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BROWN DAILY HERALD vol. cxlix, no. 77

New hires expand, diversify CAPS staff With greater resources and new support group, CAPS aims to address student concerns

By EMMA HARRIS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After student pressure last semester to diversify its staff, Counseling and Psychological Services has made several new targeted hires and will offer a support group for students of color, Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn announced in an email Friday.

Klawunn also announced Unab Khan as the new medical director of Health Services.

Psychotherapist Jamall Pollock, who has “specific expertise in multicultural issues,” will join the CAPS staff Oct. 14, Klawunn wrote. Pollock identifies as a person of color. And Joshua Kane will begin Oct. 6 as a part-time psychiatrist.

Coordinator for Sexual Assault Prevention and Advocacy Bita Shooshani, who also identifies as a person of color, will move to assume a full-time psychotherapist position at CAPS in January.

Though Shooshani found her work in the coordinator position

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“incredibly rewarding and inspiring,” she is a trained therapist, she wrote in an email to The Herald. “When I saw that a position became available on campus that offered the opportunity to work in a therapeutic capacity with students, I applied for it primarily because I would be able to continue working with Brown students and to practice psychotherapy with a specialization in sexual assault.”

Shooshani — a central figure in the University’s work to prevent and respond to sexual assault — will continue in her current position while a national search for a new coordinator takes place and then will begin working at CAPS five days a week, said Sherri Nelson, director of CAPS. The search for Shooshani’s replacement will be led

by Health Services, Klawunn wrote.

“The search committee hasn’t been established yet, and my job duties will stay the same until my transition,” Shooshani wrote.

“We are very excited to have her and expand CAPS resources in our department for dealing with issues surrounding sexual assault,” Nelson said.

Both Shooshani and Kane will work more hours than the people they are replacing, Nelson said.

Nelson said Pollock’s new position » See CAPS, page 3

FOOTBALL

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Bruno prepares for a play on its own goal line. Despite giving up over 400 yards of offense, Brown gave up six fewer points in the whole game than it did in the second quarter of last year’s Harvard match.

Crimson edge Bears with late drive Bears carry eight-point margin into third quarter, crumble in fourth in front of homecoming crowd

By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

It was the same old song and dance for the Bears against the Crimson this weekend, but despite a disappointing outcome, Bruno’s performance had

players and coaches singing a different tune.

The football team slipped to 0-2 with a 22-14 home loss to Harvard, but the Bears looked miles better in every area of the game than they did in a listless season-opening loss to Georgetown.

Bruno made a statement Saturday night, asserting that it can hang with anyone after leading the defending Ivy champions into the fourth quarter. But there are improvements to be made for

the Bears, who fell victim to the same mistakes in the fourth as they watched a lead evaporate.

In a rare moment of lightness, Head Coach Phil Estes P’18 summarized his squad’s performance succinctly: “I’m happy to a point,” he said.

“We didn’t win, so my joyous feelings will not come out right now.”

Before the game, Estes hammered home the point that the Bears had to execute their plays and avoid mental » See FOOTBALL, page 6

Art festival showcases diverse crafts New slavery memorial Pedestrians, vendors flood aims to spark reflection Thayer for celebration showcasing local art, food and performances

Paxson dedicates sculpture as part of 250th anniversary celebration before large audience

By EMILY PASSARELLI SENIOR STAFF WRITER

By ZACK BU CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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HUNTER LEEMING / HERALD

Students and community members alike flock to Thayer Street Sunday to admire an array of arts and crafts sold by over 100 vendors.

Prospective vendors had to submit applications, and then “three of us go through all of the applications and decide what would be a good fit,” said Pilar Brenner, head of Festival Fete.

“You have to take into consideration what’s good for the area,” as in curating a show, she added.

Festival Fete was originally started in 2010 by Jennifer Neuguth, with the aim to create “profitable platforms that celebrate locally grown art, food and merriment,” according to the Festival Fete website. Under Neuguth, the company organized annual fairs » See FESTIVAL, page 2

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Visitors to the Quiet Green can now view a new sculpture remembering and engaging with the University’s ties to the slave trade. President Christina Paxson dedicated the sculpture, entitled the Slavery Memorial, at a ceremony Saturday afternoon that drew more than 100 students, alums and community members.

The sculpture was a long time in the planning: It was installed this summer following a 2006 report by the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, which called for the University to recognize the contemporary implications of its past links to slavery and the slave trade and build a memorial that would “create a living site of memory, inviting reflection and fresh discovery without provoking paralysis or shame.”

The Public Art Committee selected Martin Puryear, a sculptor who won a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, to

Commentary

Men’s water polo plows through Harvard and MIT, maintaining its perfect conference record

Rugby continues its tour de force, demolishing another Ivy League opponent

Isman ’15: Consumers need to be aware of the moral significance of purchases

Blake ’17: Professional sports leagues ignore, and thereby condone, players’ bad behavior

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For 10 a.m. on a Sunday, Thayer Street was unusually busy. Under the heat of an unseasonably bright September sun, vendors at the Thayer Street Art Festival pitched their signs and perfected their displays to prepare for incoming crowds.

Before noon, anyone heading north on Thayer who looked into the distance would have seen a multicolored blur of activity framed by the white tents of vendors and sidewalks full of passersby. Undergrads walking back from the gym paused to look at handmade handbags and jewelry. Children tugged on their parents’ pant legs, pointing at stands offering face painting and handmade seashell necklaces. Older couples held hands as they examined clay and glass creations, woodwork and paintings.

The more than 100 vendors were handpicked by Festival Fete, the organization curating the art festival.

create the piece.

In her remarks, Paxson applauded Puryear’s endeavors and thanked former President Ruth Simmons for calling for the formation of the steering committee and for taking on such an important issue. She praised the steering committee’s report, referring to the document as “a model of responsible scholarship” and “a very high standard for rigorous and unflinching analysis.”

“One of the most important parts of the slavery and justice report is its call to fight modern legacies of slavery,” Paxson said. “The memorial would be doing good work if it encourages passersby to reflect on the injustices of today as well as yesterday.”

The sculpture comprises a colossal iron ball that appears to be partly buried underground, with a broken chain attached to its top. A plaque beside the sculpture bears an inscription that reads in part, “This memorial recognizes Brown University’s connection to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the work of Africans and African-Americans, enslaved and free, who helped build our university, Rhode Island and the nation.”

Anthony Bogues, director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, » See SCULPTURE, page 3 t o d ay

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Alum panel discusses future of journalism Wall Street Journal, NPR reporters trace careers back to U.’s history department

By EMMA HARRIS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Disruptions to journalism’s business model and media’s heightened polarization present challenges and potential conflicts of interest for the industry, two alum media veterans said at a panel Saturday.

Mark Maremont ’80 P’11, senior editor at the Wall Street Journal, and Mara Liasson ’77, political commentator for National Public Radio and contributor to Fox News Channel, spoke of their journalism careers and answered questions about current industry dynamics and future of journalism at a forum entitled “The Role of Media in Shaping — and Reflecting — Culture and Society.”

The forum was one of several hosted as part of the University’s 250th Anniversary Fall Celebration.

Both history concentrators, Liasson and Maremont arrived at journalism in similar ways. Liasson’s “straight shot” of a career began with a paper she wrote for a class on early 20th century American radicals, she said. An art dealer from Boston read her article and hired her to write the text of an art catalog.

From there she wrote for the Vineyard Gazette, a weekly based in Martha’s Vineyard, and went on to work at NPR, where she covered Congress, President Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign and subsequent presidency, became a national political correspondent and is now in White House rotation again.

Maremont’s journalism interest sprouted from his thesis about the Chicago Seven trial, on which a faculty member commented, “This is very journalistic. Have you considered becoming a journalist?” Maremont said he then went home to Chicago and began freelancing for a free weekly while working a business job. He subsequently attended Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and held a series of journalism jobs, eventually landing at the Journal as an editor.

“There’s no doubt that print media has been incredibly challenged,” Maremont said. The role of journalists has changed from the “golden days” when papers could not be printed fast enough, he said. Journalists’ roles as “watchdogs” have diminished due to cutbacks, a lack of resources and high demand for free online news that can be produced cheaply — all of which compromise their ability to do expensive and time-intensive investigative reporting.

As a result, journalism has gravitated more toward commentary and

away from factual reporting, which has yielded lower barriers of entry to the field, Maremont said.

“There’s no doubt the media environment is hyper-partisan like everything is today,” Liasson said. Audiences choose to tune in to different sources to receive certain news, and even if the content providers try to be balanced, media consumers see them as liberal or conservative, she said. “There is a self-perpetuating Tower of Babel.”

With the influx of billionaires buying news organizations, “choose your billionaire carefully,” Maremont said.

As “wealthy and influential people bring their biases to the party, … you have to decide whether or not you, as a journalist, want to live with that or not,” he said.

As for the recent purchase of the Washington Post by Jeffrey Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, “we’re waiting” for an organizational shake-up, but it has yet to materialize, Liasson said.

Liasson and Maremont also expressed concern over the younger generation’s news consumption habits. “I am scared to death,” Liasson said. “An uninformed generation is a really scary thing.” While millennials are ripe with information about Miley Cyrus, even NPR interns don’t seem to know names of politicians, she added.

Though recent changes in journalism have been widely perceived as detrimental, some can be seen as positive, Maremont said. Young data miners can find interesting trends that spur stories, and multimedia pieces are becoming more common.

“Big data is relatively accessible,” Liasson added.

“Good citizen journalism” has flowered in this new media environment, Maremont said. While it is expensive to do “good journalism,” Internet sensations — like the video of Mitt Romney’s 47 percent comment during the 2012 presidential campaign — can provide news coverage in the absence of professional reporting.

Both journalism veterans cautioned students who have an interest in a career in the industry. Maremont noted that young people with multimedia and technical skills are finding some success.But industry salaries are not promising, and aspiring journalists must be able to manage a personal brand.

“Like almost all important professions in society, … journalism is now becoming pink-collar,” Liasson said. It will be harder for those who need to be the “sole bread-winner” to provide, she said.

The ways in which changing business models, the use of Twitter and the possibility of politically-aligned news sources will shift the media landscape are all uncertain, Maremont said.

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Local musicians feature their talents at the Thayer Street Art Festival Sunday. “If you have something that resonates with the population, everything else takes care of itself,” said Damien Edsall, an apparel vendor.

» FESTIVAL, from page 1 in various Rhode Island cities, including Garden City and East Greenwich.

Yesterday marked the company’s first festival on Thayer Street, but not all of the vendors were first-timers with the festival experience.

Yay! Entrepreneurship!

Brenda Gaudette sat behind an array of clay creations including intricately molded trays, deep olivecolored coffee mugs and navy patterned dishware.

A customer approached her, asking about the fern design on one of her flower vases, and Gaudette demonstrated the technique she used to achieve the design — rolling a fern leaf in the clay while it was wet. A schoolteacher of ceramics by day, Gaudette said she worked her first fair years ago, by recommendation of a friend. “More than half of everything that I had, sold,” she said.

Loving the experience of creating what she liked and sharing her art with people who appreciate it as much as she does, Gaudette said she continued to build her collection and sell at festivals ever since. But teaching is her main job. “It’s really tough for artists to do this independently,” she said, adding that she will not create a website and expand her market past the festival scene until after she retires.

Across the way from Gaudette’s booth, Damien Edsall had his apparel arranged to catch the eye of even the

busiest festival-goer — shirts at the front of the display featured phrases like, “Yay! Big sandwich!” and “Ugh. Stop judging me.”

Edsall said he decided to try something new that he would enjoy after he was laid off from his last job. Inspired by the ‘Life is Good’ brothers and interested in entrepreneurship, he came up with the idea for his apparel line “Ugh or Yay.” Shirts feature the word “yay” or “ugh” and then a phrase describing the sentiment.

“My wife and I, when we text, always start with the words ‘yay’ or ‘ugh’ to describe how the day’s going,” he said. When he began to notice that other people on social media used similar words to describe their feelings, he identified a potential business idea. “If you have something that resonates with the population, everything else takes care of itself,” he said.

Up Thayer Street, a stand decorated with signs and birdhouses constructed from cut-up license plates and other “junk” materials stood apart from its neighboring booths showing watercolor artwork and airy clothing.

Students filled the tent’s space, attracted by the promise of a unique sign with a word made of letters spliced from different license plates.

Adam Salisbury, the vendor and artist, said he only started his craft a year and a half ago. “I was bored one day, and I had all sorts of junk lying around my garage,” he said. “I quit my job, I quit drinking and I started doing this to better myself,” he added.

“It just took off like crazy.”

Even farther up Thayer, before the section of the festival presenting live music and dancing, Denyse Rourke stood behind a table laden with handsewn “Pet Nappers” — pillows for your cat or dog to curl up on. She works as a companion for the elderly and said of her new hobby, “This is just a little side thing, and I figure that I may as well do it when I can, and when I like doing it.”

Seeking more festivals The seven-hour fair was busy throughout its duration, and by 1 p.m., many of the vendors said they were already doing well for the day.

When the festival was reaching its last hour, Brenner said, “I want the artists to do really well and be successful, and I want people who come to the show to have a good time as well.”

Ponrey Chek stopped into a woodwork booth and walked away with a simple oak bracelet because she appreciated the meaning behind the piece.

“The prices are high,” she said, “But considering all the work the artists put into their craft, they are fair.”

Other fair-goers suggested that art fairs happen more frequently on Thayer.

“I didn’t buy anything, but walking around has been fun,” said MarieClaire Partridge ’15.

After walking up and down Thayer, Rachel Van Metre ’16 said that there should be art festivals like Festival Fete’s at least once a month.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

M. WATER POLO

Bears cruise past Harvard, MIT to extend winning streak to seven Deaver ’15 leads potent offensive outburst while Brown ’15 stymies opposing attackers

Brown 16, MIT 11 Will Klein ’16 and Nick Deaver ’15 led the way for the Bears with four goals apiece on the way to a resounding 16-11 victory over MIT. Deaver poured in a relentless attack, scoring a goal in every period.

Brown came out of the gates hot in the first period, netting seven goals to

Brown 13, Harvard 8 The Bears matched their five-goal margin from earlier in the day with a 13-8 win over rival Harvard. Deaver paced the Bears once again by adding another four goals to his name. Nine saves by Andrew Brown ’15 were key in securing Bruno’s victory.

The first half proved to be much tighter than that of the MIT game. Brown held a slim 6-4 lead after a competitive 4-4

second period. After the break, Bruno seized the game with five in the third period, including Deaver scoring three himself. Brown made five of his saves in this period, helping hold Harvard to just two goals.

When the final whistle had blown, seven different players had made it onto the score sheet for Brown.

“This weekend, we showed our depth, the biggest thing we have right now,” said Warren Smith ’17.

Bruno is currently scorching through teams, resulting in its seven-game win streak.

“We’re just trying to ride the momentum and keep it going and hopefully be where we need to be in November,” Smith said.

“Although we are currently on a winning streak, our ultimate goal is the Eastern Championship, and I believe we are getting thirstier each day that passes,” Deaver said.

Bruno is back in action in two weeks with another round of games against MIT and Harvard, this time in Brown’s home pool.

advocacy” resources for all students, Klawunn wrote.

J. Allen Ward, senior associate dean for student life, will change roles and

now focus on “leading a comprehensive effort to evaluate and assess student support,” Klawunn wrote. A national search for a dean of the Office of Student Life

will begin during the year after “some restructuring” based on the Task Force on Sexual Assault’s recommendations, she wrote.

By EMILE BAUTISTA SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Offense was the name of the game this weekend as the men’s water polo team extended its current winning streak to seven games after two solid victories over conference opponents MIT and Harvard, finishing with scores of 16-11 and 13-8, respectively. This brings Bruno’s record to 11-3, with a pristine 5-0 standing in conference play.

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Nick Deaver ’15 winds up and takes aim at goal. The senior attacker contributed eight of Bruno’s 29 goals this weekend.

» CAPS, from page 1 is significant because of the money and resources allocated to CAPS by President Christina Paxson in response to students’ previous criticism of the lack of diversity within the CAPS staff.

“This is a huge step, but it is just an initial step,” said President of the Undergraduate Council of Students Maahika Srinivasan ’15, who named increasing mental health resources a key priority when campaigning for the UCS presidency last spring. UCS, in conjunction with the mental health advocacy student group Active Minds, put pressure on the University last spring to improve its mental health services, she said.

At the time, UCS and Active Minds focused on two goals — changing the name Psychological Services to Counseling and Psychological Services, as well as improving the way the office approaches cases related to sexual assault and issues of diversity, Srinivasan said.

“This won’t address all of the issues,” Srinivasan said, citing the University’s problematic limit of seven free visits to a psychotherapist per year, “but this is a good first step.”

» SCULPTURE, from page 1 complimented the sculpture and said he hoped the piece inspired reflection and action. He urged attendees to heed the memorial’s visual call to remember both the enduring legacies of racism and slavery in the United States and modern forms of human trafficking around the globe.

Jo-Ann Conklin, director of the David Winton Bell Gallery and a member of the Public Art Committee, said the committee presented its vision to artists around the world, eventually selecting Puryear in 2012 for his “great thoughtfulness, great commitment and elegance.”

Committee members chose the Quiet Green as a location because it was a highly visible space that was symbolically close to University Hall, she said, which was constructed in 1770 with the help of at least three slaves.

“The most effective memorials were those that were open to interpretations,” Conklin added.

Puryear said he decided to make the

Beginning Oct. 1, psychotherapist Allyson Brathwaite-Gardner will lead a new support group for students of color.

“This group is in response to students’ request to increase outreach for students of color,” Nelson said.

CAPS will also institute a “cultural competency in-series” to improve the quality of services CAPS can provide to students of color, Nelson said.

The University is working to evaluate the “effectiveness of our comprehensive mental health services at Brown,” Klawunn wrote. A Mental Health Advisory Council is being formed to lead those efforts, to comprise students, staff members and faculty members and chaired by Steven Rasmussen ’74 MMS’77 MD’77 P’13, medical director of Butler Hospital.

Khan, who “specializes in health care for young adults,” will begin in his new role at Health Services Oct. 1, Klawunn wrote.

Student and Employee Accessibility Services, the Office of Student Veterans and Commissioning Programs and the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life also added staff members over the summer to increase “advising and sculpture out of iron, instead of bronze, because he found bronze to be too “heroic” and not in keeping with the purpose of the memorial, which is in part to represent slavery as “an industrial reality.”

He added that he intended to create an artifact that is “mostly buried, but will never disappear from memory.”

Next month, the Slavery and Justice Center will officially open at its new location at 94 Waterman St. The center plans to hold a series of exhibitions and lectures in the new space over the course of the year, including an Oct. 24 keynote lecture by Simmons, according to the center’s website.

Joey Sacks ’15, a member of the Student Coordinating Committee for the Center for Slavery and Justice, said the center would aim to provide a platform for further discussions and foster students’ and professors’ engagement in the issue of slavery.

Sacks said he admired the memorial’s design, adding that he hoped it would provoke ongoing and rigorous conversations.

MIT’s four. The offense did not stop there, either. Bruno used its momentum going into the second period to add four more to its tally, giving the squad an 11-7 lead going into halftime.

The team never looked back from there, continuing their strong play into the second half. They scored another quartet of goals in the third and held MIT to just two. By the end of the match, three different Brown players had amassed hat tricks: Klein, Deaver and Matty Gallas ’16.

“We are getting tougher and smarter every game and practice, and every individual on this team has improved fundamentally and cooperatively,” Deaver said.

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Recent changes to Counseling and Psychological Services, including new hires to diversify staff, are “a good first step” toward addressing student concerns, said UCS President Maahika Srinivasan ’15.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

RUGBY

Bears nearly blank Big Green en route to third straight win Offense posts five straight tries, defense forces multiple turnovers in 36-point blowout

By DANTE O’CONNELL SPORTS EDITOR

For the third week in a row, the rugby team took down a conference power in convincing fashion. Dartmouth (1-1) was this week’s victim, suffering its first loss of the season at Berylson Family Fields to a Bruno team that has quickly become the class of the Ivy League.

The Bears (3-0) scored the first five tries of the game, tallying 33 unanswered points on their way to a 43-7 victory. Daisy Alvarado-Munoz ’17 led the way with two tries, while Elisha Miles ’15, Saskia Morgan ’16, Sofia Rudin ’17, Melodi Dincer ’17 and Lauren Oxendine ’16 each contributed scores of their own. Rudin also added eight more points on conversions, going 4-for-7.

“Everyone on the team is pretty psyched with how we played,” Rudin said. “We expected Dartmouth to be some of our toughest competition. They are a really good team, and it felt really good to beat them.”

Just over six minutes into the game, Miles notched Bruno’s first try, emerging from a scrum at the five-meter line to put the Bears on the board. Rudin tacked on the conversion to make the score 7-0. Four minutes later, Jasmine McAdams ’16 killed a Big Green drive by recovering a turnover and dished it to Morgan for another try down the left side to put the Bears up 14-0 after

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The Bears’ offense was on point against the Big Green this weekend, posting 33 unanswered points in the first 50 minutes of the game. Dartmouth finally responded with a try of its own, but it proved to be too little too late. another Rudin conversion.

Rudin followed that up at the 21:20 mark with another try from the Dartmouth 10-meter line and a conversion, quickly bringing the score to 21-0.

“I got a pass as I was making a cut,” Rudin said. “I saw a hole open up in front of me, and I just ran. It was

definitely exciting.”

Alvarado-Munoz and Dincer both added tries over the next 30 minutes, putting the Bears up 33-0 on a historically strong Dartmouth squad.

“I got the ball on an offload from Lauren Oxendine, stepped past a couple of defenders and dove into the

try zone,” Alvarado-Munoz said of her score.

Finally, after 54 minutes of frustration, Dartmouth broke through with a try from the 20-meter line to put up its first points and narrow the margin to 33-7. But the comeback would not continue. Soon after, Miles produced

another Dartmouth turnover and set up Alvarado-Munoz for her second score of the game.

“I picked up a quick ball that was turned over by Dartmouth due to a big hit by Elisha Miles and drove past a defender to dot the ball down for a try,” Alvarado-Munoz said.

Oxendine finished Dartmouth off with a 40-meter run for a try at 73:00.

Head Coach Kathleen Flores said she sees many similarities between the two teams. “We both play the same style of rugby,” she said.

This will likely not be the last meeting between the teams this fall. Dartmouth hosts the Ivy League championships in November, and Flores said “it might be a tougher challenge then.”

Saturday was a day of firsts for Bruno. Alvarado-Munoz, Rudin, Dincer and Oxendine all posted their first career tries. In addition, the game marked the first home match Brown has hosted as a varsity team.

“That made it extra exciting,” Rudin said. “We wanted to prove ourselves to our fans and everyone else who helped us become a varsity team.”

“It felt pretty great,” Flores said. “It was nice to have a lot of people cheering in the stands.”

Saturday was the beginning of a four-week homestand for Bruno. It will look to extend its winning streak against Columbia at Marvel Field this week.

“I’m pleasantly surprised with the strength of our wins so far,” Rudin said.

“We have big goals, so we’re going to keep working hard and see how far we’re able to push it.”

Farewell failure

COMMENTARY

CALEB MILLER sports editor

When David Ortiz retires in a couple years (maybe 10), I hope they don’t give him a victory tour.

Surely he deserves gifts and ovations at every park, long ceremonies and jersey patches.

Ortiz is the best designated hitter in the history of the game, the lead author of the greatest comeback in sports and the winner of three World Series championships for a franchise that hadn’t had one since the days of Woodrow Wilson. Add in the fact that he has been an icon for the city of Boston — most notably his “Our (bleeping) city” speech after the Boston Marathon bombings last year — and it’s natural that he be on a plane with Mariano Rivera or Derek Jeter.

But I hope he doesn’t get one. I hope nobody does ever again.

Despite all the bias of a die-hard Red Sox fan, I love Derek Jeter. How can you not? Particularly in a time when Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson jam the news feeds, his quiet leadership and excellence are worth recognition.

But the symbolism of Jeter as the essence of the Yankees’ franchise is precisely the problem with his victory tour. Why do we take the glue

of the team, the captain, “Mr. Team Player,” and separate him from the club?

In the last four days, the MLB Instagram account has posted a staggering 34 pictures of or about Derek Jeter (as of press time). His current teammates are only included or mentioned in two of them. This is the type of isolation that has happened all season, wherever Jeter goes.

This contradiction is not the only harmful aspect of the victory tour. Sports writers and anchors have praised Jeter and Rivera specifically for their ability to keep their noses clean.

Neither has ever been involved in the types of off-the-field issues all too prevalent in sports today. This begs the question: Is staying out of legal or financial trouble so rare that we lift these stars above the rest?

The symbolism of Jeter as the essence of the Yankees’ franchise is precisely the problem with his victory tour.

Why do we take the glue of the team, the captain, “Mr. Team Player,” and separate him from the club?

While Jeter’s “#2” jersey has been the highest-selling jersey in the league, his team has floundered out of playoff contention. Why lift up the man who represents a losing team? Why celebrate the captain of a sinking ship? Everything Jeter has done to be a symbol of unity and teamwork is unraveled as he stands alone to a standing ovation.

Jeter has been a great role model, but I don’t want to tell my kids 20 years from now about the time we had a parade for a player because he didn’t assault his wife or rob a store.

Finally, Jeter’s ability and willingness to call his own retirement from a year out is problematic to me. Peyton Manning gave an interview last year and stated that he would play as hard

as he could until the moment he could not or would not, and then he would retire — not a single game before or after. This is the mentality all athletes should take to the professional field.

If Jeter knew at the beginning of the season that he wanted to retire, one of two things is probably true. One, he was already ready to retire, but he’s wants to soak up one last season at the expense of his team. (This argument can be made, given that Jeter had a poor .616 OPS and played subpar defense.) Or, two, he will finish the season with good games left in him and do New York just as much harm by walking away.

As soon as a player knows he can no longer be helpful to the team, he should be done.

Rivera’s tearful exit left me emotionally moved, and I stood and cheered in Fenway Park alongside Yankees and Red Sox fans Sunday for Jeter in his last at-bats as a big leaguer.

They were powerful moments for tremendous players that deserved them.

But why spend a season separating the one from the team? Let’s hope weekly gifts and celebrations don’t become commonplace and keeping a clean off-field reputation does. Let’s cheer for the guys that give everything they have and then retire. Let’s end victory tours.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

M. SOCCER

Despite stalling offense, defense salvages extra-time draws Bruno keeps Catamounts, Stags off scoreboard, but offense fails to capitalize on opportunities

By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A revitalized backline flexed its defensive prowess this weekend, as the men’s soccer team kept its opponents off the scoreboard for 220 minutes.

Unfortunately for the Bears, their opponents accomplished the exact same feat, leading to two double-overtime scoreless draws.

The Bears (2-3-3) blanked an usually potent University of Vermont (53-1) offense in a scrappy game Friday under the lights at Stevenson Field.

They followed up that performance with a lackluster offensive showing in their afternoon contest against Fairfield University (3-2-2).

Friday: Brown 0, Vermont 0 (2OT) The Bears toyed with their lineup at the start of the game against the Catamounts. Jack Gorab ’16, usually a center defensive midfielder, slid over to the left side, while Eduardo Martin ’16 earned a start in Gorab’s usual spot.

Gorab “played all of last season on the left side,” said Head Coach Patrick Laughlin. “He provides a lot of attack for us in that spot.”

Martin gives the Bears some offensive support from a defensive position and has a lot of experience doing so, as he started 12 games last season in a similar role, Laughlin said.

The team put the ball at Gorab’s feet early, looking to the speedy midfielder to create opportunities along the sideline. Ten minutes into the first half, Gorab had a good look at goal

from the top of the 18 but pulled his shot wide. Martin, on the other hand, looked a little out of sorts, losing the ball in the midfield on a couple of occasions.

The Catamounts played an inconsistent half of soccer. At times, they struggled to complete even a single pass, but seemingly out of nowhere, they would string together long combination plays that had Bruno’s defense on its heels.

Vermont also made a strange choice on the defensive side of the ball. Its two starting center backs, Brad Cole and Nile Walwyn, both stand over six feet tall and proved throughout the game that they had aerial abilities. Yet Ben Maurey ’15.5 was shadowed by the 5-foot-10, 155-pound left back Arthur Bacquet for much of the first half.

The 6-foot-5, 200-pound striker manhandled the smaller defender, beating him to a number of balls over the top and in one-on-one situations.

Maurey’s “movement without the ball was the best it’s been all season,” Laughlin said. “He’s so strong and big, but he’s easier to deal with if he stays central. When he gets out wide, it causes problems for other teams.”

Laughlin praised Maurey for the three or four crosses he created simply by beating his defender over the course of the game. Unfortunately for the Bears, Maurey was often playing balls into an empty box, as not enough players could get forward in time to support his attack.

At the end of regulation, Vermont had outshot Bruno 13-4, while the Bears held an 8-6 lead in corners. In extra time, neither keeper was forced to make a save, as the game inevitably ended in a scoreless draw.

Laughlin expressed his satisfaction with the number of chances his team

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The Bears huddle up as a team before the start of a game. The defenders carried the team this weekend, shutting out both the University of Vermont and Fairfield University. created and wagered that sooner or later some of Maurey’s crosses would turn into goals for the likes of Nate Pomeroy ’17 and Tyler Long ’17.

Sunday: Brown 0, Fairfield 0 (2OT) For their second game of the weekend, the Bears travelled out to Connecticut to take on the Stags. Fairfield possesses one of the nation’s premier defenses, entering the game with a 0.48 goals against average — the 13th best mark in the nation.

The game turned out to be a defensive stalemate, as neither team could crack the other’s backline. The Bears managed to get just three shots on goal, all of which Fairfield keeper Matt Turner handled easily. Bruno’s

defense one-upped Fairfield’s backline, keeping the Stags from getting a single shot on goal for the entire 110 minutes of play.

Goalkeeper Mitch Kupstas ’14.5 and the Bears’ backline earned their fourth shutout of the season and third in a row. In those four clean sheets, the squad has started three different sets of defenders. Gabe Welp ’18 and Tim Whalen ’16 have anchored the group, while some combination of James Myall ’18, Alex Markes ’15, Jameson Lochhead ’16 and Mike Leone ’17 have filled in the remaining spots.

The selection of the backline “is related to health and form,” Laughlin said. Markes, Welp, Lochhead and Whalen are “playing well, and when you feel confident in yourself as a

group, it helps. As long as they can stay healthy, we’re very happy with those four guys.”

Bruno’s 3-1 trouncing at the hands of University of South Florida (4-3-0) over a week ago served as a wake up call for the defense, Laughlin said.

“Getting (Markes) back has also helped, he’s been outstanding,” Laughlin said. “To bring another guy who’s really physical and has a lot of experience into the back has made a big difference. I’m happy as can be after 330 minutes of not giving up a goal.”

The Bears will have an opportunity to rebound from three straight scoreless efforts next weekend in their Ivy League opener against Columbia (3-3-0), a team that has given up nine goals in six games.

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Goal in 89th minute lifts Bears to tie against Big Green Katz ’16, Bears halt Dartmouth’s three-game winning streak with road tie in Ivy League opener

By GEORGE SANCHEZ SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s soccer team traveled this past Sunday to Hanover to take on the Dartmouth Big Green, finishing with a 1-1 draw — the Bears’ first draw of the season.

During the opening half, Dartmouth (3-2-2, 0-0-1 Ivy) outshot the squad 9-2. The Big Green later went on to score the first goal of the game in the 19th minute. Mallory Yant ’15 made a total of three saves during the first half, finishing off with a total of four for the game.

In the second half, the Bears (3-4-1, 0-0-1 Ivy) were able to overcome their previous offensive struggles. Bruno shot five times on goal following the first half. But Dartmouth’s early goal seemed likely to win them the game,

until Mikela Waldman ’18 successfully crossed the ball to Erin Katz ’16, leading to a goal by Katz in the 89th minute that evened the score up at 1-1.

“I definitely think we had momentum going into OT,” said Kirsten Belinsky ’15. “Dartmouth thought they had the win until really late, and for us to be able to think about coming away with either a tie or a win was really motivating.”

The game headed into overtime, where Bruno’s shot total tripled the total amount of shots taken by the Big Green, 3-1. But the Bears were unable to capitalize on their opportunities, as the game ended in a draw, 1-1.

“Of course we would always prefer a win, but to come back in the way we did was a big accomplishment, especially on the road,” Belinsky said.

This was Bruno’s first Ivy League contest of the season, as well as its first draw thus far. Dartmouth finished the game off with a 17-8 advantage in shots and dominated the Bears in corner kicks to the tune of 11-1.

“Coming away with a point is

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Mallory Yant ’15 launches a goal kick downfield. The senior goalkeeper allowed just a single goal in 110 minutes of action this weekend against the Big Green. something we’re very happy about.

Dartmouth was a strong team,” Belinsky said. “Every Ivy League game is

a battle, and it just shows you have to battle until the very end.”

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6 football » FOOTBALL, from page 1 mistakes like turnovers and penalties in order to win. After turning the ball over four times and getting called for five penalties against the Hoyas, Bruno was only penalized three times and had just one turnover against the Crimson. Unfortunately, those mistakes came at the most inopportune of times.

Entering the fourth quarter, Bruno had the ball and a 14-13 lead. Two incompletions from quarterback Marcus Fuller ’15 doomed a promising drive in Harvard territory and forced a punt.

On the ensuing Crimson drive, the Bears committed their first penalty of the day, a pass interference call that handed Harvard 15 free yards and a first down. Two plays later, an offsides call moved the ball five yards closer to the end zone. The drive ended in a short field goal, flipping the lead back to Harvard, 16-14.

Three rushes for eight yards made the next drive a three-and-out for Bruno’s offense, which quickly punted back to Harvard.

The Bruno defense, hampered by injuries to star inside linebacker Dan Giovacchini ’15 and impressive cornerback Patrick O’Neill ’15, seemed to have stopped the Crimson after a 10-yard completion on 3rd and 12, but a 15-yard penalty for targeting on the tackle gave Harvard new life and deflated the Bears. Seven plays later, Harvard scored a back-breaking touchdown to go up 22-14.

The Bears were lucky that Harvard botched its extra point, keeping the margin within one score with a little over two minutes remaining. But the last drive was a mess, as the first pass attempt from Fuller was nearly picked off, and the second one actually was, enabling the Crimson to kneel out the clock and end the game.

The quarter was an unmitigated disaster for Bruno, who was outgained 173-10, and had more turnovers (one) than first downs not from penalties (none). Fuller particularly struggled, going 0-for-4 with the interception in the quarter.

“We still have a ways to go,” Estes said. “There’s no question about that.”

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But one miserable quarter cannot wash away the successes of the game’s first three periods. Fuller was much better than he was against Georgetown, passing for 238 yards and a touchdown on 16 completions in 29 attempts.

“We were able to execute the game plan a little bit better this week,” Fuller said.

Andrew Coke ’16 found success again, though the Crimson did well to stifle Bruno’s running game. Rushing almost exclusively up the middle, Coke managed a mediocre 3.1 yards per carry, but did churn out 56 yards and a touchdown.

“We’ve still got to run the ball better,” Estes said. “I think that’s going to be a big part of us as a maturing offense. … That’s going to open up our play action game a little more.”

Another big storyline was success from unexpected places. Alex Jette ’17 was named a first team All-Ivy kick returner last season and didn’t anticipate seeing a lot of time as a wide receiver. But he caught three passes for 77 yards, a team-leading

total, including one amazing, acrobatic grab in traffic.

The Bears’ offensive line also stepped up in a major way. Despite a scary Harvard pass rush, including star defensive lineman Zach Hodges, Fuller was not sacked once Saturday after being brought down five times against Georgetown.

“We grew up a little bit,” Estes said of the offensive line.

He also praised bookend tackles Dakota Girard ’17 and Matt Girard ’17.

“I think both those sophomore tackles had a big chore just dealing with that Harvard defensive line, and I thought they did a terrific job,” he said.

At the end of the day, Estes was happy with what he saw from his team and how their play bodes for the rest of the season.

“The thing I liked was that we were a physical football team, and we went out there from the start with enthusiasm,” he said. “We had fight. We battled out there. If we didn’t go out there and battle, we were going to have a long year. But there’s hope. … I see light at the end of the tunnel.”

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“They wanted to redeem themselves from last week,” he added.

Harvard head coach Tim Murphy agreed with Estes’ assessment of Bruno’s effort.

“It seemed like it was uphill both ways the entire game,” he said. “They had a great game plan, their kids played extremely hard, and they made us work for everything.”

In a much-hyped home night game, both Estes and Fuller also credited the packed, enthusiastic stadium for helping to energize the team.

“If you can’t get up for a game like this, you don’t really have much of a pulse,” Fuller said.

It’s hard to be too frustrated with the showing the Bears had, but any loss, especially one in which victory was so close, is a disappointment.

“The effort was there, effort was great across the board. It’s tough to come up short,” Fuller said.

The Bears will take their third crack at their first win at the University of Rhode Island next Saturday, in the 99th edition of the battle for the Governor’s Cup.

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Breaking down the Bears: Maintaining hope despite second straight loss Defense perseveres without Giovacchini ’15, offense struggles without big-play threat

By CALEB MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

A loss is a loss, but some are more hopeful than others. So when the football team fell narrowly 22-14 to defending Ivy champion Harvard (2-0, Ivy 1-0) Saturday after an embarrassing loss to Georgetown (2-3) last week, the silver lining was bright.

Here’s a breakdown of the Bears’ effort in week two:

ANALYSIS

What’s strong?

Allowing over 400 yards of offense in a losing effort would usually be a blemish on a defense’s image, but closer analysis shows how effective the Bruno defense was. Employing a bend-not-break style, the Bears allowed just two plays of more than 30 yards and none over 45. Big plays did Brown in last year against Harvard, and limiting them this year meant the Crimson gained only seven points late in the third quarter.

The defensive performance was all the more impressive considering the unit operated without its captain for much of the game. Dan Giovacchini ’15, the tackling machine at the heart of Bruno Defense, went down with a head injury in the first half. Despite this, the team remained strong when it counted, allowing Harvard first downs on just two of their final nine third-down attempts.

That 65 of the Crimson’s yards and seven of their points would not have come but for a controversial third-down penalty in the fourth quarter is another mitigating factor.

In the end, the 22 points Bruno allowed were too many, but it’s worth noting: It’s six points fewer than they allowed to Harvard in just the second quarter of last year’s contest. Even in a loss, we saw gritty defense from the Bears who will soon be on the winning end of games.

What’s wrong?

Bruno fans on hand Saturday who also tuned in last year would notice a distinct drop off in explosiveness of the 2014 edition of the Bears. Much of this disparity is due to the graduation of John Spooney ’14 — the speedy tailback who threatened to break a big play every time he touched the ball. This year, the Bears haven’t shown that big play capability, and it has led to a lack of scoring overall.

The Bears cashed in with touchdowns on a 75-yard drive and a 95-yard drive, but none of their other nine drives of the game showed much promise. Quarterback Marcus Fuller ’15 did a good job of finding receivers Stian Romberg ’15 and Alex Jette ’17 for big-gainers over the middle, but neither penetrated the Crimson’s final line of defense.

No over-the-top receiver or speedster out of the backfield means the Bears will have to be methodical with their

drives, working their way down the field with a series of short gains — an ability Bruno has not shown much in its first two games.

What’s new?

Head Coach Phil Estes P’18 calls it “execution.” Others call it “discipline.”

Whatever you call it, Bruno did not have it against Georgetown but found it against Harvard. Week one was marked by sloppy play by the Bears. Four painful turnovers and five first-half penalties kept Bruno out of the end zone.

But through Saturday’s first three quarters? Zero penalties and zero turnovers.

Cracking down on the sloppy play was no doubt one of Estes’ focuses in practice throughout the week, and it showed. Bruno looked like a polished team, and while its offense and defense weren’t perfect, they were free of major mistakes. In fact, it was Harvard that committed the first eight penalties of the game, including two third-down infractions that helped the Bears down the field for their second touchdown.

Young teams are usually particularly susceptible to execution or discipline problems, so if Bruno’s new starters have already worked through these issues after two weeks, it bodes well for the next eight.

Turning point?

No moment sucked the energy out of Brown Stadium quite like the 15-yard personal foul committed by Bears defensive back Gabe Gonzalez ’16. With Harvard clinging to a 16-14 lead and four minutes remaining, Bruno forced the Crimson into a 3rd-and-12 and looked primed to get the ball back for a potential game-winning drive. Harvard tried a crossing pattern for receiver Andrew Fischer, and for a second, Bruno celebrated after stuffing him short of the line. But a flag came in from the back judge, and Gonzalez was tabbed for a helmet-tohelmet hit. It resulted not only in a first down but also in Gonzalez’s automatic ejection from the game. Instead of punting, Harvard used the extra life to score a touchdown that all but doomed Bruno.

A crackdown on blows to the head have led to a spike in penalties like the one Gonzalez committed, and they rarely come without controversy. Regardless of whether Gonzalez really led with his head or hit Fischer’s, the call squelched a possible comeback before it one even started.

Unsung hero?

Grant Senne ’16 was the unsung hero of the game — Bruno’s bend-not-break defense would not have worked had the defense not had room to bend. Saturday, such flexibility was provided by punter Senne. Rarely does the work of punters get column inches in game recaps or analyses, but Senne pinned the Crimson inside their own 30 six times, including three within their 15. The casual fan might not notice, but Harvard had a 92-yard drive that ended with just three points and drives of 68 and 40 yards that came up empty.

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Phillip Smith ’15 wraps up a Crimson ball carrier. The defensive back showed a willingness to make tackles, racking up four of the secondary’s 20 takedowns.

Alex Jette ’17 hauls in an acrobatic catch in traffic. The grab netted the Bears 36 yards and was part of a 95yard touchdown drive that gave Bruno a 14-6 lead midway through the third quarter.

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Panel talks future of brain research No Country For Women Neuroscientists grateful for increased research collaboration, falling costs of key technologies

By JASON NADBOY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A panel of alumni and faculty experts discussed the impact and future of the growing field of brain research Saturday morning as part of the University’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

The event, held in Salomon 101, attracted a crowd of around 200 people.

“Neuroscience is so exciting because it’s a discipline that really sits within multiple other disciplines,” said Diane Lipscombe ADE’00 P’14, professor of neuroscience and incoming interim director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science, who facilitated the conversation.

Advancements in technology over the last few decades have been very beneficial to researchers in the field, multiple panelists noted.

“I think (brain) imaging is something that really changed the way we look at the world in regards to neuroscience and even our prognosis of patients,” said Galen Henderson MD’93, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Neurocritical Care and Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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chances of recovery were slim for a patient who was comatose for a certain period of time, Henderson said, adding that “with modern brain imaging technology, we realize that some of these patients are able to do much more than we expected.”

The technology behind genetic sequencing has also advanced, making it significantly cheaper, said Ricardo Dolmetsch ’90, global head of neuroscience at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“I don’t know of anything else that has decreased in cost so much,” he added, drawing laughter from the audience.

“Greater collaboration” among all the researchers and institutions who deal with the brain is critical to neuroscience research, said Melanie Leitner PhD’93, associate director of clinical research at Biogen Idec, a biotechnology company also based in Cambridge.

It’s much easier to collaborate now than ever before, with academics, businesses and the government finding more ways to discuss and share research with one another, Leitner said.

But it has become more costly to collaborate because “unfortunately we have very misaligned incentive structures,” she said.

“We have a lot of data, but sometimes we don’t know what to do with it,” Henderson said, adding that there needs to a be new way of tackling some of the big questions facing brain science.

Another way to increase

productivity in neuroscience research is to set a standard, the discussants said.

Currently, a dearth of effective standards has led to a number of issues regarding communication between research groups, Leitner said. Sometimes comparing data is like comparing “apples to oranges” — it just can’t be done, she added.

“Government can be very effective in setting standards for the industry,” she added.

Leitner also said the nonprofit sector does a lot of good work because its main incentive is finding cures, so it sets up effective frameworks for research.

One of the main challenges neuroscientists face is that testing and measuring the brain directly, is difficult, if not impossible, Leitner said.

“Cancer can be taken out and tested, but with the brain this can’t happen,” she added.

Several audience members said they were pleased to learn more about a field that tackles research questions they consider critical.

“It’s the cutting-edge issue in medical science — all the diseases related to the brain,” said Paul Bagatelas P’17.

“I came because this whole issue of neuroscience is at the forefront of issues we need to know about,” said Elizabeth Sherman ’77 P’06 P’09.

Sherman said her one complaint of the panel was its short length. “It could have been interesting to give (the speakers) more time to go into more depth.”

battles Indian rape culture Student-created organization holds workshops in schools, creates viral video

By GRACE YOON STAFF WRITER

For Ria Vaidya ’16 and Shreena Thakore ’16, summer break meant more than reuniting with friends and family. The pair launched No Country For Women, a nationwide campaign based in India dedicated to combatting rape culture.

Using the $10,000 grant they received from the Projects for Peace fellowship, Thakore and Vaidya traveled to India in May, launching the project by contacting schools and colleges in Vaidya’s hometown of Bangalore. After multiple rejections, they finally held their first workshops in mid-July, and the project gained a positive reception and invitations to host further workshops, Vaidya said.

“By word of mouth, people were talking about us and the project, especially in educational circles,” she said.

A week after Vaidya and Thakore held their first workshop, a documentary maker contacted them to make a short film on their work. The video “went absolutely viral” and received more than 900,000 views, Vaidya said.

Soon after, several organizations across India as well as companies such as Google contacted the organization about speaking at conferences.

“It just goes to show how bad the situation was in India,” Vaidya said. “Anyone doing anything was shocking.”

The organization’s next step will be to phase out the workshops and move into making and distributing educational materials to schools in India.

While Thakore has opted to take a semester off to stay in India to continue the organization’s work, Vaidya has returned to campus prepared to continue its work in Providence.

Vaidya has been speaking to faculty mentors at Brown, including Alan Harlam, director of Innovation

and Social Entrepreneurship at the Swearer Center for Public Service, to discuss what directions to take the organization in the future.

“We are already in the process of making a toolkit, but we still need to think about how to distribute them and what modules we’re going to keep,” Vaidya said.

Though the organization has received positive response from Brown students, it received greater response from students at the Rhode Island School of Design, Vaidya said.

RISD sophomore Lucy Crelli, who spent this past summer working with Title IX policy at RISD, was conducting research and emailing various organizations to collaborate on workshops when she discovered No Country for Women through various social media platforms like Upworthy, she said.

Vaidya “caught my attention because she’s only a year older than me but she already has a functional nonprofit that’s making a lot of progress in India,” Crelli said.

Vaidya has agreed to be a speaker for RISD’s sexual assault awareness program in April, Crelli said. Vaidya has also agreed to host a discussion session for the RISD Global Initiative, a co-curricular organization, of which Crelli is the co-president, dedicated to raising awareness of international issues.

“I think RISD students would receive her well,” Crelli said of Vaidya.

Crelli and Vaidya also discussed doing workshops in schools in Providence, starting with the Wheeler School, though the plan is still in its preliminary stages.

Vaidya said that giving workshops in Providence might be different from giving workshops back in her native country where she had “enough cultural ownership” of the issues.

“I feel like at Brown, I don’t have a place to speak about … what it means to be a feminist in a different country,” Vaidya said. “So I’ve been aiming to provide a space for discussion for international students to discuss and share their background and perspectives.”

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On the Main Green Sunday, as part of the celebration of Brown’s 250th year, alums, parents and students gather to watch performances by students and Dave Binder and sample farmers’ market goods.

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calendar TODAY 4 P.M. SEEING WITH TWO EYES: DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT IN ECUADOR

Participants in the documentary “Oil & Water” will lead a discussion about the film and its depiction of the problems caused by natural resource allocation in the Amazon.

Salomon 001 8 P.M. NEXT STEPS FOR CLIMATE ACTIVISM

The discussion, sponsored by the Brown Political Forum, will analyze the significance of the People’s Climate March and its impact on future environmental activism. Salomon 203 9 P.M. BEGINNER SWING DANCE LESSON

The Swing Dance Club will host a free dance lesson for anyone interested, from beginners to experienced dancers.

No partner required. Alumnae Hall

TOMORROW 10 A.M. MAKE YOUR OWN STRESS BALL

Escape from the piles of homework and midterms by creating your own homemade stress ball out of balloons and sand, hosted by the campus group Active Minds. Main Green 4:30 P.M. “LITTLE YELLOW STICKIES” READING

Local author Rachael L. McIntosh will read from the first book in her trilogy, Security Through Absurdity, a fictional story about growing up in Gen X and navigating corporate America. Brown Bookstore

5:30 P.M. “HILL 24 DOESN’T ANSWER” SCREENING

As part of the “1948-Once Upon a Palestine” movie series, the Middle East Studies program will host a screening of the film, which explores the background of the 1948 ArabIsraeli War. Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum

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EDITORIAL

Don’t forget about Ebola Commentators from college students to cable news pundits have noticed our tendency to hop from one issue to the next. Scandals and crises monopolize conversations until the next news cycle. But Ebola cannot be one of those issues. The price for not responding immediately and drastically is too high.

Two weeks ago President Obama rightly dedicated 3,000 U.S. military personnel ­— twice as many as are currently in Iraq — as well as 1,700 beds and 400,000 home health kits to fighting the disease in Liberia. This year’s outbreak dwarfs any since the disease was discovered in 1976. With more than 2,900 lives taken, its death toll is already double the combined total of the previous four largest outbreaks. By comparison, due in part to their significantly lower mortality rates, the MERS outbreak killed 300 people in 2012-13 and the SARS epidemic killed 800 in 2002-03. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have predicted that, without sufficient international aid, the Ebola death toll could rise to 1.4 million

by January. Even worse, the World Health Organization Ebola Response Team published a report Tuesday in The New England Journal of Science warning if containment fails, the disease could become “endemic” to the population.

A danger to international security, Ebola must be prioritized as a global threat. But unlike the controversies in regards to Ukraine, Syria or Gaza that divide the world powers, this is a crisis that should bring the members of the United Nations together. Thus far, the contributions by the United States and nongovernmental organizations like Doctors Without Borders have not been matched by other powers, including those in Europe. If resources and personnel are not afforded to Sierra Leone and Guinea, experts have warned the region faces a destabilizing migration as populations cross borders in search of better medical care in Liberia.

For a disease with a 70 percent mortality rate and no cure, traditional approaches to world health crises are not enough. The need for a vaccine is urgent, but its development is not plausible given the lack of time to react to a global outbreak. Health organizations, while capable of providing long-term aid, are rendered useless in the face of such a severe emergency outbreak.

Even beyond the potential loss of life in West Africa, the disease deserves the world’s attention and resources because scientists suggest if unmanaged, it could mutate into an even more contagious virus and travel across continents. There are a number of very scary, very real crises in international security today. We must prevent Ebola from being one of them. Proper resources and every effort need to be afforded to end this outbreak and avoid a worse-case scenario pandemic.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

We are what we wear SAMANTHA ISMAN opinions columnist

In yet another faux pas, Urban Outfitters recently released a vintage Kent State sweater that looks to have bloodstains on it. A seeming reference to the shooting of students by the National Guard during anti-Vietnam War protests in the 1970s, the design offended many people and began yet another short-lived boycott of the store.

While this is not the brand’s first offense, Urban Outfitters, Inc., which includes the namesake stores along with brands like Anthropologie and Free People, is as popular and profitable as ever. It seems that for Urban Outfitters no publicity is bad publicity, as Money Magazine put it.

If we really are what we wear, then shouldn’t we be aware of what we wear? But consumerism and the desire to be fashionable overpower any reservations about brands’ use of culture to offensive levels. As consumers, we should be literally putting our money where our mouths are.

In spite of the offenses of large, popular clothing stores such as Urban Outfitters and Zara — which had baby pajamas that were awfully similar to the garb Jews were forced to wear in concentration camps, yellow Stars of David included — people continue buying their products. While we de-

nounce their actions and force these stores to take the offensive items off their shelves, they don’t change our attitude as consumers.

In spite of being aware of both retail stores profiting from others’ pain, I found it hard to stop shopping there myself. In my mind, it was just one offense, and that one offense didn’t take away from the fact that I like their clothing. Yet one offense becomes many — as has happened with Urban Outfitters — when companies realize

noise.” In other words, companies are forced to do something outrageous for us to pay attention. When they succeed in their goal, we judge them for their actions — or at least say that we do. But the companies have still succeeded in their goals, and while we don’t accept their actions, there is also a bigger chance we’ll be inclined to go shop at these stores because they remain in our minds.

It’s not a surprise that many companies would rather be on the cover of

University student columnist Lauren Carroll wrote.

This is not to say that everyone should boycott these stores — it seems that most of them issue public apologies along with pulling the offensive items off the shelves — but we should all be aware of our own actions. At times, it is easier to ignore our twinges of guilt than change our actions. It seems easier to just accept the apologies and forget about the transgression than actually change where we

Consumerism and the desire to be fashionable overpower any reservations about brands’ use of culture to offensive levels. As consumers, we should be literally putting our money where our mouths are. that their customers won’t curb their purchasing.

Millennials are offended, but the offense never goes deep enough. Or perhaps we really do have a hard time figuring out when high fashion stops being fashionable and simply becomes highly offensive.

Millennials “are especially difficult to reach … because (we’re) constantly bombarded with stimulation and advertising,” according to Money Magazine. “It may take something truly shocking to break through all of the

a news source — even if it is for something they have done wrong — than not be on it at all. As consumers, we are the only ones who have the power to change this dynamic, but we constantly choose not to. Actress Sophia Bush’s boycott against Urban Outfitters, which “could possibly make an actual impact on the company’s decisions regarding the type of clothing they design and the message that they send to consumers,” proves that we do have the power to change the motto and wear what we are, as St. Joseph’s

shop and what we wear. While the discordance between our beliefs and actions seems wrong, it must also be understood as a choice. We seem to be choosing consumption over what we believe is right.

More than that, oftentimes the real offenses don’t bleed through to the level at which we consume the products, so we remain ignorant as to where our clothing comes from — not just where it’s made, but also who is running these companies. For example, the Urban Outfitters on Thayer Street

is possibly one of the quintessential Brown spots, yet I would say that many of us would not agree with what owner Richard Hayne — “a right-wing Republican,” according to New York Magazine fashion writer Sharon Clott — believes.

Chances are companies will continue using tactics that will be offensive at times in order to stay “relevant” and to stay in the minds of the consumers.

We, as said consumers, have to make a choice. Will we take the offenses personally and blacklist the brand, or will the awareness not change how we act?

Both choices have pros and cons.

Understanding that being fashionable can also mean being offensive means that at times we might put our own beliefs on hold. Do I think everyone will — and has to — stop shopping at Urban Outfitters and Zara?

The answer is I don’t know, and I’m not equipped to answer that question.

But we also have to learn how to take a definite stance rather than an uncertain one. If we are willing to publicly chastise a company for its actions, we should also be willing to have our actions directly correspond to those thoughts. Nothing will change as long as these fashion faux pas only bring publicity — regardless of how negative — to these companies and not actual repercussions.

Sami Isman ’15 can be reached at samantha_isman@brown.edu.

Leagues complicit in athlete scandals SEAN BLAKE opinions columnist

These past two weeks have reminded me of the place that professional sports hold in the American heart. Not a day has gone by in which Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson or Roger Goodell has not been mentioned.

The actions and inactions of these men have single-handedly opened up the national conversation about domestic violence: its victims and its perpetrators and the complex interactions between the two. These men have also sparked conversations about a league’s obligations to police its employees and the general violence that pervades some of this country’s most quintessential pastimes.

It is my hope that some good can come of this ugliness, because I know for certain that we as a nation will too soon shift our gaze away from these heinous indiscretions and focus back on the games themselves. We will once again be too lost in the captivating violence of men throwing themselves headlong at one another to entertain even a second thought about who they really are. And to so easily revert to this simplistic worshipping of professional athletes is to once again pull the wool over our eyes.

Instead, we should try to remember that there is a difference between Ray Rice the football player and Ray Rice the man. We should never again see the player alone as a model for how we ought to live our lives, because we cannot simply discard the question of his character. We should demand that the leagues governing these men hold similarly realistic views

of their employees, especially in light of all that has transpired in these past two weeks. Because Charles Barkley and Nike were right 21 years ago in the famous ad campaign in which they proclaimed that athletes are not role models.

And that is something that fans and leagues alike need to start treating as canon.

The Nike ad campaign served as an official announcement of Barkley’s long-held belief that athletes should not be portrayed as role models. Rejecting the NBA’s notion of his public role off the court, Barkley believed, “All our role models don’t have to be jocks and en-

This ad was incredibly telling. The legend it attacked had given rise to a dangerous sense of complacency in the very institutions designed to hold athletes to higher standards. Beyond tricking their fans, leagues blinded themselves to the conduct of their employees. In spinning elaborate tales of morality about their employees all those years ago, leagues paved the way for the morally reprehensible behavior we have spent so much time in the past couple of weeks trying to dissect and understand. The road to hell, it seems, really is paved with good intentions.

Possessing God-given athletic talents — or any sort of talent, for that matter — does not indicate virtuousness or inherently make someone a role model.

tertainers,” as he said in an interview in January. This ad simply served as a vehicle for the very public, opinionated and divisive — yet undeniably insightful — Barkley to offer an indictment of the NBA and the culture it creates around its athletes. This ad allowed a future Hall of Famer the airtime to tell the truth as he saw it, the truth that the heroic mythology created about him was entirely misinformation dreamed up, in part, by the league he played for.

And if the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, then the NFL, NBA and MLB absolutely need help. Because before Ray Rice, Alex Rodriguez and Chris Anderson, there were Donte Stallworth and Aaron Hernandez, Mark McGwire and Pete Rose, Kobe Bryant and Javaris Crittenton. Because recent events are just the latest in a seemingly unending cycle of transgressions — criminal and otherwise — committed by people who just happen to

be professional athletes. Because this isn’t the first time that any of these leagues have offered meaningless platitudes to their fans and then turned around and acted as if everything were merely business as usual.

So instead of nitpicking about player attire or excessive celebrations, leagues should spend a little more time considering and addressing the character of the people they employ. Because these institutions, like it or not, play an integral part in the creation of the American conscience, from inception to fruition. And all the good work the leagues do melts away in the face of their sheer unwillingness even to begin to re-evaluate themselves.

But it is not unreasonable to hope for attitude changes from the NFL and others. There are too many smart people in high places for such organizations to ignore so blatantly the writing on the wall. If for no reason other than quelling the PR maelstrom, they should make changes to better address player conduct and downplay the moral rhetoric that encompasses the game.

And we too should hold ourselves responsible. We need to remember that possessing God-given athletic talents — or any sort of talent, for that matter — does not indicate virtue or inherently make someone a role model. At the end of the day, Charles Barkley said it best: “Just because I dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.” It’s about time the NBA, NFL and MLB registered and then acted upon this reality.

Sean Blake ’17 can’t dunk a basketball and probably shouldn’t be raising your kids either. He can be reached at sean_blake@brown.edu.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

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Alums’ written stories give personal touch to U. history Five writers who contributed to ‘The Brown Reader’ highlight college struggles, romances

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Sheila Bridges ’86, author and founder of Sheila Bridges Design, documentary director Oren Jacoby ’77 P’17 and actor and musician James Naughton ’67 speak about their careers in the arts on a Saturday panel.

Artists speak on creative process, inspiration Alums detail challenges of artistic industry, share moments that shaped their careers

By KIKI BARNES UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR

Creativity “starts with the belief that you’re actually a creative person,” said Sheila Bridges ’86, author and founder of Sheila Bridges Design, at the beginning of a panel discussion Saturday morning.

The panel, called “Making ‘It’: Delving Into the Creative Process,” was one of the first in a series of forums commemorating Brown’s 250th anniversary during the fall celebration this weekend.

Bridges, Oren Jacoby ’77 P’17, an Academy Award-nominated documentary director at Storyville Films, and James Naughton ’67, a Tony Award-winning actor and musician, participated in the discussion about the creative process and their success in their fields.

Arnold Weinstein P’92, professor of comparative literature, moderated the panel.

“In my career, in the work I do, process is sort of everything,” Jacoby said.

“If I had to define what I do, it’s more like being a plumbing contractor — controlling a flow of information,” she added.

The panelists all agreed that creativity is essentially a “skill set.”

“You’re really picking (something) because it touches you deep in your consciousness,” Jacoby said. “And it touches a chord in generation after generation.”

“Creativity gives you a sense of your place in the world,” he said.

The panel quickly turned into a storytelling forum, with Bridges, Jacoby and Naughton relating experiences that have defined their careers.

Naughton told the audience that he originally intended to be pre-med.

“That didn’t last a minute,” he joked, adding that he ended up concentrating in English but switched his focus to acting during the second half of his junior year.

“I needed to satisfy an arts requirement,” he said, adding that without the influence of Professor Emeritus of Theater Arts and Performance Studies James Barnhill, he would never have

“Sometimes (ideas) just don’t work.

You have to know when to give it a rest.”

Sheila Bridges ‘86 pursued acting.

“Talk about a professor having a profound impact,” Naughton said.

Jacoby received one of his big filmmaking jobs through a coincidence in a barber shop.

“I have a really great Italian barber,” Jacoby said. One morning after cutting Jacoby’s hair, the barber introduced him to a man sitting nearby. That man was a “hedge fund guy,” and after meeting Jacoby, he said, “That’s funny, I need a filmmaker.”

The man was interested in creating a documentary about Italian Jews during the Holocaust, and the resulting

film, which Jacoby directed, is set to open at the Rome Film Festival in two weeks.

“What’s your barber’s number?”

Naughton joked.

After the panelists spoke, an audience member asked them about working within constrictions “but still (creating) something new.”

The panelists agreed that finding funding for their projects is one of the hardest aspects of being an artist.

“You’re dealt the cards you’re with, and you try to do the best you can,” Jacoby said. “If something looks too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.”

Another audience member asked about experiencing creative blocks.

“I think that’s pretty typical,” Bridges said.

“For myself, I always have to take a break from it. Sometimes (ideas) just don’t work. You have to know when to give it a rest,” she said.

Naughton told the story of author E.L. Doctorow, who, after having severe writer’s block, started describing the windows of the Victorian house he was staying in.

“The next thing he knew he was writing ‘Ragtime,’” Naughton said.

A final audience member asked, “When did it come to you that the decision you were making at the time was the right one?”

“I don’t know if you ever know,” Naughton replied.

“It’s about just making the commitment,” Bridges said. “You just have to do it, and then you maybe retrospectively convince yourself that it was the right thing.”

Naughton added, “And sometimes you’re like, ‘What was I thinking?’”

she became a freelance writer. As an undergraduate, she wrote a paper for an American History class that was published in “American Art Review.”

When an art dealer showed up outside of her dorm room asking for her, Liasson’s roommate “flipped out and ran to

By ASHNA MUKHI find me at Faunce House, certain that I STAFF WRITER had gotten involved in drugs over the Laughter and smiles of nostalgia lit summer,” she recalled. up the faces of the roughly two dozen The authors expressed their excitealums and students who gathered in the ment over the opportunity to publish Brown Bookstore this Saturday after- in “The Brown Reader.” noon. The source of these high spirits “I have been waiting my whole life was a reading by five authors who have to write this,” said Myung-Ok Lee, who contributed to “The Brown Reader: 50 also wrote for The Herald. Myung-Ok Writers Remember College Hill.”

Lee’s piece detailed her experience navi“The Brown Reader,” a collection of gating the University’s open curriculum, stories and illustrations by alumni, was which she found difficult due to her published in May in celebration of the parents’ skepticism toward her liberal University’s 250th anniversary. Judy education. Ultimately, they accepted Sternlight ’82 and Wendy Strothman ’72 her choices when they saw “how I was P’07 spearheaded both the publication absolutely at the place I needed to be and Saturday’s event. Strothman said in my life,” she read. the idea for the book came to her when Mooney, author of “Learning she was pondering ways in which she Outside the Lines,” read from “The could feature the University and “im- Dyslexic Brain Kicks Ass.” The title mediately thought of all the incredible refers to Mooney’s friend Dave, who writers who had gone responded with these to Brown.” words when Mooney “I also see this The event feaconfessed that he Korean barbeque had not learned to tured M. Charles Bakst ’66, Marie read until the age of truck parked in Myung-Ok Lee ’86, twelve. Dave, along front of Caswell Jonathan Mooney with his wife Becky, and Hegeman, and are “two of the many ’00, Sean Kelly ’84 and Mara Liasson ’77. think, ‘Where were rare breeds of muBakst, a former tants who populated you when I needed Brown, people whose Herald editor-inchief, kicked off the interests and passions you?’” event with a reading radiated in divergof his piece titled ing and overlapping Charles Bakst ’66 “BDH Editor Soars, concentric circles that Stumbles, Snags a couldn’t be squared,” Wife.” He recounted the story of his en- read Mooney. counter with a student from Pembroke When Strothman asked the auCollege, Elizabeth Feroe ’67. Feroe was dience whether any aspects of the offended by his news story, “For Women authors’ work had impacted them, at Pembroke College: Brown Health Cliff Weitzman ’16 said he had read Center Prescribes Birth Control Pills,” Mooney’s book after his calculus teacher and his subsequent editorials criticizing in high school had prohibited him from the “Victorian social system that ob- taking her course because he was dyssessed over curfews and barred women lexic. “It was a very touching book to from living in off-campus apartments.” me, and it inspired me a lot,” he said.

The last line of the piece — “On June Geraud Bablon ’14, who attended 6, 1967, we were married. And we still the event, said “The Brown Reader” are.” — drew gasps and squeals from the was his “first introduction to what it audience members as Bakst gestured to means to be an alum and to have these Feroe, seated in the first row. shared experiences with all the people Kelly, who was a cartoonist for The who have been on this campus.”

Herald from 1980 to 1984 sketched an One audience member asked illustration of the Van Wickle Gates, about any regrets the authors had or attempting to draw a parallel between any changes they could have made to walking through them as a first-year their Brown experiences. Liasson, to the and entering heaven. “I saw the gates as agreement of most of the other authors, an opportunity to play with the cliche replied that she “had none at all.” of the pearly gates to present Brown as But Bakst said, “I wish I learned unique and timeless, a magical place,” more and spent more time as a stuhe said. “Personally, I hope I end up in dent. I also see this Korean barbeque heaven, rather than that other place, truck parked in front of Caswell and which is Dartmouth,” he said.

Hegeman, and think ‘Where were you Liasson recounted the story of how when I needed you?’”