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Students appointed to Title FOOTBALL IX Council, Oversight Board Council to replace Student Conduct Board in evaluating sexual misconduct cases By KATE TALERICO SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The University has appointed undergraduates, graduate students and medical students to the newly formed Title IX Council and the Title IX Oversight Board. The move, recommended by the Task Force on Sexual Assault in its April final report, comes as part of a larger effort to improve campus sexual misconduct policies. The Title IX Council, a more specialized version of the Student Conduct Board, is comprised of students, faculty members and staff members who will be trained to address cases involving sexual misconduct, sexual violence and gender-based harassment, said Title IX Program Officer Amanda Walsh. Following a nomination process conducted by the Undergraduate Council of Students, which involved an online application and an in-person interview, six undergraduates will serve on the council: Candice Ellis ’16, Kimberly Charles ’16, Meredith Angueira ’17, J.D. Laurence-Chasen ’17, Hans Britsch ’18 and Minoshka Narayan ’18. The Graduate Student Council nominated Virginia Thomas GS, Amariah Becker GS and Anni Pullagura GS to the council, while the Alpert Medical School nominated Abigail Davies MD ’19. From this pool of council members, three will be chosen “on a caseby-case basis” by the chair of the Title IX Council, Professor of French Studies Gretchen Schultz, Walsh said. Students’ particular expertise in a subject, as well as their “capacity to act on the case at any given time,”
will factor into the choice, she added. Council members will undergo an extensive five-hour training in a variety of issues prior to hearing any cases. Several council members said they must also remain impartial judges, despite the emotion often involved in dealing with such sensitive subjects. “It’s important to stay true to Title IX and the rules at Brown,” Britsch said. “A lot of times people impose their own biases one way or another on this process, unfortunately … toward the respondent and to the detriment of the survivor.” “It’s a question of safety. It’s what we hold most dear,” Laurence-Chasen said. “When people are doing things that threaten that safety, it is totally important and natural to have those visceral reactions, otherwise this subject won’t be taken as seriously as it should be.” Ellis stressed the importance of confidentiality in dealing with cases. “I hope that people recognize that, as a member of the council, there is a high level of confidentiality,” she said, noting that she worries students will inquire about the details of specific cases if they realize she is part of the council. “In order to enact change on this campus, you need to be a part of the institution,” she added. “I want to make sure that the University is effectively implementing the policies that students fought for.” Narayan expressed concern about working under a strict timeline to reach a decision. “The challenge I expect to see is being quick and thorough at the same time,” Narayan said. The new Title IX Oversight Board, charged with evaluating the University’s progress in implementing and furthering new sexual assault policies over time, will face other pressing challenges. Three undergraduates » See COUNCIL, page 2
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Marcus Fuller ’15.5 threw for a total of 403 yards and completed just over 60 percent of his passes Saturday. The quarterback also recorded an 83-yard touchdown pass — the third longest pass play in program history.
Bears fall short in season opener Despite yardage success, Bruno fails to capitalize on offensive opportunities in loss to Bryant By CALEB MILLER STAFF WRITER
Five turnovers — including four in the red zone — doomed the football team in a 20-16 season-opening loss to Bryant Saturday at Brown Stadium. On paper, the Bears (0-1) dominated the game. Bruno racked up 128 more total yards and eight more first downs than the Bulldogs (2-0), held Bryant to just 12 yards rushing and committed half as many penalties. But one poorly timed turnover after another stifled Bruno’s drives and momentum. The Bears advanced the ball within Bryant’s 10-yard line five times, but those drives yielded a combined total
of six points — two field goals and three turnovers. It is “easy” to see why Brown lost, said Head Coach Phil Estes P’18. “You can’t turn the ball over like that and expect to win games.” In an appropriate ending to Bruno’s sour opener, quarterback Marcus Fuller ’15.5 marched the Bears to the Bryant 9-yard line with less than two minutes left in a 20-16 game. But when Fuller tried for a go-ahead touchdown pass on fourth down, it landed in the hands of Bryant’s Brandon Dagnesses to seal the loss. Two interceptions spoiled what would have been a tremendous passing game for Brown’s senior quarterback. Fuller led the pass-happy offense to 403 yards through the air on 32 of 52 attempts. The veteran targeted seven different receivers, with four of them amassing over 50 yards. Estes said in retrospect he could
have run the ball more often. But he noted that five fumbles — three of them lost — made it hard to trust his ballcarriers. The power running combo of Andrew Coke ’16 and Seth Rosenbauer ’16 combined for 73 yards on 23 attempts and two lost fumbles. The Bruno faithful received some quick fireworks from their Bears, who jumped to a 10-0 first quarter lead. Bruno’s no-huddle offense seemed to fluster Bryant early in the game. Taking advantage of the Bulldogs’ confused attempt to substitute players against the hurry-up, receiver Troy Doles ’16 slipped behind the safety and Fuller found him for an 83-yard touchdown pass to open the scoring. For the rest of the game, Bruno consistently marched up and down the field but did not see its efforts reflected on the scoreboard. When they didn’t turn it over, the Bears had to settle for field » See FOOTBALL, page 3
In keeping course evaluations internal, U. cites privacy, bias concerns Course evaluations yield bias against female and underrepresented minority faculty members By ELANA JAFFE STAFF WRITER
In the first meeting of ECON 1530: “Health, Hunger and the Household in Developing Countries” on Sept. 9, Professor of Economics Andrew Foster gave students access to all University course evaluations from the previous year to help them decide whether to take the course.
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For students trying to narrow their shopping carts to four or five courses, the results of these evaluations could be a trove of information. But for a variety of reasons — including student and faculty privacy, biases against female and underrepresented minority faculty members and the existence of the Critical Review — the University’s current practice is not to make the results available to students
or administrators, said Dean of the College Maud Mandel. Missing peer reviews on the Critical Review — the student-run publication of course reviews — can make shopping period “more chaotic” as students have less information about what to expect from courses, Foster said. Tatiana Dubin ’18 said it can be frustrating to look up a course on the Critical Review and find no peer reviews were submitted. But students also experience the
annoyance of filling out two sets of evaluations when a faculty member does distribute the Critical Review surveys. “It’s cumbersome to ask students” to complete both, Foster said. Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P’12 echoed this sentiment, noting that doing both may “seem a little excessive.” Distribution of the Critical Review surveys is voluntary: They are delivered to each department, but each professor ultimately chooses whether to hand them out. The departmental
course evaluations are more widelyused, as students often must fill them out before receiving their final grades. All departments except for two — the Department of Earth, Environment and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Modern Culture and Media — distributed online course evaluations last academic year, and the University-wide return rate was just under 76 percent, Mandel wrote in a follow-up email to The Herald. University evaluations are » See EVALUATIONS, page 2
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SPORTS Field hockey recovers from recent loss by claiming overtime win over St. Joseph’s
SPORTS Men’s soccer’s winning streak halts with losses against Georgia State and Clemson
COMMENTARY Kenyon GS: Carly Fiorina fills the role of mother in the Republican primary contest
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» EVALUATIONS, from page 1 predominantly for internal departmental use and the tenure evaluation process. Only the department head, the faculty member and sometimes the department manager are able to view the results, Mandel said. Faculty members value this information as they examine their courses and decide how to change them for future semesters, she said. A faculty member “can think through the strengths and weaknesses of his or her teaching profile and address them,” she said, adding that this process is “about pedagogy and improving your own method.” These evaluations are also used as one of several factors to determine salaries, contract renewals, reappointments, promotions and tenure decisions, McLaughlin said.
But the quality of information generated by these evaluations could be compromised if their results were accessible to students, he said. “If we were to make those public to the students, we would lose some of the objective kinds of reviews that we get.” Mandel compared the difference to that between writing in a diary and writing a memoir, adding that “the mode of presentation and the things that people choose to talk about are really different.” Mandel also expressed concern that any other comprehensive course review platform “would gut the Critical Review, which has a long and wonderful history.” “I found that the peer-reviewed information that I did have (from the Critical Review) was incredibly useful, and it was one of the main factors in deciding what to take and which professors I chose to take classes
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD with,” said Andy Triedman ’15.5. “It would certainly be a big help if it were available for every class.” But recent research indicates that these peer reviews might be inaccurate due to the biases of the students who fill them out. “It is very clear that female instructors get lower ratings on the overall effectiveness score than male instructors,” said Lisa Martin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of “Gender, Teaching Evaluations and Professional Success in Political Science.” “The bigger the class gets, the bigger that gap becomes,” she added. Other studies reinforce those findings, showing that evaluation results not only suffer from gender biases but also disfavor underrepresented minority faculty members. Due to this phenomenon, some
faculty are “cautious” about “making the data about their course evaluations public” or even “making it widely available,” Mandel said. “We’re aware of that literature on that topic,” McLaughlin said, adding that a typical bias that emerges in evaluations of a younger woman teaching a lecture course in the sciences is “a lack of respect for the instructor and a sense that the instructor might not be that knowledgeable.” “You can sort of discard some of those comments,” he added. But should the evaluations be made public, students might take biased information as fact. If the University were ever to consider making the departmental course evaluations available to students, the issue of student bias “certainly would shape any conversation going forward about changing” the existing system, McLaughlin said.
» COUNCIL, from page 1 — Anastasiya Gorodilova ’16, Nico Sedivy ’17 and Tau Lee ’19 — were appointed by President Christina Paxson P’19 to the board, along with Robert Valenti GS, Maggie Goddard GS and Marie DeLuca MD ’16. “The conversations around this issue have finally entered a public consciousness at a scale that wasn’t present a few years ago,” Gorodilova said. She noted that while this new awareness has increased the urgency in the student body to respond to these issues, it has also circled misinformation around campus, which the board needs to address. “I’m excited for the changes,” Laurence-Chasen said. “I think these changes will, through time and practice, gain back the trust that students lost for the University.”
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Season-opening win streak skids to halt Bears struggle to contain offensive outbursts from Georgia State, No. 14 Clemson over weekend By EMILE BAUTISTA SPORTS STAFF WRITER ELI WHITE / HERALD
Lucy Green ’17 uses her quickness to evade a St. Joseph’s defender. Despite posting an assist in both games last week, Green did not score Saturday.
Bears emerge victorious in overtime thriller Angus ’17 scores gamewinning goal for second time this season in win over St. Joseph’s By MATT BROWNSWORD SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Fresh off one of its worst losses in recent memory, the women’s field hockey team headed back home for a Saturday matchup with St. Joseph’s, which lost to Penn 7-3 earlier in the season. The Bears (3-3) rebounded nicely, topping the Hawks (2-5) 2-1 in overtime. One minute in, Bruno looked in danger of repeating its 6-1 midweek loss to Providence after St. Joe’s got a corner and converted it for the first goal of the game. Joely Helder was the goalscorer — her first time of the season — opportunistically latching onto a ball headed for the far post. The first half was a struggle for the Bears to even get out of their own half, as the Hawks closed down Bruno’s midfield and took advantage of subpar passes. St. Joe’s was able to register three corners to Brown’s zero in the first half, while outshooting the Bears 11 to two. “We had a defensive breakdown in the first three minutes,” said Head Coach Jill Reeve. “Our loss against PC got in our heads, so we were a little defensive in the first half,” he said. “But we made some adjustments at halftime, and they came out and played the way they normally play, and the game came back into our hands.” The second half was a much different story, as the Bears immediately came out as the better team. It took eight minutes for Bruno to get its first corner, and it took seven more tries before it was able to equalize. Anna Masini ’16 inserted to Maddie Ayles ’19, who pushed it to
Katarina Angus ’17 before her shot was blocked and cleaned up by the omnipresent Hannah Rogers ’16. It was the senior’s third goal of the season. And according to Reeve, it was a reflection of the incredible second-half effort by Rogers — offensively and defensively — that was crucial to the Bears. Rogers is “a workhorse,” Reeve said. “She’s great defensively too, for a forward. She just put herself in the right position to score and finished it.” In addition to Rogers, a few critical substitutions made the difference over the course of the game. Kelly Conway ’18 played important defensive minutes in the first half, while Ashley Waldron ’18 — who was injured until this game — came in and played the majority of the second half. Brooke Bonfiglio ’17 and Maggie Mostoller ’18 provided substance offensively off the bench, with the former creating many of the corners from the outside. “They were the spark,” Reeve said. “As soon as we started to make some subs, there was a different energy, and then everything changed.” It took overtime for the Bears to take their first lead of the game. Four minutes and 51 seconds into the extra frame, Brown earned its ninth corner of the game. With Masini out, Ellie Seid ’19 inserted to Ayles, who pushed it to Angus, and this time she struck for her third goal of the season and second game-winner. Overtime has been friendly to the Bears — over the last three seasons, Brown is 6-1 in overtime games, not including this year’s late win over Appalachian State, with Angus scoring after the regulation clock struck zero. “They just have some confidence in overtime,” Reeve said. “They are very decided on what they want to do — and that’s score and get it over with.”
The men’s soccer team’s unbeaten streak ended last weekend during its southern road trip, which pitted it against Georgia State and No. 14 Clemson. The Bears (3-2) never led the entire weekend and found themselves on the unfortunate end of many major calls. The typically stingy defense was lit up for six total goals, compared to the single goal it allowed in the previous three matches. “We did give up six goals, but we only gave two in the run of play,” said Head Coach Pat Laughlin. “There were some difficult decisions that went against us over the course of the weekend.” “We’re very confident in our ability to defend,” he added. “We learned a lot about ourselves.” Georgia State 3, Brown 2 Friday night’s clash with the Panthers (5-3) was a tale of two very different halves. The first half was
an offensive outburst for both sides. Georgia State’s Eddie Wilding opened up the scoring in the 28th minute when he fired the ball past goalkeeper Erik Hanson ’17 from the penalty spot. Just over three minutes later, he was credited with doubling the Panthers’ lead, as his shot was deflected by Hanson’s shoulder and rolled into the goal. The Bears responded within 10 minutes when reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Week Jack Hagstrom ’19 knocked in his second tally of the season off a deflection from co-captain Jack Gorab ’16, cutting the lead in half. While the Panthers fired back with a goal of their own just two minutes later, Will Cross ’16 answered just 33 seconds later off an assist from Mike Leone ’17. All told, the five goals were scored in a span of about 15 minutes. The fast-paced frenzy of the first half ended with each team notching nine shots on frame. Despite the offensive explosion, the second half was much more defensively oriented. While both sides created chances, neither could mimic the production of the first half, and the Panthers rode out the game for a one-goal victory. “The boys chased the game well in the second half,” Laughlin said. “We » See M. SOCCER, page 4
» FOOTBALL, from page 1 goals from within the 6-yard line twice. Kicker Grant Senne ’16 converted both chip shots and added a 45-yarder to show why he will be a valuable scorer for the Bears this season. Even Bryant Head Coach Marty Fine said the Bears “handled us” with the exception of the turnovers. But he credited his team with capitalizing on the opportunities and coming a long way since it lost 41-14 to the Bears two years ago. The Bryant offense could not get much going early in the game and floundered on the ground. But the Bulldogs had a real weapon in receiver Chad Ward. Whenever there was a play to be made for Bryant, Ward was there. From the second quarter on, Ward and the Bryant aerial attack exposed the inexperience of the Brown secondary. Ward grabbed a 24-yard touchdown to cut the lead to 10-7 in the second quarter and then snared a 37-yard score to give the Bulldogs their first lead, 17-13, late in the third quarter. Frequently, the Bulldogs simply threw the ball up to Ward in coverage, and the talented wideout leaped and wrestled it away from defenders. “He is a great player. We throw the ball up, and he catches it and makes it look like I know what I’m doing,” Fine said. Estes said many of the miscues can be attributed to the fact that it was the team’s first game. But he added that the team will need to turn it around in a hurry with Harvard lurking on the horizon.
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» W. SOCCER, from back attempt of the period, but it sailed high, and UMass took its 1-0 lead to halftime. The Bears’ offense improved in the second half with 11 shots, four of which were on net. UMass goalie Cassidy Babin proved rock-solid in goal, turning aside all four shots she faced, but the Bears missed opportunities as well. The team took six shots after the 80th minute, including a header off the post from Megan Grant ’19 with less than a minute to go in regulation. Despite the negative outcome, the Bears’ defense fought admirably. After allowing Doster’s 12th-minute goal, it held the Minutewomen scoreless in the second half. Goalie Christine Etzel ’19, who finished the game with eight saves, maintained an outstanding goals-against average of 1.00. UConn 1, Brown 0 Against a UConn team they have not beaten since 1990, the Bears came out strong early. In the seventh minute, a corner kick led to a scrum in front of the net, and a header from Erin Katz
’16 hit the left post, inches from giving Brown an early advantage. But only a few minutes later, UConn’s Stephanie Ribeiro got open in front of Brown’s 18-yard box. She sent a bouncing shot past Etzel in goal, giving the Huskies the early lead in their first appearance at Stevenson Field since 1996. To their credit, the Bears regrouped after allowing the goal, and, much like against UMass, shut UConn out the rest of the game. “I liked what the backfield did. I liked what the midfield did. We’ve got a hardworking core,” Pincince said. “Even our subs went in and worked as hard as they could.” Again, though, the Bears failed to take advantage of their scoring opportunities. They took seven corner kicks, including five in the second half, but were unable to convert any of their chances despite several close calls. “We’ve been close quite a few times,” Pincince said. “We just need to continue to work on execution” on offense. Etzel played an important role once again, as she allowed only one goal and repeatedly kept the Bears alive. In
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD particular, a diving save off a header at the 75-minute mark brought the crowd to its feet and held the Bears’ deficit at one. Her save percentage for the year is .848, and she has faced 33 shots on net, saving 28 of them. While two shutouts are not the results the team hoped for, Pincince sees the schedule so far, which has consisted entirely of non-Ivy play, as valuable preparation for Ivy competition. “We put a schedule together for this 2015 team that would challenge them in non-league to prepare for the league,” he said. “We’ve played St. John’s, we’ve played FAU, UConn. … We’ve played some very strong teams. I’m very pleased about the performance heading into the Ivies next weekend.” The Bears will spend this week at home, taking on Sacred Heart Wednesday at 7 p.m. before opening their Ivy League schedule against Dartmouth Sunday afternoon. Pincince is confident that the schedule so far has prepared his team for successful Ivy competition. “You want to be the best, you’ve got to play the best,” he said. “And that’s what we’ve done.”
» M. SOCCER, from page 3 were really unfortunate not to get the third. If we had gotten the third one, I believe we would’ve won.” No. 14 Clemson 3, Brown 1 On a hot, humid day in South Carolina, the Bears could only withstand so much of the Tigers’ pressure before falling 3-1 to the hosts. Clemson (61-1) dictated much of the game and looked more aggressive, especially in the first half of the match. The second half was more of the same, with the Tigers controlling possession for long stretches. “The guys’ focus was really good, as was our effort and organization,” Laughlin said. Clemson struck first in the 23rd minute when Kyle Murphy latched onto a cross with a header that sailed past Hanson. The Tigers doubled their lead 12 minutes later, when T.J. Casner converted a penalty kick — the second the Bears had allowed that weekend. Brown was brought back to life just five minutes into the second half.
Gorab floated in a perfectly placed lob that Hagstrom beat the keeper to, heading it in for his third goal of the season. The in-form first-year now has three goals on only four shots this year. Chances would be at a premium for the Bears for the rest of the half. The Tigers skillfully maintained possession for much of the second frame and peppered Hanson’s goal with shots. In total, they wound up with 11 shots in the second half, a few of which demanded Hanson’s services in order to keep Brown in the game. Clemson iced the game in the 86th minute with a free kick by Diego Campos just outside the right side of the box. The righty sent a curler into the far corner of the goal, which wrongfooted Hanson, giving the keeper no chance at saving the game-sealing goal. “We are walking away disappointed because we know we could’ve gotten something more from the weekend,” Laughlin said. The Bears hope to turn things around next weekend in a home doubleheader against Florida Gulf Coast (1-2-1) and Massachusetts (1-7).
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The university-college model At 4 p.m. today, students, faculty, staff and other Brown community members will join President Christina Paxson P’19 at an open forum to discuss the operational plan that will shape the University’s expansion over the next decade. The “Operational Plan for Building Brown’s Excellence” will guide the implementation of the goals outlined in Paxson’s strategic plan, “Building on Distinction.” In the spirit of Paxson’s invitation to community members to share their input on the operational plan, we would like to add our own. The plan is ambitious and wide-reaching. Its key pillars — integrative scholarship, educational leadership, academic excellence and campus development — represent important areas of growth for the University. We believe strengthening these areas will add to the student experience, and the University will emerged enhanced. Missing from the plan, however, was a discussion of the ways Brown aspires to strengthen its university-college model. Former President Henry Wriston coined the term “university-college” in “The University College,” a 1946 pamphlet from the Corporation to alums. The university-college model represents leveraging the resources of a great research university to enhance the intimate and rigorous learning environment that characterizes an outstanding undergraduate experience. Brown’s proud university-college model reflects the academic community that attracts tens of thousands of applicants every year. It features prominently in the University’s mission statement, which calls Brown a “unified community known as a university-college.” And after students expressed concern in 2013 that Paxson’s initial draft of “Building on Distinction” did not mention the term “university-college,” Paxson revised the plan to include the term. We are therefore dismayed by the term’s omission in the operational plan. In short, we would like to see how the University plans to double down on its commitment to that which makes Brown unique within the Ivy League — its university-college model — as it expands and improves. We fear that in not orienting the undergraduate experience around this model as we look toward the future, we will leave the essence of the Brown undergraduate experience behind. While it can be described in many ways, the university-college model is reflected in the opportunities that abound for undergraduates to work side-by-side with the renowned faculty members, graduate students and staff members who help comprise the Brown community. Coupled with our beloved open curriculum, the university-college model represents the inclusivity that distinguishes the Brown experience. We believe the University can commit to enhancing the university-college model in the operational plan in a few ways. Most appropriate for the section of the plan concerning the enhancement of the undergraduate community, a focus on the university-college model would complement a plan that seems heavily career-oriented. While the plan ensures that the number of opportunities for students to make their educations relevant to their career goals is of the utmost importance, it features little discussion of the intrinsic value of increasing opportunities for undergraduates to immerse themselves in the academic community and explore the boundaries of human knowledge. And while the plan makes various references to increased undergraduate access to Brown’s initiatives and centers, such as the Cogut Center for the Humanities, we believe the plan would benefit from a concerted effort to discuss concrete steps to ensure that our university-college model remains relevant to Brown’s future.
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Carly Fiorina: Republican mother? IAN KENYON opinions columnist
Last Wednesday, the CNN Republican Primary Debate showcased a parade of suited men, best differentiated by their accompanying ties — and in one case, hair — and one candidate in heels: former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. Fiorina has quickly grown to become one of the most notable personalities in the Republican primary contest for several reasons: She is one of three non-politicians vying to win the party’s nomination next year, one of two candidates with experience as a private-sector executive and the only female candidate. At the risk of being criticized for imposing a gender role on the sole female candidate, I believe Fiorina stands out in another way amongst her male peers: Think of the Republican primary contest as a family, where Fiorina fulfills the role of mother. Let us consider our own mothers, or parents who assumed a maternal role in the household. In many cases, our mothers are under-celebrated, overworked, diligent, tactful, logical and the target of reckless blame. Looking back at my own adolescence, it surprises me that my mother was as tolerant as she was, in the face of an angst-filled son and two daughters not
far behind in developing their more prickly adolescent personalities. Fiorina faces the same environment in standing as the lone female in the Republican pack. Generally respected by her male peers, Fiorina has only drawn limited criticism to date. Donald Trump, the longstanding Republican primary frontrunner, spoke of Fiorina in exaggerated terms: “Look, you have a woman who got fired from her job. And I mean fired viciously. She got fired viciously.” In reality, Fiorina was forced to
staff by approximately 30,000 workers — a figure that has discreetly plagued the Fiorina campaign. Like the leadership of any maternal figure in a household, Fiorina’s tenure at Hewlett-Packard had both high points and low points. Her actions demonstrate that she was not vying for popularity but rather for smart growth and operating within realistic parameters. She had the long-term interests of her shareholders in mind. How many times have our mothers told us “no” or suggested we reel back our hedonistic de-
just maybe, I’m getting under his skin a little bit because I am climbing in the polls.” In the face of such personal criticism, like many mothers who face hurtful words from their children, Fiorina stood calm and collective, and she knew exactly what to say to acknowledge the criticism but also sharply respond. This was no better exemplified than in her Wednesday night response to CNN moderator Jake Tapper’s question on the matter: “I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump
Is America ready to finally vote to place mom in charge? step down from her post at HewlettPackard in 2005 due to disagreements with its board of directors. This is a commonplace event in corporate America. Former Hewlett-Packard Board Member Tom Perkins, who voted to fire Fiorina, even told the New York Times his vote was a mistake: “While Carly fought to save the company and the employees within, some board members fought for their own power or advancement.” Fiorina continues to cite her tenure at Hewlett-Packard as noteworthy. Amid her resignation, she presided over increasing growth rates and greater cash flow. During a period in which the company’s stock plunged, Fiorina oversaw the downsizing of
sires to do something, buy something, eat something, etc.? Our mothers have our long-term interests at heart. As the old saying goes, “Mother knows best.” In addition to the critique of her professional credentials, Fiorina has also been attacked personally. In a Sept. 9 Rolling Stone piece titled “Trump Seriously,” the frontrunner plunged his campaign into a new chapter of attacking his peers’ appearances. Trump said of Fiorina,“Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president? I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?” Fiorina later responded, “Maybe,
said.” Looking to the personal side of Fiorina, she — like many of our mothers — comes from a background of perseverance and challenges in a time of transitioning roles for women in American society. One of Fiorina’s favorite talking points, about how she rose from a secretary to the CEO of a Fortune 100 company, attests to her reluctance to accept social and professional norms in her career. She also refrains from asking for special treatment, as expressed in her reluctance to issue a new $10 bill featuring a woman: “It is a gesture. I don’t think it helps to change our history. What I would think is we ought to recognize that women are not a special interest
group. Women are the majority of this nation. We are half the potential of this nation, and this nation will be better off when every woman has the opportunity to live the life she chooses.” Fiorina has also overcome personal struggles, losing a daughter to drug addiction and a father to Alzheimer’s disease and wrestling with breast cancer in her own life. (She, unlike Hillary Clinton, has a different reason for sporting multiple hairdos over the last decade). Like our mothers, Fiorina knows true struggle firsthand, knows how to cope and knows how to care — in a way that perhaps our fathers may not. For the Republican Party that has so long nominated one father after another, would a mother’s perspective be a refreshing and beneficial change to party politics? Current polling out of Real Clear Politics place Fiorina among the top 10 Republican primary candidates, and in certain polls, among the top five. In the days following Wednesday’s debate, the numbers will change thanks to Fiorina’s sterling performance. Which changes can this potentially deliver to the Trump-dominated primary? Is America ready to finally vote to place mom in charge?
Ian Kenyon GS is a public affairs candidate at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and an undecided Republican primary voter.
What is possible? AMEER MALIK opinions columnist
I had such lofty plans for the summer. I was supposed to read 20 books and write several essays and short stories, but I only managed to read about seven books, and I wrote little. I returned to Brown feeling a bit disappointed and frustrated for not even coming close to the goals I had set for myself. Soon after arriving, I was surfing websites related to Brown, looking up courses and researching events, and I noticed on the cover of the September/October 2015 issue of Brown Alumni Magazine the face of one of my heroes: Ayad Akhtar ’93. Akhtar is a Pakistani-American (like me) graduate of Brown (which I will hopefully be in a few years), who is a successful and brilliant writer (I also hope to become a writer some day) and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2013 for his play “Disgraced” (a truly stunning work). The magazine’s most recent piece on Akhtar, “A Dazzling Voice” by Lawrence Goodman, details Akhtar’s work habits in his 20s and 30s, a time during which he wrote for seven and a half hours each day. That is incredible. Eager to learn more, I searched and found an earlier piece from the magazine, “Writing from his Roots” by Elena Ferrarin ’96, published in the January/February 2012 issue. In that article, Akhtar explains, “Brown remains to this day the environment where I met more original, driven, creative people at higher density than any other place I have ever been,” and that being at Brown taught him to “remain open to the possibility that something can be, rather than
be hedged in by the reality of what it is.” He said, “I have done that in boom times, and in sad times. I still have the sense that anything is possible. I still feel like that, more than ever.” This openness is another way in which Akhtar and I are similar: While at Brown, we have both felt that anything is possible. I am sure many students here feel the same way. The people and features of this place — the brilliant and inspiring professors, the helpful advisors, the driven and passionate students, the libraries stuffed with great and important books, the absence of certain constraints of life at home — create an atmosphere of inspiration and limitlessness. Here, it can seem that, with hard work and determination, anything is possible.
who thinks that she can excel in a completely new language course is able to take classes that lead to her becoming fluent. A student who is open to the possibility of making films can join Brown Motion Pictures and might discover a passion for directing. By not putting restrictions on what we can accomplish, we open doors to great new discoveries. Psychological research supports the idea that being hopeful can lead to positive results. According to an article published by the American Psychological Association, one recent study found that college students who were hopeful were more successful in their academic pursuits than students who were less hopeful, while another study of law students in their first years
The world already puts unfair restrictions on us, so we have no reason to put unwelcome limits on ourselves. Is it okay for students to feel this way? The idea that anything can be achieved is obviously naive. The social ills that fuel injustice and inequality, such as racism and sexism, do not magically disappear at the Van Wickle gates. These wrongs unfortunately affect the people studying here and will make it very difficult, maybe even practically impossible, for many students to do what they wish to. Also, people are often constrained by their socioeconomic backgrounds, which can limit their available opportunities, and some people may be less physically able do certain tasks than others. But it is helpful, in many cases, to think and act as if anything can happen. This idea, when applied to life on campus, can allow students to take risks, to try classes and activities that they would not have otherwise attempted. Someone
showed that hope could help predict their academic performance. In the article, Kevin Rand, an author of the second study and associate professor of psychology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, wrote, “Hope may be most beneficial in situations where a person actually has some control over the outcome, such as academic performance in law school.” But with this boundless mentality, we can set ourselves up for disappointment when we make goals for ourselves that we fail to reach. After all, this is what I did during the summer. I carried the sense that I can do anything with me from Brown’s campus to my home, made an ambitious plan for my time off and failed to fulfill the plan. This is not an issue, though. If we fall short, we can use that as an opportunity to
reflect on why. We can think about what happened and figure out what we could have done differently. We might decide that we should have set lower expectations before aiming for greater goals, or that we should have managed our time better. These reflections will help us do better the next time we set benchmarks. Also, even if we do not reach our high expectations, we can still achieve more than we ever would have if we had placed unnecessary bounds on ourselves. I read seven books that were not required for any classes in less than four months; that is four to five more books than I would have read in a typical year before I came to Brown. And that mindset can help others, too. Consider a student who aspires to obtain a PhD in economics and become a tenured professor at a university. Her chances are unfortunately slim, as the competition for tenured positions is fierce, and she may face unfair treatment due to the social ills mentioned earlier. But if she closes herself to the possibility that she can become a tenured professor, her chances diminish to zero. The world already puts unfair restrictions on us, so we have no reason to put unwelcome limits on ourselves. I believe that sensible thinking and practicality are useful and important, but I also think there are times for idealism. One such time is now. Brown is not perfect, but it is still a great place, packed with inspiring people and helpful resources. We should make the most of our time here. There is no reason to unnecessarily stop ourselves from trying new experiences and setting high goals. We should dare to act as if anything is possible.
Ameer Malik ’18 can be reached at ameer_malik@brown.edu.
SPORTS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
WOMEN’S SOCCER
VOLLEYBALL
Tournament foes prove no match for dominant Bears Smith ’17, Stillwell ’19 make All-Tournament team as Bears win all but one set at CCSU invite By ANDREW FLAX SPORTS EDITOR
ELI WHITE / HERALD
Megan Grant ‘19 protects the goal from a UConn opponent in a game that started off strong, but ended with a 1-0 loss for Bruno. The Bears also fell to UMass by the same margin this weekend.
Two shutouts mark sour stretch for Bruno No. 24 UConn keeps Bruno off scoreboard in first trip to Stevenson Field in almost a decade CONTRIBUTING WRITER
costly in 1-0 losses to the University of Massachusetts and the University of Connecticut. “We need to continue to improve. That final execution has got to come,” said Head Coach Phil Pincince. “We just want to continue to get better. That’s what it’s about.”
It was a sadly familiar story this week for the women’s soccer team: It played well, but its opponents were even better. While the Bears (2-4) tested their competition, a pair of mistakes proved
UMass 1, Brown 0 Riding the momentum from last Sunday’s 1-0 victory over Florida Atlantic, the team came into Thursday’s matchup versus UMass ready to claim
By JAMES SCHAPIRO
another win. But victory did not come so easily. Brown entered the game with a .500 record at 2-2, while UMass came in with a record of 1-3-2. But after early shots from Mikela Waldman ’18 and Charlotte Beach ’16 missed the net, Erin Doster gave the Minutewomen an early lead with a goal at the 12-minute mark. UMass’ defense stifled the Bears’ attack in the first half: Brown took only three shots, none on net. As the first half ended, Beach took aim for the last » See W. SOCCER, page 4
After a trip to the Southwest resulted in three losses in four matches, the volleyball team found much more success at the Central Connecticut State University Invitational this weekend. The Bears (6-5) swept their way through the tournament, dropping only one set as they beat Holy Cross, CCSU and Hartford. Payton Smith ’17 was named tournament MVP after registering 37 kills in only 10 sets. Sabrina Stillwell ’19 continued her breakout rookie season with 31 kills, and she and Smith were both named to the All-Tournament team. Though the score in sets may not have reflected it, the Bears’ opening matchup against the Crusaders (3-9) Saturday was perhaps their most competitive. Bruno led 18-13 before an 11-6 Holy Cross run tied the game at 24. But the Bears buckled down and claimed the next two points on a Stillwell kill and a Crusader attack error to win. Holy Cross held early three-point leads in each of the next two sets, but Bruno pulled away to win both, 25-20
and 25-22, and sweep the match. Stillwell led the team with 11 kills, while Smith posted an impressive .900 kill percentage. Against the Blue Devils (8-5) Sunday, the Bears won the first two sets with ease, but an early 14-7 deficit doomed them to their only loss in the third. The fourth set was tightly contested, as the teams were tied at 13, 14, 15, 17, 18 and 22 points, but Bruno won the game’s final three points to claim the victory. Smith and Stillwell led the way once again with 19 and 15 kills, respectively. Bruno’s final matchup came against a Hartford (0-14) team that the Bears had already beaten in their season opener. As one might expect from the Hawks’ record, the games were not competitive. In the teams’ first matchup, Bruno dominated to the tune of a 75-46 aggregate score over three sets. The Bears surpassed that Sunday, sweeping Hartford in three sets by a score of 75-37, including one 25-8 set. Contributing to the big win were Shirin Tooloee ’18 and Shannon Frost ’16, who ranked second and third on the team with seven and six kills, respectively. Following a successful non-conference slate, the Bears will open league play Friday with a visit to 2014 Ivy cochampions Yale. After a fourth-place finish last year, Bruno will look to improve on its 7-7 record, which included two sweeps at the hands of the Elis.