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Miller, Pollard to step down

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Love et veritas. On Thursday afternoon, freshman couple Kasidet Manakongtreechee ’17 and Christina Zhang ’17 created a massive drawing in the snow on Science Hill of the Yale Lux et Veritas seals. The artwork showed that even in the darkest winter, love can create a little lux.

Goodbye and thanks for all the fish! The Saybrook 12-pack

threw a party in honor of Yale College Dean Mary Miller following the announcement of her impending departure.

“Discuss your thoughts on the ‘mapa,’ and kick off MC Miller Lite’s lame-duck semester in style,” the invitation said.

Apparently, there was also an ice luge.

Round 1: Résumé Drop.

More competitive than your consulting interview, more lucrative than your investment banking offer, the nation’s two most elite a cappella groups are holding their info session about joining today.

Presentations about The Whiffenpoofs and Whim ’n’ Rhythm are taking place at Broadway Rehearsal Lofts in anticipation of auditions next month.

SlIfKEA. Now you can

take your favorite Jewish community center home with you. According to a Slifka Center announcement, boxes of stuff found in the center’s basement are up for grabs in the “purple couch room.” Campus pawn stars can help themselves to books, wrapping paper and Shabbat candlesticks! Have at it Yale.

The thirst is real. A new

student startup called H2Yale is delivering cases of water to student doorsteps for 62 cents a bottle. How soon until the business model expands to include beverages of all variety (and alcoholic content)?

Ale at Yale! BAR hosted

the Connecticut Real Ale Festival this Sunday, with participating breweries from across New England. For $40, attendees could sample drinks from breweries including Cambridge Brewhouse, Half full and Cavalry Brewing.

Proceeds went to local New Haven children’s charities.

Three paths diverged on a winter’s day— Kappa, Pi Phi or

Theta? Sorority bids come out today. But remember, calling somebody else fat won’t make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn’t make you any smarter. And ruining Regina George’s life definitely didn’t make Cady any happier.

All you can do in life is try to solve the problem in front of you.

The morning after. Silliman

held their first Screw this weekend at Elevate.

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DEAN POLLARD ENCOURAGED CHANGE, EXAMINED CURRICULA, SPARKED RENOVATION OF HALL OF GRADUATE STUDIES

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTERS Four years ago, Thomas Pollard was the chair of the search committee for a new Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. But in a surprise turn of events, the committee went behind his back to recommend Pollard himself for the job to then-University President Richard Levin — a recommendation that was met with approval.

In his years of deanship, Pollard has maintained a tighter grasp on the graduate school than he did on that committee. In a school where change has been comparatively slow, Pollard spearheaded a controversial movement to closely track the school’s goings-

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER AND MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTERS It was a somber scene in Battell Chapel when family, friends, colleagues and students of the late Samuel See gathered Saturday to pay tribute to the 34-year-old Yale assistant professor who died unexpectedly last November.

But through song, readings and personal anecdotes, those closest to See looked past the tragedy of his death to memorialize the life he led: as a scholar, a teacher and a deeply understanding and devoted friend.

“I am the most proud mother in the whole world,” See’s mother, Ann Sturdivant, told more than 100 people gathered to celebrate her son’s life. “Rather than grieve our loss, we elicit wonder — wonder at what our lives would be like if Sam had not lived.”

DEAN MILLER’S TENURE A BALANCING ACT BETWEEN FISCAL CONSTRAINTS AND EDUCATIONAL REFORMS

on and mobilize the results of various surveys, pushing forward incremental changes in student life and encouraging academic departments to evaluate their teaching and advising practices.

At the same time, Pollard made the long-deferred renovation of the Hall of Graduate Studies a priority for the administration.

“He started the ball rolling on a number of things it would be nice to see come to fruition,” Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) President Brian Dunican GRD ’15 said.

Former University President Richard Levin said Friday that Pollard’s tenure was notable for the dean’s efforts to SEE POLLARD PAGE 4

See’s life celebrated See’s mother described his “innate brilliance, charm and humor,” recalling See’s childhood in Bakersfield, California. As a preschooler, she said, See told classmates his curly, blonde hair came from eating angel food cake. He wanted to find a way to take the rainbow to school. Her son’s enthusiasm and curiosity were matched only by his “generosity of love,” she said. His intellect, she added, made him every teacher’s favorite, whether or not he was in that teacher’s class.

“Some essence of Sam lives in each of us,” she concluded. “His journey as a mortal man has ended, and now his legacy begins … Our love for you, Sammy, is eternal.

Godspeed, Sam.” English Department Chair Langdon Hammer ’80 GRD ’89 opened SEE MEMORIAL PAGE 4

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BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTERS When Mary Miller was appointed dean of Yale College on Oct. 10, 2008, the stock market — along with Yale’s endowment — was in free fall.

The first years of Miller’s term, which will come to a close when she steps down as dean at the end of this academic year, were deeply affected by the University’s financial woes, which froze new faculty hiring and prevented the planned construction of the two new residential colleges. But balancing the fiscal storm that ensued after the 2008–’09 financial crisis with the University’s efforts to improve the quality of undergraduate education and increase accessibility was only one

part of Miller’s term as dean. A series of initiatives — a review of the findings of the Committee on Yale College Education, an administrative effort to address the University’s sexual climate, the return of ROTC to Yale’s campus for the first time since the Vietnam era and a push to increase Yale’s accessibility to lowincome and first-generation college students — will likely be regarded as Miller’s lasting contributions to the College.

“Her experience as an exceptional scholar, wonderful teacher and residential college master [has served] her well as dean,” University Secretary Kimberly Goff-Crews said. “I have been in many meetings with her where her wisSEE MILLER PAGE 4

GHeav employees counter protest

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER Holding up signs encouraging Yale students to end their Gourmet Heaven boycott, workers at the New Haven and Providence stores and some of their family members chanted “Leave!” in Spanish, drowning out the activists’ usual chants.

About 20 Gourmet Heaven employees came out Friday at 5:30 p.m. to counter activists’ and fired workers’ weekly picket of the popular campus deli. Gourmet Heaven, which the Connecticut Department of Labor charged with committing wage theft over several years, has four locations, two in New Haven and two in Providence, R.I. The current workers contended they are being treated fairly by their employer, distributing pamphlets alleging that ULA has been lying about the wage theft and that all employees are making legal wages.

“They say they want to help us but they’re actually screwing us over,” said

Reynaldo Garcia, an employee who has worked at Gourmet Heaven for two years.

“We’re doing this to defend our jobs. We had no problems or complaints.”

Employees said they were worried that the diminished business from the boycott would cause them to lose their jobs.

Activists from La Unidad Latina en Accion and MEChA de Yale began the boycott and have been picketing weekly since August in reaction to the DOL’s confirmation of wage theft. Workers told the News last month that prior to a Department of Labor investigation that began in July, they had been making weekly salaries as low as $320 for 72 hours of work.

Gourmet Heaven owner Chung Cho is still working to pay $140,000 in unpaid wages and overtime to more than two dozen workers, as mandated by the DOL settlement. Several of the workers at the counter protest said they had received back paychecks.

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GUEST COLUMNIST JA M E S D O S S - G O L L I N

End harmful R expansion “A

s a product of the American Dream myself, I am inspired by it. I am committed to preserving it.” Such were the grand words of Yale President Peter Salovey, welcoming the Yale class of 2017 and declaring the fight against inequality a priority of his administration. Indeed, he has been a global leader in bringing issues of inequality, social mobility and higher education to the forefront of intellectual debate.

Unfortunately, his great institution has yet to embrace these words when dealing with its neighbors in New Haven, a hometown Yale and I share.

Though the issue of towngown relations is less heated than it has been in the past, it’s a driver of my city’s identity and politics. Nothing better represents this than hiring: The core argument of labor unions representing municipal and Yale employees, whose chosen candidates swept to power in November’s elections, has correctly been that Yale must hire more workers locally. This month brought an encouraging development when Yale partnered with New Haven Promise — a scholarship designed to promote a collegegoing culture in New Haven — to bring 69 New Haven high school graduates to a hiring event with 12 Yale managers.

Building a homegrown middle class through professional networking and internship opportunities for local youth shows the University’s commitment to expanding the networks of town-gown relationships. These career opportunities complement the excellent service work done through Dwight Hall by student organizations like REACH, a college application assistance program that I founded.

But unfortunately, service work by students and smallscale hiring programs cannot solve the fundamental problems that plague the University’s relationship with the people of New Haven. Ultimately, these problems stretch far beyond economic inequality.

They’re about a power imbalance and fairness.

Yale is, by far, the largest landowner in downtown New Haven. Yale owns commercial properties along the Green, between College and York Streets, in the Audobon Street area, by Broadway, by the Medical school and the Hill neighborhood, at Science Park and a neighborhood housing project in Newhallville.

Although there are some positive effects from Yale’s ownership and development of commercial properties, the

interests of the University are inherently different from those of the communities in which it owns property. In particular, the Hill neighborhood around the medical campus is dealing with the effects of rapid and local gentrification. While some gentrification can benefit local homeowners, over 70 percent of New Haven families rent their home — meaning that the people who reside in that community see no benefit.

It’s also important to remember that Yale’s academic buildings — located on some of the priciest real estate in Connecticut — are exempt from paying municipal property taxes. Given the city’s budget problems, the political influence of the University and Yale’s seemingly unending ability to construct gleaming new buildings, it is predictably hard for New Haven residents to see expansion projects as beneficial.

Alongside the gentrification of vulnerable neighborhoods, Yale has been making a bold and unpopular declaration that the downtown district is reserved for the elite, rather than ordinary citizens of the city. While neither public planning nor the free market would likely bring upscale boutiques such as the newly opened L’Occitane to New Haven, Yale’s size allows it to offer advantageous rents to companies that promote its desired image of the city.

Another controversial move was the May eviction of longtime tenant Au Bon Pain, precipitated not due to lack of profitability (the company wanted to stay) but because Yale seemingly felt an affordable sandwich shop no longer fit the image of a desired tenant. Employees were given merely four days’ notice that the lease would not be renewed.

Now, there are unconfirmed rumors that a Brooks Brothers store may take its place.

I firmly believe that Yale and New Haven share the future.

Neither the city nor the University can move, and neither can survive without the other.

When Rick Levin and John DeStefano Jr. put aside centuries of conflict to begin two decades of partnership and renewal, New Haven became a more prosperous, safe city and Yale a global university.

But while Yale exercises its secretive and exclusive development practices over New Haven, the shared growth of both will be impossible.

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Class on Tumblr The Tumblr has done a good job of highlighting the varied perspectives Yale students have on class, displayDIANA ing responses from stuROSEN dents of difLooking Left ferent socioeconomic statuses. But, reading through the 50-word remarks, I couldn’t help but wonder about the ultimate goal of all this discourse. Was it to make people feel more comfortable when issues of class arise? Or simply to recognize the discomfort that class evokes?

Some of the opinions voiced on the Tumblr address these questions. And it seems that everyone has different answers. One post suggested that talking about class doesn’t dispel tensions — it forces us to acknowledge harsh realities: “It’s so important to have this kind of open dialogue about it, because without dialogue, we’re all just living in this fairy tale that we share the same background.

We don’t.”

Another anonymous user echoed a sentiment similar to Salovey’s freshman address:

ecently the Peer Liaisons created a Tumblr called Class at Yale. On the site, they ask Yale students to anonymously submit responses of 50 words or less to the question, “What are your feelings about class at Yale University?” Over the last week, the blog received over 60 responses on topics ranging from financial aid to clothing choices. Although still small in scope, the Tumblr indicates that as a campus we’re starting to get better at talking about class. Now it is time to start looking for concrete results.

President Salovey asked us to consider discussing class more in his freshman address last August, calling the topic one of the few remaining taboos at Yale: “The uncomfortable conversations that you will certainly have — in Commons or in your common room — represent opportunities for true understanding and true friendship with classmates whose families are far different from your own.”

The conversation about class has been growing. Student publications have put out a markedly large number of articles on financial aid and income differences on campus. Now, the Class at Yale page has moved the conversation to a public online forum.

“This blog, I believe, is not meant to be a place for complaining, but a place at which people can help each other understand their differences without taking for granted what each person has gone through.” Posts on the Tumblr cited a wide range of other reasons to talk about class, including improving the discourse around New Haven’s poverty, changing the way class discussions are frequently reduced to a rich-poor conflict and calling out “entitled rich-kid behavior at Yale.”

All of these thoughts are reasonable. But it’s time to start explicitly discerning what our long-term goal is in intentionally shifting the class conversation.

We can, and should, make our discussions on socioeconomic status more focused.

Last year, the student activist group Students Unite Now (SUN) circulated a petition asking the University to build a center with resources for low-income students where honest discussions on class could take place, a concept similar to the cultural houses. Right now seems like the prime time for Yale to do this. Students have been discussing class much more than they were even 10 months ago. It’s time for more serious conversations that include faculty and administrators.

Yale appears to be making a commitment to improving the college experience for students of all socioeconomic backgrounds.

The Freshman Scholars at Yale program was started in an attempt to ease the transition to college for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. It seems to have been very successful and will presumably continue in future years.

Salovey’s remarks on class were also a step in the right direction, even if they were accompanied by a strange remark somewhat dismissing the time commitment of term-time employment: “Gone are the days when students spent many hours waiting tables.”

Campus publications, the Freshman Scholars program and Salovey’s speech have effectively forced discussion on socioeconomic status at Yale. The posts accumulated by the Class at Yale Tumblr are a testament to this, and it is critical that safe spaces like this blog exist. But Yale needs to find a way to solidify its commitment to providing resources alleviating disparities between students. Opening a center for class is a logical next step.

DIANA ROSEN is a sophomore in Pierson College. Her columns run on Mondays. Contact her at diana. rosen@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST MICHAEL HERBERT

Starting Chi Psi W

hen I first told my mom that I planned to start my own fraternity, she laughed. I couldn’t fully explain my decision — I suppose I was pursuing a different sort of friendship, deeper bonds.

In high school, I had a very close friend named JT who was a year ahead of me in school. JT pledged Chi Psi at the University of Colorado when I was still a senior and would often tell me fun stories about his endeavors.

I didn’t pay particular attention at the time. But when I arrived at Yale, JT broached the subject once again and it struck a chord.

He suggested I try to start a Chi Psi chapter at Yale. And like Forrest Gump when Bubba suggested they go into the shrimping business together, I said, “Ok.” I began talking to my closest friends to gauge interest.

It wasn’t that I saw anything missing from Yale’s Greek scene — rather, I thought there was something Chi Psi could add in its unique values and approach to friendship. The experience that followed my decision has been both challenging and enthralling. Having begun with no mem-

bers and a dispersed group of alumni — old-timers who had been detached from the fraternity for at least fifty years (Chi Psi went dormant at Yale in 1963) — we gained a special understanding of what Drake meant when he said “started from the bottom.”

But we have pressed on, driven by a common vision and the opportunity to have an impact that will be palpable for years to come.

Though the specifics of this vision have developed and evolved with the organization, there are certain aspects that have endured since its inception.

Our founding vice president, Jordan Bravin '16, likes to say Chi Psi is “a gentleman’s fraternity.”

That has been a simple principle to promote — we encourage intellectualism and classy dispositions, attracting members who carry themselves with pride.

Other values, like the desire for self-development and enduring bonds of friendship, are more ambitious and challenging to pursue.

Fraternities were originally founded to build better men.

First as literary societies and then as social groups (with Chi Psi

being the first social fraternity), they sought to prepare their brothers to lead upright lives and make positive contributions in their communities. Certainly the purpose and perception of many fraternities have changed today.

But there is a reason that an overwhelming number of Fortune 500 executives, U.S. presidents, senators and congressmen have participated in Greek life. Fraternities can make constructive contributions to a campus and its members. Yale sends the wrong message to the Greek community with the prohibition of fall rush and an alcohol policy that makes it difficult for fraternity presidents to do the right thing and prioritize safety. The Greek community should be valued on campus — at its core, it is a system built to promote values and strong friendships.

Chi Psi has not yet been very active in that Greek community.

Our campus legitimacy has been inhibited because we have been lacking in terms of resources, and our members are overwhelmingly sophomores. The time commitments associated with re-chartering the chapter

have been significant. But such factors will no longer constrain us now that we have received our charter and benefitted from the prodigious generosity of our alumni and national headquarters. We are on the cusp of doubling in size with our incoming pledge class. At certain universities around the country, such as the University of Washington, students talk of the “Chi Psi nice guys.” We are hopeful this phrase will soon become part of the Yale vernacular.

I have no doubt that if I hadn’t pursued the founding of Chi Psi, I could have gone through my four years at Yale and graduated with a myriad of friends, a handful of good friends and a pocketful of campfire-ready memories. But in founding Chi Psi, we’re aiming for something larger. This fraternity will not only bring new friendships to the campus — but also change the way people percieve Greek life.

MICHAEL HERBERT is a sophomore in Saybrook College. He is the president of Yale’s Chi Psi chapter.

Contact him at michael.herbert@yale.edu .

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JAMES DOSS-GOLLIN is a junior in Silliman College. Contact him at james.doss-gollin@yale.edu .

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Salovey's hypocrisy I

t is hypocritical for President Peter Salovey, in his condemnation of the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli academic institutions, to invoke the boycott’s suppression of “academic freedom.” While Israeli and American students have the privilege of speaking their minds at their universities, Palestinians are forced to remain silent or face persecution.

The Israeli academy has deprived Palestinian academics of the very freedoms that Salovey claims to defend. In fact, Palestinian academic freedom is virtually nonexistent under Israeli occupation. I support the ASA’s boycott on Israeli academic institutions until Palestinians are afforded basic human rights. After all, shouldn’t these "fundamental values of scholarship and academic freedom" be afforded to every human being, not just to Israelis and Americans?

President Salovey’s concern for “academic freedom” overlooks Israel’s blatant and systematic deprivation of basic rights to Palestinians, beyond academic freedom. Indeed, Israeli occupation limits and obstructs access to basic necessities, such as food and water. These fundamental human rights are a necessary precondition for the academic freedom

that President Salovey defends, but they are not upheld.

Despite Salovey's claim, it is crucial to understand that the ASA's boycott will not necessarily "close off discussion and dialogue." The boycott is not designed to restrict the freedoms of individual Israeli scholars, academics or students, and does not request that American scholars cease traveling to Israel for their research. The ASA plans to engage with Israeli academics on this topic, inviting a number of them to its 2014 annual meeting.

The ASA has said that they only refuse to "enter into formal collaborations with Israeli academic institutions, or with scholars who are expressly serving as representatives or ambassadors of those institutions (such as deans, rectors, presidents and others), or on behalf of the Israeli government."

This legal, nonviolent form of resistance puts pressure where I believe it is needed — on those institutions that financially support Israel's occupation of Palestine through the development of armed weapons and political strategies that perpetuate the ongoing conflict. “School closures, limited freedom of movement, violence, visas denied for Fulbright grants and other scholarly opportunities — these are the

very real abridgments of academic freedom that the ASA resolution was meant to draw attention to,” explained Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale Professor of American Studies and History.

Yale students who support the ASA's boycott believe that conversations about academic freedom must include the history of Israeli closures and raids on Palestinian universities, and the hundreds of students detained in Israeli facilities for their opposition to state oppression and “undisclosed reasons.” The ongoing 46-year settler-colonial occupation of Palestine creates fundamental injustices that the ASA’s boycott attempts to address. As ASA President and Professor Curtis Marez has said, “Universities are active participants in, and important enablers of, Israel’s repressive, unjust and illegal policies toward the Palestinians."

Contrary to their mission, not a single Israeli academic institution has petitioned their government to protect the Palestinian right to education. The ASA chose not to ignore the call of Palestinians to support the boycott — bringing an overlooked struggle to the spotlight.

Rightly concerned about its complicity as an American institution, the ASA has stated that it

"condemns the United States’ significant role in aiding and abetting Israel’s violations of human rights against Palestinians." The United States is the biggest supporter of the Israeli state, and has the power to change its policies. As a result, American organizations, such as the ASA and Association for Asian American Studies (which voted to boycott in spring 2013), have a responsibility not to be complicit in human rights abuse.

President Salovey’s opposition to the ASA’s boycott is misleading because the boycott does not restrict academic freedom.

Yale must take this opportunity to provide leadership in speaking for Palestinians who have been prevented from speaking for themselves. We can remain complicit in Israeli human rights violations on Palestinians or demonstrate our opposition.

Unlike the perpetual wars waged by the world's military superpowers, the boycott aspires for an endpoint. If Israeli institutions will put an end to the continual violation of Palestinian's basic human rights, the boycott's limitations on academic partnerships will be put to an end as well.

CHELSEA FARIA is a first-year student at the Divinity School. Contact her at chelsea.faria@yale.edu .

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People’s Caucus talks priorities

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER More than 70 city residents put pen to paper on Saturday afternoon to help six New Haven alders craft an agenda designed to overcome what the lawmakers described as pervasive divisions in the city’s politics.

The breakaway People’s Caucus on the Board of Alders drew a diverse crowd of discontented residents to the basement of a Dixwell church for a crash course in local politics, a history lesson and a brainstorming session.

Saturday’s event was the first for the fledgling caucus, formed in January as an alternative to the Board’s union-backed Democratic leadership.

Caucus members downplayed concern that Yale’s UNITE HERE unions, Locals 34 and 35, play an outsized role in municipal politics. Instead, they argued that common-sense solutions and constituent services should transcend factionalism.

“We are not an opposition party,” Ward 19 Alder Mike Stratton said. “We don’t hate anybody.”

Opposition has long immobilized city government in New Haven, said Yale School of Management professor Douglas Rae, who gave a short presentation on the history of “factionalism and infighting” in New Haven. Rae served as the city’s chief administrative officer in the early 1990s under former New Haven Mayor John C. Daniels. During that time, he said, “it was the Italians versus the Irish.”

Rae offered four examples of governmental and nongovernmental initiatives that have united residents instead of dividing them: a 1,000-member

New Haven youth soccer league founded in 1983; the advent of community policing, designed to tie local officers to the communities they protect; the scholarship program New Haven Promise, funded in part by Yale University; and the Urban Resources Initiative, a tree-planting organization.

Another such collaborative, consensus-building group is what “you hope to become,” Rae said of the People’s Caucus.

Presentations preceding Rae’s sought to elucidate the city’s ills and the community work underway to address those problems.

Lee Cruz, a Fair Haven activist, said the government should do more to tap into the initiative of community organizers.

Mark Abraham ’04, executive director of the local nonprofit DataHaven, offered statistics revealing the gravest threats to residents’ quality of life. Just 19 percent of living-wage jobs in New Haven are held by city residents, he said. The figure troubled the events’ attendees.

“Does the city know this?” asked Yul Watley, a local housing authority contractor. City activist Wendy Hamilton said politicians do know — but they do not care.

Ward 28 Alder Claudette Robinson-Thorpe, a founding caucus member, countered that “we’re trying to work on it.” RobinsonThorpe offered insight into her reasons for joining the People’s Caucus, having won election to the Board in 2009 and then again in 2011 with labor backing. She said being in the “union’s camp” was counter to the interests of her constituents. Another caucus member, Ward 21 Alder Brenda Foskey-Cyrus, has cut ties with the majority team as well.

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The breakaway People’s Caucus on the Board of Alders, supported by dozens of discontented residents, will work to overcome local infighting.

Alders Anna Festa, Richard Spears and Carlton Staggers round out the caucus. Having initially declared himself a member, Ward 7 Alder Doug Hausladen ’04 has since shied away from public identification with the breakaway group. He was tapped last week by Mayor Toni Harp to serve as the city’s transportation, traffic and parking director.

Caucus members asked attendees to write down words describing New Haven today and

words to describe New Haven the way they wish it would be.

For the first, attendees enumerated New Haven’s most pressing problems, naming specifically segregation, violence and joblessness. They also described the city’s strengths — one person said “cosmopolitan;” others mentioned the city’s numerous institutions of higher education, including Yale. Fairness and opportunity were two ideals attendees emphasized in describing the way New Haven

Yale Health launches Epic

should be.

Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, a former Ward 10 alder who challenged Harp for the mayor’s office in 2013, came as an audience member, contributing that “we’d like to see New Haveners trust each other more.”

Other solutions were more bluntly put.

“Tax Yale!” cried Hamilton, reiterating the demands of numerous attendees that taxexempt nonprofits in the city contribute more to New Haven’s

HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER While little looks different at Yale Health today, the electronic information system that records all patient information is brand new.

Today, Yale Health launches the electronic health records system (EHR) Epic — one of the nation’s most used electronic health record systems. Epic replaces Allscripts, another EHR which Yale Health has used for the past decade to record and store patient information. The transition will facilitate the flow of information among Yale Health, Yale Medical Group (YMG) and Yale New Haven Health System — which includes Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH), Greenwich Hospital, Hartford Hospital and Northeast Medical Group. For those transported from Yale Health to another hospital in the system, Epic ensures that receiving physicians will have immediate access to their information.

“This is a giant leap forward,” said Paul Genecin, director of Yale Health, in a Friday email to the News.

In addition to coordinating records across the Yale systems, Epic brings numerous benefits to physicians. Under Allscripts, many departments at Yale Health, including emergency medicine, opthamology, and obstetrics, were left with paper records that had to be scanned and uploaded into the system. Epic

allows physicians in these departments to digitally input the information.

The system is built to be intuitive, said Gary Friedlaender, the chief of orthopedics at YNHH. After a physician logs into Epic, the first screen that appears asks “why” the doctor is using the system. Epic centralizes many common tasks, such as calling other doctors, checking medications, sending prescriptions and scheduling patient visits, he said.

I sense that medical students and residents adapt to this far more easily than me.

GARY FRIEDLAENDER Chief of orthopedics, Yale-New Haven Hospital “All of that is going to happen while the three of us — me, the patient, and the computer — are in the room,” Friedlaender said.

The rollout of Epic means physicians have to adapt to the interface, and for the past few weeks, Epic staff members — donning purple shirts for easy identification — have trained physicians at Yale Health to use the program, Genecin said.

As to how physicians have gotten used to using the new interface, Friedlaender said there is a genera-

tional difference in the ease of the transition.

“My grandchildren will have no trouble with this,” he said. “I sense that medical students and residents adapt to this far more easily than me.”

Christopher Bunick, a dermatologist at Yale Health, said in an email that although EHRs favor younger generations who have grown up in the midst of a wired world, Epic is still accessible for veteran physicians who have used such systems in the past. Genecin added that while the transition at Yale Health from paper records to EHR ten years ago was challenging, the movement from one electronic record system to another will be significantly less so.

In addition to the launch of Epic, today marks the start of MyChart, an online patient portal connected to Epic that replaces Yale Health Online. With MyChart, Yale Health patients will be able to request appointments and prescription renewals, in addition to seeing their test results, allergies and medications, Genecin wrote. Yale Health will soon begin an effort to sign up students on MyChart, he added.

The number of U.S. hospitals with an EHR system tripled from 2010 to 2012, according to U.S. News & World Report.

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

Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Students hack for global health

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER

Yale Health will use a new electronic health records system, Epic, to better coordinate with the Yale-New Haven Health System.

financial well-being.

After attendees broke up into smaller groups to brainstorm legislative priorities, they reconvened to share their insights.

Minority hiring on city contracts, job training, youth services and transparent government topped the list.

The Board of Alders began its most recent two-year term Jan. 1.

On Friday, InnovateHealth Yale hosted its first ever “Global Health Hackathon,” bringing together fifty students from across the University to brainstorm and pitch ideas for healthrelated social enterprises.

The event, which was held at the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) — featured a keynote speaker, brainstorming sessions, presentations and an award ceremony. Event Director and CEO of ideaX Michael Mossoba said there were three main goals in hosting the hackathon: to encourage social entrepreneurship on campus, to promote interdisciplinary collaboration across schools and to raise awareness about the Thorn Prize for Social Innovation in Health, a $25,000 cash prize awarded through InnovateHealth Yale each spring to the best student-led venture focused on enterprise or innovations focused on health.

“Today is less about ideas generated in a few hours,” Mossoba said. “Rather, we hope to open minds up to ambitious possibilities.”

The event began with a keynote speaker, Cubby Graham, from the New York-based non-profit organization, charity: water. Graham told the crowd that health-related solutions require creative approaches, whether shaving a beard for a grassroots charity campaign or working with local populations to address unhealthy cultural norms.

When students work in collaboration and bring fresh perspectives, there is the potential to unlock greater possibilities in creativity, Graham said.

Following the keynote lecture, students were sorted into different brainstorming sessions, in which representatives from the CEID and Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY) led the groups in discussion about critical health issues and came up with possible responses.

Martin Klein ’86 SPH, Founder of InnovateHealth Yale and associate dean for Development and External Affairs at the School of Public Health, said that the hackathon aimed to synthesize the range of perspectives and backgrounds from the schools represented, including the School of Management, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Forestry, School of Public Health and Yale College.

“At the end of the day, global health problems require interdisciplinary approaches,” Klein said. “It is important that people represent the different schools at Yale, addressing these issues

through a mixture of new ideas.”

After a brief break for dinner, students were encouraged to break into groups based on shared interests and visions for a project. Teams were then given an hour to work together to design a social entrepreneurial “hack” for a health issue of their choice.

Following the hour of planning, teams presented the designs for their social entrepreneurial projects in front of a panel of judges that included industry experts and Yale educators.

Awards presented ranged from “Best Mobile App Award” to “Best Innovation for Social Networking.”

PatientPals — a social network that helps hospital patients without strong family support connect with one another — won the Connecticut Innovations Award for Long Pitches. The Connecticut Innovations Award for Short Pitches was presented to FitLock, a mobile app that tracks your physical activity and blocks certain phone features until fitness goals are met. The event was sponsored by Connecticut Innovations, an investment firm that specializes in tech companies.

“Working with other students has helped me think outside the nursing bubble,” said Lizzie Edwards YSN ’15, adding that she enjoyed connecting with people who share a similar passion for global health from across the University.

Some students interviewed voiced interest in using the event to generate ideas and network with other students for the Thorn Prize, which will be awarded on April 26. Risa Wong MED ’15 said she was interested in hearing the pitches because she hopes to find like-minded people to work with for the prize.

Neha Anand ’17, one of the hackers at the event, said she had heard of computer hacks before, but never one that addressed global health issues.

“It is not far from reality that some of the students today could create an idea that becomes a Gates Grand Challenge Award or the next Unite for Sight,” Klein said. “It has happened before [at Yale] and there’s no reason it can’t happen again.”

Mossoba said that due to the displayed interest in the event — nearly one hundred students were on the waiting list — InnovateHealth Yale will likely host the event again next year.

InnovateHealth Yale was created in Fall 2013 to promote public health advances using social entrepreneurship.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Miller’s legacy mapped MILLER FROM PAGE 1 dom, based on her knowledge and experience, has helped identify and address issues inside and outside the classroom.”

Miller cited Yale College’s efforts to combat sexual misconduct as a crowning achievement of her tenure. After a Title IX scandal rocked the University in 2011, when 16 complainants filed a suit charging Yale with improperly addressing incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault, Miller appointed Melanie Boyd as an assistant dean of student affairs with responsibility for addressing issues of sexual misconduct.

But while the Title XI scandal forced the University to redouble its efforts against sexual misconduct, Miller had engaged with the issue from the first days of her deanship. Upon becoming dean in 2008, Miller appointed Boyd to a quarter-time position as a special assistant on gender issues, which became a half-time position after a 2010 incident during which pledges of Delta Kappa Epsilon marched on Old Campus chanting sexually degrading phrases.

“I have from the beginning wanted to be sure that access to and equality of education and resources would not be impeded in any way by sexual misconduct along any dimension,” Miller said.

In August 2012, Miller oversaw the return of Reserve Officers Training Corps to Yale for the first time since 1972. At the time, President Obama’s repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” prompted colleges around the nation to reinstate the program, which many colleges — including Yale — had dropped during the Vietnam War. Miller told the News she was “very happy” to have been the dean to relaunch ROTC on campus.

“I think that institutions cannot afford to not be training the people who will be making the military decisions of this nation,” Miller said. “Students who aspire to military careers should be tested in Yale classrooms.”

Miller attributed her leadership style, which she characterized as “collegial and personal,”

to being a longstanding member of the Yale faculty and having risen through its ranks, from a non-tenured position to a Sterling Professorship, the highest academic achievement for faculty at Yale, which she was awarded in 2008.

When Miller took office in 2008, the Yale Corporation had given then-University President Levin the go-ahead to build two new residential colleges. Miller would have overseen the largest expansion of the college in over half a century, adding 800 new students to Yale’s ranks. But deteriorating markets and a 25 percent tumble in the endowment forced the University to table its plans in late February 2009.

The delay in the building of the colleges, which are now slated to begin construction in early 2015, was only the beginning of the fiscal headaches Miller would face.

In the following months, across-the-board budget cuts swept the University. By October 2009, searches for new hires in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences — for which Miller, along with Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard, is ultimately responsible — had largely ground to a halt, with the size of the FAS capped at around 700 professors. And by early 2010, the University faced a projected $300-million budget deficit.

She established a legacy for having an ear for the students.

RODNEY EVANS ’14 At the time, Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon told the News that meetings about the budget were taking up a significant portion of Miller’s time and that she was looking toward another year of budget cuts.

Since then, the Yale’s fiscal position has largely recovered, though the University still faces a $39 million budget deficit and the prospect of additional University-wide administrative cuts in the future. But while finan-

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cial restrictions called for belttightening, Miller promoted the expansion of Yale’s educational offerings.

Miller spearheaded the 2010– ’11 review of the Committee on Yale College Education 2003 report, a document that had sparked the expansion of STEM offerings, the construction and renovation of art spaces and the implementation of the distribution requirements in writing and quantitative reasoning.

Miller told the News that the CYCE review, which published its report in November 2011, examined what steps the University would need to take to move forward with the expansion of Yale College.

“We should think of such growth as a time of re-think, reimagine, and re-commit ourselves to teaching in the 21st century,” the 2011 report said of the construction of the two new residential colleges. “We should view this moment as a once in a lifetime opportunity for the institution.”

Still, Miller’s popularity amongst students has been a mixed bag, with disagreement centering on whether or not she effectively communicated with the college’s undergraduate population.

“She established a legacy for having an ear for the students,” Rodney Evans ’14 said.

Yanbo Li ’16, on the other hand, said he hopes the next dean will be more responsive and sympathetic to students. Jerusalem Hadush ’17 offered a similar sentiment, adding that he hopes the new dean will be “more out there.”

After leaving her post as dean, Miller will teach two courses at Yale in the fall: one on the year 1000 and one on her academic specialty, Mayan art. Next spring, she will deliver the Slade Lectures, considered among the most prestigious in the field of art history, at the University of Cambridge.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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Pollard leaves deanship POLLARD FROM PAGE 1 improve the quality of graduate education at Yale.

When he became dean, though, Pollard was confronted with a challenge others before him had long neglected — the crumbling building of the Hall of Graduate Studies. A renovation, Pollard said, had been far from administrators’ minds.

“In his tenure as dean, he’s done more than anyone else to make sure it’s a real goal for the University,” Dunican said of the HGS renovation.

But when Pollard packs up his office on the first floor of HGS this summer, he will not leave a newly renovated building. Due to University-wide budget constraints, renovations will have only recently begun, and they are not slated to be completed until 2019.

In the meantime, though, Pollard has worked to provide students with additional 24-hour workspaces on campus, facilities that graduate students had long said were desperately lacking. In November 2012, Pollard opened 2,000 additional square feet of such workspaces in HGS. Still, Brendan Barco GRD ’18, who took a class taught by Pollard last term, said that more roundthe-clock workspaces are needed.

In August 2011, just over a year into his tenure, Pollard released a major report on success rates in graduate schools doctorate programs.

“The report encouraged the sharing of best practices across

departments [and] improved their programs as a result of that dissemination of ideas across the wider university,” Levin said. “That is something that will have enduring value.”

Notable for its scientific approach to evaluating the state of graduate education at the University, the report, Dunican said, pushed departments to look closely at how they treat graduate education and spend time evaluating methodologies.

But, Levin said, it caused controversy. Many doctoral students characterized the report, and by extension Pollard, as pushing students out of the University without sufficient time to complete quality research.

“There is a pressure to finish [degrees] within five years,” Aleksandra Gordeeva GRD ’18 said. “And there isn’t a precedent for that. Nobody has finished in five years. Six years is the minimum.”

Jermaine Lloyd GRD ’17 said that the pressure could, at times, prevent students from producing their best possible work. According to Brad Holden GRD ’17, Pollard’s approach may have been skewed by his own background as a scientist.

“He thought humanists could perform the same way as scientists, and he implemented a number of changes based on the premise,” he said.

University of Connecticut Professor and education expert Gaye Tuchman suggested the report is representative of an

increasingly corporate attitude in universities, because it analyzes different programs in terms of costs and benefits.

As an extension of the report, Pollard has focused on helping guide graduate students to career goals outside of academia, where job prospects — especially for students in the humanities — are often limited and far from lucrative.

For instance, with the help of the Graduate School Alumni Association, Pollard began an annual career event for graduate students.

Although few graduate students interviewed said they had ever interacted with Pollard, Dunican said the dean has been easy to work with for the GSA. Pollard has continued a tradition of meeting twice a month with the GSA to convey the University’s policies and to hear out the graduate students’ concerns.

“He’s been very forthright with us,” Dunican said, who called his conversations with Pollard “robust.”

Additionally, Pollard worked with the GSA on expanding prescription drug and dental coverage for graduate students.

Pollard received his undergraduate degree from Pomona College in 1964 before receiving a medical degree from the Harvard Medical School in 1968.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

Battell service honors deceased professor MEMORIAL FROM PAGE 1 Saturday’s memorial, relating how news of See’s death had shocked the department and the University community.

See, who was on unpaid leave from the English department last fall, was found dead in a New Haven jail cell on Nov. 24, roughly 10 hours after he was detained following a domestic dispute with his husband, Sunder Ganglani, who attended but did not speak at the ceremony. In early January, a toxicology report deemed See’s cause of death a methamphetamineinduced heart attack.

“[See’s death] stirred feelings and questions that have hardly begun to settle,” Hammer said.

See’s colleagues and friends eulogized him in stories and reflections, sharing selections from his favorite books, including the novel Nightwood.

See combined intellectual intensity and profundity with deep compassion for those around him, they said, taking most joy in the good fortune of his friends. The ceremony was also interspersed with music See had loved — from Frédéric Chopin to Peggy Lee. Merve Emre GRD ’15 and Slavic Language and Literature profes-

sor Molly Brunson described See’s quest for community — his effort to “be present in a lonely world,” as Emre said.

Others remarked on See’s sense of humor and keen insight into the mechanics of human interaction. English professor Janice Carlisle said See revolutionized the way she signed off on her emails.

Unacceptable to See, she said, was the valediction “best,” which seemed to “inflate the writer” he said in one tongue-in-cheek email exchange between the two.

“I have never closed an email since without thinking of Sam,” she concluded.

Sam’s meticulousness extended to his teaching and professional work, Carlisle added, saying he never took anything for granted, Carlisle added. The task of preparing a graduate seminar, perfunctory to some, inspired See to consider “what, how and why we teach.”

History and American Studies professor George Chauncey ’77 GRD ’89 read excerpts from course evaluations. A student in one of See’s seminars praised him as the most “gracious, effusive and sincere professor at Yale.”

After completing his Ph.D at the University of California, Los

Angeles, See joined the Yale faculty in 2009 — a step Sturdivant said that See considered his “ultimate success.” He studied as an undergraduate at both Amherst College and California State University, Bakersfield.

Samantha Pinto, See’s friend in graduate school at UCLA, remarked on the intensity See brought both to his academic work and to his personal relationships.

He was aggrieved by the death of his cat, Thomas, whom See considered a member of his family. She said he felt all emotions “acutely and deeply,” which was often hard for him. She said she

frequently wished for ease in his life.

“I did not deserve this time I had with him,” Pinto said.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller and University Provost Benjamin Polak both attended the service, which lasted nearly 2 hours.

See is survived by his husband, his mother, his two brothers, Jon Bloom and Darin See, and his sister, Kelly Flanagan.

Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu and MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST

CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, JAN. 24

Yale-NUS advises summers

The article “Evans Hall elicits both praise and distaste” incorrectly identified the address of Evans Hall as 162 Whitney Ave. It should have read 165 Whitney Ave.

Gates discusses documentary

YALE NUS

Freshmen of the inaugural class at Yale-NUS have begun their terms with close faculty guidance, but without the stress of grades.

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER

KATHRYN CRANDALL/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Henry Louis Gates Jr. ’73 discussed his PBS documentary on American racism and the civil rights movement on Saturday.

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER As Henry Louis Gates Jr. ’73 arrived at Yale in 1969, the first class of women were walking through the University’s castiron gates, and dozens of black students were taking seats alongside white classmates in unprecedented numbers.

According to Gates, coming to Yale as part of the surge of black students opened up a world increasingly far away from his hometown of Piedmont, W.Va., which had a population of 2,000.

This Saturday, Gates returned to Yale as part of the Peabody Museum of Natural History’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. program. Following an introduction from Director of the AfroAmerican Cultural Center Rodney Cohen, Gates spoke briefly on his newest project — a sixpart PBS documentary series titled “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” which was partially screened at the event — and on his time as an undergraduate at Yale in a time of radical social change.

While studying history at Yale, Gates said he was particularly inspired by William S. McFeely, a professor who taught a course on African-American history.

Though he and others were initially confused as to how a white professor could teach to an almost exclusively black audience, Gates said, his desire to become a scholar was “ignited by this white guy who taught African-American history.”

After graduation, Gates studied English at Cambridge University. He later taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke and Harvard, where he currently directs the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

Saturday’s event focused mainly on Gates’ recent documentary project, which takes viewers through 500 years of African-American history in the United States. Although he has no formal training as a film producer, Gates said he contacted 40 historians to unearth the most crucial elements of black history in America. Collectively, the historians responded with 1,000 stories, 72 of which were used for the series.

Gates acknowledged that the series deals with African-American history in a sweeping manner, but said the pace does not detract from the project’s overall

purpose.

“I made this so no one can use its absence as an excuse not to teach African-American history,” Gates said. “No one had done this before.”

The first episode of the series, ”The Black Atlantic,” begins with the narrative of plantation slavery and the Atlantic slave trade.

The series progresses through slavery in America, the Civil War, the Jim Crow era and the civil rights movement. The final episode, “A More Perfect Union,” examines the Black Power movement and ends with the election of Barack Obama.

Gates, who narrates the film, characterized this historical narrative as going from “the slave ship to the White House.”

Following the screening, a panel of members of Yale’s African-American community offered their insights into race relations and America today.

Patricia Okonta ’15, president of the Black Student Alliance at Yale and the only student panelist, spoke to the disadvantages automatically faced by minorities.

“I think the evening really captured the idea that institutional discrimination and structural racism really has no bounds,” Okonta said. “And when you add poverty and a lack of education into the mix, you find yourself in an abyss of struggle. We need to work together so everyone has an opportunity to lift themselves from this perpetuated problem.”

The panel addressed segregation within the black community, as well as controversy over whether racism in American ended with the election of the first black president. Towards the end of the event, Kathleen Cleaver, an activist in the Black Panther Party who is featured in the documentary, spoke as well.

Ben Marrow ’17 said the event struck a personal chord.

“For me, it raised a question of identity and whether that is grounded in geography, history or socioeconomics,” Marrow said. “Gates gave an interesting take on whether there could be a proper unity both within the black community and between the black community and minorities.”

Gates is the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

As freshmen around the world navigate their first year of college, the members of the inaugural class of YaleNUS are receiving a great deal of guidance — even when it comes to summer opportunities.

In its first year, Yale-NUS — the joint liberal arts college created by Yale and the National University of Singapore — is starting its students off slowly, with nearly identical course loads and a strong level of faculty support. Extracurricular activities, too, are being introduced gradually.

As Yale-NUS students look ahead to the summer, they can now expect a similar level of support from the school’s new Center for International and Professional Experience, modeled after Yale’s center, which selects and advertises summer internships and academic programs.

Anastasia Vrachnos, dean of the Center for International and Professional Experience at Yale-NUS, said Yale-NUS has a liberal academic philosophy that has guided its decisions not to record grades during the first semester and to require students to take classes outside their areas of

strength. One of the CIPE’s goals, she said, is to use this way of thinking to lessen the stress of making career-oriented summer choices, said “A lot of thinking has gone into how best to encourage students to explore, to question, to inquire broadly and to go out of their comfort zones in curricular and other ways,” she said.

Vrachnos added that the Yale-NUS CIPE aims both to help students navigate the different opportunities and to help them prepare to undertake them.

Yale-NUS Dean of Students Kyle Farley said that in this respect, Yale-NUS enjoys some added perks in comparison with other schools.

“I see three huge advantages we have: an amazing student body that is global in [its] makeup, the opportunities available due to our close relationship with both Yale and NUS, and the CIPE,” he said.

At the Yale-NUS CIPE, each student is appointed an advisor, Vrachnos said, adding that because the class is so small, these advisors come to know the students very well.

Christopher Tee, a YaleNUS student, said he has found the center helpful and accessible so far.

“Seeking out more information about the summer programs is just an email or knock on the door away, as each of us has a CIPE advisor who can help us think through what opportunities are the best fit for us — whether we’re looking to deepen our academics, to immerse in language and culture or to build a skills base and portfolio of diverse professional experiences,” he said.

However, Farley said that making career choices should not be the goal for Yale-NUS students at this point. He added this is sometimes difficult for students to understand because the liberal arts education model contradicts the general notion that career paths are determined by test scores. The lack of pressure to immediately choose a career is one of the gifts of a liberal arts education, Farley said.

Tee, who is planning to participate in a program about nongovernmental organizations this summer, said that he has not seen any particular trend for summer plans among Yale-NUS students.

He said that he has heard of people wanting to do local and international internships, to learn a new language or to simply travel with friends.

Still, Tee said Yale Sum-

mer Session is a much talked about option. Joan Ongchoco, another student at Yale-NUS, added that many students see Yale Summer School as an opportunity to integrate Yale and Yale-NUS further.

“There’s something about immersing oneself in the Yale life that allows [us] to create a unique identity as a college that will really blend the Yale and NUS experience,” she said.

Nicolas Caverhill, a YaleNUS student from Canada, said he has been impressed with the CIPE’s ability to find so many internship opportunities open to freshmen, but preferred to make his own summer plans this year.

“Because the college is so young, we have only been able to extend our reach into so many places,” he said. “As a consequence I have had to look for opportunities in my home country on my own.”

Vrachnos said that as the student body expands, her job will become easier, because this year’s students will serve as mentors to students in future years.

The Yale-NUS deadline for applying to Yale Summer School is Jan. 29.

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

Festival celebrates cinema

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER This weekend, audiences flocked to the Whitney Humanities Center to watch films screened in their original 35-millimeter film prints.

The Thursday through Saturday film festival, the 10th in Yale’s “New Wave Europe” conference series, featured European cinematic works from circa 1962. Each year, the festival presents films from across Europe released during a certain year in the 20th century. This year’s event included screenings of 12 films from a host of European countries, including France, East Germany, the USSR, Poland, Italy and Sweden, as well as panel discussions with Yale scholars and film introductions by Yale experts. Organizers interviewed said the festival is grounded in the University’s interdisciplinary approach to film studies, adding that the year 1962 is significant in many academic fields.

Film and Comparative Literature professor Dudley Andrew said the festival aims to screen important films that “characterize the flavors of the

countries” from which they come, in addition to films that are rarely screened and difficult to acquire, at least in their original celluloid prints.

He explained that the conference focuses on European film because within Yale’s film studies program, each of the major European countries is the specialty of two faculty members.

“There are so many masterpieces from 1960s European film,” said Josh Sperling GRD ’15, who helped organize the event. “It’s like European painting in the 1860s or the European novel in the 1920s.”

Professor of Comparative Literature and English Katie Trumpener explained that 1962 was an important moment both in film history, because it followed the apex of the French New Wave, and in world history, as it was the year of the Cuban missile crisis and followed the building of the Berlin Wall.

She explained that the initial idea behind the festival was “to bring people together across disciplines and think about films in context.” The festival’s cross-disciplinary approach, she noted, is

largely a product of the structure of Yale’s graduate studies programs in film: graduate students studying film at Yale must also pursue a different field such as a foreign language or History of Art. The festival’s organizing committee includes Trumpener, Andrew, professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures Katerina Clark, Professor of Film Charles Musser and Film Studies Program Chair and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature John MacKay. The committee begins planning the annual event in June, Andrew said, and decides on a year that is significant both politically and in the history of cinema.

“1962 was an important year because it hardened the boundaries between East and West,” Trumpener said.

The committee compiles a list of its favorite films from the chosen era and sends a doctoral student – this year, Sperling – to retrieve the films from various international archives, Andrew said. He added that sometimes the films are so rare that committee members have to create the subtitles them-

selves.

Sperling said he hunted down prints of the requested films from curators and distributers from New York to Warsaw. Even though some of the films shown would have been more easily accessible in digital format, watching a cinematic work shot in 35-millimeter digitally is like looking at a photo of a painting on a computer screen, he said.

Trumpener explained that in the past, the festival has drawn more visiting lecturers from across disciplines but that funding for the festival – much of which comes from the US Department of Education’s “Title VI National Resource Center grant” – has decreased, and that most discussions of the films now take place rather informally. Andrew attributed the decreased number of panels to the committee’s and audience’s desire to “see more films than talk.”

The festival ended on Saturday night with a screening of the 1962 Russian film “Ivan’s Childhood” by directors Tarkovsky and Abalov.

Contact HELEN ROUNER at helen.rouner@yale.edu.

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FROM THE FRONT

“I believe boycotts are wrong.”

JAN BREWER 22ND GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA

College and grad school deans depart

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Yale College Dean Mary Miller took office in 2008. Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard has been serving since 2010. Both did much to improve the financial and academic health of their respective schools.

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BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTERS Yale College Dean Mary Miller and Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard will leave their posts at the end of the academic year, University President Peter Salovey announced in an email to the Yale community Friday afternoon.

Both Miller and Pollard cited a desire to return to academia as reasons for stepping down. The decision, they said, had long been on their minds. The announcement comes several months before the end of Miller’s tenure as dean, which began on Dec. 1, 2008. For Pollard, the decision to step down means that his term, which began in June 2010, will have lasted only four years.

University President Peter Salovey told the News that Miller and Pollard, in separate meetings, both informed him of their decisions to step down in early January.

Senior Adviser to the President Martha Highsmith said that both deans told former University President Richard Levin when they were initially appointed that they planned to serve until around 2014.

Both of the deans’ replacements will enter their roles at major moments of transition for the University. The end of Miller and Pollard’s tenures means that on July 1, four of the most senior administrators in the University — the presi-

dent, provost and the two deans tasked with overseeing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences — will have stepped into their new posts in the past 18 months.

“We’re looking at a time of real institutional change,” Miller said, pointing to the faculty’s recent vote to form a faculty senate in conjunction with the administrative turnovers. “I could not have imagined 20 years ago that I would be a voice of institutional memory, but now that I’ve become one I will be a resource for the future.”

In his email to the community, Salovey said he will convene a single advisory committee to develop recommendations for the deans’ replacements, who he will ultimately appoint. Salovey told the News that the committee will be announced in the coming weeks and that he expects to name successors to Miller and Pollard by the end of the academic term.

Last November, Salovey said that in the event of Miller’s departure, he would “love input from students” in addition to faculty members, in the search process for a new dean. But so far, no mechanism for such input has been announced.

Highsmith said she expects Salovey to look for faculty members with “outstanding academic record[s] of teaching and scholarship” to serve in the two deans’ roles. She added the Salovey is likely to place an emphasis on “strong commitment[s] to students and student

life.”

Salovey said he plans to take advantage of both positions turning over at the same time to find a pair of deans that will complement each other.

“We have the opportunity to consider the deans as a team,” Salovey said on Sunday. “I will be looking for deans who are committed both to Yale’s scholarly mission as well as our education mission, and who believe in a more unified, accessible, innovative and excellent University.”

Chemistry professor Gary Haller, who chaired the committee charged with recommending a new dean for the College in 2008, said that both deans should be talented and friendly communicators who easily interact with others.

Although both new deans will face challenges in their roles, it is Miller’s replacement who will take charge of an institution in the midst of a once-in-ageneration transition: the establishment of two new residential colleges in 2017.

Miller’s successor will take office only months before administrators anticipate breaking ground on the new colleges.

As a result, the new dean will be charged with managing the largest growth in the college’s student body — by 800 students — in more than half a century and will be responsible for preparing both the faculty and the University’s facilities for the influx of students.

Pollard’s replacement, meanwhile,

will take charge of a graduate school confronting dwindling job prospects in academia for many of its students, widespread skepticism of the value of graduate humanities education and tepid federal support for research.

“The issues facing the graduate school include mentoring and support of graduate students, the challenging job market especially in some fields of the humanities,” Salovey said, “and bringing students together across programs and departments for bridging academic and social experiences.”

In addition, the new graduate school dean will be tasked with pushing forward the renovation of the Hall of Graduate Studies, which Pollard said was not considered a priority when he took office in 2010. The run-down building is slated for a $100-million renovation to be completed in 2019.

Thus far, no clear frontrunners have emerged to fill the two vacant spots. In 2008, five others — Astronomy professor Charles Bailyn, Calhoun Master Jonathan Holloway, Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti, Director of the Whitney Humanities Center Maria Rosa Menocal and Physics Department Chair Meg Urry — were considered top candidates for Miller’s job. While Bailyn has since become the inaugural dean of faculty at Yale-NUS and Menocal has passed away, the other three are still at Yale in the same positions they held in 2008.

Holloway, who is stepping down as Calhoun master this year on the same date as Miller, declined to comment on whether he is interested in the deanship.

University Secretary and Vice President of Student Life Kimberly GoffCrews said Sunday that the new Yale College dean must come from the faculty. Together with the provost, the deans of the college and graduate school are responsible for faculty appointments, reviews and promotions. As a result, many faculty suggested that those three positions ought to represent the three divisions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: humanities, social sciences and biological or physical sciences.

Currently, two of the four most senior administrative posts are held by social scientists — Salovey as a psychologist, and University Provost Benjamin Polak is an economist.

Miller was the first-ever woman appointed to the deanship of the college. Whether the diversity of the senior administration will play a major role in Salovey’s deliberations this year, though, remains to be seen.

In 2008 and 2010, the Yale Corporation gave Levin sole responsibility for picking the two new deans.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

GHeav workers gather against boycott GOURMET HEAVEN FROM PAGE 1 But in an interview with current staff members at the Broadway location Friday afternoon, none of the roughly 20 workers present said they had ever been paid lower than the minimum wage. Current employees said that even though Cho had been paying some workers who were not present at the interview under minimum wage, he had also provided cheap housing and free food, making the job better than others available to them.

Three workers at the interview presented paychecks proving they were being paid at or above the minimum wage, which is now $8.70 an hour in Connecticut.

“If they didn’t pay us enough we would be out there protesting too. No one would be here,” said Tania Vidales, a cashier of two years.

The employees said that the former workers allied with the activists were taking advantage of the owner and seeking free money.

“G-Heav doesn’t deserve anything bad. We’re like a family here,” said Mohammed Masau, an employee of 14 years.

“We need Yale to know we are treated really well, especially by the owner.”

Activists continue to protest the deli in response to reports of continued wage theft among the lower-paid workers, and the allegedly unlawful firings of four workers who testified separately to the DOL in November. The DOL is currently investigating these claims, which if found true, could mean steep

consequences including more fines and potentially criminal charges for the owner.

The former workers, who are all related to the worker who filed the original complaint in July, are also filing a complaint with the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities in reaction to the discrimination they say they faced in the workplace due to their indigenous heritage.

Activists argued that the counter protest was merely a publicity stunt to improve the image of the deli in the wake of these recent allegations and revelations.

“It’s a good tactic and it’s causing some confusion,” said ULA activist John Lugo. “This is not first time it’s been used to divide the workers.”

Additionally, ULA activist Megan Fountain ’07 said she has spoken to three current employees who said they were forced to go and demonstrate by the management.

She said the boycott will continue until the DOL resolves its investigation into the allegations of retaliatory dismissals and continuing cash payments of wages.

“I think that the management is scared because they’re in hot water with the government and with the community, and unfortunately they’re responding by instilling fear in the workers,” she said.

Protestors will continue their weekly picket of Gourmet Heaven every Friday at 5:30 p.m.

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

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Demonstrators have been boycotting Gourmet Heaven since late summer due to charges of wage theft and poor labor practices.

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“I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it’s going to sell.” MACKLEMORE AMERICAN RAPPER

Brain-dead pregnant woman off life support

Rap duo makes a ‘Heist’ of Grammys

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Erick Munoz stands with a copy of a photograph of himself, left, with wife Marlise and their son Mateo, in Haltom City, Texas.

BY NOMAAN MERCHANT ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT WORTH, Texas — A brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman’s body was removed from life support Sunday, as the hospital keeping her on machines against her family’s wishes acceded to a judge’s ruling that it was misapplying state law.

Marlise Munoz’s body soon will be buried by her husband and parents, after John Peter

Smith Hospital in Fort Worth announced it would not fight Judge R.H. Wallace Jr.’s Friday order to pronounce her dead and return her body to her family. The 23-week-old fetus she was carrying will not be born.

The hospital’s decision Sunday brings an apparent end to a case that became a touchstone for national debates about the beginning and end of life, and whether a pregnant woman who is considered legally and

medically dead should be kept on life support for the sake of a fetus.

Munoz’s husband, Erick Munoz, sued the hospital because it would not remove life support as he said his wife would have wanted in such a situation. Erick and Marlise Munoz worked as paramedics and were familiar with endof-life issues, and Erick said his wife had told him she would not want to be kept alive under such circumstances.

But the hospital refused his request, citing Texas law that says life-sustaining treatment cannot be withdrawn from a pregnant patient, regardless of her end-of-life wishes.

Wallace sided Friday with Erick Munoz, saying in his order: “Mrs. Munoz is dead.”

Wallace had given the hospital until 5 p.m. Monday to comply with his order, but officials there announced Sunday morning that it would forego any appeal.

LOS ANGELES — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis might shop at thrift shops, but they now have a ton of Grammy gold.

The rap duo won four Grammy Awards so far Sunday, including best new artist and rap album for “The Heist,” beating efforts from Kendrick Lamar, Jay Z, Kanye West and Drake.

“Wow, we’re here on the stage right now,” said Macklemore, thanking fans first, then his fiance and team. “I want to say we made this album without a record label, we made it independently and we appreciate all the support.”

Beyonce kicked off the Grammy Awards with steamy and smoky performance of “Drunk In Love:” She started on a chair and then grinded in a revealing black outfit. Jay Z emerged in a fitted suit to rap his verse, and the couple — parents of little Blue Ivy — held hands and danced together.

Robin Thicke performed with Chicago, singing the group’s songs before going into “Blurred Lines,” which energized the crowd. Thicke finished the performance singing on the floor.

Katy Perry sang “Dark Horse” in an eerie forest with fire that mirrored the song’s vibe, and John Legend and Taylor Swift — who whipped her head, and hair, back and forth — played pianos during their slow songs.

Daft Punk, nominated for record and album of the year, were double winners, picking up honors for best dance/electronica album for “Random Access Memories” and pop duo/group performance for “Get Lucky” with Pharrell Williams and Nile

Rodgers.

“Dude, on the behalf of the robots, thank you, thank you, thank you,” said Williams, who also won non-classical producer of the year.

Looking to Daft Punk, sporting their signature helmets, Williams said: “They want to thank their families. And of course, the incredible Nile.”

Macklemore & Lewis’ wins, which include best rap song and rap performance for “Thrift Shop,” come after the Grammy rap committee almost ousted the group from its categories. A source told The Associated Press that the rap committee rejected the duo, but that was later overruled by the general Grammy committee. The rap committee felt Macklemore & Lewis should qualify for the pop awards instead because of their massive success on Top 40 radio. The source, who attended the general Grammy meeting, spoke on the condition of anonymity because the meeting was private.

Macklemore & Lewis are also nominated for album and song of the year.

Justin Timberlake, who isn’t up for any of the major awards, won three trophies, including best R&B song for “Pusher Love Girl” and music video for “Suit & Tie,” which also earned Jay Z a Grammy. Jay Z and Timberlake also won best rap/sung collaboration for “Holy Grail.”

“I want to thank God — I mean a little bit for this award — but mostly for all the universe for conspiring and putting that beautiful light of a young lady in my life,” Jay Z said, looking at Beyonce. “I want to tell Blue that, look, ‘Daddy got a gold sippy cup for you.’”

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SCIENCE HILL BY SPENCER KATZ

ON CAMPUS MONDAY, JANUARY 27 4:00 p.m. “Football: From Walter Camp to the NFL.” Mike Tannenbaum, Professional American Football executive, Tony Reno, head coach of Yale football, and Nicholas Dawidoff, author of “Collision Low Crossing” will speak in a panel discussion.

Davenport College (248 York St.), Common Room.

5:30 p.m. “Vanished States: A Regional Approach to the History of the Greek State in the Long 19th Century (1798– 1912).” In the past, historians and social scientists of modern Greece suffered from the “backwards syndrome” — how “modern” the Greek State was in comparison to European states — and placed too much emphasis on the “success” of the nation-state after the revolution of 1821. This talk suggests that we think more broadly chronologically and conceptually to include various island states, now vanished, that formed and were gradually absorbed by the Greek Kingdom during the long 19th century: the Ionian State, the Principality of Samos, and the Cretan Republic. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Rm. 203.

LORENZO’S TALE BY CHARLES MARGOSSIAN

TUESDAY, JANUARY 28 4:00 p.m. “Plates and Earthquakes: Why We Expect a Million Deaths This Century.” This Silliman Memorial Lecture will feature Dan McKenzie, professor of geophysics at the University of Cambridge and a pioneer in the development of the principles of plate tectonics. McKenzie developed a geometrical model for motions of plates and physical models of geological activities in Earth’s interior. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Aud.

DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29 12:30 p.m. Artist Talk: Nick Benson. Nick Benson, a stone carver, calligrapher, designer and the 2013 Doran Artist in Residence, will discuss the typographic archetypes in stone, text as texture, and the inspiration he found in the collections.

Benson is a master of hand letter carving, and his inscriptions and decorative reliefs can be seen on family memorials and buildings throughout the United States. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

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ontributing Photographer ALANA THYNG explores New Haven’s winter wonderland after this past week’s snowfall.

Taking a look at both Yale’s Campus and the surrounding New Haven area, she captures the beauty that snow adds to everyday scenes.

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JAMES SHIRVELL ’14 SHATTERS YALE RECORD The captain of the men’s track and field team broke Yale’s record for the mile with a time of 4:00.54, almost four seconds faster than the previous Eli record. Shirvell finished third out of 176 runners at Boston University’s Terrier Invitational in the mile Saturday.

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MORGAN TRAINA ’15 GYMNASTICS The junior from Stevenson Ranch, Calif. was named ECAC co-gymnast of the week for the week ending Jan. 19, sharing the honor with Michelle Shnayder, a senior from Brown. Facing Minnesota, New Hampshire and Brown, Traina posted an all around score of 38.550.

“We knew that we had to match the energy right away.”

LENA MUNZER ’17

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Bulldogs declaw Bears at home MEN’S HOCKEY

Brown avoids sweep

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER Just a week after the Yale men’s basketball team held off Brown to open the Ivy season with a win, the only things that remained the same in Saturday’s rematch were the names on the jerseys.

This time, Brown came out hot and withstood each Yale rally to pull out a 73–56 victory.

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points respectively.

The Bulldogs, however, bounced right back when Kenny Agostino ’14 lit the lamp on the power play just over 30 seconds later. Yale’s sniper found the back of the net off a one timer from a tight angle on the right circle. The goal was Agostino’s 50th of his collegiate career.

The rest of the second period was marred by Yale penalties, as forward Frankie DiChiara ’17 was whistled for a five-minute major and a game misconduct for a hit from behind with six minutes left in the frame. The Bulldogs were able to kill off the penalty and enter the second intermission tied at 1–1. Lyon and Steel each played well turning aside 13 shots apiece and setting the stage for a crucial third period.

It was a face-off that mirrored last week’s contest, but the Bulldogs and Bears appeared to exchange roles. Yale (7–9, 1–1 Ivy) fell behind by as many as 18 points in the first half before orchestrating a second-half comeback that had Brown on its heels.

In the end, the Bears (9–7, 1–1) and star point guard Sean McGonagill were too much to handle.

The Ivy League’s leading scorer, McGonagill, was contained a week ago as he was limited to 17 toughly contested points in New Haven.

In Providence, however, McGonagill — averaging 18.5 points per game entering Saturday — put on a clinic.

The senior racked up 29 points, thanks in large part to seven made threepointers in nine attempts. Entering the afternoon, McGonagill was seventh in the country in made three-pointers per game, averaging 3.53 a game. “[McGonagill] was terrific today,” Yale head coach James Jones said. “We did a poor job at recognizing him on some of their sets that we did a great job of last weekend. Every time we made a mistake, he hurt us.”

In doubling his typical threepoint output against Yale, McGonagill ensured that Brown earned a split against the Bulldogs for the season series. The home team in this matchup has now won four straight games dating

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SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE B3

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The Elis split a home–and–home against Brown this weekend, falling in Providence on Friday before trouncing the Bears at Ingalls on Saturday.

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER The No. 10 men’s hockey team split a home and away series with Brown this weekend with a 3–1 loss in Providence before a 6–0 win at a packed Ingalls Rink on Saturday night.

The Bears (8–8–3, 5–6–1 ECAC) powered to victory at home with two third-period goals while the Bulldogs (10–5–4, 5–4–3 ECAC) rode four power-play goals to victory the following night. Yale, who lost the season opener to Brown 4–1 back on Oct. 25, remains two points above the Bears at sixth place in the ECAC standings.

“It’s tough to win in our league and obviously we weren’t happy with the loss on Friday night feeling as if we beat ourselves,” defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 said. “As an athlete you love

having the opportunity to seek revenge so getting the win on Saturday was fulfilling and it’s a step in the right direction as a team.”

The Friday night matchup was a showcase for two of the league’s hottest freshman goaltenders, featuring Yale’s Alex Lyon ’17 and Brown’s Tyler Steel. Coming into the matchup, the Bears’ goalkeeper had started six of Brown’s last seven games after alternating games for most of the first half of the season with senior Marco DeFilippo. In those last seven games, the rookie helped the Bears to three wins and posted a .917 save percentage.

Lyon ranks 17th and 19th in the nation in goals against average and save percentage, respectively. His efforts have brought the Bulldogs four wins in the last six games.

The first period was evenly contested,

with Lyon and Steel stopping nine and 13 shots, respectively. Lyon was on hand to deny the Bears on three power-play opportunities, while Steel was alert to stop center Stu Wilson ’16 on a breakaway and forward John Hayden ’16 on a rebound attempt. Defender Rob O’Gara ’16, on the penalty kill, did well to deny Brown a 2-on-1 opportunity with just 20 seconds left in the opening frame.

The second period opened with more pressure from Brown and its persistence eventually paid off when sophomore sensation Mark Naclerio flew up the right wing and centered the puck for his linemate Matt Lorito, who tipped a shot in past Lyon. Naclerio has been red hot as of late, posting 10 points in his last five games, and has been playing on one of the most underrated lines in college hockey. Naclerio, Nick Lappin and Lorito lead the team with 25, 23, and 21

Elis pick up three points, over $30,000

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Over the weekend, the Yale women’s ice hockey team earned three points in the ECAC standings and raised over $30,000 in honor of a former teammate during the fourth annual “White Out for Mandi” game.

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The women’s ice hockey team picked up three points in two games against Brown this weekend.

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The Bulldogs (7–10–4, 5–5–4 ECAC) tied Brown (2–14–5, 1–10–3) 2–2 on Friday night in front of a record-breaking audience of 1,125 fans at Ingalls Rink.

The next day, Yale headed to Providence for a rematch and came away with a 3–1 victory after a third period comeback.

The Friday night game doubled as a fundraiser benefitting the Mandi Schwartz Foundation, which honors forward Mandi Schwartz ’10, who died in 2011 after a 28-month-long battle with acute myeloid leukemia.

Co-organizers of the event had hoped to raise at least $22,537, the amount the event collected two years ago.

This year’s White Out sur-

passed that and more, garnering money from Yale Hockey sweatshirt sales, several silent auctions and general donations before and during the event. One anonymous donor matched every donation made at the rink on Friday, up to $10,000.

“The [Mandi Schwartz] Foundation is only in its third year, so it’s continuing to grow every year,” forward and event co-organizer Paige Decker ’14 said. “The White Out for Mandi is a huge way for the organization to continue to grow.”

The crowd of 1,125 broke the record for attendance at a Yale women’s hockey game at home.

The previous record of 1,066 had been set at the first White Out in 2011.

“It was incredible, to see how many people came out and supported,” defenseman and captain Tara Tomimoto ’14 said. “I think this was one of the year’s biggest successes.”

The Bulldogs went into the game looking to give those fans a win against a team that has sat at the bottom of the ECAC standSEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3

ASSISTS BY CAPTAIN AND FORWARD JESSE ROOT ’14 AGAINST BROWN AT HOME ON SATURDAY. Root’s five apples were the most by a Bulldog since 1990. The 6–0 shellacking of the Bears avenged Yale’s 3–1 loss to Brown the night before.

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Elis split against Brown

Yale wrestles Bears

MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1

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Yale’s 73–52 defeat of Brown was the Elis’ third straight win over the Bears.

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 little too late, making an indent only in the final score, 73–52.

“Sarah’s [Halejian ’15] energy, bringing the ball up the floor, was huge,” Gobrecht said. “Her energy defensively and Lena’s energy defensively … to get that much energy in the whole backcourt is huge, and I thought we didn’t give them any room to breathe, anything to get excited about.”

Even though Brown was able to convert its three point attempts, shooting 7–14 from three-point range, the Bears could not overcome the Elis’ shooting performance from the field. The Bulldogs shot a season-high 51.7 percent from the field, compared to the Bears’ 32.6 percent. Again, Yale was able to outrebound Brown 35–28, and the Elis took command of the paint, scoring 38 points in the key compared to the Bears’ eight.

The Bulldogs received another strong performance from the players on the bench, who outscored the Bears’ bench players 25–8. The Elis’ defense also pressured Brown into 22 turnovers, while Yale limited its mistakes to just 15 turnovers.

Munzer, starting for the second straight game, tied her season-high shooting performance

with 14 points. Guard Sarah Halejian ’15 also contributed 14 points as well as five assists against the Bears. It was the first Ivy home game for the freshmen, and Munzer said that the team was excited and pumped up about playing.

Guards Sophie Bikofsky and Jordin Alexander, who each scored 12 points, led the way for Brown. Guard Lauren Clarke, the team’s leading scorer, managed only five points for the Bears after scoring 16 the weekend before.

In a pregame ceremony, both teams dedicated the game to the Chase Kowalski Fund in memory of those who were lost in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 12, 2012.

Yale will play back-to-back games on the road next weekend, facing Columbia on Friday and Cornell on Saturday. Columbia and Cornell split their homeand-home series, heading into next weekend with 1–1 conference records.

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

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With four minutes gone in the last frame, Brown forward Kyle Kramer scored on a long wrist shot from the blue line.

Kramer seemed to rather aimlessly throw the puck at the net, but Lyon was screened in front and never saw the puck. A minute and a half later forward Zach Pryzbek finished off a nice centering pass from Brown captain Dennis Robertson to take a twogoal lead that stunned Yale.

Yale had two further power-play opportunities and despite 17 third period shots, Steel stood firm in net to deny the Bulldogs.

Steel finished the night with 42 saves. Lyon stopped 25 shots in the loss, which featured an uncharacteristic number of penalties.

The Bulldogs were whistled for six infractions for 23 minutes on the night but average just nine per game, the sixth least in NCAA Division I. “For the most part we’d been playing well, but a few defensive breakdowns led to those goals against,” forward Charles Orzetti ’16 said in an email. “It’s frustrating when that happens, but the takeaway is that every play we need to be executing because every play has the chance to become the difference maker in a game — good or bad.”

After facing off in Providence, the Bulldogs and Bears travelled down to New Haven to play a quick rematch at Ingalls Rink the next evening. In another penalty-filled game on Saturday night, Yale bounced back with a big 6–0 win against Brown, thanks in part to special teams scoring and a shutout performance from Lyon. The Bulldogs scored three straight power-play goals in the first period to put the game on ice and rode Lyon’s 28 saves — including 12 in a relatively even second period — to victory.

The Eli power play came into the game scoring on only 17 percent of its opportunities but took advantage of a 5-on-3 situation to score the opening goal. Brown forward Pryzbek was given a game misconduct and dismissed from the game just a minute and 30 seconds into the night after a hit from behind on Yale defender Alex Ward ’15. Just over a minute later, Robertson was whistled for tripping. On the resulting two-man advantage defenseman Tommy Fallen ’15 found the back of the net from the top of the right circle on a low wrist shot.

Steel, after an impressive performance the night before, should have been gravely disappointed in giving up what was a soft goal to Fallen. But that goal was not the end of a bad night for Steel, who saw his net breached just 30 seconds later. Still on the powerplay from Pryzbek’s five minute major, O’Gara poked home the puck after a scramble in front. To add insult to injury, the refs whistled Brown for a hooking penalty on the same play.

“Our power play worked the puck around great and found our chances while the penalty kill did a great job forcing the opponent to make hurried and forced plays that were not ideal,” Fallen said.

On the Bulldogs’ second 5-on-3—still less than five minutes into the game — Fallen popped up in an identical spot to his last goal and unleashed a well-placed wrist shot that beat Steel, who was screened on the play.

Yale’s smooth–skating blueliner tallied his second of the game, matching a career– high of two goals scored on Nov. 8 against Princeton.

“It certainly helps when you have so many power play chances in a game, especially 5-on-3 to get the power play going,” Obuchowski said. “In Saturday’s game

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The Elis scored four goals in the first seven minutes against Brown on Saturday. we simplified everything and didn’t force plays. We took what the defense game us and got shots to the net.”

Brown pulled Steel after he gave up three goals on seven shots in favor of the senior DeFilippo. The new goalkeeper, however, did not fare much better, as Agostino scored a brilliant unassisted goal to make it a 4–0 Yale lead with seven minutes left to play in the first. The Calgary Flames prospect intercepted the puck inside Brown’s zone and skated towards the net. While holding off one of the Bears’ defenders, Yale’s premier left winger threw a backhanded shot at net that beat DeFilippo five-hole.

The game would hardly improve for Brown from there on out, as forward Massimo Lamacchia was sent to the locker room and assessed a five-minute major for slew-footing. With the penalty, the Bears would have to skate more than two periods without two players on their bench after two game misconducts in the first period. Brown amassed 36 penalty minutes on seven infractions in the opening frame alone.

After Yale’s dominance in the first 20 minutes, Brown regrouped for the second period and looked determined to take something from the game. The Bears piled on the pressure on Lyon’s net, forcing the rookie into 12 saves in the second frame. Yale’s goaltender remained resolute throughout the period, keeping out a number of gilt-edged chances.

The third period was no better for Brown. The Bears looked dejected coming out of the locker room and their play was epitomized by DeFilippo’s poor performance throughout the final 20 minutes. The senior had poor control of his rebounds and looked shaky throughout the frame. His struggles started just 28 seconds after the puck drop when defenseman Gus Young’s ’15 shot from the blueline nestled in the back of the net for a 5—0 lead.

DeFilippo struggled to deal with the Bulldogs’ 18 shots in the period and always looked likely to again concede. Agostino eventually took advantage after nice work from his linemate on the power play. With just over two minutes remaining, captain Jesse Root ’14 streaked into the zone and

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centered it for Agostino, who tapped the puck home for his second of the night.

Lyon played another solid period, stopping a further 11 shots for his first collegiate shutout. The rookie has been averaging a .938 save percentage since returning from break.

“Lyon has been playing really well for us and making huge saves to give us a chance to win,” Obuchowski said. “He’s definitely established himself as a top-tier college goaltender. It makes playing defense easier knowing you have a guy back there that will make big saves when you need it.”

The 6–0 win was a record-setting day for the Bulldogs. It was the largest margin of victory for Yale since a 6–0 thrashing of Cornell in the ECAC Championships in March of 2011. The Bulldog power play went four of 10, its best showing since December 2012, when the Elis put four past the Bears.

Root had a career-high night with five assists, while Obuchowski also set a personal best with three helpers. Agostino continued his hot streak, putting up 11 points in the last 10 games.

“Going forward, sticking to our team systems and philosophies will set us up for a strong playoff run,” Orzetti said.

“The evidence is there that when we play aggressive and smart, we’re a team that can successfully attack. When we stray away from our tenets, that seems to be when we’re not at our best. If we commit to doing what works for us, we’re confident that we can have some success over the next few weeks and heading into playoffs.”

The Bulldogs sit 18th in the pairwise rakings and will need a strong secondhalf push in order to secure a playoff spot.

The Elis play only ECAC matchups the rest of the season and can shoot up the ECAC standings in the coming weeks, with three of their next four games against opponents ahead of them in the league table.

Yale will play both games at home this weekend, facing off against No. 12 Cornell on Friday evening before taking on Colgate on Saturday. The puck drops for both games at 7 p.m.

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The women’s basketball team helped out at Gateway Community College as part of College Goal Sunday.

high school seniors and parents in attendance that some federal scholarships and grants are doled out on a first-come, first-serve basis, even though the federal application deadline for the 2014-2015 school year is not until June 2015. If families do not fill out the application early, she said, students who are eligible for 100 percent federal aid may only receive student loans instead of direct scholarships or grant money.

Following introductions, the students began to fill out their online FAFSA applications with the guidance of volunteers from Promise and other local education non-profits. New Haven residents were directed to a separate room to first fill out the New Haven Promise Scholarship with the help of Keita and her five teammates.

Keita explained the Promise application process and eligibility requirements and then directed the students to the website where they could start to fill out an application.

The volunteers did not guide the students through the process step-by-step, but only offered assistance when a parent or student raised their hand to ask a question — such as how to enter their tax information on FAFSA or how to proceed to the next step on the Promise application.

“We don’t stand over their shoulder or tell them exactly what to write in each box,” said Gateway’s Director of Financial Aid Raymond Zeek. “These kids are seniors now, but

eventually they will be filling out the form on their own, so we want to make sure that we are teaching them to become self-sufficient.”

Melton emphasized that even though most students do eventually fill out the FAFSA, families do not necessarily realize the urgency in filling out the application early, and this might lead them to miss out on the scholarships and grants.

The FAFSA really helped some of us a lot, so I think it’s important that we reach out to help other students.

ZENAB KEITA ’14 Center, Women’s basketball team Several parents interviewed said they were helping their first college-bound child and that they found the event helpful in understanding how to navigate the FAFSA application.

“I didn’t know anything about FAFSA [before College Goal Sunday], this is all new to me,” said Monica Vick, whose daughter is a senior at Hill Regional Career High School.

This year, College Goal Sunday events were held in 15 different cities across Connecticut.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

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“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.” KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR AMERICAN BASKETBALL PLAYER

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The first half saw Yale jump out to a modest 4–0 advantage thanks to a pair of baskets from point guard Javier Duren ’15.

McGonagill proceeded to answer with a sneak peek of things to come.

The sharpshooter knocked down all three of his attempts from deep within the first five minutes, feeding off the home energy. He has shot 9 percent better at home than on the road this season.

In the postgame press conference, Brown head coach Mike Martin said he chalked the win

up to the mere fact that his team had McGonagill on its roster, and Yale did not.

The Bulldogs appeared to a catch a break, however, when McGonagill picked up his second foul less than six minutes into the game and was forced to sit on the bench for much of the first half. Instead, the Bears

caught fire inside, scoring five layups during an 11–1 run.

Yale forward Justin Sears ’15 extinguished the scorching momentum of Brown with a steal at half-court that led to one of his signature ferocious slams.

Duren also managed to make some plays during the first half, as he led the team with eight

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Yale shot just 34.8 percent from the field in the first half against Brown Saturday.

points at halftime. Nevertheless, Brown entered the locker room with a commanding 38–25 edge.

The second half saw the Yale squad scratch and claw as it mounted mini-run after minirun. Whenever the Bulldogs were on the brink of making it over the hump, however, Brown responded.

“It was really frustrating,” Duren said. “It really started on the defensive end though. We gave them good looks at the basket early on and they capitalized, pretty much setting the scene for the entire game.”

Yale’s inability to complete the comeback culminated with a momentum-altering sequence with about five minutes left to play.

Sears had just single-handedly cut the deficit to five as he scored eight unanswered points, six of which came from the charity stripe.

“We were thinking ‘We came all this way, we can’t give up now,’” Sears said.

Brown had begun to respond, but Yale guard Anthony Dallier ’17 drew a potentially huge foul on a three-point attempt from the right wing.

With a chance to bring the Elis back within five points and striking distance, Dallier was unable to capitalize at the line, missing all three. He was not alone. A week after Yale pulled out the victory largely thanks to the team’s free throw shooting, the Bulldogs were off in Providence, making just 19 of 38 their attempts.

On the ensuing possession, McGonagill stabbed a dag-

ger into the hearts of the Elis, converting a three-point basket despite being fouled by Dallier. McGonagill would knock down the free throw and hit yet another three the next time down the court, extending the Brown lead to 15 with just 4:07 remaining.

It was a perfect example of the senior guard, McGonagill, making the plays the freshman, Dallier, could not. This was a game that the senior — an obvious contender for the Ivy League Player of the Year award — would simply not allow to get away from the Bears.

“Some players got discouraged after [the McGonagill fourpoint play],” Sears said.

The Bulldogs attempted to muster a response, but their efforts fell short. Sears led the way with 17 points, receiving little help in the second half, in which he scored 13 of Yale’s final 17 points. Duren added 13 points and guard Armani Cotton ’15 also cracked double-digits with 10.

The Elis will attempt to bounce back on Friday, when they host the biggest surprise of the Ivy League thus far, Columbia (13–6, 2–0).

Tipoff against the Lions is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at John J. Lee Amphitheater.

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Though the tie gave Yale a point in the standings, Tomimoto said that she was disappointed with the team’s performance.

“We didn’t have it on Friday night,” Tomimoto said. “I think that we were a little distracted, because there was a lot of organization and planning that went into the event. But other than that, we all really wanted to play hard because it was a special game for Mandi.”

On Friday night at Ingalls, forward and soon-to-be Olympian Phoebe Staenz ’17 gave fans some entertainment early on with a highlight-reel unassisted goal to give Yale a 1–0 lead in the first period.

Staenz stole a Brown pass at the red line, flew between two defenders and scored top-shelf on the breakaway. The goal was on just the third shot of the game for Yale.

The Bears came out hard in the second period, putting a shot on goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 only 10 seconds after the opening faceoff.

Six minutes later, another Brown forward was charging down the ice with a threatening opportunity when forward Jamie Haddad ’16, the last skater back for the Bulldogs, dove after her and got called for tripping.

Haddad’s play may have saved a goal, but Brown tied the game up with a power-play goal just as her penalty was expiring.

The Bulldogs could not capitalize on numerous chances to retake the lead in the remainder of the period.

Midway through the third, they finally scored when forward Hanna Astrom ’16 sent a perfectly executed no-look pass to Haddad from behind the net.

Brown’s goaltender looked the wrong way for the puck, giving Haddad an open net to score on a one-timer.

But Brown kept pushing on offense and tied the game on a fluke goal with just three minutes remaining. A Brown forward missed a pass in front of the crease, but her skate redirected the puck into the net.

Yale’s best chance to put the game away came with a minute and a half left to play, when forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 deked out the Brown goalie but narrowly missed wide on a backhand attempt.

In the five-minute overtime period, Yale quickly found itself in a tough situation when a body checking penalty three minutes in gave the Bears a power play for the remainder of play. The Bulldogs managed to kill of the penalty, however, and both teams came away with a point.

After the unsatisfactory draw,

the Elis and Bears rematched in Providence at the Meehan Auditorium the next night. Yale showed no signs of improvement at the beginning of the game, as Brown forward Brittany Moorehead scored early in the first period to give the Bears their first lead of the weekend. The score would remain 1–0 for the first two periods of the game.

“I don’t think the first two periods were very different from Friday,” Tomimoto said.

Things continued to look bleak in the third period, as a Bulldog penalty gave Brown its fourth power play of the game. But forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 stole a Brown pass and passed it up the ice to Yip-Chuck for a breakaway, and Yip-Chuck faked out the goalie to score effortlessly on her backhand.

Riding momentum after the shorthanded goal, the Bulldogs picked up two more from Haddad and Tomimoto in the remainder of the period. Haddad has now scored in three of the past five games for Yale.

Leonoff shut down every opportunity for Brown to come back, and Yale concluded the weekend with three points, having outshot the Bears in both games.

“I was really proud of the way that we were able to never lose faith,” Tomimoto said. “That was a huge win for us because we

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The Elis will travel to take on Cornell and Colgate next weekend. never stopped believing in ourselves and our ability to win.”

The Bulldogs’ three-point weekend brought them from eighth to seventh in the ECAC standings, behind sixth-place Princeton only because of a tiebreaker.

Yale will go on the road this weekend to face No. 4 Cornell on Friday and Colgate on Saturday.

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Elis sneak by Quakers GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE B4 tation in the floor and beam final standings.

“Yesterday we were focusing on coming together as a team mentally, being aggressive, and also made sure to go into the meet with the complete desire to win,” O’Connor said. “Overall, I think we were successful because of the hard work we have been putting in at practice. We transferred that to the meet and everyone was confident.”

Brittney Sooksengdao ’16 finished best for the Elis on the floor, tying for second place with a score of 9.425, while Pennsylvania native and first-year Bulldog Anella Anderson ’17 finished fifth at 9.275 and Camilla Opperman ’16 tallied a score of 9.050 for a sixth place finish.

Penn’s Carissa Lim won the event with a score of 9.600 “We set out yesterday with a goal and that was to beat Penn,” Sooksengdao said. “We fought hard as a team yesterday and I’m so proud of the team for the motivation we showed to get it done.”

On the beam, Joyce Li ’15 clinched a first place finish with a score of 9.675, while Hopkins set a personal record on the beam with a score of 9.250.

Five of the six Bulldog competitors in the bars finished in the topfive spots for a combined score of 46.775 while just one Quaker, Makeda Constable, finished in the top half with a score of 8.975.

Morgan Traina ’15 stood out for the Elis, competing in all events and scoring a total of 36.900 points. Traina was last week’s ECAC Co-Gymnast of the week

along with Brown’s Michelle Shnayder. Li was the only other Eli to compete in all four events and she finished right behind Traina with a cumulative score of 36.400.

“I was very happy with my performance on bars, but also our team’s overall performance on bars was very strong as well,” Traina said. “I think our team’s performance overall this week was much better, although that may not be reflected in the score.”

The Bulldogs will compete in their second consecutive home meet of the 2014 season when they host Bridgeport, Brown and SCSU in the John J. Lee Amphitheater next Saturday, Feb. 1 at 1 p.m.

Contact ASTHON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

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The gymnastics team will host Bridgeport, Brown and SCSU for the Bulldog Invitational next weekend.

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“Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.”

SHANNON MILLER FORMER AMERICAN OLYMPIC GYMNAST

W. basketball sweeps Brown

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The women’s basketball team defeated Brown at home for the first time in three years and swept the season series with a commanding 73–52 win at home on Friday, Jan. 24.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Yale (8–8, 2–0 Ivy) demolished Brown (6–10, 0–2) in its first home game since Dec. 17, 2013.

The Bulldogs expected the Bears to come out strong, and the game looked to be tight in the opening minutes, with three ties and nine lead changes in the first eleven minutes of the contest.

“We knew that Brown was going to come out ready … to come out with their best game,” guard Lena Munzer ’17 said. “We knew that we had to match the energy right away.”

The Bears led 16–14 before a 9–0 run by the Bulldogs gave Yale a 23–16 lead with 6:46 remaining in the first half.

Brown was able to close to within two, trailing 23–21 with just over five minutes remaining, but a 17–2 run to close the half gave Yale a commanding 40–23 lead heading into the locker room.

“I thought we very much had the game at the pace that we wanted it at,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said. “We were pushing the ball up the floor and we were very energized defensively. That’s the way we want to play.”

The Bulldogs continued to attack throughout the second half, never giving the Bears a chance to get back into the game.

The Elis began the second period on a 9–0 run, which extended the lead to 49–23. The Bears did not make a field goal until there were fewer than 15 minutes remaining in the game, a testament to the Bulldogs’ pressure defense.

Yale’s offense kept hitting shot after shot, and the lead reached 30 points with 8:25 to play. Brown made a push in the last four minutes of the game, but it was too SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE B2

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The women’s basketball team swept its season series against Ivy rival Brown with a win on Friday.

Gymnastics clinches home

Elis help with College Goal Sunday

BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER Yale student-athletes gave back to the Elm City this weekend, as six women’s basketball players helped college-bound seniors and their parents fill out applications for federal financial aid and the New Haven Promise Scholarship.

The event, held at Gateway Community College on Sunday, was part of College Goal Sunday, a national program which brings together volunteers and financial aid professionals to help students complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), a form required for all federal financial aid applicants to univer-

sities and colleges. The program started in Indiana in 1989 and has since spread across the nation to 37 different states, as well as the District of Columbia, through the support of the Lumina Foundation for Education — an organization which funds postsecondary education opportunities. New Haven Promise has participated in the event as a local sponsor in the past and this year decided to co-sponsor the event with Gateway Community College — which has held the annual session on its campus for the past eight years.

After hearing about the event from New Haven Promise Executive Director Patricia Melton, center Zenab Keita ’14 and five of her teammates on the Yale women’s bas-

ketball team decided to volunteer in order to help students overcome financial barriers to college.

“The FAFSA really helped some of us a lot, so I think it’s important that we reach out to help other students,” Keita said. “I think it’s important as our role as athletes at Yale to get out in New Haven and serve.”

The program began at 1:30 p.m. with introductions from both Melton, whom Keita first met two years ago during a teaching fellowship program in Indiana, and NHPS Director of College and Career Pathways Dolores Garcia-Blocker. GarciaBlocker explained to the approximately 80 SEE GATEWAY PAGE B2

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The gymnastics team won its home opener this past weekend, topping the Penn Quakers 184.350–182.800

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER In Yale’s first gymnastics meet of the 2014 season, the Bulldogs took down Ancient Eight competitor Penn by a narrow 184.350 to 182.800 margin on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. in the John J. Lee Amphitheater in Payne Whitney Gym.

GYMNASTICS The Quakers traveled to New Haven for their second meet of

the season after losing 190.400187.900 to Illinois State. In the vault, beam, bars and floor events, the Elis scored 45.625, 46.775, 46.775 and 45.175, respectively. Seven Bulldogs set personal records in Saturday’s contest including captain Ashley O’Connor ’14 and senior Maren Hopkins ’14. Penn took the top four spots in the vault while the Elis dominated the bars, winning the top five places.

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Six members of the Yale women’s basketball team volunteered for College Goal Sunday this weekend.