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Students raise mental health concerns at forum UTRA program adds raise questions interdisciplinary projects Attendees about University outreach Initiative aims to involve more first-years, humanities concentrators in research with faculty

By CASSANDRA COLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

As students grapple with funding their research, the University will expand the Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards program by unveiling the new Interdisciplinary Team UTRA in December, said Oludurotimi Adetunji, director of Science Center outreach, associate dean of the College and director of the UTRA program.

The I-Team UTRA program will build upon the existing UTRA program, which allows students to work with faculty members on research or course development. The current UTRA program requires students to come up with projects and apply for awards to work with specific faculty members. In a deviation from this model, the new program will allow

professors to propose UTRA projects, and students will be able to express interest by contacting the professors, Adetunji said.

The deadline for faculty proposals for I-Team UTRAs was Nov. 15.

Once faculty proposals have been selected by the committee in charge of designating UTRAs, the program will be advertised to the student body around the third week in December, at which point undergrads can contact professors whose projects they are interested in.

Faculty members will have until Jan. 15 to present their chosen team of two to six students to the committee, Adetunji said, adding that the committee will notify faculty members and students of their decisions by Feb. 1.

I-Team UTRAs will be renewable for up to two semesters, providing the potential for a year-long project, Adetunji said.

One goal of the new program is to increase the diversity of UTRA participants across age groups and » See UTRA, page 2

to students on leave and mental health policies

By CAROLINE KELLY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Administrators who work on mental health issues addressed student concerns over the University’s leave-taking policies and mental health resources at an open forum Wednesday hosted by the Undergraduate Council of Students.

The guest speakers at the forum were Associate Dean of First-Year and Sophomore Studies and Associate Dean of the College for Health and Personal Issues Carol Cohen, Director of Counseling and Psychological Services Sherri Nelson and Director of Student Support Services in the Office of Student Life Maria Suarez.

After brief introductions, the administrators opened the floor to questions about their respective offices.

Casey Poore ’17, who is not a UCS member but attended the meeting to share her views, noted concerns she has heard from friends about mandatory minimum one-year leaves and the handling of taking leave for psychological

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The Undergraduate Council of Students open forum Wednesday night featured three administrators who work on mental health issues. versus other medical reasons.

“The recommendation is one full year — that’s a recommendation, not a mandate,” Suarez said in response. An interdisciplinary committee meets twice a year to determine which students on leave will be readmitted to the University, she said, adding that it does “not discriminate between physical leave and mental health leave” and that doing so would be illegal.

“The last mandated medical leave was about two years ago,” Suarez said. “If you are not an imminent risk to yourself or others, we cannot mandate a medical

leave.”

Kavya Ramanan ’15, who is also not a UCS member, described her experience taking a medical leave for psychological reasons after her first semester.

“For me, going home was not a really healthy place to be,” she said. She applied for readmission after one semester but was not approved to return. Upon her return later, administrators failed to note that her reduced course load was due to psychological reasons, and she wrongly received a warning that she was in poor » See UCS, page 3

State insurance exchange reopens for enrollment HealthSource RI director says health plan costs have fallen due to greater competition, transparency

By EMMA JERZYK SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Chafee reflects on career in public office Concluding term as R.I. governor, Chafee cites economic recovery, health exchange as successes

By DUNCAN GALLAGHER STAFF WRITER

As evidenced by stacks of papers, file folders and empty spaces on walls that suggest recently removed wall decorations, Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 has been preparing for an imminent move out of his office in the Statehouse when his sole term as governor comes to an end this January.

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recent installment of a political career that has taken him from the city hall of Warwick to the U.S. Capitol, then back to the Ocean State as its chief executive.

Though he faces low approval ratings today and largely stayed on the sidelines during the 2014 campaign to elect his successor, Chafee leaves the governor’s office having served as a key player on Rhode Island’s political stage over the past couple decades.

Successes and setbacks Chafee said he has some ideas of what he’ll do after leaving office, though he did not elaborate. “I want to make sure I don’t get distracted with thoughts other than finishing my term well,” he said, adding that this will entail “handing off the administration in the best possible

shape that (he) can,” and addressing the outstanding costs in some state departments’ budgets. He and Gov.-elect Gina Raimondo, a Democrat, have “pledged to be cooperative in every way,” to ease the transition to her new administration.

While he has no intention of interfering with the next administration, Chafee said he hopes to see policies, including the gateway beautification initiative — a project to make the points of entry into the state more aesthetically appealing — and the implementation of the state’s health care exchange, HealthSource R.I., continued.

Wendy Schiller, associate professor of political science and public policy, praised Chafee’s handling of health exchange implementation under the » See CHAFEE, page 3

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Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 has served as Warwick mayor, a U.S. senator and Rhode Island’s governor. He began his career as a Republican before becoming an Independent and, in 2013, joining the Democratic Party.

HealthSource RI, the state health insurance exchange, opened its second enrollment period Nov. 15 to allow individuals and families not insured by their employers to renew their coverage.

The enrollment period will last until Feb. 15, 2015 and includes options from United HealthCare, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, said Christine Ferguson, director of the exchange, adding that some plans are 14 percent less expensive than they were during last year’s enrollment period.

Since United was added as an insurance provider on HealthSource RI, the increased competition and transparency has allowed individuals and families buying insurance on the exchange to manage their expenses more effectively, Ferguson said.

After its opening, the exchange has received the number of enrollees anticipated by officials. But the sum of walk-in appointments and customer

service phone calls exceeded expectations, which led to some bottlenecking during the enrollment period.

But uncertainty about the exchange’s future has kept some small businesses from using it, Ferguson said.

When it was signed into law in 2010, the Affordable Care Act required states to either set up their own health insurance exchanges or buy into the federal exchange. But funding from the federal government, which has financed the entire implementation of HealthSource RI, will run out in December 2015.

As a result, Rhode Island in the future can either finance the exchange itself or buy into the federal health insurance exchange, HealthCare.gov, which notoriously encountered many technical flaws during its first enrollment period. The federal exchange opened again this month with fewer glitches. In May, HealthSource RI ranked second in the country for its enrollment rates and is considered one of the most successful state health insurance exchanges. Currently, 13 states and the District of Columbia run their own exchanges.

The governor’s office currently has decision-making power over HealthSource RI. Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 decided to leave the decision of whether or not to fund the exchange » See INSURANCE, page 3 t o d ay

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Panel examines role of race in medical care Professors and medical student address roots of health inequities that exist along racial lines

By ANDREW JONES SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Race plays a lamentably larger role today than in the past in how doctors treat patients, said Lundy Braun, professor of medical science and Africana studies, at a talk Wednesday night. Many health disparities among individuals of different ethnicities have been dismissed as genetic in nature, when in reality, they derive from factors like income, history and politics, she added.

Braun was one of three panelists in a forum titled “Doctors Reading Race: How Conceptions of Race Shape Medical Care,” hosted by the student group chapter of Health Leads, a national nonprofit group that advocates for equality of health care resources.

Around 70 people showed up to the half-full MacMillan 117.

The panel started with individual statements from each of the panelists, followed by a question-and-answer session. Panelists gave their perspectives on the issues surrounding race and medicine and their personal experiences with relevant problems, such as misdiagnoses due to racial biases.

Race is one of the most salient attributes that a doctor uses to classify a patient’s illness and medical history, Braun said. For example, values obtained from tests for lung function are often corrected to a “normal value” that is the average value of white

patients. But in reality, most problems cannot be attributed to a person’s race or genetic history, she added.

“The person in front of you is not a representative of a type,” she said.

The forum aimed to foster conversation on some of the underlying structural problems in medicine, said Leila Blatt ’15, an organizer of the event and a campus coordinator for Health Leads. The relationship between race and medicine is currently a hot topic in the media and certain areas of academia, and many sources of information about race and medicine only explore the issue at a superficial level, she added.

Nearly all medical encounters cross socioeconomic lines, since doctors tend to be wealthier than their patients, said M. Barton Laws, assistant professor of health services, policy and practice at the Alpert Medical School and another panelist. Adding differences in ethnicity, language and culture to physician-patient interactions can “compound the problem,” he added.

Medical students are often not taught about the structural factors involved in dealings between doctors and patients, said Gopika Krishna ’13 MD’17, the third panelist. Contrary to what she has learned in her medical school classes, “race has never been something that is genetically defined,” she said. Physicians are paid to know the biology of a person’s body, which often means they have a dearth of knowledge about the history and context of racial bias in medicine, she added.

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Professor Lundy Braun, Assistant Professor M. Barton Laws and Gopika Krishna ’13 MD’17 speak on a panel regarding how race shapes medicine. in the ways individuals of different ethnicities were treated. Latino patients with bone fractures were less likely to get opioid pain medication than white patients were, and doctors inquired about the sexual history of Latina women but not of white women, he said.

Many medical care facilities and clinics have attempted to combat discrimination in patient care by implementing mandatory “cultural competency” training, which is a method of teaching how to be sympathetic in medicine, Braun said. But many of these programs have become “bureaucratic enterprises” and have lost sight of their intended purpose, she added.

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The forum was also meant to urge students involved in Health Leads to reflect on how they can improve their work within the health care system, Blatt said. “We as advocates see a lot of awful things that happen in clinics,” she said.

During the question-and-answer session, one undergrad asked how best to balance the need to think about a patient as an individual with the need to consider the structural factors at play.

Doctors can overcome this tension by thoroughly interviewing their patients to better understand their backgrounds, Braun said in response.

“A sickness isn’t always going to show up on a medical exam.”

» UTRA, from page 1 disciplines, Adetunji said. Program coordinators will encourage applications from younger students and students in the humanities and social sciences, who have traditionally been underrepresented in the UTRA program, he said. Each team of students must include at least one student who is a first-year or sophomore or who has not previously received an UTRA to “get more young scholars doing research” and to encourage interdisciplinary group learning, he added.

Maud Mandel, dean of the College, said she believes the I-Team UTRA program will provide a good opportunity for younger students to take part in research. She added that she hopes the program increases “the breadth of who pursues an UTRA” and encourages “underrepresented minorities, women in the sciences” and younger students to participate.

The introduction of the I-Team UTRA initiative comes after several other expansions to the UTRA program as part of President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan, Mandel said.

Last year, the stipend for summer UTRAs was raised from $3,000 to $3,500 in an effort to provide students with income “that will sustain them over the summer,” she said.

The total number of UTRAs awarded also increased last summer, Mandel said.

This year, the summer UTRA program will provide summer earnings waivers so students whose financial aid packages require them to work over the summer can still participate in the program.

Applications for spring 2015 UTRAs also closed Nov. 15. The number of applications for spring UTRAs was consistent with past years, with approximately 38 percent in social sciences, 12 percent in the humanities and the remainder in the physical and life sciences, Adetunji said.

The spring UTRA program was advertised to students through several information sessions announced in Morning Mail, Adetunji said.

Denise Croote ’16, a biology concentrator on the neurobiology track, applied for a spring 2015 UTRA to study “how neurons in our nervous system transmit signals in the periphery,” she said.

Her research will address currently unknown topics in neurobiology, including the way signals are transmitted to the brain and “precisely what brain areas these signals our sent to,” she said.

She added that through the UTRA she hopes to develop stronger relationships with her fellow researchers. She believes her research will give her the opportunity to apply her classroom knowledge to a laboratory setting and gain firsthand lab experience, she said.

Mandel said she fully supports the UTRA program as dean of the College, a role she assumed July 1. She described the UTRA program as “one of those wonderful, magic programs that provides a lot of opportunity for a lot of different kinds of people.”

Mandel said her years of working with students who received UTRAs as a professor in the Department of Judaic Studies gave her “a sense … of how great a program it is.” She added that she views the UTRA program as “one of the signature programs” in place at the University.

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» CHAFEE, from page 1 Affordable Care Act. “Rhode Island’s health care exchange under Obamacare … is actually one of the best functioning in the country,” Schiller said, pointing to Christine Ferguson, Chafee’s appointee to be director of HealthSource RI, as a strong choice.

Chafee said he was particularly pleased with the revitalization of the state’s economy that took place under his administration, adding that when he took office, the economy was in “shambles.”

He recalled an environment of “deep cuts to cities and towns, deep cuts to higher education (and) labor unrest,” and said addressing these issues involved steady, methodical work and “reprioritization from the previous administration.”

Chafee emphasized his commitment to invest in what he called “the building blocks of a good economy: education, infrastructure and workforce development.” He added that he was pleased to see his successor emphasizing the importance of investing in the same sectors throughout her campaign.

Chafee dealt with a budget deficit for several consecutive years and managed to work with the General Assembly to make cuts that minimized harm to the poorest residents, Schiller said. “I think that the governor was sensitive to the needs of a lot of people in Rhode Island who were hurting, and he did the very best that he could under those circumstances in terms of budget politics,” she said.

Before Chafee took office, there was a failed attempt to merge Lifespan and Care New England, the state’s two major health care providers. “It makes a lot of sense, in this small state, for them not to be competing,” he said. He oversaw another attempt to execute the merger, which proved unsuccessful in large part due to “fatigue” within the bureaucracy that would have to approve it, Chafee said. The parties involved were afraid the merger would be costly and difficult, which Chafee said he insisted would not be the case. He said he saw this as one of his greatest frustrations while in office, adding that he would not characterize it as a regret because he could not see another way to make it happen.

Competition from out-of-state hospitals increased pressure on Rhode Islandbased health care providers, Schiller said, calling this a complicated problem that Raimondo will likely need to address.

Party switching The evolution of Chafee’s party affiliation over the years has been another issue of scrutiny for the Republican-turnedIndependent-turned-Democrat. He succeeded his father, the late U.S. Sen. John Chafee P’75 GP’14 GP’17, R-R.I., in the Senate as a Republican, but he said he decided to become an Independent after growing increasingly frustrated with the Republican Party. George W. Bush’s administration began in a period of peace and economic prosperity, he said, and following the Sept. 11 attacks, he saw the president and a “compliant Congress” make a series of decisions with which he disagreed. “We were looked at to provide leadership, and we squandered it,” Chafee said, adding that the congressional leadership “knew better … but they just went along with the program.” Chafee was the only Republican senator to vote against the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was one of only two to vote against the Bush tax cuts. He made the decision to switch his party affiliation after leaving Congress.

Over the course of his term as governor, Chafee joined the Democratic Party in May 2013 but then announced he

would not seek reelection the following September. Chafee said this decision was due to several factors that he had always considered, including a long-standing plan to only serve one term — though he said he had not publicly announced this before. He cited an environment of frustration among the public when he took office, which contributed to an “absence of intellectual discussion” surrounding several hotly contested issues during his term. Debates about in-state tuition for undocumented students, capital punishment and his decision to label the Statehouse Christmas tree a holiday tree — which garnered national media attention — were more intense than he believed they merited, he said.

Schiller said she suspected Chafee’s decision to not seek reelection was motivated more by a belief that he could not win. “I think switching to the Democratic Party was a mistake,” she said. “He should have remained an Independent, because I think people respected Gov. Chafee’s independence.” Schiller said it was understandable for Chafee to leave a Republican Party that was becoming “too conservative for his liking,” but “once he went Independent to Democrat, Rhode Islanders were less understanding.” The move caused voters to suspect Chafee was simply seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination, Schiller said, which upset many voters because he did not appear motivated by a genuine shift in political ideology.

From Capitol Hill to College Hill Chafee, who began his time in elected office as mayor of Warwick from 1992 to 1999, served as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1999 until 2007. He sat on the Foreign Relations Committee, a position he said he loved. Following his departure from the Senate, Chafee returned to College Hill as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies from 2007 to 2009, according to the Watson Institute website.

In his time as a fellow at the Watson Institute, Chafee taught what he described as a not-for-credit “study group” seminar for students to share his political background and observations. “I had a class that combined politics with international issues, and students like both of those,” said Chafee, adding that in teaching the class, he was able to draw upon travel experiences with other senators from his time on the Foreign Relations Committee and engage in political discussions with students.

Chafee, who said he was able to design the curriculum of the course himself, smiled when asked about working with the University to construct the course. “They were terrific,” he said. “I had guest speakers come in from all over the country, and even the world.” Speakers included prominent international politicians such as Bolivian President Evo Morales. Chafee added he still maintains contact with many former students.

Chafee remained politically active while at Brown. After losing his 2006 race to U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., he “thought for a long time” about his party affiliation and became an Independent, co-chairing a committee of Republicans and Independents in support of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

Reflecting on his time in office, Chafee said, “I knew it was a hard job and I just wanted to give it a 100 percent, and I knew four years is a long time,” adding that he intended to “put every bit of energy I could into turning the state around, and hand it off” to the next person to reside in the executive office.

» UCS, from page 1 academic standing, she said.

“No one from Brown really communicated with me that semester,” Ramanan said. “After I came back, the committee said I should see a therapist, and because of various family pressures and cultural pressures … I never did it, and no one checked in on me. I was wondering about communication and dealing with families who might not understand that.”

“We do not have the human resources to reach out to all of you,” Suarez said in response, noting that a temporary employee currently calls students on leave a couple of weeks after they depart campus.

“We welcome any time a student is away that they contact us, but it’s hard — I see that as a major deficit on our part,” she said.

Suarez also addressed the topic of requiring students who have taken leaves to attend therapy. “We really would like students who have been on medical leave to come back to the OSL to check in,” she said. “It is rare that we mandate saying you must see a therapist when you return.

We recommend it, but then we’re in a pickle because if you can’t or don’t want to, we can’t mandate it.”

Cyrena Gawuga ’03 GS said that as an undergrad, she was given a list of therapists in the area and left to find one on her own, making for “a really dangerous situation” in light of her mental health issues.

“I was having to contact people when things were also falling apart,” she said.

“Are there improvements being made in that referral process?” she asked. “Are there going to be increased communications with providers in the community … to ensure that students have actually

made some kind of contact and at least initiated that kind of process?”

“We know that it’s difficult for students, and we’re trying to build more of a bridge between our office and providers in the community,” Nelson said in response. “We are trying to improve helping students get that contact, but the improvement is yet to be made.”

Mae Verano ’17, a residential peer leader, said first-years can often perceive the Brown environment as stressful and grapple with mental illness, contrary to their expectations before coming to campus. “The level of rigor and emotional distress are things that students may not have experienced before,” she said.

Verano suggested having a mental health intervention event during orientation to prepare first-years. She also suggested having a panel of students describe their experiences with mental illness.

Such an event would help counter the stigma surrounding mental illness “by having students embrace that identity and embrace that experience here and allow the destigmatization of that issue, and raising awareness that these things do happen,” she said.

UCS also approved a resolution at its meeting that categorized 11 student groups. English for Action at Brown and Holistic Health Empowerment of Youth were approved as Category S groups.

Qalam, Brown Ragamala, Brownzilian, Universities Aligned for Essential Medicine at Brown, the Brown Association for Master Fishermen and Real Features were approved as Category 1 groups. Design for America and Quest Scholars at Brown were approved as Category 2 groups, and the National Society of Black Engineers was approved as a Category 3 group.

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Regardless of whether the exchange gets turned over to the federal government, individuals insured by plans sold on HealthSource RI will continue to receive coverage until the end of the year.

At that point, they can buy insurance directly from carriers, Ferguson said.

The exchange was a divisive issue among gubernatorial candidates, and Gov.-elect Gina Raimondo said while on the campaign trail that she would keep the exchange but reduce its budget, The Herald previously reported.

HealthSource RI is estimated to cost between $17 million and $23 million annually.

“HealthSource RI has been a great success,” said Joy Fox, director of the transition for Gina Raimondo. “We want to keep this program but want to ensure that we find a way to pay for it that is affordable for everyone.”

Ferguson said she has not met with anyone from Raimondo’s campaign or transition team about funding for the exchange.

“In the coming weeks, (Raimondo) and her team will have the opportunity to discuss the exchange and its role in providing affordable health care for Rhode Islanders,” Fox said.

Ferguson said she has not “walked through the ramifications” of the state buying into the federal exchange because she does not think it will happen. She said she thinks the exchange will stay in the state and that she will be able to negotiate the budget necessary to maintain the quality of the exchange.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

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Liberian restaurant cooks up authentic, affordable cuisine Constantly changing menu features signature yeast donuts, meat-heavy mix of flavors

By PHOEBE DRAPER FEATURES EDITOR

“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”

This is the inevitable conclusion of

the diner leaving Decontee’s African Restaurant. The unassuming, no-frills Liberian kitchen in Elmwood serves up heaping plates of authentically crafted cuisine.

Decontee’s is not the place to take parents when they cruise into town. It’s not the place to invite a significant other for a romantic candlelit evening — in fact, your libido may take a temporary backseat to the digestive process. But for adventurous, hungry college kids who are often reluctant to spend more than $10, Decontee’s is definitely worth the plunge off College Hill.

Easily accessible by bus, the tiny and sincere restaurant at 711 Broad St. sits next to an Asian food counter and a laundromat. The jarring color palette of the restaurant’s front room — four vividly painted orange walls — is quickly mediated by the warm welcome from a staff member.

The rotating menu features daily staples like fried chicken and plantain, as well as alternating specials. But it’s better not to get your heart set on any one menu item beforehand — choices become limited as menu items sell out over the course of the day, even though the kitchen cooks up large pots of rice to keep up with the demand of the dinner

hour.

Looking back through a wall of interior windows into the kitchen reveals pyramids of carefully stacked calla rolls — Liberian yeast donuts — and large pots of steaming sauces.

An order of calla comes with three of the tasty rolls and costs only one dollar.

The sweet and spongy dough balls are sure to quell the appetite while waiting for the main course.

On a recent visit, Solomon, a friendly server, brought out a bowl of pepper sauce to accompany the rolls. The spicy heat of the red sauce makes the perfect counterpoint to the subtle sweetness of the calla dough.

An informative accompaniment was the story Solomon told about calla back in his home country of Liberia. Many children in Liberia walk huge distances from home to school to the farm, Solomon said, comparing the distance to walking from Broad Street to College Hill to Pawtucket and back again over the course of a single day. For Liberian children setting out for the day, the dense, yeast-based calla dough expands in the stomach and keeps the appetite at bay.

“As a child, you have one, maybe three calla rolls, and you are good for the day,” Solomon said.

Though it was only 7:30 p.m., most of Decontee’s offerings had sold out. Only two evening specials remained — spinach sauce and cassava leaf sauce, each served alongside a heaping mountain of white rice. Solomon brought out samples of each sauce, reinforcing the restaurant’s transparent and genuine demeanor.

The deep green cassava leaf sauce resembles Indian saag. The dish’s flavor, meaty and rich, packs a punch and is punctuated by large chunks of what the server described as chicken, pork and beef. Though we found boned chicken and pork blanketed in the deep green sauce, beef was nowhere to be found.

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Though Decontee’s ambience may not be quite right for a date or formal occasion, the food provides an opportunity to explore affordable dishes with generous portion sizes and an array of flavors.

The overwhelming saltiness of the dish had our entire table gasping for fluids. But rich and buttery pork flavors infused the lower registers of the sauce — a result of hours of simmering in the kitchen’s metal pots. More tantalizing meaty flavors competed for attention through the salt’s overbearing presence.

The darker spinach leaf sauce was milder in flavor but otherwise presented a nearly identical dish. The slight tang of the cassava leaf was missed in its leafy green cousin.

If one is willing to chew through unnervingly unidentifiable meats and to overlook the dominating saltiness of the

sauces, the decadent underlayer of flavor satisfies a surprising amount.

The rice was a standard affair. What it lacked in personality, it made up for in sheer quantity — even small combination platters furnished immense portions.

Priced at $7.50, one such entree is bound to fill you to the brim and leave you with leftovers for a solid second meal the next day.

But this low pricing comes with some caveats. Vegetarians take heed — the staff offers to remove the meat from the sauce but does not prepare a separate meat-free recipe. A fellow diner, a vegetarian, was

put off by the intense meaty flavor of the sauce. Meanwhile, the sweet, bubble gum flavor of the Vimto soda bordered a bit too closely on that of cough syrup and was out of sync with the savory palate of our main plates.

Vegetarians or those looking to impress a hot date might do well to find an alternative venue to this small orange kitchen. But for the hungry, thrifty and bold, Decontee’s is the perfect place to pass an evening with friends. The unique rotating menu is bound to yield a satisfied diner, while the warm and approachable staff are sure to draw you back again and again.

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CityArts for Youth receives recognition for excellence in programming President’s Committee selects local program as one of 14 award winners out of 350 applicants

By NATALIE FONDRIEST CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Providence CityArts for Youth was honored Nov. 10 in Washington with a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for being an outstanding after-school program for students who would not otherwise have access to quality art education.

This year marked CityArts’ fourth attempt to secure the award in the past six years. In each of its past three attempts, CityArts placed as one of 50 finalists for the signature award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, said Barbara Wong, CityArts’ executive director.

The award recognizes programs that use the arts and humanities to boost “academic achievement, graduation rates and college enrollment” according to the organization’s website. This year, 14 organizations were honored out of 350 applicants, the Providence Journal reported.

As a winner, CityArts will receive $10,000 and a year of communications and developmental support from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities to help the program achieve its primary goals. First, CityArts wants to develop a visibility strategy, especially to document students’ social and emotional growth through exhibitions and evaluation, “so more people can understand the value of what arts can do,” Wong said.

The organization hopes to foster support and audiences as well as launch an endowment campaign so the program can remain free, Wong added.

Sabrina Peralta, a CityArts student representative and a Nathanael Greene Middle School seventh-grader accepted the award on behalf of CityArts from First Lady Michelle Obama — receiving a hug, too, Peralta added. In addition to touring the White House, Peralta said she enjoyed meeting students from other art programs across the country.

To celebrate their award win and thank its supporters, CityArts teachers took more than 40 costumed and drumming students by bus last week

to throw “flash-mob style parties” for staff, administrators and politicians at several partner sites, including Roger Williams Middle School, Providence City Hall and the Rhode Island School of Design, said Nika Gorini, CityArts’ program director. The first location the group visited was the home of CityArts founder Sister Ann Keefe, who listened from her porch as the group chanted specifically for her, “CityArts is where it’s at / Activities and more than that / Painting, drumming, dancing too / We get to do it cause of you!” Gorini said this was “definitely the highlight” of the excursion and called it “really touching.”

Art as a vehicle In its mission, CityArts ensures Providence’s “most challenged” youth participate in professional art education to empower themselves and their community. The program offers students ages eight to 14 classes ranging from street art and ceramics to drumming and samba. Collectively, CityArts’ after-school, summer, on-site and satellite programs involve 1,200 students, Wong said, adding that the program has approximately 70 percent retention from year to year.

The value of an art education is not limited to those on the path to working as a professional artist, but applies to any student in developing personal skills of expression, Wong said, adding that the CityArts community provides kids with a “safe platform to grow.” Past students have now returned to CityArts to teach or volunteer, Wong said.

CityArts also helps students become creators — rather than just users — of technology, Wong said.

Product design courses at CityArts were developed to “demystify the idea of the consumer world — to not simply consume, but to think critically about how products are made, to realize they too can become part of that creative process,” Gorini said.

When Peralta first started participating in CityArts over three years ago, she said she was shy, and the program helped her open up. Wong said Peralta is now “one of our most poised and well-articulated young artists … and has really found her voice in the family that she finds in CityArts, so it’s given her confidence to also take that back to school,” where Peralta is “an excellent student.” Many other students

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The award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities — presented by First Lady Michelle Obama — comprises $10,000 and a year of communications and developmental support. at CityArts have applied the tools of self-expression learned at CityArts to the academic classroom, Wong said.

Rock the easel, not the car Keefe founded CityArts in 1992 after a summer night drive that “spawned an epiphany,” Wong said.

Keefe had stopped at an intersection when a group of boys began harassing and rocking her car, Wong explained, adding that such behavior was “without ill intent” but rather for the sake of entertainment. The boys immediately recognized Keefe when she exited her car, and they “bolted,” leaving her wondering what it was “in our neighborhood that kids are missing that they are left standing on street corners with nothing better to do than to bother people,” Wong said.

CityArts was born with community support in the basement of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in the Elmwood neighborhood. In 1995, CityArts moved to its current location in an old jewelry manufacturing building at 891 Broad Street in South Providence. Still, much space remained unused in the large building, so eight years ago, the program partnered with

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Highlander uses the facility during the school day primarily, and CityArts takes over after school hours.

Among many other awards as listed on its website, CityArts earned the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission award in 2008. The CityArts facility now has seven studio spaces, including a dance studio and a Media Lab where students can use Photoshop to create GIFs. CityArts’ new 3D printer has spawned recent course offerings in industrial design, Wong said. The walls are brightly colored and decorated with student work. Cubbies are available for students, who are not allowed to have their phones out during classes. Beyond the first floor lobby are offices, a cafeteria and a gallery of rotating shows from CityArts students and local artists.

CityArts also aims to support local artists, Wong said. The current staff includes over 20 “teaching artists” — CityArts deliberately uses this title, rather than “art teacher,” to emphasize instructors’ positions working in the field, as each is “first and foremost an artist,” Gorini said. Teaching artists “are

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Each artist is strongly encouraged to share his or her work with students to help them better understand and respect the artist’s work and open themselves up to “learning in a new way,” Gorini added. Generally classes have 10 to 12 students — more on rainy days — with one lead teacher and at least one teaching assistant, Gorini added.

Wong said she hopes to grow both the stable base and the continuous cycle of “new blood” in the teaching artist staff, as it is important for the students to have access to both continuity and a sense of the contemporary art world.

CityArts works with numerous community partners including the Providence After School Alliance, AmeriCorps, the Boys and Girls Club and local universities like Brown. The University will celebrate Youth Arts Day on Saturday. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts will host showcases of creative and performing arts and feature a panel discussion geared to inspire youth toward art and civic involvement.

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Where is the provost?

MAGGIE TENNIS opinions editor

As Brown’s provost, Mark Schlissel P’15 was arrogant and dismissive — but at least he was upfront about it.

Meanwhile, our new provost is nowhere to be found.

The provost is Brown’s chief academic officer, responsible for all academic and budgetary affairs of the University. Notably, she chairs the Academic Priorities Committee, which is concerned with “fulfilling the academic mission of the University.” Given her duties, Provost Vicki Colvin should embody the following traits: transparency about her work and interest in undergraduate students. So far, she seems to show neither.

But even if the provost isn’t interested in me as a Brown student, I’m interested in her. I’ve been fol-

quested a meeting, thinking I could get a sense of the provost’s plans and write something on my own. Again, I was rejected and told that I could next expect to see Colvin when she speaks at the mid-year completion ceremony in December.

I’m disappointed that I won’t get to chat with Colvin before I graduate, especially after having invested so much time following the Brown provostship and given my initial optimism about her appointment. Of course, it’s possible that Colvin’s reluctance to meet with me is simply a byproduct of her busy schedule and the demanding nature of her job.

And maybe it is asking too much to expect the provost to carve out time for one individual — especially a student who has been highly critical of her predecessor. But I am not the first student to reach out to Colvin, looking for the tiniest bit of information about what’s happening on the west side of the first floor of University Hall.

ed due to the provost’s lack of communication and failure to respond to UCS follow-up.

It is troubling enough that Colvin’s attention to undergrads is limited to a vague interest in dining and where we study after 2 a.m. But the fact that the above interaction is the extent of her contact with UCS is unacceptable. And Colvin hasn’t shown up at any UCS events — or hardly any student events, for that matter.

According to Graduate Student Council president Steve Zins, the graduate student experience with Colvin has been more positive. Colvin held two meetings with grad students from STEM fields and the humanities, respectively, that were candid and productive. Moreover, she will speak at a GSC meeting on Dec. 3, Zins said. But nothing tangible has emerged from these meetings — only dialogue, which certainly does not compensate for ignoring undergrads.

This September, I called on Col-

Transparency is a crucial characteristic of any University administration, because it is an important step toward accountability and inclusivity. lowing the provostship for over a year. When I learned last winter that Schlissel was leaving to assume the presidency of the University of Michigan, I began writing about the future of the provost position at Brown. I advocated for a 12th provost who cares deeply about the aspects of Brown that make it distinct; namely, its university-college system and everything it entails. Most importantly, that includes its strong focus on undergraduates and the opportunities and support it offers us to design our educations.

During Schlissel’s tenure, this focus was largely absent. By his own admission, he didn’t value the notion of a university-college. Likewise, through his strategic plan initiatives, Schlissel communicated his disregard for undergraduate resources — and thereby the undergraduate student body itself. In fact, I noted last year that Professor of History Howard Chudacoff described Schlissel’s strategic plan objectives as having “the potential to change the nature of (Brown’s) traditional undergraduate commitments.”

When Schlissel left and Colvin became provost, I thought we had the opportunity to shift University Hall’s attention back to undergraduate concerns. I wrote that Colvin “seem(ed) focused on the interests of students — both undergraduate and graduate.” I no longer believe this to be the case. I’ll tell you why.

I first reached out to Colvin back in early October, asking her to pen a guest column for The Herald that would outline her goals for the next year and her overall tenure at Brown.

I reached out because I had seen and heard little from Colvin thus far. Via her assistant, Colvin declined my request. When I followed up, her assistant informed me that she was too busy to write anything. I then re-

The Herald has struggled throughout the semester to win time with Colvin. While Schlissel met with Herald reporters as often as multiple times a week, Colvin has been quoted in Herald interviews only three times this semester. Last May, Schlissel told The Herald that he advised then-incoming Provost Colvin to “spend enough time getting to know Brown and the people on campus.” When Schlissel comes out looking accessible and engaged, we’ve got a problem.

Last semester, I advocated that the provost search committee consider minority candidates for the position. Allocating powerful administrative roles to minorities enables minority students to feel like their voices are represented in University decision making. With mostly white administrators now running the school, we are certainly failing in that regard.

Just as disturbing is Colvin’s lack of contact and transparency, which threatens to alienate all students and make us feel as if none of our voices are represented — or even considered. In fact, sources within the Undergraduate Council of Students who wished to remain anonymous have expressed to me disappointment and frustration over Colvin’s lack of interest in undergraduate student interests, as well as her lack of influence in, or even comment upon, undergraduate affairs.

Colvin’s involvement with UCS has been almost non-existent. According to these sources, the body approached Colvin this summer. The provost expressed a desire to learn more about dining and 24-hour study spaces and to potentially organize student focus groups on these issues. UCS immediately moved forward to fulfill her request, but after initial conversation, efforts stagnat-

vin to engage with center-stage issues on campus — like efforts to reform sexual assault and financial aid policies. Perhaps she has done so, but we have no way of knowing, because she is not transparent about her work or objectives. She has rarely spoken to The Herald and other campus publications or offered any opportunities to interact with her in person. Even her email communication to the Brown community has been infrequent.

Transparency is a crucial characteristic of any University administration, because it is an important step toward accountability and inclusivity. Although Schlissel’s opinions and actions were unpopular — and rightly so — he was still forthcoming, even blunt, so we always knew what he was thinking. And despite the disrespect he demonstrated throughout his tenure toward all facets of the Brown community, he at least offered us the respect of transparency. He allowed us to disagree with him. Colvin won’t even let us agree with her.

In fact, I was only able to critique Schlissel because of his willingness to communicate. For this, I admire him. He was not afraid of criticism, and he continues to be vocal at UMich.

Meanwhile, at Brown, Colvin appears aloof and above it all. Dare I say arrogant and dismissive? No, I won’t go that far. I have few facts, little communication and zero personal interactions on which to base such a conclusion.

And that’s precisely the problem.

With this column, Maggie Tennis ’14.5 concludes her opining about Brown provosts — at least as an undergraduate.

EDITORIAL

How executive action will not help immigrants As the White House prepares to unveil President Obama’s executive action on immigration this week, and as Republicans reaffirm their intention to reduce the reach of such action by all means available, it is important to consider the impact that this executive action will have for immigrants and for the wider future of immigration reform in our country.

Executive action in this vein is not unprecedented. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan exercised his discretionary authority to protect from deportation spouses and children who did not qualify for amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, also known as the SimpsonMazzoli Act. In 1990, after the House failed to pass legislation that would prohibit the deportation of spouses and children of those protected by IRCA, President George H.W. Bush also made use of the latitude in prosecutorial discretion, instituting his “family fairness” policy, which similarly granted those undocumented people protection from deportation and allowed them to seek lawful employment. In both of these cases, it is important to remember that significant effort had already been undertaken to address the issue of immigration through legislative reform.

In 2012, Obama introduced his order for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which has benefited hundreds of thousands of undocumented children already in the country. Nonetheless, DACA has coincided with an increase in illegal immigration, further expanding the divide between Democrats and Republicans as some of the latter suggest that the imminent possibility of a path to citizenship is attracting more illegal immigration.

The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States is estimated at upwards of 11 million, with the vast majority arriving over the border from Latin America. This is an issue that cannot be ignored and requires a bipartisan consensus focused on eradicating the marginalization of immigrants in our society while devoting resources toward revamping border protection and fraud prevention.

Obama’s awaited executive order is set to offer deferred action from deportation as well as work authorizations to the undocumented parents of citizen and permanent legal resident children and, likewise, to the parents of children now protected by DACA. The number of undocumented people who would benefit under this action could be as many as five million. Though the president’s decision would certainly remove some of the anxieties and fears that many immigrant families confront when obtaining work authorization, social security cards and driver’s licenses, they would have to come forward to receive help. No change in legislation means no security, in face of the possibility of a reversal of Obama’s decision in the future.

Executive action does not promote the integration of the immigrant population into society. The focus of the administration should be placed on facilitating legislative reform that recognizes the need to eliminate marginalization and fear among immigrants. This goal can only be achieved through legislation that fosters education, fair employment practices and the restructuring of policies and resources toward border protection and fraud prevention. The much-anticipated executive order, as well as DACA, will simply fall short. Both fail to promote a culture more accepting toward immigrants and further the divide regarding immigration between both political parties. Executive action may be enticing, but it is a short-term solution that could break down the potential for legislative action.

Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board: its editors, Alexander Kaplan ’15 and James Rattner ’15, and its members, Zoila Bergeron ’17, 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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