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Guggenheim Memorial foundation announced its list of 2016 fellows yesterday.

Among the 178 recipients were three members of the Yale faculty. Economics professor Dean Karlan, former Yale Art School Dean Robert Storr and East Asian Studies professor Jing Tsu each received recognition for their work. This marks the 92nd annual competition for the Guggenheim fellowship.

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his weekend, the Yale Corporation will continue to deliberate the names of the two new colleges and the potential renaming of Calhoun College and the title of “master.” In contrast to previous presidents who largely directed such significant decisions, University President Peter Salovey has approached the Corporation with a consensus-based attitude, prolonging decision-making. DAVID SHIMER reports.

to register to run for Yale College Council positions is this evening at 5 p.m. Brace yourselves, because after 5 p.m., candidates may launch Facebook photo campaigns and distribute flyers. Polls will open next Thursday, and in the case of unusually close races, run-off elections will be held the following week.

Dolphinitely. Guilford

Police Animal Shelter had to humanely euthanize a stranded dolphin yesterday afternoon.

After a passerby saw a whitesided dolphin stranded off of Chaffinch Island Park, the Mystic Aquarium’s Emergency Response Team arrived at the scene and attempted to save the dolphin but was unsuccessful.

Miss International Fear.

The Office of International Students and Scholars at Yale will host a discussion on the “Culture of Fear” at 5:30 p.m. this evening. Topics of conversation will include the perceived American fear of outsiders and the media’s role in creating fear.

Girl talk. The Yale Women’s Center invites students to hear from a panel of faculty and administrators, including Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd, about womanhood at Yale. The event will be hosted at the Saybrook Underbrook Theater at 6:30 p.m.

Written in the stars.

The opening night of “Constellations” — a play about the tension between free will and destiny — is tonight at the Calhoun Cabaret at 8 p.m.

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1958 History majors bemoan the lack of resources within their department. Students’ main criticism is aimed toward the lack of seminar offerings.

The department has only listed one seminar — “Western World in the 18th and 19th Centuries” — for the coming year.

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Wadsworth it. Harvard President Drew Faust joined civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis to unveil a new plaque at Wadsworth House yesterday.

The plaque honors four slaves who worked at the university in the 1700s. The unveiling comes just weeks after Harvard announced that it would change its law school seal which references a prominent slave-owning family.

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The Yale Corporation is currently deliberating over three major naming decisions.

School-specific AAU results kept private

BY MONICA WANG AND DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTERS The decision by Yale’s 13 graduate and professional school deans not to publish school-specific data on the prevalence of campus sexual misconduct has provoked widespread debate in the University community, pitting those who demand total transparency against others who say the numbers are a distraction from broader efforts to improve Yale’s sexual climate.

Last September, the Association of American Universities released university-specific results for the 27 schools, including Yale, that participated in its campus climate survey. The results, which University President Peter Salovey called “extremely disturbing,” showed an above-average rate of sexual assault and harassment among both undergraduates and graduate and professional students at Yale. This preliminary round of data, which can be found on the University’s website, distinguished between undergraduate versus graduate and professional numbers, but did not further break down the numbers for each graduate and professional school — thus combining the responses

of 3,364 students at schools with distinct social and academic climates.

Two months later, the University obtained survey results for each individual graduate and professional school from Westat, the outside research company that developed the survey. Although administrators passed the data onto each school’s dean — and although the numbers have been presented to students at townhall-style meetings over this past semester — the deans have declined to make the information available to the general public.

In response, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate has launched a lobbying campaign aimed at collecting the data for a public report that would compare best practices across schools. But administrators at the graduate and professional schools say publishing the data would actually get in the way of the important task of curbing campus sexual assault and harassment.

“Students have expressed to me that they would like to know what the landscape is in other schools and how they’re addressing them in each particular school,” GPSS President Elizabeth Mo GRD ’18 said. “People do SEE AAU RESULTS PAGE 4

It is near midnight on Nov. 12, 2015, and 200 students are marching on University President Peter Salovey’s house in the cold. Advocating for a more diverse and inclusive campus, they present Salovey with a set of demands. Their list includes, among other things, renaming Calhoun College, eliminating the title of master and naming the two new residential colleges after people of color. Just five days later, Salovey responds to campus concerns with a series of initiatives, one inviting the community to listening sessions with the Yale Corporation on naming. But the three issues remained unresolved.

For more than seven months, the 17 members of the Yale Corporation, including Salovey, who chairs each of the body’s meetings, have been deliberating whether to rename Calhoun and eliminate the title of master. They have not yet announced a decision. The Corporation has also been debating what to name the two new residential colleges. This decision has not been reached either.

In November, student activists demanded that Salovey address these issues within days.

But for such unusual and significant items, who makes the actual decision: the president or the Corporation as a whole?

UPCLOSE To the surprise of former University leaders dating back 60 years, the answer now seems to be the Corporation.

Interviews with Corporation members, former University President Richard Levin and various current and former administrators reveal that past presidents did not see the Corporation as a body that could or should make these types of decisions. Rather, they viewed the Corporation as a feedback mechanism that always accepted presidential recommendations — including on nonroutine issues like these three.

“The Corporation simply never would have controlled these decisions,” said former University Secretary John Wilkinson ’60 GRD ’63, who served in the position under former University Presidents Bartlett Giamatti and Benno Schmidt in the 1980s. “[Giamatti] would have pulled out his hair and just started screaming if he were just another member of the Corporation on something this big. He would have had a fit.”

But Salovey has taken a different approach.

He told the News that upon his ascension to the presidency SEE CORPORATION PAGE 6

CS makes progress on hiring

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS More than a year after the Computer Science Department received two anonymous gifts for a total of $20 million, the department still has yet to hire the majority of faculty members promised by the donation.

The department sent a final list of candidates to Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office on April 5, department chair Joan Feigenbaum said Tuesday during a departmental town hall. The push for faculty hiring stems in part from the $20 million gift, which has been designated for three faculty positions in com-

puter science at the cost of $5 million each and a $5 million start-up package for the new faculty members.

With the decision in March 2015 to move the Computer Science Department to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the department was also promised two additional jointhires between computer science and other engineering departments.

Before the donation, the computer science faculty size had not grown larger than 20 faculty members since 1989, a year when just over 400 undergraduate students were registered for computer science courses.

Meanwhile, from 2011 to fall 2014, the number of under-

graduate course registrations for computer science classes has grown from 600 to 1,400 undergraduates and the number of junior and senior computer science majors has doubled.

While the department has released little information about the hiring process and timeline, FAS Dean Tamar Gendler confirmed that the department had successfully sent the candidate list, which includes at least one female faculty candidate, to her office for approval. She added that no formal offers have been made but that the department expects to hire two or three additional faculty this SEE HIRING PAGE 4

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The department held a town hall Tuesday.

Appropriations passes alternative budget

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER With Connecticut facing a looming $911 million deficit for fiscal year 2017, the General Assembly’s Appropriations Committee passed a budget Wednesday that would close less than two-thirds of the gap.

The budget’s $569 mil-

lion in cuts will affect every facet of state government, including funding to municipalities and current services, committee co-chairs state Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, and state Rep. Toni Walker, D-New Haven, told reporters in the state capitol before the committee’s meeting. Though the committee’s budget

leaves roughly $340 million in savings unresolved, Bye and Walker said they anticipate that tax revenues will rise later this year and cover the remaining deficit. But before the plan can be adopted, it has to pass through the full General Assembly.

“We know we’re going to impact our residents,” Bye said. “Thousands and

thousands came before us and said, ‘Please don’t cut this or that.’ But there are no sacred cows in this budget. There couldn’t be. So everybody took some hits.”

The committee’s budget cuts include a 5.75 percent reduction to the state’s payment in lieu of taxes program, which compensates municipalities for tax-exempt properties.

New Haven, with the most tax-exempt properties in the state, would be particularly affected by those cuts. The committee’s budget is notable, however, for not projecting any savings through layoffs of state workers.

Bye and Walker said the process of putting together the committee’s proposed budget was biparti-

san, with Democrats sitting alongside Republicans on subcommittees that decided cuts.

Walker noted that the past year has been tumultuous for the state’s budget — the committee’s proposal is the fourth budget the committee has put forth in the last year. The SEE BUDGET PAGE 4

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s we get midterm grades back and look ahead to finals, many of us start crunching numbers. What percentage of our final grade will depend on this problem set? What about the midterm essay? How do I get an A in this class? Well, you’re at Yale, where your class is probably curved, your professor is probably lenient and you probably know how much reading you actually need to do. With Yale’s grade inflation epidemic, you’ll be just fine.

Since Yale’s C+ average in the 1920s, our grades have risen steadily. The Vietnam War accelerated this trend. Grades rose so that nearly all students could pass — and thus rely on their student status to keep out of the draft. Today, according to the Yale College Ad Hoc Committee on Grading, more than 62 percent of Yale grades were either an A-minus or A. And it’s creeping ever upwards.

In part, grade inflation stems from America’s consumer approach to education: A high GPA is a high return on this expensive investment. And so, student consumers, with their power of enrollment, reject any attempt at grade deflation. Yale’s own professor Shelly Kagan (known, among other things, for his dramatic Bluebook descriptions) wages a one-man campaign against grade inflation. Yet his protest falls moot and mute as most students take his class CreditD Fail. When Wellesley instituted deflation caps in some of its departments, enrollment in those majors dropped sharply.

Wellesley revoked the policy.

Similarly, Princeton’s shortlived grade deflation experiment created a hostile work environment (outstripping New Jersey as the new worst part of Princeton).

Grade deflation doesn’t work — not for an individual professor, not for a department and certainly not for an entire institution. We’re stuck with our inflated grades, but maybe we can find a new normal.

First and foremost, our GPAs have a negligible effect on future employment. Often, the terrible maxim holds true: The only A that matters falls right between the “Y” and the “LE”. 3.5 is the new 3.0; 3.9 is the new 3.7. And a 4.0 carries the timeless message: Just live a little. Just as it always has been, it’s who you know, what you’ve done and how you interview.

Instead of scrolling through LinkedIn, we need to reaffirm our sense of self-worth and educational integrity. When 62 percent of us receive A grades— which technically mean that we are “excellent,” “outstanding” and “exceed expectations” — there is no objective standard for superb work.

Exceptional work and merely good work receive the same recognition, making Yale seem both too easy and unjust at the same time. If an A no longer means excellent, we never really trust that we have

earned our grades.

In fact, today’s A comes in the form of a personal email from a professor, pointedly AMELIA Yes, NIERENBERG saying: in fact, your essay was Close to that excellent, actual home A- q u a l i ty work. Getting a really good GPA at Yale does not necessarily mean writing the best essay. It just means figuring out the system.

To draw from the movie, The Incredibles: If we’re all [getting As], none of us are.

To fix the problem of grade inflation, Yale should appeal to both consumer desires and student conscience through a “split-grade system,” feasible for seminars and small lectures. Students would receive our existing inflated transcript grades, changing nothing about our post-Yale competitiveness. But professors would also grade privately along a “real grade” metric, providing conclusive feedback articulating what the student actually earned. The inflated grade lives on your transcript. The real grade lives in your ongoing conversation with your professor, your class and your work.

It’s the real grade that is memorable, and it’s the one that is important.

As it stands now, this seediness of inflated grades inhibits the potential for professorial academic criticism. Receiving criticism is essential: to academic work, to professional life and for our personal development. Learning to accept criticism with thoughtful resilience is a skill we at Yale have yet to acquire. The most helpful conversations with professors are often the hardest, and most of our best growing comes from failures. “No, you didn’t do all the reading but still dominated section — that was rude and callous.” Or: “No, your essay wasn’t that great because you wrote it in two nights — that was a waste of both of our time.” Or, simply: “No, this wasn’t your best work. Try harder. Think harder.

Do better.”

Owning up to the fallacies of the system would encourage dialogue around our academic performance. By addressing the farce of grade inflation, we could reclaim our education from our report cards. Neither course enrollment nor postgraduate careers would suffer, and the academic transparency would challenge students and develop more holistically educated Yale alumni. This rising tide might just actually lift all boats after all.

AMELIA NIERENBERG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at amelia.nierenberg@yale.edu .

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hen I was applying to college, I remember hearing from all sorts of people (counselors, teachers, friends’ parents) that I was lucky to be a minority because that would make it easier to get admitted to an elite school. They were referring to affirmative action, as if to suggest that the decision on whether to admit me would be based solely and explicitly on my ethnicity.

In reality, affirmative action is implemented at institutions across the world because highachieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds face inordinate difficulties in comparison to their peers from urban areas, white families and greater wealth.

This allows Yale to create a student body that is more representative of our world.

Entering senior society tap season is a mucky process for many reasons, and discussions about race, class and geography play a huge role. Senior societies are, on the whole, more representative of white, wealthy students from urban areas. Many argue that’s because the majority of Yale students fit this demographic: This is simply untrue.

According to the Office of Institutional Research, only 52 percent of Yale undergradu-

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ates identify as white. This would suggest that social groups co n s t r u c te d entirely by students for ADRIANA other students should reflect MIELE the array of identities and Check perspectives that exist on yourself campus.

In reality, senior societies do not reflect the diversity of Yale’s campus.

In addition to balancing interests, personalities and campus involvement, each senior society must grapple with its own Big Three: ethnicity, wealth and geographic origin. This is a messy, sticky conversation to have.

Seniors initially approach the society tap process as a casual, fun ordeal: Let’s make a list of cool, fun people we know and ask them to hang out together for a year after we graduate! The concept seems harmless, but by now, seniors understand that it’s much more complicated territory.

For decades, Yale students have hailed senior societies as integral to exposing oneself to the range of Yale’s student body. My

society experience has facilitated invaluable friendships with people who expand my worldview; but I still think that my group and others could do a much better job at addressing the accessibility of senior societies to marginalized groups.

It would be unreasonable to ask every senior society to meet exact quotas of overall Yale College student demographics, especially since societies are intimate groups. Oftentimes, conversations about representation within social groups revolve around “adding diversity,” and by “diversity,” people mean to say “nonwhite” students. White students are considered a baseline population, and non-white students are considered additions. Non-white students have their own merits, perspectives and values beyond meeting quotas.

Last year, I was asked to perform a spoken word piece at a Bulldog Days event. The email described a talent show, so I agreed. When I showed up to the event, called Mosaic, I realized that it wasn’t the traditional Bulldog Days talent show that I had attended as a prefrosh; it was an event explicitly designated for “multicultural performance,” meaning non-white performance groups. I realized that I wasn’t

necessarily invited for my talents as a writer or a performer; I was invited as a display of non-whiteness. They asked me to perform because Yale wanted to show off its diversity. I had never felt more tokenized in my life.

I botched the performance. I was mortified by the premise of the event, and I didn’t feel comfortable in front of the audience for that reason. Though the event was organized by some students of color with good intentions, I felt incredibly uncomfortable being showcased explicitly as a non-white performer.

I realize that I walk a difficult line between wanting to be respected for my cultural background and not wanting to be defined by it. I just want to be treated like a person.

Societies should be mindful of the backgrounds, identities and makeups of their prospective tap groups. That means we must make a conscious effort to question why certain people gain admission to a group because they’re “cool” while others gain admission because they “add diversity.”

ADRIANA MIELE is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Her columns runs on Thursdays. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .

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alies are many things — smart, ambitious, hardworking, upbeat, friendly.

Are they honest, though? This might seem like an odd question, and I don’t mean to accuse the student body of serial malice and deceit. For the most part, students, faculty and administrators here are incredibly wellmeaning and good-natured. Yet at times, our good intentions and hyper-positive attitude can do us more harm than good.

Yale is often portrayed as a utopia. We live in what many students describe as a “bubble,” largely shielded from a city prone to high rates of violence and poverty. We keep ourselves immersed in a regimented schedule of extracurriculars, schoolwork and social outings.

Most current Yalies, I suspect, have seen the video “That’s Why I Chose Yale,” which has garnered over 1.5 million views on YouTube. The video cap-

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tures Yale’s Disneyland ethos, with cheery students engaged in every activity imaginable. But is all this conviviality genuine?

As I’ve spent more and more time here, I’m inclined to say not entirely. Classmates and friends have confided to me that they sometimes feel isolated on campus, or that something specific has upset them. This is only natural: Disappointment is an inevitable part of life. What is more concerning is how many of these students are afraid to openly discuss their feelings on a campus where everyone seems to be in a perpetually good mood.

I have seen my fellow classmates attempt to downplay incidents of sexual assault, mental illness and racism as rare exceptions to what is generally an idyllic campus atmosphere.

This is more than unhealthy; it is dishonest, too. By sugarcoating and idealizing their

Clarifying alcohol myths As a student affairs fellow I work both on alcohol harms reduction and sexual misconduct prevention for Yale College, and have studied the robust body of research literature on alcohol, sexual assault and the relationship between the two. I appreciated the impulse behind the column “Men, don’t black out” (March 30) — we would all like to see fewer instances of sexual assault — but I write to respond to certain factual inaccuracies in the piece.

To start with, our prevention efforts do not rest on the presumption that we need to teach men not to rape women. This isn’t just a political or ethical stance, but one grounded in research on the dynamics of sexual assault. “The Myth of Miscommunication” workshop cited by the author shares these basic findings: We can all recognize signs of agreement and refusal, verbal or otherwise, even when we are intoxicated.

Acts of misconduct result not from confusion or ignorance, but from disregarding someone’s signals of ambivalence or refusal.

Second, while it’s true that alcohol is present in many situations in which campus sexual assaults occur, this doesn’t mean that there is a causal relationship between alcohol and sexual misconduct. Most campus sexual assaults happen within sexualized social contexts. Sexualized social contexts on college campuses tend to involve alcohol.

Correlation is not the same as causation.

Third, contrary to many cultural myths, alcohol does not “lower inhibitions to the point that [men] no longer care [that rape is bad].” Alcohol does not change who a person is, nor does it incite behaviors that do not already exist within an individual. In fact, research tells us that many perpetrators drink to excuse their sexually aggressive behavior. One 2009 study found that consuming alcohol increases acceptance of sexual aggression in men assessed for predispositions such as “need for sexual dominance,”

Yale experience, students lie to themselves and — more worryingly — to each other. Honesty is ultimately a collective action problem. No one wants to frown when everyone else in the room is smiling.

This brand of optimistic dishonesty also characterizes the relationship between students and faculty. Some professors have openly criticized rampant grade inflation, claiming that it harms Yale students in the long run. Yet the practice remains widespread. What if we went to a school where, once in a while, you received a C for a paper that wasn’t entirely up to par? It would certainly be devastating for some. But it would also serve as an opportunity for improvement. Yalies are not accustomed to failure — otherwise most of them wouldn’t have ended up here.

But failure is over-maligned and underappreciated. Some of the

“acceptance of interpersonal violence” and “alcohol expectation.” Put simply, those who are able to hide their aggression when sober are less able to do so when they drink.

Fourth, I’d like to address the criticism of the “Think About It” program. Some colleges do attempt to address sexual assault in prematriculation online courses, but Yale has chosen to reserve that complex topic for in-depth conversation after students arrive. And yes, we could warn students that alcohol is correlated with sexual assault — but the research on “alcohol expectancies” (people’s beliefs about the power of alcohol) tells us that warnings about risk often become self-fulfilling prophecies. The author suggests that “scaring some freshmen” is a reasonable price to pay for safety. That might be true if the equation worked — but there is a solid body of research linking fear to heightened risk.

Finally, I’d like to end on a more hopeful note. Our most recent data on blacking out suggests that Yale students have significantly reduced their blackout rates over the past few years. It may be the introduction of “Think About It,” the new training of freshman counselors and other campus leaders or some other cause. This is good in and of itself, and reminds us that campus culture can change for the better — that’s something we all need to work towards.

DAVID LINDSEY The author is a student affairs fellow and Old Campus fellow. He graduated from Yale College in 2012. Contact him at david.lindsey@yale.edu .

most successful people in history have failed spectacularly, and have used their failures to guide them to eventual success.

If faculty were truly honest with about their strengths and weaknesses, I do not believe it would harm the atmosphere of the college. Instead, it would make Yale a much healthier home.

It may be helpful at times to perpetuate a positive image of our campus and reassure ourselves that we are always thriving in this society of scholars and company of friends. But these reassurances should never come at the cost of being completely honest and genuine.

The truth can hurt, but being exposed to it over time makes us better students and better people. If anyone can handle the truth, it’s a Yalie.

FRANCO CHOMNALEZ is a junior in Pierson College. Contact him at francisco.chomnalez@yale.edu .

Pluralism lost In “Reggae artist combines Judaism, pop music” Ayla Besemer reported on Saturday evening’s concert by formerly Orthodox, Jewish reggae artist, Matisyahu. Given Matisyahu’s Orthodox Jewish backround, the concert is billed as “a way to showcase the diversity of the Jewish faith.” Although Matisyahu’s music may serve as Jewish inspiration for a large variety of people, it would be a mischaracterization to call the concert an exercise in pluralism.

If the event was intended to showcase the pluralism of Yale’s Jewish community, the venue choice was a strange one.

Although Jews of various stripes may entertain a multiplicity of views regarding entering nonJewish religious spaces, mainstream Orthodox Judaism forbids it in cases such as this. The fact that the concert took place in a church therefore eschewed the very pluralism that the article claims it promoted. A number of Orthodox and observant students refrained from attending the concert because of their discomfort with the venue. To emphasize Matisyahu’s (lapsed) Orthodoxy, and to focus on "bringing people together," is to ignore the marginalizing choice of venue and appropriation of Orthodox Judaism that the event symbolized for many students.

JOEY ADLER The author is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at joseph.adler@yale.edu .

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“The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.” MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN AMERICAN CHILDREN’S RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Dwight Hall expands advocacy efforts

BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER Dwight Hall has ramped up publicity this semester as part of its efforts to better connect Yale students to social justice events on campus.

Through its Call to Action initiative, Dwight Hall sends emails to its nearly 3,000-student panlist to advertise the specific advocacy efforts of its many member groups to promote participation in campus activism. While the system was established at the beginning of the semester, it has picked up steam this week as more member groups have reached out to Dwight Hall to publicize their events.

“We realized during all of the student activism occurring on campus last semester that although Dwight Hall student leaders always know about these advocacy efforts, there wasn’t an actual platform to advertise them and encourage further participation from larger audiences,” Dwight Hall Student Executive Committee co-coordinator Briana Burroughs ’17 said. “When I realized we could expand social justice’s reach by simply endorsing events through an official platform, the only option was to take action.”

Because Dwight Hall is student-run, the program was easy to implement, Burroughs said. To

kick-start the initiative, Dwight Hall created a “Call to Action” email template and reached out to member groups known for their advocacy efforts, she added.

Groups unaffiliated with Dwight Hall can be sponsored by member groups in order to have their events publicized, Social Justice Network Coordinator Noah Yaffe ’18 said. So far, three calls to action have been sent out for activism projects for Unite Against Sexual Assault Yale and the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project.

Member groups interested in sending out a Call to Action contact Yaffe, who works with the Dwight Hall board to publicize the event, Burroughs said. Call to Action emails include information about the “actionable item” and provide a description of the member group behind it, Yaffe said, adding that he hopes the Dwight Hall audience will become more familiar with the initiative’s name as more blasts are sent out.

“This program stems from the need to make it easier for students to get involved in these kinds of activities on campus,” Yaffe said. “Dwight Hall is a group that really tries to encourage students to become leaders in justice and community service efforts, so we think this is really in line with our mission as an organization.”

Call to Action aims not only

to empower students who may not be familiar with Dwight Hall to get involved in advocacy, but also to assist member groups by increasing turnout their events.

Unite Against Sexual Assault Yale has sent out two calls so far, one regarding its Monday town hall on campus sexual climate and one about its Chalk-In Against Rape Culture held on Cross Campus shortly before spring break.

Yaffe said while he does not know how many participants were drawn to the chalk-in specifically as a result of the Call to Action, the email likely contributed to the event’s high turnout “Forming coalitions and supporting other activist groups’ causes are both really important, so it’s great to have something that can connect different groups like the Call to Action does and facilitates allyship,” USAY co-director Helen Price ’18 said.

“We definitely saw that with the chalk-in.”

A call was also sent out Tuesday on behalf of YUPP, under which Yalies for Prison Divestment wrote and circulated an open letter to the University calling for divestment from private prisons.

The group hopes that the letter, which currently has roughly 300 signatures, will ultimately garner closer to 1,000 due to publicity from the email, YUPP cocoordinator Samantha Brown

Students call for Clinton support

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Dwight Hall organizations can advertise their events through the Call to Action initiative. ’17 said. The increase in signatures would enable the group to bring the issue to the Yale College Council and make a stronger case for divestment to the University administration, she added. The initiative works to publicize what Dwight Hall member groups are doing both in terms of concrete

Former Vermont Sen. Howard Dean joined Yale Students for Hillary members at the phone bank.

BY ANDREA OUYANG STAFF REPORTER On Wednesday evening in the Branford Mendell room, a dozen Yalies gathered around a table, their phones and laptops at the ready.

The students, all active members of Yale Students for Hillary, participated in a phone bank to call potential voters in New Haven and raise support for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 in Connecticut’s upcoming primary, which is scheduled to take place April 26. Yale Students for Hillary arranged the event in conjunction with Hillary for Connecticut, the state branch of the national Ready for Hillary campaign. The phone bank is one in a series of student pushes for voter engagement in the last few weeks leading up to the Democratic and Republican primaries.

“The Internet is not a substitute for getting people to vote,” said former Vermont Sen. Howard Dean, who was present at the phone bank.

“The 50-state strategy was designed to have places in every state, including places like Connecticut which reliably vote Democratic, to have a party where we can be strong and … to invest early in places and get people comfortable with the notion of being in favor of Democrats.”

Dean opened the event with remarks supporting Clinton and student action in politics, stressing the importance of personal contact with voters.

He cited Clinton’s bipartisan support for legislation and her understanding of foreign policy and national security. Dean said a major factor in his decision to endorse Clinton in Sep-

tember 2015 was her ability to “get something done,” a quality he said was lacking in her opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Following Dean’s remarks, the students began dialing. The calls, which lasted anywhere from several seconds to several minutes, aimed to convince residents to vote and volunteer for Clinton. A typical phone bank will result in several hundreds of calls per evening, Hillary for Connecticut press team member Jack Miller said.

“There are hundreds of thousands of people in the phone bank,” Miller said. “We work with our data team to make sure that these are the most effective [phone] numbers.”

According to Miller, effective numbers are those that belong to demonstrated primary voters.

Students at the phone bank said they were drawn to Clinton’s campaign by her experience and policy work.

“I think predominantly [Clinton] understands issues in a way that the other candidates, on both sides of the aisle, don’t,” said Haley Adams ’16, co-president and founder of Yale Students for Hillary, which she founded in 2013.

“She has really nuanced, indepth solutions to problems, and while it’s important to draw attention to issues, it’s more important to actually have a solution.”

While some students have thrown their support behind Clinton, other campus Democrats have instead backed Sanders by joining Yale Students for Bernie.

Yale Students for Bernie cofounder and co-chair Matthew Massie ’17 cited Sanders’

progressive policies and positions on issues such as financial accountability as reasons for his support of the senator’s campaign.

“The reason I see a lot of people voting for Bernie Sanders is that … the things that I hear Bernie Sanders discuss are things that shackle students to tremendous debt and a bad economy and that applies to the [students] here,” Massie said.

Yale student campaigns for both Clinton and Sanders have carried out similar tactics to attract voters for their candidates. Both groups have hosted phone banks and canvassed in New Hamphire and Massachusetts, Adams and Massie said.

Each organization has also collaborated with the Yale Democrats to increase voter registration and bring more Democrats to the polls, he added.

“What I think is great about the Yale’s campaign discourse is that it’s been pretty friendly; there’s not any animosity,” Adams said.

Volunteers for Ready for Hillary said although they saw strong support for Clinton on campus, campaign members for each candidate were friendly with each other.

Adams added that Yale Students for Bernie and Yale Students for Hillary have cohosted events, such as watch parties for Democratic debates.

Massie described the Yale Democratic campaigns as “nothing but kind and cordial.”

“We just happen to disagree on the presidential race,” Massie said.

Contact ANDREA OUYANG at andrea.ouyang@yale.edu .

changes to the program will depend on the needs and feedback of social justice groups.

Dwight Hall students contribute over 150,000 hours of direct service and advocacy each year.

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

School of Public Health receives grant

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events and relevant literature, Brown said.

“I believe that the initiative has been positive so far,” Burroughs said. “We [will] continue to make activists aware of this service in hopes that they will utilize it to their cause’s benefit.”

Burroughs added that any

A team of researchers at the Yale School of Public Health received a $3.9 million grant on Feb. 16 from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop intervention strategies for young gay and bisexual men struggling with mental health issues.

Previous research has identified that gay and bisexual men are about twice as likely as their heterosexual peers to experience mental health issues, including major depressive and anxiety disorders. Mental health issues also put this population at risk for HIV infection, substance abuse and other health-risk behaviors. According to researchers, the root of the problem is the exposure to stigma-related stress in the daily lives of gay and bisexual men. To combat these mental and sexual health challenges, SPH professor John Pachankis and his team are researching cognitive-behavioral intervention strategies to help young gay and bisexual men cope with stigma-related stress in their mental and sexual health treatments and promote healthy behavior within this population. The recent $3.9 million grant will help Pachankis’ team apply the intervention treatment they developed over the course of a pilot study to larger control groups in New York City and Miami. The ultimate goal, Pachankis said, is to develop an effective treatment plan.

“The treatment aims to target the underlying drivers of these co-occurring health problems, the root of [which] is the stigma-related stress that disproportionately affects gay and bisexual men,” Pachankis told the News. “This grant allows us to continue testing the treatment that we developed in the pilot study. Our hypothesis is that the treatment will improve gay and bisexual mental, sexual and behavioral health.”

Mental health problems do not exist in isolation for this population and are often related to HIV, substance abuse and other health challenges, Pachankis added. For example, gay and bisexual men who have internalized negative attitudes toward themselves may choose to avoid romantic relationships and experience difficulty expressing intimacy in healthy, self-affirmative ways. Others who have encountered frequent rejections or have felt socially isolated may try to escape their stress through alcohol or substance abuse.

An important question to understand, Pachankis said, is why gay and bisexual men are much more likely than heterosexual males to experience men-

tal and sexual health problems.

The most viable explanation, he said, is this population’s disproportionate exposure to stigmarelated stress, especially among young gay and bisexual men.

Max Goldberg ’17, a peer liaison for the Office of LGBTQ Resources, said many of the gay and bisexual men at Yale face issues shared by other gay and bisexual communities: communal marginalization, rejection at the hands of family and friends and difficulty finding people like them. Goldberg added that he has had many conversations with other gay and bisexual men at Yale, who report feeling “dizzying” levels of stress because of their identity. Gay and bisexual men make up around one-fifth of Yale’s male-identified population, Goldberg said.

“This stress … in turn leads to risky sexual behavior, substance abuse, chronic sleeplessness, anxiety, depression and so on,” Goldberg told the News.

“When you mix identity-related stress in with the normal vicissitudes of life and toss it all into the pressure cooker of an Ivy League university, it becomes obvious why so many gay and bisexual men at Yale seek out LGBTQ-oriented mental health services.”

Pachankis and his team are attempting to design population-specific mental health treatment in consultation with community mental health providers as well as at-risk gay and bisexual men. In a multiyear pilot study, the researchers developed a 10-session cognitive-behavioral intervention that helped these men recognize the origins of stigma-related stress, tolerate strong emotions and develop healthier sex and social lifestyles. The treatment has a strong focus on encouraging healthy forms of selfexpression and emotion regulation while reducing unhealthy avoidance patterns, he said.

Students and postdocs from Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS are among the researchers on Pachankis’ team, as the study targets mental health intervention strategies that can also reduce risks of HIV infection and other sexual health problems. Pachankis himself is affiliated with CIRA, New England’s only AIDS research center funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Gay and bisexual men are 40 times more likely to become infected with HIV than heterosexual men, according to Pachankis.

Adam Eldahan MPH ’14, a researcher at CIRA and the project coordinator for Pachankis’ study in New York City, said depression and anxiety can increase HIV risk behavior.

Combined with substance use, these factors can “further exac-

erbate” this population’s risk of HIV infection.

Executive Director of CIRA Elaine O’Keefe said one of the biggest public health challenges is the resurgence of HIV infections in young gay and bisexual men. O’Keefe said solving this difficult task has been a primary focus at CIRA for some time now, and she is “thrilled” that Pachankis’ application for the grant was successful. O’Keefe said it is clear that more needs to be done to combat issues of mental health, sexual health and stigma among gay and bisexual men. The risk of HIV infections is even higher for gay and bisexual men of color, she added.

CIRA’s Assistant Director of Community Research and Implementation Core Jim Pettinelli called Pachankis’ study “very timely, innovative and important.” “[Pachankis] is really using this grant to focus on cuttingedge issues and figure out the connection between mental health and sexual health,” Pettinelli said.

He added that since the younger population is being impacted significantly by HIV, it is important for researchers to seek the input of this constituency to develop new projects.

Pachankis emphasized that mental health clinicians and members of the gay and bisexual community have contributed to the treatment’s development.

Given the manual format of the intervention, Eldahan added, the treatment, if proven cost-effective, could be hopefully used in a variety of settings, including HIV and mental health clinics, private and public health clinics as well as on high school and college campuses across the country.

Eldahan said the most exciting part of the study is that it will give clinicians an effective, evidence-based tool that targets the adverse psychological effects of homophobia as a means of improving mental and sexual health among minorities.

Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Director of the Office of Gender & Campus Culture Melanie Boyd, who called Pachankis’ study “truly exciting research,” also highlighted the benefits of a positive intervention that will help empower the gay and bisexual community.

“Not only does it focus on the needs of a community at disproportionate risk, the intervention works by actively building empowerment,” Boyd said.

“These kinds of positive strategies are especially powerful, reducing harms while also strengthening marginalized communities.”

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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“The intense campaigns against ... sexual harassment and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.” KATHERINE DUNN AMERICAN NOVELIST

Grad, prof. school deans decline to release individual AAU results AAU RESULTS FROM PAGE 1 want to see [the school-specific numbers].”

But University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler told the News that the aggregate data is “representative of each school’s challenge and more than sufficiently compelling to spur all of us to further action.”

She added that the figures given to the deans of each school represent only a limited sample of the questions on the survey, due to technical constraints linked to the relative sizes of the different schools.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Lynn Cooley, School of Drama Dean James Bundy and School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern echoed Spangler’s argument that school-specific data is not necessary to convey the scope of the problem. The remaining deans either did not respond to requests for comment or did not address questions about the decision not to release school-specific figures.

“The University-wide data published online is sufficient to illustrate the gravity of the situation,” Bundy said. “Our energy is best spent on making changes on the ground that help faculty, staff and students do this work.”

Additionally, Cooley said, publicly releasing the data would encourage unhealthy comparison among the schools rather than promote solutions to campus sexual assault and harassment.

But she added in a follow-up interview that she would consider releasing sections of the GSAS-specific data after each department meets with students to discuss the newly available numbers — a process that will take the rest of the semester. The numbers for the GSAS, which were displayed at a meeting last week, showed that the school’s data was nearly identical to Yale’s aggregate graduate and professional school numbers.

None of the professional school deans interviewed expressed a similar willingness to release the school-specific data in the future.

Meanwhile, student senators in the GPSS are continuing to

call for the public release of each school’s disaggregated data.

“It comes down to the dean of which school’s decision to release the data,” Mo said. “It’s important to have an idea of not only what are the experiences of each of the students at the individual schools, but how those different experiences will require different solutions.”

In response to questions from the News, SAFER, a national organization dedicated to preventing sexual assault and harassment on campus, also called on Yale to publicly release the school-specific figures.

Hayden Golden, a communications official for SAFER, said the data should be released so that community members can compare how various prevention strategies have fared across the different schools.

“The most informed policies and programming to combat sexual and gender violence at Yale will come from transparency, and that means allowing the community to see the AAU Campus Climate Survey results in their entirety,” Golden said.

“A variety of cultural factors are in play within different departments and schools, and they need to be identified and addressed.”

Still, the GPSS’s push to secure the release of the school-specific numbers has not attracted universal support from graduate and professional students on campus.

Graduate Student Assembly Chair Elizabeth Salm GRD ’18 said she does not think releasing the GSAS-specific data would yield any actionable information, because the scale of the problem varies from department to department and the schoolspecific data does not divide the responses by discipline.

“The data is the whole grad school, so it won’t necessarily reveal problem areas,” Salm said.

“I’m not sure it would be necessarily as useful.”

GSA member Chris Geissler GRD ’20 said the AAU survey was not designed to provide conclusive information about the relatively small student communities in professional schools like the School of Art and the School of Music.

He added that University offi-

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Caption caption caption caption caption caption caption caption caption caption caption caption caption. cials should consider designing different surveys tailored to the specific cultures of each of the graduate and professional schools in order to get a better sense of how sexual assault and harassment play out across campus.

“It would definitely be valuable to see how each school is doing with regards to these issues, but it may make more sense to release more targeted surveys that address the needs and concerns of different kinds of programs,” Geissler said.

“Although major themes, such as the power dynamics of men-

torship, are present all across the University, there will be differences between the experience of students.”

School of Management Dean Edward Snyder told the News he plans to administer a more targeted survey to business students in the spring of next year.

Nine of 10 other graduate and professional school students interviewed said school-specific data should be made publicly available, although some expressed concerns about jeopardizing the confidentiality of respondents.

“The lack of solid statis-

CS dept. submits hires for approval HIRING FROM PAGE 1 year.

As the Computer Science Department continues to hold discussions about climate and inclusivity for female and minority students, diversity has become an increasingly important factor in the department’s faculty hiring priorities and strategies, according to students and professors present at Tuesday’s town hall on the topic.

“Hiring is underway, we made decisions today for [the list of potential offers] but we don’t know who will accept,” Feigenbaum said Tuesday. “There is a female candidate to whom we will make an offer. We deserve some credit for hiring women.”

That announcement was greeted with applause from an audience of computer science majors and professors, who have pushed for a more diverse department. There are currently six women out of 20 ladder faculty members in the department.

Still, the department had “not been very successful” in finding racially diverse candidates during the search process, computer science professor Holly Rushmeier said at the town hall meeting.

Because candidates are not identified by their race in the hiring databases used by the department, it can be difficult to identify top minority candidates and beat the “intense competition” from other schools and companies looking to hire the same candidates, Rushmeier said.

“We know we are not doing well in this, and we know we need to do better,” Rushmeier said.

“We are not happy with it. We have got to work harder.”

But the underlying issue, Feigenbaum said, was that there were not many minority applicants.

Saran Morgan ’18, events chair for Float, a student organization that supports women in computer science on campus, said some of

tics from Yale is a huge problem,” Debayan Gupta GRD ’17 said, adding that the aggregate data does not offer “meaningful” numbers. “Not releasing the school-specific data allows individual schools to absolve their responsibility.”

The aggregate numbers, Gupta said, do not reflect which specific schools have fallen especially short in their efforts to combat sexual misconduct. He added that a breakdown of the statistics would make it easier to identify the sources of problems and develop suitable intervention strategies.

It remains unclear whether the other Ivy League schools that participated in the survey plan to release school-specific figures. Title IX officers at Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania all did not respond to numerous emails and phone calls requesting comment. Princeton was the only Ivy League school that did not participate in the survey.

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The CS department received $20 million in anonymous donations in March 2015. the potential candidates had been interviewed and had given talks in the department, which students were invited to attend.

Rushmeier also hinted at the town hall Tuesday that the department might hire a computer scientist who had given a talk at Yale in recent months.

In the month of March, four

individuals gave talks in the department — assistant computer science professor at USC Minlan Yu, visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon Michael Nebeling, Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University Ji-Yong Shin and computer science professor at Georgia Tech Magnus Egerstedt.

Yu and Nebeling declined to

comment for this article. Shin and Egerstedt did not respond to requests for comment.

Computer science is now the sixth-largest major at Yale.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

state’s most recent budget revision came at the end of March, when cuts of $220 million to the FY16 budget passed the General Assembly.

Belying Bye’s comments on bipartisanship, the budget only passed the committee by a 33–24 vote, with Republican leaders in Hartford highly critical of the committee’s budget. They said the committee’s failure to fill the entire gap constituted a neglect of duty.

“They failed to do their job,” state Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano ’81, R-North Haven, said. “Just simply failed to do their job.

There’s a $900 million deficit, probably $930 to $940, and they didn’t do their job.

They only solved $569 million of the $940 million deficit. And that to me is failure on their part.”

State House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, criticized the budget for not addressing the deficit that she said had been agreed upon by Gov. Dannel Malloy, both legislative caucuses and the Office of Policy and Management. Bye and Walker said they have addressed the $570 million gap that Malloy’s February budget closed — despite the dramatic increase in the estimated size of the deficit over the last two months.

Though the current budget deficit results from drastically decreased tax revenues, Bye expressed optimism that revenue projections after the April 18 tax deadline would be up from last year, enough to fill the

$300 million gap the committee’s budget left unaddressed.

Republicans criticized that idea with particular scorn. They said tax revenues are going down and any notion otherwise is woefully misguided.

“They talk about this ‘new reality,’ and this budget completely ignores that new reality,” Fasano said, referring to Malloy’s February statements defending cuts.

“I don’t know what world they’re in. They must be in a time zone or a warp place.

Connecticut revenues are not going up.”

In his February budget, Malloy proposed harsh cuts, justifying them with calls for a “new economic reality.”

In a previous interview with the News, Fasano emphasized the state’s dire tax revenue situation. Gross taxable wages, he said, have declined continuously since 1982 and average pre-tax income is at its lowest point in 30 years.

Fasano is not the only figure to raise concerns about lower revenue projections still to come this year. Comptroller Kevin Lembo wrote in an April 1 letter to Malloy that “further erosion in general fund revenue through the final months of fiscal year 2016” is his greatest concern.

The budget passed the committee by a nine-vote margin, setting up a showdown between Malloy and the General Assembly as he strives to pass his proposals.

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

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“In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything’s real.”

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Polls open for student BOE election

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER Polls open Thursday for the second student election for Board of Education membership in New Haven Public Schools history.

A 2013 referendum and revision of the New Haven City Charter stipulated that one junior and one senior sit on the BOE each year as nonvoting members. In last year’s inaugural election, Kimberly Sullivan, then a junior at Sound School, and Coral Ortiz, who was a sophomore at Hillhouse High School at the time, won BOE membership. This year, one NHPS sophomore will be elected to fill Sullivan’s seat when she graduates at the end of the school year.

Suzanne Lyons, the interim chair of the aldermanic Committee on Student Elections and a member of the BOE College and Career Pathways Department, oversaw this year’s election process.

“It’s our second year, and I’m excited to see if and how the awareness levels have changed and to see the excitement levels of students coming out tomorrow,” Lyons said.

Seven candidates — Jacob Spell and Dwayne Carson of the Hyde Leadership School; Alondra Martinez-Lopez, Melady Morocho and Tyron Houston of High School in the Community; Joseph Lampo of Wilbur Cross; and Yeimy Morales of Hill Regional Career High School — are vying for the coveted twoyear membership on the BOE. Polls open as early as 7:45 a.m. in some schools, and all ballots must be collected by 3 p.m. on Friday, Lyons said. All NHPS high school students across the district are eligible to vote.

The candidates began their campaign for support from roughly 5,700 NHPS high school students in March. Lyons said she would still like levels of awareness among students to increase going forward.

Six of the seven candidates presented their campaign statements before a crowd of 60 at a Tuesday Election Spotlight, a public informational event held during the Citywide High School Stu-

dent Cabinet meeting at High School in the Community. The student cabinet, which engages with NHPS students to learn about and resolve issues across the district, consists of four to six student representatives from each NHPS high school and the two seated BOE members, Sullivan and Ortiz. In an effort to increase student engagement, the meeting featured a video highlighting the importance of student voices on the BOE. “It’s important that students that actually attend our schools give input on how our schools are doing,” Mayor Toni Harp, current BOE president, said in the video. “A lot of times they are actually the neutral voice on the Board of Education, and we absolutely need that.”

The election is intended to mirror a real municipal election, said Wooster Square Alder Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18, a member of the student elections committee. In order to qualify for candidacy, each of the seven high school sophomores had to collect 100 signatures: 50 from students at their own schools and 50 from students across the district.

Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate, another committee member, said he thinks the student BOE election process creates leaders. He added that he hopes the student elections will become “second nature” to residents of the Elm City.

Committee community representative Rachel Heerema emphasized the necessity of student input for the BOE, adding that the election process is “empowering” for all NHPS students.

“My dream is that students who run and students who vote and students who campaign for somebody all get more and more involved going forward in what’s happening in New Haven, and that they raise their voice and they are leaders and voters and they are educated about their rights and the opportunities that are available to them,” Heerema said.

The elected student BOE member will be representing the approximately 22,000 students enrolled in NHPS. Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

Alders hold annual talent show fundraiser

BY ANDREW RUYS DE PEREZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER What began as a fundraiser to promote art education in the city turned into an impromptu dance party Wednesday night, with high school cheerleaders, city aldermen and elderly couples shimmying together at Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School — just two blocks from Old Campus.

The arts magnet school hosted the New Haven Board of Alders’ fourth annual Talent Haven Show, a benefit concert whose proceeds support youth arts programs around the city.

Performances by Co-op High School students, Alliance Children’s Theatre, the Wilbur Cross High School Drama Club, the James Hillhouse High School Marching Band and many more New Haven-based arts organizations kept the audience entertained all evening.

West River Alder and Board President Tyisha Walker participated with fellow “Dance Moms” — a team of two alders and three mothers — in a performance of “Soul Sisters of the Past,” a mash-up of scores from “I’m Coming Out” by Diana Ross to “Lady Marmalade,” the collaborative hit by Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya and P!nk.

“It is important to show our youth that we are committed to helping them succeed,” Walker told the News a day before she lit up the audience of around 100.

Walker and fellow Dance Mom and Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison were not the only city officials present at the event. Morris Cove Alder Salvatore DeCola organized the entire night.

DeCola explained that the night usually raises between $500 and $800 for each of the art organizations it sponsors. Last year, Talent Haven supported three groups: the Neighborhood Music School, Music Haven and students at Co-op High School planning to pursue the arts in college.

“We give these organizations money so they do not have to charge the people who can’t afford it,” DeCola said. He highlighted how important events like Talent Haven are,

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Two alders and three mothers sang show tunes under the stage name “Dance Moms.” especially in light of the growing state and federal government cuts to funding for the arts.

The night opened with a speech from Superintendent of New Haven Public Schools Garth Harries, as well as remarks from an aide to Sen. Chris Murphy. Both spoke on the importance of celebrating art and supporting educational programs while remembering test scores are not the topic to focus on when discussing education.

Mandi Johnson, executive director of Music Haven, also commented on the wide-ranging availability of arts education in the city, highlighting the opportunities there are for lowincome students in New Haven to learn music with conservatory musicians.

“We provide 100 percent tuitionfree music programming and free instruments to kids from low-income New Haven neighborhoods,” she said.

Neighborhood Music School, a beneficiary of the 2015 Talent Haven Show, is also one of the 10 largest community arts schools in the nation.

More than 2,500 students receive instruction in 30 instruments and seven genres of dance. The program’s core belief is in the power of the arts to transform lives and strengthen com-

munities, a power that was on clear display Wednesday evening.

Audience members of all ages, from senior citizens to toddlers — eager to sprint onto the stage — cheered enthusiastically for each and every performer. Highlights of the night included the elegant dances of BalletHaven, an interschool dance group that followed the choreography of eighth grader Yasmin Rivera; the Wilbur Cross Drama Club, which smoothly sang and danced through the entire score of “Hairspray”; and the high-powered drumline of Hillhouse High School’s marching band.

After the final speeches, the performers from all the groups took to the stage and the aisles once more for an encore, transforming the room into a dance party fueled by the beat of the drumline.

The Talent Haven performers had skill, fun and passion, Walker said, adding that the event demonstrates how the Board has made youth a priority in its legislative agenda.

Walker’s message rang clear Wednesday night, much like the audience’s insistence that “Broadway has nothing on New Haven.”

Contact ANDREW RUYS DE PEREZ at andrew.ruysdeperez@yale.edu .

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“When you’re a corporation, you’re going to stick with what works. That’s why every McDonald’s is the same.” WILL.I.AM AMERICAN SINGER

Power shifts to Yale Corporation, slowing decisions YALE PRESIDENTS PAST AND PRESENT 1951–1963

ALFRED WHITNEY GRISWOLD

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CORPORATION FROM PAGE 1 in 2013, Corporation members expressed a desire to become more involved in difficult decisions — a request he says fits his “collaborative leadership style.” As the Corporation prepares to meet this weekend, he said it is impossible to tell exactly when these three issues will be settled, but that the aim is for them to be resolved by the end of the academic year. When making certain far-reaching decisions, he said he sees himself as just another member of the Corporation and would like the body to reach a consensus at its own pace.

“For nonroutine decisions that have broad and long-term implications, I think consensus, if it can be reached, is a better approach than simply asking for a vote on the president’s recommendation,” Salovey said. “So rather than the usual process of coming with a specific recommendation and asking the Corporation to endorse it, in the case of the naming of the new colleges, Calhoun College and the title of master, we’ll instead lay out options for them to consider.”

In the months that the Yale community has waited for these issues to be resolved, both Harvard and Princeton have decided to eliminate the title of master and settled their own naming debates relatively quickly.

And in these months, the implications of Salovey’s consensusbased approach have become clearer: Some praise it for encouraging thoughtfulness and fostering prudence early in his tenure; others lament that the model has prolonged the decision-making process, distributed accountability across the Corporation and inhibited student access to those with power.

POWER WITHOUT PRECEDENT

In justifying the Corporation’s control over the three naming issues, Woodbridge Hall administrators often point out that the Corporation named the first residential colleges in the 1930s and that the title of master is included in the University’s bylaws, which can only be altered by the Corporation. To Salovey, the long-term implications of these decisions necessitate extended conversations within the Corporation without the guidance, or restriction, of an overriding administrative recommendation. His aim is for a consensus to emerge.

But former University lead-

ers paint a picture of a historically different type of decision-making process for nonroutine issues — one in which Corporation members served as advisers and always followed the recommendations of the president.

“It was not about consensus,” Levin said of his relationship with the Corporation. “While there is a healthy relationship between the president and the Corporation, the body is a sounding board for the ideas of the president, dean and officers. They give feedback, but they rarely actually decide the issue.”

Levin added that after consulting with individual Corporation members, he would submit recommendations that were virtually never rebuked.

Wilkinson and Sam Chauncey ‘57 — who served as special assistant to former University President Kingman Brewster between 1963 and 1972 and secretary of the Corporation from 1973 to 1982 — went one step further. According to them, the University presidents under whom they served would have actively controlled the three issues the Corporation is currently deliberating.

“Consensus was absolutely never the way it worked,” Chauncey said. “It isn’t like Brewster or Levin or Schmidt or Giamatti would walk in with some background research and say, ‘We have this problem — I don’t know what the hell to do about it so let’s figure it out …’ Trustees are there to receive a recommendation, to talk about it, to make honest criticism and to have a vote.”

Granted, the nature of the presidency has evolved over the past few decades. As demonstrated by campus controversies in November, the University sits on a national stage, within which the president can face pressures from both within and without. Still, Salovey said if he were to attend Corporation meetings without recommendations, he would come prepared with broader options for consideration.

Chauncey and Wilkinson said the various presidents under whom they served would have made recommendations on Calhoun, master and the residential colleges to which the Corporation would have undoubtedly adhered.

“I never saw a recommendation turned down,” Wilkinson said.

Chauncey explained that when Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges were named in the early 1960s,

then-University President Alfred Whitney Griswold submitted these two names to the Corporation, which readily approved both. On the contrary, Salovey said in February that he submitted roughly two dozen name possibilities for the new colleges to the Corporation for discussion.

William Nordhaus ’63 GRD ’73, an economics professor who served as provost from 1986 to 1988 and a vice president from 1991 to 1992, said that during the time he had access to Corporation meetings as a high-ranking officer, presidential recommendations almost always guided the body. In his experience, the president is the chief executive officer of the University and controls major decisions, while the role of the Corporation is to dissect those decisions before approving them.

However, this historically unilateral presidential approach prompted disbelief and opposition from current Woodbridge Hall administrators and Corporation members, many of whom said such a model would undermine the Corporation’s role in University governance.

Chauncey said that even though the title of master is in the University’s bylaws, Brewster would have publicly announced whether he wanted the title altered and the Corporation would have fallen in line at its next meeting.

But Corporation Fellow Charles Goodyear IV ’80, who has served with both Levin and Salovey, argued that the Corporation “owns these [three] decisions.”

“That is not the way governance works,” he said. “If the president said we’re naming a college after Adolf Hitler before we met, would the Corporation say he’s a strong president so we agree with him? Absolutely not … The people of the Corporation historically are not shrinking violets, and if they are the ones who had accountability for the decisions, they will own it … We aren’t going to be patsies … I wouldn’t want to be a part of that board.”

Still, Wilkinson said during his time, the value of the Corporation stemmed not from its decisionmaking power, but from its ability and responsibility to ask the president probing questions about his recommendations.

Yet this former model of dominant presidential recommendations guiding the University seems to have faded, at least for these three decisions.

“It depends on the issue, and [Salovey] is great at this: He loves to listen, and he does that extremely well. If there is a strong view from Corporation members, it is unlikely that [Salovey] is going to stand up and say ‘I am going to do something completely different,’” Goodyear told the News in October.

SALOVEY’S MODEL

Under Salovey, the Corporation has gained a degree of influence through its increased involvement in nonroutine decisions and the pace at which they are made.

Salovey said while he is sensitive to members of the Yale community who would like matters to be settled more quickly, the reverberations of these decisions will be felt for generations and necessitate patience.

“In my opinion, a weighty matter before the Corporation is not best decided by simply putting it up to a vote and seeing if there is a majority — I think it’s best decided when there has been a full and thorough vetting of that issue where everyone has been heard, and then, a consensus emerges,” Salovey said.

Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews and Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Joan O’Neill said rather than submit official recommendations on these three issues, Woodbridge Hall is looking to frame the Corporation’s conversations as it works toward a consensus. They explained that Woodbridge Hall administrators are providing the Corporation with background information on the three issues, drawing from listening sessions and surveys presented to the Yale community.

Seeking to contextualize this shift in the decision-making process, Salovey said that, for routine issues, Corporation decisions are still directed by recommendations from him and other University administrators and that the Corporation’s jurisdiction over the naming of the two new residential colleges was decided under Levin. In explanation, Levin said he did not attempt to determine the names before retiring and

that Corporation members are the stewards of the long-term health of Yale, thereby justifying their involvement.

Corporation members — who technically are not authorized to speak publicly on Corporation matters — agreed that Salovey has emphasized collaboration.

“Salovey is, I don’t want to say a consensus builder because that suggests a kind of softness — not at all — but he really wants an opportunity for people to weigh in,” Senior Fellow of the Corporation Margaret Marshall LAW ’75 said.

Salovey, Woodbridge Hall administrators and Corporation members all said it is important to remember that Levin was president for two decades while Salovey is less than three years into the role, which perhaps explains his more inclusive approach.

Donna Dubinsky ’77 — who has served on the Corporation since 2006 — said Salovey is more focused on hearing the perspective of the Corporation than Levin was.

By the end of his tenure, Goodyear said Levin grew “very confident” and was deeply familiar with the perspectives of various Corporation members.

A source who attends all Corporation meetings said by the end of his tenure, Levin became complacent and less focused on obtaining broad alignment. Several individuals interviewed went so far as to say Levin grew “dictatorial” in his approach to the Corporation and faculty-related issues, raising the possibility that Salovey’s style is being judged in a relative, not absolute, context.

For now, Goodyear said Salovey appears more focused on collaboration, which may be due in part to his academic background.

“He is a consensus guy; he is a psychologist; and he is very adept at [emotional intelligence]. That’s his style, but maybe 20 years from now he’ll come in and say ‘This is what we’re doing,’” Goodyear said.

“But I do think [Salovey] is much more likely to canvass the Corporation.”

Indeed, Wilkinson said Salovey’s expertise suggests that the Corporation has not seized power from him or that he lacks the courage to make decisions.

Rather, it suggests that Salovey is sharing influence willingly, Wilkinson said.

Dubinsky said Salovey approaches the Corporation with the mind of a psychologist, while Levin did so through the lens of an economist, enabling Levin to identify tradeoffs and constraints and guide the University through particularly difficult periods. She added that Salovey’s collaborative style fits Yale’s current needs and that the University is fortunate to have “the right guy at the right time.”

In choosing a president to replace Levin, the Corporation chose Salovey, a world-renowned psychologist who had previously

served as provost and dean of Yale College.

Goodyear, who led the presidential search, said a desire to move away from the characteristics of the Levin era did not factor into the selection process.

Yet Salovey said upon his ascension to the presidency, Corporation members expressed a desire to become more involved in addressing complex issues from the start.

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“Both through a combination of my style and the desire of Corporation members when I interviewed each of them … we are willing to have a more freewheeling discussion in the Corporation room on important issues that might not involve their reacting to specific recommendations,” Salovey said.

As chair of Corporation meetings, Salovey said he has and will continue to express his opinions on current naming issues. And interviews with Corporation members suggest his opinions do carry significant weight because he is the president of the University. But there is an important distinction between Salovey sharing his point of view with the Corporation and submitting a recommendation for the body to ultimately abide by. And even Salovey emphasized that, for unusual matters, while he is not afraid of making recommendations, it is not his prerogative to dictate what the body decides or to formulate a timeline for the Corporation’s decision-making.

“As president of the University, I can organize the discussion; I can provide materials in advance; I can express an opinion,” Salovey said.

“But I think it would be a mistake to push for answers before the group is ready.”

MORE TIME, LESS ACCOUNTABILITY

This year has been the first real test of Salovey’s leadership style. The naming of the two new residential colleges, the potential renaming of Calhoun and the potential elimination of the title of master are arguably the most farreaching and complex decisions Salovey has faced since assuming the presidency.

“I have been on the Corporation for 10 years, and very few things we have grappled with have been at this level,” Dubinsky said.

The Corporation’s increased influence over these major decisions has had sizable consequences. It is unclear to the Yale community who is to be held accountable on these issues, several former administrators and

students said. Meanwhile, as the Corporation’s official agenda has grown in scope, the frequency with which the body meets has not increased — inevitably slowing decision-making.

Goodyear, Chauncey and Wilkinson all said Salovey’s approach has both stalled the process and made it more unpredictable. Even Salovey agreed.

“There is no doubt that striving toward a consensus takes more time than simply putting matters up to a vote,” Salovey said.

“I’ve been wrong more often than right when I’ve hazarded a guess about when issues will be decided.

It is very difficult to predict when [these] issues are going to be decided by them.”

Thirty-eight of 40 students surveyed said the University should be moving more quickly to resolve these three issues.

“It’s time to put these things to rest,” Jacob Bennett ’16 said.

Salovey said that he agrees the naming debates have received much attention — both inside and outside the Corporation — and that the time has come, or will come soon, to “move on.”

Unlike ongoing efforts to choose the names and masters of the two new residential colleges, Wilkinson pointed out that Stiles and Morse had both matters settled years before they opened through the influence of administrative recommendations. He also lamented that under Salovey, individuals who are physically detached from campus increasingly control major University decisions.

“The consensus model is not going to work very well when you’re talking about a multibillion-dollar Corporation,” Wilkinson said. “Corporations like this need a firm hand and firm leadership. What worries me is that Corporation members, no matter how good they are, are only guests of the University.”

In addition, the Corporation only has a small amount of time to discuss naming issues at each meeting. Each board meeting spans just three days, and the body’s confidential agenda includes many items outside of naming issues and the title of master.

With the Corporation focusing on these three decisions across several meetings, Nordhaus expressed concern from the outside that the body may be neglecting its more traditional responsibilities.

“Someone told me they’re not looking at investments because they’re spending all their time on the new colleges,” Nordhaus said.

“I worry about that. Someone told me they’re spending time looking at different schools’ actions, and I worry about that. But I don’t see the agenda.”

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subject said University employees expected decisions to be made more efficiently under Salovey because he rose to prominence within Yale, and thus understands the inner workings of the University. Instead, the administrator said, decision-making has slowed not only for these three issues, but also in areas like capital campaign planning and the development of broader University strategy.

Chauncey said Salovey’s model of consensus management risks robbing Yale of a true leader by distributing accountability throughout the Corporation, adding that other presidents would not have allowed such an increase in the body’s influence.

“Every other president would have resigned by now,” Chancey said. “But if a president doesn’t want to make a mistake, the trustees will keep filling the vacuum … It is my belief that an institution like Yale can only progress if there is someone who is willing to take the responsibility of leadership by making recommendations, including those that might run the risk of getting him or her fired.”

Salovey said that while he is willing to risk making errors, Corporation members have made their desire to be involved “quite clear.”

Indeed, Goodyear said once these three issues are settled, he expects them to be presented to the Yale community as Corporation decisions instead of presidential decisions. That is not the case for typical issues, he said, which represent the vast majority of decisions and are “owned” by the president and his administration.

Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith said examples of issues guided by administrative recommendations include the construction of new buildings, increases in the Yale College term bill, the hiring of an officer and the naming of a professor to an endowed chair.

It is, of course, too early to say that decisions made by consensus will be more or less effective than those produced by administrative recommendations, as these three issues are the first to truly test Salovey’s approach. While student memory largely extends only to Salovey’s inauguration, University faculty and administrators are still assessing his style in comparison to past presidents.

Wilkinson said one benefit of Salovey’s model is that full discussion and deliberation will prevent “knee-jerk reactions.” He cited the actions of Harvard and Princeton concerning the title of master.

Dean of the School of Management Edward Snyder noted that while the recommendationbased approach of previous presidents is commonly accepted in research on boards of governance, a more involved, consensus-based approach is as well.

Stephen Schwarzman ’69 — the chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group who donated $150 million to the University in May — said in his experiences with boards of governance, recommendationbased and consensus-based models each have merit.

“In my experience, both can work,” Schwarzman said.

PEERS MOVE FASTER

By relying on consensus for nonroutine decisions, Salovey has ensured that Yale will not move as quickly, or impulsively, as Harvard and Princeton. Both universities decided to eliminate the title of master in the fall as college campuses across the nation were enveloped by conversations about racism and discrimination, and, in the past few weeks, each has addressed a naming issue of its own: Princeton will not rename buildings honoring former president Woodrow Wilson, and Harvard will change its law school seal, which featured the crest of an 18th-century slaveholding family.

In comparison, Yale lags behind.

Unlike Yale, Harvard and Princeton formed special committees that recommended how to settle their respective naming issues.

Similar to the approach of former Yale presidents, the Harvard Corporation and Princeton’s Board of Trustees readily approved those recommendations rather than formulate their own. Able to meet more frequently, these committees made decisions relatively quickly.

At Princeton, the 40-person board of trustees was responsible for determining whether to rename buildings honoring Wilson because of his racist legacy.

Instead of the entire board settling the issue, however, a trustee committee of 10 put together a formal recommendation.

Princeton’s Assistant Vice Pres-

ident for Communications Daniel Day said forming a special committee enabled Princeton to reach a decision faster. The committee had nine meetings between early December 2015 and late March before submitting its recommendation to the entire board, he said.

In that same period, the Yale Corporation has met twice.

Harvard also adopted a specialized approach. Rather than ask its Corporation to decide whether to alter the law school seal, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow charged a committee of faculty, students and an alumnus with doing so in late November. On March 4, the committee recommended to the Harvard Corporation that the symbol be eliminated.

The body accepted the recommendation just 10 days later, resolving the issue in under four months.

“The Corporation agrees with your judgment and the recommendation of the committee that the Law School should have the opportunity to retire its existing shield and propose a new one,” wrote Faust and Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow William F. Lee in a March 14 letter to Minow.

Liana Henderson-Semel, a Harvard freshman, said she appreciates the speed with which Harvard responded to concerns about the law school seal and title of master. A recommendations-based approach seems more effective than one based on consensus, she said, because issues this sensitive should be resolved quickly.

Kyle McFadden, a Harvard sophomore, said allowing select members within the Harvard community to formulate recommendations that are ultimately carried out ensures that the direction of the university is determined by those in tune with campus climate.

“If the Harvard Corporation were asked to decide these issues independently, I believe a violation of Harvard’s spirit of community would occur,” McFadden said.

Though Harvard and Princeton have moved at a faster pace than Yale, it seems that their presidents — both of whom publicly endorsed the committees’ recommendations — were less involved in decision-making than Salovey has been on Yale’s three issues.

“The president had no role in the Wilson decision,” Day said.

“He was involved in deciding to accept the recommendation, but he was not a formal member of the committee. He wasn’t appointed.

The board appointed 10 members, and he was not one chosen.”

But Woodbridge Hall administrators insist that the pace at which Harvard and Princeton have moved should not, and will not, impact Yale’s decision-making timeline.

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Salovey said while forming subcommittees can be an effective approach, especially in terms of speed, Yale remains committed to a different course.

“Yale has to be Yale and needs to make its decisions in a way that is consistent with our culture,” Salovey said. “I am completely admiring the efficiency with which Princeton and Harvard made their decisions and announcements.

But I think we are just on a different path at Yale, with a larger set of interrelated issues arousing stronger feelings.”

Thirty-four of 40 students surveyed said the University should learn from Harvard and Princeton’s approach to addressing naming issues. But roughly half of those surveyed, such as Sithara Rasheed GRD ’16, emphasized that Yale could absorb the best practices of its peers while crafting an approach of its own.

“We don’t have to behave exactly as they did, but the administration should be engaging with our peers on how to address these issues and learning from them,” Rasheed said.

Snyder said the contrast in progress between Yale and its peers has highlighted a potential downside of Salovey’s more col-

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laborative approach.

“The cost, of course, is a sense of difficulty in reaching a decision, and that cost side is underscored in people’s minds when they see other institutions moving more quickly — at some point you do need decisions,” Snyder said.

A BROADER APPROACH

Salovey’s view of the Corporation may be part of a broader approach to the presidency. He said his professional background undoubtedly influences his leadership style.

“My work as a practicing psychologist certainly allows me to be comfortable with processes that involve a lot of listening with the dynamics of a group, with trying to lead a group toward a consensus,” Salovey said.

In 2013, he established a University-wide cabinet to solicit feedback from vice presidents and professional school deans, demonstrating a penchant for increased collaboration early on.

While discussing the role of the cabinet in response to campus unrest in November, Dean of the School of Health Paul Cleary emphasized that Salovey is highly committed to conversation and inclusion.

A previous investigation by the News found that the cabinet, originally meant to bring University leaders together, was largely

excluded from the development of “Toward a Better Yale” initiatives last semester. Under pressure from the Yale community and the national media, Salovey responded to student concerns in just under two weeks.

Perhaps willing to take a more independent approach when under extreme pressure, Salovey’s actions in November suggest he prefers, but does not exclusively require, widespread collaboration.

One of the initiatives established in November involved listening sessions between two Corporation members, including Marshall, and the Yale community to discuss naming issues. On the surface, their establishment made sense: the Corporation controls these issues, and listening sessions fit a larger theme of collaboration. Salovey said there was no hidden message behind the sessions. Rather, he wanted to expand the numbers of University governors who heard directly from the Yale community.

But one problem with these sessions, Wilkinson said, is that they effectively undermined Salovey’s authority. Giamatti would have never proposed such an initiative and would have actively opposed it, he added. “[Giamatti] would have insisted the senior fellow [who hosted the session] resign,” Wilkinson said.

Chauncey explained that past

presidents encouraged trustees to dine with students and hear their points of view face to face. But Corporation members never represented the administration publicly in a policy-making role, he said Had the senior fellow hosted a conversation about naming issues in the law school auditorium under Brewster, Chauncey said the president would have quit immediately.

“The idea that a trustee was going out with the purpose of bringing back a recommendation would have been unacceptable,” he said. “There were times where trustees would do something like that on their own, and Brewster would say, ‘It’s either you or me.’

Griswold would have done the same thing; Giamatti would have done the same thing; I would have thought Levin was even tougher.”

Indeed, these sessions shed light on one potential issue resulting from consensus management: Students no longer have one clear leader to turn to or hold accountable.

Noticing the influence Corporation members held over these three decisions, activists told the News last semester that they wanted to speak to those with real power. “[Salovey] understands he has a responsibility to fix things and is on our side, but the problem is he doesn’t have as much power as

students think he does,” said Karleh Wilson ‘16, a member of Next Yale, during the height of campus protests last semester. “He needs the support of other people who have more power — the people who pull the strings he can’t pull.”

It has thus become unclear, to some students, whether they should approach Salovey or the Corporation to weigh in on highly charged issues. The presidency and historic precedent that comes with it suggest the trail ends with Salovey, but his consensus-based approach and collaborative nature suggest that, in this instance, he is just one of 17 Corporation members with a seat at the table.

Regardless of process, Salovey strongly emphasized that he is accountable for all decisions.

“Let me be clear: I consider myself the leader of this institution,” Salovey said. “I will own all decisions, whether I made them alone or I made them in collaboration with the Corporation or if they came out of a formal vote. I would be uncomfortable with any kind of notion that I hide behind Corporation decisions. Rather, on nonroutine, long-range decisionmaking, I would rather use a more collaborative process, but that does not mean I take any less ownership of the outcome.”

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BY MANASA RAO STAFF REPORTER Retired United Nations Commander Roméo Dallaire spoke Wednesday to an audience of about 75 students on the United Nations’ “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine and how the next generation should approach genocide prevention.

Dallaire served as the commander of the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in Rwanda prior to and during the country’s 1994 genocide. His talk was the first in a new series of annual lectures hosted by the Yale Genocide Studies Program on atrocity prevention.

Program Director David Simon told the News he chose Dallaire as the inaugural speaker because his story is “tremendously important” in considering how the world should react to human tragedy.

Beginning with a joke about how the audience could not avoid a PowerPoint and military organization charts when hearing from a soldier, Dallaire spoke about the emergence of new weapons like child warfare and rape and about his goal to eradicate the use of child soldiers. Recounting his experience with the Rwandan genocide, Dallaire encouraged the audience to see that “frictions of our differences” as humans can be resolved without conflict. He also asked attendees to think of new ways to implement the responsibility of all humans to protect each other — a responsibility the UN codified in its 2005 “Responsibility to Protect” commitment.

“The future is a lot closer than you think,” Dallaire said.

“If you’re not handling or leading the future to shape it, you’re just going to be surviving it, and I don’t think that’s the future we want to create.”

While the “Responsibility to Protect” was established over

a decade ago, Dallaire argued that it has yet to be actually implemented in the world’s conflicts. He pointed out that with the existence of horrors like poverty, global terrorism and the “stupid capability that is nuclear warfare,” the world is at a disadvantage in trying to prevent atrocity.

But he reaffirmed humans’ shared duty to protect each other. To illustrate this point, Dallaire drew on his experiences in the Rwandan genocide.

“We had found this little, seven-year-old boy in the middle of the genocide, and I picked him up. There were flies all over him, he was in rags and his stomach was bloated, but I looked into his eyes and I saw humanity,” Dallaire said.

“I saw the same thing I saw in the eyes of my seven-year-old son ... He was the same, he was human, he was not inferior. We are all equal, and look at how we’ve been reacting to conflicts, the pecking order we’ve established.”

In the face of new weapons like rape and child warfare, Dallaire encouraged the audience to take advantage of new tools, like the internet and other technologies, to coalesce.

With Skype, for example, humanity will be able to talk to and influence itself for the first time, he said.

Drawing attention to world powers that have “picked and chosen wars,” Dallaire also argued that the world is in need of strong leaders who are willing to put the needs of their countries’ citizens first.

He ended the lecture with the idea that non-governmental organizations, combined with the emerging youth, are the answer to the world’s conflicts. Dallaire said that NGOs “touch everything and are there before, during and after” a conflict, allowing them to be the voice of the people. While

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audience members do not need to join an NGO to make a difference, they still should not be comfortable with the status quo, he said. He urged them to innovate, create and lead in “this multidisciplinary world,” not only to resolve conflicts but also to prevent them.

Attendees interviewed agreed that education is important to resolving and preventing conflicts, but they questioned some of the premises of Dallaire’s remarks.

Josiane Mumukunde, a research assistant at Kline Biology Tower and a student at Gateway Community College, was 12 years old and living in Rwanda when the genocide occurred. While she said she generally agreed that armed forces should not be the first solution to a problem, she pointed out that conflict cannot always be resolved without violence, due to systemic problems like poverty and lack of education that build up in addition to ethnic tensions.

Frances Fagan ’17 said she was surprised to hear Dallaire say that the “Responsibility to Protect” has not yet been implemented. But she added that rather than trying to create new, potentially expensive systems to implement it, decision-makers should modify appropriate systems already in existence.

“When it comes to humanitarian intervention, I agree with [Dallaire’s] point that it’s not in any state’s self-interest to assume that conflict happening ‘over there’ is not affecting it,” Charlotte Hulme GRD ’21 said. “But I do think it’s a lot easier said than done.”

The Yale Genocide Studies Program’s new lecture series is funded by a recent donation from the Charles E. Scheidt Family Foundation.

Contact MANASA RAO at manasa.rao@yale.edu .

BY AYLA BESEMER AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS More than 800 people filled Battell Chapel Wednesday evening to hear prominent Muslim scholar Shaykh Hamza Yusuf discuss his religion’s path to a meaningful existence.

Yusuf, whom The New Yorker has called “perhaps the most influential Islamic scholar in the Western world,” came to Yale to speak in the most recent installment of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture’s Life Worth Living speaker series. Many attendees traveled significant distances to hear his thoughts, and several said they had been following him for years.

Citing the first line in the Quran, Yusuf said he believes the acquisition of knowledge is the center of the Islamic tradition.

“For me, living a good life is trying to learn this knowledge of my tradition, which says that the real purpose of our existence here is to come to know God,” Yusuf said.

“Not in the way the angels come to know God, which is immediately, but to know God through difficulty, through hardship, through suffering and through that, the soul is expanded.”

Born in Washington as Mark Hanson, Yusuf was raised Greek Orthodox before a near-death experience at age 17 led him to reconsider his faith. The fear of death motivates much of religious belief overall, Yusuf said. He converted to Islam and moved to England and then the United Arab Emirates to study Arabic and classic Islamic disciplines, such as Quranic recitation, law and theology.

Upon his return to the United States, Yusuf co-founded Zaytuna College in Northern California, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the U.S. Yale Center for Faith and Culture Founder Miroslav Volf told the News that the Life Worth Living program aims to draw from a variety of different perspectives.

“We always want conversations with representatives of a variety of great traditions — religious and secular — in order to stimulate questions of what gives a life value,” Volf said.

Mujtaba Wani ’17, a Life Worth Living Student Fellow, suggested Yusuf as a potential speaker last semester. Every year, Wani told the News, the program invites one well-known speaker from a different faith. When program director Matthew Croasmun asked Wani for names of individuals who could speak about Islam, Wani said, Yusuf was first on the list.

“I basically pitched it as, ‘You’ll never get him, but here’s the big name,’” Wani said. “But it has manifested.”

Indeed, Yusuf’s reputation attracted attendees from around New England. Maryam Mehmood, 34, who traveled from Boston to attend the talk, said she has followed Yusuf for the past 17 years.

“Growing up, I was listening to him all the time,” Mehmood told the News before the talk.

“He was the only Muslim scholar at that time who made sense to me because he was trying to not reject the world, but make sense of it and tell you how to deal with it.”

Yusuf opened his lecture with a recitation from the Quran and a rumination on the holy book.

Acknowledging the difficulty of studying a non-linear text, Yusuf dispelled the idea of its “superficial randomness” and argued that readers can find significant value if they explore it with sufficient depth.

He then discussed the idea of the nature of man, drawing comparisons between the Grecian concept of the tripartite soul and the Muslim conception of the soul. According to the Quran, he said, the human condition is that of an individual who can acquire knowledge but be overcome with emotion and overwhelmed by appetite. Controlling the two desires of hunger and lust, according to the Quranic narrative, is done by acquiring knowl-

edge of God. Following the talk, Yusuf and Volf engaged in a dialogue that included topics ranging from the “entertainment-oriented” thinking of modern society, to the tranquility found in the five daily prayers dictated by Islam, to what the major faiths can learn from one another.

Yusuf said that Islam can help other traditions overcome racism in modern society, due to the Muslim sense of “brotherhood,” or the idea that one Muslim would never refuse friendship on the grounds of someone’s difference in race. What is important, he said, is to think of morality and people in terms of “adverbs and verbs,” not “nouns and adjectives.” To see an individual as a “black man” is to think in terms of nouns, whereas to understand someone’s actions and motivations is to see that person through “adverbs,” he said.

“Not for nothing [was it] important for us early on … to invite a Muslim guest,” Croasmun said. “This is … a rich and important tradition. It is also, sadly, of course, in the West, often deeply misunderstood, so to be able to hear from a potentially misunderstood voice and to have a genial but also honest conversation [is important]. [Volf and Yusuf] were willing to disagree with each other, but also willing to be friendly.”

After the talk, attendees interviewed spoke highly of both the content and presentation of Yusuf’s talk. Several Muslim Yale students said elements of Yusuf’s speech were highly relatable, adding that he vocalized things Muslims were thinking in a frank and compelling way.

Yusuf will remain on campus for a Pierson Tea that will take place at 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon in the Pierson House.

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SPORTS World stage familiar for Staenz W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 enth place.

“The game-winning goal was the icing on the cake,” Staenz said.

“I really enjoyed playing with my linemates, and my [defense] set me up with the perfect pass. Scoring is always a bonus for me. It doesn’t happen often, so when it does I am so, so happy.”

Yet scoring happened for Staenz this season more often than nearly every other Yale player. She finished her junior year tied for second on the Yale roster with nine goals on the season, and her teammates were quick to praise her offensive skill. “[Staenz] generates a lot of forward momentum and gets a lot of shots on net,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said. “She is always pushing herself on the ice and in the weight room. She dedicates all her free time to improving herself as a player.”

The Swiss team’s seventh-place finish did not automatically qualify the country for the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. The squad will get another chance to qualify in February 2017.

Staenz though already has one Olympics under her belt.

She took home a bronze medal in the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, where she found the net in the team’s 4–3 win over Sweden in the bronze-medal match. Staenz has also participated in the previ-

ous four World Championships, and another three on the under18 team.

The hectic schedule throughout the week featured meetings, practices and games, in addition to much-appreciated team bonding, Staenz said. However, she noted that the time constraints were sometimes difficult to juggle with school work.

According to her teammates, the Olympian’s extensive international experience benefits the Bulldogs as a whole as well.

“One of [Staenz’s] best skills is definitely her level of competition and her ability to make something out of nothing,” forward Eden Murray ’18 said. “It is very inspiring to see her excel in that atmosphere and then bring what she has learned back to us.”

Although another Olympic run could be on the horizon for Staenz, she said that for right now, her main focuses are school and office training.

Staenz will get back on the ice in August, when she next joins both Yale and the Swiss team for practice.

The United States and Canada reached the final of the event for the 17th consecutive time. Alex Carpenter, a North Reading, Massachusetts native, scored a gamewinning overtime goal to seal a 1–0 win and championship for the U.S. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

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Staenz finished her junior year at Yale with nine goals, tied for second on the team roster.

“Whenever the heat’s on, my whole life, I’ve just kind of learned to focus a little more.”

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Former backfield combo preps for NFL FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 tryouts. The intensive experience, Roberts said, made him feel more like a “total athlete” than he had before.

“My last 10 weeks, I’ve never trained harder since it’s the only thing that’s been on my mind,” Roberts said. “I really enjoyed the scientific approach, and I’ve definitely improved in all areas, though footwork was the hardest barrier to leap over.”

After operating in a spread offense, a style gaining increasing popularity in the professional ranks, through most of high school and all throughout college, Roberts said returning to the fundamentals of the quarterback position, such as footwork, was helpful.

That training yielded dividends at the signal-caller’s Pro Day on Tuesday, in which he performed in front of four scouts from three teams: the New England Patriots, New York Jets and Indianapolis Colts, according to Roberts.

In addition to showing off his arm with the help of wide receiver Matthew Rubino ’16, Roberts demonstrated his athleticism by broad jumping 10 feet and recording a vertical jump of 34 inches. Those figures would rank him third and second, respectively, among all 15 quarterbacks at the 2016 NFL Combine.

Paxton Lynch of Memphis, a projected late-first or earlysecond round pick according to ESPN, was the only other quarterback who ranked in the top three in both categories.

Roberts’ numbers and highlights have already begun to draw attention. Roberts has already worked out for a few teams, he said, and his agent fielded calls from multiple teams following his Pro Day. Should Ro b e r ts go unselected at the NFL Draft on April 28–30, a team can invite him to attend a team’s training camp as either an undrafted free agent or a free agent. The former is preferable, as it indicates a team is more serious about retaining the player: An

undrafted free agent enters training camp with a contract whereas a free agent is invited without a contact.

“I think my best case scenario is finding the right team,” Roberts said. “What Varga did last year, and Varga 100 percent should have been drafted, was ideal. He had the opportunity to select a team that was the right fit for him, so I’m hoping for a call from teams on Draft Day so I can be an undrafted free agent.”

Currently the only former Eli active on an NFL roster, Varga signed with the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in May 2015, immediately following the 2015 draft. The bruising running back earned a spot on the final 53-man roster after impressing fans and teammates alike in a preseason that featured 18 carries for 69 yards, a rushing touchdown and five receptions for 36 yards.

“I think they saw his value once he got a few repetitions at running back,” Ciotti said. “He was, at one point, their thirddown back. They saw his ability as a blocker, as a pass-catcher, as a runner. In my opinion, he could be a full-time running back, not just a specialist.”

Though he was active for three regular season games, Varga sustained a concussion on Sept. 27 against the Tennessee Titans and was placed on injured reserve on Oct. 14, ending his rookie season.

That Varga went to injured reserve is significant, Ciotti said.

“When he did his rehab and cleared the concussion [protocol], they could’ve easily waived him,” Ciotti said. “But rather than waive him, the general manager said, we want to put you on injured reserve for the rest of the year, and that protects you from anyone else taking you. That shows me that they value his skills.”

Considering how difficult it is to miss a 5-foot-11, 222pound man, Varga has become a familiar sight around New Haven, where he works as an intern in the Yale Office of Investments.

Strong second half not enough WOMEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 The tough defense limited McEvoy in the first half to just one goal, Yale’s second of the game, which came nearly 20 minutes into the contest.

McEvoy turned things around in the second half to finish with four goals and two assists, completing her ninth hat trick of the season.

“Going into the game we knew [Boston College] played high pressure all over the field,” McEvoy said.

“As a result, we really focused on all our attackers, driving to draw them in and then looking for the open girl after they doubled.”

It was that strategy that enabled midfielder Taryn Gallagher ’18 to score the opening goal at 29:23, off an assist from McEvoy. But for the remainder of the period, the Bulldogs had trouble repeating this draw-anddump scenario while Boston College reeled off five unanswered goals, prompting Yale head coach Erica LaGrow to call a timeout with 13:43 remaining in the half.

While the timeout appeared to come in response to the Eagles’ run, LaGrow explained that the team typically takes timeouts around the 15-minute mark to refocus.

“We reminded the team of the game plan and praised their effort,” LaGrow said about what she told her team during the break.

Immediately following the timeout, Boston College capped off its 6–0 run with a goal on a free position shot, a consistent theme of the game.

The Eagles went 4–6 on free positions, while Yale was 1–1.

After a scoring drought of more than 18 minutes, the Bulldogs finally responded with a goal from McEvoy off a loose ball in front of the cage, cutting the deficit to four.

This goal, in conjunction with a tighter defensive performance from Yale, which held the Eagles to just one goal in the final 13:22 of the half, kept Yale within striking distance. The Bulldogs scored twice more before the halftime whistle, trailing 7–4 at the intermission.

Improved offensive play, sparked by an energized Granger who came off the bench, allowed the Bulldogs to

pick up speed the second half. Despite giving up two early goals in the first five minutes of the frame, the Elis won the first six draw controls after play resumed. They wound up winning nine of 16 in the half, led by center Nicole Daniggelis ’16. “[Daniggelis] takes ownership for winning the draws, and our players fought hard when the ball hit the ground,” LaGrow said.

The play of Daniggelis, who is the all-time Ivy League leader in draw controls won, enabled Yale to dictate the pace of play more often in the second half.

The second half also brought a strategic change in the Boston College defense. Rather than continuing to play man-to-man, the Eagles began to play backer zone defense, in which they assigned an extra player to track the ball and leave the attacker farthest from the play open. Yale quickly adapted to the tactical shift, passing the ball quickly around the 12-meter arc until it could find the open Bulldog.

“In the second half they threw a high-pressure defense on us in hopes of creating turnovers, but we were able to remain composed, keep the ball moving and find the open girl on the back side,” Granger said.

Taking advantage of these openings led to two important Yale goals, one from McEvoy and another from attacker Hope Hanley ’17, while attacker Kiwi Comizio ’18 added a scrappy goal off a ground ball in front of the cage. The three goals pulled Yale within 10–7 and hinted at a

potential comeback.

However, the Eagles answered yet again as attacker Tess Chandler registered two goals of her own within a two-minute stretch, rounding out her hat trick for the game.

The Bulldogs cut the lead to three once more with back-to-back goals from McEvoy, the second coming with just 4:22 remaining on the clock.

But just 20 seconds later, a yellow card was called on Comizio, giving the Eagles a critical man-up advantage.

Boston College attacker Kate Weeks took advantage with a goal at the 2:30 mark, her third of the game, which sealed the scoring and Yale’s chances. In the final two minutes, Yale attempted to force a turnover by pressuring the Eagles with doubleteams beyond the 12-meter arc but could not translate that defense into scoring opportunities.

While the game goes down as a loss for the Bulldogs, the four-goal margin against such a highly ranked opponent provided further proof of the team’s potential.

“It just further proves, as demonstrated in the Stony Brook game as well, that we have the intensity and drive necessary to hang with top-15 teams,” said goalie Sydney Marks ’18, who made eight saves in the defeat.

The Bulldogs will return to Ivy play for the remainder of the season. Their next game comes on Saturday versus Princeton on the road.

Contact TRESA JOSEPH at tresa.joseph@yale.edu .

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Yale’s final four regular season contests will be against Ivy League competition.

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Tyler Varga ’15 played in three regular season games with the Colts in 2015 before being placed on injured reserve.

However, he will return to football in less than two weeks, as he reports to the Colts on April 18 for the beginning of preseason training.

Joe Linta ’88, Varga’s agent, told the News that in his communications with Ryan Grigson, general manager of the Colts, Grigson has reiterated the Colts’ interest in Varga.

“He looks great, feels great and is ready to go,” Linta said.

“I know he’s excited to get back in there for a whole year.”

Linta and Ciotti both said that Varga, who began last season as the fifth running back

on the Colts’ depth chart, will be slotted higher this year. But with five-time Pro Bowl rusher Frank Gore on the roster, it is unlikely Varga will start come September.

Still, Ciotti expressed hope that the Colts will allow Varga to display his full potential.

“He needs repetition and practice so he can demonstrate what he demonstrated at Yale for three years,” Ciotti said. “He has some skills that I’ve never seen the likes of.”

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

Tompkins aims to help athlete well-being TOMPKINS FROM PAGE 12 teaching experience, had the potential to expand the department’s area of student services — one that includes academic, social and mental health matters for athletes. In the 14 months since his appointment, Tompkins has emerged as a figure of support to student-athletes in all teams while carving out the specifics of his new role.

In his position, Tompkins plays a variety of roles, which either did not previously exist or were formerly served by different people. Among other responsibilities, he is the athletic liaison to the Yale College Dean’s Office, dealing with matters of admissions and financial aid; the sports administrator for Yale’s track and field, cross country, sailing and squash teams; a member of the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct; and the head of three athletic leadership initiatives: the Kiphuth Leadership Academy, the Yale Captain’s Group and the YSACC. Tompkins described his job as an empty pickup truck, which can get “lots of different things thrown into it at any time,” but highlighted that above all his overarching role is to support and care for the “holistic well-being” of all student-athletes on campus.

“I think he has well-established his role as the point of contact for students, and I know many students feel comfortable going to him about things they would like to see implemented within Yale athletics,” said Lynch. “I definitely think his experience as a head coach helps him to understand athletes and the demands of Yale.”

Women’s tennis player Elizabeth Zordani ’18 had a similarly positive impression of Tompkins. Zordani helped organize a discussion last week on the intersection of student-athletes and mental health, and she said Tompkins was “extremely supportive” of the event. He attended the event as one of six panelists, and, according to Zordani, has been a huge force for mental health and athletes.

For Tompkins, however, mental health is only one focus area: He also plans to work with athletes in improving access to career development services, bettering the integration into the athlete community for

LGBTQ student-athletes and developing a partnership with Yale’s Emotional Intelligence Department.

Still, Tompkins said he will need more time to fully comprehend the resources available in the department to him before formalizing any projects.

“I’m in the kitchen with lots of ingredients and have a lot of recipes cooking, but I’m still figuring out all the ingredients,” Tompkins said.

Though his initiatives are all tailored toward the well-being of student-athletes specifically, Tompkins said he also wants to work on better integrating the athlete community with the overall Yale community. Because team’s often develop strong bonds with their teammates, Tompkins said, other students often perceive athletes as self-segregating.

Tompkins’ interest in the holistic education of student-athletes comes in part from his early years as an educator. Originally from London, Tompkins came to the United States in 1980 to work with innercity children.

In his time before becoming a soccer coach, Tompkins also helped with various charitable organizations, worked with emotionally disturbed and delinquent children and taught individuals from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

Former men’s soccer player Saul Downie ’18, who played a full season under Tompkins, said that during his time on the team, he was impressed by Tompkins’ significant interest in players’ lives off the field, adding that this quality aligns with his new position.

Tompkins himself noted that his experiences with both teaching and coaching are “a great asset” for his role in student services.

“I am a teacher and educator first, so this position is really well suited to how I view people and relationships,” Tompkins said. “This was a natural evolution from coaching to something I can really bring some value to.”

During his 19 years as Yale men’s soccer head coach, Tompkins amassed a 138– 137–39 record.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

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Tompkins carves out student services role

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER After former Yale men’s soccer head coach Brian Tompkins stepped down from his position as coach in the fall of 2014, he assumed a new administrative position created by Yale athletics.

The position’s title, senior associate athletic director of student services, tasked Tompkins with a relatively broad goal: improving student-athletes’ well-being, and facilitating communication between athletes and the department’s administrators.

Fourteen months after his appointment, women’s tennis player and co-president of the Yale Student-Athlete College Council Caroline

Lynch ’17 summed up Tompkins’ new presence in the department with just two letters. Many athletes seeing the former coach around campus call him not “Coach Tompkins” but “BT,” a nickname that demonstrates the closeness Tompkins has quickly built with student-athletes at Yale.

“I’m ‘that guy’ in athletics now, and I like that,” Tompkins said.

After serving as a Yale head coach for 19 years, Tompkins began his new role in January 2015. According to Tompkins, he and Director of Athletics Tom Beckett agreed that the former coach, who had many years of both coaching and SEE TOMPKINS PAGE 10

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Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16, who completed his pro day on Tuesday, set the all-time Yale mark for passing yards and completion percentage.

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER Though they played two different positions while members of the Yale football team, running back Tyler Varga ’15 and quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 have plenty in common.

Both transferred to Yale, where they earned starting positions and were key leaders of a recordsetting high-octane 2014 offense.

By the time they graduated, the

duo had left their mark all over Yale’s record books.

And in the immediate future, both could be suiting up when the 2016 NFL season kicks off next September.

“As far as their football character, [Roberts and Varga are] more or less alike,” said Larry Ciotti, former Yale running backs coach and current advisor to the head coach. “They’re both very focused on excelling in football and Morgan is a student of the

game, as was Tyler.”

Roberts, a two-year starter, graduated in December of 2015 as Yale’s all-time leader in passing yards, total offense and completion percentage, as well as second in passing touchdowns and completions.

The Charlotte, South Carolina native began his collegiate career at Atlantic Coast Conference powerhouse Clemson, but transferred to Yale after his freshman season. He earned the starting

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quarterback position in the 2015 season as a junior, a record-setting campaign in which he completed 66.8 percent of his passes and tallied 3,230 yards through the air.

After signing with agent Jay Courie of MGC Sports in December, Roberts spent two and a half months at Chip Smith Performance Systems, a training facility in Georgia, to prepare for his SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10

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Tompkins, who served as a head coach at Yale for 19 years, is using both his coaching and teaching experience in his new role.

Staenz ’17 nets goal in World Championship

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER Although the Yale women’s hockey season may have come to a close on Feb. 20, one Bulldog had another opportunity to lace up her skates last week. Forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 took to the ice for her native Switzerland this past week while competing the Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship in British Columbia, Canada.

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The 26 goals scored in Wednesday’s game between Boston College and Yale were the most of any Yale contest this season.

BY TRESA JOSEPH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s lacrosse team needed just 37 seconds to score the first of what would amount to 26 goals in Wednesday’s high-scoring affair between the Bulldogs and No. 11 Boston College at Reese Stadium.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE But the next six goals all belonged to the Eagles (7–5, 1–4 ACC), and the Bulldogs (5–6, 2–1 Ivy) ultimately could not pull off what would have been a signifi-

cant upset victory, winding up on the wrong end of a 15–11 scoreline.

“Boston College’s scoring stream stemmed from them capitalizing on our mistakes,” attacker Emily Granger ’18 said. “Once we started valuing possession and protecting the ball, we were able to turn the game around.”

Throughout the first half, the Eagles paid particularly close attention to Yale’s leading scorer, attacker Tess McEvoy ’17, often double-teaming her to prevent her signature drive to the goal from the left side.

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Though Staenz’s Team Switzerland finished the championship in seventh place, she owns a bronze medal from the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Despite a seventh-place finish by the Swiss National Team, which is ranked fourth in the world, Staenz notched a game-winning goal and two assists over five games. The Olympian increased her experience playing with Switzerland, a team for which she has competed on the international stage since 2011.

“I love playing on the international level,” Staenz said. “Everybody loves the game, and everyone is just there for hockey and no distractions. It’s so much fun. When you step out on the ice, you have to be ready because all the countries bring their best people.”

The World Championship takes place every year when the Winter Olympics do not occur and features eight of the best teams in international women’s hockey. The tournament began with a roundrobin preliminary round from March 28–31 during which Switzerland was in the B grouping with Japan, Czech Republic and Sweden.

Of those three teams, Switzerland defeated only Japan, with Staenz’s goal coming in the clutch. The forward’s game-winning tally, 1:10 into the third period, gave the Swiss their third goal in a 4–2 win. In the consolation round, Switzerland swept Japan with 3–1 and 4–0 victories to lock up sevSEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 10

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