Monday, October 31st, 2022

Football hands Penn first loss of season

Backup quarterback

Aidan Gilman ’23 helps Bears defeat Quakers in Providence

BY LINUS LAWRENCE SENIOR STAFF WRITER

On Saturday afternoon at Brown Sta dium, the football team (3-4, 1-4 Ivy League) did something no other squad had this season: beat the Penn Quak ers (6-1, 3-1).

“It was just an amazing game by two really good teams playing very, very good football,” said Head Coach James Perry ’00. “Penn (is) undefeated for a reason. They’re an excellent team and they played like it. We knew what we were in for. … How (we) played, it kind of speaks for itself. (It was) a great game and a terrific day for Brown football.”

Beyond the upset victory, the game was full of twists. The Bears were with out starting quarterback Jake Willcox ’24 for the final three quarters of the game. Willcox was removed with an injury following a dominant first quar

ter in which he went 14-for-15 to tally 115 passing yards.

Replacing Willcox was backup QB Aidan Gilman ’23, who impressed in stantly with a 15-yard quarterback rush for his first yards of the afternoon. Gilman then led the offense in backto-back touchdown drives.

“Every week, every quarterback in the room is gonna prep to be the starter,” Gilman said. “It was my turn to go up and lead this offense, and I took the opportunity and I think I

Arctic Monkeys release funky but stale new album

and the announcement of singles from the album.

made the most of it.”

Gilman is “just a very resilient kid,” Perry said. “He practices hard, he re ally helps and supports Jake. So for me, calling plays, I didn’t skip a beat, because I (know) the command that he has over the offense.”

After Gilman’s first touchdown pass — a bullet down the middle of the field that was confirmed complete after a review — Willcox and other

UNIVERSITY NEWS

GCB implements revised policies after boycott

Frequent bar-goers praise GCB for providing students recreational space

BY NEIL MEHTA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

In early April, Miraal Zafar ’23 joined a campus-wide student boycott of the Graduate Center Bar. Organized by Okezie Okoro ’22, the boycott was held in response to an April 7 incident in which a GCB employee told Okoro to leave the bar premises after the two had a disagreement. Lasting through late April, the boycott reduced the GCB’s business by around one-third, said GCB Manager Susan Yund.

But Zafar now regularly joins the crowd of students visiting the GCB — a group that often reaches more than 400 students on weekends, Yund noted. Fol lowing the boycott, the GCB announced a series of policy changes including the installation of cameras at entry

ways, the creation of staff de-escalation training and the revision of bar removal policies. GCB leadership and several student patrons told The Herald that the bar has since become a welcoming recreational space on campus.

Okoro, who met with GCB leader ship following the incident, told The Herald that he is satisfied with the changes, adding that he “just wanted to be able to prevent future incidents of students feeling not welcome or disrespected in the space.” The GCB’s changes demonstrate a commitment to those goals, he added.

Okoro noted that GCB visitors and University undergraduates are “fairly diverse” in their experiences and iden tities, which means that having the GCB “reaffirmed as a safe space for other folks” is all the more important.

Okoro added that he did not per sonally attend the bar following the end of the boycott. “It wasn’t really for me,” he said.

According to GCB Assistant Manag

SPORTS

Volleyball bounces back with 2 wins

BY KAITLYN TORRES UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR

On Oct. 21, the Arctic Monkeys released their seventh studio album, “The Car,” in competition with pop sensation Tay lor Swift’s “Midnights” and cult-favor ite Carly Rae Jepsen’s “The Loneliest Time.” But unlike the widespread reach of its pop counterparts — both Swift and Jepsen had songs from their albums go viral on TikTok — “The Car” has gone largely unnoticed across the internet.

“The Car” is the Arctic Monkeys’ first release since “Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino” in 2018. Fans of the band first heard about the album’s release from an Aug. 24 post on Insta gram. The announcement was barebones, revealing just the album’s cover in the image and release date in the caption. Subsequent posts in the weeks leading up to the October release were similarly minimal, featuring tour dates

Despite a four-year pause, this new release feels reminiscent of the group’s last album. “The Car” continues the band’s sonic shift from the indie rock that first earned them their fame — fea tured heavily in their album “AM” — to the more orchestral, jazzy sound found in their last two albums.

This shift comes at a time in pop culture when some are calling for the revival of the “indie sleaze” aesthetic that reigned supreme in the early years of the social media platform Tumblr. The band was a mainstay of the app, with songs like “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High” defining a gen eration of users. And who could forget the love letter that the band’s frontman Alex Turner wrote to his girlfriend Al exa Chung with the famous line, “My mouth hasn’t shut up about you since you kissed it?”

Even after the end of the Tumblr era, old Arctic Monkeys songs have found popularity on TikTok as well, with “505” from their album “Favourite Worst Nightmare” spiking in popularity after going viral on the app.

BY ADIZA ALASA STAFF WRITER

The volleyball team (11-8, 7-3 Ivy League) secured two wins at home over the weekend against Columbia (4-15, 1-9) and Cornell (4-15, 2-8).

After losses to Princeton and Yale over the last two weekends, Bruno found its stride again, defeating Co lumbia 3-1 Friday night and rallying to overcome a 2-0 deficit against Cornell Saturday night.

Brown 3, Columbia 1

Driving the Bruno win against the Lions, Sophia Miller ’23 exploded for 21 kills and hit .514 in the match, with Kate Sheire ’24 adding 16 kills. Ella Park ’26 guided the offense with 49 assists as the Bears hit .346 overall to win in four sets against Columbia.

Defensively, Bruno held the Li ons to .220 hitting using strong net defense. The team finished with 14 blocks, 10 of which Gabby Derrick

’25 had a hand in. Brown’s backline defense was led by Jessie Golden ’26, who had 12 digs.

With the Bears down 18-12 in the first set, two straight kills by Sheire and two straight service aces by Miller fueled a 7-2 run to narrow the deficit to one. The teams scored back and forth as set point approached, but Bruno took the last four points with the help

of kills by Beau Vanderlaan ’25 and Miller to win the set 25-23.

Brown went behind early in the second set, with Columbia earning an 8-4 lead. The Bears then went on a 5-0 run, marked by a service ace from Park and a kill by Sheire, to give the Bears a 9-8 advantage. The score

BY MADDY CHERR DESIGN EDITOR GRAY MARTENS

DESIGN EDITOR

New album “The Car” experiments with last album’s jazzy soundscape

COURTESY OF CHIP DELORENZO / BROWN ATHLETICS

Wide receiver Wes Rockett ’23 posted 138 receiving yards, the most of his Brown career, to lead the Bears on the day.

Bears beat Columbia in four sets, complete three straight set comeback over Cornell

COURTESY OF TAMAR KRIETMAN / BROWN ATHLETICS

Sophia Miller ’23 encouraged the volleyball team to come together and play harder after losing the first two sets to Cornell Saturday.

Five horror films from different decades to watch this Halloween season

BY FINN KIRKPATRICK SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Every Halloween comes with one es sential question: “What horror movie are we watching tonight?” Horror is a vast and ever-expanding genre filled with more sub-divisions than one can count, so answering this question is quite the task. Here are some movies from across the decades that might quell the spooky itch that Halloween brings.

“Invasion of The Body Snatchers” (1956)

Maybe it’s cheesy for a modern audience, but “Invasion of The Body Snatchers” is such a fascinating portrait of 1950s social paranoia that it secured a spot on this list. One of the many scifi horror films of the decade, the story follows an extraterrestrial invasion of alien plant spores that create identi cal copies of already-existing humans. The film is steeped in the post-war Red Scare McCarthyism that found its way into every nook and cranny of the time’s pop cultural landscape.

Looking back, this film can be seen as a quirky yet very fascinating precur sor to the horror motifs streamlined in later decades. While not scary by today’s standards, its well-formed noir aesthetic evokes an eerie atmosphere that much of modern horror has lost in the search for jump scares and gore. For a slightly less dated version of this story, its 1978 remake cemented itself as a classic in its own right.

“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)

If there’s a type of horror film that embodies the Halloween spirit, it would have to be the slasher sub-genre — and the 1970s and ’80s saw the slasher at its peak. This spot could have easily gone to “Friday the 13th,” “Nightmare on Elm Street” or “Halloween,” but none of those can quite match the pure terror and cinematic excellence that comes in Tobe Hooper’s twisted nightmare film

“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

It’s a simple premise: Five friends on

the way to visit the grave of one of their grandfathers stumble upon a deserted house that harbors a terrifying secret. What the film lacks in complex plot it makes up for with the atmosphere it produces. The film is full of muted colors and off-kilter angles that come together to create a dream-like aura throughout its marvelously brief run time. But this of course is no cheerful dream — it’s an unrelenting nightmare. Most slashers feel the need to make their main killer some kind of ambigu ously supernatural figure, but this mov ie’s mask-wearing, chainsaw-wielding antagonist is nothing of that sort. He’s just some guy that’s out for blood and you’ll never really know why — which makes it all the more horrific.

“Audition” (1999)

While this list is not meant to serve as a definitive ranking, “Audition” might just be the best movie here. An early work from Takashi Miike, Japan’s mas ter of violence and gore, “Audition” is

a twisted and disturbing tale of mys terious love that slowly becomes an unsettling body-horror film with one of the most shocking finales in cinematic history. With less obvious horror than some of the other films on this list, “Audition” still shines by making all of its moments of terror as impactful and resonant as possible.

The film follows a widower whose friend, in order to find him a new love, stages a fake audition in which women come to read for a role as the man’s wife. The woman chosen for the role winds up being something more sinister than the loveable persona she gives in her reading. The story is a slow down ward spiral that leads to sadomasoch istic perversion, but a haunting beauty lurks beneath it all. While an undeni able masterpiece, “Audition” is not for the faint of heart.

“28 Days Later” (2002)

This list would be incomplete with out including a movie from the zombie

sub-genre. “28 Days Later” is the per fect film to fill that gap. From “Night of The Living Dead” in 1968 to “Train to Busan” in 2016, the zombie film has had many marvelous incarnations over time, but none are as impactful as “28 Days Later.”

From its opening scene showing the completely abandoned streets of a once-bustling London, the movie fills the audience with a sense of horrific wonder and existential dread. While watching a worldwide virus spread rapidly with an ineffective govern mental response might not be the most welcome nowadays, “28 Days Later” does the trope so well that it can be forgiven. The film’s unrelent ing nihilism is complimented by oc casional glimpses at a more hopeful future, which holds the viewer until an ending that asks more questions than it answers and yet somehow still feels satisfying.

As much a complex family drama as a bone-chilling thrill ride, “He reditary” is the defining film of the current independent horror renais sance we find ourselves in. Other candidates in this category include Jordan Peele’s two genre-redefining works, “Get Out” and “Us,” or the recent “Barbarian.” But only “Heredi tary” can capture the pure existential terror that makes a truly great horror film linger in your mind well after watching.

“Hereditary” is a story of inherited family trauma in the most literal sense. It’s a film whose course you can never predict. Once it starts to feel like you can, the plot does a 180 degree turn and completely changes everything. With a third act that will have you gripping your seat in equal parts fear and fascination, “Hereditary” is one movie that you can’t shake off once finished — it sits with you for a long time, with the terror only multiplying on the rewatch.

“Hereditary” (2018)

Key contributions to the horror canon are sure to send shivers down your spine

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Biology Undergraduate Education office plans to host first-ever BioWeek

Events will include pumpkin painting contest, trivia night, career panel

BY JAKOBI HASKELL CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Office of Biology Undergraduate Education will host its inaugural Bio Week from Oct. 31 to Nov. 4 — a series of events that celebrate the biology com munity on campus and engage the stu dent body in biology-related activities.

BioWeek aims to inform students about biology career paths, academic plan ning and concentrations in an “informal and creative way,” said Andrea Sobieraj, instructor and advisor at the BUE office.

Sobieraj added that the inspiration for BioWeek came from wanting to con dense information about biology-relat ed activities and expand the biology community on campus. “Biology under graduate education isn’t a department, but an academic unit that puts together different concentrations,” Sobieraj said. “Sometimes we need that centralized event so that we can build community within the biological sciences.”

One of the “flagship events” of Bio Week is a pumpkin painting contest and bio trivia competition Thursday evening with Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Ken Miller, said Toni-Marie Achilli, as sistant dean of biology undergraduate education and lecturer in biology.

This will mark Miller’s first return to campus since retiring after the spring 2022 semester. “It was without hesita tion that … we thought Ken would be a really good person (to host the event), so we reached out,” Sobieraj said. “He was thrilled to be a part of it.”

Other events will include a discus sion on teaching assistant responsibil

ities, a guide to selecting courses and a two-part career panel entitled “The Future Scientist” that features alums from the biology department at differ ent stages in their careers. The panel is meant to shed light on the diversity of job opportunities available to biology students, Achilli added.

The first part of the panel in vites current graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to discuss their experiences in graduate school. The second part, which will focus on industry jobs, will host multiple guests including Mark Roskey, chief scientific and collaboration officer of biotech re search company Quanterix, and Kathryn Taylor, who works in U.S. Army labs.

BioWeek was intentionally sched uled between last Wednesday’s con centration fair and the Nov. 7 start of pre-registration for the spring 2023 semester so that students can feel pre pared to register for biology classes, Achilli said. Students who attend six or more BioWeek events will be entered into a special raffle, she added.

Each biology-related Departmental Undergraduate Group will also host an information session. Francesca Di Cristofano ’23, a biology DUG leader, said that she is organizing an origami activity on “how to choose between A.B. and Sc.B. … and any concentration-re lated information and resources.”

Biology peer advisors will also help organize BioWeek events. Max Ulibarri ’23, a biology peer advisor who will help run the trivia panel, said that BioWeek will be a “good time” where students can meet “administrators, deans, pro fessors” and “new people who are taking courses similar to us.”

Both Achilli and Sobieraj hope this year marks the start of a tradition that will carry on for years to come. “Our hope is to keep building off of this, but for what we’ve put together in a short period of time,” Achilli said, “I’m really proud of it.”

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“BioWeek” activites will last for five days and are open to all students regardless of concentration. Events will include a pumpkin painting contest and a biology trivia competition.

er Patrick Cull,

bar’s

GCB is now “more clear about the steps” that follow disagreements be tween staff and customers, Yund said. For example, staff are now instructed to warn patrons that they might be re moved from the bar following an inci dent, instead of asking them to leave immediately.

“Clear communication is … the number one thing here,” Cull added. “We find that when we clearly com municate with guests and make sure they know they have a venue to clearly communicate with us, most things tend to work really nicely.”

Zafar, who now visits the bar once or twice a month, said that while she does not know about the procedural changes in the GCB, she feels that the bar “is a much better space” since the boycott, highlighting the more positive way employees interact with guests.

She described a visit this semes ter to the GCB where she brought a friend to the bar who had not visited before. “She didn’t know that she had to bring cash,” Zafar said, but the bouncer “was super nice and let her in” regardless.

Students attributed the bar’s conve nient location — beneath the Graduate Center residence halls — as a reason for the quick return of its clientele follow ing the boycott.

“It’s on campus, and everyone’s hanging out with Brown students,” Zafar said. “It gives them a space to have their own bar.”

Resumed Undergraduate Educa tion student Terren Wise ’26 noted that the GCB helps his RUE cohort stay in touch despite their schedule differences. Wise’s cohort “has a tra dition to go every Thursday to stay connected,” he explained. “That way, we (can) maintain our community as much as we can over the next several years.”

Zafar also noted that the bar helps her connect with the rest of her class year.

“It’s a college bar specifically for Brown students,” she said. “Especially as a senior, I’m expecting to see other seniors and other people from Brown there on a Thursday or Friday night.”

While Zafar recognized that “there is always room for growth” following last spring’s boycott, she thought that the GCB’s “desire to recognize and change shows” through the GCB’s state ment and subsequent actions.

Reflecting on the spring boycott, Okoro said that ideally “these sorts of mediations and changes” would arise organically, but “oftentimes that’s not really something that is completely realistic,” rendering the confrontational nature of a boycott more effective.

The GCB’s staff members “try and make sure this place is as welcoming as possible,” Cull said. Efforts to make the bar more welcoming also include staff members learning American Sign Language to better communicate with

patrons.

Despite the changes, Cull said that “there is always more work to do” to make the space more welcoming.

Cull added that the process of “continuous improvement” reflects the structure of the GCB, which is in corporated as a nonprofit.

“It’s not a dollar-driven communi ty,” he said. “It’s a comfort and idea ex change community. And we’re starting to wrap our heads around the idea of reaching (outside of the bar and into the surrounding community) a bit more.”

teammates dashed out from the side lines to congratulate the senior, who had just six pass attempts in the season prior to the game against Penn.

“We’re brothers,” Gilman said. There is “no one I want to see more succeed than him and vice versa.”

“What I was pleased by is … how much everyone rallied around him,” Perry said. “It probably doesn’t hurt that one of his first runs he showed his toughness, run(ning) down the middle of the field. … I’m very proud of him.”

Aided by several critical calls from the referees, Willcox and Gilman helped the Bears jump out to a 24-7 lead at the half. The offensive outburst came in spite of a strong Penn defensive line, which Perry called the best in the Foot

ball Championship Subdivision.

Meanwhile, the Bears’ defense was airtight in the first half, following up on last week’s strong performance in a loss to Cornell, in which the team allowed a season-low 331 yards. The lone Penn touchdown in the first half came off a 97-yard kick return by Quaker receiver Julien Stokes.

“They’re a really good team and coming off a tough loss like we did last week, we wanted to come out and just do what we were gonna do,” said defensive back Josh Ofili ’23, who pro vided one of the most memorable plays of the afternoon catching a pass that tipped off a Penn receiver’s hands for an interception in the second quarter.

“We played really well in the first half not letting them score any points.”

The early lead was a change of

pace for Bruno, who led at the half in just one other matchup this season, a victory against Central Connecticut State University. The team has tend ed to do most of their damage late in games, outscoring opponents 68-28 in the fourth quarter going into the Penn game.

“We’ve ended games really well, but we also wanted to have that same ener gy, that same support of each other, in the beginning of the game too,” Gilman said. “So that was a big emphasis this week.”

The Quakers stormed back in the third quarter, tying things up with 17 unanswered points. After a Bears field goal at the start of the fourth pe riod, Penn took their first lead of the afternoon on running back Jonathan Mulatu’s second touchdown rush of

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the game.

With less than two minutes left on the clock, the Bears snatched back the lead on a touchdown pass from Gilman to captain Allen Smith ’22.5. A final stop from the defense finally secured the Bears’ victory by a score of 34-31.

In addition to Gilman and Ofili, several other Bears provided standout performances contributing to the win.

Defenders Aubrey Parker ’24 and Kaleb Ross ’25 each set career marks for tack les with nine and eight, respectively.

Wes Rockett ’23, the team’s top receiver, totaled a career-high 138 yards, while Nate Lussier ’24 got the first touchdown of his Bears career on a second-quarter rush and receiver Graham Walker ’24 caught a touchdown pass in his second game returning from injury.

“This is a remarkable group, and

it was a remarkable win,” Perry said. “You’re playing an undefeated Penn team, you’re coming off the week that we had, and for them just to continue to pull for each other, … it’s really a credit to terrific senior leadership and a great locker room. So I think everybody who loves Brown football would have said it’s hard to think of a better win than the one we just had.”

“I’m just fully confident — we will play better,” Perry added. “We will play our best football these last three weeks.”

With their season approaching its final stretch, the Bears return to action on the road next weekend against Yale, whose only conference loss so far came against Penn. The game will be available to stream on ESPN+, as well as broad cast on NESN.

TODAY’S EVENTS

SPH Common Connection - Hal loween Edition 11:30 a.m. 121 South Water St.

Name Halloween Social 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, 26 Benevolent St.

TOMORROW’S EVENTS

Popcorn with the Peer Counselors 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Main Green

Belly of the Beast Movie Screening 6:00 p.m.

Salomon Center for Teaching

Balancing the Job Search with Self-Care 12:00 p.m. 121 South Water St.

Midnight Halloween Organ Recital 11:59 p.m. Sayles Hall

The Swedish Program Informa tion Session 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Page-Robinson Hall 440

Student Fieldwork: Highlights, Information, and Advice 4:00 p.m.

Rhode Island Hall 108

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The boycott was organized in response to an employee telling Okezie Okoro ’22 to leave the premises of Graduate Center Bar after a disagreement between him and an employee on April 7.

But instead of embracing their original indie roots, the band seems to be going in a different direction. Growth is important in any group, and with the Arctic Monkeys 20 years past the release of their debut album “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not,” they were bound to experiment.

“There’d Better Be A Mirrorball,” released Aug. 30, was the lead single off “The Car” and the first snippet fans had of the then-upcoming al bum. The first few seconds of the song are immediately reminiscent of “Star Treatment,” the intro to “Tran quility Base Hotel and Casino.” The song itself is powerful, with lyrics such as “Yesterday’s still leaking through the roof” and “I’d throw the rose tint back on the exploded view” tapping into a melancholy feeling of longing to mend a trou bled relationship. But unlike “Star Treatment” — which touches on the band’s reflections on their waning popularity — “There’d Better Be A Mirrorball” adds an orchestral tone to its instrumentals, stripping the song down to its humble foundations.

Not every song off the album uti lizes the same sound, with songs like “Jet Skis On The Moat” combining groovy synth with lyrical metacom mentary on the song’s own absurdi ty. Lyrics such as “Pajama pants and a Subbeteo cloak” bring in details without any clear rhyme or reason. “Hello You” also plays with funky instrumentals, making it the most fun song on the album.

The titular track “The Car” plays with the same melancholic mood from the intro and serves as a lull between the two halves of the al bum. Regardless of the moody instru mentals, “The Car” is probably the most relatable song on the release, with the band making reference to imposter syndrome through lyrics such as “Your grandfather’s guitar/ Thinking about how funny I must look.” The track plays with themes of insecurity that were also found in “Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino.”

The last track, “Perfect Sense,” acts in tandem with the intro to serve as fitting bookends to the album —

While it lacks some of the excitement of older albums in their discography, “The Car” has the perfect moodiness for a fall listen. Songs on the album combine synth grooves and orchestral instrumentals, with lyrics touching on themes of insecurity, imposter syndrome and melancholy.

though each song remains distinct enough to stand on its own. “If that’s what it takes to say/‘Good night’/ Then that’s what it takes” are the final lyrics to the album, bidding goodbye to listeners as the work comes to a close.

The new album has seemingly so lidified what fans can expect from the Arctic Monkeys in the future: a jazz sound that has become the group’s

new trademark. Following the critical success of “Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino,” the new album rides on its predecessor’s coattails and, while enjoyable, fails to establish itself as an independent entity in the band’s discography. “The Car” also received similar critical success, a nod to the similarities between the two, though “The Car” is much mood ier than “Tranquility Base Hotel And

Casino” and its rock undertones. The album also lacks features from other artists, which is standard for the Arctic Monkeys but could have helped the album establish a more unique identity. Since the band’s last album, there has been speculation that a collaboration with Lana Del Rey is in the works. But the closest thing fans of both artists have for now is Del Rey’s song “Dealer,” which

was written for a shelved project with The Last Shadow Puppets — a band that includes Turner.

Though nothing special, “The Car” is enjoyable enough to satiate Arctic Monkeys fans until the next release. While it doesn’t have the same excitement as older albums in their discography, the album’s moodiness makes it a perfect listen for the fall.

was tied 20-20 toward the end of the set before Columbia scored twice in a row. Bruno answered with three straight points, but the Lions countered with their own three-point run to close out the set 25-23.

Brown took control of the third set midway through, using a 7-2 run to go up 16-10. The Bears then delivered a 7-0 run with three kills by Miller, two by Derrick and one by Jilienne Widener ’24 to earn set point at 24-12. Columbia scored once before Miller closed the set with another kill.

Bruno went on a 6-0 run early in the fourth set to take a 6-2 lead, but the Lions responded with a 7-2 run of their own, bringing the score to 9-7 in favor of Columbia. Neither team scored more than three points in a row until the end of the set, when Brown scored four straight points with kills by Widener and Park to take a 20-19 lead. With the score tied at 21, the Bears earned three straight points to take set point at 24-21. Columbia

scored twice before Sheire closed out the night with a kill for a 25-23 set victory.

Brown 3, Cornell 2 Miller led Brown again with 20 kills and added 11 digs for a double-double in Brown’s comeback victory over the Big Red. Vanderlaan had 10 kills on .500 hitting and posted seven blocks and three service aces. Sheire also added 10 kills and three blocks, while Park finished with 46 assists and four aces.

The Bears found themselves down 2-0 early in the match after hitting .216 and committing nine errors across the first two sets. Bruno lost the first set 25-16 and the second set 25-21.

Miller said she encouraged her teammates to come together and play harder after going down 2-0. “After those first couple sets, we were so angry, and I had to get everyone on board with having that fire,” Miller said. “We had to come back with the reverse sweep. That is one of the hardest things to do in volleyball. We had to have that fire

for that.”

The advice Miller offered her team mates was simple: “Hit hard, hit high. That’s all we had to do,” she said.

In the third set, Brown took an 11-5 lead as Sheire struck for three kills, Park and Vanderlaan each had a service ace and Kayla Griebl ’25 added a kill. The Bears went on a 5-0 run midway through the set with a kill by Miller and an ace by Park to go up 19-9. Bruno closed the set 25-12 with a 4-0 run, the final two points resulting from errors by Cornell.

Cornell went on a 6-0 run at the start of the fourth set, leaving Brown down 11-5. The two teams traded points, with Cornell eventually coming to a 19-14 advantage. The Bears then rallied for a 5-0 run with two kills by Sheire and an ace by Golden to tie the score at 19.

The Big Red scored the next two points, but Bruno went on another 5-0 run fueled by two kills by Vanderlaan and a kill by Park to earn set point 2421. Cornell scored once more before Vanderlaan struck for another kill to

take the set 25-22 and force a fifth.

In the final set to 15 points, Brown wasted little time before going on a 7-0 run to take a 9-4 lead. Two kills by Vanderlaan and one apiece by Griebl and Miller contributed to the advantage. Cornell scored one final time before the Bears completed their comeback with a 6-0 run to take the set 15-5, with three points coming from kills by Miller.

Head Coach Ahen Kim commend ed Miller for her leadership on and off the court. “I’ve been here for four seasons and I’ve never seen a player single-handedly carry us through a match,” Kim said.

“Usually it’s a sport where you gen erally win by committee. But there were scenarios where she was getting every ball and scoring,” Kim added.

“That’s a senior saying, ‘I want to go out doing everything I can, laying it on the line,’ and I think she just set a new standard for what great looks like for us.”

Kim said he appreciates the leader ship of the returning players who guid

ed first-years Park and Golden as they played major roles for the Bears over the weekend.

“To me it’s our veterans, Beau (Vanderlaan), Kate Sheire and Sophia Miller who really (said) ‘I’m with you,’ ” Kim said. “That eventually cracked and broke through, so I’m really proud of those guys.”

Derrick said that she translated the momentum from her 10 blocks against Columbia into her attitude for the Cor nell match. “I just wanted to carry that into today and bring a positive energy and just be someone reliable for our team,” Derrick said.

Kim said the improvements his team saw as they completed their comeback against Cornell came from changing their defensive tactics. “As we started to make defensive moves, we started to believe we can touch every ball now, and if we can touch every ball, we can make a play on every ball,” Kim said.

The Bears look to continue this mo mentum as they take on Penn Friday at 7 p.m. and Princeton Saturday at 5 p.m. on the road.

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Metro Roundup: Aide to RI Speaker resigns following investigation

BY EMMA GARDNER METRO EDITOR

Top aide to RI Speaker of the House resigns following investigation

A top aide to House Speaker K. Joe Shekarchi, D-Warwick, Senior Depu ty Chief of Staff John Conti, resigned Thursday in response to news that he was involved in an illegal marijuana business with ties to the mob.

A WPRI-12 investigation found that Conti had multiple interactions with Raymond “Scarface” Jenkins, an associate of the Patriarca crime family — including one that took place on the State House grounds.

The revelations raised concerns re garding Conti’s access to insider infor mation on the marijuana market as a high-level staff member in the General Assembly, which legalized recreational marijuana in May. The act will go into effect at the beginning of December.

Shekarchi told WPRI that he had no knowledge of Conti’s involvement in the criminal enterprise.

Gas utility bills to increase Nov. 1

Rhode Island Energy will raise res

idents’ gas bills starting Tuesday by 9.6% rather than the originally pro posed 15% increase, the Providence Journal reported. The reduced rate hike is partially the result of a settlement between Rhode Island Energy and Neronha, who fought the sale of Rhode Island’s electrical infrastructure from National Grid to Pennsylvania-based PPL Electric Utilities earlier this year.

Like many other parts of the coun try, Rhode Island is suffering a short age of gasoline and natural gas because of the Russia-Ukraine war. Concerns about rate hikes — in addition to worries that PPL was less prepared to facilitate Rhode Island’s transition to renewable energy — were the main drivers of Neronha’s suit this spring, The Herald previously reported.

The November hike will come on the heels of a 47% increase in Rhode Islanders’ electricity bills, which went into effect Oct. 1, The Herald previ ously reported.

Jill Biden campaigns for Magaziner, McKee as midterms loom

First Lady Jill Biden traveled to Rhode Island Thursday to stump for Gov. Dan McKee and state Treasurer Seth Magaziner in their races for gov ernor and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, respectively, WPRI reported.

With less than two weeks to go until the Nov. 8 midterm elections,

Biden has become a sought-after speaker for Democratic campaigns nationwide, according to The New York Times.

After touching down in Warwick and meeting with local and state offi cials including McKee, Biden spoke at a campaign fundraiser for the incumbent governor, who is fighting for re-elec tion against Republican businesswom an Ashley Kalus.

Following a visit and speech at

Rhode Island College, Biden spoke at a Cranston rally for Democrat Seth Magaziner ’06. Magaziner is facing a tough race for Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District seat against his Republican opponent, former Cranston Mayor Allan Fung, The Herald previ ously reported.

In that speech, Biden echoed Mag aziner’s campaign messaging, which frames the CD2 race as crucial for women’s rights and the survival of

democracy.

“When extremists attack the rights of the vast majority of Americans, like a woman’s right to choose, or they stand in the way of affordable pre scriptions or clean energy, they’re let ting down all Americans,” Biden said, according to WPRI. Magaziner “will stand up for the right to choose, and he is going to hold big corporations accountable when they put profits over people.”

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Like many other parts of the country, Rhode Island is suffering a shortage of gasoline and natural gas because of the Russia-Ukraine war. Gas rates will rise 9.6% on Tuesday.

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