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Jo’s shakes it up with salad, market changes

Elorza endorses Pete Buttigieg for president

Vending machines, soup station replace convenience store, three burners

Despite support from nearly 60 mayors, Buttigieg slow to take off on campus

BY TYLER JACOBSON STAFF WRITER Students returned to Josiah’s this semester to find unchopped salads, a soup station and a row of vending machines in place of Little Jo’s.

The soup station — along with roasted turkey breast — replaced the “three burners” station, which used to offer a rotating variety of foods, including chicken wings and dumplings. The Little Jo’s convenience store has been replaced with an array of vending machines that offer “high-end sandwiches and salads” along with traditional snacks, said George Barboza, director of dining programs.

These changes were driven by student feedback from last year, Barboza said. “Some of the feedback we received (was) that Jo’s had too many fried food options on that menu.”

“It’s really about having healthier options,” he continued. “We used

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to have chicken nuggets, which were deep fried, and we replaced it with real, roasted turkey breast at that station.”

The six new vending machines also offer healthier options than Little Jo’s did, Barboza said. “We have more food offerings now.”

The change to Little Jo’s gives stu-

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University partners with film studio A24 Collaboration to bring advance screenings, events to campus, increased work with IFF

BY KAITI YOO SENIOR STAFF WRITER Starting this fall, the University will partner with film production company A24 — known for works such as “Spring Breakers,” “Ex Machina,” “Lady Bird,” “Moonlight” and “Euphoria” — to bring screenings and events to campus.

Headquartered in New York City, A24 is one of the most prominent independent film distribution companies today. The company, founded seven years ago by film veterans Daniel Katz, David Fenkel and John Hodges, has received 25 Academy Award nominations and six Academy Award wins.

A24’s partnership with the University is part of a larger effort by the company to further its presence through grassroots publicity on college campuses. To date, A24 has partnered with 14 universities.

Caleb O’Brien ’20, a current A24 intern and campus representative for this partnership, will be working to

bring special screenings, talent and merchandise to College Hill.

“Since A24 is an independent company, … how they create buzz around their content is mainly through wordof-mouth publicity,” O’Brien said. “A24 is excited about our demographic — young people (who consume) content in new ways. People never go to the movies anymore, but at the same time, all of us are consuming more media than ever.”

O’Brien said that the A24 at Brown partnership is striving to harness that energy and make students excited about “up-and-coming, cutting-edge media.”

He added that this official collaboration aims to “both attract those die-hard fans who love A24 already, and expand (its reach) to a new audience.”

On campus, A24 at Brown will work closely with Ivy Film Festival. Though most well-known for its student-powered annual week-long festival in the spring, IFF also hosts many free advance screenings for the Providence community throughout the year.

IFF has already hosted advance screenings of A24’s films in the past, so an official partnership with the company is “exciting” because it represents a

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dents access to food at all hours of the day, he added. Operation hours of Little Jo’s were limited in the past when workers were running the convenience store.

Additionally, Jo’s salads are no

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Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza joined nearly 60 current and former mayors nationwide to endorse Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, for president.

“Pete has the life experience and the executive experience to be the unite(r)in-chief that our country needs,” reads a statement from Elorza’s office released Wednesday afternoon. “Pete’s entire life story sets him apart from the field and makes him the best positioned candidate to take on Trump.”

Elorza’s endorsement came hours after over 50 mayors from 26 states voiced their support for Buttigieg in an op-ed published in USA Today. The Buttigieg campaign plans to launch a program called ‘Mayors for Pete,’ which would provide infrastructure for mayors

across the country to mobilize their constituents in support of Buttigieg’s candidacy, according to Elorza’s release. But despite his endorsements from across the country, no mayor from Massachusetts, Vermont or Delaware — the home states of current Democratic frontrunners Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Vice President Joe Biden — has given an endorsement.

In the op-ed, the mayors praised Buttigieg’s experience holding executive office, his willingness to work across partisan lines and his focus on climate change. While Buttigieg’s critics condemn his fraught relationship with the black community in South Bend, the mayors wrote that he “is deeply invested in making sure every American is heard and feels they belong — especially in marginalized communities.”

Buttigieg, once a long-shot candidate for the nation’s highest office, gained traction last spring for his quiet charisma and impressive accolades — a Rhodes Scholar and lieutenant in the

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Acoustic Java replaces Cable Car Cinema New shop opens today, sells coffee, plays independent, alternative movies

BY HENRY DAWSON SENIOR STAFF WRITER Lights, camera, coffee. Fingers tap on keyboards under dim lights and students sip on cappuccinos while an art house film plays on the big screen in the background. Audio from the film travels through an app and

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earbuds, keeping the air quiet and still.

Acoustic Java Café and Microcinema will open its doors to the public for the first time today — replacing the beloved Cable Car Cinema on 204 South Main St., at the foot of College Hill. Cable Car, a cinema and cafe, closed in May 2018 after 42 years of screenings when it decided not to renew its lease on the Rhode Island School of Design-owned building, The Herald previously reported.

Acoustic Java has a lease with RISD Holdings, wrote RISD Senior Public Relations Specialist Danielle Mancuso in an email to The Herald.

The new location marks Acoustic

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The space previously occupied by Cable Car Cinema will be replaced

by Cafe and Microcinema Acoustic Java, which opens today.

Java’s expansion into Providence; it currently operates two coffee shops in Worcester, M.A. For owner David Fullerton PhD’06, the South Main Street location means coming home.

“That was the first choice he had for expansion, to come to Providence,” General Manager Alecia Bishop told The Herald.

The Providence location will be the first Acoustic Java to host more regular film screenings of independent and alternative films,

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as opposed to pop-up showings.

Daytime showings will be complimentary, while nighttime showings will require tickets. Acoustic Java will screen “Cléo from 5 to 7” at 7:15 tonight.

“We’re also getting a lot of requests from the community already,” Fullerton said. “We already have a yoga movie we’re showing for the yoga community.”

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Institute for Transformative Practice connects affinity groups on campus ITP, identity centers unite under the theme, ‘Crossing Border, Unsettling Boundaries’

BY BECKY WOLFSON STAFF WRITER This year, the University created an umbrella organization called the Institute for Transformative Practice to link the campus’ seven identity centers and programs together.

ITP will connect the Brown Center for Students of Color, the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, the Undocumented, First Generation and Low-Income Student Center, the Global Brown Center for International Students, the LGBTQ Center, the Office of Military-Affiliated Students and the Community Dialogue Project.

“I wanted the seven centers to see themselves and be seen by the larger campus community as a true collective, breaking silos that naturally happen within institutions,” wrote Nicole Truesdell, the executive director of ITP, in an email to The Herald. “Each center has a particular lens used in the work, but collectively our goals are the same.”

To facilitate engagement between the centers, ITP encourages each center to plan programming around the same theme. ITP selected “Crossing Borders, Unsettling Boundaries,” as the theme for the centers to use to connect with each other this year. Gail Cohee, director of the SDWC, said the theme prompted her to think about borders and boundaries in metaphorical and physical ways ­— boundaries around gender, bodies, the physical borders between countries — all of which will factor into future programming for her center.

Through the theme, Truesdell wrote,

JO’S FROM PAGE 1 longer chopped to cut down on long lines. “Chopping the salads was labor-intensive and required a lot of time per order,” Barboza wrote in an email to The Herald. “We still feature all of the ingredients with additional enhancements such as the fresh roasted turkey breast to round out the salad concept.”

Some students are not happy about the changes to the dining options at Jo’s.

“My greatest gripe would be the fact that (Dining Services) managed to slim

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she hoped ITP could “show that (when) folks at the margins can take and make their own space, then we thrive. …

Thriving is … the way we have moved in a society that has told us and keeps telling many of us we are not enough — the ITP’s premise is that we were always already enough.”

ITP will also encourage all of the identity centers to use an “equity asset based approach,” which ensures that students’ lived knowledge and experiences are seen as assets rather than

deficits, said Julio Reyes, program director of the U-FLi Center.

“U-FLi students, students of color, etc., all have a lot of strengths they bring with them to Brown from their home communities,” Reyes said. “Instead of thinking of students as lacking, (the approach) is to normalize (their backgrounds) in Brown’s culture.”

Each of the seven centers has felt a different impact from ITP’s presence.

For the OMAS, ITP has brought a sense of validity and opened conversations

about making space for military-affiliated students at Brown.

ITP “brings validity to the veteran community … that if we were on our own I don’t know that we would have,” said Kimberly Millette, program director for OMAS. “For my office specifically, that (means) seeing a student veteran as a person, … and to respect them as a human versus seeing them as an extension of the system of oppression that is the military itself.”

While Reyes and Cohee said that ITP

will not change their work significantly, they still noted the positive ways in which ITP promotes intersectionality, a key goal for each center.

“It also allows for students to feel like they can connect to any of the spaces, programs or departments,” Reyes said. “We wouldn’t want a U-FLi student to come into the Center and feel like they can only connect with us. …

For us it is important that students not only find a home here, but elsewhere.”

down options but without replacing (them) with great variety,” said Ben Myers ’21. “If you are vegetarian, you still have salads, but they could have done more with offerings in that respect.”

Gianna DeVincenzo ’22 expressed disappointment with the change to the salad station. “They can’t cut us off from our chopped salads,” she said.

But Ethan Chung ’22 said he prefers the new unchopped salads. “The chopped salads last year turned to mush.”

Lei Roylo ’21 was disappointed with the changes. “I miss chicken nuggets. I

miss chicken wings. I don’t appreciate this soup business,” she said.

Barboza acknowledged student complaints about the change in food options. “I know there have been concerns about chicken wings going away,” Barboza said. “We’ve decided that we’ll probably have to invest in a new piece of equipment to make it happen, but I think you’ll see chicken wings back on the menu” in the near future.

The arrival of the vending machines was met with mixed reactions from students. Blessing Ubani ’21 said that Little Jo’s “had things like power strips and

other handy things you might need at your dorm.”

The vending machines are “cool, but not as convenient” as Little Jo’s was, added Izayah Powell ’21.

Myers said that the non-food options at Little Jo’s saved him trips to CVS. “You could just come (to Little Jo’s) and use points for that, which makes sense if you are already paying for meal plan,” but the new vending machines do not provide non-food items.

The vending machines do not currently accept Bear Bucks or points. But Barboza said Wednesday that they will

accept them “very soon, hopefully within the next day or so,” which will “allow us to capture a larger audience, as many students use one or the other.” Three of the six vending machines will accept Bear Bucks and three will accept points, but both will have the same food offerings, Barboza added.

Still, some students aren’t bothered by the changes. “The uproar isn’t really worth it,” said Dan Adkins ’21. “It really doesn’t make a change in anyone’s life at the end of the day.”

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Rhode Island mobile sports betting app launches, faces legal questions Rhode Island Lottery released app Sept. 4, allowing statewide access to sports betting

BY MAIA ROSENFELD SENIOR STAFF WRITER Rhode Island residents and visitors can now place bets on sporting events from the comfort of their own homes, thanks to a new mobile application launched Sept. 4 by the Rhode Island Lottery. But users should not get comfortable too quickly: The state is facing a potential lawsuit claiming that the introduction of mobile sports betting is a constitutional violation.

Though sports betting was legalized by the General Assembly last year, Rhode Island’s constitution requires that an expansion of gambling be approved by a statewide referendum and a vote in individual towns and cities.

Tiverton and Lincoln are the only cities in Rhode Island that voted to legalize sports betting, but the app allows people to bet on sports across the state.

In order to bet on the app, users must go in person to a casino in Lincoln or Tiverton to set up an account.

According to Paul Grimaldi, chief of information and public relations for the Rhode Island Department of Revenue, the state’s legal requirement is satisfied because “the technology is located in those two places, and the bets flow through those two physical locations.”

But the lawsuit against the state, brought by psychiatrist and former Providence GOP mayoral candidate Daniel Harrop, is arguing that the mobile betting app violates an article of the Rhode Island Constitution that

ELORZA FROM PAGE 1 U.S. Navy Reserve — for someone only 37 years old. But Buttigeig, who has attempted to structure his campaign around generational change, has yet to sweep college campuses — Brown included. A spring 2019 Harvard Institute of Politics study showed Buttigieg polling at 1 percent among voters aged 18 to 29, and the mayor is currently polling at less than 7 percent nationally, according to a more recent poll conducted by NBC and the Wall Street Journal. At Brown, students have started

gives residents the right to vote on any expansion of gambling. “I just don’t think you can ignore (it) if somebody tries to take away your right to vote,” he added.

Harrop noted that he is not an opponent of gambling — in fact, he decided to bring his claim against the state while sitting at the roulette table at the Tiverton casino and describes himself as “ambivalent” on the issue of mobile sports betting.

“I do not consider this to be a case that has anything to do with betting or gambling,” Harrop said. “It’s an issue of rights and a constitutional issue.”

Harrop is also worried that the expansion of sports betting to statewide locations and private homes will cause issues for people struggling with gambling addictions. “On a snowy, icy January evening, they don’t have to get up and go to the casino to bet, they can bet from their cell phone in the comfort of their home. I think that’s going to be a big problem down the line,” Harrop said.

Harrop added that he wished there had been further discussion of the potential effects of expanding gambling, including provisions made to provide more support to compulsive gamblers.

A judge ruled Sept. 9 that Harrop did not have standing to bring this case, as he was not personally harmed by sports betting’s expansion. But after learning about the dismissal of his case, Harrop looked through his betting books and found a $20 loss from a bet on the Patriots in December at Twin River and then re-filed his case. A hearing is set for Monday to determine whether he has standing to bring this case based on his $20 loss.

“It’s not going away until the constitutional issue is decided on,” Harrop

to mobilize around Warren and Sanders, but there is little visible grassroots organizing on campus for Buttigieg, who would be the first openly gay president if elected.

“We are not allowed to take sides in primaries,” President of Brown College Democrats Zoe Mermelstein ’21 previously told The Herald.

Pete for America did not respond to request for comment Wednesday night.

The Rhode Island primary is set to take place on April 28, 2020.

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Tiverton and Lincoln are the only cities in Rhode Island that voted to legalize sports betting, but the newly launched app allows people to bet on sports across the state once they have signed up in person. said. “We’re not going to settle for it being decided on an issue of standing, so if I don’t get standing next week, we’ll be back with another plaintiff.”

“In regards to the sports betting case status, we are reviewing it and will respond in court as appropriate,” wrote Kristy dosReis, public information officer for the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General, in a statement to The Herald. The Attorney General’s office declined to comment further on the case, since it is representing the state in the matter.

“We’re going to follow whatever di-

rective comes out of the court,” Grimaldi said. “We presume sports betting and the mobile app will be upheld, but we’ll have to see.”

According to Grimaldi, sports betting is expected to produce $22.7 million in revenue in FY20, with $17.3 million coming from mobile betting on the app. The state will keep 51 percent of this revenue, and the rest will be split between International Game Technology and William Hill, which helped create the app, and Twin River, the casino that operates it.

“Mobile is the way to go,” Grimaldi

said. “It’s where all sorts of gaming and all sorts of products and services are being offered now. And we expect it to be popular not only for football,” he added, “but all the major sports.”

Grimaldi expects to see betting events set up around big sports games.

If the Patriots make it to the Superbowl again, he said he imagines establishments near the state border might set up “some sort of party where you would draw people in from Connecticut or Massachusetts to bet legally while they’re enjoying the game,” Grimaldi said.

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FILM FROM PAGE 1 “furthering (of our) mission in helping make film more accessible,” said Karina Rotenstreich ’20, co-director of IFF . “If we can help get Brown and (Rhode Island School of Design) students and the Providence community greater access to really inspiring storytelling, then we are doing our job.”

Sasha Pinto ’21, another IFF co-director, also expressed excitement for this collaboration. “A24 is uniquely

known for giving a voice to small, indie filmmakers, and championing rich and unusual stories,” she said. “So we’re well suited for each other with similar creative approaches to our work.”

Pinto also praised the founders of A24 for channeling an inclusive artistic vision. “They seem to have a deep love and respect for cinema and are willing to take risks on filmmakers and trust their abilities to bring something unique and transformative to the world. And that’s a rare and wonderful

quality in any industry.”

The A24 at Brown collaboration officially began Sept. 14 with a free screening of A24’s 2019 release “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. With 177 students and faculty in attendance, the screening was “phenomenal” according to IFF Director Grace Attanasio ’21. “There were definitely laughs and tears throughout,” O’Brien said.

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On Italy’s football pitches, racism finds a refuge

BY DEREK SIMSHAUSER OPINIONS EDITOR

The season had hardly begun when Italian football’s most vile tradition reared its head. On Sept. 1 — just the second matchday of Serie A (Italy’s top league) — Inter Milan’s Romelu Lukaku readied himself for a penalty against rival club Cagliari. As the Belgian striker stepped up to take the shot, hordes of Cagliari fans began a prolonged series of monkey chants. The abuse continued after Lukaku, who is of Congolese descent, calmly converted what would prove to be the match-winning goal.

Unfortunately, the abuse endured by Lukaku is all too familiar for players of African descent who play in Serie A. After the incident, there was a disturbing acceptance of such behavior from fans and officials alike, whose comments suggested that it is simply part of the game.

And with anti-immigrant fervor — particularly against those coming from African countries — animating Italian politics, the significance of these incidents can no longer be limited to the pitch.

Following the match, a recording of the incident circulated on social media and received widespread condemnation. But the gravity of the racial abuse seemed lost on those at every level of Italian football. In a Cagliari press release, the club stated that it “firmly rejects what happened Sunday night against Inter Milan,” calling it a “slanderous accusation against the Sardinian people.” An organization of Inter Milan fans — Lukaku’s own club — told the striker to learn the ‘ways’ of Italian football. “We understand that it could have seemed racist to you, but it is not like that,” the fan group, Curva Nord, said. “In Italy we use some ways only to help our teams and to try to make our oppo-

nents nervous, not for racism but to mess them up.” And the governing body of Serie A declared that there was insufficient evidence to issue a punishment against Cagliari, despite videos that clearly indicate otherwise.

Even teammates and managers show little camaraderie when it comes to supporting those who suffer racist abuse. When league champions Juventus visited Cagliari last season, home team fans taunted 19-year-old forward Moise Kean with epithets and monkey sounds throughout the entire game. When Kean, an

“And with anti-immigrant fervor — particularly against those coming from African countries — animating Italian politics, the significance of these incidents can no longer be limited to the pitch.”

Italian born to Ivorian parents, scored a late goal to secure victory for his side, he stared at the crowd and raised his arms — a silent rebuke to the loathsome din of the Cagliari ultras. Yet when asked after the game about the crowd’s behavior, veteran teammate Leonardo Bonucci chose to equivocate: “I think the blame is 50-50. … Moise should not have done that, and the (fans) should not have acted that way.”

Then-manager Massimiliano Allegri also saw fit to criticize his teenage forward, saying that “he should not have celebrated in that manner” and that he “provoked” the fans’ racist vitriol.

Notably, both of these incidents took place at Cagliari’s Stadio Sardegna, where fans of the

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island’s club have long spewed racist invective toward players of African descent while cheering a club conspicuously lacking any such players (another Inter Milan striker, Cameroonian Samuel Eto’o, faced similar abuse in 2010).

But racism from ultras — the most fanatical of a team’s supporters — extends to the Italian mainland. Curva Nord, the group of Inter Milan ultras who dismissed the abuse of Lukaku, directed monkey sounds at Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly last season. Racism is sadly ubiquitous among Italian soccer fans; as an

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18-year-old, Italian striker Mario Balotelli had bananas thrown at him by supporters of A.S. Roma as he walked through the capital.

And while racist abuse exists in the other top leagues of European football, only in Italy does it enjoy political support. The racism of the ultras reflects a pernicious xenophobia that pervades Italian politics, especially as immigration from sub-Saharan countries has accelerated. The Northern League, a far-right party, won 34 percent of seats in May’s parliamentary elections with a largely nativist message. Earlier that month, party leader Matteo Salvini stood in front of a cathedral in Milan and delivered an anti-immigrant screed, calling for a defense

of Christian Europe in the face of “replacement by foreigners.” In his 15 months as Interior Minister, Salvini delighted in threatening the rights of immigrants and trafficking in open racism. He has closed ports to refugees on multiple occasions; he has vowed to “send home” undocumented immigrants; he has tweeted a video of an African migrant with the caption “Go home!!” And while Salvini was ousted as Interior Minister on Sept. 5 after the formation of a new majority parliamentary coalition, he remains influential in Italian politics; The League’s anti-immigrant message continues to invigorate voters.

Unsurprisingly, Salvini has voiced support of the ultras’ racist behavior on multiple occasions. He mocked a rule by the Italian soccer federation that would suspend games in the event of racist chants, joking that there would be a “Richter scale for booing.” Salvini also downplayed Curva Nord’s racist abuse of Koulibaly, saying that “healthy teasing among fans is not to be considered racism.” Indeed, as racism and xenophobia are resurgent in Italian politics, they are reflected in the taunts of the ultras.

So as another season of Serie A gets underway, it seems likely that further abuse will follow. The Italian soccer federation issued a superficial “anti-racism initiative” in the wake of Lukaku’s abuse, but its decades of inaction signal a tacit acceptance of the ultras’ venomous behavior. And as these fanatical groups (many with neo-fascist sympathies ) unleash their bigotry with impunity, they show the persistence of racism in Italy — in the stadiums and beyond.

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

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Everyone needs to get vaccinated, take it from someone with HPV

BY E.L. MESZAROS STAFF COLUMNIST There is currently a vaccine that could help prevent certain types of cancer, but many people are turning it down. The vaccine fights strains of the Human Papillomavirus, which can cause cervical, penile and anal cancer, but some students are still unprotected despite the fact that it’s been around for decades. The University should consider requiring the HPV vaccine for incoming students. In the meantime, current students should take it upon themselves to get the vaccine if they can.

HPV is an infection so common that most sexually active people will get it at some point in their lives. Many people with this infection never experience any symptoms and can even clear the virus from their body without ever knowing they had it. Two strains of HPV cause genital warts, an embarrassing if low-risk infection that can reduce quality of life. More problematic, however, are the 14 strains that can lead to cancer. HPV has been linked to the development of cervical cancer: HPV strains 16 and 18 cause 70 percent of cervical cancers and pre-cancerous lesions. Additionally, this virus can lead to certain types of cancer of the penis, anus, vulva, vagina and base of the tongue.

I tested positive for HPV 16 in 2013 during a routine physical and Pap Smear. Since then, I’ve had multiple colposcopies and cervical biopsies, where tiny bits of tissue are cut out of my cervix to test for precancerous lesions, and a Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure, meant to remove abnormal cervical cells. While neither procedure is particularly lengthy — I was out of the doctor’s office within the hour — it’s difficult to transition from having a pair of clippers inside your cervix to concentrating on your class lecture.

What really gets to me is the idea that this trauma — writing papers while waiting for test results, participating in class discussions while dripping blood and iodine from my cervix — is preventable.

The HPV vaccine protects against nine cancer-causing strains, including the dangerous and common strains 16 and 18. For college-age students, the vaccine is given in three doses over a period of about eight months. Though the vaccine does not treat HPV infection, it is still recommended for people who have already been infected with HPV as a way of preventing new infections and different strains of the virus.

Part of the stigma against the HPV vaccine has to do with the method of catching the virus. Many parents hesitate to vaccinate their children against HPV, thinking that their kids are not sexually active and therefore will not be exposed to the virus. By refusing to confront or acknowledge the sexual activity of their children, parents may end up putting them in harm’s way by leaving them vulnerable to the virus. Moreover, given the proliferation of HPV and the likelihood that a sexual partner has been infected, the best time to vaccinate against it is before you begin having sex. In an era already plagued with damaging anti-vax sentiments, finding additional reasons to refuse vaccination seems wildly unnecessary.

Effective advertising about the associa-

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tion between HPV and cervical cancer, perhaps counterintuitively, risks limiting the number of people vaccinated. Initially, the HPV vaccine was recommended only for those with cervixes.

However, this recommendation and the continued association between the HPV vaccine and preventing cervical cancer left many thinking that they didn’t need the vaccine. But HPV is responsible for other types of cancer as well, including the back of the throat, which is a fairly universal component of the human body. Additionally, the failure to vaccinate everyone contributes to the spread of HPV. Here at Brown, the choice to get vaccinated is in your hands. Many students who have just started college are for the first time in a position to take charge of their health care — which includes vaccinations.

Brown Health Services offers the HPV vaccine and encourages students to get it. However, as of now, students must make their own appointment with Health Services to receive all three doses of the vaccine. This process may seem complex or daunting, especially when compared with the ease of receiving a flu vaccine. But despite this slight added complexity, the HPV vaccine is free to students on the University’s Student Health Insurance Plan.

Take it from me — it’s incredibly important to get this vaccine. Even if you are eventually able to clear your strain of HPV, or if it does not fully develop into cancer, it can still negatively

“What really gets to me is the idea that this trauma — writing papers while waiting for test results, participating in class discussions while dripping blood and iodine from my cervix — is preventable.” impact your life here at Brown and your experience as a student.

Brown Health Services has done a great job of advertising the HPV vaccine to me whenever I meet with a doctor, and as an HPV-positive married 30-something, I’m the least likely to need it. I can only imagine that they are pushing the vaccine for other, more at-risk demographics. But until we can ensure that everyone is vaccinated against HPV, many in our community are at risk. A full set of vaccinations against various diseases are required of incoming students, but currently the HPV vaccine is not included on that list.

The University should consider requiring this cancer-preventing vaccine as part of the set of inoculations required of all incoming

students, and Brown Health Services could put further effort into advertising the availability and $0 cost for students on the SHIP plan. But in the meantime, we must take our health into our own hands and schedule appointments for the HPV vaccine. I’m lucky — despite the negative impact that HPV has had on my life and my studies, it hasn’t yet progressed into cancer.

But if I had gotten vaccinated, it likely wouldn’t have happened at all.

E.L. Meszaros GS can be reached at e.l.meszaros@brown.edu. Please send responses to this opinion to letters@browndailyherald.com and op-eds to opinions@ browndailyherald.com.

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Undergraduate Council of Students discusses free laundry Council introduces liaison system, considers subsidized laundry

BY KAYLA GUO SENIOR STAFF WRITER The Undergraduate Council of Students is starting to plan an initiative that will make laundry free or subsidized for some students, said UCS Vice President Jason Carroll ’21 at the Council’s meeting Wednesday night.

Also at the meeting, Chief of Staff Melissa Lee ’20 introduced a new system through which general body members will serve as club liaisons to make UCS and its resources more accessible to student groups.

Carroll presented two ideas to subsidize laundry: The University could include laundry in housing costs so that it would be covered for students on financial aid, or students with low estimated family contributions could receive cards loaded with a certain amount of Bear Bucks.

The general body then debated the merits of each plan and raised new considerations, like how the University could ensure that Bear Bucks dedicated to laundry are only spent on laundry.

But some general body members argued that tracking the use of Bear Bucks would be unnecessary.

“If people are demonstrating financial need to get one of the Bear

Bucks cards, … I don’t think there’s a need to track that down,” said Brendan Caver ’21.

Today, Carroll and UCS President William Zhou ’20 will meet with Koren Bakkegard, associate vice president for campus life and dean of students, to discuss the laundry initiative for the first time.

During the meeting, Lee told the general body that UCS created club liaisons to “make sure we have consistent interaction and communication between us and the club leaders on campus.”

Each general body member will be assigned six to 10 student groups. Liaisons will help clubs with budgeting issues, according to a slide presented at the meeting. The liaison system will allow general body members to start projects and initiatives based on their work with student groups, Lee said.

“The goal is really to have someone from UCS be there to support club presidents but then ultimately allow club presidents to have agency over how much they’re engaging with the general body and UCS,” Zhou said.

At the end of the meeting, the Council discussed ideas and goals for the year in small groups with the chairs of the Wellness, Campus Life, Academic Affairs and Communications committees. The new chair of student activities will be internally elected on Sept. 25, so Zhou ran that group’s discussion.

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During the Council’s general body meeting Wednesday, UCS Vice President Jason Carroll ’21 presented two ideas on subsidizing laundry for students on financial aid or with low estimated family contributions.

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JAVA FROM PAGE 1 The cafe will serve Fullerton’s small-batch roasted coffee, prioritizing the intersection of sustainability and quality. To accompany the drinks, Acoustic plans to serve locally sourced, seasonal dishes and small plates, according to local chef Gideon Skerry, who previously worked for Tallulah’s Taqueria and Flatbread Company. “Our goal here is to serve really cool food,” Skerry said. “We got the cinema going … I know people are upset about Cable Car leaving, so we’re trying to bring that back to Providence.”

The shop’s menu currently lists pastries, toasts, salads and sandwich-

es, with baked goods from Seven Stars Bakery and dairy from Wright’s Farm in North Smithfield. R.I. Skerry plans to diversify the menu after about a month, taking inspiration from the film of the day. “If it’s an Italian movie or a French movie, try to do a dish that pertains to that,” Skerry said.

“Braised meats, I want to do a lot of pickling stuff.”

Fullerton is also looking to do a young programmers workshop for teenagers aged 15-19 to teach them the art of sourcing films.

“There’s a great cinema community here,” Fullerton said, “great established communities with their own identities.”