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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
VOLUME CLVII, ISSUE 9
UNIVERSITY NEWS
361 students test positive for COVID Departments can resume group meals, recruiting activities in person
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Valentine’s Day flea market highlights artisans Several businesses that began in quarantine sell goods at community market
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BY HALEY SANDLOW SENIOR STAFF WRITER During the week of Feb. 3 to 9, 361 students and 10 employees reported positive COVID-19 test results, according to a Feb. 11 Today@Brown announcement. “The increase week over week is certainly something we’re monitoring very carefully,” said Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06. “What we expect and hope for is to see a decline, which is exactly what’s happened on the employee side.” Individuals who are testing positive for COVID-19 continue to report mild or no symptoms and there have been no reported hospitalization or
A woman in a cow onesie with large angel wings walked down a long hall lined with pop-up stands full of homemade jewelry, candles, pastries, vintage clothing, chocolates and records. She weaved between the families, couples and college students gathered to peruse the Providence Flea Valentine’s Market. The “holy cow” was Laura Burkett, promoting her partner Sue Fracker’s card game called “Cowbell.” Fracker was one of several vendors who founded their business during the pandemic. On the evening of Feb. 11, local vendors and Providence community members gathered at Farm Fresh RI’s facility on 10 Sims St. for the Providence Flea’s first night market of 2022. In addition to its quirky charm, the market offered local craftspeople a chance to sell their products during
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Traci Chandler, owner and founder of Casted by T, launched her resin arts business during the pandemic. Her pieces include coasters, pendants, ashtrays and paint palettes. the pandemic. Three vendors at the event told The Herald they got their start during the pandemic, and saw the Providence
Flea as an opportunity to grow their business. The flea market’s founder, Maria Tocco, estimated 150 new vendors began participating in the market
during the pandemic. Fracker was one such vendor. She said the “Cowbell” card game, a match-
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ARTS & CULTURE
UNIVERSITY NEWS
Academy Award nominations: Surprises, snubs, disappointments
Brown Science Olympiad hosts virtual invitational Hundreds of high school students across country invited to participate in events BY HALEY SANDLOW SENIOR STAFF WRITER
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Academy’s selections for prestigious awards include excellent picks, head-scratchers
BY FINN KIRKPATRICK SENIOR STAFF WRITER The announcement of the 94th Academy Award nominations, a time-honored
tradition, took place Feb. 8. The art of predicting Oscar nominations has become a hard-tuned science, but this year, things were a bit more unpredictable.
Brown Science Olympiad gathered volunteers, event supervisors and Executive Board members Feb. 12 to run an invitational tournament they had been planning since September. BSO’s invitational is an opportunity for Division C teams — students from ninth to 12th grade — to get practice competing in events without the stress and pressure of a state or national tournament, said BSO Co-Director Nick Sawicki ’23. The club invited 40 to 50 teams from Rhode Island and other states in New England and beyond to participate virtually in the tournament, Sawicki said, which allowed students to compete in various events covering a range of scientific subjects. While BSO usually invites teams to compete in-person — occupying classroom spaces around campus
to host up to 500 students — the virtual nature of this year’s tournament allowed more students to participate, including those from states farther away. “I think there’s so much value in starting students’ interest in science pretty early,” BSO Volunteer Director Kevin Nguyen ’23 said. “We’re really hoping to just get students excited about” science. BSO recruits event supervisors and volunteers throughout the year, Nguyen said. Event supervisors begin working in November, writing tests and coordinating events based on guidelines released by the national Science Olympiad organization. Volunteers are recruited throughout the school year and help with grading and running the event. There were approximately 60 student volunteers this year, including about 15 from other schools such as Cornell and Tufts University. The invitational usually consists of 23 Science Olympiad events, ranging from designing and building bottle rockets to anatomy and biology tests. This year, the Executive Board cut a few events due to the “virtual nature
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Providence Art Club exhibition displays college student artwork Page 4
Gaber ’23 reflects on love and connection during study abroad in Paris Page 6
Arts & Culture “The Sex Lives of College Girls” offers messy coming-of-age stories Page 7
Sports Women’s basketball falls 68-61 to Cornell after unsuccessful comeback Page 8
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