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Campus renovations near completion

Thirty-four Tuesdays to go.

Voters in several states headed to the polls for primaries yesterday. Among GOP candidates, Sen. Ted Cruz won in Idaho, and Donald Trump took Michigan and Mississippi.

In the two Democratic contests, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 easily defeated Sen. Bernie Sanders in Mississippi, while her opponents clinched the Michigan win. Hawaii GOP results were not reported as of press time.

Letter to the leaders. In honor

of International Women’s Day yesterday, several prominent Hollywood stars and media personalities, including Meryl Streep DRA ’75, wrote an open letter to world leaders advocating for equality of the sexes. The letter called poverty a gendered issue and noted that 155 countries have laws that discriminate against women. Other signees included Sheryl Sandberg, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.

Bridge to the Big Apple. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo floated the idea of constructing a bridge or underwater tunnel to cross the Long Island Sound and connect New York to Connecticut. Cuomo said he plans to ask for $5 million to formally explore the idea. Shortly after he was re-elected, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy announced a $100 billion, 30-year transportation plan. Malloy’s plan does not include such a bridge or tunnel.

I want you to STAY. Students and Alumni of Yale will host a tea with Drew Ruben ’11 LAW ’17 at 5 p.m. this evening at the Rose Alumni House.

Ruben is a co-founder of Blue State Coffee, which pledges a share of all of its profits to local nonprofits chosen by customers. The shop now has eight locations in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Faking it. New Haven resident

Dana Goldson, nephew of Board of Education member and former alder Darnell Goldson, was arrested Monday night after he escaped custody by pretending to be someone else. Even after he was caught, Dana Goldson initially refused to reveal his real name to New Haven police.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1970 The Yale Corporation appoints Abraham Goldstein LAW ’49 dean of the Law School. Goldstein, who had been at the law school for 14 years, taught criminal law prior to his appointment as dean.

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SOM alumni donations break record

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projects by their common mission of enhancing research and education.

“The cranes dotting the Yale landscape are a visible reminder of how many [projects] are now in progress,” Polak wrote. “These sites … are as varied in architectural style and day-to-day use as they are united in a sense of purpose. Each is

While participation from alumni donors to Yale College hit a new low last year, gifts are on the rise at the School of Management.

In fiscal year 2015, the total dollar amount raised for the SOM’s annual alumni fund skyrocketed from the previous year by 46.8 percent. The fund’s participation rate rose from 45.2 percent in 2014 to a record-breaking 51.5 percent, making the SOM the only school at Yale to have an alumni participation rate exceeding 50 percent over about the past 20 years. As the school gears up for more fundraising initiatives between now and the end of fiscal year 2016 in June, it has already seen positive signals: compared to this time last year, alumni participation in the fund is up by 0.5 percent, and dollar values increased by 15 percent. Joel Getz, SOM senior associate dean for development and alumni relations, said reasons for the upward trend include the expansion of outreach to international alumni, greater resources allocated for fundraising and excitement regarding the SOM’s recent developments, such as the school’s increasing global expansion.

Getz, who has been in the position for eight years, said his team casts a wide net in soliciting donations and places emphasis on all gifts, even the smallest ones. Twenty-nine percent of alumni who had not donated in fiscal 2014 gave last year.

“I am a firm believer that participation and

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Chalk it up to student activism. Unite Against Sexual

Assault Yale, the Yale Women’s Center and the Black Women’s Coalition will jointly host a “Chalk-In Against Rape Culture” at Cross Campus at 11 a.m. today. Students are invited to chalk experiences or messages of solidarity to show support for survivors of sexual assault at Yale.

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The addition of new classrooms to Beinecke will allow it to expand its programming.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Five major campus building projects are all set to finish by the fall semester, but the projects differ widely in scope and purpose — from wholesale spatial transformations to small internal changes.

University Provost Benjamin Polak detailed each of the five building projects in his annual construc-

tion update email to the Yale community last week. The projects, which span the sciences, arts and humanities, include the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Yale Center for British Art, the School of Music’s Hendrie Hall, the Sterling Chemistry Lab and the A. W. Wright Laboratory for physics research. Despite the different time frame and purpose of each renovation, Polak linked the five building

Public response to basketball team escalates

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS In response to the Yale men’s basketball team’s continued display of support for former captain Jack Montague, actions from campus groups — and

from anonymous individuals — have ramped up.

Four days after the team earned an NCAA Tournament berth with a win over Columbia, and six days after Montague’s father confirmed to the New Haven Register that his son was expelled, a third wave

YEI draws more female applicants

BY VEENA MCCOOLE STAFF REPORTER Undergraduate students and women applied in increasing numbers for this year’s Yale Entrepreneurial Institute summer fellowship, sparking optimism in Yale’s entrepreneurial community that the change signals growing diversity in a typically male-dominated field.

The proportion of applications from women to the 10-week intensive program increased from 21 to 31 percent this past year.

Undergraduate applications comprised 43.2 percent of submissions, compared to 38 percent last year.

In total, YEI received applications from 118 individuals across 43 teams. Ten teams will ultimately receive the fellowship, which includes $15,000 worth of funding intended to support young businesses as well as an opportunity to work in New Haven over the summer.

Erika Smith, who is in charge of graduate and faculty programs and investments at YEI, said the change may be the product of several efforts

by the YEI to increase diversity.

“Women represent just 12 percent of U.S. innovators but are receiving higher education degrees at a higher rate than men,” she said. “YEI is very interested in developing more interest from women in entrepreneurship, and we have taken an active role in encouraging participation in our programs.”

Smith noted recent initiatives, including the expansion of the YEI Mentor Network of alumni advisors under the recent appointment of Mentor Director Priscila Bala ’06 SOM ’14.

YEI has also highlighted successful female entrepreneurs on its website and launched new social venture programs such as the Yale College Dean’s Challenge on Social Innovation, she added.

Wendy Davis SOM ’14, who founded the medical technology startup GestVision and who has previously received YEI funding, said she thinks diversity and gender inclusivity are instruSEE YEI PAGE 8

of posters appeared on campus, including some that singled out specific members of the men’s basketball program.

The initial batch of posters last week featured images of players wearing T-shirts honoring Montague, and called on them to “stop supporting a rapist.”

On Wednesday, three student groups will “chalk-in” on Cross Campus in response to campuswide discussions about the team, as well as in support of sexual assault survivors at Yale, according to United Against Sexual Assault at Yale co-director Helen Price ’18.

The chalk-in has been organized by USAY, the Yale Black Women’s Coalition and the Yale Women’s Center, but it is unclear who is responsible for the posters, which were posted inside Dunham Laboratory’s SEE BASKETBALL PAGE 8

Trouble brews during cafe testimony

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Alders, business owners and city residents debated extending the Libra Cafe’s closing time.

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER A simple request to keep the Libra Cafe’s doors open past 10 p.m. led to heated discussion at a Board of Zoning Appeals meeting Tuesday evening.

The lawyer representing the cafe, Miguel Almodovar, appeared before the board to ask for an extension for a special exception granted by the same board last year. The original exception extended the closing hour of the Libra Cafe,

a restaurant on Main Street Annex roughly two miles away from campus that serves beer and wine, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. between Thursdays and Sundays. Though the request was not listed on the board’s agenda as a public hearing, a number of community members and city officials gave negative testimony on the extension, claiming that the cafe’s disruptive patrons taxed city resources. East Shore Alder Al Paolillo, whose ward houses the cafe, cited a history of public disturbances from

establishments in the area — including the Libra Cafe.

“If this body can’t use statistical evidence and history as a guide for the future, I’m not sure what we can use,” Paolillo said.

The cafe was issued a ceaseand-desist order by Building Official Jim Turcio last month, when Turcio noticed patrons present for Valentine’s Day at the cafe still lingering at 1:35 a.m. the next morning, AlmoSEE ZONING PAGE 6

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Bring Jeb! T

o the chagrin of many seniors, graduation is just around the corner.

After spring break, we’ll have five weeks left of classes, and then it’s all over. Our time at Yale will come to a close, culminating in the Class Day ceremonies.

Class Day is one of Yale’s most convivial traditions, with whimsical hats, awards and student presentations celebrating the best of the class.

On Class Days past, Yale has delivered some big-ticket speakers. Last year, for example, Vice President Joseph Biden delivered an extremely emotional and moving address that attracted national attention. The bar has been set very high; Class Day Chairs Katayon Ghassemi ’16 and Ben Ackerman ’16 find themselves in an unenviable position. Nevertheless, they can rise to the occasion: They can give the 2016 Class Day speakership to former Florida Gov. Jeb! Bush.

No issue has dominated the news this past year quite like the presidential election. Voter turnout has soared to new heights; social media activity has been rampant. Over the past week, many national commentators (and columnists at the News) have been preoccupied with the results of Super Tuesday and the next moves for both Democrats and Republicans. The 2016 presidential election has captured our nation’s attention in a unique way, and we would be remiss to have a Class Day speaker unrelated to the spectacle. It would be like going to Idaho and not eating a potato.

And among this election’s many personalities, Jeb! is clearly the right choice for Yale.

Our school has a longstanding and deep relationship with the Bush family. The iconic picture of President “Poppy” Bush ’48 as the Yale baseball captain presenting a gift to Babe Ruth will live forever. Other anecdotes serve as humorous episodes in Yale’s history, such as when a young George W. Bush ’68 rolled on the floor doing the “alligator” dance move at DKE or made his first appearance in The New York Times to address that fraternity’s controversial practice of branding pledges. Jeb, of course, did not go to Yale; he stayed close to home attending the University of Texas. But he nevertheless has a special connection to our school because of the family history.

Former First Lady Barbara Bush famously said that “we’ve had enough Bushes.”

However, the prospect of Jeb! as a Class Day speaker should prompt all of us to respectfully disagree. I know the Donald Trumps of the world will say Jeb! is too low energy and that his speech would be boring and a snoozer. But I think Jeb would rise to the occasion and give a terrific speech. He has many experiences to reference, such as serving as the governor of

a dynamic state and selling guac a m o l e bowls on the Internet.

On this note, even MICHAEL T r u m p oncedes HERBERT cJeb! has been movScoop of ing in the right direcHerbert tion. After months of berating the former governor for being “sad,” “pathetic” and a “failed candidate,” he has since let up, claiming that Jeb! had simply run for president at the wrong time. He even tweeted that the former governor got rid of his glasses in order to “look cool,” and I’d have to say he succeeded. Jeb! has been looking much cooler recently, and I think this coolness would manifest itself in his Class Day speech.

Jeb! has been known to give gifts during his appearances.

A child in New Hampshire recounted how the Florida governor gave him a “little tortoise” during a campaign stop: “He walked over to me and … said ‘slow and steady wins the race,’” and then offered up a toy turtle. Last year’s class might have gotten a great speech, but they didn’t get any turtles!

Putting health first E

very weekend, scores of Yale students stumble through the streets, intoxicated with what scientists have deemed one of the world’s most harmful drugs: alcohol. Most of them return home with little worse than a hangover the next day. However, we’ve all known (or been) someone who has had too much to drink: to put it plainly, overdosed on alcohol. And thanks to Yale’s new alcohol amnesty policy, implemented last year, we know that if a friend passes out or starts vomiting uncontrollably as a result of alcohol poisoning, we can call for help without fear of disciplinary penalties.

But what happens if you or a friend is having a serious medical problem with a drug other than alcohol? As of now, Yale provides no protection for students in this situation. Someone who calls for help for these types of overdoses risks penalties that could be as extreme as expulsion and referral for criminal prosecution.

This situation is likely common to hundreds of students on campus. Out of 1,844 respondents to the Yale College Council spring survey, 83 had “hesitated to call for help for someone experienc-

Collectively, these factors constitute a strong case for Jeb! as the Class Day speaker.

Just picture it: The prospect of Governor Bush up on the stage with a turtle shell on his head, asking our class to “Please clap” is irresistible.

On a more serious note, the former governor has carried himself with dignity in difficult circumstances. Even though he is no longer in the race, he was one of the few candidates who has consistently acted his age, refusing to bow to the uncouth tactics of some other campaigns. Yale rightly emphasizes success, but it is also important for us to learn how to fail with grace.

I hope those responsible for Class Day will consider inviting Jeb Bush.

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treatment for alcohol misuse has doubled.

SOME MIGHT ARGUE THAT A DRUG AMNESTY POLICY ENCOURAGES DRUG USE, BUT THE FACT IS THAT STUDENTS WILL USE DRUGS ANYWAY If thousands of students are violating Yale’s drug policy, this means that thousands of students are exposed to a clandestine, unregulated market where the substances sold and consumed might not be what they seem. Last spring, 12 students at Wesleyan’s Spring Fling were hospitalized after consuming a tainted batch of MDMA — a substance that is

notoriously impure and often sold under false claims. Who’s to say it couldn’t happen here?

Yale itself is not immune to tragedy. Just before most of us arrived on campus, Andre Narcisse ’12 died in a poly-drug overdose. And, of course, there are the many untold stories of students suffering from drug problems who haven’t died or been on Yale News, problems known only to those close to them, or perhaps known to no one but themselves.

Five other Ivy League schools have drug amnesty policies. In fact, even the state of Connecticut has the equivalent, known as a Good Samaritan law. It’s time for Yale to catch up and extend its medicial emergency policy to drugs other than alcohol. It’s a problem we’re uncomfortable talking about, but it isn’t going away. And by taking a more public-health-oriented approach, Yale can get students in medical crises the help they need instead of the punishments they don’t.

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ing an adverse reaction to drugs other than alcohol because they were worried that they might face disciplinary consequences.”

Extrapolating this data to all 5,453 undergraduates, over 245 current students share this experience. Even if they ultimately do call, just a few seconds of hesitation can be critical. That’s 245 students whose hesitation to seek medical treatment for a friend could lead to serious health consequences, even death.

Some might argue that a drug amnesty policy encourages drug use, but this policy would only apply in emergency situations.

And the fact is that students will use drugs anyway. In 2014, the News found that 44 percent of students violate Yale’s drug policy; 42.2 percent of these students referred to marijuana, and the other 67.8 percent had used drugs like prescription stimulants, cocaine, MDMA and LSD. There is no evidence that such a policy would increase student drug use.

What it would increase, however, is the amount of students receiving treatment for addiction. For example, since Cornell implemented a similar alcohol policy, the number of students receiving

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ebruary is over, and so are the endless think pieces about Valentine’s Day. I made a conscious effort to ignore nearly all of them, everything from “how to choose the best gift for your significant other” to the mandatory ode to the single life. But there was one article by Laurie Penny in the New Statesman titled "Maybe you should just be single" that caught my eye. Penny explains how being a single woman in your 20s is actually preferable to being in a relationship. I couldn’t help but sympathize with her argument that heterosexual relationships often do more harm than good for women, because men go into relationships with the expectation that they will be doted on by their partners, who are supposedly raised to do just that. Penny says that there are simply not enough good reasons for women to waste the most productive and dynamic years of their life on an investment with such low returns. Men are the primary benefactors of a relationship, she claims.

These observations made me uneasy. As an international student from Turkey, I always thought that America — or rather, “the West” as a whole — had a more “egalitarian dating culture.” So Penny’s claim that many American guys are raised

with the same sense of entitlement and the absolute lack of emotional independence common in Turkish men came as a surprise.

But although I agree wholeheartedly that this is a problem, I don’t think that the solution is for women to choose to be more independent and opt for being single. While at first glance it looks like a logical way to avoid harm, it will ultimately exacerbate the fundamental issue at stake: Men do not have a good notion of what a heterosexual relationship should look like.

To be clear, I’m not necessarily advocating for fewer single young women — many women remain single throughout their 20s for good reason. Moreover, we should abandon double standards that favor single men over single women — a bachelorette is just as cool as a bachelor. But that doesn’t mean singlehood is the best way of living out your 20s — it’s just one option, and for some who are craving intimacy and a stable relationship, it’s not the ideal.

Penny overlooks the fact that many women do not want the single life. While there is nothing wrong with being single, there is also nothing wrong with wanting a relationship, and the fact that current norms cannot reliably provide healthy relationships for

women is seriously troubling.

Some suggest that the solution is for women to embrace more individualistic, “masculine” sexual behaviors. I disagree — why should we try to be more like men? Does that actually liberate women? I don’t think so. What liberates a woman is doing what she actually wants, not conforming to societal norms that favor men over women. We complain that society labels female leaders as “bossy,” but our response is to shape society so that it tolerates aggressive female behavior, instead of cherishing the female capacity for listening and empathy. If a woman does indeed want to engage in casual sex, not have children, dedicate herself to her career and embrace other stereotypically “male” ways of living, we should support that.

But we always start with the assumption that this way of living is what all women ask for, and so we endeavor to “correct” the perception that women are more nurturing and emotional. There is nothing wrong with being nurturing or emotional — it’s only problematic when men exploit that tendency and feel entitled to things women are supposed to provide for them.

Women’s inclination to adopt certain male traits is understandable — modern society in many ways demands women

be more masculine in order to be successful. But all this says is that modern society doesn’t care enough about women. The path to success shouldn’t involve making women less “feminine” — this implies, falsely, that there is something wrong with femininity. We need to push for a greater acceptance of female traits in leadership positions, rather than just emphasizing masculinity.

Furthermore, abstaining from relationships isn’t a long-term fix for male immaturity. This proposal does nothing to address the real problem — a male population that does not know how to have a healthy relationship.

What we need to do instead is educate young men that there are things to which they are not entitled, and that women have their own expectations and needs.

So yes, a dedicated, loving relationship is hard work, and sometimes it’s just not worth the effort. But I don’t think it’s a lost cause. We should still try to create an egalitarian dating culture, if not for the sake of “traditional” romantic love, at least for the sake of young women (and men) who deserve healthy relationships.

NUR EKEN is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact her at hatice.eken@yale.edu .

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TUESDAY, MARCH 8

The article “Students demand private prison divestment” misidentified the gender of Jade Chowning ’19; in fact, she is female. It also misrepresented the views of Gabriella Martin ’19.

The article “Power outage strikes campus” misidentified one of the buildings that lost power. In fact, it was the Watson Center.

The article “Coliseum hotel to be selected” incorrectly described LiveWorkLearnPlay as a real estate advisory firm; in fact, it is also a development firm. It also misstated the cost of the project, which is roughly $430 million.

Alders host library workshop

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER The Board of Alders’ City Services and Environmental Policy Committee met in City Hall Tuesday evening to discuss an issue integral to the lives of many city residents: the New Haven Free Public Library.

Known by Yale students as the Ward 1 polling place in most elections, the Ives Main Library is the cornerstone of the city’s public library system. Located directly across from the New Haven Green, the Ives branch is far more than simply a place to borrow books. Instead, as City Librarian Martha Brogan told alders at the meeting, it is a place for classes, for accessing resources and a place for learning.

Brogan said Tuesday night’s workshop on the library system arose from a discussion between her and Committee Chair and East Shore Alder Sal DeCola earlier this year. While Brogan said she and DeCola have previously discussed using Yale’s library system as a community resource, DeCola suggested she come before the alders to publicize all of the public library’s resources. Those resources, Brogan said, are multifaceted, ranging from literacy classes to volunteer income tax preparation.

Brogan said jobs-readiness materials are among the library’s most crucial resources.

“This is really on the spectrum from the Small Business Center on Dixwell Plaza to the big projects on State Street,” Brogan said.

“There’s an expanding array of social services agencies that are coming to us because, particularly at Ives, we have a high population in need.”

The NHFPL has its sights on renovation in the near future.

Brogan said the library’s last major renovation occurred in 1990, over a quarter of a century ago. She said the library plans on doing a large-scale study next year — partly to investigate potential renovations, and partly to bring the public up to speed on the library’s progress.

The four librarians who testified during Tuesday’s workshop said one of the library’s most valuable resources is “Lynda,” a database of online education videos. NHFPL reference librarian Tom Smith said Lynda provides videos on a variety of subjects analogous to the digital university, “Great Courses.”

Brogan added that though Lynda is the library’s single most expensive subscription, it is worth the cost, describing the program as a “catalyst” for which the library will likely seek city

budget funding in the future.

Making the library’s resources more public was of particular concern to the alders and librarians at the workshop, which followed the committee’s public hearing. East Rock Alder Anna Festa suggested the library reach out to the city’s youth through public schools. Xia Feng, one of the library’s public services administrators, said the library currently enjoys a “wonderful partnership” with the schools, especially through summer reading programs. Brogan noted that Feng chairs a monthly committee that investigates and evaluates the library’s relationship with the city’s schools.

DeCola, meanwhile, said the library might also consider reaching out through community networks that radiate from the city’s churches by advertising programs in weekly church bulletins.

Other committee members were concerned with the accessibility of the library’s resources.

Brogan assured the alders that all signage and policies at the library are displayed in both English and Spanish to ensure that all city residents can read them.

But concerns about accessibility extended beyond language.

In New Haven’s crowded downtown, parking is often scarce, which alders noted can be a problem for those heading to the library. DeCola said he plans on working with the city and Yale to negotiate parking deals so that residents can access the library.

DeCola, who represents the farflung reaches of the Morris Cove, said many of his constituents often go to the East Haven library instead of New Haven’s due to the difficult parking situation Downtown.

But Brogan also identified the opposite problem: residents of neighboring towns often come south to New Haven’s library, exacerbating the parking problem.

Despite the parking headaches, alders praised the library for the work it has done in adapting to the 21st century.

“I think you’re doing a terrific job in moving the library forward,” Festa said to librarians at the workshop. “I have actually taken advantage of some of the entrepreneur courses and found them helpful for various projects, so I really commend you.”

The New Haven Free Public Library has five locations around the city, including the Fair Haven, Dixwell and Hill neighborhoods.

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Alders Anna Festa and Sal DeCola discussed the NHFPL at Tuesday’s committee meeting.

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Cleaver served as communications secretary for the Black Panther Party.

BY JAMES POST STAFF REPORTER Kathleen Cleaver ’84 LAW ’89, former communications secretary of the Black Panther Party, spoke Tuesday night at a Yale Political Union debate with the resolution “Police are not heroes.”

Cleaver, who currently serves as a law professor and senior lecturer at Emory University, argued against the notion that police officers are heroes. Cleaver acknowledged the importance of the role of police in maintaining civil society, but used historical anecdotes to puncture the often-idealized vision of the force. A crowd of more than 150 students and community members, on the whole, responded positively to Cleaver’s remarks. “[The police] are not heroes, and they’re not all villains,” Cleaver said. “What we really need is good police. We really need good police in America … It happens too frequently in those close, dark encounters that some unarmed young black man is dead.”

Cleaver said police often appear to protect only the wealthy and powerful mem-

bers of a community. As a result, she noted, systems of “corruption” emerge that privilege the empowered over the disenfranchised.

She described police officers on duty in minority neighborhoods as units that resemble “occupying armies.” “[The police] were not there to protect us,” Cleaver said.

“But they were there to protect someone else.”

Cleaver asked the crowd to search for positive solutions to this problem. She said every citizen of the United States has a duty to respond to systemic problems and help create a “better world and a better country.”

She heralded community policing, a practice that integrates law enforcement officers into communities by assigning them beats within neighborhoods, as an effective style of policing. Cleaver noted that the Black Panther Party advocated for community policing.

“There has to be recognized community,” Cleaver said.

“There has to be a recognized police.”

Cleaver also told attendees that police departments must take seriously the biases that have led to repeated shoot-

ings of innocent black men and children. Layla TreuhaftAli ’17, of the Party of the Left, said Black and Latino individuals are often falsely associated with criminal activity in their neighborhoods.

Treuhaft-Ali added that because police officers are in positions of power, the results can be particularly disastrous when they fall prey to bias.

She called for skepticism of any force that has a significant capacity for violent action. She also said labeling police officers “heroes” gives them a certain immunity to proper punishment, even when they abuse their power.

“I still prefer talking about public servants as servants for their communities because it implies being held accountable,” Treuhaft-Ali said.

“There’s something about glorifying strength and power rather than seeing strength and power as something that needs to be checked.”

Michael Lemanski ’16, a member of the Tory Party, argued against the resolution.

Lemanski emphasized the role of the police in preserving free speech and a “liberal democratic society.”

Lemanski also made the

philosophical argument that the actions of the police are authorized by the citizens of a community.

“What we should aspire to [say] is, ‘[The police] are reflecting the will of the society that has made certain decisions according to powers rightfully granted to them, and I, [as a citizen], have a stake in that,’” Lemanski said.

Though several students interviewed expressed concern that the resolution of the debate would not allow for a captivating discussion, many considered Cleaver’s remarks sensible and interesting.

In particular, students responded enthusiastically to Cleaver’s references to civil rights-era America and more recent instances of police brutality.

“I thought it was well thought out, articulate and reasonable,” Federalist Party member Sherry Ann Morgenstern ’19 said. “She used many contemporary and recent historical examples to support her case.”

The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966.

Contact JAMES POSTat james.post@yale.edu .

Circle of Women celebrates girls’ education

BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER Current and prospective members of Yale’s Circle of Women chapter gathered Tuesday evening to celebrate International Women’s Day and raise awareness for girls’ education.

Circle of Women, an entirely student-run nonprofit that promotes access to education for girls around the world, currently has 12 chapters at high schools and universities nationwide. Tuesday’s event, held at the Women’s Center and marking the organization’s 10th anniversary, introduced newcomers to Circle of Women while heralding the group’s new status as an official member of the Women’s Center.

“International Women’s Day is an important holiday for us because it celebrates gender parity and women’s accomplishments,” Circle of Women Executive Director Caroline Jones ’17 said. “As an organization dedicated to decreasing the gender gap in education, Circle aligns perfectly with [the holiday], and we wanted to celebrate Circle-wide. We hope to give International Women’s Day the attention it deserves and start conversations about women’s issues on campus.”

Chapter President Julia Kichorowsky ’17 said Circle of Women petitioned to become an official member of

the Women’s Center because their mission aligns with the center’s goals, and the Circle desired to gain access to the additional space and funding that membership status confers.

During the event, attendees wrote responses to letters from girls at the Atsikana Pa Ulendo secondary school in Malawi and decorated a poster board with the reasons they celebrated International Women’s Day. The topic of the letters ranged from the girls’ favorite school subjects and movie stars to their aspirations in life.

International Women’s Day is an important holiday for us because it celebrates gender parity.

CAROLINE JONES ’17 Executive Director, Circle of Women Attendees, including Kevin Lin ’19, said they were excited about the event and wished more people had attended.

“I wish more people, especially men, would sign up because I feel like oftentimes men aren’t as involved in gender or feminist issues,” Lin said. “That’s really disappointing because a lot of people could be more involved and more knowledgeable about the

lack of educational opportunities for women.”

Founded in 2012 and with roughly 10 currently active members, Circle of Women at Yale is a relatively new and small chapter, Kichorowsky said. She added that the chapter is working to attract more students, especially as older members look toward senior year and graduation.

Kichorowsky said the organization is unique in that it is completely student run. As a result she said, members have both the power to effect change and the opportunity to connect with alumni and board members who are passionate about girls’ education. This form of student leadership empowers Circle of Women members just as much as it does girls in developing countries, Chapter Fundraising Director Elena Conde ’19 added.

“Not only do we empower girls abroad, but we teach students at home professional skills and give them the platform they need to change the world,” Jones said. “With Circle of Women, we create a cycle — a circle — of students empowering students.”

Jones said the Circle of Women plans to increase outreach work and hold several more fundraisers for the duration of the spring semester. The organization’s annual national summit will take place at Yale in the spring and will feature a speaker event open to

the public, Kichorowsky noted.

Additionally, the chapter will be selling tickets to a Wednesday Toad’s dance party in late April, and is planning a spring happy hour event during reading period, Kichorowsky said. She added that since the organization just finished a building project abroad that will benefit girls’ education, another opportunity has arisen for member chapters to submit their own building proposals. Typically, chapters submit proposals for projects and the national management team selects one to come to fruition.

Once this proposal has been chosen, all of the fundraising activities of the member chapters go toward funding that project. Kichorowsky said the Yale chapter hopes to submit such a proposal.

Other attendees agreed that Circle of Women has the potential to expand this semester and encourage more students to give back.

“I think for most people at Yale, education is a large part of who we are,” Chapter Public Relations Manager Ben Wong ’19 said. “Most of the biggest role models in my life have been women, and this is a way to pay respect to all these women and to invest in young girls around the world what the women in my life have invested in me.”

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

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Panelists discuss Zika virus and reproductive rights

BY SARAH STEIN STAFF REPORTER More than 50 students and members of the Yale community gathered at the Yale Law School Tuesday to discuss whether governments should exercise control over women’s reproductive rights with the emergence of the Zika virus in South America in spring 2015.

The panel discussion, “Zika and its Impact on Reproductive Rights,” was led by Albert Icksang Ko, professor at the Yale School of Public Health; Jennifer Friedman, associate director of abortion and community programs at the International Planned Parenthood Federation; and Sebastián Rodríguez Alarcón, legal and advocacy fellow for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights. The three panelists aimed to address the recently declared public health emergency of the Zika virus — which is transmitted by mosquitoes and has been found to cause defects in the fetuses of infected pregnant women — and how Latin American governments’ responses have affected women’s rights.

“This has become not only a public health issue, but a social issue,” Ko said. “It has shown some important ramifications of stigma.”

Ko began the panel by describing the Zika virus, which he said has greatly impacted Brazil and will likely affect North and South America as a whole. Zika is transmitted especially by mosquitoes that have adapted to urban environments. Though its symptoms, which include an itchy rash, fever and muscle aches, are normally benign and last only three to four days, Zika has also been found to cause brain defects in the fetuses

of infected pregnant women.

When examining affected patients, obstetricians noticed increased abnormalities in routine ultrasounds of pregnant women conducted in the second trimester. Ko said the medical community eventually linked the outbreak of Zika with microcephaly, a birth defect that is marked by a smaller-than-average skull size, epilepsy, convulsions and leads to “essentially nonexistent” brain tissue.

In response to this crisis, governments in countries such as Brazil, El Salvador and Colombia have been telling women to delay pregnancy for as long as two years, which Friedman said is “not only impractical, but unrealistic.” Because many of these countries fail to provide adequate contraceptive resources and are plagued by sexual violence, she said, this was a violation of women’s reproductive rights.

“Telling women and men not to have sexual intercourse is not a legitimate option,” Rodríguez Alarcón agreed. “How do we create a balance of a public heath approach and a human rights approach?”

Friedman suggested multiple changes in legislation that must occur in these countries in order to preserve human rights.

In these regions, over half of all pregnancies are unintended, but abortion laws are among the most restrictive in the world, Friedman said. She emphasized that the lack of access to contraception, legal abortion or prenatal care can contribute to rising numbers of illegal and unsafe abortions.

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Tuesday’s panel aimed to address the public health emergency of the Zika virus and how governments’ responses have affected women’s rights. ily planning, and provide psychosocial and medical support to those who have been affected by the Zika virus. In the long run, this current emergency could attempt to discourage “gender inequality and social injustice,” she said.

“We shouldn’t let short-term initiatives overshadow the longterm goals, such as empowering women with reproductive rights,” Ko said.

Attendees came from various schools at Yale, including

the School of Public Health, the School of Nursing and Yale College. Once the discussion was over and the panel opened up to questions, several audience members asked how countries could optimize cost effectiveness in addressing these issues. Ko said the issue was not about cost effectiveness, but rather about “providing the care and support that these countries deserve.”

Patrick Bringardner NUR ’16 said he was particularly impacted by the social aspect of the dis-

ease. He wondered how the government would react to and give economic support to a child born with microcephaly. He mentioned that telling a woman that her child has the defect without providing a “next step” might lead to more high-risk abortions.

Another attendee, Sarah Ornellas ’19, said she went to the discussion because as a woman and a Brazilian, she felt connected to the issue. She noted that it was not only a major public health issue, but also a socio-

cultural one.

“As long as women don’t have access to emergency contraception and other forms of birth control, they won’t be able to enjoy full reproductive rights,” Rodríguez Alarcón said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 153 travelrelated Zika virus cases reported in the U.S. Contact SARAH STEIN at sarah.stein@yale.edu .

AYA class delegates elected

BY SHUYU SONG STAFF REPORTER Last week, freshmen and sophomores voted for their Association of Yale Alumni class delegates — positions intended to help facilitate communication between undergraduates and the broader alumni community. The election saw 377 freshman voters and 212 sophomore voters, and Resla Wesonga ’19, and Sara Seymour ’18 emerged as winners.

Each spring, freshmen and sophomores vote on a delegate to represent each of their classes in the AYA the following year.

These two candidates participate in the annual AYA assembly in the fall and serve on AYA committees relevant to undergraduate life and student-alumni relations. The election began online on March 1 and ended March 3.

Prior to the election, the AYA held two information sessions in the Rose Alumni House for students interested in running for the delegate positions. Eventually four freshmen and two sophomores declared their candidacy.

“I just learned about the job

two weeks ago, but I’m ready to do as much as I can and take up the responsibilities,” Wesonga said. “I feel that the burden is on me now, since there is only one delegate for our class, but I hope to fulfill this role well.”

Wesonga attributed her win to her unofficial “campaign managers.” Wesonga said that she mainly reached out to her friends and acquaintances and asked those who voted for her to each tell five more people to vote for her.

Karen Jahn, AYA’s senior director for Yale College classes, noted that the number of candidates has traditionally ranged from three to five for each delegate position.

Voter turnout has ranged from 250 to 500 per class in the past few years. In 2015, 482 rising sophomores and 250 rising juniors voted for their class delegates; in 2014, 248 rising sophomores and 298 rising juniors voted. Jahn added that informing as many students as possible about the AYA more generally does pose a challenge to her and her colleagues.

“Some students may opt to be reticent or reluctant to participate in voting [for AYA delegates]

simply because they don’t know enough about the position,” Jahn said. Jahn hopes that this year’s election and new AYA outreach initiatives, such as literacy seminars and leadership forums, will increase the presence of AYA on campus.

These representatives are important because they bring a special perspective that alumni don’t have.

KAREN JAHN AYA Senior Director for Yale College Classes Both former delegates interviewed said they enjoyed the opportunity to meet more classmates and alumni while fulfilling their roles. Aiste Zalepuga ’16 said he was surprised by the commitment and interest of alumni in oncampus affairs. Sarah Armstrong ’18, who served as her class’s AYA sophomore delegate, said the

position was a “low-pressure role.” Armstrong said that as a delegate, her main responsibility was to participate in the AYA assembly, and she was also able to gain exposure to networking opportunities and help lead the “Careers, Life and Yale” events.

This year Armstrong did not run for AYA junior-class delegate because she wanted others to be able to take advantage of the role.

“I feel that I have developed meaningful relationships with alumni now, and this year I think I would not hold on to that title and let someone else have the opportunity,” Armstrong said.

In terms of advice for future delegates, Armstrong suggested that it would be nice for the sophomore and junior delegates to connect and work as a team instead of only working individually.

Zalepuga added that the incoming delegates could facilitate greater communication with their classes by making themselves accessible via email, Facebook and other forms of contact.

Zalepuga said that it was also crucial to implement new ideas once delegates have communicated

with their classmates.

“It’s not just about the first contact,” Zalepuga said. “These connections need to be cultivated.”

All four candidates for this semester’s elections interviewed noted that many students are unfamiliar with the role of an AYA delegate. Harold Ekeh ’19, who ran for sophomore-class delegate, said that many students thought it was a good idea to have a student delegate who communicates with alumni, though most did not understand the details and responsibilities of the position. Adam Krok ’19, who also ran for sophomore-class delegate, said that unlike other campaigns, a large part of his campaign centered on explaining the role of the delegate to students. Candidates mainly posted on Facebook and talked to their friends to raise awareness about their campaigns.

They were also barred from spending over $150 on their campaigns and from exchanging food and drinks with their voters.

Romy Vassilev ’19, who also ran for the sophomore-class delegate, said when she reached out to her

classmates, she found students to be very responsive and supportive. Vassilev added that students in each candidate’s residential college can be a powerful factor in the election.

“People would simply feel more connected to a candidate if they have shared similar experience,” Vassilev said.

Jahn said that she sees the delegate role as a representative of the class, bringing perspectives of current students to the AYA assembly. Jahn encouraged students to think of the roles as “training” for being involved alumni in the future, as well as a chance for current students to know that their relationship with Yale does not end when they graduate.

“These representatives are important because they bring a special perspective that alumni don’t have,” Jahn said.

The AYA Board of Governors typically has two student representatives, one Yale College senior and one graduate student.

Contact SHUYU SONG at shuyu.song@yale.edu .

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Turcio decried the incident as “a strain on city staff,” noting that his department lacked both the time and personnel to handle these incidents.

New Haven Police Sergeant Wilfredo Cruz, the East Shore district manager, said the police department had responded four times to complaints regarding liquor, weapons and noise at the Libra Cafe. In one of these instances, police responded to a fight complaint at approximately 1:16 a.m., discovering several male subjects involved in a physical altercation at the establishment last month. The police have handled similar complaints at neighboring restaurants, he added.

Paul Kowalski SPH ’79, the city’s acting director of public health, who also lives up the street from the cafe, also emphasized that he considers the establishment to be a bar, despite its owners labeling it a family restaurant.

He added that the cafe has generated parking and trash issues for the neighborhood “since day one.”

Last March, the board heard extensive testimony on the cafe’s request to extend hours before granting unanimous approval. According to the New Haven Independent, Paolillo also testified against the request at that meeting, noting that he held the cafe and similar establishments in his ward responsible for violating their liquor license terms.

On Tuesday, Almodovar argued that the cafe continues to face competition from nearby restaurants that are not required to close at 10 p.m., such as the Fireside Bar & Grill.

Debate regarding the cafe cycled between its impact on the surrounding neighborhood and the administrative logistics of approving the special exception. The board then took a brief break to review the text of the zoning ordinance. The text regarding renewal states that a “special exception or variance may be renewed administratively by the Board of Zoning Appeals if it is determined that findings made and conditions imposed on the original approval still apply.”

Board Chair Benjamin Trachten noted that the opinions offered over the course of the meeting suggested that the findings and conditions of the original approval might have changed. Ultimately, the board voted unanimously to deny Libra Cafe’s request. Both board members and City Plan staff present suggested that a public hearing be held later to consider the extension of operating hours.

The board also voted to deny a variance for 87 Pearl St. during the meeting. The property currently consists of four apartment units, one of which is an efficiency apartment. Owners Bruce Cross and Grace Cross, who lease out the four apartment units on the property, had applied for a variance to permit a lot area of 5,664 square feet where 7,400 square feet were required for the efficiency apartment.

Grace Cross appealed to the board, noting that the efficiency unit had existed on the property for decades. She said she and Bruce Cross were unaware that the four units were illegal when they purchased the property. She added that the efficiency unit’s current occupant, a fifth-year graduate student at Yale, was emotionally stressed by the situation and could not find another place to live given her current financial situation.

Although board members were sympathetic, the board referred back to a negative City Plan staff report and denied the variance.

“A variance has to be based upon some difficulty or unreasonable hardship in the land,” board member Patricia King said.

The board also heard testimony from the Mory’s Association, which requested a variance to permit a side yard of 3.8 feet where 10 feet are required. The private club at 300 York Street aims to extend the building about eight to nine feet on one side to create a larger serving area for the kitchen, said Glen Gregg, the architect representing Mory’s.

Mory’s General Manager Carla Cruzoni said the restaurant currently does not have enough space for staff to lay out banquets or provide for a full house.

“It’s impossible to get all those parties out,” Cruzoni said. “[There’s] no place to put a tray — soup is a nightmare.”

Other variances on which the board held public hearings included one for 19 Elm St., at which planning for a mixed-use development is underway.

Real estate company MOD Equities aims to turn the former Harold’s Bridal Shop at the site into a five-story space by including a commercial ground floor and constructing 46 new residential units in the four floors above. The board also heard testimony on a variance for 418 State St., where a new development is aimed at converting the existing, historic John English building into a mixed-use site oriented towards people using public transit.

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The new Adams Center for Musical Arts is set to open when classes begin in the fall, Yaffe said.

A third major building project coming to a close this year has reimagined the gallery spaces within the Yale Center for British Art. The YCBA, which closed for renovation in January 2015, is set to open to the general public on May 11.

Instead of gutting the space, Yale has sought to preserve the public galleries, auditorium and lecture hall spaces, YCBA Director Amy Meyers GRD ’85 said. Not only will the renovations restore the YCBA’s 40-yearold mechanical systems, but they will also restore the center’s Long Gallery on the fourth floor to its intended use — to house 250 paintings from floor to ceiling, wall to wall. Sculptured busts on pedestals and other sculptures have also been installed, Meyers said.

Conservation is important in a building that Meyers said has global architectural significance. The center’s Chapel Street building was completed in 1974 and designed by acclaimed modern architect Louis Kahn.

“The center is not only one of the most beautiful buildings created by Yale to enhance our campus, but also one of the most important buildings of the 20th century from a global perspective,” Meyers said. “Protecting this critical piece of cultural heritage in the most responsible manner possible is a privilege and a pleasure.”

Wright Laboratory’s renovations are creating specialized spaces for physicists to conduct neutrino and dark matter research, and the threeyearlong $130 million renovations to Sterling Chemistry Lab have rebuilt the exterior while creating new teaching laboratories for chemistry and biology inside.

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Yale’s larger purpose in renovating these buildings is also to be a good steward of its property and to maintain the capital value of the University.

Yale renovates campus buildings several times over the life of each structure, and Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Finance Stephen Murphy ’87 said most buildings need major renovation approximately every 20 years.

Yale finances these building projects in a variety of ways, including gifts, debt and through the Capital Replacement Charge, a portion of the annual operating budget set aside for building maintenance. The CRC is the largest source of funding for Yale’s capital plan, Murphy said.

A closer look at three building projects set to finish this year — Beinecke Library, Hendrie Hall and YCBA — reveals dissimilarities in the purpose of renovating and the differing needs of several areas of campus. While some projects involve fundamental changes to the building’s framework, others simply seek to preserve historic architecture.

At Beinecke, which closed for renovations last May and which was last significantly renovated in 2001, the changes are mainly not cosmetic, meaning most library visitors will not notice obvious changes to the central display area, Beinecke Director Edwin Schroeder said. Instead, the library is repurposing existing space on the courtyard level of the library, he said.

These changes, which include doubling the number of classroom spaces from two to four and creating three new rooms for group work, will allow the library to expand its programming.

The increased number of classrooms will allow Beinecke to host even more

than the 500 class sessions the library was already hosting, Schroeder said.

Beinecke’s renovations required that large amounts of library material be transported out of the central library space, and although Schroeder said his goal is to have most of the material back in Beinecke by the fall, he added that some of the collections may still have to be moved even after the re-opening on Sept. 1.

The renovations will also allow Beinecke to protect and preserve the collections for at least 50 years, Schroeder said. But renovating the library has been no small task, and Schroeder said he will be “so happy when it is over.”

Renovations at the School of Music’s Hendrie Hall on Elm Street will bring more substantial changes to the appearance and the function of the building. The renovations will transform Hendrie Hall into the Adams Center for Musical Arts and will add an entirely new portion to the rear of the building. But unlike at Beinecke, the School of Music started from square one in Hendrie Hall.

“The entire building was basically gutted back to the studs,” Associate Dean of the School of Music Michael Yaffe said. “It’s a completely redone building.”

Except for the central staircase and the building’s frame, all of the inside spaces were redesigned to have more practice rooms and lounge spaces for undergraduate, graduate and professional students’ music needs.

The renovations to Hendrie Hall have been a long time coming. The final architectural designs were finished in 2008, but the University later canceled all building projects due to the financial collapse. When Yale cut funding for the project, the School of Music was left to raise the remaining funds, which it eventually did. Construction work on the building did not officially begin until summer 2014.

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“People with the capacity to make large gifts like to know that the school is working hard to reach out to everyone, and small gifts collectively add up to a lot of money.” Getz added that he hopes to see even better results this fiscal year and “certainly wants to break 50 percent again.”

Last year, gifts of $100 and below totaled over $100,000, and gifts under $1,000 totaled approximately $600,000. The total giving to the alumni fund last year was just over $3,000,000.

In addition to emphasizing gifts of all sizes, Getz added, the SOM also bolstered its efforts by focusing on alumni who might be unfamiliar with the culture of philanthropy toward their alma mater. For example, the participation rate of Mexican alumni grew from 4 percent in 2013 to 55 percent last year. Moreover, the average international donation was larger than the average from the entire donation pool.

Getz said significant contributions from international alumni could come because those alums resonate with the school’s goal to become “the most global business school.”

Getz said that his team has been creative in approaching alumni, writing special messages to couples whose members both graduated from the SOM and having his staff write to SOM alumni who went to the same undergraduate alma maters as they did.

“When I graduated from Harvard, I never thought I would reach out to people and have them donate to Yale,” Getz said.

Beyond the team’s fundraising efforts, SOM Dean Edward Snyder

identified three reasons for increased alumni participation — all of which he said have “nothing to do with” him or the school’s fundraising team.

Firstly, the school’s mission statement of educating leaders for business and society proves compelling in today’s world; secondly, the SOM’s new building has generated excitement among the alumni; and, lastly, the school is a close-knit community and has a small alumni base of around 7,000, which makes it easier for alumni to remain connected after graduation, Snyder said.

“There is a general trend against alumni giving. We are going against the grain,” Snyder said.

Still, Snyder has a strong fundraising track record. During his deanship at Booth Business School at the University of Chicago, the school’s endowment grew from $197 million to $475 million — even without accounting for the $300 million gift from David Booth, the largest gift ever granted to any business school — and much of that growth was credited to his leadership. When Snyder served as the dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in 1999, the school received a $60 million gift, the largest ever made to a business school at that time. And the SOM recently received a gift of an undisclosed amount from Indra Nooyi SOM ’80, whose donation is being used to endow Snyder’s deanship.

But Snyder called the trend mere “coincidence,” noting that a different situation exists at the SOM. While Virginia and Chicago had individual, large-sum donations, financial support to the SOM is more broad-based.

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The SOM’s annual alumni fund jumped 46.8 percent from the previous year in terms of total dollars raised.

Still, Getz called Snyder a “great fundraiser,” adding that the dean has allocated more of the budget to expand the development office and has given the office “free rein” to try new initiatives. For example, this year the development office is launching a new society named after the school’s founding year, “the 1976 Society,” to promote consistent giving. Donors can become members of the society if they donate to the SOM every year, starting this year.

SOM alumni interviewed said they donated to the school because they are pleased with its direction and recent developments.

Tom Halsey SOM ’81, a donor, said newly launched academic initiatives such as the Global Network for Advanced Management and the Program on Entrepreneurship have generated enthusiasm among alumni. Moreover, the school has received favorable press over the past several years and applications have jumped dramatically. Over the past five years, the freshman class size jumped from 228 to 326.

“The general reaction of SOM alumni is that the school is doing very well and it deserves our support. ” Halsey said.

Pam Farr SOM ’78, president of the SOM Alumni Association, said she donates annually because of the SOM’s deeply rooted culture of collaboration and teamwork. This culture forges strong bonds among students and faculty as well as a sense of community, which survives beyond a student’s two years at Yale, Farr added.

When asked about the discrepancy between alumni giving to the SOM and Yale College, Halsey said donating to undergraduate institutions correlates more with the turmoil of the times in terms of student activism, which can create controversy and get in the way of alumni support. Because graduate schools tend to have many fewer as well as older students, there tends to be less controversy, Halsey added.

Halsey added that the difference could also be due to the different sizes of the alumni pools at Yale College and the SOM. Support for the SOM also extends beyond its alumni network to reach the broader University.

Jerry Kenney ’63, who attended Yale College and not the SOM, said he supports the SOM both financially and strategically by serving on its advisory board. He said he was concerned about how Yale was faring overall and felt it would be a big deficiency for Yale to not have a first-rate business school.

The Yale School of Management Alumni Association has 53 chapters in 32 countries around the globe.

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“Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.”

JENNIFER GRANHOLM CANADIAN-BORN AMERICAN POLITICIAN

Screening program hopes to aid veteran homelessness For the past year, a screening program at the West Haven campus of the Veterans’ Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System has been connecting homeless veterans with housing and clinical services to assist with cognitive and functional impairments. The program, the first of its kind, has so far been an overall success for connecting veterans to resources, according to Theddeus Iheanacho, professor of psychiatry. The program has helped an average of eight veterans per month.

The program, called the “Screening Program to Identify Needs Due to Geriatric Syndromes,” was started last year

by Adam Mecca, a resident in the department of psychiatry.

SPRING is the first program to screen veterans in search of housing for cognitive and functional impairments in addition to other clinical needs, with the goal of referring them to health services in conjunction with resources for housing needs. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs, in 2009, President Barack Obama set a goal of ending veteran homelessness by the end of 2015. But according to the 2014 Point-in-Time Count, the number of homeless veterans had dropped just 33 percent since the challenge was issued. Iheanacho said researchers are monitoring the SPRING program for six to 12 months in order to assess its overall impact.

“We had this idea that if we could identify cognitive impairment and functional impairment in vets and help get them … resources that they need, that they would have better … health

outcomes and better housing outcomes,” said Marcia Mecca, professor of geriatric medicine at the VA and collaborator in the clinic.

Cognitive and functional impairment are distinct from mental disease, making the focus of SPRING unique, said Iheanacho, who connected SPRING to the homeless clinic at the VA. In addition to pairing veterans with resources to improve cognitive function, the program hopes to discover whether improving cognitive and functional impairments can ultimately lead to better housing outcomes, Marcia Mecca said. The program organizers were particularly interested in the connection between cognitive impairment and housing instability. In 2011, a group of researchers in Boston showed that homeless adults had much higher rates of cognitive and functional impairment, and were cognitively “aged” a decade more than would otherwise be expected.

“This [research] group showed that in homeless adults, there’s really a lot of problems with memory, thinking and functional impairment,” Adam Mecca said. “It’s much more than you’d expect, based on how old the population that they assessed was.”

The researchers in the 2011 study had speculated that the experience of homelessness may have placed adults at higher risk for age-related diseases such as cognitive impairment. However, Mecca and the other program collaborators of SPRING are investigating whether the reverse might be true — that cognitive impairment would place adults at risk for housing instability and homelessness.

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Although cognitive impairment creates many difficulties in navigating daily life, there are several primary factors related to cognitive function that can contribute specifically to housing instability, according to the SPRING team. The ability to fill out paperwork, manage money

and maintain social connections can all be negatively impacted by cognitive difficulty, Adam Mecca said.

The researchers said they hope that success with this model of screening leads to broader use by other clinics encountering homeless patients. SPRING is becom-

ing popular at the West Haven clinic, with physicians referring patients to be screened even if they are not currently homeless, Iheanacho said.

“We’re actually getting quite good results, at this point, where people come in, and we screen them, and it’s becoming a very

well-liked service in the VA,” Iheanacho said. “People who are veterans who have problems, [clinicians] send them to us, even though they might not be homeless.”

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Comedian challenges racial prejudices

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The only caveat given by Azhar Usman on Tuesday evening was that those who were easily offended should simply “deal with it.”

Usman, who was listed as one of the world’s “500 Most Influential Muslims” by Georgetown University in 2009, is a standup comedian from Chicago who was born to Indian immigrant parents. He performed a comedy sketch titled “ULTRA-AMERICAN: A Patriot Act” to a group of over 150 community members in Linsly-Chittenden Hall. Though comedy throughout the evening included quips about the Yale community’s elite reputation, a call from “Daily Show” correspondent Hasan Minhaj and frequent interaction with audience members, the talk — which event organizer and Yale professor Zareena Grewal described as “obliterating the notion of a post-race America” — emphasized an honest approach to race.

“I don’t want to hurt anybody; that is not my motivation,” Usman said during a Q&A with the audience after the show. “I am convinced that … if you are really a culture maker, if you are really trying to make art, then the intentionality of the art is front and center. I have discovered doing stand-up for 15 years now an experiential certainty that audiences can … pick up on the intentionality of the comic.”

Midway through the performance, Usman encouraged attendees to look around the room at their peers, noting that America is one of the most

racially diverse countries in the world. But, he added, it is also one of the most racist countries on Earth, and he called the nation a “paradox.” He then quipped that because he is an American, he is a racist, joking that Americans sort everyone into five “buckets”: white, black, brown, Mexican and “slanty-eyed Asian” — a bit that was greeted with laughter from the crowd. Unless one takes the time to get to know an individual’s ethnic backstory, everyone is a racist, Usman said.

During a bit in which he joked that the white civil rights movement possesses a “secret racism,” he referred to black people by a derogatory term. The worst part, he said, was that most in the room were made more uncomfortable by the word itself than by the racist realities the word represents.

“Talking about race in the United States is a very messy, complicated conversation, and I have intentionally dumbed it down to make a point,” Usman said. “The only way to not be a racist is to actually really engage with everyone you meet as an individual human and really truly listen to their story and bother to care and really take the time to learn.”

Usman referred to a Chinese curse that states, “May you live in interesting times.” With the rise of technology, candidates such as Donald Trump on the political stage and the “double consciousness” of being black in America — a term coined by W.E.B. DuBois to describe African-Americans’ sense of alienation from their national identity — America is certainly in “the most interesting

time,” he said. Usman also took time to address “the elephant in the room, or as [he likes] to call it, the camel in the room,” which was fear of terrorism in a post9/11 world. He also described the challenge of raising four Muslim American sons, to whom he has made the commitment to be truthful about modern issues.

Usman’s brand of comedy is one that thrives in an intelligent audience, Coordinator of Muslim Life Omer Bajwa said, and students in attendance could have their assumptions challenged in a provocative way.

Mujtaba Wani ’17, who attended the talk, said that he appreciated Usman’s ability to combine humor with subtle, truthful rhetoric on everyday racism. He praised Usman’s “five buckets” metaphor as especially pertinent.

“He is voicing a number of concerns, questions and anxieties, not just from the left, but also from the right,” Grewal said. “He is making fun of ‘safe spaces’ as much as he is making fun of bigoted thinking. I think it touched on a lot of those anxiety points, and to me the edge of learning is an uncomfortable place, so I think this was actually a really great educational moment, and it brought in all these really great ideas to grapple with.”

The event was the product of a collaboration between the American Studies Department, the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program, the Asian American Cultural Center, the Institute of Sacred Music and the Public Humanities working group.

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FROM THE FRONT Female interest in YEI rises

The YEI summer fellowship saw increased applications from both women and undergraduates.

YEI FROM PAGE 1 mental to entrepreneurship.

“Without women, we’re missing half of the tool set to be successful,” she said.

Ellen Su ’13, co-founder of wearable health technology company Wellinks, applauded the sustained support her company has received from YEI even after her 2014 summer fellowship ended. She said her company has continued to operate out of the YEI space, and that the institute provides “connections to great opportunities.”

Tess Maggio ‘16, a member of one of YEI’s few allfemale startups, said she hopes that women getting involved

in entrepreneurship focus on products or services they want to create, rather than “viewing successes or failures in a gender-based light.”

Still, despite increasing racial and gender diversity in startups, other areas of entrepreneurship are seeing slower growth. Su said she believes investment groups exhibit the least diversity, although she said she is increasingly surprised when she sees groups composed exclusively of white men.

Smith said YEI, which is usually dominated by the projects of graduate and professional school students, is also interested in recruiting more heavily from the undergradu-

ate community. She said a survey of the class of 2019 showed 22 percent of students identifying business and entrepreneurship as one of their top areas of interest.

According to Davis, YEI provides a place where the entrepreneurial activities of all of Yale’s communities can intersect.

“Entrepreneurs provide innovations that disrupt and impact the world,” Smith said.

“We need to have everyone engaged.”

The final 10 teams selected for this year’s fellowship will be announced this week.

Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .

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room 220, a lecture hall that seats around 150, early Tuesday morning.

“People at the moment are feeling very angry and upset and frustrated, and perhaps they have no official way to channel that,” Price said. “We wanted to provide that outlet and a place for people to express their solidarity, to get together and take a stand and show they’re not isolated and to publicly make a statement that this isn’t the kind of culture we want on Yale’s campus.”

Around 100 copies of the posters — which were found in Dunham around 1 a.m. Tuesday morning and were cleared out by 7:30 a.m. — referred to statements made by members of the team following Saturday’s game, when they fielded questions from numerous media outlets about their former captain.

In interviews, players largely downplayed the significance of Montague’s departure while reaffirming their support for him.

While one poster again made reference to the entire team, the other two were more targeted.

One featured a picture from Sports Illustrated of guard Khaliq Ghani ’16, who had written Montague’s nickname, “Gucci,” on his wrist tape for the game. The picture showed Ghani displaying the tape while holding up four fingers to represent Montague’s jersey number. Above the picture, the poster read “Shame on you” with the caption “Khaliq Ghani supports a rapist.”

The other poster had a statement attributed to head coach James Jones, who was quoted as saying, “[Sexual assault] isn’t of any interest to me … Jack knows how we feel about him — we love him.”

The quoted words combined two statements Jones made to media outlets on Saturday. He

told Sports Illustrated, “That isn’t of any interest to me,” referring not to sexual assault, but to online rumors about Montague’s departure. He added, “The only interesting thing to me right now is winning a basketball game.”

That same night, he told ESPN, “Jack knows how we feel about him — we love him.”

Neither Ghani nor Jones responded to a request for comment on Tuesday night.

All posters had been cleared out of the lecture hall well before the first class of the day, “Introductory Data Analysis,” began at 9 a.m.

It is unclear why Dunham 220 was chosen to house this set of posters, though statistics professor John Emerson, who teaches the 9 a.m. course, has done work on statistical analysis of NCAA brackets. Emerson said he was not notified of any posters and did not see anything unusual in the classroom when he arrived.

“The only thing I can say is every time around this time of year I do some basketball-related analysis, because we’re going into March Madness, so we did some analysis,” Emerson said. “So I have a feeling that’s just a coincidence. I don’t see any reason why [the class’s basketball exercise] might be the reason behind it.”

Despite the allegations made on the posters, claims made about Montague’s departure remain unsubstantiated. Chief of New Haven Police David Hartman said in his department there is currently no complaint filed against Montague, who also does not appear in any criminal or civil investigations. University administrators have declined to comment on Montague’s departure, citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which prohibits educational institutions from releasing a student’s private academic records without the student’s prior writ-

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A third wave of posters appeared in room 220 of Dunham Laboratory early Tuesday morning. ten consent.

Another message chalked on classroom blackboards and featured on posters is a pledge started last week by Jonathan Simonds ’18 to show support for survivors of sexual assault. It has now received over 180 signatures.

“We have tried to increase visibility in the past few days,” Simonds said. “Its success as a campaign is dependent collecting support, so that’s what we set out to do … However, I think it’s passed that point and reached a level where it’s clear that there are people on this campus who feel strongly about the issue and who aren’t afraid to stand up for one another.”

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

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SPORTS

“Throughout my long career, I have been open and honest about many things. I take great responsibility and professionalism in my job every single day. I made a huge mistake.” MARIA SHARAPOVA PROFESSIONAL TENNIS PLAYER

Dominant second-half performance leads to win M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 14 Michael Bonacci ’16, who added two goals and one assist in the victory. “We never got away from what we do, despite only one first-half goal. We are happy to come out with a win against an underrated St. John’s team and now we have to turn the page and start preparing for Fairfield, who gives us a great game every year.”

Bonacci added that the Red Storm’s goalie Joseph Danaher played exceptionally well in the first half, offsetting the fact that Yale outshot St. John’s 27–11.

Nevertheless, the Red Storm capitalized on its early opportunities, going up by two at the end of the first quarter and finishing the half up by four. Eric DeJohn, a St. John’s senior, registered two assists and a goal in the first half and assisted on two additional goals at the start of the third, extending their lead to six.

“We got away from playing our game in the first half and made a good amount of mistakes on defense,” captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16 said. “We weren’t really feeling the pressure though, we knew that if we stuck to the process and focused on making one play at a time that we would get

back into the game.”

Attackman Ben Reeves ’18 said at halftime, the team discussed the importance of focusing on the next play rather than the scoreboard. The team had been playing well, he said, but just not finishing at the net.

Facing the prospect of their first defeat of the young season, the Bulldogs stepped up to the plate and scored seven unanswered goals in the third quarter to go up 8–7. Reeves led the comeback, registering all three of his goals during the Yale run. Entering the fourth tied at eight apiece, the Bulldogs scored five additional goals and shut the Red Storm out to win by five, nearly matching their average margin of victory of more than seven goals per win.

Goalie Phil Huffard ’18, who moved to 4–0 in his career after his seven-save performance, said he and the rest of the team had to buckle down in the second half and especially the fourth quarter.

“As a goalie you’re always looking to play your best in the fourth quarter,” Huffard said.

“It took our defense some time to settle in and understand what they were trying to do.

By the fourth quarter we felt pretty comfortable with the game plan we had and we just

had to execute.”

Huffard added that an adjustment made at halftime proved effective at shutting down DeJohn — who he described as the team’s “best player” — for the remainder of the game. After his two assists to open the second half, DeJohn did not register another point and only managed two more shot attempts.

Midfielder Conor Mackie ’18, who registered an assist on the team’s tying third-quarter goal, said Yale outlasted St. John’s by remaining calm and focused.

“At halftime it was all about coming out and continuing to play our game,” Mackie said.

“In the first, our shots weren’t falling and the ball wasn’t bouncing our way. We stuck with our process and turned it around. We always say one at a time. Whether that’s one goal or one ground ball, it’s important to have that mentality.

It wasn’t going to happen at once in the second half but we started chipping away one play at a time.”

Next on the schedule is Fairfield, a team that has taken Yale to overtime twice in the past two seasons.

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W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 14 and intensity for a full 60 minutes.”

Despite being outshot 14–5 in the first half, Yale scored on each attempt on goal to keep pace with Stony Brook.

While such scoring efficiency cannot be reasonably sustained, defender Victoria Moore ’17 attributed it to Yale offense’s style of play.

“We only took five shots, but we had extremely long possession on attack, and our attack placed the shots really well,” Moore said. “While we wanted to get more shots off, we also wanted to tire out the defense because then the shots became super easy and wide open.”

Eleven seconds into the second half, Stony Brook struck immediately to take its third lead of the contest.

This time the Seawolves would not relinquish their advantage.

In rapid succession, Stony Brook scored twice more to bring the lead to three, before Smith struck again to stymie the bleeding — but only for a couple minutes. Stony Brook scored two more, both from Murphy, to widen the margin to four.

With the score at 10–6, McEvoy finished a hat trick with 14:17 remaining in the

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Although Yale is 2–0 at home, the Bulldogs have lost all four of their road contests. game but Yale did not score again. The Bulldogs gave up three more goals after that, as Van Dyke and Murphy each scored their fifth goals. Neither team scored in the final 10 minutes, as the Seawolves coasted to victory.

In the end the lopsided 32–12 Stony Brook shot total proved too much for Yale to maintain the lead. Not helping

its cause was the 20 turnovers committed by Yale, as opposed to just nine for Stony Brook.

“I think it didn’t come down to how many shots either team had,” Marks said. “A team can take 12 shots and [score on] eight or 10 of them while the other can take 34 and only put away six, so I really think it was actually the turnovers … That right there made the differ-

ence in closing off quite a few opportunities for us.”

Despite ceding 13 goals, Marks ended up setting a career record for saves with 12 — nine more than the Seawolves’ two goalies, Anna Tesoriero and Kaitlyn Leahy, combined for on the night.

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

first place in the 59-person field with 585.60 points.

Talbott Paulsen ’19, coming in 26th place, came short of the 18-person final round alongside her teammates McKenna Tennant ’18 and Olivia Grinker ’16, who finished 33rd and 36th, respectively. “[The first day] went well,” Paulsen said. “I was happy with how I dove [on Monday] and I definitely felt confident going into [the next round].”

On the second day of competition, Yale dove in the threemeter event. MacRae once again led the Elis, and this time she was the only Bulldog to qualify for the finals. With 523.05 points, the junior finished in 15th place overall. MacRae has now been Yale’s top finisher in both the onemeter and three-meter competitions each of the past three seasons.

Paulsen had the highest Eli score of those who did not reach the finals, coming in 27th place.

Tennant placed in 31st, Walsh in 49th and Grinker in 50th out of the 57 divers competing.

While the Bulldogs will not be advancing any divers to the national championships, they

remained content after competing against the large field that includes some of their best opponents of the season.

“This competition is definitely much harder,” Paulsen said. “We have to compete against really good programs like Virginia Tech … We definitely held our own against the tough competition.”

The meet provided valuable experience for the young squad.

Of the five divers, two — Paulsen and Walsh — are freshmen, and Tennant is a sophomore. Meanwhile, the Zone Championship was the final meet for the diving team’s lone senior, Grinker.

According to Walsh, Yale’s success in zone competition is a step forward for the program.

“The fact that Yale showed up and was right up there with some big name schools with renowned dive programs was a huge step for Yale diving,” Walsh said. “We have a lot of momentum and hope to carry that through to next year.”

The Yale diver to qualify for NCAAs most recently was MacRae, who reached nationals in both the one-meter and threemeter events in 2014.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

Late offensive surge not enough BASEBALL FROM PAGE 14 two of the toughest teams we will see all year,” right-hander Mason Kukowski ’18 said. “Other than a bad inning here or there, we have done pretty well in all aspects of our game and hung with them. It has been humbling to play these teams, but at the same time we have a lot of confidence going forward that we can beat any team.”

The Bulldogs have faced tough competition in their first four games. Yale recently returned from a three-game series with Texas A&M, the No. 3 team in the country, while UConn finished last season with a 35–25 record and lost 4–2 to East Carolina in the semifinal round of the American Conference. The Huskies entered Tuesday’s matchup having already played three times as many contests this season as the Elis.

Kukowski started for Yale on the mound. After being named a Freshman All-American last season for his efforts as the team’s closer, both of Kukowski’s season appearances thus far have been as a starter. He opened the spring by allowing four earned runs on seven hits in five

innings of work against the Aggies in the first game of the season.

Against UConn, the sophomore hurler tossed just two innings after surrendering four runs, though only one was earned. “[Kukowski] is one of our best guys, and we have faith in him every time he takes the mound,” captain and right-hander Chris Moates ’16 said. “[Kukowski] had an awesome preseason, and has looked good in his first two starts, despite what his record says. I’m excited to see him back out on the mound on Sunday.”

The Huskies jumped out to an early 3–0 lead in the first inning thanks in part to a throwing error from shortstop Tom O’Neill ’16.

After a walk and stolen base from UConn leadoff man and center fielder Jack Sundberg, third baseman Willy Yahn reached on the error, and both players were driven home on a double from designated hitter Tyler Gnesda.

Gnesda later scored on a single by shortstop Bryan Daniello, though all three runs were unearned. Gnesda went 2–4 in the game, driving in three base runners, while Yahn finished with three hits and one RBI. UConn starter Andrew Zapata

tossed six scoreless innings, striking out four batters and allowing just two hits.

In the ninth inning, with the Huskies holding an 8–0 lead, the Bulldogs finally managed to push runners across the plate, but the effort was too little and too late.

First baseman Alec Hoeschel ’17, who entered the game at the position for Benny Wagner ’19, began the inning by tripling down the right field line. Moates, who entered as a pinch hitter for left fielder Tom Ruddy ’18 grounded out to third base, but plating Hoeschel on the hit. The RBI groundout marked the fourth career RBI for Moates, who has recorded just 11 at bats for the Bulldogs in his career.

The Elis scored again later in the ninth when Fuller brought home third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 with an RBI sacrifice fly to center field.

Yale left two runners on base to close the game, as O’Neill struck out looking to end the contest. The Elis stranded seven base runners in the game.

“It’s always frustrating to leave guys stranded on base, but sometimes the hits just don’t fall,”

Moates said. “We had guys take good swings and hit the ball hard in those situations all day long, just right at people. If we keep hitting the ball hard, the hits will come, and the runs will be right behind them.”

Right-handed relief pitcher Griffen Dey ’19 entered the game in the eighth inning and posted a flawless performance, pitching a scoreless inning and going 2–2 at the plate. He replaced designated hitter Harrison White ’17 in the batting order but right-hander Drew Scott ’18 on the mound.

Dey’s first single led off the eighth inning and resulted in the freshman being left stranded on second base, but his second single, in the ninth, pushed Slenker from second to third and set up Fuller’s sacrifice fly.

The Elis will play 15 contests over spring break, highlighted by the opening games next weekend at Navy against the Midshipmen, before traveling to Washington, D.C., to face Georgetown and George Washington.

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Captain Chris Moates ’16, who normally pitches for the Elis, entered the game as a pinch hitter and recorded the fourth RBI of his career.

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

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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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Comparative Literature Library, Bingham Hall, 300 College St., 8th Floor

March 2

A Protofeminist’s Challenge to Gender Order: Leah Horowitz’s Tekhino Imohos Reception to follow

March 8

Gender Under Construction: From Genesis To Hasidism Reception to follow

March 10

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

For information, please contact Renee Reed at (203) 432-0843 or renee.reed@yale.edu sponsored by the judaic studies program at yale university

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ARTS & CULTURE

AFRICA SALON SHOWCASES CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARTS

BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER This spring, Yale will host its second annual AFRICA SALON, a weeklong celebration of contemporary African arts and culture.

The festival — which begins Monday, March 28 and lasts through April 3 — aims to recognize and celebrate African art, film, music and more through a variety of activities and events, including visual arts exhibitions, film screenings and a fashion salon showcasing the work of contemporary African designers. Currently in its second year, the salon will also feature musical performances, a Shared Studios portal to Nairobi, Kenya — a shipping container equipped with surround audiovisual technology, designed to connect participants directly with visitors to

an analogous portal in the Kenyan capitol — and a celebratory African brunch. Ifeanyi Awachie ’14, who curated the event, said that, building on last year’s successful two-day festival, AFRICA SALON 2016 will take place over a full week. Awachie, who is Nigerian-American, said the festival seeks to paint a picture of contemporary African arts through a series of conversations and interactive experiences.

“The main goal is to make a space for African arts and culture at Yale,” Awachie said. “At Yale, when we talk about Africa, we talk about politics, public health, corruption, but we have not had an artistic point of view — and African artists have been producing so much great work. It feels like a special moment in Africa right now, and it is important to provide a platform for people at

Yale thinking about it to share their knowledge and for students to see representations of their countries’ artistic [outputs].”

In selecting this year’s participating artists and filmmakers, Awachie explained that she targeted two major groups: students at Yale who may not have yet had the chance to exhibit their work, and African artists who present “new, cutting-edge perspectives” in their approach to art-making. She added that this year’s AFRICA SALON will play host to a number of yet-unseen works, including the inaugural screening of “The Pearl of Africa,” a film documenting the Ugandan LGBTQ+ movement. By showcasing such works, Awachie explained, the salon hopes to start new conversations. Additionally, Awachie noted, the festival will give participants the chance to

hear artists share firsthand perspectives of their own work and interact directly with the creators of these pieces, such as the visual artists Nicola Brandt, Helen Harris and David Uzochukwu, whose work is featured in “mo(ve)ments: African Digital Subjectivities,” one of the salon’s exhibitions.

“You get to experience these artistic narratives firsthand, like hearing someone reading their own work or someone playing their own music, and so you absorb so many details and pick up on all kinds of stimulae that you might miss when just reading out of a textbook,” Awachie said.

Students interviewed said that the festival is important for its introduction of a perspective of contemporary Africa that differs radically from the one members of the Yale community might typically experience.

Alexandra Leone ’18, a member of Yale’s African dance group Dzana, also emphasized the significance of bringing an African artistic perspective to the University’s campus.

“As a member of the only African dance group on Yale’s campus, it has been an eye-opening experience to be able to take part in contemporary urban culture from all different parts of the continent,” Leone said. “As an American, it’s not easy to find representations of the modern, thriving African arts scene.

Africa Salon offers the rest of the Yale community a glimpse at the vibrant and diverse array of arts and culture represented across Africa, which is an important contrast to the prevailing, stereotyped image of a struggling continent.”

Michelle Angwenyi ’16, who is

from Kenya, said it is important for the Yale community to see Africa from a perspective that is not necessarily always political.

Art, she said, is a great medium for that type of perspective.

Julia Jenjezwa ’16, who is from Zimbabwe, said the salon offers students an alternative entrance into the world of contemporary African culture, which she believes more accurately reflects the realities of the continent today.

“In a country where the portrayal of Africa is static, AFRICA SALON offers an alternative engagement with the continent,” Jenjezwa said. “This engagement is contemporary, it is vibrant, it is dynamic — like the true Africa of 2016.”

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .

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Last year’s AFRICA SALON lasted two days, but this year’s will run for a full week.

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“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

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EDIT-A-THON FIGHTS UNDERREPRESENTATION OF FEMALE ARTISTS

BY NATALINA LOPEZ STAFF REPORTER Students brought ideas, laptops and the hashtag “#ArtandFeminism” to Yale’s Wikipedia edit-a thon Friday evening.

Organized by the Yale University Library, the School of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery and the Digital Media Center, the event invited the entire Yale community to participate in a collective editing effort aimed at mitigating Wikipedia’s lacking representation of female artists. For the occasion, 10 Yale students and administrators gathered in Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library to research and contribute to Wikipedia pages highlighting the work of women in the arts. Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship Alexandra Provo, who spearheaded the event, said the edit-a-thon marked an important collaboration between various

schools and departments within the Yale community.

More broadly, Friday’s edita-thon was associated with the “Art + Feminism” project, a campaign that aims to generate coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia while encouraging female editorship. Currently, the project is in its third year, and has organized similar collective editing events worldwide.

“One amazing thing is how the word about the event spread, and a bunch of serendipitous collaborations happened,” Provo noted.

“It’s really cool how many people are excited about the event.”

The edit-a-thon, which was inspired by an event Provo had encountered at the Pratt Institute, featured training sessions on Wikipedia, and organizers compiled lists of Wikipedia entries that needed work or citations for the benefit of attend-

ees. Carts of books from offsite and the Yale Center for British Art were brought in to aid attendees with their research.

Provo emphasized that the event did not merely seek to achieve a specific number of edits, but also to introduce people to editing as a discipline.

“It’s really aimed at anyone at Yale who wants to participate,” Provo explained.

“We want to encourage people to edit when they want.”

Haas Family Arts Library Director Heather Gendron, who attended the edit-athon, chose to create a Wikipedia page for Jocelyn Lee, a fine-art photographer.

Gendron selected Lee from the Art + Feminism’s list of underrepresented female artists, she said, highlighting her interest in women’s photography. She added that the process of putting together a Wikipedia page, which involves compiling

facts from a number of different resources, was a valuable experience.

A number of students, including Kimberly MejiaCuellar ’16, also participated in the project, working to put together the lists of female artists for whom pages needed to be created or edited. While Mejia-Cuellar does not have an art background, she said the project allowed her to explore the library’s holdings and learn about different forms of art in the process. Mejia-Cuellar added that she hoped the edit-a-thon — as well as the larger Art + Feminism initiative — would allow other students to have a similar experience.

“I hope our efforts will help students get excited about art by female artists and dive into the artwork the University owns,” she said.

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Friday’s “Art + Feminism” edit-a-thon brought together students, faculty and staff to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of female artists.

Contact NATALINA LOPEZ at natalina.lopez@yale.edu .

FESTIVAL PUTS YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS

BY VEENA MCCOOLE STAFF REPORTER Students, faculty and members of the New Haven community gathered for the annual Playwrights Festival last weekend, which featured readings and discussions of five original scripts by student playwrights.

The festival, which was initiated in 2003 by theater studies professor Toni Dorfman, provides student playwrights with the chance to receive mentorship from experts and have their plays read aloud. This year’s plays were selected from a pool of 42 submissions, and addressed a variety of issues relevant to campus life over the past academic year, including racial marginalization, homophobia, minority identity and fertility. Deborah Margolin, a professor in the Theater Studies Department, said the event is unique within Yale’s performing arts community. “[The festival] serves the arts community of Yale College in a way that nothing else quite

does,” Margolin said.

In addition to celebrating the work of student playwrights, Margolin said, the festival enables young writers to develop new work under the guidance of two mentors: one on campus, and one unaffiliated with the University.

Lucy Fleming ’16, who authored one of this year’s five selections, described the festival as a rare opportunity for the playwrights to hear their works read by a full cast — an integral part of the writing and revision process that is often difficult for student playwrights to arrange.

Alexis Payne ’19, whose play “On Rayton” was one of the five read at the festival, said the reading helped her evaluate her play’s script.

“This reading revealed a lot of the areas where I need to revise and expand the script,” Payne noted, adding that her director, Nailah HarperMalveaux ’16, had a vision for the play that was “essential in illuminating the distinctions between what is written to be

read, and what is written to be performed.”

Payne described her work as a repositioning of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, the story of a gay Black barbershop owner whose reputation is on the line following the racially fueled murder of a neighborhood boy.

Other plays drew on personal memories, scientific concepts and biblical stories as source material.

Stefani Kuo ’17, one of the student playwrights, said that much of the material for her submission, “Architecture of Rain,” was drawn from her own experiences. The piece reflects on the line between life and death, featuring a multifaceted exploration of the different dictionary definitions of the word “curator,” such as the lesserused “someone who has a cure of souls.” In addition to constituting one of the work’s major themes, these definitions are interspersed throughout the play’s dialogue.

Fleming’s “Desert Play” intertwines biblical storylines

from the Book of Genesis with scientific themes, such as the strand of DNA from which the play takes its initial inspiration.

The disciplines that both represent — religion, on the one hand, and science on the other — are personified by two characters: a religious studies professor and a biochemistry student, Fleming said.

“Genesis had many authors, and our DNA has many sources,” Fleming said. “Likewise, there’s a lot of things in the biblical text that seem superfluous — like ‘junk’ DNA sequences — but could have many interpretations.”

This year’s festival, held at the Whitney Humanities Center, was sponsored by the Marina Keegan ’12 Memorial Fund.

Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .

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Upset bid falls short

BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER Despite making two comebacks and holding a two-goal lead well into the first half, the Yale women’s lacrosse team fell to No. 10 Stony Brook in New York on Tuesday night.

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Midfielder Jason Alessi ’18 took two shots and tallied an assist in the win.

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER While battling St. John’s on Tuesday night, the No. 4 Yale men’s lacrosse team was knocked down, but refused to be knocked out. Down at the half, the Bull-

dogs managed to avoid an upset and maintained their perfect record in the process.

The Elis entered Reese Stadium on Tuesday with their highest-ever national ranking, while St. John’s was fresh off its first victory of the season. Yale trailed

the Red Storm at the end of the first quarter and halftime, reaching a low point of 7–1 fewer than four minutes into the third. But through seven consecutive goals and a strong final frame, Yale came back to win 13–8.

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Bulldogs drop in-state matchup

a battle and our coach stressed that in games like these we need to be the better team and to stick to what we do — I think we did a great job of that and were resilient on offense,” said midfielder SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 10

The Bulldogs (2–4, 0–1 Ivy) fought hard against the Seawolves (2–1, 0–0 American East), clawing back from a pair of deficits, but in the end, the offensive force of Stony Brook’s Dorrien Van Dyke and Courtney Murphy — each of whom accrued five goals — proved too much for Yale. Despite the loss, the Elis held their own against the highly ranked team whose only loss was by one goal to No. 3 Florida, a takeaway Yale found solace in.

“We really showed ourselves how well and how hard we can truly play,” goalie Sydney Marks ’18 said.

“I mean, we held our own and were beating a top-10 team at one point. How awesome is that?”

In a tightly contested first half, both teams gained and lost momentum as the lead exchanged hands. Van Dyke notched her first tally for Stony Brook just 10 seconds into the game, before Yale’s leading goal scorer, attacker Tess McEvoy ’17, evened the

score less than two minutes later.

Murphy then answered with her first goal of the game to reclaim the lead for the Seawolves. Van Dyke quickly followed, extending the lead to 3–1.

But after another twominute interval, the tide shifted yet again, as midfielder Lauren Wackerle ’16 scored back-to-back goals to tie the game once again, this time at 3–3. With 18:25 remaining in the half, McEvoy broke the tie with her second goal of the evening.

McEvoy was not done making her presence felt in the half, as she assisted midfielder Lily Smith ’18 for the game’s next goal. It was the Bulldogs’ fourth unanswered, which gave Yale its first lead of the class.

However, Stony Brook retaliated with two goals of its own in the final 11 minutes of the half, both from the stick of Van Dyke. Behind Van Dyke’s four goals, Stony Brook managed to withstand the Elis’ best shot and carry momentum into the half with the game tied at five apiece.

“We came out so strong.

We really fought for that first half,” McEvoy said. “We were excited to be tied with a top-10 team. Moving forward we will be focusing on competing with that kind of SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 10

Diving season ends at Zones

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER Concluding a season that started in October, five members of the No. 25 Yale women’s swimming and diving team competed Monday and Tuesday at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships in Annapolis, Maryland.

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Third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 scored the Elis’ second run of the game on a sacrifice fly.

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER After opening the season with three tough contests against the nation’s No. 3 team and taking the field on Tuesday against an in-state foe that won 35 games last season, the Yale baseball

team must continue to wait for its first win — or even its first close final score.

BASEBALL The Bulldogs (0–4, 0–0 Ivy) struggled to drive home base runners and waited too late to

mount their comeback against Connecticut (6–4, 0–0 American). Yale scored two runs in the final inning, but it was not enough as the Elis fell 8–2 to the Huskies.

“We have probably faced

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Despite two top-10 finishes in the one-meter event, none of the Bulldog divers placed high enough to qualify for the NCAA Division I Championships, which begin on March 17. Lilybet MacRae ’17 received the team’s highest score in both the one-meter and three-meter events, while also earning the top scores of any Ivy competitor.

“We were just looking to come to Zones for experience and for a fun last meet,” Hannah Walsh ’19 said. “The fact that we had girls [reach the finals] on both boards was incredible. It was a good meet to end on.”

Divers from more than 50 universities participated in the one-meter event, which took place on Monday at the United States Naval Academy. Both MacRae and Walsh qualified for finals in the event. After six dives in the final round, MacRae earned the best overall Eli finish of the meet, coming in eighth place with 519.85

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Five Bulldogs competed at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships. points. She was followed closely by Walsh, who earned a 10th-place finish with a score of 505.90. Both Bulldogs missed out on the NCAA Championships by only a

few spots, as only the top five finishers moved on. Olivia Lehman, a junior from James Madison University, captured SEE W. DIVING PAGE 10

THE MARGIN BY WHICH THE YALE MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM OUTSCORED ST. JOHN’S IN THE SECOND HALF ON TUESDAY NIGHT. The Bulldogs were down 5–1 at halftime but went on a 12–3 run in the third and fourth quarters, ultimately avoiding an upset and defeating the Red Storm 13–8.