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Brown community shaken by Trump win Crying students flood streets after viewing parties, tension felt across campus in wake of win

By KYLE BOROWSKI SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After more than a year of partisan squabbling, scandals and pundit-baffling surprises, the election that once seemed to be never-ending has reached its conclusion, sending tearful students into the streets in response to Republican President-Elect Donald Trump’s surprise victory. While results would not be confirmed until about 2:30 a.m., inklings of a Trump victory could already be felt after early wins in Florida and North Carolina complicated what had been expected to be a near-unflappable path to victory for former Secretary of State and Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton.

The externalities of such a contentious election could already be felt on campus Tuesday night. At a viewing party at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Paula Martínez Gutierrez ’17 said that when she said she was Mexican, a Trump supporter responded, “ew.”

The student supporting Trump said that he said “oh” in the exchange, rather than “ew.”

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The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs held a panel with Adjuct Lecturer of International and Public Affairs Richard Arenberg and Professor of International Relations Rose McDermott.

Speaking at a Watson Institute event featuring a panel of faculty members before Trump’s victory was known, Rose McDermott, professor of international relations, outlined an outlook for the election that is tragic when viewed ex post facto.

“If you don’t think that this election is a referendum on the place of women in society, then you’re not paying attention,” McDermott said. “If she loses, it is a commentary on the position of women in America, and is an endorsement of a particular type of social subordination.”

“We can all sit here in a progressive

institution and pat ourselves on the back and be really proud of ourselves, but then you have to look at that map,” McDermott said. “It reflects a kind of discomfort that people have with women being in positions of power.”

“It’s about a level of comfort with a man who proudly endorses sexual assault as part of his history,” McDermott said. “To me that’s the depressing part of this election and how I think about the meaning of it.”

Earlier in the day, Rhode Island residents at the polls expressed a number of views on the candidates.

“I can’t stand either of these candidates,” said John Corrigan, who wrote in his ballot for Mitt Romney. In justifying his choice, Corrigan made note of Romney’s “morals, honesty” and “competence,” traits he said both Clinton and Trump were lacking.

Still, Corrigan was resigned to what he saw as an inevitability in this election: a Clinton victory. A Clinton presidency was still more palatable for Corrigan, who thought the threat of a Trump administration was too dangerous to risk. “Do you want corrupt or crazy?” he asked. “I’ll take corrupt.”

“I’ve been back and forth a lot this cycle, and I’m really not happy with either of the two major parties,” said Tyler Young, who voted for the Libertarian Party this election. While admitting that he usually leans Democrat, Young said it was more important his vote go toward Gary Johnson in the hopes that he wins 5 percent of the national vote, securing Libertarians federal funding in the next election cycle.

Other voters like Dennis Roberts II did not struggle as much with their choice for president this election. Roberts, a former Rhode Island attorney general, classified Trump as an “existential threat” to the security of the United States whose election would spell disaster for the nation. “As Democrats we try to continue good government. … I think Mr. Trump is more concerned with continuing no government, and I’m very disturbed by that prospect,” he said.

Carole Delaney put it more bluntly: “Trump is an idiot; he’s repulsive; he screwed the government; he didn’t pay taxes; he didn’t pay his workers, and he’s lied,” Delaney said. “Why would anyone vote for him?” she asked.

The Watson Institute held a panel featuring faculty members from the political science department. The panelists gave their forecast for the night even before polls closed in most states. In » See ELECTION, page 3

Play examines ethics of A-bomb creation Paxson’s approval ratings

improve from spring

Sock and Buskin show explores beauty of human spirit, Oppenheimer’s struggle with Jewish faith

Student approval of Paxson jumped nearly 7 percentage points from last semester’s poll

By CONNOR SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER

Like T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Carson Kreitzer’s play “The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer” is preoccupied with the human capacity for harm.

The Sock and Buskin production ran Nov. 3 to 6 in the Stuart Theatre and will be running again Nov. 10 to 13 as advertised on the play’s evocative poster featuring an x-ray of the eponymous Oppenheimer’s skull. Featuring physics equations scribbled across Oppenheimer’s brain and a lit cigarette askew in his mouth, the poster is a testament to the theoretical physicist’s place at the volatile boundary separating beauty from devastation in knowledge.

The play examines the life of one » See PLAY, page 2

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“The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer” follows the physicist’s personal and professional life. The shows runs again from Nov. 10 to 13 at 8 p.m.

With four years under her belt, President Christina Paxson P’19 has faced a great deal in her short time at Brown. From student protests regarding the Diversity Inclusion Action Plan to the cancellation of Janet Mock’s lecture last semester, Paxson must regularly navigate incidents on campus that have the potential to sway student opinion of her administration.

Despite all these challenges, data from The Herald’s fall 2016 undergraduate poll show that Paxson’s approval ratings have increased steadily since last semester.

The poll, which asked students whether they approve or disapprove of the way Paxson is handling her job as president of the University, found that 14.9 percent and 39.7 percent of respondents strongly approved and somewhat approved of Paxson’s performance,

respectively. This marks an improvement from last semester’s poll, which found similar approval leveled at 8.3 percent and 37.8 percent, respectively.

While the number of students without an opinion stayed relatively steady at 35.2 percent, Paxson’s disapproval ratings fell markedly since last semester.

Only 9.6 percent of students somewhat disapprove of Paxson’s performance, down from last semester’s 17.4 percent.

Additionally, the number of students who strongly disapprove of Paxson has fallen from 2.2 percent to 0.6 percent.

“She’s like a mirage,” said Dennese Salazar ’19, remarking on a perceived lack of visibility on Paxson’s part. “She doesn’t seem to be that big a part of the community,” she added, noting that in her two years at Brown, she has only seen Paxson speak publicly at one event.

“A particular point of emphasis for the president is to convene intimate gatherings that bring together small groups of students and offer the opportunity for face-to-face discussion around specific issues,” wrote Director of News and Editorial Development » See PAXSON, page 2

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» PLAY, from page 1 of the 20th century’s most profound and tortured scientific minds. Oppenheimer — who spearheaded the research backing the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the atom bomb — spent the latter half of his life making sense of the ruination that his research unleashed on the world.

“Do I dare / disturb the universe?”

Prufrock implores in Eliot’s famous “Love Song.” This sentiment is accordingly echoed throughout much of Oppenheimer’s moral struggle — a disquietude singularly conveyed by Jason Roth ’17. Oppenheimer, after upending the lives of hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians, comes to invoke the Bhagavad Gita’s Krishna, labeling himself “Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

Rife with these kinds of textual allusions, the play almost functions as an analogue to Eliot’s poetry. With its deeply layered and literary portrayal of Oppenheimer, the work accords a due amount of nuance to the scientist’s life. Oppenheimer’s “love song” manifests itself through various conduits, from poignant portrayals of his grief to melodrama involving his suicidal lover to erratic evocations of the poetry of John Donne. The play encapsulates the same side-winding modernist

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conventions that made such poems as Eliot’s “The Wasteland” seminal parts of the Western canon and establishes Oppenheimer as a humanist at heart.

“That was his huge problem as a scientist,” said Director and Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Professor Spencer Golub. “He was too caught up in the beauty of everything.”

The theoretical physicist was passionate about French and Sanskrit poetry, works of art for which “there was no patent,” as a character points out in the play.

Golub brought new life to the interpretation of the physicist’s life. “I didn’t know anything about the play,” Golub said. “But I was, perhaps coincidentally, thinking about Oppenheimer, Judaism and the atomic bomb — all the bases this play touches on — when students brought it to my attention.”

Sock and Buskin chose the play with the intention of prompting dialogue on diversity and inclusion in light of recent campus conversations on the matter.

Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat” serves as the play’s desolate refrain, soundtracking much of Oppenheimer’s romantic and existential distress. But the song, written by a musician and poet well-versed in the Judaic tradition, also speaks to issues of identity tackled in the play.

Oppenheimer points out that he did not ask for the fame the Manhattan Project brought him. Rather, Jews were relegated to the then-impractical field of theoretical physics because of their identity. The physicist’s struggle to reconcile his Jewish identity with his work was what Golub calls “the most problematic part of Oppenheimer’s life.”

Oppenheimer was far from an observant Jew, tending to look toward Sanskrit rather than the Talmud in his trials and tribulations. The play underscores this muddled sense of identity and attributes it to the antiSemitism Oppenheimer faced as a theoretical physicist, a largely Jewish occupation. Oppenheimer may have been one of the esteemed Los Alamos scientists, but to echo his lover, many saw him as little more than just one of “a bunch of Jews in the desert arguing esoteric points.”

“You’re living for nothing now,” Cohen croons. With the curtain pulled back on humanity’s fractured psyche, Oppenheimer is struck by existential paralysis and a sense of alienation that enables “The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer” to build on the greater modernist tradition. After Hiroshima, as another scientist shares with Oppenheimer, the physics is “not theoretical anymore.”

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» PAXSON, from page 1 Brian Clark in an email to The Herald.

Erin Schaeffer ’17 expressed similar sentiments about a sense of distance from Paxson. “I really don’t interact with her, … and I don’t see her around that much,” she said.

Brown’s previous president, Ruth Simmons, achieved record approval ratings during her tenure, with 38.4 percent of students indicating strong approval in The Herald’s fall 2011 poll. Simmons’ popularity could be an explanation for

Come Shining In Tribute to

C.D. Wright 9-10 November 2016

Wednesday, 9 November at 8 pm Studio One, Granoff Center for the Arts 154 Angell Street, Providence

Presentations by William Johnston, Christina Paxson, Joan Retallack and Steve Stern

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Presentations by Eiko and Richard Leo Johnson Exhibitions of work by Bill Johnston and Denny Moers will be on display in the Granoff Center during Come Shining.

Please join us in celebrating the life and work of C.D. Wright, acclaimed poet and I.J. Kapstein Professor of Literary Arts, who died suddenly in January 2016.

C.D. Wright’s was a singular voice; her expansive and ever-surprising poetry consistently struck an authentic chord, focusing attention on the sensuality of language and a wide range of stylistic innovations; indeed, she worked with such diverse interests and approaches that with each new project, she pushed beyond any and all poetic categories and expectation. Her acclaimed books include Rising, Falling, Hovering, Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems, and a text edition of One Big Self: An Investigation, focused on Louisiana inmates.

She mentored generations of poets and students of literature at Brown University, where she taught from 1983 until her death this past winter.

Sponsored by Literary Arts and the Creative Arts Council, Come Shining was made possible by support from the Office of the President.

Paxson’s relatively less-enthusiastic ratings, Schaeffer said, adding, “I know the previous president was really well liked. I’m sure the university was sad to see her go.”

Paxson’s approval varied slightly by gender, with somewhat more men supporting the president than women.

Men were 2 percentage points more likely to strongly or somewhat approve of Paxson’s performance, while women were almost twice as likely than men to somewhat disapprove of her performance. The margin of error for men who took the poll is 4.05 percent, while the margin of error for women who took the poll is 3.74 percent.

Race played more of a role in determining approval of Paxson, with white students composing her largest base of support. About 16 percent and 42.9 percent of white students indicated that they strongly or somewhat approved of Paxson, respectively, while those percentages fall to 12.4 and 35.7 percent for black students.

“Paxson is doing really well in terms of sexual assault cases and diversity issues,” said Amber Teng ’17. “Beyond that, I don’t have a strong opinion about her.” Despite having witnessed Paxson’s initial years at Brown, Teng said that she still feels relatively indifferent toward the president’s administration.

“She’s kind of always trying to do better,” said Calvin Nickelson ’18. “I’m sure there’s more she could be doing, but she’s not like other university presidents that don’t listen at all.”

Nickelson said that Paxson’s handling of the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan last semester showed that administrators are willing to be receptive to student concerns on campus. “Even if she’s not willing to shake everything up, she seems willing and eager to make changes that make people’s lives better,” he said.

“Student engagement plays a key role in informing the president’s perspective as she works across the University,” Clark wrote.

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U. professor finds marijuana does not improve sleep quality Study investigates relationship between sleep disruptions, drug consumption, mood

By JUSTIN FERENZI STAFF WRITER

A recent study co-authored by Professor of Medicine, Health Services and Policy and Practice Michael Stein suggests that, contrary to popular belief, marijuana use may have a negative effect on sleep quality. The study also indicates that anxiety and depression may play a role in both frequency of marijuana use and quality of sleep.

The study, published in the January 2016 issue of the Journal of Addictive Diseases, engaged 98 participants with an average age of 22. The participants consisted of three different groups: those who smoked marijuana every day, those who smoked marijuana occasionally — fewer than five times a week but more than once a month — and a control group of non-smokers.

The paper reports that sleep disruption in the daily use group was significantly higher than in the occasional use and non-use groups.

Co-author Deidre Conroy, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan and a longtime collaborator of Stein’s, wrote in an email to The Herald that the study is unique because “participants were

» ELECTION, from page 1 introducing the panelists, Edward Steinfeld, director of the Watson Institute and professor of political science, praised the quality of discourse on campus, which he characterized as notably positive in comparison to what has been otherwise expected of the election.

“We haven’t exactly shown our better selves as a country in this election,” Steinfeld said, “but the kind of discourse that we’ve had on campus has been different.”

Surveying the packed audience of the Joukowsky Forum, McDermott rationalized the size of the gathered crowd: “Anxiety benefits by company.”

In his address, Richard Arenberg, adjunct lecturer of international and public affairs, explained his own source of anxiety in this election: “the unwillingness of one candidate to say that he will abide by the results of the election.”

In a thinly veiled reference to Trump, Arenberg defined such logic as “a really corrosive line of attack on the very root of democratic institutions in our country.”

Such a feeling of anxiety is hardly unique in this election, and a number of Brown students similarly expressed sentiments of dread, disbelief and horror at the prospect of a Trump presidency.

“It’s been an incredibly stressful election, and I’ve been a lot more anxious than I have been in the past because (a Trump presidency) is so terrifying,” said Leah Kazar ’17. Trump’s ascension is particularly worrying to Kazar, who is considering a job in government after graduation. “I really don’t want to work in a Trump administration,” she said.

“If you’re not a white male then everything should scare you,” said Lisa Schold ’19. “Just the rhetoric he uses is so offensive to everyone,” she added. “It’s embarrassing.”

“I’m one of those people if you’d told

not treatment-seeking or withdrawing from marijuana. They were individuals in their natural environment using marijuana as they typically do.”

Conroy wrote that the results were only significant for one sleep quality measure, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, which is a self-report questionnaire that assesses sleep quality over a one-month time interval. There were no statistical differences in sleep for daily users when other measures were used in the study.

When accounting for histories of depression and anxiety in the participants, the statistical significance disappears, suggesting an interplay between mood disorders, marijuana use and sleep quality, Conroy added.

“We can’t tell from this study if marijuana use makes people feel more depressed or anxious or if people are using marijuana because they feel more depressed or anxious,” wrote Sara Becker, assistant research professor of behavioral and social sciences and of psychiatry and human behavior, in an email to The Herald. “We also can’t tell which came first — the sleep problems or the depression and anxiety.” Becker added that a longitudinal study on this relationship may offer more insight into this trend.

Jane Metrik, assistant research professor of behavioral and social sciences and of psychiatry and human behavior at the School of Public Health, wrote in an email to The Herald that me months ago that this is where we’d be today, I wouldn’t have believed you,” said Ariel Higuchi ’18. “I was absolutely stunned by how the election played out.”

Such responses are hardly surprising considering Trump’s paucity of support on campus: Results from the Herald 2016 fall poll found that 85 percent of students declared a preference for Clinton while Trump received support from only 1.8 percent of the undergraduate student body.

With a narrow majority in the Senate and a substantial one in the House, Trump now has a clear path to achieving his policy agenda, though the nature of that agenda, or at least its feasible elements, remains unclear.

“I have a lot of trouble sorting out his stance on a lot of issues,” Arenberg said. “Whether or not he will try to build a wall is anyone’s guess, but I’m fairly certain that Mexico will not pay for it,” he added.

Even with dual majorities, hesitancy on the part of Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan to endorse Trump’s candidacy may dilute a sense of Republican unity in Congress, Arenberg said. “Some members of his caucus supported Trump and feel like he insufficiently supported the Republican nominee.” Tensions could rise between the various wings of the Republican Party “if the speaker has a hard time marshalling his majority.”

“But assuming he can,” Arenberg said, “there’s nothing except public pressure from the people necessarily that can move them.”

The most obvious task of any president upon assuming office is to heal the wounds of a contentious and polarizing election, McDermott said. “(He) has to try to overcome the incredibly divisive and vicious politics that have characterized this campaign,” she added. “There’s just a lot of hate.”

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the study is consistent with her own findings. A paper she published last month in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors demonstrated that sleep disturbance in patients with major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder led to marijuana use.

“Pharmacological properties of marijuana are conducive to sedation and relaxation, which could translate to subjective perception of improved

sleep onset by many cannabis users,” Metrik wrote. “(This) may also explain its widespread use among individuals with sleep disturbances.”

Like Becker, Metrik also noted that further research is needed, especially on marijuana users who have been diagnosed with sleep-affecting problems such as PTSD. Conroy wrote that she and her collaborators hope to continue with

follow-up papers in the future.

The study also has a relatively small sample size and divides participants into very broad groups, Becker wrote.

The threshold of five times a week or fewer for the occasional use group allows for too wide a margin, she added, suggesting that it may be worth looking into more narrowly defined categories of usage in order to more clearly see what trends are present.

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RISD hosts short film festival Show features range of animation techniques from hand-drawn images to computer sophistry

‘Here, There and Everywhere’ explores uncharted slopes Skiing documentary draws large crowd to Avon, highlights remote ski destinations

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The Rhode Island School of Design hosted the 18th Annual Animation Show of Shows Saturday. The Show of Shows premiered Sept. 30 at the Cable Car Cinema.

The Show of Shows is a collection of 16 short animated videos curated by Ron Diamond, executive producer of Acme Filmworks, Inc. and co-founder and president of Animation World Network. These short films come from countries around the world, such as Latvia, Korea, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Israel, Russia, Canada, Norway and the United States.

The films were all unique. Some such as “Pearl” or “About a Mother” dealt with the themes of parenthood.

These left a particularly bittersweet taste, as the viewer is confronted by the sweet sadness of a child growing up and moving away from home.

Others were more humorous, such as the Korean “Afternoon Class” that gave epic proportions to a student’s struggle to stay awake during class.

Some films were far darker, focusing on barbarity, suicide or the Norwegian concept of the Bøygen — “the formless obstacle,” as it was described by director Kristian Pederson.

In addition to covering a wide range of topics, the Show of Shows presented a wide range of techniques.

“Our hope for seeing the animation is for you to be inspired,” Diamond said in a presentation before the show.

He added that the level of technology often varies from what the viewer expects. “There are lots of different mediums that people can work with

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The 18th Annual Animation Show of Shows presented 16 animated videos from countries around the world, including Latvia, Korea and Norway. in animation, and it should be an inspiration for us all that we don’t need to kill ourselves to make great animation. A lot of work is done by individuals alone or in a small group.”

Some of the films used sophisticated computer animation technology to bring the characters to life, while others were entirely hand drawn.

Some were black and white, while others were a burst of watercolors.

Certain videos were productions from DreamWorks or Disney, while one

was entirely drawn by a Russian art student as a final project.

A notable example of a breathtaking solo production was the work of Ainslie Henderson. “Stems” is Henderson’s celebration of stop-motion puppets. The puppets he created come to life before the viewer’s eyes and make music among themselves.

Puppets have an “inherent sadness about them,” Hendersen says in a voice-over. “They have a tiny little life” that blooms before the viewer’s eyes.

“Here, There and Everywhere,” the 67th installment of Warren Miller Entertainment’s annual ski series, opened Nov. 2 night to a packed and buzzing theater at the Avon Cinema.

The reason for the atmosphere was twofold — the $20 movie ticket included complimentary ski vouchers and guaranteed entry into a raffle for trips and equipment held during the screening’s intermission. But while the moviegoers arrived for a winter of free skiing, they left having been treated to an enchanting visual experience.

Warren Miller — for whom the entertainment company is named — embodied the romantic ideal of the ski bum, living in resort parking lots and bouncing from mountain to mountain in an attempt to revel in the freedom of an endless winter. Miller began documenting his lifestyle in the late 1940s with an 8mm Bell and Howell movie camera and three rolls of film. He directed his first skiing movie, “Deep and Light,” in 1950 after spending a winter in Squaw Valley.

Though the now-92-year-old Miller gave up his camera in 2004, Warren Miller Entertainment has produced an annual skiing documentary for 67 straight years.

“Here, There and Everywhere” operates on a grander scale than “Deep and Light” but without losing sight of Miller’s vision, capturing both the enormity of the sport’s natural settings and the intimacy of its community. Director Chris Patterson follows a pair or trio of local athletes at 10 skiing hotspots spanning from Switzerland to the

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Rocky Mountains, and each minidocumentary contributes a uniquely charming vignette to the film’s larger portrait. Tracing each of the athletes’ stories individually allows the audience to better experience the distinct cultures and natural wonders of shooting sites.

Each location offers its own moments of brilliance, but the film strikes gold in its sketch of the Southern Chugach Range in Cordova, Alaska.

Patterson recognizes the overwhelming expanse and remoteness of the terrain, and his profile adopts a sanctified air as it follows extreme skiers Ryland Bell and Morgan Hebert.

The film’s Cordova profile reignites the imaginative possibilities of a world with unexplored corners. The Alaskan peaks are so inaccessible that Bell and Hebert require a helicopter’s assistance to tap the uncharted terrain. As the pair stands at the top of a peak, they and the audience are confronted with the sheer vastness of the untouched world around them.

Patterson’s camera in this segment isn’t doing anything revolutionary — it’s simply doing more thoughtful work than that of his counterparts. As Bell and Hebert descend the mountain, bursting out of their own powder clouds, Patterson’s camera makes the skiers feel like a necessary element of the environment. Subtle shots frame their diminutive figures against the immensity of the sky and the barren mountain ranges that form the backdrop of the scene. Patterson’s ultimate genius is reflected in wider aerial shots, capturing the poetic ballet of the skiers’ movements.

“Here, There and Everywhere” films its final location in Greenland’s mountain ranges. The film’s last subjects, Seth Wescott and Rob Kingwill, probe the frontiers of human existence, skiing glacial peaks that end at the Arctic Ocean’s edge. While filming the skiers, Patterson’s camera captures the serene quality of the mountain’s and sea’s emptiness, lending tranquility to the heartpounding athleticism. Like the Alaskan scenes, the Greenland vignette reminds audiences that even when sitting in a theater on Thayer Street, there is still a natural oasis capable of dazzling the imagination.

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The exhibit “Other People’s Things” at the Cohen Gallery exposes the vibrancy of everyday objects. One piece featured in the show is Sandra Erbacher’s pixelated monochrome rug called “Home Office.”

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Philosophy DUG Ethical Inquiry Lunch 12:00 P.M. Wilson Hall, 302

Election Series: What Happened and Why? 4:00 P.M. Joukowsky Forum

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TOMORROW Raising Children in a Competitive Culture 12:00 P.M. Barus Building, 2nd Floor

Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation 5:30 P.M. Smith-Buonanno Hall, 106

Come Shining: Memorial Tribute for CD Wright 8:00 P.M. Granoff Center, Studio 1

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EDITORIAL

A Trump win There is so much to say about the result of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Knowing that we could go on for thousands of words and that thousands of words will indeed be written about this result in the coming days and decades, we will simply relay facts about what transpired Tuesday.

Taking political stances threatens our status as a nonprofit, so we are limited to stating the facts.

On Nov. 8, 2016, the United States elected to its highest office a man who has been accused of sexually assaulting over 10 women, who bragged about committing sexual assault and failed to apologize for it. He has never held public office. He has insulted entire groups of Americans based on their racial, ethnic and national backgrounds, referring to Mexican immigrants as “rapists.” He said a judge of Mexican descent, born in the United States, could not serve justly because of his heritage. He has called women any number of deplorable names that are not fit for the playground let alone the highest office of the most powerful country in the world. He dodged paying millions of dollars in income taxes and bragged about it. He refused to release his tax returns, something every presidential candidate has done for the last four decades. He has repeatedly incited violence at rallies and stated that his opponent should be jailed. He repeatedly said he would refuse to concede the election should he have lost.

Republican and President-Elect Donald Trump’s opponent in the presidential race, former Democratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has spent her entire adult life in public service. She served as a senator from New York for eight years and secretary of state for four. She was First Lady for eight years prior to that. Clinton won a majority of nonwhite voters and women. She campaigned on racial justice, immigration reform, preserving and expanding women’s access to health care and preserving and expanding the rights of LGBTQ Americans.

Trump won the presidential election, securing over 300 electoral votes, a decisive victory over Clinton.

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COMMENTARY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016 • PAGE 7

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The hidden joy of consulting recruiting MINAH SEO

op-ed contributor “Do one thing a day that scares you.” This sentence was written over a Lululemon bag that I had when I was 12 years old. At the time, I thought the saying was ridiculous. After all, why would anyone do something that scared them once a day? Would that really make life more fulfilling?

I didn’t think about this advice much again until I began the consulting recruiting process this fall. A few weeks ago, I woke up with a pit in my stomach, realizing that every day I was doing something that made me feel uncomfortable, nervous or flat-out scared. Whether this involved recording my weird self for a video interview or practicing a case with a stranger, I felt butterflies in my stomach at every step. I wanted to forget everything I was scheduled to do and just stay in bed. But I kept going nevertheless.

Compared to other recruiting processes, the consulting route is notorious for requiring intensive preparation for case interviews.

Choosing to take part in the consulting recruiting process can feel like taking an additional course. There are various ways of approaching the process, but the typical method includes buying and reading “Case in Point,” reaching out to anyone and everyone for case practice and building relationships with people in the industry. It’s an add-on to the already heavy academic workload at Brown and

can be more than stressful at times — especially when midterms build up.

So what’s the point of all the anxiety and stress that comes with consulting recruiting?

Well, there are the typical appeals of consulting: the amazing travel points and perks, the two- to three-year skill set development and the exposure to diverse industries. For me, the final point was what hooked me: Consulting genuinely appealed to my sense of wonderment. I wanted to do everything and learn everything; that’s what the industry meant to me.

Now that we are approaching the end of the consulting recruiting season for juniors,

by the amount of material I had yet to cover.

Not only did I feel overwhelmed by the cases themselves, but I also felt disheartened by my inevitable failure in the first few cases. As I progressed to doing cases in person, I remember the slight but sharp anxiety I felt walking to the location. I didn’t want to waste the other person’s time by failing at the case and feeling inadequate. But I swallowed my pride and continued doing live practice cases. After my second in-person case, the anxiety was gone, and I actually started enjoying them.

Here’s why: First, I learned something new with every case. It didn’t matter whether I was

The consulting recruiting process prompted me to meet a diverse range of people at different points in their lives, from senior consultants looking to transition to new opportunities to underclassmen trying to understand the industry. my anxiety has diminished, and my interest in the industry has only developed further. And thus far, all of the recruiting season cliches have definitely come true for me: I’ve learned more about myself, figured out which companies best fit my personality and realized how unpredictable the process can really be. This has been one of the most grueling semesters of my college career, but it’s also been one of the most maturing and humbling experiences of my life.

When I first began case preparation, I felt lost in the process. There were so many things to learn and remember, and I felt swamped

familiar with the industry in the question or not, or whether the case was straightforward or challenging. I was learning so much about the intricacies of the different businesses and my own thought process tackling the problems. I found new confidence in the lead-up and aftermath of these cases — but also in other aspects of my life.

Secondly, as I navigated the process, I constantly reached out to new people for help. The consulting recruiting process prompted me to meet a diverse range of people at different points in their lives, from senior consultants looking to transition to new opportunities to

underclassmen trying to understand the industry. Talking to people has opened up more doors and catalyzed deeper conversations with people outside of my immediate circle, helping me mature and understand the dynamics of the world outside College Hill.

And I’m realizing more and more that there is a common thread of motivation and hard work that underlies this process and connects us together. By making these remarkable connections with so many role models, I’ve realized that the highs and lows of this period are not just felt by me, but all those involved. In the process, I’ve learned to depend more on those around me. From conversations with both new and old friends, to short emails and long texts, to spontaneous phone calls and meals, I’ve been blessed to find support wherever I’ve searched for it, and I’ve been constantly surprised by the encouragement I’ve received each time.

Regardless of what happens in the next few weeks, I have been truly inspired by the people I’ve encountered during the process.

As closed off as you might want to be during this soul-searching journey called recruiting, you’ll soon realize that you can’t be a hermit in this venture. For me, the process has very much been about putting myself out there and learning to rely more on others.

Consulting is, after all, a people business.

Minah Seo ’18 can be found procrastinating by doing practice cases. She can reached at minah_seo@brown.edu.

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Alicia Keys’ eighth album ‘Here’ features songs, poetry, conversation Keys’ raw voice tackles themes of economic strife, marginalization in world defined by success

By MADISON RIVLIN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

With raw, unadulterated vocals supported by soft piano, violin, raspy guitar accompaniment and a modest baseline, Alicia Keys continues to inspire the movement toward celebrating authenticity in her newest album “Here,” released Nov. 4.

“Here” features a 16-track compilation of songs, rhythmic poetry and moving, conversational interludes that draw from classic rhythm and blues and soul, in addition to a collaborative piece with A$AP Rocky: “Blended Family (What You Do For Love).” Paralleling her confrontation of societal beauty standards by pledging to stop using makeup, Keys seemingly strives

to demonstrate her genuine self and urges others to do the same.

Frustrated by societal expectations of women’s bodies and personalities, Keys tackles feminine individuality and authenticity in “Girl Can’t Be Herself.”

In an essay in the online newsletter Lenny Letter May 31, Keys wrote that she “was not good enough for the world to see.” She sings: “When a girl can’t be herself no more / I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world.” She continues: “Who says I must conceal what I’m made of / Maybe all this Maybelline is covering my self esteem.”

The album also gives prominence to Keys’ New York City roots, as the chorus of the song, “She Don’t Really Care,” references many of the neighborhoods and boroughs in the city: “She grew up in Brooklyn / She grew up in Harlem / She grew up in Bronx … She lived in Queens.” Other tracks explore her role as a stepmother, her desire for the public’s embrace of free expression of sexuality, her insecurities,

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Alicia Keys expresses frustration about societal expectations regarding beauty and sexuality in her 16-track album released Nov. 4. The album incorporates quotidian sounds from New York City. her perception of addiction and her most powerful features of her album. signature New York sound bites such reflections on black femininity and suc- Through these pieces, Keys explores as the commotion of city traffic, loud cess. Keys’ rough, smoky and unaltered themes such as body image and inse- construction and greetings between voice rings out without the presence of curities in “Cocoa Butter (Cross and Pic friends. “The Gospel” ends with clips stifling backup vocals or smothering Interlude)” and institutional racism in of New York road rage and commotion, band accompaniment. Her raw sound “You Glow (Interlude)” through poetry while “Kill Your Mama” finishes the tackles themes of economic strife and and dialogue. outro with a subway announcement 76985 marginalization.

To continue in the vein of authen- that reminds the listener to “stand clear Keys’ interludes might be the ticity, Keys’ eighth album incorporates of the closing doors.”

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