THE
BROWN DAILY HERALD vol. cxlix, no. 36
since 1891
FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2014
New group Facing anxiety at the laidback Ivy Winningest Navigating life with W. BASKETBALL
Legendary women’s basketball head coach led Bruno to over 300 wins in quarter-century at helm By CALEB MILLER SPORTS EDITOR
After compiling more wins, seasons and Ivy League championships than any women’s basketball coach in Brown history, Head Coach Jean Marie Burr announced her retirement Monday following the end of her 26th season. Burr hangs up her whistle with a career record of 324-379, including 12 winning seasons. The four-time Rhode Island Women’s Coach of the Year led the Bears to a 10-18 mark this season, good for sixth in the Ivy League. “I’ve been very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with quality people in every area of Brown » See BURR, page S3
Anxiety: facts and figures
By MOLLY SCHULSON SENIOR STAFF WRITER
“I just want you to know that if I die right now, I love you.” On the day before her chemistry final, Emily, a sophomore whose name has been changed to maintain confidentiality, sent this text message to her mother. Convinced she was having a heart attack, Emily rushed to Health Services. She was brought to a nurse’s station. Her vital signs were normal, and, according to the electrocardiogram results, so was her heart. A doctor told her what she was experiencing was a panic attack — something she had never felt before. Emily did not have another panic attack until she went home for winter break. Soon, she was having them up to five times a day. “There was no trigger whatsoever,” she said. “It just happened so abruptly, and I had no time to adjust.” “My left arm and shoulder area would be in pain,” Emily said. “The » See ANXIETY, page 4
FEATURE
By EMMA HARRIS
- Annually, 11% of college students are diagnosed with or treated for anxiety
STAFF WRITER
- Women are twice as likely as men to suffer from anxiety disorders like panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder and generalized anxiety disorder - Over 40% of college students report higher than average stress in the past year
Source: Anxiety and Depression Association of America, National Alliance on Mental Illness JILLIAN LANNEY / HERALD
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey discusses entrepreneurship, receives mixed response SENIOR STAFF WRITER
By EMMAJEAN HOLLEY SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Opera often connotes the stuffy Victorian era, the dismal Baroque era or the strict Italian aristocracy. Rarely is it a lens through which to explore meditation, sexual desire and anarchy. But in “Hydrogen Jukebox,” directed by Jonathan Adam ’16 and produced by Brown Opera Productions, this traditional genre becomes a caustic and countercultural mode of expression. The show sets the torrential texts of beat poet Allen Ginsberg, which were written from the 1950s through the 1980s, against Philip Glass’ minimalist musical score. In a nod to both artistic styles, a teardropshaped American flag hangs in the background as a simple yet powerful emblem of lost ideals. “Hydrogen Jukebox” does not
REVIEW
ARJUN NARAYEN / HERALD
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square, spoke to students on Thursday and gave them a virtual tour of Square headquarters. open, glass-paneled, modern aesthetic. The headquarters also boast a coffee shop that uses Square’s payment system. “We want to make sure we’re building a company that tests the
products we make so we experience our customers’ pain and joy,” Dorsey said. Dorsey compared the company to the Golden Gate Bridge, which » See DORSEY, page 2
Sports
“Resolved: The United States government should seek to try Edward Snowden for treason,” read the chalkboard at last week’s inaugural meeting of the Brown Policy Union. Modeled after the Oxford Union, the student-run BPU gives “just a little bit more formality” to a standard political conversation, said Zach Ingber ’15, one of the BPU’s five founders and a Herald opinions columnist. Ingber said he was initially exposed to Oxford-style debate two summers ago while working in London. He developed the idea to form the group this past summer, recruiting the help of Katherine Pollock ’16, Will Hale ’15, Diego Arene-Morley ’16 and Felix Tettey ’15, he said. “There aren’t venues for more formal » See BPU, page 3
‘Jukebox’ examines rebel youth in suburbia BOP’s newest opera combines Beat poetry with Philip Glass to convey anarchy, sexuality
By STEVEN MICHAEL
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Brown Policy Union seeks to promote regulated debate on contested issues in open setting
- Anxiety impacts over 40 million adults in the U.S. or 18% of the population
Square CEO touts venture as digital bridge
Using a video camera attached to a robot in San Francisco, Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter and the mobile payment company Square, took the audience at his Salomon 101 lecture yesterday on a tour of the headquarters of Square, where he serves as CEO. “What’re you doing?” Dorsey asked a pair of employees sitting in a booth. “Working,” they said. “Are you seriously doing this?” a security engineer asked. The improvised tour set the tone for Dorsey’s talk, the first Brown Lecture Board event of the semester. He spent much of his talk — entitled “Town Square with Jack” — discussing the virtues of Square, opening the floor early for questions in an approach reminiscent of the company’s weekly town hall meetings. All the rooms in Square’s vast headquarters are named for public squares, emphasizing the floor plan’s
starts policy debates for students
Commentary
Men’s basketball team hosts Holy Cross in the first round of the CIT Monday at 7 p.m.
Bre Hudgins ’14 earns Athlete of the Week for her clutch showing against No. 16 Princeton
Enriquez ’16: Social media neknominations are often examples of male hubris
Mirchandani ’15: Hiring based on junior year internships is unfair to international students
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coach Burr retires after 26 years
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follow a rigid storyline so much as it flips through the channels of postWorld War Two suburbia. The actors shift into new roles with each scene, and their characters search for new identities with every changing moment. But this takes on an ironic tone, as the performers remain constant. And though these scenes are initially disjointed, providing only cursory glimpses of personal narratives, the loose threads ultimately weave a tapestry of the disillusionment and agitation sweeping through post-war American society. The creative tension between Ginsberg and Glass is often playfully self-aware, such as in “Green Automobile,” during which taboo sexual desires burst out from the constraints of white picket fences. The characters begin in stiff heterosexual pairs, hollow smiles plastered on their faces as they sing sexually-explicit lyrics to a bright, almost hymnal tune, before rearranging to face their true objects of desire in a passionate and erotic display. As the ensemble struggles to break free from the homogenizing yokes of » See JUKEBOX, page 2 t o d ay
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