Friday, April 7th, 2023 by The Brown Daily Herald

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD VOLUME CLVIII, ISSUE 28

Friday, April 7, 2023

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ARTS & CULTURE

‘A lot of money and a big decision’: A look at Spring Weekend

Remi Wolf, JID, Ethel Cain to perform at Spring Weekend

Organizers detail new ticketing process, festival timing, artist selection process BY RYA VALLABHANENI ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR It is the last Saturday of April and Brown’s campus is awake bright and early. Finals start in a week, but most students aren’t planning on using the extra time to study. In a few hours, the Main Green will be occupied by some of the music industry’s hottest up-andcoming talent. And no one wants to miss it. Spring Weekend is one of the most highly anticipated events at Brown, but it does not come together overnight.

COURTESY OF ALMA ROSAZ, CHRISTOPHER PARSONS VIA CAPITOL RECORDS, DAVID KA, DEF JAM PRESS ROOM, MATTHEW TOMASI AND ALICE LONGYU GAO

Doechii, Alice Longyu Gao, 070 Shake also to perform, according to Brown Concert Agency BY ISABEL HAHN AND RYA VALLABHANENI STAFF WRITER AND ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Remi Wolf, JID, Ethel Cain, Doechii, Alice Longyu Gao and 070 Shake

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will take the stage for this year’s Spring Weekend, according to Brown Concert Agency. The line-up leaked a few hours before its official release in a now-deleted Instagram story from Alice Longyu Gao. “We did see the lineup drop before on Sidechat, but we are both really excited,” said Rachel Kamphaus ’25, who attended BCA’s official lineup release party with her friend Ethan Davis ’25. “We thought

that they had a really good diversity of artists. Like there are some hyper pop, there’s indie, there’s rap, there’s R&B, so we're really excited about that.” “We have a lot of different genres, a lot of different kinds of music,” Adi Thatai ’23, co-chair of BCA’s board, told The Herald before the lineup was announced. “We’ll also hopefully have a lot of songs in there that a lot of people will be able to sing along to.”

Remi Wolf, who will be performing on April 30, first entered the music scene with a short appearance on American Idol in 2014, when she was just a senior in high school. She released her first EP “You’re a Dog!” after graduating from University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in 2018. She has since opened for Lorde, collaborated with Still Woozy, toured solo and

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UNIVERSITY NEWS

UNIVERISTY NEWS

Students react to acceptance to class of 2027

Nelson Fitness Center extends hours to 11 p.m.

Many cite Open Curriculum, campus culture as draws for applicants

optimal.”

Change will last for rest of semester, follows efforts to expand gym access

BY OWEN DAHLKAMP SENIOR STAFF WRITER Late last month, 1,730 regular decision applicants were offered admission to the University, resulting in a total of 2,609 accepted to the class of 2027. The Herald spoke to eight accepted applicants to learn more about their experiences, reactions to their application decisions and what drove them to apply to Brown.

While early decision applicants were informed of their admission in late December, regular decision applicants had to wait until March 30.

‘It just felt right’: Applying to Brown “Brown has been my dream school since I was twelve,” said Caroline O’Brien,

her learning. “I really needed that space to be able to say, ‘Oh, I want to change what I'm going to do,’” she added. Students also cited the campus culture

After months of laboring over personal statements, test scores, video portfolios and other elements of the application, students waited patiently — but anxiously

as a draw to the University. “I feel like everything about this campus reflects my own personal morals and my beliefs and really what I want to be surrounded by as a student,” Hughes said. Many of the prospective students visited campus before applying. “It was just something about the tour,” said Anson Nguyen, an accepted student from Florida,. “It just felt right.”

— for their decisions. Some took a carefree approach. “I was just trying to take my mind off of it,” said Noah Kaufman, an accepted applicant from Austin, Texas. “I figured I'd put in all the work I could to get into my dream school.” Marissa Guadarrama described “feeling like my life was going to change.” It was “intense,” she said.

an early decision admit. “I fell more and more in love with the school, and knew I wanted to go there.” For Thu Le, an accepted student from San Diego, the open curriculum inspired her decision to apply to the University. That flexibility “would be something that would really make my education much more fulfilling,” Le said. All accepted applicants who spoke with The Herald expressed a similar sentiment — with Carrington Hughes, from Cleveland, saying that she “wanted flexibility” in

BY KELVIN JIANG SENIOR STAFF WRITER COURTESY OF NOAH KAUFMAN, MARISSA GUADARRAMA, MAEVA KEMBO, MARAKI TAMRAT, DANIEL AMADI, CARRINGTON HUGHES AND THU LE

‘It was absolutely surreal’: Being acAn 'intense' wait: Anticipating a decision

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Arts & Culture

Metro

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As of April 3, the Nelson Fitness Center will remain open until 11 p.m. on Mondays through Thursdays, a 30 minute extension from the previous closing time of 10:30 p.m. The change will remain in effect for the remainder of the semester, Deputy Athletics Director for Administration Jake Silverman wrote in an email to The Herald. According to Undergraduate Council of Students President Ricky Zhong ’23, students with classes or meetings at night may find it challenging to go to the Nelson afterward since their time could be cut short by the center’s closing. “Lots of clubs have meetings around 7 to 9 p.m.,” he said. “And if (students) only get to work out for a little bit after that, it’s not really

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Nicholas Vadasz ’24, who is in the Brown University Orchestra, said that he “traditionally has practices from 6 to either 9 or 10 p.m., and if (he) gets out of rehearsal at 9:45 or 10 p.m., going to the gym really isn’t an option.” The change will “definitely make me open to going a bit later in the afternoon or in the night,” Vadasz added. The increased hours, Zhong said, will hopefully accommodate students who prefer to go to the gym at night while reducing congestion. According to Silverman, the Nelson’s recreation staff has worked hard to make the adjustment. “Our strategic goal that guides our work every day is to make Brown recreational facilities and programming as accessible as possible and remove barriers to entry to promote physical wellness on Brown University's campus,” he wrote. Zhong first reached out to administrators about an hours extension in mid-February. “They were really receptive, and within a week, they

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TOMORROW

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