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SPORTS

SCIENCE & RESEARCH

Men’s basketball bests Columbia, Cornell

Coronavirus prompts U. travel advisory to China China designated restricted destination in accordance with CDC regulations

BY RAHMA IBRAHIM SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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The Bears grabbed their first two wins in the Ivy League competition, increasing their chances of qualifying for the postseason. They won against Cornell 74-63 Friday and beat Columbia Saturday 72-66.

Bears improve to 2-2 with first wins in Ivy League, move to fifth place in conference

BY RANDI RICHARDSON SENIOR STAFF WRITER The men’s basketball team entered the weekend knowing the reality of its situation — the Bears risked dropping to 0-4 in league play with two losses,

which would make an Ivy League tournament appearance that much harder.

But instead, they added two to the win column in a quest to join the top four teams in the conference and qualify for the postseason.

The Bears made it known with the first play of the game against Cornell that they were determined to snatch a victory: The Big Red won the tip, but Brown stole it for a fast-break play. Cornell slowed down Brown’s offense, but the Bears made a three as the shot clock expired. That set the tone for Friday’s

UNIVERSITY NEWS

Three U. Alums awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 spot Hip-hop education, hard seltzer and journalism garner Forbes’ attention

BY BEN BALINT-KURTI SENIOR STAFF WRITER Three recent Brown alums were included in the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Hip-hop educational platform creator and CEO Austin Martin ’17, health-conscious hard seltzer company co-founder and CEO Nico Enriquez ’16 and multimedia journalist Emily Kassie ’14 were all honored for their entrepreneurial work in their respective fields.

Martin, Enriquez and Kassie all said that Brown influenced their careers in various ways, from the mentorship of University faculty to the help and inspiration of their peers. “We were encouraged to create our own path and I think that was essential in my development,” Kassie said. All three

alumni expressed gratitude for being honored by Forbes, while maintaining a focus on not remaining satisfied and continuing their work.

Learning reading through rap Martin, founder of the online educational platform Rhymes with Reason, seeks to help underrepresented and underperforming students learn reading through his service, which pairs the lyrics of popular rap songs with reading comprehension questions. The 24-year-old got the idea for the platform when he found that 67 of the top 100 SAT words appear in well-known hip-hop songs. Rhymes with Reason is currently used by about 100 schools so far. Martin’s company also partnered with Chance the Rapper’s charity SocialWorks to give out 1,000 tickets to local Chicago students so that they could attend one of the rapper’s concerts.

Martin started creating his company during his first year at Brown as part

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game and foreshadowed Bruno’s 40 percent three-point shooting to close the first half.

Bruno went on to win the game 7463 and beat Columbia Saturday 72-66 for its first two wins in league play.

Brown 74, Cornell 63 Both teams quickly settled in and showcased smooth play execution.

The Bears got looks beyond the arc and inside the paint, resulting in 52

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In light of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak, the University responded by advising students and faculty on travel and health precautions, preparing University health care providers to address the virus and reassuring the community.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the 2019 Novel Coronavirus is a virus “identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.” The family of coronaviruses includes SARS, MERS and the common cold. The spherically shaped coronaviruses are so named for the “crown-like spikes on their surface.”

“For confirmed 2019-nCoV infections, reported illnesses have ranged from people with little to no symptoms to people being severely ill and dying. Symptoms can include: fever, cough (and) shortness of breath,” according to the CDC website. The CDC

currently believes people may start to notice symptoms within two to 14 days following exposure.

“The immediate health risk from 2019-nCoV to individuals and communities in Rhode Island — including Brown University — remains low,” wrote Russell Carey, executive vice president of planning and policy and chair of the University’s Core Crisis Team, in an email sent to the University community Feb. 1.

University health providers prepare Currently, according to the CDC website, criteria for undergoing medical evaluation has been updated. People with a fever who exhibit respiratory symptoms, like shortness of breath and coughs, within 14 days after having traveled to mainland China and sought hospitalization — or who traveled to the Hubei Province — should undergo a medical evaluation. The same standard applies to people who have been in contact with a person with the Coronavirus and who simultaneously have either a fever or aforementioned respiratory symptoms.

In a priority notice in Today@ Brown from Health Services Jan. 24,

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METRO

Activists protest Chase’s ties to fossil fuels Protesters demand JPMorgan Chase divest from fossil fuels, urge account closures

BY BEN GLICKMAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER Protesters waved colorful signs — painted with messages like “protect the lungs of the planet” and “defund fossil fuels” — outside Chase Bank’s Thayer Street location Friday. The sound of chants and songs filled the air as mid-day traffic slowed, some drivers honking and waving their hands in support. One protester brought a guitar.

Activists with Climate Action Rhode Island were calling for Chase to cut its fossil fuel industry investments.

The gathering of about 35 people was the latest in a series of nation-wide protests called Stop the Money Pipeline, which aim to disrupt the financing of the fossil fuel industry.

The protestors demanded that Chase fully divest from fossil fuels and, in the meantime, asked that customers close

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Roughly 35 demonstrators gathered in front of Chase Bank on Thayer for the latest in a series of nationwide Stop the Money Pipeline protests. their accounts with the bank.

Between 2016 and 2018, JPMorgan Chase invested nearly $196 billion in the fossil fuel industry — more than

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ADVISORY FROM PAGE 1 students and faculty meeting these criteria were advised to “seek evaluation at Health Services” and “consult with their local primary care provider,” respectively. But as of Jan. 30, Health Services had not received instructions requiring them to clear students potentially returning from Wuhan for the spring semester.

“Students from all over have come in with the fear (that) they could have the Coronavirus,” said Clinical Director of Health Services Adam Pallant.

Following winter break “is when we see an influx of respiratory illnesses.

We don’t feel like there is much of a difference in the severity or acuity of what we are seeing.”

“There is nobody on campus that is either known to have the Coronavirus, nor do we suspect (it),” Pallant said.The flu is currently the strongest potential threat on campus.

Nevertheless, Health Services has

been “walking through scenarios” to prepare Brown Emergency Medical Services to address cases in students if they were to exhibit symptoms after Health Services’ operative hours, said Assistant Clinical Director of Health Services Tanya Sullivan. EMS has also developed a Coronavirus checklist and is following CDC guidelines.

The Rhode Island Department of Health has been collaborating with Health Services as well, Sullivan added. “We have done a lot of theoretical planning.”

“We are paying close attention.

Our protocol mirrors the CDC’s recommendations word for word,” Pallant said.

This is not the first time the University has had to prepare for a potential public health incidence. Within the past ten years, Health Services has developed responses for diseases like Ebola and SARS. “We are not reinventing the wheel from scratch,” Pallant said.

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University officials said risk level for Coronavirus remains low in Rhode Island and has imposed travel restrictions for students.

University professor elaborates on Coronavirus on an international scale Looking beyond this campus, Coronavirus is having a global impact.

Katherine Mason, assistant professor of anthropology, spent a year working with public health professionals in southeastern China. Mason was teaching in China in 2003 when the SARS virus broke out near her program site. She was quickly evacuated.

Mao Zedong, the communist leader of the People’s Republic of China for nearly 30 years, had placed a focus on vaccines, sanitation and public health.

But SARS, which was eventually contained after several months, revealed weaknesses in China’s public health system, so there was a huge amount of pressure on China to invest in public health, Mason said.

Following the SARS outbreak, there was “globally a big movement … to work on pandemic preparedness,” Mason said. The World Health Organization developed a system that required reporting public health emergencies of international concern.

“Everyone is always worried about a 1918 flu repeat that killed tens of millions of people. That is always the worry with respiratory viruses,” Mason said.

With this new outbreak, the Chinese government is trying to show that they are doing everything they can.

The government is putting a group of people about 15 percent the size of the U.S. population under quarantine, Mason said. “It is interesting because the measures being taken in China are very extreme but predictable because of all the pressure to make SARS not happen again.”

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International travel guidelines implemented on campus As a result of the outbreak in Wuhan, the University has taken additional steps in terms of international travel.

Director of International Travel Risk Management Christine Sprovieri oversees all of the University’s international travel for University sponsored for-credit and no-credit programs. As part of the team at the Office of Global Engagement, her tasks include coordinating predeparture preparations for University members traveling abroad.

The University classifies heightened risk travel into one of two categories — High-Risk and Restricted Risk travel — using input from “reputable oversight agencies,” including the U.S. Department of State and the CDC, according to the Office of International Programs’ website. In the case of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, the CDC established an advisory Level 3 “Avoid Nonessential Travel” and the DOS has since instituted a Level 4 “Do Not Travel” advisory. These are the highest advisory levels possible.

The advisory Level 3 “declaration restricted China as a destination for students.” Faculty may still travel abroad to China but should keep the CDC’s advisory in mind, Sprovieri said on Jan. 29. “It’s still too early to tell” when students will be able to travel abroad to China for University sponsored programs, Sprovieri said. “If the CDC reevaluates and moves it to a Level 2 or 1, we would do a risk mitigation but wouldn’t restrict travel.”

The University is currently working with students who had intended to study abroad in China to reenroll at the University or find other study abroad

locations, she said.

The Office of International Programs successfully found alternatives for the small number of impacted students who planned to study in China this semester, according to the Coronavirus FAQ page.

Counseling support available to U. community “It is important to recognize the (emotional) impact the Coronavirus has on students with any connections in China … We are here as providers to support students,” Sullivan said.

“We want to make sure students who are concerned or with symptoms feel comfortable and welcome coming to us and that their confidentiality will be conserved.”

Similarly, in the email to the University community Saturday, Carey reminded students and faculty seeking resources and support that they could consult Counseling and Psychological Services, the Faculty/Staff Assistance Program and the University chaplains.

To stay prepared, Health Services advises contacting Health Services if symptoms arise, getting the flu shot; practicing proper hygiene, such as frequent handwashing; and keeping up-to-date on the signs, symptoms and current state of the Coronavirus. Health Services is currently managing and updating a Coronavirus FAQ page that is “keeping up with local and national guidelines,” Sullivan said.

“Let the scientists do their work and calm down. Panic won’t help anything,” Mason said.

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FORBES FROM PAGE 1 of the Swearer Center’s Social Innovation Fellowship. After becoming interested in social entrepreneurship during his first year, he built Rhyme with Reason’s digital platform from the ground up with little development expertise. He often solicited the help of other Brown students who were more adept at coding than he was. Martin also sought feedback and advice from schoolteachers in the field in Providence and other areas.

“Being within proximity to other people with skill sets I didn’t have at Brown was a huge part of how I was able to make this happen,” Martin reflected.

Growing up, Martin said he was not a very serious academic student.

Until high school, he had confidence issues which held him back academically. But, Martin had a passion for hip-hop. “I studied hip-hop music how I probably should have been studying school,” he said. Martin’s interest in the genre was partially motivated by how “people who looked like me ... could use language in such a genius capacity,” Martin said. Now, one of Rhymes with Reason’s central goals is addressing low confidence as a fundamental issue holding many kids back in academics. The company looks “to build confidence within students by highlighting the brilliance in what they already know,” according to Rhyme

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“Confidence-building is really the engine behind everything ... Students can transform their lives,” Martin said.

From beach to brewery Enriquez, the 26-year-old CEO of the hard seltzer company Willie’s Superbrew, prioritizes brewing drinks with natural ingredients and responsibly labeling nutrition facts. After beginning in summer 2015, Willie’s Superbrew is now sold in hundreds of stores across the Northeast.

“We want to be the largest craft beer seller in the Northeast in the next three years, while maintaining a good culture, ” Enriquez said.

Enriquez was 12 years old when he first met the eponymous Willie playing beach volleyball in Cape Cod. Willie was brewing ginger-lemon kombucha in his kitchen, and “for years I was like, ‘this is insane, we should sell this!’” Enriquez said. But time passed, and Enriquez spent his teenage years cultivating a new interest in synthetic biology.

After becoming a cognitive neuroscience concentrator at Brown, Enriquez was set to begin his junior year in a research position at the University, but had a “crisis,” he said. “I loved neuroscience … (but) I still realized the lab life wasn’t for me.” Enriquez eventually reconnected with Willie about the potential of producing ginger beer for sale, then spent summer 2015 selling

the drink at local farmers’ markets and a few stores in Cape Cod. Enriquez then partnered with Max Easton ’16, one of his best friends at Brown, to form a company, and spent his senior year taking most of his classes S/NC to focus on growing Willie’s Superbrew. A subsequent spell at the highly selective Chobani Incubator connected Willie’s with resources that allowed Enriquez and Easton to refine their product and pivot from brewing ginger beer to brewing hard seltzer.

Documenting injustice At 27, Kassie is director of visual media at the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focused on criminal justice issues in the United States. Her work mainly focuses on documenting corruption and human rights struggles across the world. Her projects include the 2015 Student Academy Award-winning documentary “I Married My Family’s Killer,” which details the stories of Hutu and Tutsi couples who intermarried after the Rwandan genocide; the Highline investigative series “The 21st Century Gold Rush,” which covers how companies have profited from international refugee crises and a New York Times documentary on sexual abuse in U.S. immigration detention.

Kassie began making documentaries when she was only 13, after viewing a documentary about the Rwandan genocide in her middle school social

Austin Martin ’17, Nico Enriquez ’16 and Emily Kassie ’14 were all and included in this years 30 Under 30 list.

BEARS FROM PAGE 1 percent field goal shooting in the first half. When Bruno failed to add to the scoreboard, it was due to missed shots, not because Cornell made flashy defensive plays.

Brown also extended its possessions with up to four offensive rebounds on one play, out-rebounding Cornell 40-30 for the night.

“We wanted to get after the offensive glass and (did) a good job boxing them out,” said Head Coach Mike Martin ’04.

Cornell stayed alive offensively because Brown often left the three-point line open early on in the half. The Big Red knocked down three treys in the first 10 minutes.

The Big Red attempted to slow down Bruno’s offense by occasionally using a three-quarters of the court press. Cornell players outstretched their hands to interfere with Bruno dribbles and shots, but the ball deflected back to Brown, which worked the missteps into a basket.

The referees awarded the Bears for getting into the paint with control, tossing their weight around, and going up strong. With six minutes to go in the half, Cornell had recorded eight fouls, so the Bears easily racked up points from one-and-one free throws.

Cornell put the press back on in hopes of gaining control of the

game. But it left the wings open, where Zach Hunsaker ’20 knocked down two deep threes. Daniel Friday ’23 charged the basket for an open layup and the Bears went on a 12-0 run with three minutes to go in the half to take a 35-30 lead.

Hunsaker finished the game with 20 points on 4-5 three-point shooting. “My teammates found me in some great spots, and that always helps. It felt pretty good tonight,” he said.

The Big Red responded with a run to close the half, but still trailed by five points entering the break.

The opening minutes of the second half continued the same story of the first half: Brown leading the offensive and defensive charge, but Cornell staying within striking distance.

“We dictated more with our defensive intensity, being physical without fouling and turning them over 19 times,” Martin said. “We have to hang our hats on our defense.”

By the midway point of the second half, both teams settled into a groove of driving, working the ball around and finishing in traffic. But Brown’s steals, blocks and fast-break points set it apart from Cornell for the rest of the game.

The clock ran out on Cornell’s comeback attempt and Brown defeated the Big Red 74-63.

Brown 72, Columbia 66 A Bruno three-pointer early in the first half and aggressive play showed that the team intended to keep up the strong pace in an attempt to sweep the weekend. But Columbia, coming off of two conference losses, was desperate to start a win streak of its own.

Columbia made easy back door buckets, and Brown worked for open three pointers as both teams traded baskets back and forth for a score of 12-12 during the first eight minutes.

Brown mirrored its play-making from Friday night, scoring inside and outside. The Lions continued their cuts and back screens for short bank shots.

Both teams went one-and-done on their shot attempts, gathering defensive rebounds to start offense going the other way.

Active defense made for an intense game between the Bears and the Lions.

This energy followed Brown into the locker room with a halftime lead of 36-28 and continued after the break.

Both teams took a physical approach to start the second half: Columbia showed some muscle in the paint, bumping into players and sometimes knocking them down for a no-call and the two points. Brown responded with some physicality of its own, and the referees allowed it. The additional aggression resulted in a two point game, 43-41 Brown, within the first six minutes of the half.

issues class. “I was so moved by the power of that storytelling, and it pushed me to want to understand more about what was going on in the world and this search for justice,” Kassie said. “I felt that film has this power to move people and spur action,” she added.

But Kassie didn’t always know she would become a documentary filmmaker. At Brown she initially focused on international relations and political science. But during her first year, Kassie convinced a playwriting professor who was organizing a student trip to Rwanda to let her come along, before eventually creating her own concentration in “politics, film and journalism.”

After graduating from Brown, Kassie got a job at the Huffington Post.

“I was really lucky in that it was a time of creation,” Kassie said. She got to explore and experiment with multimedia journalism, eventually being promoted to become the founding creative director of Highline, the Post’s investigative magazine. Since then, Kassie has also crafted multimedia stories for news organizations like the New York Times, NBC and the Washington Post.

Kassie was “truly honored” to be included in Forbes’ 30 Under 30.

“But at the end of the day … I’m a behind-the-camera person,” Kassie said. “I’m more interested in lifting the voices of others (over) than my own … (so) back to the grind.”

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From there, it was a tug of war of lead changes. Columbia took a four point lead with five minutes to go in the half. But a Tamenang Choh ’21 free throw, Friday three and Jaylan Gainey ’22 slam dunk gave Brown the advantage with only two and a half minutes left.

“I thought our bread and butter was getting the ball in the paint down the stretch … it was the defensive stops that won the game,” Martin said. “If we want to win in this league, we’re going to have to show (good defense) and we did in that five minute stretch.”

The next play effectively sealed the game for Bruno: Choh took a charge at just over half court to stop a Columbia fast break.

With the win, Brown improved to fifth place in the league standings.

Choh finished with 18 points and five assists, and Brandon Anderson ’20 notched14 points and two assists.

“Going 2-0 (on the weekend) — we’re happy,” Anderson said. “It wasn’t an easy weekend. It was real tough, but we got a good group of guys who are going to play hard. The stops, blocks, steals, deflections — those type of plays are going to carry us throughout the rest of this league play.”

Brown looks to rack up more league wins next weekend. It will head on the road to face Dartmouth Friday and Harvard Saturday.

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CHASE FROM PAGE 1 said, citing a report last year on fossil fuel investments, which was published by a group of environmental organizations including the Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network and BankTrack.

Other major banks have reduced investments in fossil fuels, including HSBC in 2018 and BlackRock last year, Boyan added.

“Sustainability is an important part of serving our communities,” Carolyn Evert, vice president of Northeast regional communications at JPMorgan Chase, wrote in an email to The Herald.

“Also, we recognize the complexity of climate change issues and actively engage with a diverse set of stakeholders to understand their views.”

Evert wrote that JPMorgan Chase is committed to converting to “renewable energy for 100 percent of our global power needs by the end of 2020 and to facilitate $200 billion in clean financing by 2025.”

Kendra Anderson, former president and current chair of fundraising for Climate Action RI, spoke to the protesters and led chants on a megaphone. Anderson is currently running for RI State Senate in District 31.

“The investing that Chase is doing is suicide investing,” she said. “There’s no reason for it to go on any longer.”

Shortly after the protest began, a single-file stream of protestors walked through the crowd outside the branch, and into the building. They held signs in the shape of gravestones, each inscribed with a event caused by climate change — and their corresponding death tolls.

Inside the bank, protesters read their specific natural disaster out loud — ending the statement with “funded by Chase” — and laid down on the floor. Socalled “die-ins” have become a popular form of public protest amongst climate change activists.

Police arrived on-site several minutes later and escorted the protesters out of the building.

Employees of the Chase Bank present at the protest declined to comment.

Some of the protesters outside are regularly involved with Climate Action RI, while others joined in after walking by.

Will Nakshian has been to four other protests with Climate Action.

He said he’s protesting for his two children.

Nakshian had never been an activist and was never involved in politics — but that changed after he read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report in 2018. “When I heard about what could happen to (my children’s) future, I became very concerned,” Nakshian said.

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SPORTS

Men’s hockey shuts out St. Lawrence 2-0, falls to Clarkson 4-1

Goaltender Nieto ’20 records fourth career shutout against Saints Friday night

BY ALEXANDRA RUSSELL SENIOR REPORTER

Following a two-week hiatus from competition, the men’s hockey team earned its first shutout victory of the season against St. Lawrence University on the road Friday. The 2-0 win highlighted a pair of mixed results over the weekend as the Bears fell to No. 6 Clarkson University 4-1 Saturday.

Friday’s sweep marked the fourth career shutout for goaltender Gavin Nieto ’20, who recorded a clean slate of 25 saves to power Bruno to victory. With the win, the Bears clinched the season series against St. Lawrence after besting the Saints at home 3-2 Nov. 23 .

“We had a lot of good individual efforts, which contributed to a solid team effort throughout the weekend,” said captain Zach Giuttari ’20. “Some younger guys showed really promising stuff … and some older guys played well, too, so there was good leadership. I think the team’s really coming together as we’re going into the end of the season.”

Brown 2, St. Lawrence 0 Friday night, Brent Beaudoin ’20 and Michael Maloney ’22 each netted goals in the third period to fuel Bruno (5-160, 5-9-0 ECAC) past the Saints (3-20-4, 1-13-1).

A scoreless first stanza saw Brown pressure the St. Lawrence net with 15 shots. The Bears gained momentum on a power play midway through the frame, but the Saints killed off the penalty to

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Following their New York road trip, the Bears will return to Meehan Auditorium to host conference opponents No. 18 Quinnipiac University and Princeton this weekend. keep the tally even.

Bruno’s defense remained solid throughout the second period, holding St. Lawrence to five shots. Eight minutes into the stanza, Nieto made a key save at the top of the crease, collecting the puck in front of his chest to preserve the score.

The Bears crowded the St. Lawrence net on a 4-on-4 later in the frame, but Saints goaltender Francis Boisvert fended off the attack.

Thirteen minutes into the final period, Beaudoin finished a rebound on the power play to give Bruno the advantage.

Maloney took the initial shot from the point before Giuttari followed up on the rebound, which Boisvert deflected across the crease. Beaudoin found the puck to the right of the net and beat a sliding Boisvert for the score.

Maloney secured the victory for the Bears with a shorthanded empty-net goal in the final minute, as Bruno killed off a 6-on-4 power play to close out the

contest.

“Our specialty teams have been really good this year, and especially this weekend in a tight game like we had at St. Lawrence,” Nieto said. “We knew it might come down to a power-play goal on either side. We were able to find a way to come through and get a big time goal in the third, and we did a great job on the penalty kill late in the game.”

“Over the course of the season, we started out with some very lucrative special teams — they provided us with a lot of offense,” said Trey Dodd ’20.

“Throughout the middle part of the season up to this point, we kind of relied on our penalty kill to provide that defensive spark, so being able to combine both of them now looking forward is really important.”

Brown 1, Clarkson 4 The following day, Colin Burston ’21 scored in the third period, but the Bears

were unable to recover from an early three-goal deficit against the Golden Knights (19-6-2, 12-3-0).

Clarkson opened scoring four minutes into the first stanza as Josh Dunne converted on the power play to give the Knights an early lead. Nieto turned away several shots from Clarkson’s persistent offense midway through the period, but Zach Tsekos widened the advantage in the 18th minute, finishing a centering pass in front of the net.

Though the Bears began to gain offensive momentum and generate more shots on net in the second frame, Dunne broke through and scored his second power-play goal of the evening to extend Clarkson’s lead to three.

Bruno continued to apply pressure in the offensive zone, which culminated in a goal from Burston — his first of the season — seven and a half minutes into the final period. Connor Marshall ’23 sent a centering pass to Burston at the

blue line, where Burston found the puck and fired a shot past Clarkson netminder Frank Marotte from the left circle. Samuli Niinisaari ’23 also recorded an assist on the play.

The teams exchanged blows for the remainder of the period, but Tsekos sealed the win for the Golden Knights with an empty-net goal.

The weekend’s contests follow Bruno’s 3-2 victory over Union College Jan. 18, which snapped a five-game winless streak over the winter break. As the team enters its final month of regular season competition, a key point of emphasis is consistency between shifts, periods and games, Nieto said.

“If we’re going to have success, it’s because we play a consistent 60-minute game that’s high-energy and physical,” Nieto said. “Over the past four games or so, we’ve done a good job of bringing that energy, that jump especially at the start of games.”

With eight contests remaining, the Bears seek to secure home ice advantage for the first round of the playoffs, which is awarded to the fifth- through eighth-seeded teams in the ECAC. Brown is currently tenth in the conference standings, trailing Union and Yale by one and three points respectively.

“Coming down this home stretch our goal is to put ourselves in the position to have home ice advantage in the first round (of the playoffs),” Nieto said. “We need to jump two teams in order to do that, and I think it’s very possible.”

“We have to control what we can control — every game is of ultra importance,” Dodd said. “At this point in the season (we’re) almost looking at it like playoffs start now.”

The Bears return to Meehan Auditorium to host Princeton and No. 18 Quinnipiac University this weekend.

SPORTS

Wrestling falls to Penn, Princeton in EIWA doubleheader

Trey Keeley ’20 knocks off eighth-ranked wrestler in country on Senior Day

BY RYAN HANDEL SPORTS EDITOR The wrestling team dropped both of its dual meets to Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association rivals Penn and Princeton in two tightly contested bouts at the Pizzitola Sports Center this weekend. The matchup against Penn was particularly close: the Bears and Quakers finished tied at 19, with Penn earning the tiebreaker of most individual matches won. Despite the team losses, captain Trey Keeley ’20 and Jimmy Pawelski ’20 performed well on their Senior Days, as Keeley notched the highest-ranked win of his career over Penn’s Michael Colaiocco (ranked No. 6 nationally at 125 lbs) and Pawelski collected an 8-3 upset win against Princeton’s Marshall Keller.

Bruno (1-7, 1-6 EIWA) started slow against Penn (5-4, 4-1) before launching a late comeback attempt. In the opening match, Pawelski (141 lbs) had no answer for the offense of the Quakers’ Doug Zapf (ranked No. 14 nationally), and dropped a 14-5 major decision.

Ricky Cabanillas ’23 (149 lbs) lost a hard-fought 3-2 decision after giving

up a late takedown due to a danger call, putting the Bears in a 7-0 hole. But Jack Bokina ’22 (157 lbs) pulled Brown back into the dual with a dominant 10-1 win, cutting the team’s deficit to three.

The Bears lost two more matches by decision at 165 lbs and 174 lbs, setting Bruno back 13-4. Bryce Rogers ’22 (184 lbs) responded with a pin of Penn’s John Stout in a roll-through tilt to net Brown six crucial team points. Nino Bastianelli ’21 (197 lbs) rallied from a 6-0 deficit to clinch a Bruno win over Binghamton University in the previous week, and looked to pull off similar heroics against

his long-awaited debut in a Bears singlet. The highly-touted rookie, who won three Virginia state titles in high school, had been out of the lineup up until this match with an injury. Despite an impressive show of flexibility, with the heavyweight doing the splits on multiple occasions to avoid being scored on, Mukai lost 7-6 after a late Penn takedown.

“A lot of the guys on the team were waiting to see (Mukai) out there,” said Head Coach Todd Beckerman. “He fought hard, but we still need to work on a couple technique areas for him.”

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After two weeks of training, Bruno will head to Columbia on Feb. 15, hoping to bounce back from an upsetting double loss.

Penn. But after falling behind 10-0 in the first period against the Quakers’ Cole Urbas, Bastianelli could not complete the comeback and fell 13-9.

At 285 lbs, Thomas Mukai ’23 made

Down 19-10, Bruno needed a victory from Keeley (125 lbs) to stay alive for the win. Keeley came out firing against the highly-ranked Colaiocco, earning the match’s first takedown. Then, after

a Colaiocco escape, Keeley whipped the Quaker wrestler to his back to earn two nearfall points and take a 5-1 edge. Colaiocco attempted to mount a comeback of his own, but Keeley weathered the storm to take the 7-6 win.

“I’ve had a few ranked wins in my career, but with that one being on Senior Day and with how high up he was in the rankings, it’s one I was looking forward to,” Keeley said. “The clock’s ticking for me, I can count how many times I’m going to wrestle in a Brown singlet on my hand.”

Charlie Faber ’21 (133 lbs) received a forfeit from Penn, causing the dual to end in a rare 19-19 tie. Because Penn won six individual matches to Brown’s four, it was awarded the 20-19 victory.

“There were a lot of toss-up matches that went (Penn’s) way that we needed to get (in order to) secure that victory,” Beckerman said. “The guys fought hard, but those toss-ups were the difference.”

The Bears rolled right into their next battle against Princeton (4-4, 3-0), and looked to pull off an upset against the Tigers, the No. 20 ranked team in the country. Pawelski rebounded from his earlier loss to defeat his Princeton opponent, utilizing his scrambling ability to pick up the 8-3 win. Cabanillas backed him up with a 7-3 decision. Bokina then racked up his second major decision, earning a 12-3 victory and becoming the only Brown wrestler to go 2-0 on the af-

ternoon. Bokina’s win gave the Bears a commanding 10-0 lead.

“The coaches put me through a real good week of training,” Bokina said. He was expecting to face Penn’s Anthony Artalona (No.13 nationally at 157 lbs) and Princeton’s Quincy Monday (No. 5 nationally), but both ranked foes were out of the lineup, and Bokina defeated each team’s backup. “I was looking forward to wrestling them, it would have been a great opportunity to wrestle some ranked guys, and maybe get some ranked wins. But I just kept the same mindset and tried to wrestle my match,” he said.

Unfortunately for the Bears, Bokina’s win would be their last of the day.

Princeton tied up the dual in just two matches with a pin at 165 lbs and a major decision at 174 lbs. The Tigers then swept the upper weights with three more major decisions Keeley was unable to pick up another victory against a ranked opponent, falling short against Patrick Glory (No. 3 nationally at 125 lbs) in a 10-1 loss. Princeton’s Ty Agaisse finished off the dual with a tight 5-3 win over Faber, giving the Tigers the 29-10 team win.

Bruno gets a two-week break from action before heading on the road to take on conference rival Columbia on Feb. 15. The Bears will complete their trip to New York with duals against Long Island University and Hofstra University the following day.

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CSREA receives Mellon Foundation grant support U. splits $4 million for Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity programs

BY KATHLEEN MEININGER STAFF WRITER The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a $4 million research grant to be split equally between four centers across universities, including the University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. The grant will fund new programs, research and public events at the University relating to issues supporting the center’s mission.

The CSREA will collaborate with centers at the University of Chicago, Yale and Stanford University.

To connect researchers studying social issues related to race and ethnicity, the centers aims to create an interdisciplinary academic community that can approach broad topics, which impact many people, from multiple angles. The “transformative” Mellon grant will allow the center to operate on a larger scale in conjunction with the three other universities, Director of the CSREA Tricia Rose said. This is good news for student and faculty researchers, such as Chair of American Studies, Professor of African and American Studies and CSREA faculty advisor Matthew Guterl, a historian who studies American concepts of “race and nation.”

“The CSREA grant is going to help anyone who needs to work collaboratively, (in order) to develop a manuscript, bring together community scholars to discuss the contributions of (their) work,” Guterl said. He hopes the grant could allow for opportunities for community discussions on relevant research topics.

Assistant Professor of American Studies Kevin Escudero, who research-

es immigration and refugee studies, comparative racial and ethnic studies and social movements, is thrilled about the grant, he wrote in an email to The Herald. In the past, Escudero has organized a speaker series on Critical Migration and Refugee Studies through the CSREA and is currently planning a book launch. “I believe here at Brown the grant will allow the center and its staff to continue developing additional research and teaching opportunities,” he said.

The CSREA also plans to use the grant to develop interdisciplinary humanities labs, where students and faculty would use humanities approaches to tackle pressing, real-world problems, from poverty to immigration policy.

“The humanities lab is supposed to be a new and exciting opportunity to … do more intellectual play,” Rose said. The lab could prove beneficial in rethinking “what we call ‘social problems,’” she said. “We’re hoping that these labs will encourage faculty to be more creative about whatever social problems are interesting to them and to think about human responses.”

Beyond research funding, the grant will also allow the CSREA to host more public events and interact with the larger Providence community. In the past, the center has developed a lecture series called Writing for a Broken World, featuring public author talks. With the Mellon grant, Rose plans to not only institutionalize this series by including it as part of the CSREA’s regular programming, but also to add a public book club aspect involving discussion sessions with the authors.

“A grant like this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Guterl said, “not just to turbo-charge what we’ve already got going, but to help us reconceptualize the work of the future so we can imagine research projects that we’ve never been able to consider because we’ve never had this much support before.”

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Summit highlights barriers created by court fines, fees Formerly incarcerated individuals, advocates share experiences, potential solutions

BY SARAH WANG SENIOR STAFF WRITER Over 100 attorneys, state government workers, community members and local advocates came together at a summit Friday to discuss how court fines and fees hinder the formerly incarcerated from successful reentry into society.

The summit, entitled “Worth the Cost? Or Impediment to Reentry, Rehabilitation and Recovery? A Legal, Public Health and Educational Response,” was hosted by the Rhode Island Public Defender and the Rhode Island Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

The summit’s forum “REAL People, REAL Money, REAL Problems” featured three formerly incarcerated panelists with firsthand experience of the impediments created by court fines and fees.

One of the panelists, Marcus Lopez, spoke about his experience following his release on parole after serving seven years in prison. He was leaving work in Providence one day to pick up his son when he was pulled over by a police officer for a traffic violation. The officer asked for his information, and he provided it. The next thing he knew he was standing outside his car with the officer putting him in handcuffs, asking Lopez why he did not show up to court. Entirely unknown to Lopez, he had failed to appear to make a court payment, an offense that warranted his arrest. His own parole officer told him that even she was not aware he owed court fines.

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“Those closest to the problem are closest to the solution but furthest from resources and power,” said James Monteiro, the forum’s moderator. “This (forum) is the way we bring people close to the problem together with those who have the influence and power.”

Monteiro has been close to the problem himself. Having spent 20 years of his life in and out of prison, he has a personal understanding of the issues facing former offenders.

Now he is also close to the solution as the founder and director of Reentry Campus Program, an organization that provides educational opportunities to currently and formerly incarcerated individuals.

To illustrate how the system of court fines and fees is designed to fail low-income people who have been entangled with law enforcement, Justin Thomas, a former offender, recounted his morning spent advocating for a client at court for missing court payments. Though his client receives just $900 a month from Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance and pays $580 a month in rent, she has court costs totaling $1,500.

“This is clogging up our court system,” Thomas said. “It is unrealistic for a person who brings in that amount of income to actually be able to pay those … court fines and fees, so inevitably she ends up back in jail, which affects tax money among a lot of things.”

In addition to this forum, the summit also featured a keynote speech from Chris Maselli, former Rhode Island state senator and deputy majority leader, who discussed the problem of real “debtors’ prisons.” The speech

was followed by presentations from community experts on the unique public health challenges imposed on those recently released from prison and in recovery. In the afternoon, the summit hosted a panel discussion on how current procedures and policies in U.S. court systems keep poor people in prison through fees and fines.

Wole Akinbi, a facilitator at half full, LLC, said he came to the summit “to learn how to be an advocate” and to better connect the people he helps to community organizations like House of Hope Community Development Coorporation and OpenDoors RI. Akinbi works within the Smith Hill neighborhood, where he said many people are former convicts. “In order for me to better help these people, we need to know exactly what they’re going through,” he said.

Annajane Yolken ’11, executive director of Protect Families First, helped organize the event and participated in the presentation of the public health impacts of court fines and fees. Yolken said she was pleased with the turnout of the event and how it brought diverse groups of people together.

“I really hope people took away that these court fines and fees have really real and negative impacts on people’s lives and that they are not worth whatever revenue they generate,” Yolken said. She added that going back to court to pay fines and fees can be retraumatizing to people who are still dealing with the aftermath of their convictions.

“This is a room full of advocacy,” said Monteiro. “We’re taking time out of our days to be here. It’s one thing to show up to the conferences and summits, but what do we do … when it’s actually time to support and fight for these bills? That’s when we need the support. That’s when we need to come together.”

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CS Growth and Student Support: Constraints and Challenges

BY UGUR ÇETINTEMEL AND SHRIRAM KRISHNAMURTHI OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS

In recent years, The Herald has published several articles and op-eds about growing enrollment in computer science, including suggestions on how to address the resulting challenges that students face. We appreciate this attention and care toward the student experience. As a department that takes pride in the deep engagement of undergraduates in its research and teaching programs, we welcome and value input from our students and appreciate constructive engagement.

We also understand the difficulties faced by our students. We sympathize: Our faculty members face similar problems from the other side!

We, too, would love to teach small courses. We stay up at all hours dealing with student emails and issues. And as advisors, we feel the difficulty of offering personalized advice; there are currently more than 30 concentration advisees per faculty member on average.

Our department is not alone. All of our peer schools, from Harvard to Stanford, face similar demands for computer science classes and degrees. Each school has been struggling to meet this unprecedented surge and is experimenting with a variety of “fixes” that are consistent with their institutional resources, culture and values.

On behalf of the department, we would like to enumerate some of our constraints as we work to accommodate the rapid growth in computer science concentrators.

Hiring more faculty is certainly critical to addressing this increased demand. After an external departmental review in spring 2018, we worked closely with University leadership to develop a faculty expansion plan to increase the size of our faculty by 50 percent within five years — an average of about three new faculty members each year. This is an exceptionally ambitious growth plan for a Brown department!

(We should note that the University determines the number of people we can hire in any year; the University rightly balances its needs and growth plans across numerous disciplines.)

But even with institutional commitment, growth is easier said than done in this climate.

Every university that we compete with has numerous open positions in computer science, so it’s a seller’s market. In addition, top companies are also hiring the same kinds of people, extending the same terrific offers and perks that attract students to the discipline as undergraduates. Hiring quality people for the long term is extremely hard in this market, and we are fortunate to have hired outstanding faculty recently as it is. As a case in point, we spent much of spring 2019 conducting on-campus interviews, meeting 19 candidates and making several of-

ing — which has real, and unfortunate, consequences in the world. “We’re turning away many students we’d love to have. That’s the tragedy,” said University of Washington Professor of CS and Brown alum Ed Lazowska ’72 in an interview, as their department admits only a fraction of the students who intend to major in CS. We have therefore made a conscious decision to be as inclusive as possible, even adding yet another introductory sequence this year to attract a wider variety of students and to reduce the size of the existing courses. The consequence of this increased access is more students in upper-level courses. Even when we ex-

“This is a fundamental design decision that our department faces: How do we balance the tradeoffs between access and an intimate feel?”

fers, to ultimately hire two new faculty members. Our peers report similar efforts and success rates.

Another “fix” considered by universities nationwide would restrict the size of the concentration. This is a fundamental design decision that our department currently faces: How do we balance the tradeoffs between access and an intimate feel? It would be easy for us to make classes small by just limiting access to the concentration or even to introductory courses.

Several institutions have gone this route, either implicitly or explicitly; where explicit, it has often resulted in significant protests. Either way, limiting the concentration size would likely significantly reduce opportunities for students who did not have prior exposure to computing, which would in turn greatly hurt the diversity of the student body. This would be especially unfortunate given the lack of diversity in comput-

ecute our growth plan to completion, however, it is simply unclear how we could add enough faculty to return to class sizes of 30: With about 3,000 students enrolled per semester, that would require 100 faculty members!

As many readers know, we run a very large undergraduate TA (UTA) program. It has operated since 1965 and is a unique educational experience; other universities have studied and copied it, and many alums single out serving as a UTA as their most valuable experience at Brown. While we are proud of the program and all it offers, a larger and growing UTA program also means greater costs, greater quality variance and greater management effort. For decades, our UTA program has had a hierarchy that includes Head TAs and Meta TAs. These positions, which were primarily created to give students a sense of ownership and practice coordinating teams of people, have now become

even more valuable in managing our large program. All things considered, we feel it would be a big disservice to significantly reduce the number of UTAs per student.

We have also heard suggestions to rely more on graduate TAs. We agree that this would help improve the quality of CS undergraduate education. However, the number of graduate TAships is allocated by the graduate school, and we currently have a very limited number, though we have been requesting more. More graduate TAs would help — up to a point. In the end, graduate students are here primarily to do research; while there is of course much value to teaching, at some point too much time spent teaching can eclipse their career goals. Second, increasing the graduate program would also require increasing the number of faculty — in essence, the size of our graduate program is proportional to the size of the faculty.

Under the circumstances, expecting any significant, timely improvements is unfortunately not realistic. We will continue to hire as many exceptionally talented faculty as we can.

But even after this scheduled growth, we will still have many large courses. But we prefer this alternative to capping enrollments or limiting the number of concentrators in our department.

Finally, our department is limited by the reality that our professors need to balance research and service (such as sitting on committees at Brown and around the world) with undergraduate education.

Ultimately, we hear and empathize with the concerns raised by students. Many of these are active topics of formal discussion in our faculty meetings and informal conversation in our hallways. We would love to engage with creative proposals that can ameliorate current conditions while taking into account the constraints we face. Please talk to us!

Professor and Chair of Computer Science Ugur Çetintemel and Professor of Computer Science Shriram Krishnamurthi can be reached at ugur_cetintemel@brown.edu and shriram_krishnamurthi@brown.edu. Please send responses to this opinion to letters@browndailyherald.com and op-eds to opinions@browndailyherald.com.

How to make clubs more inclusive REBECCA AMAN OP-ED CONTRIBUTER

Last week, Rachael Schmidt ’21 wrote a column arguing that clubs at Brown need to be inclusive. Schmidt argues that while clubs face logistical challenges in becoming more inclusive, they still have room to grow. But making clubs more inclusive isn’t as hard as Schmidt makes it out to be. She proposes some novel solutions; for example, service-based organizations with a limited number of shifts could have some students serve in the spring and some in the fall. This is an interesting idea — but the first step should be to look at what clubs are already doing to be more inclusive.

While Schmidt is right that many clubs are exclusive, a variety of clubs at Brown have found ways to allow as many students as possible to participate. There are three primary strategies that some clubs already implement to improve inclusivity. First, some clubs prioritize learning. Second, several clubs create different levels of commitment and skill.

Finally, many clubs host open events and workshops. Exclusive clubs should learn from these groups, and we should encourage them to become more open.

The most inclusive clubs accept all applicants and prioritize learning. For example, the

Brown Band provides free music lessons so anyone can join, whether or not they already know how to play an instrument. Similarly, anyone can join The Brown Daily Herald as a reporter after completing a training session. These clubs also strive to be financially inclusive: The Brown Band provides instruments to players,

performance. One potential solution is to have different levels within one club. For example, Ultimate Frisbee has A and B teams, which create more opportunities for people to participate. Impulse Dance Company puts on a series of open workshops throughout the year; during the spring semester, students who attend all

“At the end of the day, at a school known for its Open Curriculum, it’s time we expect our clubs to be more open as well.”

and The Herald has a financial assistance program to provide some aid so students can spend less time working to participate. While it takes some work to reach this level of inclusivity, it is incredibly rewarding for everyone involved. By accepting all applicants and lowering financial barriers, clubs can build more diverse communities.

That being said, accepting all applicants might not be a realistic option for all clubs, particularly for those based on competition or

workshops then perform a dance during the spring show.

Finally, many clubs host public workshops and events. For example, I recently attended a workshop and performed in an open-mic night with the Rib of Brown. Almost all clubs would be able to host these kinds of events, but many never actually do so. For example, improv groups like Improvidence host open practices during the audition cycle, but stop after that. When I auditioned, I had a blast at these

open practices, and I wish they continued them throughout the year.

While clubs may face logistical constraints in becoming more inclusive, it is by no means impossible, as evidenced by the large number of clubs that already work to be more inclusive.

Knowing what’s possible, we should start holding clubs to higher standards.

Furthermore, the Undergraduate Finance Board should take inclusivity into account when determining funding levels. The UFB’s constitution states that “decisions of the UFB shall in all respects reflect the fact that the student activities monies do not belong to the UFB, but are held in trust for the student body.” As such, UFB funding should go to clubs that are as open to as large a portion of the student body as possible. Clubs which both are highly exclusive and receive a large amount of funding — like Brown Mock Trial — should face extra scrutiny.

At the end of the day, at a school known for its Open Curriculum, it’s time we expect our clubs to be more open as well.

Rebecca Aman ’20 can be reached at rebecca_aman@brown.edu. Please send responses to this opinion to letters@browndailyherald.com and op-eds to opinions@browndailyherald.com.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A Conversation from Space with Jessica Meir ’99

Thursday, February 13 2:30 p.m.

Salomon Center for Teaching, De Ciccio Auditorium Time and date are subject to change.

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A live stream will be available for those unable to attend.

This event is part of Brown’s yearlong celebration of the Open Curriculum.