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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
VOLUME CLII, ISSUE 65
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Bike share program comes to Providence Hillel group provides space for Jewish students of color Hillelin’ with Melanin addresses intersectional identities, lack of representation By MAIA ROSENFELD STAFF WRITER
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A University internal task force communicated with the City about the new bike share program and suggested campus locations for bike hubs. As of Sept. 15, there were 400 JUMP Bikes in Providence.
Uber-owned JUMP Bikes launched Sept. 6 with hundreds of bikes operational in Providence By DYLAN MAJSIAK SENIOR STAFF WRITER
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As classes kicked off this semester,
so did JUMP Electric Bikes — a new bike-share program that brings hundreds of red dockless bikes to Providence. Uber, which purchased JUMP Bikes in spring 2018, and the City of Providence partnered to allow community members to rent bikes through the Uber or JUMP Bike apps. To rent a bike, users can select any of the small bike icons on either app to find a charged bike nearby. Once the JUMP
Bike is reserved, the app provides a pin to unlock the bike’s built-in lock. After each use, the bikes are either returned to a JUMP Bike hub — such as the one in front of Metcalf Research Building on Thayer Street — or to a public bike rack, a streetlight pole or another public spot. There are multiple ways to pay for the service. Riders can decide to pay $2 for 30 minutes of riding, and then pay » See JUMP, page 2
Last spring, Brown/RISD Hillel welcomed a new student group that strives to foster community among Jewish students of color. Hillelin’ with Melanin — created by Tessa Palisoc ’20 and Nicole Spring ’20.5 — is a social group that celebrates the students’ intersectional identities and increases their visibility on campus. “It’s hard when there’s very little visibility for Jews of color to find a space,” Palisoc said. “You think that there isn’t anyone like you, you think that there isn’t a space for you — but there is, and so we wanted to establish and create it.” According to Jordan Mann ’15, who started working for Hillel last fall as a staff liaison for student groups, Hillel used to house a similar group called Jews of Color, though the number of members dwindled over the past few years. Hillel staff wanted to
revive it, and Mann especially felt it was important to create a space at Hillel for Jewish students of color. One member of the group, Cameron Chaleff ’20, finds this space especially important because it allows her to find community without always placing identity at the forefront. “Hillelin’ with Melanin is more of just a social group,” Chaleff said. “It lets you be in a Jewish space and be in a people-of-color space without really thinking about each of those at every moment, and that’s been so awesome. I’ve never experienced anything like that before coming here.” The group meets about every other week for fun and relaxing programming, with many of its events centering on Jewish holidays. A recent event celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and was themed “Apples to Apples with Honey,” following the tradition of eating apples with honey on the holiday. Upcoming events include a sunset barbeque picnic on Hillel’s balcony to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot and a bowling disco night in February to celebrate Black History Month. Hillelin’ with Melanin aims to » See HILLEL, BACK
Alum talks personalized mindfulness at School of Public Health Postdoc Michael Sacchet ’10 discusses research, methods for analyzing interregional connections By PRIYANKA PODUGU UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR
Matthew Sacchet ’10, a postdoctoral scholar from Stanford University, delivered a lecture at the School of Public Health Tuesday on “personalized mindfulness practices,” according to the event description. Sacchet began by pointing to a quote from Jon Kabat-Zinn, founding executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, as a common definition of mindfulness: “paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgmentally.” Sacchet added that he is “particularly interested in … moving beyond targeting psychiatric disorders and really trying to target specific individuals (and tailoring) mindfulness-based interventions for what that specific
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person needs.” There are several questions in the field that still need to be answered, Sacchet said. “What is the neuroscience of mindfulness?” he asked. “How can we leverage the insights of the neuroscience of mindfulness to develop more effective treatments?” In his lecture, Sacchet spoke about his research to better understand the brain structure and function of individuals with mood and anxiety disorders. His work may have applications in the field of mindfulness science. While neuroscience has historically focused on the structure and function of specific brain regions, Sacchet said the field has recently shifted toward understanding how interactions between regions affect behavioral and psychological processes. Specifically, Sacchet aims to understand “how disruptions to these interactions might relate to psychopathology,” he added. To explore this interest, Sacchet said he employed a variety of research methods, including diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, a technique that “allows an opportunity to investigate interregional (connections) non-invasively in humans.” » See MINDFULNESS, page 2
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Michael Sacchet ’10 presents his research on the neuroscience of mindfulness and how the practice can be used as an emotional regulation technique for individuals with depression, anxiety and other mood disorders.
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