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Local 34 delivers petition
Carson and burn. Ben Carson
’73, who led the race for the Republican presidential nomination for a brief stretch, announced that he will not attend Thursday’s GOP debate. Although Carson has not formally dropped out of the race, he released a statement yesterday saying, “I do not see a political path forward in light of last evening’s Super Tuesday primary results.”
Troubled by Trump. State
Republicans have expressed concern about presidential hopeful Donald Trump winning the GOP nomination in light of the controversial candidate’s success on Super Tuesday. “All of the work we’ve done … to improve the brand’s image … to make this party a big tent party … There’s a feeling that Trump has flushed all that down the drain,” Republican strategist Bill Cortese, Jr. told the Hartford Courant.
Starstruck. The Opera Theatre
of Yale College presents “L’étoile” — an 1877 operetta by Emmanuel Chabrier. Performances of the show begin tonight at the Medical School’s Harkness Auditorium at 8 p.m. Tickets can be reserved through the Yale Drama Coalition’s website.
Meals on wheels. ActualFood, a New Haven company which has created a pilot program to introduce free, same-day grocery to the Elm City, invites Yale students to learn about its services at Helen Hadley Hall at 5:30 p.m. this evening. Better than Erotica. The Yale
Undergraduate Aerospace Association will host the fourth annual Aeronautica today at 5:30 p.m. in Sudler Hall. The event is a celebration of engineering and innovation at Yale.
Get out the vote. Tomorrow
is the final day for members of the class of 2017 to cast votes for their officers. Elected officers will serve their classmates from senior year until the fifth reunion, and their duties include organizing events and writing class notes.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1993 After approval by the Yale Corporation, the University term bill rises 5.9 percent to $25,110. Yale remains the most expensive school in the Ivy League. The University also pledges to increase its financial aid budget by $25.6 million in response to the term-bill hike. Follow along for the News’ latest.
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Groups question Schwarzman space plans BY DAVID SHIMER AND MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTERS
Although Alpern said the workers should not be worried about job security, the union’s petition suggests that the medical school staff have cause for concern. “We’re here, we’re going to bang on this locked door until we get the job security we need,” shouted Local 34 President Laurie Kennington on the steps of Woodbridge Hall.
When it opens in 2020, the Schwarzman Center will present Yale’s undergraduate, graduate and professional students with a new central space on campus to gather. As administrators involved with the center’s planning gravitate toward establishing flexible spaces for student groups to use within the center, organizations that have petitioned for areas specifically targeted to their groups say it is unclear whether the planned design will meet their needs. The $150 million donation from The Blackstone Group founder Stephen Schwarzman ’69 will enable Yale to establish its first University-wide student center, and the administration has actively sought student input since the project was first announced last May. A report released on Feb. 11 from the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee to University President Peter Salovey underscored that the design of the space must be flexible and able to accommodate multiple functions. While the committee acknowledged that certain student organizations, such as dance groups and the LGBTQ Student Cooperative, made strong arguments in favor of space allocated specifically to their needs, it ultimately recommended that spaces serving a single group be avoided. But students within those groups, which are seeking to expand or establish their presence on campus, continue to question the degree to
SEE PETITION PAGE 6
SEE SCHWARZMAN PAGE 6
Check your spam. Helen
Garner, an Australian novelist who was one of the winners of this year’s WindhamCampbell prize in nonfiction, did not believe that she had won when she received notice from Yale. Garner thought the message she received from the University which said she had won $150,000 to support her work was a spam email. “I thought what the hell is this? Somebody’s having me on,” Garner said.
SUBLITE IT UP
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Local 34 delivered the petition to Woodbridge Hall Wednesday. BY MICHELLE LIU AND FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Local 34, Yale’s union of clerical and technical workers, petitioned the University on Wednesday to secure the 986 Yale School of Medicine jobs the union says are at risk of disappearing. While on their lunch break, union leaders delivered identical petitions bearing signatures from over
2,500 Local 34 union members to both School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern and University President Peter Salovey. While Salovey did not greet the union members outside of Woodbridge Hall, Alpern listened as Yolanda Giordano, Local 34 recording secretary, explained the plight of medical school staff who fear their jobs are being transferred to YaleNew Haven Hospital, where their jobs are not protected by the union.
Second wave of posters hits campus BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS Two days after signs calling on the Yale men’s basketball team to “stop supporting a rapist” first appeared on campus, a new set of posters express-
ing a similar message appeared Wednesday morning in the Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona lecture hall. All of this week’s posters referred to the recent controversy surrounding the basketball team’s show of support for former captain Jack Montague
Professional students decry child-care burden BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTER Yale’s two graduate and professional student assemblies embarked on a new campaign last semester to secure child care subsidies for student-parents at the University, lobbying administrators and collecting new data that illustrates the difficulties of raising children on a meager paycheck. But while the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has pledged to make child care her top fundraising priority, securing subsidies for student parents in the professional schools may prove significantly more difficult. The challenges faced by graduate-student parents and student parents in the professional schools are fundamentally different, according to representatives from the Graduate Student Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, the organizations spearheading the push for child care subsidies. The graduate school offers free health insurance to the children of graduate-student parents, but
that benefit is not available to student parents in the professional schools, who are estimated to make up about 4 percent of the professional school population. According to new data gathered by the GPSS, about 6 percent of professional school student parents are single parents, compared to 1 percent of graduate-student parents. But while Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley has vowed to address the child care needs of graduate-student parents, in the professional schools, the patchwork of divergent fundraising priorities and financial aid programs has posed a significant hurdle to the ongoing campaign to provide subsidies to student parents who are not pursuing a Ph.D. “In practice, this is going to be very, very difficult — finding the same kind of funding across graduate and professional school students,” said Wendy Xiao MED ’17, who chairs the Facilities and Health Care committee of the GSA. “Getting funding for all SEE CHILD CARE PAGE 6
’16, who was withdrawn from the University on Feb. 10 for reasons the team and University have not specified. At last Friday’s Yale–Harvard basketball game, the team came out for warmups wearing T-shirts which had Montague’s jersey number and nickname,
“Gucci,” on the back and “Yale,” spelled backwards with inverted letters, on the front. Monday’s posters featured an image of the team wearing the shirts. By 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, new posters were hung on two billboards just outside the lecture hall and placed on chairs
inside the hall. A handwritten note chalked on the classroom’s blackboard read “Rape culture is standing by your teammate and silencing Yale’s victims of sexual assault.” But by 8:30 a.m., shortly SEE POSTERS PAGE 6
Profs, admins clash over budgeting
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University administrators and FAS faculty continue to dispute over budget negotiations. BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Tensions have escalated in the past year between University administrators and Faculty of Arts and Science professors over budget negotiations affecting departments and initiatives in the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences. Over the past few months, several departments across the FAS divisions have raised concerns about various financial policies and budgetary issues
administered through the Provost’s Office. In November, anthropology professor Karen Nakamura GRD ’01 announced that she would leave Yale for University of California, Berkeley, citing the University’s unwillingness to offer her competitive research resources. At a Nov. 18 FAS Senate meeting, Classics Department Chair Kirk Freudenburg criticized the administration’s all-funds budgeting policy, which essentially gave control of the endowed funds to the University, taking their control away from the
department. And on Monday, faculty members involved with the Yale Climate & Energy Institute expressed dismay at the initiative’s defunding. While faculty members interviewed acknowledged that the University’s budgeting requires some give and take, they expressed deep concerns about the lack of departmental input and communication between faculty and the Provost’s Office when negotiating budgetary issues. “Part of the reason for the SEE BUDGET PAGE 4
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How to help W
hen I go to him in distress, which is more often than I’d like, my residential college dean asks, “How can I help?” It’s a simple question, and for a long time, I didn’t know how to answer it. Navigating trauma is a difficult thing, and I can’t ask my dean to single-handedly create a more supportive cultural climate for survivors. Every week there’s a new headline about sexual violence on college campuses. We know that the prevalence of such behavior is a big problem, but we’re not sure how to address it — how do you eradicate misogyny? How do you change a small environment inhabited by people from all over the world and with various value systems? While increased reporting rates for sexual misconduct suggest a major shift in our ability to talk about this kind of violence, there are many ways in which we can shift our campus culture to be overall more supportive of survivors. There are concrete steps to make this happen. As someone with a number of close friends who have experienced sexual violence, I can assure you that everybody has different coping mechanisms. Some people need to talk through things, and some people just need you to bring them a sandwich. Those of us who have also experienced violence have a tricky time navigating support for our friends, while also preserving our own well-being: Remember, that’s okay. The best you can do is to be mindful of the people you know best and try to make clear what you can offer. If you’re not emotionally capable of listening to someone in the throes of trauma, try to offer your time in other ways: Deliver them froyo or buy them a Kiko Milano gift certificate. You could give them a homemade card with a list of all the things you love about them. Make sure they’re eating regularly, or take them out to a movie. Above all, be honest with close friends about your boundaries, but try to give them what you can. Many of us have survivors in our lives that we may not necessarily be aware of, or we may not know how to approach an intimate conversation. We often struggle to figure out how to navigate our roles in supporting people who comprise the fabric of our social spheres, the ones beyond our closest friends. One great way of showing support is to be mindful of the spaces you share with survivors around campus. As students, we are responsible for enforcing socially acceptable standards of behavior. We live in a culture that overwhelmingly doubts those who have experienced violence, but we can shift that culture to one that chooses to be intolerant of violence. Given how many survivors exist on campuses like ours, it’s high time we stop giving accused sexual assailants the benefit of the doubt. We need to shift our efforts to supporting survivors, and that comes at the
price of neutrality. We need to make it clear that regardless of enrollment status at Yale or formal s a n c t ions, ADRIANA students who MIELE commit sexual violence Check shouldn’t be welcome yourself here. If you’re hosting a closed party or smallspace performance, consider asking some of your friends if there are people they would prefer to keep off the invite list. Greek organizations, clubs and societies could consider forming blacklists of people who are known to be sexually violent. If someone feels unsafe because of someone’s presence at a social event you are hosting, ask the person causing this discomfort to leave.
ABOVE ALL, BE HONEST WITH CLOSE FRIENDS ABOUT YOUR BOUNDARIES, BUT TRY TO GIVE THEM WHAT YOU CAN
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Don’t rock the vote T
his past Tuesday, coincidentally Super Tuesday, I voted. Unlike many Americans, I did not cast my ballot to help determine our future president. No, instead I voted for local elections at the Wexler-Grant Community School in Dixwell, casting my ballot in Ward 22. Upon walking into the school, I turned to a fellow Yale undergraduate and asked, curious to see if she knew: “What’s in Ward 22?” “TD, Silliman, Morse, Stiles and Swing Space,” she answered confidently. “That’s it?” I asked. “Yeah, that’s it,” she replied confidently, handing her Yale ID to volunteers at the voter registration table and skipping off to cast her ballot. But that’s not it — she had missed more than two-thirds of the actual district. So although yes, these Yale residences are in Ward 22, so is the entire wedge between Dixwell Avenue and Prospect Street. I should have turned around and not cast my ballot. Why? I drink New Haven water and I walk on New Haven sidewalks. I even buy my coffee at New Haven shops. By the time I graduate, I will have spent eight months a year in New Haven for four years. Voting is my civic right — some would say my civic duty. I am an
Similarly, professors must strongly consider the effects of sensitive material in their courses. There is a great deal of controversy surrounding trigger warnings, but the warnings are useful and implementing them is quite easy in practice. If you are instructing a course that contains material (literature, photographs, videos, etc.) of violence, maimed bodies, sexual objectification, suicide or murder, please provide students with a headsup. Students may choose to skip that discussion, or simply leave the room for part of the class. Alternatively, the advance notice may provide them with time to process the material at hand and remain active participants. Exposure to violence destabilizes our fight-flight-freeze instincts, making it difficult to differentiate actual danger from material that may provoke alarm. Being mindful of this fact could help prevent anxiety attacks and academic setbacks. Students, professors and administrators all have a responsibility to other members of this community. If any of us are suffering, there are countless ways to offer support that exist outside formal channels. Our campus can benefit from mindfulness. Let’s continue to ask one another: How can I help? ADRIANA MIELE is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .
misery”
adult American! I should participate in determining the course of my public sphere, my polis! Right? Wrong. AMELIA Although my JANE Facebook proNIERENBERG file says I live in New Haven, I rarely interClose to act with New home Haven proper, more gown than town. I should not have voted because I am not a resident of New Haven. It’s as simple as that. Even though I drink New Haven water, that water is iced and flavored with fruits and veggies in a dining hall. And even though I walk on New Haven sidewalks, my route takes me through Yale’s swipeaccess gates. I am often not even New Haven enough to walk the four blocks down Chapel to the Happiness Lab (which, by the way, sells the best soy latte this side of the Mississippi). So although my Facebook says I live in this city, I’m an expat in New Haven — a tourist on an extended visa living blithely in my compound. And so it would be outlandish — insulting, frankly — to call myself a local. But still, this past Tuesday I
voted in local politics — because my friend, a fellow Yale undergraduate, was on the ballot. Before continuing, I must offer a very important (and very genuine) disclaimer. My friend absolutely should have, and did, win. Aside from her intelligence, formidable character and work ethic, my friend had the firm endorsement and support of the Ward 22 alder. That’s the most important part. Since my friend’s new role will require her to support and represent the alder, they have to be a good team. And they won by enough of a landslide that they still would have won without a single Yale vote. They ran a good and honest campaign that will undoubtedly become a good and honest two-year term. Yet I still should not have voted. And, I would argue, neither should have many of the other Elm City undergraduates who cast their ballot alongside mine. We have not earned it, unlike our Yale peers who are from here, who intend to stay here or who actually involve themselves consciously in New Haven civic life — protesting for the rights of locals or having actual non-Yale friends (or even doing something as simple as regularly reading the New Haven Independent). Other than that, no — we are not really residents of this city, and the decisions of the aldermen have
a negligible effect on our lives. I only voted because my friend was running. I even got a lift from her campaign to the polls (far from Yale but not far enough that I couldn’t have walked). My actions were negligent, dangerous to the public sphere — almost malignant. Voting should be an internal compulsion, not a favor. I should have left the outcome of this election to the people whose school districts, snow removal schedules and garbage collection will actually be affected. If democracy is an extended conversation, then perhaps the most important part of being a citizen is knowing how and when to stay silent and listen. This understanding of yourself and your role in society — a struggle that starts now, when we are young — takes a lifetime. Staying silent when it is your turn to speak is dangerous to yourself and to others. But speaking when you should not, when it is not your turn, is also a civic mistake. And, in the New Haven Democratic conversation, it is very rarely the turn of Yale undergraduates like myself. Silence is deadly, but so is superfluous noise. AMELIA JANE NIERENBERG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at amelia.nierenberg@yale.edu .
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The myth of solidarity “Y
ou’re damn right, Hollywood is racist!” proclaimed host Chris Rock at the Oscars Sunday night to an overwhelmingly white audience. After a year of high media visibility surrounding issues of race, the complete absence of minorities nominated in any acting category was all the more unforgiveable. Rock’s demand that the film industry account for its longstanding failure to represent people of color set a powerful tone for the rest of the show. But what should have been a historical, empowering moment quickly unraveled into a devastating confirmation of just how racist Hollywood is. Between diatribes about the Academy’s racial exclusivity, Rock invited three Asian children onstage — one of whom he gave a Jewish surname — all dressed as accountants. With the world looking on, he upheld a racist stereotype of Asians, mocked child labor and then attempted to pass it off as satire. I didn’t realize what had happened until a day later, when I unearthed a video of the shameful anti-Asian joke from beneath the Facebook clutter of Leo memes. I felt as though I had been punched. How can it be that in 2016 a man widely praised for his incisive critiques of racism can reproduce the appalling bigotry that he was denouncing in the same breath? How is it that after months of sol-
idarity protests and Black Lives Matter, we have proven unable to criticize racism without that criticism SHERRY LEE coming at the direct expense another A classical of minority act group? How is it that so many have framed this year’s Oscars as a triumph, when it was a tragic setback for all people of color? As much as I wanted to believe that Rock's joke was an anomaly, the reality is that this problem persists everywhere — including Yale. Even my well-meaning liberal peers frequently trip up — friends compliment my diligence by calling me “a machine,” and acquaintances react with surprise when they learn I’m a Classics major. A few months ago at a conference, I listened to an Indian student refer to the “bamboo ceiling” in an argument, only to be greeted with disbelieving laughter. “It’s real!” he cried. But of course, few believe that the oppression of Asians is “real.” The limitations Asians face in communicating their experiences are substantial, even here. This past semester, Yale struggled to hold critical conversations about race in an urgent, intense political environment. Asian and Jew-
ish students, monolithically perceived as “more privileged” than other minorities, were called upon to acknowledge their privilege and stand behind other people of color. Slifka hosted a discussion about “confronting Jewish privilege”; the Chinese American Student Association urged ChineseAmerican students in an emailed statement not to verbalize their narratives because they are part of a “privileged minority group.” But these conversations implicitly enforced an inaccurate and unfair division among minorities. They contributed to the disturbing erasure of the economic struggles and discrimination faced by Asians and Jewish students singled out for their “privilege.” The unfortunate result was that these groups were pressured to forget their own interests in order to promote other narratives. I faced an impossible moral imperative to compromise my identity as an immigrant from a family of agricultural and industrial laborers, to overcompensate for a model minority myth I had rejected my whole life and to silently accept from strangers the judgment that I could not really be oppressed. That I was even complicit in my peers’ oppression. And I wasn’t allowed to be offended. What happened last semester and this past weekend clearly demonstrates how bereft we are of a vocabulary to sufficiently articu-
late the various types of marginalization that minorities experience. Yale cannot claim to be an anti-racist space when its solution to racism is to homogenize the struggle of multiple minority groups and to prioritize the interests of some over others. Diversity is far too complex, between and within groups, for such reductive discourse. Asserting that a given ethnic group is “less oppressed” and demanding that it remain silent so that the political interests of others can succeed is insulting and unproductive. Each experience must be recognized on its own terms, without being invalidated or forced into competition with others. The solidarity that so many are trying to cultivate at Yale will never exist as long as we perpetuate the very alienation we oppose. We cannot diversify our spaces or our discourse by shoving minority groups into an outdated blackand-white dichotomy. We cannot advocate for one another as long as we are being subjugated by each other, as long as it is acceptable to deliver anti-racist lectures while stomping on the faces of other minorities. Otherwise, solidarity will remain nothing more than a myth. SHERRY LEE is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Her column usually runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact her at chia.lee@yale.edu .
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Board of Alders hearing postponed
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Senior class gift participation drops BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Participation in this year’s Senior Class Gift was the lowest on record, according to data available online, even after the rate plummeted last year due to an active student boycott over the University’s mental health resources. This year, 72.6 percent of seniors donated to the Senior Class Gift, an annual three-week fundraising campaign organized through the Office of Development that concluded on Feb. 24. Seniors are invited to contribute cash gifts to the Alumni Fund, which consists of resources independent of the endowment that are unrestricted and can be spent on the University’s most immediate priorities. Last year, the participation rate was 78.1 percent after an online petition calling for a boycott of the Senior Class Gift due to inadequate mental health care on campus amassed nearly 100 signatures. That was the first time the rate dipped below 90 percent since 2009. Although there was no formal boycott this year, some seniors interviewed pointed to the tumultuous fall semester as a possible reason for the decline. The total amount of money raised during the campaign was also well-below what has been collected in recent years. Members of the class of 2016 donated $18,910.38; the value has traditionally hovered around $30,000, peaking at $40,808 in 2011. Although participation rates among the graduating classes from 2003 to 2008 hovered between 70 and 80 percent, participation has climbed in recent years, with over 90 percent of seniors giving between 2010 and 2014. Participation peaked in 2012, at 97.5 percent. Despite this year’s comparatively low turnout, AmandaLee Aponte, assistant director of the Alumni Fund, said she was pleased with this year’s participation rate. She also noted that participation varied widely by residential college. Of the 12 residential colleges, Pierson had the lowest participation rate with 55.2 percent, while Calhoun topped the list with 90.2 percent. The average across all residential colleges was 73.1 percent. Because of these fluctuations among colleges, Aponte added, it is hard to draw conclusions about whether the low participation rate reflects a sense of dissatisfaction among the class as a whole. But James Woodall ’16 said the numbers may be indicative of dampened enthusiasm for the University, given last November’s student protests over the racial climate on campus. “You can’t ignore [the protests] as part of a great sense of frustration and loss of idealistic representation of what Yale represents,” Woodall said. Woodall said students might also be put off from donating due
to the University’s colossal endowment, though he said the Senior Class Gift is more a symbol of students’ love for Yale than a significant financial contribution. Mitch Barrows ’16 also suggested that lingering resentment from the protests of last fall could have driven the drop in participation. He said students may not feel a sense of ownership over their time at Yale, as their views may not be reflected in University policy. “I think our generation is questioning Yale the institution in a way that hasn’t been done in a while,” Barrows said. “We’re disenchanted with a lot of Yale traditions, as well as a lack of change and adaptation on the part of the University bureaucracy.” Aponte said that in response to the demonstrations, the Senior Class Gift organizers worked with University President Peter Salovey, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and the Office of Development to offer students an option to support diversity and inclusion initiatives at the four cultural centers. Though some funds were unrestricted, students were given the choice to designate their gift toward a specific area. Aponte said students who wished to support those initiatives could do so by giving to the undergraduate life area of the class gift. Other areas included financial aid, facilities, library resources and faculty support and curriculum development. Mitchell Jones ’16, Simone Policano ’16, Blake Smith ’16 and Maddy Landon ’16, the student representatives for the Senior Class Gift campaign, said in a joint statement that they were grateful to the class of 2016 for its support, adding that they did not think the decrease could be traced back to any single factor. “This campaign was about promoting important aspects of campus life — such as the cultural centers and financial aid — that enhance our collective experience here, and no value or bar can be placed on individual donations or the combination of them,” the statement read. “There is a multitude of factors that go into the final numbers each year, and we do not believe in the isolation of any certain event or sentiment as the causal factor.” In the weeks following the student demonstrations last fall, the Office of Alumni Development canceled its annual Harvard–Yale Participation Challenge for The Game, citing intense national scrutiny of campus events. The move led some to speculate that the cancelation was a face-saving maneuver by the University in anticipation of a low participation rate. The Senior Class Gift was established in 1997. Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .
CLASS GIFTS OVER THE YEARS CLASS PARTICIPATION AND FUNDS Class Participation
Money Raised
72.6% ’16 78.1%
’15
96.6%
’14
96.1%
’13
$18,910 $36,387 $33,387 $29,693
97.5%
’12
97%
’11
$40,808
91%
’10
$29,670
89%
’09
$31,545
$27,488 SAM LAING/PRODUCTION & DESIGN STAFF
BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTERS A Wednesday hearing in the New Haven Board of Alders’ lawsuit against the city’s Board of Education was rescheduled for March 16 after a judge granted Attorney Norman Pattis — who is representing the BOA — his second continuance since February. According to documents filed with the Connecticut Superior Court, Pattis requested a motion for continuance Tuesday, citing “ongoing settlement discussions.” Judge Matthew Frechette granted the motion later that day. Pattis previously filed for continuance in the case in mid-February, when he was granted a motion that pushed the scheduled court hearing from Feb. 16 to Wednesday. As negotiations between the BOA and BOE continue, it remains unclear whether the two bodies will reach a settlement.
The alders allege that BOE member Daisy Gonzalez and the BOE defied the city’s charter, which calls for a BOE comprised of seven voting members and two nonvoting student members. The November election of new BOE members Edward Joyner and Darnell Goldson, when only one then-member’s term was set to expire, resulted in an eight-member BOE, leading to the current controversy and pending litigation. Goldson, who was subpoenaed to testify Wednesday, said he knows that negotiations between the BOA and BOE have been going well. He said he is “99 percent” sure the BOE will be voting on a resolution at its next meeting, scheduled for Mar. 14 — two days before the new court date. Stephen Sedor, the Bridgeport-based attorney who is representing the BOE, declined to comment on the continuance. He did, however, express hope that a settlement would be reached between the
BOA and BOE. Kari Olson, the Hartford attorney representing Gonzalez, could not be reached for comment. City Spokesman Laurence Grotheer said he was privy to some details of the possible settlement but declined to give further comment. Goldson was appointed cochair of the BOE Finance and Operations Committee at a Feb. 22 meeting, a seat previously held by Gonzalez. Throughout the controversy, Goldson has maintained the stance that the BOE must comply with the city charter. “There should only be seven voting members on the BOE,” Goldson said. He noted that the charter — which calls for two elected members and the mayor — statutorily protects him, Joyner and Harp from removal from the board. To resolve the charter violation, the alders voted on Dec. 21 to remove Gonzalez — widely
regarded as the BOE spokeswoman for New Haven Public Schools parents — because she was the most recent mayoral appointee to the board. She was confirmed by the alders on Oct. 20, 2014 and her membership was initially set to expire Dec. 31, 2018. Pattis filed the civil suit against the BOE on Jan. 26 in response to Gonzalez’s continued membership on the board, which violated the alders’ December ordinance to terminate Gonzalez’s membership on Dec. 31. Pattis also filed a separate injunction against Gonzalez for failing to cooperate with the ordinance. The BOE voted in December to allot up to $20,000 to cover legal fees incurred from the lawsuit. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .
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The Board of Education currently has eight members.
State pushes to eliminate tampon tax BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER A new bill aims to decrease the cost of menstrual cycles for women statewide. Connecticut lawmakers are working to pass legislation that would make feminine hygiene products — currently considered “luxury goods” — tax-exempt. Tampons, pads and other feminine sanitary items are subject to Connecticut’s 6.35 percent sales tax. But the proposed legislation, to be debated at a Public Health Committee meeting next Monday, would remove that tax as well as the sales tax on children’s diapers, which are also considered luxury items. Three bills have been presented to the state government that aim to make taxes on feminine sanitary products — which place a disproportionate financial burden on women — a thing of the past. “Women are paying $3.6 million a year [in Connecticut] just because of our biology,” state Rep. Kelly Luxenberg, who introduced one of the bills, said. “I believe it’s an inequity that should not exist.” Luxenberg, who is in her first term as a state representative, explained that most medical products, including adult diapers, are not taxed because they are perceived to be essential items for consumers. But child diapers and feminine hygiene products are subject to sales tax due to their
classification as luxury goods. Luxenberg said she is pushing for legislation to make these women’s and infants’ products tax-exempt because women have no choice but to buy them. She said she has found her political niche advocating for issues that are especially important to young women. Banning the tampon tax, however, might not be a costless affair. “Right now we’re facing a difficult time in Connecticut fiscally,” Vice President for Public Policy and Advocacy for Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Susan Yolen said. “There are folks on the Public Health Committee looking at this who probably support the notion of exempting these products from taxes but are worried about doing so because they generate revenue.” Although the state takes in a significant amount of revenue from the tampon tax, Luxenberg said Connecticut can feasibly find another way to make up for the financial loss. To highlight another gendered difference in spending, Luxenberg noted that both men and women smoke cigarettes and pay the same sales tax to do so. But tobacco products such as chewing tobacco are mainly purchased by men. Yolen said Planned Parenthood supports Luxenberg’s efforts to make feminine hygiene products tax-exempt.
But while topics like menstruation are natural for the organization to discuss, many see them as taboo. The Connecticut General Assembly — where the bill may eventually be debated — is a predominantly male world, Yolen said. She said she is glad to see state Reps. Luxenberg and Juan Candelaria — who is also proposing a bill to ban the tampon tax — sparking a dialogue about feminine hygiene products on a politically visible platform. “The message women have been hearing is: ‘Menstruation is your problem and your job is to render it invisible,’ and I think we have,” Yolen said. “But I think there’s a lot of conversation starting and hopefully we become a state that is more tolerant.” Luxenberg attributed this “shifting of the tide” to President Barack Obama’s verbal disapproval of the tampon tax during a January interview, which spotlighted it as a national issue. Last year, a state bill that could have lifted the tax on diapers was debated at a public hearing. But a similar tax exemption for tampons never reached the level of a Public Health Committee hearing until this year. Luxenberg expressed excitement about the topic finally garnering attention. She added that March, which is Women’s History Month, is a fitting time to put the tampon tax on the agenda, adding that she likes to think
of 2016 more broadly as “the year of the woman.” Other women’s organizations, such as Planned Parenthood and the Women’s Center at Yale, have also voiced their support. “We at the Women’s Center believe that the tampon tax should be eliminated, as its existence is patriarchal and unfairly economically burdensome,” Women’s Center Public Relations Coordinator Vicki Beizer said. “The elimination of the tax would be a step in the right direction towards gender equality.” Yolen said that while many women, especially students, do not think twice about paying the tax on a box of tampons, it is unaffordable for many. She added that in some cultures, women are so shamed by menstruation that they do not go to school and miss out on many opportunities. Since feminine hygiene is a topic of public conversation, some local organizations in the state have worked on fundraising projects to give sanitary napkins to homeless shelters, Yolen said. She added that although occasional fundraising is important, there needs to be a permanent fix in the form of legislation. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a Republican or a Democrat,” Yolen said. “If you’re a woman, you have a period.” Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu .
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“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.” GEORGE W. BUSH AMERICAN POLITICIAN AND BUSINESSMAN
Departments, admin clash over budget choices BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 frustration and anger that FAS faculty and students and staff feel is not so much in the absolute monies … but that the view of how FAS should operate effectively [has been] lost,” William Kelly, anthropology professor and former department chair, said. “There’s no leadership, there is only administration.” Provost Benjamin Polak, who ultimately oversees the University’s $3 billion annual operating budget, has said not all departmental proposals are financially feasible. Polak said the University has to make difficult tradeoffs and choices, though he wishes he could approve every “good idea” proposed to him. Polak did not comment for this story. While Kelly acknowledged that the provost manages the University’s entire budget and has responsibilities outside the FAS, he said the administration should not make excuses for being unable to spend more money per department. Kelly said administrators make every new spending decision at their own discretion. For example, the millions of dollars spent on the new School of Management building, the increase to the Computer Science faculty and the recently unveiled $50 million faculty diversity initiative were conscious decisions to increase spending in particular places, he said. “It seems a bit disingenuous for a provost or a president to sit there and say ‘My hands are tied,’” Kelly added. Faculty members interviewed not only noted discrepancies in how the University distributes funds, but also criticized the lack of interaction between FAS faculty and senior administrators in conversations about departmental funding. Kelly said faculty interactions with senior administrators have become more distant during his 36 years at Yale. In the early 1990s, Kelly said each department met individually with the provost each year, going through the departmental budgets line by line and making a case for each budgeted item. At the heart of these meetings, Kelly said, there was compromise between the University and the departments. “These were long meetings. Department priorities could be directly expressed. Sometimes the resources that were initially budgeted could be expanded. There was a give and take,” Kelly said. “Most of that has disappeared.” The University shifted the governance of the FAS away from
the Provost’s Office in 2014 when philosophy professor Tamar Gendler was appointed to the newly created FAS dean position. Under the new administrative structure, departmental budgets are no longer primarily the provost’s responsibility and fall more directly to Gendler. Gendler meets individually with the chair of each FAS department several times throughout the academic year. In these meetings, she and each department chair discuss the department’s academic priorities, its faculty hiring plans and staffing needs, she said. In addition, all departments have the opportunity to present academic opportunities and challenges to their divisional directors, Gendler added. Each of the four FAS divisional directors — those for the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and biological sciences — is appointed by the senior administration, who then select divisional committees, and Kelly said the faculty have no say in who gets chosen. Kelly said recent budget decisions within the Anthropology Department illustrate an administrative mindset that prioritizes financial efficiency and forgets that human beings are the essential units of any department. For example, the anthropology building once had a receptionist, but the University decided to cut that position from the department’s budget, Kelley said. The receptionist’s desk was sealed over by a wall, and in the place of a welcoming “mother figure” for the department, there now stands a tripod with department information and directions on it, he said. This small staff change, which began as one line of a budget, led to an “enormous but not quantifiable” shift in the department’s social cohesion, Kelly said. “The human networks that sustain academic departments don’t figure in the calculations of this administration,” Kelly said. “That’s the kind of mindset that has come [into Yale] over the last eight or nine years.” This frustration about administrative overreach regarding budgetary policies has spread across the FAS. During the FAS Senate’s Nov. 18 meeting, Freudenburg raised the issue of the administration using the department’s endowed funds for uses not directly intended by the donors. For example, the Tarbell Fund, an endowed departmental fund specifically designated “for the support of instruction in Classical archaeology,” has been used
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The Anthropology Department once had a receptionist, but the position was cut from the budget. for repair work in Phelps Hall. The administration first adopted all-funds budgeting during the 2008 recession, and Freudenburg said the department was happy to share the financial burden at the time. However, he noted that though the endowment has recovered, the policy remains in place. At the meeting, Freudenburg expressed broader faculty concerns about the way budgetary policies are administered and the lack of communication between the faculty and the administration. “I bring this matter before the FAS Senate because there are serious issues at stake here — not just of how monies have been quietly redirected from departments into the center, but of faculty governance as well,” Freudenburg said at the meeting. “All of the financial rescissions … are
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the results not of open discussion involving faculty, but of decisions taken on high and forced upon the Classics Department as things already decided.” Since the meeting, the administration has made some changes to the Classics Department’s funding, but has not addressed Freudenburg’s larger concerns. Freudenburg said the administration has promised to stop imposing a capital allocations tax — essentially rent for the offices in Phelps Hall — on the department in future years, a decision he suspects comes partly in response to his complaint at the FAS Senate meeting. Still, he said he has not heard any effort to address larger questions pertaining to budgeting policies and faculty governance. “There has been no talk from any quarter — not directed at me,
anyway, of a general rethinking of the policy that led to my complaint,” Freudenburg said. “In essence, most is as it was before.” He added that he remains hopeful the FAS Senate will raise the matter as both a financial policy and faculty governance issue at future meetings. The recent defunding of the YCEI further highlights the topdown approach of University resource allocation. Although YCEI is not an FAS department, it was affiliated with the Energy Studies Program and involves a number of FAS faculty members. Before the decision to cut all funding to the institute, YCEI’s budget was cut by 50 percent in the 2015–16 academic year, according to YCEI Executive Director Michael Oristaglio GRD ’74. Students involved with the institute said the budget cut pre-
vented YCEI from carrying out a large portion of the institute’s activities, including conferences and research funding. Co-director of the YCEI and geology and geophysics professor David Bercovici said the University told YCEI that the decision to cut funding was because Yale is stretched financially with other commitments such as faculty searches. Bercovici added that while former University President Richard Levin was “very engaged” in the formation of the YCEI and went to great lengths to obtain its basic initial funding, he is unsure of the current administration’s priorities with regard to climate and energy challenges. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang.edu .
Posters appear on campus POSTERS FROM PAGE 1 before the first lecture in the hall began at 9 a.m., the posters and the message on the blackboard were gone. Special Assistant to the Dean of Yale College David Caruso, who works in SSS, said the custodial staff usually cleans the building between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., but does not clean inside the lecture hall. Additional a l l e ga t i o n s appeared on the Facebook page of the Yale Women’s Center, which published a statement later that evening addressing campus culture and the basketball team’s Friday T-shirts. The post said it “appears” that a “high-profile member of a sports team in the midst of a pivotal moment in the season” has left campus on the basis of sexual misconduct. In the post, the organization called for both administrative and student participation in promoting a “culture of respect” on campus. University administrators, team members and Montague himself have not commented on the posters’ allegations, and the claims made in the Women’s Center post were not substantiated. Wednesday’s posters called for the basketball team to “stop supporting a rapist,” but also featured messages alluding to remarks made by forward Justin Sears ’16 to the News on Sunday and Monday nights. Another poster read “This poster will probably be torn down by the men’s basketball team” and in smaller font beneath,
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The message was erased before class began on Wednesday morning in SSS 114. “Stop silencing women.” Sears told the News on Monday night that members of the team had taken down most of the posters found around campus on Monday morning. Sears also told the News on Monday night that the team’s T-shirts were simply a show of support for Montague. “We just wanted to make it as clear as possible that Jack is one of our brothers,” Sears said last Friday after the game. “He’s family to us and we miss him.” One poster on Wednesday appeared to respond to those comments, saying “‘Teammate’ ‘Family’ ‘Brother’ Rapist.” The two other posters put out Wednesday read: “YDN, why so silent? Stop protecting a rapist” and “I stand with Yale women. End rape culture. Don’t support rapists.” Some have also taken recent events as an opportunity to promote a healthy campus climate.
Jonathan Simonds ’18 launched an online pledge on Monday afternoon titled “I support Yale women,” and has already received dozens of signatures. Posters expressing similarly positive messages have also appeared on campus bulletin boards. “I have been really frustrated with what’s going on,” Simonds said. “I don’t have the capacity to speak to certain incidents, but I can tackle campus culture as a whole. Sexual assault is a hard and touchy subject, and it happens more than we think because a lot of times the person doesn’t have the courage to come forward.” Simond’s posters containing the URL linking to his pledge remained on campus bulletin boards as of Wednesday night. Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
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“If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.” MICHELLE OBAMA FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES
CT standardized tests to get shorter BY ROHAN NAIK STAFF REPORTER After the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium exam became fully computerized, Connecticut schoolchildren will spend less time test-taking and more time learning. Gov. Dannel Malloy and State Department of Education Commissioner Dianna Wentzell announced the change, which will affect students in grades three through eight, during a visit to Cromwell’s Woodside Intermediate School last Thursday. According to a statement released shortly after the visit, the change could give each student up to an hour and 45 minutes more class time devoted to learning as opposed to testtaking. The change, which will affect the more than 200,000 students in over 800 of Connecticut’s schools, removes one of the two components of the SBAC exam third to eighth graders must take. “We are working as hard as possible to be smart about testing, limit anxiety and boost learning time,” Malloy said in the press release. “Tests are important — they help us measure ourselves and pinpoint how to improve.” The first portion of the computer adaptive test requires students to respond to a series of questions that get harder and easier according to the students’ score. The second component consists of a performance task, typically an essay. Malloy’s change eliminates this performance section, making the exam solely a computer-adaptive test. The decision is part of an ongoing effort in Connecticut to reduce time devoted to standardized testing. Early last August, Malloy announced the elimination of the SBAC for 11th grade students in lieu of the SAT, which is free for all Connecticut students. The SDE also created an “Assessment Grant Program” that allows districts to evaluate the assessments administered in their districts and the extent to which testing can be limited. According to last week’s press
release, the elimination of the SBAC’s performance component is intended to increase learning time, decrease stress amongst students and limit unnecessary and duplicative testing. For some, however, the move only serves to augment existing problems with the examination. Don Williams Jr., director of Policy, Research and Reform at the Connecticut Education Association, said the computerized nature of the test is discriminatory toward students who have little computer access at homes. Teachers, researchers and city officials interviewed identified a technology gap between students in different income brackets that can lead to an achievement gap on the test. As students from low-income backgrounds may have less access to computers, they will find the test more unfamiliar and so may also score marks below their potential. “Are we testing students’ computer skills or their academic skills?” Williams asked. Patricia Fusco, a teacher at West Haven’s May V. Carrigan Middle School, said that although she acknowledges the value of computer skills in today’s world, she does not understand why the test must be fully computerized. Prior to the institution of the SBAC, the Connecticut Mastery Test was the standard assessment administered to students in grades three through eight. The CMT was a bubble-in pencil and paper exam. Fusco, who is also a member of the statewide Mastery Exam Committee, said teachers now teach more to the SBAC test than they did to the CMT before. She noted that she now incorporates more vocabulary and technology skills into teaching than she did prior. But she said the result of this is that there is less time for “exploring.” She said she has devised her student learning objectives in accordance with skills that can be measured on the SBAC, in part, because her teacher evaluation is based on student performance on the test.
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The upcoming change to the SBAC will affect more than 200,000 Connecticut children. When asked how much time is spent preparing for the test, Fusco laughed. “Everything we do is geared to make sure that the students master the standards on the test, so pretty much the whole year,” she said. Some researchers interviewed also expressed worry that the test could be “developmentally inappropriate” for children. Specifically, they pointed to the length of the test, which is conducted over several hours on different days. They added that the computer format can be awkward, and that it can be difficult for children to scroll up and down while reading passages and answering questions.
“[The change] is a good first step, but Connecticut needs to do what the majority of other states have done,” Williams said. “[These states have] moved beyond the federal consortium of tests and moved on to design their own tests, or work with vendors to create tests more in line with their state’s curriculum.” Despite discord related to the internal components of the test, academic professionals interviewed agreed on the need to evaluate students formally. Rachel Leventhal-Weiner, the education policy fellow at Connecticut Voices for Children, said she believes standardized testing is necessary for evalua-
tion because it forces districts to hold its students and teachers to a high standard. She added that she feels the change reflects the state’s attempt to listen to a multitude of groups concerned with child development and education. Standardized testing falls in line with the federal government’s No Child Left Behind Act that keeps school districts accountable to the federal government in order to receive funding. At the same time, the move to shorten the test and allow more time for instruction heeds concerns from those in school districts. So soon after the change was made, it remains unclear how
the removal of the performance section will affect students. Williams said that while he finds the test problematic, he does not expect the state to stop requiring it. Rather, he is hoping for the state to commission an investigative process that compares the new SBAC to the variety of tests used in other states. “We’re being left behind,” he said. “Our hope is that folks will at least open the door to investigating alternatives.” The net expenditure per student in New Haven County was $17,194.22 for the 2014–2015 school year. Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .
Youth Services sets new priorities BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER The Board of Alders’ Youth Services Committee kicked off its first meeting of 2016 by discussing areas on which it will focus for the next two years, with youth homelessness emerging as one
of the committee’s primary concerns. The six-person workshop in City Hall Wednesday evening was Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate’s first time heading the Youth Services Committee since assuming chairmanship last month. Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidel-
son ’12, who served as committee chair throughout her second term as alder, is now the vice-chair of the committee, which also includes Board of Alders president Tyisha Walker. Alders on the committee suggested that the body take on a supervisory role, checking up on projects relat-
ing to youth services in the city, including efforts to fight homelessness and violence in the youth population. Wingate, a union-backed alder, said he is looking forward to his tenure as chair. “This is my first term as Youth Committee chair, and hope-
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Alders at Wednesday’s Youth Services Committee meeting discussed ways to ease youth homelessness in the Elm City.
fully you support me and I support you as we move the city forward for our youth,” Wingate said to fellow committee members at the beginning of the meeting. “I think we have a great time. I’m looking forward to it.” Wingate noted that he has already begun to take action in his role as chair of the committee. In the run-up to the Board of Education student election in April, he met with the two candidates in the race regularly throughout the winter. Alders at the meeting raised a variety of proposals for the committee to focus on in the coming two years. Walker suggested the committee perform reviews of The Escape, a youth center and homeless shelter, and the Q House, the long-awaited Dixwell community center whose construction was recently made possible by the approval of a state grant. Walker also said the committee should work with the alders’ Black and Hispanic Caucus to address youth hunger, particularly through a pilot program to serve dinners in schools. Fair Haven Heights Alder Rosa Santana had similar priorities. She said the committee should work on addressing youth homelessness and hunger — two issues that Youth Services Director Jason Bartlett said are just coming onto the radar of lawmakers in Hartford. Bartlett noted that state money for a pilot program to address youth homelessness and hunger may soon be made available, and encouraged the committee to look into the possibility of securing grant funding for a possible new project. Eidelson, who made youth violence prevention a focus of her time as chair of the committee, suggested the committee stay on top of the implementation of violence-prevention grants in the city. Bartlett, mentioning the ongoing state budget cuts that may dry up some funding sources, said the committee
should work with New Haven’s delegation to Hartford to ensure the city will continue to receive state grants. Walker said those efforts may be time-sensitive, given the shortened timeline this year of the General Assembly, which will only run for four months. “We all know that this is a short session, so it’s probably sooner than later that we should start throwing around our ideas for drafting [a] letter, so they know this is something that’s working in the city,” Walker said at the meeting. For Bartlett, the committee might also try to expand the definition of “youth,” which the state currently defines as between the ages of 16 and 21. But he said the city would still like to address homelessness among 22- and 23-year-olds, which the city already does through The Situation, the 15-bed homeless shelter housed within The Escape. Walker, a former vice-chair of the committee, agreed. She said she would like to see the committee discuss youth issues with a broad perspective. “Youth is something that’s near and dear to my heart, and I think when people think about youth, they do think about it in a narrow-minded way as far as age and things of that nature,” she said. “We have to move with the population that we have. Some people say 18 is an adult. In my opinion, that’s just the end of being a baby.” Near the end of the meeting, Wingate said he envisions the role of the committee as “building bridges” with Mayor Toni Harp and her administration to tackle the youth issues that continue to vex the city. The committee, he said, should be a place for open debate and “smart arguments.” There are currently an estimated 400 homeless youth living in the Elm City. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.” SHERI DEW AMERICAN AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER
Union petitions Salovey, Alpern on jobs PETITION FROM PAGE 1 The petition comes exactly two weeks before four-year union contract negotiations begin between Yale and Local 34. The petition requests that the University administration make a written commitment to preserving the 986 medical school jobs. Kennington has said that job security is a priority for her union and will be a major topic at the bargaining table this year. Giordano said Yale’s unions will be very active in the coming weeks as Yale’s graduate students hope to form a union: Local 33. She called the next 14 days a “crescendo” culminating in the union contract negotiations. Kennington said the petition arose out of concerns that YNHH is gradually taking over the daily operations of the medical school. Local 34 first raised concerns in December 2015 after YNHH’s pediatric emergency billing office hired extra workers to take care of backlogged administrative jobs, suggesting to some medical school employees that the University was trying to undermine
the union. Although Kennington told the News on Wednesday that Yale has not officially recognized that any such transition is taking place, she noted that some medical school employees were billed as hospital workers on their Medicare packages, suggesting that the University considers them YNHH, not medical school, employees. “I don’t know if anyone pays attention to what’s going on in the medical school,” Giordano said in Alpern’s office. Salovey confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that the petition had been delivered, though he said he had not yet had the chance to read it. University spokesman Tom Conroy dismissed the concerns over job security as “rumors.” A June 2015 email from Alpern and CEO of the Yale Medical Group Paul Taheri to all clinical employees assured staff that there was no risk of Local 34 clinical jobs moving to the hospital, in response to a June 11, 2015 New Haven Register article that suggested 986 jobs were being transferred. “While we do not typically
respond to every rumor, we felt that we needed to counteract groundless assertions with the facts. There is no need to worry,” Alpern’s email read. “There is no plan to move 986 of our clinical jobs over to the hospital, and there never has been.” Upon delivering the petition at the medical school, Local 34 union members said that YNHH has recently opened up positions similar to those already in existence at the medical school, adding that these openings make them fear that their jobs will be eliminated. Lisa Stevens, a medical assistant at Smilow Cancer Hospital, said she noticed that three jobs very similar to her own had opened up on the YNHH hiring website. Alpern downplayed the presence of any danger to union jobs, but he acknowledged that employees may feel concerned nonetheless. “I don’t think you need to be concerned about it, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t concerned,” Alpern said. “We will protect those jobs.” Over 30 union members, including Local 34 Vice President
for the Medical Area Tony Lopes and Giordano, surrounded Alpern in his medical school office on Wednesday. When Giordano, standing next to Alpern, asked those who were worried about the security of their jobs to raise their hands, nearly everyone in the room did so. After handing the petition to Alpern, Giordano said the petition’s signatories come from every area of campus, not just the medical school, demonstrating that the issue has a broad base of support. The 2,500 signatures on the petition constitute roughly 78 percent of the total 3,200 Local 34 membership, according to Giordano. The medical school employs a total of 1,200 unionized employees, according to Conroy. In 1965, Grace-New Haven Hospital changed its name to Yale-New Haven Hospital after a formal agreement with the Yale School of Medicine. Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu and FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .
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Union leaders delivered petitions bearing signatures from over 2,500 Local 34 union members.
Child care struggles for prof. students
Groups criticize Schwarzman plans
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CHILD CARE FROM PAGE 1 graduate-student parents is a lot more straightforward than for all professional school parents.” The GPSS and GSA have spent months lobbying Cooley for child care subsidies for graduate-student parents. But securing the same support for student parents in the professional schools may require a Herculean lobbying effort stretching across the dozen schools, which all have different budgetary aims and priorities. The groups met with Cooley two weeks ago to present data they gathered last semester on the child care issue. The data — which the groups collected through a survey that attracted about 230 respondents — indicates that roughly 50 percent of professional-school-student parents have taken on debt to pay for child care, at a median annual rate of $12,000 per year, or roughly 40 percent of their median annual income. Only 20 percent of graduate-student parents take on debt, at a rate of $7,000 per year. “A lot of professional school parents are putting themselves in debt to go to school in the first place,” Xiao said. “The graduate school families have a stipend, and some of them still are taking on debt to pay for child care. But it is, of course, less than tuition and child care.” GPSS President Elizabeth Mo GRD ’18 said her organization has raised concerns with University administrators about child care funding for professional school students. The group is still working to determine whether funding for subsidies would have to come from each individual school or whether it could be channeled from a more centralized source, such as the Office of the Provost. The Law School and the School of Medicine, the two professional schools with the largest student populations, have affiliated day care centers that give priority to student parents and faculty associated with those schools. But the two centers, which have only a limited
number of slots, both cost in the region of $1,500 per month, more than many professional school parents feel they can afford. The cheapest of Yale’s seven privately owned but Universityaffiliated child care centers costs more than $1,300 per month, and the only Yale-affiliated center that subsidizes tuition costs for low-income student parents has just 60 spots for children and provides preschool services rather than infant and toddler care, which is significantly more expensive. Yale is one of just three Ivy League schools that does not offer any kind of child care subsidy. “As a matter of fairness, Yale should standardize its aid supporting the children of student parents across all graduate and professional schools,” said Ian McConnell MED ’17, a student parent in the medical school. “Yale could do much more to support graduate student families by providing incremental aid and health insurance subsidies in line with the true costs of raising a child today.” Another parent in the medical school, who asked to remain anonymous to speak candidly about her personal experiences, said that at least three student families in the professional schools are on Medicaid and that the University should extend health care benefits to student parents outside the graduate school. Still, student parents in some of the professional schools — especially the medical school, law school and School of Management — have a high future earning potential and can afford to take on more debt than their counterparts in the graduate school. Last semester, the seemingly bright financial prospects of some professional-school student parents became a source of consternation for graduatestudent parents who were competing with them for child care funding from the GPSS, which offered modest child care subsidies to 20 eligible student families. The group was able to fund only about 9 percent of the total number of applicants, on the
basis of demonstrated financial need. Anna Jurkevics GRD ’16 said she and her husband, who is also a graduate student, were shocked to see their application turned down. “We’re like the poorest people we know,” she said. Jurkevics added that she was concerned that professionalschool student parents had an unfair advantage in the application process because their high debt load made them appear poorer on paper than their peers in the graduate school. “There should be two separate funds entirely: one for professional students and one for GSAS students,” Jurkevics said. “We have different future earning potentials that affect our ability to take on debt now, so we need to be considered separately for child care subsidies.” But Mo, who said she no longer has access to the school-byschool breakdown of the students who received awards, noted that the applicants from the professional schools included students from the School of Drama and School of Art, who have significantly lower future earning potentials than medical and business students. “I am wary of saying that a professional student has a higher earning potential than a graduate student,” Mo said. Xiao said it would be unfair to take future earning potential into account even when evaluating the financial need of student parents in the medical school or law school. “Who are we to decide who will be making more money in the future?” she said. “That doesn’t mean that the families aren’t struggling right now, that they’re not in need right now.” The GSA plans to release a report on the child care issue sometime before the end of the spring semester. Paddy Gavin contributed reporting. Contact DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .
which the center’s all-inclusive purpose will benefit organizations that already feel sidelined. A report released by the Yale College Council Task Force on LGBTQ Resources last fall, for example, called for the establishment of a dedicated LGBTQ center on campus. Similarly, Yale’s two dozen dance groups have voiced concerns over a scarcity of studios and practice spaces. The Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee’s report acknowledged this need, noting that “there are pressing needs in the arts that cannot be fulfilled with the spaces available in the center; they deserve institutional attention.” Members of student groups interviewed spoke positively of flexible spaces that can be used for a variety of purposes, but they emphasized that the Schwarzman Center should provide for specific needs of groups that currently lack physical spaces on campus, as long as other groups are not excluded as a result. “A space that serves dancers’ needs can easily serve the needs of many groups, but a space that serves the needs of many groups can easily neglect dancers’ needs,” Rhythmic Blue Co-President Rachel Ha ’17 said. “I think that to ensure these spaces can be used flexibly and intensely by the largest number of groups, any group, not just dance groups, with specific needs should be accommodated as long as they do not prohibit other groups’ use of the space.” Salovey said while no final decisions have been made concerning the composure of the center, the current plan is to leave spaces open to all groups in the spirit of flexibility. “The inclination is to think of the space inside as flexible and assignable,” he said. “It’s not that historically marginalized groups might not have space — it’s that no groups will own space of any kind. But rather the space will be signoutable: it could be assigned to groups as they need space for an activity, and we will try to keep it flexible. That’s the current thinking.” He added that his goal, as well as that of the advisory committee, is to create an environment that is welcoming to all “underrepresented groups,” especially through artistic, social and cultural programs at the center. Members of dance groups on campus said they are in full support of multipurpose spaces, but they emphasized that the Schwarzman Center may leave their concerns about a dearth of practice and performance spaces unresolved. “Our needs are desperate and also felt by other student performing arts disciplines,” Artistic Director of the Alli-
ance for Dance at Yale Nicole Feng ’16 said. “However, the vision for the Schwarzman Center is a hub on campus that attracts and welcomes all, and it is not specifically designated as a solution. The multipurpose nature of the Schwarzman Center will foster a creative environment for the arts and student life to intersect in exciting ways, but the basic needs of dance remain unmet.” According to Rhythmic Blue Co-President Hana Bendy ’17, the dance community at Yale is large but underserved when it comes to rehearsal and performance spaces. Dancers often need studios with specific sprung floors, fulllength mirrors and functioning speakers to practice, she said, but due to the increase in classes offered at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and the time limits at the Broadway Rehearsal Lofts, acquiring studio space can often be “tricky and difficult.” ADAY Publicity Coordinator Mahir Rahman ’16 added that many dance spaces, such as the 60 Sachem St. Studio and the Harkness Ballroom in the School of Medicine, are located far from central campus, forcing dancers to go out of their way just to practice. More convenient locations, including the Payne Whitney Gym, the Broadway Rehearsal Lofts and residential college dance studios, are often limited in their capacity or availability. With limited space and time, Rahman said, the art produced can become restricted. In the planning of the Schwarzman Center, many dancers said, the needs of their groups can be easily met without restricting the use of the space by other student groups on campus. “I am fully in support of multipurpose spaces but urge the University to really consider the requirements that the various groups on campus will need,” Bendy said. “As long as these spaces take into account the needs of all groups … I believe the Schwarzman Center will have a positive impact on campus.” ADAY Executive Director Joana Andoh ’17 said by 2020, she envisions the Schwarzman Center becoming a leading performance center like the Frist Film/Performance Theater at Princeton University or the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. While Andoh said she is unsure if the Schwarzman Center can serve all of these performance functions, she hopes that the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee will prioritize the needs of the dance community given the physical nature of dance. Still, students within the LGBTQ community were more adamant about the need for specifically designated spaces. While dancers face limited
practice and performance spaces, the LGBTQ Student Cooperative, which currently meets in the Women’s Center, does not have any physical space at all. Kyle Ranieri ’18, a peer liaison for the Office of LGBTQ Resources and one of the two co-chairs of the LGBTQ Student Co-op, said his group continues to believe that it needs a designated space on campus to conduct meetings and host events. The Schwarzman Center, Ranieri said, is a prime opportunity to supply groups with resources that may not have been offered to them by the University in the past. LGBTQ Peer Liaison Max Goldberg ’17 said he is disappointed that even though members of the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee met with LGBTQ students twice last semester, the Co-op will still not receive its own space. He called the plans a “missed opportunity” and said members of the LGBTQ community were frustrated by the report. “It is interesting that [after] the outcry in November that people do not feel like they’re home at Yale, we’re not creating homes for people in this new space,” Goldberg said. “A home for everyone is a home for no one.” Still, Director of LGBTQ Resources Maria Trumpler said the report’s conclusion was what she had expected all along. “My hope is that the Schwarzman Center will have great space that the LGBTQ [Student] Co-op can use for dance parties, for meetings and for hosting visiting speakers and artists,” Trumpler said. Daniel Leibovic ’17, an undergraduate representative on the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee, said designating areas to specific groups does not seem possible because of high interest and a lack of space. “Ultimately the space is limited by square footage, and there is — though we instructed the architects to inform us if otherwise — not enough space to dedicate to any particular campus group or community,” he said. “We were compelled by the statements from campus writing groups, dance groups and cultural groups, but it is not possible to fairly give priority to any one group in this limited space meant to cultivate as much undergraduate and graduate student activity as possible.” Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway co-chaired the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee, which also included four undergraduates. Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .
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“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.” BILL GATES FOUNDER OF MICROSOFT
School of Music seminar launches online sign up so that they can comment on each other’s work. This is a fairly new platform that Coursera has been experimenting with, he said, so the first cohort will be from now into early March and after that will be the second cohort. Project coordinator for the Office of Digital Dissemination and Online Education Melissa Thomas said this was the first time student discussions were included as a part of an online course. The professor chose some students who had enrolled in previous years and had them participate in dialogues on various course topics, she said. “One of the interesting things about this course is that it is more philosophical in nature,” Thomas said. “A lot of our other courses are based more on subjects like financial markets and law, and this course required more dialogue rather than hard concepts.” In addition to the course’s visual elements and participation from former students, the course also involved interviews with people outside of Yale. Video producer and editor at the Yale Broadcast Center Guy Ortoleva said the production team traveled to Providence, Rhode Island and New York in order to film interviews with leaders in the music industry. Ruth added that some of the interviews were conducted over Skype, utilizing a split-screen option with him on one half and the interviewee on the other. Other obstacles with the production of the course included small logistical challenges such as scheduling. Ortoleva said Ruth was only available to film on Mondays which prolonged the production process as Ruth lives in Providence. During Ruth’s past three years at Yale, he has taught variations of this course as a seminar. He said the entire filming pro-
BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER “Music and Social Action” is the first massive open online course launched by the School of Music, but it also stands out in other ways. Taught by music lecturer and MacArthur Fellow Sebastian Ruth, the course explores the societal roles of musicians and how classical music can enact social change. Executive Director of the Office of Digital Dissemination and Online Education Lucas Swineford said Yale Broadcast Studios, a part of the Center for Teaching and Learning, was instrumental in constructing many elements of the class that set it apart from those produced in the past. In particular, the course includes many visual components and seminar-style discussions. It is also the only MOOC so far to have required traveling outside of the state of Connecticut for filming. “When the School of Music invited me to create an online version of the class for Coursera, it required rethinking the course to some degree so that it would work well in the online format,” Ruth said. “In a humanities topic that is inherently multidisciplinary, where we are not trying to deliver a concrete set of ideas but more trying to raise questions and bring perspectives to them, the question became how to make that effective as an online class.” The transition from a classroom seminar to the online platform required a number of adjustments. Ruth said in order to accommodate the course’s seminar format, it is run on a format called on-demand cohorts. He explained that a key component of the course is peerreviewing essays, and students are placed into a group with other peers depending on the time they
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Arts,” Michael Yaffe said. “As a school, we’re committed to the idea of musicians being cultural leaders, and beyond just playing their instruments, we want them to think about the impact their art can have on society.” Ruth visited the White House in 2010 to receive the National
Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from First Lady Michelle Obama on behalf of Community MusicWorks, of which he is the founder and artistic director. Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
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“I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh.” STEPHEN COLBERT IMPROV ACTOR AND COMIC
C O L U M B I A D A I LY S P E C TAT O R
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Top positions open to students guilty of gender misconduct
Student visa extension program in question
BY MARGARET CUNLIFFE Columbia College and School of Engineering and Applied Science administrators will not introduce a blanket policy preventing students who violated the gender-based misconduct policy from serving in orientation leadership roles, arguing that such a policy would be unnecessarily severe. A recent Columbia Daily Spectator article found that although changes to the Sexual Respect and Community Citizenship Initiative now prevent Columbia College and SEAS students who fail to complete the requirement from holding orientation and preorientation leadership positions, no such blanket policy exists to prevent students who have violated the gender-based misconduct policy from holding those same positions. When the initiative was introduced last year, diploma and registration holds were placed on students who did not complete the SRI. Students now lose their “good community standing” if they fail to complete the requirement, barring them from becoming resident advisors, orientation leaders or Under1Roof facilitators for one academic year. This policy is not consistent with the current restrictions against those who have previously violated the genderbased misconduct policy with respect to access to orientation leadership positions. While changes in the policy last year made students found responsible for committing acts of sexual misconduct ineligible for RA positions, there is no blanket ban restricting them from becoming orientation leaders or discussion facilitators during the New Student Orientation Program. Some students interviewed said that they felt that this disincentivized completion of the SRI for a large portion of the student body and that allowing students found responsible for sexual misconduct to lead new students was a cause for concern. According to Dean of Undergraduate Student Life Cristen
Kromm, who set the new pol icy in consultation with Deans James ValCOLUMBIA e n t i n i and Mary Boyce, the change in the consequences for failing to complete the SRI were made with the intention of gauging the student body’s response. However, the consequence for failing to complete the SRI may change next year if participation rates go down. Kromm is optimistic that students will continue to participate despite the reduced consequences. “The ultimate goal throughout is voluntary compliance — that people understand that this is a very important issue and that community membership means being involved.” The Office of Residential Life implemented a blanket ban on all previous violators of the gender-based misconduct policy from becoming RAs in October of last year, after a Spectator investigation found no such policy existed. Teaching assistants and other student leadership roles were not included in the policy changes. Kromm stated that the decision to include only RAs in the changes to the Residential Life policy was also a conscious one. “The conversation last year with student leaders was about the RA role in particular, given that it’s a yearlong position, that they live in such close physical proximity to their residents and that one component of their role is to enforce University policy,” Kromm said. This special relationship between advisor and resident, to Kromm, makes the role of RA different from other student leadership positions in a way that warrants restricting all previous violators of the gender-based misconduct policy from holding the position. However, Kromm felt that making all student leadership roles off-limits to students found responsible for sexual misconduct was unnecessarily severe.
BY LAURA FELENSTEIN Neuroscience concentrator Pu-Ning Chiang is one of the 182 international students in her class year. Hailing from Taiwan, Chiang will rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s Optional Practical Training program to continue living in the United States legally following her graduation in the spring. But the program has expired, and the federal government has until May 10 to make necessary changes. In the meantime, the fate of a number of international students, including some from Brown, is uncertain. As an extension of the student visa, the OPT program gives international students and recent college graduates the opportunity to work in the United States for a year after graduation. In 2008, an extension was created that allows graduates studying science, technology, engineering and math to work for an additional 17 months, for a total of 29. But in 2014, a labor union called the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers sued the DHS on the basis that international students were taking
away jobs in STEM fields from American graduates. Now, the White H o u s e ’s BROWN Office of Management and Budget must approve the program, or the 17-month extension will be eliminated. In an email to The Brown Daily Herald, Elke Breker, director of Brown’s office of international student and scholar services, stated that the decision regarding the new proposal for the OPT program is expected to be released by March 10. This 60-day cushion should ensure that the verdict is made on time. Breker declined to comment on how Brown students might be affected by a ruling in the future. 37 percent of graduate school students at Brown are international, according to the graduate school’s website. Of undergraduates, 12.1 percent are international, according to statistics from the 2014–15 school year. Tom Doeppner, vice chair of
the computer science department, expressed his concern about the potential impact the elimination of the extension could have on international students concentrating in STEM disciplines. “OPT, as it is right now, is just 12 months. … If the extension goes away, it is going to make it pretty tough for our students to get their green card,” Doeppner said. “It’s going to have a negative effect on their education.” According to Doeppner, there is a significant number of international STEM students and recent graduates from Brown working through this program in his department. As a student thinking about pursuing OPT for neuroscience following graduation, Chiang said that the extra time granted by the extension would better her experience. With only a year to work, rather than 29 months, she would have less time to apply for a worker visa. Entering the lottery for a visa is risky — especially with a time constraint — as only 65,000 are available each year, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website. Without acquiring a worker visa fol-
lowing the initial 12 months granted by OPT, Chiang could have to leave the country, a situation she has seen a friend forced into before. “We all want to stay here,” Chiang said. “America is a good place. I like it here.” But should the plan currently under review be approved, Chiang will be granted more time in the United States than she would have had under the original extension. Among other revisions, the new proposal by the DHS would bump the 17-month extension to 24 additional months on top of the original 12 for a total of 36. The suggested update to the law would also implement protection for American workers in response to the criticism by WashTech, according to media site Marketplace. Under the revised OPT program, preventative measures would be put in place to stop employers from hiring foreign workers in the place of Americans. But according to the National Science Foundation, hiring international workers does not necessarily indicate that American workers will be displaced from jobs.
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Student leaders surprised at Gen Ed change BY JONATHAN ADLER Student leaders expressed surprise regarding recent changes to Harvard University’s new Program in General Education, approved by a vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, though they were quick to voice support for the alterations. Harvard’s Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay Harris released a final report in January outlining the new Gen Ed, designed to fix issues with the current program that has been deemed “failing on a variety of fronts.” Not included in that report, however, were changes, approved Tues-
day, that will allow students to ta ke up to four of their re q u i re m e n t s HARVARD pass-fail. “I don’t think it’s ever a positive thing to have lastminute changes to programs that affect thousands of students,” said Eduardo Gonzalez, a member of Harvard’s Undergraduate Council’s Education Committee. “That’s never anyone’s first choice.” Though UC Education Committee Chair Scott Ely
said he was “taken aback” by the late changes, he also said that he ultimately supported the move to give students the opportunity to take Gen Ed classes pass-fail. “On the whole, I think it’s great for student choice,” Ely said. “It shows that Dean Harris and Dean [of FAS Michael] Smith and some of the other people involved are definitely committed to making sure that students have the opportunity to take new interesting courses and put themselves out there.” Other UC members also expressed support for the pass-fail alteration, although with some initial reservations.
“This seems right off the bat to have both advantages and disadvantages,” Gonzalez said, referring to the new policy. “It works out great because [students] have more freedom to explore the class. On the other hand, you run the risk of students’ finding the easiest class they can and then making it easier on themselves by making it pass-fail.” Several students not on the UC also said they worried that the new policy might detract from the academic rigor of the Gen Ed program. For freshmen especially, who remain uncertain about how the new Gen Ed will apply to them, the question seemed significant.
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“For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, ‘Think big but start small.’” CARMEN BUSQUETS VENEZUELAN LUXURY AND FASHION ENTREPRENEUR
SubLite aims to centralize summer resources BY ANAMIKA VEERAMANI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Office of Career Strategy recently released data indicating that 94.5 percent of students who responded to the OCS Summer 2015 Activities survey participated in a summer internship that lasted for at least one month. Many of those students used OCS’s Symplicity website to secure the internships, and many used resources including Craigslist and the Facebook page “Yale Summer Housing” to find places to live over the summer. But according to Yuanling Yuan ’16, these decentralized efforts to secure summer jobs and summer housing are “really inefficient.” SubLite, a Yale startup cofounded by Yuan, Qingyang Chen ’17 and Alisa Melekhina, a University of Pennsylvania Wharton student, hopes to disrupt the current student summer experience model by providing an open marketplace for student summer housing and summer internship matching. SubLite’s business model operates on simple and direct exchange
— college students who are looking for summer housing for classes or internships can connect with other students who are looking to sublet their living spaces during the same time frame, Yuan said. When she spoke further about their existing competition in the startup space, Yuan mentioned that there are no other services that seek to combine exactly what SubLite does: student summer housing and internship matching. The site formalizes the process that, formerly, was scattered over places like Craigslist sublet ads and college Facebook Housing Wanted pages. According to Yuan, the service provides a userfriendly interface for this kind of exchange. Yuan said SubLite is easy and safe to use, as each user is vetted by SubLite with its college-emailvalidated registration process. Yuan added that sites like Symplicity, which students typically turn to for the internship search, are difficult to navigate and typically do not contain a diversity of internship opportunities — especially for students looking to intern with smaller, local companies that
do not have established ties to Yale. When the team expanded their services to allow internship recruiters to post listings on the site, which already had a large user base of students looking for housing, SubLite found a unique financial opportunity, she said.
We all have the same potential to change the company. ALEX CROXFORD ’18 SubLite business development director SubLite has been in operation since April 2014, but, according to Chen — one of the early cofounders and the incoming CEO — it wasn’t until this past fall that they decided to charge recruiters to advertise positions on their website. Prior to this, SubLite was funded by a combination of grants, most notably from the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute and the cofounders’ personal investments. The company has not yet turned a
profit, according to Yuan, but has started to bring in revenue from the recruiter end. Yuan assured users that not only is SubLite attempting to change the sublet-internship landscape — most obviously, by merging the two — but they are attempting to create the best user experience on both the student and recruiter sides. Chen added that the services offered for students are completely free. “Our mission is to help the students,” Chen said, adding that the company accrues revenue through their recruiter services. To that end, the site, unlike many other services that allow internship recruiters to post internship information, only charges recruiters for each student that applies to the recruiter’s internship SubLite makes customer satisfaction “a priority,” Yuan said. To the SubLite team, customer satisfaction means creating the best web interface for their user, Chen said. He created the first prototype a year and a half ago, and has been constantly improving SubLite’s web presence based off of field tests, surveys, and focus
group input. But he is not doing this work alone — Chen, with help from SubLite’s “enthusiastic marketing team,” was able to recruit a strong cohort of software developers and designers who work tirelessly to ensure the website’s front end and back end are “easy to use and effective.” Eric Yu ’19, one of SubLite’s software developers, said he joined the SubLite team because he was “very impressed with their dedication” and has been very pleased with his experience on the team, mostly because of their “willingness to teach [new team members] and get [them] up to speed as quickly as possible.” He described SubLite as one of the best experiences he has had at Yale so far. Alex Croxford ’18, SubLite’s business development director, said he often speculates at what entices people to join and stick with the company. “I think we do a really good job of creating excitement — when you’re here, you’re not necessarily working for SubLite — you are SubLite,” Croxford said. “We all have the same potential to change the company.”
David Liu ’18 said he likes being part of the SubLite team because “there’s an actual product and service that [they] come out with.” He juxtaposed this experience with programming by himself in his room, and said that he greatly enjoys the collaborative and userdriven work of SubLite. SubLite has been active for close to two years. Yuan and Chen attribute their tenacious and comparatively long-lived startup to the collaborative nature and culture of creation present among team members. The founding members have started to graduate and move onto careers in the “real world,” Yuan said. However, the team maintains that even through the changes and expansions, SubLite’s core message remains the same, Yuan said. As written in their websites mission statement, they know exactly what they are — the “one-stop shop for a successful summer.” According to the SubLite website, over 10,000 students and 700 universities use their service. Contact ANAMIKA VEERAMANI at anamika.veeramani@yale.edu .
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“[Concussions are] part of the game — until it’s you.” MARIO MANNINGHAM NFL WIDE RECEIVER
Potential tackle ban
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Injuries riddled the Bulldogs throughout the 2015 season, who finished with a 6–4 record. FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 the Ivy League head football coaches for their leadership on this matter.” Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin also said he supported the measure, given that it can help reduce the risk of concussions and keep students safe and healthy. The new rule will necessitate a “minor change” for Yale football’s training, Reno said. Last season, the team limited itself to 10 to 15 minutes of full-contact practice each week during the regular season, a move which Reno said limited the number of concussions in practice. Current captain and linebacker Darius Manora ’17 said this will not have a major impact on the team, and that the decision is part of an evolution of the game. “Since I’ve been at Yale, we have very rarely tackled during practices so there will be no major changes with our practices,” Manora wrote in a message to the News. “I think
the game of football at every level has already been transitioning toward not tackling during practices, as well as making several other changes in how the game is played in order to reduce injuries.” The coaching staff has been researching better ways to teach tackling for the last few years, Reno said. The focus has been on teaching athletes to lead with their shoulders, as opposed to their heads, and the team has been exploring new methods and devices to teach tackling. Dartmouth, one of the earliest advocates for restricting the amount of contact in practice, has improved its league standing four seasons in a row even after head coach Buddy Teevens eliminated full-contact practices in 2010. This past season, in which the Big Green won a share of the Ivy League title, Teevens unveiled the MVP, or Mobile Virtual Player — a remotely controlled, 150pound tackling dummy with which players could practice
tackling. “Concussive head injuries [are a] huge concern, and we can eliminate a good percentage of them,” Teevens said during an appearance on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert in October 2015. “We’ve [had an] 80 percent injury reduction, just going to nontackling situations … most concussions occur in practice, more so than in games.” The MVP, which Colbert described as “huggably plush,” was developed by an engineering team that included former Big Green defensive lineman Elliott Kastner. Teevens denied that the MVP’s implementation represents, as Colbert jokingly put it, “the wussification of the American sportscape.” “No,” Teevens said. “We’re making [players] smarter.” Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
Elis move to 2–0 at home W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 cessful season.” The team’s early runaway lead would peak at six, however, as Marist struck back for two rapid goals within a minute of each other. Marist could not take advantage of its brief momentum, as McEvoy and attacker Kiwi Comizio ’18 tacked on their second goals of the game to push the lead back to the commanding six it held before. For the rest of the first half, Yale held Marist at an arm’s length, wasting away large chunks of time with each possession and winding down the clock with continuous ball movement in the offensive zone. The Red Foxes snuck in a goal with 3:29 left in the half and the halftime whistle blew with the Bulldogs comfortably sitting five goals ahead, 8–3. In the first half Yale secured goals on eight of its 12 shots, a drastic improvement from its game against UMass on Saturday, where the Bulldogs converted on just 17 percent of its shot attempts. Less than a minute into the second half, Marist jumpstarted its comeback attempt as Kara McHugh added her first goal of the match. Yale had successfully limited the prolific scorer from finding the back of the net in the first half. McHugh entered the contest averaging 4.67 goals per game, tied for third-most in the nation. Yale’s lead, which had seemed so secure at the half, continued to slip away as the second half unfolded. The Red Foxes tallied two more goals, their third and fourth unanswered, another one of which came from the lethal
stick of McHugh. But McHugh’s emergence was short-lived as she failed to score the remainder of the game. “After our game against UMass [last] weekend we really wanted to focus on us and our defense,” defender Victoria Moore ’17 said. “[And] our attack played phenomenal today. They did an incredible job of pulling out and tiring out the Marist defense and forced [McHugh] to run a lot which definitely helped us against her.” Nevertheless, with the lead cut to two, Yale’s Marks made several point-blank saves to stem the Red Foxes’ swelling tide. She finished with a career-high 10 saves on the evening. Yale reeled off three unanswered goals in response: the second for midfielder Taryn Gallagher ’18, the first for midfielder Madeleine Gramigna ’18 and McEvoy’s third of the game. Marist made one final push as Allison Gionta notched backto-back goals, but the late scores turned out to be too little too late. After an up-and-down game, the clock struck zero with Yale emerging victorious, 11–8. Six different players scored for Yale, highlighting the team’s depth on the attack. Also, the team held statistical advantages by significant margins in several categories. Yale secured 17 draw controls, behind the work of attacker Nicole Daniggelis ’16, to the Red Foxes’ 4. Yale also committed just four fouls to Marist’s 17. The Bulldogs will now move on to their Ivy opener on Saturday with a road contest at Cornell. Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .
in that event will qualify for the College Sailing Team Race National Championships at the end of May. In fleet racing, the spring season concludes in late April with the New England Dinghy Championships, which qualifies teams for the coed semifinal and national championship, a fleet racing event held over four days at the end of May and beginning of June. For the women’s team, the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association qualifiers occur during the Reed Trophy in April, which will be hosted at Yale. If the women’s team successfully qualifies, it will again sail at the women’s semifinals in San Diego during late May, and possibly continue to the national championship. While the fall season focused on fleet racing, in which sailors compete against up to 17 boats from different schools, for the coed team the spring season has more team races, in which three boats from one team compete in the same race against three boats from another in an attempt to secure a winning combination of finishes. Meanwhile, though the women’s team will compete in a combination of fleet and team racing events, the women’s national championship is fleet racing only. For both teams, if qualifiers are successful, they will enter a postseason period in May during which the focus will be on training for nationals, Kiss said. With many different events to compete in, 2015 captain Charlotte Belling ’16 noted that sailors’ flexibility — being willing to sail as both crew and skipper, for example — will be important for the spring. “We have a lot of crews and a lot of skippers who will be sailing at events they haven’t before, sailing with partners they haven’t before,” Belling said. “So one of our goals for the season is for everyone to adjust for these new roles, and think about how they want to improve individually, but also how we can move forward as a team.” Returning to the coed team are skippers Ian Barrows ’17 and Malcolm Lamphere ’18, both of whom sailed on Yale’s victorious squad in the team race championships last spring. Bar-
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Yale has more than a month of competition before qualifiers to nationals begin in April. rows, who was also skipper for the winning B-division team at the coed national championship regatta last year, will be “instrumental” in leading the team this season, Belling said. Kiss, who sailed A-division at last year’s coed semifinals and never placed out of the top five, has returned as well. Casey Klingler ’18 will be a key skipper on the women’s team, along with 2015 women’s captain Marly Isler ’16. As a freshman last year, Klingler sailed Yale’s B division into a sixth-place finish at the 2015 ICSA Women’s Nationals. Returning crews Clara Robertson ’17 and Natalya Doris ’17, meanwhile, both sailed in last year’s team race championship and will return to both the women’s and coed squads. Dorris also competed in the women’s semifinals, while Robertson crewed for Barrows during the team’s firstplace B division finish in the coed championship. To add to their depth, the Bulldogs welcomed Nic Baird ’19 and
Nick Hernandez ’19 this year, who Belling called “top players” for the spring season. The two will compete in a combination of team racing and fleet racing regattas. “The important thing is gaining momentum right away in the spring season. It’s not very long, and we have to take each event pretty seriously,” said Belling. “Something that we did really well last year was, though we had a lot of successes, especially throughout the team racing season, we still focused on improving, and didn’t let the top results get to us. If anything, they motivated us to keep staying on top.” This weekend, the women’s team will be competing on home waters at the Women’s Team Race Regatta, while groups from the coed team will travel to Providence, Rhode Island for the Sharpe Trophy, and Charleston, South Carolina for the Bob Bavier Team Race regatta. Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu .
Fenwick finishes career strong SQUASH FROM PAGE 12 of the seaQAtson,thedidbeginning you see Yale having a legitimate shot at winning the championship?
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Definitely, I think the rational thing to do is look at the other losses around the league and see what other teams are looking like. You kind of always know it’s going to be Trinity, it’s going to be Rochester, Harvard, all those guys, they’re tremendously strong teams. You know you have the goals of beating those teams. Even when we lost to Trinity and Rochester it wasn’t really a setback, it was more of a wake up call that we were right there and just needed a little bit more at the end of the season to kind of push us over the line. Our training picked up, the competition in the Ivy League really kept us going and that win against Harvard propelled us forward. I always knew there was an opportunity with the talent we have. There are a lot of [former] champions on this team in their own right from junior squash. We had a bunch of individual champions, but we just needed a team of champions, and that’s what happened.
were the keys to QWhat Yale’s success this year?
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We put a lot of hard work in, but it was really people being able to produce week after week. It’s hard, with one loss you can take yourself out of an Ivy, you can take yourself out of a national championship, and we just produced consistently throughout the
season. important was it this QHow season having Zac Leman
’16 and Kah Wah Cheong ’17 back from last year’s seasonending injuries?
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Bottom line is we couldn’t have done it without them, and they came back so strongly, too. Zac was playing No. 1, Kah Wah came back at No. 4. All four of us top guys were pushing each other, and the rest of the guys were pushing us forward. So [it was important] just having the extra competition on the team, but also that extra experience. Zac is a senior, and Kah Wah is very experienced in his own right. We weren’t just gaining two new players, we were getting back tremendous experience as well.
coaches have said QThe players improved a lot over the course of the season. Where did you see the most improvement throughout the team?
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We got closer and closer as a team, which helped us all since we were really playing for each other. As the ball got rolling and we kept taking out big teams, we knew this was something special. But I also think it had a lot to do with the program the coaches put in this season. Traditionally we’ve kind of killed ourselves to get fitter and stronger, whereas I think this year we didn’t try to kill ourselves every week. We chose our sessions that worked in our favor rather than going for volume, so I think we trained smarter and were able to produce throughout the season at a
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Fenwick played as the No. 3 on a Yale squad that won a national championship last weekend. higher level.
nament as well.
just won the What are people’s goals for QHaving national tournament, is it Qthe individual tournament? at all hard to stay focused on the individual tournament?
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For all of us it’s a time to play squash at a more enjoyable level. That doesn’t mean we’re going to be any less competitive, but [in team competition] there’s always that pressure that you’re carrying Yale on your shoulders or you’re carrying your teammates, whereas now you can play for yourself and still represent Yale, but not have that pressure of titles and championships expected of you. But we’re trying to have quite a competitive individual tour-
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There are a few guys at the top of the ladder, like TJ [Dembinski ’17]. He’s in line for second-team All-American already, and I’m sure he’s hoping for a first-team AllAmerican title as well. Same for myself or Kah Wah [who are hoping for second-team AllAmerican]. It’s a very difficult competition, there’s a lot to do, but hopefully we can grab a few of those titles and hopefully a few divisional titles as well. Contact GRIFFIN SMILOW at griffin.smilow@yale.edu .
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Bulldogs set sail on spring season BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER Yale’s coed and women’s sailing teams return to the water this weekend for the spring season, determined to defend the three national championships that the two squads combined for last year.
SAILING Currently ranked No. 1 in the nation, the coed team emerged from the 2014–15 season with victories at both the team and fleet racing national championships. The women’s team, which also claimed victory in last year’s nationals, is ranked No. 3 after this past fall season. Though the two Yale teams graduated two
A-division skippers in their small class of 2015, the vast majority of sailors who competed at nationals last year are still sailing for Yale this year, which head coach Zachary Leonard said should give the Bulldogs a leg up on their competitors in 2016. “We are returning national champs, so everyone is trying to catch us,” coed captain Mitchell Kiss ’17 said, “But we’re definitely just trying to keep learning and improving as much as we possibly can so that they don’t catch us.” The coed team has five weekends of competition before the New England Team Race Championship, which will take place April 9–10. The top four teams SEE SAILING PAGE 10
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Yale and Harvard, shown during their 2014 matchup, are two of eight Ivy League schools whose coaches have agreed to the change. BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS Last week, the Ivy League became the first NCAA conference to ban full-contact hitting in football practices during the regular season after all eight head coaches unanimously agreed to the change, as reported by The New York Times. However, the initiative is not yet a formal policy. Yale Director of Sports Publicity Steve Conn said that although head coaches discussed the concept of elimi-
nating tackling in practices at meetings last week, it must still be approved by athletic directors, the policy committee and university presidents before it can be enacted. “We have an opportunity to be leaders in safety of this great game,” Yale football head coach Tony Reno said. “The game was started here [at Yale] and anything we can do to improve the game and the safety of the people who play it is great.” The move comes at a time when collegiate programs and professional football organizations are taking steps to
address the risk that traumatic head injuries pose to current and former players. Over the last decade, ongoing research has linked repeated blows to the head to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease. Governing bodies such as the NCAA and NFL have taken steps to limit the amount of contact occurring in nongame situations. This is not the first time that Ivy League football has decided to enact more stringent safety standards: in 2011, the conference decided to decrease the number of full-contact prac-
Fenwick ’16 discusses historic season BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Men’s squash captain Sam Fenwick ’16 was a central part of making Yale history last weekend, guiding the Bulldogs to their first national championship in over a quarter century. The Wales native, who served as No. 3 for the squad this season, will be competing in the College Squash Association Individual Tournament this weekend seeded No. 24 among collegiate squash players. Before the event, which will see seven Yale men’s players and four women’s players from Yale compete, Fenwick sat down with the News to discuss his memorable 2016 campaign.
SQUASH does it mean to win the QWhat national championship as a senior?
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It means everything to me. The backbone of my life has been squash. Everything from getting to travel around the world to coming
to Yale and making the connections I’ve made, it’s all through squash. It’s something that I’ve dedicated myself to, and I know every man on this team has done that as well. So to get [a national championship] before I graduate is something special, and it’s something that I think we’re all proud of. what does it mean for you, QAnd specifically, to captain the first Yale team to win in 26 years?
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It meant a lot to be chosen by my peers. You’re standing in for that role, but throughout the seniors and upperclassmen [the responsibility is] kind of shared between us. There were a lot of things I wasn’t able to do, but all of the seniors were able to help me out and stand by me. At the end of the day it was a lot more than just one individual sharing the responsibility, it was all of us working together, and that speaks volumes to this team. SEE SQUASH PAGE 10
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tices to two per week during the season, compared to the NCAA’s maximum of five at the time. Reno said over the next few months, the coaches’ decision will go to the athletic directors. At some point in the late spring or early summer, it will go to university presidents for approval. “All aspects of the proposal will be reviewed,” Yale Director of Athletics Tom Beckett told the News. “I personally believe this is an important step for the Ivy League to take. I applaud SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10
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Both Yale sailing teams enter the season with high expectations after combining for three national championships last spring.
Quick start propels Yale to win BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER Coming off of a 10-goal loss to the undefeated University of Massachusetts, the Yale women’s lacrosse team bounced back nicely against Marist with an 11–8 win on a frigid Wednesday night. The Bulldogs jumped out to an impressive start and held on to move back to 0.500 and remain unbeaten at home.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE In a game rife with momentum shifts and unanswered runs, Yale (2–2, 0–0 Ivy) fought off several comeback pushes from the Red Foxes (2–2, 0–0 MAAC) with the help of a deep offense and stout play in net. “It’s the perfect win going into this weekend against a tough team like Cornell, and I definitely think this has given us some serious momen-
tum,” goalie Sydney Marks ’18 said. “The team fought hard until the very end, and we’re ready to face this next challenge headon.” The Bulldogs started the game on fire, racking up six consecutive goals in the game’s first 10 minutes. The run was highlighted by two goals from attacker Hope Hanley ’17 and one from fellow attacker Tess McEvoy ’17, who also contributed two assists during the early onslaught. “Those first 10 minutes really showcased our offensive potential. I think that we were operating on all cylinders — throwing quickly and precisely, seeing the open player and placing our shots,” captain and defender Kate Walker ’16 said. “If we can play the way we did for the first 10 minutes for an entire 60-minute game, we’re going to have a very sucSEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 10
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Yale dominated the first half of play, entering the intermission up 8–3 over Marist en route to an 11–8 victory.
THE NUMBER OF HAT TRICKS THAT TESS MCEVOY ’17 HAS RECORDED IN THE YALE WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM’S FIRST FOUR GAMES. The junior attacker most recently led the way in Yale’s 11–8 win over Marist on Wednesday night, tallying three goals and two assists.