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Men’s hockey sweeps RPI, No. 16 Union Former BuDS workers file
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Kozlov ’20, Bosis ’19 allege U. violated labor acts, failed to compensate student workers By ALLIE REED UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR
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Forward Michael Maloney ’22 scored the game-winning goal late in the third period against Union Saturday, clinching the Bears’ second victory over the team this season. Bruno will visit Ivy rival Yale this weekend.
Team finds further success with four-point weekend following tournament victory over winter break By ALEXANDRA RUSSELL SPORTS EDITOR
Following a series of wins during the winter break, the men’s hockey team continued to heat up this weekend with a pair of victories over New York oppo-
nents Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and No. 16 Union College. The Bears recorded their first shutout of the season with a 3-0 sweep of the Engineers Friday, before earning a 3-2 victory over the Dutchmen to close out the road trip the following night. “It was a really important weekend for us,” said goaltender Gavin Nieto ’20. “We needed to come out and have a good weekend in order to move up in the standings. … We played well this weekend and did the things we needed
to do, (and) more importantly we played really well defensively and capitalized on some defensive breakdowns of the other team.” The wins come after Bruno (8-93, 5-5-3 ECAC) bested Robert Morris University and Union (12-7-4, 5-6-1) to take home the Three Rivers Classic tournament crown in early January. The Bears split their last weekend at home with a victory over St. Lawrence and a loss to No. 10 Clarkson, and currently sit » See HOCKEY, page 3
Former student employees under Brown Dining Services, Maxwell Kozlov ’20 and Benjamin Bosis ’19, who is also a Herald staff columnist, filed a complaint in a collective civil action lawsuit against the University Thursday, seeking compensation for “violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act … and the Rhode Island Payment of Wages Act,” according to the complaint. The complaint alleges that the University “violated the RIPWA” and “FLSA by failing to pay wages and overtime wages,” which would entitle the plaintiffs to relief. For example, in the week of Sept. 10, 2017, the complaint claims that Kozlov worked 78.75 uncompensated hours of which 70.25 were overtime. The plaintiffs seek “an award of unpaid wages and overtime wages,” as well as awards of compensatory damages, punitive damages and liquidated damages among others, the
complaint states. “Given our continued work with the students, we were disappointed to learn of the Jan. 24 complaint filed in U.S. District Court. We are reviewing that complaint in full and will respond as appropriate through the legal process,” wrote Director of News and Editorial Development Brian Clark in an email to The Herald. The lawsuit comes on the heels of years of student efforts to improve working conditions and wages for BuDS workers, followed by a more public push for change in the last few months, The Herald previously reported. After BuDS student managers proposed improved work hours, compensation and employment structure to the University in the summer of 2018, the University “began a goodfaith effort to address their concerns, implemented a number of immediate changes and launched a process to explore longer-term solutions,” Clark wrote. These changes included raising wages for all BuDS workers as well as eliminating mandatory “on-call shifts,” The Herald previously reported. The plaintiffs previously sent a formal complaint to the University on » See BUDS, page 4
U. profs find Flea market warms cold Providence winter old local market brain circuit Six-year offers customers, vendors of community, art, likely related sense vintage finds to SAD By HENRY DAWSON SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Connection found between light-sensitive cells of eye, regions of brain By GLORIA NASHED STAFF WRITER
In a Society for Neuroscience meeting last November, two University professors presented their discovery of a specific brain circuit that could be involved with mood disorders, including seasonal affective disorder and depression. Jerome Sanes, professor of neuroscience and director of the University’s MRI Research Facility, and David Berson ’75, professor of ophthalmology and chair of the department of neuroscience, were the lead authors on a study responsible for identifying a connection between light-sensitive cells » See BRAIN, page 2
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Old fur coats with faded fabric lie piled next to brass lamps and boxes of cracked, yellowed vinyl slips. A worn teddy bear and an ancient film camera appeared to stare at first-edition comic books on folding card tables. This is a flea market — a monument to those fascinated by the eclectic, the odd and the creative. In the winter months, the Providence Flea Market makes its home in Hope High School’s gymnasium. Maria Tocco, who founded the Flea in 2013, was inspired by the Brooklyn Flea Market. “I had been visiting (Brooklyn) thinking, ‘Wow, this is really cool, why isn’t there something like this in Providence?’” Tocco said. She started the market as a side-gig while she worked as the communications director for Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Roberts. “It was amazing how the community really embraced it. … We had about 30 vendors on the first market, and from there it started to grow. … Now we
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Flea market founder Maria Tocco gained inspiration from other markets in Boston and Brooklyn. Tocco hopes to find a year-round home for the market, as well as host events at the University and spotlight non-profits. average around 55-60 for the holiday the event. Pointing at two vintage stalls, provides community, it also embraces markets,” Tocco said. The market has Tocco said that the two vendors had met “the upcycle, recycle, reuse mantra,” and had 500 vendors attend various sessions at the Flea. pairs that with “makers and artisans who since last summer. Food trucks, live music “They’ve become really good buddies, are doing handmade stuff.” and non-profits, such as the University’s they go to Boston (and) do research on In the future, Tocco hopes to find a knitting club, Tink Knit, also attend, their vintage finds together,” she said, permanent year-round location for the Tocco said. adding that they also travel together to market, which would allow the Flea to “We want to provide a community Brimfield, Massachussetts, the home of host workshops and sell alcohol. market,” she said, explaining that vendors the oldest flea market in the United States. She also expressed interest in and customers become friends through Tocco said that the Flea not only » See MARKET, page 2
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in the eye and regions in the brain that affect mood. Sanes and Berson’s search for this particular circuit in human brains was inspired by recent work done at the National Institute of Mental Health, which found a very similar circuit in mouse brains. “The mice were subjected to 3.5 hours of light and 3.5 hours of dark,” said Sanes. This light pattern caused a behavior in mice analogous to human depression; when the researchers eliminated the light-sensitive eye cells involved in the hypothesized brain circuit, the depression-like symptoms went away. “That suggested that this brain pathway might have an importance for depression,” Sanes added. Sanes and Berson sought to answer the question: “Is there a region (of the human brain) also activated by the same light stimulus that activates the pathway in mice?” Berson explained. Although light-related depression in humans is a well-known phenomenon, not much is known about the specific mechanisms in the brain underlying the relationship between light and mood, Berson added. To try to answer this question, Sanes and Berson utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging, which allows scientists to measure brain activity in different regions. The team wondered how changing light intensity would affect brain activity in a specific region,
increasing engagement with the University: “If there are other nonprofits that are interested in getting exposure, we are open to hosting them, interested in helping them out. I’d love to do a flea at Brown, that would be really fun.” Vendors go through an application process before they can open shop at the market. Tocco gauges whether potential stalls will fit in with existing vendors and assesses their products. Vendors at the Flea cannot be “multi-level marketing organizations,” she said, as the Flea is intended exclusively for artisans. Many vendors consistently return to the Flea, which has a regular cast of characters. Bill Foley owns and operates Foley’s Finds and has participated in the Flea for about eight years. Foley taught high school history and English for forty years in R.I., while pursuing antiquing on the side. “I love trying to find (items), I love dealing with the people and selling,” he said. “I have an eclectic mix, … I have boxes, I have historical paper, pretty much the whole gamut. Old books.” He took out a dark green box labeled with military stencil font. Inside were tools for stamping metal. “This is from WWI, one of the things they’d mark is dog tags. And this is authentic and actually used,” Foley said. Johnny Maguire, owner of Colonel’s Collectibles, also did not always intend to be a vintage item dealer. “I was a guitar player, I played in a band that did well. I always liked collecting things. I didn’t start with all of this: the art, the comics, the records,” Maguire said. His old band played “rockabilly, kinda old rock and roll stuff. … That started to slow down, and I started to get into this.” Maguire acknowledged the sense of community offered by the Flea, saying most of his friends were “vintage people.” “I know a lot of people that make things and jewelry, but they come and go. But the regulars, … we all stick together. (Tocco’s) trying to do a good thing. I like doing it.” One of the regulars, Jennifer Tradd, sells vintage clothing and antiques at her stall, House of Philippa. “We love (the Providence Flea). Providence is a great town. We love the students. They’re great. Just because they know what’s on the cutting edge of what’s cool right now, and I try to keep up with it as best I can. We also get people, all walks of life from Providence.” Former Herald reporter Tanushri Sundar ‘21 and Jasmine Gabor ‘21 were among Sunday’s most recent market crowd. “I really like it, it’s a really charming place. There’s one stand over there that’s really freaky, it has dolls and like surgical tools, which I think is interesting,” Sundar said. Gabor said she often finds items “a lot cooler than anything you can find in a store” at the Flea, which she described as a “cute, vintage market, with a mixture of vintage items and local artists.” Rhode Island School of Design graduate Laurelin Sitterly produces art about plants and animals at risk and uses the Flea to showcase and sell her work. Sitterly described Providence as “a very eclectic community. … So many people just doing their thing, a lot of different cultures mixed in. Kind of a vibe that really supports trying to push up small businesses, support the quirky and the odd, all of that, you know, the great weird.” The next Providence Flea Market will be held at Hope High School, at 324 Hope St., Feb. 10, from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M.
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and they measured this activity using an fMRI, Berson said. These experiments revealed human brain activity in a highly complex region very similar to the region found in mice. “We don’t know if it’s exactly the same area as in the mouse or if it’s the same circuit,” but it supports the idea that the circuit could be present in all mammals, he added. “Some of the brain areas which had the light-related sensitivity have been implicated in depression and (SAD),” Sanes said. Understanding the brain
circuit involved in mood disorders like SAD is important for developing treatments for these conditions, said Samer Hattar, one of the lead authors on the mouse study and chief of the section on light and circadian rhythms at the NIMH. “This (research) is exciting because for the last six years, there haven’t been any good drugs or treatments for treating depression,” he added. Now, knowledge of the existence of this circuit will allow researchers to attempt manipulating its function to create
beneficial mood disorder treatment, he added. In addition to the possible link to SAD, this light-sensitive circuit could have implications in decision-making, Sanes and Berson mentioned. Their research on this human brain circuit will be submitted for publication in about a month and a half, after which it will undergo review for about six months, said Sanes, adding that they hope this publication will lead to further research on mood disorders.
Wrestling drops matches against Cornell, Binghamton Brown struggles to generate offense against EIWA foes, will face Penn, Princeton Saturday By RYAN HANDEL SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The wrestling team was defeated by both Cornell and Binghamton University Saturday, losing 42-6 to the Big Red and 19-15 to the Bearcats. Bruno found tough sledding against a No. 10 Cornell team that had five of 10 wrestlers ranked in the top 20 nationally. In the matchup against Binghamton, both teams each won five individual matches, but bonus points in three of their victories gave the Bearcats the edge. Five wrestlers picked up wins Saturday for Brown (4-4, 2-3 EIWA). Jon Viruet ’19 (165 lbs) was the only Bear to go 2-0 on the day and the only one to win his match against Cornell (8-2, 3-0). Trey Keeley ’20 (125 lbs), Christian LaBrie ’19 (157 lbs), Nino Bastianelli ’21 (197 lbs) and Ian Butterbrodt ’19 (285 lbs) each won their match against Binghamton (4-3, 3-2). Keeley, Reese Fry ’22 (135 lbs) and Colin Realbuto ’22 (141 lbs) were pitted against the Big Red’s highly ranked lightweights to begin Saturday’s first dual. Vitali Arujau, ranked No. 11 in the nation, used a variety of takedowns to defeat Keeley 16-3 while 12th-ranked Chas Tucker earned a takedown with two seconds left in the match to seal a 20-5 victory over Fry. Realbuto was able to fight off his back against firstranked defending national champion Yianni Diakomihalis for about a minute to avoid giving up a pin, but ultimately lost the match. The Big Red kept rolling as Jonathan Furnas and Adam Santoro defeated Sam Lynch ’22 (149 lbs) and LaBrie, respectively. But Viruet provided a highlight
for Bruno in the dual, pinning Cornell’s Andrew Berreyessa. “I went into that match trying to wrestle my own style,” Viruet said of his win. “I’m pretty comfortable (in tough) positions, whether it’s underhooks (or) overhooks,” Viruet said. Cade Wilson ’22 (174 lbs) put up an impressive effort against 15th-ranked Brandon Womack, getting a reversal and riding out Womack for the whole third period, but a strong second period by Womack proved crucial in an 8-5 decision. Cornell won the final three matches decisively to conclude their 42-6 win. Later that day against Binghamton, Keeley turned things around in a match against Steven Bulzomi, to whom he had lost earlier in the year, defeating him 53. With Keeley in bottom position and time winding down, he drew a stalling penalty from Bulzomi at the buzzer to
take a two-point victory. However, Binghamton responded by winning the next three matches to put Brown in an 11-3 hole. In the 157-pound match, LaBrie locked up double underhooks and threw Chris Barker to his back for six points in the first period, and held on for the eventual 7-6 victory. “I’m a very tall 157-pounder, so if I can get close to a leg and then build up to the body lock, since I’m very long, I can get my hands wrapped (around my opponent),” LaBrie said of his winning throw. “Once my hands are locked I usually can secure a body lock to bring the guy to his back.” Viruet won a dramatic overtime match against 165-pounder Aidan Monteverdi to follow up LaBrie’s close victory. Neither wrestler was able to generate much offense throughout the match, but Viruet earned the winning takedown on the edge in sudden victory.
Wins by Bastianelli and Butterbrodt, by identical 6-2 scores, closed out the close defeat for Brown. The match against Binghamton was part of Brown’s annual “Rumble and Tumble” event, where the gymnastics team competed alongside the wrestlers in the Pizzitola Sports Center. Head Coach Todd Beckerman thought the atmosphere of the event could have rattled some of his more inexperienced wrestlers. “It was a different atmosphere; it was loud, it was not the norm (the freshmen) were used to,” Beckerman said. “But that’s what we like about this; it’s going to prepare them for the conference tournament and ultimately the NCAA Championships with 20,000 screaming fans.” The Bears will look to get back on track next Saturday as they head on the road to take on Penn and Princeton.
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The wrestling team lost against Cornell Saturday. The Bears then fell to Binghamton at the annual “Rumble and Tumble” event in the Pizzitola Sports Center, which also featured a gymnastics competition.
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Fencing posts impressive weekend in second NFC meet Men’s, women’s teams combine for 9-1 record, post best performance since first NFC meet By ALEX SMOLAR SPORTS EDITOR
The men’s and women’s fencing team had only one chance to compete at home this season, and the Bears made it count with impressive victories and a combined 9-1 record in a Northeast Fencing Conference meet Saturday. The women’s team went undefeated on the day, besting Brandeis University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth, Vassar College and Tufts University. Meanwhile, the men’s team toppled Brandeis, Dartmouth, Vassar and Tufts but were foiled in a 19-8 loss to MIT. “It’s really great to fence at home, just because everyone comes out to support us,” said Nathan Sinai ’21, who posted a 12-3 record in men’s epee. Sofija Podvisocka ’21 and Signe Golash ’21 both posted undefeated 12-0 records with Podvisocka competing in women’s epee and Golash in women’s sabre. Captain Umar Masood ’19 also notched an undefeated 15-0 mark on the day in men’s foil. “We’ve progressively gotten better throughout the whole season. I think we are really coming together as a team under our new head coach, Alex Ripa,” Masood said. “We dropped a close one to MIT, but I think we’re fencing great and morale is high.” Other notable individual efforts included a 14-1 record in men’s epee by Timmy Frank ’22 and a 13-2 mark by Elena Jin ’21 in women’s foil.
» HOCKEY, from page 1 at seventh place in the league standings, four points behind joint leaders No. 12 Cornell and No. 20 Yale. Brown 3, RPI 0 Friday night, a trio of third-period goals fueled the Bears to their second victory of the season against the Engineers (7-17, 4-9). Brent Beaudoin ’20 bookended the final stanza with a pair of tallies and Zach Giuttari ’20 also scored to power Bruno to the shutout win. In net, Nieto made 19 saves, recording the second clean slate of his career. “We just showed a lot of character in our team, our ability to find ways to win and just dig deep when it mattered most,” said Michael Maloney ’22. The teams exchanged blows from the drop of the puck, notching five shots each in a scoreless first period. Late in the frame, Brady Ferner found the back of the net for RPI on a shot from the slot, but the goal was disallowed after video review due to goaltender interference. Nieto stopped nine shots to preserve the score in the middle frame, including a series of saves against RPI’s power play unit late in the stanza. Beaudoin opened scoring seven minutes into the third, redirecting a shot from Justin Jallen ’22 past Engineers netminder Owen Savory. Two minutes later, Jack Gessert ’20 won a faceoff in the RPI zone and sent the puck to Giuttari, who fired a wrist shot past Savory from the left circle to widen Bruno’s lead. Beaudoin sealed the victory for the Bears with an empty net goal in the final minute.
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The Brown Bears competed against Brandeis, MIT, Dartmouth, Vassar and Tufts in a Northeast Fencing Conference meet Saturday, earning a combined 9-1 record. The team will next compete at the Eric Sollee Invitational in Cambridge, Massachusetts Feb. 3. This weekend’s performance fea- this year, and had a lot of people gradu- to top Tufts. In total, the women’s team Brunnstrom hopes the women’s team tured numerous dominant victories ate last year. So, it’s been nice to get soundly defeated many of their oppo- will continue to grow. by the fencing team at the squad level. (the younger fencers) into the spirit nents Saturday, as the squads led the This weekend’s NFC meet demonOn the men’s side, epee twice put up of college fencing.” way to a 24-3 defeat of Dartmouth, a strated the best performance by the an 8-1 mark to lift Bruno to a tight Women’s foil was especially com- 22-5 win against Tufts and a 21-6 vic- fencing team since their first NFC 14-13 victory over Brandeis and a 20-7 manding in victories against Brandeis, tory over MIT. meet Nov. 17, when the women’s team win against Tufts. Additionally, men’s MIT and Dartmouth. The Bears posted “The season has been going pretty earned a 6-1 record while the men’s foil went 8-1 against Dartmouth in a records of 8-1, 9-0 and 9-0, respectively. well for the women’s team,” said captain team notched a 3-2 mark. The Bears 19-8 win. Women’s epee also earned impressive Ebba Brunnstrom ’19. A “big goal for will return to the piste in the Eric Sollee “We’ve had a pretty strong season,” marks with an undefeated 9-0 record today was that we did not want to lose Invitational at Cambridge, MassachuSinai said. “We have a really young team against Dartmouth and an 8-1 victory against any schools.” For the season, setts Feb. 3. “You have to be able to manage the game and capitalize on (the opponent’s) mistakes, and we did that,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “We were very, very solid defensively, we didn’t make a lot of errors with the puck and we pounced on them when they did.” Brown 3, Union 2 The following day saw the Bears match up with a familiar foe as they took on the Dutchmen for the third time this season. Maloney scored the gamewinning goal late in the final period to cement the victory and give Bruno a 2-01 advantage in the series against Union. The Dutchmen opened scoring early as Liam Morgan sent a backhanded shot into the Brown net on the first shift. But the Bears fought back with intensity, equalizing the game midway through the period as Jake Harris ’22 deflected a shot from Will Scherer ’19 past Union goaltender Jake Kupsky. Bruno continued to apply offensive pressure in the Dutchmen’s zone, notching an 11-6 advantage in shots on goal in the first stanza. Colin Burston ’21 gave the Bears a lead late in the second period, directing the puck into the net off a feed from Gessert. Gessert capitalized on a turnover behind the Union goal and sent the puck to Burston, who was waiting to finish the play at the top of the crease. Jack Adams evened the tally again four minutes into the final stanza, but Maloney blasted a shot past Kupsky from the left circle with three and a half minutes remaining to secure the victory for Brown. The team has found greater depth
in its production across lines, which has contributed to its recent successes, Maloney said. “Our depth and all four lines kind of rolling, all buying in and contributing in their own ways has been a huge success for us,” Maloney said. “We’re getting production up and down our lineup — it’s not just one line or a small group of guys that are producing for us,” Nieto added. “That’s been a big positive for us — that we don’t have to rely on one specific line or a set group of people, we can kind of roll lines and be confident that anyone can go out there and produce for us and help us win games.” The Bears seek to carry momentum from their recent successes forward into the remainder of their season, which continues with a visit to Ivy rival Yale. Prior to the end of regular season competition in March, the team looks to climb further up the ECAC standings and ensure home ice advantage for the playoffs. “We’ve been able to win some games here after break and kind of get on a little run, so … we’ve just got to keep our confidence up and do the little things right in order to get some more wins and continue to move up the standings,” Nieto said. “For us to get four points on the road was a good step in the right direction,” Whittet added. “We’re a team that’s trending upwards, we’re a team that’s growing and we’re a really dangerous hockey team right now.” The Bears return to action with a visit to Yale Saturday. Face-off is at 7 p.m.
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» BUDS, from page 1 Oct. 15, stating that “Brown Dining Services fails to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Rhode Island General Law 28-12-3.2, and Brown University policy 40.030,” all of which describe standards for labor conditions and compensation. Kozlov, Bosis and other students then demanded compensation for “hours spent working on-call” in an email to Director of Dining Services Peter Rossi and other Human Resources administrators on Oct. 29. Because the students were not satisfied with the University’s response, Kozlov and Bosis decided to seek compensation through litigation, Kozlov told The Herald. While Kozlov and Bosis are the two lead and only named plaintiffs in the suit, more than 60 students are eligible to take part, Kozlov told The Herald. Kozlov and Bosis emailed these students on Thursday to inform them of the lawsuit, as well as invite those eligible individuals to opt in to the collective action, according to the email. The lawsuit stipulated that “when called into or otherwise required to report to the work site for work while ‘on call,’ Managers and Supervisors were not compensated for a minimum shift pay of three hours, contrary to state laws and Defendant’s own policy.” Additionally, “during numerous workweeks, the hours of physical work performed by Managers and Supervisors in combination with their uncompensated ‘on call’ time
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Former BuDS employees filed a complaint in a collective action lawsuit against the University Jan. 24. The plaintiffs are seeking compensation for alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Rhode Island Payment of Wages Act. exceeded 40 hours, however, they were never paid overtime compensation,” the complaint continued. Working for BuDS interfered “with the way we were able to conduct our
personal affairs,” Kozlov said to The Herald. In their complaint, the plaintiffs described how their jobs affected their sleep patterns, class attendance and ability to live off-campus.
The plaintiffs are represented by Richard Sinapi of Sinapi Law Associates on a “contingency fee basis,” the plaintiffs wrote in their email to students potentially eligible for the
collective action. While there are “no upfront costs to his service,” if the University “settles or the case goes to trial, the lawyer will receive 40 percent of the damages,” the email stated.
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How can the NFL improve the Pro Bowl? KSHITIJ SACHAN sports columnist The National Football League postseason is the highlight of the year for football enthusiasts. The best teams in the league play tough playoff football. Every game is an elimination game, and each week the matchups get more exciting right up until the Super Bowl. Except for one misstep. Somewhere in the middle is something called the Pro Bowl: a middling attempt at an all-star game that the NFL has to change. The Pro Bowl has problems. Players don’t want to get hurt, and fans don’t want to see a game where nobody, including the players, cares. It’s not the players’ fault. Football is a dangerous sport where one injury could jeopardize an athlete’s future to play and earn lucrative contracts. Because of this, a lot of players decline to show up. The NFL then scrambles to find replacement players (remember when Tyrod Taylor was in the Pro Bowl?) until they can put together a full roster. Beyond the problem of players declining to show up, the Pro Bowl selection process is flawed. Fans make up one-third of the votes on who plays; while I understand why the NFL would want fans to be more involved in the game, Pro Bowl nominations have serious implications, since players often receive bonuses if they are invited to the Pro Bowl. Beyond that, the number of Pro Bowl invitations a player receives is frequently referenced as a sign of his greatness. Fans are highly biased and
tend to pick the players who play for their favorite teams, not the best players. The current process leaves players feeling commercialized and fans just wanting to fast-forward to the Super Bowl. So should the NFL scrap the Pro Bowl? Definitely not. All-star games are magical. There’s something to be said for bringing together the best players in the world. Team rivalries disappear, and all of these playmakers can show off their skills. From a pragmatic perspective, it
acy, so let’s see that reflected in the selection process. There should be a committee of independently affiliated sportswriters selecting Pro Bowl nominees, like the much more reputable All-Pro and Hall of Fame selections. That would help avoid the Pro Bowl snubs that we see year after year. Another simple improvement would be focusing more on the smaller competitions throughout the week, such as the Gridiron Gauntlet and Dodgeball. The skills competition is my favorite part of the Pro Bowl; it’s
more fun the NFL can introduce into the Pro Bowl, the more fans and players will appreciate it. As for the actual game, the NFL is already going in the right direction. They’re trying to make the Pro Bowl faster by reducing the time between plays from the typical 40 seconds to 35 seconds. Other changes include allowing coaches to communicate with multiple players on offense and defense during a play, compared to only talking to the quarterback or middle linebacker in a usual NFL game. This
There are a lot of directions the NFL could go with the Pro Bowl, but the only wrong move would be changing nothing at all.
also doesn’t make sense to get rid of the Pro Bowl. The Pro Bowl makes the NFL a lot of money. Beyond that, the two-week gap before the Super Bowl allows the league to coordinate logistics and gives Super Bowl teams time for injured players to recover, making the game more competitive. If the Pro Bowl is here to stay, the question becomes: How can the NFL make it better? There are a lot of directions the NFL can take the game. First of all, Pro Bowl selections are important, both to players’ salaries and their leg-
one of the only opportunities for fans to watch players compete without pads and helmets. It helps us see them as people and not as football players. Therefore, there should also be more events for every position. Let’s get the special teams’ players involved. Let’s see circus catch competitions for wide receivers. Let’s see offensive linemen compete in sack races. Let’s see some flag football with wide receivers playing quarterback and vice versa. The NFL needs to get more creative to design games that showcase the players’ superhuman athletic abilities. The
should make the game much more dynamic. While some sportswriters want to raise the stakes by giving $250,000 to the winning team, I believe that a payout is against the nature of the Pro Bowl. No player should get injured during the Pro Bowl, and increasing the prize money would definitely incentivize hitting harder and risking injury. While I love the big hits just as much as any other fan, what does it say about the game if we want to see players hit each other more than we want to see safe, competitive play? In
this sense, the NFL faces an impasse. At the highest levels, there is no way to guarantee safety, and in trying to do so, we lose some essence of the game. That’s why it can be viewed as a good thing that players are cognizant of their long-term health and playing future. A better idea to make the game more exciting is changing the playbook to bring in more college trick plays. I want to see more defensive players on offense. I want to see more wacky formations. Fans want to see all of the fun play designs that teams are too afraid to bring out in the regular season. Additionally, the fundamental flaw with the AFC vs NFC format is that not enough people identify with such large conferences. Each division could have its own seven-person team, similar to how the NHL AllStar game functions. By dividing the teams based on smaller divisions such as the NFC East or AFC North, fans will be much more invested in their division’s success and there would be an actual storyline. This wouldn’t take away from any of the competitiveness of the game. I love the idea of an all-star game, and for so many reasons the league has to keep it. There are a lot of directions the NFL could go with the Pro Bowl, but the only wrong move would be changing nothing at all.
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U. professors recognized for influence in education policy Research by ranked faculty guides school districts, state governments’ decisions By DANIEL GOLDBERG SENIOR STAFF WRITER
University professors Susanna Loeb, Kenneth Wong, Matthew Kraft and John Papay were named in the 2019 Rick Hess Straight Up Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings Jan. 9. The list ranks the top 200 U.S. university scholars who most influenced “educational practice and policy” last year, according to an Education Week article written by Hess. Loeb was listed 104th, Wong tied at 143rd, and Kraft and Papay numbered 166th and 190th respectively, according to the ranking. A selection committee of 29 university professors chose the scholars, according to the article. The committee took a variety of categories into account, including the number of widely cited works written by the scholar, the number of times the scholar has been quoted or mentioned in U.S. newspapers and whether the scholar’s work has been utilized by a member of Congress, according to Hess’s breakdown of the selection process. “It’s exciting that so many of our faculty are being recognized,” said Tracy Steffes, chair of the University’s Department of Education. The department’s goal is to “both advance scholarship and have an impact in the real world of education policy,” and Loeb, Kraft, Papay and Wong have been working with these goals in mind for years, Steffes added. Susanna Loeb “It is always nice to be recognized for the work that we do,” Loeb, professor of education and international and public affairs, wrote in an email to The Herald.
Loeb became director of the University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform in July 2018, The Herald previously reported. Loeb assumed the position “because of Brown’s interest in addressing public, societal issues,” she wrote. “Much of my work to date has focused on the career paths and effectiveness of educators,” Loeb wrote. For a recent paper, Loeb and Jing Liu, a postdoctoral research associate at Annenberg, studied the long-term effectiveness of teachers who engage their students — measured by student attendance records — and discovered their students didn’t always earn the highest test scores, Loeb added. In 2018, Loeb also designed and oversaw Getting Down to Facts II, a project which analyzed California’s PreK-12 education system to determine the efficacy of recently adopted reforms and provide “potential avenues moving forward for State policy makers,” Loeb wrote. The project analyzed “student success, governance systems, personnel issues and school finance” to build a better understanding of California’s education system. It is “so important for researchers to translate their work so it enters the public discussion,” Loeb wrote. Kenneth Wong Wong, a professor of education policy, international and public affairs, political science and the founder of the University’s urban education master’s program, takes “a system improvement perspective to urban education.” While many education scholars focus on teachers and students specifically, Wong seeks to improve the systems that govern American education, he said. “School board, state agencies and the mayor’s office, … they could think about stronger ways to hold the system accountable,” he added. Charter schools have been one of
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Susanna Loeb was ranked the highest out of four University professors recognized by Rick Hess Straight Up Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. Wong’s primary areas of research due to their ability to “try out new practices” and styles of education, he said. Due to his interest in “government redesign and system improvement,” Wong has studied “the politics and scope” of charter school legislation across the U.S., such as the varying flexibility of legislation in different states. While Wong has been involved with a number of projects in the Providence area, he has also spent time researching education systems in China and India and exchanging ideas with local educators. Chinese and Indian educators “are
interested to find out how we run our system, … how we recruit good teachers …(and how we) hold schools accountable for results,” Wong said. He became interested in Chinese and Indian education systems while researching how to apply education reforms to larger-scale institutions. Matthew Kraft and John Papay Kraft, professor of education, and Papay, professor of education, have worked closely together for years “on a variety of research projects,” Kraft said. “All of our work together has focused
on teachers,” and understanding how policies affect how they do their work, Papay said. In an award-winning paper the two co-authored in 2014, Kraft and Papay investigated how teachers can improve over time. “The idea that teachers keep improving over their careers went against some of the ideas in the policy world at the time,” Papay said. “They talked about this performance plateau … that teachers didn’t improve after (3-5) years in the classroom,” he added. However, the two professors found that “teacher effectiveness is not something that’s just static, … it’s dynamic and multidimensional,” Kraft said. Kraft has also researched teacher coaching programs and how to better educate teachers in “both content-specific coaching, as well as more generalized pedagogical practices,” and developing students’ social and emotional skills. “It’s about strengthening a wide range of skill sets,” he added. Papay has recently been working directly with multiple state departments of education. Along with John Tyler, professor of education, economics and public policy, Papay has been helping the Tennessee Department of Education build upon their system for evaluating teachers “to help provide feedback to improve instructional practice,” Papay said. He is also beginning a partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Education, conducting research to inform them on education policy changes they are enacting. “It’s impressive that two of our four (ranked professors) are pretty young, … within ten years of getting their degree,” Steffes said of Papay and Kraft. Hess’s selection process is biased toward more senior scholars, who “have had more opportunity to build a substantial body of work and influence,” according to his breakdown of the methodology behind his rankings.