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Film festival showcases Latin American films Range of culture fuels lineup, demonstrating broad talent rather than specific theme

By DREW WILLIAMS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Twenty-two years in, the Providence Latin America Film Festival is leading with its typical selection of films that — atypically — directly confronts such permeating societal topics as religion, gender and cultural disparity.

But underneath the art-house sheen, the films serve a dual purpose, celebrating Latin American cinema for the already initiated and opening the eyes of those with a Hollywood-centric worldview.

Responding to its diverse surroundings, the festival — which runs through Sunday and includes up to eight screenings a day spread out between Bryant University, the University of Rhode Island’s Providence campus and the Warwick Public Library — adopts the unofficial goal of “exposing anyone who is open-minded about anything, about

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the art of film, to see the shading of the Latino experience,” said Tony Aguilar, executive director of PLAFF. The festival begins with “Esclavo de Dios,” or, for those reading the accompanying subtitles, “God’s Slave.” Recently returning from the international festival circuit, and — like all of PLAFF’s offerings — unreleased in American theaters, “Esclavo de Dios” looks at a young Syrian boy who is raised by the same Islamic extremists who killed his family.

Anointed a martyr and sent to Venezuela to blend in and build a life until the opportune moment to fulfill his mission as a suicide bomber, he struggles between the life he has grown to love and the religious call he believes he faces.

The film juxtaposes this outsider South American experience with that of another minority — an Israeli Mossad agent, native of one of South America’s largest Jewish communities in Buenos Aires, who is bent on stopping the terrorist attack.

Another film with contemporary relevance is “Mujeres con Pelotas,” translating to the double-entendre “Women with Balls.” The documentary focuses on the prevailing chauvinistic attitude that » See FILM, page 3

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Looking to rebound after dropping their first two games of the season, the Bears hope to find success this weekend against a URI team that has given up 44 points and over 550 yards of offense per game.

R.I. battle pits Bears against Rams Both Ocean State teams seek ownership of Governor’s Cup, first win of season

By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Though still winless, the football team is drawing confidence from its strong showing against Harvard ahead of Saturday’s matchup against the University of Rhode Island.

The Bears (0-2, 0-1 Ivy) looked like a different football team when hosting the Crimson Saturday, making plays on offense and defense that they had failed to against Georgetown in the season’s first game. Four turnovers against the Hoyas became one against Harvard, five penalties became three, and three points scored became 14.

But a loss remained a loss, as the Crimson scored twice in a dominant fourth quarter to turn a 14-13 deficit into a 22-14 win. Bruno gave the defending Ivy League champions all they

could handle, and though it doesn’t show in their record, the Bears are feeling better about their season than it might seem.

“We definitely took some big steps in the right direction,” said quarterback Marcus Fuller ’15.

“I think we really demonstrated to Harvard and everyone that we’re a physical team,” said linebacker Xavier Russo ’15. “But we still lost the game.”

Head Coach Phil Estes P’18 emphasized minimizing mistakes after a » See FOOTBALL, page 3

Secret keepers

Looking inside Brown’s online anonymous communities

By GRACE YOON STAFF WRITER

Kiki Tapiero ’17 was scrolling through her Facebook newsfeed when she noticed a post: “Hearing people snap their approval of things makes me nauseous.”

One of many anonymous posts on the page Brown University Confessions, the message resonated with Tapiero. Though it may have seemed a light-hearted and inconsequential confession, she said she saw it as evidence of certain, deeply human feelings that connect students — even if they never say them aloud.

“Even though we generally say we are accepting, I think people are still afraid to say whatever they really feel,” she said.

Anonymous online pages such as Brown Confessions are part of a growing trend among the Brown community and nationwide over the past couple of years. Many contributors choose these forums as places to divulge their innermost thoughts without facing the potential repercussions of expressing them in public.

Various anonymous pages associated with Brown attempt to use anonymity for positive ends, like affirmations or affections, or as outlets for people to disclose personal issues or concerns.

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Marques Love ’17 said he found the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America’s new “Racial Microaggressions and Microaffirmations” exhibition eye-opening because “any of the faces could have been me.”

Exhibit spotlights micro-interactions Gallery gives voice to oftignored microaggressions, microaffirmations for people of color at Brown

By ALEKSANDRA LIFSHITS STAFF WRITER

“Where are you really from?” “He’s not white. He is cool.” “Black girls can’t sing opera.” These are just a few examples of the quotes featured in the exhibition “Racial Microaggressions and Microaffirmations,” which opened

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Thursday at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. The display features 41 photographs of Brown community members of color, including students and faculty members, holding whiteboards, each bearing a microaggression or microaffirmation they have experienced.

“It was painful to see (the) ubiquity of these experiences,” said Dannie Ritchie, clinical assistant professor of family medicine. By showing each face and individual story, the photographs provided emotional substance, she added.

Revealing microaggressions and microaffirmations in exhibition format “is the beginning of a larger process of

awareness and the expansion of antiracist communication and connection,” said Tricia Rose, director of the CSREA. The exhibition focused specifically on microaggressions and microaffirmations that are brief and daily because “they serve as a powerful window on the casual but painful, ongoing and sometimes shocking ways that discriminatory and hurtful speech perpetuates societal inequalities, conflict and disrespect,” Rose said.

Focusing on micro-level interactions is significant, since perpetrators are often unaware of the effects of their communications, said Ruthy Kohorn Rosenberg, » See EXHIBIT, page 2

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But the process of de-individuation, or the loss of one’s individuality, is not without consequence, for it could allow someone to normalize exemption from punishment, said Bertram Malle, professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences. On such forums, people are “more willing to be destructive, racist and harmful,” he explained.

And because the nature of each page is shaped by the content submitted and chosen for publication, moderators of these pages are faced with the challenge of creating a space that balances the freedom of expression with the safety and comfort of students.

‘No ulterior motive’ Pages like Brown University Compliments and Brown Admirers seek to create positive spaces by allowing students to anonymously send praise to or express romantic interest in a particular person.

Paige Morris ’16, who has received posts on both Compliments and Admirers, said the anonymity strengthens the impact of the compliments, making them more meaningful than those from friends. “(When) friends compliment me, I think of course they would have to, there’s a bias,” she said. “But if you get » See ANONYMOUS, page 2 t o d ay

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2 university news » ANONYMOUS, from page 1 an (anonymous) post, … there’s really no ulterior motive, so I take that more seriously.” She occasionally submits posts about her friends, she added, hoping her admiration will yield the same feeling.

William Janover ’15, founder of Compliments and a BlogDailyHerald writer and its former editor-in-chief, proudly noted that his page was the “original one,” launched in November 2012, when online anonymous compliment pages were becoming popular on college campuses.

Though Compliments led the trend, many students interviewed agreed that Admirers has garnered greater attention over time.

A moderator of Admirers since 2013, Jonathan, a senior who requested anonymity to ensure people continue to feel comfortable submitting to the page, attributed the popularity of his page to the “raunchier” nature of the posts.

The tone of Admirers “is more relaxed … (and can) break that barrier more easily,” Janover conceded.

But while followers of the page may have a relaxed relationship with it, the moderators are anything but laidback.

The moderators must read and filter submissions carefully but are also wary of filtering “too much,” Jonathan said.

Working virtually, each of the three Admirers moderators individually judges and discards posts that clearly go against the page’s purpose, and for questionable posts, they consult one another. In rare cases of posts that could be considered offensive, moderators send a message to the recipients requesting their permission to post the submissions publicly, Jonathan explained.

“We’ve gotten angry messages from both sides — ones telling us to post more submissions and others saying, ‘I can’t believe you posted this,’” he said, acknowledging that sometimes the moderators’ original judgment fails and they must delete posts. When a recipient or sender expresses discomfort and requests that a post be taken down, the moderators do so, and sometimes, a sender changes his or her mind and contacts them prior to publishing, he said.

The filtering process is more straightforward for the Confessions page. Whereas posts on Admirers and Compliments generally have a targeted recipient, posts on Confessions lack such specificity, said Sam, a senior and a moderator of the page who requested anonymity to ensure people continue to feel comfortable submitting to the page.

“If someone is being named (in a submitted post), we don’t post that,” he said, adding that they don’t want to compromise anonymity for either side.

He and the other moderator of the page also automatically discard posts that are self-promotional or advertise products, he said.

“We are the vehicle for people to post — we’re not trying to put or say anything else,” Sam said, adding that they manage the page in the “most unbiased fashion possible.”

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The process of turning experiences into art was a collaborative one, Rose said. Individuals who brought in quotes for the project at CSREA’s community-wide invitation worked

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in February 2013, that mission has become a greater challenge. Recently, some confessions have taken on “more serious materials,” Sam noted, adding that one of their challenging tasks was going through posts related to sexual assault when it garnered significant campus attention in April. At the time, it was “harder to make the judgment calls” due to the gravity of the issue and the high number of submissions, he said.

Some of these submissions exhibited one disadvantage of anonymous posts: “People take commentators’ comments less seriously,” Malle said. With less pressure to provide evidence and fewer repercussions for voicing opinions, readers “question the … gravity of the comment,” he said.

But for pages like Admirers, anonymity and levity seem to go hand in hand, as anonymity reinforces the entertainment value of the page, Jonathan said. “It’s a specific page with a specific purpose — a fun thing for Brown students to see and do.”

But even a seemingly harmless page like Admirers can cause discomfort.

“When I see other posts that are explicitly sexual, I personally feel uncomfortable, but when I look at the comments from the (recipient), he or she … jokes it off, so I try not to inject my personal feelings into that interaction,” Morris said.

Jo’Nella Queen Ellerbe ’15, who has received several Admirers posts, offered a different perspective.

In the spring of her sophomore year, an anonymous person, referring to the fact that she is on the women’s rugby team, inquired about her sexual orientation and relationship status. Another post this summer ended with the question, “Any chance you’re into white guys?”

Though Ellerbe found the comments somewhat flattering, she sees them as problematic and objectifying, saying they delve into things she would not “necessarily want in the public sphere without putting that out myself.”

Ellerbe raised the question of how freedom of speech can be used in ways harmful to those feeling marginalized and unsafe.

“Not to equalize the concept of this page to any larger form of oppression that people face,” she said, but the free speech argument “has been used to justify oppression towards people of marginalized

identity. … That should be reevaluated.”

The Confessions page also raises questions about anonymous freedom of speech.

As the page evolved, Sam noted a trend among the posts: They were often either quirky, entertaining and absurd or serious, personal and even triggering.

Though Sam expressed some concern about sensitive content, he said he has published such posts with the trust that those who visit the page already know what to expect from it. “I’m not so worried about the readers because I know that we have a steady number of followers,” he said.

Ellerbe, on the other hand, suggested that including disclaimers or trigger warnings at the start of a post or a set of posts dealing with sensitive topics could be helpful.

While some might appreciate such warnings, Tapiero said she is drawn to these sometimes deeper posts because of their intimacy.

Recalling a post in which a person disclosed his struggle with a constant and profound feeling of loneliness, Tapiero said, “That’s what I feel sometimes.”

“When you read a post that resonates with you and has gotten 200 likes, … those 200 people agree to some extent,” she said.

“It reminds you that we’re all sharing this one human experience.”

with photographers to decide the best form of presentation — for example, they discussed whether a drawing, a smile or a frown should accompany the quote.

CSREA organized photographs by contrasting styles and backdrops to evoke a sense of surprise and unpredictability, Rose said.

“I had to stop in shock,” said Marques Love ’17. “Any of these faces could

have been me.” He added that had he known about the project, he would have shared a question he is commonly asked: “Marques? So you’re French?”

The emphasis on racial microaggressions has been gaining momentum at campuses across the country — similar projects have occurred at Fordham University and at Harvard with the #ITooAmHarvard campaign. But this

A lasting imprint And this positivity toward the pages — whether due to feelings of companionship, flattery or catharsis — is exactly what the founders hope for.

Though Janover acknowledged that the Compliments page has recently received and published fewer posts than it did when it was first created, he still considers the page a success.

“Something like this can leave an impression even if it doesn’t last forever,” he said. “It becomes part of your Brown experience.”

And some newer pages, such as Brunonian Crushes and Brown University Micro/Aggressions, that springboarded off the model of Admirers, Compliments and Confessions may leave a similar impression.

“Even if those sites went away,” Tapiero said, “they’re still things that people are thinking in their minds.”

Elizabeth Garrett, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Southern California, will be Cornell’s 13th and first female president, the Cornell Board of Trustees announced Tuesday.

Garrett will succeed David Skorton on July 1, 2015. Skorton, who in March announced plans to relocate to Washington to become secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, will continue serving as president through June.

Garrett received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Oklahoma in 1985 and a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1988. She has held multiple professorial positions in law, including at the University of Chicago, Harvard and UVA, the Ithaca Journal reported, and has held her current position at USC since 2010.

“Cornell is fundamentally shaped by its founders’ lasting vision of a university built on egalitarianism, inclusion and public engagement, as well as the breadth and diversity of ways in which this vision continues to be expressed across the university,” Garrett wrote in a statement to the Cornell community posted on the university’s website.

“I could not be more certain that we have found the most perfect person in Beth Garrett,” said Robert Harrison ’76, chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees, at Tuesday’s press conference.

A 19-person presidential search committee selected Garrett out of a pool of roughly 200 candidates.

Drug informant policy at UMass criticized after student death report The campus police department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst came under scrutiny this weekend after the Boston Globe published an article revealing that a student informant for UMass police died of a heroin overdose last October.

The student, a 20-year-old junior at the time whom the Globe referred to by his middle name, Logan, was caught selling LSD and molly by UMass police in 2012. Instead of suspending Logan and notifying his parents, police offered to keep the drug offenses a secret in exchange for Logan’s help apprehending other drug dealers on campus, the Globe reported.

When Logan was caught — close to a year before his death — UMass police found an unused hypodermic needle in the student’s room, a possible indicator of a drug problem.

UMass announced Monday that it will evaluate the university’s confidential drug informant policy and possibly altering it to require informants seek help for drug problems, the Globe reported.

UMass said in a statement that the review would analyze whether the program “that deters distribution of illegal, lethal drugs” could continue effectively with “a mandatory referral to an addiction specialist or notification to a parent” for the informants, the Globe reported.

Man apprehended in UVA student abduction case, linked to other crimes A man charged with abduction with intent to defile in the case of missing 18-year-old UVA student Hannah Graham may be linked to other crimes near UVA’s Charlottesville campus, Fox News reported Tuesday.

Forensic evidence found in the investigation of Graham’s abduction might connect 32-year-old Jesse Matthew to the 2009 murder of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, who was last seen alive in the same area.

Graham disappeared after attending an off-campus party Sept. 13, Fox News reported. Evidence, including clothing, found during a search of Matthew’s home “provided a significant break in this case with a new forensic link for state police investigators to pursue” in Harrington’s death, Virginia State Police announced in a statement Monday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation had previously announced that DNA belonging to Harrington’s attacker matched DNA found in the investigation of a 2005 sexual assault, Fox News reported. This evidence could implicate Matthew in all three crimes. The FBI would not comment on its investigation.

Virginia State Police named Matthew a person of interest in Graham’s abduction Sept. 20, after which Matthew fled to Texas. Police apprehended and returned Matthew to Virginia, where he could potentially face a sentence of life in prison, Sept. 26. exhibit differentiates itself from those elsewhere as it also focuses on affirmations.

The exhibit includes positive interactions because they exemplify affirmation and thus help build affirming communities, said Caitlin Murphy, outreach coordinator and executive assistant of CSREA. Featuring microaffirmations ensures the campus community is aware

of how small acts of kindness can make a large impact, she added.

Many of the gallery viewers suggested that the exhibit should travel around campus. Murphy said though there have been no plans yet to do so, the photographs will soon be posted online.

The exhibition can be viewed at CSREA from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through the end of the semester.

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From left to right, Maggie Reyes, Mayra Martinez, Analia Alcolea, Jose Ramirez, Tamara Diaz, Reza Clifton and Tony Aguilar celebrate Latin American culture through film at the Providence Latin American Film Festival.

» FILM, from page 1 attempts to stop young girls and women from pursuing the Argentine national pastime of soccer, Aguilar said.

Rounding out the genres is the romantic comedy “Corazon de Leon” (“Lion’s Heart”), which, following an emotional connection formed via telephone conversation, pits a tall woman against a very short man on a blind date and subsequently examines the preconceived notions of love that human interaction often has to overcome.

No overall theme encompasses the nine films that will be on view, except that they are all produced in Latin American countries. The basic premise results in films running the gamut of themes and visual styles, Aguilar said.

In past years, PLAFF has imposed overarching themes, such as films from a specific country or films directed by women, but the submission process has

made this unfeasible, he said.

“We don’t want to be constrained by forcing it that way. I want you, whoever you are, wherever you are from, to come out of the theater saying, ‘Wow, that was a good film,’” he said.

PLAFF joins a Latin American film festival in Boston as one of two in New England, providing access to films viewers would otherwise be unable to find locally, Aguilar said.

Aguilar said though the term “festival” implies a celebration of something familiar, PLAFF takes on an advocacy role, becoming more of a “demystifying” process. At least half the audience is from the East Side of Providence, an area with less of a Latin American influence than across the rest of the city.

Local colleges and universities also form a large contingent, he said. For such an English-speaking audience, the experience of a Latin American film may be a new one, something PLAFF attempts

to capitalize on.

“People perceive Latin American films as these dusty films from the 1950s and ’60s. They don’t somehow think that these are current, vibrant, edgeof-your-seat, Quentin Tarantino-type films that are going to knock your socks off,” he said.

Exposure can challenge preconceived cultural notions, reminding U.S. audiences that “there’s a big world just south of the border,” he said.

The festival concludes with juried selections of the best film, actor, actress, director and cinematography, chosen by a professor of Latin American studies at Bryant University and two film producers, one of whom was featured in last year’s festival.

The jury selection shows that “what we’re doing is not to show a bunch of films and laugh about it. No. There’s rigorous procedures that go with it,” Aguilar said.

sloppy loss in the nation’s capital and said the team “did a good job with that” against Harvard. But strong play aside, the coach and players wanted more from the team.

“We’ve got to get a win,” Estes said.

Fuller described the same feeling as wanting to “get the monkey off our back.”

Enter the Bears’ cross-state rivals, the URI Rams (0-4). The two teams battle every year for the Governor’s Cup, a trophy that will be awarded for the 99th time this weekend. Bruno has held it for the past three seasons and has dominated the all-time series. The Bears are 70-26-2 all-time against the Rams, including a 36-1 mark in the competition’s first 37 iterations from 1910 to 1951.

Lopsided history aside, any game with a trophy carries significance. Russo described the Cup as “a big deal in a lot of guys’ minds, kind of like the state championship.”

“There’s something tangible that you get,” Estes said. “That’s the one thing that makes it different from all the other games.”

But it won’t be the 1910 teams suiting up on Saturday, and the Bears are ready for a fight. The winless Rams “have something to prove,” Fuller said.

“I expect a hard-fought battle.”

While URI may not be as exciting a rival as Harvard, the Bears are having no trouble motivating themselves for their upcoming game. Beyond obtaining the season’s first win and keeping a trophy, Russo described the importance of getting excited for every single

game. “As a football player, what you have to be able to do is get yourself pumped up for any game,” he said.

“When it comes Nov. 22, you want to have the best record you can have, and that means you’ve got to play really good games.”

In the end, whether the Bears are able to pull out the win depends on how much they can continue to improve.

“We need to continue to develop,” Fuller said, adding that he wants to see “similar growth” to the improvements the team made between the season’s first two games.

“We’ve got to be a better team together,” Estes said.

“We’ve got to score more than 14 points,” he added, specifically highlighting the offense. “We’ve got to do more with the opportunities that we have.”

“It’s about executing the simple things,” he added. “Do the little things right, and the big things happen.”

Estes and Russo both displayed optimism about the outcome of the game — “My expectation is that we’re going to go in, continue to play physical football, play our responsibilities, and come out with a W,” Estes said.

“I expect us to win this game,” Russo said. “I expect everyone on the team to play like they played versus Harvard, and I know for a fact that if we do that, we’re going to beat URI.” “It’s a big game for us because we’re 0-2,” he added. “It’s a big game for them because they’re 0-4. Someone’s going to leave with a win.”

Kickoff at Meade Stadium in Kingston is at 1 p.m. Saturday.

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At the table with Cara Marie Duskin always burn it. I think that might have something to do with my being vegetarian now.

Herald: What was your go-to college food or meal?

Duskin: I worked at a pizza place in college, so for me, it’s leftover pizza, hot and cold. In college, I lived off pizza, veggies and hummus. Dorm cooking is hard and those mini fridges are tiny — nothing will fit in there.

I didn’t spend so much time in the dorm, so for me it was all leftovers.

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Through care and attention in her cooking, Duskin aims to provide restaurant-goers with healthy options without sacrificing taste.

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new Lola’s “feeling satisfied and like they’ve had a healthy meal without having to compromise taste.” In this first installment of a new column, “At the table,” The Herald sat down with Duskin to discuss her food philosophy and her history growing up in the kitchen.

For eight years, Cara Marie Duskin — new executive chef of Lola’s Cantina on South Water Street — has been a vegetarian. Since the beginning of her tenure at the restaurant, she has worked to revamp its menu, incorporating recipes within a range of dietary descriptions, from vegan to gluten-free in addition to traditional meat-based Mexican fare. She said she hopes that a half-vegetarian, half-omnivorous table can leave the

Herald: What’s your earliest memory in the kitchen?

Cara Marie Duskin: Food was huge in my family. I remember growing up with my (grandmother) making all kinds of food from scratch, and since I was tall enough to reach the counter, I would help out. It was such a natural part of my childhood.

I always felt at home in the kitchen.

I also remember my dad used to make steak all the time, and he would

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Herald: What’s your favorite thing to cook and why?

Duskin: Pasta all day. I love to throw a little pasta in the pot with some garlic, oil and fresh veggies.

I can get home at 11 p.m. and just put that together and it completely satisfies me. I must eat pasta about four or five times a week.

Sometimes when I want to test new things out at the restaurant, I’ll raid my fridge, bring some stuff in from the farmer’s market and get feedback on it from the staff.

Herald: What’s your spirit food?

Duskin: Garlic, definitely garlic.

You can put garlic on anything, and it will instantly make it better. It’s so versatile and has so many different dimensions and applications. If you opened up my veins, I would probably bleed garlic.

Herald: What makes Providence a

good food city?

Duskin: In Naples, Florida, where I’m from and where I worked before, the focus of the food there is on hospitality. So it’s a lot about getting the fanciest imported ingredients. I’ve lived in Providence for six years now, and it’s the complete opposite. People here buy from farmer’s markets and grow fresh herbs. It was here that I really got exposure to the local, farmto-table mindset. There’s so much care that goes into that, and people are so proud of being able to source their ingredients, and so proud of Rhode Island, and it’s my favorite thing about food here.

I have never been so excited to go out and eat. For me, with food, it’s not about how much things cost but the amount of care put into each ingredient. And that’s one thing we do here—I make the queso fresco from scratch and put it into as many dishes that it can work with. Ingredients really make the food.

Herald: How would you describe your food philosophy?

Duskin: I’m a great multi-tasker, and I think part of that comes from being a mom — I have a five year old son. In the kitchen, you have to start one task, go on to the next and go back to whatever’s on the burner.

I’m most comfortable with that kind of organized chaos.

My philosophy is to care about every dish, every ingredient individually. With that care and that attention

to cooking and seasoning everything just right on its own, when that comes together, that’s when the magic happens. And at the end of the day, if the ingredient is not cared for the way it should be, it won’t be as good.

Herald: How does food fit into a larger conversation about culture?

Duskin: I think food really has such a strong potential to bring people together. That’s what got me into cooking. I really couldn’t see myself doing anything else, and I will probably do this job until the day I can’t.

This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

About the recipe: I came up with this recipe when I remembered my grandma’s quiche.

She used to make this great, big quiche sometimes, and so much went into it. But my dad had this take on it where he would make coffee mug quiches. He would just put a couple of eggs and some vegetables into a coffee mug, mix it together, microwave it, and it would be delicious.

I wanted to come up with something that would be a real meal. So when you have a few friends over to your room, or a study group, you can put this together and throw it in the microwave. It’s also pretty substantial, which is not the case for a lot of dorm food. And if you have leftovers, you can just recook them in the microwave and they’re still pretty good.

Mexican chicken tortilla pie • 2 cups canned shredded chicken breast (available in the canned foods aisle) • 1 cup sour cream • ½ cup of red onions, diced • ½ cup of diced jalapeno peppers (available in canned foods aisle) • 1 tbsp fresh chopped cilantro • 1 small orange bell pepper, sliced • 2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese, divided into two one-cup increments • 1 tbsp ground cumin • Salt and pepper, to taste • 2 burrito-sized flour tortillas Directions You’ll need a nine-inch pie pan to make this — preferably not aluminum disposable. We don’t want to burn down the dorms.

In a large mixing bowl, combine

chicken, one cup of the cheese, sour cream, cilantro, cumin, bell pepper, jalapeno pepper, salt and pepper. Mix until well combined.

Cut one of the tortillas into one inch pieces, bite-sized. Combine with chicken mixture.

Place other tortilla in the bottom of the pie pan to serve as the pie crust. Spoon chicken mixture into crust evenly.

Cover with plastic wrap and poke a few holes in the top. Place in microwave and cook about five to six minutes.

Carefully take pan out of microwave, uncover and sprinkle the top with the rest of the cheese. Place back in the microwave and cook about a minute and a half until the cheese is melted. Remove and allow to set about 1 minute before serving. You’ll be able to serve about five of your friends and yourself with this.

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Photo essay spotlights civic action Liza Yeager’s ’17 exhibition visualizes Generation Citizen for Swearer Center initiative

By ZACK BU CONTRIBUTING WRITER

An artistic endeavor doubles as a civics lesson in “Empowering a Generation,” a photographic essay by Liza Yeager ’17. Yeager created the work as part of Storytellers for Good, a program with the Swearer Center of Public Service that highlights stories of social innovation through multimedia journalism. The exhibit opened Thursday night at the Brown/RISD Hillel and tells the story of the organization Generation Citizen, whichpromotes civic awareness by providing a specially designed curriculum for students in low-income schools across four states, said Scott Warren ’09, Generation Citizen’s co-founder.

“I try to tell the stories my subject thinks is the most important, because the thing that motivates the people in my stories would be the thing that’s most interesting for a broader community to understand,” Yeager said.

The photo series, comprising a slate of pictures with corresponding anecdotes and elaborations, captures the dynamics of Generation Citizen’s classes and outlines the program’s operations through the lens of on-site experiences.

The series opens with a photo of two adjacent whiteboards. One is filled with a list of intentionally doctrinal and dry phrases like “community issues,” “root cause” and “goal.” The other one is scribbled with concrete details and practical

» AOTW, from page 8 of these main factors, along with the other seniors, who have to bring the team together. We got a new assistant coach this year, and he’s brought a lot of experience as well. I’m just happy to be one of the seniors. It’s a tough job, it’s like a 40-hour week job, but I have had a great time getting to know the freshmen and the team.

How do you think you’ve grown as a player since your freshman year?

I think I’ve learned a lot over the last four years. My patience has grown enormously over the years. I’m talking about my patience dealing with referees, best friends and teammates, coaches and

courses of action: “We will create a field day. By providing safe and fun activities and positive adult role models, we will reduce gang violence.”

Warren started the organization after observing “a number of emerging democracies” throughout the globe.

He learned the “power and fragility of democracy,” he said, adding that American democracy is no exception to this pattern.

Generation Citizen has identified the manifold problems with this, including the lukewarm attitudes of younger generations towards the democracatic process, ineffective civic education and existing inequalities in education and participation, he said.

The organization operates on the model of action civics, in which “young people learn about the critical process for taking actions on issues that they care about,” Warren said. “Just as students learn math by doing math and learn science through science experiments, our students learn politics by doing politics.”

Generation Citizen conceived multiple strategies to rally against the dire situation, such as prioritizing lowincome students and students of color and bringing in college-aged volunteers as teaching assistants to better relate to students, he said.

Yeager said she attended several such classes in Providence to capture moments for her essay.

Warren praised the project. “It’s inspiring. It’s helpful,” he said. “We are able to use it to show people, giving them the conception of what we do.”

Yeager connected with Generation Citizen as a fellow of the Storytellers

for Good program, whose mission is to “serve the community, nation and world through innovative, thoughtful approaches to social change,” according to the Swearer Center’s website.

Yeager said the program gave her a chance to use her photography and writing skills for a meaningful cause.

The on-campus service community fostered by Storytellers for Good provides Yeager and fellow students a platform on which to tell stories of social impact.

Storytellers for Good was established in 2013, said Program Director Alexandra Braunstein. It stems from the idea that “stories can spark meaningful connections and relationships and ideas for social change,” she said, adding that the program is “about students learning from another as much as they are from the support and resources we give them.”

Braunstein and storyteller fellows meet weekly for multimedia training or editorial deliberations. Though the center helps connect fellows with students, faculty and alums, the fellows claim total autonomy over the narrative and fabric of their stories, Braunstein said.

Until now, Storytellers for Good has had nine fellows due to its selective admissions process and limited resources.

But Braunstein said the program, which is still in its incipient stages, has promising potential. This year, the center offers technical workshops open to all students on campus, and an increasing number of alums are approaching the center for collaborations.

“I want to find a way to involve more students,” Braunstein said. “This intersection of multimedia and social justice is really complex and rich and there’s many directions we can go.”

whoever else is involved. I was sort of a hothead coming into the program. My attitude was a little sour in the beginning, but I’ve learned to correct that in the last few years with good coaching and having to play cohesively with my teammates. It’s become a lot less about me, a lot more about the team.

and put away a goal in the last second to win those games.

What do you think are your greatest accomplishments in your playing career?

There were moments that I’ve had where I’ve been playing the whole game and I’m totally exhausted and we needed a goal to go ahead. I’m thinking of two games: my freshman year against Bucknell and last year versus Navy, where I’ve had no energy left, dug deep for it

What’s your outlook on the rest of the season, and how far do you think the team can go?

I’m incredibly excited about the potential of the team for the season. We have all kinds of talent and personality on the squad, which makes me excited to go to practice each day. It’s about three things: We’re working our (expletive) off in practice every day so we’re in great shape, we have got talent and skill and we have great people on the team. Practices are only getting harder. The coaches are keeping their feet on the gas pedal and with that kind of shape, we can go all the way.

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Airborne Toxic Event | The Met | Oct. 5 Fun fact: The band’s name is an homage to Don DeLillo’s postmodernist novel, “White Noise.” Pretentious? Sure. But the literary reference fits with the band’s reputation for evocative lyrics, one of the features that garnered critical acclaim for their eponymous 2008 debut album. The anthemic track “Sometime Around Midnight,” which appears on that album, ranked as iTunes’ number one alternative song for that year. Though the band’s atmosphere generally hovers in the realm of the melancholy, its fusion of string instruments, syncopated guitar riffs and tight percussive hooks keeps it stylistically versatile.

Norah Jones | The Met | Oct. 16 She’s best remembered for “Come Away With Me,” the 2002 debut album that won her five Grammy Awards — a record for female artists matched only by Lauryn Hill and Alicia Keyes. But the music the singersongwriter has put out since this triumph has evolved along an unexpected trajectory. The mellow, jazz-influenced downtempo of her earlier material has transitioned into more experimental territory as of her most recent releases. What remains constant is her rich vocal talent, expressed through a trademark grit-and-velvet croon.

Jimmy Eat World | Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel | Oct. 18 It’s hard to believe that the all-American boy band, who may have been one of the defining soundtracks of our middle school years, is now celebrating its 20th year of high-energy emo-pop. In the spirit of the band’s longevity, its concerts consistently deliver a blend of old favorites and new selections, allowing audiences to revisit youthful rites of passage from which they never really recovered. Recent reviews have praised their punked-out rendition of Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.”

Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra | The VETS | Oct. 18 This year’s eight-part “Classical Series” will bring in world-class guest artists in a celebration of the orchestra’s 70th season. This month’s performance features the widely acclaimed orchestral director Daniel Hege as its guest conductor. Hege, who has served as musical director of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, is known for his exhilarating interpretations of classical selections. Among the works included in this month’s concert are Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade.”

The Glitch Mob | Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel | Oct. 28

The three-piece electronic band, which performed at Spring Weekend in 2012, brings its vigorous hooks, layered synthesizers and vacillating tempos back to Providence. Rising from the basslines of the Los Angeles electronic dance music scene, the Glitch Mob established a name for itself with its second album, “Love Death Immortality,” which was released this February and scored the number one spot on Billboard’s “Dance/Electronic Songs” chart.

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Former Providence mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci, who is running for mayor as an independent candidate this year, mingles with Brown students Thursday at English Cellar Alehouse at his “Politics and Pizza” campaign event.

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OCTOBER 3

12 P.M. FEEL GOOD FRIDAY

Students can let off tensions from the week by taking a midday break to line up for the Brown University Relaxation Project’s free massages. Faunce 225 8 P.M. HYPNOTIST SHOW

The Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center will host Frank Santos, a professional hypnotist, as he entertains his audience and holds the brave few under his spell. Kasper Multipurpose Room

SATURDAY

OCTOBER 4

12 P.M. CHINESE WOMEN’S DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL AND SYMPOSIUM

A three-day screening of documentaries by five female Chinese directors starts Saturday. The Department of East Asian Studies and Office of Global Engagement will sponsor the screenings. Metcalf Research Laboratory, Friedman Auditorium 8 P.M. NUDITY IN THE UPSPACE: NUDE OPEN MIC NIGHT

The third annual Nudity in the Upspace will conclude with a clothing-optional open mic night. Performers will be naked, but all audience members are free to wear as much or as little attire as they would like. PW Upspace

SUNDAY

OCTOBER 5

3 P.M. SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET

Directed by Trinity Repertory Company’s Curt Columbus, Sock and Buskin’s final showing of Sweeney Todd will “occupy” Leeds Theatre with a Wall Street-inspired interpretation of the classic musical. Leeds Theatre 5 P.M. FALL CONCERT BY HWAUM

The Hwaum Boston Chamber Orchestra, comprising young professional Korean musicians from the Boston area who support charitable events through music, will deliver a performance. Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014

Cross-registration, one-sided EVAN SWEREN opinions columnist

Imagine a school called FRISB with a long-standing relationship with another school called Frown — dating to, say, 1902. And say FRISB offers courses in something Frown has never taught — say, astrophysics. Would Frown limit the number of courses its students could take at FRISB? Or would Frown support its students in taking all the astrophysics courses they wanted? It’s astrophysics, after all.

Here are some numbers. Of the 111 Brown students who took courses at the Rhode Island School of Design last semester, 15 needed special approval from a dean, a source in the Office of the Registrar told me. Four of those were due to late registration, bringing us to 11.

Five of those were for approval of a liberal arts class. And then there were six.

These six petitions — I accounted for two of them — were made by students seeking approval from a dean to exceed the fourcredit limit on RISD classes imposed by Brown’s Committee on Academic Standing.

RISD does not impose that quota on its students, which implies a mutual exchange. Its website states, “Through a long-standing agreement between the two institutions, RISD degree candidates may enroll in courses at Brown University and vice versa” and that “Brown University is the only college or university with which RISD has a reciprocal cross-registration agreement” — emphasis added.

So much for reciprocity.

The cross-registration agreement and CAS’s justification for the rule are nowhere to be found online. CAS’s official stance on the matter can be found in its handbook — something, I imagine, very few prospective students are thumbing through. It states, “Brown has a cross-registration agreement with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) that allows Brown students to count four RISD courses toward their 30-course degree requirement.” This sentence is misleading at best and an intentional misrepresentation at worst.

There is a physical agreement between Brown and RISD stipulating the terms of the exchange. Due to the nature and difficulty of RISD courses, a three-credit RISD class counts as a single credit toward a Brown degree.

There are also six-credit RISD classes that count as two Brown credits.

Christopher Dennis, Brown’s deputy dean of the College, who chairs CAS, has assured me that Brown’s fourcredit limit is not found anywhere in

the agreement. I have requested access to it, but I have yet to see the text itself.

Why then has Brown decided to limit the number of courses its students can take at RISD? Why has CAS created an arbitrary rule that hinders intellectual freedom and violates a “reciprocal,” “vice versa” agreement?

And why, worst of all, has CAS failed to provide any reasoning behind its decision to make a quota and chosen, instead, to publish a false and misleading statement in its place?

Perhaps the reason is financial.

But the numbers do not support this

claim. RISD, the less endowed of the two schools by a factor of 10, sends more students up the hill than Brown sends down, as The Herald reported in 2012. It was also explained to me that at the end of each semester, whichever school has a net-positive output of students pays the other, as per the agreement. This means, presumably, that RISD’s financial loss is negligible and does not dent its coffers. Therefore, one can imagine that Brown could easily absorb any potential additional cost.

Perhaps the reason is preventative.

Perhaps if there were no boundaries, the students at Brown would enroll in RISD courses en masse, disrupting equilibrium and academic order. But again, the numbers disagree. If this were the case, why did last semester see only six petitions out of an undergraduate student body of 6,182? This low number of petitions does not suggest a need for a powerful preventative clause.

Without other options, I am led to believe that CAS created this rule for ideological reasons. I have been told that taking too many RISD courses threatens a “Brown education.” But even if I accepted this logic — that a creative writing class or painting class at Brown has more inherent value than a furniture course at RISD — it would follow that Brown would accept, at most, 15 cross-registered credits, as is done with accepted transfer credits.

The limit, however, is four, and CAS’s case-by-case rulings on individ-

ual circumstances are kept completely private — a lack of transparency that makes the decisions seem particularly arbitrary.

Universities seek to broaden perspective and provide academic specificity — that is, the specializing in a particular department or field. We, at Brown, subscribe to this policy. Concentration in a particular area of interest is a hallmark of education.

CAS’s unnecessary and unexplained restriction amounts to a form of censorship that we, as a collective, must reject. Brown should be proud of students who take advantage of the crossregistration agreement, particularly those who choose to study a specific field in depth — not censor them. Brown should embrace the students who have taken advantage of the academic freedom that Brown has endorsed through its adoption of the open curriculum.

Brown uses this open curriculum and its relationship with RISD as selling points to prospective students. And we students chose to study here, in part, because of the University’s egalitarian, for ward-thinking policies. But this EVAN SWEREN policy of restriction is old-world.

CAS, a faculty committee comprising eight voting members — four faculty members, three deans and the registrar — possesses all powers of government: legislative, judicial and executive. It makes the rules, interprets them and enforces them. There are no checks and balances, which leads to individuals making decisions behind closed doors without any need to explain their process. This is a clear path to overstepping and abusing power.

Any rules that affect or hinder academic freedom or intellectual development must not be tolerated at Brown. Whether credits should apply toward concentration requirements is a different matter, best left to individual departments.

Now say Frown were called Brown and FRISB called RISD. Would Brown limit the number of science or math or engineering courses not offered here but offered by a top college in its field to an arbitrary number? Say, four? It pains me to consider this hypothetical, and I am left wondering how a university can invoke policies that starkly contrast the ideas it puts forward.

Unfortunately, RISD’s standing as the number one design school in the country does not live up to Brown’s standards. Perhaps, if RISD were a STEM school, we wouldn’t find art so scary.

Evan Sweren ’15 is a senior at Brown.

DIAMONDS & COAL Coal to the sophomore who said of letter writing, “The person’s handwriting looks like the person himself or herself.” Our chicken scratch has nothing to do with our stunning good looks.

Coal to Kari Lang, executive director of the West Broadway Neighborhood Association, who said, “We yelled and screamed and we didn’t feel like we were being listened to.” Try using your inside voice!

A diamond to Hillary Davis, policy associate for the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, who said, “You should not need an ID to cast your constitutional right to vote or to preface your constitutional right to vote.” If only liquor stores abided by this patriotic logic.

Coal to Kevin Bath, assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences, who said, “Stress is a somewhat complex thing.”

That would be something of an over-simplification.

Cubic zirconia to Mark Maremont ’80 P’11, who said, “There’s no doubt that print media has been incredibly challenged.” Sounds like what our friends say every day when we start Herald production.

A diamond to Sheila Bridges ’86, who said, “You just have to do it, and then you maybe retrospectively convince yourself that it was the right thing.” We felt much the same way about last weekend.

A diamond to Sean Kelly ’84, who said, “Personally, I hope I end up in heaven, rather than that other place, which is Dartmouth.” Pong, salmon shorts and outhouses are interests of the devil himself.

A diamond to the pre-vet student who said, “Every semester, I found out something new that I wasn’t doing that I had to be doing.” Kind of like the writing requirement … It just sneaks up on you.

Cubic zirconia to postdoctoral research fellow Andreas Winkler, who said, “Tax receipts are boring.” Speak for yourself !

Coal to Dean of the College Maud Mandel, who said, “Advising at Brown is like the Middle East peace for every American president.” Hey, if Herald opinions columnists wrote a bit more about the former and less about the latter, we wouldn’t complain.

Coal to the football player who said, “If you can’t get up for a game like this, you don’t really have much of a pulse.” And if the game doesn’t work, we think there are some little blue pills you can take for that.

A N G E L IA WA N G

CORRECTIONS An article in Thursday’s Herald (“PLO envoy urges nonviolence in Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Oct. 2) misstated the name of the organization hosting a lecture by Maen Areikat, chief representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s delegation to the United States, Tuesday night. It is J Street U Brown, not J Street U. The article also incorrectly stated that the lecture was part of a “Prospects for Peace after Gaza” lecture series.

In fact, that was the title of the lecture, which was a standalone event.

The Herald regrets the errors.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014

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BROWN DAILY HERALD M. SOCCER

Bruno to grapple with Columbia in conference opener Bears look to extend shutout streak to four straight games against Lions’ multifaceted attack

By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The seven-game tournament constituting Ivy League play begins this weekend for the men’s soccer team, as the squad hosts Columbia.

In their faceoff with the Lions, the Bears (2-3-3) will look to their strong defense — which hasn’t allowed a goal in its last 345 minutes of play — to seal the deal against an opposing offense that has shown flashes of potency as well as dormancy in 2014.

The Lions (3-3-0) have had an upand-down season thus far — they have failed to find the back of the net in two games, while scoring two or more goals in the other four games. Most recently, the team dropped a game by a 2-0 tally to Iona College (4-3-2).

After that disappointing outcome, Columbia will be looking to get back on track against Brown, especially since this will mark the team’s first game of conference play.

Because the Ivy League does not

have its own postseason tournament, whichever team tops the standings at the end of the regular season advances directly to the NCAA tournament.

“It’s a new season when Ivy League games start coming around,” said starting center back Gabe Welp ’18. “Every game is tough and anything can happen, so we don’t want to dig ourselves into a hole early in the season.”

Only twice in the history of the Ivy League has the first place team finished with more than one loss — Dartmouth claimed the league title in 1964 with a 5-2-0 record, and the Bears won it with the same record in 1975.

Assuming the conference will not have a two-loss champion for the first time in almost 40 years, half of the Ivy teams will be on the brink of elimination from championship contention after this weekend. To stay in the running, Columbia will rely on its young talent, as it has so far this season.

Attacking midfielder Francisco Agrest and forward Arthur Bosua, two of the team’s key players, are both firstyears. Bosua is the reigning Ivy Rookie of the Week, after scoring a game-clinching goal against Fordham University (3-5-1). Agrest is the Lions’ leading goal scorer with three on the season.

Sophomore Rhys Williams has also

made significant contributions to the squad, despite being an underclassman.

The defender has tallied two goals and an assist: impressive stats for a wing back. Williams leads the team in shots and shots on goal, indicating he has freedom to roam up the field into attacking positions. The Bears will have to monitor Williams closely, especially on corner kicks, where he takes a lot of his cracks at goal.

But the Lions are not the only team with first-year firepower. Welp, James Myall ’18, Nico Lozada ’18, Quinn English ’18 and Louis Zingas ’18 have all either started or been one of the first players off the bench in most of the games this season for Bruno.

“We’re all very lucky to have the opportunity to step into the team and play right away,” Welp said.

The defender acknowledged the steep learning curve transitioning from high school to college soccer, but added that after a few weeks of practice and games, the first-years had all been properly acclimated to the new type of soccer.

Welp has become the centerpiece of the Bears’ backline. He often acts as a last defender, dropping in slightly behind Jameson Lochhead ’16 or Mike Leone ’17 and ensuring the opposing forwards do not make any runs in behind the

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Co-captain Daniel Taylor ’15 launches a free kick. Taylor and the midfield will look to help out on both ends of the field to take down Columbia. defense. He has shown an ability to clear the ball with either foot and has quickly adapted to the fast-paced action.

Welp’s partner in the back has oscillated between Lochhead and Leone, two players with starkly different styles of play. Lochhead is a vertical powerhouse, demonstrating a knack for winning aerial battles. Leone, who is six inches shorter than 6-foot-3-inch Lochhead, is slightly quicker and plays good balls out of the back.

“I like playing with both of them,”

Welp said. “They’re both really talented players for different reasons, and it’s really good to play with either one.”

Whichever center back starts alongside Welp in Saturday’s showdown with the Lions, the backline as a whole should feel confident in its ability to play 90 minutes of lockdown soccer. After three straight double-overtime scoreless draws, the Bears will be looking to score early and keep Williams and Co. off the board at 7 p.m. Saturday on Stevenson Field.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Ivy-leading Bears look to continue roll Deaver ’15 lifts Bruno to Three-game winning spotless conference mark streak, history of dominance over Lions bode well for Bruno

Staggering eight total goals in wins over Harvard and MIT earn senior Athlete of the Week

By LAINIE ROWLAND SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Columbia, coming off its first Ivy win of the season over Yale, will be looking to pick up momentum when it faces the women’s rugby team Saturday. But the Lions (1-2), who have had difficulty putting points on the board this season, are likely to struggle against a Brown (3-0) squad that has steamrolled through the season so far. The Bears have won their last two games by margins of 66 and 36 points, respectively.

Besides its win over Yale, Columbia has two conference losses, both shutouts served to the Lions by Cornell and Penn. The Bears dominated Penn with a 76-10 win, so if the transitive property applies to rugby, Bruno has good reason to be confident Saturday. But unpredictable elements always emerge in the sport.

“You can never tell just based on a team’s history,” said co-captain Tiara Mack ’16. “You can never tell what they’re going to be good at or what you’re going to be good at. Every game is different.” The rainy weather predicted for Saturday also will be a factor for gameplay, Mack added.

In 2013, Bruno effectively thrashed the Lions, coming away with a 1050 victory, the squad’s only triple-digit win in recent history. Wildly skewed scores like this one are rare in rugby.

The Bears have not lost to Columbia since at least 2009.

“Columbia always has a large roster with a few very good athetes,” said Head Coach Kathleen Flores. “Last year, we

By EMILE BAUTISTA SPORTS STAFF WRITER

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Saskia Morgan ’16 eludes a defender as she carries the ball toward the try-line. The junior has scored a try in each of the Bears’ first three games. handled them fairly well, but we aren’t taking anything for granted.”

The Bears will be on the watch for Columbia standout Amber Brock, who notched three tries in the Lions’ win over Yale.

The Bears don’t plan to take this game lightly. Mack said that the team is “making sure that every game we play gets us one step closer to being a much better team and working together …

Even though it will be an easier game, so to say, it doesn’t mean we can’t focus on … the technical aspects.”

As Brown prepares for games against competitive Navy and Princeton teams in the coming weeks, as well as impending Ivy and ACRA championships, the squad continues to emphasize constant skill development and improvement, playing each match at 100 percent.

Bruno has been drilling skill development for many of the younger players in practice, as well as maintaining levels

of athleticism and fitness, Flores said.

“There are a lot of things that we haven’t really tried on the field yet, just because we’re still not as comfortable with them, or because they’re new aspects of play that our coaches introduce,” Mack said. Saturday’s faceoff against Columbia offers a chance to try out “different small technical things that we haven’t necessarily tried against the tougher teams that we played earlier in the season.”

The Bears seem poised to be a top contender for the Ivy title, so they will take all the practice they can get. Brown is the only remaining undefeated team in the conference and already took down 2013 Ivy champion Harvard in its season opener. For their debut as a varsity squad, the Bears are certainly making a name for themselves. They hope to continue their reign Saturday as they take on Columbia at home on Marvel Field at 11 a.m.

Last weekend, the men’s water polo team triumphed over rivals Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology thanks in large part to Nick Deaver ’15.

He led the Bears’ offensive onslaught en route to victory by scoring four goals in each game. Due to his spectacular performances in the pool, Deaver has been selected as The Herald’s Athlete of the Week.

Herald: How long have you been playing water polo and what got you into it?

I started as a swimmer when I was around three. My dad got me really focused into swimming. I didn’t particularly like swimming at all, but I got enough coaching and lessons, and my dad pushed me hard enough so I got pretty good at it. Then, when I was 8 years old, a water polo camp was started in my area and I decided to give it a shot.

It was a pretty tough camp, but I liked combining ball sports with hand-eye coordination and swimming. So, I sort of had an advantage because I’d been swimming for so long compared to the other kids playing water polo. Then, there was a club team being started in my neighborhood and I decided to see what it was like. It ended up being one of the more fun sports I had ever played.

It was new and exciting and had not been around in our area for long. I also wanted to do something different than what my dad did — he was a pitcher

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Nick Deaver ’15 steamrolled the Harvard and MIT defenses.

— and I wanted to play a sport he knew nothing about.

Why did you choose to come to Brown?

Originally, I was looking on the West Coast schools for water polo and swimming. I figured I could use water polo or swimming to get into a decent college.

Late in the game, I sent an email to my coach (Felix Mercado). He said he would send some guy to watch me play. He came out and watched me play, and I had a spectacular weekend. I thought Brown was a cool school, it has an open curriculum. Also, I really wanted to throw myself out onto the East Coast, do something different and put myself outside my comfort zone.

How is it being one of only a few upperclassmen on the team?

At first, it seemed like a challenging position to be in because we have six freshmen and it is (the seniors’) last chance to win the East Coast title.

We have had arguably the best team on the East Coast the last three years.

So, it was challenging because I’m one » See AOTW, page 5