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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD VOLUME CLVIII, ISSUE 24
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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UNIVERSITY NEWS
U. has largest acceptance rate gap between men, women in Ivy League Nearly two-thirds of U. applicants identify as women, experts discuss possible explanations BY OWEN DAHLKAMP SENIOR STAFF WRITER Since the 1980s, female enrollment has consistently surpassed male enrollment in higher education. In the past 20 years, the proportion of women to men applying to universities has also increased. But at Brown, the number of accepted applicants who identify as women has remained about equal to men, making the admission process more selective for women applying to the University. In the 2021-22 application cycle, 6.73% of male applicants were accepted to Brown, while only 4.06% of women were. In 2021, Brown had the most female-dominated applicant pool in the Ivy League, boasting the greatest numerical difference between male and female applicants compared to
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UNIVERSITY NEWS
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Gender gap in tenure-track Refugee care center empowers women Center focuses on faculty positions persists U. task force works to investigate possible differences in faculty experiences BY NEIL MEHTA UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR At universities across the country, women occupy fewer tenure-track academic positions than men. Brown
is no exception. Among full professors at the University, women occupy 118 positions while men occupy 309 as of 2022, according to the Office of Institutional Research. Gender is categorized as a binary in the University’s data system per federal law, according to the Diversity Dashboard. “Nationally, women face discrim-
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ARTS & CULTURE
Students discuss pursuing fashion, art, academics at U. Designers Nora Cowett ’24, Phoebe Dragseth ’24 discuss creative processes, aspirations BY RYA VALLABHANENI ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR
fashion are few and far between. While components of visual arts classes sometimes overlap with design, and students occasionally gain access to Rhode Island School of Design resources, the University does not offer a concentration in fashion. Groups such as Fashion@Brown are trying to make up for this deficit. F@B
Although Brown offers many academic opportunities in the arts, courses in
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helping women heal, creating community in new city BY DANA RICHIE STAFF WRITER
Beginning at 9 a.m., more than 40 women gathered outside the Women’s Refugee Care in South Providence on March 11. Volunteers carried boxes of food stocked with beans, cabbage and rice out of the food pantry in the basement, loading up hand trucks and wheeling food to the women’s cars. Led by director Aline Binyungu, warmly called “Mama Aline” by many at the center, WRC provides a range of programs — including the weekly food drive — to meet the needs of female refugees and their families as they adjust to life in America. Binyungu and her husband Clement Shabani founded the center in 2015. Both refugees from the Great Lakes region of Africa, the couple was inspired to open the center to support women from that area. Now, according to Binyungu, they serve “people coming from all over” including Liberia, the Ivory Coast, Haiti and Senegal.
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Aline Binyungu co-founded the center with her husband Clement Shabani in 2015 to help other refugees adjust to life in America. Because of their backgrounds, Binyungu and Shabani are committed to a holistic and community-based approach to service. “Being a refugee, we saw that before becoming self-sufficient, it takes a long time because there are many pieces that have to be put together, and sometimes, it’s overwhelming,” Shabani said. The couple originally fled their home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo out of fear of government retribution for their advocacy in sup-
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U. News
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Photo Team asks community about inspiring women Page 2
Women, non-binary faculty discuss work in academia Page 3
Four women changing the game for Brown athletics Page 4
Simon ’25: Genderbased communities remain valueable today Page 6
port of human and women’s rights. After spending six years seeking refuge in Thailand, the couple and their five children were granted asylum in Providence in 2014. Binyungu said that it was initially difficult to adapt to life in the U.S. because “nobody spoke our language, (there was) no community (and) it was cold.” According to Binyungu, the couple decided to center women in their
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