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Bears beat Big Green in Ivy home opener

UNIVERSITY NEWS

Endowment reaches record high of $4.2 billion $467 million gain, 12.4 percent return surpasses Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn

BY ALLIE REED UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR

Brittany Raphino ’23 — controlled the game by attacking on offense and defense, fluidly transitioning from play to play. Dartmouth was pushed up and out of its set plays, making it easier for Bruno to spread the field.

This championship attitude set the tone for the game. Bruno’s ag-

The University’s endowment grew to a record high $4.2 billion with $467 million in investment gains for the 2019 fiscal year, according to documents from the Investment Office.

In FY 2019, the endowment had a return of 12.4 percent, which more than doubled its aggregate benchmark of 5.8 percent. Vice President and Chief Investment Officer Jane Dietze called the return “excellent” in an email to The Herald.

Members of the Investment Office characterized FY 2019 as volatile. “FY19 really showed how resilient to risk our portfolio is,” wrote Chief Executive Officer Joseph Dowling III in an email

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In the first match of the seven-game Ivy League schedule, the Bears looked to rebound from last week’s 1-0 loss to Villanova. They managed a 2-1 win over Dartmouth with goals from Charcio ’20 and White ’21.

Women’s soccer brings end to Dartmouth’s five-game winning streak

BY RANDI RICHARDSON STAFF WRITER

ARTS & CULTURE

The intensity was evident from the start. The pace of the game was feverish. The play was physical. Both teams knew what was at stake.

Yes, it was just the first of the women’s soccer team’s seven-game Ivy League schedule. But the meaning was not lost on either squad; Brown needed to bounce back from last week’s loss by playing host to Dart-

mouth, a team riding a five-game win streak.

“Every single Ivy game,” said captain Abby Carchio ’20, “is like a championship game.”

Saturday revealed the blueprint for how Brown can win the conference title this season. In the 2-1 win over Dartmouth, the Bears’ trio of midfielders — Carchio, Star White ’21 and

MUSIC REVIEW

Colson Whitehead shares artistic journey

Charli XCX releases new wave poptimism in ‘Charli’

Athenaeum hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Underground Railroad’

BY KATHERINE OK SENIOR STAFF WRITER

BY ELISE RYAN ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR Colson Whitehead, author of nine novels including the #1 New York Times best-seller “The Underground Railroad” and his latest 2019 release “The Nickel Boys,” took to the pulpit of the First Unitarian Church Friday night to read, laugh and discuss the qualms and joys of a writer’s life with a packed audience.

The Providence Athenaeum organized the event as a part of their fall

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Artist revives production, artistry in latest studio album released Sept. 13

Charli XCX’s third studio album, “Charli,” released on Sept. 13, reinvents the pop artist’s identity and reinforces her knack for electronic nuance through innovative production and unique pop invention.

Twenty-seven-year-old Charlotte Aitchison, who performs under the moniker of Charli XCX, has a long history in the pop music industry. In 2012, she collaborated with the Swedish duo Icona Pop for their track, “I Love It,” and in 2014, she was famously featured in Australian rapper Iggy Azalea’s chart-topping single, “Fancy.” Charli XCX has also written for other artists such as Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello on their recent hit “Señorita.”

Much of the sonic energy featured in

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British singer-songwriter Charli XCX is known for her hedonistic pop songs, but in her third studio album “Charli,” the artist further explores and develops her experimental artistry.

“Charli,” however, is a far cry from her previous work in the pop industry — it

bends, twists and destroys the familiar pop song narrative in order to rework

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Undocumented DJs offer advice, share challenges of entrepreneurship Event explores intersection of artistry, activism through music, nightlife

BY BECKY WOLFSON STAFF WRITER When Zacil Pech and Graciela Lopez — also known as Sizzle Fantastic and Funky Caramelo, respectively — threw their first parties as DJs two years ago, 50 people came. But it’s only taken two years for that number to grow exponentially: now, their parties bring in 1000 to 1500 attendees.

Pech and Lopez were invited to share their entrepreneurial experiences as undocumented, queer women DJs of color alongside Diana Chacon, who is also known as UndocuBougie, on Sunday. The Undocumented, First-Generation College and Low-Income Student Center and Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship partnered to host the panel, “Undocu-Entrepreneurship: Hustling and Thriving.”

The event was planned as part of the U-FLi Center’s Undocu-Series, which aims to create space for discussion around the experiences of undocumented communities. Renata Mauriz ’17, the Student Success Program Coordinator at the U-FLi Center, and Julio Reyes ’12, the Program Director of the U-FLi Center, wanted the panel to speak to the intersection of the undocumented experience and entrepreneurship, so they brought the Nelson Center on board.

“This panel demonstrates how undocumented women DJs are creating and cultivating systems of support out-

SOCCER FROM PAGE 1 gressiveness, led by the midfielders, seemed to give Dartmouth trouble. The Bears’ defeat of the Big Green offered a glimpse into their path to the title.

“We have a lot of depth,” said junior captain Sydney Cummings ’21. “For other teams we shut out two players max, but they have to shut down our whole team.”

The Bears pounced at the start of each half, instead of nonchalantly playing like they have done in previous matchups. Against Villanova last weekend, Bruno admitted to coming out lackadaisical and their eight-shot, zero on goal performance ultimately led to a 1-0 defeat.

But Saturday night, Brown dominated the opening 20 minutes of play by executing offensive movements to produce viable shot attempts and suffocated Dartmouth’s offense with effective defensive pressure. By the end of the half, Brown had taken 11 shots to Dartmouth’s three.

The Big Green hadn’t allowed a goal in five games, but Carchio ended its streak six minutes into the contest. In her first start since returning from a hip injury, she stepped into the middle of the 18 and sent a left-footed shot toward the back-left corner of the net. Dartmouth goalie Mariel Gordon defended the middle of the net with a wide, tripod-like stance. She failed to move her feet and, instead, decided to wave her arms in an attempt to stop the ball.

“It was tough being out (with injury),” Carchio said. “I did a lot of vi-

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The U-Fli Center’s Undocu-Series gave undocumented, queer DJs of color an opportunity to speak about their successes in untapped industries. side the economic system, while also thinking about how party spaces can serve as political activism,” Reyes said.

After Pech spoke at an event on campus last year, Reyes and Mauriz reached out to her about putting on a panel with with undocumented artists.

Pech suggested “focusing on undocumented queer women as well, who get put behind the scenes a lot of times and aren’t given a platform to showcase their talents,” she told The Herald.

During the two-hour panel and workshop, the DJs covered topics ranging from entrepreneurship to political activism. They spoke to students about different types of business models and partnerships and how nightlife event production could act as a form of resistance.

Lopez and Pech work together to produce Cumbiatón, a movement that aims to uplift and heal communities through music. Along with their three other team members, they have established themselves as a company and have grown the event. Their first party was in Boyle Heights, California, which they said mostly family and friends attended, but they’ve since moved on to perform for national audiences in cities like San Francisco, Seattle and New York.

The third panelist, Chacon, is the creator of Arrebato, a celebration in Queens, New York that centers trans, queer, black and brown womxn and femme-identifying individuals.

“Besides (Lopez) and (Pech), I haven’t met any other undocumented

sualisations so when I came in, I was ready to go and ready to put it away for my team.”

There was another play in the 32nd minute that further contributed to Brown’s dominance. Raphino ran the length of the field, going one-on-four, after accepting a pass at midfield. She beat two defenders on pure speed alone, crossing up the third while keeping the fourth on her left hip. As Raphino crossed the goalie’s box, she shot into all the legs around her. She recovered the ball, but her entangled legs unintentionally delivered it to Dartmouth as she took a hard fall. The referees did not call a foul, but it was exactly the kind of tenacious action Brown wanted that night and in future games.

“We (worked) a lot on set pieces (this week) and did a lot with forwards getting shots on goal,” Cummings said. “We train in practice and get done whatever we need to get done (in games).”

With 10 minutes left in the first half, a misplayed Brown ball on the wing resulted in a Dartmouth possession.

Erin Kawakami ’21 dribbled up from the wing, across midfield and to the top of the box where the entire Brown defense awaited her. Rather than get into a footwork contest, Kawakami hocked it from range, high and long, over the outstretched arms of leaping Brown goalie Kayla Thompson ’21. The half ended tied at one.

As was the story of the first, Brown opened the second half aggressively.

On Bruno’s first play of the half, Ava Seelenfreund ’23 swooped in from the wing as Brown attacked from right to

left. Seelenfreund received a cross and instantly booted a shot that went just wide of the net. Although unsuccessful, her shot showed that Brown kept up the same energy.

In the 51st minute, a Seelenfreund-Raphino outside-inside sequence produced a Raphino shot attempt.

Gordon stumbled in the direction of Raphino, and did not purposely stop the ball but, nevertheless, managed to thwart the shot. Five minutes later, Cummings’ corner kick died after grazing Raphino’s head, falling into an open space in the crowded penalty box. White got to it before Dartmouth’s scrambling defense, smoking in the uncontested rebound.

This marked the first time of the season that an opposing team scored twice on the Big Green.

The next 20 minutes featured back and forth tussles — Dartmouth was unwilling to wave the white flag yet and Brown kept the pedal to the metal. The Big Green sent multiple shots Thompson’s way. She played hot potato with them but eventually secured the catch and stopped the goal.

Brown took advantage of any and all stall tactics for the last five minutes of the game, solidifying its 2-1 victory over the Green.

“We’re our own biggest competitor,” said Head Coach Kia McNeill. “Everything’s in our hands. If we make sure that everyone shows up on any given day, I don’t think there’s anybody in the league that we can’t beat.”

Brown will look for its second league win at Columbia University Saturday.

DJ’s, and they are located on the other side of the country,” Chacon said. After connecting with Chacon through social media last year, Lopez and Pech quickly became mentors for her, Chacon said.

The close relationships between the three women stuck out to some of the panel attendees. “I like that they emphasize the communal aspect of entrepreneurship, because generally when I think of entrepreneurship I think of competition,” said Jasmine Ruiz ’20.5, Communications Coordinator for the U-FLi Center and a former photo editor for The Herald.

“I was taken aback by how they developed a business (by) learning from each other,” said Jennifer Nazareno, assistant professor at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship. “For me, coming

CHARLI FROM PAGE 1 her own artistic image.

One of the stand-out tracks on “Charli” is “2099,” featuring Australian artist Troye Sivan. With booming bass drops and unexpected electronic distortion, “2099” encapsulates Charli XCX’s subversion of pop conventionality. With the lyrics of “Pull up, roll up, fuck up / Fast like a Nascar, never touch us / Got visions, levels, they don’t get me,” Charli XCX rises above her other pop music contemporaries to proclaim a brave new world of unfamiliar sounds.

Charli XCX’s new foray into a sort of anti-pop music does not exactly mean that she is rejecting her former pop music cohorts or proclaiming the genre as invalid. With tracks like “Gone,” featuring Christine and the Queens, Charli XCX harkens back to a familiar chorus-bridge pop structure.

But the almost-arrhythmic stratagem and bouncy technical production sets the track as pop-adjacent. The track pushes the boundaries of popular music, uninhibited by the garish pitfalls of the genre, such as predictability and monotony.

The album’s production by the famed founder of PC Music, A. G. Cook, is also showcased in the songs “Next Level Charli” and “Click,” the latter featuring singer Kim Petras

from an immigrant family and hearing the challenges they faced and overcame to develop a sustainable business (is something) I was very impressed by.”

Among the challenges they faced while building their careers as DJs, Chacon, Lopez and Pech all had to confront party spaces that lacked explicitly inclusive cultures.

“Nightlife hasn’t always been so accepting to women of color, queer, undocumented ­— everything is stacked against us,” Pech said. “We are met with a lot of resistance (from) cis, hetero white males who aren’t willing to listen because they have had access to these spaces for so long.”

Pech, Chacon and Lopez encouraged students to share their own entrepreneurial ventures and practice elevator pitches.

“Knowing that I don’t have to change who I am to be successful is something that I am taking out of this event,” said Heidy Mejia-Puerta ’22, who serves as the Undergraduate Community Engagement Coordinator for the U-FLi Center. “It’s really important to put on events that make us visible and give us a space on campus to exist.”

In addition to the panel, the three artists marked their second performance together at the U-FLi Center’s block party at the Faculty Club Saturday night. The location was explicitly chosen to break down historical conceptions about who has access to the Faculty Club space, Reyes said.

“Our hope is that students come and enter the space in the Faculty Club, thinking about crossing a certain boundary and claiming space in an area where people don’t feel comfortable,” Reyes said.

and rapper Tommy Cash. Charli XCX flaunts her hyper-autotuned voice as one that is perfectly in flux with Cook’s harsh distortion and sonic manipulations. It is a soundscape reminiscent of some of her previous work, such as the head-rushing “I Got It” off of her 2017 mixtape “Pop 2” and the plastic-poppiness of her 2016 EP “Vroom Vroom.”

In “Charli,” the singer-songwriter also shows that she is not just a hedonistic pop robot — she is also capable of unnerving vulnerability that shines through candid lyricism. In “Cross You Out,” featuring Sky Ferreira, Charli backpedals from her earlier lyrics of self-reliance, and she sings, “When you’re not around, when you’re not around / I’ll finally cross you out.”

The mantra reveals a vulnerable side of Charli without neglecting her explosive electronics.

It is fair to say that some tracks on “Charli” fell flat — specifically “February 2017” and “Shake It,” which both feature a number of artists such as Yaeji, Clairo and CupcakKe. While these songs remain slightly misaligned, the album together succeeds in redefining Charli XCX’s vision of a poptimistic future. In “Charli,” the artist carefully crafts her own glitchpop artistic identity as one that is simultaneously vulnerable and impenetrable.

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SPORTS

Men’s soccer falls to San Diego State Bears drop fifth match of season before first Ivy League game next week at Columbia

BY RYAN HANDEL SENIOR STAFF WRITER The men’s soccer team dropped their third straight game Sunday to San Diego State University, losing 0-2 on two short range goals by the Aztecs.

Bruno pressured San Diego State all afternoon, posting nine shots on goal and ten corner kicks, but could not get the ball in the net. Despite their numerous offensive chances and nine saves by goalkeeper Max Gross ’21, the Bears allowed two Aztec scores off chaotic rebounds inside the penalty box and remain in search of their first home victory of the season.

Brown (1-5-1) traded blows with the Aztecs (3-4-1) throughout the first half, as each team launched nine shots and made five saves in the opening period.

But despite the teams’ even play, the Aztecs’ Hunter George broke through in the 39th minute to give San Diego State a 1-0 edge heading into halftime.

With the ball pinballing around inside Brown’s penalty box, San Diego State’s Pablo Pelaez took control and sent a well-executed cross to George, who deftly headed the ball into the right side of the goal before Gross could react.

The Aztecs then began the second half with a bang, as Pelaez again took control of a rebound off a Brown player, but this time doing the job himself and tapping the ball into the net for an easy

WHITEHEAD FROM PAGE 1 season programming.

While introducing Whitehead, the Executive Director of the Athenaeum Matt Burriesci said, “Whether we realize it or not, the world that comes after this one will be defined by his work.” Whitehead rose to prominence following the release of “The Underground Railroad” in 2016. The novel tells the tale of Cora, a slave who travels on a literal railroad beneath the earth in search of freedom.

This historical-fiction novel marked a change in Whitehead’s literary focus, a shift away from his previous science-fiction or dystopian works.

“He moves in and out of forms and historical periods like it’s no big deal, and all the while, he’s changing how we think, how we speak and hopefully how we move forward as a nation,” Burriesci added, noting the scope of Whitehead’s nine novels.

To the sound of roaring applause, Whitehead began his lecture by detailing his path to fiction writing. When he was young, Whitehead was inspired by the writers and media that surrounded him. “I really liked comics and science fiction and I adored Stephen King,” he said. But he was also attracted to the writer’s lifestyle, explaining to the amusement of the audience, “If you’re a writer, you can work from home. You don’t have to wear clothes or talk to people, and you just make up stuff all day.”

Whitehead discussed beginning his professional writing career at the Village Voice newspaper in New York.

After dabbling in television critique, Whitehead was inspired by lingering

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Although the Bears registered nine shots on target, ten corner kicks and nine saves by Max Gross ’21, the Aztecs came away the 2-0 victors. goal. The two-goal lead allowed them to adopt a mostly defensive strategy for the rest of the contest.

Gross attributed the two goals allowed by the Bears to slight mental lapses. “When the other team is putting the ball in the box a lot, you have to be really composed,” Gross said. “We have to make sure our clearances are on and we know where the other team is.”

Although Bruno had seven corner kicks in the second stanza compared to just one for San Diego State, the Aztec back line held firm and finished off the clean sheet. Brown had several promising opportunities to score, including a drive into the penalty box by captain Daniel Schiller ’20 and multiple shots on goal in the final ten minutes by Derek Waleffe ’22, but the Bears were unable to capitalize and took their fifth loss of the year.

Matthew Chow ’20 led Bruno with four shot attempts and two shots on goal, while Schiller, Rodrigo D’Andrea ’20 and Owen Schwartz ’23 all sent a shot

thoughts from his previous television coverage to begin his first novel manuscript involving a sitcom.

Unfortunately, his idea was met with little interest from publishers.

Whitehead found that Donna Summer’s Billboard Hot 100 rendition of Richard Harris’ song “MacArthur Park” captured his feelings at that time. In case the audience could not recall the tune, Whitehead played the song into the microphone through his iPad. Members of the audience slowly began to sing along until voices and laughter rose to fill the olive-green, domed ceiling of the church.

When the singing ended, Whitehead explained that the song’s lyrics, “Someone left the cake out in the rain / I don’t think that I can take it / ‘Cause it took so long to bake it,” spoke to his feelings of rejection and dejection. “‘MacArthur Park’ is an investigation of the artists’ journey,” he mused, listing the names of publishers who had left his first manuscript, which had taken so long to make, out in the rain.

Fortunately, that rejection did not last long.

For a portion of the evening, Whitehead read from “The Nickel Boys,” his most recent novel released in July of this year. The book follows Elwood and other boys from Nickel Academy, a corrupt juvenile detention center under the guise of a state-run reform school in the 1960s. It is based on the true story of the Dozier School for Boys in Florida — where many unmarked graves were discovered after the school’s closure in 2011 — which Whitehead came across while scrolling through his Twitter feed one day.

on target as well. But Aztec goalkeeper Max Watkin finished with a perfect save percentage and denied Brown’s shots each time.

“Finishing chances is the most difficult part in soccer, that’s why the scores are always so close,” said Head Coach Patrick Laughlin. “We’re still trying to find those moments to get us a goal.

But, attack-wise I thought we were very good — we created a lot of opportunities.

I was really pleased with the energy and the effort of the guys.”

Brown will look to get back on track next week as they begin their Ivy League schedule. Schiller noted that the Ivy League games are the most important part of Brown’s season, and offer an opportunity to move past the team’s early struggles.

“All eyes on the Ivy … we all feel it as a team, our best soccer is not behind us, it’s only ahead of us,” Schiller said.

Bruno heads to New York Saturday to take on Columbia before a home match against Princeton the following week.

to The Herald. “In both major stock market draw-downs in December and May we significantly outperformed.”

“The critical factor in the endowment’s investment performance was protecting capital during two substantial declines in the stock market,” Dietze wrote.

The University outperformed peer top quartile and peer median returns over one-, three-, five- and ten-year periods, according to data from Cambridge Associates. This year’s 12.4 percent return more than doubles the peer top quartile and peer median return rates of 5.9 and 4.9 percent, respectively.

So far, only three other Ivy League universities have publicly released their endowment return. The University’s endowment return outperformed Dartmouth, Harvard and Penn, which returned 7.5 percent, 6.5 percent and 6.5 percent, respectively.

The endowment serves as an “essential financial resource for Brown’s educational mission,” Dietze wrote. It finances various University expenditures including scholarships, professorships, centers, libraries, athletics and student support, instruction and lectures, according to the documents.

The endowment currently supports 14 percent of the University’s annual operating budget. In FY 2019, it distributed $165 million to the University, or around $16,000 per student, according to the documents.

The endowment also received $98 million in gifts. “The Investment Office is focused on protecting and growing that resource for generations to come,” Dietza added.

“The endowment is not invested to optimize the performance in a single year,” Dietze said. Rather, “it is invested to generate strong risk-adjusted returns over the long term, and to be adaptable to macroeconomic scenarios.”

The University’s endowment return exceeded the 10.4 percent return of the S&P 500 Index, which was slightly above average historical returns, according to the document. The S&P 500 index is used as a measure of the U.S. stock market performance. Thirty-seven percent of the endowment was invested in absolute return strategies, 27 percent in private equity, 21 percent in public equity and 4 percent in real assets, according to the documents.

Similar to FY 2018, 71 percent of endowment assets were invested in North America.

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Novelist Colson Whitehead addressed a packed audience at the First Unitarian Church at an event hosted by the Athenaeum. Whitehead discussed his most recent novel, “The Nickel Boys,” as well as his career path.

A New York Times review of “The Nickel Boys” noted that Whitehead “applies a master storyteller’s muscle not just to excavating a grievous past but to examining the process by which Americans undermine, distort, hide or ‘neatly erase’ the stories he is driven to tell.”

This process unites Whitehead’s works, which delve into topics like slavery or urban America through fictionalization.

His ideas also come from dreams or

childhood misunderstandings — like the belief that the Underground Railroad was a physical train. This concept for “The Underground Railroad” came to him two decades ago, but he explained, “Each time I finished a novel, I would pull out my notes and ask myself, ‘Am I ready?’ And the answer was always, ‘No.’” Fourteen years later, he decided he was ready. The novel won both the National Book Award and the

Pulitzer Prize, topped the New York Times best-sellers list and put Whitehead on the cover of TIME magazine.

Speaking to aspiring writers — perhaps to those who are still watching their cakes melt in the rain — Whitehead said, “My advice would be to read and read and read to find out what kind of writer you want to be, and to write and write and write to find out what kind of writer you actually are.”

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Football travels to Harvard for Ivy League opener, loses to Crimson 42-7 Bears start hot but fall down stretch in first Ivy match-up of 2019 season

BY AMELIA SPALTER STAFF WRITER On Friday night, Brown came charging out of the locker room and scored a touchdown 34 seconds into the game against Harvard. But Bruno ultimately suffered a familiar fate, falling to Harvard for the ninth consecutive time by a 42-7 margin.

Quarterback EJ Perry ’21, playing his first Ivy League contest, did his best to breathe life into the Bears (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) and finished the game 17-27 with 162 passing yards, no touchdowns and no picks.

EJ Perry had “a lot of people running at him,” said Head Coach James Perry ’00. “We’ll get better there. This group of guys has really worked hard and I can’t express that enough. Leading up to this game they practiced very well, and for huge chunks of the game, they played very well.”

The first period opened with the Bears playing the strongest that they would all night. Running back Allen Smith ’22 rushed for 75 yards in Bruno’s first drive of the quarter, capping it off with a 22-yard touchdown gallop to claim Brown’s only lead of the game.

But for a short time, the Bears clung

to the lead, with the defense running down the Crimson (1-1, 1-0) until the final minutes of the quarter. In the second to last drive of the period, Harvard scored its first touchdown of the game on a 12-yard pass from quarterback Jake Smith to wideout Cody Chrest to close the stanza tied at seven.

“As a defense, we continued to play hard and compete,” said Elijah Pierre ’20, who recorded three tackles in the game. “We’ll need to clean up a lot of our mistakes in preparation for next week.”

The second quarter was all Harvard, with Smith netting two of his four touchdown passes of the game.

The defense did all they could to stop the bleeding, but it was not enough.

Harvard posted their first touchdown of the quarter with a 13-yard pass, following up just over five minutes later with a 34-yard touchdown bomb to wide receiver Jack Cook with five seconds remaining in the half.

“There was one play at the end of that second quarter where … the game started to get away from us,” Pierre said.

“We’re going to make sure that next week we’re better prepared.”

Coming out of halftime, Harvard continued to dominate, with Smith launching his third touchdown pass to extend the team’s lead to 28-7. Brown was unable to answer the Crimson’s scoring barrage as the rest of the quarter passed scoreless.

“Expectation is the same every week, to go out there and execute the

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The Bears took the lead only 34 seconds into the game after a 75-yard rush by running back Allen Smith ’22 followed by a 22-yard touchdown. Despite the early lead, Bruno failed to score again for the rest of the game. offense as best we can,” EJ Perry said.

“That’s the same mentality for every position on the field, offense and defense. Throughout the game, we’re all thinking the same thing, but we can’t change what happened.”

As the game entered its final quarter, Harvard looked to shut the door on the Bears. The Crimson scored a touchdown on the opening drive of the fourth, pushing victory seven points further from Bruno’s grasp.

“We did not run the ball well,” said

James Perry. “We always love running the ball, but especially as drives wear on, … we’d like to run the ball better.”

As the game wound down, Harvard notched yet another touchdown to bring the score to 42-7, the game’s final tally.

“We had a lot of explosive plays

by EJ Perry and our receivers,” Pierre said. “We just have to make sure we capitalize on those plays to make more happen next week. Brown will be back and better next weekend.”

When the final whistle blew, the Crimson had outgained the Bears in total yardage 521-267. The loss against Harvard marks the 16th straight Ivy League defeat for Bruno, extending a streak that spans back to the end of the 2016 season.

The Bears will return to the field next weekend at Brown Stadium against Ocean State rival University of Rhode Island for the Bears’ alumni day and the Governor’s Cup.

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Halt the search for new BCSC director

BY SHIVANI GUTURU ’20, JESSICA JIANG ’20.5 AND MAY NIIYA ’20 OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS

Over the summer, the director of the Brown Center for Students of Color was terminated. This came with very little warning to students, who were away from campus and received no official announcement of his termination.

Since July, a search committee has been working to find a replacement director for the BCSC. We have learned that the search committee has chosen three candidates for the position from the pool of applicants, who are scheduled to visit campus between Oct. 7 and 10 in order to meet with students, staff, alumni and faculty. However, given the degree to which the search committee and hiring process has disregarded input from undergraduate students, we believe that the search cannot continue as is. We write as undergraduates deeply invested in the BCSC — one of us is the sole undergraduate member of the search committee — to urge Assistant Vice President Nicole Truesdell to halt the search because it has been conducted on flawed procedural grounds.

The BCSC Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan requires that half of all search committees for Center staff be comprised of students. The search committee for a new BCSC director was formed in the middle of the summer, when students were away from campus and without an official announcement about the director vacancy communicated to the student body. The search committee initially consisted of two administrators, including Truesdell, one staff member, one faculty member, one graduate student and two undergraduate students. By July 24, the faculty member had left the committee; by Sept. 12, one of the undergraduate students had left the committee as well. Now, the undergraduate representation is one out of five people, and there has been no attempt that we are aware of to find faculty members or undergraduates to replace those who left.

We have now repeatedly voiced our frustration with the process, and yet we still feel unheard.

On Sept. 19, Truesdell held a town hall to discuss the direction of the Center — including the ongoing search for a replacement director of the BCSC

— and to gather student input. Undergraduate students, graduate students, staff and faculty all attended. Students expressed confusion and frustration over the sudden termination of the former BCSC director, and urged Truesdell to restart the search process. Among these students was May Niiya ’20, the remaining undergraduate representative on the search committee and a co-writer of this op-ed. She addressed Truesdell and said: “I haven’t been feeling heard at all… I don’t feel like my feedback has been adequately taken into account at many stages of the search process. I feel really alone when I’m in the search committee with you and a group of administrators and one grad student, and I’m advocating for people that I care about and I’m the only person. It’s really really scary.”

TWTP participants go on to attend year-round programming and become staffers at the Center themselves.

For students who are often leaving home and entering a predominantly white institution for the first time, the Center is a crucial refuge and community; relationships with professional staff play a huge role in creating such an environment. Most of the people hit hardest by the former director’s sudden termination are undergraduates: We did not get to say goodbye to someone we worked under and had close relationships to. This makes it especially hurtful that the search committee for the former director’s replacement has proceeded without meaningful consideration of our input.

Several undergraduate students who we spoke to, many of whom have been deeply involved in

“We call on Truesdell, as the senior director of the Institute for Transformative Practice at Brown, to halt the search process until a new search can be run that takes undergraduate input fully into account.”

Though it’s important to have representation from all groups of campus life when making such a significant decision about the future of BCSC, the role of undergraduate students in the BCSC cannot be overstated. It is unacceptable to have only one undergraduate on a search committee where decisions are primarily made by majority vote. The BCSC typically hires around 80-90 undergraduate students as staff each year who report directly to professional staff, and these students plan the majority of Center programming and play a key role in Center outreach to the rest of the student body. For example, students help run BCSC’s largest program of the year, the Third World Transition Program, which is a pre-orientation program for first-years entering Brown. Many

the BCSC throughout their time at Brown, did not even find out about the former director’s termination until shortly before the town hall.

The climate of distrust that has resulted from the sudden absence of a beloved staff member makes hiring a replacement at this time a poor decision that will have long-term ramifications for the Center and the crucial function it serves as a home for students of color. “If someone is selected out of this search committee, out of this atmosphere of distrust that you just spoke to, that person will be under the same level of scrutiny and distrust that is being aired throughout this meeting,” said Kuno Haimbodi ‘22 at the town hall. “I don’t think that’s fair to students and people who are going to rely on that person and who

are going to need a level of comfort and vulnerability to be able to share for that to be a productive and creative space. This process has not been just. It has not been fair, it has not been accountable – so we cannot expect the product to be one that we can look to for support and for comfort.”

Loretta Eboigbe ’20 voiced similar concerns about distrust within the undergraduate student body. “Replacement without closure is erasure,” she powerfully articulated. “That’s important in this space where people of color are constantly being erased, constantly being made to disappear.

What Kuno said is really important to think about ­— introducing someone into this space where we’re not ready for that.”

We call on Truesdell, as the senior director of the Institute for Transformative Practice at Brown, to halt the search process until a new search can be run that takes undergraduate input fully into account. Transformative justice requires a commitment to truth-telling, dialogue and building relationships of trust. The lack of transparency about the treatment of a beloved staff member , followed by the hasty search process for a replacement in which the lone undergraduate voice felt continually dismissed, have made it very difficult for us to trust the process and to trust that our administrators have our best interests in mind.

Bringing a new director into the Center when these relationships of trust have been deeply damaged will only further alienate students. The Center does need a director, but it would make more sense for a current university staff or faculty member to serve as interim director before the Center designs an inclusive search committee — as opposed to introducing an entirely new person selected through a flawed and unjust process. We say this as students of color who have called the BCSC home for years, and who are committed to ensuring that it can remain a home for generations of students of color to come.

Shivani Guturu ‘20 can be reached at shivani_ guturu@brown.edu, Jessica Jiang ‘20.5 can be reached at jessica_jiang@brown.edu and May Niiya ‘20 can be reached at may_niya@ brown.edu

How to fix the New York Jets

BY GEORGE KLEIN SPORTS COLUMNIST

The New England Patriots will contend for a championship yet again this season. With a 4-0 record, the Pats are meeting expectations and playing like the best team in the league. Football fans in Rhode Island can enjoy a relatively stress-free regular season, watching New England overwhelm opposing teams.

My hapless Jets, on the other hand? Not quite the same. They haven’t won a game yet and many supporters are already looking ahead to the 2020 Draft, as New York’s playoff hopes have disappeared. The Jets haven’t reached the playoffs since the 2010 season — almost an entire decade ago. After so much time spent as a laughingstock, how can New York turn this situation around?

First off, the Jets need to give quarterback Sam Darnold some help. New York’s current receivers aren’t able to make enough plays for Darnold at this point. Robby Anderson can haul in deep balls with his speed, but his skinny frame gets shoved around, and outside of vertical routes he is a non-factor. He’s not strong enough with the ball in his hands either — defenders can easily rip and punch it away from him, creating far too many turnovers. Quincy Enunwa is talented but just cannot stay healthy.

The 27-year-old is out for the rest of the season

due to injury and has only played in 12 games over the last three years. Jamison Crowder can provide value in a supporting role, but should never be the primary option in an offense. Improvement at the receiver position must happen in Darnold’s formative years if the Jets expect him to grow into a franchise quarterback.

Head coach Adam Gase must go as well. The next couple of seasons are too important for Darnold, especially since New York opened the checkbooks to sign running back Le’Veon Bell in a push to become competitive. Gase has shown that he can’t get the job done. His hiring confused fans last offseason and all of their worst expectations have come true. He has displayed passive play calling and little effort in the second halves of losses, while blaming his players with little self-reflection. Gase has amassed a 23-28 record in his NFL coaching career, 13-22 since the start of the 2017 season — at some point, he needs to look in the mirror. Miami fired Gase for a reason last year, and the Jets failed to learn from the Dolphins. He creates a turbulent environment and his coaching disappoints.

New York should look to hire Lincoln Riley, the head coach at the University of Oklahoma.

Riley has gained a reputation for fostering fantastic quarterback play, helping Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray become #1 overall draft picks in back-to-back seasons. This year, he’s working his magic on Jalen Hurts, who has opened eyes with his performance after transferring from

the University of Alabama. Several teams will try to entice Riley to join their respective franchises, but the Jets have a strong case to make to the young candidate. Darnold is only 22 years old and has lots of room for growth, so Riley can immediately put his best coaching talents to use in the NFL with the Jets. Add in Bell, one

“The organization

has to act now and change fast, or it could be another decade before New York returns to the playoffs.”

of the most dynamic players in the league, and Riley has the pieces to jump-start New York’s staggering offense.

Another important improvement sounds obvious, but has proven challenging for New York: Draft better. Simple as that. In recent years, the Jets have made solid selections in the early stages of the first round, picking safety Jamal Adams sixth overall in 2017 and Darnold third in 2018. But picks made in later rounds haven’t panned out. Four players whom New York

drafted in 2017 — just a little over two years ago — aren’t in the NFL any more. The Jets already cut Jachai Polite, a linebacker taken in the third round of this year’s draft. That can’t happen if you hope to field a playoff team. While much of the blame has been directed (deservingly) towards Mike Maccagnan, the general manager whom the Jets fired in May, the new regime must do whatever it can to end this pattern.

That means investing more in scouting and analytics personnel. Current general manager Joe Douglas needs to understand that better drafting is at the top of most fans’ wishlists.

This season won’t end well for the Jets. Darnold is hoping to return for Week Five, but it’s unclear how quickly he can shake off his illness.

New York will have a record among the league’s worst, battling for draft position among the likes of the Dolphins, Bengals, and Cardinals — a major disappointment after an offseason filled with excitement and optimism. But again, with Darnold and Bell leading the offense and Adams playing stout defense, the Jets have a good core moving forward. That being said, the organization has to act now and change fast, or it could be another decade before New York returns to the playoffs.

George Klein ’20 can be reached at george_ klein@brown.edu. Please send responses to this opinion to letters@browndailyherald. com and op-eds to opinions@browndailyherald.com.

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