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IntoleranceJessica Steans-Gail ’16 responds to Dorris’ ’15 critique of gluten-free diets

Psych ServicesThe new director is focused on ‘destigmatizing mental health issues’

By JILLIAN LANNEYSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Four adults walking near the intersection of Thayer and Olive streets were robbed and attacked by a large group of teenagers around 11 p.m. Friday, the Providence Journal reported.

The two male victims suffered “facial injuries” from the assault, and one of the men was admitted to Rhode Island Hos-pital, Providence Police told the Journal. Simone Riberon, one of the women who was robbed, told WPRI her “purse, jew-elry and cellphone” were stolen.

The two couples were returning from dinner when they were allegedly attacked by a group of eight adolescent males, WPRI reported. Riberon told WPRI the males began “verbally harassing” her and her female friend as they walked home. Her husband and her friend’s boyfriend attempted to stop the harassment, at which point the incident became physi-cal.

Providence Police officers looked at video footage taken by two female by-standers of the attackers “punching and kicking” the two men to identify suspects, the Journal reported. Three suspects have been arrested so far, Providence Police told WPRI.

The Providence Police Department could not be reached for comment.

Assault, robbery add to crime spikeThree have been arrested after a group of teens attacked two couples on Thayer Street Friday

By MAXINE JOSELOWSENIOR STAFF WRITER

With the first Undergraduate Council of Students meeting set for this week, leaders said the Council will likely focus its efforts on gath-ering student input about President Christina Paxson’s upcoming stra-tegic planning report, improving advising and fostering student-alum partnerships this year.

Though the Council’s first gen-eral body meeting will not occur until Wednesday, its leaders have already met to discuss priorities for the coming year, said UCS Presi-dent Todd Harris ’14.5.

The Council pursues different priorities each year, depending on its leadership and issues currently concerning the student body. Last year, under former UCS President Anthony White ’13, the Council fo-cused on the University’s financial aid policies, The Herald reported at the time.

The priorities that UCS lead-ers outlined for this year are not conclusive and will be influenced by student feedback in the coming months, said UCS Vice President Sam Gilman ’15.

“None of this is final,” Gilman said. “The student body turns over 25 percent every year, and there are a bunch of students here who might care about different things. The agenda may change.”

Talking strategyThe Council will likely spend

much of its time in the first two months of the semester gathering student feedback on the strategic planning process.

Paxson will release a draft of the strategic plan — a document expected to shape her agenda for the University over the next de-cade — to the community later this month. Students will have about a month to provide feedback on the strategic plan before it is reviewed by the Corporation, the Univer-sity’s highest governing body, at its meeting in late October.

“It’s a really quick turnaround. Students only have one month to talk about the future of Brown’s education over the next 10 years,” Harris said. “We want to make sure we get as many student voices in-volved in the process as possible.”

The Council will sponsor a

UCS to focus on strategic planningThe Council will also work to improve the advising experience and student-alum relations

By SABRINA IMBLERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Students reported a power outage lasting from approximately 3 a.m. to 5:40 a.m. in several buildings both on and off campus Sunday.

After receiving several calls re-porting the blackout, the Depart-ment of Facilities Management contacted National Grid to resolve the issue, wrote Marisa Quinn, vice president of public affairs and Uni-versity relations, in an email to The Herald.

Representatives from National Grid were unavailable for comment regarding the scope of the outage.

“I was just about to fall asleep when we noticed the fan and ev-erything had stopped,” said Grace High ’14, a resident of 315 Thayer St., one of the buildings affected by the outage. “When we woke up, the power was back on.”

The blackout disabled swipe access for students living in the building. “We could hear people yelling outside to be let in,” said Daniel Gutierrez-Jimenez ’14. “It’s a good thing we were still up.”

The residents of 315 Thayer St. reported no prior power outages this year.

No one from Facilities Manage-ment could be reached for contact.

Thayer struck by power outageBy EMMA HARRIS

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The glass door at the Blue Room was shattered at around 5 p.m. yesterday as a student leaving attempted to push open the sliding door, said Lena Barsky ’14, who witnessed the incident. Small pieces of glass spread from the door “all the way to the counter, a good four feet on either side,” Barsky said.

Blue Room patron shatters doorThe glass broke when a student tried to push open the sliding door after the eatery closed

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After the crash, many students ran to the scene, and some onlookers attempted to take pieces of the glass, said Lena Barsky ’14.

By HANNAH KERMANSTAFF WRITER

After a year of petitions, rallies and protests to divest Brown’s endowment

from the na-tion’s 15 largest coal companies,

President Christina Paxson acknowl-edged the movement last May but deferred any decision. On a campus known for its political activism, this most recent movement is only one in a past full of student-led campaigns calling for reconsideration of the Uni-

versity’s funding.

Protests from the pastDivestment at Brown surfaced in

the 1980s as a tactic to garner aware-ness and support against apartheid in South Africa. Students at more than 150 universities across the country staged similar campaigns, and the success of the national apartheid movement also led the way for a divestment campaign at Brown against Big Tobacco in the 1990s. In 2003, the Corporation an-nounced its divestment from tobacco companies following a recommenda-tion from the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies. ACCRIP provides advice to ensure the University’s investments align with its ethical principles.

The divestment movement has

Activists promote divestment throughout U.’s historyStudents have rallied for divestment on issues including apartheid, tobacco and coal

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Students repeatedly rallied to protest Brown’s investment in coal companies, and the Corporation will vote on divestment in October.

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UCS President Todd Harris ’14.5 looks to focus on collecting student input.

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campus-wide forum to seek student feedback on the draft of the strate-gic plan, Harris said. The Council will also conduct its campus-wide fall poll a month earlier than in past years to allow students’ responses to be incorporated into the strategic plan, he said.

In addition, members of student groups that share an interest with one of the six strategic planning committees will be invited to the Council’s general body meetings for the first time, Gilman said. For ex-ample, members of Brown for Finan-cial Aid will likely be invited to the general body meeting that features presentations by representatives of the strategic planning Committee on Financial Aid, he said.

Several student group leaders told The Herald they hope the Council will help foster awareness of the strategic planning reports among undergraduates.

“I hope UCS plays a role in

ensuring that the student body as a whole knows about the (strategic planning) process and is aware of how important it is,” said BFA President Alex Mechanick ’15.

“When the strategic planning re-port is released, I feel like a lot of students won’t know or care about it,” said Marguerite Joutz ’15, a member of the Brown Conversation, a group that aims to promote dialoge on campus about University issues. “I would hope that UCS educates people about it.”

Advising and alumsThe Council will also work on

initiatives spearheaded by Harris to reform the undergraduate advising system and encourage student-alum interaction this year.

In his campaign for the presidency last spring, Harris said he would focus on improving advising and connect-ing students with alums, The Herald reported at the time.

Harris said the UCS Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee

would work this year to improve first-years’ experiences with their advisers and Meiklejohns.

Several undergraduates told The Herald they would welcome improve-ments to the current advising system.

“I feel like my Meiklejohn and my adviser only met with me out of obligation,” said Carolynn Cong ’16, adding that she hopes the Council ensures that advisers and Meiklejohns are enthusiastic about helping their advisees.

“I think anything you can do to improve advising would be good for the student body,” said Olivia Watson ’16. “I feel like that’s a big reason why I came here, to have a one-on-one relationship with my adviser and to have resources like my Meiklejohn.”

The Council also has its sights set on increasing interaction between undergraduates and alums.

Gilman said Council members would work with Paxson’s office to create more opportunities for stu-dents to engage with alums, such as mentorships, internships and meet-ups.

UCS Student Activities Chair Alex Drechsler ’15 said he would also work to make the student group coordina-tion website MyGroups more condu-cive to connecting undergraduates with alums, adding that UCS may replace MyGroups with another stu-dent group organizing software.

Several undergraduates told The Herald they supported the Council’s plans for engaging alums.

“Alumni would be great if I need-ed a job,” said David Weinberger ’16.

“Even though we have a lot of events on campus that seem geared toward careers, like career fairs or events at CareerLAB, I think ev-eryone could benefit from more of that,” Watson said. “Alumni could be resources outside of CareerLAB.”

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By STEPHANIE HAYESCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Following a string of summer build-ing renovations, the University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture continues to welcome change with the appointment of three new professors. The new faculty, As-sistant Professors of History of Art and Architecture Courtney Martin and Itohan Osayimwese and Profes-sor Anthony Vidler bring with them a wide range of expertise, including that in areas not previously offered by the department.

The appointments followed an external review of the department, which prompted a reexamination of its future direction.

“We were thinking very carefully

not just about replacing faculty, but also about where we were moving as a department,” said Sheila Bonde, chair of the department. “It’s a very exciting moment for us to rebuild and have three new energetic people.”

Martin arrived at Brown from Vanderbilt University, where she worked as both professor and re-searcher. She specializes in contempo-rary art, particularly British diaspora, though her expertise extends back through the 19th Century. Martin will offer a range of courses in the years to come, including the course HIAA 0870: “20th Century British Art: Edwardian to Contemporary” this semester.

Osayimwese, who was previously at Ithaca College, has a dual speciality in German colonial architecture and African architecture.

“(She) really brings Africa to our department,” Bonde said, “and that’s very exciting as it’s something we’ve only rarely had covered by visiting professors.” This semester, Osay-imwese will teach a lecture course

entitled HIAA 0770: “Architecture and Urbanism of the African Diaspora.”

Having spent his entire career broadening the study of architecture to one with an interdisciplinary view, Vidler is now working with both the humanities and history of art and ar-chitecture departments. His areas of expertise include the theory and prac-tice of architecture and 18th century Walter Benjamin. He is presently re-searching the architecture and related arts in the immediate post-World War II period, and he will teach a related seminar this semester — HIAA 1180 S02: “The Brutalist Epoch: Architec-ture, Art, and Culture 1945-1975.” As both a trained architect and architec-ture historian, Vidler said he hopes to “bring an inside view to these studies.”

Students concentrating in the department expressed mixed emo-tions about the new appointments. “I loved Professor Kriz,” said con-centrator Grace High ’14, referring to Professor Emerita Kay Dian Kriz, who retired last year. “So I am always

HIAA department welcomes three new profsThe new faculty members offer diverse perspectives following the department’s external review

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sad to see someone I loved go, but it is always exciting to check and see if a new professor has unusual interests that also interest me.”

Many history of art and architec-ture concentrators expressed a ten-dency to shop classes with new profes-sors, rather than sign up immediately, and some admitted to having poor experiences with visiting professors.

“The professor is just as important as the material for me,” High said.

Bonde said there was a lot of ex-citement about the new areas of art history offered and the new faculty appointments.

“We tried to involve our gradu-ate and undergraduate students in the search process and asked them for feedback,” she said. “So this was really a community looking for new members to join us.”

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continued to grow since then. Ad-dressing issues including genocide in Darfur and human rights violations in Palestine, students have launched a number of divestment campaigns at Brown and across the United States.

The Darfur genocide sparked stu-dent demands to divest from companies supporting the Sudanese government’s actions in the region. In February 2006, the Corporation divested, following an ACCRIP recommendation.

Students organized another suc-cessful divestment campaign in 2010 when they asked the University not to reinvest in HEI Hotels and Resorts, which had restricted its workers’ ability

to unionize. Brown students in support of divestment held a fake wedding on the Main Green to symbolize the union of the Corporation and HEI that would occur with renewed investments.

Students for Justice in Palestine similarly called for divestment from Boeing and the construction company Caterpillar, which an SJP pamphlet said supplied the Israel Defense Forces with planes and bulldozers respectively. SJP brought a banner to the Main Green rhetorically asking students, “Do you want your University profiting from apartheid?” to support its cause and link divestment in Israel to the 1980s apartheid divestment.

In 2012, ACCRIP encouraged di-alogue on the issue in a letter to the

Corporation but did not take a posi-tion on possible divestment. Since then, there has been no change in Brown’s investment.

Divestment todayDivest Coal is part of a nationwide

movement and has spanned more than 300 college campuses and 100 city and state campaigns.

To build its campaign at Brown, Divest Coal looked to prior divestment efforts in tobacco, Sudan and HEI as the “models that have worked under the current system, where there is a need to go through an administrative process,” said Divest Coal member Ryan Greene ’16, who joined the Divest Coal movement at its inception during his

first week of school.The size of the 1980s campaign “was

a big part of what made it powerful,” Greene said.

After rallies and protests throughout the winter and spring of last year, the Corporation acknowledged an April 2013 recommendation from ACCRIP supporting divestment from the 15 coal companies at its biannual May meeting.

Some college administrators have argued divesting from coal could have negative effects for universities. Christi-anna Wood, a trustee of Vassar College, said in a New York Times article this month that divestment could cause col-leges to lose both money and a voice in company proceedings.

Divest Coal members disagreed.

“The question at hand is not wheth-er or not Brown is going to lose money — that’s not even part of the consider-ation,” Greene said.

“The main thrust of divestment is that you’re able to erode the social license of these companies through col-lective action — schools, cities, church-es — that can lead to real change,” said Tammy Jiang ’16, another Divest Coal member.

Divest Coal members said they are eagerly looking forward to the Corpo-ration’s October meeting, which may promise a decision on the divestment issue.

“There is going to be a lot (of) pres-sure on the administration to vote yes to divestment in October,” Greene said.

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List Art Center, home of the Department of History of Art and Architecture, will welcome three new professors this semester.

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By RILEY DAVISSTAFF WRITER

The Writing Center transitioned to a new online sign-up system this fall, allow-ing students to schedule appointments directly through the center’s website instead of by emailing the coordinators.

The Writing Center collaborated over the past year with Applications Developer and Analyst Jason Orrill to create a new electronic sign-up system to save time on both the students’ and administrators’ ends.

Under the previous system, “the ap-pointment books were basically set up in Google Docs, and the notifications were either sent out by myself or the receptionist,” said Writing Center Co-ordinator Janet Peters.

The new system allows students to log into their applications using their Banner IDs and passwords and view an online appointment book, Peters said. Available time slots are blank, while taken ones are filled in. Students can mark when they are available for ap-pointments by selecting their desired time slots.

Students are asked to fill in certain required information — the type of writing they want to discuss, the sub-ject area, document length and the part of the essay on which they wish to

focus — directly below the scheduling calendar.

The new form also allows users to request a specific Writing Center em-ployee, Peters said. Upon making the appointment, students receive an auto-matic confirmation email summarizing their appointment information. Another reminder email is also automatically sent to students 24 hours before their appointments.

The change in sign-up systems has not been widely publicized to students, but many who have used the new online system said they found it to be a marked improvement to the email-based one.

“I love (the new system),” said Josh-ua Jackson ’16, who added that he had “dreaded” scheduling appointments with the Writing Center last year. “It was re-ally unorganized and you had to wait for them to respond to you. The new system takes a lot less time and is way less work.”

Jessica Velasquez ’15 used the Writ-ing Center last year and found no issue with the old sign-up system, she wrote in an email to The Herald, but she added that she would also like to see how the new system works. “I used the Writing Center for almost every single major pa-per I had,” she wrote. “I’m very interested to see how (the new system) works now.”

Students can also cancel appoint-ments through the scheduling applica-tion, Peters said. Before, they had to call or email to cancel their appointments.

“We average 4,500 conferences in an academic year,” Peters said. “This new system is much easier and much more streamlined for everyone.”

Writing Center launches new online scheduling systemStudents can now create and cancel Writing Center appointments through the center’s website

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The Writing Center schedules approximately 4,500 one-one-one student conferences each academic year. The online system will automatize confirmations and reminders for students’ meeting requests.

university news 5THE BROWN DAILY HERALDMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

By ANASTASIYA GORODILOVACONTRIBUTING WRITER

Sherri Nelson assumed her new posi-tion as director of Psychological Ser-vices in July. She replaced Belinda Johnson, who held the role for more than two decades.

Nelson, who previously served as associate director, was offered the position after a national search — a

necessary process given the impor-tance of the role, Belinda Johnson said.

“I’ve known (Nelson) for many years, and I have always admired how skilled clinically she is and how de-voted she is to the students she works with,” she said.

Psychotherapists working at Psych Services cited Nelson’s experience with the University’s brief therapy model and her long-standing interac-tions with students and staff as assets that make her well-suited for her new role.

After working at the University on and off since 1988, Nelson said she has a thorough understanding of Psych

Services operations and campus cul-ture. Multiple therapists in the office said the transition has been smooth, which Aleta Johnson, part-time psy-chotherapist in the office, said is not a given, even when internal applicants are selected.

But Nelson has proved herself a unique candidate, Aleta Johnson said. She is currently working on new out-reach initiatives for Psych Services, though the extensiveness of available resources is a limiting factor.

Some have criticized the short-term model of therapy Psych Services offers, Nelson said. But she said the limited number of individual sessions available to each student — seven over the course of each academic year — is due to tight resources. The office cannot add more staff members at this time, Nelson said, but she added she is cognizant that the issue sparks student concerns.

Nelson said she is primarily in-terested in implementing changes to make the office more accessible by increasing outreach throughout the wider University community, includ-ing students from groups that do not typically frequent Psych Services, like varsity sports teams. “I have a very strong belief in normalizing and de-stigmatizing mental health issues,” she said, proposing workshops and orientations designed to encourage reluctant students to pursue one-on-one counseling sessions and use the office’s resources.

Nelson also said she aims to help advisers and faculty members feel more confident in their knowledge of how to best help students in distress, and she plans to revamp the website.

Belinda Johnson said she hopes Psych Services continues to adapt to changing circumstances both inside and outside Brown and does not ex-pect her former office to stay the same. “That would be stagnation,” she said.

Sherri Nelson, former associate director of the office, hopes to oversee new outreach programs

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Nelson said she hopes to destigmatize mental health issues and make the Psychological Services office more accessible to hesitant students.

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left was headed home to tie the game at 1-1. Hofstra continued to press the Bears’ backline, firing 10 shots in the second half alone.

“We have to be able to put together a complete performance,” Laughlin said. “If you look at the two games this weekend, there were some great moments, but we need to work

towards putting in a performance for 90 minutes.”

The Bears and the Pride managed one shot apiece in the first overtime period, but neither threatened the goalkeepers. The game winner came in the 108th minute, when a powerful shot from 20 yards out snuck past the Brown keeper to complete the comeback, 2-1.

Bruno will travel to play 2012

National Champion Indiana (2-3-1) Friday and Butler (4-1-1) the follow-ing Sunday. The Bears were victorious in their last meeting with the Hoo-siers in 2010 posting a 2-1 victory.

“Moving forward, we have to learn to complete games,” Kuntz said. “And we’re going to try to do that against Indiana and Butler … It’s another chance to prove what kind of team we are.”

“There was a very loud crash, like a gun shot,” said Paige Vance ’17. “No one looked injured, but we can’t say for sure.”

There were still a few people inside the Blue Room waiting to pay at closing, said Barsky, and the doors were closed to prevent new customers from entering. Because the doors are always closed, no

one knows they slide, Barsky said, noting that the external doors to the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center have handles, which makes it clear that they push open.

Immediately after the door shattered, everyone in the vicinity ran to look, Bar-sky said, adding that onlookers were ini-tially shocked and did not seem to realize what had happened. People then started to run and take pieces of the glass, she

said. “They had to be shooed away.”A Brown Dining Services worker

started cleaning up the glass first, and facilities did not arrive for a while after the incident, Barsky said. The situation could have been dangerous, she added — “People are bad at glass safety. People in flip flops were walking by the glass.”

Dining Services did not offer any comment on the status of the Blue Room.

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The Herald reported this past week that the hiring of new Chief Information Officer Ravi Pendse may spur an increased emphasis on corporate funding of university research. Such funding is particularly attractive during this period of economic hardship — federal research agencies experienced significant cuts this past year, which were in turn passed on to the universities whose work they sponsor. It is completely natural for researchers to seek out alternative funding sources in the wake of sequester-induced uncertainty, but collaborations between universities and corporations are fraught with potential impropriety and perverse incentives. Private funding of scientific research is a necessary evil and one that calls for constant monitoring — and the University should be cautious with any increase in this practice.

Questions of outside infringements on academic freedom are nothing new, and critics who call for a complete halt on all university-industry collaborations are naive to the reality of the situation. While the Univer-sity may bemoan its relatively small endowment compared to those of its peer institutions, at $2.5 billion dollars, it is roughly the size of the Gross Domestic Product of the entire nation of Aruba. The University itself is a brand, and research advancements not only provide public recognition but also attract high-quality students and faculty members, along with further funding for research. Our collaboration with corporate partners is miniscule compared to Stanford University’s — the school just announced it is creating a start-up incubator, StartX, that will actually invest in its own students’ companies. A New Yorker profile this week described Stanford’s computer science department as the “Kentucky basketball team” of the school, a “way station for the country’s finest talent,” as it questioned whether the heady influence of Silicon Valley would fundamentally change its approach to undergraduate education.

Industry funding may provide stability in a financially unstable time, but such security comes with significant ethical concerns. Recently, the University itself has experienced two events that illustrated the risks involved in accepting private funding: one in the 90’s with Associate Professor of Medicine David Kern, and the other in 2001 with Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Martin Keller, department chair at the time. Kern was fired by the University after publishing a report implicating Microfibres, Inc., a donor to Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, in creating an unsafe work environment that led to danger-ous lung conditions. Keller, who retired last year, accepted money from GlaxoSmithKline to fund a pharmaceutical study eventually determined to be fraudulent and guilty of understating the risk of adolescent suicide in the antidepressant Paxil. Such incidents demonstrate that there are not only ethical and academic risks to participating wholeheartedly in the rise of the university-industrial complex, but also that such events may result in publicity so negative it defeats the purpose of participating in corporate-funded research in the first place.

If we are to continue to pursue and expand outside sources of funding, we must ensure that our regulation of potential conflicts of interest keeps pace. Lawrence Larson, dean of the School of Engineering, acknowledged in last week’s article that “there are risks any time you have sponsored research,” but he added that the University “mitigate(s) those risks care-fully.” This minimizing of risks must be continual and thorough in order to protect the University from allying itself with morally dubious sources.

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TWC name carries historical importance

As a Brown alum who spent more days than he can count in the Third World Center and its various programs, I am a bit skeptical about the move toward a name change that threatens to dilute the great historical and political mean-ing embedded in “Third World Center.” Princeton’s move from “Third World Center” to the “Carl A. Fields Center

for Equality and Cultural Understanding” is hardly a fitting consolation in my eyes, nor an example Brown should follow. If and when it comes to changing the name of the TWC, my hope is that Brown continues to properly honor its legacy of resistance and student-led struggle without watering down this important history.

L E T T E R T O T H E E D I T O R

To the Editor:

Robert Smith III ‘09

As someone with a gluten intoler-ance, I couldn’t help but take offense at some of the opinions expressed in Cara Dorris’ ’15 recent article, “Are you Gluten-Intolerant or Just Intol-erable?” (Sept. 6).

I never understood the concept of chronic pain before. The only pain I had ever experienced came as a fleeting illness or minor injury — until my stomachaches started. For four years, I was unable to eat without crippling pain akin to the uncomfortable fullness that comes with massive overeating, combined with a constant sharp sensation.

Eventually I couldn’t eat a hand-ful of blueberries without feeling them in my stomach for the rest of the day. I’m not saying that my stomach pain was the worst prob-lem in the world, but it was not a pleasant experience. None of the doctors I saw were able to solve the problem. My sister and mother both have celiac disease, so I was tested

for it every few years, but the results were always negative. It never oc-curred to me that gluten might ac-tually be the problem.

This summer, I met with a nu-tritionist who informed me that though I don’t have celiac disease, I might have a glu-ten sensitivity or intolerance. At that point, I was willing to try anything. I stopped eating glu-ten despite know-ing exactly what it meant giving up the cake at birth-day parties, the ba-gels at brunch and the cookies from coworkers. But the immense relief I got from removing these items from my diet made the sacrifices worth it. Cutting out glu-ten has made a world of difference for both my stomach and my qual-ity of life.

I am not someone who ever pub-licly discussed my stomach prob-lems, and I certainly don’t think that having a small dietary restric-tion affects my identity. That’s why I was so offended by Dorris’ article.

In her column, Dorris belittles my pain and discomfort and portrays my lifestyle decisions — made to al-leviate my pain — as a desperate at-tempt for attention or to be part of a fad. I resent the implication that giving up my favorite foods was

done voluntarily, let alone in lieu of yoga.

With that said, I agree with many of the points Dor-ris makes in her column. Cutting out gluten has be-come one of sev-eral new fads de-signed to promote

health and/or weight loss. It is also true that this fad results in large part from a lack of public understand-ing about the actual health value of gluten-free products. While many believe gluten-free bread makes a sandwich healthier, the reality is that gluten-free bread has far fewer nutrients and health benefits than whole wheat bread.

The lowest calorie option — the one I assume Miley Cyrus chooses — is cutting out the bread entirely.

The term gluten-free has become synonymous with “healthier” and is certainly an example of fad-dieting. But there is a big difference between giving up gluten for these reasons and for the very real health benefits that come from a gluten intolerance.

Sure, I never got a blood test proving with certainty that my body reacts negatively to gluten. I do have only my “feelings,” as Dorris puts it. But I resent the implication that I invented my problem.

I also resent the comparison be-tween a gluten-intolerant dinner guest and a South Beach dieter. For starters, it is obscene to assume that everyone with a gluten intolerance — or on South Beach, for that mat-ter — pitches a fit if their dietary needs are not met. Furthermore, I find it hard to see the parallels be-tween these two situations. One in-

dividual has altered his or her eat-ing habits to avoid feeling ill, while the other has done so to lose weight. I don’t serve shellfish to some-one with a shellfish allergy. No one chooses to have a negative reaction to shellfish and inconvenience me.

I understand the frustration with fad dieters and even people with genuine food intolerances or aller-gies who obsessively remind people they can’t eat nuts and fear every muffin is a peanut in disguise. But I also recognize the difference be-tween the individual who forsakes a food group due to harmful bodily reaction and the girl who gives up peanut butter because of the calo-ries.

Jessica Steans-Gail ’16 can be reached at

jessica_steans-gail@brown.edu.

Discussion of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, draws strong opinions in favor and against. For college students, the law may seem like an unintelligible mess. But what does it really mean for the average twenty-something?

Republicans will tell you Obam-acare is a financial strain on business, making it harder for recent college graduates to find jobs. But Demo-crats will respond that the law allows you to stay on your parents’ plan un-til age 26, providing additional cov-erage to millions of young adults.

Economics doesn’t have all the answers — especially when it comes to health care. But economics does try to ask the right questions. Why is the current health care market fail-ing, and what does the Affordable Care Act plan to change?

The United States’ free-market approach to private insurance sim-ply hasn’t worked. Not only has the country lagged behind in most qual-itative measures — we are 37th in the world, according to the World Health Organization — but we also spend more per person than any oth-er country.

In theory, markets produce goods and services at efficient prices and

quantities. But failures in the health care market have led to the under-provision and overpricing of servic-es, or as economists call it, a Pareto inefficient result. Private competi-tive markets are unable to provide health services efficiently due to is-sues like adverse selection, moral hazard and ethical concerns. The role of the government should be to correct for and remedy these market failures, in order to achieve a more socially optimal result.

The market failures of adverse se-lection and moral hazard are created by the informational asymmetry that exists between the purchaser and provider of health care. Adverse se-lection occurs when buyers of insur-ance have more information about their own risk and behavior than insurance companies. The insurer is unable to price premiums at an ac-tuarially fair rate because those who are sick are more likely to buy insur-ance than those who are not. This can result in insurance companies having more costs in claims than revenue generated in premiums.

If insurance companies respond by raising their rates, healthy peo-ple will drop out of the market while sicker people remain. This cycle may eventually lead to a rate so high that no one will buy insurance — a death spiral. But the more likely result is that insurance companies will offer one very expensive, comprehensive plan and one cheap, bare-bones plan.

This is known as a separating equi-librium, which will reveal buyer in-formation to insurance companies, leading to higher uninsurance rates.

Moral hazard is defined as a be-havioral distor-tion away from the social opti-mum. In health care, moral haz-ard means that insured patients — who are shield-ed from the costs of services — are more likely to ask for treatment. Similarly, doctors are more likely to order tests and pre-scribe medicine to the insured. This results in wasteful, sometimes inef-fective care. Insurance companies try to reduce moral hazard by monitor-ing their patients’ and physicians’ ac-tivities, but breaches in contracts are often impossible to determine and difficult to prevent.

The ethical concerns associat-ed with health care and the role the government should play in deliver-ing health services is highly contro-versial. The altruist model is based on the idea that government should provide and protect god-given rights, including health care for all. Many examples of socialized health care abroad have proven largely suc-cessful at delivering higher standards of quality at much lower costs — the National Health Service in the Unit-

ed Kingdom, for one. Controversy over these systems is largely philo-sophical and not economic.

The individual mandate, which was established by the Affordable

Care Act, penal-izes all individu-als who do not have health insur-ance. By mandat-ing that all indi-viduals join the health insurance pool, the govern-ment aims to re-duce adverse se-

lection. By preventing healthy people from dropping out of the health care market, insurance companies can of-fer a more actuarially fair rate, ensur-ing that the supply of those insured is large and includes enough people with lower expected expenditures. The idea is to make the market suf-ficiently heterogeneous.

To some people, this is noth-ing more than a redistribution of wealth from those who are healthy to those who are sick. But can health be determined by choice, or is health something we are born with? Eco-nomics doesn’t claim to answer this question.

One way to reduce some of the problems associated with moral haz-ard is to design payment mechanisms that reward providers for delivering only high quality, necessary care. The difficulty is designing policy that ac-

knowledges that what may be high-value care for one individual may not be for another. The Affordable Care Act aims to improve quality mea-sures by funding new research and releasing ratings data on procedures and physicians. The law also includes new programs that incentivize high-value care, including bundled pay-ments — single payments per epi-sode to providers, designed to en-courage coordinated care and elimi-nate wasteful treatment.

In its entirety, the Affordable Care Act is a confusing 2,700-page document whose legacy is still un-certain. Regardless of your opinion and despite the imperfections of the law, the Affordable Care Act will ex-pand coverage to millions of Amer-icans, many of whom are in their early 20s. For college students, this should come as relief.

There are over 50 million unin-sured Americans, with young adults leading the way. Whether the Afford-able Care Act is a step in the right or wrong direction depends on your be-liefs. But in a bipartisan, gridlocked Congress, where no steps at all has become the norm, Obamacare is a noble attempt at reform. It truly is, in the words of Vice President Joe Biden, a “big (expletive) deal.”

Scott Freitag ’14 specializes in current economic issues.

He can be reached at scott_freitag@brown.edu.

commentary 7THE BROWN DAILY HERALDMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

A big (expletive) deal

My intolerance isn’t a fad

“Why is the current health care market

failing, and what does the Affordable Care Act plan to change?”

“I resent the comparison

between a gluten-intolerant dinner guest and a South

Beach dieter.”

SCOTTFREITAG

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JESSICA STEANS-GAIL

guest columnist

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daily heraldTHE BROWNsports monday

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

By SAM WICKHAMSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s soccer team registered two hard-fought losses this weekend after falling to the University of Washing-ton 1-0 Friday night at home and to Hofstra University 2-1 in Hempstead, N.Y. Sunday in double overtime. The No. 25 Bears (1-2-1) came close to scoring on several occasions against the No. 10 Huskies (4-0-1) but could not find their way through an orga-nized back line. Bruno took an early lead against the Pride (2-2-1) but failed to recover from a late strike with three minutes remaining in the second extra period.

Brown 0, Washington 1The Bears had difficulty break-

ing through a solid Huskies defense Friday night. Bruno seemed to get off on the perfect start after finding the net in the first minute, but the goal was revoked, leaving the Huskies midfield with possession for much of

the time left in the half, keeping the Bears from stringing together passes.

“We were up against a really strong opponent,” said Head Coach Patrick Laughlin. “I thought the play-ers did an excellent job especially in the second half. We showed our grit.”

The first goal came at the 35-min-ute mark off a corner kick by the Huskies. A ball to the back post was nodded across the face of the goal and found its way through the crowded penalty area and into the net, giving Washington a 1-0 lead. The Huskies outshot Bruno 7-0 in the first half.

“They were playing with three in the center midfield and we were play-ing with two,” said co-captain Jack Kuntz ’14. “As we figured out how to defend our three with their two, we pushed forward better.”

The Bears came out with intensity in the second half, pressing the Husky midfield higher up the field. Bruno’s offense found success down the flanks and nearly scored several times from early crosses into the box.

“We took hold of the game,” Kuntz said. “We had two or three really good chances, but their goalie came up with some pretty big saves to keep us out.”

The momentum seemed to turn

in Brown’s favor in the 72nd min-ute after Jose Salama ’14 was fouled outside the box. His resulting free kick deflected off the wall, forcing the Huskie goalkeeper to make a reflex save across his body.

“It was unfortunate we couldn’t get the goal,” Laughlin said. “But we really showed we could compete with them.”

Jack Gorab ’16 and Daniel Taylor ’15 were also active offensively in the closing minutes, registering two shots apiece, but Bruno could not beat the Husky keeper before full time.

Brown 1, Hofstra 2Bruno was the dominant team in

the early stages of Sunday’s match, managing a 1-0 lead thanks to a goal from Gorab in the 10th minute off a rebound from Taylor’s shot on goal.

“It was good to get the first goal, which is something we haven’t done since Bryant,” Kuntz said. “Unfortu-nately, we weren’t able to hold on.”

The Pride worked back into the game, outshooting the Bears 8-7 in the first half and forcing two saves from Josh Weiner ’14. The pressure on Bruno’s goal finally broke in the 66th minute when a cross from the

Bruno loses second weekend contest in double overtimeHead Coach Patrick Laughlin cited a need to ‘put together a complete performance’

By GEORGE SANCHEZSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The No. 18 men’s water polo team won its first three games of weekend but fell short in its last two, finishing with a 3-2 record at the Bruno Fall Invitational held in the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center. This was the second weekend in a row Bruno hosted some of the coun-try’s top teams.

The squad faced off Friday against the Cal Lutheran Kingsmen in its first match of the tournament. Jake Wyatt ’17, Warren Smith ’17 and Luke Irwin ’17 all completed hat tricks, and Matty Gallas ’16 added two steals, three as-sists and a hat trick to the scorecard to help the Bears beat the Kingsmen with a final score of 14-5.

“In every game, the freshmen rose to the challenge — they have had some of the biggest games of their lives in the past two weeks but are still contributing as major players on our team,” said Nick Deaver ’15. “I am ... proud to have them on my team.”

Bruno’s first match Saturday was

against the No. 17 Navy Midshipmen, where the Bears entered halftime with a 5-2 lead. But the Mids answered back, tying the game at 9-9 with fewer than five minutes left. Deaver went on to score back-to-back goals, helping the Bears reclaim the lead, which the team kept to finish the game with a 12-10 victory. Deaver scored a total of five goals during the game, while also tallying three steals and three assists.

“Deaver had a great game — we were shorthanded without many se-niors,” said Head Coach Felix Mer-cado. “He took a leadership role in the water.”

The final match on Saturday fea-tured a shutout Bears victory over the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineers, as the visitors were blanked 14-0. Smith scored five goals during the game, finishing the day with a total of nine. Walker Shockley ’14 made eight saves in the match, also adding two steals and an assist.

In the final day of the Bruno Fall Invitational, the Bears faced off against the defending Collegiate Wa-ter Polo Association champions, the No. 12 St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers, and the No. 3 University of the Pacific Tigers. The squad lost both matches with final scores of 11-9 and 20-4, respectively.

The first game on Sunday against

the Terriers featured a 7-4 Bruno lead at the beginning of the third quar-ter. But St. Francis capitalized in the second half, scoring seven goals and limiting the Bears to just two, deci-minating Bruno’s advantage. Deaver added three goals during the game, but it was not enough to overcome the Terriers’ veteran savviness.

“Even though it was a loss, it is a good testament to our will and

strength,” Deaver said. “Two of our best players were out with injuries, and we still found a way to stay com-petitive.”

“We made many critical mis-takes offensively. As a veteran team, St. Francis took advantage of those mistakes,” Mercado said.

The afternoon proceeded with a match against the third-ranked Tigers. The Bears fell to an early deficit as

Pacific tallied up 11 goals in the first half alone. Bruno’s struggles contin-ued in the second half — the squad was held to just three goals, while the Tigers poured in another nine.

Bruno’s efforts continue this weekend as the squad heads to New York for a rematch against St. Francis Brooklyn, as well as games against the Fordham Rams and the Iona Col-lege Gael.

Bears finish 3-2 in Bruno Fall Invitational, prepare for first road gamesNick Deaver ’15 scored back-to-back goals in the final minutes of a late-game thriller against Navy

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Luke Irwin ’17 completed a hat trick, contributing to Bruno’s win against the Cal Lutheran Kingsmen last Friday.

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The men’s soccer team lost two close games over the weekend to Hofstra University and the University of Washington.

SCOREBOARD

W. SOCCERUCF 2Brown 0

FIELD HOCKEY

Brown 3Vermont 1

Maine 6 Brown 0

M. SOCCER

Washington 1Brown 0

Hofstra 2 Brown 1

W. VOLLEYBALL

Brown 3Holy Cross 0

Brown 3 Bryant 0

M. CROSS COUNTRY3rd - Dartmouth Invitational

W. CROSS COUNTRY5th - Dartmouth Invitational

W. GOLF4th - Dartmouth Invitational

M. SOCCER

M. WATER POLO

» See SOCCER, page 5