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BrownTogether campaign to fund campus renovations Engineering building, Watson expansion and performing arts center among imminent projects

By ANICA GREEN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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The recently announced renovation of the baseball and softball fields has received positive reactions from players. It will not interfere with either teams’ practices, said Baseball Head Coach Grant Achilles.

Renovations in fields’ futures $5 million renovation of baseball, softball fields gets go-ahead for summer 2016 due to donor interest

By JAMES SCHAPIRO STAFF WRITER

A $5 million renovation to the baseball and softball fields will take place during summer 2016 and is slated to be finished by spring 2017, said Baseball Head Coach Grant Achilles. President Christina Paxson P’19 announced the fields’

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renovation in a community-wide email Tuesday about gifts accepted at the October Corporation meeting.

The upgrades will be multifaceted: They will include the conversion of nearly the entire playing surface of each field to artificial turf, as well as improvements to the press boxes, stands, concession areas and existing batting cages, Achilles said. There is also a possibility that an indoor field will be built in the future, he added.

The project has been discussed before and is now moving forward because of increased donor interest, Achilles said.

“There’s been a need for our facility

to be upgraded, and as with most projects at a university or elsewhere, it’s dependent on finances,” he said. “We’ve had several very generous donors step up and say that they want to be the lead to make this project happen. It’s been a conversation over the past couple of years — what’s needed and what we’re hoping to do.”

Fundraising for the project is nearly complete, Achilles said. “We’re not quite to our goal of $5 million, but we’re hoping to have that not only met but exceeded,” he said.

Players have reacted positively to the renovations. » See RENOVATION, page 4

The University plans to raise $600 million for campus development under the “BrownTogether” comprehensive campaign. The most significant coming projects are the new School of Engineering building, an expansion of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs that will allow it to house the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, and a new center for performing arts, said Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06.

The University broke ground on the new engineering building last week.

During former President Ruth Simmons’ 11-year tenure, about a billion dollars were spent on campus development, including acquisitions and the construction of the Nelson Fitness Center and Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Carey said.

Now, administrators are “taking a moment to reflect on the previous decade and, along with our academic priorities, seeing what we imagine for the next decade,” he said. The Committee on Reimagining the Brown Campus and Community is leading the planning

of the new construction projects and renovations.

“Performing arts is one we’ve been spending a lot of time on in the ‘programming phase,’ as it was highlighted as a critical need,” Carey said, adding that it will “start from music and radiate out.” Right now, the orchestra rehearses in Alumnae Hall — which Carey said has terrible acoustics — and performs in Sayles Hall.

“Neither of these facilities are up to par with the quality of the ability from students and faculty on campus,” Carey said.

Another problem the operational plan aims to solve is that existing facilities do not meet the needs of dance rehearsal space, an issue that the new performing arts building would potentially solve. “There is a desire for spaces to be flexible, with high utility, and available as much as possible,” Carey said, adding that flexible space often means compromising for specific functions.

“Music, theatre and performance studies have different priorities for the building, but we all need practice and rehearsal spaces that allow us to do collaborative and embodied work as well as performing spaces,” said Patricia Ybarra, associate professor of theatre arts and performance studies and chair of the department. “Brown is generally underresourced in terms of these types of spaces, so the ideas for the new building are necessary and exciting.” » See CAMPAIGN, page 3

M. HOCKEY BrownConnect 2.0 to Bruno looks to rebound after tough season feature funding search tool New defensive

App to launch Nov. 5 with BrownConnect Day, capped by peer-to-peer internship fair

By OLIVIA KATCHER STAFF WRITER

The Center for Careers and Life After Brown will launch BrownConnect 2.0 — a revamped version of the University’s internship search and alumni mentoring site — Nov. 5. The improvements will focus on aggregating various funding opportunities in one space, said Aixa Kidd, director of BrownConnect.

Since BrownConnect was released two years ago, CareerLAB has received requests from students that all funding opportunities be listed in one area, Kidd said. Currently, internships and awards for the summer are spread across the sites of various University departments and centers.

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For example, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs’ Summer Fellowship is only listed on the Watson Institute’s website. But BrownConnect 2.0’s funding feed will bring together all of these funding opportunities.

“If you search ‘internships in Boston,’ you’ll get a listing of internships in Boston and you’ll get a listing of alumni in Boston. With the upgrade, you’ll now also get a listing of possible funding opportunities,” Kidd said.

Brown awards students funding opportunities to help offset expenses incurred during their low-paid or unpaid internships during the summer, Kidd said, adding that BrownConnect 2.0 will be a “one-stop shopping tool.”

On the Nov. 5 launch, CareerLAB has a “whole day planned to highlight BrownConnect,” Kidd said. BrownConnect Day will include multiple workshops focused on internship and research opportunities. » See BROWNCONNECT, page 2

reinforcements, returning offense hopeful for ECAC championship

By MATT BROWNSWORD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After a four-year career in Providence in which he accounted for more than an eighth of the men’s hockey team’s total points, forward Matt Lorito ’15 has earned his spot in the annals of Brown hockey fame.

But after signing an AHL contract with the Albany Devils, Lorito has moved on from Meehan Auditorium.

For a Brown team that only managed to win eight games last year, it is a tall task to replace his incredible production and compete in the ECAC and beyond.

“Losing Matt is a part of the college process,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “We’ll miss his speed and creativity — he was a great player for us.”

“We’re going out to win championships, but there are steps that need to

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Brandon Pfeil ’16 waits for the puck in the offensive zone. He will be important for the Bears this year as they look to revamp their defense. be taken before we get there,” he added.

“We’re making sure we’re doing the little things the right way. It’s a day-to-day

process.”

Returning for the Bears are their » See, M. HOCKEY, page 4

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UNIVERSITY NEWS Panelists discuss climate change prospects in Latin America in light of United Nations proposal

ARTS & CULTURE Elementary school students trick-or-treated around Wriston Quadrangle Wednesday

SPORTS Johnny Pena ’17 named The Herald’s Athlete of the Week for four touchdowns against Cornell

COMMENTARY Bustos ’16 et al: Psuedoscience is dangerous because of its appeal and its use to explain inequality

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Panelists examine sustainable development potential in Latin America Discussion explores impact of UN’s 2030 climate action goals, need for capital investment in the region

By VICTOR CHANG CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Of the many roads to achieving economic and environmental goals, experts on sustainable development and climate change repeatedly mentioned the need for suitable incentives to reach energy goals by 2030 and for greater investment in fiscal and human capital at a panel discussion Thursday.

Spurred by the United Nations’ adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals last month and looking ahead to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this December, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs brought together a panel of four experts: Isabel Cavelier, minister counsellor at the

» APP UPDATE, from page 1 “We will be offering a variety of programs for students as they head into the internship-search season,” said Sarah Brown, BrownConnect’s internship manager.

The first piece of programming will be a lunch panel at CareerLAB, during which two students, Tolu Lawal ’16 and Gabriel Reyes ’18, and two alums, Toni Sayce ’04 and Matthew Josefowicz ’94, will discuss how to overcome internship obstacles, such as housing, funding and communication

permanent mission of Colombia to the UN; Kevin Gallagher, professor of global development policy at Boston University; Ana Rios, climate change specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank; and Christian Gomez Jr., director of energy at the D.C. office of the Council of the Americas.

Moderator and event organizer Guy Edwards, co-director and cofounder of the Climate and Development Lab, opened the two-hour event by asking the panel about the progress Latin America has made in tackling climate change and sustainable development.

Latin America is reaching peaks in its environmental development, especially because the agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals is

“universal,” and “everybody’s challenges (are) recognized as part of the agenda,” Cavelier said. She said she believes the “challenge now is implementation (by) 2030.”

The other panelists echoed the sentiment, arguing that important steps have been taken but the region still faces many difficulties in its progress towards sustainable development.

The Latin American economy has an “over-emphasis in commodities, the financial sector and low-skilled work,” while demonstrating a “fundamental underinvestment in innovation, structural transformation and natural capital.” Cavelier and Gallagher agreed Latin America’s progress toward sustainable development would benefit from economic diversification.

Next, the panel considered the obstacles to climate action facing Latin American countries.

Gallagher briefly categorized the limitations in Latin America into three areas: market and governmental failure, “short-termism” and lack of ideas. He concluded, “The focus must be on developmental banking.

The problem with the (Sustainable Development Goals) is the development banks have been given an unfunded mandate.”

“There’s very little incentive toward a transition towards a cleaner energy future,” Gomez said.

The speakers also touched upon the role of global partners ­— specifically the United States, China and Europe — in contributing to the region’s prospects.

While Europe and the United States have both been assisting sustainable development, China in particular has made great strides recently in Latin America. Gallagher said the

Chinese are “the leaders of climate finance” and have “the fastest reduction in carbon intensity,” setting an example for Latin American countries.

The event ended with a questionand-answer session, during which panelists discussed intragovernmental cooperation between different ministries and the ability of social movements to catalyze environmental change.

“Climate change and development is not just an issue that concerns the governments,” said Rios, “it is an issue that involves everyone.”

The event was jointly organized by the Climate and Development Lab and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. It was funded

by Fundacion Botin, Edwards said.

Members of the audience livetweeted the discussion on Twitter, using the hashtag #LatAm2030.

with companies.

The panel will also open up the conversation to students, Brown said, adding, “We want to hear what the students are thinking.”

Following the luncheon, a peer career advisor walk-in event called “Cupcakes and Connections” will take place. The event is aimed at helping students get started with BrownConnect, begin working on their resumes and make contacts relevant to internships.

The subsequent “BrownConnect Internship Search” event will feature a

discussion of BrownConnect tools and how students can use them to their advantage. The event will also include a lecture from Gregory Seiler, BrownConnect’s international internship and signature programs manager, about international internship searching.

The day will conclude with the “Peer-to-Peer Summer Opportunities Fair,” during which 80 students will discuss and represent the organizations they interned at last summer.

Social media will also play a role, as BrownConnect will host an Instagram competition on the day of the

launch. Members of student groups and sports teams will be encouraged to take a photograph wearing red BrownConnect t-shirts and comment #BrownConnect on Instagram. The image must represent why the group loves BrownConnect, and the group with the most creative picture will be awarded $500 in funding.

In addition to the upgraded funding tool, BrownConnect will also launch its own Twitter account, which will be managed by Business, Entrepreneurship and Organization Capstone students. The account will announce various tips on how to use the website, post stories of students’ past internships and highlight summer opportunities. CareerLAB has received feedback from students who have requested to hear about new opportunities more quickly, and “Twitter is the fastest way to get announcements out,” Brown said.

Andrew Coke ’16, a BEO Capstone student, said the Twitter account will be used to “measure student satisfaction, which can then help us determine how to improve the website in order to meet students’ needs.” The Capstone project includes five students who were assigned to create surveys and focus groups on how CareerLAB can improve BrownConnect’s website.

Coke received an internship last summer at Merrill Lynch in Chicago through BrownConnect. He said he used the site to reach out to alums and ask them how they got on their career paths and stumbled upon someone

who helped him get his “foot in the door” at the management firm.

Though the upgrade will allow students to access funding opportunities all in one location, some have asked for the ability to search for alums by a certain group or topic, Kidd said.

For instance, first-generation students have expressed interest in connecting with alums who were also the first in their families to attend college.

Kidd said this feature is already available, but students do not realize that. BrownConnect hopes to increase awareness about this feature among students, she added.

BrownConnect’s pilot program launched two years ago with over 100 summer opportunities listed on the site. This past year, BrownConnect had over 650 Bruno opportunities — opportunities listed by Brown alums.

CareerLAB is hoping to increase that number again this year, and “the feedback received from alumni has already been amazing,” Kidd said.

Since its launch, BrownConnect has had 10,816 unique users. Additionally, students have sent 5,959 emails to alums via the website. To date, 14,999 unique alumni profiles have been viewed, with total alumni profile views reaching 47,867.

BrownConnect 2.0 is only the beginning, Kidd said. “We’re hoping to have another upgrade in the spring that will focus on a peer-to-peer tool,” she said, adding that this tool would allow students to get in contact with peers who have had internship experiences of interest.

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GOB Squad wows audience with artistic, visual lecture Graduate production seminar invites guests to give performances, inspire creativity in students

By COREY HEBERT CONTRIBUTING WRITER

GOB Squad, an internationally acclaimed British-German art collective, critiques and parodies pop culture and contemporary locations and concepts.

The collective went through a catalogue of its work in MUSC 2270B: “Performance in a Virtual World” Wednesday night.

The class of 13 students — taught

by Kym Moore, associate professor of TAPS, and Todd Winkler, professor of music and co-director of the Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments PhD program — explores technology in the context of live performance.

Winkler first discovered GOB Squad 13 years ago and has been fascinated by its work ever since. He said it was “incredible” to finally get the collective to come to Brown.

During the lecture, GOB Squad showed the class short clips and offered

associated explanations of the history of the collective from its inception to the present.

The significance of place emerged as a common theme throughout the videos. Place “is one of the collaborators in the work,” said Simon Will, a member of GOB Squad. A place is chosen first, and a storyline is fit to it, rather than vice-versa, he said.

GOB Squad likes to create works that encourage the audience to find the meaning rather than be shown it in the video, Will said. But sometimes there is no meaning to find, as the work is just visual — it is all up to the audience to determine, he said.

The class includes graduate students from the Trinity MFA directing program, MEME, Literary Arts and Playwriting, Winkler said, adding that there are also a few undergraduate seniors enrolled. The students and other audience members were very engaged in the performance, he said.

This marks the second year that Winkler and Moore have taught the class together. “We bring our own knowledge and experience to the class from our different perspectives, and the visitors give students new ways of thinking, and they

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“The visitors give students new ways of thinking, and they show new possibilities of performing with technology,” said Todd Winkler, professor of music and co-director of the MEME PhD program. show new possibilities of performing with technology,” Winkler said.

GOB Squad was not the first guest to visit the seminar this semester. Sara Brown, a set designer, and Mark Coniglio — a composer, programmer, video artist and author of the popular live video processing program Isadora

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Wriston Quadrangle was abuzz with the excitement and energy of studens of William D’Abate Elementary School, as they trick-or-treated at all the Greek houses in all kinds of creative costumes.

‘Halloween on Wriston’ thrills local children Greek houses host costumed students from William D’Abate Elementary School

By ROLAND HIGH STAFF WRITER

As dark storm clouds and rain descended on College Hill, young children from William D’Abate Elementary School screamed and giggled at “Halloween on Wriston” Wednesday night. Almost 100 children were bussed over and split into five groups before rotating through the events hosted at each of the University’s Greek houses.

“Halloween on Wriston,” thrown by the Greek Council and the Brown Elementary Afterschool Mentoring program, provides a way of building a relationship between Brown and the surrounding community while helping underprivileged children, said Alex Palabrica ’17, philanthropy chair for Greek Council.

Greek Council is “making an initiative (to) expand the Greek community’s

involvement in Providence and in the community in general,” Palabrica said.

He added that he is pushing for Greek Council to engage in projects that involve “more human-to-human interaction.”

Palabrica said he focuses on community service more than his predecessors, who put a stronger emphasis on fundraising.

Maria Racinos, art teacher at D’Abate, helped supervise the activities in the Sigma Chi House along with BEAM volunteers and fraternity members.

“The kids need to get out of school a little more, and they were happy to take a field trip,” Racinos said. “Candy is their life, so I think this event is very important, and also it’s fun for them.”

One of Racinos’ fourth-graders, Lindsey Calderon, said her favorite activity was the donuts-on-a-string eating contest. “We got to eat them, and I got to eat three,” she said.

Jack Ruddell ’17, who ran the Sigma event, led a game of charades for Calderon’s group. When one team gave the correct answer — “pirate!” — Ruddell threw candy into the hoard of candy-seeking,

costume-clad kids. A brief tussle ensued before a girl in a pink cheetah costume held it up in her fist and proudly walked back to her chair.

Calderon was then called to the front and given a prompt. She started walking around in circles with her hands clasped in front of her.

“Car?” asked a Power Ranger. The audience was stumped.

Eventually one BEAM volunteer offered a helpful hint: “It looks like she’s flying on a broom.”

Calderon laughed as everyone jumped up, screaming, “Witch!”

Ruddell said he was surprised by the response some of the charade prompts received. “A funny thing was, there were a lot of pop culture things from our generation that we had in the charades cards, like Superman, that these kids didn’t even know,” he said.

Francis Bogan ’18, a BEAM volunteer who teaches an after school art class at D’Abate, said he enjoys “teaching the kids, interacting with them and getting to know them.”

Bogan said a few children have told him, “I want to go to Brown now!”

— have already lectured, Winkler said.

Winkler and Moore both expressed excitement for the future guests to the seminar this semester. Cloud Eye Control, another art collective, will premiere its latest work in the class in mid-November.

The class will show its final

collaborative projects Dec. 12 in Grant Auditorium in a production open to the public.

GOB Squad’s illustrated lecture was sponsored by the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, the Department of Music and the Office of the Associate Vice Provost for the Arts.

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facilities, Carey said. One study analyzed how students use the curriculum, while the other examined how students use space on campus.

The specific research being done by the faculty in the department also plays a big role in the kind of spaces and equipment that are necessary, Carey said. Science buildings are often the most energy intensive buildings, and it is important that they are not overly susceptible to vibrations, he said.

Brown’s integration to the community and eclectic architectural style also form a big part of the planning process, Carey said. When new construction goes up, “there is a very deep sense of pride and respect” for the aesthetic of the neighborhood and the campus, he said.

A design review committee chaired

by Craig Barton, director of the Design School and professor of architecture and urban design at Arizona State University, is tasked with making the design decisions. The group is an offshoot of a Corporation committee for facilities and campus planning.

Faculty from involved departments are also given a role in planning renovations and design. During the planning for renovations to 59 Charlesfield St., meetings were held every week with Facilities Management, members of Taubman and Watson, architects and planners, Prasad said. At the meetings, they discuss everything from paint colors to desks and chairs, with the only constraint on their input being the budget already put in place, he said.

With the integration of the Taubman Center into the Watson Institute, the need for facilities has grown, said Shankar Prasad, the Watson Institute’s associate director for academic programs and planning. The Watson Institute has established a dramatic growth plan that includes the hiring of many new faculty members, he added.

This addition of students, faculty and staff necessitates increased space for offices, collaborative study and graduate students. “It was really important that 59 Charlesfield became a dedicated space for graduate students in particular … because group works is one of the big aspects of the policy programs here, that you’re working in a team to deconstruct problems,” Prasad said.

The construction on 59 Charlesfield St. is slated to be complete by the end of November. Faculty will move their offices over winter break, and it will be fully operational next semester, he said.

Since the School of Engineering was established in 2010, the University has been working to expand the program.

Currently, there are 44 faculty members in the school, Carey said, adding that there should be closer to 60.

A number of considerations went into deciding where and how to build the new engineering building. The Jewelry District, which is closer to the Alpert Medical School, was a strong possibility for the building’s location.

But two studies led planners to decide to keep the construction closer to existing

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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Pena ’17 runs right past Cornell in four-touchdown effort Filling in for Cole ’16, Pena ’17 rushes for 112 yards in career-best performance

By TANEIL RUFFIN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A program Hall-of-Famer and a former NFL player are desirable company for any member of the Brown football team.

Saturday afternoon, Johnny Pena ’17 put himself in rarefied air. The junior running back contributed four one-yard touchdown runs in the Bears’ 44-24 victory over Cornell. His four scores are the second-most in a single game in program history — Brown Hall-of-Famer Gustavus Russ ’1906 and former New England Patriot Michael Malan ’02 each recorded five touchdowns in a game during their tenures at Brown.

After playing on the junior varsity team during his first year and seeing action in just one game in his sophomore season, Pena has managed to make the most of his time on the field this year. In the game against Cornell, Pena rushed for a career-best 112 yards in addition to his four scores, making him the first of his teammates to break the century mark in rushing yards this season. Pena’s efforts also earned him a spot on the Ivy League’s weekly Honor Roll.

» M. HOCKEY, from page 1 second- and third-leading point-getters from last year: co-captains Mark Naclerio ’16 and Nick Lappin ’16. Lappin led the team in goals with 14, including three in Brown’s two playoff games against Harvard. Naclerio led the team in assists with 14, in addition to featuring in every game and scoring on nearly 17 percent of his shots.

“We’re ready to carry the load,” Naclerio said. “A lot of people are going to need to step up, especially some of the sophomores.”

Alex Brink ’19 and Tommy Marchin ’19 enter the fold to help Bruno offensively, while a talented sophomore class of Tyler Bird ’18, Charlie Corcoran ’18, Sam Lafferty ’18, Tim Lappin ’18 and Max Willman ’18 returns with a year of experience.

For his impactful and record-setting performance, Pena has been chosen as The Herald’s Athlete of the Week.

Herald: When did you first start playing football?

Pena: I started playing football when I was five years old at the flag football level. My uncle was the coach, and he just put me in. I always played sports. I started off with soccer, and football was kind of like the next step.

A lot of my friends were doing it, so I think I just joined in. I’ve always liked football.

What is your favorite part of being a member of Brown’s football team?

My favorite part is the type of family aspect that we have within the team.

I know everyone inside and out on the football team, so it brings a community feel. When we go on away games, it’s like a nice long field trip with a bunch of your friends. That’s what I like the most about it. And then when we win together, obviously it feels great.

I have to capitalize because it’s just that next-man-up aspect that Head Coach Phil Estes P’18 brings to our team. So it feels good, and it definitely shows that hard work pays off. It’s bittersweet, though.

What do you think has contributed to the success you’ve had so far this season?

The linemen are a big, big part of my success. I love my linemen; they take good care of me. I just follow the holes that the linemen make. I’m super close with them, so I get to read them real well. Student support is nice — it definitely helps during the games.

It helps keep our minds in the game when we see that support from our community.

How does it feel to be able to capitalize on the opportunities you’ve been given on the field this season?

It feels pretty good. I’m a junior now, so I’ve been putting in work for two years — my freshman and sophomore years — giving good looks on the scout team and stuff like that. Kids get hurt; it’s the game of football. So in my mind, once I get that opportunity,

What are your thoughts on the rest of the season?

I’m excited for the rest of the season because obviously we have a hungry team. We have a hard-working team.

At this point on, it’s mind over matter.

Kids are banged up, but to see them trying and wanting to play gets me excited because a hungry team is a dangerous team. I’m excited for the games coming up because anything can happen in the Ivy League. If Harvard loses to Dartmouth, we still have a chance at the title.

Do you have any pregame rituals?

I talk to my parents, definitely, before every game. I pretty much go on

the field and get a feel for it. I walk around with my headphones in and warm up and stretch and get my mind right for battle. So nothing special,

nothing crazy.

Marchin scored two goals in a twoperiod preseason scrimmage against Princeton while playing most of his time on the top line with Naclerio and Lappin.

Lafferty, Bird and Willman — despite having success on the same line last year — were split up during the scrimmages, but all looked impressive on their new lines.

“Last year, we were in our zone too much,” Whittet said. “We did not do enough offensively; we didn’t have the puck enough. We’re concentrating on specialty teams, which were abysmal last year, but we need to make sure that we’re doing the right things with the puck.”

The defense suffered from poor play and a lack of depth last year, but impressive first-years have entered the fray. Brady Schoo ’19 and Will Scherer ’19 were on the top lines on defense for the preseason scrimmages, while Max

Gottlieb ’19 and Conner Wynne ’19 also earned minutes.

“We have four new defensemen — some of those guys will have to jump right on the ice, and we’ll have to try and limit injuries,” Naclerio said. “They’re all going to have to step up.”

Unfortunately for the Bears, three of last year’s top six defenders are out with injuries. The sophomore trio of Dane Cooper ’18, Josh McArdle ’18 and Ben Tegtmeyer ’18 will likely start on the sidelines, so the first-years will probably have a prominent role in the early part of the season.

Joey De Concilys ’15 graduated, so only two of last year’s top six defensemen — Brandon Pfeil ’16 and Tyler Wood ’17 — will be able to start the season on the ice. Moving forward, Brown will likely be able to feature competitive defensive pairings and increased depth with nine

defensemen vying for six spots.

“A defense starts with good offense, which we did not have last year,” Whittet said. “We just have to have the puck more.

We have a lot of new players and return a class that is stronger than last year. We need layers to our defense and to work on our breakout.”

The biggest unknown in the Bears’ starting rotation is the goaltender, as Tyler Steel ’17 and Tim Ernst ’17 are both competing for the spot heading into the year. Steel started last year in net, but Ernst stole the job in the latter part of the year with impressive performances against tougher opponents. Given that both started about the same number of games last year, both have a case to be the opening-game starter against Holy Cross.

“We have an open audition each and every day,” Whittet said. “Goaltending was a byproduct of not playing good

defense last year, but whoever deserves to play will play.”

One of the main concerns for Brown to start the season will be a lack of preconference action. While non-Ivy teams will have played six or more games before heading into conference play, Ivy League teams like the Bears will play their second game of the season for crucial ECAC points. For example, Brown will take on Union in its fourth game of the year, but it will be the 10th game for the Dutchmen.

But before Brown faces any conference opponents, it starts the year with a tilt against Holy Cross — a team that took down the Bears 5-0 last year. The game will be a good test of where Bruno stands compared to last year, when it only managed five ECAC wins.

“Our goal is to win the ECAC championship,” Naclerio said. “That’s always been our goal.”

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games on the road,” he said. “It’s easier for the team. We’ll be able to practice later into the fall and more into the winter, since our field won’t have to be covered by a tarp.”

Taugner also expressed interest in the possibility of an indoor space being built. “Hopefully in the future, we’ll be able to get a clubhouse area down there to be able to have all our gear in there in the fall,” he said.

Softball Head Coach Katie Flynn made a sketch of a post-renovation batting cage while at a tournament in California last year, Orona said. The sketch features a covered batting cage that would allow players to use the cage despite inclement weather, she added.

The construction should not interfere with either team’s practice time, Achilles said. “Regardless of the actual end date in 2016, we’ll be playing on this facility in the spring of 2017,” he added.

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The Ivy League rewarded Johnny Pena ’17 with a spot on its weekly honor roll after the sophomore rolled over Cornell for a 44-24 Brown victory.

“It’s great for the program, the players, the school,” said Christian Taugner ’17, a baseball pitcher who will return to the field this spring after missing the 2015 season due to injury. “Being a junior, I’ll only have one year, but it’s great having a nice field.”

“The team is really excited for it,” said softball pitcher Katie Orona ’18.

“The coaches have been promising us a new field for a while.”

Both players said the renovations could lead to an increased amount of time spent on the fields.

“Last year, we didn’t have our first home game or practice out on the field until April. We had to practice inside,” Orona said. “Hopefully with the new field, the snow will melt faster.”

Taugner echoed this sentiment. “It’s nice to actually be able to get a nice turf field, where we don’t have to play home

— This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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The Sciences Library peeks out from behind a sheaf of leaves. Despite the fall foliage coloring campus, temperatures have risen this week to levels reminiscent of spring, climbing to the mid-70s on Thursday.

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The BreakBeat Poets: Writing Workshop for Students 1:00 P.M. Smith-Buonanno G12

Wind Symphony Concert 8:00 P.M. Salomon 101

SATURDAY Black Professionals: Pathways to Internships, Jobs and Beyond 11:00 A.M. Chapin House

Midnight Organ Recital 11:55 P.M. Sayles Hall

SUNDAY Brown Echo Forum: Who is Laozi?

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COMMENTARY PAGE 6 • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Brown Bites: Oct. 24–30

BY MARCY HUANG

Maybe lay off those the chicken fingers Though some students prefer the “what we don’t know can’t hurt us” style of dieting, news that three V-Dub chicken fingers clock in at 430 calories might cause students to reexamine their lunch options. While Brown was ranked 19th on the Daily Meal’s “75 Best Colleges for Food in America” list, several students have voiced complaints about the quality and healthiness of food options. As Claire Detrick-Jules ’17 explained, “At Andrews Commons now during the weekends, they serve donuts, bacon and glazed toppings. It’s like they want us to get diabetes.” At least now we know the reason we gained so much weight when we lived on Pembroke freshman year.

Sex positivity RISD students proudly marched through 40-degree weather last weekend for RISD’s Sexual Health and Relationship Educators’ “Walk of No Shame.” Students wearing varying amounts of clothing brandished signs with statements like “I have sex for fun, and I have no shame” and walked around campus to promote sex positivity. Alexa Ko, a member of RISD’s Queer Student Association, noted how safe the group made her feel, saying, “I’m going to be way more comfortable after this with my body.” While some critiqued the group’s lack of distinction between a woman and a uterus-owner, the demonstrators received applause, waves and honks from cars throughout the walk.

CORRECTIONS An Oct. 20 Herald article (“Library special collections reveal trove of scientific writing, history,” Oct. 20) misstated that the name of the book “Siderius Nuncius” was “Siderius Narcius.” The article also misstated that the University’s endowment for the History of Science Collections totaled $1,500 per year. In fact, this figurereferred to the University’s Lownes endowment, which is just one of several endowment funds that contribute to History of Science Collections. The Herald regrets the error.

An article in Thursday’s Herald (“Paxson highlights investments in people,” Oct. 29) misstated that President Christina Paxson P’19 said the University’s number of endowed chairs is far lower than at several other Ivy League Schools. In fact, it is far lower than at several peer institutions. It also misstated that 16 percent of faculty hold endowed chairs. In fact, 16 percent of faculty salaries are supported by endowed chairs. It also misstated that Paxson said dormitory renovations would remain less of a consideration. In fact, she said they would not likely be supported by the campaign. The Herald regrets the errors.

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“Candy is their life, so I think this event is very important, and also it’s fun for them.”

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Crime watch Christopher George, a part-time contractor at Brown, was assaulted and robbed Oct. 25 near the intersection of Prospect and Meeting Streets.

Two men, one of whom was wearing a Halloween skull mask, slashed George’s face with a knife before fleeing the scene in a dark-colored SUV. George was sent to Rhode Island Hospital with serious but “nonlife-threatening” injuries.

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Inflammatory flyers The Providence Police shut down several blocks near Hope and Methyl Streets after racist and anti-Semitic flyers were found in 22 bags appearing to contain white rice. The bags have so far tested negatively for dangerous substances. While the flyers referenced the Ku Klux Klan, officials do not know whether the Klan was involved. Providence locals have banded together in the face of the hate crime. According to Marty Cooper, community relations director for the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island, the flyers have been “not thought of as anything but hate.”

We like to eat, eat, eat Students wishing they were anywhere but Brown this midterm season rushed down to Benefit Street for the RISD Global Initiative’s third annual “Eat the World” event. The event featured 19 internationally themed booths representing countries from Haiti to Greece. Booths gave out homemade, traditional dishes including Puerto Rican pastelitos con carne, Indian vegetable curry, American alligator fritters and Kazakhstan samsy. Diverse performance groups like Gendo Taiko and Brown’s Alef Beats also performed for the hungry attendees. Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to have to lie down — the food coma is setting in.

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Raising the curtain on pseudoscientific racism CAMILA BUSTOS, RICARDA HAMMER, CHRISTOPHER KELLY, MICHAEL MURPHY, APOLLONYA PORCELLI op-ed contributors

In the past few weeks, discussion over a controversial pair of columns in The Herald has shifted our attention to free speech, instead of fostering critical engagement with the author’s pseudoscientific racism.

This devolution is highly dangerous for three reasons. First, as other oped contributors have rightly pointed out, this twist in rhetoric deflects attention away from the release and impact of columns resembling hate speech. Second, scientific knowledge, and biological determinism specifically, have long served as justifications for supposedly innate inequalities that were, in fact, created through conquest, violence, dispossession, slave labor and environmental destruction. Let’s not forget that colonialism and the Enlightenment happened at the same time. People have often drawn on “scientific knowledge” of this kind to normalize inequalities that aren’t naturally there. Third, and perhaps most importantly, this diversion has allowed M. Dzhali Maier’s ’17 argument to go unchecked, risking the academic and moral integrity of our community.

Pseudoscience flourishes most readily around topics infused with contentious political consequence, given the power and legitimacy that invoking “science” carries in the contemporary world. White supremacy has a long history of prop-

ping itself up through the deployment of “science” to explain away socially constructed inequality amongst human beings.

One of the most virulent forms pseudoscience takes is an argument that relies upon questionable data to make fallacious interpretations. “The white privilege of cows” falls under this paradigm. The author begins by looking for sources of “original” inequality across human groupings, which is problematic because it ignores the complexity of historical contingencies at all timescales besides the “origin,” the definition of which is arbitrary. In

Overwhelming genetic evidence indicates that the genetic differences within “races” far outweigh the genetic differences between “races.” Inasmuch as genes are the substrates for evolution, these facts undermine the hypothesis that certain populations could have evolved to be “more fit.”

The thrust of racial pseudoscience over the past 400 years of human collision has rested on this premise: Intrinsic biological differences mediate social behavior, and ergo “advancement.” But if we truly want to understand inequality among human beings, we must

scientific bodies and, in doing so, falsely present two equal sides of the story, despite their not being equally grounded in empirical evidence and support. Earth has been much warmer and much cooler in the past. Neither of these truths rebuts the consensus that modern anthropogenic global warming is likely unprecedented in its rate and presents a unique challenge to humanity and biodiversity. Yet these truths are used consistently and erroneously to defend a denialist approach to humans’ role in contemporary climate change. By claiming that the phenomenon is natural, poorly

By presenting the jury as out on biologically determined ability to domesticate animals, the author’s argument liberates itself of evidence, free to make wild conjectures in stark contrast to our best scientific data.

and of itself, however, this is not pseudoscientific (see work by author Jared Diamond), and it is true that agriculture advanced fitfully in different times and places on Earth. It also stands to reason that livestock played a role in this story. Suddenly, though, the author states, “It is still a question whether or not evolution endowed Eurasians with skills utilized to capitalize on the good luck of livestock animals.”

This statement misrepresents near scientific consensus on the matter: Though a number of theories present themselves for disparate domestication of animals, human ineptitude is a ridiculous minority view.

look at its creation and maintenance through social relations of dispossession, exploitation and marginalization. Only by ignoring these dynamics can one possibly conceive of white privilege as arising from the domestication of cows, rather than the systematic destruction of nonwhite civilizations through colonial relations of conquest and domination.

Undermining scientific consensus is also quite common when it comes to other challenges to entrenched socioeconomic and racialized systems. Take, for example, climate change. News media outlets punt on expertise, distrust national

understood, and thus permissible, pseudoscience practitioners defend and thereby perpetuate the current economic paradigm.

By presenting the jury as out on biologically determined ability to domesticate animals, the author’s argument liberates itself of evidence, free to make wild conjectures in stark contrast to our best scientific data. Indeed, one of the final steps in the pseudoscientific process is to justify a false implication based on a neatly packaged but erroneous data set and interpretation: linking “strong” with “rich” and “weak” with “poor” (social Darwinism’s defense of “natural” inequality,

in a nutshell). It is this falsehood — which ignores historical relations of exploitation between colonizers and the colonized, vast genetic similarity across humanity and enculturation’s dominant influence on behavior — that we find most virulent.

By choosing to publish one of the most historically caustic false pseudoscientific assumptions, The Herald compromised its journalistic standards and jeopardized the safety of our community. Propagating these untruths, and the assumptions they are built upon, risks an uninformed readership accepting them, even in some small part.

Pseudoscience is historically successful for this reason; it is noxiously effective.

The debate in the past few weeks is not about freedom of speech. It’s about a readership rightfully decrying a lack of basic journalistic standards to ferret out a pseudoscientific argument that holds dangerous implications for a vast part of this campus and the broader community. Intellectually sound, controversial arguments are welcome generators of dialogue on a university campus such as Brown’s. Yet when opinions are not informed by empirical evidence and instead spread fallacies that historically were cited as “scientific” evidence for unequal treatment of peoples, high journalistic standards do not protect their dissemination. To say otherwise is foolhardy and risks so grossly misunderstanding the situation at hand so as to warrant student distrust.

Camila Bustos ’16, Ricarda Hammer GS, Christopher Kelly GS, Michael Murphy GS and Apollonya Porcelli GS can be reached at christopher_kelly@brown.edu.

SPORTS COMMENTARY THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015

The far-too-brief NBA preview: The Southeast/Southwest divisions

BY JOE DIEHL sports columnist

This week, we’re heading down south to preview the teams in our beloved lower part of the country. With one division from each conference, this analysis will have more half-and-half than your babysitter’s iced latte from Starbucks.

Southeast Division 1. Miami Heat Best-case scenario: The Heat’s new starting five makes it work, Gerald Green and Justise Winslow provide wing dominance off the bench, and the Heat make a shocking run to the NBA Finals.

Worst-case scenario: Hassan Whiteside turns back into a clown on the court, Chris Bosh doesn’t recover fully, and Goran Dragić plays merely average.

The Heat lose in the first round.

Bold prediction: The Heat will finish in the top-four of the conference and advance to the second round of the playoffs.

2. Washington Wizards Best-case scenario: Randy Whittman continues to actually make sense as a coach, and John Wall and Bradley Beal gun the Wizards into the top-half of the Eastern Conference.

Worst-case scenario: Randy Whittman becomes Randy Whittman again,

and the Wizards grind to barely making the playoffs while Nenê becomes fully confined to a wheelchair.

Bold prediction: Bradley Beal finishes somewhere in the top-10 in the NBA for scoring, and the Wiz advance to the second round, as well.

3. Atlanta Hawks Best-case scenario: The Hawks continue to play great offense, and one of their wings steps up for the departed DeMarre Carroll.

Worst-case scenario: The Hawks miss Carroll’s production too much, and Al Horford succumbs to another injury en route to missing the playoffs.

Bold prediction: The Hawks squeak — or squawk — into the playoffs as the seventh seed before getting absolutely annihilated by the Bulls.

4. Orlando Magic Best-case scenario: Mario Hezonja thinks he’s LeBron James and actually plays like him, while the young core continues to grow, making a run at the eighth seed.

Worst-case scenario: The young guys are still not ready to make the leap and fall right back into the lottery.

Bold prediction: The Magic will finish with a better record than the older Hornets. These guys are talented.

5. Charlotte Hornets Best-case scenario: Frank Kaminsky becomes the new face of something

other than JC Penney en route to a rookie-of-the-year campaign that propels the Hornets to a playoff berth.

Worst-case scenario: The Hornets continue to play dreadfully boring basketball, and Al Jefferson finally becomes too slow to run up and down the court semi-effectively while they tank to a high draft pick.

Bold prediction: These guys are going on a one-way highway to Tank City.

A top-six draft pick is in the cards.

Five things I want to see: 1. Goran Dragić star in a re-boot of Miami Vice.

2. John Wall and Bradley Beal run for Congress.

3. Kyle Korver switch places with Ashton Kutcher for a game.

4. Tobias Harris average 20 and eight.

5. Frank Kaminsky become a spokesperson for Macy’s in a shocking betrayal of JC Penney.

Southwest Division 1. San Antonio Spurs Best-case scenario: The Spurs get the best coach in the NBA, and the veterans awaken from their slumber as the playoffs start. Oh wait, they do this every season!

Worst-case scenario: Tim Duncan ages. Gregg Popovich retires. Or … never mind, nothing bad is going to happen.

Bold prediction: LaMarcus Aldridge

starts to find his groove around the 50game mark, and the Spurs advance to the NBA Finals.

2. Houston Rockets Best-case scenario: James Harden becomes this year’s MVP, Ty Lawson fits in really well, and the reserves hold their own while the Rockets advance to a second-consecutive Western Conference Finals.

Worst-case scenario: Dwight Howard breaks his back, and James Harden cuts his beard. The Rockets exit in the first round.

Bold prediction: Dwight slips a disk; James’ beard becomes more luscious than ever. Does basketball even matter with facial hair like that?

3. Memphis Grizzlies Best-case scenario: The Grizz bruise their way into the second round of the playoffs.

Worst-case scenario: Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph break down, Conley sprains another ankle, and the Grizz claw their way into the playoffs.

Bold prediction: The Grizzlies slide into the sixth seed of the playoffs and are forced to consider breaking up their team in the offseason.

4. New Orleans Pelicans Best-case scenario: Anthony. Davis.

Worst-case scenario: No. More. Anthony. Davis.

Bold prediction: Anthony Davis

wins MVP while he realizes the rest of his team is incredibly forgettable. The Pelicans allow him to become their general manager.

5. Dallas Mavericks Best-case scenario: Deron Williams finds his old form from his days in Utah, and the Mavs are able to make a run at the playoffs.

Worse-case scenario: Wesley Matthews can’t recover from his Achilles injury, and the Mavs give the Celtics their really valuable first-round pick.

Bold prediction: Sorry, Dallas, everything won’t be bigger in Texas this year. Unless you count the number of losses.

Five things I want to see: 1. Gregg Popovich dress up as Santa Clause this winter.

2. James Harden not cut his beard.

Ever. FEAR THE BEARD! And maybe give me a few tips.

3. Marc Gasol play flamenco guitar for Grizzly pregame introductions.

4. Anthony Davis shave his unibrow for once.

5. Deron Williams decide to move back to Utah after this year.

Joe Diehl ’18 is opening a barbershop exclusively for NBA players. Schedule an appointment at joseph_diehl@brown.edu.

Diagnosis of the World Series after two games

BY CHARLIE BLASBERG sports columnist

From the very first pitch, the 2015 World Series was bound to be a roller

coaster affair between two unlikely teams. Though the Kansas City Royals made the Series last year, they had played over two decades of mediocre baseball beforehand, posting nine consecutive losing records from 2004 to 2012. The New York Mets, on the other hand, have had a number of

solid seasons — most notably 2006 and 2007 — but they have a proclivity for choking, key injuries and bad luck.

Nevertheless, these two teams now meet in the Fall Classic in a matchup of some of the best hitting in the majors against arguably the best pitching.

Game 1 was interesting on many different levels. After the Mets went down in order in the top of the first, the Royals’ leadoff man Alcides Escobar hit an inside-the-park home run on Matt Harvey’s first pitch of the night. In a league of bat flips and sluggers routinely walking out of the batter’s box, inside-the-parkers are a rare marvel.

After the first inning, the game calmed down. The Mets’ shutdown pitching was credible but nothing to call home about, while the Royals’ aggressive hitting and explosive offense put up just two runs until the bottom of the ninth.

In the top of the eighth, the Mets were piecing together a small twoout rally when Wilmer Flores hit a bounding ball to first base. As that grounder slipped under the glove of the normally sure-handed Eric Hosmer and the go-ahead run crossed home, all anyone could think about was the ball that rolled through Bill Buckner’s legs against the Mets 29 years ago. But these Royals showed pluck in a game that seemed well in hand for New York closer Jeurys Familia, as Alex Gordon homered to straight away center to tie the game at four with one out in the bottom of the ninth.

Extra innings lingered on, as Bartolo Colón entered the game in relief

for the Mets. Bartolo Colón! The same guy who reportedly mistook a Jimmy Buffett concert at Fenway for a buffet dinner. If someone came up to me five years ago and told me Bartolo would be coming out of the bullpen to pitch in the 2015 World Series, I would not have trusted that person to invest five cents.

Sure enough, after Colón’s wild comeback this season, he threw twoand-one-third innings of relief. As if there weren’t enough drama in the game already, Eric Hosmer redeemed himself for his Buckner-esque play by driving in the winning run in the 14th inning.

In effect, the Mets lost Game 2 when they lost Game 1. Losing such a trying, seesaw game took much of the air out of the Mets’ sails. They were two outs away from a hard fought victory on the road. Instead, they lost momentum and exhausted much of their bullpen in the process.

In Game 2, the Royals jumped on Jacob deGrom. They attacked like they have all season and all postseason. They swung at first pitches, rarely struck out and knocked in runners in scoring position, which created two big innings — one producing four runs and the other producing three. On top of the offensive performance from the Royals, Johnny Cueto pitched a gem, holding the Mets to one run on just two hits.

On Friday night, the series moves to New York. After a demoralizing loss in Game 2, the biggest consolation for the Mets is that they are coming home. The World Series’ 2-3-2 home-and-away format is such that

the team without home-field advantage does have an upper hand through the middle of the series.

If the Mets had been able to steal Game 1, playing three straight home games would give them an obvious advantage. Because they are coming home in a 0-2 hole, the Mets have to approach these next three games as if they were a regular three-game series in which they need to win two.

Expecting to win all three games against the Royals is too much. Winning a three-game series is something these players have done all season.

The next two pitching matchups, Noah Syndergaard vs. Yordano Ventura and Steven Matz vs. Chris Young, both favor the Mets. In order for the Mets to win two of the next three games, they need to start hitting.

Throughout the postseason, they have thrived on timely hitting. All it will take for the bats to get reenergized is a loud home crowd and a mediocre Royals starter. Both conditions will converge Friday night.

The Mets did not come this far to get swept. Their unfortunate loss in Game 1 was reflected in their sorry Game 2 performance, but they have had a day off before Game 3. Game 1 had no shortage of drama, and I expect the rest of the series to provide more of the same.

Charlie Blasberg ’18 is still scarred by the Buckner play, despite being born 10 years after it. Send him thoughts and prayers at charles_blasberg@brown.edu.