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By KATHERINE CUSUMANOSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Members of Brown Divest Coal and the campus community took to the Main Green Friday morning to rally against the University’s al-leged fossil fuel investments. The rally was planned to coincide with the Corporation meeting originally scheduled to take place that day, said Emily Kirkland ’13, one of the group’s student organizers.

As snow began to fall, the protest-ers chanted the slogans “Brown take action, stop extraction!” and “Look around, it’s sleeting, the Corpora-

tion’s meeting, the world is overheat-ing — divest now!”

“We wanted (the Corporation members) to literally hear us,” said Nathan Bishop ’13, a member of Brown Divest Coal.

Speakers — including members of the campaign — discussed rea-sons for the University to divest from coal companies, which have appall-ing environmental and worker safety practices, Kirkland said.

The turnout was somewhat lower than anticipated, which Kirkland attributed to the early time, 10 a.m., and the impending blizzard. She said she was still impressed by the 80 to 90 students who attended the pro-test, which aimed to “demonstrate the depth of our students’ support.”

Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies Professor Dawn King

Divest Coal targets Corp., rallies on Main GreenStudents gathered in the snow to urge Brown to divest from fossil fuel companies Friday

By RACHEL MARGOLISSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Winter Storm Nemo dwindled to a close Saturday a.ernoon a.er covering Providence in about a foot and a half of snow. /e University weathered the storm, with sta0 members initating campus-wide recovery e0orts.

/e snow began around 9 a.m. Fri-day morning, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. /e snow and fog thickened in the eve-ning, causing power outages and winds reaching speeds as severe as 52 mph.

Service response coordinators were hard at work around the clock to keep the campus “safe and operational” over the weekend, said Marisa Quinn, vice president for public a0airs and Univer-sity relations.

Winter Storm Nemo whips across campusIn the !urry of student excitement over snow, U. sta"ers worked overtime and stayed on campus

By ELIZABETH KOHFEATURES EDITOR

Except for occasional sledding injuries and brief power outages, many Brown

students escaped unscathed from Winter Storm

Nemo this weekend. But other univer-sities in Rhode Island, especially those with large commuter populations, are still feeling the fallout from the storm.

Blast from the past/ese challenges are not new —

though Winter Storm Nemo le. about 20 inches of snow in its wake, the Bliz-zard of ’78 le. more than 28 inches of

snow, 11,800 homes and business with-out power in Rhode Island and over 9,000 people in shelters.

“We never thought it was going to be as bad as it was,” said University of Rhode Island graduate Mark Petteruti, who was a sophomore living on the URI campus when the Blizzard of ’78 hit on a Monday and closed the campus for a week.

“/e cafeterias started to get de-pleted on food because there was no way for trucks to get to campus,” he said.

Dining workers got creative and “made unusual kinds of dinners,” Pet-teruti said. “When it got really low, they were serving canned food.”

/e National Guard even delivered food by helicopter to the roof of the cafeteria building, he said. “We thought that was unbelievable.”

But snowed-in URI students found ways to stay entertained, Petteruti said. “/ey had all these events building snowmen and

R.I. universities weather storm complicationsStudents at schools around the state navigated power outages and snowed-in roads

By EMILY BONEYSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Winter Storm Nemo blew through Rhode Island starting Friday morn-ing and into Saturday, burying parts of the state in upwards of two feet of snow. /e ‘blizzicane’ is the 1.h worst winter storm New England has seen in a century.

Local medical provider Lifespan reported 282 hospitalizations related to the blizzard, stemming from causes such as shoveling and motor vehicle accidents, according to WPRI.

Power outages a0ected 14.5 per-cent of the states’ population — nearly all homes and businesses in Newport and Bristol lost power — but most of the outages were in Providence county, according to the National Grid’s web-site. A.er more than 9,000 Providence homes lost power during the storm, only about 200 were still waiting for power to be restored as of yesterday evening, Mayor Angel Taveras tweeted, with over 176,000 outages statewide, according to Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’16.

Chafee declared a state of emer-gency in Rhode Island Friday. Shelters opened across the state Feb. 8 and 9, o0ering warmth to those without elec-tricity. /e most snowfall recorded during Nemo in the state was in West Glochester, which received 27.6 inches.

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Snowfall causes statewide disruptionTransportation was suspended and over 176,000 R.I. residents were left without power

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As the winter storm hit campus, students enjoyed the time o! from classes Friday through snowball "ghts, skiing, snowboarding and sledding on trays from the dining halls.

LYDIA YAMAGUCHI / HERALDDespite weather conditions, around 90 students gathered on the Main Green to bring the Corporation’s attention to the Divest Coal campaign.

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Winter Storm Nemo took its toll all across Providence, leaving about a foot and a half of snow and causing school closures across the state.

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was also in attendance. She said she acts as an informal faculty adviser to Brown Divest Coal and joins rallies as a speaker and to support students, many of whom she has taught.

The rally attendees did not in-teract with the Corporation, though Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 made an appearance at the end of the meeting, Kirkland said.

Schlissel said he spoke briefly with two student members of the group, who handed him a letter outlining the group’s demands, in-cluding a call to the University to “commit to addressing the remain-ing fossil fuel investments it holds,” according to the letter.

“The goal is to hurt these com-panies,” King said, adding that amid national discussions about renewable energy, it is impossible to address questions of sustainability until so-ciety moves away from fossil fuels.

The Corporation meeting began at 7:30 a.m. and ended just before 9:30 a.m., Schlissel said. He said he first became aware of the rally while working in his office after the Corporation session ended, at which time most of its members had dispersed.

Students were screaming and yelling, “but also engaging people respectfully,” Schlissel said.

“We had a lot of volume,” said James Stomber ’15, who also at-tended last semester’s Divest Coal rally and added that “this (rally) felt a lot more serious.”

The University has never explic-itly acknowledged any investments in coal companies, but interactions between Brown Divest Coal and President Christina Paxson have indicated that the University does have connections with these com-panies, Kirkland said.

The details of the University’s investments are not released to the general public, but Kirkland said the University has said it has an “energy portfolio.”

“Their lack of response is a very, very clear sign,” said Kristy Choi ’15, a student organizer.

At the beginning of November, the group presented to the Advisory

Committee on Corporate Respon-sibility in Investment Policies — a University organization that pres-ents diverse campus recommenda-tions about ethical investments of the endowment — asking them to recommend the University divest from the coal industry. This is the only method the University offers as a way to make campus voices heard by the Corporation, Bishop said.

Members of ACCRIP have dem-onstrated support for Divest Coal’s cause. The group expects ACCRIP to release a letter of recommenda-tion within about a week, Choi said.

“The rally really hopes to put the pressure on ACCRIP and the Cor-poration more generally,” Kirkland said.

Schlissel said that did not recall a formal item about coal or ACCRIP on the Corporation meeting agenda, adding that the Corporation’s up-coming conference call will focus on more time-sensitive issues.

After ACCRIP provides its state-ment, Divest Coal plans to continue to encourage Paxson and the Corpo-ration to carry out the recommenda-tion, Choi said.

The University has previously agreed to divest in tobacco, Darfur and HEI Hotels following recom-mendations by ACCRIP, Kirkland said.

Brown Divest Coal has been col-lecting signatures for its online peti-tion since its inception in September, Kirkland said, adding that the group held a “dorm storm” in Grad Center Thursday night to provide informa-tion to students about ways to guide the University toward cleaner invest-ment practices.

“Most schools, like Brown, are not transparent about their endow-ment,” Kirkland said.

Brown Divest Coal is part of a larger national movement — involv-ing over 230 campuses — which aims to pressure administrations to divest from fossil fuel companies. The or-ganizations at two small schools, Sterling College and Unity College, have succeeding in convincing their institutions to divest, Choi said.

“It’s not healthy, it’s not safe, and it’s not an economically viable in-vestment,” Choi said.

Frisbee Brownian Motion, the men’s frisbee

team, won national championships in 2000 and 2005, but over the past few years, has not been as successful. Austin Mertz ’14, who has been on the team since his 1rst year at Brown, said the

club is now “sort of in the rebuild-ing phase.”

/e team, Mertz said, wants to 1nd its way back to its earlier success, though it also has more moderate dreams.

“I think the goal is always to get back to nationals and reclaim our rightful place atop the college rankings,” Mertz said. “But I guess making it to section-als and winning sectionals and doing well in regionals is a fairly consistent annual goal.”

Matt Barnes ’13, a member of Brownian Motion’s “A” squad, said al-though he feels the team is “fairly well-known” on campus, he thinks it does not get the same recognition varsity teams do. Members of the “A” squad dedicate 15 to 20 hours to their sport each week over six days, in addition to extra time spent in the weight room, Barnes said. He added that it would be a good thing for students to realize club athletes play at a high level. Just because club athletes do not have a varsity label “doesn’t make them any less of a team or any less of a sport, ” Barnes said.

Similar to the men’s squad, the women’s team — Disco Inferno — is not in the midst of its most successful season, said Aimie Kawai ’14, who has been on the squad for three years. But Kawai added that the University has increased the team’s funding in recent years. /ough the team must still fund-raise on its own — similar to other club sports at Brown — the University pays for most of its expenses, Kawai said.

/is season, the team’s goals are to do well at regionals and to improve its “cohesiveness,” she said.

Sailing Brown has both a co-ed and a

women’s sailing team, each of which is ranked in the top 10 nationally. /e team had a successful season last year and competed in all three of the national championship events — women’s, team racing and 7eet racing. Tommy Fink ’13, a former captain, said the team’s goal for this season is to qualify for all three nationals again. /e team thinks it has a “good chance” to win at least one of the three events, Fink said.

/ough sailing is a club sport, its funding, much of which comes from the University, is on par with other squads across the country, Fink said. “/e teams that have more funding and more sup-port tend to do better,” he added.

/e team practices in Cranston four times a week for between three and four hours each day.

“We’re all really good friends,” Fink said. “Within our team, you have a mi-crocosm of the University. And it’s really cool to see all those interests try to come together and compete as one unit.”

Similar to the other club athletes, Fink said he believes his team does not compete for recognition and while the team’s members would “be excited if more people knew about” their achieve-ments, the sailing team is 1ne with the amount of attention it currently has.

“I don’t necessarily think we’re look-ing for more recognition from the stu-dent body,” Fink said. “We enjoy what we do and we think it’s really cool.”

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huge sculptures.”

Flaking outSome universities around the state

continue to address storm issues.URI saw power outages in some

of its buildings Saturday, including its fraternity houses. On Saturday night, URI issued a mandatory evacuation of all fraternity residents to the Ryan Cen-ter, URI’s main concert venue, which opened for all on-campus students without heat and power. /e Greek buildings — located in a region of the URI campus called Fraternity Circle — are maintained by National Grid, an electrical company. Other buildings on campus are maintained by the university itself, according to URI’s website.

But the university-mandated evacu-ation was hasty and ill-timed for many Fraternity Circle residents, said Alyssa Jessers, a senior at URI and member of Beta Tau Alpha sorority.

“Around 10 p.m. last night (frater-nity students) were told they had 10 minutes to get medicine and clothes because they were being evacuated,” she said. “Ten minutes isn’t really a lot of time when you have to pack for some-thing like this.”

Frustrated students and parents turned to the URI Facebook page during the weekend, posting dozens of angry comments on the university’s status up-dates throughout the weekend.

/e majority of URI upperclass-men live o0 campus, Jessers said, and many commute from home. Many of the angry comments came from those commuters, some of whom cited previ-

ous problems with emergency manage-ment when Hurricane Sandy hit last semester. Other comments were from students who complained they had no heat, power or food and worried they would still be expected to attend class Monday.

“My neighborhood hasn’t even been plowed,” one commenter wrote on Face-book. “I can’t even leave my powerless and heatless house. I couldn’t get to class if I tried.”

Jessers, who lives o0 campus in Nar-ragansett, R.I., said she and her friends were forced to sleep over at a friend’s house Saturday night when her power and heat went out. She said she planned to spend Sunday night at a hotel to stay warm.

“It’s not very pleasant,” she said.URI allowed students to return to

their buildings Sunday night and can-celed classes Monday, though students reported Sunday that Fraternity Circle had not regained power.

“I’m relieved that classes are can-celed for tomorrow,” said Kathleen Orlando, a URI junior.

As a student living o0 campus, Or-lando was stranded in her house without power or heat when she was snowed in, and her streets remained unplowed during her attempts to dig out her car, she said. Orlando’s parents eventually traveled from Concord, Mass. to pick her up from Narragansett.

“It’s de1nitely nice to know I have more time to get back there,” she said.

A #urry of problemsJohnson and Wales University closed

Friday through Monday for Winter Storm Nemo, canceling classes and labs

and shutting down most operations.“We’ve just been kind of snowed in

the whole time,” said Denise Spooner, a JWU senior.

Power went out in the 1rst-year dorms on campus, prompting the uni-versity to open libraries and the culinary building for common use, Spooner said. /e university provided “complimen-tary breakfast in the culinary building, and they’ve been o0ering movies,” she added.

A student in the culinary school, Spooner said the closing also meant Sunday culinary labs were canceled, complicating exams for students. /e university runs on a trimester system and 1nals begin Feb. 18.

“It’s our last week of classes,” Spoon-er said. “If we have to make (lab) up, we have to make it up next week.”

“It’s going to be more inconvenient than anything,” she added.

Juliana Granato, a sophomore at Providence College, said she took few extra precautions for the storm.

“We had a lot of food in my room already,” she said. During the blizzard, Granato said she spent the time “hang-ing out with my friends.”

PC, which resumes class today, saw power “7icker in a couple of dorms,” but Granato said she was not worried about long-term adverse e0ects of the blizzard.

Plowing through/ough students at PC are resum-

ing school, those at JWU and URI are using the additional day to get back on their feet.

“Students have to get their work done,” said Stephanie Cinque, a JWU senior, but she added that the adminis-

tration is updating students in a timely fashion.

“/ey do a really good job of letting us know what is going on,” she said.

Students at URI said they want more time to recover.

“We don’t have water for showers, we don’t have Internet to do homework, we don’t have heat to stay warm,” Jess-ers said. She expressed relief at classes being delayed. “No one’s really ready to go back.”

/ough Orlando said she is not “too concerned about having to catch up on work,” she is concerned about missing class time. Still, she said the decision to cancel classes was “appropriate.”

“/ey let us know (about canceling classes) early enough,” she said. “It could have been worse.”

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2. 23.4” Jan. 22-23, 2005

3. 22.8” Jan. 7-8, 1996

4. 18.9” Feb. 14-16, 1962

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By SARAH SACHSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Next month, visitors to the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of De-sign will be able to glean a unique insight into the world of art with specialized tours led by a new group of student tour guides.

Each year, the museum invites college students from Providence to join its Gal-lery Lecturers Program, which started in 2010. /is semester, eight new students — six of whom are from Brown — will be joining the program, and tours will start March 4.

A.er they learn about the museum’s collection, program participants will lead 30-minute tours /ursday nights at 7 p.m. Students design tours based on their own interests and centered around three or four objects they choose from the collection.

“It’s a focused tour,” said Deborah Wilde, associate educator for academic programs at the museum, adding that the program is modeled a.er one at the Yale University Art Gallery.

A.er an extensive interview process, students undergo four months of train-ing. During the training period, curators, guest lecturers and museum employees teach the students about topics including the process of making art and techniques for displaying it well. A favorite exercise among students involved “deep looking,” an activity in which trainees spent over an hour viewing a single abstract paint-

ing before discussing the intent behind each aspect of the piece, said Katie Bom-marito ’15, a tour guide trainee.

To design their tours, students are given access to all of the museum’s cu-ratorial 1les. Students perform intensive research and are expected to become experts on their chosen pieces.

“A lot of these objects have amazing backstories,” said Kathryn Howley GS, who is earning her PhD in Egyptology and has been part of the program for three years. By engaging in deeper re-search, students o.en discover interest-ing narratives about their objects which have been omitted from the displays. “Display labels aren’t 15,000 words. I 1nd people really like to hear these stories but would never read them,” Howley added.

Bommarito said her tour is centered on the Andy Warhol silkscreen “Race Riot.” /e silkscreen depicts a white po-

liceman and his dog attacking a black man while members of the crowd around them look into the distance.

“We don’t know what they see,” Bom-marito said. “But it begs the question of what could possibly be more interesting.”

Bommarito said she plans to use this image to segue into a discussion about the concept of cropping. “If you take a fragment of something and make it into a piece of art, how does that change how you perceive it?”

All student tours are free and open to the public. “It’s a chance for our public to understand how students use and view the museum — it’s part of their intellec-tual process,” Wilde said. Several partici-pants said engaging with museum-goers is their favorite part of the program.

Anna Gasha ’15 said she plans to focus her tour on how two-dimensional artwork depicts three-dimensional archi-tecture. “People see art as a very bour-geois thing,” Gasha said. “But I like the idea of making it more approachable.”

Rebecca Szantyr GS said she still gets excited a.er every tour. “It’s a little bit of a high that I get a.er people had a great experience,” she added. “I’m always touched that they decided to come and enjoy it and were willing to learn.”

People o.en think “museums just put the art there,” said Tanya Olson ’14. “But there’s so much thought put into how to educate people. And I get to do that.”

Six U. students join RISD museum tour programBrown students will join the Gallery Lecturers Program as tour guides next month

at a standstill in Massachusetts and Rhode Island for most of Friday and Saturday. /ose caught driving during the storm would have faced 1nes of up to $500 and a year in prison. Airports shut down across the Northeast, includ-ing T. F. Green and Boston’s Logan Air-port. Amtrak stations across the North-east cancelled service for a majority of

the weekend but are beginning to open up limited

service as the tracks are cleared. /e Massachusetts Bay Transportation Au-thority o0ered limited service yesterday and is expected to return to full service today, though with “signi1cant delays,” according to the organization’s website.

/e Rhode Island Public Transit Authority will resume service today, though at least 20 lines will be rerouted and riders should expect delays, ac-cording to the organization’s website.

Chafee spent six hours touring the state and assessing damage Saturday, visiting shelters and the National Grid headquarters, the Providence Journal reported.

“We’re hoping to get the city fully operational by Monday morning,” Taveras said in an interview with the Providence Journal, adding that all of the city’s power should be back on by today. Chafee li.ed the travel ban Sat-urday a.ernoon.

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Twenty Facilities Management grounds sta0 members “worked tirelessly” to clear the snow from 3:30 p.m. Friday until midnight, when whiteout condi-tions set in, Quinn said. A.er a few hours of sleep in University housing, they resumed their work from 4:30 a.m. to Saturday a.ernoon. Meanwhile, custodial sta0 members cleared o0 stairways and entryways.

Dining Services employees also worked through the hazardous con-ditions. /e Sharpe Refectory opened its doors to all students Saturday night, including those o0 meal plan. While the Ratty serves 1,500 students on a normal Saturday, Quinn said, it ac-commodated double that number the night a.er the storm — and all with a reduced sta0.

Students showed their gratitude to sta0 members by presenting them with cards and posters signed with messages of thanks.

“/ey’re buoyed in their spirit be-cause they’re so appreciated,” Quinn said.

While most businesses on /ayer Street closed over the weekend, a few venues remained open through the storm, including Antonio’s Pizza.

“I knew you kids would be hungry, so it was kind of an easy decision,” said Ed Ramos, the restaurant’s manager.

A.er closing Friday night, he re-turned in the morning with a “skel-eton” workforce of four employees — hardly enough for the rush of grateful customers, he said.

“I did expect business, but nothing like that. I did not anticipate the kind of rush we saw yesterday,” he said. “My cooks were constantly making pizzas for seven hours straight.”

Despite the intensity of the experi-ence, Ramos — who said he likes to keep himself busy — described it as “a lot of fun.”

Many students seized the opportu-nity to enjoy the snow. On the Main Green and elsewhere on campus, they threw snowballs, built snowmen, climbed snowbanks and searched for inclines to sled or ski down.

“It is my understanding that a num-ber of trays are missing from the dining hall,” Quinn said.

Ed Backlund ’13, emerging from a hollowed-out snowbank on the Main Green, said he spent two and a half hours helping to build one of the nearby snow forts, adding that his education as a civil engineer was of limited use in the endeavor.

“We didn’t learn about igloos in engineering,” he said.

Other students were less enthusias-tic about the weather. Shubh Agrawal ’15, a co-director of student dance team Badmaash, said the group’s only competition of the year was canceled due to the storm.

/ough the team was “pretty disap-pointed,” they managed to enjoy the snow, Agrawal said.

/e opening night of the Produc-tion Workshop’s “Equus” was also canceled Friday.

“It’s hard because a lot of people aren’t coming out because of the snow,”

said Brette Ragland ’13, the show’s pro-duction manager. “But the people who are coming to see it really like it.”

Despite the setback, Ragland said the impact on morale has been posi-tive, if anything. “It’s like in football when they play in the snow,” she said. “It’s much harder, but it makes every-one more excited and more pumped to be there.”

Several students involved in the show, including Ragland, Ben Free-man ’13 and Alex Ostro0 ’14, were also part of “Company,” a PW show that endured cancellations because of Hurricane Sandy.

“We can’t figure out who’s the cursed one,” Ragland said.

“A lot of people have been above and beyond in terms of trying to do the best they can under di;cult circum-stances,” said Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA ’06, noting that many sta0 members had to deal with the storm “personally as well as professionally.”

/e storm was especially di;cult to manage because “there was a lot of accumulation (of snow) in a short amount of time, particularly combined with the wind,” he said. /e volume of snow was so great that tractors and trucks had to be employed to cart it away, he added.

As of about noon Sunday, Quinn said, the ground crew had completed

90 percent of the interior walkways on campus, 90 percent of the parking lots and 50 percent of the surrounding city sidewalks. She added that “a small number” of buildings on campus did lose electricity but all had regained it by Sunday morning.

“Everybody was in great spirits, and everyone was very cooperative throughout,” she said. “Overall, the University fared relatively well, given the severity of the storm.”

While Carey expects the remainder of the cleanup to be “a little bit messy for a while,” he said everyone is “very cooperative and supportive” and op-erations should be back to normal in a few days.

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Eighteen inches of snow blanketed campus, foiling transportation e!orts but creating a wintry playground for Brown students to enjoy.

lection was also a0ected and garbage will not be picked up today in Provi-dence due to poor road conditions, according to a press release from city trash collection o;cials. A city-wide

parking ban will remain in e0ect today. /e Providence Public School Dis-

trict will also remain closed today./e most snow that ever fell on

Rhode Island in a 24 hour period was in 1978, when it snowed 30 inches in Woonsocket.

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Students took advantage of the heavy snowfall to go sledding on the Main Green using Sharpe Refectory trays.

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Winter Storm Nemo blanketed campus this weekend, requiring extensive cleanup from University sta! members to clear the snow.

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Marijuana should be regulated, not prohibitedTo the Editor:

/e Coalition for Marijuana Regulation held a press confer-ence Wednesday announcing the introduction of Bill H5274 into the Rhode Island legislature, a bill that would regulate and tax marijuana at the state level (“Bill would legalize mari-juana in R.I.,” Feb. 7). /e bill will be carried by Rep. Edith Ajello, D-Providence, and State Sen. Donna Nesselbush ’84, D-Pawtucket, will be carrying a similar bill in the Senate. Students for Sensible Drug Policy, a student group at Brown, is working with the coalition to advocate for the regulation of marijuana in order to make our communities safer while also taking steps to right the many injustices associated with the so-called “war on drugs.”

Marijuana prohibition does not eliminate use or production and does not decrease availability. For decades, four out of 1ve

high school seniors have consistently reported marijuana is easy to obtain. Prohibition simply steers pro1ts to criminals in the illegal market who might sell other, harder drugs. Right now those who buy marijuana are crossing a legal boundary. Once that boundary is crossed, the line between marijuana and harder drugs becomes blurred.

/e marijuana decriminalization bill that was signed into Rhode Island law last summer will reduce marijuana arrests. However, because decriminalization doesn’t impact the illegal market, it will do little to make our communities safer. If we’re serious about gaining control over the marijuana market, regulation is the only way to go. It’s time we take a sensible approach to marijuana policy.

Natalie Van Houten ’14President, Students for Sensible Drug Policy

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“It’s my understanding that a number of trays are

missing from the dining hall.”— Marisa Quinn, vice president for public a"airs and University relations

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Winter Storm Nemo made a forceful appearance Friday, blanket-ing more than 13 states from Wisconsin to Maine with knee-height snow. While much of the student body greeted the blizzard with joy by engaging in snowball fights on the Main Green and sledding down College Hill on Sharpe Refectory trays, other key players in the Brown community were engaged in more serious, logistical manners. Through its apt precautions and efficient response to Nemo’s tour of the city, the University prioritized the safety and well-being of its students and faculty over limiting cost and inconvenience. For that, the Editorial Page Board commends the University, along with its entire staff, for its active commitment to protecting the community.

As we walked down Thayer Street this weekend, we came face-to-face with an apocalyptic vision. The street was bereft of cars other than those left by their owners to be buried in the storm. Restaurants and stores — except for, notably, Antonio’s Pizza, Kabob and Curry and Au Bon Pain — closed up shop for the weekend. But students were welcomed to flock to the warmth and comfort of the Ratty, where a smiling worker welcomed those both on and off meal plan. The din-ing hall also extended its hours until 9 p.m. Friday, a tremendous and stressful sacrifice made by all its workers. For this, we want to thank the Brown Dining Services staff for its service and steadfastness in the face of adversity.

In addition to ensuring students did not go hungry, the University also deserves recognition for its response to the power outage that affected the north end of campus. According to a community-wide email sent by Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy, the University opened up Andrews Dining Hall for temporary residency to serve those whose homes lost power. While not all of those without power chose to exercise this option, it is laud-able that the University took the initiative to provide shelter for the students affected.

According to Carey’s email, the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Medical Services were also available for 24-hours, despite roads posing clear risks to those who dared the travail. Although the Department of Facilities Management has done a tremendous job in its attempts to clear the roads, many still reported having difficulty distinguishing roads from sidewalks. In that light, we credit not only DPS, but also students, for exercising the highest degrees of prudence and caution this weekend. The University’s efforts this weekend in maintaining campus safety and students’ conscious efforts to conduct themselves safely created a successful relationship that deserves rec-ognition.

We must remember the services the University offered this week-end shouldn’t be seen as an essential right students have, regardless of conditions. Rather, we are thankful for the privilege provided by the University for us to remain well-fed, warm and safe. As the University returns to its normal schedule this week, it should also be aware that there are many students and faculty who are greatly appreciative of its efforts. Even though the events of the weekend will eventually become memories of the past, we are fortunate to be able to reminisce not in sorrow, fear or frustration — but in gratitude and mirth.

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An article in Wednesday’s Herald (“Prof. named Leopold Leadership fellow,” Feb. 6) incorrectly stated that during their training in Wisconsin, fellows will learn how to speak to the media, congressional representatives and federal agencies. In fact, fellows will travel to Wisconsin this summer for an intensive week of leadership and communications training. Recent fellows have used their training to engage with media, congressional representatives, federal agencies, local and global non-governmental organizations and small businesses. /e Herald regrets the error.

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An article in Friday’s Herald (“‘Equus’ draws audience into intimate world of teen and psychotherapist,” Feb. 8) incorrectly stated the puppets were designed by Sarah Gage ’15 and Becca Wolinsky ’14. In fact, the puppets were designed by Liz Oakley ’16. /e Herald regrets the error.

An article in Tuesday’s paper (“Urban farms sprout under community care,” Feb. 5) incorrectly stated that farmers recom-mended 1ve-year leases for the Lots of Hope program. In fact, they recommended 1ve-year rolling leases, to be renewed at the start of each growing season.

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In Kevin Carty’s ’15 recent column (“Iden-tity politics is counter-productive,” Feb. 7), he argues that dismissing a person’s opin-ion as the product of privilege is detrimen-tal. His argument consists of three claims. First, dismissing the opinion doesn’t win the argument. Second, it discourages allies from supporting the cause. Finally, it is an-tithetical to social justice.

None of this is true.Note that almost all dismissals are of

opinions that actually do come from a place of privilege. Members of oppressed groups are better at spotting privilege than the privileged are, so dismissal is good evi-dence that the opinion was privileged to begin with. As I argued in the past (“Isms and an epistemic dilemma,” Nov. 13, 2011), mis1res of privilege detection are rare.

Carty’s 1rst claim is that dismissal doesn’t win arguments. As he has it, dis-missing someone won’t change his or her mind, and that’s how arguments are won. /is standard is too high — I can provide a mathematical proof of something, but this isn’t going to convince the Time Cube guy.

Still, I’ve won the argument. Someone wins an argument when he presents enough evidence to justify his claim, whether the other person listens to reason or not.

For example, Sanika claims that women never deserve to be raped. Larry claims that

some women wear provocative clothes, so they’re asking for it. Sanika dismisses Larry, saying, “You just believe that because you are privileged.” Larry seems to have pre-sented a piece of evidence for his claim, so he wins the argument.

However, what Sanika’s done is to show that Larry’s claim is not evidence at all. San-ika’s evidence is the only evidence, so she wins. If somebody says he saw a pink ele-phant on Spring Weekend, we can dismiss his claim by pointing out that he was on LSD. His experience was not evidence at all.

When we say, “You just believe that be-cause you’re privileged,” we’re saying that

the belief came from a bad source — the oppressive structure that led to it. /us, your evidence has been pulled out from under you. Philosophers call this phenom-enon an “undercutting defeater.” Visit Da-vid Christensen, professor of philosophy, and Joshua Schechter, associate professor of philosophy, to learn more.

Larry probably won’t give up his opin-ion, even though he should. We’ll return to this shortly.

For now, consider Carty’s second criti-cism: Dismissing opinions discourages would-be supporters and sends the mes-sage that they are not welcome in the con-versation. It is unlikely privileged people would support social justice if their opin-ions hadn’t been dismissed. Recognizing

the worth of social justice goals requires recognizing our current society as unjust. For those not su0ering oppression — or those not motivated to end their own op-pression — getting motivated towards these goals requires sympathy for the oppressed.

If a person recognizes societal injustice, dismissing his opinion cannot harm his motivation. Real sympathy is not so frag-ile as that. /is is especially true if people know the facts about how privilege in7u-ences opinion. For people who don’t know about societal injustice, a dismissal is a good lead-in to a 1rst lesson.

/is discussion allows us to address a

point running through Carty’s column. Even if dismissal doesn’t turn away sup-porters, it doesn’t help get them. By itself, dismissal doesn’t inform, inculcate sympa-thy or remove bad ideas from public dis-course. Surely, these should be among our goals. In this way, dismissal might be coun-ter-productive.

We cannot abstain from problem solv-ing until enough information is laid out so any passer-by can understand what the problem is, why it deserves solving and why certain comments are unhelpful. Moreover, information on social justice is widely available and disseminated by activ-ists. /ere is a time for forging ahead and a time for educating beginners. We should not demand that these be done simultane-

ously.Furthermore, inculcating sympathy in

someone is a long and di;cult project. It cannot be done over the space of a Face-book post or single conversation. It is ab-surd to expect a person to set aside righ-teous indignation to teach another about sympathy every time an occasion presents itself.

Carty’s 1nal point is that dismissal is an-tithetical to social justice ideals. We want people to be seen as individuals, not as members of groups. But when we dismiss someone’s opinion, we are treating him or her as a group member. As Carty writes, “It is not re7ective of the countless di0erences and nuances that reside within each one of us.”

Here, Carty misunderstands the na-ture of an opinion coming from privilege. When someone o0ers one, it re7ects no di0erence, contains no nuance — the privi-leged opinion is the one we’ve been hearing all our lives. An opinion inherited from an oppressive social structure isn’t one’s own in the same way that a desire developed through brainwashing isn’t one’s own.

/is example illustrates the power of the dismissal. When a person o0ers a privi-leged opinion, he or she is not acting as an autonomous individual but as an agent of this social structure. “You just believe that because…” is an occasion to re7ect, realize this fact and become one’s own person.

David Black ’12 appreciates the occasion for some applied epistemology. He can be reached at david.black@rutgers.edu.

Dismissing, defended

How do we work together? That seems to me to be the question for this new year. We’ve certainly spent more than enough time learning how to disagree.

Just ask the United States Congress how much they know about that. I’ve learned a lot from them about disagree-ment and not working with others. U.S. history teaches us this country was built on compromise, a system of give-and-take and, above all, an underlying mutual respect for the person sitting next to you. The idea was that if our representatives worked together, the country would work better.

But you know what’s a great example of our country’s compromising values? The $1.3 billion that lawmakers cost the U.S. government while they were hold-ing the debt ceiling hostage in 2011. The threat of a potential debt downgrade nearly blasted another hole in our al-ready-precarious economic system. The $1.3 billion was the minimum loss esti-mate. But what’s ironic is they did it all over again on the fiscal cliff.

A message to Congress: The next time there’s another chance to have an incred-ibly vacuous argument about whether or not to move the country forward, please remember how much money it costs to bicker.

But Congress certainly wasn’t the only

one teaching class in recent years. My man Mitt Romney sure gave his fair share of classroom lectures. I learned from Romney that changing your opinions to please people is a good way to try to get ahead in the world. I learned that if you work towards avoiding peoples’ concerns, rich folks will give you lots of money to keep doing it. But most importantly, I learned that caring 47 percent about any-thing gets you nowhere — sorry Mitt.

I mock what I watched this November, but it’s not with pleasure that I do so. I love this country and I find it disheart-

ening that the 2012 presidential election reminded me more of a censored Jerry Springer episode than a contest between great men of great intent and aspiration. President Obama lost the first debate not because Romney had any content to his argument, but because Obama underesti-mated Romney’s capacity for obfuscation and his determination to reposition him-self — yet again — to suit the mood of the general electorate.

It’s sad that we live in a time in which people are so uninformed and uninterest-ed in working towards a common good and that politics is now a form of enter-tainment — or blood sport — instead of the respected form of civil service that produced great men and women in our history. How can it be that we claim to be the descendants of the “Greatest Gen-eration,” a group of people whose great strength lay in their understanding that, at times, individual sacrifice and com-promise are necessary in order for every-one to be better off?

Two months ago, a gunman in Con-necticut mowed down 27 people: 20 small children, six teachers and his mother. This happened three days after a gunman shot up a mall in Oregon and in the same year as fatal mass shootings in Minneap-olis, Tulsa, a Sikh temple, the midnight showing of a movie, a coffee bar in Se-attle and a Halloween party on a college campus. Twenty-seven, two, six, three, six, 12, six, two. That’s a body count of

64. It’s time to ask again: How do we work together?

It’s time that our political system an-swer that question and learn to live with-in the times — not expect the times to live with them.

Our age is being reshaped by mass communication and mass communica-tion is where change will begin. I loved that after every presidential debate, Face-book turned into a political forum for ideas and opinions on the candidates’ performances. That shows me there is hope, that people are interested. All of you who put up statuses that told me to keep my politics to myself can get lost. We need discussion.

That’s how we will begin to make a dif-ference.

Next time you read about something you think ought to be recognized and changed, I want to hear about it. My friend at Northwestern University wants to hear about it. The Herald wants to hear about it. Chances are, people you never would expect to care want to hear about it.

In the end, it’s simple. Whether or not we solve the issues of our time will be the ultimate reflection of whether or not we can learn to work together — you, me, our congressmen, our professors, the deans, our new president — we is all of us.

Danny Delaney ’15 enjoys buying car-tons of orange juice at the Campus

Market. He encourages you to reach him at daniel_delaney@brown.edu.

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We need discussion. That’s how we will begin to make a di"erence.

When a person o"ers a privileged opinion, he or she is not acting as an autonomous individual.

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By SAM WICKHAM SPORTS STAFF WRITER

/e men’s basketball team traveled to Princeton and Penn this weekend de-spite blizzard conditions, but dropped both of their Ivy League matchups. /e Bears (8-12, 2-4 Ivy) could not keep pace with the Tigers’ (11-8, 4-1) high-powered o0ense, and foul trouble

for Brown’s big men proved costly against the Quakers (5-17, 2-3).

Co-captain Sean McGona-

gill ’14 became the 25th player in the program’s history to score 1,000 ca-reer points in Saturday’s game against Penn, though the Bears now sit in sev-enth place in the Ivy League standings with eight games le. to play.

Princeton 63, Brown 46Rafael Maia ’15 scored 19 points,

but Bruno’s offense struggled to keep pace with a high-octane Princ-eton team that had three starters in

double digits. /e Bears managed only 38 per-

cent from the 1eld on 19-50 1eld goal shooting and made only one three-pointer in 12 attempts from beyond the arc — limiting a major part of the Bears’ o0ense.

“I thought (Princeton) played very well,” said Head Coach Mike Martin ’04. “We got some pretty good looks that didn’t go down, but they were bet-ter than us that night as far as execut-ing what they needed to o0ensively and defensively.”

Bruno kept it close at the start of the 1rst half thanks to inside scor-ing from Maia, McGonagill and co-captain Matt Sullivan ’13. But the Tigers closed out the half on a 17-5 run, leaving the Bears playing catch up for the rest of the game.

“We don’t want to live and die by the three-point shot, no matter who we’re playing,” Martin said. “I think we have some guys we can get the ball to down low, and I think (Maia) can be our feature guy down there.”

Princeton jumped out to a 55-33 lead — its largest of the game — with seven minutes remaining, thanks to a 7urry of threes from Denton Koon. Bruno’s only three-pointer of the game came as a consolation trey from Tucker Halpern ’13.5 with 30 seconds le. as the Bears fell 63-46.

Penn 71, Brown 48McGonagill earned a place in

Brown basketball history on an oth-erwise di;cult night for the Bears, who again struggled to 1nd their rhythm on the o0ensive end. /e Bears controlled the paint o0ensively, but again struggled from three-point range, going just 2-18. Foul trouble for big men Maia, Halpern and Cedric Kuakumensah ’16 made it di;cult for the Bears to stay within striking distance.

Bruno led for most of the 1rst half, establishing a 20-16 lead a.er a jumper from Kuakumensah with six minutes to go in the period. But foul trouble kept Maia and Kuakumensah on the bench for the rest of the period as Penn took the lead to close out the half, 28-25.

“O0ensively in the 1rst half we got a lot of good looks and scored a lot of buckets inside, o0 post-play,” Martin said. “As the game went on, I thought (Penn’s) speed and quickness and pressure continued to bother us.”

McGonagill scored his 1,000th point one minute into the second half o0 a jumper. He now has 1,006 points a.er his 12-point performance, making him the 25th highest scorer in Brown’s history.

“/is shows Sean has contributed to this program quite a bit in his two

and a half years here, and we expect him to continue that for the remain-der of this season and into next sea-son,” Martin said.

/e Quakers kept up their scoring in the second half thanks to success from three-point land, going 6-8 in the half. Miles Cartwright — who scored 28 points in the game — led the Penn o0ense in the second period. His 1.h trey of the game gave his team a 61-43 lead with six minutes

remaining. Any chance of a Bruno comeback was sti7ed, and the game ended 71-48 in Penn’s favor.

Bruno 1nally returns home to the Pizzitola Center to host Columbia (10-10, 2-4) on Friday and Cornell (11-12, 3-3) on Saturday a.er 1ve straight road games.

“Being back home will be nice, but it doesn’t mean anything if we don’t play with passion or the energy necessary to win,” Martin said.

Bears’ shooting goes cold in Ivy League matchupsMcGonagill ’14 is the 25th player in Brown basketball history to reach 1,000 points

TOM SULLIVAN / HERALDMatt Sullivan ‘13 looks for a pass at Princeton this weekend during a game in which the Bears struggled to keep up with the Tigers’ o!ense.

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/e Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice kicked o0 its spring event series — “Ships of Bondage, Freedom and the Knowledges of the Enslaved” — Wednesday with a screening of the documentary “Traces of the Trade.”

In addition to a 1lm s c r e e n i n g e v e r y Wednesday in Febru-ary, the center will host a lecture, a musical per-

formance, an exhibit, a symposium and teach-ins on the experiences of slaves.

“Traces of the Trade” depicts 10 liv-ing descendants of the DeWolf family, members of Bristol’s wealthy elite, as they come to terms with their fam-ily’s lucrative involvement in the slave trade. /e 10 relatives travel to Bristol, R.I., Ghana and Cuba, three hubs of the triangular trade which included sugar, rum and slaves.

/e 1lm’s connection to Rhode Island history made it especially rel-evant.

“I think it’s really important that it was shown in Providence,” said Josette Souza ’14, one of 36 people who at-tended. “I’d like to know what people in Providence and Bristol would have to say about it.”

Anani Dzidzienyo, associate profes-sor of Africana studies, led a discussion a.er the 1lm. As a native Ghanaian,

Dzidzienyo said he “wanted something more from a Ghanaian perspective.” In particular, he said he wished the 1lm makers had asked Ghanaians how they felt about the complicity of African kings in the slave trade.

He added that the DeWolf descen-dants’ racial privilege was not “dealt with in a satisfying way.”

Wednesday’s film was the first screening in the Ships of Bondage and Rebellion Film Festival. /e series will show three more 1lms this month and Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Un-chained” in April.

/e 1lm screenings and related lec-tures, teach-ins and symposium are the 1rst events of the recently formed center, which was created last sum-mer as a result of the University’s 2006 report on Brown’s involvement in the slave trade.

Anthony Bogues, director of the center and professor of Africana stud-ies, said he hopes the event series will introduce the center to students and community members. “Given the 5-year gap between the ... recom-mendations and the 2012 creation, we needed to 1nd a way to reconnect with the community,” he said.

The center’s student advisory committee, which includes both un-dergraduate and graduate students, planned the upcoming teach-ins to “reintroduce the report to campus,” said Michael Becker ’13, a commit-tee member. Souza, also a member of the committee, said the teach-ins will bring together community members, students and faculty members to dis-cuss the report, contemporary forms of slavery and the prison system.

Slavery Center presents )rst )lm of spring seriesThe center hopes to initiate campus dialogue about slavery in the past and presentBy NIKHIL PARASHER

SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Participating in collegiate athletics is a large time commitment, with student-athletes devoting many hours each week to practice, competitions at home and travel. But it is not just varsity athletes who make this commitment — students who compete at the club level also de-vote signi1cant time to their sports. /ough many of Brown’s club teams are among the school’s most successful athletic organizations — some are even among the best in the country — many said they feel their pro1les on campus do not measure up to their achievements.

Vanessa Flores-Maldonado ’14, a 7anker on the women’s rugby team, said her squad considers this lack of awareness unfortunate, but she added that the players participate out of love for the game.

“We still recognize each other and the hard work that we put in,” Flores-Maldonado said. “Sometime at the end of the day, that’s good enough for us.”

Rugby/e men’s rugby squad is currently

ranked tenth in the country, the best ranking it has held in years, said Daniel Tonderys ’14. Tonderys added that only two years ago, the squad lost 105-7 to Dartmouth, a loss he said was the low point of his collegiate rugby experience. But the team has bounced back, he said. /e team has grown from the roughly 20 members it had when he was a 1rst-

year to the nearly 50 it has now, and the players are more committed and skilled, he said.

“My grade has a lot of experienced guys on the team,” Tonderys said. “And de1nitely better leadership and better ac-countability for coming out to practice. And, honestly, the recruiting has gotten so much better.”

/e squad mostly plays other Ivy League schools and teams from Mas-sachusetts and Rhode Island. But over spring break, it will travel to the Baha-mas to compete.

Tonderys said the team’s goal for the year is to make it to the national championship starting Jun. 1 in Phila-delphia and to continue acquiring tal-ented players.

/e women’s rugby team has been consistently successful for a number of

years — winning the Ivy League title for seven years running and appearing in national semi1nal games in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Currently, the team is ranked third in the nation.

/e women’s team has unsuccess-fully been seeking varsity status for several years, /e Herald previously reported. Gaining this status would limit the team’s reliance on alumni donations and other fundraising e0orts. Most college women’s rugby teams are club-designated, though a few are varsity, including Harvard’s, which was granted this standing last year.

In the fall, women’s rugby only lost one match. /e squad’s goal is to break past the Final Four and win the Ivy League championship for the eighth consecutive year, Flores-Maldonado said.

Club teams set goals for seasons

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Brown’s club frisbee team, Brownian Motion, aims to raise its ranking through dedication and intensive practice sessions this semester.

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Club rugby and sailing teams rank in national top 10, while frisbee team looks to rebuild