Simko got on the board with his own point-blank goal, after which MIT again equalized. The Bears then scored another penalty shot before the end of the first quarter, this time on the arm of attacker Ben Kirshon ’25, to make it a 3-2 game.
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verse range of scholars from “near ly every nation” in South Asia, said Stephanie Abbott-Pandey, program manager of the center.
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The convocation marked the arrival of 1,721 first-years in addition to over 1,200 doctoral students and over 100 medical students.
Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences Ashutosh Varshney, the center’s director, commented on the impor tance of including “practitioners of art forms” like Sethi in addi tion to academics. “It’s very hard to have good theories of culture … and forms of cultural expression without full illustrations of what those forms are,” he said.
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She described the student body as “anything but homogeneous,” remind ing attendees that “you come from every corner of the world, (and) you represent nearly every socioeconomic group, political persuasion, religious affiliation (and) cultural background.”
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and generate buzz and excitement about the midterms that will get stu dents to the polls come November.
For many on campus, fall is marked by the onslaught of pumpkin spice-every thing, the changing of the leaves and the swapping out of short sleeves for long ones as Providence weather takes a turn for the worse. But for politically active Brown students, fall 2022 means midterm elections are right around the Acorner.number of these students have been preparing for the midterm elec tions since last year, and they say efforts to increase student engagement with the midterms will only intensify in the coming months. While organizations on campus range from partisan to nonpar tisan, a common goal unites them all: flip the traditional script that prioritizes presidential elections over midterms,
The center’s mission statement emphasizes its “interdisciplinary” and “culturally grounded” approach to “research, teaching and public engagement on key issues of mod ern South Asia.”
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A Brown player tossed the ball to his teammate in front of the attacking goal. The teammate, after catching it and wrestling with defenders, fired the ball past a lunging goalkeeper.
COURTESY OF BROWN ATHLETICS VIA TAMAR KREITMAN The Saturday night win against MIT came just hours after another men’s water polo victory over LIU.
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It was this brand of physical attack into the heart of the MIT defense that proved the chief source of Bears’ of fense for the night, allowing Bruno to coast to its second win of the day.
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This sequence was a common sight during the men’s water polo (5-3) game Saturday night, in which Bruno faced off against the Massachu setts Institute of Technology (2-5) at Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center and won 15-10.
But the Engineers responded two minutes later after center Adam Ivatorov caught a cross-net pass and tossed it into a wide-open net.
On Friday, Ali Sethi — a Pakistani singer, songwriter and author — per formed at the inauguration of the Sax ena Center for Contemporary South Asia, a new center at the Watson In stitute for International and Public Affairs. Sethi shared the stage with musicians Shayna Esther Dunkelman and Grey McMurray for an audience of Brown community members.
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The club also hosted a Congressio nal panel featuring five of the eight de clared Democratic candidates running for Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District at the time. The panel gave the candidates a platform to speak and was also open to students on campus, which highlights one of Marrinan’s priorities for the upcoming elections: boosting student engagement with local politics to illustrate the impact that community elections can have.
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Regarding research opportunities, Paxson highlighted the University’s SPRINT awards, which “provided near ly $4 million in funding to support …
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Sethi’s work combines live performance with historical crit icism and narrative, according to the event description. In February 2022, his song “Pasoori” became a viral hit on TikTok, accumulating more than 149 million streams on Spotify to date.
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For 75 years, India and Pakistan “have had far too many hostilities and differences,” but before the partition of India in 1947, “they were part of a unified culture,” VarshneyVarshneysaid.explained that he in vited Sethi because he “transcends hostilities and brings a singular
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The Bears established the pat tern on their first possession when Stothart received the ball in front of the net and drew a penalty amid the ensuing defensive scramble. Attacker Gabriel Chang ’25 then dispatched the penalty shot into the top right corner to give Brown a 1-0 lead just
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Students, faculty and staff gathered on the Main Green to celebrate the start of the 259th academic year and welcome incoming undergraduate, graduate and medical students as part of its Opening Convocation Saturday morning.Theconvocation, which was rescheduled from Tuesday due to inclement weather, marked the arrival of 1,211 doctoral students, 144 medical students, 10 resumed undergraduate education students, 104 transfer students and 1,721 un dergraduates, announced by Presi dent Christina Paxson P’19 during thePaxsonceremony.offered three pieces of advice to incoming students: to take care of their health, learn from the diversity of the Brown community and participate in “Rememberresearch.that(attending Brown)
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Paxson then introduced the cer emony’s keynote speaker, Dean of Engineering Tejal A. Desai ’94, who discussed overcoming barriers in her keynote address, “Breaking Boundaries and Building Bridges through Commu nity and DesaiCollaboration.”firstdiscussed her arrival at Brown during the early ’90s, a period marked with “a sense that the world was changing and we couldn’t just be passive observers,” she said,
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Cecilia Marrinan ’24, president of the Brown Democrats, notes that while midterms tend to enter the gen eral public’s awareness only now, the club’s preparations for the elections began long ago. Last spring, the Brown Democrats brought Luis Muñoz, a gu bernatorial candidate, on campus to speak to club members.
Often it was Matt Simko ’22.5 — who scored four goals in total — or Ilias Stothart ’26 — who added his own hat-trick — that caught the ball and finished off the play.
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centers,” said Head Coach Felix Mer cado. “Anyone that plays that position for us, when they go in front of the cage, they do such a good job of hold ing position. That forces teams … to pick their poison.”
Ali Sethi performs at inauguration of Saxena Center on Friday.
undergraduate students,” she said.
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midterms is that to understand the American political process, you have to understand that … every single po sition that’s available has the impact to change the trajectory of this country,” Marrinan said. “I think there’s a lot of power there, but not a lot of attention.”
tunity that comes their way.
“Students have a voice, and we still can influence perspectives or create change in our community, and ulti mately that will heavily affect national electoral outcomes,” Marrinan said.
“If you have a good relationship with your neighbors and your con stituents, it’s very easy to enact the change that they want to see in policy, and the first step in doing that and in making your voice heard is getting out the vote,” Danker said. “It seems like we’ve been able to have a lot of really good conversations with local residents and they seem pretty excited to vote.”Inspite of traditionally lower voter engagement in midterms, Danker em phasizes that it’s crucial not to overlook these elections — he said midterms are often the best way to address the issues that affect communities on a day-today
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“In 2020, the stakes were very, very high and everyone knew that, but I don’t think people realize the implica tions of midterm elections, and people don’t realize the impact that [they] can have on how government functions,” Sung“Itsaid.can be concerning when de mocracies place so much emphasis on voting for a single person,” Rojas said. “We have to move beyond that if we want to be really, truly democratic, or if we want to stick to a well function ing democracy. Voting for other figures within government, (such as in) local elections and senators and so on, is just as important, if not more important.”
“I think offering midterm candi dates a platform to speak gives students a chance to listen and get different po litical perspectives in real time, whether they agree with [them] or not,” Marri nanMarrinansaid. hopes that engaging with midterms-related events will show stu dents the value of participating in local politics as well as national elections.
“set the tone for the next two years, and there’s a lot of progress that can be made and a lot of important issues always, but I especially think in this election, things like reproduc tive rights are very important,” Danker said. “People need to get out the vote to make sure that things like that are pro tected and codified into law if they’re not already.”
While the Brown Democrats cannot, per their club constitution, endorse any particular candidate, Marrinan said that the club tries to promote every oppor
“The midterm elections are difficult in the sense that they don’t get the same type of momentum as a presiden tial election, even though they should,” Rojas said. “So I think we’re trying to re ally push different strategies in terms of recruiting organizers and volunteers.”
As someone who served for about a year as political director for Corey Jones’s campaign for city council in Ward 3, Logan Danker ’24 is familiar with the importance of local politics and the upcoming midterm elec tions. Danker has taken on a number of responsibilities during his time on the campaign, including communi cations, canvassing in the field and
EVC’s Vice President of Community Irene Sung ’23 says a greater emphasis will be placed on diversifying outreach on campus to reach different types of potential voters. This outreach will in clude in-person campus canvassing and text-banking events, which Sung says will also serve as community bonding events.Sung and Rojas plan to target groups on Brown’s campus who are often over looked in recruiting strategies because of their traditionally low voting rates.
“We’re going to reach out to the athletics department, and then we’re going to reach out to cultural groups,” SungRojassaid.mentioned that this more “aggressive” recruiting strategy is particularly important for the coming midterms.Hementioned
that in 2014, only 13% of Brown students voted in the midterm elections, according to the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement. EVC leaders want to avoid the same lull in 2022, given that the tension surrounding the Trump admin istration that drove voter turnout in 2018 has died down.
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The Brown Republicans did not respond to multiple requests for com ment.Unlike the Brown Democrats, Every
Vote Counts at Brown is a non-parti san club that does not work with spe cific candidates or campaigns. Their club leaders are actively focused on increasing voter registration and turn out among students for the midterm elections.Fausto Rojas ’23, EVC’s vice pres ident of advocacy, says the club plans to use many of the canvassing strate gies they employed for the presidential election in 2020, when outreach was entirely online.
The club is hoping to bring several different midterm candidates on cam pus to speak during the fall semester. Through their email newsletter, the club also publicizes phone-banking events and canvassing opportunities for politicians who reach out to the club.
policy development. The campaign has been canvassing in Ward 3, which covers neighborhoods north of Brown’s campus, with strategies varying from phone-banking and emails to going door-to-door to speak with constit uents about election information and voter“Turnoutregistration.isusually lower in mid term elections, and since Rhode Island is a pretty blue state, the primaries are particularly important here,” Danker said.Danker feels the local outreach has been impactful in terms of giving com munity members a voice.
“Abasis.lotof issues that people are most passionate about in their local home town, like local resources, education, infrastructure … are really dealt with on the city or state level, and to actu ally see change and actually see your government working more effectively for you, you definitely should vote in the midterm (elections),” Danker said.
Danker noted that midterm elec tions have a political domino effect that can trickle up to the national level, something that he sees as particularly important given the current political climate.Midterms
If you didn’t know that a Netflix movie titled “I Came By” was released a little over a week ago, you would not be alone. Netflix seems to have adopt ed a quantity-over-quality release strategy, producing as much content as they can with the least amount of marketing possible. If a film is not a big-budget action spectacle or pos sible awards-season contender, it’ll fall into near complete obscurity and will only ever be discovered during a bored, late-night deep dive into the Netflix catalog. Though this might not sound like the most equitable way of releasing films, watching “I Came By” may prove that there is a silver
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In the first act of “I Came By,” we are led to believe that the main character is 23-year-old Toby (George MacKay), the only child of Lizzie (Kel ly Macdonald), a widow. He spends his days locked in his room and his nights breaking into wealthy people’s homes with the help of his friend Jay (Percelle Ascott) to spray paint the phrase, “I came by” on a wall. Things start to fall apart when Jay’s girl friend becomes pregnant and he can no longer risk getting into trouble, so he leaves the operation, turning Toby into a solo actor. Toby begins snooping around the house of wealthy judge Hector Blake (Hugh Bonneville), but as he explores the home, sinister secrets reveal themselves. He is reck less in his search and, as a result, his presence is made known to Blake.
“I Came By” follows graffiti artist Toby as he spends his days locked in his room and his nights breaking into the homes of the wealthy, documenting the events that result in his disappearance in the latter half of the film.
lining to Netflix’s illogical business tactics: Thankfully, most people will be spared from having to go through the displeasure of watching this film.
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the genre-defining modern classic “Get Out” or the underappreciat ed and darkly comedic take on the cliche “Fresh,” talented filmmakers have shown that movies about psy chopathic killers can be compelling, entertaining and frightening. “I Came By” is none of these things. There is no interesting dive into the mind of Hector Blake, with the closest attempt being a weirdly out-of-place scene in which Blake watches “Rick and Morty” with a TV dinner in his lap. Say what you want about whether or not this cartoon show does in fact inspire psychopathy, but this scene alone
What’s more, the crimes the duo commits at the beginning of the film are so high-risk yet so utterly benign that it makes no sense why they would engage in them in the first place. Still, the unlikeliness of these characters’ actions is not the issue. Instead, the problem lies in the film’s portrayal of these actions as a grand stand against the evil benefactors of a corrupt so ciety, when in reality, they are just giving a half-assed middle finger to the one percent. These crimes are a perfect allegory for this movie: Think ing that you’re making a big impact,
is not adequate enough exposition to clue the viewer in on the inten tions of the film’s main antagonist. Every other character introduction is equally shallow and conforms to tired archetypes. Toby’s hatred of his mother is attributed to vague daddy issues, Lizzie is a therapist whose re lationship with her son is bleeding into her sessions and Jay really has to let you know he’s about to be a father and can no longer break into houses.
but really saying next to nothing.
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Lizzie and Jay as they try to find out what happened to Toby, all while the sinister life of Hector Blake is further uncovered.Through its usage of the unsettlinghitters.already“Itioning-member-of-society”ter-captor-who-is-seemingly-a-func“sinistrope,CameBy”placesitselfinacanonfullofsomeprettyheavyWhetheritbethedeeply“SilenceoftheLambs,”
After the break-in, Toby goes miss ing. The remainder of the film follows
There is nothing particularly terri ble per se to point out in this movie: The actors are all talented and do the best they can with the script, the camerawork is competently execut ed and the dialogue is stiff at times, but nothing is overly glaring. While this movie on paper may not appear terrible, somehow it manages to elic it nothing other than apathy from the viewer. You can fault Icarus for his plunge into the sea, but at least he had the drive to get up and fly in the first place. “I Came By” is the bystander sitting on the beaches of Crete watching the fall from a safe distance. Sure, it didn’t fail, but it also didn’t attempt to do much of anything. A movie that fails at what it strives for is not necessarily a more enjoyable watch, but at least it can be respected for making an effort. “I Came By” takes every cliche in the book and regurgitates them in the most uninteresting way possible. The story doesn’t end, it just fizzles away.
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“It really doesn’t feel any different,” Yinka-Banjo agreed. “I didn’t actual ly know that (convocation) was that serious.”
“We pride ourselves on our de fense,” Simko said. “Everything that
Brown ended the first half up 7-3.
“doesn’t feel that different because I’ve already started attending classes, but … I haven’t seen President Paxon in person before, so that helps make it feel official,” Higgins said.
citing the Tiananmen Square Mas sacre, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the launch of the Human Genome Project.Desai explained that while “grow ing up in southern California, the daughter of immigrant parents from India, I never thought of studying at a place like Brown.” During her
publicSomepolicy.incoming students attending convocation praised Desai for speak ing on identity and modern-day issues during her Incomingaddress.graduate student Oliv ia Perez GS’24 said that Desai “spoke greatly and … touched a lot of important points of how she grew as a student here.”Ashton Higgins ’26 praised the key
undergraduate years, she combated boundaries to equity on campus as a student activist, advocating for “more diverse faculty (and) students (and) need-blind admissions,” she added.She noted that the students in at tendance will likely “cross and break many boundaries, allowing for a trans formative impact to society” in fields such as engineering, public health and
we get offensively starts on the de fensive end.”
MIT rallied in the final quarter, turning a few Bruno penalties into easy goals, but additional scores from Simko and Strothart ensured the game
note speech for being “very timely given the events of the past few years,” and Ruth Yinka-Banjo ’26 said that parts of the address “really resonated with me … like (when) she said to stay true to yourself.”Butafter arriving on campus over a week ago and beginning classes earlier this week, both Higgins and Yinka-Ban jo said that convocation didn’t mark a significant change in their student
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the second quarter, with Simko adding two goals and Stothart scoring anoth er, while a swarming Bruno defense allowed few clean entry passes from the“WeEngineers.wanted to really work on our defense,” Mercado said. “The first three quarters, our pressure defense was perfect.”
pecially offensively. We have a lot of great talent here and we’re looking like we’re in a good position to be successful later on in the season,” said center defender Nicholas Berry ’23.5.The Bears will travel to Califor nia next weekend for games against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges, Whittier College and No. 9 Pepperdine University.
The win came just hours after Bru no’s defeat of Long Island University 12-4 in which Stothart scored four goals to lead the Bears.
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Brown had gone 3-3 the previous weekend while hosting the Bruno Classic tournament. All three of the Bears’ losses came against teams ranked in the top 15 nationally.
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The Engineers responded before the third quarter concluded when Ivatorov slapped a lobbed pass into the Bruno net. The quarter ended with Brown up 12-6.
The Bruno onslaught intensified with a 5-1 surge to begin the second half, highlighted by a steal from at tacker Thomas Hoffmeister ’24. He subsequently delivered a clever pass across the net to center defender Max well Patterson ’23, who tossed the ball into a gaping goal.
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The field hockey team (4-0) kept its early-season undefeated streak alive, beating Northeastern University (1-4) Sunday by a score of 3-1 to secure their fourth win of the season. Stacey Luka sheva ’25, Katie McCallum ’25 and Lexi Pellegrino ’26 provided Bruno’s three scores.Men’s water polo (5-3) picked up a pair of home wins in a Saturday dou ble-header, defeating Long Island Uni versity (1-4) 12-4 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2-5) 15-10. Ilias Stothart ’26 led the Bears’ offense, scoring four goals against LIU and three against MIT. Matt Simko ’22.5 also added four goals against MIT, while Gabe Chang ’25 chipped in three more.
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Coach Chase Wileman picked up his first career win with the Bears. Bruno’s lone goal came when Jamin Gogo Peters ’26 fired a shot that found the back of the net after deflecting off a Providence defender.Women’s soccer (4-1-1) tied with Northeastern University (3-3-2) Sunday afternoon following a last-second goal by the Huskies in the 89th minute to pull
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Sethi performed a wide range of music inspired by the Punjabi disco he grew up with as well as the ghazal — a form of love poetry that comes to South Asia from the Arabian Penin sula, usually expressing the pain of longing and loss, Sethi said during his Oneperformance.neverknows who the ghazal is addressed to, he said. It could be to a person, a country, a feeling or an era.
Sethi, whose song “Pasoori” went viral on TikTok in February 2022, performed a wide range of music inspired by the Punjabi Disco he grew up with and traditional ghazals at the Saxona Center’s inaugural event this past Friday.
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artistic view of culture and history to bear upon his art.” On Friday, Varsh ney introduced Sethi by reading an excerpt from an article Sethi wrote for The “HopesGuardian.forasurvivable present and viable future depend a great deal on how we understand our inheri tance,” Varshney quoted from Sethi’s article.“Ihope the audience can see what an awesome talent he is,” Varshney said. “The audience will encounter a rising star in world music.”
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nity members to share stories through live speeches — ran a table at the fair for the first time this semester. He said that the event “generates a lot of excitement, because seeing all those people in one area” makes students “more (receptive) to listening to dif ferentSomeclubs.”clubs saw a boom in interest at the fair. The 180 Degrees Consult ing Club, which provides consulting
More than 400 student groups took to the Main Green last Thursday to participate in the annual Fall Activities Fair, hosted by the Student Activities Office and the Undergraduate Council of Students.Eachyear, the event allows stu dent organizations to showcase their work and recruit new members, ac cording to a campus-wide UCS email. Organizations in attendance ranged from club sports teams to program houses to identity and cultural groups.Some students described this year’s in-person activities fair as a refreshing contrast to the virtual programming of previous academic years. Alana Cho ’24 attended the fair over Zoom during her first year which made “it a little bit harder to know about what extracurriculars were going on.”
to learn more about opportunities at Brown, emphasizing that the individu als running booths “were super helpful (and) very friendly.”
Over 400 student groups participate in annual activities fair
Clubs cite opportunities for growth, in-person connection with students
ficulties navigating the event, and said they would have preferred physical signs charting the different sections of the fair so they would not miss clubs of interest. “I was a little lost,” Cho explained.Students also had the opportuni ty to talk with club leaders and join new organizations. Vikas Rana ’24, the president of TEDxBrownU — an organization that empowers commu
But Cho said that attending the fair in person this year was “a cool way”
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Grace Chong ’24 noted that booths with interactive displays caught her interest the most. “I went into (the fair) not really looking to sign up for clubs, and I ended up signing up for two,” she said.
More than 400 clubs showcased their work and recruited new members on the Main Green on Sept. 8. Many clubs saw a boom in interest at the fair, with others describing the program as a refreshing contrast to previous virtual fairs.
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But both Cho and Chong cited dif
services to businesses and nonprof its in the Providence community, received nearly 90 sign-ups from students, almost doubling the club’s size, according to Co-President Emily Moini“To’23.see it all come to life at once on the Main Green is very inspiring and makes me grateful to be a part of a community that’s so active,” Moini said.