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Undergrads report disapproval of U. disciplinary process outcomes Paxson’s approval rating drops about 8 percent in two weeks after campus controversies

By EMMA JERZYK AND JOSEPH ZAPPA METRO EDITOR AND UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR

A Herald poll of undergraduates conducted March 16-17 found that more than two-thirds of students disapprove of the University’s decision to cancel a hearing for a student accused of serving a drink with GHB at an October Phi Kappa Psi party. In addition, over 60 percent of respondents disapproved of the reasoning behind a student conduct board’s finding a student not responsible for sexually assaulting one of the women who reported being drugged.

The Herald reported the hearing cancellation and sexual misconduct decision March 4 and March 6, respectively. Earlier that week, a different Herald poll of undergraduates found that about 41 percent of students

approved of President Christina Paxson’s P’19 job performance.

But two weeks later, after the news of the hearing’s cancellation and the conduct board decision had become public knowledge and about 400 students had protested those events, a second poll revealed that just under 34 percent approve of Paxson, and the rate of disapproval jumped from 25 percent to 36.

The first poll, conducted March 2-3, showed that students are divided on University sanctions imposed on Phi Psi for holding the October party, which administrators decided fostered an “unsafe environment” because alcohol was served to minors. Students are also split on the appropriateness of the less severe sanctions against Sigma Chi, which was found responsible for creating an environment in which a female student was touched without consent as she left a crowded basement at an unregistered party at the fraternity. In both cases, less than 10 percent of students indicated they thought the sanctions were too lenient.

Just over 50 percent of students disapprove of the interim ban on

large-scale events with alcohol service at Greek and program houses that was implemented this semester.

Students involved in Greek life were significantly more likely than their non-Greek counterparts to disapprove of the interim ban and to judge the sanctions against Phi Psi and Sigma as too harsh. The percentage of Greeks strongly disapproving of the alcohol ban — 50 — is more than triple that of non-Greeks.

The first poll also addressed a number of topics unrelated to the October Phi Psi party and University measures to curtail sexual assault, including the campus political climate and students’ comfort voicing their political views.

While the vast majority of students identified as either somewhat or very liberal about social issues, fewer identified as fiscally liberal. In addition, several groups stood out as being more fiscally conservative than the general student body, including members of Greek organizations, athletes and male students.

Most students were either very or somewhat comfortable expressing their political views on campus,

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Paxson approval levels between March 2 and March 17

President Christina Paxson’s approval rating dropped markedly following the spread of news about two misconduct hearings related to an October Phi Kappa Psi party.

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though students’ comfort sharing their views had a significant positive correlation with liberal social and fiscal views.

White students were more likely than non-white students to say they were very comfortable expressing their political views on campus.

The poll also asked students about feelings of inadequacy relative to other students. Over 40 percent of undergraduates indicated that they do not feel inadequate. First-generation,

Hispanic and female students, as well as underclassmen, were more likely than their counterparts to indicate feeling inadequate about their academic ability — the most common perceived inadequacy among the answer choices.

A majority of respondents reported having interacted with graduate students in some capacity, and most have had positive experiences with them.

The quality of interactions with graduate students correlated with class year, » See POLL, page 3

SOFTBALL

Win over No. 9 Tigers caps off strong break First-years shine during Bears one of two remaining undefeated teams in Ivy League after notching weekend wins

By ANDREW FLAX SPORTS EDITOR

After suffering its first loss to Bucknell in overtime, the No. 12 men’s lacrosse team rebounded with three wins over the break, topping Manhattan, Marist and No. 9 Princeton.

Bruno (8-1, 2-0 Ivy) began its vacation with a blowout against the Jaspers (0-10, 0-2) 22-9. After conceding the first goal, the Bears refocused, eventually leading 18-4 midway through the third before a late run brought Manhattan closer by the final buzzer. Though the nine-goal

output was a season high for the Jasper offense, it has only allowed more than 22 goals to one team: No. 4 North Carolina, which scored 26.

The win was a team effort, as 13 Bears found the back of the net. Kylor Bellistri ’16 and Henry Blynn ’16 led the way with four goals apiece, while the nation’s leading scorer, Dylan Molloy ’17, scored just twice.

“I liked our reaction” to the Bucknell loss, said Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90.

“I certainly enjoyed the way we prepared for Manhattan,” he added.

“Any time as a team when you take your first loss, you have a lot to learn about yourselves,” said Larken Kemp ’17.

Three days later, the Bears faced a much stiffer challenge in Marist (6-3, 3-0). The Red Foxes are a strong outfit, receiving votes but not making the final

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Captain Tim Jacobs ’15 picked up a goal and two assists over spring break.

Bruno’s offense packed the heat in its three wins this week.

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cut in the most recent United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association poll, in which coaches rank the top 20 teams in the division.

It was a tale of two games for Bruno: The Bears jumped out to an 11-2 lead midway through the second quarter, but they were outscored 13-4 for the rest of regulation as the Red Foxes took control.

But in overtime, Bellistri outmaneuvered goalie Dave Scarcello while the Bears were a man up to seal the victory.

Undoubtedly the biggest contest of the Bears’ season so far was a Sunday visit to Princeton, which Kemp described as a “notoriously tough place to play.” But the Bears gutted out a 10-8 win to become one of just two teams undefeated in Ivy play along with No. 7 Cornell.

The game was atypical for Bruno ­— Molloy was held scoreless for the first time this season, and the Bears scored just 10 goals, their second-lowest total of the season.

But the defense and goalie Jack Kelly ’16 had their best game of the year. Princeton’s offense ranks 11th in the country, scoring an average of 12.57 goals per game. But Bruno limited them to eight as Kelly, who Kemp said was “lights-out,” made 15 saves on 23 shots. The 65.2 save percentage was his fourth-best of the year, trailing only behind his efforts in blowout wins over Quinnipiac, Hartford and Manhattan, in which he was removed early. » See M. LACROSSE, page 4

spring break road trip Bruno scores first conference win of season in doubleheader split against Cornell

By TANEIL RUFFIN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After a 19-day hiatus from competition due to inclement weather, the softball team embarked on an 11-game road trip over spring break. The Bears (6-10, 1-3 Ivy) participated in the Santa Clara Round Robin tournament and a doubleheader at St. Mary’s College of California before heading back east and commencing conference play in matchups against Cornell and Princeton.

Santa Clara Round Robin Tournament In its first game of the tournament, Bruno came out strong, earning a 3-1 win over Manhattan (8-8) . A double from Emily Springfield ’18 at the top of the fifth inning scored Sarah Syrop ’17 and captain Trista Chavez ’15, giving Bruno the lead and the eventual win.

Pitcher Katie Orona ’18 did not allow any earned runs and recorded five strikeouts over seven innings.

The following day, Bruno’s

momentum seemed to fizzle out as the squad went scoreless in matchups against Santa Clara and Manhattan.

Against the host Broncos, Bruno fell behind early. Santa Clara scored in each of the game’s final four innings to claim a 6-0 win.

Later that day, Bruno took the field again in a rematch against Manhattan.

The Bears failed to redeem their earlier performance and repeat their previous success against the Jaspers. A six-run onslaught during the sixth inning set the Jaspers on pace to run away with the game. Bruno was unable to overcome the deficit in the two remaining innings and an unearned run in the seventh sealed Manhattan’s 8-0 victory.

The Bears concluded play in Santa Clara with a pair of games against the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Bruno split the doubleheader with the Gauchos (12-22, 1-2) in two high-scoring contests.

The Bears opened the first game with five runs in the top of the first. In a deviation from the previous day’s games, Bruno scored a run in every single inning except the fifth. Springfield led the way for the Bears, recording three RBIs, two runs scored and a home run — the first in her collegiate career — in Bruno’s » See SOFTBALL, page 4

WEATHER

MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015

SPORTS Women’s lacrosse struggles against Cornell but regained confidence with win over Colgate

SPORTS Crew battles difficult weather conditions, as women record victories, men fall to Yale

COMMENTARY Mills ’15: Brown should challenge students’ beliefs, even if that means limiting safe spaces

COMMENTARY Ha ’18: Brown students should not request access to their admission files

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MAR CH 2-3 POLL RESULTS AND ME THODOLOGY 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University?

6.4% Strongly approve 35.0% Somewhat approve 33.6% No opinion 21.7% Somewhat disapprove 3.4% Strongly disapprove 2. How would you describe your political views on fiscal issues?

2.7% Very conservative 14.5% Somewhat conservative 13.7% Centrist 37.0% Somewhat liberal 21.5% Very liberal 10.6% No opinion 3. How would you describe your political views on social issues?

0.9% Very conservative 5.6% Somewhat conservative 6.6% Centrist 27.9% Somewhat liberal 56.0% Very liberal 3.0% No opinion

4. How comfortable do you feel expressing your political views at Brown?

29.3% Very comfortable 38.8% Somewhat comfortable 8.7% No opinion 18.5% Somewhat uncomfortable 4.7% Very uncomfortable 5. Do you approve or disapprove of the interim ban on large-scale events with alcohol service at Greek and program houses?

11.1% Strongly approve 23.5% Somewhat approve 11.9% No opinion 28.3% Somewhat disapprove 21.8% Strongly disapprove 3.4% Not familiar enough to answer 6. Do you think the University’s sanctions against Phi Kappa Psi (loss of University recognition and housing for four years with the right to petition for recognition in May 2017) are appropriate?

36.5% Yes 32.0% No, they were too harsh 5.5% No, they were too lenient 9.6% No opinion 16.5% Not familiar enough to answer

7. Do you think the University’s sanctions against Sigma Chi (revoking the right to chapter spaces and prohibiting recruitment and rush until fall 2016) are appropriate?

29.2% Yes 26.7% No, they were too harsh 8.9% No, they were too lenient 10.4% No opinion 24.8% Not familiar enough to answer 8. Do you feel inadequate relative to other Brown students? (Circle all that apply.)

32.6% Yes, about my academic ability 19.3% Yes, about my social life 20.1% Yes, about my sex/love life 14.0% Yes, about my appearance 16.6% Yes, about my socioeconomic status 9.3% Yes, about something not listed above 43.4% No, I do not feel inadequate relative to other Brown students 9. What roles have grad students played in your experience at Brown? (Circle all that apply.)

80.2% I have had grad students as teaching assistants 22.6% I have interacted with grad students while doing research 35.7% I have taken a course taught by a grad student 24.5% Grad students have been mentors (formal or informal) to me

10.7% Other 8.6% I have not interacted with grad students 10. How would you characterize your overall experience with grad students at Brown?

41.3% Very positive 32.9% Somewhat positive 18.3% Neutral 1.6% Somewhat negative 0.4% Very negative 5.6% I have not interacted with grad students 11. During a typical 50-minute lecture in which laptop use is permitted, how much time do you spend on a laptop doing things unrelated to class?

1.1% 50 minutes 1.6% 40 minutes 5.1% 30 minutes 12.4% 20 minutes 37.6% 10 minutes 14.1% 0 minutes 28.2% I do not use my laptop in class 12. How often do you use ride-sharing smartphone apps such as Uber and Lyft?

10.9% Multiple times a week 20.0% Once a week 30.0% Once a month 14.6% Once a semester 24.5% Never

Methodology The data reported come from 1,014 written questionnaires administered to undergraduates March 2-3 in the lobby of J. Walter Wilson, the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center and the Sciences Library. The poll has a 2.8 percent margin of error with 95 percent confidence. The margin of error is 4.1 percent for the subset of males, 3.9 percent for females, 5.9 percent for first-years, 5.5 percent for sophomores, 5.8 percent for juniors, 5.4 percent for seniors, 4.0 percent for students receiving financial aid and 4.0 percent for students not receiving financial aid.

The sample polled was demographically similar to the Brown undergraduate population as a whole.

The sample was 47.3 percent male and 52.1 percent female. First-years made up 23.2 percent of the sample, 26.1 percent were sophomores, 23.6 percent were juniors and 27.0 percent were seniors. Varsity athletes made up 11.2 percent of the sample. Students involved in Greek life made up 16.2 percent of the sample. Of those polled, 48.4 percent currently receive financial aid from Brown. Students reported all

races with which they identify, with 57.2 percent saying white, 26.0 percent Asian, 11.2 percent Hispanic, 11.0 percent black, 1.1 percent American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.6 percent Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and 4.7 percent other.

Statistical significance was established at the 0.05 level. All reported cross-tabulations are statistically significant.

University News Editors Emma Harris ’17, Caroline Kelly ’17 and Joseph Zappa ’17, Graphics Editor and Metro Editor Emma Jerzyk ’17, Sports Editor Andrew Flax ’17, Senior Staff Writers Taneil Ruffin ’17 and Kate Talerico ’18 and Graphics staffer Gadi Cohen ’15 coordinated the poll. Herald section editors, senior staff writers and other staff members conducted the poll.

Over the next several weeks, The Herald will publish a series of articles about individual poll questions.

Find results of previous polls at thebdh.org/poll.

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Senator, alum take leadership MARCH 16-17 POLL RESULTS AND ME THODOLOGY spots on Board of Licenses 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University?

Board to consider revoking Shark Bar’s liquor license in wake of Mayor’s petition

By DUNCAN GALLAGHER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Providence Board of Licenses elected Jeffrey Williams ’85 and Sen. Juan Pichardo, D-Providence, to its most senior positions earlier this month.

Following their election, Williams and Pichardo now serve as chair and vicechair of the board, respectively.

Each member of the five-person board is appointed to a two-year term by the mayor and is responsible for granting licenses for a number of operations within the city. The board’s most salient responsibility is the granting of entertainment and liquor licenses — coveted commodities in Providence.

The board issues more than 400 liquor licenses per year, according to its website.

Williams replaces Johanna Harris as chair of the board. Under Harris’ leadership, the board revoked a notable number of liquor licenses, including seven last year alone. It is not clear why Harris departed from her position, though she has expressed intent to serve out her term on the board, WPRI reported.

Harris also oversaw the granting of two liquor licenses for the two floors of DaVinci Ristorante and Lounge, a Federal Hill restaurant and bar, in the face of opposition from a number of its neighbors, GoLocalProv reported March 19. The Board of Licenses received at least 10 letters opposing the license around the time of its Jan. 29 approval.

Although board members elect the leadership, the mayor is often involved in selecting individuals for the chair

position. Williams said he initially had little interest in taking on a leadership position on the board but decided to seek the position after Mayor Jorge Elorza asked him, and he was later elected.

Elorza expressed support for the selection the same day it was announced, WPRI reported. There has not yet been an opportunity for Elorza to make a new appointment to the board.

Newly elected officials have a tendency to rearrange boards of this type, Williams said, adding that he felt Harris, his predecessor, was “an extremely capable attorney” who did “stellar work.”

The board’s authority came under public scrutiny following the revelation last month that former Rhode Island Speaker of the House for the General Assembly Gordon Fox accepted bribes totaling $52,500 to grant a liquor license to Shark Bar and Grille during his term as the board’s vice-chair.

Following the Fox scandal, Elorza expressed on several occasions his intention to pursue the voiding of Shark’s liquor license. At the time of the incident, the board was chaired by Andrew Annaldo, who did not seek reappointment in 2013 after public scrutiny about the board’s handling of a case involving an underage performer at a Providence strip club.

On March 16, Elorza’s administration petitioned the board on behalf of the city to declare Shark’s liquor license void dating back to its initial issue in 2008. The petition called for the board to schedule a hearing to consider revoking the license.

The hearing is scheduled to take place Monday. Williams said that while all members of the board bring personal biases, he wants to hear the case before drawing conclusions.

Elorza could not be reached for comment.

3.3% Strongly approve 30.2% Somewhat approve 30.2% No opinion 28.7% Somewhat disapprove 7.6% Strongly disapprove

3. Do you approve of a Student Conduct Board’s reasoning behind finding the individual accused of sexually assaulting one of the two women allegedly drugged that same night not responsible?

2. Do you approve of the University’s decision, due to a lack of conclusive physical evidence, to cancel a hearing for the Phi Kappa Psi student accused of serving a drink spiked with GHB at an October party?

3.5% Strongly approve 10.1% Somewhat approve

8.1% No opinion 25.2% Somewhat disapprove 46.5% Strongly disapprove 6.7% Not familiar enough to answer

3.4% Strongly approve 6.4% Somewhat approve 8.9% No opinion 18.2% Somewhat disapprove 43.0% Strongly disapprove 20.1% Not familiar enough to answer

Methodology The data reported come from 972 written questionnaires administered to undergraduates March 16-17 in the lobby of J. Walter Wilson, the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center and the Sciences Library. The poll has a 2.9 percent margin of error with 95 percent confidence. The margin of error is 4.3 percent for the subset of males, 4.0 percent for females, 5.9 percent for firstyears, 5.2 percent for sophomores, 6.2 percent for juniors, 6.0 percent for seniors, 4.1 percent for students receiving financial aid and 4.1 percent for students not receiving financial aid.

The sample polled was demographically similar to the University’s undergraduate population as a whole. The sample was 46 percent male and 52 percent female. First-years made up 25 percent of the sample, 30 percent were sophomores, 22 percent were juniors and 24 percent were seniors. Varsity athletes made up 13 percent of the sample. Students involved in Greek life made up 18 percent of the sample. Of those polled, 50 percent currently receive financial aid from Brown. Students reported all races with which they identify, with 59 percent saying white, 26 percent Asian, 13 percent Hispanic, 11 percent black, 1.0 percent American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.7 percent Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and 3.4 percent other.

Statistical significance was established at the 0.05 level. All reported cross-tabulations are statistically significant.

University News Editors Emma Harris ’17, Caroline Kelly ’17 and Joseph Zappa ’17, Graphics Editor and Metro Editor Emma Jerzyk ’17, Sports Editor Andrew Flax ’17, Senior Staff Writers Taneil Ruffin ’17 and Kate Talerico ’18 and Graphics staffer Gadi Cohen ’15 coordinated the poll. Herald section editors, senior staff writers and other staff members conducted the poll.

Over the next several weeks, The Herald will publish a series of articles about individual poll questions. Find results of previous polls at thebdh.org/poll.

» POLL, from page 1 with upperclassmen giving graduate students higher marks. White students were also more likely to indicate positive experiences with graduate students.

The poll also found that the majority

of students use their laptops for activities unrelated to class for 10 to 30 minutes in a typical 50-minute lecture in which laptop use is permitted.

The majority of students polled use ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft at least once a month, with 11 percent

indicating they use such apps multiple times per week.

Ride-sharing app use correlates significantly with being an international student. Over a quarter of undergraduates from abroad use these apps more than once a week.

SPORTS

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» SOFTBALL, from page 1 11-1 demolition of Santa Barbara. Orona pitched all five innings of the contest and allowed only one run on seven hits while striking out four. The victory marked her

fourth win in as many collegiate starts.

Much to the Bears’ dismay, the second game in the series against the Gauchos did not mirror the first. Santa Barbara got on the board early with three runs in the top of the first inning. While Annie

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD McGregor ’18 and Yeram Park ’18 each recorded a hit and an RBI in the contest, Bruno’s efforts were not enough to counter the Gauchos and the Bears fell in their final game of the tournament with the 10-2 decision.

“We competed every single game and put up a good fight until the very end,” said Janet Leung ’16.

St. Mary’s Before the squad made its way back to the East Coast, it faced off in a doubleheader against St. Mary’s (15-21).

In Orona’s fifth start of the season, the rookie did not allow a single run in the scheduled seven innings. But a walkoff single in the eighth gave Orona the first loss of her career as Bruno fell 1-0.

Fortunately for the Bears, the second game of the doubleheader did not proceed in the same manner as the first.

The teams went to extras again, and an RBI single at the top of the eighth from Springfield and a hitless inning for St. Mary’s lifted the Bears over the Gaels 3-2.

Ivy play In their first Ivy contest of the season, the Bears headed to Ithaca to take on the Big Red (5-10, 2-2). In the first game of the doubleheader, Cornell got out to an early start that went uncontested by Bruno. A three-run rally led by doubles from Syrop and Park during the top of the seventh then brought the Bears back into the game. But the efforts were not enough, as the Big Red claimed the 4-3

» M. LACROSSE, from page 1 “This win in particular gave us more confidence because we didn’t win in our normal fashion,” Tiffany said. “We were able to win with a really strong defensive effort and great goalie play.”

“We played a lot of defense,” he added. “Kelly was superb in goal, and the defense in front of him endured so many charges.”

“This week was huge for us,” Kemp said. “We were able to bounce back.”

Changes in the team’s strategy between games depend largely on the other team’s tactics, Tiffany said, noting that the Bears react to “what they’re going to try to take away and what they’re going to give us.”

victory.

In the next game, Bruno claimed an early lead and eventually set itself up to run away with the game after a six-run surge in the fourth inning. Brown completed the 10-2 win over the Big Red in five innings.

Wrapping up their road tour, the Bears faced off against Princeton (913, 2-0) at Bordentown Regional High School. Both games in the doubleheader were extremely low-scoring, as Princeton won both games in 1-0 decisions.

Jessica Cherness ’15 had a no-hitter through six innings in the second game, but two hits in the bottom of the seventh gave Princeton the walk-off victory.

“Our Ivy League losses this past weekend were all one-run games,” Leung said.

“We know we are able to not only compete in the Ivy League, but to be very successful and strong contenders this season.”

Next up, Bruno will finally be able to play on its home field as the team continues conference play and takes on Ivy foes Penn and Columbia this weekend.

“We’re looking forward to getting back on the field this weekend and coming out on top this time,” Leung added.

“We’re excited to show all the hard work we’ve put in the past year.”

“We don’t have too much of a different game plan,” he said. “We have enough weapons that there aren’t just two different guys that you stop and then you stop Brown.”

The team is “more focused on (itself)” than it has been in past years, Tiffany added. “I’ve seen the difference in the men’s emotional preparation for each game, and it’s a positive difference.”

With the victory over the Tigers, the Bears have already matched their overall and Ivy League win totals from 2014.

The team tries “to play Brown lacrosse” at every game, which is “one of the biggest changes this year from last year,” Kemp said.

“We’ve been sticking to who we are,” he added.

» W. LACROSSE, from page 8 net. But the Bears responded quickly and forcefully. Eight unanswered goals later, Bruno had taken a comfortable 8-2 lead at halftime.

Toy had jumpstarted the scoring spree off of a free position shot. Gion followed with two consecutive goals and scored the last one before the buzzer to round out a first-half hat trick . Sarah Nesi ’16 and Bunting also netted one apiece.

The same players continued to pop up throughout the second half, peppering the Colgate net with shots and notching a total of five more goals.

Both Gion and Toy ultimately contributed four goals to Bruno’s total, as Toy recorded a hat trick within the second half alone. With the victory, the Bears extended their perfect start against non-conference opponents.

After the blowout win, Gion felt encouraged by what she saw from her teammates.

“I think we’re definitely on the right track now,” she said.

Bruno will hope to maintain its winning momentum Tuesday when it faces another non-conference rival in San Diego State (7-3, 4-0 Mountain West). The Bears will continue Ivy play Saturday with a contest against Harvard (3-4, 1-1).

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Students returning to campus after spring break noted new signs along Thayer Street detailing new parking regulations, including metered parking spots and a two-hour time limit during the daytime.

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6:00 P.M. SARAH KOENIG: WOMEN IN RADIO

12:00 P.M. SEED STARTING: WELLNESS AT BROWN!

Sarah Koenig, who worked at the East Hampton Star and the New York Times, and produced the popular podcast, Serial, will speak about her career in radio and the power of storytelling. List 120

URI Master Gardeners Mary Mason and Sharyn Lannuccilli will demonstrate seed-starting methods and ways to select vegetables, herbs and flowers that will benefit the most from an early start. Salomon 001

7:00 P.M. WHAT CAN HUMAN GENOMICS TELL US

4:00 P.M. SONGWRITING WITH NORA FOX

ABOUT ADAM AND EVE

Nicanor Austriaco, associate professor of biology and instructor of theology at Providence College, will discuss the intersections between evolutionary genomics and religious studies and attempt to offer a holistic understanding of the history of humanity. Barus and Holley 168 8:00 P.M. FREE BEGINNER SWING DANCE LESSONS

The Brown Swing Club will offer free, professionally taught lessons. No experience is necessary. Alumnae Hall

Nora Fox ’08, a New York City-based singer and songwriter whose music draws from folk, soul, classical and pop music, will host a songwriting workshop. Faunce, Memorial Lounge 6:00 P.M. 410[GONE] DINNER & CONVERSATION

After a viewing of the new play 410[GONE], students will eat dinner and take part in a series of conversations about mental health and its impact on Asian Americans at Brown. Brown Center for Students of Color

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EDITORIAL

Centralizing research recruitment Brown students would benefit from one centralized website and database that posted all the opportunities to participate in research on campus. While many services exist — SONA, the research participation network for the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences; the Brown University Social Science Experimental Laboratory for economics; and even opportunities for modeling in the visual arts department — there is no one-stop shop, online service that aggregates all of this information in a single place.

Subscribing to BUSSEL is easy enough: It’s a huge listserv that sends out notifications every time there is a new study. SONA and similar online job posting services that require temporary student involvement do not send out emails to listservs. There are no subscription methods or email notifications to see what postings are live and when. There is no calendar view on SONA of study availabilities and their times, and SONA only sends reminder emails once students have signed up for a particular study. Prospective participants have to filter through each day to see what times are available.

Students and faculty members who conduct research thus often find themselves struggling to recruit participants, both for cash and for course credit, to complete their studies, even though many prospective participants would like some extra cash in their pockets. Brown’s Institutional Review Board does not permit certain kinds of advertising: Flyers for studies offering paid compensation may not display the amount of money in bold; researchers may not use food to solicit participants; Morning Mail announcements are also prohibited.

Furthermore, advertisements that are especially memorable could potentially contaminate the experiment at hand. If the poster is funny, it could alter one’s mood when going into an experiment, be it behavioral, biological or even physical. Posting on Facebook or social media would be equally inappropriate, as interactions with the post could generate an emotional response to the research.

If the research is non-behavioral research like a cheek swab, this sounds reasonable, but even economics and neuroscience research should be skeptical.

Thorough scientific research would benefit from a methodical way to connect willing students with research participation and the money — or extra course credit — that it would provide. There is a demand, but a major force keeping the eager students from eager researchers is the absence of a platform that could clarify and manage what sort of studies an individual student would want to participate in.

If the Office of the Registrar coordinated with departments that request human subjects and overlaid students’ courses into a Google calendar attached to their email accounts, it could display which parts of students’ schedules were available for study participation in departments they chose. To preserve IRB guidelines, it could be made an opt-in calendar, not a default. Like any overlaid Google calendar, it could be muted or unsubscribed from. Using Workday or the Brown University Dining Services system as a model for scheduling would be useful but potentially inappropriate. Research participation is a voluntary commitment, not a paid job, and using a Google calendar tied to a Brown email would simplify the process for students to parse their schedules. The goal would be to meet a demand at greatest convenience to students — when they notice they have some time.

Students could then choose to have experiment schedules overlaid on their own Google calendars and get notifications of which studies worked on a given day. They could also filter it by department or by price and time commitment. Researchers and students would get what they wanted, and science would progress.

KAYA H I L L

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

“Anything less than that leaves guys hungry for more.”

—Walker Mills ’15

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Playing it safe – too safe WALKER MILLS opinions columnist

Brown was in the New York Times last week — we were on spring break. It didn’t make my day, but it came close.

Judith Shulevitz, a contributing writer for the Times, wrote an op-ed about college students and how they avoid ideas that they don’t like. Her first example was Brown’s safe spaces, particularly one that was created by Brown students during the Janus Forum’s event “How Should Colleges Handle Sexual Assault?” The forum featured Wendy McElroy, a speaker who has consistently challenged the idea of rape culture. Shulevitz commented on something that I’ve certainly noticed at Brown and read about elsewhere. She called Brown’s culture “self-infantilizing.”

I agreed with most of what she had to say, including her critique of trigger warnings, speech codes, safe spaces and the cancellation of provocative lectures for others’ mental health. Those restrictions on the free exchange of ideas are usually promoted as a way to keep students safe, but they’ve become about keeping students comfortable, and we have no business being comfortable.

At the 1962 Yale commencement, President John F. Kennedy said, “Too often … we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

He could have spoken those words

with equal accuracy today. Many students seem to avoid engaging at all costs with ideas that scare them.

You have a right to be safe on campus. The creators of safe spaces usually have good intentions. If students actually have a panic attack during a lecture given by a controversial figure, they should have a safe place in which they could recuperate — I imagine a dorm room would probably suffice. Puppies and Play-Doh seem a little infantile to me, but I understand the intention. No one should be harmed by an educational event, but since we can generally avoid lectures, talks or screenings

mitted by students specifying the reasoning behind a particular delineation.

I found a few I considered utterly ridiculous. Graduate Center was marked unsafe because it was “dingy.”

Plantations House was considered unsafe because it has mice. New Dorm and Young Orchard are unsafe because “rich/international people live there.” I couldn’t help but laugh at the absurdity of these markers. The author abused the rationale of safe spaces. Even the Nelson Fitness Center and the president’s house were marked as unsafe — the commentators felt a “fear of physical violence” in those buildings.

There are benefits to being uncomfortable and making people uncomfortable: They are an impetus for change. Fifty years ago, black Americans were beaten, bruised and bloodied on national television. Most of America didn’t want to know what was going on in the Deep South, and they didn’t want to think about racism because it made them uncomfortable. It was unpleasant, and it was scary. But they couldn’t hide from it. It forced its way into their living rooms and kitchens on their TVs and radios. Americans watched and grew increasingly uncomfortable and outraged.

Discomfort and adversity are part of growing. I didn’t come to Brown to be comfortable. with which we disagree, I have trouble understanding why students would attend an event knowing it would harm them.

The problem arises when the idea of “a right to be safe” is extended to “a right to be comfortable” — and demanded. I found an example of this overreach in an online piece from Bluestockings Magazine entitled “Geographies of Safety: Mapping Safe Spaces for Students of Color at Brown University.” On Google Maps, the author, Aanchal Saraf ’16, purported to show a map of safe and unsafe spaces at Brown for students of color. Green indicated “safe,” while red marked places that she deemed were “unsafe.”

And each marker had comments sub-

I’m sorry, but unless you’re benching without a spotter, you’re probably safe in the Nelson. And I can say from personal experience that President Paxson’s P’19 dogs don’t bite.

Obviously I picked those comments for their humor, but I think they make clear how far the rhetoric has gone in calling things “unsafe.” I suppose that mice could be construed as unsafe, but if so, the danger of mice infestations is not limited to people of color, let alone certain buildings on campus. And while I too am jealous I can’t jet-set back to the south of France for spring break, rich students and international students are not doing me any harm besides hijacking my Facebook newsfeed.

We owe it to those who continually make us uncomfortable and ashamed.

We owe it to those fighting for equality and justice to face down our discomforts. Hiding wasn’t an option then, and it isn’t an option now.

Discomfort and adversity are part of growing. I didn’t come to Brown to be comfortable. When I came here, I assumed I would be generally safe from physical harm, but I never saw anything that assured me that my beliefs would be secure from attack. In fact, I assumed that, in a community that prides itself on diversity, my beliefs would be tested. This is part of Brown’s mission statement: “The mission of Brown University is to serve the community, the nation and the

world by discovering, communicating and preserving knowledge and understanding in a spirit of free inquiry.”

Inhibiting speech, even just in certain spaces, runs counter to our school’s core mission.

To all of the students who advocate more safe spaces, canceled lectures and speech codes: What is so threatening about people disagreeing with you? Is the concept of stop-and-frisk policing practices so threatening that you feel unsafe on a campus where it is discussed? Are you so pro-choice that the image of an aborted fetus causes you harm? Or are you afraid of having to explain yourself or think a bit too much — and where will you stop?

As Shulevitz pointed out, once a space is labeled safe, it implies that all other spaces are unsafe, and it follows that they should be made safer.

As students, we don’t have a right to be comfortable. And if we seek this right out, we are doing ourselves a disservice. The University should take a position where it supports students but pushes them to their absolute limits, challenges their beliefs and makes them uncomfortable. If Brown lets us go four years without forcing us to reevaluate our core beliefs, it has failed us. If we go four years without challenging the dearly held beliefs of someone else in this community, we have failed our colleagues.

Walker Mills ’15 is happy to continue the conversation at walker_mills@brown.edu.

The prisoner’s dilemma in college admission DAVID HA opinions columnist

It is that time of the year again — college admission decisions are now being released. All of the hard work and dedication that current high school seniors have demonstrated for the past four years will now be tested, scrutinized and reviewed.

To those who have been accepted to their first-choice schools: congratulations. But to those who are disappointed by the decisions that seem to matter so much: It does not matter as much as you think.

The admission structure of American schools differs from that of schools in other countries.

Though a student’s grades and test scores play a big role, there are many other factors that are indispensable to an applicant’s success. While this contributes to the well-roundedness of many potential candidates, this supposedly holistic approach is also built on arbitrary decisions made by a panel of admission officers.

So, a typical question that one might expect from students after the decisions are released: Should students take advantage of colleges releasing admission details to make the process more transparent? Or more specifically, should Brown students?

There may be additional benefits involved with releasing the files. Students can perhaps gain some insight into what they lacked that disqualified them or what they had that qualified them.

Future candidates may be able to learn from these insights and improve their applications.

Several students at Stanford University recently requested access to their admission files, and the school was bound by federal law to comply, the New York Times reported. The students who requested to view the written or numerical assessments of their applications were granted access.

Brown students should not request access to admission files. Releasing such information would only worsen the worst aspects of the admission process and, in particular, the dilemmatic aspect.

Prisoner’s dilemma has become one of the

This phenomenon obviously applies to areas beyond mere standardized tests. Volunteer work, sports, music and tutoring for classes can all be considered evidence of the prisoner’s dilemma at work. The more students elect to participate in these types of extracurricular activities that align with their individual interests, the more it hurts the overall pool of applicants by making non-academic components of an application normalized and expected.

The effect of this dilemma is evident when a current college student speaks to someone from an earlier generation about the application pro-

Let admission be a byproduct of the genuine interests and passion pursued. more popular terms describing the process. If you have taken any sort of introductory economics course, you know what I mean.

This phrase describes a situation in which two people are left with two choices that will impact each other. The dilemma leads the two people to each choose the option that appears to have the greatest possible individual benefit but that in turn hurts both of them.

Let me explain prisoner’s dilemma with a specific example. Two high school students are left with two choices: to study for the SAT or not.

Obviously, the better course of action for the individual is to study for the SAT. But when both individuals choose to study, the overall relative situation has not changed, and both are actually worse off, having spent all of their money and time.

cess. I have found that older individuals are usually surprised by the larger amount of work students today put into their college applications as compared to 20 or 30 years ago.

Releasing application information would mislead students to pursue certain types of academic or extracurricular activities found in the accepted students’ pool. If a student’s sole focus during high school years is gaining admission to top-notch colleges, the chances are that disappointment will follow.

So for students whose only motive behind all of the activities and additional extracurricular efforts during high school was college admission, they likely did become the “prisoners” of this harmful dilemma.

But the prisoner’s dilemma embedded in the process is not solely hurtful. The college applica-

tion process, when taken seriously, is one of a few opportunities for students to reflect on their lives and ascertain their identities and values.

Many of the essays required as part of the Common Application or supplements allow students to contemplate their past activities or actions and determine how they have shaped them.

For many of them, it is their first time thinking about and articulating who they are and how they got to be who they are.

Critics may argue that this race-to-the-top competition for college admission is a prisoner’s dilemma that leads to a loss of creativity, but I think this stage is extremely important. It gives students the opportunity to reflect, build their senses of identity and begin the process of development and maturation that is fundamental to attending college.

Brown should do its best to minimize such misconceptions in its potential candidates. It should remind and teach them to let admission be a byproduct of the genuine interests and passions pursued. While the cliched statement “It is the journey, not the destination, that matters” does indeed sound hackneyed, it is true because the experience built up from those journeys dictates the ultimate destination.

Viewing the admission files should not really be a concern because, after all, why do opinions of a few officers who have not even met you in person matter? Competition is inevitable in today’s day and age. If it is unavoidable, then enjoy it. Utilize your best skills, pursue your genuine interests and be true to yourself.

David Ha ’18 can be contacted at woosuk_ha@brown.edu

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MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015

CREW

Bears challenged by blustery weather in season openers

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The men’s crew team rows down the Seekonk. Last year’s national runnersup, the Bears opened their season on a sour note with a loss to Yale.

In choppy conditions, women defeat Princeton, Michigan on road, while men fall to Yale at home

By ELIZABETH CONWAY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After a long winter on the ergs, the men’s and women’s crew teams finally took to open water for their spring season openers Saturday, with the men at home on the Seekonk against Yale and the women facing Michigan and Princeton on Lake Carnegie in New Jersey.

Despite blustery conditions — winds gusted up to 17 miles per hour — the women won four of their five races, earning the Class of 1987 Trophy for the second year in a row.

“Opening our racing season is

always very exciting because we haven’t yet seen how winter training pays off as we line up against other tough crew(s),” said Rachel Gotlieb ’15, one of the five “Pentagon” captains, as the team calls them. The race gave the women an opportunity to showcase their speed and depth, Gotlieb said. The top varsity eight stole the race in 7:14, beating Princeton and Michigan by eight and 14 seconds, respectively.

Both the A and B varsity four boats won their respective races in 8:26 and 8:02. Also victorious was the second varsity eight, which finished in 7:10.

The third varsity eight finished a solid

second, only three seconds behind Princeton’s third varsity boat at 7:29, but ahead of Princeton’s fourth varsity.

Last season, the women won the Ivy League team championship and qualified all three boats for the NCAA Grand Final at Nationals, finishing third overall as a team. “I was really proud of how people raced at both Ivies and NCAAs, outperforming our 2013 season and stepping up to the challenge of tougher and tighter competition,” Gotlieb said.

Captain Katherine McKeen ’15 lauded the women for remaining cohesive despite the adverse weather conditions Saturday. “In particular, our varsity fours handled some of the worst conditions in a very impressive way,” she said.

The women will compete at Radcliffe on the Charles next weekend and look forward to their home race April 25 against Cornell for the Dunn Bowl.

The men had a less successful season debut. The Bears were victorious in the second varsity and third varsity races but fell short in the fourth varsity and varsity eight races, costing them the inaugural Albert Cup. They were originally scheduled to race Yale Friday and Boston University on the Charles River Saturday, but frozen conditions led the matchup against BU to be canceled. The Yale regatta was pushed back a day but still held despite snow, sleet and 15-mile-per-hour winds.

Co-captain Walker Mills ’15, a Herald opinions columnist, said the team

went into the race with few expectations.

“Because it’s the season opener … we didn’t have a good gauge of either team’s speed beforehand,” he said. “All we knew going in is that Yale is a serious competitor, but that we intend to put our bow across the finish line first.”

“I was happy to see the team get the chance to compete against Yale this weekend,” Head Coach Paul Cooke ’89 wrote in an email to The Herald. “Yale has a strong program, and any time we have the chance to race against fast crew(s), we learn from the experience and get faster ourselves.”

The fourth varsity, a boat of mostly walk-ons, faced a more experienced Yale fourth varsity in the first race of the day.

The Bulldogs won by a sizeable 14-second margin, finishing in 6:19.

“The race didn’t go quite as well as we hoped,” said Dan Meyer ’17, who was in the 4V boat. “The boat did not have a lot of experience racing at the collegiate level, so the race was a really important learning experience that should be a springboard to future successes.”

The third varsity race featured Brown’s 3V, Yale’s 3V and Brown’s freshman boat. The freshman boat won comfortably in 5:54, with Yale’s 3V trailing by six seconds and the Brown 3V placing third with a time of 6:22. Cooke commended the freshmen, saying the victory showcased their depth.

In the 2V event, the Bears and Bulldogs raced neck and neck before Brown

pulled ahead in the second quarter of the race and held on to win in 5:46.

The top eight raced last, just as the snow began to pick up and lowered visibility. Despite a solid attempt, Brown finished at 5:42, behind Yale’s 5:35.

“We held Yale’s varsity and came even with them around the middle of the race, but they ended up taking better strokes in the choppy water in the second half of the race and pulled ahead,” said David Lazris ’17, who rowed in the varsity eight.

“The varsity was defeated, and we will have to find a way to row a more mature race, but that is part of the process and I know they will work hard to do it,” Cooke wrote.

The men will race reigning national champion Washington next Saturday, April 4. Brown finished second to the Huskies last year and third the year before at the IRA national championships.

After three years of flying to Seattle to race, the team looks forward to hosting Washington in Providence.

“They’ve proven themselves the best rowing team in the country, and we know that if we want to win a national championship, we need to beat them,” Mills said.

As for the rest of the season, the men hope to capture the regional and national championships in May. After the secondplace national finish, “anything less than that leaves guys hungry for more,” Mills said. “Our goal is always the same: to win a national championship.”

W. LACROSSE

Bruno falls prey to highoctane Cornell offense Bruno dominates nonconference opponents, fails to collect first Ivy victory of season

By LAINIE ROWLAND SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The women’s lacrosse team remains winless in the Ivy League after dropping a spring break contest to Cornell by a score of 14-6 but salvaged the week with a win over Colgate Tuesday.

Cornell (7-2, 3-0 Ivy) had reason to be confident heading into its game against the Bears (5-3, 0-3). Bruno has not defeated the Big Red in 16 years.

An early deficit set the pace for the rest of the game. The Bears were unable to score any consecutive goals until the last three minutes of play.

Cornell set the tone early with two goals in the first three minutes of play, grabbing a lead that it would not relinquish. Lauren Toy ’16 fed Yuna Hur ’18 to put the Bears on the board. But Hur’s goal could not dent Cornell’s lead for long, as the Big Red squad responded with a string of four straight goals to put it up 6-1.

“We kind of dug ourselves into a hole,” said Janie Gion ’15.

Attempts to regroup during the break fell flat as the Big Red kicked off the second period by mounting a scoring campaign that lasted over 15 minutes. It resulted in four goals, extending Cornell’s lead to a virtually insurmountable 10.

Dianne Vitkus ’16 scored with

13:33 to play to scratch away at the deficit, but the Big Red responded quickly to reestablish its lead. Trailing by 10 with 10 minutes left to play, Bruno injected some energy into its game and reasserted itself with two goals — its only consecutive goals of the game. Abby Bunting ’15 racked up a team-leading two goals, but they came too late.

Bruno’s decisive loss solidifies the well-known superiority of Cornell’s explosive offense. Kelly Roddy ’15 had a career-high 14 saves, but Cornell’s overwhelming 33 shots ultimately got the best of the Bears. By comparison, the Bears managed 19 shots, six of which found the back of the net. Bruno’s dismal clear rate of 50 percent also factored into the disappointing results.

“Cornell’s probably one of the best teams we’re going to play,” Gion said.

But she added that she thought the team played well and that the lopsided score did not indicate a lack of effort.

“It was a lot closer game than the score showed,” she said, saying that the team did a good job of generating offensive opportunities but “our shots weren’t really falling.”

Upon traveling to Colgate (5-4, 3-1 Patriot), the Bears were hungry to reverse Saturday’s results. This time, Bruno found success and played a high-scoring game that culminated in an 11-5 win.

The game started with dangerous similarity to Saturday’s contest. The Raiders took an early two-goal lead, controlling the ball near the Brown » See W. LACROSSE, page 4