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Med School promotes Peachy to friends, Peach to competitors Choi ’20 to compete humanistic medicine Peter in the American Beatbox Humanistic medicine incorporated into scholarly concentrations, electives, extracurriculars By MIA PATTILLO SENIOR REPORTER
At the end of a year dissecting and studying cadavers, first-year students at the Alpert Medical School host an annual Ceremony of Gratitude. Each May, they meet and thank the families of those who donated their bodies to help students understand human anatomy. During the ceremony, students express their gratitude through poetry and speeches, dances and hand-written cards. Despite working with these bodies for the past year, students do not learn the first names of the donors until the flower ceremony during the Ceremony of Gratitude. This ceremony serves as one of the many ways that students at the Med School strive to remember and reflect on individuals as people instead of just as bodies they interact with. Humanistic practices are incorporated into classes and scholarly concentrations, electives, extracurriculars and reflection sessions. Brown has taken a lead in thoughtfully incorporating critical topics that have previously been neglected into
curricula, such as LGBTQ+ patient care, racism and transgender medicine, said Steven Rougas, assistant professor of medical science and emergency medicine. Medical students first learn and practice patient-centered communication through Doctoring, a clinical skills training program for first- and secondyear students. Based on a collection of poems and essays entitled “On Doctoring,” the program teaches topics such as medical interviewing, administering a physical exam and presenting an oral case, as well as “thinking about the patient as a whole,” said Rougas, who directs the program. Each class is typically made up of eight or nine students and is taught by both a physician and a social behavioral sciences faculty member who comes from a background such as nursing, pastoral care, education or social work. The combination of a physician and a non-physician perspective “allows for a more interprofessional approach,” Rougas said. “We help students navigate how to respond empathetically, how to use reflective listening (and) how to utilize what the patient’s telling you and their story to respond appropriately based on their needs,” Rougas explained. The program “helps students start » See MEDICINE, page 4
Championships, ranked 14th qualifier By TESS DEMEYER SENIOR REPORTER
It started three years ago with a faded orange hat and an effort to bring a stoic first-year out of his shell. The result was a stage name that Peter Choi ’20 will perform under at the Brooklyn Bazaar Nov. 10 armed only with a microphone. Alone in the basement of Wayland House, Choi set up a camera and took a step back. He introduced himself as ‘Peach’ and proceeded to perform a two-minute beatboxing routine he had been perfecting for months. Six minutes before the Oct. 5 deadline, he uploaded his submission for the American Beatbox Championships and took a shot at breaking into the elite level of competitive vocal percussion.
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Peter “Peach” Choi ’20 is a member of the Jabberwocks and studies computer music and multimedia within the music department. Last November, Choi dove headfirst into the competitive beatboxing scene with only slight knowledge and no experience. The 2017 American Beatbox Championships was his first live beatboxing event, and he approached the open mic elimination round with little more than a rough draft of a competitive routine. Choi
didn’t advance to the top 32 but left the competition with fresh sounds, more precise delivery and the newfound understanding that top performers didn’t just wing it on stage. They prepare “carefully crafted and structured” arrangements and strategically maneuver the microphone throughout their routines to control sounds like
whistles, zippers and hums. After jamming at the competition with some of the icons of the artform, Choi felt like “everything leveled up.” “I definitely thought that I was really good before I went to last year’s championships, and then I was very rudely awakened to how large even » See BEATBOX, page 3
BrownTogether fundraising pace picks up Photo, sound exhibition creates immersive experience
Campaign aims to hit two-thirds mark by spring, $3 billlion could be raised before 2022
Housed in List Art Center, Luke Moldof GS exhibition ‘Traditional Terrain’ features mix of garbage, glamour
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The University’s BrownTogether fundraising campaign has raised $1.88 billion to date toward its $3 billion goal, according to Senior Vice President for Advancement Sergio Gonzalez. The University hopes to surpass the twothirds mark of its fundraising campaign by spring 2019, said President Christina Paxson P’19. BrownTogether hit its halfway point point January 2018, The Herald previously reported. The campaign is slated to end in 2022, which is a conservative estimate considering the pace of fundraising, Paxson said. The campaign has sped up in the past year: The University raised an alltime high of $389 million from donors in fiscal year 2018, up from the total of
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about $280 million raised in fiscal year 2017, Gonzalez said. Before the BrownTogether campaign began in 2015, the University raised about $200 million per year, Paxson said. The BrownTogether campaign raises funds for four different categories: Education and Research, Campus and Community, Investing in People and the Brown Annual Fund. “These aren’t hard-and-fast buckets,” Paxson said.
Some donations may be designated to support initiatives across multiple categories. While the campaign’s $3 billion goal has not changed, the targets for each category shifted as a result of the revised operational plan that the University released in September, Gonzalez said. The goal for Investing in People decreased by $50 million, and the goal for Education » See FUNDRAISER, BACK
Photographs of trash, animal carcasses and picturesque views were displayed at the opening reception of “Traditional Terrain,” a photo and sound exhibition by Luke Moldof GS. Based on the theme of bridges, the show featured sounds of traffic humming, trains rumbling and bridges creaking — as well as slideshows and videos — that supplemented the photos mounted on the walls. Initially, the photos in Gallery 221 in List Art Building did not appear to have much in common. Along with litter and dead animals, Moldof photographed a motorcyclist crossing a
bridge, rivers, crushed orange cones, cityscapes and much more. But these seemingly unrelated pictures, videos and sounds were all recorded on bridges or presented bridges as their subjects. Many of the captured locations are recognizable, such as the iconic Crook Point Bascule Bridge, which connects Providence and East Providence. Moldof, a sixth-year student in the PhD program in Computer Music and Multimedia, decided to photograph and record bridges to document both sound and sight. “I knew it would give me the flexibility to do almost anything,” Moldof said. One of his major goals, he explained, was to find a project that would be interesting both visually and aurally. “I realized I could make recordings of the bridge itself, like the bridge shaking, with contact mics. They pick up vibrations instead of sound » See EXHIBIT, BACK
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NEWS Deputy Treasurer Kelly Rogers MPP ’12 discusses career following Brown at Watson event
SPORTS Katie Hammaker ’19 named athlete of the week after weekend performance as field hockey goalie
COMMENTARY Editorial: U. champions academic freedom through endangered scholars consortium membership
COMMENTARY Miller ’19: U. global studies proposal will shortchange students, should be amended
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UCS considers peer, administrative mediation initiatives Social justice mediation program representative, ombudsperson present to general body By MELANIE PINCUS SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The Undergraduate Council of Students discussed a social justice mediation and facilitation program and heard from University ombudsperson Ruthy Kohorn Rosenberg at its general body meeting Wednesday night. The social justice mediation and facilitation program aims to use a narrative mediation structure in order to help students resolve conflicts, said Assistant Director for Community Dialogue and Campus Engagement Marc Peters. The program is slated to have a soft launch in the spring. The narrative mediation model “really centers story … gathering and trying to help someone have space to be heard,” he said. “But it also tries to make sure that no voice is privileged over another, that no story becomes the dominant narrative.” The model also aims to tell the “below the line story,” Jacobs said, which can include “anything that’s unsaid, that has to do with identity, that has to do with privilege” or positionality. “What I like about this particular model is it really tries to shore up what I would consider to be some of the flaws or shortcomings of traditional mediation,” Peters said. Under the social justice mediation model, mediators hold individual sessions with conflicting parties and transmit information between them with their permission. UCS Vice President Camila Pelsinger
’20 asked Jacobs to provide examples of hypothetical situations where this mediation process could be used. Peters cited disagreements between roommates and conflict over comments made in class that may have been “dismissive to someone’s identity or experience” as examples.
Applications for the program are open until Nov. 5, Peters added. “We’re really trying to make sure that this program is as student-centered, as studentdriven as possible,” he said. In the second half of the meeting, Rosenberg described her responsibilities as the University’s ombudsperson
legislative processes,” according to Oberlin College’s definition, which UCS President Shanzé Tahir ’19 read in part at last week’s meeting. The Council unanimously passed a resolution at last week’s general body meeting demanding that the University hire an ombudsperson trained in
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UCS general body members heard updates on the social justice mediation and facilitation program and conversed with University ombudsperson Ruthy Kohorn Rosenberg on her roles and responsibilities. Twenty mediators were trained through the Social Justice Mediation Institute in January, Peters said. Around 20 more will be trained by the spring semester before the program’s soft launch, he said.
and answered questions from the general body. An ombudsperson provides informal services to facilitate “problem solving and conflict resolution that are separate and distinct from formal grievance, adjudication, judiciary and
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Art and Ecological Responsibility Usually translated as “landscaping,” “landscape design” or “landscape architecture,” paysagisme incorporates a wide range of land-use issues, including urban planning, public spaces, sustainable agriculture, land reclamation, and ecology; it has a pronounced aesthetic element in garden and park design, and overlaps with the important late 20th century and contemporary movement known as Land Art.
Thursday, 1 November at 6 pm Studio Two, Granoff Center, 154 Angell Street A reception at which people from local communities, including Brown faculty, who are working in ways that blend aesthetics, sustainability and ecological responsibility, will give brief presentations on their work. Presenters: Adam Anderson, RISD Landscape Architecture; Geri Augusto, Brown’s Center for Slavery & Justice/International and Public Affairs; Tess Brown-Lavoie, sustainable farmer and poet; Mark Cladis, Brown Religious Studies, Ethics and Environmental Thought; David Kim, RISD creative technologist at the nature Lab; Lenore Manderson, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society; Lucia Monge, RISD and BrownVisual Arts; Kate Schapira, Brown Department of English/Non-fiction program and poet; Maggie Spivey-Faulkner, Harvard Society of Fellows, early Native American studies. Sponsored by the French Center for Excellence in the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the Brown Arts Initiative and Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
transformative justice and community accountability processes to work with undergraduates . Though Rosenberg said undergraduates sometimes find their way to her, the ombudsperson is officially a
resource for “faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows and associates, graduate students and medical students,” according to the office’s website “I help people navigate everything to do with their lives at Brown,” Rosenberg said. Rosenberg also works to identify the University’s structural problems based on the situations her office addresses. Rosenberg, who works with between 180 and 200 individuals each year, said her office is different from other resources on campus because she does not keep records. This allows her to keep her work confidential, which she identified as the most important attribute of her position. Rosenberg noted, however, that she does not have legal confidentiality privileges like the Chaplain’s Office or Counseling and Psychological Services. Should Brown offer an ombudsperson as a resource to undergraduates, it would be necessary to hire a second person, Rosenberg said. But Rosenberg said she would prefer that a second ombudsperson not be limited to working with undergraduates. Instead, she recommended that the two ombudspeople work together to serve the entire University community. “My preference is to integrate it all. I think you learn more, (and) I think you’re able to see the systemic issues there,” she said. Chair of Student Activities Alex Song ’20 asked Rosenberg whether she thought the University was “receptive … to hiring that next person.” Rosenberg said she hasn’t talked to anyone about it, but advised the general body members to emphasize the unmet needs an ombudsperson would address when making their pitch to administrators.
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Deputy treasurer discusses career following Brown Kelly Rogers MPP ’12 advises students through Watson’s Rhode Island Politics and Policy Series By SOPHIA SKWARCHUK CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Rhode Island Deputy Treasurer Kelly Rogers visited the Watson Institute of Public Affairs Wednesday afternoon to talk to students about her experiences in politics after her time at Brown. The talk was the second in the Rhode Island Politics and Policy Series, which was launched this past semester by the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy to introduce students to the individuals working at the center of policy decisions in state and local governments. Over lunch, Rogers discussed her role in General Treasurer Seth Magaziner’s ’06 office and the trajectory that
» BEATBOX, from page 1 the American scene was,” he said, and noted his struggles with mic technique the first time around. “But (the competition) was great, it was really eyeopening.” A gap year midway through his Brown career allowed him time to polish the skills he learned from the veterans, and he fully committed to music. He practiced beatboxing daily and switched from studying engineering to pursuing the computer music and multimedia track in the music department. After the brief hiatus, Choi reclaimed his spot in the Jabberwocks and used the group’s performances as opportunities to compose new routines that accompanied the group’s a cappella arrangements. Smash Sounds, a smaller competition Choi attended in New York this past summer, gave Peach a chance to showcase the fruits of his labor as he survived the initial elimination round and reached the head-to-head battles before falling to the eventual champion. Since getting a taste of the beatbox community and its competitive opportunities, Choi hopes to keep battling
led her from the University’s master’s in public policy program to where she is today. Initially, she worked as Magaziner’s policy director before realizing she could do more and taking on the role of deputy treasurer. With an undergraduate degree in environment and energy, Rogers always anticipated that she would end up working in environmental policy on the Hill or back home in Pennsylvania. She never expected to end up in the world of Rhode Island public finance. But now, “I can’t see myself ever leaving,” she said. In Magaziner’s office, Rogers feels she has made a greater impact than she would have on the Hill. From her first day on the job, Rogers has been part of major policy decisions related to the RI Infrastructure Bank and the 38 Studios Bond Deal. Moving forward, Rogers sees herself pursuing an MBA to study investment
and the private sector to complement her public-sector work. Students in attendance were excited about Rogers’ talk. Public policy concentrator Yasmin Toney ’19, who is interning with Rhode Island judge Frank DiCaprio, was interested to learn more about local politics. Erin Wurtemberger GS added that, as a current MPA student, she is interested in “state governments and how they work as individual agencies” and thought Rogers’ talk presented a good opportunity to learn more about these agencies within Rhode Island. As the lunch wrapped up, Rogers offered students advice on finding their path. “If you know you want to be in political change or social change, it can be hard to know what role you want to have. The way I thought about that? Think about when you are in the room with a board or a political setting. Who do you want to be in that room?”
for as long as he can. But competing wasn’t always the avenue he envisioned for his beatboxing career. Long before Choi had heard of any beatboxing championships, he stumbled across a video of Australian beatboxer Tom Thum doing an unconventional TEDx Talk. It features little lecturing but lots of vocal manipulation, and is a popular TEDx Talk clip with 67 million views. A 17-year-old Choi was enthralled. He spent the next few months learning from YouTube videos and practicing the basic “B,” “T” and “Pf ” sounds to bolster his high school a cappella group’s performances. Within a month, he could imitate the kick drum, a hi-hat cymbal and a snare drum well enough to keep rhythm for his fellow singers. But Choi wasn’t satisfied with merely conquering the basics and went beyond the drum set to shape his own style — one that leans more toward the melodies and harmonies associated with musicality than the speed and complexity of technical beatboxing. It’s that quality which prompted fellow Jabberwock Caymus Price ’20 to call Choi’s creations “Mozart-esque” and resulted in Peach achieving a 14th seed going into the American Beatbox
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Distinct from the qualification process used in previous years, the 2018 American Beatbox Championships required hopefuls to post a video showcasing their skills. Rather than allow every interested beatboxer to show up to the competition for a large elimination round, a panel of judges reviewed the submissions and selected the top 32 beatboxers from 115 applicants. Those chosen to vie for a chance at the title in New York will perform a 90-second routine on the first day of competition to determine the 16 moving on to day two. After the judges cut the field in half and reseed the competitors based on day-one scores, the beatboxers face off in single-elimination battles where they will be judged on their stage presence and the originality, musicality, technicality and flow of their routines. Each beatboxer gets two 90-second rounds to impress the panel and one-up their opponent with the winner advancing until only two remain in the fight for the national title. Choi is far more prepared than he
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Kelly Rogers MPP ’12 spoke about her experience in General Treasurer Seth Magaziner’s ’06 office and her hope to pursue an MBA.
was for his previous two competitions, he said. He has around nine routines in mind this time around whereas he freestyled his way through the 2017 championship and Smash Sounds — but he waves away the notion that he will breeze through his first performance. When Price alerted the crowd at the Jabberwocks concert over Family Weekend to Choi’s national ranking and qualification to the American Beatbox Championships, Peach’s reaction was far from boastful. “The first thing he said after the concert was ‘Why did you have to tell everyone that? It’s not that big of a deal,’” Price remembered. “And then he kept trying to downplay it like ‘Not everyone goes to this competition. Some people are just too good. They don’t even apply.’” It’s true that a portion of the beatbox community chooses not to compete, but Choi is rising in the ranks of those who do. His place as 14th seed indicates that the judges feel he is in the top half of the field coming into the competition, and if he showcases more of the musicality the experts appreciated in his submission, he has a chance at making the cut.
The artists who engage with Choi’s music on a consistent basis are confident that he has what it takes to separate himself from other competitors as he stands out among past and present Jabberwocks. “Musically, he is unlike anybody we have ever had in the group,” former Jabberwock Brendan George ’18 said. “I can say with confidence we have never had a beatboxer like Choi, and certainly not a beatboxer and vocalist like Choi.” Choi credits George for first shortening his full name into “Peachy,” but George “gives Peter a lot of credit because he has now fully embraced it and has made Peach into what you know it to be today.” The beatbox community may not be fully acquainted yet, but it will soon become very familiar with a 21-year-old from New Jersey, an American up-andcomer and a much-improved competitor threatening to shake up national rankings come Nov. 10 in New York. He’s Peachy to friends, Peach to competitors and 14th-ranked beatboxer in the country to everyone who has yet to be introduced.
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Goalie Hammaker ’19 posts impressive weekend in net Senior goalie leads field hockey to 3-1 victory over Villanova, allows only one goal against Penn By ALEX SMOLAR SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The field hockey team traveled to Philadelphia last weekend, falling to Penn 1-0 and defeating Villanova University 3-1. Katie Hammaker ’19 starred in net for the Bears and recorded 14 saves in the loss and 13 in the victory. The win marked the fourth double-digit save game of the season for the senior netminder. With the weekend’s results, the team moves to 7-9 record overall on the season and 1-5 in Ivy League play with one contest remaining. Hammaker, a senior from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, has had a stellar career as the field hockey team’s goaltender. Since arriving at Brown in 2015, Hammaker has started in net every game that the team has played and received Second Team All-Ivy Honors in 2016. For her outstanding performance against Penn and Villanova this weekend, Hammaker has been named The Herald’s Athlete of the Week.
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Herald: Congratulations on the great performance this weekend. How does it feel to get a big win against Villanova on the road and play so well?
» MEDICINE, from page 1 thinking about the transformation that takes place in a person when they decide to become a physician,” said Elizabeth Toll, clinical associate professor of medicine and pediatrics, who teaches one of the courses. This transformation includes coping with emotions that may arise during “really basic things like cutting into a cadaver (and) realizing that people will start telling you the most private stuff.” The majority of the course is hands-on. Students practice communication not only with their peers and faculty members, but also with patients through the Med School’s standardized patient program. After these practice sessions, students are given weekly feedback about whether the patient felt that they were heard and acknowledged compassionately. The program attempts to “instill structural awareness and competency, which is a way of thinking about individuals from many different facets” including their family life, home life and medical experience, as well as race, age, gender identity and sexual orientation, Rougas added. “One of the mantras we have is that these things are important because they help us take the best care of patients,” Rougas said. The Med School teaches these topics within the first two years so that third- and fourth-year students, who spend most of their time working with patients, are ready to provide compassionate care, he added. Up to 15 percent of fourth-year students can be nominated by their
Hammaker: It’s awesome. Especially being a senior and having my last few games, it was just great to have everybody come together and play as a team to pull out a win. Even though we didn’t win against Penn, we really improved upon our performance against them last year, and it was great to see that kind of growth and unity. A lot of grit and hard work, and I’m just really proud of how the team played this weekend. With only one game remaining in your college career, you are currently fifth all-time for career saves by a Brown goalkeeper with 346. How does it feel to make such an impact on the team? (Since the interview, Hammaker has moved to third all-time for career saves by a Brown goalkeeper with 462.) It’s unreal. I didn’t know that until a few weeks ago. It’s just great to be part of the tradition here. It’s been such a huge part of my life and to see how much I’ve grown as a person and a player since I’ve been here has been really special. I’m just so proud to come from a program and a place like this. When did you first start playing field hockey? I first started playing in seventh grade, which is a lot later than most people where I’m from. I’ve always played goalie because I didn’t like running, and I thought I was pretty good so I just stuck with it.
peers and faculty for the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a national organization whose “mission is to support and promote the values of humanism and professionalism in medicine,” said Fred Schiffman, faculty advisor to the society and professor of humanistic medicine. The society promotes projects at the Med School that explore the intersection of medicine with museums and art, narratives and poetry, spirituality, food insecurity and other topics. For instance, Schiffman aims to use meditation and mindfulness to discuss patients “as people, not only as their physical” diagnoses by coteaching a human physical diagnosis course, he said. “It’s truly an honor to see patients who uniformly love the attention they get from these students who are not just looking at a physical finding, such as an abnormal wrist or a heart murmur,” Schiffman said. “We challenge students to get to know patients as people in a very short period of time.” Schiffman has also taught courses that address “cultural approaches to death and dying,” as well as a joint Rhode Island School of Design-Brown course on communicating medical risk. In addition to the LGBTQ Healthcareand Advocacy concentration, the Med School also offers several scholarly concentrations that touch on humanistic medicine, including Medical Humanities and Ethics, Caring for Underserved Communities and Physician as Communicator. Course electives such as medical illustration and narrative medicine further help students think about patients’ stories, Toll explained.
Do you have any pre-game rituals? I always pray before games. It just keeps me calm and keeps me centered. Sometimes when my emotions or my energy get too high, then I don’t play as well. So, doing that keeps me grounded and reminds me of what’s important going into the game. What has been your favorite memory with the field hockey team? Definitely senior day during my sophomore year. We came back from a two-goal deficit to tie Yale and take them into overtime, and then we won in overtime. That was a really special experience for the seniors that year and we got to help them. Hopefully we can replicate that this weekend, but that was definitely one of my favorite memories. What do you want to see out of the team in your last game against Yale? I just want to see hard work for 70 minutes. Yale is a very good team that is not going to give up for those 70 minutes, so I think (playing) unified, (with) no pressure and taking risks will be really important. (It’s) something that I know we can accomplish. What will you miss most about being on the team? I’ll miss the people and the friendships that I’ve made. It’s really what it’s all about. Field hockey has given me a lot of confidence and belief in myself, and so I’m excited for what’s to come to take that into the rest of my life.
Toll cited several aspects of humanistic medicine as most meaningful to her: a deep interest in patient narratives, a desire to take time for patients, an incorporation of creativity and community involvement. At the Med School, these opportunities manifest in elective courses and extracurriculars, such as volunteering at Clinica Esperanza, a free clinic in Providence for people who are uninsured. However, Toll also emphasizes the importance of self-reflection during this process. Toll hopes that having students write reflections, take their first two years of medical school pass/ fail and learn from faculty members who practice humanistic medicine will teach them to take time for themselves and their patients. Reflection sessions also serve as a critical part of the required anatomy course for first-years. Though initially given only the cadaver donor’s occupation, age when they passed away and cause of death, students often learn about the donor as they perform the dissection and uncover implants or tattoos, said Namaan Mehta MD’21 and Alicia Hersey MD’20. The dissections are “an intense experience, so it’s nice to have sessions where people can talk about how they feel,” Mehta said. Dale Ritter, senior lecturer in biology who teaches the anatomy course, said that he eases students into working with cadavers by first talking about how the cadaver donors all chose to give their bodies for study. After conversations about where the bodies come from and how they will be dissected, students are shown an undissected cadaver and then a dissected cadaver before they are finally
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This past weekend, field hockey goalkeeper Katie Hammaker ’19 recorded 14 saves in a loss to Penn and 13 saves in a win over Villanova University. What are you concentrating in and hope to do after Brown? I’m concentrating in education studies, focusing on human development. I’m hoping to start teaching in the elementary and special-ed realm. Then, I’d like to move up and become a principal and maybe down the road open my own school or get into
education policy. The Bears will return to the Goldberger Family Field for their final game of the season against Yale Saturday at 12:30 p.m. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.vw
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At the annual Ceremony of Gratitude, medical students meet the families of those who donated their bodies to help students learn about anatomy. are taught to perform the procedure in groups of five. Both Mehta and Hersey sat on their first-year student committees, which organize the annual Ceremony of Gratitude. As members of the reflections sub-committee, they also facilitated sessions throughout the year that allowed students to think deeply about how it felt to work with human bodies. The session prior to the Ceremony of Gratitude entailed letter-writing to the families. Hersey said that the opportunity for students to meet the families helped them humanize and reflect on their anatomy experience after the course
was over. This past year, around 70 families attended the ceremony, Mehta added. “It’s more than just working with cadavers,” Mehta said. “It’s about understanding why we’re in the lab and what bodies may suffer from while they’re living.” Toll views humanistic medicine as taking a step back from the technicalities and “being human beings as we encounter human beings in our care,” she said. “I’ve always thought that my personal reason for wanting to be a doctor was to answer the question: What does it mean to be a human being?”
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Brown Street Park hosted its annual Halloween party and parade Wednesday, which featured crafts, games, pizza and snacks. Boston’s Hot Tamale Brass Band also made an appearance at the spooky celebration.
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An earlier version of the article “Dhingra talks racism, minority assimilation” referred to the “Center for Race and Ethnicity in America.” In fact, the center’s title is “The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.” The Herald regrets the error.
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Before There Were Lines Along the Rio Grande 12:00 P.M. John Carter Brown Library
On Protest, Arts & Activism: A Conversation 5:30 P.M. Granoff Center
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Endangered scholars consortium shows U. commitment to academic freedom In the past few years, students, academics and professors at institutions of higher learning around the world have increasingly become targets of violent attacks and unlawful imprisonment, simply for expressing ideas that run counter to the ideologies of extremist groups and authoritarian regimes in their home countries. On Sept. 6, the University became a founding member of the New University in Exile Consortium, promising to host and support endangered scholars who currently face threats to their rights and livelihoods. In doing so, the University has commendably declared its commitment to preserving “a spirit of free inquiry” and has made a definitive statement to the world that academic freedom is critical for the preservation of free societies, particularly in this moment in history. First established in 1933 as the University in Exile by the New School for Social Research, the Consortium was originally formed to save
the lives of intellectuals and scholars who were purged from their universities and persecuted by fascists and Nazis in Europe. Today, however, the perils facing academics have assumed new, complicated forms and taken root all over the world, in places like Turkey, Syria, Libya and Iraq. The new Consortium, which consists of 11 universities throughout the United States, seeks to bring public awareness to these emergent threats to institutions of higher education, and to support persecuted, displaced scholars by providing a safe haven for them. The Consortium will also bring these scholars together for workshops, seminars and conferences. Through its membership in the Consortium, the University makes a significant contribution to the global welfare of academics by fighting back against the violence that threatens to undermine one of the key pillars of a free society — the freedom to think, explore and disseminate
ideas. Many scholars are targeted specifically for the types of work they do and the initiatives they lead, many of which are vital to the advancement of human rights. By inviting these scholars onto our campus, we help ensure that in the immediate future they are able to continue doing important work, and that their lives and the lives of their families are not endangered because of it. Inviting endangered scholars onto campus will also advance and better enable the pursuit of knowledge conducted here. Through the courses they teach and research they conduct on campus, these scholars will enrich intellectual life here, and afford students rare opportunities to think critically about a myriad of important social and academic issues. They will likely bring new cultural and social awareness to the University that will enhance our community’s understanding of the world in which we are situated — something that can benefit every student, no matter their
concentration or degree program. The University has already been hosting endangered scholars since 2015, so joining the New University in Exile Consortium is an excellent way for Brown to formalize its commitment to protecting the globe’s intellectual community from assaults on institutions of higher education. We hope that, going forward, the University will continue to marshall its influence as an elite institution to support and safeguard higher education and intellectual inquiry throughout the world.
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Let’s not forget the lessons of the past To the Editor: The interfaith vigil for Tree of Life victims held Oct. 29 had at least 2,000 people in attendance. As the crowd thinned at the end, I found myself talking with a woman who had studied with the late wife of Professor Emeritus of Computer Science Peter Wegner, a fortunate escapee from pre-WWII Austria via the Kindertransport scheme, who founded the Faculty Bulletin at Brown among other community activities. Wegner and other Brown facul-
ty, such as former Professor of Engineering Joseph Kestin, who was in Warsaw when the Nazis invaded Poland but escaped, must have been at the vigil in spirit. Oppression and injury based on hate must be recognized; living in the south of England during WWII, I was twice bombed out of my home before I was 10, and it is very distressing decades later to find the lessons of those times have not been fully taken to heart. Peter Richardson Professor of Engineering and Physiology Emeritus
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COMMENTARY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2018 • PAGE 7
Watson’s ‘global studies’ proposal bites off more than it can chew EMILY MILLER opinions editor The Dean of the College released a report that synthesized the work of a committee created last semester to review the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and three of its concentrations — development studies, international relations and public policy. The report, released to concentrators several weeks ago, created a detailed analysis of the structures, curricula, faculty advising and overall “strengths and opportunities” across the three concentrations. The report concluded, somewhat abruptly, that the three concentrations should be merged into a single “global studies” concentration with two tracks — governance, focusing on comparative policy, and development, based on the current development studies concentration. To start, this specific committee included students who, according to their respective LinkedIn profiles, graduated with degrees in public policy and urban policy, development studies, and history. No student on the committee graduated with a degree in international relations. At the very least, the study was not conducted with a fair representation of the international relations concentration from the perspective of someone who had completed the requirements. In the class of 2018, there were 62 possible such candidates to join the committee. The report specifically criticizes international relations as somewhat outdated, mentioning that several schools, including Yale, the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley, have moved away from “international relations, with its roots in the Cold War-era.” Yes, Watson was founded in 1979, at the height of the Cold War. But it is a naive assertion that interactions between nations were born out of the 1970s ideological battle between the United States and the Soviet Union. Furthermore, why should Brown have to follow the Pied Piper of its peer institutions and consolidate its concentrations, when it can chart its own path that caters to the needs of its student body? These other universities do not have the same commitment to an open curriculum, wherein students may tailor their paths to their individual likings. Free choice is a hallmark of Brown, mentioned over and over again by administration, faculty and students in admission materials. UC Berkeley, by contrast, combined development studies
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and peace and conflict studies into a nebulous “global studies” despite student protest, in order to increase the resources these majors would receive once incorporated into a larger framework. Watson is not an institute lacking funding in its coffers, searching for economic consolidation. The $50 million gift Watson received, with the express purpose of constructing a new building and hiring new faculty, proves they are in no way short of money; yet it is the students who will be shortchanged. Most importantly, this Watson merger will flatten the nuances of politically and diplomatically relevant areas of study, homogenize an incoming group of students and strip each concentration of its scholastic distinction. The report bemoans the lack of international perspective in the public policy concentration. Whereas public policy currently has no language requirement, its students would now be required to take the equivalent of six semesters of a language and four regional classes corresponding to the language. (The report includes a throwaway line — “Further discuss language requirement for students focusing on ‘U.S.’ region” — that might limit the regional or language requirements for students looking to focus on U.S. policy. This has not yet been fleshed out, so I will avoid dis-
cussing its vague implications for U.S. hopefuls.) A facility for language can be helpful in any major, but this level of commitment to language learning should not supplant public policy’s larger focus on the policymaking and implementation process. And what about students who really just want to focus on the nitty-gritty state level of U.S. politics? Will fluency in French or Russian give further insight into Iowa politics? Why would a student policy wonk, looking for further insight into the workings of our government at the state or federal legislative level, gain depth via 10 mandated semesters of, for example, Italian or Italian history? Imagine applying to a job in domestic politics as a “global studies concentrator with a focus on the U.S.” Furthermore, the addition of a language requirement takes the place of six other classes that could enrich exploration of other interests. Isn’t the purpose of Brown’s open curriculum to enrich student academic options both within and outside a single concentration? Development studies remains mainly unchanged in the development track of the global studies concentration. This “boutique” major, with usually only 15 concentrators, would most likely receive a new influx of students. With this growth, its spirit may be lost, as the number of
new concentrators could disrupt the tight-knit community of students and faculty. International relations — by far the largest concentration of the three — suffers the most from these changes. While the core five classes and language requirements are retained with slight modifications, both tracks of the current IR concentration have been folded into the new global studies tracks focusing on development studies or public policy. International relations currently offers two tracks — political economy and society, and security and society — each of which offers five courses, with many different options available each semester. These broad opportunities will be disassembled, and students will have to focus on either development or public policy. Students looking to focus themselves as international diplomacy and governance experts, or political economy whizzes, will almost completely lose an opportunity for in-depth study in their chosen field. It is almost unfathomable to me that Brown, a school committed to academic exploration and specific nuance, is considering stripping students of valued and popular options. The open curriculum already provides students an opportunity to further their concentration with ad-
ditives in any department, including language and language-related coursework. As a public policy major, you may take classes in foreign relations or pick up a new language if you are looking for a global perspective. As an international relations concentrator, you are welcome to take development classes or public policy courses in order to get a better understanding of the ways in which we govern ourselves and the impact governance has on others. By design, Brown already affords students these opportunities for exploration, making the new mandates unnecessary. There are opportunities for increased synergies and cross-pollinizing among the Watson concentrations — a major concern of the committee — yet stripping them down and mandating only two paths is not the proper solution if the desire is to infuse creative scholarship in a field. This report should not be treated as gospel. It can be changed, and the leaders of Watson, including Edward Steinfeld and Steven Bloomfield, have dutifully listened to students in three town hall meetings in order to gauge responses to such a drastic change. This is yet another opinion and suggestion: I respectfully urge the assembled Watson faculty committee to view the concentration consolidation suggestion from the Dean of the College report as a stain on Brown’s open curriculum model. Doing otherwise would diminish three popular and distinct concentrations and severely limit students who came to Brown specifically to find their own niche. While there is room for improvement within all three concentrations, this does not mean Watson should melt down their essence and sculpt Frankenstein’s monster with bits and pieces from each. Watson has the funds to continue to improve upon all three concentrations while leaving them substantively intact and recognizing their distinct purposes on campus. Brown should create more opportunities for students to craft their concentrations and chart their own paths rather than leaving them with fewer options to pursue their goals. It is the essence of what makes Brown the Brown to which we came.
Emily Miller ’19 is an international relations concentrator and can be reached at emily_miller@brown.edu. Please send responses to this opinion to letters@browndailyherald. com and other op-eds to opinions@browndailyherald.com.
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Vulnerabilities found in terahertz communication Terahertz transmissions fast and efficient but not immune to eavesdropping, interception By CHRIS SCHUTTE SENIOR STAFF WRITER
While the future of data transmission may lie in the hands of terahertz technology, there is still a ways to go until it is crowned heir to the tech throne. A recent study showed that transmissions in terahertz waves are still as vulnerable to eavesdropping as other forms of communication such as microwave transmissions. Terahertz communications use a range of transmissions that are still
» FUNDRAISER, from page 1 and Research decreased by $100 million, while the goal for Campus and Community increased by $150 million. The revised operational plan reflects changes in the University’s priorities since the original operational plan — which outlined a strategy for implementing the University’s strategic plan, Building on Distinction — was released in 2015, Paxson said. “While the high-level goals remain the same, there’s some fluidity in terms of exactly what we want to do,” she explained. Some new fundraising priorities that have emerged since the beginning of the BrownTogether campaign include the plan for a Performing Arts Center, the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, the Brown Arts Initiative and the Data Science Initiative, she added. The Education and Research category — which is now 86 percent of the way toward its $800 million goal — has seen the most significant progress in fundraising this year, Gonzalez said. He attributed the rapid spike in fundraising for this category to the $100 million gift the University received to support the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science last April, which was one of the largest donations in the University’s history, The Herald previously reported. Fundraising for the Campus and Community category supports a number of construction projects across campus. The recently completed renovation of Friedman Hall and the ongoing construction of the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship are two of the major capital projects funded by the BrownTogether campaign, Paxson said. The plan to construct an integrated health and wellness center and dormitory at 450 Brook St. is a new fundraising priority for the Campus and Community category, she added. The Investing in People category
being analyzed and researched, but they show great promise, said Jianjun Ma, a postdoctoral research associate and co-author of the study. While traditional microwave technology transmits megabytes of data per second, terahertz technology could accommodate transmissions of up to a thousand gigabytes per second, he added. In its current state, the angle of terahertz transmission is very narrow — close to 4 degrees — which means that it is more secure than traditional methods, said Daniel Mittleman, professor of engineering and co-author of the study. Because of this, the sender and receiver need to be facing each other to allow for proper communication. Microwaves, on the other hand, have an angle of transmission close
to 120 degrees. While this wide angle allows for greater convenience, it also provides a wider net for eavesdropping and interception of messages, he said. Additionally, terahertz transmissions must be conducted across short distances of up to one or two kilometers, as the waves are affected by the atmosphere, Ma added. The researchers sought to test if terahertz transmissions were as vulnerable to eavesdropping as microwave transmissions are. Hardly anyone is asking, “‘What are (the) security implications associated with that change?’” Mittleman said. Using different shapes of metal items, like plates and pipes, the team was able to fully intercept a transmission when the object was placed at the edge of the 4-degree angle,
allowing for a scattered portion of the message to be shot out and received by an eavesdropper, he said. This showed that while terahertz transmissions have a lower risk of eavesdropping due to their narrow angle, they are still vulnerable to interception, Mittleman added. Despite their limitations, terahertz transmissions can be applied to both current technology and future endeavors, Ma said. Faster communications between phones, laptops and even satellites could be feasible, he added. “It’s not going to replace existing wireless (technology), but when you need a really, really high data rate, and you only want to go 100 meters, it’s going to be the way to go,” Mittleman said. Following this experiment, the team hopes to further test the functionality
of terahertz transmissions in various weather conditions as well as explore different antennas and lenses which could make the angle of transmission even narrower, Ma said. Terahertz transmissions may be seen as the future of wireless data communication within the next 10 years, Mittleman said. As new generations of communication, such as 5G data, proliferate, bandwidth will become crowded and slow due to a growing number of wireless and Bluetooth devices. Terahertz may shine as a viable way to avoid crowded spaces and allow for fast and efficient communication. “We see terahertz wireless as inevitable one day, and so we better start solving the problems now,” Mittleman added.
— which funds financial aid and endowed professorships — has been a major focus of fundraising this year, Paxson said. Though this is the only category that has not yet reached the halfway point of its fundraising goal, both Paxson and Gonzalez expressed confidence in the category’s progress. Fundraising for the Investing in People category has gotten a boost from the Brown Promise initiative, which replaced all University loans in financial aid packages with grants this year, The Herald previously reported. “The Brown Promise is really resonating with our donor community,” Paxson said. Financial aid is a strong driver of fundraising because “many of our donors received financial aid and support from the University,” Gonzalez said. “Our alums and our supporters want to be able to make that opportunity possible for everybody that has an interest in coming to Brown.” Endowed professorships, which provide crucial funds for the University to recruit faculty and support their research, also resonate strongly among donors interested in sustaining the University’s teaching and research missions, Gonzalez said. The BrownTogether campaign has raised funds for 61 professorships so far, he added. The University has also emphasized fundraising for the Annual Fund this year, Paxson said. Unlike the other categories of the campaign, all funds raised for the Annual Fund are spent as they come in, not invested in the endowment or in capital projects. The Annual Fund supports students directly by providing current-use funds for financial aid, BrownConnect internships and other student-centered priorities, Paxson explained. “The Brown Annual Fund is really a jewel at Brown and in higher education,” Gonzalez said. “We have many donors that have given consecutively for many years.”
The Annual Fund grew substantially from $37.8 million in fiscal year 2017 to $45.8 million in fiscal year 2018, Paxson said. At the same time, the total number of donors to the Annual Fund jumped from 29,905 in fiscal year 2017 to 32,301 in fiscal year 2018, Gonzalez said. “That’s a terrific increase,” Paxson added. The vast majority of donors to the BrownTogether campaign give gifts to the Annual Fund, said Teal Butterworth, director of next generation giving and engagement. The Annual Fund provides a critical avenue for engaging alums — especially young alums — with what’s happening on campus since its impact is immediate, she added. Young alums who graduated in the past 14 years make up a growing share of all donors to the Annual Fund, Butterworth said. In fiscal year 2018, a total of 3,855 young alumni donors gave gifts to the Annual Fund amounting to an increase of 5 percent from the previous year. Altogether, these young alums gave a total of $1,162,572 to the Annual Fund last year, with an average donation of $301.58, she added. “Young alumni giving is critically important to us,” Gonzalez said. “It sets them off hopefully on a lifetime of engagement and support back to Brown.” For some students, engagement with the Annual Fund begins before they graduate, Butterworth said. The Student Philanthropy Council — a group of students that spreads awareness of the importance of giving back to the University through the Annual Fund — has been more active than ever before with 160 students participating last year, she said. Student philanthropy and donations from young alum are vital to the future of the University, Paxson said. “Engaging people when they’re relatively young is what’s going to sustain Brown in the next campaign and the campaigns after that,” she added.
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overwhelming. “Traditional Terrain” is an exhibition of Moldof ’s PhD dissertation project, in which he compiled his photos and recordings into a book and CD respectively. The book, also titled “Traditional Terrain,” includes hundreds of thematically linked photographs taken by Moldof. Sandra Arnold GS, a graduate student in Public Humanities and a graduate fellow at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, reflected on the theme that Moldof had selected. “After I spoke to the artist and the artist explained the exhibit and explained his purpose behind his work, I understood his choices in selecting the pieces he chose for the exhibit,” Arnold said. She also mentioned her personal connection with certain photographs. “Some of what I saw in there I connected with personally, even though probably his intention was focused on his theme,” she added.
traveling through air,” Moldof said. He also used hydrophones, which pick up vibrations underwater. Moldof played these sounds from speakers in List to create an atmosphere that mimicked the environment in which he had recorded them. According to Moldof ’s description of the exhibit, “The goal is to create immersive and potentially overwhelming audiovisual content commonly experienced, but often ignored,” he wrote on the Music department’s website. His exhibit highlights the sights and sounds of bridges — a category of urban space that is often classified in art according to its architectural beauty or significance, Moldof said. Moldof focuses on the minute as well as the monumental, the garbage as well as the glamour, to create an experience which is familiar, rather than
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Luke Moldof GS combines sound and photo in an immersive exhibit at List Art Center. His work is united around the theme of bridges.