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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015 · VOL. CXXXVII, NO. 81 · yaledailynews.com

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CROSS CAMPUS

TRANSATLANTIC “FAMILIAR” OPENS AT YALE REP

“YES MEANS YES”

THE HUMANITIES LIVE

Legislators propose mandating affirmative consent at CT schools.

HISTORY DEPT SEES 30% INCREASE IN ENROLLMENT.

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Malloy unveils criminal justice reform

the short version of the latest news about the News: (1) Applications for WEEKND’s Blindest Date competition are due tonight, and (2) YDN Open House, Thursday, 8 to 9 p.m.

202 York St. Miss either and forever lose out on a shot at the love of your life.

the underclassmen that thought they somehow snuck onto the Feb Club panlist, but an email to those actually on it warned that an impostor has been sending fake invitations from feburaryclub15@gmail. com. One such message advertised a Yale Admissionsthemed party that honestly sounded more fun than the real event at 323 Crown last night.

the Shake Shack event ends, many seniors may head over to Toad’s for tonight’s Woad’s for Women’s Education event.

Tickets are $5 and must be purchased ahead of time to go into the coffers of Circle of Women. Otherwise your cash will go to good ol’ Toad’s.

The pleasure is ours. If a seat

at the marquee Yale-Harvard hockey and basketball games this weekend isn’t reward enough, pick up your tickets for the kind message that the Yale Athletic Ticket Office now sends out to students in exchange. “Thank you for your support,” its subject line reads. Implicit in it is an expectation that we’ll be in the stands to cheer on our Elis — an expectation that all of us should plan to meet.

Tell us how we’re doing.

Despite the personalization, seemingly everyone in the College received the email from Dean Jonathan Holloway about the 2015 Yale Enrolled Student Survey. Surely, you have a grasp of your own Yale College Experience, but we’ve got you covered if you want to take the opportunity to inform yourself about current events on campus.

Spilling over to Boston.

Economics professor and externalities king William Nordhaus was named chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Board of Directors yesterday.

We expect Beantown to see decreased pollution as a secondary benefit of the appointment.

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2009 Following the release of a Yale College Council proposal for academic minors, faculty appear split on the issue.

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Feb, be wary. Not to disillusion

Another cause. And once

Athletics budget nears $38 million, the secondmost in the Ivy League.

Seven dead after Metro-North collision

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Shake ’em down. The location for this year’s Senior Class Gift kick-off event isn’t as under wraps as the one whose cover we just blew. Tonight at 8 p.m., the class of 2015 will gather at Shake Shack for frivolity and free beer/wine/ shakes before getting down to brass tacks about their plans to get everyone on board with donation efforts.

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the parole system and the pardons system, and creating job and housing opportunities for ex-offenders.

“When making an honest living is not an honest option, too many will choose a lifetime of crime,” Malloy said. “[These initiatives] will help break the cycle of crime and poverty

At least seven people have died and 12 were injured in Valhalla, N.Y. after a Metro-North train crashed into a vehicle on the tracks Tuesday evening.

The collision, which caused a fire and pushed the Jeep Cherokee S.U.V. 10 traincar lengths north of the crossing at which the crash occurred, happened at around 6:30 p.m. in the Westchester County hamlet. Service on the Harlem Line, running north to Wassaic, N.Y. from Manhattan, has since been suspended between White Plains, N.Y. and Pleasantville, N.Y. The New York Times reported that the woman driving the car and at least six other passengers aboard the train were killed. After the crash, MTA spokesperson Aaron Donovan said that the front of the train caught fire, and approximately 400 passengers were evacuated.

“I will be asking many questions in the days ahead about how this accident happened,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 said in a statement. “I will work vigorously to ensure that we have safeguards in place to ensure that we don’t have to witness an

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Gov. Dannel Malloy announced a new plan for criminal justice reform on Tuesday at the Yale Law School.

BY MRINAL KUMAR AND MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTERS Addressing a crowd of over 100 state and city officials, activists and students Tuesday afternoon at the Yale Law School, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced major criminal justice reforms aimed at decreasing crime and reintegrating nonviolent

offenders into society.

Malloy’s Second Chance Society initiatives seek to build on progress made in reducing the state’s crime rate, which is already at a 48-year low. Malloy’s plan centers on five main points: reclassifying specific nonviolent offenses, eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for drug possession, streamlining both

Harp defends first year, presents vision for city

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Noting President Barack Obama’s endorsement of New Haven’s progress in assisting at-risk youth at the U.S. Conference of Mayors last week, Mayor Toni Harp defended her record and presented her plan for moving the city forward in her state of the city address last night.

The Board of Alders, officers from the New Haven Police and Fire Departments, several city officials and members of the public gathered to hear Harp’s second annual address at City Hall Tuesday evening. In addition to hinting at a potential budget surplus at the end of this fiscal year, Harp summarized the city’s progress in curbing violence and bolstering public education and looked to the city’s colleges, businesses and cultural attractions as drivers of economic development.

“I believe much of this is attributable to being fully engaged as a community,” she said. “All of us are working together to create a better and safer New Haven.”

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Mayor Toni Harp addressed the Board of Alders, police officers, firefighters and city officials in her state of the city speech Tuesday.

Yale College applications fall just short of record

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER Yale received 30,227 applications for the class of 2019 — the second-highest number of applications ever submitted to the college.

Applications to Yale College exceeded the 30,000 mark for the first time last year, when the University received a record-high 30,922 applications to the class of 2018.

Though the Office of Undergraduate Admissions received 695 fewer applications this year, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said he does not place much weight in year-to-year fluctuations in application numbers.

“Year-to-year fluctuations are less important than long term trends,” Quinlan said. “The long term trend is still that more

and more students are applying to Yale College.”

This year’s figure of 30,227 represents a 55 percent increase from the 19,448 applications the University received for the class of 2009 a decade ago.

The Admissions Office expected a relatively flat year in application growth after last year’s record-high figure, and plans to admit approximately the same number of students, Quinlan said.

“I think we’ll probably admit about the same number of applicants as we did last year, which means the admittance rate will probably stay relatively stable,” Quinlan said.

Among other Ivy League schools, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton SEE REG. DECISIONS PAGE 6

Policy spurs students to report medical crises

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER The past two years have seen a significant increase in the percentage of calls for medical transport in alcohol-related emergencies that are made by students.

In fall 2012, only 30 percent of alcohol-related emergency transports were initiated by students who were not Freshman Counselors. Last fall, after the introduction of a new medical emergency policy and a wave of new educational initiatives about the warning signs of high-risk drinking, that number rose to 51 per-

cent — a 70 percent increase, said Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd. Both the MEP and the new programming are part of the college’s push to emphasize alcohol as a public health issue, rather than a disciplinary one, Boyd said.

“The primary goal of the new MEP was to encourage students to call for help in cases of alcohol-related medical emergencies,” Boyd said.

“This is the best way to make sure that everyone who needs an emergency transport gets one. Freshman counselors have long been good at calling for SEE ALCOHOL POLICY PAGE 4

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OPINION

.COMMENT “Isn't ethics and Yale a contradiction of terms?” yaledailynews.com/opinion

Our HIV crisis I

n most students’ minds, the HIV/AIDS crisis was an event of the past: a bleak time of public condemnation of men who have sex with men, a searing recognition of the absence of legal and human rights afforded to affected communities and, for many, a period of intense sadness and fear. Yet the belief that HIV in America is no longer a public concern couldn’t be further from the truth.

Federal research shows that the nation’s HIV rate fell by a third from 2001 to 2011. But, in the same 10-year time frame, new diagnoses of HIV among gay and bisexual men between the ages of 13 and 24 increased by nearly 133 percent. Why is this happening, and why aren’t people paying attention?

We can attribute this lack of awareness at least partially to a diminished sense of urgency surrounding the virus. With the advent of prescription drugs that depress HIV-positive individuals’ viral loads, it slowly fell out of the news cycle.

Soon after, the same-sex marriage movement all but replaced other LGBT community issues on the national airwaves. A cohort of young men now face an increased risk of contracting a virus relegated to the past, all while the public looks elsewhere.

Yes, the virus is spread more easily through anal intercourse, making gay men more susceptible. Still, we must recognize that two behavioral trends play an outsized role in the spike in incidence: Gay and bisexual men tend to have more partners and to use condoms less often than our heterosexual counterparts. But, as Michael Specter noted in the New Yorker over a year ago, “HIV is tied up with sex, a basic human need, but also with desire, shame, discrimination and fear. What twenty-year-old man, enjoying his first moments of sexual adventure, is going to be scared because, ten years before he was born, people like me saw gay men writhe and vomit and die on the streets where he now stands?”

According to an article in the News (“Sex isn’t always safe at Yale,” Jan. 23), Yale students cite decreased sensation as a primary motivation for not using a condom. Condom usage among men who have sex with men increased in the 1980s and 1990s as a direct result of the mass death of members of the gay community. But because we as a society no longer see people dying in the street, the splitsecond decision to forego safety at the expense of pleasure is calculated using a misguided risk assessment.

The nature of HIV testing also provides some answers.

Tests that measure the antibodies resulting from HIV infection are subject to a “window period” of six to 12 weeks. If you

get tested in the first three months post-infection, you may return negative results.

Even further, an indiKYLE viral TRAMONTE vidual’s load is highest in this Green on time window, making the Vine the period immediately post-infection also the most dangerous. Antigen (RNA) tests can return results within one to three weeks of infection, but these tests are more expensive and offered less often.

These numbers are, of course, only relevant to those who choose to get tested; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that one in five infected people do not know they are HIV-positive. The takeaway? Self-reported, medically unsubstantiated assessments of sexual health should be viewed with at least some caution for the benefit of community health.

On this campus, ignorance regarding the state of HIV in America is also a product of the predominantly white and wealthy composition of the student body. A sizeable portion of our peers identify as gay and bisexual, but as long as the HIV crisis disproportionately affects people of color and the economically disadvantaged, HIV prevention will likely remain an issue to be tackled at a later date. We must recognize that HIV is a problem that affects all of society if we are to make a dent in public consciousness.

Nearly six years ago, public health researcher Ron Stall predicted that 50 percent of gay and bisexual men in our generation would contract HIV by age 50. Quality of life for HIV-positive members of our society has improved drastically in the last 20 years, but failure to recognize this degree of incidence in any community is a crime.

In conversations with professors and students, an interesting metaphor arose: If you are standing on the bank of a swift-moving river and see someone floating by, you might try to save them. If you see 10 people float by, it’s probably best you look upstream to see what the hell is going on. In the coming weeks, I will be talking to University administrators, students and public health experts to examine what role Yale and its students can play in addressing the crisis. We have to; people are drowning and few are on the riverbank to even notice.

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No gift before mental health reform L

ike many of her friends, I was filled with fear the moment I checked my Facebook on Jan. 27 and saw that Luchang Wang ’17 had written a suicide note. I joined a panicked group searching the campus for her, until the police called it off; she had flown to California.

Then came several hours of hopelessly checking my email, followed at 5:53 p.m. by the cold, crushing despair at the knowledge that my friend had killed herself. That hasn’t lifted. I don’t know when it will.

Like many, I am searching for ways to convince Yale to make changes to its mental health policies — to make our campus a safer space for people suffering from mental illness.

I will offer one suggestion here: boycott the Senior Class Gift. In doing so, seniors can demand the University change its archaic policies on mental health. These policies have hurt too many students, including Luchang.

As you probably already know, Luchang’s life was one of brilliance and generosity, but it also must be viewed as a painful tragedy. While she was a student here, she suffered from serious mental illness haphazardly kept at bay by her medication.

Knowing the bureaucratic hurdles she had already encountered and facing the possibility that she would be asked to leave the University again if she disclosed the

full extent of her illness, she lied to her doctors here. In the suicide note she wrote before her death, Luchang expressed her love for Yale and the community she found here. But she also described her fear of having to leave the University for a full year or, worse still, of never being readmitted.”

Although most stories thankfully do not end as Luchang’s did, her experiences represent a continuation of many other stories of Yale mistreating and ostracizing its mentally ill students. In March 2014, the News published a series of stories that chronicled students' confrontation with the cold bureaucracy of Yale Mental Health and Counseling.

WE CAN'T ENDORSE YALE WHILE ITS POLICIES NEEDLESSLY HARM OUR CLASSMATES One student, Rachel Williams ’17, recalled being interrogated and eventually involuntarily withdrawn. Another student, Stewart McDonald ’15, wrote that Yale’s readmission process made it clear that the University too often sees mentally ill students as liabilities

rather than as students suffering from an illness.

We must, as students, acknowledge the importance of our role in forming a supportive community and work together to make Yale as warm and receptive as possible. But part of our responsibility entails recognizing that the Yale administration plays a serious role in the pain of our mentally ill classmates. The University has, time and time again, abrogated its responsibility to its most vulnerable students and resisted reforms that Yale students have been suggesting for years. We must push the University to change its stance towards mentally ill students immediately.

According to the Senior Class of 2015 Gift website, the fund is a chance for donors to “signal [our] endorsement of Yale and its future.” Furthermore, these initial donations and sky-high participation rates often suggest to the broader public that every graduating senior loved his or her time at Yale. Indeed, the administration takes the senior class’s participation very seriously — the costs of fundraising for it may very easily exceed the money it raises.

But I don’t believe we can endorse Yale while the University’s policies on mental health continue to needlessly harm our classmates.

As such, I call on seniors to boycott the Senior Class Gift until Yale reforms its mental health policies.

I co-authored a pledge with

six classmates who similarly care about this issue. I urge others to sign the pledge, which can be found on the Class of 2015’s official Facebook page. In this pledge, we call upon Yale to take decisive action on mental health reform. In March 2014, the Yale College Council published a report outlining recommendations for improving the University’s withdrawal and leave of absence policies, focusing in particular on the readmission process and the window of time at the beginning of the semester in which students are able to withdraw for that term alone.

Unless Yale implements the recommendations proposed by the YCC or comparably decisive reforms, I and the other signatories of this pledge will not donate to the Senior Class Gift.

If you are a senior, I hope you sign this pledge. If you feel comfortable, I urge you to publicly announce your participation in this boycott. Through our collective action, we can make a strong statement to Yale that its heartless behavior toward the mentally ill cannot continue. We cannot be ignored again. Yale’s needless failure cannot continue. Rachel, Stewart and Luchang deserved better. Future Yale students deserve better. The stakes are too high.

GEOFFREY SMITH is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at geoffrey.smith@yale.edu .

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KYLE TRAMONTE is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at kyle.tramonte@yale.edu .

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ercury is in retrograde, and I’m not talking about thermometers. I’m talking about something a little more universal.

Since Jan. 21, the planet Mercury has appeared to be moving backward. Astronomically speaking, this is no big deal: The orbits of Earth and Mercury are aligning in such a way that it seems as though Mercury is moving in the opposite direction, even though it isn’t. It’s kind of like when you’re driving next to a car moving slower than you — the other car is still moving forward, but it looks like it’s falling back.

This planetary road trip happens about three times per year, for three to four weeks at a time.

Astrologically speaking, however, this is a huge deal. Like the Roman god the planet is named for, Mercury is the messenger, the communicator, the improviser.

When Mercury moves backward, things run amok. Our cell phones die faster, we miss our trains, our Uber never comes and we accidentally reply-all. If your friend has thrown around the phrase “Mercury retrograde,” what he’s trying to say is that everything is

out of whack.

You need not look far and wide to see Mercury rearing its ugly head. Just the other day, one friend told me her Snapchat account sent some photos without her permission, causing her unnecessary anxiety. Another friend lost part of his thesis after a computer he was working on was wiped. On our way to lunch, yet another friend (can you tell I’ve got a few?) and I walked past a former hookup of hers as the onslaught of snow made our frigid encounter just a little colder. As I write this column, a dear friend has found himself in Yale Health with frostbite.

I may not be a “science person,” but I think the evidence adds up. Mercury’s retrograde is real. There is no escaping it (Yale Health’s Chief Astrologist could not be reached for comment).

Many an online survival guide will tell you how to cope with the funk. These sagacious websites tell us to err on the side of caution, recommending to always have our phones charged and to triple check our appointment times. A POPSUGAR article even tells us to, “Go on an online dat-

ing hiatus” (pained as I am to see the words “online dating” and “hiatus” in the same sentence).

By outright avoiding some technologies and riskier behaviors, they claim, we can rise to meet the celestial challenges we encounter.

LIVE EVERY DAY LIKE MERCURY IS IN RETROGRADE Even so, to me, these advice columns about surviving all of Mercury’s whims are defeatist in tone. Ultimately, they claim, we are powerless, at the hands of something larger than us. Here it becomes all too easy to blame Mercury retrograde for anything that goes wrong.

This is the double-edged sword of Mercury retrograde.

On one hand, it’s a scientifically sound explanation for any weirdness we might come across. But to some extent, it’s also an excuse — one we should not be so quick

to espouse. Our sense of what we cannot control should never be so extreme that we start to blame the stars for all eerie events or Snapchats or encounters. Mercury retrograde is only one of many possible explanations.

Maybe something good can come from Mercury retrograde.

If we begin to expect unforeseen events, we develop a nimbleness we might not usually have.

We can improvise when something unexpected comes our way.

For this reason, I propose we live every day like Mercury is in retrograde. If we exercise caution, communicate clearly and wing it a little, we can lead better lives.

Mercury will resume its usual eastward path on Feb. 11. Valentine’s Day and the five or so last weeks of winter are miserable enough on their own, and we don’t need Mercury making them worse. Despite Mercury retrograde’s welcomed end, the lessons it teaches us are timeless — especially if we act as though Mercury retrograde is forever.

AUSTIN BRYNIARSKI is a junior in Calhoun College. Contact him at austin.bryniarski@yale.edu .

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“Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.” HENRY EMERSON FOSDICK PASTOR

A previous version of the article “Q&A: Exploring human irrationality through primates” neglected to mention that Laurie Santos serves as director of the Comparative Cognition Lab, in addition to directing the Canine Cognition Center. A photo that ran with the article was also miscredited to Santos. The credit belongs to Alexandra Rosati.

With sexual misconduct on college campuses in the national spotlight, two Connecticut state legislators have proposed a bill that would require all universities in the state to adopt a “yes means yes” policy.

The bill, proposed by Republican State Sen. Mae Flexer, D-29, and Rep. Gregory Haddad, D-54, would mandate a “yes means yes” definition of sexual consent — also known as “affirmative consent” in all cases, providing a uniform approach to issues of sexual misconduct across the state.

Still, the bill is unlikely to impact Yale, which already mandates affirmative consent, requiring “positive, unambiguous and voluntary agreement” in sexual encounters. Yale is one of 800 colleges and universities that, as of last September, had already adopted affirmative consent policies, according to the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management.

“Having a clear standard of consent and educating students about that standard and making that standard consistent across universities in Connecticut ... will all lead to a better understanding of what sexual assaults are,” Haddad said. He added that a clearer definition of what constitutes sexual consent could create a healthier campus culture where students feel more comfortable reporting sexual assaults.

Connecticut is not the first state to propose “yes means yes” legislation. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo publicly advocated for an affirmative consent measure earlier this month, and a lawmaker in Maryland has proposed “yes means yes” legislation as well.

Last September, California passed a similar bill to the one proposed by Haddad and Flexer.

The California bill said universities must adopt a standard of affirmative consent in order to receive state funds for student financial aid. Consent must be mutual, ongoing throughout a sexual activity and conscious.

Haddad said the California law played into his and Flexer’s thinking when drafting their proposed bill. He added that California’s law set a track for future affirmative consent legislation, and his and Flexer’s proposed bill will likely use language similar to California’s.

Flexer and Haddad both represent regions nears Storrs, Conn., home to the University of Connecticut. Haddad said the proposed bill resulted from conversations with student activists at UConn, who encouraged the two legislators to standardize the definitions of sexual consent across universities in the state.

But because UConn already has an affirmative consent policy, UConn Title IX Coordina-

tor Elizabeth Conklin said that the University anticipates no changes to its policies if the law passes. Caroline Kozietek, the Title IX coordinator at the University of New Haven, echoed the sentiment.

Conklin said UConn’s formal adoption of an affirmative consent policy in the early 2000s shifted the way the University investigates reports of sexual assault. Investigators now ask the initiators of sexual action whether the accuser had said yes, as opposed to asking if they had said no. In addition to bystander intervention training that emphasizes affirmative consent, freshmen at UConn also have the opportunity to take a class for credit which explores questions surrounding consent and sexual assault.

At the University of New Haven, Associate Dean for Student Life at the University of New Haven Ric Baker said an affirmative consent policy, along with other efforts to reduce sexual misconduct, have improved campus climate and more students are aware of how to report cases of sexual assault.

I don’t think that [increased sexual assault reports] means there has been an increase in incidences.

RIC BAKER Associate Dean for Student Life, University of New Haven “We have seen an increase in the number of [sexual assault] reports,” he said. “I don’t think that means there has been an increase in incidences, but that more people feel comfortable coming forward.”

While many universities have adopted affirmative consent policies, they are not always reflected in campus culture, students interviewed suggested. Of 23 Yale students interviewed, 20 correctly defined affirmative consent, but only 12 said they felt the policy is treated as the campus norm.

Athena Wheaton ’18 said that while gaining mutual consent is important, the much-discussed hookup culture at Yale can sometimes run counter to affirmative consent policies.

“The desire for spontaneity, that is sometimes the root of casual hookups, is kind of affected by a pause and a verbal consent,” she said.

Michelle Liu contributed reporting.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

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BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER For the first time since 2002, Yale is no longer the second wealthiest institution of higher education in the nation.

Over the course of the 2014 fiscal year, the endowment of the University of Texas System — which includes nine academic institutions and six health institutions — rose to $25.4 billion to inch out Yale’s $24 billion fund, according to the NACUBOCommonfund Study of Endowments released last week. While some experts interviewed said Yale’s drop in rankings is not a cause for concern, others argued that large, public institutions may increasingly challenge private universities when it comes to endowment size.

“Yale is still a dominant force in the endowment world,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology finance professor Andrew Lo ’80 said. “Texas is a very big state and there is lots of opportunity to grow their asset base, while Yale is in the midst of using funds for new buildings — it is all part and parcel of that dynamic.”

In calculating the wealth of an institution, the rankings reflect more than the returns on

investments. Rather, the totals also include withdrawals to fund institutional operations, payment of management and investment fees, and additions from donors or outside contributions.

Bruce Zimmerman, chief executive officer of the University of Texas Investment Management Co., said the UT endowment particularly benefited from energy revenue in fiscal 2014.

“The University of Texas system’s endowment receives contributions, not only through donations from alumni, but also from oil and gas royalty revenue,” he said. “So like Yale and other investors, we did benefit from strong capital markets and good investment returns, and also what had been higher oil prices and drilling activity.”

Still, it remains uncertain whether these energy investments will serve as a large source of revenue for investors in the coming year. Since August 2014 — the end of the UT fiscal year calculations — the price of crude oil has fallen over 50 percent.

Yale currently has 8 percent of its endowment invested in natural resources, which include oil and gas investments in addition

to timberland, metals and mining.

Provost Benjamin Polak said he was not concerned about Yale’s decline in the rankings since the University of Texas system is an “enormous operation” relative to Yale.

According to the admissions data for both schools, Yale has roughly 12,000 students on campus compared to the 216,000 enrolled across UT’s 15 educational institutions. On an endowment per student basis, Yale has maintained its secondplace position, trailing behind only Princeton.

Still, the rise of the UT system endowment may signal a broader trend in which large, public universities have come to rival the wealth of elite private institutions.

“The view of university endowment tends to be based on the idea that great private institution will always have the largest endowment,” said William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute. “If you fast forward 20, 25 years — given compounding — you may see many great endowments emerge from among these public universities. It doesn’t mean schools like Yale or Harvard will

fall, but it means these public institutions will have a new [impact] in the endowmentinvesting field.”

Jarvis said that beginning around 1990, public universities began to change their perspective on fundraising and endowment investing. He added that these schools began mirroring the strategies already employed by elite private institutions, including a particular emphasis on targeting young alumni for donations.

Of the top 10 fastest growing endowments with at least 1 billion in assets, only two were Ivy League schools — the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College. Meanwhile, there were seven large, public universities on the list. At the top of the list was the Texas A&M University system, which saw a 27 percent growth to $11.1 billion, and the University of Michigan’s endowment, which grew 31 percent to $9.7 billion.

Although only growing 11 percent, Harvard’s endowment of $35.9 billion maintained its position as the largest in the country.

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

Study questions accuracy of tuition price

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Universities may have to choose between accuracy and convenience when providing the estimated cost of tuition for prospective students, a new study shows.

The net price tuition calculator is a federally mandated tool that allows students to individually estimate the cost of enrolling in higher education institutions. A study published last week in the Social Science Research Network about universities’ net price calculator accuracy has raised questions about the functionality of the calculator that Yale Student Financial Services offers to prospective students. According to the authors of the study, Yale’s calculator may provide more accurate information, but its detail-oriented approach sacrifices convenience and accessibility.

Still, in a poll conducted by the News, 49 out of 64 students said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the Yale calculator, having received financial aid predictions that matched or exceeded their initial expecta-

tions.

“The Student Financial Services office wanted to provide the most accurate family contribution calculation possible, so Yale opted for a full financial questionnaire,” Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi said. “We want to get the clear message out that Yale is affordable and has a generous financial aid program.”

The study focuses on the federally provided net price calculator template, which is used by more than 50 percent of American universities and asks nine basic questions about students’ financial status. With data from 18 universities, the study compared the estimated cost that financial aid calculators project against the actual costs students received after enrollment.

The study found that while the calculator provided good estimates on average, there were substantial variations — up to several thousand dollars — in individual cases.

Yale, however, does not use the federal template, and instead partners with an outside vendor, Student Aid Services, for its net price calculator. Unlike the federal template,

Yale’s net price calculator is close to a full financial questionnaire in its specificity, and includes inquiries about the non-monetary assets of its users. “The calculator is highly accurate and was designed intentionally with that goal,” he said. “We typically hear from less than five families per year about discrepancies; they are most often caused by incorrect data entry.”

According to the News’ poll, Yale’s calculator does appear to provide generally accurate estimates for prospective students.

Fifty-five percent of respondents said the calculator provided an accurate estimate of their real cost, 20 percent said the calculator overestimated the cost of enrollment, while another 20 percent said that they received an underestimate.

However, similar to the findings in the study, there also appear to be significant variations in the estimate, with one student noting that the calculator had underestimated his cost by “around 10,000 dollars.”

Study co-author Abigail Seldin — an operator of CollegeAbacus.org, a free website that offers information about

net price calculators — said she believes proprietary net price calculators are more accurate than the free, federal format.

Aaron Anthony, the other coauthor, said Yale’s emphasis on accuracy over convenience contrasts with the federal template and raises the question of how an ideal calculator should balance between the two extremes.

“Sometimes the calculators can get pretty in depth and complicated … that can deter usage,” he said. “The federal template is great in this respect, but then yields a less precise estimate of costs.”

Nevertheless, Yale’s financial aid office aims to provide a suitable financial aid package to every admitted student, Storlazzi said. Of the 12 students who reported dissatisfaction with the net price calculator’s initial results, eight said they approached the admissions or financial aid office in order to try negotiating a new package.

Of those, three said they were able to do so successfully.

Yale spends roughly $120 million per year on financial aid.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” WILLIAM OSLER CANADIAN PHYSICIAN

Citing Obama, Harp emphasizes education, jobs STATE OF THE CITY FROM PAGE 1 Harp pledged a continuing commitment to ending youth violence through collaboration with the NHPD, the Fire Department and public schools.

Obama’s nod to the mayor last Friday praised her efforts in implementing New Haven’s version of My Brother’s Keeper — a federal initiative to empower young men of color. The major element of the city’s adaptation of the federal program, Harp said, is City Youth Stat, which uses data about student absences from school and students transferring between schools to identify and assist at-risk youth.

Harp particularly focused on public education, which she described as responsible for safeguarding students from trauma and violence.

NHPS is working with the Board of Education to extend after-school services during spring break and to provide safe spaces for students during days off, Harp said. She underscored the importance of such collaborative enrichment programs between the city’s schools and police and fire departments, noting that NHPS had seen an increased enrollment of 1,700 and a 17 percent increase in high school graduation rates in the past year.

“A lot of kids think that no one cares and that no one is looking out for them,” City Fire Chief Allyn Wright said in an interview after Harp’s address. “My job is to be a role model, so these kids can say, ‘Hey, it’s a firefighter — or a police officer or someone from the Board of Ed — expecting me to be on the path to success.’”

Harp also issued a call to action to the Board of Education, of which she is a member, to focus its attention on the city’s reading curriculum and establish a community goal of helping at least 50 percent of the NHPS student

body read at or above grade level.

One area of youth services where the city has not seen progress is the revitalization of the Q House — a community center on Dixwell Avenue set to reopen its doors in 2016. Harp mentioned the development of the center as one of her goals at last year’s state of the city address.

“The mayor spoke about the kids from the police perspective and from the perspective of the Board of Ed, but I would have liked to hear more about children and the community,” Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison said. “I would like to know where we are with the Q House.”

A lot of kids think that no one cares and that no one is looking out for them.

ALLYN WRIGHT City Fire Chief The city’s progress against violence extends beyond youth, Harp said.

She noted that the rate of shots fired in the city has fallen by 21 percent in the last year, while non-fatal shooting saw a 9.1 percent drop. Homicides fell by 40 percent.

But despite the drop in crime, New Haven’s unemployment rate remains at 22 percent — nearly four times the national average.

The Elm City has, however, seen an increase in construction jobs with the development of Downtown Crossing — a new commercial and residential space at the site of the former Coliseum. Speaking to city infrastructure, Harp added that new bridges would open in the spring and summer on East Rock Road and State Street.

“We are a city on the move. We are a city on the rise,” she said.

“And there is evidence in all corners of the city to support these assertions.”

One such part of city, according to Harp, is Yale’s campus.

She specifically cited the construction of the two new residential colleges as an example of the Yale’s confidence and investment in New Haven. She also spoke about new facilities and increased enrollment at three other campuses in the city — Southern Connecticut State University, Gateway Community College and the University of New Haven.

“We have world-class companies in town, the fourth largest hospital in the nation, and we are a virtual boomtown in terms of bioscience, high technology, arts and culture,” Harp said, adding that the city is eager to encourage students to stay in New Haven after graduation.

City Director of Arts, Culture and Tourism Andrew Wolf reiterated Harp’s point and added that his department planned to move forward on three pillars of economic development: knowledge, healthcare and culture. According to Wolf, the expansion and renovation of college campuses in the city and the national recognition of Yale-New Haven Hospital indicate progress in developing the first two pillars.

New Haven’s growing hospitality industry comprises the third pillar, he said.

“We seek to attract the region’s cultural entrepreneurs to the city for food, for fashion, for film — all the ‘F’ words,” Wolf said.

Ward 4 Alder Andrea JacksonBrooks said she thought Harp’s address was clear and grounded in facts.

“Were there other things that I would like to have seen addressed? Yes,” she said. “But there’s time for that.”

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

Alcohol policy focuses on safety, not discipline ALCOHOL POLICY FROM PAGE 1 help, but other students were not always.”

The MEP states that if any student calls for help for another student who is intoxicated, none of the students involved — the student transported, the student calling for help, the host or guests of the event, or any student organization sponsoring the event — will face disciplinary action for alcohol violations.

The policy change mostly impacts student hosts, Boyd said, adding that although the student being transported has always been treated as a medical rather than a disciplinary case, other students involved were previously in danger of being sent to the Executive Committee.

“Before the MEP, students and student organizations whose hosting practices contributed to an alcohol emergency were likely to face disciplinary charges,” Boyd said. “Now, the routine path would be to have an educational conversation about hosting practices with the Student Affairs Fellows at [the Alcohol and Other Drugs Harm Reduction Initiative].”

As recent grads, we’re kind of ‘nearpeers’ so we know that planning a party at Yale can be tricky.

HANA AWWAD ’14 Student Affairs Fellow If it is clear that the hosts did not contribute to the emergency, she added, they would not have to participate in training at all.

Student Affairs Fellow Hana Awwad ’14, who works with the AODHRI alongside David Lindsey’12, the other student affairs fellow, said they aim to have positive conversations during the trainings that are conducive to actual change, rather than simply reprimanding students.

“As recent grads, we’re kind of ‘near-peers’ so we know that planning a party at Yale can be tricky, and we can work with student groups to think through some of the more challenging parts,” Awwad said. “The conversations we have are non-disciplinary and non-judgmental.”

Five students interviewed said they believe Yale prioritizes student health and safety over discipline in cases of alcohol consumption.

However, only three of those interviewed were aware of the MEP. Still, all five students said they believe it is a useful addition to Yale’s policies.

“I think it’s definitely a better stance, because if there weren’t [such a policy] stu-

dents would still drink anyway,” Leanne Motylenski ’16 said. “It’s not something you can prevent. [The MEP] is a necessary action and a good stance for them to take because there is no better option.”

The MEP is just one of several steps taken by the AODHRI to decrease high-risk drinking on campus, Awwad said. The AODHRI has also tried to promote a safer drinking culture by providing resources such as classes on bartending or crowd management.

She added that the AODHRI hopes to address the problems of collective ignorance concerning alcohol policy and skewed perceptions of social norms by providing training to students about the physiological effects of alcohol and how to effectively man the door at crowded parties, among other topics.

In January, the AODHRI also announced that it would hire a small team of student interns to help it design and implement new programming. The goal, Lindsey said, is to take advantage of current students’ familiarity with campus social life to maximize the initiative’s effectiveness.

Overall, Lindsey added that he has seen a shift in campus culture, with large campus events, which tended to be the source of many alcohol emergencies, seeming calmer in recent years. In November, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry sent an email to students regarding the annual HarvardYale football game, in which he noted that had been “impressed by the positive atmosphere” on Halloween, noting that there were fewer negative incidents than in past years.

“We have seen similar patterns this year at the Game and other big campus events,” Lindsey said. “It’s wonderful to see a shift in campus norms.”

Upperclassmen interviewed agreed that campus drinking culture has improved over the past few years, but they were not confident that the change was attributable to Yale’s policies. Motylenski said students’ drinking habits depend more on their social circles than anything else.

Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin said that while he believes it is too early to draw any conclusions about the impact of the policy changes, he hopes that any student would seek the necessary help without concern for repercussions.

The MEP will be assessed for effectiveness at the end of the 2014–’15 school year, Awwad said.

According to data compiled by the AODHRI and the Office of Institutional Research, 62 percent of Yale students surveyed reported binge drinking.

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

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In her state of the city address, Mayor Toni Harp focused on public education, among other issues.

12 injured in train crash METRO-NORTH FROM PAGE 1 event like this again.”

Blumenthal added that he had begun contacting the federal railroad administration to start an immediate investigation.

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said in a press release that he had spoken to MTA Chief Thomas Prendergast, who confirmed that an investigation into the causes of the crash has already begun.

“It is premature to point any fingers of blame,” Schumer said.

“But there are many important questions that must be answered in the coming days.”

The crash is the latest in a series of accidents on MetroNorth in recent years. In December 2013, a derailment near Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx killed four passengers and injured 61. In May 2013, a derailment in Fairfield, Conn. injured 72; later in the month, a train fatally struck a Metro-North worker in West Haven, Conn. A

similar accident killed another worker in March 2014.

Samantha Brown ’17, who takes Metro-North to the Mount Vernon East station to travel to her home in Yonkers, N.Y., said the accident Tuesday evening came as a shock.

There are many important questions that must be answered in the coming days.

CHUCK SCHUMER Senator, New York Brown said she was aware of Metro-North-related accidents and emergencies, which she said appear to “happen all the time,” but she had never heard of casualties occurring prior to this accident.

“I would really like to see if

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there’s positive change out of this,” Brown said.

New Haven Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking Doug Hausladen ’04 said the city is concerned with any safety risks that affect the mass transit system and New Haven residents.

But because the city has no jurisdiction over the MTA — an organization run cooperatively by New York and Connecticut — the city cannot directly respond to the accident, Hausladen added.

Hausladen said New Haven, as a part of the New York metropolitan area, is concerned about any safety issues in the public transit system. He praised Gov. Dannel Malloy for his fiscal support of Metro-North, and added that rail is still a much safer means of transportation than automobiles.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

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“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AMERICAN PUBLIC FIGURE

External review finds cultural houses in need of support

BY STAPHANY HOU AND FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTERS A report released to the campus community Tuesday afternoon said the University needs to dedicate more financial and administrative resources to the four cultural centers: the Afro-American Cultural Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, the Native American Cultural Center and La Casa Cultural: Latino Cultural Center.

While the report, compiled by an external review board, concluded that Yale’s cultural centers have an important role in campus life, it also found significant deficiencies in the amount of administrative support provided to them. The report ends the second phase of a three-phase process initiated by the University in the fall of 2014 to assess the status of cultural centers at Yale. The second stage — a review of each cultural center by a team of four outside consultants — culminated with the submission of the report. According to the report’s findings, the financial conditions of the four houses are unequal, and the review board suggested that the University allocate more resources accordingly.

“The financial condition of the centers is uneven,” the report stated. “This situation leads to disparities among the centers and contributes to the feeling that University leadership does not equally value the centers. The consultation revealed the need to give serious attention to the purpose, expectations, budget, facilities and responsibilities of the centers.”

Along with the report, the University sent a frequently asked questions docu-

ment, which specified that the centers’ budgets will have to expand in order to accommodate an increased number of students as a result of the two new residential colleges.

But AACC Co-Head Coordinator Hiral Doshi ’17 said the centers’ budgets also need to expand to adequately serve the needs of current students.

All prominent figures of cultural life and diversity at other elite universities, the team of consultants visited Yale in November 2014 to analyze the current role of cultural centers at Yale as well as offer suggestions for how Yale can improve these centers, the Tuesday email said. According to student leaders interviewed, this was the first time the cultural centers have been formally reviewed in University history.

The report recommended that Yale make significant efforts to reinforce its commitment to creating a diverse student body. Despite its verbal dedication to diversity, the report found that Yale often falls short in delivering on its promises. According to the report, University faculty and administrators referenced numerous diversity-related initiatives and commitments. However,“to the casual listener [or] observer these initiatives appear disjointed and episodic, which has the effect of diminishing the magnitude of the University’s efforts and message,” the report said.

The report also found many deficiencies in the administration, physical infrastructure and organizational structure of cultural houses, recommending that Yale align its cultural centers with a University-wide diversity agenda. The report eventually concluded that there is much

more potential for the centers to enhance the lives of ethnic students than is currently being realized.

Responses to the content of the report were generally positive, and many students said they are hopeful that concrete action would be taken by the administration in the months to come.

“This is exactly what we thought the report would say,” Doshi said. “I think that what we are looking for right now is for the administration to actually do something and take the recommendations of the consultants seriously.”

Diego Fernandez-Pages ’18 said the review was necessary to resolve the cultural centers’ shared administrative and financial problems. However, it is also important for each of the cultural centers to retain its own identity, FernandezPages added.

Interim Director of La Casa Amanda Hernandez recently sent an email to students active in La Casa that suggested possible renovations to the cultural house over Spring Break, La Casa Student Coordinator Benjamin Bartolome ’16 said.

These renovations are much needed, Bartolome added, as the basement walls of the La Casa building at 301 Crown St. have put students at risk of electrocution. “[Cultural] centers are where undergraduate character gets shaped, where campus policies and goals are articulated, and where Yale’s commitment to global excellence is demonstrated,” the report said.

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An external review board found significant deficiencies in the amount of administrative support provided to Yale’s four cultural centers. This is the first time the cultural centers have been formally reviewed, students said.

YES-W targets STEM students

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER This Valentine’s Day, 80 to 100 prefrosh who received “ likely letters” of admission may not meet their special someone, but they will get to hear from Yale’s Nobel Prize Laureate James Rothman ’71.

Over the past five years, the Admissions Office has invited around 100 students from Yale’s regular admission applicant pool to attend the Yale Engineering and Science Weekend. This year, the three-day event, which will run from Feb. 14 to Feb. 16, will include master classes; tours of the campus, Science Hill and the Peabody Museum; a science symposium of Yale undergraduate research; among other activities. Current freshmen who are alumni of the most recent YES-W said the weekend contributed to their decision to come to Yale.

“We feel like [YES-W] has definitely impacted and improved our recruitment efforts for young scientists and engineers,” said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan, adding that this impact has not been quantified by the admissions office.

Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Director of STEM Recruitment Ayaska Fernando ’08 GRD ’17 said that while the programming will be almost the same as last year’s itinerary, the admissions office has provided students with more free time in reaction to students’ responses from last year’s weekend.

Quinlan said the office has no plans right now to increase the number of students they recruit for future YES-Ws, but because the office is seeing significantly

more interest from STEM students, expanding the program remains a possibility.

YES-W alumni Serena Tharakan ’18 said that last year’s program positively impacted her impression of Yale and was part of the reason she chose to come.

“The weekend was very personalized, and it was clear the admissions team put in a great deal of effort,” Tharakan said. “I remember being impressed that professors would actually take the time out of their schedules to meet with prospective students.”

We feel like [YES-W] has definitely impacted and improved our recruitment efforts for young scientists and engineers.

JEREMIAH QUINLAN But the weekend was a bit too focused on the first three letters of STEM, and could have been better for math recruits, Eliot Levmore ’18 said. He noted that while programs and events for those interested in engineering abounded, he found few targeted towards prospective math majors.

For him, the likely letter and not the weekend itself made a larger impact on his college decision.

“Getting a likely letter was a big deal because Yale gave me this gift, somehow, of peace of mind, knowing that I had gotten into a great school,” Levmore said. “The next acceptance

didn’t come for two months or so, the entirety of which I spent thinking about how awesome Yale was.”

Haleigh Larson ’18, who chose to attend YES-W, forgoing several other general recruitment events at Stanford, Case Western and Northwestern, said the weekend illustrated Yale’s investment in the sciences. It showed that the University was willing to give ample attention and funds to students interested in STEM, she added.

Young-eun Hyun ’15, a current member of the student YES-W student team that plans the events for the weekend, said one of the most important parts of YES-W is that it emphasizes that Yale is a liberal arts institution. In addition to taking engineering, math and science classes, students can immerse themselves in everything else the University has to offer, she added.

But Tobias Holden ’17, leader of this year’s YES-W student team, said he believes one of the most important parts of YES-W is that the prospective students get to interact with Yale undergraduates. Holden said that a current freshman told him that the moment she decided to go to Yale was while lying in an igloo chatting with Holden and other STEM undergraduates on Science Hill during YES-W. “You get to share what your favorite parts of Yale have been, and you can really see it click with some people that this could be a place they call home,” Holden said.

Each student gets a stipend of $500 for travel funds in order to come to YES-W, Fernando said.

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

History Department enrollments spike

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER Amid national discussion decrying the decline of the humanities, Yale’s History Department is on the rise.

According to the director of undergraduate studies for the department, Beverly Gage, the department’s course enrollments are up by roughly 30 percent this year — making them close to the highest the department has seen in the last decade. The number of declared majors, which has been falling in recent years, is also up this semester, she said.

Students and faculty in the department pinned the uptick in enrollments on the department’s increased efforts at student outreach.

However, some also suggested that this may be a reversal of what they described as a turn away from the humanities following the 2008 recession.

“What really matters about it to me is that we’ve actually worked pretty hard to turn this around,” Gage said. “The narrative, certainly since the recession, is that humanities are on the decline ... I think this is just an indication that that’s certainly not the case.”

Gage said much of the increased interest may come as result of changes in the department this year, including the addition of several new faculty members and some new courses.

“Part of [the department’s plan] was to come up with more of a concerted plan to revamp the undergraduate offering and to make history more accessible without dumbing it down,” professor of history Patrick Cohrs said. “And I do think that what we see now is the first indication that [it] is bearing fruit.”

The department has also added “sexier” classes such as “Beer in American History” and “Sex and Violence in the Ancient World,” history major Conor Bagley ’16 noted. Classes like these, while perhaps not providing the foundation for a senior essay, might appeal to students who have never taken a history class, said history major Robert Peck ’15.

History professor Paul Freedman said the department has also made efforts to anticipate student needs by scheduling classes to avoid

conflicts and by planning courses according to their expressed interests. For example, he added, current history students want more structure in their majors than students did in years past.

Some interviewed also said the uptick in enrollments might reflect the improvements in the national economy.

“I would say that more people are taking history classes than they were a couple years ago because the economy has gotten much better, stronger than what it was before the recession,” Bagley said. “And students feel less need to major in more ‘practical’ areas of study like STEM and economics.”

However, history professors at Yale and peer institutions were divided on whether this increase may come as part of a national trend towards increased interest in history.

Harvard History Department Chair Daniel Smail said that based solely on anecdotal data, such as conversations with colleagues at peer institutions, he sees this as a national phenomenon. However, William Jordan, Princeton’s History Department chair, said he does not believe this is a universal trend, despite a steady increase in history enrollments and majors in recent years.

Cohrs said that in general, history departments’ popularity is on decline across the country. He added, though, that Yale’s high numbers may be a sign that this is a problem that can be addressed.

According to History and American Studies professor George Chauncey, who had roughly 100 more students in his “U.S. Lesbian and Gay History” course this fall than he did last year, these rising enrollments are especially surprising given recent admissions trends.

“The increase in the number of history majors is all the more remarkable, because today Yale and other schools are admitting far fewer students who indicate an interest in history or other humanistic disciplines than they did just a few years ago,” Chauncey said.

Yale’s History major requires 12 courses, including prerequisites and the senior essay.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure.”

PENN JILLETTE AMERICAN MAGICIAN

At law school, Malloy outlines criminal justice reform MALLOY FROM PAGE 1 that hurts too many families and communities … Now is time to double down on efforts and what evidence will tell us will work.”

Malloy said he plans to unveil additional executive actions in the upcoming days. He added that he intends to work with non-profit organizations, housing advocates and even religious institutions to implement the initiative’s goals. He also highlighted the role of community colleges in bolstering job training for released ex-criminals.

These [reform] ideas are working for states across the country, red and blue … even in conservative, tough-on-crime states …

DANNEL MALLOY Governor, Connecticut Professor Jacob Hacker GRD ’00, director of the Institution for Social and Political Sciences, introduced the governor, applauding Malloy’s success over his first term in drastically cutting crime rates in Connecticut during his first term. Hacker cited a 12 percent decrease in Connecticut prison admissions in the past five years, as well as 42 percent drop in urban homicides and 50 percent drop in fatal urban shootings since 2009.

Malloy attributed these falling crime rates to criminal justice reforms made during his first term as governor, which include the implementation of Project Longevity, a community and law enforcement initiative to reduce violent crime in New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford. “[Those reforms] are making Connecticut a national model for proving that smart criminal justice reforms can lead to safer communities, less victimization and more opportunity to succeed,” Malloy said.

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Gov. Dannel Malloy discussed plans for major criminal justice reforms that would aim not only to decrease crime, but also to aid nonviolent criminals in the readjustment process into society.

At the announcement, Harp voiced her support for Malloy’s proposals as well. She said the reintegration of nonviolent offenders into society is especially a priority in New Haven.

“We want to reunite families, welcome these people home to our communities, and restore them to contributing productive lives here,” Harp said.

The initiatives will also save taxpayers money, Malloy said, as the state would no longer hold nonviolent offenders in state correctional facilities for unnecessarily long durations.

Malloy expects the initiative to rally substantial legislative support due to the “bipartisan” nature of the issue.

“These ideas that I’ve outlined are not Democratic or Republican,” said Malloy. “They are ideas that are working for states across the country, red and blue … even in conservative, tough-on-crime states like Texas or Mississippi or Georgia or Alabama.”

Hacker echoed Malloy’s sentiment, saying that nationally, Republicans are pursuing similar reforms. He added, however,

that partisanship is greater in Connecticut and will be a significant hurdle in passing legislation on these initiatives. Hacker added that Republicans are more likely to be critical of Malloy’s administration due to the power imbalance in the State Legislature.

Undersecretary for Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Mike Lawlor said the administration had extended invitations to Republicans in the state legislature, but these lawmakers did not attend the event.

State House minority leader

Themis Klarides told the New Haven Independent that she and Senate minority leader Len Fasano had received emails about the event only 24 minutes prior to its start time.

John Santa, chairman of the board of the Malta Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform advocacy group, commended Malloy on delivering a message that people might not necessarily want to hear.

“We spent the last 40 years being tough on crime,” Santa said. “It has not served us well, and yet it takes a lot of courage

to stand up and say that there’s a better way to do this.”

Santa noted, however, that these initiatives could prompt politicians to label Malloy as “soft on crime,” adding that he expects Republicans and Democrats alike to exert resistance in the state legislature.

Violent crime in the state has dropped 36 percent over the last four years.

Contact MRINAL KUMAR at mrinal.kumar@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

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36,223 applications

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REG. DECISION FROM PAGE 1 and Columbia University each reported all-time high application totals this year. UPenn’s application count climbed to 37,264 this year, while Princeton and Columbia received 27,259 and 36,223 applications respectively. Both Dartmouth and Brown saw slight increases in application numbers as well, with Brown also reporting its second-largest pool in school history. Harvard and Cornell have not yet released their application numbers for the class of 2019.

Quinlan attributed rising application numbers at Yale and its peer institutions to fac-

tors such as the accessibility of the Common Application and increased global mobility of highly qualified students seeking higher education.

Carter Guensler, a high school senior from Atlanta who applied regular decision to Yale, said the Common Application has simplified and streamlined the college application process, allowing students to apply to several schools very easily.

“In my opinion, the Common App definitely makes it easier to apply to a wider range of schools,” Guensler said. “My dad teaches at Georgia Tech, and upon switching to the Common App, the influx of applications there was incredible. In addi-

tion, schools get a wider range of applicants, adding to the diversity, but also lowering the acceptance rates.”

The University has already admitted 753 of its 4,693 early applicants to the class of 2019, registering a 16 percent early acceptance rate — a slight boost from last year.

In December, Quinlan attributed that boost, in part, to a higher degree of diversity in the early applicant pool, a trend he said he said was also reflected in the regular decision pool.

He added that for the first time in several years, international application growth outpaced domestic application growth.

Brian Taylor, director of The

Ivy Coach, a New York-based college consulting firm, said rising application numbers seen across the Ivy League are a result of marketing practices directed at students who are unlikely to be competitive applicants.

“Highly selective colleges, including the Ivy League colleges, recruit students who aren’t qualified to gain admission to these schools through marketing brochures,” Taylor said. “And they do so only so they can have a lot of applications, and ultimately a lower admission rate.”

Quinlan denied making use of this tactic, saying that Yale focuses on targeting the most competitive potential applicants.

Director of Outreach and

Recruitment Mark Dunn ’07 echoed this statement, noting that the Admissions Office has made strong efforts to market to high-achieving, low-income students by advertising Yale’s affordability.

He added that the office has begun using a geo-tagging service to identify potential applicants living in low-income census tracts, who may not know about Yale’s need-based financial aid awards. By targeting these areas, Quinlan said, the Admissions Office is able to provide high-achieving, low-income students with comprehensive information about the University’s financial aid policies, as well as outline how certain students

are eligible for getting their Yale application fee waived.

“This past year we increased the number of students receiving these mailings and the number of pieces they received — from two postcards to two postcards and a letter written by a current student receiving a very generous financial aid package,” Dunn said. “We saw that applications from those census tracts grew at three times the overall late last year compared to the previous year, and this year they grew more than 10 percent more.”

Yale will release its admission decisions March 31.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

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Decoding the past, opening up the future

BY LIONEL JIN STAFF REPORTER Jonathan Rothberg GRD ’91, the inventor of high-speed DNA sequencing, said his original motivation for developing the technology came from the Peabody Museum.

“I dreamed and dreamed about bringing back dinosaurs,” he said.

Rothberg spoke to over a hundred people in the Burke Auditorium in Kroon Hall in a Tuesday event titled “Decoding Our Past: Jurassic Park, Neanderthal and You,” hosted by the Peabody Museum of Natural History and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

He highlighted how the technology of highspeed sequencing — which allows thousands of genome sequences to be read concurrently — is doing things today that people could not have dreamed of half a century ago, providing new gene targets for drug development and fueling the rise of personalized medicine.

He also outlined how he and his new startup accelerator, 4Catalyzer, are working to make high-speed sequencing more affordable and accessible and invited members of the Yale community to join the team.

His excitement about sequencing dinosaur genomes peaked when he came across papers claiming to have isolated DNA from amber dating to 30 million years ago, Rothberg told the audience. If that DNA could be isolated and sequenced, he figured he could do the same with dinosaur genomes, he explained.

But he was dissuaded from the effort by Svante Pääbo, a Swedish biologist who specializes in evolutionary genetics, who warned that DNA samples from 65 million years ago are typically poorly preserved and that the findings of the published papers may not be replicable.

“I’m glad he didn’t hang up the phone,” Rothberg said. Though the two men did not end up sequencing dinosaur DNA, their conversation led them to collaborate on sequencing the Neanderthal genome. Comparisons between the human and Neanderthal genome may yield insights into how the modern man is different from its primate ancestors, Rothberg observed.

He still dreams of sequencing dinosaurs someday, he said.

“For full disclosure, I have not given up,” Rothberg said, drawing laughter from the audience.

For now, he is focusing his efforts on developing new technologies that will improve healthcare. Through 4Catalyzer, he seeks to support startups that solve some of the challenging problems of the 21st century. 4Catalyzer currently manages four companies and has its headquarters in Guilford, Conn., said Rothberg.

The organization is seeking people with a wide range of talents, and there is no better place to find them than at Yale, said Manfred Lee, head of device strategy at Butterfly Network, one of 4Catalyzer’s companies. Over 10 employees of 4Catalyzer mingled with members of the audience at the hour-long reception that followed Rothberg’s presentation.

Undergraduates and graduates are increasingly interested in hearing from people who are leaders not just in the sciences but also in business and entrepreneurship, said David Skelly, director of the Peabody Museum and professor of ecology. Skelly pointed to Rothberg and his employees as examples of people who have exciting, dynamic careers that are not in academia, but still possess a deep intellectual component. He added that it is important to show people how there are different ways to have fulfilling careers in the sciences.

Students and faculty at the talk said they were delighted by the University’s initiative to bring in Rothberg and his team.

“Jonathan Rothberg is very influential in the biotechnology industry, and we wanted to see what his vision for the future is,” said Linda Fong GRD ’17. “It is heartening to know that Yale graduate students can make a difference in the world.”

“Decoding Our Past” is the first in a series of talks that Skelly hopes to organize in honor of the 150th anniversary of Peabody museum in 2016.

Contact LIONEL JIN at chentian.jin@yale.edu .

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Library considers long-term leasing

BY ERIC LIN STAFF REPORTER

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The Board of the New Haven Free Public Library met to discuss allowing private organizations to rent out space.

During its meeting last night, the Board of the New Haven Free Public Library discussed the possibility of allowing private organizations to rent out space from the library for long-term use.

The topic of long-term lease came to the board’s notice after the Elmseed Enterprise Fund — a Yale student-run non-profit that provides microcredit and consulting services to low-income residents — requested a long-term lease for storage space in a closet at the New Haven Free Public Library last fall. Although a librarian signed a memorandum of understanding for such an action, President of the Board Claudia Merson said that this was not legal, noting that there remain several questions regarding the leasing of public space.

“We’re not nearly ready to do it,” said Merson, who also serves as the director of public school partnerships for Yale’s Office of New Haven and State Affairs. Merson said the board does not have the authority to rent out a space owned by the city, and she questioned what the library’s liability

Alders to decide whether to extend bike lane

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER At its next scheduled meeting in two weeks, the Board of Alders will vote on whether to allow Mayor Toni Harp to authorize easements extending the Farmington Canal Heritage Greenway, a bike lane that cuts through private property on several streets throughout the city.

The Greenway, a paved trail for pedestrians and cyclists, is estimated to be completed in spring 2017. The proposal under discussion would allow the city to further develop the public Greenway on privately owned land and extend the lane to the New Haven Harbor. It currently covers a route of approximately 84 miles from Connecticut to Massachusetts, including 18 miles that run through the Elm City.

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The city has been attempting to negotiate the Greenway’s completion since 1999. The proposal for easements was originally brought before the board during its Jan. 28 meeting by Director of the City Plan Department Karyn Gilvarg. Previous attempts to complete the final portion of the Greenway, which will stretch from Hillhouse Avenue to the New Haven Harbor off Canal Dock Road, have up until this point been stymied by property owners, who were reluctant to give the city permission to build on their land.

“Hopefully this is the end of the process,” Gilvarg said of the negotiations. “We’ve been planning this for over a year.”

Seven easements in total will be under negotiation at the meeting. These would allow the Greenway to pass through prop-

erty owned by the Creative Arts Workshop, the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, the Neighborhood Music School on Audubon Street, the Grove Street Garage and the Foundry Condominiums. The property owners will not charge the city for the easements.

I hope they get [the Farmington Canal Heritage Greenway] approved. It’s a beautiful route.

EMILY FORD New Haven Resident New Haven Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking

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Douglas Hausladen ’04 said that the process of negotiating with these properties one at a time significantly prolonged the process.

“I hope that they get this approved,” said New Haven resident Emily Ford. “It’s a beautiful route.”

In addition to passing through the aforementioned businesses, the canal trail currently cuts through Yale-owned land on Temple Street, Hillhouse Avenue and Prospect Street. Yale has already signed an easement for the public use of that land.

The project to complete the Greenway will be financed by federal funds, and the New Haven section of the Greenway will be monitored by both New Haven and Yale police.

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

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would be if such a rental process were established.

City Library Director Martha Brogan noted that the library had never done something similar before. According to Brogan, existing rentals of library space are either seasonal or one-off occasions, not long-term.

Merson clarified during the meeting that the discussion was about the existence of a leasing process, not on whether Elmseed specifically is eligible to rent space. She called the organization a “lovely group,” and noted that the closet space would be available for their use if the board authorized a leasing procedure.

Still, several board members added that certain restrictions and qualifications would be required if the leasing process was created.

Brogan said it was important that the organization requesting space either contributed to one of the library’s existing programs, or to the library’s duty to serve the New Haven community.

By the end of the meeting, board members, having raised a number of questions about the feasibility of renting the public space, assigned one board member the task of fur-

ther researching the leasing process.

Aldermanic Representative for the library Jeanette Morrison — who is the Ward 22 alder — questioned the practicality of renting library space. She said that the library might not be able to give organizations exclusive use of library space.

As a further question, Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93, the vice president of the board, asked who would approve of long-term leases.

“One of the issues here is the signing of legal agreements can’t be [an authority] that everyone has,” he said.

Noting board members’ concerns about the leasing process, Merson said there were two main issues: whether the library should ever sign long-term contracts, and if it might be possible to rent out space without a formal contract.

At the end of the discussion Brogan was given the assignment of finding out how the establishment of a leasing process could happen.

“I’ll give it my best,” she said.

Contact ERIC LIN at eric.v.lin@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“We were going to run the ball in to win the game but not on that down. That was it.”

PETE CARROLL SEATTLE SEAHAWKS HEAD COACH

Athletics posts surplus

Irvin, far from an idol COLUMN FROM PAGE 14 to distinguish the extracurricular shoving from any of the other 124 plays in Super Bowl XLIX. Irvin admitted that he let his emotions get the best of him. Gronkowski aired his thought process on ABC’s Monday night edition of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

“I got pushed or something, and it was the last game of the year,” the tight end said. “I was like, ‘Screw it, I’m throwing some haymakers.’”

As the culmination of an NFL season that has called both the League and its audience to examine violence relating to the sport and its players with renewed focus, the fight was yet another black eye for professional football.

Famed columnist George F. Will once quipped, “Football features two of the worst parts of American life — violence punctuated by committee meetings.”

Football, however, does not have a monopoly on violence in sports.

Baseball has brush backs, hockey

BUDGET FROM PAGE 14 For the three years prior to 2013–14, however, Yale’s football program recorded the highest expenses in the Ivy League.

Over the past five years, Yale football has averaged $2,952,342 in total expenses, more than any other Ancient Eight program.

Director of athletics Tom Beckett said that comparing budgetary numbers between schools is often not an “applesto-apples” comparison because of differences in facilities and the reporting of data.

“We have a rink, we have a golf course, we have a tennis center that are under the hospices of the athletic department,” Beckett said. “Some schools that do have those kinds of facilities, they’re in the budget of the university. Comparing operational dollars across the league, I think it’s pretty uniform.”

Echoing Beckett’s statement, associate athletic director Forrest Temple, who heads the department’s business office, suggested that the $37 million total for Yale athletics may be misleading. A large portion of Yale’s reported expenses included costs that other schools do not report as athletics expenses.

“We report a statement that is tied to the official Yale [financial] statement, and that does include roughly $20,000,000 of building expenses [and other funds], not

has goons and basketball has good, hard fouls to send a message. All of these instances of violence in sports are ostensibly to protect a teammate or to regulate the game, done in response to behavior that is unacceptable within the lines on the diamond, rink or court.

What Irvin and Gronkowski did, however, does not fit within that construct. Backed up by both video evidence and their own statements, these players fought because they were upset or perhaps, just for the hell of it. They then tried to hide their immaturity behind the façade of being a good teammate. But being a good teammate would have meant not fighting, not dragging fellow players into a display that degraded the names on the backs of their jerseys as well as the logos on the front, just to defend them.

CHARLES CONDRO is a senior in Trumbull College and a former Sports Editor for the News. Contact him at charles.condro@yale.edu .

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just [money] allocated to teams,” Temple said. “And we also include our recreation program.”

All athletics budgets on the DOE website are broken down into two categories: expenses allocated by gender or sport, and those not allocated to any sport.

Temple’s explanation of building and recreational expenses applies to the unallocated funds category.

After subtracting these unallocated funds from the grand total, Yale still recorded the second-highest tally of expenses that were specifically allocated to teams, but with a lesser degree of difference — $17,479,117 compared to an Ivy League average of $15,314,875. Harvard’s total of $17,635,598 was the only larger number.

When asked about Yale’s team-allocated expenses, Temple said that he could not draw conclusions about Yale in comparison to other schools.

He did note that the department recorded a surplus of $474,701, which no other Ivy League school did. The department generally spends every dollar of its revenue, approximately half of which comes directly from Yale and half of which comes from varsity team revenues, recreation program revenues, annual giving and annual yield on its endowments. “[The surplus] is a bit unusual, but last year we had a very good fundraising year,

and we didn’t have any unusual expenses,” Temple said. “That created some fund balances at the athletic director’s discretion for the allocation to teams.”

Yale reported $20,145,145 of unallocated expenses, nearly twice as much as every other Ivy League school except for Penn, which reported $28,627,930 in unallocated expenses. Yale’s online report includes a caveat that direct building expenses account for $10.6 million of this category.

Recruiting expenses, salaries, promotional activities, public safety officers and other team-allocated costs add up to the total team-allocated amount that ranked second in the conference. Recruiting costs alone were just $913,805, a figure that ranks sixth in the Ivy League, ahead of only Brown and Penn.

The department’s total pales in comparison to that of Division I schools that offer scholarships. The University of Texas, Austin had the largest expenditures of any athletic department in the 2013–14 fiscal year, spending $145,984,816.

Under the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act, all co-ed colleges that receive funding for federal student aid and have an athletics program must provide specific athletics data, primarily budgetary data, to the public.

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

Elis find leader in Doherty MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 Mike has impressive hockey sense and a knack for scoring goals,” Hayden said.

“That combined with his work ethic make him very hard to play against.”

Growing up in New England, Doherty was exposed to a high level of play on the ice from a very young age.

After attending Groton School, where he was the Independent School League MVP his junior year, Doherty played for the Islanders in the Eastern Junior Hockey League during the 2012–13 season. There, he played alongside fellow forward Chris Izmirlian ’17 and notched 31 goals and 76 points over 47 games.

The moment he stepped out on the ice for the first game of his freshman season, Doherty made it clear that he was a force to be reckoned with. Third on the team with nine goals and fourth in points, with 18, Doherty was the most prolific scorer among his fellow freshman teammates. Yet both Doherty and head coach Keith Allain ’80 noted that the mental aspect of collegiate hockey, especially in such a difficult conference like the ECAC, can be challenging for any freshman to master.

“The biggest area [in which] Michael has progressed since his freshman year has been his mental approach to the game,” Allain said. “I believe he has become more strategic with his physical play, and as a result, he plays with a greater focus than he played with last season.”

As Doherty explained, this improved focus comes at a crucial time, as the Bulldogs lost a large chunk of their offensive power after graduating captain Jesse Root ’14 and forward Kenny Agostino ’14 last year. When it comes to goal scoring, the forwards of the class of 2017 have proven to be an integral part of the Elis’ production at the offensive end of the rink.

Along with Doherty, who has eight goals and five assists thus far, Hayden has 13 points on the season. Meanwhile, Frankie DiChiara ’17 sits just

three spots down at fifth on the team with nine points and Izmirlian has also notched four points for the Bulldogs this year.

Doherty noted that although the team has been struggling to convert on its goal scoring opportunities this season, he believes that he has been able to respond to the added offensive pressure after losing key players like Root last year.

This was clear back in January during his performance against thenNo. 9 Vermont. After the Bulldogs fell behind early on a Catamounts strike in the first period, Yale managed to battle back with two of their own before the period ended. Yet it was not until Doherty blasted a shot over the shoulder of Vermont’s goalie midway through the second and caused a change in the Catamounts’ netminder that the Bulldogs were able to truly put the game away.

Izmirlian noted that a lot of the success Doherty achieves in games comes as a result of his hard work in practice.

Both his fellow teammates explained that beyond simply technical skill, Doherty brings a strong sense of competitiveness and grit to not just games, but also to practices.

As for leadership, which Doherty considers a collective effort, the forward explains that he prefers to lead by actions rather than words, and he hopes that his role on the team will only grow in future seasons.

“On our team we don’t just have one guy as the leader. We have so many guys that contribute a lot to the leadership of our team,” Doherty said. “It comes from playing fearlessly out there and saying things that need to be said but not talking too much. I’d say I make sure I’m leading by example and saying things that need to be said. I’m going to try to do that for as long as I’m here.”

The Elis face off against Harvard on Friday at 7 p.m. at Ingalls Rink.

Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .

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Captain Aurora Kennedy ’15 is a two-time ECAC All-Academic nominee.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 “However, it’s something to build from. Now we’re looking forward to next weekend and continuing to build from where we were last weekend.”

Harvard (15–4–2, 12–3–1) will be a difficult matchup for Yale, as the Crimson sit in second place in the ECAC, just a point behind conference-best Quinnipiac. The Crimson, who have two Olympians on the roster and are led by Team USA coach Katey Stone, top the league in goals per game, averaging 3.52 while only giving up 1.74 per contest.

Although the Crimson was shut out by Princeton this weekend, they will have a significant home ice advantage, seeing as they have not lost a game played in Cambridge this season.

The Bulldogs remain optimistic

and are excited by the chance to play their rival again, especially after suffering a 3–1 loss last time around, players said.

“I really like playing Harvard,” Åström said. “They are a very talented and hard working team who uses their speed a lot. I think it should be a very close and exciting game.”

Saturday afternoon’s match against Dartmouth (10–10–2, 6–8– 2) will be important for Yale, especially after it moved up in the ECAC standings to share the seventh position with the Big Green. In their last match-up, the Bulldogs came away with a 5–1 victory despite significantly fewer shots than Dartmouth.

While the Big Green has not won a game since Jan. 17, that victory was against ranked foe Harvard, proving that Dartmouth can also skate with the best.

As the season draws to a close, with only six games left, every opportunity matters for the Bulldogs as they try to improve their conference standing for a playoff run. Only eight teams make the ECAC playoffs.

According to Åström, at this point in the season, the goal for the team has to be four points. Yale has not won both games in a weekend since Dec. 5 and 6, when the team was in the midst of a three game winning streak — the longest it has had this season.

“We’re looking forward to a hard week of practice so that we continue to build momentum and come away with two wins this weekend,” YipChuck said.

The Bulldogs will face Harvard this Friday at 7 p.m.

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

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YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

ARTS & CULTURE Rep play explores Zimbabwean-American culture

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER For her latest work, actress and playwright Danai Gurira draws on her experiences living on both sides of the Atlantic to delve into the intergenerational dramas of a family split between two cultures.

The world premiere of “Familiar” opens tomorrow night at the Yale Repertory Theatre. The play centers on a firstgeneration Zimbabwean-American family and zooms into the most comic and dramatic moments of a demographic not often portrayed on stage. Gurira emphasized her desire to focus the play on a people that rarely receives attention from the theater world.

“Why have we never really looked at an African family in America?” Gurira said. “The more my fascination grows, the more I feel I must tell that story.”

The play follows a young Zimbabwe-American woman named Nyasha, who travels home to Minnesota for her sister Tendikayi’s wedding. Tendikayi has chosen to partake in a traditional Zimbabwe wedding ritual with her fiancé, which unravels a host of family secrets and latent

tensions between sisters and parents alike.

Gurira herself is Zimbabwean-American and has lived in both countries throughout her life. She said a large motivation for the play’s storyline was her own experience as an African immigrant.

“There are threads in the play that are definitely things I’ve somewhat experienced and witnessed,” Gurira said.

Gurira also highlighted the universality of the immigrant experience, noting that the disputes between parents and children over cultural conflicts is an experience that is shared by many immigrant communities.

Kimberly Scott DRA ’87 — who plays Annie, the aunt who comes from Zimbabwe to conduct the traditional wedding ritual — agreed that the family conflict explored in “Familiar” speaks to a theme that many have experienced.

“The strength of the play is the fact that everybody has some sense of recognition,” Scott said, adding that the play deals with the universal question of resolving one’s own identity.

James Bundy DRA ’95, the dean of the Yale School of Drama and the artistic director of the

Rep, wrote in an email that the themes of the immigrant experience in America are frequently depicted on stage today because of their immediacy in an increasingly global society.

Gurira added that writing about a Zimbabwean family was important for her because of the strictly Western lens through which Americans typically view Africa, explaining that the Zimbabwean wedding ritual in the play teases out the cultural tension.

Gurira explained that the juxtaposition between dramatic moments and moments of unexpected comedy — such as when the groom’s brother flirts with the bride’s sister — is meant to honestly depict rather than simplify the experience of a group not often portrayed in theater.

“It’s important for me to show all aspects of the human experience, especially when you’re representing underrepresented people,” Gurira said.

Of the five plays in the current Rep season, “Familiar” is one of three that were commissioned and world-premiered by the theater. Branden Jacob-Jenkins’s “War” premiered at the Rep last November and Sheila Callaghan’s “Elevada” will pre-

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Actress and playwright Danai Gurira will debut “Familiar” tomorrow at the Yale Repertory Theatre. miere in April.

Scott, who acted in two original plays during her time at Yale, emphasized the importance of the Rep’s dedication to produc-

YUAG brings out obscure side of Whistler

BY ROHAN NAIK STAFF REPORTER A new exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery looks to highlight the lesser-known works of an iconic American artist.

“Whistler in Paris, London, and Venice,” which opened last Friday at the YUAG, focuses on the artist James Whistler’s life and creative evolution, drawing particular attention to his numerous etchings. The exhibition features roughly 150 works that are primarily etches, but also contains a few lithographs and paintings. The entire show was assembled using the University’s collections, consisting of 100 objects from the YUAG’s permanent holdings and over a dozen works from the Yale Center for British Art. Curated by Heather Nolin, the Arthur Ross Collection Research Associate and project manager at the YUAG, the exhibition aims to provide further perspective and insight on Whistler’s life and talent.

“Almost everyone admires [Whistler] as a great artist, but people don’t have his true measure,” YUAG Chief Curator and Curator of European Art Laurence Kanter said.

While Whistler is often recognized for his paintings, the exhibition focuses largely on his etching, a skill that he learned during his time at the U.S. Coast Survey, a scientific organization that publishes work pertaining to hydrology, commerce and other fields. Etching is a method of printmaking that uses a metal plate containing a design marked by acid. The design transfers to paper, which creates the final print. The Whistler etchings featured in the exhibition range in subject matter from natural scenes and city landscapes to small children.

According to Nolin, the exhibition can help one understand the nuances of etching. She said she hopes that through this knowledge, visitors will gain an appreciation for etching as an artistic medium and see Whistler as both an etcher and a painter.

Nora Gallagher, a visitor to the YUAG, noted that through the fea-

ing new works of theater.

“How else do we find our new classics?” she asked. “How else do we form the theatrical canon for the next century?”

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tured etchings, she was able to learn a great deal about Whistler’s life and about the environment in which he lived.

The exhibition is organized in three parts — Paris, London and Venice — corresponding to the three cities where he spent the majority of his artistic career. Nolin noted that the three divisions coincide with three of his most interesting etchings: the French, Thames and Venice Sets.

The show presents Whistler’s life chronologically from his beginnings as a student in Paris, to Venice, where he tried to rebuild his reputation after going through bankruptcy. “[The divisions] are used as jumping off point to explore his background and his relationships with artists, and how those relationships formed his art,” Nolin said.

In addition to the number of etchings, Nolin said, the exhibition stands out for its unique design. Christopher Sleboda, the YUAG’s director of graphic design, explained that the colors of the walls in different regions of the exhibit space correspond to the three featured cities.

Sleboda said he thinks that the show

is unique in that it features primarily one artist. As a result, he noted, the gallery’s design could include aspects of Whistler’s personality in its layout. Sleboda added that he believes the design of the exhibition is also distinguishable for its inclusion of a large picture into the wall at the show’s entrance, which is rare for an art exhibition.

“He had quite an ego and was a character, so it was nice to have him front and center [in the title wall],” said Sleboda.

In addition to Whistler’s works, the exhibition showcases a few works of his contemporaries as well as some of his students. One wall features an etching of Whistler’s nephew made

by Whistler’s brother-in-law, Francis Seymour Haden. The exhibition also displays a number of works of Mortimer Menpes, whom Whistler met during his time in London. The works of later American artists, such as William Merritt Chase and Childe Hassam, are also in the exhibit.

The exhibition will close on July 19.

Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .

Yale alumni tell tale of one name, two lives

BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER

Many of the works on display in the exhibition are etchings, highlighting Whistler’s multifaceted and varied artistic output.

Performances of “Familiar” will run through Feb. 21.

One day in 1936, the Peekskill Evening Star ran a cover with two obituaries for two men named Hamilton Fish: one, a New York statesman and the son of a former secretary of state, and the other, a cannibalistic serial killer who met his end by electric chair.

Discovering the newspaper’s cover led Rachel Mason ART ’04 to venture into the world of film, which resulted in a 2013 release titled “The Lives of Hamilton Fish.” Starring Bill Weeden ’62 and Theodore Bouloukos as the two Fishes, the film, which will be screened tonight at the Loria Center, traces the very different lives and deaths of both men. The film has earned a number of distinctions, including the award for “Best Picture” at the 2014 New England Underground Film Festival. Phil Hall, a film critic and the director of the festival, said the film’s unconventional score is a large part of what makes it stand out among other movies.

“The score is challenging; it’s not your typical Broadway score, or even typical movie-musical score,” Hall said. “You’re not going to come out of theater singing ‘Let It Go.’” Characterized by many as a rock opera and a psychological thriller, the film features a musical score written and performed by Mason, with Weeden and Bouloukos lip-syncing over her songs. Tonight, Mason will perform her soundtrack live with the film reel running silently behind her.

A visual artist by trade, Mason said that though she has penned 12 albums and has been songwriting for the last 15 years, she has no formal training in music composition. Critics have equated her voice to the likes of Yoko Ono, Tori Amos and Janice Ian. Mason compared her own voice to that of Joni Mitchell, adding that she was inspired by male singers like Johnny Cash and Tom Waits. She said that “The Lives of Hamilton Fish,” which she likened to a massive and complicated music video, drew from these influences.

Before the idea for making a film emerged, Mason said, the project was solely a collection of songs. She said she first presented the project as a gallery exhibition that consisted of a series of

songs and a few video elements. Mason noted that she decided to turn her project into a feature-length film after the gallery showing.

Weeden, who wrote several musicals during his time at Yale, said his musical background allowed him to lip-sync effectively. But he noted that in portraying a sadistic serial killer on screen, he had to search for an emotional access point.

“Yes, it’s difficult to get yourself there, but if you can find anything to identify with, you start there and build,” Weeden said, adding that Mason crafted his character to be more sympathetic than his real-life counterpart.

Mason and Weeden highlighted the film’s long journey to public appreciation — filming took place nearly three years ago. Since then, Mason said she has had to take on an organizational role to which she was not accustomed in order to book screenings and festivals. She added that for the first year after its completion, the film was rejected by the vast majority of festivals to which she applied.

But after several of festivals and theaters began to book the film, Mason noted, it received nearly universal praise. She recalled being surprised by the amount of positive feedback from audience members, given the number of rejections the film initially faced.

“I keep expecting some of what film festival curators who rejected it — who say ‘too long, too confusing’ — to be coming from the audiences, too, but I’ve never once gotten it,” she said.

Mason, Hall and Weeden all said the film’s unconventional format is both what can make it brilliant as well as confusing or unappealing for viewers.

“So much in movie theaters is like a facsimile of other films,” Hall said.

“I would suspect that other programmers are either too obtuse to recognize the greatness and originality of this, or their appreciation of films has become so dulled that they wouldn’t know a good movie if it hit them in the face.”

The film’s corresponding music album will be released for sale on March 6.

Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .

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Besides showcasing his works, the new Yale University Art Gallery exhibition also seeks to display Whistler’s unique personality.

“The Lives of Hamilton Fish,” which tells the stories of two men with dramatically different stories, will be screened tonight in the Loria Center.

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“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

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Cabaret revives, satirizes Batman series

BY IVONA IACOB CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In an upcoming Yale Cabaret show, two classic superheroes will not save the world — but they will save a beauty pageant.

“Episode #121: Catfight” opens tomorrow night. The show satirizes a “Batman” television series from the 1960s and focuses on themes of misogyny and gender roles from the mid-20th century.

Steven Koernig DRA ’16, who cowrote the show with playwright Tori Keenan-Zolt, said the characters’ popularity in American culture allows audiences to understand the complexities in the production.

“People can instantly recognize these characters and their relationships, and so, from that, really think about the plot and enjoy the humor and the level of intricacy and layers that we put into it,” Koernig said. “I think that it’s something that you can connect to quickly and enjoy even more because of that.”

The play follows Batman and Robin, who learn of Catwoman’s plan to ruin the Lady Gotham Scholarship Competition. Hilarity ensues as the duo decides to try and save the pageant. The show notably features a number of gender swaps, as Robin and Batgirl dress up as one another.

Koernig and Keenan-Zelt said they based the play on the Batman series because it is a personal favorite of theirs. Koernig noted that he first watched the original series many years ago. The duo said they became interested in the challenge of depicting the television show’s theatricality on stage, adding that they ultimately decided to “amplify” the original show by exaggerating the absurdity of the show’s misogynistic aspects.

Hugh Farrell DRA ’15, one of the Cabaret’s three co-artistic directors, noted that when he and his co-directors first received Koernig and Keenan-Zelt’s application to stage the show at the Cabaret, the play’s script was already near-

finalized. Keenan-Zelt added that the comedic elements help to highlight the more serious undertones of sexism and other societal issues.

Farrell also discussed the ability of audiences to relate to the main characters. He explained that Batman is a superhero who is relatively comparable to viewers because he does not possess supernatural powers. Farrell noted that the show provides a more lighthearted balance to previous productions such as “50:13,” which had mostly dark, mysterious storylines. Will Rucker DRA ’15, another co-artistic director, added that the gender-related themes in “Episode #121: Catfight” anticipates the upcoming Yale School of Drag, a celebration of Drag arts and culture that will take place at the Cabaret next weekend.

Performances of “Episode #121: Catfight” run through Feb. 7.

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

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“Episode #121: Catfight,” a satire of the “Batman” television series, opens at the Yale Cabaret tomorrow night.

Musical sets Broadway classic in Nazi Germany

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Love and theater can flourish in any environment, even a Nazi concentration camp.

For his senior thesis production, director Noam Shapiro ’15 explores the history of artistic and theatrical performance in the German concentration camp of Theresienstadt during World War II. “Cabaret,” a musical based on a story by Christopher Isherwood and a play by John van Druten, follows an American writer named Cliff Bradshaw and a cabaret performer named Sally Bowles, who engage in a fateful relationship right as the Nazi party begins its rise to power in the 1930s. As a Theater Studies and History double major, Shapiro said the production was an

intersection between his passions for musical theater and Holocaust history.

“The greatest challenge has been reconciling the different interpretations of ‘Cabaret’ that exist with our own vision for the show,” Shapiro said. “Most people have their own idea of what ‘Cabaret’ should be, and we’re excited to introduce our audience to a ‘Cabaret’ they haven’t seen before.”

Shapiro has been crafting the production for more than a year.

He explained that the production drew from an article published in November 1941 entitled, “The Freest Theatre in the Reich: In the German Concentration Camps,” which detailed the culture of coerced and subversive cabaret performance within many of the Nazi concentration

camps. Producer Irina Gavrilova ’17 said that while the musical is well-known, Shapiro’s rendition may surprise audiences.

Michael Tappel ’17, who plays Cliff Bradshaw, mentioned that the production captures a variety of historical and modern themes. He said many people have preconceived notions of musical theater, but this production is different because the original play was not initially set in a concentration camp.

“It’s a very different ‘Cabaret,’” Gavrilova said. “Noam is famous for his twists and for doing familiar works in a very different way.”

Nathaniel Dolquist ’14, who plays the Emcee character, said that while the musical’s original script was not changed, other elements were added to the stor-

yline. Whereas most productions of the musical are set within a nightclub, Shapiro explained, this production of “Cabaret” depicts the storyline as a play within a play, performed by concentration camp inmates before an audience of Nazi officers and a delegation from the International Red Cross. Dolquist added that cast members had to develop both their identities within the play as well as their performer’s identity within the camp. Other songs that were cut from the 1966 production — including “Meeskite” and “Why Should I Wake Up” — were also brought back for this production.

With 27 cast members and a band of 16 musicians, the show features the largest undergraduate ensemble of the academic year. Set designer Hannah Fried-

man ’17 said one of the most difficult parts of producing the show was coordinating rehearsal schedules. “ Try i n g to a cco m m o date everyone was definitely problematic,” Friedman said.

“Besides the cast and band, we also had a production staff of more than 40 people.”

The production has drawn widespread support from a range of organizations and sources affiliated with Yale. Gavrilova said that more than seven of Yale’s institutions — such as the Theater Studies program, Calhoun College and the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life — made large donations towards the production.

Since its first release in 1966, “Cabaret” has had revivals in London, on Broadway and in

other parts of the world. Amanda Dehnert, who directed a production of the show for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2008, said she thinks the musical did a brilliant job of capturing the conflict in Germany during World War II. “‘Cabaret’ really lets you look at all of the people in this tumultuous area,” Dehnert said. “You see them wrestling with who they are and where they want to be, all in the midst of Germany becoming one of the most vilified nations in the world at the time.”

Various Broadway productions of “Cabaret” have received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Revival.

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

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Noam Shapiro ’15 directed “Cabaret,” a play about the artistic and theatrical life inside of a German concentration camp, Theresienstadt, for his senior thesis production.

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ALEX LYON ’17 STOPPING SHOTS LEFT AND RIGHT After tying a school record with his sixth career shutout, Lyon was named ECAC Goalie of the Week on Monday. He made 31 saves in a 4–0 win over Princeton on Friday and 29 saves against noted rival Quinnipiac en route to a 2–2 draw.

EVA FABIAN ’16 SWIMMING ACROSS THE WORLD Though Fabian is in the midst of her third season swimming for Yale, she also swims for another team. The Keene, N.H. native recently competed for Team USA in an international competition in Australia, finishing fifth in the 10 km open water event.

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“[Doherty’s] combination of grit and skill is hard to come by, and he has great leadership qualities.”

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Doherty emerges as leader

Athletics costs near $38 million

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Yale spent close to $38 million on athletics in the 2014 fiscal year, the second-highest total in the Ivy League. That total, though, may be somewhat deceptive.

According to data published by the U.S. Department of Education, the Athletics Department spent $37,624,262, second only to Penn’s $41,814,447 and far above the Ivy League average of $27,129,322. Of that total, Yale spent $17,479,117 directly on teams.

While that figure was the second-highest in the Ivy League, Yale expenses ranked in the bottom half of the Ivy League for several sports, including basketball and track.

However, the University spent

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the second-most in the conference on football, shelling out $3,224,275 — the highest number for any sport. Columbia, a school that has not won a football game since November of 2012, recorded $3,226,259 in expenses.

For comparison, Harvard spent $2,738,301 last fiscal year.

Associate director of athletics sports publicity Steve Conn said the football team played a game at Cal Poly in 2013-2014, a trip that may have caused the football team’s expenditure total to be higher than usual.

“Any time you take a team across the country, it’s going to cost a lot of money,” Conn said.

“If you compared our expenses to other teams that took a trip across the country, you’d probably find similar data.”

Leadership does not always have to come from the most senior members of a team. For the Yale men’s ice hockey team, this is evident in the example set by forward Mike Doherty ’17.

The Massachusetts native currently leads the team in points, with 13 — an achievement that he shares with forward John Hayden ’17. Doherty has also slid 17 pucks past opposing goalies since he began playing for Yale last season and is tied for second among his teammates in terms of overall career goals. The forward is only midway through his second season for the Bulldogs, yet the numbers he continues to put up speak to the outsized role he plays on this season’s squad.

“His combination of grit and skill is hard to come by and he has great leadership qualities …

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Mike Doherty ’17 is currently tied for the most points on the men’s hockey squad with eight goals and five assists for 13 points.

Elis hit road aiming for sweep

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A shadow cast on Super Bowl

son victory gave the Bulldogs confidence that they can compete with top teams.

According to forward Hanna Åström ’16, the team played just as well against St. Lawrence, but did not get good bounces, although they maintained pressure throughout the game.

“It was a tough loss because we played hard and still came up short,” forward Brittany Wheeler ’18 said.

The Super Bowl left a bad taste in my mouth. It wasn’t because the Patriots won. It wasn’t because quarterback and fellow Richmond, Va. native Russell Wilson threw an interception to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. And it certainly wasn’t because the puppy in the Budweiser commercial wasn’t cute enough.

No, the bad taste in my mouth came after the game had been decided — when Seahawks linebacker Bruce Irvin started a fight after New England quarterback Tom Brady took a knee to run out the clock on Super Bowl XLIX. Irvin was ejected, and one of the most exciting fourth quarters in Super Bowl memory ended on a sour note just moments after undrafted rookie cornerback Malcolm Butler made his first career interception to stall Seattle’s drive at the 1-yard line and clinch the Patriots’ fourth NFL title in the past 14 years.

Fortunately, the amazing conclusion to the game has overshadowed the total lack of sportsmanship displayed by Irvin and others on the ensuing play. But I, for one, could not let the incident go.

Irvin’s aggression, and the subsequent scuffle, was as damaging and childish as it was pointless. Clearly upset that his team, which had just moments before looked poised to win its second straight Super Bowl, Irvin lashed out and created a fight where their need not have been confrontation. Furthermore, the penalty he incurred got him ejected from the game and moved the line of scrimmage further away from the New England goal line, removing even the slightest possibility that the Seahawks could force a safety and get the ball back for one last-ditch effort at the Lombardi Trophy.

After the game, both Irvin and Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski said that they turned to violence to “defend” a teammate.

Having examined the replay of the events leading to the scuffle, however, I see nothing

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The Yale women’s hockey team is ranked No. 18 in the country in RPI.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER After proving their ability in a weekend series in New York, the Elis are hoping to capitalize on the momentum coming into a critical set of games this weekend.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Yale (10–12–1, 7–9–0 ECAC) earned its most impressive win of the season last weekend, upsetting

then-No. 8 Clarkson in a 3–2 match.

The Bulldogs shut the Golden Knights down late in the game, scoring a pair of goals toward the end of the second period and not allowing Clarkson many good opportunities in the final 20 minutes. Despite a loss against then-No. 9 St. Lawrence the next day, Yale is still celebrating a major victory as the team heads into a weekend of conference play during which they will take on No. 4 Harvard and Dartmouth away from the Elis’ home ice.

“Playing against two Ivy rivals like Harvard and Dartmouth always makes for an exciting weekend of games, especially at this time of year,” forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 said. “Both teams are well-coached and Harvard especially has great depth, but if we use our speed we can take advantage of both these teams.”

Last weekend, five Bulldogs scored goals and 10 earned at least one point, giving the Elis one of their best all-around performances all season. Players said the Clark-

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THE NUMBER OF CAREER GOALS MIKE DOHERTY ’17 HAS ACCUMULATED IN HIS FIRST TWO SEASONS AT YALE. Doherty is tied for second with forward Stu Wilson ’16 and sits behind captain and defenseman Tommy Fallen ’15.