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By KIKI BARNESSENIOR STAFF WRITER

About 100 college students from around the country gathered on campus for two days of motivational lectures and net-working at the second annual Collegiate Consulting Group National Conference. The conference was held this weekend by the Collegiate Consulting Group, an undergraduate-run organization that seeks to give students hands-on experi-ence with the industry by connecting them with consulting companies.

The conference aimed to teach stu-dents about consulting and provide them with a place to interact with major consulting firms, said Moses Riner ’09 MA’10, founder of the Collegiate Con-sulting Group. CCG is run by students,

but Riner aids the group by organizing its events and contacting firms. Confer-ence attendees submitted applications online last fall.

“The mediums on campus were very one-dimensional,” said Conference Di-rector Francis Suh ’13. “We created a two-day conference for students and companies to have real conversations.”

Riner said the CCG based the con-ference’s structure on the social venture workshop A Better World By Design, which is held at the University each fall. He added that the group tried to invite companies from many different sectors of consulting, like business and economic management, technology and finance. Fidelity Investments, Capital One Bank, The Boston Consulting Group and NERA Economic Consulting were

among the companies that participated in the conference.

The conference included a series of panels with industry executives who shared their experiences followed by question-and-answer sessions. Students were also able to discuss career options at a luncheon held at the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center Saturday.

“Each company brought at least one (Brown) alum,” Suh said, adding that featuring alums was especially encourag-ing for Brown students who attended.

Most attendees came from New Eng-land schools, though some came from as far away as California and Georgia, Suh said.

Patrick Lai, a graduate student from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, said his peers “don’t get that much breadth of information” about the consulting in-dustry. The conference provided “a great

overview” of consulting careers, he said.“The experiences Brown students

shared were very helpful,” Lai said. “They seemed to know so much more than the others.”

Xi Tian, a junior from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said he felt the Brown students at the conference brought a high level of knowledge about the in-dustry.

Consulting consistently ranks within the top five most popular career fields for Brown graduates, according to data from the Center for Careers and Life After Brown.

“The skill sets you develop through consulting are very diverse,” Suh said. “Brown students are very creative and think critically, which goes well (with the profession).”

CCG leaders said they hope to orga-nize another conference for next year and will consider making it a biannual event.

Consulting conference draws industry reps to campusUndergraduates participated in panels and discussions, gained networking experience

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With 97.5 percent of Brown students owning laptops, technology has transformed how professors teach and students learn.

By KAtIE LAmBSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Alpert Medical School’s new inte-grated primary care and public health curriculum will begin admitting 24 students per class starting in 2015, the school announced Jan. 28. The program may allow students to receive both a master’s degree in population health and a medical degree during their four years.

Students will be selected for the program through a separate admis-sion process from the annual Med School admission process and par-ticipate in a different four-year cur-riculum, said Edward Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences.

Instead of attending large lectures, students in the program will learn some material online before attend-

ing focused small-group sessions, said Ira Wilson, professor of health services, policy and practice and a member of the advisory board that helped develop the program. This format, made possible by the pro-gram’s small size, was driven by the notion of the “flipped classroom,” in which students learn basic concepts on their own and then engage with one another to study specific cases and further develop their knowledge, Wilson said. Students will begin studying population health during the first year of medical school, and their clinical years will be formatted differently from those of the majority of medical students in the country, Wilson said.

The advisory board, composed of deans and professors of the Med School and Public Health programs as well as representatives from the medical community in Providence and Rhode Island, is led by Professor of Family Medicine Jeffrey Borkan, according to a press release about the program. The

new Med School program to admit first class in 2015The 24-student program will combine primary care and public health in a four-year curriculum

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the integrated med School program will promote case-based problem solving in small classes and community engagement. Herald file photo.

By mAGGIE LIVINGStONESTAFF WRITER

The evolution of a play from simple words on a page to full staging, cos-tumes, lighting and set is a lengthy pro-cess for playwrights. The month-long, fourth annual “Writing is Live” festival, which began Jan. 31, allows students in the MFA Playwriting program and undergraduate playwrights to showcase their works at all levels of development, from bare-bones table reads to large-scale productions.

All six candidates in the three-year MFA Playwriting program will debut original works over the first two weeks of the festival, said Vanessa Gilbert, pro-ducing artistic director of the festival and adjunct Theater and Performing Arts lecturer. The last two weeks of the festival are reserved for under-graduates to experiment with origi-nal pieces. Some actors and technical staff members are part of the Brown/Trinity Repertory MFA program, but others include Brown undergraduates, Rhode Island School of Design students and Providence community members, Gilbert said.

First-year MFA students will show-case their works via script-in-hand table reads at the McCormack Family The-ater, second-year students will debut more embodied pieces with minimal staging and design element s and third-year students

Festival exposes playwriting process‘Writing is Live’ will feature over 10 plays by MFA students and undergrads this month

By SANdRA yANSTAFF WRITER

In 1967, Brown was home to exactly one computer.

This mainframe machine — an IBM System/360 Model 67 — was “used by the entire campus,” said Tom Doeppner, associate professor and vice chair of

the department of computer sci-ence. Forty-six

years later, almost every classroom is lit with a sea of gleaming laptops, the University’s course offerings are extend-ing globally through online platforms such as Coursera and nearly two-thirds of the student body owns a smartphone.

“The idea that someday you would

walk around with a computer that’s 10,000 times more powerful than those mainframes — well, that was science fiction when I went to school,” said Andy van Dam, professor of computer science. “A smartphone was science fiction.”

What used to be considered “science fiction” is now the reality. “Computing has become a fabric of the University,” said Don Stanford, adjunct professor of computer science.

But the transition from a single computer — which Doeppner said was “housed in 180 George Street,” today’s Brown Computing Laboratory — to a campus where 97.5 percent of students polled in 2011 own a laptop and the University now tweets its news consti-tuted a crucial step toward technology-driven learning options.

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will premiere full productions with the support of technical staff, Gilbert said.

“It’s ultimately about making a com-munity around new writing,” Gilbert said. “This festival allows people a first look at writers that will go out and be professional playwrights.”

Victor Cazares GS, a third-year stu-dent in the MFA program, will debut a dark horror-thriller called “Ramses

Contra los Monstruos” Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. in Leeds Theater. The piece at-tempts to humanize the drug war in Mexico and

was inspired by Cazares’s upbringing on the border in El Paso, Texas.

“It’s an exploration of drugs, Mexi-can B movies, monster movies, tele-novela, lots of gratuitous sex and po-etry,” Cazares said.

Margaret Namulyanga GS, another third-year student, is showcasing “He Is Here He Says I Say” Feb. 7 at 8 p.m. in the Rites and Reasons Theatre. The play revolves around a Ugandan woman struggling against abuse and searching for the courage to persevere. Namu-lyanga said her experiences at Brown shaped her path into the playwriting world.

“Brown has helped me find my voice as an artist and more so as a person,” she said. “I’ve been more relaxed and confident in my third year showing at the festival.”

For the first time, “Writing is Live” will give several undergraduates the opportunity to premiere pieces through Rites and Reasons Theatre and the Pro-duction Workshop.

Theo Peck-Suzuki ’14.5 took a re-search-to-performance method play-writing class in the fall taught by Elmo Terry-Morgan ’74, associate professor of Africana Studies and artistic director of the Rites and Reasons Theatre. Terry-Morgan helped organize Peck-Suzuki’s play “Grasping at Oranges” into a semi-staged piece by finding him a director and submitting his work to the festival. It will run Feb 16 at 3 p.m. in the Rites and Reasons Theatre.

This is the first major play Peck-Suzuki has debuted, he said. The subject matter, a young man suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, was in-spired by Peck-Suzuki’s family mem-bers’ afflictions with anxiety illnesses, he said. Peck-Suzuki said he hopes that after seeing the show, the audience will be able to understand the disorder and sympathize with the sufferers.

“(OCD) is one of those things that’s misunderstood or misrepresented,” Peck-Suzuki said. “It’s about my char-acter’s journey through the process of becoming ill, leaving school, getting treatment and his halting gradual re-covery.”

Zach Rufa ’14, a concentrator in the Writing for Performance track of theater and performance studies, is both stage managing first-year MFA students’ readings and showcasing his own short plays.

“I’m focusing on writing and less on production,” Rufa said. “I’m having a few short pieces of mine read to hear some things and polish them. It’s nice as a writer to hear your work read aloud by good actors.”

Though Rufa said he still has to fi-nalize the exact pieces he is showcasing, most have to do with loss or despair. He said he does not yet know the exact date of the performance, but it will run at the Production Workshop the week of Feb. 26.

By CORINNE SEJOURNESTAFF WRITER

Even in the days President Obama was in grade school, he was ingrained with modes of thinking about policy that would affect a nation. In a speech about modern-day urban planning and the rich history that shaped it, Thomas Sugrue, professor of history and sociol-ogy at Penn, illuminated the connection between past and present in Rhode Island Hall Friday.

“Change occurs within the param-eters that are established by past regimes,” Sugrue said at the event. In his lecture, he traced how events of the ’60s and ’70s contributed to the work the Obama ad-ministration faces today. A broader con-text influences the challenges confronting the first “urban president” the nation has seen in a long time, Sugrue said in refer-ence to Obama’s Chicago roots.

The constraints and opportunities of urban development and justice today are entrenched in the United States’ past, particularly in its history of race relations, Sugrue said. He told The Herald that living in a city “pretty much (his) entire life” sparked his interest in this area of study, because he was “keenly aware” of the importance of these issues in both American history and contemporary American politics and society.

Sugrue presented the perspectives of both sides of the urban policy debate as they evolved over time. After outlining the liberal and conservative positions on urban policy from the late ’50s and early ’60s, he focused on the two primary and contrasting strains of “crisis manage-ment techniques” that emerged in the early ’60s, the years during which Obama “came of age.”

Integrationist planning, the first of these techniques, emphasized open housing, anti-discrimination and civil rights, he said. Advocates of this approach focused on race in a metropolitan or re-gional context and used their clout to push for policy innovation. In contrast, proponents of community control re-jected the idea of regionalism and instead

supported grassroots organizations, de-manding citizen participation and work-ing more on “micro-level interventions,” Sugrue said.

Sugrue highlighted the groups’ diver-gent definitions of success as a critical dif-ference between the two. The integration-ists considered their approach a means to an end, giving minorities access to new power, while the community-based supporters saw the process of giving mi-norities tools of self-determination to be an end in itself. Ultimately, he said, “the community control activists prevailed.”

Concluding his presentation, Sugrue connected the history of urban policy back to the modern-day challenges and promises the Obama administration faces as it seeks to transcend the struggles of the past.

“We see the fundamental ways the choices of 40, 30 and 20 years ago are still shaping, creating and constraining the choices … of today,” he said.

The 50-minute presentation was fol-lowed by a lengthy question-and-answer session, in which Sugrue covered topics ranging from President Lyndon Johnson to zoning laws to the high concentration of disadvantaged populations in urban areas.

Domingo Morel GS, whose disserta-tion deals with some of the issues Sugrue explored, said he was interested in how Sugrue addressed the questions motivat-ing urban policy in the ’60s and ’70s and how they influence the “limitations and opportunities” of today.

Kate Blessing ’13, an urban studies and history concentrator who coordi-nated the talk with Urban Studies Aca-demic Program Coordinator Meredith Paine, knew Sugrue personally prior to the event. Sugrue’s book, “The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit,” “changed the way I look at history,” she told The Herald. She said she thought a presentation by Sugrue would be relevant for both faculty and students, many of whom are city residents. She opened the presentation by introducing both Sugrue and Profes-sor of History Robert Self, who, in his subsequent remarks, described Sugrue as “one of the most influential American historians of the past two decades.”

The presentation attracted a large and diverse group of students, faculty and community members.

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offered in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Stanford said, and in 1979, van Dam established the sepa-rate Department of Computer Science.

The IBM System/360 Model 67 worked via a process known as time sharing, which involves connecting many terminals to the computer. “The computer, like a master chess player, says your turn, your turn, your turn,” van Dam said. Students would access the computer with punch cards, and computer science students who wrote programs might have as many as 700 cards to feed into a card reader, Stan-ford said. Students would then have to wait a couple of hours for the computer to decide when to run their program, Stanford said.

In October 1979, the department connected to email for the first time with Bell Laboratories, which “allowed the computer science department to communicate with the rest of the world,” Doeppner said.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, IBM debuted personal computers, and Apple came out with its first Macintosh computer. Between the University’s use of the mainframe computer and the rise of personal computing was an age of mini-computers — which were much smaller and much less powerful than the “big, multi-million dollar mainframes,” van Dam said.

Paving the wayThen “we had the personal computer

revolution,” Stanford said.Van Dam said he convinced the

CEO of Apollo, a company that pro-duced personal computers, that “one of their market sectors could be higher education.” Apollo could use Brown as a showcase, “where they could show off what we were doing with their work-stations,” van Dam said. Eventually, van Dam was able to obtain 40 Apollo workstations for a very steep discount, he said.

“Before Harvard, before (Massachu-setts Institute of Technology), before (Carnegie Mellon University), we had a ramped auditorium with 40 Apollo workstations in it, which was hugely novel at the time, particularly their use for in-class teaching,” van Dam said. “Nobody had anything like that.”

“The idea of being in an electronic classroom came from one of my former students,” van Dam said. The original vision was for students to be able to use computers in real time during the lecture to create animations of interest-ing algorithms and learn on their own, he said.

In the mid-1980s, the Internet start-ed becoming very important, Doeppner said. And in 1987 and 1988, the com-puter science department moved from Kassar House into the new Center for Information Technology building, Doeppner said.

Into the futureLooking forward, the landscape of

computers on Brown’s campus is still changing.

“There’s a big demand for lectures to be on the Web somehow,” Doeppner said. Online platforms, such as Cours-era, provide massive open online cours-es that allow the University to expand its offerings to people and places around the world, even to a “300-inhabitant ru-ral area in India,” van Dam said. “As long as you have connectivity, you can do it.”

In light of “the obscene price of what it costs to go to these elite schools, there’s something exciting about sharing out the goodies,” said Arnold Wein-stein, Edna and Richard Salomon dis-tinguished professor of comparative literature, who is one of three Brown professors piloting courses online this summer through Coursera. Though preparation for his online course, “The Fiction of Relationship,” is still in progress and a few months away from launch, Weinstein said about 25,000 people have already signed up. He is currently taping his lectures and hopes to incorporate student discussions “so that we can produce a course that has something of the roundedness of a Brown course,” he said.

The era of punch cards at Brown is a thing of the past, but computers have made their way into aspects of daily life at the University beyond the classroom.

“We’re heading to the point where there are computers everywhere,” Stan-ford said. “you walk into a room, (a computer) turns the light on, adjusts the heat.”

Offering online course opportunities is, “in a sense, history in the making,” Weinstein said.

By HANNAH LOWENtHEIL SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The University will partner with local nonprofit Building Futures in all future construction projects valued over $5 mil-lion, administrators announced Jan. 23.

The partnership was formalized as part of a memorandum released at the topping-off ceremony of the Building for Environmental Research and Teaching, formerly known as Hunter Laboratory. Previously, the University worked with Building Futures on a case-by-case basis.

Building Futures is a pre-apprentice-ship training program with a stated mis-sion of providing low-income Providence citizens with the skills and opportunities to pursue careers in the construction in-dustry. The nonprofit was co-founded in 2007 by current director Andrew Cortes with leaders from Providence Plan and Build RI.

The University first partnered with Building Futures in 2007 for the con-struction of J. Walter Wilson. Since then, the nonprofit has been involved in 15 projects at Brown.

After the University contracted with Building Futures on a few different proj-ects, “the mystery went away and working with Building Futures was easy,” said Ste-phen Maiorisi, vice president for Facilities Management.

Building Futures approached the University for a memorandum of un-derstanding so it could institutionalize the partnership and move away from a project-to-project basis, Cortes said.

So far, the organization has placed over 130 individuals, mostly female Prov-idence residents, in 12 trade unions, Cor-tes said. Based on the city’s demographics, about 85 percent of Building Future’s

graduates are non-white, he added.In its early stages, Building Futures

had enough grant money to get started but needed help placing workers, and the University was in a position to provide jobs, Maiorisi said. “It has been a great thing for Brown to be able to help Build-ing Futures get off the ground,” he added.

“The agreement signifies Brown tak-ing a proactive step in not only addressing their own economic needs in the future but in integrating the social values of the University in how they go about their business,” Cortes added.

The University has spent almost $1 billion over the past decade on renova-tions, though it has recently reduced spending while President Christina Paxson outlines her strategic plan for the next several years, Maiorisi said.

Still, there are a number of construc-tion projects in their early stages, includ-ing renovations of Keeney and West An-drews, in which Building Futures will play a role. The University and Building Futures settled on the $5 million thresh-old because “it was a comfortable number for both parties to go through paperwork and begin placing people,” Maiorisi said.

While smaller-scale projects do not always lend themselves to long-term jobs, any project over $5 million in scale should suffice, Cortes said.

The majority of Rhode Island’s con-struction force is over the age of 55, and the percentage of younger workers is on the decline because most apprenticeships and trade unions take years to complete, Cortes said.

Andre Isom, a graduate of Building Futures, has worked on multiple projects on campus, including the current renova-tion of the Building for Environmental Research and Teaching. Isom said he has stayed in contact with most people in his class at Building Futures.

“This agreement opens up doors for a lot of good people to get out there, prove they can be hard workers and provide for their families,” Isom said.

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board is split into four committees focused on curriculum, admissions and financial aid, resources for the program and fourth-year advanced scholarship — including a possible master’s degree, said Philip Grup-puso, associate dean for medical edu-cation and professor of pediatrics. In recent months, the board has formed a clearer, more detailed picture of what the program might entail, Grup-puso said.

Uniquely BrownWhile some schools have estab-

lished dual degree programs that allow students to obtain a medical degree and master’s degree in five years, Brown is paving the way with the possibility of a four-year dual degree, Wing said.

The program will “attract people to Brown because it’s new and differ-ent,” Wilson said.

The separately-admitted cohort with different curricular activities will differ from schools that have a primary care track and make Brown’s curriculum “almost a one-of-a-kind program in the country,” said Provost Mark Schlissel P ’15.

“We’ve envisioned the program as a dual degree, but we’ve had only very preliminary meetings as to how a dual degree would work,” Gruppuso said. The main additional require-ment the committee has proposed is a thesis focused on a topic in popula-tion health, he said.

“Because we’re designing a pro-gram from the ground up, this is a tremendous opportunity for inno-vating in medical education,” Grup-puso said.

The Med School’s curriculum must be full of general courses to meet the needs of all its students, and there is no room for population health topics to be added to existing courses, Gruppuso said. The small program allows for an alternate path-way through the school with a focus on primary care, he said.

The new program will have “a very forward-looking curriculum that will provide something unique to a set of our students,” Schlissel said.

The program will expand the Uni-versity’s growing emphasis on popu-lation health and health care delivery, which is already “a prominent part of the landscape at Brown,” Gruppuso said. The University has a prominent Program in Public Health and a new School of Public Health slated to re-ceive accreditation in 2015. Though the Primary Care and Population Health program will be housed in the Med School, it will be reliant on the School of Public Health faculty, Wing said.

“I think the school definitely has (population health and primary care) as a core facet of its culture,” said Peter Kaminski MD’15, one of sev-eral students serving on the advisory committee. The program will provide structure and resources for the many students who are already interested in the field, he said.

Many Med School students have expressed interest in a program that incorporates both public health and primary care, and some already con-duct individual projects emphasizing the two areas of study, Kaminski said.

The new program received a “wealth of support” from a recent survey of Med School students, ac-cording to preliminary reports, Ka-minski said. As planning goes for-ward, student input will be vital “to make sure (the program is) in line with the identity of the Med School and Brown at large,” he said.

Fixing the systemThe important development for

the University comes at a critical time for the nation’s healthcare sys-tem, Grupposo said. “We’re simply responding to what is a very loud national call.”

“We have a very expensive and relatively unproductive healthcare system,” Wilson said. The U.S. spends somewhere between 50 and 100 per-

cent more than any other country in the world on health care, he said, and one would “hope and expect that kind of investment would produce health outcomes that would dwarf other countries that spent less.” In most of the measures that can be used to compare health outcomes across different countries, including infant mortality and access to health care, the U.S. is ranked in the lowest 25 percent of developed countries, Wilson said.

While healthcare professionals disagree nationally about the cause of the country’s poor results, Wilson said, many people at the University agree it has to do with the lack of primary care doctors.

“In the U.S., a healthcare sys-tem has evolved that is really wildly specialist focused,” Wilson said. In most high-value, low-cost health-care systems, there are approximately two generalists for every specialist, Wilson said, while in the U.S., the numbers are “reversed or worse.”

“Many people believe — and I do — that a healthcare system with more generalists and fewer specialists would be better and less expensive,” Wilson said. Rhode Island does not have a shortage of primary care doc-tors, he said, but the balance of spe-cialists to generalists is “not optimal.”

Not only are more primary care doctors needed, Wing said, but a dif-ferent kind of primary care doctor is needed — one who understands the community in which a patient lives.

“System-based medicine really demands that we think broader,” re-quiring a better understanding of the patient’s community and the health-care system, Borkan said.

“It’s not about whether the doctor who sees you is smart. It’s about the system that the doctor is a part of,” Wilson said. The program will aim to give special emphasis and attention to primary care and population health skills needed in the system, like build-ing relationships with patients and using information, technology and

electronic medical records to manage larger populations of patients effec-tively, Wilson said.

“These new generalists, primary care doctors, will be able to take care of individuals, families and commu-nities,” Borkan said. If a pregnant 15 year old enters one of their offices, graduates of this integrated primary care program will not only care for the individual but also think about providing appropriate birth control and sexual health education on a statewide level, he said.

Community engagementStudents will spend their third and

fourth years in the program learning how to fully understand the commu-nities in which they work.

The third year will be a clinical year, but instead of rotating from internal medicine to pediatrics to surgery in month-long or several month-long rotations — as tradition-al medical students do — population health and primary care students will be assigned a panel of patients to fol-low throughout the year, Wing said. Over the course of the clinical year, students may follow a pregnancy, see a baby born and follow the course of certain diseases.

This model — which Wilson called a “longitudinal clerkship” — has been used at several other insti-tutions, including Harvard Medical School, Wing said. Care for different patients will run in parallel instead of consecutively and allow for a more real-world experience, Wilson said.

The University’s Master’s of Public Health Program takes two years to complete, but the proposed curricu-lum merges the master’s and medical degrees into four years by layering public health courses into the first and second years to lay a foundation for individual research in the fourth year, Wilson said.

The community-focused research in which students engage in the fourth year will help build the rela-tionship between the Med School and

the state, said Wilson, who sits on the committee for advanced scholarship.

“When we send people out for scholarly activities, some will want to be in the Department of Health,” Borkan said.

“We hope that among other things, some of the people that go through the program might be Rhode Island residents and stay here for that reason,” Wilson said.

People need to think about care as a “really complex team effort,” he said. The team should include social workers, nurses, various kinds of care managers and housing experts, he said, and students will need to con-nect with these key players in the broader community.

“(The Med School) is dedicated and committed to the state of Rhode Island, and I think this will cement that further,” Kaminksi said.

Those on the committee from outside of Brown are supportive of the program, Wilson said. “I have every expectation that those parties’ enthusiasm and engagement will only grow.”

An ‘outstanding’ legacy“The planning process has been

going great, because there’s been a lot of interest and a lot of willingness to invest time and effort,” Gruppuso said.

Admitting students for the 2015 academic year means the committee must be prepared for an admissions cycle that begins in July 2014. Not ev-ery detail of the syllabus and courses needs to be planned at that point, but a thorough plan for the program will be completed, Gruppuso said. He added that they would like to fig-ure out a mechanism for Program in Liberal Medical Education students to be admitted.

There are no final plans for how students will be chosen, but the ap-plication process will be international and competitive, Schlissel said.

The program will look for stu-dents “who want to essentially devote their life not only to clinical practice of medicine but the systemic issues behind it,” Kaminski said. Admits to the program will likely be more de-voted to community causes and may either have more world experience or could be coming straight from col-lege with a passion for community health, he said.

The program expects to draw stu-dents who are scientists but are also interested in the social sciences and humanities, particularly social advo-cacy, Borkan said. “We think a lot of Brown students will be interested.”

The 24-student class size will al-low for more participatory learning, but the small class size also allows for more curricular experimentation within the program. “This is a chance for us to try some things out on a smaller group and then maybe move to a larger group,” Borkan said.

Students will be charged the same tuition as regular Med School students, Schlissel said. He added that the University is hopeful Rhode Island may have an interest in sup-porting the program in return for as-surance that graduates of the program will stay and practice in Rhode Island.

Wing will be stepping down at the end of the year, and the develop-ment of this program “will be one of (his) most outstanding legacies,” Schlissel said.

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Juice cleanses, vegetarianism, vegan-ism. Atkins, Dukan, Paleo. Fad diets — trendy eating patterns that often involve cutting out specific food groups — have come and gone over the years. Though not always strictly designed for weight loss, most are a part of efforts to attain superior health through disciplined restriction of a particular nutrient.

But the gluten-free lifestyle, which has become much more visible in re-cent years, is more than just a fad. Some pursue a gluten-free diet for health reasons, while others do so because of dietary sensitivities ranging from mild intolerance to celiac disease.

Brown Dining Services offers a va-riety of accommodations to students interested in avoiding gluten, includ-ing providing pre-prepared meals and a recently installed “allergen room” in the Sharpe Refectory with frozen foods, bagels and bread, said Adam Hoffman ’14, a Herald contributing writer, whose sensitivity to gluten compromises his immune system in the long term.

The Allergen-Friendly Kitchenette was established in response to student feedback that said access to basic glu-ten-free starches would make eating in dining halls easier for students with sensitivities, Gina Guiducci, Brown Dining dietician, wrote in an email to The Herald.

To gain access to the “allergen room,” students must register with Student and Employee Accessibility Services, meet with a dietary special-ist and present confirmation from a doctor, Hoffman added.

The Gate offers gluten-free pizza crust, and the Blue Room has gluten-free bread for sandwiches, he said.

Emily Breuer ’16 has been a diag-nosed celiac for six years. When she came to Brown, she said she found limited food options. The ingredients list found online and in dining halls across campus is often incomplete — for example, a sauce is sometimes sim-ply listed as “sauce,” she said.

Charlotte Delpit ’15 eats wheat-

free due to a parasitic infection that destroyed her ability to process the nutrient, she said. This differs slightly from gluten-free, as gluten can be found in some non-wheat products.

She does not find the ingredients list to be helpful or organized, she said.

But Guiducci wrote that Dining Services identifies gluten — in addition to the top eight other allergens — on dining hall menus.

Living gluten-free can be a bonding experience, Hoffman said. Though he does not eat with them, he has met other gluten-free students while get-ting lunch in the Ratty’s allergen room, he said.

Delpit said there is no defined cul-ture associated with living gluten-free at Brown. Despite this, there has been a notable increase in exposure and cu-riosity surrounding gluten-free foods, Guiducci wrote.

Sarah Schade ’15, who eats at Fin-landia Co-op, said she went off meal plan for financial reasons. But after joining the co-op, she was exposed to the gluten-free diet, which she has followed since the summer, she said.

Though undiagnosed, Schade said she most likely has irritable bowel syn-drome, which she has found can be remedied through a gluten-free diet. She said she exchanges recipes with others and shares their excitement over newly discovered gluten-free starches, especially among her mother’s friends.

Hoffman also noted that some athletes have restricted gluten intake in order to improve performance. Renowned tennis champion Novak Djokovic credits his success to a gluten-free diet, 60 Minutes reported last year.

Roxanne Alaghband ’15, a member of the Brown fencing team, said she feels more energetic since restrict-ing her gluten intake. Her body has a limited capacity to absorb protein, a syndrome that is magnified by gluten consumption, she said.

Many restaurants on College Hill provide gluten-free options. Wicken-den Street’s Abyssinia and Amy’s Place both offer gluten-free bread, Schade said.

Wildflour Vegan Bakery in Paw-tucket, The Duck and Bunny and AS220 all present gluten- and wheat-free options, Delpit said.

“you don’t have to be gluten-free to be healthy,” she said. “It just helps sometimes.”

Gluten-free lifestyle more than just a fadAs gluten-free diets grow more prevalent, Dining Services and restaurants increase their offerings

its three power-play opportunities, which came late in the period.

Pfeil put Brown on the board with seven minutes left in the frame, set up by an assist from Mark Nacle-rio ’16.

“I was just trying to get the puck through to the net,” Pfeil said. “The guy blocked the shot, and luckily it came right back to me.”

Connor Jones responded for the Bobcats less than three minutes later in a power-play goal assisted

by Matthew Peca and Kel-len Jones.

Midway through the third pe-riod, Quinnipiac gained a two-man advantage after Garnet Hathaway ’14 and Captain Dennis Robertson ’14 were assessed penalties. Bruno’s penalty kill came up big, keeping the score tied at one.

Nick Lappin ’16 had the Bears’ best scoring opportunity of the pe-riod with a minute left in the game, slipping past a Bobcat defender and firing a backhander at goalie Eric Hartzell.

Each goalie kept his defense tight in overtime, ensuring a tie.

Robertson added to the strong defensive effort with a game-high seven blocked shots.

“I couldn’t ask for anything more of the guys,” said Head Coach Bren-dan Whittet ’94. “They left it on the ice. They played as hard as they could.”

Brown 5, Princeton 1Hathaway led the Bears to their

second consecutive victory against Princeton (7-10-4, 5-6-3) with two goals.

But it was a bittersweet victory for Bruno. Saturday’s game started off physically with both teams ex-changing a flurry of hits, and Rob-ertson and top-line winger Ryan Jacobson ’15 both went down with injuries early in the first period. The extents of these injuries are un-known, though Robertson was only able to complete one shift after try-ing to return in the second period.

“Injuries happen,” Whittet said. “It just seems like they’ve been com-ing in unbelievable waves to us this year.”

Matt Harlow ’15 scored Bruno’s first goal less than two minutes into the game, assisted by Robertson and Mark Hourihan ’14. Eric Meland netted the Tigers’ first score late in the period.

Brown opened the floodgates in the second period, scoring three goals in just over a minute.

After a Meland penalty put Bru-no on the power play, Jake Goldberg ’14 rocketed a slap shot past goalie Sean Bonar for a power-play goal, his first of the season.

Not to be outdone, center Mark Senecal ’13 tallied his first goal of the season 12 seconds later.

Princeton coach Bob Prier then replaced Bonar with Mike Condon, only to see Hathaway score the first of his two goals 49 seconds later, assisted by Lappin.

Hathaway struck again midway through the third but could not complete the hat trick on a scoring opportunity late in the game.

“I think Brown came out hard at home, and they had a good game,” Prier said. “We got outworked at the end of the day, and we couldn’t generate very much tonight.”

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In his recent column, Ian Eppler ’13 is not so much defending inflated grades as he is defending the circum-stances he believes naturally led to them (“In defense of grade inflation,” Jan. 31). What is missing is a discussion of whether inflation itself is problematic. Universities like Brown are more selective and diverse than ever. It is quite possible that students here are producing higher quality work than ever before as a result of information access. Undoubtedly, this progress is worth celebrating. But would moving toward uninflated grading undermine this progress?

I don’t blame Eppler for avoiding this question. Pre-sumably, making an A harder to earn will have one of two seemingly opposite effects: encouragement or dis-couragement, depending on whom you ask. It’s probably worth asking whether encouraging some students justi-

fies discouraging others. I suspect there is disagreement about the point of grading in the first place and about whether it is more “fair” to compare students to peers or to a standard set by each professor.

But we can agree the grade itself, as a signal of stu-dent performance, carries less information with grade inflation in place. This is especially true with Brown’s low-resolution grading scale. Grades are weaker signals than in past decades, for students themselves, as well as potential employers and graduate schools. My gut feel-ing is that Brown students, who are all high-achieving in different ways, should welcome as much discriminative information about themselves as possible — an important part of learning and growing. Eppler writes that “grade inflation is not something to fear,” but neither is under-standing our strengths and weaknesses.

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The Department of English initiated a curricular review in coordination with several other departments in March 2010. Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P’12, who was professor of English and department chair in 2010, said at the time the restructuring would not be “a revolutionary change,” and that it was necessary to “have a conversation, try to get some student input.” By November of the same year, the department announced new requirements that included three courses: ENGL 0210, ENGL 0410 and ENGL 0610, classes designed to introduce students to the department and to provide curricular breadth. But the implementation of these requirements has been somewhat unstable as upper-level English concentra-tors have been forced to take these lower-level classes, displacing underclassmen looking for a foothold in the department. The requirements are not inherently problematic, but their implementation has been lacking — to the detriment of first- and second- year students. More time should have been allotted for the transition period, and the introductory courses should not be so limited that underclassmen interested in English are forced to pursue other options.

Given the time frame of the changes, many upper-level students are now tasked with completing courses designed for first-years and sophomores. Many find this frustrating, as they intended to use their final semesters to take upper-level seminars that would cap off their studies. While this issue will likely no longer exist in a few years, as those enrolled during the transition period will have graduated, it is entirely unfair to current English concentrators who must suffer the flaws of the untested system. A more equitable solution would be to phase in the requirements, exempting students who have already begun pursu-ing their degrees.

As upperclassmen take these introductory courses to satisfy requirements, they take spots from first- and second-year and prospective concentrators. Many of these courses are capped at 30 students to ensure discussion. While small, discussion-based courses are an important part of learning and should not be overlooked, they also cause an overcrowding problem that should have been anticipated. If the English department decides against adjusting the require-ments for current concentrators, it should at least offer more of these classes in the coming semesters.

The requirements also bar non-concentrators from enrolling in introductory English classes. Many non-concentrators seek more comfortable lower-level courses to broaden their intellectual experiences. Non-concentrators, though less familiar with the conventions of college-level English studies, can participate meaningfully by offering perspectives based in their own intellectual backgrounds. It is disappointing that many are displaced in this organizational melee.

Much has been written in recent years about dropping enrollment in hu-manities departments across the country. As more students aim for physical science degrees believed to be more marketable, departments like English are forced to reconsider their places in higher education. Skills learned in the English department, such as the ability to write concisely and persuasively, have broad applicability. Even less practical features of the English degree, such as knowl-edge of canonical literature, can hold great personal significance and should be treated as such. Therefore, we are passionate about the future and direction of the English department at Brown for both concentrators and non-concentrators. It is disappointing that these more pragmatic concerns have displaced concentrators passionate about literature and other students seeking the benefits English has to offer. We are hopeful that future changes will address these concerns and allow students and faculty to return to the true purpose of the English department: the teaching and learning of literature.

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In my time at Brown, I have sometimes noticed a culture in which athletes are perceived in an unflattering light. In The Herald I’ve read stories about “the jock stereotype” (“Athletes struggle against ‘dumb jock’ stereotype,” April 24, 2012) and claims that athletics are overfunded or somehow spoiled by the University (“Moraff ’14: Hiking tuition and blow-ing money on sparkly things,” Sept. 27, 2012). I have overheard students saying jocks don’t deserve to be here. I want to rebut these perceptions and ask a fun-damental question: When did athletics cease to be perceived as a service to the University?

Intercollegiate athletics support the University and the community in many ways. The Student-Athlete Advisory Council oversees the numerous commu-nity service projects run by our sports teams. Most teams volunteer weekly at Fox Point Elementary School and are as-signed a class to work with throughout the year, often providing one-on-one learning opportunities for struggling children. The rowing team started the Pull for a Cure fundraiser, which raised over $50,000 this year for breast cancer research and has expanded to dozens of other rowing teams on the East Coast. The football team runs an annual Bench Press for Cancer. The hockey team helped support a child battling cancer last year.

There is also Providence Plays — an an-nual event that serves to educate local elementary and middle school children about athletics, fitness and healthy life-styles. Our 37 varsity sports teams con-tribute enormously to our community.

There seems to be a prevalence of the “dumb jock” stereotype at the University, but Brown is home to some of the smart-est athletes in the country. Last year, Brown had three academic All-Amer-icans. According to the NCAA, Brown has the second highest Academic Prog-

ress Rate of all 335 Division I schools in the country for the second year in a row, as well as numerous other honors for ac-ademic excellence. Brown has had hun-dreds of Academic All-Ivy athletes and dozens more Academic All-American athletes.

Many students I have encountered are under the impression that athletes at Brown receive preferential treatment. We do not have preferential housing, sched-uling, meal plans, athletic scholarships or anything else. We also do our own laundry. In that regard, we are very dif-ferent from many of our fellow athletes

at other universities. In fact, the athlet-ics department brought in over $1.8 mil-lion last year in revenue for the Univer-sity from ticket sales, sponsorships and the NCAA, as well as over $3.3 million in alumni donations to the Sports Foun-dation.

The sports teams at Brown are ex-tremely successful. Brown teams have won national championships in base-ball, men’s and women’s rowing, skiing and tennis — 16 national champion-ships in all. Individuals competing for

Brown have won an additional 10 na-tional championships in skiing, men’s and women’s swimming and men’s track. Almost 60 Olympic athletes have come from Brown and won 25 medals, eight of them gold. Few universities can boast of so much athletic success.

Our athletics bring members of the University together and help forge a sense of school spirit. Sporting events are a forum for students, faculty and even members of the surrounding communi-ty to come together and celebrate Brown. The camaraderie that comes from root-ing for your team with your peers goes

a long way toward building friendships and a sense of belonging in a way aca-demics alone cannot.

Athletics are also a key part of how the University portrays itself and reaches out to both alums and prospective stu-dents. Athletics are a tool the University uses for admissions, student affairs, fun-draising and development. Our teams compete across the country and interna-tionally and sports events are one of the key ways people can engage with Brown without coming to campus. Competi-tions increase our visibility at all levels, putting Brown on display outside Prov-idence. How many schools have you heard of first through their sports teams? The Ivy League itself is an athletic associ-ation. Our athletes and teams are a pub-lic face for the University.

So I want to leave you with this — the next time you encounter an athlete on campus, take a second and recog-nize what they do for the University and through it, what they do for you. He or she is a public face for your school, prob-ably one of success, and maybe a top-notch student as well, helping to bring in money for the University and likely de-voting time to community service proj-ects. you don’t have to say anything, be-cause that athlete competes and wins out of love for Brown and his or her sport and is recognized for that. But it would be appreciated.

Walker mills ’15 is a rower and history concentrator from Philadelphia. He can

be reached at walker_mills@brown.edu

In defense of athletics — and athletes

In the aftermath of a multiple-victim shooting, there often sounds a call to take up arms. Well, perhaps it’s more of a call to take away arms. Whenever the media sensationalizes these tragedies, the phrase “common-sense gun control” is tossed around to marginalize dissenters as no more than heartless fanatics. But what does it really mean? Politicians usually use it to allude to the now-defunct Federal Assault Weapons Ban, passed in 1994 and ended in 2004. At face value, this law certainly sounds like a reasonable restriction any civilized nation should have — and I would bet the vast majority of students at Brown would support measures like the AWB. Still, I would also wager that most are not nearly educated enough about firearms and firearms law to have an informed opinion.

It’s a rhetorical question oft posed by the media: “Why were James Holmes and Adam Lanza able to possess weapons de-signed for the military?” To understand the issue, we need first to understand contem-porary firearms technology. In 1885, Ferdi-nand Mannlicher invented the first semi-automatic firing mechanism in which the firing of one bullet loaded the next and pre-pared the gun to fire again. Thus, one bullet was discharged each time the trigger was pulled, and this limiting factor determined the rate of fire. In contrast, fully automatic weapons fire rapidly as long as the trigger

is depressed. Fully automatic weapons in-clude guns such as the M16 — the staple rifle of the modern American military.

So did Holmes and Lanza use fully auto-matic weapons to commit their atrocities? Well, no. Since the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act was instated, only govern-ment agencies have been allowed to pur-chase such firearms. Instead, both shooters used AR-15s, which are designated as mili-tary-style semi-automatics. These are semi-automatic weapons, but they have outside casings similar to those of fully automatic weapons used by military organizations.

Although the outside of military-style semi-automatics might be “designed for military use,” the inside mechanism of the gun is essentially identical to that of nearly every hunting rifle and handgun produced since the late 1800s.

So if fully automatic weapons were out-lawed already, what did the AWB regulate? It actually banned only the manufacturing of semi-automatics with specific cosmetic characteristics, such as certain grips or the presence of a bayonet mount. There exists no difference between the potency of an “assault weapon” and the old hunting rifle

in your uncle’s closet — his rifle probably even fires larger-caliber bullets. But the media has quite the penchant for perpet-uating this phobia of guns. They point at the intimidating military-style semi-auto-matics and ask, “How is it acceptable that he could legally have access to such weap-ons?” Consider how much less dramatic it would be if they were referring to a hunt-ing rifle.

Emotions neither substitute nor serve as justification for rational beliefs, which can only be garnered through empirical facts. Given that the AWB did not regulate fire-

arms categorically by any meaningful cri-teria, we would not expect it to have had any effect on crime rates. Unsurprisingly, the Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that it did not — and would not, were it re-instated.

While the reenactment of the AWB is il-logical from both a theoretical and experi-mental perspective, we could reasonably consider alternative firearms legislation based upon more consequential attributes. Intuitively, we might ban guns with larger clips, effectively limiting rate of fire. yet,

as any gun enthusiast will know, external clip-loaded firearms — including nearly all semi-automatics — are compatible with magazines of arbitrarily large size, so this is not a discriminating feature.

I personally support the idea of stron-ger background checks and the closing of the gun-show loophole — which allows guns to be purchased without any checks — but it seems unlikely these changes will have noticeable effects, as most guns used to perpetrate crime are obtained illegally. Any real evolution in firearms legislation will be necessarily drastic. Certainly, the outright prohibition of semi-automatics should be contemplated, but this would represent a radical increase in gun control, banning over 85 percent of all guns. This could hardly be described as “common-sense” legislation with which every sensible individual would agree, particularly the 47 percent of Americans who own guns legal-ly. Without delving into the constitutional and empirical arguments, I assert that such an extreme revamping of gun law would be both infeasible and inefficacious.

This December, a Texas-based research group used a 3-D printer to fabricate a semi-automatic rifle that successfully fired six rounds before breaking. It seems inevi-table the technology will soon advance to the point that it will be impossible to leg-islate any enforceable regulation. Many Brown students know first hand the futility of the war on drugs. Now, imagine if deal-ers could print marijuana.

Andrew Powers ’15 can be reached at andrew_powers@brown.edu.

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Bruno suffered losses at home to con-ference rivals Dartmouth on Friday and Harvard on Saturday. The Bears fell to the Big Green 49-41 and to the Crimson 68-58.

Brown (7-11, Ivy League 1-3) es-tablished a steady lead less than five minutes into the first half Saturday and continued applying pressure until halftime. The Bears were led by Jordin Juker ’14, who was four for four at the free-throw line, and Lauren Clarke ’14, who contributed three treys. Though Brown finished the half with a small lead, Harvard, now tied with Dart-

mouth for second in the Ivy League, amped up its defense in the second half.

“Harvard always comes ready to play,” said co-captain Caroline King ’13. “We really have to work on offense to make smart, effective passes and get them off-balance.”

As the second half continued, Bruno’s shooting percentage from the field declined from 50 percent in the first half to 22 percent in the second. At the same time, the Crimson, led by Temi Fagbenie, aggressively attacked the basket. Fagbenie, a 6-foot-4-inch member of Great Britain’s 2012 Olym-pic basketball team, was a challenging opponent the Bear’s defense needed to account for, said Head Coach Jean Burr.

The teams went back and forth in baskets, with the two squads tied at 40 with 15 minutes left in the game. Har-vard went on an unanswered 11-point run, due to a combination of the offen-sive efforts of Fagbenie and Christine

Clark, Harvard’s leading scorer. Despite the loss, Clarke, the game’s

top scorer, had an impressive game, racking up 20 points for the second night in a row.

“She commands the respect of her teammates and she’s very consistent,” Burr said.

King said the Bears will aim to be more consistent in their upcoming games and finish as strong as they start.

“We have an early offense,” Burr said. “We get points on one side of the court, but we tend to tighten up of-fensively.”

The Bears play Princeton on Fri-day in the Pizzitola Center. The No.1-ranked Tigers are currently undefeated in the Ivy League.

“They’re very determined and we’re looking to work them,” Burr said. “Bas-ketball’s great because it’s so volatile — any given team can beat another on any given night. It’s exciting.”

bears struggle in Ivy play, losing to dartmouth, HarvardThe team says they need improvement on offense and passing after successive losses

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The men’s basketball team delivered two strong performances on the road in Ivy League play this weekend, beating Dartmouth 62-50 Friday in Hanover, N.H. and battling Harvard to a double overtime loss 89-82 Saturday in Boston. The Bears (8-10, 2-2 Ivy) dominated inside the paint against the Big Green (4-13, 0-3) thanks to a stellar shooting performance by Rafael Maia ’15, who scored 21 points on 10 of 11 attempts. A comeback effort against the Crimson (12-6, 4-0) pushed the game into over-time, but Bruno could not keep pace with the Harvard offense in the second extra period.

Brown 62, dartmouth 50Bruno established an early lead

against the Big Green and never looked back, taking an 18-9 advantage nine minutes in. Maia was a crucial part of the Bears’ post presence, scoring 12 points in the first half, all in the paint.

“We made a concerted effort to get the ball inside,” said Head Coach Mike Martin ’04. “We got Matt Sullivan (’13) the ball, and obviously got (Maia) going, so it’s a credit to our guys for the way they moved the ball and set screens.”

Maia’s exceptional inside play was complemented by strong outside shoot-ing from Stephen Albrecht ’13, Sean McGonagill ’14 and Tucker Halpern ’13.5, who netted two treys apiece in the contest. Rebounds from co-captains Sul-

livan and McGonagill ensured Bruno’s dominance down low.

“It was a great team effort,” said co-captain Tyler Ponticelli ’13. “It shows that if we can execute our game plan, we can beat any team in our league on any given night.”

Bruno captured its largest lead of the game midway through the second half after Albrecht knocked down a three to bring the score to 48-29. The Big Green made a small 6-2 run in the closing two minutes of the game, but Bruno’s advan-tage was large enough to secure the win.

Harvard 89, Brown 82The Crimson outpaced Bruno 11-4

in the second extra period to hand the Bears their second overtime loss in Ivy League play. The Bears dug themselves out of a 22-point deficit, but could not sustain their scoring streak in the extra periods.

“We’re very disappointed to come up short in a hotly contested league game against what we consider to be one of the better opponents in our league,” Martin said.

Bruno stuck with the Crimson in the opening minutes, trailing by three after a three-pointer from Halpern at 15 minutes. But Harvard set off on an 8-0 run in the next two minutes and led for the rest of the half, going into halftime 49-36.

“Harvard is one of the most talented teams in our league,” Ponticelli said. “It’s encouraging to know we can compete at the highest level in the Ivy League. But obviously, this was a tough one to swallow.”

In the second half, the Crimson con-tinued to pick up steam and got out to their largest lead of the game after a three from Laurent Rivard.

But the Bears offense chipped away slowly at the lead behind McGonagill.

“It wasn’t really a quick run, but very steady and consistent,” Ponticelli said. “All of a sudden you look up and we’re down eight or seven, and that gave us confidence to come back and go for a late push.”

The Bears found themselves within 10 of Harvard after two free-throws from McGonagill with six minutes remaining. A clutch three from McG-onagill five minutes later brought Bruno within two with 14 seconds left on the clock.

Sullivan intercepted the resulting Harvard inbound, and after a missed attempt, the ball found its way to McG-onagill, who knocked down a midrange jumper at the buzzer to even the score 69-69.

The Bears scored nine points on three treys in the first overtime to keep pace with Harvard’s offense, de-spite Maia’s fouling out of the game. A three-pointer from Albrecht with 20 seconds left sent the game into a second overtime.

“We were without (Maia), so I didn’t think we had as great of a post presence in the overtimes,” Martin said. “I think we were a little too reliant on making three-point shots.”

The Bears could not sustain their momentum in the second overtime, missing four three-point attempts in the period to end the game 89-82.

“At the end of the day, we’re not here to lose close games,” Martin said.

The Bears face Princeton (10-7, 3-0) on Friday and Penn (4-16, 1-2) on Saturday.

“Princeton is undefeated in league play right now, so that will be a huge test for us,” Ponticelli said.

bruno conquers big Green, falls to CrimsonMaia scores career high of 21 points as Bears secure victory over the Big Green in Hanover

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Sophie Bikofsky ‘15 takes a shot against Harvard before the team fell 58-68 in the team’s first of two losses this weekend.

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massimo Lamacchia ’15 pushes forward down the rink in a match, which ended in a 5-1 win against Princeton during the ECAC match-up.

By dANtE O’CONNELL CONTRIBuTING WRITER

The men’s hockey team tied Quin-nipiac and defeated Princeton in back-to-back ECAC match-ups this weekend.

Saturday’s win moves the Bears into a tie for sixth place in the conference with Princeton and St. Lawrence.

Brown 1, No. 2 Quinnipiac 1In a much anticipated match-up

against the number two team in the nation, goalie Anthony Borelli ’13

led the Bears (8-9-5, 4-6-5 ECAC) with a career-high 38 saves to a tie with the Bobcats (19-3-4, 12-0-2).

Borelli continued to play well after tallying 23 saves in his first career shutout against Cornell last Saturday.

“Luckily, I was able to make the saves, and my team responded after that,” Borelli said. “We came back and played to a 1-1 tie against one of the best teams in the nation, so we’ve got to feel pretty good about ourselves.”

Defenseman Brandon Pfeil ’16 scored Brown’s only goal of the game in the second period, his second goal of the season.

Neither team was able to gener-ate much offense early in the first period, and Brown failed to capital-ize on any of

bruno ties Quinnipiac, takes down PrincetonA tie against the number two team followed by a win over Princeton boosts team confidence

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Brown 6Binghamton 1

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Harvard 89 Brown 82

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Harvard 68 Brown 58

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Brown 1Quinnipiac 1

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Princeton 6Brown 1

Quinnipiac 5 Brown 0