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Brown stuns Dartmouth at the buzzer Endowment Managing
Hunsaker ’20 banks in the game-winning shot as time expires to lift the Bears over the Big Green
Director McCollum leaves U.
By ALEX SMOLAR SENIOR STAFF WRITER
McCollum will become deputy head of investments at Hirtle, Callaghan and Co.
After splitting a series against Yale last weekend, the men’s basketball team bested Dartmouth on a buzzer-beating bucket from Zach Hunsaker ’20 Friday night before falling to Harvard Saturday. The Bears, who are now 2-2 in the Ivy League, are tied for 4th place, positioning them to make a run at the 2018 Ivy League Men’s Basketball Tournament in March. Brown 64, Dartmouth 62 The Bears’ thrilling victory after Hunsaker’s game-winning basket will not soon be forgotten by Brown fans and players alike. “It was a great moment,” Hunsaker said. “It was definitely a moment that I will remember for the rest of my life, for sure.” The Bears (9-8, 2-2 Ivy) were ready to play from the opening tip, and posted 63 percent field goal shooting en route to an early 13-2 lead just five minutes into the game. Dartmouth (4-13, 0-4) went just 0 for 6 on field goals in the same window.
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Tamenang Choh ’21 fights for the ball in a tight loss to the Harvard Crimson Saturday night after a thrilling victory over Dartmouth the night before. The Bears will take on Penn next Friday and Princeton Saturday. Bruno continued to dominate the Big Green as the first half continued and led 37-24 at halftime. Brandon Anderson ’20 paved the way, scoring nine first-half points. Desmond Cambridge ’21 notched eight points, including an alley-oop dunk
that sent the Brown crowd into a frenzy. The team shot 43 percent from the field and managed to grab 23 rebounds. The Big Green heated up at the beginning of the second half, clawing its way back into the contest and narrowing
Bruno’s lead to just one with 2:50 to play. Dartmouth continued to play strong defense to force missed shots and get the ball back at a one-point deficit with 15 seconds to go in the game. Will Emery » See BEARS, page 3
Endowment Managing Director Daniel McCollum has left the University and has accepted a position as Deputy Head of Investments at the investment management firm Hirtle, Callaghan and Co. McCollum was one of two managing directors for the $3.5 billion endowment under Chief Investment Officer Joseph Dowling. His university email has been deactivated, and emails sent to that account now prompt an auto-reply announcing his departure. Director of News and Editorial Development Brian Clark could not be reached by press time. At Hirtle, Callaghan and Co., McCollum will manage alternative investments and illiquid markets, according to the company website.
$24.6 million Brown Office Grad students uncertain about future income GOP tax bill does Building renovation begins Final not include tuition waiver Project aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, expects completion by spring 2019 By ALLIE REED SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The University will spend approximately $24.6 million on a renovation of the Brown Office Building scheduled to begin this semester, said Michael Guglielmo, director of design and construction for Facilities Management. Located at the intersection of Angell and Thayer streets, the top three floors of the building above the Brown Bookstore previously housed administrative offices, Guglielmo said. As a part of the University’s Institutional Master Plan, the administrative departments were relocated to the new South Street Landing facility last semester in an effort to centralize the University’s academic divisions, he added. The Brown Bookstore occupies the first two floors of the building and will not be affected by the renovation.
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The project should be completed by the beginning of the spring 2019 semester, wrote Provost Richard Locke P’18 in a University-wide email. After the renovation is complete, the University Department of Education, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, the Brown Institute for Brain Science, the Center for Computational Molecular Biology and the Data Science Initiative are scheduled to move into the renovated building. Although some donors may gift funds for the renovation, “it is expected that much of the project cost will be funded with tax-exempt bonds that will be repaid over time,” said Jay Calhoun, vice president for finance and chief financial officer. While some University renovations are funded from the school’s operating budget, the BOB renovation is more expensive than those projects and may require a different source of funding, he added. The firm Architecture Research Office will design the renovation, Guglielmo said, adding that the ARO previously designed the applied math » See BOB, page 2
taxation, establishes endowment excise tax By ERIC CHOI SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Graduate students may have succeeded in avoiding taxation of their tuition waivers with the passage of the final GOP tax bill in late December, but many still fear for the security of higher education. The initial House tax bill revealed the “larger plan to target higher education,” said Diego Luis GS, who participated in protests against the bill in November. “With one swoop of the pen, our entire livelihood could be thrown out the window.” However, even the final tax bill has left some graduate students worried that future legislation will target education. “Unless you’re a millionaire or a billionaire, you shouldn’t be happy about the final tax bill,” said Dennis Hogan GS, a graduate student representative to the University Resources Committee. “It’s obvious that Republicans are not
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Fearing tuition waiver taxation, students protested outside University Hall last winter. 50 other campuses joined in protest of GOP tax bill. friendly to higher education.” The University is “pleased” that the tax exemption on tuition waivers remains, said Albert Dahlberg, assistant vice president of government and
community relations. But the University remains “disappointed” that the excise tax on endowments was passed. Graduate students shared the » See TAX, page 2
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» BOB, from page 1 building and new academic spaces in the Sciences Library. Renovations on both the interior and the exterior of the building will allow more natural light into the upper levels and enhance views in and out of the windows. The renovations will also include systems upgrades in heating and ventilation. The project will create limited disturbances on Olive Street due to construction, and plans are in place to minimize the impact of the renovation on pedestrians and traffic flow. The goal of the BOB renovation is to transform the building into “an academic hub,” said Joanna Saltonstall, program manager of Facilities Management. “The new design will foster collaboration and optimize flexible work environments for efficiency and growth,” she added. The building will house spaces for informal collaboration and quiet concentration, as well as multi-purpose areas that can adapt to the changing needs of the building’s occupants. The new space will foster interdisciplinary collaboration, said Sohini Ramachandran, director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology. “The exciting thing about the Brown Office Building is to be around more people who use quantitative approaches to think about a range of data-oriented questions,” she added. Others are excited for the move because of limitations within their current spaces. The University’s Department of Education currently resides in Barus Building, a former
» TAX, from page 1 same attitude toward the endowment tax. “This sets a precedent,” Tulloch wrote. Though Brown doesn’t meet the $500,000 endowment-per-student minimum for the endowment tax, the
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The Brown Office Building is located in the two floors above the Brown Bookstore. Renovations will create new spaces for occupants, including the University’s Department of Education, the Center for Computational Molecular Biology and the Data Science Initiative. carriage house that has issues with heating and cooling, water leaks and narrow staircases that create accessibility problems, said Luther Spoehr, director of undergraduate studies for the department. The BOB’s heating and cooling systems and upgraded facilities
will be an improvement, he said. But Spoehr worries that the renovated facility might not afford him the same large office space that he has in Barus Building, which he uses regularly for advising small groups. The Data Science Initiative has
been housed in a transitional space on the ninth floor of the Sciences Library for the past semester, said Jeffrey Brock, director of the initiative. “We’re overflowing,” Brock said, adding that the program has begun to spill into a central hallway so that
master’s students can have desks. The ARO is “involving us very directly in every decision-making process,” from discussing furniture for flexible learning spaces to the type of HVAC system used to control the temperature of the building, he added.
new tax could impact financial aid and funding for research in the future, Dahlberg said. When the House initially passed a tax bill removing the tax exemption on tuition waivers in mid-November, over 50 colleges nationwide saw protests
from their graduate students, according to a Columbia press release. Around 100 Brown graduate students protested the GOP bill on the steps of University Hall Nov. 29, The Herald previously reported. “I worked with members of Stand
Up for Graduate Student Education to alert students of the proposal to remove tuition waiver exemptions from the tax code,” wrote GSC Chair of Student Life Andrew Lynn in an email to The Herald. The GSC, SUGSE, graduate students
and the University were all “involved in lobbying,” Hogan said. But “it’s hard to claim victory when the bill passed,” he added. “It’s not just about graduate education,” Luis said. “It’s about the status of education ... in the country.”
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» BEARS, from page 1 was fouled with seven seconds remaining, and made his first free throw to tie the game at 62. “We didn’t play a great second half,” said Head Coach Mike Martin ’04. “Our first 20 minutes were outstanding and put us in a position where we were able to hold them off despite getting outplayed in the second half.” Emery missed his second shot at the charity stripe, and Hunsaker got the ball and began to sprint down the length of the court against Dartmouth’s transition defense. Hunsaker glided through traffic, and launched a strongly defended shot
from the right side of the court that hit the backboard and rolled through the basket as the buzzer sounded. The shot fueled Brown’s 64-62 victory and sent the student section rushing onto the court. “I’m not ever going to be upset after a win, especially in the Ivy League,” Martin said. Brown finished the game shooting 38 percent from the field, with 38 rebounds and six steals. Anderson led scoring with 17 points, followed by Hunsaker who recorded 12 points. Brown 77, Harvard 86 The Crimson (9-10, 4-0) entered the contest Saturday on a sixteen-game
winning streak against the Bears, and came out of the locker room firing on all cylinders. Harvard raced to a 13-0 lead in the first three minutes and shot three for three from beyond the arc. But Bruno was determined to work its way back into the game. After shutting down Harvard on offense, Brown’s shooters began to heat up. Tamenang Choh ’21 electrified the Pizzitola Sports Center with a thunderous alley-oop dunk to pull Brown within four points of the Crimson. At the half, Harvard led Brown 3733. Both Anderson and Obi Okolie ’20 finished the half with nine points, and the team shot 41 percent from the field.
As the second half began, lights-out shooting from Seth Towns gave the Crimson a 15 point lead. Towns would finish the game with 30 points. “Towns took over in the second half,” Martin said. “When they extended their lead to 15, a lot of that was because of him.” But Cambridge would not let the Bears go down quietly. His two powerful dunks and three three-point bombs put the Bears back into the game and slimmed the Harvard lead to five with 11 minutes to play. “In the huddles, we just had to keep hustling and keep playing because the game is never over until it’s over,”
Cambridge said. “I just had to make some shots, but it’s tough.” After going down by 12 with four minutes to play following Danilo Djuricic’s three-pointer, the Bears once again shot their way back into the contest, but could not complete the comeback attempt and fell 86-77. Cambridge finished leading all Brown scorers with 22 points, followed by Anderson with 19 points. The Bears shot 41 percent from the field, grabbed 28 rebounds and recorded 24 points in the paint. The Bears will take to the road next weekend, facing Penn Friday and Princeton Saturday.
CAPS launches new Wellness Life Hacks workshops Four-part series addresses issues affecting Brown students’ mental health, encourages mindfulness By DYLAN CLARK STAFF WRITER
Counseling and Psychological Services will offer four new workshops through their new project, called Wellness Life Hacks this semester. The program — which will begin on Jan. 30 and end on May 1 — is open to all students and covers a variety of issues affecting students at Brown, such as sleep deprivation and burnout prevention. Created by Dr. Erin Lane-Aaronian, the outreach coordinator for CAPS, each workshop contained in the series will be offered multiple times in the semester. Discussions to create the program started during the Fall 2017 semester,
Lane-Aaronian said. One workshop in the series, titled “How Mindfulness Works,” will be led by CAPS Mental Health Counselor and Psychotherapist Bita Shooshani. Through this workshop, Shooshani hopes students can “learn to be more intentional about how (they) use (their) time,” she wrote in an email to The Herald. “Brown students are very busy and our culture in general promotes a value of not slowing down and making time for ourselves and our relationships,” Shooshani wrote. By practicing mindfulness, students can regain control of their lives, she added. “With a regular practice of
mindfulness, we tend to become less reactive to our environmental stressors,” she wrote. Each workshop will be conducted by a different clinical member of CAPS, Lane-Aaronian said. While the four workshops will vary slightly in presentation, she added that “the themes running through them connect and expand so we’re not replicating but supporting the overall ideas.” The workshops included in the program will “play off of each other and have kind of an overlapping set of content,” said Dr. Will Meek, director of CAPS. Students participating in the workshops will also receive a small booklet for note-taking, Lane-Aaronian said. “We’re hoping students will answer some questions about their own
experiences through some journaling activities and then through discussion,” she added. CAPS identified the need for this program after receiving feedback from students currently under CAPS care and conducting intensive student outreach, Lane-Aaronian said. “There’s a lot of folks at Brown that … struggle with sleep (and) struggle with managing their mood. We’ve heard these things so much that we really wanted to create something … proactive” to offer a helpful resource for students, Meek said. Wellness Life Hacks isn’t the first workshop series that Lane-Aaronian has coordinated for CAPS. In June 2015, she worked with CAPS clinician Jorge Vargas to structure the “Question, Persuade, Refer” program, a series intended to train students, faculty, staff
and administrators in early suicide intervention techniques, Lane-Aaronian wrote in an email to The Herald. To this day “close to 900 members of the Brown community have been trained in QPR,” Lane-Aaronian wrote. CAPS also plans to create a program covering Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in the future, she said. Meek added that CAPS continually listens to departmental feedback in order to gauge student needs. “What we’re constantly trying to do with our group programming and these workshops is figure out … what students want, what format they want it in and what time,” he said. “We want them to be influenced by ideas that are going to help them thrive — not just from an academic perspective,” Lane-Aaronian said.
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Bears fall to St. Lawrence, tie No. 3 Clarkson in overtime tilt Bruno converts twice on power play, penalty kill goes 5-for-5 on weekend road trip By ALEXANDRA RUSSELL SPORTS EDITOR
Following a five-game home stand during winter break, the men’s hockey team saw mixed results on the road this weekend, falling to St. Lawrence 3-2 Friday and drawing even with No. 3 Clarkson 2-2 in an overtime tilt Saturday. Alec Mehr ’21, Zach Giuttari ’20 and Sam Lafferty ’18 led the Bears in the contests, posting a goal and an assist each. Brown 2, St. Lawrence 3 Friday night, Giuttari and Mehr scored in the first two periods, but the Bears (6-12-4, 5-10-1 ECAC) were unable to maintain an advantage in a close duel with the Saints (6-18-2, 2-11-1). Giuttari capitalized on a power play two minutes into the contest, firing a shot from the top of the left circle past Saints goaltender Arthur Brey. Max Gottlieb ’19 and Tommy Marchin ’19 recorded assists on the play. St. Lawrence answered with an equalizer four and a half minutes later, but Bruno regained the lead late in the second period when Mehr redirected a mid-air rebound into the net. Mehr sent the puck past Brey on the right side after Brey made the initial stick save on a shot from Gottlieb. Carson Gicewicz claimed the victory for the Saints with two unanswered goals in the second and third periods. Bruno demonstrated strong command of its penalty kill, holding the Saints at 0-for-2 on the power play. “All year we’ve done a really good
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Rookie goaltender Luke Kania ’21 delivered strong performances in net this weekend, making 33 saves against St. Lawrence Friday and 35 against No. 3 Clarkson Saturday. Kania has started the last seven games for the Bears. Bruno will host UConn Saturday before clashing with Princeton Feb. 9. job on the penalty kill, and this weekend clearly showed that,” Mehr said. The Bears gained offensive momentum later in the contest, outshooting the Saints in the third period for a total shot advantage of 39-36. Rookie goaltender Luke Kania ’21 recorded 33 saves. Brown 2, No. 3 Clarkson 2 (OT) The following day, Lafferty and Tony Stillwell ’21 scored to send the Bears into overtime against the Golden Knights (19-4-3, 11-1-2). Brown answered an early Clarkson goal late in the first period when
Lafferty converted on the power play. Marchin collected a rebound and delivered the puck to Lafferty, who finished a shot from the left circle to even the game. Clarkson responded with another goal two minutes into the second stanza, but Stillwell leveled the tally five minutes into the third period to keep the game alive heading into overtime. Stillwell launched the puck past Golden Knights netminder Jake Kielly off a pass from Giuttari through the slot for the equalizer. Kania made 35 saves in the matchup as Clarkson outshot Brown 37-25.
“We were right there with them all night — it was a well-fought battle,” Mehr said. “If we just make small adjustments like just eliminating turnovers, we can definitely compete with them on a national stage here.” Bruno was able to pressure the net and find success on the power play, converting twice over the weekend. “We’ve been working a lot on the power play in practice and it’s been kind of a main focus for us for a while now,” Mehr said. “We got two goals, but I think the biggest thing is that we were just shooting pucks and getting to the front of the net.”
Brown also came out strong on the penalty kill, going 5-for-5 to improve to an 85 percent conference success rate. As the Bears enter the later stages of their season, they seek to maximize offensive output at even strength. “We’ve just got to score more goals 5-on-5,” Mehr said. “We can really contend with the top teams in the country moving forward here as we head towards playoffs.” The Bears will host the University of Connecticut at Meehan Auditorium Saturday before resuming ECAC play against Princeton Feb. 9.
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Sorry Cleveland (Again) MATTHEW BROWNSWORD sports columnist For LeBron James, the self-proclaimed King, success on the basketball court has become the expectation. The statistics speak for themselves: He’s been to seven straight NBA Finals, eight total, accounting for four MVPs and three Finals MVPs along the way. When James ends his career, his legacy will fall short only to that of the greatest basketball player of all-time, Michael Jordan. James’ talent is otherworldly and his greatness is obvious — even from the perspective of a rival Celtics fan. All that being said: James should apologize to the city of Cleveland. The kid from Akron, Ohio already incurred the ire of jersey-burning Cavalier fans when he left Cleveland to play with his friends in Miami. Leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers to join superstars Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade was undoubtedly the correct move to maximize his championship efforts, but broadcasting “The Decision” in front of millions of fans was an incredible misstep — as was his personal parade where he promised more than seven championships as a member of the Heat. Cleveland fans and owner Dan Gilbert — after denouncing James publicly — got on their hands and knees, begging him to come back after his four years with the Heat yielded a 2-2 finals record. With Wade and Bosh declining and James somehow still ascending, James joined a Cavalier team with
the number one overall pick and Kyrie Irving — one of the best young point guards in basketball. And when the city of Cleveland won its first major sports championship in 52 years — thanks to a clutch Irving three-pointer in the final moments of Game 7 — James was again their hero, this time cementing his legendary status in Ohio. Oh, how the Cavaliers have fallen from there. Cleveland is currently the three-seed in the Eastern Conference and is still the favorite to reach the finals, but the team is nowhere close
fensively detrimental. James himself is in the bottom half of the league in defensive rating, while five Celtics regulars crack the top 15. But it’s not just on the court where the Cavaliers are losing. Irving’s saga with James has been well-documented, and his trade to the Celtics only fueled Cleveland’s most direct competition. After Gilbert correctly labelled “The Decision” a “narcissistic, selfpromotional build-up” culminating in “shocking lack of disloyalty,” James has continually butted heads with the owner of his own team. One such instance
— will become a free agent this summer, and early reports indicate that it is unlikely he will sign again with the Ohio team. But this time, it may lead to a mass exodus: Thomas’ contract is up in 2018 and JR Smith’s, Love’s and Thompson’s deals end in 2020. James’ 2017 complaint that the Cavaliers were not spending enough after their title win has created a situation in which the Cavaliers are on the hook for expensive expiring contracts even after James’ possible departure. It may be argued that the Cavaliers are still in title contention, but losing
James may have finally brought a championship to Cleveland, but his public comments and unquestionable weight in the team’s decisionmaking has made the future of the Cavaliers after this season as bleak as it was the first time he left.
to where it was two years ago. Irving — after not-so-subtly pronouncing his displeasure with James as a teammate and demanding a trade — is now on the rival Celtics, the number one seed. Tristan Thompson — whose rebounding single-handedly destroyed last-year’s Celtics team — is averaging just 5.2 points and 5.9 rebounds a game. And Irving’s replacement, 5-foot 9-inch Isaiah Thomas, is only hindering what has been the league’s secondworst defense (according to defensive efficiency rating). James brought in his friends Wade and Derrick Rose, whose contributions to the Cavaliers have been exceedingly minimal — and de-
was James’ insistence that Thompson be re-signed in 2015, which has resulted in one of the Cavaliers’ worst performers to be its second-highest paid player for the next three years. A recent loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder — in which the Cavaliers gave up 148 points — sparked a players-only meeting which forced Kevin Love to defend the illness that forced him out of the game and practice the next day. James has routinely blamed Love during his time in Cleveland, even going so far as to subtweet him. And in the midst of all that, James — after cleverly signing multiple shortterm contracts with the Cavaliers
two of their best three players next summer will decimate those chances for 2019. What is already a historically bad James-led team defense will be horrific, and Love — who has been the third fiddle for most of his time in Cleveland — will be charged with leading the offense. Not only that, but James’ current success will leave the Cavaliers a terrible draft pick that will make them unable to bet on a quick turnaround from the league’s basement like they were able to do after miraculously getting the first pick to snag Irving in 2011. It’s no wonder Dan Gilbert is reportedly looking to sell the team.
James may have finally brought a championship to Cleveland, but his public comments and unquestionable weight in the team’s decision-making has made the future of the Cavaliers after this season as bleak as it was the first time he left. The team has 16 days before the trade deadline to fix its roster for a championship run, which would likely be the only thing to convince James to stay in Cleveland. But that won’t happen, and James will likely take his talents to Venice Beach to soak up his final NBA moments in the sun on an actually successful franchise. The obvious counterargument is that a perennially losing city like Cleveland would never have won a title without James coming back. But one has to wonder whether he could have built a dynasty if he had stayed in the first place — like all the other supposed “GOATs” of sports (Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Lionel Messi, Mariano Rivera etc.). And it now may be a century before the city of Cleveland wins a title again — because if any team will be further away from a championship than the Cavaliers after James deserts them in 2018, it’s the Browns.
Matt Brownsword ’18 can be reached at matthew_brownsword@brown. edu. The only criticism on this column he’ll allow is Celtics fans questioning any positivity towards James and the Lakers. Please send responses to this opinion to letters@browndailyherald.com and other op-eds to opinions@ browndailyherald.com.
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Brown gymnasts finish third at Springfield College meet Strong performances by first-years at first quad meet, despite absences of injured teammates By TESS DEMEYER SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Anchored by clutch performances from its first-years, the gymnastics team finished just shy of second place at a quad meet hosted by Springfield College. Bruno posted a 190.600 to beat the Pride but fell short of overtaking Brockport State and first-place Southern Connecticut State University. “It was our first quad meet, so it was a lot of energy and it was really loud,” said Emma Hansen ’21. “It was way different from the first two meets because there was just so much more going on, but I think we handled the pressure and the excitement really well.” Injuries plagued the Bears’ lineups this week, but both rookies and returners stepped up to fill absences on all four events. “We knew going into it that we had kind of a short lineup on each event because we had so many girls on the side, but overall it was a really great meet for learning,” said Anya Barca-Hall ’18. “A lot of girls who weren’t necessarily 100 percent ready to go had to step up for their team members who were out.” Rose Domonoske ’21 kicked off the competition by leading Brown on floor exercise. Though still recovering from an ankle injury, she earned a 9.150 for her first collegiate floor routine. Hansen built on Domonoske’s score, adding a 9.700 to the team total. After
sitting out the 2017 season with an injury, Barca-Hall returned to the floor lineup last week against the University of Bridgeport and wrapped up the first rotation at Springfield with a careerhigh 9.675. Bruno’s second rotation marked the first collegiate vault by Diana Manzano ’20 since recovering from an injury that kept her out of the 2017 season. Manzano recorded a 9.500, and Anne Christman ’20 followed with a 9.525 to claim second place on the event. The Bears also proved their strength and showed off some depth on the uneven bars as three first-years hit big routines under pressure. After cocaptain Claire Ryan ’18 placed second with 9.675, Caroline Warren ’21 kept the momentum swinging by earning a 9.625. Hansen ensured Bruno finished the third rotation with a bang by posting a 9.750 and winning her second bars title of the season. Brown closed out the meet on what most consider the most nerve-wracking event: the balance beam. “Right before we started beam, our coach just said to take a breath, calm ourselves and then just attack the event,” Barca-Hall said. “That’s something we’ve been working on — trying to be more present during competitions and not let nerves get to us especially when we end on beam.” Ryan started the rotation with a 9.650 to give Bruno a solid start. Domonoske tallied a personal-best 9.600 and beam specialist Regan Butchness ’18 scored a 9.725 to finish in second on the apparatus and end Bruno’s competition. The gymnastics team will be back in
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Emma Hansen ‘21 took to the beam after winning the bars title for the second time in three meets. The Bears will next compete at home against Bridgeport Feb. 4. action Sunday for its annual Beauty and the Beast meet with the wrestling team. “We’re really excited for our first home meet,” Hansen said. “We’re
excited to get back out there and hopefully get a couple people back in the lineups, but even if we keep the lineups from this weekend we’ll still have a
really strong set.” Bruno will host Bridgeport and Rhode Island College in the Pizzitola Sports Center Sunday at noon.