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Year later, Kelly still fuels campus debates Sara

Overstreet ’16 dies

Community clashes persist on interpretation of events, how to move forward

Memorial service plans underway for international relations and English concentrator

By JOSEPH ZAPPA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The shutdown of former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s guest lecture by student and community member protesters cemented the events of Oct. 29, 2013 in Brown’s collective memory.

The discourse that followed shook the foundation of the campus, pushing many to reassess and verbally spar over what should define Brown’s character as a university.

One year later, questions about how to remember the Kelly controversy, how it has changed conversation on campus and how the University will adapt in light of the issues it raised continue to divide the Brown community.

Setting the tone What happened in List 120 that day is a well-documented part of the public record: Various messages shouted toward the stage, followed by a collective statement from the protesters, persisted long enough that the University declared the event over.

Kelly had not said more than a couple of sentences.

“The protest itself was a huge mix of emotions. It was angering; it was empowering; it was traumatizing; it was necessary,” recalled Justice Gaines

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The effects of the events of Oct. 29, 2013 still loom large one year later. Ray Kelly’s invitation to speak on campus and the subsequent protests ushered in a continuing dialogue on racial dynamics at the University. ’16, one of the protesters.

“It was frustrating,” said Valerie Langberg ’14 GS, who attended the lecture. When the protesters yelled, “‘Who in the room would like to hear Ray Kelly speak?’” many people raised their hands, Langberg recalled.

Later that evening, President Christina Paxson sent a letter to the Brown community condemning the protesters’ interruption of the lecture.

“Protest is welcome, but protest that infringes on the rights of others is simply unacceptable,” she wrote.

At the time, many others conveyed views similar to Paxson’s. A

Herald poll the next week found that 73.2 percent of undergraduates disapproved of the protests inside the auditorium that caused the lecture to be shut down.

The Kelly lecture “was one of my worst experiences at Brown,” said Brandon Taub ’15, who attended the event. “Protesting is a good thing. …

But it’s not within their right to force an event to be canceled because they don’t agree with it.”

Others see Paxson’s first response differently.

“It made a hostile environment for students who participated in the

protest,” said Dakotah Rice ’16, who initially rejected the lecture’s shutdown. Rice later became a member of the Committee on the Events of October 29, the group tasked with assessing the incident and offering recommendations for the future.

For Gaines, the rest of the day after the protest was “a hell-hole.” On social media, he said, many people who interpreted the incident through the framing of Paxson’s email had a “complete misunderstanding of the reasons, the purpose or exactly what happened.” » See RAY KELLY, page 2

Sara Overstreet ’16 has died, President Christina Paxson announced in a community-wide email Thursday afternoon.

Paxson’s email did not specificy a cause of death.

A native of San Jose, California, Overstreet was an international relations and English double-concentrator.

She was interested in interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the human condition on a global scale, Paxson wrote.

Overstreet was also focused on digital technology as a means of social innovation and problem-solving and planned to attend graduate school or work for an independent think tank or nonprofit after graduating from Brown.

Plans for memorial services are still underway, Paxson wrote, offering her condolences to Overstreet’s friends and family.

The offices of Counseling and Psychological Services, which can be reached at 401-863-3476, and Chaplains and Religious Life, which can be reached at 401-863-2344, are open to all members of the Brown community for support.

Michelle Obama rallies Food for thought: Sustainability on campus support for Raimondo Student, professor

By LINDSAY GANTZ SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Hundreds of eyes in the Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex gymnasium in Providence turned toward the podium, where First Lady Michelle Obama spoke in support of gubernatorial Democratic nominee Gina Raimondo Thursday afternoon.

With the race for governor entering the final sprint, the entire Rhode Island congressional delegation introduced Raimondo and Obama. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., U.S. Rep. David Cicilline ’83, DR.I., and U.S. Rep. James Langevin, DR.I., each delivered brief remarks before Raimondo and Obama spoke.

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“This election is not about the folks that are up here on this stage,” Obama began, referring to the state’s Democratic officials behind the podium.

“We are fighting for the kind of work we want to leave for our kids and grandkids,” Obama said. Her speech, entitled “Rebuilding the Middle Class,” focused on the importance of providing better opportunities to middle-class families, with education reform and employment rates touted as critical initiatives.

“We need to get Gina Raimondo in,” Obama said. Voters will go to the polls Tuesday to determine if Raimondo is elected the first female governor of Rhode Island. A Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions poll released Tuesday showed Raimondo and the Republican candidate, Cranston Mayor Allan Fung, tied among voters, The Herald reported Wednesday.

Raimondo “knows what it means to work for what you want in life,” Obama said.

Raimondo, who introduced the first » See OBAMA, page 3

and BDS food-related initiatives reflect modern sustainability movement

By EMILY PASSARELLI SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Every Wednesday afternoon during the fall, there is a farmers market next to the Sciences Library and it’s the students who aren’t munching on a crisp, locally grown apple who stick out. On Thursday afternoons, students, faculty and staff alike walk down Brown Street, juggling both backpacks stacked with textbooks and bags brimming with fresh produce from Marketshares. And on Fridays, Morning Mail frequently features open invitations to the undergraduate community for free Shabbat dinners at the Brown/RISD Hillel.

Posters that mention food color the campus — “Have pizza with…,”

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Burnside Park played host to Providence’s Food Day festival, which celebrated local food producers like Narragansett Creamery on Sunday.

“Food will be provided” or “Light refreshments to follow the event” plaster the walls outside Stephen Roberts ’62 Campus Center and academic department bulletins.

But for many members of the community, thoughts about food extend

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beyond thoughts of where to go to get it cheap — and, if they’re lucky, good. Phrases like “locally grown” and “food equality” are equally prevalent on campus and define initiatives in the University’s food sustainability » See FOOD, page 4 t o d ay

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2 university news » RAY KELLY, from page 1 Competing narratives create discord Paxson’s email prompted an ongoing debate about what message to take away from the Ray Kelly affair.

While many acknowledge that issues of race, power and privilege played a role in the protest and remain important topics for discussion, the protesters and their allies assert that these issues must be the focus of dialogue about the controversy.

Others maintain that the lecture’s shutdown could set a dangerous precedent for the way freedom of expression is treated on campus and insist that the University remain vigilant in protecting the right of any person to voice any opinion at Brown.

“Since Oct. 29, I’m a big supporter of freedom of expression on (the) university campus,” Paxson told The Herald. Though she said she is pleased with the discourse on race that has followed the Kelly affair, she still “hope(s) we can get to the point where anyone who’s invited to campus will be allowed to express their ideas as well as be challenged.”

“The real question about the silencing of Kelly is this: Is this going to be a campus in which all groups — student groups, faculty groups and administrative groups — can exercise the right to invite speakers and visitors of their choice, or not?” said Ken Miller ’70 P’02, professor of biology, whose opinions columns in The Herald over the past year have made him a prominent voice against the shutdown.

But some see freedom of speech differently in the context of the protest.

“Shutting people like Ray Kelly down is not necessarily an attack on their freedom of speech, because they already are given the space and the military power to put their ideas into action,” said Eduarda Araujo ’15, one of the protesters.

And the protest aimed to amplify the often-unheard voices of those affected by policies like the stop-andfrisk policing measures pursued by Kelly when he headed the NYPD, several protesters said.

Protesters are also frustrated that a discussion on the importance of freedom of expression must accompany or overtake the discussion on why they protested in the first place, they said.

But some assert that it was the protesters who shifted the focus of dialogue from race-related issues to freedom of expression.

“The way (the protesters) handled (Ray Kelly) coming to campus turned it into a conversation on freedom of speech,” Langberg said.

The protesters are not a homogeneous group. To this day, the protesters and others who believe the University made mistakes in bringing Kelly to Brown still maintain differing

opinions on what exactly those mistakes were and whether Kelly should have been invited at all.

The University “brings an officer who was involved in developing a racial profiling policy in New York City and invites a bunch of police officers in Providence. It’s like offering them a workshop on how (they) can justify (their) racist policies,” Araujo said.

“That really hurts the city.”

Araujo and other protesters emphasized that the protest was an act of solidarity with Providence residents.

She said she supports shutting down events in the future that students view as “harmful to them, to Providence or to the world.”

But for other protesters, shutting down the lecture may not have been the goal of the protest and does not figure into their conception of how activists should handle talks by controversial figures in the future.

Some say the Kelly lecture might have gone on if not for the laudatory way his talk was framed — the title was “Proactive Policing in America’s Biggest City” — and the police officers invited to sit in the first couple rows.

“Disagreeing with ideas wasn’t the point of the protest,” Gaines said.

“Ray Kelly was a different story, … because the policies he’s created and the way they were framed disrespected people.”

Paxson said she acknowledges that the University or the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, which organized the lecture, “should have pushed back on the title of the talk and the way it was portrayed.”

“We invite someone here — that’s not an endorsement,” she added. “It never is.”

Discipline The disciplinary process for student protesters who interrupted the lecture has also generated contention and confusion.

On Nov. 6, 2013, Paxson sent an email to the Brown community indicating that the University would decide whether to refer students to the disciplinary process after receiving the first report from the Committee on the Events of October 29 — a shift from administrators’ prior comments.

Paxson sent the committee’s first report to the community Feb. 18, but the entire community did not get word that hearings had been conducted until she sent her response to the committee’s second report this month. The University declined to disclose which students were disciplined and what their punishments were, citing restrictions under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Miller criticized the timing of the University’s decision to refer students to the disciplinary process. Had the University made the decision sooner, “people would have been aware of the

fact that the University enforces its rules,” Miller said.

The disciplinary process occurred a few months after the incident and lasted no longer than three days, Gaines said, adding that students were penalized for standing up during the lecture and interrupting Kelly.

Gaines criticized the punishment as one-sided, noting that students who spoke up in the lecture hall to defend Kelly or his right to speak were not punished.

Racial fissures surface One universally recognized element of the Kelly affair’s impact on campus is the widespread discourse it generated on race — at least in the immediate aftermath.

“What we had done was lay bare the divides that already existed on campus and make it possible for honest transformations to occur,” said Irene Rojas-Carroll ’15, a protester.

In the wake of the event, Duane Barksdale ’17, like many others, at first disapproved of halting the lecture despite personally opposing stopand-frisk. At the time, he worried anyone outside of Brown would get the impression that “we’re a bunch of liberal students who don’t want to hear people’s opinions,” he recalled.

“Over the course of the past year, I’ve grown to understand both sides of the issue,” he said. “The actual act of him being shouted down started to make more sense to me for people who have been directly affected by stop-and-frisk.”

“It was very important for the campus community as a whole — for those of us who weren’t engaged with this issue — to learn how to be advocates for the protesters rather than be skeptics, which is what I was at first,” said Elena Saltzman ’16.

Despite this, many of the 72.3 percent of students who opposed the halting of the lecture last Nov. 4 still feel that way.

Taub said the incident represents a greater and more problematic phenomenon: “Some views are acceptable on campus while others aren’t, which stands against everything Brown stands for in terms of dialogue and freedom of expression.”

For some protesters, discourse on race proved productive but difficult after the Kelly affair.

“I think it was valuable to have this discourse emerge on campus and to have — for quite a long time — this being discussed,” Araujo said.

“At the same time, it brought to the surface a lot of our community’s blind spots — ignorance — regarding race, regarding its role in Providence, its relationship to its own students of color and this very ignorance evidences the fact that we hadn’t been discussing race almost at all.”

“It was striking to see … how many of my classmates — when actually pushed to say something one way or the other — defended structural

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racism and repression, and/or evaded the issue by making it solely about academic freedom and abstracting away from what the demonstration was really about,” Rojas-Carroll said.

But some students doubt how widespread or enduring the discourse sparked by the Ray Kelly affair has actually been.

“I haven’t noticed people talking about race that much more,” said Sarah Jackson ’16. “Some people just never talk about it. It depends on the group of people. This campus is very self-segregated.”

“I think it was definitely temporary. Personally, I didn’t hear that much about (race) … because the freedom of speech (discussion) was so much more prevalent and in your face,” Langberg said.

Inequalities at Brown and beyond Pursuant to the many discussions community members have had about race since the Kelly affair, the second report compiled by the Committee on the Events of October 29 offered suggestions on how the University can address several related issues, such as faculty diversity and strengthening ties with the Providence community.

Only 4.9 percent of full professors identify as underrepresented minorities in the current academic year, according to data obtained from the Office of Institutional Research.

Underrepresented minorities account for 13.4 percent of associate professors and 12.4 percent of assistant professors.

That small proportion can be detrimental to the experience of students of color, said Armani Madison ’16.

A lack of senior administrators of color also poses a problem, Rice said, adding that a diverse administration would more easily facilitate “dynamic reactions” to certain topics.

After some called for diversity to be considered during the search processes for a new provost and dean of the College last year, the University ultimately selected white candidates for both positions.

Diversity was “absolutely” a consideration for both searches, Paxson said. “One of the most important things is to make sure every department, every administrative unit, is thinking about building a strong, diverse pool for every single search they do,” she added.

Regarding members of the wider community — who played a large role in last October’s protest — Paxson wrote in an email to The Herald that in the future “it makes sense to close the event to the public” if “there is good reason to believe that members of the community are planning to disrupt an event.”

“Although I strongly prefer keeping events open to the public,” Paxson added, “Brown is a private university with the right to make events ‘Brownonly.’”

But some protesters criticized the notion that events like the Kelly lecture might be closed to the public in the future.

“That decision highlights the University’s elitism and bitter divide with Providence rather than a real willingness to support, work with and learn with communities on the ground,” Rojas-Carroll wrote in a follow-up email to The Herald. “It’s incredibly insulting, regressive and, frankly, racist.”

U. Hall and students of color As the disagreement over closing events to the public shows, many of last year’s protesters still harbor a great deal of doubt as to whether the University looks out for the interests they champion.

“I don’t think that the administration has the diversity makeup to be able to adequately tackle these issues,” Madison said, adding that “improving the relationship between students of color and the administration” is “a discussion that we need to have.”

“Universities like Brown, historically, have not had students of color’s backs, nor did they want to,” Araujo said. “Our university only adopted a discourse of diversity … when students actually walked out, occupied buildings, raised hell, basically. So the University is not going to have our backs unless we oblige it to.”

But this perspective on the administration may not represent that of many students of color on campus.

A Herald poll conducted last week found that nearly one-third of black students approve of Paxson’s job performance, slightly higher than the percentage who disapprove.

“As an individual student of color, I feel supported more or less,” Jackson said. But, she added, “I’m not sure because I’ve never had to do anything super controversial.”

For some, mistrust of the University as an institution extends to doubt about whether it will follow through with the promises, such as increasing faculty diversity, that Paxson made in her response to the committee’s second report.

Paxson declined the committee’s recommendation to establish an ad hoc committee in charge of oversight for any planned improvements, deciding to rely instead on standing committees such as the Committee on Faculty Equity and Diversity. Paxson is currently in talks with the Faculty Executive Committee on how to improve the CFED so it can serve as the primary watchdog on improvements to faculty diversity in coming years, she said.

In acting on the committee’s recommendations, the University will play a role in molding the next chapter of the Kelly affair’s legacy.

But the past year’s chain of actions and reactions indicates that no one stakeholder will shape the rest of the story alone.

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of college and university counseling centers.

“Over time, we would like most colleges and universities to participate,” wrote John MacPhee, executive director of the Jed Foundation, in an email to The Herald, adding that the program is designed for “all types of schools.”

The program stems from a collaboration between two prominent mental health institutions: the Jed Foundation, which focuses primarily on suicide prevention in college settings, and the Clinton Foundation Health Matters Initiative, a health and well-being advocacy group for the general population.

The Campus Program’s purpose is to help schools “prevent the two leading causes of death in young adults — unintentional injuries, including those caused by prescription drug overdoses or alcohol poisoning, and suicide,” according to the program’s initial Jan. 14 press release.

Drug abuse and suicide “are a concern on every college campus,” Nelson said. “Those are always concerns, whether or not they’re happening on our campus or any other campus.”

Administrators want to ensure the Campus Program does not overlap with existing CAPS initiatives before committing to the program, Nelson said. “I would want it to be

differentiated from other things that we’re doing. What I want to be sure of is that we don’t dilute our efforts too much in any one area.”

The University currently has a group in place to address the issues of student drug abuse and suicide.

The Campus Life Advisory Board’s Subcommittee on Alcohol and Other Drugs “meets monthly and discusses policy issues,” Nelson said.

This semester, CAPS will introduce the Mental Health Advisory Council, which will comprise outside professionals and representatives from Student Employee Accessibility Services, Health Services and the Office of Student Life, Nelson said. “It’s going to look at mental health services and the way we provide them more widely,” she said.

Along with these programs, CAPS primarily offers private counseling sessions to students who reach out to schedule appointments. “Our main mission is one-to-one (counseling), and that has to come first,” Nelson said, adding that the team of psychotherapists sees around 17 percent of the undergraduate student body each year.

“We’re trying to do more outreach,” she added. “There are a lot of resources that often times students aren’t aware of until something happens.”

About 43 percent of the student body has received University-provided flu shots this year, said Unab Khan, medical director of Health Services, and no cases of the flu have been confirmed so far on campus.

Over the last three weeks, Health Services provided free flu-shot clinics at the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center and the Alpert Medical School, where all students could receive shots at no cost.

So far, 3,626 students have been vaccinated, Khan said. “This is a very good start.”

At the conclusion of last year’s flu season, 45 percent of students had been vaccinated, Khan said, adding that Health Services staff is pleased with this year’s turn-out.

Though the clinics have concluded, students can make an appointment with Health Services to get a flu shot, Khan said. If demand for appointments exceeds availability, Health Services will arrange more clinics, she added. “We really encourage all of the students to get vaccinated.”

Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services, said the clinics were promoted via Morning Mail, campus notices and advertisements in The Herald. “We also hold the clinics purposefully in places where it is convenient for students to access them, such as in the Campus Center,” she said.

Jaekyung Song ’17 said being vaccinated was easy. “It’s close. It’s free. It’s convenient.”

“I got my flu shot as soon as I heard about the clinic,” said Sarah Yoho ’18.

“As an athlete on the cross country team, I can’t afford to get sick.”

Though flu season can start around September, specific dates vary from state to state, Khan said.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officially announces flu season each year, Khan said, adding that flu season officially begins based in different regions based on threshold numbers of confirmed cases.

Symptoms of cough, cold and fever don’t necessarily indicate the flu. Health

Raimondo’s comments. She said children from disadvantaged backgrounds “have every reason to give up,” but “those kids never give up, and neither can we.”

Obama spoke about Rashema Melson, a girl whom the first lady mentors. After facing homelessness and her father’s early death from murder, she persevered and “still showed up every morning to class,” becoming her school’s valedictorian. Melson is now on a full scholarship to Georgetown University, Obama said.

Though Obama said “things are starting to get better across this country” and cited a decrease in the national unemployment rate, she added that the Ocean State still needs to improve its job landscape, given that it has the third-highest unemployment rate in the country.

With the Democratic and Republican nominees neck-and-neck in recent polls, the two campaigns’ turnout operations will likely be key.

“The work on the ground really matters,” Obama said. She encouraged the audience to commit to “at least three volunteer shifts this weekend” in support of the Raimondo campaign.

Elections like this one can be decided by mere thousands of votes and have very significant outcomes, Obama said, adding that if voters stay home on Election Day, “we’ll see less support for kids’ schools” and “we’ll see more special breaks for those at the top.”

Jonathan Boucher, executive director of the Rhode Island Democratic Party, told The Herald that getting people out to vote is the Democratic Party’s main

priority. “The main purpose right now is turning out voters we’ve identified as likely supporters and making sure that they get out to vote,” he said.

“We want to encourage every student to get out there that is registered to vote,” Boucher said.

“You got to get it done, Rhode Island,” Obama said, adding that ensuring a Raimondo victory in the tight race “won’t be easy.”

Juanita Sanchez students who write for the school paper were invited by the Raimondo campaign into the event’s press area, said Robert Nerney, an ELA teacher at Juanita Sanchez.

Cristal Marte, a senior at Juanita Sanchez, covered the event for the school paper. “It’s rewarding, actually getting to be here in the back and getting to talk to

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Fifty-six colleges and universities, including Columbia, Cornell, Penn and Princeton, have joined the Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program since its June debut.

CAPS may join national health initiative Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program aims to reduce substance abuse, suicide rate

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Counseling and Psychological Services is considering signing on to the Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program, a four-year commitment to reducing substance abuse and preventing suicides among college students, said CAPS Director Sherri Nelson.

Since the program’s launch in June, 56 colleges and universities have already committed to participate in its series of workshops, assessments and reforms, according to an Oct. 1 press release from the Jed Foundation, which sponsors the program in conjunction with the Clinton Foundation Health Matters Initiative. Four Ivy League institutions have already joined the program: Columbia, Cornell, Penn and Princeton.

The Campus Program “is very comprehensive,” Nelson said, adding that she plans on inquiring more about the program and other schools’ involvement at an annual, three-day conference starting Nov. 9 for directors

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“My vision for this state of Rhode Island is a rebuilt economy that includes everybody,” Raimondo said, citing her middle-class background as a large influence on her political goals.

Raimondo said she will expand statewide college scholarship funds and start a college loan forgiveness program in order to combat high student loan debt.

“I took that RIPTA bus to school, and that put me on a path of opportunity,” she added.

“For all the young people here, there is nothing more important than getting your education,” Obama said, echoing

providers collect nasal swabs that are sent to the HHS for evaluation when the flu is suspected. Khan said the HHS also looks at more than just percentages, evaluating what kind of virus is causing the flu in a specific year and whether or not it is a particularly virulent strain.

“It’s not just a simple number. There is a lot that goes into it,” she said.

Though the HHS has not initiated a warning about a strong strain or type of flu this year, Khan said there are still concerns for this season. The National Weather Service predicts a harsh winter, Khan explained, which raises concerns about a more difficult flu season.

“A bad winter means that people will be stuck in their houses and their dorm rooms, and people come more in contact with each other,” which creates worry about spreading the disease, she said.

While many Americans are worried about the Ebola outbreak, Khan said flu is just as concerning. “People need to remember other diseases — that can harm and even kill healthy people — which are more prevalent in the United States already, and flu is certainly one of them.”

Last year in the United States, about 50 healthy teenagers died from complications of the flu, Khan said, emphasizing that the flu is not something to be “taken lightly.”

“We believe it is important for students to get flu shots because the flu can cause serious illness and can easily be prevented with the vaccine,” Klawunn said.

This is the first year that Health Services will bill students’ insurance plans for the shots in order to help recoup the cost of the vaccines, Khan said, though the vaccines are still free for students, because the vaccine is incorporated into health insurance premiums. Khan estimated that the vaccines costed around $50,000 to $60,000 last year.

The University also receives a small number of free flu shots from the HHS to be allocated to people who fit specific criteria, she added.

The University also runs “Flu Web” — an online registration service on the Health Services website — which allows students to report illnesses with flulike symptoms and request dean’s notes for missed class time, Klawunn said, adding that the University encourages use of this service in addition to those provided at Health Services in the case of illness. important people,” Marte said.

“It was a good experience,” said Yordy Garcia, another writer for the Juanita Sanchez school paper.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also visited Rhode Island last week to advocate for the Raimondo’s campaign. Clinton’s talk focused on the importance of improving minimum wage laws, building infrastructure and decreasing unemployment, The Herald reported.

“I thought that the issues and actual policies were the same things that Hillary and Gina talked about. But the way (Obama) approached the discussion, I thought was really organic and amicable,” said Joseph Van Wye ’15, who attended both campaign rallies. “She brought her own personality to it,” he said.

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Members of Brown’s Vegetarian Society and the Sustainable Food Initiative, both active presences in the sustainability movement on campus, appeared along with students and chefs from Johnson and Wales University Sunday at a Food Day fair held just down the hill in Burnside Park. Narranganset Creamery gave out samples of their locally produced dairy, Johnson and Wales students presented cooking demonstrations using entirely local ingredients and speakers discussed Providence’s local food and sustainability measures.

Sustainability: big word, big meaning “Sustainability is three parts: environment, economy and equity,” said Rosalie Kissel ’17, co-head of SuFI, who was also present at the Food Day fair, adding that the environment portion of the term encompasses from where the food comes, to whom your money goes when you buy it and of what it is made.

Kissel said the club’s goal is to raise awareness about the impact of sustainability practices and to encourage undergrads to be more conscious of their food choices. Sustainable choices are empowering for the consumer, she said, adding that “eating locally” keeps a larger percentage of every dollar in the Providence community than eating goods imported from other areas.

“Food doesn’t just appear on your plate, which is a simple realization but not one that we always make,” she said. But “the movement is growing and becoming something that people actually care about,” she added.

Brown Marketshares connects consumers with farmers and provides them with fresh produce, as well as with bread, dairy and meats. Program Development Coordinator of Brown Marketshares Taylor Lanzet ’15 said the program did a survey that asked shareholders to choose from several options on why they invested in the program. The most popular response was “to support local farmers.” The second and third reasons were convenience and cost, she added.

“One of the biggest critiques of the local food movement is that it’s so expensive,” she said, but added, “Supporting your local farmer does not need to break the bank.”

Buying organic and chemical-free fruits and vegetables at the grocery store is often more expensive than buying through Marketshares, which runs for 11 weeks each season. The program offers subsidized shares to 37 percent of shareholders, and the amount of produce that you get for $220 can easily feed more than one person each week, she explained.

Over the past four years, Marketshares has had a resounding downstream effect — the program has spent over $750,000 in the local food economy, and this has had a $1.3 million impact on the economy by creating jobs and keeping farmers in business, Lanzet said.

The program has also created a community of people who are excited about cooking and more literate about food, she said.

Help from above The University has responded to the momentum initiated by the

undergrad community and is “doing something, but there’s still more to be done,” Kissel said.

Jasmine Fuller ’15, a member of the student composting group SCRAP, noted the University’s slow rate of change in comparison to increased student engagement with sustainability. SCRAP began the composting system at Brown in 2010 with 60 small compost buckets — now, the endeavor consists of 350 small buckets distributed among students and two three-bin compost centers on campus. But “student demand is at or exceeding (the) capacity” that SCRAP’s composting system can support, she said.

The club recently submitted an appeal to the Sustainability Strategic Planning and Advisory Committee — a student-proposed committee that comprises both students and administrators and was established in 2012 to handle the University’s sustainability plans — to introduce a campus-wide compost system, she said. If Brown were to success-

Department of Agriculture forged working relationships with smallscale farmers in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, who approached with worries about the financial viability of their trades.

In the early 2000s, Rhody Fresh, a local dairy producer, came to Brown offering to sell milk to the University but disclaimed that they did not have all the supplies and materials to do so. The University agreed to support them and today still buys all of its milk from Rhody Fresh, Aubrun said.

Additionally, food scraps from dining halls go to a pig farmer at Two Village Farm, contributing to the “community ethic” on campus, she added.

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“Sustainability seems to be one of the issues that engages the most people on campus,” said Ross Cheit, professor of political science and public policy, who will teach POLS 1740: “The Politics of Food” for the fourth time this spring.

His course examines the policies, institutions and interest groups that affect the way food is grown, eaten and distributed, he said. It mostly attracts students who are already somewhat engaged in food politics and challenges their initial beliefs, he added. “We have a fragile food system that is highly connected and international,” and this interconnectedness explains why so many people support buying local food.

“My course critiques this local food movement,” he said. “The desire to decrease ‘food miles’ — how far it travels — has taken too much importance at the expense of things more important,” he said, naming the energy cost of transportation as compara-

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fully implement a campus-wide compost system, this would demostrate to Providence that such action is possible and could precipitate change for the city as well, she added.

While student groups may be frustrated by the slow rate of institutional change, Isabelle Aubrun ’16 said the University’s sustainability initiatives are more extensive than students may realize. But before she became one of two Brown Dining Services sustainability interns, she said that she, too, was unaware of these efforts.

The University’s sustainability project began in 2002 when students, University staff and the Rhode Island

campuses is how a college campus can be sort of a microcosm for sustainability in other environments,” she said.

The University would benefit if it better promoted of its efforts in sustainability, Aubrun said. “The current mentality is that they’re doing it, and that’s the most important thing.

But what they’re coming to realize is that it’s not quite as valuable if no one has a clue.”

Eat local food, and learn about it, too In addition to the dining halls and the market, food conversation on campus also pervades the classroom.

tively less significant than other concerns related to sustainability.

This year’s TRI-Lab initiative also features a lab entitled “Healthy Food Access.” It examines the policy, health and social impact of the current food system in Providence. Ben Chesler ’15, a TRI-Lab student, said he applied to take the course because it offers the opportunity to learn and simultaneously engage with the community. Chesler is a member of a group helping draft a policy for the R.I. Food Policy Council, while one of the other groups is working with the Providence ‘Fresh to You’ Market, he said.

“I think that generally, our

generation is more and more aware of just how important sustainability is to our future,” he said.

The grass is green off the hill as well Undergraduate interest in food sustainability extends beyond the Van Wickle Gates — it reaches farther than the city of Providence, and it interests a population larger than the 6,500 20-somethings on campus. John Eng-Wong ’62, special advisor to the American studies masters program, said the University’s effort to become more involved in local food sourcing and sustainable practices mirrors what many others around the world are trying to achieve in regard to food.

Eng-Wong organized a conference between national and international scholars named “Food Heritage, Hybridity and Locality” from Oct. 23 to 25. The conference attracted not only Brown undergraduates and professors but also scholars from the New England area and abroad, he said.

“Fifty years ago, it wouldn’t have been respectable for us to look at food as a topic of study,” he said, but today both in the U.S. and internationally, there is a higher awareness about what we are eating. Twenty years ago, he helped initiate the Providence Farmers Market that now visits campus weekly throughout September and October.

“I’d say about 85 percent of people who come, come for sustainability,” said Georgina Sarpong, who works with Farm Fresh Rhode Island and helps run the market. “I think that everyone that we have encountered at this market has a strong interest in sustainability.”

Students, too, are hopeful for the changes they will be able to make through engagement with their peers.

“There are a lot of groups who are working on distinct things, but we are all just one piece of the sustainability puzzle,” Aubrun said.

“Food has serious potential,” EngWong said.

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Center stage: This month in theater Donald Margulies: ‘An ephemeral enterprise’

BY EMMAJEAN HOLLEY, ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR

‘The Imaginary Invalid’ | Providence College Smith Center for the Arts | Oct. 31Nov. 9 Given the subject matter, it is ironic that “The Imaginary Invalid” was the last work produced by Molière, the 17th-century French playwright best remembered for his comedies. The show follows the antics of Monsieur Argan, a hand-wringing hypochondriac. His medical anxieties are so pervasive that in order to secure a live-in doctor, he seeks to play matchmaker between a physician-in-training, whose soporific personality nullifies any charm in his auspicious career, and his daughter, who is almost obsessively besotted with another character.

The play not only pushes the boundaries of just how far Argan will go to remain in good health, but also portrays intriguing gender dynamics given its historical context. While the male characters are insipid, insufferable or absurd, it’s the women who deliver the plot’s meatiest layers — the outspoken maid who reigns supreme in her domestic sphere, the daughter whose love for her father transcends his peculiar behavior and the scheming stepmother whose machinations reveal that Argan’s perceived bodily maladies are the least of his concerns.

‘Steel Magnolias’ | Artists’ Exchange, Theatre 82 | Nov. 6-9 For a cult classic that has played on and off of Broadway and was adapted into a Oscar-nominated film, the two-act, four-scene “Steel Magnolias” is surprisingly simple. The story centers around Truvy’s beauty salon in small-town Louisiana and unfolds through the grapevine cultivated by the six spunky Southern dames who frequent it. Their grit and resilience in the face of a friend’s declining health reflect the experiences of writer Robert Harling, who drew his inspiration for “Steel Magnolias” from the humor his family used in coping with his sister’s terminal illness. Though much of the show’s enduring appeal lies in its ability to elicit “laughter through tears,” as one character puts it, the play is more script-oriented than plot-driven — a New York Times review described the banter as “the kinds of sentences that wind up embroidered on decorative pillows.”

‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ | Providence Performing Arts Center | Nov. 4-9 It’s hard to go wrong with Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose musical compositions drew national and critical spotlights in productions like “Cats,” “Evita” and “Phantom of the Opera.” But this particular adaptation of the Biblical story of Joseph and his “coat of many colors” — a tale which has garnered enthusiastic reviews since it launched its nationwide tour in Cleveland last March — promises to go beyond the name-brand reputation. The star-studded cast includes Broadway and “American Idol” alums Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young, while bold decisions in costume design and music selection lend contemporary renovations to the show’s nearly half-century shelf life. In the trusted, Tony Award-winning hands of director and choreographer Andy Blankenbueler, audiences can rest assured that “any dream will do.”

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright shares ‘one of the great secrets of surviving in theater’

By GRACE YOON STAFF WRITER

Donald Margulies did not always cast himself in the role of a dramatist. Now a prolific playwright and adjunct professor of English and theater studies at Yale, he graduated with a BFA in visual arts. Since taking up the pen, he’s received a slew of accolades, including the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for “Dinner with Friends,” that has projected him to center stage. But for all his acclaim, Margulies described himself as a “Brooklyn boy” during his Thursday lecture — the inaugural installment of the Department of Literary Arts’ Levin Family Lecture Series. Prior to his lecture, Margulies sat down with The Herald to talk about his inner visual artist, his love-hate relationship with Hollywood and Jason Segel’s upcoming role as David Foster Wallace.

Herald: What brings you here to Providence tonight? What do you plan to discuss and hope the audience will retain from the event?

Margulies: I’m here to inaugurate the Levin Family Lecture Series, which was endowed by a friend of mine, Glen Levin, and his family. The purpose of it is to bring working creative artists to Brown to discuss the work that they do.

I’m very delighted that I am the first in what I hope will be an enriching series, and I’m really here to talk about the life and craft of playwriting, and share with the audience some clips, anecdotes and readings from one or two of my plays.

You have some background in visual arts. How does that influence your playwriting?

I have always been a visually-oriented person, and my plays come from different places. But sometimes they do come from images or dreams, and I very often have a specific idea of how things should look on stage, which I guess is part of my visual arts bent. It serves me well. It gives me a certain vocabulary to share with designers on various productions.

I don’t design my shows, but I certainly collaborate with the designers … and I’ve been very thrilled to have had a career of working with designers who are very receptive to that kind of input.

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Playwright Donald Margulies, whose play “The Country House” is currently on Broadway, took an unexpected path to his prolific body of work.

You have had a handful of works that were originally written for the stage, but were then adapted for the screen.

How did that transformation happen?

Well, one of the great secrets of surviving in theater is that you subsidize the life in the theater by being a writer-forhire in film and television. So I’ve been doing that for many years. I’ve survived on screenplays for which I was paid, but which will never be made because that is the nature of film development in Hollywood at this time.

There are a couple of my plays that have been adapted to television: “Dinner With Friends” was made into a HBO movie, and “Collected Stories” was a PBS special. I have certain misgivings about those productions, but the text for each of those is mine. The way that they are rendered is something I may quibble with, but at least these are my words, and I am delighted to have some sort of visual record of the work. Otherwise, theater is such an ephemeral enterprise. Just knowing that there’s even some vestige of what it was on stage captured on film is some kind of comfort to me.

Could you tell us about some current

projects you’re working on?

I have a play on Broadway right now called “The Country House,” which ends its run on Nov. 23. I’ve written a film called the “End of the Tour,” which stars Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg — Segel plays David Foster Wallace — that will be released in 2015, which I’m very proud of and excited to see released.

You teach English and theater studies at Yale. What do you aspire to teach your students?

In my fall seminar, I have them read my favorite plays — plays that I learned a lot from as I was coming of age as a playwright in the ’70s and ’80s. Through my teaching of works that inspired me, what I can hope to do with my students is at least show them the roots of inspiration, because I don’t think you can really teach writing. I think you can teach inspiration. You can teach young people how to identify what inspires them, and I think that’s the best lesson I can bestow on my students.

This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

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Trinity Rep reimagines ‘Hamlet’ through the absurd Cultural mainstay gets ‘fresh’ treatment in local theater company’s production

well as being extraordinarily open to interpretation.”

“Most productions have great Hamlets,” he added, “but the best have great people all about him. If you can get a great company, you can get a great ‘Hamlet.’”

By EBEN BLAKE Ophelia, played by Alex WoodSTAFF WRITER ruff GS, follows Hamlet in the strain My first experience with “Hamlet” was of childish madness, holding a large watching an episode of “The Simp- teddy bear and clad in overalls and a sons.” Bart was white t-shirt. She dances about the the thought-tor- stage even before Polonius’s death, mented prince, Marge was Gertrude, simultaneously tickled and frightened Moe was Claudius and Homer was the at Hamlet’s lustful suggestions of roghost of the dead King Hamlet. To a mance. Despite stern counsel from young boy of five or six, thrilled by her father, her brother and Hamlet, the opportunity of maturity, nothing there’s not a shred of a doubt here could be more spectacular. about Ophelia’s chastity. It’s a strange But, then again, maybe this was sight to see Hamlet clad in pajamas not my first experience: “Hamlet” is yelling at Ophelia as she plays with so engrained in the collective liter- her teddy bear to get to a nunnery. ary memory that it’s not really posKyle Terry GS, as both Claudius sible to remember a time before it. and the Ghost of King Hamlet, pro“Shakespeare one gets acquainted with vides a stark contrast to the characwithout knowing how,” said Henry ters of Hamlet and Ophelia. With his Crawford in Jane Austen’s “Mansfield deep, powerful voice and well-tailored Park.” suits, he’s the image of adulthood as Or as the Harvard Shakespearean seen from a child’s perspective — inscholar Marjorie Garber suggested in timidating and authoritative. Terry the New York Times, “Shakespeare in seems more commanding than outour culture is already disseminated, right villainous, which complicates scattered, appropriated, part of the the allegiance of the viewer. cultural language, high and low … [he] Trinity’s stage is brightly lit and is already not only modern but post- minimalist, and, aside from the play modern: a simulacrum, a replicant, within a play, it remains devoid of any a montage, a bricolage. A collection form of prop or pageantry. The ghost of found objects, repurposed as art.” of Yorick provides the most brilliant In the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA set piece. Dressed in full clown regalia, Program’s latest he wanders the stage, ‘Hamlet’ is an interiteration of the mute except for the pretive sponge. play, which opened musical accompaWednes day and niment he provides, runs through Nov. 2, and serves as a conRichard Rambuss Hamlet is more Bart stant reminder of PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH Simpson than Kenboth mortality and neth Branagh. Gone is the brooding absurdity. young man, caustic and melancholy in “‘Hamlet’ is an interpretive his despair. Instead, a woman, Nicole sponge,” said Professor of English Davis GS, plays the role of Hamlet — a Richard Rambuss, who teaches the grinning, manic figure, playful with course ENGL 1311K: “Hamlet in the absurdity around her. Compared Theory.” “Every theory has their own to this tremendous shift in the tone of ‘Hamlet’ — psychoanalysis, feminism, the character, the performer’s gender Marxism, deconstructionism and seems a minor revision. Abandon- queer theory. In its own time people ing the traditionally black clothes of talked about ‘Hamlet’ as ‘the play with mourning, she wears footsie pajamas the ghost.’ They loved it for seeming and carries around a blanket for much antique or old-fashioned. Today we of the play, presenting Hamlet as an see the play as moving towards the infantile figure, lost without her father. modern, an examination of perforDavis casts a dead-eyed glance to- mance and identity.” wards the audience as she chops logic Rambuss noted how theorists and in a cheerful, methodical voice. She directors are constantly “trying to find depicts madness in its most alienating new ways to make ‘Hamlet’ fresh,” to form: Hamlet’s wit becomes farcical find something innovative in a kind and silly when paired with an out- of “secular scripture” with “an utterly stretched high-five and an approval- unique capacity to encompass a wide seeking smile; her sorrow dulled by variety of interpretations.” an adolescent expression of rage; her Trinity Rep’s version is Shakeflirtations with death less an explora- speare by way of Beckett, preferring tion of universal existential questions the absurd, the allegorical and the and more a performance of insanity comic above the brooding, melanincarnate. It’s a bold and polarizing cholic contemplations of death. As gambit for the director, James Palmer Shakespeare has been repurposed, GS, leaving the viewers as equally dis- adapted, deconstructed and spliced turbed by Hamlet’s feigned madness back together into a collage of modas the characters are. ern cultural allusions, his plays — in “Hamlet is an incredible role for particular “Hamlet” — have also been an actor, a truly great actor showcase,” redeveloped and conceptualized acsaid Brian McEleney, head of the cording to the ideas of its day. There’s a Brown/Trinity Acting MFA program wonderfully bizarre osmosis between and clinical professor of theater arts Shakespeare’s stage and society, as and performance arts. “Shakespeare though with every new shift in the really perfected the soliloquies that cultural zeitgeist, a new line or phrase make up the center of the play, and emerges in his text. Or is it the other the role has a lot of inner conflict, as way around?

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Keston McMillan ’17 plays Rick, whose status as a debtor consigns him to work as an employee for the satirical company, “Macrosoft,” in Dominic Taylor’s MFA’95 sinister, futuristic world.

‘Hype Hero’ sketches corporatist caricature Thinly-veiled dystopian satire dynamically captures issues of class, consumerism

By DREW WILLIAMS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The arts have never been a stranger to the vilification of greed, but the recent combination of economic recession, Occupy movements and increased populism have brought a resurgent relevance to the story of the systematic underdog. This dynamic manifests in recent releases like “The Dark Knight Rises,” “The Purge” and “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which demonstrate none-too-subtle derision toward current inequalities.

“Hype Hero” — ahead of its time in that it was originally written by Dominic Taylor MFA’95 in 1997 — brings to the stage the same sort of over-the-top satire at which the aforementioned blockbusters excelled in, eliciting laughs at the outrageous until a sense of reality simply elicits outrage. The clueless mayor of “Hero” might as well be Jonah Hill eating a goldfish, and its incompetent detectives engage in a variation on a motif from “The Purge” in which the rich kill the poor for sport — that is to say, heavy-handedness often wins out.

Yet at its best, “Hero” transcends the big-screen spectacle that is extreme corporatism and uses the stage to provide an intimate look into the struggles of a working-class black American who is reminiscent of Walter in Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” Set in a future complete with a variation on a ray gun, “Hype Hero” offers a world in which debtors — those on welfare — are given a number and raffled off in a lottery to major corporations such as “Risney” and “Macrosoft” to work for the rest of their lives, wearing bright yellow

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jumpsuits as identifiers. Those in good standing with society hold corporate jobs, but are forced to flash an identification badge wherever they go to prove they are not associated with the debtors’ “patch program,” as the lottery is known. And celebrities, the richest of the rich, wander about as they please, influencing the public through media coverage, product placement and general speechifying.

The story centers on a showdown between Rick, a Macrosoft “employee,” and William Moore, architect of the patch system, Rhodes Scholar, chef, fraternity member and domain owner of bmore.com.

Rick begins the morning by traveling to the mayor’s office in hopes of asking her a question that she has apparently ignored via mail and telephone. But the government staff, realizing Rick is late to work, force him to leave the office without a response.

Almost immediately after, William Moore swaggers in to a rock beat, wearing a shimmering black and red suit that is just a set of horns away from evoking the devil incarnate. He flirts his way through the office, falling for the secretary, Sarah, based partially on the fact that she doesn’t know who he is — she “sees” him.

Emmett Rahn-Oakes ’18 steals the show as Moore, suavely convincing every character he meets — as well as the audience — that he deserves to be the most popular man around.

His flirtation with Sarah makes for the some of the show’s best conversations, as they dance around the topic of truth and lies with such charm and unpredictability that it crosses one’s mind that he is Satan coming to bargain for her soul. It helps that he has an equal sparring partner — Jordan DeLoach ’15 portrays Sarah with the perfect combination of world-weariness and gritty determination. It is one of the play’s perverse pleasures to watch as Moore and Sarah lose their fire as obstacles spring in their way.

Moore transforms from the epitome

of power to a child banished to sit in the corner of the room.

The cause of this transformation marks the strongest scene in “Hype Hero.” Rick, driven by an existential need for the truth, returns to the office to demand his answer by force, taking Sarah and Moore captive in the process. Keston McMillan ’17, who plays Rick, delivers by far the most impactful dialogue of the play, sharply dissecting what it means to be an equal in society. McMillan sustains audience rapture throughout the entire monologue, which evokes the desperation of omnipresent oppression, every look betraying his suspicion of those around him and every burst of anger dynamically emphasized — even as parts of the speech slip into heavy-handed rhetoric about the need for public schools and the dollar value of a human life.

That rhetoric is the rightful core of “Hype Hero” and succeeds in drawing compassion, but it is most successful when hidden. The beginning of the second act comprises the dullest part of the show, as two detectives — added for comic relief in a show where satire ought to dominate comedy — come into successive encounters with the stereotypical citizens who inhabit this cruel metropolis. For example, a businessman whose company sells treadmills declares that the reason for a health warning on the machines is not to save lives but to save litigation money, and a reporter drops in on City Hall to announce that, given the choice between no story and death, the media would prefer a death.

The confrontations are mildly humorous and well-delivered by the actors, but the satire is so obvious as to cross the line into an attempt at truth.

The back-and-forth between subtlety and blunt force can be jarring, but “Hype Hero” validates one of its own ideas — one lie in a story doesn’t contaminate it. Rather, it emphasizes the truth contained throughout the rest.

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M. SOCCER

With extra-time win, Bears gain momentum for Penn matchup

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Jameson Lochhead ’16 traps the ball under his foot. The junior center back will anchor Bruno’s defense against Forrest Clancy, Duke Lacroix, Ale\c Neumann and the rest of the Quakers’ offensive attack.

Will Cross ’16 lifts Bruno over Wildcats in midweek non-conference matchup with 91st minute header

By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

It took Will Cross ’16 just 53 seconds of extra time to break a scoreless stalemate and lift the men’s soccer team to a victory over the University of New Hampshire Tuesday. Cross’ goal gave the Bears their first overtime win of the season — the team was 0-1-5 in its first six extra-time games.

The Bears (4-5-5, 1-2-1 Ivy), looking to rebound from last weekend’s crushing loss to Cornell (9-4-1, 2-2-0), shuffled their lineup for the matchup with the Wildcats. Jason Pesek ’17 and Nico Lozada ’18 started in the field instead of Tim Whalen ’16 and Tariq Akeel ’16, two of the team’s usual workhorses.

Head Coach Patrick Laughlin said he wanted to make sure Whalen, Akeel and the other usual starters were wellrested for the upcoming conference

game against Penn (6-7-1, 2-2-1). The fifth-year coach used over two-thirds of his roster — sometimes subbing three or four players in at once — to keep his team fresh.

“One of the things we always pride ourselves on is having a squad of players,” Laughlin said. “I think they all did a great job. It sets us up to head down to Penn, not be too fatigued and be able to recover because we didn’t have to push anyone for a full 90 minutes.”

Most fans of the Bears have grown accustomed to seeing the number 27 jersey of Mitch Kupstas ’14.5 anchoring the team in net. But against UNH, Erik Hanson ’17 was given his first start as a collegiate athlete.

Hanson “is very vocal and a quality goalkeeper,” Laughlin said. “He did a good job leading from the back. It’s a good starting place for him as a college player, getting a shutout and a win.”

The Bears played a possession-heavy style of soccer for much of the game.

The team kept the ball on the ground and played to feet, rather than heads.

While Whalen would usually bomb dangerous long balls from his left back position, Pesek played short passes to Lozada and Eduardo Martin ’16, who patrolled the midfield.

“Not having the pressure of excelling in an Ivy League game allowed us to relax,” Cross said. “It allowed us to pass the ball with a little more purpose than we did over the weekend, when we might have panicked against Cornell.”

The best opportunity of the first half for either side came at the 15-minute mark, when Wildcat midfielder A.J. Albers drove a volley from 10 yards out off the bottom of the crossbar. The Bears actually put a Quinn English ’18 throw into the back of the net in the 39th minute, but for the second game in a row, Bruno had a goal disallowed, this time due to a foul in the box.

Neither team could gain complete

control of the game in the second half, so the contest went to extra time.

The Bears started the first overtime period with the ball, and the Wildcats never took possession back. Seven different players touched the ball in the span of 40 seconds, a sequence that ended with Jack Gorab ’16 attempting to float a shot over UNH goalkeeper Ryan Carpenter. The goalie parried the shot to the sideline and out of bounds, but seconds later, English whipped his patented long throw into the box, where Cross rose up above his defender and nodded in the game winner.

“I’m completely pleased with their effort,” Laughlin said. “Sometimes it feels like the ball is never going to bounce our way, but after (Cross’ header), you could see the joy on the players’ faces. It’s great tonic for the loss to Cornell.”

The win gave the Bears a confidence boost heading into Saturday’s matchup with the Quakers, Cross said.

But Bruno will need more than just confidence to keep pace with a streaky Penn team. The Quakers are currently sitting in a three-way tie for second place in the Ivy standings, after drawing Yale (1-10-3, 0-3-1) in their most recent conference game.

Throughout its Ivy League schedule, Penn has played at the level of its opponents, rising to the occasion against tougher teams and falling short of expectations against weaker ones. The team’s only loss of the season came against Columbia (5-6-1, 1-2-1), who is near the bottom of the table. The Quakers’ two wins came against Cornell and Dartmouth (9-4-1, 3-1-0), two teams that, along with Harvard (9-4-1, 2-11), have the best overall records in the conference.

Penn’s success is completely predicated on its offense. The team has scored 21 goals this season, the fourth highest

mark in the conference. Orchestrating the Quaker midfield is Forrest Clancy, the team’s version of Bruno’s Gorab — a free-kick specialist with an eye for the goal. Clancy leads the conference with six assists and has scored two of his three goals with direct free kicks.

Duke Lacroix and Alec Neumann each have six goals on the season and are frequently the recipients of Clancy’s passes.

While Bruno will struggle to contain Penn’s three-headed offensive beast, the matchup should also give the Bears a chance to find the back of the net. The permeable Quaker defense has given up a league-leading 26 goals in 14 games — an astronomical 1.81 goals against average. Despite averaging under a goal per game, the Bears should be able to net at least one tally against Penn.

The UNH game revealed the Bears’ ability to maintain possession of the ball. Cross said the team is at its best when forwards are making probing runs at opposing defenders and players are making precise passes, as was on display against the Wildcats.

“This season, we’ve relied a lot on set piece goals,” Cross said. “But we’re starting to realize that opportunities can also come from keeping the ball on the ground.”

A win over the Quakers would put the Bears back into the thick of the Ivy race, especially if the Crimson knocks off the Big Green. Bruno will also face conference-leading Dartmouth in the last game of the season, and a victory this weekend would put it within striking distance. But Laughlin is not looking that far ahead.

“We expect to go down to Penn and compete,” Laughlin said. “They’re a talented team with some good attacking players. Like every Ivy League game, it’s going to be tough, it’s going to be tight.

I’m looking forward to it.”

When slow and steady loses the race MIKE FIRN sports columnist

The first time I attended a Red Sox game at the historic Fenway Park, I was bored out of my mind. My fiveyear-old attention span couldn’t grasp the complexities of baseball, so I spent the entire afternoon counting airplanes in the sky. I think there were 50-something.

But eventually, baseball dug its claws into me. The same intricacies that scared me off at five captivated me at eight. Every night at 7:05 p.m., my brother and I huddled around the radio — ­ man, I’m old — to drink in the sounds of the game. Before long, I was hooked.

For a while afterwards, I never missed a Sox game. Baseball became my religion, the Bambino my curse.

2003 crushed me. 2004 elated me.

2007 spoiled me. Though the cast of characters changed, my loyalty to the logo remained. From Mueller and Millar to Lester and Lowell, I loved them all.

But then a funny thing happened.

Slowly but surely, I grew out of baseball. Well, I grew out of watching baseball. It started with statements

like, “Well, who’s pitching tonight?”

And by the end of high school, I was watching more highlights than I was games.

I never lost my love for the game. I still follow all the headlines and scour the box scores. But these days, I find it increasingly difficult to stay glued to a baseball game. True, I have less time than I used to. True, the Patriots and Bruins are challengers for sports supremacy in New England. But the real problem is simple: Baseball has gotten too slow.

Unfortunately for the MLB, my personal journey reflects a national trend. It took a thrilling Game Seven to save this year’s World Series from record-low viewership. Between ’09 and ’12, the number of children playing baseball in the United States plummeted 18 percent. More than four out of 10 Americans believe the sport is in decline. And the chief culprit is the pace of play. Game times have spiked 13 minutes since just 2010. But even so, baseball’s issue is less about length and more about tempo. In the last 10 years, games have gotten 20 minutes longer yet feature 1.3 fewer runs per game, and time between balls in play has risen 18 percent. Simply put, we’re waiting longer to see less action.

Baseball’s decline is a sad commentary on our national attention

span. Give us time between innings to check our iPhones, and chances are we’re not looking back up. Grumbles about pace of play have become as commonplace at ballgames as utterances of “God Bless America.”

Plagued by too much dead time, baseball is quickly losing its grip on younger fans. But how fixable are these issues? We don’t want to alter the traditions of a game steeped in 150 years of history, and thankfully, we won’t have to. It’s true that game flow is partially responsible for baseball’s slowing tempo — hitters are going deeper into counts, and relievers are being used more situationally. But ultimate blame lies with players’ blatant disregard for pace of play.

Baseball emphasizes individual performance more than any other team sport. Comfort and focus are musts when you’re trying to hit a 99 mph fastball. After years of little rituals and superstitions, adjusting a helmet between pitches becomes second nature. In the bottom of the ninth of a tie game, David Ortiz doesn’t care if you have to get up early tomorrow.

But Ortiz’s employers do care if you buy a ticket. That the league recently formed a pace of play committee is a start. But first, the MLB needs to admit that its current timesaving measures are a joke. The league

threatens slowpokes with comically light fines that are rarely enforced — the last player to be slapped with a slow play fine was Jonathan Papelbon in 2009. Pitchers are technically subject to a 12-second pitch clock, but the average pitcher actually took 18 seconds between tosses this year.

“Limiting” relievers to eight warm-up pitches: Isn’t that what the bullpen is for? Imagine if every basketball substitute got eight practice shots before play resumed.

The solutions are simple. Install a pitch clock in every stadium, and punish infractions with an automatic ball. Dock hitters a strike for stepping out of the box. Get rid of the four-pitch formality for intentional walks. Limit mid-inning mound visits. Some of these changes were recently adopted by the independent Atlantic League with striking success, and others are being demoed in the Arizona Fall League. But in order to change its dawdling culture, baseball needs to catch them early: the minor leagues and below. No zoned-in pitcher wants to worry about a ticking clock on the highest stage in baseball. But if leisurely habits are never entrenched, the MLB product won’t need to be altered.

Despite its issues, the MLB is not going away. “Is baseball too slow?” is

as much a hypothetical as “is football too violent?” These leagues simply make too much money to crumble, and booming revenues obscure the need for change. But while the MLB is thriving financially, it’s not faring so well culturally. These days, we seem to be talking about touchdowns much more often than home runs. Somewhere along the line, baseball stopped being cool. What was once America’s pastime is now fighting for relevance in the cluttered landscape of professional sports.

Still, Wednesday’s World Series game reminded us of what baseball has to offer. In any context, “game seven” is the most exciting phrase in sports. So of course, I still watched. I put up with all the mound visits and commercial breaks because the action was thrilling and the intensity unrivaled. But not every baseball game is do-or-die for the World Series. So on a sunny weekend in May, I’ll be playing golf. On a Sunday afternoon in September, I’ll be watching football. I want to be lured back, baseball. Catch me if you can.

Mike Firn ’16 misses the Nomar and Pedro days. Count airplanes with him at michael_firn@brown.edu.

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FOOTBALL

Bruno offense hopes to spoil Quakers’ homecoming With big play, Penn looks to its passing game to counter strong aerial attack led by Fuller ’15

By CALEB MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

A new, pass-happy offense helped the football team to its first Ivy League win last weekend against Cornell, and the aerial strategy could also lift the squad over Penn as the Bears look to secure their second Ivy win Saturday.

Bruno (3-3, 1-2 Ivy) will likely face hostile conditions when it travels to Philadelphia, squaring off with the Quakers (1-5, 1-2 Ivy) on their homecoming — the last homecoming game for storied Penn Head Coach Al Bagnoli, who will retire at the end of the season.

But while the Penn crowd will likely be a formidable obstacle, it’s unclear if the Quaker defensive backfield will put up as strong an opposition. The Penn secondary has struggled mightily as of late, giving up over 300 yards twice in the last three games and over 500 yards once.

The only time the team kept an opposing passing game under the 300 mark was against a lukewarm Columbia attack.

Meanwhile, Bruno will attack Penn’s secondary with a rejuvenated aerial attack. In their first four contests of the year, the Bears passed on 50.5 percent of offensive plays, and the offense struggled to put up just 16 points per game.

After falling behind early to Princeton two weeks ago, Head Coach Phil Estes and Offensive Coordinator Frank Sheenan decided to drastically change the offensive strategy. The Bears started to chuck it deep. Bruno has since passed on 70 percent of plays, increased its offensive output by over 100 yards per game (325.5 to 427.5) and pushed its points per game average to 29.

“We passed every frigging down,” said Estes of the new strategy. “If I could have passed more, I would have.”

Quarterback Marcus Fuller ’15 has orchestrated the pass-heavy plan masterfully. Against Cornell, he upped his completion percentage and spread the ball to more receivers — completing touchdowns to four different teammates.

If Bruno’s resurgent passing game

continues, the offense could put up big numbers against the suspect Penn secondary. But the rise in passing has come at the cost of the rushing game, which is now the weakness of Bruno’s offense.

After winning the Ivy League championship in 2012, the historically strong Penn program has faltered in conference.

Brown running back John Spooney ’14 ran all over the Quakers to power Bruno to a 27-0 thumping of Penn last year. The Quakers are out to a 1-2 start against Ivy opponents this year, with both losses ending in double-digit deficits and the only win coming against perennial Ivy cellar-dwellar Columbia.

But Penn’s numbers have been plagued by a challenging schedule thus far. The Ivy losses have come at the hands of league-leading Dartmouth and offensive juggernaut Yale. Out of conference, the Quakers have seen two opponents ranked nationally in the top 20.

The Quaker offense has displayed how dangerous it can be through its big plays in the passing game, said linebacker Dan Giovacchini ’15.

“They have explosive play ability,” he said. “They had big competitions

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Marcus Fuller ’15 hurls a pass. The quarterback has recently found a rhythm, compiling 760 yards and five touchdowns in the last two games. downfield in every game.”

In his first year as a starter, Penn quarterback Alek Torgersen ranks first in the Ivy League in completions, third in passing yards and third in touchdowns.

Two Quakers — Spencer Kulcsar and Conner Scott — will be the downfield threats and both rank in the top eight in receiving yards per game.

Similar to their Red and Blue counterparts, Bruno’s secondary has been questionable at times this season. But

the Bears’ best defense against the passing game might come from the front seven, which will line up across from a Penn offensive line that has allowed more sacks than any other Ivy team.

With a win, Bruno has a chance to level its Ivy record at 2-2 and improve its overall record above .500 for the first time this year. Look for Fuller’s arm to lead the way if the Bears do end up taking Penn’s homecoming. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. Saturday.

Chapter 16: Manning vists Brady in chilly Foxborough CHARLIE BLASBERG sports columnist

In January’s AFC Championship game, Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos galloped all over the New England Patriots, who searched the entire game for a spark but came up empty-handed. Embarrassed on the biggest stage of their season, the Patriots now seek redemption, and Sunday is just the time for them to get it.

Sunday, the Denver Broncos (6-1) fly to Gillette Stadium to meet the Patriots (6-2) for Tom Brady and Peyton Manning’s 16th head-to-head matchup. Brady has won eight of the 11 regular season games, while the two have split their playoff bouts two apiece. A decisive win this week could give either team the momentum necessary for a strong playoff run.

Let’s be clear: Both the Broncos and Patriots are on fire right now.

Both teams have won four straight, and in doing so, they have put fear in the hearts of every defensive roster in the NFL. Over the past four games, the Patriots have averaged a whopping 39.5 points per game, while the Broncos have posted an average of 37.

Both teams’ outstanding offensive production is a product of remarkable play from their quarterbacks. Manning leads the league with a 119.0 quarterback rating; Brady is fifth with a rating of 104.7. Both quarterbacks have played spectacular football over the last four weeks — expect more of the same on Sunday.

The Patriots have a key edge in this game: They are playing in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The Patriots are 4-0 at home this year, and they have a 13-game home winning streak that dates back to 2012. They have won the last three bouts with Manning and the last four against the Broncos in Foxborough.

On top of the Patriots’ proclivity for winning at home, the forecast calls for rain or maybe snow Sunday,

with temperatures dropping below 40 degrees. Manning is 8-11 in his career in games in which the kickoff temperature is less than 40 degrees. Brady, on the other hand, has a record of 40-6 in such conditions.

Remember when the Patriots came back to beat the Broncos in overtime during last year’s regular season? How about the 2005 divisional playoff game when the Patriots held Manning’s Colts to three points on their way to another Super Bowl win?

The bottom line is that the colder and wetter the weather gets, the more trouble Peyton Manning will have throwing the football.

The way I see it, though, the deciding factor Sunday will be the performance of the Patriots’ offensive line. The Broncos offensive line does not need to be stellar. Last season, at 2.33 seconds, Peyton Manning had the least average time between receiving the snap and releasing the ball. So, the Broncos’ offensive line has a relatively easy job protecting him, as Manning has only been sacked eight times this season.

As we saw earlier this year, the performance of the Patriots’ offensive line is much more crucial to the team’s success. The Patriots were 2-2 over the first four games, and during that span, Brady was pressured on over 30 percent of his dropbacks.

But recent personnel adjustments on the line have proven fruitful, as Brady’s productivity has skyrocketed over the past four weeks. A strong offensive line also allows Brady to utilize play-action passes, which require more time for the quarterback than conventional pass plays, but often allow Brady to throw the ball downfield.

This Sunday, in what may be a preview of this season’s AFC Championship game, the Brady-Manning rivalry continues with a game that is pivotal for both teams. If the Patriots offensive line can protect Brady and give him enough time to throw the ball, expect a win from the Patriots.

My prediction: 28-20 Patriots.

Charlie Blasberg ’18 is considering starting Brandon LaFell over Demaryius Thomas this week in fantasy football. Convince him otherwise at charles_blasberg@brown.edu.

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SATELLITE DINING JOSIAH’S Gourmet Tacos BLUE ROOM Naked Burritos Soups: Clam Chowder, Minestrone, Beef with Bean Chili ANDREWS COMMONS Pizzas: Pepper Jack Chicken Club, Harvest, Buffalo Chicken

DINING HALLS SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH

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Tex-Mex Lasagna, Italian Sausage and Pepper Sandwiches with Sauce, Halloween Cupcakes

Italian Chicken Parmesan, Garden Style Baked Scrod, Worms in Mud, Caramel Apples

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Breaded Chicken Fingers, Greek Style Asparagus, Vegan Three Bean Casserole, Cupcakes

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Former Massachusetts Governor and 1998 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis spoke in SmithBuonanno Hall on the future of American government and politics at a Thursday evening lecture.

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7 P.M. POLER BEARS HALLOWEEN SHOW

The Ivy League’s first pole-dancing group will perform an hour-long routine for its annual Halloween exhibition. Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room 11:55 P.M. MIDNIGHT HALLOWEEN ORGAN CONCERT

Keeping with tradition, University Organist Mark Steinbach will play one of his four annual concerts on the largest stillworking Hutchings-Votey organ in the world. Sayles Hall

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EDITORIAL

Raimondo for Rhode Island, Elorza for Providence The upcoming elections in Rhode Island provide an opportunity to truly enact change within the state. The gubernatorial and Providence mayoral races hold particular weight, as these offices are highly contested, with no incumbent appearing on the ballot for either office.

Looking particularly at the gubernatorial seat, Gina Raimondo, the Democratic candidate and current Rhode Island general treasurer, faces off against Allan Fung, the Republican candidate and mayor of Cranston, in what has proven to be a tight and immensely aggressive campaign. In an arguably more high-profile race, the fresh-faced Democrat Jorge Elorza competes with the cult personality of former Providence mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci — a newly minted Independent — in a contest that also includes Daniel Harrop, the Republican candidate who appears to be splitting the vote.

For governor, we are pleased to endorse Raimondo. Her unparalleled, hands-on experience in dealing with the state’s debt-ridden and over-extended pension system points to a much-needed familiarity and courage in the face of vested interests to pursue solvent policy on Rhode Island’s fiscal undergirding, a constant significant weakness. Though we acknowledge that Fung has spurred economic development in Cranston, his campaign highlights the necessity to cut the state workforce and looks for a possible move to a rightto-work framework, a platform we feel limits the bargaining power of labor and stands in contradiction to promoting growth within the state as a whole.

This ideological weakness is further perpetuated by Fung’s recent flurry of ad campaigns against Raimondo. The amalgamation of Raimondo’s proven track record and cohesive and transparent vision for Rhode Island underscores her unmatched qualification for the position. We sincerely hope the voter base shares this perspective.

While the board undoubtedly recognizes the past work of Cianci in his two terms as mayor — devoid of the often-described criminal undercurrent — the city of Providence is at a critical crossroads and would benefit from the young and fresh perspective of Elorza. Though Elorza is inexperienced relative to his two opponents, his consistent emphasis on morality highlights a genuine desire to better the city and reinvigorate an all-but-forgotten aura of optimism. President Obama’s recent endorsement of Elorza notably underscores the necessity for new leadership in Providence.

Furthermore, Cianci’s attempt to reimagine himself falls flat in the face of recent attempts (uncovered days ago by Providence Journal reporter and part-time Brown professor Tom Mooney) to steal and sway absentee ballots of the homeless, as well as threats against the safety of those who oppose him, raises doubts that revisiting his mayorship will be anything more than that.

The mythology of Buddy getting things done, albeit unethically, juxtaposed with his actual exacerbation of Providence’s fiscal crisis point to Elorza as a necessary breath of fresh air in relation to the other candidates.

We urge all readers to take advantage of the democratic system and vote on Nov. 4.

Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board: its editors, Alexander Kaplan ’15 and James Rattner ’15, and its members, Natasha Bluth ’15, Manuel Contreras ’16, Baxter DiFabrizio ’15, Manuel Monti-Nussbaum ’15, Katherine Pollock ’16 and Himani Sood ’15. Send comments to editorials@ browndailyherald.com.

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Celebrating diversity in teaching To the Editor: As a Brown alum, Asian American woman, and executive director of Teach For America Rhode Island, I want to share my perspective on an article in Friday’s Herald, “Number of Brown grads entering TFA drops sharply,” Oct. 24. I appreciate that the article shares Teach For America’s long-time focus on recruiting a diverse teaching corps, but was surprised to see this positioned as a new focus.

Additionally, while the story seems to take issue with our organization’s focus on diversity, we see this as a critical aspect of our work recruiting and training educators.

We believe that effective teachers come from all backgrounds and academic interests, and that students thrive when they have access to diverse perspectives and experiences. I saw this firsthand as a teacher in New York, when I had the opportunity to debunk stereotypes and myths about my culture as one of the few Asian Americans that my students had the opportunity to know well, while also sharing stories with them about my home state of Rhode Island. As a humanities teacher, I found many opportunities to celebrate the identities and cultures of my students.

I was also surprised that the story was insularly focused on the number of Brown students accepted to TFA in the

past few years, rather than the incredibly powerful broader trend in which an increasingly diverse pool of leaders are becoming teachers through our program. Whether through our program or others, when leaders from across the country, from a diversity of schools, economic and professional backgrounds, ages and races, see teaching as the incredibly valuable and important profession it is, our kids win.

I hope the Brown community is as excited as I am to see that some of TFA’s long-term sources of diverse talent — like Brown — continue to be among our top contributors, now standing alongside additions that reflect our effort to attract the top talent that our country has to offer. When kids are taught by highly effective teachers, no matter their alma mater, everyone benefits.

Our students need role models and guides as teachers.

I would be more than happy to talk personally with any member of the Brown community who is interested in joining our corps and take pride in seeing so many amazing Brown alums contribute meaningfully to the profession and advocacy of public education.

Heather Tow-Yick ’98 Executive Director, Teach for America Rhode Island

CORRECTIONS Due to an editing error, an article in Wednesday’s Herald (“Research spotlight: McCleary — Exploring galaxies far, far away,” Oct. 29) incorrectly stated that Jacqueline McCleary’s GS parents drove her to model rocket launches at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center once a month in high school. In fact, the launches were once a month but McCleary attended infrequently. The Herald regrets the error.

Due to an editing error, an article in Thursday’s Herald (“Number of TRI-Lab applicants holds steady,” Oct. 30) attributed information to an incorrect source. It was J. Timmons Roberts, not Allen Hance, who said the next TRI-Lab will let participants work directly with a group of “amazing community partners” and will therefore feel “more like a real job” than a class, and the program is particularly well-suited to Brown students, who “are really interested in … saving the world.” The Herald regrets the error.

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Editors’ note: On today’s commentary page, Dilum Aluthge ’15 tackles both sides of a point-counterpoint debate over financial aid, as a thought experiment in argumentation. Let us know what you think in the comments section or at herald@browndailyherald.com.

Should Brown prioritize universal need-blind admission over increased financial support for middle class students?

YES DILUM ALUTHGE opinions columnist

My first argument for prioritizing universal needblind admission is an ideological one. The venerated notion of “equality of opportunity,” the idea that all individuals, regardless of their background, should have the same opportunities, is embedded into the fabric of our society. In reality, of course, various structural inequalities mean this rarely the case. That makes it all the more important that when we do have the opportunity to uphold equality of opportunity, we should do so. Need-aware admission is clearly antithetical to this notion. Instituting universal needblind admission sends the strong message that all individuals should have the same opportunities.

International students are among the groups currently subjected to a need-aware admission process. International students form a cornerstone of the Brown community.

In addition to being productive members of the undergraduate community in their own right, international students offer domestic studens the opportunity to connect with perspectives from completely different contexts. Since so much of what we study is viewed through an America-centric lens, the experiences international students share enable us to gain a more balanced and accurate view of the world.

While international professors and graduate students may provide this perspective to some extent, undergraduates do not substantively engage with them on a personal level — for example, by

sharing a meal at the Ratty — as they do with fellow undergraduates.

Furthermore, not all international perspectives are the same. The life experiences of an international student who grew up in a wealthy family will likely be different from those of a student from the same country who grew up in a poor family. In order to truly get a grasp of the world and its peoples, we need to listen to both perspectives. But the University’s current admission process skews the international student population in favor of those from wealthy backgrounds. This skew propagates and results in an incomplete and inaccurate worldview. It would benefit the community to be able to bring international students from less privileged circumstances in order to increase diversity within the international student body.

Need-aware admission also affects transfer students and Resumed Undergraduate Education students. Transfer and RUE students are often neglected in conversations at Brown. For example, BlogDailyHerald posts regularly make references to experiences from freshman year — which may alienate transfer students — and experiences linked to being in the 18-22 age group — which serves to marginalize RUE students. Perhaps because of their relatively low population, transfer and RUE students seem to regularly be, in some sense, forgotten. Instating a universal need-blind policy would be a good way for the University to unequivocally reaffirm its commitment to these students. And, as an added benefit, bringing in transfer and RUE students from less privileged backgrounds has the potential to further increase the overall racial and socioeconomic diversity of the student body.

Instituting universal need-

blind admissions sends the strong message that all

individuals should have the same opportunities.

Yes: Rebuttal The other side’s first argument rests on the general notion of equality of opportunity.

While sending a strong message about equality is nice, it is unclear how universal needblind admissions would make any concrete changes to the structural and societal features that are so often the cause of inequality.

The second argument asserts that a needaware admission process results in an international student population that is disproportionately upper class. While that is true, it is worth noting that less financial aid for middle-class families results in a domestic student population that is disproportionately upper or lower class. Related to this, I make two points.

First, since domestic students make up a larger proportion of the population than do international students, a purely empirical point of view suggests prioritizing the former over the latter. Second, while a disproportionately

wealthy international student population is not ideal, it is still incredibly invaluable and provides campus with a great variety of experiences and viewpoints. There is value in gaining the perspectives of international students from different socioeconomic classes, but it is not enough to justify prioritizing them over middle-class students.

The third argument asserts that transfer and RUE students are neglected in conversations at Brown, and that instituting needblind admissions would reaffirm the University’s commitment to these student populations. While this is a nice feel-good idea, I don’t know if the benefit outweighs the cost. A better idea would be to prioritize middle-class aid, and then affirm Brown’s commitment to transfer and RUE students by, for example, expanding the resources, programs and advising made available to these groups of students.

NO Why don’t we start this off with a nice bit of hyperbole? The American middle class is dying!

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let me make a more serious statement: The American middle class is dying.

Yes, it’s true. Despite the air of exaggeration surrounding this phrase, the middle class is indeed slowly disappearing. According to the Washington Post, middle-class wealth is “20 percent lower today, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it was in 1984.” And according to the Pew Research Center, the proportion of American households that are middle class has been declining since 1971. If these trends continue unchecked, America will soon be a nation with essentially no middle class.

This spells bad news for the American economy. A May 2012 study conducted by the Center for American Progress concluded a strong middle class is essential for stable economic growth. Without a middle class, economic growth becomes unstable, income disparities become even more extreme and the nation suffers.

So what does any of this have to do with financial aid at Brown?

Brown has a social obligation to affect change in important public policy areas. Expanding financial support for middle-class students is an excellent opportunity for Brown to do just that. Education is one of the fundamental ways of broadening and maintaining a middle class. By increasing middle-class access to top-tier academic resources, we build a conduit that works to strengthen a core part of American society.

In addition to the public policy aspect, there is another compelling reason for prioritising middle-class financial aid. In the fall of 2013, a poll conducted by the Undergraduate Council of Students — completed by one-third of all undergrads — found that twice as many students wanted the University to prioritize middle-class aid over universal need-blind admission (“Financial aid proves top priority in UCS feedback report”, Oct. 24, 2013). In the spring of 2014, a similar poll conducted by The Herald — completed by approximately one-sixth of all undergrads — found that 37 percent of students wanted middle-class aid prioritized highest, while 32 percent of students wanted a universal need-blind admission policy prioritized highest (“Students divided on financial aid priorities”, Mar. 13).

It’s not entirely unambiguous, but there definitely appears to be a trend of students supporting middleclass aid as the University’s highest priority.

While student opinion should certainly not be the sole driver of University policy, it is worth taking this trend into consideration.

Finally, pursuing middle-class financial aid could potentially help solve Brown’s “image” problem. Whether we like it or not, much of the nation considers Brown an elitist institution. The media often caricatures us, along with our peer institutions, as snobby and disconnected from reality. If the University were to start an active, energetic campaign to increase middle-class financial aid, it would help send the message that we are actively trying to change that image.

By increasing middle class

access to top-tier academic

resources, we build a conduit that works to strengthen a

core part of American society.

No: Rebuttal The other side begins with an argument based in social obligations and public policy. While nice in theory, I would argue that the reality is one university’s admission policy is not going to have the slightest effect on the contended erosion of the American middle class. Changing deep political and economic trends requires deep political and economic interventions.

The second argument is that more undergraduates support prioritizing expanded middle-class aid than support prioritizing universal need-blind admissions. I make two points in response to that. First, though the older poll shows a fairly stark gap, the more recent poll only shows a five percentage point difference. This suggests that more research should be done before a definitive conclusion can be made about student opinion on the issue. Sec-

ond, though student input is important in many university policymaking processes, it is not the single most important driving factor. Therein, this factor is not, at this point, valid.

Finally, I argued that prioritizing middle-class aid would solve an “image” problem. But even if such a problem does exist, making a major policy decision for the purpose of improving or maintaining an image seems rather irresponsible and superficial and appears antithetical to the University’s very nature.

Dilum Aluthge ’15 MD’19 believes that reasonable people should be able to argue both sides of an issue.

He can be reached at dilum_aluthge@brown.edu.

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Multiple first-year NHL draftees join proven veterans

Following disappointing end to last season, Bears return three leading scorers, starting goaltender

By MATTHEW BROWNSWORD SPORTS STAFF WRITER

After wrapping up a 5-2 victory over Colgate University during January’s last game, the men’s hockey team sat at 9-83, appearing to be on the precipice of a winning season with a high tournament seed heading into college hockey’s most important two months.

What followed could only be considered calamitous: The Bears finished off their regular season in a 2-5 quagmire that gave them an away draw at St. Lawrence for the first round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship. They then lost two games straight to cap off a disastrous two months and, ultimately, a very disappointing season.

“There’s a lot of lessons we can take away from last season,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “The ending was not what any of us had envisioned in terms of our February record of play and then the stretch going into the playoffs.”

And with the loss of defenseman and captain Dennis Robertson ’14 — who played all but one game last year for the Bears — and forward Garnet Hathaway ’14 — who played all of Bruno’s games last year — the Bears have more than just last February’s disappointment to overcome.

“Dennis was a guy that, when he stepped on campus, was logging 25 minutes a game,” Whittet said. “We will miss him, along with the other seniors.

That being said, it’s nice in a lot of ways to have some new faces that are here

to absorb teaching and then put that teaching into action.”

Luckily for Whittet, the new faces enter the program with some impressive resumes: Three of the 10 incoming first-years were drafted in the National Hockey League draft in June, with two of the three — Tyler Bird ’18 and Charlie Corcoran ’18 — appearing on the scoresheet against Dartmouth in the Bears’ first scrimmage of the year.

“We’re just hoping they play with confidence. They’ll have an adjustment period — everyone does as a (first-year) — but all we can hope for is that they play with confidence and are able to help us out,” said Mark Naclerio ’16.

“All of the (first-years), in their own way, have looked good so far, as has the team,” Whittet said. “The three that were drafted, they’re all good players, but the draft alone does not ensure that they’re going to be successful as athletes here at Brown. They have to show up and prove that they’re ready for this level.”

The talented newbies join an impressive returning cast, highlighted by Naclerio, Nick Lappin ’16 and Matt Lorito ’15 — the three leading goal scorers for the Bears last year. The three played on the same forward line with spectacular results, but with the influx of new players and improved returning players, the line could be split up at some point in the season.

“My plan is to keep them together for the first game,” Whittet said. “Then we’re going to do what’s in the best interest of our hockey program. Our goal is to roll out four lines and six defenseman that can really play. There should be no

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Nick Lappin ’16 hits a slap shot toward the goal. The forward contributed 13 goals and 19 assists and played all but one game last season. He will be instrumental to Bruno’s offensive game plan this year. discernible difference between the first line and the fourth line,” he said.

“I’ve played with (Lappin and Lorito) for most of my time on the ice at Brown,” Naclerio said. “We’re really good friends off the ice, and on the ice, we really complement each other.”

The Bears return 75 percent of their point production from last year — one of the highest retention of point production in the ECAC. But the key member of this year’s team could be goalie Tyler Steel ’17. The sophomore started 21 games last year as a first-year, posting

an 8-10-3 record. With the loss of Robertson and with the goal of rotating six defenseman into each and every game, many defensive contributors will be inexperienced, meaning Steel will need to be the glue that keeps the defensive unit in sync.

After ECAC powerhouses Colgate, Union and Quinnipiac — many experts are picking the latter to be the dark horse for the ECAC title — Brown, Dartmouth and Yale look to be the prime competitors for home playoff bids come ECAC tournament time. Ranked

seventh in both the preseason coaches poll and the preseason media poll, the Bears are looking to prove their critics wrong, especially with regard to criticisms surrounding their poor defensive play late last season.

“I tell the guys to get better each and every day and to have a relentless pursuit of excellence when they step on the ice,” Whittet said. “If we focus on improvement and consistency of effort, we’ll be where we want to be at the end of the year, and that’s holding championship trophies.”

Local artists’ pumpkin carvings draw national attention

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Since 1988, the Passion for Pumpkins organization has marshalled Rhode Island artists to design thousands of creative pumpkin carvings.

Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular featured in national media, brings funds and crowds to Roger Williams Zoo

By CARI BONILLA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

As he trekked mountains in northern Vermont with his family 27 years ago, John Reckner chanced upon a bright idea.

The brilliant display of hundreds of jacko-lanterns set up along the mountainside was “impressive,” he remembered, and inspired him to create his own version of the jack-o-lantern show, which has since become a Rhode Island feature.

“A light bulb goes off,” Reckner

recalled nostalgically. “I just visualized giant pumpkins with illuminated images — presidents, entertainers — put in a background setting like wooded environment with music corresponding. That’s where it all originated.”

Reckner and about 35 other dedicated artists take a six-week hiatus from their regular jobs and lives to participate in the Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular. Reckner started his organization, Passion for Pumpkins, in 1988 with a small group of friends and fellow artists who worked

together to create the show. The group has since expanded and carves about 130 ornate pumpkins and 5,000 smaller background pumpkins each week that “capture the imaginations, hearts and minds of audiences,” according to the organization’s website.

Reckner, a retired mailman, now gets to express the artistic sensibilities he gained in art school full-time. Since every pumpkin has to be redone weekly, Reckner tries to “give (his fellow artists) a little flexibility, so they don’t get bored doing the same (pumpkin) four times.”

Throughout the month of October, over 20,000 pumpkins are carved, each of which takes approximately three to four hours, Reckner said. Some of the more intricate pumpkins, such as the replica of a Maxfield Parrish painting, take a little longer — the Parrish carving took 10 hours. Reckner said he sees value in the countless hours spent on these detailed pumpkins. “That’s what people appreciate … That’s the nature of the beast.”

The Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular is a treasured Rhode Island tradition and was even recognized as a “National Local Legacy” — part of the Local Legacies initiative to commemorate events and landmarks that “celebrate America’s richly diverse culture,” according to the initiative’s website — by the Library of Congress in 1999. Reckner’s vision, which started as a modest fundraiser for the town of Oxford, Massachusetts in 1988, has, as he put it, “mushroomed” into a

significant event for Rhode Islanders and the Roger Williams Zoo. Reckner began his partnership with the zoo back in 2001. The show ran from 2001 to 2004, then went on a brief hiatus until 2009, and has been running ever year since then at the zoo. With the help of marketing by the zoo, the Jack-oLantern Spectacular has grown into a national phenomenon. Featured on Martha Stewart Living, the Travel Channel and CNN, the intricate art show has lured fans “from all over the world — Australia, China, all over Europe,” said Alexandra Weston, communications representative at the zoo.

“It’s just one of those fall traditions that’s just blown up,” Weston said.

Sponsored by Citizens Bank, the Spectacular has become the zoo’s largest fundraiser, attracting over 135,000 people last year. Since the zoo is managed by a nonprofit organization, the Rhode Island Zoological Society, the event helps finance the upkeep of the zoo.

Trisha O’Neill, a resident of Providence for more than 25 years, started coming to the Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular 10 years ago. O’Neill said she hopes to pass on the tradition to her daughter, Emily, who made her first trip to the show this year.

“There’s a reason I keep coming back,” O’Neill said. “I love seeing the themes come to life with the lights and the music.

It’s just so incredible to see how intricate their carvings can be, and I want (Emily)

to see how art can come in so many different forms.”

Victoria Chavez ’18 also paid her first visit to the zoo’s showcase this year. She said she did not know what to expect of the show, but that she was surprised by the magnitude of the art on display.

Though Chavez said the zoos back home in Chicago host Halloweenthemed activites, she “had never seen or thought of Jack-O-Lanterns as possible great pieces of artwork.”

This year’s theme, ‘Jack-O-Lanterns from A to Z,’ features pumpkins inspired by ‘Alice in Wonderland’ to ‘the Zoo’ itself with everything from ‘Christmas’ and ‘Inspiring People’ animated on the pumpkins, too.

Though not an artist herself, Chavez said she admired the hard work and time put into the displays because “many cultures and ideas (were) represented and the idea…is something really unique.”

“I loved the section for R, which stood for ‘Remember,’ where homage was paid to Robin Williams and other great people,” Chavez said. “Although all the pumpkins were truly incredible, the one that caught my eye the most was one of the very first pumpkins I saw. It was a face made of arms. I’m not sure why, but it left a lasting impression.”

As Halloween looms, the show is getting ready to wrap up for the year. It will continue to run through Sunday from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., with one extended hour Saturday.