Yale Daily News — Week of Nov. 12, 2021

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Faculty reflect on admin growth

BY PHILIP MOUSAVIZADEH STAFF REPORTER Over the last two decades, the number of managerial and professional staff that Yale employs has risen three times faster than the undergraduate student body, according to University financial reports. The group’s 44.7 percent expansion since 2003 has had detrimental effects on faculty, students and tuition, according to eight faculty members.

In 2003, when 5,307 undergraduate students studied on campus, the University employed 3,500 administrators and managers. In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on student enrollment, only 600 more students were living and studying at Yale, yet the number of administrators had risen by more than 1,500 — a nearly 45 percent hike. In 2018, The Chronicle of Higher Education found that Yale had the highest manager-to-student ratio of

any Ivy League university, and the fifth highest in the nation among four-year private colleges.

According to eight members of the Yale faculty, this administration size imposes unnecessary costs, interferes with students’ lives and faculty’s teaching, spreads the burden of leadership and adds excessive regulation. By contrast, administrators noted much of this increase can be attributed to growing num-

University details climate action strategy

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Salovey discusses YPD reforms

BY PHILIP MOUSAVIZADEH STAFF REPORTER A year after external consultancy firm 21st Century Policing Solutions proposed a series of reforms to the Yale Police Department, the University has made progress on their implementation, according to University President Peter Salovey and YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins.

The changes, however, have failed to assuage the concerns of students

who question the necessity of the YPD’s existence.

In 2019, the University commissioned 21st Century Policing Solutions, or 21CP, to produce a report on the YPD’s policing practices.

Last year, the University received the report, which detailed a series of potential reforms to the department.

Over the course of the last year, the University and the YPD reviewed and implemented a number of those recommendations, Higgins said. How-

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ever, some students on campus said that the New Haven Police Department can address issues of imminent violence instead of the YPD, and that they would feel safer if the University disarmed and ultimately abolished the department. However, Yale has no intention of doing so, Salovey said.

“We’ve made a lot of progress since the report’s release in 2020,” Higgins wrote in an email to the News. “Although a lot has been completed, much work remains.

All the policy recommendations have been reviewed and most are implemented. Policing should serve as one component within a network of other care-based campus resources. I believe culturally responsive, localized approaches to policing are most desirable and produce the best outcomes.”

Jaelen King ’22, the former chair of Black Students for Disarmament at Yale, said that he hopes the push for police reform is not limited to the immediate aftermath of a tragedy like the police killing of George Floyd last year.

The Yale Police Department has begun implementing certain reforms.

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BY ANASTASIA HUFHAM STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday, the University announced new steps toward its goal of achieving zero carbon emissions from campus by 2050.

The details of the climate action strategy include generating new funding for climate research and changes to the Yale Carbon Charge to revamp the University’s energy consumption.

In June, President Peter Salovey and Provost Scott Strobel reported that the University had reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent from 2005 to 2020. They also announced the University’s goal of achieving zero actual carbon emissions on campus by 2050, with the expectation that Yale would reach net zero carbon emissions by 2035. On Tuesday, the University announced that, by 2035, it will reduce actual emissions by 65 percent from 2015 levels.

“We are hopeful that this plan will help our campus community think critically about the energy

we use and the spaces we inhabit, and how … we can be as resourceful and responsible as possible,” Amber Garrard, Yale Office of Sustainability associate director, wrote to the News. “Getting to zero emissions will require us to shift behaviors and expectations to a certain degree, and we hope this is a challenge that members of our community will embrace.”

The University will employ various methods to achieve a carbon-zero campus by 2050, primarily through electrification. The climate action strategy includes preparing campus buildings for electrified heating and rooftops for solar panels, along with “spaceuse policies that support emissions reductions.” Future campus construction will feature renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic solar arrays and geothermal wells with heat pumps. Currently, there are more than 400 campus buildings to modify.

Over the next 30 years, the climate action strategy is projected SEE CLIMATE PAGE 4

Ivy title at stake as Bulldogs face Princeton

College bomb threats possibly linked, NHPD says

BY SAI RAYALA STAFF REPORTER Last Friday’s bomb threat at Yale may be connected to bomb threats that targeted several other universities over the weekend, New Haven Police Chief Renee Dominguez said on Tuesday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined the investigation.

On Friday at approximately 1:55 p.m, the New Haven Police Department received a call to its nonemergency number reporting a bomb threat at eight locations around the university. The Yale Police Department evacuated several campus buildings. Five hours later, the Yale Police Department announced that “there is no validity to the bomb threat made against Yale.”

Dominguez said that NHPD Captain John Healy was notified over the weekend by YPD Lt. Brian Donnelly that the individual who targeted Yale was “possibly related” to the similar bomb threats that multiple other universities experienced over the weekend. These universities include Princeton, Stanford University, Miami University in Ohio, Ohio University, Cornell, Columbia and Brown, according to Dominguez.

The News was not able to reach the Stanford or Princeton police departments for comment and was not able to confirm Dominguez’s claims of threats at these two universities.

On Thursday, three more universities received bomb threats — the University of Southern California, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University. According to ABC, authorities are currently investigating a SEE THREAT PAGE 4

CROSS CAMPUS

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY, 1969.

Over 500 members of the Yale community begin a two-day "National Fast for Peace," joining 2,500 people around the country. Water is the only substance participants are allowed to have.

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The Bulldogs will travel to Princeton to face the Tigers in a battle between two of the top teams in the conference.

BY JARED FEL AND NADER GRANMAYEH STAFF REPORTERS With the Yale-Harvard game fast approaching, Team 148 will hit the road one final time this season to take on the Princeton Tigers. The Bulldogs and Tigers currently sit alongside Dartmouth in a three-way tie for first place in the Ivy League.

The Bulldogs (5–3, 4–1 Ivy) are coming off a game that saw 529 yards of total offense and a 63-point onslaught against Brown — the most the team has ever scored under head coach Tony

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Reno. Quarterback Nolan Grooms ’24 has been scorching hot this season, scoring four touchdowns in his first collegiate start against Penn, throwing for a career-high in yards against Brown and leading a second-half comeback against a stingy Columbia defense that had only previously allowed 16 points per game.

The sophomore signal-caller earned Ivy League player of the week awards in two of his first three career starts.

“Obviously game reps are very important for a quarterback,” Grooms said when asked about his inexperience as a starter.

“But I feel like here we do a great job sort

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of simulating the game situation in practice … it’s easy to play quarterback when you got guys like Melvin Rouse … [and] Darrion Carrington.”

The aforementioned Blue and White receivers both had impressive touchdown catches in Saturday’s blowout win against Brown.

Princeton (7–1, 4–1 Ivy), meanwhile, suffered its first loss of the season last week in a 31–7 road collapse against Dartmouth. The Tigers had a 7–0 season start for the third time in a row, but SEE TIGERS PAGE 5

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ELICKER APPOINTS DOMINGUEZ AS POLICE CHIEF

The Yale New Haven Health System is facing an ongoing shortage of nurses following a nationwide labor shortage.

The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will switch to a free-admission policy for all visitors upon its re-opening in 2024.

Students gathered in Beinecke Plaza last Friday to call on Yale to divest from fossil fuels and revise its spending policies.

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OPINION G U E ST C O LU M N I ST JA M E S LU C E

The zombie issues of legacy preference Like those pesky multicolored leaves and depressing darkening days, every autumn for the last 40 years the zombie issues arising from legacy preference descend on Yale, frightening the hell out of both the admissions and Provost’s offices.

Every year the zombies have grown bigger, scarier and more destructive of campus harmony.

It’s long past time to put the zombie issues to rest. Not the legacy preference idea per se, for I have come to praise the underlying beneficial core of legacy while burying the issues arising from the barbed wire wrapped around that core.

Legacy preference (LP) is like an old long-playing record … it keeps going ‘round and ‘round playing the same tune but going nowhere. The polar positions are clearly understood: 1) LP is bad because it favors the scions of mostly rich, white, American alumni and is, therefore, anti-diversity versus 2) LP is good because it keeps donations flowing in from rich, white alumni.

There are a couple of bits of overlooked data that should be thrown into this revolving maelstrom of emotion and policy: first, over the last 50 years, Yale’s undergraduate body has become increasingly non-white, hovering now around 50 percent, while during the same period of time the percentage of LP undergrads has slowly decreased. Second, given the probability that the white percentage will continue to drop over time, this means that the percentage of applicants who are nonwhite but who are eligible for LP status will increase. Thus, the LP controversy could be seen as one that will “solve itself” or “slowly fade away,” except for the fact that the non-white LPs will probably still largely come from high-income families and thus share all the advantages denied to lower-income families.

To resolve this dilemma right now and for all time, how about a policy change that denies LP status to scions of high-income alumni, regardless of race or ethnicity. This seems to me to resolve all the major issues arising from the LP system from both sides of the debate.

First, certainly, Yale’s endowment, currently $42.3 billion, will keep Yale’s coffers reasonably full, even if a few wealthy alumni decline to donate in retaliation for the new policy. I note that many of the biggest donations of late (e.g., the Schwarzman Center) were motivated not by any legacy preference policy, but rather for much more, shall I say, “personal” reasons.

Second, certainly, there is a benefit to the University and to all undergraduates for there to be a core of continuity, especially given today’s societal angst arising from the disappearance in America of many traditions that provide comforting markers for behavior. More to the

point at hand, a legacy preference that excludes high-income applicants will lead to greater numbers of lower-income applicants being admitted, further increasing economic diversity within Yale’s undergraduate population.

Third, once wealth, race and ethnicity are removed from the legacy preference policy, Yale can more productively and more easily turn its attention to what the word “diversity” means and how it can benefit the full Yale educational and social experience. Perhaps there will be time and energy to realize that diversity is not just about race but rather more importantly about cultural and individual differences.

LEGACY PREFERENCE (LP) IS LIKE AN OLD LONG-PLAYING RECORD … IT KEEPS GOING ‘ROUND AND ‘ROUND PLAYING THE SAME TUNE BUT GOING NOWHERE. The current categories of diversity are Black, Asian, Latino, Indigenous Americans and white. I note that there is no such thing as an “Asian” culture — the continent stretching as it does over 11,000 km and encompassing 48 countries from Turkey to Japan and beyond to eastern Siberia. There is no such thing as a “Latino” culture, a fact one notices immediately on arriving in Buenos Aires after having just left Mexico City.

There is no such thing as an “Indigenous American” culture as exemplified by the differences between the Inuit, Comanche and Náhuatl ways of life. There is no such thing as a “white” culture in light of the fact that most of them don’t speak the same language or celebrate the same holidays. There is no such thing as a “Black” culture, which becomes obvious if one compares the lifestyle of Black people living in Botswana with Black people living in Brooklyn.

I have a dream. Someday Yale will proudly list its university diversity using cultural rather than racial categories. But in the meantime, let’s play taps for the legacy preference zombie issues.

JAMES LUCE ’66 is an alum and former legacy preference student.

Contact him at jaume@sbcglobal.net .

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Taken out of context Since last year, I’ve grown more and more hesitant to discuss sensitive topics, such as democracy, religion, liberty and gender in the United States.

I remember a casual conversation I had with a writing tutor about authoritarian and democratic regimes. Upon mentioning my reservations about incomplete and early democratization, she said with judgment, “Don’t you think this is a condescending Western view?” I was speechless, appalled.

With that one rhetorical question, I had become the enemy, the ignorant who believed that only certain people were suited to live in a democracy. This was ironic because I come from Turkey. It pains me to write this only a day after grieving over the death anniversary of our republic’s father Ataturk, but my country’s relationship with democracy has been challenging and especially worsened in the last decade. I have witnessed firsthand the deterioration of free speech, women’s rights and religious liberty: freedoms that many Americans take for granted today. And yet my words were taken out of context so easily; my experience was stripped of its gravity.

Unfortunately, this was not an isolated experience. Whenever I pointed out the difference between a forced and a democratic hijab, for instance, people were quick to frown upon my perspective. Hijab is a symbol of religious liberty when a woman chooses to wear it. But it can also very easily become a symbol of tyranny and oppression when the law dictates it to be mandatory.

Yet the latter is unknown to many here — I strongly hope it stays this way — and the unknown is often deemed unimportant.

That is why I found myself remaining silent whenever such conversations happened.

No one really wanted to know the experiences SUDE a person that YENILMEZ of did not grow up with these Piecing established liberal ideas.

Together No one really wanted to discuss the potential loopholes in these ideas nor how their implementation differed from country to country.

And deep down I have become afraid of being perceived as someone I am not because my words are taken out of context. One’s background and personal experiences matter a lot, yet so rarely do we consider them, removing the unpopular views from the conversation altogether.

There is a reason why the United States is still seen as the land of freedom and democracy. This is where many of our liberal ideas were born and implemented for the first time. This is where millions of people find refuge in their fight to gain the simplest liberties in their countries of origin. But this does not mean that there are no more lessons to be learned, no more mistakes to be rectified. That is why learning what went wrong in the democratic institutions of a country or how religion is manipulated under the name of religious liberty can be fundamental references for the future. Condemning these views as anti-democratic or anti-liberal not only feeds more into the ignorance and propensity

to make false assumptions, but also destroys the room for improvement. Just because the United States has always been the beacon of democracy does not, unfortunately, guarantee that it will always remain that way. We have recently seen the rise of authoritarian values under the Trump presidency.

The lessons learnt from those unpopular opinions and experiences can then stop the further spread of such values.

This complex issue, in fact, has a much simpler solution that one of my professors showed me.

Upon bringing up my hesitation to share my counterviews and personal experiences, he continuously encouraged me to speak up. With time, my classmates also started to appreciate these discussions. Their initial defensive attitudes turned into a desire to understand and reflect. These were still challenging conversations, but they were much more open and welcoming to different angles. People were not afraid to be singled out and hushed just because they mentioned what millions of people were going through on a daily basis.

That is why I strongly believe that this is the example we should follow on a larger scale at Yale. Because only then we can truly see the value in context and gain a deeper level of understanding of the values we so strongly defend. Only then the fear of being misunderstood, the fear of being taken out of context stops dictating our conversations.

SUDE YENILMEZ is a sophomore in Berkeley College. Her column, “Piecing Together,” runs biweekly on Thursday. Contact her at sude.yenilmez@yale.edu .

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T M O L LY W E I N E R

When the World Is on Fire On Aug. 28, President Peter Salovey gave his opening assembly address to Yale College’s class of 2025. I sat with my fellow first years in folding chairs on the Cross Campus lawn, ready to receive the wisdom and direction to commence my studies at this place which for so long had been my biggest dream. As the Glee Club struck up its rendition of “Raise Your Voices Here,” I felt a swell of hope and excitement. I’m here.

Salovey’s speech, titled “When the World Is on Fire,” urged students to continue the practice of “patient learning,” despite the many concurrent global crises we face. It was one of the most moving, personally resonant speeches I have ever heard.

I am from Northern California. I know all too well what the orangesmoked sky, charred land, canceled school, burning lungs and grief of a world on fire look and feel like.

Salovey additionally spoke of his Jewish ancestry and values, which I also share. Much of his speech centered on the words of sages from the 19th-century Lithuanian Musar ethical movement, and the inherently Jewish idea that we “must improve ourselves before looking outward at society seeking to change it.”

While Salovey spoke, I allowed myself to feel inspired. But as the robed procession ended, the chorus stopped singing, the applause faded, and as we began our time at Yale in earnest, I came to understand the contradictions behind Salovey’s words.

I didn’t know then that, according to two members of the Endowment Justice Coalition, New Haven Rising — a local economic, racial and social justice movement — had placed a brochure on every single chair on cross-campus in advance of the assembly before Yale removed them. I did not yet know that Yale’s endowment would boast a 40.2 percent return of $11.1 billion in the 2021 fiscal year, bringing the total value of Yale’s endowment to $42.3 billion.

And I was not aware that, according to an April statement by the Yale Investments Office, 2.6 percent of the University’s endowment is invested in fossil fuels.

While this amount is often written off as marginal, it is important to remember that 2.6 percent of 42.3 billion dollars is nearly $1.1 billion.

By investing substantially in fossil fuel industries, the Uni-

versity is doing the opposite of putting out the world’s fires: by investing in the extraction and burning of fossil fuels, the University is fanning the flames of the climate crisis.

I now feel betrayed by Salovey’s words — my religion, ancestry and lived experience of climate disaster have been appropriated for theatrics while the University’s finances contribute to suffering and destruction in my home and beyond.

A world on fire is why I am here at Yale, studying environmental policy and organizing with the Endowment Justice Coalition.

On Friday, Nov. 5, we held our first protest of the year in Beinecke Plaza. The site of the 1986 shantytown protests for divestment from South African apartheid, the Beinecke holds a historic significance in the decades-long movement for endowment justice.

The EJC is a movement of students, faculty, alumni and New Haven community members who oppose the financialization of higher education and believe the endowment is an inherently political force to be used for moral ends.

Founded in 2018, we are currently centering our organizing around fossil fuel divestment.

The Friday rally was organized by the EJC to express shock and anger regarding Yale’s endowment returns in the midst of a pandemic and climate crisis. EJC organizers spoke of the fight against Yale’s wealth hoarding and specific profits from fossil fuels, outsourcing of library jobs and rebuke of the Committee on Fossil Fuel Investment Principles’ spring report, which paved the way for Yale to continue its underwriting of climate catastrophe so long as it avoided investing in the “worst actors.”

Students from participating organizations — Students Unite Now, New Haven Climate Movement, the Yale College Council, Black Students for Disarmament at Yale, Yalies for Palestine and Disability Empowerment for Yale — also gave speeches about university inaccessibility, the abolition of the Yale Police Department, Palestinian suffering and the lack of mental health resources.

Witnessing hundreds of students from all class years, schools and walks of life, dressed in red, standing, chanting and listening in unity — demanding that the Uni-

versity live up to its mission — I saw Salovey’s words put to action.

I wholeheartedly agree with Salovey — we must improve ourselves before looking to make outward change. As he put it, “we must examine our values” and divest from fossil fuels, before launching a $7 billion “For Humanity” capital campaign with the aim of fundraising for climate change research.

It is not that we must improve ourselves “so that we can change the world.” To improve Yale is to change the world. Yale boasts one of the largest university endowments anywhere, larger than the GDP of over 90 countries. Yale’s stunningly lucrative investment model is a blueprint for many other educational institutions, investment funds and endowment managers.

Yet, Yale is desecrating its position as a global leader, remaining stubborn and stagnant while its peer institutions, including Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Cambridge and Oxford have all committed to full fossil fuel divestment.

Yale’s investments in fossil fuels violate a fiduciary duty to both its students — especially those from climate distressed areas — and its wealth hoarding is a detriment to all New Haveners. 60 percent of real estate value in New Haven is owned

by Yale and is therefore tax-exempt, leaving the city short of $157 million in annual revenue it otherwise could invest in critical social services in the midst of a global health emergency. The city’s projected deficit for 2021 is $66 million. This state of affairs is unjustifiable.

The EJC demands that the University disclose the extent of its exposure to the extraction, refinery and burning of fossil fuels; divest its holdings in the fossil fuel industry, and reinvest the wealth it has accumulated in much-needed social services for marginalized communities on campus and in the city of New Haven.

Salovey ended his speech by addressing us first years: “[You] are joining the Yale community at a historic moment. We are surrounded on all sides by fires small and large. And yet I can think of no better moment to be at Yale.”

Neither can I. MOLLY WEINER is a first-year in Berkeley College. Contact her at m.weiner@yale.edu .

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YLS modernizes legal curriculum with new Tsai Leadership Program

BY EDA AKER STAFF REPORTER The Yale Law School opened a new chapter in its educational framework last Wednesday with the launch of the Joseph C. Tsai Leadership Program, which will train students in real-world leadership in the private and public sector.

The new program aims to prepare students to tackle challenges in the 21st century through a combination of new courses and professional development opportunities. The program was made possible by alumni donations from Joseph Tsai ’86 LAW ’90, Clara Wu Tsai, Eugene Ludwig LAW ’73, Carol Ludwig, Michael Chae LAW ’97 and Alexa Bator Chae LAW ’97.

The amount of the donations was not disclosed. The comprehensive leadership program has two components, the Chae Initiative and the Ludwig Program, which prepare students for leadership in the private and public sectors, respectively.

“While our core model will not change, the Tsai Leadership Program will enable us to build on this legacy to broaden and modernize the curriculum for the 21st century, infuse the Law School with robust professional training opportunities, and harness the power of our extraordinary alumni community,” Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken wrote to the News. “Our aim is to train all our students for their last job, not just their first. We want to ensure that our graduates are broad-gauged thinkers prepared for the practical and moral decisions they will face no matter what career path they choose.”

Gerken explained that this program comes as the result of numerous conversations she has had with alumni on trips across the country.

She said that Law School alumni recognize that our changing society now requires graduates to have a broader knowledge base and professional skill set than they can get from a “traditional legal education.”

The alumni who funded this program through their donations have led successful careers in their respective fields. Tsai is the co-founder and executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group. Chae is

currently the chief financial officer of The Blackstone Group. Ludwig is the former Comptroller of the Currency and founder of the Promontory Financial Group.

Gerken said that the Law School already has an “inaugural slate of courses” being offered this year, and that they are actively hiring staff for the program.

The program’s curriculum was shaped jointly by Gerken and Law School faculty, and voted on by Law School Faculty. The Law School’s Leadership Advisory Council, a group that includes Tsai, Ludwig, Chae and 20 other Law School alumni, was available as “thought partners” as Gerken and Law School faculty developed the curriculum, according to the Council’s website. Gerken emphasized that the Council is “not a governance body.”

“Decisions regarding the curriculum have always rested with the faculty and will always rest with the faculty,” Gerken wrote. “As per our tradition, all courses — including those supported by the leadership program — must be voted through by the faculty.”

The Tsai Leadership Program provides resources to enhance students’ skills and prepare them to be “changemakers” in their varying career paths, Gerken said. Building on the Law School’s traditions, Gerken said the program will help ensure that graduates know how to approach contemporary and future technological challenges.

Law professor John Morley ’06 said that the program will enhance students’ “non-legal skills relevant to leadership” through individualized academic and career advising, as well as alumni mentorship aspects.

“We have a simple model: teach our students to question everything,” Gerken wrote. “Ensure they think in rigorously analytic and ethical terms. Enable them to pursue an extraordinarily wide-ranging set of career paths. We believe that our core model — combined with this new, innovative program — will provide an opportunity for all law students that is not available anywhere else.”

New courses in numeracy, ethical-decision making and organi-

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YLS announced a program that will expand opportunities for graduates to be better equipped to address global challenges. zational leadership will add to students’ real-world problem solving skills and professional experiences.

Additionally, a new mentors-in-residence program, digital community platform, networking opportunities, boot camps and workshops will build long-lasting connections between students and graduates, according to the program’s website.

The Ludwig Program prepares students for careers in public-serving institutions such as government and nonprofits, according to its website.

“The civic sector is essential to address, and sadly, even more so given what we have seen in this country in terms of the declining well-being for low- and moderate-income Americans over the last 70 to 80 years,” Ludwig said. “And it’s something we are going to have to reverse to continue to have a civil society …

I’m hopeful that the new generation of folks, through this program, will be better prepared to engage in public service than I was.”

Ludwig said that, in his experience, the Law School approaches the future well-being of civic society with the “right questions” and “with a broad set of thought of leadership”. He added that this

approach, which will be enhanced by the Tsai Leadership Program, “is a special Yale combination” defined by “academic experience and rigor to be able to affect problems in a positive way.”

While the Ludwig program hopes to increase and strengthen leadership in the public sector, the Chae Initiative’s focus largely lies in the private sector. According to its website, the initiative seeks to equip students with skills necessary to tackle modern day dilemmas and prepare them for careers in fields such as business, finance, consulting and entrepreneurship.

“A Yale law degree is a versatile thinking and problem-solving degree and represents a crucial foundation for so many business leadership roles,” Chae said in a Law School press release. “The Chae Initiative provides students with a strong and practical grounding in business and financial skills and prepares them to engage in effective and ethical decision-making in a global business environment.”

According to Morley, the Tsai Leadership Program will make Yale unique among law schools given Yale Law School’s ability to combine the

experience of alumni mentors whose achievements are “unparalleled in legal academia.”

According to Morley, a committee of current Law School faculty members are able to suggest possible instructors for the program from outside the Law School. These instructors would then go through the Law School’s regular review process for all curricular instructors, he added.

“The Program brings in top-flight academics and world-renowned experts to New Haven to provide students with the intellectual framework, working competencies, and core literacies they need to solve the problems of the future,” Gerken wrote. “We do not want to push our students into one career path or another. We want to light up the many, many paths available to them, empowering all of them to blaze their own trails and to make a positive impact on society.”

Tsai’s other recent donations to the University have helped fund the Tsai Lacrosse Field House and the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale.

Contact EDA AKER at eda.aker@yale.edu.

Dominguez tapped as NHPD chief, Rush-Kittle as CAO

BY SOPHIE SONNENFELD CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Mayor Justin Elicker appointed Renee Dominguez as New Haven’s first female chief of police on Wednesday. He also appointed Regina Rush-Kittle as the city’s new chief administrative officer, or CAO. Dominguez has served as interim chief since March, when former New Haven Police Department Chief Ontonel Reyes retired from the force to head security at Quinnipiac University. As interim chief, Dominguez has overseen the seizure of hundreds of guns tied to shooting and domestic violence-related arrests, led recruitment for new officers across the city and, in April, defended cops displaying the “Thin Blue Line” flag, arguing that it represented solidarity among law enforcement officers. Elicker also appointed Rush-Kittle as CAO, a position

that oversees the police, fire and public works departments for City Hall. Both positions must be affirmed by a vote from the full Board of Alders in a confirmation process that Elicker said will begin Monday.

“These are two incredibly experienced leaders and together they’re going to greatly contribute to our efforts to reimagine public safety,” Elicker said at a Wednesday morning press conference.

Over the past five months, he said he has seen Dominguez lead with “passion and determination.” Elicker noted Dominguez’s leadership of the department through a nationwide rise in violent crime, losing an officer on the force and in “holding officers accountable to maintain the integrity of the department.”

“Chief Dominguez has proved herself as a strong leader and the right person for the job,” he said.

Elicker also pointed to Dominguez’s role in assisting the city

in the creation of a Community Crisis Response Team under the new Community Resilience Department that Elicker proposed in August.

“The chief has always been willing to step up and partner with us to make sure those initiatives are successful,” Elicker added.

Dominguez began her career in law enforcement 22 years ago and has been with the NHPD since 2002. In her time with the NHPD, Dominguez has served in a number of roles including patrol officer, K-9 handler, hostage crisis negotiator, patrol sergeant, district manager of Westville, Fair Haven and Newhallville, and assistant chief of patrol operations.

Dominguez has two daughters, who are six and three years old, and her husband is an officer with the Bridgeport Police Department. “We will not hold that against you,” Elicker joked at the press conference.

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Dominguez has served as Acting Chief of the New Haven Police Department since March 2021.

Elicker called Dominguez’s appointment “historic,” explaining that she is not only the first permanent female chief in New Haven but also the first of any “major city” in the state.

“It says that the chief has worked hard in a career that has traditionally been dominated by men,” he continued. “She has risen through the ranks, earned the respect of her colleagues and community members all while managing the responsibilities of being a mother.”

Dominguez began working in law enforcement at age 21. “My entire adult life has been dedicated to serving the community,” she said.

She said that one of her “best times” in the department was working as the Westville-West Hills District Manager for two and a half years. In her years as the neighborhood’s top cop, Dominguez got engaged, married and had kids.

“At the time I thought running a district was difficult,” Dominguez said. “Little did I know what was in store for me over the next six years.”

Reading to children at kindergartens and preschools around the city and making personal connections with residents through her time in New Haven, she said, have also been significant moments for her.

If approved by the alders, Dominguez said she aims to reduce violence in the community and to rebuild the ranks of the department by filling open slots.

“It means for all the little girls and it means for all the women in the New Haven police department and everyone in the community who wants to be a police officer, you can do it,” Dominguez said. “Come on over, we need you.”

Congratulating Rush-Kittle, she added, “We’re going to be a powerhouse of females.”

At the press conference, Fire Commissioner and Bethel AME Church Rev. Steve Cousin

recalled partnering with the NHPD for a house renovation community service project. He remembered that Dominguez was the first to arrive. He said he was impressed by her dedication.

When the Fire Department lost firefighter Ricardo Torres Jr. and Fire Lt. Samod Rankins was injured in an incident in May, Cousin said Dominguez displayed empathy. “She stayed right there with us and did not leave until we left. This is who we want as our leader.”

“We need conviction, compassion and empathy,” Cousin said.

“Those qualities are in full with Chief Dominguez.”

Elicker said the search for the next CAO was long but “worthwhile.”

Rush-Kittle, the Elm City’s next CAO, began her law enforcement career with the Connecticut Department of Correction and then as a police officer in Middletown. She then served with the Connecticut State Police for almost 30 years and served in the U.S. Marine Reserves. Rush-Kittle was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, for which she was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

Since 2019, Rush-Kittle has served as deputy commissioner of the state Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security.

Elicker said that as he made calls to leaders across the state about Rush-Kittle. He heard many compliments about her leadership and work.

“The cultural diversity and the history of this vibrant city inspire me in my commitment to New Haven, the board of alders and the community,” Rush-Kittle said at the press conference.

As CAO, Rush-Kittle said she is looking to support collaboration between public safety departments in the city.

If approved by the board of alders, Rush-Kittle’s start date is Dec. 6.

Contact SOPHIE SONNENFELD at sophie.sonnenfeld@yale.edu .

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M&P staff see 44.7% expansion since 2003 ADMINISTRATION FROM PAGE 1 bers of medical staff, and that the University has proportionally increased its faculty size.

“I had remarked to President Salovey on his inauguration that I thought the best thing he could do for Yale would be to abolish one deanship or vice presidency every year of what I hoped would be a long tenure in that position,” professor of English Leslie Brisman wrote in an email to the News. “Instead, it has seemed to me that he has created one upper level administrative position a month.”

In an email to the News, University spokesperson Karen Peart pointed out that while the University’s managerial staff has increased over the last two decades, so too has the faculty, which has grown by 54 percent. She further noted that the Yale School of Medicine has grown its clinical practice in recent years, which required the recruitment of new staff and “has been vital to the city and state during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Growing government requirements imposed on universities may have contributed to the administrative expansion. According to a report from the American Council on Education, in 2013 and 2014 alone, the United States Department of Education added new rules and regulations on 10 new issue sets, including grants, loans and campus crimes. The report further details that, according to data from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, “the number of federal requirements placed on colleges and universities grew by 56 percent between 1997 and 2012.”

However, Paul Campos, a professor of law at the University of Colorado and an expert in the economics of higher education, said that the burden imposed by government regulations is “overblown” and that it fails to adequately explain the sig-

nificant growth in administrators.

He suggested that the main driver has been the desire of administrators to accumulate power and influence within their institutions.

Professor of political science James Scott agreed with Campos, adding that while all Ivy League schools are subject to similar levels of government regulation, Yale still leads the group in manager to student ratio.

“One [cause] is the tremendous increase in revenue generated by these universities that more or less has to be spent,” Campos said. “This means that as revenues go up, there has to be found ways to spend them.

And one of the most natural ways to increase spending is to increase administration, the size of it and the compensation of the top administrators in particular.”

Since 2003, the University’s operating revenue has jumped 200 percent from $1.5 billion to $4.6 billion.

Campos argued that federal regulations stand as an excuse for, not a driver of, the expansion. He said the administration sets out to grow in power and influence, and that administrators point to issues such as federal regulatory compliance as a justification for growing and extending their power.

Professor of English David Bromwich pointed to a similar cause of this growth.

“Yale, like many other universities, clearly now wants to be known not only as a place for teaching, learning, and research, but also as a home, a community, an innovative corporate entity,” Bromwich wrote in an email to the News. “The swollen self-image requires expanded oversight, and administrators are the overseers.”

Additionally, the growth may have partially stemmed from student requests. Hannah Peck, the assistant dean of student affairs at Yale College, told the News that

the Student Affairs team added four new health promotion positions as part of the YC3 program.

“Students have consistently requested more mental health support on campus and we are thrilled to be able to provide it,” Peck wrote.

Peck further noted that the University needs to balance the requests of students with the careful management of Yale’s resources.

University President Peter Salovey emphasized that the administrative growth has been proportional with the growth in faculty size and in University revenue. He reiterated that the growth in the Yale School of Medicine’s clinical practice has been a significant and worthwhile cause of the administration’s increased size.

Campos suggested that besides the growing desire for power and control within institutions of higher learning, the growth of administrations can also be attributed to faculty giving up their role as managers of the University, ceding that position to external non-academics.

Professor of history John Gaddis, however, said that the faculty’s waning role in University leadership hasn’t been driven by faculty themselves, but by the administration.

“Yale’s proliferation of administrators, I think, reflects a reluctance on the part of its leadership to lead,” Gaddis wrote in an email to the News.

Regardless of its origins, the administration’s increased size imposes significant oversight on faculty, while also increasing costs to the University, according to six professors.

“I think we don’t yet have a Vice President for the rights of the left-handed, but I haven’t checked this month,” Brisman wrote. “I think that if there weren’t so many people interfering with students’ lives (e.g., leave policy) and faculty choices (e.g., tenure review) there would

be plenty of funds for more real teaching and research positions.”

Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science Nicholas Christakis concurred, saying that any growth in the administration “can often come at the expense of advancing our primary mission, [and] is therefore mis-spent and inefficient.” He further noted that sociological analysis suggests that “it is in the nature of bureaucracies to grow relentlessly, unless actively checked.”

Joel Rosenbaum, professor emeritus of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the Yale School of Medicine, said that the increased size of the administration adds significant red tape.

Rosenbaum said that whenever a faculty member wants to alter a course or a department wants to hire a new professor, there is now much more administration “to fight your way through.” Rosenbaum has been a faculty member at Yale since 1967.

“The more administrators you have, the harder it is to get anything done and everything slows down,” Rosenbaum added.

Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84, Sterling Professor of law at Yale Law School, also described how the administrative infrastructure creates work for itself.

“My sense is [that] we have more staffers and bureaucrats than we actually need, and they generate all sorts of paperwork for the rest of us,” Amar said.

Lauren Noble, the founder and executive director of the William F. Buckley Jr. program at Yale, pointed to the fact that the number of Yale’s administrators today exceeds the number of faculty — 5,066 compared to 4,937 — which “raises important questions about the university’s allocation of resources,” she said.

“It’s unclear how such a significant increase advances Yale’s mission.”

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Amar also suggested that a large administration that is more involved in the lives of students can have a detrimental effect on the undergraduate experience.

“I think we have a lot of Deans of Student Affairs, who are not tightly connected to the residential colleges and they balkanize us,” Amar said.

“We have a lot of these Deans for different parts of Student Affairs that are actually detracting from the residential college experience.”

Campos suggested that the growth of student-facing administrators is the product of a cultural shift in which all of the needs of students need to be appeased. He said that the growth in the administration informs the “full service ethos” at large universities, where student’s needs — “real or perceived” — have to be catered to.

One of the other primary concerns with this growing administration is that it leads to increased tuition. Mark Oppenheimer, a lecturer in the English department, said that one of the main concerns with adding “unnecessary administrators” is that it might come at the expense of keeping tuition lower.

Peart did not directly respond to a request for comment on the effect that the size of the University administration has on tuition.

Campos confirmed Oppenheimer’s fear, saying that the disproportionate growth of the administration “absolutely” has a role in the rising costs of tuition.

“It’s a pandemic,” Scott said of the proliferation of administrators.

“And Yale may have a particularly severe case.”

The University’s personnel costs totaled $2.7 billion in 2021 — marking a five percent increase from 2020.

Contact PHILIP MOUSAVIZADEH at philip.mousavizadeh@yale.edu .

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see the implementation of a sustainability orientation for first years and other social infrastructure to bolster sustainability initiatives at the University.

“Students are the greatest resource that Yale has,” Schlick said. “We should be investing not just in big ways to shift energy consumption but also in smaller ways to make sure that policies take hold in the culture here.”

Garrard added that the University’s efforts to address climate change will create opportunities for students to take part in “crafting solutions to shape a better world.”

The climate action strategy also outlines the use of carbon offsets to “supplement, not replace, on-campus reductions” and meet net emission targets.

Entities can purchase a carbon offset, which represents the emission reduction of one metric ton of carbon dioxide and then “retire” it to count as their own emissions reduction. The University retired 48,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide against its own carbon footprint in 2020.

Though the city of New Haven and the University both have goals to reduce emissions, Huq and Schlick pointed out that the climate action strategy does not mention collaboration with the city.

“It’s strange that Yale continues to be in their bubble when we are sharing a city,” Huq said. “Our emissions don’t know any borders.”

The Office of Sustainability is located at 70 Whitney Avenue.

potential link between the three incidents.

“We are working jointly with the Yale Police Department, along with the FBI, who has become involved, and providing any information we can to this larger investigation,” Dominguez said.

YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins said he is in touch with other Ivy League police chiefs and federal authorities. He said that the caller who made threats to Yale on Friday did not provide a motive.

The Connecticut public information specialist for the FBI told the News that the FBI has offered its assistance which is “typical for us to do here in Connecticut.” He stated that the FBI is “fully aware” of the bomb threats that occurred at other universities and that those threats are being investigated by the respective law enforcement agencies.

Dominguez added that the FBI is working with all the targeted universities to determine similarities between the incidents.

“There is a lot of work that’s being done through the phone number that the individual called on,” Dominguez said. “And information that individual gave to the non-emergency number for us and then the other police departments that he called.”

Dominguez clarified at the press conference that there is not a known gender for the individual who called in the Yale threat.

Around 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, Cornell told community members to evacuate four buildings and later confirmed that police received a call about bombs being placed in them. One hour later, three buildings at Columbia were evacuated due to a bomb threat. Around an hour after the threat at Columbia, Brown announced that it was investigating its own bomb threat. By Sunday evening, all evacuated buildings had been cleared for reentry.

Miami University and Ohio University also received bomb threats on Saturday afternoon.

A Cleveland State University building received a bomb threat Thursday evening. All three campuses were later cleared with no threats found.

During Tuesday’s press conference, Mayor Justin Elicker thanked the police for responding quickly to Friday’s bomb threat and expressed his appreciation to New Haven students, businesses and residents for being cooperative during the evacuations.

“This is a huge impact on the city and I heard zero complaints from residents who were evacuated or inconvenienced, because I think people understand the reason why we take these threats very, very seriously,” Elicker said.

YPD is located at 101 Ashmun St.

Contact ANASTASIA HUFHAM at anastasia.hufham@yale.edu .

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The University will modify the Yale Carbon Charge and increase renewable energy use.

CLIMATE FROM PAGE 1 to cost approximately $1.5 billion. The Office of Sustainability outlined a “three-pronged financing strategy,” starting with modifying the Yale Carbon Charge, which charges each top administrative unit for the emissions its buildings produce. Starting in the 2023 fiscal year, each budgetary unit will contribute funding based on its current emissions.

The University will also begin an incremental increase in the carbon charge from $20 per metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2023 to $50 in 2025. The revenue from the Yale Carbon Charge will fund about 10 percent of investments toward eliminating carbon emissions on campus.

“The charge also serves to engage the entire Yale community in this effort: by ensuring contributions from the current generation using these buildings, and by offering greater understanding of emissions and a financial incentive to reduce them,” the climate action strategy reads.

The University contributes $15 million per year in capital expenditures to greenhouse gas emission reduction initiatives.

This amount will increase to $25 million, according to the climate action strategy announced on Tuesday. The University may also expand the capital budget to fund emission reduction projects.

Another key tenet of the climate action strategy is the increase of renewable energy use, including the continued use of solar panels. The University also intends to use technology like biomass gasification, deep earth geothermal heat and green hydrogen processes to meet campus energy needs, starting in the mid-2030s. However, the cli-

mate action strategy does not include a time frame for reaching 100 percent renewable energy use.

Katie Schlick ’22, the sustainability liaison for Silliman College and the former co-president of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, expressed concern about the climate action plan’s emphasis on 2035 and 2050 as goals to reach net zero carbon emissions and zero actual carbon emissions on campus, respectively. Adrian Huq, co-founder of the New Haven Climate Movement Youth Action Team, also said that the 2050 goal “is too far in the future.”

At the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP26, taking place this week, Biden and other leaders have dubbed the years leading up to 2030 as “the decisive decade” for climate change action.

Earlier this year, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that without urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, the earth’s global warming will surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius and lead to “irreversible” damage to ecosystems and communities worldwide.

Yale’s climate action strategy includes just one mention of the 2030 date, stating that “we are confident that by 2030 we will have completed a significant number of conservation and renewable energy projects and will have a clearer picture of the road to 2050.”

Schlick expressed excitement for the climate action strategy but emphasized the need for student and faculty involvement in order to make more significant sustainable changes on campus. As a firstyear counselor, she hopes to eventually

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Salovey reaffirms commitment to armed campus police force POLICE FROM PAGE 1 For King, a Yale without the YPD would be more approachable and inclusive, as well as make some students feel safer.

The YPD was founded in 1894 after Yale medical students were suspected of stealing cadavers from a New Haven graveyard, which caused clashes between students and city residents. The violence prompted two New Haven Police Department officers to volunteer as officers exclusively assigned to Yale’s campus. 127 years later, the YPD has grown into a force of 93 officers with two assistant chiefs — including a patrol unit, an emergency services unit and an investigative unit.

Central among 21CP’s recommendations is the implementation of a differential response model, by which police officers would not be the sole responders to calls.

“The adoption of a formalized differential response model will provide YPD officers with more time to engage in the type of community and problem-oriented policing that this report addresses in other recommendations as well as in core law enforcement and crime prevention activity,” the report reads. “It will also provide services to the Yale community that may be understood by that community as less intrusive.”

The report defines differential response as strategies which differentiate requests for police response based on what action would be most apt to the call.

These strategies are supposed to provide a variety of options that extend beyond simply dispatching an officer. For example, a call made to the YPD complaining about loud noises could be directed to residential college officials or Yale Security, rather than to a YPD officer. The report also calls on the University to improve cooperation between Yale Security and the YPD. Salovey affirmed the importance of differential response, claiming that not everything should be treated “like a police matter.” By diversifying the means of responding to YPD

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President Salovey doubled down on the necessity of maintaining a police force at Yale. calls, Salovey said, the University can ensure that the “right expertise” is brought to every situation.

Salovey spoke of a committee on policing which is soliciting student input and suggestions on this issue. He added that the University will continue its reforms beyond the recommendations of the 21CP report.

“An important point is we’re not going to stop just with the 21CP report,” Salovey said. “We’re going to be continually improving organization with respect to the YPD and Yale Security and keep trying to learn from the community on what is working and what is not.”

Still, some students on campus are continuing to call for a full abolition of the YPD. Callie Benson-Williams ’23, the current chair of BSDY, criticized 21CP’s report as failing to propose any fundamental changes to policing at Yale, saying that “it doesn’t really take into account the problems of YPD existing at all, and even the reforms are mainly about just funnelling more money into the police department.”

King agreed with Benson-Williams, saying that true change needs

to be systematic and more than superficial level reforms. King said that he does not have high expectations that the University will implement such large-scale changes.

Benson-Williams added that one of the main shortcomings of the report is that it fails to address the distinction in jurisdiction between the YPD and New Haven Police Department.

While touting the importance of Yale Security, however, Salovey reaffirmed his commitment to the maintenance of an armed police force.

“There is a plan to maintain an unarmed security force, that’s Yale Security,” Salovey said. “There is not at present a plan to disarm the Yale Police Department.”

Yale is not alone in having an armed campus police force. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, around 75 percent of all U.S. college campuses used armed officers in 2011–12. Nearly all college campuses — about 94 percent — authorized officers to carry sidearms and chemical or pepper spray.

Salovey argued that it is important to have an armed security force in order to protect students from armed intruders on campus.

In order to balance this importance with the dangers of an armed police force, Salovey said that the solution is “very clear protocols” surrounding the use of an armed response. Salovey also established metrics of successful reform to campus security, saying that he hopes for a police force that is able to de-escalate situations and one that is fully integrated into the Yale community.

BSDY, however, pointed to the infrequency with which the YPD responds to calls of violence as evidence that the department is unnecessary. According to a report from BSDY, only 1.34 percent of calls to the YPD from 2015-2019 were assault and weapons related.

Outside of Yale College, graduate students have created Concerned and Organized Graduate Students, an organization that calls for YPD’s abolition.

“As a police and prison abolitionist, I and other members of the Yale community are calling for the complete abolition of the YPD, an armed campus police force that 1. Rarely (2-3% of the time) handles cases that involve intentional physical or psychological harm to persons, 2. Overwhelmingly fails to solve cases (92% failure

to clear), and 3. perpetrates violence against Black and Brown Yale and New Haven residents,” Hannah Srajer GRD ’25, the co-founder of Concerned and Organized Graduate Students, wrote in an email to the News.

Srajer wrote that the YPD’s primary purpose is to protect Yale’s property and not its students, pointing to the fact that between 2015 and 2019, 55.85 percent of all crimes logged were related to protecting capital and assets.

She added that the majority of cases that YPD handles “would be better served by unarmed medical or emergency personnel.”

“The YPD must be replaced by a robust differential response system without police officers, and Yale must reinvest those millions of dollars into New Haven organizations that protect, serve, and uplift Black and Brown communities,” Srajer wrote.

This issue came to the forefront in April 2019, when a YPD officer and a Hamden police officer shot at two unarmed black New Haven residents, Stephanie Washington and Paul Witherspoon, as the couple were driving in their car. The incident occurred in Newhallville, a New Haven neighborhood over a mile from Yale’s campus, and set off protests in New Haven that called for the termination of the two officers and the disarmament of the YPD. In October 2019, the Connecticut State’s Attorney concluded an investigation into the shooting and determined that the YPD’s jurisdiction matched that of the NHPD. The report stated that as the city of New Haven appointed YPD officers through its Board of Police Commissioners, the YPD officers have all the same powers as municipal NHPD officers.

“I think that the community would be safer without the YPD,” Benson-Williams said. “I think almost everything should be done by Yale Security, and that there are some issues of actual, imminent violence that should just be handled by the New Haven Police Department.”

Higgins was appointed as chief of the YPD in 2011.

Contact PHILIP MOUSAVIZADEH philip.mousavizadeh@yale.edu .

Team 148 to play Princeton in critical Ivy tiebreaker TIGERS FROM PAGE 1 were beaten by the Big Green for the second straight season. Two years ago, when Yale and Princeton last met, the Bulldogs delivered arguably their best performance of the season, defeating the one-loss Tigers on the road by 37 points.

The last Princeton victory over Yale came in 2018, when the Tigers went undefeated to win their first outright conference championship under head coach Bob Surace.

“They’re a veteran team and they’re a team that has had a lot of experience,” Reno said on Tuesday.

“They’ve been a top level team in our league and a championship team in our league over the last five, six years … they’ve got a great program and I’ve got a lot of respect for Bob.” As Team 148 suits up to take on the Tigers on the latter’s home turf, a near-perfect exe-

cution on both sides of the ball will be crucial for Yale to walk out of Powers Field with its hopes of an Ivy League crown still intact. Princeton ranks third in the conference in scoring and passing offense, thanks in large part to the electric connection between Cole Smith and Jacob Birmelin — one of the best quarterback-receiver tandems in the Ancient Eight. Smith has thrown for the second-most yards in the Ivy League, while Birmelin leads all receivers in receptions, yards and yards per game. There may be additional weight on their shoulders however, as running back Collin Eaddy’s status is uncertain after suffering an ankle injury last week in Hanover. The senior back has been averaging 4.3 yards a carry and his 477 rushing yards rank sixth in the conference. Eaddy

also leads the Ancient Eight with 10 rushing touchdowns.

On the other side of the ball, Princeton boasts the third-best scoring defense in the conference, giving up only 17.5 points per game. The Tigers’ unit is led by senior linebacker Jeremiah Tyler, who has a long list of accolades.

Tyler ended last season as a unanimous first-team All-Ivy player and a finalist for the conference’s defensive player of the year award.

Entering this season, the Michigan native earned FCS All-American honors and was named to the Buchanan Award watch list for best defensive player in the FCS. Tyler is far from the only all-conference talent on the Tiger defense — defensive lineman Samuel Wright is second in the Ivy League this year in sacks and led the Princeton defensive line in tackles and sacks last season.

With key contributors going down due to injuries, the Eli offense has had to lean heavily on some new faces. Running back Spencer Alston ’23 has stepped up in the absence of Zane Dudek ’22 and has become a staple in Team 148’s offense. The junior’s breakout game came against Columbia, where he rushed for 116 yards and two touchdowns to earn Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week honors. Last week against the Bears, first-year receiver David Pantelis ’25 finished with a game-high and career-high 205 all-purpose yards to go along with two scores.

“There’s a great group of leaders ahead of us,” Pantelis said.

“I know Melvin Rouse, he’s just been keeping me in his footsteps, teaching me really everything that he knows and helping me along with the playbook. I kind of have to give credit to him because he

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Yale and Princeton sit alongside Dartmouth in a three-way tie for first place in the Ivy League.

has been really a great role model and kind of just giving us a helping hand into learning the playbook, going through routes. Even when the coaches weren't there, he was always helping us in the summer … so when my turn came, I was able to be the most prepared that I could.”

Meanwhile, the Blue and White defense has been efficient and in groove all season long, due in no small part to the dominant presence of Clay Patterson ’24 on the defensive line. When looking at the numbers that the Texas native has put up in 2021, one could make a strong case that he has been one of the best and most consistent defenders in all the Ivy League. Patterson has registered a total of 10.5 sacks in the eight games he has started — three more than the next closest player in the Ancient Eight.

He leads all other players with 12 tackles for loss and is fourth in the nation with 1.31 sacks per game. Along with Reid Nickerson ’23 at the other end of the line and captain John Dean ’22 in the backfield, this syndicate of defensive players has been the driving force behind a Bulldog defense that has put together the second best pass defense efficiency in the Ancient Eight.

Should Cornell upset Dartmouth this weekend just as it did in 2019, the winner between Princeton and Yale would clinch a share of the Ivy League crown and hold sole possession of first place entering the final game of the year. Otherwise, Saturday’s winner is guaranteed a chance to play for at least a share of the title in its season finale. For Team 148, that will be the Yale-Harvard game at Yale Bowl.

The loser will see their title hopes all but disappear, as the Ivy League has not seen a champion with two conference losses since 1982.

Contact JARED FEL at jared.fel@yale.edu and NADER GRANMAYEH at nader.granmayeh@yale.edu.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Children aged 5-11 are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations

BY MAYA WEITZEN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last week, Governor Ned Lamont and the Connecticut public health commissioner’s office announced that children aged 5-11 are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, following federal guidance.

Lamont and the Connecticut Department of Public Health Commissioner and Yale School of Medicine Professor Manisha Juthani issued a press release last Tuesday regarding the recent eligibility expansion of nearly all school-aged children to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. According to Thomas Murray, an associate professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the Yale School of Medicine, the expanded eligibility has the potential to help lower community transmission rates.

“Vaccination has the potential to help families keep their children out of quarantine from school following exposure to a case of COVID-19,” Murray told the News. “Also, many social activities, like concerts and sporting events, will be made possible, allowing kids to congregate together safely. It’s one more step towards a return to a normal lifestyle.”

This state-level approval follows the U.S. Food and Drug Admin-

The FDA announced the immediate authorization in an Oct. 29 release. In the release, officials cited the vaccine’s effectiveness and safety as two key factors in their decision to authorize vaccination for this younger age group. The officials noted that the vaccine was found to be 90.7 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 in children aged 5-11, with immune responses comparable to those of adolescents 16-25 years old.

The vaccine’s safety was studied in approximately 3,100 children within the age group who received the vaccination without serious adverse effects detected in the ongoing trial.

This data, alongside assessments predicting that the vaccine’s benefits outweigh its risks, pushed the FDA to determine that the Pfizer vaccine has met the criteria for emergency use authorization in young children, according to the FDA release. This vaccine will be a lower dose than that of the Pfizer vaccination used for individuals over 12 years of age.

The vaccine distribution for children and families will be available from a variety of resources—pediatricians, pharmacies, school-based clinics, several health systems and local health departments—according to the press release.

The expanded eligibility is predicted to increase vaccination

istration’s recent emergency use authorization of the vaccine in the 5-11 year-old age group.

In his press release, Lamont wrote that the new development will mean that almost everyone across the state “will have access to this life-saving tool.”

“I have heard from all of my public health advisors, and they are clear in their guidance – this vaccine is safe for kids and it works,” Lamont wrote.

According to Albert Ko, professor of public health and epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, children from infancy to 11 years old are in the age group with the highest risk of developing COVID-19 in Connecticut. Although they are significantly less likely to be hospitalized and die from the disease than the elderly, children can still develop severe complications.

Furthermore, children may transmit COVID-19 to those who are at high risk for severe outcomes, especially if they live in multigenerational homes, Ko explained.

The fact that this age group will gain access to the vaccine, Ko said, represents “another success story in response to the pandemic.”

Ko continued: “The use of a safe and efficacious vaccine in children will have large benefits in preventing disease… keeping schools open and protecting vulnerable populations.”

rates across the state. An estimated 277,630 children within the age group live in Connecticut and are eligible to start receiving doses, according to the press release.

Current regulations surrounding COVID-19 policy dictate that those vaccinated do not have to undergo quarantine if they have come in contact with a positive individual.

Yale University requires all students, faculty, staff and postdoctoral and postgraduate trainees to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine and comply with at least once-aweek testing.

Contact MAYA WEITZEN at maya.weitzen@yale.edu .

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Yale researchers find social support key to veterans’ mental health

BY GARREK CHAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A Yale study conducted in collaboration with the National Center for PTSD found that social support is key to reducing veterans’ suicide risks.

In recent years, scientists have identified numerous genes associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. From this data, polygenic risk scores can be calculated, which estimate an individual’s likelihood for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. For a team of researchers at Yale, a crucial question emerged: can a combination of psychological and social — psychosocial — factors buffer against a genetic risk for suicide?

In a paper published on Nov. 2 in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers found that among veterans with higher suicide polygenic risk scores, those with higher optimism and social support had a significantly lower likelihood of developing chronic suicidal thoughts. The study was led by Peter Na — a staff psychiatrist at the VA Connecticut Health System and clinical instructor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine — and Robert Pietrzak — director of the National Center for PTSD. “These findings show that the interplay between biological and environmental factors are critical to understanding the complexity of suicidal behavior,” Pietrzak wrote in an email. “They are also the first [findings], to our knowledge, to identify psychosocial factors that may help mitigate risk for suicide.”

The study found that psychosocial factors are effective because they impact pathways involved in brain development, GABA signaling and synaptic

organization—the same pathways impacted by genes associated with suicidal thoughts.

Daniel Levey, assistant professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine and a contributor to the study, likens this push and pull—between positive psychosocial factors and genetic disposition to suicidal thoughts—to a battle for control of these biological pathways.

According to Na, the current suicide statistic for veterans is the highest recorded rate in U.S. history, increasing by 30 percent between 2010 and 2018. In fact, Na notes that the veteran suicide rate is nearly double that of the general population.

“That might have something to do with veterans tending to be more likely to be men where there is a higher risk of death by suicide, and women tend to report [suicide] ideation more,” Levey said.

Levey said that because men tend to be less emotionally vulnerable and open to seeking support, there is more of a reason to implement programs providing social support. Na emphasized that key programs are already being instated.

“A prime example is a Veterans Affairs tele-support program called Compassionate Contact Corps,” Na wrote in an email to the News. “Through this program, veterans who feel lonely, or socially isolated are ‘prescribed’ to talk regularly with trained volunteers via phone or video calls. The referrals are made by clinicians.”

According to Na, even daily five-minute interventions spanning two weeks in which participants are asked to write about themselves in their best possible future, known by clinicians as “The Best Possible Self Intervention,” can significantly

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enhance optimism. Other examples include self-compassion training, cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness practices and meditation.

However, the study comes with limitations based on the diversity of the data set. The team used data from 1326 European-American veterans, limiting the applicability to this demographic, as noted in the study. In the future, Na and Pietrzak are interested in using more diverse data sets to

understand how racial, cultural and gender differences might impact the effectiveness of certain psychosocial interventions.

Pietrzak believes such an endeavor is possible. With the relatively inexpensive cost of a single saliva or blood sample, which costs less than $100 per person, clinicians could potentially calculate the polygenic risk scores of individual veterans on a larger scale. From this data, a personalized plan could be developed.

Veterans would be connected to existing programs designed to bolster emotional well-being and personal strength.

If you or loved ones are experiencing suicidal thoughts, resources available include calling the National Suicide Prevention Line at 1-800-273-8255.

The National Center for PTSD was founded in 1989.

Contact GARREK CHAN at garrek.chan@yale.edu.

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FDA authorizes SalivaDirect for pooled COVID-19 testing

BY SOPHIE WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER SalivaDirect, a Yale-created protocol that allows for greater efficiency in COVID-19 testing, has received FDA emergency use authorization to be used for pooled COVID-19 virus testing of up to five individual samples at a time.

SalivaDirect is a PCR test which uses self-collected saliva to detect COVID-19 cases.

It was developed by a team of researchers at the Yale School of Public Health. The team began its research in March 2020. In August 2020, SalivaDirect received its initial EUA from the Food and Drug Administration.

“Testing is still critically important for getting us out of the pandemic,” Nathan Grubaugh, associate professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health, wrote in an email. “The goal of SalivaDirect is to be as flexible as possible to provide testing options for a multitude of uses. Pooling up to five samples prior to testing will be a great option for screening programs where the population has an expected low positivity rate, such as for routine school or university testing. This helps to preserve resources and drive down the costs.”

Anne Wyllie, research scientist at the School of Public Health, leads the SalivaDirect team.

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, she noticed that there were a lot of challenges involved with nasopharyngeal swabs, which were the “gold standard” of COVID-19 testing. Wyllie explained that the supply chains for swabs were collapsing, since the swabs were coming from Italy — a country that experienced a very early outbreak. In addition, mostly those who could afford a COVID-19 test were able to get tested. Moreover, Wyllie noted that getting tested with the swabs was “not exactly pleasant” since the procedure required those who administered the test to “jab” the swab into the nostril of the person being tested.

Having worked with saliva as a sample type for the past 10 years in her research, Wyllie wondered if a testing method using saliva could be developed, since “saliva is much easier to collect.” Although she was “definitely one of the most junior on the team” at the time, after explaining her idea to others, she received support from researchers at Yale.

“First of all, we set out to develop SalivaDirect to increase access,” Wyllie said. “Early on in the pandemic we were really frustrated that … other than symptomatic people, … people who could afford to get tested were the only other ones who could get tested … We were determined to develop a test that could be more affordable … We also wanted to make a kit that could be used by others. We wanted to make [it] a very open source protocol that other labs could readily pick up, start using and decrease the time it would take them to implement an EUA test in their community.”

Annie Watkins SPH ’21, former graduate research assistant at the School of Public Health, emphasized that a main focus of the research team was to ensure that “testing could be more readily available” by “cut[ting] out some of the barriers.”

Watkins observed that the team managed to “work quite hard” to validate the SalivaDirect protocol across multiple different testing platforms and reagents. She noted that these validations would prevent labs from needing to rely on one machine or supply kit, allowing them to take advantage of the supplies they have or can easily acquire. As a result, the labs would be able to “keep costs down but quality up.”

Pooling samples together creates significant advantages in terms of streamlining COVID-19 tests and their costs.

“One of the unique aspects of SalivaDirect is that it is a simplified and flexible platform that is being further developed by the SalivaDirect team,” Chantal Vogels, associate research scientist at the School of Public Health, wrote in an email to the News. “[The] pooling of samples … will help to further reduce cost and increase testing capacity.”

According to Wyllie, being able to pool up to five samples is a reasonable amount, since pooling together at most five individual samples does not burden labs who can conduct only manual tests “all by hand.” She explained that if the pooled sample produces a positive result, then the lab needs to go back and retest all the individual samples.

Despite the FDA approval for pooled testing, Wyllie does not anticipate Yale switching its current method of conducting COVID-19 tests through nasal swabs to

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SalivaDirect. She recalled that when Yale decided to bring students back to campus in fall 2020, the University had considered using SalivaDirect as the method of COVID-19 testing. However, they needed to have an EUA test available for the students, and back then, SalivaDirect had not received its first EUA from the FDA yet. To avoid the risk of setting up an entire testing program that might not have an EUA, Yale decided to provide their students with anterior nasal swab tests.

“I can very much understand how much work goes into setting up testing programs,” said Wyllie. “It’s also the costs that are involved with completely changing the system over again as well.”

Wyllie emphasized the importance for labs and research groups to continue their work even when the number of COVID-19 cases start decreasing.

According to Wyllie, when case rates start decreasing and fewer COVID-19 tests are being administered, surges around

the country occur “again and again.” This trend was demonstrated around spring time in 2021, when labs stopped conducting surveillance testing because of a decline in cases, and another COVID-19 surge occurred shortly after. It is important that labs continue to stay in operation in order to account for any possible future case spikes, she said.

Wyllie and her research team plan to continue SalivaDirect research. Wyllie noted that other labs sometimes approach her team and ask them to experiment with and include a specific instrument in the EUA, which will then allow that lab to use SalivaDirect with materials they have access to.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 data tracker, as of Nov. 8, there are 598 COVID-19 cases in New Haven.

Contact SOPHIE WANG at sophie.wang@yale.edu .

Yale New Haven Health System faces nurse shortage

BY DANTE MOTLEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As the Yale New Haven Health System emerges from the brunt of its battle with coronavirus, it faces another challenge — an ongoing shortage of nurses.

The health system has a “very, very large volume” of open positions, Melissa Turner, senior vice president for human resources at YNHH, told the New Haven Register. Turner attributed the challenges to the increasingly taxing job of being a nurse, as well as to a nationwide labor shortage.

Nurses who served during the COVID-19 pandemic encountered numerous patients on ventilators and risked their personal safety to treat patients infected with the highly contagious virus.

Now, as local case rates lower, the health system has seen a greater influx of patients as a result of elective surgeries that were rescheduled earlier in the pandemic. These patients are often in a worse condition than usual after putting off procedures for multiple months or years, Turner explained.

Two nurses spoke to the News on the condition of anonymity due to fear of loss of livelihood.

They were told by hospital Human Resources not to speak to the media about the issue, according to the nurses. The News could not confirm the veracity of this statement. Media Relations Coordinator for YNHH Mark D’Antonio attempted to connect the News with hospital leadership, but ultimately did not answer multiple requests for comment. He said that no frontline nurses or other hospital staff would be available for the story.

“Working during COVID made them realize that it might not be worth it to be near all that sickness for those long hours for the amount of pay,” one nurse said. “They are just getting burnt out. It is not the hospital or Yale’s fault.”

According to Beth Beckman, chief nursing executive for YNHH, burnout is a major issue among nurses. She cited a survey by the American Organization for Nursing Leadership that showed that 75 percent of nurse leaders saw the emotional health and wellbeing of staff as a major issue.

With the increased workload wrought by the pandemic as well as fewer nurses, Beckman said that YNHH had to ask many nurses to work more hours. She said that nurses have “raised their hand” to make sure patients receive care and added that the hospital has adapted its operations as the pandemic has progressed.

“Our mantra and our real commitment is to take care of our people,” Beckman said. “Our frontline. And I think the most important thing we’re going to do in this space is to listen to their ideas. They commonly have the solutions and to institute them in a way that’s helpful to them. So we absolutely are committed to making sure the frontline helps us modify whatever it is we need in our work environment.”

According to Beckman, the nursing shortage is nationwide. She said that hospitals are facing the same operational challenges nationally, and probably globally.

Still, Beckman added that the hospital system had a large number of tenured staff who stayed throughout the pandemic and have weathered the increased visits beyond it.

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“We’ve had many, many nurses choose to stay, and we are so grateful for their loyalty,” Beckman said.

The hospital system did terminate the employment of 11 nurses who would not receive a COVID-19 vaccine, out of the more than 7,200 nurses the hospital employs. But Beckman noted that nine of them were casual labor, not holding full time or part time positions. She said that if they got the vaccine they would be re-employed. She also emphasized the importance of all nursing staff and said that “even losing one is something that we’d like to avoid.”

According to Patricia Carson, the director of perioperative services for the Nuvance Health Network spanning hospitals in Western Connecticut, the nursing shortage is “not a new issue.” There has been a larger issue of nursing schools lacking teachers to pass on the skills required for such a technically demanding job. This forces schools to limit the number of candidates they are able to accept.

“Operations have not been directly affected,” Carson wrote in an email to the News. “We have managed through the efforts of the employees and administration to quell the effects of the national nursing shortage.

Patient care is still the utmost priority and we are delivering.”

Carson noted that the shortage prompted her to work with her colleagues from inpatient units to ensure the continuation of effective nursing care. To increase nursing retention and recruitment, her team has implemented strategies ranging from nurse residency programs for new nursing school graduates to Zoom recruitment fairs.

Carson also said that the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on nurses may have caused some to retire early.

But while some nurses were turned away due to higher workloads during the pandemic, others opted to take on better-compensated and more flexible paths in the industry.

One nurse at YNHH said that nursing was “not about the money, but has become about the money.” During the pandemic, some former frontline nurses became travel nurses to pay off mortgages in short periods of time, as travel nurses are known to earn higher pay.

“I have student debt for both me and my daughter and I could use that money,” one nurse said. “It is not sustainable though. They will have to come back at some point,” another nurse added.

To cope with the shortage, YNHH has embraced creative recruitment options. YNHH also worked with nursing schools in the state and the Connecticut Hospital Association to allow senior students to join the workforce.

Yale New Haven Health also distributed five percent bonuses in May 2020. But due to pandemic-driven financial losses, the hospital system’s annual performance incentives were one percent instead of their usual two percent.

Managers showed their appreciation for hospital staff in other ways, including a “week of gratitude,” in which they spent two hours each day walking rounds with staff members, Turner told the Register.

Yale New Haven Health is the second largest employer in Connecticut.

Contact DANTE MOTLEY at dante.motley@yale.edu .

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ARTS Pancasila—An exploration of the Asian diaspora, interconnectedness and dreams

BY KAYLA YUP CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

“Pancasila,” Arnold Setiadi ’22’s senior thesis for the theater and performance studies major, is premiering on stage this week. The play explores themes of idealism versus what is realistic, the experiences of Asian Americans across the diaspora and interconnectedness.

The play follows the lives of an aspiring young actor Jacob, an international student from South Asia Camille and a young wannabe detective named Christian. The story tracks their complicated relationships with parents, friends, partners and their own identities and heritages.

The word “Pancasila” refers to the philosophical theory of Indonesia, and is connected to the Wuxing Chinese philosophy.

“For me as a Chinese-Indonesian American, and a person who lived in Indonesia for a few years, one of the symbols of Indonesia is ‘Pancasila,’ which is actually the philosophical theory of Indonesia,” Setiadi said. “In Indonesia, we have this emblem called a Garuda Pancasila. On that emblem, there is this thing called ‘Bhinneka Tunggal Ika,’ and what it means is ‘unity through diversity.’ Even though we have our differences throughout the Asian diaspora, regardless of socioeconomic status or background, we are still united through these common principles, and that’s where the initial title came from.”

When Catherine Alam-Nist ’24, the play’s director, made the connection that Pancasila in Sanskrit meant “five principles,” the two connected it to the Chinese philosophical theory called Wuxing — which is also based on five guiding tenets.

“In my research on how we can include more elements of Asian/Asian-American culture in the visual world of the show, I was reading about the Wuxing five element theory — a Taoist schema that, through the five elements and the different qualities connected to them, lays out different energies that mapped onto five of the core characters [in the play],” Alam-Nist said.

Setiadi said that five colors “correspond to different emotions and states of mind,” and that the characters “connect with different colors.”

Christian, who is played by Setiadi, wears red makeup and red clothing. This aligns with the color theory of red, which identifies red as a color that represents a person who wants to expand into new territory and explore new relationships. Harold was associated with the color black, Daisy with white, Camille with yellow and Jacob with blue. Red, black, white, yellow and blue correspond to the five elements in Wuxing theory — fire, water, metal, earth and wood.

During Setiadi’s first semester at Yale, he took the class “Composing and Performing the One Person Play” with his current thesis advisor, professor Hal Brooks. The course inspired him to write a play in which he could also perform. Towards the end of his first year, he began to write a piece inspired by his life that included Asian American representation, humor and a meaningful story behind it. The summer after his first year, through the Yale International Summer Award, he studied acting and theater abroad in England. Setiadi met playwrights to learn about British theater techniques. Some of the entrance and exit cues in “Pancasila”, for example, were inspired by the shows he watched in England, where comedy is often based on farce and quick, rapid movements.

The next summer, he participated in the Middlebury Chinese Language program online through the Light Fellowship. Setiadi learned about Chinese cultural norms and language and diction, which inspired the Chinese elements of his play. His junior year, he took the class “Playwriting” with Professor Deborah Margolin, in which he completely revised “Pancasila”.

“That is one of the most momentous moments,” Setiadi said. “From my first year, from going to England, from going to China, from submitting earlier drafts for programs — through this class, I was able to begin from square one with all of these ideas.”

Setiadi revised his script to include intertwining storylines involving main characters and side characters.

“Jacob’s story is an important one of him failing, facing microaggressions and the reality of the [acting] industry, but there are also other people from the Asian diaspora

who we are trying to include, and see how they intertwine,” Setiadi said.

Setiadi focused on the interconnectedness of the diaspora, and how the differences and commonalities that exist can be embraced, accepted and understood by one another.

According to Peter Li ’24, who plays Harold, the characters took shape through a combination of Arnold’s script and a collection of stories from everyone in the cast.

“Harold in many ways is just my dad,” Li said. “When we were workshopping the characters, we were able to bring parts of our own stories to the script. The whole story about Harold having to clean Daisy’s room when they first met, that was actually something that happened when my parents started dating.”

Setiadi said that at its core, the play is “a father-son play” about Jacob and Harold.

“Essentially, they have a strong miscommunication,” Setiadi said. “At the very beginning they are separate because of that struggle [regarding] communication and sacrifice. This is a narrative that a lot of immigrants and people who come from Asian American families can relate to.”

By the end, Jacob realizes that he will still be on his own path, but he will acknowledge and accept his cultural ties, and be grateful for all the sacrifices his father made for him.

Harold similarly realizes that he and his son are both dreamers.

“Jacob has to figure out whether the thoughts he is thinking are actually his thoughts, or just thoughts that his parents forced and instilled upon him,” Setiadi said.

“Everyone in college can relate to that. [College] is a critical point where you can reframe your mindset and readjust how you think.”

Setiadi connected the theme of idealism versus what is realistic to his own background as an Asian American. Coming from a first-generation low-income background, with parents who were both immigrants from Indonesia, Setiadi experienced a stigma surrounding the pursuit of a career in the performing arts due to the fact that, on a practical level, he wanted to support his family. Growing up, he felt an inner turmoil

in knowing that, despite his love for acting, it was not perceived as practical for his family.

In “Pancasila,” Setiadi wanted to include an important message about family, love and hope in the Asian American diaspora alongside pursuing one’s dreams while also acknowledging family ties, he said. He wanted the audience to laugh and feel engaged and entertained so that they may better remember the message.

“We are at that point where everyone has to stand up for themselves and stand up for their communities because if you’re not going to do it, no one is going to do it,” Setiadi said. “In the words of Deb Margolin, my theater professor, ‘Do your theater of desire.’ If you have a story worth telling, go ahead and tell it.”

According to Bradley Nowacek ‘23, one of the junior producers of the show, since “Pancasila” is a senior thesis, the actors were allowed to be unmasked and the show could extend beyond 90 minutes.

However, when the actors are unmasked, all production team members must stay 12 feet away from them. This led the production team to creative solutions, such as the makeup designer applying the actors’ makeup in the parking lot. Due to the 75 percent limit on capacity, the play can only accommodate 53 live audience members per performance.

Nowacek added that due to the play’s blend of humor with more serious themes, it benefits from an in-person performance, allowing for audience feedback.

“It is supposed to be a funny show,” Nowacek said. “There are serious levels to it, but we put in the ‘fire speech’ for this show as a reminder that you can laugh. We have not heard each other laugh in 20 months. I did a virtual production where I acted, and was told that I was funny, but I have no evidence for that because I couldn’t hear laughter. I really hope people get back to the joy of laughing at things in a room with other people.”

“Pancasila” is the third TAPS thesis of the school year. Tickets can be reserved on the show’s Yale College Arts web page for upcoming performances on Nov. 12 and 13.

Contact KAYLA YUP at kayla.yup@yale.edu .

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“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.” DAVID BENIOFF AMERICAN AUTHOR

Inclusionary zoning policy sparks heated debate at Alders meeting

BY SYLVAN LEBRUN STAFF REPORTER New Haven officials are weighing a highly controversial zoning policy that would mandate that new market-rate developments in the city include a certain allocation of affordable units.

Building off of recommendations provided by the city’s Affordable Housing Task Force in 2019, this inclusionary zoning policy is one part of the Board of Alders’ legislative agenda item to address the city’s housing crisis. If the proposal is passed, city developers will be required and incentivized to have a specific percentage of their units be affordable, a figure determined by the strength of the market in the neighborhood they are building in.

At a virtual meeting of the Board of Alders’ Legislation Committee on Tuesday night, 19 New Haven residents — including local grassroots activists, lawyers, Affordable Housing Commission members, students and real estate developers — gave testimony in response to the ordinance. The Legislation Committee will debate the bill at least one more time at its next meeting before the policy is voted on, a move that Ward 9 Alder and committee chair Charles Decker GRD ’18 said is necessary in order to process public opinion and the complexities of the legislation. “[The policy] fosters mixed-income development rather than 100 percent market-rate,” City Plan Director Aicha Woods ARC ’97 said during her team’s presentation on Tuesday night. “It importantly provides affordable housing in areas of opportunities, with greater access to jobs and services, amenities and schools… The point of it is really to reduce racial and economic segregation by providing opportunities for people to live in high quality projects in high opportunity areas.”

This legislation is the combined work of Wood’s department, the Economic Development Administration, the Livable City Initiative council and the mayor’s office, with external input from the real estate consulting group HR&A Advisors. Woods defined inclusionary zoning laws as any policies that “create affordable housing by encouraging and requiring developers to set aside a percentage of housing units at below market rates.”

She also noted that “hundreds” of cities across the country have already adopted these policies.

Tiers, AMI and incentives: the details of the proposal Woods explained that the first iteration of the ordinance was presented in an April 2020 report, which was then workshopped with developers and local officials over the following year as the market recovered from the pandemic. The proposal was then presented to the City Plan Commission in July of this year, where it was voted on favorably.

As the policy took shape, the required level of affordability was increased to make it “more progressive” than similar inclusionary zoning laws in other cities, according to Woods.

The threshold for “affordable” units in New Haven’s policy is that rent must be feasible for families making 50 percent or less of the Area Median Income, or AMI. This would mean a monthly rent of $1,090 or less for a two-bedroom apartment, according to the Connecticut Department of Housing. In typical inclusionary zoning plans from other cities, Woods said, these thresholds can be as high as 80 percent AMI, providing “workforce housing” instead of housing that is truly affordable for residents at lower income levels.

In the ordinance, the city is split into zones based upon the strength of the market, with an exception for public land, where all developments of greater than 10 units will have to have a full 20 percent of their units qualify as affordable under the AMI restriction.

The downtown area, which has experienced a recent boom in often-luxury apartment developments, is considered the “core” Tier 1 of the plan — the requirement for developments of 10 or more units will be for 10 percent of the units to be affordable, with an extra five percent of units put aside for housing voucher holders. In the “strong” Tier 2, which includes East Rock, Long Wharf, Dixwell, Dwight and Wooster Square, as well as parts of Newhallville, the Hill and Fair Haven, the requirement is lowered to five percent of units.

Lastly, in the “remainder” Tier 3, where there is less development, according to Woods, the requirement is that only the complexes with more than 75 units have to include five percent affordable units.

Woods said that this geographical designation, which puts the strongest restrictions on the downtown area, was included in order to push back against historic redlining that “concentrates affordable housing in low-income neighborhoods and excludes it from neighborhoods with a strong market and more opportunities.”

For developers unwilling to follow the set guidelines, the city has put in the option of an in-lieu fee, which will tally up to between $210,000$225,000 in the “core” markets and $168,000-$176,000 in the “remainder.” Revenue from this fee will go into an affordable housing fund, which Livable City Initiative director Arlevia Samuel said will be used to subsidize housing assistance nonprofits and smaller affordable building developments across the city. The creators of the legislation set this fee high in order to discourage such an opt-out, according to Wood, .

The proposal provides a number of incentives for participating developers, including a waiving of parking minimums and the suspension of certain zoning requirements, which will allow buildings to be both larger overall but with smaller floor space than legislation otherwise allows. A proportional 10-year tax abatement is also included.

According to Woods, if this policy had been in place since 2010, there would already be an additional 120-160 units of affordable housing in the city. The Audu-

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Alders, residents heatedly discuss new inclusionary zoning policy. bon, a luxury complex on Orange Street, would have single-handedly contributed 40 of these.

Before the public testimonies began, Steve Fontana, deputy director of economic development, urged those on the call to believe in the proposal as a tool that will make a difference in terms of progress in addressing housing affordability and availability in the city.

“I’m sure many of you have heard this term before, but we shouldn’t allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good,” Fontana said.

“This proposal relies upon the private sector to continue to make the kind of significant investment they’ve been making in New Haven over the last several years… There are people who may tell you that it’s not enough, and there are others who will be prepared to say that it’s very challenging for us to enact something like this. So I think we sort of have tried to hit the sweet spot.”

Too much or too little? Residents react Although a few alders asked brief logistical questions to the team behind the proposal, the committee chose overall to dedicate Tuesday’s session to comments from residents, noting that another meeting in the future will allow for further debate on the bill.

One exception was Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison, who voiced her concerns that the five to 10 percent requirements for affordable housing were far too modest to address the crisis in the city, emphasizing that neighborhood constituents needed to still have the power to push developers to go past this minimum and not settle for it. Her remarks were later echoed in certain public testimonies.

Later, at the end of the meeting, Ward 13 Alder Rosa Santana came out strongly against the plan, arguing that it was inherently unfeasible in terms of enforcing compliance.

“I’m going to tell you right now, it’s not going to work,” Santana said. “The city did a horrible job in the past of reviewing com-

pliance documents to ensure that the AMIs were reached… It is very difficult to keep developers in line and to ensure that someone from the city is tracking the percentages of units that they’re giving.”

Out of the 19 public testimonies given at the meeting, about half were in complete support of the bill. Among those in favor was Jaime Myers-McPhail, an organizer with community activism group New Haven Rising and a member of the Affordable Housing Commission.

Myers-McPhail argued that the opposition to this legislation from luxury developers is evidence of the necessity for the program, which would force these individuals to include all residents in the “wave of opportunity” that has so far reinforced historic redlining. City officials “must ensure that those who profit from building in our city contribute tangible benefits to historically under-resourced communities.”

One developer was present to give testimony on the call. Darren Seid, a New York-based real estate developer who has a number of projects in New Haven, began his remarks by acknowledging that he had “a bunch of things that are very unpopular to say.” He claimed to be in support of inclusionary zoning in general, but opposed the current structure of the policy on the grounds that it would discourage new development.

“I know stories of [inclusionary zoning] policies coming out that just destroyed investment in beautiful blossoming cities,” Seid said. “And everything that’s going on in New Haven right now is just absolutely incredible. But there’s no shame in saying that the affordable units that we are all discussing do not get built if the investment stops coming into town.”

On the other end of the issue, a number of community members argued that the zoning ordinance as it stands is not enough to truly help those struggling to find housing, pointing to specific structural flaws such as the design of the “market tiers” and the AMI figures used.

Elias Estabrook, another member of the Affordable Housing Commision who said that his testimony represented only his own views, argued that the details of the “strong” Tier 2 category needed to be amended.

By placing Dixwell, Dwight, the Hill, Newhallville and Fair Haven in the same group as other more affluent neighborhoods, with equal incentives for new market-rate development, the ordinance will cause “rising prices, in other words, gentrification” in these lower income areas, he said.

A number of others also emphasized that the AMI used in the calculations for the rents of these “affordable” units was for New Haven County instead of the city of New Haven. In the city itself, the median income is much lower, according to New Haven Legal Aid community organizer Caitlin Maloney, which makes the claim of affordability deceptive.

Maloney also argued that the policy had been developed without “meaningful resident feedback,” instead relying on an outside consulting firm.

Also mentioned were concerns that the incentives for developers will allow them to build cramped and tall structures without adequate parking space.

In the majority of the testimonies, however, the primary concern was that the ordinance would not truly open doors for residents with the thresholds of five to 15 percent mandated in the program.

“They say, ‘we’ll make a couple of units affordable but the rest will be out of reach,’” said Myra Smith, Neighborhood Services Advocate for Christian Community Action.

“The people here are struggling.

We want to stay here. We want to live here. We want to continue to raise our children here. But it has become impossible.”

Written testimonies and comments on this legislation can be submitted via email to publictestimony@newhavenct.gov.

Contact SYLVAN LEBRUN at sylvan.lebrun@yale.edu .

Yale Peabody Museum switches to a “free admission” policy for all

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Following its post-renovation reopening in 2024, Peabody Museum will offer free admission to all visitors.

BY TANIA TSUNIK STAFF REPORTER The Yale Peabody Museum will switch to a free admission policy for

all visitors when it reopens its doors to the public in 2024 following a major ongoing renovation project.

After a $160 million gift from Edward P. Bass ’68 in August

2018 to renovate the Peabody— one of the most significant donations to Yale University and the largest known gift ever made to an American natural his-

tory museum—the museum was closed to the public in March 2020. The goal of the renovation is to allow for building conservation, construction of new classrooms and collection areas and the addition of 50 percent more gallery space, all while focusing on two main areas: accessibility and sustainability.

Details of the free admission policy were announced Wednesday. Previously, tickets to the museum cost $13 for adults, $9 for seniors and $6 for children ages 3-18.

“Free admission is a means, not the end,” Peabody Museum Director David Skelly told Yale News. “It’s a tool in a much larger effort toward becoming a more accessible and welcoming institution. We view the renovation and the changes in admissions and programming as an opportunity to become the Peabody Museum our community needs because that’s the museum we want to be.”

According to the Peabody’s website, the renovated museum is designed to be accessible to all,

with large elevators, touchable fossils, assistive listening devices and multilingual audio programming across galleries.

In a prior interview with the News, University President Peter Salovey said that one of the goals during his tenure was to make the Peabody Museum free to all.

“The Peabody and its collections…enhance the student experience and are used extensively by faculty in their research and teaching,” Salovey said to Yale News. “Increasing access through free admission will help us to enrich the lives of individuals from our home city and state and of visitors from around the world.”

Currently, the Peabody Museum’s revamped collections facility is situated on Yale’s West Campus. It houses more than 1.5 million items from the museum’s anthropology, history of science and technology collections.

The Yale Peabody Museum is scheduled to reopen in early 2024.

Contact TANIA TSUNIK at tania.tsunik@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“I’m not going to bow down to anybody, not going to back away from anybody.” JOSH ALLEN BUFFALO BILLS QUARTERBACK

Bulldogs successful in New York

Comeback victory for Yale W. FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 When asked about how the Bulldogs turned around the momentum to create opportunities in the second half, Davies emphasized that converting their momentum into scoring made the difference in the game.

“I think the momentum had been with us since the first quarter,” Davies wrote in an email to the News. “In the second half, we knew we just needed to find a way to turn that momentum and domination into a result and the team did a great job to generate shots and those ultimately-successful corners!”

Davies’ two goals were not the only factor in Yale’s second-half come-from-behind victory.

Yale’s defense had to stop Cornell’s dangerous attack.

According to Sarah King ’22, the team specifically focused on limiting Cornell’s penalty corners.

“We really focused on identifying Cornell’s offensive threats and catered our practices during the week to shutting down those threats,” King wrote of their preparations. “We knew they had a dangerous offensive penalty corner unit so we worked on reducing the number of fouls in the circle to limit those.”

Yale’s disciplined play style was reflected in the scoreline, with the Bulldogs conceding only three penalty corners to Cornell’s eight.

With all three goals in the match coming off penalty corners, it was clear that Yale’s strategy paid off.

Of course, the emotions of the Senior Day matchup were not lost on the Blue and White. For five of the players, the match against Cornell would be their last in a Yale uniform.

“It meant the world to our team, especially us seniors, to win our last game this season,” Iliana Cabral ’22 wrote. “It is worth not-

ing that our team culture is at the best it has ever been...This team has given me the opportunity to meet some of my best friends.”

With four seniors — Davies, King, Cabral and Kelly Dolan ’22 — and one graduate student — Anissa Abboud SPH ’23 — departing the team, the field hockey roster will look a little different next year.

Still, this year’s team is confident they’ve laid the groundwork for success in future seasons.

“I think this year’s team has laid incredibly strong foundations for the future success of the program and hopefully an Ivy League title next year!” Davies wrote. “I can’t wait to follow these girls’ future successes.”

Saturday’s win marked the Bulldogs’ first regulation win against the Big Red since 2013.

Contact BILLY KLINE at william.kline@yale.edu .

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The Bulldogs shut out No. 4 Colgate in a surprise victory to level their ECAC record to .500.

W. ICE HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 The Bulldogs will look to turn this weekend into a streak of wins as they face Ivy competitors Harvard and Dartmouth. Two players will especially be looking to build upon a big weekend as they earned ECAC weekly honors.

Junior forward Claire Dalton ’23 was named the ECAC Player of the Week after posting two goals and four assists this weekend. Dalton currently leads Division I hockey with two points per

game, totaling 12 points in the team’s six games.

Meloni was also honored as ECAC Goalie of the Week following her perfect weekend. The Bulldogs’ goalie leads the nation in both goals against average and save percentage, with zero and one respectively.

Meloni’s seventh and eighth career shutouts this weekend moved her into fifth place for career shutouts in Yale history.

Contact SPENCER KING at spencer.king@yale.edu .

COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

This game secured the team an overall winning record for the season, as well as within their conference.

Elis beat Brewers 88–42 M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 “Honestly, it felt like I got transported back to 2020,” starting guard and captain Jalen Gabbidon ’22 said postgame. “Once we went out there and the tip went off, I think everyone was comfortable, and all the pregame jitters from the whole year and a half hiatus went away right away.”

Head coach James Jones started small, inserting four veteran guards in the starting five — Eze Dike ’22, Azar Swain ’22, Matthue Cotton ’23 and Gabbidon — alongside forward Isaiah Kelly ’23. The senior captain, who took a gap year and was originally a member of the class of 2021, scored Yale’s first points of the season, backing down his smaller Vassar defender before elevating for a bucket off the backboard.

Yale never trailed, jumping to a 12–6 advantage at the first media timeout before expanding its lead to 12 midway through the first half. Early reinforcements came in the form of rookie forward Yussif Basa-Ama ’24 and returning guard August Mahoney ’24, who were Jones’ first substitutions exactly five minutes into the first half. First-year forward Jack Molloy ’25 then entered the game alongside guard Michael Feinberg ’23 with just under 14 minutes to go in the first. Jones stuck to that rotation of nine in the first frame.

Forward EJ Jarvis ’23 warmed up with his teammates, but did not ultimately dress for the contest and instead sported a suit at the end of the Yale bench. In a preseason interview with the News last week, Jones said Jarvis had dealt with a “myriad of injuries” but said the forward was expected to return to playing “sooner than later.”

In Jarvis’ absence — coupled with the uncertain injury status of senior forward Jameel Alausa ’22, who underwent double hip surgery last year and made a brief appearance in the game’s final two minutes — Jones turned to rookies Basa-Ama and Molloy to complement Kelly in the post. He said the injuries to those two post players also influenced his decision to start the game with four guards, a call likely made easier by the relative lack of height across the Brewers’ lineup. BasaAma grabbed a team-high six rebounds in his college debut.

Bulldogs win 2–1 in last home game M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 14

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Men's basketball looks to continue its momentum for Friday's game versus the UMass Minutemen.

“There was a lot of emotion leading up to [the game],” Swain, who led all scorers with 16, said. “I felt nervous and anxious, [a] similar feeling [to] going into [the] Ivy League tournament almost. It was a different feeling.

It’s been a long year and a half home — a lot of working out, a lot of time by myself — so it was amazing to be out there and feel that atmosphere again.”

For Yale undergraduates, the Bulldogs’ opener with Vassar also marked their first chance to pick up football tickets for the Yale–Harvard game on Nov. 20.

The first 100 students to arrive also received white t-shirts with the inscription, “Beat Harvard Again.” Students filled the wooden bleachers to near capacity in the first half before trailing around the arena to line up for football tickets at halftime, at which point Yale had already built a 47–21 lead.

Most returned to their seats for the second half, sticking around to see the Bulldogs open the game up even further.

As Jones turned to his entire bench in the second frame, 15 players recorded points in the final box score. Mahoney, a threepoint specialist who played important minutes off the bench during his first year in 2019–20, finished with 11 on three-of-four shooting from beyond the arc.

Gabbidon, Dike and Cotton all ended the night with 10 points apiece, while first-year guard Bez Mbeng ’25 led all Bulldogs with about 10 minutes of playing time in the second half.

“My job is to figure out who gets what minutes, and that’s not an easy thing to do having the

number of guys we have in this program and the number of guys that can play well,” Jones said.

“I’m excited for our future and where we are … like I said, I got to figure out who to play and when.”

Starting with an undermatched DIII opponent gave coaches a chance to play nearly the team’s entire roster and experiment with lineups. In another sign of the live drilling opportunities the contest afforded, Yale also occasionally turned to a full-court press in the first half.

In his interview with the News last week, Jones said Vassar head coach Ryan Mee used to work at Yale’s basketball camps. According to its website schedule, the DIII program treated Tuesday’s game as an exhibition.

“Coming off of COVID-19, I thought it was a good idea to just have another few days of practice if we could before we actually played a Division I opponent,” Jones said.

Several of his Ivy League counterparts seemed to have the same idea. Every Ivy League men’s program except Penn started its season Tuesday night. Brown, Harvard and Princeton also began their nonconference slates against non-Division I opponents. Harvard beat Morehouse, 86–70, Brown took down Salve Regina, 89–59 and Princeton defeated Rutgers-Camden, 94–28.

Yale next hosts UMass on Friday at 8:00 p.m. in a doubleheader with the Yale women’s basketball program, who play Northeastern at Lee Amphitheater with a 5:30 p.m. tipoff.

Contact WILLIAM MCCORMACK at william.mccormack@yale.edu .

Rookie of the Week honors for the fourth time this season.

“It was definitely a great feeling, working all week, getting ready for this one,” Zahiroleslam said. “We don't have mid-week games anymore, so our focus is to fine-tune for the Ivy League games at the end of the week. And it’s just the product of a lot of hard work put in honestly since the beginning of the year, back in August when we got together for the first time. So just super happy we could win our last game this year at home, and good for Enzo — he’s put in a lot of work for this program.”

Despite being down two goals, the Bears continued to create chances until the final whistle. With four seconds remaining on the clock, Brown player Charlie Adams rocketed a long-distance, right-footed shot on target. The shot, struck with power and precision, got past Elian Haddock and narrowed the margin to one. On the ensuing kickoff, the Bulldogs hit a long ball down the field to allow time to expire, sealing the 2–1 win.

Although Yale remains undefeated in Ancient Eight play, a series of ties against conference opponents such as Penn and Harvard put them out of contention for an Ivy League championship. Princeton — who the Bulldogs face this weeked in their final game — secured a 1–0 victory against Penn over the week-

end, clinching the Ivy championship and a trip to the NCAA tournament. The Tigers are four points ahead of the Blue and White in the standings, so a Yale win next weekend will not be enough to catch up.

For Okpoye, the team’s only senior, the win over Brown held extra significance. Family and friends traveled long distances to watch the senior play in his final game. Okpoye, who has suffered a number of injuries throughout his career with the Blue and White, saw somewhat more limited time this season as he recovered. Nevertheless, he brought experience and knowledge from past years to the young roster. Okpoye played center back throughout the team’s 2019 championship season.

“It’s obviously my last game, so it’s really special,” Okpoye told the News postgame. “This just, like, adds that little bit of extra emotion. I don’t even know how to express it tonight. All of my friends are here, family 5000 miles away from home, so the people I call family are here tonight. That’s not every other weekend for me, so it's just that much more special.”

Yale travels to New Jersey for its final game of the season against Princeton on Saturday. The matchup kicks off at 4 p.m.

Contact DREW BECKMEN at drew.beckmen@yale.edu and SOPHIE WANG at sophie.wang@yale.edu .

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Although Yale remains undefeated, ties against conference opponents put them out of contention for an Ivy League championship .

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“Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.”

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Ward 1 alder transition between Yalies begins

BY SOPHIE SONNENFELD CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In last Tuesday night’s election, two Yalies won seats on New Haven’s Board of Alders — Alex Guzhnay ’24 in Ward 1 and Eli Sabin ’22 in Ward 7. The election saw lower turnout among Yale students than past years did.

Previously, Sabin was the alder for Ward 1, which represents eight of Yale’s 14 residential colleges as well as several hotels and apartments along Chapel Street. Sabin estimates that 65 percent of Ward 1 constituents are Yale students.

Sabin was third in line to vote for his successor, Guzhnay, as New Haven’s Ward 1 Alder at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Sabin is now in the process of passing the torch to Guzhnay and preparing to take over as Ward 7 Alder, which represents Downtown and the lower East Rock neighborhood. Sabin and Guzhnay both ran in uncontested races Tuesday. Just over 100 New Haveners cast ballots in Ward 1 and over 500 voted in Ward 7. In 2019, 441 voted in Ward 1 and 704 New Haveners cast ballots in Ward 7, when New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker defeated incumbent Toni Harp.

“We definitely had a lower turnout than anticipated,” Guzhnay told the News. “I think I could chalk that up to a number of different things, it’s an off-year for elections, plus just the national climate around politics.”

Guzhnay is now the sixth Yale student to serve as Ward 1 Alder since 2007 and the latest in a line of Yale-affiliated alders that, according to Sabin, have held the position for the past 40 years.

Guzhnay, who is from New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood and attended Achievement First Amistad High School, said a major priority for him as alder will be investing more money into cityrun youth programs such as Youth @ Work. He said he is also looking to create more infrastructure in Ward 1 based on recommendations from the Safe Streets Coalition — an organization that advocates for safer and more accessible transportation infrastructure in the Elm City — particularly creating more bike lanes. “That’s something every neighborhood should have,” he added.

He said he is in conversation with Sabin, city engineer Giovanni Zinn and Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison to determine where those lanes might be placed.

“We’re going to continue having those meetings with folks and working together to make sure we’re coordinating and everybody’s up to speed,” Sabin added.

Guzhnay said he would also like to keep part of the road on College Street reserved for out-

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After New Haven’s elections last Tuesday, the transition from Sabin to Guzhnay for the Ward 1 alder spot begins. door seating to boost local businesses. The initiative started during the pandemic, in part due to Sabin’s advocacy.

Sabin said the Shubert Theater and College Street Music Hall are both transitioning back to having storage and moving trucks enter and exit as shows are opening. To accommodate this, they are requesting access to College Street, which would potentially eliminate the outdoor seating area that currently takes up a portion of the street.

“I think they want a little more flexibility about the configuration of the street. I’m hoping we’re going to figure out how to make it work because I think it’s been a huge success and helped business out a lot,” Sabin said.

Guzhnay and Sabin said they have been working together closely to make their transition in the Ward 1 alder spot as smooth as possible.

All newly-elected alders will soon attend meetings at City Hall to review the ethics code, an outline of all city departments and rules of order.

For Ward 1, Sabin said he is introducing Guzhnay to Brendan Borer, New Haven Police Department downtown district manager lieutenant, and Arthur Natalino, Livable City Initiative Neighborhood specialist for Downtown New Haven, who both are in frequent communication with the Ward 1 alder.

Guzhnay said he has already met with at least one-third of the board to discuss issues and ideas for New Haven over lunches and

coffees. “Folks have been really supportive,” Guzhnay said.

“I think that relationship building makes the transition to being an alder and part of the group a lot easier,” Sabin added.

Sabin has also been working with Guzhnay to fix Ward 1 specific problems such as trash bags over some pedestrian light walk signals and a United Illuminating home lighting issue on Chapel Street.

On election day, Sabin was stationed outside the Hall of Records on Orange Street from 6:15 a.m. to 8 p.m. to meet Ward 7 voters.

He only left at one point to grab warmer clothes saying, “it was a long day, but a good day.” He said it was “rewarding” to speak with constituents who recognized him and voted.

As Ward 7 alder, Sabin said he plans to focus on affordable housing and transforming downtown New Haven into a neighborhood that “serves the whole city.”

He said he would like to grow the downtown area and densify it though zoning changes that would allow for more housing.

Sabin said he also wants to fill vacant storefronts along Chapel Street to create more jobs and revitalize the economy.

With many of his constituents being students and young professionals who often move in and out of apartments, Guzhnay said it can be difficult to interact with voters on New Haven issues.

Guzhnay said that before the pandemic, he saw a lot of Yale students engaged in activism in the city. “I think it’s kind of

slowed down thanks to the pandemic, but I think things will grow again,” he said.

To connect with voters, Guzhnay said he made phone calls and plans to attend Downtown Wooster Community Management Team meetings.

Sabin said he would like to see a tradition of Yale students who have grown up in New Haven representing Ward 1.

“I think if you grow up here you have a much better sense of what’s going on here and what people care about,” he said. “I think it’s easier to figure out what issues to prioritize, build trust with other folks on the board and the community, and bridge the divide between Yale and the city.”

Kiana Flores ’25 has been working as one of two interns for Sabin’s campaign since the start of the semester in September.

Flores helped the campaign with phone banking, calling constituents about voting plans and locations and canvassing door-todoor with registered voters. She also aided the campaign in creating social media posts and emails.

Flores is from New Haven and graduated from Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School last year. “I’m really excited to have two New Haven Yalies as alders because I feel like they give a really grounded perspective both being from New Haven born and raised,” she said.

On election day, Flores was stationed outside the Ward 7 polling place at 200 Orange St. from 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. interacting with voters.

“A lot of them are more incentivized to vote since they’re living in New Haven whereas a lot of Yale students don’t vote in New Haven because they’re registered somewhere else or they simply don’t know they can register here and vote in the local election,” Flore said.

Flores said she has run into more Yale students interested in New Haven politics since the start of the year.

“I hope that people do take the time and consider voting in New Haven when they can and just learn a little more about who’s representing them, especially since they’ll be here for four years,” she said.

To get more involved in New Haven, Flores said she hopes students will look more into local politics, nonprofit organizations and activist groups throughout the city.

Flores highlighted the work Sabin has done in boosting local businesses by shutting down College Street for outdoor dining during the pandemic and the strides Sabin made in promoting bike and pedestrian safety. She said she is looking forward to seeing a continuation of his efforts on bike and pedestrian safety in Ward 7, as well as on zoning reforms before the broader Board of Alders.

11,813 New Haveners voted in the polls last Tuesday, compared to 17,849 in the 2019 New Haven mayoral election between mayor re-elect Justin Elicker and former mayor Toni Harp.

Contact SOPHIE SONNENFELD at sophie.sonnenfeld@yale.edu .

Bandy Lee lawyers file counter-motion

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The disagreement hinges on the scope of academic freedom, and whether it gives Yale blanket control over appointments.

BY ISAAC YU STAFF REPORTER Lawyers for Bandy Lee MED ’94 DIV ’95, the former Yale School of Medicine psychiatrist who sued Yale for wrongful termination, have responded to the University’s motion to dismiss the case, the

latest development in a monthslong saga.

In their September filing, Yale lawyers argued that Lee was a voluntary faculty member in the School of Medicine, and therefore not protected under certain provisions of the Faculty Handbook including those govern-

ing reappointment. University spokeswoman Karen Peart also said that the lawsuit had “no legal basis.” Lee’s lawyers were previously granted an extension until Monday to respond to the University’s motion.

In their newest filing on Tuesday night, Lee’s lawyers held that the psychiatrist’s role and work in the law school, when applied to several legal tests, reached beyond that of a purely voluntary faculty member. They re-asserted that the University and Dr. John Krystal, Lee’s supervisor, “kowtowed” to complaints made by Alan Dershowitz, a former Trump lawyer who accused Lee of violating ethics rules of the American Psychiatric Association after she tweeted that Dershowitz and Trump had “shared psychosis.”

The filing recounts the timeline surrounding Lee’s dismissal in March 2020, seeking to demonstrate that the removal of Lee’s teaching duties and subsequent dismissal were direct results of Dershowitz’s complaints. The filing also asserts that at the time of Lee’s dismissal, she was also in the process of planning content with law professors for a course approved by Howard Zonana, a School of Medicine psychiatrist who founded the Law and Psychiatry division Lee worked in and who is an adjunct law professor. The

filing argues that Yale’s lawyers incorrectly defined academic freedom as a legal “cloak” to the University’s right to control its hiring and reappointment decisions.

Peart said that the University “does not consider the political opinions of faculty members when making appointment decisions.”

This is now the second time Lee’s legal team has responded to a motion to dismiss from Yale, the first of which failed in June. Lee said that she remains steadfast as the case drags out, and that her motivations lie beyond reinstatement.

“My goals for launching my lawsuit are simple: to protect academic freedom and to preserve societal health and safety,” Lee wrote in an email to the News.

“I did not do it for myself as much as for my beloved institution and our country.”

Peart told the News that Yale’s commitments to academic freedom can be found in the Faculty Handbook and the Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale, commonly known as the Woodward Report.

In its second dismissal filing, Yale’s lawyers described the Woodward Report as a “statement of principles,” rather than a “set of contractual promises.” The lawyers argued that principles of academic freedom were enacted through the Faculty Handbook, which excludes School of Med-

icine voluntary faculty from its appeals processes.

Lee said that while she was appointed in the School of Medicine, much of her work was exclusively housed in the Law School, and that she taught numerous legal courses, including the class Immigration Legal Services, which she taught continuously for 15 years. She also disputed that her appointment was purely voluntary, because she relied on the appointment to procure several sources of employment, including teaching a Yale undergraduate course.

More than a dozen universities have reached out to her with offers since her dismissal, Lee wrote.

She recently agreed to co-found an institute on violence prevention at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, but will continue to seek reinstatement at Yale through the lawsuit.

“I am still holding out for Yale, however, with hope that it will choose to be a shining example, as it has been in the past, and not a leader of destructive trends,” Lee said.

Lee is being represented by the Hartford-based law firm Rose Kallor, which did not respond to requests for comment. Yale is represented by the firm Wiggin and Dana of New Haven.

Contact ISAAC YU at isaac.yu@yale.edu .

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THROUGH THE LENS

T

he “big picture” views of the grand buildings on Yale’s campus are familiar sights, but the subtler details are often more elusive.

One of the most enjoyable parts of exploring the University is returning to the same buildings again and again, noticing new features every time. Crests, shields, carvings and more seem to exist in almost limitless supply.

Each engraving contains a link to the past and a nod to the future.

Here are a few of the most beautiful, interesting and notable examples.

MICHAEL GARMAN reports.

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“Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.” JON STEWART AMERICAN COMEDIAN

Protesters call on Yale to divest from fossil fuels

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At a Nov. 5 rally organized by EJC, students pushed the University to divest from fossil fuel industries.

BY LUCY HODGMAN AND ALESSIA DEGRAEVE STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Hundreds of students gathered in Beinecke Plaza on Friday at a rally organized by the Endowment Justice Coalition. There, they called on Yale to disclose and divest its holdings in the fossil fuel industry and increase its investment in the city of New Haven.

Founded in 2018, the EJC is a student organization which advocates for the ethical allocation of Yale’s endowment, demanding in particular that the University divest from the fossil fuel industry. Although universities including Brown, Columbia and Harvard have divested from the fossil fuel industry, Yale has opted to employ a set of principles to guide its continued investment in fossil-fuel-producing companies.

Friday’s protest was staged in response to the recent growth of the University’s endowment, which climbed 40.2 percent, a gain of $11.1 billion, during the 2021 fiscal year. According to a press release from the EJC, protesters take issue with the University’s allocation of its endowment, especially given the recent launch of the University’s capital campaign under the name “For Humanity.”

“We demand that Yale recognize the harm it has caused, and

continues to cause,” EJC organizer Lumisa Bista ’24 told the News. “We demand that Yale end its practices of wealth hoarding.

We demand that Yale divest from destructive industries, like fossil fuels. We demand that Yale reinvest their obscene wealth into New Haven. As Yale students, we must hold Yale accountable.”

Bista thanked the students who attended the protest for their “continued support as we continue to demand better from Yale.”

“We wanted to mobilize and show students’ demands for transparency, complete and total divestment from the fossil fuel industry and other divestments that actively harm our people and our planet, and redirecting those resources towards sustainable systems and community power — especially in the community of New Haven,” EJC organizer Abigail Maher ’23 wrote to the News.

University spokesperson Karen Peart emphasized the University’s commitment to addressing climate change through “research and teaching, innovative strategies to reduce emissions on campus and the constant re-examination of its investment policies.”

“On Friday, students expressed their views on a more complete divestment from the fossil fuel industry,” Peart wrote in an email to the News. “The university is

committed to promoting freedom of speech and expression and recognizing students’ right to protest.”

The rally featured a series of speeches about the University and its spending policies. In addition to EJC organizers, Maher said that members of the New Haven Climate movement, Black Students for Disarmament at Yale, the Yale College Council, Yalies 4 Palestine, Disability Empowerment for Yale, Students Unite Now, and Yale Young Democratic Socialists of America all gave “powerfully moving speeches.”

The rally began with a joint speech from Bista and Garrett Frye-Mason ’23, who co-wrote a recent opinion piece in the News about the University’s endowment.

“We stand in front of the Schwarzman Center, funded by the CEO of the Blackstone Group, an investment management company,” Bista said during the speech. “[Blackstone] owns firms that have significant responsibility for the ongoing climate crisis.

These firms have played a direct role in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. They have forcefully stolen land, deforested it, and taken it for their own extraction and exploitation.”

Several speeches focused on the allocation and size of Yale’s endowment, with Maher describ-

ing the University’s investment choices as “inherently political.”

But Peart told the News in October that the endowment funds are subject to many restrictions with regard to their use. “ Ya l e ’s e n d ow m e n t i s restricted to support various aspects of the university’s core mission — from financial aid to faculty salaries, to research and scholarship and to student activities,” Peart wrote in October.

Organizers also called for Yale to increase its voluntary annual payment to the city of New Haven and to increase student financial aid.

University President Peter Salovey announced on Oct. 28 that the University would increase its voluntary annual payment to New Haven, but he did not provide a specific timeline. Peart told the News that Yale’s endowment supports thousands of jobs in New Haven, including “faculty and staff, union and non-union jobs.”

The University also announced financial aid expansions in October, including the elimination of the student income contribution.

In addition, the organizers called for the University to defund the Yale Police Department.

“BSDY has been researching YPD for two years now,” Callie Benson-Williams ’23, executive director of Black Students for Disarmament at Yale, said at the rally.

“Even in conversations with the Chief of Police himself, I have yet to get a clear answer on why YPD even exists in the first place, why a private institution is able to control a private militia with the ability to arrest public citizens they do not answer to.”

Benson-Williams argued that the existence of the YPD “draws a line” between the University and the city of New Haven, suggesting that the University reinvest the money dedicated to the YPD to “programs that are actually dedicated to New Haven’s safety.”

In October 2020, Salovey told the News that “virtually everything” about the operation of the YPD could be changed, but that abolishing the department was not an option.

“The bomb threat made against Yale on Friday reminds us that Yale Police Department officers must have the resources to be fully prepared to respond quickly to any life-threatening emer-

gency that might arise on campus,” Peart wrote in an email to the News.

In between speeches, organizers also led the protesters in songs and chants calling for changes to Yale’s financial policies. One chant listed other universities that have committed to divest from the fossil fuel industry, including Harvard University, Brown University and Columbia University, and demanded “Hey Yale, where are you?”

Salovey announced the formation of the Committee on Fossil Fuel Investment Principles in October 2020. Intended to advise the Yale Corporation on the ethical implementation of fossil fuel investment principles, the committee assembled a set of principles for investment in fossil fuel industries which was approved by the Yale Corporation in April 2021.

Peart pointed the News to these developments, adding that the University pledged in June 2021 that Yale would “achieve zero actual carbon emissions” by 2050.

Attendee Stevan Kamatovic ’25 took issue with some of the arguments that organizers made at the rally.

“I support the students’ freedom of speech, and I think the march was powerful,” Kematovic said. “However their actual premise behind Yale’s lack of divestment of fossil fuels is false. From my perspective, Yale is actually quite divested from fossil fuels, it is just a long process. I don’t think people realize that the results won’t be immediate.”

But Carigan McGuinn ’25 said she felt “empowered” by the rally, in particular when organizers invited students to share their “endowment dreams” — hopes for how Yale could better utilize its multi-billion dollar endowment that were written on slips of paper and affixed by EJC members to the side of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall.

“These wishes included asking Yale to pay its fair share to the city of New Haven, to divest in fossil fuels and to invest in better resources to support the wellbeing and success of students of all different backgrounds,” McGuinn said.

Yale’s endowment was most recently valued at $42.3 billion.

Contact LUCY HODGMAN at lucy.hodgman@yale.edu and ALESSIA DEGRAEVE at alessia.degraeve@yale.edu .

Dixwell’s Q-House, beloved community center, reopens after 18 years

BY BRIAN ZHANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After 18 years and around $16 million of funding, more than 800 beaming children and their parents gathered at 197 Dixwell Ave. on Saturday as community members celebrated the reopening of the Q-House, Dixwell’s beloved community center.

The Dixwell Community Center, or Q-House, held its ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday at 11 a.m., celebrating the revival of part of New Haven’s history, present and future. Following a dynamic marching band and cheerleading performance courtesy of Southern Connecticut State University’s Blue Steel Drumline and Hillhouse High School, the event saw a series of speaker presentations from city leaders and the Q-House advisory board, including Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison, former mayor Toni Harp and mayor re-elect Justin Elicker. Together, they commended the support of the many partnering organizations that made the center’s renovation and reopening possible, alongside the resilience and financial contributions of the Dixwell community as it pushed to “keep the House.” Attendees of the ceremony were then divided into small groups as they toured the two-story building.

“The concept is about empowerment of all,” said Morrison, who spearheaded the center’s reconstruction throughout the years. “[The Q-House] is a place to hope and dream and to exercise those things to make them a reality.”

Through its various accommodations, the new Q-House gives residents of all backgrounds the building blocks necessary to

“navigate and innovate” these dreams, according to Morrison, who herself enrolled in a weekly gymnastics course at the center as a child. Q-House emphasizes education and recreation alike, Morrison said.

On Saturday, featured facilities include a library, elderly lounge, museum, game rooms, gymnasiums and kitchens.

Though the accessibility and focus of specific areas in the Q will cater to certain age groups depending on the time of day, the services are provided for free and locals may reserve a space for themselves, family or friends.

Despite the current building being the center’s third rendition, Morrison explained that its original purpose as a 1920s settlement house has not changed. Both then and now, the center has strived to take care of those with limited access to economic and social opportunities, regardless of race and socioeconomic status. Saturday’s tour left many reminiscing of the various social activities in the Q that they or their children had once participated in.

Elsa Holahan, a junior at Hillhouse High School and a youth director on the center’s advisory board, stated that the Q’s history is based on the “stories and narratives” of community members, particularly those of Black New Haveners. Q’s new internal museum, named after Harp and her husband, captures these struggles and achievements of New Haven’s Black community through a multimedia display of historical photographs, art and documents.

Henry Fernandez, the executive director of Leadership, Education & Athletics in Partnership, a New Haven-based youth mentorship program, explained

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On Nov. 6, leaders and partners of Dixwell’s Q-House hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the reopened community center. that the current building ’s architecture has not left out its history. It maintains the African and religious motifs characteristic of the first version of the Q in 1924, thanks to the efforts of Fernandez’s friend and fellow New Havener Regina Winters-Toussaint, who designed the building before she passed away in 2016.

“This [building] is a testament to who [Winters] was as an architect,” Fernandez said. “It is a testament to her faith, and it is a testament to her love for children as the people of New Haven.”

Saturday’s ceremony marked the beginning of the Q-House’s revived legacy. New additions, including an operational space for Cornell Scott-Hill Health, will soon be made. Event speakers frequently emphasized Q’s commitment to empowering the city’s children. The newly renovated Stetson Library, for example, caters specifically to the youth. It now features an expanded African-American literature collection from the Diaspora and a teen area with interactive technology.

Similarly, young residents played a pivotal role in the preservation

of the “giant big family” that is Ward 22 — where “everyone looks out for each other,” said local Valerie McKinnie.

“We now have the opportunity to create our own everlasting memories,” Holahan said. “The Dixwell Q-House that we happily stand before today will unequivocally serve to support … the future generation of New Haven throughout the conquest of time.”

Morrison was elected as chair of the advisory board in January 2020.

Contact BRIAN ZHANG at brian.zhang@yale.edu .

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FENCING YALE TAKES FOUR TOP-10 FINISHES After over a year without play and an interim head coach, Yale Fencing returned to competition at the Penn State Garret Open with three top-10 finishes in women’s epee and foil and one in men’s saber.

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY ELIS IN HUNT FOR FIRST WIN In their first homestand of the season, the Bulldogs falter in back-to-back defeats to conference rivals Quinnipiac and Princeton. Despite losses, team chemistry shows promise for games down the line.

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“The end of the year is always emotional when you have to say goodbye to members of your program.”

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Elis seize Senior Day versus Cornell

BY BILLY KLINE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In its final fixture of the year, Yale (9–8, 4–3 Ivy) carried its recent momentum into a 2–1 victory over Cornell (7–9, 3–4). The Senior Day victory secured winning in-conference and overall records and marked the fifth win for the Blue and White in their final six games of the season.

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Goalie Gianna Meloni ’22 makes a return between the pipes to facilitate commanding victories against Cornell and Colgate.

Nice to get the win and a complete defensive game too.”

Another headline of the weekend was the return of the Bulldogs’ first-string goalie, Gianna Meloni ’22. Meloni made her return as the starting goalie in dramatic fashion, blanking both opponents with 16 saves against Cornell and then a whopping 32 saves against Colgate.

Meloni has yet to allow a goal this season after starting her senior season with a shutout against St. Anselm in the Bulldogs’ season opener. Following that first game, Pia Dukaric ’25 had started the Bulldogs’ last three games in goal, leading some to question when Meloni would return to the starting job. However, this weekend certainly saw Meloni reaffirm herself as the starting goalie for the team.

“Our team was really solid tonight. It's easier to play when you're scoring and your teammates are responding to communication in the D-zone,” said

BY SPENCER KING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team (4–2–0, 2–2–0 ECAC) bounced back from two conference losses last weekend with two impressive wins this Friday and Saturday against Cornell (1–4–1, 0–3– 1) and Colgate (11–3–0, 3–1–0).

The Bulldogs took down No. 15 Big Red 7–0 on Friday night, a team it hadn’t beaten since 2009, and then blanked the No. 4 Raiders 4–0 on Saturday.

One of the biggest changes from last weekend was in the Yale offense. After only scoring just one goal last weekend, the Bulldogs rebounded with a whopping 11 goals this weekend.

“This was a great team effort tonight, with lots of energy, hustle and crisp puck movement,” said Yale head coach Mark Bolding to Yale Athletics. “We talked about putting pucks to the net to find our offensive stride and it worked out.

Meloni following her standout performance against Colgate, “Everyone stepped up and played a complete 60 minutes, so I'm excited to see where we can go from here.”

While the goalie may be quick to deflect from her own performance, Meloni’s zero goals against average may certainly do the talking for her.

While the 7–0 blowout over Cornell is impressive, the Bulldogs 4–0 win over Colgate turned heads around not just the ECAC, but also the NCAA as a whole.

The Bulldogs were dominant in all aspects, hounding the Colgate skaters from the very start.

Colgate head coach Greg Fargo admitted to such in a postgame interview with Colgate Athletics. “I have to hand it to Yale as they were better than us all over the ice tonight, especially in the first two periods.”

Yale overwhelms DIII Vassar in opener

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Led by 16 points from guard Azar Swain ’22, all 18 Bulldogs in uniform saw the floor in the program’s first game in 20 months.

Playing at home for the first time since February 2020, Yale men’s basketball returned to the John J. Lee Amphitheater hardwood floor Tuesday night in its first competition since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

MEN'S BASKETBALL Small reminders of the pandemic remained visible in the stands: blue surgical masks dotted the faces of fans in attendance and signs reminded spectators of rules requiring vaccination and prohibiting food, while kids aged 11 and younger were absent, per Yale’s

current indoor sports attendance protocols. But down on the court, although coaches and players on the bench wore masks, the return of basketball was a relief — the rules and cadence of the game remained the same as they were when Yale competed 20 months ago.

Yale (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) settled in quickly against Division III opponent Vassar (0–0, 0–0 Liberty), leaning on a group of veteran guards as it opened an early lead that would only balloon as the game progressed. All 18 Bulldogs dressed for the game saw playing time in an 88–42 blowout, helping the Elis to an 11th straight win in their home opener.

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Cornell’s offense took an early lead with a goal by Caroline Ramsey, the team’s leading goalscorer. Ramsey found the bottom of the cage off a penalty corner taken by Kate MacGillis, putting the Big Red on top.

The Bulldogs fought back throughout the remainder of

the first half, but were unable to convert across their nine shots.

Despite leading on shots, the scoreboard saw Yale trailing 1–0 into halftime.

Cornell’s lead wouldn’t last much longer, with Yale dominating early in the third quarter.

A pair of penalty corners allowed Imogen Davies ’22 to put two shots into the cage, taking a 2–1 lead the Bulldogs would hold onto for the rest of the game. “[Davies] had one of her best games ever,” head coach Pam Stuper told Yale Athletics after the game. “She made sure we won.

She played great on both sides of the ball, and she finished.”

Davies was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week for her performance against Cornell.

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The Blue and White secured a winning record thanks to Imogen Davies’ ’22 dominant third-quarter performance against Cornell.

Bulldogs beat Brown in home finale The Yale men’s soccer team claimed a 2–1 victory against Brown on Saturday. The victory marked the Bulldogs’ Senior Day — their last home game of the season. The team’s sole senior Enzo Okpoye ’22 was celebrated by teammates and fans alike during his last game at Reese Stadium.

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The Bulldogs (7–4–4, 4–0–2 Ivy) grabbed their fourth Ivy win with two goals from forward Kahveh Zahiroleslam ’24, who is now tied with forward Paolo Carroll ’23 for most Eli goals this season.

The Yale defense stayed strong against the Bears (6–9–1, 2–3–1 Ivy) until the final minute when Brown’s Charlie Adams got the ball past keeper Elian Haddock ’23 to deny Yale the shutout.

“We just want to keep it compact,” defender TJ Presthus ’25 said about the team’s defensive strategy. “Establish our line of pressure early, win the first and second balls. It's huge having [Jeremy Haddock] next to me.

You know your best offense is a great defense, so we wanted to set up a counterattack and see what we could do off of that.”

The game kicked off on Saturday with high attacking energy on both sides, but the match remained scoreless in the first half. Yale worked hard to create chances, setting up a few strong shots that just barely missed the mark. Elian Haddock and

the Bulldog defense restricted Brown’s ability to make quality shots, with the opponent’s three shots requiring just one save from the Yale keeper.

The Elis recorded the game’s first shot on goal seven minutes into the contest as midfielder Sigfus Arnason ’23 fired a shot at Brown keeper Max Waldau that was ultimately saved.

Minutes later, forward Eric Lagos ’24 launched a shot that went over the crossbar. Brown recorded a shot on goal with 15 minutes remaining in the half as the Bears found a shooting opportunity off of a corner kick.

When the teams returned for the second half, the Bulldogs began to take control of the game. In the 56th minute, Yale got its first big chance. A flurry of action in the box ended with the

ball at the feet of Arnason, who crossed the ball in the air to find Zahiroleslam. The sophomore forward headed it past the Brown keeper to complete the play and get Yale on the scoreboard.

Just seven minutes later, Zahiroleslam found the back of the net again. With the ball at his feet inside the box, Zahiroleslam tapped the ball between the defender’s legs before firing a shot into the top left corner.

Zahiroleslam’s fancy footwork doubled Yale’s lead and provided some breathing room for the Elis in the final 28 minutes of play. The goal was Zahiroleslam’s seventh of the season, matching Carroll for the most on the team. The forward’s two goals also earned him Ivy League SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 10

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The Yale men’s soccer team defeated Brown 2–1 on Saturday night in the last home game of the season.

YALE WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY GOALTENDER GIANNA MELONI’S ’22 GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE SO FAR THIS SEASON, RANKING HER FIRST IN THE NCAA.

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YALE’S TIMMY T TAKES It’s Timothée Chalamet’s World — And I Wish I Wasn’t Living In It // BY AUDREY KOLKER Maybe it’s all two minutes and thirty three seconds of the “Statistics” video, maybe it’s the fact that he does, actually, look like a pointy Italian shoe that was turned into a real boy by a witch’s curse, maybe it’s because I’m a contrarian at heart — whatever the reason, I love to hate Timothée Chalamet. His bony little body. His presence in every movie I’ve seen in theaters since 2017. The stupid accent on the stupid first e in his stupid French name. (You don’t see me walking around telling people to call me Audrée.)

Tell me I don’t get it. Tell me how boys who look like they have TB are really hot. Tell me I didn’t see that one movie where he’s randomly a heroin addict and Steve Carrell is his dad — he gave a really moving performance in that one, actually.

Tell me the scene in “Call Me By Your Name” where he did unmentionable things to a piece of fruit was high art. I don’t care.

As he dominates the cinemasphere, I humbly submit: We are rewarding a theatre-kid-classclown hybrid with the attention he wants more than anything else in the entire world, and we’re already paying the price. I mean, here is a man who gave like eight women at NYU chlamydia. (I have no source for that; it is a blatant rumor that all New York City kids spread ritually; I believe it with my entire heart to be true.) And since when is fragile beauty a substitute for talent? He gestured his way through “The French Dispatch,” he felt so out of place in “Little Women” and I fell asleep during “Dune,” which is probably on me, but I feel like he could have been better.

I don’t like to see Timothée win.

Unfortunately for me, the universe doesn’t seem to care. Whatever. Let Timothée stare down at us from magazine covers and piles of box office revenue — I’ll be glaring back.

Contact AUDREY KOLKER at audrey.kolker@yale.edu .

A Divide as Sharp as his Jawline: What’s Up With Timothée Chalamet? //BY ANGELIQUE DE ROUEN Whether you know him as Smokecheddathaassgetta or Lil Timmy Tim, it’s needless to say that Timothée Chalamet has made his mark on the industry.

Film geeks and horny gen-zers laud him as the great movie star of our generation. Okay well, technically he’s not in our generation but he’s just 2 years over the deadline, so he gets a Dean’s excuse for this one. As a bilingual actor who is over 5’8”, he definitely has pretty much everything going for him.

(Don’t worry, short kings, you still have a place in our hearts<3).

However, there is still plenty of debate about whether or not Mr. Chagalamoo deserves the hype.

Personally, I have heard some people say that he could make them part like the Red Sea, and others say that they have the feminine urge to snap him like a twig. All I can say for both of these awfully

violent descriptions is...are y’all okay???

On a more serious note, I feel like as of right now, Chalamet deserves to enjoy his time in the spotlight.

With my utter lack of research, I don’t find him to be particularly cancellable. He’s just a guy who had a fun time with a peach and potential cannibal on camera, and now he’s really famous. And I love that for him! Is this a strange career path? Oh abso-fucking-lutely. But hey, he’s definitely “Dune” a lot better than me right now (buhdum-tssss), so who am I to judge?

I’m hoping he continues to ride this wave for as long as he can — we have a pretty nice and healthy parasocial relationship going on right now. He makes movies, and I write about him in my college’s daily newspaper. I’m rooting for us!

But no matter where you lie on the Chalamet-o-meter, one thing’s for sure, Timothée knows how to keep things nice and peachy.

Contact ANGELIQUE DE ROUEN at angelique.derouen@yale.edu .

Cultivating a Chalamet Cult //BY ABIGAIL DIXON I was first introduced to Timothee Chalamet in “Lady Bird” when I was sixteen, and all I felt toward him was outrage at the apathy of his character. My infatuation bloomed only later, after meeting — and falling for — a Chalamet-esque boy in real life. From this perspective, I could suddenly appreciate the appeal of the combination of cool intelligence and boundless absurdity that had sent the internet into a craze. Now, I’ve almost watched “Dune” three times, and that’s not because of the stunning cinematography.

Because of the latency of my love, I can sympathize with those who do not understand the hype.

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The sharp accuracy of Chalamet’s acting pierces through me each time. He affects me so thoroughly, I am often unable to watch one of his movies without pausing it an absurd amount, from when he sheepishly looks at the ground to boldly confesses his love. I still have not managed to finish watching “The King,” and that film premiered in 2019.

Chalamet’s charm still extends beyond the screen: his hypnotizing self awareness exudes an aura of comfortability — confidence without arrogance, self-consciousness without insecurity. This alluring balancing act is one that is only recently seen as attractive in men.

People are looking less for a protector and more for a companion. The embracing of sensitivity in harmony with masculinity rather than discordant with it is what has allowed for the rise of this

newly desirable archetype. Timothee Chalamet is the figurehead of the movement, and although it took me a while, I am following him devoutly.

Contact ABIGAIL DIXON at abigail.dixon@yale.edu .

Ten Things I Hate About Timothée Chalamet //BY JACQUELINE KASKEL I don’t care how you pronounce it — with a fancy French accent or a butchered American one. Timothée Chalamet is my generation’s most absurd and uncalled-for obsession. I pride myself in saying that I have never seen a Timothée Chalamet movie. And it’s not that I haven’t tried. Believe me, I have.

When “Little Women” received its crap ton of accolades, I put it on my list — who didn’t? But I never got around to it. People told me to watch “Call Me by Your Name,” too, but life happened. “Lady Bird” has been on my Netflix watchlist for far too long. I’m not even ashamed to say that I bought the book Dune — not to read in preparation for the movie but to enjoy as a substitute. And I’m definitely not ashamed to say that I only learned he was in “Interstellar” a few days ago; though, to be fair, I’ve never actually seen the movie.

While I’m sure he’s got talent, I don’t see the need to cast him in every single new movie. He’s a twig for crying out loud. A goddamn twig. Don’t tell me that his jawline and cheekbones could cut diamonds. That boy still looks like a child. A very sharp child with the beginning of a rat mustache and too much hair product. Are you telling me that the world — most notably the female population — is swooning over a 25-year-old actor who hasn’t yet gone through puberty? And do you know what gets me the most? He’s playing Willy Wonka in the new 2023 film Wonka. Think about Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp. Now think about Timothée Chalamet. Am I missing something there? Shouldn’t he be portraying Charlie? Or maybe the director cast him solely for his resemblance to the traumatized adolescent Willy Wonka in headgear from the 2005 movie.

It seems like Timothée Chalamet should be sticking with his teenage heartthrob roles for the time being — he definitely does not strike me as someone who could play a leading adult role. But what do I know? I severely lack both a proper Chalamet education — which I do not plan on rectifying — and the qualifications of a casting director. And so, to all the Chalamet fans out there that I have offended today, you are welcome to carry on. Love him. Kneel before him. Swoon at his French. He was only ever yours to begin with.

Contact JACQUELINE KASKEL at jacqueline.kaskel@yale.edu .

Timothée Chalamet: the revival of the movie star //BY CHRISTION ZAPPLEY

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HOT TAKES See the story above^

Timothée Chalamet is known for many things. Some may even say that he is a renaissance man. He is a mathematician (see his highly advanced lecture on statistics), rapper (see his Roman’s Revenge performance), and even an advanced computer scientist (see his recently discovered professional technology reviews). But, to most, Chalamet is an actor, and, an amazing one, at that.

I personally discovered him during the 2017 Academy Awards season when “Lady Bird” and “Call Me By Your Name” were up for prestigious accolades. Both films featured the legend himself. In “Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, Chalamet played Kyle, a supporting character in the second half of the film who dates the protagonist, Christine. Chalamet embodied

the persona of someone who reads books at parties, studies ‘A People’s History of the United States’ (as if anyone actually read that book while they were in high school) and scoffs at capitalism while having enough money to not have to worry about it. He was uncaring, inattentive and absolutely full of himself.

Yet somehow, Chalamet managed to make an entire audience still care for Kyle as a human being and the issues he faces with his terminally ill father. That same year, Chalamet was Oscar nominated for best actor for his performance in “Call Me By Your Name” where he played an artistic, sensitive and caring teenager who discovers his own sexuality and identity one summer in Italy.

By the end of the film, you feel the pain of Chalamet’s character, Elio, as he cries in front of a fireplace to a Sufjan Stevens song. When the credits rolled after this scene at the New York Film Festival, Chalamet’s performance inspired the longest standing ovation in festival history.

At the young age of 20, Chalamet proved that he could carry a complex, emotionally-rich film on his own.

These were just Chalamet’s breakout roles, which only hint toward his full capabilities as an actor. He has kept up with the likes of legends such as Steve Carell, Frances McDormand, Oscar Isaac and more. He has already established himself as a dominant duo alongside Irish actress Saoirse Ronan (which needs no further elaboration if you have seen the field scene at the end of ‘Little Women’). They are an onscreen couple instantly reminiscent of powerhouse predecessors such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway and Viola Davis and Denzel Washington.

Whether you think Chalamet is overrated, his accolades speak for him. With the simple addition of his name to a project, support is nearly guaranteed. For example, the newly-released “Dune” is based on a 1965 novel. Those who have read it famously consider the book as dense and complex, while many others have not heard of the text at all. But with Chalamet and superstar Zendaya’s faces on the poster, it was a guarantee that people were going to watch. According to Screen Rant, the film took $41 million during its opening weekend in theaters and was streamed by 1.9 million households on HBO Max. Chalamet is a glimpse of what the future of cinema will hold for actors of our generation. There is lots of discourse about whether movie stars are a dying concept.

Critics say individual actors no longer have the starpower to draw out audiences just for them. But from 2017’s “Lady Bird”/“Call Me

By Your Name” couplet, to “Dune” and “The French Dispatch” filling current theaters, Chalamet has proven that this claim is untrue.

The movie star can return home to the silver screen.

“Dune” is currently streaming on HBO Max until November 21st.

Both “Dune” and “The French Dispatch” are currently screening at Criterion Cinemas in New Haven.

Contact CHRISTION ZAPPLEY at christion.zappley@yale.edu .

Dear TIME Magazine, Timothée Chalamet is just a hot guy //BY CAROLINE PARKER Here’s my hot take: I don’t like Timothée Chalamet. I don’t like his smarmy, New York-style pretentiousness. I don’t like his faux-philosophical answers to straightforward press questions. I don’t like how the entire internet has decided that he is the second coming of Marlon Brando. He’s talented, sure, but I don’t think he’s the amazing actor we’re being led to believe he is.

He always plays dark, broody intellectual types and consistently relies

on more-powerful performances by his female co-stars. I didn’t like him in “Lady Bird,” I wasn’t impressed by his performance in “Little Women” and I don’t have time or energy to watch him hike through the desert for two and a half hours in “Dune.” I’ve tried to endear him to me by learning about his life. After a quick dive into the world of celebrity gossip, I learned that he’s a nepotism baby who was the Typhoid Mary of a — supposed — chlamydia outbreak at New York University.

I’m sure he works hard, and he seems to treat his fans well. I respect him for that. I just don’t think he deserves the lauding he gets. Last month, Chalamet covered TIME magazine. The publication vaunted him as a “Next Generation Leader” alongside activists, advocates and pioneers. When I saw the article, I actually laughed out loud. Even among actors of his age, I wouldn’t consider him a leader. He isn’t pushing boundaries like Zendaya or Hunter Schafer. He doesn’t do extensive charity work like Emma Watson or Selena Gomez. The article mentions his climate change activism, but the mention is in passing. There’s nothing to chronicle there. No one thinks of Timothée Chalamet first when questioned about young environmental advocates. Chalamet’s brand is built on looking pretty and getting lucky in his projects — of course his powerful parents help too. Putting Chalamet on the cover above actual change-makers told me one thing: TIME magazine is desperate for readers.

Of course, if Timothée Chalamet asked me out, I wouldn’t say no. I’m principled, not blind. There is that chlamydia thing to consider though…

Contact CAROLINE PARKER at c.parker@yale.edu .

Timothée Chalamet: An Icon Growing Before Our Eyes //BY SOPHIA GROFF Since his leading role in the 2017 romantic drama “Call Me By Your Name,” Timothée Chalamet’s career has been set on an exponential upward trajectory. His performance in the film as Elio Perlman earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. At 22 years old, he became the category’s third-youngest nominee in history, forecasting that the budding actor had a sensational career in his future.

2017 was a busy year for Chalamet; aside from starring in “Call Me

By Your Name,” he also appeared in a number of other popular coming-of-age films, including “Lady Bird” and “Hot Summer Nights.”

He later starred in the emotional drama “Beautiful Boy” (2018), earning a Golden Globe Award nomination, among other prestigious recognitions. 2019 was another year of success; Chalamet played Henry V of England in “The King” and joined the cast of “Little Women” to play Theodore “Laurie” Laurence, a performance that was met with widespread acclaim. These roles, among others, quickly earned him recognition as one of the youngest, most popular and most talented actors of our time.

Now in 2021, Chalamet has reached new levels of success once again. His career seems to thrive more and more every year as he continues to impress American and international audiences alike.

His most recent films — “Dune” and “The French Dispatch” — have also met positive reviews. As a new take on Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel from the sixties, “Dune” has appealed to readers of the book, Chalamet fans and science fiction lovers alike. Director Denis Villenueve did make some controversial changes, including the pacing; “Dune” (2021) is only part one of the novel’s storyline. Time is split between awing the audience with impressive, high-budget visuals and tugging at their heartstrings with

tense character moments fraught with danger. However, some viewers feel that the recent adaptation left out crucial elements of the novel, brushing over key political context and world building that was essential to the storyline. Still, Chalamet’s performance as Paul Atreides was stunning, and his on-screen chemistry with actors Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Furguson, Jason Momoa, and, briefly, Zendaya is undeniable.

Regardless of your opinions on his latest films, Timothée Chalamet’s talent has become recognized worldwide. The 25-year-old has already seen levels of success of which most people can only dream, and yet it is safe to say that the young actor’s career is still only just getting started.

Contact SOPHIA GROFF at sophia.groff@yale.edu .

The Timothée Tabloid //BY ANASTASIA IBRAHIM In my mind, I’m already dating Timothée Chalamet. Actually, we’re married. And while I might have been a little bit apprehensive about sharing him with 50% of the female population aged 18-25, I’ve come around to it. I’m cool now.

Like a classic Scarlett Johansson/Colin Jost love story, he’s cinema’s sweetheart, and I’m the stuffy Ivy league student — minus the successful career. Also like Johansson and Jost, Timmy and I met on SNL. He was the irresistible SmokeCheddathaAssGetta, and I was one of the 14.8 million views on Youtube. But I am not the 99%. I did not fall in love with him because of the elegance of his name and nothing else. I recognize his merit.

Because besides his perfect name, face, life, fashion sense, aura, heritage, hairline, (impeccably-sized) ears and the universe not only working in his favor but bowing down at his feet, he’s a humble, hard-working, talented young actor. He’s versatile. Not only on screen (the “Rap Roundtable” skit, “Little Women,” “Dune” and “The French Dispatch,” just to name a recent few), but also on my Instagram explore page. I never know which Chalamet I’m going to get. Black and white Time Magazine Chalamet? Paparazzi-photographed coy teenage sex appeal Chalamet?

Ratatouille meme Chalamet? (If you haven’t seen it, it’s definitely worth the Google search). Another tool in his toolbox — no — he is the tool in his toolbox. Pedestrian TV called him the “internet’s boyfriend,” and well, yeah. He’s the standard, the prototype now. Whenever my friends ask me what I’m looking for in a man, I respond ‘Chalamet’, and just like Jennifer Lawrence reacting to Lady Gaga at the Golden Globes, they respond “Oh. Oooooh.” It’s immediately understood; no questions asked. When it comes to Timothée, there’s no room for taste disputes. He’s a universal actor, a global citizen, and everybody’s type.

Not to mention, his appeal and remarkable talent is underscored by his meekness and charisma.

He’s witty, kind, and never acts ostentatiously. He blushes with an awkward smile whenever he’s complimented in an interview and gives off the impression that he has no idea how famous he is. In fact, he’s so unaware of his fame that despite a powerful celebrity fanbase (among them are Zendaya, Emma Chamberlain, Kendall Jenner, and Jimmy Fallon), he doesn’t follow any of them back on Instagram. And the reason is crystal clear-- he feels unworthy.

Oh yeah-- he also fucked John Mulaney’s ex-wife-- right after Mulaney made jokes about her being in love with him in Seth Rogan’s 2018 “Hilarity for Charity’’ special. Chalamet’s a Pete-Davidson-level romantic power player.

Honestly, what’s there not to love about him?

Contact ANASTASIA IBRAHIM at anastasia.ibrahim@yale.edu .

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Sex on the WKND: Waiting for Sex Welcome back to Sex on the WKND! We’re an anonymous YDN column dedicated to answering your burning questions about sex, love and anything in between.

Last year, we had one writer, but now we are a collective of students, each with our own unique sexual and romantic experiences. We’ve had straight sex, queer sex and long, long periods without sex. We’ve been in long-term relationships, we’ve walked twenty minutes to avoid former hookups on Cross Campus and we’ve done the whole FroCo-group-cest thing. We may be different this year, but we’re still sex-positive, we’re still anti-capitalist, and we sure as hell still support the Green New Deal.

Obsessing over sex is a Yale tradition as old as the Oldest College Daily itself.

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Does anyone wait until marriage on campus?

I don’t personally know anyone on campus who is planning on it, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that yes, some of the 6,200 undergraduates at Yale will wait until marriage before they have sex.

Most of us probably won’t, but some of us will. And there are a ton of reasons to wait.

Maybe you’re particularly religious. Maybe you think waiting will make your eventual marriage stronger. Or maybe sex, to you, is so vulnerable and sacred that it should only be shared with a life-long partner, a spouse. Whatever works for you, works for you.

I’m sure you know that some people on campus will wait until marriage, but I get why you would ask the question. At Yale, it can seem like sex is everywhere. Our laundry rooms have more condoms, lube packets and dental dams than working dryers. In between learning the campus WiFi passwords and how to bluebook, part of first-year orientation involves watching CHEs slide a condom onto a wooden phallus. The school newspaper even has an entire column dedicated to sex!

Yale’s open culture about sex can be

really great. For the most part (or at least in my experience), people can talk about their sexual experiences without feeling shame.

We have the freedom to seek intimacy and explore our sexualities without public judgement. As a queer person who spent most of my life in the closet, Yale’s sexual climate has empowered me to accept and celebrate my sexuality. This campus has been an environment for me to explore sexual relationships I have not been able to explore in other spaces. Talking about sex is also necessary to forge a healthy sexual culture — we need CHE and CCE workshops and other public discussions about sex to prevent sexual violence and build better understandings of consent and physical intimacy.

But this culture can still be toxic in some ways, particularly when it begins to equate sexual freedom with sexual indulgence.

Looking around, it sometimes seems like the only way to liberate our sexualities is to have a lot of sex with a lot of people. For some people, frequent sex genuinely is a freeing experience. But I know people on campus who have felt pressured to have sex to meet this singular definition of sexual liberation. In reality, sexual liberation means something different to everyone.

It might mean completely rejecting marriage as a restrictive heteronormative institution designed for men to control women. Like I said, whatever works for you, works for you. And marriage doesn’t work for everyone. The first time I had queer sex, I definitely wasn’t thinking about waiting until marriage. I was thinking of my unrealized desires I had been harboring for years, my longing for a union I had been deprived of for far too long. I was thinking of the guy in front of me. I was thinking of the space between us.

I was done waiting.

But for other people, sexual liberation can definitely mean waiting for sex. Waiting might be a way to claim control over your body. Maybe you prefer other forms of physical intimacy. Maybe it’s important for you to build an emotional connection with your partner before you have sex.

(But if this is the case for you, please keep in mind that your partner might not actually want that emotional connection. I was once in the middle of hooking up with a girl I really liked when she told me, and I quote, “Wait, don’t catch feelings.”). We should all have the freedom to define sexual liberation for ourselves. For you, that might mean waiting until marriage.

Strangers: Dancing with Molly Smith ‘25 // BY IRIS TSOURIS Molly Smith was going to find the Grand Theft Auto V strip club at any cost. It did not matter that she had a slew of in-game cops trailing her or a seven-hour dance rehearsal the following day. Our suite’s newly-acquired Xbox was hers for the night and hers alone.

As her roommate, I watched, transfixed.

Even now, Molly plays GTA V, crashing cars into buildings and reveling in violent chaos, with surprising elegance. While I spoke to her, she unfolded one leg and stretched it forward, as if en pointe. It just makes sense — she’s danced since childhood, a fact that extends to her extracurriculars on campus, where she is a part of both Yale Dancers and Rhythmic Blue.

“It’s like a form of therapy,” she told me. “Every day when I’m running around, doing all the crazy things that a Yale student does, I can go to dance for an hour or two or three… or seven, on Sundays, and I feel peaceful again.”

Molly hails from Clermont, a city right outside of Orlando. She is also what I would call aggressively Floridian, but not at all in the bizarre, upside down Florida-man-goes-downright-insane kind of way. No, Molly is Floridian in that she wears her hair in beachy waves, dons star-shaped earrings and believes, ardently, in ghosts.

Not malicious ghosts, she clarified, but “comforting spirits.”

Divine intervention, if you will.

In Clermont, Molly was a child-model-turned-actressturned-filmmaker. You may recognize her, if you regularly browse 2013 Justice catalogs. Her recent films, social commentaries focusing on memory and perception, have racked up two Student Emmys, seven nominations and a YoungArts award.

Her most famous, Dear America, a film about gun violence, prods the audience with the question, “Why must we sit and wait to be shot?”

I asked her about her start in filmmaking.

“I was at an acting workshop as a 12-year-old, and this casting director was going to come and watch us perform scenes,” she replied. “She was notoriously mean… and I was so scared. And I told the acting coach like, ‘I don’t want to do it. I’m scared of this lady.’ And he was like, ‘No. Go write a scene about someone telling you you’re not good enough and perform that for her.’”

It was at this moment that

Molly discovered that the storytelling behind the camera would enrapture her more than acting ever could. Today, she remains captivated, not only contributing to but also judging in film festivals, as well as furthering her own personal projects.

“Now, I’m working with an editor and a post-production coordinator to finish up a documentary that’s very personal to me, about my life. About my relationship with my father. It’s called ‘Bridge for the Ocean.’”

“Bridge for the Ocean” is, at its core, a film about a daughter’s struggle to reconcile with her father’s conservatism. “We butt heads a lot, which is kind of what the film is about,” she said, “and so after [my gap year], I saw kind of the value of the things that he grew up on.”

At the same time, it conveys the story of Molly’s gap year in Green Turtle Cay, an island in the Bahamas and a place she has had ties to for her entire life. Her father, who first chartered boats through the Bahamas in college, began visiting the cay routinely in adulthood. Eventually, he started bringing Molly with him.

The people there, she said, are like her family. From them, she learned how to live on her own for the first time, how to cultivate family dynamics and honor the day of rest. Bahamian life was, in many ways, significantly more traditional and religiously oriented than what she was accustomed to. It was also much more languid, undisturbed by the reaches and over-saturation of flashy American materialism. During the day, Molly and her friends would take a boat out on the ocean and spear fish for their dinner. At night, the sky was unclouded by light pollution. She could see the stars.

“In the Bahamas, you could finally see what the sky really looked like,” she frowned, wistfully. “You weren’t clouded by… this fast-paced life and all these choices. It’s kind of like a step back in time for a moment.”

After three months in the Bahamas, she came back to Florida, a return that was, unfortunately, not as pleasant.

“There were a lot of times where I sort of felt like a failure,” Molly admitted, quietly.

Like many Yale students, she is plagued by the immense pressure to reach perfection. And she felt she had made it when she was admitted from a high school that didn’t regularly see Ivy League acceptances. Her community,

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too, had erupted with reverence.

“But when I decided to take a gap year, a lot of people thought I dropped out. And I hated that,” she grimaced in recollection.

“I was working at the mall, and I saw a lot of students from my high school, and they would be like, ‘Oh, Molly dropped out, and now she’s working at the mall!’

And, you know, obviously, that wasn’t true, but I felt like a dropout.”

And while she would constitute working at American Eagle as a valuable experience, it was also, like most retail jobs, indubitably distressing.

“There was actually a time where, like, a customer yelled at me and told me I was never gonna go anywhere in life and that I was a horrible associate because I messed up something on the register,” she said. “The general public is so mean. That’s kind of what I take away from it, but it was good for me to do that. I worked there for a year and a half, and I have a new appreciation for service workers now.”

Whenever Molly enters our room, she’ll either greet me with a nonchalant “Hey,” a cheerful “Eeeris!” or, my favorite — “Hello, baby bird!” More often than not, she’ll report the latest on Librex.

“I just, there’s something so honest about it,” she explained, giggling. “It’s people trolling each other and horny people on the same app, and I think there’s just something so lovely about that.”

I also cannot write about Molly without mentioning this: she has an astounding ability to replicate the exact inflection and strange, gravelly timbre of Lin Manuel Miranda’s voice. Ask her about her impression, and she’ll burst into song — “LIGHTS UP on Washington HEIGHTS UP at the break of day...”

If you ask Molly for genuine song recommendations, though, she’ll immediately resort to “Potato Salad,” written by her friend, Elise, whom she met at a music camp. It was actually Molly’s goal, for a while, to make “Potato Salad” reach viral status on campus, just by virtue of playing it for every Yalie that stepped foot into our suite. “The lyrics are crazy. It’s great!” she exclaimed.

“What does she say, ‘Let’s drop some acid and eat potato salad?’

I think that’s fucking awesome.”

In the corner of Molly’s room lies a wooden shank, a gift from her FOOT leader. It’s only fitting that Molly owns this — like her

// MOLLY SMITH

shank, she is beautiful and terrifyingly sharp, an ultra-capable warrior princess. Our suite jokes, she could take the remaining seven of us in a fight and still emerge victorious. There is a highly-disciplined, but similarly unquelled ferocity to her.

Molly possesses sensitivity and softness just the same. She perceives, with staggering clarity, very slight changes in atmosphere and emotion. Out of the entire suite, she gives the most hugs, especially when she notices a suitemate in low spirits. And she is blatantly unafraid, as she puts it, to express herself. Maybe that is why we have such spectacular drunk girl moments: on one fateful Friday night out, following the momentous birth of our Snackpass chicken, Molly grabbed my face and crooned into my ear: “I’d go to war for you, queen!!!” This particular instance has stayed with me to this day.

Sober moments with Molly are equally as precious, including, but not limited to: Molly carrying me down a mountain after

I had sustained an injury; curling up in our Target-kids-section bean bag chairs during a collective all-nighter; picking out sundried tomatoes, together, from our GHeav breakfast sandwiches; listening to Molly playing her original song, “Adults Are All Children,” on the Davenport piano. While I reminisced over these instances, Molly was cackling gleefully, as the purple glow of the GTA strip club finally saturated our common room — a shared moment of respite after a long, harrowing week.

It occurred to me, as I watched her fiddling with the Xbox controller, that our quiet coexistence as roommates, stripped of the overt displays of friendship, is likely what sisterhood is. To trust without experiencing inhibition, to give without demanding reciprocation.

How can I look at Molly — incisive, arresting, precocious Molly — how can I look at her and not realize, I’d go to war for her, too?

Contact IRIS TSOURIS at iris.tsouris@yale.edu .

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YALE?

WHY ARE WE HERE? The purpose of a Yale education and the threat to it

// BY ETHAN DODD Made to choose between Zoom University or taking time off last year, many Yale students rightfully questioned what a Yale education is for. Campus is still dealing with the disruption of the pandemic. Many extracurriculars are struggling to cement commitment in leadership and rank and file alike as students of all ages seek a better work-life balance and underclassmen especially have replaced the typical extracurricular regime with internships. Unsurprisingly, a year of isolation has made Yalies more reticent to commit to others, even if it might be for their own good. In this flux, it is no worse a time than ever to ask the perennial question: Why are we here?

Excellence to Every End Many Yalies choose to come here for what stuffy intellectuals call the life of the mind. Claudia Meng ’23 explains that she has wanted to attend Yale since coming to New Haven at age 14 for a debate competition.

“I loved Yale,” Meng said. “I thought it was artsy. It was intellectual. Where can I go where people think reading is really cool?”

Loving the curiosity of Yalies, she marveled over her classmates’ ability to switch from philosophical discussion about the meaning of Hegel to debates about the economic crisis.

Meng chose to attend the elite boarding school Phillips Academy Andover for the same reason she came to Yale. “I wanted to be in an academic environment where everyone cared about what they were learning,” she said.

However, “caring” means much more than just emotion to Yalies like Meng. In debate, dance and Model U.N. at Andover, Meng said her relationship with extracurriculars “was defined by being good at them.” She internalized the Andover ethos: “You never did something casually. We were implicitly expected to be excellent at everything.”

Seeking to excel at one’s interests sounds self-centered, but it is arguably what a Yale education provides.

“Yes, my purpose here is very focused on myself. That is the purpose of education: learning for the sake of learning,” Meng said. Jason Altshuler ’23 wishes to learn and grow from his education.

Peter Bowman-Davis ’25 plans to major in physics and philosophy to build the foundations for a lifetime of learning.

Excelling, growing, learning and building: these verbs imply a progressive development in what it means to live a better life. Altshuler says Yale offers “a buffet of personal experiences.” Each of us is free to choose which parts of life to enjoy. But if we are to truly learn and excel, Bowman-Davis says it must come from developing an intuitive mode about how to approach life. According to him, at a place like Yale we are expected to step back and think: “What is the significance of what I’m doing?”

Community and the Good Life Learning to enjoy life is crucial to why Yalies come here, but Altshuler noted that “a lot of people come to college without a clear sense of why they’re here.” Perhaps that is the point.

“Music does not accomplish anything. It is just beautiful and expressive and meaningful,” Altshuler, a musician of many stripes, asserted. Akin to music, a liberal arts education lacks a clear, instrumental purpose. It does not teach skills directly applicable to many career paths. As a philosophy major, Altshuler probably knows this quite well.

Nonetheless, “everything shapes you,” he said. “Every semester, classes speak to each other.” Altshuler called this alchemy. The word is apt. Only the superstitious human psyche can seem to construct the meaning of life. A Yale education offers this opportunity, and we seek it unwittingly.

Of course, living and learning for their own sake do not occur in a solipsis-

tic vacuum. They require a community.

An offensive lineman on Yale’s football team, Bennie Anderson ’24 chose Yale not because it would necessarily land his dream of playing in the NFL, but because of “having the opportunity to interact with all the guys on the team.”

“We are all different. I like to read comic books, cook and listen to jazz. But we’re all brothers. I would do anything for any of the guys on the team. And they would do the same for me,” Anderson said. Seeking a community that supports each player’s full potential for the sake of the team resembles Meng’s desire to surround herself with people who care about what they are learning. Similarly, Altshuler loves singing lead vocals and playing bass in the background of his band because both mean “being part of a whole.” Tellingly, he said, “Playing with other people ... just feels like life.”

Means to an End or to No End No matter their passion, many flock to Yale for the learning community that makes accessing the good life possible. But such high-minded pursuits are truly a privilege. For many, perhaps even most Yalies, a Yale education represents something far more mundane, but fundamentally important: economic opportunity.

Yale attracts and inculcates professional ambition in many of its students.

To them, Yale is a means to ascending into the elite or securing employment after graduation. A first-generation, low-income student from the United Kingdom, Joe Peck ’22 remembers sitting on the stairs as a child, wondering, “What if I’m not successful?”

For students like Zachary Zabib ’22, his ambitions for success and economic security mean recognizing the sacrifices his mother made to send him to a private Jewish day school and now Yale.

Zach has majored in global affairs in part to learn from professors who have real world experience rather than political science professors who “write books for a living.” After Directed Studies, Zach deprioritized the intellectual part of Yale. “I didn’t come here to be the smartest person. I came here to have the tools for success,” he said.

The fact is pre-professionalism pervades Yale. “When I applied, I thought there was no pre-professionalism at Yale, that there was a distinct absence,” Meng said. “Since being here, there are significant pockets of Yale that do fixate on what job they are taking after college, but it is segmented out of the academic experience.”

To say her initial perception does not match the reality would be an understatement. Finance and consulting absorbed over 30 percent of the class of 2020 in their first year after graduation.

While the potential for professional success can relieve stress for the disempowered and less financially stable, the same opportunity of a Yale education can steer students away from finding purpose, generating an unhealthy status hierarchy in its place. Meng explained that people who are unsure of what they want to do choose professions that close the fewest doors, pay exorbitant salaries and confer institutional validation.

“The timeline distorts the way in which people understand opportunities available to them,” Meng continued. Coincidentally, the gilded doors of finance and consulting recruiting start to close as the leaves fall off the trees in New Haven.

According to Jeremy Haddock ’23, these times and socioeconomic pressures determine that many Yalies value what they should be instead of what they want to be. Haddock, who identifies as someone who finds purpose in the world of startups, said, “I know a lot of people don’t even really try to figure it out, which makes for a culture ever so slightly less innovative, creative, risk-taking, novel and growth-oriented.”

Alec Chai ’22 said this issue is partic-

ularly pronounced in the pre-med community.

“There are a lot of people who could find better fits in other things that they haven’t explored much because outside of medicine, jobs are much more confusing,” Chai, a reluctant pre-med himself, explained.

According to Chai, pre-med is “a linear progression to this prestigious job that is well-paying. An easy option to put yourself on. It’s also a very pure profession.” The path also provides certain success based on working hard, which Yalies have internalized to get here.

Chai sighed, “As a whole, [pre-med students] are overly concerned about their GPA’s. They miss a lot of the social life meeting interesting people from the school.” Chai went so far as to say without the community, Yale is not different from a state school for STEM students given the course content is the same.

Competition without purpose breeds an unhealthy and unproductive culture that assigns inferiority to certain groups and individuals. “I do feel like there is a lot of constant comparison towards other groups of people, whether it be athletes or humanities majors or STEM majors,” Chai said.

Juma Sei ’22 who runs track said, “The fact that I’m a black male athlete — people expect less of me.” This is in spite of the fact that during his official visit, Sei asked to see the African American Cultural Center before the running track.

It mattered to Sei that Yale had a space where he could be “understood without qualification or expectation” because, after all, “Eli Yale never intended for me to come here.”

In a different vein, Anderson understands “everything I do here will be a reflection on the Yale football team.”

Exhausted from practice, Anderson still feels the need to participate in his 8:00 PM history section in part to demonstrate that “there are no dumb jocks.”

Outside of these group-based comparisons, status competition surely would seem to be the cause for at least some of the increasing anxiety and depression that students have seen in recent years.

Everyone for Themselves Those who seem to be winning the status competition suffer, too. Peck believes that this competition produces an unethical sense of desert. He emphasized the advantages that students from privileged backgrounds have.

“There are so many people here who believe they don’t owe anyone anything,” Peck said. “Those people who come to earn money don’t have any purpose.”

Peck continued to say that students like these have a “moral hole.” They fill this void with a belief in their superior intelligence “like they have a natural gift from God,” forgetting the advantages they had all along the way.

After his gap year interning in a public defender’s office, Altshuler realized the privilege he has at Yale to focus on his higher-order betterment. On the one hand, this means not taking this education for granted and making the most of it. On the other hand, it means doing more than that.

“Because I have the privilege to be a little more picky and intentional with my work, I intend to find a job that aligns with public service and helping people,” Altshuler said.

But status competition has narrowed, if not eroded, the meaning of public service by repackaging it as influence. Elizabeth Hopkinson ’22, a former WKND editor for the News, said, “Yale can steer you away from public service. … There are really easy pathways that feel externally validating.”

Though denying competition as the cause, Jay Gitlin ’71, a professor of cultural and social history at Yale, finds that for today’s Yalies, public service “means being in a position to affect a

lot of people.” In the policy world, this means living in a Washington, D.C. suburb among other policy wonks “removed from real people.” Lost is the sense of leadership and public service extolled by former Yale President Kingman Brewster whose speeches Gitlin fondly remembers.

Brewster spoke of Yale’s mission to produce leaders in the “Yale democracy.” Gitlin explained. “By democracy, he meant: it’s a scramble. Go out there and do your best. When he said be a leader, he wasn’t saying be a leader politically or be a leader in foreign policy. Be an architect! Draw cartoons! Be a musician. Be a lawyer. Do your best and be good at what you do. Applied to that was a sense of social responsibility. And that’s the message we all took from him.”

Status competition threatens the vitality of the Yale community that makes living and learning personally valuable and public service altruistic.

Status competition is different from having a family and building a career, both of which contribute to a meaningful life. Status competition is devoid of purpose.

Fortunately, the lack of purpose does not have to do with Yalies themselves.

“We are all here basically for the same reasons, but you are a little bit more surrounded by that competition bubble,” Gitlin said, comparing his class to today’s class. “We’re here to learn, have fun, and make friends.”

Nourishing Community To correct the environmental pressures that breed status competition, Yale should focus on what it does best: facilitating self-sustaining communities. Zabib explains that because he internalized Tikkun Olam — repairing the world — growing up in his Jewish neighborhood in Queens, he said, “Everything I do is in some way service to people.”

Though Hopkinson doesn’t remember there being an explicitly religious element, she worked soup kitchens and delivered meals to the elderly with her Catholic church community growing up. However, she explained that generating such community support at a university “is really hard to do without a religious tradition.”

These religious bases for community and giving to others already have secular analogues at Yale. “Throughout all the athletics teams, if you have a culture of putting the team before yourself, that is so easy to translate over to your everyday life,” Anderson said. “ If you can be a really genuine person, it is a great reflection of me, but it’s more a reflection of my team, my family back home and my city.”

The key to protecting and revitalizing community life at Yale is enabling students to do the work. Bowman-Davis explained that through FroCo groups and FOOT, a wilderness program run by older students, Yale tries “to create a process for socialization when that process needs to happen naturally, and it’s just not happening.”

Rather than having shaped her in any meaningful way, Hopkinson finds that Yale has “nourished” her through giving her access to the things she needed.

Yale is at its best when it allocates resources to the groups and leaders that foster community — not when it creates communities for Yalies and tries to shape them from above.

Administrative action is slow, but Yalies can defend the purpose of Yale today: to learn from and contribute to the life of the community. “The biggest part of Yale is getting to meet all these other people you can assume to be successful later, but are all very different, study different things, have different ways of thinking,” Chai said. “You just don’t get that from your classes.”

Contact ETHAN DODD at ethan.dodd@yale.edu .

// SOPHIE HENRY

College St. Cherry Cocktail: 1/2 of a lemon, cut into wedges 5 cherries, pitted and cut in half or quarters (I like mine cut into smaller pieces) 2 1/2 ounces of bourbon 1 tablespoon of maple syrup ice for serving In the bottom of a shaker or directly in the cup, add the lemon wedges and cherries. Muddle together until you’ve released nearly all of the juice from the lemon

and the cherries are broken up until much smaller pieces.

Add in the bourbon and maple syrup.

If making the cocktail directly in your glass, add ice and stir to combine.

If making it in a shaker, add ice to the shaker and shake about 30 times. Strain into a glass filled with ice (or you can pour it unstrained so that you get all of the chunks of cherry in your drink!)

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