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Brown University Band will not perform at women’s basketball games in protest of Head Coach Behn denies allegations of making comments about players’ weights, singling out players with vulgar language

UNIVERSITY NEWS

Bill Clinton to speak at University lecture Former President will speak at Shearer lecture in honor of family friend, late alum

BY ALEX SMOLAR, ALEXANDRA RUSSELL, HENRY DAWSON AND LI GOLDSTEIN SENIOR EDITOR, SENIOR REPORTER AND SECTION EDITORS The Brown University Band announced they will not be playing at women’s basketball home games for the remainder of the 2019-2020 season, citing allegations circulating about the conduct of women’s basketball Head Coach Sarah Behn. The band made the announcement in a letter posted to their Facebook page Feb. 18.

Band President Elizabeth Rogan ’21 and Vice President Charlie Gagnon ’22 made the decision along with the four other members of the band’s executive board. Before the announcement, the band had planned to perform at two upcoming home matchups this spring.

“We decided to not continue to attend games because we felt like the things we were hearing about the

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BY WILL KUBZANSKY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

only hurts our dedicated student-athletes who continue to represent Brown

Former president Bill Clinton will speak at the University’s Casey Shearer ’00 lecture March 19, according to an email sent out to students in the English Nonfiction program.

Tickets will be released in early March for University students, faculty and staff, wrote Mikele St-Germain, associate director for event management, in an email to The Herald. The University will announce the lecture on Today@Brown at a later date with more information, including its location.

In honor of Shearer, an aspiring sports broadcaster who died unexpectedly days before graduating, the lecture has historically brought prom-

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In Sarah Behn’s tenure as head coach of the women’s basketball team, the Bears have accumulated an Ivy League record of 20-60, with a conference-winning percentage of 25.0 over that span. women’s basketball team would make continuing to attend those games a negative statement, and one that was contrary to the band’s values,” Gag-

non said.

In an email to The Herald, Behn wrote that “a boycott of the women’s basketball games by the Brown Band

SCIENCE & RESEARCH

U. receives Carnegie community award

Academic journal honors three Black U. researchers

Swearer Center, U. programs recognized for community engagement

BY RAHMA IBRAHIM SENIOR STAFF WRITER

BY CAELYN PENDER SENIOR STAFF WRITER The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching designated the University as a recipient of the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Jan. 31.

With the resulting classification, the University became one of 359 other colleges and universities that actively hold the designation. Of these, only 28 other institutions are classified as doctoral universities with “very high research activity status,” according to a University

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CellPress names U. faculty members to list of “Inspiring Black Scientists in America”

Earlier this February, in honor of Black History Month, three University researchers were named to a list of “100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America” released by CellPress — the publisher of renowned research journals like Cell — through its blog CrossTalk.

With additional input from prominent faculty members across the country, Antentor O. Hinton Jr., a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Iowa; Zer Vue, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California at San Francisco; and Haysetta Shuler from Winston-Salem State University compiled the list of scientists. The list is divided into two groups: 75 “established investigators” and 25 “rising stars.” To select the honorees, the team from CrossTalk chose Black researchers who were not just accomplished scientists

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Stephon Alexander, Andrew Campbell and Arif Hamid were among 100 Black scientists recognized for their research, as well as their commitment to championing diversity and mentorship. but were also dedicated to mentoring and championing diversity.

Andrew Campbell: Prioritizing Neglected Diseases Andrew Campbell, professor of medical science and dean of the Graduate School, was one of the University researchers featured as an established investigator in CrossTalk’s article. The focus of Campbell’s research is “studying and understanding what’s probably

best described as neglected diseases of neglected populations of people. These include diseases affecting people in areas such as sub-Saharan Africa,” Campbell wrote in an email to The Herald.

Campbell was inspired to pursue this research because of his “concern for people faced with burdens on a daily basis brought on by diseases too few people prioritize or feel are important

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enough to eradicate or control.”

“Removing barriers and challenges that marginalized, under-represented and underserved individuals face is important to me. I see diversity work as work that creates and restores opportunities and access,” he added. “There are added responsibilities that come with being a person of color in science

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2020

SPORTS

Men’s hockey topples Colgate 3-1, falls to No. 2 Cornell 3-0 at home Burston ’21, Dodd ’20, Quisenberry ’23 score in victory Friday over Colgate

BY ALEXANDRA RUSSELL SENIOR REPORTER Following a road trip to Dartmouth and Harvard last week, the men’s hockey team closed out its regular season home slate this weekend, defeating Colgate University 3-1 Friday and falling to No. 2 Cornell 3-0 Saturday.

With two regular season contests remaining against Quinnipiac University and Princeton, the Bears are currently ninth in the conference standings, trailing Colgate by three points. Friday’s victory against the Raiders allowed the Bears to edge closer to achieving home ice advantage for the first round of the playoffs, which is granted to the fifth- through eighth-seeded teams in the league.

Brown 3, Colgate 1 Friday night, Colin Burston ’21, Trey Dodd ’20 and Cole Quisenberry ’23 each scored in the final two periods to fuel Bruno (7-18-2, 7-11-2 ECAC) to victory. The pivotal win secured the season sweep over the Raiders (10-166, 8-9-3). The Bears previously toppled the team on the road 4-1 Nov. 9.

“We stuck with the process, worked extremely hard and got a really, really important win,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “We’re trying to catch teams ahead of us and we need to win these hockey games. That was a good start to the weekend, but I think we deserved to win. We outplayed them the whole game.”

The Bears pressured the Colgate net from the drop of the puck, outshooting the Raiders 7-6 in a scoreless opening stanza. Just under two minutes into the frame, Dodd threatened to give Brown an early lead, launching a shot from the left circle that ricocheted off the pipe.

Goaltender Gavin Nieto ’20 made a series of key saves — including a diving stop early in the first period — to preserve the 0-0 scoreline before Burston

CLINTON FROM PAGE 1 inent journalists to campus.

Past speakers include Washington Post sportswriter Thomas Boswell in 2001, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in 2003 and ESPN sportscaster Chris Berman ’77 in conversation with New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick in 2004.

More recently, the lecture has featured Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern and New Yorker staff writer Sarah Stillman. Speakers for the Shearer lecture “always come for no honorarium,” said English Professor Elizabeth Taylor, who taught Shearer while he was an undergraduate student at the University.

The 42nd president’s visit to campus marks the twentieth anniversary of Clinton’s speaking at Shearer’s memorial service in Sayles Hall in 2000.

Shearer’s parents had maintained a close relationship with the Clintons, Taylor said. Both Shearer’s parents — former Mayor of Santa Monica and former Chairman of the United States Postal Regulatory Commission Ruth Goldway, and former Ambassador to Finland Derek Shearer — were involved

gave the Bears an advantage four and a half minutes into the second stanza.

After Michael Maloney ’22 took an initial shot, a Colgate defenseman tipped the puck out towards the right point, where Burston was waiting. Burston collected the puck and found the back of the net on a smooth shot to put Bruno on the board.

The Bears maintained the momentum throughout the period, as Dodd scored an unassisted shorthanded goal 11 minutes into the frame to extend the lead to two. After gathering the puck in the Colgate zone, Dodd worked his way down the ice, took a quick shot and then buried a loose puck from his own rebound for the tally.

Colgate answered just over a minute later when Paul McAvoy converted on a power play to trim Bruno’s advantage to one. It would be the only time that the Raiders’ power play struck during the contest, as the Bears proceeded to kill three consecutive penalties in the final stanza.

Bruno’s offensive persistence continued throughout the evening, culminating in a goal from Quisenberry 13 minutes into the third period.

Justin Jallen ’22 redirected a feed from Dorian Dawson ’22 across the crease to Quisenberry, who sent the puck neatly past Colgate netminder Andrew Farrier to secure the victory for Brown.

The Bears cited the depth in their roster as a positive as they attempt to maximize offensive production and climb up the conference standings ahead of the playoffs.

“It’s really hard when you’re relying on one line to produce for you,” Burston said. “The fact that everyone can just chip in whenever they can ... really helps winning games.”

“We have struggled not to generate offense — I think we’ve generated shots and opportunities — but we’ve struggled to generate goals off that offense, off that possession,” Whittet said. Now “you’re seeing a young team that’s maturing, that’s much more confident around the net … the young guys are coming along and contributing, which is nice to see.”

Cornell 3, Brown 0 Saturday’s contest, which also

in the Clinton administration. Shearer’s father met Clinton long before his presidency, when they were both undergraduate students at Yale.

In 2000, M. Charles Bakst, then a political columnist for the Providence Journal, wrote about the remarks of a “tearful president” who spoke candidly about Shearer, arm wrapped around then-first lady Hillary Clinton.

“Whether you live for 20 years or 50 or 80 or 100, it doesn’t take long to live a life … Casey Shearer had a great life,” Clinton said at the service.

“It was a shock when Casey died.

Clinton came right up. He said, ‘I’ll be there for the memorial,’” Taylor said. “It was awful of course, but he was eloquent.”

Goldway asked Clinton to return for the 20th anniversary, Taylor added.

Taylor said that she does not know what Clinton plans to discuss during his lecture.

“We’re not asking him anything in particular,” Taylor said. “People who have come, they talk about writing and researching — it isn’t always that. Clinton will … talk about whatever comes to his mind, talking about Casey.”

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Following this weekend’s contests against Colgate and Cornell, the men’s hockey team will close out the regular season with visits to Quinnipiac and Princeton Saturday. served as the team’s Senior Night celebration, saw the Bears face off against the conference leaders in a packed Meehan Auditorium.

Bruno held the Big Red (21-2-4, 16-2-2) to one goal for the first two periods and pressured the team with several good looks on net, but Cornell tacked on a pair of goals in a five-minute span in the final stanza to clinch the shutout.

Forward Matt Stienburg opened scoring for the visitors midway through the first frame, tapping in a feed from Jeff Malott to the left of the crease.

Cornell’s stubborn defense hindered the Bears from generating shot opportunities on net, but Bruno began to break through on a power play late in the period as Quisenberry and Jallen forced Big Red goaltender Matthew Galajda to make a pair of consecutive saves.

Brown gained momentum and peppered the Cornell net with shots in the second stanza, as both teams notched eight attempts on goal apiece

in the scoreless frame. Nieto denied a vigorous Big Red offense with several athletic saves to keep the Bears within one of their Ivy opponents.

Cornell struck again just under 13 minutes into the final period, as Sam Malinski’s feed hit Kyle Betts and then bounded off of a Brown player’s skate into the net. Morgan Barron cemented the lead five minutes later with an empty net goal, setting the final tally at 3-0.

As the Bears prepare for playoff competition, they look to their ability to compete with elite teams like Cornell as a source of confidence and composure. Bruno’s opponent for the first round will be determined by the results of this coming weekend’s contests around the conference.

“We’re all pretty positive right now,” Nieto said. “We realize that we’re coming down to the last few games and we’re playing well, so there’s a high confidence we’re playing with right now. We know that we can play with some of the best teams in the league.”

“Right now it’s a really important time in the season going into playoffs, and I think we’re clicking together and we’re all doing our jobs,” Burston said.

“Our mentality right now is to take every game one at a time — just focus on what we can control and try to listen to our coaches.”

Achieving home ice advantage remains an aim for the team, which will require wins against both Quinnipiac University and Princeton on the road this weekend to surpass the Raiders for eighth place in the league.

“There’s still a chance at having home ice advantage for playoffs, so our goal is to go in and get four points next weekend at Quinnipiac and Princeton, and then we’ll see where the cards lie,” Nieto said. “From there, we’ll have some good momentum heading into playoffs and hopefully we do what we did last year and go on a little run … you never know what can happen.”

The Bears close out the regular season on the road against Quinnipiac and Princeton this weekend.

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Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, will speak at the Casey Shearer ’00 Lecture, 20 years after he spoke at Shearer’s memorial service in Sayles Hall.

Clinton’s visit will follow that of Theresa May, the former United Kingdom prime minister, as the second

head of state to speak on campus this March. According to St-Germain, the University will implement a “height-

ened level of security” as they would with “any former U.S. President or foreign dignitary.”

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Men’s basketball beats Columbia, loses to Cornell over weekend Bruno’s road trip to New York earns win, loss heading into crucial stretch

BY RANDI RICHARDSON SENIOR STAFF REPORTER Every minute mattered as Bruno entered its weekend games at Columbia and Cornell in an effort to sweep the New York teams and solidify its chances at an Ivy League tournament appearance and an NCAA tournament bid. Going into the weekend, there were only six Ivy League men’s basketball games left in the regular season, making each game crucial. But the Bears split the matchups, beating the Lions and falling to the Big Red, to settle into fourth place in the conference standings.

Brown 72, Columbia 66 During the first three minutes of the first half, both teams struggled to score. Despite rebounds secured and timely passes made, each team started off 0/4 from the field. But soon enough, Brown (13-10, 6-4 Ivy) found an offensive rhythm and made a 6-0 run for an early 7-2 lead.

Possessions ending without payoff, fumbling around with the ball in the paint and deflected passes made for a slow game pace. Play by play, a new sense of aggression re-entered the game and shots started to fall for the Lions (6-20, 1-9) and the Bears.

Just before the eight-minute mark, Perry Cowan ’23 hit a three-pointer to end a 10-0 Columbia run and tie the game. But the Lions’ run extended to 17-3 during the following two min-

utes. Bruno had the scoring opportunities, yet failed to connect on them until Brandon Anderson ’20 went for back-to-back jump-shots in traffic to energize Brown.

With a couple of stops and a few made baskets, Brown shrunk its deficit to 35-30 going into halftime.

Both teams scored within the first 40 seconds of the second half, demonstrating that the Bears and Lions were uninterested in another slow start.

The Bears made a 15-4 run during the opening seven minutes of the half to tie the game at 47.

“We understood what was at stake and knew we were the better team and had to prove it,” said Tamenang Choh ’21. “Columbia did a good job at making it hard but we played and won together as a family.”

The increasing pace of the competition rewarded the players who ran the court. Brown and Columbia scored by filling the lanes and finding the open man. Bruno forced the Lions to turn the ball over and converted the plays into fast-break jump-shots.

But Columbia upped its pace as well to create baskets. Once again, the matchup came down to the last 30 seconds of the game. Bruno pulled out the win 72-66 — the same exact score of the teams’ last encounter at the Pizzitola Sports Center on Feb. 1.

In the final minutes, veteran players “were terrific and have been doing it for us all season,” said Head Coach Mike Martin ’04. “We forced (Columbia) into some tough ones and (I’m) really proud of our team.” Anderson, Choh and Zach Hunsaker ’20 finished with 20, 15 and 17 points, respectively.

“It started with the defense which led to some big offensive possessions

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Tamenang Choh ’21 (above) and the Bears fell to a fourth place conference ranking after topping Columbia and losing to Cornell. Bruno takes on Princeton and Penn this weekend at the Pizzitola Sports Center.

Cornell 63, Brown 45 Right from the jump ball, both teams settled into a groove. Cornell (617, 3-7) picked up Anderson full court out of respect for the Bears’ leading scorer, and Brown found openings to add points to the scoreboard.

By the midway point of the half, a new sense of urgency and energy entered the game thanks to Big Red steals. The Big Red led 24-12 with less than seven minutes to go in the first

half, with Bruno staying within striking distance by picking up its defensive intensity with a full court press of its own and better ball security.

Still, the Bears, who underperformed throughout the game, struggled to stop Cornell from scoring despite putting their own points on the board. The Big Reds’ runs were short-lived but frequent and allowed the team to remain in the driver’s seat for the majority of the first half.

During the last four minutes, Bruno unsuccessfully fought to regain the lead and went into the locker room down 34-25.

Cornell spent the opening five minutes of the second half creating a 7-2 run and further deflating Brown. It made layups in transition off of steals and made the Bears scramble to piece

together plays.

With six minutes to go in the competition, Cornell was comfortably ahead by 20 points and kept control of game play to beat Brown for a final score of 63-45.

By the end of the game, Bruno had shot 26 percent from the field to Cornell’s 51. Anderson finished the night with seven points, Hunsaker with nine and Choh with 13 for an uninspiring team box score.

“We had a tough scoring night and the energy wasn’t there,” Hunsaker said. “We let (Cornell) dictate the pace of the game (when) we didn’t respect them enough and weren’t locked in on defense.”

The Bears hope to regroup for wins against Princeton and Penn Friday and Saturday at the Pizzitola Center.

to the best of their abilities.” Behn has denied all allegations, including making comments about players’ weights

Body Weight During her first and only year on the basketball team, Maxine Offiaeli ’18 said she was told by Coach Behn that she needed to lose 30 to 40 pounds in

member of the team, “was never witness to body shaming,” she wrote in an email to The Herald. Sophie Bikofsky ’15, a former captain and a member of the University’s Advisory Council on

worked hard to bring positive energy and to use positive language around our players every single day.”

Mullin said that she does not recall Behn using vulgar language toward

to our potential.”

University Response Three former players, including ElGammal and Abby O’Keefe ’21, said they have each separately reported

and singling out players with vulgar language, in her statement to The Herald.

The band “wholeheartedly (supports) the female athletes on the women’s basketball team,” Rogan said. “Our priority is supporting them, but we did not feel like we could do that in the most productive way by continuing to attend their games.”

In early February, various posts on Dear Blueno — a student-run Facebook page that solicits and posts anonymous submissions — referenced concerns surrounding Behn’s leadership and catalyzed discussion on campus.

“We can’t say that things online didn’t influence our decision,” said Gagnon, who stressed that the band “also received concerns from (band) members.”

Seven former players on the women’s basketball team have alleged that Behn repeatedly made remarks about players’ weights, used language that they described as vulgar and singled out players for criticism.

The seven former players said that they left the team in part because of Behn’s actions as head coach.

But not all players share those criticisms; two current players and two other alums wrote statements to The Herald in support of Behn.

The Herald spoke with players last year, but Herald leadership decided additional reporting was necessary before publication.

one season, or else she would no longer be able to play for the team.

Offiaeli left the squad the summer after receiving that comment, she told The Herald. “The environment that was being created by (Behn) ... I didn’t think (it) was very healthy,” Offiaeli said. “It was a very negative experience for me.”

The band’s decision “shows solidarity with people who were (on the women’s basketball team) and had to go through what they went through — I think it (is) really powerful,” Offiaeli said.

“In my opinion, I have never made a player feel bad about her appearance or body type,” Behn wrote in a statement to The Herald. “My assistant coaches and I have always used the word ‘fitness’ to describe goals and motivate all our athletes to train to achieve their best level of fitness so they can compete better.”

Lames ElGammal ’20 and a class of 2017 alum, who requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions, said they witnessed Behn making separate comments about weight, warning players in front of their teammates that unless they lost weight, they would not have the opportunity to play.

Behn would tell players “‘You need to lose some weight and then you’ll be faster,’” ElGammal said. “Other coaches really related (performance) to conditioning rather than weight.”

But Maddie Mullin ’22, a current

Athletics, agreed, writing that “at no point did Coach Behn ever make any direct references to me or any of my teammates regarding weight.”

Language and Criticism The 2017 graduate and two other players who graduated the same year and requested anonymity out of fear of professional repercussions said Behn would often yell at individual players and the team during practice, using language that they described as vulgar.

According to the three former players, Behn often called her players “pussies” and “shitheads” after they would make mistakes in practice.

She also blamed individual players for mistakes and losses and used the opportunity to discipline individual players and tell them “you suck” in front of the team, two of the former players said.

“The ways she would go about making people feel like shit was definitely a violation of basic respect,” said one alum who requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions. “Once we got into (Ivy League competition), we just got our ass kicked, game after game after game. … She always turned on us, screaming at us all the time.”

Behn denied this characterization.

“I have never and would never single out a player by using profanities at her or blame an individual for team results,” Behn wrote. “I have

players.

Bikofsky wrote that while Behn would at times use “colorful language” in moments of frustration, it was not used to demean players. “(Behn) is a passionate and dedicated coach, which led to some warranted outbursts when we didn’t play up to our potential,” wrote Erika Steeves ’19, a former captain of the team, in a statement to The Herald. “I’m not going to lie and say that I was never upset at practice, but that comes with college athletics and it was not because my coach was disrespectful.”

Some players said Behn also encouraged players to criticize each other.

In the fall of 2018, Behn had the team engage in a “call-out” meeting in which the players were asked to call each other out on issues regarding team dynamics and time management, according to ElGammal and a player who left the team later that season and requested anonymity out of fear for personal repercussions. ElGammal described the meeting as “horrifying” to her. Both former players said teammates cried, and one individual quit the team during the meeting.

“I called that meeting because our team was not performing up to our abilities,” Behn wrote. “In that specific meeting my four assistant coaches and I asked for honest feedback from our players in an effort to learn players’ feelings and help us support them better and come together as a team to play

Behn’s behavior to the University through conversations with Carolan Norris, the senior associate director of athletics for student-athlete services — conversations which in their view did not result in changes to the program or team environment.

In an email to The Herald, Norris wrote that she “will not be able to share my conversations or identify the student-athletes due to privacy concerns.”

One player’s parent, who requested anonymity out of fear of personal and professional repercussions against his daughter, said he submitted multiple complaints against Behn to Director of Athletics Jack Hayes over the past five years.

In an email that The Herald reviewed, the same parent contacted Hayes about Behn in August 2018.

Hayes never responded to the email, according to the parent.

“When concerns are brought to our attention, we take them seriously, review them in detail and take appropriate actions as deemed necessary,” Hayes said. “Not reporting details back to students or parents does not mean Brown Athletics has not addressed a concern, if our review determined that action was necessary.”

In Behn’s six years coaching the team, she has compiled an 20-60 Ivy League record, with a winning percentage of 25.0 in conference matchups.

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down the stretch,” Choh said.

Brown leads the league in offensive rebounding since conference play started. “We’re not always the best offensive team,” Martin said.

“But we can get ourselves some extra possessions by going and getting on the glass.”

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Women’s swimming and diving finishes 5th at Ivies, sets four U. records U. team competes at home in four-day Ivy League Championship meet

BY RYAN HANDEL SPORTS EDITOR The women’s swimming and diving team placed fifth at the 2020 Ivy League Championships, finishing the four-day event with 843 points. Princeton won the meet with 1,569 points, edging second-place Harvard, which finished with 1,462 points. Four Bears set University records in their respective races: Sage Matsushima ’23, Miku Takabayashi ’22, Taylor Seaman ’21 and Sarah Welch ’20.

Seaman highlighted the weekend with three top-three finishes.

Brown hosted the 2020 Ivy League Championships at the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center. “Our pool is really one of the best in (the) Ivy League. … It’s really fun to finally compete in the pool I worked so hard in,” Matsushima said.

Bruno opened the meet Wednesday night with two sixth-place relay finishes. In the 200-yard medley, Seaman, Matsushima, Audrey Lukawski ’22 and Tory Center ’21 swam to a time of 1:40.79. Then Takabayashi, Marley Cross ’20, Amelia Gilchrist ’20 and Audrey Orange ’23 guided the Bears to a time of 7:15.64 in the 800-yard freestyle.

Takabayashi entered the Ivy League Championships holding the University record in the 200-yard individual

CARNEGIE FROM PAGE 1 press release.

In order to be eligible for this distinction, universities must complete a self-evaluation of their community outreach and put together an application over the course of about a year, Mathew Johnson, executive director of the Swearer Center for Public Service, associate dean of the College for Engaged Scholarship and director of the Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification, wrote in an email to The Herald. Applying institutions must demonstrate that community engagement is ingrained in their strategic plans, Johnson said. The University had to show that community engagement was present “in the way we think about finance, in the way we think about the curriculum,” he added. “It really is a campus-wide application.”

Johnson and Deputy Provost of Global Engagement and Strategic Initiatives Shankar Prasad chaired the committee tasked with completing the application and submitted it in April 2019.

Johnson recused himself from Carnegie’s selection process due to the conflict of interest between his roles at the University and the Carnegie Foundation. Swearer Center Assistant Director of Research and Assessment Georgina Manok MPA’16 also abstained from the process because of conflicting roles at both institutions.

The review panel that decides the classification comprises “experts from the field of community engagement,” Johnson wrote. “Some experts are scholars of higher education, some (are) scholars of the pedagogy of engagement, some are practitioners and administrators in higher education engagement

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Sage Matsushima ’23, Miku Takabayashi ’22, Taylor Seaman ’21 and Sarah Welch ’20 all finished in the top three of their respective races while setting school records at the 2020 Ivy League Championships. Seaman ends weekend with multiple top-three finishes. medley, and broke her own mark twice Thursday. She first broke her record in the morning’s preliminary races, then shattered it again in the evening’s final with a time of 2:00.53 to finish sixth overall in the event.

Seaman provided Brown with its highest-placing individual performance Thursday, finishing third in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of just 22.51 seconds. To conclude the meet’s second day, Seaman, Center, Cross and Matsushima took fourth place in the 200-yard freestyle. Harvard held a slim two-point lead over Princeton after day two, while Bruno moved to fifth in the standings.

Emma Whall ’22 was the Bears’ first Friday finalist, taking seventh in the 400-yard individual medley. Matsushima then broke the University record in

and some represent higher education association or national nonprofit partners,” he added.

The chief benefit of receiving the designation is the “self-study process” that took place while applying, Johnson said. Learning about the various forms of community engagement on campus “was an exercise showing that not everything happens through the Swearer Center, that there are lots of nodes of engagement all throughout the University,” he added.

An example of community outreach ingrained in a program outside the Swearer Center is the partnership between the master of education program and local Providence schools. Students in this program begin their teaching experience at Brown Summer High School, which educates “many students from the local community, especially our urban partner schools” like Hope High School, said Diane Silva Pimentel ’93, director of the Teacher Preparation Program and associate professor of the practice for science education.

As part of the newly redesigned master of education program, students then work as student teachers in one of four Providence partner schools every day for an entire semester, allowing them to “become part of the community right from the beginning.”

“Part of our commitment to the local districts has been trying to also get students to come to our program who want to stay and teach in (Providence) schools,” Pimentel said. The program also focuses on working with English language learners and students with special needs.

The Swearer Center also offers Engaged Scholars programs that combine

the 100-yard butterfly, finishing third in the event with a time of 53.22 seconds.

Matsushima’s time was under the NCAA B-Cut, making her eligible for selection for the NCAA Championships.

Matsushima credited “the training that (Head Coach Kate Kovenock) gave me” for her success as a rookie.

“I couldn’t have done it without the team,” she added.

Seaman broke Brown’s second school record of the night Friday, taking second in the 100-yard backstroke in 53.82 seconds, also under the NCAA B-Cut time. Brown held firm in fifth place after day three, while Princeton surpassed Harvard for the lead.

Welch set the Bears’ final school record of the weekend, breaking the University 200-yard backstroke record

twice Saturday. She finished fourth in the final with a time of 1:56.95.

Breaking a University record in what was potentially the final meet of her swimming career “felt really special because of the people I was surrounded by,” Welch said. “Being able to look to the sidelines and see everyone cheering, and (knowing) that I could count on them, was what drove me to break that record.”

Seaman came within hundredths of a second of breaking another school mark, coming up 0.01 seconds short of tying the 100-yard freestyle record while taking second in the final.

To close out the four-day championship meet, Nell Chidley ’23 notched a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly. Center, Cross, Orange and

Seaman combined for fifth in the final event — the 400-yard freestyle relay.

Brown held on to fifth place in the meet, while Princeton knocked off defending champion Harvard for the Ivy League title.

Despite dropping to fifth place at the Ivy League Championships after finishing fourth in 2019, multiple swimmers emphasized that they were not disappointed by the results. Kovenock “tries to get our minds off of that a lot of the time. We just try to do our best, we don’t care very much about the points … we just see how much better everyone gets,” Takabayashi said.

Next, Bruno will await the announcement of which of its swimmers and divers qualify for the upcoming NCAA Championships.

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The Carnegie Center for the Advancement of Teaching recognized the community outreach efforts of the Swearer Center, including HOPE, a program that fights homelessness in Providence. coursework with community outreach.

One such course is ANTH 1301: “Anthropology of Homelessness,” taught

by Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology Irene Glasser. In addition to weekly classes and assignments, students are expected to spend two hours per week at a homeless-serving organization that Glasser has formed a relationship with.

“For those students who want to be engaged in the community, this is an opportunity,” Glasser said.

Another aspect of community engagement at Brown are student organizations such as Housing Op-

portunities for People Everywhere, a program run through the Swearer Center that has become an important homelessness outreach force in the state, according to HOPE Co-Director Michael Gold ’20. HOPE works to end homelessness in Rhode Island through a mix of direct service and advocacy, such as distributing supplies, helping people apply for affordable housing and pushing for legislative reform, Gold said.

HOPE believes in a “balance of recognizing that we don’t have the answers to these problems, but we are a part of

(the) problem,” Gold said. “Institutions of higher learning should recognize that they are not just in their bubble and have an opportunity to assist the community (in accordance with) the community’s own wishes.”

Receiving this designation also benefits the University because its “history has not always been the best with the (external) community,” Johnson said.

While there is no direct reward that comes from achieving this designation, its prestige can be used as a “marker of quality” to help the University procure outside funding.

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RESEARCH FROM PAGE 1 that are not shared with others. With those added responsibilities come added expectations that are real challenges.

The same is true of women in science.”

Campbell specifically referenced George Washington Carver and Ernest Everett Just as Black scientists who inspired him, but both were from before his time. “The availability of the list of 100 says that today’s young Black scientists can find inspiration in individuals who are their generational contemporaries; They can pick up the phone, send an e-mail and communicate with the people who inspire them.”

Campbell encouraged students to reach out to the featured researchers and others whose work they look up to.

“I personally know a lot of the people… on the list and know that they would be thrilled to hear from students and definitely would be receptive,” Campbell said.

Stephon Alexander: Expanding on Einstein Another University researcher featured as a well-established investigator is Stephon Alexander PhD’00, professor of physics and affiliated faculty of Africana studies. As a theoretical physicist, Alexander tries to understand what happened to the universe before

the Big Bang. Alexander and his team use techniques like machine learning to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy — both complex, invisible entities.

In a recently published paper with collaborators in Italy, Alexander provided a theory that modified Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity in a step toward understanding dark energy. Alexander’s paper was published in the Physical Review, a top physics journal in which Einstein himself published his theory in 1935.

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity guides patterns in our everyday lives. For example, the theory is used in GPS. “What Einstein’s theory fails to explain is dark energy in the universe,” so the researchers modified the equations that comprise the theory in order to better understand dark energy, Alexander added.

Alexander has also applied his expertise in physics and music in teaching the course PHYS 0150: “The Jazz of Modern Physics.” He believes that science comes from the same place as artistic and musical creativity.

Despite his success in the field, when Alexander was a postdoctoral researcher, he did not feel accepted by some of his peers. “There was a time … nobody wanted to talk to me …

People assumed I got in (to the insti-

tution) because of affirmative action.

I was really broken by that, but I had to move on.” But since Alexander was “passionate about and understood the world through the lens of physics, … (his) curiosity overcame messages from society that people like (himself) can’t do physics as well.”

“It is nice to be recognized,” Alexander said, referring to CrossTalk’s list, but he added that “the real recognition though is (achieving) my dreams to solve a major problem in physics, and I’m not there yet.”

Alexander advises other scientists of color to follow their passions, take control over their education and seek out mentors. “We should have a sense of perspective that there are many that came before that didn’t have this opportunity. We should never take that for granted.”

Arif Hamid: Investigating Decision Making Arif Hamid, a postdoctoral fellow and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna Gray Fellow, was labeled as one of 25 rising stars.

Hamid’s research is focused on the neural basis of decision-making and its clinical consequences and computer science application. He studies decision-making in the brain on many time scales. Larger time scales include lifelong goals while smaller ones in-

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clude quicker decisions, like choosing to reach for a pen. Hamid is specifically interested in how these time scales are connected and which brain areas facilitate this process. Dopamine, a chemical messenger in the brain, is a factor partly responsible for this connection. An excess of dopamine in a specific region of the brain can have clinical effects, such as addiction and schizophrenia.

In a recent project, Hamid measured regions of the brain with large amounts of dopamine and examined the effects that this had on decision-making on the different time scales. His work led him to the discovery that dopamine activity, which is determined from the activation of the brain regions, happens in wave patterns, or dopamine waves.

His next goal is to further study what the wave patterns entail in regards to the behavior and operation of neural circuits.

As a Howard Hughes Medical Fellow, Hamid works with other fellows and scientists to facilitate trainings and networking opportunities with senior scientists. In the potentially unstructured postdoctoral process, “mentorship becomes (especially) important.

Making sure you succeed is not trivial,” he said.

Hamid considers himself lucky because of the support he has received from his mentors. “Part of your success

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2020 is feeling like you belong and your opinions matter and that you are a valuable part of the community … Getting advice on how to succeed can become difficult if you are already feeling isolated.”

“I feel very humbled” to be featured on the list, Hamid added. “I am in the category of rising star, so hopefully I can live up to that.”

Hamid had interacted with some of the other scientists on the list through the Hughes fellowship and said, “You kind of see yourself in them and recognize that you can also pursue what you want, and I think that is a really powerful message to have.”

To spread the word about the distinction, the list’s organizers reached out to scientist Twitter influencers with large platforms, asking them to retweet the list. “We’re hoping to spread the award … showing (minority scientists) that they are not the only ones in science that look like them,” Hinton said.

With the media attention following this list, CellPress has agreed to create a European Black History Month post in October and an equivalent list of scientists for Hispanic Heritage Month, he added.

“Having diversity in STEM is a blessing that should not be looked at as cumbersome,” Hinton said. “Everyone should be an advocate for diversity.”

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Limiting health care for transgender youth is misguided and dangerous

BY REBECCA AMAN ’20 STAFF COLUMNIST

Several state legislatures are considering bills that would restrict medical treatment for transgender youth by making it illegal for doctors to provide puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and sex-reassignment surgery to minors. Republican lawmakers argue that minors are not mature enough to make such “life-altering” changes. But this argument is based on a flawed understanding of how gender-affirming treatment actually works. Ultimately, these bills are misguided — and have the potential to harm transgender youth.

First, while these bills ban both puberty blockers and HRT for minors, most of the bill’s supporters seem not to understand the difference between the two treatments.

When conservatives attempt to stoke fear by telling stories about transgender children taking “hormones” at 12 or 13 years old, they are often talking about puberty blockers — a safe and reversible treatment. The earliest medical treatment available to transgender youth is a prescription medication; known as puberty blockers, these drugs simply delay puberty and are completely reversible. If someone taking puberty blockers realizes that they do not want to transition after all, they can stop taking the blockers and will undergo natal puberty. While there are some risks associated with puberty blockers, such as potential impacts on bone density, it is the responsibility of doctors, patients and their parents to weigh the risks of any medical treatment — not that of lawmakers. Almost all medical treatments, including those given to minors,

are associated with risks. For example, doctors regularly prescribe isotretinoin to teenagers to treat acne, though this medication can cause side effects including joint pain, low bone density and potentially seizures, and we don’t see lawmakers proposing to ban it. Furthermore, these laws do not prevent doctors from prescribing puberty blockers for other medi-

often recommend that transgender youth not stay on puberty blockers for more than a few years, so at age 16, they can choose to switch from taking puberty blockers to HRT. Transgender youth who take HRT must do so under the supervision of a doctor, and almost always with the consent of their parents. While 16-year-olds are legally minors, this does

“Gender-affirming health care is often quite literally life-saving.”

cally approved purposes; for example, puberty blockers have been used for more than three decades to treat precocious (early) puberty.

Moreover, many people who support these bills seemingly do not understand how puberty works. One of the most common arguments I’ve heard is “why don’t kids just wait to start HRT until they are 18?” But by the time someone is 18, they will have already gone through most of natal puberty, which has lasting impacts. While puberty blockers are completely reversible, natal puberty is not. By denying minors puberty blockers, lawmakers would effectively force transgender children to go through a puberty that does not align with their gender identity.

It is true that while puberty blockers are completely reversible, the impacts of HRT can be permanent. The potential of long-term use to impact bone density means that doctors

not mean they are not old enough to make life-changing decisions. For example, in my home state of Georgia — where a state lawmaker has advocated for a similar bill — teenagers can legally drop out of high school at age 16. At age 17, teenagers are automatically charged as adults in Georgia’s criminal justice system. In many states, 16-year-olds get behind the wheel every day— and decide whether to drive safely or engage in risky behaviors like texting and driving. While the decision to begin HRT is not one to take lightly, it is one 16 and 17-year-olds are capable of making responsibly.

Finally, these laws would ban gender reassignment surgery for minors. But such surgery for minors is rare. The only surgery that is even an option for minors is a mastectomy for female-to-male patients, and the minor typically must have taken HRT for at least a year,

meaning they’d be at least 17 years old. At the end of the day, this provision appears to be a solution in search of a problem.

Laws restricting health care for transgender youth are clearly based on faulty logic.

But these laws aren’t just misguided: If they go into effect, they will endanger transgender teenagers across the country by denying them appropriate health care. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommended in 2018 that young people have “access to comprehensive gender-affirming and developmentally appropriate health care.” Transgender teens often face mental health issues, including gender dysphoria, which can be exacerbated by going through the “wrong” puberty. Transgender teens have high rates of suicide and suicidal thoughts — thus, gender-affirming health care is often quite literally life-saving. In fact, a recent study linked receiving puberty blockers to lower odds of suicidal thoughts. Being denied access to this care can have severe consequences: According to the same study, nine out of 10 transgender adults “who had wanted but were denied pubertal suppression reported having suicidal ideation during their lifetime.”

So please: If you live in South Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia, South Carolina or Florida, contact your state representatives and governor to tell them that at the end of the day, bills preventing transgender youth from receiving appropriate health care are both misguided and dangerous.

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Letter: Defending Kanders donations is self-righteous, misses point To the editor: I was disappointed to read the letter to the editor, “If the Sacklers must go, so too must Kanders,”

by Abdullah Shihipar MPH’20 in the Jan. 27 issue of The Herald. It represents yet another example of self-righteous virtue-signaling by a Brown student.

In the first place, to characterize Andrew Reed’s ’21 op-ed as a “defense” of Warren Kanders ’79 P’23 misses his point a great deal.

Mr. Reed engages in an informed and intelligent debate about the ethics of the use of tear gas and acknowledges the multi-faceted nature of the subject. In doing so, he makes full use of the privilege of the academic and pastoral environment afforded by the University he has chosen to attend. This environment is what Mr. Reed is defending, not Mr. Kanders himself nor the debate around his business activities.

Mr. Shihipar has also chosen to participate in that environment. Nevertheless he seems to want to join the ranks of those who would seek to enforce their own perspective over those held by others.

Worse still, by criticizing Mr. Kanders in this way, Mr. Shihipar chooses to endorse the sentiments of the so-called activists of “Decolonize This Place” who have very publicly been one of Mr. Kanders’ main detractors. It was DTP’s rallying call to “Fuck the Police” that has been accused of contributing to the indefensible attempted assassination of two Bronx police officers two weeks ago in the wake of their most recent protest “J31.”

Last year, President Christina Paxson P’19 set

out Brown’s gift acceptance policy in a sage and balanced manner, following the burgeoning demands of a prejudiced minority of student activists who saw fit to unilaterally appoint themselves as the moral police of the student body’s conscience.

According to that policy’s principles, Mr. Kanders’ donations more than meet the specified standard, which states that “acceptance of a gift does not imply nor mean that the University endorses or approves of the donor’s views, opinions, businesses or activities.” Mr. Shihipar seems unable to grasp that all donations require compromise and invite debate.

Given how certain he is that the University should reject Mr. Kanders’ money, perhaps he can explain whose should be accepted that would not present a moral quandary.

To live in a society that protects everyone’s right to free speech is not a matter of luck, but rather the result of a history of standing up to the overbearing clamor of mob opinion over those of others.

An institution like Brown passionately promotes a fair and open platform for intelligent debate over life and society’s hard choices; the viewpoint Mr. Shihipar expresses in his letter diverges from this ethos. If the University is to rigorously fulfill its mission to educate and prepare “students to discharge the offices of life with usefulness and reputation,” it should insist that their arguments rest on more than a puerile desire to jump aboard any old popular bandwagon that passes by.

Hugh Warrender ’90, Head of International Sales at Renaissance Investment Management

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Melbourne prof talks artistic use of gold HIAA invites Italian, European art historian Anne Dunlop as part of lecture series

BY MINE KOVAVISARACH SENIOR STAFF WRITER On Feb. 20, Anne Dunlop, Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne, started her lecture with a zoomed-in shot of the “Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus,” a wooden altarpiece adorned with gold that depicts Archangel Gabriel kneeling in front of the Virgin Mary with an olive branch in hand. The exemplary piece of Gothic art opened Dunlop’s lecture, titled “Shimmer and Surfeit: Gold from Gothic Italy to Cattelan’s America.”

Dunlop started with an overview of gold as a symbol of status in modern society and discussed people’s obsession with the metal, namely citing how “America” — an 18-karat solid gold toilet sculptured by Maurizio Cattelan — was stolen in September 2019. She then compared gold’s connotation of luxury in modern art to its meaning of purity and divinity in Gothic Italy. Contrary to an anachronistic reading of gold as a sign of decadence in Gothic art, Dunlop argued that Gothic and Renaissance artists viewed it as a perfect, heavenly material because of its strong, malleable and stable properties.

An art historian specialized in the Early Modern period, Dunlop’s

current research investigates the historical connections between Italian and Mongol-Eurasian art. Her lecture on gold is part of her “larger project on pigments and trade, and artistic shifts in Italy and Europe as relations change with the rise and fall of empires,” she told The Herald.

She was curious to find if there were any “moments of historical resonance” in the modern uses of the precious metal after she noticed how ubiquitous it was in Gothic art.

The research “was not hard initially,” she said, adding that “what was harder was to think about how to bring those things into dialogue.”

Dunlop’s research has also prompted her to think of “the longer costs” of gold mining that made these Gothic pieces possible, and how gold mining continues today as an environmentally damaging industry.

Audience member Sabrina Chwalek ’23 was surprised by the complexity of gold in Dunlop’s presentation. “I didn’t expect something so simple to have had such a vast evolution of meaning,” she said. “It was really interesting to see the parallels between the modern and contemporary uses of gold.”

Dunlop’s talk is the fourth in the History of Art and Architecture department’s “On Speculation” series, an initiative to help students realize what art historians do, said Evelyn Lincoln, department chair of HIAA. The series invites “six scholars who imagine visionary new approaches to the study of the past and writing about historical and contemporary art

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objects and architectures,” according to a department press release. Art historians Chika Okeke-Agulu and Wei-Cheng Lin will come to campus in March and April, respectively, to close the year-long lecture series.

Lincoln said that “people from all over” different departments have been coming to the lectures. “Each of these talks (taps) into different constituencies,” she added, drawing in “different constellations of people.”

“Speculation involves all kinds of ways of looking, valuing, thinking,” Lincoln said. “We brought together people doing all these different things … (people who) are going outside of their own comfort zones and outside of the places we were trained to think about.”

The Presidential Faculty Award Lecture

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Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies

Shahzad Bashir Dwelling in a World of Poetry