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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2017
VOLUME CLII, ISSUE 96
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U. receives $225,000 grant from Mellon Foundation Grant will fund workshops on race, indigeneity in US, postdoc, two grad students
Bears best Quakers 2-1 Overtime tilt at home yields Bruno’s first Ivy League victory in three weeks
By SOPHIE CULPEPPER STAFF WRITER
During the 2018-19 academic year, the University will host a Sawyer Seminar on the subject of Race and Indigeneity in the Americas using a $225,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will fund the enrollment of a post-doc and two graduate students, as well as the organization of two separate strands of workshops and discussions throughout the year. One of these strands will consist of three bigger workshops focused on “historically, how were questions (on racialization) asked and answered; what were the methods” and “who is asking the questions, who are they asking them to,” said Professor of Anthropology Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Jessaca Leinaweaver, who will organize the series. The workshop will especially focus on “voices that haven’t been heard as much.” The other strand of events will be monthly all-day
M. SOCCER
By ALEX SMOLAR CONTRIBUTING WRITER
COURTESY OF BROWN UNIVERSITY
Jessaca Leinaweaver, director of the center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, will help lead workshops funded by the grant. Leinaweaver says the workshops will focus on “voices that haven’t been heard as much.” seminars, each organized through different units on campus, including the Population Studies and Training Center, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in the Americas. These shorter seminars will serve as opportunities for the units to invite scholars they are interested in to participate in the initiative. Leinaweaver has spoken to
other faculty members about collaboration, including Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Patricia Ybarra, Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Tricia Rose and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Keisha-Khan Perry.
Before applying for the grant, Leinaweaver researched race and indigeneity extensively in Peru; and with the Sawyer Seminar, she is interested in “seeing how these processes of racialization are not linked only to particular places and moments, but to try to get a broader picture” with a “hemispheric perspective,” Leinaweaver said, referring to the » See GRANT, page 2
The men’s soccer team faced the Penn Quakers Saturday at home in a matchup of two teams tied for fourth in the Ivy League standings. Going into the game, Brown (8-4-2, 2-2-1 Ivy) had not secured a conference win in three weeks. But the Bears’ clutch scoring lifted them to a 2-1 overtime victory against the Quakers (3-11-1, 1-3-1). Nico Lozada ’18 scored the game-winning goal to move zBruno into a second place tie in the Ivy League with Columbia and Cornell. “It was more of a fight than pretty soccer,” Lozada said. “I would say that it was our work ethic that trumped them.” The Quakers started the game fast, as Sam Wancowicz managed to launch » See M. SOCCER, page 2
Cicilline ’83 discusses role of US in UN Peer schools contextualize ‘Brown Promise’ US must stay committed to diplomacy, peacekeeping on global stage, Congressman says
Peer universities have faced difficulties implementing similar noloan policies, experts say
By ELI BINDER STAFF WRITER
U.S. Congressman David Cicilline ’83, D-R.I., spoke about the United States’ relationship with the United Nations in honor of United Nations Day Friday. Cicilline was joined by Director of Peacekeeping Policy at the United Nations Foundation Chandrima Das and Director of the International Relations Program Nina Tannenwald. “I am an unabashed, unapologetic fan of the United Nations,” Cicilline said. Rejecting President Trump’s calls to disengage from the United Nations, Cicilline told The Herald that contributing to the United Nations “is in the economic interests of the American people and the long term interests of our country.” “The interests of our country require us to be deeply involved in the rest of the world, to provide global leadership and to be deeply engaged in the community that we’re a part of.” U.S. withdrawal from a leadership role in the United Nations “weakens
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By SARAH WANG SENIOR STAFF WRITER
ELI WHITE / HERALD
Congressman David Ciccilline ’83 renewed calls to support the U.N. amid threats from President Trump to distance the US from the institution. our standing in the global community,” Das said. “China and Russia are happy to take on more influence” at the United Nations in the wake of a U.S. withdrawal, she added. Cicilline and Das recently returned from a visit to the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, the
U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic. “It’s in our very specific self-interest” to get involved in peacekeeping missions like MINUSCA, Cicilline said. Without intervention, the Central African Republic “could easily become a safe haven for Boko Haram and other » See U.N., page 2
In 2002, the University made a promise to become need-blind. Fifteen years later, the University is renewing its promise by eliminating loans from all undergraduate financial aid packages with the “Brown Promise” campaign. The University is not the first of its peers to implement such a policy. Princeton was the first to eliminate loans from its package in 2001, and has since been joined by Harvard, Yale, Stanford University, Columbia and Penn. Implementing such a policy “takes some time,” said Dean of Financial Aid Jim Tilton. “There are lots of different things that institutions have to take into account with regards to priorities.” Though the promise has been received with excitement by students,
other campuses have faced criticism after the implementation of similar policies. Yale announced its “no-loan” policy in 2008, but has faced backlash as many students still graduate with debt, despite not having loans in their packages. Tyler Blackmon, a Yale alum who wrote a column branding Yale’s no-loan policy a lie, said he still had to take out loans. “What we learned once the policy was in place is that it’s only true on paper,” Blackmon told The Herald. “A lot of people, in order to meet student income contributions, still had to wind up taking loans.” “Brown Promise” does not guarantee that students will not have to take out loans, but guarantees that financial aid packages will not contain loans, Tilton said. “Families choose to finance their college education in a number of ways,” Tilton said. “Students may decide to help out their parent contribution by taking out a loan. But at least they’re not starting with one in their package. … They now have a choice that starts with no loans.” “I would really reject that » See NO LOANS, page 2
WEATHER
MONDAY, OC TOBER 30, 2017
SPORTS Football falls to Penn 17-7 in fourth consecutive loss, drops to 2-5 for the season
SPORTS Volleyball drops games against Princeton, Penn in three sets, extends losing streak to five games
COMMENTARY Renshaw ’20: Time spent alone is helpful, despite pressure to make friends, socialize
COMMENTARY Zhong ’19: Culturally sensitive health care improves quality of medical treatment
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