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Haffenreffer Museum to catalog entire collection Watson to Anthropology museum combine hires additional staff, in search of new location for three one million objects degree programs

By DANIEL GOLDBERG SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology’s current Providence location within Manning Hall presently houses 99 objects — approximately 0.001 percent of its collection — and has no facilities for long-term storage.

Every time new objects are requested on campus, the museum must move them 19 miles from its other location in Bristol, said Kevin Smith, the museum’s deputy director and chief curator.

After years of unsuccessful attempts, the museum has received funding to initiate plans to consolidate all of its holdings in a new Providence location.

On Feb. 7, the University announced that the Haffenreffer Museum had received a $5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Herald previously reported. This grant was awarded to the museum in order “to catalog and prepare for the anticipated move of nearly one million ethnographic objects, archaeological specimens and images” to Providence from the museum’s main facility in Bristol, according to a University press release.

The Mellon Foundation — an organization whose goals include the preservation of the humanities and arts — also previously awarded the

New concentration will eliminate language requirement, could be implemented by fall 2019

By AURIA ZHANG SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology plans to move its collection to a new Providence location. Most of the collection is currently stored in Bristol on land that will soon be transferred into a land trust. museum $500,000 to rehouse, conserve and photograph the museum’s Native American collections, which they announced in April 2018, The Herald previously reported.

The land on which the Haffenreffer’s Bristol facility resides was the site of a month-long encampment by members of the Pokanoket Nation and allies protesting the University’s ownership of the land in August 2017. The encampment ended with an agreement to transfer the land from the University

UCS votes to put referendum on ballot UCS votes to add Brown Divest referendum to ballot following open discussion

By KAYLA GUO SENIOR STAFF WRITER

At its general body meeting Wednesday, the Undergraduate Council of Students voted to add a referendum proposed by the student coalition Brown Divest to the ballot for the upcoming UCS and Undergraduate Finance Board elections.

The referendum will ask students if the University should “divest all stocks, funds, endowment and other monetary instruments from companies complicit in human rights abuses in Palestine and establish a means of implementing financial transparency and student oversight of the University’s investments,”

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according to the referendum’s official wording as presented at the meeting.

After an open discussion, in which members of Brown Students for Israel and Brown Divest debated the referendum, more than two-thirds of present UCS voting members approved adding the referendum to the ballot, as required by the Council’s constitution. UCS did not disclose the exact vote count to The Herald following a closed discussion of the referendum that included only voting members.

BSI began the open discussion with statements from several of its members. “UCS should vote no to presenting this as a referendum to the Brown student population based on the idea that divestment is divisive, misleading, counterproductive and there is a better way,” said BSI President Tess Geri ’20. The passing of the referendum » See UCS, page 3

into a preservation trust, The Herald previously reported.

Logistics of the move The search for a new Providence location for the museum is still in “its very early stages,” said Emily Jackson, the museum’s operations and communications coordinator. The University is leading the search, rather than the museum itself, though the museum has given the University parameters regarding the square footage, security

and climate control required for a new location, Smith said.

To “promote the use of the Haffenreffer collections for education programs” and research, the University is “prioritizing locations that are easily accessible to the Brown campus but also to public transportation and vehicle traffic,” Associate Provost for Academic Space Leah VanWey wrote in an email to The Herald. VanWey could not provide a timeline for the » See MUSEUM, page 3

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs intends to combine three of its concentrations — Development Studies, International Relations and Public Policy — into a single concentration called “International and Public Affairs,” a change that could be implemented as early as fall 2019 if approved by the College Curriculum Council, said Director of the Watson Institute Edward Steinfeld P’20.

The new planned concentration will offer three specialized tracks: Development, Security, and Policy & Governance. Concentrators were notified of the plan’s details in an email Wednesday morning.

Following discussions about these planned changes, Nina Tannenwald, director of the International Relations » See WATSON, page 4

Panel, exhibition depicts Brazilian favela life Artists, activists, residents reflect on problematic past portrayals of Complexo de Maré favela

By JANGO MCCORMICK SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Images of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro tend to look alike. In a panel Tuesday, video journalist Nadia Sussman observed that the most common photographs of the favelas, or shantytowns, depict “red brick homes stacked on top of one another and hand-strung electrical wires.”

But “Maré de Dentro,” a new exhibition of photographs and videos on display in Stephen Robert ’62 Hall through May 5, shows a different side of life in one favela complex, focusing on the private realities of the people who call Complexo de Maré their home.

The panel included perspectives from Sussman, whose videos are featured in the exhibition, as well as

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The panelists discussed how common depictions of the Complexo de Maré favela fail to adequately capture its cultural vibrancy.

Henrique Gomes da Silva, Andreza Jorge and Antonello Veneri. Nicholas Barnes, a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs who spent 18 months

living in Maré, moderated the event.

Each panelist spoke about their work in Maré, describing how depictions of the favela complex fail to adequately » See MARÉ, page 2

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GSC discusses vacancies, Medical Student Senate relationship GSC looks to elect new technology chair, strengthen relationship with medical students

By KAMRAN KING SENIOR STAFF WRITER

In the second meeting of the semester, the Graduate Student Council announced the election for a new Chair of Technology, updated members on the Graduate Student Strategic Initiative and discussed its relationship with the Graduate Student Union and the Medical Student Senate.

The GSC is currently looking to elect a new Chair of Technology. Whoever fills the vacant position will hold the position until December and will have to run for re-election in November, according to the GSC bylaws.

The Council’s Masters’ Advocacy Committee, Finance Committee and Social and Student Life Committee are also looking to fill vacancies; these positions are filled on an ad hoc basis and joining members do not have to run for re-election.

At the meeting, members of the GSC executive board who lead each of the eight GSSI sections shared new information on their internal discussions and conversations with University administrators.

Kathryn Thompson GS, who is in charge of the GSSI’s housing section, said her group discussed the “affordability, feasibility, quality and safety” of housing for graduate students. The GSC previously discussed challenges that grad students face when finding housing, as The Herald previously reported.

“The Graduate School as a whole is really trying to reconcile this issue,” she said, adding that the University had shared a survey with grad students to determine what they “want from their housing.”

D’Ondre Swails GS, vice president

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capture residents’ diverse identities.

They also discussed the challenges Maré faces today, in part from its government and policies stemming from the war on drugs. The goal of “Maré de Dentro” is to replace some of the problematic portrayals of the favela complex with new images, photographs and videos of residents in their own spaces. These pieces, which aim to preserve respect and dignity for their subjects, are exhibited on the second and third floors of Stephen Robert ’62 Hall.

Jorge, a feminist, academic and resident of Maré, spoke about the kinds of knowledge cultivated over generations of people living in favela communities — a knowledge about how to survive and coexist in the complex. Speaking in Portuguese, which Barnes translated for attendees, Jorge recognized that such knowledge must be valued, but noted that, “There’s no way to give (the information) value; they already have value.

And what they need is visibility.” “How can we produce greater visibility for this kind of knowledge?” she asked.

At 140,000 residents in only one and a half square miles, Maré is “more densely populated than anywhere in the United States, even Manhattan,” Barnes explained. Within the complex, there are internal borders delineated on

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The Graduate Student Council will elect a new Chair of Technology and will fill positions within the Council’s Masters’ Advocacy Committee, Finance Committee and Social and Student Life Committee. of advocacy and head of the GSSI’s di- also discussed tuition remission and last ten or fifteen minutes of one of GSC look like?” versity, equity and inclusion section, the availability of teaching assistant these classes,” he added.

In response, Tulloch said that while reminded students about a survey as- positions for students pursuing a mas“This is something we would try students in both organizations are techsessing the progress of their respective ter’s degree. and roll out in September,” Tulloch said. nically University employees, they still departments’ implementation of the Graduate Student President Alastair “We as an exec-board have also dis- have different purviews. For instance, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plans, Tulloch GS discussed potential col- cussed having someone act as a liaison GSC covers “the Graduate Student which the University implemented laboration with the Medical Student between the GSC and the Graduate Stu- Strategic Initiative, (which) doesn’t fall three years ago.

Senate. “One of the really brilliant dent Union,” Tulloch said. The liaison under the purview of the union.”

India Rogers-Shepp GS, who leads ideas they’ve had is: they have classes would increase interactions between He continued to say that though the GSSI’s masters’ advocacy section, for first-year medical students that are the bodies and more directly involve the union and GSC are distinct bodies, said her committee felt concerned natural, life or social sciences focused,” the GSC in the union’s logistics. “we want to work with them — someabout the lack of equity in conference Tulloch said. “They wanted to institute During the open floor, Jan Georg times the line between our domains funding applications, in that the process a program where Ph.D. and graduate Tabor GS asked, “what will the rela- can be grey.” favored doctoral students. Her group students present their research for the tionship between the Union and the

cultural lines. Different areas are controlled by gangs and armed groups that serve as non-state governments. While the four armed groups that control Maré today have historically engaged in “incredible levels of violence,” they have also “developed a variety of different kinds of welfare and public goods that they provide to these communities,” Barnes said.

Gomes, an activist, Maré resident and contributor to the exhibited work, described Maré through Barnes’ translation as a community struggling with the war on drugs. The conflict is largely “an export of the United States’ own policies,” he said. “It’s not just a war on drugs, it’s a war against black, poor favela residents,” he added. Although he said that his awareness of the structural problems in Maré made him feel worse about the situation there, it also spurred him to start working with local NGOs and social movements, leading to his involvement with Sussman’s and Italian photojournalist Veneri’s projects.

Gomes described himself as a believer in “education of the local population,” adding that education will enable “changes (that) are not going to come from the outside. … They’re going to come from within the community itself.”

Gomes, like Jorge, grew up in Maré

and has an intimate knowledge of some of the spaces and people within the communities. Both Sussman and Veneri credit Gomes with guiding their projects, giving them access they wouldn’t have had without his participation. “It’s really 50/50; it’s a collaborative project,” Veneri said of Gomes’ involvement with his photography.

Although the speakers spent much of their time discussing Maré’s oftenoverlooked cultural vibrancy, they also described the persistent violence that Maré residents face. Barnes, paraphrasing for Gomes, explained that in the 35 days he had been in the United States, “He hasn’t heard any gunshots, which is something he couldn’t say about his life in Brazil,” noting that Gomes struggled to make that observation without becoming emotional. Despite such hardship, Gomes said he is still “in love with” Maré.

Emotions occasionally ran high during the panel. Several of the speakers had worked closely with one another, and as Jorge thanked other members of the panel and the organizers for their work over the years, Barnes struggled to hold back tears while translating her words. “It is very emotional for me to be here,” Jorge said, “to express … the voice of people whose voices have existed but have seldom been heard.”

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» UCS, from page 1 would stifle debate and isolate different groups, she added.

“By putting this deeper, unbelievably complex, two-sided issue into a tiny little checkbox, we are creating a binary, forcing students to either check yes or no,” said a BSI member who requested anonymity out of fear of repercussions.

BSI member Andrew Steinberg ’22 followed by discussing the University’s culture of academic freedom, and called the referendum “anti-academic” and “a vaguely veiled attempt to force Brown students to take a binary political stance.”

Jessica Raviv ’21 added that the referendum would “deepen divisions among Brown students, legitimize a campaign which has fueled incidents of hate at many other universities and make pro-Israel students on this campus feel unwelcome, uncomfortable and unsafe.”

Raviv also said that an online

» MUSEUM, from page 1 location selection process.

Both of the Mellon Foundation’s grants for inventory last for four years, but the museum’s move itself “depends on fundraising … (and) finding an appropriate location to move into,” said Robert Preucel, director of the Haffenreffer Museum and professor of anthropology. “We don’t know yet how much it would cost to purchase a building or (rehabilitate) it for our needs.”

Smith stressed the importance of meeting the four-year deadline. “We don’t want (the move) to be so far away that it becomes hard for people to … sustain momentum,” he said. At the end of the four years, “we should have everything effectively ready to move in.”

To oversee the inventory process, the museum will hire two photographers, a conservator, a project manager and a public outreach specialist, as well as four collections assistants and two to three students, Preucel said. These hires will be made “in the next month or so,” Preucel wrote in an email to The Herald. Using the funds from the 2018 grant, the inventory process for the Native American collections has already begun, and a collections technician has been hired.

The new workers will inventory all of the museum’s holdings and create “a clear and consistent record of what (the objects) are and the states that they’re in,” Jackson said. The conservator will also prepare any objects that

petition and promotional video generated by Brown Divest did not abide by the UCS By-Laws and Code of Operations, which state that “the top of the initiative petition must state clearly that a signature does not indicate approval or disapproval of the meaning of the initiative.”

However, Elections Board Co-Chair Katherine Barry ’19 clarified afterward that the petition Brown Divest gave to UCS did meet the necessary requirements.

“It is very important to all of us that we do not alienate any individuals’ identities on this campus, but at the same time, we are making full political, contestable claims, which should in every way be debated,” said Brown Divest member Noah Mlyn ’20 in response to BSI’s comments. “All we want to do by (having a) UCS vote approving this referendum is (to) allow every student on this campus to engage in that debate.”

The University’s investments are “inherently political and cannot be depoliticized,” he added. Mlyn also

apologized to anyone who experienced harassment on the basis of their ethnicity over the Israel-Palestine issue, and said that Brown Divest is entirely opposed to this.

“It’s really about international law, and remembering that … our goal at the end is protecting human rights,” which is another way of framing Brown Divest, said a coalition member who requested anonymity out of fear of personal repercussions.

In response, BSI member Jared Samilow ’19 referenced the historically low voter turnout for UCS and UFB elections and the alienation pro-Israel students may feel. “Referendums … are not really an effective way of assessing public opinion,” he said, especially for complicated issues where voter turnout is low. Last year, 35 percent of students voted in the UCS presidential election and 22 percent of students voted in UCS/UFB elections in Spring 2017, The Herald previously reported.

Brown Divest proposed the referendum to UCS “because of the realities

that … both Palestinians and Israelis are forced to endure because of … these oppressive structures and the corporations that profit off of this oppression.

And that’s a reality that isn’t just felt, it’s lived,” said a Brown Divest member who also requested anonymity out of fear of personal repercussions.

BSI does not oppose the referendum based on positions regarding the IsraelPalestine conflict itself, Steinberg told The Herald during the closed portion of the meeting. Instead, they question whether posing such a referendum is “conducive to an academic and positive environment on Brown’s campus,” adding that BSI wanted to “show that there are two sides to the issue.”

UCS will vote on whether it will endorse, denounce or abstain from taking a stance on the referendum in the coming weeks, likely at its next Wednesday general body meeting, Barry said.

UCS’ decision to add the referendum to this year’s ballot “does not mean that UCS endorses the movement behind the referendum. It just means that

a petition was proposed by students and we voted to approve that it go on the ballot to be presented to the wider Brown community,” she said. A note regarding UCS’ official position will be included on the ballot. Even if the student body passes the referendum, the University is not obligated to take any action.

Yema Yang ’19 also presented at the start of the meeting representing Disability Justice at Brown, a student group approved last semester that advocates for students with disabilities. Yang discussed DJ@B initiatives, which include coordinating with the University administration to develop disability study spaces and facilitating an “overarching community” for students who identify as neurodivergent, she said.

The ballot for UCS and UFB, including Brown Divest’s referendum, will be available to undergraduates from 12 p.m. Tuesday, March 19 until 12 p.m. Thursday, March 21.

“need repair or need conservation … for the move,” she added.

As the museum’s holdings are inventoried, each object will also be placed in the museum’s online collection catalogue, Jackson said. The database was launched in 2018 to increase the accessibility of the museum’s collections to both the general public and interested academics, The Herald previously reported.

Both of the Mellon Foundation’s grants also include funds for the purchase of “state-of-the-art (storage) cabinets” that are specially designed to house historical artifacts to ensure safe rehousing of the objects, Smith said.

Hall gallery is free, it is “relatively inaccessible” to the general public due to its location on campus, Smith wrote.

This gallery “can accommodate only one or two small exhibits at a time” and is the museum’s only public exhibition space, Smith added. Meanwhile, the Bristol location has been closed to public viewing since 2008 due to the fact that it does not meet fire code requirements for large group gatherings, Jackson said.

“In a new museum in Providence, we will be fully open to the public as well as to Brown students and faculty,” Smith added.

The University’s current attempt to relocate the museum is not its first.

“The goal of moving the museum out of (Bristol) has been ongoing for at least 20 years,” Smith said. In the 1990s, former University President Vartan Gregorian attempted to move the museum to Providence, but “the administration that came after him didn’t feel the same commitment” to the idea, and the plans did not progress, Smith added.

From 2007 to 2008, the University attempted to move the Haffenreffer once again, this time onto the Brown campus. But, “we all woke up one day, and the banks had failed, … (and) the recession came in,” preventing the plan from moving forward, Smith said. The museum staff is “very excited” that they now have the funding to plan a move, he added.

and the Rhode Island School of Design use the museum’s holdings as educational tools through the museum’s CultureLab project, which allows for hands-on experience with artifacts, Smith wrote. The museum also brings artifacts to K-12 schools across Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts through its Culture Caravan project.

The core of the Haffenreffer’s collection is of Native American origin, making up “approximately 45 percent” of the museum’s total holdings, Smith wrote. “We really do understand the need for incorporating indigenous and community voices into our exhibits,” he said. The two exhibits currently on display in Manning Hall, “Drone Warriors: The Art of Surveillance and Resistance at Standing Rock” and “‘Sacred is Sacred’: The Art of Protecting Bears Ears,” both focus on modern aspects of some Native American cultures and the protection of their land.

“Drone Warriors” — which focuses on the use of drones by protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation — was curated by Adrienne Keene, assistant professor of American studies and ethnic studies and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and Gregory Hitch GS, a PhD student in American studies. “‘Sacred is Sacred’” covers recent protests to keep Bears Ears National Monument — a region with long-standing Native American ties — under federal protection. This exhibit was curated by Isabella Robbins GS, a public humanities master’s student and a citizen of the Navajo Nation.

“To have two exhibits, both curated by Native women, in the anthropology museum is really exciting,” Keene said. She also appreciated the museum’s efforts to put “anthropology in conversation with current issues” through the exhibits and believes that the anticipated move will give Native American community members more access to the collections.

Historically, museums have “been used as tools of colonialism to promote really negative ideas about Native communities,” Keene said. But the Haffenreffer “has actually been a lot more progressive than other anthropological museums,” she added.

The Haffenreffer museum “started conversations with (Native American) communities even before they were required to by law and (has) continued to work under” the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Keene said. “There’s always more work that can be done,” but the Haffenreffer’s work in the community is more grounded than many other museums, she added.

The Haffenreffer looks to further develop its public outreach with local Native American communities through exhibits and educational programs. “We’ve done this in the past, but we’d like to … make it part of what we do on a regular basis,” Preucel said.

Providence “has a fairly large urban community of Native Americans from different parts of the country,” Smith said. The move “provides an opportunity to fit into that larger community structure.”

Motivations for moving As the University’s “research and teaching museum,” the Haffenreffer helps students and faculty who request access or information about the objects in its collections. In addition, students and faculty curate “almost every exhibit” at the museum, Smith said.

But the distance between the University and the museum’s Bristol location creates logistical difficulties. In order to move objects from storage to the on-campus location, the objects have to be taken “out of a climatecontrolled building … and that’s really dangerous to the objects,” Smith said.

In addition to the difficulties posed by a collection that is divided between Bristol and Providence, the Haffenreffer museum also struggles with community accessibility in both locations. While access to the Manning

Current exhibitions and projects Many departments at the University

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» WATSON, from page 1 program, announced that she will step down as director effective July 1. “I know that those who will be implementing the new concentration hope it will be rigorous and exciting,” she wrote in an email to The Herald. Tannenwald will continue to teach at the University.

Structure of the new concentration The proposed International and Public Affairs concentration will include a core program for all concentrators, beginning with gateway courses intended for first-years and sophomores. These introductory courses are meant to address general themes, such as inequality, ethnicity, gender and inclusion, Steinfeld said.

A qualitative methods course and a quantitative methods course will also be required, but students who complete four semesters of language study will be able to opt out of one of these methods courses, according to the proposal.

The new concentration will also remove the current language requirement for International Relations and Development Studies concentrators.

The new plan for language courses is the biggest change to the new concentration, said Patsy Lewis, director of the Development Studies program.

“Language is a skill … that makes you more competitive but also opens you up to other cultures,” she said. “Whether or not the new degree requires it, I think students should be encouraged to have some exposure to language.”

In their junior year, all International and Public Affairs concentrators will take a seminar focused on “substantive issues that transcend particular academic disciplines or geographies,” according to the proposal. Junior seminars will not be tied to specialized tracks.

Seniors in the concentration will be required to write a thesis, complete a traditional capstone project or work on a more practice-oriented policy report.

Each of the three tracks will have its own required foundational course as well as a set of electives offered by departments across the University.

The Development track will focus on “understanding and improving human living standards, quality of life and prosperity,” Security will examine violence and violence prevention and Policy & Governance will explore the “design, implementation and evaluation of public policies,” according to the proposal.

Faculty reactions The Watson Institute’s proposal comes after the Office of the Dean of the College released its own April 2018 report that recommended combining the Institute’s concentrations into two tracks, The Herald previously reported.

Both the April 2018 report and the current plan elicited mixed reviews, The Herald previously reported. Tannenwald wrote “I am not in favor of this plan” in an October 2018 email to IR concentrators about the Dean’s report, critiquing the concept of a concentration combining the Institute’s disciplines.

Anthony Levitas, director of the Public Policy program, said the most up-to-date proposal of the concentration is an improvement from the original report. “The proposal to have two tracks in the concentration was precipitous,” he said. “(The new concentration) reconfigures the way we should be thinking about the … interdisciplinary (use of) social sciences in the real world.” If the proposal is approved, Levitas will be the director of the Policy & Governance track in International and Public Affairs.

“There are some positive developments (in) trying to give students a common core … and having the Watson faculty at the center of the teaching curriculum,” Lewis said. “Students should have access to the same level of resources,” she said, noting that the three departments are currently funded based on the number of students.

Student reactions The reactions of students interviewed by The Herald ranged from cautious approval to blatant disapproval.

“Initially, I was against (the new concentration) because I thought it

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD decreases the uniqueness and the independence between the concentrations,” said Annie Phan ’20, a concentrator in development studies. But after Phan read the new proposal and talked to some faculty at the Institute, she began to “see something good.” Phan had observed some overlap between the concentrations prior to this proposal, and she liked the idea of having more seminars that would encourage discourse among students of different concentrations. But she did point out room for improvement. “If (the Institute) really wants students to see the positive effects, there needs to be more classes (that are) more relevant and specific to the track,” Phan said.

Katrina Northrop ’19, also a concentrator in development studies, could understand why the Institute proposed the new concentration. “Right now, the way that Watson is organized is not necessarily the best because it is very fragmented,” she said. “A lot of the resources within Watson and a lot of the professors kind of get dispersed over three concentrations, so not everyone has access to all of it,” she added. “So I get why they’re trying to consolidate it.”

Ellen Flax ’21, an international relations concentrator, noted that “the old IR major is going to be abolished as soon as the International and Public Affairs concentration is fully implemented,” adding that “what’s hard about this new major is that people are going to identify a lot more with their track than they are with their actual major.”

Flax appreciated the removal of the language requirement. She explained that the requirement is “a huge drag for people and a huge deterrent,” so the change “just makes (the concentration) more flexible.”

But both Flax and Sarah Ashe ’21, a concentrator in the Department of International Relations, were saddened that the International Relations concentration will essentially be melded with Development Studies and Public Policy.

“International Relations is the exact combination of things I want to be learning at Brown,” Flax said. “I didn’t want to do Development Studies, and I didn’t want to do Public Policy. I knew

International Relations was really what I wanted.”

In comparison, Northrop noted that the Development Studies program might be able to “remain the same under the broader Watson concentration.”

But a “lot of the DS concentrators are nervous that if they are enveloped in the larger Watson concentration, … our more nuanced take on … issues would be lost,” she said. “And it wouldn’t be a small department, which is why some of the Development Studies concentrators love it.”

Noah Klein ’20, who is doubleconcentrating in public policy and economics, was also concerned about International and Public Affairs becoming a large concentration. “It’s hard to build a community — to develop a community — of students when there is so many of them,” he said, adding that the larger size may deter a lot of people from choosing this concentration. Klein was disappointed with the proposal and said that many items in the proposal made changes in areas that did not need to be fixed.

Reasoning behind the change The Watson Institute proposed these changes because its resources and the needs of its students have changed in the past few years, Steinfeld said. “The faculty of the Watson Institute is very different from what it looked like just… five six years ago,” he said. “We have more people. We have more capacity to do things in-house than we did in the past.”

The current proposal is based on input from a series of town hall meetings, discussions with students and internal discussion among the faculty at the Institute, Steinfeld said.

Currently, many of the requirements for the Institute’s three existing concentrations are dependent on courses offered by other departments, which makes it difficult to create a “fully coherent curriculum,” Steinfeld said. “We thought we would try to internalize a bunch of things into Watson and also address some student concerns that have been expressed.”

Students voiced a number of con-

cerns about the existing concentrations during the development of the new proposal, Steinfeld said.

“There was some concern that the requirements in each of (the current) concentrations were sometimes not quite flexible enough,” he said, citing the number of languages taught at the University and the lack of courses focused on certain regions of the world as factors that can impede some students’ goals.

Students also called for more opportunities to interact with faculty, Steinfeld said. The new proposal aims to address this concern by providing more seminars and providing each concentrator with an individual concentration adviser. “More of these close, one-on-one interactions or small group interactions is going to be part of the advising climate and community here at Watson,” Steinfeld said.

Implementing the proposal The Institute hopes to begin offering the new concentration this coming fall, Steinfeld said.

The earliest that students will be able to declare the new concentration is late this semester or early next semester, pending approval from the CCC, wrote Besenia Rodriguez ’00, senior associate dean for curriculum, in an email to The Herald. But none of the students who have already declared one of the current concentrations will be required to make any change, she wrote.

Students applying to the University may still have a choice between old and new requirements, Steinfeld said.

“There’s going to be some multi-year transition.”

“I think it’s up to us in this concentration, and Brown generally, to demonstrate that the liberal arts education really counts, and that it can help people think clearly,” Steinfeld said. “It can help people make arguments clearly, and maybe more important than anything else, it could help people do something about the problems they’re facing and persuade other people to help them do something. That makes me feel like it’s really something worth doing.”

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COMMENTARY PAGE 6 • THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019

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What’s in a dinner?

SHAWN YOUNG

op-ed contributor Last week, the Brown community was rocked by an article in the Providence Journal detailing the role that the University played in coordinating a dinner for well-connected students hosted by a wealthy donor.

Naturally, these allegations dominated our campus dialogue for the better part of a week. In class discussions, conversations at dining halls and some especially fiery memes, Brown students have been rightfully indignant of the privileges that wealth affords on our campus. But now that we’ve had more time to digest the article and the allegations of special treatment for a select group of students, it’s only right that we examine ourselves and the nature of our criticisms.

Yes, there are some clear-cut wrongs: the University should have had no role in coordinating a dinner only available to Brown’s elite class. Indeed, much of the commentary has correctly focused on how the dinners demonstrate the uneven playing field that first-generation and low-income students face coming into Brown. That the University provided “logistical support,” even if they have pledged to cease doing so, for an exclusive dinner where attendees might have had access to potential job opportunities only worsens that disparity.

But even more sinister are the allegations of undue influences that these students receive after the dinner occurs. Members of the Brown community should look past the inherent wrongs of the dinner itself and examine the real and symbolic harm that is inflicted on the less

privileged after the dinner.

The dinner has tangible impacts for those invited. According to the article, influential donors have allegedly arranged for students to receive better on-campus housing options or off-campus permission after being denied in the first round. Not only does this violate any claim to an “equitable” distribution of Brown’s on-campus housing stock, it is also absolutely offensive. We should all be outraged that a student’s connections can result in better housing, given

East Side, according to Trulia, an online real estate guide. Not only does it appear possible for the attendees of the dinner to receive better housing from Brown as a function of their influence, it is also possible that they pay less for their housing. This is as regressive as it is wrong.

Tellingly, President Christina Paxson P’19’s response in the Providence Journal to the allegations did not focus on the real harm caused by the dinners. Instead, she maintained that the central administration knew

Members of the Brown community should look past the inherent wrongs of the dinner itself and examine the real and symbolic harm that is inflicted on the less privileged after the dinner.

that on-campus options are limited and vary notoriously in quality.

Additionally, because the number of students who receive off-campus permission is limited, some students will inevitably be forced to pay for on-campus housing, even though Brown’s housing costs can be hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars more than the housing costs of the

nothing and that the Advancement Office would no longer play any role in coordinating future dinners.

This response misconstrues what all members of the Brown community should find problematic about the event — that the administration’s internal processes, including those that deal directly with students, can be influenced by the right amount of

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We only need to look around to see just how the dinners represent one of many ways that Brown’s culture can be non-welcoming and potentially antagonistic toward the non-wealthy. Those examples include professors who require students to purchase a $50 book, only to have them read a single chapter. It’s

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However, the consequences go beyond just ResLife or job searches — the dinner is symbolic of the host of issues that non-wealthy students face on campus. In what is perhaps the biggest indictment of Brown’s culture, the general sentiment in reaction to the article was that students were not surprised by an instance in which wealthy students were privileged. We’ve been gaslighted into normalizing this behavior with indelible consequences for those who

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These issues serve as a stark reminder of the persistent hurdles that lower income students face on a daily basis. We must be acutely aware of how the dinners symbolize both the advantages some students have and the barriers that stay up for many others.

Readers may have noticed that I never use the name of the host of the dinners throughout this piece. That’s because the fact that someone can pull strings for a select group of students is more important than elevating the notoriety of a donor who has a building named after him. Repeating his name would take away from what should now be abundantly clear: We need to eradicate the culture of privilege which allowed the dinner to occur.

So we must continue to demand that our school strive toward equity and inclusion. We must erase the priority status afforded to the most privileged students on campus. We must start thinking about how to make Brown a truly welcoming place in action and in culture for all students. Because if there’s a takeaway from this episode, it’s that Brown still has a lot of work to do.

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COMMENTARY THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019 • PAGE 7

Defending the Granoff dinners ANDREW REED staff columnist Recently, the Providence Journal published an expose detailing dinners hosted by one of Brown’s top donors, Martin Granoff P’93. The article, titled “VIP dinners offer peek at culture of privilege at Brown University,” described these semi-yearly, invitation-only dinners Mr. Granoff hosts for wealthy students, potential donors and personal friends. Until last week, the University provided logistical support for these dinners by emailing invitations to students.

Within hours of the article’s publishing, Brown students expressed outrage toward the University’s involvement and the dinners themselves.

But criticism of the dinners quickly spiraled out of control. What could have been an opportunity to consider the issues of class and influence at Brown became a cesspool of generalizations, flimsy arguments and ad hominems. To be certain, not all Granoff critics fall into this category. But the vast majority of arguments I’ve heard have suffered from a lack of nuance that should worry all Brown students. From what I have heard on campus, there are three main criticisms: first, attacks on Mr. Granoff himself for being shallow enough to invite rich people to a dinner purely as an ego trip; second, general accusations of classism, elitism and a handful of other -isms; and third, criticism of the University, and the Office of Residential Life in particular, for allegedly providing special favors to the attendees.

The first claim is absurd and defamatory and should be rejected by thoughtful Brown students. The second point is a legitimate accusation that warrants thorough consideration, though I disagree with it. The third, as any serious person would agree, is a just criticism (though it seems this has little to do with the dinners themselves).

There are some valid claims that deserve a hearing, but the current climate does a disservice to that effort. The caricatures of the dinners are most responsible for this break-

when I think of the dinners, I see something far less cinematic. I see one of Brown’s top benefactors spending a lot of money to wineand-dine wealthy would-be donors to help raise money for the University. Some have called this exclusionary. I’d call it hunting where the ducks are. If targeting wealthy people for donations is an exercise in classism, then I suspect every nonprofit organization is guilty of the same sin.

I understand why some people’s gut reaction is to criticize events like this. On a liberal campus like Brown,

cloak of anonymity — almost all the students quoted in the Journal article withheld their names due to fear of how their fellow students would perceive them. If the goal is to genuinely solve these issues, everyone must be comfortable contributing to the discourse by being able to converse openly and honestly.

Quite frankly, outrage over these dinners has done a disservice to the causes which the critics ostensibly champion. The loudest, most unreasonable Granoff critics have pushed the conversation away from poten-

If targeting wealthy people for donations is an exercise in classism, then I suspect every non-profit organization is guilty of the same sin..

down. There seem to be two prevalent images. One is something of an F. Scott Fitzgerald dinner party, the other the Brown University equivalent of the Bilderberg meetings: gatherings of wealthy and well-connected people, which spark allegations of classism and unfairness, and whispers of something perhaps more sinister. The former is an exercise in vanity, the latter a one-stop shop for networking and special favors.

Perhaps I’m too idealistic, but

a sexy story such as this harkens ideas of income inequality and class divisions. These are obviously very serious and real issues, but I’d ask those who are most upset about the dinners to take a step back and objectively ask themselves whether the most constructive way to discuss issues of classism is to attack the event and insult its organizers and attendees for perpetuating elitism.

These types of attacks have pushed the dinner attendees under a

tially productive discourse. If you dare wade into the indignancy and all-around anger of Dear Blueno commentary in recent days (I recommend you do not), you will see one contributor has even gone so far as to suggest “review-bombing” Bacaro — the Italian restaurant where the event was held. Not everyone who has attacked the dinners has displayed this degree of thoughtlessness, but there does appear to be a shared mob mentality among the staunchest Granoff

critics.

It is fair to generally question the virtue of dinners such as these.

And as Caroline Mulligan ’19 wrote in her column “The burden of gratitude,” our appreciation for donors such as Mr. Granoff do not make these events immune from criticism.

But it should, however, give us pause to stop and give a more considered opinion before hurling accusations of selfish motivations and self-aggrandizement.

The ProJo piece could well have become a productive starting point for a constructive conversation about elitism at Brown and the very serious allegations of the University providing special favors to wealthy and well-connected students. But the degree of disdain that students have thus far shown toward the dinners has instead molded the debate into blanket attacks.

The current discourse has become so toxic as to push reasonable people away from the conversation — so that those who remain are the loudest, most extreme voices. We should be thankful that we study on a campus where students who see injustices attack them head-on. But I fear, in this case, students have become so entrenched in the task of defeating injustice that they themselves have been unjust.

Andrew Reed ‘21 can be reached andrew_reed@brown.edu.

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Sock & Buskin performs Isben’s play ‘Hedda Gabler’ TAPS revives Ibsen’s renowned theatrical piece, features nuanced femininity of protagonist

By EMILY TENG SENIOR STAFF WRITER

On Feb. 28, the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies premiered its rendition of the play “Hedda Gabler” in a new version by Brian Friel, directed by Professor Spencer Golub.

This psychological realist piece written by Henrik Ibsen is being staged from Feb. 28 to March 10 at the Stuart Theatre on Waterman Street.

“This is a living, breathing ‘Hedda Gabler’ that is both dark and darkly comic, sensory and complex,” wrote Golub, a professor of theatre arts and performance studies, Slavic studies and comparative literature, in an email to The Herald. “It takes on the mantle of the ‘classic’ play and tilts it in body and mind.”

In the opening of the play, title character Hedda Gabler appears on stage in a pair of black trousers and a white blouse and searches among the books piled around the stage. She maintains a cold gaze through sunglasses and, after locating a shiny pistol, points it toward the audience, building an ambiance of suspense and tension that persists throughout the play.

After the opening sequence, the first act introduces the newlyweds Hedda and George Tesman. Hedda, who is the daughter of a general and now wife of an aspiring academic, starts off the play with a strong dissatisfaction with her bourgeois lifestyle, over which she has no control.

The play “is a journey of (Hedda) realizing over and over again that she is trapped in this world only to exist for other people and only to exist for the purposes that she serves for men,” said Maia Johngren ’21, who plays the title

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“Hedda Gabler” focuses on proto-feminist themes surrounding domesticity and bourgeois life. Staged by the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and directed by Professor Spencer Golub, the production emphasized the physical movements of each character. character in the production. … the nature of these mysteries might that he has given to us, and we were for the entire play.”

The entire play takes place in the be,” Golub wrote. “This production of coming up with (some actions) in imHaving studied this play in her last Tesmans’ living room and a smaller ‘Hedda Gabler’ contains many such provisation,” Johngren said. year of high school, Trisha Ballakur room in their house, with an opaque mysteries and surprises that will excite Getting into the psychology of Hed- ’22 expressed how serendipitous it is curtain separating the two spaces. audiences who appreciate what theatre da, a “complex,” “powerful” and “deeply that it was performed when she came However, with the various props on can be, along with those who think they insecure” figure, was challenging but to Brown. “There’s so many ways you stage — a cushioned piano seat with know what theatre is and cannot be.” also very exciting, Johngren said. can analyze this play … with Hedda and wheels, a cabinet and piles of books Performing in a department proSpecifically, Hedda’s pregnancy has her struggle for trying to find her own — performers have a lot of room to duction for the first time, Johngren intrigued Johngren since taking on this powers, there’s so many interesting and express their characters. At some points described the process of engaging with role. “I wanted to explore what it was complex ideas, which I think I’ll still in the play, Eilert Loevborg and George this iconic role as very different from like to have these people talk when be trying to contemplate for (many) Tesman, played by Will Conard ’19 her other experiences in student the- she was pregnant and kind of taking years to come.” and Sam Blustein ’21 respectively, even atre. Instead of starting with analysis control away from her pregnancy,” Audience member Aleina Markham sit in the audience, watching the play of their roles, Golub began by direct- Johngren said. ’22 also particularly enjoyed this verthrough an observer’s perspective. ing the performers with actions that fit The play received praise at its sec- sion’s interpretation of Hedda’s charac“The audience should be allowed to their characters. ond performance. Audience member ter. “Compliments to the entire cast,” discover the mysteries of a stage pro“(This method) allowed us to find Caroline Risner ’22 enjoyed the “slow she said. duction without being alerted to what our characters in these physical actions burns and tensions that build and build