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Women’s soccer wins 3-1 against Northeastern

Mandatory athlete dinner brings critique University event for athletes coincides with new COVID restrictions, draws backlash

Coaches, players reflect on out-of-conference games in advance of Ivy League season

BY PETER SWOPE SENIOR STAFF WRITER A Sept. 13 dinner hosted by the Brown Athletics Department for student-athletes drew backlash from students, who criticized the University for hosting a large event that coincided with its announcement of temporary COVID-19 restrictions.

The short-term restrictions included a halt on in-person dining, more frequent mandatory testing and a requirement that student groups hold all events virtually. The requirement that clubs meet virtually was subsequently reversed.

Vice President of Athletics and Recreation M. Grace Calhoun ’92 told The Herald that the event was University-sponsored and that, despite the rule changes, the Athletic Department was assured that the event could continue as planned. “I was aware that changes (to COVID-19 policies) were coming.

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I didn’t have full knowledge of what the changes (would) be, but I was clear on the fact that outdoor events that were University-sanctioned were still appropriate,” she said. “We had clarified those questions earlier in the day to ensure that if (the dinner) were outside and University-sanctioned, that was still okay.”

Responses from athletes who attended the event were mixed. Andrea Wei ’22, a member of the women’s swim and dive team, expressed apprehension over the lack of precautions taken.

Some classes with students in isolation go hybrid

BY BEN GLICKMAN METRO EDITOR Nearly two weeks into the semester, Jo Kavishe ’25 has no clue how to get to her classes, and for good reason — she’s never attended them in person. Kavishe tested positive for COVID-19 Sept. 7, the day before classes began. As of press time, she had never stepped foot in a college lecture hall.

Since she received her positive test result, Kavishe has done her best to keep up with her courses through a mixture of lecture capture, hybrid Zoom sessions and notes posted on Canvas.

And Kavishe is not alone: As tallies of COVID-positive students continue to grow, so do the challenges of keeping students up-to-date on their in-person courses. For many professors, the solution is a return to the pandemic norm of Zoom

The women’s soccer team (5-3) cruised to a 3-1 victory over the Northeastern University Huskies (3-4-1) Sunday afternoon at Stevenson-Pincince Field. After two tough road losses to the University of Notre Dame and Providence College, both of which finished 2-1, this weekend’s win was much-needed for Brown as they prepare for conference play against Ivy League opponents. The Bears were led by a pair of goals from rookie forward Miya Grant-Clavijo ’25, another goal from forward Brittany Raphino ’23 and five saves from goalie Kayla Thompson ’21.5.

Brown remained on the attack after the initial goals, running the Northeastern defense ragged as

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teaching.

With high vaccination rates among student and faculty, the University administration previously spoke of a nearly fully in-person semester, with a few hybrid and online courses, The Herald previously reported.

The University has given guidance to instructors in the form of a FAQ posted Sept. 3, which outlines that “instructors teaching in-person-only courses should be flexible and support students with excused absences as they normally would” and “instructors may consider recording lectures, if feasible, or other online learning tools to help students catch up on materials and assignments.”

According to Dean of the College Rashid Zia, deans can provide notes to students “requesting flexibility” from instructors if a student tests positive.

Absences due to being in COVID-19 isolation should be treated as normal excused absences by professors, Zia wrote in an email to The Herald.

“Faculty are expected to do whatever they reasonably can to support students who have to go into quaran-

“None of the emails mentioned anything about mask regulations,” she said.

“When we actually got to the event, which was probably 500+ people, there was literally not a mask in sight. We also all found out about the (indoor) dining halt halfway through.”

Women’s hockey player Sonja Bjornson ’24 pointed to the irony of her team attending the event amid their own COVID-19 concerns. “Two girls on our team are in quarantine currently, so

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they pushed toward the goal repeatedly. Grant-Clavijo tried to complete her hat trick on multiple separate occasions, but the Northeastern defense held firm. The second half followed a similar pattern to the first: sporadic Huskies’ attacks fended off by the Bears, followed by prolonged stretches of Bruno possessing the ball. The game started to get more physical in the second half, with each team being issued a yellow card. Northeastern got on the board in the 63rd minute on a penalty kick by Katherine Marchessault to cut the lead to 2-1. The Bears responded quickly, with Raphino scoring her third goal of the season in the 69th minute off an assist from midfielder Gianna De Priest ’25. Head Coach Kia McNeill was able to rotate other players in as the game wound down, and Brown held off Northeastern en route to a 3-1 victory.

McNeill’s biggest takeaway from the win was her team’s versatility, depth and preparedness. “One of

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Brown opens doors to visitors for first inperson campus tours since March 2020 With mask requirements, limited groups, hallmark of college process returns

BY WILL KUBZANSKY SENIOR STAFF WRITER The University offered its first in-person campus tours since March 2020 last week, bringing back a staple of the college process and marking another step toward the Office of Admission’s return to normalcy.

Tours look different than they did in March 2020, mostly due to health and safety requirements instituted in response to COVID-19.

Groups are now limited to 26 tour goers with just one guide. Visitors now wear wristbands, which indicate that they’re signed up for the tour, and masks, regardless of vaccination status. Guides, also masked, now speak into microphones, minimizing the need to shout.

But beyond those changes, the content and route of the tour are largely the same, tour coordinator Josh Neronha ’22 said. And on

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Brown welcomed prospective students and visitors with guided tours across campus adjusted to follow health requirements.. his Friday afternoon tour — just the second he had given since they resumed — the familiar rituals of a tour all appeared. A small line of parents and students followed Neronha two-by-two from the Quiet Green to the Main Green, and from Ruth J. Simmons Quad to the Sciences Quad. Gathering in clumps at each spot, they took meticulous notes — and shared knowing glances — as Neronha discussed housing, food, academics, athletics, campus safety and a litany of other subjects. And, between stops, a student

would catch Neronha at the front of the line, checking in with a specific question.

“After doing virtual tours for a year and a half, it’s so nice to be back talking with people,” Neronha said.

“Seeing people’s faces and answering questions, it’s a level of connection that I personally think is hard to get virtually.”

Neronha also added information about the Open Curriculum to his tour that he hadn’t provided in years past — in part, he said, because in-person

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Providence St. Patrick’s Day Parade takes place Sept. 18 after being postponed.

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VP Carey ’91 MA ’06 responds to increase in COVID-19 positive cases.

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Hundreds celebrate St. Patrick’s Parade Irish-American community gathers for cultural event Saturday

BY VICTOR CHANG CONTRIBUTING WRITER The sound of drumbeats and sirens rang through the air as hundreds of people descended upon Smith Street for the Providence St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sept. 18.

The parade, which usually takes place on St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, was canceled earlier this year due to COVID-19 concerns. Instead, it was replaced by a virtual celebration where organizers committed to rescheduling the in-person parade for six months later, provided sufficient vaccination rates and an improved COVID-19 situation.

The Providence St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been a tradition for decades, but the parade took on its modern form 27 years ago when the owner of Patrick’s Pub, Patrick Griffin, revitalized it, according to PJ Fox, vice president of the executive committee organizing the event.

The parade left at noon from the intersection of Wyndham Avenue and Smith Street and ended at the Providence State House nearly 90 minutes later. Each year, the parade honors several designated members in the Irish-American community as Grand Marshals.

Many of the attendees this year had participated in the IGT Downtown 5k or the St. Patrick’s 5k earlier in the day and stayed afterward to watch the parade.

There were between 350 and 400 people in the parade and about 70 groups, including local bands, volunteer firefighters, reenactment groups and youth groups, Fox said.

CLASSES FROM PAGE 1 tine due to COVID (or other illnesses, for that matter),” wrote Kevin McLaughlin, dean of the faculty, in an email to The Herald. “Faculty are notified about students in their courses that have had to quarantine.”

Three of Kavishe’s four courses already had an online component, either in the form of lecture capture or Zoom accessibility. But one of her courses was meant to be entirely in-person. The professor added a Zoom component after Kavishe inquired about how to take the course in isolation.

“All of my professors were extremely understanding” and accommodating, Kavishe said. “That surprised me.”

Ellie Masto ’24 said she was able to get off the waitlist of two classes while in isolation, despite being unable to attend in person — partly because professors were “super considerate and nice” when she emailed them about her situation, she said.

Masto also had a class introduce a Zoom component to accomodate students in COVID-19 isolation.

Some of Masto’s courses had lecture capture or were posting slides from lecture. For those courses, she’s been keeping in “regular contact” with her professors to avoid falling

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Between 350 to 400 people participated in the postponed parade, including groups such as local bands, firefighters and youth groups.

“Over the years, we’ve made a real effort to make sure that the parade is inclusive,” Fox added. “Smith Street, like all neighborhoods in Providence, has changed over the years and we want to celebrate that diversity too.”

It was important to find a way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day because “the Irish, like most immigrant groups coming to the United States, have struggled,” Fox said. “Getting together is a time to really celebrate that perseverance and the strides that folks have made in this country.”

Considering the ongoing pandemic, organizers were careful to take health precautions for the parade. There were sanitation stations placed in congregation areas such as Patrick’s Pub, and beverage stations were moved outside, Fox said.

Despite the postponement, parade attendees said they enjoyed the event.

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Alberto Saal, professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences, switched an in-person course to hybrid instruction because a student had to quarantine after his roommate tested positive.

“The best thing for me is to consider all the possibilities,” Saal said, leading him to plan for a hybrid model before the start of the semester.

Because all courses in-person in the past year had a Zoom component, Saal’s classroom already had cameras and other infrastructure for hybrid instruction.

Saal was not told he had to move his course online. Rather, he did it because it was “common sense.” He said he’ll offer students access to his class on Zoom as long as there are students in isolation or quarantine.

Still, hybrid teaching comes with its drawbacks. Omer Bartov, professor of European history, has transitioned both his lecture and seminar courses to hybrid instruction after several students were put in isolation. But he said he prefers teaching in-person.

Hybrid instruction “works if it is for the few who cannot attend in person but is a nightmare as a general method, unless things are better set up for it, which they are not,” Bartov wrote in an email to The Herald.

Lambert have been coming to the Providence St. Patrick’s Day parade for over 10 years, calling it one of their “favorites.” Lambert said she appreciates the camaraderie of the parade, adding that “it’s a family event.”

Josh Wonjar, member of the reenactment group Steven’s Independent Artillery, which performs in the parade every year, said he was initially disappointed upon hearing the news about the parade’s postponement.

“But we were happy to find out it was gonna happen again and take place,” Wonjar said, calling the parade itself “super fun” and a “great community.”

“We understood why it happened, but it was sad because it was such a big family event, so we were glad they were able to reschedule,” said Chris DeCastro, who added he was related to one of the Grand Marshals.

“It’s great to bring everyone together for something so joyous.”

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Professors accommodate students in COVID-19 isolation housing by uploading online course material, providing Zoom lectures, and responding to student needs.

According to Bartov, he was not told by administrators to move either of his courses online — he chose to do so himself to allow all students to participate.

When asked if there are challenges of keeping students engaged, Bartov wrote that he cannot yet say.

“Hopefully it’s only a matter of one or two class sessions.”

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U. monitoring community-wide COVID-19 restrictions Reduced risk outweighs restriction impacts, VP Carey says

BY GABRIELLA VULAKH SENIOR STAFF WRITER The University reported 61 positive COVID-19 tests from Sept. 12 to Sept. 18 through the asymptomatic testing program as of Sunday night, according to the Healthy Brown COVID-19 Dashboard. The positive cases are primarily among undergraduate students, according to Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06.

From Sept. 9 to Sept. 15, University Health Services conducted 78 symptomatic student tests, of which between five to 10 — a larger range than that of typical weeks — were positive for COVID-19, according to a Sept. 17 Today@Brown announcement.

The University is “cautious and monitoring” the increased total number of positive cases over the past week, but does not find the numbers alarming “or anything other than what we expected coming into this semester,” Carey told The Herald.

Contact tracing through students that have tested positive and who are in isolation housing show that “much of the spread (of COVID-19) is happening in settings — particularly indoors — where people understandably feel quite comfortable and remove their mask and are in close contact to each other for an extended period of time,” Carey said. “Even in those environments, the Delta variant is still quite transmissible.”

In response to the peak in COVID-19 cases last weekend, the University implemented new community-wide restrictions in a Sept.

13 email announcement, The Herald previously reported. The main changes listed in the announcement include “increasing the testing frequency to twice a week” for all students regardless of vaccination status, “going to grab-and-go dining and encouraging

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The University announced new short-term COVID-19 restrictions in response to a rise in positive asymptomatic cases on campus. people to really reduce their contacts, particularly the informal gatherings that take place on and off campus,” Carey said.

“Knowing that increases with this particular (Delta variant) can be relatively quick, we wanted to take some steps to prevent that,” he added.

Public health experts, like Dean of the School of Public Health Ashish Jha and Associate Vice President for Campus Life and Executive Director of Health and Wellness Vanessa Britto MSc’96, were consulted in the creation of these policies, according to Carey.

Due to these restrictions, students on campus have noticed an increase in wait times to receive food from the dining halls and an increase in waste around campus.

Carey said these “negative consequences” are “outweighed by trying to reduce the risk,” as having large

groups of people unmasked for long periods of time and “the act of eating and drinking can increase the opportunities for aerosol spread and transmission.”

A follow-up email announcement was sent Sept. 14, stating that student organizations are still permitted to meet in person; however, all attendees must remain masked both indoors and, in certain cases, outdoors.

The University is seeing “hardly any positives” among faculty and staff members, according to Carey, “so we feel confident about continuing to have indoor classes, activities and events, as long as they’re masked indoors.” Fully vaccinated faculty members are still permitted to remove their masks while conducting classes, according to the University’s Sept. 14 announcement.

In crowded outdoor settings, such

as athletic events with spectators from outside Brown and where there could be a mix of vaccinated and unvaccinated people, “wearing masks outdoors is prudent (and required) as well,” Carey said.

The University has modeled some of these new restrictions based on other institutions, such as Cornell and Duke University, according to Carey.

From what has been observed at these institutions, “most likely this will be a momentary increase (in cases). It will come back down, and we’ll be able to release those restrictions, and we hope to be able to do that soon.”

“We have a variety of networks that are national and international, and we keep a pretty good sense of what’s happening across higher ed, given that the impact of the pandemic varies widely by regions,” Carey said.

The increase of positivity among un-

dergraduate students and subsequent actions to raise testing frequency “is not unique to Brown,” he added.

Carey added that there is no definitive “threshold” that marks when restrictions would be loosened. “It is an ongoing holistic review, … and if those (cases) come back down, … we feel confident that we’ll be able to go back to where we were,” he said.

Isolation spaces are one-third occupied, as of Sept. 16, according to Carey. Though spaces are not at full capacity yet, the University is “continuing to look at ways (of increasing capacity).”

“We don’t expect to have zero cases of COVID-19, but we are trying to reduce what we’re experiencing right now, which is absolutely a spike in positivity among undergraduates, and … to reduce individual and collective risk,” Carey said.

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DINNER FROM PAGE 1 they couldn’t attend the event, and it’s ironic because we took a team picture (without) masks outside,” she said.

“We had our scheduled fitness testing Monday afternoon, (but) because of people testing positive on our team and other people (having) woken up feeling a little bit sick, they canceled our fitness testing. But we were still told to go to the event.”

Others felt comfortable at the event given its setting. “I thought the dinner was perfectly safe (because it was) outside,” said Sierra Bornheim ’24, a member of the women’s sailing team.

“There’s less transmission outside (and) we were all fully vaccinated.” Still, Bornheim understood her peers’ criticism of the event. President Christina Paxson P’19 “was there at the dinner speaking about 10 minutes after I first learned about (the restrictions), so I just think it was really poor timing on (the University’s) part,” she said. “I kind of knew there would be backlash.”

Women’s soccer player Sheyenne Allen ’23 believed that knowledge of the new restrictions didn’t substantially change the event. “I have a feeling many people didn’t know about it when we were all mingling,” she said. “I think those that did know about the changes weren’t immensely affected by them.”

Still, Allen expressed her support for the new restrictions overall. “It definitely makes sense due to the influx of students and rise in cases,” she said. “I believe the restrictions are necessary in order to keep students safe and allow us to continue to have in-person learning (and) activities in the future.”

There has been widespread student criticism of the administration’s policies and the event being held in the midst of increased restrictions, most notably expressed through social media. One of the primary outlets for student discontent is Instagram page @ browumemes, a meme page with more

than 6,000 followers. Chas Steinbrugge ’24, who runs the account, has made a number of memes poking fun at the administration’s actions in recent days.

“What’s motivated me to make so many memes about the new guidelines is mostly just how it seems that the administration doesn’t follow them themselves,” he said. “I understand lowering the group sizes for students but then to see these massive gatherings put on (by) the administration just seems hypocritical.”

The meme account, Steinbrugge said, has been a space for he and classmates to air mutual frustration about the University’s recent action.

“Having such strict guidelines in the student body with an administration that doesn’t seem to follow the practices they’re preaching has angered the student body,” he said. “I think the meme account is giving people an outlet to sort of vent their frustration.”

Steinbrugge points to levity and responsiveness as key factors in the popularity of memes amid changing circumstances for students. “The most important aspect of a meme account versus a more formal news source is that meme accounts can be more responsive. When a new guideline is announced, I can create a meme (much) faster than” a formal student publication could publish an announcement, he said. “I also think it adds a little bit of humor to the subject. People are more comfortable sharing a meme than they might be sharing an article.”

Madye Arundale ’25, who was not associated with the dinner, also sees the University’s actions as hypocritical.

“Brown being so lenient with themselves but not with student organizations is hugely hypocritical and very frustrating,” they said. “The outcry could have been lessened if they didn’t ban club gatherings and required masks for both school-sponsored events like the athletic dinner and club gatherings.

(The University) should have encouraged more outdoor interaction in their email as well.”

Part of the controversy stemmed from the Athletics Department’s promotion of the event on their official Instagram page. A since-deleted post shows a video of large numbers of student-athletes mingling and taking pictures, almost entirely unmasked, with the caption “It is PAR-TAY time for our student-athletes here at Brown!” The post was deleted within a few hours of its posting, but it was screen-recorded and reposted by @brownumemes with the caption, “Brown deleted this video of their massive in-person party today.

It was their first event since banning student-organized events.”

Calhoun said that she was unaware of the video. “I have no knowledge of that video nor of it being taken down,” she said.

Still, the @brownumemes post was shared and re-shared a number of times, and for Steinbrugge, the deleted video was a major sticking point. “One big driving factor behind the meme was that a school Instagram account posted a video of the party and celebrated it,” he said. “That just made it way more frustrating. They can’t own up to their big gatherings and they try to delete evidence” of them.

Steinbrugge further cited the social consequences of the restrictions as a reason for student anger, especially among members of the class of 2024. “It’s really disappointing because we were so close to having a more integrated, more connected Brown community. The club fair was a moment when a lot of sophomores finally realized how we can connect with people across campus and form bigger networks, and then just three days later, to have all that tugged away was pretty disappointing,” he said. “The five person gathering limit is such a drastic change of plans for

many students who were expanding their networks.”

Josephine Miller ’24, a Theatre Arts & Performance Studies concentrator, criticized the dinner as an example of Brown prioritizing athletics above other extracurriculars. “As somebody whose entire life and career kind of revolves around shows, (this) looks to me kind of like (a) replication of the common high school trope of money being poured into athletics while the arts are completely disregarded.

Brown is going to keep the things that bring them revenue running, while things like the arts that aren’t as lucrative to Brown — but that they’re going to talk about publicly when marketing their school to prospective students — just aren’t given the attention,” she said. “Athletic (practices) were allowed to continue all throughout the pandemic last year, whereas this is supposed to be the official beginning of the arts coming back to Brown.”

Calhoun disputed these statements, pointing to stoppage of athletic competition. “We shut down athletics for more than a year. We were the only conference in Division I to do that,” she said. “I would certainly contest that sentiment on the basis (that) that’s not what our track record is.”

She also reiterated that the University is focused on outdoor, supervised events. “We’ve really focused on University-sponsored (events), the reason being because then you’ve got people there whose job is make sure people are following the rules (and) being safe and to break things up if not.”

Miller expressed greater concern about the mental health impacts the University’s policies could have on students. “I feel like (the University) just botched it every step of the way, bringing the (Class of 2024) in in January and telling people that they would be breaking the school’s Code

of Conduct if they attempted to make friends in any way and then providing us no virtual avenue through which to form connections. (This) set everybody up for mental health crises.”

University spokesperson Brian Clark acknowledged the difficulties posed by ongoing restrictions. “We fully appreciate that for students and many others, the vigilance and flexibility required to successfully navigate the COVID-19 pandemic is causing considerable fatigue,” he wrote in an email to the Herald. “At the same time, the ability to be flexible and adjust course as required by a continually evolving pandemic remains essential.”

However, he rejected the idea that the University’s policies have been inconsistent or unwarranted.

“What might feel like ‘flip-flopping’ is in reality effective management of a fast-evolving public health situation, grounded in and guided by science and data,’’ he wrote. “We continue to strive to maintain as close to normal operations as we can at Brown, while also protecting the health and safety of everyone who lives, works or learns here.”

Clark expressed optimism that the restrictions would be short-lived, permitting on-campus Covid-19 conditions. He cited other institutions who have implemented comparable policies. “It’s important to note that the limitations put into this place are temporary and targeted specifically to the settings in which we’ve seen evidence of COVID-19 spread,” he wrote. “The experience of other university campuses is instructive; they experienced similar spikes at the beginning of the semester, imposed similar temporary restrictions, and saw their positive rates come back down in a couple of weeks. We hope to accomplish the same here at Brown if we can work together to curb the uptick in cases.”

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Football opens season with loss in Governor’s Cup Turnovers, defensive mishaps plague Brown in 45-24 defeat to URI

In Brown’s first football game on the new Richard Gouse Field at Brown Stadium, solid performances from captains EJ Perry ’22 and Allen Smith ’22 weren’t enough to secure the Governor’s Cup trophy against University of Rhode Island Saturday.

The game ended 45-24 in favor of the Rams (3-0), giving them their best start to a season in 16 years. The Bears (0-1) showed glimpses of a po-

with a three-yard run by Antrum setting up an 80-yard touchdown pass from Hill to Matt Pires.

Once again, offensive turnovers by Brown — and URI’s knack for capitalizing on them — proved crucial as the game unfolded. “In addition to just throwing the ball to them twice, we put the ball on the ground a little bit,” Coach Perry said. “Then there were some critical moment errors — when you get in the red zone, what we refer to as situational football, we’re not doing at a high enough level.”

“I think I made a number of mental and physical errors that negatively affected our offense and rhythm,” EJ Perry added.

Brown narrowed the gap slightly with a fourth-quarter field goal to make the score 38-17. On Bruno’s next pos-

tent offense, but key turnovers and defensive miscues cost them the win.

Bruno’s defense started the game with intensity, stifling URI’s running game and forcing them to punt after three downs. After the Bears received the punt at their own 40-yard line, Perry and Smith showed no signs of rust as they advanced downfield with a series of completions and runs for short gains.

On the second down at URI’s 14-yard line, Perry received the snap in shotgun and dropped back, surveying his options. As Hayes Sutton ’23 streaked past defenders en route to the corner of the end zone, Perry let the ball fly. Sutton turned and leapt, snatching the ball out of the air and dragging his toes across the end zone turf to secure Bruno’s first points of the season.

“Hayes is a phenomenal player and has improved tremendously since 2019,” Perry said. “He showed it not only on that touchdown grab but throughout the entire game. Hayes ran a great route and it was a great catch.”

Brown’s energetic celebration was short-lived, as URI answered quickly with a touchdown coming from a 35-

session, another critical error led to the nail in the coffin when URI’s Jordan Jones picked off a Perry pass in the end zone and ran it back the entire length of the field for a pick-six. Though Brown scored another touchdown on a pass to Wes Rockett ’23, URI’s hefty lead proved insurmountable. With the 45-24 victory, URI improved to 3-0 on the season and claimed the 2021 Governor’s Cup. Offensively, Brown’s scarcity of scoring wasn’t for lack of production.

Their total yardage exceeded URI’s by nearly 80, and on certain occasions, the Bruno offense appeared to outmatch URI’s defense. “We moved the ball very well — I think we mixed run and pass well,” Coach Perry said. “Execution, when the bullets are flying, is difficult.”

The Bears have six days to rest and recover before they launch into Ivy League play with their game at Harvard Friday. “Our guys, we work hard,” Coach Perry said. “I was not anticipating as many errors, and those are things that we’ll work hard to correct. And we only have six days to do it, so we’ll be back at it tomorrow. It’s a terrific group — I have no doubt they’ll be ready to work.”

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SOCCER FROM PAGE 1 the biggest things I take away is just how much depth we have. We can rotate a lot of players up top and in the midfield,” she said. “We played a different formation today that we haven’t played this season yet, so our girls are really receptive. They take feedback really well (and) they can implement a game plan really well.

That’s a good thing to have going into Ivy play.”

After a grueling three-game road trip, the team appreciated being back in Providence in front of a friendly crowd. “We love seeing people out here.”

The Huskies’ goal to cut the

yard connection between dual-threat quarterback Kasim Hill and halfback Justice Antrum.

Hill and Antrum, two key ingredients in URI’s early success this year, made an immediate impact; even when they weren’t running the ball, their presence opened up opportunities for URI to attack using the passing game.

Rams scored a touchdown on their next drive to take a 17-7 lead into the second quarter.

With under 11 minutes remaining in the second quarter, Hill scrambled out of the pocket in hopes of converting a third-down pass. Cornerback Cooper DeVeau ’23, reading the play perfectly, made a beeline for Hill and unloaded

had 15 carries and ran for 65 yards on the new turf. “We played pretty fast considering we ran 105 plays,” Smith said. “Even then, we think we can play a little bit faster and take it to the next level. The new turf was great — I think that was reflected by how we were able to make some big plays and move the ball.”

COURTESY OF BROWN ATHLETICS

The Brown football team played on the Richard Gouse Field for the first time this Saturday in a game against University of Rhode Island. The Bears are preparing for their game against Harvard Friday.

“They’re both excellent players,” said Brown Head Coach James Perry ’00. “I thought our guys actually did a really good job trying to defend them. It is what it is — they’re going to get some plays.”

The first of Brown’s crucial offensive miscues occurred immediately after URI’s touchdown, with Perry narrowly avoiding a sack and then throwing a desperation pass into the waiting arms of a URI defender at Brown’s 30-yard line. URI, taking advantage of the exceptional field position, kicked a field goal to make it a 10-7 ballgame. The

Bears’ lead to one was a pivotal moment in the game. But being able to respond with another score was crucial to Brown’s victory, according to Raphino. Her goal “was really important because (Northeastern) had the momentum,” she said. “They were really fired up after (the goal), so the fact that we capitalized and came back and got another one was huge.”

Raphino is confident as the team heads into Ivy League play. “We can put multiple goals away on anybody,” she said. “No one in the Ivy League can stop us. We just need to keep going at ‘em and keep the fire going.”

For Thompson, the start of conference play is a new chapter for the team. “We’ve talked about this being

for the sack to force a URI punt.

“There was no rust on our energy,” Coach Perry said. “I was very happy with (the energy) on the sideline and when we came out of that locker room.”

DeVeau’s electric defensive play and the sideline’s response put a charge into the Bears offense, which steadily marched from its own 17-yard line into the URI red zone. Once the Bears were within 10 yards, Smith took two consecutive rushes — the second of which did the job, tightening the score at 17-14 after the extra point kick.

Smith, a stalwart of Brown’s offense,

the end of one season and (the start of) another,” she said.

Though the team’s non-conference schedule was rocky at times, McNeill was happy with how it went overall. “We purposely scheduled a tough non-conference schedule to get us ready for Ivy League play. I think regardless of some of the results, I still feel like we were in every game and (in) a lot of those games the ball could have bounced either way,” she said. “We feel really confident and it was a convincing win today. We’ll get back at it this week to get ready for Dartmouth.”

The Bears will kick off their Ivy League season Saturday at home against the Big Green at 7:00 p.m.

COURTESY OF BROWN ATHLETICS After a quiet first half, the game got more physical in the second and both teams were issued yellow cards. A persistent offense from the Bears kept the huskies at bay, despite the momentum they gained off their single goal.

URI started the second half with a resounding sack of Perry that forced a fumble and wrenched possession of the ball away from the Bears. From there, the Rams didn’t look back, running off two touchdowns in the first 10 minutes of the third quarter to take a 31-14 lead.

Brown then appeared to threaten with a scoring chance, but their foray into URI’s red zone quickly turned sour.

In a brutal sequence of events for Bears fans hoping for a comeback, Perry was called for intentional grounding and URI’s defense forced a fumble. The following URI drive was brief but deadly,

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TOURS FROM PAGE 1 University information sessions have yet to return, instead remaining in an online format that he described as “less risky” than putting 50 people in a room.

Other virtual programming also remains available, such as virtual tours and live Q&As — an addition to admissions outreach that Dean of Admission Logan Powell has previously stressed is very important.

The University does not measure “demonstrated interest” while reviewing applications, such as whether or not a student visited campus, according to the Office of Admission’s website.

On the route, only two key differences were apparent: Groups did not enter Sayles Hall as they would have in the past, and on Simmons Quad, the group stood on the plot of grass where Untitled (Lamp/Bear) — a former stop on the tour commonly known as Blueno — once stood. Neronha said his opinions are mixed: The new space makes the tour stop easier, but he doesn’t know whether or not to explain the significance of the patch of grass.

“Do I take time to explain that Blueno used to be here — that there was this random blue bear that you don’t really care about, but I’ll tell you

anyway? Or do I just not say anything?” he wondered. He admitted that he was leaning toward the latter option, but still wanted to “properly memorialize” Blueno somehow.

Charlotte Sandford, a high school senior from New York City who joined the tour, said the return to in-person tours improved her ability to get a sense of a school. Her trip to College Hill was the first official college tour she had taken; she had visited other schools, but had to rely on current firstyears she knew from high school to show her around. The expertise that a senior brought to the tour, she said,

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Eric Wolfsdorf, a high school senior from Los Angeles, said that he also enjoyed the tour and learning about the “ins and outs” of the University, down to the details of where students study, eat and live.

“Brown is a warm environment with lots of people who are willing to reach out and help,” he noted.

Wolfsdorf said he had been on a number of other tours, two of which were self-guided. “I felt like I learned nothing from that,” he said.

“The tour experience here has been

the best,” Sandford added, “because I’ve actually been able to have a tour.”

In-person tours mark one of the first pieces of normalcy in the college process for this year’s class of high school seniors, many of whom started thinking about college in the middle of the pandemic: Sandford said that she had a difficult time accessing standardized testing, and college visits to her high school moved online.

“It’s just different,” Wolfsdorf said, adding that COVID-19 impacted last year’s high school seniors significantly more, but that the disrupted college process is all he has experienced.

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Bayard ’24: The GOP’s heart is no longer orderly nor conservative

BY AUGUSTUS BAYARD OPINIONS EDITOR In his 1968 book “Miami and the Siege of Chicago,” novelist-slash-journalist Norman Mailer offered the following characterization of the rank-and-file Nixon supporters he saw at that year’s Republican National Convention in Miami.

A “principal of a small town high school, local lawyer, retired doctor, a widow on tidy income, her minister and fellow-delegate, minor executives from minor corporations … — the stable and the established, the middle-aged and the old, a sprinkling of the young, the small towns and the quiet respectable cities of the Midwest and the Far West and the border states were out to pay their homage to their own true candidate, the representative of their conservative orderly heart.”

The passage, exhaustive though it may be, evokes something crucial about the Republican Party at the time. It was the party of the staid and structured, those who wanted things to run smoothly largely the way they were without disruption.

That was no inherent virtue — the disruptions they wished to avoid would have included things like anti-war protests and integration efforts — but it was a defining trait of the era’s Republican Party. Now it’s hard to see any remnant of that party in today’s GOP, especially in the viking-horned, Q-flag-waving, frenzied mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.

There are still a few in the Republican Party that can’t help but

recall the “congregation of the clean, the brisk, the orderly, the efficient” that Mailer saw in Miami. Representative Peter Meijer of Michigan, the clean-cut scion of a Midwest superstore chain, justified his trip to observe the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan by stressing how it helped him learn about what was necessary

states; they frequently have higher approval ratings among Democrats than Republicans.

Gone are the days of the Republican heart being, as Mailer wrote more than fifty years ago, “conservative (and) orderly.” To begin with the latter adjective, many in the Republican camp strain to be

“Don’t delude yourself: The blood now animating the frontiers of the American right is pumped by a heart neither orderly nor conservative.” “​​to make sure things run smoothly” and address a situation that was “incredibly chaotic” — sounding so much like a respectable functionary from Mailer’s Miami. Northeastern Republican governors like Maryland’s Larry Hogan, Vermont’s Phil Scott, New Hampshire’s Chris Sununu or Massachusetts’ Charlie Baker also fit the mold, serving as reserved checks on the ambitions of their deep-blue state legislatures.

But these exceptions are exactly that, exceptions far from the Republican mainstream and even further from the party’s most energetic forces. After Meijer voted to impeach former President Trump, he quickly found himself faced with a primary challenger. Those blue-state Republican governors are often not all that popular with Republicans in their

described as anything approaching “orderly.” Attend a Trump rally today and you will not find the punctilious middling professionals Mailer saw in Miami, but ostentatiously misogynistic shirts, Trump-honoring elephants and Lil Pump endorsements. The ineluctable example is the chaos of Jan. 6’s insurrection, the absolute opposite of standing for the orderly workings of an orderly nation.

Mailer’s other descriptor of the GOP’s heart was “conservative” and this too rings hollow today. What do the energies on the frontlines of the Republican Party wish to conserve? William F. Buckley, godfather of American conservatism, famously founded his magazine National Review to “stand athwart history, yelling Stop.” No one in the Republican

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Party seems as if they’d be very happy if history stopped and things just stayed as they are today. Nor does the GOP base even seem to wish to return to some identifiable, idyllic time when America truly was great.

The Reagan presidency, which that slogan harkens back to, for example, was rather sympathetic to im-

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migrants, today surely a cardinal sin for those in the Trump orbit. If the Reagan era was too inclusive for them, earlier eras in American history don’t seem like they’d be that compelling either; unlike mid-century conservatives, modern Republicans by and large don’t advocate for rolling back the New Deal. If conservatism means putting on the brakes on society, or even shifting it into reverse, I would struggle to call the modern Republican Party conservative. If anything, they wish to wrest the wheel away from whoever’s driving (Democrats, the liberal elite, the deep state, lizard people perhaps) and jerk the wheel in an entirely different direction.

That direction is unclear. Some wish to double-down on the spittle-flecked populism that Trump

never could or never would turn into real policy. Senator Tom Cotton introduced a bill unsubtly titled the Ivory Tower Tax Act to fund vocational training programs by taxing the most elite colleges, those that are busy “indoctrinating our youth with un-American ideas.” In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking another path: His lax COVID-19 response promotes a libertarian society devoid of obligations to fellow citizens and where one need think only of oneself, a series of policies that has led James Hohmann to pronounce in the Washington Post that “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is no conservative.” In some recesses of the American right, one can find something resembling a willingness to overthrow the whole system of liberal democracy. Conservative intellectual Sohrab Ahmari’s no-holds-barred approach to the culture wars, advocating for a more active government role in social issues, has led even conservative columnist Bret Stephens to label him “something of a new illiberal.” This finds a less intellectual parallel in those on the American right’s fringes who have shown a concerning sympathy for the hyper-masculine, nationalist and theocratic Taliban’s defeat of a liberal democracy. These various strands all share one thing in common: They hold little trace of the party that Mailer saw in 1968.

Clinging to that understanding of the Republican Party is what left much of the nation, myself included, dumbfounded on Jan. 6. Don’t delude yourself: The blood now animating the frontiers of the American right is pumped by a heart neither orderly nor conservative.

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The Bruno Brief: Climate activists take on JPMorgan Chase

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Rhode Island House of Representatives. And the other one was from a Rhode Island state senator, Kendra Anderson.

Kendra Anderson I’m a politician. As much as I don’t like that position, I do know that it comes with power and I accept that power. And what I am absolutely devastated about is what young people are facing today.

Ben Glickman Welcome back to Season Two of the Bruno Brief from the Brown Daily Herald and WBRU. I’m Ben Glickman. We’re excited to bring you more stories for this semester. This week, climate justice activists staged a protest of Chase Bank on Thayer Street to take a stand against the bank’s investments in fossil fuels.

Protesters [Chant] No more gas! No more oil! Keep your poison in the soil!

Ben Glickman Herald Senior Staff Writer Jasper Yeh and Bruno Brief Producer, Max Karpawich were on the scene.

Jasper, can you introduce yourself to the listeners?

Jasper Yeh My name is Jasper, I’m a senior staff writer for The Herald.

Ben Glickman You were on the scene when this protest at Chase Bank began? Could you paint a picture for us?

Jasper Yeh So it was about 15 or 20 people, and they were all wearing these really bright green-yellow neon shirts. And on the back it said “Chase criminal bank.” And then they had a lot of signs and posters talking about Chase the criminal bank, you know, their funding of fossil fuels. And then they met about two blocks up from the Chase Bank location. And they marched really, really slowly down Thayer Street to the bank. And a lot of the cars they actually honked when they passed by either in support of the protestsBen Glickman Or maybe in opposition?

Jasper Yeh Yeah. So as they were walking down, two blocks down Thayer, they kept switching between different chants. Some of them were shaking maracas, some of them were tapping on their drums. And they were just making a lot of noise to, you know, attract the attention of people around.

Protesters [Chant] Which side are you on? Which side are you on?

Ben Glickman So tell us about what happened when they actually got to the Chase Bank location.

Jasper Yeh So when they first arrived, they started off by standing outside and chanting for awhile.

Protesters [Call and response chant] Get up Get up. Get up, Get up. Don’t give up the fight. Don’t give up the fight.

Jasper Yeh After which they had a few speeches delivered.

One of them was from a previous Brown graduate. And he’s also — he was also a part of the

Jasper Yeh After that, one of the protesters, they said they were expecting the CEO of Chase Bank, Jamie Dimon to show up. And at first I was kind of confused because I thought he was actually going to show up. But then later, she came back dressed in like a suit and, and like a hat. So it turns out it was a skit. And the skit was to mock Jamie Dimon and to mock, you know, the company and their funding of fossil fuels.

Protester (as Jamie Dimon) Listen, I think you’re taking these headlines about hurricanes and wildfires and flooding, and people drowning in basements and apartments for weeks a little too seriously!

Second Protester Well, Protester (as Jamie Dimon) Here at Chase Bank, we like to make sure that you have everything you need in terms of credit.

Jasper Yeh They also unveiled a really long piece of paper, which was 150,000 signatures to a petition to tell Chase Bank to stop funding fossil fuels. They unrolled the signatures, and it stretched across the bank and down the sidewalk.

Protester [Unclear] Being rolled out is actually just a portion of it. It’s 155,000 names of people like ourselves who want the planet not to just be [unclear] floods and hurricanes and fires.

Ben Glickman It sounds like they were definitely theatrical, a bit.

Jasper Yeh Yeah, definitely. One of the leaders of the protest, you know, as they were marching, she was also like, we have to be as loud as possible, and we’re going to walk as slowly as we can.

Ben Glickman For maximum effect.

Jasper Yeh Yeah.

Ben Glickman So I wonder if you could kind of give us a sense of the mood among the protesters.

Jasper Yeh Yeah, so I think there was definitely a lot of anger in there. A lot of passion. I didn’t know what to expect of the protest. I thought it would be a larger crowd. So it was a pretty small crowd. But despite having only a few people, they were all really passionate about it. You know, they were kind of on their own, I feel like, but they were all chanting really loudly. They were all you know, making as much sound as they could.

Ben Glickman So small in number, but enthusiastic?

Jasper Yeh Yeah, definitely.

Protesters [Call and response chant] Mic check. Mic check. Mic Check. Mic check. Around — the people around you, say “Just do what I’m doing.” Jamie Dimon!

Jamie Dimon.

Ben Glickman Tell us a little bit about kind of what prompted

this specific protest. Was there something that they were kind of reacting to?

Jasper Yeh So this particular protest, it was partly caused by the publication of the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report. And the IPCC, this organization, they are in charge of disseminating information about climate change. This is kind of what triggered these protests in response to the kind of disastrous results that the report claimed. But it’s also important to note that this is definitely not the first time that this protest has happened. It has happened multiple times and in multiple locations, because more generally, they want Chase to stop funding fossil fuels because they claim that Chase Bank is the number one funder of fossil fuels.

Ben Glickman So, at previous protests, we at The Herald reached out to a spokesperson at Chase to ask about some of the claims that were made. And they told us about different initiatives they have, not necessarily directly responding but giving some answers about the work on climate that Chase is doing. What did they say this time?

Jasper Yeh I separately emailed a spokesperson from Chase Bank. She referred me to someone who oversees Sustainability Communications at the bank. At the bank, we also weren’t able to talk to anyone in the office. Some protesters tried to get into the bank, but there were three police officers who stood right inside the door, watching the protest.

Protester Chase Bank’s not gonna come out. They don’t want us to come in, and the police are ready to arrest us if we go in. We’re not gonna go in.

Jasper Yeh And (The Herald) did try to go in. But it seems like the police officers thought that we were also part of the protest. So they also weren’t going to let us in.

Ben Glickman When I was a senior staff writer, I covered two of these protests that were very similar. But the protesters are still here. Do you think that there was some frustration that nothing has changed?

Jasper Yeh Yeah, there definitely is. A recurring theme from the protesters when I interviewed them — they just kept telling me about their children, their grandchildren and how they’re running out of

time. So I think there’s definitely this recognition that, you know, this problem has persisted for so long. And the protesters themselves, they don’t see this problem ending any time soon unless they take action, like participating in this protest.

Protester We don’t want dividends from Chase. We want Chase to straighten up and fly right. And we want a safe environment for our children and our grandchildren.

Ben Glickman When you say that they’re talking about their children and their grandchildren — that’s sort of implicitly morbid, I think. That, you know, the world they’re leaving might be worse off. Did you get the sense that the protesters were hopeful at all?

Jasper Yeh Yeah, so one of the people who spoke to the protesters, he was a previous legislator in the Rhode Island House of Representatives. He talked about how there was a lot to be fearful of in regards to these climate change issues. But then I remember that he also told everyone how there’s also a lot to be hopeful of. So he encouraged all the activists there to continue their work in climate change activism.

Aaron Regunberg And it doesn’t happen on its own, right? And that’s why we’re here today. And that’s why we are going to continue to show up, to speak out, to put our bodies on the line: because our future is worth it.

Ben Glickman Jasper, thanks so much for being on The Bruno Brief.

Jasper Yeh Thank you for having me.

Ben Glickman Thanks for listening to The Bruno Brief. Our show is produced by Livi Burdette, Corey Gelb-Bicknell, Max Karpawich and me, Ben Glickman. We’ll see you next week.

This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Listen to the full episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or browndailyherald.com.

This episode was produced by Olivia Burdette, Ben Glickman and Corey Gelb-Bicknell, with audio reporting from Max Karpawich.