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Bears earn at-large bid to NCAA tournament

By SAm Rubinroit Assistant Sports Editor

The men’s soccer team earned an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament last night, extending its season for at least one more game.

Bruno will face Fairfield University (12-4-1) Thursday night at Stevenson Field, with the winner advancing to take on No. 9 St. John’s University.

“We played against Fairfield my freshman year in a scrimmage, and they are a talented team,” said Ryan McDuff ’13. “They have a lot of experience with a few international players as well as two grad students, so it’s going to be a good team.”

The Bears were named Ivy League co-champions with Dartmouth Saturday after battling

the Big Green to a 0-0 draw and after Columbia and Cornell tied later that night. Bruno recorded an overall record of 10-4-3 on the season, finishing 4-1-2 in Ivy League play and going undefeated in its final eight games.

But because Dartmouth defeated third-place Columbia and Brown lost to the Lions, the Big Green captured the Ivy League’s automatic berth to the NCAA tournament. Bruno was forced to endure a weekend of anticipation as they awaited the results of the NCAA selection show yesterday at 4:30 p.m.

“Everyone was anxious all day,” McDuff said. “I saw a few of the guys in passing going to class, and you could tell everyone was just a

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Sean Rosa ‘12.5 has been a leader for the Bears this year and will play a big role in Thursday’s NCAA Tournament game against Fairfield at Stevenson at 7 p.m.

By Lucy Feldman Senior Staff Writer

Community RISD stabilizes under new leadership furniture design department. So- that the recommendations their involvement merson was appointed after Jessie committees had made were not Shefrin left the post to take a year- being recognized in the draft of vital for A new spirit of peace and collabo- long sabbatical last spring. Her de- the strategic plan, said Mairead ration at the Rhode Island School parture followed the faculty’s 147 Byrne, chair of the Faculty Steerof Design has replaced last year’s to 32 vote of “no confidence” in her ing Committee and RISD associate success in turbulence, according to students, and RISD President John Maeda professor of English. and administrators at the last March and the faculty’s vote David Frazer, professor of paintcity schools faculty school. of disapproval of last year’s draft ing, said RISD was led last year by

By Kate Nussenbaum Staff Writer

Providence Mayor Angel Taveras’ Education Opportunity Working Group, established in June to formulate recommendations to improve the city’s education system, presented its findings Monday afternoon. In its report, the group stressed the importance of community involvement while emphasizing disparities in quality among the city’s public schools.

Angela Romans, chair of the working group and senior adviser on education to the mayor, presented the group’s findings to an audience of about 30. A panel discussion with school administrators, leaders of partner foundations, parents and former students followed the presentation. Members of the panel stressed the community’s accountability for ensuring progressive change.

The report outlines specific benchmarks for schools to meet within the next year. Under the recommendations, at least 50 percent of students in a minimum of

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Many attribute the positive changes to Interim Provost Rosanne Somerson P’11, a RISD grad and former chair of RISD’s

of a five-year strategic plan for the school.

The vote reflected a general feeling among faculty members

many individuals Maeda had appointed from outside. Many fac-

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Human rights lawyer traces chronology of Islamophobia By sona mkrttchian Contributing Writer

The downfalls of Osama Bin Laden, Muammar Gaddafi and Hosni Mubarak marks a new era for Islam, said international human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftkhar in his lecture in Salomon 101 last night.

Over 120 students, faculty and community members of different religions, cultures and races gathered to hear Iftkhar discuss his book, “Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era.” Iftkhar is known for his many appearances as a political pundit on cable news networks and his contributions to media outlets,

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Arsalan Iftkhar presented his vision for a new Islamic pacifism in a lecture promoting religious discourse last night.

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Another man was arrested Sunday night after allegedly publicly masturbating, the latest episode in College Hill’s inexplicable monthslong masturbation spree. Meanwhile, the man who has repeatedly been seen masturbating on John Street remains at large.

Department of Public Safety officers arrested Narragansett resident Matthew Hoile, 26, Sunday evening after he exposed himself to two students, according to Paul Shanley, deputy chief of DPS. At approximately 6:45 p.m., two female first-years walked past a man standing in the street at the intersection of Charlesfield and Brown streets, one of the students said. As they hurried past the man, one of them looked back and saw him masturbating, she said.

“I was afraid he might do something to us, or chase us or try to hurt us,” said the first-year, who asked that her name be withheld to protect her identity.

DPS arrived at the scene within minutes and found a man who matched the students’ description, Shanley said. The students identified him as the man they had seen, he said.

The student said she was glad to see Hoile arrested. “It felt good knowing we were making the campus safer,” she said.

This is DPS’ second masturbation arrest in less than a week.

Antonio Pimental, of Riverside, was arrested Thursday night for allegedly masturbating in a car on Hope Street. Neither Pimental nor Hoile has any obvious connection to campus, Shanley said.

DPS does not have any reason to believe either man is responsible for the John Street masturbation incidents, said Mark Porter, chief of police and director of public safety.

DPS officers have taken both Hoile and Pimental to be booked by the Providence Police Department. Both men have been charged with disorderly conduct, which includes indecent exposure, Shanley said. Both have been released on personal recognizance, and each has been given a court date, he said.

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The Office of Environmental Health and Safety is planning to transition from its online safety training interface to a new system with expanded features, said Stephen Morin, director of the Office of Environmental Health and Safety.

Morin said he hopes the switch will allow his office to maintain the current 99 percent safety training compliance rate.

Safety requirements are set by federal and University guidelines to ensure faculty, staff and students receive proper training before working in potentially hazardous environments.

The new interface, a web-based training program called Cornerstone Management Systems, will replace TrainCaster — the system used by the office for over 10 years — in 2012. The new system will be similar to TrainCaster, which allows administrators to add users and develop a safety curriculum appropriate to their work, with automatic notifications when users must renew their training, Morin said. It will also allow users to log in with their Brown username and password, a feature not available on TrainCaster.

There has been an increase in compliance with safety requirements since the University implemented TrainCaster, Morin said.

The two most frequently required courses, “Laboratory Safety Training” and “Hazardous Waste Training,” have consistently remained near 100 percent compliance, Morin said.

Laboratory safety training is

required for anyone who works in a University laboratory, and hazardous waste training is required annually for anyone who uses or stores chemicals or produces hazardous waste, including employees of Facilities Management and students who work in theaters on campus.

Among the approximately 1,800 active researchers required to take the lab safety course, almost 99 percent completed the initial training and are up to date on refresher courses, which must be renewed every five years, Morin said. Out of 1,950 faculty, students and staff members required to take hazardous waste training annually, 98 percent have completed the initial training, and about 80 percent are current on their renewal training.

The drop to 80 percent compliance with refresher courses could represent students that recently left their position in a University lab but are still in the TrainCaster system, Morin said. “We’d rather have someone getting notices longer than they need to than us miss them,” he said.

Students who continue to neglect their requirements receive notifications from the TrainCaster system until their courses are fulfilled. If a student ignores the reminders, the office may prevent that person from working in a lab until his or her requirements are complete, Morin said.

“We may not lock them out of the lab after a couple of weeks or a month,” Morin said. “But if we find someone that’s significantly overdue or someone that’s ignoring things that are really important, then we utilize whatever resources

we need to make sure that they’re safe and that their co-workers are safe.”

Proper safety training — laboratory safety and hazardous waste — is required before any student researcher in chemistry is granted access to MacMillan Hall, where the chemistry labs are located, wrote Matthew Zimmt, professor of chemistry and chair of the chemistry department, in an email to The Herald.

Undergraduates who have gone through safety training courses had mixed reviews about their effectiveness. The laboratory safety course should be shorter, said Catherine Freije ’13, who is under the tutelage of Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Sharon Swartz, and Rohan Ramesh ’12, who works in Professor of Psychology Rebecca Burwell’s lab. But both agreed the classes were necessary.

The laboratory safety training course is three hours long. The initial hazardous waste training is an hour-long session. For two years, the refresher course for hazardous waste also takes place in the classroom. After two years, a trainee may opt to take all future refresher courses online.

The office currently offers 35 laboratory safety training courses, with topics including basic lab safety training, asbestos awareness and working in extreme temperature environments, according to the website. The laboratory safety course is offered about 40 times annually, and the hazardous waste is offered about 60 times a year, Morin said. The refresher course is also available online at all times.

Study abroad participation drops

By Thaya Uthayophas Contributing Writer

Four hundred fourteen students studied abroad through University programs in the 2010-11 academic year, the fewest in the past 10 years and a 7.4 percent decrease from 2009-10. These figures include students from other institutions who study abroad with Brown programs.

The financial downturn may have resulted in more students deciding to remain on campus, said Kendall Brostuen, director of the

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Nick Donias ’12, who studied abroad last year, said several of his friends chose to stay at Brown because of financial constraints.

But many students attributed the decision not to study abroad to a desire to take full advantage of the learning opportunities at Brown.

“This is your only college experience. I don’t want to give up an entire semester,” said Marlene Tai ’12. “I can go abroad at any time.”

Brostuen maintained that the international program is an im-

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portant part of the Brown experience, not a break from it. “It is not separate,” he said. He pointed to the example of the Global Independent Study Initiative, in which students work with a faculty member on a project of their creation during the time abroad.

The University strongly encourages students to consider international travel, said Ned Quigley, associate director of the OIP. The flexibility of the New Curriculum allows Brown students more freedom to go abroad than at other schools, he said.

Donias said his time abroad was a valuable part of his undergraduate experience. As a Meiklejohn, he said he encourages first-year advisees to consider studying abroad.

Many students are involved internationally outside of study abroad programs, Brostuen said.

Various summer programs, including Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards, facilitate student travel and learning across the world.

Despite the recent decline in participation, Brostuen said the University consistently ranks high among peer schools in the percentage of undergraduates studying abroad.

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Author exhorts pacifism, Faculty-provost relations improve at RISD religious discourse continued from page 1

continued from page 1 including USA Today, Esquire and the Economist. But his most notable endeavor is his personal website, themuslimguy.com, where Iftkhar gathers an array of articles, appearances and opinions — all very flippant in tone.

His lecture centered around his book and included a timeline beginning Sept. 11, 2001, the date he called the “birth of modern day Islamophobia.” Much of the first portion of the lecture focused on the various forms of Islamophobia in the U.S. following the terrorist attacks, emphasizing the Muslim reaction to hate crimes.

Making a parallel to Christianity, Iftkhar recalled telling a female Muslim student to inquire, “What would Muhammad do?” when westerners attack Islamic ideologies. The answer, he said, is nothing — Muhammad would do nothing.

Muhammad’s non-violence is the basis for Iftkhar’s argument for Islamic pacifism.

Notable in the lecture was Iftkhar’s own rhetoric — his casual demeanor reflected the young age of his target audience. He said he wants both Muslim and nonMuslim children to use religion only for good and “enter the global marketplace of ideas.”

An even more relaxed Iftkhar emerged in the question and answer session, as he answered questions about the death of Bin Laden, the Arab Spring movement and optimism toward the future. Ift-

khar presented shocking statistics — 29 percent of Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim, and 1 out of every 4 Americans would be uncomfortable with a neighbor who identifies as a Muslim, he said.

Iftkhar’s visit was partially sponsored by the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life’s recent initiative, B-Literate. The event was another effort by the office to engage students in religious discourse, Reverend Janet Cooper Nelson, chaplain of the University, told The Herald.

She called Iftkhar the “Stephanopolous of Islam … a charismatic leader” for the new generation.

“There’s a difference between religious identity and religious practice,” Cooper Nelson said.

Graduates should leave the University with more understanding of other individuals, she added.

The office is attempting to bring more lecturers like Iftkhar, while continuing efforts to further the ultimate message on the importance of interfaith discourse, she said.

Cooper Nelson said she would like to see the day that Brown institutes a religious studies requirement for some, if not most, concentrations. Religious literacy is an important part of current society, where American students need to understand global issues, she said.

Though Iftkhar emphasized that he remains optimistic, he ended the lecture on a somber note. At the end of the day, he said, we are all left to “wonder if God will ever forgive us for what we have done to each other.”

U. takes on search to fill ombudsperson vacancy

By Wendy Suh Contributing Writer

A search is underway for a new faculty ombudsperson, a position that has been vacant for the past two years. The original search failed to yield a replacement for Flora Keshgegian before the 2009 hiring freeze.

The faculty ombudsperson offers an impartial perspective in resolving conflicts and grievances among faculty members and postdoctoral research fellows to ensure they are treated “fairly and equitably,” according to the ombudsperson website.

During the vacancy, conflicts and grievances are being taken to the faculty’s Committee on Grievance. The committee currently has no chair or vice chair and consists of members who are relatively new. “It is clear that when the (ombudsperson) position was last filled there were more cases

heard than were handled by the grievance committee,” wrote Peter Shank, chair of the Faculty Executive Committee, in an email to The Herald.

According to an annual ombudsperson’s report, 26 faculty members and postdoctoral fellows used the Office of the Faculty Ombudsperson during the 200809 academic year. No grievances were reviewed during the 2009-10 academic year, according to a grievance committee report.

Professors said they have not used the ombudsperson’s office in past years but still consider it useful. Josh Schechter, associate professor of philosophy, said he has never dealt directly with the ombudsperson, but said it is “a good idea for Brown to have one.”

The University aims to hire someone to fill the position as soon as possible, no later than next semester.

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ulty members felt the newcomers were trying to “radically change” parts of the school. At the time, administrators were planning to reorganize several undergraduate departments.

“There was a lot of discouragement about the sense that RISD was broken and needed to be fixed,” Frazer said.

“Any school of our caliber always needs to be looking to the future, but RISD really works well — it’s a great school,” Somerson said. “If there is a change, there has to be a strong rationalization for why that change makes sense.”

Students, faculty members and administrators said they are ready to move forward, and most feel a renewed confidence in the administration. In addition to Somerson, two other faculty members have joined the administration — Bill Newkirk, former head of the graphic design department, is acting as interim dean of architecture and design, and Anais Missakian, former head of the textiles department, is acting as interim dean of fine arts.

Frazer, who worked closely with the new administrators in their previous roles, said he and other faculty members are “very, very pleased” with their performance.

Peter Walker, department head of furniture design, said Somerson’s background has helped ease last year’s tension. “She has the ability to bring people together that I think the school was in desperate need of,” he said.

The administration has been working to rewrite the five-year strategic plan and to collaborate with Maeda in expanding the role of the deans who act as liaisons between academic departments and the administration, Somerson said.

Maeda has changed his leadership style, Somerson said. By allowing the deans to take a larger role, he has been able to devote more energy to fundraising and advocacy. “(Maeda is) helping arts and design be a part of the national agenda in a way that is having an amazing impact on public policy,” she said. “He’s been able to return to the things that were his goals because the school is functioning really well right now.”

“There’s a feeling that the administration is listening,” Byrne said. “I can’t speak on behalf of all the faculty, … but there’s a mood of cautious optimism.”

But the optimism is not unanimous. Gabriel Feld, professor of architecture, said he thinks Somerson is “doing a terrific job to calm things down,” but he is disappointed that the changes proposed

last year have been tabled.

“I think that RISD needs to reinvent itself to sort of capitalize on its strengths, but to construct a school that is looking towards the future, not one that is looking towards the past,” he said. Though the proposed restructuring was largely unpopular with the faculty, Feld said it would have given the school more research power, benefitting students.

Feld said he has noticed a change in Maeda’s leadership style, but unlike other faculty members, he does not think that change has been positive. “He has lost his sense of excitement about where RISD could go and sort of brought himself to the much more modest and much less ambitious sense of the future,” he said.

Esther Fell, a senior at RISD, said Maeda’s presence has not been as strong this year, citing the absence of his regular emails to the RISD student body.

Given that Somerson, Newkirk and Missakian’s appointments are for this year only, the administration is now looking for permanent replacements. Though the search is open, Fell said administrators are “certainly not discouraging internal candidates,” especially given how well the administration has functioned with a leadership that “knows RISD deeply.”

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Federal loan relief plan State reports spike in youth HIV cases aims to ease student debt

By Casey Bleho Staff Writer

President Obama announced a new student loan relief plan intended to help ease the financial hardship of student debt late last month. Though experts are unsure how much the plan, called “Know Before You Owe,” will affect Rhode Island, debt remains a pressing issue for students hoping a college degree will give them an advantage in a tough job market.

Starting in January, the “Know Before You Owe” plan will limit repayment of federal student loans to 10 percent of college graduates’ discretionary incomes. The change comes almost two years before this cap was slated to take effect under federal law and could benefit as many as 1.6 million low-income borrowers nationally. The new plan also means that — assuming borrowers adhere to their repayment schedules — all of graduates’ remaining federal loan debt would be forgiven after 20 years. Under current law, loan debt is forgiven after 25 years.

Rhode Island students who graduated in 2010 had approximately $26,340 in average student debt — the ninth highest in the nation, according to a report released last Thursday by the Project on Student Debt, an initiative of the non-profit Institute for College Access and Success, which analyzes trends in college accessibility.

According the institute, Bryant University had the highest student loan debt of Rhode Island colleges and universities for graduates in 2010, with $39,490 owed on average by its students. The average amount owed by undergraduate students nationally who graduated in 2010 was $25,250.

“Any plan that reduces students’ overall debt, their monthly

payments and the time taken to repay their debt is a good thing,” said Anthony Gallonio, director of financial aid at the Rhode Island School of Design. But the plan is still very new. “As far as the effects that this new plan can have on students, that’s still up in the air,” he said.

“Student loans are definitely an issue on our campus,” said Nick Tsimortos, the student body president of Roger Williams University. “If you talk to anyone just out of college, the number one concern is student loans.”

But Tsimortos said he is concerned about the plan’s potential contribution to the national debt.

“Our society is doing a good job at getting a higher education, but in the process we are indebting ourselves,” he said.

The plan has been criticized because it will only apply to current college students, as borrowers are required to owe on student loans taken out in 2012 or later to qualify. “My concern is that I think it affects a small group of people,” said James Tilton, director of financial aid at Brown. The plan, he said, does not help people who are already in default but instead attempts to prevent students from reaching this worst-case scenario.

Little is known about the effect President Obama’s plan will have on Rhode Island, said Gail Mance-Rios, deputy director of the Rhode Island Higher Education Assistance Authority, a group that helps students in Rhode Island meet the costs of higher education through financial guidance.

“RIHEAA doesn’t know exactly how, or to what magnitude, the changes will impact Rhode Island borrowers,” she wrote in an email to The Herald. “That remains to be seen.”

By Eli Okun Contributing Writer

As HIV spreads to new demographics, including students, nonprofit activists and government workers are seeking to raise public awareness about the disease and lower new infection rates despite dwindling financial resources.

The annual number of new cases of AIDS in Rhode Island has decreased by 89 percent since 1993, according to a 2010 Rhode Island Department of Health report released in September. With the decline in total cases, public consciousness about the virus has also diminished, even as new atrisk populations emerge, according to state officials.

The recent decrease in total cases is largely due to needle exchange programs and greater access to clean syringes, which have helped cut new cases of HIV among intravenous drug users by 50 percent since 2005. But 2010 data also show an increase in HIV infections among youth and college-age populations.

Emerging trends

The Miriam Hospital, a Brownaffiliated teaching hospital, conducted a study on 53 new HIV cases. The study found that eight of those cases were undergraduate and graduate students, seven of whom were gay and bisexual men. In 2010, there were eight new cases of HIV among patients ages 13-19, the first time a number for that group has been reported in the past several years. Data are not reported for a specific group if there are fewer than five new cases in a year.

It is unclear whether this spike is a harbinger or an anomaly, experts said. “I don’t want to be an alarmist, but it may be an emerging trend to focus on,” said Thomas Bertrand, executive director of AIDS Project Rhode Island.

Adolescents, especially gay and bisexual men, merit more attention with regards to HIV, said Curt Beckwith, associate professor of medicine at Alpert Medical School and the Miriam Hospital.

“In a sense, it’s a new generation of patients that we’re seeing,” he said, adding that an uptick in infections among students at local colleges and universities necessitates “targeted intervention and prevention on campuses, which is new.”

Aida Manduley ’11, a sexual health advocate at the nonprofit Sojourner House, said young people today are not sufficiently aware of the continuing danger the disease poses. “I think a lot of people are growing complacent regarding the treatment of HIV,” she said, “because they didn’t experience the time when it was all over the media.”

Gabe Spellberg ’13.5, a volunteer at AIDS Project Rhode Island, said he sees a lack of ur-

gency about preventing AIDS in the LGBTQ community at Brown, despite widespread knowledge of the issue and access to condoms.

“Among the gay community, there’s just this attitude that you can hook up with whatever people you want, and you’ll be okay,” he said. “It’s good to be sex-positive, but the more people you hook up with, there’s no denying that the higher your risk will be.”

Treating at-risk populations

Black and Hispanic women comprise two high-risk populations that are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS, though disparities between racial groups are often more pronounced in southern states than in Rhode Island. An Oct. 27 forum in Woonsocket addressed the disease’s high prevalence among these women.

Manduley said a variety of factors make black and Hispanic women — especially those who are economically disadvantaged — more susceptible to contracting HIV. “It’s basically a matrix of sociocultural factors that comes into play,” she said. “Addressing HIV means addressing poverty, means addressing domestic violence.”

Because the problem is so multifaceted, many of the organizations that work to treat and prevent the disease have initiatives that provide a wide range of services for at-risk communities. Paul Fitzgerald, the executive director and CEO of AIDS Care Ocean State, said his nonprofit attempts to tackle the problem by focusing in particular on helping patients with housing, drug use and childcare issues.

In Rhode Island, men have made up roughly 75 percent of new HIV positive tests for the past several years. With the exception of 2009, when a spike in diagnoses of Hispanics contributed to an overall increase in the HIV incidence rate, whites have generally been a plurality of the new cases.

HIV incidence in newborns has dropped to about zero over the past several years as a result of state-mandated availability of testing for pregnant women, said Bertrand, who described the policy as one of several “tremendous successes.” But he noted that Rhode Island has trailed Massachusetts in reducing its new HIV cases.

In 2008, Rhode Island ranked 37th nationally in the number of HIV cases it has ever reported to the Center for Disease Control.

The state ranks 43rd in population.

Bathhouses are more prevalent in Rhode Island than in other states, Fitzgerald said, adding that these establishments attract people from other states and serve as breeding grounds for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

Moving forward, Fitzgerald said he sees a need for a major

push to halt the disease via better access to testing, greater public awareness and a stronger focus on prevention. “If we can change behavior enough, I think we can end this disease,” he said.

Shrinking budgets, changing strategies

Meanwhile, the state government is changing the way it addresses the disease, an issue of particular concern to First Lady Stephanie Chafee P’14, a former nurse who has worked with HIV/ AIDS patients since the 1980s.

This spring, the Rhode Island General Assembly divided responsibility for preventing and treating the disease between two separate departments. The impending change will reassign certain responsibilities previously held by the Department of Health.

“The Department of Health will continue to perform surveillance and monitoring of HIV/ AIDS transmission and prevalence, while the management of pharmaceutical and social service benefits will be under the auspices of the Department of Human Services,” wrote Beryl Kenyon, public information officer for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, in an email to The Herald.

Nonprofit workers said it was not immediately clear how the impending change would affect AIDS prevention efforts. Cuts to the state budget have meant decreased funding to fight HIV and AIDS in recent years. The Sojourner House lost all its HIV/ AIDS funding in January due to budget cuts. The organization had to craft a new HIV/AIDS program over the summer that included financial literacy training in order to receive state funding again.

In 2009, the CDC provided Rhode Island with roughly $2.7 million to fight the disease, much of which the state funnels to various nonprofit groups. Even as money becomes tighter, Rhode Island groups are still seeking out new methods of prevention and treatment.

Fitzgerald said some doctors are now considering providing antiretroviral drugs to fight HIV to people who have not contracted the disease but are considered high-risk based on their sexual activity or drug use. He noted that the move is very controversial, especially because some question its cost-effectiveness.

More immediately, though, most organizations are focused on ramping up efforts to prevent transmission, especially on college campuses. Manduley said administrators should be careful not to restrict their focus solely to gay students. “Brown has been really good in terms of providing free testing and giving referrals to people,” she said. “In general, schools should be making HIV an issue for all students.”

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Education report calls for W. basketball opens season with losses tied the game with just 14 seconds free throw attempt, Burr came continued from page 8 community involvement remaining. on to the court to protest the call, continued from page 1 75 percent of elementary schools should score at or above the proficient level on state reading tests next October. In 2010, only half of Providence’s elementary schools had at least 50 percent of their third graders score proficient or higher.

city & state To reach this specific goal, the committee suggests pairing each third-grade classroom with an “external community partner focused on improving reading proficiency.”

The ideal system “provides a range of learning opportunities and settings for students and encourages multiple pathways to success,” it states. “Excellence has emerged in some schools as a result of individuals leading the way towards high-quality educational outcomes, rather than the system as a whole providing the necessary structures and supports.”

The report also identifies five overarching goals, including ensuring that kindergarten students arrive prepared to succeed and that high school students graduate with the necessary skills for higher education or a career.

The working group comprised parents, education professionals, a business leader, a representative from the mayor’s office, the director of the Rhode Island College Education Leadership Program and two University faculty members — Warren Simmons, executive director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, and Kenneth Wong, chair of the Education Department.

“We all have begun to understand that while it’s important to have visionary, ambitious leaders tasked with changing the school system, it’s a task that we all share,” said Simmons, who moderated the panel discussion that followed the group’s presentation. This report differs from other reports, he said, because it took a community-centered approach, rather than one centered around a few key leaders.

Susan Lusi, interim superintendent of the Providence Public School District, said implementing the working group’s recommendations will be a challenge. She

said she is working with others to develop an “actionable plan” for the school system by January or February, when the school board will meet to discuss the budget for the upcoming year.

Felix Batista, a student at Brandeis University, and Yanaiza Gallant, a Providence elementary school teacher and reading specialist, both emphasized the important role outside organizations play in contributing to students’ education. Batista and Gallantt attended middle and high school in Providence.

Batista said his participation in the College Visions advising program, an example of an outside organization the group recognizes as fundamental to the success of Providence students, gave him the necessary guidance to complete the daunting college application process.

Gallant said classroom teachers alone cannot meet all the needs of their 26 or so students. She added that programs like Inspiring Minds, which pairs college mentors with elementary school students, promote students’ emotional and social well-being.

“An urban teacher is a social worker, psychologist and nurse before she can begin to teach,” Gallant said.

Responding to a question about the role of higher education in Providence, Taveras said the city’s colleges and universities provide after-school opportunities. He said expanding opportunities for Providence students to explore “the other side of the world” by visiting college campuses would have a valuable impact.

Steve Buka, chair of the epidemiology department, attended the panel and told The Herald that while he agrees with Taveras regarding universities’ ability to improve Providence schools, the mayor overlooked the role professors and researchers can play. “Professors, researchers and scientists have the capacity to ask real-world questions,” he said.

Faculty members and graduate students can bring schools a wealth of new resources and serve as “knowledge-generators” who partner with active community members, he said.

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of the half, they went on an offensive charge and entered halftime with a three-point lead, 34-31.

The Highlanders slowly extended their lead in the beginning of the second half and by the 12:32 mark, had increased their advantage to 13.

With a pair of three-pointers from rookie Nelly Weledji ’15, the Bears launched a second attack late in the half. At the 2:36 mark, Brown went on a 12-2 run that

“I was really happy to see our bench come in and take charge,” Burr said. “With our foul trouble, a few people came off the bench and made a contribution.”

But with only one second of play remaining, Highlander Kimberly Dweck lobbed up a deep three-pointer, hoping for a miracle finish. She missed, but point guard Lauren Clarke ’14 was whistled for a foul on the shot.

After Dweck netted the first

drawing a technical foul. The combination of infractions gave NJIT four free throw attempts. They put in three, walking away with the 70-66 win.

“We would have taken them into overtime,” Dixon said. The referee’s call “made the game.”

The Bears will be back in action this Saturday evening, as they take on the University of Albany at the Pizzitola Center in search of their first win of the season.

Bears face Union and RPI, take win and loss continued from page 8 the line.

“We just weren’t on Saturday night,” Maclellan said. “When there were loose pucks, we weren’t burying those opportunities. We weren’t as prepared as we needed to be.”

Looking to rally late, the team fell short. In the final period, Den-

nis Robertson ’14 hit the post during the team’s sixth power play of the night as the Bears squandered their last chance to break even.

Though the weekend had its ups and downs, Maclellan and Farnham both said the team has potential, especially in its stifling defense.

“We were good defensively all weekend,” Maclellan said. “Giving

up two goals on any weekend is usually going to lead to two wins.”

The squad will hit the road again next weekend when it travels to West Point, N.Y., Nov. 19 to take on Army (1-5-2).

“We feel really good about our team,” Farnham said. “We’re a good team, but we have the makings of a great team. And we need to take care of business at Army.”

Bruno to compete in NCAA tournament continued from page 1 little nervous about getting in.”

The Bears found themselves in a similar situation as last season, when they earned an at-large bid to the tournament and went on to defeat No. 25 Boston College and No. 9 University of Connecticut before losing in the Sweet 16 to No. 6 University of California at

Berkeley.

If the Bears are able to navigate past the Stags, they will advance to take on No. 9 St. John’s, a team they battled to a 0-0 draw on Oct. 4.

But the squad must focus on Fairfield before they consider the possibility of advancing.

“It’s good to see St. John’s since we are familiar with them, but

Coach (Patrick Laughlin) stressed that Fairfield is first,” McDuff said.

“The draw doesn’t mean anything if we don’t take advantage of it. We need to concentrate one game at a time.”

The Bears and the Stags square off Thursday at 7 p.m. at Stevenson Field.

A version of this story appeared on blogdailyherald.com.

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by lo r e n f u lto n

Getting STEM to stick A recent New York Times article lamented high attrition rates among undergraduates in STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and math (“Why Science Majors Change Their Mind,” Nov. 4). Targeted improvements in elementary through high school curricula have received attention and yielded promising results. Yet while plenty of students entering college express interest in majoring in STEM fields, the large number of undergraduates that later switch into nonSTEM fields indicates factors at play beyond a stereotypical college student’s indecision. Moreover, the disproportionately low number of women and minorities who indicate an intention to choose such a major at the start of their college career is further aggravated when one examines the number of those who actually complete degrees in math and science.

Promising students lose interest in STEM fields by their second or third year of college, undermining national goals of creating a new generation of engineers and STEM educators. What’s more, this phenomenon is more pronounced at elite universities.

Many introductory science and math classes at competitive schools have lagged in engaging students in interactive ways. Two months ago, the American Association of Universities, of which Brown is a member, began an initiative aimed at improving undergraduate STEM education, citing a specific goal to evaluate “the extent to which effective teaching methods are being used by academic departments.”

This may mean a transition from cut-and-dry problem sets to more open-ended, project-based learning that encourages students to apply their knowledge to real-world problems that interest them.

Another serious consideration for students is grading systems in STEM classes. A 2010 study by Kevin Rask at Wake Forest University examined longitudinal data for 5,000 undergraduates at a liberal arts school and found that “absolute grades (not relative to performance in non-STEM classes) are one of the largest and most persistent factors in attrition of undergraduates from STEM departments.” Due to disproportionate grade inflation in non-STEM fields, a student is more likely to earn a higher GPA in the humanities and social sciences than if he or she were to major in the physical or life sciences.

Brown, for its part, makes a significant effort to recruit talented applicants interested in scientific disciplines. But we are not exempt from this nationwide trend of attrition and must fully consider how to retain STEM undergraduates. Reassessing the value of traditional teaching methods and moving toward application-based projects in introductory courses is worth immediate consideration. Many science classes already involve laboratory components which could easily be updated to encourage creative learning.

It can also be difficult for a non-STEM concentrator to explore classes in science and math, and we encourage departments in these fields to adapt or create on-ramp courses that allow students to gain experience and understanding in scientific fields without piled-on prerequisites.

We hope that Brown’s membership in the AAU leads the University to seriously evaluate the ways in which it can increase its own STEM retention and create replicable methods that can lead to an upturn in nationwide completion of degrees in these disciplines.

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letter to the editor Coal to Diamonds & Coal To the Editor: I am writing to voice my concern and, frankly, my disgust with the way in which Friday’s Herald made light of the sexual abuse charges against Jerry Sandusky (“Diamonds & Coal,” Nov. 11). The piece in “Diamonds & Coal” did more than just suggest any parallels between child rape and the upcoming Brown vs. Dartmouth game, it outright stated them.

I cannot believe that I, or any other member of the Brown community, should have to actually take the time to say this, but here it is: This is not funny.

Innocent children were subjected to the most harmful and barbarous acts imaginable at the hands of a

monster, and for this paper to attempt bringing any levity to the situation is beyond disturbing. I would go so far as to call it morally reprehensible, though that is of course only my opinion.

I have a great faith in the student body here, and I respect the freedom to publish any manner of political or satirical opinions. Yet at some point, the editorial staff must recognize certain views may not only be tactless, but downright repugnant. This piece is an example of satire going too far, and The Herald should be deeply ashamed.

Aaron Weinstein GS

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I think we can end this disease.

— Paul Fitzgerald, executive director and CEO of AIDS Care Ocean State See hiv on page 4.

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The Brown Daily Herald Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Thinking about drinking

By Jared Moffat Opinions Columnist

A topic that rarely gets addressed in The Herald’s opinions columns is the drinking culture here at Brown. After recently learning that Sex Power God saw 12 students EMS’d from the party this year and that this semester’s first-year Orientation had a similarly alarming rate of reported drinking incidents (“EMS calls increase during orientation,” Sept. 9), I reckoned that it would not hurt to bring the subject up for discussion. I think Health Services does a wonderful job of keeping alcohol safety on our minds. But I suspect that we tend to tune out the repetitive messages from authority figures, so it is important that we students participate in the dialogue about drinking, too.

I will say at the outset that I am no moralizing teetotaler. I do not want to patronize anyone. My goal is just to encourage some collective self-reflection. Let’s note at the start that alcohol can be appreciated as a blessing in some ways. It can sometimes help a shy person come out of his shell, and the social lubrication of moderate inebriation often makes communal events more enjoyable. I think most of us would agree that there is nothing wrong with having a couple of drinks with some friends. But in American culture — especially collegiate culture — the more posi-

tive aspects of alcohol consumption are often exaggerated and tend to distract us from the harms that drinking can inflict on our bodies and our relationships.

There are three issues in particular that deserve some attention. The first is a comment about the danger of mixing alcohol with other substances. I sometimes notice a misguided sort of reasoning in the attitudes of students: “If I’m already drinking, which is bad for me, then it doesn’t change much if I consume something else

ed rather than just planning to enjoy the night. I suggest that we discourage this type of attitude among our friends, if only for their own safety.

Secondly, we know that alcohol goes hand in hand with sexual assault. Drinking not only makes us hornier, it also makes us less inclined to respect another individual’s personal space. The more one drinks, the more one forgets what is socially acceptable and how the situation looks from the outside. There are, no

I think most of us would agree that there is nothing wrong with having a couple of drinks with some friends.

But in American culture — especially collegiate culture — the more positive aspects of alcohol consumption are often exaggerated. with it.” The fact is that heavy alcohol consumption by itself can be lethal, but combining drinking with the intake of other substances significantly increases intoxication and the risk of bodily harm. Alcohol in combination with caffeine, cocaine, ecstasy or pharmaceutical drugs — especially Adderall, Xanax, sleep aids and pain killers — can cause exponentially more damage to the body than alcohol alone.

Many alcohol-related deaths involve an additional substance in the body. The desire to mix alcohol and other drugs is a sign that someone is set on getting wast-

doubt, many cases of sexual misconduct that go unreported because of certain rationalizations: “Well, we were both really drunk,” or “He was probably so drunk he doesn’t even remember.” You get the idea.

It is a mistake to excuse inappropriate sexual advances by citing someone’s intoxication, and if this occurs as frequently as I suspect, then it is time we reexamined our culture of intoxication. It bothers me, for instance, that Brown’s weekend parties often intermingle themes of intoxication and sexuality — Sex Power God, Body Chemistry, Get Sleazy and so on. Some

may consider me prudish for saying this, but personally, I believe this precedent creates an undesirable perception that the best time to make your move is when you — and the other person — are drunk.

As a last point, I want to encourage us to assert that competitive drinking is not cool. It’s just downright immature to call someone a “lightweight” or a “pussy” — even in jest — because that person does not want to drink more or drink faster. I would wager that this practice, more than anything else, is what puts people in the hospital. As a campus that prides itself on the intelligence and individuality of its student body, it is ridiculous that we should ever experience this sort of peer pressure.

The majority of drinking games encourage participants to consume more alcohol than they otherwise would, and we ought to be aware that this may put people in awkward situations. No one should feel ashamed of or uncomfortable with slowing down or abstaining from drinking.

I hope that I have not come across as annoyingly self-righteous here. I drink somewhat regularly myself, and there have been occasions when I have exceeded my limits, so I am no angel. But I hope my concerns are shared by all. We go to a university where students are basically treated as full-fledged adults, so let’s conduct ourselves accordingly.

Jared Moffat ’13 is a philosophy concentrator from Jackson, Miss.

He thinks Four Lokos should be avoided at all costs.

Is Health Services healthy?

By Ethan Tobias Opinions Columnist

The University’s highest priority should be the health and safety of its students, yet this does not always seem to be the case at Brown. When I applied, I was told that students seeking Emergency Medical Services would have access to Brown’s Health Services 24 hours a day and that all such visits would be confidential. But just as I arrived, everything changed.

Due to the renewed enforcement of a Rhode Island regulation requiring ambulances to bring patients only to facilities staffed by a physician, Brown began in 2008 transporting students seeking medical help at night to the emergency room at Rhode Island Hospital. At the same time, that meant expensive fees and unwelcome copay charges — something that parents are sure to notice.

The end result of this change in care has been disastrous for the health and safety of Brown students. A recent article in The Herald, (“Fewer EMS’d since 2008 policy change raised costs,” Nov. 7), outlined how the number of students seeking EMS has dropped 29 percent since 2008, while those refusing EMS care had reached its highest levels since 2006, the first year for which data is available.

The new policy represents a very real intrusion on the privacy that all Americans

should expect and an undue burden on students already shouldering the enormous costs of college. It needs to be seen for what it truly is — a failure of the state of Rhode Island to put the health and of its citizens, especially students, first.

“The truth is that the health needs of University students are very different than for the state of Rhode Island at large. By enforcing the regulation, the State forced Brown to disband night hours at Health Services, forcing sick students to go to the emergency room as their only choice. I do not doubt that there are and will continue

In a city like Providence, emergency rooms have a lot more to deal with than an 18-year-old with a stomach bug or a 21-year-old who had a little bit too much to drink for her birthday. For the most part, students’ cases are triaged, often causing them to wait needlessly for hours. A friend of mine, who tripped and fell late at night and cut open his chin, waited in the ER for three hours just to get a bandage. He had to wait until the next day to get the stitches he needed. Not only was his experience a waste of his time, but it may also lead to needless scarring.

The conventional wisdom dictates that one should err on the side of caution, yet the repercussions from sending a friend to the hospital after a night of drinking could be enough to prevent students from making the smart decision.

to be times when students are so sick that they do indeed require emergency room care. In these instances, EMS is doing the only responsible thing by overriding any objections and rushing those in desperate need to the nearest hospital.

But for the vast majority of maladies that students will suffer, a trip to the emergency room can often do more harm than good.

And his case is surely not the only one that could have been handled faster and more efficiently at overnight Health Services.

The truth is that most students would end up calling EMS for a friend because they do not have the patience or the time to act as a mother. A student sick from a night of too much drinking would proba-

bly be fine after drinking a bottle of water and getting a good night’s rest. Yet, when confronted with spending the remainder of one’s Saturday evening returning a drunken friend to his dormitory across campus, washing him up, making sure he drinks water and getting him into bed, many students would rather pick up the phone and call EMS. When Health Services was staffed by nurses 24 hours a day, this was a straightforward decision. Now, one only has two choices: hope for the best or call EMS for the friend, thereby inviting hefty charges for him and likely his resentment, too.

Ultimately, this has created a stigma around calling EMS for a drunken friend.

The conventional wisdom dictates that one should err on the side of caution, yet the repercussions of sending a friend to the hospital after a night of drinking could be enough to prevent students from making the smart decision. The current policy discourages students from calling EMS, and leads to sick students refusing service when medics arrive.

It is time to recognize the renewed enforcement of the Rhode Island policy for what it is — a boon to State treasuries at the expense of students with limited options. It is time for Rhode Island to repeal this unnecessary policy and restore choice to those who happen to fall ill at night.

Ethan Tobias ’12 reminds you to always drink responsibly and seek medical care when necessary. He can be reached at Ethan_Tobias@brown.edu

Daily Herald Sports Tuesday the Brown

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

M. Hockey

W. Basketball

Bears smoke Dutchmen, blanked by Engineers

Bears drop two tight matchups

By connor grealy Sports Staff Writer

The men’s hockey team lived and died by the power play last weekend. Special teams play was a determining factor in the outcome of games at No. 13 Union (5-3-3, 2-2 ECAC ) Friday and RPI (2-9-0, 1-3) Saturday — a 2-1 upset of the Dutchmen and a 1-0 defeat at the hands of the Engineers.

Brown 2, Union 1

The road trip did not start auspiciously against a competitive Union squad. Union’s Daniel Carr slotted the puck past goalie Mike Clemente ’12 only 32 seconds into the first period, putting the Bears in an early hole.

“You never want to get scored on that early,” said captain Jack Maclellan ’12. “We knew that we were ready for the game, but that was kind of deflating.”

Yet the team was not held down for long, as Maclellan responded with two first period goals to seize the lead, 2-1.

After peppering the goal with shots from Mike Wolff ’12 and assistant captain Bobby Farnham ’12, Maclellan found the back of the net for his first goal of the night with just under four minutes remaining in the first period.

“It was nice to get that first one back later in the period,” Maclellan said. “It was a product of hard work and guys crashing the net.”

The goal that put Bruno ahead came during a power play near the end of the period. Maclellan powered a shot over the goalie’s glove for the go-ahead score after receiving a pass from Matt Wahl ’14 as he came into the offensive zone.

“It’s nice to go into the inter-

mission with a lead,” Maclellan said. “When you can come out of a period when you didn’t play well with a 2-1 lead, it’s a relief.”

The game was far from over, but the team maintained strong defense for the final two periods to keep Union off the scoreboard.

Clemente, who had 24 stops for the day, saved a number of breakaway shots and combined with the stalwart play of the defense to kill four power-play opportunities and, as Farnham put it, “win the special teams battle.”

RPI 1, Brown 0

Power plays again took on a leading role against RPI the following night. Previously winless in the ECAC, RPI was able to capitalize on Brown’s inability to convert its one-man advantage and come away with the two points.

“It was a frustrating game,” Farnham said. “I thought we had some opportunities to put pucks in the net.”

The team failed to seize its scoring chances in the first period, spoiling three power plays, including a two-man advantage. Later in the first, with a man advantage, RPI countered off a missed shot from Farnham to take the lead heading to intermission. Ryan Haggerty was left unmarked and scored what would prove to be the deciding goal, RPI’s first in three games.

In the second period, the Bears nearly tied it up. Jeff Buvinow ’12 beat RPI goalie Bryce Merriam, but his shot glanced off the post.

In the ensuing confusion, neither team could locate the puck, and the play was whistled dead before Jarred Smith ’12 finally put it over continued on page 5

By Madeleine Wenstrup Sports Staff Writer

The women’s basketball team took two hits during the opening weekend of its 2011-12 campaign, falling to the University of New Hampshire in their season opener Friday and to the New Jersey Institute of Technology Sunday afternoon.

UNH 62, Brown 57

For the team’s opening game, the Bears were ready to see what they could do after a tough week of practice, said guard Sheila Dixon ’13.

“We went in very confident,” she said. “We were very pumped about what we could do against New Hampshire, since we beat them last year.”

But the Wildcats barely gave Bruno a chance Friday evening at the Pizzitola Center. Though the final score was close, the Bears never led in the entire 40 minutes of play.

Four minutes into the first half, the Wildcats were up 7-0. Dixon put up 10 points in the first half, but the Wildcats’ initial lead gave them the edge, and the Bears walked off the court at halftime trailing 26-22.

The second half began like the first half ended. The teams traded baskets, with UNH consistently a few points ahead. At the 13:53 mark, the Wildcats poured in 14 points in a four minute span to give them their biggest lead of the night, 48-30.

“We scouted them well,” Dixon said. “But we didn’t capitalize on our strengths and their weaknesses.”

But the Bears were not ready to give up. An offensive charge, led by co-captain Hannah Passafuime ’12, pulled the Bears back within three points with two minutes remaining in the game. Passafuime

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Sheila Dixon ’13 has led the team with 18 points per game during the Bears’ two-game losing streak to open the season.

put up nine points in Bruno’s sixminute run and earned 17 points for the game.

But Brown did not have enough to push past UNH. In the last 1:30 of the game, the Bears missed three crucial layups. Despite a three-pointer by Dixon with four seconds remaining, the Wildcats walked away with the win, 62-57.

“We were making some good defensive plays as a group,” said Head Coach Jean Burr. “But we were playing a good team and we just needed a little bit more time on the clock.”

Passafuime, Dixon and Wildcat Kelsey Hogan tied for leading scorer with 17 points each.

NJIT 70, Brown 66

The Bears started off strong against the Highlanders, holding a five-point lead with just over 13 minutes remaining in the first half. The teams then began to match basket for basket until NJIT evened the score 12-12 at the 11:23 mark. Less than a minute later NJIT took their first lead, 13-12.

Passafuime and Dixon teamed up with six and eight points respectively, and the duo put Bruno ahead 27-20 with four minutes left in the half.

But the Highlanders did not concede. In the final two minutes continued on page 5

W. hockey

Bruno defeats Union for first conference win of season

By Sam Wickham Sports Staff Writer

Two late goals helped the women’s hockey team go undefeated in conference play this weekend, tying RPI 2-2 Friday and beating Union 1-0 Saturday. A third-period tally from forward Sarah Robson ’15 brought the Bears (2-2-3, 1-2-3 ECAC) level with the Engineers (3-7-4, 1-3-2).

The win against the Dutchwomen (3-9-1, 1-4-1) was the Bears’ first in conference play. Strong performances from goaltenders Aubree Moore ’14 and Katie Jamieson ’13 helped Bruno lock down on defense and secure three points on the weekend.

Brown 2, RPI 2

After being outshot 10-5 in the first period, Bruno struck first halfway through the second frame. Cocaptain Katelyn Landry ’12 blasted a shot on net, forcing a save from

the Engineer goalie. The rebound fell to Skyelar Siwak ’12, who wristed a shot into the goal to give the Bears a 1-0 advantage.

“We definitely played more of a complete game than we have in the past,” Landry said. “Our offense was a lot more effective.”

But Bruno was not on top for long, and the Engineers found the back of the net just 48 seconds later to level the score at 1-1. RPI struck again less than a minute later on a power-play goal to suddenly snatch the lead with over a period left to play.

The Bears did not go down easily, finding an equalizer after some scrappy play late in the third period. Robson picked up the puck along the boards and drove toward net. She then beat her defenders and the goalie to give the Bears the 2-2 tie and earn a point from the contest.

Brown 1, Union 0

The Dutchwomen came out flying in the first period, with each of their 17 shots forcing a save from Moore.

“We came out slow in the first period,” Landry said. “But we regrouped after that and just refocused from there. We got our momentum rolling, but it just took until late in the game to finally find a goal.”

The breakthrough came with just 1:12 left in regulation. Janice Wang ’15 carried the puck into the Union zone and centered it to Landry for the game-winner.

“Janice and I in the third period were really rolling well, creating a lot of chances,” Landry said. “Once I got it, I just shot it as hard as I could.”

Bruno hits the road next weekend to challenge non-league foe the University of Maine (7-5-2) Friday and Saturday in a home-and-home

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Lauren Jaulin ’13, the Bears’ points leader the last two years, has not produced as consistently as she has in the past.

series.

“Getting a win under our belt — especially a league win — will give

us a lot of confidence,” Landry said.

“We just have to stick to playing our game and keep working hard.”