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Alums’ startup lands $35 million investment

M. WATER POLO

Teespring, which allows users to sell original shirts, has seen revenue growth since founding

By ELENA WEISSMANN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Nick Deaver ’15 prepares to fire a shot on goal. Deaver scored against the Tritons Saturday, but the Bears were outscored 5-1 in the second half and lost 12-7 in the play-in round of the six-team NCAA tournament. Bruno gained its berth with a CWPA Eastern Championship win, its first since 1985.

Bears fall short of NCAA semifinals with loss In first tournament appearance since 1990, Bruno loses 12-7 to UCSD to end national championship hopes

By ANDREW FLAX SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The men’s water polo team began and ended its first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1990 with a loss Saturday night, falling 12-7 to the No. 6 University of California at San Diego.

The No. 9 Bears (27-7, 11-1 CWPA)

had gained a spot in the tournament by winning the Collegiate Water Polo Association Eastern Championship for the first time since 1985 with a win over No. 12 Princeton. But Bruno was seeded fifth of the six teams in the national tournament, ahead of only No. 20 Whittier College.

California teams have historically

dominated the tournament, as no team from outside the state has ever played in the national title game. This year was no different: The Bears were the only non-Golden State team.

“We definitely felt like the pasty East Coast kids when we got out there,” said Henry Fox ’15.

Despite its lack of playoff precedent, Bruno stood a chance at making history. Unfortunately, the squad also faced a significant disadvantage: UCSD

(16-9, 6-0 WWPA) hosted Bruno at this year’s tournament, handing the Tritons home-pool control.

“We knew that UC San Diego had all the pressure on them,” Fox said.

With the underdog mantle firmly on their shoulders, the Bears were simply excited to be there, said Fox and Will Klein ’16.

“It was just a great experience being out there in general,” Klein said. » See WATER POLO, page 4

Website offers new path to research funding U. researchers seek online funding from site that connects academics with crowdsourcing donors

By RILEY DAVIS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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COURTESY OF NATHAN KING

With ideas ranging from color-coded Ebola care packages to new hazmat suits, designers from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design gathered Nov. 8 to create materials that may aid the response to the epidemic.

Designers create Ebola safety equipment Brown, RISD community members share ideas at conference tying design to health crisis responses

By CLARISSA CLEMM STAFF WRITER

As the international community grapples with the Ebola epidemic in

West Africa, 50 community members from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design have partnered to design safety equipment that protects workers treating the disease.

Students, professors and alums from both schools came together at a Nov. 8 conference titled “Fighting Ebola with Design” to explore temporary emergency infrastructure for doctors treating the disease and to

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empower community members to help stem the spread.

Nathan King, an assistant professor of architecture and foundation studies at RISD and director of design research at the Model of Architecture Serving Society Design Group, spearheaded the effort to create the day-long event in conjunction with both universities after hearing about » See EBOLA, page 4

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Brown community members are using crowdsourced funding websites to raise money for personal causes, nonprofit organizations and now scientific research, thanks to experiment.com — the Kickstarter of the academic world.

As an alternative to applying for research grants, some Brown community members have begun using experiment.com to fund their research projects. To carry out their current project entitled “Can sleep patterns change gene function?” a team of » See EXPERIMENT, page 3

When Evan Stites-Clayton ’11, Walker Williams ’11 and Anthony Staehelin ’10 founded the custom apparel company Teespring, they never thought they would receive $35 million in venture capital and find themselves at the helm of a successful startup.

Teespring recently gained this new funding in a Series B round, a type of funding round in which early outside investors buy common stock, multiple news outlets reported last month. The Series B round was led by Khosla Ventures, a venture capital fund based in Silicon Valley, and followed a $20 million Series A round led by Andreesen Horowitz, another venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.

“We are growing a lot, and this funding is going to help us as we continue to scale our platform and build up our team,” Stites-Clayton said. “We want to be able to provide our entrepreneurs with the best possible tools to create their products.”

Teespring allows users to design and print their own t-shirts, but its broader mission is to “democratize commerce, empower entrepreneurs and make products for passionate people,” Stites-Clayton said.

The process is simple: Customers can create and market their own t-shirt designs on Teespring, and the shirts are processed, printed and shipped only if a set number of them are sold. Customers are not required to pay any money upfront — the revenue from sales covers the production cost. Teespring takes care of shipping and handling and lets customers collect the profit.

The company has sold 6 million t-shirts this year and hit $750,000 in monthly revenue in March 2013. Additionally, about 200 customers have each made more than $100,000 in total selling their own designs through the company.

“You no longer need to have deep pockets, an appetite for major risk and expansive knowledge about production and distribution to sell a product. … All you need is a great idea,” said Staehelin, who currently serves as the company’s head of operations.

Starting up Walker and Stites-Clayton met » See STARTUP, page 2 t o d ay

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This Week in Higher Ed

BY CAROLINE KELLY, SENIOR STAFF WRITER

SDSU Greek life social events suspended after sexual harassment reports

COURTESY OF EVAN STITES-CLAYTON

Evan Stites-Clayton ’11 and Walker Williams ’11, above, founded Teespring with Anthony Staehelin ’10 in 2011.

» STARTUP, from page 1 in 2009 while working on their first startup, Jobzle, at the accelerator program Betaspring, which enables “teams with a strong start on a high-growth venture to rapidly transform into fundable, scalable companies,” according to its website.

A student-job-finding website, Jobzle “was more of a building block,” Stites-Clayton said, adding, “Ultimately, we had to confront the reality that the execution plan we had wasn’t very promising.”

Teespring was born in 2011 after the popular Providence bar Fish Company was closed as punishment for altercations at a party it hosted. Students were upset about the demise of one of their favorite bars, and Williams and Stites-Clayton saw an opportunity.

They designed a t-shirt with the slogan “FREE FISHCO” but found it difficult to produce because of the upfront costs and sizing, Stites-Clayton said. So instead, the two used their computer programming skills to create an online tool that allowed users to choose their sizes and preorder the products. They made $2,000 in one weekend.

“Just the fact that we were able to make more money in one weekend than we could in one summer (with Jobzle) was a pretty clear sign that we should be doing something different,” Stites-Clayton said.

That year, Stites-Clayton, Williams and Staehelin worked hard to build the company. They started to research and set up the operation, create different versions of the website, talk to users and negotiate with printing and shipping services, Staehelin said.

“While there was traction with the users, the service providers took a little more time to get on board,” he

added. “They didn’t think a few college kids could really set up a business. I remember regularly wearing a tie as I drove around meeting with potential business partners in order to look a little older.”

After graduation, Stites-Clayton and Williams started working full-time for the company while Staehelin took a hiatus from Teespring. He returned as head of special operations in 2014.

“It definitely takes a leap of faith to work on something like this because you have to believe in what you’re doing, and it’s difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel sometimes,” Stites-Clayton said.

“I was stupidly optimistic about entrepreneurship at certain points,” Stites-Clayton added. “I never doubted we would be successful.”

In January 2013, Teespring successfully applied to Y Combinator, a seed accelerator based in Silicon Valley that aids early stage start-ups by providing funds, advice and connections in exchange for a small percentage of the company’s equity.

Soon after, Teespring received the $20 million in the Series A round and the additional $35 million in the Series B round, putting the company in a good position for growth.

Brown and beyond Barrett Hazeltine GP’15, professor emeritus of engineering and a valued adviser for Stites-Clayton and Williams when they were at Brown, said he didn’t realize Teespring would turn into a $55 million business.

“It really comes down to Walker’s genius in recognizing the opportunity he had — which I think a lot of people would dismiss,” Hazeltine said. StitesClayton and Williams “are really nice people. They’re friendly, and they’re

concerned about others. They had a really positive influence on everyone around them,” he added.

Chad Jenkins, associate professor of computer science and Stites-Clayton’s former professor in two robotics courses, said he wasn’t surprised that Teespring took off.

“At Brown, we have amazing undergrads with amazing ideas, and they go off and do great things,” Jenkins said.

“Teespring is just another example of that.”

Stites-Clayton “is an extremely creative person who has a lot of talent,” he added. “It’s been interesting to see him mature from the kid who comes to class in flannel high-top Converse to the head of a major company.”

Teespring currently employs around 200 people in three different locations: Providence, San Francisco and Hebron, Kentucky, where the company is building a manufacturing plant that will assume a large portion of t-shirt printing, Stites-Clayton said.

The company has seen success not only in terms of finances, but in terms of its influence on real people, Staehelin said. “We’re making a major impact on the entire industry but most importantly on people’s lives,” he said.

“We see this impact in the laid-off parent who was able to free their family from debt by building a business on Teespring,” he added. “We see this impact in the designer who finally found traction in his vision and was able to build a brand.”

It’s not a coincidence that Teespring began at Brown, Staehelin said. “Brown teaches us to think independently and challenge the status quo, and that’s exactly what this came down to: Could we see past how things work to how they could be and should be?” he asked.

“To me, that’s a very Brown thing.”

Greek life leaders announced Tuesday that 14 fraternities and sororities at San Diego State University have voluntarily suspended social events until their members complete a training program to prevent sexual assault, U-T San Diego reported. The decision came after a slew of incidents connected to issues of sexual assault and rape culture on campus, U-T San Diego reported.

During a “Take Back The Night” anti-rape march on Nov. 21 organized by two student groups focused on combatting sexual assault, fraternity members threw eggs, waved sex toys and shouted obscenities at protestors, Jordan Busse, coordinator of Concerned Students, told Reuters. The following night, a woman filed a report of being sexually assaulted at a fraternity house, and another woman reported that six men attempted to pull her into a car near campus, but she escaped unharmed.

The suspension of social activities is indefinite, and all 44 of the university’s fraternity, sorority and community groups have agreed to partake in the training, university spokesman Greg Block told Reuters.

“We’ve got a problem — there’s a problem at universities all across the country — with sexual assault, and so we are supportive of this decision by the Greek community,” he said.

U. Iowa professor dismissal upheld after appeals court rejects conflict-of-interest charge University of Iowa radiology professor Malik Juweid failed to prove that university President Sally Mason and her lawyer, Iowa Assistant Attorney General George Carroll, had conflicts of interest when Mason upheld a university panel’s decision to fire Juweid for unprofessional conduct, an Iowa appeals court ruled Wednesday.

In 2012, a three-member faculty panel, which included Carroll, found Juweid in violation of the university’s harassment, disruptive behavior and ethics policies in sending colleagues “hundreds of unprofessional and confrontational emails,” prompting Mason’s decision to fire him that year, a decision that was upheld by the Board of Regents in 2013.

But Juweid simultaneously brought a case against the university that contested the decision to terminate his employment, alleging that his dismissal was a retaliatory firing in response to his act of whistleblowing about excessive child medical imaging by doctors at Iowa’s affiliated hospital, the Associated Press reported. During this case, Carroll represented the university in a defense of its actions, and charges against Iowa in the medical imaging case were later dropped.

Juweid alleged that Carroll’s involvement in both the medical imaging case and in Juweid’s disciplinary proceedings constituted a conflict of interest, the AP reported.

But the Iowa state appeals court found no evidence that Mason was acting in retaliation against Juweid. “There is no evidence that President Mason was ever involved in the investigation, the decision to file the complaints against Juweid, litigation strategy or assumed a personal commitment to a particular result,” Appeals Court Judge David Danilson wrote in Wednesday’s ruling, the AP reported. “Juweid has failed to overcome the presumption of honesty and integrity of President Mason in ruling on his administrative appeal.”

Investigation underway of GSU professor accused of proselytizing students Georgia Southern University is investigating student complaints that Tom McMullen, a tenured associate professor of history, tried to push Christian creationist views on students, Inside Higher Ed reported Wednesday.

In a letter to university President Brooks Keel on Oct. 30, two atheist groups, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, accused McMullen of First Violation violations for “us(ing) class time to proselytize students and advance his personal religion, Christianity,” the Blaze reported.

The groups cited an extra-credit assignment in which students were asked to write about a scene in the Christian drama “God’s Not Dead” where a student debates the existence of God. He also offered a model essay on evolution that included two lines worth of pro-evolution arguments and 11 lines worth of anti-evolution arguments, the groups claimed.

McMullen has previously stated that he does not “try to convert anybody” in his classes, but coverage of some topics can be mistaken for preaching, given the religious nature of the subject matter, the Blaze reported. The university’s investigation has been underway since Nov. 22, the Statesboro Herald reported.

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COURTESY OF EXPERIMENT.COM

Experiment.com operates via an “all or nothing” model, which means if a researcher falls short of crowdfunding a monetary goal, everyone who donated will receive a refund.

» EXPERIMENT, from page 1 researchers led by Mary Carskadon, professor of psychiatry and human behavior, and Anne Hart, professor of neuroscience, is trying to raise $9,700

by Dec. 21. They have currently raised more than $1,300.

Carskadon said students may be familiar with the first stage of her study. For years, Brown undergraduate volunteers have participated in Carskadon’s sleep experiment, during which they give blood and DNA samples and then track their sleep patterns throughout the semester. Carskadon is using experiment.com to try to fund the second stage of the project, which aims to examine the effect of sleep on certain genes.

“I have a burning curiosity about whether, over the span of two and a half months, the amount of sleep

people get results in changes of the methylation of DNA,” Carskadon said. Methylation of DNA — or the addition of methyl groups — affects how strongly a gene is expressed, with greater methylation often suppressing gene expression.

Securing funding for their next stage of sleep research is critical, Hart said, because the initial findings of their planned genetic analysis could allow the researchers to secure larger grants from the National Institutes of Health further down the road.

“It’s very hard to get funding for preliminary work,” Hart said, calling crowdsourced funding “a new strategy.”

Alexis Jackson GS, who previously crowdsourced research funding, said acquiring money for research is a “catch-22” because researchers must show their preliminary results

to grant-giving organizations like the NIH in order to receive funding for further work. But often, researchers need money to conduct preliminary work, she said.

Experiment.com operates in an “all or nothing” format, meaning if a researcher’s monetary goal is not met, everyone who donated will get refunded.

Hart said not many Brown researchers currently use sites like experiment.com. “I think we’re at the leading edge here,” she said. “It is an experiment in and of itself.”

More than 50 projects have been successfully funded through the site, which has partnerships with more than 60 institutions, including Brown, Cornell and Harvard Medical School.

For humanities researchers, federal research grants are particularly limited.

Jackson used experiment.com in March to fund her research project “Of Monks and Men: How medieval construction brought monasteries and lay communities together,” which she used to gather preliminary data for her dissertation. Jackson was able to meet her $2,350 goal.

“I had to look into alternative methods of funding because for art history there aren’t a lot of options,” Jackson said. “I think I was the first person who had done an art history or archeology project through the site.”

Jackson said that raising funds through experiment.com was a different experience from writing research grant proposals. “It’s definitely a different kind of writing. When you’re writing a grant, you know your audience,” she said. “It’s a little bit harder when you’re doing a project online because your audience is different.”

Using a crowdsourced funding platform also means that the researcher bears all responsibility for getting people to donate, Jackson added. “If you send a grant out, you sort of have an expectation of whether it’s going to come back or not,” she said. “If you do a crowdfunding project, the expectation is very much that if you work hard enough, you’ll get it.”

Jackson posted on Twitter and Tumblr during her fundraising campaign and the trip she subsequently took to carry out her research.

Carskadon said that she created a Twitter as a way of urging people to donate. She added that though she is not sure whether her team will reach its fundraising goal, she plans on reaching out to several different groups of potential donors because this project “could be a game-changer.

I need it to move as quickly as it can.”

4 sports CHARLIE BLASBERG sports columnist

Last week, I was watching ESPN in the Ratty for a few passing moments during lunch. Before I scrambled to English class, I heard Colin Cowherd ask who would win a game between the Philadelphia 76ers and the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team, and it got me wondering.

This year’s 76ers are, for lack of a better term, terrible. They have lost their first 16 games — a franchise record — and are four losses away from having the worst start in NBA history. In losing these games, the 76ers have been on the low side of some of the most lopsided scores I have ever seen in professional basketball. During the skid, they have lost by margins of 32, 53, 25 and 26 points. Even teams that are struggling at the bottom of their divisions know that they have a guaranteed win against the 76ers.

Philadelphia’s roster lacks the depth and experience necessary to compete at the NBA level. Half of its lineup is made up of undrafted players, while the other half was mostly picked up in the late rounds of the draft. For the 76ers,

»WATER POLO , from page 1 “It was a thrill to be representing the East Coast and Brown in the NCAA tournament,” Fox added.

But the Bears were not there to simply soak it in. They intended to compete.

“We displayed to everyone who was there that we were supposed to be there,” Klein said. “We knew we were capable of beating that team.”

The Bears went blow for blow with the Tritons in the first half. UCSD took an early 4-1 lead, but Bruno weathered the storm and struck back, riding goals from Fox, the team’s leading scorer, Yahel Murvitz-Lahav ’17 and others to knot the score at five. A few goals and minutes later, the Tritons entered the second half with a 7-6 lead.

Klein said he felt the team was “in a really good position” at halftime. The Bears had been a “second-half team” all season, relying on their excellent depth and conditioning to outlast other teams, Fox said. But that was not the case Saturday.

UCSD’s Josh Stiling recorded a hat trick in the third quarter as a part of a six-goal game, while the Bears did not score in the period. Bruno was outscored 5-1 in the second half, notching only a garbage-time goal with 10 seconds remaining.

Fox praised the Tritons’ depth, saying that they had an even stronger bench than Bruno did.

“Going into the second half, they

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76ers vs. Kentucky

having seven undrafted players is absurd. Last season, the Celtics tried three undrafted players, which was considered a lot, and only one, Phil Pressey, was productive enough to play for them this season.

The 76ers only have two players — Jason Richardson and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute — who are older than 25, and of the 12 play-

been struggling, John Calipari’s University of Kentucky Wildcats have been rolling. They have won each of their first seven games in spectacular fashion, scoring more than double their opponents’ points in three games already.

The Wildcats routed the 11th-ranked Kansas Jayhawks 72-40 — 11 Kentucky players contributed points, while the team held Kansas to

Despite Kentucky’s success so far, the 76ers would win a head-to-head matchup. The disparity between the level of play in college and in the NBA is too great, and Kentucky has only competed against five players in the top hundred draft prospects, all of whom came from Kansas. ers that competed in Saturday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks, only Mbah a Moute has more than two years of NBA experience. Despite the consistent play of their lottery players, Nerlens Noel and Joel Embiid, the 76ers’ roster is far too spotty to be competitive in the NBA. As much as the Philadelphia 76ers have

knew how to turn it on,” Klein said. He emphasized the importance of knowing how to play in big games, pointing out that UCSD had spent all season competing against the country’s top teams in California, while the Bears played on the less challenging East Coast.

“We don’t have a lot of experience in that kind of environment,” Klein said. “It was that experience in that kind of position that pulled (the Tritons) through.”

The defeat ended the Bears’ season, and with it the careers of the three seniors — Fox, Andrew Brown ’15 and Nick Deaver ’15. While the players expressed sadness about the end of their year, they looked back fondly on their team and the impact of its graduating members.

“All three of them have been not only exceptional players in the water, but have just been all around great guys on our team,” Klein said, describing the seniors as “the glue that held our team together.”

“Our unity and cohesiveness have been our driving force of our success,” Klein said, attributing that environment to the seniors.

“I was just so thankful for an amazing senior year,” Fox said. “I’ve never been on a team that had such an amazing dynamic. Even though we weren’t able to get the win, it was an incredibly rewarding experience. I was more than thrilled with how the season finished out.”

just 12 points in the second half. Kansas has historically been one of the premier basketball schools in the country, and this season is no exception. The margin of Kentucky’s victory simply shows how dominant it is this year.

This year’s Kentucky Wildcats have talent unique to college basketball. Draft experts forecast that two Wildcats, Willie Cauley-

» EBOLA , from page 1 the United States Agency for International Development’s competition titled “Fighting Ebola: A Grand Challenge for Development.”

“Few opportunities have the urgency that (the Ebola epidemic) has,” King said. “There was an urgency to push people to make (the response) happen, and it was one of the first times so many disciplines came together to do that.”

The event’s attendees were guided

by Brown and RISD faculty members, MASS employees, doctors and other health industry professionals. Participants were divided into 10 different task forces, each with a unique prompt related to helping contain the Ebola epidemic.

The task forces first familiarized themselves with the situation by doing online research and listening to presentations given by doctors and other professionals. By lunchtime, each task force had decided on a project idea and begun working on making that idea a reality through diagrams and prototypes.

Project ideas included improving personal safety equipment and making information about Ebola more accessible.

Alexander Hadik ’15 and his group developed an inexpensive care kit that would enable people to treat an ailing family member at home for a limited number of days. The kit comprises a

Stein and Karl-Anthony Towns, will be drafted in the top 10 in this year’s draft and another five players will go in the first round. Larry Brown, coach of the Southern Methodist University basketball team, told USA Today that if Kentucky split up its first and second teams, it would still have the best and second-best teams in the nation.

Despite Kentucky’s success so far, the 76ers would win a head-to-head matchup. The disparity between the level of play in college and in the NBA is too great, and Kentucky has only competed against five players in the top hundred draft prospects, all of whom came from Kansas.

While the 76ers still haven’t won a game, the return of a healthy Michael Carter-Williams brought them close Saturday to beating the Mavericks, who are just two games out of the lead in the Western Conference. The 76ers can physically outmatch the Wildcats, leading to open shots and second-chance opportunities. Though Kentucky is one of the deepest and most talented college teams ever and the 76ers are having a historically bad season, a healthy 76ers team could fend off the Wildcats.

Charlie Blasberg ’18 (5’ 8”, 160) was one of the 76ers’ top draft prospects out of high school.

five-gallon bucket and comes with basic safety equipment, cleaning supplies and informational graphics. The materials inside the bucket are colorcoded and arranged so that there is a clear division between what patients and caretakers may touch. The contents of the bucket are placed so the equipment that the caretaker will need first is on top, thereby simplifying the task of figuring out which protective equipment to put on first.

“Producing a package of supplies wasn’t good enough,” Hadik said, adding that a care kit would only be effective in preventing the spread of Ebola to family members if its designers considered it “from a user-centered perspective.”

Deb Rosenberg, a RISD graduate student, also examined ways of helping people outside of Ebola treatment centers. Her group developed an idea for a radio program that could broadcast optimistic messages and stories. Her group also came up with the idea of a text message system to give people in remote areas access to information, as well as to help track the spread of the disease.

“With such a high death rate and such an infectious disease, fighting against Ebola may seem like a lost cause to some people,” Rosenberg said. The goal of the radio program is “to raise people’s spirits and give them a sense of hope that people can beat this thing.”

Task forces also tackled problems

related to the safety equipment worn by doctors treating Ebola patients.

RISD senior Melissa Ponce and her group redesigned the helmet and garments that doctors wear when treating those infected.

The helmets that doctors currently wear only reveal their eyes, giving them a somewhat alien-like appearance, and current garments can only be worn for 45 minutes at a time before the hazmat suit and helmet overheat, Ponce said. As a result, the group tried designing a new helmet that was more open and therefore made it easier for air to ventilate and using cooling pads to cool down the suit.

“We covered the helmet in clear plastic, so that the patient can see the full face of the doctor,” Ponce said.

“We’re trying to humanize the doctors and help foster that contact” between doctors and patients, he added.

The designs from the event were submitted to the USAID challenge online. There is no word yet on whether the designs will be implemented, but for now, King and others hope the conversation between the health and design communities will continue.

“I have high hopes, in that I think this is a real precedent in some ways, where a global or national organization looks to designers to help solve health problems,” Rosenberg said.

“Designers are a real untapped resource in this situation. It’s time to think outside the box.”

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12 P.M. COMILLAS SUMMER 2015 STUDY ABROAD

5:30 P.M. COMPASSION MEDITATION: PERSPECTIVES

INFORMATION SESSION

FROM AFFECTIVE SCIENCE AND BRAIN IMAGING

The Office of International Programs will host an information session for anyone interested in participating in the summer 2015 program in Comillas, Spain. J. Walter Wilson 440

Gaelle Desbordes, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, will deliver a lecture about the neural mechanisms of meditation. Smith-Buonanno 106

4 P.M. IS EUROPEAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY DEAD?

5:30 P.M. ‘HURT PEOPLE HURT PEOPLE’: AN OPEN

A faculty panel will discuss current trends in European

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social democracy. Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum 5:30 P.M. FIFTH YEAR MASTER’S DEGREE IN BIOLOGY: INFORMATION SESSION

The biology graduate studies directors will offer information about opportunities for undergraduates to extend their education. Science Center

Campus members are invited to contribute to a communitybased art project by writing about their personal experiences with microaggressions. Leung Family Gallery 8:45 P.M. SPEED DATING AND FRIEND FINDING

The Brown/RISD Hillel Social Committee will host a night of mingling where students can look for potential romantic partners or friends. Petteruti Lounge

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EDITORIAL

Finding our place in Ferguson The movement surrounding Ferguson and Michael Brown’s death is not merely a controversial issue, it is a civil rights issue. According to data from ProPublica, young black men are “21 times as likely as their white peers to be killed by police.” Furthermore, “blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed (by police) at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police.” The uproars over the killings of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and 12-year-old Tamir Rice are indicative of the magnitude of police brutality and violence against black livelihood today.

The responses to these deaths have varied. Since Brown’s death on Aug. 9, the country has seen peaceful protests, police militarization, tear-gassing, looting and violent unrest. This civil disorder is complex.

Thirty-second news clips, newspaper headlines and Facebook statuses cannot adequately encompass the social and political issues within these communities. But at the same time, these issues cannot be dismissed on the basis that there is no simple answer. Finding answers requires not only time and listening but also action.

After last week’s decision by a St. Louis County grand jury not to indict Darren Wilson for Brown’s shooting death, there were dozens of rallies, demonstrations and marches across the United States. Locally, the Providence Journal reported that protesters “marched peacefully from Central High School to the Providence police station on Tuesday when a group of about 100 to 150 people broke off and decided to go on the highway,” halting Interstate 95 for approximately half an hour. At Brown, student groups have organized a “die-in protest” scheduled for Monday afternoon on the Main Green. The description of a Facebook event created by representatives of the Black Ivy Coalition states that they plan to lie outstretched to “represent the black lives that have been lost in this country due to police brutality.”

These responses vary in size and impact but all play a role in the continued struggle for equity. Violence against black communities is evident in the statistics, experiences and deaths of young black men. Ferguson is not a controversy; it is a civil injustice, a social struggle and a fight for our generation. In order to reform a biased system, all of us, as students and residents of this country, all of whom are affected by violence against black communities, have a responsibility to act. Involvement, as we have seen over recent months, can look very different for each one of us, but it needs to come from all of us. We bring to this fight different knowledge, experiences and privileges that shape how we engage in this struggle. For some, acting may mean protesting. For others, it may mean donating to the Ferguson Municipal Public Library. For citizens, it means advocating for changes in policy and legislation. But we all need to make tangible contributions to stop the violence against black livelihood.

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An unjust ‘justice’: America’s verdict on black lives ARMANI MADISON guest columnist

Nov. 24 at 9:37 p.m., aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from New York City to Atlanta. The moment at which I glanced at my neighbor’s open iPad and witnessed that which I had hoped against hope would not happen. The grand jury delivered its verdict that Officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted for his role in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.

Immediately after convincing myself that what I was seeing was real, there came a flash of anger of an intensity that I have not experienced since the summer of 2013, when George Zimmerman was also let off the hook for his murder of Trayvon Martin. While the media has framed the community reaction as one of anger and chaos, I counter that, for every person who engaged in an act of vandalism, there were thousands upon thousands who marched in peaceful solidarity and protest in the days following the announcement of the verdict. For these activists, these protesters, these people who decided to take a stance and to fight against brutality, discrimination, racism and inequality, I am proud, amazed and inspired beyond description.

Here was a decision that reminded me that I live in a nation that devalues black lives. Brought here by force; enslaved, raped, beaten, lynched, blacklisted and disrespected; kept in “check” through the use of coercion, murder, brutality and fear; and subjected throughout time and space to a constant state of oppression and dis-

crimination, the black people of this racist nation have suffered countless injustices. In keeping up with this legacy, within the last few months alone, a number of black lives have been lost as a result of suspicious police activity, including those of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, 14-year-old Cameron Tillman, 43-year-old Eric Garner, 19-yearold Roshad McIntosh, 18-year-old VonDerrit Myers, Jr. and 28-year-old Akai Gurley.

These lives are not even given justice in the courtroom. It seems that

Brown looked like “a demon” during the confrontation that led to the death of the latter.

Some will argue that the justice system is fair and impartial, and that the process in this case was fair, and the verdict logical. I call foul. The justice system is an unjust, classist and racist institution, one that seems to take a perverse pleasure in imprisoning young black and brown people, especially if they are of low-income backgrounds. Based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics for

trusted the police, in any form, to serve and protect me for years. Why? Not because I am a criminal, or because I am predisposed to side against such systems, or because I feel that I should expect to be profiled and brutalized by a force that claims to protect and serve. Not because I should expect to be treated particularly harshly and with abandon in a “justice” system that is supposed to be fair and impartial, but because I am black. Because I am black, if I have the misfortune to be the defendant in an Amer-

Here was a decision that reminded me that I live in a nation that devalues black lives. Brought here by force and subjected throughout time and space to a constant state of oppression and discrimination, the black people of this racist nation have suffered countless injustices.

the formula for a guaranteed acquittal in court is to have a black victim and a white perpetrator. Bonus points if there is a class disparity in the defendant’s favor, or if the victim looks “intimidating” or has a history of confrontations with the law. Make sure that the victim is presented through the most “sketchy” pictures possible, while only using professional, smiling photos of the perpetrator. Finally, take pains to criminalize and dehumanize the victim. As a case in point, take the statement of Darren Wilson, in which he remarked that Michael

the 2010 census, 380 of every 100,000 whites in America are incarcerated; for Latinos, this number is 966 out of 100,000, and for blacks, this number is 2,207 for every 100,000. A 2013 Sentencing Project report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee found that of those born today, one in every three black males and one in every six Latino males can expect to go to prison at some point in their lives.

Only one out of every 17 white males can expect the same.

I have been without faith in the justice system for years. I have not

ican courtroom, chances are I would be seen as guilty. And the ruling will be such. And if I am injured, or if I am killed, as a black man, the chances are, especially if my assailant is white, the defendant will be acquitted.

This is the truth of the nation in which we live. Many will deny this, many will question my argument, many will deny the existence of a school-to-prison pipeline, many will offer “logical” case-by-case explanations, and many may rationalize the discriminatory treatment that black and brown people receive. And they

will accuse countless victims of injustice throughout time and space of “pulling the race card.” To them, we should say: Open your eyes. And we should say little else, because we risk wasting time and energy explaining such concepts to the oppressor, and to those who, because of their privilege, can never truly understand, and who may never care enough to try.

Never forget, never lose your passion for justice and never be comfortable being ignorant. Take off the rose-colored glasses and see and confront the ugliness in our society. We must fight for transparency, accountability and responsibility. Where there are missteps, we must be there, and we must ensure that any misconduct is dealt with.

Fight for protesters’ rights, for national racial-profiling legislation, for the rights and empowerment of citizens, for a national police gun violence database, for the change of open use-of-force laws that encourage exploitation and for transparency and accountability from our police forces, including the Department of Public Safety, the Providence Police Department and those police forces in our hometowns. We must join up together in the pursuit of freedom for all, liberty for all, justice for all, safety for all, equality for all and for the rights of all citizens to be served and protected by our police.

Armani Madison ’16 sides with the Ferguson protesters and with the family of Mike Brown.

He is also the president of the Brown University chapter of the NAACP. He can be reached at armani_madison@brown.edu.

Is this goodbye, Dr. Huxtable?

IAN KENYON opinions columnist

We all carry the memory of special people in our soul. We grow with these individuals, age with them. As we develop our own senses, we watch what were once the mighty oaks of our childhood dwindle and dwarf before us. It is far too often that our rosy memories of these titans of our youth transform into Frankensteins of our adulthood — realities that we just do not want to open our eyes to.

The nation has inevitably fallen into similar circumstances, as headlines have chronicled the media-fueled fall of a figure of my childhood — Bill Cosby.

Some Brunonians may not be familiar with Cosby’s larger impression on the American cultural landscape. Following two decades of mixed ventures in producing entertainment and comedy throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Cosby came to the forefront of sitcoms in the 1980s hit “The Cosby Show.” The show, unprecedented at its time, was arguably the first mainstream portrayal of an educated and financially secure African-American family called the Huxtables.

For me, “The Cosby Show” was something more than a throwback sitcom — it in essence removed the concept of skin color from my

life. Through the lens of my own quiet upbringing in a Caucasian home, with two educated parents, I identified closely with the African-American Huxtable family, without questioning the concept of race as a differentiator. The fictitious Huxtables were not so different from the real-life Kenyons. For that, I have always owed Bill Cosby a debt of grati-

childhood influence suffers.

When I stumbled onto a Washington Post article from Nov. 22, my respect fell further into question. The article’s authors portrayed Cosby’s 1960s lifestyle: a fresh and hip comedian regarded as a regular in the Los Angeles club scene and a guest of Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion. Cosby socialized in a time

If there has ever been a time to set the tone on sexual culture for the next generation, this is the moment. If Americans are going to confront the horrors of rape culture, we must unearth every wrongdoing.

tude. Huxtable was a wise father figure in my youth, passing along common sense.

But my tribute to a childhood role model ends now.

In the past few weeks, the media has come aglow over the resuscitation of sexual assault allegations against Cosby — with some arising about incidents from decades ago. I, like many fair-minded individuals, stand by the premise of “innocent until proven guilty.” But with each new allegation by another woman of Cosby’s purported acts, my respect for a

and atmosphere when women could fall victim to forced coercion by men of high public status, often with little or no means of being able to challenge sexual harassment or assault.

The question has been posed — “Why only now are people talking about the allegations against Cosby?” Listen to the growing national dialogue on rape and sexual assault of women. Look at our own dialogue here on campus. If there has ever been a time to set the tone on sexual culture for the next generation, this is the moment. If Americans are

going to confront the horrors of rape culture, we must unearth every wrongdoing — even when it costs us some of our most beloved figures in society.

Individuals can charge that the accusers are financially motivated or attribute this aggregated bombardment on Cosby to the 24hour news cycle or even label Cosby’s silence as acquiescence. To date, Cosby does not face any legal charges. However, the allegations remain.

Arguably, the damage has already begun to take a toll on the sunset of Cosby’s career, as a number of public appearances have been canceled and NBC recently pulled the plug on a Cosby series set to debut in 2015. Reruns of the “The Cosby Show” have also been pulled from major national networks. As more women speak out against Cosby, it becomes increasingly difficult to refrain from judgment.

To this childhood fan, Cosby’s spiral has come at the sobering loss of an early inspiration — one that taught me an invaluable life principle, albeit through a fictional character. As media speculation continues, one wonders, is this a drawn-out obituary of a national figure?

Ian Kenyon GS is a Master of Public Affairs candidate with the Taubman Center for American Institutions and Public Policy. He can be reached at ian_kenyon@brown.edu.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2014

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Bruno shows improvement in Thanksgiving wins Bears split four games over break, beating JWU and Prairie View and hanging close with Illinois

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Defenseman Ben Tegtmeyer ’18 corrals the puck. Defense has been a big problem for the Bears this season, as the team has allowed a whopping 3.75 goals per game overall, and 4.45 per game in ECAC play.

Inconsistency plagues Bears in split 1-0 victory over UConn gives Bears first win since Halloween, but Crusaders beat Bruno in blowout

By MATTHEW BROWNSWORD SPORTS STAFF WRITER

One might have thought that a respite from ECAC hockey would be good for the men’s hockey team, which has yet to register a conference win and has been outscored 27-8 in ECAC play. But it was more of the same inconsistent play for Brown this weekend as it beat the University of Connecticut 1-0 but fell 5-0 at Holy Cross.

The Bears’ (2-7, 0-6 ECAC) triumph Saturday over UConn (3-7-4, 2-3-1 HEA) was their second win of the season, which is especially impressive because the Huskies have registered some quality results so far, including a win against Boston College and a tie against No. 1 Boston University.

Goalie Tim Ernst ’17 got the start for Brown — his second of the season — and was able to record the first shutout of his career and the first of Brown’s season. He had 25 saves, none more important than his last two of the game with less than 10 seconds remaining.

“I was looking for someone to step

up,” Whittet said. Ernst “made some good timely saves, but I thought it was more of a team effort. He was able to see a lot of pucks that came at him, and that’s something we hadn’t done defensively in prior games.”

On the offensive side, it was another tale of firsts, as Mark Naclerio ’16 made his first goal of the season to give the Bears the only point it would need. Picking off a UConn pass right outside the Huskies’ crease, Naclerio put the puck past a helpless Rob Nichols to convert what would be the game’s only goal.

“We needed a win,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “We needed to play good defensive hockey, and then we capitalized on a turnover. It was a big win for us, and I was hopeful it would turn into a winning streak.”

But Brown followed up its most impressive result of the season with one of its worst results against Holy Cross: The Crusaders thrashed the Bears, 5-0, in a game that was much more emblematic of Brown’s rough start to its 2014-15 campaign.

“I thought we were awful,” Whittet said. “I told the guys it would be a challenge — I saw the film and I knew that they played at a fast pace — but we just lacked on the mental side of the game, and that’s unacceptable.”

Ernst started for the second game

in a row, but the Bears fell behind quickly as Ryan Ferrill gave the Crusaders a 1-0 lead after three minutes.

From there, Ferril had quite an impressive game: The Holy Cross freshman doubled his tally and the lead with four minutes left in the first period, completing his hat trick two and a half minutes into the second period.

Holy Cross continued its dominance in the third period, with T.J. Moore getting a power-play goal after two minutes and then doubling his total and pushing the lead to five less than two minutes later. Holy Cross goaltender Matt Ginn registered 25 saves for his shutout as the Bears suffered another tough loss to a lesserquality opponent — the Crusaders lost to and tied Army earlier in the year, the only team besides UConn that Bruno has beaten this season.

“We need a healthy lineup. We didn’t have (Matt Lorito ’15) for these two games and he’s a big part of our offense,” Whittet said. “We’ve been really disjointed all season because of injuries, but we just have to be better. We have to take care of the puck better, have better outlets. If we think we can just walk into games and win, we’re not going to be successful.”

The Bears will aim to notch their first conference win of the season next weekend against Union (7-6-1, 1-4-1) and Rensselaer (6-9-1, 4-2).

After a lackluster start to their season, the men’s basketball team may have finally turned the corner. Following their 78-66 loss to Indiana State (3-3) just over a week ago, the Bears have gone 2-2, highlighted by a competitive showing against BigTen Illinois at the Las Vegas Invitational Monday and a comfortable victory over an athletic Johnson and Wales Sunday.

Though ultimately falling to Illinois 89-68, Bruno (3-5) played perhaps its best half of basketball of the season in the opening 20 minutes of the game. The team held Illinois — which had scored over 100 points in each of its last two games — to just 31 points and barely over 30 percent shooting in the half, allowing the Bears to take a 35-31 lead into intermission.

But in the second half, the Fighting Illini (6-0) dropped 58 points on an astronomical 73 percent shooting from the field and proved why they have arguably the best offense in the country.

The three-pointers and long jump shots that the team was missing in the first half started to fall in the second, as Illinois pulled away from the Bears after a closely-contested opening 20 minutes.

Illinois managed to contain Bruno’s offensive dynamo, Leland King ’17, who only notched seven points on 3-of-9 shooting. Steven Spieth ’17 carried the Bears with a career-high 21 points, in conjunction with seven rebounds and three assists.

Just three days later, the Bears returned to action against Austin Peay (2-5) in their third game of the Las Vegas Invitational. Bruno held a 38-33 halftime advantage, but the Governors opened the second half on a 12-minute 31-8 run that gave them an insurmountable 64-46 lead.

Ultimately the Bears fell 79-58.

King put on an efficient and prolific performance, netting 20 points on a 9-of-15 line from the field, but the rest of the Bears’ offense struggled, particularly from beyond the arc — the team shot a lowly 25 percent. J.R. Hobbie ’17, Bruno’s resident sharpshooter, made just one of his five attempts from deep.

The Bears were also held to a season-low four offensive rebounds, as Austin Peay did well to limit Bruno’s second-chance opportunities.

In their first back-to-back of the season, the Bears turned around and matched up with Prairie View A&M (0-6) in the final leg of the team’s Las Vegas trip. The game was tight at halftime, but Bruno busted open a 17-point lead midway through the second half, coasting to a comfortable 81-71 win over the Panthers.

The team displayed a balanced offensive game, with four players — King, Spieth, Hobbie and co-captain Rafael Maia ’15 — scoring double-digit points. Prairie View was led by guard Tre Hagood, who poured in 23 points on the night.

The Panthers shot an abysmal 43 percent from the charity stripe, while the Bears knocked down 19-of-23 from

the line. Hobbie returned to form from beyond the arc against Prairie View, hitting 4-of-6 deep balls.

King played the sixth-man role against the Panthers, coming off the bench and providing instant offense.

He netted a team-high 17 points on yet another methodical night from the floor.

Over the four-game tournament, King averaged 17.3 points and 8.3 boards and was named to the Las Vegas Invitational All-Tournament team.

The week-long road trip finally came to a close Sunday, when the team returned home to face Johnson and Wales (3-1). Bruno scored the first basket of the game and never looked back, leading wire-to-wire and winning 75-65.

The Bears took a 39-31 lead into halftime on the strength of Maia’s eight points and eight boards in the opening 20 minutes. The Brazilian center logged his best game of the season against the Wildcats, posting 12 points, 16 rebounds, four assists and three steals.

Just two minutes into the second half, Head Coach Mike Martin ’04 made a hockey-style line change, subbing off all five of his starters at the same time.

After the game, Martin said that he was unhappy with his team’s lack of effort at the start of the second half and needed to send a message, though he was unhappy that he had to make the wholesale substitution in the first place.

“I don’t think I should have to do that for these guys to get the message,” Martin said. “They know how important energy is for our program. (Maia) is pretty consistent with it. Sometimes, it looked like he was battling four or five blue jerseys for rebounds, and that’s unacceptable.”

The Wildcats hung around for much of the second half, never letting Bruno pull comfortably ahead. Guard Tom Garrick scored a game-high 29 points and was constantly attacking the lane and drawing fouls.

“Johnson and Wales deserves a ton of credit,” Martin said. “They play hard and with confidence.”

But the Wildcats could not get anything else cooking on offense — the nexthighest scorer was Quarry Greenway, who netted 11 points on a rough 4-of-13 shooting. The team missed tons of layups, and had Garrick not pulled down five offensive rebounds, the Bears would have won by a larger margin.

Despite having four players score 10 or more points for the second game in a row, Martin was bothered by the number of turnovers the team committed. The Bears coughed up the ball 20 times, marking the third game in a row and the fifth in the last six games with 20 or more turnovers.

“There’s a pattern right now of us turning the ball over way too much,” Martin said. “It led to easy run outs for them.”

“We didn’t play our best game, but the most important thing is that we got the win,” Maia said. “It was a learning experience and a good challenge. I’m sure we’re all going to learn from this.”

After playing eight games in 16 days, the Bears will have a few days to recuperate, practice and prepare for their meeting with American University (4-3) Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Pizzitola Center.