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Faculty yield rate rises to 78 percent University hires 44 new faculty members, aims to expand diversity of faculty with new initiatives

By LAUREN ARATANI SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Seventy-eight percent of potential new faculty members who were offered positions at the University during the 2014-15 academic year accepted their positions, said Associate Dean of the Faculty Joel Revill.

The percentage, known as the faculty yield rate, is calculated by taking the number of faculty hired and dividing it by the number of searches that were filled or closed, Revill said.

A department seeking to fill a new or vacant faculty position will usually close a search if it is not satisfied with the applicant pool, he added. Searches that remain open are not accounted for in the yield rate.

The 78 percent figure marks an increase from the 65 percent yield rate for the 2013-14 school year but is still lower than the unusually high rate of 97 percent from 2012-13. After 2013’s unexpectedly high yield rate, the University intentionally curbed the number of new faculty hires in 2013-14, Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P’12 said at the time. After

standing at 713 in 2012-13, the size of the faculty rose to 736 the next year but dropped to 720 in 2014-15, the year after the University indicated it needed to control the size of the faculty. Data for the size of the faculty this semester is unavailable.

The 2015-16 school year boasts 44 new faculty members: nine in the social sciences, 12 in the humanities, seven in the life sciences and 16 in the physical sciences.

In addition to hiring new faculty members, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty also focuses on retaining the current faculty members. About 70 percent of faculty members whom the University “explicitly tried to retain” remained at Brown, Revill said, adding that the University tries to retain faculty members who are leaving for reasons other than tenure offers at other universities or personal reasons.

The University primarily tries to hire faculty members earlier in their careers, frequently at the assistant professor level, Revill said. He added that there are also some searches for more senior faculty members that require individuals further along in their careers.

Twenty people, or roughly 45 percent, of the new hires this semester are female, but only two of the 16 physical sciences hires are female. » See FACULTY, page 3

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Quarterback Marcus Fuller ’15.5 completed 41 of his 58 passes Saturday, helping propel the Bears to a 4131 victory over Rhode Island. After this weekend’s game, he ranks fifth in program history in completions.

Bears capture 2015 Governor’s Cup In 100th meeting, Bruno’s potent offense lifts team over Ocean State rival in tight game

By CALEB MILLER STAFF WRITER

In the same breath, Head Coach Phil Estes P’18 called the football team’s 41-31 victory over Rhode Island an “ugly win” and the “most beautiful game I’ve ever seen.” Both statements were true of Saturday night’s contest under the lights at Brown Stadium.

When the back-and-forth game reached its climax with five minutes to play, the beauty was in Brown’s passing game. Quarterback Marcus Fuller ’15.5 lobbed a ball toward the back corner of the end zone, where wideout Alex Jette ’17 extended for an incredible go-ahead touchdown catch. The 20yard completion put the Bears (1-2, 0-1 Ivy) in front, 34-31, and turned out to be the difference in Bruno’s fifth consecutive Governor’s Cup win.

Part of the “ugly” to which Estes alluded came just minutes before Jette’s heroic snag. Bruno had come from behind to take a 27-24 lead with 8:38

to play, but URI’s tremendous tailback Harold Cooper carved up the Bears’ special team with a 92-yard kick return for a touchdown to give the Rams the lead once again.

“What I loved best about this game was, after we scored the go-ahead touchdown and they answered back, we went right back out there and marched the field.” Estes said.

The offensive firepower displayed in two long fourth-quarter drives mirrored what Bruno had done in the first quarter. The Bears jumped to a 20-7 lead early in the second quarter » See FOOTBALL, page 2

Town ties: Providence natives at Brown Unique dual-degree Med While students from School program launches Providence stay connected to home, peers often remain in ‘Brown bubble’

New MD-ScM program integrates population health into traditional medical education

By SHIRA BUCHSBAUM CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University boasts a geographically diverse student body, with students hailing from all 50 states and 71 countries. Yet a portion of this community has developed a deep familiarity with the neighborhood before attending Brown: 14 to 16 undergraduates from Providence matriculate each year, wrote Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 in an email to The Herald.

These students come to Brown from an array of backgrounds and areas of Providence with experiences in public and private high schools.

Home towns are a huge part of anyone’s identity, and that holds true for students staying in their home town for their college experience.

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Though undergraduates from Providence grew up around Brown, many agree it “feels like its own little city,” said Tommy Chase ’19. visits to Providence high schools and invite guidance counselors at those schools to events on campus, Miller wrote. The School of Professional Studies and the Swearer Center for Public Service also host several summer programs for Providence high school students, he wrote.

But many Providence natives were not drawn to Brown during their high

school careers.

Lucrezia Sanes ’17, who attended the Wheeler School right next to Brown’s campus, said most of her classmates were not interested in attending Brown because it was too close to the environment in which they grew up.

Tamara Upfal ’18, also a graduate » See PROVIDENCE, page 2

The Alpert Medical School’s new MDScM dual-degree program in Primary Care-Population Medicine — the first of its kind in the United States ­— accepted 16 students to its first class, said Paul George ’01 MD’05, assistant professor of family medicine and director of the program. The PC-PM program’s class of 2019 was chosen from about 1,000 applicants.

The program integrates population health into the traditional medical education. Students in the Program in Liberal Medical Education are allowed to apply to the program.

“We designed nine new courses

that will be integrated in the MD curriculum,” George said. PC-PM students take courses in areas not usually required for Med School students, including health systems and policy, quantitative methods, research methods in population medicine and leadership. Toward the end of the program, students complete a master’s thesis in an area of population health of their choosing.

PC-PM students will also participate in a new style of medical rotations during their third year called Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships that “allow students to build longterm relationships with patients they are seeing,” George said.

While traditional students do medical rotations in six-week blocks in each different healthcare specialty, the dual-degree students will follow a panel of patients for a year in order to have a “more longitudinal primary » See PROGRAM, page 3

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EmPower concert ties social, environmental justice Student group joins with national organization to bring environmentalist speakers, local bands to campus

By ANYA HONG CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Through a live concert, speakers and a conference this weekend, student environmental group emPOWER worked to raise awareness of environmental issues related to climate change and social justice. The concert, hosted in partnership with the national organization Know Tomorrow, was held in Salomon 101 after bad weather forced a venue change from the Main Green.

“We wanted to have a night of fun music and enjoying ourselves” but also

» PROVIDENCE, from page 1 of the Wheeler School, said she was wary of applying to Brown because of its proximity to her childhood home.

On the other hand, Lehidy Frias ’17 had never even heard of Brown as a student at Classical High School in the South Side.

But growing up in Providence and going to college in Providence may provide strikingly different experiences.

Going to school in Providence is like “being in a completely different world that just happens to look the same,” Upfal said.

Tommy Chase ’19, a graduate of the Moses Brown School, echoed this sentiment. Chase said Brown “feels like its own little city” compared to the neighborhood where he grew up.

Many students who hail from Providence have parents on the Brown faculty and staff. Sanes’ father

to deliver “a social justice message that we need to do something about climate,” said Maria Camila Bustos ’16, executive director of emPOWER and coordinator of the concert. “Essentially this is a social justice issue,” she said.

The concert and keynote speakers attracted around 40 students Friday.

“Local bands including Young Hummus, What Cheer? Brigade, Sons of Providence, Sebastián Oreo and Sports Footage took the stage. Kerry Kennedy, a human rights activist and member of Know Tomorrow, delivered the event’s keynote address. Analisa Freitas of Voces

Verdes, a Latino organization dedicated to protecting the environment, also spoke.

Both speakers connected environmental action with social action.

“We don’t have environmental problems. We have social problems,” Freitas said.

“There is a direct correlation between democracy and human rights and the environment,” Kerry said.

On Saturday, emPOWER hosted the Rhode Island Youth Summit on the Environment in Wilson Hall. RYSE was open to students from Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design and local high schools.

EmPOWER offered seven different

talks, including one on the intersection of environmental and workers’ justice, the use of storytelling for social change and diversity and the environment. Speakers included representatives from the Student Labor Alliance, the Rhode Island Environmental Justice League and 350 Massachusetts.

Bustos said she hoped the conference provided opportunities to learn more about a wide variety of environmental issues. Qianyi Zang, a first-year at RISD, attended a talk about new energy technology including the latest solar panel inventions. “It’s a new concept,” and in the future, “I would want to learn more about that,” she said.

For those with prior knowledge on

environmental issues, Bustos hoped the conference would “challenge how they understand” them and raise questions about “how (these issues) intersect with class and race and others things that we care about.” The impact of the conference “is kind of a twofold thing depending on people’s backgrounds,” Bustos added.

Freitas gave the keynote speech at RYSE and discussed the connection between environmental issues, racial issues and social justice issues, finishing the talk with a question-and-answer session.

“You don’t have to be an activist,” Bustos said. “But from wherever you are, in business, in engineering, there’s a component of what your environmental impact is, and social impact as well.”

is a professor of neuroscience, while Upfal’s father is a professor of computer science. Sanes said she and her parents make a conscious effort to foster a realistic college experience despite this tie.

Spencer Roth-Rose ’17, whose mother serves as regional development director in the Advancement Office, said he attempts to “approximate the experiences of a college student” despite his ability to call his mom at random for a trip to the grocery store.

Many Providence natives feel that their peers, who hail from farther away, do not take advantage of all the city has to offer.

Roth-Rose said he thinks he and his friends do not explore Providence enough. As the campus continues to bustle with activities and events, RothRose said he rarely ventures out into the town he once frequented often.

“There are certain parts of the city people will explore, but people never

go to Federal Hill or Olneyville,” Sanes said, adding that there is so much more to the city than the East Side and Wickenden Street.

Several students from Providence highlighted the phenomenon of the “Brown bubble,” in which a divide persists between the campus and the surrounding community.

“We often talk about the ‘Brown bubble,’” Frias said. “Providence feels that bubble too.”

Felipe Ferreras ’17 encouraged students to expand their boundaries and relationships with Providence. A South Side native, Ferreras attended the Wheeler School and became “more aware of certain problems in Providence” upon matriculating at Brown.

The relationship between Brown and the greater Providence community is fraught with tension, especially economic tension, he said.

“I know what it means to go up the hill,” Ferreras said. “When you go up

the hill, everything else goes up too — income, quality of living.”

Ferreras said he “immediately encounters a different demographic” downtown. While Brown boasts a diverse student body, Providence prides itself on its strong CaribbeanAmerican and Southeast Asian communities, he said.

The economic relationship between Brown and Providence is complex: Though the University remains taxexempt for its private properties as an educational institution, it pays taxes on its commercial properties and the spaces it leases. In 2012, thenPresident Ruth Simmons and Mayor Angel Taveras signed an agreement under which the University would pay the city an additional $31.5 million over 11 years. In fiscal year 2014, the University paid the city $8 million in voluntary and property tax payments.

But Sanes said she thinks the University has also contributed to the

gentrification of the East Side. “There’s resentment towards Brown” among locals due to what they perceive as its gentrifying effects. “People think that Brown is a bastion of privileged white kids who walk around and act like they own the place,” she added.

Many students from Providence feel a responsibility to give back to the community from which they came.

Frias has organized several trips to local Providence schools in conjunction with the Brown Center for Students of Color. But she expressed frustration with the fact that many Brown students backed out of these trips at the last minute.

As a pre-med history concentrator, Ferreras said he hopes to use the knowledge and connections he gained at Brown to provide affordable health care to underprivileged areas including parts of Providence, adding that he wants to “take the goodness at Brown and ameliorate some of these

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and sliced his third extra point. Those four points were the difference in the game before the game-winning drive.

A muffed snap on a punt led to a turnover on downs in the second quarter and URI’s second touchdown one play later. The opening kickoff of the second half was returned all the way to the Brown 30-yard-line, setting up a short field goal.

“There’s still a lot we have to fix,” Estes said.

Bruno’s ugly play through the middle of the contest allowed URI (0-5) to rattle off a 17-0 run and take the lead entering the final quarter. But Fuller said the offense’s fourth-quarter spurt was a forgone conclusion.

“Even in scoreless drives we had moved the ball, and so we were upbeat,” he said. In the second half, “I would look over at our sideline and see nothing but 100 percent confidence.”

Fuller’s final stat line was worthy of his team’s confidence. The senior signal caller completed 41 of 58 passes for 438 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions.

But the unsung heroes of the game were the members of a depleted but stout Bruno defense. Injuries cost the Bears defensive captain Zach Sparber ’15.5, 2014 second-leading tackler Michael Walsh ’16 and even key lineman Jake Walther ’16, who left mid-game.

But the team rallied to play solid defense.

Most of URI’s scoring was no fault of the Bruno defense. The Rams posted a special teams touchdown, a defensive touchdown and scored twice with very short fields after a kick return and a turnover on downs. Bruno allowed only one scoring drive of over 30 yards.

All of the Rams’ success was rooted in their 5-foot, 7-inch running back and return man. Cooper’s devastating speed led to 109 yards rushing and a staggering 183 kick return yards.

Cooper knew exactly when he was going to break the go-ahead kick return for touchdown.

“I told my team before the play I was going to take it back to the crib,” Cooper said. “I had that mentality, and I did it.”

“The last thing I wanted to see was number two get the ball at the end,” Estes said of the speedy back. “He’s quite a player.”

But the Bears’ defense stepped up when it mattered most. The Rams had the ball and two timeouts at their own 28-yard-line, trailing by three with 2:13 to play. But Jordan Ferguson ’17 snuffed out the comeback attempt.

The cornerback read a play to the flat, intercepted the pass and returned it 34 yards for a game-sealing touchdown.

Estes said the win is the first step in a two-week preparation for Ivy play.

The Bears will continue that preparation with a contest Saturday at Holy Cross.

with a formidable aerial attack. In a lightning-fast first drive, Fuller went 5-for-5 through the air for 53 yards and a touchdown strike to Troy Doles ’16.

After a second long drive yielded a missed chip-shot field goal, Fuller led the offense 67 yards, going 6-for-7 and capping it with an 11-yard touchdown to Jette. Tight end Oliver Bucka ’18 became Fuller’s third different touchdown target two possessions later with a 15-yard catch over the middle.

Fuller’s monster start — which amounted to a line of 19-for-23, 234 yards and three touchdowns in the first 20 minutes of play — came on the heels of a terrible start last week that forced him to come out of the game in the second quarter.

Last week “forced me to reevaluate who I was as a football player,” Fuller said. “We learned from it, had a great week of practice and then parlayed that into a fast start.”

But even within the fast start, the mistakes that plagued Bruno in its opening two losses — turnovers and poor special teams play — began to resurface. The Rams scored their first touchdown on a fumble by Fuller.

The special teams unit was in trouble long before Cooper’s fourthquarter kick return. Kicker Grant Senne ’16 hooked an easy field goal

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» PROGRAM, from page 1 care focus,” said Shayla Minteer MDScM’19. “I want to make a change in a larger way than just the individual scale,” she said.“We are being asked to improve health outcomes in entire communities. I feel like this kind of curriculum should be almost ubiquitous and hopefully we can serve as a model.”

The dual-degree program was created to provide students with a more in-depth education on how healthcare systems work and a better understanding of how to improve healthcare outcomes in populations, said Jeffrey Borkan, assistant dean of the PC-PM program and chair of the department of family medicine.

“Students who graduate medical school need to know how systems work, why some medications are expensive and some are cheaper and what are worthwhile interventions for testing,” he added.

“We want to help achieve the triple aim: better outcomes for patients, lower costs (and) better patient experience,” Borkan said.

Jonathan Staloff ’14 MD-ScM’19, who is part of the inaugural PC-PM class, said he applied to the program because during his undergraduate years at Brown, he “got very interested in how the healthcare system is structured, how the healthcare system is changing and how healthcare policy directly influences … every interaction between a physician and

a patient.”

“This program is largely focused on trying to breed a new type of physician, one who excels in clinical patient care but also thinks in terms of population health and broader health outcomes — what the programs call ‘physicians plus,’” Staloff said.

These “physicians plus” have a wide variety of interests in the healthcare fields, ranging from tackling global health challenges with the Peace Corps to working with prisoner populations, he said.

PC-PM is trying to shift medical treatment from “reactive healthcare” to “proactive, value-based care,” he added.

As PC-PM is a new program, faculty members prioritize student feedback and make changes accordingly, Minteer said.

The Med School was one of 10 in the country to receive a $1 million grant from the American Medical Association’s “Accelerating Change in Medical Education” initiative. The grant money “is being used primarily for curricular development, teaching, building the infrastructure for the program and giving legitimacy to the program,” Borkan said.

Looking ahead, both George and Borkan expressed a desire to extend some of the values of the PC-PM program to the entire Med School.

“We have to impart these skills to all our students, not just primary care students,” George said. “All students need to be able to lead teams.”

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The Bob and Charlie Poole Program was created to “build a community … with an enhanced level of support,” said Jonathan Corey, assistant director of SEAS. First-years participating in the program can “get to know other students with disabilities,” he said.

To kick-start the program, SEAS held a training and information session last month for the 12 initial mentors, Corey said. During the information session, the participants talked about the program’s general structure and goals, said Isabella Kres-Nash ’18, one of the mentors.

Kres-Nash praised SEAS’s responsiveness to student feedback on topics including mentor-mentee relationships and the format of the emails sent to prospective mentees about the program.

At a second training session, the participants focused on “the general characteristics of being a mentor,” Corey said.

Throughout the training, Corey tried to emphasize the theme of collaboration between SEAS and the participants. He also stressed that the program would feature “a certain amount of organicness” because this marks the first year

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the program is being offered.

Though there have not been any difficulties with the launch of the program, SEAS is still trying to figure out its basic structure, Corey said. SEAS wants to learn how to effectively communicate with the mentors and mentees, he said.

In addition, SEAS is looking to boost the number of mentees in the program, as only “a handful” of first-years have signed up so far, he added.

For the rest of the year, Kres-Nash said she hopes to foster an environment of support for her mentees and help first-years with disabilities “be able to navigate Brown.”

“I really got involved in this to build a support network and to connect freshmen to all of the resources available,” Kres-Nash said. The program will ideally prevent students registered with SEAS from feeling isolated in the Brown community, she said.

Catherine Axe ’87, director of SEAS, wrote in an email to The Herald that she hopes the mentees will gain insight from their mentors to fully utilize “the accommodations and services at Brown.”

Both Corey and Kres-Nash highlighted that the program focuses on independent adjustment and learning.

“Having a disability at Brown is about you gaining independence, and with that, asking for what you need — no one will tell you what to do,” Kres-Nash said.

For some students who find this independence scary, the program could help with the adjustment process, she added.

Looking ahead, SEAS remains optimistic about the Poole program’s potential to become part of the network of advising at Brown, like the Meiklejohn Peer Advising Program, Corey said.

Of the 44 new faculty hires, about 45 percent identify as women. Though women hires outnumbered men in the social and life sciences, less than 13 percent of new physical sciences faculty members are women.

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» FACULTY, from page 1 Overall, the gender breakdown of the entire faculty has not changed over the last 10 years: From the 2008-09 to 2014-15 academic years, the percentage of female faculty members has remained at 33 percent, rising to 34 percent for one year in 2013-14, according to the Office of Institutional Research. Data on the entire faculty for this semester is not available.

Over the last five years, the gender breakdowns for humanities, life sciences and social sciences departments have also remained the same, hovering around 47, 32 and 39 percent female, respectively. Female representation in the physical sciences rose from 9 percent in 2005-06 to 17 percent in 2013-14, but it dropped to 15 percent in 2014-15.

Only 8.1 percent of the faculty in 2014-15 identified as underrepresented minorities, a number that has barely risen since the 7.9 percent recorded in 2009-10. Data on the racial diversity of the faculty for this semester are not yet available.

President Christina Paxson pledged at a faculty meeting in 2014 to double the number of underrepresented minority faculty members within the next decade, and the University is making a concerted effort to work toward this goal in faculty hires, Revill said.

Some things the University currently does to attract diverse applicants

include “advertising in venues that are likely to be read by minority candidates and reaching out to specific minority subgroups within a discipline,” as well as having a “diversity representative” on every search committee, Revill said.

The University also ensures that the “pipeline” to the applicant pool leads to a diverse group of candidates by making sure that applicants of a specific search pool who come from underrepresented backgrounds are invited to campus, he said.

The Target of Opportunity program also allocates additional funding to departments to allow diverse candidates to teach at the University, Revill said. For example, if there is a female candidate who is exceeding in her specific field of study that is not related to an active search, the Target of Opportunity program will give funds to a department to hire that candidate, he said.

In addition to the Target of Opportunity program, the University has implemented the Presidential Diversity Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program this fall, said Liza Cariago-Lo, vice president for academic development, diversity and inclusion. The program invites individuals with diverse backgrounds who recently received their post-doctorate degree to come to the University for two years to complete their research and teach one course for a semester, Cariaga-Lo said.

“It’s really about ensuring that we as a university recognize that our excellence rests on our ability to serve and meet the needs of our diverse learners,” Cariaga-Lo said. “We know that, in many ways, our diverse learners are looking to faculty who look like them, share their different experiences and who bring different perspectives to the table.”

The University has a better representation of diverse groups in its student population than its faculty population, said Thomas Roberts, chair of the Faculty Executive Committee and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, adding that the “health” of the University requires a focus on increasing this representation in the faculty.

“I don’t think we’ve been at a strong upward trajectory,” Roberts said of the number of minority faculty members, especially of those in his fields of study.

A larger part of the discussion involves thinking about how increasing the number of diverse candidates, especially women, in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields will affect those fields as a whole, Roberts said. Studies have shown that girls perform better on average in math in elementary school, but boys perform better in high school, he said.

“Does that say something about the male or female brain? I don’t think so. It’s something in our institutions,” Roberts said.

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Late heroics stun Lions Stillwell ’19 posts 32 kills in comeback in Ivy League opener Second-half goals from Cross ’16, Hagstrom ’19 lift Bears over formidable Empire State opponent

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The men’s soccer team began its Ivy League schedule with a match against Columbia — a season-opening tradition. And just like last year, the Bears emerged victorious by a one-goal margin, thanks to some second-half heroics. Leading goal-scorers Jack Hagstrom ’19 and Will Cross ’16 paced Brown (5-3, 1-0 Ivy) with a goal apiece during the 2-1 triumph in New York.

The loss was the Lions’ first of the season at home.

“Whenever you can win an Ivy League away game, it’s huge,” said Head Coach Patrick Laughlin. “Columbia had a real good start to the season. They’re a strong team, and it was great for us to get another comeback victory and score some goals.”

The Lions (4-2-1, 0-1 Ivy) were a formidable opponent, especially on paper. They had the best overall record of all Ivy League teams entering the showdown with Bruno, and they had received votes in previous weeks in the NCAA rankings. Most notably, the Light Blue boasted one of the stingiest defenses in the country, only conceding three goals all season long.

Within the first five minutes of the game, the Lions demonstrated the talent and teamwork that earned them national ranking consideration.

Andrew Tinari lobbed a ball into the box from about 40 yards out. Arthur Bosua slipped in behind the back line, beat both Hagstrom and Erik Hanson ’17 to the airborne ball and flicked it in with his head to give his side the early 1-0 lead.

Playing from behind was familiar territory for Bruno — its opponent had struck first in its last four games.

The Bears fought hard for an equalizer throughout the rest of the half, but they could not find one. The period ended with Columbia ahead in shots and goals, 7-3 and 1-0, respectively.

Hanson was called upon to make three saves in order to keep the deficit at one.

“We had to change a couple things in regards to our level of pressure and our intensity,” Laughlin said. “The goal

» W. SOCCER, from page 8 our way, but it is something we need to work on,” Moody said, referring to the Bears’ inability to convert scoring opportunities.

Columbia’s goal in the 90th minute snapped goalie Christine Etzel’s ’19 scoreless streak, which ended at 315 minutes. Etzel has allowed only eight goals in nine games, but in her starts, the Bears have scored only seven.

Etzel, along with the defense, has been perhaps the most important element of the Bears’ lineup this season, allowing them to play competitively even when the offense has

was unfortunate — it was a good finish, but we made a couple mistakes that led to the goal. We were in a good place at halftime, knowing that we’d have the wind in the second half and that we’d make those adjustments.”

The team returned in the second half hungry for an equalizer and established itself as the aggressor. Bruno clawed its way back into the match in the 71st minute by way of a Hagstrom header. The 6-foot-4 first-year possesses deadly aerial capabilities and is often the target on set pieces.

On this occasion, Matthew Chow ’19 whipped in a cross from a corner, and Hagstrom connected with a header into the side, netting to even the score at one apiece. It was the Vancouver native’s first assist and Hagstrom’s fourth goal of the season.

Hagstrom “has done very well in critical moments for us,” Laughlin said. “I think Jack would say that he was pleased to get a goal because the team needed a goal, not for him, but for the team. That’s one of the characteristics we like about him.”

Less than seven minutes later, the Bears netted the go-ahead goal. A patented long throw-in from Quinn English ’18 created a scramble in the Lions’ box. Eventually, Cross gathered the ball and slid a shot into the back of the net, giving Bruno a decisive 2-1 advantage.

The Lions’ tenacious offensive pressure for the rest of the match tested the Bears’ defense. A Bosua header required a quick reaction from Hanson to prevent an equalizer. Bruno’s back line blocked several shots in the dying minutes of the game to preserve the lead. The Light Blue’s final opportunity came with less than a minute left off a Joe Morris shot that Hanson gobbled up, sealing the victory for the Bears.

“Columbia put a lot of pressure on us when we went up 2-1 in those last 14 minutes, but the guys did a great job,” Laughlin said, referring to the play of the defense.

For the second consecutive game, the team responded to a first-half goal from its opponent with two secondhalf goals to win the game.

Up next for the Bears is a string of home matches, starting with Boston College (6-3-1) Tuesday and continuing with their Ivy League home opener against Princeton (3-3-1, 0-1 Ivy) Saturday.

disappointed.

“On any defense, it’s kind of tough on them when the offense can’t seem to score,” Moody said. “It’s commendable that they’ve stayed strong back there.”

The Bears will stay at home Saturday afternoon to face Princeton at Stevenson Field. The Tigers (7-3, 1-0 Ivy) are currently in the midst of a five-game winning streak. Even during the Bears’ current offensive skid, Moody is not overly concerned.

“It was a tough loss, but we believe in each other, and we believe in the team, and we’re ready to move on to the next game,” Moody said. “We have our sights set on Princeton.”

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Sabrina Stillwell ’19 goes up for a hit. The first-year recorded 32 kills in the team’s victory over Columbia Saturday night. Stillwell currently sits in second place for the most kills in a single game in program history.

Thrilling victories over Cornell, Columbia highlight Bears’ season debut at home

After a lengthy 12-game stretch on the road, the women’s volleyball team finally made its season debut at the Pizzitola Sports Center this weekend, as the Bears (8-6, 2-1 Ivy) secured two commanding conference wins against Cornell and Columbia.

“We had a really long preseason and we were away for a long time,” said Shirin Tooloee ’18. “The turnout was awesome. I don’t think we’ve ever had that many people at the games. I believe they made a difference in the game. It was good to know that we were supported, and we wanted to play for our school.”

With 352 fans in attendance eager to see their team at home for the first time this season, Bruno first took the court Friday against the Big Red (4-9, 0-3 Ivy).

“We actually had so much fun playing in front of our friends,” said Melissa Cairo ’18, who leads the Ivy League in digs per set and total digs. “Being able to get two wins at home was really great.”

With numerous supporters cheering them on, the Bears made a very impressive showing against Cornell. The Bears deftly handled the Big Red in the first and third sets of the match, eventually

sweeping the visitors.

While Cornell took the first point of the match, the Bears would not allow their opponents to get on the scoreboard for much of the contest, and the squad quickly went on a 7-0 run in the early portion of the set. The Big Red did not have any blocks in the first set, struggling to put up a fight at the net. After trailing by as many as 15 points in the opening frame, Cornell ultimately fell in the 25-11 decision.

“We came out really strong,” Cairo said. “We had so much momentum from the first set that it just carried through rest of the game.”

In the second stanza, the Big Red attempted to redeem itself for its performance in the first set. Neither team had a lead larger than two points for most of the game, but the Bears ultimately withstood Cornell’s rally to claim the 25-23 win.

The third and final set of the match proceeded in a similar manner as the first — the Bears maintained a significant edge throughout the stanza and secured a 25-15 victory to complete the sweep.

Tooloee led the way for Bruno with a season-best and match-high 13 kills.

Rookies Courtney Palm ’19 and Sabrina Stillwell ’19 also made significant contributions for Bruno at the net. The six-foot-one Palm recorded six blocks and converted each of her four swings into kills. Stillwell compounded on her teammates’ efforts with eight kills of

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Responding from the loss will be a new task for the Bears, who handled their Ivy opponents with ease last year en route to an undefeated regular season. But Mack stressed the importance of using the defeat as an opportunity to learn.

“We knew that it was going to be hard to repeat an undefeated season,” she said. “As a team, we need to make sure that we take this as a learning experience rather than something that will ruin the rest of our season.”

Bruno’s attention will now turn to its next game: Saturday against Quinnipiac, the team that ended the Bears’ perfect season in the ACRA Regionals tournament last season. Both Mack and Goretaya, who suffered a torn ACL in the Quinnipiac game in 2014, recognized the chance for revenge against the Bobcats.

“It’s more of a pride thing,” Goretaya said. “I want to prove to Quinnipiac that if there wasn’t such a turn of events that we could have won that game.”

The Bears will host the Bobcats Saturday, Oct. 10 at 11 a.m. at Marvel Field.

five corners and forcing four saves from Hammaker, but the first-year held firm and did not allow another goal.

“Katie has been doing an outstanding job,” Miller said. “She’s really working her tail off and getting better every single day.”

But it was Miller’s time in the final moments of this game, as the senior captain took a ball from outside the apron before beating a couple defenders and shooting past a helpless Georgetown keeper. The goal was Miller’s second of the weekend and fourth of the season.

Her eight points led the team.

“The goal against Georgetown was great,” Miller said. “I did not want to go into overtime because that’s been a theme of the year, and we wanted to end it in regulation this time.”

The Bears are 5-2 in one-goal games this year, with two overtime wins and another win off a goal that came after the regulation clock had struck zeros.

Brown takes on Harvard next weekend in its third Ivy game of the year as it looks to double its conference win total from last season.

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Looking to reprise its performance from the day before, Bruno returned to the Pizzitola to take on Columbia (3-9, 1-2 Ivy) Saturday. But the contest proved to be much more challenging than the previous one for the Bears.

After claiming the first two sets of the match, the Lions were poised to sweep the Bears. Faced with a 22-17 deficit and a potential loss, Bruno rallied for five straight points to even the frame and eventually secured a 26-24 victory over Columbia.

In an impressive display of tenacity on both defense and offense, the Bears went on to win the next two sets to claim the match. Tooloee credited the entire team with the win.

“It was definitely a team effort,” Tooloee said. “We brought all of our energy together. The bench was really supportive. It was a tough win, but it was fun.”

While the victory was definitely a team effort, Stillwell’s performance Saturday evening was particularly noteworthy. The rookie posted 32 kills in the contest — the second-most in a single match in program history. Stillwell was just two kills shy of surpassing Maddie Lord ’15 for the record — one that Lord did not achieve until her senior season.

Stillwell “is a big part of our offense,” Tooloee said. “We were relying on her so much at the net.”

The Bears will hit the road again next weekend with matches against Harvard (6-7, 2-1) and Dartmouth (5-7, 2-1).

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Boycott the Hilton Providence Last Tuesday at the Brown University Community Council meeting, the Student Labor Alliance brought forth a resolution advocating a boycott of the Hilton Providence Hotel. Based on testimony that the hotel puts employees in unfair working conditions, we support the boycott. Hilton employees report being asked to clean more than the unionized standard of hotel rooms per day and endure a work-related injury rate 69 percent higher than the national average.

Hilton employees have been protesting discrimination and poor wages since February 2014, when they held a rally to put pressure on the Procaccianti Group, which manages the hotel. Workers complained that the management practiced discrimination and required them to work excessive hours in order to earn benefits. Seventy-five percent of hotel workers signed a petition at the time demanding better working conditions and a fair unionization process. In 2014, the SLA encouraged the University to boycott the hotel, but the University declined pending a legal decision on the dispute between the National Labor Relations Board and the Procaccianti Group.

BUCC members who are hesitant to support the boycott have cited the lack of ongoing legal action for labor law violations as a key reason not to act. While some may argue that more research needs to be done before the University can take action, due to the Procaccianti Group’s long history with unacceptable working standards, we urge council members to listen to employees’ complaints of unfair treatment now. Rather than waiting for a legal process to take place and standing passively by while external forces decide what sort of action should be taken, Brown should use its economic and social power in Providence to shape the conversation as it is happening.

The University can build on precedent in taking action. In 2014, President Christina Paxson P’19 addressed worries about unfair working conditions at the hotel by sending a letter to the Procaccianti Group that indicated concerns about alleged unfair practices. In the past, such efforts have been effective. In 2010, Brown moved a gala from the Westin Providence Hotel, which is managed by the same group, after similar allegations of unfair labor practices. BUCC then voted to express support for a boycott of the Westin, which helped Westin employees unionize.

The University’s actions have power, and that power should be put to use to support members of the greater Providence community.

Since boycotting is not a legal process, it would simply involve removing the Hilton from Brown’s list of suggested hotels and notifying the Brown community of the labor dispute. Brown does not need to assess the legality of the Procaccianti Group’s actions in order to take a stand.

As an audience member at the BUCC meeting pointed out, Brown has been involved with past boycotts that acknowledged the existence of a dispute without necessarily favoring either side. Yet we believe that when 75 percent of employees sign a petition demanding changes in working conditions, it is hard to remain neutral. Brown has little to lose from boycotting the Hilton, and it could significantly help employees demand fairer working conditions. The University should use its power for good.

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A different world AMEER MALIK opinions columnist

I recently read an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that almost broke my heart. In his piece “The Humanities at the End of the World,” Alexander Jacobs, a PhD candidate in history at Vanderbilt University, discusses the debate over the study of the humanities. He contends that despite people arguing that the humanities are useful and worth studying, the way American society has developed leaves no space for the humanities today.

Jacobs explains that “since the 1970s, the United States has gradually dismantled its ramshackle framework of social security, with the result that economic risk is now borne primarily by individuals and families, rather than spread across institutional and social life.” He further explains that “in this world, your average college freshman can look forward to a lifetime of scrambling to avoid being swindled on everything, from student loans to housing, health care and retirement savings … the freshman’s only hope for consistent access to a paycheck and benefits is to make herself indispensable to those with wealth and power.”

Jacobs concludes his article by stating that “in a world of 401(k)’s, health-insurance ‘marketplaces,’ income volatility and part-time work, we can defend the humanities until we are blue in the face. None of it matters. We cannot hope to engineer an affection for culture in the absence of real material security.”

I support the humanities with a

deep love and passion, and as futile as it may be, I will try to defend them here by explaining that the humanities provide essential tools with which society can be improved. Before I start, I would like to express a few ideas. First, in my discussion of numerous problems in society, I will not limit myself to solely the issues raised in Jacobs’ article. I also truly believe that fields other than the humanities, such as science, engineering and mathematics, are as worthy of study as the humanities. Also, I agree with Jacobs’ point that, due to their financial needs, many students cannot devote their lives to the humanities.

I think the humanities are essential tools with which we can expand our minds. They offer important perspectives on numerous aspects of life

but these economic, business and political endeavours would be informed by a humanistic perspective.

Not only can the humanities help guide actions that are unrelated to the humanities, but they can also serve as an important source of opposition and criticism against numerous aspects of society. Certain leaders of businesses might be so focused on what measures they can take to maximize their profits that they might not pay attention to what they shouldn’t do. But a philosopher might explain that certain actions, such as overworking the employees of the company and relying on suppliers that use child labor, are wrong. I don’t think economics or business as fields of study would inform the business leaders against doing what the philosopher,

Philosophy? ‘To Challenge Your Own Point of View.” Goldstein explains that the writings of the philosopher Peter Singer helped spur today’s animal rights movement. When I think about how people concerned with social progress today are questioning and finding numerous problems with longheld attitudes and systems in society, I think about the philosopher Michel Foucault and his valuable writings.

Important perspectives on society are provided not only by history and philosophy, but also by other humanities-related fields such as literature and art. In his speech defending libraries and the importance of reading, published in the Guardian, the writer Neil Gaiman explains that “fiction can show you a different world” and that when

I support the humanities with a deep love and passion, and as futile as it may be, I will try to defend them here by explaining that the humanities provide essential tools with which society can be improved. and new ways of looking at the world around us. Through these viewpoints, we may find flaws in the world and decide to change what is wrong. For example, someone might be troubled by the current state of the U.S. economy that Jacobs describes. Instead of despairing, this person might turn to history to see periods of time during which the distribution of wealth in this country was more balanced. This person might see what conditions led to the favorable economic situation of the past and use that knowledge to improve the current economy. Obviously, knowledge of economics, business and politics would be necessary to reduce the inequality of wealth in this country,

and many of us, would find unethical.

Hopefully, the ideas of the philosopher can translate into laws that can limit what the leaders of businesses might try to do. This is not impossible.

I remember reading in my philosophy class last year that many movements for social change start with the writings of philosophers, and this seems to be true. I believe this reading might have explained that the actions taken by the revolutionaries in the French Revolution were guided by the ideas of Enlightenment philosophers. A more recent example is provided by philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein in an interview published in the Atlantic entitled “Why Study Philosophy

“you’ve visited other worlds … you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: Discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.”

If someone reads about a world that is better than the society she lives in, she might be inspired to improve the society around her. Also, literature can provide important warnings. When I think about technological advancements and worry about how new technology will invade different aspects of our lives, I find myself wishing that as many people as possible read Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” a startling work of dystopian fiction. We

might be less willing to accept the new products that tech companies promise are good for us if we all read this book.

In his speech, Gaiman also explains that fiction allows readers to develop empathy. This is true of visual art and other fields related to the humanities, too. Science and mathematics can only do so much to figure out what it is like to be a human and explain what people go through. The humanities often complete the picture. Statistics might describe rates of poverty, while paintings and photographs can give human faces to these numbers. Information about the harmful effects of emotional abuse on children that a psychology class teaches is vital when it comes to treatment and methods of healing, while art and literature, including works such as Christina Stead’s intense novel “The Man Who Loved Children,” are important for adding dimensions to what the experience of emotional abuse is like for those who face it. Art and literature in this case may be more impactful in urging people to take action and develop systems of support and treatment for those who suffer from emotional abuse.

It seems clear that the humanities are essential to our world, and people who want to devote their lives to these fields and who are in a position to do so should. Even if the United States has no room for the humanities, as Jacobs explains, we can change this by turning to the humanities and pushing the ideas these fields teach us back into our society. If we do not do this, a grim future might await us.

Ameer Malik ’18 can be reached at ameer_malik@brown.edu.

The white privilege of cows M. DZHALI MAIER opinions columnist

It is admittedly difficult to discuss topics such as privilege, marginalization and oppression without reducing them to the equivalent of magicians’ tricks gone awry. All three concepts are taken as mere tokens, to be taken up and played, and to be abandoned when no longer prudent. The social justice movement treats power imbalance and inequality as mere social constructions that people with axes to grind unjustly employ against the hapless and helpless. In order to make an equitable world, privilege and power imbalance must be abandoned, and a raising of consciousness is needed to compel those who have privilege and power to set them aside for good.

Unfortunately, this view ignores the rich history of these concepts and overlooks what history tells us: that they are not arbitrary and cannot merely be picked up and put down at whim. Rather, wealth, poverty, privilege, marginalization and oppression are very much a part of us and are inextricably written into our biology and history, at least for some of us.

It seems that in the recent debates

about race, for example, there are really two questions jockeying for the same airspace. Put simply, one question addresses the biology of human difference, and the other concerns the rise of economic and technological inequality.

It seems churlish to even discuss the biology of human difference. We are all different. We are all unique individuals. Our genetic codes, physical features and (to an extent) emotions and behaviors are entities of physics and biology. We evolved differ-

man scraping away mud in Southeast Asia. Recent scientific inquiries have shown specific traits of hunter-gatherer societies (such as egalitarianism of gender roles, food sharing, slow growth rate and relative nomadism) that have persisted in modern huntergatherer communities.

Agriculture sprang up all over the human-inhabited world in different times and places. But the agriculture of the ancient Near East provided some distinct advantages (besides being the first), such as having ani-

humans could inhabit the first cities and support the first specialists.

Regardless of whether or not fiscal economy actually arose with the advent of agriculture, the jaw-dropping complexity of the early civilizations of the Near East (with their writing, numerical system, codes of law, urban social stratification, royalty and careful records of transactions) must give a modern historian pause. Non-farming specialists began to work with local metals, manufacture weapons (forged ever better under the pressures of so-

Wealth, poverty, privilege, marginalization and oppression are very much a part of us and are inextricably written into our biology and history. ently, with many (ultimately unsuccessful) cousin species. Over time, we spread out into different climates, interbred with each other and with our unique sets of neighbors and evolved light skin, dark skin, flat faces, prognathic jaws, blue eyes, brown eyes, great height, short stature and a host of other physical features.

Yet this really doesn’t matter much on its own. A human with light skin and blue eyes, scraping away at the frozen soil in Siberia, has little immediate advantage over a human with dark skin and dark eyes scraping away at the hot sand in Africa, or over a hu-

mals that could be both domesticated and farmed and grains such as wheat, which contain protein and can be stored for long periods of time.

Livestock was the clincher, though.

Many advanced civilizations sprang up around agriculture, but all farmed animals (with the exception of the llama) have wild ancestry in Eurasia (as do the vast majority of domesticated animals). Goats and sheep provided meat as well as milk, hair and hides. Horses could be ridden and put to work.

Cattle provided meat, hides, milk and draft power. With long-stored, protein-rich grains, as well as livestock,

cial conflict), produce technological elements of science, art and music and sow the seeds of philosophy, organized religion and government. It is amazing what ancient humans could accomplish once they were consistently able to feed themselves energy-rich food.

Where is all this going? It is the strong who trample the weak, the rich who trample the poor. Societies that can produce the most food of the highest quality in the widest variety of situations can logically field a military, support a monarchy or sail around the world. Colonialism simply allows those who come from a history of be-

ing well-fed enough to let experimentation happen, conquering those who have not had that luck.

Thus, whenever I see a white college student, reeking of privilege, I recall the coincidence (or causal relationship) between white physical features and animal agriculture. It is still a question whether or not evolution endowed Eurasians with skills utilized to capitalize on the good luck of livestock animals, or whether Eurasian features just happen to be a poor man’s clue to agricultural history.

Cattle, it was recently discovered, were nearly unable to be domesticated. All the cattle alive today descend from a foundation herd of about 80 animals. It does stand as fact that English colonists in Africa were able to tame zebras to be ridden or driven, and there is a long history of elephant use in Southeast Asia. Yet it is also fact that wild animals in Africa and the New World were left untapped, while some wild Eurasian animals were domesticated.

Natural inequality — inequality of history — isn’t something that can be taken up or abandoned at will. Rather, it gives us history and makes us human.

M. Dzhali Maier ’17 studies science and society.

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Narrow win over Dartmouth kickstarts Ivy campaign Early goals by Miller ’16, Seid ’19 spark Bruno’s first victory over Big Green since 2006

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Fresh off a disappointing pair of losses, the women’s field hockey team bounced back against Dartmouth and Georgetown on consecutive days, winning a pair of 2-1 games this weekend.

An Ivy League tilt against the Big Green (4-5, 0-2 Ivy) highlighted an important weekend for the Bears (5-5, 1-1).

A loss to Columbia last weekend made all Ivy contests in the future more important, as two losses in conference play would all but eliminate any title hopes.

Despite falling to Dartmouth 6-1 a year ago, Brown came out of the gates much faster in this season’s matchup.

A corner after five minutes yielded a save by the Dartmouth goalkeeper before Alexis Miller ’16 turned home her third goal of the season. It was only the Bears’ third time scoring first this year, and only the third time in the last two years that they have scored first in an Ivy League tilt.

Unfortunately for Brown, its lead lasted a little under three minutes: Dartmouth got a corner, and Rebecca Hu converted it after latching on to a Katie Hammaker ’19 save that landed right on the attacker’s stick.

But the Bears struck back almost immediately, with forward sub Katherine

Kallergis ’18 making an impact on the left side of the field. She centered a pass towards Ellie Seid ’19, who hit the backboard for her third goal of the year.

“Something that we did a really great job of doing was staying composed after they scored,” Miller said. “We were confident and continued to support each other and trust each other and were able to stay in the game.”

“I thought that our team played really well, but we have been playing really well,” said Head Coach Jill Reeve. “But I felt like there was a different level of composure and determination in the group today.”

The first half ended with a 2-1 scoreline, and Brown led the way in penalty corners but remained behind in shots.

It was a stark contrast from last year’s tilt, in which the Bears were outshot significantly in the first half and trailed 3-0 after eight minutes.

The second half was a defensive standoff, as both teams had fewer shots than they did in the first half. But there was still a plethora of quality chances for both sides, as Dartmouth registered seven corners and forced Hammaker into three saves. After a couple of timeouts late in the game, Seid and Miller were able to ice the remaining three minutes by keeping possession in the corner to see out Brown’s first Ivy win of the year.

“The win against Dartmouth was really big for us because it’s our first Ivy win other than Harvard for all the juniors and below,” Miller said. “It’s a step toward gaining the respect that we

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Alexis Miller ’16 carries the ball up the field. One of Miller’s two goals this weekend included the game-winner against Georgetown. With eight points, the senior is tied for the most on the team with Hannah Rogers ’16. deserve. The first one with Columbia considerable impact on the win. executed corner for Anna Masini ’16 didn’t go the way that we wanted it to, Seid “executed the game plan per- kickstarted the Bears after six-and-a-half so it was great to win.” fectly at the end, and (Lanouette) re- minutes. Masini passed the ball to Emily “It’s a big deal, because at this point ally stepped it up in the second half,” Arciero ’16, who gave it to Miller, who in the season we’d be hard pressed if Reeve said. slid the ball back to Masini for the easy we had lost in this game, and we’d be The first-years “are just really coach- tap-in at the near post. A much-needed having different conversations,” Reeve able and they put in 60-70 minute tally for a team that had struggled with said. “But I think this is a feather in our games,” she added. “They’re really, re- offensive production off corners, the cap. Dartmouth is a good team so I’m ally helping us out.” goal excited the Brown coaching staff, really excited for us, but I think that Sunday’s matchup against George- who high-fived on the sideline. we’ve been playing well. We just finally town (5-6) featured more substitutions A goal for Georgetown three-and-agot the result we’ve been looking for.” than the Ivy tilt — a majority of the half minutes after the start of the second First-years Hammaker, Seid, Mad- Brown starters played 60 to 70 minutes half brought the Hoyas back into the die Ayles ’19 and Rachel Lanouette against the Big Green — but the Bears game. Georgetown dominated Brown ’19 all played a majority of the game, did not seem to miss a beat. offensively in the second half, registering and — more significantly — all made a A first-half goal off an incredibly well » See F. HOCKEY, page 4

W. SOCCER

Last-minute goal devastates Bears Women’s soccer unable to secure win over weekend with scoreless matches against Bryant, Columbia

By JAMES SCHAPIRO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

COURTESY OF BROWN ATHLETICS

Daisy Alvarado-Munoz ’17 runs the ball. The team’s offense struggled Saturday, with the only try coming in the 71st minute of competition.

Match against Dartmouth ends with rare defeat Bears’ offense runs dry, resulting in team’s first regular season loss since earning varsity status

By BEN SHUMATE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The women’s rugby team suffered its first loss of the season Saturday, marking its first regular season defeat since the team gained varsity status before the 2014 season. The Bears (3-1, 2-1 Ivy) put up a fight against hosts Dartmouth, but the Big Green (2-1, 2-0), in its first varsity season, proved too much for Bruno.

Brown struggled offensively through most of the match, converting only one try that came from Uzoamaka Okoro ’16 in the 71st minute. Dartmouth controlled possession for the majority of the

game, limiting the offensive opportunities for the Bears.

“Dartmouth did a great job — credit to them,” said co-captain Oksana Goretaya ’17. Both Goretaya and fellow cocaptain Tiara Mack ’16 were pleased with the Bears’ defensive efforts in limiting the Big Green to only eight points, but they recognized that the disparity in offensive possessions was too much to overcome.

“When we needed to, we played good defense, but we played defense for a little bit too long,” Goretaya said.

“It was almost 80 minutes of nonstop defense,” Mack added.

The Bears held the score close through repeated defensive stands at their try line. Dartmouth failed to convert multiple times in the face of the Brown defense, only breaking through for one second-half try and a penalty » See RUGBY, page 4

The women’s soccer team entered the week on a high note. Having beaten Sacred Heart and held heavily favored Dartmouth to a draw, the team looked to turn its excellent defensive play into wins against Bryant and Columbia.

But defense was not enough to make up for a lackluster attack, and the Bears ended the week without a win.

Brown 0, Bryant 0 (2 OT) Taking on the Bulldogs (3-8-1, 2-0 NEC), the Bears (3-5-2, 0-1-1) seemed to have the upper hand after shutting out Dartmouth and beating Sacred Heart in overtime. But as has often been the case this season, they failed to take advantage of opportunities.

“We outshot them like crazy; we had 13 corners,” said forward Erin Katz ’16. “In the end, we brought it to them. We just couldn’t get one in.”

“It gradually got better and better,” said Head Coach Phil Pincince.

“Maybe we just needed two more minutes.”

Yet again, the Bears were victims of a thrilling near miss. After fighting for a loose ball inside the Bryant 18-yard box with 10 seconds left in the first overtime, Charlotte Beach

’16 fired a shot that seemed ticketed for the back of the net and a Bears’ victory. But the ball hit the right post, and the period came to an end with the teams still scoreless.

“There’s a difference between luck and scoring ability,” Katz said. “We’ve been knocking at the door for so long.

Hopefully we start to put some in when the games really matter.”

Pincince said the Bears’ intensity level did not match that of the Dartmouth game. “In the overtime … that’s where we should have been from the beginning,” he said.

Though the draw against Bryant was a letdown, the Bears could hardly be blamed for focusing more on the Columbia game: After a draw against Dartmouth, an Ivy win was doubly important.

“It was a disappointment. We really wanted to win that game,” Katz said. “But I think this will make us more focused going into Saturday against Columbia.”

Pincince used the game against Bryant, a non-league opponent, as a test for some of his underutilized players. “We played quite a few players compared to (the game against) Dartmouth,” he said. “We got another great look at seeing if somebody would step up.”

The team quickly put the game behind it — one day after playing Bryant, Katz was already looking ahead to Columbia.

“We really want to score,” Katz said. “We really want to take it to them, and we really want to beat

Columbia.”

“In past years, we’ve ended in ties with Columbia,” she added. “We’re not looking for that this year — we’re looking for the win.”

Columbia 1, Brown 0 The Bears took on the Lions (5-5, 1-1 Ivy) at Columbia’s Baker Field in New York. In what is becoming a familiar pattern, Bruno was aggressive but could not capitalize. The Bears took 20 shots to Columbia’s 11 and 10 corner kicks to Columbia’s three, but it was the Lions who emerged victorious, as Emma Anderson scored with 29 seconds remaining to give the Lions the only goal they would need.

“Just putting the ball in the back of the net has been kind of a struggle for us this season,” said captain Sarah Moody ’16. “We had a lot of chances, a lot of opportunities, and it’s just that final execution that’s been missing for us.”

Columbia’s defense played a part in shutting down the Bears’ offense, which has now gone 310 minutes without a goal after putting up three against Sacred Heart. But the Bears had their opportunities and failed to convert — of their 20 shots, all but four missed the net entirely. Even into the 89th minute, with the game still scoreless, Beach lined up a header off a well-placed corner from Jillian DeSimone ’16, but it sailed high, and the Lions scored on the ensuing possession.

“To an extent things haven’t gone » See W. SOCCER, page 4