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Corp. approves strategic plan, will not divest from coal

Campus reacts to coal decision

The final version of Paxson’s plan included changes based on community feedback

By ELI OKUN

Activists decried the choice to maintain endowment investments in coal companies

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By SABRINA IMBLER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Brown Divest Coal protested Friday afternoon before the Corporation decided against divestment. added to the front page, and the plan now references bolstering undergraduate advising and graduate student stipends — all omissions that students and faculty members highlighted following the original draft’s release.

Paxson did not make any changes to the plan after meeting this weekend with the Corporation, which approved the version she presented, she told The Herald.

But the Corporation did offer feedback on the plan before its initial release. The governing body convened for a special meeting in August to weigh in on the initial draft, said Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76.

Among the plan’s largest initiatives soon to be implemented is a proposal, yet to be finalized, for a new institute at Brown focused on the environment and society, which Paxson said she

M. HOCKEY

Bruno secures first 2-0 start in 10 years The team won its first match of the season against defending national champion Yale

By DANTE O’CONNELL SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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This weekend’s start to the season may be difficult to top, as the men’s hockey team knocked off defending national champion and ECAC favorite No. 7 Yale, 4-1 and followed with a 5-3 win over Dartmouth, a team that it had not beaten since February 2008.

Though the games, played at the Liberty Invitational in Newark, do not count toward ECAC standings, the victories give Bruno its first 2-0 start in 10 years.

“It’s a great feeling,” said Mark Naclerio ’16. “We worked really hard in the off-season, and we were ready to get back on the ice.”

Naclerio led the charge for the Bears and was unanimously named MVP of the invitational after netting two goals against Yale and the game-winner against Dartmouth.

Brandon Pfeil ’16 was named to the All-Tournament team after tallying three points and five blocked shots over the weekend.

In the two games, Bruno’s top line of Naclerio, Nick Lappin ’16 and Matt Lorito ’15 combined for 13 points.

“You never expect that, but they’re a very good line,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “Time will tell, but I think they’re one of the best lines in the ECAC and in the country. Points come when you do things right, and they did a lot of things right this weekend.”

The weekend also featured strong showings from two goalies competing for a starting position. Against the Bulldogs, Marco de Fillipo ’14 turned away 31 of 32 shots, while Tyler Steel stopped 28 of 31 against the Big Green.

Brown 4, Yale 1 In its first game of the season, Brown upset Yale in a match Bruno dominated from the middle of the second period.

The Bulldogs looked to have the early advantage after registering 11 shots compared to Bruno’s six in the

first period. But de Fillipo and the Bears’ defense turned them all away in a scoreless first period.

The second frame did not start off well for the Bears. Three minutes into the period, captain Dennis Robertson ’14 was given a game misconduct for a five-minute boarding penalty.

Without its captain and facing a fiveminute penalty kill, Bruno gave up the first score of the game to the Bulldogs’ Stu Wilson.

But the game’s momentum shifted later in the period when Bruno capitalized on a power play of its own.

Just 11 seconds after a hooking penalty against the Bulldogs, Naclerio found the back of the net on assists from Pfeil and Matt Wahl ’14 to even the score at one.

The third period was all Bears.

Four minutes into the frame, Naclerio tallied his second goal of the evening off assists from Pfeil and Lorito.

Lorito’s shot went off Naclerio and into the net.

“It was kind of lucky on my part, but I’ll take it,” Naclerio said.

Midway through the period, Matt Harlow ’15 added his name to the » See M. HOCKEY, page 5

hopes will be established within a year.

Partially in response to the Corporation’s decision not to divest from coal companies, she created a task force to investigate how the University can improve its efforts to fight climate change.

In her community-wide email, Paxson cited several of the plan’s other initiatives that will be implemented in the near future, including adjustments » See CORP., page 3

The University will not divest its endowment from coal companies, President Christina Paxson wrote in a communitywide email Sunday.

The Corporation found “the existence of social harm is a necessary but not sufficient rationale for Brown to divest,” Paxson wrote.

“At the end of the meeting, it became clear that we didn’t need to vote,” Paxson said. “The support for divestiture just wasn’t there.”

Paxson wrote in her email that she will create a task force to develop recommendations for ways the University could combat climate change.

“I thought we showed that the student voice was calling for divestment and that it mattered,” said Dara Illowsky ’14, a member of Brown Divest Coal. “But the Corporation didn’t care.” » See COAL, page 3

U. to prioritize internship resources Improving internship support services was a top concern for students in a UCS poll this month

By ASHNA MUKHI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Improving the University’s efforts to connect students with internships will be a key priority as part of the implementation of President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan, administrators said.

The strategic plan, “Building on Distinction: A New Plan for Brown,” highlighted the need to incorporate more “real-world” opportunities and interactions with alums into undergraduate education and endorsed providing more financial support to students from lower-income backgrounds so they can hold unpaid internships.

“We want the students to be constantly moving between campus and the real world, partaking in socialgood projects,” said Patricia Ybarra, associate professor of theatre arts and

Psych(edel)ic

Man v. Wild

Coal comments

Alum-duo Darkside released its debut original album, titled “Psychic”

Robert Redford’s character is stranded in nature in the Avon’s selection, “All is Lost”

Students and alums respond to the Corporation’s decision not to divest from coal

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The Corporation unanimously approved President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan and decided not to divest the University’s endowment from coal companies at its triannual meeting this weekend, Paxson announced in community-wide emails Sunday afternoon.

The approval of “Building on Distinction: A New Plan for Brown,” which Paxson released in September, caps a year-long strategic planning process that served as the centerpiece of her first year in office. The plan positions the University to act on its many initiatives and begin fundraising to support them ahead of Brown’s 250th anniversary next year.

After a year of campus debate and student activism led by Brown Divest Coal, the Corporation’s decision to reject divestiture sparked outcry from some, including calls for further protest.

The final version of the strategic plan includes some changes Paxson made based on community feedback prior to presenting the document to the Corporation. The University’s mission statement, which includes the otherwise absent phrase “university-college,” was

performance studies and co-chair of the Committee on Educational Innovation.

She added that the strategic plan’s implementation will include efforts to allow students to access more international work experiences and to take time off to pursue educational opportunities outside the classroom.

Improvements in the University’s internship support services rank highly among students’ concerns. A poll conducted this month by the Undergraduate Council of Students found that 49 percent of respondents ranked the creation of “a robust internship program” as one of their top three priorities for administrators, while 13 percent of respondents ranked growing internship opportunities as their highest priority.

Students have frequently voiced frustration with navigating the University’s current resources for finding internships, said Kenny Breuer, professor of engineering and a member of the Committee on Educational Innovation.

“They would like to have more centralized services,” Breuer said. » See INTERNSHIPS, page 2 t o d ay

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The University already connects students with hundreds of internship opportunities through various research programs, the Linking Internships and Knowledge Program and the Swearer Center for Public Service, said Andrew Simmons, director of the Center for Careers and Life After Brown. CareerLAB’s LINK program provides funding to students who have secured low-paid or unpaid internships.

Simmons also pointed to opportunities for student-alum interaction such as Brown Degree Days, a series of events in which alums return to campus to discuss their concentrations and career paths, and to the January Career Laboratory, a winter break program that allows students to network with alums and explore post-graduation options.

Administrators need to ensure that “student voices are heard” in the process of improving alums’ role in the internship search, said UCS President Todd Harris ’14.5.

“As soon as we walk through these gates, we have this support group we can

tap into,” Harris said. “The alumni base shouldn’t be something that students are only part of after we leave.”

Students said the University should work to connect them with internships that complement their classroom learning.

“Internship services should be such that reflect the values and identity of the community,” Harris said.

While the University provides internship support services to students, CareerLAB wants to “ramp up” these resources, Simmons said.

The strategic plan outlined key goals in expanding internship support services, Simmons said, adding that the CareerLAB has started to work to achieve these goals by collecting data on students’ past internship experiences and by reaching out to alums to convince them to participate in CareerLAB events.

Providing greater financial support to students seeking low-paid or unpaid internships stands out as a goal of the strategic plan’s section on internships.

“We need to start considering who can afford to work for free” during the summer, Ybarra said. “An internship

experience should be such that every student thinks about how they will develop and grow rather than how they would profit financially from it.”

Student feedback to the Committee on Educational Innovation indicated that many students in creative arts think formalized internship support services are inadequate for their needs, Ybarra said.

Some students said widening support services for internships in the creative arts needed to be a priority.

“There wasn’t enough of a variety of opportunities in the arts,” said Anna Kate Kingston ’15, adding that she used CareerLAB’s Job and Internship Board to search for an interior design internship but found that most listed opportunities were related to business and computer science fields.

Administrators said they will also work to widen the range of internship opportunities available in areas where current resources are lacking, such as the arts.

“We have such a broad palate of skills and knowledge here, and we need more opportunities to use this,” Simmons said.

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» COAL, from page 1 Last night, in a meeting filled with “shock and frustration,” Divest Coal members decided to continue advocating for divestment.

“We’re not going away,” Illowsky said.

The build up In a public letter in January, the University’s Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies urged Paxson to “publicly divest” from “the filthy 15,” a term coined by environmental activists to describe some of the largest U.S. coal companies.

The University’s investments in these companies total less than $2 million and comprise less than 0.1 percent of its total investments, The Herald previously reported.

Following past recommendations from ACCRIP, the University has previously decided to divest from HEI Hotels, tobacco companies and companies profiting from Darfur. The University’s deviation from ACCRIP recommendations is rare.

The Corporation heard arguments regarding whether the University should divest from coal late in May, The Herald previously reported.

Brown Divest Coal — one of 400 fossil fuel divestment campaigns in the United States, according to a Brown Divest Coal press release — was created last September with fewer than 10 members but has since grown in size and presence on campus.

In the year leading up to this decision, Brown Divest Coal held rallies and teach-ins, spoke with administrators and collected 3,600 signatures from community members in support of divestment.

“A lot of people, myself included, thought we had set up the discussion in a way that would be incredibly detrimental to the Corporation if they said no,” Illowsky said. “But they were not listening to the student voice.”

Brown Divest Coal requested that the five members of the Corporation who have financial ties to any of the 15 coal companies recuse themselves from all decision-making processes concerning divestment, but none acknowledged this request, according to a Brown Divest Coal press release issued Sunday.

Administrators and Corporation members denied any violation of the University’s rules and standards with respect to conflicts of interest.

Paxson called the recusal issue a “red herring,” claiming it was not “very relevant” to the discussion of divestment.

Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76 said there was “no dereliction of duty” in the meeting with respect to these conflicts.

Many students said they remain unconvinced.

“It’s clear that the decision was at least partly motivated by the profit of a few at the expense of many,” said Emma Hall ’16.

“There’s a logical fallacy here,” said Leah Pierson ’16, pointing out that the Corporation would not exist without the student body. “This should be a democracy, and it isn’t.”

Students react Student response to the decision was largely negative, dominated by strong voices of outrage.

Many students interviewed said they are not convinced by Paxson’s arguments detailed in the email to the community.

“They’re giving us all these long, drawn-out explanations about why this has no positive social impact, but that’s not the reason they’re choosing not to

university news 3 divest,” Pierson said. “They’re choosing mission of the University and applied not to divest because of Corporation ties.” its principles to this decision,” she said.

“It’s honestly condescending,” she Though the Corporation decided not added. to divest, VanWey said she was “heartAbout 52 percent of undergradu- ened” by its creation of the Task Force ates indicated their support for the goals on Brown’s Climate Change, which will of Brown Divest Coal in a Herald poll work to expand the University’s efforts on conducted this fall. Twelve percent of environmental change and sustainability. students who support Brown Divest Coal Sriniketh Nagavarapu, assistant proindicated their disapproval of Paxson, a fessor of economics and environmental higher rate of disapproval than that of studies, echoed this sentiment, saying the the general student population. decision was well thought-out given the “I’m stunned to learn that the facts I complex nature of the issue. found so compelling and conclusions I J. Timmons Roberts, professor of presumed as obvious left our University environmental studies and sociology, officials unimpressed,” said Sam Keamy- said he appreciates that the issue had Minor ’16. “I wish I had not taken the been discussed at length but expressed reasonableness of our officials for grant- his disappointment with the decision. ed. I wish that I had picked up a drum Divestment is “a moral obligation,” he and beat it with my classmates as they wrote in an email to The Herald. walked across the green in their protests.”

If Brown divested its investments in Few students intercoal two years ago, viewed actively support when the issue first “I’m stunned to the Corporation’s deciemerged, the Unilearn that the sion, but some said they versity would have were not opposed. saved “millions in facts I found “If our investment endowment that so compelling in coal enables us to do would have been and conclusions things like give students lost because the coal financial aid or renoindustry’s market I presumed as vate dorms, hire new share in U.S. elecobvious left our professors or do more tricity production awesome research, then University officials is collapsing as apwe shouldn’t divest,” parently cleaner unimpressed.” said Hannah Liu ’16. and cheaper natural “Do we really matter gas takes its place,” Sam Keamy-Minor ’16 that much? Would we Roberts wrote. “We change things if we dishould be getting vested?” she added. out before it col“The situation is not as simple as peo- lapses further.” ple make it seem,” wrote Raymon Baek Nagavarapu said the more important ’14 in an email to The Herald, citing the question is how Brown can most productime and consideration the Corporation tively address the issue of the negative devoted to the discussion of divestment impacts of coal while acknowledging the and the University’s continued efforts to fact that coal-fired electricity is a critical mitigate the effects of climate change as part of the world economy. reasons for his support of the decision.

“Brown might be able to do more as “The University is not going against a single institution in curtailing its own what the Brown community believes in,” energy consumption and supporting reBaek wrote. “There is no single resolution search and education in these areas than that will make everyone happy … but the in divesting from coal,” Nagavarapu said.

University is trying its best to optimize But Roberts wrote, “We have been their options for everyone’s benefit.” teaching about the issue for a quarter Pierson said she sees the decision as century. We must act on what we know, a consequence of capitalist values, out of both on campus and in the ways we inplace in an institution “painted as a hub teract with the world beyond the uniof social change.” versity gates. That clearly includes our “If we can’t dissociate ourselves from investments.” big businesses, how can we expect our “I would like to see Brown take on government to make social change?” that challenge — not just under scientific The satire publication the Brown study, but getting us down that very difNoser released an online article last ficult road to a world that does not run night entitled “Coal Companies Thrilled on fossil fuels,” Herbert said.

University Finally Acknowledges Their Voices.”

Future protest?

While Paxson has ended the UniverFaculty members react sity’s discussion of divestment, student In general, environmental studies protest persists and may increase. faculty members’ reactions were meaThe decision has spurred fury from sured but disapproving. certain student groups, including Brown Timothy Herbert, professor of geo- Divest Coal, the Student Labor Alliance logical sciences and chair of the de- and Brown Students for Justice in Palpartment, said he disapproved of the estine. Members from these groups and Corporation’s decision, expressing his others met last night in the Faunce Undesire to see the University make a major derground to discuss a growing student commitment to reducing carbon emis- perception that campus groups’ involvesions. Herbert participated in a forum ment in decision-making is superficial, held by Brown Divest Coal last year and Illowsky said. discussed divestment at the Corporation’s Illowsky said the decision fueled her meeting last spring. desire to refuse to let the Corporation “I don’t think energy is inherently “declare this issue a done deal.” evil,” Herbert said. “But I do come from Though previously uninvolved with the point of view that moving to an econ- any campaigns, Keamy-Minor said he omy that emits far less carbon is vital.” now plans to take part in the divestment “We should be taking action, and cause and attended last-night’s meeting. divestiture is an appropriate step,” he “The work I should have been doing added. all along … is fighting tooth-and-nail Leah VanWey, associate professor of to ensure that I grow up in a sustainsociology, said she respects the thought- able world,” he said. “To ensure that the fulness of the Corporation’s process. school I love leads the charge towards “They stayed close to the fundamental the future I want to live in.”

» CORP., from page 1 to aid policies. Financial aid decisions for international students receiving aid will be recalculated annually, and the administration will expand its support for summer internships and set aside $500,000 to reduce summer earnings expectations for some students on financial aid.

Academics will begin to see changes as early as next semester with the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning forming a Laboratory for Educational Innovation to support online learning at Brown. And associate professors who recently gained tenure will work under a new sabbatical policy, spearheaded by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.

Sophomores will soon have the option to participate in a designated seminar program focused on diversity, identity and justice. Though Paxson wrote that the program would start next fall, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron said in an interview that the first two seminars are expected to be offered next semester, with the program expanding to roughly 15 courses next year. A request for proposals will be sent out by the end of this semester, Bergeron said.

The unanimous vote of approval for Paxson’s plan came after a strategic session Friday, a full-body meeting Saturday and many smaller discussions within specific committees, Paxson said.

Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 said the moment when the Corporation voted to approve the plan was especially memorable. “Corporation members are excited about having a vision for what direction we think Brown’s going to go over the coming decade, and they’re anxious to help,” he said.

Through the planning, “Brown came together as a community and showed ambition but also sensitivity to who we are,” he said. “It’s something I’m enormously proud of.”

The administration will next begin to focus on the timing and

implementation of the plan’s specific components and corresponding fundraising efforts, Schlissel said.

Though no timeline for a capital campaign has been established and fundraising is continuous, Paxson said, “having a plan does make fundraising easier because it allows us to sharpen our priorities and communicate more clearly about what we’re doing and why it’s important to the future of the University.”

A new committee convened by Schlissel and chaired by Dean of the Graduate School Peter Weber is currently evaluating the potential ways in which Brown might expand its master’s program offerings. Schlissel said the committee will likely release recommendations by early next semester.

This was a year of unusually high turnover for the Corporation, as many term and alum trustees — two groups with different term lengths — changed over simultaneously, Tisch said.

It was the “biggest turnover year that I remember,” Tisch said, adding that “it was wonderful to see new voices and fresh perspectives in the room.”

The Corporation also accepted more than $53 million total in gifts, including a $15 million donation and a roughly $5.2 million donation to the Donor-Advised Fund, both contributed anonymously and for purposes yet to be decided by the donors.

Acting on faculty recommendations, the Corporation approved a new PhD program in behavioral and social sciences. The body also established new professorships in modern India studies and engineering, both of which are already funded.

About 150 faculty members, donors and Corporation members attended a celebration of the newly established School of Public Health Friday evening, said Terrie Fox Wetle, the school’s dean.

The Corporation approved two public health-related gifts totaling several million dollars this weekend, and Wetle said she is also excited about the interdisciplinary health focus of several proposals in Paxson’s plan.

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Alum duo releases first original album The music in ‘Psychic’ blends elements of dance music, alternative rock and ambient sounds

By JACOB DOUGLAS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The sounds of “Psychic” — the debut original album of Darkside, a collaboration between Nicolas Jaar ’12 and David Harrington ’09 — drift over listeners like a dense fog, rendering the songs not indistinguishable, but confused and blurry. “I know this is music, but what happened to it?” they ask.

In 2011, Jaar made waves in the music scene with the release of his first album, “Space Is Only Noise.” The album combined elements of downtempo, ambient and dance music, creating a sound riding a thin line between experimental and accessible — a line often crossed multiple times per song.

“Space” garnered its fair share of praise, even receiving the prestigious “Best New Music” tag from reviewing king Pitchfork. Many recognized Jaar as at the forefront of a group of promising new artists, and he continued to live up to this image at ambitious live shows, including a five-hour improvised set performed at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2012.

Jaar and Harrington came together

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on the tour for “Space,” with Harrington on guitar for Jaar. The pair began recording under the name “Darkside” and released its first EP together in 2011.

The duo received a fair bit of attention this summer for its album “Random Access Memories Memories,” which remixed Daft Punk’s charttopping album in full, ripping it apart into tiny pieces and proceeding to reconstitute the tracks in unrecognizable form. With “Psychic,” it is clear the pair approaches its own music the same way.

“Psychic” opens with familiar Jaar — four minutes of drony, ambient noise. An organ slowly swells while a low, plodding beat develops. Choppy strings come in and static slips and slides in the background. Then, nearly 5 minutes in, everything fades out and a strong, head-nodding drum beat fills the empty space. A sparse guitar line

by Harrington comes in and the song evolves into a more structured form.

This opening track, “Green Arrow,” which clocks in at more than 11 minutes, features an incredible array of different sounds that constantly shift and change, never content to simply settle into a groove.

The uncertain nature of “Green Arrow” is characteristic of the whole album — the music on “Psychic” is less about any individual song and more about one theme or sound evolving into another. The songs on “Psychic” comprise a study of groove and sound — Jaar and Harrington don’t seem

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Nicholas Jaar ’12, pictured above, released his album “Space Is Only Noise” in 2011 before coming together with David Harrington ’09 on the tour for “Space,” when the duo began recording under the name “Darkside.” interested in songwriting, but rather song-building, and when played live, these tracks are often stretched out to twice their length.

Despite the album’s difficult and strange side, most of the songs are immediately enjoyable, and “Psychic” does offer more conventional music. “Paper Trails” has an alt-rock vibe, driven by Harrington’s bluesy guitar with Jaar’s stomping bass flowing along underneath, while “Heart” and “Freak, Go Home” are, at least at times, more immediately recognizable

as indie-electronic.

Though much of the album is instrumental, Jaar also sings on it, making use of the variety in his voice, often treating it more as an additional sound than anything else. On “Paper Trails,” he sings almost absurdly low, his voice adding to the bass line, while over the jangly beat of “The Only Shrine I’ve Seen,” his vocal tracks overlap and echo off each other, the lyrics themselves largely incomprehensible.

Perhaps the best part of “Psychic” is that it simply doesn’t sound like

much else out there. The combination of bluesy alt-rock, ambient textures and sparse electronics shouldn’t work, but somehow Jaar and Harrington emulsify these elements into a mixture that sounds right. There’s nothing in-yourface about this sound — “Psychic” isn’t concerned with its own distinctiveness.

Jaar and Harrington have crafted an interesting and engaging album, though perhaps one that favors style over substance a little too much. It is a record worth checking out, if just for the experience of listening to it.

One-man show ‘All is Lost’ takes the Avon Bartending certification The film features Oscar winner Robert Redford, who classes offered on campus battles for survival against the elements

By DREW WILLIAMS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Hollywood is in the age of the ensemble cast. One need only look at a critic’s shortlist of upcoming films to see that — together, “American Hustle,” “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “The Monuments Men” feature 14 actors previously nominated for Oscars. It is almost inconceivable that a movie today would have only one actor, a 77 year old with fewer than 50 words throughout the film, no less.

But that is exactly the case in “All is Lost,” the current feature film at the Avon. The actor in question is Robert Redford, an Oscar winner used to sharing the screen with fellow lauded actors like Paul Newman, Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman. But here, director J.C. Chandler rewards Redford with the screen for the entire film, and Redford delivers in what may be one of the most notable performances of his illustrious career.

Gone are the dashing good looks of Redford’s “Sundance Kid” days. But they have been replaced by a face whose expressions are simultaneously worldweary and intelligent and guide audiences through an hour and 45 minutes of humanity stripped to its most basic elements: a man and his environment.

Redford — who might as well be playing himself, as his character has

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no name or backstory — spends the film confronting nature one-on-one.

His boat has sprung a leak, and with no help available, survival depends on his determination as he floats along, running lower on supplies with each passing day.

Redford’s every move displays the control he retains, even as nature confronts him with its worst. He responds to the simplicity of the story, lack of dialogue and fellow castmembers with skill, giving personality to a voiceless character through planned gestures and careful expressions.

What is remarkable is how outbursts of nature — the sole antagonist in a film where the main character reveals no inner demon — surprise viewers for the duration, despite their commonality in disaster films.

Comparisons will surely arise between “All is Lost” and prior genre films, most noticeably “Cast Away,” in which Tom Hanks similarly filled the screen for nearly the entire movie. As in “Cast Away,” some may tire of the single character narrative before the film runs its course.

Redford transcends the genre in his unwavering stoicism, a trait that has always epitomized male acting in Hollywood. One may wish Chandler had considered casting a female for the role for that very reason — it could have made a ground-breaking gender statement, easily implemented without any characterization restrictions.

But Chandler shows off his unique vision in other ways. With all the hype Alfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity” received for its shots of space, it is likely, and unfair, that the portrayal of the ocean in “All is Lost” will not gain sufficient praise.

The visuals are gorgeous throughout and downright awe-inspiring when the camera turns its attention to the water’s scope — not since “Finding Nemo” has the sheer mass of the ocean been so frightening.

The underwater world is its own entity, simultaneously conjoined and totally separate from the air above it.

The movie’s most magical moments occur when Redford gathers his belongings from the swamped cabin — the juxtaposition between his hands under the surface and his face above delights in the fine line between life and a watery grave.

In this way, the film directly parallels “Gravity” in an ocean setting. But where “Gravity” reinvented the role visuals can play in a movie — these visuals are Cuaron’s main character — Chandler reinvents the importance of narrative. No bells and whistles are needed in his story of a man struggling to maintain his life and humanity in a hostile environment.

While the Academy decides which style — if either — is awards-worthy, audiences at the Avon will be treated to plenty of opportunities for their own Oscar debates, with much anticipated hopefuls like “12 Years a Slave,” “Nebraska” and “Dallas Buyers Club” coming soon. Good or bad, it’s that time of year.

Four or five additional classes may be offered next semester due to high student demand

By MANDI CAI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Brown Student Association and the Student Activities Office, in conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Bartending, are now offering bartending courses on campus. The course, a two-day program held in the Underground, was offered this past weekend and will be offered again in November, said Steven Chizen ’14, a BSA project manager and former Herald opinions columnist.

Students learn the basics of bar inventory, customer service and alcoholic beverage proportions by reading the Training for Intervention Procedures manual and obtaining hands-on experience at the bar.

After completing the course, each person is issued a TIPS, the nationally recognized bartending certification. Those who have completed the course are also eligible to work at campus parties and bars.

“I’ve always been interested in taking a bartending course, but they’ve always been too expensive or badly timed,” wrote Anna Johantgen ’14, in an email to The Herald.

“When I found out Brown was subsidizing this, I was excited to sign up — especially since Brown is planning on hiring us for on-campus events.”

Skills taught in the courses include recognizing the amount of alcohol in a Solo cup as compared to a glass cup and using bartending equipment to measure a shot, said Connor Shinn ’14, executive director of BSA. “We are trying to spread awareness of drunkenness,” Chizen said.

“The idea is if Brown students have that knowledge, they will know how to recognize other intoxicated students.”

The course curriculum is based on that of the Rhode Island School of Bartending but is geared more towards Brown students. “It is more focused on the type of situation that Brown students would be put in if they were to be bartending on campus,” Shinn said.

There was “very limited advertising” for this class, but the response was “overwhelming,” he said.

Both seven-hour sessions are limited to 14 people and cost $100 per participant, Chizen said, adding that students are only allowed to attend one of the two sessions.

“The waitlist has 25 people on it,” Chizen said. “Assuming the demand stays high, we’re likely to pull four or five more classes next semester.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Bears miss second chance to win against Bulldogs An aggressive Yale bested Brown 3-0 for the second time this season after a 20-match Ivy winning streak

By HANNAH CAMHI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

An enthusiastic Saturday evening crowd at the Pizzitola Center was abuzz with anticipation as the Bears faced the Yale Bulldogs.

“We went in excited for the opportunity for a great upset,” said Thea Derrough ’14. Yale (14-3, Ivy 8-0) is the defending Ivy League champion and came into the match with a 20-match Ivy winning streak. The last time these teams met was at the start of the Bears’ (8-11, 4-4) Ivy season over a month ago, when the Bulldogs bested Bruno.

The scene was repeated Saturday as the Bulldogs defeated the Bears 3-0.

“When you play another team again, they know what to expect and you know what to expect, so in practice, we try to change up our plays so Yale doesn’t get too comfortable and we don’t get too predictable,” Derrough said.

Yale was significantly more aggressive than the Bears, racking up 44 kills.

“They have an offense that is pretty unstoppable — their setter has been player of the year for a couple of years now, and they have attackers that can put them down,” Derrough said.

“They better the ball well,” said

» M. HOCKEY, from page 1 scoring sheet by beating Yale goalie Alex Lyon, whose play fell off sharply in the third period.

Lappin sealed the victory with an empty netter late in the contest.

De Fillipo finished strong with 12 saves in the third period. After sitting out almost the entire second half of the season last year, the senior goalie showed no signs of rust, shutting the door on the defending national champions.

On a line where the scoring is usually dominated by Lorito, Naclerio and Lappin combined for three goals, which fits well with Whittet’s earlyseason hopes that scoring will be more evenly distributed.

Brown 5, Dartmouth 3 As in the game against Yale, strong goaltending and timely scoring from Naclerio allowed Bruno to break its winless streak against Dartmouth.

“It was back and forth all game,” Naclerio said. “There were a lot of penalties and a lot of power play goals.”

“It wasn’t by any stretch perfect,” Whittet said. “We responded very well, and we were able to grit out a win.”

Bruno picked up right where it left off the evening before when Pfeil got on the board just 26 seconds into the game. Naclerio set up the goal by winning a faceoff to Pfeil, who fired a shot over the right shoulder of Dartmouth goalie Cab Morris.

“It was a good pass by Naclerio,” Pfeil said. “I just tried to get it through to the net, and it ended up going past the goalie.”

Just over a minute into the second period, Dartmouth knotted the game up at one when Troy Crema beat Steel

Head Coach Diane Short. Bettering the ball refers to the second hit on an exchange. A team that betters the ball well will be able to improve from a bad first pass, allowing for a good spike.

Both teams exhibited excellent play in the first set.

“In the first set, we made some adjustments right away,” Short said. “We changed our defense pretty soon on.”

These adjustments paid off as the Bears took off to an 11-4 lead in the first game. Despite Bruno’s high level of play, the Bulldogs demonstrated their unwavering confidence and gritty determination by sticking to their offensive game plan and battling back to take the first set 25-21.

Bruno began to unravel in the second set, and Yale continued its sharp play to win the set 25-14.

“In the second set, we let them get runs of points that we did not allow in the first and third,” Derrough said.

As Yale was building momentum, the Bears appeared frustrated.

“We needed to try and get a little more strength from our teammates instead of from the individual,” Short said. In the second, the Bulldogs offense excelled with 17 kills to the Bears’ four. While Bruno was uncertain how to crack Yale’s defensive code,

just after a power play had expired.

Lorito responded 11 seconds later, corralling a loose puck in front of the net before spinning and scoring to put the Bears up 2-1.

Before the end of the second period, Dartmouth’s Eric Neiley tied the score once again on a power-play goal.

Early in the third period, Lappin put the Bears ahead 3-2 on a power play goal. Lorito fed Lappin in front of the net, and he was initially denied but dived after the rebound for the score.

But the potent Dartmouth power play stormed back with another goal a few minutes later, this time from Brandon McNally.

With 4:34 left in the game, Naclerio took a pass from Lappin in the offensive zone and scored five-hole on Morris for what would turn out to be the game-winning goal.

“It was great hustle,” Whittet said. “(Naclerio) really went after the loose puck.”

Garnet Hathaway ’14 added an empty netter to bring the final score to 5-3.

Naclerio attributed some of his success to opponents’ focus on Lorito.

“You can tell that some defenses key on him,” Naclerio said. “It definitely opened things up for me and (Lappin) this weekend. But (Lorito) is a great player, and he was able to get around it and score a lot of points.”

Bruno will host Clarkson for its home opener Friday evening and will play St. Lawrence in another ECAC matchup Saturday.

“We’re just trying to get better every day,” Pfeil said.

“It’s all about preparation in practice, and taking it one game at a time,” Naclerio said. “We know we have a good team and we expect to be successful, but the key is not letting it go to our heads.”

the Bulldogs saw the court extremely well and executed crisp passing. Yale’s strong defense and powerful offense left the Bears’ side of the court looking large.

Bruno tried desperately to bear down and hold on in the match with multiple acrobatic saves in the third set, creating some aerobic points as players from both teams dove across the court.

“We won some of the long rallies that we didn’t have the drive to win in the second,” Derrough said. These longer points helped the Bears temporarily weather Yale’s offensive storm and provided some good opportunities for counterattacks.

Bruno demonstrated its variety by mixing up the pace of its spikes contrasting deep drives with short placements. As fatigue set in, service errors from both teams increased. Yale ultimately emerged the victor 25-21.

Short said she sees this loss as a learning experience, saying the team could improve on basic performance metrics such as passing under pressure and serving tougher.

Next weekend the Bears travel to take on Harvard and Dartmouth. “We are a better team now than when we played them last time, so it’s good to know that we beat them last time and that we have kept improving,” Derrough said.

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Despite Bruno’s strong play in the first set, the Bulldogs came out with an aggressive offense and 44 kills throughout the game.

6 commentary EDITORIAL

Let Kelly speak — and respond This Tuesday, the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions is hosting Raymond Kelly, the New York City Police Commissioner known for the controversial stop-and-frisk policy, for its Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture. The lecture is entitled “Proactive Policing in America’s Biggest City,” and the event description lauds Kelly for implementing “strategies that have enabled the New York City Police Department to drive crime down more than 30 percent since 2001.” But it fails to note that this past August, U.S. District Judge Shira Sheindlin ruled stop-and-frisk an unconstitutional “policy of indirect racial profiling” and ordered it changed. Students have been circulating a petition including, among other conditions, a demand to cancel the lecture.

The Taubman Center erred in its use of laudatory language in the event description, but Brown has hosted controversial speakers in the past, and the center is not compelled to cancel Kelly’s lecture just because many students oppose his views. Rather, students seeking to protest Kelly’s practices should attend the event and question him in a civil and intellectual manner.

The numbers behind the program prior to this summer’s ruling are astounding — between January 2004 and June 2012, city police conducted 4.4 million stops. While New York City is just over 50 percent black or Hispanic, an unbelievable 83 percent of cases implicated individuals from these two groups. The vast majority of the stops — 88 percent — resulted in no further action, and weapons were discovered in only 1.5 percent of frisks. It is wholly unsurprising, then, that Sheindlin ruled that “the policy of singling out ‘the right people’” is racially discriminatory and therefore violates the United States Constitution. During the trial, a state senator told the court he had heard Kelly say the purpose of this policy was to “instill fear” in young black and Hispanic men, to teach them that “every time they leave their home, they could be stopped by the police.” While Kelly has disputed this statement, the judge “credited the account” of the senator making the allegations.

It is understandable that many students oppose Kelly’s policies and the language of the event announcement, but it is counter-productive to demand that the University cancel the lecture. Kelly should be given a platform to speak, and students who oppose him should be given the opportunity to ask questions and present counter-arguments. The evidence against the stop-and-frisk program is incontrovertible — and we are certain that students who challenge Kelly on factual grounds will meet greater success than those who focus on trying to keep the event from taking place at all.

Stop-and-frisk created a culture of fear in New York for certain groups who witnessed and experienced discrimination on the part of city officials and law enforcement officers. In this climate, marginalized groups were systemically excluded and their voices were minimized. We have an opportunity to demonstrate to the man behind this culture that it is possible to create a climate in which opposing views can be expressed, debated and analyzed. We urge students to attend the lecture, listen carefully to Kelly’s words — and speak back.

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It’s about Brown’s legitimization of racial profiling. Imagine that New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly’s aggressively promoted stop-and-frisk program were to be implemented at Brown. If New York stop rates were replicated proportionally on campus using data from last year, 411 undergraduates would be stopped in one year. Eighty-seven percent of stopped individuals in New York happen to be black and Hispanic people. There are approximately 1,165 black and Hispanic undergraduates at Brown. Thirtytwo percent of black and Hispanic students — 373 total — would be stopped and frisked. Only 1.2 percent of the white student population — 41 of 3,295 — would face the same treatment.

The uproar would be swift and intense, especially because of these 411 stops, 366 would be entirely unwarranted, leading to the discovery of no open containers, no dimebags, certainly no weapons and no charge at all. Policing in New York, where these numbers are a daily reality, is a racialized phenomenon. Black and Hispanic people are presumed guilty and deserving of constant invasions of privacy, and white people are not.

In reality, Kelly’s stop-and-frisk program is far more controversial than a laudatory Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions event invitation would suggest.

Here is an event in which racially motivated street stops are referred to by New York Police Department spokesperson Paul Browne as one of many “proactive policing strategies” that he claims are responsible for New York murders dropping by 49 percent over the past 10 years. There’s actually very little scholarly consensus that Kelly’s department’s frisking practices are the root reason for New York’s crime decline, and according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, “no research has ever proven the effectiveness of New York City’s stop-andfrisk regime.”

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For starters, the city’s crime rate decline, which began in the early 1990s, is part of a larger national trend of declining crime rates — an over 40 percent reduction in most American urban areas. Many criminologists credit the decrease to “broken windows policing,” investigating and prosecuting low-level crimes to maintain order, and “hot spot policing,” staking out and over-policing neighborhoods with more crime — both of which are practiced by Kelly’s department. But academics also point to the effects of increased prosperity, the legalization of more reproductive choices for women and a large re-

It’s about Brown’s legitimization of racial profiling. duction in crack cocaine use. In fact, stop-and-frisk looks more and more ineffective once you look at the fact that “while violent crimes fell 29 percent in New York City from 2001 to 2010, other large cities experienced larger violent crime declines without relying on stop-and-frisk abuses: 59 percent in Los Angeles, 56 percent in New Orleans, 49 percent in Dallas and 37 percent in Baltimore,” according to the NYCLU. Secondly, claims made by the NYPD to justify “proactive policing” are just plain false. Browne claims 5,628 people in New York can thank programs like stop-and-frisk for saving their lives, when actually the drop in the murder rate occurred before New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s time in office and before stopand-frisk. As the NYCLU writes, “the year before the mayor took office there were 649 murders in New York City. In 2011, there were 526 murders.” Kelly himself has claimed “there’s no denying that stops take guns off the street and save lives,” when in reality only 0.2 percent of stops uncover guns — a figure that does not justify the physical invasion, harassment and intimidation of tens of thousands of innocent people.

There are other ways to get guns off the streets.

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City of New York, part of a class action lawsuit against Kelly citing him for unconstitutional racial discrimination, former NYPD captain and New York State Senator Eric Adams testified about a small meeting he attended in July 2010. Former New York Governor David Paterson, Adams, other policymakers and Kelly were all present to discuss a bill related to stop-and-frisk. Adams raised his concern that a disproportionate number of black and Hispanic people were being targeted for stops. Kelly responded that he focused on young blacks and Hispanics “because he wanted to instill fear in them, every time they leave their home, they could be stopped by the police.”

There is something profoundly wrong with the Taubman Center presenting Kelly as unequivocally responsible for the crime decline while failing to mention the abuses he has propagated. In fact, in August of this year, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the NYPD’s current stop-and-frisk tactics are in violation of the Fourth Amendment and cited the proven racial biases of the program as violations of citizens’ civil rights protections. Stop-and-frisk as it currently functions has literally been ruled illegal by a federal judge. Kelly’s instrumentality in racist policy-making is not up for debate. In this situation, what is up for debate is the implication of giving a racist a unilateral stage at Brown by sole virtue of his being a powerful man.

Stop-and-frisk is much more than a matter of constitutional law. This program, in conjunction with other policies in the criminal justice system, effectively criminalizes nonwhiteness and feeds into the prison industrial complex. By bringing Kelly to Brown uncritically and creating no space for opposing narratives, Brown commits itself to privileging the righteousness of this man’s actions and adds to the criminalization of people of color in this country.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2013

Community responds to U.’s decision not to divest from coal In deciding not to divest from companies involved in the production of coal, President Christina Paxson and the Corporation are ignoring the voices of students, faculty and staff members and alums, as well as the opinion of their own advisory committee. Paxson’s letter to the community acknowledges the serious harm coal use does to our planet, yet she refuses to take the step of divestiture. Her assertion that Brown’s investments are small and won’t matter to the companies is a weak argument. Every significant change starts with small steps. Those small steps add up, a tipping point is reached and eventually the big change occurs. Paxson’s argument that coal use is complicated and divestiture is too simplistic a step is condescending. Her counterargument of tobacco is a poor one. Though tobacco use is now recognized as a social harm, there are those who would argue that it, too, is a complex issue.

In general, Paxson has shown little regard for her students, faculty and alums. Her letters to the community on this and other issues try to pat students on the back for their environmental activism — while also working in direct opposition. She has missed an opportunity to continue Brown’s leadership in social, political and environmental arenas.

As a third generation alum and Brown parent, I am deeply disappointed.

Susan Izeman ’81 P’13 The business-as-usual response to the Brown Divest Coal call for divestment shows an appalling narrowness in the Corporation’s concept of its mission.

The powerful fossil fuel industry has used its immense wealth to influence the actions of political leaders and journalists, and it’s up to institutions like Brown to use their moral and intellectual authority to call attention to the need for profound changes.

The floods, droughts and storms are already here. They are causing the most harm to the world’s poorest people. The problem of climate change is a daunting one, and it will take many years to make the adjustments needed to address it. Brown’s Corporation didn’t have the courage to act this time. But this problem isn’t going to go away any time soon, and the years to come will give it many chances to reconsider their position.

Nancy Sleator ’72

The Corporation’s decision shows a clear willingness to disregard student voice, student groups and its own University body — the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policy. I’m ashamed to be part of this institution, and I’m ready to change that and make sure Brown divests.

Trevor Culhane ’15

I’m about to teach high school in a low-income community of color, the kind of community most likely to agitate for radical change and the kind of community disproportionately harmed by environmental racism. I hope to acquaint my students with the power and potential of activism, but it’s decisions like the Corporation’s vote not to divest from coal that sap that hope. If the Corporation of one of the most elite and so-called progressive universities in the world can’t live up to its own research or to its own chartered commitment to “usefulness and purpose” and “sustainability,” then what hope have we to advocate for change among the rest of the corporate and political elites in power, many of whom aren’t even convinced of climate change’s existence, let alone its social harms? This decision — motivated by cowardice and greed — will forever be a mark of this University’s deliberate failure to do the right thing.

Kurt Ostrow ’13

Like much of the community, I was quite disappointed to hear this afternoon of the Corporation’s decision regarding divestment from coal companies. But given that only six of the hundreds of campus divestment campaigns across the country have secured commitments from their administrations, Brown’s choice is an unfortunately typical one for a university whose track record in such issues is atypical. The decision was not shocking, just painfully mediocre.

Will Herrmann ’12

We’ve already got a Strategic Sustainability and Advisory Committee, an Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policy and an Ad-Hoc Committee on Coal Divestment. Now Paxson is adding the Task Force on Brown’s Response to Climate Change. Our administration has an inordinate fondness for creating committees. If only it felt the same way about leadership.

Emily Kirkland ’13

Though I was among the first to sign Brown Divest Coal’s petition, I accept the determination that this case did not meet the criteria for divestment. But I do not accept President Christina Paxson’s specious argument regarding the social value of coal as a factor in that verdict.

In her letter to the community, Paxson asserted that “cessation of the production and use of coal would itself create significant economic and social harm to countless communities across the globe.” In the next paragraph, she states that “divestiture would not have a direct effect on the companies in question.” The latter statement makes the former irrelevant. Divestiture would not produce a supposedly deleterious cessation of production, and pretending otherwise both trivializes the social and economic conflicts surrounding fossil fuels and insults our intelligence.

Nobody believes the University is not divesting from coal for fear of interrupting global development.

Emma Dixon ’13

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The administration is throwing our generation under the bus out of political cowardice. It has failed abysmally to mount arguments that come anywhere near meeting the logical and ethical standards we are held to in Brown classrooms.

Corporation members with significant financial ties to the coal industry did not recuse themselves from the discussion. Everyone at this school should be thinking long and hard about how — and in whose interest — our university is being run. If administrators think the Brown Divest Coal campaign is going away, they couldn’t be more wrong.

Gabriel Schwartz ’13

This decision is motivated by the administration’s political conservatism on economic issues.

Masked by relatively liberal views on social issues, the administration’s tradition of conservative activism in other areas has received little attention. Through our membership in the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council, a corporate lobby, we have consistently advocated for right-wing economic policies at the state level — most notably the 2006 tax cuts for the rich. At the federal level, we were the university that sued under Bush’s National Labor Relations Board to take away the rights of graduate students at private colleges to unionize.

Paxson has also provided funding and support for Common Sense Action, a student group supporting hedge fund billionaire Pete Peterson’s campaign to cut Social Security and Medicare.

I do not share Paxson’s political conservatism on economic issues, but I fully support her right to express those views.

What does concern me is her unwillingness to share her real motivations for opposing divestment. Instead of laying out her actual beliefs in clear, readable prose, she has chosen to hide her intentions behind a morass of vague and flowery language. Paxson should be open and honest about the real reason Brown refuses to divest from coal — the administration’s conservatism.

Samuel Bell GS The Corporation’s decision is hugely disappointing. We need leading universities to serve as powerful leaders on issues of sustainability, climate change and social justice. This decision equates to nothing more than an apathetic stance on the most pressing issue of our generation.

Dylan Cole-Kink ’17

I am quite disturbed that the Corporation chose to ignore the views of the majority of Brown students and of the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies in choosing to continue to invest in an industry that kills thousands of people in the United States alone, destroys ecosystems through mining and is a huge contributor to global warming. Unfortunately, many of the people most harmed by the coal industry are either those too poor to speak up or those who live in developing nations where they have limited abilities to initiate change. As a forward-thinking university, it is our duty to be their voices.

We cannot continue to use the slogan “Boldly Brown” while simultaneously reinforcing a status quo that is so clearly socially and environmentally harmful.

Gabriel Buchsbaum ’17

Reading President Christina Paxson’s email this afternoon was heartbreaking. After working on the Brown Divest Coal Campaign since its inception and being involved in what seemed to be logical and productive dialogues with representatives from all sides of the issue, my hopes for this Corporation meeting were high. I watched as the campaign blossomed from 10 or 12 uncertain students having confused discussions about divestment to a movement of over 100 passionate, aware, dedicated activists giving their energy to a cause in which they sincerely believe. To me, it seemed that this tangible vivacity that had pervaded the Brown community could not be ignored by its leaders. Evidently, our voices did not carry the weight we imagined they would. But understanding that student support alone would not be enough, what I believed would truly guarantee a just decision at Friday’s meeting was the most recent Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies letter.

The Corporation’s audacious decision to disregard the recommendation of ACCRIP — a committee formed for no other purpose than to examine the issues of ethical and moral responsibility in Brown’s investment policies — was unprecedented.

Never before have ACCRIP’s divestment recommendations been ignored, and the fact that it happened today, in relation to an issue as calamitous and urgent as climate change, was a painful reminder of the extent to which corporate power dictates so many facets of our lives.

Kari Malkki ’16

I am gravely disappointed in the Corporation for its decision not to divest from coal despite the unethical implications the decision entails and a broad student demand for responsibility.

Among the justifications for not divesting was the claim that divestment is an ineffective approach and that coal is a crucial component of economic progress and overall world development. But how can a campus advocate being sustainable and efficient when it maintains investments in the coal industry? This hypocrisy destroys our legitimacy and continues to commit us to the wrong side of history. Though coal has played a very influential role historically and presently, the short term benefits of continuing to rely on coal do not outweigh the long term consequences. Divesting will do two things. It will send a clear message that it is time to shift our energy usage away from coal and galvanize other campuses to do the same, amplifying the message.

Alan Gorchov Negron ’17

President Christina Paxson and the Corporation made an immoral decision this weekend by choosing not to divest Brown from coal companies.

Climate change is the most important issue of our generation, and divestment is one first step Brown must take to make a statement.

I hope my fellow students and the entire Brown community make known to our president their anger at this decision and their determination to continue the fight for divestment. As Brown’s essential purpose is the development of young people, our administrators cannot claim to be leaders when they have just betrayed the generation they are here to serve.

Climate change will not be solved by research and education, as Paxson claimed today. It is far too immediate an issue for that. We need large action now, and it is shameful to be associated with a university that is too cowardly or too immoral to take a stand.

Solomon Goldstein-Rose ’16

I graduated from Brown in 2012, and I am currently in the process of completing a PhD at Stanford University studying the effects of climate change on marine life. One thing that is abundantly clear is that we don’t have much room for error, and cowardly and backward-thinking decisions like President Christina Paxson’s decision to block Brown’s divestment from fossil fuels do a disservice to Brown’s legacy as a leader in responding to global crises. Paxson: I know you are relatively new as president, so perhaps you haven’t had enough time to get to know the community. But as someone who spent more time there than you have, I am entirely unimpressed. It isn’t too late to change your mind.

Noah Rose ’12

This was a catastrophic decision that damages Brown’s reputation as a leader in environmental sustainability and as an institution that is receptive to students’ principles. President Christina Paxson’s argument that Brown should simply confront climate change from a political or technological approach is a ruse that distracts from our ongoing support of fossil fuels. Today, I am ashamed to call Brown home.

Paxson’s failure to support the Brown community is a disgrace to this institution.

Jonah Berkowitz ’17

daily herald sports monday THE BROWN

MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2013

FOOTBALL

42

vs.

35

4-2, 1-2

1-5, 0-3

Bruno tops Cornell in first conference win The football team recovered from an early fumble and scored in every quarter

By CALEB MILLER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Bears exploded offensively and held off a fourth-quarter Cornell rally to capture their first conference win of the season with a 42-35 triumph in Ithaca, N.Y. The victory is welcome after Bruno (4-2, 1-2 Ivy) coughed up early leads against Harvard (5-1, 2-1) and Princeton (5-1, 3-0) in its first two Ivy contests. The team seemed to be headed toward a similar fate late in the Cornell game, but some big plays in the final quarter secured the win.

The win “wasn’t the way we drew it up,” said Head Coach Phil Estes, but he added that beating Cornell on the road is important.

Bruno scored in every quarter, grabbing first-half momentum with 14 unanswered points in the second quarter and building a 35-14 lead after three quarters. But Cornell’s Jeff Mathews demonstrated the skills that previously earned him the title of Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year and made him the league’s all-time leader in passing yards. Mathews led the Big Red (1-5, 0-3) on three fourth-quarter scoring drives to crawl back into the game.

“We were doing well in the first two quarters,” said defensive end and co-captain Michael Yules ’14 of the defense against Mathews. “When they

were down by so much and started to chuck it up, the kid has an arm and made some plays.”

“When you play against a guy as seasoned as Mathews, you know a 21-point lead in the fourth quarter isn’t safe,” said Jordan Reisner ’14.

“You can never have too many insurance points.”

Mathews’ heroics gave the home team a chance with the football as it trailed by seven with just over two minutes to play. But on the first snap of the drive, defensive end John Bumpus ’14 made his biggest contribution of the season so far. After playing the first 58 minutes without a tackle, Bumpus sacked Mathews and jarred the ball loose for linebacker Dan Giovacchini ’15 to recover.

“Bumpus made a great play,” said Yules, who was rushing Mathews from the other side on the integral play. There were no schemes in place, Yules said. “He just got over the top and stripped him, and that’s the turning point in the game.”

Amid the flurry of Cornell scores in the fourth, the Bears notched a touchdown of their own, which proved to make the difference. The drive almost stalled with Bruno facing a third and seven at their own 28 yard-line. But quarterback and cocaptain Patrick Donnelly ’13.5 found Jordan Evans ’14 for a crucial 44-yard catch-and-run that set up Andrew Coke ’16 for the decisive score four plays later.

A balanced attack contributed to a successful day for the offense, which amassed 488 total yards and five touchdowns.

Donnelly tossed for 295 yards and three touchdowns, connecting with a season-high seven receivers, including three different touchdown combinations.

Evans led all receivers with 104 yards and a score, passing the century mark for the second time this season.

On the ground, Reisner and Coke provided an effective two-pronged attack, running for 110 and 71 yards, respectively, and scoring a touchdown each.

Reisner’s 110-yard effort was huge lift to the Bears, who were missing their leading rusher John Spooney ’14 due to concussion-like symptoms.

After a 193-yard performance against the Big Red last year, Reisner has a knack for coming up big against the Ivy League foe. A staggering 63.9 percent of the running back’s career yards have come against Cornell.

“I think the Cornell aspect is really just a coincidence,” Reisner said with a laugh after the game, adding that his inflated statistics are “a product of the being really prepared and the coaches trusting him with carries.”

Reisner also pointed to offensive balance and Donnelly’s 295 passing yards as factors helping the ground attack.

“It’s simple math,” he said. “When the defense respects Donnelly, they are forced to have more secondary coverage and that takes defenders out of the mix up front.”

The game began ominously for the Bears with a fumble deep in Cornell territory on the first drive of the game. Such turnovers were costly in their first two conference losses.

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Jordan Reisner ’14 scored a touchdown for the Bears and ran 110 yards.

But Brown bounced back on its next drive, scoring the game’s first touchdown on a one-yard smash by Reisner. Cornell answered, but the Bears were able to pull away in the second quarter with an aerial attack.

Donnelly racked up 98 passing yards in the period and found Andrew Marks ’14 and Tellef Lundevall ’13.5 for touchdowns.

“Donnelly was unbelievable today and was able to hit a couple of big plays,” Estes said.

For the second week in a row, the Bears’ special teams contributed a touchdown. On the opening kickoff of the second half, a lick by Will Quigley ’16 on Big Red kick returner Ben Rogers jarred the ball loose. William Twyman ’16 scooped up the pigskin and made the most of his first career fumble recover, carrying the ball 23 yards into the end zone.

Evans showcased his ability to run after the catch in the third when he broke tackles on his way to a 43-yard score.

A monster day from Mathews — 419 passing yards and four touchdowns — came up short for the Big Red as the offense was bottled up most of the game by the Bruno defense. Outside linebacker Ade Oyalowo ’14 led the way with nine tackles, while Jacob Supron ’15 and Giovacchini each contributed eight.

The Bears will be tested at Brown Stadium next week against defending Ivy League champion Penn (4-2, 3-0). Leaving Ithaca with a victory is a major boost for next week, Yules said.

“We needed that — first Ivy win going into Penn,” he said. “It was absolutely humongous that we won that game, and the locker room was definitely showing it.”

W. HOCKEY

In tight competition, Bruno wins one, drops one against RIT Goalie Moore ’14 saved 54 of 55 shots during Saturday’s away game against RIT

By LAINIE ROWLAND CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Women’s hockey split its series at the Rochester Insitute of Technology this past weekend in nonconference play, allowing the Tigers to bring home the first win before coming back from behind to edge them out in game two overtime.

Both contests were settled by single

IVY FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD

point margins 2-1.

In the first game, RIT (4-5) notched both goals off power plays on the Bears (1-1). The Tigers went two for four in scoring off power plays, while Bruno went zero for two. Kaitlyn Keon ’15 scored Brown’s lone goal 41 seconds into the second period. Bruno was strong on defense but saw itself outshot 34 to 19 — and only two of those 34 shots made the difference for RIT. RIT’s Celeste Brown scored both shots — one at the end of the first period and the other at the very beginning of the third — to give the Tigers a hard-fought win.

Goalie and co-captain Aubree

Moore ’14 played well, blocking 10 unanswered shots in the second period for a total of 17 saves in that period alone.

“Our goalie had an outstanding weekend,” said Head Coach Amy Bourbeau. Bruno’s defense had to adapt very quickly to RIT’s offense.

“Brown’s defense needed to be in position at all times and focus on defending the passing and shooting lanes,” Bourbeau said. She highlighted the team’s need to record more shots on goal and to be more aggressive offensively as the game’s main issue.

Coming in Saturday for game two, Bruno faced a different goalie — this

Brown 42 Cornell 35

Princeton 51 Harvard 48

Penn 28 Yale 17

Dartmouth 56 Columbia 0

time a first-year — and tweaked its play to respond to the team’s solid defense and hard-hitting offense. “On our end, we focused more on zone entries and trying to get our team to move the puck quicker,” Bourbeau said.

Again, RIT overwhelmed the Bears with shots on goal, shooting 55 compared to Bruno’s nineteen. But Moore’s unyielding goalkeeping allowed only one of those shots to hit the back of the net. The Tigers were up by one goal until Jessica Hoyle ’14 scored the game changer with only 2:40 left in regulation time. As play went into overtime, Bruno was quickly offered a power play

opportunity with only 2:56 into play.

Capitalizing on the chance, Jennifer Nedow ’14 shot out of the faceoff, allowing Maddie Woo ’17 to deflect the puck into the net for the deciding goal — her first collegiate score.

Despite RIT’s unrelenting offensive pressure, “our team never quit in either game, we worked extremely hard,” Bourbeau said. Looking forward, Bourbeau said that the team needs to focus on quicker decision making but will remain “tough to play against.”

Bruno’s next matchup is a conference night game Nov. 1 at Clarkson University (6-2-1).

NEXT WEEKEND’S GAMES: Columbia @ Yale Penn @ Brown

Cornell @ Princeton Dartmouth @ Harvard