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Divest Coal Lecture addresses global human rights emergencies Director of Human Rights expands Watch critiques Obama, principled goals under encourages decision-making new name

By LINDSAY GANTZ SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Fossil Free Brown, green activist group, urges divestment from top 200 fossil fuel firms

By HANNAH KERMAN STAFF WRITER

One year after the Corporation voted not to divest the University’s endowment from the country’s 15 biggest coal companies, the Brown Divest Coal Campaign is redoubling its efforts, changing its name to Fossil Free Brown and altering its mission to divesting from the top 200 fossil fuel companies in the world.

Divestment from fossil fuels has always been part of the group’s broad mission, said Ryan Greene ’16, » See DIVEST, page 9

Though several of the world’s current human rights crises can be attributed to several potentially valid explanations, “a big part of the problem has been a seeming pragmatism that Obama has sometimes been championed for, but has too often degenerated into a short-sightedness that has repeatedly led us into trouble,” said Kenneth Roth ’77 P’12, executive director of Human Rights Watch, at the start of a lecture Thursday evening.

Roth delivered the 89th annual Stephen A. Ogden ’60 memorial lecture to a crowd of mostly students and faculty members in Metcalf Auditorium.

President Christina Paxson began her introduction by saying Roth “began his training” for his current work while at Brown, where he devoted a large part of his undergraduate career to studying the “morality of public policy.”

Roth focused on contemporary

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“In times of tumult like we’re in today, you need some kind of guiding compass to prevent a resort to shortsightedness,” said Kenneth Roth ’77 P’12 in a lecture Thursday focusing on human rights issues. human rights crises during his lecture, entitled “Making Sense of Today’s Tumultuous World.”

Compared to Obama’s pragmatism, Roth said, “I will argue that a more principled approach, even if in classic terms

may be seen as less realist and less pragmatic, would actually have been more productive and will provide us a compass going forward for trying to extract us from some of these messes.”

Roth presented a case-by-case

analysis of violence in the Middle East and North Africa, beginning with American involvement in Iraq.

“I think what Obama has done since the formal departure from Iraq » See RIGHTS, page 2

Interdisciplinary panel O’Donnell ’15 takes aim at record critiques Ebola response Bears host Lehigh, FIELD HOCKEY

Underequipped hospitals, lack of countermeasures and poor responses speed spread of disease

Providence in potentially historic weekend on Goldberger Family Field

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Meghan O’Donnell ’15 sprints past a downed defender. The forward, Bruno’s centerpiece on offense, has already scored seven goals this season. been a pleasure working with her, and she’s truly developed over the past four years into a very dangerous opponent for other teams to take seriously.”

How unlikely is it for O’Donnell not to score this weekend? In the last three years, she has only gone without a goal in a three-game stretch three times — ­­­ twice back in her sophomore year and once this year.

Since she didn’t score in the team’s most recent game against Quinnipiac, it’s therefore unlikely she will make it out of the weekend without the record-breaking tally. If she does go three games without a goal for

just the fourth time in three years, don’t worry: After her first season, this week’s Ivy Player of the Week has scored six total goals in the three games that have followed a threegame slump.

“I can’t wait for it to happen,” Reeve said. “I haven’t even talked about it with her because I don’t want it to be a distraction. The record will be broken by (O’Donnell) by just doing what she does best, and that’s run hard, create havoc and finish when the opportunity arises.”

Up first for O’Donnell and Bruno (6-3, 1-2 Ivy) are the Mountain » See F. HOCKEY, page 4

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“Staff, stuff and systems” are the keys to remedying the recent Ebola outbreak, said Sheena Wood ’13, a strategist for the nongovernmental organization Partners in Health, at a teach-in about the disease Thursday evening.

The roadblock to the remedy, she added, lies in the fact that most Ebola cases have been concentrated in Western Africa, which has very few of these three countermeasures to disease.

The panel, which consisted of Wood, an anthropologist, a biostatistician, an epidemiologist and a government employee, aimed to “bring different disciplines to talk about the root of the epidemic,” Justine Maher ’15, a community co-coordinator of Partners in Health Engage, told The Herald.

About 100 people gathered in Wilson 102 to hear the panelists address social, political and medical issues surrounding the Ebola outbreak, primarily focusing on its origins and what can be done to slow its course.

Ebola — a severe and often fatal

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After two emotional wins over the weekend and a lethargic loss midweek, the women’s field hockey team hopes to find its form against Lehigh University and crosstown foe Providence College this weekend.

One of these games could also make history: If Meghan O’Donnell ’15 scores her eighth goal of the season and her 39th career goal, she will pass Tara Mounsey ’00 for most goals scored in a Brown uniform.

“It would be really exciting to be able to score the record goal at all this season, but to be able to do it in front of my friends and family on our amazing home turf would be really special to me,” O’Donnell said.

“My dad, mom and brother have been my biggest fans since I started playing sports, and my friends have come to every game they possibly could. I’m extremely lucky to have such great fans and owe my success completely to my family, friends, teammates and coaches.”

“Meghan is a dream athlete to coach,” said Head Coach Jill Reeve.

“She is athletic, passionate and the x-factor is her sense of humor. It’s

disease that spreads through contact with bodily fluids — originated in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo and has seen several subsequent outbreaks, said Jaclyn Skidmore, disease epidemiologist for the Rhode Island Department of Health. But the current outbreak is the largest and deadliest in history, she added.

Much of the spread of the disease can be attributed to the broken governments and health care systems of several Western African countries, said Adia Benton, professor of anthropology. Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, some of the most severely affected countries, have all experienced civil war relatively recently, and health care systems remain devastated from the conflicts.

Some hospitals lack basic supplies, such as gloves, she said, adding that many nurses and doctors fled these countries during the wars, leading to a current understaffing problem.

“These systems were not built to address this kind of outbreak,” Benton said.

The number of infected Ebola patients is growing at an exponential rate due to the poor care that has been taken in response to the outbreak, said Mark Lurie, professor of epidemiology. The infection rate will double every three weeks, he added, » See EBOLA, page 2 t o d ay

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With representatives from each of the Undergraduate Council of Students’ core committees, the Outreach and Advocacy Committee looks to combine the resources and perspectives of its members to advance the goals of UCS from an administrative angle.

UCS committee seeks outreach and communication Committee plans to fulfill last year’s goals, adds aims to diversify faculty and improve CAPS

By CAROLINE KELLY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Following its founding last year, the Outreach and Advocacy Committee of the Undergraduate Council of Students has established a plan for the semester, which will include facilitating student groups’ communications with administrators, prioritizing those groups’ needs and continuing to pursue last year’s projects.

The committee comprises four juniors and four first-years and is led

by UCS Vice President Sazzy Gourley ’16, who has been involved with the council since his freshman year. “My role in leading the committee is basically to bring a big-picture perspective to the work that UCS is doing,” Gourley said. “We know that students are already doing really meaningful work in all of their areas, and we’re hoping that the OAC can … work with them to identify ways that we can support their needs on an administrative level.”

Each OAC member also belongs to a different UCS committee, including Academic and Administrative Affairs, Admissions and Student Services, Campus Life and Student Activities.

As a result, many committee members already have issues they want towork on based on their areas of expertise.

UCS Secretary Andrea Wistuba Behrens ’16 said the mix of class years

» EBOLA, from page 1 with on average, each infected person expected to infect an average of two other people.

The Centers for Disease Control estimates roughly 8,000 confirmed cases of Ebola, but the real count is likely two and a half times that amount, he said.

The infection estimates and fatality rates are often low because many people in West Africa are hesitant to go to a health clinic, Lurie said.

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on the committee could lead to a variety of perspectives. “Upperclassmen will provide perspectives and resources that exist on campus, and the freshmen … will bring in new ideas,” she said. “So I think it will be an interesting dynamic.”

Wistuba Behrens said she intends to focus on issues of sexual assault in her work on the committee. She added that she plans on speaking with the representatives on the Sexual Assault Task Force and UCS President Maahika Srinivasan ’15 about the council’s efforts to engage students with the issue.

UCS Media Director Alana Bhatla ’16 said she hopes the OAC makes students aware of UCS resources and connects them accordingly.

Bhatla, Gourley and Wistuba Behrens have brainstormed “how different members of the committee should approach different topics they’ve dealt with,” Bhatla said. “Different members of UCS meet with different administrators every week and have great relationships with them. We also have all-campus email access and just several other resources that we want to make sure are being utilized the way the student body wants them to be.”

Timothy Ittner ’18, an OAC member who also serves on the UCS Academic and Administrative Affairs committee, said one of his biggest priorities will be increasing the number of faculty members of color, especially in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

“Last spring, we passed a resolution labeling some departments ‘in

crisis’ because they have so few faculty of color,” he said, adding that he looks forward to seeing the results of President Christina Paxson’s stated efforts to hire postdoctoral students who identify as people of color.

Benjamin Gladstone ’18, an OAC member who also belongs to the UCS Student Activities committee, expressed a desire for the OAC to make student voices heard.

“Because Student Activities carries out a similar function in communicating with student groups and student organizations, I have a more general role,” he said. “I think it’s through student organizations that the Brown community expresses its deepest passions.”

Mental health and the efforts of Counseling and Psychological Services are other major issues to discuss, said Helen Gerstenfeld Abreu ’18, an OAC member who also sits on the UCS Admissions and Student Services committee. “We will be trying to work with (CAPS) and asking students and student groups what do they need,” she said.

The OAC should ideally work in conjunction with student groups and other UCS members, Gerstenfeld Abreu said. “It’s teamwork — these are big issues that can’t be addressed by one person,” she added. “The team is very important. It was created to ask for group help on these initiatives.”

Svetoslav Kostov ’18, an OAC member from Admissions and Student Services, expressed the desire to get directly involved with “the more tangible changes to the way

student life runs, going through (the Admissions and Student Services committee) in things that we encounter all the time in shaping the Brown experience,” he said. “This would include communication with all student groups, student leaders (and) prominent interest groups in campus.”

Justice Gaines ’16, a member of the OAC and the UCS Campus Life committee, said he thinks the OAC provides the opportunity to make use of existing student enthusiasm.

“These sorts of issues that are really big for students on campus, where there is a lot of student activism and a lot of student push, (are) where the OAC will be able to … elevate and amplify student voices, especially considering UCS is one of the main ways that administrators connect with students,” he said. In addition to following up on resolutions passed from the previous year dealing with diversity in STEM fields, mental health, divestment from coal and increasing faculty of color, Gaines said he intends to look into student relations with the Office of Residential Life.

Despite the new membership of the OAC this semester, a major theme for the committee will be following up on issues and resolutions from last year, several OAC members said.

The OAC should focus on “previous resolutions and making sure that they’re followed up on,” Kostov said. “If we don’t do anything else, this is the main thing we need to do.

That vouches for the integrity of any institution, that continuity.”

reluctance to see doctors has hindered the treatment of the outbreak, Wood said, adding that some people are scared of becoming infected at a clinic while others mistrust health officials.

The epidemic is probably near its beginning, and the current infection rate will seem small six to nine months from now, Lurie said.

Governments and NGOs have not acted in the most effective way to combat the oncoming rise in infection, he added. For example, screening travelers at airports might be

unnecessary because of the physical effects of the disease when it is contagious. If you are in an infectious state of Ebola, “you won’t be in any condition to get on an airplane,” he said.

“We’re in deep trouble here, and our institutions are not responding properly,” Lurie said.

After the panelists spoke, the floor opened up for audience questions.

One student asked the panel what standard treatment protocols exist for the disease.

Skidmore responded that there is no standard protocol, and the patients

that have been treated were given experimental treatments, if any.

“The Ebola epidemic is growing ever larger and coming to the U.S., and people don’t care too much,” Maher told The Herald. Poor media coverage has exacerbated this problem, which is why the panel is particularly important for enhancing students’ understanding of the disease, she added.

Partners in Health Engage, which organized the teach-in, will host a phone-a-thon Tuesday to raise funds to halt the spread of the disease, Maher said.

has significantly contributed to making things worse,” Roth said. He added that past support of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shaped U.S. policy and that “the United States continued to support Maliki even when there were many signals that we should stop.”

Maliki’s distrust of the Iraqi military led to a reliance on Shiite military forces and an abusive sectarian rule, he said.

Sunni tribes that had opposed al-Qaeda joined with ISIS because they felt safer there than under Maliki. “Obama largely ignored these abuses until ISIS arrived.”

Roth also criticized the U.S. role in Egypt.“The U.S. attitude towards Egypt has basically been to support whoever is there at the moment,” he said. Roth added that the problem with Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the current president of Egypt, is “his reign is actually the most brutal we’ve had in memory,” citing Sisi’s treatment of the Muslim Brotherhood, methods of torture and the silencing of the press.

“Despite this horrible record, the U.S. is sort of embracing this guy,” Roth said.

Regarding the crisis in Gaza, Roth said in the absence of national justice, the persistent warfare should be assessed by the International Criminal Court, an intergovernmental organization that tries international crimes. Palestine could join the court, but it is “under enormous pressure not to do so” from the United States and the European Union, he said, adding that the United States is again “sticking up for friends” and “allowing principles to slide.”

In Nigeria, “Boko Haram has been allowed to flourish” with minimal criticism from the United States, Roth said.

“In times of tumult like we’re in today, you need some kind of guiding compass to prevent a resort to shortsightedness,” Roth concluded, advocating for a “more principled approach” going forward.

After the lecture, Kimberly Saltz ’17 was one of several audience members to pose a question to Roth.

“I’ve been hearing a bit about how when certain groups show one issue prominently it tends to shape diplomacy. … I was wondering what your thoughts on that were,” Saltz said.

“I tend to be more worried about human rights issues being neglected,” Roth answered.

Another audience member asked about how Human Rights Watch addresses “organizational gaps” in making humanitarian crises more visible to the general public. The student cited a moment from a course last semester, in which her professor was unaware of a church bombing in Nigeria that the student had read about online. She questioned why the human rights violation had not gotten more media coverage.

Roth replied that the organization uses the press as a means of motivating governments to action, though continued coverage is not always necessary after a quick United Nations response to incidents.

The nonprofit first goes in with a research staff to conduct “on-the-ground investigations,” when human rights violations come under its radar, he continued.

With “limited staff ” covering over 90 countries, “I’m not sure there’s a lot more we could be doing,” Roth said.

Roth joined the nonprofit, nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch in 1987 and has since worked to conduct investigations and missions, with special attention devoted to international justice, counterterrorism and the United Nations’ work, according to the Human Rights Watch website.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

Student-run businesses create alternative campus jobs Informal services like manicures, haircuts spread through word of mouth to busy students

By KERRI COLFER STAFF WRITER

When most students begin the search for on-campus jobs, they head to the libraries or dining halls. But some select students follow their entrepreneurial spirit, juggling small businesses and full courseloads. By setting up servicebased businesses, students can work according to their own schedule while pursuing their own interests.

Student beautician Roxanne Alaghband ’15 opened her own nail business, Funky Phalanges, during her first year and has offered manicures, pedicures and massages to fellow students ever since.

“I went to beauty school before I came to college, and I wanted to do something with it, so I figured ‘Why not?’” she said.

Launching her own business has

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allowed Alaghband to make money without having to disrupt her busy schedule. “I’m an athlete, so I don’t have time to work full time,” she said.

“This is a way to make money and still do athletics.”

Alaghband charges $12 for a manicure, $20 for a pedicure and $10 for a half-hour massage — all relatively competitive prices compared to rates

Making money was less on the mind of Ardra Hren ’15 when she launched her own hair cutting service during her first year at Brown. Hren said she started the business when she noticed many of her friends did not know where to go or what to do with their hair while away at college.

Though Hren didn’t charge for the cuts initially, students often offered to

“I went to beauty school before I came to college, and I wanted to do something with it, so I figured ‘Why not?’”

Roxanne Alaghband ’15

at established salons on College Hill.

Facing Thayer, the street’s only nail salon, charges $25 for a manicure and $45 for a pedicure, according to the salon’s website.

Alaghband said this year she plans to donate all of the money she makes from the business to help fund the medical school education of a fellow Brown undergraduate.

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Ardra Hren ’15 established her haircutting business as a first-year, after noticing that students did not know where to get haircuts on campus.

pay her or buy her food in exchange, she said. Overwhelmed by the oncampus demand, Hren eventually began charging her clients.

Rosa Sierra ’17 said her hair and makeup services require less time and money than salon alternatives. Sierra started doing hair and makeup for fashion shows as a part of Fashion at Brown but later decided to offer her services to other members of the Brown community.

“I would charge $5 for hair and $5 for makeup because it doesn’t take much time,” she said, adding that she often did her own hair and friends’ hair for events in high school. She said she hopes to be able to offer her services to sororities and students who attend formals and events.

Student-run services offer a more relaxed environment for students who find that off-campus services can be unfriendly or intimidating, Alaghband said. This may be especially true in the case of first-year students who are unfamiliar with local businesses.

Students are often more comfortable and open when dealing with another student than they would be with a professional, Sierra said. “When you know the person that’s doing your hair, I think there’s a higher level of comfort and you can ask them to change something, whereas when you go to a salon you’re kind of shy,” she said.

Because people are frequently too afraid to be outspoken to a stylist in a salon, they walk away disappointed with the outcome, she added.

Alaghband said repeat clients constitute a bulk of her customer base.

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Rose Sierra ’17 — who provided high school friends with hairstyling and makeup — translated her experience to campus.

“It’s nice because it’s a good way to meet people and chat for an hour,” Alaghband said, adding that she has formed close friendships with some of the people that have come to her for manicures.

Convenience can also play a big role in students’ decisions to turn

recommendations.

“It’s nice that another student is doing this for people on campus. It’s more personal and it’s more one-onone time,” said Mira Kaufman ’15, a customer at Funky Phalanges. The experience is different from that of going to a professional off-campus sa-

“It’s nice that another student is doing this for people on campus. It’s more personal and it’s more one-on-one time.”

Mira Kaufman ’15

to their classmates for services, said Alaghband. “I’m totally happy to give a manicure at night” she said.

“Sometimes I’ll get a text at 9 p.m. asking if (someone) can come in for a massage or manicure at 10, which you normally can’t do at other salons.”

While some student businesses like Funky Phalanges choose to advertise with flyers posted around campus, other services have gained their client bases through word-of-mouth

lon, because it is more like “talking to another student or friend,” she added.

Alaghband said the demand for her service increases each year around midterms and finals week as students seek out ways to de-stress.

Working at BUDS or in the library can sometimes be rather passive, Alaghband said. “This gives me the chance to meet and interact with different people and have fun at the same time,” Alaghband said.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

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After dropping a narrow contest to Harvard, the Bears took down the University of Rhode Island to retain the Governor’s Cup. Bruno now turns its attention to Holy Cross, a team that struggles to close out games. The Crusaders have previously been outscored 62-27 in the fourth quarter.

Despite suffering key injuries, Bruno picks up steam Bears enter game against Holy Cross without star linebacker, criticial cog in Bruno’s running game

By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Fresh off its first win of the season, the football team hopes to even out its record when it hosts the College of the Holy Cross Saturday.

The Bears’ (1-2, 0-1 Ivy) season got off to an ignominious start with a loss to Georgetown University, but the team’s performance has improved markedly in the past two weeks. It took a fourth-quarter comeback for reigning Ivy League champion Harvard (3-0, 1-0) to beat Bruno, and the Bears beat the University of Rhode Island (0-6) in the 99th battle for the Governor’s Cup last Saturday.

The Bears head into their

upcoming game with the Crusaders (2-4) without the pressure of trying to get a monkey off their back.

“Guys are getting more confident,” said defensive captain and linebacker Dan Giovacchini ’15.

Head Coach Phil Estes P’18 had a more measured take on the mood after the win against URI. “The guys were out here, enthusiastic, but I think it was business as usual,” he said. “One thing about these guys, they do a good job of throwing the losses away, and I think they do a good job, when we win, to put that aside and focus on the next opponent.”

Unfortunately, the Bears were dealt a pair of big injury blows on their way to their triumphant win. Giovacchini

was injured on the game’s penultimate play, suffering a high ankle sprain, and will miss this week’s game.

Estes said he appreciates all that his captain brings but has confidence in his defense and backup linebacker Max Tylki ’17.

“We lost (Giovacchini) in the second half of the Harvard game, and Max Tylki came in and did a nice job,” he said. “But any time you lose your captain, you lose the emotional side of it as well as the physical side. It always hurts because he’s a great leader and has a lot of experience, but this creates an opportunity for someone else to step up.”

In a painful turn of events for a struggling Bruno offense, the other major injury for the Bears was backup quarterback Seth Rosenbauer’s ’16 head injury. A large part of Bruno’s

success against the Rams, the 6-foot-5, 235-pound human tank entered the game at tailback and proceeded to shred the Rams’ defensive line, rushing for 53 yards on just 10 carries.

For reference, starting running back Andrew Coke ’16 gained eight more yards on 12 more carries. It still remains unclear if Rosenbauer will play against Holy Cross.

Estes said Rosenbauer “did a great job” against the Rams and will be “a big part” of the offense if he is indeed able to play.

Bruno has taken big strides since its two season-opening losses, but Estes was far from satisfied with the team — especially the offense.

“The big thing right now is we need to score more points,” he said.

“Averaging 12 to 13 points a game is not going to win a lot of football

games for you.”

The defense was more a point of pride for Estes, but he knew the team still has to improve. “Defensively, I think we played pretty well,” he said, adding that “there’s still some things we can tighten up on some of the big plays we’ve given up.”

With another week’s growth under their belts after the win, the Bears are ready to take on the Crusaders.

“Holy Cross will be good,” Giovacchini said. “It’ll be a good challenge for us. … This is certainly a big week, and I think we’re starting to feel a sense of urgency … coming into league play, so we definitely want to get the momentum going.”

Estes’s game plan is simple: Score “more points than they score.”

Saturday’s kickoff is at 12:30 p.m. at Brown Stadium.

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Hawks’ last game, Ward was benched at halftime — after allowing three goals on only eight shots — in favor of first-year goalie Katie Morris, who has only seen time in four games this year.

On the other hand, Brown’s Monday opponent has been terrific thus far: The Friars (8-5, 0-1 Big East) have faced some formidable opposition — four of their five losses have been to nationally ranked opponents — but still sit third in what might be the most competitive field hockey conference in the country. Also, the Friars have dismantled two opponents that the Bears have lost to — Providence blew out Columbia 8-0, who beat Brown 4-0, and also defeated Quinnipiac 5-1, who topped the Bears 3-1.

Led by the trio of Megan Hamilton, Daniela Bernasconi and Steph Guglielmo — three of the top four scorers in the Big East — the Providence offense has been formidable, averaging 3.5 goals a game.

“PC is very strong this year,” Reeve said. “They have a lot of speed all over the field. It will be important for us to manage that speed appropriately while sticking with our style of play.”

But similar to Lehigh, the Friars have been susceptible to poor defense against good teams: In their six games

against currently ranked opponents, Providence has scored and allowed an average of 2.7 goals a game — below their season averages in both categories. If Brown can match their play from earlier in the season, they should be able to keep a vulnerable Providence close.

Brown’s last win against the Friars was in 2010 — a 2-1 double overtime thriller. None of the players on this year’s team have beaten the team’s Ocean State foe.

“Providence is an extremely tough crosstown rival and (has) done well this year so far,” O’Donnell said.

“We’re just going to have to step up and play our game together as a unit in order to be successful.”

All signs point to this weekend as a very important two-game stretch for the rest of the Bears’ season. Two losses will see Bruno go only one game above .500 for the first time this year since it was 1-0. But two wins will mean the Bears are five games above .500 with six games to play and have a great chance to have their first winning record since 2006.

“I just hope to come out of this weekend with two more wins on our schedule and to be proud of how we played,” O’Donnell said.

Hawks (4-8, 1-2 Patriot), led by promising sophomore forward Gabby Tofig. Tofig has seven goals on the year, making her the Patriot League leader in goals and points. Junior Lindsey Schott has been Tofig’s main partner up top, notching four goals and three assists on the season.

“Lehigh is on a three-game winning streak,”Reeve said. “They have clearly grown in strength throughout the season. We have too. I believe this will be a terrific matchup.”

A very inexperienced team with only three seniors on the roster, the Mountain Hawks have been going down big to some quality opponents.

No. 20 Cornell scored six against Lehigh, while Penn put up nine in an early season blowout.

“Lehigh will also be a tough opponent. They’ve had some similar games with the same opponents that we’ve played,” O’Donnell said. “We haven’t matched up against them since 2006, so it’s exciting to have them back on our schedule.”

One problem spot for Lehigh could be at goalkeeper, where sophomore Julia Ward has had her struggles throughout the year. In the Mountain

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Captain Maurey ’15.5 ends four-game scoring drought Senior striker knocks in go-ahead goal in 89th minute, gives Bears first Ivy League win of season

By NIKKO PASANEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

After going 430 minutes without a goal, the men’s soccer team has forward Ben Maurey ’15.5 and his late-game heroics to thank for its 1-0 victory over Columbia last weekend.

With just over a minute to play, Maurey pounded a shot into the back of the net off a corner kick from Jack Gorab ’16, propelling Bruno to a win in its Ivy League opener.

The decisive goal resulted in a collective sigh of relief for the Bears, who were on the brink of a fourth straight overtime game. It was Maurey’s second goal of the season, and his first tally since Bruno’s opener against Siena College.

The Bears will keep the talented forward on the field as they continue conference play this weekend at Princeton. For his efforts in Saturday’s thrilling win, Maurey has been named The Herald’s Athlete of the Week.

Herald: How did you first get into playing soccer?

Maurey: I started playing soccer when I was about four or five years old, and I’ve been playing travel soccer since I was six. I used to live in New Hampshire, and I started playing for a travel team up there at that time.

Why did you end up choosing Brown?

I was looking at a couple schools, and I was trying to make a pick between a school that had a top-25 soccer program consistently and a school that also had very good academics.

Because I knew I wanted to try to go to med school, and academics were pretty big for me in high school. So I was trying to find a school that had a balance of both. I was looking at Wake Forest, UNC Wilmington and a couple of other places, and this was just the best fit. They wanted me, and they were the first school to offer me a spot. And I liked it here. It all just kind of fell into place, and it seemed like the perfect fit.

in one other year have we beaten Columbia. And like I said, we have had some great teams. My freshman year, the year we won the Ivy League, we actually lost our first game to Columbia. They are a very good opponent.

They’re a team that will win a bunch of Ivy League games. You never want to be the team that loses to them, because they can hurt your season.

So it’s good to start off with a win against them. And it’s always good to have momentum, especially going away to Princeton. We haven’t beaten them in the last five years. So going in with our heads high and with this momentum is huge.

Obviously your goal in the Columbia game this past weekend was crucial for this team, what was that moment like for you?

For me, it was huge. We haven’t been scoring a lot of goals, and being someone who has scored in the past, it was huge for me to get that second goal of the season. I haven’t scored since the first game so it was much needed to get our momentum going. Also it’s huge scoring in the Ivy League because those are the games that, right now, are very important.

We’re trying to win a league title, and that’s something that’s very hard to do. We’ve had some great teams while I’ve been here, but we’ve only won the Ivy League once. To start off with a win and be the person to get the goal that propels it all is one of the greatest feelings ever.

What’s your strangest pre-game ritual?

I’m very, very superstitious. I eat the same breakfast every single time; I eat the same meals throughout the whole day. I put my clothes on in the exact same order. I have to do the exact same stretching routine before I put my clothes on and out on the field. Every single time, it does not change. And new superstitions are added all the time.

What does it mean for this team to get off to a winning start in Ivy League play?

It’s huge. Since I’ve been here, only

And lastly, what is your favorite soccer team? And favorite team in general?

My favorite sports team in general

If you played any other sport, what would it be?

In the past I’ve played baseball and basketball, but if I had the choice, I’d play hockey. I’m an avid hockey fan, season ticket holder for the Flyers.

It’s probably my favorite sport. The Stanley Cup is my favorite event other than the World Cup.

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Co-captain and starting striker Ben Maurey ’15.5 notched a game-winning goal last weekend in Bruno’s narrow 1-0 victory over Columbia. is the Flyers.

I’m not afraid to say that even though I’m a soccer player, I don’t have a favorite soccer team. I have favorite soccer players that I like to follow. I’m a big fan of Zlatan Ibrahimović and Mario Balotelli, because they play the same position as me. They are big target forwards, and they are some of the best in the

world at what they do, especially for being my size, which is not very common in soccer.

So they are people that I look up to. I follow them more than a specific team, but in general I just like watching teams that play good soccer.

This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

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Making waves: Enright ’08 and Towill ’11 lead Team Alvimedica CHARLIE BLASBERG sports columnist

Last Saturday, sound tactics and flawless boat handling led 29-yearold skipper Charlie Enright ’08 along with his team Alvimedica to an opening victory in this year’s Volvo Ocean Race’s in-port series.

The world’s best sailors take to the seas every three years for the premier round-the-world yacht race: the Volvo Ocean Race. This nine-month trek is sailed in nine segments, as teams race to coastal cities on their route around the world. During each stop, the teams have an in-port race, a roughly hour-long contest around a course, that also counts toward the overall results.

Race officials continuously tweak aspects of the competition to make it both fairer and more appealing to the general public. In

the past, the different teams have been challenged to design and build unique boats, but this year, each team is sailing identical 65-foot boats with eight standard sails to choose from. While some enthusiasts claim that producing the right boat was an integral part of the contest, most spectators prefer the race as a pure test of each team’s sailing ability.

This year’s race brings together seven of the most diverse teams the race has ever seen. Team SCA is the first all-female crew to enter the race in over a decade. Team Dongfeng, whose crew is half Chinese, represents the emergence of competitive sailing in the East. But perhaps the most surprising entry in the race is Team Alvimedica, skippered and managed by Brown alums, Enright and Mark Towill ’11, respectively. The youngest team the race has ever seen, with five of eight crew members under 30 years old, Team Alvimedica had the odds stacked against it going into last Sat-

urday’s first in-port race.

Off the starting line, it seemed that in a fleet littered with Olympic medalists, Enright — a four-time college sailing All-American winner and high school national champion — was in over his head. But during the first leg, Team Alvimedica inched back with solid tactical decisions, steady boat speed and clean boat handling.

After rounding the first mark in fourth place, Alvimedica made the right tactical choice by sailing to the left side of the racecourse to the second mark. The standard 65foot boats are primarily built for the ocean, which is where the majority of the race will take place. As a result, most teams struggled with the fast, precise maneuvers required for in-port racing. But Alvimedica remained unscathed by the boat handling errors that plagued the other teams, and they ended up rounding the second mark in second place, behind Team Abu Dhabi.

Team Abu Dhabi, skippered by

two-time Olympic silver medalist and skipper of Britain’s 2000 America’s Cup team Ian Walker, kept their lead over Alvimedica until the fifth of six legs, when Alvimedica sailed into more breeze on the left side of the race course. The young team built a sizeable lead, which it held throughout the final leg through conservative sailing.

Alvimedica took first place by just two boat lengths over Abu Dhabi. While this result shocked the sailing world, anyone who was watching the race could see that Alvimedica deserved the win. The team sailed a smart, fast race that was devoid of the simple yet costly errors that plagued other teams.

Although the in-port series counts less to the final standing this year as a result of changes to the scoring system, Alvimedica’s opening victory proves to both themselves and their star-studded competition that they have a legitimate shot of winning the race.

The fleet leaves for Cape Town,

South Africa, Saturday to kick off the first offshore segment of the race. This is not the first time we will see the duo Enright and Towill cross an ocean together. In 2008, when Enright was 22 and Towill was 18, they sailed as a part of the Morning Light project, in which a team of 15 college-aged sailors became the youngest crew to compete in Transpacific Race. The team finished second, taking part in a documentary about their journey that remains popular among sailors.

Enright and Towill were able to defy the odds on Morning Light, and the question remains if they will be able to do the same on a bigger stage against better sailors in harder conditions. Last week’s in-port race has even the most skeptical spectators starting to believe they can.

Charlie Blasberg ’18 once crossed the ocean in a rowboat. He can be reached at charles_blasberg@brown.edu.

WOMEN’S RUGBY

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The Bears knock heads in a multiplayer scrum. The team has a chance to finish the season with a flawless Ivy League record — the only thing standing in its way is a formidable Princeton squad that is jostling for position in the conference standings with the Ivy Championships just around the corner.

Bruno faces last Ivy League hurdle in quest for perfection Conference powers collide this weekend when Bruno hosts Princeton in final Ivy League game

By LAINIE ROWLAND SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Coming off a resounding 101-0 drubbing of Columbia, the women’s rugby team is on track to continue its Ivy League domination in its last conference matchup of the regular season against Princeton. The Bears have collectively outscored their opponents 246-32 so far this season, scoring approximately eight points for every

point their rivals have mustered.

But an athletic and formidable Princeton team will try to upset the status quo Saturday, Oct. 18 as it travels to Providence in a last ditch attempt to spoil Bruno’s perfect Ivy season. The Tigers (2-1) seem strong this season, despite an early stumble against Dartmouth in their season opener, which resulted in a 62-3 loss, their lone defeat of the season.

They bounced back with victories

over Penn and Harvard to cement their place as a viable threat to Ivy challengers.

Brown (4-0) is perched comfortably atop the Ivy rankings with four wins under its belt for a total of 20 points. The scoring system awards four points for a win, plus an extra point for each game with four or more tries. The Bears have outpaced Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth and Penn, who are in a four-way tie for second place with 10 points each.

The Tigers and the Bears have a competitive history. Bruno squeezed

out two wins over Princeton last year by narrow margins of 12 and 14 points. The second triumph knocked Princeton out of contention for third place at Ivy Championships.

The Tigers will be seeking revenge this fall, but the Bears have their eyes set on the number one berth at championships this year. Someone will walk off the pitch disappointed.

Brown’s impressive, speedy backs will have a large say in who ends up celebrating. Co-captains Oksana Goretaya ’17 and Saskia Morgan ’16 combine in mighty force, outpacing

opponents with ease to notch a total of 23 tries between the two of them.

Most notably, they combined for nine tries against Columbia and 10 against Penn. The Bears have also devoted a good chunk of practice time to ensuring that they’re playing a cohesive game of rugby, one in which the backs and forwards communicate well and work as one unit.

Though Bruno is unlikely to emerge from this Saturday’s matchup with another 101-0 blowout to its record, the squad will pose a tough fight for anyone trying to cut its reign.

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MEN’S SOCCER

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Nate Pomeroy ’17 fires a header high into the air. The sophomore striker has contributed a goal and an assist to Bruno’s attack and, if he returns to the field from an injury, could be an x-factor for the offense this weekend in its matchup against a weak Princeton defense.

Bears seek fifth-straight shutout in duel with desperate Tigers

Following late victory over Columbia last weekend, Bears seek to lock down potent Princeton offense

By ALEX WAINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Looking to continue its Ivy League success, the men’s soccer team will trek down to Roberts Stadium to face a Princeton team that is searching for its first win of the conference schedule.

The Tigers (4-3-2, 0-1-0 Ivy) boast a formidable offensive attack, while their defense has been porous for much of the season. Princeton dropped its first conference game to Dartmouth (6-2-1, 1-0-0) last weekend in a 2-1 extra-time contest.

Should the Tigers lose another game, they will essentially be eliminated from Ivy League title contention.

“Princeton is going to be coming out hard,” said Quinn English ’18.

“We have to anticipate that. Two losses in the Ivy League isn’t a good way to start off, and they’re going to

be desperate, so we have to come out and match their intensity.”

Princeton’s junior starting left back Andrew Doar confirmed English’s prediction, calling this game “a must-win” for the Tigers.

The Bears’ (3-3-3, 1-0-0) primary focus will be playing solid defense and limiting the number of chances the Tigers have to score, English added.

Bruno has posted five shutouts so far this season, four of which have come in its last four games. But the Tigers are likely one of the strongest offenses that goalkeeper Mitch Kupstas ’14.5 and the backline will face this season.

Princeton boasts the 11th best offense in the nation, averaging an astronomical 2.11 goals per game.

For comparison, Bruno ranks 163rd, with a paltry .89 average.

The Tigers’ two main attacking

threats play next to each other up top and make for a frightening offensive duo. Strikers Thomas Sanner and Cameron Porter have netted a combined 14 goals this season, five of which came in a recent 5-2 blowout of Rutgers University (3-6-1, 1-2-1 Big Ten).

But English believes that the team can hold its own against the dominant Tiger offense, calling Bruno’s recent defensive play “phenomenal.” But defending is a team-wide job — the midfielders and strikers must also make tackles and win possession for the Bears to have success, English said.

The Bears have become known for their physical play, much of which stems from Tariq Akeel ’16 and cocaptain Daniel Taylor ’15, who patrol the midfield and win headers in the air.

“We know that Brown competes hard and tries to win the physical battles in all areas of the pitch,” Doar said.

The shutout streak has rejuvenated a Bruno defense that struggled early in the season. Brown has worked its goals against average down to just .93, good for 52nd in the country, after giving up nine goals in its first five games. Kupstas has led the way for the squad, constantly corralling through balls and making 38 saves — the second best total in the Ivy League.

On the other side of the field, cocaptain Ben Maurey ’15.5 and the Bears’ offense will get a chance to take on a lackluster Princeton defense that has allowed over a goal and a half per game this season, placing them 160th in the country.

Last weekend, Maurey won the game against Columbia (3-5-0, 0-10) for Bruno when he cashed in on a corner kick from Jack Gorab ’16 in the 89th minute.

Maurey’s goal “was huge for us,” English said. “We had been pretty desperate for some goals these last couple

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games, so to finally get one so late in our first conference game was amazing. It gave us some momentum for the rest of the Ivy League schedule.”

Exactly which of Head Coach Patrick Laughlin’s strikers will join Maurey to spearhead the 4-4-2 formation is a mystery. Nate Pomeroy ’17, the usual starter, has sat out the past two games with an injury. Tyler Long ’17 and Will Cross ’16 are frequently subbed on for Maurey and Pomeroy, but English started at striker for the Bears’ last game.

The Bears have had a full week off since the Columbia game, giving Pomeroy and Gabe Welp ’18, who sustained a cut on the back of his head against the Lions, time to recover. The Tigers, on the other hand, may be fatigued after a midweek game against Rutgers.

Kickoff is slated for 4 p.m. Saturday, in what should be a weekend that differentiates the league favorites from the underdogs.

8 arts & culture » COFFEE, from page 12 encasement on a recent visit. But Dave’s makes up for it with its signature Honey Latte every time. Made from local honey and soy milk, even lactose lovers can enjoy the drink without compromising the latte’s taste and body. The subtly sweet honey completes the drink and enhances an authenticity typically lost among added processed sugars. Though proud of the menu, Dave’s employees also have almond milk on hand, and the baristas will happily substitute milk bases in place of soy without the scorn found at many craft cafes.

The Shop, located on Wickenden near Governor Street, also offers an almond latte — but here, soy has no

home. The Shop’s sparse but meticulous offerings are only crafted with almond or whole. Hailed for its famed Stumptown Nitro Cold Brew coffee — nitrogen helps coffee on tap maintain its flavor — The Shop boasts a sophistication similar to Dave’s, but with less attention to its branding. The cold brew on tap pours similarly to a beer, sporting a frothy, Guinnesslike head. The spot also rivals nearby Coffee Exchange for indoor charm.

Goulding Street houses a small corner piazza, and The Shop’s wooden tables and painted iron chairs blend with the space, adding an atmosphere more successful than Blue State’s Thayer Street endeavor.

The Shop has standard craft coffee shop fare, with small quiches and

chocolate chip cookies, though its homemade Larabar-inspired date and nut bars are particularly attractive for restricted eaters.

But the almond latte is rather bland on its own, and the coffee is less rich than at Dave’s. The almond milk overpowered the espresso, and the thin, dry chocolate chip cookie was not particularly special given its $3 price tag.

Despite the underwhelming tastes, the ambiance is magnetic and transports visitors away from campus consumption and into small-town patronage. If these coffee shops were in fact screenplays, The Shop would be the intelligent romcom to Dave’s beautifully designed documentary on local business ventures.

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New and noteworthy books

BY EMMAJEAN HOLLEY, ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR

‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ | Haruki Murakami | Knopf The Royal Swedish Academy shocked bettors across the world Thursday when it awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature not to Murakami, who was largely thought to be a shoo-in, but to Patrick Modiano.

Part of this surprise is due to the worldwide cult following Murakami has garnered with his surreal, Kafkaesque style in books like “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” and “1Q84.” The most recent addition to the Murakami canon, selling over one million copies in Japan within a week of its release, is one deeply rooted in trauma, relationship and the memories from which the present self inherits its colors.

Years ago, the protagonist, Tsukuru, was inexplicably dumped by the friend group he had considered his family throughout adolescence. He has never been able to wash out the aftertaste of loneliness and confusion from this ordeal, and his lingering selfdoubt gradually grows into a vague, shadowy death wish.

But veins of color periodically inject back into his life: An intense but transient friendship leaves him with the saving grace of Franz Liszt’s music, and a new girlfriend surprises him with her acuity and aptitude for asking the right questions. He finally tracks down his now-scattered friends to seek some closure on his sudden rejection, uncloaking a narrative colored by broken minds and broken hearts.

‘A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ | Eimear McBride | Coffee House Press

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Michelle Jolson ’16 winds up for a pass near midfield. After handling the Bobcats Tuesday, Bruno will set its sights on Princeton.

Bears down Bobcats, turn to Tigers Bears continue offensive success, put Quinnipiac away early with two goals in first 16 minutes

By GEORGE SANCHEZ SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s soccer team battled the Quinnipiac University Bobcats Tuesday and came away with a 2-0 victory, extending its undefeated streak to four games.

Bruno’s offense — averaging 1.4 goals per game — has been its strength all season, and it didn’t take the unit long to get going against the Bobcats.

Five minutes into the game, Ella Warshauer ’17 placed the squad on the board and scored the first goal of her collegiate career. In the first half, the Bears’ shots were on target, as four of the seven total shots taken were on the mark.

Just 11 minutes after Warshauer’s first career goal, Bruno (4-4-2) tallied its second goal of the game. Sydney Calas ’17 scored at the 16th minute off a helper from Mikela Waldman ’18.

Waldman, an integral part of the powerful offense, posted assists on each of Bruno’s goals in the game.

For the squad, the midweek game acted as a tune-up for its upcoming two-game weekend.

“We just came out on Tuesday night knowing that we were playing to get better for our competition this weekend,” said Allie Reilly ’16.

The score did not change after the 16th minute, remaining at 2-0 for the rest of the match as the Bobcats (18-1) were unable to overcome their early struggles.

After the first half of play, the Bears had outshot the Bobcats 7-3. The second half was a similar story, as Bruno outshot Quinnipiac 4-2.

“I think it was good for us to have

a midweek game heading into Princeton,” Reilly said. “There’s no better preparation for an Ivy game than playing a 90-minute game against another opponent.”

The Bears will continue Ivy League play over the long weekend, traveling south to take on Princeton (3-3-3) Saturday and Marist College (1-7-3) on Columbus Day. The Bears currently sit fifth in the conference but are only two points behind the leader. The matchup against the Tigers presents Bruno the opportunity to move past Princeton and perhaps a couple more Ivy foes in the standings.

“We’re all really excited to get out on the road this weekend to take on Princeton,” Reilly said. “It’s week three of competition in the Ivy League, and everyone is still in the running to win it. It’s a great feeling to know you’re in control of your own outcome in the league.”

In interviews, McBride has recalled how she read James Joyce’s “Ulysses” at the age of 25 and immediately turned over a new leaf in her writing style. She churned out “A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing” in under a year, then spent nearly a decade trying to get it published.

Now that she’s succeeded on that front, reviews are hailing the thematically poignant, stylistically experimental work as an instant classic.

The influences of her Irish literary forebears — most notably Joyce, but also Samuel Beckett and Patrick McCabe — loom large in the book’s familial tropes, with the 14-year-old narrator’s oppressively religious household peopled with a raging mother, a sick brother and a predatory uncle.

Within this paradigmatic framework, McBride breaks the mold with her raw yet resilient voice. This is not a book for readers who believe anti-grammar cannot be an art form. The fragmented sentences lacerate with visceral imagery, at times reading more like a prose poem than a novel. This is also not a book for the faint of heart, as the garbled syntax does little to cushion — and in fact may even heighten — the impact of its graphic themes, which include sexual assault and mental illness.

But for all its syntactical curveballs, the writing is highly crafted on a micro-level. There is richness in its internal rhymes, its perfectly made-up words for those moments when language fails — “miracly,” “inthespring” — and its continuous cadence, cycling between the throb of an open wound and a lilting ecstasy of music.

‘On Immunity: An Inoculation’ | Eula Biss | Graywolf Press At a time when the vaccination debate is reaching fever pitch, leave it to the redoubtable Biss, whose “Notes From No Man’s Land” earned her a 2010 National Book Circle Award, to step in with a cool and contemplative compress.

Biss’s overarching conclusion is predictably pro-vaccine. But what makes her argument so fresh and resonant is her careful, compassionate dilation of space for what the opposing side feels is at stake. She defends, if not the logic of paranoia, then its interests, recounting the obsession with doing things “naturally” that marked her own traumatic entry into motherhood. Discomfort with the idea of vaccination is far more complicated than willful ignorance, she argues, and in fact stems from deeply human anxieties that, for a slew of reasons, are perhaps inseparable from medicine itself.

But she also ushers in a logic that, while gentle, is ineluctably weighted. She draws on science, of course, but she recognizes that hard data is not a universal currency. And so she steeps her writing in the history of disease, the etymologies of its myths and metaphors and collated insights from centuries of cultural analysis from the likes of Voltaire and Susan Sontag.

Through deftly woven narrative, research and reflection, Biss presents a touching commentary on our shared vulnerabilities, the permeable boundaries between the individual and its global community and the social responsibility this interconnectedness imbues — all in time for flu season.

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Fossil Free Brown joins 400 other campuses nationally and internationally in promoting divestment from top fossil fuel companies. The group, which used to be the Brown Divest Coal Campaign, embraces broader goals after the Corporation’s “no” vote on divestment from coal last October.

» DIVEST, from page 1 a member of Fossil Free Brown. But in the past, group members chose to focus on divestment from coal because they hoped a more specific campaign would achieve immediate results and pave the way for future divestment from other fossil fuels, he said.

When the Corporation’s “no vote” on divestment from coal was made public last October, the group decided that “it made more sense to ask for what we really wanted,” Greene said.

This summer, Greene and five other undergraduates helped plan the group’s transition toward tackling a broader issue.

“Given the urgency of the problem and the reality of it, it makes much more sense to expand our ask to all

fossil fuels,” said Camila Bustos ’16, another member of Fossil Free Brown.

“This is a new campaign with a lot of membership that overlaps with the last one and a lot of history that overlaps with the last one,” Greene said.

While divestment is a financial action, group members assert that the movement is more about social justice than money.

“My goal is that the Brown community critically engages with the question of climate change as a social justice issue,” Bustos said.

“The people in the group fundamentally see the fossil fuel industry as exacerbating and perpetuating social inequity,” Greene said.

Since the semester began, the group has focused on creating a community in which new members are

kept up to speed on the history of the campaign and feel their voices are heard.

In focusing on fossil fuels, the movement at Brown aligns with campaigns at campuses across the country.

“In a lot of ways the action being taken on our campus ties directly to movements on other campuses in other cities,” Greene said, citing the 400 campuses pledged to the Fossil Free campaign.

“Of the many factors that went into our decision, one of them was being in solidarity with a national movement, internationally, all over the world,” said Cameron Johnson ’17, who has been involved with the movement since the beginning of last year. He added that this solidarity

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Corporation members were forced to consider climate change and how the University is implicated, Green said, adding that the group also perceived an outpouring of support from individuals both inside and outside the Brown community.

Several group members expressed excitement that the Undergraduate Council of Students has included a question on this year’s undergraduate fall poll about support for divestment from coal.

“This is a big chance for people to interact with the issue,” Johnson said.

“The conversation is not over,” he added. “We are not done.”

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11 A.M. WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY

Students for Samaritans is running a table at which students can write mental health promises in letters to their future selves that will be delivered to their mailboxes. Blue Room 8 P.M. BROWN UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA CONCERT

The Brown University Orchestra will hold a preview concert for its upcoming performance at Carnegie Hall Monday.

This concert will include two world premieres, one Rhode Island premiere, Dvorak’s “Carnival Overture” and Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” featuring pianist Janice Weber. Sayles Hall

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OCTOBER 11

6 P.M. ‘BEACON’ LAUNCH

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“Beacon,” an art installation by Kristina Brown and Urban Pond Procession, will debut at the Mashapaug Pond Boathouse.

Ocean State JobLot, 361 Resevoir Ave. 7 P.M. STRAIT TALK INFO SESSION

This information session is for students who want to be involved in the 2014 Strait Talk Symposium, a fall event that brings together people from the Taiwan Strait and the United States to promote peace. J. Walter Wilson 202

SUNDAY

OCTOBER 12

12 P.M. FIELD HOCKEY GAME

Meghan O’Donnell ’15 will attempt to shatter the Brown University all-time scoring mark in the field hockey game against Lehigh University. Berylson Family Fields 12 P.M. BROWN CLUB BASEBALL VS. TUFTS

Brown Club Baseball will face off in a double-header against Tufts with a chance to clinch a New England Club Baseball Association division title. Pierce Memorial Field, East Providence

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

Climate change: End capitalism or end the world DAVID KATZEVICH opinions columnist

On Sept. 21, almost 400,000 people, from suburban families to college students to hardened eco-warriors, took to the streets of New York to protest the continued destruction of the earth’s precious ecosystems through anthropogenic climate change before a United Nations meeting to discuss next year’s climate summit in Paris.

One does not, however, have to be particularly pessimistic to expect the predictable: Just like the Kyoto Protocols and all subsequent U.N. climate summits, the one in Paris will include much talk, many promises and no results of significance.

Perhaps it may be a touch defeatist to criticize what was, after all, the largest climate march in human history — but tough love demands it.

Walking obediently along the route provided by the New York Police Department, never coming close to the U.N. building and without a list of

ral world and creating unimaginable waste in the process.

Capitalism, by its very nature and logic, is incompatible with sustainable life on this planet. Capitalism acts merely to maximize profit at every level, with all other consequences, both good and bad, as unintended side effects. By placing a dollar sign on everything, capitalism allows nothing to go untouched and unexploited. No tree is seen beyond its potential to be paper or planks.

No mineral is left unmined. No holy forest is left uncleared to build housing developments. Capitalism leaves nothing sacred.

On the one hand, defenders of this system of natural exploitation contend that the growth it produced has greatly improved human well-being. Certainly, in some senses, they are correct. The combination of capitalism and the scientific revolution has caused rapid technological progress and an unprecedented jump in human life expectancy.

Conversely, it has also produced deprivation on untold levels, as multinational corporations and the gov-

While capitalist growth depends upon the destruction of the natural world and the purposeful production of egregious amounts of waste, it is the character of its growth that is most troubling. Capitalist growth is based not on prudent thought or decades-long plans, but rather on the immediate, short-term creation of profit. Capitalism plans by quarter, sometimes by year, but rarely anything beyond that.

On a macro level, this same thoughtlessness is again exemplified, as the logic is to grow GDP, the sum of all national production, without much care as to how. In this sense, capitalism shares the ideology of the cancer cell: growth for the sake of growth.

Thus, as environmentalists, as those who care for life on this planet and respect the sanctity of the natural world, what can we do? The first step is to drop the delusion of the climate march and much of modern environmentalism — ­ the belief that we can in any way appeal to political leaders.

Politicians, who regardless of party, are at the behest of corporations,

The real culprit, against whom we must focus the full force of our wrath, energy and ire, is a capitalist system which produces cancerous growth for its own sake, destroying the natural world and creating unimaginable waste in the process. demands or prepared speeches, the People’s Climate March appeared as little more than a mildly political parade and will certainly be treated as such by those who hold the power to shape the future of the earth.

One aim of the march was simply to raise awareness of the issue.

The other, more significant purpose was to appeal to the political class, lawmakers and politicians to take action on the one issue that, apart from touching every facet of social justice, affects the very survival of not only our species but all life on Earth.

The active inaction of a neutered citizenry, with its inability to critically analyze the true causes of the apocalypse we are collectively sleepwalking into, is deeply troubling. The march’s failure to make the unprecedented strength of its magnitude count raises serious questions about our potential to avert the impending crises prophesied by the increasingly alarmed outcries of climate scientists.

To beg for salvation from those who write our laws is a fool’s errand of the most egregious degree. It is to believe that we can alter the form by stepping on its shadow, to have the tail wag the dog.

As keenly demonstrated by President Obama’s sanctioning and glorification of the fracking industry, politicians, while certainly complicit in the ecocide unfolding before us, are but the handmaidens of the true criminals, courtiers and sanctifiers of those unleashing death and destitution on unimaginable scales.

The real culprit, against whom we must focus the full force of our wrath, energy and ire, is a capitalist system that produces cancerous growth for its own sake, destroying the natu-

ernments at their behest systematically rob people of their access to land. Two billion people survive on less than two dollars a day, and one in every eight people suffers from hunger and malnutrition — not from a lack of food, but from the inability to afford it.

Moreover, the costs of capitalist growth are destruction and waste on untold levels. In order to “make more land available for housing and urbanization, timber, large scale cash crops such as soy and palm oil, and cattle ranching,” as a 2013 LiveScience article describes, about 78 percent of the world’s indigenous forests have been cleared, including 90 percent in the continental United States.

This clearing of forests is one of the prime drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, and the destruction of natural habitats has created the greatest mass extinction in the planet’s history. Already over half of all wildlife species have perished, and countless more are set to join them in the abyss.

Further, capitalism invariably produces enormous amounts of waste. Although we are most familiar with consumer waste — phones, cars and almost everything else disposed of and replaced every few years —, it is estimated that for every pound of garbage discarded by households, industries such as mining, manufacturing, agriculture and petrochemicals produce 70 pounds of waste.

This waste is far from harmless, as electronic waste produces toxic chemicals damaging to human health, especially in the developing world, and plastic waste disposed of in the ocean has horrific effects on aquatic wildlife.

depend upon massive corporate contributions to get elected, and place corporate leaders in key administrative positions of power are in no way the solution to our problems. Our political class is morally and intellectually bankrupt as well as practically impotent, and our pleas to them fall upon deaf ears, only serving as diversions from the malfeasance of the corporate state.

Instead, we must engage in acts of civil disobedience against the banks, energy companies and corporations that wield the true levers of power.

We must defy the authority of the state, the safeguarders and bailiffs of capital, potentially at the risk of our freedom and lives, to put so many wrenches in the wheels and disturbances in the machine that they no longer have the choice to ignore us.

We must occupy, we must strike, we must persevere, we must raise hell.

We must demand a rationally governed society that produces for human needs rather than corporate greed, that holds the natural world as sacrosanct and places its rights above the dictates of production and profit.

And, if and when the armed corporate state strikes back with the full capacity of its vengeance, we must leave nothing off the table.

Our lives depend on it. Our children depend on it. Our species depends on it. The earth depends on it.

David Katzevich ’16 believes the earth is too important to be left in the hands of those who do not care for it, much less love it.

He can be reached at david_katzevich@brown.edu.

DIAMONDS & COAL Cubic zirconia to Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, who said, “I think people are frustrated because they make requests for additional resources and very frequently don’t get them.” Three years in and Paxson still hasn’t gotten a new scarf. Times are tough.

A diamond to Richard Locke, director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, who said “the proof is in the pudding” when referring to President Christina Paxson’s response to Ray Kelly protests. We knew the Ratty was slipping something weird in there. …

A diamond to Chief Investment Officer Joseph Dowling for telling faculty members, “We are not following anyone. We are leaders forging our own path.”

How very Brown of you, Mr. Dowling.

Coal to Matt and Kara Richardson, founders of Rhode Island’s first farm brewery, which makes craft beer from local ingredients. We’re relatively sure Rhode Island’s first farm brewery was established in Keeney’s basement decades ago.

Coal to Professor of Political Science Rose McDermott, who said, “I think people don’t like to be reminded that we’re animals.” No need to remind us. We know we are animals — under the sheets.

A diamond to the co-president of the Math Departmental Undergraduate Group, who said “People around you are doing all kinds of math for fun.” That’s social suicide!

Cubic zirconia to the student who said, “There are some CS students who are just rabid to work on some of these websites” for the Brown community.

Nothing gets us going like coding either.

A diamond to the student appearing on “Jeopardy!” who said, “I don’t own a dry-cleaning bag or anything.” Nothing is worse than that bright yellow bag. ...

Coal to the student who said of the astronomy concentration, “I don’t think there would be many voices crying out in protest if for some reason it were canceled.” Hey there, it’s way too soon to just toss around “protest” and “canceled” in the same sentence like that.

A diamond to the student on Seth Moulton’s campaign who said “This is a very fluid team we work on.” That’s what we say about the team(s) we bat for.

A N G E L IA WA N G

CORRECTIONS An article in Wednesday’s Herald (“External review prompts budgeting process reform,” Oct. 8) misstated the size of the University’s budget deficit last academic year. It was $8.7 million, not $8.8 million. The Herald regrets the error.

Due to incorrect information from a source, a Sept. 30 Herald article and summary deck (“Urban Carnevale celebrates 10th anniversary of FirstWorks”) incorrectly stated that performing arts nonprofit FirstWorks has served 4,300 students in the past decade. In fact, it has served 4,300 students in the past year. The Herald regrets the error.

Due to an editing error, an article in Thursday’s Herald (“NECAP draws criticism after drop in scores,” Oct. 9) attributed information to the wrong source.

Scituate School Department Assistant Superintendent Lawrence Filippelli, not R.I. Department of Education Public Information Officer Elliot Krieger, said testing company Measured Progress’ reputation and multi-million-dollar contract with RIDE are uncertain due to concerns over test scoring. The Herald regrets the error.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

THE

BROWN DAILY HERALD arts & culture At the table with Don Fecher Herald: What’s your earliest food memory?

Fecher: At probably around three or four (years old), the biggest thing was a TV show called “Chefs of the World.”

There wasn’t very much theatrics or drama or anything: It was just cooking, a camera, a chef and that was it. There was very little dialogue, mostly cooking.

RHEA STARK / HERALD

After food truck success, Mama Kim’s Korean BBQ is set to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Cranston in a week and a half, offering the same menu with tables and plates made by local artisans.

From prep cook to restaurater, Mama Kim’s ownder serves up his cooking philosophies

By ASHWINI NATARAJAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Don Fecher, owner of the Thayer Street mainstay Mama Kim’s Korean BBQ, got his start in the restaurant industry at 14 working as a prep cook at a small Italian restaurant in Clearwater, Florida. But

Fecher has come a long way since his days of dicing onions and peeling potatoes.

A former personal chef, he not only runs the food truck but is also getting ready for the debut of Mama Kim’s in the brick-and-mortar restaurant world, with a Cranston space opening its doors in a week and a half. The spot, which

Recipe: Bokkeum Bap Mixed Vegetable Fried Rice Fecher created this recipe for the health-conscious college student who does not want to compromise flavor.

Because Korean ingredients can be inaccessible, Fetcher’s adaptation of this Korean staple uses ingredients that college students can easily get their hands on. For best results, Fetcher recommends stopping by the campus farmers’ market to pick up the eggs and vegetables.

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Makes three servings 1 carrot 1 onion 1 zucchini 1 red bell pepper 1 green bell pepper 1 scallion, chopped 1 tablespoon sesame seeds 3 cups cooked and cooled rice 3 eggs scrambled 2 tablespoons vegetable oil Salt and pepper to taste

Directions Finely dice the vegetables and combine them in a bowl. Set aside.

Break up the cooled rice so that no grains are stuck together.

Pre-heat one large non-stick pan and add the vegetable oil.

Saute the diced vegetables for about two minutes and remove from pan.

Add remaining tablespoon oil and rice to pan until aromatic and crunchy — this should take about three minutes.

Move the rice to one side of the pan, and add the eggs to the other.

Scramble the eggs until fluffy, but not browned.

Fold the egg into the rice, and add the cooked vegetables. Stir well until combined, seasoning with salt and pepper to taste.

Plate the dish, and garnish with sesame seeds and scallions.

COURTESY OF DON FECHER

Mama Kim’s Don Fecher says this mixed vegetable fried rice dish, made with college students in mind, offers both flavor and convenience.

will offer the favorites of the truck at the same prices, will seat about 20 people and feature the work of local ceramists and woodworkers in its plates and tables.

Fecher hopes the restaurant will help him carry out his “mission … to bring Korean food to the average person.”

The burgeoning restaurateur sat down with The Herald in a moment of respite from the chaos to discuss his journey as a chef and his outlook on food.

What makes Providence a good food city?

We’ve got a great mix of many different cultures just because where we are regionally located — between Boston, New York, Chicago. What makes it so special are the people and what everyone brings from every country. We (also) have a lot of talented people who care about the food they’re creating. I think between the immigrant population here and the new talent, old talent and a little bit of competition, you’ve got a recipe for a good food city.

What was your go-to college food or meal?

I worked in kitchens all throughout college. It wasn’t necessarily a meal in particular, but more so the type of meal.

Most of the places I worked at, we had a family meal before service where everyone — front of the house, back of the house — enjoyed a nice meal together.

And I definitely had my fair share of

ramen in college — that was usually after work.

What’s your favorite thing to cook and why?

I’ve cooked a fair amount of different types of cuisines throughout my career.

As far as a favorite goes, I really enjoy sushi. I really enjoy preparing it: maki, hand rolls, sashimi. It’s got some grace, it’s got some style.

How would you describe your food philosophy?

Anybody can cook. It’s just how far you want to take it.

How does food fit into a larger conversation about culture?

Obviously I’m not Korean, and I get that a lot because I own a Korean BBQ restaurant. For me, food is universal: Everybody has to eat. Whether you go to a little town in Italy or a countryside in Korea, you’re going to find things that people hold really close to them, and one of those things is food and how that’s being prepared and cared for. I think that it’s unifying, it’s universal, it’s something that everyone can enjoy, and it also leaves room for people to try new things and understand one’s culture.

This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

Coffee at Dave’s rivals The Shop’s ambience Students may find solace from daily grind in Providence’s bustling coffee scene

By CAMILLA BRANDFIELD-HARVEY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

EXT. SMALL TOWN — DAY. A girl, 21, crosses a leaf-strewn street to reach a coffee shop: Dave’s Coffee.

A Dave’s experience deserves to be written into a screenplay, for this new espresso bar is a creator’s haven. Dave’s, which opened its second location in July, is both a fresh start on sleepy South Main and an unpretentious companion to Cable Car Cinema’s retro flavor just a few doors down. With its large, graphic typography splashed across an interior brick wall, Dave’s inspires creativity.

This artistry drips into its coffee, the raison d’etre amidst its minimalist decor and aspiring hipsterdom.

The technology at Dave’s demonstrates its strict attention to every espresso shot and hands-on approach to every drink — tradition reigns in this ultra-modern space. Speaking to millennials’ interest in throw-back consumerism, Dave’s crafts its coffee without the computer interfaces and digital tipping apps that direct other operations. Instead, Dave’s employs its coveted Slayer espresso machine, the first of its kind in Rhode Island.

The machine allows baristas to oversee every aspect of the espresso craft.

It is completely analog, lacking the push-button automation of modern coffee chains.

Though it’s an established business and retailer in Rhode Island — Dave’s

REVIEW

CAMILLA BRANDFIELD-HARVEY / HERALD

Dave’s Coffee features a Slayer to ensure hands-on crafting of espressos, while The Shop, above, uses Nitro Cold Brew coffee to retain rich flavors.

All Natural Cold Brewed Coffee Syrup has been on supermarket shelves since 2012 and has been lauded by celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern — its College Hill location is a welcome option for the jaded caffeine consumer or for those looking for closer alternatives than Wickenden Street’s Coffee Exchange or The Shop, which officially

opened its doors Aug. 1.

Dave’s drinks menu is limited but sophisticated, and its pastry lineup appears smaller than the array at its flagship Charlestown location. The s’mores brownies and banana Nutella pockets featured on its Facebook page were missing from its sparsely filled » See COFFEE, page 8