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NASA selects student satellite for space launch TWC forms

Satellite aims to promote local student interest in space exploration through interaction

By ISOBEL HECK SCIENCE & RESEARCH EDITOR

By 2017, people will be able to look into space and s e e a s atellite created by Brown students shining as brightly as the North Star.

The satellite, or “CubeSat,” is a 10-centimeter-cubed satellite “about the size and weight of a grapefruit,” said Hannah Varner ’14, one of the leaders of the CubeSat project.

On Feb. 6, NASA announced that

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the Brown CubeSat, titled EQUISat, was chosen along with 16 others to be launched into space. The project will most likely launch in the summer of 2017, co-leader Tyler Del Sesto ’14 said.

The project was originally founded in 2011 with the help of team adviser Rick Fleeter ’76 PhD’81, adjunct associate professor in the School of Engineering, with the goal of making space and satellites more interesting and accessible to the average person.

EQUISat is covered in LED lights so it is visible to the naked eye and can transmit radio signals so it can be used for communication, meaning anyone can interact with it on their own without special equipment.

Team members hope these features » See CUBESAT, page 4

committee to rewrite mission

Group set to focus on making center more inclusive and narrowing scope of work

By MARGARET NICKENS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Brown undergraduates designed a 10-centimeter-cubed satellite that NASA selected, along with 16 others, to be launched into space.

Endowment returns in line with national trend 12.6 percent increase in fiscal year 2013 investment returns places Brown second in Ivy League

By SANDRA YAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A new report produced by the National Association of College and University Business Officers shows that the University’s percentage increase in investment returns from last year was in line with university endowments nationwide, which experienced a rebound in investment returns in fiscal year 2013.

The University’s endowment, currently sized at about $2.7 billion, saw an increase of 12.6 percent in investment returns from last year, The Herald reported in October.

Among its Ivy peers, Brown’s endowment saw the second-most growth, trailing Penn, which reported a return increase of 14.4 percent. Yale, Princeton

and Harvard also saw increases in their returns of 12.5 percent, 11.7 percent and 11.3 percent, respectively.

Much of this rebound can be accredited to surging financial markets, said Ken Redd, director of research and policy analysis at NACUBO. In fiscal year 2013, the U.S. stock market gained almost 21 percent, he said.

An endowment essentially comprises a series of funds that are designed to last into perpetuity, Redd said. At the University, a certain percentage of the endowment — known as a payout — is used each year for operations, said Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, adding that a portion of the remaining funds is then reinvested.

The average investment return for the

surveyed colleges to be 11.7 percent for fiscal year 2013, NACUBO measured.

When the stock market crashed in 2008, the University’s endowment dropped a total market value of 27 percent, from about $2.8 billion to about $2 billion, Huidekoper said. At that time, the endowment represented around 17 percent of the University’s total revenue, leading to expenditure reductions and delays in capital projects, she said.

“In real terms, (the endowment’s) not worth what it was in 2008,” Huidekoper said, though she added that administrators are confident the University will continue improving its financial position.

“We’ll get there.”

Draws from the endowment make up about 16 percent of the University’s total revenue, Huidekoper said.

Though NACUBO reported that higher education institutions’ endowments are on the rebound, other ratings

agencies predict continued struggles for the financial positions of colleges and universities.

In its Outlook Report for 2014, released Nov. 25, Moody’s cited “flat to declining governmental funding” and “slowly growing revenue eclipsed by pressure to increase expenses” as ongoing concerns for higher education.

Declining federal funding is a challenge for the University, Huidekoper said.

Most of the University’s revenue comes from tuition, followed by federal funding for research and then the endowment, Huidekoper said. The University does not draw as much from its endowment as do some of its Ivy League peers, such as Harvard and Princeton, she added. Harvard has the largest endowment of any higher education institution in the world, with $32.7 billion in total endowment assets at the end of fiscal year 2013.

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At home, Bruno scores unexpected split Seniors falter against Princeton but rebound against nationally ranked Quinnipiac

By ANDREW FLAX

the standings by two points entering the weekend, went 1-0-1 to expand its lead on the Bears to three points.

St. Lawrence, with which Brown was tied, was 0-1-1 this weekend to fall a point behind Bruno and into a tie with Harvard for ninth place.

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Friday: Princeton 3, Brown 2 The Tigers (5-20-0, 4-14-0 ECAC) won their second road game of the season at Brown (10-12-3, 7-10-1) Friday despite goals from Mark Naclerio ’16 and Matt Lorito ’15.

Princeton took a 2-0 lead five minutes into the second period, but Brown struck back a minute later with Naclerio’s goal and tied it up three minutes afterward on a penalty shot by Lorito.

But Princeton scored a power-play goal » See M. HOCKEY, page S8

Commentary

Study finds many bipolar patients treated locally in 2010 were taking more than four prescription drugs

Map of Jupiter’s moon allows researchers to piece together a history of the moon’s evolution

Hillestad ’15: The University should cancel classes during severe winter storms

Johnson ’14: We should worry less about national debt and focus on investing in people

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Massimo Lamacchia ’15 scored in a 4-2 win over fourth-ranked Quinnipiac Saturday. The Bears fell to last-place Princeton Friday night.

The men’s hockey team picked up some surprising results at home this weekend, falling to last-place Princeton but defeating No. 4 Quinnipiac.

It was a weekend for upsets all across the ECAC, with the teams that entered each conference game lower in the standings going 6-3-3 overall.

The bottom three teams entering the weekend — Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton — went a combined 4-1-1.

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With its 40th anniversary two years away, the Third World Center is doing some inhouse cleaning, examining what changes it needs to make in order to be a useful resource in light of changing student needs and demographics.

A strategic planning committee comprising students, faculty members and alums is currently working on rewriting the TWC’s vision and mission and forming a five-year strategic plan, said Mary Almandrez, TWC director and assistant dean of the College.

The committee is looking into issues of exclusivity and clarity of mission, among other goals, said Almandrez, a member of the committee. The committee will use these discussions, along with community input, to determine a new name for the center that better reflects its goals, she said.

Narrowing the center’s scope of involvement will be a guiding factor in clarifying its mission, Almandrez said.

“There’s a lot of work that we do in the center, and I think it’s good work.

But I think this is an opportunity for us to determine if it’s appropriate for the TWC to be doing this work,” she said.

Stephanie Harris ’14, who is involved with the TWC’s Minority Peer Counselor program, said the center should determine whether it is primarily a community support group or primarily a social activism group.

“I think that social justice and activism are really awesome, but I don’t think that’s what the TWC has to be in its main focus. … For me, this is a space for people to come and feel comfortable,” she said.

The committee will also discuss what communities the center serves, answering questions such as who is considered a student of color and whether the TWC should also serve graduate students, said Hisa Hashisaka ’14, a member of the committee.

The group will work to determine what projects the TWC can undertake without overextending its staff members and resources, said Floripa Olguin ’16, another member of the committee.

Part of concentrating its focus will include building stronger connections with other departments and groups around campus. Some of these departments would include medical and science fields » See TWC, page 3 t o d ay

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» TWC, from page 1 where people may not be aware of how they can get involved with the TWC, said Jacinta Lomba ’17, a member of the committee.

Increasing connections will ensure social justice is a “University-wide” effort, one of the goals of the committee, said member Christopher Dennis, deputy dean of the College.

“What I care most about is that the philosophy and our mission and our goal to support students of color and their allies … leaves this physical space,” Almandrez said. “It shouldn’t be just 68 Brown St.” Stanley Stewart ’16, a minority peer counselor, said he believes the center’s mission and work are unclear to many students on campus. He added that he hopes the TWC can increase student and faculty understanding of the center’s goals without sacrificing its primary function — serving students of color.

Dialogues with students around campus have also suggested that many students see the TWC as an exclusive space, Lomba said.

“It seemed like a place for a few people, and not everyone felt comfortable

stepping into the space and engaging in the issues,” Lomba said, adding that her own involvement with the center has been very gratifying.

“As a woman of color at a predominantly white institution, I think that the (Third World Transition Program) experience was important for me in knowing that I do have a space on this campus,” she said. She hopes the committee will work to make the space appear open to all students looking to use its resources, she added.

The committee hopes to post a draft of the TWC’s strategic plan within the next couple of weeks, after which it plans to host an open forum and call for suggestions regarding the center’s new name and mission, Almandrez said.

Amidst these changes, the TWC will not lose focus of its core values and history, she said. It will remain “unapologetically about students of color and their allies” and a “politicized space” where socially conscious conversations can occur, Almandrez said.

“I often call (the TWC) home. When people mess up rooms, I’m like, ‘Why are people messing up my house?’” Harris said. “It’s really important that it stays as a community support base.”

» BIPOLAR, from page 8 bipolar disorder does not necessarily imply negative effects on patients. For some combinations of medications, polypharmacy can be useful, she said.

But there are no clinical trials about which medications can be prescribed together effectively, she said.

Michael First, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia, said he was not involved in the study but he did not find it surprising that doctors prescribe more medications to treat patients who are still symptomatic. “Is it better to do nothing because we don’t have data on it?” he asked.

First added that the tendency of doctors to prescribe patients multiple medications is a marker of how difficult it is to treat bipolar disorder, as patients display multiple problems that cannot be targeted by a single treatment.

The study also found that women constituted 68 percent of the patients with complex polypharmacy. At first, the authors thought this was reflective of the higher incidence of depression in women, but this trend persisted even after controlling for depressive symptoms, Weinstock said.

No research has been done to explain this phenomenon, but Gaudiano said women could be experiencing

more comorbid problems with bipolar disorder or vocalizing them more to their providers, thereby obtaining more medication.

Weinstock said a more effective combination of treatments is needed for bipolar disorder, and clinicians should consider alternatives to medication in order to enhance patient outcomes.

First said psychotherapy and psychoeducation need to be made available to patients in addition to traditional prescriptions. “A lot of the people who end up in the hospital are just receiving medications, not other forms of guidance,” he said.

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» CUBESAT, from page 1 will spark interest in space ­— a sometimes inaccessible scientific topic.

Co-founder Alex Carrere ’12 said he was “obviously very, very excited” when he got a call from fellow founder Max Monn ’12 GS, a former Herald photo editor, who told him the satellite had been approved for launch. “I did a couple of jump-up-and-downs.

It’s been a real dream come true for us.”

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The Rhode Island Historical Society library’s closing last December necessitated a syllabus change for ENGL 1180Q: “Narrating History.”

Temporary library closing affects English course Water damage to local library shifts resources online for ‘Narrating History’ class

By ELANA JAFFE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Following water damage to the Rhode Island Historical Society library in December, faculty members and students have been forced to find other archival resources on Rhode Island history while the space undergoes restoration.

The library will remain closed for the rest of the semester and will likely reopen by this fall, said RIHS Executive Director C. Morgan Grefe.

Some materials in the library’s collections sustained limited damage and are currently dried and in off-site storage, Grefe said. While the library is closed, the staff is working to connect scholars with resources, conduct reproduction requests and put materials online, she added.

Elizabeth Taylor, senior lecturer in English, had to change the syllabus of ENGL 1180Q: “Narrating History” after learning of the library’s temporary closure. Students will now have to use digital archives, rather than the library’s archives, in crafting stories about Rhode Island’s history, Taylor said.

In previous semesters, students in the class used primary resources from the archives at the RIHS library and the John Hay Library for two out of three narratives they wrote about the history of Brown or Rhode Island, Taylor said.

Students in the course this semester will be doing their research online, in the Rockefeller Library and in the Providence Public Library, Taylor said.

She had already planned on having the students conduct some research online because of ongoing renovations at the Hay, she added.

Taylor said she thinks online research will not alter students’ information-gathering or writing processes, but cannot replace the distinctive experience of visiting physical archives. “There is something about the response to a three-dimensional piece in the archives that is unmatched,” she said.

Students who took the course in past years praised their experiences working with the RIHS library’s physical archives.

“Archival research is a viscerally fun experience because you’re dealing with

the exact source things came from,” said Emma Ruddock ’13.5, a former student in the class. Compared to online research, “it’s totally different, much more tangible,” she said.

The archives feel like “untouched material that you’re getting to pick apart,” Ruddock said. She added that her experience in the RIHS library’s archives prepared her to complete a capstone project in English, and she would have continued to use the archives if they were open.

Gabriel Lesser ’15, who took the course last year, said his research experience in the physical archives was “cooler than cool.” Lesser added that he found the staff ’s knowledge at both the RIHS library and the Hay to be invaluable.

Students currently enrolled in the course said they wished they had access to the RIHS library’s archives.

Selen Senocak ’15, a current student in the course, said she regretted she could not use the archives, but is content with other options. “There are so many resources in other archives that I think we are still able to do an adequate amount of research,” she said.

The learning experience in the course is essentially unchanged because “we are focusing more on what the documents are telling us than on the form — physical or virtual — that they come in,” Senocak added.

The lack of access to the RIHS library is regrettable, said Abigail Ettelman GS, but it also offers students the opportunity to sharpen their skills in online archival research.

Looking ahead, Taylor said she plans to return to using the physical archives at the Hay and the RIHS libary in future semesters.

The impact of the closing of the RIHS library on Brown students not enrolled in “Narrating History” will be limited, said Holly Snyder, curator of the University’s American historical collections.

To further minimize potential disruptions of the research process, RIHS created a page on its website to connect scholars to outside resources, Grefe said.

Administrators originally planned to stagger the closing of the Hay with planned renovations at the RIHS libary, Snyder said. She added that the demand for the archives is lower in the spring semester, when juniors are just beginning research proposals and seniors are focusing on writing theses.

Preparing for lift off To be chosen by NASA for a launch, the current leaders of the group had to prove to two different review boards — one for technology and one for merit — that EQUISat is feasible and worthwhile, Varner said.

After winning the review boards’ approval, both review boards and the team all separately wrote to NASA to advocate for the satellite, she added.

In total, it took the group leaders two months to apply for the launch, Del Sesto said. “It was quite a process.”

Though the team now has an approved launch time, the satellite that will be launched has not actually been built, Varner said. In order to be ready for launch, the team needs to finalize the satellite and go through many tests with NASA, Del Sesto said. The green light from NASA has given the team “motivation” to ensure the satellite’s completion, he added.

Even though the launch has been approved, there is still much work to be done and “plans are never complete until you finish them,” co-leader Casey Meehan ’15 said.

‘Limited resources but large imaginations’ EQUISat is one of the only satellites to be created entirely by undergraduates on a very low budget, Varner said.

The cost of EQUISat is “orders of magnitude” different in price from other satellites, she added. For example, the main housing of the satellite would normally cost between $4,000 and $6,000, but EQUISat is built from a less expensive metal costing $100.

The total cost of the average CubeSat tends to run between $50,000 and millions of dollars, Fleeter said. The current projection for the total cost of EQUISat is between $5,000 and $10,000. This money comes from donations and the School of Engineering.

Fleeter said he has found in his career that people become more creative when less funding is available.

“Necessity was the mother of creation in this case,” he said.

The team knew from the beginning it could not compete with teams made up of professors in terms of scientific achievement, but the students still aimed to build a satellite that could

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The CubeSat team leaders, clockwise from top left: Hannah Varner ’14, Emily Gilbert ’14, Casey Meehan ’15, Tyler Del Sesto ’14 and Kelly Hering ’14. contribute in other ways, Carrere said.

“We had limited resources but large imaginations,” Carrere said.

For these reasons, the team decided to focus on using its satellite as an outreach tool for students in the area.

NASA’s selection of EQUISat validates this approach and shows “there are other people who believe in what we’re doing, who believe that not all new endeavors in space have to be new science,” Monn said. “Some of it can be driven by more sociological motives and accessibility rather than science itself.”

Inspiring students Many people do not care about space because they do not think it is relevant to their daily lives, Monn said, but advancements such as cell phones and satellite TV were made possible by space research and exploration.

Now that the group has been approved for launch, the team is “kicking our outreach into super-drive right now,” co-team leader Kelly Hering ’14 said. Preparing for outreach involves contacting schools, museums and camps about the satellite and sharing lesson plans with them so they will be ready when the satellite is in orbit, she added.

The team is also working to create a digital application that will work as “a community center for people who are interested in our satellite,” Varner said. There will also be a website where people can input information they receive from the satellite’s radio transmission to unlock entertaining surprises, like poetry.

The group hopes to inspire students in the Providence area and show them that they, too, can achieve what seemed impossible, said team member Ryan Izant ’17.

Furthering the mission Four out of the five current leaders of the team — Del Sesto, Hering, Varner and Herald photo editor Emily Gilbert ’14 — will graduate this spring, so one major goal of the current leaders is to successfully hand down the reins of the project to younger team members, Varner said.

EQUISat’s transfer of leadership is not a new feature of the project.

“From the beginning, when we had to pass down the leadership, my co-founder Alex Neff (’12) was really adamant about sticking to the core tenants of the project,” Monn said. The idea was always “to have the mission guide every step,” he said.

Varner said passing down leadership at this point is “a little scary,” but she is confident the next crop of leaders will do well.

The team must constantly recruit new and younger team members, Izant said. Team member Adam Hoff ’16 said he thinks getting approved for the launch removes some of the abstractness of the project and will encourage more people to join.

“We’ve got all this momentum and what we’re looking for at this point going forward is more engagement from the Brown community,” Varner said.

Del Sesto said he thinks the team has a future beyond this specific satellite. For a long time, the goal of the project was to get a launch, he said.

Now that the group has done that, the goal is not only to complete it, but to continue to think of new projects. “I think that’s a lot of what space exploration is,” he said.

No matter where the team’s current leaders are when EQUISat launches, Del Sesto said, they plan to all go watch the launch together.

-With additional reporting by Sarah Perelman

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014

W. BASKETBALL

Ivy opponents top Bears twice over long weekend Against both Princeton and Penn, Bruno falters early and cannot erase early deficits

By BRUNO ZUCCOLO SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s basketball team traveled down to the southern part of the Ivy League over the long weekend, falling 81-70 to Princeton Friday and 78-51 to Penn Saturday. Brown’s opponents are currently tied for second in the Ivy League, possessing the best offense and the best defense in the conference, respectively.

Friday: Princeton 81, Brown 70 The Bears (8-14, 2-6 Ivy) knew their biggest challenge against Princeton (15-6, 6-1) would be holding back the Tigers’ efficient offense. Princeton averages over 70 points per game and a 47.8 field goal percentage, making it seventh in Division I of the NCAA in that category. Unfortunately for the Bears, their defense fell victim to a quick offensive start from Princeton

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Bruno took the lead for the first and only time in the game when Lauren Clarke ’14 made a trey less than 90 seconds into the first half, putting the Bears up 3-2. But over the next four minutes the Tigers went on a 15-1 run, leaving Bruno with a doubledigit deficit early in the game.

The Bears seemed ready for a comeback, as they slowly inched closer and cut the deficit to seven at 21-14 with 8:54 to play in the first half. But immediately after, the Tigers — led by guard Blake Dietrick and forward Alex Wheatley — scored eight points in little over a minute of play and put Bruno back in a hole.

Dietrick and Wheatley led the Tigers in scoring through the whole first half, putting up 14 and 12 points, respectively. Their joint threat to the Brown defense, combined with the Bears’ low efficiency up front in the first half, making less than 30 percent of shots from the field, sent the Bears into halftime down 46-31.

In the second half, Princeton took its foot off the pedal while Brown » See W. BBALL, page S6

W. ICE HOCKEY

Bears knocked out of playoff contention Princeton, Quinnipiac hold Brown scoreless in back-to-back blowout victories

By LAINIE ROWLAND SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s ice hockey team was defeated in two shutouts this weekend, falling to Princeton 3-0 and Quinnipiac 5-0 and surrendering any chance of a playoff berth. The Bears (4-18-5, 3-14-3 ECAC) entered the weekend hoping to carry momentum from a two-game winning streak, but the Tigers and Bobcats proved to be formidable opponents, incapacitating Bruno’s offense and running away with two blowout wins.

Friday: Princeton 3, Brown 0 Bruno’s trip to Princeton (13-104, 9-8-3) Friday was decided by a disastrous second period for the Bears.

The first period yielded two penalties, one on each team, but no scoring. The Bears hung with the Tigers, taking 10 shots to Princeton’s 11. The start of the second period saw Bruno fail to score on another power play after a Princeton tripping penalty. The teams played on, evenly matched, until halfway through the second period, when Brown’s control began to slip.

A trailing penalty on Ariana Rucker ’16 initiated a series of 12 unanswered Tiger shots, leading to the first goal of the game three minutes later. Brittany Moorehead ’15 followed Rucker into the box a minute after her teammate’s penalty, and Princeton’s power-play goal came soon after Rucker returned

to play.

With momentum favoring the orange and black, Vanessa Welten ’14 committed another penalty for the Bears 14 minutes into the second period. Ten seconds into their power play, the Tigers added another point to their lead, going up 2-0 over the Bears, with both goals scored over the course of four minutes. Three minutes later, Princeton widened its lead to three with the final goal of a game-winning second-period surge. The period ended with a Bruno power play that carried over into the third but did not produce any goals.

The third period, like the first, played out in scoreless fashion. While the Tigers outshot Brown by 10 in the second, Bruno outshot Princeton by three in the final stanza. Another power play for each team could not inflict any damage, and the game ended in a disappointing 3-0 loss for the Bears. Goalie Aubree Moore ’14 made 30 saves, and the Bruno offense managed 25 shots on goal, compared to 33 for Princeton.

Moore attributed the loss to second-period penalties that led to two Princeton power-play goals.

“When we had them in the five-onfive, we were able to play with them,” said Moore, adding that the Bears were unable to keep pace when they were down a man. “They capitalized on power-play opportunites.”

Saturday: Quinnipiac 5, Brown 0 Unlike Princeton, the Bobcats (185-9, 9-4-7) were not held to scoring in concentrated bursts Saturday. Outshooting the Bears by 12 in the first » See W. HOCKEY, page S5

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The Bears could not take down the Tigers’ strong offense Friday, leading to Brown’s 81-70 loss against Princeton.

They lost again Saturday 78-51 against Penn, the team with the best defense in the Ivy League.

M. BASKETBALL

In weekend play, Bruno loses one, wins one Bruno’s perimeter defense shines, but loss to Princeton complicates Ivy title hopes

By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The men’s basketball team staged a comefrom-behind victory over Penn but fell to Princeton this weekend, making the path to an Ivy League title a bit more difficult for the Bears.

After four weeks of Ivy action, the Bears have now faced every team in the conference and have beaten the majority of them.

Bruno (13-9, 5-3 Ivy) now holds sole possession of third place, two games behind Harvard (20-4, 7-1) and Yale (13-9, 7-1).

Friday: Princeton 69, Brown 65 The Bears started off their weekend against Princeton (14-7, 2-5), a team Head Coach Mike Martin ’04 said is much better than its record would indicate.

“Princeton is a worthy opponent,” Martin said. “After watching them on film and seeing them live, I think they’re the best offensive team we’ve played all season.”

Brown held the lead for the entire first half Friday, but Princeton kept the game close. Bruno kept the Ivy League’s leading scorer, T.J. Bray, off the scoreboard for the first six minutes of the game before he rattled in a three-pointer to bring the Tigers within three.

The Bears immediately regained control with back-to-back layups from cocaptain Rafael Maia ’15. Bruno’s center dropped 13 points — 10 coming in the first half — and added five rebounds and an assist to his tally.

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Sean McGonagill ’14 helped lead Bruno to a last-minute comeback over Penn when he scored a three-pointer with five minutes to go Saturday.

The halftime buzzer sounded with the Bears gripping a three-point lead.

Princeton scored 24 of its 32 first-half points in the paint, led by Bray, who scored six of his nine points on layups.

The Tigers took advantage of Bruno’s weak pick-and-roll defense and overall lazy play.

“We have to defend better than we did tonight,” Martin said of Friday’s game. “They constantly drove the ball to the rim, and we weren’t very good in one-on-one defensive situations.”

The score remained close in a second half characterized by five lead changes, » See M. BBALL, page S6

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The closest the Bears came to a comeback was at the 5:52 mark, when Rebecca Musgrove ’17 made a three-point shot to bring the Bears within 11 points, at 71-60. But once again, the Tigers proved they could control the game when they felt threatened and went on another 8-0 run to get their largest lead of the game and guarantee a safe margin for the last couple of minutes.

With the victory, Princeton extends its winning streak over Brown to 16 games. The last time the Bears defeated Princeton was in 2006.

Dietrick was the top scorer for the game and, despite playing less than 30 minutes, notched 27 points for Princeton, scoring 10 of 12 from the field and not missing any of her four treys or three free throws. For the Bears, Clarke, Musgrove and Sophie Bikofsky ’15 all registered double digits, scoring 13, 12 and 11 points, respectively.

Saturday: Penn 78, Brown 51 After facing an offensively minded team, the Bears faced the challenge of playing against the best defense in the Ivy League Saturday. The Quakers (16-5, 6-1) have an impressive record of only allowing their opponents an average field goal percentage of 34.1 percent for the season and an average of 57.2 points per game in Ivy League play. As if that were not enough, Penn came into Saturday’s game with the momentum and confidence of a seven-game winning streak.

It was a deja vu kind of game for the Bears, as the night in Philadelphia started off almost identically to the one in Princeton. The Bears took the lead at 18:42 when Clarke sunk a threepointer and put the Bears up 3-2. For a while it did not seem like the night before would repeat itself, as Bruno kept close in the first four minutes.

But soon enough, the second part of the deja vu — where the other team surges ahead

— appeared even worse than it did the previous night. For the next 10 minutes, the Quakers kept the Bears scoreless as they grabbed 18 points.

When the Bears finally broke their dry spell at 6:37, the game was already 27-10 in favor of the Quakers.

Even when the Bears scored, it did not diminish the Quakers’ pace, as Penn continued to score while keeping the Bears at a 21.7 field goal percentage in the first half. When the buzzer sounded for halftime, Penn was up 43-15, with an astounding 28-point lead after only one half.

If the Bears thought the Quakers would come back to the second half slowly, they were bitterly surprised. Penn opened the half with a 16-7 run, and at 14:30 was up 59-22, with a massive 37-point lead.

After this, the Bears finally seemed to wake up and went on a 15-0 run to try to cut the deficit. But with only eight minutes left to play, Bruno’s reaction proved to be too little, too late, and the Quakers easily cruised to the end of the half on their comfortable point cushion.

The final score of 78-51 added one more victory to the Quakers’ now eight-game winning streak this season.

Guard Alyssa Baron was the top scorer once again for Penn with 22 points, in addition to her seven assists. First-year center Sydney Stipanovich, who has been a key piece of the current Quaker team with the NCAA’s third-best 3.9 blocks and 11.4 points per game, also stood out in Saturday’s game with a double-double of 13 points and 10 rebounds.

Clarke led the Bears’ scorers and was the only player to score over 10 points, netting 14.

Bikofsky, who continues to lead the NCAA in three-point shooting percentage, contributed nine points as she shot 3-of-5 from behind the arc.

In one of the few memorable aspects of an otherwise unsuccessful weekend, Clarke moved into ninth place on Brown’s all-time top scorer list. She reached 1,224 career points, passing Margaret Mitchell ’91.

The Bears will return home to face off against Columbia (5-17, 2-6) Friday and Cornell (1210, 4-4) Saturday.

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Breaking down Bruno: Men’s basketball slips in standings Bruno plagued by poor interior defense, an area the team must improve to make a run at the Ivy League title

By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Entering the latter half of the Ivy League season, the men’s basketball team sits precariously in the top half of the standings. This weekend, the team lost a heartbreaker to a struggling Princeton squad 69-65, but battled back to earn a win against Penn 62-55.

Here’s a breakdown of the Bears’ performances and keys to their success for the remainder of the schedule.

ANALYSIS

What’s strong The Bears (13-9, 5-3 Ivy) suffocated Princeton (14-7, 2-5) and Penn (6-15, 3-4) on the perimeter, holding them to a combined 4-of-30 shooting from beyond the arc.

Princeton, the most trigger-happy team from three-point land in the conference with over 26 attempted treys per game, shot 17.6 percent from beyond the arc. On the other end of the spectrum are the Quakers, who shoot the second-fewest number of treys per game in the Ivy League. Bruno stifled Penn, forcing the team into an atrocious 7.7 percent conversion rate.

The team emphasized contesting shots and bothering shooters on the perimeter all week in practice, said Head Coach Mike Martin ’04. Denying open looks at the basket has been a centerpiece of Martin’s defensive philosophy since day one.

The second-year head coach’s philosophy has proven to be effective. The Bears currently have the nation’s best three-point defense, holding opposing teams to just 26.7 percent shooting from deep.

Bruno also proved this weekend that co-captain Sean McGonagill ’14 is not the team’s only scoring threat. Rafael Maia ’15 and Leland King ’17 both notched double-digit point totals against Princeton. The next night, Cedric Kuakumensah ’16 led the team with 18 points, while Steven Spieth ’17 netted 12.

While McGonagill was able to drop 16 and 15 points against the Tigers and Quakers, respectively, other teams have proven it is possible to slow down one of the best scorers to ever wear a Brown uniform. Earlier this season, Harvard (20-4, 7-1) limited McGonagill to eight points on a rough 2-of-11 performance from the field, one game after he was held to 10 points by Columbia (15-10, 4-4).

Bruno’s balanced scoring attack this weekend bodes well for its future success — not only for the remainder of the season, but also in years to come, as McGonagill graduates at the end of this year.

What’s wrong While the Bears did an exceptional job of chasing Penn and Princeton off the three-point line, they allowed too many buckets inside — 82 of the 124 points Bruno surrendered came in the paint this weekend.

Bruno’s interior defense is usually stronger than this weekend’s games would indicate — on average, the Bears allow 44 percent of Ivy opponents’ total scoring in the paint. Nearly two-thirds of Penn and Princeton’s scoring came down low.

“We have some pretty physical frontline defenders,” Martin said. “But (Princeton) has five guys who could all dribble, pass and shoot, so they’re very hard to guard. We emphasized defending the three, and to their credit, they took advantage of that and took the ball to the rim.”

Bruno gave up layups off pick-and-rolls, backdoor cuts, post shots and even a couple lobs, all of which were easily converted at the rim by Princeton and Penn. The Bears will need to tighten up their defense inside and continue to force teams to take contested shots away from the basket, as they have done all year.

What’s new For just the second time this season, Bruno was out-rebounded in two consecutive games. Over two months ago, Brown was beaten on the glass

by American University (15-10, 11-3 Patriot) and University of Albany (13-13, 7-6 American East) in back-to-back games. Princeton manhandled Brown on the boards this weekend, holding the Bears to their lowest total rebounds all season, 27.

“We could have done a better job of going to the offensive glass,” Martin said. Princeton “didn’t miss many shots, so we didn’t have many chances for defensive rebounds either.”

The Bears are the fourth-best defensive rebounding team in the country, averaging 28.8 per game. But their two-game average of 20 boards against Penn and Princeton would rank them 339th on the national rebounding leaderboard, just seven spots above the very bottom of the table.

Bruno will need to ratchet up its intensity and aggressiveness on the glass to win games in the future.

While the Bears underperformed on the boards, they exceeded expectations from the free throw line. Bruno shot 30-of-40 at the charity stripe, 10 percentage points higher than its season average.

In the last two minutes of both games combined, the Bears converted 12 of their 14 opportunities from the line. One of those misses was intentional, as King attempted to throw the ball off the rim to create an offensive rebound opportunity.

Clutch free throw shooting kept Bruno in the game against Princeton and sealed its victory over Penn. Hitting free throws consistently can change the outcome of games and could give the Bears the advantage they need to keep winning.

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Bruno stays hot in home meet against Bryant, URI and Boston College A few athletes compete on the national stage in Iowa while most remain home for Brown Invitational

By EMILE BAUTISTA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The men’s and women’s track and field teams were on double duty this weekend, as some athletes stayed local to compete in the Bruno-hosted Brown Invitational at the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center, while others traveled to the Iowa State Classic in Ames, Iowa.

The home contingent found a great deal of success, winning 21 of the meet’s 28 events, while the athletes in Iowa competed alongside national competition.

Brown Invitational Most of the team members stayed on College Hill to host Bryant University, the University of Rhode Island and Boston College in the home meet.

The meet offered a chance to build on past progress in preparation for the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in two weeks.

“We really looked at the Brown Invitational as an opportunity to tune up for Heps in two weeks. We were really just looking to break up our training

with a low-key competition as we prepare,” said Tim Springfield, director of track and field.

For the women, Taylor Worthy ’17 ran the 1,000-meter race in 2 minutes, 53.29 seconds, ranking her in the top 10 all-time at Brown and sixth in the Ivy League this year. Melissa Isidor ’17 showed promise in her first long jump of the season with a leap of 5.49 meters, putting her in second place for the meet. Overall, the women came away with a tally of 11 victories in 17 events.

On the men’s side, Courtland Clavette ’15 muscled his way to victory in the shot put with a throw of 16.70 meters, giving him a win by a wide margin of over one meter. Colin Savage ’14 ran a strong 1,000 meters, finishing with a time of 2:27.18, a mark that places him third in the Ivy League this year. The men dominated the proceedings, proving victorious in 10 of the 11 events.

“Overall, I was happy with the results and think we improved our position as we move into the championship part of the season,” Springfield said.

Iowa State Classic Meanwhile, select members of the team traveled to Iowa to compete in one of the premier meets in the nation. The Iowa State Classic featured

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Ryan Kelly ’16, left, finished first in the 400-meter dash at the Brown Invitational, followed by teammate Ajani Brown ’14, right, who came in second with a time less than a tenth of a second behind Kelly’s. some of the country’s top collegiate and professional athletes.

The few athletes who represented Bruno at this prestigious meet were able to hold their own against the competitive field. Heidi Caldwell ’14 performed exceptionally well in the 5,000-meter race. She ran a time

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The men’s squash team, led by a group of seniors including Tod Holberton ’14, went 1-3 over the long weekend, losing a hard-fought match to Middlebury to end a team tournament at Harvard with a 2-1 record.

Women win, men split weekend matches Women blank Williams, while men lose to Ephs but bounce back with second place at tourney

By HANNAH CAMHI SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s and women’s squash teams played their last home matches of the season against Williams College Feb. 11, with the women picking up a 9-0 win in their fifth sweep of the season.

The men did not share in the women’s success, falling to the Ephs 5-4 in a hard-fought match.

The men went on to compete Sunday in the 2014 College Squash Association Team Championships in the Summers Cup C Division at Harvard.

Women’s squash (11-7, 0-7 Ivy) The No. 10 Bears finished home play on a sentimental Senior Night

with their sweep of the No. 15 Ephs.

An overall strong performance saw Bruno win four straight-game matches. “We knew it wasn’t going to be terribly close unless we messed up,” said Dori Rahbar ’14, a former Herald contributing writer, adding that the team was “pretty confident the whole time.”

Alexandra White ’15, playing in the ninth spot, initially struggled, losing the first two games of her match.

She went on to level the game score 2-2 and eventually to take the fifth 12-10.

Rahbar also won her match in five games after dropping the first two. “I didn’t want to lose my last match,” Rahbar said. Suffering a defeat in the last match was “one of those things where I thought, ‘That can’t happen, not this time,’” she said.

Fellow seniors Sarah Domenick ’14 and Meredith Schmidt-Fellner ’14 both won their matches in four games

to finish their last regular season on a high note.

“It’s sad,” Rahbar said. “You watch the other three years and you don’t really know what it feels like until it’s your last time putting on the uniform.”

Next weekend, the women will travel to Princeton to play their team championship tournament.

“It’s fun because all the teams are there together,” Rahbar said. “You see all the matches happening.”

Men’s squash (6-16, 0-7) In a back-and-forth match, the No. 19 Bears fell to No. 17 Williams 5-4, with five of nine matches forced to five games. Alex Baldock ’17 barely hung on to his match in fifth spot, winning 9-11, 11-2, 11-7, 6-11, 13-11 after starting the fifth game down 7-2.

In the first spot, co-captain Blake Reinson ’14 also fell in five games » See SQUASH, page S5

of 16:13.72, the second-quickest in Brown history and in the Ivy League this year, placing seventh in the race.

Matt Bevil ’14 and Henry Tufnell ’15 participated in the 800-meter race.

They finished in 17th and 18th, respectively, with times of 1:51.42 and 1:51.46.

Springfield noted that the meet was good experience for the team, but the results were not as high as he expected.

Bruno gears up for the USA Track & Field New England Championships next weekend in Cambridge, Mass., with the Ivy League Heps on the horizon.

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Split personality plagues inconsistent men’s hockey Hard-fought win over national powerhouse Quinnipiac comes one day after lack of hustle in loss to cellar-dweller Princeton

By DANTE O’CONNELL SPORTS EDITOR

Few observers of ECAC men’s ice hockey would have expected anything different than a split from a Brown team facing opponents at both ends of the standings this weekend. But at the same time, few would also have expected the split to play out the way it did.

In a roller coaster weekend, Bruno turned in both its best and worst performances of the season. The team’s loss to Princeton Friday seemed to foreshadow a disappointing remainder of the season. The next day, a victory over No. 4 Quinnipiac produced flashes of brilliance, suggesting that the Bears can beat any team in the nation.

The biggest question is this: Which Bruno team will we see going forward?

ANALYSIS

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Maddie Woo ’17 takes possession of the puck for the Brown women’s hockey team during a tough 5-0 loss to Quinnipiac Saturday. The defeat followed a 3-0 loss Friday to Princeton.

» W. HOCKEY, from page S1 period alone, Quinnipiac went up 2-0 by the start of the second period. The first goal came halfway through the first when Kelly Babstock, Quinnipiac’s scoring leader, fired the puck into the back of the net off a turnover in Brown territory.

With less than two minutes to go in the period, Meghan Turner widened the Bobcat lead to 2-0.

Moore called Babstock “one of the best players in the country,” but added that the entire Quinnipiac team contributed Saturday.

Ten ticks into the second period, Bruno gained a power-play advantage, taking three fruitless shots before the penalty expired. The game continued in back-and-forth style, with the Bears working to match the Bobcats’ shot attempts. But Quinnipiac scored again with five minutes left in the period. The Bobcats followed up the goal with another penalty, but Bruno was, once again, unable to capitalize on the advantage.

The period ended with a Quinnipiac roughing penalty that allowed Brown to start the third period with a full-length power play.

Needing to cut a three-goal deficit quickly, the Bears could not muster a shot before their opening power play ended. Thirteen minutes into the period, Quinnipiac’s Morgan Fritz-Ward scored her second goal of the game. The last tally was notched with a minute left to play, an exclamation point for Quinnipiac’s resounding victory. Bruno was outshot by 15, with Moore making 29 saves.

Brown Assistant Coach Jillian Kirchner said before the game that Quinnipiac’s offense can score with or without the power play, and the Bobcats proved her right Saturday night. Four different Bobcats notched Quinnipiac’s five goals, all of which came at even strength.

Quinnipiac “moved the puck well in their offensive zones and made smart plays,” Moore said. “It was hard for us to defend against them.”

What’s strong Against the Bobcats, Brown put Friday’s loss in the rearview mirror, turning in perhaps the ECAC’s greatest display of team resilience this season. The Princeton loss seemed devastating to the Bears, whose playoff stock would have taken a major blow with a winless weekend. To come back the next day and dominate the fourthranked team in the nation was no small feat.

Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94 has to be given some of the credit for this turnaround.

Whittet’s displeasure rang through the press room following Friday’s defeat, as he attributed his team’s loss to a sense of complacency. But he communicated this message to his team, and it produced the results Bruno needed.

Brown jumped on the gas pedal from the very beginning Saturday afternoon, scoring the first goal in a game for the first time this month.

The Bears netted the first two scores and outshot the Bobcats 14-4 in the first period. Bruno must post more of these strong starts to be successful down the stretch. In 2014, Brown is 5-0-0 when it gets on the scoreboard first and is 0-6-2 when

the opposing team does.

When the Bears score first, they tend to play well the rest of the game, and Saturday was no exception. Brown played the fast-paced, gritty style of hockey that has brought it success in the past. Garnet Hathaway ’14 responded well to Whittet’s criticism of the team’s upperclassmen by scoring two goals this weekend. Bruno beat its opponent to loose pucks the entire game.

Unlike Quinnipiac, which spent the majority of its third period in the penalty box, Brown kept itself from committing stupid penalties.

Over the past two years, Brown has beaten the Bobcats twice, tied them twice and lost just once. Each time, Quinnipiac has been ranked no lower than fifth in the nation.

What’s wrong Still, playing well against good teams means very little if you play poorly against bad ones.

In retrospect, it is difficult to imagine a bigger missed opportunity for the Bears than the Princeton loss. Coming into the game, Princeton had won just once since Thanksgiving, turning in a 1-11 record over that stretch. Last week, fellow ECAC cellar-dweller St. Lawrence pummeled the Tigers 7-1 at Princeton.

The Bears failed to take advantage of a number of opportunities throughout the game. The team notched 38 shots on goal, its fourth-highest total of the season, yet could only get on the scoreboard twice. Turnovers in all areas of the ice made it difficult for goalie Tyler Steel ’17 to keep Princeton out of his net. Bruno also could not score on any of its five power plays, a problem that persisted in the Quinnipiac game.

Repeating its final-minute blunders against Cornell last weekend, Brown’s offensive attack faltered in the last two minutes of the game against Princeton. While Bruno should not rely on the sixth man to make up for offensive struggles during an empty-net situation, it should be able to muster more than its single shot on goal against the Tigers.

Whittet chalked up Friday’s struggles to complacency. But the bigger issue is inconsistent play from the Bears. If Bruno can take down a team like Quinnipiac, it should be able to turn in better efforts against teams like Rensselaer and Cornell » See ANALYSIS, page S5

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middling weekend Team finishes second in a three-team meet, sets six personal records while UNH dominates

By CALEB MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

The men’s tennis team fell to Cornell 4-2 and to Penn 4-3 in two tight matches in the ECAC Championships this weekend. Bruno played as the fifth seed in the tournament, hosted

by Dartmouth.

The competition included all Ivy League teams except for Yale. Brown’s narrow losses “came down to one set for both matches,” Justin To ’15 said.

Sam Fife ’14 tallied Bruno’s only individual win against the Big Red. The Bears picked up another point with doubles wins from the pairings of To and Lucas Da Silveira ’16 and Dan Hirschberg ’15 and Gregory Garcia ’17. Garcia, Hirschberg and To all won individually Sunday to give the Bears three points against the Quakers.

The women’s team won its only match of the weekend Sunday, defeating SUNY Stony Brook 5-2. Hannah

Camhi ’16, a Herald staff writer, Nikita Uberoi ’15, Sarah Kandath ’15 and Ammu Mandalap ’16 all won individual matches. Bruno swept the doubles matches, with pairs of Dayna Lord ’17 and Camhi, Uberoi and Kandath and Mandalap and Ashley Noyes ’16 all defeating their Seawolf opponents.

Co-captain David Neff ’14 said the men’s team was coming into the weekend with three good wins, but that Bruno had a slow start in singles this weekend. Nonetheless, Neff said Garcia “had a very good weekend.”

Garcia played at number three for doubles and at number four for singles matches Saturday. He played from the number three spot in both singles and doubles Sunday. Though Garcia won all his matches, one did not count because Cornell (5-3) had already tallied four wins.

To also had a good weekend, bringing home wins for Brown from the top position in both singles and doubles. To said “confidence played a big factor” in his singles win. After being sidelined for quite some time due to injuries, To has gained more confidence from recent victories. He said these wins have been critical for

him to believe that he belongs in the number one singles spot after so much time off.

Da Silveira said he and To “pulled off a really good win” against Cornell’s doubles team, ranked 34th in the country. The match went into a tiebreaker, but the two clinched the doubles point for Bruno. “Justin and I have proved ourselves a lot,” Da Silveira said, adding that the duo’s strength lies in keeping their opponents guessing.

Though Da Silveira said the two are consistent in their play, he admitted they both need to work on returns. As for the team performance against Penn (1-3), Da Silveira said he thought Bruno looked “like we were a little flat.”

He said he believed that if the Bears had played the way they did against Cornell, they would have beaten Penn.

To said the team lost big points at important moments. “We got a little unlucky,” he said.

Neff said the team is “going to have to take it up another level” to beat out its Ivy League opponents in April.

Bruno will take this Ivy League experience into its next match Tuesday against Boston University.

The gymnastics team faced stout competition when it traveled to the University of New Hampshire for a three-team meet with UNH and Centenary College this weekend. The Wildcats bested the Bears by a wide margin, 195.575 to 191.600, but Bruno topped Centenary’s 188.600 to finish in second place.

“We still have many things we need to improve upon,” Rebecca Freedman ’14 said of the team’s effort. “We had good performances on bars, beam and vault, but some uncharacteristic mistakes on floor that really cost us.”

UNH ran away with the team competition, as its gymnasts took the top three spots in all four events. The only non-Wildcats to place in the top five of any events were Freedman with fifth place in vault and Caroline Morant ’17 with fourth in beam.

The individual all-around was a much closer competition. Meghan Pflieger was the only UNH gymnast to compete in the all-around and took the crown with 38.775. But Morant finished right on Pflieger’s heels with a final score of 38.700. Michelle Shnayder ’14 rounded out the top three with 38.100.

“I’m happy … competing and placing at all in the all-around — it was very exciting,” Morant said of her runner-up finish.

Bruno showed team depth, with seven different gymnasts finishing in the top 10 of their events. Morant led the way with one of her best showings of the season.

“The past couple of meets I’ve been faltering, but I feel like I finally pulled it together in all of the categories at

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to Williams’ Kevin Chen. “It came down to our number one who played a good match, played his heart out, but unfortunately couldn’t come through with a win,” said co-captain Chip Lebovitz ’14, a former Herald opinions editor.

The results were “a little disappointing, but overall the match, going into Nationals, put us on the right track,” Lebovitz said.

After that match, the Bears had three days to make final adjustments for the Team Championships.

Bruno dispatched No. 22 Amherst College (7-12) by a score of 7-2 in the first round.

In the second spot, Jack Blasberg ’16 blasted past his opponent in four sets, winning 11-4, 11-7, 7-11, 11-9.

Foster Hoff ’16 also won in four sets against his opponent in the fourth spot.

Brown won each of its other five victories in three sets. The only losses the team incurred came from a five-game loss in the one spot and a straight-game loss in the seventh spot.

The Bears continued to inch along in the tournament by taking down No. 18 Wesleyan University (15-8).

This was the Bears’ first 5-4 victory of the season, after losing four matches by just one game earlier this season.

After losing to Wesleyan 5-4 in the fall season, the team was eager to get revenge, Lebovitz said.

A strong bottom part of the Cardinals’ lineup took 3-0, 3-1 and 3-0 wins from the seventh, eighth and ninth positions, respectively. Bruno scrapped together wins from the middle part of its lineup with the four and five spots sweeping their opponents.

“Getting over that hump was about being tough in the critical points,” Lebovitz said. “You are playing games to 11 and a lot of times you get to eight all or nine all, and it’s about avoiding the error, playing smart and being confident … that you have got the ability to get the job done.”

In the finals, the Bears had yet another rematch with No. 17 Middlebury College (11-8). Three weeks prior, Bruno had fallen to the Panthers 6-3 at the Yale Round Robin tournament.

Though Bruno improved upon its previous result, it lost again by a 5-4 margin.

“The match was bittersweet,” Lebovitz said. “We played one of our best matches of the season.”

Reinson, Hoff and Baldock were key to Brown’s success once again, all securing wins. The wild-card match came from Oliver Booth ’16, who defeated Middlebury’s Andrew Cardienhead in four sets. Booth had lost to Cardienhead in their first meeting at Yale.

With the match score at 4-4, the outcome came down to Patrick O’Neill ’14 in the seventh spot.

O’Neill was up 2-1 before his Middlebury opponent got hot, going on to win the match 11-1 in the fifth.

Lebovitz fell 12-10 in the fifth game after having match point.

“I personally had a very heartbreaking match,” Lebovitz said. “It was the last match of my career.”

“We didn’t get the result we wanted to, but it was a good match not only for our seniors but … for the underclassmen to get a little bit hungry for next year,” Lebovitz said.

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Justin To ’15 earned a point for the Bears with a singles victory against Penn this weekend. Coming back from an injury, he holds the top position in both the singles and doubles categories.

Men lose to Cornell and Penn in championship, women defeat Stony Brook in season play

By CHRISTINE RUSH SPORTS STAFF WRITER

What’s new For the second weekend in a row, Whittet shuffled his lines against Quinnipiac. Whether in response to the team’s poor effort against Princeton or just to try something new, the move had the effect of distributing scoring throughout the lineup.

For just the second time this season, a forward on three of Bruno’s four lines scored a goal in the game against Quinnipiac. The only other time was Jan. 24, when Bruno took down defending national champion Yale 3-1.

After missing the past four games due to a hand injury, Brandon Pfeil ’16 rejoined captain Dennis Robertson ’14 on the top defensive line. His presence will certainly be felt on the power play, which has struggled in his absence.

Marco De Filipo ’14 started in net for the Bears for the first time since Jan. 4. It will be interesting to see whether De Filipo will get more playing time going down the stretch.

UNH,” she said.

While the formidable Wildcat team kept the Bears off the podium for much of the day, Bruno also turned in six personal records.

Morant’s impressive day featured her career record in the all-around and a 9.775 on floor, Bruno’s best individual event score.

Classmate Jorden Mitchell ’17 called her own effort at UNH the “best meet of the season,” after she earned a career mark of 9.675 for her floor routine.

Bruno’s top team performance came on the balance beam, where the Bears’ 48.200 was their highest event total. In addition to Morant’s fourthplace finish, three team members set personal records. Danielle Hoffman ’15 reached a new high with a 9.675, ranking her sixth for the meet. Corey Holman ’16 posted a career-high 9.600 — tying for 10th with Mitchell — closely followed by Renee Edelman ’17 in 13th, whose 9.575 set her own career mark.

Mitchell called all the personal records the “high point” of the match, adding that the team is building confidence as the season wears on.

Bruno hosts its biggest meet thus far next weekend when Penn, Cornell and Yale come to College Hill for the Ivy League Classic. The Bears took the crown last season, making them the only Brown varsity team to win an Ivy title. Bruno will be in contention again this season to defend its championship.

Freedman will be competing in her fourth and final Ivy meet.

“I’m not sure I can fully explain how excited I am for the Ivy Classic,” Freedman said. “It’s even more exciting that we get to host Ivies. We have a ton of people coming to support the program, and I wouldn’t mind another Ivy Championship ring either.”

-With additional reporting by Jessica Zambrano

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Viewers give Winter Olympics the cold shoulder NATE SVENSSON sports columnist

Just last week, we were treated to the opening ceremony of the 22nd Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The ceremony was a grand spectacle that featured more Russian history than any but the staunchest Russian nationalists cared to hear, and one well-publicized Olympic ring mishap that has already been parodied numerous times. In the weeks leading up to this grandest of international spectacles, the event has been plagued by numerous adversities. Sochi is filled with construction debris, many of the international hotels are still unfinished, and Russian officials even conducted a campaign to “dispose” of the city’s numerous stray dogs.

With all this in mind, it seems no wonder that the television ratings for Sochi’s opening ceremony were significantly lower than those for London’s opening ceremony in 2012. But this dip in viewership speaks to a larger problem with the Winter Games: They simply are not as popular or as successful as the Summer

» M. BBALL, from page S1 with the Tigers jumping out to their first lead of the game on a Bray lay-in three minutes into the half.

A few minutes later, Sean McGonagill ’14 managed to flip in a layup even after getting hit from behind. McGonagill hit the free throw to give the Bears a one-point lead with 12 minutes remaining.

Princeton responded with a 10-0 run, starting with a Bray layup and finishing with a Bray trey.

“We needed to get our tempo back,” McGonagill said. “We made some bad passes, some bad decisions. We needed to change sides of the floor, look inside to our bigs, play through them and move more around on the court. We lost our rhythm for a while.”

The Bears never regained their

Games.

A wide variety of reasons can explain this phenomenon. First and foremost, the Olympics were founded as a way for the world to come together in the relatively friendly environment of athletic competition. The problem with the Winter Olympics is that they are not truly the whole world’s games. More accurately, they are the whole snow-covered world’s games. While countries like Tonga, Togo, Zimbabwe and Jamaica (apparently they fired John Candy as their bobsled coach?) have handfuls of athletes competing, it would be a flat-out lie to suggest that the Winter Olympics present an equal opportunity to competitors from warmer climates.

Even within the United States, one of the most well-represented countries at Sochi, only 7 percent — just 16 of 230 — athletes come from states below the Mason-Dixon line. Speaking of equal opportunity, the Winter Olympics are inherently geared toward individuals with greater economic resources. If you are poor, you simply cannot afford the significant costs that go along with participating in many Winter Olympic events. While this can also be said of some of the sports at the Summer Olympics (I’m looking at you, equestrian), you don’t have to pay an

tempo, ultimately falling to Princeton 69-65. Bray finished with a game-high 26 points, as well as six rebounds, five assists and two steals. Bruno was uncharacteristically out-rebounded by the Tigers, 36-27.

“They didn’t miss many shots, so we didn’t have many chances for defensive rebounds, and they did a great job of not giving us more second-chance points,” Martin said. “When you out-rebound a team, it’s usually because you force them to take back shots and you clean up those misses. And they did that to us tonight.”

Saturday: Brown 62, Penn 55 The Bears rebounded from the tough Friday loss with a clutch comeback against the Quakers (6-15, 3-4) Saturday. Penn’s lineup featured two of the best big men in the league, Fran

admission fee or need any special equipment to start running. Both of these factors contribute to a lower level of participation in the Winter Games as opposed to the Summer Olympics. In fact, during the 2012 Summer Olympics, 204 nations sent nearly 11,000 athletes to London, while only 88 countries have sent 2,900 athletes to Sochi.

But the problem of equal participation is probably more a source of my own personal venting than the actual cause for the subordinate status of the Winter Games. More likely, the real reason for the Winter Olympics’ inferiority is that the sports featured are more difficult to relate to. Everybody can understand track and swimming because everybody — well, almost everybody — can run and swim.

On the other hand, I would venture to say that most people do not know how to ski, snowboard or ice skate.

Even the more obscure sports in the Summer Olympics, such as table tennis and cycling, strike a deeper chord with many people than do events like luge, skeleton or curling (Team Norway’s pants in Vancouver aside). Part of the appeal that comes with watching the world’s best athletes is seeing them do the same things you do, just with much more precision and athleti-

Dougherty and Darien Nelson-Henry.

The Quakers’ “Twin Towers” went to work early, scoring 12 of the team’s first 16 points. The two behemoths dominated Maia and Cedric Kuakumensah ’16 throughout the half, repeatedly capitalizing on their height advantage.

Bruno was again bullied inside, giving up 24 first-half points in the paint.

While Kuakumensah struggled defensively, he excelled on offense. In the first half alone, the sophomore netted 10 points, three more than his season average, including two layups off offensive rebounds.

Penn took a two-point lead into the half, with Nelson-Henry leading the way with 14 points.

Assistant Coach T.J. Sorrentine “told me that Penn’s forwards are much bigger than me, but really slow, so I had to use my speed against them,” Kuakamensah

cism. This makes it harder to connect with the athletes of the Winter Games and likely plays a role in the world’s lack of enthusiasm for them.

All this said, I absolutely love the Winter Olympics. Olympic hockey is probably my second-favorite international tournament, trailing only the World Cup, and I love seeing the gnarly tricks and big air of the skiing and snowboarding events. I love seeing journalists like Bob Costas grind through personal adversity to try and bring the spirit of the Games into our homes (but seriously, bro, take a day off). Most of all, I love what the Olympics stand for. They are a time when the world — the snow-covered world, in this case — can briefly put aside its differences and celebrate the sporting accomplishments of our most skilled athletes. So please, I implore you, just sit back and enjoy everything the Games have to offer. Make your Vladimir Putin jokes. Objectify the athletes (don’t lie, you do it, too). And, most importantly, cheer loudly for whatever country you call home.

Nate Svensson ’14 can be contacted through the Ocean State Curling Club, where he is training for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

said. “Early on, my shots were falling, so I just kept being aggressive and kept looking to score.”

In the second half, both teams struggled to build a lead. Penn had a chance to blow the game open, holding the Bears scoreless for four minutes.

But Norman Hobbie ’17 finally beat the Quaker defense with a corner trey to pull the Bears within three.

Then, with five minutes left, Bruno got hot. Rebounding a missed free throw, McGonagill drilled a long three-pointer to cut the lead to just one. Seconds later, following an errant three-point attempt from Penn, McGonagill pushed the ball up the court and nailed another threepointer in semi-transition, giving the Bears the lead.

“My teammates and coaches have confidence in me to take those shots,” McGonagill said. “They were all telling

me to keep shooting. They believed in me to find my touch, and I finally got a few good looks and I took them.”

A layup and four free throws from Steven Spieth ’17 sealed the game for Brown. Bruno managed to tighten up its interior defense, allowing 14 points in the paint in the second half, compared to 24 in the first.

Kuakumensah “continued to work hard, but (Nelson-Henry) is a load down there,” Martin said. “Our guards did a better job of pressuring and helping whenever (Nelson-Henry) got the ball, and they turned the ball over some trying to feed it down low.”

The Bears will get a break from teams that pound the ball inside this upcoming weekend against Columbia (15-10, 4-4) and Cornell (2-20, 1-7), two squads that love to fire threes whenever they get the chance.

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THE SPORTS BULLETIN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014

MEN’S BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Brown (13-9, 5-3 Ivy) Princeton (14-7, 2-5) 1st

Princeton: Brown:

32 35

Brown

Pts.

Kuakumensah

7

Maia

13

Speith

7

Blackman

2

McGonagill

16

King

15

Hobbie

3

Madigan

0

Walker

2

Total

65

Brown (8-14, 2-6 Ivy)

Penn (6-15, 3-4)

Princeton (15-6, 6-1)

2nd

F

1st

2nd

F

1st

2nd

F

1st

2nd

F

37 30

69 65

Penn: Brown:

29 27

26 35

55 62

Brown: Princeton:

31 46

39 35

70 81

Brown: Penn:

15 43

36 35

51 78

Rebs.

As.

Brown

Pts.

Rebs.

As.

Brown

Pts.

Rebs.

As.

Brown

Pts.

Rebs.

As.

3

0

Kuakumensah

18

10

0

Juker

8

7

0

Juker

2

1

1

5

1

Maia

5

5

1

Ball

9

9

1

Ball

2

4

1

4

2

Spieth

12

6

1

Bikofsky

11

4

4

Bikofsky

9

3

1

1

3

Blackman

3

0

4

Musgrove

12

4

3

Musgrove

6

2

7

4

6

McGonagill

15

2

1

Clarke

13

0

1

Clarke

14

2

2

5

0

King

6

2

0

Beutel

10

5

1

Weledji

8

4

3

0

0

Hobbie

3

0

0

Sharpe

5

0

4

Wellington

4

3

1

2

0

Madigan

0

1

1

Veldman

2

1

2

Beutel

2

1

0

0

0

Walker

0

2

0

Wellington

0

0

0

Veldman

2

1

0

27

12

Total

62

31

8

Total

70

32

16

Total

51

30

17

M W MEN’S HOCKEY

1st

Princeton 1 0 Brown SHOTS: 1st Princeton 8 13 Brown

Penn (16-5, 6-1)

2nd

3rd

F

0 0

3 2

2 2

WOMEN’S HOCKEY 1st

Quinnipiac 0 2 Brown SHOTS: 1st Quinnipiac 4 14 Brown

2nd

3rd

F

1st

2 2

0 0

2 4

0 Brown Princeton 0 SHOTS: 1st 10 Brown Princeton 11

2nd

3rd

F

0 3

0 0

0 3

Brown Quinnipiac SHOTS: Brown Quinnipiac

1st

2nd

3rd

F

0 2

0 1

0 2

0 5

2nd

3rd

F

8 5

8 14

19 34

M W

2nd

3rd

F

14 15

9 10

31 38

- 1st -

No Brown Scoring

2nd

3rd

14 9

7 8

F

25 31

- 1st -

2nd

3rd

7 17

8 5

F

25 33

- 1st -

Brown 1:35 - Massimo Lamacchia (a: Matt Lorito, Dennis Robertson)

Brown 11:36 - Garnet Hathaway

1st

3 15

- 1st -

No Brown Scoring

No Brown Scoring

(a: Dennis Robertson, Ryan Jacobson)

- 2nd -

- 2nd -

- 2nd -

Brown 6:26 - Mark Naclerio

Brown 2:00 - Garnet Hathaway

Brown 9:08 - Matt Lorito

Brown 13:38 - Nick Lappin

- 3rd -

- 3rd -

(a: Matt Lorito, Joey de Concilys) Penalty Shot

No Brown Scoring

GYMNASTICS UNH: 195.575, 1st Brown: 191.600, 2nd

All-Around

Catherine Morant: 38.070, 2nd Michelle Shnayder: 38.100, 3rd

Bars

Michelle Shnayder: 9.625, 7th Diana Walters: 9.600, 8th

Beam

Caroline Morant: 9.750, 4th Danielle Hoffman: 9.765, 6th

(a: Mark Hourihan)

No Brown Scoring

Caroline Morant: 9.775, T5 Michelle Shnayder: 9.725, 8th

Vault

Rebecca Freedman: 9.725, 5th Michelle Shnayder: 9.650, T8

No Brown Scoring

(a: Kyle Kramer, Mark Naclerio)

- 3rd -

No Brown Scoring

SWIMMING & DIVING

Brown: 34 Sacred Heart: 3

Women Februinvite vs. Harvard & BU Top performer: Grace Hendee - 1st, 50 free & 100 free

133: Finocchiaro (Br) win 7 - 4

Men’s Ind: Brown Invitational Top performers: Ryan Kelly: 1st, 400m Colin Savage: 1st, 1,000m Women’s Ind: Brown Invitational Top performers: Alex Stanton: 1st, 400m Morayo Akande: 1st, high jump

No Brown Scoring

MEN’S SQUASH

WRESTLING

Men Februinvite vs. Harvard & BU Top performer: Ryan Saenger - 1st, 500 free

TRACK & FIELD

- 3rd -

No Brown Scoring

125: Morita (Br) win by forfeit

Men’s vs. Amherst W, 7-2

Men’s vs. Middlebury L, 5-4

1 Reinson: L, 11-2, 8-11, 11-7, 7-11, 10-12

1 Reinson: W, 11-7, 9-11, 11-7, 11-8

2 Blasberg: W, 11-4, 11-7, 7-11, 11-9

2 Blasberg: L, 7-11, 11-6, 5-11, 8-11

3 Booth: W, 11-3, 11-1, 11-7

3 Booth: W, 11-5, 8-11, 11-7, 11-4

4 Hoff: W, 8-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-8

4 Hoff: W, 10-12, 1-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-9

5 Baldock: W, 11-6, 11-2, 11-7

5 Baldock: W, 11-8, 11-8, 11-6

141: Polidore (SH) win dec. 9 - 4

6 Holberton: W, 12-10, 13-11, 11-9

6 Holberton: L, 5-11, 3-11, 7-11

149: Galiard (Br) maj. dec. 12 - 0

7 O’Neill: L, 8-11, 6-11, 6-11

7 O’Neill: L, 5-11, 11-8, 11-3, 6-11, 1-11

157: Staudenmeyer (Br) dec. 4 - 0

8 Talbott: W, 11-3, 11-7, 11-7

8 Talbott: L, 10-12, 5-11, 8-11

9 Lebovitz: W, 11-6, 11-4, 11-9

9 Lebovitz: L, 10-7, 12-10, 7-11, 10-12, 10-12

165: Marano (Br) dec. 7 - 4 174: McDonald (Br) dec. 7 - 2 184: Bernstein (Br) pin. 4 : 40

Floor

- 2nd -

197: Marker (Br) dec. 7 - 2 285: Cavey (Br) dec. 9 - 3

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MEN’S/WOMEN’S TENNIS Men’s vs. Cornell L, 4-2

Women’s vs. Stony Brook W, 5-2

1 To: L, 5-6, 5-6 (1)

1 Lord: L, 6-3, 4-6, 6-10

2 Burke: L, 3-6, 5-6 (4)

2 Camhi: W, 6-1, 4-6, 10-7

3 Spector: L, 3-6, 1-6

3 Uberoi: W, 6-3, 6-2

4 Garcia: unf, 6-5 (8), 5-6 (2), 0-5

4 Kandath: W, 6-3, 6-0

5 Fife: W, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3

5 Mandalap: W, 6-3, 6-0

6 Nguyen: L, 4-6, 5-6 (4)

6 Chamdani: L, 6-4, 2-6, 6-10

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014

SPORTS BULLETIN wrestling Consecutive losses to Boston foes pin down Brown Defeats by BU, Harvard at home leave Bruno at 17th place in 18-team EIWA league

By CALEB MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

The wrestling team continued its three-week homestand Saturday, hosting conference opponents Harvard and Boston University. But the home mat did not provide the Bears much of an advantage, as Harvard and BU secured sound victories, winning 3010 and 23-15, respectively.

The low weight classes doomed the Bears in both matches, particularly the lightest weight, 125 pounds, where Bruno twice ceded six points via forfeits. Vincent Moita ’14 has competed well at 125 pounds this year but suffered a head injury last weekend that has kept him out of three straight meets.

At the 133- and 141-pound weight classes, Bruno grapplers Anthony Finocchiaro ’16 and Zachary Tanenbaum ’15 failed to notch any team points for the Bears. After three weight classes, Harvard held a commanding 14-0 lead while BU opened up a similar 13-0 advantage.

The lone bright spot for the Bears in the first five classes was 149-pounder Steven Galiardo ’17.

The first-year has made an immediate impact in his short time on College Hill. Galiardo trounced Harvard counterpart Nicholas Stager 14-5 for the major decision, following up with a 9-6 win over BU’s Nick Tourville.

“It’s good to see our (first-years) competing the way they are,” said Ricky McDonald ’15. “Steven hit some great moves and got us some big points this weekend.”

Expectedly, Bruno’s dynamic one-two punch of Ricky McDonald

» M. HOCKEY, from page 1 shortly after that, and neither team would score for the rest of the game.

The loss was Brown’s fourth straight after falling to Cornell two weeks ago, and to Union and RPI last weekend.

After his team lost to the last-place team in the conference, Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94 had some harsh words for his players.

“I thought we were awful,” Whittet said. “Our team thought we were much better than we were, and we got outworked and out-battled and outcompeted. They outplayed us and they beat us.”

Whittet put his upperclassmen specifically on blast, all but blaming them for the loss.

“It’s our older guys,” he said. “The older guys are letting us down, and it’s got to change, or this season will be a short one going forward.”

Whittet was upset with the effort he saw from the entire team, saying, “When you come down to the rink you’d better be ready to go.”

“I think we have effort in spurts,” Whittet said. “I think we work when we want. I think as that game wore on we realized, ‘You know what, they’re not going to roll over for us,’ and then we realized we had to actually win some battles and by then it was too

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Brown wrestling has been struggling on the mat this season, falling to second-to-last place in the EIWA after forfeits in the 125-pound weight class contributed to losses to Boston University and Harvard this weekend. ’15 and Ophir Bernstein ’15 dominated competitors in the 174- and 184-pound classes, respectively. The co-captains combined to garner 15 of the Bears’ 25 team points on the day.

McDonald attributed the duo’s success to wrestling each other in practice and to help from Head Assistant Coach Joe LeBlanc.

“Ophir and I train a lot together, and that helps us,” McDonald said.

“Also, Coach LeBlanc has been great, wrestling with us pretty much every day in practice. He’s definitely been a factor in improving our records.”

Against BU, McDonald’s win and Bernstein’s pin were enough to narrow the margin to 19-12 with two

classes remaining. The seven-point margin heading into the 195-pound match was exactly the deficit Bruno

overcame in a dramatic win over Penn last weekend. But there was no such magic this time around. Augustus Marker ’16 fell to BU’s Alex Najjar

win a match on the day besides Galiardo, McDonald and Bernstein.

Though BU’s eight-point victory seems comfortable, the Bears might

late.”

The Bears actually outshot the Tigers 38-31, but Princeton’s Colton Phinney allowed just two goals while Tyler Steel ’17 allowed three. But Whittet put little stock in these numbers.

“I don’t care how many shots we had. I don’t care how many attempts we had. I don’t care how many pipes

Saturday with its most significant win so far, defeating the highly ranked Bobcats (21-6-5, 11-4-3) at home.

The Bears jumped on Quinnipiac much like Princeton had jumped on them, taking a 2-0 lead out of the first period and leading 4-1 in the middle of the second.

A day after Whittet called out the juniors and seniors for their play, they

“I thought we were really good,” he said. “I could tell, going into the room, that the guys were ready tonight.”

“I think we just worked hard today,” Nick Lappin ’16 said. “We won a lot more battles. … Right from the drop of the puck tonight we were ready.”

Penalties were a big part of the game, as Quinnipiac committed 25 minutes’ worth of them in the third period. The Bears found themselves on the power play for 11:25 of the final frame, including 3:35 of 5-on-3 hockey. But the Bears failed to score for the entire period.

Whittet was less than happy with the power-play offense. “You’ve got to execute, and we’ll continue to work on that,” he said.

Despite scoring such a marquee win, the loss to Princeton still soured the weekend for the players.

Hathaway said he is “not satisfied unless we get two wins.”

“We expect to win every game,” Lappin added.

Still, the win against Quinnipiac provides some momentum for the Bears’ final four regular-season games.

“Hopefully we can just build off tonight and get four points next weekend,” Lappin said.

The Bears take on Dartmouth (616-3, 5-12-1) and Harvard (9-12-4, 5-9-4) next weekend.

“It’s good to see our (first-years) competing the way they are. Steven hit some great moves and got us some big points this weekend.”

Ricky McDonald ’15

“Our team thought we were much better than we were, and we got outworked and out-battled and outcompeted. They outplayed us and they beat us.”

Brendan Whittet ’94

HEAD COACH, MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM we hit. They wanted to win more than we did,” he said.

“I’ve got to do a better job of making sure my message gets through,” he added.

Whatever Whittet said in the locker room, his message got through the next day.

Saturday: Brown 4, No. 4 Quinnipiac 2 After losing arguably its worst game of the season, Bruno rebounded

to seal Brown’s fate. Ryder Cavey ’17 notched a 6-2 win in the heavyweight class, making him the only Bear to

led the way in beating a top-five team.

Garnet Hathaway ’14 scored two goals, Massimo Lamacchia ’15 notched another, Dennis Robertson ’14 had two assists and Marco De Filippo ’14 made 23 saves in just his second start since November.

“I think the biggest thing is just forgetting about what happened,” Hathaway said. “You can’t change the past.”

Whittet agreed, and said he noticed the team’s improved preparation against Quinnipiac.

have won the bout if Moita had been able to wrestle in the opening match.

The sweep drops Bruno to a 2-8 record in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association, ranking it 17th in the 18-team league. The Crimson and the Terriers stand slightly ahead of the Bears — Harvard at 13th and BU at 16th. Bruno has a chance to pick up a big win Saturday when Lehigh, ranked sixth in the conference, comes to the Pizzitola Center. Bruno then hits the road Sunday to visit Columbia, ranked 12th in the EIWA. “We’ve been having a lot of tough practices, so we’ll be prepared,” McDonald said of next weekend’s conference bouts. “Hopefully that shows.”

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014

menu SHARPE REFECTORY

spicy without VERNEY-WOOLLEY

LUNCH Chicken Fingers, Spinach Pie Calzone, Vegan Nuggets, Raw Vegetable Platter, Lyonnaise Potatoes

Chicken Fajitas, Vegan Burrito, Italian Meatballs, Vegan Three Bean Casserole, Potato Salad

DINNER Pork Teriyaki, Vegan Stir-Fried Noodles with Tofu, Korean Style Marinated Beef, Black Thai Rice

Broccoli Quiche, Meatloaf with Mushroom Sauce, Hunan Hot & Spicy Shrimp, Hunan Hot & Spicy Tofu

JOSIAH’S

THREE BURNERS

QUESADILLA OR GRILLED CHEESE

Stuffed French Toast

Grilled Cheese

BLUE ROOM

SOUPS

DINNER ENTREES

Chicken & Wild Rice, Butternut Squash & Apple, Baked Potato

Naked Burritos

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Four inches of snow blanketed Providence Saturday. The storm closed Josiah’s and Andrews Commons early and forced Mayor Angel Taveras to issue a city-wide parking ban.

comics Against the Fence | Lauren Stone ’17

crossword ACROSS 1 Horse mackerel 5 Accounting supervisor, for short 10 “Yeah right!”

14 ____-memoire 15 Raspy-sounding Latin American instrument 16 Blackthorn *17 [Red] 19 Bit of bits 20 In base 8 21 Web- or Steadi22 Attractive part of a flower 23 Stretches of about 1,852 meters 25 Hyperbolic sine over hyperbolic tangent 26 “____ of Good Feelings” 27 Baby shoes 30 For each 33 Disguised computer virus 36 Whims- or mag*38 [Hogwarts ____] 39 Capital of the Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties 40 They may end with XOXOXO 43 Almond or pecan 44 XI’s, on some clocks 45 U.S. military’s Special ___ 47 Dark blue 48 Pupil muscles: var.

53 Western landmarks?

55 quart : gallon : : hogshead: _____ 56 Ringworm, technically 57 Norway’s chief port *58 [Yellow] 60 Big Fat ____ 61 Take effect 62 Lake where Niagara Falls originates 63 Crows 64 Kenyan villager 65 Georg Cantor’s area of expertise

By Ian Everbach ’17

Hogwarts

2 Sorceress of Aeaea 3 Ancient Greek sanctuaries 4 Slander or libel 5 Vis-FX 6 Oz, to some 7 Infamous King of Phrygia 8 High school senior’s event 9 Rocky peak 10 Dangerous heatresisting material *11 [Green] 12 Smallest Greek letter 13 Atmosphere or vibe 18 Toy with 22 A. A. Milne’s bear 24 Theft, legally 25 Standard of scientific comparison 27 Diamond corner?

28 Jacob’s twin 29 Email folder 30 ____ Pelion on Ossa 31 Environmental sci. *32 [Blue] DOWN 1 Tropical starches 34 Leftover scraps

Eric & Eliot | Willa Tracy ’17

35 “Are You Gonna Be My Girl?” band 37 Lifting muscles 41 Strauss of fashion 42 A lot of similar things in a short time 46 Supporting stalks 48 Idiot 49 Prefix with “red” 50 Var. of 61-Across 51 Restore machinery

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For solutions, contact: crosswords@ browndailyherald.com.

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Solution to last Monday’s puzzle:

TODAY

FEBRUARY 19

12 P.M. BALANCING FAMILY AND SCIENCE

Sharon Swartz, professor of biology, will discuss her experience simultaneously raising a family and working in a science career. The discussion will focus on discrimination, compromise and timing. Science Center 7:30 P.M. JEWS AND FOOD: A HOLY LOVE AFFAIR

As part of the “Eat, Pray, Love” series, Moshe Moskowitz, director of Meor, will discuss the interaction of food and holiness within Judaism. Brown/RISD Hillel Student Lounge

TOMORROW

FEBRUARY 20

12 P.M. FROM PRISON GUARD TO DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR

Hong Kong director Tammy Cheung will discuss her experience working as a prison guard and later as a documentary filmmaker. Cheung directed “Invisible Women,” among other films. Salomon 203 8 P.M. BLACK VOICES

The open mic night is hosted annually by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity as part of Black History Month. Musical performances, spoken word and other written works will be performed. Faunce Underground

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014

EDITORIAL

Class segregation in the housing lottery

In response to a recent Herald opinions column by Cara Dorris ’15 (“Why we won’t talk about class,” Feb. 12), let’s talk about class. Dorris acutely points out those uncomfortable first-year moments when we begin to draw informal class lines. The University has little to no control over some of these daily battles, where some can go out for lavish dinners and buy drinks at bars and others simply cannot. Some class divide is perhaps inevitable, but surely the University can change some of its policies to maintain a diverse and relatively unsegregated community according to class.

In Brown’s housing lottery system, we are required to live on campus our sophomore and, for the vast majority of students, junior years. We assume this is in part to maintain a strong sense of campus community. Yet even before we are granted the opportunity to move off campus, dividing ourselves into those who can afford newly furnished apartments and homes with renovated kitchens and personal bathrooms and those who cannot, we are given the option in the housing lottery to buy a nicer dorm with a “suite fee.”

There is no such thing as a housing lottery without conflict, and there never will be. But consider the position of a student who wants to live with a group of friends who can afford a suite fee while he cannot. The situation can play out in many ways, but ultimately this student will be denied access to better housing because he cannot afford it. On top of that, University policy has created a greater class divide among friends. Some might justify the suite fee on the grounds that it is the most efficient allocation of resources, since those who most desire better housing will be granted the opportunity to obtain it by paying what probably resembles a free-market price (even though it is in reality determined by the University). But given that our financial opportunities are still almost exclusively tied to those of our parents, the justification that the allocation is based on desire — those willing to work for the cost of a suite fee will be given better housing — is shaky at best.

Further consider the implications beyond the individual level. Wealthier students are granted the opportunity to live in separate dormitories with spacious common rooms and quality kitchens, while other students are de facto denied this opportunity. These students are left to lower-quality dormitories with comparatively low-quality communal kitchens to be shared with many more students. They are then faced with a conflict of interest in which collectively requesting better facilities would mean sacrificing financial aid as a spending priority. Students in the coveted “suite fee” dorms also have unmatched social capital — think Friday night pre-games in Young Orchard or wine-and-cheese parties in Barbour versus crowded end-of-the-night mingling in Grad Center.

This pattern of course is not without its exceptions. The housing lottery does not perfectly segregate the student body according to class. Some students from working-class backgrounds may have scholarships or hefty financial aid packages that enable them to afford the suite fee, and some wealthier students pull a bad lottery number and wind up in a Minden quad. But the suite fee undeniably gives unequal access to better housing and is indeed a form of class segregation.

We categorically reject this form of housing segregation, even if it has not yet been recognized as such.

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CORRECTION An article in Friday’s Herald (“Scholars gather to honor Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet,” Feb. 14) misidentified the experts who attended a conference last Tuesday. They were scholars of Turkish poetry, not Arabic poetry. The Herald regrets the error.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Rejecting deficit-obsessed groupthink GARRET JOHNSON opinions columnist

Last week, the Herald editorial page board released a call for greater efficiency in spending, both at Brown and in Washington (“Editorial: National, campus financial models are unsustainable,” Feb. 12). I agree with the board’s call for less “lavish spending” at Brown. It is hard to enter Andrews Commons and not wonder why all of that money couldn’t have gone toward extending need-blind admission for all applicants.

But I must disagree with the editorial’s alarmist tone on the national debt.

The editorial page board introduces the topic of federal spending with the news that House Speaker John Boehner, ROhio, agreed to pass a ‘clean’ increase to the nation’s debt ceiling. While I welcome the news that the GOP leadership chose not to hold our nation’s credit rating hostage in order to score ideological victories, the board members seem to believe that the clean increase in the debt ceiling is bad news for America. They note anxiously that “our national debt will only grow even larger” and that our debt cannot “balloon uncontrollably forever.” They are wrong on the facts, and their preoccupation with the current debt — while very common in our political discourse — is misguided.

First of all, our debt is not ballooning uncontrollably. The federal deficit

has fallen every year since 2009, and is projected to remain at about the same percentage of gross domestic product as it was from 1974 to 2013. Furthermore, the national debt would be even smaller had we not fought wars in Afghanistan and Iraq without a tax increase. So let’s throw out that bit of misinformation, and move on to the more important question: Should we even care about the debt?

In the long term, yes. But right now, with millions of Americans unemployed, infrastructure crumbling and

hawks’ argument — and the facts about our debt — it became clear to me that the hawks are less interested in “saving future generations” and more interested in their ideological priorities: a gutted federal government, a tax code that favors the richest Americans, and a promise that all wealth will “trickle down” to every man, woman and child.

This is the same bill of goods that Republicans have been selling since Ronald Reagan was in office, and today even most Democrats have bought into the debt crisis myth. The prob-

Today, the nation is petrified of the debt thanks to the chilling warnings of deficit hawks. economic mobility at the lowest levels we’ve seen in generations, our first priority must be opportunity and job growth. If we continue to cut spending, shave away at our social safety net and yield to the Tea Party’s intoxicated obsession with the evils of government, we will only further depress the economy and wonder what we are doing wrong as a country.

There’s a natural, human urge to not want to run up big debts. I used to be a deficit hawk myself, like many of Washington’s centrist Democrats.

I saw the yearly deficit numbers and imagined myself in an Orwellian future, giving 90 percent of my income to the government and cursing those irresponsible past leaders who had created a huge debt.

But after a closer look at the deficit

lem is that their strategy has failed on two fronts. It has not reduced the national debt — let us all remember that national deficits exploded under Reagan — and it has decimated the middle class and reduced economic mobility to a sentimental memory of what used to be possible in America.

The good news is that we know what works to reduce the debt and boost economic mobility. In the years between World War II and the Reagan revolution, the national debt was in decline, the economy boomed and the American dream was actually attainable. What magic potions did America have then that it lacks now? None. The difference is that in the postwar period, we invested in our people. We sent over 2 million veterans to college on the G.I. Bill, we built a social safety net — albeit

an incomplete one — that encouraged risk-taking and entrepreneurship, and we invested in our infrastructure with projects like the interstate system.

As a result, the American dream was a real thing. Millions of children climbed the economic ladder because America invested in their futures rather than presenting phony choices between today’s spending and tomorrow’s.

But today, the nation is petrified of the debt thanks to the chilling warnings of deficit hawks. They sell a message of fear, and they sell it well. “We need to cut spending today so that our children don’t have to!” They have even managed to convince students at Brown that there is a contest between generations in the debate over the national debt.

There is now a group on campus called Common Sense Action, whose stated mission is to advocate for “generational fairness.” It came in second place in a contest funded by Peter G. Peterson, a billionaire whose ideas for reforming Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security would “strike deeply at the middle class,” according to the Los Angeles Times. CSA advocates for what it sees as nonpartisan policies promoting fiscal responsibility, and believes that conservatives and liberals should be able to agree on pragmatic solutions to reduce our debt. Fortunately, and likely to the chagrin of people like Peterson, CSA has shifted its focus away from the deficit and onto more worthy goals, like economic mobility and repairing politics. CSA deserves credit for these

changes, but the fact remains that there are broad swaths of the public that have been sold on the deficit myth.

That brings me back to the Herald editorial page board, which urges readers to avoid “entangling ourselves” in the “bitter and entrenched philosophical debates” over the size and scope of government. The problem is that those “bitter and entrenched” debates are important, and they are worth having. The fact that groups like CSA, the editorial page board, and much of the country’s political center have bought into this deficit-obsessed groupthink shows the power that billionaires like Peterson have to influence our politics.

I don’t question the intent of the board or of moderates who have been sold the deficit hawk myth. I’m sure that they believe what they are doing is right, and that they see the national debt as an urgent crisis that demands our attention. But I fundamentally disagree. With millions out of work, billions of dollars in unmet infrastructure needs and a social safety net that is under attack from politicians in both parties, the deficit should not be at the top of America’s priorities list. Rather than continuing with the deficit hawks’ failing policies, let’s invest in our people today so that tomorrow brings a brighter future.

Garret Johnson ’14 is a former Herald opinions editor. His columns appear on alternate Wednesdays. He can be reached at garret_johnson@brown.edu.

Stubborn winter storm policy is unsafe and unfair SAM HILLESTAD opinions columnist

You wake up and look out the window into a blinding white vista — a winter wonderland. Beautiful snowflakes drift down onto a postcard-worthy campus. Then you remember that you have three classes today, and your winter wonderland instantly transforms into a winter wasteland. You dread leaving the comfort of your warm blankets. You contemplate skipping class altogether. Even the short walk to the Sharpe Refectory becomes a miserable trek. You check your email hopefully, only to find that Brown classes are still being held, while Rhode Island School of Design students can watch the winter storm from the safety of their dorm rooms.

This scenario is becoming far too familiar. In the name of safety, fairness and basic human decency, Brown should cancel classes during dangerous winter storms.

Over the past four weeks, Brown has been ravaged by snowstorm after snowstorm. Icy roads and partial whiteouts have made driving conditions highly unsafe. Roads have become permanently coated with inches of solid ice. And power outages have been rampant across the Northeast.

There can be no doubt that this has been a particularly brutal winter. Around this time last year we had Nemo to deal with, but even the great blizzard of 2013 cannot compare to the constant barrage of winter storms we’ve had to contend with this year.

This steady stream of ice and snow has forced schools and colleges across Rhode Island to shut down temporarily on numerous occasions. It is unfortunate but necessary — after all, safety comes first. But one school has withstood the pressure to

join in those closures: Brown. This is yet another example of how Brown’s administrators have failed to achieve a base level of common sense and rationality.

It is unsafe to keep Brown open during blizzard conditions — bottom line. I am writing this while we are still in the throes of Winter Storm Pax. Ice and slush are building up on the streets while massive snowflakes are pouring down. Currently, classes are canceled at Rhode Island College, the University of Rhode Island, the Community College of Rhode Island and Johnson and Wales University. Many local public and private schools throughout Rhode Island and Massachusetts have

grees — it was literally freezing inside. Several days later, there was another severe bout of snow. The heat was still not fixed and class was still not canceled. Our professor had us walk around the room in a giant circle while he lectured in the middle.

Occasionally, we performed a variety of exercises to stay warm: running in place, hopping, etc. It was uncomfortable and pathetic, and I learned nothing during that class. Had the University simply canceled classes for the entire day, that farce would have been unnecessary. Several days later, I caught a cold.

But people like me are not the ones that are most harmed when Brown remains open during

In the name of safety, fairness and basic human decency, Brown should cancel classes during dangerous winter storms. also canceled classes. Yet Brown remains open for business.

This is not the first time Brown has made the decision to stay open during blizzard conditions.

On the first day of the semester, a winter storm that devastated all of New England forced Brown to shut down — until 10 a.m. I had class at 10 a.m., so I was unaffected. This is the only time in 2014 that Brown has shut down, and the decision to restrict the closure until 10 a.m. was arbitrary. Were conditions significantly improved between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m.? Speaking from firsthand experience, I assure you the roads were still unsafe and the weather was still miserable.

At that 10 a.m. class, the heating system broke down. The thermometer in the room read 30 de-

dangerous winter storms. It is the professors and the students who are forced to commute over icy roads and through blinding snowdrifts that feel the brunt of these arbitrary decisions to remain open. According to a study by the Sierra Club, approximately 2 percent of Brown students and 39 percent of Brown faculty and staff members commute to school by car. That isn’t counting the many Brown students, faculty members and staff members who commute via bicycle.

Furthermore, there are handicapped, disabled and injured students at Brown who have a difficult enough time getting to class without the icy, snowridden sidewalks. When the administration makes the decision to hold classes in poor weather conditions, it does so from an able-bodied perspective.

Students who rely on wheelchairs or crutches are disregarded entirely, thus leaving an often-marginalized portion of the Brown population physically unable to get to class. This ableist mentality is inexcusable. Overlooking the handicapped this winter could end up being a disastrous mistake.

Especially for commuters and the physically handicapped, a winter storm becomes a lose-lose scenario. Either they bite the bullet and make the dangerous trek to class, or they stay home and fall behind. One way it’s unsafe, and the other way it’s unfair. Canceling classes solves both problems.

For those overly concerned about losing class time over weather, remember that classes can easily be rescheduled — that’s what reading period is for. But when classes stay open during winter storms, attendance always seems to drop. A study

by Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government showed that school closures have no impact on long-term student performance, but absences do. When a student is forced to stay home, he or she necessarily falls behind. On the other hand, when classes are canceled, it levels the playing field.

Some may think classes should be canceled on a case-by-case basis. Several of my classes have been canceled in such a manner. But when classes aren’t canceled University-wide, professors are apt to feel the pressure to hold class regardless of their own safety. Brown should not force professors into that situation.

As I finish this article, the snowstorm is turning into a hellacious downpour of freezing rain and painful sleet. It is utterly disgusting. But there’s no need to describe it further — you had to walk through it on your way to class.

Sam Hillestad ’15 can’t wait for spring. He can be reached at samuel_hillestad@brown.edu.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014

THE

BROWN DAILY HERALD Bipolar patients prescribed multiple drugs Researchers have yet to determine the benefits or consequences of taking medications concurrently

By ASHNA MUKHI STAFF WRITER

Though the effects of combining more than two medications to treat bipolar I disorder have never been examined scientifically, the average bipolar patient admitted to Butler Hospital in 2010 was on six different medications, according to a new study led by Lauren Weinstock, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior.

Such medication practices place a burden on both the health care system and patients, but clearly do not meet their needs as they still require hospital care, Weinstock said.

Throughout their research on bipolar disorder over the years, Weinstock said, she and her colleagues noticed that a large number of their medicated patients were still symptomatic. The researchers were interested in clinically quantifying what they had been

witnessing, so they analyzed the records of 230 patients.

Their findings were published in the journal Psychiatry Research earlier this month.

The results showed that 36 percent of the patients in the study met the criteria for “complex polypharmacy” — meaning they were taking four or more psychotropic medications that affect behavior and mental state.

Prescribing multiple medications to patients with bipolar disorder is not an evidence-based practice, Weinstock said, but patients at Butler tended to have been prescribed multiple medications by their community health providers.

Co-author Brandon Gaudiano, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, said these findings are indicative of a divide between what evidence suggests and what is actually happening in the community.

“There are certain guidelines for what needs to be prescribed, and then there is clinical reality,” he said.

Weinstock explained that the lack of prior research on polypharmacy in » See BIPOLAR, page 3

Bipolar disorder by the numbers 25 average age of onset

5.7 million adults affected annually in the U.S.

2.6 percent of adults affected annually in the U.S.

9.2 years taken off lifespan of individuals with the disorder Source: Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

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Researchers map Jupiter’s moon

New map allows scientists to piece together a geological history of the moon’s surface

By JASON NADBOY STAFF WRITER

The first global map of the largest moon in the solar system — Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s moons — shows a sharp contrast between older cratered areas and newer, lighter terrain. The map was published last Wednesday after decades of research conducted by a team that included Brown professors and former Brown students.

“The map is … important in terms of helping us to target our future exploration in the system,” said the map’s lead creator, Geoffrey Collins PhD’00, now a professor of geology at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass.

The map is “vital to the planning and success” of an upcoming mission to Jupiter, wrote Michael Bland, a research scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, in an email to The Herald.

The European Space Agency is planning to launch a mission in 2022 that will arrive at Jupiter in 2030 to study the planet and three of its moons — Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.

“Between now and 2030, this will be the best map you’re going to get,” Collins said.

Unveiling the surface The map will also help scientists understand the solar system by looking at the miniature solar system that Jupiter and its moons make up, said Jim Head, a professor of geological sciences who helped create the map.

Ganymede, Jupiter’s third-closest moon, primarily contains heavily cratered, dark terrain, Head said. The dark terrain indicates older portions of the icy surface of the moon with

Comparing Jupiter’s moons Ganymede, which was recently mapped after decades of work by Brown professors and former Brown students, is Jupiter’s largest moon.

DIAMETERS, IN MILES

Jupiter 88,823

Io

Europa

2,264

1,940

Ganymede 3,270

Callisto 2,995

DISTANCES FROM JUPITER, IN MILES

Io

Source: NASA

262,094

Europa 417,002

Ganymede 665,116

Callisto

1,169,856

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more rock content, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration website.

The dark terrain is broken up into polygons with bright material constituting newer formations of ice between them, Head said.

“At some point most of Ganymede’s surface was replaced with clean white ice that tore apart that dark terrain,” Collins said. “The exciting thing is we can piece all these things together and really see the amount of the planet that’s been modified and how it’s been modified,” he added. The patterns of creases in the dark terrain show stresses where external bodies hit the planet or where internal heat and shifting of the crust occurred.

Since Ganymede contains water, an internal heat source and possibly organic material from meteorites, there might be life in between the cold, icy surface of the moon and its warmer interior, Head said.

Bland, who was not involved in the map’s creation, called its construction “a significant advancement in understanding the geologic evolution of the solar system’s largest moon.”

“With the map, we can clearly see both the diversity and spatial distribution of landforms on Ganymede’s surface,” he added, “which provide important clues to unraveling its long history.”

The map allows scientists to compare the various moons orbiting Jupiter, Head said. He noted that the map shows the evolution of Ganymede’s surface, which started out similar to the surface of Callisto, Jupiter’s outermost moon, until, “Wham!

Something heavily altered (its) whole surface.”

Collins said the map gives scientists the first “global view and timeline” of the moon.

Decades of research The research leading up to the creation of this map began at the University several decades ago, with the researchers now spread all across the country, Head said.

The researchers developed the map using data from the Voyager and Galileo spacecraft, Collins said.

“Those are the only two missions that have seen Ganymede up close,” Collins said, adding that other spacecraft have flown close to the moon but have not captured images as clear as those from Voyager and Galileo.

Head was one of the co-investigators on the Galileo mission, which was the first to use an advanced type of imaging called solid-state imaging.

During the Galileo mission the transmitting antenna malfunctioned, limiting the amount of information that could be sent back to Earth, Collins said. Still, Head said,

science & research SCIENCE & RESEARCH ROUNDUP

BY SARAH PERELMAN, SCIENCE & RESEARCH EDITOR

Professors win Sloan fellowships Two faculty members were selected for Sloan Research Fellowships this year and will receive $50,000 to continue their work in chemistry and computer science, according to a University press release.

One of the recipients, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Wesley Bernskoetter, is examining inexpensive and renewable carbonderived catalysts. These could replace petroleum in certain commodity chemicals, according to the press release.

Her research also includes studies of compounds found in many plastics and how they are produced from carbon dioxide’s interactions with other small molecules.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Paul Valiant was awarded a Sloan Fellowship for his application of computer science to biological and physical data. He used computational techniques to model the movement of fluids and the folding of proteins from an inactive to a functional state, according to the release.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which awarded the fellowship, funds various grants with the mission to improve society through systematic research into natural and societal forces, according to the organization’s website.

Aquatics Center achieves LEED Certification The U.S. Green Building Council recently awarded LEED Gold Certification to the University’s Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, which opened in April 2012.

To become LEED-certified, buildings must earn points for their friendliness to the environment, according to the USGBC website.

The center achieved gold level, the second-highest of four possible certifications.

The center is topped with the largest hybrid solar panel array in the country, according to a February 2012 University press release.

The roof’s 168 rectangular solar panels power the building’s electricity and heat. They generate a total of 160,944 watts, which is enough to heat the entire center — including its million-gallon swimming pool.

“This system is a great demonstration project of how renewable energy can be utilized in a city environment and provides a living lab for students,” said Chris Powell, director of sustainable energy and environmental initiatives, in the release.

The system consists of 21 rows of solar panels that are tilted to lighten their weight on the roof. From under the panels, a photovoltaic strip uses the heat generated by sunlight hitting the strips to heat an underlying layer of glycol. The glycol is responsible for heating the pool.

Gay-straight alliances linked with decreased drug abuse The absence of gay-straight alliance programs in high schools may be correlated to an increase in prescription and illicit drug abuse among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adolescents, according to a recent study published last month in the journal Addictive Behaviors.

The researchers, led by post-doctoral scholar Nicholas Heck, found that students at schools without gay-straight alliances may be about three times more likely to use cocaine and about two times more likely to misuse ADHD or pain medication compared to their peers at schools with alliances.

The researchers administered online surveys to a sample of 475 high school students who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, and used 12 statistical analyses to determine the likelihood of them using different drugs.

The study builds on previous research that suggests the presence of high school gay-straight alliances reduces the numbers of LGBT students who have alcohol, cigarette and drug problems.

“These findings extend the research base related to GSAs and further demonstrate the importance of providing LGBT youth with opportunities for socialization and support within the school setting,” the researchers wrote in the study. the spacecraft was able to take and transmit a number of pictures, albeit slowly.

The mission terminated in 2003 when the satellite flew into Jupiter.

All images used to create the map had been collected by 2003, but this is the first time they have been compiled into a comprehensive map, Collins said.

At first the scientists began mapping without sophisticated software, and Collins developed tennis elbow from drawing the lines of the plates on

the moon, he said, adding that more sophisticated software was used later in the study.

“It was really exciting to see the surface unfold from information we put in,” Head said.

Collins said the Galileo mission and creation of this map was a key reason he came to Brown, as he had heard Head was a co-investigator for the mission.

“I actually have a soft spot for Ganymede,” Collins said. “As a kid I had a picture of Ganymede in my room.”