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Community members meet to reject hate Students tear up flags for

Veterans Day ceremony

Amidst Trump victory, mayor promises to make city sanctuary, pass Community Safety Act

Students hold sit-in to protect flags from getting thrown out, others take to social media to protest

By KYLE BOROWSKI SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The halls of Hope High School were silent Saturday night, save for the occasional echo of applause emanating from a packed school cafeteria. There, nearly 1,000 community members from around the Providence area gathered in mutual confusion and anger over the electoral victory of President-Elect Donald Trump. In what was labeled on Facebook as an “emergency meeting against hate,” those gathered discussed potential ways to counter a Trump presidency on the different levels of government, as well as how to respond to anticipated acts of hate in the next four years. “I’m terrified about what this could mean for my friends, my neighbors and my community,” said Rep. Aaron Regunberg ’12, D-Providence, one of the organizers of the event. He added that hearing responses of fear and stories of harassment had initially been

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Mayor Jorge Elorza addresses a crowd of nearly 1,000 concerned community members in the Hope High school cafeteria after election. disheartening in planning action. “Wednesday I was mostly numb. And then Thursday it hit me, and I broke

down and sobbed for most of the day,” Regunberg said. “Friday, I got really » See TRUMP, page 3

American flags placed on the Main Green Thursday were torn, pulled out of the ground and thrown away. The flags were set up to line walking pathways in preparation for the annual Veterans Day ceremony sponsored by the Office of Student Veterans and Commissioning Programs. When Nicholas Strada ’18 came out of class Thursday, he said he was confronted with a flag dangling on a snapped stick. “It would’ve really bothered me to see that done to the flag any day, but just because it was Veterans Day and there was a ceremony, it was a little extra disturbing,” he said. To Strada, the flags represented veterans and “the freedoms that everyone enjoys.” Students have shown a divided response to what happened to the flags.

Leah Zavalick ’17 organized a sit-in on the Main Green to repair and protect the flags while veterans were in class. But others felt that the actions were justified, and much of the division and debate took place on social media over the weekend. On the Brown Bears Admirers Facebook page, a platform that allows students to express anonymous admiration, one student wrote, “I’d like to appreciate everyone who has been removing the flags from the Main Green.” The post continued, “As much as I know that these flags are there to represent Veterans Day, when I look at them, all I feel is overwhelming nausea, and all I see is a symbol of the oppressing white nationalism that has jeopardized myself and so many others at Brown and abroad.” Strada’s trouble with the defaced American flags led him to upload a video on Facebook accompanied by a paragraph denouncing the vandalization. The video has since garnered upwards of 17,000 views. “There’s been a tremendous outpouring of support and positivity,” he said. To gather participants for her » See FLAGS, page 3

Oppenheimer discusses WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Bruno victorious in season opener award-nominated films Strong offense from Filmmaker discusses humanization through art, Indonesian politics in light of recent election By ELI BINDER STAFF WRITER

Joshua Oppenheimer, director of Academy Award-nominated films “The Act of Killing” and “The Look of Silence,” came to campus Thursday for the screening of his films at the Granoff Center for Creative Arts followed by a panel discussion. Friday he led a graduate master class and a teach-in on Indonesian history and politics. Both of Oppenheimer’s films are about the legacy of the 1965-1966 genocide in Indonesia. In “The Act of Killing,” Oppenheimer allows perpetrators of mass killings to theatrically stage them. In addition to the re-enactments, the film focuses the killers’ discussions of how they wanted to stage the re-enactments. In having perpetrators design their own dramatizations, Oppenheimer told The Herald he sought to discover who their “imagined audience” was. “How do they want the world to see them through my cameras?” he added. “How do they really see themselves?”

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Reflecting on developing relationships with mass murderers, Oppenheimer said, “I never found monsters. I always found human beings who — apart from these terrible crimes they committed — could be my grandfather or my uncle.” “We have to understand how human beings do this,” he added. “The Look of Silence” follows the brother of a victim of the genocide, who lives surrounded by his brother’s killers. “I see my films as holding up a mirror in which we confront — all of us, not just Indonesians — some of our most important and painful truths with the hope that we can solve anything so long as we can face it,” Oppenheimer said. In the Thursday panel — with Bhrigupati Singh, assistant professor of anthropology, and Doreen Lee, associate professor of anthropology at Northeastern — Oppenheimer said that “The Act of Killing” explores the perpetrators’ blindness to the humanity of the people they have killed, which accompanies the narratives they tell. At the Friday teach-in, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs Stephen Kinzer discussed CIA operations in Indonesia leading to up the genocide. Oppenheimer spoke about Indonesian » See SCREENING, page 3

underclassmen against Howard bodes well for 2016 campaign By NICHOLAS WEY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After months of finely tuned preseason training, the women’s basketball team took to the hard court in uniform in its season opener against Howard Friday. The Bears (1-0, 0-0 Ivy) looked to secure a pivotal first win in order to build momentum for the season. And Bruno did just that with a tight 83-78 victory over the Bison (0-1). A particularly demanding preseason prepared the team extremely well for this season, said point guard Megan Reilly ’18. The training block consisted of weight lifting and conditioning, pickup games and position skills workouts up to four times a week. “We had a great preseason this year,” Reilly said. “Our first practice was on Oct. 3, and since then our coaches have been doing an amazing job of making sure that we would be prepared for our first game.” With the countless hours of practice behind them, the Bears headed into their matchup against Howard, excited to test their play and showcase

their abilities. “I was so pumped for our first game,” Reilly said. “I felt confident that we would win. Everyone has been working so hard, and as long as we played together for the full 40 minutes, I knew that we would come out with the W.” But despite Bruno’s energy and adrenaline, Howard’s offense took charge in the first quarter, putting an 11-point gap on the Bears with the score 26-15. Guard Shayna Mehta ’19 led the charge with eight points — two jump shots, a three-pointer and a free throw, but the team would need more offensive production and more defensive stops in order to turn the tide. And the Bears rallied, chipping away at this deficit over the course of the second period and taking a 44-43 lead by early in the third quarter after an 8-0 run. The next period and a half was a battle, with Brown and Howard fighting hard for the win. The lead changed multiple times, with both teams going on double-digit runs to seemingly put the game away. In one instance, Howard scored 10 unanswered points to kick off the fourth quarter and take a 63-57 lead over the Bears. But a 30-second timeout called by Head Coach Sarah Behn brought the team composure. Rookie guard Justine Gaziano ’20 went on to score four quick

points to close the Bison’s lead to just two points, as Brown charged back into the game. The Bears went on to outscore the Bison 26-25 in the fourth quarter, and as the buzzer sounded the team had a five-point lead. In the win, Gaziano posted 17 points, Mehta tallied 18, and guard Taylor Will ’19 netted a career high 20-point performance. “A big highlight from our first win was that we had so many contributions from so many people,” Reilly said. “Everyone stepped up, and we played team basketball. We had a lot of assists, and we were unselfish on offense. We also had some great defensive possessions and boards that led to a lot of transition buckets.” Moving forward, Bruno’s motto for the season is “all in.” As Reilly remarked, the team has struggled in the past with maintaining a “consistently positive attitude” due to the sheer duration of the team’s five-month season, which continues through mid-March. “It’s important that we hold each other accountable and make sure that we stay committed to each other and our program,” Reilly said. In fact, the team collectively read Jon Gordon’s “The Energy Bus” at the beginning of the season and has used its lessons and guidance to inform the » See BASKETBALL, page 3

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2016

SPORTS 52-yard field goal contributes to pivotal victory over Dartmouth for men’s football team

COMMENTARY Muir ’20: Context of election irrelevant to Veterans Day ceremony, respect for veterans

COMMENTARY Hood ’17.5: Veterans feel disrespected by destruction of flags, community shows support

COMMENTARY Faculty: Campus should serve as sanctuary for students, faculty facing imminent deportation

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» TRUMP, from page 1 mad and furious,” he added. “And today I’m ready to work.” The scale of that work has yet to be known, Regunberg said, adding that if the rhetoric of Trump’s campaign can be seen as an indication, it will be arduous. Organizers of the event spoke at length about how community members could get involved on the city, state and federal levels, urging continued resistance to any policy proposed by Trump that will result in the discrimination, marginalization or disenfranchisement of any community. Mayor Jorge Elorza was present at the gathering, outlining extensive and robust action at the city level to counteract policy crafted under Trump’s administration. “I’m doubling down on my vision of one Providence, and I’m advocating for a society that reflects the values that have already made our society great,” he added, “inclusion, equity and respect for the dignity of every individual.” Elorza made a number of promises to members of the community, including the introduction of municipal IDs as an identification alternative, welcome centers in schools for new immigrants and the implementation of a paid paternal leave policy for all city workers — a feat that has not yet been accomplished in any other of Rhode Island’s cities. In perhaps his most forceful assurance of the night, Elorza promised in no uncertain terms that Trump’s immigration policy will not impact the citizens of Providence. “As long as I am mayor, the Providence Police Department will never enforce immigration policies,” he added. Regunberg, for his part, went further than the mayor in this regard, pledging support for the transformation of Rhode Island into a “sanctuary state,” a larger iteration of sanctuary cities in which action is rarely taken to prosecute undocumented immigrants solely based off of their residency status. Part of Elorza’s efforts will include progress updates and announcements of new policies, initiatives and events every week in the hopes of “assuring our most vulnerable and marginalized residents that our city values them and stands with them,” Elorza said. “Unless they can’t afford it,” one community member shouted in response. Calls for unity and action were tempered by similar shouts and interruptions hurled at the mayor throughout his speech. At mentions of public safety, for example, some yelled “fuck the police,” while others shouted “pass the CSA,” in reference to the Providence Community Safety Act, after Elorza called for order. The CSA is a proposed bill aimed at minimizing acts of police brutality across the city. The text of the act, which Elorza endorsed by the end of the night,

» BASKETBALL, from page 1 way it functions. “We learned that our ‘energy buses’ serve as a metaphor for our lives,” Reilly said. “We now recognize the importance of fueling our buses with positive energy. It sounds cliche, but the book has really helped us come together and trust the process.” The Bears will continue their season tonight against Sacred Heart and will also head to Bryant Thursday. Due to a long stretch of

stipulates a prohibition on racial profiling, regular usage of dashboard and body cameras by the police and an end to interference with individuals recording police encounters for purposes of accountability. “We need the CSA,” said Sophia Wright, one of the event’s organizers and a community organizer with Direct Action for Rights and Equality, a community service and advocacy organization. “And we need all the things Mayor Elorza just said,” she added. “We also have to make sure that his words aren’t shit.” Wright’s words underscored a palpable sense of disillusionment many felt with regard to establishment politics in the United States. While some supported action through existing political structures, others were not as sympathetic. “Does the election of Trump show us that there’s still hope for the system?” Wright asked, provoking a loud “No” from the crowd. “Does the (Democratic National Committee) show us that there’s still hope for the Democratic party?” she asked to a similarly negative response. Even in the face of interruptions, confusions and occasionally tense standoffs, there is reason to believe that the meeting succeeded at least marginally in its goal of bringing hope to many who are feeling pain in the wake of Trump’s victory. “I feel connected now,” Bella Noka, a resident of Charlestown, Rhode Island and a member of the Narragansett Tribe, told The Herald. “I feel as though I have connected with a family of people that has the best interests of the country at heart.” She added that she would work to involve her community in efforts to stop a Trump presidency. “Think globally, act locally: family, community, tribe,” she said. “I was overwhelmed by all the emotions over the last couple days, and I wanted to do something productive,” Charis Kotfila, a member of Americorps who is moving back to Cambridge, New York next week, told The Herald. Cambridge is “Trump’s territory there, but I want to see what stories I can take back home to change minds,” she said. “Even if we disagree on policy, we can agree on respect.” “Tonight we’ve seen that there is passion in Rhode Island,” said Zack Mezera, executive director of the Providence Student Union and one of the event’s organizers, urging community members to “build on it in whatever direction you think is appropriate.” But he added that the intensity of that action must absolutely be altered in the face of four years of a Trump administration. “Since Tuesday, we need to ratchet that up two, three, four times harder,” Mezera said. “Whatever you think is right, do it better, do it more and do it together.” — With additional reporting by Rachel Gold non-conference play, Reilly noted that the team’s primary focus is on the upcoming Ocean State Tournament, which includes only Rhode Island schools: Brown, Bryant, University of Rhode Island and Providence College. Reilly also said that in the long term, “another goal is to end up in the top four of the Ivy League and advance the Ivy League Tournament.” “We are a very young team,” she added. “Our underclassmen need to step up and take on big leadership roles.”

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Rosenblatt ’17.5 lifts Bears over Big Green Defense allows over 600 yards, forces turnovers to keep Dartmouth offense in check By BEN SHUMATE SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Last month, Ben Rosenblatt ’17.5 heard the Brown football team was having trouble with its field goal kicking. A former kicker at Trinity College, Rosenblatt contacted Head Coach Phil Estes P’18 about a mid-season tryout. Saturday, Rosenblatt booted a 52yard field goal as the first half expired in his second game in a Brown uniform. The kick, the second-longest in program history, proved to be the difference for the Bears (4-5, 3-3 Ivy) in a 24-21 road win over Dartmouth (4-5, 1-5). The win is the Bears’ third in four games and puts the team in position to finish fourth in the Ivy League standings and avoid its first losing season since 2006. Rosenblatt’s kick gave Bruno a 24-7 lead, punctuating a solid first half in which almost everything went Brown’s way. But the tables turned after the half, as Jack Heneghan led Dartmouth on two fourth-quarter scoring drives of more than 80 yards to cut Brown’s lead to three. Heneghan had his way with Brown’s defense, completing 37 of 54 attempts for 440 yards. In total, Dartmouth amassed a jaw-dropping 615 total yards

» SCREENING, from page 1 leader Suharto’s rise to power, and Lee discussed student movements that eventually pushed Suharto out of office. During the teach-in, Kinzer noted that Indonesia’s stature as the fourthmost populous country on Earth is “not really reflected in (Americans’) understanding of the world.” He said that while Indonesia appears to be a democracy, the military continues to constitute “a shadow state that is actually sovereign.” The influence of a similar external force over government may exist in other countries as well, he added, alluding to the United States. “It’s true about Indonesia and may be true about other places,” he said. Reflecting on the victory of President-Elect Donald Trump, Oppenheimer told The Herald that “we ought

of offense on the day. But five turnovers, including three Heneghan interceptions allowed Brown to keep the Big Green off the scoreboard on several possessions that looked destined for the end zone. After taking the Big Green 85 yards in nine plays, Heneghan scored on a 7-yard run with 1:47 left. But Dartmouth failed to execute an onside kick, ceding the ball to the Brown offense, which ran out most of the remaining time to secure the victory. Quarterback TJ Linta ’18 built Brown’s lead in the first half with a pair of touchdown throws to Troy Doles ’16.5 on back-to-back possessions. Linta finished 17-of-27 passing for 220 yards and one interception. Linta credited his deep receiving corps for his continued success after taking over the starting job mid-season. “What’s a defense to do against all those guys?” he said. Doles has dealt with a nagging hamstring injury this season after being named second team All-Ivy in his junior year. Showing no sign of injury, Doles found himself behind the Dartmouth secondary on both touchdown catches, finding the end zone untouched. He finished with 103 yards receiving on four catches. “He’s a great player,” Linta said. “He gives us another down-the-field threat.” Fellow wideouts Alex Jette ’17 and Garrett Swanky ’17 both also finished with four catches on the day. Johnny Pena ’17 ran for 83 yards on

20 carries and Brown’s first touchdown of the day. Linta drove the Bears 61 yards to set up the 1-yard score after Grant Varner ’19 blocked a field goal attempt on Dartmouth’s first possession. Linta was intercepted once and Brown lost one fumble. But mistakes forced by Brown’s defense mitigated the high yardage totals racked up by Dartmouth’s offense. Will Twyman ’16.5, Terrell Smith ’18 and John Simpson ’17 all came up with interceptions, and two Dartmouth fumbles ended up in Brown control. “Turnover margin, most of the time, tells who will win the game,” Linta said “Our defense has been amazing this year forcing turnovers.” Twyman and Max Tylki ’17 led the way with 12 tackles each. The kicking game is also a newfound strength for the team with the addition of Rosenblatt, who is now 3-for-3 on field goals and 6-for-6 on extra points in two games. Punter Ryan Kopec ’19 helped Brown control field position by pinning Dartmouth inside the 20-yard line five times — a career high. The impact of the special teams play on Saturday’s win was huge, Linta said. Brown will look to honor its 23 seniors with a win at home Saturday against Columbia in its final game, which guarantees Brown a fourth-place finish in league standings. “It’s their day,” Linta said of the seniors. “We have to win for them. They’ve put in four years of hard work, and they deserve it.”

to now watch (these films) without being able to reassure ourselves that this is something that we’re in any sense above.” The fact that Trump was able to win “is an inevitability in a society built on so much cruelty, which it has not had the moral courage to look at,” he added. “White backlash is the backlash of something monstrous but very human and very fearful,” Oppenheimer said. White backlash is “very human in their fear of actually looking at what whiteness is … an identity that defined itself only through exclusion and herding and enslaving of others.” He also noted that “You could make almost the same film” as “The Act of Killing” “with Donald Trump, not because he’s a mass murderer but because: Who is he? What facade — what mask — is he wearing at any given moment?”

Reflecting on both the Indonesian genocide and Trump’s election, Oppenheimer said, “We can struggle for a society that teaches kids to question authority rather than to honor it and obey it; to certainly question the socalled virtue of patriotism and instead to recognize the truth, … that patriotism is the virtue of the vicious and to practice the wider empathy that’s possible when you start to recognize that the world isn’t divided into us and them — good guys and bad guys, white and black.” “I think if we built a society based on those principles, this kind of horrific violence could actually become impossible,” Oppenheimer said. “We have it in our humanity to be good to each other and love each other, but not when we define ourselves and find worth and importance through hurting one another.”

» FLAGS, from page 1 demonstration, Zavalick posted in her class group on Facebook. The post drew “hateful comments and disrespect,” including things such as “How can you support something as stupid as the American flag?” she said. One comment that resonated with Katie Hammaker ’19 read: “If only these people put this much energy into protecting marginalized people as they (did) into protecting these flags.” “I think what a lot of people don’t realize is that veterans are marginalized people,” Hammaker said. “When they come back from deployments, they have trouble finding work, finding schooling opportunities and being mainstreamed back into civilian life,” she added. “Those American flags … were to support and show gratitude and solidarity for the marginalized group of veterans.”

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Thursday, students damaged flags lining the Veterans Day Ceremony procession path around campus.

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Following the presidential election, students lined pathways on the Main Green with signs to support the protection of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, LGBTQ+ rights, Black Lives Matter and other causes.

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A request for respect MICHAEL MUIR op-ed contributor This past weekend, the nation celebrated Veterans Day, a national holiday where the country collectively takes a moment to honor the people who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Every year, Brown University hosts a Veterans Day ceremony to honor its student veterans, past and present, as well as veterans in the surrounding community. The ceremony is a Brown tradition that brings together distinguished guests, such as proud alums, city officials and even President Christina Paxson P’19. As you walked on campus Thursday evening or Friday morning, did you notice the small American flags on the Main Green that follow a path to Ruth Simmons Quadrangle? The student veterans who placed the flags there were doing so in preparation for the Veterans Day ceremony; the flags line the procession route that the ceremony guests, ROTC color guard and traditional bagpiper march down at the beginning of the ceremony. Additionally, flags were placed around Brown’s beautiful war memorials and around the Main Green flagpole. If you didn’t see the flags, it is probably because within minutes of them being planted, they were ripped out by angry students and

thrown on the ground or in nearby garbage cans. I have since been told that students were confused and unhappy at seeing the flags because they appeared out of context. But what context is needed to show respect and solidarity for the 12 undergraduate student veterans at Brown (0.002 percent of the undergraduate population), for the thousands of past student veterans and for all veterans across the nation? What context is needed to celebrate a federally de-

commemorated the armistice with Germany — which went into effect at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 — by declaring it a national holiday. A few years later, the U.S. Congress stated that “it is fitting that the recurring anniversary of this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations.” Like all of the Ivy League uni-

Throughout World War II, Brown offered a year-round academic program for military officers. At the war’s end, Brown students — military and civilian — marched to Pembroke campus where the women students joined the celebratory procession and “went down Thayer Street and stopped at the flagpole for the singing of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner.’” But like much of the nation, the bloody stain of the Vietnam War saw public support for the military on campus completely erode.

For an institution that prides itself on diversity, acceptance and inclusion, I find it hard to believe that this sad incident was a simple matter of context.

clared, national holiday that honors public servants? In fact, what context is needed at all to fly this nation’s flag? For an institution that prides itself on diversity, acceptance and inclusion, I find it hard to believe that this sad incident was a simple matter of context. But in light of the situation, perhaps some historical context will help. Though it got its current name in 1954, Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day. After World War I, President Woodrow Wilson

versities, Brown has a long history with the military. During the Revolutionary War, parts of campus, including University Hall, served as military barracks and hospital facilities for the American troops. Four of the seven graduates from Brown’s inaugural class of 1769 served in the Revolution. Our World War I Soldiers Memorial Arch that we’ve all walked through countless times was erected in honor of the 41 alums and students and one faculty member who lost their lives during the war.

By 1972, ROTC on Brown’s campus ceased to exist. Since then, Brown’s relationship with veterans appears to be slowly thawing. This year for example, after 44 years, ROTC at Brown has resumed with three firstyear student cadets who have felt the honorable call to public service. Furthermore, in an effort to increase the diversity of its student body, Brown has made huge strides to encourage veterans to apply for admission. Now imagine how future veteran

applicants feel, or how those three first-year cadets feel, knowing that the Brown community values diversity, respect and understanding only when provided context. Imagine the way that the 12 current undergraduate student veterans feel when they must provide context in order to honor their collective and personal history and to share this with the community in peace. As Congress points out, Veterans Day is much more than a day to thank veterans for their service. It is a day to perpetuate peace, good will and mutual understanding. At Brown specifically, Veterans Day offers the university a chance to revisit and honor its history and a chance to consider just how inclusive its future will be. After all, we veterans served the entire American public regardless of race, gender, sexuality, religion or socioeconomic background. We dedicated ourselves to service so that the students of Brown University and the American people in general can hold sitins, protest, stomp flags, be critical of their president or write op-eds. We swore to protect your ability to prosper as free citizens and human beings worthy of respect. We want the same from you.

Michael Muir ’20 is a first-year student and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He can be reached at michael_muir@brown.edu.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Hermano Fortes feature falls short To the Editor: “Hermano Fortes finds family at hockey rink” (Nov. 11) is a short-sighted, one-dimensional article that was published carelessly on the front page of The Herald Friday. The Herald clearly intended to publish a heartwarming, behind-the-scenes piece about a beloved Facilities worker. The Herald’s staff accomplished their goal, certainly, and the problem lies with the tone of this story, rather than its mediocre execution. The portrayal of Fortes as the ever-smiling, happy worker is flat and fails to grasp any aspect of his character aside from how Brown students perceive him. Nothing about the interview points to an attempt to gain insight into Fortes’ character or life. Reductive language and generalizing images are used to paint a thoughtless picture that enforces racist and classist narratives. Though Fortes may love his job and be great at it, there is certainly more to this individual than someone “you can always find … behind the wheel of the resurfacer.” Even if this is what Fortes said (it is ambiguous in the article whether the author is quoting or editorializing), it is the reporter’s duty to ask deeper questions and write a fuller story about his life. The author Cal Barash-David ’19 also ignores how Facilities workers are treated at Brown. Facilities workers have been striving for better wages and conditions for years. This is clearly documented in the Herald archives. The Herald has talked for a while about improving the diversity of its staff and improving The Herald as a publication. This article signifies failure on the behalf of this specific staff writer and the entire editorial staff. Lindsay Gantz ’17.5

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Veterans unwelcome TRISTAN HOOD

op-ed contributor Let’s not forget Veterans Day is a time-honored tradition when a nation celebrates those who have served and honors those taken too early for the sake of American freedom. These men and women paid the ultimate price fighting for their blessed motherland. So if you see a veteran, please be sure to tell them how worthless they are and to go f*#k themselves because that is what some members of the Brown community have already expressed to them. What a shameful display it would have been to the veteran students, veteran alums, active-duty members and other honored guests attending the Veterans Day ceremony to see their flag ripped down, torn, stomped on and destroyed. I heard some students say that they destroyed these flags because they “have no respect for our country,” and veterans are “blind followers trained to kill and enslave people.” That people would say this is beyond me. Perhaps the best comment I heard was a student who told me service members were “too stupid to go to college.” Not only is the last statement ignorant, but it is completely false. There are 12 undergraduate veterans at Brown, and many more in the Graduate School and Alpert Medical School. Apparently this sort of hostile environment is one some Brown students want to foster. I am a veteran of two wars, and I know this: We are the few that fight for freedom. We love our land. We would never, as some individuals chose to do this past week, stomp

on or trash another nation’s flag. To other veterans and myself, the American flag is more than fabric. It is a symbol of service, duty and honor. It is a constant reminder of what and whom we fought for: all of the American people — the flag defamers and the flag saluters, the dirt-poor and the ultra-rich, the uneducated and the literate, the Republicans and Democrats and everyone in between. The

It means the years stationed far away from our loved ones were all spent in vain. It means those who never saw their families again fought and died for nothing. Following the incidents mentioned above, several veteran students took to social media to express their outrage. But the events that followed were inspiring. On Veterans Day some student veterans and several sympathetic stu-

To other veterans and myself, the American flag is more than fabric. It is a symbol of service, duty and honor. It is a constant reminder of what and whom we fought for: all of the American people — the flag defamers and the flag saluters, the dirt-poor and the ultra-rich, the uneducated and the literate, the Republicans and Democrats and everyone in between.

nation’s elections do not change this unwavering commitment: From election to election, a veteran is a veteran and as such holds no allegiance except unto their country. But tearing and shaming our flag means that you are casting aside our service, sacrifice and loss as worthless.

dents met on the Main Green to return the flags to their original places. Furthermore, an additional 100 flags were placed along the procession path. Because the flags were set up in the morning, all the veterans had classes to attend but were hesitant to abandon the flags, given

the previous day’s events. In response to such worries several students chose to remain on the green to prevent people from destroying the flags while the vets were in class. By the time the vets had returned, many more students had assembled on the Main Green. When the procession began, many students followed to where the ceremony was to be held. Last year, the Veterans Day ceremony consisted of a couple dozen people. But due to the flag desecrations, the venomous dialogue hurled at the student veterans and the outcry on social media, the ceremony was larger than it has ever been. With close to a hundred in attendance, there weren’t enough seats available, and almost everyone had to stand. Several students chose to remain on the Main Green during the ceremony to prevent any more defamation. This display of reverence to the veterans was astonishing. The support from some of the community demonstrated the respect that should be embraced on Veterans Day. Remember, Veterans Day is supposed to be a day of respect. Whether or not you respect the president is one thing, but we live in a country protected by volunteers. These volunteers are not politicians. They do not fight for the Republicans, for the Democrats, for former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton or PresidentElect Donald Trump. They fight for the American public. They are comprised of every race, ethnicity, sexuality and affiliation. As such, they deserve to be treated with respect for their service and sacrifice, not belittled and attacked.

Tristan Hood ’17.5 can be reached at tristan_hood@brown.edu.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

‘Untitled (Lamp/Bear)’ has never been uglier To the Editor: Last month, I wrote a letter to The Herald regarding former Chancellor Thomas Tisch’s ’76 P’18 P’20 defense of the University’s acceptance of the blue bear statue from Steven Cohen, the infamous investor whose firm pled guilty in 2013 to insider trading. I will not argue that Republicans ought not be board members at Brown, so let us put aside for the moment Cohen’s donations of over $60,000 to the Republican National Senatorial Committee in both 2012 and 2011. Let us consider instead that by the end of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s campaign in 2016, Cohen and his wife had contributed over $6 million to his super PAC. Tisch — Cohen’s champion in this newspaper — is a longtime supporter and former board member of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a far-right think-tank best known for popularizing “community policing” along the lines of stop-and-frisk and for churning out op-eds in defense of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Wednesday morning, in light of Tuesday’s results, Christina Paxson P’19 did some lip service to our overwhelmingly liberal student body and offered a sort of safe space in the Leung Gallery. She urged us, “as an academic community,” to “aim to understand the divisions in our country and develop ways to address them,” and to “succeed in elevating the level of discourse above what we have seen in the political arena over the past year.” Her writing calls to mind a cow flicking its tail lazily at a meddlesome fly. Here is one way we might address the divisions in our country: Stop selecting the public supporters of figures like Christie and Giuliani — President-Elect Donald Trump’s right-hand men — as the string-pullers and mouthpieces of this “academic community.” And here is one way we might elevate “the level of discourse:” Talk about the highest force of all in America — money. Until Brown’s administration puts its money where its mouth is — and not only in the form of Diversity Action Plans, but in its selection of our chancellors and board members — how can students view an email like Paxson’s as anything more than an opiate of the masses, a lazy palliative for a disease the administration has shown no interest in curing? Marty Granoff P’93, another Brown trustee, called the original op-ed decrying the University’s acceptance of the bear statue “offensive.” Given that critical student journalism is enough to offend Granoff, I would like very much to know how he thinks an undocumented, female, Black, Muslim or disabled student feels as he or she walks by the blue bear, purchased from the same wallet propping up Trump’s bosom buddy. I pled last month that we deserve better from our administrators; now I ask only that those same administrators not pretend to empathize with the suffering of a student body ruled by the same class — the same exact people — who fund that suffering. I want Brown’s administration to know that we do not forgive support for Trump’s cronies, even if that support comes from the same wallets on which this institution depends. Who knew that the blue bear could become even harder to look at? Margaret Shea ’19

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Faculty, staff: Make Brown a sanctuary Dear President Christina Paxson P’19 and Provost Richard Locke P’17: We write with some urgency to request that you investigate the possibility of our campus serving as a sanctuary for our students, our staff members and their family members who face imminent deportation. We have reason to believe that Providence Police officers cannot enter the campus without permission of the University. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are also subject to similar restrictions based on a 2011 Memo regarding places of worship, schools and hospitals. Given that many students, staff members and their families are directly affected by this issue, we urge the University to immediately work to develop a protocol for the University serving as a sanctuary campus. Our active support of our most vulnerable members will demonstrate Brown’s commitment to defend our values of inclusion, justice and humanity. It may give comfort to those, especially within the Brown community, who are frightened and unsure about their future and safety. We thank you for your consideration. Sincerely yours, Maria Abascal, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Population Studies Faiz Ahmed, Assistant Professor of History Leticia Alvarado, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies Emma Amador, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity in America Paul Armstrong, Professor of English Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature Narges Bajoghli, Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs Sarah Besky, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International and Public Affairs Timothy Bewes, Professor of English Robert Blair, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs Stefano Bloch, Postdoctoral Senior Research Associate in Urban Studies Anthony Bogues, Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory and Africana Studies Sheila Bonde, Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Chair of History of Art and Architecture Lundy Braun, Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Nicole Burrowes, Postdoctoral Research Associate in History Jordan Camp, Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Ethnicity in American and International and Public Affairs Jennifer J. Carroll, Research Fellow in Psychiatry Human Behavior Rebecca Louise Carter, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies Peggy Chang ’93 AM’13, Assistant Dean of Engaged Learning and Director of the Curricular Resource Center Ross Cheit, Professor of Political Science Anne Chen, Visiting Assistant Pro-

fessor of History of Art and Architecture Jessica Cho, Program Coordinator of East Asian Studies Nitsan Chorev, Professor of Sociology and International Studies Michelle Clayton, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature Tony Cokes, Professor of Modern Culture and Media Jeff Colgan, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies R. Douglas Cope, Associate Professor of History Harold J. Cook, Professor of History Colleen Kim Daniher, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Joan Copjec, Professor of Modern Culture and Media Bathsheba Demuth, Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies Christina Downs, Manager of Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Beshara Doumani, Professor of History, Director of Middle East Studies Jim Egan, Professor of English Kevin Escudero, Postdoctoral Research Associate in American Studies and Ethnic Studies Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, Visiting Scholar in Religious Studies Linford D. Fisher, Associate Professor of History Andrea Flores, Assistant Professor of Education Rodrigo Fonseca, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Caroline Frank, Visiting Associate Professor of American Studies Eva Gómez García, Lecturer in Hispanic Studies Olakunle George, Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies Alma Gottlieb, Visiting Scholar in Anthropology Dana Graef, Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities James N. Green, Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Jennifer Greenburg, Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs Amy Greenwald, Associate Professor of Computer Science Matthew Guterl, Professor of Africana Studies, Chair of American Studies Matthew Gutmann, Professor of Anthropology Sherine Hamdy, Associate Professor of Anthropology Yannis Hamilakis, Professor of Archaeology and Modern Greek Studies Françoise N. Hamlin, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies Ed Hardy, Visiting Lecturer in English Beverly Haviland, Senior Lecturer and Visiting Associate Professor of American Studies Patrick Heller, Professor of Social Sciences, Sociology and International and Public Affairs Daniel Hirschman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Diane Hoffman-Kim, Associate Professor of Medical Science and Engineering Joseph Hogan, Professor of Biostatistics Benjamin Holtzman, Visiting Assis-

tant Professor of History Bonnie Honig, Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science Elizabeth Hoover, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies Saori Hoshi, Visiting Lecturer in Japanese and East Asian Studies Mariaelena Huambachano, Postdoctoral Research Associate in American and Ethnic Studies Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, American Studies and Ethnic Studies José Itzigsohn, Professor of Sociology Nancy Jacob, Professor of History Lynne Joyrich, Professor of Modern Culture and Media Seny Kamara, Associate Professor of Computer Science Tamar Katz, Associate Professor of English Julie Kauer, Professor of Medical Science and Neuroscience Adrienne Keene, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies Michael D. Kennedy, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs Nancy Khalek, Associate Professor of Religious Studies Daniel Kim, Associate Professor of English and American Studies Dawn King, Lecturer in Environment and Society Jill S. Kuhnheim, Visiting Professor of Hispanic Studies Caroline Kuo, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences David Laidlaw, Professor of Computer Science Andrew Laird, Professor of Classics and Humanities, Professor of Hispanic Studies Jennifer Lambe, Assistant Professor of History Robert Lee, Associate Professor of American Studies Jessaca Leinaweaver, Associate Professor of Anthropology Patsy Lewis, Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs Zhuqing Li, Adjunct Associate Professor of East Asian Studies Catherine Lutz, Professor of Anthropology and International Studies Amanda Lynch, Professor of Environmental Studies and Earth, Environmental and Planetary Studies, Director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society Richard M. Mariita, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Chemistry John Mazza, Manager of Web and Multimedia Technology Monica Muñoz Martinez, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Yalidy Matos, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity in America Sara Matthiesen, Postdoctoral Research Associate in American Studies Stephen T. McGarvey, Professor of Epidemiology Jim McGrath, Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Humanities Brian Meeks, Professor and Chair of Africana Studies Stephanie Merrim, Professor of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies

Casey Miller, Postdoctoral Fellow in Population Studies Nicholas Miller, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs Sreemati Mitter, Assistant Professor of History and International and Public Affairs Jennifer Montgomery, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Kym Moore, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Gregory Duff Morton, Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs Jeremy Mumford, Assistant Professor of History Paul E. Nahme, Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies Yusuf Neggers, Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs Rebecca Nedostup, Associate Professor of History Tara Nummedal, Associate Professor of History Don Operario, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Itohan Osayimwese, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture Emily A. Owens, Assistant Professor of History Domenico Pacifici, Associate Professor of Engineering Naomi Parker, Adjunct Lecturer in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Tate Paulette, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology and the Ancient World Keisha-Khan Perry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies Samuel Perry, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies Ethan Pollock, Associate Professor of History and Slavic Studies Stephen Porder, Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Environment and Society Thangam Ravindranathan, Associate Professor of French Studies Marc Redfield, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Chair of Comparative Literature Ravit Reichman, Associate Professor of English Lindsay Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Population Studies Maralie Armstrong Rial, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Joan L. Richards, Professor of History Lukas Rieppel, Assistant Professor of History Timons Roberts, Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology Seth Rockman, Associate Professor of History Ralph E. Rodriguez, Associate Professor of American Studies, Ethnic Studies and English Daniel Arturo Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of History Tricia Rose, Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Philip Rosen, Professor of Modern Culture and Media James Russell, Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Kenneth Sacks, Professor of History

and Classics Felicia Salinas-Moniz, Assistant Director of the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Kate Schapira, Lecturer in English Andrew Scherer, Associate Professor of Anthropology Rebecca Schneider, Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and History of Art and Architecture Robyn S. Schneider, Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Nidia Schuhmacher, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies Robert Self, Professor of American History, Chair of the History Department Naoko Shibusawa, Associate Professor of History and American Studies Elena Shih, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies Kerry Smith, Associate Professor of History Victoria Smith, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies Susan Smulyan, Professor of American Studies, Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center Patricial Sobral, Senior Lecturer of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Silvia Sobral, Senior Lecturer of Hispanic Studies Alexander Starre, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies Sydney Skybetter, Lecturer of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Tracy Steffes, Associate Professor of Education and History Sarah Thomas, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Hsin-I Tseng, Lecturer of East Asian Studies Daniel Vaca, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Leah VanWey, Professor of Sociology and Environment and Society Mercedes Vaquero, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Medieval Studies Siri Veland, Assistant Professor of Environment and Society Germán Vergara, Postdoctoral Fellow in Environment and Society Yang Wang, Senior Lecturer of East Asian Studies Kate Weinberg, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environmental Studies Deborah Weinstein, Assistant Professor of American Studies Gregory Wellenius, Associate Professor of Epidemiology Esther Whitfield, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies Annie Wiart, Senior Lecturer of French Studies Andre C. Willis, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies John-Eng Wong, Special Advisor for American Studies MA Program Patricia Ybarra, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Vazira Zamindar, Associate Professor of History Alex Zaslavsky, Professor of Engineering and Physics Samuel Zipp, Associate Professor of American Studies and Urban Studies This list reflects the faculty members who signed the petition by 6:15 p.m. Nov. 13. The letter was originally sent Nov. 11. Faculty members can still add their names to the letter. Undergraduates can also add their names to the same letter.