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UNIVERSITY NEWS

U. updates policies in wake of COVID-19

Policies limit events with 100+ people, Brown-sponsored international travel

BY OLIVIA BURDETTE AND OLIVIA GEORGE UNIVERSITY NEWS AND METRO EDITORS

‘A Quiet Place Part II’ almost did not exist of how it explores parenthood and “the promise you make to your kids … that is ‘as long as you stay close to me, I can protect you forever.’”

In contrast, the second film explores the consequences of parents breaking that promise, which Kra-

In light of “the rapidly evolving impact” of COVID-19 coronavirus, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced substantial new University event and travel policies, in an email circulated to community members March 6.

These policies will remain in place for events scheduled through April 13, Brian Clark, University spokesperson, wrote in an email to The Herald. This date was established “with the specific goal of enabling any longer-term measures to be based on updated in-

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Krasinski resisted calls for a bigger and scarier sequel to his film, “A Quiet Place,” by focusing on a more personal story.

BY KATIE CHEN SENIOR STAFF WRITER Actor and director John Krasinski ’01 originally declined the studio’s request for a sequel to “A Quiet Place,” his mainstream directorial debut.

“I never thought that I could

match the experience that I had on the first one, or articulate any sort of organic storytelling like I did on the first one,” Krasinski, who wrote the sequel’s script in addition to directing, explained in an interview with The Herald and other college publications across the country. But once Krasins-

ki thought about telling a story through the point of view of Regan Abbott, the film’s deaf, teenage daughter character, he realized that there was a way to make a sequel that respected the artistic integrity of the first film.

Krasinski called his first movie a “love letter” to his kids because

UNIVERSITY NEWS

U. cancels ADOCH to ensure safety of admitted, current students U. joins list of schools taking measures to mitigate spread of COVID-19

BY WILL KUBZANSKY SENIOR STAFF WRITER The University has canceled A Day on College Hill in response to concerns regarding the spread of COVID-19

coronavirus, Dean of Admission Logan Powell wrote in an email to recently admitted students.

Powell said that the University made the decision out of concern for both current students already on campus and those admitted who would be visiting.

“It became clear to us that we needed to act out of an abundance of caution,” Powell said. “If we were going to put (admitted students) at

any risk by way of having to get on a plane, train, travel — we didn’t want them to take that risk.”

The decision came from Brown’s Core Crisis Team, Powell noted, which included himself, University experts on public health and numerous other members of the administration including Chair of the Core Crisis Team and Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06.

ADOCH’s cancellation mirrors the decision of a number of other schools: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Stanford University, Penn, California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others, have all also canceled their programs for admitted students, Powell said.

“We’re going to be on a level playing field with our peer institutions,” Powell said in regards to the poten-

tial negative effects on the number of students that accept an offer of admission from the University.

ADOCH brought over 1,200 admitted students to campus last year in three separate sessions, The Herald previously reported. The University had previously scheduled this year’s installation of ADOCH to take place from April 19 to April 20, and had

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SPORTS

Men’s basketball eliminated from Ivy League Tournament contention Despite wins over Harvard, Dartmouth, Bruno loses tiebreaker to Penn

Although the men’s basketball team played at Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend, its real opponent was Penn.

Brown had to win both games and Penn had to lose at least one of its matchups against Cornell and Columbia for Bru-

no to clinch a trip to the Ivy League Tournament.

This situation resulted in the highest stakes of the season thus far and led to the Bears and the Quakers combining for a 4-0 weekend record and, like last year, a tie for fourth in the Ivy League.

Brown bested Harvard 64-55 and topped Dartmouth 70-58 while Penn knocked off Cornell and Columbia. Because Penn previously beat Yale, the number one seed in the Ivy Tournament, and the Bulldogs swept Brown, Penn clinched the No. 4 seed to enter the tournament over the Bears.

Brown 64, Harvard 55 The intensity of Brown (15-12, 8-6 Ivy) at Harvard (21-8, 10-4 Ivy) was heightened against the background of the Crimson’s 2018 and 2019 league championship banners hanging in the rafters.

Brown’s play early in the first half was defined by close outs with squeaky feet, in sync defensive rotations and quick outlet passes after securing the rebound.

Harvard mirrored those fundamen-

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Men’s hockey team loses to Colgate, ends playoff run in first round Page 4

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Bruno finished the season tied for fourth in the Ivy league with Penn, just short of making the Ivy League Tournament.

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UNIVERSITY NEWS

Elections Board announces UCS, UFB candidates Two candidates to vie for UCS presidency, one unopposed for UFB chair position

Undergraduate Council of Students Vice President Jason Carroll ’21 and Chair of Campus Life Zanagee Artis ’22 are running for UCS president in this year’s UCS and Undergraduate Finance Board elections. Appointments Chair Sam Caplan ’22 and UCS Treasurer Summer Dai ’22 will vie for the UCS Vice President position.

UFB At-Large Representative Akilesh Raman ’22 is running unop-

The two candidates for UCS president represent a decrease in the number of people vying for the position from last year, when William Zhou ’20 defeated Vanessa Garcia ’20.5 and Melissa Lee ’20.

The uncontested races for UFB Chair and Vice Chair also mark a decrease in candidates from last year’s elections, in which Julian De Georgia ’20 ran against Alesandro Walker ’20 for chair and three at-large members of UFB vied for the vice chair position.

“Throughout this process, we’ve encouraged all potential candidates to run for the position that will best work for their balance of interests, academics, personal life and other activities,” wrote Elections Board Co-Chairs Mary Stack ’21 and Alex Song ’20 in an email to The Herald. “There were a number

other student groups and simply the workload of being in UFB leadership have arisen.”

Deepak Gupta ’22, Sarah Stack ’23 and UCS First-Year Representative Joon Nam ’23 are running for Chair of Academic Affairs, an increase from last year when Livingstone Harriot ’20 ran uncontested for the position.

Madison Verschleiser ’22, Ricky Zhong ’23 and UCS First-Year Representative Zane Ruzicka ’23 will compete for Chair of Campus Life. Leona Hariharan ’23 and Jai’el Toussaint ’22 are vying for the new Chair of Equity and Inclusion position, which was proposed and approved earlier this semester, The Herald previously reported. Suyash Kothari ’23 and UFB At-Large Representative Claire Brown ’22 are running for Chair of Student Activities, and

the seven available UFB at-large representative spots. In a change from previous elections, one of the eight atlarge member spots on the Board will be filled by an incoming first year to be elected in the fall, according to Stack and Song. Current At-Large Representatives Kushagra Agarwal ’22, Gianna DeVincenzo ’22 and Mukul Khanna ’23 are running alongside former AtLarge Representative Nimo Ismail ’21 and Mahira Khan ’23, Amienne Spencer-Blume ’23, Abhinav Sriram ’23 and Harshini Venkatachalam ’23, who are not at-large members.

“We are super excited for the large turnout we have this year, especially for UCS and UFB At-Large Representative positions,” Stack and Song wrote.

“This reflects our efforts to increase election visibility and accessibility.”

Song wrote that the debate will “likely involve a livestream to satellite rooms, so we can maintain engagement, but also address health concerns” in light of the University’s recent policy regarding COVID-19.

Student groups planning to endorse candidates will have three days after the debate to do so. Voting for all positions through an online form

posed for UFB Chair, and At-Large Representative Anika Ahluwalia ’23 is running unopposed for UFB Vice Chair.

of students who were interested in (UFB Chair and Vice Chair) throughout the past few weeks but conflicts like plans to study abroad, leadership in

UCS Secretary Grace Johnson ’22 and Deborah Meirowitz ’22.5 will contend for Chair of Student Wellness.

Eight candidates are running for

UCS President, UCS Vice President, UFB Chair and UFB Vice Chair candidates will participate in a public debate Friday afternoon. Stack and

sent to all undergraduate students will begin at 5 p.m. Monday, March 16 and conclude at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 19.

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ADOCH’s cancellation, she had other events canceled due to concerns about coronavirus. Still, Kaleel said she was looking forward to experiencing life on campus, and commiserated with her family after the University informed her that the event had been canceled.

“We got ice cream for dinner,” she said. “It’s kind of sad-sounding — it’s because other stuff got canceled, too.”

Admitted students “are absolutely understanding,” Powell said. “This is not a Brown-isolated issue. … They get it. We’re still excited about seeing them in the fall.”

According to an email sent to already admitted students who registered for ADOCH, the University will offer “several virtual opportunities” throughout April to provide more information about the University from

current students and faculty.

Kaleel said she wasn’t sure if she would participate in the virtual events, depending on what they turned out to include. According to Powell, the University — which is still in the process of admitting students regular decision — is working rapidly to develop remote programming.

“It’s forcing us to be more virtually creative than we’ve needed to be be-

fore,” Powell said, noting that the University often tells prospective students that the best thing they can do before deciding to enroll is to visit campus.

“It’s an opportunity to come together and perform outreach that we haven’t done before,” he said. “It’s not an opportunity we wanted, but one we hope to make the most of.”

BY JACK BORRIS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

additionally scheduled two day-long sessions to take place on April 17 and April 22.

While Powell noted that most years, ADOCH has often had to accommodate unexpected weather-related issues around the country, the University would “have to go pretty far back in the archives” to find the last time some form of an admitted students event did not occur.

Colby Johnson ’24, who was admitted early decision and had registered for ADOCH in January, said he had planned to make the drive to Providence from Charleston, West Virginia with his parents before receiving word of the cancellation.

“I can understand their point of view from a health perspective,” Johnson said. “There’s only so many precautions they could have taken, and this was a drastic measure. Sometimes that’s the best case just to prevent it — who knows where (COVID-19) will be in a month from now.”

But he also noted he was disappointed about the decision at a personal level. Johnson had already talked to future classmates online whom he had planned to meet in person and was looking forward to getting to know campus.

Caroline Kaleel ’24, also admitted early decision, had planned to fly with her parents from Los Angeles for ADOCH, spending the night on campus with a friend who is currently a first-year. The cancellation “makes sense,” she said. “Do I want to put myself and others at risk by potentially contracting a disease?”

“I had kind of been expecting it,” Kaleel said, adding that even before

KRASINSKI FROM PAGE 1 sinski says is an inevitable part of growing up.

“It’s a letter … about all my hopes and dreams (for my kids) and what they could be,” Krasinski said.

The new direction of “A Quiet Place Part II,” which is told both as a prequel and a sequel, came with new challenges. Unlike the first film, which predominantly takes place at night and in darkness, around half of “A Quiet Place

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Although ADOCH has been modified for weather-related reasons in the past, this year’s cancellation will mark the first time in recent memory an incoming class will not have an official admitted students event, according to Dean of Admission Logan Powell.

Part II” takes place in daylight.

Along with lighting difficulties, Krasinski also found depicting the sound-sensing creatures that terrorize the Abbotts challenging.

“It’s the first time our creature has ever been seen in the light. …

It was just very stark light on the creature, so we had to do a lot of extra care to pay attention to … it and make sure that it was taken care of as well as all the other actors,” he said.

While the lack of dialogue may

be an obstacle for some filmmakers, Krasinski enjoyed how it affected the film’s creation process, he said.

“There’s something very immersive in the writing process … when you’re trying to set tone and set worlds and worldbuild, you’re able to go to a deeper place,” Krasinski said.

Noting that he felt a lot of pressure in making a sequel, Krasinski said he focused on the storytelling.

“I knew people would want scarier, bigger, all those things, and I

thought how about this, ‘Why don’t I just start by telling a story that I care about?’ I can always add more scares, I can always add more intensity in the sound, I can always do all these tricks if I need them, but let’s tell a good story,” he said. “Once (I) wrote what’s true and what’s organic to the characters, all the rest of it kind of just fell in line.”

One result of the relatively silent nature of the film Krasinski enjoyed is how it adds a sense of audience community. The experi-

ence is heightened due to the level of engagement it requires of the audience, he said.

“Without dialogue you start connecting with the person next to you and the person in front of you in this theater, and it becomes a communal experience and why people say you have to see it in the theater,” he explained. “It’s one of the best compliments in the world to me.”

“A Quiet Place Part II” will open in theaters on March 20.

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SPORTS

Wrestling team combines for one placer, 10-20 record at EIWAs Ricky Cabanillas ’23 takes seventh place at 149 lbs despite dropping first match

BY RYAN HANDEL SPORTS EDITOR The wrestling team was led by Ricky Cabanillas ’23 at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships, who placed seventh at 149 lbs.

Cabanillas became Brown’s lone placer after losing his first match in the double elimination tournament but winning three times in the consolation rounds.

Bruno combined for a 10-20 record at the championships, failing to send an automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament after sending four wrestlers there last year. Bryce Rogers ’22 was the Bears’ second best performer, putting up a 2-2 record in the 184 lb bracket.

Brown started off strong in the preliminary round, as Rogers recorded a 5-2 decision over Penn’s John Stout.

But the Bears suffered heartbreak in their next match, as Thomas Mukai ’23 (285 lbs) fell 2-1 in double overtime to Long Island University’s Maguire Horl.

Twelfth-seeded Charlie Faber ’21 (133 lbs) nearly pulled off an upset in the round of 16 against Bucknell University’s 5th-seeded Darren Miller.

Faber launched Miller to his back with a headlock in the opening seconds of

BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 tals and both teams added in swats at shots, deflections and flat-out pushes to exchange momentum. Brown found itself down 18-12 midway through the half due to consecutive missed shots and untimely turnovers. “(Harvard is) so physical and does such a good job going after the ball every possession (and) getting rebounds,” said Head Coach Mike Martin ’04. “It was a game where you had to be really physically and mentally tough to be out there. I thought our guys showed up and did great.”

After the Crimson’s run, Brown relied on strengths it has shown throughout league play to spark some offense of its own — Brandon Anderson ’20 made back-to-back buckets, giving the Bears a surge and a tie game at 22 three minutes later.

The next leader of Bruno’s offense was Zach Hunsaker ’20. Brown picked Harvard’s pocket four times and Hunsaker turned them into baskets with less than three minutes remaining before halftime.

“I’ve just been having the confidence (in) my last couple of games — I’m going to let them fly,” Hunsaker said.

Brown shot 60 percent from three point land during the first half and Hunsaker led the team with four treys.

The team kept control of the game going into the break with a 33-30 lead.

The second half opened analogously to the first with fundamentals running the show complimented by players tossing their weight around and slam dunks followed by chest slaps.

Brown maintained control of the game 52-44 with five minutes remaining, despite Harvard’s refusal to back down and a roaring home crowd cheering it on.

the match, but was unable to finish off his opponent with a pin and settled for an early 6-0 lead. Miller chipped away at Faber’s lead throughout the match, eventually sending it to overtime. Like Mukai, Faber dropped a double overtime nailbiter, in this case by a score of 9-8.

Also in the round of 16, Cabanillas lost 6-3 to Lucas Revano of Penn, and Jimmy Pawelski ’20 (141 lbs) dropped a tight 4-1 bout to Ryan Pomrinca of Lehigh University. Ninth-seeded Jack Bokina ’22 (157 lbs) was the lone Bruno wrestler to advance to the quarterfinals, pulling off a slight upset over 8th-seeded Cole Aaron of Franklin & Marshall University by a 7-2 score.

But Bokina would be pinned by 1st-seeded Quincy Monday of Princeton in his next match, dropping into the consolation bracket like his teammates.

Although Mukai, Kiran Srikanth ’23 (165 lbs) and Cade Wilson ’22 (174 lbs) were eliminated from the tournament in the consolation preliminaries, the Bears rebounded in the consolation first round, going 6-0 as a team. Trey Keeley ’20 (125 lbs) picked up a dominant 10-0 major decision and Faber earned a major decision as well, winning 10-2.

Then, Pawelski edged Drexel University’s Tyler Williams 7-5 to give Bruno a 3-0 start to the round.

Cabanillas advanced with a tight 6-5 decision over Matt Swanson of Binghamton University. The match finished in a 5-5 tie, but due to Cabanillas’ performance from the top po-

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Ricky Cabanillas ’23 defeated Matt Swanson of Binghamton and Matt Kolonia of Bucknell to guarantee a top-eight placement. sition he earned a riding time point to take the victory. Rogers and Nino Bastianelli ’21 (197 lbs) picked up 6-1 and 5-0 wins, respectively. With the undefeated consolation round and Bokina dropping down from the quarterfinals, Brown sent seven wrestlers to the “blood round,” where winners are guaranteed a top eight placement and losers are eliminated.

Unfortunately for the Bears, they were not as successful in the blood round, going 1-6 overall. Keeley and Pawelski both took losses that ended each of the seniors’ careers.

“I was letting it loose, letting it all fly for my last competition,” Keeley said.

“I walked off the mat for the last time and I was upset with the results — one round away from placing — but it really

hit me right when I walked off the mat just how grateful I was for the whole experience.”

Faber lost his second nailbiter of the tournament in a 4-1 defeat to Harvard’s Michael Jaffe. Down 3-1, Faber entered a wild scramble with Jaffe and appeared to hold the Crimson wrestler on his back for three seconds, earning a danger call takedown to tie the score at 3-3. But Harvard challenged the call and the ruling was reversed to no takedown, allowing Jaffe to hold on for the victory. Rogers and Bastianelli were also bounced from the bracket in the blood round.

Cabanillas, the lone Brown wrestler to advance, picked up another tight win to place in the top eight. He upset 6th-seeded Matt Kolonia of Bucknell

9-5 to move on. Although Kolonia earned the first takedown of the match, Cabanillas would control the bout from that point onwards.

“I know that I had worked very hard to get this far, so I wrestled like I had nothing to lose,” Cabanillas said of his run through the consolation bracket.

Cabanillas fell to the United States Military Academy’s PJ Ogunsanya in the next consolation round, landing him in the seventh place match. The 149 lb wrestler was set for a rematch with Revano, but Revano forfeited the match and Cabanillas clinched seventh place.

Cabanillas said he was happy with the weekend’s results, but hopes to parlay them into greater achievements.

“My ultimate goal is to qualify for the (NCAA) Tournament, and my dream is to become an All-American. I believe that if I keep grinding with my teammates and coaches, it’s possible,” he said.

Bruno sent just two seniors to the EIWA Tournament, Keeley and Pawelski, and will return five of the seven wrestlers that advanced to the blood round. Head Coach Todd Beckerman said he is looking forward to seeing the potential of his young team come to fruition. “With that experience on top of the incoming recruiting class and the other guys coming back from taking a year off, we’re looking forward to next season,” he said. “Our goals (for next year) are higher than they were this year.”

The Crimson attempted to bring game-play back in its favor by showing a full-court press and fouling to stop the winding clock, but time expired with Bruno as the victor, 64-55.

“We had fun out there.” Hunsaker said. “We realize that we’re fighting for every game so (we) might as well have fun while we’re doing it. We really enjoy seeing each other have success.”

Brown 70, Dartmouth 58 The Bears’ aggressive play carried over to their game at Dartmouth (12-17, 5-9 Ivy) Saturday night, but it wasn’t quite enough during the opening 10 minutes as they trailed the Big Green 18-16.

The remainder of the first half saw a tug-of-war of lead changes and tied scores until Brown went on a 9-0 run two minutes before halftime to enter the locker room with a 38-32 advantage.

Part of the Bears’ success during the first half was attributable to taking care of the ball and forcing sloppy play

by Dartmouth. Brown had two turnovers to Dartmouth’s seven.

But by halftime, it became clear that Penn would defeat Columbia, eliminating the Bears from the playoff race.

The second period featured the same energy and competitiveness as the first, but this time around, Dartmouth put on a full-court press midway through the half. The press helped the Big Green to close their six-point halftime deficit, but it was not enough to regain the lead, due in part to how the Big Green’s turnovers negated some of their defensive pressure.

The Bears defeated the Big Green 70-58 with Anderson and Hunsaker combining for 51 of the team’s 70 points. Anderson moved up to 1,405 career points, placing him at fifth in program history.

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SPORTS

Men’s hockey falls to Colgate in overtime, ends playoff run Bears defeated 3-0, 3-2

by Raiders in best-ofthree series, closing postseason campaign

BY ALEXANDRA RUSSELL SENIOR REPORTER The men’s hockey team ended its playoff run with a pair of losses to eighth-seeded Colgate University this weekend, falling to the Raiders 3-0 Friday and 3-2 in overtime Saturday.

The results eliminated Bruno from postseason competition and advanced Colgate to the quarterfinals against Clarkson University. The Bears finished their 2019-2020 campaign ninth in the regular season standings with a conference record of 8-13-2.

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Colgate 3, Brown 0 Friday night, Bruno (8-21-2, 8-132 ECAC) kept the game close after an early Colgate goal, but the Raiders (1216-8, 9-9-5) tacked on a pair of tallies in the third period to secure the victory.

The Bears applied offensive pressure early in the opening stanza, sprinkling the Colgate net with shots shortly after the initial face-off. Just over five minutes into the frame, goaltender Gavin Nieto ’20 made a key butterfly save to deny a bid through traffic from a Raiders attacker and keep the tilt scoreless.

The teams continued to exchange blows until Colgate forward Jared Cockrell opened scoring in the 16th minute, finding the back of the net on a one-timer from the right circle after a face-off win in the Bears’ end.

Brown continued to assert its presence in the offensive zone throughout the second period, outshooting Colgate by a margin of 9-2. The Bears threatened on the power play midway through the stanza, but the Raiders fended off the attack to enter the final 20 minutes at a one-goal advantage.

Bruno killed a penalty early in the third period, but Colgate converted on its second power play of the stanza to widen its lead. With five minutes remaining, forward Bobby McMann collected a feed in the slot and sent a shot past Nieto.

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The Bears finished ninth in the ECAC regular season standings before falling to Colgate in the first round of the playoffs this weekend.

After the Bears killed off another penalty late in the stanza, the Raiders’ Ben Sharf notched an empty-net goal in the final minute to seal the win and lead the series 1-0.

“We really did play well Friday — we dominated, we had all the chances, we almost never even played defense because we were doing so well,” said Captain Zach Giuttari ’20. Going into Saturday, “we kind of just wanted to just keep that same energy, keep that same intensity and that same game plan and just try and score a couple of goals.”

Colgate 3, Brown 2 (OT) The following day’s contest was a back-and-forth battle between the two teams that forced an extra overtime period. After a physical and gritty 76 minutes of play, Tyler Penner scored to clinch the series for the Raiders and advance to the quarterfinal playoff round.

Brown jumped out to an early lead when Samuli Niinisaari ’23 scored just 18 seconds into the contest, recording his first career goal. Shortly after the opening faceoff, Trey Dodd ’20 and Joachim Weberg ’21 gathered the puck at the boards and fed it to Niinisaari, who launched a shot from the left point past

a static Colgate goaltender for the tally.

The goal sparked momentum in Bruno’s offense as the team peppered the opposing net with shots, but the Raiders broke through in the 13th minute to tie the game. Josh McKechney collected the puck in front of the blue line and skated across the left circle toward the crease, slotting it into the Brown net glove side for the tally. The Bears were called for a hooking penalty on the play, and Griffin Lunn converted on the power play 36 seconds later to give Colgate a 2-1 advantage.

Bruno continued to generate persistent offense and energy during the second period, outshooting the Raiders 12-5 in the frame. Nieto made a series of key stops, including a critical butterfly save which shut down a shorthanded breakaway bid from John Snodgrass in the fifth minute.

The teams held off each other’s scoring attempts in the final stanza, until Luke Krys ’23 notched an extra-attacker goal with 1:02 remaining to even the tally again. James Crossman ’23 and Giuttari set up a chain of passes in the Colgate zone to Krys, who buried a shot from the left circle to send the teams into overtime.

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The Bears approached the extra frame with vigor and urgency, pressuring Colgate netminder Mitch Benson with seven shots. Bruno generated some good looks on goal, but Penner managed to find the back of the net on a one-timer from the slot with four minutes remaining to secure the series and advance to the quarterfinals.

“Even though we might not have showed up on the scoresheet as much as we would have liked this year (with) wins and just goals in general, everybody took strides this year,” said Jack Gessert ’20, one of the team’s assistant captains. “As the Brown hockey program, we take it one step at a time, one shift at a time, one year at a time, and I think everybody did a good job of that. Even though I won’t be here, I’ll be really excited to see what’s to come.”

Looking ahead to the future, the captains emphasized the importance of starting the new season in October with the same energy and mindset that they approach the playoffs with each year.

“We always end up finishing strong,” Giuttari said. “Knowing how hard you have to play ... at the end of the season — if you can bring that to the beginning of the season, it will put us in a better

spot come playoff time. Just being ready to start the year is a huge thing.”

The team has “the pieces to make another run like we did last year,” Gessert said. “All the (first-years) that had huge roles this year are going to be sophomores with a whole year of experience under their belts. That’s going to be really key and I think they just need to keep plugging away.”

The weekend’s series marked the last in the prolific collegiate careers of the team’s five seniors: Giuttari, Gessert, Nieto, Dodd and Brent Beaudoin ’20. Together the class has accounted for 36 of Bruno’s points this season, while goaltender Nieto has started in 28 games.

“As seniors, I think we left (the program) better than we came into it, looking back four years ago — that was our goal from day one,” Gessert said. “It didn’t end the way we wanted it to this year, but it’s still an awesome journey.”

“Of my four years here, this is definitely the closest the team’s ever been,” Giuttari said. “From upperclassmen all the way down to the (first-years), we’re a really tight-knit group. I’ve loved it; I love the guys here; I love playing. I’m going to miss it for sure.”

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Monday, March 9, 2020

Disastrous coronavirus response shows the failure of conservative policies

BY GALEN HALL ’20 STAFF COLUMNIST

As the University’s travel and event policies constrict under the threat of a new coronavirus outbreak, it can be easy to get distracted by chatter over whether or not classes will be canceled, rather than stepping back and looking at the epidemic in a broader context.

Yet even a cursory look at the national response in the United States makes clear that the coronavirus is being catastrophically mishandled. Not only has the federal government failed abysmally at preventing its spread; the growing crisis could easily overwhelm our deeply flawed health-care system. We need to prepare ourselves for a quickly worsening crisis that was caused by a history of destructive conservative policies.

No analysis of Western nations’ responses to the coronavirus can begin without a comparison to China, the epicenter of the highly contagious outbreak. Yet China has managed over a matter of weeks to contain total infection counts to tens of thousands, while leveling off new infection rates aggressively. One coronavirus hospital constructed in Wuhan over a matter of days is now being deconstructed because there aren’t enough patients to justify it. Most of this success depended on measures that are impossible elsewhere; the World Health Organization praised the effectiveness of China’s response, which included draconian policies such as instating mandatory curfews on tens of millions of people and blocking most movement in and out of Wuhan.

Such tactics are unlikely to work effectively in liberalized and fiscally conservative countries. Consider the current situation in Northern Italy — the seat of power of the right-wing Lega Nord party. When a number of coronavirus cases surfaced in the region of Lombardy, the response was swift: quarantines were instated and towns

with reported cases were shut off from their neighbors, with mixed success.

The state stepped in to provide treatment for those most directly affected in the quarantined areas. On the frontiers of the epidemic, however, many disease prevention and preparation services were left to private companies.

Protective masks sold out quickly in

rebuild six hospitals over the next ten years, China constructed two in Wuhan in slightly over ten days.

But no other developed country’s epidemic response measures up to the sheer level of dysfunction in the U.S.. Of all the developed countries in the world, America looks perhaps worst-prepared for an outbreak — both

“The US has performed around 5,000 coronavirus tests total, while China performs over one million each week.”

stores, and families looking to stock up on emergency supplies for the coming quarantines were left looking at more than €5,000 protection kits auctioned on E-Bay or €50 masks. One Italian economist remarked that the price spike for protective masks was rational since it meant that only those with the greatest need would purchase them, but as Jacobin reports, this logic is undermined by the spectacle of Milan’s wealthiest residents spurring a booming business in useless designer masks after cheaper variants disappeared from the shelves.

While China’s government provided supplies including back-up prescription medication to many affected citizens, Italians may have far less state support under the upcoming mass quarantines.

The case in Italy is not particularly unique. In Britain, almost a decade of controversial austerity and declining national health budgets has caused a flat-line in controlling preventable disease. Now that an external crisis looms, the government has publicized grand plans such as a scheme to raise “an army” of retired medical workers to aid in the fight, despite widespread assurance from retirees that they will not heed the call. While British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to

politically and infrastructurally. This lack of preparedness has everything to do with conservative policies and governance. Our health-care system saddles some people who undergo voluntary preventative hospital checkups with multithousand dollar bills, even if they have insurance. Facing costs like that, it becomes almost impossible to contain the spread of the virus, because some of those suffering symptoms would rather risk riding them out than accept a large bill. Additionally, most working people will not find it easy to self-quarantine without pay for very long, and have received little to no state support for doing so. As voluntary and involuntary quarantines cut into economic activity, the DOW reported the sharpest overnight decline in value since the Great Recession of 2008. Out of concern for reelection, Trump has started scrambling to contain the consequences of the economic panic of the virus even while he derides media coverage as overblown.

In 2018, the Executive Branch cut funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s global disease outbreak prevention budget and fired the White House’s pandemic response team. Now, the Trump administration

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Then, when further crises surely strike, lean on those two sectors to clean up the mess while blaming their inevitable failure on progressives. As an echo of how Regan increased military funding in the 1980s, Trump looks for an opportunity to boost the economy with the coronavirus. He has called on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in a vain attempt to slow the economic downturn As Binyamin Appelbaum writes in the New York Times, the Fed can raise demand for goods, but the coronavirus cuts into supply by suppressing manufacturing. In a bid to slow the inevitable market panic, the Trump administration has interfered with proper epidemic preparation at every turn: by calling criticisms over Trump’s response to the virus a “Democratic hoax” and massively overstating the government’s testing capacity.

The Atlantic was only able to verify around 2,000 tests of the coronavirus in the U.S., while China can perform over 1,000,000 each week.

These structural insufficiencies combined with the disastrously inept response by Trump are compounding to set the stage for a full-on healthcare

breakdown. As Associate Director of Science and Technology at The Good Food Institute Liz Specht estimated in a Twitter thread, the exponential spread of the coronavirus could simply overwhelm hospital bed capacity by early May, once millions are infected in the U.S. — never mind our inadequate supplies of masks and other basic prevention equipment. Had the U.S. spent the past month effectively testing people and containing the viral spread, the rate of exponential growth might be much slower, and therefore would have lowered the peak rate of infection and spared health workers from the worst impacts. That did not happen.

There are two lessons that we all must take away from this situation.

First, our country is about as poorly prepared as possible for the coronavirus.

We cannot sit back as individuals and rely on a coordinated national response; rather, we need to take the appropriate health and safety precautions and make sure we are looking out for older relatives. Second, crises like the coronavirus reinforce the need for progressive state institutions, such as a nationalized healthcare system, that are capable of dealing with epidemics and protecting the most vulnerable among us. If the present outbreak looks bad, future pandemics exacerbated by climate change could be even worse, and only progressive policies that nurture a strong public health apparatus can provide solutions capable of helping the average citizen. As we watch our health-care system strain and even crumble under the weight of this epidemic, we must remember what political party is to blame, and how imperative it is to both move them out of power and rebuild our broken public institutions.

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Don’t Panic President Paxson, COVID-19 is not here (yet)

BY JONATHAN DOUGLAS ’20 STAFF COLUMNIST

On Friday, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced that the University will cancel all non-academic events with over 100 people, among other precautions. These events include a University-wide dance and a chance for admitted students to visit Brown’s campus. The University also postponed a lecture from former President Bill Clinton until next fall.

Am I missing something? Did Brown announce a case of COVID-19 on campus? Is the Rhode Island Department of Health not responding immediately and seriously? Does Rhode Island have more than three confirmed COVID-19 cases (by the time this piece went to press)? Do we have a tangible reason to panic? And if this is a crisis that warrants canceling these events, shouldn’t large classes be canceled and dining hall capacity be limited?

If I am missing something, please write a response to this column. If I’m not, then Brown’s Core Crisis Team is overreacting. Yes, COVID-19 is dangerous. Yes, it is spreading quickly and easily, and yes, the mortality rate is alarmingly high. But there are no reported cases at Brown yet. Cancelling large events prevents the spread of a virus … that doesn’t seem to exist here. There is no visible risk of infection yet between students, faculty and staff because no one has it, that we know of. And though it’s true that — however unlikely it may be­— some Brown community members could have asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 and could therefore pass the

virus on to others, transmission could just as likely occur in classrooms or other community spaces. So while these cancellations may delay possible transmission, without canceling classes, they will not prevent the inevitable; instead, they only add to the mass hysteria surrounding the virus and undermine University life.

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the virus has spread further in the local community than has been reported. As one of the central authorities for maintaining peace on campus, the Core Crisis Team has the responsibility to weigh this panic against supposed public health benefits.

Furthermore, if there were a real threat of transmission to Brown’s community, the steps taken by the Crisis Team would not be sufficient. Students would almost certainly still be at a high risk of in-

“As one of the central authorities for maintaining peace on campus, the Core Crisis Team has the responsibility to weigh panic with supposed public health benefits.”

mitted applicants will miss the opportunity to see first-hand all that Brown has to offer­­. And given that University administrators have cited ADOCH as a critical factor for improving yield, it is possible that the change may negatively impact the University as well. How many other opportunities will we lose?

The cancellations also spread panic among the University community. Group chats and Facebook groups have blown up over the past week as students increasingly fear the spread of the virus, and the cancellations only add to the perception that

fection through classroom transmission, and canceling just non-academic events would be ineffective. Even if classes were canceled in addition to non-academic events, there would STILL be a high risk of infection — dining halls used by the majority of undergraduates make university campuses potential hotspots for widespread, rapid viral transmission. Though the University has begun implementing stricter measures in the dining halls, such as limiting students’ ability to serve themselves and putting glass up at the dessert serving station in the Ratty, the mere fact that hundreds of students are

eating in the same vicinity creates a higher risk for transmission that is nearly impossible to mitigate.

Scarily enough, one of the only ways to effectively combat transmission on campus might be to completely shut down the University and move classes online for the remainder of the semester. Some schools with active, serious threats of COVID-19 have reacted accordingly — the University of Washington, Seattle University and Stanford University have canceled in-person classes while affected municipalities coordinate their responses to the virus, moving lectures and finals online.

While the event cancellations are an overblown reaction, I commend the University for restricting travel to CDC Level 3 destinations, as well as for regularly updating the community on the latest guidance. I’m not oblivious to the very significant impact that the virus can have, and Brown should continue evaluating further restrictions as the situation develops.

If, and when, COVID-19 comes to campus, President Paxson can and should oversee a swift and strong reaction against it. Announcements like this one should be the bare minimum at that time, and the University will likely take significantly more drastic measures, just like other schools with cases have begun to do. Until that time, the President and the Core Crisis Team should avoid inciting a panic on campus and undermining key aspects of University life.

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

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What’s it like to be ‘Black Like Me?’

BY SANDRA A. ARNOLD OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Recently, I participated in a screening of the film “Black Like Me.” The event was hosted at Brown University’s Manning Chapel by the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life. The 1964 film is based on the true story of John Howard Griffin who decided to temporarily change his skin pigmentation, with the help of medication and a sun lamp, to look like a Black man. He did this, according to his writings and the film, to understand the experiences of Black people in the Deep South. In 1959, after the changes in his skin made him noticeably appear Black, he started traveling throughout the Deep South passing as a Black man. Although I was aware of Griffin’s story, the recent screening was the first time I had viewed the film. Much has been written about the significance of “Black Like Me” and Griffin’s bold decision; however, for me, as a Black woman and a southerner, the film’s impression was beyond cinematic and an academic survey. The film asks a simple moral question which still has relevance: What is it like to walk in the experiences of another person, regardless of how unrelatable their experiences might be to your own?

My family lived through what Griffin was exploring; the film has scenes I find relatable, such as

the hospitality shown to the lead character by Black people during his travels, and the role his faith played in his decision to tackle the trip. Moreover, I have relatives who were born enslaved in the South and others who survived segregation and oppression. “Black Like Me” is a type of panoramic photograph of my family’s years of survival. The film obviously displays the problem of bigotry and the trail it leaves in its wake on relationships between Black and white people in the South. However, it also illustrates the importance of validating that people can have a shared experience that is also unrelatable. My knowledge of any kind of intolerance is that it can be based on and caused by a person’s insular approaches to others. It can also be guided by hatred and can be morally blinded by hatred’s judgment.

As difficult as it may be to admit, there is a tendency, even today, to disregard and dismiss intolerance. Making an effort to destroy apathy in ourselves and to actually feel another’s struggles is imperative to our relationships and our personal character. For example, indigent people are often ignored and neglected — but would they be invisible to us if as we stepped over them in the street, we took the moral step of trying to put ourselves in their shoes?

Personally, I’m astonished by people like Griffin. His religious faith, prevalent in the film, gave him courage and conviction to travel

to the South. He was literally living the lyrics of a well-known song from the period titled “Walk a Mile in My Shoes.” The first lines of the song are: “If I could be you, if you could be me for just one hour, if we could find a way to get inside each other’s mind.

If you could see you through my eyes, instead of your ego, I believe you’d be surprised to see that you’ve been blind.

Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes, before you abuse, criticize and accuse, walk a mile in my shoes.”

Similar to Viola Gregg Liuzzo and William Lewis Moore, who lost their lives fighting for the rights of Black people, I cannot begin to relate to Griffin’s decision to risk his life to simply understand what it meant to be a Black man.

Nonetheless, I am grateful for Griffin, Liuzzo and Moore. They sought to personally understand Black people while fighting for them — and for that I am appreciative.

“Black Like Me” is a snapshot of terrible years for our country, seen through the eyes of an outsider who wanted to know the struggle of the assumed and the accused: Black people.

Unfortunately, the underlying issue in the film is still pertinent. Today, we continue to struggle with stereotyping, quickly passing judgment and making assumptions before knowing anything about an individual. As long as there are

differences influenced by a narrow awareness of others, the moral question asked by “Black Like Me” will always be essential.

After the screening, I thought of my own life experiences as a person of color and considered: Have I ever encountered anyone who was not Black, that strove with the same eagerness as Griffin to understand me as a Black woman? None came to mind. And though I’ve tried to understand the experiences of others, I also did not recall having the same eagerness as Griffin. Furthermore, after his bold excursion, did Griffin ever regret acting upon his simple moral question? I have a feeling he did not. I’m certain the Black people he met never regretted meeting him, nor did they forget him.

I would encourage viewing “Black Like Me” as an exercise in the importance of acknowledging and understanding tolerance, diversity and the seemingly irreversible damage of hate and prejudice. If Griffin knew the film changed us enough to start asking in our daily interactions, “What it’s like to be…?,” then I’m certain he would have no regrets.

Sandra A. Arnold MA’19 is a public historian and an alum of Brown University. She is currently a religious life affiliate with Brown’s Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life. She can be reached at sandra_arnold@alumni.brown.edu.

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FSIcon exposes students, professionals to sustainable investment Student-organized conference includes keynote speech, panels on sustanability

BY LIVIA GIMENES SENIOR STAFF WRITER The inaugural summit of the Future of Sustainable Investing Conference, hosted March 6, centered on the role of investing in “shaping the future of our planet and society,” according to the conference website. The daylong, student-organized conference exposed students and professionals to panels, working sessions and two keynote speeches about sustainable and responsible investing.

According to Sarang Mani ’21, one of the event’s organizers, FSIcon has two main purposes: educating people about “sustainable and responsible investing” and showcasing “what sustainable investing and finance look like in the real world.”

Arianna Markel ’20, co-president of FSIcon, stated that the event was also intended to be “accessible to people regardless of their background.”

The event organizers hoped to bring a “Brown perspective to investing,” said Devyn Collado ’20, the other co-president of FSIcon. Collado also hopes that the event can reveal that “investing is not something that you do just to make money;” rather, it “is one of the best ways to catalyze the necessary change we need to do in this century.”

According to Collado, the University is “at the forefront of thinking about sustainable investing.” He believes that this enabled the FSIcon team to organize an event “of this caliber.”

The conference kicked off with a keynote speech, “Thinking Bigly,” by Ben Yeoh, a senior portfolio manager at RBC Global Asset Management.

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Sarang Mani ’21 and Arianna Markel ’20 organized a sustainability conference with the goals of showcasing what “investing and finance look like in the real world” in a way accessible to all levels of knowledge.

Yeoh said that the world needs quences. Incremental changes are not prompt the cultural changes necescultural changes to address the “wick- significant enough to generate “real sary for environmental sustainability. ed problem” of climate change. But world impact” on climate change, he Connie E, a research associate at he added that tackling climate change said. Yeoh encouraged individuals to Preqin and a panelist at the event, must be completed with caution in narrow their focus on specific actions said that Yeoh’s keynote was interorder to avoid unintended conse- and lifestyle choices that will help active, and enjoyed how it “incor-

COVID-19 FROM PAGE 1 formation and guidance from health officials,” Clark added.

Effective Monday, University events with 100 attendees or more, excluding academic courses, must be postponed, cancelled or offered virtually, Paxson wrote in the email.

This includes cancellation of “A Day on College Hill” admission events in April and the Class Coordinating Board Gala, originally scheduled for March 14. The CCB “will be issuing cash refunds to the students who purchased tickets” on March 16 and 17.

University policies for athletic events will be announced Monday, wrote Paxson. Policies will apply for venues both on- and off-campus.

Effective today, all University-sponsored international travel has been suspended. Additionally, “Anyone returning to the U.S. after travel to China, Iran, Italy and South Korea will be required to self-isolate in a U.S. location away from campus for at least 14 days before returning to Brown,” wrote Paxson.

Paxson also cautioned students to think about the risk of traveling within the United States, writing, “Anyone with domestic travel plans should carefully consider whether they should be adjusted or cancelled.”

Among the cancelled University-sponsored travel is a trip to Germany, which was the travel component of HIAA 1850H: “Berlin: Architecture, Politics and Memory” taught by Dietrich Neumann, professor in both the History of Art and Architecture and the Italian Studies departments. Bliss Beyer ’22, a student in Neumann’s class, said that his students had been bracing themselves for a potential cancellation over recent days.

Though she admitted that the trip to Berlin over spring break had been “the main draw” to initially enrolling, Beyer remains glad she is taking Neumann’s class despite the trip cancellation.

Beyer voiced confusion as to why special events such as Gala have been cancelled, whereas large lecture classes that could be streamed online were not.

This sentiment was echoed

by Lucy Duda ’20, who thinks it is “strange” to exclude classes from the list of large University events that are being cancelled.

“A virus doesn’t care why people are gathered in big groups,” Duda wrote in an email to The Herald.

“Most large classes are primarily lecture-based, which in theory should make it easier to cancel in-person

porated big issues in a way that was comical and satirical.”

Later during the conference, four professionals experienced in different aspects of sustainable investing gathered for a panel titled, “Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability.” Throughout the panel, the speakers discussed the role of consumers, investors and government in driving sustainability.

Consumers can “vote with their dollars” to pressure companies to integrate sustainability into the mission of their business, said Holly Moynahan, senior consultant at EY Climate Change and Sustainability Services and a member of the panel.

Moynahan added that the competitive aspect of capitalism could drive corporations to be more sustainable.

Kayalin Akens-Irby, senior associate at Malk Partners and another member of the panel, argued that government action on climate change can be effective, but the free market and investors can often provide a more rapid response to climate change by pressuring companies to make changes themselves.

Moynahan said she appreciated that the panel was all female, and said that “each panelist had an interesting perspective to bring to the conversation.” Moynahan hopes her panel helped in “understanding the intricacies of the climate change conversation” as multiple groups “drive change and impact.”

Paurav Barot, an attendee of the event and a graduate student at Babson College, appreciated learning that some corporations have “special sustainability plans.” Barot added that he is hoping to incorporate the ideas he learned at FSIcon into the investment groups that he is in at Babson.

In addition to hosting the conference annually, FSI hopes to develop other initiatives, including podcasts, Collado said, in order to increase the impact that financially sustainable investing has on campus.

sessions and distribute makeup materials.”

Neumann’s class was not the only one affected. Students enrolled in INTL 1802W: “International Journalism: Foreign Reporting in Practice,” taught by Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute Stephen Kinzer, had planned to travel to Costa Rica during spring break. The cancellation “is a heavy blow and I share the disappointment of my wonderful students,” Kinzer wrote in an email to The Herald.

“Nonetheless it’s hard to argue with President Paxson’s reasoning,” Kinzer added. “In journalism as in life, you never know what’s waiting around the next corner or behind the next tree.”

The news follows other University action in light of growing concerns about the spread of coronavirus. The University cancelled its Brown in Bologna program Feb. 28, asking all enrolled students to make arrangements to depart from Italy, The Herald previously reported.

The University’s announcement mirrors similar action taken by peer institutions including Harvard and Penn, which both announced cancellation of their admitted students weekends, Visitas and Quaker Days, respectively.