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FOOTBALL

Error-prone Bears drop opener to Hoyas Four turnovers in enemy territory undercut Bruno offense, which scores just three points on 303 yards

have a lot of work to do.”

“We made some mistakes that teams make in their first game,” said quarterback Marcus Fuller ’15.

Coming into the game, coaches and players emphasized the importance of the team — especially the offense — learning to play together. The absence of that cohesion was clear this weekend, as the offense failed to score a touchdown, turned the ball over four times and was called for four penalties, all in the first half.

“You can’t have (four) turnovers,” Giovacchini said.

The most successful member of the offense was the one player with the most experience from last season. Andrew Coke ’16, who rushed for 292 yards last season, was not expected to start but received 13 carries, eight more than presumptive starter Brian Strachan ’15. He » See FOOTBALL, page 9

By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Penalties and turnovers set the tone Saturday for the football team, which lost its season opener to Georgetown University by a 17-3 margin.

The Bears (0-1) had hammered the Hoyas (2-2) in Brown’s first game of 2013, rolling to a 45-7 win. But with 18 new starters, including all 11 on offense, Bruno had some kinks to work out in this year’s faceoff with Georgetown.

“It definitely wasn’t what we were hoping for,” said linebacker and co-captain Dan Giovacchini ’15, who described the game as an “indicator that we still

R.I. students travel to New York for People’s Climate March, pushing climate change solutions

By ANDREW JONES SENIOR STAFF WRITER

When Dawn King, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies, asked her class how many students were planning to attend this weekend’s People’s Climate March in New York, the response “inspired” her, she said.

Sixty percent of her class was planning to attend ­­­— an unprecedented level of student involvement in an environmental protest in her experience, she added.

Search for new leader to begin immediately, with acting director serving on search committee

SCIENCE & RESEARCH

By CAROLINE KELLY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Former Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service Roger Nozaki MAT’89 has resigned and will remain in his role as a policy adviser at the U.S. Department of Education permanently, wrote Dean of the College Maud Mandel in an email to The Herald Friday.

Kate Trimble, former deputy director of the center, will continue serving as acting director until the University names Nozaki’s successor, Mandel said in an interview.

The search for a new director will begin immediately, she added.

Trimble will not apply for the permanent director position and will instead serve on the search committee, which Mandel will chair and which will include members of the Office of the Dean of the College, faculty members, students and representatives from the Office of Institutional Diversity. It will be a national search to ensure a strong range of applicants, Mandel said.

Administrators hope to interview semifinalists within the next few months and select a final candidate in » See SWEARER, page 2

By ISOBEL HECK SCIENCE & RESEARCH EDITOR

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The Bears gained a solid 88 yards on the ground, but their total was dwarfed by the Hoyas’ 250 rushing yards and one rushing touchdown.

The march was the largest in history.

More than 310,000 marched in New York while nearly 3,000 simultaneous marches took place globally.

Hundreds of students from Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Rhode Island, as well as residents from throughout the state, attended the march Sunday, which protested the destructiveness of climate change and urged politicians to take action against it. The bus tickets available from Providence and Kingston completely sold out, said Ruby Goldberg ’17, who was part of a small group of students who helped organize transportation to the march.

The atmosphere of the march was “incredible” with a sense of camaraderie among the numerous groups of people involved, said Marguerite Suozzo-Gole ’15.5.

The broad range of groups and people

involved with the march shows that climate change is now seen as more than an environmental issue, said Professor of Sociology J. Timmons Roberts. It now concerns labor groups, religious organizations, businesses, students, families and beyond, he added. Roberts attended the march with his 11-year-old daughter.

Climate change’s deleterious effects are becoming more visible to the public, Suozzo-Gole said, and that visibility has garnered a wide range of activists.

Environmental movements no longer solely involve environmental activists but also encompass other cross-sections of society, she added.

“This year there’s a sense of urgency given that average, on-the-ground citizens are starting to see the effects of climate change in their backyards,” she added.

The People’s Climate March coincides » See MARCH, page 3

Professor of Neuroscience Diane Lipscombe will become interim director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science Jan. 1, when current director John Donoghue, professor of neuroscience, embarks on a year-long sabbatical in Switzerland, Provost Vicki Colvin and Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Jack Elias announced Friday.

Lipscombe’s 24 years at Brown have been “remarkable,” Colvin and Elias wrote in the announcement. For each of the last 20 years, Lipscombe has received funding from the National Institutes of Health for her research. She has also been recognized with awards such as the Graduate School’s Faculty Award for Advising and Mentoring in 2010 and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate and Postdoctoral Teaching and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences in 2013, among others, they wrote.

Lipscombe began her career at Brown in 1990 and joined the Department of Neuroscience in 1993, after Donoghue formed it. Lipscombe was one of Donoghue’s first hires for the new department, she told The Herald, adding that they have always worked very well together. “I admire him tremendously, and I admire what he’s built,” she said.

She was an “obvious” choice for the position throughout the » See DIRECTOR, page 3

Better World inspires change by innovation Tech and design interact at A Better World by Design conference’s lectures and workshops

By ALEKSANDRA LIFSHITS STAFF WRITER

Colorful balloons dotted campus this weekend, guiding participants in the seventh annual A Better World by Design, a three-day conference at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design that aims to bring together those interested in making an influence on the world.

Known for short as “ABWxD,” the conference drew 817 volunteers and presenters, said Anna Plumlee ’15, chair of the conference’s planning committee.

According to A Better World by

Design’s website, the conference “is an immersive experience that deepens our understanding of the power of design, technology and enterprise to engage our communities and sustain our environment.”

The conference encompassed many fields of study and included a host of lectures, panels, workshops, exhibitions, tours and social events. Most of the attendees were recent graduates or professionals looking to change career paths, Plumlee said.

Lisa Absher, creative director of the advertising and design firm Absher Design Group, flew from Florida to attend the conference, hoping to find inspiration to start a design project with a positive social impact. “I want to bring something from this conference back to » See DESIGN, page 2

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“Design is finding new ways of looking at old problems,” said Katharina Goetzeler ’16 of the conference, whose theme was “Wayfinding.”

Commentary

Completing its trip to Florida, men’s soccer draws against Florida Gulf Coast

Women’s soccer defeats UMass at home but falls at UConn to split the weekend

Sweren ’15: Prioritize history over efficiency in campus renovations

Grapengeter-Rudnick ’17: Preprofessionalism at colleges is a product of larger environment

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Writing Fellows to pilot new program for medical students National search for new Writing Center director narrows to four candidates

By EMMA HARRIS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

In an effort to expand its offerings for medical students, the Writing Center is designing an extension of the Writing Fellows program that will reside at the Alpert Medical School, said Kathleen McSharry, associate dean of the College for writing and curriculum.

The program is slated to begin next academic year.

The development of the initiative comes at a time of change for the center after the sudden departure of Douglas Brown, former director of the Writing Center and Writing Fellows program, in May. Multiple administrators and writing fellows declined to comment on the reasons for his exit, and Brown could not be reached for comment.

Despite his absence, student writing support services have operated “seamlessly” while a committee searches for his replacement, McSharry said.

As both the chair of the search committee and the interim instructor of the Writing Fellows course — a mandatory English class for new writing fellows that was previously taught

by Brown — McSharry has temporarily

» SWEARER, from page 1 the spring, Mandel said. If the search stays on schedule, the new director will assume the post July 1.

“We have a strong and capable team at Swearer that, along with Dean Mandel’s leadership, is providing great continuity to our work,” Trimble wrote in an email to The Herald.

“Everyone is working hard to deliver high-quality programming and serve Brown students well with excellent advising and meaningful community engagement opportunities.”

Mandel described the importance of balancing the desire to fill the position quickly with the need to give the search the attention it deserves, heightened by the center’s relevance to President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan. “The Swearer Center is one integral part of that whole larger plan because of its focus on engaged scholarship, so we want to have a good leader in that position,” she said.

The position will require both practical leadership abilities and an understanding of the future of academic engagement in service, Mandel said, adding that an ideal candidate will have “a proven track record of providing high-level inspirational and accessible organizational leadership and management” and “a strong working knowledge of significant developments and trends in higher education around civic engagement,

and unofficially stepped in as “director,” said Dean of the College Maud Mandel. Janet Peters, program coordinator for the Writing Center, still manages its logistical and administrative aspects, Mandel added.

“We are feeling very strongly positive about the search for the new director,” McSharry said. After posting the job vacancy in June and beginning to review applications in early August, the search committee has narrowed its national search down to four candidates, she said, adding that two of the candidates have already interviewed, while the other two will by early October.

The committee — which comprises a Department of English faculty member, two deans, a graduate student writing associate, an undergraduate writing fellow, Peters and McSharry — intends to make an offer to one of the candidates after the interview process concludes, McSharry said. “The earliest the new director would start would be January, but that is a flexible time,” she said. “We want the right person, and we will wait for them.”

“We’re trying to find someone confident in training a broad range of writers,” Mandel said.

But administrators have not waited to name Brown’s successor before planning a large expansion of the program, McSharry said. The program currently has 64 undergraduate fellows working with 17 classes across a variety of public service and experiential education.”

As the search advances, the Swearer Center’s goals will focus on existing projects such as the TRI-Lab and the Engaged Scholars program. “Roger charted an ambitious course for the center during his time as director and built a strong foundation,” Trimble wrote, adding that she is “focused on maintaining our momentum and progress toward those goals.”

Though four departments currently offer courses in the Engaged Scholars program, Mandel said she hopes “that the next director of the Swearer Center will develop this kind of program throughout the University and continue to develop and build the vision of engaged scholarship.”

Alan Harlam, the Swearer Center’s director of social entrepreneurship, said the center is dedicated to making its services and programs available to as many students as possible and has identified health and the environment as areas with high student demand that the center has not tapped into.

“We’ve got a lot of students that are interested in working in these areas, there are many strong community partners who would be interested in working with Brown, and I see a great opportunity for us to serve both of those needs,” he said.

Nozaki was not immediately available for comment.

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The Writing Center continues to grow its student services during the search process for a new director, with a planned expansion to the Alpert Medical School slated to begin next academic year. departments and will soon institute a sister program at the Med School through which medical students will be trained as fellows to work with their peers, mimicking the dynamic of the undergraduate program.

“Why didn’t anyone think of this before?” said Edward Feller, clinical professor of medicine, who contacted McSharry about growing the Writing Fellows program. “There is a curricular and noncurricular need for Brown’s medical students to improve their writing. … We need an incubator for increased scholarly and medical

writing productivity.”

Citing the College’s Writing Fellows program as a “sustainable model,” Feller said a program at the Med School would both better the research culture and build a sustainable infrastructure for present and future students to use.

The new program will allow for collaboration and a “culture of writing scholarship,” he added.

Over the next few months, Feller, McSharry and current writing fellows will be working to revise the course syllabus to accommodate medical writing. “Medical students do projects

and non-curricular work that is vital to the advancement of science and their careers. This is different than the coursework that undergraduates do,” Feller said. But even with the changes needed, “this is moving rapidly.”

The Writing Center also hopes to open a satellite office close to the athletic complex eventually, Mandel said.

Additionally, McSharry said she was considering a possible online Writing Center resource for students studying abroad and traveling athletes, but both of these possibilities will take a backseat to the Med School pilot program.

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The seventh annual A Better World by Design conference proposed technology- and design-related solutions to real-world problems, such as revitalizing public spaces and the significance of American-made products.

» DESIGN, from page 1 my community,” she said.

The attendees were not limited to those interested in working in design and technology. Katharina Goetzeler ’16, an economics and philosophy concentrator, attended the conference because she was interested in the broad applications of design. “Design is finding new ways of looking at old problems,” she said.

This year’s conference differed from those of the two previous years because the planning committee “embraced a fresh and energetic vibe, staying away from the traditional way of doing a conference,” Plumlee said. This approach led to the installation of an inflatable lounge in front of the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts and the introduction of more alternative content, such as documentary screenings and mini-exhibits, she added.

The theme of this year’s conference was “Wayfinding,” which the conference’s program described as “developing and reading signs, navigating new terrain and processing the unfamiliar.”

The presenters who explored this theme hailed from many different states and countries, including Canada and the Netherlands, according to the program.

Melissa Mongiat and Eva Schinding, two presenters from Canada, gave a talk about a design studio that Mongiat cofounded called Daily tous les jours. In their lecture, they discussed the meaning of public spaces and how design can influence the collective experience.

Mongiat and Schinding highlighted their work on a project called “21 Swings,” which installs swings in public spaces. These swings play music notes corresponding to how high individuals swing and reward collaboration, since when individuals synchronize their swinging, a melody rather than a single

note plays, Schinding said. The swings successfully bring people to the space and enable new relationships to form between neighbors, Mongiat said.

A panel called “Made in America” investigated the benefits and challenges of making products in the United States. The presenters discussed whether producing in this country is a trend or whether it is becoming popular for intellectual property reasons.

Matt Cavallaro, owner and principal of Nest Homeware, a home goods company in Providence, said in his presentation at the panel that producing in America has allowed him “to tell a story that is honest about the product.”

Rachel Haberstroh ’15, the conference’s public relations coordinator, said she thinks other talks and lectures at Brown and RISD often have little impact on attendees’ future. “But my experience at ABWxD made me want to go out and do something,” she said.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

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Sex, bullying linked in girls, study suggests Sexually active high school girls more likely to be bullied than boys in same category

By KATE TALERICO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The sexual double standard — the concept that women are more highly criticized for sexual activity than men are — may play a role in bullying victimization among high school girls, according to a new study led by a team of University researchers.

“Sexually active girls have 2.27 times the odds of being bullied compared to boys who are also sexually active,” said Hailee Dunn, the manager of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and lead author of the study. The study was co-authored by three other Brown researchers and was released in this month’s issue of the journal Women’s Health Issues.

Girls who have engaged in sexual intercourse are almost twice as likely to be bullied, Dunn said. “If you look at boys, it’s not as significant.”

Girls who became sexually active at younger ages were found to be more prone to bullying than those who were not sexually active until they were older.

This same correlation does not exist with boys, “so that may be indicative of some sort of sexual double standard,” Dunn said.

In regard to use of condoms and other forms of contraception, there are no significant gender differences, according to the study.

From this finding, the researchers “interpreted that maybe our health education programs are working,” Dunn said. “There is this sort of stigma if you’re not using a form of protection that applies to both boys and girls.”

Both boys and girls who had not used condoms reported higher rates of bullying than those who had.

The study analyzed the results of 13,065 high school boys and girls who took the Youth Risk Behavior Survey in 2011, Dunn said.

In the YRBS, students were asked two questions about bullying, and those who answered yes to at least one of the questions were classified as having been bullied.

Dunn, who comes from a background in psychology, sociology and women’s studies, was looking to “synthesize (her) different experiences” and apply a feminist theoretical framework to her previous work.

Dunn said she was inspired to do the study when she heard about the 2012 Steubenville rape case, in which a

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high school girl was sexually assaulted in the Ohio town and the resulting controversy garnered national attention. She said she was shocked by the way the media covered the case, “as if there was more sympathy towards the two football players” than the girl who was raped.

“I had read an article about the backlash that this girl had gotten through social media networks, not just from boys but from girls, too. It showed how we continue to enforce this rape culture,” Dunn said.

“I’m interested in how we’re implicitly motivated by norms surrounding masculinity and femininity. I took that concept and applied it to looking at the association between sexual engagement and bullying,” she added. “In that instant, to me it seemed that the cultural norms around rape culture facilitated this violence.”

Because the study is correlational, Dunn said that researchers can conclude only that these two variables are related, not which one might lead to the other. For example, “it’s possible that girls who are bullied then go out and engage in promiscuous behavior,” Dunn said.

One of Dunn’s main critiques of the study was that it only looks at survey results from one year. In a second, related paper, which is being submitted to journals for review, Dunn said, she looked at combined Rhode Island sample YRBS data from 2009, 2011 and 2013.

“We’re looking to see if the sexual double standard applies to heterosexual youth and sexual minorities in the same way,” Dunn said. “We weren’t able to do that in this study because in the national level they don’t ask about

sexual orientation, so we weren’t able to control for that.”

Mary Crawford, professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, led a study in 2003 that looked at the sexual double standard in college-aged students and found less convincing evidence of its existence.

“The sexual double standard is still with us but difficult to pin down in research because it is not ‘cool’ to acknowledge it. Students want to present themselves as sexually sophisticated, and may deny views that seem dated,” Crawford said. “This is why the double standard shows up in subtle measures … more than direct ones.”

But Dunn said Crawford’s contradictory findings may have resulted because “when you engage in sexual intercourse in college, it’s probably a less deviant behavior than if you were to engage in it in high school, because it’s a first time for kids.”

“Maybe there’s not much of an emphasis on the sexual double standard as we get older, but it seems like it could definitely be more prominent when kids are younger,” Dunn said.

“Especially from eighth grade to ninth grade, it’s where we start to develop our identities. I think that’s where we experience more hyper-masculinity or hyper-femininity because we’re trying to figure out who we are. We need to draw attention to the implicit things that motivate us.”

Dunn pointed out that many high school curricula lack gender studies and human rights programs.

Bullying intervention is a challenging topic to address, but Dunn said “we need to tackle the underlying causes so that kids don’t treat each other that way.”

» MARCH, from page 1 with the United Nations Climate Summit on Tuesday, where world leaders will discuss plans to combat climate change.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who also participated in the march, called the U.N. summit, which aims to raise global awareness of climate change.

Many activists hope this march will provide momentum going into the 2015 Climate Change Conference in Paris, where the U.N. will produce new climate legislation, Timmons said. One of the march’s primary goals was to put pressure on world leaders to write and implement legislation that curbs some of the factors causing climate change, such as carbon emissions, he added.

“Brown students are there to tell the world that this is an issue we have to take seriously, and world leaders will be there to hear it,” Timmons said.

The United States had virtually no organized climate change movements until the creation of 350.org in 2008, Timmons said. Previously, environmental activism groups were mostly dedicated to other issues, such as wilderness preservation.

This weekend’s march symbolizes a major departure from the traditional environmental activism in that it is solely dedicated to climate change.

350.org, created by Bill McKibben, has been a vital force in organizing some of the most significant movements over the past few years, including last year’s Keystone XL pipeline protest, Timmons said. The organization’s decentralized structure enables everyday people, especially students, to get involved and create their own agendas as well, he added.

“Issue framing” contributed a great

» DIRECTOR, from page 1 decision-making process due to her past involvement in leadership roles, Donoghue said. For example, she played an extensive role in the formation of the BIBS Center for Neurobiology of Cells and Circuits and has “clearly demonstrated that she has strong leadership skills,” he added.

Lipscombe said she and Donoghue plan to work together up until January and will remain in close contact throughout his sabbatical. “This ability to dovetail with John, to overlap with him, is really smart,” she said.

During this period, Lipscombe will accompany Donoghue to all of his meetings, and Donoghue will directly answer any questions that Lipscombe has to ensure a “smooth transition,” Donoghue said. This period will also allow Lipscombe the opportunity to meet all the people she needs to know, which is essential due to BIBS’ interdisciplinary nature, Donoghue said.

But while Lipscombe said she hopes

deal to the march’s success, Timmons said, adding that the organizers downplayed environmental arguments and emphasized moral and economic arguments.

The march signifies a generational divide on environmental issues, King said. As the next crop of voters, today’s youth have taken on climate change fullthrottle by dealing with it as a scientific issue, rather than a partisan matter, she added. Now that the public is largely convinced that climate change is a real phenomenon, the next step is to publicize viable solutions, she said.

Brown students are the optimal activists for the movement because they are interdisciplinary by nature, King said.

Students attending the march understand all aspects of the problem, from environmental justice to the science behind climate change, she added.

This weekend’s march could be the “tipping point” in the movement against climate change, as it could make U.S. politicians understand the gravity of the situation, King said. College students could provide critical impetus at a time when the world is starting to see some of the worst effects of climate change, such as climate refugees, she added.

One of the most salient parts of the march was the moment of silence held for victims of climate change, said Suozzo-Gole. Following the silence, alarms and bells rang out in the city, symbolizing the ringing alarm for action on climate change, she added.

The student organizers of the buses to the march will hold a meeting this week to debrief about the protest and to discuss taking action in the future, Suozzo-Gole said. to learn from Donoghue’s experience over the next few months, she is also excited to bring “fresh ideas” to the institute. Since her academic work differs from that of Donoghue’s, Lipscombe said she hopes to continue strengthening certain areas of study at the institute with which Donoghue has not been as involved.

“This is a very, very, very successful institute, but it can be even more successful,” she said.

The change will “bring new eyes to the whole BIBS mission,” Donoghue said, calling it “extremely healthy” for the institute. Many similar institutions purposefully restructure leadership for this reason, he added, noting that “renewal is a good thing.”

Lipscombe said she looks forward to using the skills she has developed throughout her career to work with the variety of centers and people associated with BIBS. “For me, I can’t think actually for a better thing to do right now at Brown,” she said.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

RUGBY

66-point blowout sends Bruno to 2-0

Undefeated rugby squad obliterates Penn in second Ivy game, aims to dominate conference

By LAINIE ROWLAND SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The rugby team notched its second win of the season this weekend with a commanding 76-10 win over Penn.

The Bears (2-0) completely overwhelmed the Quakers (1-1) in Philadelphia, taking offensive control that resulted in a lopsided win.

“Our ultimate goal is to win Ivy and (American College Rugby Association) championships, … but in order to get there we’re taking it one step at a time,” said Amber Reano ’16, the team’s scrum half.

Bruno’s win over Penn was a convincing step toward that goal.

Co-captain Oksana Goretaya ’17 kicked off Bruno’s scoring spree with a speedy run to score the first try of the game. Sofia Rudin ’17 successfully converted to give Brown an early 7-0 lead. After a Penn possession, a turnover gave Goretaya another chance to score.

It was deja vu when Rudin completed the repeat with a conversion to give the Bears a 14-0 lead.

Penn responded with a convincing push to the 20-yard line, but the Bears’ defense recovered in time to force the Quakers back to the 50-yard line. Brown got on the scoreboard once again soon after, as Kebbeh Darpolor ’16 assisted

Saskia Morgan ’16 for Bruno’s third try of the game. Rudin extended her perfect conversion streak to give Brown a 21-0 lead.

The Quakers fought back as the Bears racked up a few penalties in dangerous defensive territory. Penn capitalized on the penalties and scored its first try of the game, though it was unable to convert, cutting Brown’s lead to 21-5.

But Goretaya refused to let the Quakers catch up, stealing an errant throw and passing to Morgan for a try. Morgan soon scored once more to make it backto-back tries. Another conversion from Rudin put the Bears up 33-5.

Messy play from both teams followed Morgan’s try, as the Quakers gave up one turnover and the Bears gave up two and notched penalties. The half ended with the Bears up 33-5.

“For the first half, we struggled a little bit with our defense and tackling,” Reano said. “We figured out that their fly half and outside center weren’t playing as well,” which helped Bruno’s offense control the game better in the second half, she added.

Kathryn Graves ’15 opened the second with another try for the Bears, extending Bruno’s lead to 38-5 and setting the tone for the next 40 minutes.

“There was constant communication and a lot of trust from each other” in the second half, Reano said. “We made sure that we knew what each other wanted.”

As scrum half, Reano is responsible for communication with the fly half, Rudin, in order to coordinate the front and the back. “We have to see the holes and

know when to get (the ball) where.”

Morgan took advantage of the Bears’ coordination and communication by retrieving a kick and utilizing her impressive speed to run the ball down the center and score her third try of the game. The try and the following conversion gave Brown a 45-5 lead. Once again, though, Morgan would not stop with just one try. The Goretaya-Morgan duo came together again to push the Bears to the 50-point mark.

At this point, neither Brown nor Morgan could be stopped. Morgan teamed up with Jasmine McAdams ’16, feeding her a pass that would become another try. A successful conversion gave the Bears a 57-5 lead. Soon after, the dangerous pair of Goretaya and Morgan matched up again for Morgan’s fifth try of the game, putting the Bears up 62-5.

Each team notched a few more penalties before the Quakers pushed their way toward Brown’s try zone to score their second try of the game and narrow Bruno’s lead to 62-10. But the Bears continued full steam ahead, scoring twice more in the last minutes of play: Goretaya and Morgan teamed up for two more tries, and two successful conversions from Rudin extended the Bears’ lead to a final score of 76-10.

“In the second half, … we passed to the forwards to slow the ball down and make positive yardage at a good pace,” Reano said.

The squad takes on a historically strong Dartmouth team Saturday in its home opener.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Sports Roundup

BY CALEB MILLER, SPORTS EDITOR

Field hockey

It was a forgettable start to the weekend and conference play for the field hockey team when the squad was whipped 4-0 Saturday at Columbia. But Bruno rallied to pick up a dramatic, overtime win Sunday over Sacred Heart University.

Both Brown (4-1, 0-1 Ivy) and Columbia (4-2, 1-0) entered the Ivy opener with undefeated 3-0 records, and the game remained close for the first half. Zoe Blake got the Lions on the board in the eighth minute, and Columbia fired off seven first-half shots to Brown’s three, but Bruno goalie Shannon McSweeney ’15 kept the Bears close with four saves.

Unfortunately for Bruno, McSweeney couldn’t hold off the potent Lion offense forever, and the home team tallied goals in the 44th, 53rd and 64th minutes, pushing the lead to a resounding 4-0.

Returning home for another non-conference game against Sacred Heart (4-4) was just what the Bears needed. The first goal didn’t come until 49 minutes into play, when Alexis Miller ’16 finished off a penalty corner with her second goal of the year. The Big Red’s Olivia Volpe answered quickly by firing home the equalizer off an assist from Christine Mace.

The 1-1 score held into extra time, but Lucy Green ’17 took advantage of a penalty stroke to decide the game. It was the sophomore’s first goal of the season and propelled the Bears to 4-0 out of conference.

Men’s water polo

The men’s water polo team impressed its home crowd this weekend with three wins in convincing fashion. The Bears (9-3, 3-0 CWPA) made quick work of Iona College and Fordham University Saturday, and while their Sunday battle with Saint Francis University proved to be the closest margin, the match still concluded with a comfortable 10-6 Bruno victory.

The weekend was also the first taste of conference play for the Bears, undoubtedly instilling confidence as they go for a CWPA North Division crown.

Matty Gallas ’16 set the tone for the team with two scores in the opening quarter against Iona (1-4, 1-1). Henry Fox ’15, the squad’s leading scorer, lived up to his record against the Gaels, amassing a hat trick in the 16-11 decision. Iona hung tight in the first half and went into the break tied 7-7, but the Bears tightened the defense in the third quarter, allowing just one goal and swinging the game in their favor.

The scoring came by committee against Fordham (7-3, 1-1), with nine different Bears scoring as part of a 12-goal team effort. But the game was won on the pool’s defensive end, where a stout Bruno performance never allowed the Rams more than two goals in a quarter.

St. Francis (2-6, 1-1) appeared to have Brown’s number early on and jumped to a 3-1 lead after the first quarter. But Bruno evened the low-scoring affair at three by halftime and used a 4-1 fourth-quarter advantage to pull away from the Red Flash. Yahel Murvitz-Lahav ’17 continued his impressive sophomore campaign with three goals to lead the team, his second hat trick of the weekend.

Volleyball

The University of New Hampshire and New Mexico State University dealt the volleyball team consecutive losses to open the UNH Holly Young Invitational, but the Bears (4-7) were ready for the University of Rhode Island in the final match of the weekend, outlasting the Rams 3-1.

It has been a challenging non-conference slate for Bruno early in the season, and UNH (6-9) continued this trend. Despite looking dominant in a 25-15 first-set win, the squad dropped the next three sets of the opening match. Shannon Frost ’16 posted an impressive line — 13 kills and 13 digs — in the losing effort. Maddie Lord ’15 led all players with 15 kills.

New Mexico State (7-5) similarly controlled the Bears, never allowing them to touch 20 points in the three-set sweep. Each of Bruno’s starters notched multiple kills, but Lord’s six were the most any player could amass.

After the Bears had made quick work of Providence College on Sept.

10, a battle with URI (9-4) meant supremacy in the Ocean State was on the line. Payton Smith ’17, whose .405 hitting percentage has topped Bruno attackers this year, led the charge with 15 kills and five blocks.

Lord and Frost complemented Smith at the net with 13 and 11 kills, respectively, while Maryl Vanden Bos ’15 and Sarah Lucenti ’17 were a dynamic assist duo, combining for 39 helpers. Together, these stats led to a decisive 3-1 Bruno victory.

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“Having grass and having conversations can really spark street life and activity,” said Martina Haggerty, a principal planner with the city’s long-range planning department.

Park(ing) Day shows value of green space

Asphalt parking spaces take on new look as businesses put on displays with animals, activities

By EMMA JERZYK SENIOR STAFF WRITER

It was not cars, trucks and motorcycles but baby goats, peace flags and beanbags filling parking spots around Providence Friday as part of the reimagining of urban space during the city’s second annual celebration of Park(ing) Day. Organizers of Park(ing) Day have designated the third Friday in September as an occasion for community businesses and local artists around the world to take over public parking spots to raise awareness of the need for more community green space.

Local parking space transformations occured in downtown Providence, in Fox Point and on the West and East Sides, and a protected bike lane on Broadway Street was also converted.

The original Park(ing) Day emerged in 2005 when a group of artists from Rebar, a San Francisco design studio that recently closed, converted a metered parking space into a public park complete with its own sod, bench and landscaping for two hours at a time, said Kurt Van Dexter, an organizer of the Providence event.

When other cities began to express interest in replicating the idea,

Rebar decided to promote it as an open-source project, according to the organization’s website. Nine years later, Park(ing) Day is celebrated in over a hundred cities worldwide, with Providence joining in last year.

Unlike the original undertaking in San Francisco, in which organizers reserved the spot by feeding a parking meter, Park(ing) Day in Providence is financed by organizations paying for advertisements and permits, Van Dexter said.

Each participating business designs its own parklet: The Lincoln School created a storytelling space, where passersby could toss beanbags into a bucket to win a free book, said Kate Lenz, director of the nonprofit Rhode Island Center for the Book.

The Providence branch of Zipcar transformed its own parking spot into a green space with benches and snacks. “We wanted to give people a few snacks, just so they could kick back a little, (and) try to keep it as green as possible,” said Jason Araya, brand ambassador for Zipcar Providence.

NAIL Communications, a Providence-based advertising agency, brought in baby goats and miniature pigs for its parklet.

Nonprofits and governmental groups also took part in the day. The city planning department used its space to promote the Providence Streetcar project, which received $13 million in TIGER grants — a federal fund program for infrastructure initiatives — last week, said Martina

Haggerty, a principal planner with the long range planning department.

“It’s a great day to show what parking spots can be used for when they’re not parking spots,” Haggerty said.

“Having grass and having conversations can really spark street life and activity.”

The Groden Center Greenhouse, a vocational site for individuals with autism and related disabilities, decorated its parklet on Broadway Street with plants grown by clients, said Teresa Comstock, greenhouse coordinator.

Peace flags created by Rhode Island residents surrounded the Peace Flag Project parklet to promote September as a month commemorating peace in conjunction with the United Nations’ Peace Day on Sunday.

The flags are “expressions of a better world,” said Ginny Fox, founder of the Peace Flag Project. Park(ing) Day fits in with the idea of nonviolence, Fox said, adding that it’s about “bringing people together in ways that they can meet and enjoy one another.”

Most people who stopped by the parklets were previously unaware of Park(ing) Day, several organizers said. “Even though this is the second year, … it’s still new to them,” Van Dexter said.

Though some people complained that the day leaves the city with fewer parking spots, “with the amount of parking spaces in the city, this is negligible,” Van Dexter said. “You take asphalt and turn it into a community space for a day. Why not?”

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

TENNIS

First-years find success in men’s and women’s tournaments Yeoh ’18 wins draw at Princeton, while Stearns ’18 and Benotto ’18 reach semifinals of their groups

By GEORGE SANCHEZ SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Both the men’s and the women’s tennis teams saw action in individual tournaments this weekend, with matches featuring victories from newcomers and veterans alike. The men’s team traveled to Princeton to compete in the Ivy Plus Tournament, while the women hosted the Brown Invitational in their first tournament of the season.

The men’s play at the Ivy Plus Tournament brought strong performances from many of the team’s first-years.

Peter Tarwid ’18 reached the quarterfinals of the tournament’s Jersey Draw,

one of the tournament’s many pools, where he lost in a three-set match to Columbia’s Daniel Grunberger. Later, Brandon Yeoh ’18 went on to defeat Grunberger in the finals of the Jersey Draw.

“Brandon had an exceptional performance. … He beat several other players from Harvard and Yale,” said Justin To ’15.5. “All around, the freshmen showed great potential this tournament.”

In doubles competition play, To and Yeoh competed together and defeated Stefan Menichella and Tom Hill of Pepperdine University in the round of 32, before falling to Billy Pecor and

Alex Lawson of the University of Notre Dame in the round of 16.

With the departure of Daniel Hirschberg ’15 and Will Spector ’15, as well as the arrival of new Head Coach Bryan Koniecko, there has been a very different dynamic on the squad.

“We’re still at the start of the season, but (this season) appears much more promising,” To said. “Coaching and training have been great so far, and we’re all looking forward to stepping it up in the spring. … Results will come.”

The women’s tennis team kicked off its season on College Hill this weekend, hosting seven teams. “It was good getting lots of match play and I think we all competed particularly well — it’s always nice having our first tournament of the year at home,” said Nikita

Uberoi ’15.

The squad includes two new firstyears this year, Alyza Benotto ’18 and Maddie Stearns ’18. Both reached the semifinals of their singles draws. “It was nice to see how quickly they were able to adjust to college tennis,” Uberoi said.

The tournament featured two Brown vs. Brown finals — in doubles competition play, Hannah Camhi ’16 and Dayna Lord ’17 faced up against Ashley Noyes ’16 and Benotto, with the win going to Camhi and Lord. And in singles competition play, Camhi and Uberoi matched up, with Uberoi taking the victory after three sets. Lord and Uberoi both won their flights in singles, while Olivia Hsu ’16 and Ammu Mandalap ’16 both reached the finals

in their respective flights.

As one of the two seniors on the team this year, Uberoi has taken on a leadership role.

“Last year we had no seniors, so Sarah Kandath ’15 and I did take on some additional responsibility as juniors,” Uberoi said. “We’re all very close and have a good understanding of team dynamics so just the added experience that senior year brings along will definitely be helpful as we continue our season and prepare for Ivies.”

The men’s tennis team continues play next weekend at the Brown Invitational in Honor of Margaux Powers on College Hill, while the women’s tennis team continues play this weekend as it travels west to Los Angeles to compete in the All-American Tournament.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

M. SOCCER

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Defender Tim Whalen ’16 dribbles the ball down the field. Bruno’s defenders were forced to work hard in the Sunshine State, as the Bears were outshot 35-21 over their two games.

Bears finish winless Florida trip with scoreless draw After falling to Bulls and tying Eagles, Bruno returns to College Hill with losing record through six games

By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

It turned out 110 minutes were not enough time to determine a winner in the second game of the men’s soccer team’s Florida road trip. The Bears’ offense failed to take advantage of stellar play from starting keeper Mitch Kupstas ’14.5, who recorded a season-high eight saves in the double-overtime scoreless draw against Florida Gulf Coast University.

“We were definitely prepared and rose to the challenge,” Kupstas said. “It was hot and very humid, way different from the weather we see in Providence,

but we hung with them for the full 110 minutes.”

The Bears (2-3-1) held a slight advantage over the Eagles (1-3-3) through the first half, managing to create a narrow 6-5 lead in shots and committing just one foul to FGCU’s four.

At the start of the second half, Alex Markes ’15 checked into the game. The senior defender saw his first action of the season Thursday, playing the entire second half in Bruno’s 3-1 loss against the University of South Florida (3-2-0).

Markes played a similar role in Saturday’s game, logging 65 minutes of work, all in the second half and overtime periods.

“I’m really happy to have him back,”

Kupstas said. “He’s a tremendous athletic presence. There were at least two or three times when he came in with a diving header and cleared the ball for us. It’s great to have another guy that I can rely on in the back.”

The Eagles had all of the chances in the second half, but Markes, Kupstas and the rest of the Bears’ defense were prepared for the offensive onslaught. FGCU fired 13 shots towards the Brown net, all of which were either saved by Kupstas, blocked by a defender or whizzed wide due to heavy pressure from the defense.

“Our backline really came through for me,” Kupstas said. “It’s been a bit of a building process for us — we’ve been changing our rotation up with each game. But the defense came through against Florida Gulf Coast.”

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In extra time, both teams seemed to suffer from tired legs. The Bears managed just a single shot in the first overtime and could not get an attempt off in the second extra time. The powerful Eagles offense could only get off four shots in the extra 20 minutes and forced just one save from Kupstas.

Bruno escaped with a tie, despite being outshot 22-11 by the end of the second extra time. The Florida tour was not particularly kind to the Bears — they dealt with extreme heat and talented opposing offenses, and failed to make any headway in the NCAA rankings discussion. But the squad did not come away from a weekend in the Sunshine State empty-handed.

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“The Ivy League season is extremely important to us,” Kupstas said. “But we’re fighting for every win we can get. Our eyes are on Vermont right now. If we could string a couple wins together, that would really get us going in the right direction.”

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

A look to the future JACK BLASBERG sports columnist

“And the first pick of the 2050 NFL draft is Tony Lee, programmer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,” announces the commissioner to an eruption of applause.

He emerges from the audience, but the top college prospect and his 5’8”, 155-lb. frame are virtually indistinguishable from those of the fans in attendance. This is unproblematic, as he will never actually take the field nor rush into combat against other physical players. No, Tony will play his professional games from the league office, where he will control virtual, computer-generated players with the press of a button and the flick of a joystick.

The last of the physical players having retired to comfortable pensions and lifelong health benefits years before, the lavish contracts that were once awarded to elite quarterbacks and wide receivers are now bestowed on gamers such as Tony. Audiences, hungry for spectacle and indifferent to whether the players they idolize have lives off the field, are not deterred. They pack stadiums to watch high-resolution holographic images perform and devour live telecasts depicting video of the games.

The NFL is as profitable as ever and

gets higher ratings than its rival leagues with their steroid scandals and player discipline issues.

While this scenario might seem like something out of a science fiction novel, recent trends in professional football suggest it may not be as far-fetched as it seems.

On Sept. 12, a nightmarish public relations week continued for the NFL when another one of its star

NFL products and sponsors. In spite of this moralizing, the reality is that the American public is addicted to the league’s product and cannot stop watching the games. As long as this is the case, the league will continue to generate annual revenues in the $10 billion range, and Goodell will have the job security afforded by this financial success.

Even with the futility of fan pro-

persistently improper handling of head injuries sustained in games and practices. The initial result of the suit was for the league to set aside $675 million to pay benefits out to a pool of approximately 21,000 eligible former players, but the cap on this number was removed after being perceived as too low. Research demonstrates that former NFL players stand a 30 percent chance of developing

Virtual players manipulated by remote gamers cannot physically abuse their children or girlfriends, garner controversial drug suspensions or sit trial for multiple homicides.

players made headlines for striking a family member. The Vikings’ Adrian Peterson, widely considered the best running back in the league, was indicted by a grand jury for physically abusing his son just days after graphic video surfaced of the Ravens’ Ray Rice knocking out his fiance in an Atlantic City, New Jersey, elevator.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s thrice-bungled attempts to address the latter case have sparked cries for his resignation and fan boycotts of

test, an agent for real change is in motion. The link between traumatic brain injuries and the brutal hits sustained on a regular basis by professional football players is becoming ever more obvious, and this clarity is bringing with it a host of lawsuits bearing the potential to shake up the way the business of football is run in coming years.

Over 4,500 retired players are actively engaged in a joint lawsuit against their former employer for its

Alzheimer’s disease or dementia following their playing careers. This rate is roughly twice the national average.

Beyond the numbers, the 2012 suicide of former star linebacker Junior Seau graphically illustrated the gravity of the situation after autopsy findings showed the 20-year league veteran was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative neurological disorder that can be caused by concussions. With risks in plain view, parents are now more

reluctant than ever to allow their children to play football. The specter of an eroding talent pool and even bigger potential settlements for former players-turned-plaintiffs could affect the league’s bottom line significantly enough to precipitate real changes.

It is not a stretch to imagine that in 35 years, video graphics and hologram technology will progress to the point of allowing video games to be displayed in stadiums and on television screens around the country with little difference in the viewing experience. The Tupac hologram that performed at the Coachella music festival in 2012 introduced a host of possibilities in the realm of computergenerated live events. Virtual players manipulated by remote gamers cannot physically abuse their children or girlfriends, garner controversial drug suspensions or sit trial for multiple homicides. They will also not put their long-term health in jeopardy every time they take the field for our entertainment. Gone would be the moral qualms that come with consuming the NFL product these days, resulting in peace of mind that would certainly outweigh the loss of “real” football.

Jack Blasberg ’16 is working on his Madden skills as we speak.

He can be reached at john_blasberg@brown.edu.

Lessons from ‘Louie’ in sports and life JAMES COHAN sports columnist

“Louie” is one of those shows that no one watches but everyone talks about, and by everyone, I mean critics. When it comes to TV, my wheelhouse is basically those shows and cartoons, so when I noticed “Louie” on Netflix I decided to find out for myself what all the fuss was about.

I was hooked. A little over a month later, I’ve seen every episode.

“Louie” is incredible. Incredible enough to vault itself into the discussion for my favorite show ever. Yes, I do have tremendous recency bias: My all-time favorite movie is always one I’ve seen in the past month. Still, this show is fantastic.

The thing that’s great about “Louie” — the thing that makes it so different from everything else on TV — is how crushingly real it is.

When I say real, I don’t mean realistic. Much of “Louie” is truly absurd. But everything is real.

Every odd facial expression the show’s protagonist makes, every beautiful, gross, loving shot of New York, every awkward, direct, absurd conversation is real.

Sometimes binge-watching a show exposes its seams. Not with “Louie.” Its unique storytelling method never ceases to knock you off balance.

The show’s first season was a balanced blend of funny, smart and charming. Louis C.K. could have easily kept spinning variations of those episodes, and no one would have complained — after all, that was more or less “Seinfeld’s” approach for nine years.

But C.K. isn’t interested in settling on one tone or making one type of joke. He’s not even

comfortable choosing one length for his stories.

Some take up just half an episode, but the longest storyline spans six.

As time has passed, C.K. has only grown more ambitious with the scope of his material. By his show’s most recent fourth season, C.K. found himself completely at ease with long periods of time passing without even the hint of a laugh.

It gave him the freedom to do, well, anything.

pleasantly humorous, awkwardly funny, depressing, shocking or beautiful. It’s all those things and everything else. “Louie” is a fictionalized version of Louis C.K.’s life, and Louis C.K. is a real human being. He experiences everything the world tosses around him, and he has taken on the grueling task of trying to spatter all of it onto the television screen.

Binge-watching a show like this is a lot to

Life doesn’t have a tone. It’s not pleasantly humorous, awkwardly funny, depressing, shocking or beautiful.

It’s all those things and everything else.

This approach to making TV has resulted in one of the most consistently gut-punching shows on television today.

There are shocking twists in “Breaking Bad,” but that’s expected. There are hauntingly raw interactions between characters on “Mad Men,” but the personalities set this up from the get-go.

“The Office” is hilarious, but the viewer is usually already primed for laughs.

Each episode of “Louie” hits you on an emotional level for which you’re not prepared, because you can’t prepare for it. You never know where C.K. is going to take you. And this is what I mean when I say “Louie” is the realest show on television. Life doesn’t have a tone. It’s not

handle. You start to see the world through Louie’s eyes. You notice things in your daily life you might have missed before. It becomes harder to glaze over the not-so-nice things people do to each other and themselves, because “Louie” is hyperaware of each of these interactions. It also becomes easier to appreciate those things in our lives, both big and small, that we are usually so adept at ignoring.

Now, I have to connect this to sports, because this is a sports column. I could use my new cynical “Louie” vision for evil and bash the NFL, but that’s far too easy. Yes, the NFL has many problems. If you’d like to learn more, I suggest CNN or the New York Times or the Washington

Post. Anywhere but here.

Instead, I want to stop and appreciate a particularly affecting gesture from the Thursday night football game between Atlanta and Tampa Bay, the kind of moment that is easily swallowed up and forgotten in the box score.

It was midway through the second quarter, and the Falcons had steamrolled their way to a 28-0 lead. The game was over before it had a chance to begin. After yet another 3 and out, the Bucs lined up to punt the ball. On the receiving end of the kick was the one and only Devin Hester.

Hester caught the ball cleanly and, as he has done so many times, weaved nimbly through a few defenders before breaking into the open field and putting on a burst of speed that left the rest of the Tampa Bay defense in his wake.

It was going to be return touchdown number 20 for Hester, enough to pass his close friend and mentor Deion Sanders’ record for most all time. As it so happened, Sanders was in the building covering the game, watching Hester sprint down the sideline.

As Hester neared the end zone, he slowed down just enough to put one hand behind his head, kick one leg forward, then the other leg, and back and forth and back and forth. Millions of viewers around America had the same realization — that’s Deion’s move! He’s high-stepping like Deion!

It was a stirring tribute in a game that has rarely had time to be sentimental lately. The gesture served as a reminder of what the NFL can be.

James Cohan ’17 is currently looking for another new show to call his favorite.

Send him ideas at james_cohan@brown.edu.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

W. SOCCER

Bruno defeats Minutewomen at home, falls at UConn Bears find themselves on opposite ends of two 2-0 scores in final weekend before Ivy play begins

By EMILE BAUTISTA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The women’s soccer team took on UMass-Amherst and UConn this past week, finishing with a victory and a loss, respectively.

Brown 2, UMass 0 Bruno (3-3-0) clashed with the Minutewomen (2-5-2) of UMass at Stevenson Field Thursday. Erin Katz ’16 tallied her first goal of the season in the sixth minute, and Chloe Cross ’15 added one herself with an excellent strike in the 67th minute. Mallory Yant ’15 posted a shutout with six saves to give the Bears a solid 2-0 victory.

The Bears jumped out to an early lead thanks to the linkup between Katz, Cross and Allie Reilly ’15. After a calculated give-and-go between Cross and Reilly at the top of the box, Reilly took the ball out wide right. She then deftly cut in with a feint that left her defender behind and whipped in a low cross, which Katz skillfully flicked in with her heel, finishing a great team move and giving Bruno a 1-0 lead.

“Last night, we showed up with a high energy level and a sense of urgency, and we played really well together as a unit,” said Ella Warshauer ’17. “This was really clearly manifested in the passing sequence leading up to the first goal, where we managed to get a number of players involved in scoring.”

Katz nearly doubled her total just two minutes later when she headed a cross from a corner kick onto goal.

But the UMass goalie dove and saved the ball just in time, avoiding what would have been a 2-0 hole. Minutes

» FOOTBALL, from page 1 found success in all phases of the game, rushing for 74 yards and catching three passes for 23 yards. Unfortunately, he also had a lost fumble in Georgetown territory, torpedoing a promising drive.

In his first career start, Fuller made a few critical errors that derailed any offensive momentum the Bears might have built. He completed 18 of 31 passes for 202 yards, good for a 58.1 completion percentage and 6.5 yards per attempt. None of these numbers jump off the page, but they are also far from disastrous. Instead, what hurt Fuller so much was turning the ball over. He was responsible for two interceptions and a fumble.

Fuller expressed satisfaction with the offense in general, remarking that they were “executing plays,” but recognized that turnovers did them in.

The most harmful of Fuller’s three lost possessions was his first. The Bears opened the second quarter with the ball on the Georgetown 5-yard line in a scoreless game, but a false-start penalty pushed them back to the 10. Fuller rushed for 6 yards, but fumbled at the 4-yard line. The ball was recovered by the Hoyas at their own 1-yard line, depriving the Bears of what was by far their best goal-line opportunity.

Two possessions later, Fuller threw an interception that gave Georgetown

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Chloe Cross ’15 brings the attack across midfield. The senior captain has scored three of the Bears’ six goals this season, and her 12 shots are three more than any other player on the team. Her .250 shooting percentage is also the best on the team. later, Katz had another great opportunity when she blasted a shot from the top of the box, which was parried away by the UMass goalie once again.

Despite the fact that the teams were tied in shots 7-7 by halftime, the Bears seemed to have had the better chances.

The teams exchanged a few half chances at the beginning of the second half. Then, in the 67th minute, Cross doubled the lead with a wonder strike.

She had the ball about 40 yards or so out from goal, cut in and smashed a shot that sailed over the keeper’s head, redirected off the crossbar and into the

net for her third goal of the season.

Yant was perfect at the back, stopping all six of UMass’s shots on target.

The teams finished tied in shots at 1414, with Brown holding the advantage in shots on net, 11-6.

“It’s still early in the season, and we are improving with every practice and game, but the win versus UMass was really important … for keeping morale high going into Ivies,” Warshauer added.

UConn 2, Brown 0 The tables turned on Brown with

a 2-0 defeat against UConn (7-2-1) Sunday at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium.

The Huskies’ attack was unrelenting as they recorded 30 total shots, 14 of those on target. Despite the high volume of shots, Yant and Rylee Shumway ’18 kept Bruno in contention, making eight and four saves, respectively.

Samantha McGuire opened the scoring for the Huskies in the 17th minute with a strike from the top of the box that found its way inside the far post. UConn continued to bombard Brown’s defense and found another way through in the 34th minute,

as Julie Hubbard slid a shot past Yant.

The Bears only managed to get four shots on target in the first half.

Bruno attempted to find a way back into the game in the second half, but to no avail. The squad could only muster a total of two shots on target.

But Shumway did get her first appearance of the season and stopped all four shots that came her way.

The loss evened Brown’s record at three. Bruno’s next match is at home Wednesday against Sacred Heart University (3-5-1) on Stevenson Field at 7 p.m.

possession at its own 46. In the third quarter, trailing 14-3, he threw an interception at the Georgetown 21, and Coke fumbled the ball away at the Georgetown 36 on the very next possession.

Six Brown possessions ended in Georgetown territory, while the Hoyas had seven end in Brown territory. But four of Brown’s ended with turnovers, while three of Georgetown’s ended in scores.

“You’ve got to be able to capitalize,” Fuller said. “Our inability to do that is why we lost.”

Despite their struggles, Fuller and Giovacchini noted some good signs in the offense’s performance.

“We were able to run the ball well,” Fuller said, adding, “You saw glimpses of what kind of team we can be ... It’s just going to be a matter of putting it all together.”

Fuller said he was also happy with the effort he saw from his teammates.

“It wasn’t a lack of effort,” he said. “We learned we’re a tough group.”

“We learned that we’ve got a lot of playmakers out there,” Giovacchini added, singling out the performances of wide receivers Troy Doles ’16 and Stian Romberg ’15.

The Bruno defense was better than the offense, but not by leaps and bounds.

Holding another team to 17 points is a good result, but the Hoyas managed a whopping 427 yards of total offense.

The Bears anticipated a pass-heavy offense and did a good job in limiting Georgetown quarterback Kyle Nolan to just 177 passing yards. But the Hoyas gashed Bruno on the ground, rushing for 250 yards and 6.6 yards per carry. Their first touchdown came on a 57-yard dash from running back Daniel Wright, who had 90 yards on the ground.

Giovacchini hearkened back to the idea that the Bears had to learn about themselves during the game.

“Defensively, we learned that we’ve got to stop the run. … We didn’t stop the run.”

He said he felt that the defense was ultimately undermined by “too many big plays, missed tackles, missed hits,” adding that they had to “be more aggressive.”

But the senior struck a hopeful tone.

“We showed flashes of being the kind of defense we want to be. … I still feel pretty good about where we are.”

Clearly, the Bears have much to work on, though limiting mistakes is

something that often comes with experience. They will need to be in top form for next week’s Ivy League opener, as 2013 conference champions Harvard come to College Hill for a game under the lights.

“We’ve just got to move on. … I’m really looking forward to turning the page,” Fuller said.

“It’s gonna be a battle,” Giovacchini said. “Guys are anxious to get on the field and get the taste of defeat out of our mouth.”

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Marcus Fuller ’15 huddles up with his team. The quarterback posted good numbers in his debut, completing 18 of 31 passes for 202 yards, but two interceptions and a lost fumble erased the progress he made.

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Brown field hockey captain Meghan O’Donnell ’15 streaks toward the goal in the team’s Saturday Ivy League opener against Columbia. The Bears fell 4-0, but after a win against Sacred Heart, Bruno is 4-1.

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calendar TODAY 3 P.M. FREE DRY ERASE BOARDS

TOMORROW 11:30 A.M. BISEXUAL CELEBRATION DAY

Students can take photos to be made into unique whiteboards. Cupcake decorating, cookies and brownies will be provided. Leung Family Gallery

The LGBTQ Resource Center will have a table set up with information regarding non-monosexual identities and will be handing out buttons and ribbons. Main Green

5 P.M. THE (DIS)UNITED KINGDOM? THE UK AFTER

6 P.M. A ROUNDTABLE ON THE 2014 BRAZILIAN

THE REFERENDUM — A DISCUSSION

ELECTIONS

Scholars will discuss the profound changes to the United Kingdom and Europe as a whole in the aftermath of the Scottish independence referendum. Watson Institute

Professors will discuss the factors influencing the internal Brazilian democratic process, with elections set for Oct. 5. Watson Institute

7 P.M. STUDENTS ON ISRAEL AND PALESTINE:

6:30 P.M. WHAT WOULD {BROWN} DO?: RELIGIOUS

PERSPECTIVES ON THE GAZA WAR

DISCRIMINATION + IDENTITY MPC WORKSHOP

A student panel featuring voices of diverse perspectives will discuss recent events in Gaza. Petteruti Lounge

MPCs will discuss different examples of religious discrimination and different faith resources available on campus. Wilson 102

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The lesson of the poplar EVAN SWEREN opinions columnist

Once upon a time, there was a poplar. It was a Lombardy poplar. And everyone loved it very much. People would come and take cuttings and plant it and play botanist. And in 1784, one man took a cutting, packed it for America and sailed.

Then one day, in 1803, a man from Rhode Island came to Brown University and said, “Let me plant you.” The tree nodded implicitly, as trees do. And he planted the poplars in two great rows on College Hill, long deforested. And they grew and grew. But by 1840, they had grown too high, because Lombardy poplars, as it turns out, grow too quickly, are unsuitable to humid climate and have shallow root systems. And no one was happy.

But the people learned. By 1840, the first American elms were seen sprouting from the front lawn. These newly planted trees were long-living, fast-growing and stable. They multiplied and grew inseparable from Brown’s campus, unifying its communities and transforming its outdoor spaces into canopied agoras.

And everyone was happy. Until 2014.

I have come to know and appreciate the celebrated history of Brown’s campus. Many of its buildings boast founding dates and narratives far in the past but nonetheless well documented. But trees bear no blueprints, placards or dates. Like buildings, they punctuate space, but often lack historical documentation. They grow, lose limbs and sprout new ones. They witness events as they un-

fold but are voiceless in the process.

As Brown continues to update its campus, renovate its buildings and lay walkways, rapidly altering its footprint on College Hill, it appears we have learned nothing from our past. We have, instead, chosen to disregard historical significance and modernize our campus at much too fast a pace. We have chosen not to build upon an existing history, but rather to write a new one.

The history of Brown’s landscape is riddled with mistakes. In 1877, the University planned to construct a dormitory on the Main Green, running the full length of George Street.

The city erupted in contempt. One “tax-payer” wrote to the Providence Journal on Nov. 17 of that year declaring that “in all these years, the public has cherished the conviction

able to unify the campus through architectural design due to the wide variety of historical styles, he did so through landscape design. He proposed additional curved pathways, first seen on the Quiet Green in an 1857 print by F.O. Freeman. These paths, in the Picturesque style, provided natural walkways that complemented the contours of the maturing elms. All bore rounded corners, now a hallmark of paths on campus.

Olmsted despised when people cut corners.

Current design practices, however, disregard the long legacy of landscaping at Brown and are building a campus for the future that is devoid of history. The new criss-cross pathway seen outside the Building for Environmental Research and Teaching, for example, appears to be from

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that divide rather than encourage a community experience. It has none of the obvious benefits of a central thoroughfare, which allows for

Current design practices disregard the long legacy of landscaping at Brown and are building a campus for the future that is void of history. that no hands would ever be permitted to mar the form and beauty of the college grounds.” Another “citizen” wrote two days later that “it ruins the campus, so far as the purposes are concerned.” President Ezekial Robinson took heed, plans were changed, and Slater Hall — which did not break up the Green — was built two years later.

Brown also has had successes.

When President William Faunce wished to expand and develop Brown’s campus, he contacted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Central Park. Un-

a build-a-landscape catalogue rather than a historically conscious design firm. Though it abuts Lincoln Field, it resembles no aspect of Olmsted’s principles.

Even when recent campus additions do attempt to communicate with history, they ultimately fail.

“The Walk” brings to fruition a part of Olmsted’s 1901 plan to connect Pembroke College with the University — then distinct schools — but it leaves behind the most important lessons of his designs. With its parallel paths and boxed lawns, “The Walk” creates awkward spaces

a large combined space, as seen in Olmsted’s “Poet’s Walk” in Central Park. Nor does it subtly direct movement or enhance the scenery of the campus.

These paths, with their modern and socio-historically unjustifiable geometry, both fail to create a cohesive campus and negate the history of our space. It is one thing to create a space that works in the short term. It is another to create one that is true to the past, to Brown’s mission and to its continuing history.

Unfortunately, it appears that the University is more concerned with

efficiency and modernity than with feel, preservation and meaning. As we continue to design spaces looking toward the future, it is important to preserve, protect and contribute to the historical narrative embedded in our landscape.

In 1901 Faunce wrote, “(the) heterogeneousness, which we share with most New England colleges, is certainly picturesque. … But it is now time for some definite plan of architectural development.” As Brown celebrates 250 years, our history can be remembered through structure and design. Yes, we must innovate, but not without reflection and purpose. Our campus unifies us, and we must remember that.

In 1803, Lombardy poplars were in style. In 2014, geometric paths are. Maybe in 40 years, we’ll tear up these walkways. We can call it the lesson of the paths, or something like that.

Evan Sweren ’15 is a senior at Brown.

Ivy League schools are overrated: a response MEGAN GRAPENGETERRUDNICK opinions columnist

William Deresiewicz, author of “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life,” spoke on campus Sept. 15 about why we shouldn’t be at Brown. In his eyes, the school that most of us worship as our home and that fosters us as intellectuals is actually turning us into zombies.

Deresiewicz argues that Ivy League schools have corrupted young adults, turning us into tunnel-visioned and insecure robots that are ill-equipped for reality. While I can only truly speak for Brown, I’d argue that this is not the doing of Ivy institutions. Rather, it is the result of ceaseless societal evolution. The qualities that Deresiewicz deems destructive are not intrinsic to the Ivies, but are spanning across all of American college standards.

The Ivies are not for everyone, no doubt, and one can receive an equally exceptional education at a school that is not an Ivy. But this does not mean that Ivies are sickening institutions that should be universally evaded. The traits Deresiewicz mentions can be found at many schools in our generation.

Deresiewicz claims that the prestigious schools are centered around “status, wealth —

‘success.’” Does that not sound like the primary focus of most Americans? The inherent goals of humans in this enterprise culture involve pursuing capital in order to live or enjoy benefits.

Especially given the current state of the economy, American society centers itself around being successful enough to live well.

This concern trickles down to college students who, faced with the imminence of the real world, are desperate to set themselves up for

the rest of the world. Somebody has to be at the top and somebody has to be at the bottom. It is unfair to single out the Ivies as institutions merely trying to keep up with a society whose values are constantly evolving. Thirty years ago, students’ purpose for going to college is naturally not the same as it is now.

I ran into a high school friend of mine this summer who just finished freshman year at a liberal arts school in Indiana—not an Ivy. The

It is unfair to single out the Ivies as institutions merely trying to keep up with a society whose values are constantly evolving.

post-college success and to escape the claws of unemployment.

Deresiewicz discusses the tendency for elite schools to tailor their education to job preparation and students’ fixation with getting a job after graduation. It isn’t the pressures of the Ivy League that are making everyone obsessed with jobs. It is the time and age that we’re in that is responsible for this preoccupation.

Universities are simply following along with

only words that escaped her mouth concerning college involved her explaining to me her job options after graduation and how she has lined up exactly what classes she is going to take for the next six semesters. While telling me this, her anxiety about her future was hitting the roof. Her angst is shared by countless other college students who do not necessarily attend Ivies.

Meanwhile, I am sitting here as a sopho-

more at an Ivy institution, and I have yet to truly consider what job I’d be interested in, and I am assured that I am not alone either. There are some students here who orient themselves around getting a job, and there are plenty like me, who are here to explore as much as possible and to mature. I am confident that the growing standards of education and shifting goals of college students are not phenomena that only occur at Ivy League schools, but can be seen at most colleges.

If the Ivy League is too elitist for your student and they would receive just as good an education at any other liberal arts school, then by all means send them there. The Ivy League is not the enemy that is reshaping the young adult portion of society—we’re just taking your blame for evolution.

In a rebuttal directed towards Deresiewicz, the author J.D. Chapman mentions his friends who attended schools that are not in the Ivy League. “They are proud of their educations, but do not conclude from that pride that an Ivy League education is ‘overrated’ in comparison,” he wrote. There is no reason to discourage students from looking at Ivies unless you plan on also steering them away from a myriad of other schools.

Megan Grapengeter-Rudnick ’17 attends an Ivy League school and is not a zombie.

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Brown men’s water polo player Rico Burke ’18 rears up to unleash a shot against an Iona College defender.

The Bears defeated the Gaels with a 16-11 tally as part of a doubleheader sweep this weekend.

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Brown students join with thousands of activists Sunday in New York to participate in the People’s Climate March. See story, page 1.

U. newsletter features faculty research conducted on sabbatical Publication seeks to foster connections between faculty members across different fields of study, admins say

By ASHNA MUKHI STAFF WRITER

In July, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty released the second edition of the Brown Sabbatical Research Newsletter, a publication that showcases research pursued by faculty members on sabbatical over the past year.

Brown is the only university with a publication of this kind, said Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P’12, who created the newsletter with the intention of promoting the work that faculty members have done for the public and the Brown community.

“We don’t really know what our colleagues are working on here, and this

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newsletter can serve to make connections between faculty members who may not have known about each others’ work before,” he said.

Assistant Dean of the Faculty Joel Revill said the plan to create the newsletter followed the ongoing changes to the University’s sabbatical policy that have occured over the last few years. Previously, faculty members were eligible to take a sabbatical leave at full salary after 12 semesters at the University. The newly expanded program, however, offers sabbatical leaves to professors at three quarters of their salary after six semesters.

The idea of a sabbatical was first introduced in the United States in the 19th century and was seen as an investment not in the individual professor, but in the quality of education

for the students, McLaughlin said.

He pointed to the contribution of sabbatical research to the value of education as the reason behind the expanded program.

“In our assessment of faculty, research is the most important thing they are evaluated on. It’s really the contribution to their field that is of value to the students and the institution,” he said.

Associate Professor of Italian Studies and History Caroline Castiglione, who was on sabbatical during the fall 2013 semester and was featured in the second edition of the newsletter, said the university is about connecting fields and getting outside perspectives, adding that the sabbatical newsletter is a resource that allows for such collaborative work.

She also pointed to the newsletter as a means for students to learn more about and engage with their

professors’ work. “You get to see your professors’ ideas in action when you read about their research,” she said.

Castiglione spent her sabbatical at the University’s Cogut Center for the Humanities researching women, families and politics in early modern Rome. Her work is one of 39 faculty members’ featured in the newsletter.

Faculty members who are granted a sabbatical are required to write a report to the Dean of the Faculty detailing their achievements during their leave, and the newsletter provides a snapshot of these reports for the community, said Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Stephen Bush, who was also featured in the newsletter. His sabbatical during the spring 2014 semester was spent finishing his book, “Visions of Religion: Experience, Meaning and Power”.

Professor of Archaeology John Cherry took the entire 2013 calendar

year for his sabbatical. During this time, he did research at the archaeological collections at the University of Cincinnati, studied societal development in Crete and conducted archaeological field work in the Caribbean.

“It would be terrible for all the interesting information in the reports to end up in a file in the dean’s office,” Cherry said, adding that having a compilation of these snapshots in a printed form “can assist in the longevity of the record of the research.”

“We were trying to dispel the public perception that a sabbatical is sort of like a vacation,” McLaughlin said.

The newsletter was distributed to the members of the Corporation, the Office of Advancement and the Admission Office. It is available online at the Dean of the Faculty’s website for anyone interested in reading it, Revill said.