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Kaplan ’15 tapped for Rhodes Scholarship Andrew Kaplan ’15 to pursue master’s in comparative social policy at Oxford University

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Stalwart defense secures win in final game of season Bears conclude 2015 season with .500 or better overall record for ninth straight season

By RACHEL GOLD STAFF WRITER

Andrew Kaplan ’15 was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship Sunday, joining 31 other American winners of the prestigious scholarship to pursue graduate study at Oxford University.

Kaplan said he applied to work toward a master’s in comparative social policy with an emphasis on housing.

He hopes to study European strategies of increasing affordable housing.

“I want to help create a society where everyone has a real, substantive equality of opportunity and has their needs provided for,” Kaplan said.

“I see that manifesting in making sure that people have secure places to live and that people don’t have to worry about their next rent check.”

Kaplan concentrated in political science at Brown and has spent the months since graduation as an Urban Fellow in the New York City Mayor’s Office of Operations, where he has focused on ending veteran homelessness. He applied for but did not receive a Rhodes Scholarship last year.

“Last year when I applied, I hadn’t done work in government, and so I was less certain of where (study at Oxford) would fit into my path,” he said. “But now having experienced

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Andrew Kaplan ’15, a political science concentrator, is currently working as an Urban Fellow in the New York City Mayor’s Office of Operations. the realities of government, I feel so much more prepared to apply what I learn from Rhodes to my work in the future.”

“Doing something like a Rhodes is a wonderful way to deepen your understanding of the U.S.,” said James Morone, director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, who served as Kaplan’s adviser for his senior thesis on homelessness in New York.

“To really understand your own

country, you need to understand the theory and practice of your own country and then go abroad to compare it to another,” Morone said.

Kaplan will join a growing cohort of Brunonians at Oxford. Three Brown alums won the scholarship last year, while Brown produced one winner in 2013 and four winners in 2012.

This pattern of consistent success has increased student interest in the scholarship, said Linda Dunleavy, » See RHODES, page 2

Facing off against a Columbia team that won only twice this year, the football team entered Saturday’s game against the Lions looking for a fifth win and a .500 finish to its season.

Despite Columbia’s (2-8, 1-6 Ivy) .200 final winning percentage, it emerged as a more dangerous opponent than in past years. The Lions did not record any wins in 2013 or 2014, only ending a 24-game losing streak this year. The Bears (5-5, 3-4) entered the game with confidence but did not underestimate their opponent.

“We knew it was a tough matchup,” said quarterback Marcus Fuller ’15.5.

“Columbia had played every team in the league very very tough, including the top teams.”

The Lions have “a lot of very good players, including a great running back, which was going to present a challenge for us,” he added.

The Bears struck on their first offensive play of the night. Following a touchback, running back Seth Rosenbauer ’16 took a handoff from Fuller and powered

through Columbia’s defense, taking it 75 yards for a touchdown. The Bears led 7-0 with 14:47 on the clock.

Grant Senne’s ’16 kickoff pinned Columbia deep in its own territory at its 3-yard line. On Columbia’s first offensive play, center Bewley Wales sent the snap over quarterback Skyler Mornhinweg’s head and into the end zone.

Defensive lineman Ludovic Richardson ’16 pounced on the ball for a touchdown.

Senne nailed the extra point, putting Brown up 14-0 after only 21 seconds of clock time.

“It’s critical for us to be able to jump out to an early lead,” Fuller said. “Unfortunately, we weren’t able to parlay that into an even bigger lead. The challenge any time you’re up by a big amount early in the game is keeping the foot on the throat and being able to continue that momentum.”

After Brown’s early scoring onslaught, the two teams began trading punts. Five drives in a row ended in punts before a throw by Fuller from inside his own 10yard line was intercepted by Columbia’s Travis Reim. The Lions started their drive in favorable field position at Brown’s 38yard line, and a few plays later they had first-and-goal after an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty put them at the four.

Columbia’s Cameron Molina rushed for three yards on first down but was stopped for no gain twice in a row. On » See FOOTBALL, page 2

W. BASKETBALL New Harvest Coffee bash Offense lights up scoreboard to clinch wins offers caffeine, alcohol buzz Bruno’s 114-28 defeat of

Local company commemorates 15th anniversary with downtown celebration

By ROLAND HIGH STAFF WRITER

Local company New Harvest Coffee celebrated its 15th anniversary on Friday.

Friends, colleagues and college students all came together in the warm hall of the historic Providence Arcade, and every person held either a cup of coffee or a glass of whiskey — sometimes both.

In addition to coffee, the store sells a variety of high-end spirits. Rik Kleinfeldt MA’90, who co-founded New Harvest Coffee with his wife, Paula Anderson, said selling “high-quality whiskey and artisan cocktails” alongside coffee was a natural progression for the company.

Kleinfeldt said he travels to the farms — in Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras and Kenya, for example — to

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source the coffee New Harvest will later sell, ensuring the company focuses on unique and varied blends.

Troy Reynard, owner of the Cosmic Cup Coffee Co. in Easton, Pennsylvania, came to Providence to celebrate New Harvest’s anniversary. “We’ve been customers of Rik’s since 2005,” he said, adding that he has often traveled with Kleinfeldt on his coffee-sourcing trips.

Reynard noted he and his customers appreciate “the integrity (New Harvest has) with sourcing coffee. … It’s coffee with a story behind it.” Kleinfeldt also pays the farmers well, Reynard said.

“We have a relationship with a small farm in Honduras going back eight years,” Kleinfeldt said. “We pay him probably like twice the fair trade price.” He added that he pays the farmers a flat rate — this is especially important because the coffee market fluctuates.

“Coffee prices have been low recently, but the general trend is for the price to increase,” he said. Coffee can only be » See COFFEE, page 3

Mount Ida marks first time team scores over 100 points in program history

By JAMES SCHAPIRO STAFF WRITER

After a 2-0 start to the season, the women’s basketball team looked to continue its success against Mount Ida and Morgan State. It did so in dominating fashion: Two wins — one an absolute bonanza of Bruno scoring, the other only slightly less of a blowout — continued the Bears’ (4-0) unbeaten start. The wins sent a message to the rest of the Ivy League that the Bears, who went 10-18 last year, are no longer an opponent to be taken lightly.

Brown 114, Mount Ida 28 Yes, you read that correctly: The Bears defeated the Mount Ida Mustangs (1-4) by 86 points, improving to 3-0 on the season.

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Ellise Sharpe ’16 looks to outlet the ball to a teammate. Sharpe contributed nine points in the contest against Mount Ida Thursday evening.

Nearly from the start, the Bears The next time Mount Ida scored, Bruno were in control of the game. With was leading 40-11.

3:27 remaining in the first quarter, the In the blowout, the Bears were able Mustangs cut their deficit to five on a to utilize their bench, giving players Breanna Muir jump shot. The Bears pro- who had previously seen only limited ceeded to score 26 unanswered points. » See W. BBALL, page 3

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ARTS & CULTURE Fall Dance Concert showcases student dance groups during weekend performance

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COMMENTARY Malik ’18: Politicans should stop associating actions of ISIS with the entire religion of Islam

COMMENTARY Simon ’17: We decry the rising rates of depression yet never look into the social factors that cause it

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» FOOTBALL, from page 1 fourth down — one yard from a touchdown — the Lions elected not to attempt a field goal and handed the ball to Molina once again.

This time, the Bears’ defense could not stop Molina. He scored, and the Lions converted the PAT, bringing the Lions within a touchdown.

The Bears broke through once again halfway through the second quarter. Columbia started its drive at its own 12-yard line, and Molina rushed for eight yards on third-and-three. But his run was called back due to offensive holding.

After an incomplete pass, the Lions faced fourth-and-12 and brought out their punt unit. But Sam Russell ’17 broke through Columbia’s punt protection, blocking the punt and taking it into the end zone to put the Bears two touchdowns ahead.

“We saw on film that their punting technique was sort of to wait until the very last moment until the rush was there as a way to let their coverage team get down the field to stop the return,” Fuller said. “We had seen that during practice, and we ended up bringing an extra guy off the edge.”

“He came unblocked and made a great play,” Fuller added. “Special teams was huge for us in all phases of the game.”

The Bears led 21-7, but Columbia took the ball with 7:12 remaining in the first half and executed a lengthy drive, scoring just before halftime. The Bears went to the locker room with a 21-14 lead.

As the second half began, Bruno’s defense took over, forcing two

three-and-outs in a row and then another punt. With 10:05 to play in the quarter, Fuller hit Troy Doles ’16 for a 26-yard touchdown, putting the Bears up 14 once again. The Bears held Columbia to just a field goal in the quarter and began the fourth with a 28-17 lead, optimistic that they could hold the lead for a win.

“Overall, this group has a ton of confidence in each other, regardless of the state of the game,” Fuller said. “We feel like when the ball’s in our hands, we can make plays. And when we’re on defense, we can come up with the stops when we need to.”

After a pair of punts to open the fourth, Columbia mounted another drive.

With 5:12 remaining in the game, Mornhinweg hit Hollis Scooter from 35 yards out. A two-point conversion would bring the Lions, who were down five points after the touchdown, within a field goal. But the Bears’ goal-line defense held strong, and the score remained 28-23.

The Bears took the kickoff but were stopped once again, and they punted the ball away with 2:55 remaining in the game. Starting at its own 30-yard line, Columbia efficiently marched down the field. The Lions moved the ball 47 yards in less than two minutes, and after a holding penalty brought them inside the red zone, Mornhinweg hit Molina at the Bears’ five-yard line on first down, setting up second-and-one.

“The game was in the balance there,” Fuller said. “But our defense has done a great job of bending but not breaking all year. I couldn’t be prouder of those guys, being able to come up with a stop at a critical juncture like that.”

With Columbia five yards away

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD from what would be effectively a gamewinning touchdown, the Bears’ defense did not give in. Molina’s running had confounded the Bears all game, but Columbia — with no time outs remaining — opted to stick to passing.

“Without any timeouts, I certainly understand why they opted not to run the ball there,” Fuller said. “But I was surprised, to a degree.”

After two incompletions in a row, Mornhinweg dropped back to throw on fourth-and-one. He looked to the end zone but did not find any of his receivers. Instead, he found Will Quigley ’16, who intercepted the pass in the end zone with five seconds remaining to seal the win for the Bears.

“It was a great capstone for (Quigley) and for that class in general,” Fuller said.

“He’s a free safety, and this year we had a need at cornerback.”

“For him to come down with the big, critical play that caps his career off was great to watch,” he said. “It’s a testament to all the hard work and team spirit that he has.”

The game was over one play later, and the Bears had finished the season with a win and a .500 record. The victory ensured that the Bears would end the season on a win rather than a four-game losing streak.

“For us to go out as a winner — that’s something that all the seniors looked at during the week and put that at the top of our priority list,” Fuller said. “It’s a beautiful thing that we can look back in five, 10 years and know that we went out as winners. I really enjoyed playing with these guys — it was a nice end to my career.”

» RHODES, from page 1 associate dean of the College for fellowships. A record 62 students applied to be nominated in August, and an internal committeee nominated a record 35 of them to submit formal applications, she said.

“I’ve been at Brown for 11 years.

It’s been the most in my time, and I can’t imagine there has ever been more than that number,” Dunleavy said. Of the 35 applicants, 12 advanced to the finalist standing, receiving interviews in eight of the 16 geographic districts recognized by the Rhodes Trust.

“The more success Brown students have had getting interviews, the more the committees see Brown students and are impressed by them,” Dunleavy said. “So then students at Brown look at the fellowships and think, ‘This is something that’s possible for me. This is something that’s possible for my friend.’ So it’s a nice chicken-and-egg problem.”

Dunleavy said that as a result of the uptick in Rhodes applicants from Brown, she was not able to build relationships with every applicant, as she had done in the past. “But I don’t think it had too much of an impact — the applicants are still getting advice from different faculty and from graduate student fellowship advisers,” she said.

The interviews took place over the weekend, and winners were announced immediately afterward.

“I was definitely not expecting my name,” Kaplan said. “All of the other finalists were incredibly talented and

incredibly great people, and people I will probably stay in touch with. It was not something I was expecting, and I am definitely in shock.”

As an undergraduate, Kaplan was a national champion on the Brown taekwondo team. He said he wrote his personal statement for the Rhodes Scholarship application on the “black belt mentality” that he gained from taekwondo, noting that he is “infinitely grateful” for his experiences with the team. Cecil John Rhodes, for whom the Rhodes Scholarship is named, identified four standards by which to judge applicants, including “energy to use one’s talents to the fullest, as exemplified by fondness for and success in sports.”

During his sophomore year, Kaplan also co-founded Common Sense Action, a bipartisan think-tank for millennials.

But it was homelessness that motivated Kaplan’s academic pursuits and that has driven him since graduation. Kaplan “was really arrested by the idea that the problem of homelessness seemed to be getting better nationwide, but in New York it was getting worse,” Morone said. “What I loved about Andrew’s thesis right from the start was his combination of very careful research and real passion about the subject.”

Looking ahead, Kaplan hopes to bring what he learns at Oxford back home to New York — and beyond.

“Maybe this is super aspirational, but throughout my career, I would love to see if we can end homelessness in the U.S.”

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» W. BBALL, from page 1 minutes opportunities to impress. Every player appeared in the game, and none played for fewer than 11 minutes or more than 19. Taylor Will ’19, who had played only three minutes in the season before the game, played 19 minutes, scoring seven points and pulling down five rebounds. Melissa Heath ’19, who had previously not appeared in a college basketball game, played 15 minutes, scored 12 points and recorded five boards of her own.

Will and Heath “were terrific,” said Head Coach Sarah Behn. “They’ve been excellent. They’re contributing in lots of ways — points, boards, assists. They did really well tonight. I’m really encouraged by the whole team and excited about our youth as well.”

Despite the relatively easy win, Behn said the team would continue working hard in practice, preparing as much as possible to take on Morgan State.

“They’re an athletic team. We played them last year, and we were up by a little bit. Then it got really scrappy,” she said.

“They’re 1-1 in a good conference.

They’ve got a really good point guard.

They’ve got a big kid who’s good, so it’s going to be a battle. We’ve got a lot of prep to do before Saturday.”

Led by 13 points from Erika Steeves ’19, four Bears scored in double digits

» COFFEE, from page 1 grown in a certain climate zone, and the ideal zone is shrinking because of global warming, he added.

Kleinfeldt said he tries to

— only one of whom was a starter. Behn said that she was not ready to declare a permanent starting lineup, and that the continued experimentation was having a positive effect.

“It’s a nice feeling to have options, and I think the girls are responding well,” she said. “It’s not who starts the game, it’s what do you do when you go in.”

Brown 72, Morgan State 45 While the Mount Ida game was an offensive spectacle, Bruno’s offense started out slow against the Morgan State Lady Bears (1-2). After the first quarter, Brown led 8-7 — a far cry from the 31 points they scored in the first quarter against the Mustangs.

“We started off a little tight, I guess,” Behn said. “But we kept executing and doing some good things.”

Sure enough, the Bears’ attack caught fire in the second quarter, scoring 14 unanswered points and ending the first half with a 33-15 lead. They did not make any substantial offensive changes, Behn said.

They simply began making their shots.

“We started putting the ball in the basket,” Behn said. The Bears had a “really nice, balanced attack from a lot of people. I feel very encouraged with what they’re doing.”

After the second quarter, the Bears, for the most part, retained control of the game. The Bears kept Morgan State

at a distance with their offense, which scored 18 points in the third and 21 in the fourth. Steeves and Jordin Alexander ’16 contributed 19 and 17 points, respectively, and Shayna Mehta ’19 recorded a double-double, her first of the year, with 11 points and 10 rebounds.

“Everyone’s working really hard, and today was probably one of our better games as far as executing at both ends of the court,” Behn said.

In practices and throughout the season, Behn has stressed the importance of toughness on defense, and against Morgan State, the Bears exemplified that grit, diving for loose balls and fighting for rebounds.

“They’re really working hard on their defensive stops and rebounding, and we did a really good job with that today,” she said.

The Bears, now 4-0 and one of only two unbeaten Ivy League teams, take on Vermont Monday at home. While confident in her team, Behn remains vigilant.

“Vermont is a much improved team from last year. They’ve got two bigs … that are good. They’re playing Bryant right now, so I’m anxious to see what happens. And they’ve got a transfer point guard that’s very good,” she said.

Bryant beat Vermont, 68-52. “So they’re much improved. It’ll be a real tough game.”

communicate the value and complexity of his product. “Over the years, we’ve gotten more and more into education, both for the public and our wholesale customers,” he said, adding that he hopes to open another New Harvest storefront

in the future.

Heri Kwon ’16, a New Harvest patron, said her favorite roast is from a farm in Ethiopia. “If I gotta grab a coffee downtown, I’m definitely going to grab a coffee from here,” she said.

Dance groups join together at Fall Dance Concert Performances address varied themes during annual studentchoreographed show

By COREY HEBERT STAFF WRITER

Student dancers from groups including Attitude Dance Company, Dance Extension, Fusion Dance Company, imPulse Dance Company and Brown Ground Breakin’ united this weekend on the Fall Dance Concert stage. The concert, which took place in the Ashamu Dance Studio, featured all student-choreoghraphed dances and was produced by Julie Adams Strandberg, artist-in-residence and senior lecturer in theatre arts and performance studies.

The annual Fall Dance Concert was coordinated by Sock and Buskin and Body and Sole, a coalition of dancers, dance companies, dance clubs and dance teams that serves as a liaison between the TAPS department and the Brown dance community. The concert brought together the entire dance community, giving students a chance to express themselves and showcase their talents.

The dances addressed a range of topics including social anxiety, loneliness, equality and the Black Lives Matter movement. There were all types of dances, satisfying all types of dance lovers. Some dances were upbeat; some were slower. Others even included poetry, which added another element of engagement.

The concert moved the crowd emotionally and mentally. While watching,

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the audience seemed both in awe and in deep thought. The dancers fed off the audience’s positive energy, which made for an environment that could only be accomplished through dance.

“Choreographers submit their dance to a panel who decides which pieces are included in the show,” the Attitude Dance co-directors wrote in an email to The Herald. Two Attitude members — Casey Wu ’17 and Emily Small, a Rhode Island School of Design student — had pieces accepted to the concert this year.

Strandberg, who produced the show, is also an accomplished dancer and dance coordinator. She co-founded the Rhode Island Dance Repertory Company and the American Dance Legacy Institute. Strandberg, who has been producing the Fall Dance Concert for many years, said she has stuck to the same process each year.

Each dance has two previews, she said. After the first, student choreographers receive feedback from a board that includes Strandberg, students and faculty members. “They then have to work with a faculty mentor to work on the notes they have received and to complete the piece before the second preview at which time the final show is chosen. They then still have two weeks to rehearse and polish,” she said. The dancers and choreographers go through this process every year, she added, and it always pays off in the end.

Anna Bjella ’18 was one of this year’s student choreographers. Though she and some other students had prior experience with choreography, others were trying it for the first time, she said.

“It was nice to be able to have someone who’s been doing this for a long time provide a new perspective on my work,” Bjella said.

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Defense struggles to contain Providence’s offensive onslaught Justin Massey ’18, Travis Fuller ’19 each contribute 12 points in loss to local rival Providence College

By TANEIL RUFFIN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Unable to contain its opponent’s explosive offense, the men’s basketball team fell to cross-town rival Providence College Saturday night at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center.

“It’s always a nervous game for us because we haven’t played well against Brown since I’ve been here,” said the Friars’ Head Coach Ed Cooley, who has led his program since 2011. “I’m pretty sure I have the worst winning percentage in the history of Providence College basketball against Brown. I’m the most excited guy in the room with this win.”

Before Saturday evening’s meeting, the Bears (1-3) had upset Providence (3-0) to win two of the teams’ last three meetings. While Bruno maintained its regular preparation during the week’s practices, the Friars made certain not to underestimate the Bears in anticipation of the squads’ 122nd meeting.

“Sometimes we can overlook an opponent,” Cooley said. “And I think quite frankly we’ve done that in the past. I promise you we weren’t going to overlook it tonight.”

The game’s opening minutes demonstrated Bruno’s strength from behind

the arc. The Bears managed to get on the scoreboard first with a three-point basket from Justin Massey ’18, but the Friars responded with a trey of their own just seconds later.

A pair of threes from Jason Massey ’18 and another from his brother propelled the Bears to an 11-8 advantage over the Friars in the early going. The first five minutes of the game proved to be the most highly contested, with three lead changes and two ties. But Bruno’s lead was short-lived and ended up being its last of the contest, as the Friars used an 18-5 surge to establish a 10-point edge and take control of the game halfway through the first stanza.

With three minutes left in the half, a layup from Tavon Blackmon ’17 brought the Bears within five points of their opponent, but the guard’s efforts were not enough to get his team out of the hole.

As the horn sounded to end the first half, Bruno headed to the locker room with a 45-35 deficit.

Unfortunately for the Bears, the Friars dominated the second half. After the intermission, Providence mounted a 13-3 run to further distance itself from the Bears and double the deficit to 20 points.

Cooley attributed the Friars’ success to their ability to control the pace of the game.

“We really worked on the pace we wanted to play at,” he said. “Today was really the first time this year that we played” the way the team wanted to,

he added.

The Friars were able to get many of the shots that they wanted and eventually secured a 28-point margin — the largest of the contest — with just over three-and-a-half minutes left to play. The deficit proved too significant to overcome in the time remaining, and the Bears ultimately fell to the Friars 94-73.

Despite the loss, the game saw standout performances yet again for some of the team’s newest members. Justin Massey and Travis Fuller ’19 each contributed 12 points in the contest. Fuller also led the team on the glass with six rebounds.

The Bears will look to bounce back with a midweek contest against New Hampshire Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Pizzitola Center.

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Justin Massey ’18 powers past his defenders to score a lay-up. Massey led the Bears with 12 points in the game against Providence College.

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What we’re thankful for Working keyboards, non-sinking chairs, Alice, remembering MailChimp, special front pages, sleep, popcorn, print media, icebreakers, Nice Slice and GroupMe. Defeating the bots, Google Docs, Google Hangouts (when they work), stack cup, Adele, One Direction, Kabob and Curry, the 126th Editorial Board, office gum, office Advil, accidental matching and the halls of the Ratty.

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CORRECTIONS An article in Thursday’s Herald (“Ocean State likely to lose House of Reps seat,” Nov. 19) misstated that Wendy Schiller is an associate professor of political science and public policy. In fact, she is a professor of political science and public policy. The Herald regrets the error.

Due to calculation errors, an article in Thursday’s Herald (“Nearby stores charge less than U. eateries,” Nov. 19) misreported two percentages. Chobani yogurt costs 113.2 percent more at campus eateries than at Stop and Shop, not 53.1 percent. Odwalla smoothies cost 42.1 percent more at campus eateries, not 29.7 percent. The Herald regrets the errors.

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“Maybe this is super aspirational, but throughout my career, I would love to see if we can end homelessness in the U.S.

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— Andrew Kaplan ’15

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COMMENTARY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2015 • PAGE 7

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The dangerous stupidity of Islamophobia AMEER MALIK opinions columnist

I still have strong feelings about the atrocities that took place in Paris on Nov. 15. To say that I feel deep sadness for the innocent people who have suffered, that I am disgusted and angry because people who claim to share my religion have committed such heinous acts of violence, that I am scared for what will happen to Syrian refugees seeking shelter from war and that I am worried about the backlash Muslims around the world will face because of this mass killing would be a series of understatements.

What I hear on the news about how people are responding to the tragedy does not help me find peace. As an American Muslim, I am infuriated by the fact that, at a time when numerous U.S. political leaders could show compassion and understanding by expressing support for refugees and solidarity with Muslims in general, they are instead exploiting the terror caused by ISIS for their own political gains.

For example, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has asserted that while the United States should welcome Christian Syrian refugees, Muslim Syrian refugees should seek safety in Muslim countries,

implying that they would pose a threat to the United States. Donald Trump, meanwhile, refused to rule out having Muslims carry special identification to signify their religion, nor is he opposed to increasing surveillance of mosques or searching Muslims without using warrants.

Such expressions are not exactly new. I am used to my religion being used as a punching bag for politicians. I remember the absurd controversy during the 2010 midterm elections around a mosque being built near Ground Zero in New York. People just wanted

that claim to follow Islam with the entire religion of Islam in order to create the notion of a powerful anti-Western threat is asinine. Doing so ignores the fact that over 100 Muslim scholars worked on and supported an open letter last year, meant for the leader of ISIS, that relied upon the Quran to oppose ISIS’s ideological claims.

The idiocy that allows one to assert that Islam in general is villainous ignores the fact that the majority of people killed by ISIS and other terrorist groups that claim to follow Islam are Muslims who refuse to obey the terror-

and Cruz, are not strong leaders. Rather, they are complicit in the terrorists’ efforts. In an interview with the Huffington Post, journalist Glenn Greenwald explained that one of ISIS’s goals is to get Western countries “to turn against their Muslim populations,” for ISIS wants Muslims in Western countries to feel that they are unsafe and that they could never assimilate. Greenwald said the more we in the West call for and carry out anti-Muslim measures, such as increasing surveillance in or shutting down mosques, “the more we’re playing perfectly into

Associating the actions of the Islamic State and other terrorist groups that claim to follow Islam with the entire religion of Islam, in order to create the notion of a powerful anti-Western threat, is asinine. to have a house of worship and a community center near their homes.

But this innocent desire was presented as suspicious and vile through false, prejudiced logic that equates particular acts by terrorists claiming to be Muslims with the views and actions of all Muslims. Through this way of thinking, politicians are seeking to fabricate an omnipresent yet insidious enemy: the anti-Western Muslim. This enemy is supposed to present a constant threat to this country.

Associating the actions of the Islamic State and other terrorist groups

ists. Claiming that all Muslims pose a threat to the West ignores the fact that terrorists have killed scores in Baghdad, Beirut and Mali — three nonWestern places. But these truths do not serve politicians’ needs. Fear does.

By presenting Islam itself as a threat to the West, politicians make the terrorists seem more numerous than they are and falsely exaggerate the threat they pose. The politicians therefore put on the masks of strong leaders by promising to take great measures to defeat the enemy.

But these politicians, like Trump

ISIS’s hands.” Thus, the rhetoric of certain politicians is not merely incorrect but also dangerous.

The Huffington Post has a running list of Islamophobic incidents that have occurred in the United States and Canada since the atrocity in Paris. I fear that the blatant Islamophobia conveyed by these so-called leaders will make the environments in Western countries even worse for Muslims.

I find it disgusting that political leaders in the United States are riding on this wave of fear that the terrorists intended to create — a wave that will cause real

dangers for many innocent people.

I am deeply saddened not only by what has occurred in Paris but also by the atrocities that have taken place around the world and that have been carried out by people who are enemies of humanity in general. My thoughts and prayers are for those who have died and for those who have suffered.

But I fear the suffering is not over. I dread the Islamophobic backlash that will cause innocent people who are in no way associated with or supportive of terrorist groups to get hurt. As long as these terrorist groups are active, further atrocities could occur, and in the aftermath this pattern of hatred and hostility will only add to the pain.

In this time of pain and fear, we have to respond in nondestructive ways. We should grieve, mourn, do what we can to help those who have suffered and unite through expressions of solidarity against those who have caused the tragedies, those who are opposed to all decent human beings from all backgrounds and religious faiths around the world. Taking advantage of these terrible circumstances in order to further self-interested goals is inexcusable.

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

Depressed? Who isn’t?

CHAD SIMON opinions editor

Of all services offered on campus, Counseling and Psychological Services holds the high and honorable distinction of being the most inefficient and unqualified. I could fill reams of paper in 8-point font with the names of all the students who have ever walked out of a counseling session feeling positively worse than they did going in. This list would include my own name.

Just 10 minutes into my first session, my counselor told me my depression was rooted in a loss of control. “Well, stop drilling. You struck oil,” I thought. If her analysis had been any more vague, I would have assumed she moonlighted weeknights in Boston as a contemporary art critic.

I remember spending the rest of the session righteously unsatisfied and determined to make the remaining minutes worthwhile.

I turned the tables and began asking invasive questions about her kids. It was delightfully sadistic.

But I still left none the better for it. I was fated to fend off the existential crises with my usual twin diversions of prolonged hookah spells and drag comedy — two highly rewarding alternatives to temporarily staving off the doldrums, by the way.

It took me a couple years, but I’ve at long last come to understand that my depression wasn’t due to some complex, unexplainable mental subsidence. I was depressed because I was self-absorbed. That simple.

I am not trying to condemn or invalidate anyone’s depression. I admit to knowing powerfully little about the physiological mechanisms behind real, incurable, moored-to-thebed-in-supine-position depression (though in my defense, neither did my counselor). But

I can say that I am intimately familiar with the notion that recognizing the source of my depression as a simple case of self-absorption presented me with a much more workable blueprint to begin improving my mental health than being told the entirety of my depression rested on the nebulous lintel of a “loss of control.”

Many can benefit from recontextualizing their depression. Many need to.

In a 2014 survey of more than 150,000 college students nationwide, 9.5 percent reported having felt frequently depressed during the past year, compared to 6.1 percent just five years prior.

This is astonishing. And if these rates con-

phous language society employs to treat depression on college campuses; the problem is the media’s response to student suicides.

A recent New York Times article was titled “Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection.” Ah, the “Pressure of Perfection.”

What a cute little mouthful of sloganeering!

Would the “Saga of Sadness” also pass as an alliterative hook to explain the increased prevalence of suicide on college campuses?

What about “Down in the Dumps: Dedicated to Dying”?

Here’s the first sentence of the article: “Kathryn DeWitt conquered high school like a gold-medal decathlete.” A National Public Radio article addressing suicide at the Mas-

What does it mean, though, that I don’t find any of these outcomes surprising? What does it mean that I find them all entirely preordained? tinue to increase, I’m going to hold it steady that depression is either a contagious airborne disease or just a fashionable state of being. Obviously both of these possibilities are absurdly wrong. Now consider the possibility that some diagnoses are, too.

It’s easy to categorize prolonged sadness and periodic withdrawals from the world as depression. And most people are too cautious to call into question their friends’ and family members’ purported depression because doing so would be “insensitive.”

But what’s insensitive and what’s necessary may be the difference between life and death. “Untreated depression is the number one cause of suicide,” according to suicide. org. Well, self-diagnosing yourself with depression, blaming it solely on a bad genetic lotto ticket and then refusing to consider alternative explanations is a fine way to let it remain untreated.

The problem is self-deceit; the problem is rhetoric; the problem is the safe and amor-

sachusetts Institute of Technology began, “On a sunny spring day at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., students line up at a table grabbing ice cream sundaes, milk and cookies.”

This is the first sentence of a recent Atlantic article dealing with increased rates of high school student suicide in Palo Alto, California: “The air shrieks, and life stops. First, from far away, comes a high whine like angry insects swarming, and then a trampling, like a herd moving through.”

Sorry, this is not journalism. These can hardly be called articles — they’re practically the first pages of bestsellers. The media documents student victims of suicide by fictionalizing their stories. There’s a term for this: exploitation. And we wonder why the perception of suicide as some unforeseen, mysterious evil villain persists.

Suicide is not a self-governing force. It is not a villain acting with agency, and it’s dangerous to see it as such. I believe student suicide is an outcome of a reality never fully rec-

onciled with the ego-fed, nostalgically embittered millennial who was taught from a young, impressionable age to live ruled by the tyranny of public opinion and expectation.

And we marvel at why today’s students feel depressed when they’re thrown into an academic pressure cooker designed to demand more from them than they’re capable of producing. We are then amazed when one turns to suicide. Furthermore, we respond to each one of these recited misfortunes with the same mechanical drop of the jaw and witless, dazed confusion: “But how can this happen?”

“She was so young!” “He had so much to live for!” “This is such a shame!”

What does it mean, though, that I don’t find any of these outcomes surprising? What does it mean that I find them all entirely preordained?

We offer up our condolences to the victims’ loved ones in the form of candlelight vigils, apologetic emails and tears. If you ask me, these procedures are all disturbingly hollow, formulaic courtesies that leave the affected community only marginally more hopeful that our sick, convection-style suicide cycles are slowly being remedied.

They are not. As far as our priorities go, they will not be.

But still we focus on decrying the immense pressure colleges thrust onto students. We decry institutions’ inaccessible mental health counseling centers. We decry the skyrocketing rates of depression and suicide on campus. Yet we never accurately question why students feel this pressure, why they think they’re depressed or why some students feel that the only option left is suicide.

Saturday was National Survivors of Suicide Day. It always falls on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

Chad Simon ’16 can be reached at chad_simon@brown.edu.

SPORTS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2015

W. HOCKEY

M. HOCKEY

COURTESY OF BROWN ATHLETICS

Hunter Davis ’16 and Katie Lynch ’19 look on from the bench during this weekend’s matchups against RIT. The women’s hockey team fell to the Tigers 5-1 Friday night but triumphed over them 2-1 Saturday.

Power play success helps Bears split weekend Despite falling to RIT Friday, Bruno bounces back with comeback win on road

By BEN SHUMATE STAFF WRITER

The women’s hockey team came away with a 1-1 record on the weekend after a pair of road tilts against RIT. Bruno dropped the first game Friday night 5-1 but responded with a 2-1 victory Saturday.

Brown (2-7-0, 0-4-0 ECAC) fell behind seven minutes into the first contest thanks to a goal from RIT’s Logan Land.

The team has struggled at times this season when falling behind in shots on goal, and Friday’s game was more of the same for Bruno. Goaltender Monica Elvin ’17 stopped the remainder of the 12 shots she faced in the opening frame.

Offensively, the Bears managed only three shots in the first period.

Land struck again for the Tigers (412-0, 0-6-0) on the power play 7:31 into the second period. RIT added another with less than two minutes left to take a three-goal cushion into the final 20 minutes.

The lone highlight for Bruno came six minutes into the third following an early-period score from RIT’s Reagan Rust on the power play. The Tigers

were called for slashing, giving Brown a power play chance of its own. Leah Olson ’19 scored in the final seconds of the two-minute advantage for her first collegiate goal. Olson was set up

by Kelly Micholson ’16 and Samantha Swanstrom ’18 on the play.

RIT brought the score to 5-1 with a goal from Carly Payerl minutes later.

Elvin recorded 31 saves, marking her third start with 30 or more saves this season.

Sam Donovan ’18 said the team looked at the film of the game before Saturday’s contest to identify areas of weakness.

“We knew we needed to work harder and win our battles,” Donovan said. “We weren’t really doing that the first game.”

But RIT jumped out to another quick start, grabbing an early lead 4:54 into the first period on the power play once again.

The Bears locked the Tigers down from there, as the early goal proved to be the only blemish for goaltender Julianne Landry ’18.

The score held at 1-0 until late in the second period. RIT’s Kendall Cornine was sent to the box for hooking with less than five minutes remaining. Just 23 seconds into the power play, Maddie Woo ’17 put the Bears on the board with her first goal of the season. The assist came from Olson.

The teams remained deadlocked

deep into the third period. Landry was rock-solid for Brown, making 13 of her 22 saves in the final period.

Finally, after an RIT penalty for body checking, the Bears broke the tie with the man advantage. Olson wrapped up a three-point weekend, striking quickly just 10 seconds into the power play.

Bridget Carey ’19 and Woo, who has recorded five points in the team’s last three games, picked up the assists.

Landry and the Brown defense held off the Tigers for the remaining three minutes to finish the comeback effort.

After being held without a power play goal for six games, Bruno has found its stride, scoring four in its past three games.

Donovan credited Olson and Woo for the team’s recent success.

Olson “was taking really good shots — she has really good vision,” Donovan said, adding that Woo “has been getting her shots to the net.”

Brown will continue its stretch of road games next weekend, though it will not travel far to face off with Providence Saturday. The 21st Annual Mayor’s Cup is on the line, and the Bears will look to maintain bragging rights after a 2-1 victory over the Friars last season. Brown leads the all-time series 10-7-3.

The Friars are “definitely a big rival being just down the street,” Donovan said. “They will not be taken lightly.”

WATER POLO

Top-seeded Bears fall in CWPA tournament Loss to Harvard prevents Bruno from qualifying for NCAA tournament for second consecutive season

By MATT BROWNSWORD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After going undefeated in its conference and only losing six games in its regular season, the men’s water polo team had high hopes heading into its second postseason tournament.

Brown (24-8, 12-0 CWPA) won the CWPA Northern Division Championship by defeating MIT and Harvard two weeks ago in Providence.

Those results earned Bruno the top seed in the tournament, setting up a bracket with a showdown between Brown and MIT in the first game this weekend, which the Bears won convincingly.

Tyler Kirchberg ’18 scored a hat trick against the Engineers, and Bruno staved off a late charge from MIT, which outscored Brown in the fourth quarter. First-Team All North

goaltender Luke Weiser ’17 made nine saves in the first three quarters, only allowing three shots to touch the back of the net. Brown took the lead all the way up to 10-5 in the fourth quarter.

MIT mounted a late comeback effort, but it did not have the legs to catch up with a fiery Bruno offense.

Johns Hopkins was the Bears’ second opponent of the weekend in the semifinal. Brown again got off to a great start against the fourth seed in the tournament, outscoring the Blue Jays 3-2 in the first quarter.

But the Bears did not have another winning frame after the first quarter, and a Johns Hopkins 3-1 third quarter took the lead from Brown. Jake Wyatt ’17 scored a hat trick, with his last goal coming in the fourth quarter to tie the game at six apiece.

The Bears and the Blue Jays went back and forth after that, as Yahel Murvitz Lahav ’17 followed up a Johns Hopkins goal to tie the game at seven in the later stages. Unfortunately for Bruno, the backbreaker came with 44 seconds remaining in regulation when Johns Hopkins took an 8-7 lead

for good.

“Johns Hopkins had a bit of a fire that we weren’t prepared for, and at the end of the day, we just gave them a few too many good opportunities to score,” Weiser said.

Heading out in the semifinal of the tournament was not what the Bears had hoped for, especially against a team like Johns Hopkins that Brown had beaten 15-7 earlier in the year.

The third place game was a debacle for the Bears, as Harvard took them down, 14-9.

Despite the disappointing outcome, Weiser remained confident in what he and his teammates had shown over the course of the season.

“We have a very talented team full of players with a lot of raw talent,” Weiser said. “Despite the results of the tournament, I feel that a lot of our younger players really stepped up, and I’m excited to see how they develop throughout the offseason.”

Brown ended its fall season with an impressive 24-8 record, falling just short of reaching the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year.

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Bruno’s defense, anchored by Tim Ernst ‘18 with 16 saves total, could not salvage this weekend’s games against Cornell and Colgate.

Offense struggles in weekend contests Bruno goes scoreless against Cornell, ties Colgate in disappointing weekend matchups

By MATT BROWNSWORD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After scoring and allowing at least two goals in every single game this year, the men’s hockey team reversed both trends this weekend against Colgate and Cornell at home.

The Raiders (4-8-1, 1-4-1 ECAC) entered their tilt with Brown (1-4-2, 1-3-2) as one of the ECAC’s worst teams — a far cry from the offensive success they had last year. But Bruno all but handed the first period to them Friday.

The Bears committed five penalties in the frame, enabling Colgate to take a one-goal lead heading into the second period. Brett Corkey and Tylor Spink set up Tyson Spink masterfully on Bruno’s fourth penalty, courtesy of a charging call against Alex Brink ’19.

“We did a better job limiting grade A scoring chances, for the most part,” said captain Mark Naclerio ’16. Goalie “Tim (Ernst ’17) was excellent both nights and did a great job all weekend.”

Ernst made 16 saves in a sloppy first period for the Bears and kept his team in the game, while the offense only mustered three shots of its own. Bruno’s best chances came toward the end of the period, when it took its first man-advantage sequence of the game. But a penalty shortly thereafter from Tommy Marchin ’19 negated any Brown offensive threat.

The second period was a much different story, as Brown dominated on both ends of the ice and limited needless penalties. The team seems to have solved last season’s penalty struggles, and this game was no exception after the first period.

Nick Lappin ’16 scored his fourth goal in three games on the man-advantage to tie the game up, thanks to a Marchin shot that redirected right onto the senior’s stick.

“He has had a lot of good chances,”

Naclerio said. “He uses his speed really well and finds ways to get open in the offensive zone. He’s been great for us so far and is a large part of our team.”

Though there were a combined 24 shots in the third period, neither team could break the deadlock because of some impressive goaltending by both Ernst and Charlie Finn. Two Bears hit the post on back-to-back shots, as Marchin’s shot appeared to strike both the crossbar and the post before bouncing out. The no-goal call stood after review by the referees.

In overtime, it was the Ernst show: Sprawling from one side of the net to the other, he was able to keep an impressive Colgate offense out of the net.

“He’s playing with a lot of confidence right now,” Naclerio said. “And he is finding ways to make incredible saves. He gives us a chance to win each night, and he always competes.”

Neither side could break the deadlock, and the game ended in a tie.

The contest against Cornell (6-1-1, 4-1-1) was even more disappointing for the Bears: The Bruno offense that had been firing on all cylinders before the weekend was shut out for the first time in 20 games, dating back to last season.

Despite carrying the momentum for most of the first and second period, Brown went down 1-0 about halfway through the game. Brown outshot Cornell by 10 in the first two periods but was unable to sneak anything by goaltender Mitch Gillam.

Cornell’s tenacious, physical game wore the Bears down by the third period, as Brown only outshot the Big Red by one. Gillam held on, giving the Bears their first 1-0 loss since January of last season.

“In both games, both teams blocked a lot of shots,” Naclerio said. “We had a lot of opportunities. We just need to find a way to get shots through.”

Brown heads to Northern Ireland on Monday for the inaugural Friendship Four tournament, in which it will face Colgate for a second time in as many weeks.