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Kelly lecture spurs student, community backlash Seeking Protesters have objected to the NYPD commissioner’s vocal support of raciallycharged policing methods By MAXINE JOSELOW AND JILLIAN LANNEY SENIOR STAFF WRITERS
Controversy has flared among students and community members — with students putting forth a petition, holding a vigil Monday night and planning a protest march for this afternoon — over the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions’ decision to host a lecture today by Ray Kelly, commissioner of the New York City Police Department. Objection to Kelly stems from his promotion of the stop-and-frisk policy, which some claim uses racial profiling. The policy, in which NYPD officers stop
and pat down pedestrians suspected of criminal activity, disproportionately targets blacks and Hispanics, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union. In August, a U.S. District Court judge determined the practice violated the constitutional rights of the city’s minorities, a decision the city is expected to appeal. In response to the lecture, some hung up other posters around campus depicting Kelly alongside the Ku Klux Klan or swastikas — an action organizers said was unaffiliated with their official protest. Several students and Marshall Einhorn, the director of Brown RISD Hillel, criticized the posters, calling them inappropriate and insensitive. Students drafted a petition Thursday and held the vigil Monday to protest the center’s selection of Kelly to deliver its Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture. Students also said they plan to march in » See KELLY, page 4
influence, students form activist group The group’s actions could include a walkout in response to controversial University decisions By MOLLY SCHULSON SENIOR STAFF WRITER
by the Rhode Island Department of Health, wrote Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University relations, in an email to The Herald. “There is no known threat to the public,” said Special Agent Greg Comcowich, a spokesman for the FBI in Boston. But he said details about the incident are not available due to the ongoing nature of the investigation. “It’s our policy not to reveal the type or nature of the substance,” he said. Two staff members reported “watery eyes and a chemical taste in the throat and mouth area” after an envelope was opened in the office Thursday afternoon, according to a University » See SUBSTANCE, page 5
Following the University’s announcement that it will not divest from major coal companies,around 100 students gathered Sunday and Monday nights in the Underground in response to what they called the University’s unwillingness to listen to student voices. The student organizers refused to elaborate on their specific goals to The Herald and did not allow reporters inside their meetings. The meeting spawned from a Facebook status by Jenny Li ’14 inviting other students to join her in the Underground to discuss the University’s decision not to divest from coal, Sophie Soloway ’14.5 wrote in an email to The Herald. Several people shared the status and others sent email and texting chains to spread word around campus, Soloway added. The announcement about coal divestment “seemed like a catalyst that precipitated pre-existing feelings about other times the Corporation and administration has not been accountable to student needs,” Soloway wrote. Representatives from student groups including Brown Divest Coal, Support for Survivors of Sexual Assault, Students for Justice in Palestine and Student Labor Alliance attended » See VOICES, page 2
polled undergraduates on the question. Six percent of students said they somewhat disapproved of UCS’ job performance, while 2 percent strongly disapproved. Six percent of poll respondents indicated they did not know what the organization UCS was. The poll results showed a correlation between students’ opinions of UCS and of administrative initiatives. Students who had no opinion of UCS’ job performance also tended to have no opinion of President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan, released last month and approved by the Corporation this weekend. UCS leaders said they have actively engaged with students this year to increase awareness of the body’s work. The Council conducted its own survey of undergraduates this month. The Herald poll, which was taken one week
prior to a UCS poll, “was conducted before we made that big push to get students involved,” said UCS President Todd Harris ’14.5. Some students said they don’t know much about UCS’ current work but expressed mild approval of the body. Harjasleen Malvai ’17 said she is somewhat aware of what UCS does but added that the difference between UCS and the Class Coordinating Boards — which organize class year-specific activities — is sometimes confusing. UCS could also do a better job raising awareness about its work, Malvai said. But Malvai added that UCS’ failure to extensively promote its work could indicate the body is focused on the details of student governance. Perhaps “that means they’re actually doing their » See UCS, page 2
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About 60 students convened at a gathering Monday evening in honor of victims of racial profiling and to protest Kelly’s talk.
Substance found in Grad Center believed harmless Medical evaluations indicated those exposed to the substance suffered no serious health issues By EMILY BONEY CITY & STATE STAFF WRITER
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Michael Dawkins ’13.5, an accomplished musician, played at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.
After the discovery of an unidentified material initially believed to be hazardous in Graduate Center last Thursday, officials from the University and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the building is safe, and the eight people who were evaluated by medical professionals are not seriously ill. No hazardous materials were detected in the substance following a “preliminary analysis” conducted
with Dawkins’ ’13.5 family to plan a memorial service for next month By SONA MKRTTCHIAN AND ADAM TOOBIN CITY & STATE EDITORS
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Five days after Michael Dawkins ’13.5 was confirmed to have died in Peru, few details have emerged about the circumstances of his death. Dawkins was not “taking part of any Brown-sponsored activity” while in Peru, and the University does not have any information about his travels, wrote Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University relations, in an email to The Herald. “The University was notified of
the death of Michael Dawkins by members of his family,” Quinn wrote. It could take weeks or even months for Peruvian authorities to confirm any details, said Erika Dawkins, Michael’s older sister. Students and faculty members gathered in the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life Friday to commemorate Dawkins’ life with personal stories and recollections. The office is currently collaborating with Dawkins’ family to organize a service in his memory on campus in November, wrote Janet Cooper Nelson, University chaplain, in an email to The Herald. Dawkins, a talented pianist, grew up in Baton Rouge, La., but spent time in the Northeast during high school working on his music and participating in the Pelham Music » See DAWKINS, page 3
Despite UCS efforts to increase visibility and student involvement, polling detected apathy By SOPHIE YAN STAFF WRITER
A majority of students — 56 percent — have no opinion on how the Undergraduate Council of Students is handling its job, according to a Herald poll conducted Sept. 30 to Oct. 1. Students who did have an opinion tended to approve of the Council’s job performance, with 23 percent of poll respondents somewhat approving of UCS and 7 percent expressing strong approval. The Council’s approval rating — 30 percent — fell from 38 percent in fall 2011, the last time The Herald
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job rather than just talking about it,” she said. “I don’t think the actions of UCS are always incredibly visible,” said Alex Mechanick ’15, president of Brown for Financial Aid. UCS initiatives such as campus events or the distribution of laptop chargers in libraries are often more publicized than some of the body’s more “serious” work with administrators and the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, he added. But UCS has been innovative this year in engaging with students, Mechanick said. “They’ve done a fantastic job,” he said. “They just keep on coming up with more ways for students to get involved and be in contact.” UCS leaders frequently communicate with University Hall about undergraduates’ priorities, said Provost Mark Schlissel P’15. “We really have used them each year as a conduit between the administration and the student body,” he said. Administrators revised the strategic plan after UCS provided students’ feedback from the body’s poll this month, Schlissel said. “UCS officers and the student poll told us that we should have been more explicit in the plan about our commitment to undergraduate advising, so we made an addition to the plan to sharpen the focus of undergraduate advising,” Schlissel said. Paxson also incorporated the University’s mission statement into the plan after hearing feedback from UCS that some students were concerned about the original draft’s omission of the phrase “university college” to describe Brown, Schlissel said. UCS has made a greater effort this year to reach out to students, “providing different forums for students to engage in giving feedback on campus,” said UCS Vice President Sam Gilman ’15. A substantial number of students have responded to UCS’ public outreach efforts this year, Gilman said.
A majority of undergraduates polled expressed no opinion when asked: “Do you approve or disapprove of the way the Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS) is handling its job?”
» VOICES, from page 1 the meeting, Soloway said. “They were all coming together to make it more of an open discussion to talk about transparency and accountability with the school and how it was lacking and they were frustrated by it,” Marguerite Suozzo-Gole ’15.5 said. Students at the Monday meeting discussed the possibility of staging a walkout later this week, Suozzo-Gole said. “There were very eloquent speakers making informed and impassioned” speeches to attendees, Suozzo-Gole said. “I wasn’t expecting it to be as big as it was. It was so well-attended,” Soloway said. Soloway attended the meeting because she feels like there is a “critical mass of student voices saying they’ve done everything they can and still haven’t effected change” at the University, she said. Brown Divest Coal, the principal group that campaigned for divestment, has worked “really hard and they have a right to be disappointed,” Suozzo-Gale said. But she added that its members should not walk out on the community. “Both being radical and not being radical enough doesn’t produce change,” she said. “You kind of have
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“The number of students that have come to forums and sent in feedback stands on its own.” Harris also cited UCS’ efforts to involve students in the strategic plan feedback process, saying that members knocked on students’ doors in residence halls and approached people in the Blue Room to encourage them to complete the UCS poll, which addressed issues such as financial aid, student priorities and campus life in the strategic plan. Students could also rank top priorities for administrators to focus on, The Herald previously reported. Harris sent an email to the student body Oct. 24 announcing that UCS had compiled an undergraduate feedback report from data collected from four campus-wide forums, a Google form and the body’s fall poll. Forty-two percent of the undergraduate student body — 2,724 students — responded to the UCS poll, which has traditionally been a major way the body solicits feedback
from students, he said. UCS members presented the feedback report to Corporation members during its meeting last weekend, The Herald previously reported. UCS works to connect students with resources, Gilman said, noting that students can meet personally with deans and administrators. “One of the beautiful things about Brown is that we actually do have an administration that listens to us, and there are multiple avenues for students to be heard,” he said. Some students said apathy toward UCS can stem from perceptions that the body does not make a substantial difference in University governance. “Some people get frustrated because they don’t understand all the reasons behind why we can’t have certain changes,” said Jameson Snead ’16. But he added that UCS does “a pretty good job of representing student interest and trying to communicate that to the University.”
to strike the right balance.” Undergraduate Council of Students President Todd Harris ’14.5 was attending a meeting of the environmental group emPOWER Sunday night to hear student concerns about the University’s decision regarding coal when he found out about the initial meeting in the Underground, he said. “I went with emPOWER to the meeting … to hear what students had to say,” Harris said. Many students in attendance expressed frustration over issues including and beyond coal divestment, he added. These broader issues included the University not listening to student concern over queer safety and a lecture today by New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly hosted by the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, SuozzoGole said. Kelly’s invitation to speak at Brown has fueled controversy due to his signature stop-and-frisk policy, with many petitioning the center to rescind his invitation. Several students involved in the effort to cancel the Kelly talk also attended the Monday and Sunday meetings, Soloway said. Many students felt the University is not listening to them, Soloway said.
“Students are part of groups that have gone through all available channels to effect change” but they feel like they have hit brick walls, she said. “I think the number of students who are angry and tired of being silenced and ignored is larger and rapidly growing,” wrote Emma Wohl ’14, a former Herald arts and culture editor, in an email to The Herald. Helen McDonald ’14 went to the Sunday meeting because she is “tired of the Corporation’s hypocrisy,” as well as the University’s “horrible treatment of (Brown) Dining Service workers and its numerous actions to silence student voices,” she wrote in an email to The Herald. “We will all be part of Brown for the rest of our lives, so we should have the power to decide on the University’s moral image and impact,” Josue Crowther ’15 wrote in an email to the Herald. Crowther attended the Sunday meeting as part of Brown Divest Coal and as a BuDS employee with “many concerns,” he wrote. The Sunday meeting was over two hours long, and students discussed many ideas about how to express their frustrations, Soloway said. Interested students will continue meeting to determine specific demands and plan future action, Crowther wrote.
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Commission urges R.I. gun divestment The recommendation comes in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown last year
By MARIYA BASHKATOVA SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The State Investment Commission voted unanimously in favor of Rhode Island divesting from its stakes in gun distributors Wednesday. Wellspring Capital Partners IV invests $3.8 million of state money in United Sporting Companies, an organization that distributes firearms, gun accessories and hunting supplies. General Treasurer Gina Raimondo, a likely 2014 gubernatorial candidate and the commission’s leader, promised to use the power of her office to influence gun policy in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. school shooting last December. “As a mom and public official, I am deeply troubled by gun violence,” she said in a statement. “This is the right thing to do.” Responses from officials across the state have been mixed. Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 said though it is important to take a stance, it does not make sense to overburden the state’s pension fund with political statements. “It doesn’t help retirees when the pension funds are so restricted,” he added. The state has already divested from several companies to stand in solidarity with different causes. “Where does it
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Gina Raimondo, who will likely run for governor in 2014, cited her roles as both a mother and a government official in her support of gun divestment. end?” he said. the Journal. Earlier this month, Chafee signed a Political blog Rhode Island’s Future bill divesting Rhode Island public funds lauded Raimondo’s divestment efforts. from companies based in Iran. A 2007 Other pension funds across the law requires the state to divest from country have divested from guns in the companies that support the Sudanese wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary government. School shooting. The Providence City Ken Block, the leader of the state’s Council passed a resolution in March Moderate Party, who is running for gov- to divest the city’s pension funds from ernor in 2014 as a Republican, called companies that manufacture or disRaimondo’s divestment agenda “ir- tribute assault weapons. The Califorresponsible and misguided” and told nia State Teachers Retirement System, the Providence Journal she “is using one of the largest pension funds in the pension assets to score political points country, began the process of divestand pander to certain constituencies.” ing from firearms last January, and the Mark Smiley, chairman of the state New York City Employees’ Retirement Republican Party, criticized Raimondo System voted to divest from guns last for what he called misguided priorities. May. Chicago and Los Angeles have “She should be working to maxi- also initiated the process of divesting. mize the return on investment for all Raimondo’s office did not respond funds under her supervision,” he told to requests for comment.
» DAWKINS, from page 1 Festival in Pelham, N.Y., said Carrie Weiss, a Pelham Music Festival board member. Dawkins was involved with the festival as both a musician and a volunteer throughout high school and college, she added. During his time with the festival, Dawkins performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, said Robert Eicher, president of the festival. Eicher added that Dawkins was an extremely curious and passionate student throughout his life, both with his academic studies and with his musical pursuits. “There was just nothing he didn’t want to read about or learn about,” Weiss said. “Every exposure to intellectual argument or dialogue fascinated him.” He honed his talents on the family piano, often waking his family up at 7 a.m. to the sounds of his music, Erika Dawkins said. “He took up these very significant challenges,” Eicher said. “He wasn’t going to stop until he found the limits of what he wanted to know.” Dawkins used to ride his bike to the public library in his town when he was about 8 years old to watch videos of famous pianists, Weiss
said. These served as his “early inspiration.” As he grew up, Dawkins discovered a new medium through which to communicate with people around the world, Erica Dawkins said — language. In high school, he began studying French, which he quickly mastered. By the time of his death, he spoke English, French and Arabic fluently and could communicate in Spanish and Hebrew. Both Eicher and Weiss said Dawkins believed attending Brown was one of his best decisions. “He knew that it was (the) school that would be the best place for him,” Weiss said. “He just felt that at Brown he could fit in, because everybody fits in at Brown.” Following graduation, Dawkins was hoping to attend a conservatory where he could continue his music education, Weiss said. He had also been considering law school, Erika Dawkins said. The Pelham community is planning a January memorial concert to coincide with what would have been Dawkins’ 24th birthday. Weiss said she hopes an announcement will also be made at that time about a scholarship fund being created in Dawkins’ memory.
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Film dives into sustainable ocean planning issues The public premiere showcased Rhode Island’s efforts to regulate its use of marine resources By KATHERINE LAMB SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The world premiere of the film “Ocean Frontiers II: A New England Story for Sustaining the Sea” highlighted Rhode Island as a leading example of collaborative marine spatial planning in a public screening at the Providence Public Library Monday night. Public premieres will continue in other states over the next week, but the filmmakers chose Rhode Island for the first screening as the majority of their research and filming was done in the area, said Karen Myer, co-founder of Green Fire Productions, at a panel discussion following the screening. Green Fire Productions is the nonprofit video production company that produced the film. The film seeks to address the question, “How do we meet our ever-expanding demands on the ocean and also work together to protect it?” Myer wrote in an email to The Herald. “In talking with people involved in New England regional ocean planning, it became clear to us that our use of the ocean is poised to increase dramatically,” she added.
» KELLY, from page 1 protest from the Taubman Center to the List Art Building before the talk today. Marion Orr, director of the Taubman Center, said Kelly was chosen because he is a “high-profile professional” who deals with important public policy issues related to crime and terrorism. Kelly’s talk will cover his 11-year tenure as commissioner, during which he oversaw counterterrorism efforts and a 30 percent reduction in crime, according to the description on the Taubman Center’s website. “This lecture sends a message … that Brown condones racial profiling,” said Irene Rojas-Carroll ’15, one of the students who organized the petition and vigil. “There’s a lack of consideration for the triggering effects that (Kelly’s) presence would have on our campus amongst various students whose families may have been directly harmed by his policies,” said Jonathan Cohen ’15. The format of the lecture — in which Kelly will deliver a speech, followed by a question-and-answer session — has also faced criticism. Though the talk will not feature other
“The need to balance recreation, conservation and business is greater than ever,” wrote Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., in remarks a member of his staff read at the premiere. This balance “is at the heart of ocean planning in New England,” Myer wrote. Though a number of states have ocean zoning, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Oregon are the only three states that have developed comprehensive ocean plans, according to “Ocean Frontiers II.” “The Ocean (Special Area Management Plan) is a vehicle, which the state of Rhode Island has used in order to be in the driver’s seat as far as how our ocean waters are going to be used,” said Jennifer McCann, director of extension programs at the Rhode Island Sea Grant and one of the principal investigators for the Ocean SAMP. “It’s a regulatory document or tool which allows Rhode Islanders to be proactive in planning our future,” she added. The planning identified a “renewable energy zone” off the coast of Rhode Island and Massaschusetts, which could sustain up to 200 wind turbines, McCann said.
The film aimed “to portray the Rhode Island Ocean Special Area Management Plan to tell the story of how science and collaboration among citizens, ocean planners and industry helps us make better decisions about ocean conservation and management,” Myer wrote. The film tracked the people and organizations identified by SAMP as those with stakes in ocean use “to ensure that everyone had a voice and was able to learn about this research and information so that better decisions could be made,” McCann said. “Every Rhode Islander has had an opportunity to engage in the process,” including scientists, the U.S. Navy, developers from offshore wind turbine projects, union representatives, recreational and commercial fishermen, environmental organizations, Native American leaders and coastal planners, she said. “There was a lot of human struggle involved” in engaging so many groups and conflicting perspectives, said Jeffrey Grybowski, CEO of Deepwater Wind, an offshore wind company planning to begin construction on a five-turbine wind farm three miles southeast of Block Island in 2014. “In the end it was a great project, but we didn’t know that at the beginning, and we certainly didn’t know
that in the middle,” he said. The perspective of local fishermen demonstrated that stakeholder interests were not always aligned, since data collection — a priority of the scientists and energy companies — threatened to reveal their routes and secrets to commercial competitors, Grybowski said. And from the perspective of his company, “it’s an acceptance of a level of transparency that most businesses aren’t accustomed or willing to do,” he said. For example, members of the Narragansett tribe were aboard Deep Water Wind vessels at times during the process to ensure that plans for laying down an underwater cable would not threaten their offshore heritage sites, he added. “What impresses me perhaps most is how communication is dramatically enhanced through an ocean planning process,” Myer wrote. Relationships are established that encourage open dialogue around concerns.” “The stakeholder process was as much a trust-building exercise as was anything else,” said Grover Fugate, executive director of the Coastal Resources Management Council. In the implementation process, stakeholders who have not yet been involved will find a voice, Fugate said. Though
Rhode Island has already become “the gold standard — the national model — for marine spatial planning for other states to look at,” there is still work to be done, he said. “The planning was the easy part; it’s the implementation side that’s really going to matter.” The next step will be a regional implementation through the Northeast Regional Ocean Council aiming to create policy for offshore areas over a 200-mile stretch of New England coast, according to “Ocean Frontiers II.” The council has begun developing and posting online a Northeast Ocean Data portal, an interactive atlas combining data about locations of pipelines, submerged cables, aquaculture hotspots and turtle migration routes, for example, according to the film. Regional planning is needed because “fish don’t know state boundaries, and our fishermen also don’t know state boundaries,” said Rick Bellavance, president of the Rhode Island Party and Charter Boat Association, in the film. “We are inextricably linked to the sea” as residents of the Ocean State, said Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., in his remarks filmed for the public screening. “I look forward to Rhode Island continuing to lead the way,” he said.
speakers with alternative viewpoints, “there will be an opportunity for students and others who come to the talk to ask questions of Commissioner Kelly,” Orr said. The movement is a “backlash to the entire format, not just Ray Kelly himself,” said Sophie Soloway ’14.5, another organizer. The lecture set-up should allow for debate, in particular by featuring speakers with opposing viewpoints, she said. But Rojas-Carroll said a debate or panel would not make Kelly’s talk more acceptable, because it would still inherently validate Kelly’s perspective. “The reality is there is no such thing as debate between oppressor and oppressed,” she said. But not all students expressed opposition to Kelly’s talk. “I think the fact that he is controversial makes him that much more interesting,” said Haakim Nainar ’14. He said he would consider it a “disservice” to students if administrators sought to censor or limit controversial opinions. Nainar said that, though he does not personally support the stop-and-frisk policy, there is value to having Kelly speak at Brown as an influential policymaker. Orr said he had reached out to Kelly
about facilitating a meeting between Kelly and concerned students, but Kelly has yet to respond to the request. He added that the center will work with students to set up workshops or seminars that would provide further opportunities for discourse. At the vigil Monday evening, about 60 students and community members congregated in front of the Faunce steps and held white candles. The vigil was meant to be a “sobering reminder” of the effects of racial profiling, said Jenny Li ’14, another student organizer, in an interview with The Herald. Organizers of the vigil read a list of incidents of racial profiling, including the circumstances and the names of the victims. One of the victims mentioned was Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot in Florida last year. Student leaders also made speeches about their reasons for opposing Kelly’s talk. “As a person of color, I am appalled that Kelly has singled out blacks and Latinos,” said Rudy Torres ’16. Members of the Providence chapter of Direct Action for Rights and Equality also addressed attendees of the vigil. “You’re the young minds of the world,
and you have to live for the community,” said Joseph Buchanan, a member of DARE. “We can’t make change without you.” Members of several student groups spent four hours Thursday drafting a petition protesting the talk, Rojas-Carroll said. The petition calls for the Taubman Center to cancel the lecture, to donate funds supporting the lecture to organizations dedicated to ending racial profiling and to be more transparent in its selection of future speakers. The petition garnered about 550 signatures by 4 p.m. Monday, Rojas-Carroll said. Students also distributed multiple versions of posters around campus, some of which featured Kelly’s face alongside images such as hooded Ku Klux Klan members and swastikas superimposed over NYPD badges, as well as slogans such as “Hey Ray, how many kids did you kill today?” and “Stop Ray(cist) Kelly.” The posters were likely made by “free agents,” not students involved with organizing the vigil and protest, said Kristy Choi ’15, one of the organizers. The poster containing the swastika sparked concern among students and administrators for what they called its offensive nature.
Einhorn said he took down several posters from the Hillel building Monday morning. “The imagery and the associations that the swastika has are offensive to many, and shouldn’t be used in this fashion,” Einhorn said, though he added that he took down the posters due to a Hillel policy against posters from outside organizations, not because of the posters’ content. “Equating Ray Kelly to a fascist leader who killed millions of innocent people is an ad hominem attack that I think demeans the value of any potential discussion students could have on campus about this issue,” said Noah Fitzgerel ’17. “And it’s offensive to the memories of those people whose lives were lost to the Nazi regime in Germany.” Luke O’Connell ’17 said he shared his concerns with President Christina Paxson during her office hours Monday. But though Paxson agreed the posters “are disturbing and potentially harmful” to community members, she ultimately did not move to have them taken down because of the University’s free speech policies, vice president for public affairs and University relations Marisa Quinn wrote in an email to The Herald.
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Bears top Big Green en route to tourney victory After a disappointing 15s season, the team responded by capturing its first 7s tournament By ALEX WAINGER SPORTS STAFF WRITER
Wrapping up the 15s season with a 2-4 record — not good enough for an Ivy playoff berth — was not how the men’s rugby team envisioned the start of its sevens season. “Was it disappointing? Absolutely. But this is a turning point in the season for us,” said scrum half Colin Schofield ’14. “The sevens season started this Saturday, and we’re ready to turn this team around.” The team did just that, winning the first sevens tournament of the season. Fifteens and sevens are two styles of rugby and refer to the number of players on each team. Fifteens is generally a more physical game, while sevens lends itself to more open field play and frequent scoring. Brown took two teams, the first and second sides, to Yale Saturday to compete in the first sevens tournament of the season. “The second side’s goal was really to give a lot of new players some opportunities to continue to familiarize themselves with the sport. The first side was there to win,” said hooker Tariq Cannonier ’16. The first side started off the day in an early morning matchup with rugby powerhouse Dartmouth. Just a week
earlier, the Big Green had trounced the Bears, posting a massive 55-3 blowout in 15s. With redemption on the line, Bruno came out firing and scored three tries in the first half, opening up a 17-0 lead. In the second half, the team made all five of its allotted substitutions in an effort to spread playing time, Cannonier said. Dartmouth bounced back from the early deficit, managing to score three tries of its own. In a closely contested match, Brown fell 19-17, as the Big Green managed to kick two conversions to the Bears’ one. The first side moved on from its narrow loss to face Mitchell College. “We were definitely more skilled than Mitchell,” Schofield said. “We had a lot of success moving the ball out wide. We picked up three tries again in the first half, and then played solid defense in the second half, picking up a well-deserved win.” Bruno faced Yale’s first side in the third match of the day. “We played and beat them twice in the fifteens season, so we recognized a lot of their personnel,” Schofield said. “We knew what we were up against. We came out really aggressive, scored four tries right away and never looked back.” Yale ended up adding two tries of its own, but the Bears staved off the attack to earn their second win and a spot in the tournament final. Awaiting Brown’s first side was Dartmouth, the only team to hand the Bears a loss in the tournament. “Playing Dartmouth in the final was a welcome challenge,” Schofield said. “We always
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Colin Schofield ’14 and the men’s rugby squad found better luck playing in the sevens format, avenging an earlier loss to a formidable Dartmouth side. look forward to opportunities to take a shot at them. We scored two big tries in the corner in the first half. I let up one try in the second half, but we held on to take the tournament.” Bruno ultimately defeated Dartmouth, securing first place in the tournament. “Our sevens team is looking really good. Winning this tournament was a huge boost for the starters,” he said. “I think we’re all looking forward to the Ivy Seven Championships this year. I
think we have a good shot of making it.” “This win was big for the whole team. We all look up to the seniors and the first side guys — they’re the ones with the first team jerseys,” Cannonier said. “Everybody wants to be in that position, so seeing the team play so well together inspires everyone to contribute and work hard. I think it’s going to be a good sevens season for us.” The men’s rugby team will play in another sevens tournament hosted by Dartmouth this Saturday.
» SUBSTANCE, from page 1 press release. Medical professionals evaluated the staff members, first responders, and three other staff members and a student who were nearby. “The individuals that were affected and treated are doing well,” Quinn wrote in an email to The Herald. At press time, representatives from the Rhode Island Department of Health did not respond to requests for comment on the results of its testing. Students who live in Grad Center are not in any danger, according to the Brown press release. Grad Center resident Asa Ohsaki ’15 said Grad Center’s brief closure “was just a lot of confusion.” “There’s been no email regarding the incident” from the University, she said. “Nothing directly to us.” Many Grad Center residents still have little idea of what exactly transpired, Ohsaki said. “It would be nice if there was a follow-up just to know what happened, since it happened so close to where I live,” she said. “I’m curious to find out what happened,” said Residential Life employee Galen Hunt ’14, adding that he knows very little about the incident. ResLife and the Office of Student Life both have office space on the fourth floor of Grad Center Tower E, where the envelope was opened. Local police, fire department officials and the FBI are collaborating on the ongoing investigation, Comcowich said. “We almost always are in constant contact,” he said. —With reporting by Elizabeth Koh
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Bruno remains tied for second in Ivy League standings Mika Siegelman ’14 scored the game-winner against Cornell after the team lost to Dartmouth By LLOYD SY SPORTS STAFF WRITER
The Bears (8-4-1, 3-1-1 Ivy) fell to Dartmouth in a non-conference tilt last Tuesday but bounced back by defeating Cornell Sunday afternoon. The squad remains tied with Penn for second place in the Ivy League behind Harvard. Dartmouth 2, Brown 0 Bruno traveled to Burnham Field Tuesday night and was held scoreless against Dartmouth (7-5-3, 3-2-0) after keeping the Big Green close for most of the first half. Goalie Amber Bledsoe ’14 stopped all four of the opposing side’s shots on goal in the opening half. But in the second half, Mary Catherine Barrett ’14 allowed two goals, giving her the loss. In the 69th minute, Brown suffered an own goal after Dartmouth midfielder Marina Moschitto shot a ball that deflected off a Bruno defender into the net. Eleven minutes later, Moschitto widened the Big Green’s lead to two goals by scoring off a corner kick from Corey Delaney. The match was designated as a non-conference game and did not affect either team’s Ivy League record. Brown defeated Dartmouth last month in their conference match-up. “While we still wanted to win this game, we had already won the game
that counted,” Bledsoe said. “We had some girls that didn’t travel and stayed back so they would be healthy against Cornell.” The Bears were outshot 15-3 in the game, with forward Chloe Cross ’15 attempting their only shot in the first half — a lob that soared wide of the goal in the 36th minute. “We just didn’t come out with the same intensity,” Bledsoe said. “It was tough playing them on the road.”
Brown 3, Cornell 2 (Double-OT) The Bears won a double-overtime nail-biter Sunday afternoon, beating host Cornell (7-6-1, 1-4-0) at Charles F. Berman Field. The winning goal, scored in the 104th minute, came from a header by captain Mika Siegelman ’14, assisted by Cross. Head Coach Phil Pincince “called me to get involved, so I turned the defender and gave it to Mika,” Cross said. “By some miracle, she got her head on it and put it in the net.” The Bears fell behind early, when Cornell forward Caroline Growney scored in the 29th minute. Louisa Pitney ’14 tied the game in the 40th minute with a goal assisted by Annie Gillen ’15 and Ali Mullin ’14. After halftime, Cross gave Bruno the lead with her sixth goal of the season off a Pitney assist. But Growney scored a second time in the 82nd minute, evening the score for the Big Red. The teams played through 13 minutes of scoreless play in overtime before Siegelman scored the golden goal. “We really wanted to win,”
Siegelman said. “We didn’t come out here for a tie or loss. Giving up that lead frustrates you — it gives you motivation.” Cross credited Brown’s win to “doing the dirty things right.” “We didn’t give up in going after balls,” Cross said. “They were obviously a physical team, but we kept winning those headers and were able to put our chances in the net.” Barrett, who made three saves, was credited with the win, moving her to 7-2 on the year. Bledsoe added four saves in the first half. Bruno stays at home for the next two matches, taking on Harvard Tuesday in a non-conference game before playing Penn Saturday night in a match-up between the Ivy League’s two second-place teams. “Playing Penn when we’re both in second place — that’s motivated us to keep on improving,” Siegelman said. “We’re sitting in a position we haven’t been in for years. Being in second place this far into Ivy play makes us want to hold that ground.”
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Captain Mika Siegelman ’14 scored the golden goal in the Bears’ victory over Big Red, maintaining second place ahead of their matchup with Penn.
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Ray Kelly lecture offers lens to examine local policies This afternoon, Ray Kelly, New York City police commissioner, will deliver a lecture sponsored by the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions. Kelly’s arrival has stoked controversy because he supports stop-andfrisk policies in New York. Yesterday, we responded to calls to cancel the event, speaking to the benefits of free speech on campus. Today, we will examine the “broken windows” model of policing that has inspired the stop-and-frisk model in New York and illuminates the flawed “community policing” strategies employed in Providence. These strategies have been implemented to combat crime but lead to racial profiling and unwarranted searches that violate civil liberties. We encourage the Providence Police Department to buck the trend set by the New York Police Department, as its tactics provide opportunities for police misconduct and discrimination. The “broken windows” theory, developed during the 1980s, has grown in popularity due to its heavy use in New York. This model suggests smaller acts of crime such as vandalism, littering and broken windows devolve into serious crime if unaddressed. The theoretical response is a zero-tolerance policy that prosecutes each infraction, no matter how minor, to the fullest extent of the law. Stop-andfrisk policies stem from this theory — they are intended to halt criminals of any A A N C HA L S A R A F kind by searching them for any evidence of illicit activity. But this has led to racial Generated by CamScanner from intsig.com bias and police transgression, a claim raised by defendants in a federal lawsuit against the NYPD in an attempt to cease stop-and-frisk policies in New York. Q U O T E O F T H E D AY While the Providence department has made clear it will not enact stop-andfrisk, its implementation of “community policing” opens Providence to the same potential for police misconduct. Dean Esserman developed community policing “The reality is there is no such thing as debate between oppressor and oppressed.” in Providence in 2003 when he was promoted to chief of police. Esserman’s model — Irene Rojas-Carroll ’15 involved splitting the department and increasing the number of police officers on the ground. These measures, in addition to the creation of the Providence External See kelly, page 1. Review Authority, were intended to increase trust between communities and the police department and crack down on petty crimes. But such policies have been effective in only one of these regards. Officers are stopping more civilians, but community relationships have not improved. PERA has no authority to sanction CORRECTIONS an officer or mandate disciplinary measures. It can merely investigate civilian complaints. In 2010, its board was cut from 22 members to nine. PERA fails as a resource for civilians looking to report police misconduct. Due to an editing error, a column published in Friday’s Herald (“Freitag ’14: The tax we can all agree on,” Oct. 25) At the same time, police misconduct and allegations of racial bias are still stated that not all companies in Europe participated in the European Trading Scheme. In fact, not all European very real problems in Providence. This past spring, police officers repeatedly beat, countries participated. The Herald regrets the error. choked and pepper-sprayed Joshua Robinson, a 21-year-old black male. As a result of the incident, Robinson was hospitalized for facial and bodily lacerations. He An article published in Friday’s Herald (“Body of undergraduate found in Peru,” Oct. 25) misidentified a group was purportedly pulled over for cocaine possession and arrested for assaulting Michael Dawkins ’13.5 was involved with as the Brown University Unitarian Universalist Church. In fact, the orgathe officers, but all evidence seems to point to the contrary. Robinson is a mere nization is called the Brown University Unitarian Universalist Group. The Herald regrets the error. 115 pounds and five feet tall. The officers who arrested him were all about six feet tall and displayed no injuries. Additionally, no evidence of drugs was found. A A story published in Friday’s Herald (“Harvard professor questions universality of market values,” Oct. 25) identifew months earlier, a 77-year-old Cambodian woman was allegedly dragged from fied a lecture series as the Political Theory Project’s Janus Forum Lecture Series. In fact, the lecture series is not her bed, videotaped and taunted by Providence police officers during a drug raid. produced by the Janus Forum. The Herald regrets the error. These and other incidents demonstrate that police brutality and misconduct still affect this community and that civilians lack a real mechanism to report offenses. Kelly’s arrival offers a chance to debate local police misconduct and policing strategies. 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Ditch the Corporation
and hardworking as we asked for more research. The committee overwhelmingly approved coal divestment. I saw the president struggle against our recommendation, asking for “alternatives.” The committee gave her alternatives and politely and firmly stated that they were inferior to divestiture, and that the divestment case was airtight. Divest Coal went to the right forums, said the right things, jumped through the right hoops. It played the game. It didn’t work. Students ran up against the brutal reality that members of the Corporation simply will not act counter to the interests of the wealthy. They’ll try to paper over it with long, nonsensical emails that boil down to “we think, with little or no basis, that it might not work and so we will not do it.” But fundamentally, that’s what this is all about: protecting themselves and their industry pals. Divestment directly targets the corporate system behind environmental degradation, and the Corporation just wouldn’t go along with it. They wouldn’t even put it to a vote. And why would they? The Corporation is Wall Street. Bankers, corporate lawyers, CEOs and other investors make up over 60 percent of corporate
DANIEL MORAFF opinions columnist
“Work with us” is the mantra of the modern university administrator. Collaborate. Compromise. Be polite and considerate, and you will be heard. You have a voice. We will listen. Brown Divest Coal did everything right. Its members collected petitions. They held peaceful and nondisruptive rallies. They put together a mountain of compelling and irrefutable research. They did not occupy University Hall. They did not indict the Corporation for being fundamentally illegitimate or corrupt. This is not a critique: Divest Coal very reasonably believed the Corporation wouldn’t be so pigheadedly captured by Wall Street that it would oppose something as uncontroversially and obviously right as coal divestment. As a member of the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies — and I do not speak for the committee — I watched as Divest Coal put together an airtight case. The group was incredibly patient
membership. There is no reason these people should be running a university, other than to protect and enrich their own industries. Yet here they are, and we can no longer be surprised when they act accordingly. They will continue to prioritize glitzy expansion over financial aid. They will continue enriching destructive industries. They will continue to ignore the needs of Providence, destroying other neighborhoods as they destroyed Fox Point. They will continue to ignore the needs of students, faculty members and workers whenever they come into conflict with the needs of those who see Brown as a moneymaking machine. The solution is clear. Ditch the Corporation. It makes no sense to have rich people buy their ways in. Donations should buy names on buildings, not governance. This idea is not new, original or untried — abandon the unaccountable Corporation and have students, faculty members and staff members run the school. Democratic cities and towns across the country let citizens run their governments with higher stakes. Universities, particularly in Europe, function
under real student and faculty governance all the time. There is no reason for to have a banker run a university. The Corporation as it exists is good for the rich and the powerful. It’s not good for Providence, it’s not good for the world and it’s certainly not good for us. For years, student groups have fought issue-by-issue. At every turn, they encounter bias among the administration toward corporate interests. We are experiencing the hard limit of this strategy. Coal divestment was an uncontroversial and relatively low-impact piece of action, and the Corporation simply couldn’t get it done. All the individual fights students are engaged in with the University — on workers’ rights, racial justice, women’s rights, queer justice, antiwar, the environment — are vitally important, and we can’t afford to fight them alone anymore. The deck is stacked. Students don’t have a voice, workers don’t have a voice, even the faculty doesn’t have much of a voice. Cynics will say this is the way it is, and this is how it’s always going to be. Brown was founded by and for the rich, and we shouldn’t expect anything else. But the cynics are wrong. This place
is filled with people who care about Brown, Providence and the world. This university is us, and many of us have no interest in being a cog in a heedless, destructive machine, in underwriting the violence the University perpetrates against its own students and workers, along with the world at large. Administrators have had the benefit of decades of relative student inaction. The flip side is that when action comes, they won’t know how to deal with it. If we organize, we have the power to tear the Corporation down and replace it with a democratic system that works. The wrong response would be to double down on the strategy of playing good cop with the Corporation. Another wrong response would be to grit our teeth and accept our powerlessness until we graduate and move on. The right response is to accept that Brown is complicit in a huge amount of injustice and to change it with radical direct action. Students are ready to to take this on. President Christina Paxson and the Corporation will hear from us.
Daniel Moraff ’14 can be reached at daniel_moraff@brown.edu.
Feds watching: race, discrimination and the police ARMANI MADISON opinions columnist
“Always dress nicely.” “Don’t walk too quickly.” “Be polite, and say ‘sir’ or ‘ma’am’ if they speak to you.” “Do not give them a reason to stop you.” “Do not raise your voice if they question you.” “Avoid dimly-lit streets.” “Don’t loiter in stores.” “Don’t do anything off-thewall — you will be the first person they throw in jail.” “They” are the police, and this advice was given to me before I came to Brown, regarding the police and the well-known practice of racial profiling. The saying is that, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.” But targeted minority groups do not have the luxury of this applying to them, because simply being a minority is enough to draw suspicion from police.
Racial profiling is real, and minorities clearly receive harsher treatment and sentencing on the streets and in courtrooms than their non-minority peers. One case study that can be observed is in the policy of stop-and-frisk. This policy, debated as far back as the 1968 Terry v. Ohio Supreme Court case, is famous for its use in New York City. Searches do not require probable cause but simply “reasonable suspicion,” which requires much less evidence or reason for a person to be lawfully stopped by police. This is the problem with stop-andfrisk: “probable cause” is not necessary. The second issue arises from the fact that only “reasonable suspicion” is. It just happens that some groups — minorities, in particular — arouse more suspicion as a whole from officers than others. The stop-and-frisk strategy is one of a number that have supposedly resulted in more than a 30 percent decrease in crime in New York since 2001. The
Center for Constitutional Rights found that, of all people stopped by the New York Police Department in 2011, 51 percent were black, 33 percent were Hispanic and 6 percent were white. Of these stops made, over one-fifth of all stopped blacks and just under a quarter of all stopped Hispanics were treated with force. Though force was used so often, only 2 percent of the stops yielded actual contraband. The standard of “probable cause” should replace the current standard of “reasonable suspicion,” as the latter renders discriminatory stops exponentially easier to make. Racially motivated arrests and imprisonments are a reality of the America in which we live, and they always have been. The U.S. Sentencing Commission found that “blacks receive 10 percent longer sentences than whites through the federal system for the same crimes.” The Sentencing Project cites a 2013 article finding that, of those born today, one in every three black males and one in every six Hispanic males
can expect to go to prison at some point in their lives. Only one out of every 17 white males can expect the same. At Brown, issues with racial profiling sparked the creation of the shortlived Coalition for Police Accountability and Institutional Transparency in 2006, formed “in order to speak out against DPS mistreatment towards minority students and members of the gay community and increase the dialogue between students, administrators and police.” The organization collapsed in the spring of 2007 as the result of limited support and membership, as well as “a lot of opposition on a number of fronts from the University … (causing) efforts (to) fade out in that respect.” But police misconduct, even at the campus level, remains a real concern for many. How can we stand up to police discrimination? As students, we can report inappropriate conduct when we see or experience it to the Department of Public Safety, to administrators and to one another. Often, victims of police
misconduct feel as if there is no one to turn to. But it is important to remember inappropriate police conduct is usually the exception and there are always resources to use and people to contact in case of such incidents. Silence allows this to be perpetuated. There should be more opportunities for dialogue between the officers of the Department of Public Safety, the Providence Police Department, the Providence community and the student body. Whether on the Hill or off it, we, as people with human and civil rights — and as people who deserve to be unmolested if we are innocent — hold the power to oppose and to fight against police misconduct and discrimination wherever they rears their ugly heads.
Armani Madison ’16 would like to express his gratitude to the non-prejudiced members of law enforcement who serve the people of this nation.
Freedom of speech or freedom to silence? CYNTHIA FONG, JUHEE KWON, JENNY LI, RADHIKA RAJAN, WILLIAM FURUYAMA guest columnists
In light of the Taubman Center of Public Policy and American Institutions’ decision to host Ray Kelly, police commissioner of the city of New York and creator of the controversial “stop-and-frisk” policy, members of the Brown and Providence communiies have come together to demand his lecture be cancelled. In response, others within the Brown community have defended the lecture on the grounds of freedom of speech. Those
who oppose the cancellation have ar- racial profiling and abuse due to stop- experienced criminalization based on gued opposition is an act of censor- and-frisk. Minorities face prejudice, the color of their skin, this is not simship. Students have argued this lec- undue scrutiny and pressure because ply an “intellectual debate.” Basic civil ture should instead be used as an of Kelly’s ideology, which has spread rights should never be up for debate. opportunity to enKelly’s institugage in dialogue and tional power has al“We demand Kelly’s lecture be cancelled challenge Kelly by lowed him not only and the honorarium set aside for the lecture to express his views, asking “tough questions” during the but also to translate be donated to organizations working to question and answer them into real policy. end racial profiling and police brutality in session after his talk. Each time he tells his Providence and in New York.” But this lecture story of “proactive is not about creatpolicing,” he silences ing a space for dialogue, nor has it around the country. those who have experienced the vioever been. Even Marion Orr, direcThere are many students and com- lent repercussions of his ideas. Their tor of the Taubman Center, said in a munity members who have been per- stories of victimization and crimiphone conversation with students the sonally affected by racial profiling and nalization are the ones censored in event was “not designed for debate.” police brutality. The psychological mainstream media. Thus, rhetoric of The center decided to showcase Kel- harm that will be inflicted on them “free speech” within this context only ly’s policies alone, effectively exclud- by Kelly’s speech cannot be dismissed argues for the “freedom” to silence ing other opinions on this issue. in the spirit of engaging with differ- and mask the violence inflicted upon There are innumerable stories of ent perspectives. For those who have communities of color.
Therefore, we demand Kelly’s lecture be cancelled and the honorarium set aside for the lecture be donated to organizations working to end racial profiling and police brutality in Providence and New York. Canceling this event would be an act of resistance against the policies of Kelly and the censorship of marginalized stories. Through advocating for the cancellation, we stand in solidarity with the communities around the United States that have led campaigns to end racial profiling and police brutality.
Cynthia Fong ’14, Juhee Kwon ’14, Jenny Li ’14, Radhika Rajan ’15 and William Furuyama ’15 urge the community to rise up against Ray Kelly’s paid on-campus platform.
daily herald sports tuesday THE BROWN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2013
MEN’S WATER POLO
Bears finish 4-1 in final weekend of regular season play Bruno will kick off its postseason at the CWPA championships next weekend By GEORGE SANCHEZ SPORTS STAFF WRITER
The No. 20 men’s water polo team traveled to California this past weekend to compete in the Rodeo Santa Clara Bronco Invitational hosted by Santa Clara University. During the tournament, the Bears faced five teams from California — No. 17 California Baptist University, No. 10 Concordia University Irvine, No. 16 Santa Clara University, the University of California, Davis and Fresno Pacific University. The Bears (18-11, CWPA 8-5) won four of its five tournament games to finish off its regular season. “Going to California is always exciting for our team,” said Matty Gallas ’16. “It gives us an opportunity to play teams with a national reputation. It is also a nice change to play outside.” The squad’s first game of the tournament was against the Cal Baptist Lancers (13-12). After a goal by Henry Fox ’15 in the second quarter, the Bears established a 4-2 lead over the Lancers. But Cal Baptist responded with two more goals before the end of the half, and the game entered the third quarter tied 4-4. The game proved to be a defensive battle as the final two frames of the match saw only a single
additional goal — a third quarter blast from James McNamara ’14. The game ended in a 5-4 Bruno victory with McNamara contributing three scores and Fox netting two. On day two of the Rodeo, Bruno faced off against the Eagles (17-8), battling through a game-long tug-of-war for the lead. In the first quarter, the Bears scored four goals to Concordia’s three. The match’s next two periods saw a total of five goals by the Eagles, along with four goals by the Brown squad. With the game tied heading into its final minutes, McNamara scored the final goal of the match with 1:16 remaining, leading Bruno to an 11-10 victory. “Every game we learned something different — we played great defense when we shut down Cal Baptist on Friday,” said Head Coach Felix Mercado. “We also showed how great we could be offensively when we matched Concordia goal for goal on Saturday.” The tournament resumed later in the day with an afternoon match against host Santa Clara (13-10). The Bears outpaced the home team and carried a 6-3 lead into the second half. The third quarter included four goals from Santa Clara, while Bruno was held to three goals. The Broncos responded with a vengeance in the fourth quarter, scoring three goals while holding the Bears scoreless. Santa Clara seized the lead with just 11 seconds left, and the 10-9 loss would be the team’s only blemish of the tournament.
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Nick Deaver ’15 tallied seven goals against stiff competition at the Rodeo Santa Clara Bronco Invitational. The Bears took down two nationally ranked teams en route to four wins in closing out their regular season schedule. The Bears faced off against the Aggies (9-12) in Sunday’s first game, which featured a late-game rally by the team to notch a win over UC Davis. The Aggies started off strong, taking a 3-0 lead after the first quarter. Bruno responded in the second quarter with two goals, but UC Davis kept the three-point lead with two goals of its own. The squad responded forcefully in the third quarter with four scores while limiting the Aggies to just one goal. The game was tied 8-8 with less than a minute left in the fourth frame when Will Klein ’16 scored the gamewinning goal to help the Bears take home the win. In Bruno’s final game of the tournament, the team displayed its offensive prowess, taking on the Sunbirds (6-14).
The team entered the third quarter with a 5-1 lead over Fresno Pacific after a pair of goals by Jake Wyatt ’17 in the second period. The Sunbirds narrowed the gap to two goals in the fourth quarter, but the Bears were able to muster up one final goal to obtain a 9-6 win in their final game of regular season play. “Four out of our five games were decided by one goal, which is way more than what could be expected competition-wise,” Gallas said. “Our trip gave us some much needed experience in close game situations, which will be important for us down the road.” “Over the weekend, we saw how great we could be when we play as a unit and as long as we stayed focused and on-task,” Mercado said. “There is no question that this has been an
enjoyable season for the entire team.” Bruno opens postseason play Nov. 9-10 at the Collegiate Water Polo Association Northern Divisional Championships, hosted by Harvard. Last season, the Bears suffered an 8-7 loss against the St. Francis College Terriers (13-8) in the CWPA championship final game. “This weekend was great for our chemistry — we felt like we all grew as a team through each game and are continuing to get better,” Gallas said. “That is our main goal going into the postseason, just getting better.” “It is all about this year — we do not talk about losing last year,” Mercado said. “This is a totally different team with new players, along with returning members that are filling in new roles.”
MEN’S SOCCER
Season-best showing Back four lead Bruno to win over Big Red Following the team’s first yields fourth place finish conference win, it will face Hsieh ’15 and Flynn ’16 both finished in the top 20 among individuals in the season’s final tournament By ANDREW FLAX SPORTS STAFF WRITER
In one of its best showings of the year, the women’s golf team finished fourth out of 10 teams at this weekend’s University of Delaware Fall Invitational, ending the fall season well after a season plagued by inconsistent play. The host team won the tournament, shooting a 57-over 909 in three rounds. Penn finished 16 strokes behind in second, with Rollins University coming in third. The Bears shot a 959 to claim a distant fourth — 30 strokes behind third-place Rollins — just one stroke ahead of fifth-place Towson University. “I was pretty happy with the overall effort,” said Head Coach Danielle Griffiths. “We ended the season on a high,” Stephanie Hsieh ’15 added. “This was the best we have collectively played this season.” Though they were happy to finish so strongly, the players were not fully satisfied with their efforts. “We all played well, but we all could have played better,” Hsieh said. Rosanna Lederhausen ’17 agreed,
saying, “We’re happy, but at the same time, we can do a lot better. … We have so much more potential.” The team’s overall showing was bolstered by great individual performances. Hsieh led the way, finishing tied for eighth individually at 19 strokes over par. Lauren Flynn ’16 joined her in the top 20, firing off a consistent 78-80-78 to finish in 15th place four strokes behind Hsieh. Griffiths had kind words for her low scorers. She said Hsieh “carried us this fall” and noted that Flynn “came on strong. … I’m hoping to see some great things from her.” Lederhausen was the third lowest scorer for Bruno, finishing 23rd, five strokes behind Flynn. “I didn’t play all that well,” she said. She was not discouraged by her performance, though, saying, “It’ll get better soon.” With its fall slate complete, the team looks forward to a long winter of practice in preparation for the spring season. “We ended on a good note, but have some things to work on,” Griffiths said. “The key right now is working hard over the break.” The Bears face an uphill battle to stay in form over the winter — forced to practice indoors because of the Providence snow — but if they can maintain their form, they stand to make some noise in the Ivy League in 2014.
a difficult non-conference game against BC By SAM WICKHAM SPORTS STAFF WRITER
A strong defensive display earned Brown its first Ivy League victory with a 1-0 win Saturday against Cornell in Ithaca. The Bears (4-6-3, Ivy 1-1-2 ) held strong against a constant offensive barrage from the Big Red (6-4-4, 0-31) to extend Cornell’s winless streak to six games. The win — Bruno’s first away victory of the season — ties the team for fifth in the Ivy League standings with three league games remaining. “We’ve obviously had some trouble when we play away from Stevenson (Field),” said co-captain Jack Kuntz ’14. “That’s part of being a young team. But it was definitely awesome to win at Cornell on their Alumni Weekend.” Bruno found itself on the defensive early, facing multiple corner kicks in the opening minutes. Co-captain goalkeeper Josh Weiner ’14 made four saves to keep the score level after the Big Red outshot the Bears 10-4 in the first half. The Bears broke the deadlock with just one minute remaining in the half. Daniel Taylor ’15 collected the ball on the wing and sent in a curving cross to the back post. The ball flew over three
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The Bears collected their first Ivy League win of the season thanks to a shutout from Josh Weiner ’14 and a clutch goal from Tariq Akeel ’16. Cornell defenders to Tariq Akeel ’16, who headed the ball into the bottomright of the net to put Brown up 1-0. “We had a lot of success when we attacked with our wide midfielders,” Kuntz said. “We were able to take advantage of the width and get some good service.” The Big Red continued to threaten the Bears’ defense in the second half, firing an impressive 15 shots to Bruno’s one. Weiner made five saves in the half and was aided by multiple blocks from the Bears’ backline. “Our defense did a good job of making it difficult for Cornell to take good shots,” Kuntz said. “And our
goalie Josh (Weiner) came up with a couple (of) huge saves.” Despite the continuous pressure, the Big Red could not break though the Brown defense, and Bruno walked away with a 1-0 shutout win. The Bears face Boston College (6-6-2, ACC 3-5-1) in a midweek matchup at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on Stevenson Field. The Eagles are Bruno’s first Atlantic Coast Conference opponent of the season. “The ACC is always playing good soccer, so I think we’ll see a little more finesse from Boston College than we did against Cornell,” Kuntz said. “It will be a different type of test for us.”