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MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2014

Community gathers for Brown’s birthday bash 650 pounds of cake, 250 years to celebrate

World Bank pres. urges political, social activism

Kim ’82 discusses importance of student engagement and advocacy in current global issues

After three years of planning, U. launches anniversary festivities with fireworks

By EMILY WOOLDRIDGE SENIOR STAFF WRITER

By ISOBEL HECK SCIENCE & RESEARCH EDITOR

“It’s like magic, right?” Eve Ornstedt, executive director for the Office of the 250th Anniversary, reflected as she stood in the center of the Main Green Friday afternoon watching years of celebrationplanning unfold in front of her. The weekend’s celebrations marked the 250th anniversary of the University’s founding in March 1764, and showcased Brown’s history and its presidentially deemed standing as the “Ivy League champion of fun.”

‘A culminating moment’ Friday night’s celebration was designed to “bring people together” in a “culminating moment,” Ornstedt said.

In her opening remarks, President Christina Paxson welcomed thousands of attendees to “a birthday celebration worthy of its 250 years,” adding that she has “no doubt” Brown’s history will stretch well into the future. » See 250TH, page 3

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After President Christina Paxson cut the 650-pound cake, fireworks exploded off the roof of University Hall in honor of Brown’s semiquincentennial. The celebrations began Friday and will continue for the next 15 months.

“If you are here today, and if you graduate from Brown, you are ready to tackle just about anything — don’t be fearful,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim ’82 in a lecture delivered Friday afternoon to a packed Salomon 101.

Kim’s talk, part of the Stephen A. Ogden ’60 Memorial Lecture series, helped kick off the University’s opening celebration of its 250th anniversary this weekend.

Kim, who served as Dartmouth’s president from 2009 to 2012, addressed a wide range of current issues, including development in poorer regions and climate change. The question of “what is to be done in the world, and what will I do to change it?” has motivated Kim throughout his life, he said, adding that students should figure out their own answers to this question.

As World Bank president, Kim and » See KIM, page 2

Governors discuss bipartisanship, health care reform

By ALEXANDER BLUM SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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The governors of Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Delaware and Vermont — three of whom are alums — joined Wendy Schiller, associate professor of political science and public policy, at the first of five events Saturday that together composed the President’s Colloquium on the Virtues of a Liberal Education.

Each of the governors reflected briefly on their experiences leading a state before transitioning into a conversation on the Affordable Care Act. Schiller, who moderated the discussion between the panelists, introduced the four guests — Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17, New

Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan ’80 P’15, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell ’82 and Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin P’14.

The University invited Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ’91.5 to participate in the panel, but he declined to attend, Schiller said.

Chafee noted that he remembered the University’s 200th anniversary in 1964, which featured President Lyndon Johnson. Chafee said he thought the 1964 campaign between Barry Goldwater, who had voted against the Civil Rights Act, and Johnson was representative of today’s partisan divide.

The “fervency” and uncharitable nature that characterizes politics today is especially evident in the Tea Party, which “doesn’t care sometimes about winning the general election,” Chafee said. “It’s more about” ideology.

Hassan described the challenges and rewards of serving as the governor of a “purple state” that has a variety of political factions and favors bipartisan

cooperation.

She described how the recession preceding the 2010 midterm elections resulted in a wave of Tea Party candidates being voted into office and “dominat(ing) the legislature.”

“The behavior of the tea party … really bothered our people across party lines,” Hassan said, adding that between 2010 and 2012, the Tea Party secured the passage of laws that barred New Hampshire from establishing a state-run health exchange as part of the Affordable Care Act or accepting federal money to help implement the law.

Markell spoke of a shifting political landscape in Delaware that favors Democrats. When he was first elected to public office in 1998, only three of the nine statewide seats were held by Democrats — a number that today has grown to eight. “There’s a good chance that a year from now, we’ll control nine out of the nine,” he said. » See GOVERNORS, page 2

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The governors of Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Delaware and Vermont — all Brown alums and/or parents — speak at a President’s Colloquium event.

Commentary

U. scientists hold interactive exhibits of their research as part of 250th celebrations

Study shows bipolar disorder in pregnant women linked to greater resurgence of symptoms

Sweren ’15: 250th celebration brushes over Brown’s history

Mills ’15: Brown’s lack of ROTC program is detrimental to diversity and learning

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World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim ’82 speaks about the potential for fostering meaningful change in the world — change that undergraduates can partake in — at a lecture Friday afternoon.

» KIM, from page 1 his colleagues aim to boost prosperity and end extreme poverty within a generation, he said. During a conversation with Pope Francis, the pope expressed support for the World Bank’s vision for stimulating growth in poorer regions, Kim added.

Praising his team of World Bank staffers for spending time outside of office cubicles “building bridges and health care systems,” Kim said he hopes to achieve the organization’s goals through a variety of strategies, including increasing women’s participation in the global workforce and improving health care and education worldwide.

But the rising tide of climate change threatening people in extreme poverty, who are often disproportionately affected by environmental damage, impedes poverty reduction and economic development efforts, he noted.

“It’s fundamentally unjust that those least responsible for raising the Earth’s temperature will suffer the greatest consequences,” Kim said. He added that he encourages global leaders “to cut carbon emissions in cities, promote climate-smart agriculture, increase investment in renewable energy, set a predictable price for carbon and end fossil fuel subsidies.”

Kim has been involved in political activism throughout his life. While he was at Brown, Kim and some of his friends from the Third World Center wore black during Family Weekend to protest the University’s decision to raise tuition without increasing financial aid, he said. Advocacy efforts for greater financial aid eventually helped lead the University to adopt a needblind admission policy, he added.

Kim said he was even involved in demonstrations against the World Bank a couple decades ago, protesting the bank’s approach to stimulating growth in developing countries. This story drew laughter from the audience, as Kim displayed a sense of humor about his activist past.

When Kim’s father picked him up at the airport after his first semester at Brown, inquiring about his area of study, he pulled the car over and killed the engine when Kim announced, “I want to study philosophy and political science,” Kim said.

His father, a dentist, replied, “You know, Jim, after you finish your medical residency, you can do anything you want,” Kim said.

In response to the crowd’s laughter, Kim deadpanned, “I have actually told this story to an Asian audience and nobody laughed.”

When discussing his choice of attending medical school, Kim told the audience that he initially wanted to attend the University of California, San Francisco, located in an area with a significant Asian-American population. “I was going to be down with my people,” he said, eliciting laughter from audience members. He ultimately attended Harvard Medical School.

Kim’s stories of friendship, procrastination and stress in an introductory organic chemistry course served to remind students and alums that he, too, had been a student on College Hill in the not-too-distant past.

Kim also addressed the campus debate over whether the University should divest the endowment from coal companies. Though Kim said he would not take a position on whether he supported the Corporation’s October decision not to divest endowment assets, he expressed admiration for

student activists who advocated for the issue to be addressed.

“I’m so proud, as an alumnus, that students raised these difficult questions,” Kim said.

During the following questionand-answer session, Kim and attendees discussed controversial issues, including climate change, water privatization and the political crisis in Ukraine.

One student pressed Kim on his position on coal divestment, even attempting to give the World Bank president a Brown Divest Coal t-shirt.

In response, Kim stressed the World Bank’s “nuanced position on coal” and said Brown faculty members and students make a great contribution to fighting climate change.

Kim engaged with one student who identified himself as an entrepreneur looking for advice on how to be successful. Technical excellence, trustworthiness and the possession of “fire in the belly” are key qualities that help lead to future success, Kim said, offering one of his business cards to the student.

Though much of the lecture’s subject matter was serious, Kim’s warm personality gave the talk “a kick,” said Mili Sanwalka ’17.

Kim encouraged students to act on their desire to make a difference.

“I want you to remember how you feel at this very moment in your life — passionate, driven, wanting to change the world,” Kim said. “When Dr. King talked about bending the arc of history, he didn’t mean that we should be spectators who stand by and watch history unfold. He showed us through his own life that all of us must do our part to grab the arc of history and bend it toward justice with everything we have.”

Markell drew a sharp distinction between the roles of state and national politicians. “People really don’t care that much about partisan politics at a statewide level,” he said, adding that governors are evaluated on criteria such as job growth, education quality and responsible spending, unlike politicians in Washington who are often judged by the quality of their rhetoric. Markell said he lamented that so much of national politics “is about scoring points against the other party.”

“People see (governors) as problemsolvers,” Markell said.

Shumlin noted that the party affiliation of Vermont’s governorship has changed “every single time we’ve switched governors since 1963.” Though it is often perceived as a solidly Democratic, progressive state, “when it comes to governors, folks use a different standard,” allowing for the election of moderate Republicans who are willing to work with a liberal-leaning legislature, he said.

“One of the beauties of Vermont is that our Republicans don’t drink too much tea,” Shumlin quipped, adding that they tend to be fiscally responsible and socially open-minded. By working together, the government in Vermont is “actually solving the problems that they should be solving in Washington,” Shumlin said, adding that states around the country are serving as “laboratories for change.”

The governors then discussed national health policy and the ongoing implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Chafee voiced approval of the new law and its effects. “Anything is better than the status quo,” he said, adding that he is confident that policymakers will “iron out the glitches.”

Markell dismissed the notion that President Obama’s signature law is the most important part of health care reform in the country. He said the most innovative work on health care is taking place in states that are moving “away from frankly what is not really a health care system — it’s a sick care system.”

Acknowledging the complicated nature of America’s health care system, Markell said there needs to be more of an emphasis on preventative treatment, so that people can avoid trips to the emergency room — the most expensive place for treatment.

Shumlin added that the current system is not only detrimental to patients but also “a prescription for economic disaster.”

After the panelists spoke about health care, Schiller opened the floor for questions, though the remaining time allowed for just two.

Once audience member asked if the governors could offer advice to people from states such as Wisconsin and New Jersey “on how we might help bridge the gap between partisanship.”

“There’s nothing wrong with conflict,” Markell responded, noting that as long as the discussion is centered on ideas, and is not focused on attacking the “personalities” of other people, then disagreement can be constructive.

Hassan said, “It’s what you do after you argue that really matters,” quoting Robert Frost’s advice that “the best way out is always through.”

Another attendee asked what role the “political culture of town meeting(s),” which has historically characterized New England states where three of the panelists hold office, has played in their abilities to overcome partisanship.

Hassan said she thinks the culture of town meetings has been important in her experience as governor of New Hampshire because “we are used to arguing with each other and then coming to agreements.” Though there may be differences in the solutions proposed by various factions, people generally share similar values, vision and purpose, she added.

Democracy was not designed to handle the influence of corporate money and lobbyist groups, which crowd out citizens’ voices, Shumlin said, adding that meeting with community members has proven helpful in overcoming these forces. “There’s supposed to be a dialogue, and a conversation,” he said.

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A cappella groups including Shades of Brown, above, and the Jabberwocks performed Friday night in Metcalf Auditorium.

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Perez ’83 talks minimum wage, equal opportunity Secretary of Labor says Brown exposed him to new perspectives, encouraged risk-taking

By JILLIAN LANNEY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

“I didn’t have any idea that I was going to become the Secretary of Labor someday, … but what I did have an idea of was that I wanted to make a difference,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez ’83 in his keynote address, part of Saturday morning’s opening celebration of Brown’s 250th anniversary.

Alums, administrators, community members and students packed Salomon 101 for the conversation with Perez, moderated by Richard Locke, director of the Watson Institute for International Studies and professor of political science.

In President Christina Paxson’s introductory remarks, she highlighted Perez’s accomplishments and merits. “One thing that’s very clear is that Brown is about equity, human dignity, social justice

» 250TH, from page 1 Paxson’s remarks were followed by a 250-syllable prayer by University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson, and addresses

by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76 and Rep. David Cicilline ’83, D-R.I. Members of the student group “Word!” also performed a spoken word poem highlighting significant events in the University’s history, including Brown’s merger with Pembroke College, student protests in the 1960s and a veiled reference to last October’s canceled lecture by former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, which they cited as an example of students promoting racial equity.

“Two hundred fifty years later, Brown students still challenge the status quo,” they said.

Throughout the remarks, “people just kept streaming in,” said Wendy Strothman ’72, tri-chair of the steering committee of the 250th anniversary.

Despite the large crowd, wide swaths of attendees were disappointed with the sound quality of the event, unable to hear anything that took place on stage.

30 square feet of cake In a highly anticipated moment of the night, Paxson cut the first slice of the approximately 650-pound cake — a 3 percent model of University Hall.

The 1,400-piece cake took 400 man hours and more than 100 pounds of marshmallow fondant to complete. The entire cake was built around an intersteel structure to ensure it did not bend with transportation, said Tyler Oakleaf, coowner of Oakleaf Cakes.

Oakleaf would not divulge the cake’s price tag, but the company website prices custom cakes at $3 per serving and $75 per hour of decorating. Following such a pricing scheme and calculating all 400 man hours as “decorating,” the University Hall cake would have cost approximately $34,200, though Marisa Quinn, vice president of public affairs and University relations, wrote in an email to The Herald that the cake cost “far less” than that.

At $3 each, the cupcakes likely added $3,600 to the bill.

The University Hall portion was 30 square feet and paired with a front lawn

— principles that have formed the life of today’s speaker,” she said.

Perez spoke of his upbringing and Brown’s impact on his career and perspective before pivoting to a policy discussion on issues including the minimum wage, income equality and training the next generation of workers.

At Brown, Perez was exposed to a wide range of backgrounds and worldviews that helped inform his own outlook, he said.

“Brown taught me how to embrace diversity and how to expand my comfort zone, and it really gave me the moral and ethical and intellectual foundation for so much of what I did,” Perez said, adding that he entered public service in hopes of finding a means to help people.

Throughout his career, he has focused on issues of “extending opportunity,” he said.

The theme of extending opportunity echoed throughout most of Perez’s address.

He devoted a significant amount of time — both in his discussion with Locke and in responses to audience questions » See PEREZ, page 4 featuring the Van Wickle Gates, which had been constructed entirely from piping.

Not only was the cake one of the biggest projects the company has ever undertaken, but it was also one of the largest sculptured cakes ever made, Oakleaf said.

“You can count sculptured cakes this big on one hand. … Cakes don’t usually feed 1,000 plus,” Oakleaf said.

The cake was layered such that all pieces would be equally sized.

The journey toward this sugary monument was a typically short one. “Cake is an extreme art because it’s timed. Once it comes out of the oven you’re fighting the clock before it gets dry and loses taste,” Oakleaf said. The bakers put the cake in the oven five days before the event, quickly assembling it using buttercream filling as glue.

To expedite decoration, the workers “rolled out and decorated one panel with all the brickwork, and then used a silicone mold to imprint the other ones,” Oakleaf said, adding that it was fortunate University Hall is a “very symmetrical building.”

Decorators hand-sponged food coloring onto the bricks, delicately cut out each window with an x-acto knife and handpiped icing onto the gates. For Oakleaf, the effort paid off: “It’s nice to do a cake this big because you can get all the detail, not cartoonized or brought to size.”

Surpassing Oakleaf Cakes’ previous largest creation — a life-size Stormtrooper — University Hall fits Oakleaf’s mantra that “there’s not a lot that can’t be made out of cake.”

Despite the numerous hours that went into creating the edible art, Oakleaf said “it’s a relief when it gets eaten.

It means nothing else can go wrong.”

Strothman said she was pleased with how many students attended the event.

Students were “both contributing and participating and hung in there to see the final piece of cake handed out.”

A task for 10 As students buzzed about what the University Hall-shaped cake would look like and whether everyone would be able to get a slice, a team of organizers was busy working to ensure the approximately 650-pound cake arrived to campus unscathed.

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Thomas Perez ’83, U.S. Secretary of Labor, advocated for investing in human capital and expanding economic opportunity in his address Saturday. driven to campus from Hope Street in order to avoid going up College Hill and risking that the cake might slip, Strothman said.

Once the cake arrived in front of the Faunce House steps at 4:45 p.m., 10 people used four steel poles to carry the cake carefully to the top of the Faunce steps.

As the cake made its ascent, a crowd of about 100 people nervously watched, gasping at moments when it looked as though the cake might not make it to the top or was not going to fit between the poles of the tent that would cover it.

“I thought the cake was remarkable,” said Donald Hasseltine, vice president for development. “I watched them carry it up the stairs,” he said, calling that a “highlight” of the weekend.

Once the cake was in position, Oakleaf Cakes’ staff connected the front lawn piece and the building piece and brought out 1,200 accompanying cupcakes.

Starting with a bang While the cake was being cut, the Green was illuminated as fireworks rocketed off the roof of University Hall.

Planning for the firework display began in January, a process that involved weighing safety factors due to the University’s residential location with the planners’ “vision” for how the display would look, said Gene Raynor, show producer at PyroTecnico, the company hired to implement the show.

The display aimed to be “compatible” with that vision but also “distinct,” he added.

The show featured the 250+ logo in fire on the side of University Hall facing the Green.

As the building lit up, students clapped and cheered, entranced by the vision of the University’s oldest and most symbolic building illuminated by flames.

Prior to the show, Raynor said he hoped many people would view the fireworks, a wish that was fulfilled as thousands of people filled the Green to watch the light display.

The fireworks were “distinctive,” Quinn said. “Nobody does fireworks off a19th-century building.”

From near and far The planning for the University’s 250th anniversary celebration began at

a meeting in April 2011, at which point a steering committee of 30 people and nine subcommittees were formed. In total, over 100 people were involved in organizing the weekend’s events.

From the outset, the goal was to design the weekend-long celebration to bring together “both people new to Brown as well as people from the Brown family” and to highlight “what makes this place so special right from the beginning,” Quinn said.

Quinn wrote in an email to The Herald that the committee was “mindful of keeping costs down,” noting that the weekend’s primary costs were “labor related to the weekend’s events, grants to faculty and students to develop programming, fireworks” and travel costs for speakers. The speakers did not receive honoraria, she noted.

Starting Friday afternoon, alums, students, community members and faculty members converged on the Green to celebrate Brown’s 250 years.

A celebration like this “pulls the community, the people, the multigenerational families together,” said Rula Shore ’67 P’09.

John Worsley ’56, who was the president of his class and returned to campus from his home in Lincoln, said he likes events like this because of the “blend of having current-day students with old guys like me.”

Other alums came from farther away, such as Dave Morris ’88, who came to campus from San Fransico because “you only turn 250 once.”

In his first few hours back on campus, Morris said he had already seen many old friends.

While alums said they looked forward to the celebration for different reasons, all said they came to celebrate Brown.

“I’m looking to celebrate Brown’s past and Brown’s present and Brown’s future,” said Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine William Sikov ’78.

250 years in 12 minutes At 5 p.m., alums, students and faculty members mingled over hors d’oeuvres to watch the premiere of “The Brown Difference,” a 12-minute film about Brown’s history and what makes the University distinct.

The film opened with the founding of Rhode Island by Roger Williams and chronicled the establishment of the University in 1764, the creation of the New Curriculum and firsts of Brown, such as the first black and first female students to enroll.

“There was no place quite like” Brown at the time of its founding, said Gordon Wood P’86, professor of history emeritus, in the film.

Paxson reflected on ways in which Brown is still a unique place. The University attracts “unusually happy students” and “people who don’t accept things without questioning” them, Paxson said in the film.

Planning for the film began in late August last year and was spearheaded

by Betsy West ’73 P’17 and Oren Jacoby ’77 P’17, both of whom are documentary filmmakers.

It was “a little daunting trying to fit 250 years into 12 minutes,” West said, but she and Jacoby were happy with the results and the contribution they were able to make to the celebration.

Jacoby said one of his favorite parts of interviewing people for the film was that, despite interviewees’ different backgrounds, “you find that they are like a family” and all have a similar message to share.

Months of celebration This weekend marked only the beginning of the 250th anniversary celebrations, Quinn said. They will continue at both the 2014 and 2015 commencements, as well as over the 2014 fall weekend.

The celebration is good “to remind people that (Brown) was an important part of their life,” said Nicky McCatty ’88 of Brookline, Mass.

“I think it’s important for any institution … to have tradition and pomp and circumstance,” said John Hare ’83 P’12 P’14 P’17. “It’s a human bonding experience.”

Organizers hope to bring as many people as possible to campus to continue to “harken back to our founding” and look at “what’s in the DNA of Brown,” Quinn said.

- With additional reporting by Caroline Kelly, Jillian Lanney and Drew Williams

4 250th » 250 ART, from page 12 of the Documentary,” one of the talks that formed the Virtues of a Liberal Education colloquium in Salomon 101 Saturday. Yoruba Richen ’94 and Betsy West ’73 joined moderator Alison Stewart ’88 to discuss their recent projects and how they fit into the larger theme of using video to raise awareness of key issues.

Richen’s recently produced “The New Black,” a documentary about “the intersection of race and gay rights in politics” as raised by referendums to make same-sex marriage illegal or legal in states such as California and Maryland. When the California referendum to ban same-sex marriage, Proposition Eight, passed in 2008, “immediately black groups were blamed” due to perceptions of “homophobia in the black community,” Richen said. The trailer showcased a young lesbian woman recounting how difficult it was to come out, a preacher claiming that “it’s not civil rights … it’s sacred rights” and a swarm of black marchers pressing for marriage equality.

West’s documentary “MAKERS: Women Who Make America” focuses on the evolution and trials of the women’s movement.

“I don’t think I really appreciated the courage, creativity and chutzpah of the women who changed the status quo,” West said — a realization that prompted her to make a visual history of “so many of the stories young women don’t know,” from Title IX to protests of Miss America.

In presenting issues important to them, both documentarians stated the importance of clearly displaying the facts. “I think that all films do have a point of view, but as a journalist I want to get at the truth,” West said, adding that her film also “looks at the failures of the women’s movement.”

“You need to be clear about what you are trying to do and be honest with the audience,” Richen said, discussing the accusations of bias that are often thrown at so-called “advocacy films.”

Even with crucial social issues, documentaries “should be engaging. … They shouldn’t be ‘take your medicine,’” West said.

While these issues mixed in with thoughts of a 250th anniversary celebration, the presenters themselves preferred to look forward.

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“‘Girl Swarm’ wasn’t designed with 250th in mind, it just happened to be a useful coincidence,” Katzman said.

The film on Ferraro is “not necessarily a look back at Brown’s history, but an important part of women’s and American history,” Zaccaro said.

Curating history The Haffenreffer Museum in Manning Hall also hosted a special anniversary exhibit this weekend, curated

by Professor of Anthropology William Simmons ’60.

“All universities have symbols just like countries have flags,” Simmons said in describing an exhibit that explored the symbolism and underlying meaning of objects related to Brown’s history. The demonstration featured various memorabilia from the museum, not typically displayed, that explained some traditions of the University, from the three seals of the school’s past — created when Brown was called the College of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations — to the current seal stamped on students’ degrees.

Simmons also told the story of things students see every day, like the bear statue Indomitable on Ittleson Quadrangle, constructed with the help of animal anatomy experts and portrayed with its mouth closed because that is how bears look when they are determined. The University’s mascot, Simmons said, used to be a real bear led around on a leash.

The mace that is traditionally carried by a faculty member at graduation was also on display. A traditional item in churches and parliament, the mace serves as a “symbol of sovereignty and office,” which is fitting for colleges that are “little communities in a society that goes by its own rules,” Simmons said.

The display made it clear that symbolism is not limited to physical objects­­— it also highlighted Brown’s musical past with a presentation of the various renditions of the Alma Mater throughout the past two and a half centuries.

Simmons said symbols and traditions like the ones on display create “a lasting sense of community to those who have worked at Brown and studied at Brown.”

-With additional reporting by Sarah Perelman

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A 12-minute film about Brown’s history, titled “The Brown Difference,” premieres to an audience of alums, students and faculty members, who gathered in Sayles Hall over hors d’oeuvres Friday evening.

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Yoruba Richen ’94, left, and Betsy West ’73 talk about their recent film projects in one of Saturday’s panels entitled “Social Justice, Social Change: The Role of the Documentary.”

» PEREZ, from page 3 — to the importance of raising the minimum wage.

“Nobody in this country who works a full-time job should have to live in poverty,” he said.

Investing in human capital by legislating a living wage and safe working conditions is instrumental for economic growth, Perez said. Higher wages lead to increased consumer spending, allow people to spend more time with their families and boost worker retention rates, contributing both to personal financial stability and national economic growth, he added.

The minimum wage can be a divisive issue in Washington, Perez said, due to a false impression about the adverse economic impacts associated with government interference. Many businesses already pay their employees a salary above the minimum wage and are better off for doing so, he said.

“We need to look beyond the

economic theory and to the reality of what is happening,” he added.

Throughout his remarks, Perez returned to this idea of debunking the “false choices” pervading the dialogue surrounding labor policy. Often, politicians portray two policy goals as conflicting when they are actually compatible, Perez said. For example, policymakers do not have to choose between raising the minimum wage and decreasing unemployment, just as business owners can support both their employees and their shareholders, he said.

Perez also spoke about income inequality and the importance of economic mobility and fairness.

Investment in early childhood education and infrastructure, mandatory provision of paid leave and assurances of adequate workplace safety standards could stem rising income inequality, he said.

Perez also addressed the intersection of labor policy and education, highlighting the importance of training students

for jobs that will be available in the future.

Many jobs will be “middle-skill,” requiring technical training but not a four-year degree, he said.

Preparing Americans for the right jobs necessitates “a dramatic reengineering of how we deliver education,” he said, adding that partnerships with corporate and nonprofit entities can help direct the focus of education.

Perez briefly touched upon how political partisanship can obstruct his goals as secretary of labor. “The formula for economic growth is not rocket science,” he said, but a divided Congress can hinder its ability to make meaningful change even when public opinion supports initiatives like increasing the minimum wage.

Reflecting on his career, Perez said his path to the cabinet “started with luck… It continues with great family support, mentors in the community here at Brown, a lot of shoe leather and some more luck.”

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R.I. middle school students get a taste of Brown U. works with public school associations to bring youth to campus for ‘Day of Academic Discovery’

By GABRIELLE DEE SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The noontime Sharpe Refectory rush was especially crowded Friday, as around 300 seventh and eighth graders from middle schools throughout Rhode Island swarmed campus for the ‘250+ Day of Academic Discovery.’

The program kicked off with a welcome from student leaders, including Undergraduate Council of Students President Todd Harris ’14.5, and undergraduate representatives on the 250th Steering Committee , Noelle Spencer ’14 and Jennfier Tsai ’14. President Christina Paxson also greeted the students, who then watched a video depicting life at Brown and listened to a spoken-word poem performed by members of the group “Word!”, said Marissa Quinn, vice president for Public Affairs and University relations.

Crolly Sbet, an eighth grader from Nathan Bishop Middle School, said she enjoyed these speeches.

Groups of eight middle schoolers along with two chaperones each then attended two 50-minute workshops, one focused on the arts and another on science that featured topics ranging from

Sanskrit to robotics, and had lunch at the Ratty, Quinn said.

The students then attended a series of student performances by groups including Lion Dance, Badmaash and the Jaberwocks, Quinn added.

Eighth graders Alicia Nelson, Alcy Stiepock Mackay and Evalene Deane from the Block Island School all said they enjoyed peering into an average student’s life at Brown, and especially appreciated the workshops in history and biology.

Olivia Cicerone, an eighth grader from the same school, said she found her science workshop centered around fertilization particularly interesting.

To organize the event, the steering committee reached out to public school associations across Rhode Island, including the Rhode Island Superintendent Association and the Principal’s Association, Quinn said. Last fall, the committee reached out to every middle school in the state, ultimately hosting groups of students from 32 schools across the state, she added.

The students were selected at the discretion of individual schools, but the committee emphasized the importance of choosing students who would not

otherwise have the opportunity to visit a college campus in middle school. The purpose of the event was to “reinforce the value of higher education,” and to “deepen engagement with communities across Providence and Rhode Island,” Quinn said.

The program gave insight into a typical student’s life at Brown, Nelson said, adding that she was “excited to check out the performing arts

programs.”

Many middle schoolers said they would consider the University when their turn came to apply for colleges.

Cicerone said she has always appreciated the fact that an Ivy League institution like Brown existed so close to home and was fascinated by the college experience she glimpsed during her visit.

But others did not see Brown in

their future. “I don’t want to go to college so close to home,” said Dorbur Tarley, an eighth grader from Nathan Bishop Middle School.

Though the University has coordinated events for middle schoolers in the past, the ‘Day of Academic Discovery’ was the first that occurred on such a large scale.

“It was more of a success than I could have imagined,” Quinn said.

A U N I Q U E N OT E

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At its concert for this weekend’s 250th anniversary celebration, the Brown University Wind Symphony debuted Patrick Zimmerli’s Brownian Motion, written in honor of the anniversary.

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Exhibits showcase U. research, scientific innovation Demonstrations and lectures give attendees interactive understanding of biology, neuroscience and technology

By RILEY DAVIS AND ANDREW JONES SENIOR STAFF WRITERS

From biology to physics, robotics to design, Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences to Prince Engineering Laboratory, the sciences at Brown threw open their doors this weekend and welcomed visitors of all ages, backgrounds and interests into the vast array of experiences that science at Brown offers.

With over a dozen events highlighting University research, participants were able to walk away with an idea of the range of research that occurs both on and off campus.

Eve Ornstedt, executive director of the Office of the 250th anniversary and director of career and admission programs for the Office of Alumni Relations, said “We wanted the broad spectrum of the academic arena to be represented over the weekend.”

Ornstedt said having members of different science divisions on the steering committee broadened the types of science events that could be included in the weekend’s program.

While some departments put on pre-established programs that they often give to the public, others “took the initiative” to create their own demonstrations specifically for the 250th celebration, such as the “Mini-Museum” hosted by the Brown Institute for Brain Science, Ornstedt said.

The intersection between old and new was a prominent theme this

weekend, she added. “We are absolutely trying to convey from where we started to where we are today.”

The main goal for the sciences this weekend was to “excite people about the work that is being done here,” she said, adding that many people walk by buildings like Sidney Frank Hall without realizing what goes on inside.

A touchy-feely weekend Many of the weekend’s events allowed participants to touch and interact with scientific demonstrations.

In the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, participants had the chance to explore the Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art’s hands-on display, which featured activities that melded arts and sciences.

Our mission is to “kindle curiosity and encourage experimentation,” said President of the RIMOSA Board Bonnie Epstein ’94. “I think that’s the root of both science and art.”

Epstein said the items placed around the room were there for people to “simply experiment” within a less structured setting. Some of the activities included a flight tube where people could observe the aerodynamics of different objects such as ribbons and paper helicopters as they flew up and out of the tube. There was also a zoetrope where attendees could draw their own animation strips and watch them come to life through the spinning slots. Paper kites adorned the glass walls of the room, ready to be written on.

In tune with the theme of imagination and possibilities, RIMOSA coordinators invited people to “write their hopes and dreams on one of the kites,” Epstein said. This summer, all 250 kites will be strung together and flown at the Newport kite festival.

Across the street in Sidney Frank Hall, anniversary celebrants examined magnetic resonance imaging technology during tours of the University MRI Research Facility. MRI researchers and technicians demonstrated the types of images the machines can produce and the information that can be derived from the images. Guided in groups of up to ten, the tours were interactive and allowed participants to ask questions and get an up-close view of the technology.

Upstairs, people explored BIBS’ interactive “mini-museum.” One exhibit demonstrated the effects of alcohol on the brain by looking at the effect of alcohol on fruit flies. Researchers gave one group of drosophila flies alcohol and another group water. The inebriated flies initially acted excited but then gradually lost their ability to fly and walk correctly.

After their uncoordinated dancing, the flies slowed down and eventually died.

Attendees also had the opportunity to try out technology used in Brown labs, such as a robotic arm used to aid people with paralysis, a mobile eye tracker and a system called nearinfrared spectroscopy that measures activity in the brain through sensors on a headband.

Researchers at the event explained the hidden mechanisms of the technology, while the participants experimented with the equipment.

Some researchers, like Professor of Engineering Kenneth Breuer ’82 P’14 P’16, who studies bats in the Prince Engineering Laboratory, invited participants directly into their labs.

Tacked up in between bits of machinery in the lab, different posters and computer monitors described the myriad facets of bat flight that the lab studies, from muscle tension to echolocation. Videos and high speed cameras were on display to demonstrate how information on the bats is gathered.

For the more tactile learners, different models of bat wings and bones were laid out for observation.

“We study everything from live animals to robots to biomechanics,” Breuer said. “We’ve just been explaining all the features.”

Though the lab experienced a lull in activity in the early afternoon, Breuer said the demonstrations attracted visitors of all age ranges throughout the entire day. “We’ve had a lot of kids coming through so we’re showing them different things for them to play with,” he added.

Though live animals could not be included in the day’s demonstration, attendees of “Bats in Flight” still walked away with a more complete picture of what happens in the lab, Breuer said.

In conversation Multiple professors also gave talks throughout the weekend, describing their research using readily accessible language, opening their work up to people of all levels of scientific expertise.

Eric Morrow, assistant professor of biology, discussed recent developments in methods used to research autism in children Saturday afternoon. Morrow’s

work strives to improve treatment and diagnosis of autism by manipulating genes and stem cells. Technological breakthroughs in the past few decades have rapidly advanced the methods used to conduct autism research, Morrow said. For example, when the Human Genome Project began in 1990, sequencing a person’s genome required 10 years and $3 billion — today it takes only a week and $3,000.

Using videos of her son, Dima Amso, assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences, demonstrated the large amount of information that children absorb during their first years of life in her talk on brain and cognitive development.

“The environment writes on the developing brain,” she said, referring to the human brain as “a brain that builds itself.”

Age-based theories are not adequate to understand cognitive development because they do not take into account the effects that factors such as socioeconomic status have on a child’s growth, she said.

To show the variation in development that different environments can produce, Amso used the example of children who grow up in orphanages and receive very little parenting. In these situations, some children can be classified “orchids,” as their environments greatly impact their cognitive development, while other children are “dandelions” because they show little effect from their surroundings and are able to thrive in any conditions.

- With additional reporting from Isobel Heck

EMILY GILBERT / HERALD

Many professors displayed the tools they use to conduct their research in interactive displays this weekend.

Professor of Engineering Kenneth Breuer ‘82 P’14 P’16 showed visitors the tunnel his lab uses to study bat flight.

EMILY GILBERT / HERALD

The weekend’s festivities included several exhibitions of University research, including a demonstration of alcohol’s effects on fruit flies.

EMILY GILBERT / HERALD

Research laboratories opened their doors this weekend to allow people to engage with some of the technology that professors use in their research, including a robotic arm used to aid people with paralysis.

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SPORTS BULLETIN

MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2014

W. LACROSSE

Bears snap 23-year drought against Princeton Bruno now tied with Yale and Penn for Ivy League lead two games into conference schedule

By LAINIE ROWLAND SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s lacrosse team had never beaten Princeton in the lifetime of Bre Hudgins ’14. But a week after her 22nd birthday, the co-captain snapped the Bears’ 23-year losing streak to the Tigers Saturday with a last-minute, gamewinning missile in overtime to secure a 14-13 victory. A packed home crowd looked on as the Bears topped No. 16 Princeton to win their fourth straight game of the season, extending their Ivy record to a perfect 2-0.

Janie Gion ’15 kickstarted the game for the Bears (4-0, 2-0 Ivy), scoring the first of her two goals in the opening two minutes of play. Princeton’s Alexandra Bruno retaliated with a goal of her own, initiating a back-and-forth contest in which no one led by more than two goals until the last two minutes of the first half. For Brown, Danielle Mastro ’15 and Gion each notched two during the half, while Hudgins, Lauren Toy ’16 and Richael Walsh ’16 each scored one.

But after Brown had built a 7-5 lead, six

unanswered Princeton goals from six different players allowed the Tigers to draw ahead by four, 11-7, at the midpoint.

“Lacrosse really is a game of momentum swings,” said Head Coach Keely McDonald ’00, adding that she saw resilience from her team all game long. “Princeton didn’t shake us. ... The defense knew they had to play tough, and the offense knew they had to respond.”

Kellie Roddy ’15 keyed the comeback, consistently denying Princeton scoring opportunities. The Tigers (1-3, 0-1) scored only two goals to Roddy’s nine saves in the second half, giving Roddy an impressive save percentage of .818 for the half, almost .400 higher than the average Ivy save percentage. Roddy’s goals-against average is the third-lowest in the conference, while her save percentage is the second-highest.

In a reflection of the first half — reversed — Bruno took control of the game and scored six unanswered shots in the first 20 minutes to take a 13-11 lead.

Four Bears contributed to the 6-0 run.

Hudgins, combatting a Tiger defensive game plan that concentrated attention on her, scored her second goal a minute into the second stanza.

Toy followed with her second and third goals of the game, earning her third hat trick of the season. Co-captain Grace Healy ’14 scored once, and Mastro scored

her third and fourth goals of the game, making Saturday’s match her second this season with four goals. But Brown could not score again during regulation time, and Princeton came to life in the last two minutes, tying the game with two goals.

Overtime began with a Bruno draw control from Alyssa DiBona ’15 but without shots until halfway through the sixminute block. Healy attempted a look at Princeton’s net in an attempt to give Brown the lead, but the ball narrowly ricocheted off the pipe. Healy picked up the resulting draw control, just as McDonald called for a timeout.

The Bears waited until the last 30 seconds of play to make their move. Mastro fed Hudgins, who hadn’t touched the ball since overtime started, from behind the Tiger net, and she fired it into the back of the cage to put the Bears up 14-13. Healy sealed the victory by winning the following draw control, allowing the Bears to kill the last 30 seconds of play and secure the first-in-a-lifetime win.

McDonald said the team stressed “possession and defense” before the game, and the Bears followed through in overtime, not allowing Princeton to touch the ball in the period.

The teams’ lopsided history was not lost on the Bruno players, as they rushed the field in celebration upon hearing the » See W. LACROSSE, page S4

M. HOCKEY

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Defender Marissa Dale ’14 attempts to advance the ball upfield Saturday against Princeton. The team travels to Holy Cross Wednesday afternoon.

BASEBALL

Bears drop three to No. 1 Gamecocks

Bruno shut out in threegame series in Columbia, S.C., but not discouraged by lopsided results

By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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The illustrious college career of captain Dennis Robertson ’14 came to an end against St. Lawrence this weekend.

The first-team All-Ivy defenseman will start his NHL career in the Carolina Hurricanes’ system later this month.

Bruno swept in two heartbreakers Without Lorito ’15, Bears lose two close games and are eliminated from ECAC tournament

By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The men’s hockey team saw its season come to an end this weekend after losing twice to St. Lawrence on the road, prematurely dropping the best-of-three playoff series.

The Bears (11-17-3, 8-13-1 ECAC) fared better than in last weekend’s ignominious, goal-less homestand, ceding

both games by only one goal and taking one to double overtime. But they suffered from the absence of playmaker Matt Lorito ’15, who shares the team lead in assists but remained on the bench due to a season-ending leg injury last week. Entering the series, the offense had been struggling, rebounding against the Saints (15-17-4, 7-11-4) with a decent four goals in two games.

Still, that tally trailed the team’s season average of 2.45 goals per game.

“Lorito not playing this weekend was huge,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “He’s one of the best players in the country. … It’s tough to win games when you’re scoring two goals a game.”

Friday: St. Lawrence 3, Brown 2 (2OT) In the first game of the series, the Bears came from behind to tie the score twice, and played their best period of the game in the first overtime.

Despite this effort, Bruno could not break through and paid for it when the Saints netted the game-winner in double overtime.

After a scoreless first period, the teams traded goals in the second, with St. Lawrence holding a 2-1 lead at the end of the frame. The Bears were largely shut down in the third period, mustering only four shots on goal. Still » See HOCKEY, page S4

In its regular-season opener, the men’s baseball team failed to score a run in three losses against the top-ranked University of South Carolina Gamecocks.

The Bears (0-3) played a national contender to open the season for the third time in four years, and though they have obviously struggled, the tough competition has provided a great opportunity for the Bears to measure up against the nation’s elite early in the year.

The two ball clubs were originally scheduled to play three games in three days, but inclement weather forced them to postpone Friday’s game and play a doubleheader Saturday.

South Carolina 13, Brown 0 The season’s first game did not go well for Bruno, as its pitchers yielded 13 runs on 18 hits to the powerful offense of the Gamecocks (15-0), while the hitters managed just four base hits.

Starting pitcher Anthony Galan ’14 (L, 0-1) lasted 4.1 innings, allowing seven runs on nine hits and three walks

while striking out three. His line may look ugly, but given that his first start of the season came against such tough opposition, it is far from terrible.

The first pitcher to relieve Galan, Kevin Guthrie ’16, struggled even more.

He gave up five more runs on five hits while recording just four outs. But the final Bruno pitcher to take the mound, Chris Smith ’15, gave up just one run on four hits in 2.1 innings.

The four hits came from four different players, including center fielder Rob Henry ’17 and right fielder Will Marcal ’15.

Head Coach Marek Drabinski was not overly concerned with the outcome, given the competition. “They are extremely good,” he said.

J.J. Franco ’14 said he thinks the Bears will see improved results the more they play.

“This was our first chance to play live,” Franco said. “We faced a pretty good pitching staff.”

South Carolina 8, Brown 0 The second game saw improvement from the Bears, who allowed five fewer runs and notched two more hits but still failed to cross home plate.

Dave St. Lawrence ’15 (L, 0-1) put in a strong pitching performance, tossing seven innings and giving up just four earned runs — five total — despite » See BASEBALL, page S2

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Despite dim weekend, young Bears have bright future After tough finale, Bruno loses a leader, but strong underclassmen offer reason for optimism

By SAM RUBINROIT SPORTS STAFF WRITER

One game had a sparse crowd, the other was a packed house. One opponent was the top team in the conference, the other was a bottom dweller. But despite the differences, both of the men’s basketball team’s final two games ended in narrow losses. Here is a breakdown of Brown’s performance on the court and in the stands.

ANALYSIS

What’s strong As the Bears (15-13, 7-7 Ivy) witnessed the final game of Sean McGonagill’s ’14 Brown career, they also caught a glimpse of what lies ahead as Leland King ’17 delivered a career performance.

McGonagill wrapped up arguably one of the greatest tenures in the history of Brown men’s basketball with two strong performances this weekend, netting 16 points and grabbing 10 rebounds against the Big Green before pouring in 26 points and dishing eight assists the following night against the Crimson. The senior finished his career ranked third on the school’s alltime scoring list and first in a host of other categories.

McGonagill holds the school record for most three-pointers in both a single season and a career, and for career starts. He is second all-time in assists.

Nonetheless, in what could be viewed as a metaphorical passing of the baton, McGonagill was not Brown’s leading scorer in either of the weekend’s games. That distinction belonged to King, who finished with 18 points and eight rebounds against Dartmouth and amassed a career-high 27 points, seven rebounds and four blocks against Harvard.

King’s performance offers a glimmer of hope as the Bears contemplate how they will fill the massive scoring void left behind by their prolific guard.

King steadily gained confidence over the course of this season, and despite going 0-of-17 from beyond the arc in Bruno’s first eight conference matchups, the forward from Inglewood, Calif., continued to trust his shot and finished 10-of-26 from three-point range in the final six conference games.

It will not be easy to replace McGonagill’s offensive production — the senior finished second in the Ivy league in scoring with 17.7 points per game this season — but with a solid young core that includes King, Steven Spieth ’17, Tavon Blackmon ’17, Norman Hobbie ’17 and Matty Madigan ’17, the Bears have plenty of reasons to be optimistic as they enter the offseason.

What’s wrong The loss of forward Rafael Maia ’15

and early foul trouble proved devastating for the Bears’ post presence over the weekend.

Maia, who has been plagued by a shoulder injury all season, was sidelined for both weekend games, giving King the nod for the starting spot.

This placed an undue burden on 6-foot-8 forward Cedric Kuakumensah ’16, Bruno’s only remaining player over 6-foot-7, who was forced to patrol the middle against the Big Green and an athletic Crimson team. Kuakumensah performed well, tying his existing school record with seven blocked shots Friday night before finishing with a double-double — 11 points and 11 rebounds — Saturday.

Nonetheless, fouls crippled the Bears — Bruno was forced to contend with several players in early foul trouble against Harvard — allowing the Crimson to claim a 54-24 advantage on points in the paint.

With Kuakumensah, the Ivy League’s leading shot blocker with 3.2 per game, alongside a healthy Maia, the conference’s top rebounder with 8.1 per game, the Bears will have one of the premier frontcourts in the Ivy League next season. But the squad’s ability to remain healthy and avoid foul trouble will be crucial to its success.

What’s new A lively crowd filled the Pizzitola Center to capacity Saturday night, invigorating the Bears in their nearupset over Harvard.

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Outfielder Daniel Massey ’14 slides into a base headfirst. Massey was the only Bear to register a hit in each of Brown’s three games and the only one to get a hit that was not a single, going 3-for-9 with two doubles.

» BASEBALL, from page S1 giving up six hits and five walks. Reliever Nathan Mann ’15 allowed three runs and got just two outs, though none of the runs were earned due to a fielding error by Marc Sredojevic ’17.

Drabinski said he was happy with St. Lawrence’s performance, saying he “could have given up just one run. …

(He) pitched well enough to win.”

Once again, no player had a multihit game, though pinch hitters Nate Kukowski ’14 and Guthrie both had base knocks. Henry and Daniel Massey ’14 both got hits for the second straight game.

“The more you do it, the better you get,” Franco said, referring to the team’s better showing in the second matchup of the series.

Drabinski agreed, saying the team “pitched better each day.”

South Carolina 1, Brown 0

Signaling more progress, the Bears locked down the South Carolina offense, giving up only one run on seven hits, though they recorded only four hits themselves and came up short once again.

Christian Taugner ’17 turned in the line of the weekend Sunday with a performance that would look good at the MLB level: seven innings pitched, seven hits, one earned run, two walks, three strikeouts. With his “outstanding” performance, as Drabinski said, Taugner is now a “lock” to earn a coveted spot in the conference starting rotation.

Similarly impressive was the hitless inning of relief fired by Lucas Whitehill ’14, who Drabinski said “made (the Gamecocks) look silly.”

Massey stretched his hitting streak to three games, belting a double that was also Brown’s only extra-base hit of

the game. The Bears’ offense threatened, putting runners in scoring position with only one out multiple times, but could not quite find a way to tie the score. “(We) had some opportunities and left them on the field,” Drabinski said.

“Offensively, we (have) a lot of work to do.” But he also acknowledged that “we’re not going to face that staff every game.”

Despite the lopsided results, Franco expressed optimism about the rest of the season for Bruno. “I think we can take a lot of positives,” he said, adding that the team was “walking away pretty confident.”

“Now we know exactly what we need to work on,” he said.

Drabinski was similarly upbeat. “I was disappointed, but that’s done,” he said. “I think we’ll be fine.”

The Bears take the field again Friday at George Mason University.

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Point guard Tavon Blackmon ’17 dribbles the ball down the court. He played just 18 minutes against Dartmouth but saw 33 against Harvard.

Saturday’s matchup drew a crowd of 2,226, the largest of the season and more than double Friday’s turnout of 912. The packed student section remained on its feet for the duration of the game, and the rest of the crowd remained glued to its seats even as the matchup extended into overtime.

Chants of “defense” rang out across the stadium, and rowdy students made a valiant effort to distract Crimson players as they went to the free throw line. The support had a noticeable effect on a Brown team that came out sluggish in Friday night’s game but looked revitalized Saturday.

The reasoning behind Saturday’s strong turnout is uncertain — maybe it was the fact that it was the last game of the season, maybe it was because the hated Crimson were in town or maybe it was a result of the free t-shirts being given away in honor of Brown’s 250th anniversary — but for one night this season, Brown men’s basketball drew a crowd that rivaled Duke University’s Cameron Crazies or any other fan base in the country in terms of passion, intensity and loyalty. Here’s to hoping the Bears can replicate that feeling more than once per season in future years.

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from Wesley Saunders. On the other end of the floor, Blackmon slipped driving to the basket and turned the ball over.

Harvard called a timeout to draw up the play that would decide the game.

Chambers and Steve MoundouMissi ran a pick and roll at the top of the key. Chambers drove left and stalled, as Moundou-Missi set a screen on Hobbie, who was guarding Laurent Rivard.

Rivard, Harvard’s three-point specialist, darted to the top of the key, received the ball from Chambers and sank a three that silenced the Pizzitola Center.

The Bears had a little magic left in them, as McGonagill knocked down a fade-away trey off a long inbounds play, drawn up perfectly by Martin. But Bruno could not foul the Crimson quickly enough, as Chambers dropped in an uncontested layup to solidify Harvard’s seventh road win of the Ivy season.

McGonagill stuffed the stat sheet with 26 points, eight assists, four rebounds and two steals — a performance Bears fans have become accustomed to seeing from the four-year starter. In his final game, the senior eclipsed Jason Forte ’05 on the all-time scoring list to become the thirdmost prolific scorer in Brown’s history.

McGonagill leaves behind a slew of concrete school records — most threepointers made in a career as well as a season, most career starts and secondmost assists in Brown history. But McGonagill said he will most miss the team he had the opportunity to be a part of this season.

“I’m just sad,” McGonagill said, with tears in his eyes during the post-game press conference. “I’ve had an amazing time here, I’ve developed great friends on this team and I’ve enjoyed playing with everyone, playing for (Assistant Head Coach) T.J. Sorrentine and Coach Martin. I honestly would never change a thing.”

final game of the regular season. Harvard (26-4, 13-1) had already clinched a berth to the NCAA tournament with a win over Yale (15-13, 9-5) the night before but still competed fiercely.

“They’re the champions of our league, and there’s a reason for that,” Martin said. “They showed it down the stretch in regulation and in overtime. … They’re 13-1 for a reason.”

The Bears began the game with an unconventional lineup. Leland King ’17 started another game for the injured Rafael Maia ’15, and Josh Biber ’14 made his first appearance of the Ivy season in place of Tavon Blackmon ’17. McGonagill ran the point, a role he had played for much of his career before moving to shooting guard this season, while Biber played four minutes at the other guard position before Blackmon replaced him.

A high-scoring half ended with Harvard up 50-44, just three fewer than the two teams’ combined total when they last met in Cambridge Feb. 7.

King and McGonagill carried the squad offensively, contributing 30 of the team’s 44 first-half points. King finished the game with a career-high 27 points, seven boards and four blocks.

Late in the second half, Blackmon hit a free throw to give Bruno a onepoint lead, 85-84. But Siyani Chambers came down the floor and drilled a trey, prompting a timeout from Martin. The Bears drew up a play that ended with King taking a spinning hook shot that found the bottom of the net, tying the game at 87 with 32 seconds left. With the shot clock turned off, Chambers hoisted a wild turnaround jumper that fell short, and the Pizzitola erupted as the game went into overtime.

In the extra period, Harvard took a two-point lead on a pair of free throws

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Bruno splits final weekend, finishes sixth in Ivy League Bikofsky ’15 leads Bruno’s scoring in Ivies, sets Bears’ single-season field goal percentage record

By BRUNO ZUCCOLO SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The Bears finished their season this weekend on the road with a 46-43 win over Dartmouth Friday and an 87-67 loss to Harvard Saturday. The split results lands Bruno sixth place in the Ivy League, one position better than last year.

Brown 46, Dartmouth 43 The Bears (10-18, 4-10 Ivy) traveled to New Hampshire Friday night to play last-in-the-league Dartmouth.

In the previous matchup between the two, the Bears defeated the Big Green (5-23, 2-12) by a score of 71-55.

Both teams started the game slowly, stumbling through the first minutes without any points. In a low-scoring half, the first points of the night came when Dartmouth made a layup just over three minutes into the game.

It took yet another two minutes for the next successful shot, this time by Brown.

Sophie Bikofsky ’15, who led the Bears’ offense with 12 first-half points, gave Brown the lead with a free throw to make it 5-4 with 13:13 left in the first half. The Bears followed up with an 11-2 run over the next 10 minutes to leave Dartmouth in a hole.

As the first half drew to a close, the Bears claimed their largest lead of the game when Bikofsky made a three-pointer with 15 seconds left on the clock. Bruno ended the half up 19-8, a score indicative of both teams’ offensive struggles. Neither team had an efficient offense, as the Bears ended the half with a 28.6 percent field goal percentage, and the Big Green managed a mere 15.8 percent, making only three shots from the field.

In the second half both teams improved, but Dartmouth came back with more energy. The Big Green boosted its field goal percentage to 55.6 percent, threatening Bruno from the start. A quick seven points in two and a half minutes surprised the Bears and put the Big Green back into game at 19-15.

Dartmouth continued to press and finally tied the score at 23 with 13:22 left to play. The Bears relied on threepoint shots to keep the Big Green at bay, sinking four consecutive treys in as many minutes.

Despite Bruno’s best efforts to gain some distance, Dartmouth took the lead when Fanni Szabo made a threepointer with 2:56 left on the clock.

But KJ Veldman ’17 made her own trey 40 seconds later to take back the lead for the Bears, 42-41. In the game’s final 40 seconds, the Bears counted on clutch free-throw shooting from Lauren Clarke ’14 to secure their fourth Ivy win of the season.

With the final buzzer the Bears recorded their best defensive result of the season, surrendering a seasonlow 43 points. Bikofsky led all scorers with 15 points. Szabo, the Big Green’s leading scorer, led Dartmouth’s offense with 11 points.

Harvard 87, Brown 67 Harvard (21-7, 11-3) still had a chance at the Ivy League title coming into the weekend, but to do so, it needed to win both its games and see Penn and Princeton lose. The Crimson counted on a favorable recent history against the Bears, having won 13 of the past 15 games, and an efficient offense to do their part in their season finale.

In the last meeting, Harvard opened the scoring with a fast-paced first half to give themselves a comfortable lead in the second. The Crimson used this same recipe Saturday, shooting an impressive 66.7 percent from the field in the first half and keeping Bruno under 40 percent, going into

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Guard Lauren Clarke ’14 helped secure the team’s fourth Ivy win of the season with her free-throw shooting in the last 40 seconds of the game. She finished off her Brown career with 25 points in her final two games. halftime with a 19-point lead.

It was the Bears who opened up the scoring in Cambridge with two shots from Jordin Juker ’14, making it 4-0 in the first two minutes. But Harvard quickly responded with a 22-3 run to leave the Bears far behind, bringing the score to 22-7 just nine minutes into the game.

The Bears tried to pull within single digits again, but to no avail as every shot seemed to be countered by the Crimson seconds later. Things only got worse for Bruno as the Crimson mounted a shattering 13-0 run to take the score to 43-16 with three minutes to go in the half.

Fortunately for Bruno, Bikofsky and Rebecca Musgrove ’17 were able to do a bit of damage control, scoring a combined eight points in the final minutes to cut the deficit to 43-24 heading into the locker room.

If the Bears had hoped their momentum from the last couple minutes

would carry over to the second half, they were quickly dissuaded by the Crimson’s 10-0 run to start the second. The Bears kept up the fight in the second half, and both teams played a mostly even period, trading baskets in a game with much better offensive performances than on Friday night.

Harvard took its largest lead of the night with 11:26 left when a jump shot put the Crimson up 65-35. But the Bears continued to try to close the gap, and a 12-3 run with three minutes to go reduced Harvard’s lead to below 20.

Both teams realized the result was more than solidified and played the final minute and a half of both their seasons without scoring any points.

With 23 seconds to go, Head Coach Jean Marie Burr subbed out all five seniors at once, adding a symbolic finish to their Brown basketball careers.

Harvard’s Christine Clark scored 20 points and was the game’s leading scorer. Bikofsky, who set a Brown

record for single-season field goal percentage with 60.6 percent, led Brown with 18 points. Clarke followed with 14, finishing her career with 1,304 points, the seventh-most in Brown history.

Clarke, Juker, Sophie Beutel ’14, Carly Wellington ’14 and Jessica Eason ’14 all played their last official game for the Bears. Losing this much experience will surely be hard for the Bears next year, but the younger players on the team, like Bikofsky, Musgrove and Natalie Ball ’16, who sat out the last games due to a broken nose, have been stepping up to the plate throughout the season and hold promise for next year.

Despite this weekend ending the season for most teams, the Ivy champion still has not been decided. Princeton and Penn, who are tied in first with an 11-2 record, still have to play each other once more. The game to decide this year’s Ivy winners will be played Tuesday in New Jersey.

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Bruno rolls past Statesmen in tune-up for conference play Nine different players score goals for Bears in game against Hobart on road trip this weekend

By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Despite falling behind early, the men’s lacrosse team salvaged a 13-10 victory Saturday against a struggling Hobart College squad. Attackman Dylan Molloy ’17 turned in another stellar performance, scoring three goals and picking up seven ground balls.

The Statesmen (0-5) took an early two-point lead on a man-up goal by Matt Opsahl, making the game 3-1. The Hobart attackman later picked up an assist and scooped up a ground ball.

Molloy brought the Bears (3-1) within one, capitalizing on an assist from Kylor Bellistri ’16 to score just a minute before the end of the first quarter. The Statesmen added another goal seconds before the whistle blew, pushing their lead to 4-2.

In the second quarter, Bruno’s offense kicked in, scoring four unanswered goals.

After goals from Larken Kemp ’17

and Bailey Tills ’16 tied the game, defender JJ Ntshaykolo ’17 converted an unassisted shot on goal while the Bears were down a man. On the play, Hobart’s Cooper Stefaniak was called for an unnecessary roughness infraction while Bruno’s 30-second interference penalty expired, resulting in a two-man swing between the two teams. The swing paid dividends 10 seconds later when Will Gural ’16 struck again for the Bears, pushing the lead to 6-4.

Bruno went into the half with a 7-5 advantage. Just five seconds into the third quarter, Jordan Schochet ’15 extended the lead with an unassisted goal. Schochet had an outstanding day, winning 19 of 23 face-offs and picking up six ground balls.

“It was a huge day for him, and we fed off of his success,” Bellistri said. “It’s always great to be able to score (and) then have a face-off guy you can trust to get the ball right back.”

Following a Hobart score that brought the score to 8-6, Bruno went on a 3-0 run, capped by a goal from midfielder Tyler Landis ’15, his second of the day.

In the fourth quarter, Molloy and Brendan Caputo ’16 both scored to put Bruno out of reach. In the last 10 minutes,

Hobart scored three man-up goals in a comeback effort, but it fell short as the Bears held out for the win.

Bruno was dogged by infractions most of the game. The Bears racked up 10 penalties, leaving them a man down for a total of 8:30.

“The refs were calling a tight game, but a lot of our penalties, especially in the fourth quarter, were avoidable and mistakes on our part,” said co-captain Dan Mellynchuk ’14. “We need to do a better job of keeping our composure. If the score was closer, it could have cost us the game.”

Bruno will need to play smart next week, as it opens up its Ivy League schedule with a contest at Harvard (3-2). After being held to just four goals by No. 10 University of Massachusetts at Amherst (4-1) to open the season, the Crimson have posted double-digit goal totals in each of their four games, including a 17-9 trouncing of Holy Cross (1-5).

“We are just trying to look at it one game at a time,” Bellistri said. “Our next opponent is Harvard, who are a great team. We are happy about the two wins in a row, but we’re not letting it get to our heads.”

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After going down 4-2 to the Statesmen in the first quarter, Bruno tallied the next four goals and went on to win 13-10.

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SPORTS BULLETIN

MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2014

wrestling

Bears’ frustrating season Bernstein ’15 reaches NCAA tourney McDonald ’15 joins ends on appropriate note Ricky Bernstein as place-winner Bruno comes close but falls short in season finale, mirroring results from difficult season

By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

An up-and-down season for the men’s hockey team came to a fitting end as the Bears played well, but could not quite do enough to pull out a win.

The story of Bruno’s season has been a disconnect between effort, execution and results. There is no question the Bears have given it their all this season, but they have performed inconsistently.

Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94 said he has been happy with the level of exertion he has seen out of his players this year, adding that he told them after Saturday’s season-ending loss that he was “not disappointed in their effort at all.”

Though Whittet asserted that effort was mostly not an issue, he was still scratching his head about the team’s struggles.

“We kind of just ran up against a wall,” he said. “I’m still trying to figure it out.”

Despite trying hard, the Bears had quite a few games where execution fell well short of where their efforts would suggest it might be. Going start-to-finish was a major issue for Bruno, one that reared its ugly head during the regular season’s final weekend, when the Bears lost consecutive games by a score of 3-0.

“A consistent trend wasn’t there,” said captain Dennis Robertson ’14 .

“It just comes down to getting the job done and that falls on us,” he added. “We didn’t get the job done.”

All season, the Bears seemed somewhat snakebitten: They would try as hard as they could but struggle regardless. An opposing goalie would stand on his head, or a bouncing puck would end up on the wrong stick.

Getting the job done is even more challenging than usual when you fail to catch a break, even once in awhile.

But Whittet did not cast blame on chance for his team’s struggles.

“I think you create your own luck,” he said.

Indeed, effort is not the only component of how a team plays, as the Bears could have addressed a range of issues to give themselves a better shot. Skill and strategy play a major

ANALYSIS

part. But it simply seemed that the Bears could not put it all together consistently enough, and when they did, it was often too late. The only periods in which Bruno outshot St. Lawrence this weekend were the first overtime on Friday and the third period Saturday, necessary late-period efforts that could have been avoided with earlier strong showings.

Massimo Lamacchia ’15 noticed his team’s ability and potential, expressing his disappointment at Bruno’s first-round exit.

“We feel like we had a good enough team,” he said.

The fact that the Bears could have gone so much farther is “what’s so disappointing,” Whittet added. “We were there with the best teams in the country. We beat some of the best teams in the country.”

To say fortune was the sole cause of the team’s disappointing season would be foolhardy, but circumstances beyond the team’s control made success a bit more difficult than it should have been.

Headed into February, the Bears were playing well before running into the wall Whittet described. Some of the trouble came from playing great teams like No. 13 Cornell and No. 3 Union. But just as much was due to poor showings against lower-caliber teams like Princeton, to whom the Bears lost at home. Losing seven of nine games to end the regular season dropped Bruno out of position to host a first-round game, making the eventual matchup with the Saints that much harder.

Losing the final two regular season games at home was tough and “carried over” to the tournament, said Mark Naclerio ’16.

The team’s self-made obstacles may have compounded its struggles.

“Maybe at home, breaks go your way,” Whittet said.

Regardless of which way the breaks go, every team’s destiny is in its own hands. In keeping with this reality, Whittet signaled he was committed to improving the team’s performances, with an eye toward sustaining the Bears’ strong efforts and keeping the team’s level of play high at all times.

“We’ve got to be more consistent,” he said.

In the end, Whittet described the team’s season and championship aspirations best, with a nod to the forces Bruno could control and those it could not.

“It wasn’t meant to be.”

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By CALEB MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

The wrestling team battled in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association tournament this weekend, earning 16th in the 18-team league. A four-win effort from co-captain Ophir Bernstein ’15 earned the 184-pounder third place and his third consecutive berth in the NCAA tournament.

As he has done all season, Bernstein carried the Bears, accounting for 14.5 of the team’s 23 total points despite competing in one of the most talented EIWA classes. The junior entered his weight class bracket ranked third and combined to outscore his first two opponents 14-1. In the semifinal match, Bernstein ran into a wall in the form of Penn’s Lorenzo Thomas.

Just as he had done during the regular season, Thomas held Bernstein to a low-scoring total to secure the victory.

But Bernstein returned to the mat with a vengeance, pinning Princeton counterpart Brett Harner in the second period to clinch a top-four finish and guarantee his third NCAA ticket in as many seasons.

“Bouncing back from a loss in wrestling is really tough because you’re beat up and disappointed,” Bernstein said. “In this tournament, even more so than others, you’ve got to put it behind you because if you wrestle another bad match, your season could be over.”

» W. LACROSSE, from page S1 final buzzer.

With three separate hat tricks propelling Brown towards the win, as well as a rock-solid 13 saves from Roddy in net, Bruno’s win is a boost for the program.

» HOCKEY, from page S1 trailing by one goal near the end of the third period, the Bears pulled goalie Tyler Steel ’17 for the extra attacker, signaling a desperate, last-second push.

Seconds later, Nick Lappin ’16 put one past St. Lawrence’s Matt Weninger for a dramatic game-tying goal with only 55 seconds left.

Bruno was badly outshot in regulation by a margin of 31-15, but it turned the tables in the first overtime.

The Bears ratcheted up the pressure in the extra frame, outshooting St. Lawrence 13-11 despite spending two minutes on the penalty kill and having no power-plays of their own.

But Weninger stood tall and Bruno could find no purchase.

The Saints took over in the second overtime. In the first 90 seconds, they outshot the Bears 4-0, with the fourth attempt from Eric Sweetman lighting the lamp to end the game.

“We had plenty of chances to win that game… we had a multitude of chances in that first OT,” Whittet said.

The team was frustrated by the Saints but redoubled its resolve with its backs against the wall. Bruno put in a better showing the next night, but came up short yet again.

To ice the cake, Bernstein shut out Columbia’s Zach Hernandez to earn third place, replicating his finish from last season.

Bernstein said he felt “content” after the pin earned him his NCAA bid, but admitted the feat felt like a consolation prize given his expectation of winning the tournament.

Bernstein’s classmate and fellow captain Ricky McDonald ’15, at 174 pounds, flirted with an NCAA bid of his own but was thwarted two rounds early by Elliot Riddick of Lehigh. After a 2-1 opening day, McDonald stood two wins away from qualifying for the national meet. But an unlucky break doomed the junior as he was paired with Riddick, the class’ top seed, in wrestle-backs after Riddick was upset in the second round. McDonald hung with the high-ranked foe before falling 7-3. The co-captain finished in eighth place after a 7-3 loss to Cornell’s George Pickett in his final match of the season. McDonald’s two wins brought his season total to 20, and each of his three losses at the tournament came at the hands of competitors ranked in the top four.

“Ricky had a tough draw,” Bernstein said. “But he is one of those guys that works really hard and could be an All-American next year.”

The best Bruno performer who did not reach the second day was the heavyweight Ryder Cavey ’17. Seeded 17th in his first conference tournament, Cavey needed to defeat Hofstra’s Michael Hughes to break into the field of 16. The match went down to the wire, but Cavey held on to capture a 2-1 decision. Unfortunately, Cavey’s reward was a bout with top-seeded

William Smith of Rutgers, who dealt him a swift defeat via the fall a minute into the match.

Undeterred, Cavey entered wrestle-backs with an opening win over Drexel’s Joseph Giorgio. While Giorgio ranked eight spots higher than Cavey entering the tournament, Bruno’s heavyweight dominated the match, shutting out the Drexel grappler 5-0. In his next bout, Cavey drew yet another quality opponent in thirdranked Tyler Deuel of Binghamton, who ended the rookie’s tournament with a pin in the third period.

Anthony Finocchiaro ’16 earned a major decision victory in his first round of wrestle-backs, but it was the only win the sophomore claimed in the 133-pound bracket. Philip Marano ’14 was quick out of the gates in his last conference tournament, upending Drexel’s Jason Fugiel. But the 165-pound senior lost each of his next two matches by close margins to end his Brown career.

“Our team’s very young, (and) we’re not where we want to be yet,” Bernstein said, referring to the fact that only one Bear qualified for the NCAA tournament. Many of the EIWA’s other teams had multiple wrestlers qualify.

“But they all show so much potential,” Bernstein said. “We still have a lot of confidence for next year.”

Bernstein has had mediocre showings in his first two national tournament appearances, but he said this year is different.

“I’m expecting All-American,” he said. “It’s definitely not going to be easy, but it’s been my goal since day one.”

The Bears lost to Princeton 18-11 last year, and the Tigers went on to finish second in the league in 2013.

“It was a team effort from top to bottom,” McDonald said after the celebration. “Everyone knows they had a hand in the success.”

The Bears will travel to the College of the Holy Cross for a Wednesday game against the Crusaders and take on Central Connecticut State University at home next Saturday to begin a series of non-conference tilts that will last until March 29.

Saturday: St. Lawrence 3, Brown 2 The Bears capped off another winless night with an identical final score, as they failed to come back from a late two-goal deficit and were ousted from the ECAC tournament.

The Saints took a 1-0 lead in the second, which they maintained before a furious third period. Bruno knotted up the score four minutes into the period, but St. Lawrence scored two more goals within 1:32 to take a commanding 3-1 lead with under 15 minutes left. The Bears scored to pull within one goal five minutes later, but they never found the magic that had extended Friday’s game, instead watching their season draw to a close.

“We didn’t do enough to win,” said Massimo Lamacchia ’15.

The Bears kept the shot margin closer in the second game, trailing just 28-25 at the end of the contest. But they were outshot nevertheless and suffered for it. Part of the reason for their shot differential struggles may have been the still-middling power play, especially in contrast to St. Lawrence’s high-powered unit. Bruno was 0-for-6 with the man advantage against the league’s worst penalty kill, while the Saints were 2-for-8.

Though the Bears were not completely disappointed with their play, Whittet

and some team members said they wished the squad could have done more.

“I thought we did some better things, but I still thought we were a little disjointed,” Whittet said. “I actually thought we played good hockey. … We did a good job on the defensive side.”

But no matter how well they played, the Bears now face a long offseason after a difficult end to their tournament trip.

“It’s a pretty bitter ending,” said Mark Naclerio ’16.

“It’s a big disappointment,” said Dennis Robertson ’14, who saw his Brown career come to a close with the losses.

“It definitely hurts never being able to wear that jersey again.”

Whittet and several Bears shared a sense of frustration, and those who are returning expressed commitment to improving for next season.

“We can use this disappointing finish as a way to motivate the returning guys next year,” Lamacchia said.

Since the team was plagued by mental mistakes this season, Whittet said he planned to emphasize “understanding the importance of each and every game and each and every shift.”

With a disappointing season in the books, the players have just one option.

“We’ve got to move on and focus on next year,” Naclerio said.

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Pregnant women with bipolar disorder face ‘extra challenges,’ study shows Pregnancy associated with resurgence of symptoms in women with bipolar disorder

By RILEY DAVIS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Women with bipolar disorder have more difficulties during and after childbirth than do women with other psychiatric disorders, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

In the study, Cynthia Battle, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior, and her co-authors, found that women with bipolar disorder more often experience greater resurgence of symptoms and face more challenges as mothers than women being treated for other psychiatric disorders.

Battle has been studying perinatal depression for years and began this particular study because when she was looking at the literature and clinical cases, it became clear to her that women with bipolar disorder have the highest needs of the perinatal population.

“This is a population that empirically has not been studied as much,” Battle said. She and fellow researchers Margaret Howard, professor of psychiatry and human behavior, and

Lauren Weinstock, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, looked at the medical records of 334 patients at the Women and Infants Hospital in Providence to find potential candidates for the study.

According to Battle, 10 percent of these 334 cases were women diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

One strength of the study includes the large sample size, which allowed for “statistically significant differences to be noted,” Mytilee Vemuri, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Stanford University, wrote in an email to The Herald.

The reason many women with bipolar disorder struggle during the pregnancy period is because the disease comes with some “unique challenges” that can “really be a risk factor for a new episode of mania,” Battle said. One such challenge is sleep deprivation. According to Battle, sleep disruption and deprivation is one of the main things that leads to mood swings in women with the disorder.

Battle said a priority should be to “regulate and prevent sleep disruption” in these women.

Another complication is that 78 percent of women with bipolar disorder report having trouble breastfeeding their infants compared to about 42 percent of women who do not have the disorder, according to

a University press release.

Yet another problem is that a lot of medications prescribed for bipolar disorder are considered unsafe during pregnancy, so women cease taking them, Battle said. To combat this problem, Battle and her fellow researchers are working to identify the factors that make some women stay on their medication during pregnancy and others go off of it. It is a murky area for these women, Battle said. “Women are confused about the best option for treatment, so they choose no option,” she said.

Battle said that because of the severity of bipolar disorder, doctors need to watch carefully to distinguish between it and depression in perinatal women. This study will “help guide future efforts to develop support services,” Battle said.

This study is significant because it “confirms that substance abuse and suicidality, known to co-occur in bipolar disorder, are active problems in perinatal women with bipolar disorder,” Vemuri wrote. “It also provides new evidence that perinatal patients with bipolar disorder are at risk for obstetrical and breastfeeding complications.”

But “this study was not able to distinguish whether the higher delivery and breastfeeding complications observed were related to the medications used or to the diagnosis of bipolar disorder alone,” she wrote.

Bipolar disorder and women 5.7 million adults affected annually in the United States

2.6 percent of adults affected annually in the United States

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average age of onset

9.2 years taken off lifespan of individuals with the disorder

3 times

the number of women as men have rapid cycling bipolar disorder Source: Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance; National Institute of Mental Health

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LUNCH Creamy Parmesan Primavera, Zesty Lemon Chicken Thigh, Asparagus Tips with Lemon, Blondie Bars

French Bread Pizza, French Fried Potatoes, Green Beans with Tomatoes, Enchilada Bar, Blondie Bars

DINNER Tuscan Roast Pork, Tilapia with Provencal, Creamy Rosemary Polenta, Sugar Snap Peas, Ambrosia Cake

Pork Medallion with Portabella Sauce, Candied Yams, Glazed Baby Carrots with Shallots, Ambrosia Cake

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Chicken Noodle, Fire Roasted Vegetable, Beef with Bean Chili

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Brown’s 650-pound birthday cake was a replica of University Hall, built to 3 percent scale. President Christina Paxson cut the first piece during the 250th anniversary opening celebration Friday.

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11 A.M. URGENT WITNESS PANEL

Vice President of PEN International Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, author Larry Siems, Ugandan exile playwright George Seremba and Albanian novelist Gazmend Kapllani lead a discussion of freedom-to-write issues. McCormack Family Theater 8 P.M. LES MISERABLES IN CONCERT

Students participating in the GISP “Les Miserables: In Text and Production” produced a series of concert performances of the musical which will run today through Thursday. Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Martinos Auditorium

TOMORROW

MARCH 11

3 P.M. CONVERSATION WITH DR. JEAN KING

Dr. Jean King, a UMass Medical School professor, will be meeting with students to talk about her career path and involvement with a non-profit that provides support for domestic violence victims. Sarah Doyle Women’s Center 6:30 P.M. 12 YEARS A SLAVE PANEL DISCUSSION

Authors of the new biography “Solomon Northrup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave” will discuss their research and the recent Academy award-winning film based on Solomon Northrup’s life. Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, Petterui Lounge

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EDITORIAL

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

An equitable interest rate As the student loan debt burden continues to grow, we must search for options that can help students. One such proposal — announced last week

by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at an event held by the nonprofit Generation Progress — would permit students with federal loans to refinance at a 3.86 percent interest rate. Warren advocates paying for this refinancing with a new “Buffett Rule” tax on individuals who make more than $1 million per year, Inside Higher Ed reported recently. This proposed solution is a reasonable and fair-minded initiative designed to help students who are just trying to get ahead. We are heartened by greater progressive interest in student loan refinancing, and we hope that this along with other proposals will gain greater traction.

Warren noted that the current $1.2 trillion student loan burden is serving to “(penalize) young people for getting an education,” while the federal government, through its student loan program, actually nets billions of dollars each year, Inside Higher Ed reported. This serves as a particularly cruel regressive tax on students that must be adjusted. Refinancing student loans at a lower interest rate, then, could save many students about $1,000 per year.

Tuition costs are also rising because of decreased public investment in higher education. Last week, the liberal think tank Demos released a report noting that 49 states have cut higher education spending since the recession, and in 28 of the states, spending dropped by more than 25 percent. While federal cuts leave university systems struggling, colleges are all too likely to shift debt burdens onto their students. In the current financial aid system, colleges are paid upfront, and have no financial penalties if their students are burdened or have trouble finding work after graduation. Thus, many now advocate the controversial idea that colleges should have “skin in the game,” hoping that it will lead to greater concern about student employment prospects. Warren, along with Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill., is also co-sponsoring a bill that would penalize colleges whose students have high default rates. If graduates (or non-completers) of a certain school struggle after attending, the college should be held accountable.

The ramifications of rising student loan debt are not yet fully apparent, but they will be systemic. Students with loan burdens are now less likely to buy houses or take out car loans, and they more frequently live with their parents. They also have lower credit scores, the New York Times reported last month. Further, unlike other forms of debt, student loans are typically non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. As students move into new phases of their lives, they should not be forever trailed by expenses and decisions from their teenage years. Rohit Chopra, student loan ombudsman and assistant director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has warned that “if left unaddressed, … rising student loan debt may prove to be one of the more painful aftershocks of the Great Recession,” the Times reported. Lowering student loan interest rates will not solve this problem, but it is a worthwhile start.

Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board: its editors, Matt Brundage ’15 and Rachel Occhiogrosso ’14, and its members, Hannah Loewentheil ’14 and Thomas Nath ’16. Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.

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Physical libraries provide tangible benefits To the Editor: In a letter in last Monday’s Herald (“Traditional libraries offer many advantages,” March 3), Dr. Bruno Harris writes of the benefits of physical libraries as opposed to electronic sources, at least with respect to the current status and availability of e-books. I must admit that at first, I idly read through and thought to myself how inconceivable it would be for Brown to significantly relocate or remove portions of the physical library. But then on Thursday, the Daily Pennsylvanian — the newspaper of fellow Ivy school Penn — ran an article notifying the student body that up to two-thirds of its math/physics library and an

To the Editor: I was outraged to read a recent article about the Brown University 250th anniversary cake in the Providence Journal.

If Brown has the financial resources to commission a celebratory cake on the scale of royal weddings and fireworks from the roof of University buildings, perhaps that money could be better allocated to educational purposes.

Our extended family pays an enormous sum annually for our daughter’s tuition to Brown. This frivolous waste of the funds we entrust to the University for educational purposes is unconscionable.

President Christina Paxson, your choice as chief officer of Brown to spend University funds upon this non-educational

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A review in Friday’s Herald (“‘Medea’ brings ancient feud to Brown,” March 7) mistakenly criticized Emma Johnson ’14 for putting on a British accent in character in the ongoing PW production of “Medea.” In fact, it is the actress’ real accent.

The Herald regrets the error.

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activity is indefensible.

Please do not patronize us by asserting that the anniversary celebration is paid for from non-tuition sources. I am familiar with the black box of university budgets. Money spent on public relations and conspicuous celebratory consumption is money not available for scholarships, teachers’ salaries, classroom improvements or library enhancements.

I am extremely disappointed by your administration’s lack of responsibility to Brown students and parents that this foolish expenditure of University funds represents. You owe an apology to the entire Brown community for your poor judgment.

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entire engineering library will close to be repurposed into “active learning space.”

It made me appreciate the wide availability of printed materials available to us at Brown, especially the browsing potential. As a researcher, I find browsing primary material located near resources I know I’ll use to be inspiring and productive. As an instructor, I find having a bank of sometimes similar and sometimes dissimilar ideas and presentations, in the form of books and articles near materials I pull from directly, to be extremely valuable as a teaching resource.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2014

Birthday blues EVAN SWEREN guest columnist

This weekend, the University began the 250th celebration of the College’s founding. At the center of the celebration, a 3 percent replica of University Hall stood poised to feed 1,400 attendees. There were speakers, pyrotechnics, buttons, bands and little spigots that filled cups with hot chocolate. And did I mention the cake, the 650-pound, 5-by-2-by-3-foot custombuilt cake? Yet despite the celebration’s supposed focus on Brown’s history, this weekend failed to place center stage, let alone address, a long track record of historical negligence.

In 2003, then-President Ruth Simmons formed a committee to investigate the University’s involvement in slavery and the slave trade. The 2006 report from the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice showed the University’s deep involvement in “crimes against humanity.” A subsequent 2009 Report of Commissions on Memorials made recommendations to the University for a commemorative site, and in 2012, the Corporation selected Martin Puryear as the chief artist charged with designing the memorial.

Ask any Brown student about the above reports, meetings and decisions, and the responses will reveal a startling fact: The University has done little to help educate the student body beyond the original work and has instead approached this challenging topic strictly behind the scenes, as if these academic exercises themselves were proclamations of success.

EVA N S W E R E N

The slavery and justice report states, “Our primary task was to examine the University’s historical entanglement with slavery and the slave trade and to … ‘provide factual information and critical perspectives to deepen understanding’ and enrich debate on an issue that had aroused great public passion but little constructive public dialogue.”

In 2012, The Herald published an article by Sydney Ember titled “The forgotten report.” She interviewed students, professors and the president, gathering information about the report and Brown community members’ response to it. But when Ember herself tried to procure a hard copy, she likened the experience to “a wild goose chase.” Most copies — nearly a thousand — are held off-site, four miles from Brown’s campus, though digital copies are freely accessible on-

line. Ember quoted Professor of History Evelyn Hu-Dehart as saying, “This is a living document. But it’s dead.”

Hu-Dehart served on the original steering committee.

Where did the University go wrong?

In almost every above instance, University officials barred undergraduates from partaking in the conversation.

What upsets me is not the celebration of Brown’s 250th, per se, but the framing of it — the missed opportunity for education, progressive communication and a productive means by which the University finally engages in a long-overdue public conversation. Even if the report were readily available and not stowed away in some off-site facility, even if the University had actually installed some statue or memorial by “Brown’s 250th anniver-

sary celebration in 2014,” as the University’s website explicitly stated as its 2012 plan, it would not be sufficient.

This issue demands active public consideration, not just a few Band-Aids that falsely allay the University’s guilt.

What the University did and said it would do have not lived up to the timely standard that such an issue demands.

During the Friday night celebration, I saw no mention of “Pero,” “Mary Young’s Negro Man,” “Earle’s Negro” and “Abraham,” the four black, enslaved men who helped to build College Edifice — now University Hall. Nor did I hear any undergraduate, let alone alum, discuss the effects the roughly 30 original Corporation members had on the future of Rhode Island, Providence and Brown by either owning or captaining slave ships.

Instead, I heard six minutes and 54

seconds of oohs, ahs and cheers, 2,500 percussive pops and a plethora of individuals eating cake, completely ignorant of the implications of their celebration.

And worst of all, it’s not even their fault.

The University must stop its trend of isolative decision-making and involve the student body in the productive politics of future planning.

The University has continued its habit of bureaucratic secrecy and insulation and thus approached an educational opportunity tepidly and with a receptive student body at arm’s length. What remains is a community just as far from mending a scar as it was prior to the report. It is up to the University, in the coming year, to include the community in this discussion. One hopes the report is made public in hard form — bound, published and placed in our libraries for reading and conversation. A statue or memorial does not serve in place of conversation, though a necessary and commendable step it might be.

Simmons wrote in a 2004 Boston Globe op-ed that “understanding our history and suggesting how the full truth of that history can be incorporated into our common traditions will not be easy. But then, it doesn’t have to be.”

If only the student body could have taken part in the difficult conversations that make a celebration of Brown’s 250th worthwhile. If only the celebration could have been framed in such a way that acknowledged historical wrongdoing alongside our success.

Evan Sweren ’15 is in his third year at Brown.

Who needs whom?

WALKER MILLS opinions columnist

In January 2011, then-President Ruth Simmons organized a committee to explore the possibility of reorganizing a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps unit on the Brown campus. It was a response to the repeal of the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” legislation and a challenge by President Obama in his State of the Union address to “all our college campuses to open their doors to our military recruiters and ROTC.” The committee compiled a comprehensive report covering the long and distinguished history of martial education at the University, the 1969 resolutions that forced the ROTC programs off campus, the current status of the debate and recommendations. In her response to the report, President Simmons supported reaching out to the Department of Defense to expand off-campus ROTC offerings to Brown students. Though many colleges and universities responded to Obama’s challenge, Brown is now the only Ivy League institution without an on-campus ROTC unit.

That was two and a half years ago. Little has been done since. The only step in that direction I am aware of was the creation of Office of Student Veterans and Commissioning Programs, which has a small office in J. Walter Wilson and a lone part-time staffer.

Brown’s lack of urgency in addressing the recommendations and the tone of the original report suggest arrogance on our part, as if people feel we don’t have much to gain by bringing the military closer to Brown. I couldn’t disagree more.

This semester, I shopped ANTH 1232: “War and Society.” Early on, the professor asked for a show of hands: Who in the room had served in the military? Were there any veterans in the room? Not one of the 50 or so students raised their hand. The professor then went on to say she had expected as much. I was disappointed. I don’t doubt the ability of the professor to lead the class, but in a class about war, I felt that somehow I was being cheated out of a fuller discussion, that

pus doesn’t necessarily increase the number of student veterans. But no one can say the two aren’t paired issues. While I’m not a veteran, I can imagine that it definitely sends a message to those applying to colleges. I am confident, however, that that message is not indicative of how most Brown students and alums feel. In addition to history, the report included polls of both alums and students. 60 percent of alums reported they were “strongly in favor” of hosting ROTC on campus, and 31 percent of students supported taking steps to bring (ROTC) back to campus.

55 percent of students reported they wanted the University to “support” ROTC for its students in some fashion.

Brown is now the only Ivy League institution without an on-campus ROTC unit. valuable viewpoints had been lost. When we performed brief interviews on each other, almost no students could claim to have had significant contact with the military in their lives.

I know there are student veterans at Brown, and I hope they are as proud to go here as we are to have them here. But doesn’t this expose a weakness of ours, that we are so distant from something so critical to our understanding of the world? Is it a chink in the wonderful diversity that we pride ourselves on?

I also know that inviting ROTC back to cam-

There is also a financial aspect. ROTC offers scholarships to many of its participants. Many people who could otherwise not afford to attend college are able to do so on ROTC scholarships, and with Brown’s lackluster financial aid, the lack of ROTC can unfortunately discourage students from applying — a further loss of diversity and opinions.

Currently, Brown students who want to participate in Army, Navy or Air Force ROTC have no options. They are forced to commute to Providence College for classes and exercises, and they

receive no credit or official recognition from Brown.

Some students might decry a closer connection with the military on the grounds that Brown should maintain a sort of neutrality when it comes to armed conflict. I would remind them that Brown annually takes in $9 to $11 million in research grants from the Department of Defense.

Historically, there has also been an argument that the structured nature of military learning and instruction would be antithetical to the goals of the New Curriculum. For an on-campus ROTC unit to be considered, the University would probably have to grant a few military officers faculty status and allow them to teach the ROTC curriculum. I would ask: Is an increase in academic options antithetical to goals of diversity, openness and free inquiry?

I challenge the University to open its gates to ROTC. Opening our campus to ROTC would help increase the diversity of opinions and perspectives where it is most needed — in our classrooms. On-campus ROTC would expand opportunities for our students and send a strong message of support to student veterans and prospective student veterans alike. It is not the military that needs Brown University — it is Brown University that needs the military.

Walker Mills ’15 is enrolled in a commissioning program with the United States Marine Corps and can be contacted at walker_mills@brown.edu.

MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2014

THE

250th

BROWN DAILY HERALD 250th celebration features art panels, exhibits ‘Girl Swarm’ exhibit focuses on digital feminism, panel features documentary filmmakers

By DREW WILLIAMS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

As the hungry hordes at the cake-cutting ceremony of the 250th anniversary celebration eyed the 650-pound behemoth of a confection Friday evening, President Christina Paxson asked them to suppress their appetites for just a few moments more. Cake would come, but only after the student group Word! came to the podium to perform a spoken word poem in commemoration of Brown’s birthday.

“We are all races. We are all voices.

We are heard. We are a part of the history,” the performers asserted, providing a look at Brown’s past that highlighted the first students of color and the first women on campus.

The weekend’s celebration gathered performers, curators, producers and designers, celebrating with sweets in some cases and demanding social dialogue in others.

A digital moment Two events in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts asked visitors to contemplate the feminist movement Friday.

“Girl Swarm,” curated by Celine Katzman ’15, Ana Cecilia Alvarez ’13 and Katarah DaSilva ’15, introduced its collection of paintings, collages, pop culture items and visual projections with a printed statement: “The next wave of feminism will be digital.” The exhibit gathered work from students

at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design, as well as from professional artists in Providence and New York.

The art connected through the idea of “girl swarm,” a “critical mass” of work identifiable as “girly” or as aligned with feminist ideas, Alvarez said. “Girl swarm” work gets shared through social media such as Tumblr, and users form a community, amounting to something larger than the individual works.

This weekend, Disney princess stickers, hand-made pamphlets with names such as “Fat Feminine Masochist,” “The Cyborg Gaze” and “I (Heart) Marlon Brando,” underwear with printed cats entitled “Cat Call” and paintings ranging from nudes to the discovery of menstruation by an adolescent adorned the walls of Granoff ’s lower lobby.

“One thing that stuck with me was the idea of networks and how people influenced each other,” especially on the Internet, Alvarez said.

Documenting inequality A few levels up on Friday night, Donna Zaccaro ’83 screened her new Showtime Channel documentary “Paving the Way: Geraldine Ferraro,” about Zaccaro’s mother and her time as the first female vice presidential candidate in U.S. history. “Things have gotten a lot better for women since my mother ran in 1984, but there’s still a long way to go — women are still getting attacked” over issues such as abortion, war and foreign policy, Zaccaro said.

How exactly a film can expose such inequality was the focus of “Social Justice, Social Change: The Role » See 250 ART, page 4

A S L I C E O F H I S TO R Y

DAVID BRAUN / HERALD

Students swarmed Faunce steps as Brown personnel began distributing the 250th anniversary cake.

The red velvet and chocolate flavored cake served 1,400 people, with cupcakes feeding 1,200 more.

UP IN FLAMES

TOM SULLIVAN / HERALD

The fireworks display Friday culminated in “250 +” lighting up the facade of University Hall. The display lasted a little over six minutes and was met by cheers from the thousands assembled on the Main Green.

M. BASKETBALL

McGonagill ’14 pours in 26, can’t carry Bears in OT In final weekend as a Bear, McGonagill averages 21 points, seven rebounds

By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A long season for the men’s basketball team culminated in two single-digit losses this weekend. The Bears (15-13, 7-7 Ivy) ended the year on a three-game skid, losing to both Dartmouth and Harvard in the Pizzitola Center.

KATIE LIEBOWITZ / HERALD

Four-year starter Sean McGonagill ’14 led the team with 26 points, eight assists, four rebounds and two steals.

Friday: Dartmouth 75, Brown 68 The Big Green (12-16, 5-9) came to Providence having won just its third conference game last Saturday, but the squad played as if it was a game away from the Ivy title.

“We were out-hustled, out-worked, out-played and out-coached for 40 minutes,” said Head Coach Mike Martin ’04. “I have to give Dartmouth a lot of credit. In basketball, the team that wants it more and is hungrier is going to win the game, and they certainly were that team tonight.”

Dartmouth jumped out to an early 15-6 lead on a trey from Tyler Melville.

The senior guard dropped a game-high 23 points on 6-of-12 shooting from threepoint land.

With a minute remaining in the first half, the Bears took their first lead since the opening minutes on a three-point play from Steven Spieth ’17. Spieth finished with 12 points, five assists, four rebounds and two steals, capping off another strong, all-around game for the rookie.

Coming out of the break, Dartmouth quickly regained control of the lead thanks to Connor Boehm, who knocked down two jumpers and a layup to give the Big Green a five-point advantage.

Boehm foiled Bruno’s defensive schemes all night, knocking down a number of long two-pointers that forced the Bears’ forwards to come away from the paint and contest his shots.

After the first media timeout of the half, Bruno got its act together. Norman Hobbie ’17 drained a triple to cut the lead to two. After Dartmouth inbounded the ball, Spieth forced a turnover, which led to a one-handed throwdown by Cedric Kuakumensah ’16. Seconds later, Spieth stole the ball again, this time leading to a Sean McGonagill ’14 three-pointer and a three-point Bruno lead.

With 14 minutes left in the game,

Dartmouth’s Kevin Crescenzi got his feet tangled up on a fast break, sending him face-first into the hardwood floor.

Blood spurted from his nose, and play was halted for several minutes before he was escorted off the court. Showing grit and toughness, Crescenzi returned to the game minutes later with two nose-plugs dangling from his nostrils. He finished the contest with five points in 11 minutes of play.

Dartmouth, meanwhile, took the lead back from the Bears and would not relinquish it for the remainder of the game. Hobbie banked in a layup, bringing Bruno within two with just 30 seconds to go. But clutch free-throw shooting from Melville and Alex Mitola sealed the Big Green’s victory.

“There weren’t too many times in that game when I felt like our defense was dictating what they were going to do,” Martin said. “That’s the goal of our defense, to dictate what teams do on offense. That wasn’t the case tonight.”

Saturday: Harvard 98, Brown 93 (OT) A crowd of over 2,000 fans showed up for free t-shirts and senior night festivities as the Bears took on the Crimson in the » See BASKETBALL, page S2