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Rock group added to U. accepts BCA spring lineup 2,760 to class of 2016

By Katherine Long Senior Staff Writer

The Walkmen, a rock band, will perform on Saturday night of Spring Weekend.

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The Brown Concert Agency announced a surprise addition to the Spring Weekend lineup on their website last night. Rock group the Walkmen will play Saturday night of Spring Weekend in between rapper Cam’ron and electronic outfit the Glitch Mob, according to BCA Co-Chair Gillian Brassil ’12.

Before the announcement, the “most overwhelming criticism” the concert agency received about this year’s electronic-heavy lineup was that there wasn’t any rock

music, Brassil said. The Walkmen will be the only rock group to perform at Spring Weekend.

“The secret of the whole thing is that we hadn’t locked in the Walkmen before spring break,” Brassil said. “But we said, ‘Let’s just go ahead and announce the lineup and add the Walkmen at the end.’ We thought it would be a nice little surprise.”

Brassil said it was a happy accident that adding the group responds so well to student dissatisfaction with the current lineup.

The Walkmen, a five-member

school. Kim previously headed the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights within the Harvard School of Public Health. He also served as a director of the department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization from 2004 to 2006 and co-founded the nonprofit Partners in Health, which offers health care services for the poor, with internationally known physician Paul Farmer in 1987.

“As a physician, anthropologist and pioneer in the field of global health, (Kim) has proven himself to be a creative, determined leader,” wrote Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University relations, in an email to The Herald.

Kim has been widely regarded

The University accepted 9.6 percent of applicants to the incoming class of 2016 Thursday, resulting in the thirdlowest admittance rate in Brown’s history. A total of 2,760 out of 28,742 applicants — which includes both those who applied early and regular decision — were offered places in the class of 2016, according to a University press release.

The University offered admission slots to regular decision applicants Thursday, having already admitted 556 applicants under its binding early decision program last December, The Herald previously reported.

The number of total applications received was at a three-year low, following a record-setting year in which the University received 30,948 applications for the class of 2015. This year’s acceptance was the third-lowest in Brown’s history, above last year’s record-low acceptance rate of 8.7 percent.

All Ivy League institutions announced their regular round decisions Thursday. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell posted record-low admit rates, while Penn’s acceptance rate remained the same as last year at 12.3 percent. Columbia was the only other Ivy that experienced an increase in acceptance rate,

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Tougaloo Kim ’82 tapped to lead World Bank trip studies civil rights at its source

By Eli Okun Senior Staff Writer

When seven students visited Tougaloo College in Mississippi over spring break to do first-hand research on the American civil rights movement, they faced with more than just primary source documents. They also experienced life on Tougaloo’s campus, visited museums documenting the movement and participated in a rally, which served as a reminder that the issues of the civil rights era persist today, students said.

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By Emma Wohl Arts & Culture Editor

Through the Brown-Tougaloo exchange program established in 1964, students from Brown and Tougaloo — a historically black liberal arts college — can switch schools for a semester. But this one-week program allowed six undergraduates and one graduate student to experience life in the Deep South during their spring break.

The trip offered “an experience to Brown undergraduates unfamiliar with the Deep South who study the mass civil rights movement,” said Francoise Hamlin, assistant professor of history and

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Chronicling a never-ending plunge into grief Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — we are taught to think of grief as a rationally ordered journey that progresses through five stages with relief at

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But in Clara Lieu’s exhibit “Sinking,” a collection of 20 drawings on display at the Brown/RISD Hillel Gallery through April 4, the oppressive influence of depression offers no such order or relief.

Lieu, a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, selected the works for the exhibit from a collection of 50 self-portraits

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called “Falling” based on her personal experience battling depression. Each drawing is a close-up of the artist’s face — ­ from piece to piece, she appears to grow older and younger, the lines and features on her face growing or contracting. In most of the pieces, Lieu’s facial features are contorted into an extreme expression of pain and suffering.

In Self-Portrait No. 7, her teeth are bared, her nose scrunched up and her eyes cast towards the heaven, but whether she is staring with anger or seeking some elusive hope of respite is unclear.

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In “Sinking,” RISD professor Clara Lieu chronicles grief through self-portraiture.

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President Obama announced March 23 the nomination of Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim ’82 to lead the World Bank. Kim, a public health expert and physician, has been called an unconventional choice for the presidency, a position that has been filled by individuals with experience in politics or business since the bank’s founding.

“It’s time for a development professional to lead the world’s largest development agency,” Obama said in a Rose Garden ceremony when he announced the pick.

The Obama administration searched for candidates outside the traditional banking and government fields due to signs of developing

countries’ increased dissatisfaction with the United States’ control over the World Bank’s leadership. Bloomberg reported earlier this month that the Obama administration had included President Ruth Simmons on an initial list of potential nominees to lead the World Bank.

The interdisciplinary nature of Kim’s scholarship would allow him to bring a fresh viewpoint to the World Bank, said Ed Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences.

“Jim Yong Kim has a unique perspective on world health, particularly on developing countries. He’s very aware of the importance of economics to health and vice versa,” Wing said.

Kim has served as Dartmouth’s president since July 2009. His selection made him the first AsianAmerican president of an Ivy League

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continued from page 1 as a leading voice in global health issues. He received a grant from the MacArthur Fellows Program in 2003 and was mentioned on the Time 100 list of influential people in 2006 for his work on global health issues. In 2009, he received an honorary Doctor of Medical Science degree from Brown. “It’s my personal belief that every human being on the face of the earth deserves access to health care,” Kim said during an April 2009 lecture at the University that focused on health care delivery in developing countries.

Kim is embarking on a “listening tour” to meet with World Bank stakeholders in developing countries from March 27 to April 9. The impetus for the tour was increasing dissatisfaction among developing countries with U.S. dominance over the World Bank.

The U.S. traditionally selects the World Bank president under an informal agreement that keeps the International Monetary Fund’s top position in European hands. In recent months, though, two challengers have emerged as candidates for the World Bank position: Nigerian finance minister and former World Bank official Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, around whom many African countries have coalesced, and former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo, who has garnered similar support in Latin America.

“We have been locked out of the system for the past 60 years,” OkonjoIweala told the Washington Post last week. Though both candidates will be interviewed for the position, most

analysts believe Kim will still win the nomination.

Current World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced his resignation in February and will step down from the post June 30.

Kim’s tenure at Dartmouth has been marked by clashes with student leaders and dissatisfaction within the university community. If selected to lead the World Bank, he will leave a campus lit up this semester by controversy over hazing ­— Dartmouth was recently spotlighted in a Rolling Stone article on hazing that harpooned the school for “rampant” sexual assault and an “attitude of inherent entitlement,” particularly among fraternities.

The article came after Dartmouth senior and ex-fraternity member Andrew Lohse penned a January column for the Dartmouth that detailed humiliating experiences he underwent as a pledge for Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The column prompted Dartmouth’s Undergraduate Judicial Affairs Committee to charge 27 of the fraternity’s members — including Lohse — and the fraternity itself with hazing. But the committee dropped all individual charges last week, The Dartmouth reported Friday. The hazing scandal this semester, during which Kim remained largely silent, combined with initial impressions of Kim’s aloofness, rubbed many students the wrong way, said Max Yoeli, the student body president and a Dartmouth senior.

“I think now, especially with his recent World Bank nomination, people look back at the early criticism of him and see that a lot of it was warranted,” Yoeli said. “There

is a sense of outrage among a lot of the students that he would spend as little as two years, nine months at Dartmouth.”

Kim’s tenure failed to catalyze widespread support, said Dartmouth junior Ashley Afranie-Sakyi. “From the start there were mumblings that he was going to be like an interim president, he wasn’t going to stick around, and with what’s going on right now — his nomination of course is what’s good for him, but it kind of bolsters what people were saying,” she said.

In an editorial Friday, the Dartmouth cited Kim’s inadequacy in addressing student life matters.

“Successfully addressing these issues requires a College president who is keen to interact regularly with the entire student body and listen to its concerns and ideas, not one who simply slashes budgets and concentrates on reputation behind an opaque veil of bureaucracy,” the paper wrote.

Yoeli said Kim’s focus on fundraising and improving Dartmouth’s image often made him more popular outside the school, creating a dichotomy between reactions in the press and on campus. “In part because of his devotion to image and reaching out to the alumni community, President Kim seems to be pretty popular among the alumni,” Yoeli added.

Born in South Korea, Kim grew up in Iowa and graduated from Brown in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in human biology. He also holds a medical degree and a doctorate in anthropology from Harvard. ­­— With additional reporting by David Chung

Admit rate third-lowest in U. history continued from page 1 rising from 6.9 to 7.4 percent.

As in previous years, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia had lower admittance rates than Brown.

Harvard posted the lowest rate, admitting only 5.9 percent of applicants this year, according to the Crimson.

Brown’s admitted pool represents all 50 states and 80 countries, consistent with acceptances in recent years.

The domestic admits come heavily from the Northeast and California, and the largest numbers of international admits hail from China, Canada, Korea, India and the United Kingdom.

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entering class of 1,515 students, a predicted yield of 55 percent. This represents an increase of 30 students in the expected size of the freshman class from last year.

The admitted students display characteristics similar to admitted students in recent years. Sixteen percent come from families without previous college graduates and 95 percent were in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. High school valedictorians and salutatorians make up 47 percent of the admitted students, according to the University’s press release.

About two-thirds applied for financial aid, a number consistent with past years, according to Jim Tilton,

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director of financial aid. “It is far too early to predict the percentage of students in the class of 2016 who will receive need-based aid,” he wrote in an email to The Herald. “We have no idea which students will commit, and we have many families who have requested consideration for financial aid and have not yet submitted all of their application materials.”

Of the class of 2015, 47 percent receive need-based financial aid, Tilton wrote.

Just over half of all admitted students expressed interest in the physical and life sciences, according to the press release. Engineering, biology, international relations, economics and English were the five most popular intended concentrations.

Admitted students must notify the University of their decisions by May 1.

Will Barkeley applied to Brown in the early decision round and was deferred, but he was accepted through regular decision. Barkeley said he was not optimistic and considered Brown a reach. “My scores, in all reality, are not Ivy caliber, so I think Brown really took a holistic look at my application,” he said. Barkeley said he believes his acceptance may have been won by his strong essays, frequent contact with his alum interviewer and extracurricular activity.

“If I could build a school for myself that fit my personality, it’d be Brown,” he said.

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Metcalf decorated with alum’s art Occupiers commit to reseed Burnside Park By ju myoung kim Staff Writer

The courtyard entrance to the newly renovated Metcalf Laboratories is now transformed into slanted mirrored glass installed over the rectangular incision of the floor. The new feature is a public art installation, called P-131317 — an architectural intervention created by artist Sarah Oppenheimer ’95 with collaborators David Botts and Yuri Wegman, who assisted with the installation’s construction.

The transparent glass creates disorienting and perplexing illusions that blur the physical boundaries between the building’s walls, basement level and the outdoors.

Walking through the entrance feels unique and different every time, depending on the time of the day, the amount of light and people’s movements reflected in the oblique glass.

“The relationship between the general, repetitive motifs of architectural space and the specificity of these motifs in the built environment is an underlying framework of my work,” Oppenheimer said.

The holes, such as the incision of the first floor, function as catalysts, she said. They reconfigure the standardized planes, such as walls, ceilings and floors, and enable the flow of light, sight and motion between discrete spaces, she added.

For this particular installation, Oppenheimer said she considered the “specific spatial array” of Metcalf and examined how a hole through this array would impact the perception of the space.

The idea of perception inspired Oppenheimer several years ago when she discovered the work of William Warren, professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences. Warren’s work clarified her understanding of the perception of spatial reconfiguration and impacted the direction of P-131317, as well as her other work in general, she said.

Oppenheimer’s work is perfectly appropriate for Metcalf, said Jo-Ann Conklin, director of the David Winton Bell Gallery and the curator of the exhibit. When choosing artwork to install, the Public Art Committee begins by thinking about where the work will be located, she said. For each new building on campus, the committee uses the allocated budget to spend

By elizabeth koh Senior Staff Writer

Four members of the Occupy Providence movement marched to City Hall last Monday to reaffirm the group’s commitment to reseed Burnside Park and voice concerns about the city’s decision to seal the park for scheduled maintenance until June.

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Holes enable the flow of light between disparate spaces in Metcalf Laboratories.

on the building’s art and design.

Oppenheimer’s work matches the research about perception in the cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences in Metcalf, she said.

The courtyard entrance is a good place for installation, because it is “a common area where everyone passes through,” Conklin said.

Installing in the courtyard had some challenges, “from the complexity of installing large scale pieces of glass on a sloped angle to mathematically modeling how the material deflection would impact image distortion,” Oppenheimer said.

Working on the project enabled her to extend her ongoing investigation into glass’ ability to function simultaneously as a mirror, window and boundary plane, she added.

Both Conklin and Oppenheimer recommended looking at the different reflectivity of the sloped glass. “The experience of the work changes drastically as time passes from daylight to dusk to night,” Oppenheimer said.

With the bright daylight, when viewed from the lower level, “the piece is a perfect periscope (and) the building appears to fold at a right angle overhead,” she said.

When viewed at night from outside, the piece is transformed into a

Walkmen to rock out at Spring Weekend continued from page 1 band based in New York City, won public attention after the release of its 2008 album “You and Me” and toured with Fleet Foxes last summer.

“I’ve seen them three times, and every time I’m completely bowled over by their ability to switch between giving a totally relaxed, totally mellow performance and then reaching out and

smashing the audience with their sound,” said BCA board member Phillipe Roberts ’15. Roberts was a staunch proponent of booking the Walkmen to perform.

Providence brass band What Cheer? Brigade, electronic duo Sepalcure and Childish Gambino will also perform Friday night, and new wave synth outfit Twin Shadow, hip hop golden child Cam’ron and the Glitch Mob will perform Saturday.

translucent periscope, and the view of the basement floor is projected on top of the frontal view into the building, she added.

“It was wonderful to return to campus and to see the piece inhabited by others,” Oppenheimer said.

P-131317 will remain as a permanent installation in Metcalf.

marched from the park to the office of Mayor Angel Taveras, presenting three bags of grass seed mixture as a symbolic gesture.

In negotiations with the city in January, Occupy Providence agreed to vacate the park and reseed it in the spring. “We want to make sure the mayor remembers our commitment,” said Occupy member Pat Fontes.

The group wanted to “leave the park in as good a condition as we found it,” Fontes said.

The city chained off the park last Friday for maintenance starting this week, said Michael Raia, communications director for the mayor.

“We were concerned the city might be proceeding without us,” said Patricia Raub, one of the marchers. “We still consider it to be the people’s park.”

Raia said he would pass along the Occupiers’ message and would inform them “if there’s any opportunity for citizen involvement.”

Following the meeting, David Ortiz, Taveras’ press secretary, told the Providence Journal the park would be closed until mid-June, as city workers perform extensive maintenance. The reseeding will cost $700 to $800, Ortiz said.

Ortiz told the Journal Occupy Providence had offered to pay for the reseeding, which Fontes denied at a general assembly meeting Tuesday night. Fontes said she had not heard from the city regarding reseeding costs since their meeting Monday.

The city has not made a formal request for Occupy Providence to pay the costs of reseeding.

Another marcher told The Herald he believes the city sealed off the park because it is “scared” of the Occupy movement. “We haven’t done anything to hurt anybody,” he added.

Being forced to meet outside the park decreases Occupy Providence’s visibility, Fontes said. The group has been meeting in the park biweekly since members left the park in January.

“They think we’re waiting for a bus or something,” she said of the group’s meetings since the park was sealed.

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U. offers alternative ways Students revive century-old synagogue to spend spring break

By AParna bansal Features Editor

While spring break means sunshine and beach resorts for some students, others use the vacation for academic, service and cultural pursuits. Groups of students headed out to both national and international destinations last week, helping local communities or learning more about their chosen academic fields.

University-affiliated organizations, such as the Student Activities Office, Hillel and Brown Disaster Relief, help organize service projects for students around the country, according to Roger Nozaki MAT’89, director of the Swearer Center for Public Service.

Students in the Brown Christian Fellowship participated in the Katrina Relief Urban Plunge and Brown Disaster Relief members went to Swan Quarter, N.C., to help repair flood damage from Hurricane Irene. These trips are often linked to students’ service activities throughout the semester.

There are also local service programs each break. This year, students helped restore a century-

old synagogue in Providence as part of Rhode Island School of Design Alternative Spring Break.

“The Swearer Center encourages students to embed these kinds of projects in long-term relationships and sustained efforts,” Nozaki wrote in an email to The Herald.

Academic departments also initiated trips to allow students to explore their interests with other members of the community. The Geology Departmental Undergraduate Group members traveled to Death Valley, where they explored the natural environment. A group of Brown students travelled to Berlin to participate in a one-week course in music and social justice. And students explored the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi as a part of the Brown-Tougaloo College Partnership.

“This kind of short trip has the dual advantage of expanding students’ horizons and creating opportunities for them to get closer to a faculty member,” wrote Katherine Bergeron, dean of the College, in an email to The Herald.

Students join rally for Trayvon Martin continued from page 1 Africana studies. “The trip provides context and texture to the classes I teach, and each student (conducted) individual research in the local archives to facilitate the learning experience.” While all students could apply to attend the trip, most of those who originally applied were from courses Hamlin teaches — AFRI 1090: “Black Freedom Struggle Since 1945” and HIST 2790: “Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement.”

Through the program, students experienced past and present life in Mississippi. In addition to spending time exploring the Mississippi Civil Rights Collection at Tougaloo, students lived on Tougaloo’s campus for a week, attending Sunday services, classes, barbecues and carnivals, Hamlin said.

Jenny Li ’14 returned to Tougaloo for the first time since she participated in the semester exchange last fall.

“I expected to feel like I was going home, and that’s exactly how it felt the moment I stepped on campus,” she said.

The group also took a two-day trip up to Memphis, Tenn., to visit the National Civil Rights Museum and to the Mississippi Delta to visit the Blues Museum and the B.B. King Museum.

The trip to the National Civil Rights Museum “corrected the oversimplified historical narrative” that students still learn in elementary school, said Samantha

Jackson GS, who is taking Hamlin’s history course.

“I was just thinking all about what I was taught in school,” Jackson said. “It was a real reeducation.”

Students said connecting their research to current affairs was also a very important aspect of the experience.

“The response to Trayvon Martin was a huge part of our trip,” Jackson said. Martin, a black teenager from Florida, was killed in February by Neighborhood Watch Association member George Zimmerman, who said he was acting in self-defense. Controversy ensued after no arrest was made in the case, with some alleging that Martin’s race played a role in the police department’s response. Martin’s supporters have been holding rallies across the country over the last week.

Jackson said she participated with Brown and Tougaloo students and professors alike in a rally for Martin at the Jackson, Miss., town hall.

“You always hear about it,” Jackson said. “But to actually be a part of a rally, all fired up — it felt great.”

“At Brown, it’s easy to toss around words like ‘privilege’ and ‘oppression,’ to isolate them in an academic context,” said Harry Samuels ’13. “Racism is not just some stain that has gone away, that is all better now,” he added.

“Racism and the impediments to upward mobility that go along with it are alive and well.”

By Elizabeth Koh Senior Staff Writer

For the past six years, the old Temple Beth-El Synagogue has stood empty, with its windows boarded up and grass uncut. But today, new flowers are blooming in its backyard and its windows now sport murals featuring rainbows, outstretched hands and the sun. Students from Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design and Providence College joined forces to restore the 101-year-old synagogue on Broad Street as part of RISD’s annual Alternative Spring Break project.

The six-day project, which involved cleaning and renovating the exterior of the Broad Street synagogue, marked efforts to transform the synagogue into a community space for South Providence. The temple, which fell into disrepair when its congregation relocated to the East Side of Providence, was broken into last spring, leading to water damage and defacing.

Students planted flowers, decorated the temple’s exterior with artwork and began archiving documents found within the synagogue last week. The group is discussing with community members how the building will ultimately be used.

Originally, the group planned to clean out the temple’s main sanctuary, but experts inspected the space and discovered unsafe asbestos levels. Until the asbestos is removed, the group is limited to caring for the exterior of the building.

Nevertheless, students were excited by “the appeal of the abandoned building,” said coordinator Rachel Himes ’15, a student in the Brown/ RISD Dual Degree program.

“I just think people were excited because it’s historic, it’s old, it’s ancient,” she said.

Together, a core group of fewer than 20 students raised about $8,000 for items like work gloves, paint and cleaning equipment through film screenings and a clothing sale. Donations were matched by the RISD Community Service Office. The project was also sponsored by the RISD Center for Student Involvement.

Going local

Unlike previous RISD Alternative Spring Break projects, the synagogue project was accessible to all students. In the past, projects have been restricted to students enrolled in particular courses, and service projects are usually not local. Last year, students traveled to Florida for a Habitat for Humanities project.

This year, RISD wanted to provide students with “a co-curricular service opportunity that would be accessible regardless of what course or major they’re in,” said Andy Jacques, community service coordinator at RISD. “There’s the convenience’s sake, but there was also this interest in seeing the neighborhood that their community is part of,” Jacques said.

“They wanted to see Providence and see parts that they didn’t usually get out to go to.”

The synagogue itself emerged as a potential site after a presentation at RISD by Adam Bush, a local resident, who adopted the synagogue project with fellow resident Sam Seidel ’02

Courtesy of Sam Seidel

The main sanctuary of Temple Beth-El has fallen into disrepair in the last year.

last year. Bush and Seidel are currently fundraising to purchase the space from the temple’s owners this summer.

Bush highlighted the historic value to the community of restoring the space.

“We were just talking to as many people as we could” and giving tours of the space to draw awareness, Bush said. He reached out to RISD through a connection with an administrator and eventually connected with Jacques. They began discussing the project in early January.

Jacques brought together a group of students who met “weekly to think about why they would want to do this project, how they could raise funds to support this project in this week and what it would mean to have a long-standing relationship with a space like this,” Bush said.

Springing into action

Ganaelle Joseph ’15, who decided to help after noticing a Morning Mail announcement last Thursday, spent most of her week helping out with landscaping and artwork.

“I’ve painted — I could be a RISD student right now, the way I look,” she said, gesturing to her paint-splattered clothes after priming planks for artwork. “We did a lot of digging in the backyard,” she added, noting that she had already gotten blisters from evening out the potholes in the backyard of the building.

Michelle Cho, a sophomore at RISD, also helped with landscaping and artwork, adding colorful murals to cover some of the synagogue’s boarded up windows. She noted the attention the art has already been drawing to the building.

“People would just look at us and wonder, ‘What are those young students doing?’” she said.

Graduate students at Brown have also found ways to be involved. The synagogue housed numerous books and paperwork when it fell into disrepair, and many of those documents were damaged by water and mold.

“We’re just here to help catalog all of the miscellaneous papers we find,” said Erendina Delgadillo GS, a master’s student in Public Humanities.

Maria Quintero GS, also in the master’s program in public humanities, noted the historical value of the documents they were salvaging.

“Especially before official archives and the standardization of the preservation process, churches often served as those spaces where history was kept,” Quintero said.

“We’re interested in how the synagogue was used by the community and the services it offered.”

Community outreach

Students are also helping with the project’s business plan and outreach.

“So far, what we’re trying to do is figure out what the space is going to be,” Tim Natividad ’12 said.

Natividad is a C.V. Starr Fellow and received funding from the Swearer Center for Public Service for the Broad Street synagogue project.

“There’s a lot of variability in what we can use this space,” he said. “What I’ve been doing is setting up a series of community dialogues or open houses and having members of the community and asking them what they would like this to be.”

The students are engaging in a dialogue with the community because “it’s not our place or our right to come in and say, ‘This is the vision it has to be,’” Bush said.

Community members have been largely receptive to the idea of a community space, Natividad said.

“We’ve heard a lot of concern about community centers, cultural centers, even an athletic space,” he said. “People have expressed a need for that.”

The students said they hope to continue the project beyond spring break. “A week is not really a sufficient amount of time to make things happen,” Himes said.

Even graduating is not enough to keep some students away. Though Natividad is moving to New York after graduating this May, he plans “to shuffle back and forth and really rack up the miles on that Acela Express, or maybe just Peter Pan,” he said. “I want to be here. I want to get my hands dirty and keep working. There’s a lot of stuff we’ve got to keep doing.”

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Performances illuminate LGBTQ life in R.I.

By Caitlin trujillo Staff Writer

Before coming to the University of Rhode Island, Portia Burnette was accustomed to two reactions to homosexuality: aversion or disdain.

Members of the URI and greater Rhode Island community combated these attitudes in a presentation at URI Tuesday.

One woman said she found out she was a lesbian after her mother pointed it out to her. One man first came out as gay to his sister by writing her a long letter and leaving it in her purse. Another woman’s friends told her ex-husband not to let her keep their children because she was gay.

Many URI students, staff and faculty offered unique stories like these on the experience of coming out in Rhode Island. Their stories were presented in video form on Tuesday at the Paff Auditorium at the URI Feinstein Providence Campus, a presentation that brought together two artistic displays of what it means to be LGBTQ in Rhode Island — at any age. The video followed the format of the “It Gets Better” online video series.

Another presentation, a play called “The Journey Out,” written and directed by Cranston resident Frank Toti Jr., translated oral histories of elderly LGBTQ people into a theatrical performance.

A unique journey

“The Journey Out” was presented first. The show debuted in October 2010 as part of an art exhibit dedicated to the process of “coming out” as an LGTBQ individual.

The show is divided into five parts and addresses how the characters cope with their LGBTQ identities, said Steven Pennell, the Urban Arts and Culture Program coordinator at URI Feinstein Providence campus

and the show’s producer.

In addition to producing and acting in the play, Pennell also spearheaded the collection of the oral histories that the script is based on. He and his partner, Toti, also recruited other researchers to collect oral histories from LGBTQ people around the state.

Initially, Pennell placed advertisements in the Providence Journal and Options Magazine, a monthly R.I. LGBTQ publication, for people interested in sharing their stories. But those did not attract enough respondents, Pennell said. Instead, referrals proved the most useful in putting Pennell and others in touch with the state’s LGBTQ citizens, he said.

So far, they have collected about 75 stories, Pennell said. They also have collected items from the people they interviewed, such as photographs and news clippings — intensely personal items, “not your grandma’s china,” he clarified.

Pennell’s current task is to archive all of the collected material at URI’s main library, where it will be housed in electronic format. But the play is still on tour. In addition to presentations at venues like the Provincetown Theatre in Provincetown, Mass., the play has been performed at local high schools,including a March 24 visit to Classical High School in Providence as part of a conference for LGBTQ youth.

Cultivating positive attitudes

The URI video project, “It Gets Better at URI: Coming Out for Change,” has younger origins. In April 2011, a student approached the URI LGTBQ Women’s Group — a group that serves as a “safe space” for discussions about gender and sexuality — with the idea of making a video for the “It Gets Better” project, said Holly Nichols, a URI clinical counselor, who also co-advises the group as a staff mentor. The “It Gets Better”

project is a series of online videos that reassures LGBTQ teenagers who are bullied due to their sexuality that life becomes better after adolescence.

At the time, URI had received “bad press” indicating that the community was not safe for LGBTQ people, said Burnette, a URI undergraduate and a group member who helped produce the final video. The Princeton Review ranked URI 14th on a list of LGBT-unfriendly colleges in 2011. The sign for the university’s GLBT Center was also vandalized in 2007, Nichols said.

Members of the Women’s Group agreed that homophobia was not uncommon at URI, Nichols said. Jen Kaye, a URI graduate student and a member of the group, said members wanted to cultivate a more positive image of the campus and to show that LGBTQ students had support from both the straight and LGBTQ communities.

Over the last two weeks of the spring 2011 semester, the Women’s Group filmed the personal testimonies of 85 URI students, faculty, staff and administrators, including current URI President David Dooley.

LGBTQ interviewees shared their experiences growing up and attending URI, while straight subjects offered support and resources.

When the video premiered last October, over 900 people crowded the Edwards Auditorium at URI’s main campus, Nichols said. The group has also presented the video at other places around the state, including a conference at Rhode Island College, she said.

But they want to take the project further, Nichols said. Tuesday night’s screening showed only three-quarters of the final version, and the video in its entirety will play on Rhode Is-

land’s PBS channel April 14, she said.

The video has received overwhelmingly positive feedback because it is a powerful and raw presentation of people’s lives, Nichols said.

“It doesn’t tell anybody what you have to do or have to think,” Nichols said. “It’s simply sharing experiences.”

A ‘mecca’ for LGBTQ

The national attention given to the struggles of LGBTQ youth, such as the September 2010 suicide of Rutgers University undergraduate Tyler Clementi, “created a vehicle” for sharing stories and spreading the message of hope to URI’s students, Nichols said.

But Rhode Island also has a unique LGBTQ culture of its own. It is “a mecca of gay activity,” Pennell said.

“Rhode Island is kind of like a big small town” where everyone knows everyone, he added.

Because it is a small state, LGBTQ people have long been able to connect “easier, quicker and sooner.”

This made it easier to establish a community base for LGBTQ life, he said.

Pennell and Nichols were separately trying to schedule their own projects for performances at the URI Providence campus when Pennell contacted Nichols about combining them for a single show, Nichols said.

Pennell is not dismissive of LGBTQ youth, he said. But 30 years ago, two men were not allowed to dance together. Since then, societal attitudes and even legislation have changed to support the LGBTQ community.

Older LGBTQ people have a different history than today’s LGBTQ youth will have, and, for the most part, it has gotten better.

“We aren’t where we should be,” Pennell said, “but we’re further than we were.”

‘Sinking’ exhibit constructs vibrant chaos continued from page 1 teeth to a giant worm. They inspire, as does the whole exhibit, equal parts fascination and disgust.

Other drawings show the calmer side of despair. The woman stares directly out from the canvas in Self-Portrait No. 10. Her lips are pursed and her eyelids sag. The fatigue that comes from battling feelings of anxiety is clear in her long face.

In Self-Portrait No. 46, her eyes are shut but not clenched, and her face looks demurely away. Large portions of the face are cast in total shadow with light gnawing at the edges. But even that light, the blank space on Lieu’s page, appears to be just another shade of gray. It does not offer a way out. Rather, light and dark spaces alike conspire to make the viewer feel trapped.

The display of the drawings contrasts the chaos and claustrophobia of the contents. The 20 portraits, each of them four feet by three feet, hang in a straight line on two walls of the Hillel Social Hall.

From a distance they seem, while emotive and turbulent in their content, clean and even polished in their visual execution.

But viewed from up close, each drawing is a collection of erratically crosshatched lines — a collection of flaws, emotions and struggles that, like their creator, form a perfect mosaic of humanity and its complications.

comics Fraternity of Evil | Eshan Mitra, Brendan Hainline and Hector Ramirez

6 Editorial & Letter Editorial Prohibiting racial profiling

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In January, state Rep. Grace Diaz, D-Providence, reintroduced the Comprehensive Racial Profiling Prevention Act, which aims to ensure that police officers do not stop individuals for racially motivated reasons. A similar bill died in the Rhode Island House of Representatives in past years after police organizations voiced their concerns. Luckily, this year is different. The bill recently proceeded to the Senate and has been met with broad community support in Rhode Island. Local organizations such as the Rights Working Group, the American Friends Service Committee, the Coalition Against Racial Profiling, the R.I. American Civil Liberties Union and the Providence Youth Student Movement — which includes Brown alums — have all expressed their support for the bill. Particularly given the recent racially charged killing of Trayvon Martin, we hope Diaz’s bill continues to gather support and achieves legislative passage.

The bill would require police officers “to document in writing their ‘probable cause’ or ‘reasonable suspicion’ grounds for conducting a search of vehicles, drivers or pedestrians” and would require this documentation to be on the public record. It would also prohibit police officers from asking drivers for any form of identification other than a driver’s license, vehicle registration or proof of insurance — that is, a police officer cannot attempt to investigate whether someone is “legal” or not, an important provision for a nation increasingly defined by its diversity.

Furthermore, the bill aims to protect pedestrians, particularly minors, from unjust police intervention by prohibiting “police from searching people without probable cause even if they consent to the search.” In a March 20 Herald article, Hope High School senior Stephen Dy, who is of Cambodian heritage, said that he does not feel like he has a choice when police ask to search him. “If I try to come off as defensive, it ends up coming off as offensive,” he told The Herald.

Abundant evidence demonstrates the need for this bill. In an analysis of two years of data on traffic stops, Northeastern University researchers found that “African-American and Latino drivers were not only more likely than white drivers to be stopped by police, but also more than twice as likely as white drivers to be searched,” despite the fact that “white drivers were more likely to be found with contraband when searched.”

Take the recent tragedy of Travyon Martin’s murder in Florida — George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch member who shot Martin, described him as “real suspicious” to a 911 operator based on his hoodie and, presumably, his skin color. It is clear that racial profiling remains a serious and potentially deadly issue in this country. And as the research has demonstrated, this is a problem for Rhode Island specifically — Steven Brown, executive director of the R.I. ACLU, told The Herald, racial profiling “has been a contentious issue for a decade.” We strongly urge the state legislature to pass the Comprehensive Racial Profiling Prevention Act and take a strong step toward preventing this kind of injustice in the future.

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letter to the editor Library workers request fair, not extra, pay To the Editor: The union (of library workers) has not requested extra pay to get us through the transition to Workday as The Herald says (“Library workers unhappy with payroll shift,” March 22). We are simply asking to be paid the same annual amount we would receive under the current system. Under Workday, a financial and benefit management program, employees will receive 12 paychecks through the end of 2012, the same number we would have received under the current system.

However, because our pay will be based on a 26-paycheck year, there will be less in each paycheck. On December 31, employees who make $40,000 will have received about $1,300 less than they would have under the current system. The union proposed that the University pay us the amount we currently receive in each paycheck through the end of 2012 — moving to the 26-paycheck amount in 2013 — so we won’t have to play catch-up at a time of year when many have even more expenses. This proposal was rejected.

The University is offering to loan us one week’s

salary to get through the three week transition time when we’ll receive no paycheck. We can repay the loan with automatic withdrawals over the next seven paychecks. If employees were to take this offer, however, not only would our remaining 12 paychecks be reduced because they are based on 26 paychecks per year rather than 24, but the first seven would be even further reduced because we would be paying back loans from the University. In fact, the University is offering to loan us money that we would have received as pay under the current system. On December 31, we will still come up short, and it will take several years for us to come out relatively even again.

There are possibly other effects, like our retirement contribution and yield, that we have only begun to analyze. Have University Human Resources administrators taken the time to analyze these themselves?

If they have, it would be right for them to share the full analysis with all affected employees.

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quote of the day

“Racism is not just some stain that has gone away, that is all better now.”

— Harry Samuels ‘13 See tougaloo on page 4.

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Time for spring ideological cleaning By adam bouche Opinions Columnist

Though I have nearly completed half of my time at this school, Brown continuously amazes me. At any moment, a student can simply pop open his Brown Gmail inbox or read the signs splattered on our walks and greens to find the flurry of information shot our way. Potentialities and possibilities radiate through our mental spheres like the energy pulsating from WiFi and cell phones, invisibly pervading our bodies. Whether we acknowledge it or not, we are constantly exposed.

By simply clicking on Morning Mail or inspecting the multitude of listserv emails we’ve never managed to shake, we can reach in an instant the massive network of possibilities in which we are embedded.

Events and lectures constantly cycle.

The University consistently attracts top researchers in their respective fields along with adored, renowned and controversial figures from academia and modern culture. All of this lies just beyond our grasp, easy to reach if only we outstretch our arms to meet those already extended in our direction.

Then the cold begins to thaw. Sunshine melts away our winter resistance to the world outdoors. We flock to green spaces in masses, fling Frisbees and sling slack-

lines, while tables of student groups set up to recruit support for each cause. Fences, banners and installation art materialize in the night to further seize our attention and strikingly portray the scale and severity of complex global issues.

Over-stimulated by the barrage of social, political and environmental awareness espoused by our peers, Brown students are generally assumed to have a solid conception of the challenges and necessities of the 21st century world. How-

back with friends and savor the day. The eventual sunset or hourly bell disperses the crowds, yet the greens that are left behind do not reflect the bright students who have just used them. Thinking about nothing but the next moment, many drop their trash or simply leave without it. Those who exert nominal effort stack Sharpe Refectory to-go containers above the trash can so that the wind and squirrels can scatter trash throughout campus.

Smashed exit signs and broken bottles

As a collective entity, the Brown community does not match the devotion of its constituents.

ever, though we constantly discuss many different aspects of culture, it can seem as though we never examine our own.

Busy lives force us to rush past signs and stands as we jaunt to class, hit the library or pull all-nighters for a last minute deadline. The average assembly or protest gains only meager support, even when propositions are highly relevant and widely supported throughout campus.

When we manage to sink into the bliss of freedom from obligations, we gather in the warm rays and open space, kick

surround all of this, implying the chaos of the preceding weekend.

As students of the University, we carry a reputation for intelligence and ambition in a world certain to face much conflict, yet students routinely bypass the solar compactors to toss more trash into an overflowing pile. Scores of people waste finite resources to avoid the daunting effort of dropping a can into the next bin over, because recycling is hard. And each day, so many of us go about in these various states of ignorance while every poster

we pass slaps us in the face with the hypocrisy of our actions.

On our own, it seems as though we are unstoppable. As individuals and in tightly knit groups, we make breakthroughs in research, build communities and travel the world to spread our knowledge. Yet as a collective entity, the Brown community does not match the devotion of its constituents. The merging of so many powerful forces lacks the epic character expected from a gathering of so many creative and productive souls.

Outsiders would find it striking that today — like a trace left by a creature in its natural habitat — a lawn covered with trash is the mark of a Brown student gathering. With such prevalent apathy in a sea of awareness, our collective actions often do not merit the renown we receive.

Instead of perpetuating this disconnect between ambitious individuals and the lackluster whole, we must synthesize what we learn and achieve in our academic pursuits with our social knowledge. If the potential we exhibit as individuals becomes manifested in the masses, our wills will coalesce to create a community reflecting the true nature of the individuals who comprise it. So stop, pause and breathe deeply as you flow through your day, and speak out and spread knowledge as you go.

Adam Bouche ’14 isn’t too lazy to pick up his trash. He can be reached at adam_bouche@brown.edu.

Boldly moving financial aid forward

By Brown for financial aid Guest Columnists In her final State of Brown address, President Ruth Simmons asserted that “financial aid should be a top priority for the University.” We, the members of Brown for Financial Aid, could not agree more. In February, BFA formed with the purpose of committing Brown to this top priority and ensuring that Brown is affordable for all. Furthermore, as we identified our goals, we determined that improving financial aid should not solely be a student endeavor, but should also feature the entire community of alums, administrators, faculty, staff, Corporation members and friends of Brown. To increase interest in improving financial aid, we have crafted a campaign that features a video of student voices on financial aid, a petition and a report on the state of financial aid at Brown, all of which are available on our website. Financial aid is built into the DNA of Brown’s mission to serve “the community, the nation and the world.”

Whether you’re on financial aid or not, this issue affects the entire Brown community. In this editorial, we share our concerns as well as proposed solutions.

First, BFA encourages Brown to affirm its responsibility to open its doors to all talented students with an aim to include diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. Currently, Brown is not need-blind for one-sixth of our undergraduate student body, meaning a significant portion of potential students

can be turned away due to financial need. Often students who want to come to Brown are turned away into the arms of competitors due to our inability to provide adequate financial assistance. Continuing to be need-aware puts Brown at a disadvantage compared to peer institutions. Our policy narrows Brown’s applicant pool as well as the diversity of the student body in the coming years. To address this issue, we advocate for the University to start a new capital campaign to raise the necessary funds to go need-blind for transfer, international and Resumed Undergraduate Education students, allowing Brown to be universally accessible in admissions.

world and limits career options due to constraining financial obligations and the pressing need to pay back loans. We urge the University to incrementally add more scholarship money and lower the average debt burden from more than $20,000 to $15,000 within 10 years.

Third, we call on the University to make financial aid more responsive to student needs.

Right now, domestic students can reapply annually and have their awards adjusted based on changes in need. But international, transfer and RUE students who enter Brown without a financial award may never apply to receive financial aid, regardless of changes to

Whether you’re on financial aid or not, this issue affects the entire Brown community.

Second, BFA seeks to make Brown more affordable. The cost of a Brown education continues to climb with next year’s tuition and fees totaling $55,016, a 3.5 percent increase from the previous year, paired with a modest 2.1 percent increase in the undergraduate financial aid budget. Unsurprisingly, Brown’s current financial aid program has left students with loans with graduation debt that ranks the second-highest in the Ivy League and is seven times that of Princeton graduates. This debt hinders the ability of Brown graduates to enter the professional

their financial situation. And even for students who receive financial aid, their student loan totals will not change over the course of their time at Brown. It is also difficult to change aid packages through appeal. In fact, several students over the past few years have been forced to leave Brown, either temporarily or permanently.

That’s why BFA stresses the importance of making opportunities for financial aid and aid readjustments more accessible and responsive to all students with need. All students should be allowed to apply for finan-

cial aid and allowed to reapply in subsequent years. An endowed fund must also be created to address changes in financial situations with low-interest loans and additional grants.

Last, we support increasing student voices in financial aid and policy decisions, starting with increasing the number of undergraduate students on the University Resources Committee. This would better represent the largest constituency on campus in budgetary matters, especially in future allocations of financial aid. We are encouraged by the willingness of administrators at the March 20 Brown University Community Council meeting to assist in the production of concrete funding objectives. Building on these commitments is essential to the development of financial aid transparency and the assurance that Brown is accessible for all.

We have already made large advances in financial aid with the Boldly Brown campaign. Progress will take years, but the Brown student body can make a difference. Together, we can advance this endeavor further and champion financial aid as a top priority, ensuring that the opportunity Brown provides us to “discharge the offices of life with usefulness and reputation” will be available to all students, present and future, domestic and international.

BFA can be reached at brownforfinaid@gmail.com. Go to www.brownforfinaid.org to watch their video, read their report and sign the petition to President-elect Paxson, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 and the Corporation urging them to prioritize financial aid.

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No. 13 Princeton halts Bears in their tracks By ethan mccoy Sports Editor

The men’s lacrosse team had a busy spring break, playing three games in three states, with two of the contests against nationally-ranked opponents.

The week started off strong with a 14-5 demolition of Vermont, but after a fourth quarter comeback against No. 8 Duke fell just short, the Bears (3-5, 0-2 Ivy) fell 13-2 to No. 13 Princeton at Stevenson Field.

Against the Tigers (6-2, 3-0), the Bears were shutout 9-0 in the second half and dropped their second Ivy League matchup of the season, leaving an uphill climb to make the Ivy tournament.

“We’re certainly disappointed when you look at the record,” said Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90. “But I believe in this group, and they want to get better and are yearning for more, and not every team has been like this.”

Unlike many of their classmates who headed to warmer waters for spring break, the Bears kicked off the week by heading north to Burlington, Vt., to take on the struggling Catamounts (1-8). Vermont snagged an early 1-0 lead, but this would be the only advantage it would hold the entire game. The Bears ripped off a 5-0 run to seize control of the game, with a pair of goals coming each from Nick Piroli ’15 and Sam Hurster ’14, as well as one from cocaptain Parker Brown ’12.

The Catamounts twice clawed back, cutting the deficit to only two goals in both the second and third quarters. But after a pair of Vermont goals cut Brown’s lead to 6-4, the Bears ended the game with a 8-1 run to earn a comfortable win.

Goals from George Sherman ’13, co-captain Rob Schlesinger ’12 and John DePeters ’13 stretched the lead to 9-4 in the third. After Vermont got one back, Brown shut out the Catamounts in the final period while scoring five goals themselves.

Among the fourth quarter scorers

was Piroli, whose four goals earned him Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Week Honors.

“We hadn’t gotten that big win yet, and going up to Vermont we continued to play well,” Tiffany said.

“As a coach, it was rewarding to see us put together a complete game.”

Tiffany said key play in the win came from players whose contributions did not show up on the stat sheet.

“It started at the middle of the field, starting with our faceoff men,” Tiffany continued. “Tommy Capone (’14) at the faceoff X earned us valuable possessions, and we saw some wing play from Dan Mellynchuck (’14) and Nick Weeden (’15), two middies who don’t garner much attention because they don’t post many goals or assists, but they made a lot of heads-up, smart plays and ignited our transition game.”

Hot off the win, the squad then jetted south Wednesday to Durham, N.C., to face perennial powerhouse No. 8 Duke (9-3). Last year, the Bears played the Blue Devils close in a 12-7 loss and in 2010 lost by only one goal, 11-10.

“We had only a couple of days to prepare for one of the best teams in the nation, but we brought our best game down there,” Tiffany said.

“Whereas last year we really hung in there against them, I felt that this year, on that day — maybe not on the next day — I felt that we were the better team.”

This year, the Bears came out determined to finally knock off Duke, and they drew first blood on a DePeters goal. The game was tight for the entire first half, as both teams exchanged goals. Duke opened up a 4-2 lead, but a Hurster goal before half-time cut the deficit to one at intermission.

In the second half, the Blue Devils scored twice to extend their lead to 6-3. After Dan O’Brien ’12 got one back for the Bears, Duke’s Eddie Loftus put one home to stretch the lead back to three with only 14 sec-

onds left in the quarter. But off the ensuing faceoff, Weeden scooped up a ground ball and got it to Hurster, who scored his second of the game to cut the lead to 7-5 with only one second remaining on the clock.

Duke opened the fourth quarter as it had the third, scoring two goals and seemingly putting the Blue Devils in the clear, up 9-5. But in the final seven minutes, the Bears chipped away at the lead. Goals from O’Brien and Parker Brown a little over a minute apart made it a 9-7 game. Piroli scored his 14th of the season to bring the score to 9-8, but the 29 seconds on the clock were not enough for the Bears to complete the comeback and force overtime. Sherman got off a shot with only 10 seconds remaining, but Duke goalie Dan Wigrizer made the crucial save and the Blue Devils escaped the Bears once again with a close win.

“The Duke goalie played a great game, but at the end we started to crack the code a bit,” Tiffany said. “It felt like one of those days where we just ran out of time. We just needed a little more time — we took good shots, played well as an offensive unit and defended well. … It felt as good as you can feel without winning a game.”

But Tiffany acknowledged, “We have to find a way to win these games.”

Against a Princeton team that Tiffany described as “not good, but great,” the Bears struggled to break through. Princeton’s goalie made 16 saves to stymie the Bears attack, shutting them out in the second half on the way to a 13-2 win.

“We knew that Princeton was good going in, but we found out how good they are,” Tiffany said.

The Bears fell behind 2-0, but fought back with two goals from Schlesinger and were only down 4-2 at the half. But the second half was all Princeton, who saw goals from 10 different players to lead them to victory.

“Against a great team like Princ-

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Rob Schlesinger’s ’12 two goals were the only bright spots in the Bears’ 13-2 loss.

eton, they’ll go on a run,” Tiffany said. “We have to keep those runs to two or three goals, not seven, like they did in the third quarter, and that’s where we failed.”

Tiffany said though the scoreline was lopsided, he was happy with certain things the team did and he still has a great deal of faith in his players.

“To summarize, we lost by 11 goals. It hurts, but the score does not truly indicate where we are as a

team,” Tiffany said.

The Bears have another quick turnaround, as they host in-state rivals Bryant Tuesday.

“We’ve got a very talented Bryant team who is probably going to crack the Top 20,” Tiffany said. “They’ve won six games in a row and are going to come over here with swagger and confidence, and we are going to get a great game. We’re looking forward to burning away the disappointing feel of these losses.”

softball

Bears sweep Columbia to earn first Ivy victories By alexandra conway Contributing Writer

The women’s softball team was on the road over spring break — first in California for a tournament, and then in Pennsylvania and New York for the start of its Ivy League season.

To kick off its busy week, Bruno (5-13, 2-2 Ivy) traveled to Riverside, Calif., to play in the University of California at Riverside Tournament.

Over three days at the Amy S. Harrison Field, the Bears came away with one win from the five-game tournament.

“This tournament was a good one for us even though we didn’t come away with a lot of wins,” said Head Coach DeeDee Enabenter-Omidiji.

“The pitchers did a good job in keeping the scores closer than they were in previous tournaments. There were a couple times we shot ourselves in

the foot defensively, but it is still early for us, and we’re still trying to find our way.”

On the first day of the tournament, March 24, Bruno fell to Colorado State University 1-0 but came back in the afternoon to earn a 4-3 victory over Santa Clara University.

Stephanie Thompson ’13 and Kate Strobel ’12 were key in leading the offense, while rookies Trista Chavez ’15, Kelsey Hom ’15 and Denise van der Goot ’15 also added contributions.

In the first loss to the Rams (17-18), van der Goot pitched five scoreless innings, allowing only three hits before Colorado’s State’s Emily Pohl hit a home run in the top of the sixth to clinch the win. In their first game against Santa Clara (7-27), Chavez batted .429 and Hom went 2-for-6, scoring one run.

The win against Santa Clara was the highlight of the tournament for

the Bears. They scored two runs in the first inning to take a 2-0 lead, but the Broncos came back in the third inning, scoring three runs to take the lead. But Santa Clara’s advantage did not last long. Trish Melvin ’12 homered to center field to even the score 3-3 in the top of the fourth, and then in the top of the seventh, Strobel hit a single to bring in Thompson and secure Bruno’s win.

Bruno fell to Santa Clara 6-4 in a rematch Saturday and then was edged 3-1 by host UC Riverside (18-16). Thompson led the offense in both games. Against the Broncos, Thompson went 3-for-4 at the plate with three RBI, and against the Highlanders, she was 2-for-3 and hit a solo home run at the top of the first, Bruno’s only run of the game.

On the final day of the tournament, Bruno suffered a close loss once again to Colorado State 4-3. Thomp-

son again was the leader in Brown’s offense — she went 2-for-4 at the plate with one RBI and scored one run.

Thompson’s contributions in all five games earned her Ivy Player of the Week honors. In the five games, she posted a .667 batting average with 12 hits in 18 at-bats, in addition to five RBI and four runs scored. On the season, she leads Brown with a batting average of .477.

“Thompson is just having another outstanding year,” Enabenter-Omidiji said. “Last year she lead the country in batting average, and she is playing even better this season.”

Following the tournament, the Bears had a few days to rest up before beginning their Ivy League schedule.

Bruno kicked off their Ivy games with a double-header at Penn March 30 followed by a double-header at Columbia April 1. The Bears fell to Penn (19-10, 4-0) 7-4 and 5-4 but

redeemed themselves against Columbia (7-18, 1-3), winning both games 8-0 and 6-5.

“After our game against Penn, we learned we have to step up our game,” Enabenter-Omidiji said. “But I thought we played really well … especially since Penn is the only undefeated team in the Ivy League right now. We started to see people at the bottom of the order make some big contributions.”

Against Columbia, Bruno secured the win after five innings in the first game. In the second game, the Bears scored four runs in the top of the fifth to gain the lead, Enabenter-Omidiji said, adding that van der Goot’s pitching “shut Columbia down.”

The Bears will continue their Ivy League campaign with two home double-headers this weekend, against Cornell (12-11, 3-1) April 6 and Princeton (5-18, 2-2) April 7.