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Corporation backs construction of applied math building U.’s highest governing body also accepts $121 million in gifts, roughly double last year’s amount

By MICHAEL DUBIN UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR

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The applied math building, above, will be replaced by one to be constructed in the parking lot adjacent to Barus and Holley by December 2015.

The Corporation green-lighted construction of a new Division of Applied Mathematics building, received updates on the University’s efforts to combat sexual assault and considered the structural budget deficit at its meeting this weekend, President Christina Paxson announced Sunday in a communitywide email.

The University’s highest governing body also discussed the progress of several initiatives outlined in Paxson’s year-old strategic plan and accepted gifts totaling about $121 million, more than double the amount received at last year’s October meeting.

Renovations and expansions The Committee on Budget and Finance’s decision to proceed with the applied math building means construction will likely commence next month and conclude in December 2015, Paxson wrote. Relocating the applied math division to the parking lot adjacent to Barus and Holley will open up space on Manning Walk for the School of Engineering’s new facility, on which construction is expected to begin in December.

In order to construct the two buildings, the University will raze four houses it owns that are included in Providence’s historic district — a move the Providence Preservation Society has opposed.

The Corporation was informed of “ongoing engagement with neighbors … to ensure we are sensitive to the needs and interests of the surrounding community,” Paxson wrote.

Paxson told The Herald that neighbors are excited to see the applied math » See CORP, page 2

At conference, black engineers discuss success strategies National Society for Black Engineers provides space to build relationships, engage in problem-solving

By NATALIE FONDRIEST CONTRIBUTING WRITER

“Most importantly, I gained hope,” Ivonne Muganyizi ’15 said of her experience at the New England Fall Zone Conference of the National Society for Black Engineers held in Smith-Buonnano Hall Saturday.

The conference, organized by the

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Brown NSBE chapter, brought together college and high school students from New England with the goal of fostering important skills for underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering and math.

In the opening keynote speech, Oscar Groomes ’82 P’15, former president and CEO of GE Rail Services and current consultant with Groomes Business Solutions, discussed his professional path through both corporate and private equity businesses and offered five steps for success.

“Success is not an accident,” Groomes said. “All the winners are probably sitting in the front row — it’s not like church. … (It’s) already a » See CONFERENCE, page 3

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Students talked success in STEM careers and took part in an elevator pitch contest at Saturday’s area National Society for Black Engineers conference.

Science network expands to nonprofit Earth Science Women’s Network provides support forums, organizes events for women in science

By RILEY DAVIS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

In 2002, a group of six women started gathering to discuss their careers in the sciences, covering topics from office dynamics to balancing postdoctoral research with childrearing. That informal network, cofounded by a Brown faculty member and an alum, has evolved into a primarily electronic community called the Earth Science Women’s Network and now includes over 2,000 members.

After receiving funding from the National Science Foundation, the ESWN launched as an official nonprofit organization this month.

The ESWN’s main purpose since its creation has been to connect woman scientists to one another, said Meredith Hastings, assistant professor of geological sciences and co-founder of the network. As members of the ESWN, women can connect via online forums to discuss a wide range of topics and issues they face in their careers.

“It’s been really amazing to watch it grow and succeed,” Hastings said. “I » See NETWORK, page 2

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Bears weather early deficit, contested officiating to earn draw

By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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The men’s soccer team landed squarely in the middle of the Ivy League standings after Saturday’s match with Harvard ended in a 1-1 draw.

The Crimson scored early on a masterfully executed counterattack, but cocaptain Ben Maurey ’15.5 evened the score just minutes into the second half off a corner kick.

The Bears (3-4-5, 1-1-1 Ivy) came out flat to start the game, allowing Harvard (8-3-1, 2-0-1) to control the ball for the majority of the first half. The Crimson was rewarded for its patient

play in the 16th minute.

Tim Schmoll laid the ball off to Kyle Henderson, who was making a run up the left side. Henderson dribbled forward and played an early cross back to Schmoll. The towering 6-foot-6 central midfielder trapped the ball with his left foot and smashed a volley with a ton of pace into the back of the net, giving the Crimson a 1-0 lead.

Harvard continued to pour on the pressure, taking four shots in the half, compared to just one for the Bears. But goalkeeper Mitch Kupstas ’14.5 and the Bruno backline withstood the offensive onslaught and made it to the end of the half just a goal down.

Head Coach Patrick Laughlin and his staff snapped the Bears out of their sluggishness at halftime. A completely different team appeared to take the field at the start of the second half.

“The guys responded well to the

halftime talk,” Laughlin said. “We just wanted them to play with more confidence and be a little more assertive and aggressive and really go after Harvard, don’t let them get into a rhythm.”

Just four minutes into the second stanza, Bruno was awarded a corner kick. Jack Gorab ’16, the Bears’ free-kick specialist, played a dangerous ball into the box. The ball flew past a number of heads, as well as the hands of Harvard keeper Evan Mendez. At the back post, Crimson defender Mark Ashby was grabbing both of Maurey’s arms in an attempt to keep Bruno’s forward from making a play on the cross. But the senior striker had the wherewithal to stick out his right foot, and the ball fortuitously bounced off his heel and into the goal to level the score.

The play gave Maurey his third goal and Gorab his fourth assist this season, » See M. SOCCER, page 4

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Tariq Akeel ’16 eyes a ball in the air. The midfielder contributed to Bruno’s 1-1 draw Saturday with several tackles and key passes all over the field.

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2 university news » CORP, from page 1 building replace the parking lot, but the University wants to ensure it is “preserving the character of Hope Street” and that neighbors are “comfortable with the style of the building.”

Stephen Maiorisi, vice president for facilities management, also updated the Corporation on the South Street Landing project — a joint effort by the University, Rhode Island College, the University of Rhode Island, developer Commonwealth Venture and the state government to repurpose the vacant South Street Power Station. As part of the University’s expansion into the Jewelry District, the project will create administrative offices for Brown and a nursing education space belonging to URI and RIC. The University intends to sign a lease within the next few weeks, Paxson wrote.

Advancing academic pursuits Discussion of advancing one of the strategic plan’s integrative themes — “Cultivating Creative Expression” — also elicited excitement, though Paxson said those plans are “evolving and still preliminary.”

Provost Vicki Colvin told The Herald that the conversation so far has highlighted the need for a new arts facility, likely a performance space for music and dance. Though a specific budget has not been determined, a new performance

hall will likely cost between $50 million and $150 million, which would come from new fundraising, not existing revenue streams, she said.

Relocating administrative offices to the Jewelry District as part of the South Street Landing project might allow the Department of Music, currently at the periphery of campus, to move to a more central location, possibly in the Brown Office Building above the Brown Bookstore, Colvin said.

Dean of the College Maud Mandel delivered an update to Corporation members on the Engaged Scholars program.

Mandel told The Herald she talked about the incipient search for a new Swearer Center for Public Service director, who will also hold the title of associate dean for engaged scholarship “to signal the link” between the Swearer Center and the strategic plan’s focus on educational innovation.

As part of the Engaged Scholars program, the Office of the Dean of the College will roll out a new concentration track program to connect learning inside and outside the classroom through internships, volunteer work and entrepreneurial projects. The program will be piloted this year in four concentrations: anthropology, engineering, environmental studies and theater arts and performance studies.

Budgeting and the deficit Colvin and Executive Vice President

for Finance and Administration Beppie Huidekoper discussed the University’s operating deficit, which reached $8.8 million for fiscal year 2014 and is expected to be about $10 million this year. They cited greater-than-expected financial aid expenditures and declining federal research funding as causes of the shortfall, Paxson wrote.

But after a couple years of deep cuts, federal funding is slowly rising, Colvin told The Herald, adding that the University must encourage faculty members to be “even more aggressive” in writing grant proposals. In particular, faculty members in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields — where 88 percent of the University’s federal research money goes — “need to kind of double down,” she said.

The administrators also briefed the Corporation on last week’s establishment of a Deficit Reduction Working Group.

The University must balance its budget over the next three years to be able to pursue new plans effectively, Paxson wrote.

This process will entail growing revenue, not just cutting expenses, Colvin said. She cited summer precollege programs and blended master’s degrees — both of which contain online components — as potential sources of greater revenue.

Patricia Watson, senior vice president for advancement, updated the Corporation on the fundraising campaign it

» NETWORK, from page 1 measure success on whether women feel that (ESWN) is a positive resource for them, and I think over and over we’ve seen women find that connecting with other women in sciences has really benefited them.”

Depending on funding availability, the network also sponsors in-person events. These workshops, Hastings said, focus on skills outside of PhD research training. “To be successful as a scientist, you need other skills than just knowing how to do research,” Hastings said.

In the past, these workshops have covered soft skill development such as conflict resolution, communication skills and emotional intelligence, Hastings added.

The ESWN also tries to establish a presence at science conferences. “I like particularly that at big conferences, they always have some sort of meet up,” said Dorothy Fibiger MA’12 PhD’14, who joined the network while she was a student of Hastings’. “It’s nice not to

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approved in February that will support strategic plan initiatives, Paxson wrote.

Watson told members that the next year will focus on developing the campaign’s priorities, strategy and structure.

Director of Athletics Jack Hayes presented to the Corporation about the Athletics Department’s work over the last year to create its recently approved strategic plan.

Gifts and recognition The Corporation also accepted gifts

totaling more than $121 million, including almost $65 million in donations that directly support the strategic plan.

Another gift pledged about $20 million for the new engineering building and about $19 million for a purpose to be determined at a later time.

“The total for the gifts was just extraordinary and reflects a lot of excitement about the upcoming campaign,” Paxson said, adding that she is personally excited about a gift that includes approximately $1.9 million for undergraduate summer internships, $625,000 for Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards and $500,000 in current-use funding to expand CAPS. The University also established endowed professorships in brain science, China studies, international affairs and engineering, as well as the Head Coaching Chair for varsity women’s soccer.

The Corporation approved the naming of the Rockefeller Library’s Sidney E. Frank Digital Studio to recognize the Sidney E. Frank Foundation’s $2.5 million gift.

It also approved the naming of the library’s central reading room in honor of the donors who contributed $1 million for its renovation, which was completed earlier this month.

Four new Trustees joined the Corporation this weekend, beginning their six-year terms: George Barrett ’77 P’06 P’15, Genine Macks Fidler ’77 P’04 P’12, Alexandra Robert Gordon ’91 and Ralph Rosenberg ’86 P’17.

have to rely on your male colleagues for the social aspect, which is really big.”

After the previous NSF funding expired in 2013, the ESWN decided to pursue becoming a nonprofit organization as a next step, said co-founder Tracey Holloway ’95, professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. By becoming a nonprofit, “we could have access to a wider range of fundraising forces and also dispense money in a more flexible way.”

As a nonprofit, the ESWN hopes to both build upon what has been successful and also to expand its public reach, Holloway said. She added that the network is considering taking several directions, including building a greater public profile, highlighting member research and potentially expanding into undergraduate circles.

Hastings said another goal of the organization is to dispense seed grants and travel funds to women scientists, which would allow them to pursue research or attend conferences they otherwise would not be able to attend.

While the ESWN has provided a strong support network for women scientists, there are still a “number of different barriers to women succeeding” in science, Hastings said.

“One of the ones that comes up a lot is that in academia, the tenure clock — the most intense time of your career — coincides with the biological clock.” One of the ESWN’s biggest goals is being able to provide financial support to women who need to travel for their careers while also caring for a family at home, Hastings said.

Brown represents a fairly “typical” environment for women in science, in that some departments have greater representation of women while others still do not, Hastings said. While she described her department — Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences — as “a really supportive and communicative environment,” Hastings said “the departments that are really underrepresented in terms of women and minorities tend to have a culture that makes it difficult for women and minorities to succeed.”

Sexual assault policy Frances Mantak ’88, director of health promotion, and Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services, spoke about measures the University is taking to prevent sexual assault and establish “sensitive and fair procedures” for responding to allegations of sexual misconduct, Paxson wrote.

These measures include new programming during first-year orientation, hiring in Counseling and Psychological Services and Health Services and the search for a full-time Title IX coordinator, Paxson wrote. The University formed a Sexual Assault Task Force earlier this year and announced its membership in September. It will deliver its recommendations by Dec. 1.

The U.S. Department of Education is currently investigating the University’s handling of sexual assault allegations for possible Title IX violations.

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» CONFERENCE, from page 1 choice you make.” Before introducing Groomes, New England Zone Chair and Region I Public Relations Chair Trae Jennette, a senior at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, had welcomed and asked the audience of about 60, dispersed in Smitty-B 106, to fill in the front rows, but no one moved.

Interactive with the audience at times, shaking hands and covering all his floor space, Groomes presented the first four of his five steps for success at the beginning of his talk: “set goals,” “generate good choices,” “exceed expectations” and “hang around winners.” Groomes left the fifth step — “maintain integrity” — until the end of his speech and concluded by emphasizing this step’s particular importance.

In order not to derail, “as a minority, you need to continue to validate yourself,” especially African-Americans and women, Groomes said.

Though someone with privilege may only have to prove himself once, Groomes said, continually proving oneself makes a person stronger. Rules are quickly enforced when someone in a minority makes a mistake, he added.

“Don’t worry about whether it’s fair or not. Maintain integrity.”

The conference aimed to help students take advantage of academic resources, develop career and leadership skills and build professional and social relationships.

Precollege and college students spent the full day in break-out sessions of their choosing, ranging from discussion groups such as “Women in

science & research 3 the Workplace” or “Being My Brother’s Keeper” to opportunities for individual feedback through one-on-one resume coaching and an elevator pitch competition.

Each of the five judges for the elevator pitch competition offered personal feedback to each of the 10 pitch participants on both content and style, including suggestions for quick physical relaxation techniques to beat pre-interview jitters. Professor of Engineering Christopher Rose offered feedback as well, though not as a judge. He compared Muhammad Ali’s confidence to Joe Lewis’ humility, adding, “I like a little bit of punch.” Kenya Wright ’15 won the overall competition and a T-shirt for the best pitch.

Eight high school students also participated in the conference. In the closing session, Jennette gave them time to ask questions to the entire room of college students and encouraged everyone to make use of the networking event immediately afterward.

Dean of Engineering Lawrence Larson told the audience he hopes to see the conference back at Brown next year.

Overall, seeing the number of people in the community was an encouraging experience, said Annabel Lemma ’16.

The event was the first such conference for Bella Okiddy ’15, who said she enjoyed connecting with students from other communities and felt the conference opened her eyes to life outside of Brown engineering. She said she intends to attend more conferences in the future, especially to network.

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Johnathan Davis ’16 and NSBE Chapter President Godwin Tsado ’16 said they look forward to continued fostering of the community and to hosting future events. Davis said the planning of the event largely adhered to the guidelines of the national organization, and that in the future they hope to plan more Brown-focused events with more speakers from Brown. Still, Davis said he felt very rewarded seeing the conference come together.

“Strategizing behind all this … was really exciting for me because as an engineer, your job is to problemsolve,” Tsado said, adding that “strategizing really made you put your mind to work in a different way than you do in your engineering classes, which is really, really exciting for me — it was actually kind of fun.”

At times, the planning process was challenging and stressful, Davis added, but the organizers said hosting the event brought the chapter closer together.

Davis said he has been especially excited to see an increase in the number of younger students in the chapter. Thirty-five people attended the chapter’s first meeting this semester, a growth from meetings of only five people when the chapter restarted last year.

The conference opened and closed with a back-and-forth chant between Jennette and the audience that perhaps epitomized the enthusiasm of the day.

When Jennette yelled “more,” the audience responded “fire.”

“We’re the hottest region,” Davis said, laughing. “People get really into it.”

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4 sports » M. SOCCER, from page 1 making each of them the team’s overall leaders in the respective categories.

Just seconds after the Bears equalized, Tim Whalen ’16 launched a throwin that was flicked on by Maurey. Quinn English ’18 appeared to have a clear path to a goal when the assistant referee raised his flag to indicate an offside call. The crowd and play-by-play announcers erupted with dissent, as some believed a Harvard defender clearly kept English onside.

The referees continued to leave their mark on the game. In the 80th minute, English found a pocket of space behind the Crimson defense and sprinted toward what should have been a one-onone with Mendez. Harvard defender Michael Klain chased English into the box and took out both of the Brown midfielder’s legs from behind. But the head referee waved at English to get up, signaling he would not award a penalty.

Just a minute later, James Myall ’18 was hacked down in the box by Schmoll, but the official granted the Bears a free kick from just outside the 18, instead of the penalty kick Bruno arguably deserved.

Officiating aside, neither team could break the deadlock, and the game went to extra time. Louis Zingas ’18 had the only shot in the first overtime period, but Mendez kept the Crimson alive with a one-on-one stuff of Bruno’s first-year midfielder.

In the second period of overtime, the referee again came in contradiction with coaches and fans. English whipped a long throw into the box. Mendez came off his line and glanced the ball with his fists, causing it to fall to Maurey, who flicked a header straight onto the arm of defender Mark Ashby in the box. But the referee held his whistle, despite pleas from Brown coaches, players and fans.

The wild game finally ended as a 1-1 tie, and both teams earned a point toward the conference standings. The Bears were called for 21 fouls in the game, the most in a single game this season.

Myall made plays for the Bears all game, whether completing a big tackle on the defensive end or earning free kicks on the offensive side. English was Bruno’s only consistent threat on offense, and he created a number of chances with his long throw-ins.

Myall “is excellent,” Laughlin said.

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“If he’s not a candidate for Ivy League Rookie of the Year, then I don’t know who should be. … It’s not glamorous, but he does a ton of work. And (English) is dangerous. Teams are having a hard time containing his pace.”

With the draw, the Bears have amassed four points in three games, good for a three-way tie with Princeton (6-3-3, 1-1-1) and Columbia (45-1, 1-1-1), who tied each other this weekend.

Up next, Bruno will host a Cornell squad (8-4-1, 1-2-0) that has not started conference play the way most would have predicted. The Big Red holds the second-strongest overall record in the Ivy League, but dropped back-to-back conference games to Harvard and Penn (6-6-0, 2-1-0) and currently sits in second-to-last place.

But Laughlin indicated that he is not taking the matchup with Cornell lightly. “We have to focus on the next game,” he said. “We didn’t want to get a draw today, we wanted a win, but we know that Cornell is going to be another tough game. Hopefully we can come to play, give them everything we can, and at the end of it, it’s a victory for us.”

» VOLLEYBALL, from page 8 their fifth match point of the night and took home the 21-19 victory. It was a sigh of relief for the Bears, who were grateful to finally be on the winning side of a close game.

“It was just our time to win,” said Shirin Tooloee ’18. “After losing two really hard five-set matches, we were done with that. It was our time to win now.”

Saturday’s match couldn’t quite live up to the drama-filled victory of the night before, but it was no slouch in itself. Bruno was able to capture another five-set win, this time defeating Cornell (3-14, 0-7). After her solid performance against Columbia, Lord led the team with 18 kills, recording her 1,000th career spike in the process.

“It means a lot,” said Lord about the achievement. “I’ve been working really hard my whole four years here to contribute to this team.”

The Bears found help in other places too, most notably in the defensive play of Kathryn Conner ’15, who recorded 28 digs just a day after she set her seasonhigh of 31 against Columbia. Sarah Lucenti ’17 also played a large part in the win with 34 assists, while Tooloee

contributed 14 kills.

And just like the day before, the match came down to the wire. Bruno built an early lead in the final set, but once again had trouble finishing off its opponent. After failing to secure a win after the first match point, the Bears continued to battle and eventually came out on top, winning by a score of 16-14 in the last frame.

The two wins mark a step in the right direction for the Bears, who can now put their late-game woes behind them as the season moves on.

“It will definitely make us more confident and hopefully help us bring home some more wins, especially on the road,” Link said.

The Bears will now get ready to take on Yale (10-6, 6-1) on Oct. 24 and hope to avenge their loss to the Elis earlier in the season. The Bulldogs have won five matches in a row, having only lost one set during the streak.

It may be a tough matchup, but Short is enthusiastic about the direction the team is moving.

“It’s nice to have the confidence of a couple wins, we have three wins now in league,” she said. “We have to keep moving forward, keep working at improving.”

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» FOOTBALL, from page 8 took its huge lead.

After the initial shock, “we were more poised, more in control,” Giovacchini said. Of course, he also noted that the effort was “too little, too late.”

An individual bright spot, Zach Gillen ’16 continued his breakout. The safety was third on the team with seven total tackles and picked off a Princeton pass.

As one might expect, the Bruno offense had to get somewhat pass-happy after falling so far behind. The running game was also not an option because of how well Princeton stopped it: The Bears finished with -7 yards on the ground. These two factors combined for Fuller to produce one of the strangest statistical profiles any quarterback can, as the Bears seemingly picked a simple offensive strategy after the first quarter: Chuck it deep.

Fuller finished the game 29-for-71 for 454 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions. The 71 attempts were an Ivy League record. He surpassed his career high in yards by 214, in completions by nine and in attempts by a staggering 24.

His 40.8 completion percentage was abysmal, but he threw so many deep passes that he ended up with a respectable 6.4 yards per attempt. Nearly half of Fuller’s completions went for at least 14 yards.

The main beneficiary of the bombsaway play-calling was receiver Troy Doles ’16, who caught six passes for an unbelievable 200 yards. He torched the Tigers all day, catching balls for 23, 26, 37, 42 and 70 yards. Before Saturday, his best career game came against Georgetown University in the season opener, when he had four catches for

» F. HOCKEY, from page 8 experience the results.”

Princeton struck first after about five minutes of play as Allison Evans took a pass from Stephanie Goldberg and put it by McSweeney to notch Evans’ second goal of the year. After that initial misstep, the Bears settled down a bit — they had two corners in the first half to the Tigers’ one — but could not close the half out, as Ryan McCarthy put in Princeton’s second goal two minutes before the halftime whistle.

Princeton carried that momentum into the second half, scoring two goals in the first 10 minutes of the period courtesy of McCarthy and

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BY CALEB MILLER, SPORTS EDITOR

Men’s water polo

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Brown defensive players clog the end zone in hopes of stopping a goalline play. Bruno’s defense has been a strength for the team all year.

68 yards. look good, 42 incompletions will stifle Not to be overlooked, Brian Stra- any offense. Overall, the offense’s results chan ’15 also had an excellent game. were just as poor as they have been in He set career highs with 10 catches the past few weeks. for 146 yards, in addition to scoring With another weak offensive pera touchdown. formance and a temporary defensive “We moved the ball through the air lapse that lasted long enough to crush pretty well,” Fuller said. He added that Bruno’s hopes, the Bears are now 0-2 in the air raid strategy stemmed more from conference. But things are not as bleak the team’s big deficit than their struggles as they seem: The two teams Bruno has rushing the ball. faced will likely be its most formidable The team was “chasing points” once opponents all season. it fell behind, Fuller said. “With the “It’s a little upsetting to be 2-3, looks that they were giving, through frankly, but it’s not panic mode,” Giothe air was the best way to do it.” vacchini said.

Fuller emphasized that the Bears The team still has games against the needed to “finish drives.” Bruno reached majority of the conference, including the red zone five times, and only one a home game Saturday against tradiof those possessions ended in a touch- tional Ivy doormat Cornell (0-5, 0-2). down, with three ending in field goals If Bruno can defeat the Big Red and and one in which Fuller was picked off lowly Columbia, which is also winless, in the end zone. it only needs to beat one of Dartmouth, “We need to execute better,” Fuller Yale and Penn to match last season’s 3-4 added. conference finish. While Bruno’s expecWhile the numbers for the receiving tations coming into the year are still corps make Bruno’s aggressive strategy realistic, an 0-2 start is hard to hope on.

Evans, respectively. All four of the Tigers’ goals were from the run of play; penalty corners were not a factor in the game at all, as both teams had four and were a combined 0-8 on them.

O’Donnell led a Brunonian offense that could only muster three total shots — drawing only two saves from Princeton goalie Julia Boyle and one defensive save — against a formidable opposing defense that has allowed four goals in four games against Ivy opponents.

The result dropped Brown to a tie for sixth in the Ivy League and with almost no shot to compete for a conference championship, but all three of its Ivy losses have come from faceoffs with teams that are tied for

first in the Ivy League — Columbia, Dartmouth and Princeton. And with the other team that’s tied for first — Cornell — coming down to Providence next week, the Bears could feel they still have a lot to show about this year’s team.

“My plan for the rest of the season is to take it one game at a time and leave it all out there,” McSweeney said. “I want to walk away knowing that I gave it every ounce of what I had.”

The Bears start the last stretch of their season Wednesday against Holy Cross (3-13, 0-5 Patriot) before three more Ivy League games and a faceoff against St. Joseph’s University to close out the 2014 campaign.

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If the Ivy League title is on the line, the men’s water polo team seems to have a problem when facing Princeton across the pool. For the second year in a row, the Tigers scored a late goal to nip Bruno Sunday and claim the 2014 Ivy crown.

No. 15 Bruno first had to get through No. 19 Harvard to advance to the final. The Bears and Crimson have battled intensely for years, but the rivalry was one-sided in favor of the Bears this season. Having beaten Harvard twice in the last three weeks, Brown edged out a 15-14 win over its Ivy foe, and Sunday’s contest was the closest of the season.

Regulation was marked by seesawing momentum. A big Crimson lead early in the game gave way to a 7-2 Bruno run. After Harvard marched to another advantage in the fourth quarter, Bruno’s Yahel Murvitz-Lahav ’17 played hero, scoring twice in the last 3:16 to lift the Bears to a 13-12 lead. But Harvard made some last-second magic, notching a goal with six ticks on the clock to even the game.

After the teams traded goals in overtime, the stage was set for more heroics from Murvitz-Lahav. The sophomore’s fourth goal of the game earned his team a title game bid.

The championship featured action that was just as back-and-forth as the semifinal. From halftime to the closing seconds, neither team led by more than a single goal. Princeton carried a 7-6 lead into the final frame, though Rico Burke ’18 flushed the equalizer in the first minute of the quarter. But Princeton’s answer came with just over five minutes to play, and Bruno played a majority of the quarter chasing a one-goal lead. A steal by the Tigers’ Bret Hinrichs on Bruno’s last possession and a Tiger penalty shot put the finishing touches on Princeton’s repeat.

Rugby Five Ivy League competitors have challenged the rugby team this season. None of them put up much of a fight. The Bears finished off a sweep of the conference Saturday with yet another blowout, notching a 55-14 thumping of Princeton.

USA Rugby named Kiki Morgan ’16 a first-team All American this week, and the speedy junior backed up the honor with a stellar game against the Tigers. Morgan got the scoring started with an early try, sparking a 24-0 opening run. Lauren Oxendine ’16 and Jasmine McAdams ’16 each contributed to tries in the run, and Morgan put the finishing touches on it with an electrifying 80-yard dash to the try zone.

To Princeton’s credit, the Tigers managed to put 14 points on the board against a Bruno defense that had allowed only 17 points in its last three games combined.

But Bruno continued the dominance through the second half, and the squad finished its Ivy League schedule having outscored opponents by an astronomical 299-46 margin.

As a final tune-up before the Ivy League postseason tournament, the Bears host Navy Saturday in hopes of ending the regular season undefeated.

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SATELLITE DINING JOSIAH’S Gourmet Grilled Cheese BLUE ROOM Naked Burritos Soups: Chicken Noodle, Spinach and Feta, Beef with Bean Chili ANDREWS COMMONS Pastas: Chicken, Feta and Sundried Tomato, Pesto and Sundried Tomato

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Vegan Noodle Bar, Honey Mustard Chicken Sandwich, Mustard Mashed Potatoes

Marinated Beef Au Jus, Garden Style Baked Scrod, Carrot Casserole

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French Bread Pizza, Curly Fries, Green Beans with Tomatoes, Peanut Butter Sandwich Bar

Savory Chicken Stew, Baked Cheese Manicotti with Meatless Sauce, Stewed Tomatoes

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Osbaldo Hernandez ’18 decorates a sugar skull in celebration of Dia de los Muertos at Machado Spanish House Saturday. Sugar skulls are a traditional Mexican treat for the holiday, which is held to remember the dead.

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4 P.M. CONSENT DAY

12 P.M. SUPER HEAVY PETTING

Consent Day, sponsored by CASARA, BWell Health Promotion and the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, will educate on consent with free T-shirts and carnival games like dildo ring toss and condom water balloon toss. Main Green

Baby farm animals once again take over Wriston Quad for some stress relief during exam periods. Wriston Quad

6 P.M. I MAY BE YOUNG (OLD) BUT I’M READY

This MPC workshop discusses the issue of ageism in relation to the working world and to the Brown community at large. Wilson 102

7 P.M. TELESCOPE OBSERVING NIGHT

The physics department sponsors this night of observing the moon, stars and planets through telescopes provided by the observatory. This event will be held weather permitting.

Ladd Observatory 8 P.M. ‘INHERIT THE WIND’ SCREENING

8 P.M. SPEC’S FALL FEST

Gather in the large white tent on Simmons Quad for SPEC’s annual Fall Festival, which features free fall-themed food like apple cider and pumpkin pie, dance and a cappella performances. Simmons Quad

The Science and Society and Political Science DUGS are sponsoring this screening of “Inherit the Wind.” Set in a small southern town, the film follows the story of a schoolteacher about to stand trial for teaching his students about evolution. Free popcorn and pizza will be provided.

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What makes a ‘Transformative Conversation’?

HANNAH DUNCAN guest columnist

There are many reasons to be skeptical of conversation for conversation’s sake.

One conversation does not undo hundreds of years of systematic oppression. One conversation does not eliminate privilege or even make a critical mass of community members aware of its own.

Last Wednesday night’s conversation (“Panelists check ‘white privilege’ in dialogue on race,” Oct. 16), however, allowed us to name our privilege, even as we reproduced it. Recognition is a requisite step for action, and the Transformative Conversations@ Brown Project centers this recognition and holds each student, faculty member, administrator and staff member accountable for critically engaging with our collective awareness.

As an event organizer, audience member and student, I have spent the last few days considering the ways in which Wednesday night’s conversation was both a significant starting place, and nowhere near sufficient.

As the other event coordinators and I began preparations for “Race, Accountability and Allyship at Brown,” we identified and contacted prospective panelists. These initial conversations provided us with the opportu-

nity to create much-needed spaces for recognizing white privilege on Brown’s campus. We met with professors, representative from campus centers, administrators, students and staff members and invited them to challenge racial inequity at Brown.

Two weeks ago, we interviewed Professor James Morone, director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions. Over the course of our meeting, Morone acknowledged his white privilege and how he imagines Brown can achieve a higher standard of racial justice. Mo-

ly when the topic of white privilege is rarely discussed in classrooms, in public and at University events. Yet, as Morone emphasized, office hours alone are surely not enough.

Demands for racial equity have fueled discourse and action on Brown’s campus since its founding. In recent years, student activism has been the driving force behind some of the most transformative aspects of campus life, including the Minority Peer Counselor program and the Brown Center for Students of Color. After Wednesday’s conversation, we must foster student

onstrated their willingness to begin bridging the divide between students and the administration. Mandel’s involvement, during the first term of her college leadership, is a signal of the responsiveness we look forward to seeing among others here.

I look forward to seeing other white administrators step forward and talk about how they recognize Brown’s institutional whiteness and what steps they are taking to create a more racially just campus. As we build on the work of previous and current members of Brown’s community, we contin-

From Barus and Holley to the Bear’s Lair, we must understand the relevance of racial justice and be literate in the vocabulary necessary for productive dialogue. rone explained that he continues to have conversations about race with students in his office hours. Yet he also insisted that the lived experiences of his students were more than just conversations. Morone’s insights foreshadowed many of the responses to last week’s panel.

The panelists at Wednesday’s teach-in all hold positions of power and influence. As administrators, professors, deans and mentors, they shape the policies that make or break this university’s commitment to racial justice. Office hours are critical, especial-

leadership and raise our expectations for institutional support of these centers, programs and students.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Dawn King, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Richard Bungiro PhD’99, Professor Emeritus of Engineering Barrett Hazeltine, Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn, Dean of the College Maud Mandel, Professor of Sociology and International Studies Michael Kennedy and Professor of Biology Ken Miller ’70 P’02 have dem-

ue to grapple with ongoing questions of equity, power and privilege.

As a white student who has just begun to enter this conversation, I can only contribute to this movement by first educating myself from the audience members’ reactions. Since Wednesday night, we have begun collecting footage and feedback of our panelists’ remarks and responses from the audience members. As we collect this information, we intend to provide our panelists and the community at large with context for tangible next steps. We need feedback to be

as explicit as possible so that we hold ourselves accountable to measurable change.

As Klawunn poignantly noted, this event was held in the same room and at the same time as the Ray Kelly incident last October. By next October, we must be able to reflect on the concrete steps our panelists have taken to build substantial support for undergraduate and graduate students of color at Brown.

I intend to take advantage of Kennedy’s proposal — to interrogate and dismantle institutional whiteness at Brown — and I am looking forward to the next steps we, as a community, can take. It is clear that we need to be talking more about white privilege on all levels: among students, among faculty members and among administrators.

From Barus and Holley to the Bear’s Lair, we must understand the relevance of racial justice and be literate in the vocabulary necessary for productive dialogue. We must create a campus where racial justice is considered as compulsory as the writing requirement — and far more urgent. As an institution, we must demand antiracist language, interactions and policies every day and from every member of Brown’s community.

Hannah Duncan ’15 can be reached for comment at hannah_duncan@brown.edu.

A sad colony of the digital JULIE HYEBIN SHIN opinions columnist

Over the fall weekend, as I was enjoying leisurely post-midterm cleanup in the afternoon sunlight, I came across a copy of Patrick Suskind’s “The Story of Mr. Sommer” helplessly squashed underneath a pile of overbearing textbooks. Tucked inside the book was a receipt showing that it was purchased in May and a fancy bookmark. Such an unexpected “book reunion,” as Wendy Welch calls it in her memoir “The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap,” reminded me of my chronic inability to finish a book in one sitting. I cannot even start counting the times I have come across unfinished books sitting on the bookshelf covered in dust, which I am confident is an experience shared by many.

That I was busy with schoolwork and had no time to read texts other than those required for class is but a pathetic excuse. As a matter of fact, I do have free time, and when I do, I throw myself into the virtual world, going into Facebook autopilot or idly web surfing while constantly reassuring myself that I am immersed in a restorative activity that does not require any thinking so as to “rest” the brain and relieve the stress.

Taking refuge in the pseudo-reality where you can temporarily bury your anxiety in oblivion has more destructive ramifications than constructive, however. Many tend to overlook, or simply ignore, the addictive power of such media and how it can gradually and formidably infiltrate the mind.

I am sure many students have sat in front of their laptops to search for something only to find their fingers unconsciously typing “f+enter” in the search bar, like a heavy smoker customarily digs into his pocket. They waste another 30 minutes that seem like five, grow anxious after looking at the clock, curse at the pathetic self, go back

to studying but fail to concentrate because of the very anxiety and dive back into the sea of opiatic contents to relieve the angst — a vicious cycle.

The extensive accessibility of information through the Internet and the unprecedented convenience with which we are able to search it have driven us far from our bookshelves and toward digital interfaces. For one thing, students seldom visit the Sciences Library or the Rockefeller Library to actually read books or find information, a task more easily and swiftly achieved by Google, smartphones and social media. More importantly, the dull black and white of books, so bland and not sufficiently provocative to keep you awake, act as the cue that instantaneously makes you fall asleep as if one of Pavlov’s dogs.

As we grow addicted to the fast pace of the digital world, we become more and more incapable of reading longer texts in one breath and digging deeper into one question with perseverance.

by years of fast reading and skimming to pinpoint key words and information, is a formidable challenge. An eye-tracking visualization study conducted in 2006 actually revealed an F-shaped reading pattern for reading web content in which users tend to scan the first sentence horizontally, move vertically down the page to find the next crucial information, read it across and then move back down, forming an “F.” Such shallow reading catalyzed by the advent of smartphones, tablet PCs and social media in general significantly hampers critical thinking and profound understanding of the material.

If you look around, you will find a significantly large number of heavy media users preoccupied with virtual reality but ignorant of actual physical reality. They are always habitually touching their devices, casually “phubbing” during conversations or walking precariously while looking down at their phones. It is thus no surprise that

If you look around, you will find a significantly large number of heavy media users preoccupied with virtual reality but ignorant of actual physical reality.

Such impatience and lack of attention are manifestations of our undue reliance on convenient technology that does the thinking for us.

In response, a new phenomenon called “slow reading” has arisen in accordance with the “slow” trend in food, fashion and city life.

Members of the Slow Reading Club in Wellington, New Zealand, gather weekly to enjoy an hour of comprehensive reading in perfect silence, no electronic devices allowed. Their goal is straightforward: not lose focus for the whole hour and get through a book. This is something many actually find to be difficult, as they are overly habituated to convenient tweets and bites of information and unable to read beyond 140 characters.

Changing this habit of inattentive and fragmented reading in college students, consolidated

the number of cellphone-related pedestrian injuries, from broken arms to concussions, treated in emergency rooms skyrocketed sixfold between 2005 and 2010 — with more than half of injured people below the age of 25. And, of course, there is the abundance of anecdotal evidence of those not treated in hospitals, from bumping into a tree to the near-death experience of almost bumping into a car.

Heavy users, while constantly denying their level of addiction, cannot pass a day without logging on to social networks at least once, reporting their daily warts-and-all, prying into other people’s lives, uploading selfies as if to prove their existence to the world, throwing in philosophical aphorisms, political sarcasms and other patronizing comments to enlighten the ignorant masses,

or valiantly voicing their opposition to someone or some issue behind the screen — all while bystanders are consistently sharing and spreading these words.

Though social networks facilitate good and healthy communication many times, we have inevitably fallen into the age of communication overload. Meaningless gossip, regurgitations of unoriginal content and snowballing rumors are all excesses that poison the world in the name of communication. Even more detrimentally, this overload gives rise to psychologically unstable individuals who cannot stop themselves from constantly checking up on other people’s progress and comparing their lives with those of others.

To be sure, online social networking has certainly changed the landscape of social interaction and provided various channels for engaging people. Nonetheless, it has done more harm than good to many anxious and pressured students, especially during their first year — including me — who have grown more insecure and overwhelmed by others’ successes and perpetually sunny lives, embellished or not.

A word of advice to all those suffering from “social media anxiety disorder”: Go outside to have some actual communication with your fellow students. Instead of toying with the latest gadgets and web surfing, toy with books and surf in thoughts. Participate in class discussions and see your rough ideas develop into profound theories as they collide, react and merge — a synergic reaction beyond a mere assemblage of superficial remarks. Shut off your phones and devote all your attention to the very moment you are reading, studying or talking with a friend. Be in control of your life, and you will be able to get through or even enjoy your first year at Brown to the fullest.

Julie HyeBin Shin ’17 finished reading “The Story of Mr. Sommer” over the break and loved it. She can be reached at hye_bin_shin@brown.edu.

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Bears sweep weekend with strong five-set wins After rough Lord ’14 reaches offensive milestone as Bears secure victories over Columbia, Cornell

By NIKKO PASANEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

After a series of close conference losses, the volleyball team bounced back nicely this weekend, taking down Columbia and Cornell in five-set thrillers. The Bears (8-11, 3-4 Ivy) had lost three of their last four contests in a deciding fifth set, but were able to overcome their recent misfortunes and get back on track in Ivy League play.

“It’s pretty exiting that we won both of those,” said Maddie Lord ’15. “The past couple of weekends we’ve lost in those situations. It’s pretty heartbreaking to be on the other side of things, and to have the momentum shift to our team is pretty great.”

It was an impressive all-around effort from Bruno, who had a variety of

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Sarah Lucenti ’17 sets a teammate up for a spike. The setter has already logged 396 assists ­— nearly half of the team’s 867 assists — this year. players make significant contributions in the two victories. In the team’s first match against Columbia (7-8, 3-3), Payton Smith ’17 led the way with a stellar 0.552 hitting percentage and a matchhigh 20 kills. The Bears also received

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strong efforts from Lord and Brittany Link ’15, who connected on 14 and 13 kills, respectively.

Head Coach Diane Short was quick to point out that the return home may have been just what the Bears needed to

lift them to victory.

“There’s a big difference playing home and away. I certainly thought the crowd helped us,” Short said. “This team has been fighting hard all year and just having that little edge with the crowd in our favor always helps.”

The crowd didn’t have much trouble getting involved Friday night, as the match was an exhilarating back-andforth affair. The two teams split the first four sets, and, once again, Bruno found itself heading to a decisive fifth frame.

The Bears struck early in the final set, jumping out to a 7-2 lead. Yet the Lions didn’t let the lead last for long, crawling their way back to a 10-10 tie. It seemed all too familiar for Bruno at this point, but they were determined to write a different script this time around.

After fighting to take a 14-13 lead, the Bears didn’t capitalize on three match points, and quickly found themselves on the brink of another loss. But after staving off two match points from the Lions, Bruno finally broke through on » See VOLLEYBALL, page 4

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Annie Gillen ’15 looks upfield for a teammate. The defender has contributed two assists in her 11 appearances so far this season.

Conference woes persist for winless Brown squad Bruno’s offense falters DAVID DECKEY / HERALD

Goaltender Shannon McSweeney ’15 broke the University’s all-time saves record, eclipsing the previous high of 589 set by Sarah Lamont ’91.

Bears fall to Crimson, continue search for first Ivy League victory next weekend against Cornell

By GEORGE SANCHEZ SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s soccer team took on Harvard Saturday at Stevenson Field in pursuit of its first conference win, but the Bears will have to keep searching after suffering a 2-0 loss against the Crimson.

Due to Harvard’s first place standing in the Ivy League, the matchup served as a prime opportunity for the Bears (5-6-3, 0-2-2 Ivy) to make a statement.

“We have a long standing rivalry with Harvard so it is always competitive with them,” said captain Chloe Cross ’15.

Harvard (8-3-2, 3-0-1) came out of the gate swinging with an 11th minute goal from Emily Mosbacher. This would be the only goal the Crimson needed for the victory, as the Bears were not able to get on the scoreboard.

During the first half of play, the Crimson outshot Bruno 13-2. But Mallory Yant ’15 kept the Bears within reach

with four saves during the half and a total of nine for the game.

“I think Mallory and the entire defensive line did a great job keeping the game close,” Cross said.

Coming out of intermission, the Bears refocused their efforts and it showed. The squad took a total of six shots during the second half, including four shots on goal. Bruno’s best opportunity to tie up the game came 20 minutes into the second half — Carly Gould ’17 took two consecutive attempts at goal within one minute but was unable to find the back of the net.

“We came out of the half with some changes and did our best to try and tie it up,” Cross said. “But unfortunately we just couldn’t put it away.”

With just under four minutes left to play, the Crimson scored its second goal of the match and sealed Bruno’s fate.

The loss gave the Bears their second Ivy loss and third overall loss of the season.

The Bears continue play Sunday against Cornell in an afternoon matchup. With a last-place standing in the Ivy League, the match will serve as a chance for the squad to make up ground in the conference standings.

in rare scoreless affair Despite record-setting performance from McSweeney ’15, Bears fall to Princeton 4-0

By MATTHEW BROWNSWORD CONTRIBUTING WRITER

All year, the women’s field hockey team has been patient: The squad waited to get its first Ivy League win after suffering two huge losses, waited until the dying embers of games to snatch wins — particularly during overtime wins against Sacred Heart and Harvard — and, in its biggest win of the year against Providence College, Brown used its patience to outlast the visiting Friars.

But after 15 years of waiting to beat Princeton (4-9, 3-1 Ivy), the Bears (8-4, 1-3 Ivy) will have to wait another year, as they lost to the Tigers 4-0 on Saturday. Meghan O’Donnell ’15 will also have to wait until this

Wednesday as she aims to break the University’s career goals and points records.

But one milestone was finally reached, as Shannon McSweeney ’15 eclipsed Sarah Lamont ’91 for most saves in a Brown career. Though the record-breaking save came in what was a disappointing team loss, McSweeney’s four years as the Brown netminder have been incredible. She ranks in Brown’s top 15 in all career goaltending categories, holds the record for most saves in a single season and, if the Bears were to win all five of their remaining games, would hold the record for most wins in a season.

“I would say that it was a long, hard push to get where we are today,” McSweeney said. “The turnaround that we have experienced this season certainly did not happen overnight.

A lot of credit should be given to the class of 2014 who put the work in and led the way but did not get to fully » See F. HOCKEY, page 5

start, Bears fall against Princeton

With aerial offense, Fuller ’15 sets personal, conference records, despite 27-16 loss

By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Over its past two Ivy League games, the football team has established a theme: not playing a complete game.

The Bears (2-3, 0-2 Ivy) dug themselves a huge hole against Princeton (3-2, 2-0) Saturday, trailing 24-0 shortly into the second quarter. Despite a spirited second half, Bruno could not surmount the deficit, falling 27-16.

“We’ve yet to put together 60 minutes of football,” said linebacker and cocaptain Dan Giovacchini ’15.

The start of Saturday’s game was the exact opposite of Bruno’s matchup against Harvard three weeks ago. In that game, Bruno grabbed an early lead and was up 14-13 before a miserable fourth quarter led to a 22-14 loss. But the two games are similar in that the Bears simply didn’t show up for an important part of the game. On Saturday, instead of the fourth quarter, it was the first.

“If we play well for three quarters, not playing well for one quarter can be the difference in the game,” Giovacchini said.

From the opening kickoff to the conclusion of a Princeton drive that extended less than a minute into the second quarter, the Bears were outgained 26342 and outscored 24-0. The ostensibly staunch Bruno run defense gave up 68 yards on 12 carries, and the solid secondary was torched by a backup quarterback for the second straight Ivy game.

Princeton quarterback and reigning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Quinn Epperly missed the game with turf toe, but backup quarterback Connor Michelsen went 16-for-19 for 195 yards over those first few drives, including a run of 13 consecutive completions.

“We came out pretty flat,” Giovacchini said, and described the game’s opening stanza as “probably our worst first quarter in a long time.”

He also said the defense was “caught off guard with the pace” of the Tiger offense.

The game looked well on its way to being a blowout, and it seemed unlikely Bruno would hold the electric Tigers offense under 50 points. But after Princeton went up by 24, a switch flipped in the Bears, who proceeded to outplay the Tigers for the rest of the game.

“We did fight to the bitter end,” said quarterback and co-captain Marcus Fuller ’15.

From their first possession of the second quarter until the end of the game, Bruno held a 405-222 yardage advantage and scored 16 of the game’s final 19 points. The defense buckled down, limiting the Tigers to only 60 more rushing yards on their final 24 carries. Michelsen completed only 17 of his next 26 passes, gaining only 172 yards after Princeton » See FOOTBALL, page 5