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Women’s ski team in danger Waka Flocka Flame to play Spring Weekend of demotion to club status After Google search One of most successful athletics programs given March deadline to raise $1.5 million, skiers say

By ANDREW FLAX SPORTS EDITOR

The women’s varsity ski team will likely be demoted to club status, members of the team said.

T h e c h an g e could happen as soon as March 18 unless the team is able to meet an endowment goal of $1.5 million set forth by the Brown Sports Foundation and Director of Athletics Jack Hayes, skiers said..

Though Hayes may want to demote women’s skiing for financial reasons, the team has met fundraising goals the past two years and “operated at virtually no cost to the University” last year, said co-captain Nika Mosenthal ’15.

The women’s ski team has emerged as one of Brown’s best athletics

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programs in recent memory. Brown sports have struggled of late, registering the lowest average Ivy League finish across all sports for six straight years, but the ski team has dominated.

Over the past four seasons, the team has not lost a division race, going 40-0.

In 2012, the team won a national title in the slalom, becoming only the third Brown team to win a national championship since 1879. It finished fifth at the USCSA National Championships last week in its fourth consecutive appearance at the event.

Despite its success, the program has been in jeopardy of being slashed for the past few years. In 2011, thenPresident Ruth Simmons formed the Athletics Review Committee to create a report detailing “a plan which articulates a vision for athletics at Brown.”

Among other recommendations, the ARC report called for the elimination of four teams: men’s and women’s fencing, men’s wrestling and women’s skiing. The report cited an imbalance » See WOMEN’S SKI, page 4

spurs speculation, Brown Concert Agency confirms rumored performance

By EBEN BLAKE ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR

Waka Flocka Flame will perform on the Friday of Spring Weekend, Brown Concert Agency announced in a post on its blog Thursday.

Though the rapper’s official website does not currently mention a concert at Brown, a Google search for his tour dates has included an April 17 appearance at Brown University since Wednesday.

This Google search also lists a 7 p.m. show time Friday. Last year, doors opened at 6:30 p.m., with Friday’s headliner, Diplo, not taking the stage until after Chance the Rapper performed.

“We’re incredibly excited to have Waka Flocka performing on Friday,” said Danny Sobor ’15, a member of

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Waka Flocka Flame’s most recent album, “Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family,” was released in 2012, and he plans to drop a new album in June.

BCA. “We can’t wait to release the rest of our lineup to the student body on Monday.”

The Google search results led rumors of Waka Flocka’s performance to circulate around campus before BCA

provided official confirmation.

“I was so amped when I saw it on Google on Wednesday, and I had no idea it was coming at all,” said Aziz Rangwala ’17. “One of my friends » See WAKA, page 4

Raimondo introduces first budget as governor Proposed budget would eliminate $190 million operating deficit, restructure state Medicaid

By DUNCAN GALLAGHER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Students in the Group Independent Study Project, “Music Journalism,” coordinated by Ben Berke ’16, meet in Sayles Hall on a weekly basis, where they share and discuss music criticisms and essays.

Students chime in on music-themed GISPs Undergraduates explore music composition, K-Pop culture, music journalism through GISPs

By GRACE YOON SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Students who pursue their passions for music — whether through producing, appreciating or reading about it — have adapted their melodic interests to the classroom setting this year.

Three Group Independent Study Projects, one last fall and two this spring, are linked through this common theme.

Criticism, Korean Pop and composition

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are the ways that students have tuned in to music-based learning, turning casual hobbies and lifelong obsessions into academic pursuits.

Pitching ideas “I’ve always read a lot about music. It got to the point where I would procrastinate by reading a lot of music criticism,” said Ben Berke ’16, coordinator this semester’s GISP, “Music Journalism.”

Last summer, Berke found himself “killing tons of time” at work by reading articles about Robert Caruso, who has directed several commercials and music videos — including Will Smith’s “Will2K” music video, for which he was nominated for a Grammy. “And then I had this revelation: I should turn this into a class,” Berke said.

The course surveys three core writings styles: criticism, profile or feature and personal essays, Berke said. The class also covers a variety of forms of music journalism, from documentaries to biopics to radio spots.

Students in the GISP aim to expose themselves to the genre of music journalism, but do not necessarily create music, Berke said.

But the students have had an ample amount of time to write and critique. Of the two days that the course meets per week, one is often devoted to students workshopping their writings. This will culminate in a final project, for which each student will submit a final portfolio to their advisor Adam Golaski, vising lecturer in English, Berke said. » See MUSIC GISPS, page 3

Gov. Gina Raimondo outlined her budget proposal — stressing the importance of attracting businesses, reforming Medicaid and improving education — in her State of the State address Thursday night. Delivered before a joint session of the General Assembly, the address marks the first budget recommendation of Raimondo’s term, which began in January.

Raimondo made the budget proposal the sole subject of her address, emphasizing her plans to facilitate statewide economic recovery.

Raimondo proudly said the proposed budget is balanced, noting that she believes it will eliminate the $190 million deficit looming over the state.

She said the proposal also aims to reduce the structural deficit, which is projected to reach $400 million by 2019.

The budget proposal must pass both chambers of the General Assembly before becoming law and will undergo

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revision during that process.

‘Out pops a budget’ Before beginning, Raimondo embraced Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, D-Newport, and Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello, D-Cranston, both of whom she frequently credited with helping to prepare the budget in her address.

Though Raimondo said Feb. 20 during a question-and-answer session, “For too long, what’s happened in Rhode Island — and it may happen in other State Houses — is the governor proposes a budget and then the General Assembly takes the budget and often in the dark of night, in a quiet room, the lobbyists and the General Assembly get together and they hack it up every which way and out pops a budget,” the Providence Journal reported.

When Raimondo met with Mattiello to apologize for her comments, Mattiello said he would not expect “placeholders” for unspecified cuts in Medicaid in the budget proposal.

A tough job Raimondo expressed concern over Rhode Island’s widespread unemployment and failure to create high-paying jobs. “Our biggest problem is that our economic engine is out of gas,” she said.

Raimondo said the state should » See BUDGET, page 2

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ARTS & CULTURE David Rockefeller donates $2.5 million and part of private collection to RISD Museum

ARTS & CULTURE All-female spoken word group examines Filipino identity, creates open creative space

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MPC workshop explores historical, modern issues of immigration Discussion examines evolution of American citizenship, exclusion, assimilation over time

By LAUREN ARATANI STAFF WRITER

Minority Peer Counselors Chrys Tran ’17, Genesis Medina ’17, Regine Rosas ’17, Ryan Lee ’17 and Fernando Ayala ’17 facilitated “There’s No Place Like Home: An MPC Workshop on Immigration” in Wilson 101 Thursday.

The workshop featured a presentation focusing on contemporary and historical issues surrounding immigration in the United States. The presentation was divided into three parts: “Constructing Citizenship,” “Exclusion and Assimilation” and “Contemporary Issues.”

“It is important to be informed on why families immigrated 100 years ago, how the process is different now and how hard it is,” Medina told The Herald in an interview after the workshop. “We tend to be really harsh in the United States and use phrases like ‘alien’ and ‘illegal’ for people just trying to make a living.”

The workshop facilitators defined an immigrant as “a person who migrates to another country for permanent residence,” adding that the Internal Revenue

Service defines an immigrant as an “alien.” The word’s usage ends up “devaluing obstacles” and “dehumanizing” individuals, facilitators said. Citizenship was defined as “legal entitlements to rights guaranteed by the Constitution and its later amendments” to those who are born or naturalized within the United States.

“Immigration is always thought of as voluntarily and deliberate, but migration in general is not voluntary for a lot of people,” Lee told The Herald. “Those people are not heard about. They’re not valued, and their experiences are not valued.”

The presentation put a great emphasis on the historical aspects of immigration, including the displacement of Native Americans and the enslavement of African Americans.

“To examine immigration, you have to examine every single ethnic group in America and how it was constructed,” Tran told The Herald.

Audience members were able to see visual examples of such historical points through the use of media, including a political cartoon of the Three-Fifths Compromise and a “Schoolhouse Rock” video featuring the song “The Great Melting Pot.” “We have this idea that America is special and it’s the land of opportunity,”

Lee said. “But does that really work for everyone?”

Throughout the workshop, facilitators asked “turn-and-talk” questions to allow audience members to have discussions about and reflect on the information presented. Questions such as “Who constructs and defines citizenship?” and “What role does race play in shaping American beliefs and perceptions?” were open for participants to reflect upon in small groups.

“People don’t really understand why people come to this country and how hard it is,” Rosas told The Herald.

The “Move In/Move Out” portion of the workshop had students stand in a circle and take a step forward in response to each statement about immigration and cultural assimilation pertaining to them.

The workshop facilitators encouraged participants to pay attention to the responses of others throughout the activity.

The facilitators emphasized the difficulty of obtaining American citizenship by asking five attendees to stand in the front of the room and read off of green-colored cards. The cards featured narratives of different people who want to immigrate to America — for example, a single mom who wants to provide her children with a better education. The audience was asked to guess the amount of years that each person in the narrative

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Minority Peer Counselors Genesis Medina ’17, Regine Rosas ’17 and Ryan Lee ’17 facilitated the “There’s No Place Like Home” MPC workshop. would take to acquire citizenship in the United States, with most estimates falling short of the true number.

The workshop and its facilitators helped participants develop a better understanding of U.S. immigration and its history.

“I think it’s important that Brown students are able to understand these deeper histories of this world of immigration that some students may not have to face or grapple with,” said Annie Furuyama

’18. “It’s such a large part of the American narrative that is not deeply integrated.”

“It’s great to see that, at Brown, narratives that are typically silent at a national stage are heard, and people are given microphones to speak out,” Medina said.

The workshop was a part of the Brown Center for Students of Color MPC workshop series. The BCSC organizes such workshops to allow students to “focus on critical dialogue” that MPCs find necessary, the facilitators said.

Ambitious production of ‘Maria de Buenos Aires’ haunts audiences Brown Opera Productions presents North American premiere of surrealist Argentine tango opera

By ZACK BU SENIOR STAFF WRITER

When elements with no visible connection somehow combine, they can create beautiful and unexpected synergy. This is the case for “María de Buenos Aires,” a whimsical tango-filled production that defies traditional conceptions of opera.

Brown Opera Productions will stage the opera’s North American premiere.

Set in 1920s Buenos Aires, the storyline follows Maria, a tragic heroine who takes over the underworld after being killed for her promiscuity, and Dundue, Maria’s lover who travels through time searching for her. They each encounter various characters and face significant plights, eventually finding redemption.

The surreal plots exemplify the opera’s departure from more orthodox

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» BUDGET, from page 1 support residents who work long hours for low wages, adding that its current minimum wage is too low to support many workers. “No one who works full-time should raise a family in poverty,” she said to applause.

She reiterated her desire to raise the state minimum wage from $9 per hour to $10.10, adding that the budget will increase the state’s earned income tax credit by 5 percentage points, to 15 percent, over two years.

The budget also proposes eliminating taxation on social security benefits — a change Mattiello has championed for several months.

Raimondo said the proposed budget would incentivize the development of high-paying industries in the state.

The proposal looks to eliminate the energy sales tax over the course of five

works. The storyline borrows ideas from various ideological origins and welds them together. Underworld, shadows, heaven, time-travelling­combine to form an eclectic and eccentric series of themes and ideas.

Though producing such an unconventional work initially appeared daunting to the BOP board, it was convinced by the brilliance of the music.

“The plot is pretty crazy. We were a little unsure of it, but then we listen to the music and then we all fell in love with it,” said Eleanor Siden ’15, the show’s conductor.

Acquiring the original scores was not an easy task. The director, Alejando Garcia Morales ’15, said he had to contact a company in France called Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing for the musical materials, which were “never edited or published and so are in a semi-manuscript, cut-and-pasted, years and to establish an “anchor tax credit” to reward businesses that employ large numbers of Rhode Islanders.

It also proposes creating a tax credit to incentivize Rhode Island-based businesses to create new jobs.

Pay it forward The proposal also includes plans to reorganize aspects of the state government, including a merger between the Rhode Island Higher Education Assistance Authority and the Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner, as well as what Raimondo has described as a “reinvention” of Medicaid within the state. The proposed Medicaid reform strives to eliminate inefficiencies in the system and to target fraud.

In an executive order, Raimondo created a working group that will propose Medicaid reforms to the Executive Offices of Health and Human Services

multilingual state.” Though the state of the materials posed a challenge for the team, it allowed for flexibility in their interpretation.

“This has ultimately proved to be a blessing in disguise, as it gave the directors and performers free rein in interpreting this difficult, complex work,” wrote Garcia Morales in a programming statement.

The score, originally written by Astor Piazzolla, is beautifully written. Student players make up a small tango orchestra, reviving the lost glamour from the manuscript. The marriage of classical musical forms and uninhibited tango melodies forms an exhilarating and infectious score, sending constant shivers down the spine.

The music, with its haunting and ethereal melodies, also fits perfectly with the twists and turns of the plot.

The escalation and ebbing of emotions are captured precisely by crescendos and dimming of the music. Almost every chapter is led by different instruments,

and variations in sound textures create more layers for the plot. Siden and the orchestra members maintain great quality and high precision throughout the entire production.

Above the stage, a libretto of the opera in English is displayed while the cast sings in the original Spanish. Morales translated Horacio Ferrer’s original version into English.

The cast delivered strong performances, managing the complex score and libretto without being overshadowed. Singing in the original Spanish libretto, they showcased ample vocal ability and emotional complexity.

Maria, played by Mariami Bekauri GS was a delight. Tito, played by Jacob Mukand ’18, boasts a deep and smooth timbre that draws in the audience. Cast members also tackled physical theatricality with the audacity of professional stunt performers. Gorrion, played by Jonathan Abrams ’15, and Gato, played

by Jacob Laden-Guindon ’18, stage a vivid fight and tango slapstick, adding

an element of humor to the production.

Though the set is simple, light designer Ryan Lessing ’17 renders the lighting to function as numerous sets of lenses. At times, beams of red light accentuate the red flags hanging in the background, creating shades of the underworld. Other times the background settings are entirely obliterated by strong outward glares, conveying a brooding ambiance.

The production of “María de Buenos Aires” is highly ambitious; Vocal Director Sami Overby ’17 said the directors and the cast rehearsed almost five days per week for the production. This hard work shows in the quality and the diversity of the show.

“I think it’s a natural thing to love this huge sound, this melodrama, this interdisciplinary art of dance, music, drama and scenography,” Siden said.

Tapping into unpublished works can be extremely rewarding and challenging, so BPO deserves kudos for shedding light on this hidden gem.

by April 30. Raimondo estimated that these combined efforts will save $90 million in state expenditures on Medicaid.

Raimondo proposed a unified tourism brand for the state and a tax on second homes valued at $1 million or more. She also recommended taking advantage of “historically low interest rates” to restructure some existing state debt and closing “a tax loophole on certain real estate transactions.”

Raimondo added that she would also take a 5 percent pay cut for the year.

RI,” an initiative that would enable high-performing high school students to take college classes at no cost to them.

She also recommended creating a $10 million “last-dollar scholarship” program to enable low-income students with impressive academic performance to attend college. This program would be financed by restructuring the existing grant program, as well as by the RIHEAA and OPSC merger, she said. “Let’s give these kids a chance, and let’s get this done,” she added to applause.

Getting schooled Raimondo outlined several objectives targeted at the state’s education system, including the establishment of a state School Building Authority to oversee and improve school infrastructure. She also proposed “Prepare

A positive reception General Treasurer Seth Magaziner ’06 told The Herald that even though it was challenging to consider the interests of various state agencies, the government’s financial predicament and the state’s political climate, the

response has been positive.

“We’re going to be able to do tens of millions of dollars of projects that will put people and the construction trades back to work, and we’re doing it with the vast majority of the funding coming from private sources or the federal government,” he said, adding that the state will benefit from $30-40 million worth of projects while investing only $2 million of its own money.

Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza said he appreciated the effort Raimondo has made to incorporate municipal leaders across the state in fiscal planning, adding, “What you see in the budget reflects that she heard a lot of our concerns.”

“We’re concerned about creating jobs and about investing in infrastructure in our schools, and this is a budget that’s good for both of those things,” Elorza said.

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Rockefeller donates $2.5 million to RISD Museum Museum to construct gallery in name of benefactors David and Peggy Rockefeller

By EMILY PASSARELLI SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Rhode Island School of Design Museum received a $2.5 million gift March 5 from David Rockefeller, as well as a promise for pieces of artwork from his private collection as bequests, according to a March 9 RISD Museum press release.

Of the total donation, $2 million endows the David and Peggy Rockefeller Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, a position currently held by Elizabeth Williams. The remaining $500,000 will support the transformation of a 400-square-foot space in the museum’s Radeke Building into the David and Peggy Rockefeller Gallery.

John Smith, director of the RISD

Museum, said the $500,000 supporting the gallery will specifically go toward renovating the space, updating the lighting and funding the installation of the pieces. The remaining sum will be kept in reserve for ongoing maintenance of the gallery, he added.

The David and Peggy Rockefeller Gallery will be situated on the floor dedicated to European art. The pieces that Rockefeller promised to the museum will be featured in this gallery and “will elevate the quality of our collection and fill voids in our collection,” Smith said.

His gift includes furniture and decorative pieces from England, as well as European silver and porcelain objects, according to the press release.

“The furniture piece of the donation is exciting,” said Kevin Remy, a senior at RISD. Many professors have expressed interest in the museum’s current collection of furniture, so “it’s nice that the donation includes something that includes an overlap of their interests,”

Spoken word group explores Filipino identity All-female group Archipeleg-a to modernize old pieces in first performance in five years

By KHIN SU STAFF WRITER

Archipeleg-a, an all-female Filipino spoken word group, will celebrate its 20th anniversary Sunday by performing 20 different pieces. Archi hosts its own show only once every five years and plans to showcase the talents of 10 students this weekend.

Archi, the oldest spoken word group at Brown, was founded in 1995 by 14 female Filipino students, said Mae Verano ’17, a member of the group.

Sunday’s show will deviate from the format of previous shows, punctuating solo spoken word acts with other types of performances by members of the Filipino Alliance. These interludes will include a cappella, a comedy set, a ukulele piece, a mash-up and a duet performance, said Marielle Bugayong ’17, another member of Archi.

Almost half of the performances will be solo sets, said Sarah Day Dayon ’15, another member of Archi. The group is also “bringing back old pieces and revitalizing them in ways that they have never been performed before,” she added.

The pieces written over the years explore different aspects of Filipino identity, including “the Filipino-American identity, immigrants, how to adapt to American culture and social issues,” Bugayong said. Archi provides a space to present often-unheard Southeast Asian female voices to the greater community, she added.

“In a lot of spaces, you are told to just operate with one of your identities,” Dayon said. Archi integrates overlapping identities such as “being Filipino, being a woman and other identities regarding class and sexuality,” she added.

Verano echoed this sentiment, noting that though the group is specifically for Filipino women, members are “careful about the intersection of identities.”

Through spoken word, the members of Archi command the stage, expressing

their opinions and sharing their unique experiences, Verano said. “A lot of us aren’t used to taking up an entire auditorium for ourselves.”

Many Brown community members expect the group to sound “cute,” Verano said, adding that part of Archi’s goal is to have female voices taken seriously.

“We speak truth and power. They don’t see it coming,” Bugayong said.

For many members, Archi is their first taste of spoken word or poetry. Some had never performed on stage before.

“Every now and then I’ve written a poem or two, but I’d never imagined I’d be performing on a stage,” Bugayong said.

Before becoming involved with Archi, Briana Garcia ’16 had never performed before, not even with a musical instrument. Joining the group “was a transition,” she said, adding, “What helped get over the fear was knowing that you could trust everyone in the group.”

The meetings allow members to simply write about what they feel and what is important to them, and then craft these ideas into cohesive pieces, Garcia said.

These free-writes and scripts are kept in a box called the “Archives,” which is “our version of institutional memories and inspiration from what alumni have written,” Verano said. “Even though we’ve never met, we can still read what they wrote.”

Archi members say the group welcomes not only creativity and self-expression, but also mentorship. Archi has “supported me where I felt like other people who were assigned to mentor me didn’t,” Dayon said.

“People here know exactly what I’m going through,” Verano said. “It has been so vital to my present life at Brown.”

Archi is a “space for art, support — a space to talk to each other and cry over each other’s shoulders,” Dayon said.

“That’s the beauty of it.”

Looking ahead, Archi’s next performance will not be until 2020. Meanwhile, Sunday’s show is “going to change from what alumni had expected the space to be, and that’s okay” as long as it still serves the needs of group members, Dayon said.

The show will take place Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Building for Environmental Research and Teaching.

he said.

Before the museum receives Rockefeller’s bequests, pieces from its current collection will be featured in the gallery, Smith said. “We will be conscientious in capturing Mr. Rockefeller’s personality as much as we can in these works,” he said, adding, “What’s been so wonderful about working with (Rockefeller) is that he trusts and values the expertise of the curators here.”

The donation tells diverse stories, offering visitors various points of access to the new gallery, Smith said. “The objects will help us tell a global story about art and design,” he said.

Rockefeller’s recent donation is part of a narrative of support from his family beginning nearly a century ago. This “long history of generosity and philanthropy to the RISD Museum is a wonderful story in and of itself,” Smith said.

David Rockfeller is the oldest living child of John D. Rockefeller, after whom Brown’s John D. Rockefeller Library was

» MUSIC GISPS, from page 1 “I never really had an attachment to an instrument per se, but the way that I’ve listened to music and appreciated it — that’s something I’ve done in my entire life,” said Dylan Hogan ’16, a student in the course. He added that though he habitually writes his thoughts on a particular song at his own leisure, he has enjoyed honing his writing skills and exploring how to structure his writings “in the best way so that people can enjoy reading them.”

This beat is popping Paige Morris ’16 has been a fan of K-Pop for a few years and follows developments in the genre on a regular basis. But she wanted to take her interest a step further last semester through her GISP, “Consuming Popular Culture in Contemporary Korea.”

“I was interested in exploring things like gender, social and health issues in the Korean pop culture industry,” she said.

Composed of 12 units, the course addressed an array of issues, such as masculinity and femininity portrayed in the media, mental health issues in the training process for K-Pop stars and cultural appropriation in music videos.

Sienna Bates ’16, an East Asian studies concentrator and one of the six students in the GISP, wrote her final paper for the course on cultural appropriation in K-Pop. Much of K-Pop is influenced by hip-hop from African-American artists, and “they don’t always treat it in the most respectful way,” Bates said.

While this problem pervades American pop in general, “it is interesting to see it again in the Korean Pop culture,” she added.

On the right track Though the Department of Music offers a course with the same name in the multimedia and electronic music experiments program, the GISP “Advanced Music Composition” is radically different, said Peter Enriquez ’16, who created the course with Grant Meyer ’16.

The course eliminates much of the prior advanced computational skills that the department’s course requires, Enriquez said. This meant opening up the course to students outside of the program — including Enriquez — and those with a wider range of music background and abilities.

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David Rockefeller’s gift to the Rhode Island School of Design Museum includes two Korean wedding chests, as well as two rare George I armchairs. named in 1964. He has also been the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family since July 2004. A banker and philanthropist, he previously served as chairman and chief executive of Chase

Manhattan Bank, which is now J.P. Morgan Chase.

Smith said he expects renovations to begin in fall 2016 and the gallery to open in early summer 2017.

The course offers students a holistic experience of music recording and includes a total of six songs for students to replicate as accurately as possible.

Songs include Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Kanye West’s “Touch the Sky” and Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble,” said Sam Dallas ’16, a student in the course.

The GISP also features a research component: Prior to making and recording the songs, students search for sources that could help with deconstructing the assigned song into parts that they can then recreate, Enriquez said.

“Some tracks are just impossible to research. It really comes down to listening to the song,” he said, adding that for this reason the group has reserved “A Day In the Life” by the Beatles as its final song of the semester.

Though the group includes “competent musicians and engineers,” it has faced challenges due to limited equipment and facilities, Enriquez said.

“There’s a certain extent of acceptance that you’ll fail every time, and yet we are able to get closer each time.”

people you’re close with,” Enriquez said.

“It’s really comfortable to let your shit fly.

You’re not afraid to be more straightforward.”

Bates said the process of structuring the syllabus prior to the start of the course established a basis of friendship among the students, which further solidified throughout the semester. She added that this semester, she meets up with the students from the class on a weekly basis to watch Korean TV dramas.

“The K-Pop class was my favorite class at Brown so far,” Bates said. “I loved the sense of community created from it.

It was a lot of work, but it was worth it in the end.”

Though Hogan had previously discussed music with friends who had similar tastes in music, he had “never been in a situation with people with different backgrounds, taste and ideas” before the GISP, he said.

“I’ve enjoyed this practice of writing more and having people of different perspectives critique my writing,” he added.

In harmony GISP coordinators agreed that though a lot of preparation went into planning and structuring their respective courses, the GISPs have become different from what they had planned.

“Everyone contributed equally to the syllabus,” Berke said, noting that initially about 15 students agreed to be part of the course and contributed to its structure, pitching topics and readings for each week. Many students had to drop the course due to scheduling and requirements, though, and the course ended up with a total of six people. This necessitated a lot of reworking as the course went along, Berke added.

Enriquez also said he experienced some challenges during the planning stage. Other interested students struggled to decide which tracks the course should tackle, so Enriquez and Meyer ultimately decided the final set of songs on their own.

Coordinators also agreed that students who reached out and remained were those whom they knew in some tangential way. This degree of familiarity has provided a space for students to freely and easily express and share their thoughts.

“It’s really helpful when you’re with

Fast forward Though the K-Pop GISP ended last semester, its impact endures for Morris and Bates.

Morris is taking a course on transspecific pop culture taught in the American studies department this semester.

“It’s a really cool course that touches on similar issues of gender and race brought up in the GISP,” she said.

Students in the other music-oriented GISPs this semester also anticipate a continuation of their academic endeavors with music.

“Grant and I are playing around with the idea of having another GISP next semester,” Enriquez said, adding that the next GISP would focus more on applied circuitry, such as delving into how to set up speaker sets to produce the best sound.

Berke, who said he wanted to see if “there is a scene of reading and writing music” at Brown, is now striving to create this community.

Several students from the music journalism GISP are developing a new on-campus music publication called “BSide,” Berke said.

The group hopes to establish a website for B-Side by the end of the month, he said. “We’re aiming for a print issue by the end of the semester, but that’s still up in the air.”

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» WOMEN’S SKI, from page 1 between Brown’s athletics budget, the lowest in the Ivy League, and the number of teams it supports, the second highest in the Ancient Eight.

After an outpouring of support for all of the teams, Simmons ultimately chose not to accept the recommendation to eliminate those teams. Instead, teams “should be given the chance to demonstrate that their supporters are able to endow their sport at the level deemed necessary by the University,” she wrote in a response to the report.

Specifically, “these sports should demonstrate over the course of the year that they have assembled gifts and pledges that, when combined with existing team-designated support, constitute an income stream sufficient to generate no less than 100 percent of the current annual budget for that sport,” Simmons wrote. For the ski team, this amounts to approximately $30,000 after accounting for a $32,000 contribution from the NCAA for holding varsity status.

Head Coach Michael Leblanc said the team has “struggled awfully bad” with fundraising since 2011, largely due to a diminutive alum base. As a small outfit, the nine-member ski team graduates about two athletes each year, and it has only held varsity status since 1993.

Despite its monetary troubles, team members said they did not hear from the athletics department about its fundraising efforts until spring 2014.

“There wasn’t much hubbub about it for a few years, and then last spring

(Hayes) … really put some pressure on us to raise more money,” Leblanc said.

The team responded to Hayes’ pressure and met its fundraising goal for the first time, raising $26,000 in time for the fiscal year 2014, said Mike Cohen ’11, a volunteer assistant coach on the team and head of Friends of Brown Skiing. The team has carried that momentum to this year, already meeting its goal for fiscal year 2015.

While those associated with the team feel their efforts have fulfilled the requirements set forth by Simmons, Leblanc said Hayes is “looking more at our endowment.”

In his first meeting with Leblanc last April, Hayes did not mention the team’s endowment, Mosenthal said.

The team’s endowment is currently about $85,000 and pushes $200,000 if combined with the men’s club skiing team’s endowment.

The Brown Sports Foundation informed Leblanc of the $1.5 million endowment that it expects from the team in December 2014. While team members knew being demoted was “a possibility” after meeting with Hayes last April, the skiers did not know how serious their situation was until captains Amanda Engelhardt ’15 and Mosenthal met with Hayes Feb. 26, Leblanc said.

According to the captains, Hayes made no concrete statements about the fate of the team, but Mosenthal said, “In all non-verbal ways, he communicated that … demotion to club was inevitable in as little as three weeks time if we didn’t raise $1.5 million and fully endow ourselves.”

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The women’s ski team — which has won its last 40 conference competitions, the longest such streak for any sport at Brown — is in danger of demotion to club level due to a lack of funds and insufficient fundraising efforts.

Hayes did not respond to multiple requests for comment, and Director of Athletic Communications Christopher Humm wrote in an email to The Herald that no decision has been made about the team.

The initial ARC report recommended the team be cut for a number of reasons, including travel commitments and the lack of adequate facilities — all of which the team has refuted. But the captains said Hayes did not seem concerned with those issues.

“He brought (the ARC’s justifications) up for less than 30 seconds” during the meeting, Engelhardt said.

“He said it’s about the money,” Mosenthal said.

The team expressed frustration with the demands set forth by Hayes and the Brown Sports Foundation.

To ask the team’s supporters “to

come up with the approximately $30,000 it takes to fund our season on a year-to-year basis is reasonable, and we can absolutely do that,” Mosenthal said. “We will raise enough money to be self-sustaining.”

“If we were hemorrhaging dollars from Brown and single-handedly making the Athletics Department go into the hole, then sure, please cut us,” Mosenthal added. “But we’ve looked at the numbers.”

“To ask 40 alumni under the age of 50 to come up with $1.5 million is, we believe, rather unreasonable,” Engelhardt said.

In addition to Hayes’ insistence that the team fully endow itself, the skiers also take issue with the time frame he imposed on them.

“I think we’re capable of raising the money, I just don’t think we’re capable of doing it in three weeks,” Mosenthal said.

The skiers were also upset with Hayes’ lack of communication. Engelhardt cited another section of Simmons’ response to the 2011 report that notes the University should help the teams plan their fundraising process, which she said the Athletics Department “didn’t follow through on.”

“All sports should be given goals and milestones for meeting the funding obligations set by Athletics and the University. The Athletics Department should submit sport-by-sport goals, plans and strategies for each team’s fundraising,” Simmons wrote.

“They didn’t hold up their end of the bargain,” Mosenthal said, adding that there was a “lack of understanding

about what was truly expected.”

“All it would have taken was the athletic department, after this transition, saying … ‘this is what’s expected of you in concrete terms; these are the dates we want this by,’” she said.

Being demoted to club status would come as “a ridiculously huge blow,” Leblanc said. The team would no longer be allowed to use the varsity weight rooms or the University’s athletic trainers and would be barred from NCAA races.

“It would be just like flipping a switch,” Leblanc said. “All the competitiveness of the program would be gone.”

As for his future, he said, “I’m a varsity ski coach. I don’t really have any intention of running a club ski team.

That’s not what I do.” But he emphasized his desire to remain in Providence, saying, “I really don’t want to leave.”

Without answers from the school, the team is left with an uncertain future.

“I work endlessly to be the best I can be for this team, and the fact that it isn’t recognized by the school is really discouraging,” said Natalie Pearl ’17, who was named ECSC MacConnell Division Skier of the Year for the second time this season.

“I’ve turned this into my life’s work,” Leblanc said. “I sure hope that I’m not left out on the street after 11 years of dedication to this institution.”

“Every time I think about this it just makes me crazy because it’s such an incredible program we have,” he added. “When you have something you’re good at, why wouldn’t you embrace that?”

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Dumichel Harley ’17. “I would rather see someone like Hoodie Allen. … I would prefer someone that everybody would agree to go to even if they may not know the artist.”

Joshua Williams ’16 said he thinks Waka Flocka will “be a great fit” for Spring Weekend, adding that when he “saw someone tweet that Waka Flocka was supposed to come,” he was thrilled about the choice.

“I was really surprised and impressed that the BCA got him,” Rangwala said.

Waka Flocka Flame must follow the legacy of Chance the Rapper and Kendrick Lamar, rappers who have performed at Spring Weekend in recent years.

Students will have to wait to learn the rest of the lineup, which will be released at the BCA Speakeasy Monday night.

“It wouldn’t do the lineup justice to talk about one of our acts without getting a full picture of the rest of the artists we have booked,” Sobor said.

from back home was looking for tours for Waka Flocka Flame in Boston and saw that he was supposed to perform at Brown and called me.”

Addressing the leak, Sobor said, “The Brick Squad cannot be contained,” referring to Waka Flocka’s label, 1017 Brick Squad.

Waka Flocka Flame, born Juaquin James Malphurs, first emerged on the music scene in 2010 with his debut album “Flockaveli,” which reached number six on the Billboard Top 200. He has released two albums since then: “Ferrari Boyz,” a collaboration with labelmate Gucci Mane, and “Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family.” In February, he announced a new album, “Flockaveli 2,” set for release June 1.

Known for his intense style of rapping and singles “Hard In Da Paint” and “No Hands,” Waka Flocka has generated mixed reactions from students on campus.

“I’m not a big fan of his music,” said

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SATELLITE DINING JOSIAH’S Gnocchi, Made-to-Order Quesadillas BLUE ROOM Naked Burritos, Soups: Clam Chowder, Minestrone, Beef with Bean Chili ANDREWS COMMONS Asian Tacos, Pizzas: Bacon Cheeseburger, Buffalo Chicken, Harvest

DINING HALLS SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH

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Red Potato Frittata, Macaroni and Cheese, Roast Pork Loin with Herbs, Onion Rings

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Lobster Bisque, Breaded Chicken Fingers, Wax Beans, Assorted Frosted Cupcakes

Vegan Gumbo with Red Beans, Kareem’s Catfish, Roasted Red Potatoes with Herbs

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27 Annual New England attraction 31 Mutt 32 “__ a traveler ...”: “Ozymandias” 33 Dolts 36 First Poet Laureate of Vermont 40 Threw a tantrum at ballet school?

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55 Eclectic online reader 56 Slime 57 Treacherous type 62 Beads on blades 63 Answer to “What did people listen to during the Depression, señor?”?

66 Poetic preposition 67 Landlocked African country 68 When some ties are broken, briefly 69 Clear 70 Grant 71 Part of CSNY

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6:30 P.M. PACHANGA!

The Latino Heritage Series, hosted by the Brown Center for Students of Color, will present a night for students to share their voices, dance moves, poetry or more. Salomon 001 8:00 P.M. SPOKEN WORD POETRY NIGHT II

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MARCH 14

6:00 P.M. MINI MUSICAL FESTIVAL

This short festival held by Musical Forum will feature five musical theater shows written, directed and performed by students that will each last around half an hour. Tickets will be distributed at the door half an hour before each show.

Faunce, The Underground 8:00 P.M. SYMPOSIUM: GALA 2015

Students who have purchased tickets to Class Coordinating Board’s annual gala will enjoy a night of dancing and light refreshments. Attire will be black tie optional, and mandatory shuttle service will begin at 7:45 p.m. from the Main Green.

Rhodes on the Pawtuxet SUNDAY

MARCH 15

8:00 P.M. MOVIE SCREENING: “THE SKELETON TWINS”

Students for Samaritans and Brown Active Minds will present a screening of this dark comedy featuring Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig. Dinner, popcorn and drinks will be served. Faunce, Petteruti Lounge 10:00 P.M. LOLLIPOPS, LABIAS AND LABELS: A CONFIDENTIAL ON HOOKUP CULTURE AT BROWN

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Brown Bites: March 6-12

BY MARCY HUANG, ONLINE EDITOR

The march on University Hall Protests dominated headlines this week as more and more students came forward to voice their opinions on the way the administration handled the recent sexual assault and GHB cases. Everyone from the Undergraduate Council of Students to Herald opinion columnists to members of the Task Force on Sexual Assault has voiced opinions on the growing controversies, with many giving support to the two complainants. Protests have occurred all around campus, with some students bringing the outcry to President Christina Paxson P’19 herself. Hundreds marched on University Hall Wednesday with dollar bills marked with “IX” taped over their mouths.

Q U O T E O F T H E D AY

“Our offense is conducive to having fun. … Our motto before every game is that we have to beat the other

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team in the category of chest bumps and fist pumps.

— Henry Blynn ‘16

See m. lacrosse on page 8.

Dancing fever Many students also attended the imPulse Dance Company’s show last weekend. This year’s show, “ImPulse Rising,” showcased the alter egos of the dancers through an intensely energetic two-hour-long, primarily hiphop production. ImPulse has been preparing for the show for the past year, with multiple auditions and a full week of 12-hour-long rehearsals over winter break. The show, which also featured two other dance groups — Badmaash and Static Noyze — made most attendees physically exhausted just by watching it.

Fashioning traditions Students are looking forward to another energetic production this coming weekend: the Vietnamese Students Association’s 25th anniversary show, “Timeless: Past, Present, and Future.” The show aims to bring more attention to both VSA and Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American identities. Students from both Brown and Northeastern will come together to perform at the event, which will feature dance, spoken word and a fashion show by Fashion4Freedom. The show looks to highlight Vietnamese culture and bring people together — as event coordinator Mary Nguyen ’17 explained, “There’s not that many Vietnamese students at Brown, and oftentimes coming here we feel isolated because we’re far away from our families.” VSA certainly got one thing right: Food is a surefire way to bring Brown students together.

Get ready to learn another acronym In case students aren’t getting enough arts and culture already, Brown is planning on selecting a location for a new performing arts venue by this summer. Michael Steinberg, vice provost for the arts, explained that the new facility will include “various kinds of incubator spaces for collaborative projects that will involve visiting artists and students,” as well as performance and studio space. Steinberg is also pushing for a “global conservatory” in Berlin, a city with “a long history in the arts,” and he hopes that Brown students can start going to Berlin this summer through a theater program run

by Bard College. We can’t help but wonder what’s closer: Berlin or Perkins?

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Summer school For those students who aren’t learning in Berlin this summer, Brown will offer five seven-week-long online courses, up from three last year. The courses, which are in the CLPS, classics, English, and German departments, are set to be highly interactive and capped at 18 students. James Chansky, director of summer session and pre-college programs at the School of Professional Studies, noted, “It’s just a lot easier to show up in a room at 10 o’clock and pay half attention. … But you can’t really coast and be invisible in an online course. It requires more self-discipline and focus.” If focus during class is something that online courses require, no wonder the enrollments are slotted to be so small.

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In shape, out of touch ZEIN KHLEIF opinions columnist

As I sit here writing this piece, all I am thinking about is the lemon cake on the bakery counter, waiting to be purchased.

Feb. 22-28 was National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. And while our Facebook pages and campus emails are usually riddled with information for various causes, this specific cause went relatively unnoticed. And I find that it usually does.

In the fall of my freshman year, I gained 15 pounds. As a small girl with a fortunately fast metabolism, I had never gained weight in high school no matter what I ate. Additional weight was a novel concept for me, and this myth of college weight gain became my internal obsession and reality.

Growing up, I always ate healthily. I was lucky to have a home-cooked meal every night and to attend a school that provided breakfasts and lunches focused on nutrition. But even I had my guilty pleasures — come on, I’m from D.C. We are born to love two things: Five Guys and Georgetown Cupcakes.

Frank, the man who worked in my high school cafeteria, knew me by name. I would frequently go up for seconds or thirds, and he knew to serve me as much as he served the boys twice my size on the football team or else risk incurring the wrath of a hungry teenage girl. I remember, one day, asking him for more food. He responded, “Sure, fatty!” It did not bother me then.

In fact, I was proud. I was 5-foot-3 and twiggy at the time, and this was the

type of joke shared between a worker and an active student with a zealous appetite.

Fast forward to freshman fall of college, and I was still eating enormous portions. I took the “all you can eat” slogan of the dining halls very seriously, carrying several plates to my seat at one time. But I didn’t have a clue what made food bad or good for the body.

Though I would try to limit myself in terms of sweets and eat many fruits and veggies, I would also overload on pastas, grilled cheeses and other Ratty delights — how I miss meal plan! But by winter break, it was evident that my fast metabolism was quickly slowing.

the exact same meals, except I had a larger amount on my plate than he had on his. He looked down at my tray and, obviously noting the same thing, smirked and said “nice,” before walking away.

It was a joke, said in the same tone as Frank’s — a male-to-female approval of consumption. But this time I did not feel proud. I was ashamed. I was so unhappy with myself and with my body.

It was not until spring semester that I decided to take action. Enough was enough, I told myself. It was time to change. I enrolled in an online program that guided me through losing weight in a physically safe way —

rants was a stress-inducing nightmare.

I would not want to eat anything on the menu after automatically estimating the calorie content, and I was so concerned about re-gaining weight that my days were spent scheduling myself around meal times and places. Food overwhelmed my mental capacity, and it was exhausting.

Early that summer my habits worsened, and the all-consuming stress pushed me to go to lengths I never had before to avoid future potential weight gain. Not officially labeled as an eating disorder, life-disrupting stresses revolving around food are labeled under the category of “disordered eating.”

Many students at Brown know both the general stigmas and ramifications of eating disorders and disordered eating, but few know the vast extent of its existence.

Beginning around November, already unhappy at college — I hold no doubt that my unhappiness fueled the eating, and the eating fueled the unhappiness — I had started to hate my body in a way I never had before. I called myself fat; I called myself ugly. I convinced myself nobody would want to be friends with someone like me, and I stayed away from the hook-up scene. Outside of my a cappella group, I was a lonely recluse.

By December, I could no longer fit into my jeans, and I solely resorted to leggings and large sweaters to hide my figure; I was still within a healthy weight range but in a body that I was not used to. I remember taking my breakfast tray to the milk machine one morning at the Ratty and standing next to an athlete filling up his cup. Looking down at his tray, I noticed we had

something that was very important to me. I wanted to lose weight and sustain my healthy body.

I started exercising regularly and both looked and felt great. The program required inserting every item of food I ate into a nutrition calculator and all of the exercise I was doing into the program. And though, after months of effort, I was strong, fit and thrilled with my accomplishments, my physical health did not reflect my mental health. This program fed my always existent obsessive-compulsive anxiety disorder.

I became obsessed with counting calories and monitoring my weight.

Even though I had lost the pounds I had gained in the fall, I still kept track of every calorie I was eating and every calorie I was burning — both online and mentally. Going out to restau-

As defined by the National Eating Disorders Collaboration, “Disordered eating is a disturbed and unhealthy eating pattern that can include restrictive dieting, compulsive eating or skipping meals.” Disordered eating shares characteristics with and has the potential to transform into categorized eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorders and other equally severe illnesses. It may also result in stomach ulcers, headaches, fatigue, weight gain and muscle cramps, to name a few.

Many students at Brown know both the general stigmas and ramifications of eating disorders and disordered eating, but few know the vast extent of its existence.

According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated disorders, “Over one-half of teen-

age girls and nearly one-third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting and taking laxatives” to avoid gaining weight. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and anorexia is reported as the third most common chronic illness among adolescents. Approximately 24 million Americans of “all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder.” And this statistic does not even take the “disordered eating” category into account.

I refuse to say I made the choice of developing a disordered eating habit, but it is hard to reflect back and excuse myself for all actions. The words I said to my body while in front of the mirror, the words I said to myself while in the dining hall and the words I said about myself in front of my drastically younger and currently maturing sisters haunt me. The social experiences I cut myself off from as a result of my habit leave me with many regrets.

While I mostly no longer engage in my disordered eating habits, I would be lying if I did not say there are still aspects of them that remain ingrained — obsessing over the desire for certain foods, like the lemon cake on the counter: its taste, its caloric value and both the satisfaction and regret it holds.

Though I still won’t let myself buy the cake, that is something I am working towards — allowing myself to indulge more frequently, if only out of love for myself.

Zein Khleif ’15 is an independent concentrator in political psychology and can be reached at zein_khleif@brown.

Sexual assault and conflict of interest DUNCAN WEINSTEIN opinions columnist

If the two recent cases regarding the alleged spiking of two women’s drink with GHB at a Phi Kappa Psi party and the alleged sexual assault of one of the women have conclusively proven anything, it’s that many people do not trust Brown’s disciplinary system. Two of the biggest issues in the recent cases — the University’s possible preferential treatment of the male student accused of spiking the drink and a Student Conduct Board’s finding that a different student was not responsible for allegedly sexually assaulting one of the women because her incapacitation did not allow her to provide a complete testimony — are similar to incidents that have played out at Brown before.

For example, the 1996 Adam Lack case also rested on an incapacitated student’s testimony and whether the respondent should have known she was too intoxicated to give proper consent.

In the fall of 1996, Sara Klein ’99 accused Adam Lack ’97 of sexual assault. According to Lack’s version of the story, Klein initiated their sexual encounter, stayed up late talking with him and gave him her phone number. Klein, who said she was too drunk to remember the night, claimed that she must also have been too intoxicated to give consent. Lack was first suspended and then sentenced to two semesters of probation. He sued the University, and they reached a confidential settlement.

At the time, Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn was head of the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center. In the spring 1997 issue of the campus publication “Is-

sues,” Klawunn said men advocating for Lack “are afraid that they have already been or will be the next Adam Lack. Many men see themselves as potentially in that situation or have already been in that situation. This case has become a magnet for men who have skeletons in the closet.” On the issue of preferential treatment, The Herald reported in 2010 that in fall 1996 “the University Disciplinary Committee declined to hear a female student’s complaint of sexual assault against a male student, citing the complexity of the evidence. The male student, her ex-boyfriend, was a relative of Jordan’s royal family whose father had donated mon-

dale interfered with McCormick’s advocate, assistant wrestling coach Michael Burch. McCormick sued the University and both Dresdales, and the suit was settled.

Whether or not a conflict of interest changed the outcome of any of these cases, a potential conflict of interest obviously exists. Administrators are tasked with protecting Brown’s institutional interests, including preserving the school’s reputation, encouraging donors and maintaining academic excellence. I don’t mean to insinuate that all administrators calculate their decisions in terms of institutional interest. But administrator discretion

Given the history of mishandled sexual assault cases, both at Brown and schools across the country, it’s time to consider taking these cases out of the hands of university administrators. ey to the University. The committee’s decision led to an investigation by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. According to a 1997 University press release, the investigation was later dropped at the request of the parties.”

In September 2006, Beth Dresdale ’10, daughter of wealthy Corporation trustee Richard Dresdale ’78, accused William McCormick III ’10 first of stalking her and then of having raped her. McCormick was handed a plane ticket home by nowExecutive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 before he was told that he had been accused of rape. Richard Dresdale emailed former President Ruth Simmons, saying he was trying to get McCormick to withdraw from the University — which he did, citing a seizure condition — rather than undergo a disciplinary hearing. A private investigator hired by Dres-

in sexual assault cases can clearly create the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Given the history of mishandled sexual assault cases, both at Brown and at schools across the country, it’s time to consider taking these cases out of the hands of administrators. Students, both accused and accuser, could have more faith in the system if Brown retained independent professionals to handle these cases. Already, the University — following the interim recommendations of the Task Force on Sexual Assault — is implementing the single investigator model, in which one professional investigator gathers evidence and presents it as a book to the hearing panel, Katie Byron ’15, a member of the task force, told me.

This is a good step, but I’d rather see one investigator for each side of the hearing, and an accommodation to allow the accused to face the accuser

while mitigating trauma for the complainant. Under the current system, attorneys cannot speak for their clients in the hearings — only students and their advocates can, Byron said. It may be worth reconsidering this ban. Additionally, many of the steps proposed by the activist group Act4RJ in their list of demands of the University presented at Wednesday’s protest would also make the system work better for both parties.

Going forward, administrators should refer all complaints to investigators, who should have the sole authority to decide whether the case goes to a hearing, provided the parties do not reach some other settlement. Hearings should be run not by a panel comprising a student, a faculty member and an administrator, but by a retired judge retained by the University. Students, faculty members and administrators could potentially be influenced by their institutional relationship to the University, creating the appearance of a conflict of interest.

More importantly, the judge will deliver a finding of fact and recommended sanction. If the University chooses not to implement that sanction, it should be obligated to provide a reason, and both sides should be given a chance to appeal. While independent professionals won’t get every case right — no system ever will — they would remove one potential conflict of interest from the disciplinary process. That’s a system we can all have more faith in. Students, both accuser and accused, deserve that.

Duncan Weinstein ’17 has a conflict of interest: He knows people who have been complainants and respondents in sexual assault cases. He can be reached at duncan_weinstein@brown.edu.

SPORTS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015

BASEBALL

Bruno looks for first series win against North Florida In midst of 20-game road trip, St. Lawrence ’15, Fitzpatrick ’15 look for first wins of season

By MATT BROWNSWORD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After former Head Coach Marek Drabinski left the men’s baseball team in the middle of last season, it did not look promising for the near future of a program that last won a national championship in 1879.

Now, under new Head Coach Grant Achilles, Bruno (1-5) has started its season with an injury to Christian Taugner ’17 — the team’s leader in earned run average and innings pitched last year — and a four-game sweep by South Alabama. With a new coach and a hugely disappointing season last year, expectations could not have been very high, but so far the outcomes have been worse than expected.

The Bears got their first win last weekend against Northeastern, and their hitting showed promise: Eight of the 10 Brown hitters registered an RBI in the 13-6 victory. Sam Grigo ’18 had three of the 13 team RBIs, which — after a weekend in which he batted 5-for-8 — earned him Ivy Rookie of the Week honors.

The opponent in this week’s fourgame series is North Florida (10-8), which has already played 18 games this year. The warmer climate helps for hosting games, and without the Ivy League game restrictions, nonconference opponents typically play a lot more games leading up to the conference schedule.

The restrictions do not allow for Ivy League teams like Brown to start their seasons as early as most teams do. For example, when Brown played its first series of the year against South Alabama, the Jaguars had already played 11 games.

“They’ve been able to get more games in, so they’re in more of a midseason form,” said Taylor Wright ’15.

“They also have some veteran guys that have been around and are well prepared.

Their pitching staff has a couple of different looks, too, that we haven’t seen yet this year.”

The snow has not helped the Bears in preparation for away games in warmer climates, as they just started practicing outside this week. Because of the inclement New England weather, Brown’s first 20 games of the season will be played away from home — a clear disadvantage to teams that don’t have to deal with the troubles of snow.

“We’ve been forced inside until just this week, but we have only been able to get on the turf football fields,” Wright

said. “We’re used to these conditions though and are pretty good at getting our work in, no matter where we have to practice.”

Averaging more than six runs a game, the Bears’ offense has shown its ability to get runners across the plate.

Out of the six batters who have had more than 20 at-bats, three are hitting over .300, including outfielder Robert Henry ’17, who is batting .357/.419/.571 in 28 at-bats. Unfortunately for Bruno, the other three are batting .240 or lower.

Similarly, North Florida’s top three hitters — all of whom have more than 70 at-bats on the season — bat over .300.

Trent Higginbothem is North Florida’s leader in RBIs — 19 — and batting average — .392.

North Florida’s pitching has been good so far, with four pitchers registering ERAs of 3.33 or lower and more than 15 innings pitched. Redshirt sophomore Matthew Naylor leads the team with a 1.80 ERA and 10 appearances, all in a relief role. Tyler DuPont has been the Ospreys’ best starter in terms of wins, but Bryan Baker is the only starter on the team who has posted a sub-three ERA, despite being on the wrong end of a lot of unearned runs.

Two seniors, Dave St. Lawrence ’15 and Eddie Fitzpatrick ’15, have led the Bears with two starts, both going 0-1. Reid Anderson ’18 registered

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COURTESY OF BROWN ATHLETICS

The Bears will travel down south for the second time to face North Florida.

Their first trip resulted in a sweep at the hands of South Alabama.

Brown’s only win of the season in his start against Northeastern, in which he went 5.2 innings and only gave up two earned runs. If Brown wants to contend with anybody this year, it has to get some good pitching from some of its middle relievers: In innings five through seven so far this year, the Bears

have given up 32 runs.

“Our pitching staff just has to stick to our approach like we do with any opponent,” Wright said. “We want to be aggressive and get ahead in counts.

If we attack the strike zone with our fastball and throw our offspeed stuff for strikes, we should be successful.”

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Brown eviscerates Michigan 22-12 Late goal propels Bears Milloy ’17 leads nation’s over Holy Cross top offense in destruction of Wolverines, to face No. 10 Harvard Saturday

By NIKKO PASANEN SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The No. 19 men’s lacrosse team showed no signs of slowing down last weekend, cruising past Michigan by a final score of 22-12. Bruno is now off to its best start since 2004 and has certainly looked impressive in the process.

“The victories in our first four games do not define us, but they do build confidence in each man that their hard work and commitment to the team are of value,” said Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90. “What does define us is the energy and passion we bring to each and every competition.”

As has been the story of the season so far, the Bears (4-0) were paced by Dylan Molloy ’17, who connected on eight goals while also dishing out five assists. With 13 points on the day, the star sophomore tied the Brown record for most points tallied in a match. Due to his stellar play, he was named both the Ivy League and the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association player of the week.

“Clearly, Dylan has been fantastic,” said Henry Blynn ’16. “I haven’t seen players of his size use their body so well to score goals, and more importantly, he is a great teammate and strong leader who stays positive in adverse situations.”

Blynn was no slouch himself, scoring four goals to extend his season total to 10, while Kylor Bellistri ’16 also connected four times to bring his total to nine.

On Sunday, it did not take long for the Bears’ nation-leading offense to get going.

Just 10 minutes into the contest, Bruno

had already raced out to a 5-0 lead on the back of two goals each by Blynn and Molloy, as well as a tally from Brendan Caputo ’16. The Wolverines struck back at the end of the quarter, resulting in a 5-2 margin at the end of the first period.

After conceding a goal at the start of the second quarter, Bruno’s offense got rolling again, putting up another five goals in a row to extend the lead to 103. The Bears and the Wolverines (3-3) would each score twice before the half, leaving Bruno with a commanding sevengoal lead at intermission.

The third quarter started off on a slightly different note, with Michigan coming out as the stronger side and cutting the lead to 15-11 with 38 seconds left in the period. But Captain Tim Jacob ’15 made sure to put a stop to the Wolverines’ run, scoring with just eight seconds left to shift the momentum back to the Bears.

From there, Bruno dialed up its third five-goal streak of the contest to start off the fourth quarter, effectively putting the match out of reach.

After the 22-goal onslaught, the Bears maintained their spot as the nation’s most prolific offense, now averaging a remarkable 18.5 goals per game.

“Inhibition has been abandoned,” Tiffany said. “The style we play with is not the norm in college lacrosse — there is almost a reckless edginess to it. We are pushing the pace of play in order to gain an advantage before our opponent has a chance to set their defense.”

But it seems players have had little trouble embracing the new game plan.

“The new up-tempo offense is an offense that any offensive player dreams of playing within,” Blynn said. “Our new offensive coordinator, Sean Kirwan, wants us to constantly attack the opposition and keep them on their toes.”

Blynn was also quick to point out

that it is not just the new system that has helped make the offense so successful.

“Our offense is conducive to having fun,” Blynn said. “Our motto before every game is that we have to beat the other team in the category of chest bumps and fist pumps. We’re a group of guys that love to have fun, and it shows with how many goals we score every game.”

While it is easy to get carried away with the team’s offensive prowess, as always, the defense certainly played its part as well. Goalie Jack Kelly ’16 recorded 14 saves on the match and now posts the sixth-best save percentage in the nation. Also impressive was the play of Will Gural ’16, who won 20 of 33 face-offs and collected a game-high nine ground balls. Gural now ranks ninth nationally in face-off winning percentage.

The Bears will open Ivy play Saturday against No. 10 Harvard, which will surely be a litmus test for the season to come.

Last year, Bruno fell to the Crimson (4-1) 16-10 in Cambridge at a similar point in the season, but Bruno hopes the script will be reversed this time around.

With five teams in the Ivy League ranked in the top 20, the Bears will have to get used to playing tough competition week in and week out, but the team has the right mindset going forward.

“It means a lot to our team to have gotten off to such a good start,” Blynn said. “However, we aren’t overly confident by any means and expect more of ourselves this season than winning a couple games. The Ivy League starts Saturdayand we are 0-0, so we understand that we have to go to work these next couple of weeks.”

The team is “4-0 with one to go,” Tiffany said. “We will keep focused on improving ourselves individually and continue to work on our team’s new style of play. We will stay focused on what we control.”

Ivy rival Yale awaits Bruno after loss to Quakers, midweek triumph over Crusaders

By LAINIE ROWLAND SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The women’s lacrosse team will look to build on its momentum from Tuesday’s close win over Holy Cross as it prepares for a weekend contest against Yale.

Bruno (4-1, 0-1 Ivy) clinched its latest victory in dramatic fashion, with Marissa Hudgins ’18 scoring the winning goal with only 11 seconds left in the game.

In Bruno’s hard-fought win over the Crusaders (1-6, 1-0 Patriot), neither squad ever led by more than three goals.

It was a tightly contested match, with the teams trading the lead back and forth for the majority of the game.

Lauren Toy ’16 dominated the first half for the Bears, notching a hat trick over the course of the 30-minute period.

Hudgins contributed a goal as well, leaving the Bears and the Crusaders tied at four at the end of the first half.

Richael Walsh ’16 opened the second half with two goals within the span of a single minute to give the Bears a two-goal lead. Yuna Hur ’18 netted a goal to put Bruno up by three.

But the Bears could not avoid a challenge from the Crusaders. Two unanswered Holy Cross goals inched the Crusaders to within one of Bruno’s lead.

Another goal from Abby Bunting ’15 widened the margin, but the Crusaders quickly responded, bringing Bruno back to teetering on a one-goal buffer.

With less than 10 minutes left in play,

Bunting and Walsh each scored again to give the Bears a three-goal lead. But down by three with four minutes left on the clock, the Crusaders launched a serious comeback attempt. In less than 90 seconds and with the Bears missing two players due to penalties, Holy Cross found the back of Bruno’s net three times, tying the game with two minutes left.

In what turned out to be a very smart move, the Bears pulled goalie Kellie Roddy ’15. Roddy capitalized on the opportunity, intercepting a Holy Cross pass and getting the ball into the Bears’ sticks in Crusader territory. The rookie Hudgins found a hole in a dense defense to find the back of the net and give Bruno a hard-earned 11-10 win.

“It was great to gut out a win like that,” said Head Coach Keely McDonald ’00.

After reviewing the game, we will make some adjustments to keep getting stronger as a team.”

On Saturday, Bruno will face another team with one Ivy loss on its record.

Needless to say, the game promises to be an exciting contest. The Bears fell to Yale (3-3, 0-1) by only one goal last year, so confidence in their finishing ability will be critical to their success this season.

Bulldogs goalie Erin Mullins will put Roddy to the test. While Roddy leads the league with 38 saves, Mullins trails her by just three. Solid offensive efforts powered by Erin Magnuson, Kerri Fleishhacker and Tess McEvoy have fueled the Bulldogs’ scoring. Yale has lost two consecutive games, so it will likely be hungry for a win.

“Leadership will be important for us on Saturday,” McDonald said. “We are looking forward to the opportunity to compete against another strong Ivy team.”