new ways of thinking about higher education and social innovation, he added. The conference was “deliberately not designed for students,” Kim said, noting that a significant part of the audience comprised administrators, faculty members and other stakeholders in higher education. But this year, conference organizers expanded the “student track,” which included coaching and advising opportunities, said Elizabeth Pollock, assistant director of social entrepreneurship at the Swearer Center. The conference’s theme this year, “The New Scholar,” was chosen to fit the unique personality of Brown’s campus, Kim said. “Students at Brown use the world as their laboratory” to solve real-world issues, she said. This theme reflects Brown’s rich tradition of “engaged scholarship,” a central component of Paxson’s strategic plan, said Roger Nozaki MAT’89, director of the Swearer Center and associate dean of the College for community and global engagement.

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“The New Scholar,” the theme of the fifth annual Ashoka U Exchange, was inspired by the Brown campus’ distinctive values, participants said. The University’s selection as conference host dovetails with the recent growth of the Swearer Center’s social innovation program, campus leaders said. “The timing of doing it at Brown this year is perfect,” Nozaki added. The conference built on “the momentum already existing at Brown around social innovation,” he said, noting that the Swearer Center’s social innovation program has grown over the past two years as it has received additional funding and increased its staff. The University’s values were reflected in the conference’s agenda, including in the choice of speakers and

topics, Kim said. In previous years, the conference has been held at the University of San Diego, Arizona State University and Duke University, said Erin Krampetz, community director of Ashoka U. “A different personality comes to light from every campus partner,” Kim said. The partnership between Brown and Ashoka U brought unprecedented features to the conference. As social

innovation becomes an international phenomenon, organizers pushed for more global diversity, bringing together representatives from about two dozen countries at this year’s conference, organizers said. This year also marked the first conference in which delegates from community colleges were in attendance, Kim said. The conference came to a close Saturday evening with the “Presidents Panel” featuring Paxson, College of

Sorority rush sees record numbers New online system helps smooth transition to increased sorority presence on campus By CAROLYNN CONG STAFF WRITER

This year’s Panhellenic Council recruitment process, which kicked off Feb. 8, featured several changes, including a significant increase in participating students, a new online system and the first year of recruiting for the newest sorority, Kappa Delta. A total of 140 female undergraduates participated in recruitment this year, compared to approximately 90 to 100 who did so last year, wrote Samantha Enriquez ’14, president of the Panhellenic Council and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, in an email to The Herald. Sororities handed bids to 75 students at the end of recruitment, Enriquez wrote. Twenty-eight students received

bids from Kappa Delta, said Bethany Cutmore-Scott ’16, president of Kappa Delta, which created a Brown chapter last year. Kappa Alpha Theta also gave out 28 bids, wrote Eva Gonzalez ’15, president of Kappa Alpha Theta, in an email to The Herald. Alpha Chi Omega declined to divulge how many students received bids, but based on figures from the Panhellenic Council and the other two sororities, Alpha Chi Omega handed out 19 bids. The addition of Kappa Delta likely contributed to this year’s elevated participation rate, Enriquez said. “It has definitely helped Panhellenic as a whole to have a third sorority.” Kappa Delta’s presence has helped to “accommodate more students and bring more people in” to Greek life on campus, Enriquez said. Each sorority has a different idea of what it represents, Cutmore-Scott said. Prospective members can tell where they feel they would fit in, and the addition of Kappa Delta has “helped the students who hadn’t felt

that kind of connection” with the already-existing sororities by introducing “a bit more variety.” “The more sorority presence we have on campus, the stronger we become as individual sororities,” Enriquez said. Kappa Delta’s transition to campus has corresponded with its members’ efforts to cultivate a distinctive community feel. “We’re still forming our identity as a new sorority, and this new class helps set the precedent of what Kappa Delta will be for years to come,” said Frances Anne Aquino ’16, vice president of public relations at Kappa Delta. Cutmore-Scott attributed the increase in the recruitment season’s participating students to a new online system, which introduced more structure and efficiency than nonelectronic recruitment approaches used in previous years, she said. The web platform allowed prospective new members to rank their sorority preferences online. The

system then matched the students’ preferences with the houses’, facilitating “more mutual selection,” in which both the houses and the students have more of a say. Previously the students’ preferences were not considered as much, Enriquez said. Virtual preference-ranking made the recruitment process a lot smoother, Enriquez said. “The online system made (the process) as objective as it could be” and lessened the likelihood that one sorority member’s opinion would influence the sorority’s decision on giving a bid to a candidate, Aquino said. Though the web system experienced several glitches this year, sorority members will work to minimize glitches next year, Enriquez said, adding that the Panhellenic Council also aims to begin publicizing recruitment earlier to promote increased involvement. “At Brown, we strive to be different. We really want to push our own culture forward and tell as many people as possible,” Enriquez said.

the Atlantic President Darron Collins and Babson College President Kerry Healy. Having a student — Brett Anders ’15 — instead of the usual faculty member moderate this panel was “so Brown,” Kim said. Cicerani said the most exciting aspect of the conference was “meeting people under 25. “It’s fantastic to sit with peers, but it’s a huge opportunity to understand the new generation of leaders.”

4 science & research » SCIENCES, from page 1 and Research Awards given in the past four years — nearly 2,000. But toward the bottom of the page, a sentence tells the reader, “Do not be surprised if the science topic that catches your eye has multiple connections in humanities or social sciences; interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary work has been fundamental to Brown academic culture for decades.” For students like McPhee, this statement rings particularly true. Like many science concentrators, she started at Brown thinking she might want to eventually attend medical school, and began pursuing a bachelor of arts degree in biology, alongside a visual arts degree. But she quickly found that the biology courses she was taking were “too pre-med” focused, and the visual arts courses she was taking were “too fine arts” focused for her liking. “I realized I didn’t want to be premed, and I didn’t want to do research, so why spend semesters slaving over classes like (Organic Chemistry) when I could take four classes I really enjoyed?” McPhee said. Projects like designing a spider web out of hemp to form a biodegradable erosion net or creating gray water filtration systems inspired by natural plant processes appealed far more to her. These opportunities to integrate aesthetics and biology fueled her desire to create her own course of study. Despite the benefits of an independent concentration, students and faculty members alike said the process of creating one is by no means easy. The review process is “essentially as

rigorous as it might be for a faculty member proposing a standard concentration,” said Besenia Rodriguez, associate dean of the College for research and upperclass studies. As students form their independent concentrations, she asks them to consider: “Is there cohesion? Is there synthesis possible between these two ideas?” Historically, Rodriguez said, science independent concentrations that answered those questions have evolved to become standard concentrations at the University, such as environmental studies, science and society and neuroscience. ‘The perfect meld’ Maahika Srinivasan ’15 encountered a similar problem as McPhee when she began completing her premed requirements. “I was so disheartened by my pre-med classes,” Srinivasan said. “It just mattered whether you showed up on the midterm days, took the test and walked out.” In searching for a sophomore seminar to regain the intimate class feeling she missed, Srinivasan stumbled across a science and society seminar. “We were looking at socially controversial issues through a scientific lens,” she said. “It was one of the most fascinating discussions that I’ve ever had.” Afterward, the decision to concentrate in science and society — while remaining pre-med — was an easy one, Srinivasan said. Through her science and society concentration, she has had the opportunity to work on research projects that explore the cultural and scientific side of issues.

Last summer, for instance, Srinivasan received an Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award to look at the genetic risks of consanguinity, or marriage between cousins, versus the perceived social effects. “It’s a fantastic way for me to work on the social side of medicine,” Srinivasan said. Sherine Hamdy, assistant professor of anthropology and member of the science and society steering committee, said the thing that differentiates science and society at Brown from the concentration at other schools is its emphasis on the science portion. “The rule of thumb is that you take enough courses in a science so that you can get enough information to think like someone in that science,” Hamdy said. Science and society concentrators choose one science track and one thematic track to focus their studies on, such as history and philosophy of science or environment and society. Hamdy said students who study science and society are able to effectively write strong theses, because they can incorporate not just the scientific but also the philosophical and political aspects of what they are studying into their research. She still clearly remembers an honors thesis written by a science and society concentrator on the Aswan Dam in Egypt. “It was really the perfect meld,” Hamdy said. “He understood about postcolonial development and the political importance of building this big, monumental feat of scientific accomplishment … at the same time (he understood) the irreversible

ecological effects the dam had.” Analise Roland ’13 also appreciates the benefits, direct and indirect, that she derived from her independent concentration in neuroaesthetics. She came to Brown unsure what she wanted to study, but quickly realized that she loved the intersection between art and the brain. “I wanted to know why one person remembered a canvas and laughed and the other person cried,” Roland said. Interdisciplinary concentrations with more established course requirements like health and human biology attempt to encompass as many aspects of the biology division as possible through sub-foci that include both hard-science courses and related social science or policy courses. Concentrators have pursued themes including women’s/children’s health, culture and health and global/international health. “Students tend to be extremely aware of and dedicated toward (their) theme courses,” said Marjorie Thompson, associate dean of biological sciences. “That’s what infuses the whole program with its character.” Thompson added that the health and human biology program at Brown differs from those at other schools in that “ours really is, and was born as, an interdisciplinary program.” Undergraduates are required to take classes outside the biology division for their thematic tracks, Thompson said. Doubling down Undergraduates are not only tackling their love for the sciences and other subjects through concentrations termed “interdisciplinary,” though. Some, like William Serratelli ’16, have decided to double-concentrate in science and a different field. Serratelli, who is concentrating in biology and English, said he entered Brown as an English concentrator. But when he didn’t get into his first-choice firstyear seminar, he ended up taking a biology seminar and loved it. “I started noticing all these parallels between my English classes and the stuff I was talking about and all the philosophical implications of the things that were coming up in the bio classes,” Serratelli said. “And so I felt like the two complemented each other really well.” Despite the interdisciplinary experience he gains within his concentrations, Serratelli said he must “sacrifice” taking certain courses offered by different departments that don’t count for either concentration. “But what’s great about English,” he added, “is that in some ways it overlaps with departments I wouldn’t

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have time to take classes in otherwise, like Africana studies or philosophy.” For Matthew Douglas ’16, the decision to double-concentrate in biology and economics has less to do with the overlap he finds between the two fields and more to do with the fact that he finds both truly enjoyable. Economics, he said, acts as a sort of counterweight to the science courses he takes. “I felt like the single science of biology at the undergraduate level … was giving me things I was really passionate about, but economics is currently broadening my mind,” Douglas said. “I don’t find that having done biology is helping my economics degree, but it’s not hindering it.” Life after Brown Cara Smith ’11 almost graduated with a chemistry degree before deciding to switch and become a science and society concentrator. She said she has come to appreciate her interdisciplinary background derived from science and society far more as she pursues a medical degree/master of arts in urban bioethics. “I was given a really incredible background by my professors on how to really step back and think about the issues that I was presented with,” Smith said. “I feel really lucky for it now.” Roland said her “ability to synthesize material from a variety of sources” has helped her now that she’s graduated and working for food and environmental sustainability companies, though her work is not directly related to her concentration. McPhee, who studied biologically inspired designs, has acccepted a job as an account executive at Digitalks, where she will work in marketing and liaise between clients and technology designers. She said she is excited about the opportunity, because it will allow her to pursue her interest in both technology and how designers think. Serratelli initially wanted to put his biology and English degrees toward science writing, but he has since decided to pursue medicine and is waiting to hear whether he has been admitted to an early-assurance medical program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai called FlexMed. Douglas doesn’t know what he wants to do after he graduates, but tells his family he’s perhaps interested in biotechnology, because “it’s a hilariously expansive industry at the moment.” But he added that a potential career path did not motivate his decision to double-concentrate. “I’m really honestly just doing the two things because I really enjoy them,” he said.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014

SWIMMING & DIVING

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Bruno bests Big Red, Big Green at Ivies Bears roll in first weekend of season

Briana Borgolini ’14 takes title in 200-yard breaststroke as Brown finishes sixth in league By CORMAC CUMMISKEY SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s swimming and diving team took to the pool for the Ivy League Championships over the weekend, competing at home in the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center. Familiar waters seemed to lend Brown an edge, as the Bears defeated Cornell and Dartmouth to finish sixth overall — an improvement of one place over their 2013 ranking. The result represented a step forward for the team, which has languished in seventh or eighth position at the championships for the past five seasons. “It’s a good move upward. I’m very proud of the women,” said Head Coach

Peter Brown. “It’s always nice to come back and beat Cornell in the team race.” Bruno ended the competition with 792.5 points, coming in behind fifthplace Penn’s total of 882. The last time the Bears approached this level of scoring was in 2007, Brown said, when the team totaled 811 points. This year, Harvard emerged victorious over runner-up Princeton, with the Crimson outscoring the Tigers 1,409 to 1,384. During the regular season, Bruno had defeated neither Cornell nor Dartmouth outright. The weekend of Dec. 6, the Bears tied Dartmouth for third place at the Princeton Invitational. On Feb. 1, Brown fell to Cornell, 166-134, in a dual meet in Ithaca, N.Y. The highest-achieving swimmer for the Bears this weekend was Briana Borgolini ’14, who notched a first-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke. Having earned runner-up status in that event last year, Borgolini was poised » See SWIMMING, page S5

Bruno’s offensive outburst features several hat tricks and 36 goals in strong home openers By LAINIE ROWLAND SPORTS STAFF WRITER

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Briana Borgolini ’14 swims to a second-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke Saturday. Her efforts helped clinch sixth place for Brown.

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Molloy ’17 helps Bears cruise past Quinnipiac Highly touted first-year attacker nets four goals against Bobcats in first career start for Bruno By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

In its first action of the season, the men’s lacrosse team took down Quinnipiac 13-6 on the road. After falling to the Bobcats in last season’s opener, Bruno improved its all-time record to 5-1 against Quinnipiac. Both the starters and the reserves produced for the Bears (1-0) on the offensive end. The first-stringers notched seven goals and seven assists, while the reserves added six goals and four assists. Dylan Molloy ’17, who started his first game as a Bear, led the squad with an efficient four goals on seven

shots. He opened Bruno’s scoring with an unassisted goal just three minutes into the game. “I was not even surprised by (Molloy’s) performance today,” said cocaptain Daniel Mellynchuk ’14. “He’s such a talented player, everyone on the team saw it in the first practice of the year. He’s going to have a great career, and this is just the start.” After Molloy’s opening score, neither team could find a scoring touch for over 10 minutes. With two minutes remaining in the opening period, Kylor Bellistri ’16 found the back of the net to give the Bears a two-goal lead. Quinnipiac (0-1) responded with two goals in the first four minutes of the second period, leveling the score at two. The Bears fired back with two goals of their own, one from Brendan Caputo ’16 and the other from Sam Hurster ’14 with just 42 seconds

remaining in the half. Bruno’s defense was able to stave off the Quinnipiac attack — which managed to get off 22 shots in the half — largely thanks to the efforts of goalie Jack Kelly ’16. Kelly made 10 stops in the first half, and ended the game with 18 saves and just six goals allowed. “He was phenomenal,” Mellynchuk said. “He’s definitely our anchor on defense. He allows all the defenders to take care of the crease and the middle of the field, because we all know that if a team takes some outside shots, he’s just going to just swallow them up.” While the defense headlined the first half, Brown’s offense took center stage in the latter half of the game. Molloy and Tim Jacob ’15 each ripped two shots past the Quinnipiac keeper to open up an 8-2 lead for the Bears. From that point on, Bruno never

looked back. Quinnipiac tried to claw back into the game, scoring three goals in under a minute late in the third stanza. But Bailey Tills ’16 responded with a score on an assist by Hurster 53 seconds before the end of the period. Bruno extended its lead in the final period to seven goals on Molloy’s fourth conversion of the afternoon. Tills iced the game with a goal in the last minute of the contest. Winning by a large margin “shows great times for the program,” Mellynchuk said. “It was nice to get a little revenge after losing last year, and to do it in a fashion like this is always great for team confidence.” The squad finished with 13 goals on 26 shots on target, an even 50 percent conversion rate. Offensive efficacy won the day for the Bears — Quinnipiac fired just two fewer shots » See M. LACROSSE, page S5

The women’s lacrosse team opened its 2014 season in strong form at home this weekend, taking down Iona College (0-1) and Sacred Heart University (0-1) by identical 13-goal margins. Brown (2-0) downed Iona 17-4 Saturday and Sacred Heart 19-6 Sunday, posting impressive stats across the board. “We’re all on the same page this season,” said Kerianne Hunt ’17. “We work really well together.” Saturday: Brown 17, Iona 4 A strong Brown defense anchored by goalie Kellie Roddy ’15 suffocated Iona — even as Bruno’s offense dominated the game — giving the Gaels very few scoring chances and securing the Bears a commanding win in their season opener. Many players contributed to the offensive onslaught Saturday, an early demonstration of the Bears’ depth. Danielle Mastro ’14 led the way with four tallies, followed by Lauren Toy ’16, who claimed a hat trick. Hunt, Abby Bunting ’15, Bre Hudgins ’14 and Grace Healy ’14 scored two apiece. “We’re so pumped to see everybody score out there,” Hudgins said. “It makes everybody even more excited to go to goal.” Mastro scored the first goal to give the Bears an early lead, which rose to 3-0 by the game’s fifth minute. The » See W. LACROSSE, page S6

W. ICE HOCKEY

Seniors end Brown careers with two tough losses Bears shut out by Dartmouth, and comeback surge in third period against Harvard falls flat By LAINIE ROWLAND SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s ice hockey seniors laced up for the final time in Brown uniforms this weekend, skating to two losses against Ivy rivals Dartmouth and Harvard in its final showdowns of the season. Brown (4-20-5, 3-16-3 ECAC) was blanked by Dartmouth 3-0 Friday and fell to Harvard 3-1 Saturday. While the weekend resulted in two disappointing losses and ended the season with

a four-game losing streak, the closeknit squad still celebrated at the end. For the seniors, it was bittersweet. “You work 18 years to get to the place we are now, and you go through so much,” said Samantha Woodward ’14. “The season is so long, you get to know everybody in the locker room so well and then you blink and it’s done.” The weekend difficulties epitomized the Bears’ season, with the squad battling close for some periods and faltering in others. Entering the weekend knowing that playoff hopes were impossible, Bruno skated with nothing to lose. While the Bears have struggled to capitalize on chances and win close games, they have been able to skate with tough teams, dropping a majority of their games by small

margins and even tying No. 1 Clarkson University, among other hardfought battles. “This season was frustrating statistically because we didn’t do as well as we wanted to,” said Jennifer Nedow ’14. “But in terms of how we played qualitatively it was great.” Friday: Dartmouth 3, Brown 0 Dartmouth (9-18-1, 8-13-1) came to Providence hungry for a win, looking to snap a five-game losing streak. The team struck early against the Bears, scoring less than a minute into play. Bruno’s defense kept the Big Green out of the net for much of the rest of the period, deflecting seven shots, but Dartmouth’s Devon Moir added a second goal late in the first

on one of a series of quick shots on Brown’s net. Looking to shrink a two-goal deficit, the Bears responded with a drive led by Woodward, Jessica Hoyle ’14 and Janice Yang ’15.5, but they narrowly failed to capitalize. Woodward closed out the period with a pipe shot that threatened the Dartmouth net but ultimately missed. Brown struggled to get any traction against the conference foe. Aubree Moore ’14 later called the team “unsettled” during play. While Bruno practically matched Dartmouth in shots taken during the game, none of its scoring chances materialized. The Big Green knocked in its third and final tally with less than two minutes to play in the second period. It

came in an aggressive period featuring five penalties. Dartmouth utilized a power play — initiated by a tripping penalty on Sarah Robson ’15 — to score its last goal. A scoreless third period rounded out play and secured the shutout win for Dartmouth. Neither team budged, though Brittany Moorehead ’15 took some good looks at the Big Green net and Moore made 11 saves for the Bears during the frame. It was Bruno’s third consecutive game without scoring. Saturday: Harvard 3, Brown 1 Bruno faced a tough fight against Harvard (21-4-4, 16-3-3), the secondplace team in the ECAC. In similar fashion to Dartmouth, the Crimson » See W. HOCKEY, page S5

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THE SPORTS BULLETIN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014

MEN’S BASKETBALL FRIDAY, FEB. 21

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13-10, 5-4 Ivy

16-10, 5-4 Ivy SATURDAY, FEB. 22

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» M. BBALL, from page 1 second half. After handing the ball off to Tavon Blackmon ’17, McGonagill raced along the baseline past a screen by Cedric Kuakumensah ’16, received the ball from Blackmon and drilled a rainbow fadeaway triple. The shot gave McGonagill 233 three-pointers for his career, passing Damon Huffman ’08 on the all-time three-point list and making him the most prolific shooter in Brown’s history. McGonagill finished the night with 20 points, five assists and two steals but could not will his team to victory. The loss to Columbia dropped Brown even further behind Ivy leaders Yale (14-10, 8-2) and Harvard (22-4, 9-1). Saturday: Brown 81, Cornell 75 After nearly setting a career-high last weekend with 18 points against Penn, Kuakumensah shattered his previous mark with 30 points Saturday against Cornell (2-22, 1-9). King, again starting for the injured Maia, complemented Kuakumensah with a career-high 23 points of his own.

Both players began the game on fire, never to cool off. Kuakumensah netted Brown’s first ten points of the evening. King then dropped the next 12 for the Bears. The only points of the half not scored by the duo came on a McGonagill trey, which put Bruno up by one at the time. Two Cornell players matched the Bears’ production. Nolan Cressler scored a game-high 34 points, split evenly between the halves. Devin Cherry added 17 points and 10 assists to Cornell’s totals. With six minutes left in the half, Kuakumensah swatted a Cherry layup attempt. It was his fourth block of the game and his 67th of the year, breaking the season record of 66 that he set just a year ago. Kuakumensah finished the game with seven rejections, tying the Brown record for blocks in a game for the third time in his career. Headed into the half, Cornell held a two-point lead. The second half was closely contested throughout, with neither team jumping out to a lead larger than four. With under a minute remaining, Cressler hit two free throws to give the

2-22, 1-9 Ivy Big Red a two-point lead, 67-65. On the other end of the floor, Kuakumensah hit his biggest shot of the night — a layup, tying the game at 67. Cherry had a chance to win it for Cornell, but his shot was off the mark, and the game went to overtime. In the extra period, Kuakumensah’s teammates came alive. Blackmon converted on three of four free throw attempts, and Spieth dropped in two layups — the second of which gave Brown a five-point advantage. After two Cressler free throws, the Bears led 74-71 with 63 seconds remaining. McGonagill brought the ball up the court and, rather than killing time, fired a three pointer with over 20 seconds remaining on the shot clock. The shot swished through the hoop, icing the game for Bruno in dramatic fashion. After driving back from Cornell and arriving home at 5 a.m., the Bears will have a chance to rest up before traveling to Penn and Princeton for their last road trip of the season. If Bruno wants to keep any hope of winning the Ivy League title alive, it will need to sweep both games next weekend.

W. BASKETBALL

Cornell and Columbia pound Bears Lions and Big Red win by 32 combined points as Bears guarantee losing conference record By BRUNO ZUCCOLO SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The women’s basketball team had a tough weekend at home, falling 66-59 to Columbia Friday and 78-53 to Cornell Saturday. The two losses eliminate the chances that Bruno (8-16, 2-8 Ivy) had at a winning conference record. The Bears, who had scored over 70 points in five of the last six games, struggled offensively against both foes, and now sit at seventh place in the Ivy League. Friday: Columbia 66, Brown 59 In the last meeting between the Bears and the Lions (6-18, 3-7), Bruno picked up one of its only two Ivy League victories, returning from New York with a 79-57 win. “We made everything, and our defense was key in that game,” said KJ Veldman ’17. Friday’s game in Providence was very different from the one in New York, as the Lions held the lead for much of the game. Both teams struggled to convert their shots, Columbia finishing with a 38.9 field goal percentage and Brown at 38.5. Neither team managed to keep a large lead for long. Similar to both games last week, the

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Guard Lauren Clarke ’14 tries to dribble past a Cornell defender. She contributed eight points and two assists in 25 minutes against the Big Red. Bears started the game slowly, quickly falling behind as Columbia opened up 7-0 in the first two minutes. But unlike the week before, Bruno was able to climb out of its early hole. Sophie Bikofsky’s ’15 three converted free throws brought the Bears closer to the Lions, bringing the score to 9-7 at the 16:52 mark. Several minutes later, the Bears fell farther behind as the Lions opened a ten-point lead 23-13. Fortunately for Bruno, Rebecca Musgrove ’17 got the squad back on its feet with a trey and a

jump shot, so after a long period of six minutes without either team scoring, the Bears scored again to finish their 10-0 run and tie up the game. This momentum kept the Bears going, and with 2:29 left in the first half, Musgrove made a jump shot to give Brown its first lead of the game, by a margin of 27-25. Another free throw sent the Bears into halftime ahead for the first time in two weeks, with a three-point lead. » See W. BBALL, page S8

Bruno fails to hold late leads in N.Y. split Multiple Bears break records, but Ivy title hopes are slipping away as season winds down By SAM RUBINROIT SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s basketball team endured two emotional games over the weekend, dropping a heart-wrenching 70-68 loss at Columbia before topping Cornell 81-75 in overtime. Here is a breakdown of Bruno’s performance in the Empire State.

ANALYSIS

What’s strong The Bears showed heart in their first overtime of the season by staving off Cornell to claim victory. It took two minutes for either team to score in the extra period, but Bruno jumped out on a 5-0 run to seize a 72-67 lead with 1:25 to play. Though the Big Red crept back to within three points with just over a minute to play, Sean McGonagill ’14 drilled a three-pointer with 50 seconds remaining to deny Cornell any chance of a comeback. Following an emotional loss to Columbia and the ensuing long bus ride, the Bears had every reason to be dejected entering the game against the Big Red. But Bruno persevered, and even as the game went into overtime, the Bears maintained their composure to come out with the win. As the Bears prepare for their final road trip of the season to Penn and Princeton, their ability to overcome hardships and win in extraordinary conditions bodes well for the young squad. What’s wrong The Bears held a four-point lead with just over two minutes to play in both games over the weekend but were unable to seal a victory against Columbia. Dockery Walker ’15 connected

on a lay-up to put Brown ahead 6864 against the Lions with 2:20 left to play. Yet Columbia closed the game with a 6-0 run, seizing the win. The next night, a free throw from Cedric Kuakumensah ’16 gave Brown a 63-59 lead with 2:31 still on the clock. But the Bears again were unable to maintain the margin as the Big Red finished the half with an 8-4 run to send the game into overtime. Looking ahead, the matchups against Penn and Princeton are likely to come down to the wire. Bruno defeated the Quakers by seven points and lost to the Tigers by four at home two weekends ago, so the ability to close out a game may be crucial in the upcoming rematches. What’s new The Bears broke a number of school records on their road trip. In the loss to Columbia, McGonagill connected on 3-of-7 shooting from beyond the arc, propelling him to first place on the list of alltime career three pointers with 233. Damon Hoffman ’08 previously held the record with 232. McGonagill averages the most three-point attempts and conversions in the Ivy League, hitting 3.3 treys per eight attempts on the season. The following night, Kuakumensah tied a school-record with seven blocked shots, setting a new single-season school record with 70. Kuakumensah currently tops the Ivy League with an average of 2.9 blocks per game. The sophomore’s 136 career blocked shots rank second on Brown’s all-time list behind Matt Mullery ’10, who finished with 163. Kuakamensah is on pace to pass Mullery midway through his junior year. But in their final four conference games of the season, the Bears — currently ranked third in the Ivy League — have no time to dwell on individual records and accolades as they continue to battle for what is becoming an increasingly slim shot at an Ivy League title.

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THE SPORTS BULLETIN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014

After two wins, Bruno takes third place in Kurtz Cup Bruno picks up wins against Bates and Williams but loses to ultimate tournament winner George Washington By HANNAH CAMHI SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s squash team traveled to Princeton, N.J. to play in the College Squash Association Team Championships Friday. Bruno’s No. 10 national ranking earned it the tournament’s second seed. The Bears defeated No. 15 Williams College before falling in the semifinals to No. 11 George Washington University, the eventual Kurtz Cup champion. In the consolation match, the Bears triumphed over No. 12 Bates College, to earn third place overall. Coming off a sweep of Williams a week earlier, the Bears were excited to discover they would be facing the Ephs again. “We knew it was going to be harder playing them at nationals since there were neutral courts,” said Alexandra White ’15. The Ephs immediately appeared determined to improve upon their previous result, taking two of the three matches in the first round. Down 2-1, the Bears mustered a strong response in the second trio of matches with wins from Sarah Domenick ’14, Mina Shakarshy ’15 and Isabel Scherl ’17, who collectively lost just one game. Brown continued to roll through Williams, winning its last three matches to make the final score 7-2. “I think it was definitely one of those matches where we knew the courts were pretty hot and the whole facility was warm. … We just wanted to keep the points of the matches going for as long as possible,” White said. “We knew that we had the fitness and a deep game to be able to beat them in a longer style match.” A “warm” facility lends itself to longer rallies, because balls bounce more, giving the players more time to track down shots. “We knew that it was just a normal match,” White said. “If we played well we would get the win. We knew we definitely had the game to do it.” Next, the Bears took on George Washington. In their last matchup, at the onset of the winter season, Brown defeated the Colonials 6-3 with the bottom six spots of the lineup carrying the team. This time around the Colonials, ranked one spot behind the Bears, pulled off the upset, winning 5-4. “They were coming out gunning for us,” White said. “They were really fired up.” Similar to their first round against Williams, the Bears lost two of the three matches from the first group.

» GYMNASTICS, from page 1 matching Walter’s score and Kinamon on their heels with a 9.770. After the first session — Brown on the bars, Cornell on the floor — the Big Red held to a slim lead over the Bears, but by the end of the second events, Bruno had opened up a lead that would only widen as the day went on. When the squad moved to the floor for its third event, the crowd at Pizzitola was treated to a display of near-perfection. Danielle Hoffman ’15 wowed the audience with a 9.925 routine. The only Brown gymnast ever to earn a total that high was world champion and Olympic silver medalist Alicia Sacramone. Hoffman’s brilliance powered her squad to a 49.125 team score on floor, a program record. All six Bears that competed in the floor exercises set personal records for the event. Shnayder’s 9.875 earned her runner-up status. Walters said the Hoffman routine was the most electric moment of the day. She added that only after the team’s historic floor performance did the team really begin to realize it was going to repeat their Ivy win. To ice the cake, Brown posted the top four scores on the vault as Morant and Walters tied for the crown with twin 9.725 scores. Shnayder and classmate Freedman followed the duo in third and fourth, respectively.

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After losing in a 5-4 upset to George Washington University Saturday, Bruno bounced back the next day, edging Bates College in another 5-4 matchup to secure third place in the College Squash Association’s B Division Tournament. The team finished the season 13-8. “They were pretty aggressive with their style of play, and they were definitely very focused,” White said. But the George Washington squad was too strong, and Bruno was unable to rebound the way it did against Williams. The team’s outcome came down to the last two matches on court. One of these featured Katherine Elliott-Moskwa ’15 who pulled off a crucial five-game victory after dropping the first two. “I changed up my game plan in terms of hitting the ball and started to run for the ball more,” Elliott-Moskwa said, “In the first game I was kind of asleep on court.” Despite the loss, White said she thought the team played well.“You win some, you lose some,” she said. On the last day of the tournament Bruno was set to play Bates for third place overall. “This time we came off really wanting to win because we really, really wanted to get third,” Elliott-Moskwa said. Earlier in the season the Bears pulled off a thrilling win over the Bobcats 5-4. This match was

no different with Brown emerging victorious by the same one-match margin. Once again, Bates’ top players proved to be all business by sweeping Brown’s one and two spots. All the other matches were extraordinarily close with each one going into extended play. White attributes the win to strong performances from the first group of matches on court. The first three matches all went to five sets. Brown was able to claim two of the three crucial, momentum-driving points. “Each of the individual matches were going to be close, but we knew that we were starting out with an advantage,” White said. The women finished the season strong with their off-court achievements as well. At Princeton, Bruno captured the Chaffee Award, a national award given in honor of former Williams College tennis coach Clarence Chaffee ’24. Teams are selected based on their “sportsmanship, teamwork, character, friendliness, work ethic and improvement,” according to the College Squash Association’s website. At the national tournament,

coaches decide on which team they feel best represents these qualities. Brown also collectively had the most scholar athletes of any CSA team — with seven players earning honors — according to some team members. Next year, the Bears look forward to more competitive play, with three new recruits joining the current squad. The team is looking to improve upon this season’s results to earn a spot in the Howard Cup (A Division) next year, ElliotMoskwa said. She named Dartmouth, Columbia, Stanford and George Washington as the team’s “biggest challenges” for next year. Dori Rahbar ’14, a former Herald contributing writer, is the lone Bear competing in the CSA Individual Championship next weekend. She has been invited to the tournament each of her four years but has only competed in 2011 and 2012. “It’s a different feeling, because it’s not a team environment. You’re just playing for yourself,” Rahbar said. “It’s always a fun tournament. You get to watch the best squash.”

The vault success propelled Bruno to a massive 3.150-point advantage in team points. Yale, Penn and Cornell finished two, three and four, all within 0.225 points of each other. Throughout the day, the Bears received a significant lift from the home crowd as sign-waving and chanting followed every Bruno move. Energy built through the floor and vault sessions as any doubt about whether the Bears would retain the title evaporated. “It always helps when you have a big fan base,” Walters said. “When they were loud, it was really fun.” Entering the meet, Brown’s season high, 192.825, and team average, 191.770, made the reigning champs favorites, but the squad committed to keeping their emotions in check early in the contest. “Everyone was really pumped up about this one, having won last year,” Walters said of their pre-meet huddle. “But we were all trying to stay calm and do what we do everyday in practice.” But as the repeat materialized, the excitement began to take hold. The Bears flooded the podium for the trophy presentation, claiming the first Ivy title for a Brown varsity sports team since their win last year. “The entire meet was emotionally draining — from the cheering to the tears — because we wanted to win back-to-back Ivy championships so badly,” Freedman said. “There’s nothing sweeter than a repeater.”

Diana Walters ’16 played a key role in the team’s Ivy League title, winning the all-around competition. Two of her teammates joined her in the top four.

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THE SPORTS BULLETIN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014

FRIDAY, FEB. 21

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Crimson can’t scratch Steel ’17 as Bruno salvages road split

Bears must forget about challenging February Despite early-month slump, recent strong performances could mean Bruno is ready for a conference run By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The men’s hockey team stumbled out of the gate this month, but with wins in two of its last three games, the squad has shown it will not roll over. At the end of January, the Bears were sitting pretty. After beating No. 19 Colgate (16-11-5, 125-3 ECAC) by a score of 5-2 at home on Jan. 31, Bruno was 6-6-1, good for seventh place in the ECAC. Mark Naclerio ’16 had just been named ECAC Player of the Month, and the team had only lost one home game, all the way back on Nov. 1. Those good feelings evaporated quickly when the calendar page turned. The Bears lost a closely fought home game Feb. 1 to No. 13 Cornell (14-7-5, 10-6-4) by a score of 2-1, their first home loss in exactly three months. The following Friday, Bruno dropped a 4-3 game at No. 3 Union. A close road loss to a top-five team is no cause for concern, but the disheartened Bears were listless in a 4-1 loss at Rensselaer the following night. After the RPI game, captain Dennis Robertson ’14 said the team was “a little unprepared.” Naclerio added, “We broke down and gave them the win by beating ourselves.” The players were disappointed in their team’s performance, but it would not be their worst game of this ugly stretch. Rock bottom came at home the next Friday, when Bruno fell to last-place Princeton. At this point, the Bears were 0-4 in the new month, dropping steadily in the ECAC standings. Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94 tore into his players after the loss, calling the team’s performance “awful.” But since that night, the Bears have started to play to their potential and show their capabilities. The rebound began the night after the loss to Princeton, when Bruno defeated No. 5 Quinnipiac 4-2. Whittet expressed pride in his team for how the squad turned around after playing so lackadaisically against the Tigers. “I could tell, going into the room, that the guys were ready tonight,” he said, following the victory against Quinnipiac.

ANALYSIS

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Kyle Kramer ’17 skates along the boards. The first-year was promoted to Bruno’s top line recently and has responded by recording two assists in the team’s last three games.

Bears fall to challenging Dartmouth team in Hanover, but rebound to notch shutout win over Crimson in Cambridge By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The men’s hockey team lost to Dartmouth but beat Harvard to stay in eighth place in the ECAC this weekend, fighting for every point in a bid for home-ice advantage in the upcoming first round of the conference tournament. The Bears’ two weekend points keep them one ahead of St. Lawrence, which also tallied a weekend split, and three ahead of Harvard, which went winless during its homestand. Friday: Dartmouth 2, Brown 1 (OT) Despite a game-tying third period goal from Matt Lorito ’15, the Bears (10-13-3, 7-11-1 ECAC) dropped a tightly contested road match in overtime against the Big Green (7-16-3, 6-12-1 ECAC) to briefly fall to ninth in the conference. Dartmouth took the lead in the second period on a goal by sophomore Brad Schierhorn, but

Lorito tied it up midway through the third on a power-play to send the game into overtime. But just 51 seconds into the extra frame, Dartmouth’s Tyler Sikura found twine on the first shot attempt of overtime, ending the game in favor of the home team. Brown held the overall advantage in shots at 25-22, but Dartmouth goalie Charles Grant stood tall, making 24 saves. The key to Dartmouth’s game was a stout defense, which dared Bruno to be the aggressor but gave up no easy chances. “They frustrated us with their passiveness,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “They packed in around the net and waited for us to make our mistakes,” said captain Dennis Robertson ’14. The Big Green found success playing conservatively, keeping four or five players back in their own zone to defend against the Bears’ offensive incursions. This preparation allowed them to clog up any offensive momentum Bruno might have tried to initiate. “They sat back a little more,” said Mark Naclerio ’16, adding that the Big Green’s defensive strategy made it “harder to get in the zone and get offense going.” » See M. HOCKEY, page S8

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The Bears entered this weekend riding high from that win, but fell in overtime to a scorching Dartmouth squad that has not lost in its last four games. A loss is of course never ideal, but Bruno played hard against the hottest team in the ECAC. Brown showed up ready to play, which cannot be said about the team’s unsuccessful efforts against RPI and Princeton. What mattered most about this weekend’s loss to Dartmouth was how the Bears would respond. Would they wilt like they did after falling to Union and RPI, or use the defeat as motivation as they did after dropping the game against Princeton? Bruno answered with a performance resembling its victory over Quinnipiac, rolling into Harvard and defeating the Crimson, 2-0. “We responded really well,” Naclerio said. “We’re going to carry that momentum into next weekend.” Now having won two of three, the Bears will have a shot at revenge in a pair of home games against Union and RPI before the conference tournament begins. Should Bruno hold off its opponents and remain in eighth place, it will host a first round series in the conference tournament, likely against St. Lawrence. Whittet said having home ice in the first round is “really, really important” to the team. If the results are any indication, the Bears have learned from their mistakes at the beginning of the month. They are starting to look like the team we saw in January, which went 4-2-2 against a very tough schedule, including a tie against No. 1 Boston College. Finishing the turnaround next weekend with strong showings against Union and RPI will be hugely important for the Bears. “We have to be playing our best hockey as we head into the tournament,” Whittet said. Under Coach Whittet, the Bears have a great track record in the ECAC tournament, reaching the semifinals as the No. 11 seed in 2010, and making it to the title game last season as the No. 7 seed. In his past four seasons as head coach, Whittet has made more ECAC semifinals (two) than his predecessor Roger Grillo did in 12 seasons (one). “We’ve done some major damage in the playoffs in two of my four years,” Whittet said. Based on winning percentage, this year’s team is the best Whittet has had at Brown, and if the Bears play up to their potential, they might make some noise in the tournament once again.

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THE SPORTS BULLETIN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Bruno wins one, loses one in final preseason tuneup McNamara ’14 scores eight goals as Bears finish preseason 3-4, with regular season starting next Sunday in Washington, D.C. By CHRISTINE RUSH SPORTS STAFF WRITER

In its preseason finale, the women’s water polo team traveled to Hartwick College this weekend, losing 17-10 against its home-turf opponents but bouncing back to beat Marist College 13-9. Emily McNamara ’14 stepped up for Bruno (34) this weekend, scoring five goals against Marist (4-9) and getting a hat trick versus Hartwick (9-5). Utility player Kate Woods ’14 contributed one goal against the Red Foxes and two against the Hawks. Woods highlighted the performance of Olivia

Santiago ’16, calling her a high scorer for the team this weekend. Santiago helped bring a spark in the second quarter to put the Bears ahead. She scored three goals against Marist and received two ejections. Marisa Kolokotronis ’17 contributed in the Hartwick game, getting a hat trick for Bruno and notching three assists. The Bears had lost to Marist only three weeks earlier, 14-13. Goalie Sarah Shin ’14 said the “three weeks to focus on defining our defense and offense” made a big difference.

Shin defended the net effectively, tallying nine saves against Marist. In the first game against the Red Foxes, the Bears had many problems with kick outs, a situation in which a player gets kicked out of the game for a foul or penalty, Shin said. After team members reviewed what they needed to do, they did not foul out as much, she added. Shin also attributed the win to the offense, which she called “a lot better than last year.” Woods said there is “so much contribution across the whole entire board.” The team does not rely on specific players for scores, she said, adding that the current squad is “probably the deepest team we’ve ever had.” Despite the well-rounded scoring by the offense, Shin said Bruno’s defense was pretty weak against Hartwick. The Hawks came out with a strong lead,

and the Bears spent the whole game trying to close the gap. Though the team struggled defensively, Shin posted another nine saves in the game. The “biggest part is communicating, letting each other know what’s going on,” Woods said. The Bears can fix their difficulties through repetition and getting “a couple more games under our belt,” she said, adding that she is upbeat about the upcoming season. This year’s team is probably the “team I have been most excited about,” Woods said, citing its strong first-years and returning class. Shin said the team is “very focused on improving our game in general.” Bruno hopes to take this focus into its next game — the first of the regular season — March 1 against George Washington University (4-7).

» SWIMMING, from page S1

the Ivy meet. But when it came time to dive, Speakman delivered. She was the only entrant from Brown to make the final of the 1-meter event, where she went on to place sixth. This result was a major improvement on her 13th-place finish in 2013. “Because Rachel’s such a tough girl, she never really let on that she was having these problems,” said co-captain Kate Dillione ’15. “At Ivies, she really stepped up and put the team’s needs above her own health — which is the mark of a true, true competitor.” Inspired by Speakman’s strong showing, her teammates upped their own games. Brown’s most decorated underclassman was Megan Viohl ’17, who served as the Bears’ standard-bearer in the distance events. Viohl placed fifth overall in both the 1,000yard freestyle and the 1,650-yard freestyle, setting school records in each event. Viohl also earned an NCAA B cut for her swim in the 1,650 free. “We’re very lucky we have a distance swimmer like (Viohl) who can step up whenever we need her,” Dillione said. “It’s great that she’s so motivated as a (first-year). It bodes well for the future of Brown swimming.” Dillione displayed great strength and versatility as a sprint swimmer. She qualified for the fastest heats in the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle and 200-yard freestyle — a triple feat she has never before accomplished. The junior’s best result came in the 200 free, where she finished fifth out of eight. Brown said it is unclear whether any of the team’s swimmers who have earned NCAA B cuts will qualify to compete in the NCAA Championships. Only a handful of the nation’s top competitors in each event receive invitations to that meet, and the selection process is murkier for swimmers who have not achieved the A-standard. Brown said that he would know soon if any Bears will continue into the postseason. For her part, Dillione was focused on the Bears’ positive outcome within the conference. “We’re slowing moving back up to the top of the Ivy League,” she said. “This is a great transition period for Brown swimming.”

to contend for individual gold this time around. The competition began auspiciously for Borgolini. The senior sailed through the preliminary round of the 200 breast with the fastest time of the day, earning an NCAA B cut — a provisional qualifying standard for the NCAA championship meet — and establishing herself as the woman to beat in the process. She duplicated her winning ways in the final, reaching the pool wall half a second ahead of Harvard’s Stephanie Farrell. With her victory, Borgolini inscribed her name on the annals of Ivy League history. “It’s been about 10 years since we’ve won an individual title,” Brown said. “It carries a lot of weight for the program.” In addition to winning the 200 breast, Borgolini logged a second-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke. This marked the third time Borgolini has earned runner-up status in the event at the conference meet. The path Borgolini traveled to her success was fraught with difficulty. Brown said the veteran swimmer had to contend with a heavy academic load in the fall. “She hardly competed all fall because she had so much going on with school. To her credit, she battled through it and made it happen,” he said. Borgolini was not the only Bear who shone in spite of adversity. The team’s top diver, Rachel Speakman ’16, had to surmount significant obstacles in order to even compete at the championships. Last summer, Speakman underwent surgery to repair a herniated disk in her back. Following that procedure, she began a long process of rehabilitation designed to restore her competitive form. The sophomore also struggled with a condition that has plagued her since high school: vertigo, a problem with inner-ear calcium deposits that upsets one’s senses of balance and direction. Bouts of vertigo manifested in the month leading up to the championships, and Speakman sometimes could not practice for days at a stretch. Speakman said that, though she “found ways to adapt” to her circumstances, there was still some doubt as to whether she would be able to take part in

» W. HOCKEY, from page S1 DAVID DECKEY / HERALD FILE PHOTO

Sam Hurster ’14 scored once and notched four assists in the men’s lacrosse team’s seasonopening rout of Quinnipiac.

» M. LACROSSE, from page S1 on goal than Bruno, but thanks to Kelly and a strong Bruno defense, the Bobcats converted only 25 percent. “Our offense was really clicking today,” Mellynchuk said. “It seemed like every time they got the ball, they either forced Quinnipiac’s goalie to make a save, or they scored. It was huge for the defenders because it gave us some rest. Our offense would probe and probe, hold the ball for a minute or two, and then score. They carried us today.” While Molloy headlined the afternoon with his scoring display, another first-year, Larken

Kemp ’17, had a solid first appearance for Bruno. Kemp started at long pole middie — a position that requires both offensive and defensive production as well as a workhorse mentality — and managed to force two of Bruno’s three caused turnovers. “He’s still a little green, but he plays with fire,” Mellynchuk said. “He’s always out to get the ball. He’s going to be a great takeaway guy, and he’s learning quickly. I think he’ll be doing great things for us this season.” Molloy and Kemp will experience their first home game next weekend, when the Bears square off against University of Massachusetts at Amherst (3-0) at Stevenson Field.

struck quickly to gain a lead less than two minutes into the game. As the first period continued, Harvard successfully killed off four Brown power plays on five different penalties. The Bears outshot Harvard by four, but the Crimson’s strong defensive effort prevented any damage. Woodward started the second period for the Bears, firing a slap shot that landed in the glove of Harvard goalie Brianna Laing. Midway through the period, the Crimson widened its lead to 2-0 and then, moments later, to 3-0 as Elizabeth Parker notched two tallies within 20 seconds. A comeback seemed to be brewing for the Bears when Hoyle poked the puck onto Harvard’s goal line. Though the light flashed, signaling that the Bears had scored, the officials disallowed the goal after video review showed the puck had not crossed the line.

The third period packed more fire for Bruno. Monica Masucci ’16 got Brown on the board halfway through the period, utilizing assists from Moorehead and Kelly Kittredge ’14 to score Brown’s first goal in 220 minutes of play. “In the third period we really picked it up. We said, ‘We have 20 minutes left, this is all we’ve got, so let’s just give it everything,’” Moore said. With the score at 3-1, the Bears applied offensive pressure, outshooting the Crimson during the final stanza, but could not score again. They survived two Harvard power plays and created a number of scoring opportunities. Masucci got two more good looks at the goal, and Hoyle fired a shot off the pipe. In a last-ditch effort, the Bears pulled Moore with three minutes left, but to no avail. “Harvard’s a really good team and I felt that, especially in the third period, we played really, really well,” Nedow said. “That was a great way to end it.”

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THE SPORTS BULLETIN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Cohan ’17: Excitement goes beyond highlight reels JAMES COHAN sports columnist

The NBA’s website has a cool little feature. When a game is close in the last few minutes, it sends a “Buzzer Beater Alert” to my desktop. I honestly have no idea how it is doing this. I certainly didn’t ask it to. But the feature is reliable. If there’s ever a close game (that isn’t on a local channel, or on ESPN, or on TNT, or on NBA TV — since those are blacked out on NBA League Pass), I get to tune in at just the right moment and watch the action unfold. At first, I really liked this feature. I still really like this feature. But I like the idea of it less. I watched the Celebrity Game Feb. 14 for the antics of Kevin Hart, Bill Simmons and Jalen Rose. I was expecting a funny, enjoyable spectacle. What I was not expecting was to care about the result. And yet, as the end of the fourth quarter approached and the score remained knotted up, I was hanging on every play. Later that night, I found myself staring at ESPN’s homepage — the product of one of those mindless drifts from Facebook to Gmail

»W. LACROSSE, from page S1 Gaels did not get a shot until more than four minutes in and barely controlled the ball at any point in the first half, taking eight shots compared to Bruno’s 21. Iona finally breached the Bears’ defense to get on the board midway through the half, but the tally hardly put a dent in the Gaels’ 5-1 deficit. “Our defense really works as a unit,” Hunt said. “We play got-your-back lacrosse — you always have each other’s help.” Toy capped off the first half with a goal two seconds before the buzzer, giving the Bears a 10-2 advantage. Head Coach Keely McDonald ’00 kept the team fresh in anticipation of the two-game weekend, frequently rotating players in and out from the bench. Brown controlled 10 of the 12 draws in the first half and retrieved 12 ground balls to Iona’s five. A few tough calls against the Bears did little to slow them down, though the officials drew complaints from a home field crowd. Hunt struck early in the second half to increase the lead to 11-2. Five minutes later, Toy snagged Bruno’s 12th tally to seal victory under the NCAA’s 10-goal mercy rule. Toy scored twice in the second half, proving her value in a starting position after playing in only eight games as a rookie. Brown scored six unanswered goals before Iona got on the board for the first time since the first half, making the score 16-3. McDonald started to rotate in subs midway through the half, pulling Roddy and giving many rookies their first taste of college action. Both teams scored once more to make the final score 17-4. The Bears limited Iona’s Erin Pugh — a high-profile recruit who is expected to drive the Gael offense this year — to two goals on the game. They outshot the Gaels 35-12, allowing Iona just four looks in the second half. Bruno went 12-of-12 in attempts to clear the ball and earned 15 draw controls to Iona’s seven. Sunday: Brown 19, Sacred Heart 6 Brown allowed Sacred Heart only one shot on goal in the first half of the Bears’ second game of the weekend. Again, the Bruno offense dominated possession, with Healy and Hudgins combining to win 12 of 15 draw controls. Healy fired the first goal of the game, with Hudgins

to Facebook to Grantland to my school Gmail to … you get the idea. The scoreboard bar at the top of the page informed me that Arizona and Arizona State were playing in overtime. I’m not a huge college basketball fan, but since the game was in overtime, I decided to watch the rest. It was a thriller that ended with Arizona State fans storming the court in double overtime — twice. When the arm of Arizona State’s Jordan Bachynski rose out of a sea of players to make a freakish block to win the game, I was amazed. Any sports fan would say the Arizona-Arizona State game was about 1,000 times better than the Celebrity Game by whatever measures you could think of. And I agree completely. But me personally? I liked the Celebrity Game better, and it had nothing to do with discovering Wale has atrocious handles. I liked the Celebrity Game better because I watched the entire damn thing. I watched the routine layups, the overly ambitious three-pointers, the occasionally impressive passes, the much more frequent awful passes — and I watched Sprite miraculously save Drake’s studio recording of “Forever” over and over again. (Just out of curiosity, I Googled this commercial to see when it was made: It was uploaded to YouTube in February 2010. Can someone explain to me why four years later, this commercial is

running every five minutes?) As the end of the fourth quarter approached, and the score remained tight, I could just feel the dynamic shifting inside the arena. The players stopped messing around. They wanted to win. Every time I tune in at the end of a game, at just the right moment, without having watched the journey that led to that point, it feels cheap. It’s the same feeling you get when you play Madden on rookie. You win by a million points, and it’s kind of fun. But there’s no struggle, frustration or reward — only the mild pleasure of driving down the field and scoring a touchdown on every possession. Sometimes I feel bombarded by the extraordinary. With the click of a button, I can watch an entire game boiled down to two minutes of highlights. When I watch SportsCenter, I don’t even have to click a button — I get the best moments from every game across every sport filtered for me. This makes it easy to follow sports. The slogan of WatchESPN is “never miss a highlight.” And it’s true. I never miss a highlight. But sports aren’t just highlights. That isn’t to say I’m anti-highlight — I wrote a whole column a couple of weeks ago on All-Star Weekend. But compared to the feeling you get when you experience more than just the highlights? When you get on the Metro, find out they’re only using one

track so you’re going to have to wait 20 minutes, subject yourself to stadium chicken fingers, pay five dollars for a bottle of water with no cap on it, get seated next to the guy who’s already 18 beers deep by the end of the first quarter, watch your team get blown out … wait, what was I saying? Let me give a better example. Just before the All-Star break, LeBron James hit an unbelievable step-back three-pointer at the buzzer to beat the Warriors. If you watched the highlight, you would have been impressed. If you watched the last two minutes live, you would have been shocked. If you watched the whole game? Your reaction might be something like this text I got from a friend — “Holy (expletive) just watched the heat game.” That line sums up the feeling of watching the real thing perfectly. Anything else is just the Wikipedia plot summary — the essentials, devoid of the magic. I’m going to keep taking advantage of that Buzzer Beater Alert (unless NBA.com decides to black that out as well). Hopefully, I won’t always need it.

following her example a minute later. Hudgins’ early goal was her 100th career tally, a career milestone for the senior co-captain. The Pioneers retaliated with their lone goal of the half to make it a 2-1 game — the closest it would get, as the Bears rebounded and ran away with the score. Richael Walsh ’16 scored twice within a minute as the Bears continued to overwhelm the Pioneers’ defense. It took Healy only 15 minutes to collect her game-high four goals. Mastro scored Brown’s 11th goal to trigger the mercy rule for the second time in two games. With Healy, Hudgins, Walsh, Sarah Peters ’17, Mastro, Toy, Janie Gion ’15 and Ali Kim ’17 all netting goals for the Bears, the first period ended with Brown up 13-1. “We go off each others’ talents and read each other. … It’s a team effort,” Hunt said. She added that the offense moves quickly and communicates well, making room for many plays and scoring opportunities. The period’s only negative outcome came when Bunting, another co-captain and key contributor, suffered a foot injury in the first five minutes and had to miss the rest of the game. The injury will be evaluated this week. Brown held Sacred Heart scoreless for the last 25 minutes of the first half and the first 11 of the second half, with the Bears scoring 13 unanswered goals over this stretch. Toy scored her second goal of the game and Hudgins completed a hat trick in the second half before the Pioneers mounted a small comeback attempt. With the Bears playing their second line, replacing Roddy with Victoria Holland ’16, the Pioneers scored five goals. Bruno scored six on the half, as Toy joined Hudgins and Healy with a hat trick, her second in as many games. The second half gave Dianne Vitkus ’16 and Julia Carrellas ’15 the chance to each add a point to the total tally. A Pioneer goal in the final seconds gave Bruno a resounding 19-6 victory. The Bears will look to carry momentum from the two blowouts into their clash against Columbia in New York next weekend, the crucial opening game of their Ivy schedule. “We have clearly defined our goals this season and are ready to take it one game at a time,” Hudgins said. “Staying in the moment and focusing on what we’re doing — the little plays, the hustle plays that really define the program — makes us so successful.”

Co-captain Abby Bunting ’14 contributed two goals to a 13-point win over Iona Saturday afternoon. The midfielder missed much of Sunday’s victory after sustaining a foot injury.

James Cohan ’17 once rushed 500 yards with Michael Vick in Madden on rookie mode. Congratulate him at james_cohan@brown.edu.

HERALD FILE PHOTO

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THE SPORTS BULLETIN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014

MEN’S BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Brown (8-16, 2-8 Ivy)

Brown (14-10, 5-3 Ivy)

Columbia (17-10, 6-4)

Cornell (2-21, 1-8)

Columbia (6-18, 3-7)

1st

2nd

1st

2nd

Brown: Columbia:

37 36

31 34

68 70

Brown: Cornell:

34 36

33 31

14 8

81 75

Brown

Pts.

Rebs.

As.

Brown

Pts.

Rebs.

As.

King

Kuakumensah

Speith

Spieth

Blackman

McGonagill

Hobbie

Madigan

Walker

Total

1st

2nd

1st

2nd

Columbia: Brown:

25 28

41 31

66 59

Cornell: Brown:

39 26

39 27

78 53

Brown

Pts.

Rebs.

As.

Brown

Pts.

Rebs.

As.

Beutel

Juker

Ball

Wellington

Bikofsky

Musgrove

McGonagill

Clarke

Hobbie

Veldman

Ball

Madigan

Juker

Sharpe

Walker

Weledji

Dinger

Wellington

Veldman

Total

M W 28

Total

MEN’S HOCKEY Brown Dart. SHOTS: Brown Dart.

Cornell (13-11, 5-5)

1st

2nd

3rd

0 0

0 1

1 0

0 1

1 2

1st

2nd

8 6

7 9

Brown Harvard SHOTS: Brown Harvard

WOMEN’S HOCKEY 1st

2nd

3rd

0 0

2 0

0 0

2 0

Dart. Brown SHOTS: Dart. Brown

1st

2nd

3rd

2 0

1 0

0 0

3 0

Harvard Brown SHOTS: Harvard Brown

1st

2nd

3rd

1 0

2 0

0 1

3 1

2nd

3rd

11 6

11 12

29 31

M W 3rd

10 6

0 25 1 22

1st

2nd

7 12

3rd

5 8

- 1st -

No Brown Scoring

- 2nd -

No Brown Scoring

7 10

19 30

1st

2nd

3rd

9 9

12 11

11 6

32 26

1st

7 13

- 1st -

No Brown Scoring

- 2nd -

No Brown Scoring

- 2nd -

Brown 0:32 - Nick Lappin (PP) (a: Mark Naclerio, Matt Lorito)

Brown 16:54 - Jake Goldberg

- 2nd -

No Brown Scoring

(a: Mark Naclerio, Kyle Kramer)

- 3rd -

Brown 8:17 - Matt Lorito (PP)

No Brown Scoring

(a: Nick Lappin, Brandon Pfeil)

GYMNASTICS Brown: 193.375, 1st Yale: 190.250, 2nd All-Around Diana Walters: 39.000, 1st Michelle Shnayder: 38.525, 3rd Bars Diana Walters: 9.775, T2 Alexandra Chretien: 9.775, T2 Beam Diana Walters: 9.700, T3 Corey Holman: 9.600, T8 Floor Danielle Hoffman: 9.925, 1st Michelle Shnayder: 9.875, 2nd Vault Caroline Morant: 9.725, T1 Diana Walters: 9.725, T1

- 3rd -

SWIMMING & DIVING

- 3rd -

No Brown Scoring

WRESTLING

Brown 7:27 - Monica Masucci

(a: Brittany Moorehead, Kelly Kittredge)

WOMEN’S SQUASH

Women Ivy League Championships Top performers:

Briana Borgolini - 1st, 200 breast Megan Viohl - 5th, 1,650 free Katie Roach - 5th, 200 breast Gina Matsumoto - 5th, 200 butterfly Kate Dillione - 6th, 100 free

Lehigh: 26 Brown: 17 125: Morita: loss 10-2 133: Finocchiaro: loss 6:53 141: Tanenbaum: loss 13-3

TRACK & FIELD

Bates (B Division, 3rd Place)

L, 5-4

W, 5-4

1 Rahbar: L, 5-11, 3-11, 6-11

1 Rahbar: L, 8-11, 4-11, 7-11

2 Domenick: W, 11-3, 11-3, 11-7

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

3 Hay-Smith: L, 11-7, 6-11, 12-10,

3 Hay-Smith: W, 7-11, 11-4, 6-11,

8-11, 1-11

11-7, 11-7

4 Richmond: L, 12-10, 4-11, 9-11,

4 Richmond: L, 4-11, 11-7, 11-9.

149: Galiardo: win 6:37

5-11

12-10

157: Choate: win 6-4

5 Shakarshy: W, 12-10, 11-4, 11-6

5 Shakarshy: W, 8-11, 11-4, 11-9,

165: Marano: win 5-4

6 Schmidt-Fellner: L, 12-10, 8-11,

11-8

12-10, 5-11, 9-11

6 Elliott-Moskwa: L, 11-5, 10-12,

7 Elliott-Moskwa: W, 2-11, 4-11,

11-6, 1-11, 8-11

11-7, 14-12, 11-7

7 Murphy: W, 11-7, 11-6, 6-11,

8 Murphy: W, 11-5, 12-14, 11-5,

11-9

8 Scherl: W, 11-8, 11-6, 10-12,

9 Scherl: W, 11-9, 9-11, 11-8, 11-7

11-8

Men’s Ind: USATF New England Top performers: Hunter Warwick: 1st, hurdles Albert Anderson: 1st, long jump

174: McDonald: loss 5-2

Women’s Ind: USATF New Eng. Top performers:

285: Cavey: loss 2:32

Melissa Isidor: 1st, hurdles/long jump Shanelle DeJourett: 1st, high jump

Geo. Wash. (B Division, Semifinal)

184: Bernstein: win 19-2 197: Marker: loss 6-3

9 White: W, 7-11, 11-9, 11-4, 5-11, 11-4

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014

SPORTS BULLETIN wrestling Grapplers downed in final two regular-season meets Bears lose to Lehigh in their last home meet of the season and are beaten handily by Columbia on the road By CALEB MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

The wrestling team suffered a weekend sweep at the hands of No. 20 Lehigh and Columbia. The 26-17 loss to the Mountain Hawks came on Senior Day at the Pizzitola Center before the Bears lost the following day to the Lions 33-9 in New York. “The emotions were definitely high — wrestling your last match at the Pizzitola,” said Head Coach Todd Beckerman after nine seniors competed in their final home duel. Bruno’s Senior Day clash resembled many of its matches this season, as big wins by a few wrestlers were offset by struggles in the lighter weight classes. The day started off with the 157-pound bout, moving through the six heavier classes and then back to the lightest four. In their last home performances of their careers, the 157-pounder Cortlandt Choate ’14 and 165-pounder Philip Marano ’14 each won close decisions, lifting the squad to an early 6-0 lead. Choate blasted his Lehigh counterpart early in the match, nearly pinning him and holding a comfortable 5-1 lead through two periods. But after Choate was called for stalling, the final period turned into a dramatic frenzy until the buzzer finalized a 6-4 win for the Bruno senior. Not to be outdone, Marano followed his classmate with a similarly intense 5-4 win over Lehigh’s Ben Haas. A back-and-forth battle went deep into the third period with the grapplers tied 4-4. Haas needed only an escape to take the match, but Marano, knowing he held the tiebreaker in riding time, hung to Haas, preventing his escape until time expired. “Cortlandt Choate stepped up big,” Beckerman said, adding that he was happy the match kicked off with Choate’s performance. Marano’s victory was “another big win,” Beckerman said.

» W. BBALL, from page S2 Unfortunately for the Bears, Columbia improved in the second half, with a 46.2 field goal percentage, making 6-of-9 three-point shots. Miwa Tachibana started a series of seven consecutive treys from both teams two minutes into the half, when her three points put the Lions ahead 31-28. The Bears tied it up three times, but were unable to get the lead back. After a 9-0 run, Columbia was up 46-37 with 11:42 left to play. The Lions used their advantage to trade baskets until the end of the game, and despite the Bears’ best attempts, they could not cut the deficit to fewer than three points. Veldman said that compared to the last game against the Lions, the Bears “let them get easier passes in” this time. Tachibana led all scorers with 20 points and shot 5-of-8 on treys. Veldman, Lauren Clarke ’14 and Bikofsky registered double digits for the Bears, scoring 11, 11 and 10, respectively. Saturday: Cornell 78, Brown 53 The Bears faced many of the same problems the following night when they hosted Cornell. Once again, Bruno suffered from a large deficit early in the game, as the Big Red scored the first nine points in the opening three minutes. But unlike against Columbia, the Bears were unable to bounce back quickly, and by the 12:00 mark, the score was 17-4. Netting six points in one minute, the Bears brought the deficit back to single digits, but still lagged behind 21-14 with nine minutes left in the half.

“On Senior Night, they went out the right way.” After Ricky McDonald ’15 lost in yet another tightly contested match, Ophir Bernstein ’15 broke the streak with a 19-2 technical fall over Lehigh wrestler Zach Diekel. Bernstein manhandled his competitor as he has done to opponents so often this season. The win gave the Bears an 11-3 lead as well as the hope that they could knock off their nationally ranked opponent. But momentum swung in a big way through the next five classes. Lehigh rebounded from the early deficit with two pins and two major decisions in the next five classes. By the final class of the day, Lehigh had clinched the duel with a 26-11 advantage. Steven Galiardo ’17, at 149 pounds, concluded the bout for Brown and continued to impress in his first season as a Bear. Galiardo led the whole match until his opponent bowed out due to an injury sustained on a takedown. “Coming in as a first-year, he’s fun to watch,” Beckerman said of Galiardo. “He’s taking shots and getting points. I’m excited to see how he does this postseason.” The Bears had their work cut out for them the following day, needing to rebound from the emotional match to travel to Columbia. The Lions jumped all over Bruno pushing the score to 18-3 after the first half of the match, riding the lead to a commanding 33-9 victory. The dependable Galiardo and Bernstein notched victories, and Ryder Cavey ’17 joined the pair in the win column, not surrendering a point in his 5-0 win at the heavyweight class. But the three decisions could not contend with two falls, one injury forfeit and three major decisions for Columbia. The winless weekend drops Bruno to 3-11 in the conference, and with the playoffs just around the corner, Beckerman said the squad is calling it a “whole new season.” “This has all been just training to prepare for the EIWA conference,” Beckerman said. “Everybody’s got a clean slate to punch their ticket to the NCAA tournament.”

A 7-0 Big Red run only complicated the situation for the Bears, who struggled to catch up as every point they scored was countered by their opponents. The Big Red held on to a 39-26 lead at the end of the first half. In the second half, the Bears were unable to cut the deficit to single digits at any point, and instead watched the Big Red increase its lead to over 20 points on multiple occasions. Bikofsky’s 11 second-half points were not enough to counter the Big Red’s scoring, led by Allyson DiMagno, who tops the Ivy League in free throw percentage. Bruno never threatened to stage a comeback, and the Big Red continued to increase its lead up until the final whistle. With 43 seconds to go, Cornell led by 28 points. Bruno once again struggled to sink shots from the field, finishing the game with only 36.1 percent of its field goals converted. This was nowhere near enough to fight against the Big Red, who finished the game with a 54.9 percentage from the field. “(We need to be) making the most of when the other team turns the ball over, and actually converting on the other end,” Veldman said. Ellise Sharpe ’16 and Natalie Ball ’16 scored 10 and 11 points, respectively, from the bench, but Cornell, led by Nia Marshall’s 16 points, had four players in double digits. The loss against Cornell was Bruno’s fourth consecutive defeat. The Bears will remain at home next weekend, taking on Penn Friday evening and Princeton Saturday. The teams occupy the top two positions in the Ivy League standings. “We want just to come together and play as a team,” Veldman said. “We know that we can do it.”

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Vincent Moita ’14, who weighs 125 pounds, dropped a major decision against Lehigh, losing his match 10-2. He also fell 10-3 to his opponent from Columbia.

» M. HOCKEY, from page S4 Dartmouth’s extremely guarded style of play caused the Bears a great deal of trouble, but the Crimson’s more aggressive approach made the next game totally different. Saturday: Brown 2, Harvard 0 Bruno (11-13-3, 8-11-1) rebounded nicely from the previous night’s excruciating loss in Hanover, riding two second period goals to a 2-0 win over the Crimson (9-14-4, 5-11-4). With their own win in Cambridge and a St. Lawrence loss, the Bears jumped back into eighth place and back into position to host a first round matchup in the conference tournament. Nick Lappin ’16 notched a power-play goal 32 seconds into the second period to put Brown up 1-0, and Jake Goldberg ’14 sent in a wrist shot from the blue line 16 minutes later to double the lead. Tyler Steel ’17 posted the 30-save shutout, the first of his career. The Bears mustered just 19 shots on goal, including none for the final 14 minutes of the game, but they defended their lead successfully. Unlike Dartmouth, the Crimson played a very assertive game. They attacked constantly, forcing the Bears to be somewhat conservative to parry Harvard’s many attacks. “We came out and were taken aback by Harvard’s speed and aggressiveness and intensity in that first period,” Whittet said. “It kind of set us on our heels.” The game began with a Harvard onslaught, as the Crimson dictated the pace and controlled the puck for most of the first period.

“The first period, they took it to us really good,” Whittet said. “We came out not really expecting Harvard to come out with that kind of speed and intensity, which we probably should have.” Despite the heavy pressure, Brown played stout defense, allowing only 12 shots on goal, a respectable number and a significant advantage over the Bears’ meager seven. In the second period, the Bears adapted to Harvard’s style and managed to even the playing field. Lappin’s early goal set the tone for the period, though Bruno was outshot by an 8-5 margin. After Brown got off to a hot start in the third period, firing off seven shots in the first six minutes, the Crimson ratcheted up the intensity, not allowing another Brown shot on goal for the rest of the game. But the defense and Steel consistently weathered the storm, blanking Harvard. Steel said he was happy to get the shutout, a major milestone in any goalie’s career. “It feels good to get it out of the way,” he said, praising his teammates and describing the game as “a good team effort.” Robertson, the captain and Brown’s strongest blueliner, said the difference between Friday’s loss and Saturday’s win was “as simple as execution.” With two games to go in the regular season, the pressure is on the Bears to hold their position to qualify for home ice in the conference tournament. Bruno faces No. 3 Union (22-6-4, 16-3-1 ECAC) and Rensselaer (13-13-6, 7-8-5 ECAC) at home in the last weekend of the regular season play. “We need these wins,” Robertson said.

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Artist Valery Estabrook ’05 was awarded the Roberta Joslin Award for Excellence in Art for her innovative work. After graduation, she co-founded One Glass Video, a boutique production company. List 225 7:00 P.M. ZUMBA DANCE PARTY

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Fixing the adjunct trap Last week, faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago participated in a walkout to protest the poor conditions of the school’s adjunct professors. The tenuous status and unfair treatment of adjunct professors have been well documented but rarely have tenured or tenure-track faculty taken a stand to support their adjunct colleagues. We are heartened by this development and hopeful that improvements in adjuncts’ working conditions will continue. The poor treatment of adjunct professors by the academy is shameful, and greater steps need to be taken to ensure not only that all instructors are paid a living wage but also that those who work for years to get PhDs have a reasonable chance of finding tenure-track positions. Currently, the minimum allowable yearly salary for full-time adjuncts is $30,000. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week that 70 of the roughly 380 non-tenure track faculty members at UIC are paid this minimum level. Howard Bunsis, chair of the Collective Bargaining Congress of the American Association of University Professors, said in an AAUP press release that this salary is less than the living wage for Chicago. These instructors, of course, typically have PhDs that took years to attain. While PhD students may have received tuition waivers, many take on debt to live on small stipends and incur the opportunity cost of years outside the job market. When they receive their PhDs, they should have a reasonable shot at well-paying tenure-track positions, but such jobs are becoming ever more scarce. It is important to recognize that if colleges and universities are able to get away with hiring academics without paying them professional wages or providing any kind of job security, the market is likely oversaturated. Indeed, as it becomes the norm for those seeking tenure-track positions to send out dozens of applications in hopes of securing even a few interviews, we should ask ourselves why we don’t shut off or shrink the pipeline, to ensure that those who are accepted into PhD programs have a decent shot at securing an academic job. The answer, of course, is found in the money trail. While colleges and universities deputize graduate students to teach large introductory courses for near-minimum wage, they have no incentive to decrease the number of graduate students they accept each year. These incentives must be changed in order to protect those who are currently shouldering the burden — graduate students and adjuncts. This may mean that PhD programs with low job (either academic or industrial) placement rates would be penalized. Regardless, given the current status of adjunct employment, there are clearly too many of these programs flooding the market with graduates every year. As students make the decision of whether to pursue graduate education, they should have a reasonable expectation of finding academic jobs once they complete their degrees. Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board: its editors, Matt Brundage ’15 and Rachel Occhiogrosso ’14, and its members, Hannah Loewentheil ’14 and Thomas Nath ’16. Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.

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CORRECTION An Feb. 10 Herald article (“Lee ’00 combines art and craft at Offerman studio”) misquoted RH Lee ’00 and took another quote out of context. She said, “I basically started at Brown in visual art,” not video art. She also described her 10 years at the Exploratorium, not her three months at the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts, as “kinetic and interactive.” The Herald regrets the errors.

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Choose your news wisely ROBYN SUNDLEE opinions columnist

Bees in the honey! No doorknobs! Undrinkable water! Horrors! The Twittersphere and other media outlets have been erupting lately with reports from journalists regarding the conditions in Sochi. Olympic commentary leading up to the opening ceremony was dominated by strident complaints of horrific and icky hotels that were left unfinished as guests began to arrive. Should this be what fills our newsfeeds? Apart from their disdainful and malicious tone, mockeries like this obfuscate crucial information that needs to be spread. Ethnic strife, human rights violations, corruption and environmental hazards are rampant in Russia. Instead of paying attention to these ongoings, people are devoting broadcasts and articles to frivolities that do little to contribute to the public’s comprehension of what’s happening in the region. This is part of the insidiousness of the information age. Hyperbole is rampant. Initial tweets go viral and innocent observations escalate until you’re sure the world is ending. Buzzfeed recently published an article titled “Photographic proof that Sochi is a Godforsaken hellscape right now.” The post highlights all the inconveniences experienced by journalists since arriving and has over four million views. This type of reporting, while funny, provides an incredibly superficial and myopic perspective on events that are far too grave to be ignored. Why read about Putin’s attempts to revert Russia to an autocracy when you can

just snicker at pictures of him shirtless with wild animals? In modern journalism, there is suffocating pressure on journalists to come up with witty updates to please and recruit followers. Because anyone can report the news, there is unlimited competition for attention. This means appealing to lower denominators through snarkiness and sarcasm. Every post needs to be easily consumable and inviting. Who wants to read depressing longform about atrocious human rights abuses when you can just laugh at how backward and unprepared Russia is? It’s so much easier to gloss over nastier news

onstrate the impotency of the separatist movements in the region, when in fact the Caucasus is plagued by terror attacks. His hold on this mountainous, wild region is tenuous to say the least, but he still means to present the contrary to the international community. To maintain the facade that everything is swell, he placed gag orders on all Russian national journalists. Due to these restrictions, it is all the more essential that international journalists, who have more freedom, shed light on these situations. Instead of coming up with derisive quips about the toilet paper, perhaps they should

There is a happy medium to be found where we can have our Internet inanities while still being sentient of realities.

when there is something light and funny to read instead. It’s so much easier to slip into denial. We cannot afford to let this happen with Sochi. According to Brett Forest of National Geographic, “The Olympics have become a prism through which Russia amplifies its message to the world, while downplaying the assaults on humanity, the environment and the law.” It’s safe to assume that the success of the games is directly tied to Putin and the image that he has control over the Northern Caucasus. He chose this location precisely to dem-

tweet about the labor abuses that occurred during construction of the hotels. Or the forced relocation of Sochi residents without fair compensation. Or the discriminatory anti-gay legislation. Or the destroyed local drinking wells. Or the International Olympic Committee’s dicey record with human rights in general. Sochi deserves flak, but it deserves it for so many more reasons than the shoddy tourist venues. It is important that the global community understand the deeper context of what is happening in the region and the rest of Rus-

sia. This means receiving news beyond games updates and goofy Tweets from attendees. Modern media, with its constant information flow, invites a sort of triviality that is entertaining, light and happily distracting. There can be value in this type of communication. It’s a cultural link and creator of social norms that significantly influence how we interact. It’s a method of social organization as well, though more often than not its galvanizing powers are limited. Occasionally, stories have surfaced on the mass popular media sites like Buzzfeed or Reddit that are not watereddown, overstated news, but rather important and informative updates on the world. There is a happy medium to be found where we can have our Internet inanities while still being sentient of realities. We just need to ensure that we don’t allow fluff to obscure substance. The line between hard news and social media is blurring rapidly. With our increasing interconnectedness, we control what we see and what we pay attention to. It is up to us to determine what is imperative for others to know, because we have the power of bringing messages to everyone else’s attention right at our fingertips. There are unlimited sources from which to glean your news. Seek out the stories that make you irate, sorrowful and inspired, then pass them on. Learn about the world you live in on a more fundamental level — beyond memes and sound bites. Enjoy the Internet. Share the stories that make you laugh. But don’t allow the insubstantial to drown out that which is dire.

Robyn Sundlee ’16 sheepishly admits she is addicted to Imgur. She can be reached at robyn_sundlee@brown.edu.

Out and open on America’s biggest stage ANDREW FELDMAN opinions columnist

The National Football League has entered a new era — one that will feature an openly gay athlete. Michael Sam, the reigning Southeastern Conference defensive player of the year from the University of Missouri, recently came out to the public as gay. What makes this announcement momentous is the expectation that he will be selected in the upcoming NFL draft, making him the first openly gay NFL player. Sam’s announcement is groundbreaking. The last comparable obstacle that an athlete overcame was the professional baseball color barrier Jackie Robinson broke over 65 years ago. But it wasn’t just Robinson’s athletic prowess that led to his jersey being retired by every Major League Baseball team. Robinson entered professional baseball amid rampant racism and played a role in catalyzing the civil rights movement. Sam’s career will benefit from Robinson’s efforts, though he lives in a more progressive America. Most importantly, Sam won’t have to break this barrier alone. One of the most shocking aspects of Sam’s announcement is not that there will be an openly gay football player but that some fans and players are naive enough to believe he’s the first. Five players, including David

Kopay and Wade Davis, have come out after their careers were over. But statistics allude to the fact that many more gay athletes have played and currently are playing in the NFL. Different surveys suggest that between two and 10 percent of American males are gay. If there are approximately 1,700 athletes playing in the NFL, odds are that at least one or two players on each team are gay. These are players who might not be ready to come out or support Sam openly, but who will encourage Sam as he enters the league.

who was accepted as a member of the team after serving a jail sentence for his role in a dogfighting operation. The same person who spent almost two years in jail eventually became the team’s starting quarterback. Last year, Riley Cooper used the “N-word” in a derogatory, violent context and was accepted back as part of a predominantly black team as he played the best year of his career. What these individuals did was clearly wrong, but it just goes to show that organizations and players are more concerned about the team winning than about who

Just because Sam will not face the same level of hatred as Robinson does not mean that he will welcomed by the entire league with open arms. Chris Kluwe, the former Minnesota Vikings punter and LGBTQ activist, argues that homophobia was the reason he lost his job. Recently, through the Richie Incognito bullying scandal, it has become more apparent that the NFL still has a long road ahead toward becoming more accepting. The real acceptance that will have to be earned is that of the fans. Even Michael Sam’s father, Michael Sam,

Regardless of how well Michael Sam plays, his bravery will serve as an example for not only current players but future generations as well. Athletes in the league are used to playing with teammates they might not like. In a locker room of 53 individuals, it’s not as if every player has to be best friends and hang out with each other on weekends. All an athlete has to do is be a professional, which includes going to work every day and just treating teammates with respect. At the end of the day, having teammates who are talented and will help the team win is more important to players than anything else off the field. One doesn’t have to look any further than the Philadelphia Eagles’ locker room to see an example of players who might not have liked each other but were still able to work together. First, there was Michael Vick,

plays for the team. Sam has already been accepted in a locker room. At Missouri, his teammates have said they knew Sam was gay even before he came out to his team last August, before the football season began. It’s pretty hard to find a way that having an openly gay player in the locker room harmed the team’s season. Missouri went on to win the Cotton Bowl and end the season ranked as the Associated Press’ fifthbest team. Even more of a sign of the support he received from his teammates is that this news never reached the media. In this day and age, the fact that not a single player in the program let the news slip shows the tremendous respect he received.

Sr., made negative comments about his son playing football, so one has to expect some fans will do the same. He reportedly commented that he was an old-school “man-and-woman type of guy,” several news outlets reported. Sam Sr. argues that his comments were taken out of context, but the fact of the matter is that fans around the league will say similar things. The NFL can fine players as much as it wants if they make homophobic comments, but it can’t shield him from what fans will say. There also is a huge risk to Sam’s career. It is not as if a superstar such as Tom Brady or Peyton Manning is coming out. Sam is an unestablished player whose talents may not trans-

late to the NFL. Everything Sam does from now until the end of his career will be associated with a gay person’s ability to play football, and so for each missed tackle, some fan will attribute it to his sexual orientation. But the benefit of Sam’s announcement far outweighs any negatives that may come — he redefines stereotypes Americans hold of gay males. Not many people expect a 6-foot-2 inch, 240-pound black man from the Deep South to be gay. Regardless of how well he plays, his bravery will serve as an example for not only current players but future generations as well. Kids will finally have a role model in America’s largest sport who will show them it is okay to be open and honest with oneself. Recently, the Westboro Baptist Church went to Missouri to protest Sam. The protest was met by students standing together and blocking the church from entering the campus. The protest perfectly epitomizes what Sam is about to experience. He is going to face homophobia, but he will not be going at it alone. Come May, regardless of anyone’s opinion, Michael Sam will be on his way into the NFL.

Andrew Feldman ’15 does not consider sexual orientation when drafting players for his fantasy football team and can already be reached with suggestions for next year’s draft at andrew_feldman@brown.edu.

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Study explores neural correlates of working memory gating Brain imaging and behavioral tests show dual activation of prefrontal cortex, striatum By ANDREW JONES SENIOR STAFF WRITER

In a world in which people suffer from information overload, humans need to be able to mentally sift through data and decide what is relevant. Working memory, the capacity people have to retain information over short periods of time, provides the key to sorting through the heaps of mental data. University neuroscientists, working to better understand this process, have identified the underlying neural mechanism for choosing which memory information to act on. The research showed that parts of the lateral prefrontal cortex and the frontostriatal circuit were implicated in selecting information from working memory in a study published in the journal Neuron this month. When people are attending to information, they are presented with a “double-edged problem where you want to be able to selectively attend to information, and you want to hang onto that information over time,” said Christopher Chatham, a postdoctoral scholar and the paper’s lead author. Working memory, which helps to resolve this problem, can be understood with two complementary functional

models, input and output gating, Chatham said. Input gating allows a person to decide what is allowed into memory in the first place. Then, output gating allows the person to choose which bits of this information are relevant in a given moment of time and should be used to drive action. “We live in a world full of potential distractions, so input and output gating helps us filter through those,” Chatham said. The experiment focused on output gating, using behavioral and functional brain imaging versions of a task that tested participants’ ability to attend to multiple pieces of information. The participants were presented with a letter, digit or symbol and periodically asked to answer questions about what they had seen. In some trials they were told which object to attend to beforehand, and in others they were not, representing the functions of input and output gating respectively, said David Badre, an assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences and the paper’s senior author. The imaging data suggests that two separate areas of the brain — the prefrontal cortex and the striatum — are activated together to allow a person to recall answers and respond correctly, a function of output gating. The same neural circuit fires when selecting a motor response, Badre said. The study provides insight into a quickly growing domain of neuroscience, Justin Baker, instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, wrote in an

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University neuroscientists found that an area of the prefrontal cortex, highlighted above, was activated during experiments in which participants selected information from their working memories. email to The Herald. “The authors are exploring the principles governing the organization of the prefrontal cortex and how it exerts control over how other brain systems process signals, which is one of the great unanswered problems in human neurobiology,” Baker wrote. This research could also benefit the treatment of diseases, as it studies the

“site of impairments found in debilitating disorders affecting cognition like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder,” Baker added. Working memory is crucial to understanding humans’ cognitive functioning, because it supports lots of higher mental functions, such as planning, decision making and intelligence, Badre said. A person with deficient working memory

will especially struggle to complete goaldirected tasks, he added. “There’s something about (working memory capacity) that is critically predictive of intellectual abilities,” Chatham said. This study is part of ongoing research on working memory, Chatham said, adding that the team next plans to investigate the “causal factors” in working memory.

Researchers urge increased environmental science education Paper suggests emphasis on hands-on scientific exploration for students could yield economic benefits By EMMA HARRIS STAFF WRITER

For years, people have focused on improving and expanding science, technology, engineering and mathematics education because of the established link between a country’s ability to educate scientists and its economic well-being. But a new paper proposes that the economic benefits of STEM education may actually be driven by increased environmental literacy. Brian Donovan, a PhD candidate at Stanford University, and his former high school teacher, Dan Bisaccio, lecturer in education and director of science education, along with three other researchers, explored this unaddressed aspect of STEM education’s economic effects in a recent paper published in PLOS Biology. While there are many reasons to teach science, the benefit of students getting high test scores for the economy is the most predominant and is uncritically accepted, Donovan said.

But other factors of science education that contribute to economic growth are often neglected. For example, the environment and its natural resources contribute to economic growth, so increased emphasis on environmental education could have beneficial effects on the economy. Teaching students about the environment could help increase environmental awareness and welfare, potentially helping prevent degradation and increase economic productivity. The “argument for why we teach science ends up shaping what is taught to whom and for what purposes,” Donovan said. “If we’re going to motivate science curriculum instruction from an economic standpoint, then we need to develop curriculums and instruction that deal with our environmental problems in a substantial way.” Donovan said his research team’s goal is to “integrate science and standard school instruction to promote conservation and biodiversity.” The

best way to do this is through increasing “scientific opportunities to conduct authentic field work,” through which students can learn about data analysis, scientific argumentation and communication in an interdisciplinary way, he said. This approach is “learning science by doing science,” Bisaccio said. While not all kids will become scientists, it is important to get them involved in the practice of science as students, he said. But field work is not typical in the American school system, Donovan said, criticizing the current lecturebased style of science education. When students do conduct scientific research, they tend to focus only on data collection. “What people end up becoming are glorified research assistants,” he said, adding that they provide little analysis of the data or gave no thought to its implications. Getting kids to “do something meaningful with their work” was a focus of the paper, in which the authors laid out examples of interdisciplinary projects for K-12 teachers, along with

their objectives and rationales. “It’s a big change to science education and a daunting goal,” Donovan said, directing his proposal at three groups of people — ecologists and conservation biologists, the broader economic and science education community and science teachers. The paper aims to show ecologists and conservation biologists that collaboration with educators can have a benefit on their own work, Donovan said. Donovan said he hopes educators will pay more attention to environmental issues and teach them more effectively. The paper’s suggestions are closely linked to the Next Generation Science Standards, the state’s guidelines for science education that went into effect in May, said Bisaccio, a member of the Rhode Island State Leadership Team that decided to implement the standards. “I fell in love with them,” he said, as they aim to bring students out of the classroom and into the environment. Peter McLaren, science and technology specialist for the Rhode Island

Department of Education, was also on the team behind implementing the standards. The first of eight states and Washington, D.C., to adopt the NGSS, Rhode Island is now working on a four-year implementation plan, he said. “It’s about having students engaged in the practice of science and engineering, which is problem solving,” McLaren said, denouncing the use of worksheets in lieu of models, dialogue and questioning. Going past the investigation stage and onto the discussion and analysis is paramount, he said. “We don’t want kids thinking, ‘Why do I have to do this?’” Without this change, “we fail the kids on so many levels,” Donovan said. “They never develop a coherent understanding of scientific knowledge and how science works.” The paper aims to “spur a conversation,” Bisaccio said. “Plenty of people are probably going to disagree with it, and that’s the point,” Donovan said. Its goal was “to get people to discuss the issues a bit more from a new perspective.”