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U. to pay tour guides $11 per hour in 2019 Med School’s opioid courses win international award Comprehensive fouryear curriculum focuses on overdose treatment, preventative measures

By GLORIA NASHED STAFF WRITER

Brown joins five other Ivies that pay tour guides in effort to limit financial barriers to job

By LI GOLDSTEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Starting January 2019, campus tour guides will receive compensation from the Office of College Admission for tours during the school year, said Dean of Admission Logan Powell.

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Tour guides, as well as information session leaders, will be paid $11 per hour, which is “consistent with campus-wide work-study hourly pay,” Powell noted.

Currently, tour guides are only paid for their work over summer, winter and spring breaks, according to David Paasche ’19, a tour guide, a co-coordinator of the tour program and a member of the Bruin Club executive board.

Powell emphasized his desire to make the position more accessible to students on work-study. Under the current compensation arrangement, “students in

Nordstrom to close at Providence Place Political community debates economic impact of department store’s closure, replacement

By KAYLA GUO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Nordstrom announced last Tuesday that it will be closing its Providence branch Jan. 4. The first store to open at Providence Place Mall and one of the mall’s remaining anchor stores, Nordstrom will be replaced with Boscov’s, a family-owned department store, which will open in fall 2019.

“We look at our business marketby-market to understand where we have opportunities to grow … while also being as efficient as possible in serving our customers,” President of Stores Jamie Nordstrom said in a press release posted to the Nordstrom’s website. “When we look at our business in the Providence market, we determined it made most sense to end our Providence Place lease.”

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store opened in August 1999 and was the mall’s very first tenant. The store’s closure will affect approximately 187 non-seasonal employees, according to the press release.

“We’ve been fortunate to serve customers here for nearly 20 years and have built meaningful relationships with our customers and community in that time,” Nordstrom said.

The company’s decision to close the location is “really about how we can best serve customers in the Providence market,” said Nordstrom Spokesperson Emily Sterken in an interview with The Herald. The Nordstrom Rack in the Warwick Mall will remain open, and customers can continue to shop on Nordstrom’s website.

Boscov’s department store will move into the mall next fall, said Lindsay Kahn, a spokesperson for the Chicago-based real estate firm and Providence Place owner Brookfield Properties Retail Group, as reported

by WPRI. » See NORDSTOM, page 4

work-study … may be forced to forgo work-study time and work-study money to talk about their love of Brown,” Powell said.

As a result, low-income students may be precluded from applying to be an admission tour guide, Powell said.

“We don’t want this to continue to be a barrier for any student.”

Student reactions University tour guide Alli Gordon ’19 expressed excitement over the news, » See TOUR, page 3

Earlier this month, the Alpert Medical School received the Curricular Innovation Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. This award of $2,500 is given out to four institutions across the United States and Canada that “work to advance the education of students, residents and practicing physicians about opioids, substance abuse disorder and pain management,” according to the AAMC website.

The Med School incorporates teaching about opioids from the very first year that students begin, said Paul George, associate dean of medical education.

“In the first year, (students learn about) some of the basic science behind pain, including some of the pharmacological and non-pharmacological ways to manage pain,” he said. Medical students also learn interviewing skills to help them communicate with individuals who are

struggling with substance abuse and encourage users to think about ways to stop, he added. Students begin screening for opioid use and performing brief interventions in their second year.

Interprofessional workshops in which medical students work with nursing, pharmacy and social work students from Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island are interwoven into the curriculum, said Sarita Warrier, assistant dean of medical education. These unique workshops focus on different aspects of opioid use disorder such as the doctor-patient interaction, treatment for the disorder and complex case studies, she added.

Another unique aspect of the Med School’s curriculum is that it automatically qualifies students to obtain a waiver that allows them to prescribe medications designed to counter the effects of opioid overdose. “Brown was one of the first programs (to have) a curriculum that is enough to qualify for this waiver,” Warrier said. Typically, acquiring the waiver requires eight hours of additional training as a practicing physician, but the state has recognized “that (Alpert) students have » See OPIOID, page 4

Ed. department receives $2.5 million grant Funds to be invested in improving social, emotional well-being of students across R.I.

By SOPHIE CULPEPPER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The U.S. Department of Education awarded the Rhode Island Department of Education a federal grant of $2.5 million last week to finance measures to meet public school students’ social and emotional needs. The grant complements a $9 million federal grant awarded in early September to expand mental health resources, said RIDE Communications Director Megan Geoghegan.

Grants of this size do not come around “that often. This is pretty big money,” Geoghegan said. While it is more common for the department to receive grants ranging from $500,000 to $1 million, “to get in the multimillions is not super common,” she explained.

Every state tends to apply for federal grants, which creates competition.

Chair of Education Policy Kenneth Wong noted that the grant adds statewide support to the Providence Public School Department’s investment in social and emotional learning.

“The federal grant provides critically

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important and timely resources for PPSD’s SEL initiative, given the need for professional support in this area,” Wong wrote in an email to The Herald.

The grant’s focus on social and emotional learning reflects the state’s increased attention to how student well-being impacts academic outcomes. Social and emotional learning “is something that is getting a lot more attention now than in the past

few years,” Geoghegan said. “A lot of state education agencies (and) a lot of school districts are paying attention to it, so I’m not surprised that it would be a competitive landscape with this particular grant.”

Both national and statewide surveys show “that students (now) tend to be more stressed than they have in years past,” Geoghegan said. » See GRANT, page 3

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NEWS Eileen Goldgeier ’85 assumes position of vice president, general counsel after national search

NEWS New York-based MTL Collective presents on analyzing activism through the lens of modern art

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Goldgeier ’85 appointed vice president, general counsel After national search, Goldgeier assumes position following Beverly Ledletter’s retirement

By AURIA ZHANG CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Eileen Goldgeier ’85 began her tenure on Oct. 1. She will advise the University’s administration and staff on legal and strategic matters.

Eileen Goldgeier’s ’85 tenure as the University’s vice president and general counsel began Oct. 1 following Beverly Ledletter’s retirement last spring, according to a University press release.

As the leader of the Office of the Vice President and General Counsel, Goldgeier advises the University’s administration and staff on “legal and strategic matters,” according to the press release.

“When the opportunity presented itself, I was just so excited about the possibility of coming back to my alma mater and working here,” Goldgeier said. “And as an attorney, I can’t think of a better client than Brown.”

Goldgeier has been involved in higher education law since 1992, working at various universities such as Johns Hopkins University and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Before accepting this position, Goldgeier was general counsel and

vice chancellor at North Carolina State University. She is also a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, which informs her of higher education trends on a broader scale, said Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, who helped lead the search for Goldgeier’s role.

“In terms of the content and the knowledge needed for the position, she’s more than capable,” Carey said.

Her “understanding of Brown already from her undergraduate experience is, of course, valuable, but certainly her leadership and her education is what made her … a compelling candidate,” he added.

Carey, along with faculty leadership, senior officials and President Christina Paxson P’19 worked with the firm Academic Search to hire for the position. Paxson made the final decision to hire Goldgeier and described her as having an “experienced legal mind (with) outstanding judgment, strategic leadership and the ability to solve problems across a wide spectrum of issues and initiative(s),” she wrote in an email to The Herald.

“She brings an intimate understanding of the complex array of legal matters on which her team advises,”

Paxson wrote.

Goldgeier said her experience working with both public and private universities enables her to be “a strategic partner working with senior leadership.”

Goldgeier is currently familiarizing herself with the priorities of the various departments and schools under the University to best understand how she can help each one achieve their goals. She also hopes to focus on preventative law by “making sure (the University’s) policies and … procedures are clear and concise, making sure contracts are well-written” and ensuring employees are knowledgeable on compliance issues by providing trainings and workshops.

In her position, Goldgeier expects to take on a variety of matters, including Title IX, affirmative action and graduate student unionization.

“There’s a lot happening, and it’s an exciting time to be in higher education,” she added. Since she is new to her role, Goldgeier hopes to provide “a fresh set of eyes looking at different issues” to provide a “different perspective.”

For now, Goldgeier is still acclimating to her new role. “I’m listening and trying to learn as much as I can,” she said.

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Speakers dissect art’s role in decolonizing institutions Members of New Yorkbased MTL Collective discuss relationship between activism, art

By SANYA DEWAN STAFF WRITER

Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon from the group MTL Collective analyzed activist efforts during recent global crises through the lens of modern art in a talk Tuesday at Pembroke Hall. MTL is a collective that aims to move toward decolonial freedom by exploring and blurring the lines between activism and artistic practice, according to Husain and Dhillon. Based in New York, it frequently takes on new projects in its efforts to deepen solidarity in response to movements and consider the spaces between politics and culture.

Husain and Dhillon have both been a part of many different movements, such as Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and Direct Action Front for Palestine.

The talk began with a video entitled “Training in Practice of Freedom.”

Showing protests for Black Lives Matter and worker demands, the video’s purpose was often highlighted through text. Quotes such as “Our liberation is either a collective or it is nonexistent” occupied the screen and allowed the

» TOUR, from page 1 which was shared with all tour guides Tuesday night. “It’s nice to be valued,” Gordon said, adding that the position requires “a lot of work, especially if you’re a tour guide who gives extra tours or family weekend tours.”

Paasche similarly appreciated the admission office’s recognition in light of the recent news. “In terms of the work that the guides have been doing on a volunteer basis, it’s really cool to have the admissions saying ‘we’re gonna value that, we’re gonna pay you,’” Paasche said.

Tour guides are expected to give around one tour a week, but may volunteer to pick more shifts now that they will be paid, Powell said.

Gordon hopes the added incentive of pay will not create competition among guides for tour slots or create division within the tour community, she said.

Though pay is certainly an added benefit to the job, Paasche stressed that tour guides’ shared love for the school was the ultimate motive to apply.

“We all love Brown.That’s what unites us; that’s why we came out to be tour guides. We didn’t decide to be tour guides because we thought we were going to get paid.”

Tour guide Jack O’Donnell ’20 said that he had anticipated that the office of admission would eventually begin to pay tour guides, but “wasn’t aware that they were going to do it as soon as next semester.”

Conception of the proposal Powell hopes that increasing the socioeconomic diversity of tour guides will better inform prospective students visiting the University for the first time.

Prospective students should be able to see themselves and their experiences represented by tours, especially because tours and information sessions can be

audience to fully immerse themselves in the meaning and experience of the words. “As we disrupt and refuse the role that art is now playing in the normal functioning of this global system which propagates racism and inequality, in its shadows we make space for something new to come into the world,” another quote read.

“Art embedded in struggle” is a recurrent theme the collective explores, Husain said. “Consumer debt, education debt, housing debt, health care debt — I mean, those are the things that are actually about freedom and our relationship with time.”

The speakers questioned the difference between organizing and activism — examining what the public recognizes as the work done by each action and what kind of elitist impressions are left on the world as a result. Husain argued that although the failure of language suggests “we don’t have the means to understand each other,” these differences between organizing and activism are not crystal clear and “these distinctions create conditions” that deserve our attention.

When asked about the primary purpose of Decolonize This Place, another movement the speakers are engaged in, Dhillon gave a two-fold answer. First, “Decolonize This Place is more around a structural response to the (crises) that we are seeing everywhere, be it an economic crisis or a crisis of racism. … It’s more

applicants’ first and only exposure to Brown, Powell said.“If we’re (not) sharing the voices of first-generation students or the voices of students who receive financial aid, I think it’s a missed opportunity,” Powell said. “There is a need to represent Brown from all perspectives.”

The decision to pay tour guides is one of many admission office initiatives to limit barriers facing low-income students. In his three years as dean of admission, Powell has revamped testing policy, implemented fee waivers for all low-income students, expanded QuestBridge and A Day on College Hill and increased travel grants for students to visit the University.

The admission office collaborated with other departments to realize the proposal, Powell said. “I had to have this conversation with the provost, with various members of the Corporation, with the president and ultimately had to make the proposal to the University Resource(s) Committee,” Powell said.

Throughout the process, Powell also frequently consulted the student-run Bruin Club, which oversees admission programming such as tours and ADOCH. “We met with them to make sure that this resonated with them, that this policy change had their support and that it made sense from a student perspective as well as an admission policy perspective,” Powell said.

The University currently compensates its summer tour guides, and the office of admission used that program as a model for how to pay its year-long tour guides.

The funding for tour guide compensation will come from University resources and will be “a permanent fixture to our budget,” Powell said.

Comparison with peer schools Though O’Donnell applied to be a tour guide out of passion for the

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Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain from MTL Collective, a New York-based group that aims to increase solidarity in response to movements, were involved in the Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter movements. visionary organizing than just being responsive.” She talked about how one can resist colonialism in all its different forms and also emphasized the importance of the relationships that are necessary for our freedom to exist. Dhillon then addressed the movement’s second purpose: to explore what it would mean to be in solidarity with each other.

Husain added that when selecting the projects they chose to explore, the collective is “trying to open up spaces, decolonize spaces that won’t open themselves up and (focus) on cultural institutions and galleries” as infrastructure that support movements in an effort to “change the conversation and build the organizing possibilities.”

Sherena Razek GS said MTL’s “work is imperative and it is part of a longer, ongoing movement that seeks to overhaul the museum as we know it.” Moreover, Husain talks about the extremely positive reactions from the public as resonating because they “see it and are a part of it.”

University, he added that he was met with “varying reactions” when he told students at other schools that he was not paid as a tour guide.

Six out of the eight Ivy League schools — including Brown — now pay their tour guides during the school year, with Penn and Columbia as exceptions.

Allison Zhang, a junior and tour guide at Harvard, said that she and all Harvard tour guides are paid $14.50 per hour, though payment did not incentivize her to apply for the position.

Cornell first-year and tour guide Nico Modesti said that Cornell tour guides are initially paid $10.40 per hour — the minimum wage in New York — but added that Cornell’s pay raise system gives more experienced tour guides the opportunity to make more through promotions and seniority.

Modesti said that though being a tour guide has been a fulfilling experience, “the pay is definitely an added bonus.”

As of 2017, the starting salary for a tour guide at Dartmouth was $7.75 per hour, according to a report by the Dartmouth. Yale tour guides were paid $13 per hour as of 2015, according to the Yale Daily News. Princeton Alumni Weekly reported that the school began to pay its tour guides in 2011, though the exact salary was not mentioned.

“I can’t speak for why it wasn’t a change that was made earlier. I can only speak for the time I’ve been here,” Powell said.

Going forward, Powell will now focus on enhancing tour guide training, he said. Powell would like to ensure that guides are “fully informed, that they understand the University’s messaging strategy, have the same key talking points. … We want them to be able to share from their own personal perspectives.”

Powell anticipates the office of admission will hire 15 additional tour guides in the spring.

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learning measures, said CLEE Executive Director Donna Braun. CLEE will begin by working with groups of students who have been underserved and “then start to move … to the larger school community,” she added.

Braun explained that CLEE’s idea of professional development has its own twist: Whereas traditional professional development involves workshops and discussion where participants “are learning from content,” CLEE works to bring “teams’ leaders together in more of a networking format for people to learn from each other,” Braun said.

She added that this technique helps schools discover their own problems and solutions.

The most challenging aspect of improving SEL in schools is not figuring out which programs to implement, but figuring out how to change everyday practice, she added.

This is “incredibly significant for Rhode Island,” Braun said, because it acknowledges the quality of what the state’s educational institutions already have to offer. CLEE recognizes teachers as “highly skilled professionals who have an immense, endless capacity to learn and improve together.”

Support of social and emotional education is essential to improve the quality of students’ academic experiences, Braun said. “The things we can do to improve social-emotional learning and mental health are the things that will help students” with their academic performances, she said.

Geoghegan concurred. “There’s a recognition that if we’re not caring for the whole student, then we can’t possibly support them academically. If a student doesn’t feel safe, if they don’t feel supported, if they’re anxious all the time, that’s going to affect their achievement as well; really, one has to come with the other, and there’s a growing recognition of that,” she said.

“This grant was written so that there would be a particular focus for children with or at risk of behavioral health issues, including substance use disorders,” Geoghegan added, though ideally it will benefit all students.

The Office of Student, Community and Academic Supports within RIDE obtained the grant, Geoghegan said. The team crafted a proposal and received approval within just four weeks, she added in a follow-up email to The Herald.

RIDE will distribute funding to districts rather than to individual schools, a decision meant to create robust infrastructure that will endure after the grant’s money dries up, Geoghegan said.

RIDE has not yet determined how it will distribute this funding across districts or which districts will be selected, she wrote in a follow-up email to The Herald, adding that these processes would be clarified around the beginning of November.

Different districts will have different needs that must be individually assessed and addressed, Geoghegan added.

She hopes some of the funding will be used to expand programs already in place, such as Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, which structures “positive reinforcement and how you reward good behavior. … So, those programs already exist; however, we’re going to scale them up,” she said.

RIDE partnered with the Center for Leadership and Educational Equity and the Northern Rhode Island Collaborative to design a proposal for the grant.

Through this proposal, the collaborators will primarily aid “professional development,” an initiative that will likely account for “a really significant piece” of how the grant is used, she said.

CLEE will be working with nine schools across districts to explore different approaches to social and emotional

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UCS calls for ombudsperson for undergrads Position would use transformative justice to provide means to address harm informally

By MELANIE PINCUS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Undergraduate Council of Students unanimously approved a resolution at its general body meeting Wednesday evening demanding that the University hire an ombudsperson trained in transformative justice and community accountability processes to work with undergraduates.

All 18 voting members in attendance voted in support of the resolution — which required a two-thirds majority to pass — after the proposal was put forward by UCS President Shanzé Tahir ’19 and Vice President Camila Pelsinger ’20 and opened for debate.

An ombudsperson provides informal services to facilitate “problem solving and conflict resolution that are separate and distinct from formal grievance, adjudication, judiciary and legislative processes,” according to Oberlin College’s definition, which Tahir read in part at the meeting.

This position is necessary because “no resources currently exist that provide undergraduate student communities with confidential guidance on confronting issues of harm within their own circles,” according to a copy of the resolution circulated during the meeting. The resolution was drafted after consultation with University departments, such as the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, the Title IX Office, BWell, the Office of Campus Life and Counseling and Psychological Services.

The University currently employs

an ombudsperson who works with “faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows and associates, graduate students and medical students,” according to the Ombuds Office’s webpage, but that person does not work with undergraduates. Their responsibilities include informally resolving conflict, addressing misconduct and facilitating difficult conversations with colleagues and supervisors.

Tahir cited Harvard, Penn, Cornell, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Oberlin College as examples of institutions that offer access to an ombudsperson for everyone on their campuses.

“The collegiate model that we really like is Oberlin’s,” Tahir said. “Their services and programs are really amazing,” and include information gathering, coaching in conflicts and “shuttle diplomacy,” where the ombudsperson acts as an intermediary between two parties, she said.

Pelsinger emphasized the role of the proposed ombudsperson as “a supplement to and not a replacement for the college’s formal processes” for reporting instances of interpersonal harm. While the University’s formal resolution processes may be punitive, the ombudsperson would provide other ways to address harm.

“In order to adequately fill the need expressed by the student body,” the ombudsperson should be “wellversed in Transformative Justice and Community Accountability processes for instances of interpersonal harm,” according to the text of the resolution.

Transformative justice acknowledges that harm occurs because of societal power dynamics, including “institutional and structural rape culture in terms of sexual violence,” Pelsinger said. Transformative justice thus aims to reshape “those power dynamics and

those relationships so that harm won’t occur in the future,” she said.

Community accountability “is a community-based strategy that addresses violence,” Pelsinger said. In practice, the ombudsperson could facilitate community accountability by empowering students to address potentially harmful behavior exhibited by their friends, for example.

Passing a resolution is the Council’s strongest method of indicating “that this is a proposal we believe in,” said UCS Treasurer Austin Lessin ’19, who served as the Council’s parliamentarian last year.

“We can’t force the administration to hire the ombudsperson, but this is a statement of intent,” Lessin said.

“What you’ll see from the language is it doesn’t forcefully establish anything.”

The resolution aligns with ideas Tahir and Pelsinger highlighted in their respective campaigns for the presidency and vice presidency last spring.

While developing the resolution, UCS held a Community Accountability Focus Group following its Sept. 26 general body meeting. Afterwards, Pelsinger said she conducted informal follow-up meetings with attendees.

The next step for the Council is to bring the proposal to Vice President for Campus Life Eric Estes, Tahir and Pelsinger said. The University’s current ombudsperson will attend next week’s general body meeting, Tahir said.

Before the meeting’s conclusion, UCS Appointments Chair Jason Carroll ’21 announced that one vacancy remains on the Student Advisory Board on Equity and Diversity, a “broadly representative, deliberative group that meets to consider matters that concern the campus community especially with regards to diversity,” according to a description on UCS’ website.

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UCS voted unanimously to demand the University employ a second ombudsperson, who would provide a means to address harm in the undergraduate community through informal, non-punitive mechanisms.

» OPIOID, from page 1 had such a comprehensive curriculum through their four years that they have met the requirements for this waiver,” she added.

While this waiver only applies in Rhode Island, the Med School and the Rhode Island Department of Health “have talked to other states about reciprocity … to see if (The Med School’s curriculum) would count elsewhere,” George said. Currently, the states they have talked to are “focusing on replicating what we’ve done,” but the team

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Nordstom, the Providence Place Mall’s first tenant, will close Jan. 4.

Boscov’s, a family-owned department store, will replace it in fall 2019.

» NORDSTOM, from page 1 “When an opportunity presents itself, it just makes sense to go into a market that we feel would like a Boscov’s,” said Boscov’s Chairman and CEO Jim Boscov to The Herald.

Boscov’s is based in Reading, Pennsylvania, with locations in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The Providence Place location will be the first in Rhode Island.

Boscov said that the company is distinctive for its mission “to be a member of the community.” The store’s prices are “sharper than anything people have seen in the past,” he added.

“We’re still your neighborhood family store,” Boscov said. “We believe that having people there to help provide excellent service is what differentiates us from the others.”

Upon opening, Boscov’s will hire about 300 local people who “know what the community needs,” Boscov said. The company has a vested interest in community involvement and lasting partnerships with local nonprofit organizations, he added.

The closing of Nordstrom is part of a larger trend in retail, Deputy Director of Communications at the City of Providence Benjamin Smith wrote in an email to The Herald. As more customers shop online, brick-andmortar stores will have to continue to adapt, he added.

“As a city, we’re encouraged by the fact that there is already another tenant in place and believe that shows that Providence is a place where people want to live, work and play,” Smith wrote.

Former mayor of Providence Joseph Paolino said that Nordstrom and major retailers like it were key to attracting tourists and shoppers to Providence. “With Nordstrom leaving, I think it’s a fatal blow to the Providence Place Mall,” Paolino

said. “Replacing it with another retailer isn’t the solution because it’s the wrong retailer.”

Boscov maintains that the store will appeal to a wide range of consumers and enhance the vibrancy of the mall. “We carry all the famous labels, … but we carry a much broader range of products, which means that we’ll appeal to a much broader range of individuals,” Boscov said.

Before Providence Place was built, Paolino, then-mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci Jr. and then-governor Bruce Sundlun went to Seattle — where Nordstrom is based — to convince the Nordstrom family to bring the store to Providence.

“This was the first time in many years that Providence was going to be the home of major retail,” Paolino said. When Nordstrom leaves, Macy’s will be the mall’s only remaining flagship establishment before Boscov’s comes in. Nordstrom’s departure reflects a negatively changing city dynamic, he added.

“Providence is a downtown you can celebrate,” Paolino said. “But when you see a store of Nordstrom’s caliber closing, … it’s going to definitely change the feel of the city.”

Paolino also criticized the city administration’s lack of involvement in working to keep Nordstrom in Providence. “This is what being Mayor is all about,” he said. “(Nordstrom’s closing) should not have happened. … When you don’t communicate with people, things happen that you don’t expect.”

When asked how the Mayor’s office works with local retail owners, Chief of Communications and Senior Advisor to the Mayor Emily Crowell wrote that the administration communicates with Providence Place Mall owners and tenants “when necessary,” in an email to The Herald.

“The city was not informed of the closure or reason for closure,” she wrote.

hopes that reciprocity will follow, he added.

The Med School’s heavy focus on opioid misuse is particularly important because Rhode Island has been particularly affected by the opioid crisis, said Paul Wallace MD’19. “As of two years ago, Rhode Island had the ninth highest opioid overdose death rate in the country … (but) we are one of a handful of states that, between 2016 and 2017, actually saw a small decrease in the number of overdose deaths,” he added.

A large part of this decrease may be

attributed to how both the University as a medical community and the Rhode Island Department of Health “have been pretty proactive about implementing different community programs and increasing education around opioid use,” Wallace said. The Med School has also been good about “being on the cutting edge in terms of treating opioid use disorder,” he added.

In addition to the monetary prize, the Med School was invited to present its work at an AAMC national workshop on combatting opioid misuse, which will take place in May 2019.

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2nd Annual Parker Lecture in Egyptology 5:00 P.M. Maddock Alumni Center

Interfaith Supper 5:30 P.M. 58 Keene Street

Across the Aisle: Before the Midterms 5:30 P.M. Joukowsky Forum

TOMORROW Clothing Swap & Plastic Bag Drive 11:00 A.M. Page-Robinson Hall

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Wellness At Brown: Mindful Eating 12:00 P.M. Salomon Center for Teaching

Trans Celebration Carnival 3:00 P.M. Patriot’s Court

COMMENTARY PAGE 6 • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

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U. support for ProJo goes beyond subscriptions To the Editor: Despite the clarification to the Oct. 9 editorial, “University should buy ProJo subscriptions,” subsequent letters from readers make clear the need to share additional details on the extensive access to the Providence Journal that the University already provides to students, faculty and staff.

First, through a subscription managed by NewsBank, the University Library provides full access to all current and recent editions of the Journal in digital form. Users can view each issue page by page in the same form that the newspaper is printed and sent to all subscribers. Other digital options from the Library include access to archived Journal issues dating back to 1848 and a separate subscription to ProQuest, which provides text-only access to content. For those on campus who want the tried-and-true print version, copies are available daily in both the Rockefeller and Sciences libraries. Finally, there are a number of offices and individuals on campus who purchase and manage their own subscriptions to the newspaper’s print and/or digital editions. The Office of University Communications, where I work, is just one example among many.

And while the University works intentionally to support local enterprises through purchasing when products and services align with the needs of students, faculty and staff, our more enduring impact is

through partnerships and experiences with organizations in which campus community members participate. At the Journal, a number of student journalists have contributed as reporters and writers in recent months and years, including some who learned the ropes at The Herald.

For example, in recent months the Journal published a feature series on elder abuse in Rhode Island — developed by Visiting Professor of English Tracy Breton and a team of Brown students. A year-long undertaking, the series reflected detailed, data-driven research into the experiences of elderly residents and depicted an elder care system plagued by neglect. At a time when public trust in the media has eroded, the series showed investigative journalism at its best and generated significant benefits for our students, for the Journal and for the citizens of our state.

The University values the critical role that news organizations play both locally and globally in informing citizens, promoting understanding of key issues and unearthing stories that need to be told. The University has long offered access to many news publications, but there are many ways in which the University supports first-rate journalism beyond the subscriptions that we purchase.

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COMMENTARY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018 • PAGE 7

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A virtuous cycle DEREK SIMHAUSER staff columnist An empty road. No, not empty. A metallic flash of red whirs by, unabated by kinetic friction, gone in an instant.

The landscape’s hues begin to desaturate. That is, until another radiant vehicle inevitably zips past. Indeed, the fall semester has ushered in these splendidly vivid, effortlessly quick, electrified JUMP bikes. Fast becoming a fixture of campus life, JUMP bikes are revolutionizing student transportation.

Of course, bicycles have long been used to compress travel times across the rolling inclines of College Hill.

But the fixed costs deterred many students from keeping a bicycle on campus. Beyond the financial commitment of purchasing a bike, there is also the responsibility of keeping track of it. From ensuring the bike is locked at all times, maintaining it throughout stormy weather and simply finding a place to keep it, bicycle ownership seems daunting. With the debut of citywide JUMP bikes, however, Brown students can now enjoy the pleasures of riding a bicycle without the steep costs or responsibilities of ownership.

The JUMP bike-share program began in San Francisco in 2017. Nurtured in the entrepreneurial crucible

of Silicon Valley, the startup found immediate traction in the Bay Area. It soon expanded to Washington, D.C., before it was bought by Uber in April 2018. JUMP bikes subsequently proliferated into four other cities, including Providence in July, as Uber ambitiously invested in its bike-sharing venture.

Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza welcomed the program. “Experiencing all that Providence’s neighborhoods have to offer,” Elorza said in a statement to the Providence Journal, “is an experi-

short jaunts with a JUMP bike.

The advantages of increased bicycle usage reach beyond the scope of transportation. There are material environmental benefits as students and locals alike ditch ride-sharing for bike-sharing programs. The batterypowered JUMP bikes are ecologically friendly on their own; moreover, by increasing the visibility of bicycles in general, they can precipitate a cultural shift toward sustainable transportation methods. Elorza described a new

Scott Avedisian said in a statement to the Journal. Instead of cars, Avedisian hopes more Rhode Islanders “will use a bus-bike combination for their commutes.”

And while it is easy to analyze the positive impact of JUMP bikes through tangible metrics (commute time, emission reductions, etc.), the immaterial benefits of biking are equally important. The ubiquity of JUMP bikes allows for impromptu exercise, which has been shown to aid

With JUMP bikes, the city has been effectively compressed, with far more of Providence’s attractions suddenly within reach.

ence that should not be missed.”

Elorza’s belief that bike sharing would facilitate exploration of Providence has been manifest on Brown’s campus this year. The vast majority of students do not own cars, thus constraining any tour of the city to one within walking distance. With JUMP bikes, the city has been effectively compressed, with far more of Providence’s attractions suddenly within reach. Traveling between classes has also been streamlined; the dreaded walks from Barus and Holley to Pembroke campus have been reduced to

vision for Providence as the city moves away from cars as the dominant mode of transport: “We made a conscious effort to plan our city around people,” Elorza said to the Journal, “not around cars.” Those who work in public transportation have also been excited by bike-sharing programs; they envision a cooperation between publicly shared bikes and public buses as a replacement for single-use automobile travel.

“The JUMP bike service will provide Rhode Islanders with one more way to leave their cars at home,” Rhode Island Public Transit Authority CEO

memory and mental health. A recent study of 36 college students who lightly rode a stationary bike for 10 minutes found that “even light exercise can change people’s brains and minds right away.” The students who rode the bike remembered images more clearly than the control group of students who did not and exhibited calmer heart rates in subsequent hours. As bike-sharing programs grow in popularity around Brown, they increase the physical health of students, and in turn, perhaps their mental well-being.

This is all to say: Bring more JUMP

bikes to campus. While they already seem omnipresent, there remains room for growth. The finite supply of bicycles can seem restrictive, especially when facing one of Brown’s many uphill walks that veer into calf workouts. The integrated motor of JUMP bikes make them particularly satisfying on inclines. When you climb a hill, you pedal with more force, and the motor funnels in more power to help you reach the summit with ease. A rider in New York explained, “It doesn’t feel like cheating — it gets the rider to think, ‘Hey, I’m much stronger than I thought.’”

The introduction of JUMP bikes has already been a boon for the Brown community, with the campus becoming more connected internally and the city beyond College Hill growing more accessible. An influx of bikes would only amplify these benefits and further concretize the shift away from cars as the normative form of transportation.

As JUMP bikes streamline connections around Brown’s physical campus, so too is the sense of community bolstered.

Derek Simshauser ’20 recently purchased a pair of gloves to keep his hands warm while he JUMP bikes. He can be reached at derek_simshauser@brown.edu.

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Kennedy plaza should focus on the public experience ELIZABETH TOLEDANO op-ed contributor I like to think of Kennedy Plaza as the “heart” of Rhode Island. Designer Don Powers would call it “the living room” of the Ocean State, or what I would call the yellow submarine of the octopus’ garden. Recent discussion about the planned renovations to Kennedy Plaza has me thinking about its fate. Currently, as Bonnie Nickerson, director of the Department of Planning and Development for the City of Providence, explained, the plan for Kennedy Plaza is to consolidate bus stops, improve pedestrian safety, improve vehicle circulation and “create a vibrant public space.”

As of now, Kennedy Plaza works for the machine; its primary purpose, in effect, is to serve the cars and buses. And those cars and buses are not nice: They’re loud, they’re ugly and most of all they can be dangerous. Providence’s current plan for Kennedy Plaza, funded by the state and the city, is a welcome first step, but I think it could go further.

I believe Kennedy Plaza needs to become a more meaningful space for people, not just buses. This space belongs to the residents of the city and should provide a wonderful experience to everyone who visits. The idea of a city plaza, from Florence to León to New York, is to provide a space that’s appealing for everybody.

Imagine coffee tables spilling out into Westminster Street, children playing jump rope, young couples holding hands and ice skating. There’s magic to be had; the difficulty is allocating funds to anything besides infrastructure and transportation plans.

Renovation plans have come to fruition, and construction will begin in 2019 for moving the buses to Washington Street. There will no longer be stops on Exchange Terrace, East Approach or Fulton Street. This should make the plaza safer for pedestrians, a welcome first step, but the next step would be making it fun and conducive to recreational use.

For me, a caffeine junkie with a lust for Paris lights, Kennedy Plaza’s appeal to leisure would definitely involve a coffee shop and maybe a rose garden and a fountain shaped like Apollo. However, the current plan is intentionally vague, with only a specific mention to “public art.”

tate social equality and improved community experience when done cautiously and thoughtfully.

Look at public spaces in countries around the world. Places that come to mind are Denmark and Colombia. The Copenhagen-based landscape architecture, real estate and planning group Gehl’s projects in Denmark and around the world use innovative concepts like gardens and children’s education as a foundation for improving urban quality of life.

In Colombia, the city of Medellin provides an interesting and important example of urban design and infrastructure as an attempt at im-

The people behind the project in Kennedy Plaza are trying to design a public space for the public’s use. In a truly successful public space, it would also be for the public’s benefit.

Kennedy Plaza will be a nice space, and the city wants to make it happen, but at the moment, for reasons that make a lot of sense, pragmatism rules and beauty takes a backseat in the unraveling of this plan.

Now, it’s worth noting that any plan to improve a city comes at a cost — gentrification.

Typically, this involves displacing citizens due to increased property values and rents. The thing about Kennedy Plaza, however, is that it’s not currently a residential area. While retail values might go up, the cost of living should not change significantly. Creating a public space that welcomes everyone and enables everyone to come together to have a positive experience can facili-

proving socioeconomic equity. Over the past 10 years, former Mayor Sergio Fajardo led a project in what the city of Medellin terms “social urbanism.” By improving services, public spaces and transportation systems, the city reinvented itself. Once an overpopulated hub for crime and inequity, the city has made huge steps for the advancement of quality of life for its fast-growing population.

The city’s experimental plan created environmentally friendly improvements like a garden that absorbs toxins from a major landfill, a “greenbelt” walking/biking path to curb urban sprawl and transportation that promotes access for everybody to medical care and work. This

project, which earned Medellin the Urban Land Institute’s award for “most innovative city,” has its downside. In the completion of the project, people were displaced from their homes — a result of change in residential areas. Violence still remains a serious problem in the city, and the new designs replaced some of the original charm many of its citizens held dear.

Maintenance, and continued improvement, are integral to the success of a project on this scale. Still, it’s important to note how much public safety and experience have both improved: Murder rates are lower than they have been, educational initiatives have improved and art galleries, libraries and public spaces now flourish.

While there are no guarantees, the people behind the project in Kennedy Plaza are trying to design a public space for the public’s use. A truly successful public space would also be for the public’s benefit.

For now, however, Kennedy Plaza improvements have to keep safety as their primary concern, and that’s simply working toward a basic quality of life issue for Providence citizens. Maybe, over the next five years or so, Kennedy Plaza will become a heart for the people of Rhode Island, but for now it’s still just arteries and veins getting buses from one place to another. Call me a dreamer, but next time I’m at Haven Bros doing damage to my own heart, I’ll be thinking of how, one day, Kennedy Plaza too might become a heart with a pulse in the city of Providence.

Elizabeth Toledano ’20 can be reached at elizabeth_toledano@brown.edu. Please send responses to this opinion to letters@browndailyherald.com and other op-eds to opinions@browndailyherald.com.

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Men’s soccer draws in defensive battle against Hofstra

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Derek Waleffe ’22 had two of Brown’s best scoring chances in the first half of Tuesday’s home game versus Hofstra, but Bruno’s attack could not break through as the match ended scoreless.

Coming off tough loss to Cornell, Bears end Hofstra game in hardfought, scoreless draw

By RYAN HANDEL STAFF WRITER

Coming off a heartbreaking loss Saturday to the Cornell Big Red, the men’s soccer team hoped to rebound against a tough Hofstra University squad Tuesday night at StevensonPincince field. Though a spirited defensive performance led by five saves from goalkeeper Max Gross ’21 helped the Bears keep a clean sheet, Hofstra’s defense also held steady and the game ended in a 0-0 draw. Brown completed a four game homestand with its match against the Pride and finished 2-1-1.

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Hofstra (7-5-4, 4-2-1 CAA) presented a difficult non-conference match-up for the Bears (7-6-1, 1-3-0 Ivy), as the Pride had gone through an eight-game period earlier in the season without allowing a goal, including a 0-0 draw against No. 21 UNC-Wilmington. Given this, the Bears considered Tuesday’s draw a positive result. “We came off a tough loss and wanted to show we had some energy and fight, and we did that,” said team captain Gabe Welp ’19.

Though no goals were scored, the game had plenty of action, especially in the early minutes. In just the third minute, a corner kick for Hofstra allowed George O’Malley to attempt a short-range shot, which clanged off the post. Immediately afterwards, John Vrablic ’21 made a transition drive down the field but his shot was barely saved by Hofstra goalkeeper Leo Arkhanhelskyi.

Hofstra put consistent pressure on the Brown defense early. Bruno bent, allowing four Pride corner kicks in the first 12 minutes, but did not break, as Hofstra could not convert on their opportunities. Brown recovered and mounted their own attack, including multiple shots by Derek Waleffe ’22.

One of Waleffe’s attempts was impressively saved by Arkhanhelskyi with one hand in the 16th minute, while another attempt just missed the net in the 19th.

Play slowed down for the remainder of the first half, although each team had another good opportunity to take the lead before the break.

Hofstra’s Storm Strongin had a great chance at a short-range score, but Gross slid in for the clutch save. Nathan Plano ’21 similarly had a low shot blocked in the 36th minute.

Both defenses continued to crack down in the second half, with solid

scoring opportunities becoming few and far between. Bruno’s best chances of the half came when Toby Howell ’19 controlled the ball inside the penalty box in the 66th minute but sent a slow roller wide, and a shot from Justin O’Brien ’19 that clipped the crossbar.

With no scoring during regulation, the teams went to overtime. Overtime had been one of Brown’s strengths up until this game — previously, Bruno was 3-0 in overtime games this season.

But it was not to be this time, as the Pride defense proved impenetrable. In the second overtime, Daniel Schiller ’20 and Matthew Chow ’20 had shots on goal that could have given Brown the walk-off win, but both were corralled by Arkhanhelskyi. Strongin also had a late attempt to win it for Hofstra, but hit the crossbar.

As time wound down, action between the teams got chippy, with

O’Malley and O’Brien each picking up a yellow card in the final two minutes. But neither team could net an overtime score.

Gross, whose performance in goal was crucial to Brown’s clean sheet, credited his teammates with the strong defensive effort. “We won a lot of headers around the box, got a lot of clearances and did a good job tracking our men,” he said.

Head Coach Patrick Laughlin was unsure if the Bears could have done any more to score a winning goal, despite the opportunities they created.

“Our players were trying to convert, we just couldn’t finish,” he said.

With the game against Hofstra completed, the Bears have wrapped up their non-conference schedule.

Brown will resume their Ivy League slate on Saturday night on the road against Penn, the only remaining winless team in Ivy League play.