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Grad housing reviewed

Dispatch from Sochi. Forward

Phoebe Staenz ’17 helped the Swiss Olympic women’s hockey team earn a bronze medal in Sochi. Staenz scored the game-tying goal. Stanz is the second women’s ice hockey player from Yale to earn an Olympic medal.

Senior class gift concludes 96.6 PERCENT OF SENIORS PARTICIPATE AFTER FINAL PUSH

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enjoyed a night of “Sex and Chocolate” at an event at GPSCY yesterday. Attendees enjoyed “vats” of liquid dark and milk chocolate from Yale Dining, Insomnia Cookies and chocolate-themed drinks. Meanwhile, they could anonymously text in questions about sex to get answers from Yale Health representatives.

convened a Graduate and Professional Student Housing Advisory Committee to examine housing problems and propose potential solutions.

Several hundred graduate and professional school students attended the fair, where 17 land-

Donations to the senior class gift closed at midnight on Wednesday, with 96.6 percent of seniors contributing to the University.

Wednesday evening marked the end of the intense annual three-week effort to solicit contributions from members of the senior class.

The Class of 2014 raised over $31,000 for the Yale Alumni Fund, an unrestricted pool of money that is used to cover financial aid and other costs at the University. The minimum gift was $5, and the suggested amount was $20.14.

But the total amount raised is of little importance to Yale’s bank account, which receives donations orders of magnitude larger on a regular basis. Rather, the senior class gift focuses on establishing a pattern of giving amongst students as they transition into being alumni.

“It’s an important part of helping people understand what it means to become donors to the University,” said Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill.

Many of the 1,600 alumni volunteers who are engaged in fundraising for the Yale Alumni Fund were leaders in their own senior class gifts, according to Managing Director of Alumni Fund Development Lynn Andrewsen ’82.

University Development officers and student leaders alike said the senior class gift campaign is more focused on participation

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The weather always wins.

Selling secrets. On a sunnier

note, Victoria’s Secret visited campus yesterday for a spring break promotion. The lingerie company set up a massive pink dome on Broadway, reaching over 40 feet in height, for a pop-up swim shop. Inside, the air was warmed, music was playing and beach wear was on sale.

The eighth annual. The Yale Guitar Extravaganza takes place this Saturday and speaks for itself.

For the love of art, and money.

The Women’s Center is holding an essay and art contest ending today. According to an announcement, “due to a relatively small number of submissions so far, entries in the ‘art’ category have a good chance of winning $250!”

Moreover, the art category will allow visual arts, videos, comics, poetry and even “etc.”

Time to hit the drawing board, Yalies.

The greatest gift of all is

money. Hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin ’89 recently donated $150 million to Harvard, the largest gift in the college’s history. Last year, Charles B. Johnson gave $250 million to Yale for the construction of the two new residential colleges. Which Ivy League will be the next recipient of an absurdly large donation from an alum who went into finance? Let the games begin.

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1969 A committee is formed to investigate whether “how-to” courses, many of which are art classes, deserve to count as a credit. Courses in language, drama, music and art will be investigated despite protests from the Art Department.

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Yale Environmental Health and Safety released a safety bulletin last night with a quiz that asked “Can you survive the cold?” The quiz included three rather dark questions on hypothermia, and two even darker questions on frostbite.

For example, did you know that you could get frostbite without realizing it until dead tissue falls off weeks or months later? Happy winter.

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The Graduate Student Assembly organized the first annual housing fair on Thursday.

BY HAILEY WINSTON STAFF REPORTER In response to widespread complaints about off-campus housing options, students and administrators at Yale’s graduate and professional schools are taking action.

As part of a broader effort to improve housing options for grad-

uate students — 80 percent of whom live in off-campus housing — the Graduate Student Assembly organized the first annual housing fair on Thursday evening at the Yale School of Medicine. The housing fair took place several months after Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews ’83 LAW ’86

Donations to University drop

BY RISHABH BHANDARI AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS While institutions of higher education are receiving more donations today than ever before, total cash donations to Yale dropped by about 20 percent for the fiscal year that ended June 30.

Cash contributions to Yale — including gifts made to the endowment, building con-

struction and University operations — dropped from $543.9 million in 2012 to $444.2 million in 2013, according to the Council for Aid to Education’s annual fundraising survey.

Yale came in ninth in the survey, while Stanford University topped the list for the ninth consecutive year with $931.6 million in gifts.

“Stanford is the envy of everybody right now,” said Vice President for Development

Yalies in hunt for million

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER Five Yalies are in the running for $1 million prize from Bill Clinton.

A group of students from the Schools of Public Health and Management are among 300 teams progressing to the semi-final round of the Hult Prize Competition. For the past four years, the contest has brought students together to tackle global health challenges as part of the largest student contest in the world, with roughly 10,000 teams entering the first round in the most recent competition..

This year, participants will present solutions for addressing noncommunicable diseases in slums. Former President Bill Clinton, whose foundation funds the competition, will personally present the $1 million check to the winning team.

“This is about bring-

Joan O’Neill. “They are raising money in tremendous ways and they’ve set a bar for all of us to aspire to keep raising more money and keep up with Stanford.”

Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill said the slight decline in donations to Yale does not necessarily indicate a long term trend, as alumni giving tends to fluctuate on a year-by-year basis because donors often fulfill

commitments years after the initial pledge was made. Giving levels can also depend on the timing of fundraising campaigns, she added.

The $250 million gift by Charles Johnson ’54 — the largest gift in school history — was made in September and did not count toward the fiscal 2013 total.

Roger Benjamin, president of the Council for Aid to Education, said fiscal 2013 saw a

marked increase in total gifts because of the strong performance of the stock market. As the assets of many alumni are invested in the stock market, economic growth increases their personal wealth, which leads them to give larger donations, he said.

Universities also tend to receive more gifts during capital campaigns, O’Neill said.

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Singapore panel criticized

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER

ing innovators worldwide together to try to tackle some of the big social and economic health issues that we have,” said Hilary Rogers ’13 SPH ’14, a member of the Yale team.

Out of the roughly one billion slum dwellers in the world, 250 million suffer from a chronic disease, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease or cancer, Rogers said. This year’s challenge is to create a business model that can tackle the high prevalence of these diseases. But more than simply benefiting society, the business has to be self-sustaining, which means it must produce a profit, Rogers said.

While the team would not reveal their plan, Rogers said it will emphasize prevention and early diagnosis.

According to Rogers and Yale team member Lexy Adams ’13 SPH ’14, one of

Walking into Yale Law School on Thursday afternoon, many students expected to see an unbiased academic discussion panel on human rights in Singapore.

Instead, what they witnessed was a strong invective aimed almost entirely against Yale’s involvement in the Asian nation-state.

The panel — attended by about 50 people — featured international lawyer Robert Amsterdam, Deputy Director for the Asia division of Human Rights Watch Phil Robertson and law school fellow Tom Dannenbaum as a moderator.

Students interviewed before the panel said they thought these speakers would give a detached perspective on delicate issues and set the record straight where there is misinformation.

The speakers tackled major issues with human rights in Singapore, including rights of workers, immigrants and free-

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The panelists mainly focused their discussion on the negative aspects of Yale’s involvement in Singapore.

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GUEST COLUMNISTS DANIEL DANGARAN & GABE MURCHISON

'CLASS AND THE CLASS GIFT'

GUE ST COLUMNIST KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG

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Building queer spaces W

e are deeply and often painfully aware that, for many queer students, the “Gay Ivy” does not feel like home. Some have been made to feel less dateable because they are not white. Some have been made to feel invisible because they are not men. Trans students find themselves discussed, in conversation and print, as though they do not exist. And there are too few queer community spaces that are not segregated by gender or saturated with pressure to hook up.

In this environment, it is easy to become frustrated and alienated.

One method that we’ve found helps to break the isolation is to find commonalities in individuals’ experiences within the queer community. In fact, we’ve found striking connections in exchanging our own personal histories.

Before his freshman year, Gabe met an alumnus who, like him, was transgender. The graduate said he had always felt welcome at Yale. “It’s funny, though,” he said. “There was one other trans student in my time, and people would compare us, or even mix us up. But I barely knew the guy.”

Gabe remembers being struck by the anecdote: How must it feel to be treated as interchangeable?

When Gabe got to Yale, he found that his friend was right: His new peers were welcoming and respectful. And yet, that first year, he felt deeply alone. When Gabe had changed his gender in high school, queer communities came to feel like his home base, and he had trouble finding those spaces at Yale. There was a group for gay men (which he wasn’t), one for queer women (which he wasn’t), and there were the sweaty, loud Co-op dances — exhilarating, but hardly the place to meet confidantes.

Daniel had a similar response when he first arrived at Yale: As an openly gay, Filipino-black student, he thought that LGBTQ groups offered support that he didn’t need. He didn’t want to be an activist and didn’t feel an urge to have conversations about his identity. But in his sophomore year, when he attended his first event for Prism — a group for queer people of color — he began to realize there were certain aspects of his identity that he had never discussed. He realized he had unknowingly suppressed parts of his identity beyond his sexual orientation: his working class background and first-generation status, to name a couple.

He realized that he could have done with some support in freshman year, after all.

But here is a truth: Regretting a community you don’t have will not bring it into being. Here is another: You can have that community, one that embraces you in your entirety — if you take it upon yourself to build it.

For us, that has meant initiating discourse and starting organizations that bring together students who share our concerns, like Prism and the Resource Alliance for Gender Equity, a group that advocates for the needs of transgender and gender-nonconforming students. Building the type of communities we want has also required reaching out to other marginalized groups.

Last semester Prism collaborated with member groups of La Casa and the Asian American Cultural Center to host discussions comparing cross-cultural differences in LGBTQ identities.

A shared drive for inclusivity and justice can be a powerful basis on which to connect.

We also need spaces that celebrate queer community, at large, beyond the goal of finding a date or a fling. In our roles as Communication and Consent Educators, we’ve worked hard to create these spaces, hosting after-parties, social events and conversations on queer life at Yale.

Building the community we want takes work — but each of us has the power to do it. We can show up at queer-themed events during Trans Week, Pride Month and throughout the year. We can advocate against the structural barriers at Yale, like mandatory gender segregation in first-year and sophomore housing, by lobbying our college masters and offering testimonials to the Yale College Council. And we can hold one another accountable, gently calling out language and behaviors that marginalize or erase members of our community.

Most of all, we can care for one another — enough to reach out across differences of background, politics and style; enough to speak up when we see someone hurting or getting hurt.

Most queer students at Yale do not have the luxury to simply be queer. We live at the intersection of identities, and we may feel we have to hide parts of ourselves wherever we go. This is a weighty injustice, one produced by structural racism, sexism and cissexism, among others — as well as by harmful patterns specific to Yale.

It isn’t fair that we have to do the hard work of building the spaces and circles we want, when many students easily slip into ones that fit. But the time we spend lamenting what we don’t have is time that could be spent making what we want. Step forward, and you will find many others at your side, working to create a unified campus community. The task, and the power, is in our hands.

DANIEL DANGARAN is a junior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at daniel.dangaran@yale.edu. GABE MURCHISON is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at gabriel. murchison@yale.edu.

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n my history section, students are not allowed to use computers, iPhones, iPads or other forms of technology. We did get a free pass on the first day, when the policy was announced.

The next week, seven out of eight students instinctively pulled out their computers, before fumbling around in their backpack for supplies. Most students had forgotten their writing utensils, so pens and torn-out notebook paper had to be passed around.

I was not the one student who remembered the policy. Even though I’ve had a few technology-free classes and sections over my almost three years at Yale, every time a teaching assistant or professor bans computers, I too am still surprised. After all, classroom technology use at Yale has dramatically increased in past years. To cite just a few examples, my art history class has no in-person section, just an online forum. Most reading responses are turned in on online message boards on Classes v2. In John Gaddis’ “The Art of Biography” seminar, students even use iPads that are loaned out to them for the semester.

With all this hype around bringing more technology into the classroom, there has been near silence about the reverse.

There are no rules. No academic department, let alone the University as a whole, has laid out guidelines for if — or when — computers, iPads and the like can be prohibited. The question arises: Is there a place at Yale for classrooms — for lectures, semi-

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nars, sections — in which all student technology use is prohibited?

In the majority of classroom settings, banning students from using personal technology is unrealistic, impractical and unfair. However, in certain settings when implemented correctly, prohibiting student technology use can be a powerful tool to improve students’ classroom experiences.

A TECH-FREE CLASS DOESN'T INHIBIT US: IT ENABLES Most of the time, student technology use in the classroom is a positive. In most lectures, students need the option of typing out notes more quickly than can be done by hand or following along the lecture slides. Computers and other devices help students look up unknown terms, or browse the class forum for questions that have come up from readings. Pulling up PDFs on computers is convenient, faster than printing and saves trees.

Technology use in the classroom can be more than a positive; it can be outright essential, such as for students who require software to transcribe what the professor is saying.

Considering these benefits, it is clear that banning technology in the classroom should not be

On the Toad’s property dispute Yale appreciates the long and notable popular musical history of Toad’s in New Haven as related by owner Brian Phelps in Wednesday’s article (“Why Toad’s Should Stay,” Feb. 19), and has no desire to hinder Toad’s business in the future. Toad’s access to University property has always been granted with Yale’s voluntary permission, but now Toad’s contends that it no longer needs Yale’s permission. It is that contention that has led, unfortunately, to the current property dispute and litigation. While the dispute is being resolved, Yale has done nothing to impede Toad’s operation, and believes that an agreement can be reached with Toad’s that acknowledges Yale’s property rights and allows Toad’s to meet its requirements.

TOM CONROY Feb. 20 The author is the University spokesman.

taken lightly, nor be the result of a hasty decision by an impatient TA or professor. Choosing a techfree classroom changes the class dynamic significantly and should be carefully weighed against the benefits of allowing students to use computers.

However, in many sections, seminars and small language classes — where the focus is on interactive learning, often grounded in texts, quantitative problems or materials — the scale tips in favor of a ban. Some of the benefits are obvious. Removing computers aids students’ focus and enables more interactive discussion. Students’ notes turn out more coherent, less interrupted by Facebook browsing, email pings and the time it takes to refocus.

The most important reason why professors should give tech-free classrooms more than a passing thought, however, is different. It is not about focus, the most-oft mentioned reason for banning computers.

At Yale it often seems that we live in an always-on, alwaysavailable culture. There are seemingly few acceptable reasons left for why one has not responded to a text or an email.

Sleeping, sports practices and taking an exam come to mind as the only valid reasons. These reasons are acceptable because we widely acknowledge them as all-encompassing activities that require our full attention. With computers, iPads and iPhones now used frequently during class, class has fallen off as a reason for

being disconnected.

Forcing a class to disconnect grants students the freedom to put off responding to onslaughts of digital communication without guilt. Many students don’t necessarily want to be distracted by digital communication during class. But we are part of a culture here that rewards instant responses and constant communication.

Removing technology from the classroom, then, isn’t inhibiting but rather enabling. Closing computers and iPhones empowers students to detach from their ties to their inboxes and messages, and frees them to focus on class. They themselves aren’t making a trade-off between focusing on class and attending to messages, because the professor has set the situation that way by default. Professors have the power to remove this trade-off that so many students struggle with every day. Where possible, they should consider using this power.

Going technology-free in the classroom is not an easy, or even realistic, choice for professors to make in many cases. But the option to pare down a class to the professor and students — disconnected from everyone and everything else — at least deserves consideration and close evaluation for its potential benefits.

KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG is a junior in Davenport College and a former staff reporter for the News.

Contact her at kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .

In defense of Broadway

Last week’s article (“On Broadway,” Feb. 14) criticized the new façade on the building on the corner of York and Broadway. Reaction to design is subjective, of course, but it is fair to note that one current and two past deans of Yale’s School of Architecture, individuals who serve on a design advisory committee to the University, felt that the solution arrived at for the new facade was a good one. Many viewed the old façade as pedestrian and mediocre, and former dean and world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli applauded the new one as a vast improvement.

The article’s comments about the merchandise on Broadway are perhaps less susceptible to subjectivity. Consumers vote with their dollars and the merchandise mix on Broadway, particularly the apparel stores, has been effective in creating sales volume, real estate taxes for the City and jobs for the community — much more so than any of the stores from past years. None of this is to imply that we do not welcome a dialogue, however, as University Properties is always open to new suggestions.

CARIN KEANE Feb. 19 The author is the Director of Retail Leasing and Marketing for University Properties.

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DR. SEUSS “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

GUEST COLUMNIST ABHIMANYU CHANDRA

Our extracurricular IR problem F

or decades, students keen on international relations have pounced at the opportunity for rigorous debate outside the classroom. Our current extracurricular IR milieu, however, is unrecognizable from its traditional counterpart. To our detriment, we have mutated into performing dull administrative tasks rather than focusing on intellectual attainment.

Let’s take three examples of the older model. First, in the 1940s, most Yalies, like William F. Buckley Jr., debated for hours on all sorts of issues, including IR, as part of the Yale Political Union. Second, referring to the 1950s extracurricular culture at Brown, where he studied, Yale professor Charles Hill reflected, “The intellectual approach was serious.” Third, Yale professor David Brooks’s undergraduate life at the University of Chicago in the 1970s and ’80s resembled Hill’s: “We often spent two or three hours around the table, shooting the breeze and arguing about things,” he once wrote.

At a time when interest in the YPU is in decline, a large number of organizations purport to focus on IR. But the Yale International Relations Association, the largest organization on campus, best represents the current, administrative model.

In the words of longtime YIRA member Angie Hanawa ’15, “a large part of what YIRA does is organizational work.” It hosts the annual YMUN mega-conference. It also organizes and participates in other similar conferences at Yale and

around the world, all year round.

I am a member of the organization and recently participated in its annual YMUN. To organize YMUN, YIRA begins planning a year in advance. Scores of Yalies are involved. Hundreds of emails are exchanged. Dozens of meetings are held. The content of all of this interaction: Are the placards ready? Have the rooms been booked? How many T-shirts to order? Do you know your security shift?

When one experiences the tedium inherent in putting together even one of these conferences, as I did with YMUN, one can only ask: Why? As for the intellectual content of the conference itself: Speeches are frequently based on Wikipedia articles. A typical committee’s aim is to reach a resolution on, say, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — in the space of a few hours. The memory of the pandemonium melts the snow off one’s shoulder.

Instead of organizing these mega-conferences, why doesn’t YIRA just focus on programs that truly carry intellectual content?

YIRA’s subsidiary, the Yale Review of International Studies, for example, publishes terrific scholarship.

The Global Perspectives Society, another YIRA program, organizes exciting debates and lectures. Yet within the yearlong winter of YIRA conferences, YRIS and GPS constitute but a few days of spring.

Perhaps résumés are a motivator behind the conferences. In an era of ever-competitive internship and job searches, YIRA gives one

grandiose titles: Secretary General, Under-Secretary General of General Assembly Committees, Senior Staffer of the Economic and Social Council. How could one refuse these delicious appellations?

There is a second reason as well. Former YIRA board member Suyash Bhagwat ’15 argues that “Through YIRA, you learn a vast array of life skills such as event management, planning, [internal] diplomacy, team work.” These skills, he explains, are applicable for any field one might join upon graduating.

Despite all of this, I think passing up the current model is in our interest. Relentlessly attending to our resumes is a concomitant part of our zeitgeist. But is adding a few empty titles all that valuable? They come, after all, at the expense of acquiring what President Salovey once exhorted as a “contrarian education” — which can only come from the independence of mind that follows rigorous debate. And Bhagwat might be right; skills such as event management are important. But if YIRA is teaching event management, perhaps it ought to change its name. The Yale Event Management Corporation might be a more suitable title.

Compared to the current model, the older model nurtured a more sociable environment. It placed the intellect at the forefront. People attacked each other’s ideas and advancement in an organization was based largely on one’s intelligence. In the current model, more dubious characteristics assume importance. According to Hanawa,

to thrive in YIRA you must be “thick-skinned, ambitious, charismatic, diplomatic, very political and popular.” Notice that intelligence doesn’t even come up on the list.

Finally, the older model is superior to the current one because it prepared students — Buckley, Hill and Brooks among them — to shape the IR-related institutions they entered upon graduating. The current model, in contrast, prepares students simply to game the system. The aim, as Hanawa put it, “is to scale up the ladder” — no matter how, without even questioning if the ladder is worth scaling.

We must move back to the older model. If an organization seeks to foster “debate about international relations,” it should focus on the intellectual and just keep things simple. Fostering debate when we have Yale’s tremendous resources at hand is not a costly proposition.

Why in heavens does an organization require a $350,000 budget or a near million-dollar endowment? To fulfill their mission, all that YIRA and other such organizations need to do is get a bunch of students and perhaps a few professors and guests in a room, and get them talking.

All of us at Yale strive for excellence in all its forms: the classroom, the art studio, the sports field. I hope we can restore excellence in our extracurricular IR endeavors as well.

ABHIMANYU CHANDRA is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at abhimanyu.chandra@yale.edu .

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T J A YA W E N

Empiricism is not enough

GUEST COLUMNIST JAC K M A H O N EY

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ou know the names: Gaddis, Amar, Chun, Bloom, Kagan and Kagan.

These are names synonymous with classes, synonymous with Yale. Their personalities are infused into their lectures. Students refer to these classes not with a number, not merely with a subject, but with the recognition of an artist. Michelangelo’s “David”?

How about Gaddis’ “The Cold War”?

We laugh wryly as they assign their own books as reading. We forsake seats for the aisle floor in shopping period. How can we ignore these heavyweights of Yale — professors with reputations built on more than fame, more than even their own teaching?

Indeed, these lectures thrive on momentum, tumbling forward with the mouth-tomouth recommendations of one generation of students to the next. The question, “What class should I take?” is often followed by the inquiry, “Is Kagan teaching ‘Ethics’ this semester?”

These lectures attract students from every discipline, every major. Some students rely upon the renowned classes as their final semester credit. Others construct their schedules with the courses as the centerpiece. And to speak only of these campuswide renowned super-lectures excludes the legends of individual departments. What computer science major will forget 323 with Eisenstat? What English major will forget Shakespeare with Kastan?

Yale’s celebrity classes are valuable not just for the academic experience they offer to students, but also for the ways in which they tighten our community, shaping campus narratives and identity.

In thirty years, when we meet a 2025 graduate of Yale, what will we want to talk about?

A killer Spring Fling performer? An electrifying sports victory? Such events are transient, chiefly meaningful to people who witnessed them first-hand. The residential college connections may fizzle quickly, save for memories of a shared master or dean. The most reliable shared experiences, across generations of students, might just be these famous lectures and the professors who make them.

For these titans of Yale personify what we came here to pursue — vigorous intellectual experiences, new lenses through which we can understand history, language, our world at large.

And it’s not just about the connections we form years down the line. Professors’ performances in these popular lectures provide even current Yale students with unique commonalities. Some teachers tell jokes, sometimes funny and sometimes not (Akhil Amar: “So the Supreme Court started with an even number of justices … isn’t that odd?”) Others end lecture with a bombshell quote or line, a fitting fermata to the material. They are, in effect, our campus television series: their stories and special effects provide endless fodder for discussion. They are our Sherlock, our Breaking Bad, our Game of Thrones, though exclusive to only 300 viewers and airing live on Mondays and Wednesdays.

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he first year of an economics graduate student feels like a year abroad. You spend your days parsing a new language, a mishmash of familiar letters arranged in Byzantine and objectionable ways. You stalk meaning like a hunter stalks deer, sniffing the footprints left by the algebra, looking for telltale signs: ah, yes, a tuft of fur here, a Taylor expansion there.

But when at last you glimpse it, the deer turns up its insouciant tail and vanishes, leaving you alone in the darkness of the forest, miles from home.

These days, I wrestle with econometrics proofs over my morning toast and drift to sleep reading notes on stochastic calculus. I feel my identity shifting beneath my feet. You are what you eat, sleep and breathe, after all. I might be the product of a freewheeling liberal arts education, but if he met me today, Isaiah Berlin would surely dub me a hedgehog and not a fox.

I’m glad I braved this journey. The

path is strewn with small pleasures: the near-audible click when you solve a general equilibrium problem, the wave of relief when your Matlab code unspools without a hitch.

And then there are the moments of sheer joy, of ecstatic flow, when the assumptions of a proof volunteer themselves precisely when needed, when the theorems rally to your side like old friends, when the equations form and re-form like a kaleidoscope in your mind, revealing new symmetries at every turn.

THERE IS AN ERROR TERM EVEN IN EMPIRICISM What drives me is the hope that I might someday express some truth about humanity. I have deep faith in the fundamental epistemology of

economics: That it is valid and useful to analyze people via quantitative means, and on a more cosmic scale, that empiricism can untangle the mechanisms that govern reality.

Yet — the deeper I dive into this field, the more I long for the others. Loosely speaking, science asks, “How does the universe work?” And while this is undeniably an important and meaningful question, it is not the only important and meaningful question.

To borrow from Schrödinger: Not even a perfect understanding of optometry and visible light could grant a color-blind physicist the sensation of seeing red. Science possesses manifold tools, but the expression of qualia — the visceral experience of being alive, of thoughts buzzing in your head and a pulse thrumming in your chest — falls outside its purview. As asymmetrical, emotional organisms of flesh and bone, we experience non-Euclidian space and ask nonEuclidean questions. We think in

narrative, metaphor and allusion, so tractable quantifications will inevitably be reductionist. The signifier can never fully substitute for the signified; only a madman would try to smoke a Magritte.

There is, in short, a fundamental incompleteness to empiricism.

And this incompleteness, this error term, this epsilon, humbles me in my search for truth. As I sit in lecture, contemplating market equilibria, it reminds me that the concept of utility does not exist in an ethical vacuum. It makes concrete the value of the humanities, the disciplines that gird themselves and face the slippery creature of subjectivity head-on. Science is a human endeavor devoted to understanding the syntax of reality, but we must remember that all the syntax in the world will not replace having something to say.

JAYA WEN is a first-year student in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Contact her at jaya.wen@yale.edu .

Variations on the proverbial, “Remember that one time, Professor X did Y” are ubiquitous conversation-starters. Caught in the dining hall with that one guy you sort of know from your floor? Talk about how Kagan’s last lecture blew your mind. Walking to class in awkward silence? Surprise your friend with a frighteningly accurate impersonation of Amar.

Students don’t just harp on the mystique and aura of these eminent teachers. For even the most well versed, experienced professor, the most sterling of Sterling, cannot conduct two hour-long lectures weekly without a humanizing mishap. In fact, these professors’ quirks, not their expertise, are often what most endear them to us.

In the dining hall, on the walk up Science Hill, on the bus ride to the field house, we might try to predict the favorite buzzword our professor will use, or reminisce about a few puns he or she made last class. We might laugh about Professor Chun’s excessive selfdeprecation, or the fact that we have begun to read Professor Amar’s books in his bubbly, excited voice. We might even good-heartedly rue Professor Shiller’s Nobel talk.

Yet these teachers give us more than mementos, souvenir facts or clever phrases.

While their material and quirks may be intriguing and amusing, supplying us with happy post-class diversions, we will best remember their passion, and how they challenged us to think.

We can only hope our favorites stick around — to teach us well, to mess up like real people, to excite us and to give us all something to remember.

JACK MAHONEY is a sophomore in Berkeley College. Contact him at john.mahoney@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

VOLTAIRE FRENCH WRITER

Audience speaks out at Yale-NUS panel NUS FROM PAGE 1 dom of the press. But what they spoke out against most vehemently was Yale’s role in Singapore Robertson opened the discussion by saying that the Human Rights Watch organization had openly disapproved of Yale’s interaction with Singapore back when the Yale-NUS College project started, years ago. Yale negotiated poorly with the Singaporean authorities, Robertson said, and while other American universities have gone to Singapore and clearly presented their standards for civil rights, Yale gave in to Singapore’s policies almost immediately.

“Yale basically folded early because they saw that there was a lot of money to be made there,” Roberston said. “This is a great move for the Yale Corporation but not for the reputation of Yale.”

Robertson cited an interview with the Wall Street Journal last year in which Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said students would not be subject to restrictions beyond those imposed by the Singaporean government. This means that students cannot organize on campus protests, for example, he said. Amsterdam said Lewis’s words gave legitimacy to the Singaporean government and its oppressive rules. Robertson also said such a policy at Yale-NUS could easily put students in danger.

“Some [student] is going to do something sooner or later that the Singapore government does not like,” Robertson said.

The political situation in Singapore is worsening, Robertson said, as violent racial strifes and riots take place, anti-sodomy laws are debated and freedom of

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Some of the audience members raised pointed questions about the validity of the claims made by the panelists. the press is increasingly being violated. Social media platforms are being particularly strictly regulated now, he said, which may pose a threat to students.

Amsterdam, who works as counsel for Chee Soon Juan, leader of the Singaporean Opposition Party, said he participated in the panel to advocate that Yale-NUS allow Chee to visit the campus. Amsterdam called his denial a negative decision on

the part of both Yale and YaleNUS, and he urged students and faculty to put pressure on YaleNUS. “If I were a student here, I would be camped outside the administration,” he said.

Amsterdam said Yale’s position is strengthening Singapore’s current regime. While pulling out of Singapore is not a feasible option at the moment, he said, Yale could still invite opposition

members like Chee to the campus.

The speakers’ claims were met with several objections from the audience.

Yale political science professor Jim Sleeper, known for speaking out against Yale-NUS in the past, said the campus has hosted controversial figures before. In contrast to Amsterdam, Sleeper said it could be possible for the state to let Chee

Participation tops 95% SENIOR GIFT FROM PAGE 1 than the sum of donations.

This year’s participation rate marks a half-point increase over last year’s. In the past 10 years, only two other classes — those of 2011 and 2012 — had higher participation rates.

Florian Koenigsberger ’14, who served as one of four co-chairs for the gift campaign, said that less than 48 hours before the end of giving, the participation rate hovered around 70 percent.

“I think it’s spectacular given where we were a couple of days ago,” Koenigsberger said. “A lot of people really gave this thought in the last 48 hours and decided that this was something important to be a part of.”

Because more than 95 percent of the class participated in the gift, an anonymous donor will give $100,000 in scholarship funds for study abroad. Furthermore, each residential college that had a participation rate north of 95 percent will be honored with a $10,000 one-year scholarship to be presented to an incoming freshman in the fall.

In addition to the other matching incentives, a young alumnus of Jonathan Edwards College also provides dollarfor-dollar matching funds if the college exceeds a 97 percent participation rate,

according to Assistant Program Coordinator for Graduate & Professional School Annual Giving Development AmandaLee Aponte. This year, the college met that requirement.

The Development Office also incentivizes students to give to the senior class gift.

Those who donate $100 or more are invited to a reception at the New York headquarters of Chanel hosted by Chanel CEO Maria Chiquet and Gilt Groupe Founder Kevin Ryan. Both Chiquet and Ryan serve on the Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body.

The senior class gift is an unusual collaboration between students and the Development Office, which is responsible

for Yale’s overall fundraising operation. The gift is technically a portion of the annual giving department of the Development Office, according to Andrewsen. Although the student co-chairs are responsible for designing the campaign logo and recruiting other students, the Development Office provides the co-chairs with training and helps implement their ideas.

The co-chairs are also connected with the chairman of the Yale Alumni Fund, who provides further advice on fundraising.

The class of 2013 raised a total of $29,693.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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More than 95 percent of the senior class donated to their class gift.

come to the campus.

“The government is handling Yale-NUS with kid gloves,” Sleeper said.

Other audience members claimed the speakers had made factual mistakes. One faculty member responded to Robertson’s statement that Singapore’s laws prevent Yale-NUS students from reading banned books, saying that students are actually able to read any books that they

wish. Another audience member, a student from Singapore, said Yale-NUS should not be viewed as a satellite campus of Yale, but rather more as part of the National University of Singapore.

Yale-NUS opened its doors to an inaugural class of roughly 160 students in August 2013.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .

Clinton to award million HULT FROM PAGE 1 the team’s greatest strengths is the diversity of the skills it represents.

The five members have backgrounds in chronic and microbial disease epidemiology, health management, social and behavioral sciences, and management.

Rogers said other team members’ experiences working on the ground in slums have helped the team devise effective solutions, adding that the team is using the slums of Mumbai as a case study.

“Mary’s and my experiences in the Bombay slums makes it easier to decide which ideas are feasible or not,” Adams wrote.

The semi-final round takes place on March 7 across different cities, including Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Sao Paulo and Shanghai. The Yale team, which will compete in Boston, is currently moving from brainstorming to crystallizing their strategy, said Mary D’Alimonte ’13 SPH ’14. She added that they had

pitched their ideas to the School of Management’s Social Impact Lab to get feedback from students with experience in entrepreneurship.

For the first round, teams submitted biographies describing the strengths of the group but did not outline their business proposals for preventing and treating disease, according to Yale team member Zerrin Cetin SOM ’15.

When the Yalies arrive in Boston on March 7 for the regional competition, they will first deliver a 15-minute pitch of their plan. The finalists from the first round will then vie for first place at regionals. The six regional winners will participate in a business incubator over the summer and compete for the million-dollar prize in August, Adams said in an email.

The Clinton Global Initiative, an initiative of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, was established in 2005.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

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“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IRISH PLAYWRIGHT

CORRECTIONS THURSDAY, FEB. 20

Rare bibles arrive at Beinecke

A headline incorrectly stated “Petition would ban wood smoke,” when in fact it should have stated “Petition would regulate wood smoke.”

Branford launches tech-free tea zone

BY NICOLE NG STAFF REPORTER After placing their cellphones in a box by the door, fifteen to twenty Branford College students settled down with tea and cookies in the Trumbull Room on Thursday night.

Thursday marked the sixth day of the Branford Tea Room, an initiative launched by Branford students and administrators last week that aims to create a space for students to meet new people and have authentic and meaningful conversations. Students are encouraged to go beyond the superficial and everyday conversations common on campus and discuss topics ranging from love and sexuality to Jewish Birth Right, according to Branford Master Elizabeth Bradley. The room, which has seen 30 students in one night at its peak, is open to all students Tuesday through Thursday every week from 10 p.m. to midnight.

“At Yale, there’s a pervasive mentality of work-hard, playhard that extends into many facets of campus life,” said Gabe Audu ’14, one of the students involved in planning the Tea Room. “Although that type of mentality is conducive for high pressure situations, it doesn’t allow for students or individuals to form deeper personal bonds on a more emotional level.”

The push for the Tea Room began last October, when several Branford students approached Master Bradley with concerns over the lack of authentic conversations on campus.

Inspired by the “A Place to Talk” program at John’s Hopkins University, which enables students to talk with one another and with trained peer listeners about meaningful subjects, Somin Lee ’15 said she met with Master Bradley with the idea of creating an informal space for conversation in Branford. The idea gained momentum, and in late January, Master Bradley and student organizers participated in hospitality training to learn how to create a comfortable space.

In order to enable students to stay in the present moment and appreciate each other’s company and conversation, organizers agreed that the Tea Room would be a tech-free space, Audu said.

Though students may often find it easier to talk about midterms or residential colleges, the

Tea Room aims to foster emotional, personal and philosophical conversations on topics that students may not feel comfortable discussing out of the blue in dining halls, said Victor Bloch ’14, a student organizer.

Conversations in the room typically take place in small groups. At any given moment, students may be discussing the transition to an English-based school from Ethiopia or Denmark, nutrition and fitness, feminism or the relationship between religion and Nietzsche.

Lee said because all students come to the space interested in talking with others on a deeper level, the Tea Room provides students with an outlet to make sincere friendships.

“We’re fostering a community of support and actually letting people know there are so many friends around here, but currently the culture doesn’t let us tap in to it,” Bloch said. “We have to circumvent the culture that we’ve bred so far.”

Ultimately, the organizers of the Branford Tea Room said they hope to affect a campus-wide shift in favor of deeper and more meaningful conversation outside of a two-hour slot. Lee said they hope similar spaces will spread to other colleges and that students make a greater effort in their everyday lives to talk more intimately with others.

Students interviewed said the Tea Room has been wellreceived and is starting to see regulars, as well as students from other colleges.

“It lends itself well to the conversational aspect of us getting away from everything else, while it’s also a space where you can just hang out with people you know really well or people you don’t know too well and talk about life,” said Omegar Zacarias ’16.

Master Bradley said this movement to improve campus dialogue coincides with discussions in the Education and Student Life Committee regarding residential college efforts to create an environment that promotes mental health and wellness.

The Tea Room represents a way to make progress on both fronts, she added.

The next Branford Tea Room will take place in the Trumbull Room on Tuesday.

Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .

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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library announced the acquisition of two 16th-century editions of the Bible.

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM STAFF REPORTER This month, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library announced the acquisition of two 16th-century editions of the Bible that are among the first early modern English translations still in existence.

The library purchased the two works — which were translated by William Tyndale, the first to render the original Greek and Hebrew biblical texts into early modern English — at a Sotheby’s auction in December 2013. Though the books were banned in England at the time of publication, Tyndale’s works laid the foundation for the popular King James Bible. The new acquisitions include a 1536 edition of the New Testament bound with a prayer book and a 1534 edition of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament.

“They’re really books that were intended for your average English bookbuying audience, so the anomaly is that they’re extraordinarily scarce,” said Kathryn James, the Beinecke’s curator for early modern books and manuscripts. “[England] was so politically fraught that the copies were destroyed.”

Both translations are hybrids of sorts, said Aaron Pratt GRD ’16, a student familiar with the acquisition. The New Testament was printed in Antwerp but is bound with a primer printed in London that features the arms of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII — and the Pentateuch contains a revised version of Tyndale’s first version of Genesis while maintaining the first edition texts of the other four books.

Pratt said the New Testament provides a “window into the religious life” of at least one owner in the years of the English Reformation. According to James, it also contains annotations in

the margins made by some early readers, which was the custom during that period.

James said because the Pentateuch is pocket sized, it would have served a different function than the Tyndale New Testament.

“The book is thus important not only because it contains landmark ‘firsts’ in the history of English printing and humanist scholarship, but also because it is a testament to the imperfect and always incomplete nature of translation,” Pratt said.

[T]here are a lot of classic phrases, words and passages that come from the Tyndale translation.

KATHRYN JAMES Curator, Beinecke Though John Wycliffe translated the Bible into Middle English in the late 14th century, Tyndale’s English translations were the first produced and sold in print.

Bruce Gordon, a professor of ecclesiastical history at the Divinity School, said Tyndale’s humanist education in Greek and Latin was one of the influences for his translation project.

Gordon said Tyndale began his work in Germany because it was “virtually impossible” to publish an English translation during the reign of Henry VIII. James added that there are theories regarding why the books are so scarce today, including that they were bought up and burned by the Church or were casualties of the destruction of the

Protestant libraries during the reign of Catholic Queen Mary.

Tyndale’s legacy has been far-reaching, as his works were heavily drawn upon for the later King James Bible and important for the English language at large.

“You can see there are a lot of classic phrases, words and passages that come from the Tyndale translation, such as the ‘in the beginning’ start to the Bible,” James said.

The new acquisitions add to the Beinecke’s already abundant collection of biblical texts. James said opportunities at the library abound for comparative literature studies. The library owns a Wycliffite Bible, predating Tyndale, and a Coverdale Bible, the first complete translation that was based on Tyndale’s work.

She added that the Beinecke’s proof copy of Samuel Johnson’s dictionary of the English language, which is interwoven with his manuscript notes, can also be likened to Tyndale’s works, as they both shaped the English language.

“These two works speak to each other,” James said. “Tyndale and Johnson were grappling with this question of ‘how do you even think about writing an English language,’ and they each come up with their own answers.”

Gordon said Tyndale’s works dovetail with his interest in how Bibles are integrated into the vernacular from the original biblical languages. Personally, Gordon said, Tyndale’s works fit into a broader pattern of questions about attitudes and conceptions of translations in the period.

The Beinecke purchased Tyndale’s Old and New Testaments for $305,000 and $149,000 respectively.

Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .

Committee weighs minimum wage increase

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER The Connecticut Labor and Public Employees Committee held a crowded public hearing at the State Capitol Tuesday to discuss legislation that would increase the minimum wage and punish employers more seriously for wage theft.

The Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance (CIRA), along with grassroots advocacy group Unidad Latina en Accion and undergraduate social justice organization MEChA de Yale journeyed to Hartford as a delegation to testify at the hearing.

The activists shared their experiences over the years supporting the rights of workers being paid at and under minimum wage.

The main bill under discussion was Senate Bill 32, labeled the “Governor’s Bill,” which would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 in 2017. Megan Fountain, a ULA organizer, said the legislation is part of a larger national movement to increase the minimum wage.

“This is our opportunity to

lead the nation for the right reason — with the highest minimum wage — and let it be known that Connecticut values its workers by providing them with the dignity of a decent wage,” Gov. Dannel Malloy said in written testimony submitted to the committee.

However helpful the bill might prove to the state’s 70,000-90,000 minimumwage workers, SB-32 freezes the pay rate for tipped workers at 63.2 percent of the minimum wage. Activists say this omission would leave them vulnerable to unfair labor practices, even if the wage were to be raised.

Vicente Ocaña, a server for a local catering company, said it is common practice for employers to pocket employees’ tips to boost profits. His company charges its clients a 19 percent gratuity on top of the bill — supposedly for the servers — but no matter how much that amounts to, the company, which he declined to name, pays them a flat hourly “tip credit” of seven dollars. The company, which Yale regularly hires, pockets the

difference, he said.

If the bill were to pass, Ocaña’s base pay, which is a fraction of the minimum wage, would increase by $.40.

“The company is making a profit from our tips,” Ocaña said.

“If the legislation would change it would be a big step for us. I work hard and support five kids — we can’t live off of 13 dollars an hour.”

Activists are advocating for SB-32 to raise the base pay for tipped workers to a higher percentage of the minimum wage.

Ten states require employers to pay proportionately higher wages to servers than Connecticut.

Another bill under discussion at the hearing was House Bill 5071, which increases sanctions on employers who are found to be paying their employees under the minimum wage. The bill would allow workers to sue their employers for double what they are owed and for more than two years in backpay.

In her testimony, MEChA president Evelyn Nuñez ’15 cited her involvement in the Gourmet Heaven wage theft investi-

gation, which found that owner Chung Cho had been stealing wages from workers at the popular campus deli. Though workers testified that they had been paid under minimum wage for up to a decade, they could only claim back wages for the past two years under current Department of Labor (DOL) policy.

This is our opportunity to lead the nation for the right reason — with the highest minimum wage.

DANNEL MALLOY Governor, Connecticut “The fine is so small that it doesn’t stop employers from committing wage theft,” Fountain said. “The DOL intervenes but businesses keep flaunting the law. Even if workers can recover wages, they only get a fraction of what they are owed.

If employers faced steeper consequences they would think

twice.”

While most testimony delivered at the hearing favored the bills to improve workers’ pay, some representatives from various corporations and associations testified that the bills would instead put businesses and workers at risk by overburdening employers and resulting in personnel cuts.

“In reality, minimum wage increases hurt the poor because they end up paying the increased prices for goods and services businesses have had to make to adjust for the rising minimum wage,” said Eric Gedje of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, which represents over 10,000 companies in the state.

President of the Connecticut Food Association Stan Sorkin, speaking for about 300 retail food stores, said another minimum wage raise would amount to another “tax” and would make Connecticut “uncompetitive” in attracting businesses.

Though numerous minimum wage and tipped workers accompanied the delegation, some had to leave before

they were asked to testify, as the hearing was packed and moved slowly. Activists and workers interviewed were not called to speak until seven hours after the hearing began.

Fountain said she was displeased by how inaccessible the hearing was to people who were not in the capitol regularly, as those who planned to testify had to register in person the day before.

Nunez said committee members seemed supportive of the bills, judging by their responses.

If the committee approves the labor bills, they will move to the full general assembly, and then onto the Governor’s desk.

“There has been a widening gap in Connecticut for several decades, so these bills on the table were long overdue,” Fountain said.

The first increment in the minimum wage is proposed to take place on Jan. 1, 2015, boosting the minimum wage from $8.75 to $9.15.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINATAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” THEODORE ROOSEVELT AMERICAN PRESIDENT

Stanford tops fundraising numbers again ALUMNI FROM PAGE 1 During the Yale Tomorrow capital campaign that began in September 2006 and ended in June 2011, the University raised over $3.8 billion. In 2012, when the University received its secondhighest cash donation total, 78 percent of those donations came from pledges made during the campaign.

Stanford benefitted in a similar way from its Stanford Challenge campaign, which concluded in December 2011 and raised $6.23 billion.

O’Neill said many of Yale’s peer schools completed their most recent fundraising campaigns later than Yale did, adding that these schools are still seeing the results of those campaigns unfold as donations from earlier pledges trickle in.

But Roger Noll, an economics professor at Stanford who studies alumni fundraising, said Stanford’s fundraising success primarily stems from its proximity to Silicon Valley.

“The best thing Yale could do is move out here,” he said.

Noll said Stanford’s best fundraising years often coincide with booms in the information technology industry because many of the founders and employees of firms based in Silicon Valley are Stanford graduates.

While the national economy remains sluggish, many technology companies are currently enjoying a bubble with valuations often reaching hundreds of billions of dollars, he said, adding that this enables Stanford’s alumni to be more generous with their donations.

Noll said that when Wall Street was doing well in the 80s and 90s, schools such as Yale were pulling ahead of Stanford in terms of fundraising, primarily because more Yale graduates tended to

go into finance or consulting.

Because of these cyclical fluctuations in the economy, Noll said no one at Stanford expects the university to fundraise at its current level indefinitely.

“It’s nice to say we’re so brilliant but in reality we got lucky with this windfall,” he said.

O’Neill said Stanford has also effectively leveraged its position near Silicon Valley to raise funds from people who did not attend the university. Noll said many Silicon Valley employees will often make the 10 minute walk to Stanford to visit faculty or attend lectures, adding that this level of intimacy and engagement engenders giving from people who otherwise would not have a connection to Stanford.

Although alumni giving is a small slice of the pie, it’s a catalyst for further dynamism.

ANDREW WALLACH ’80 Board member, Yale Alumni Fund Despite an overall increase in giving to universities, national participation rates among alumni have decreased, said Richard Hesel, a principal at Art and Science Group LLC, a firm that advises colleges and nonprofits.

According to Hesel, this indicates a growing division of wealth in America.

“It used to be 20 percent of givers accounted for 80 percent of dollars raised,” he said. “Now it may be that 10 percent of givers account for 90 percent of dollars raised. The rich and powerful support institutions that represent the rich and powerful.”

According to the CAE report,

the average university in America had an alumni giving rate of about 8.7 percent in fiscal 2013, a dip from the 9.2 percent figure recorded the prior year. But although participation rates may be lower across the nation, Yale’s alumni giving rates have consistently remained above 30 percent, said Mark Dollhopf ’77, executive director of the Association of Yale Alumni.

Robert K. Hopkins III SOM ’86, vice-chair of the Yale Alumni Fund Executive Committee, said the high percentage of graduates who donate to Yale is a testament to how much students cherish their time at Yale. Alumni would not give to a school unless they enjoyed their experience, he said. Dollhopf added that he and many other graduates donate their time and resources to Yale to show gratitude for how the University has changed their lives.

“Although alumni giving is a small slice of the pie, it’s a catalyst for further dynamism,” said Andrew Wallach ’80, another board member of the Yale Alumni Fund. “If you look at the universities in Europe, they tend to have less resources than their American counterparts because of a relative inability to institutionalize alumni giving.”

Though donations only represent a small percentage of operating revenue, Benjamin said even universities with multi-billion dollar endowments rely on alumni donations.

While universities seek to improve their teaching and research, the costs associated with higher education are continually rising, he said.

“The presidents, if you call them, they would say they desperately need this money just to stay in the game,” Benjamin said.

“Research is extremely expensive.”

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Both Hopkins and Wallach said

the University values alumni gifts because they can cover any gaps in funding, or advance specific projects that restricted endowment funds cannot.

Gifts to U.S. colleges and universities totaled $33.8 billion in

fiscal 2013, a 9 percent increase from fiscal 2012.

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu and ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

Grad students decry NH housing difficulties GRAD HOUSING FROM PAGE 1

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Student representatives and administrators met with a major New Haven landlord to discuss students’ complaints.

lords with New Haven properties set up booths to advertise their available rental spaces.

Wendy Xiao GRD ’17, a member of GSA who organized the fair, said New Haven is one of the most difficult places to rent in the country due to its low vacancy rate. Because of the limited availability of housing, Graduate and Professional Student Senate President Steven Reilly GRD ’15 said some landlords are less responsive to tenants’ needs.

Xiao said the housing fair aimed to educate graduate students about reliable housing options. She added that most of the landlords present at the fair were invited by GSA because they had good reputations in New Haven.

“I want students to be cognizant of the renters and to know that there are good landlords out there,” she said.

“They just might not be as prominent.”

During the fall, the GSA and the GPSS compiled students’ complaints about maintenance, security and landlord relationships. Reilly said administrators were responsive to the complaints and are discussing the issues in the newly

formed committee.

In January, student representatives and administrators also met with Pike International, a major New Haven landlord, to discuss students’ complaints.

I want students to be cognizant of the renters and to know that there are good landlords.

WENDY XIAO ’17 “Meeting face to face helped a lot,” said GSA Chair Brian Dunican GRD ’15. “The aggregation of complaints let them see what was happening and had an impact.”

After the meeting, Pike International issued a letter to students promising to improve maintenance and return students’ security deposits.

Graduate students interviewed said they attended the fair to learn more about lesser-known apartment and housing options that could improve their living arrangements.

“It’s hard, as a med school student,

to know about housing options,” Risa Wong MED ’14 said. “There wasn’t anything like this before to get to know the options.”

Alex Luryi MED ’14 said he hopes to find housing that will accommodate additional roommates, preferably in a safer location than his current apartment.

Representatives from three new apartment complexes that will soon be available to students were also present at the fair. One of these new buildings, Winchester Lofts, broke ground in September.

Forest City Property Manager Tracy Goguen said the group decided to build in New Haven after learning about the low vacancy rate in the city. She said she believes the Winchester Lofts will appeal to Yale students because of the high quality of the apartments and the building’s prominent location in Science Park.

Forbes recently ranked New Haven the eighth worst city to rent in the country due in part to its 4.1 percent vacancy rate.

Contact HAILEY WINSTON at hailey.winston@yale.edu .

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“We all have a dinosaur deep within us trying to get out.” COLIN MOCHRIE CANADIAN COMEDIAN

Malloy orders data dump

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER Governor Dannel Malloy signed an executive order yesterday to create a new online portal that aggregates and displays data from agencies across the state government. The move won him applause from transparency advocates, but triggered criticism from Republicans.

The Connecticut Open Data Portal, projected to open within a few months, will allow researchers, analysts and all members of the public to search data compiled from every state agency for the first time in state history. Much of the data that will be searchable in the portal is already available online, but is either scattered across a number of agency websites or buried in places on the state’s website that are difficult to find, said Tyler Kleykamp, who will manage the portal as the state’s chief data officer. The portal will also display some data, such as census information, that has not yet been made available to the public.

“The portal is for transparency,” Kleykamp said. “People who are looking into the effectiveness of programs and state policies will now have a greater ability to actively evaluate them.”

This [portal] can allow us to hold our elected officials and state agencies accountable.

ABE SCARR Director, ConnPIRG Kleykamp said he will work with agency heads to determine what data should remain confidential due to privacy and safety concerns.

Executive Order No. 39, which will create the new data portal, instructs all executive branch agency heads to immediately begin compiling data, which will include lists, tables, charts, graphs and non-narrative information that is statistical or fact-based, according to a press release from the governor’s office. The state has signed a contract with Socrata, Inc., a tech company that develops platforms for sharing government data, to design the portal.

Abe Scarr, director of ConnPIRG (Public Information Research Group) Education Fund, a non-profit that advocates for greater public information, said the initiative would help Connecticut rejoin the ranks of

America’s most governmentally transparent states. Recently, Connecticut has fallen behind by failing to utilize the latest technology to aggregate and share data, he added.

“This can allow us to hold our elected officials and state agencies accountable for working on behalf of the public,” Scarr said. “It can build confidence in the state government because we know we can hold it accountable and demonstrate when it’s responding and doing its job well.”

Gary Rose, head of the Department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University, said the portal could also enhance opportunities for students and researchers to evaluate policies.

Re p u b l i c a n s, h oweve r, expressed suspicion at the timing of the order. State Senator Len Fasano said he believes the governor created the portal by executive order, rather than pursuing a bill in the legislature, because he wants to claim credit for increasing government transparency in an election year.

“He keeps doing these political stunts,” Fasano said. “He wants to be the guy who says, ‘I’m the guy who has open and transparent government,’ when in fact there’s a lot of information that he stalls us on.”

Fasano cited Malloy administration officials’ use of private email accounts to conduct state business as an example of nontransparency. In November, the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information called on administrators to discontinue the practice, which can shield communication from public information requests.

David Bednarz, deputy press secretary for Gov. Malloy, said the governor has prioritized transparency since taking office.

“No one is saying that there isn’t more that could be done, and he would like to continue moving forward in this efforts,” Bednarz said in an email. “But today’s announcement is yet another step in the Governor’s overall initiative to make sure that state government is open and accessible to state residents.”

Chris Cooper, a spokesman for Tom Foley, said the portal will not change the state’s “transparency problem.” Foley narrowly lost the 2010 gubernatorial election to Malloy and hopes to defeat him in November. Cooper said the real issue in Connecticut is not lack of data, but rather the manipulation of data for political purposes.

State agencies will have 90 days to identify data suitable for posting in the portal.

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Harp supports Esserman

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Mayor Toni Harp recommended that Esserman be given an additional term as NHPD Chief to the Board of Alders.

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER Though the early stages of Mayor Toni Harp’s term have brought some changes, this week she made a call for continuity within the New Haven Police Department by pushing for the reappointment of Chief Dean Esserman.

On Tuesday, Feb. 18, Harp submitted a recommendation that Esserman be given an additional term as NHPD Chief to the Board of Alders. The Board will convene and vote on Esserman’s reappointment.

Esserman is expected to speak to the Board before the vote is held, but early indications point to the request going through.

Since her mayoral campaign, Harp has voiced support for the increased implementation of the community-policing model championed by Esserman since he took over for former Chief Frank Limon in Nov. 2011. Harp has cited this approach to public safety as a major reason for the

reappointment in numerous statements.

“I am most confident [in] Chief Esserman’s credentials and commitment to the City of New Haven [and] that he will continue to be an asset to an administration,” Harp said in a letter to the Alders.

A successful reappointment would leave Esserman in charge for another four years, through Jan. 31, 2018. Under the contract, he would earn $162,000 per year.

New Haven City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said Harp’s decision to keep Esserman was influenced by two factors: a proven track record of reducing crime in New Haven over the past twoplus years and a common philosophy with the Mayor, centering on community policing.

Grotheer cited various statistics from Esserman’s term, including lowered shotsfired, nonfatal shooting and homicide rates, which decreased by 46.6, 48.9 and 41.2 percent, respectively.

Brian Wingate, Ward 29 Alder and the

chair of the Board’s public safety committee, agreed that Esserman has been a successful police chief, and said he will support the reappointment.

Wingate added that keeping the same leader in place for an extended period of time will yield many intangible benefits, particularly in a department like the NHPD, which has seen four chiefs since Feb. 2010.

“I think that what the city of New Haven needs in the police department is consistency of leadership,” Wingate said. “There has been turnover in the past few years. I think Chief Esserman should continue the job.”

Grotheer added that Esserman’s presence, and the resulting department continuity will facilitate Harp’s broader vision for public safety.

He stressed that Harp plans to address crime reduction through means other than policing. In particular, he said, she is working to improve the socioeconomic standing of its citizens through work, education and youth program opportunities — an approach also championed in the past 20 years by former Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. “The Mayor’s approach is already a comprehensive one, in terms of providing activities for young people and in terms of economic development,” Grotheer said.“It’s a proactive approach, and the way the Mayor likes to put it is ‘it puts crime prevention on equal footing with law enforcement.’”

NHPD spokesman David Hartman said the transition has been smooth, and that the two offices have enjoyed a positive work dynamic so far. He added that the department is well-positioned to continue its work in keeping the Elm City secure.

Esserman said in an email that he look’s forward to being a part of Harp’s team.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

Snow dampens Dinosaur Days

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER Many Connecticut children spent this week back in school instead of at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History studying dinosaurs.

Dinosaur Days, the weeklong event featuring hands-on activities such as fossil digs, began over 25 years ago at the Peabody to promote the museum’s collection of paleontology. While the President’s Day holiday on Monday continued to be one of the Peabody’s busiest days of the year, the attendance and admission profits for the week have been lower than in previous years since many schools canceled school vacation week to compensate for recent snow days, said David Heiser, head of education and outreach at the Peabody.

“It’s hard to walk into [the Dinosaur Hall] and not be struck with some measure of awe,” Heiser said. “We will continue to do [Dinosaur Days]. Even if this year the numbers are a little lower we will continue to find a way to celebrate paleontology.”

Dinosaur Days has grown in size and scope over the years, and now features a fossil dig, fossil touch-table, dinosaur puppet show, and opportunities to talk to Yale researchers. This year, however, the celebration did not add any new features because the Peabody expected to close major exhibit halls as part of a roughly $30 million renovation. While the renovation has stalled due to lack of funding, the museum still decided not to add new features to the exhibit, Heiser said, adding that the Peabody is actively fundraising to start the renovation.

Dinosaur Days may not have grown in size this year, but on February 8, the Peabody opened the traveling exhibit “Tiny Titans: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies,” which features 150 dinosaur eggs. Heiser said the museum sped up the installation of the exhibit to coincide with the week.

Although the Peabody promoted Dinosaur Days on social medial platforms and through local banners, the organizers noticed a decrease in the number of attendees this year due to the canceled

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Dinosaur Days, a long-standing tradition of education and outreach at the Peabody Museum had to be postponed due to the recent inclement weather. vacation week, said event volunteer Lily Forbush. Heiser said the canceled school vacation has impacted other parts of the museum, which has also had trouble attracting children to a new camp the Peabody ran over the vacation week.

Betty Baisden, a professional puppeteer who has run the Dinosaur Days puppet show for the last 20 years, said she noticed a decline in attendance this year.

The show features puppets of many of the dinosaurs featured throughout the museum, and Baisden said she tries to make her young audience members passionate about science. About 65 people attended the show Wednesday, but Baisden said many more came in years past.

“There was a boy who came up to me today who was about 12 or 13 and told me he has come [to the Dinosaur Days puppet show] for the past 11 years because he just really likes science” Baisden added.

At the “meet-a-scientist” table, Elizabeth Clark, a graduate student of geology and geophysics in department of pale-

ontology, brought fossilized bug specimens to inspire young visitors about her field. Clark said she was surprised how much some children knew about different aspects of paleontology.

Children also embarked on their own research project in the fossil dig area, searching through a sand pit for shark teeth, bones and fossils. Patty Panico, who leads classes at the Peabody, said the dig encouraged children to draw comparisons between animals that exist today and animals that lived at the time of the dinosaurs.

“Dinosaur Days has been wonderful,” said Nicole Methot, who visited the exhibit on Wednesday. “It’s a great place to take my very energetic two year old, but the older kids are really learning wonderful information as well.”

The Peabody Museum of Natural History was founded in 1866.

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

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“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

MICHAEL JORDAN NBA HALL OF FAMER

Elis make final road trip

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The men’s hockey team has two weekends remaining in its regular season.

M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 respectively.

The Bulldog offense, which has been held to one or fewer goals just twice in the last 12 games, has been supported by scoring from the blue line, which has posted 21 points in the last four weeks.

Three defenders rank in the top five Yale point getters with Tommy Fallen ’15, Ryan Obuchowski ’16 and Gus Young ’14 all tied with 14 points. Still, Yale’s leading forwards, captain Jesse Root ’14 and left wing Kenny Agostino ’14, are coming off four- and three-point nights, respectively, against Princeton last Saturday.

The Eli defense has conceded four or more goals in three straight games, dropping the Bulldogs from 12th to 16th in the nation in team defense. In addition, the Bulldogs have been out-shot by their opponents in three of the last four games.

“We have been practicing our defensive zone coverage and rush defense all week and it has been a big emphasis for us this week in practice so we are tightening up the mistakes that have plagued us all year,” Obuchowski said.

Last time at Ingalls Rink, Yale had a tough time against Harvard (9–12–4, 5–9–4), needing to come back to tie 2–2 in overtime on Dec. 7. The longtime rivals’ highly publicized matchup at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 11 was a vastly different story. The Bulldogs dominated the Crimson from start to finish, winning 5–1 thanks to stellar play from goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 and two goals from Cody Learned ’16, who was named MVP. Yale will travel to Cambridge, Mass. on Friday night to face a red hot Crimson squad, which is undefeated in its last four games. Harvard is led on offense by rookie forward Sean Mallone, who is on a four game point streak, and leading scorer forward Jimmy Vesey, who has five points in the last three games.

The Crimson offense and defense have been playing well, scoring 11 goals in four games and shutting out their opponents twice in the same time span.

Junior goaltender Steve Michalek has regained the starting job from senior

Raphael Girard and posted a stunning .951 save percentage in his last five games. The Bulldogs trail in the all time series 82–138–19 but won 5–1 last year in Cambridge.

“I don’t think we need to put any extra focus on the day of the game,” Weberg said, referring the Elis’ Friday struggles.

“We need two wins this weekend and that starts with getting a win [on Friday]. Games against Harvard are always tough and exciting to play in. I’m expecting a good team with some highly skilled players but at the end of the day we only worry about ourselves and playing at our highest level.”

On Saturday night, the Elis will head north to New Hampshire to take on Dartmouth (6–16–3, 5–12–1 ECAC).

The Big Green routed the Bulldogs at Ingalls back on Dec 6 4–1 and come into the matchup having won three of their last four, including a sweep of conference rivals Saint Lawrence and Clarkson last weekend.

The junior forward tandem of Eric Neiley and Brandon McNally, who had three points in his last game against Yale, leads the Big Green on offense with 20 and 16 points, respectively. Goaltender Charles Grant and forward Grant Opperman won ECAC goaltender and rookie of the week last week after Grant stopped 63 shots and allowed just two goals — both on the power play — and Opperman had three points and a +4 rating last weekend. Yale leads the all time series 107-89-14 but lost last time in Hanover 7–4.

The Bulldogs will have to pick up four points on the road and need losses from Clarkson and Cornell to vault into the top four of the ECAC. “This weekend doesn’t place us under any more pressure,” Obuchowski said.

“We know we need to get the next four wins but we are focused on Friday night and if we play like we are capable, we should be looking very good.”

Yale faces off against Harvard on Friday night at 7:00 and Dartmouth on Saturday at 7:05.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

Yale seeks to turn fortunes W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 10 time,” said guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16. “We beat Columbia pretty soundly the first time around, but we can’t let that cause us to lose any focus or intensity when we play them Saturday.”

Yale (10–12, 4–4 Ivy) is poised to avenge its loss against Cornell (12– 10, 4–4) from earlier this season in Ithaca. The Big Red defeated the Bulldogs on Feb. 1 65–56, the Elis’ the first conference loss of the season. Prior to the loss, Yale had won its eight previous games against Cornell.

Statistically, Yale looks to be the team with the advantage. Prior to this weekend’s contest, the Bulldogs are averaging 66.8 points per game compared to the Big Red’s 64.5 points a game. Of late, Yale has minimized its turnovers, limiting itself to 15.3 a game, whereas Cornell averages 16.4 turnovers each contest. The Elis will also look to control the boards, where they hold a 38.9–35.4 advantage in per game averages in comparison to Cornell.

The Big Red is coming off an 84–69 loss against Harvard last weekend and will be led by forward Allyson Dimagno, who is averaging a team high 13.7 points per game in addition to 8.6 rebounds a game. Fellow Big Red Nia Marshall, who is also scoring in double figures at 12.8 points per game, will also be another player for the Bulldogs to look out for.

Following the game against Cornell, Yale will look to continue its success against Columbia (5–17, 2–6).

The Bulldogs were triumphant against the Lions earlier in the season, defeating Columbia 76–51 on Jan. 31. The Lions will visit New Haven as part of a road trip. Last weekend, the squad lost to Harvard 99–64 and defeated Dartmouth 65–59, and will travel to Brown this Friday prior to facing the Elis.

this weekend. Meredith Boardman ’16 leads the team with 6.2 rebounds per game, and the Elis will look to the bench to contribute as well.

This Saturday, the Bulldogs will be partnering with the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, the Yale Cancer Center and the “Closer to Free Fund” to host the team’s annual Pink Zone event, which raises breast health awareness.

“We are all really fired up for the Cornell game since they were able to beat us a few weeks ago, and Saturday will be a fun game as well since we get to play for a great cause in support of breast cancer research,” Halejian said.

“We are just focusing on getting our confidence and team chemistry back up and we had a competitive week of practice that set us up to do just that.”

The Elis face Cornell on Friday and Columbia on Saturday at 7 p.m. both nights at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

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The women’s basketball team will look to snap a three-game losing streak.

Elis to end season at home W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 goals scored and 1.81 goals allowed per game.

Much of the success of Harvard’s fourth-ranked defense can be attributed to goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer, who is second in the nation with a .950 save percentage.

In addition to the historic rivalry between Yale and Harvard, a second rivalry will be present at the contest between the teams’ coaches.

Eli head coach Joakim Flygh served three years as an assistant at Harvard and left for Yale in 2010. Harvard interim head coach Maura Crowell, who is at the helm this year because head coach Katey Stone is coaching the USA women’s hockey team in Sochi, joined the Crimson coaching staff that same year.

Against Dartmouth, Yale will be looking for redemption after losing

Bulldogs head to NY M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 10 on Sunday in front of NBC Sports Network cameras. Yale’s 10-point victory over Columbia back on Jan. 31 is what sparked the Elis’ current six game winning streak.

The squad figures to face a Columbia team determined to even the series.

Despite Columbia’s .500 record in Ivy competition, the Lions have shown they can rally for big games. On Feb. 14, they pushed Harvard to double overtime before succumbing to a four-point loss. Kresiberg noted Columbia’s strong performances against Michigan State and Princeton as reasons the Elis will be sure not to overlook the Lions just because of their record. “[Columbia] definitely did not give us their best showing a couple of weeks ago,” Kreisberg said. “We never underestimate our opponents and understand that Columbia can play very well.”

Despite the danger inherent in being the top team, the Elis are undeterred from their goal: to improve in every game.

Townsend noted that the Bulldogs have already improved since the start of the season.

“In the beginning of the Ivy League season we definitely hadn’t found our identity yet,” Townsend said. “I expect us to get even better. Hopefully by our last game, we’re at our best.”

The Elis tip off against Cornell at 7 p.m. on Friday.

Contact DIONIS JAHJAGA at dionis.jahjaga@yale.edu .

The Bulldogs have won their last three games against the Lions dating back to last season. The Elis have performed at a higher level so far this season, as Columbia has managed only 60.1 points per game while turning the ball over 16.9 times each contest. The Bulldogs also have an advantage on the boards since the Lions pull down only 36.3 rebounds a game.

Columbia has only one player averaging points in double figures: forward Tori Oliver, who is scoring 10.2 points per game. Forward Courtney Bradford adds a team high 6.0 rebounds a game for the Lions.

“Our goals for this weekend are to come out really strong from the very beginning of both games, to play really good and tough defense against both Cornell and Columbia, and to execute our offense efficiently,” center Emmy Allen ’16 said.

Yale will rely on guard Sarah Halejian ’15 and captain and guard Janna Graf ’14, who score a combined 25.6 points per game, to carry the team

5–4 in the final minute of the game in January.

The Bulldogs allowed five goals to an offense that ranks 30th out of the 36 teams in Division I with just 1.73 goals per game. Yale, by comparison, averages 2.41 goals per game, good for 18th in the nation.

“We’re going to have to play better defensively,” said captain and defender Tara Tomimoto ’14. “Last time we had a few major defensive errors, and I think that really cost us.”

The game will help only to determine playoff seeding for Yale, but Dartmouth will be fighting for more important matters, as it will need to erase a one-point gap behind Rensselaer in order to make the postseason.

Big Green forward Lindsey Allen, who scored two of Dartmouth’s goals in the last matchup against Yale, is the team’s leading scorer by far with 13 goals this season.

The Bulldogs also have a slight advantage defensively, entering the weekend averaging 2.96 goals allowed, while Dartmouth has allowed 3.12 goals per game.

Still, Haddad said Yale is trying not to let the statistics affect its mentality going in.

“In the past, we’ve come out with an attitude where we know that we’re better than them, and as a result we expect ourselves to win and don’t actually try,” Haddad said. “We’ve been thinking about it all week in practice, and we’re prepared to play as if they are Harvard, Clarkson, Cornell, anyone we could be playing in the playoffs.”

Yale will face Harvard at Ingalls Rink tonight at 7:00 p.m. and Dartmouth tomorrow at 4:00 p.m.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

Squash to compete for title

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The women’s squash team will face Princeton in the first round of the CSA championships.

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The men’s basketball team is tied with Harvard for first in the Ivy League with a 7–1 record.

strong,” she said. “Regardless, the team has trained hard the whole season, and we really hope to do well this weekend for our coaches, for ourselves and for Yale.”

Mao will play at the third position for the Bulldogs. She swept her Princeton opponent 3–0 when the teams met earlier this season.

According to Mao’s sister Shiyuan Mao ’17, the team is confident and excited to be going back to play Princeton after winning on those courts two weeks ago.

The Elis will be playing on wall courts this weekend instead of the glass courts at Paine Whitney Gym’s Brady Squash Center.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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Men’s basketball hits the road

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER After prevailing over Princeton in overtime last weekend, the Yale men’s basketball team will travel to New York for a pair of games against Cornell and Columbia. As they approach the end of the Ivy season, the Bulldogs are playing their best basketball, but a dangerous stretch of games now lies ahead.

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The men’s hockey team will travel to take on Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend.

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER The No. 14 men’s hockey team plays its final two road games this weekend against traditional Ivy opponents Harvard and Dartmouth. Coupled with losses from the teams above them, the Bulldogs (13– 8–4, 8–7–3 ECAC) not only

have the opportunity to jump from fifth to second in the Ivy standings, but — more importantly — jump from sixth to third in the ECAC standings, which would put the Elis in position to have home ice for the conference tournament.

“We are a strong skating team,” said forward Nicholas Weberg ’15. “We need to suffo-

cate teams and wear them down with our skating and energy. If we do that well this weekend I think we can be very successful. At this point in the season everyone in our team knows our systems. It just comes down to how well we execute them.”

Yale has had an inconsistent second half of the year, going 6–5–1 since January, and

has slipped down to 21st in the PairWise rankings, whose top 16 teams typically receive bids to NCAA tournament. The men’s hockey team has fared better in its Saturday matchups than its Friday contests.

The Elis have gone 9–2–3 and 3–6–1 on Saturday and Friday,

Yale to face Crimson, Big Green

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The ECAC women’s hockey regular season will wind down this weekend, but the Bulldogs are just warming up.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Yale’s home matchups against No. 5 Harvard (20–4–3, 15–3–2 ECAC) and Dartmouth (7–18–1, 6–13–1) this weekend will mark its final two games before the first round of the playoffs begins next week.

“We want to be playing our best hockey by the time we get

into the playoffs,” said forward Jamie Haddad ’16. “We had an okay weekend [last week] against Princeton and Quinnipiac, so we’re really hoping to use this weekend as a stepping stone to perfect everything we’ve been working on.”

The last time the Bulldogs (8–13–6, 6–8–6) faced the Crimson and Big Green, they split the weekend, but not in the way that most would expect. Yale fell 5–4 to Dartmouth, now ninth in the ECAC, before upsetting Harvard 2–0 the next night.

The win on the road was the first time Yale has defeated Harvard in Cambridge since 1981.

“They underestimated us the first game,” Haddad said. “In the past we haven’t really brought a good game to them, so I don’t think they were ready for it last time. They’ll be ready, and we’ll be ready for that.”

That weekend in January was the second weekend following the return of forward Jackie Raines ’15, who has been on fire recently with eight goals in 10 games. Raines tallied four against Princeton last Saturday.

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With its new status as one of the premier teams in Ivy League basketball, Yale figures to face even tougher competition from here on out. Though the Elis (13– 9, 7–1 Ivy) are tied with Harvard for first place in the conference, they dealt the Crimson a loss in their visit to Cambridge two weeks ago. No other Ivy team has beaten Harvard, either at home or away, so far this season. The game against Princeton last week could be indicative of the kind of competition the Bulldogs will face moving forward.

“Now that we are one of two teams with only one loss, there is a target on us,” said center Jeremiah Kreisberg ’14. “Each team we play from now on has a chip on

their shoulder because they probably felt they underperformed against us the first go around.”

The Elis will face this challenge when they take on the Big Red tonight. Cornell (2–20, 1–7) is in the midst of a rebuilding season, having graduated four of its five starters a year ago. The Big Red have struggled in Ivy League play almost as much as they have against nonconference foes. Nevertheless, Cornell has shown an ability to stay in games, as seen in its first visit to New Haven.

Last time around, Cornell outscored the Elis in the second half, with guard Nolan Cressler scoring his season-high of 29 points.

The Bulldogs came out on top, but only by four points. Forward Matt Townsend ’15, who hit several key shots late in the game, noted the Elis’ rededication to defense since their last matchup with Cornell.

“I think the past couple of days we’ve re-found our identity as a defensive-stopping team,” Townsend said. “We’ve been working a lot on containing guards and I’m confident we’ll do a good job of that on Friday.”

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Bulldogs return home

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The women’s basketball team will look to halt its three-game skid against Cornell and Columbia at home this weekend.

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The women’s basketball team will host Cornell and Columbia this weekend.

Women head to championships

BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s squash team will travel to Princeton to face eight rival teams in the College Squash Association’s Team Championships this weekend.

SQUASH The Eli women (15–3, 5–2 Ivy) will play in the CSA’s A Division, battling for the Howe Cup. Yale is currently ranked No. 4 behind Harvard, Trinity and Penn.

The remaining four competing teams are Princeton, Cornell, Stanford and Dartmouth. Yale’s first match will be against No. 5 Princeton.

“We’re entering the weekend with no expectations,” captain Lilly Fast ’14 said.

“But we’re ready to push ourselves as hard as we can.”

This season, Yale’s three losses were to Harvard, Trinity and Penn. The Trinity and Penn matches were especially close,

with the Bulldogs falling 5–4 both times.

Yale’s first round matchup against Princeton comes on the heels of a close catch against the Tigers. Yale beat Princeton 5–4, unseating the Tigers from the No. 4 rank to No. 5.

According to Fast, the team is excited to meet Princeton again on Friday. In their last meeting, Fast was defeated at the sixth spot by her opponent.

“This is the culmination of all the hard work we put in this season so we’re excited to get out there and play aggressively,” she said.

If Yale bests Princeton, the Bulldogs will advance to play the winner of the match between No. 1 Harvard and No. 8 Dartmouth.

Shihui Mao ’15 said she believes Yale can bring the Howe Cup home based on past matches. She added that Princeton will be a tough opponent.

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The women’s squash team will compete at the CSA national championships this weeekend.

GOALS SCORED BY THE SWISS WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY TEAM IN THE THIRD PERIOD OF THE BRONZE MEDAL MATCH AGAINST SWEDEN. ONE OF THOSE CAME FROM YALE FORWARD PHOEBE STAENZ, WHOSE TALLY TIED THE GAME AT 2-2. SWITZERLAND WENT ON TO WIN 4–3.