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CROSS CAMPUS Last ones standing. Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 and Sen. Bernie Sanders, the two candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, faced off in Flint just days before Michigan voters will cast their ballots in the primary. Both Clinton and Sanders criticized former president Bill Clinton’s LAW ’73 1994 crime law and 1996 welfare law, which, the candidates said, contributed to institutional racism against African-Americans.

WHISTLEBLOWER REFEREES BEHIND THE STRIPES

SCHUY HIGH

BYE BYE BENNY

Pi Phi hosts fundraiser for injured alum Schuyler Arakawa ’15

BEN CARSON ’73 DROPS OUT OF REPUBLICAN RACE

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An important moment. The

New Haven Museum plans to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the Amistad Supreme Court decision on Thursday. In 1841, former President John Quincy Adams argued that slaves who had revolted aboard the ship Amistad and were jailed in New Haven for the uprising were acting as free people.

Adams won the case and the captives were freed.

Review’d. “Eclipsed” — a play

about women in the Liberian civil war starring Lupita Nyong’o DRA ’12 in the lead role — opened at the Golden Theater on Broadway Sunday.

The New York Times reviewed the show and called Nyong’o “one of the most radiant young actors to be seen on Broadway in recent seasons.”

The review especially praised Nyong’o’s ability to convey the “indomitable humanity” of her character. “Eclipsed” will run until June 19.

Who run the world? Tomorrow

is International Women’s Day, and Circle of Women at Yale will celebrate with baked goods at the Women’s Center at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Circle of Women will also kick off a fundraising campaign to celebrate its 10th anniversary.

Purple is the official color for International Women’s Day.

Dramatic dialogue. The Yale

Drama Coalition’s board invites students to an open town hall meeting this evening at 8:30 p.m. in LC 101. At the forum, the YDC will address community concerns about race and gender representation in Yale theater and the accessibility of the theater community.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1960 Yale’s men’s swimming medley relay team sets a new national record in a sensational win against Harvard. The relay team completed a 400-yard course in 3:44.3 minutes, more than a second faster than the previous record. The upset against Harvard marks Yale’s 196th consecutive victory.

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BULLD0GS GO DANCING First NCAA Tournament since ’62

Captain controversy continues

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS

current head coach James Jones was two years away from even being born.

But on Saturday night, the Bulldogs (22–6, 13–1 Ivy) ensured that the 2015–16 team would join the hallowed ranks of the 1961–62 Elis.

Controversies surrounding the Yale men’s basketball team intensified this weekend, with limited administrative response and ongoing team support for former captain Jack Montague.

The on-campus disagreement first began when the team took the court during a Feb. 26 game wearing special warmup T-shirts in support of Montague, whose father told the New Haven Register last Thursday that Montague was expelled from the University. Although forward Justin Sears ’16 said after the game that the shirts were simply a show of support for a “brother” and were not a protest against the University, posters criticizing the team’s actions appeared around campus the following week. Many featured a photograph of team members in the T-shirts, calling on them to “stop supporting a rapist.”

On Saturday morning, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway sent an email to all undergraduate students addressing the situation and asking community members to “treat other civilly.” Just a few minutes after the email was sent, Fish Stark

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In memoriam. Several world

leaders commented on the life of former first lady Nancy Reagan after she died at 94 yesterday. Former president Barbara Bush, whose husband, George H.W. Bush ’48, served as vice president in the Reagan administration, said, “Nancy Reagan was totally devoted to President Reagan, and we take comfort that they will be united once more.”

FOOD FIGHT

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The team held up the number four, in support of former captain Jack Montague, while celebrating its outright Ivy title.

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS It is difficult to contextualize the 54 years since the Yale men’s basketball team last played in the NCAA Tournament.

Some emphasize historical dis-

tance, like the oft-cited fact that former President John F. Kennedy was in the White House the last time Yale went to the Big Dance back in 1962.

Others note that a gallon of gasoline cost just $0.31 at the time. Those looking to draw a comparison to today’s Yale squad may mention that

Cabinet approves steering committee for crises

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER After excluding most of his cabinet of professional school deans and University vice presidents when developing the “Toward a Better Yale” initiatives in November, University President Peter Salovey will establish a formal cabinet steer-

ing committee that will meet regularly and serve as a “core consulting” group particularly during moments of crisis on campus.

Under pressure in November, Salovey worked closely with his senior advisors and a handful of officers to quickly respond to student concerns about racism and discrimination on cam-

Students advocate to “ban the box”

BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER This past week, students from the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project and Yale College Democrats campaigned to “Ban the Box,” advocating for the passage of House Bill 5237, which would eliminate the question of former incarceration on job application forms in Connecticut.

While New Haven banned the box for public employees in 2008 and Yale did so in 2011, the bill — titled “An Act Concerning Fair Chance Employment” — is currently under consideration in the State Legislature’s Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees. Seven states have enacted similar changes to public employment laws to reduce discrimination based on an applicant’s criminal record.

YUPP members said the box facilitates employment discrimination and that its removal would increase opportunities for former prisoners whose applications might be thrown out simply because they have a criminal record.

“The bill would ensure that employers don’t deny an applicant due to his or her criminal background, which would ultimately give employees a sec-

ond chance to prove that they can lead productive lives,” said Yasmin Eriksson ’19, co-captain of the Criminal Justice Legislative Committee for the Yale College Democrats and Legislative Coordinator for YUPP. “The ‘Ban the Box’ bill has already been implemented successfully in New Haven, so it is time equal opportunity is enforced statewide.”

Members of YUPP held a letter-signing campaign in seven dining halls last week to raise awareness and support from the student body, Eriksson said.

Volunteers collected 511 letters from students on Tuesday that they presented at a public hearing at Career High School on March 3.

Over 80 community members were present to testify on the proposed legislation at the hearing, YUPP Advocacy Coordinator Patrick Sullivan ’18 said. Speakers included individuals who had been incarcerated, local employers articulating their concerns and legal organizations from the community advocating for the bill’s passage. Before reaching Gov. Dannel Malloy’s desk, the bill must first pass through both the SEE BAN THE BOX PAGE 6

pus, leaving most members of his cabinet feeling excluded and unsure of who has the president’s ear. Several deans expressed frustration with their lack of involvement in the development of those fall initiatives, and Salovey acknowledged in hindsight that he would have liked to involve his cabinet in the process more deeply. Through a

reasons,” Salovey said. “It will be composed of three deans and three vice presidents, and I will announce their names once I ascertain their willingness to serve.”

Because he is in the process of inviting cabinet members to join the committee, Salovey added

new six-person subgroup, likely with rotating members, Salovey plans to more formally integrate the cabinet into University decision-making.

“The cabinet has met and approved the plan for a cabinet steering committee that could be brought together particularly when there is a crisis situation on campus or for other

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Initiative revitalizes Green

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Project Green Thumb organizes community service projects on the New Haven Green.

BY AMY CHENG AND CAITLYN WHERRY STAFF REPORTERS The New Haven Green’s reputation as a hub of disorderly conduct, homelessness and drug dealing may soon become a thing of the past. Project Green Thumb, launched just two months ago as a pilot, has already begun to turn the stereotype around.

Project Green Thumb — devised by Downtown/

Wooster Square District Manager Sgt. Roy Davis in collaboration with the New Haven Police Department and the Department of Parks, Recreation and Trees — aims to reduce arrests and provide community service for the New Haven Green, typically a hotbed for quality-of-life crimes, such as public urination, public intoxication and panhandling. The program, which began on Jan. 1, allows individuals who commit

quality-of-life crimes to pay fines with community service hours. Already, 135 individuals have taken advantage of this alternative.

“You can’t arrest your way out of every crime,” NHPD Media Liaison David Hartman said. “So community service, with regards to the greater good, seems to be a better idea than slapping somebody with a fine that they can’t pay.”

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The Literati W

hen I was 17 my mother told me that good writing goes a long way in the professional workplace. My father, meanwhile, would lovingly lambast engineering colleagues who could not compose syntactically sound sentences. This is not my attempt to impose a holier-than-thou attitude on STEM. In fact, I greatly admire the dedication and mental assiduousness that works in tandem with deriving multivariable functions and designing robotic controls in the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design. In fact, I believe the innovative thinking biomedical engineers use to 3-D print lung tissue is analogous to the novelist’s efforts to divine meaning from the cosmos: Both, in their own way, push boundaries. But this Literati imperative — that is, the writer’s endeavor to shine light on derangement, despair and delight — is in danger of being eclipsed by the typical Yalie’s propensity to privilege academic efficiency over intellectual enrichment.

At the risk of pushing pretentiousness, why does the world of the Literati matter? Why do arts and letters, both ancient and contemporary, hold equal intellectual value as scientific pursuits that yield higher salaries after graduation? The world of the Literati matters because exceptional literature is deeply intertwined with culture, linguistics, critical thinking and creativity. It’s an art that transcends the oftentimes blackand-white nature of mathematics to highlight the inevitability of gray truths. Literature plays with in-between netherworlds that prod the status quo and subvert social order. As David Foster Wallace once said, good fiction comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comforted.

EXCEPTIONAL LITERATURE IS DEEPLY INTERTWINED WITH CULTURE, LINGUISTICS, CRITICAL THINKING, AND CREATIVITY In 2014 the Pew Research Center reported that nearly a quarter of American adults had not read a single book in the past year. Moreover, a 2005 Gallup poll stated that the number of non-book readers in America has nearly tripled since 1978.

Lastly, a 2014 study by Common Sense Media alleged that 45 percent of 17 year olds read by choice only once or twice each year.

This sharp decline in American readership is no mystery: We crave the brief serotonin bursts

offered by flashy technological devices. At Yale, a popular Facebook post or cryptic email mentioning ISAAC a secret sociAMEND ety interview are far The more interesting than iconoclast the perceived solitude that comes with opening a Shakespearean play in a residential college library. The digital age has almost single-handedly introduced a cultural epidemic of ADHD, making it even more difficult to soak in the vivid imagery of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.”

Indeed, it’s easy to become lost in this pragmatic shuffle — the sequence of clicking and scrolling that will eventually sustain high GPAs. But the constant pursuit of instantaneous information delivery for short-term academic achievement undermines our genuine intellectual muscles that work in slower fashion. The irony, of course, is that the donors who built our libraries were products of a different time — a time when touching a prized page of “Don Quixote” or “Robinson Crusoe” was a standard benchmark of collegiate achievement. They didn’t envision a swath of students storming ornate literary vestibules only to sit down and mindlessly click mouse pads on gold-plated tables. Such robotic completion of academic tasks ignores the virtue of resting in a plush chair to delve into the beautiful complexity of a novel.

Thoughtfully plowing through a barrage of words that come together in a profound twist of literary fate trumps writing a monotonous reading response on Microsoft Word any day.

Let me conclude by divulging a secret of mine that I’ve withheld from the public for far too long. When I was an angsty 17-year-old high school track star I got a $20 tattoo of a pair of wings on my lower left ankle in a friend’s basement. Yes. My spontaneous ink outburst was incredibly stupid, and for a couple of years I narcissistically told surprised friends that the wings were a symbol of running speed.

They were not. I stamped myself with indelible — literary — ink because Toni Morrison spoke to me through “Song of Solomon” when her main character, Milkman, took flight on her novel’s last page. In typical lyrical fashion, Morrison claimed that “if you surrender to the air, you can really ride it.” Well, I like to think that if you surrender to literature, you can really ride its enchanting wave of cosmic brilliance.

Without further ado, welcome to the world of the Literati.

ISAAC AMEND is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

Contact him at isaac.amend35@gmail.com .

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'FERTO' ON 'BILDNER: LESSONS FROM A PIZZA MAKER'

GUEST COLUMNIST KEN SUZUKI

Shameful behavior A

t lunchtime on Wednesday, my fellow Local 34 members and I went to the Provost’s Office on 2 Whitney Ave. to deliver a message. When we arrived, the Yale administration ordered security to block the door to the building to keep us out.

We had gone to Provost Benjamin Polak’s office to drop off a petition signed by over 2,500 Yale employees asking the administration to stop cutting our jobs.

We planned to deliver the signatures and tell the provost about our concerns, but we were not permitted to set foot inside of the building. We were told by the security guard who was physically barring the doors that he was instructed to do so by the Yale administration.

I have worked here at Yale for over 30 years and have had a wide range of interactions with the administration, but when I heard what the security guard was telling me, I was shocked. We came just to deliver a message, and we were flat-out rebuffed. It was startling and deeply disrespectful.

What happened on Wednesday reminded me of a very different time in my life. I first got a job at Yale in 1981, working with the sound recordings in the Music Library. I loved my job and I was one of the founding members of

my union, Local 34 UNITE HERE, the union of clerical and technical workers on campus. In the earlier years of our union in the ’80s and ’90s, we had a very different relationship with the administration than we do now.

WHEN THE HIGHEST-LEVEL DECISION-MAKERS WILL NOT AGREE TO SIT DOWN WITH THOSE AFFECTED BY THEIR DECISIONS AND WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, IT LEADS TO UNNECESSARY CONFLICT

One day during our union contract negotiations in 1991, I was talking about the union with one of my coworkers in the library when an administrator came by and told me to leave. I knew that I had every right to be there, both under University policy and federal law, but he insisted. He chased me through the stairwells in Sterling Memorial Library until I left the building. And this was not an anomaly. It was commonplace at that time for administrators to try to keep workers from talking with one another. They would tell us to leave, they would call the police — they would do whatever it took.

Since those days we’ve made huge strides forward in our relationship with the University.

We have the right to communicate with the top administrators about our concerns and sit down, talk and try to solve problems together. But to see that security guard holding shut the doors to that building — I felt like I was back in the ’90s.

Our reception at the Provost’s Office made me wonder: why is the provost shutting down dialogue about important University decisions?

In their profile of Polak last month (“Polak: the man behind the money,” Feb. 22), the News wrote, “The president and the provost are Yale’s two top admin-

istrators, and no major decisions are made without input from both of them.” As Yale’s chief financial officer, Polak makes decisions that have major impacts on the working lives and livelihoods of members of our union. On his order, 10 clerical and technical workers in the department of Information Technology Services were abruptly laid off last month.

Yet, when we went to give him an important message from thousands of Yale workers who are subject to the results of his decisions, he refused to even to allow us into his building. This behavior is shameful.

When the highest-level decision-makers will not agree to sit down with those affected by their decisions and work together to solve problems, it leads to unnecessary conflict. On the eve of contract negotiations, Polak’s unwillingness to receive us is not a good sign.

Furthermore, I find it quite strange that one of the top two administrators at a university would refuse to engage in a dialogue. His stance begs the question — what is the state of free speech at Yale?

KEN SUZUKI is the Secretary-Treasurer of Local 34 UNITE HERE. Contact him at suzuki@yaleunions.org .

G U E ST C O LU M N I ST JAC K I E F E R R O

Falling flat A

couple weeks ago, I put on a fake mustache and suspenders, shoved my hair into a hat and auditioned for the Yale Whiffenpoofs, the nation's oldest collegiate a cappella group. I didn’t sing particularly poorly, but I left the audition about 98 percent certain I would not be getting the opportunity to take a year off and travel the world, singing and bonding with some of the most talented singers in my class. Because despite my best efforts, I knew that my vocal range and fairly gendered name gave away the fact that I am not a man.

The Whiffenpoofs need ladies. This has been obvious to me since my freshman fall, but I realize not everyone may think about how gender inequality manifests in the Yale a cappella community, so allow me to explain. There are three primary groups who are affected by an all-male group being the face of Yale a cappella: First, women. Women who join Whim ’n Rhythm, an allfemale senior a cappella group, cannot access the same opportunities that their male friends in the Whiffenpoofs can. And despite all the hard work from recent Whim business managers,

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Whim will never be the first collegiate a cappella group. It will never be the first all-female collegiate a cappella group. It won’t even be Yale’s first all-female collegiate a cappella group. And for every venue that hires based on talent, there’s another seven that are just into the idea of having the “first” something come perform for them. Whim is not and will not be a true Whiffenpoof counterpart any time soon in terms of capacity to generate revenue.

Second, men. Despite not being a true equivalent to the Whiffenpoofs, Whim creates a special kind of space on campus for many senior women that does not exist for senior men.

Instead, junior year those men have to decide whether they want to audition for a group that will make them delay graduation for a full year, put on a ridiculous costume and sing a pretty stagnant repertoire of songs. Some men would probably prefer the Whim experience: less-restrictive music, a new community on campus and some quality post-graduation international travel. Everyone should be able to think seriously about what kind of senior a cappella experience they want to have, rather

Do rock the vote Amelia Nierenberg’s ’18 recent column (“Don’t rock the vote,” March 3) is right to note that Ward 22 includes more than just Morse, Stiles, Silliman, Timothy Dwight and Swing Space; two-thirds of the ward encompasses a vibrant, highly diverse working-class community called Dixwell. We do not defend the misinformation Nierenberg encountered at the polling station, nor the lack of civic awareness demonstrated by students.

In fact, as Ward 22 co-chairs past and present, our role has been to involve students in local affairs and issues within the city. This is much of why having a Yale student serve in the position of co-chair is so important, and why we must continue to build upon previous work to bridge the divide between town and gown.

But the ultimate conclusion Nierenberg draws from her experience is incorrect.

Despite her claims, Yale students are residents of New Haven. Local policies affect the businesses we patronize, the water we drink, the streets we walk and public services we enjoy. Likewise, our community plays a substantial role in shaping the surrounding city; not only is Yale New Haven’s largest employer, but its campus and students make up a crucial portion of the city.

We can either neglect this relationship, or accept its importance in our lives and the obligations it entails.

than having it dictated to them by their gender.

WE NEED A COED SENIOR GROUP BECAUSE THERE ARE CURRENTLY GENDER-QUEER STUDENTS WHO ARE UNABLE TO SING A CAPPELLA IN THEIR SENIOR YEAR, AND THAT'S NOT OKAY Finally, everyone else. I know there are same-sex singing groups on campus with positive histories when it comes to gender boundaries, but being the only non-woman in a women’s group cannot be the only option.

We need a co-ed senior group because there are currently

Furthermore, Nierenberg’s views are not only wrong but actively harm our relationship with New Haven. Since Yale built the walls on Old Campus around 1870, our University has sustained frosty and even hostile interactions with the city.

Much of this tension has been exacerbated by the often disinterested attitudes of Yalies towards long-term residents.

Nierenberg’s argument suggests that we further withdraw from city affairs, which would only serve to perpetuate such tension. Recognizing our privilege and relative isolation from New Haven should motivate us to become more involved, not less.

It should at the very least commit us to supporting those who engage meaningfully in the city.

Part of that commitment involves voting in local elections. Voting for candidates that will support long-term New Haven residents is one of the most powerful ways we can contribute to this city. Furthermore, failure to vote depresses voter turnout numbers, which decreases the political incentive of state lawmakers to adhere to interests of local constituents.

In a low-income municipality

genderqueer students who are unable to sing a cappella in their senior year, and that’s not okay.

I’m not the first woman to audition for the Whiffenpoofs — I wasn’t even the only one to do it this year. And I know I will not be the last. But I need everyone who has ever looked at the Whiffenpoofs and thought, “Huh, I wish I could do that,” to allow themselves to imagine a Yale in which all-male a cappella does not so aggressively dominate the arts culture. It’s hard to imagine that Yale. The value placed on male voices permeates everything from the a cappella rush process to the audiences at annual a cappella jams to the disparate performing fees wealthy New England private schools pay male and non-male groups.

But that Yale is possible, and it’s closer than you think. Please, any person who has found themselves unable to look past the inflated value that is placed on the male voice, continue trying to imagine that Yale. Audition for the Whiffenpoofs next year and push for the change you deserve to see happen.

JACKIE FERRO is a junior in Branford College. Contact her at jacqueline.ferro@yale.edu .

like New Haven, voting offers one of the only avenues for the community to demand government investment. Nierenberg’s call to “not rock the vote” is thus damaging to New Haven interests.

Nierenberg’s discomfort with her own civic participation should not lead her to further passivity, but rather to more active engagement with New Haven. We strongly recommend that she and all Yale students read the New Haven Independent, browse the City Section of the News and talk to the multiple Yalies who hold public office in this city. Finally, we recommend that all Yalies vote. Failing to vote is not an act of humble responsibility, but of malignant indifference. Only when we acknowledge and act upon our obligations to the community that surrounds us can we hope to be responsible citizens.

GABRIELLE DIAZ AND MAXWELL ULIN The authors are present and former co-chairs of Ward 22.

Contact them at gabrielle.diaz@yale.edu and maxwell.ulin@yale.edu .

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“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” JOSEPH ADDISON ENGLISH ESSAYIST, POET AND PLAYWRIGHT

Ben Carson ’73 exits presidential race

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Former Yale Corporation fellow Ben Carson ’73 dropped out of the presidential race on Friday after launching a campaign that spun out in the past few months, hitting its peak of support in the fall.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, Carson — an acclaimed neurosurgeon who was seeking the Republican nomination — announced that he would exit the race to take on a role as chairman of My Faith Votes, a nonprofit organization focused on mobilizing Christian voters. On March 2, Carson’s campaign released a statement saying that the candidate did “not see a political path forward” in light of disappointing Super Tuesday results, adding that he would not participate in the Republican primary debate scheduled for the next day. Carson was one of two Yale graduates running for president, the

other being Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, who is still seeking the Democratic nomination.

“There’s a lot of people who love me, they just won’t vote for me,” Carson said in his speech Friday.

Carson majored in psychology at Yale and was in Davenport College. From 1997 to 2003 he served as an alumni fellow on the Yale Corporation.

Carson saw his greatest levels of political support among evangelical Christians and social conservatives in the months leading up to the Republican primaries, but failed to convert his early support into votes. He finished with just eight delegates of 1,237 needed to secure the nomination.

A political conservative, Carson’s policies stand in stark contrast to those of most Yale students. In a News survey administered to the class of 2019 in August, 66 percent of incoming freshmen described their political views as either “very” or “some-

what” liberal, with only 12 percent identifying as “very” or “somewhat” conservative.

Yalies have the same distaste for [Carson] that they have for all conservatives.

ALARIC KRAPF ’19 Emmy Reinwald ’17, who attended CPAC this past weekend, said she supported Carson’s candidacy but ultimately voted for Sen. Marco Rubio in the Virginia primary, citing Carson’s lack of political experience as a critical weakness in his resume. However, at one point during Carson’s Friday address, Reinwald said she yelled out “Yale loves you” as a demonstration of support for the politician.

“He was a great guy, but he wasn’t a campaigner,” Reinwald said. “Even for the Yalies who don’t support his politics, I think we can all respect what he’s done as a person, what he’s done as a doctor and with his life.”

Reinwald added that despite Carson’s close involvement with the University over the years, his ties to Yale did not play an important role in his campaign.

Other students interviewed highlighted a controversy that emerged in the fall concerning Carson’s time at Yale. In November, The Wall Street Journal reported that Carson had embellished or made up events in his 1990 autobiography, in which he wrote that a Yale psychology professor had administered a hoax “Perceptions 301” exam to identify the most honest student in the class. Carson wrote that his professor, claiming that the students’ exams had “inadvertently burned,” distributed a mock exam that every student in

Yalies dance for Arakawa

the class except Carson refused to take upon seeing that it was significantly harder than the previous one.

However, Claryn Spies, a Yale librarian, told The Wall Street Journal that there was no psychology course by that name or class number during Carson’s time at Yale. An article published in the News on Jan. 14, 1970 said the Yale Record had published a parody issue of the News the day prior, in which they reported that a series of Psychology 10 exams had been destroyed and a makeup was scheduled that evening in William L. Harkness Hall. Carson attributed the discrepancies to working with a co-author on the book and inaccuracies in his memory caused by the passage of time.

Alaric Krapf ’19, who identifies as a conservative, said Carson probably should have suspended his campaign earlier, as he has not enjoyed serious popularity since the fall. Krapf said Carson was not

Pi Phi hosted a dance-a-thon Saturday to raise money for Schuyler Arakawa ’15.

BY SARAH STEIN STAFF REPORTER On Saturday, hundreds of Yale students gathered at the “Schuy is the Limit Dance-a-thon” to dance for a cause.

The event, which was held in Payne Whitney Gymnasium, was hosted by Yale’s chapter of Pi Beta Phi to raise money for Schuyler Arakawa ’15. Arakawa — who was recently involved in a tragic accident while abroad in Colombia on a Yale fellowship — is currently in stable condition, but her Pi Phi sisters held the event to raise enough money to cover Arakawa’s medical costs. Arakawa is now being treated in Miami and is scheduled to have surgery on March 7. Attendees formed teams to raise money and arrived clad in everything from Hawaiian shirts to banana costumes. The event ultimately raised over $5,000, and students said it demonstrated solidarity among the Greek organizations on campus.

“This is a casual event inspired by Schuyler,” Pi Phi member Allie Souza ’16 said to the crowd. “We hope to just dance, have fun and hopefully raise a lot of money.”

Students who attended came from various campus organizations, including dance groups, sports teams and other Greek associations. Most interviewed said they had either heard about the event through a member of Pi Phi or had a direct connection to Arakawa. Yet many stu-

dents attended simply to show support for other Greek organizations on campus.

“It’s really important for Greek organizations to collaborate and show support for each other and this event is part of that,” Sigma Alpha Epsilon member Matt Gilman ’17 said.

For members of Pi Phi, the event was much more personal. According to Pi Phi Vice President of Communications Natalie Sheng ’17, who oversaw the event’s organization, many of her close friends are best friends with Arakawa. Even though she has personally only met Arakawa a few times, Sheng said, Arakawa represents the strength of the bond of Pi Phi lineage.

Pi Phi member Olivia Loucks ’17 said the event represented the “energy and spirit” that Arakawa maintains on campus, despite the fact that she no longer attends Yale, through her friends who are still students here. Several members of Pi Phi commented on Arakawa’s bright personality and ability to unite people.

“She really loves bringing people together, and the really exciting thing is that we have people here from all different kinds of groups on campus,” Sheng said. “Hopefully, people will have fun together and meet each other while dancing for a good cause.”

A vital asset to the fundraising campaign has been the influx of online support. In addition to the $5,000 raised by the dance-a-thon, a GoFundMe account set up by a friend

of Arakawa has brought in $187,745 in just 16 days.

Many of the attendees mentioned that they found out about Arakawa’s accident through online forums such as Facebook and other forms of social media. Once they encountered her story, they said they were inspired to donate and to attend the dance-athon.

“I found out about it just scrolling through Facebook,” SAE member Anthony Mercadante ’17 said. “I thought it was a good chance for us to bring the community together and to show support for Yalies in general.”

At the event, members of Pi Phi manned a raffle table, which included gift certificates from Toad’s Place, Go Greenly, Ashley’s Ice Cream, Crepes Choupette and other local businesses. According to former Kappa Alpha Theta member Lizzie Hylton ’15, who helped with the event, all proceeds from raffle tickets will go to Arakawa’s medical costs.

Pi Phi members at the event said they were especially grateful to Sheng, who did most of the organizing for the dance-a-thon. According to Sheng, the event was put together in about a week and was attended by over 18 teams.

“The fact that this came together in less than a week and a half speaks to the ties that Schuyler still has on this campus,” Loucks said.

Contact SARAH STEIN at sarah.stein@yale.edu .

Shuyu Song contributed reporting.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

New Haven Reads expands to East Rock

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popular among Yale students but was not necessarily less popular than other Republican candidates.

“I think Yalies — and modern liberal college students in general — condescend to Carson, sometimes for good reason,” Krapf said.

“He’s certainly had his share of gaffes. Yalies have the same distaste for him that they have for all conservatives, with an added element of derision due to his lack of political suaveness.”

Likewise, Alex Brod ’19, who said he was neither a Democrat nor a Republican, characterized Carson’s support on campus as “nonexistent.”

There are four Republican candidates remaining in the race for the party’s nomination: Rubio, Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich.

Under a blanket of light snow, local nonprofit New Haven Reads celebrated the opening of a new location in East Rock Friday.

The 2,000-square-foot Willow Street location of New Haven Reads, which will officially open for business on April 4, is the nonprofit’s fourth site in the city and its first in the East Rock neighborhood.

Founded in 2001, New Haven Reads is devoted to improving literacy among the city’s youth, and serves just over 500 students per week across all its locations.

New Haven Reads Executive Director Kirsten Levinsohn said she hopes the new location — just across from the East Rock Community Magnet School and within half a mile of the Fair Haven neighborhood — will help the organization spread literacy to the entire city. The new location will be made possible through funding from the state of Connecticut, which Levinsohn said has promised $160,000 over the next two years to cover operational costs.

“We wanted to expand out of the Science Park area, out of Newhallville and Dixwell,” Levinsohn said at the ribboncutting event. “The proximity to Fair Haven — that, we feel, was an underserved community.”

New Haven Reads anticipates that the new location will eventually serve roughly 150 students through oneon-one tutoring. Levinsohn said this increase will go a long way toward reducing the waitlist for tutoring through the organization, which often includes 200 names due to a lack of facilities.

Mayor Toni Harp, who has often called for New Haven to become “the city that reads,” praised the opening of the new location. Currently, only 29 percent of students in grades three to 11 are reading at or above grade level.

“We all recognize, in the world we live in, that reading is a fundamental skill,” Harp said. “If you don’t have good reading skills, then you can’t function in the world we live in. So I think it’s really important that we do all we can to help our kids read.”

The new facility will house both oneon-one tutoring and an after-school program for pre-kindergarten and kindergartners starting this fall.

State Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New

Haven, who identified as a “serial reader” whose life was changed by a book on the Civil Rights movement, said the work of New Haven Reads extends beyond reading skills.

“What New Haven Reads does is not only on the issue of reading, but it builds a connection with an adult who can be a mentor for them,” he said.

Similarly, Levinsohn said tutors can be “cheerleaders” for their students.

She said the one-on-one relationship between tutor and student is crucial to New Haven Reads’ methods. Through this type of tutoring, she said, the organization can personalize its approach for each individual student and ensure that they receive effective tutoring.

Harp and Winfield noted that encouraging reading among children can sometimes be difficult. Winfield, a New Haven Reads board member who said his own child often shies away from reading, said he thinks children should be allowed to read whatever they want. Even comic books, Winfield said, can help children develop the reading skills that will allow them to read more complex books later.

Harp added that reading is often tied to public health, as many children have an undiagnosed need for glasses, and reading without glasses strains their eyes, which often discourages students from reading.

The organization receives funding from a variety of sources. In fiscal year 2015, contributions made up just under half of New Haven Reads’ revenue. This year, Levinsohn said, the organization receives funding from a federal youth violence prevention grant that the city won last year.

Though budget cuts in Hartford have ravaged funding for nonprofits and raised concerns about future revenue streams, state legislators at the event said New Haven Reads does the type of work that deserves funding.

“It’s a tough fiscal year, but programs like this work,” said state Rep. Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, whose son attends kindergarten across the street at the East Rock Community Magnet School.

“These are the types of programs that we’re going to invest in in the future.”

New Haven Reads distributed 130,000 books around the Elm City in 2015.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

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New Haven Reads’ fourth location, its first in the East Rock neighborhood, will open on April 4.

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FROM THE FRONT

“The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.” JONATHAN KOZOL AMERICAN WRITER

Yale ends 54-year NCAA Tournament drought BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 With last weekend’s sweep, Yale stamped its ticket to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1962, and for just the fourth time in program history. In doing so, the team ended the second-longest NCAA Tournament drought by a team that had previously attended the tournament.

“If you’re going to be successful, you need guys willing to give everything up for everything and these guys certainly are,” Jones said at the postgame press conference. “They’ve done a great job throughout their careers and this season.”

Jones, the longest-tenured coach in the Ivy League, earned his second career conference championship, though the team’s 13–1 Ivy campaign provided him with his first outright title and trip to the NCAA tournament. Jones was previously the longest tenured Division I coach without a March Madness appearance.

For the second consecutive weekend, the Bulldogs did not trail once during the 80 minutes of play, defeating Cornell (10–18, 3–11) and Columbia (21–10, 10–4) by double-digit margins. Yale’s consistently impressive defense held both the Big Red and the Lions to well below their season scoring averages, and the Bulldog offense earned a boost from some of its strongest bench play of the season.

Neither Cornell nor Columbia had an interior defense strong enough to stop the Bulldogs down low, as Yale averaged 35 points in the paint and a plus-14 rebounding margin this weekend.

The Bulldogs made quick work of Cornell, outscoring the Big Red 40–22 in the first half en route to an 88–64 victory. In Ithaca, forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 scored a game-high 18 points, while guard Khaliq Ghani ’16 provided a spark off the bench.

“Sometime [shots] fall, sometimes they don’t,” Ghani said after the Cornell contest. “They were falling tonight, so that felt good.”

Ghani finished with 12 points on 5–10 shooting from the floor against Cornell, which marked the first of two strong performances for the senior in the final regularseason weekend of his career. He also drained two three-pointers in key moments against Columbia the following night.

The play of Ghani, as well as

other perimeter players such as starting guard Anthony Dallier ’17, continued to demonstrate the team’s ability to absorb the loss of former captain and guard Jack Montague. Since his Feb. 10 withdrawal from the University, which his father told the New Haven Register was an expulsion, Montague’s absence led to questions concerning depth in the backcourt as well as senior leadership.

Jones downplayed the impact of Montague’s departure on the team’s pursuit of a championship, a stretch during which Yale went 7–1 without last year’s league leader in three-point shooting percentage. “[Director of Athletics Tom] Beckett told me when I got the job I could change anything but I can’t change the number of captains we have, and that’s something that’s sacred to Yale,” Jones said. “But what we’ve done throughout my entire career is make sure that our seniors and our juniors understand that they have leadership roles on the team so it’s not one guy. You can’t put everything on one person. It’s been spread out through the team for the entire season so [the loss of the a captain] wasn’t as big a hit as one might think.”

Due to the 6 p.m. tipoff time at Cornell, the Elis were well into their roughly four-hour drive to Columbia when they received word that Princeton had lost to Harvard. That loss, which put the Tigers at 10–2 on the season, granted Yale control of its own destiny, as a win over Columbia guaranteed an outright title and the accompanying NCAA berth.

“We were on the bus [when we found out about Princeton],” Mason said. “There wasn’t great Wi-Fi so there were about three phones being passed back and forth and everybody was huddled around a couple seats. Some guys didn’t want to hear the score or anything about it until they knew it was over. It probably wasn’t very safe but we erupted on the bus, jumping up and down.”

That reaction, Jones said, was evidence of the great thing about sports: It makes grown men act like children. Calling it a “great, joyous, wonderful” team experience, Jones said in that moment, he was “about seven, Makai [Mason ’18] was four-and-a-half and Brandon [Sherrod] was nine.”

But on the court, the sophomore standout Mason played

beyond his years. One week removed from Ivy League Player of the Week honors and a heroic performance down the stretch versus Dartmouth, Mason put together another strong weekend marked by efficient scoring and active defense.

In addition to scoring 34 points in the two victories, the point guard also tallied six rebounds, five assists and three steals. “[Mason is] a bad man,” Jones said. “He’s a little dude, but what’s great about him is that whoever we play [in the NCAA Tournament], somebody is going to try and push up on him and he’ll blow right by them. They don’t think he can handle the ball, they don’t think he’s quick enough, but he’s a tremendous athlete and has worked endlessly to make himself a better basketball player.”

Four of the five Eli starters reached double-digit scoring against Columbia, a 71–55 victory.

Guard Nick Victor ’16 registered 12 points and 12 rebounds for a double-double, while Dallier knocked down three triples and finished with 12 points.

Two of Dallier’s three made shots from deep were part of an electrifying opening stretch for Yale. The Bulldogs jumped out to a 17–3 lead in front of a sold-out Levien Gymnasium. Behind the hot start, the Elis remained well in control much of the evening, though an 8–0 Columbia run midway through the second half cut the lead to four.

However, Mason answered with a three-pointer off a team offensive rebound, and Ghani proceeded to knock down a pair of triples that gave Yale breathing room down the stretch.

Forward Justin Sears ’16, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year and potential front-runner for this year’s award, did not produce his typical scoring output.

Although Sears scored just five points against Cornell and four against Columbia, he was able to affect the game in practically every other facet of the game. He grabbed 10 rebounds and dished out four assists on Friday, and nearly matched those numbers against Columbia with eight rebounds and five assists in addition to three blocks.

His frontcourt mate Sherrod, who set an NCAA record earlier the season with 30 consecutive made field goals, benefitted from the double-teams Sears pulled.

Project Green Thumb addresses vagrancy NEW HAVEN GREEN FROM PAGE 1 Fines for quality-of-life crimes are usually priced in proportion with the magnitude of the infraction, Hartman said, adding that this system tends to perpetuate the cycle of poverty. When homeless and income-insecure individuals are given a fine they cannot pay, jail time prevents them from actively seeking employment, he said.

Project Green Thumb, which is Davis’ brainchild, resolves this issue while revitalizing the community.

Instead of costing the prison system money by being an inmate, offenders can contribute to the community by cleaning up the Green.

Project Green Thumb is also working to make social services more accessible to the homeless and disenfranchised residents of the Elm City. The city has asked two outreach social workers from Columbus House, a privately owned homeless shelter, to focus their efforts on the Green so that their resources are more accessible.

With the quick success of Project Green Thumb, the city hopes to collaborate with New Haven Community Services Administrator Martha Okafor and expand Columbus House’s outreach work to include a “one-stop social service” location.

This branch would host representatives of all of the city’s social-service programs in a centrally located and easy-to-access location. Davis said his eventual goal is to merge all the aspects of Project Green Thumb — from the information sources patrons consult to the social services they need — into one building, simplifying the process for those who wish to take advantage of the program.

The pilot has received positive feedback by local residents, who anticipate that it will reap addi-

tional rewards for the community in the future. Anthony Johnson, who spends most afternoons on the Green, expressed his appreciation for the availability of social services through Project Green Thumb, as he attributes much of the homelessness on the Green to underlying mental and emotional issues that have not been resolved and have led to drug addiction.

Christopher Vega, a student at Gateway Community College and frequenter of the Green, said he hopes to see an expansion in the range of community services for which people can exchange their fines. Vega added that helping clean up the Green gives people valuable vocational training essential to future employment.

“At the end of the day he’s got that experience — working a lawnmower or weed-whacker,” Vega said.

Rebecca Bombero, director of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Trees, said she can already see the improvements Project Green Thumb has brought to the Green.

She said behaviors on the Green seem to have improved “considerably,” adding that it is now easier to maintain the Green.

“We have received a good deal of positive feedback over the physical appearance of the Green,” she said.

The program’s success in New Haven has prompted similar efforts in neighboring cities. The city of Waterbury is currently conducting research to see how they can adapt Project Green Thumb to meet the needs of their community.

Project Green Thumb is currently seeking community groups, nonprofits and businesses to host volunteers for their community service hours.

Contact AMY CHENG at xiaomeng.cheng@yale.edu and

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Point guard Makai Mason ’18 led all scorers on Saturday evening, racking up 22 points.

After going 6–6 from the field against Cornell, Sherrod ended up 12–13 on the weekend.

“I’m a little upset with Brandon,” Jones said jokingly after the Columbia game. “He goes 6–6 last night, but he actually missed a shot tonight. He was 6–7. I don’t know who he thinks he’s playing for.”

The emotion and excitement of clinching the title and the prized NCAA berth was evident on Saturday, beginning before the final whistle blew. With the victory well in-hand — Jones acknowledged afterwards that there is no such thing as an “11-point play” — the coach went one-by-one down his bench, congratulating each coach, manager and player in helping him attain his long-elusive goal of an outright Ivy championship.

When the game clock finally displayed zeros, the team exploded off the bench and mobbed at halfcourt. Friends, family, alumni and current students joined them in

the celebration.

“It’s a great feeling, to know that you finished something you started and you did it with people that you love and people who love you back,” Jones said.

There was a large basketball alumni presence in New York on Saturday, including former captains Greg Kelley ’15 and Butch Graves ’84. Both expressed their intention to attend the Elis’ firstround NCAA tournament game.

“It’s an incredible feeling, a long time coming,” Graves said. “I’ve waited 30 years, since I graduated, so I’m extraordinarily happy for the team and especially for James [Jones] and all he’s done.”

This year’s triumph comes off last year’s share of the conference title, which included two lastsecond losses that extended the NCAA Tournament drought by yet another year.

Denying that last year’s disappointment, which was punctuated by an National Invitation Tourna-

ment snub, impacted this year’s team, the players put together Yale’s second 13–1 conference season in program history. The team’s first 13–1 record came during that illustrious 1961–62 campaign.

“It’s amazing,” Sherrod said.

“You look up in the gym and see the last time we got to tournament was 1962, it really motivates you to win. Every college basketball player wants to go to the big dance.

It’s unbelievable, great time for our school, great opportunity for our team. It’s surreal.”

The Bulldogs now await their scheduled opponent and location for the first round of the NCAA Tournament, which will be announced on March 13, or “Selection Sunday.” The first round matchups will be contested on either March 17 or 18.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

Campus dispute intensifies CAPTAIN FROM PAGE 1 ’17, a staff columnist for the News, posted an edited version of the email to the popular campus Facebook group Overheard at Yale, asserting that Holloway should have directly addressed campus sexual climate rather than calling for civility.

That same night, the team’s show of support continued during Yale’s game at Columbia, a victory that sealed an outright Ivy League title and NCAA Tournament berth for the team. After the buzzer sounded and the team swarmed at halfcourt, many players celebrated by raising four fingers, representing the number on Montague’s jersey. Guard Khaliq Ghani ’16 wrote “Gucci,” Montague’s nickname, on his wrist tape for the game.

Head coach James Jones also lent support to Montague in a post-game interview with ESPN. “Jack knows how we feel about him — we love him,” Jones said. “He’s a great young man and we love him.”

But most reactions were not as positive. Stark’s post quickly caught the attention of the student body, with hundreds of likes and comments. Many reiterated allegations made on campus posters. But others cautioned their peers to wait for confirmation about the reason for Montague’s departure before expressing an opinion.

Many commenters also called for greater transparency from the University, which has stayed largely silent on the case and declined to confirm any allegations made against Montague. But because the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act prohibits educational institutions from releasing a student’s private academic records without the student’s prior written consent, administrators have declined to comment.

Student reactions and administrative silence came from beyond New Haven as well. During Saturday’s game in New York, one student spectator from Columbia removed his T-shirt mid-game, showing the phrase “The Yale capt. is a rapist” written in red paint on his chest.

“It was the silent protest on the part of Yale’s team that frustrated me most,”

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Players held up the number four in support of Montague. the student, who asked to remain anonymous, told the News. “People who come forward with allegations of sexual assault have very little to gain by doing so, especially given their anonymity. They also have a lot to lose.”

The student added that he was motivated to act independently because of actions taken by the Columbia athletic department to keep students from making references to Yale’s former basketball captain during the contest.

On Friday, a Columbia sports marketing director asked representatives from each of Columbia’s spirit groups in their weekly meeting to “be sensitive” about their cheers and presence at the game

given the recent controversies on Yale’s campus.

“There wasn’t any rationale given, it kind of just felt like common sense,” said Adam Chelminski, head manager of Columbia’s marching band. “Our drum major and I respected their decision, especially considering that it’s still very unclear what happened with the captain.”

The Yale men’s basketball team will play in the first round of the NCAA Tournament later this month.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IRISH PLAYWRIGHT AND CRITIC

YCC releases dining report

Pizza People allege requests to leave Green

BY AMY CHENG STAFF REPORTER On the third Tuesday of each month, the New Haven Green is dotted with tables offering free pizza and clothing. The group of volunteers responsible, who call themselves the “Pizza People,” operate with the simple wish of helping those in need. But according to members of the group, some city officials want the Pizza People’s services to stop.

Pizza People, spearheaded

by Madison, Connecticut resident Susan McDevitt and her family, is a growing group of roughly 20 volunteers per month who are mostly from the Connecticut Shoreline.

After emerging in 2013, the group evolved from distributing six pizza pies they bought themselves to bringing more than 50 pizzas and clothing and toiletries obtained from donations. Still, despite the popularity of their service, which reaches around 100 homeless and income-insecure individuals a month, the Pizza People claim they are facing possible displacement.

New Haven Police Department Downtown/Wooster Square District Manager Sgt. Roy Davis stated in a Feb. 24 article in the New Haven Register that New Haven already

has social services that better serve people in need, including Columbus House, a privately run New Haven homeless shelter. Davis told the Register that the Pizza People’s time would be better spent collaborating with local shelters to maximize efficiency.

“First of all, you can’t push people who want to help people into the back alley,” McDevitt said, referring to an instance when Davis allegedly asked her to stop providing resources in New Haven and do so in her own hometown and its surrounding cities.

Although Davis declined to comment to the News, McDevitt said Davis explicitly told the group that they cannot continue to set up camp on the Green.

But McDevitt said her group will not halt their operations.

“We have every right for being there and doing what we are doing,” McDevitt said.

NHPD spokesman David Hartman denied claims that the Pizza People are being told to move their service elsewhere.

He said the allegations from the Register’s article about city officials being opposed to the distribution of free pizza was inaccurately reported.

“Here it is, officially: No one in the police department is telling anyone they can’t hand

out pizza,” Hartman said.

“This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.”

No one in the police department is telling anyone they can’t hand out pizza. This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

DAVID HARTMAN Spokesman, New Haven Police Department McDevitt, who bases her operation in front of the Center Church, situated in the middle of the Green, said Davis had asked her to stop distributing goods in January and again in February.

She said she is particularly confused by requests to stop operating because her group does not leave litter behind and makes a transformative impact on its volunteers and patrons alike.

She noted that many who have received assistance from the group in past years secure stable jobs and housing and return as volunteers.

She added that there is also an

educational value of her family’s project. The Pizza People, which accepts volunteers as young as seven, help children and youth groups connect with and serve their neighborhoods and beyond. Often, she said, volunteers ask for donations from their neighborhoods or clear out their own closets for clothes they have not worn in years.

Regardless of whether city officials are against the Pizza People’s operations, local service organizations interviewed voiced support for their work.

Sally Fleming, head of food pantry and the “Loaves & Fishes” ministry at St. Paul & St. James Episcopal Church, said the motivation behind giving out free food is simply to feed the hungry. In fact, Loaves & Fishes has been dedicated to providing nutritious food regularly to those in need for the past 35 years.

“There are plenty of people who are trying to do what they think is the right thing by nourishing people. I, for one, think that feeding people [is] giving them the energy to go on to do what they need to do,” Fleming said.

The Pizza People receive 40 pizzas as donations from Modern Apizza every month.

Contact AMY CHENG at xiaomeng.cheng@yale.edu .

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The YCC dining report recommended, among other things, an extension of lunch and dinner dining hours.

BY JACOB STERN STAFF REPORTER The Yale College Council released a comprehensive, 28-page report on Friday proposing possible reforms to address student dissatisfaction with certain aspects of Yale Dining — the first such YCC report in over a decade.

The report — authored by one of three major task forces commissioned by the YCC at the beginning of the fall semester — examined both qualitative and quantitative data to formulate a series of specific recommendations for how Yale Dining could improve. The task force compiled data from the annual YCC Fall Survey, which received 1,519 responses and also drew upon the expertise of a focus group composed of YCC members as well as research comparing Yale Dining to the dining services at other Ivy League institutions.

Ultimately, the report recommended extended dining hours, more diverse meal-plan options and a registered dietitian on Yale Dining’s staff. YCC President Joe English ’17, who made dining reform a central promise of his campaign last spring, said the report represents a major step forward on a subject often avoided by student government.

“A lot of previous YCCs just didn’t want to even look at [Yale Dining] because there are so many moving parts,” English said. “But even though we may not be able to move the needle on all the [report’s] different recommendations, I think it’s important just to get the conversation started.”

With the report now complete, the next step is to discuss the implementation of its suggestions with Yale Dining, English said. Yale Dining Director Cathy Van Dyke SOM ’86 said she and her staff look forward to discussing the report.

“We will reach out to YCC leadership to discuss how best engage the task force directly,” Van Dyke said in a Sunday email to the News. “We can begin our work as soon as they are ready.”

The report contains four main sections: dining-hall hours, meal plans, sustainability and education programs and clarity and communications. Each section corresponds to a different area of policy and includes both a summary of the task force’s findings on the subject and a set of conclusions and recommendations.

According to task force leader and YCC member Kevin Sullivan

’17, the two areas with the greatest demand for improvement were dining-hall hours and mealplan options.

In its intercollegiate comparison, the task force found that Yale has both shorter dinner hours and fewer late-night options then either Harvard or Princeton, the other two Ivy League schools with residential college structures similar to Yale’s. The Fall Survey showed that 97 percent of students want dining hall dinner hours extended to at least 8 p.m., with 66 percent desiring 9 p.m. or later. The report also called for a half-hour extension of lunch hours.

The report said Yale Dining should adjust dinner hours to more closely match students’ wishes or provide some sort of late-night option loosely modeled on a Harvard program called Brain Break, which offers limited late-night options in dining halls.

“It’s really up to Dining how they want to approach [dininghall hours] but hopefully we see some sort of change,” Sullivan said.

On the question of meal plans, the Fall Survey revealed that just 14 percent of students “agree” or “strongly agree” that they are satisfied with the cost of their meal plan. The report offered several specific suggestions for how to restructure meal plans.

In particular, it suggested that Yale Dining form a focus group composed of both students and administrators and recommended that the off-campus meal plan, or a similar alternative, be offered to students living on campus.

The task force had considered advising an overall reduction in meal-plan costs but ultimately decided to omit the suggestion.

“One of the reasons that we didn’t recommend the overall reduction is that it might be difficult to reconcile with also saying we want more dining hours and also we want to pay less for them,” Sullivan said. “That’s sort of a difficult thing to ask.”

In its sustainability and education programs section and its clarity and communications section, the report made a number of other recommendations including asking Yale Dining to hire a registered dietitian and to revamp its website, app and social media presence.

Yale Dining serves 14,000 meals daily across its dining halls and other locations.

Contact JACOB STERN at jacob.stern@yale.edu .

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER As of last month, Connecticut libraries no longer have to pay to borrow books from the University’s collection.

Utilized around the world, the Interlibrary Loan service allows libraries to borrow materials from each other.

While Yale has offered this service in the past in conjunction with other libraries in Connecticut, the University previously charged a fee for materials that were lent out. However, following a pilot program last summer during which Yale began offering free interlibrary lending, the University library system made the change permanent at the end of February. University Librarian Susan Gibbons said the change has allowed Yale to better serve

the broader community without taking on any substantial financial burden.

“It makes a lot of sense as a community partner to provide our fellow Connecticut partners with free loans,” Gibbons said. “In terms of what it does for us, these are colleagues whom we work with all the time so its good to have positive relations.”

Yale launched the pilot program in July 2015 because the Connecticut interlibrary loan system, called reQuest, was being discontinued and a replacement was not yet available. Gibbons said the main impetus behind the pilot was to help ease the transition process as statewide libraries were unable to borrow from each other in the interim. Associate Director for Resource Sharing and Reserves Tom

Bruno explained that the previous system served as a large online catalogue which allowed libraries to view, access and request each other’s holdings.

The new Interlibrary Loan service works similarly, except now all exchanges with Yale are free.

Prior to the transition, Yale was the only school in the Ivy League that did not offer book-loaning services for free to other libraries. Director of Access Services for Sterling Memorial Library and Bass Library Brad Warren said Yale had previously only been lending books for free to nearby institutions Wesleyan, Trinity and the University of Connecticut. Other Ivies already had arrangements within their states in which they provided materials from their collections at no cost, and Yale was a

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Connecticut libraries no longer have to pay to borrow books from the University’s collection.

noted exception, he said.

Bruno said that in the past, Yale University libraries charged other libraries between $10 and $20 for individual book loans. That fee covered the cost of labor and shipping, he said, and was meant to be a recovery fee, not a source of revenue.

Looking at the number of items borrowed during the pilot — which lasted until December — library administrators determined that the total amount of loans constituted a small enough percentage of the library’s year-end revenue that it could be absorbed, Bruno said.

“We knew a lot of libraries would be very hard pressed getting materials for their patrons during this period because so many people rely on reQuest for getting books and we thought by offering our books for free, we could help out in what little way we could,” Bruno said. “Based on how much good will that engendered us and seeing that we weren’t really breaking the bank by meeting this need, we decided we wanted to make it a permanent feature.”

Gibbons added that since the previous transaction method involved processing checks, the new cost-free system pays for itself by affording library faculty more time.

Access Services Librarian at the Yale Law Library Julian Aiken said the average charge for books loaned from the Law Library under the old system was also $10, but said requests were rare.

Bruno said the number of exchanges made during the pilot program was 150 percent higher than the amount during the entire previous year. He added that the total number of books lent out during the pilot program was roughly 600.

All Connecticut libraries can submit their loan requests online. Texts are available from Sterling Memorial Library, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and the Lillian Goldman Law Library to all Connecticut public libraries and college libraries.

“Yale libraries don’t get any tangible benefits from this apart from the fact that we are supporting our local communities,” Aiken said. “Public libraries in the past have been described as our street-corner universities and this is just a small contribution to make our materials as widely available as possible.”

Sterling Memorial Library’s tower houses over 4 million volumes.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”

CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU FRENCH POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER

Cabinet approves crisis commttee

“Ban the box” bill gains support on campus

COURTESY OF YASMIN ERIKSSON

Volunteers presented the letters they collected at a hearing at Career High School.

BAN THE BOX FROM PAGE 1 committee and the General Assembly in Hartford.

“Growing up in New Orleans, I have had friends who were incarcerated either for minor misdemeanors or for self-defense crimes,” Eriksson said.

“Their difficulty finding employment later has led to financial instability and emotional distress.”

David Toppelberg ’18, who heads the “Ban the Box” advocacy project within YUPP, said that while reception from the student body has been largely positive, some were skeptical about safety issues.

“There were some people taken into the idea that every kind of criminal is a dangerous criminal, which we know from social science studies, research and personal experience that is obviously not true,” Toppelberg said. “It’s very important to reduce the knee-jerk reaction of ‘I don’t want an ex-prisoner working for me.’”

This misconception ignores many significant factors in the criminal-justice system, including race, socioeconomic status, education and ability to get legal representation, Toppelberg said.

The link between incarceration and employment is strong, according to Sullivan, who also mentors at the Manson Youth Institution — a high-security facility for inmates aged 21 and younger — in Cheshire. Sullivan said most of the young men he speaks to are worried about how their felony records will affect their job prospects. A 2011 study by the National Institute of Justice found that criminal records reduce the likelihood of callbacks or job offers by nearly 50 percent, Sullivan said at the hearing.

“It’s pretty much universally

acknowledged that good employment is one of the most important factors in keeping people from going back to prison,” Toppelberg said. “Other states and cities that have gotten rid of the box have seen huge drops in employment discrimination, higher rates of hiring for formerly incarcerated people, and recidivism rates plummeting.”

But the bill, which also addresses issues such as the look-back period on background checks and the cash bail system, would not prevent employers from looking into potential employees’ criminal histories at a later stage in the application process, Sullivan said. He added that employers can also choose not to hire formerly incarcerated applicants or can withdraw their offers for other reasons besides a criminal record.

Connecticut is undertaking other efforts to reform its criminal justice system as well. Senate Bill 18, “An Act Concerning a Second Chance Society,” aims to raise the age of juvenile jurisdiction from 17 to 20 by 2019 and implement an appropriate competency exam, riskassessment training, mental health programs and rehabilitation centers around the state, Eriksson said.

Through advocacy and publicity efforts, such as the “Ban the Box” letter campaign and an upcoming “Second Chance Society” whiteboard campaign on Cross Campus this Wednesday, Eriksson said she hopes students can communicate to legislators how deeply they care about criminal-justice reform.

“There are real people and real families that are caused immeasurable suffering by a tiny little box at the bottom of a job application,” Yale Dems Legislative Co-Captain Adam Michalowski ’19 said.

“Let’s get rid of that and help everyone.”

Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu .

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President Salovey will establish a committee to serve as a “core consulting” group during crises on campus.

COMMITTEE FROM PAGE 1 that it is too early to know exactly how often the group will meet and communicate.

While Salovey said the subgroup has been approved, Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor said details like how frequently members will rotate are still under discussion. She also said the roles of Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith and Chief of Staff Joy McGrath — whose involvement in policy development generated confusion among cabinet members in November — on the steering committee remain undecided and that there could potentially be permanent members of the subgroup, such as herself or Provost Benjamin Polak.

In November, Salovey leaned heavily on Polak, Dean of Yale College Jonathan Holloway, Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler, Highsmith and McGrath in developing the initiatives. Salovey said while they were the ones he called on to help most closely during that specific situation, they do not have a “special status” within his cabinet itself.

Dean of the School of Management Ted Snyder said that while describing the steering committee during the

February cabinet meeting, Salovey did not limit its functions to crisis management. O’Connor added that once the steering committee is operational, cabinet members and staff not formally included will likely sit in when relevant.

“This subgroup will be consulting with the whole cabinet and will probably pull in those people most pertinent to the situation at hand and would work with them very closely in determining what actions to take, while keeping other people apprised of what is being considered,” she said.

All five cabinet members interviewed expressed support for the steering committee.

Dean of the School of Public Health Paul Cleary — who previously told the News that he was “not happy” with the way Salovey’s decision-making process unfolded in November — said Salovey discussed the steering committee with him personally and that he thinks it is an “excellent idea.”

Gregory Sterling, dean of the Yale Divinity School, said that part of the value of the steering committee is that cabinet members will now know to whom to turn other than the president during fast-moving situations.

“It will make his inner circle more transparent,” he said. “It enables [Salovey] to immediately call a group together, that group can give him

advice, everyone knows who those people are, so if we want to, I could always call one of my colleagues and speak with them … Sometimes when you have to respond quickly, you need people whom you trust who will not tell you what you want to hear necessarily, but what you need to hear. I think the subgroup will certainly help in that.”

Goff-Crews said she has been on other campuses with similar steering committees, all of which led to more efficient and effective administrative operations.

Sterling added that while all vice presidents and deans are more than qualified to serve on the steering committee, it is important that Salovey include a variety of perspectives.

“You want representation across the spectrum because people will have different points of view in part based on their own location and the way in which they fit into the University more broadly,” he said. “I trust that [Salovey] will rotate people through and have some diversity — in the case of Yale, larger and smaller schools.”

Salovey established the cabinet in 2013.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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“Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.� YOTAM OTTOLENGHI BRITISH CHEF AND COOKERY WRITER

SoCo hosts inaugural sophomore brunch

BY JACOB STERN STAFF REPORTER Roughly 700 members of the class of 2018 crowded into Commons Saturday morning for the first ever sophomore class brunch.

Enjoying fare from Yale Catering, Tony’s Square Donuts and Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea, students listened as Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway addressed the class about the struggles of transitioning to sophomore year and the importance of class unity. Attendees also enjoyed attractions such as a photo booth stocked with a Handsome Dan cutout, a world map on which students could mark their hometowns, a small exhibition of sophomore art and an ice sculpture that read “Yale University Class of 2018.� The organizers, who envisioned the event not just as a one-time affair but as a lasting annual tradition, said they were encouraged by the substantial turnout. Funding for the event came from the Council of Masters, the Yale College Dean’s Office and the Undergraduate Organizations Committee. The groups have yet to determine how they will share funding responsibilities in future years. “We’re hoping we can turn this into something that becomes an annual event for sophomores,� said Kevin Sullivan ’18, a member of the Sophomore Class Council and one of the lead organizers of the brunch. “I think that, at the very least, we’ve just shown

that this can be a success.�

The event entered its planning stages in September when SoCo began to discuss the difficulties of the transition from freshmen to sophomore year, SoCo President Sarah Armstrong ’18 said. The council brainstormed ways to counteract the “fracturing� of the class caused by the move from Old Campus to residential colleges. Ultimately, SoCo decided to plan an event modeled roughly on the Freshman Holiday Dinner at which the entire class could come together. The food generally resembled that served at a typical residential college brunch — eggs, potatoes, vegan pancakes — but with the addition of Tony’s Square Donuts.

We’re hoping that we can turn this into something that becomes an annual event for sophomores.

KEVIN SULLIVAN ’18 Member, Sophomore Class Council

Reception was highly positive among attendees, many of whom felt the brunch offered a unique opportunity to engage with classmates they rarely encounter. “The sophomore brunch was a great way to get our class together again all in one place,� said Pauline Kaminski

’18, who attended the event. “I got to see some friends that I’ve lost touch with over the past year, and it was truly fun to take some time, catch up and unwind with past and current friends.�

Although the event drew its inspiration from the Freshman Holiday Dinner, it differed significantly from that and other class-wide events hosted by Yale Dining in Commons. Few donned formal attire, students were free to wander in at any time between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. and paper liners and crayons replaced the linen tablecloths used at more upscale events. “We wanted to scale it down a little bit from [how fancy] events usually are,� Armstrong said. “We wanted it to be more of a low-key event where people can just connect.�

Armstrong said the Council of Masters and the YCDO supported the idea of making the brunch a new tradition and enthusiastically supported funding it in future years.

In his short speech to the sophomore class, Holloway said establishing the brunch as a new tradition represents an assertion of hope and solidarity. “A simple act of breaking bread as a class — starting a tradition that recognizes that you do have something in common — is an important ‌ investment in the belief in a positive future,â€? Holloway said.

Contact JACOB STERN at jacob.stern@yale.edu .

The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK MONDAY, MARCH 7 3:00 p.m. Imagine, Conceive, Represent: Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities a workshop featuring Max Hirsh, University of Hong Kong; Martina Nguyen, Baruch College; and Anand Taneja, Vanderbilt University. Moderated

by K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University. Part of the Yale InterAsia Initiative workshop series Rising Cities in Asia sponsored by East Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, and the Whitney Humanities Center.

Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street.

TUESDAY, MARCH 8 4:00 p.m. Feydor Lukyanov, National University Higher School of Economics, Moscow and Editor-­in-­Chief, Russia in Global Affairs Journal, Moscow “Why US -­ Russia Relations Went Wrong and How to Put Them Back on Track.�

Part of the Focus Russia Speaker Series sponsored by Russian Studies and European Studies. Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street.

5:00 p.m. 0DULD +XSĂ€HOG Independent Artist and Jaskiran Dhillon, The New School, “Accomplice & Art Practice -­ Indigenous Feminist Activism & Performance.â€? Room 309, WLH, 100 Wall Street. Sponsored by Canadian Studies, the MacMillan Center, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and the Native American Cultural Center. Light Reception and discussion at 6:30 p.m., Native American Cultural Center, 26 High Street.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 12:00 p.m. Martina Nguyen, Baruch College (CUNY), “Wearing Modernity: The Press, Fashion, and the “Origins� of the Vietnamese National Costume, 1932-­1937.� Part of the Brown Bag Series sponsored by Southeast Asia Studies. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

4:30 p.m. Ghislaine Lydon, UCLA, “Paper Economies in World History: An Afrocentric Perspective.� Part of the Spring Colloquium Series sponsored

by African Studies. This seminar presented in association with Middle East Studies. Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

7:00 p.m. The Hope Factory, directed by Natalia Meshchaninova, 2014.

Screening and Q&A with director Natalia Meschaninova and screenwriter Lubov Mulmenko. Part of the Spring 2016 Film Series New Voices from Russia sponsored by European Studies, Russian Studies, the MacMillan Center, the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale Film and Media Studies, and the Yale Slavic Film Colloquium. Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street.

THURSDAY, MARCH 10 12:00 p.m. The Hope Factory Workshop with Lubov Mulmenko, screenwriter & playwright. Part of the Spring 2016 Film Series New Voices from Russia sponsored by European Studies, Russian Studies, the MacMillan Center, the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale Film and Media Studies, and the Yale Slavic Film Colloquium. Room 004A, 212 York Street.

12:30 p.m. Sarah Tolbert, Yale Universisty, “Indigenous Rights and Deforestation: Myth and Realities in the Eastern DR Congo.� Part of the Brown Bag Lunch Series sponsored by African Studies. Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street.

3:30 p.m. Natalia Meshchaninova, Director, “The Hope Factory $ Ă€OP

by Natalia Meschaninova.� Part of the Spring 2016 Film Series New Voices from Russia sponsored by European Studies, Russian Studies, the MacMillan Center, the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale Film and Media Studies, and the Yale Slavic Film Colloquium. Room 217A, HGS, 320 York Street.

4:30 p.m. Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University, “Islam is the Ocean: Indian Muslim Travel Narratives in the Age of Empire.� Part of the Spring 2016 Colloquium Series sponsored by South Asian Studies. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

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Islam Awareness Week opens dialogue

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER During Islam Awareness Week, students at Yale had a chance to engage in a dialogue with their peers about the hard questions facing Muslim Americans today.

Hosted by the Muslim Students Association at Yale from Feb. 28 to March 5, Islam Awareness Week was intended to help students learn about Islam through a series of events and campaigns that encouraged them to develop an understanding of the religion and challenge Islamophobic conceptions perpetuated by the modern media, said Coordinator of Muslim Life Omer Bajwa. Organizers said the week’s events were especially relevant in light of recent hate crimes against Muslims as well as conversations on Yale’s campus about racial justice and equality. “Islam Awareness Week this year has been bittersweet,â€? Elamin Elamin ’18 said in opening remarks for a “Positioning Islam Todayâ€? teach-in held Saturday. “While we have enjoyed the opportunity to have events, discussions, and hand out roses ‌ we were harshly reminded of the real, tragic impact of senseless violence that plagues the Muslim community. In a time when hate crimes such as violence against individuals and vandalism of mosques are the highest since 9/11, it is most pressing that we speak and learn about Islam in an open and honest way.â€?

The week began with a screening last Sunday of “Enemy of the Reich,� a documentary about a Muslim woman who helped fight the Nazis during World War II, as well as a photo campaign on Cross Campus. On Tuesday, a planned trivia night was canceled due to an evening vigil that mourned the Indiana shooting of three Sudanese men, two of whom were practicing Muslims and the cousins of Emi Mahmoud ’16. The vigil gave students a chance to see the impact of what Bajwa called “rampant and virulent Islamophobia.� The week culminated in the teach-in, during which three panels allowed students and professionals to reflect on what it means to be Muslim in the modern Islamophobic climate.

Other highlights included a talk on gender in Islam and an open “Jumma,� which is the traditional Friday Muslim prayer.

While Islamophobia may not be a dangerous issue in the “Yale bubble,� the educated elite to which Yale students belong has a responsibility to intellectually engage in assumptions about Muslims that go unquestioned in the broader world, Bajwa said.

He added that he has been surprised by the “blind spots� some Yale students have when it comes to Islam, despite the generally worldly and well-educated community.

Elamin said that though he has not encountered Islamophobia at Yale, he has seen some ignorance and apathy in the community due to the difficulty of engaging in conversations about religion.

Islam Awareness Week gave Muslim students a platform through which to educate their peers about what it means to be a Muslim American in everyday life, while peers were able to have conversations with practicing Muslims in order to clear up misconceptions.

It is most pressing that we speak and learn about Islam in an honest way.

ELAMIN ELAMIN ’18

During Saturday’s panel, four Yale students discussed their experiences as practicing Muslims in a generally secularized institution. Susan Aboeid ’19 said her most difficult moment upon arriving at Yale was confronting the community’s prevalent irreligious rhetoric and needing to justify her beliefs to those who challenged what she had once seen as a relationship purely between herself and her God. Mary Turfah ’16, another panelist, added that she was bothered by how, in the Yale community, her “Muslimness somehow has to come before [her] personhood.� “Most people who are religious are themselves and then their religion, but Muslims are expected to somehow be Muslim before that, especially for Muslim women who wear a hijab,� Turfah said. “Somehow, they represent this meta thing that is Islam before they are even themselves; every action they do doesn’t reflect their persons, but reflects this religion that takes up more than 2 billion people. Muslims need to be treated more as individuals and human beings that have personalities and differences just like anyone else, and that is not something that is difficult to do, but it seems to be more than we can ask of people.�

Other student panelists echoed the idea that being visibly Muslim at Yale sometimes requires that they take on the role of a “spokesperson� for Islam, especially in classes that attempt to deconstruct the religion through a highly critical lens. These classes are often taught by professors

who do not have the terminology and experience through which to approach Muslim issues, and they are usually taught in departments such as Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations that lack representation of Muslim academics, a student who wished to remain anonymous told the News.

Though studying Islam through a secular lens can have benefits, greater representation of Muslim academics would help represent the religion more completely, the student added.

Panelists also reflected on their experiences with Islam in the classroom, particularly defending their beliefs in an academic context to professors with whom they disagreed.

Beyond Yale, Islamophobia is a real issue that is being perpetuated by mainstream media, a “toxic� political dialogue and politicians themselves, Bajwa said. Despite being emotionally overwhelmed by the shootings two weeks ago and at Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 2015, Aboeid said that she has difficulty blaming the shooters for their actions because they were responding to the negative image of Muslims commonly portrayed by the media. There is a difference between officially being a citizen of the state and socially being an American, Turfah added, saying that she does not consider herself socially American despite having been born here.

Islamophobia and “exclusionary rhetoric� in general are some of the main issues that Yale’s current students will be confronting after graduation, making education about Muslim life especially relevant, Bajwa said. “I am very hopeful that the young generation will be able to help overcome this wave of Islamophobia,� Mongi Dhaouadi, executive director of Connecticut’s Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the News after speaking during the third panel on Saturday. “Yale is always looked at as an institution that leads in thought and action and producing leaders for this nation, and so when we come to Yale, we always have in mind that the person I’m speaking to as a student will be leading the way in a few years. It is extremely important that we keep this dialogue alive and it is extremely important that we hear these stories from various points of view.�

According to a survey by the Yale University Chaplain’s Office, just under 4 percent of Yale undergraduates identify as Muslim.

Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu .

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Constructing Jewish Gender Moshe Rosman Professor of Jewish History Bar Ilan University

Next Lectures: March 8 March 10

Moshe Rosman was born in Chicago, USA and studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Columbia University. He has lived in Israel since 1979 where he teaches in the Koschitzky Department of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University. In 2010 he served as the Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor at Yale. Rosman specializes in the history of the Jews in the early modern period in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. His books include: The Lords’ Jews: Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov; and How Jewish Is Jewish History?

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Gender Under Construction: From Genesis To Hasidism Reception to follow

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Reconstructing Gender: Market, Literature, Halakhah, Synagogue Reception to follow

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, MARCH 7 8:30 AM Moving Earth: “Capability” Brown, Humphry Repton and the Creation of the English Landscape. As one of England’s greatest aesthetic achievements, the English landscape garden has become a well-known and defining characteristic of the country. Moving Earth explores the creation of the English landscape through the advent of landscape gardening and the pioneering work of Capability Brown and Humphry Repton.

Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Memorabilia Rm.

TUESDAY, MARCH 8 2:00 PM Distributed Scholarship in Early Modern Europe.

Scott B. Weingart, historian of science and Carnegie Mellon University’s digital humanities specialist, will discuss how network structure scaffolded the history of science via the analysis of hundreds of thousands of exchanges in the republic of letters, and how scholars constructed social webs to strengthen their research. Bass Library (110 Wall St.), L01.

5:00 PM Accomplice & Art Practice — Indigenous Feminist Activism & Performance. Artist Maria Hupfield (Anishinaabe) and scholar and activist Jaskiran Dhillon will present their work on the integral connections between performance and activism in Indigenous political awareness and mobilization, including struggles against gender-based violence and struggles for territorial, cultural and intellectual sovereignty in ongoing settler colonial histories of the past and present. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Rm. 309.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 12:30 PM Performance, Lunchtime Chamber Music. Enjoy a midday concert of music from a colorful variety of chamber ensembles. The performers are graduate students in the Yale School of Music. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

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THROUGH THE LENS

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ith the ECAC Hockey playoffs underway, all eyes are focused on the players and teams in pursuit of a coveted conference championship. But while athletes dominate the spotlight in the world of sports, referees are almost always overlooked. The preparation and dedication that officials contribute to their sport are integral to the game’s success, yet often go entirely unnoticed. This collection of photographs is an attempt to appreciate the people under the black-and-white striped uniforms, and the subtle yet massive space referees occupy in the world of sports. MATTHEW STOCK reports.

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ECAC MEN’S HOCKEY YALE TO HOST DARTMOUTH Dartmouth defeated Colgate in the first round of the ECAC Hockey Tournament, setting up a matchup between the No. 8 Bulldogs and the Big Green next weekend at Ingalls Rink. The bestof-three second round series begins on Friday night.

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MONDAY “If you’re going to be successful, you need guys willing to give everything up for everything and these guys certainly are.”

JAMES JONES HEAD COACH, M. BASKETBALL

JAMES RANDON ’16 RANDON BREAKS FOUR MINUTES Randon’s Yale record in the mile may be broken at some point in the future, but he will forever hold a place in history as the first Eli ever to break the one-mile four-minute mark. Randon won the IC4A Championships with his time of 3:58.85 this past weekend.

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Yale victorious in senior send-off WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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night’s contest, Cornell appeared intent to sweep the Bulldogs, scoring six of the game’s first eight points.

The Bulldogs trailed until the 2:54 mark of the first quarter, at which point the game’s leading scorer, guard Lena Munzer ’17, put Yale ahead. Munzer had eight of her 15 points in the first period, propelling

Many of my fondest memories in my life have come while watching or playing sports.

I remember winning soccer city tournament games in penalty shootouts and rushing the game-winning player. I remember going bonkers in a Silliman suite watching my beloved Seahawks win the NFC Championship. And, of course, I remember celebrating after the Yale men’s hockey team shocked the world by beating Quinnipiac in 2013 for the national championship.

Add one more great moment to that ledger — because after Saturday’s 71–55 win over Columbia, the Yale men’s basketball team is going dancing for the first time in 54 years.

Watching the Bulldogs take it to Columbia was a beautiful sight to behold. All season long, Yale has won thanks to its rebounding ability and strong starting lineup, and this game was no different. The Elis held a 39–24 advantage on the glass, with swingman Nick Victor ’16 leading the way with a game-high 12.

And 63 of Yale’s 71 points were scored by its starters. Even though forward Justin Sears ’16 had just four (though he did post eight boards, five assists and three blocks), point guard Makai Mason ’18 was brilliant, pouring in 22 points to lead all scorers.

A year ago, the Bulldogs lost at Dartmouth in the final game of the regular season in the final seconds, and a week later fell against Harvard in the same manner. It was a brutal end to a fantastic campaign — but it also served to fuel this year’s squad.

Sears came back with something to prove, and the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year has improved his numbers from a year ago.

Mason, replacing All-Ivy point guard Javier Duren ’15 in the starting lineup, has arguably been better than the St. Louis native, averaging 15.6 points and 3.8 assists per game. The low-post singer, Brandon Sherrod ’16, returned from a year with the Whiffenpoofs to set an NCAA record for consecutive field goals while altering innumerable shots in the paint.

It’s an incredible team, with an incredible story, and it deserves this chance to dance.

But it’s impossible to talk about the 2015–16 campaign without also mentioning former captain Jack Montague, who left the team almost

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After three consecutive single-digit scoring performances, guard Tamara Simpson ’18 poured in 24 points on Saturday night versus Columbia.

BY MADDIE WUELFING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a disappointing middle stretch of the Ivy season, the Yale women’s basketball team ended the 2015–16 campaign with a threegame winning streak, capped off by two wins in the final weekend of conference play.

In their matchup with Cornell

(14–14, 6–8 Ivy) on Friday night, the Bulldogs (14–17, 5–9) utilized home-court advantage and a dominant offense, as they never looked back after taking the lead late in the first quarter in an eventual 56–38 win. At John J. Lee Amphitheater again on Saturday night, the four Eli seniors finished their careers with a 67–49 win over Columbia (12–17, 1–13).

GRANT BRONSDON

“We came ready to play and defend the home court one last weekend with our seniors,” guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 said. “We really wanted to go out with two big wins to end their careers on a high note.”

Yale met Cornell on the road on Feb. 6, where the Bulldogs suffered an 11-point loss to the Big Red. For the first few minutes of Friday

Yale continues unblemished start

BY MATTHEW MISTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The No. 6 Yale men’s lacrosse team traveled to Bryant on Saturday, looking to extend its perfect start to the season.

And the Elis did so in convincing fashion, winning 14–4 to begin a threegame stretch lasting eight days.

MEN’S LACROSSE Yale (3–0, 0–0 Ivy) excelled across the board on Saturday, executing on offense while relentlessly defending all afternoon as it outshot Bryant (3–2, 0–0 Northeast) 49–25.

“We had a good plan on offense and tried to play patiently and unselfishly,” midfielder Michael Keasey ’16 said.

“We tried to not make any home-run plays but rather slowly let good plays stack on top of each other.”

Yale’s offense did not panic after falling behind 1–0 in only five-and-ahalf minutes of play. Less than a minute after Bryant’s opening goal, attackman Jack Tigh ’19 found the net on a

feed from Keasey. Tigh then picked up a ground ball at midfield to start a fast break finished off by attackman Jeff Cimbalista ’17, who picked up his third goal of the season. Yale kept its foot on the gas pedal as Keasey, attackman Ben Reeves ’18 and midfielder Joe Sessa ’19 each beat their men in quick succession as the Elis scored three more times in the first quarter to go up 5–1.

Keasey finished the day with three goals and an assist. Sessa, who found the net for the first time in his collegiate career, matched Keasey’s three scores. Reeves scored twice and added an assist to remain the team leader in both categories, with eight and five, respectively. The final score would have been more lopsided had Bryant’s goalie Gunnar Waldt not made 12 saves.

In addition to scoring points, the offense also helped out the defense by limiting Bryant’s possessions and making it challenging for Bryant to clear the ball out of its defensive zone.

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Yale has now won its opening three contests by a combined margin of 39–16.

THE NUMBER OF TIMES THIS SEASON, OUT OF 30 GAMES PLAYED, THAT WOMEN’S BASKETBALL GUARD NYASHA SARJU ’16 SCORED IN DOUBLE FIGURES. Sarju averaged 20.3 points per game in the final four contests of her Yale career, and finished as the third-leading scorer in the Ivy League.

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“You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid.” JOE DIMAGGIO BASEBALL HALL OF FAMER

Six-goal deficit too much to overcome W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 locker room at the half, we just got pissed off, and I think that put a bit of spark into our play for the second half,” Marks said.

“It’s a competitive intensity that we need to tap into more often, and if that means getting a little ‘angry’ sometimes, then so be it.

I think that’s a crucial piece to the puzzle.”

In the second 30 minutes, Yale significantly improved its performance, scoring the half’s first three goals — all from twin midfielders Lily Smith ’18 and Katie Smith ’18. Only two goals behind, the Elis had positioned themselves within striking distance of their Ivy League opponent.

Cornell curtailed the Bulldogs’ comeback with its seventh goal, but only briefly. Katie Smith struck again to bring Yale back to

within two for the second time.

This time, however, the Yale wave would crash for the final time, as the Big Red countered Smith’s goal with three of its own. Up by five with only seven minutes left to play, Cornell effectively sealed the game with that final surge.

Hanley scored the final goal of the game with 41 seconds left on a free-position shot, but it was too little, too late. The clock wound down until the final whistle, and Cornell emerged victorious 10–6.

In the second half the Bulldogs held the Big Red to just 12 shots — nearly a 50-percent defensive improvement over the opening frame. Yale also built on its offensive statistics, increasing its own shot total from five to seven. The result was outscoring Cornell 5–4 in the period, which both players and head coach

Erica LaGrow looked at as a positive takeaway.

“In the second half, I am proud of our players for coming out strong and competing hard,” LaGrow said. “We made a few changes on the defensive end and played with composure on the offensive end. Our goal is to get better each day, and I feel we got better on Saturday.”

In most of the other statistical categories the game was close.

Yale was a perfect 13–13 on clear attempts, and Cornell was nearly flawless as well, going 14–15. The Big Red secured just one more ground ball than the Bulldogs, 17–16, and draw controls fell in Yale’s favor by a slim 10–8 margin.

Yale plays on the road again this Tuesday at Stony Brook.

Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendseky@yale.edu .

Individuals close season SQUASH FROM PAGE B4 bracket, but fell in three games to No. 74 Isabel Hirshberg, also of Princeton.

In 2014, Mao, then a freshman, won the Holleran Division, which at the time was the only division other than the Ramsay. This year, however, Mao fell in four games in the semifinals.

In the men’s tournaments, No. 17 Kah Wah Cheong ’17 competed as the top-seeded player in the Malloy (A) division and was able to win the tournament, thereby securing a spot on the All-American second team. Joining him on the first-team is No. 13 TJ Dembinski ’17, who competed as the only American player in the topranked Pool Division, whose participation guarantees an All-American title.

“The tournament was enjoyable as most of the pressure was off,” said Cheong, whose victory against Rochester last weekend clinched the national title for the Bulldogs. “Having won the national championships, I was able to play very confidently and managed to reproduce the standard of squash that I have.”

No. 26 Zac Leman ’16 and No. 23 Sam Fenwick ’16, the team captain, made it to the quarter- and semifinals of the Malloy (B) Division, respectively, while No. 51 Pierson Broadwater ’18 and No. 67 Arjun Kochhar ’18 played in the Malloy (C). After losing in their first matches of the tournament, Kochhar and Broadwater battled in the consolation semifinals, a match that Broadwater won in four games en route to his consolation bracket victory. “[Playing Kochhar] was a lot of fun, actually,” said Broadwater. “We’ve played each other so much that we basically have each others’ games memorized. It was a nice change of pace to go out and have a fun match with no pressure.”

Head coach Dave Talbott noted that the Bulldogs only had one player in the top 16, demonstrating that depth was the “hallmark” of the national champions. By comparison, Rochester, which fell to the Bulldogs in the national finals, sent three players to the Pool Division.

Contact GRIFFIN SMILOW at griffin.smilow@yale.edu .

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Captain Sam Fenwick ’16 made it to the semifinals in the Malloy (B) division before falling in three games.

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Yale won the second half 5–4 but ultimately could not overcome the 6–1 deficit created in the first.

No. 3 Texas A&M proves too much

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Right fielder Nate Adams ’16 went 2–3 on Sunday versus Texas A&M, and he also scored the game’s first run.

BASEBALL FROM PAGE B4 of their previous four opening-day contests by at least 10 runs, and for a time, the Aggies seemed poised to extend that streak to five.

Two first-inning Aggie runs, including a lead-off homer by J.B. Moss, put Texas A&M up early, and that lead would extend to 6–0 by the end of the sixth. Bulldog pitcher and Lone Star State native Mason Kukowski ’18, making just his second collegiate start, gave up four earned runs over five innings.

The Elis put a scare into the crowd of over 6,000 with a five-run top of the seventh, punctuated by a threerun blast off the bat of Herrera that brought the game within one. But a four-run, two-out rally in the bottom of the frame recreated some breathing room for the Aggies, who eventually put the game out of reach with two more in the eighth.

Following the next day’s pageantry, Texas A&M continued to pound Yale pitching. The Bulldogs were able to stay close for half the game with Bush

in attendance, allowing just two runs in the first four innings. But in the fifth, the floodgates opened for A&M. The first seven Aggie batters in the inning reached base, and by the time three Eli pitchers had combined to get all three outs, the home team was ahead 9–0. Yale failed to record another hit for the rest of the game, while the Aggies pushed across at least one more run in each of the sixth, seventh and eighth innings.

Sunday, on the other hand, saw perhaps the most complete Bulldog performance of the weekend. Righthander Chasen Ford ’17 threw fiveplus innings of one-run ball, a performance reminiscent of his first career start, when he gave up just two earned over 6.1 innings at LSU. And thanks to a second-inning RBI single by catcher Alex Boos ’18, a double steal that scored Slenker and some nifty sixth-inning escape work by southpaw Kumar Nambiar ’19, the Elis managed to take a 2–1 lead into the bottom of the seventh. “[The] key is staying ahead,” Ford said of his performance. “They’re a

team that can punish you when you consistently fall behind and have to come right after them with fastballs.

Keeping the ball low against a long ball team is also pretty key.”

But after the first batter in that frame reached on a dropped third strike, Aggie second baseman Ryne Birk smacked a go-ahead home run off of Nambiar. Texas A&M would never look back, racking up seven more runs before the inning was over.

An inning and a half later, the Aggies wrapped up the sweep and moved to 9–0 at home. A&M outhit Yale 46–14 on the weekend, although the Bulldogs committed just one error to their opponents’ three.

With their first series of the year behind them, the Elis will return to the Northeast in search of their first victory. Next on the team’s slate is a trip to Storrs, Connecticut for a Tuesday matinee, during which Yale will face UConn in a midweek showdown.

Contact DAVID WELLER at david.weller@yale.edu .

MEN’S BASKETBALL A NEW AGE UNDER HEAD COACH JAMES JONES

AVERAGE IVY FINISH 6.2

4.75

4.46

4.3

James Jones 1999–present

Dirk Kuchen 1986–99

Tom Brennan 1982–86

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Ray Carazo 1975–82

Joseph Vancisin* 1961–75

IVY WINS & IVY LOSSES

NCAA Tournament

IVY WINNING PERCENTAGE

59.2

47.8

44.6

43.4

36.7

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*Dating back to 1961–62 season

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“Just seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons.”

CHRISSIE WELLINGTON FOUR-TIME IRONMAN TRIATHLON WORLD CHAMPION

Elis cap season on win streak W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1 the Bulldogs ahead with a lead they would not relinquish for the remainder of the game.

Entering the second period with only a two-point advantage, Yale was able to hold its opponents to only seven points while scoring 13 to give them more insurance at the half. Forward Jen Berkowitz ’18, who averaged half a block for the season, had three of her career-high four rejections for the game in the second quarter alone, helping the Bulldogs limit the Cornell offense. The Big Red’s 38 points matched a season-low, and the team scored a combined 13 points in the second and third quarters.

Yale did an especially effective job at defending Nia Marshall, who finished the season as the Ivy League’s leading scorer at 16.6 points per game. The Elis held Marshall to eight points on 3–11 shooting, while also forcing the forward to commit three turnovers.

In the first six-and-a-half minutes of the third period, the Big Red was able to shrink the deficit to only four points. However a 12–0 run to close the quarter, led by guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 and forward Katie Werner ’17, rejuvenated Yale heading into the final 10 minutes of regulation.

The Elis carried the momentum of the third quarter into the fourth and scored 16 points, the highestscoring period of the game for either team. Cornell, too, scored its most points in the fourth, but it was not enough to overcome the doubledigit deficit. This gave the Elis their second-straight win, their first such streak since sweeping Brown to open Ivy play.

Munzer led the team with a game-high 15 points against Cornell, followed by Sarju’s 14. Yale outrebounded its opponents 45–32 while also holding the Big Red to 27.8 percent shooting from the field, and just 1–9 shooting from beyond the three-point line.

Saturday night’s game saw a Yale team already riding high off of two consecutive wins play with the added adrenaline of its final game, both at home and overall, of the season. The Bulldogs won by another 18-point margin, ending their season with a three-game winning streak, tied for their longest of the season. Each of the team’s four seniors started — including forward Meredith Boardman ’16, who made her first start of the season after missing the entirety of the campaign due to injury.

Unable to play due to a knee injury, Boardman immediately

fouled a Columbia player and exited to a standing ovation from the home crowd.

“We obviously had a lot of emotions with it being Senior Night and especially because Meredith started the game, and we are all just so proud of her for fighting through such adversity and being the most incredible teammate,” Sarju said.

The Bulldogs previously faced the Lions on Feb. 5, a game in which Yale ended up losing by six after a neckand-neck second half. Although the Bulldogs trailed at the end of the first quarter, they were able to keep the deficit to only two points, setting them up for what would turn out to be an explosive second period.

Guard Tamara Simpson ’18 led the Bulldogs with 10 of her 14 first-half points in the second quarter, putting the Bulldogs ahead by six going into halftime. The first half also saw an aggressive Yale defense again limit a star scorer, as Columbia’s Camille Zimmerman, who leads the team at 14.4 points per game, was held to zero points heading into the third quarter.

The second half opened with the Eli lead widening even more, as Sarju and Simpson combined to score 17 points in the third quarter to aid Yale in outscoring the Lions 21–12. Yale forced seven Columbia turnovers in the third quarter alone, a figure that nearly matched Yale’s 11 for the game.

Going into the final period of the season, the Bulldogs left little doubt that their seniors’ careers would end in a victory as Columbia never cut the deficit below 13 points. Sarju scored another six points to finish with 17 points, her 25th double-digit scoring game of the season. Simpson wound up leading all scorers with 24 points, her fourth 20-plus-point game of the year.

“We had some defensive lapses early but once we started talking more on defense our communication helped us get some big stops,” said Sarju, who finished third in the Ivy League in scoring at 15.8 points per game. “Offensively we did a great job pushing the ball in transition and in the second half our aggressiveness to the basket, especially Tamara’s aggressiveness was huge at getting us going. The second half we were just having fun and playing fearlessly for each other both offensively and defensively.”

Shooting 52.6 percent for the entire second half, Yale finished the night shooting 41.7 percent. Meanwhile, it held Columbia to a 35.6 percent clip from the field.

In its final game of the season, the Elis managed to reduce their turnovers, an issue that popped up throughout the season, to just 11.

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After coming off the bench for the first 24 games of the season, center Emmy Allen ’16 concluded her Yale career with seven consecutive starts.

After averaging more than 16 turnovers per game during its first 25 contests, the Elis averaged only 12 giveaways in their final six.

The 67–49 win sealed the perfect home weekend and solidified the team’s sixth-place standing in the Ivy League.

“We all wanted to honor our four amazing seniors this weekend and really send them off with one last

bang,” Munzer said. “Each of them has given this program so much and they have paved the way for this team’s future success. We’ve been through a lot of ups and downs this season. Our seniors taught us how to keep fighting, and more importantly, how to enjoy the ride.”

Contact MADDIE WUELFING at madeleine.wuelfing@yale.edu .

a month ago. According to a recent statement by his father, Montague was apparently expelled, though the exact nature of the expulsion has only been hinted at by bulletin-board rumors. The University has yet to officially comment on his departure.

It’s not a coincidence that all of my favorite sports moments also brought people together. We’re social creatures by nature, and it’s so much more fun to compete and play when you have people you can count on by your side, whether as teammates or fellow fans.

But the reaction to Montague’s expulsion, or, specifically, the shirts his team wore to support him, have only served to divide this campus as evidenced by posters and Overheard at Yale posts. And that’s a shame.

Sports will never be a politics-free zone, nor should they be. People pay attention to sports. We idolize players as heroes, and that means that a statement or action by an athlete can have far greater repercussions than one might think.

I wish that the 17 guys on the team had considered that when they took to the court a week ago wearing those shirts. I wish they realized the impact their gesture would have in this community.

And I hope they can understand the hurt they’ve caused, apologize for their divisiveness and return to focusing on the tourney.

I’ve been on an athletic team and I know the bonds one can form with teammates. I know that Montague, as a team leader, has been a huge part of the season and of each player’s Yale career. I understand they want to support him.

But we don’t live in a vacuum.

An apology would go a long way toward bringing the campus back together. We can get back to rooting for a team that should unite us against whatever No. 3 or 4 seed gets the misfortune of playing us in the first round. And, of course, it would be the right thing to do.

The accomplishments of this Eli squad are truly remarkable. Wearing those shirts, however, has caused a major rift, and it casts a cloud over New Haven that is impossible to miss.

I want to be proud of this team. I am proud of this team. But I also expect and demand better from this team, and I hope the players — our classmates — can deliver.

GRANT BRONSDON is a senior in Ezra Stiles College and a former Sports Editor for the News.

Contact him at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

Yale Bulldogs pummel Bryant Bulldogs M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1 “The attacking midfielders really hustled and rode the ball hard,” captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16 said. “They created some turnovers in Bryant’s defensive end.”

As a whole, Yale forced 16 Bryant turnovers while committing 10 of its own.

The Elis also did a great job of covering Bryant attackman Tucker James, who entered the contest having led his team with 17 points through four games. Quinn drew the matchup against James and held him without a goal or assist for the entire game.

“One of the principles of our defense is to set a wide perimeter,” Quinn said. “We can do this because we’ve got some really athletic defenders. When we are able to get our sticks into offensive player’s hands, we cause some turmoil for those guys.”

Bryant faced continuous pressure from the Yale defense, as Quinn and his teammates hassled the home team with constant checks.

After forcing the ball out on numerous occasions, Yale was often able to collect the ensuing ground ball. When all was said and done, the Elis had scooped up 31 of the 54 ground balls in the contest.

“We had a good scout on Bryant coming in,” goalie Phil Huffard ’18 said. “As a whole we communicated well and limited their second chances. We made them put the ball on the ground and were able to pick it up and get it to our offense.”

Huffard made 11 saves, the most of his three collegiate starts. His save percentage has increased every game, improving from 0.333 against UMass Lowell to 0.545 against Maryland and 0.786 Saturday against Bryant.

The season began with many unanswered questions about how the Bulldogs would replace Eric Natale ’15 in net, who led the Ivy League in goals-against average his senior year. Huffard has started to show that head coach Andrew Shay may have found his answer.

“The more experience I get the more confidence I take from it,” Huffard said. “Experiencing the highs and the lows has helped me grow. Obviously we’ve been successful this season but there have been some rough patches in the games and we have learned how to reset.”

Yale also showed significant improvement at the faceoff X. Midfielder Jonathan Reese ’16 won 15 of 20 efforts, his best performance thus far this season.

Reese won all but one of the seven faceoffs in the first quarter, facilitating the offense’s five-goal run to close out the period.

Although these improvements may boost the Elis’ confidence, they will not have much time to celebrate the victory. The Bulldogs play St. John’s at home on Tuesday, their first of two midweek games all season, and travel to Fairfield on Saturday.

“Midweek games are tough,” Keasey said. “You only have one day to prepare and St. John’s is a really strong opponent. With Tuesday games, Monday is usually a shorter practice as we try to mentally prepare.”

This is the second consecutive season that the Bulldogs have started the season with three straight wins. The 2015 squad, which played an identical slate of opponents, opened 5–0 after overtime wins versus St. John’s and Fairfield.

Contact MATTHEW MISTER at matthew.mister@yale.edu .

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After defeating Bryant 16–9 last year, Yale bested that seven-goal margin with a 10-goal, 14–4 win.

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“I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser.

And I rub it in pretty good when I win.”

TOM BRADY FOUR-TIME SUPER BOWL CHAMPION

Second-half comeback not enough in Ivy opener

BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

In the opening contest of the 2016 Ivy League season, the Yale women’s lacrosse team headed to Ithaca, New York, where it was bested by unbeaten Cornell 10–6.

By the time the first half ended, the Bulldogs (2–3, 0–1 Ivy) found themselves facing a five-goal deficit against the deep and potent offense of the Big Red (3–0, 1–0).

In the second half the Elis fought to cut the lead down to two, twice, but in the end they were unable to climb all the way back to even.

“Against Cornell we had some great moments like, for instance, a big comeback in the second half,” captain and defender Kate Walker ’16 said. “Obviously it wasn’t enough to get us the win, so our big emphasis as we look toward the rest of our season will be consistency.”

Cornell controlled nearly the entire first half, scoring the game’s first six goals in the opening 27 minutes. The Big Red limited the Bulldogs to five shots — the first coming after over 20 minutes of play had passed — and took 23 of its own.

But before the period came to a close, Yale began to show signs of life, sneaking in a goal with 18 seconds left from the stick of attacker Hope Hanley ’17. But when the Bulldogs entered the halftime break, they were mainly focused on the six Cornell goals, not the lone score of their own, goalie Sydney Marks ’18 said.

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Although the Bulldogs are undefeated at home thus far this season, they have not been able to secure a victory yet on the road. Yale’s next two games are on the road.

Presidential meeting highlights opening weekend

Four Elis earn AllAmerican status

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER One week after the Yale men’s squash team secured its first national title in 26 years, representatives from both Eli teams put up strong performances in the College Squash Association Individual Tournament, which marked the conclusion of Yale’s 2015–16 season.

SQUASH The women sent four players to the tournament, hosted at Chelsea Piers in Stamford, while the men dispatched six. With two players from each team claiming second-team All-American finishes, the results demonstrate a marked improvement from last season, when no Bulldogs were able to make it past the semifinals of their respective draws.

“As a whole we did much better this year at individuals than we have done in the past, with two male [first-team] All-Americans and two female,” Jenny Scherl ’17 said. “This tournament is much different than regular season play as you don’t play for your school, you play for yourself and personal accolades … There is a sense of camarade-

rie among all of the athletes from every school at a tournament like this, as opposed to other events throughout the season.”

No. 11 Scherl and No. 15 Celine Yeap ’19 represented the Yale women’s team in the top-ranked Ramsay Division, while No. 50 Selena Maity ’18 competed in the Holleran (B) and No. 22 Shiyuan Mao ’17 in the Holleran (C). Though both Scherl and Yeap lost in the first rounds of their draws, they earned second-team All-American status by virtue of finishing among the top 20 players in the nation.

In the first round Yeap fell to her No. 6 Anaka Alankamony of Penn in three games, while Scherl lasted four games against No. 3 Reeham Sedky, also of Penn. The pair of losses set up a consolation matchup between the two teammates, in which Scherl bested Yeap 13–11, 11–8, 5–11 and 11–7. Scherl then moved on to the consolation semifinals, where she lost in a tight five-game match against No. 14 Marie Stephen, another Quaker.

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Yale has little time to rest after its three games at Texas A&M, as the Bulldogs face Connecticut on Tuesday.

BY DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTER Two years ago, the Yale baseball team found some magic in a Southeastern Conference ballpark, stunning the top-ranked Louisiana State Tigers 8–7 in the finale of the Bulldogs’ season-opening series. But this past weekend, with a similar opportunity in front of them — and with a distinguished alumnus looking on — the Elis could not find a way to beat No. 3 Texas A&M and its high-powered offense.

BASEBALL In its first action of the 2016 season, Yale (0–3, 0–0 Ivy) was swept

12–5, 13–0 and 10–2 by the Aggies (11– 1, 0–0 SEC) at Olsen Field in a threegame series that was organized at the request of former Yale captain and U.S. President George H.W. Bush ’48. Texas A&M, which has qualified for the NCAA Baseball Tournament in each of the past nine seasons, especially teed off on the Elis’ relief pitching, which leaves College Station, Texas with a 22.34 ERA. Still, the weekend was not without some highlights for the visitors.

Perhaps at the top of that list, even above leading the nation’s No. 3 ranked team 2–1 in the bottom of the seventh Sunday, was a pre-game ceremony on Saturday honoring Bush in which each team took pictures with the for-

mer president and presented him with a framed jersey. Bush, who helped lead Yale to College World Series appearances in 1947 and 1948 as a first baseman, also threw out ceremonial first pitches to Eli catcher Andrew Herrera ’17 and Aggie pitcher Stephen Kolek. “[Meeting Bush] was an honor and a privilege that nobody will ever forget,” third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 said. “It was one of those moments that I think all of us will look back on and be extremely thankful for.”

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Jenny Scherl ’17 finished the tournament as a second-team All-American due to her participation in the event’s top bracket.