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Bears sweep Harvard, Dartmouth at home Alums finance Israel Fund as first regional endowed fund

Lafferty ’18 earns thirdperiod hat trick, Kania ’21 posts career-high 41 saves against Crimson

Students, professors disagree on whether fund is academically or politically motivated

By ALEXANDRA RUSSELL SPORTS EDITOR

Following visits to Cornell and Colgate last weekend, the men’s hockey team closed out its regular season with a pair of home victories over Harvard 6-4 Friday and Dartmouth 3-0 Saturday.

Sam Lafferty ’18 scored his first career hat trick in the third period Friday, fueling the Bears (8-17-4, 7-14-1 ECAC) to their first win over the Crimson since the 2014-15 season. Rookie goaltender Luke Kania ’21 posted a career-high 41 saves against Harvard, before stopping 29 shots for his first collegiate shutout against Dartmouth the following night.

By JACOB LOCKWOOD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Brown 6, Harvard 4 Friday night, a four-goal third period powered Bruno to victory over Harvard (13-12-4, 11-8-3).

Alex Brink ’19 opened scoring for the Bears midway through the first period, firing a shot from the right circle past goaltender Michael Lackey. Bruno

Sam Lafferty ’18 recorded his first career hat trick in Friday’s 6-4 victory over Harvard. The Bears will open playoff competition at Princeton Friday. peppered the Harvard net with shots, outshooting the Crimson 14-10 in the stanza.

Early in the second period, Trey Dodd ’20 added a shorthanded goal on a breakaway to widen the Bears’ lead.

U. seeks approval to build new wellness dormitory Dorm to be located at 450 Brook St., integrate CAPS, Health Services with residential hall

By SOPHIA GRACE CARTER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A fall 2017 amendment to the University Institutional Master Plan proposes the construction of a joint residence hall and wellness center at 450 Brook St. A date has not yet been set for the University to begin construction on the new facilities, but a preliminary plan has been lain out; the site will be situated on a 96,000-square-foot plot of land located near the Jonathan Nelson ’77 Fitness Center and will house approximately 100 beds. According to the IMP amendment, the University is referring to this new space as a “wellness dorm,” and Health Services and Counseling and Psychological Services will also move to the residential hall.

This will provide a “more integrated approach to health and wellness,” the amendment says.

The impetus for this project largely comes from a desire to have more oncampus housing, as well as a need to

expand health services and CAPS — both of which are at maximum capacity. The University’s recent fundraising success played a key role in realizing the plan, said Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06.

“This project has been really appealing to donors due to its programmatic aspect that connects residential life with health and wellness, which are three areas people care about,” he said. “(Donors) know that there is tremendous interest among students, faculty and staff. So combining these areas has given the project the momentum that it might have not otherwise had,” Carey added.

The amendment to the IMP was to be adjudicated by the Providence City Plan Commission at their Jan. 16 meeting, but, at the University’s request, was pushed to a March hearing instead, wrote Principal Planner Choyon Manjrekar of the City Plan Commission in an email to The Herald.

The University’s request for a delay in the approval process was connected to the controversy surrounding the plan for the new performing arts center, which originally included the » See WELLNESS, page 2

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HOPE hosts first annual summit 13 anti-poverty student groups attend three-day event, work to build sustainable network

By MELANIE PINCUS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

More than 100 students gathered at the University this weekend for the first annual Summit on Homelessness and Poverty. Attendees represented 13 student groups engaged in antipoverty work at institutions as close as the University of Rhode Island and as far away as Vanderbilt University.

The summit, which was hosted by the advocacy and outreach group Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere and sponsored by the University’s urban studies department, included keynote speakers, breakout sessions and workshops led primarily by representatives from student groups and community organizations.

Among the workshop leaders were individuals who have experienced homelessness, including Jesse Hardy, founder of Jesse’s Homeless Outreach Project in New Haven, Connecticut.

“I want people to see that love ... that we should have for each other, whether you’re homeless or not,”

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Sam Tsemberis delivered a keynote address on his “Housing First” model to reduce chronic homelessness at HOPE’s summit this weekend.

Hardy told The Herald. “You don’t always have to have money to help each other, you can just talk to people.” It is important for students to hear from speakers like Hardy to remember the importance of working with, and not for, people experiencing homelessness, Gabriel Zimmerman ’18, executive director of HOPE and Nathaniel Pettit ’20, HOPE’s education chair, said.

“I think we’re trying to be very mindful from the get-go of the reality of our positionality as students at elite schools and at a general place of relative comfort to a lot of people we’re trying to serve,” Pettit said.

At the same time, Zimmerman said students should know that they can make a difference.“We really want » See SUMMIT, page 2

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After taking advantage of a turnover in Bruno’s defensive zone, Dodd skated past Crimson defenseman Adam Fox and sent the puck over Lackey’s shoulder from the edge of the right circle. » See M. HOCKEY, page 4

More students may find their way to Israel during their time at the University thanks to the Israel Fund, an endowed fund created from alumni donations designated to support new and existing programs related to Israel. Established late 2016, the Israel Fund is the first endowed fund at the University that focuses on programs for a particular region of the world, said Dean of the College Maud Mandel.

So far, the Israel Fund has allowed students to travel to Israel for both summer internships and Wintersession courses, Mandel said. While these programs will continue, the fund is also slated to bring speakers to campus through the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and support the creation of a

new student exchange program between the University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she added.

The University has raised $3.8 million toward a $10 million goal for the Israel Fund’s endowment, according to a University press release. Once the endowed fund reaches $10 million, it will return $500,000 annually that can be spent on programming.

Brown Students for Justice in Palestine oppose the existence of the Israel Fund. “We … are not in support of these efforts to expand Israeli programs for Brown students. We have found that historically, these programs are in line with Israel’s attempts to entrench itself in American political and academic spheres,” BSJP wrote in a statement to The Herald. “We believe that academia is responsible for revealing injustices and speaking honestly about issues like these. … The fruits of this fund … will be met with resistance.”

Interim Director of Judaic Studies David Jacobson pushed back on BSJP’s claims, stating that the Israel Fund’s “intention is purely academic » See ISRAEL, page 2

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» SUMMIT, from page 1 to encourage people to go down and work with community organizations and put their money where their mouth is when talking about social justice,” Zimmerman said.

Friday night’s keynote featured Dr. Sam Tsemberis, who developed the “Housing First” model for addressing chronic homelessness. With Tsemberis’s method, individuals experiencing homelessness receive permanent housing and then address other issues, such as addiction and mental health.

In more traditional interventions, “the attention was on the treatment of the condition, rather than including the person in a conversation about … the solution to what was ailing them,” Tsemberis said in his address.

The Housing First model has

» ISRAEL, from page 1 and not political.” The Israel Fund aims “to provide Brown students with an opportunity to study Israel in all its complexity,” Jacobson said. “It was not at all motivated as an attempt to support anything having to do with Israeli policies.”

But Director of Middle East Studies Beshara Doumani expressed uncertainty about the agenda behind the Israel Fund. Unlike the Middle East Studies program, which “was built slowly, organically, from the bottom up,” by students and faculty, Doumani said the Israel Fund “completely descends from the top down. Instead of (being) student- or faculty-driven, it seems to be donor-driven.” Alums who donate to the Israel Fund may be politically motivated “to influence perceptions about a particular country or connections to that particular country,” Doumani added.

Faculty involved with the Israel Fund “would never support a course that had that kind of political agenda,” Jacobson said. “If you look at the programs that have been supported, it really does not affirm what the Israel Fund is being accused of.” Projects that study Israel also “introduce students to the Palestinian experience,” Jacobson added.

Doumani said he is not against student- and faculty-driven programs that study Israel. Instead, he said his concerns with the Israel Fund arise from a lack of transparency. Although the study of Israel falls within Middle East Studies, Doumani said he hadn’t heard of the Israel Fund prior to the Jan. 30 press release that publicized its existence. “The article just came

» WELLNESS, from page 1 potential demolition of four historic buildings, including the Urban Environmental Lab. While the latter part of the amendment sparked community outrage, the proposal for the new residence hall and wellness center has been uncontroversial, Carey said. The proposed site of the performing arts center has since been changed in an

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helped to virtually eliminate homelessness in Finland and has dramatically reduced homelessness among veterans in the United States, Tsemberis said.

“If only there was a political will to get that enacted nation-wide in different state and local policies,” Zimmerman said. “Some people think ‘oh, homelessness is intractable, it’s always been an issue in America,’ (but) there’s a way to solve this.”

Dr. James O’Connell, who helped found the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program in 1985, delivered a keynote address Saturday on street outreach and health care for individuals experiencing homelessness. O’Connell served as a “prime example” for those who are interested in learning how medicine can have social value, Pettit said, adding that “medicine is inherently based in social

justice.”

“It’s just inspiring to see the way groups here just have really strong footholds in their communities,” said Emmett Werbel, a student at Columbia who attended the conference with Project for the Homeless at Columbia.

“They’ve found a way to channel the resources of their universities into ... effective, appropriate solutions, and I think that’s just given everybody from my club a lot of ideas.”

Developing connections with other student groups engaged in anti-poverty work is valuable, students who attended the conference said.“I think the goal was always to bring people together,” Zimmerman said. “We need to have collaboration to really innovate and make a difference on behalf of people experiencing homelessness.”

Members of the HOPE leadership

team said they would like the summit to grow and potentially be hosted at a different university every year.

“I would love if we could transition from school to school … just because then you get the different perspectives, the different locations, the different community partners,” said HOPE’s Communications Director Katherine Garry ’20. “It’s definitely, I’m hoping, going to grow.”

In the meantime, members of the student organizations are planning to stay in touch through a Facebook group created during the summit. This network will help HOPE fine-tune its outreach and advocacy work, Garry added.

“I hope it can just remind us (of) the importance of this work and really just get us doing it on a broader scale,” she said.

The summit occurred during the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, which began in 1967 and concluded in June 1968, two months after King’s assassination, according to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute. Zimmerman said this concurrence has symbolic significance.

“The idea of (King’s) campaign was (to) bring together a multiracial, multiethnic, multi-income coalition to fundamentally change — he called it the revolution of values— the way we look at poverty in the United States,” Zimmerman said. “All the people we work with are already involved in trying to make that change happen, and hopefully … we can actually achieve the goal of continuing our communal efforts to follow the vision that King set 50 years ago.”

out of the blue, but it said that this has been going on for a year now,” he said. “Middle East Studies faculty have never been approached about this. … It would be great if we had more information or were brought into the loop of what the thinking is and what the plans are.”

One project supported by the Israel Fund — an exchange program developed by Professor of History and German Studies Omer Bartov — plans to bring six students from the University together with a group of three Palestinians and three Israelis enrolled at the Hebrew University.

Starting in fall 2019, these students will spend a semester on College Hill and a semester in Jerusalem learning about the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Bartov said he aims to expose students to “discourse about coexistence rather than conflict” and teach students “to see things through other peoples’ eyes.”

“This is my attempt at making a small contribution to a conflict that has gone on far too long,” Bartov added.

Doumani said people will likely perceive the Israel Fund as a “calculated move” to create connections between the University and Israeli institutions, such as the Hebrew University. Such connections conflict directly with international campaigns to boycott, sanction and divest from Israeli institutions in protest of Israeli policy, Doumani said. “I’m not sure if this Israel Fund is really an intellectual or research or academic project as much as it is a way to bring Brown and Israel closer together,” he added.

Director of the Watson Institute

Edward Steinfeld P’20 emphasized the importance of building connections with scholarly communities around the world. “My hope is for expanded communication and ties from the Brown campus and Watson to a number of international settings,” he said. Steinfeld envisions that the Israel Fund will allow the Watson Institute to bring more scholars from Israel to speak on a variety of topics including public health, social science, policy issues and Israel’s international relations. Once the Watson Institute begins receiving funding from the Israel Fund, a faculty committee will decide on speakers to invite, Steinfeld said.

The Israel Fund has already allowed some students to learn about the conflict between Israel and Palestine on the ground. Jacobson taught the 2017 Wintersession course, UNIV 1001: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Contested Narratives, which aimed to teach students about the conflict from both the Palestinian and Israeli perspectives.

Jacobson and his students stayed in East Jerusalem during their trip, which is the predominantly Arab side of the city, and traveled to the West Bank, Israeli cities and the border of the Gaza Strip. Jacobson said he hopes to make students more informed in their discussions of Israel and Palestine by taking students to Israel and exposing them to both sides of the conflict. “Israel is very controversial on campus,” he said. “I’m glad that students will now be able to make up their own minds by actually being there.”

BSJP’s statement claimed that Jacobson’s course misrepresents the conflict. The course “portrays both

sides as egalitarian actors in a conflict, erasing the actual dynamic of the occupier and the occupied, colonizer and colonized, oppressor and the oppressed,” the group wrote in its statement. “These types of efforts result in normalization of an existing military occupation, erasure of the narratives of Palestinians and, ultimately, violence towards the Palestinian people.”

Jacobson said his course respects the perspectives of both Palestinians and Israelis. “The students who wrote this about my course, I assume, did not take the course,” Jacobson said.

“There’s a difference between saying we want to understand where each side is coming from and saying that there’s no power imbalance. Of course, there’s a power imbalance. I don’t deny that,” he added. “When we’re on the ground (in Israel), we see the occupation. We see what it’s like. … The power imbalance is not being supported, but rather it’s being studied.”

Davis Tantillo ’19, a Herald copy editor who took Jacobson’s course in January 2017, said he appreciated the varied perspectives students heard from Israelis and Palestinians, “given that a lot of the narrative (of the conflict) that we receive in this country is more one-sided” in favor of Israel.

Tantillo added that Jacobson’s course “opened my mind to the possibility that it’s maybe not best to be proIsraeli or pro-Palestinian, (but) rather to be pro-peace.”

Academic opportunities supported by the Israel Fund will not be limited to learning about the conflict between Palestine and Israel. In Wintersession 2018, students traveled around Israel to learn about the HIV

epidemic in Associate Professor of Medicine Rami Kantor’s course, BIOL 1980: “HIV/AIDS in Diverse Settings: Focus on Israel.” The course brought 12 students to HIV clinics in both Providence and cities across Israel where they met patients with HIV and health care providers.

Danielle Advani ’18 called Kantor’s Wintersession course “one of the best courses, if not the best course, that I’ve ever taken at Brown.” Advani said studying HIV/AIDS in Israel proved to be especially interesting because “there are very few places elsewhere in the world where you can go and see so many different opinions on one single disease.”

The scope of the Israel Fund also extends beyond academic programming related to Israel. Last summer, BrownConnect partnered with the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship to place seven students in internships at Israeli startups, said Executive Director of the Nelson Center Danny Warshay ’87 P’20. Students who participated in the pilot run of the Israel Entrepreneurship Internship Program “not only got to experience what it’s like to work at a startup, … (but) they also got a crosscultural experience to see what it was like to live in another international culture,” Warshay said. After positive reception, the program is expanding to provide 15 students with internships in Israel this summer, he added.

Mandel said she hopes to see endowed funds established for other regions of the world as well. “I think you’ll start to see other things like (the Israel Fund) popping up,” she said. “I can’t promise that, but that’s my sense.”

effort to address community concerns, The Herald previously reported.

“As part of the amendment process, we do community outreach with groups like the College Hill Neighborhood Association and the Providence Preservation Society, as well as the general Providence community,” Carey said, adding: “We have found that while there is significant concern about the performing arts center, there

is very little concern about 450 Brook St.” However, after further discussion with the community, the University “expects (to) get approval from the Commission at the next hearing,” he added.

Brent Runyon, executive director of the Providence Preservation Society, voiced frustration with the City Plan Commission’s process of construction review. “Once (the University)

gets their Institutional Master Plan approved, they can basically build whatever they like. The city doesn’t micromanage Brown’s building projects, and typically the bar is set pretty low for what institutions have to get approved by the city,” he said. “Brown almost always gets what it wants,” he said.

Prior to the University’s 2014 acquisition of 450 Brook St., the site

contained seven wood-frame residential structures that were “unmaintained and in terrible shape,” Runyon said.

But in 2016, the University elected to raze the houses to make room for a temporary commercial parking lot, a usage that was only permitted by the Providence Department of Planning and Development with the provision to repurpose the lot when sufficient funds became available.

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Bears drop crucial road games to Lions, Big Red Bruno’s playoff hopes all but dashed in critical losses on road to Ivy League rivals

By ALEX SMOLAR SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The men’s basketball team’s playoff chances took a major hit this weekend with losses to Columbia and Cornell on the road. Entering Friday’s contest against Columbia, the Bears, Lions, and Big Red were tied for the final playoff spot, but the losses put Bruno (11-14, 4-8 Ivy) in a tough position as it went into the final weekend of its season.

With the results, the Bears moved to a tie with Princeton for seventh place in the Ivy League. In order to earn a berth in the Ivy League Tournament, Bruno will have to defeat both Princeton and Penn, as well as hope for losses from Columbia and Cornell this weekend.

“We want to end the season with these home wins,” said Travis Fuller ’19.

“We want to send out our (only) senior Jason Massey ’18 with a win.”

Brown 82, Columbia 89 The Bears suffered a heartbreaking loss at the hands of the Lions (8-17, 5-7), who were carried by efficient shooting to a close victory Friday. Brown started the game quickly and jumped out to an early 11-point lead twice in the first half. At one point, the Bears held a 2819 advantage.

But the wheels quickly fell off for Brown as Columbia’s shots started to fall while the Bears could not find the their way to the basket. The Lions went on a 14-point run, and Bruno went into halftime stunned, down 36-33.

In the second half, the Bears were unable to find their stride and recover from Columbia’s strong scoring streak.

The Lions widened the lead to 73-58, but Brown was not ready to go quietly.

Bruno began to mount a comeback led

by Brandon Anderson ’20 and Desmond Cambridge ’21 to swing momentum in its favor.

The run soon cut the Lions’ lead to 82-78 but was ultimately too little too late for the Bears. Columbia’s accurate shooting from the charity stripe, led

by Mike Smith, downed Brown. Smith would finish with 23 points and a 13-14 mark from the free throw line.

Cambridge finished the game leading all scorers with 26 points, followed

by Anderson with 23. The Bears shot 39 percent from the field and recorded 12 assists.

Brown 68, Cornell 73 The following night, the Bears and Big Red (11-14, 5-7) kept the score close in the first half, as neither team could find an edge. Obi Okolie ’20 led the team off the bench with nine first-half points, but usual stars Anderson and Cambridge were quiet, combining for just five.

At the break, guided by 11 points from Tamenang Choh ’21, Brown led Cornell 35-31. The team shot 34 percent

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Tamenang Choh ’21 drives to the basket. He finished the game against Cornell as the Bears’ leading scorer, notching 17 points and 12 rebounds in the losing effort. from the field, compared to Cornell’s 33 percent, and recorded three steals.

In the second period, the Bears began to heat up, jumping out to a 47-40 lead with 13 minutes remaining in the game.

But Cornell, led by the clutch plays of Jordan Abdur-Ra’oof, took a 53-50 lead moments later. On their next two possessions, Matt Morgan hit a contested three-pointer and Abdur Ra’oof knocked in a thunderous dunk to extend Big Red’s lead to eight.

Cornell’s run finally ended when Cambridge hit a three-pointer to trim the Cornell lead to five with six minutes to play. Choh and Cambridge were both fouled on strong drives to the basket,

and both knocked in their shots at the charity stripe to bring Bruno within two.

Chris Sullivan ’19 sunk an and-one layup on an impressive assist from Anderson and knocked in the free throw to put the Bears ahead 64-63.

Bruno and Big Red continued to trade blows as the game came down to the wire, but a basket from Steven Julian extended the Cornell lead to three. A miscommunication resulting from Big Red’s strong defense forced a turnover, but Cornell could not capitalize. Anderson was fouled but only could make one free throw.

The Bears fouled Big Red moments later, and Jack Gordon made both of his

free throws to widen the lead to four and put the game out of reach for Bruno.

Choh led all Brown scorers with 17 points followed by Okolie, who notched 15. The Bears finished with a 34 percent field goal percentage and grabbed 49 rebounds.

“My biggest takeaway is how much we competed and the seriousness to how we approached the game,” Fuller said. “This is a fun group to be around because we are consistently making each other better.”

The Bears will return to the Pizzitola Center to close out the regular season against Princeton Friday and Penn Saturday.

Why the Yankees should be considered World Series favorites GEORGE KLEIN staff columnist The Houston Astros won a thrilling, sevengame World Series last October. The victory made for a nice underdog story, as a team without a single championship in its history defeated the powerhouse Los Angeles Dodgers. But now as spring training commences, all is not harmonious and joyful in the baseball universe.

The Evil Empire in New York is back.

The Yankees are loaded from the top to the bottom of their roster and boast the best pair of sluggers — Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton — since David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez starred in Boston.

Not only that, the Bronx Bombers aren’t even that evil, not with Judge’s sheepish grin leading the team out onto the field.

The Yankees are almost unfairly good and fun. The other 29 teams better look out.

New York’s depth chart reads like a creation on franchise mode in MLB The Show. By acquiring Stanton in the offseason, the Bombers now possess the only player in the league who hit more home runs than Judge’s 52. Stanton slammed 59 round-trippers last year, tying the ninthhighest total ever in a single season. The only players who surpassed Stanton’s mark were Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Maris and Babe Ruth. And three of those players were on steroids.

Judge, meanwhile, tied the 20th-highest total for homers in one season as a rookie.

Stanton and Judge combined for 111 home runs, 246 runs batted in and 15.7 wins above replacement. Yikes.

And the rest of the Yankees are good too. Lost in all the Stanton excitement is catcher Gary Sanchez, who collected 33 home runs and 90 RBIs last season. He’s an All-Star player and a dark horse MVP candidate. Shortstop Didi Gregorius hit 25 home runs and 87 RBIs. Outfielder Brett Gardner added 21 home runs and 64 RBI (and 23 stolen bases). It’s difficult to perceive any real weakness in New York’s offense. Even if pitchers are able to escape

C.C. Sabathia and Jordan Montgomery round out the rotation. The bullpen is also overpowering. Between David Robertson, Dellin Betances and Aroldis Chapman, the Yankees should be able to close out games with no problems. Chapman and Betances suffered through brutal stretches last season, and the bullpen was still plenty threatening. There is no reason that New York’s relievers cannot perform at a more consistent level in 2018.

broadcaster and Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley on a team plane. Price needs to show that he is worth his massive contract if Boston hopes for playoff success. That doesn’t seem likely the way things have gone so far.

Another World Series contender, the Los Angeles Dodgers have a terrific all-around team but lack the punch of a Judge-Stanton pairing. First baseman Cody Bellinger struggled in the playoffs

The Yankees are almost unfairly good and fun.

the Judge-Stanton nightmare, the rest of the lineup is no joke.

New York is solid in pitching too and will surely be in the running for an inseason trade. Luis Severino broke out in 2017 at age 23 with 230 strikeouts, a 2.98 earned runs average and 1.04 walks and hits per innings pitched. Masahiro Tanaka bounced back from a rough regular season to dominate in the playoffs, allowing only 10 hits, three walks and two earned runs in 20 innings. Sonny Gray looked closer to his Oakland self in 2017 — he should only improve from here on out.

There are plenty of other fanbases that would be eager to contest the claim of New York’s dominance, but to put it simply, none of the other teams in the league can match the Yankees.

What about the rival Boston Red Sox, who just signed slugging free agent J.D. Martinez? Boston certainly has a talented team on paper, but something is not clicking in the clubhouse. Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts both talked about the need for an attitude adjustment. David Price caused a variety of internal issues last season, namely accosting Red Sox

after hitting 39 home runs in his rookie year — he must make an adjustment heading into 2018. Clayton Kershaw is the best pitcher in baseball. However, he still has not put it all together in the postseason, with a 4.35 ERA in 122 playoff innings.

The lefty will have to step up if Los Angeles faces New York in the World Series.

As a Cubs fan, I’d love to write that the addition of pitcher Yu Darvish pushes Chicago into contention with New York.

It isn’t true though. The Cubbies still fall short among the league’s best. Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant are special, but there

are too many disappointments on this roster. Jason Heyward, Kyle Schwarber, Addison Russell, Jon Lester and Ben Zobrist all underperformed last year. The Cubs could really use improvements from those players this season, but Heyward is already a lost cause offensively at this point, and Zobrist is yet another year older. Chicago is not quite back at the top.

The Houston Astros are the Yankees’ biggest threat. Between Jose Altuve, George Springer, Carlos Correa and others, the Astros are just as good as the Yankees on offense. Justin Verlander and Dallas Keuchel are stars at the top of Houston’s starting rotation. The bullpen does not have as much potential to dominate as New York’s, but still held off the Dodgers enough in the World Series when it mattered most. The fact remains though that in recent times, repeating a championship has proven too daunting a challenge for top teams. The Cubs looked ready to win for the foreseeable future after 2016 but fell off dramatically the following season.

The Kansas City Royals dropped out of the postseason altogether. The San Francisco Giants declined precipitously over the next couple of years after 2014. The Astros will have to stay away from the championship hangover, which is easier said than done.

The Yankees, meanwhile, are coming in after missing the World Series by one game, with everything still left to play for. My money is on the hungrier team.

George Klein ’20 can be reached at john_tomasi@brown.edu.

Please send responses to this opinion to letters@browndailyherald.com and other op-eds to opinions@browndailyherald.com.

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Gymnastics finishes fourth in Ivy Classic competition Multiple gymnasts received First and Second Team All-Ivy recognition on all four events

By TESS DEMEYER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

While uncharacteristic mistakes on the uneven bars and balance beam hindered the gymnastics team’s run for the Ivy Classic title, the Bears still recorded their second highest score of the season with a 192.975 at the Pizzitola Sports Center Sunday.

Yale posted a 195.025 to capture the crown, followed by Cornell and Penn, respectively.

2018 marks the first time Brown hosted the Classic since Bruno won the trophy at home in 2014. Though the Bears weren’t able to duplicate the feat Sunday, seven gymnasts were awarded All-Ivy Classic Honors.

Julia Green ’19 received First Team recognition on vault and Second Team on floor. Anya Barca-Hall ’18 earned First Team honors on floor while Regan Butchness ’18 claimed First Team accolades on balance beam. Gabrielle Hechtman ’19 and Alyssa Gardner ’21 nabbed Second Team on vault and Anya Olson ’18 and co-captain Claire Ryan ’18 finished with Second Team laurels on bars.

In addition to the All-Ivy Honors, Head Coach Sara Carver-Milne noted positive elements of the team’s overall performance.

“They performed probably the best that they have all season in some

» M. HOCKEY, from page 1 Harvard answered with a pair of power play goals later in the frame to send the teams into the third period deadlocked in a 2-2 tie. But the Bears quickly reclaimed the advantage four minutes into the final stanza when Josh McArdle ’18 scored on a one-timer in front of the net.

“They’ve got a good power play, so it wasn’t good by us to take those penalties, but I thought we were resilient,” Lafferty said. “We responded well.”

A minute and a half later, Lafferty capitalized on a power play, sending a wrist shot past Lackey from the slot to begin his three-goal streak.

Ryan Donato scored on a power play and brought the Crimson within one goal of the Bears midway through the period, but Lafferty added two goals

areas, especially on floor and vault, and that’s all we can ask of them,” Carver-Milne said.

The Bears opened the competition with their strongest event, the uneven bars. But against Ivy rivals, nerves crept into the lineup, resulting in multiple errors.

“It’s a very, very intense, competitive meet,” Carver-Milne said, adding that “the team handled the pressure really well throughout.” Though she noted the team’s final score was hurt by a few early mistakes, the team responded to errors well and came back strong.

After a shaky lead-off performance, Caroline Warren ’21 posted a 9.500 in the second spot to get Brown back on track. Ryan and Olson added a pair of 9.750s in the middle of the lineup, and Emma Hansen ’21 capped off a unique routine with a stuck double back tuck dismount to earn a 9.675.

Though bars is usually the Bears’ strongest event, “I think they got a little bit ahead of themselves, just a little too into the moment and the excitement of it being Ivies,” CarverMilne said.

The Bears shook off their extra excitement quickly as they took to the beam for their second rotation.

Ryan gave her team a solid 9.575 to build on, and Green followed with a 9.525. Cassidy Jung ’19 demonstrated unshakeable composure in the third spot, earning a 9.625 for her stellar leaps and a flawless back handspring step-out layout step-out series. Later, Hansen nailed an identical acro series

for a 9.575. In the anchor spot, Butchness left little room for deduction as she stuck her side aerial to fulltwisting layout dismount perfectly, notching a 9.775 and finishing in third place overall.

Halfway through the competition, Bruno trailed third place by 0.75 and had little to lose going into floor.

“We just tried to focus on each other, focus on ourselves,” Barca-Hall said. “We knew we couldn’t control scoring. We couldn’t control what other teams were doing. We could only control what we were doing.”

The Bears put on a show in the third rotation as all six gymnasts in the floor lineup scored 9.650 or better to achieve a season-high 48.850. Hansen hit her third routine of the night to earn a career-best 9.725, and Diana Manzano ’20 contributed to the team total by tying Hansen’s score to up her own career-high. A sky-high double back pike earned Green a personalbest 9.825, and Barca-Hall closed out the event with a 9.875 to raise her career-high and claim second place.

In its final event of the Classic, Brown notched a season-high 48.225.

Green led the team on vault with a career-best 9.775 and finished in second overall. Anne Christman ’20 earned a 9.575 in the leadoff spot, and Gardner and Hechtman supported with twin 9.675s to bring up the final 192.975.

“It wasn’t our best, but it’s kind of motivating because we know that we still had some really great scores today,” Barca-Hall said. She added that with recent experience in high-stakes competition, she knows the team

can compete under pressure.”We’re just waiting to show it, and we have some good opportunities to prove it at ECACs and at some of the meets coming up.”

The Bears will stay at home as they

host the University of Bridgeport, the College at Brockport and Southern Connecticut State University Sunday.

The quad meet is Brown’s final home competition of the season and will begin at 1 p.m.

— including one on a 5-on-3 power play — to secure the victory for Bruno.

“We just stuck with it, and we kept getting pucks to the net,” Lafferty said.

“We were pretty opportunistic in the third.”

Ty Pelton-Byce scored when Harvard pulled Lackey for an extra skater with two minutes remaining, but the Bears fended off the Crimson attack to the buzzer.

Kania made 41 saves as the Bears were outshot by the Crimson 45-29.

After a scoreless first period, Tommy Marchin ’19 put the Bears on the board late in the second stanza with his team-high 11th goal of the season.

Two minutes later, Charlie Corcoran ’18 knocked in a rebound from the left side of the net to widen the lead.

“We just stuck to our systems and kept getting pucks in deep,” Corcoran said. “It was good (that) the guys didn’t get frustrated, stayed with our systems and kept believing in what we do. When we play that way, I think we can play with anyone, and it worked out for us.”

The Bears capitalized on two Dartmouth penalties in the final period when Max Gottlieb ’19 converted on a power play with 40 seconds remaining.

Gottlieb fired a shot from the point past goaltender Adrian Clark to clinch the win for Bruno.

Zach Giuttari ’20 assisted on all three goals in the contest.

The tenth-seeded Bears will open playoff competition in a best-of-three series at Princeton this weekend. The winner of the series will advance to the quarterfinal round, which will take place March 11 to 13.

In the leadup to Friday’s contest against the Tigers, Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94 emphasized the importance of playing with intensity and focus.

In “playoff hockey, you have to play with desperation every time you step on the ice, every shift,” Whittet said.

“You have to understand that there’s going to be a price you have to pay if you’re going to be successful. The guys will be on top of it no matter where we are, and it’s just good to go into playoffs with a little bit of positive momentum.”

Bruno’s Ivy sweep marks the first time that the team has defeated the Crimson and Big Green in the same weekend series since the 2013-14 season. Closing out the regular season with this success is particularly meaningful for the graduating senior class, Whittet said.

“It’s a good thing for the seniors to be rewarded for their work,” Whittet said. “They’re all good leaders in their own right, they’re good hockey players, they’re even better people and they want Brown hockey to do well. They’re selfless in what they do.”

“It’s pretty awesome,” Corcoran said.

“We’re a really close group of guys, and we’re a really close team, so it was just really cool to close out like that.”

The Bears will open the first round of the ECAC Tournament at Princeton Friday. Face-off is at 7 p.m.

Brown 3, Dartmouth 0 The following night, goals from three different Bears and a shutout performance from Kania in net fueled Bruno to a senior night sweep of the Big Green (13-14-2, 11-10-1). The victory marked Brown’s first shutout against Dartmouth since 1995.

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Julia Green ’19 completes a double back pike during her floor routine at the Ivy Classics Sunday. The Bears tallied a season-high 48.850 on the event.

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Let it go CAROLINE MULLIGAN staff columnist Dear Brown Daily Herald, Breakups are hard. They’re messy, and they hurt, and I understand that sometimes the only thing that can keep you going is spite. You take that anger and you turn it into fuel. There’s no better way to get back at someone who hurt you than by going forward and flaunting all of your successes in their face.

You’re allowed to take time to heal, and I don’t want to invalidate your feelings. But it’s been a full two years.

You’re not going to like what I have to say, but I’ll say it nevertheless: It’s time to let Blog go.

Let’s back up and take a look at Brown’s institutional memory. In October 2015, the Brown Daily Herald published two columns that were, for lack of a better term, incredibly racist and particularly insulting to indigenous Americans. Understandably, a lot of people were upset by the lack of oversight that allowed these pieces to get published. There were protests, including a march in support of Indigenous People’s Day that went right

by The Herald’s office. Brown then renamed the holiday on Fall Weekend to Indigenous People’s Day. Eventually, criticism of the The Herald quieted

down. But the emotional harm caused by the opinions pieces remained. You were not a popular publication that year (and quite frankly, you didn’t deserve to be). And although the pieces that caused the issue appeared in the paper proper, your other brands, post- and the BlogDailyHerald, were not unaffected due to their association with you.

On Feb. 9, 2016, a revolution occurred. Members of the BlogDailyHerald broke away and formed their own

of the schism take their place. Yet still it remains, a testament to its origins.

BlogDailyHerald kept chugging along despite the break. A cursory search of the website suggests that no one ever acknowledged the split. Except … it’s not chugging anymore. It’s sad. And it’s time to make your breakup complete by letting go of the artifacts to which you cling.

You haven’t posted any original content to your Facebook page since November. The last apparent update

ered “Campus Life.” Or you have, but your website hasn’t been maintained.

And then there’s your mascot. I don’t mean to be rude. Artistically, it’s well done. But it’s frightening. That bear’s sneer haunts me. I don’t feel that it’s about to inform me about campus goings-on in a friendly and upbeat way. I feel that I’m about to get mauled.

In contrast, the Blognonian’s sun, with slightly glazed eyes and a lazy smile that make it look like the sort of thing that would unironically use the word

Blog’s continued existence is a reminder of an era when The Herald was practicing journalism irresponsibly. The refusal to acknowledge the writers who broke off to form a new platform that “better reflects (their) values” casts a pall over the content that The Herald comes up with. publication. The Blognonian makes no secret of the fact that it emerged from dissatisfied writers who felt that remaining with the BlogDailyHerald made it impossible for them to fully represent the student body across the spectrums of race, gender and class.

Even today, the first sentence in their website’s “About Us” reads “The Blognonian is an independent student publication brought to you by the former staff of BlogDailyHerald.” Each year that sentence becomes less and less true, as those who once wrote for the BlogDailyHerald graduate and underclassmen who have no understanding

on your website is from Jan. 26, an analysis of “Ratty vs. V-Dub.” Even a statement as timeless as “Chicken Finger Friday for lyfe” can’t make up for the fact that it’s a month into the semester and there’s just been nothing.

Blognonian has brought us Datamatch and student spotlights, and you stay frozen.

And if I’m being honest, there are other issues too. Your website offers a variety of headers to direct readers to categories like “Sports” and “Relationships.” But the only one with any content is “Arts & Culture.” Apparently in all of your existence, you’ve never cov-

“groovy,” feels much more reflective of the Brown community.

But more than anything, you can’t run from history. Blog’s continued existence is a reminder of an era when The Herald was practicing journalism irresponsibly. The refusal to acknowledge the writers who broke off to form a new platform that “better reflects (their) values” casts a pall over the content that The Herald comes up with. Maybe in a few years, students won’t know about any of this, but in the meantime, it’s hard to conceptualize BlogDailyHerald as anything but a holdover from a time when you did

a poor job of owning up to your mistakes.

And, finally, let’s face it — Brown isn’t that big. Maybe we can accommodate a dozen different a cappella groups that all perform slightly different pieces. But can, or should, we have two blogs that both aim to capture student life in the exact same way? Isn’t there something to be said for unity, for admitting that the campus might be better off if we could get our funny, #relatable news from a single source?

The sheer number of student publications at Brown can be overwhelming.

Is there really a need to keep a redundant platform on life support?

Dear Brown Daily Herald, I wouldn’t be writing for you if I thought you were an irredeemable paper. But the events of two years ago are still remembered by roughly half the people on campus. There’s no shame in admitting that you had a good run, but it’s finished now. Especially if the alternative is letting Blog slowly decay, with no updates or improvements. Give it a good end, and be done with it.

Caroline Mulligan ’19 would like you to know that she is unaffiliated with the Blognonian and can be reached at caroline_mulligan@brown.edu.

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The Political Theory Project and the essence of Brown JOHN TOMASI

op-ed contributor I am the director of Brown’s Political Theory Project. The mission of the PTP is to investigate the ideas and institutions that might make societies free, prosperous and fair. We focus on the interplay of democratic and market-based ideals, with a commitment to examining issues from a variety of ideological perspectives.

The PTP is sometimes criticized for this approach and, significantly, for welcoming financial support not only from liberal but also from conservative and libertarian donors. For example, a recent blog post, written anonymously by a Brown faculty member, criticized the PTP for bringing Noam Chomsky to Brown, claiming we hosted Chomsky, and featured his picture on our website, as a “smokescreen” to hide a right-wing agenda.

But Professor Chomsky is not the only left-leaning speaker the PTP has brought to campus. In recent years, we have also hosted Jeffrey Sachs, Jessica Valenti, Stanley Fish, Brad DeLong, Lani Guinier, Larry Lessig, Michael Eric Dyson, Sven Beckert, Randi Weingarten, Glenn Greenwald, Rick Ross, Michael Sandel, Jerry Greenfield from Ben & Jerry’s and many others.

Still, Brown is a famously innovative and contrarian university, so with PTP events there is a twist. PTP events routinely feature not just one but two speakers, presenting students with dueling perspectives. For example, our Chomksy event was on America’s relationship with Israel, so we paired him with Ambassador Dennis Ross, who provided counterpoints. When the PTP brought Bill McKibben to Brown to discuss coal divestment, we also brought James Rogers, the CEO of Duke Energy. For an event on human rights and torture, we

brought together Larry Cox, the executive director of Amnesty International, and John Yoo. When Catharine MacKinnon spoke about gender equality, we paired her with Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield (the author, for better or worse, of a book entitled “Manliness”).

PTP events are popular at Brown because they are designed based on the principle of respect for undergraduates. We don’t see students as passive creatures who attend university to be corrected by their moral superiors. Instead, we believe that a great university, above all else, owes each generation of students a chance to think for themselves.

What about our critics? They do not like the PTP, and they fear the idealism that an approach

made much of a misquote — originally presented, ironically, in a conservative magazine — to the effect that I see the aim of my teaching as indoctrination when the opposite is true. The anonymous blog post that I mentioned above recycled that misquotation, and additionally asserted that I was awarded a $50,000 book prize from a foundation which also supports the PTP. Alas, that too is false. Critics of the PTP routinely mischaracterize my own political views, describing me as an exponent of unbridled capitalism. In fact, my life’s work has been to reconcile advocates of private economic liberty to the moral imperatives of social justice (and vice versa).

The PTP is committed to transparency. Indeed, we have a long-standing policy of listing our major

The PTP has increasingly become an intellectual junction box at Brown, bringing together “quarrelsome” insights from the disciplines of philosophy, politics, economics and others. like ours inspires. They believe college students should not have the opportunity (or even the desire) to interact with cutting edge scholars on various sides of controversial issues. Instead, they seek to sanitize the university. In their dream, Brown would not be a garden with flowers blooming in surprising directions and hues, but a place where every sprout of difference has been rooted out, and the campus painted over with a monochromatic ideology of their own liking. Conformity is their goal. Their attack on donors they dislike is the smokescreen they use to hide this fact.

It is revealing that criticisms of the PTP have often been built upon innuendo and simple factual errors. For example, few years ago, a book on “dark money” claimed that I received a grant of roughly $150,000 from an outside foundation to teach a seminar at Brown. That is false. That author also

donors on our website, even though Brown does not require us to do so. (Brown also discloses donor information in its Annual Financial Report.)

What’s more, the PTP publicly states the principles of philanthropic partnership on which we are willing to accept financial support. The main principle, closely modeled on Brown’s own policy under President Christina Paxson P’19, is what we call “Programming First.” The PTP allows donors no input regarding any of our activities. Programming First is a kind of public contract: If any donor wishes to support the PTP, they must do so entirely on our terms.

Increasingly, there are powerful groups seeking to create a university of conformity. They may succeed elsewhere, but not at Brown. For pluralism is the very essence of Brown. It is in our DNA. While other Ivy League schools were founded

on religious charters, Brown was different from the start. Brown’s Charter of 1764 states: “(I)t is hereby enacted and declared that into this liberal and catholic institution shall never be admitted any religious tests: But, on the contrary, all the members hereof shall forever enjoy full, free and absolute and unlimited liberty of conscience.” In 1969, the students who devised the New Curriculum had a similar idea: Instead of one mandated curriculum imposed upon all, they insisted that, at Brown, each student should be free to experiment and devise a unique path of study for themselves. So too, in her convocation address in 2001, former president Ruth Simmons declared, “While other types of communities devise covenants so as to avoid conflict, our covenant is rooted in quarrel, in opposition. We freely trespass boundaries, criticize each other’s views, test every theory. No idea is beyond range or out of bounds.”

Today at Brown, many centers, departments, faculty members and students remember, and seek to honor, Brown’s tradition of pluralism. At the PTP, our commitment to pluralism is not only on behalf of our students: It is fundamental to our mission as scholars. The PTP has increasingly become an intellectual junction box at Brown, bringing together “quarrelsome” insights from the disciplines of philosophy, politics, economics and others. At the PTP, we study differences not only for the sake of difference, but as a method to discover commonalities that might inspire us all. I invite you to join us in this great adventure.

John Tomasi is the founder and director of the Political Theory Project and can be reached at john_tomasi@brown.edu.

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