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Inquiry at a costIngber ’15 asks all students — liberal and conservative — to respect free speech

The run aroundMen’s and women’s cross country finished first at the Rothenberg Invitational

By REBECCA HANSENCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The trial of a former Brown summer camp fencing coach who allegedly sexually assaulted a camper in 2012, originally scheduled for today, may be postponed because his whereabouts are unknown.

No department is actively pursu-ing Gustavo Ducuing at this time, ac-cording to multiple sources within the Providence Police Department, Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office and Superior Court.

Ducuing was arrested in July 2012 after allegedly assaulting and exposing himself to a 14-year-old fencing stu-dent at a University summer camp. He is being charged with second-degree sexual assault and assault, the Associ-ated Press reported.

After Ducuing failed to show up in court for a hearing in May 2013, a fugitive warrant was issued. The war-rant is still active, meaning Ducuing’s location is unknown, said Amy Kempe, a spokesperson for the Rhode Island Attorney General.

Ducuing’s trial was originally scheduled for today, but Kempe said it is unlikely he will show up.

“The (prosecution) is prepared to go forward with the case ... (but) the trial can’t proceed without the defen-dant,” Kempe said.

If Ducuing comes into contact with law enforcement officers, whether through a traffic stop — the likeli-est possibility — or due to another incident, he will be arrested, Kempe said. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should contact the police, she added.

The incident allegedly occurred during a private lesson at Ducuing’s apartment. The victim told police she “became nervous when Gustavo locked and double bolted the door,” according to the police report, WPRI News re-ported in May. He “asked (the victim) to take her shirt off to get a better look at her posture,” the report stated. He then allegedly touched her inappropri-ately, the Providence Journal reported.

Since the incident, the University

Ex-coach missing, trial may be postponedGustavo Ducuing, former University fencing coach, was arrested for sexual assault in July 2012

By MADDIE BERGARTS & CULTURE EDITOR

In a New York Times story earlier this month, food critic Pete Wells noted

what should be considered a universal truth — tacos, and Mexican cuisine in general, are better enjoyed not in an upscale restaurant but at a hole-in-the wall joint run by a no-frills kitchen.

Mexican food has long been a

quintessential cheap eat in the United States. But new fine dining establish-ments serving the cuisine have recently opened up — New York’s ABC Cocina offers short-rib tacos with frizzled on-ions for $19, and the guacamole at Em-pellon Taqueria runs $12.

After tasting the dishes served at El Rancho Grande — a down-home, one-room restaurant situated in a tight lot in Providence’s Hartford neighbor-hood — you will wonder why anyone would spend more than $20 or bother with a stuffy table cloth for a south-of-the-border meal.

As suggested by the humble din-ing room with its simple tile floors and folksy art decor, this place is all about the food.

The extensive menu offers both fa-miliar dishes and more authentic ones that are rare this far north — it is in this latter category that the restaurant

El Rancho Grande: Mexican flavor far from borderComplex flavors and hearty dishes shine despite the restaurant’s humble decor and presentation

By CALEB MILLERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

At Nathan Bishop Middle School Wednesday, two students began to

push each oth-er after school. One boy tack-

led the other, and they tussled on the ground while a group of curious peers quickly circled around them.

It is a scene all too familiar at Providence Public Middle Schools,

where fighting or violent incidents accounted for more than 1,000 suspen-sions across the eight district schools last year, according to the Rhode Island Department of Education.

But Wednesday was different. At the blow of a whistle, the boys released their chokeholds and erupted in a fit of laughter. They exchanged high-fives with each other and the onlookers before returning to their spots against the wall, ready for more instructions.

The two students and 30 of their classmates were halfway through wres-tling practice with Beat the Streets, a not-for-profit organization provid-ing co-ed wrestling training to urban schools across the country. Beat the

Wrestling club helps students in and out of ringThrough Beat the Streets, Billy Watterson ’15 offers wrestling for middle school students

By JOSEPH ZAPPACONTRIBUTING WRITER

Alex Morse ’11 has kicked off his cam-paign for reelection as mayor of Holy-oke, Mass., with a platform of economic development and public safety.

Morse, 24, is running for reelection in a nonpartisan election against busi-nessman Jeff Stanek after becoming the city’s youngest-ever mayor when elected to his current term in November 2011.

The city’s economic health lies at the center of the campaign. As mayor, Morse has introduced tax incentives to promote business growth and to en-courage businesses and homeowners to move to Holyoke’s downtown district.

Morse’s campaign website high-lights economic development as his top priority, while Stanek’s campaign site emphasizes his nearly two decades of experience in financial management roles.

Morse believes “the energy of the city has changed” since he took office, wrote Patrick Prendergast, communica-tions director for Morse’s campaign, in an email to The Herald. Morse aims to use a second term to build on the prog-ress he has already made, Prendergast wrote, adding that the mayor believes his opponent offers the “same tired ideas

Morse ’11 runs for reelection as mayorThe alum has pledged to focus on economic growth if reelected as mayor of Holyoke

COURTESY OF EL RANCHO GRANDE

El Rancho Grande offered a multidimensional taste of Mexico with delicate and bold flavors that brought depth to often one-note dishes.

COURTESY OF BILLY WATTERSON

Beat the Streets launched a pilot program at Nathan Bishop Middle School this fall.

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David Rohde ’90 and Chris Hayes ’01 spoke Saturday about changing journalism practices in a panel sponsored by Brown Political Review.

FEATURE

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By SOPHIE YANSTAFF WRITER

Coming to Brown from a country that has contentious relations with the United States can pose challenges for students trying to access the neces-sary paperwork and finances to enroll at the University, but administrators said they work to address the concerns of international students from such backgrounds.

Students’ abilities to complete the paperwork and payments necessary to matriculate varies with their per-sonal circumstances and locations, said Elke Breker, director of the Office of International Student and Scholar Services. If there is no U.S. embassy in their countries, students must travel to another country to secure a visa, she said.

When Parmida Maghsoudlou ’16, a student from Iran — which does not have official diplomatic ties with the United States — applied for a visa to study in the United States, her appli-cation was originally rejected by the U.S. embassy in Turkmenistan before it was approved a year later by the U.S. embassy in the United Arab Emirates. Maghsoudlou, who spent her senior year of high school in Massachusetts, said she was frustrated by having to return to Iran for a year to wait for her visa to be accepted so she could attend Brown.

Students have come to Brown from countries that have hostile relations with the United States for a long time, wrote University Historian Jane Lan-caster PhD’98 in email to The Herald. Even in times of instability such as the Cold War, the University reached out

to applicants from countries outside the nation’s bloc of allies, Lancaster wrote. Brown established exchange programs in 1979 with the University of Rostock in East Germany and in 1982 with Nanjing University in China despite the countries’ communist af-filiations, she wrote.

Some international students said filling out the copious amounts of paperwork necessary to enroll was a time-consuming burden.

“You have no idea how many forms we have to fill out to get here,” said Sophia Ashai ’16, who is from Paki-stan, adding that the United States visa office in her home country can be difficult to work with. “If you can’t speak English well, the American of-ficials treat you like (expletive).”

The process of securing paperwork to come to the University was also challenging for Isabela Muci ’16, a stu-dent from Venezuela, she said. “I had to fill out a long questionnaire,” Muci said. “Once you get to the embassy, you have to wait (for) hours and hours.”

“Getting an American visa is no-toriously difficult,” said Khin Su ’16, a Herald contributing writer who was born and raised in Myanmar. “You hear all these horror stories growing up about the visa application process, and when it comes time for you to apply yourself, you find out all these horror stories are true.”

But Muci said receiving an ac-ceptance letter from the University expedites the visa process with U.S. officials. “They see that you’ve got an acceptance letter and once they verify that you can pay, then it’s great,” she said.

Admission to a well-known and prestigious institution like Brown can help students from Myanmar obtain U.S. visas, Su said.

Some students from countries that have hostile ties with the U.S. said fi-nancing their Brown educations can

often be a complicated process.“We don’t wire money from Iran,”

Maghsoudlou said, adding that her parents use a U.S. bank account to pay her school fees. Maghsoudlou said she is unsure whether transferring funds from an Iranian bank account is even possible.

Su said accessing money from her home country of Myanmar — whose government has been criticized by democratic states for corruption and electoral tampering — can be difficult. Banks in Myanmar did not function effectively until a few years ago, she said.

“Money would be kept in your own home, and banks were largely not used,” said Su, whose own fam-ily uses a bank in Singapore in order to wire tuition money to the Univer-sity. School counselors and directors sometimes wire funds for students from Myanmar who do not have access to international bank accounts, she said. “It’s a difficult and complicated process.”

“In Venezuela, dealing with (U.S.) dollars is prohibited,” Muci said. “You have to apply, and the government controls the dollars.” She added that there is a “black market” for U.S. cur-rency in which prices are greatly in-flated. A black market for U.S. dollars also exists in Iran, Maghsoudlou said.

Though gaining visas and trans-ferring funds can be challenging, the transition to Brown offers a new academic model for some students from these countries. Maghsoudlou said Brown’s Open Curriculum and flexible environment aligned with her interests.

“In Iran, we don’t have college,” Maghsoudlou said, adding that Iranian high school students are funneled into professional schools based on their chosen occupations. “I didn’t want to do that, because I still wanted to explore,” she said.

Students struggle to get visas, transfer fundsGoing through a different embassy can expedite the process of obtaining a U.S. student visa

has changed its summer camp poli-cies, though administrators did not say whether the incident and policy changes were directly connected.

The Office of Continuing Education took over camp planning and policies in the summer of 2013, wrote Mark

Nickel, University interim director of news and communication, in an email to The Herald. Previously, sports camps were run by their respective coaches, he said in an interview.

The Office of Continuing Educa-tion now oversees all hiring. “Care-ful selection by those who know the position descriptions and can identify

talented people is followed by back-ground checks as standard procedure,” wrote Karen Sibley MAT’81 P’07 P’12, dean of Continuing Education, in an email to The Herald.

Before this change, “I don’t think ‘standard procedure’ was a part of the situation. Camps were more like many small enterprises,” Sibley wrote.

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and uninspired leadership” that have impeded the city’s progress in the past.

Stanek’s campaign website states that current tax incentives are insufficient to attract businesses that will help the city grow. The site touts Stanek’s pledge to “aggressively market companies in fields such as manufacturing, warehousing, distribution and telecommunications” by cutting business tax rates. Stanek could not be reached for comment by press time.

Prendergast wrote that Morse con-siders himself an “active champion” of the Holyoke school system, adding that Morse has expanded aid programs for disadvantaged students and created a city government office for promoting early childhood literacy. Morse has also introduced new sexual education programs for middle and high school students, according to his campaign website.

The city’s new sexual education pro-grams have allowed educators to have “direct conversations” with students about health, said Sergio Paez, super-intendent of the Holyoke public schools system. Holyoke has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Massachusetts, Paez said, adding that the new curriculum will have a positive impact on many students’ futures.

Both candidates have promoted themselves as strong communicators.

Paez highlighted Morse’s fluency in Spanish as another asset he has used

in his outreach to city residents and students — 75 percent of whom come from homes in which English is not the primary language.

“He is understanding of the (His-panic) culture and language,” Paez said. Morse “understands the struggle” of the city’s Hispanic community, he said.

“I really enjoy leading a bilingual city,” Morse said in a statement Pend-ergast emailed to The Herald. “The best practice is speaking with my Puerto Rican friends and meeting with my con-stituents,” Morse said in the statement.

Experience in accounting and

operational positions have developed Stanek’s communication skills, accord-ing to his campaign website.

Both candidates have addressed public safety as a key issue facing Holyoke.

Stanek has proposed creating a task force to carry out undercover surveil-lance and community support, accord-ing to his website.

Morse said in the statement that his policing initiatives have bettered relations between the Holyoke police force and community members while reducing crime.

By LINDSAY GANTZCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Sonia Feigenbaum, a former official at the U.S. Department of Education, will assume the post of associate provost for international affairs Nov. 1.

Professor of Anthropology Mat-thew Gutmann P’14 stepped down from the position, which he held since 2009, at the end of June, Gutmann wrote in an email to The Herald. Deputy Provost Joseph Meisel has served as interim associate provost since Gutmann’s departure, wrote Pro-vost Mark Schlissel P’15 in an email to The Herald.

Feigenbaum previously served as director of Hispanic-Serving Institu-tions for the Department of Education, where she managed the distribution of federal funds for higher education institutions with high numbers of Hispanic students and low-income students, according to the Department of Education’s website.

During his tenure, Gutmann helped articulate and build a coher-ent strategy for the University’s “global engagement,” he wrote. “As Brown’s global ambassador, I helped build and consolidate ties with leading foreign institutions, always building on exist-ing and potential Brown strengths and priorities.”

The Office of International Affairs continues to work on projects includ-ing the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes and the IE-Brown Executive M.B.A. Program, Gutmann wrote. BIARI brings scholars and policymakers to campus to discuss

a wide range of international issues, according to the program’s website. The University launched the IE Brown Executive M.B.A. Program in 2011 as a partnership with the Instituto Empresa Business School in Spain to provide advanced training to business profes-sionals in an international environ-ment, The Herald previously reported.

The University selected Feigen-baum because of her expertise in aca-demics and international programs, Schlissel wrote.

“Feigenbaum brings to Brown academic experience from earlier in her career, having taught at several colleges and universities, as well as her experience working for a major federal agency, running relevant international programs of various types,” Schlissel wrote.

“This combination of expertise made her a very attractive candidate for this position,” Schlissel said. Fei-genbaum was chosen as Gutmann’s successor by a search committee led by Meisel, Schlissel wrote.

Prior to working for the Depart-ment of Education, Feigenbaum was a faculty member in the department of modern languages and literatures and the department of comparative literature at Williams College in Wil-liamstown, Mass., according to the Department of Education’s website. She taught Latin American and com-parative literature at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., and at the University of Maryland University College in Adelphi, Md.

Feigenbaum also served as an of-ficial for public education programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she increased the number of funded initiatives focused on international affairs, according to the Department of Education’s website. She could not be reached for comment.

Feigenbaum named associate provostFeigenbaum previously worked for the U.S. Department of Education and taught at Williams

Matt Gutmann P’14 stepped down from his position as associate provost for international affairs in June.

truly shines. Perhaps the triumph in traditional flavors can be attributed to the fact that the owner hails straight from Mexico. According to the restau-rant’s website, Maria Meza immigrated from Puebla, Mexico over 40 years ago before opening the establishment with her son Joaquin Meza Jr. in 2007. In their mission to serve “traditional Mexican dishes at an affordable price,” they excel.

The ensalada azteca, a salad of cactus, tomatoes, fresh herbs and cheese, pro-vided a refreshing counterpoint to the kick of the spicy salsa and showcased a multi-dimensional side of Mexican cooking that went beyond just heat. The appetizer lacked the aluminum taste that can accompany cactus, allowing the flavor of each ingredient to shine.

In a similar nod to authenticity, the queso fundito included spicy chorizo and smoky roasted poblano peppers, adding depth and savory flavors to what is too often a one-note dish. Though it was served with warm flour tortillas, the thick, crunchy, homemade corn chips put out for the table were a heartier partner for the rich dip.

The kitchen did not shy away from

heat — the pico de gallo is not for those with faint taste buds — but it successfully played with milder flavors in the cocktel de camarones, a traditional Mexican take on a shrimp cocktail that drowns the fresh seafood in a ketchup-based sauce, combining it with onions, cilantro and tomato. Though a fine-dining restaurant may shun the idea of serving the dish with saltine crackers, the customary ac-companiment provided the sturdy sim-plicity needed to counteract the delicate mix of sweet, tangy and spicy.

Even the Americanized menu items, such as the chimichanga, showcased a respect for traditional ingredients and Mexican flavors unavailable in any of the burritos served up on Thayer Street. Though this dish may not have looked particularly elegant — an unattractive orange sauce covered the indelicately large stuffed tortilla — its flavors made up for its appearance, and the spicy sauce managed not to overwhelm the smoky, meaty taste of the shredded pork or the crisp fried tortilla.

Despite the attention to authenticity in flavor, the kitchen can fall short on execution, evidenced by the overcooked, chewy meat of the bistec en salsa verde, which would have been a complete

disappointment if not for the complex, herbaceous notes of the tomatillo sauce.

This lack of upscale-quality stan-dards was mirrored by the simple at-mosphere. The small size of the space leaves the dining room a little too loud for conversation on a crowded night. And despite attempts at creating a cozy environment, such as the warm yellow walls, one would be hard-pressed not to notice the restaurant’s starkness or to ignore the glare of the television hanging by the five-seat bar.

The service would similarly ben-efit from the consideration it is given at high-end establishments. While the servers offered suggestions when asked, they did not seem particularly knowl-edgable about the subtleties of dishes. And though fast service is the standard at hole-in-the-wall spots, the entrees were brought out well too soon — before the appetizers were even completed — and the pace borderlined on unenjoy-ably rushed.

The plates may lack garnishes be-yond a lime slice or stroke of guacamole, and the decor may be described as rustic at best, but you go to El Rancho Grande for the food, and in that department, it delivers.

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COURTESY OF BROWN UNIVERSITY

Alex Morse ’11, who is running for a second term as mayor of Holyoke, Mass., has expanded aid for disadvantaged students in public schools.

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Streets came to Providence this fall un-der the direction of Billy Watterson ’15, a member of the Brown wrestling team, who is taking the year off to get Beat the Streets Providence up and running.

Beat the Streets is launching its pilot program at Nathan Bishop this fall with the goal of spreading to more schools in the future.

Starting upYouth wrestling may not have a

better success story than Watterson, a former Herald contributing writer. Poor grades and discipline problems marked Watterson’s early days in middle school, he said.

“My parents had just gotten divorced and I had terrible (attention deficit dis-order) and (attention deficit hyperactiv-ity disorder),” he said. “I just wasn’t mak-ing the transition well from elementary school to middle school. I fell in with a bad group of kids.”

But after a friend convinced Wat-terson to join the wrestling team, his life started to turn around, he said.

“Within a year after starting wres-tling I had stopped taking any concen-tration medicine for ADD and ADHD — I just didn’t need it anymore,” he said. “I fully credit (wrestling) to any success I have had.”

After arriving at Brown as an under-graduate, Watterson began working in Providence schools as a tutor and aide.

“The first class I went into, the teach-er said to me, ‘This is one of my bad classes, there are no good kids in it,’” he said. “I was shocked ... They clearly were

not seeing any pathways to success.”Watterson said he found a way to

make a difference when he met Jenni-fer Wood, the Rhode Island lieutenant governor’s chief of staff, while interning in the lieutenant governor’s office last summer. Wood, who studied Chinese martial arts for 15 years and previously worked for the state Department of Edu-cation, connected with Watterson over the idea of using a wrestling program to help public school students. Watterson also sought support from the Beat the Streets New York chairman, who offered him use of the Beat the Streets name and liability insurance.

Throughout the summer, Wood helped Watterson with the logistics of creating a not-for-profit and launching the program in middle schools through the Providence After-School Alliance, an organization that coordinates extracur-ricular opportunities for Providence students.

When practice began this month, Wood found herself right next to Wat-terson in the wrestling room demon-strating techniques.

“(Participating in practices) was not my expectation at all, but I find that Coach Watterson is a very persuasive individual, which is how he managed to get this whole thing up and running in six months,” Wood joked, adding that the effort was “really quite remarkable.”

To fill out the Beat the Streets staff, Watterson turned to Brown’s wrestling program. Zachary Kulczycki ’13, a former teammate of Watterson’s, now serves as the head coach of the Nathan Bishop program, and former Brown wrestling captains Craig Powell ’00 and

Nick Ciarcia ’04 have aided the organi-zation as board members for the Provi-dence group. Other current and former Brown wrestlers also volunteer, giving pointers and lending their bodies as tackling dummies at practices.

Why wrestling?Practices feature a blend of aggres-

sive physicality and gleeful joking. Ac-tions range from punching and pushing to choreographed technique as students learn wrestling moves with young and old, male and female coaches.

Other organizations provide tutor-ing or other activities for Providence middle schoolers, but wrestling can serve a unique purpose, Watterson said.

“I found this weird sport where it doesn’t matter how tall, short or unath-letic you are — you can be successful,” Watterson said, recalling his first time on the mat.

“You get out on the mat, and it’s just you and one other guy. When you suc-ceed or fail, you know it was all you,” he added. “You start to see the relationship between how hard you’re working and how successful you are.”

Beat the Streets is catered toward a different group of students than other academic or leadership programs, Kul-czycki said.

“It’s a little more appealing to kids that might be headed down a bad path because it is a martial art, and it’s a little bit combative,” he said.

“Honestly, a lot of our kids are going to say, ‘I want to do this program because I want to learn to fight,’” Watterson said. “But they are going to learn not to fight outside the wrestling room.”

On the right footNow three weeks into the pilot

program, the students’ abilities have skyrocketed — and with them, so has excitement for the program’s future.

Kulczycki said he was blown away by how fast the group at Nathan Bishop has learned. “These kids are picking up technique that I didn’t know until mid-dle school or high school, and I started when I was 6,” he said.

“It’s been amazing so far, and kids love it,” Watterson said. “Kids don’t want to leave at the end of practice.”

Watterson said the program hit home for him the first practice when a temperamental student stormed out of the room after he was not first in line.

Watterson followed the student into the hallway, and asked, “Whenever you don’t get what you want, you are just going to leave? How do you think that’s going to work out for you?” The student fell silent, and Watterson asked him to give it one more chance.

“By the end of the practice, he was more hooked than anyone else,” Wat-terson said. “Those are the kids we want in this program.”

Watterson envisions success stories like this one occurring throughout Prov-idence in the next two years, as Beat the Streets hopes to expand into all public middle schools in the city.

“If you had told me that it would be possible for (Beat the Streets) to go into all the middle schools in the next two years, I would have said initially that was an overreach,” Wood said. “But now that I’ve seen how quickly it’s catching on and how successful it is … I think it’s perfectly realistic.”

Though Watterson has won 57 wres-tling matches for Brown in his career so far, this season he hopes to use his moves to open an avenue to success for middle school students.

“It’s not about creating wrestlers,” Watterson said. “It’s about creating kids that believe in themselves.”

COURTESY OF BILLY WATTERSON

Billy Watterson ’15, a member of Brown’s wrestling team, helped launch Beat the Streets after working with the R.I.’s lieutenant governor’s office.

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Let’s Talk | Nava Winkler and Regine Rosas

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By LLOYD SYSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s soccer team fell to Har-vard 3-1 Sunday afternoon at Soldiers Field in Cambridge, Mass. The loss leaves Bruno (7-3-1, 2-1-1 Ivy) stand-ing third in the Ivy League.

The Crimson (8-3-2, 4-0-0) ini-tially fell behind the Bears, when for-ward Chloe Cross ’15 scored in the seventh minute. She scored unassisted, knocking the ball into the net from just inside the goal box. Cross leads the squad with five goals this year.

But Brown’s lead failed to last, with Harvard scoring two goals off of set plays. In the 26th minute, the Crimson tied the game when Haley Washburn scored with a header set up by a free kick.

In the 57th minute, Karly Zlatic’s corner kick was saved by Brown goalie

Mary Catherine Barrett ’14 but quickly recovered by Alika Keene, who scored to give Harvard the lead. Elizabeth Weisman then gave the Crimson a two-goal advantage by scoring in the 68th minute.

“They’re very good at corner kicks, and today they made us pay,” said Head Coach Phil Pincince. “They were the better team and deserved to win.”

Harvard attempted seven corner kicks in the game, four more than the Bears. The Crimson also outshot Bruno 13-9.

Barrett had her first loss of the year after taking over at halftime for Amber Bledsoe ’14. The two were credited with three saves each.

“It’s definitely a tough loss, but we have to look forward,” said captain Mika Siegelman ’14, who was held to one shot in the game. “No mat-ter what, we have to keep on pushing ourselves.”

The squad, which finished second-to-last in the Ivy League last season with a 1-5-1 record, would have se-cured first place in the conference

had it beaten Harvard. Pincince said his squad “learned some more about being in the big game” Sunday.

“I was ecstatic that we were in this kind of game,” Pincince said. “Even-tually, after being in enough of those

games, you’ll learn how to win them.”Siegelman complimented her

team’s ability to shut down Harvard’s “very dangerous attacking players.”

“For the most part, we kept them from scoring through the run of play,”

Siegelman said. “We couldn’t really get our attack going, but we stopped them on their plays.”

The Bears next play Tuesday night, when they travel to Dartmouth (5-5-3, 2-2).

Bears miss chance to lead Ivy conferenceDespite an early goal scored by Chloe Cross ’15, the Crimson pulled ahead with two goals off of set plays

By BRUNO ZUCCOLOSPORTS STAFF WRITER

Both men’s and women’s cross country finished first at Friday’s Rothenberg Invitational in Warwick. The women’s team took four of the first five indi-vidual places and finished with a score of 22, while the men placed three runners in the top five and earned a score of 24.

“It was really just about getting out there and running as a team — running confidently,” said Mark Mc-Gurrin ’15, who placed first in the men’s race.

The Rothenberg Invitational is one of the smallest meets of the season with five schools competing in the men’s race and six in the women’s. It is also the only home meet of the season for the Bears.

“A smaller meet like this can really sort of have (an) explicit race strat-egy, and (you) see your teammates a lot easier,” said women’s Head Coach Mitchell Baker.

In the men’s eight-kilometer race, McGurrin took gold with a time of 25 minutes, 25 seconds. Colin Savage ’14 and Ned Willig ’16 also finished within the top five, coming in third

and fifth respectively.Though the Bears took four of the

five first spots in the women’s race, the winner of the 6k was Dartmouth’s Elizabeth Markowitz, who finished in 17:20. Heidi Caldwell ’14 and Lily Harrington ’16 followed closely, with times of 17:22 and 17:28 respective-ly. Leah Eickhoff ’15 and Alexandra Conway ’15, a Herald Staff Writer, rounded off the top five, both also finishing under the 18-minute mark.

Baker said that despite some sepa-ration, the women managed to stay together most of the race and execut-ed the strategy well. “It’s an important thing for the championship season for the athletes to be racing together, not just training together,” he said.

The Rothenberg Invitational was the Bears’ last meet this season before Ivy League competition gets under-way. This year’s Ivy League Heptago-nal Championships will take place Nov. 2 in Princeton, N.J.

“We’ve got good depth, a lot of women in the same range — any one of them could be making break-throughs, and that’s definitely a good place to be as a coach,” Baker said. “We’re a team that’s got options, and ready to run our best races at the end of the season, which is where we are.”

“We have a lot of confidence in our training,” said McGurrin, who added that Head Coach Tim Springfield has done well. “We’re well on our way to (the Ivy Championship).”

Squads defend home turf at invitationalThe women’s head coach said the race was about athletes ‘racing together, not just training together’

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Forward Chloe Cross ’15 leads the squad with five goals this season and scored the initial goal in the seventh minute of play before Harvard caught up in the 26th and finished with a two-goal advantage.

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“It’s not about creating wrestlers. It’s about creating kids that believe in themselves.”

— Billy Watterson ’15

See wrestling, page 4.

Want to read more about high-stakes testing in R.I.?

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This past week, The Herald published “Testing Success?,” a four-part series examining the new role of the New England Common Assessment Program in public high school graduation requirements. For the first time, seniors are required to either demonstrate “partial proficiency” or improve their scores between their junior and senior years in order to graduate. The NECAP was not designed as a graduation requirement, and Rhode Island is the only state using the exam this way. This could radically affect Rhode Island’s current seniors, as over 40 percent of them failed either the reading or math portion of the exam and are in danger of not graduating. Regardless of one’s views on the rapid implementation of standardized testing and its effect on public education, it is wholly absurd that a recent policy shift should put so many of the state’s students at risk of not receiving their diplomas. If the Rhode Island Department of Education insists on mandating a certain proficiency level, it must give school districts more time to adapt to the new requirements.

The implementation of this policy has been marked by confusion and delays. When initially conceived in 2008, the graduation requirement was scheduled to take effect for the class of 2012. But when it was demonstrated that over 80 percent of Rhode Island students tested below “proficient” in math, the education department delayed the requirement’s implementation until 2014 and lowered the benchmark to “partial proficiency” or demonstrated improvement. In addition, students are allowed to appeal their decisions with scores from national standardized exams such as the SAT or the ACT — but it seems unfair to expect that students who failed to meet a certain benchmark on an exam for which they were specifically prepared would be able to perform better on national exams.

The inability of such a large proportion of the state’s students to demon-strate proficiency should provoke a much more comprehensive response than simply continued testing. It may be that the NECAP is too difficult or simply not suited for its current purpose — as Providence Mayor Angel Taveras noted, “The test was not designed to say whether students achieved mastery of a body of knowledge.” The mere implementation of stricter standards does not help students meet them. If the NECAP is succeeding in identifying student deficiencies, then increased testing will only continue to punish the underprepared, rather than help them.

Without high school diplomas, students may be precluded from career options and further educational opportunities. The state may need to imple-ment greater support for reading and math proficiency, and if so, it should not implement successful testing as a graduation requirement until students have cycled through bolstered curricula. Rhode Island cannot allow over 40 percent of its seniors fail to graduate. The requirement must be delayed while this policy is further debated and schools are given more time to acclimate. In the greater policy debate about the role of standardized testing in education, it is grossly unfair for students to be used as pawns.

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With all the buzz about the strate-gic plan, there has been no short-age of discussion surrounding Brown’s mission statement and larger purpose as a university or university-college. And while the debate has often revolved around the centrality of undergraduates to our educational philosophy, I’d like to take a moment to delve into something we sometimes take for granted and in turn ig-nore at Brown: free speech.

Our mission statement reads, “The mission of Brown Universi-ty is to serve the community, the nation and the world by discov-ering, communicating and pre-serving knowledge and under-standing in a spirit of free inqui-ry.” There is no doubt that we are a forward-thinking, cutting-edge and intellectually rigorous insti-tution. But during my two years here, I have experienced some extremely frustrating moments when Brown students, and some-times faculty members, have not fully embodied this spirit of “free inquiry.”

Let’s start with the obvious. It is taboo to be conservative at Brown. The moment you express your uncertainty about the Af-fordable Care Act or drug legal-ization, most people in the room immediately dismiss you. If you really, truly care about limited government, you might as well be living in the 19th century. The social ostracism that ex-ists at Brown is harsh, often re-pugnant and not indicative of an open-minded institution. I am constantly ignored or not taken seriously, even by close friends, when I advocate for strong American leadership on the world stage or express hesi-tation about government spend-ing. This is wrong, unproductive and simply not fair to conserva-

tive students at Brown, a group I believe is larger than most peo-ple perceive.

Faiz Khan’s ’15 recent Herald column was spot-on in its as-sessment of the University’s po-litical climate (“Brown’s double standard of inclusivity,” Oct. 2). There is an unnerving amount of intolerance for certain political perspectives and far too many unwarranted personal attacks of those brave enough to say what they believe. I’ve lived this. I have received numerous bor-derline hateful emails from peo-ple responding to my columns. Whether I am accused of echo-ing Ayn Rand or not being aware of my white privilege — a discus-sion I will leave for another col-umn — personal jabs are often the reason many do not partici-pate in the political conversation at Brown. And if, for example, conservatives are automatical-ly labeled as racist and classist, as they often are by Brown stu-dents, then the campus dialogue misses out on important voices.

The same one-sided cul-ture also surrounds religion at Brown. For some bizarre reason, organized religion is considered anti-intellectual and incompat-ible with the ideals of a progres-sive Brown student. Religious individuals are considered to be uninterested in reality and vic-tims of blind-faith and institu-tional dogma. This is extremely frustrating for me as a fairly re-ligious person who realizes that much of religion is centered on rigorous intellectual stimulation and a deep tradition of question-ing.

People are often afraid to ad-mit they are religious because of the stigma attached to organized religious communities. This is bad for free speech at Brown be-cause it both discourages cer-tain students from speaking and overlooks the massive role reli-gion plays in politics and culture.

And sometimes this “crowd-ing out” effect moves beyond lack

of engagement and ostracism. There have been horrifying in-stances of censorship, or attempt-ed censorship, carried out by Brown students. Nothing typifies this idea more than the panel The Herald and the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions put together to dis-cuss the then-impending same-sex marriage vote in the Rhode Island legislature. The organiza-tions, doing what every respect-able academic center or objec-tive news institution should do, assembled a panel with oppos-ing viewpoints which included a representative from the National Organization for Marriage, one of the United States’ preemi-nent advocacy groups for tradi-tional marriage. The outrage from students was in-credibly imma-ture and inexcus-able, with many students — who claim to be open-minded and lib-eral — advocating to remove the in-dividual from the panel. One student, who thought he was so clever, even inquired as to the amount of the speaker’s honorarium so he could ask the University to deduct that amount from his tuition.

How can we have a legitimate, thorough discussion about an in-credibly complex topic, let alone an honest debate about public policy, without allowing oppos-ing viewpoints to be expressed? We have a responsibility not only to allow unpopular viewpoints to be articulated but also to en-gage with them in a meaningful way without immediately writ-ing them off. Taubman smartly responded to the hoopla by sug-gesting that those upset could attend the panel and ask tough questions. I have no problem with people thinking the Nation-al Organization for Marriage is wrong or even bigoted. What I

do have a problem with is those same people privileging their own opinions to the end of cen-soring opposing ones.

Some of this unbalance of-ten trickles down from Brown’s faculty. While I am more than pleased that the University held a teach-in to discuss the ongo-ing conflict in Syria, I am disap-pointed there was not a strong voice advocating for U.S. military intervention. This is not a fringe policy position. In fact, the presi-dent, secretary of defense, secre-tary of state and the Senate For-eign Relations Committee have all supported U.S. military action in Syria. Likewise, a recent talk on the Oslo Accords by Hanan Ashrawi, an accomplished Pal-

estinian diplomat, should have been accompanied by an Israeli diplomat of equal stature. Don’t get me wrong, I am extremely happy that Brown engages with difficult issues — but propagat-ing a limited scope of political views entrenches certain narra-tives and could potentially dis-courage dissenters from exercis-ing their right to free speech.

With that said, I have had positive experiences at Brown, and I hope that those can be rep-licated. In POLS 1010: “Topics in American Constitutional Law” last spring, Professor of Politi-cal Science Corey Brettschnei-der encouraged students to share conservative views in addition to liberal ones. He was nothing but reassuring to students who artic-ulated seemingly controversial viewpoints in a respectful, intel-ligent manner.

We should follow the lead of the Herald opinions columnists who have never shied away from controversial columns or the Ja-nus Forum, which makes a point of bringing divergent views to the same podium.

And here is why this all mat-ters. While there might be a miniscule but important con-servative voice at Brown, there are some pretty darn smart con-servatives out there in the real world, and Brunonians need to know how to engage them. Last summer, I was a summer fellow at the American Enterprise Insti-tute — cue eye roll now — and worked with some of the smart-est people I have ever met. I in-teracted with the architect of the

Iraq surge plan, defense policy experts with de-cades of experience and economists who have advised various presi-dents. But some of my more liberal peers par-ticipating in the fellow-ship had a difficult time engaging because they had not encountered these views on their

campuses.Not to get all philosophi-

cal, but John Stuart Mill argues that one of the chief arguments against censorship suggests that all viewpoints need to be heard because everyone should know how to respond to opposing opinions. This could not be more true for Brown students. To the conservatives at Brown, I say, come out of hiding and into the political discussion. I’ll be right there with you. And to the liber-als, I say, make sure you embody perhaps the most fundamental liberal value captured by Brown’s mission statement: “free inqui-ry.”

Zach Ingber ’15 would love to listen to your opinion unless

you disagree with him. He can be reached at

zachary_ingber@brown.edu.

commentary 7THE BROWN DAILY HERALDMONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2013

Free speech at Brown?

“To the conservatives at Brown, I say, come out of hiding and into the political discussion. I’ll be right there with you.

And to the liberals, I say, make sure you embody perhaps the most fundamental

liberal value captured by Brown’s mission statement: ‘free inquiry.’”

ZACH INGBER

opinions columnist

daily heraldTHE BROWNsports monday

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2013

By DANTE O’CONNELLSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Bears fell to Princeton 39-17 in their second Ivy League matchup of the season Saturday evening. Bruno (3-2, 0-2 Ivy) was up 17-0 midway through the second quarter, but Princ-eton (4-1, 2-0 Ivy) scored the next 39 points to clinch the victory.

Penalties and failed third-down conversions told the tale of Bruno’s defeat. During the game, Bruno lost 136 yards on 15 penalties, with 11 coming in the first half. The Bears converted just two of 12 opportunities on third down.

“That makes a big deal,” said Head Coach Phil Estes. “You can’t play with that many penalties. You can’t turn the ball over and create momentum for them. We did all of that for them in the second half.”

In the second quarter, John Spooney ’14 walked gingerly off the field with what appeared to be symp-toms of a concussion. After his first touch of the third quarter, Spooney immediately left the game and did not return. Estes said Spooney was almost apologetic to the coaching staff by saying that if he had stayed down longer, he might have been able to go back into the game.

“When he’s out of the game, you lose a lot of offense,” Estes said. “He’s a playmaker. He makes a play for six yards go for a touchdown.”

After a three-and-out on its first drive of the game, Bruno got the ball right back after Courtland Clavette ’15 recovered a fumbled Princeton punt at the Tigers’ 23-yard line. But two penalties killed the ensuing drive, and the Bears had to settle for an Alex Norocea ’14 field goal.

Bruno’s next possession was a quick one. After co-captain Pat Don-nelly ’13.5 rushed for a first down, Spooney busted through a hole on the right side, rushing 71 yards to put Brown up 10-0.

At the end of the first quarter, Bruno pinned the Tigers deep in their own zone when Jay Davis ’15 downed a Grant Senne ’16 punt at the Princ-eton 1-yard line. Dan Giovacchini ’15 ended the three-play Princeton drive with a sack. On fourth down,

Michael Walsh ’16 put Bruno back on the board, recovering a punt blocked by Jacob Supron ’15 and taking it into the end zone.

Midway through the second quar-ter, Princeton scored its first points when Brian Mills capped off a 15-play, 88-yard drive with a six-yard touchdown run, bringing the score to 17-6. After a high snap, Nolan Bieck missed the extra point for the Tigers.

Princeton came out firing in the second half, scoring on an 18-yard rushing touchdown just over a min-ute into the third quarter. The Tigers could not convert the two-point con-version but brought their deficit to just five points.

After the Princeton defense stopped Donnelly on a third-and-one rushing attempt, the Tigers grabbed their first lead of the game. Con-nor Michelsen completed a 28-yard touchdown pass to Des Smith for the score. Once again, Princeton failed on a conversion attempt, but led 18-17.

On the next drive, Bruno turned in yet another three-and-out when Tellef Lundevall ’13.5 came up just one yard short of the first down. Princeton took over, putting togeth-er a seven-play, 94-yard touchdown drive led by Quinn Epperly with two 25-yard completions and a run up the middle for the score.

After Bruno’s third three-and-out of the second half, Epperly came up big again, putting the Tigers up 32-17 on a 32-yard touchdown run.

The game developed similarly to

Bruno’s trip to Harvard three weeks ago. In that game, the Bears scored the first 13 points before the Crimson came back to score the next 31.

“I know we can correct all of these things,” Estes said. “We’ve had two games where we get off to a really good start, and then we lose that momentum. We just can’t do that. We’ve got to correct the self-inflicted wounds.”

Brown will try to rebound on the road against Cornell (1-4, Ivy 0-2) next week and Princeton will travel to Harvard (5-0, Ivy 2-0).

Bears disappoint under the lightsThe football team’s hopes of an Ivy League Champion-ship faded in a blowout de-feat during Family Weekend

FOOTBALL

17 vs. 394-1, 2-03-2, 0-2

By CALEB MILLERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Things were looking good for the football team early in the second quarter Satur-

day against Princ-eton. The offense

and special teams had each contributed touchdowns, while the defense held the Tigers scoreless in the first period. But — just as it did against Harvard three weeks ago — momentum swung away from the Bears and snowballed into a second demoralizing conference loss. It was a game of special teams, penalties and a detrimental injury.

What’s strongThis season has featured impressive

feats on both sides of football for the Bears, but big plays on special teams were the key that allowed Bruno to amass its early lead this week. The first points of the day, from an Alexander Norocea ’14 field goal, were a product of the punt-ing game as a Bruno punt bounced off a Princeton player and Courtland Clavette ’15 readily fell on the loose ball deep in Tiger territory.

The night’s highlight came on the opening play of the second quarter when defensive back Jacob Supron ’15 blocked a punt. The ball ricocheted toward the home sideline where Michael Walsh ’16 scooped it up and ran into the end zone to open Bruno’s largest lead of the night.

The consistent player for special teams has been Norocea, who is perfect on field goal and extra point attempts this season and earned Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week last week. Norocea may be the most valu-

able weapon on the Brown roster and will have the chance to prove his worth in close games this season.

Impactful plays from special teams early in the game were negated by

Bruno’s lack of offensive production in the second half,

but if the

Bears can continue to win the punting and kicking battles, they will have the edge in close conference games.

What’s wrongNo surprise here: the biggest Bruno

detriment was the flurry of yellow flags. The 15 penalties committed by the Bears accounted for much of the collapse in momentum from the strong first 20 min-utes to the ugly final 40 minutes.

Head Coach Phil Estes hit the nail on the head in his opening remarks after the loss.

“Fifteen penalties to their three — that makes a big deal,” he said. “We shot ourselves in the foot too many times.”

Any team that racks up 136 yards in penalties will have a tough time scoring points, and the infractions were partic-ularly crucial at a turning point in the second quarter. The Brown offense was marching inside the Princeton 25 yard-line, threatening to add to its 17-0 lead. But the Bears picked up a false start and holding penalties on consecutive plays, followed by a delay of game two plays later. The penalties pushed the offense all the way out of field goal range and bailed out a Princeton defense that was on its heels. It was the following Tiger drive that gave way to Princeton’s first score, from which the Bears never recovered.

What’s newA highflying Bruno offense — which

averaged 439.5 yards and 35 points per game prior to Saturday — struggled mightily against the Tigers, managing just 319 yards and 17 points. The num-bers are more drastic without a 71-yard touchdown run by running back John Spooney ’14 halfway through the first quarter. After Spooney’s run, the Bears had four three-and-outs and punted in every possession except one — when they lost the ball on a fumble. Facing 12 third downs in the game, the Bears converted only two.

A primary reason behind the sput-tering offense was the injury to Spooney, who came out of the game in the first half with concussion-like symptoms. Princeton had little trouble bottling up back-up running backs Andrew Coke ’16 and Jordan Reisner ’14, so Donnelly was forced to rely heavily on the passing game, making the offense one-dimen-sional. It’s unclear how much Spooney will miss, but without him, the offense will face serious trouble trying to score points in a stingy Ivy League.

Bruno’s fast start quelled by painful second halfBruno committed 15 pen-alties, allowing Princeton to rattle off 39 consecutive points in the blowout

EMILY GILBERT / HERALD

Though the Bears scored the first 17 points to gain an early lead, they could not sustain the momentum.

EMILY GILBERT / HERALD

John Spooney ’14 scored a 71-yard touchdown at Saturday’s game.

IVY FOOTBALLSCOREBOARD

NEXT WEEKEND’S GAMES:

Brown @ Cornell Princeton @ Harvard

Columbia @ DartmouthYale @ Penn

Fordham 52Yale 31

Harvard 35Lafayette 16

Bucknell 17Dartmouth 14

Monmouth 48Cornell 23

Penn 21Columbia 7

Princeton 39Brown 17

ANALYSIS