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Swastika drawn in feces Planned UEL demolition invokes criticism performing arts found in RISD bathroom New center could replace Symbol found in genderneutral bathroom under investigation as potential hate crime

By GWEN EVERETT SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A swastika drawn in human feces was found in a gender-neutral bathroom in a Rhode Island School of Design dormitory the weekend of Feb. 18.

“RISD public safety is investigating this isolated incident as both an act of vandalism and potentially a crime of hate,” wrote Jaime Marland, director of public relations at RISD, in an email to multiple news outlets, including Huffington Post, NBC10 and the Providence Journal.

“What they did is anti-Semitic,” Cooper Thompson, a student at RISD, told NBC10 news, adding that he had “a feeling most likely they’re just trying to shock people.”

Students were also disturbed by the fact that the incident occurred in a gender-neutral bathroom, as it suggests

transphobia as well as anti-semitism, NBC 10 news reported.

The act comes amid a recent uptick in national concern over anti-semitism in America: There have been 53 bomb threats made to Jewish community centers across the country in the first two months of 2017, according to the national Jewish Community Center organization. Ivanka Trump spoke out against this recent wave of antisemitism via Twitter Feb. 20, writing “America is a nation built on the principle of religious tolerance. We must protect our houses of worship and religious centers.” President Trump followed with a statement against the acts a few days later after receiving criticism for his silence on the issue.

Some RISD students told NBC10 news that this incident is part of a trend at RISD of acts involving human feces — showers, bathroom stalls and bathroom walls have been repeatedly marked with human feces recently, they said. RISD has held meetings with affected students, NBC10 reported.

University officials were not available for comment by press time.

UEL if site cleared for construction in May

By ANNA KRAMER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Since the University announced the potential demolition of the Urban Environmental Lab to make room for a new performing arts center at the Corporation meeting in February, students and faculty have been pushing to save the UEL and the communities it supports.

The University is currently selecting an architect and designers to validate the site for the new performing arts center — a process which consists of matching the desired characteristics of the proposed building, including number and sizes of rooms, with the proposed location’s size and physical constraints, wrote Associate Provost for Academic Space Leah VanWey in an email to The Herald.

The site where the UEL currently stands must be approved in the site validation process before the Corporation votes on the location during its meeting in May, said Cass Cliatt, vice president of university communications.

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Brown tops Dartmouth, falls to Harvard as Hobbie ties record JR Hobbie ’17 tied program record for career threes-pointers with 249th against Harvard

By NICHOLAS WEY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Heading into its final road weekend of the season, the men’s basketball team looked to avenge previous home losses to Dartmouth and Harvard. Against the Big Green, the Bears (12-16, 3-9 Ivy) found their rhythm, snapping a five-game losing streak and securing an 80-75 win. But against the Crimson, despite co-captain JR Hobbie ’17 tying the Brown record for career three-pointers, the Bears fell 77-58.

The Bears were firing from the starting whistle against the Big Green (6-19, 3-9). In the first nine minutes, Brown put up a 22-10 lead on Dartmouth, with three-pointers from Hobbie, co-captain Tavon Blackmon ’17 and Obi Okolie ’19.

The Bears only continued this blitz as the half progressed, going on a 10-2 run over the next four minutes to take a 34-12 lead. But Dartmouth fought

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back, closing the gap to 38-27 by the close of the first half.

“We played great defense,” said starting forward Travis Fuller ’19. “We had a great start to the game and came in with a lot of energy. We were playing unselfish basketball, and everyone was giving multiple efforts on both ends of the floor.”

Over the course of the second half, both Bruno and the Big Green exchanged blows on offense. But thanks to the cushion that Brown built during the first half, the Big Green could only chip away at Brown’s lead over the second period. With 2:33 remaining, the Bears held a nine-point advantage at 78-67.

But Dartmouth rallied, going on a 8-0 run fueled by five points from Taylor Johnson, which cut the lead to just three with under a minute

awesome.”

Blackmon and Steven Spieth ’17 led Bruno offensively, each netting 14 points on the day. Spieth, who currently leads the Ivy League in minutes per game, also tied the Brown record for games started in a career, with 114. Overall, the Bears bested the Big Green in field goal percentage, rebounds, assists and points in the paint to cap a convincing showing.

The Bears looked to continue this momentum into their Saturday evening matchup against Harvard.

“I wouldn’t say it’s hard to bounce back,” Fuller said. “We were ready to go.”

But Brown started slow, allowing the Crimson to build an 11-2 lead in the opening minutes of the game. The Bears were able to shrink this lead to seven after three-pointers from Spieth ELI WHITE / HERALD

JR Hobbie ’17 squares up against a defender. Hobbie tallied 11 points against Dartmouth Friday in the Bears’ 80-75 win in Hanover. remaining. Brown retook control after Hobbie iced the game at the free throw line, securing the win.

“It was nice to get a win,” Fuller said. “The atmosphere after a win is

and Hobbie, but Harvard’s offense remained unrelenting and built a 4023 lead with 3:06 left in the first half.

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A “Save the UEL” petition has garnered more than 300 signatures. The signatories are fighting to preserve the UEL’s historic and community value.

There is a possibility that the UEL will not clear the site validation process, said Kurt Teichert, senior lecturer in environmental studies. The East Side

Tunnel, now used for public buses, runs fifteen feet under the proposed site and could complicate construction at the » See UEL, page 2

RI congressmen vow to safeguard Obamacare at rally After direction from party officials, RI congressmen host rally at RIC to affirm support for ACA

By STEPHANIE REYES SENIOR STAFF WRITER

In a letter to their colleagues written earlier this February, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, encouraged Democratic senators to lead rallies on Feb. 25 across the nation to safeguard the Affordable Care Act. In Rhode Island, hundreds gathered at the Save Obamacare Rally at Rhode Island College where U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, and U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin D-RI joined physicians, medical students and constituents to voice support for the ACA. U.S. Rep. David Cicilline ’83, D-RI, was not present due to official delegation duties.

At the rally, audience members applauded Reed’s assertion of the ACA’s fate as a nonpartisan matter. “This is not a Republican or Democratic issue — when you go into that hospital room, they don’t ask you what party you’re affiliated with,” Reed said.

Rachel Flum, executive director of

the Economic Progress Institute — an organization committed to improving the economic well-being of Rhode Island residents — opposed repealing the ACA and changing Medicaid’s structure through block grants.

Currently, Rhode Island is in a joint state and federal partnership in the Medicaid program. The federal government pays 50 cents for every dollar that Rhode Island spends on health insurance, Flum added. Flum raised concerns over the administration’s mandate to convert Medicaid into a block grant program, which would set a fixed amount of advance funding and shift the cost responsibilities solely to the state.

Kellyanne Conway, President Trump’s White House counselor, announced the administration’s support of block grants on NBC’s “Sunday Today” last month. Though Republicans like Conway have argued for block grants in order to provide more flexibility, Flum said such plans would not suffice to improve the system.

“If they repeal the ACA and block grant Medicaid, Rhode Island and all other states are going to be in a whole pile of trouble,” Flum said. “We are on the precipice of health care disaster.”

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» OBAMACARE, from page 1 prevalence of “repair over repeal” in regards to the ACA. Langevin assured constituents that their voices had been heard and vowed to protect Medicaid and the ACA. “We know improvements can be made — and will be made — but repeal is not the answer,” Langevin said.

Whitehouse similarly thanked constituents for their efforts to stop the repeal, assuring audience members that a repeal is unlikely. Democrats in the Senate are not cooperating with the Republicans, Whitehouse said, adding that Democrats are now playing offense in the matter. Whitehouse said he had refiled the public insurance option, and the audience erupted in applause.

“They’re not the only ones who can play with health care reform,” Whitehouse said.

Though these elected officials aim to fight most of the president’s health care platform, they said they

» BASKETBALL, from page 1 three-pointer at 1:49 in the stanza, Hobbie tied the program record, providing some much needed energy for the Bears as the team entered halftime down 48-30.

Fuller remarked that watching

» UEL, from page 1 site, he said.

The new performing arts center is needed to create a range of spaces available 24/7, according to the Building on Distinction Operational Plan.

The plan states that the building, which will contain spaces for music, dance and theater, will be flexible and acoustically appropriate.

The proposed site is ideal for its proximity to buildings central to the arts at Brown, such as Rites and Reason Theater, Leeds Theater and the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, wrote Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 in an email to The Herald.

The University’s plans to demolish the building have triggered the creation of a petition called “Save the UEL.” Created by Jon Gewirtzman ’17 and Lauren Maunus ’19, the petition has garnered more than 300 signatures from faculty members, students, administrators and alums, among others, according to the petition data. About 16 percent of respondents are current environmental studies concentrators, and another 18 percent of signatories are alums.

Sixty percent of respondents are not environmental science concentrators, which “speaks to how many different

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supported Trump’s campaign promise to negotiate pharmaceutical costs and protect Medicare and social security.

When asked by an audience member if the elected leaders would reject donations from insurance and pharmaceutical companies, Reed said he did not think he had ever received such a donation but did not specify in regards to future donations. Whitehouse and Langevin declined to answer.

Jonathan Staloff MD’19 spoke at the rally and discussed his childhood dream to become a doctor — a dream that has been tainted as he has discovered the inequality of the U.S. health care system.

“The way our health care system is structured prevents me from being able to say doctors heal the sick,” Staloff said. “The sad truth is the United States healthcare system is structured so physicians can only heal those who can pay.”

“In a world without the ACA, healing will have a sticker price that millions won’t be able to afford,” he added.

A protestor holds a sign in support of Obamacare. At one of many rallies hosted across the country Saturday, U.S. Senator Jack Reed, D-RI, argued that the Affordable Care Act is a nonpartisan issue.

Hobbie hit this career milestone “was awesome” for everyone on the Brown team.

“We have two games left to get him that record, so it’ll be a great moment for him,” Fuller said. “The guy is a gym rat.”

But the 18-point halftime lead

proved insurmountable for the Bears.

In the first 10 minutes of the second half, Spieth contributed six points alone, with help from Fuller — who led Brown with eight rebounds — and Okolie. The Bears kept pace with Harvard for the second half but ultimately fell 77-58.

The Bears will finish the regular season this weekend with two games at home against Columbia Friday and Cornell Saturday. After this weekend, the Bears now share a three-way tie for sixth in the Ivy League standings.

With three conference wins, Bruno currently sits two games behind

Columbia and Penn, who both currently share the fourth place spot in the conference. “The vibe is still strong,” Fuller said. “We want to end this season going 2-0. We’re a very close group, so every chance that us 15 players get to play together, we’re not gonna take it for granted.”

communities and people use the building,” Gewirtzman said.

The building houses meeting spaces available to students at late hours in the night, a community garden for Providence residents, facilities for Bikes at Brown, market shares, eco-reps, the clothing swap, the Native American and Indigenous Studies program, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and the Office of Energy and Environment, Gewirtzman said. The UEL “fosters a really strong sense of community by providing a space” with a kitchen and meeting areas for clubs, Gewirtzman said, adding that informal collaboration occurs often and easily because professors and undergraduates share the space.

Students and faculty members are protesting the plan on the grounds that the UEL has unique historical significance and serves several valuable functions, Gewirtzman said.

There is no way to truly replace the UEL, said Amanda Lynch, director of IBES. “Anything the administration can come up with would be a partial replacement,” she added. The UEL is a living laboratory that embodies the history of environmental technology in buildings, she added.

“It’s the most sustainable building on campus. It was built by students as the

original home of the environmental studies program as an example of adaptive reuse and sustainable living,” Gewirtzman said. “It’s a living, very hands-on example of topics that are gone over in a lot of environmental studies classes.”

Originally built to be a carriage house in 1885, the building was modified by students and faculty to explore energy and resource efficient building, Lynch said. “There were a lot of cutting edge experiments and they were layered over each other,” she added.

As a carriage house, the building takes advantage of “passive and active solar orientation … and takes much more advantage of the sun rather than relying on the fossil fuels,” said Teichert.

Solar photovoltaics generate about 10 percent of the building’s current electricity needs, Teichert said. The Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center is the only other building at the University with solar photovoltaics, he added.

The UEL “is my teaching lab,” Teichert said, adding that he uses the building as an example of the energy conservation principles he teaches.

Rather than pushing back against the construction of the new performing arts center, Teichert wants the center to improve on the benefits of the UEL. The “Save the UEL” movement needs to hold fast until the University proves “a

viable project is going to supplant these buildings,” he said.

Teichert’s main priority is finding an alternate space that satisfies needs of all the programs currently housed at the UEL. The University has yet to decide where IBES and other programs located in the UEL will be placed, Cliatt said.

“If the worst happens and we’re not able to convince them to save the building, … we need to demand a replacement that fulfills” the needs of IBES, Lynch said.

VanWey has been working with IBES leadership since early 2016 to accommodate program growth and the possible loss of the UEL, VanWey wrote in an email to The Herald.

The University is considering “the feedback in the petition about what makes the space feel different from other IBES spaces or other spaces at Brown,” VanWey wrote.

This is not the first time that the University has discussed demolishing the UEL. The Strategic Framework for Physical Planning, developed in 2003 to support campus planning, listed the UEL as a possible site for construction of a larger building, Carey wrote.

Previous “Save the UEL” campaigns have halted the University’s plans to demolish the building in the past, Teichert said, crediting their success in part to the

2008 recession.

Teichert and Gewirtzman met with the Providence Preservation Society Thursday to discuss the plans to demolish the UEL. Teichert said the purpose of the meeting was to “help (the society) understand the nature of the building.”

Though the society does not have the standing to prevent the University from demolishing the building, it can influence the discussion, he added. “I do believe there will be some follow-up,” Teichert said.

Along with the UEL, a parking lot, three residential structures and one other academic building are slated for demolition, according to a University press release.

The University is in ongoing conversations with the city of Providence about physical plans for Brown, Cliatt said. The University is required by law to have an institutional master plan on file with the city. The current version under consideration with the City Planning Commission does not include the plans for the Performing Arts Center because it has not undergone site validation. If the site is approved, the University plans to offer the Performing Arts Center as an amendment to the 2017 plan at a later date.

— Additional reporting by Rhaime Kim

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Brown hosts second annual Ivy League mental health conference Students from the eight schools meet to discuss mental health issues, accessibility improvements

By PRIYANKA PODUGU SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Student delegations from all Ivy League universities convened at Brown over the weekend for the second annual Ivy League Mental Health Conference.

Hosted by Brown’s Project LETS, the conference brought over 70 students to College Hill to discuss mental health trends and accessibility to mental health care resources on their respective campuses.

During the conference, students were able to attend a series of workshops covering topics like structural racism and interpersonal violence and trauma, according to the conference’s website. “We wanted (the workshops) to be about specific topics that we know to be really close and important to students but not (regularly discussed),”

said Stefanie Kaufman ’17, founder of Project LETS and co-organizer of the conference. “We know that racism is a problem … and that it’s connected to (worsening) mental illness, but what are we doing (to stop) that?”

The workshops were led by professionals with established careers in mental health care who were picked by the conference’s board, said Yuki Inaba ’17.

The board consisted of Brown students who attended the conference last year or who helped put last year’s Brown delegation together, she added.

Each school was allowed to send a delegation consisting of eight to 10 students selected through an application process overseen by the conference board, Inaba said.

The board tried to prioritize selecting students with “lived experiences with mental illness … or a passion (for improving) access to mental health resources,” she added.

Workshop speakers included David Rivera, associate professor of Educational and Community Programs at Queens College, and Alana Sacks, a

Sexual Harassment and Assault Resources and Education advocate from Brown. The conference also featured Alfiee Breland-Noble, director of the African American Knowledge Optimized for Mindfully-Healthy Adolescents Project.

“The theme of the conference (was) creating sustainable change in our institutions,” said Lacy Cano ’18, who also co-organized the conference. “We really tried to stress (to the students) … this shouldn’t be a conversation that occurs once a year.”

With the conference’s theme of fostering long-term progress, a lot of the discussion between students centered on making policy changes, Inaba said.

Brown’s delegation expressed interest in “working with the new (CAPS) director on (mental health) initiatives,” she added. Specifically, students were interested in “reducing the amount of questions asked” during initial appointments with counselors.

Students from a number of delegations, including Brown’s, were also interested in “reforming the medical leave

process,” which students have found alienating in the past, Kaufman said.

Brown students proposed creating a “check-in process … where a professional from the university or a student advocate (would be) required to check on a student on medical leave,” Kaufman said. The delegation also proposed reducing “the mandatory medical leave time from one year to one semester,” she added.

Students also wanted to increase the number of crisis management resources available on Brown’s campus, Kaufman said. “A lot of other schools have peerled crisis hotlines. … That is work we are trying to address (at Brown).”

John Avendano, a student from Columbia who attended the conference, said that the differences between Brown’s open curriculum and Columbia’s core curriculum “lead to a very different culture surrounding mental health and stress … which is very palpable when you first step onto (Brown’s) campus.”

“It seems that there’s the same level of drive and ambition, but it’s more collaborative … Brown’s system of grading

makes it less likely that students want to eat each other,” he added.

Neela Saha, a student from Cornell, said that Cornell’s CAPS “is horribly understaffed … there are 21,000 students … and only 14 licensed psychologists” on hand to serve them. “They work very hard, but they don’t have a lot of funding,” she added.

Kaufman said Cornell was doing well with “holding professors accountable … when working with students struggling with their mental health.”

Cornell’s delegation gave attendees the guidebook created for Cornell faculty members about addressing mental health topics with struggling students.

Kaufman, upon hearing about the guidebook, expressed interest in bringing something similar to Brown.

Conference members are “working pretty hard to … set up (their) network” to continue holding discussions throughout the year, Cano said. “While the conference is over, the work is just starting, and we need to be diligent in following up (on the topics we discussed),” she added.

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Bruno finishes season in last place, to face Quinnipiac in playoffs Brown falls to Princeton, Quinnipiac by large margins to close out ECAC regular season

By ALEXANDRA RUSSELL SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The men’s hockey team closed out its regular season with a pair of losses, falling to Princeton Friday and Quinnipiac Saturday by tallies of 7-2 and 4-1, respectively.

Friday night, Bruno (4-23-2, 3-18-1 ECAC) was unable to recover from an early deficit against the Tigers (13-13-3, 8-11-3). Princeton shut the Bears out in the first two stanzas, notching six consecutive goals before Tyler Bird ’18 and Sam Lafferty ’18 put Brown on the board with a goal apiece in the third period.

“I don’t think we came ready to play, and the result was kind of what we gave,” said Charlie Corcoran ’18. “It definitely was a wake-up call.”

Ryan Kuffner opened scoring for Princeton at 4:45 in the first, sending a shot past goaltender Gavin Nieto ’20 on

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Sam Lafferty ’18 sets up a pass from behind the net. The Bears picked up their 22nd and 23rd losses over the weekend in contests against Princeton and Quinnipiac. Bruno is the last seed in next weekend’s ECAC Tournament and will face fifth-seeded Quinnipiac again Friday night. a partial breakaway. Nine minutes later, Max Véronneau got on the board with a one-timer in front to extend the Tigers’ lead to two entering the second period.

Josh Teves and Ben Foster each found the back of the net in the second stanza before Brown replaced Nieto with veteran Tim Ernst ’17 at the

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midpoint of the period. Eric Robinson slotted a wraparound goal past Ernst at the 12-minute mark, giving the Tigers a 5-0 advantage at the end of the frame.

After David Hallisey scored on the power play 35 seconds into the final stanza, Bird posted the Bears’ first goal of the evening at 7:02, narrowing the deficit. Brent Beaudoin ’20 won the faceoff and sent the puck to Bird, who beat netminder Colton Phinney for the score.

Joey Fallon answered with a goal for Princeton before Lafferty scored off the rebound — his twelfth goal of the season — with eight minutes remaining.

Corcoran and Max Willman ’18 each picked up assists on the play.

Nieto made 15 saves before giving way to Ernst, who delivered a 21-save performance in the loss.

The following day, Bruno evened the score with Quinnipiac (19-13-2, 13-8-1) in the first stanza, but the Bears fell behind in the second period, conceding three unanswered goals in the away contest.

“We were two or three mistakes from being right in that game,” Corcoran said. “This late in the season, it is

those little mistakes that teams will capitalize on.”

Nick Germain opened scoring for the Bobcats at 15:38 in the first with a backhanded shot, before Brown responded with the equalizer a minute and a half later. Corcoran collected a rebound and sent the puck past netminder Andrew Shortridge for his team-high 15th goal of the season. Willman recorded an assist on the play.

The Bobcats notched three unanswered goals in the second stanza to secure their lead before entering a scoreless third period. Bruno killed three penalties in the final frame, grounding Quinnipiac at 0-for-6 on the power play during the contest.

“Our penalty kill has been a lot better,” Corcoran said. “We’ve been getting up ice and pressuring teams pretty well, but there have been a couple of needless penalties.”

The Bobcats outshot the Bears 37-19.

Nieto made 33 saves in the loss.

The Bears will pay another visit to fifth-seeded Quinnipiac next weekend for the best-of-three first round of the ECAC playoffs, starting Friday night.

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Bears fall twice to visitors, sit just outside fourth place Bruno on four-game skid heading into final weekend matchups with Cornell, Columbia

By CAL BARASH-DAVID SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The women’s basketball team was back in action this weekend for its final home double-header of the regular season. Bruno (14-11, 5-7 Ivy) faced off against Dartmouth and Harvard — foes it had faced just two weeks earlier in consecutive away games.

Both games came down to the wire. Friday’s game against Dartmouth (7-18, 2-10) went into overtime, and Saturday’s contest with Harvard (20-5, 8-4) was decided by only three points.

But Brown found itself on the losing side of each game. The two losses round out its four-game winless home stand with just one more weekend of regular season play left.

Dartmouth came to Providence sitting in last place in the Ivy league with only one conference win to its name. While the Big Green was out of contention for a postseason bid, it played with passion.

The Bears started out with seven unanswered points, but Dartmouth rallied and took a 20-17 lead after the first quarter.

Early on, the Bears swung the ball around the three-point line until spotting up for an open three or finding a teammate in the low post to lay it in.

On the other end, Dartmouth was efficient, shooting 33-61. Bruno, on the other hand, made just one more shot on 17 more attempts.

“Coach Behn says that we always, always have the green light, and she continues to tell us to keep shooting,” said captain Megan Reilly ’18.

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Megan Reilly ’18 drives to the basket against Harvard Saturday. The Bears lost to the Crimson 66-63 in their final home contest of the season. Bruno sits fifth — one spot outside qualification for the Ivy League postseason tournament — in the conference with one weekend of regular season play left.

The game was close throughout.

Midway through the second quarter, Taylor Will ’19 picked the opposing point guard’s pocket and drove down the floor for a lay in. On the next possession, Mary Butler ’19 hit a transition jumper to knot the game at 30.

Then, Dartmouth started draining shots as Bruno’s offensive rim became unforgiving — every shot seemed to be halfway down the cylinder before bouncing out. This continued until Shayna Mehta ’19 rattled home a deep trey to awaken Bruno from its jump shot slumber.

Bruno shot 6-19 from beyond the

arc in the first half. Meanwhile, Dartmouth nailed just one fewer three on 10 fewer shots to secure a 40-36 lead at the halftime break.

The game stayed close in the third quarter as both teams tallied 23 points in the stanza. The lead would change hands 16 times over the course of the night.

With 37 seconds to play, Brown was down 76-72. An inadvertent whistle by the referee stopped a Brown fast break after an Erika Steeves ’19 steal, but, on the ensuing possession, Mehta nailed a three to cut the deficit to one.

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Bruno fouled Dartmouth three times, sending Andi Norman to the line with 24.1 seconds to play. She hit her first attempt but missed the second off the back iron.

Justine Gaziano ’20 hit a layup to tie the game at 77 with 12.1 seconds left in regulation, and then back-toback blocks by Steeves and Butler sent the game into overtime.

Eventually, Dartmouth had the ball up two with 30.3 to play in overtime. The Bears tried to get possession back by fouling, but Dartmouth shot well from the line to seal the 92-88 victory.

Mehta said the team was “devastated” after the game. “That was a game we should’ve won, and we just didn’t pull through,” she said.

Mehta said that the weekend’s losses felt worse than the previous weekend’s 0-2 result. These were games that they should have won but were unable to finish, while the losses to Penn and Princeton were encouraging because they showed that the team could hang with anybody, she added.

Mehta led the way for the Bears on the night, scoring 20 points and grabbing nine rebounds. Each of Brown’s starting five scored doubledigit points. Steeves, Gaziano, Will and Butler added 19, 17, 15 and 10, respectively.

There were postseason implications on the line when Brown hosted Harvard Saturday.

The game was tight. Butler blocked a shot as the clock ran out to keep the score at 17-15 after the first 10 minutes. But Harvard started out the second stanza with an 11-2 run,

prompting Behn to take a timeout.

Brown’s adjustments proved successful, and defensive effort by the Bears brought the game within one until Harvard nailed a three-pointer with six seconds left in the half to stretch the Crimson lead to four, 33-29.

Brown trailed for most of the third quarter until Reilly zipped a baseball pass to Mehta, who created separation with a pump fake and hit a short range jumper to lock the game at 41 with just over two minutes to play.

Harvard dominated the offensive glass all night but often missed its second chances, which kept the game close.

In the fourth, Mehta once again tied the game, this time with backto-back threes, but the Crimson answered to take a two-point lead into the game’s final 40 seconds. Again, Bruno’s foes were effective from the line, and Harvard was able to close out a 66-63 victory.

Steeves led the Bears with 21 points in the loss. Mehta and Gaziano tallied 16 and 14, respectively. Steeves was prolific during the four-game home stand, averaging 19 points and seven rebounds per contest.

The two losses move the Bears to fifth place in the Ivy League. In order to punch its ticket to the Palestra for the Ivy League Tournament, Bruno has to win next weekend’s games on the road against Columbia (13-12, 3-9) and Cornell (15-10, 6-6).

“We are trying not to think too far ahead,” Reilly said. “We need to focus on each game one at a time, one half at a time, one quarter at a time, one possession at a time.”

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Achieving happiness REBECCA OKIN staff columnist

I wouldn’t be surprised if many 2021 Brown acceptees ultimately decide to make College Hill their home due to our distinguished reputation for happiness. Whether it’s the prominent pass-fail system or the welcoming New England campus — with an even more welcoming student body — there are many factors that come to mind when considering our utopian status. But it is no secret that while Brunonia contains the happy, it is also home of the sad, the struggling and the skeptical — and I am not just referring to differences among us all. At different points in a Brown career, a single student can experience all four of these personas. Like any other university, unhappiness plagues our campus for infinite reasons, many individualized and personal. Yet instead of examining the extent of truth behind our ranking on the collegiate barometer of joy, I wish to specifically discuss how we conceptualize our pursuit for happiness.

There exists a misconception that every checkbox we mark off on our goal sheet is simultaneously another point in our life happiness log. But we need to differentiate accomplishing goals from being content in the future. In fact, I would go as far to say that no matter the size of your aspirations — whether it’s running a business or running a mile — they

ple remains as clear in my mind as any of my recent college readings. I won’t pretend to understand physics in any complex way and thus will keep my explanation simple: The idea is that we cannot know both the position and the speed of a particle at the same time. Essentially, the more accurately we understand one of these values, the less we un-

tentment with specific achievements — getting the A, losing weight, taking that dream vacation — can leave us unsatisfied. With the pressure of the next empty boxes, we are unable to appreciate past accomplishments and enjoy lasting happiness. More often than not, we find ourselves disappointed, as the anticipation of perfect bliss has left us with unmet

Perhaps instead of being defined by specific, significant accomplishments, happiness lurks in the mundane.

all hold an equal promise of happiness: none at all. Too much of the time, we associate things like landing the perfect internship with everything in our lives coming together, making us content. But who’s to say scoring a coveted post-graduation position promises anything more than a coveted post-graduation position?

Though I haven’t interacted with a science textbook since high school, the Heisenberg uncertainty princi-

derstand about the other. By observing the atom, we alter it.

Similarly, it seems that through trying to quantify our targeted happiness by the number of goals we reach, we are subjecting the concept itself to a similar constant observation. Just as our perception of the atom changes in our efforts to pinpoint its location, our idea of happiness alters in our attempts to identify where it lies among our goal sheet checkboxes. Conflating con-

expectations. The concept of “being happy” is an abstract notion, so it seems arbitrary to associate contentment with such concrete milestones.

Perhaps instead of being defined by specific, significant accomplishments, happiness lurks in the mundane. By shifting energy from chasing goals to instead addressing the smaller, negative occurences in our routines, we can create an inviting ground for contentment to enter our lives. Consider confronting the daily

decisions that you can actually locate: mindless social media scrolling that evokes feelings of FOMO, letting others’ voices overwhelm your own, choosing an hour of studying over an hour of needed self-care. We dismiss these negative elements because they don’t necessarily impede our ability to achieve larger goals and therefore have long gone neglected. But these smaller headaches build up and may be the essential detriments to our contentment.

Quit associating undefinable happiness with tangible goals; accomplishments vow to make you an accomplished person — there are no guarantees about being a happy one. Because happiness and being successful are separate pursuits, we never have to view them as impeding one another. So don’t stop taking that step toward your larger aspirations, but simultaneously be cognizant of taking that hour for self-care now. When it comes down to it, I can both strive to graduate from Brown and take the few hours to watch Netflix, guilt-free.

Rebecca Okin ’19 can be reached at rebecca_okin@brown.edu.

Welcome to 1984 MILI MITRA opinions editor Amidst the incessant focus on President Trump, a terrifying bill in the Iowa legislature has flown under the radar. Last week, the Iowa General Assembly tabled legislation that could dramatically alter the faculty composition in state universities by “balancing” the registered political affiliations of staff members. Under the proposed bill, universities are required to consider political ideology in the hiring process and favor candidates with underrepresented political beliefs. Put simply, this would mean favoring right-leaning applicants.

The bill, Iowa Senate File 288, is pitched as a means of “promoting diversity of thought” in universities and colleges. Essentially, any state university whose faculty leans Republican or Democrat by a margin over 10 percent cannot hire any more faculty members from the majority party. The sponsor of the bill, Republican Iowa State Senator Mark Chelgren, argues that it will preserve ideological diversity and ensure students are exposed to “different thinking, different processes, different expertise.”

At first glance, this act might seem innocuous — after all, diversity of thought seems an admirable goal. But in reality, all it will do is construct a system of ideological discrimination that favors Republican professors and lecturers.

As the conservative media has repeatedly bemoaned, modern-day academia is overwhelming-

ly Democratic. According to the Higher Education Research Institute, over 60 percent of professors are liberal. By comparison, approximately 38 percent are moderate and only 12 percent are conservative. In some fields, the numbers are even more skewed: A recent study of voter registration data shows that there are 11.5 registered Democrats for every registered Republican in the social sciences.

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Though the bill is unlikely to be passed, it still poses a grave concern for students and universities across the country. It represents just one part of a broader movement to curtail academic freedom in liberal institutions. A similar bill was introduced in North Carolina last week, while other bills in Iowa moved to end tenure in public universities and

Don’t get me wrong — I’m all for political diversity among faculty members. Given the rise of political “echo chambers,” it is important that students are exposed to views from different parts of the political spectrum in classrooms. But we should not seek political diversity at the cost of academic and political freedom.

With liberals outnumbering conservatives by a ratio of at least five to one in academia, most university faculties would naturally lean to the left. So Chelgren’s bill doesn’t promote academic diversity; instead, it disproportionately stifles Democratic professors by creating a thinly-veiled quota system that prioritizes conservative views. If that isn’t reminiscent of Orwellian thought policing, I don’t

limit faculty bargaining rights. A new website, ominously titled “Professor Watchlist,” lists out faculty members who publish liberal articles — or in the website’s words, “leftist propaganda” — opening up professors to online intimidation and harassment. The Trump administration has also signaled that it could selectively defund universities, spurring concerns that federal funding could be used

to influence public institutions.

Yet all of these actions are based on a flawed premise. While professors are more likely to be liberal, studies have proven that they very rarely coerce or brainwash students toward a particular ideology. There is also little evidence that suggests university administrations disproportionately favor liberal academics.

Don’t get me wrong — I’m all for political diversity among faculty members. Given the rise of political “echo chambers,” it is important that students are exposed to views from different parts of the political spectrum in classrooms. But we should not seek political diversity at the cost of academic and political freedom. Moreover, political affiliation seems like an arbitrary criterion that doesn’t really promote true academic diversity. It may be more effective to seek diversity in experiences, backgrounds, research areas and teaching styles when recruiting faculty, all of which could implicitly lead to greater political diversity in the long run.

The Iowa bill is a timely reminder of our tenuous grasp on academic freedom. So far, Brown has been relatively untouched by governmental backlash against liberal institutions. But we need to be mindful of the myriad ways that the Trump administration and its allies could influence higher education. In a world full of “alternative facts” and fake news, the Thought Police feel like a not-toodistant reality.

Mili Mitra ’18 can be reached at mili_mitra@brown.edu.

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GYMNASTICS

Five earn individual distinction at Ivy Classic Despite fourth-place team finish, Morant ’17 highlights strong individual performances

By TESS DEMEYER STAFF WRITER

Less than a week after returning from Missouri, the gymnastics team traveled to Yale for the Ivy Classic Saturday, a quad meet including Penn and Cornell. Though the Bears finished in fourth with a 192.400, five gymnasts earned All-Ivy Classic honors on multiple events.

As the reigning Ivy Classic champions, Brown entered the competition as the team to beat. Jorden Mitchell ’17 posted a season-high 9.775 on the vault to claim third, and Caroline Morant ’17 notched a 9.825 to capture the title. Both received first team All-Ivy Classic accolades for the event, and the team finished the rotation with a season-high 48.350.

“Vault hasn’t been our strongest event this season, but we did really well,” Mitchell said. “That gave us a lot of confidence going into bars.”

That confidence was evident as Anya Olson ’18 upped her personal best to 9.825 and earned second, while Morant nabbed first with a season-high 9.850. The pair was recognized with first-team honors on bars. At the competition’s midpoint, the Bears led the field by two tenths of a point with a 96.800.

Prior to the championship, the Bears put extra emphasis on balance beam training as “it tends to be the most mentally challenging,” Mitchell said. More often than not, results are

COURTESY OF BROWN ATHLETICS

In a meet honoring the team’s seniors, Caroline Morant ’17 achieved first-team honors in the all-around after finishing in third place. Her fellow senior Jorden Mitchell ’17 posted a season-high on the vault, also receiving first-team accolades for her performance. decided on the four-inch-apparatus.

“Competing in a championship meet is definitely a different experience than a regular season meet, especially on beam,” Mitchell said.

“Beam can make or break a competition.”

Despite a few nervous missteps, three gymnasts nailed their beam routines and were named to All-Ivy teams. Anne Christman ’20 scored a 9.700 and earned second-team

distinction, while Regan Butchness ’18 earned a 9.725 and her secondstraight second-team recognition.

Mitchell finished third on the event with a 9.775, adding first-team honors to her collection.

Going into the final event, Olson said the team had the mindset that they “were going to leave it all out on the floor.”

Olson recorded a 9.650 and earned second-team decoration.

Morant ended the competition with a 9.775 and first-team recognition on floor.

“We’re going to take what happened and use it as a learning experience,” Olson said of the fourth-place finish. “We’ll take that fire and really bring that to (the ECAC championship) and to the rest of the meets this season.”

At the end of the championship, Morant earned first-team honors in

the all-around and finished third with a 38.550. During their time at Brown, Morant and Mitchell have amassed quite the collection of Ivy Classic event titles and All-Ivy honors: Mitchell boasts three individual titles and eight All-Ivy laurels, while Morant totaled six championship titles and thirteen All-Ivy distinctions.

Next week, the Bears will compete at New Hampshire Sunday and the University of Bridgeport Tuesday.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Brown suffers disappointing defeat at hands of Stony Brook Outshot by 26, Bruno unable to generate offensive rhythm in eight-goal loss

By JACKSON CHAIKEN SPORTS EDITOR

The No. 9/10 men’s lacrosse team suffered a disappointing 25-17 defeat against unranked Stony Brook University Saturday. The loss comes after a dominant 25-9 victory against Quinnipiac University to open the season the week before.

Dylan Molloy ’17 led the Bears with four goals in the losing effort, while Michael Panepinto ’19 and Jack Kniffin ’20 both contributed hat tricks.

The Seawolves (3-0) jumped out to an 8-0 lead after the first quarter, a deficit the Bears (1-1) could not erase despite a second half rally. The first quarter saw Stony Brook dominate possession and control the pace of play, winning seven of nine face-off opportunities in the opening frame.

Bruno could only muster four shots in the first 15 minutes compared to 21 first quarter shots the week before.

Despite entering the second quarter down eight goals and off the scoreboard, Bruno rebounded, with Molloy opening the scoring for the

Bears at the 13:52 mark. After the slow start, Brown cut the lead to four at the midway point, trailing 10-6.

Bruno came out of the gates strong in the second half, outscoring Stony Brook 3-1 in the first four minutes of the third to cut the lead to 11-9.

But Stony Brook’s deliberate offense, marked by strong cuts through Brown defense, regained its first quarter form, as the Seawolves proceeded on an 8-2 run. At the start of the fourth, Bruno found itself in an eight-goal deficit, down 19-11.

After trailing by as many asnine goals, Bruno cut Stony Brook’s lead down to seven in the fourth quarter, which saw the teams trading goals.

Each team scored six goals in the final frame.

First-year goalie Phil Goss ’20 posted seven saves on 23 shots in 37 minutes of action before being replaced by Peter Scott ’17, who recorded five saves on 14 shots on net.

But despite the best efforts of Bruno’s goalkeepers, the defense could not slow down the Stony Brook attack.

Cory Van Ginhoven posed problems all afternoon for the defense, powering Stony Brook forward with seven goals and an assist. Seawolf net-minder Brandon Maciejewski recorded five saves on 22 Bruno shots.

“It was a disappointing performance for sure,” said Head Coach

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Jack Kniffin ’20 recorded a hat trick against Stony Brook Saturday at home. The first-year has exploded onto the scene in his first two games, complementing the consistent offensive output of Dylan Molloy ’17.

Mike Daly. “As the head coach, the blame rests solely with me. Our team was not prepared to play at the level Stony Brook played at.”

Brown was outshot by 26 in the losing effort and could only muster a little over half the number of shots

it took against Quinnipiac.

Daly pointed to an improvement in consistency as the team moves forward. “Whether we had won or lost, it is our goal to constantly be improving (in) all phases, all facets,” Daly said. “We made enough plays,

we just didn’t finish those plays.”

The Bears have an opportunity to get back on track next Saturday against Rutgers in New Jersey. Bruno has two more non-conference games before Ivy League play kicks off March 18.