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Man posing as driver reportedly assaults student Assault reported to DPS early Saturday morning following enocounter in Jewelry District

By KASTURI PANANJADY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A student was reportedly assaulted at an off-campus apartment by an unidentified man posing as a driver for a ride-sharing service, wrote Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 in a community-wide email Saturday.

The man offered a ride to the student at a club in the Jewelry District, Carey wrote. Later that night, the student was reportedly assaulted by the suspect.

“Support services and resources are being provided to the student and friends,” Carey wrote. “No crime is the fault of the victim.”

The assault was reported to the Department of Public Safety early Saturday morning, he wrote.

The Providence Police Department is investigating the incident, wrote Brian Clark, director of news and editorial development, in an email to The Herald.

Carey also included public safety tips and contact details related to the University’s transportation services.

He urged students to use Brown onCall, a point-to-point transportation service that covers College Hill and the Jewelry District, for rides between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. Students may also call DPS for rides after 3 a.m., Carey wrote.

Students traveling alone at night can also use the Brown Guardian mobile app to update their friends of their whereabouts and estimated time of arrival, Carey wrote.

A representative from DPS could not be reached by press time.

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No. 3 Bears clinch Ivy League title

Bellistri ’16, Molloy ’17 carry Bruno to seasonbest margin of victory in 22-5 win over Cornell

By NIKKO PASANEN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The No. 3 men’s lacrosse team has done it again. After dismantling Cornell (6-6, 1-4 Ivy) Saturday, the Bears (12-1, 5-0) clinched a second straight Ivy League title and assured themselves another opportunity to win the conference tournament in front of their fans at home.

“It means a lot to win back-to-back Ivy League championships,” said Henry Blynn ’16. “But we also realize that we have never won the Ivy League playoffs in my four years here, and we want to lift that trophy.”

Saturday’s contest was a textbook display from the Bears, who dominated on both ends en route to a 22-5 win.

The attack was spearheaded by Kylor

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Brendan Caputo ’16 looks to bring the ball up the field. The senior midfielder scored three goals and added an assist in the Bears’ win.

Bellistri ’16 and Dylan Molloy ’17, each of whom tallied six points on the day.

The pair are tied for third in the country in goals per game, and Molloy is first in the nation in points per game. Also adding to the offensive barrage were Blynn, who connected for three goals and contributed two assists, and Brendan Caputo ’16, who scored three times.

Such a well-rounded stat line has become commonplace for the Bears, who have been a beacon of offensive efficiency all year long. Bruno leads the nation with 17 goals per game, a full three goals ahead of second-place No. 16 Duke. Blynn explained that without the selfless attitude that the » See M. LACROSSE, page 4

Clinton campaigns in R.I. before primary Students for Bernie hosts

actress Shailene Woodley

Clinton criticizes Republican counterparts, presents ambitious goals for administration

Woodley encourages voting, volunteering for Democratic presidential hopeful before primary

By KYLE BOROWSKI SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Hillary Clinton held a rally in Central Falls Saturday to drum up support ahead of the Rhode Island Democratic primary, which will take place April 26. Supporters gathered in the gymnasium of Central Falls High School to hear the presidential hopeful speak at length about her platform and plan for taking the White House.

From the onset Clinton sought to associate herself with Bill Clinton’s presidential administration, proudly declaring that “more people were raised out of poverty in those eight years than in any comparable decade.”

She contrasted this apparent success with the Republican administration that followed her husband’s.

Specifically, she blamed the Bush administration for “tanking the economy,” something she said hit Rhode Islanders especially hard. “There is a direct connection between the failed economic policies of Republicans and what happened to millions of Americans,” Clinton said.

Clinton made a number of sweeping promises throughout the rally including equal pay for women, an increase in available programs for the

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By CLARISSA CLEMM STAFF WRITER

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Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters at a rally in Central Falls ahead of Tuesday’s R.I. primary. She promised to close the pay gap for women. treatment of addiction and an expansion of the Affordable Care Act. She likened Obamacare to her own “Hillarycare” — the failed health care plan she proposed while she was first lady.

Clinton also addressed ending loopholes for gun sellers at length,

characterizing the gun deaths facing Americans as an epidemic. “If something else was killing 33,000 people, we’d be organizing right now to save lives,” she said.

While her goals may have seemed » See CLINTON, page 3

Actress Shailene Woodley encouraged a crowd of about 150 students to vote and volunteer in support of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’, D-VT, presidential campaign in a talk hosted by Brown University Students for Bernie Saturday night. Addressing the crowd, Woodley said “Our country is not thriving. This is about a movement towards reestablishing democracy in America.”

The event, which was advertised exclusively on Facebook beginning Thursday night, was held as a precursor to the Rhode Island primary Tuesday.

“It was last-minute,” said Aidan Calvelli ’19, a member of the Brown University Students for Bernie leadership team. “We got a call from the campaign on Thursday night, and we had to make a quick-go-or-no-go decision about whether to do it.”

At the event, students picked up posters and pins supporting Sanders as they filed into List 120. The event featured a quick introduction

by Calvelli followed by a 20-minute speech by Woodley and a meet-andgreet among the attendees. Students were encouraged to volunteer in the coming days prior to the Rhode Island primary, and clipboards for canvassing were passed around.

Woodley spoke to the audience about her reasons for supporting Sanders and her personal experience volunteering for the campaign. She told personal stories and referenced issues such as climate change and the recent New York primary. She encouraged audience members to vote and to actively participate in volunteering for the campaign. “We have to bring and demand justice back in our country,” Woodley told the audience, adding that this is a “true political revolution that is bigger than us in this room, bigger than Bernie.”

“We’re happy about the turnout and having people fill out a lot of signup sheets to canvass,” Calvelli said. “We wanted to have Shailene’s presence inspire people to canvass and volunteer at the phone bank.”

Audience members included Sanders supporters as well as interested voters trying to determine which candidate to support.

Oscar Salazar, a student at Westchester Community College in New York, has volunteered in New York » See WOODLEY, page 2

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ARTS & CULTURE Production Workshop holds ‘Carousel,’ musical featuring heavy themes, sexism, death

NEWS Victoria Leonard ’15 volunteers with nonprofit to provide health education in Addo region

COMMENTARY Krishnamurthy ’19: Protestors of white alum at Thursday’s chanting misguided about Hinduism

COMMENTARY Campbell ’18: Open curriculum misrepresented to those without rigorous schooling backgrounds

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PW’s ‘Carousel’ will take you on a ride Sexual tension, marital strife complicate smalltown life, afterlife in PW’s Downspace production

By ROLAND HIGH STAFF WRITER

The shrieks of a whistle and the clamor of seaside activity signal the beginning of the Production Workshop’s “Carousel,” the celebrated 1945 musical created by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

Nick Healy ’17, the director and set designer, said that he chose “Carousel” because “it’s incredibly moving, and some moments are incredibly disturbing.” The choice of an established, wartime classic — as opposed to a more modern musical — is especially unusual for the Musical Forum, he added, and he was excited to present it here.

The intimacy of the small theater lends itself well to the scenes when performers flood the stage, creating an instantly compelling sense of activity.

From the beginning, I noticed the manic energy of Marcus Sudac ’17, who plays the unscrupulous whaler, Jigger, as he flitted between the other actors.

Frankie Troncoso ’16 plays the leading role of Billy Bigelow, the swaggering carousel barker who sweeps the young Julie Jordan — played by Hannah Margolin ’16 — off her feet.

Troncoso didn’t quite fit the description of a brawny, tanned ladies man, but he does have a fine set of pipes.

Understandably, Troncoso seems most

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The final performance of “Carousel” will be tonight in the Downspace. The show features a number of difficult themes, such as suicide and sexism. comfortable when he is not spouting Bigelow’s braggadocious drivel but instead belting out a stirring melody.

But Troncoso had one of the production’s most challenging roles, as Anna Stacy ’17, the music director, pointed out.

“There’s a lot of misogyny written into the show, (and) it’s really hard to be in that space for a long time,” she said. Apart from one anticlimactic falsetto, which was only noticeable in contrast to the rest of his performance, Troncoso’s voice was steady and beautiful throughout.

As Bigelow’s naive and submissive new wife, Margolin is not only a very capable actress but an impressive singer. The soaring high notes of “If I Loved You” could not have been sung more powerfully.

Emily Garrison ’16, who plays Julie’s slightly more sensible friend, Carrie Pipperidge, was undoubtedly the most energetic presence on stage. Carrie is a contradictory character to portray because she is the more playful of the two women, and yet she sets her sights on the

hopelessly boring Enoch Snow.

Sam Kortchmar ’16 excelled at Snow’s awkward humor with a nervous, geeky laugh, though he struggled to hit some of the high notes.

While Snow woos Carrie with his vision of creating a lucrative fleet of sardine boats — not to mention a similarly ambitious fleet of progeny — Carrie is busy shimmying her chest to “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over,” or whipping out a leg, exclaiming “Well, Mr. Snow, here I am!”

In short, Garrison does a splendid job.

The weighty themes of the play — including death, suicide, sexism and emasculation — are presented vividly, and the enticing and profound ballet near the end is incredible.

While a college production of a musical as complex as “Carousel” faces long odds of success, the Production Workshop pulls it off and showcases fantastic talent.

The final performance of “Carousel” will be tonight at 8 p.m.

» WOODLEY, from page 1 and Philadelphia and travelled to Rhode Island to volunteer for the Sanders campaign. “It was amazing to see her and speak out for Bernie,” he said. “I wish that I had a rose to toss to her since it was the most inspirational speech.”

Udoka Oji ’18 and Allyson Goto ’18 came to the event because they said they are in the process of exploring candidates. “This was the easiest platform for us to be exposed to the candidates in a way that’s the most tangible,” Goto said, adding that being at the event in person gave her the opportunity to observe and identify with the voters on campus who support Sanders and also get a feel for the reasons why people vote for him.

“I wanted to see Shailene Woodley, and I support Bernie, so it’s a package deal,” said Alec Brown ’19. “It’s great to see other young people active in

the political process and see it from a different perspective rather than just Bernie telling me something.”

“For a lot of people, this is their first time taking part in the political system and having the opportunity to vote and having their voices heard,” Woodley said. “Rhode Island goes to primary on Tuesday, and I wanted to come to the college campus to encourage people my age, my peers, my colleagues.”

“We understand that a lot of people at Brown may not be registered in Rhode Island, but this event and really all the work that we’re doing at Brown for Bernie is about getting people to vote and making sure that we have as high a turnout as possible,” Calvelli said. “This event is part of an effort to get people really excited about politics because Brown’s reputation as a political campus is only deserved if the people show up, go to the polls and make their voices heard.”

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Shailene Woodley speaks to students about Bernie Sanders’ candidacy.

She encouraged those in attendance to volunteer for Sanders’ campaign.

Planned Parenthood president, Congressman campaign for Clinton Ahead of R.I. primary, Cecile Richards ’80 points to Clinton’s emphasis on women’s rights

By ELENA RENKEN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards ’80 spoke on campus Friday to advocate for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her presidential campaign, highlighting Clinton’s support for women’s rights and health.

Hosted by Brown Students for Hillary, the rally was held in MacMillan Hall’s Starr Auditorium.

Richards took the stage to great applause and spoke of her time at Brown and the campus activism that pushed the University to divest from South Africa. She added that she returned to campus 30 years later when Nelson Mandela received an honorary degree from the University.

Shifting to more recent stories, Richards recounted Planned Parenthood’s battle to make emergency contraception accessible to everyone, noting Clinton’s advocacy for that goal while she was a senator. Working with U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-WA, Clinton refused to go forward with the nomination of the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration until it decided whether to approve emergency contraception as an over-the-counter product.

“It took a few more years, and we

had to have a few more battles. But now basically you can get emergency contraception pretty much everywhere 24/7,” Richards said. “Right now we are at a 30-year low for unintended pregnancy in America. That didn’t happen because people stopped having sex.”

Richards addressed the Republican candidates in the race as she stressed the importance of women’s health. “They’ve all pledged to get rid of Planned Parenthood and deny folks access to basic health care, so I just think the stakes are enormously high,” Richards said. “That’s going to become clearer and clearer as we get towards November.”

In a Palm Beach rally ahead of the Florida primaries, Republican candidate Donald Trump said that he would not fund Planned Parenthood while it performed abortions, but noted how many women the organization had helped.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, has taken a similar stance on the organization as Clinton, but she has criticized him for sidelining the issue in comparison to his socioeconomic agenda. But in a campaign statement on his website, Sanders said that he will not “allow the extreme right-wing to defund Planned Parenthood, we are going to expand it.”

Richards was introduced by U.S. Rep. David Cicilline ’83, D-RI, and Michelle Kwan, a two-time Olympic medalist in figure skating who worked for the Department of State after returning to school to study international relations and political science at the end of her career.

Kwan emphasized Clinton’s knowledge of foreign and domestic policy, as well as her commitment to families.

“We need somebody with experience — somebody that will fight for us,” Kwan said. “So will you fight for her?”

Cicilline highlighted Clinton’s devotion to rebuilding the middle class, making college financially accessible and protecting women’s right to make their own choices, among other causes.

“We need someone who will be able to withstand what will continue to be a vicious, unfair Republican assault,” Cicilline said.

Richards has been the “most eloquent voice” responding to “often insane, crazy, vicious attacks” on a woman’s right to make decisions about her body, Cicilline said. “That’s an issue on which we won’t compromise as Democrats,” he added. “Our nation owes her a tremendous debt.”

“Bernie’s right on the issues of Planned Parenthood, but Hillary’s a strong advocate,” Sterl Carpenter, president of the state-wide federation of College Democrats and a University of Rhode Island student, told The Herald.

“There are women who have less rights than they did years ago, and it shouldn’t go backwards.”

Richards recalled President Barack Obama’s announcement that birth control would now be covered by insurance for all women at no cost and applauded his refusal to defund Planned Parenthood. She wants to ensure the United States builds on the support for women’s health generated during his terms, she

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Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards ’80 campaigns on behalf of Hillary Clinton and highlights the shortcomings of Clinton’s counterparts. added.

A couple days after a presidential debate in which Obama mentioned Planned Parenthood several times, a woman walked into one of the organization’s health centers in Houston, Texas having found a lump in her breast, Richards said. When the clinician asked who referred her to Planned Parenthood, she said, “I didn’t know where to go, but I heard President Obama say on TV the other night that you do breast exams, and that’s why I’m here.”

People are “counting on government to do the right thing,” Richards added.

Elena Saltzman ’16 and Emma Dickson ’16, the leaders of Brown Students for Hillary, have long supported the former secretary of state.

“She imbued the State Department with feminism — with fighting for women and girls around the world,” Saltzman

said. “Having a woman in the White House means that we no longer have women’s issues off to the side.”

“Having someone with significant diplomatic experience is critically important to me,” Dickson said, adding that she also values Clinton’s advocacy for victims of gun violence.

Clinton is “quite possibly the most qualified person to ever run for president,” Carpenter said, adding that he was excited to vote for the candidate Tuesday.

“I think we’re going to see a very competitive race here in Rhode Island,” Cicilline said. “This is the most important election of our lifetime.”

Saltzman echoed this expectation.

“It’s very rare that there’s this incredibly competitive, incredibly exciting election going on in Rhode Island that you can make a difference in,” she said.

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» CLINTON, from page 1 lofty, Clinton promised that she was serious about achieving change if elected and urged voters to monitor her ability to accomplish things moving forward. “I want you to hold me accountable,” she said. “I’m not making promises I can’t keep.”

This sentiment was echoed by some Brown students who attended the event. “There are a lot of students who feel that Hillary is the most pragmatic choice and the most promising candidate to move the Democratic platform forward,” said Sarah Jackson ’16, a member of Brown Students for Hillary. While a number of Brown students support Sanders, Jackson added that she believes most would be willing to back Clinton if she wins the nomination. “Especially given the Republican nominee, people will definitely want to rally against them. …

That will help to solidify Democratic support for Hillary,” she said.

“She laid out a very clear mission for what she wants to do and how she wants to make America much better,” said Jeffrey Salvadore ’17, president of Brown Democrats. “That’s why I’m supporting her — because she has really achievable goals, and she knows how to communicate them really well.”

In her campaign, Clinton has received wide support from Rhode Island politicians and figures and was introduced on Saturday by U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin, D-RI, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI and U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI. She was also introduced by Gov. Gina Raimondo, who praised Clinton’s plan to “build an economy from the middle up, not the top down.”

U.S. Rep. David Cicilline ’83, DRI, stumped for Clinton on campus Friday along with Cecile Richards ’80, president of Planned Parenthood, and Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan.

Cicilline praised Clinton’s experience and capabilities as a leader, something he contrasted with the characteristics of her Democratic Primary opponent,

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT. “Bernie has good ideas, but Hillary is tested against Republican attacks,” Cicilline said. At the rally Saturday Clinton rarely mentioned Sanders, whom she referred to as her “esteemed opponent,” and instead focused her criticism on the Republican presidential candidates whose tones she deemed vitriolic and dangerous.

“Donald Trump keeps saying things, and if we buy them, shame on us,” Clinton said, adding, “He wants to go after every right we have.” Clinton often used Trump’s infamously controversial statements to demonstrate his inability to lead, especially in terms of foreign policy.

“When you’re trying to form a coalition against ISIS, you can’t insult the religion of your coalition members,” Clinton said, referring to Trump’s proposal of a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, was also in Clinton’s crosshairs, receiving a mention for comments he has made about special policing of Muslims in New York.

“The best response to this comes from the NYPD commissioner himself: Ted Cruz doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about,” Clinton said, referring to Commissioner William Bratton’s comments on the issue. Clinton limited her criticisms to Trump and Cruz, not once mentioning Republican candidate Gov. John Kasich by name.

Clinton herself is performing well in Rhode Island. A Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy poll released Sunday found that Clinton leads Sanders by nine percentage points — 43 percent to 34 percent — among likely primary voters.

Despite her strong showing, Clinton still tried to garner every vote possible, imploring audience members to vote in the upcoming primary.

“If you vote for me Tuesday, I will stand up and fight for you through this campaign all the way into the White House,” she said.

Nascent club hosts first DataFest Students tasked with analyzing data, creating presentation to win inaugural competition

By HATTIE XU STAFF WRITER

After being presented with four gigabytes worth of data ­— the equivalent of roughly 1,000 songs or 1,740 pictures, according to the Huffington Post — competitors at Brown’s first DataFest were afforded just a day and a half to extrapolate something meaningful from them.

DataFest was organized by Brown Data Science, a newly formed club that offers workshops, supports projects and promotes the learning of data science, said Tanay Padhi ’17, the club’s cofounder and co-president. The event was also organized with support from the Department of Computer Science and the Data Science Initiative — a “cross-departmental program that seeks to integrate data science into the current curriculum at Brown,” according to the club’s website.

Five teams of up to three students each worked primarily in the Center for Information Technology to analyze the data and create a final presentation of their findings, said Sachin Pendse ’17, vice president of events and education for Brown Data Science.

The data set used in the competition was provided by the American Statistical Association, which helps organize DataFests at other universities, Padhi said. Because the data set will be used in upcoming DataFests, organizers are not allowed to disclose the specific information it contains, he said.

Presentations were judged by Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics Neil Sarkar, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Tim Kraska and Dmitri Lemmerman ’05, a representative from sponsor Two

Sigma, a hedge fund that uses digital technology to manage investments.

After some deliberation, judges awarded the status of “best visualization” to Ian Pan ’16, who created an interface that allows users to comb through data.

“We really looked for something that was beyond the standard bar graph,” Sarkar said. “The winner really was able to allow for hypothesis generating and exploring the data in a way we thought was interactive and visually stunning.”

“Best insight” went to the team of Nikolas Baya ’18, Anthony Cruz ’18 and Jason Wang ’18, who used the programming language Python to sort through the data set, Baya said.

They then created graphs and maps examining when advertisements are most effective in a sports season and how advertisements are targeted in the industry, Cruz said.

“For ‘best insight,’ we were looking for completeness in terms of considering (all variables),” Sarkar said. “(We wanted to know) how they went through the data-cleaning process, … if thought was given to the types of statistics they should use and why they chose to use them. The winner went through all those things really methodically.”

The winners received prizes that included an Amazon Kindle Fire, a Garmin Vivofit and a Tile — a Bluetooth tracking device.

Throughout the weekend, upperclassmen hosted workshops on data visualization and other data and computer science topics, such as “Exploring Genomic Data Science” and “Deep Learning: The Future of Machine Intelligence.” Participants of DataFest who chose not to compete were strongly encouraged to attend these workshops, Pendse said.

Edwin Hidalgo ’17, who attended the workshop “Sports Analytics,” said he admired the speaker’s passion and enjoyed learning how data can be applied beyond an academic setting.

Alum helps improve education access in South Africa Victoria Leonard ’15 teaches classes on hygiene, health, incorporating info about structural racism

By HATTIE XU STAFF WRITER

Approximately 29 percent of the class of 2015’s graduates have entered the nonprofit sector, and though it has been less than a year since their graduation, some alums are already making a far-reaching impact.

This winter, Victoria Leonard ’15, who studied political science and religious studies, worked in South Africa alongside a group of eight people as part of a medical mission for the nonprofit organization Universal Promise, she said. The group included Victoria’s mother, physician Kathryne Leonard P’15, and Victoria’s eighth-grade math teacher and UP founder Martha Cummings, she said.

The team worked in the impoverished region of Addo, where locals do not have immediate or dependable access to clean water, social services,

emergency services or trash collection, Cummings said. Roads are broken and “nearly impassable, especially when it rains,” and schools are underserved, she added.

Though UP’s main focus is improving access to education, the organization also works to provide food, clean water, health services and other resources that are inextricably linked to education, Cummings said. UP believes that inadequate access to basic life necessities impedes the ability of students to learn, so the organization aims to improve education access on all fronts, she said.

“The initiative was three-pronged,” Victoria said. “We tried to address the systemic causes of poor health, and therefore poor education.”

Over the course of two weeks, Victoria led community seminars teaching locals about hygiene, nutrition, exercise and other health-related issues, she said. The seminars were popular, forcing the classes to relocate to accommodate such a large audience. At one point, approximately 250 people attended her class, Victoria said.

Victoria “has focused on the longstanding impact of structural racism, not only in a theoretical way in the classroom, but in a practical way as well,” Cummings said. “She was seamless in her transition into the community we serve.”

Meanwhile, Kathryne went doorto-door offering physical examinations to locals in Addo, checking vital signs and offering testing for HIV/ AIDS, tuberculosis and pregnancy, Kathryne said.

Another point of focus for the group is renovating the clinic in Addo, Victoria said. UP has already reached its goal of raising $20,000 in an online campaign aimed to double the size of the pharmacy and waiting room, she said.

Each time UP visits Addo, team members are enthusiastically welcomed by the community, Cummings said. Children greet the volunteers through ceremonies, songs, dances and hugs. They have even nicknamed Victoria “Sisipho,” which means “gift” in Xhosa, and Cummings “Nobuntu,” which means “humanity,” she said.

Though UP’s work requires intense

dedication, Victoria and Kathryne have found their experiences immensely rewarding. Victoria said it was “incredibly moving and empowering” to watch her mother practice medicine, which she had never seen before.

“I’d traveled to the continent several times before, and my mom has always been worried about me,” Victoria said. “Sharing this experience with her and having her see what I do put her a little bit more at ease, and she gained some understanding into why I want to do what I want to do.”

“Victoria really wants to work in South Africa — she just loves it there,” Kathryne said. “I wanted to go to South Africa to see what she was in love with.”

But more than anything, the team emphasizes that the focus should be on the Addo community instead of UP’s work. “It’s so much more about the stories of the people of Addo, how they’re taking care of each other, how they’re fighting through an enormously racist institution and how they’re empowering themselves,” Victoria said. “They’re the real heroes here.”

Hidalgo also co-hosted the workshop “Discussion on Health and Wellness in CS” with Martin Zhu ’17, vice president of operations of BDS. The group hopes to partner with Women in Computer Science and Brown Active Minds to host a larger discussion on the same topic during reading period, Pendse said.

In his keynote address during the closing ceremony, Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Computing and Information Services Ravi Pendse P’17 highlighted the proliferation of technology over the past five years and how data and data science have impacted the daily lives of millions of people. Pendse challenged and encouraged students to face problems — some created by data itself — using data science.

“With your human ingenuity and the power of data science, I have no doubt that the world that I’ll see in the next 10 years or so will be a much more enhanced world and a better world for all of us,” Pendse said.

The BDS executive board hopes to grow the DataFest next year to reach more participants and competitors, Sachin Pendse said. But the goal is “not so much quantitative,” Padhi said. “It is to ensure that students who are interested in (data science) but lack confidence do have the confidence to do this type of work.”

BDS was founded because, despite great interest in data science on campus, Brown lacked spaces for students to share and develop that interest besides “a few high-level classes,” Padhi said.

The group believes that data science can be applied to every field, whether that application means conducting topical analyses of texts in literature or predicting outcomes in international relations, Sachin Pendse said. “Not only do we have people who want to become data scientists, we also have people who could use data science as part of their work,” Padhi said.

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Bruno defeats Dartmouth for first Ivy win Mangiarotti ’18, Verni ’19 pace high-powered offense to help Bears secure first Ivy League win of season

By NICHOLAS WEY STAFF WRITER

Coming off a tough loss against Columbia last week, the women’s lacrosse team looked to reverse the script and secure its first Ivy League victory Saturday against Dartmouth. Despite the cloudy sky and cold weather, the victory was sweet. Brown (6-8, 1-5 Ivy) dominated the majority of the game to secure a convincing 8-5 win over the Big Green (6-8, 2-4).

Bruno’s elimination from Ivy title contention last week did not make this game any less meaningful. In a season when the team has largely measured its success not in terms of wins but rather in its unrelenting effort and determination, the Bears were ready to leave everything on the field.

“Play from your heart. Play with your gut. Play for pride.” These were the final words of Head Coach Keely McDonald ’00 in the pregame huddle before the team took the field.

In a unique and humbling tweak to the pregame, McDonald hung up stories written by women’s lacrosse alums on the walls of the locker room so that the players could read them on game day. According to McDonald, some were about memories from a game against Dartmouth in years past, some discussed what they learned from being a competitor, and others were about player mentality.

“It got us connected to something much bigger than ourselves,” McDonald said. “I think that allowed the players to be hyper-focused for the game in a way that they hadn’t all season long.”

Dartmouth drew first blood, with two quick goals in an attempt to set the tone for the rest of the game. The Big

Green netted its first score just a minute into the matchup. Despite a nice save by goalie Victoria Holland ’16 against a free position attempt, Dartmouth junior midfielder Taryn Deck scooped up and flicked in the deflected ground ball.

Then just two minutes later — after securing its first stop of the game — Bruno was unable to move the ball up the field against a strong Dartmouth full-field press. The Bears bobbled a pass and turned the ball over, which resulted in another Dartmouth goal.

But the Bears quickly snapped out of this funk. “What we focused on pregame was being 1-0 every play regardless of the score,” McDonald said.

After traveling the length of the field in a fast break that left the Big Green behind and disorganized, midfielder Jillian Lee ’17 found attacker Rose Mangiarotti ’18 cutting to goal. Mangiarotti collected the ball and calmly netted her 12th goal of the season, putting the Bears on the board.

Momentum seemed to switch, as Brown secured the ensuing draw control, captain Dianne Vitkus ’16 scored again less than a minute after. With the score now 2-2, to the excitement of fans and players alike, the Bears almost instantaneously erased the deficit.

Bruno’s offense did not stop. Rookie phenom Zoe Verni ’19 steamed ahead to score two goals of her own before the end of the first half — one with just one second left on the clock. This closed the first half with a four-goal run by the Bears that put them up 4-2.

But Dartmouth charged into the second half with vengeance, scoring a goal at 22:52 to cut the Bears’ lead in half to just one goal and then slotting in another under a minute later to draw even once again.

Then the action switched to the defensive end. In the ensuing minutes, defensive stops by both teams and numerous changes in possession were the

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Zoe Verni ’19 looks to score against Dartmouth. The first-year tallied two goals to bring her season total to nine. narrative as time wound down. And the game remained tied at four goals apiece.

But Mangiarotti stepped up big for the Bears with a bouncing shot at 18:39 that fooled Dartmouth’s goalie and found its way to the back of the net. The goal — Mangiarotti’s second of the game — ended Brown’s 12-minute scoreless drought and put the Bears back up by one. Shortly after, insurance goals by midfielder Kerianne Hunt ’17 and starter Hafsa Moinuddin ’19 at 11:38 and 9:52, respectively, increased the Bears’ lead to three with the score now 7-4, a valuable cushion for Bruno.

Moinuddin marked the fifth different Brown player to score in the game, a huge leap from the narrative of most other matchups this season, which has pushed offensive productivity almost solely on the shoulders of captain Lauren Toy ’16.

“One of our rules of engagement is that all seven players are a threat,” McDonald said. “We didn’t truly get that until yesterday.”

For the remaining eight minutes, the Bears dominated possession and employed a keep-away scheme to close out the win. It was only icing on the cake when Toy easily put away a free position goal after taking

a hard foul from Dartmouth’s frustrated defense.

Dartmouth scored once more at 4:06, but this rally was not enough to escape its sizable deficit. As the clock wound down, the score read 8-5 in favor of the Bears.

In a tough season for Brown, this win against Dartmouth was a definite highlight and a glimpse at what the Bears could do when performing at their best.

Luckily for Bruno, the team has a lot of young stars who will carry the mantle for many seasons to come.

“This 2016 group has taught everyone so much. It would have been easy to pack it in after a tough loss to Columbia, but this group is teaching everyone what it means to compete,” McDonald said. “The freshmen and sophomores now know what it takes to win an Ivy-League game.

Now it’s in their blood.”

In their final matchup of the season, the Bears will host No. 10 Princeton Saturday at 1 p.m., a game that the team will look to win and end the season on a high note.

But when discussing its preparation for the game, McDonald noted that the team’s mentality is always the same: “The fight of an underdog, but the culture of a champion.”

» M. LACROSSE, from page 1 team embodies, the results wouldn’t be the same.

On defense, Bruno was carried by the always sensational play of Jack Kelly ’16, who stopped 12 of 17 shots that came his way. Kelly leads the nation in save percentage at 61.4 percent. Larken Kemp ’17 and Will Gural ’16 also played their parts, each collecting a team-high six ground balls.

Come Saturday afternoon in Ithaca, it was smooth sailing from the start for the Bears, as they raced out to a 3-0 lead in the opening minutes. Matt Graham ’16 kicked things off at the 46-second mark and Caputo followed up just a minute later. Then it was Molloy’s turn, who began his big day with a goal to put Bruno up by three. Cornell managed to cut the deficit to two several minutes later, but the Bears responded by scoring three times in less than 60 seconds. The 6-1 advantage would hold for the rest of the quarter, leaving Bruno in solid position to take control of the game in the following frame.

The second period got off to a similar start for the Bears when Blynn tallied his second goal of the day. Cornell once again showed that it wouldn’t go down without a fight, bringing the deficit back to five just two minutes later. But Bruno softened any hopes of a comeback by firing off three straight goals and taking a commanding 10-2 lead.

As the first half came to a close, the Big Red managed to grab another goal and gained a bit of momentum after also scoring first in the third quarter.

But the Bears had no intentions of relinquishing the lead. After going scoreless for 15 minutes, Bruno tallied the last four goals of the third frame to build its largest lead of the game at 14-4.

Despite holding a 10-goal lead, the Bears kept looking better and better Saturday, as they outscored Cornell 8-1 in the final period. The final count of 22 goals was a season-high for the team, and its 17-goal win also marked its largest margin of victory on the season.

Bruno will look to keep the momentum going as it prepares to square off against a struggling Dartmouth team at home Wednesday. The Big Green (112, 0-5) have lost eight straight games and kicked off that streak by falling at home to NJIT, a program that gained varsity status last season and had not won a varsity game before winning in Hanover. A win against the Big Green would give the Bears an outright Ivy League title and an undefeated record in conference play. With a matchup against a historically strong Virginia program Saturday, Bruno must be cautious in overlooking a Dartmouth squad that will be eager to spoil the team’s bid for Ivy League perfection.

“We understand that we’re going to have a very busy couple weeks coming up,” Blynn said. “We’re going to focus on tightening everything up, whether it be offensive or defensive sets.”

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Grossman ’00 protesters misunderstand cultural appropriation ANUJ KRISHNAMURTHY staff columnist Thursday night, protesters gathered at an event sponsored by the Contemplative Studies Department and decried the performance of a Brown alum — Carrie Grossman ’00, a white woman — who chanted Hindu hymns. For sure, their frustration stemmed from a fairly reasonable place: Hindus, Indians and south Asians more generally, after centuries of colonization and material exploitation, have seen elements of their cultures systematically dissected, insouciantly exported and insensitively lampooned by the Western world.

Unfortunately, in their gratuitous arraignment of Grossman and in their misguided “defense” of Hinduism, the protesters severely missed the mark. Most egregiously, in erecting race-based access to a central feature of the faith, they demonstrated a flagrant misunderstanding of what Hinduism, a religion whose characteristics transcend encyclopedic enumeration, really stands for. Now, I can’t speak for those who subscribe to other religions, but I do know this: Hinduism, unlike other belief systems, derives its immemorial appeal from its tremendous capacity for tolerance, individualism and diversity. In short, Hinduism is, by deliberate design, disorganized and customizable. You can be anyone, come from anywhere or believe in any god — and still have a legitimate stake in and claim over Hinduism. As Jonardon Ganeri, a profes-

sor of philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi, observes, “Hinduism is a banyan tree … supported by not one but many trunks.”

Therein lies the religion’s inscrutable, paradoxical magic: At once, everyone can be a Hindu, but Hinduism belongs to no one, in the same way any bird can nest in a banyan tree, but no bird owns the whole thing. As a Hindu myself, I am free — and liberally empowered, by the marvelous Indian practices of intricate narrative construction and col-

Hindu culture, is permitted — not by any single person, or college protester, but by thousands of years of vibrant, unencumbered tradition — to forge her own Hindu path.

In fact, Grossman exhibited a robust awareness of Hinduism’s most critical component, one that many Hindus, including me, are unfamiliar with: chanting. Verbalization, not lengthy written texts or elaborate places of worship, is the principal medium by which Hindus have interacted with the faith. In the Rig

ed understanding of Hinduism.

The primary problem the protesters had with Grossman, it seems, then, was not her knowledge or admiration of Hinduism, but her race.

But the visceral association of whiteness with cultural appropriation is both a grave injustice against the welcoming foundations of Hinduism and a significant impediment to intercultural exchange more broadly. Of course, cultural appropriation, in all its nebulous forms, is unacceptable — I don’t seek to defend it

The visceral association of whiteness with cultural appropriation is both a grave injustice against the welcoming foundations of Hinduism and a significant impediment to intercultural exchange more broadly.

orful storytelling — to cultivate my spiritual interests in any way I deem fit. For instance, I’m no vegetarian, and I keep a small statue of Ganesh, the elephant god, on my desk and carry a pocket-copy of the Hanuman Chalisa in my backpack. But by no means am I allowed to trespass on someone else’s negotiation of Hinduism, even if they fail to resemble the faith’s more typical adherents. (Besides, no one appointed the protesters guardians of Hinduism. What right do they have to deny the faith to anybody?) Grossman, whose website conspicuously illustrates a profound respect for

Veda — an ancient collection of hymns sustained through oral communication that provides much of the foundation for contemporary Hinduism — speech is exalted. It is said, “when the wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve, then friends recognized their friendships.” Speech is how we measure our minds, comprehend the world around us and, most importantly, identify those in whom we can find love and support. Contrary to the protesters’ allegations, Grossman, in her resounding appreciation for chanting, wielded a well-found-

here. Even the Hindu community, with its striking openness and polycentricity, has suffered from its profiteering grasp. “Color Runs,” for example — trademarked 5K races in which runners are bombarded with powdery color — is an unadulterated co-opting of the Hindu holiday Holi. But what makes “Color Runs” so strange and off-putting isn’t the participation of white people; it’s that a for-profit company, in its pursuit of money and worldwide expansion, shamelessly circumvents the millennia-old human culture from which its whole business model originated. Intentional, self-ag-

grandizing ignorance is a far worse crime than race. This is exactly why admission to Hinduism along purely racial lines, a novel notion implicitly espoused by the protesters in their emphasis on Grossman’s complexion, so irreparably damages the faith and undercuts its essential tenets.

Indeed, Grossman’s whiteness should not, and cannot, be the single factor that precludes her from expressing genuine artistic and scholarly interest in Hinduism. My brownness does not make me a better Hindu — that’s a self-evidently absurd proposition. By the same token, Grossman’s white skin does not automatically make her a worse, or less deserving, practitioner of Hindu chanting. When the protesters challenged Grossman’s performance solely because of her appearance, they retrogressively emulated the same kind of close-minded othering that kept Hindus and south Asians under imperial enslavement for hundreds of years.

And, it may just be me, but I find it wonderful that people outside of India, with all sorts of racial and national backgrounds, are beginning to seriously study and treasure Hinduism. After all, real compensation for historical wrongs occurs not when the oppressed exact exclusionary revenge on white people, but when whites are encouraged to cast off ingrained, xenophobic worldviews and explore, with their own eyes, the value of the developing world’s cultures.

Anuj Krishnamurthy ’19 can be reached at anuj_krishnamurthy@brown.edu.

Open for whom?

VAUGHN CAMPBELL staff columnist When I came to Brown, I was told time and again about the relaxed nature of the open curriculum. I heard stories of the guy who took every class here S/NC, the girl who decided to switch her concentration at the beginning of her senior year and of every other student, it seemed, for whom the sophomore spring concentration deadline came before she was ready to declare.

These stories (and more) all work wonderfully to calm incoming freshmen about the academic flexibility Brown affords, yet they belie the actual nature of academics here. It is often assumed that students will have a strong enough foundation in a variety of disciplines to take the most interesting classes in each concentration. But for someone like me who went to a small public high school in southern West Virginia, this assumption is frankly ridiculous.

For example, many science, technology, engineering and math concentrations expect you to be prepared to take MATH 0100: “Introductory Calculus, Part II” or CHEM 0330: “Equilibrium, Rate and Structure” right out of the gate just to be “on track.” Yet I took every math class available to me in high school and still felt unprepared taking MATH 0100. I am not the

only one.

This tendency also pervades disciplines outside of the hard sciences. For example, the international relations concentration requires that you take six semesters of a language class at the University level to graduate. For students without significant language background, it

for those without rigorous preparation for academics, the lackadaisical curriculum must be accompanied by an equally lackadaisical ambition. And so the stories we have been told about all of these students who came before us have a caveat: These students did this and got by, or they performed academic acrobatics to meet

For those without rigorous preparation for academics, the lackadaisical curriculum must be accompanied by an equally lackadaisical ambition.

makes the effective concentration deadline for IR a full year earlier than what is stated — if you haven’t started a language by the beginning of your sophomore year, you wont be able to finish on time. Some language departments offer accelerated tracks, but students should not need to take language courses as quickly as possible to meet basic concentration standards.

What I wasn’t told when I got here is that,

their goals. If you have a desire to excel, this blanket depiction of academic freedom given to Brown students is, in fact, quite misleading.

For many of us, the road to success is longer, so the ability to experiment in the classroom is curtailed.

This isn’t to say that there’s something wrong with someone who takes every class S/ NC. Everyone places importance on different

things, and these students doubtlessly learn a great deal. One of the wonderful things about Brown is that it is possible to take worth from a wide variety of places, not just your classes. But what we aren’t told is that these kinds of choices limit you in the long term.

And the way we talk about Brown to freshmen and prospective students does them a disservice. It isn’t until sophomore spring that anyone takes back this fiction. It is generally around this time of your second year that you learn that your academic choices actually do matter for more reasons than you were originally told. For example, unless you’re pre-med, the first time anyone tells you why your grades matter is when you learn that, for many concentrations, you have to be an honors student to write a thesis. Freshman year, that was a delineation I wasn’t even sure existed, but as it turns out, it has the potential to severely limit what I am able to do while here.

This can be compounded for those who went to somewhat lower-quality high schools or were denied opportunity in some other way.

While it is nice to think that however we got here, we now sit on a level playing field, this is not the case. The open curriculum isn’t as open as we’d like to think.

Vaughn Campbell ’18 can be reached at vaughn_campbell@brown.edu.

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Stagnant offense gets Bears swept French ’16 leads Bruno After promising start to Ivy League play, Bruno extends losing streak to 11 against strong opponents

By JAMES SCHAPIRO STAFF WRITER

The softball team has outperformed expectations this season and played better than its record indicates, but it seems the team simply cannot catch a break.

After being swept by league-leading Dartmouth last weekend despite putting up a fight, the Bears (16-21, 5-11 Ivy) began their four-game weekend series at Harvard on a seven-game losing streak.

Mirroring recent troubles, they fell victim to errors, and even with a late rally to tie the game, could not pull out a win in game one.

The Crimson (25-14, 13-3) scored two unearned runs in the first, added one in the second and three more in the fourth. Meanwhile, Brown recorded only two hits through five scoreless innings.

But this year’s Bears have a penchant for the dramatic: Twice, they’ve staged four-run rallies in their last at-bat. After RBIs in the sixth from Ashli Lotz ’19 and Christina Andrews ’17, Bruno came to bat in the seventh.

Grayson Metzger ’18 has transitioned gracefully into a utility role this season: She’s appeared in 20 games but has taken only 23 at-bats. Through her irregular playing time, she’s put up an on-base percentage of .357, up from .283 last

year. Entering as a pinch-hitter against Harvard, she came through again, driving a double to right and scoring two.

Two batters later, Yeram Park ’18 stood at bat with the bases empty, representing the tying run. Against Dartmouth last weekend, Park sent a line drive down the right field line that was ruled foul, despite appearing to glance off the foul pole.

This time, there was no doubt about it. Park homered to left, tying the contest.

Three outs from Katie Orona ’18 later, the game went to extras.

But again, the Bears’ luck turned against them. Bruno loaded the bases in the top of the frame but failed to score.

In the bottom of the inning, Harvard took advantage of an Andrews throwing error to load the bases. Catherine Callaway put the ball in play, and Elizabeth Shively beat the throw home, winning the game for the Crimson.

In game two, Bruno fell behind once again but never made a comeback.

With Leah Nakashima ’17 on the mound, Bruno allowed four runs in the first inning, two in the second and one each in the third and fourth. As the Bears failed to score, by rule, the game was ended after five innings.

Sunday, the Bears looked to salvage the weekend with at least one win in two more games against Harvard. But Bruno’s losing ways continued, as the Crimson proved too much for the Bears to handle.

All season, the Bears have worked from behind, often falling victim to irreversible deficits. But in Sunday afternoon’s first game, it was Bruno that jumped out

to an early 2-0 lead on a first-inning RBI single from Sarah Syrop ’17.

But Harvard erased the lead in its half of the first with three runs and added another in the second. Bruno was stymied after the first, recording only three hits and not scoring through the end of the game.

For the Bears, the inability to sustain an offensive attack has become an unfortunate trademark. In Sunday’s finale, while Bruno appeared briefly to have found its offensive rhythm, it simply was not to be.

After the Bears scored once in the top of the first, they fell behind again, as the Crimson answered with a pair of runs. After Bruno retook the lead with two runs in the third and another in the fifth, the Crimson answered back with three more of their own. And then, in the bottom of the sixth, Harvard, with three swings of the bat that drove in six runs, took the game out of the Bears’ hands.

It was perhaps the Bears’ worst weekend of the season: They lost all four games while scoring only 12 runs and allowing 32. After a weekend against Dartmouth that, despite ending without a win, showed some signs of encouragement, the performance was particularly crushing.

Four games remain in Bruno’s season: two doubleheaders, home and away, Friday and Saturday against Yale. The Bears, who have lost 11 straight, have just one chance to secure some wins and bring their record back to something resembling a successful season.

to lone win over Harvard Senior totals 11 strikeouts in Sunday victory, Bears fall in three close contests to division rival Harvard

By BEN SHUMATE SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The men’s baseball team traveled north to take on Red Rolfe division foe Harvard in a four-game series Saturday and Sunday.

Harvard 2, Brown 1 Starting pitcher Christian Taugner ’17 looked to stay perfect in Ivy play with what would have been his fourth-straight win against the Crimson (15-21, 8-8 Ivy).

The junior was even more dominant than usual early in the contest, as he racked up seven strikeouts in 3.2 innings. But Harvard still managed to grab an early 1-0 lead off a Brown (12-22, 6-10) error in the bottom of the second.

The Bears tied the game in the top of the fifth thanks to an RBI single by Sam Grigo ’18, but Harvard responded with a run in the following frame.

Harvard starter Nick Gruener matched Taugner all game, locking up the complete-game win with a 1-2-3 seventh inning.

Taugner finished having thrown six innings, allowing only five hits and walking none. Bruno managed five hits, including two from Kevin Guthrie ’16.

Harvard 4, Brown 3 Harvard jumped out to a 3-1 lead after one inning in Saturday’s second contest. Reid Anderson ’18 was on the hill for Brown, still in search of his first win of the season.

Jake Levine ’16 hit a solo home run in the third to bring the Bears within one.

Anderson regrouped after a shaky first inning, dueling with Harvard starter Sean Poppen and holding down the Crimson offense as the game progressed.

Anderson threw seven innings, letting up three earned runs and striking out eight.

“It’s always been said that ‘good pitching beats good hitting,’ and I think this was an instance where it was just tough to get that big hit when we needed it,” said Head Coach Grant Achilles. “We certainly had chances, but they did a really good job executing their pitching.”

Brown trailed 4-2 heading into the top of the ninth, but a comeback looked possible as Brian Ginsberg ’18 deposited a pitch from Harvard’s Nick Scahill over the left-field fence with one out. But Scahill regrouped to record the final two outs and complete the Saturday sweep.

Brown hitters struck out 11 times in the contest, while adding seven hits.

Brown 6, Harvard 0 Bruno jumped out to an early 3-0 lead with a five-hit bottom of the third, highlighted by RBI singles from Levine and Guthrie.

Austin French ’16 looked to snap a three-game losing streak on the mound for the Bears. The senior was dominant from start to finish, racking up 11 strikeouts, seven of which came in the first three innings. Harvard managed just five hits off French in what was arguably his most impressive start of the season.

“French threw the ball really well and kept hitters off balance,” Achilles said.

“Anytime you get a performance like that, it’s usually just going to take one or two runs to beat the other team.”

Brown added three more runs in the sixth to put the game out of reach, courtesy of a bases-clearing double from Josh Huntley ’17.

Harvard 6, Brown 0 The tables turned for the Bears in game two, as the Crimson used a steady offensive output to put the game away early.

Harvard totaled 10 hits and all six of its runs in the first 3.2 innings off of Brown starter Max Ritchie ’17. Harvard’s Shaun Rubin was stellar in comparison, going seven innings for the victory.

Bobby Leyman ’19, JJ Sliepka ’19 and Dante Bosnic ’18 combined to hold Harvard scoreless over 4.1 innings out of the bullpen.

Bruno will host Ocean State rival Bryant Tuesday before a home-and-home series with division-leader Yale Friday and Saturday. The Bears need a 4-0 weekend and a series split between Harvard and Dartmouth to have a chance at sneaking into the Ivy League Championship series as division champions.

“The biggest part is just to remember that we’re good when we stick to who we are,” Achilles said.