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U. receives $225,000 grant from Mellon Foundation M. SOCCER Bears best Grant will fund Quakers 2-1 workshops on race, indigeneity in US, postdoc, two grad students

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

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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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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

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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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» NO LOANS, from page 1 (framework) of this being a choice of a student,” Blackmon said. “No student chooses to take out a loan.” Penn, which began eliminating loans in 2008, faced similar criticism. Originally called a “no-loan” policy, Penn ended up renaming the policy “all-grant.” Most recently, Penn changed its policy to a “grant-based” policy. “Even though it was a no-loan policy from Penn’s angle,” some students had to take out loans “because they didn’t feel like Penn was meeting their full financial aid,” said Vibha Kannan, a Penn student who has covered financial aid for the Daily Pennsylvanian. This “is what sparked Penn to reconsider a little bit,” he added. “Brown Promise” has not explicitly named its policy “no-loan,” and Tilton believes the terms of the policy are unambiguous. “We’ve been pretty clear about replacing packaged loans,” Tilton said. “We’ve put a link on our website to explain the ‘Brown Promise’ so students know specifically what loans are addressed in the promise.” Since eliminating loans from financial aid packages, Penn’s average student debt has decreased, but not disappeared, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. For Brown’s class of 2017, students borrowed an average of $25,388 and 33 percent of the class ended up borrowing money, Tilton said. Mark Kantrowitz, financial aid

» U.N., from page 1 terrorist activity that could threaten our national security here in the United States,” he added. Cicilline noted that U.N. peacekeeping missions cost a fraction of U.S. military engagement. As a member of House Foreign Affairs Committee, Cicilline is part of the Congressional movement to combat isolationist policy shaped by the Trump administration. Congress “has a very substantial role to play” in shaping foreign policy, especially through budget enactments and sanctions, Cicilline told The Herald. For the first time ever, Congress is considering “preventing the president of the United States from engaging in a first strike use of a nuclear weapon because of our concern of the unpredictable, erratic behavior of this president,” he added. Since the Trump administration has begun “abandoning core priorities of the United States, people at other levels of government are taking” charge, such as cities and states signing climate agreements, Cicilline told The Herald. “It’s an example of why our democracy works — because the voices of the American people are (continuing) to be heard through mayors and governors,” he added. Legislators can also play a role in diplomacy, Das told The Herald. After their trip to the Central African Republic, Cicilline helped write a letter encouraging U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley to support an increased U.N. presence in the Central African Republic. European countries noticed that “there’s domestic pressure (to contribute to) these peacekeeping missions from Congress, and Congress is an equal branch of government,” Das added. Cicilline told The Herald that the recent U.S. decision to withdraw from

expert, vice president of strategy and publisher for Cappex, a college help website, expects these numbers to decrease “fairly significantly” if “Brown Promise” is implemented. However, universities can never fully eliminate loans since students will always have the choice to borrow, Kantrowitz said. Some students may decide to take out loans “when it really isn’t a necessity.” To help decrease the amounts of loans, universities need to educate students on borrowing. “Colleges that have adopted aggressive counseling programs … have seen significant reductions in the number of students borrowing and the average amount of debt,” Kantrowitz said. “So if you couple a no-loans financial aid policy with increasing awareness of the consequences of debt and increasing priority of the information about student loans, you’re going to see smarter borrowing choices by these students.” Ultimately, despite criticism of the policy at their respective schools, Kannan and Blackmon agree that a policy that eliminates loans is still a positive change. “This is definitely a positive thing,” though people need to consider the “subtle nuance” of the way schools brand their financial aid policy, Kannan said. “This is a good step in the right direction,” Blackmon said, adding that the University needs to be careful on how it frames it in the future.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was a “terrible mistake.” The United States stopped paying dues to UNESCO when Palestine joined as a full member state in 2011, because of a 1994 law that bars the United States from funding any U.N. organization that recognizes Palestine as a full member state. Palestine has observer status at the United Nations. UNESCO has a “long history of bias against Israel,” Cicilline told The Herald, but this is a “reason to be more deeply engaged rather than to abandon our participation.” Without a presence at UNESCO, it will be more difficult to change the organization’s actions, he added. The event was organized by Brown’s chapter of the United Nations Association of the United States of America. Ben Bosis ’19, interim president of Brown’s UNA-USA chapter, said the organization works to spread understanding of U.S.-U.N. relations.

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» GRANT, from page 1 scope of the project as focused on North America, South America and Central America. Racialization is “always a timely topic,” as evidenced by the NFL protests and efforts to “increase diversity and inclusion” at the University, Leinaweaver said. It is the third time Brown has received a grant to fund a Sawyer Seminar, but this award is $50,000 more than any previous award. The Mellon Foundation “endeavors to strengthen, promote and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies,” according to its mission statement. The Sawyer Seminars specifically were “set up to investigate important contemporary problems, but essentially from a humanistic lens,” said Deputy Provost Joseph Meisel. In dealing with such problems, people may not consider the humanities “the place to turn for

answers — but to have a seminar series that does focus on real questions in the world, but puts humanists in the driver’s seat for thinking about those questions at a deeper level” allows more progress to be made as issues are approached from new angles, Meisel said. “Mellon’s idea is that it’s essentially a pop-up research center,” Leinaweaver said. “During the year, we’re gonna be thinking and talking about (racialization) nonstop, and at the end, I’m not necessarily expecting there to be a book, or an exhibit, or anything to come out of it — what I’m expecting is that we will have figured out some new directions and new questions for scholarship,” Leinaweaver said. The grant gives scholars the opportunity “to do things they might not otherwise have opportunity or scope to do,” Meisel said. While its generous provision of funding is an asset to academia, even the process established for soliciting proposals is beneficial to scholarship in acting as a “creative stimulant” to spark the formulation of important questions, Meisel added.

Director of the John Carter Brown Library Neil Safier also read the proposal, as the JCB has also received money from Mellon, and Leinaweaver is interested in collaborating with the library for the seminars themselves. An important aspect of this “humanistic laboratory for the historical study of race indigeneity across the Americas … — and this is absolutely in line with the mission of the JCB — is not to look at this in terms of the history of race in the United States, or the history of race in Latin America, but really to explore what race and ethnicity means across a broad spectrum of the American experience,” Safier said. Each of the successful Sawyer Seminar proposals have been organized through distinct centers or institutes within Brown, Meisel said. It’s important to “have these kind of centers that are able to draw on many of the academic departments that bring people together in particular combinations exactly to pursue important questions that go beyond departmental lines,” he said.

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Bruno overcame the Quakers 2-1 with an overtime goal from Nico Lozada ’18 in the 99th minute of play. The Bears have had six matches go into overtime. Looking forward, they have three contests remaining in the season.

» M. SOCCER, from page 1 a shot from the top right corner of the 18-yard box in the fifth minute, forcing a dive from goalkeeper Joey Cipicchio ’18. The powerful shot appeared on target, but turned wide of the net at the last second. The Bears had a promising opportunity in the 14th minute when Gabe Welp ’18.5 corralled a corner kick mere feet from the goal, but a Penn defender managed to take control and direct the ball out of bounds. In the 25th minute, Toby Howell ’19 was able to find the ball behind the defense in the 18-yard box, but he was unable to get a shot off as the Penn defense held strong and cleared the ball. Quinn English ’18 managed to break the ice to give the Bears a 1-0 lead with only 8.8 seconds left in the first half for his third goal of the season. English rocketed a low shot from about 20 yards outside of the goal that managed to sneak past Penn goalkeeper Scott Forbes and shock a Quaker team that looked ready for halftime. The first half was marked by strong teamwork on the defensive end, limiting accurate midfield passing and

scoring opportunities. At the half, the Bears held a one-goal advantage and led the Quakers 3-2 in shots and 4-1 in corner kicks. Bruno did not commit a first half foul, while the Quakers were called for nine. The start of the second half was quiet, as neither team created an opportunity with a realistic chance to score. In the 67th minute, Bruno launched a free kick into the 18-yard box and hoped for a header. Forbes was forced to come out of his box and sky above everyone to punch the ball away. In the 69th minute, the Quakers managed to respond on a counterattack and tie the game at one. Wancowicz scored an almost identical goal to English’s from the top right side of the 18-yard box on an assist from Brandon Bartel. Lozada nearly gave the Bears the lead in the 78th minute on a wideopen header that was misdirected out of bounds. With only four minutes left in the game, the Bears had two opportunities that required Forbes to make diving saves on shots that would have been game-winning goals. At the end of regulation, Brown led in 7-6 shots

and 6-1 in corners. In the second minute of overtime, the Bears believed they had won the game on a shot by Howell that found the back of the net, but the goal was called back for offsides. Penn almost scored on a counterattack moments later, but the cross into the 18-yard box was slightly off target. With just 34 seconds left in the first period of overtime, English placed a cross into the middle of the 18-yard box directly in front of Lozada, who launched a precise shot into the top right corner of the net to win the game for the Bears. Bruno finished the game leading 10-9 in shots and 8-1 in corner kicks. “(Scoring the game-winner) feels amazing,” Lozada said. “Last year we got beaten in overtime and it felt good to give them one back.” Brown will return to the pitch on Tuesday at Hofstra before continuing Ivy League play on Saturday at Yale. The Bears will need to win both of their remaining Ivy League games, including against first-place Dartmouth in the final week of the season, to remain in contention for the conference title.

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FOOTBALL

Bears drop fourth straight to Quakers on the road, 17-7 Despite strong defensive showing, Bruno defeated by Quakers, down 7-0 after first play By TESS DEMEYER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A season-best performance by Brown’s defense and a late first-quarter touchdown weren’t enough to put the football team on top, as it fell 17-7 to Penn in its final home game of the season Saturday. Bruno (2-5, 0-4 Ivy) held the Quakers (3-4, 1-3) to 303 yards but gave up 65 yards in penalties and fumbled twice in the first half. “The only team that can beat Brown is Brown,” said Head Coach Phil Estes P’18. “Brown is beating itself right now. Offensively, we move the ball, we shoot ourselves in the foot and we have a critical error that puts us in long situations. You can’t win football games if you can’t consistently drive the football. … There was no consistency, whether it was play calling, or it was just execution. We have to do a better job with all that.” Bruno struggled to keep up with Penn offensively as the Quakers lit up the scoreboard on the first play of the game. Quarterback Nick Robinson hit Justin Watson for an 80-yard touchdown reception, stunning the Bears from the start. Brown had no response for the 11-second score, punting the ball away on its first possession and

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Facing a strong defensive Quaker presence, wide receiver Isaac Whitney ’18 carried the ball forward. Quarterback Nicholas Duncan ’19 scored Bruno’s only touchdown at the end of the first quarter, but the Bears were unable to complete more touchdowns. fumbling on the second. Penn took advantage of the turnover to take a 14-0 lead midway through the first quarter. The Bears found some success on the ground later on as running back David Moodie ’19 powered into Penn territory with four consecutive rushes. Quarterback Nicholas Duncan ’19

took over from there, connecting with tight end Anton Casey ’19 on a 33yard shovel pass and later scrambling five yards into the end zone to cut the Quakers’ lead to seven. A second-quarter fumble recovery by defensive lineman Michael Hoecht ’20 appeared to swing the momentum in Bruno’s favor, but the offense could

not capitalize on the turnover as a field goal attempt sailed wide left. The Quakers found themselves in a similar situation after forcing a Brown fumble on the Bears’ next possession, but Penn managed to increase its lead to 10 with a 51-yard field goal. The score remained locked at 17-7 for the second half, giving the Quakers

the edge and their first Ivy League win of the season as the clock expired. Brown has yet to notch a conference victory but is looking for a win against Yale Friday. The Bears will travel to New Haven to battle the topranked Bulldogs under the lights of the Yale Bowl. Kickoff is set for 8:00 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL

Bears fall in back-to-back losses to Penn, Princeton 3-0 Bruno loses both matches this weekend 3 sets to 0, moving into last place in Ivy League By MARI HERREMA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The volleyball team lost three sets to zero against both Penn and Princeton over the weekend, leaving Brown (6-15, 1-9 Ivy) with only four contests left in the season to snap its current five-game losing streak. Avoiding a repeat of their most recent match against Yale, the Bears never gave the Quakers (10-9, 5-5) a chance to let down their guard Friday. A 5-0 run by Brown quickly decimated Penn’s early lead, and it wasn’t until a last-minute 4-0 run by Penn that the Quakers clinched the first set. Though Brown surged ahead in the second set, Penn leveled with a 7-1 run, after which the Bears slipped into a four-point deficit that they could not overcome, dropping the set 25-12. No team had a lead larger than three points in the third and final set, but Penn ultimately took the game 25-23 to claim the match. In the contest, captain and libero Melissa Cairo ’18 had a match-high three service aces. “I thought we competed well all three sets,” said Head Coach Diane Short. “We didn’t win, but it was one of our better, compete-from-the-beginning-to-theend matches.” Princeton also (14-6, 7-3) entered Saturday’s match hoping to bounce back

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The Bears were scoreless against the Quakers and Tigers over the weekend, continuing the team’s three-week losing streak and leaving them 6-15 in the season and 1-9 in the Ivy conference. from a difficult loss. Bruno had a strong sets helped the Bears start the third set the team is looking for a final positive to change things and keep adapting first set, staying nearly point-for-point strongly, responding to the Tigers’ 3-0 push. “We just gotta keep fighting and throughout the game.” with the Tigers for its duration. A three- opening by retaking the lead with a 5-1 being competitive,” Coach Short said. Brown will host Dartmouth for its point streak by the Bears, powered by two streak. “It’s the kind of game where you have next match Friday at 7 p.m. kills from Eliza Grover ’21, brought the But after a 5-1 Princeton run put the score within one at 22-23. But a Princeton Tigers ahead 14-8, Bruno again could not timeout stalled Bruno’s momentum and close the gap down the stretch. Princeton the Tigers took the set 25-23. took the set 25-17 to win the match at 3-0. The second set was considerably The record might be bleak, but Coach tougher for Brown, as the Bears fell be- Short believes in her team. “We are playhind 13-3 on seven near-consecutive kills ing better. … (Emma Chow ’21) is bringby Princeton. A Brown timeout helped ing a lot of energy. She really celebrates the Bears reset and keep within 10 points when others do well, and that’s always of the Tigers, but 23-14 was the closest good for chemistry. … Defensively, Bruno came to equalizing the set,which we did well. Melissa Cairo had a nice Princeton claimed 25-14. weekend.” The 10-minute regroup between With four matches left in the season,

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CROSS COUNTRY

Bears record seventh-place finish at Heps for second year running Bruno posts 164 points at New York meet, trails six Ivy opponents despite late-race rally By CORMAC CUMMISKY STAFF WRITER

The men’s cross-country team locked horns with the rest of the Ivy League at the 2017 Heptagonal Championships, held Friday in the Bronx’s historic Van Cortlandt Park. Despite mounting a late-race rally, which saw them rise as high as sixth in the team standings, the Bears failed to improve upon last year’s seventh-place finish. In the final tally, Bruno recorded a score of 164 points, beating out only Harvard. “It was a little disappointing the way things turned out,” said captain Martin Martinez ’18. “We didn’t have a specific place in mind, but we thought we could place a lot higher than we did.” The race at the front of the pack boiled down to a brawl between Lions and Tigers. Columbia’s Ryan Thomas edged out Princeton’s Noah Kauppila by less than two seconds to capture the individual crown, but Princeton emerged triumphant in the team category, besting their big-city rival 28 to 43. Defending champion Penn was a distant third with 91 points. The Bears’ result belied their strong performances against Ivy League opponents during the regular season. In September, Brown trounced Dartmouth and Harvard at the Battle in Beantown; in October, Bruno again defeated Dartmouth — and scalped Yale for good measure — at the Pre-National Invitational. But only the Crimson finished behind the Bears Friday. Injuries to key personnel severely

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Andrew Foerder ’18 powers to the finish line in Van Cortlandt Park Friday. Five Bears finished the five-mile course in the top 50 of 88 runners, but Bruno was unable to stymie the efforts of its Ivy League foes despite previous victories over rivals Dartmouth and Harvard earlier in the season. hampered Bruno’s efforts. Brown lost its number-one runner, captain Matt Mahoney ’18, to a stress fracture in September. Then, Mike Wyman ’18 — first for the Bears in their last meet of the regular season — fell victim to shin pain during the championship race itself, forcing him to drop out before the three-mile mark. In lieu of Mahoney or Wyman, Martin Martinez ’18 led Brown over the five-mile course, clocking a time of 25:34. The senior captain started out aggressively and clung tightly to the leaders, clawing his way up to 10th as the race neared its

conclusion. But Martinez lost ground to kicking competitors over the final half mile, falling to 20th place overall. “I put myself where I wanted to be in the race early on, and I was there coming off of Cemetery Hill,” Martinez said. “With about a (kilometer) to go, I just didn’t really have it in my legs. I think I hadn’t really recovered from my race at (the Pre-National Invitational).” For the second time this season, Gabe Altopp ’20 was Brown’s second man over the line, crossing in 25:53. Altopp hovered around 30th place throughout the race and ultimately

netted 30 points for the Bears. Bruno’s third man, Andrew Foerder ’18, followed Altopp with a time of 26:04 — good for 36 points. Four seconds later, Dan McDonaldMeteer ’18 contributed an additional 38 points to Brown’s tally. Lastly, Cam Daly ’20, who had plummeted downwards through the pack from a peak position of 16th place, capped off the score with 41 points. Daly’s time was 26:14. “Cam is a competitor —He was grinding,” Martinez said. “It wasn’t a matter of effort. ... He just wasn’t quite feeling it yesterday.”

The Bears will return to competition at the NCAA Northeast Regional on Friday, Nov. 10. The meet will afford Bruno a rematch against every team in the Ivy League except for Penn and Princeton. Martinez said that the team is looking forward to the race, which will take place over a distance of 10 kilometers, rather than 5 miles. “Guys are motivated. Things didn’t go quite the way we wanted at Heps, but we have another opportunity in two weeks to beat all the teams that beat us — and we’re hoping to beat some other teams, too.”

RENEE GLADMAN A Literary Reading

Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of eleven published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians—Event Factory (2010), The Ravickians (2011), Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013), and Houses of Ravicka (2017)—as well as the recently released Prose Architectures, her first monograph of drawings, and Calamities, a collection of linked essay-fictions on the intersections of writing, drawing, and community, which won the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Recent essays and visual work have appeared inThe Paris Review, Granta, Harper’s, Stonecutter, and Poetry Magazine. A 201415 fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and recipient of a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant and a 2017 Lannan Foundation Writing Residency in Marfa, TX, she makes work in New England.

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Jennifer Caruso ’19 dribbles down the field. The women’s soccer team defeated Penn 1-0 in overtime at Stevenson-Pincince Field Saturday, moving into third place in the Ivy League standings with one game remaining.

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The benefits of ‘Me Time’ LENA RENSHAW staff columnist In the movie “Mean Girls,” Cady — played by Lindsay Lohan — eats alone in a bathroom stall on her first day of high school because she has no one to eat with. When I was in high school, if I didn’t have anyone to eat lunch with, I would skip the meal. Though I considered myself to be fiercely independent — and in many ways, I was — I could never muster the courage to eat alone. When I started college, my reluctance to eat alone got stronger. I didn’t want to be the freshman in the dining hall who was eating alone because she hadn’t made any friends. I planned classes around meals and meals around people. I’d eat with people who I didn’t know very well just to have some company, and I would sleep late in order to skip breakfast. What I didn’t understand was that I was afraid of being alone with my thoughts, and this fear was manifesting itself through my eating habits. It can manifest in other ways for other people: some need to check Facebook and Instagram compulsively, while others just want to watch Netflix all day. A study published in Science Magazine found that people would rather give themselves electric shocks

than be left alone with their thoughts. But I’ve now come to realize that college has proven to be an amazing place to embrace being alone. It’s become a lot easier to be lonely in college. With the advent of social media, staying in good contact with high school friends is now easier than ever. Particularly for freshmen, it can

lating. This emphasis on old friendships can make building new ones difficult or undesirable. In reality, the experience of solitude is only a big deal if we’re unable to be happy alone. When I ate with people I wasn’t friends with just to avoid eating by myself, I was basically telling myself that I needed their

create an insanely busy schedule, and many of us often do. As if class, homework, midterms and other projects aren’t enough, we also have extracurricular activities and jobs. To top it all off, we sometimes feel a pressure to spend time with friends and go out to have typical “college” fun. But there is value in solitude, and we shouldn’t

But if I didn’t like hanging out with myself, or thinking my own thoughts, how could I expect anyone else to like hanging out with me? How could I expect to make any friends? That realization was why I started making time for just myself: “Me Time.”

seem like these high school friendships are better and more important than any potentially new friendships. We often feel closer to these friends because we’ve known them longer, and new college friendships can pale in comparison. College is also the first time away from home for many, which can be overwhelming and iso-

company more than my own. But if I didn’t like hanging out with myself, or thinking my own thoughts, how could I expect anyone else to like hanging out with me? How could I expect to make any friends? That realization was why I started making time for just myself: “Me Time.” At Brown, it can be easy to

try to hide from it. The ability to savor alone time has been linked to increased happiness, and those who spend time alone experience less depression. Spending time alone is also extremely important for personal growth. Emotional development expert Reed W. Larson found that adolescents “who spent an intermediate

amount of time alone were better adjusted than those who spent little or a great deal of time alone.” Of course, “Me Time” can come in many forms. The key is that “Me Time” must be purposely created and deliberately pursued. Whatever activities you choose to pursue in your free time should be relaxing, invigorating and purely voluntary. The problem arises only when we feel the stigma of solitude, because we’re trained to think that solitude is a symptom of social ineptitude or personal weakness. We can’t give in to this unreasonable expectation — especially at the expense of our own well-being. To anyone who is feeling overwhelmed, exhausted or in need of a change of pace, I recommend scheduling some “Me Time.” It’s not embarrassing — in truth, no one cares at all about seeing you do something alone. My personal favorite form of “Me Time” comes from preparing a full meal, sitting down and eating it alone. It’s amazing to be able to do this after years of struggling with it. What’s more amazing is knowing that I could do anything that I used to do with someone else completely alone. “Me Time” brings me joy and peace, and a chance to interact with someone I really love: myself.

Lena Renshaw ’20 can be reached at lena_renshaw@brown.edu.

The value of culturally attuned healthcare ERIC ZHONG

op-ed contributor As highly-publicized debates over national healthcare legislation unfold in Congress, it can be easy to forget that there is no single solution to the local delivery of healthcare. Different communities, after all, face different medical concerns. For example, many minority groups face a systemic barrier to healthcare access, ranging from lack of insurance, mistrust of physicians to simply a language barrier. Mindful physicians and medical students have tried to break down this barrier with free clinics and screenings. On behalf of Team HBV, a student organization on campus that raises awareness for Hepatitis B in the local community, I participated in a screening with medical students from the Alpert Medical School held at the Chinese Christian Church of Rhode Island on Oct. 29. Our main goal at Team HBV is to raise awareness for Hepatitis B, an infection of the liver that can cause liver cirrhosis and liver cancer and that disproportionately affects Asian immigrant communities, according to epidemiological studies. Team HBV’s work at CCCRI, in conjunction with the efforts of the Med School, illustrates the importance of preventative and culturally attuned healthcare — interventions that must not be forgotten in broader discussions about healthcare policy. A survey of Asian/Pacific Islander residents in New York showed that 21.4 percent of those born in China had HBV, according to a 2009 study. And according to the Department of Homeland Security, immigrants from Asia make up about 40 percent of the total number of immigrants in the United States. This lack of immunity against the Hepatitis B virus is a serious problem, because it

is not treatable and imposes serious costs on the healthcare system: As of 2003, Hepatitis B-related hospitalizations cost $1.5 billion. Screenings like these are critical to community health, for they offer key medical services to patients who may not have the time or resources to obtain them otherwise. At the screening, medical students tested blood glucose levels and blood pressure. Measuring blood pressure and blood glucose is essential for identifying patients at risk for Type two diabetes and hypertension, common chronic diseases that can lead to complications as

risk factors for chronic illnesses and gave them tools to address these risks. In the long run, preventative healthcare may help patients avoid more serious complications and reduce the burden on the broader healthcare system. As a volunteer at the screening, I realized how important culturally attuned healthcare is. Although some of the people we helped during the screening spoke English, many of them preferred to communicate in Mandarin or Cantonese. Having volunteers like me who speak Mandarin made members of the community more comfortable be-

Team HBV’s work at CCCRI, in conjunction with the efforts of the Med School, illustrates the importance of preventative and culturally attuned healthcare — interventions that must not be forgotten in broader discussions about healthcare policy. patients get older. To help educate the local Asian community in Pawtucket — where CCCRI is located — about hypertension and diabetes, every patient who was screened got a form with their blood pressure and blood glucose results and educational information that offers dietary suggestions, exercise regimens and general health advice that could help them control or maintain their blood pressure and blood sugar. Many of the medical students who participated in the screening were able to speak Chinese or used a translator. I contributed to the screening as a translator, and distributed information about Hepatitis B, hypertension and Type two diabetes to patients in Chinese. The services provided at the screening were preventative — they helped patients identify their

cause we could interact with them in a culturally sensitive manner and help break down the language barrier. Many of the community members said they preferred to interact with people who spoke their language and were familiar with their cultural customs. Thus, culturally sensitive screenings are important because they eliminate the stress that patients might feel if they went to a hospital, where they might encounter unfamiliar doctors, terminologies and practices. Moreover, these patients are more likely to interact with healthcare providers with whom they can connect and open up a dialogue about their health. On the whole, these screenings become imperative because they are able to distribute information and care to communities that are unable or hesitant to seek medi-

cal advice. In a broader healthcare system, culturally attuned screenings that meet patients in their communities and address their specific needs are crucial. But today, preventive care and other necessary programs for the disadvantaged, like Medicaid, are in danger of Congressional cuts. One legislative proposal, the American Health Care Act, introduced this summer would have allowed insurance companies to offer plans that do not offer preventive care and other essential benefits. Likewise, the AHCA — which died in the Senate late July — aimed to cut Medicaid, which provides healthcare to the country’s poorest and neediest patients. Screenings like the one held at CCCRI demonstrate both the importance of preventive care as well as the enormous demand for healthcare among immigrant communities. As a regular volunteer at screenings and health clinics, it is obvious to me that we should be channeling more funds into preventive care, free clinics and Medicaid to provide healthcare for all who need it. But spending large sums of money isn’t going to solve everything; minority and immigrant communities must be made to feel comfortable with seeking out and obtaining healthcare. We need to approach them in a culturally sensitive and knowledgeable way, so that they come to trust the healthcare system whenever they need medical attention or a checkup. We need to have physicians, nurses and volunteers with specific training so that they will be able to help overcome language and cultural barriers. We can only achieve our goal of better community health if healthcare providers tailor their services to members of marginalized communities and respect their cultures.

Eric Zhong ’19 can be reached at eric_zhong@brown.edu.

SPORTS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2017

M. HOCKEY

Bears open season with weekend split against Yale 44-save performance from Nieto ’20, deep offensive production fuel Bruno to 4-1 win over Yale Friday By ALEXANDRA RUSSELL SENIOR STAFF WRITER

In its opening weekend, the men’s hockey team prevailed over Ivy rival Yale for the first time since 2014 with a 4-1 victory in New Haven Friday. The Bears recorded a pair of mixed decisions in the series, falling to the Bulldogs 5-2 at home Saturday. Brent Beaudoin ’20 led Bruno (11, 1-1 ECAC) with a pair of goals for the weekend and starting goaltender Gavin Nieto ’20 recorded a career-high 44 saves in Friday’s matchup. Brown 4, Yale 1 Friday night, first-period goals from Zach Giuttari ’20 and Alec Mehr ’21 gave the Bears an early advantage. Giuttari fired a shot from the point past Yale (11, 1-1) goaltender Sam Tucker at the 10 minute mark, before Mehr knocked the puck into the net off the crossbar five minutes later. Despite being outshot by a margin of 45-25, Bruno was able to establish offensive integrity in the zone. “We were attacking from the getgo,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “Even though we got outshot, I thought a lot of those shots were perimeter shots.” Yale answered early in the second frame, when Phil Kemp found the back of the net with a shot from in front of the blue line. But Bruno prevailed,as Beaudoin and captain Josh McArdle ’18 added empty net goals in the final minute of the third to secure the lead. In the crease, Nieto shut the Bulldogs down, recording a game-high 17 saves

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Rookie Anea Ferrario ’21 duels for the puck at Meehan Auditorium Saturday. The Bears earned their first victory over Yale since 2014 on the road Friday, before returning home the following day to complete the series against the Bulldogs. Bruno visits Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend. in the second stanza. He was awarded the game’s first star for his performance. Brown 2, Yale 5 The following day, the Bears were unable to recover from an early deficit despite goals from assistant captain Tyler Bird ’18 and Beaudoin. After a goal from Brett Jewell put the Bulldogs on the board late in the first

period, Bird capitalized on a power play early in the second to equalize the game. Bird collected a sliding pass from Max Willman ’18 and slotted the puck past Tucker on his stick side. Beaudoin responded to another Yale tally with a wraparound goal two minutes into the final stanza. But the Bulldogs recorded a trio of unanswered goals, including an empty netter in the

last minute, to put the game out of reach for the Bears. “They were throwing everything out of the zone right away,” Beaudoin said. “That just causes a tough time for us because if we have guys that get caught up in the play, then they automatically have an odd man rush coming back against us. That’s where a lot of their offense came from.”

Nieto made 22 saves in the loss as Yale outshot Brown 27-22. Bruno demonstrated command of its penalty kill, holding Yale at 0 for 12 on the power play over the weekend. Looking forward, the Bears seek to achieve clean execution and vigor in specialty teams play. “The kill was good this weekend,” Whittet said. “On the converse side, our power play guys have to understand how hard they have to work in order to come up with pucks, to get pucks through and to not allow them to clear pucks and eliminate zone time on that (penalty kill).” “For us this year, specialty teams is a big emphasis,” Beaudoin said. “Power play has been good — we were lucky to capitalize today and yesterday for the limited amount of power plays we’ve actually had, and penalty kill has been very good for us.” Mentally, Whittet emphasized the need for resilience and simplicity on the ice. “We shouldn’t over-complicate it,” Whittet said. “It’s winning puck battles, winning races, defending hard, moving the puck north quickly. … You’ve just got to play a gritty game and we’re going to grow from it. We’ll get better. We’ve got to understand that it is a process.” Friday’s win serves as a source of optimism as Bruno enters the bulk of its season with conviction and composure. “We know that we can come out and win games — we’ve got a confidence that we didn’t really have last year,” Beaudoin said. “A big thing for us is staying positive this year, making sure that we control the things we can control. You can control how hard you work, and you can control your systems.” The Bears visit Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend, before hosting Clarkson Nov. 10.