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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Bruno splits contests in opening weekend Team falls to Cincinnati, rebounds against Niagara as Spieth ’17 nearly records triple-double By CAL BARASH-DAVID STAFF WRITER

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Of the $27 million donation, $5 million will go to endowing the first professorship at the Brown Institute for Translational Science, and $22 million will provide tuition assitance and stipends for the MD/PhD program.

Med School receives $27 million donation Gift from Warren Alpert Foundation to expand MD/PhD program, endow new professorship By ISABEL GENSLER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Warren Alpert Foundation donated $27 million to the University to expand the MD/PhD program and en-

dow a new professorship at the Brown Institute for Translational Science, the University announced Monday in a press release. The $27 million gift comes almost a decade after the foundation’s initial $100 million donation that established the name of the medical school in 2007. Of the donation, $22 million will go toward offering tuition assistance and research stipends for the MD/ PhD program, according to the press

release. The remaining $5 million will endow the professorship at BITS. The donation overall serves to bolster the University’s efforts in translational science. BITS, which launched last fall, aims to convert scientific research into medical treatment by bringing together both commercial experts and faculty members, according to the institute’s website. “Translational medicine needs » See MED SCHOOL, page 2

The men’s basketball team kicked off its season this weekend with a loss to Cincinnati (2-0) Friday and a win over Niagara (0-2) Sunday. From the beginning of the action Friday, Bruno (1-1) was outmatched by its American Athletic Conference foe, which earned an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as a nine-seed last year. The Bearcats had four scorers pour in 10 or more points on the evening, while the Bears had just one: veteran guard JR Hobbie ’17. More than half of Brown’s 16 players are freshmen or sophomores. Head Coach Mike Martin ’04 showed trust in his team’s youth, selecting two freshmen — forward Joshua Howard ’20 and guard Brandon Anderson ’20 — to play in his starting squad.

After one half of play, Cincinnati led Brown 43-25. The second half was similarly non-competitive, resulting in a 84-55 loss for the Bears. The youth movement continued Sunday afternoon when Brown hosted the Niagara Purple Eagles in front of 757 fans at the Pizzitola Sports Center. Howard, the son of NBA All-Star Juwan Howard, jumpstarted Brown’s offense in the first half, scoring 14 points in the 20 minute period. Chris Sullivan ’19 provided some valuable minutes off of the bench defensively. The team got “great energy from Chris,” Martin said. “He’s been working hard, waiting for his opportunity, and he got his name called early tonight, … and he did really well.” At the break, the Bears led the Purple Eagles 42-36. After a solid first half outing with 11 points, one rebound and four assists, captain Steven Spieth ’17 took over the game in the second half. Spieth poured in 27 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and dished out nine assists in 39 minutes of play — all of which » See M. BBALL, page 2

MEN’S SOCCER

Defeat at Dartmouth ends Ivy title hopes 2-0 loss ensures thirdplace conference finish for Bears, third straight Ivy title for Dartmouth By EMILE BAUTISTA STAFF WRITER

In an anticlimactic season finale, the men’s soccer team fell to Dartmouth 2-0, dashing Brown’s hopes of a share of the Ivy League title, while clinching one for the host Big Green — its third straight. With its win against Columbia earlier in the season, Dartmouth (8-45, 5-1-1 Ivy) also secured the Ancient Eight’s automatic NCAA tournament bid. For the Bears (8-8-1, 3-3-1), the season ended on a flat note, dropping them to .500 in conference and overall play. “There was a lot on the line,” said Christian Rodriguez ’17. “The guys competed really well and everyone left it all on the field, which is all you can ask for.” In recent history, the Bears have found it hard to crack their northern

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foe, amassing only one win in their last six matches. The lone win came last season, and Bruno hoped to start a new trend of beating the Big Green with this contest. To make things even harder, Dartmouth also boasts the stingiest defense in the league, allowing only 0.71 goals per game and sporting a 83.3 save percentage. In conference play, the backline is especially tough, conceding a mere two goals in its last five matches. Though Bruno was scoring at a higher clip than its opponent, it was always going to be a battle of which defense would cave first. Both teams came out strong, hoping to impress in their season finales. It was the Big Green who had the first threatening chances of the match. Justin Donawa — who would prove to be a nuisance all night for the Bears — used his pace to latch onto a pass and get behind some Brown defenders. Fortunately for Bruno, Erik Hanson ’17 scampered out and made a huge save to keep the game tied. Emmanuel Arteaga followed that up » See M. SOCCER, page 3

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Robert Post, the dean of Yale Law School, spoke as part of the University’s Reaffirming Values lecture series. Post argued that while free speech is a cornerstone of democracy, it can be limited within a university.

Robert Post talks freedom of expression Dean of Yale Law School discusses role of speech regulation in relation to teaching, research By BEN SHUMATE SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The University hosted Robert Post, dean and professor of law at Yale Law

School, as part of its Reaffirming University Values event series Monday. During the talk, which was titled “Freedom of Speech in the University,” Post explored important distinctions between the legal protections of speech given by the First Amendment and the regulation of speech on college campuses. As a point of reference, Post outlined three rules that cannot be

broken in regulating speech if First Amendment compliance is to be achieved: The state cannot be content-discriminatory, make judgements about the truth or falsehood of opinions or compel people to speak, Post said. Post prefaced his analysis with a quote from Aristotle: “We’re all talking animals.” » See FREEDOM, page 2

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Forward Steven Spieth ’17 pulls up for a jump shot against Niagara in Bruno’s home opener Sunday night. Spieth flirted with a triple-double in the team’s 88-79 victory, recording 27 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists.

»FREEDOM, from page 1 “Everything we do, we do by communication,” Post said. “If all forms of speech were to be protected simply because we’re speaking, then all behavior would be free from regulation.” Because society accepts various forms of regulatory behavior, freedom of expression is “the exception to the rule,” he added. “We have freedom of speech to govern ourselves in a democracy,” Post said. “Freedom of speech serves, in the United States, the value of democratic legitimation.” Post qualified his view of how freedom of speech fits into a campus context. He outlined research and teaching as the two major purposes of all universities. To facilitate progress in these two areas, universities consciously regulate speech in ways that break the doctrine of traditional freedom of expression, Post said. “If we’re talking about the research function of the university, is there really no content discrimination? We give grants to one subject rather than

» MED SCHOOL, from page 1 physicians who take care of patients but also work on the mechanisms of disease their patients are experiencing,” said Jack Elias, dean of medicine and biological sciences and chief of translational medicine. He hopes to build teams made of physician-scientists and PhD scientists to work on understanding diseases together. The MD/PhD program will combine the tremendous basic knowledge that comes with a PhD and the clinical knowledge obtained from an

another subject, we give tenure for one field rather than another field,” Post said. “We advance knowledge in the university by making judgments all the time. We make judgments of competence. … If we couldn’t make these judgments of quality, we couldn’t be a university.” Unlike the United States as a democratic nation, “the function of a university is not to create democratic legitimation,” Post said. “The purpose of the university is to create new knowledge. These are different functions, so they require different forms of regulating speech.” Like research, the norms of teaching are also governed differently, Post said. “In my class, students talk when they’re called upon about the subject we’re discussing in some kind of order, and they treat each other with respect,” he added. “I believe they learn better if they treat each other with respect. My object is not freedom of expression. … My object is to educate students.” Similarly, professors don’t have unlimited freedom of expression in

what or how they teach, Post added. “If I’m teaching that the Holocaust didn’t happen or that the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1954, then of course I’m going to be regulated, and rightly so.” Free speech controversies that occur outside the classroom must be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and cannot be solved with oversimplified notions of free expression, Post said. Controversies often happen in cases where “it’s not clear what mission the university is actually serving,” he added. “To invoke abstract principles of freedom of speech and reference our First Amendment, that’s going to get you nothing but confusion.” The University’s Reaffirming Values series will continue with a talk titled “Open and Inclusive Inquiry: Where Do We Go From Here?” Dec. 7. Joshua Cohen, distinguished senior fellow in law, philosophy and political science at the University of California at Berkeley, and Danielle Allen, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and professor of government and education at Harvard, will speak.

MD, Elias said. The program allows students to gain an understanding of diseases and the patients they work with while also delving “into the basic cell biology and molecular biology of what is happening to allow new treatments to take place,” Elias said. While the healthcare industry is undergoing changes, Elias believes that if the focus of the Alpert Medical School is to develop new therapies, there must also be opportunities to train future leaders in academics so they “have the best chance … to be able to understand how diseases take

place,” he said. Elias said he hopes that many of the diseases for which there is currently no treatment “will have treatments in the future as a result of people in the Brown Institute for Translational Sciences,” and that the University will contribute to the acceleration of discovering new treatments, he said. He added that, as a physician, there is nothing worse than making a diagnosis for a patient and realizing “the treatment you have for that disease is no better now than it was 30 years ago — and it didn’t work 30 years ago.”

were game highs. Much of Spieth’s scoring was due to his efficiency at the foul line: He tallied 19 points on 22 attempts from the stripe. “I know if I’m aggressive off the ball and on the ball, I’m going to have the potential to get to the line a lot,” Spieth said. Obie Okolie ’19 and Tavon Blackmon ’17 added to the offense with 15 and 13 points, respectively. A mid-second half resurgence by Niagara brought the visitors within two points with 12:05 left to play. But that was as close as it would get. Bolstered by a 10-point, seven-rebound performance off of the bench by Travis Fuller ’19, Brown held on to a narrow lead for the rest of the game, eventually solidifying an 88-79 win. While he was pleased with his team’s performance, Martin noted that his team has room to improve on the defensive end. “At the end of the day, they shot 50 percent (from the field) and scored 79 points, so we’ve got to get better defensively,” Martin said. Brown continues to play this Wednesday, Nov. 16, with an in-state clash at the University of Rhode Island.

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U. professor finds link between reduced drug costs, hospitalizations Trivedi investigates effect of reduced co-pays on indigenous Australian population’s health By STEPHANIE ZHANG STAFF WRITER

New research conducted by Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Services, Policy and Practice Amal Trivedi indicates that reduced drug costs for indigenous people in Australia are associated with a significant decrease in the rate of hospitalizations for chronic conditions. The study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine this fall, was conducted as part of Trivedi’s AustralianAmerican Health Policy Fellowship. Four other Australia-based researchers collaborated on the research. Trivedi said his motivation for the study arose from a “long-standing interest in health disparities and in policies and policy strategies to address disparities in … health outcomes.” The study investigated the Closing the Gap Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme, a policy intended to reduce the 13year difference in average lifespan between indigenous and non-indigenous people in Australia. Implemented in July 2010, PBS reduced drug co-pays for indigenous peoples from $33.30 per prescription to $5.40, while those already receiving subsidized co-pays of $5.40 now received the drugs for no co-pay. Margaret Kelaher, co-author and director of the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Melbourne, said the drastic lifespan difference could be attributed to the legacy of

» M. SOCCER, from page 1 three minutes later with a shot that just went wide of the post. It was not until the 19th minute that the Bears were able to take their first shot, recorded by Nico Lozada ’18. They slowly started to inch their way back into the game but still found it tough to keep meaningful possession. Matthew Chow ’19 tested the Dartmouth goalkeeper for the first time in the 34th minute, but he was up for the challenge. The Big Green volleyed a shot just above the goal before breaking the deadlock. Dartmouth sliced through the Brown backline with some skillful interplay that found Noah Paravinci open at the top of the box. He only needed one touch to slot the ball in the bottom right corner and give the hosts the lead just four minutes before the halftime whistle. It was more of the same at the beginning of the second half, with the Bears still backpedaling and trying to keep themselves within striking distance. Within the first 10 minutes, Donawa headed a ball right into Hanson’s arms and also blasted in a dangerous cross that was redirected just wide. The Bears were still looking to find a more consistent rhythm in the match but could only manage to draw fouls from the Big Green. On the other end, the hosts found their insurance goal in the 68th minute. Donawa found himself in open space at the top right edge of the box. He curled in a cross right in front of the goal to a wide open Matt Danilack,

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He said he saw the same trend in his clinical practice: When patients are not able to adhere to their chronic medications, their conditions can worsen, leading to a hospitalization. These hospitalizations are risky and disruptive for patients, as well as expensive to the healthcare system, he added. Measures similar to the PBS initiative are already in place in the United States under the Affordable Care Act. “There are cost-sharing subsidies to reduce co-payments for Native Americans who are enrolled in insurance exchanges,” Trivedi said. “We still don’t have evidence of the impact of those

cost-sharing subsidies, but at least our work in Australia found enough association between reducing outof-pocket costs for vulnerable, lowincome, ethnic minority populations and lower rates of being hospitalized for chronic conditions.” Vincent Mor, professor of health services, policy and practice, linked the study’s results to other findings in the field. “We had a paper on the Medicare Advantage plan, where we looked at plans to increase the copay for primary care visits,” he said. “Those visits declined, and hospitalizations increased … particularly for minorities and people who live in poor areas.” “The next step in this research is … to use more granular data — data at the level of patients — to compare outcomes for those who did and did not register for the incentive,” Trivedi said. Mor also said researchers should further investigate the effect of reduced co-pays in the context of similar socioeconomic dynamics in the United States. Likewise, Kelaher said “this research … provides an evidence base for broader initiatives that might target other disadvantaged populations.” Trivedi and his Australian colleagues report plans for continued collaboration in the future. Trivedi said the collaboration is a valuable exchange of mutual learning between the two countries. “One of the main objectives of the fellowship … was to see what we can learn from the Australian healthcare system and what lessons from American healthcare policy will be applicable to Australian healthcare,” he said.

colonization. “The fact that people were taking the land … contributed a lot to much poorer outcomes — in education, in income and in a range of factors that contribute to health,” Kelaher said. One of the reasons the government decided to lower drug costs was because the disparity between aboriginal and non-aboriginal Australians is largely due to poor management of chronic disease, she added. Upon studying the PBS initiative in 24 different sites in Australia, the researchers compared the regions with the greatest and lowest uptake of the incentive. “We found that there were

greater reductions in hospitalizations in areas where there was higher uptake of the incentive,” Trivedi said. But this finding did not extend to non-indigenous populations nor acute hospitalizations. Researchers believe this may be because acute hospitalizations usually address conditions for which better drug adherence does not significantly impact the rate of hospitalizations, such as urinary tract infections and pneumonia. “The potential mechanism is that out-of-pocket costs are a barrier to using effective drug therapy to treat common chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease,” Trivedi said.

who headed it in to extend his team’s lead to two. Down two goals against a team that only allowed four in six Ivy games, the Bears faced an uphill battle. For the rest of the match, the team tried to mount an improbable comeback, but to no avail. Rodriguez had a shot in the last minute saved, but by then it was too late anyway. The Big Green saw out the game harmlessly to secure its third consecutive Ivy championship. “Both teams performed well defensively, but the difference was Dartmouth’s attacking play,” said Will Cross ’16.5. For the hosts, it was delight, and for the visitors, it was dismay. Bruno’s .500 record was a step back from the 2015 campaign. The team will take solace in the fact that it still technically finished in a tie for third among the Ancient Eight, but it likely would have finished fourth if the Harvard men’s soccer team’s season had not been cancelled early. The Crimson were shut down after news broke that the team had created lewd scouting reports of the incoming recruits for the women’s soccer team. It was a roller coaster of a season, but for the eight seniors, it was not one to forget. Now the team looks ahead to next year and hopes to build upon its shortcomings — finishing chances and playing more consistently between halves, among other things — while also maintaining its strengths, like defensive fortitude. “The team was disappointed not to have put forth a greater challenge

Midfielder Nico Lozoda ’18 readies a pass toward the top of the box. Bruno lost 2-0 in its final match of the season, failing to crack a vaunted Dartmouth defense that had only conceded 0.71 goals per game. for a tournament bid and the Ivy several games that could have been finishing and just a little bit more League title,” Cross said. “We lost wins or ties with more clinical defensive concentration.”

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Study abroad challenges social expectations, proves formative experience Students experience personal growth, find independence while in foreign countries By ANNA KRAMER STAFF WRITER

More than halfway through the semester, many Brown students scattered across the world are reaching the same realization: Living as an international student teaches unparalleled independence. Students in France, Spain, Ecuador, Denmark and Argentina all identified living alone, traveling alone and cooking daily meals as central to their personal growth. “Specifically in Paris, I really don’t feel like a student. I’m more just living in the city,” said Henry Ritter ’18, a former Herald sales director. No student housing is provided, and Ritter lives alone in an apartment, takes the metro to class and buys his own groceries. Allie Tsuchiya ’18, who is studying in Copenhagen, Denmark, echoed the sentiment. “I’m learning to be alone, and I love it,” she said. In Barcelona, Spain, Pieter Brower ’18 has found independence to be more than just a practical learning experience. “I’ve learned to assert myself and my identity. I didn’t come into this with close friends, and I think finding my space and developing relationships has been the most formative thing,” he said. “I feel like I’ve grown a lot as a person on my own.” For some students, independence extends to the classroom, where foreign institutions generally force students to fend for themselves. A number of students described classroom environments with minimal student interaction and a primary focus on the professor, which has been an adjustment for some. “I manage my time myself, I have no academic adviser, I meet people on my own and I’m speaking Spanish 90 percent of the time,” said Amalia Perez ’18, who is currently studying in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While she loves the newfound

independence both in the city and in the classroom, she would not recommend studying abroad to those who do not thrive independently or believe they are unprepared to learn to do so, she added. Friendships abroad Developing friendships and a social life abroad can be unexpectedly challenging for many students. “Socially it’s tough sometimes. You just don’t have a huge base of support like at Brown,” Ritter said. “When you’re in a culture that speaks a different language, there are limits to how involved you can be.” The distance and lack of centralized student housing make it particularly difficult to connect outside of class, as “most (French students) live at home with their parents or in the suburbs,” Ritter added. Jake Gogats ’18 is studying in Ecuador and has decided to stay abroad for another semester partially to continue to develop his relationships with native speakers. A majority of students abroad in Ecuador primarily associate with others in their program, students from the United States and Europe and Englishspeaking Ecuadorians, Gogats said. “A very small percentage of the people from outside Ecuador have a group of friends who are just Spanish speaking,” he said. “I had to stop feeling bad that I didn’t have that.” Natalie Tsang ’18, also studying in Paris, has found that her closest friends are primarily American or European. While she wishes this was not the case, friendships developed in the classroom do not usually translate well outside of that environment, she said. Tsuchiya agreed, adding that while she is close with her host family and will stay in touch when she returns to the United States, she doubts her new friendships will survive her return to Brown. “I have best friends around the world now, but I wouldn’t necessarily attribute it to study abroad,” Perez said. While she currently takes classes through a study abroad program, Perez moved to Argentina over the summer to work for the

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Students in France, Spain, Denmark and Ecuador agree that studying abroad forges an ability to be independent in a way that the Brown community does not. Students often live alone and must overcome language barriers. Inter-American Development Bank. She attributes most of her personal growth, friendships and comfort in Argentina to having moved to the country beforehand and spending months adapting to the city without the aid of what she calls “the study abroad bubble.” Finding love (or not) overseas Both romantic relationships and hookup culture in different countries have challenged students’ initial expectations. In Paris, Ritter acknowledged that the language barrier and cultural differences make relationships difficult. “There are some girls who are super flirty, and it’s funny because I have no ability to flirt in French, let alone be smooth in some social context. And you need to have a lot of cultural context,” he said. Other students said they have found European hookup culture liberating, as

Tinder and casual hookups are generally simpler and easier than they are at Brown. Brower is currently dating a figure skater, he said. In Latin America, the presence of machismo makes relationships challenging for women, Perez said. “Relationships with men are difficult,” she added. “Machismo is real and profound. I’m much more conscious of who(m) I interact with and how I go into things.” Cultural conservatism in Ecuador has also affected Gogats, who was warned that he might be harassed for dating men. “Obviously, I don’t tell my host family that I’m dating men,” he said. While public displays of affection are very common in Ecuador for straight couples, they are virtually nonexistent for gay couples, he added. “I don’t hold hands with someone in the daylight,” Gogats said, adding that he has yet to experience harassment in spite of the

warnings. Coming home While almost every student expressed enjoyment of their study abroad experiences, most are excited to return to Brown and have developed renewed appreciation for its social fabric and challenging academics. Students said that the months abroad will allow them to approach the remainder of their education with maturity and an appreciation for their identity and education. Distance from Brown allows you to evaluate who you are and what you value, Tsang said. “Study abroad really allowed me to see who I am and what I enjoy and the kind of people I want in my life,” she added. “Being abroad has prepared me for life after college,” Perez said. “I’m much more confident walking around the world.”

Study assesses financing methods for climate change damages Climate, Development Lab rates effectiveness of responses to immediate environmental harm By RHAIME KIM CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Researchers at the university’s Climate and Development Lab have published a paper evaluating different financial options to pay for damages caused by climate change. The paper, “Financing options for loss and damage: a review and roadmap,” aims to provide an accessible framework to advance negotiations regarding irreversible loss and damage caused at least partly by climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said co-author Victoria Hoffmeister ’17. Published in late October by the German Development Institute, the paper comes on the heels of the Paris Agreement, an agreement on greenhouse gas emissions that officially went into effect this month. In March, the researchers submitted their work to the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage Executive Committee of the

UNFCCC, which is currently hosting its Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh, Morocco. The paper focuses on the two-year workplan developed by WIMLDEC, which was entrusted with the task of addressing financial loss and damage associated with impact of climate change in November 2013. The paper first clarifies the language and terminology used in the committee’s workplan and then evaluates its proposed financial tools and other innovative methods. Many of the financial instruments proposed by WIMLDEC, such as risk insurance on future catastrophes and contingency finance for emergency use, “tend to only really address sudden climate change disasters and not slow onset or high-frequency climate change effects,” co-author Sujay Natson ’16 wrote in an email to The Herald. Among several measures, the paper reviews the impact of levies on air transport as well as the use of global carbon pricing, which is “a worldwide system of carbon pricing in the form of either a tax or auction revenues generated from a cap-and-trade system,” according to the press release. Natson wrote that, among many innovative options, the researchers

regarded the global carbon tax, bunker fuel levy on air and maritime transport and fossil fuel levy as some of the best tools overall. The researchers initially decided to write the paper at the request of Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh and advisor to the Least Developed Countries in the UNFCCC. Huq’s research focuses on the link between climate change and sustainable development, specifically in developing countries. Developing countries are the most severely impacted by loss and damage because of the lack of resources and robust infrastructure, Hoffmeister said. “How are we going to handle the fact that these losses and damages are occurring … most frequently and severely in (the) most vulnerable countries that did (the) least to contribute to the problem of climate change?” Discussions on loss and damage have historically been “avoided by many developed countries for risk of compensation they might have to provide to developing countries — as we are undergoing climate change globally due largely in part to the past industrialization of developed countries,” Natson

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The paper, co-authored by Victoria Hoffmeister ’17 and Sujay Natson ’16, proposed a carbon tax as one of the best tools to combat climate change. wrote. “When possible, preventing losses and damages … should obviously be the priority for moral and pragmatic reasons,” wrote co-author Jon Gewirtzman ’17 in an email to The Herald. “It looks increasingly unlikely that sufficient action will be taken to avert disastrous impacts of climate change, and losses and damages are going to occur.”

Several of the co-authors are attending the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties in Marrakesh between Nov. 7 and 18. “The issue is pretty hot here (in Marrakesh), as no one still knows how this issue will be dealt with or paid for,” wrote co-author J. Timmons Roberts, professor of environmental studies and professor of sociology, in an email to The Herald.

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After a screening of “Generation Startup,” Danny Warshay ’87, executive director of the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship, led a live Q&A session with the film’s director and its protagonists.

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“I have no ability to flirt in French, let alone be smooth in some social context.” — Henry Ritter ’18

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A letter to the editor in Monday’s Herald (“Letter: ‘Untitled (Lamp/Bear)’ has never been uglier,” Nov. 14) stated that Steven Cohen’s hedgefund pled guilty in 2013 to insider trading. In fact, the firm was accused of insider trading, and one of its employees, Mathew Martoma, was found guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison. The Herald regrets the error.

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BURP Neck/Back Massages 1:00 P.M. Campus Center, 229

Study Abroad 101 General Info Session 4:00 P.M. J. Walter Wilson, Room 440

Michael Woodford Distinguished Lecture Series 4:00 P.M. Mencoff Hall Seminar Room

Entrepreneurship, with Michael Granoff 7:00 P.M. Wilson Hall, 305

TOMORROW English Language Learners Workshop 12:30 P.M. SciLi, Room 520

Energy Geopolitics after the Elections 4:00 P.M. Watson Institute

Ethnomusicology in New York’s Music Business 6:00 P.M. Orwig, Room 109

Classical Sitar Concert: Srinivas Reddy 7:30 P.M. BERT 130

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Healing through art NANCY SAFIAN

op-ed contributor Wednesday morning, Rhode Island National Public Radio’s political analyst Scott MacKay tweeted a link to Joe Conason’s blog post for the National Memo, “What Do We Tell the Children About Their Country Now?” As the mother of a 12-yearold and a 17-year-old who are both worried about the election outcome, I’ve been reading quite a few blog posts on this question. But what helped me the most was a meeting I attended Wednesday morning with the Providence Youth Arts Collaborative, a coalition of nonprofit organizations that offers free afterschool arts programs to thousands of public school children in neighborhoods around the city. At about 11 a.m., eight of us entered Everett’s Carriage House Theatre in Mount Hope. Sebastian Ruth ’97, artistic director of Community MusicWorks and assistant professor of the practice of music at Brown, silently took out his violin and for 15 minutes played Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Chaconne” for our small group. The reverberating sounds of his violin filled the space, sounding to me like waves of cries and sighs

of loss. Ruth told us that Bach wrote the song after learning his wife had died. We sat in silence for a long while until Anjel Newman, director of AS220 Youth, in response to the piece, read her reflections on what the election means to her as a mother and a woman of color. After that,

another has brothers in jail) along with their strengths (kindness, artistry, compassion and camaraderie). Vanessa DeNino, Americorps program director at Providence CityArts for Youth, asked the very question from MacKay’s tweet: How do we talk to the children now? Her face was etched with concern,

failed us, when the media pundits seem unmoored by what happened Tuesday, I found comfort in the people in that room. I have always been skeptical of our over-reliance on data — in education, especially — when it comes at the expense of empathy, intuition and creative thinking. In this election, I was

I’m sitting in this room with seven overworked, underfunded and concerned arts leaders, and what they say in the end gives me hope.

Jan Marie, an artist at Everett Company, slowly and methodically listed all the names of the young people she works with, citing each student’s personal stories (one is gay; another’s mother recently passed away;

regretful that she was not successful in convincing a middle school teacher to support an art project because the teacher was worried it was too political. In an election when the data

swept away into believing that the data and polling would prove true. But I sat in this room with seven overworked, underfunded and concerned arts leaders, and what they said in the end gave me hope. New-

man was actually optimistic about President-Elect Donald Trump’s election because she believes it will now be impossible to sweep injustice, violent language and inequity under the rug. DeNino concurred that she will redouble her effort to create avenues for complex conversations on civics and social justice in school-based art classes. I found hope in Ruth’s beautifully played music and in the compassion and closeness Marie expressed toward the students at Everett. I’m not sure what will happen next. I’m concerned about access to freedoms of expression and thought, which the young people in our communities take for granted. But I choose to remain hopeful that the creative young people in the PYAC programs along with the artists who work beside them — many of whom are Brown students — will find ways to use their art to create positive stories and images and to raise their voices with renewed energy for peace, justice and compassion.

Nancy Safian is the academic programming and facilities coordinator for the department of theatre arts and performance studies. She can be reached at nancy_safian@brown.edu.

Writing off 59 million opinions KELLY CONWAY op-ed contributor Sitting in class Wednesday, I was surrounded by students and professors alike making the assumption that everyone in the room opposed President-Elect Donald Trump and that anyone who supported him was uneducated, backwards or hateful toward human rights. I genuinely appreciate the protests, the sitins and the arguments this past week. Through our differences, you are providing me an education of great value. You are presenting numerous perspectives I would not have considered in my singular mind. I came to Brown for this reason: I wanted to see why it is that people support different candidates than I do. And everyday, I am fortunate to learn about such logic. I never regret my opportunity to be in this environment. But I am an anomaly. I grew up learning about the logic and merits of Republican beliefs. I now go to Brown, where I learn about the logic and merits of Democratic beliefs. But the majority of students do not benefit from having their preconceived ideas challenged, as are mine. This is not an op-ed in any way condoning Trump. This is not an op-ed in any way suggesting political protests, free speech and personal fears are invalid. Hell, I participated in the anti-Trump protest that marched through the streets of Providence Wednesday night. This is an op-ed suggesting that the quality of the education we all receive as well as the

propensity we have to understand and enact change is severely threatened by our inability to value and consider views that differ from our own. Rather than trying to grasp any of the reasons for which half of America voted for Trump, we have defaulted to the idea that half of America is personally and morally flawed.

and politically illiterate. Especially at Brown, where we learn to internalize complexities, making such blanket statements is antithetical to our shared principles. I had to sit in class as a professor called the president-elect a “bastard.” (Hardly politically correct, if we’re counting.) The voters we criticize for not being pro-

As we sit in class and attack the personal values of people with whom we do not even interact, the rest of the country views us as unable to ride our high horses off of College Hill.

We have projected vast generalizations upon this group. We have stereotyped this group. We have indiscriminately labeled them all as racist, homophobic, xenophobic, sexist

gressive enough are that way for a multitude of reasons. Rather than default to labeling them as politically illiterate or morally unsound, why don’t we try to surround ourselves

with some of them? Rather than ridicule them, why don’t we attempt to listen to them? But our ability to listen to them is hampered by the reputation we have made for Brown as an inhospitable environment for those we deem not progressive enough. Even our own Brown student veterans had to watch their fellow students tear down the flags they fought to protect. Trump’s words have been offensive. His words have offended me personally, and everyday I see the emotional strain his words have put on students at this university. I am lucky to be in a place where I can witness these frustrations first hand and understand where they are rooted. But we have stifled our intellectual development by creating an environment where anyone who does not agree with the left-leaning student body is wrong (not to mention a whole host of offensive labels). It is close minded to write off 59 million American citizens as bad just because you didn’t vote for the same candidate as they did. As we sit in class and attack the personal values of people with whom we do not even interact, the rest of the country views us as unable to ride our high horses off of College Hill. We have legitimate concerns about our president-elect, but until we refrain from casting personal insults and projecting generalizations on half of our country — whom we presume to lack any logic or reasoning — we will continue to be shocked by a silent majority on Election Day.

Kelly Conway ’18 can be reached at kelly_conway@brown.edu.

SPORTS

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Bruno scores first goal, secures first win of season in split weekend Bruno scores first goals of season in loss to Ivy rival Cornell, defeats Colgate in pair of home contests By ALEXANDRA RUSSELL STAFF WRITER

The men’s ice hockey team had mixed results this weekend, losing against Cornell Friday before defeating Colgate Saturday, each by tallies of 4-2. Friday saw the Bears (1-5-0, 1-3-0 ECAC) score their first goals of the season on home ice following a shutout loss to the Providence Friars two weeks ago. Trey Dodd ’20 gave Bruno an early lead over the Big Red (2-21, 2-1-1) at 5:33 in the first period, spinning around in the crease to net a shot that missed the goal. Forward Max Willman ’18 also added to the Bears’ tally, scoring a power-play goal in the third. Despite Bruno’s early edge, Cornell’s offense dominated the second period, scoring three goals to pull the total up to 4-1 going into the third. “I thought we had some pretty good moments,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “It was nice to get a lead. But as soon as we took the lead we seemed to put ourselves in penalty trouble, and it’s very hard to win hockey games when you’re short as much as we have been.”

“It definitely didn’t get off to the start we wanted,” Willman said. “We were lucky to get that first goal, but then we kind of got off a little too high emotionally and needed to settle in and get back to our game.” Goaltender Gavin Nieto ’20 made 19 saves in the first two periods against the Big Red Friday before giving the net to Tim Ernst ’17 for the third. The next day’s contest marked Bruno’s first victory of the season. After a scoreless first period, Conner Wynne ’19, Charlie Corcoran ’18, Tyler Bird ’18 and Willman each notched a goal for the Bears, besting the Raiders’ (2-5-4, 1-2-1) stubborn defense. Bruno outshot the Raiders by a total of 27 to 24. “It was a great win for the team,” said defenseman Max Gottlieb ’19, who recorded two assists in the contest. “I thought everyone put together a 60-minute effort and came out on the right side, which is good to see.” Whittet echoed Gottlieb’s sentiments. “I think if you do a lot of the things we did tonight, good things will happen, and those good things are goals and wins,” he said. Netminder Ernst also put up a strong performance against the Raiders Saturday, stopping 22 shots in the matchup. Whittet emphasized that Saturday’s decision to start Ernst in the

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Defenseman Zach Giuttari ’20 shields the puck from Cornell’s Matt Buckles. After a slow start, the team showed promise with two goals in a loss to Cornell before bagging its first victory of the season against Colgate. crease — instead of the usual setup with Nieto — hinged on the team’s dynamic. “I thought that was a good thing — just bringing in a little different energy into the lineup,” he said. “I just thought we needed to mix it up and get somebody new in there and give him a chance.” With two away matchups taking

place next weekend against Clarkson and St. Lawrence, Whittet emphasized the importance of effort for the team. “The north country’s a hard trip. It’s a long trip (against) two very good teams, and we’re going to have to have a great week of practice and preparation for them,” he said. Looking forward to next week,

Gottlieb is remaining optimistic. “If we take what we can, the positives from the win tonight (and) fix a few little things up, we should be good to go for the next game and hopefully the rest of the season,” he said. The Bears return Friday with a visit to Clarkson. Face-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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