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CROSS CAMPUS Your civic duty. A while back, we mused that more of you tuned into President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address than would do the same for Sunday’s Super Bowl.

Whether you decide to root for the Seahawks, Patriots or for Katy Perry, we challenge you to prove us wrong.

CHARITY BEGINS ABROAD? How Chinese donations to American universities have provoked a flurry of criticism

BY LARRY MILSTEIN

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MONEY TALKS YALE, CHINA AND FUNDRAISING

EXTERNAL REVIEW

SAFETY IN NUMBERS

Students active in cultural houses eagerly await results of review.

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Yale signs up for AAU sexual assault survey

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Bridging the art divide

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can also root for Yale — Pat Graham ’01 will be on the sidelines Sunday as the Patriots’s linebackers coach. A Connecticut native, Graham is no stranger to the big stage, having played for the Elis’s 1999 Ivy League Championship squad and, more recently, coached the Patriots during its last Super Bowl appearance three years ago.

The other guys. Meanwhile,

a story on the New Haven Police Department could re-emerge: Having dealt with the consequences of a confrontation with a Yale Bowl usher last fall, NHPD Chief Dean Esserman may soon have to answer to allegations that he similarly lost his temper in an exchange with Secret Service agents during First Lady Michelle Obama’s visit to Connecticut in October.

A natural selection. A recent article by The Onion chose (real) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor Richard Prum as the expert source for commentary on its (fake) story: “Natural Selection Kills 38 Quadrillion Organisms in Bloodiest Day Yet.” Not The Onion. Back in the

serious news world, the Wall Street Journal reported last night that the University of Texas (the entire school system) has passed Yale in the national university endowment rankings. Right: Everything’s bigger in Texas.

Remember him? George W. Bush ’68, in many ways a bridge between Yale and Texas, once ran this country with a certain Dick Cheney as his right-hand man. Today, the former VP and one-time Yalie turns 74 years old.

Go Greek. So says world-

famous ECON 116 professor Robert Shiller, according to Bloomberg. The Nobel Prize winner has a hunch that investors should capitalize on cheap Greek stocks in light of the country’s plans to renegotiate its debts.

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Yale will host the first annual Don Tonry Invitational this weekend.

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Press pressure. Major personalities with Yale ties collided on national television last night, when Anderson Cooper ’89 hosted New York Times columnist Charles Blow on his show, Anderson Cooper 360, to discuss last week’s on-campus incident between Blow’s son, Tahj Blow ’16, and a Yale Police officer.

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Advocates both on and off campus are making efforts to bridge the gap between the New Haven and Yale art communities.

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER Regan Avery gently prodded the wire connected to hundreds of tiny slips of paper bearing the names of her family members, who have lived in Groton, Conn. for centuries. Once repaired, the slips of paper, spilling from the book that had bound them, would pulse and vibrate, seeming almost to breathe atop a white table in Artspace, the contemporary art gallery on Orange Street.

While Avery worked, 100 works of book art from the collection of Alan Chasanoff ’61, a New York art patron, lay inside the Yale University Art Gallery, part of an exhibit called Odd Volumes.

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s Yale has expanded its engagement with New Haven over the past two decades, the arts have become an important stage for partnerships with local institutions. But a gap persists between the art communities of the University and the elm city.

Moving forward, how can Yale and New Haven sculpt a unified arts scene? ISABELLE TAFT reports.

show, Connecticut (un) Bound, which close after this weekend, are the fruit of the first formal collaboration between the YUAG and New Haven’s leading contemporary art gallery, now in its 30th year. Avery’s and seven other pieces were selected through an open call by the Univer-

On Broadway, burritos to replace burgers

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER At 51 Broadway, burgers will soon be replaced with burritos.

In April, Salsa Fresca — a fast-casual Mexican restaurant — will open in the space formerly occupied by Educated Burgher, Salsa Fresca co-owner Marc Miles confirmed Thursday evening.

Since Educated Burgher closed its doors last June, the space has remained vacant, with no official word on the space’s fate. Tom Vitagliano, who owns the 51 Broadway address, said he was pleased when Salsa Fresca expressed interest in the location because he feels that the franchise will serve the student population.

“They’re going to do very well there — I think its sufficient to say that that style of restaurant is very much in vogue,” said Vitagliano. “They have a higher quality standard, fresher food than Chipotle.”

Based in New York, Salsa Fresca currently has three restaurants, with locations in Bedford Hills, Mamaroneck and Yorktown Heights. The company is also planning to open another location in Danbury, Conn. The restaurant will serve made-to-order burritos, tacos, salads and quesadillas, as well as other fixed menu items. Meals at Salsa

Fresca, according to the current website, range from $7–8.

Miles said he believes that New Haven is an ideal location for Salsa Fresca because the selling point is compatible with a student budget, and it offers a healthy selection of food for college-age customers.

Competition is always good; it keeps me on my toes.

Yale has signed up to participate in a nationwide survey about sexual assault in higher education — one of the largest such polls in history.

The survey, to be coordinated by the Association of American Universities, of which Yale is a member, is intended to help universities gain a better understanding of the problem of sexual assault on college campuses, AAU President Hunter Rawlings said in a Jan. 22 press release. He added that each participating university will distribute the questionnaire to its students, and the subsequent results will inform future policy decisions by college administrators.

AAU Vice President for Public Affairs Barry Toiv said that the survey is expected to reach nearly 900,000 students nationwide and will provide both school-specific information as well as aggregate national data.

This [survey] will provide a treasure trove of data on national student experiences and attitudes.

BARRY TOIV Vice President for Public Affairs, Association of American Universities

sity and Artspace to create book art in response to pieces from the Chasanoff collection. The resulting work is diverse, spanning a range of mediums and messages, but united by their focus on Connecticut.

“This [survey] will provide a treasure trove of data on national student experiences and attitudes,” Toiv said.

Twenty-eight universities chose to participate in the survey. Participation was made entirely optional to the AAU’s 62 member institutions, Toiv said. Yale was

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SigEp, SeLF to partner on sexual climate

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER With fraternities and campus sexual climates under scrutiny nationwide, Sigma Phi Epsilon and the Sexual Literacy Forum are in the preliminary stages of designing a program dedicated to promoting a healthier sexual climate at fraternities.

The initiative, which will target the fraternity’s new members, is set to begin this semester. The collaboration will involve meetings between SeLF facilitators and small groups of new SigEp members, and discussions will focus on safe sexual environments in Greek life.

“The goal is to be a leader in some way among Greek

life in terms of these issues on campus,” Adam Erickson ’17 said. “There are certain things in the Greek community that lead us toward higher risks.”

SeLF Student Organization Outreach Coordinator Halsey Robertson ’17 said that she was working with Erickson to write up a SEE SIG EP PAGE 6

MOE GAD Manager, Tomatillo Vitagliano said that Chipotle approached him four or five years ago and expressed a desire to establish one of its own restaurants at the location. But Vitagliano noted that because Educated Burgher was still in business, he declined Chipotle’s offer.

On Jan. 12, a permit from the city appeared on the storefront indicating the city’s authorization for construction on the unit to begin. As of last night, store owners on Broadway interviewed said they had only heard rumors of the restaurant, but received no official word.

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Sigma Phi Epsilon will target new members with a program to promote healthier sexual climate.

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alies get offended.

That’s simply a fact, and I don’t think many would dispute it. Many things offend us — and often, with reason. Even if you view this oft-offended campus as lacking thick skin, or being too sensitive, I think it’s fair to say that most things that offend probably shouldn’t be said in the first place.

Don’t worry, this article isn’t about getting offended.

What it is about, however, is our tendency to judge those who offend us. All too often, we place the blame of offense on the individual; we make judgments about the person who offended us. We label them as “insensitive” or sometimes just downright “not a good person.” We’re quick to assume that those who aren’t sensitive to certain issues are that way because they’re terrible human beings, who deserve to be taught a lesson about morality.

DON'T WORRY, THIS ARTICLE ISN'T ABOUT GETTING OFFENDED I have a good friend here who is a local of New Haven. I spend a good amount of time with him and take him to campus social events — we are friends, after all. However, I often find that people make judgments about his character because of the way he acts.

Admittedly, he may often say things that at Yale, would not be deemed “politically correct.” He uses words we may not always use, he makes assumptions that we may not typically make and he often acts differently in social situations than we would.

Let’s get one thing clear. I’m not defending those actions as right, or good. Ideally, this wouldn’t be a problem in the first place. What I am defending, however, is the right of the actor to fair judgment — to a fair trial, if you will.

All too often, we forget our privilege when it comes to issues of political correctness. Attempting to eliminate the use of gender-normative and heteronormative words is important. Getting rid of the stereotype that Asians are good at math is important.

After all, I’m not necessarily thrilled when people assume I’m a STEM major — I’m a philosophy major so the closest thing to physics I’ve ever done is metaphysics.

However, I’m fortunate that those are the biggest issues that confront me. My friend in New Haven, on the other hand,

isn’t so lucky. While I attempt to dispel the assumption that all Asian people are Chinese — trust LEO KIM me, it still exists — On Us he worries about needing to run through particularly dangerous neighborhoods in order to get home without being assaulted. His concerns, his “issues,” are different from mine, and if I have the liberty to say so, most of ours. His calloused knuckles bear the weight of a past wrought with violence.

I’m not attempting to belittle anyone’s issues here. But I think it’s understandable that someone who faces problems so alien to many of us wouldn’t be aware of politically correct standards for behavior. We certainly shouldn’t hold him or his character accountable if he breaks from campus custom.

So if he happens to cause offense or contempt, think again. Because his intentions are always good — I like to believe most people’s intentions are. People are often unaware of social expectations or norms in a new setting. It may be that they don’t have the privilege of being able to prioritize the issues we face over those they face, and that should be understood. Don’t immediately judge the individual and label him or her.

Rather, try to understand.

I believe this attitude should be extended to all people, including our fellow students. Everyone has a right to be offended by certain things.

However, I don’t believe that anyone has a right to judge another’s character before attempting to really understand. We should fight to separate our right to feel offended from our right to be offended by someone.

The righteous anger that so many Yalies feel about so many things shouldn’t be directed against people without warrant. Rather, we should try to educate when possible, and above all, understand where people are coming from and why they may have done or said what they did. Yes, maybe some people are just jerks, but I don’t think most are. It may be a result of different priorities, or maybe even plain unawareness, that makes them act in a way contrary to your ideal mode of behavior. It’s not the player who’s always at fault; it’s often the game that they were set to play.

The truth about Yale’s financial aid W

e both believe that nothing is more important than ensuring that a Yale education is accessible to all students offered admission. In 1964, Yale became the first university of its size and scope to practice fully need-blind admissions and need-based financial aid for all undergraduate students. In the past 50 years, the University’s commitment to remaining accessible to the most talented students from around the world, regardless of family income, has stayed the same.

Thanks largely to the generosity of our alumni, the University is one of a few institutions globally with such a generous commitment. The average Yale scholarship grant for students receiving financial aid was $41,250 during 2013–14, and the median net price — the amount students and families actually pay for their education — for those students was $11,925. Yale’s average grant award is higher than all of the schools in our peer group of Ivy League schools and other leading private research universities.

Yale’s average net price is almost $5,000 less than the net price of nearly all of our peers. Yale is a leader in the world of higher education in making an undergraduate education accessible and affordable to students and families.

Based on the detailed financial information a student’s fam-

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ily submits, and using federal criteria and the University’s own need-based policies, Yale develops a financial aid package that enables student and family to meet the full cost of attendance without requiring loans. Yale’s policy of meeting a student’s financial need without requiring loans is not a claim that no students opt to use loans to finance some of their education. However, relatively few Yale students do. Sixteen percent of the Yale College Class of 2014 — including many students not receiving financial aid — chose to take out a loan, with an average cumulative indebtedness of $14,853.

By comparison, 69 percent of all students graduating from nonprofit colleges in 2013 had student loan debt, with an average indebtedness of $28,400. Ten years ago, 43 percent of the Yale College Class of 2005 graduated with debt. Although Yale has not taken student loans off the table as an option, they are never a student’s only choice.

A recent survey conducted by the Yale College Council has brought to light several ways that Yale can do a better job in communicating its generous financial aid policies. We welcome these suggestions, and we look forward to working with the YCC on several initiatives including: improving the usability of the financial aid website; creating a virtual “resource room”

that aggregates information on outside scholarships; and making financial aid award letters to admitted students and term bills easier to understand.

The YCC report also makes several points about the amount Yale students are asked to contribute to their education. Student effort levels, as well as other aspects of Yale’s financial aid policies, are reviewed annually, and include a comparison with the student effort levels of our peers. For the 2014–15 academic year, Yale’s student effort level is lower than our peers for freshmen but higher for upperclassmen. Yale will look closely at its peers' student contribution levels this semester as it sets the self-help level and student income contribution for the next academic year and will take into account the various concerns expressed by students in the YCC report.

The YCC survey is a helpful window into students’ perceptions of — and experiences with — Yale financial aid. It is not, however, an accurate reflection of all undergraduate aid awards, or students’ financial choices.

For example, 46 percent of those surveyed reported receiving aid and expecting to take out loans by graduation. Yale’s data indicates that significantly fewer students — 24 percent — actually will. The report’s authors write that Yale’s financial aid policies

related to student effort “divide Yalies into two classes,” without acknowledging that hundreds of students who do not receive financial aid also work on-campus jobs and earn income in the summer to help cover expenses.

With an average hourly wage of $13.32, on-campus employment is an attractive choice for any student.

As administrators, it is important that we understand how students experience Yale’s financial aid policies, and listen to any confusion surrounding students’ financial choices. We recognize that meeting the need of all admitted students does not mean we have alleviated the stress that many students and families face when financing their Yale education. The YCC survey is helpful in describing ways in which Yale could be more transparent and helpful. But it is important that the Yale community know the facts about Yale’s need-based financial aid policies and the significant number of Yale students who graduate without debt. We look forward to continuing this conversation with the YCC and other campus communities.

JEREMIAH QUINLAN is the Dean of Undergraduate Admissions. Contact him at jeremiah.quinlan@yale.edu.

CAESAR STORLAZZI is the Director of Financial Aid. Contact him at caesar.storlazzi@yale.edu .

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lions of people lost power.”

n a recent Up for Discussion series in the News, members of the Yale community shared their opinions on the “merits and the flaws of Greek life,” a subject that has been intensely scrutinized for months. More specifically, debates about fraternities and the kind of atmosphere they foster have been making headlines across the nation.

To be sure, the safety and wellbeing of college students is an important topic that warrants further discussion and coverage. But as students around the country join debates over fraternities, they neglect to look at sororities with the same critical eye.

Greek life at Yale is certainly not a huge presence as it is on other college campuses, but it is a presence nonetheless. This year, an unprecedented 238 freshman and sophomore girls participated in the rush process in the hopes of receiving a bid from one of three sororities at Yale.

I initially wanted to join a sorority because the idea of sisterhood for life appealed to me.

After failing to receive a bid my freshman year, I decided to rush once more this semester.

I dropped out after the second day of recruitment after I grew disillusioned with the superficiality of the rush process.

Of course, dropping out didn’t mean my exposure to Greek life went away — for the past week, my Facebook newsfeed has been bombarded with photos from each sorority’s bid night. I saw dozens of smiling faces in each photo, with newly inducted sisters proudly holding up cardboard cutouts of their Greek letters or posing with the upperclassmen. What struck me most, however, was the noticeable lack of diversity — and the lack of Asian Americans specifically — within the pledge classes of Kappa Alpha Theta and Pi Beta Phi. You could come up with multiple reasons to explain and defend this lack of diversity, but some things still don’t add up. The biggest (and most misguided) defense might be that Asians simply aren’t interested in the sorority social scene and consequently don’t rush. But as an Asian American who got through the first two rounds of recruitment, I noticed firs-hand a significant number of Asian females who expressed sincere interest in joining a sorority. In my recruitment group alone, there were more than five girls with the same Chinese last name, Wang.

A second defense is marginally more reasonable: Perhaps the Asian students who rushed were simply not the kinds of

girls these sororities were looking for. But even before I spoke to members of any sorority, I felt marginalized while rushing. My physical appearance and Asian identity became more apparent to me than ever before. The clear lack of Asian faces in two of the sororities made me feel like I did not belong. When deliberations would come around and my headshot would be displayed on a PowerPoint for sorority girls to see and evaluate, would they confuse me with another Asian girl they had met? Or would they simply dismiss me as too different (culturally, physically or otherwise) for their organization?

Almost immediately, I felt a need to distinguish myself from the other Asian “Potential New Members” by talking with the current Pi Phi and Theta girls about mutual friends, popular American TV shows or my experience going to an elite private school in Manhattan. But as I went home each night, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I would be judged more by my appearance than by anything I had ever said to these girls. Sure enough, many of the other Asian rushes found themselves cut from both Pi Phi and Theta by the third round of rush.

My perceived problem with sororities isn’t just one of race.

A couple of days ago, a friend of

mine told me she consciously chose to wear her most expensive jewelry and talk about the affluent neighborhood she was from while rushing. Why do so many women feel pressured to display their wealth or downplay their minority status in order to gain membership to organizations meant to foster genuine “sisterhood?”

Some girls might protest that I have caricatured the rush process; perhaps I have been wrongly influenced by the stereotypical portrayals of sorority girls. At every recruitment information session, members of the Panhellenic Council insist that the rush process is one of “mutual selection” — that PNMs are equally figuring out which sorority is best for them and your feelings for a sorority will often be reciprocated.

My discomfort with the process may be off base, but the lack of transparency in explaining the deliberation process doesn't help. Even worse, it lends itself to a power dynamic that directly undermines any possibility of mutual selection. I urge sororities to offer more clarity on their rush process, and to take a second longer to consider their efforts in achieving diversity.

CHLOE TSANG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at chloe.tsang@yale.edu .

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Understand the roots of Baga

n Jan. 3, the terrorist group Boko Haram swept into the northern Nigerian town of Baga, slaughtering an estimated 2,000 citizens. In response, the AfroAmerican Cultural Center, as well as the African Students Association, called for Yale students to join the We Are 1ne Green Friday campaign last week, a social media initiative that seeks to raise awareness and affirm our “solidarity and empathy” for the victims of terror by taking selfies. They ask that we wear Nigeria’s national colors while holding one finger raised, to symbolize unity. In addition, they helpfully suggest that we “retweet to the max” and “propose solutions … [that] can address the root of the problem.”

This kind of hashtag activism is well-timed, tying into a number of political debates that have grabbed the world’s attention over the past few weeks. The silence of the international press that followed the massacre in Baga shows that we still need to affirm that black lives matter. The fact that Baga was deliberately targeted for the fierce criticism and open defiance of its religious leaders is a sharp reminder of the importance of free speech in the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo. And yet, both as a Nigerian

and as a Yale student, this campaign has left me angry and frustrated.

The African community at Yale has invested much of its energy in highlighting and criticizing deeply problematic forms of activism such as “Third World voluntourism.” Therefore, our uncritical endorsement of this shallow campaign is both profoundly disappointing and deeply hypocritical.

There is no need to repeat the common criticisms of well-intentioned, social media photo campaigns. We are all aware that trending photos on Twitter have never kept a single bullet out of a body, fed a malnourished child or provided shelter to a displaced victim of terror. Instead, we argue that our activism is geared towards raising awareness, in the hope that this will engender solutions. We remember that we live in the uncomfortable space between what we can do, thousands of miles away in relative privilege, and what we know needs to be done. We claim that it is better to do something than nothing. However, my issue with We Are 1ne lies not in the fact that it just raises awareness, but in how it chooses to do so.

The campaign reproduces the damaging and dehumanizing trope of presenting Africans as if they are

the victims of brutal, incomprehensible and random violence devoid of context or complexity. In informing the world about the people of Baga, it does not challenge its audience to understand the complex political dynamics that have fueled both the astonishing rise of Boko Haram and the government’s unwillingness to respond to them. In fact, the message sent out to Yale students did not even once mention the words "Boko Haram." Those who view this campaign will not learn of the culture of government-sponsored political violence that fueled Boko Haram's radicalization, the fact that some Nigerians of differing ethnicities have flatout denied that the massacre even took place or, most astonishingly, that the government has deliberately quashed domestic news coverage on Baga to strengthen its chances of reelection on Feb. 14. Knowing that the organizers and supporters of the campaign may mean well should not prevent us from pointing out when they fail. What good are good intentions if they fuel ignorance?

If Yalies decide to, quite literally, insert images of themselves into the narratives of other peoples’ suffering, we owe them narratives that are respectful, thoughtful and com-

prehensive. The people of Baga are not victims of mindless conflict, but rather sufferers of a profoundly dysfunctional, violent political system.

If you care about the victims of Baga, please donate money to organizations like the International Red Cross that have mobilized effectively to accommodate displaced communities. If, for whatever reason, you cannot, please take the time to be wellinformed and inform others. Read the International Crisis Group’s comprehensive report on the insurgency, the fiercely partisan citizen-journalism of Sahara Reporters or the sound analysis of the Africa Report. Follow the growing crowd of young Nigerian journalists, such as Zainab Usman and Chuba Ezekwesili, who are taking academia out of the ivory tower and onto Twitter. Watch the presidential debate broadcast on YouTube on Wednesday or the one that is slated to occur on Feb. 4. Seek to empathize with the people of Baga by understanding and fighting against what caused their deaths, rather than just feeling sorry for them. They are more than victims.

MEZ BELO-OSAGIE is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at ameze.belo-osagie@yale.edu .

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Overheard by whom

little over two weeks ago, I was invited to join the new Facebook group, Overheard Microaggressions at Yale. The page was constructed as a forum for members of minority communities to post anecdotes of the microaggressions they experienced at Yale.

As defined by the group, microaggressions are statements that “communicate hostile, derogatory or negative racial slights and insults toward members of identity groups, especially people of color.” The cumulative effect of these microaggressions, members of the page might argue, makes the members of these identity groups feel delegitimized.

What makes a microaggression different from other forms of offensive speech is that the speaker is unaware of the harm caused by his speech. As the prefix suggests, microaggressions are unintended and subtle. They are comments which sound appropriate to the speaker but are inappropriate to the people affected by them. Microaggressions, as implied by the people posting on the page, are not bad solely because they violate the rules of etiquette. Instead, they are bad because they reflect attitudes that impede the political progress of

these marginalized groups.

Microaggressions are considered intolerable both because of the content of the speech and the method of communication. These critiques are interesting in light of the fact that liberalism, which was once a champion for opening up public fora to diverse views, has somehow receded into hunts against the offensive. The New Left’s obsession with microaggressions and trigger warnings, ironically, aims to censor all views that do not share its premises. On pages like Yale PostSecret and the original Overheard at Yale, there are plenty of posts with hundreds of comments where many left-leaning students criticize posts for their lack of sensitivity and “bigoted views.”

Yet, many liberals, who were quick to repost “Je suis Charlie” posts days after the Charlie Hebdo massacres, have been virtually silent on these threads in Overheard Microagressions. Instead, they have been apologetic, contrary to their self-professed value of individual liberty. As the arguments made in a column in Thursday's News (“The contours of liberalism,” Jan. 29, 2015) suggest, this may be due, in part, to popular misconceptions about the nature of liberalism and

leftism. While liberalism is primarily concerned with the rights and privileges of individuals, leftism is primarily concerned with the status of marginalized groups. Despite this difference, both liberals and leftists post on the page.

This is not, of course, to disparage the very real harms perceived by the major exponents of Overheard Microaggressions at Yale. As someone who has experienced his own share of off-color remarks — "Oh you're black and conservative?" — I can relate to the frustrations of the people posting on the page. Nor is it my intention to apologize for the people who say them. The encounters detailed in the posts are often in poor taste.

My concern stems, instead, from the fact that the page sensationalizes harmful prejudices without making clear what members of the page are trying to accomplish. If the purpose of the page is strictly to circulate anecdotes within members of a community, then it is doing little to actually solve the root causes of these problems. Conversely, if the purpose of the page is to educate the broader Yale community on the prejudices that many of the people committing these microaggressions assume to be extinct, then there are

better ways to do so than to circulate these experiences amongst the very subset of people experiencing them. Dinner conversations, debate and even opinion columns are better forums for educating people than these Facebook groups are. As University President Peter Salovey said in a recent interview with the Huffington Post, “The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.”

In 1971, the Yale Political Union debated Vice President Gerald Ford at the height of the Watergate scandal. Students during that period welcomed the opportunity to challenge a member of the Nixon administration through discourse and debate. Rather than avoid the offensive, they embraced it, because they felt secure in the strength of their arguments. Contrast that with campuses today. Last year alone, students boycotted visits from Condoleeza Rice, Bill Maher and Michael Bloomberg. We would be better served if we engaged with those we disagree with, rather than withdraw into our respective echo chambers.

UGONNA EZE is a junior in Pierson College. Contact him at ugonna.eze@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST COLE ARONSON

Let the people choose college I

n his State of the Union address, President Obama said that he wants community college to be free. He should develop the idea further. Doing so would be a public service, exposing some of the paternalistic conceits of modern progressivism, chief among them that the solution to our economic and social problems is the further deployment of state power.

Some say that four-year colleges are too expensive. Students graduate into a stagnant job market with loads of debt — about $30,000 per capita in 2012. Free community college is a way to help poorer young adults get necessary skills for much less money — for no money, in fact, because it’ll be “free.”

The first thing this analysis ignores is the role that the government already plays in the rising cost of tuition. Since the early 1990s, the federal government has artificially reduced the cost of paying for college. The government lowered interest rates on student loans every few years until the 2010 Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which effectively nationalized the market for student loans. Responding to cheap student loans, colleges have jacked up tuition costs faster than inflation for years. This

makes sense: Cheaper loans mean more demand, which means higher prices. The problem is that students are effectively borrowing against future incomes, which, especially for recent college graduates, have barely kept pace with inflation. One good way to stop this race to the top would be for the federal government to cancel subsidized student loans, forcing consumers (students) and producers (colleges) to make intelligent decisions about how to spend money. The current situation leaves students (or, if they default, taxpayers at large) out in the cold.

But isn’t education, including higher education, a human right, or, at the very least, something that society has decided it should provide for everyone? Putting aside for the moment that the politicians who talk like this are usually the ones spending other people’s money on what “society wants,” there are intellectual, social and economic deficiencies to making community college free.

First, the intellectual. To say higher education is something everyone needs is to disparage those who don’t have it, want it or need it. Adults who don’t want a higher education will not be able to get certain jobs, and will still be

able to get others. They, not President Obama or the Yale student body, know what’s best for them.

They should not be coerced, even indirectly, through paternalistic “incentives” funded with their money. This brings us to the social problem of the government making all sorts of decisions about how we live our lives.

“We” do not exist. There is no “collective action.” We are not the people we’ve been waiting for, because there was never any we to do the waiting. The social problem is the people who believe they speak for the “we” imposing through the state a view of the good life on people that don’t want it. Some government institutions — the military, the police and the courts — can be justified because they defend basic rights to life, liberty and property.

Others, such as a minimal amount of public education, can be justified on the grounds of neighborhood effects: People benefit even when they don’t buy into them, and therefore should be coerced into doing so. Free higher education for adults is different from that for children because of the different role the state should play in the lives of each. Children will become the stewards of society — in order

for society to preserve itself, children need to be educated to that end. But adults are the society. The interests of society are their individual interests. As the best judges of their interests, it’s up to them how to spend their time and money, and that includes choosing to go to college.

The progressive view of government leaves little intellectual room for people to choose what they want in competitive markets. This raises the economic problem, which is that government monopolies on the provision of goods don’t typically run efficiently. Look at the Defense Department, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, anti-poverty programs and the postal service.

Nationalizing college would make it more of a financial mess than it already is.

If liberals care about providing opportunities for the poor, they should favor privatizing all colleges. That way, the people who run them will have the incentives of the private sector to run them well. We continue to slouch toward a stagnant inequality the longer we wait.

COLE ARONSON is a freshman in Calhoun College. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST AMANDA MEI

Think twice about FERPA I

've always wanted to answer the question, "How did I get into Yale?" Recently, I discovered that if I were to submit a written request to the University Registrar today, I could receive my admissions records within 45 days; I could get a glimpse of the discussion that took place in the Admissions Office when my application was pulled up. But there are reasons why I might not.

As an enrolled student, I have certain rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. FERPA allows me to access my education records held by the University, seek corrections for inappropriate or misleading information and protect my records from disclosure to third parties. I also possess the freedom to choose whether or not to exercise these rights.

Two weeks ago, The New York Times reported on a group of Stanford students involved in an anonymous newsletter, The Fountain Hopper, who had pushed for students across the nation to take advantage of FERPA. But what I and other students choose to do should depend not on the fact that I have certain rights, but on my motivations for employing them.

Out of sheer curiosity, I could discover what my admissions officers wrote about me and how I fared during my interview. FERPA gives me that power. Other students also undoubtedly wonder how university officials perceived us during the admissions process. But should we really choose to find out how strangers viewed our application materials — those rigorously tailored documents that represented only a fraction of who we were?

Using FERPA merely to satisfy our individual curiosity about how we looked during the admissions process is not an effective use of the law. It is, at worst, an act of vanity or insecurity. Some people may argue that reviewing admissions records may give us a fuller selfunderstanding and contribute to our personal growth. But I think for most people, that argument is a cover-up for the deeper motivation to figure out how we appear to other people. It’s the same motivation that drives us to glance in the mirror before we step outside.

WE SHOULD NOT EXERCISE OUR FERPA RIGHTS FOR SELFISH ENDS If we think before we act, we’ll realize that seeing our admissions documents would give us little benefit as individuals. We are already enrolled Yale students; presumably the comments in the documents reflect our merits.

Reading them would probably give us an ego boost. Even if the documents contained some criticisms, we would most likely think about them briefly or shrug them off indignantly.

And no matter what the documents contain, we would be reading about how strangers perceived a past and incomplete version of ourselves. If personal growth is the goal, using FERPA to look at admissions records is a shortcut and should not replace the harder process of self-reflection.

Using FERPA thoughtlessly may also discourage admissions officers from performing their job as fairly and honestly as we want them to. An officer who thinks applicants might someday see his comments may withhold brutal but frank judgments for fear of students’ disapproval. His evaluations are already constrained by the values and expectations of the University, and FERPA may give him another constraint. Ironically, the more students use FERPA to uncover how admissions officers evaluated them, the fewer honest evaluations there will be.

But I’m not arguing that rights under FERPA should be taken away. I only think that we should not exercise them thoughtlessly or for selfish ends.

If it is used effectively, FERPA could actually exert enormous pressure on universities to be more transparent during the admissions process. Students would have to use FERPA to access their documents not only for themselves to view but to expose patterns of decision-making that occur behind closed doors.

People could potentially see the ways in which universities deliberately structure their student populations in terms of skills and personal traits, as well as race, class and affiliations. This information would be valuable in understanding who gets into college — and who does not.

Such a project would have to happen at the large scale proposed by The Fountain Hopper but could not happen under the veil of anonymity so far worn by the group. When pushing for greater transparency in college admissions, people should themselves be open about their identities and intentions. That’s why the most effective use of FERPA is not an act by faceless individuals but one by vast numbers of students representing a broader interest in higher education.

AMANDA MEI is a freshman in Berkeley College.

Contact her at amanda.mei@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Art is a harmony in parallel with nature.”

PAUL CÉZANNE FRENCH ARTIST

National survey may shed light on issues of sexual misconduct SURVEY FROM PAGE 1 entered into the survey in order to gain a better understanding of the issue of sexual assault, both at the University and on other campuses, said Deputy Provost and University Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler.

Some of the universities that chose not to participate have their own internal surveys that are either already complete or planned for the near future.

Ricardo Alcaíno, Title IX coordinator for the University of California Santa Barbara, said all of the

California public schools declined the offer because they had conducted an extensive Californiasystem-wide survey just a few years ago.

“A lot of the information has been very useful, and we’re still digesting it,” he said. “We’re trying to drill down on what we have, and we’re still in that process, so we didn’t necessarily want to jump into another survey process.”

Alcaíno added that there are not necessarily more benefits to a school-specific survey rather than a nationwide survey. The California schools will be eager to see the

results of the AAU survey when they are published, he said.

When asked about how applicable aggregate data is to an individual university’s policies, Spangler said more information is always welcome.

“The better we understand the problem, the better we can address it,” she said.

Alexa Derman ’18, public relations coordinator for the Yale Women’s Center, said members of her organization are glad that the issue is receiving widespread attention and stimulating coordinated action between universities.

According to the press release, the same survey will be administered to all participating universities. However, each survey will also have five campus-specific questions that are designed to gauge students’ familiarity with the resources available at their own schools.

Toiv declined to comment further on the contents of the survey, but he added that its composition will be based on an instrument designed by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. President Barack Obama commissioned this task

force in January 2014 to streamline and consolidate the federal government’s response to rape on college campuses.

Several member universities, including Yale, have also had the chance to provide feedback on the survey instrument, Spangler said.

When the Yale College Council and Women’s Center jointly released their own survey on sexual assault on Jan. 14, none of the students interviewed by the News said they had completed it, although several said they intended to at some point. In order to maximize responses to the AAU

survey, Toiv said, the AAU will utilize multiple incentives, including a lottery.

“We … hope the survey will help policymakers gain a better understanding of the problem, and that it will make a significant contribution to the growing body of research on sexual assault,” Rawlings said in the press release.

He did not return requests for comment.

The survey will be offered beginning in April.

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

Through art, attempting to tie town and gown ART OUTREACH FROM PAGE 1 The pieces in Connecticut (un) Bound are complemented by several works from the Chasanoff collection, which includes about 350 works, only a portion of which could displayed in the YUAG. Since the exhibits opened in early November, events such as artist-led walking tours have encouraged art viewers to walk the five blocks between Artspace and the YUAG and examine the book art on display in both spaces.

To Martha Lewis ART ’93, educational curator at Artspace and the organizer of Connecticut (un) Bound, the collaboration represents the possibilities of combining Yale’s resources and reach with the local focus and contemporary outlook of organizations such as Artspace.

But if the success of the two shows demonstrates the power of such collaborations, it also raises questions about whether Yale and New Haven are missing other opportunities to engage through art.

“There’s definitely a gap,” Lewis said of the separation of Yale’s and New Haven’s art communities. “And we try to bridge it.”

At Yale, too, administrators in the YUAG, Office of New Haven and State Affairs, and the School of Music work to keep doors open, invite community members in and form partnerships with local schools. And on a less tangible level, Yale’s resources and institutions help create the art-oriented urban spirit that has led New Haven to bill itself as Connecticut’s cultural capital.

Some, however, wonder whether the relationship ought to be more mutual, less about Yale extending resources to New Haven and more about people permeating boundaries to view and create art together. Richard Rose, master printer at Jonathan Edwards College and an instructor who has taught college and freshman seminars, created one of the pieces in Connecticut (un) Bound, an accordion-fold book titled To the Letter: Reading New Haven. Rose said he thinks there is likely room for Yale’s artists and art lovers to venture further into the New Haven art community.

“I know that Yale is a draw for artists that are living and working in New Haven, but I’m not sure about the other part of that equation,” Rose said.

A BLOSSOMING PARTNERSHIP

This past October, the YUAG launched its latest initiative to increase access to its collection and resources: a free afterschool program for New Haven teens.

About once a week, any high school student in the district can come to the gallery for 90 minutes of viewing and discussing art. Then they get time and supplies to work on pieces of their own.

According to Jessica Sack, the associate curator of public education at the YUAG, 12 students regularly attended the program in the fall and about 12 more attended at least once. For most attendees, the trip to the YUAG for the after-school program was likely not their first: The museum, along with the School of Music, has a particularly strong presence in New Haven Public Schools.

For roughly 30 years running, students in the district have participated in a series of visits to the gallery throughout their thirdgrade year. Since she arrived at Yale in 2004, Sack has also spearheaded an arts education pro-

gram for NHPS teachers. Once a month, the Teacher Leadership Program invites teachers in any subject to visit the gallery and brainstorm strategies for incorporating the art into their classroom instruction. The goal, Sack said, is to help teachers find ways to show students thematic connections between, for example, a piece of literature and a painting produced around the same time.

In large part, Sack credits the district’s arts-friendly culture with the success of such programs.

“I lived in New York before I came here, and I have to say that I’m so impressed and excited that this city is so supportive of the arts,” Sack said. “At the district level, they support teachers coming with their students to museums, and that’s not the case everywhere.”

Ellen Maust, supervisor for the performing and visual arts at NHPS, said that, in her 35 years as an educator, she has never seen the district pursue cuts to arts programming. What she has seen change over the past decade is the strength of Yale’s commitment to engaging with the public schools.

“There was a time when Yale was Yale and New Haven Public Schools were New Haven Public Schools, and now I really see Yale as a highly supportive, strategic partner,” Maust said.

Maust said one of the game changers for the Yale-NHPS relationship was the establishment of the Music in Schools Initiative, which partners School of Music students with district music teachers and hosts Saturday rehearsals for city-wide honor ensembles. The Initiative was fully endowed by the Yale College class of 1957 at their 50th reunion.

Michael Yaffe, associate dean of the School of Music, said there are about 45 School of Music students working in 18 schools this year, in addition to Ruben Rodriguez, the lead teacher who oversees the initiative. The program costs about $150,000 annually to run, Yaffe said, all of which is covered by the endowment.

Maust said the Music in Schools Initiative allows the district to offer talented students opportunities comparable to those readily available to students whose parents can pay for private lessons without batting an eye.

“Those opportunities for extra classes or activities or art camp, of an intensive, rigorous nature are very costly,” Maust said. “So we’ve been able to really bridge the achievement gap in music because we’ve been able to offer these opportunities.”

The Music in Schools Initiative is strong and comprehensive. But despite the international renown of Yale’s School of Art, there is no visual arts counterpart to Music in Schools. In fact, across Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the 12 professional schools, only the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences and the School of Art lack official “community outreach” programs, according to the Office of New Haven & State Affairs website.

“It would be wonderful to be able to do [what Music in Schools does] with visual art,” Maust said.

A MISSING LINK?

Every Saturday, Carmen Canales drives her son, a freshman at Hillhouse High School, to Amherst College in Massachusetts. Canales’s son is part of the Saturday Class for Gifted High School Students, a high-level visual arts class taught by professors from institutions in the five-

KAIFENG WU/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

This past October, the Yale University Art Gallery launched its latest initiative to increase access to its collection and resources.. college consortium. The rigorous, selective program costs just $85 for the academic year. It is intended for local students, but Canales, a financial analyst at the School of Medicine, could find nothing comparable in New Haven, so her son applied to the Amherst program. Even after considering the cost of gas for the nearly threehour round trip, Canales said, the program at Amherst is more affordable and higher quality than extracurricular art programming in the Elm City.

“New Haven is supposed to be the arts seat for Connecticut, and we have Creative Arts Workshop [a nonprofit arts education center on Audobon Street],” Canales said. “We have a lot of things, but financially I can’t make that happen. I’d rather drive him up to Amherst because he’s taking a college course at a college.”

A few weeks ago, after an instructor at the Amherst program expressed surprise that Yale offered no art classes for high school students, Canales emailed School of Art Associate Dean Sam Messer, asking if there exists a program she had not discovered.

He could not think of one and emailed Susan Cahan, dean of the arts, to double check, he said.

Cahan suggested that Canales look into the Creative Arts Workshop, which offers scholarships. Cahan also mentioned the Educational Center for the Arts, which offers classes and also has a program that allows about 100 NHPS students to spend half the school day at their academic high school and half at the ECA campus on Audobon Street, focusing on visual art, music, dance or creative writing. Canales’s son, however, already participates in that program.

Canales said she was disappointed to find out Yale lacks a major visual arts outreach initiative.

“You’re not funding the future,” Canales said. “Here’re our students that would love to have access, homegrown artists. We have plenty of great artists but to have that exposure [to working artists at Yale], I feel like it’s a missing link.”

Messer said he wished the School of Art had the resources to offer a program comparable to the Music in Schools Initiative. The School of Art has not had a major donor eager to offer the resources to fund such a program, Messer said.

“Very esteemed alumni have come through the School of Art, but that doesn’t necessarily correlate into them being wealthy enough to make large contributions,” Messer said. “I would love nothing more than for you to find us a large donor that could fund us a program where we could go into the schools.”

Besides lack of financial resources, another barrier to the School of Art launching a community engagement program may be art students’ crunched schedules. MFA candidates are typically on campus for only two or three years, and the pressure to produce can be intense. Andrew Hawkes ART ’16 was part of the student team that curated Odd Volumes, and he stayed in New Haven during the summer of 2014 to work on the project. Even so, he said he does not feel particularly connected to the New Haven art community. “[The MFA] is a two year program and it’s very accelerated and you’re very invested in your work and your practice,” Hawkes said.

“It’s tough to know that in a few years you have to have results.

There’s not much time to stay in New Haven and learn a bunch about New Haven outside of Yale.

Even as an art student there’s not much time to learn about things going at Yale. It’s just fast.”

ALTERNATIVES TO “OUTREACH”

Not everyone agrees that more Yale-led community service projects are the answer to linking the art worlds of Yale and New Haven.

During her sophomore year, Emily Hays ’16 started a group called Blue Haven dedicated to the idea that arts partnerships — not “outreach” or volunteer programs — could allow Yale students and New Haven residents to interact with each other in meaningful ways.

Blue Haven has linked Yale’s spoken word groups to similar groups at local high schools and invited a local youth open mic night called Kingdom Café to the Af-Am House so Yalies could watch and perform as well. The goal, Hays said, is for such partnerships to become self-sustaining and permanent, gradually dissolving the town-gown divide through the power of creative collaboration.

“I think just going out and volunteering in New Haven is a problematic relationship that creates stereotypes about New Haven and Yale, that New Haven doesn’t have anything to offer,” Hays said.

“But there’s a really interesting arts culture. That’s why I think arts events are a really interesting way to start getting into the richness of what New Haven has.”

Hays works at the YUAG and visited Artspace to see the Connecticut (un) Bound opening last year. She thinks the companion shows highlight exciting possibilities for future cooperative efforts.

Lewis said she had heard from numerous gallery visitors that they had been at the YUAG, or planned to go. The opening event was well attended, as were various walking tours held during the show’s run. The final event of the collaborative effort is a panel discussion on Saturday after-

noon. From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., artists represented in Odd Volumes and Connecticut (un) Bound will discuss book art and their work.

Then, attendees will head to Artspace, where from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., other artists featured in Connecticut (un) Bound will participate in a panel discussion, followed by a closing reception.

Lewis said she hopes the collaborative exhibition is a turning point in the way Yale and New Haven relate to one another with regard to the arts.

Artspace’s upcoming exhibit, Vertical Reach: Political Protest and the Militant Aesthetic Now, focuses on contemporary protest art in Eastern Europe and was organized in collaboration with an academic conference at Yale. Vertical Reach opens on Feb. 20, and the conference Political Violence and Militant Aesthetics After Socialism, held at the Whitney Humanities Center from April 17 to 19, will include visits to the gallery.

Vertical Reach, Lewis said, will allow academics to interact with the living manifestations of the cultural trends they are studying. It is a partnership that allows the University to take advantage of New Haven’s cultural richness, and Artspace to expand its audience and reach.

“The cultural life of New Haven depends a lot on Yale, and it’s sometimes hard to get people over here, even when it seems like we have things they would be interested in,” Lewis said.

At the same time, as a Yale graduate herself, she recognizes the persistent pull of the campus and its happenings, arts and otherwise.

“The University was my universe,” she said. “It was very easy to get caught up in the bubble.”

Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” THOMAS EDISON AMERICAN INVENTOR

CORRECTIONS THURSDAY, JAN. 29

A previous version of the article “Land easements approved” incorrectly stated that Harp would announce the 2015 budget in February; in fact, she will be revealing the 2016 budget. It also incorrectly stated that Harp’s development plans extended to New Haven’s suburbs, when in fact, they do not. Finally, it incorrectly stated that the Canal Line ran to Hamden, and that the old railroad extended to Hampton, Massachusetts. In fact, the bike trail currently goes to Cheshire, and the railway ran to North Hampton, Mass.

A previous version of the article “Yale slides in donation rankings” stated fiscal 2014’s total included Charles Johnson’s ’54 $250 million donation. In fact, although his commitment occurred in the 2014 fiscal year, it was not counted in the 2014 CAE figures.

Alders, public reimagine Civilian Review Board

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Amid a national conversation on race and police brutality, and coming in the wake of the detention at gunpoint of Tahj Blow ’16 by the Yale Police Department, the Board of Alders’ Legislation and Public Affairs committees met last night to begin the process of creating a new Civilian Review Board in the city, intended to hear, review and investigate complaints from residents about police conduct.

Before an audience of about 100 people, the alders heard testimony from city officials and residents. The hearing was the first official step toward establishing a new board, as mandated by the City Charter revisions of 2013. The current CRB has been suspended since August as the alders prepare to write and pass an ordinance creating a new one. Testimony at the hearing focused on the issues of possible subpoena, investigatory and disciplinary power for the proposed board, and the problem of police brutality in New Haven.

“Tonight is the beginning of a conversation about the new Civilian Review Board,” said Ward 9 Alder Jessica Holmes, chair of the Legislation Committee, who organized the hearing with Ward 29 Alder Brian Wingate, chair of the Public Safety Committee.

Many residents testified in favor of endowing the board with subpoena power, the power to compel witnesses to testify before the board. Christopher Desir, a New Haven community organizer, said that the subpoena power is crucial for the board’s success; Kerry Ellington, a fellow organizer, echoed his sentiment.

“If the board doesn’t have the subpoena power and doesn’t have the power to discipline the officers who are out there beating us, there’s no point in having the meeting,” said Rodney Williams, a co-chair for the Ward 21 Democratic Committee.

But, according to John Rose Jr., the city’s corporation counsel, granting subpoena power to the board might prove difficult.

Rose said that, because municipalities are the creation of the state , the city would require a special act of state legislation that could give the CRB the ability to compel witnesses to testify. Only the Connecticut Superior Court, he said, can enforce the subpoena.

A loophole might be possible, though, he added: the CRB can request a subpoena from Board of Alders President and Ward 5 Alder Jorge Perez, whom Rose said is

legally allowed to enforce subpoenas.

In addition to the subpoena power, speakers emphasized the importance of giving the board the ability to conduct investigations independent of the police department. Chris Garaffa, an organizer with Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, said the CRB must be independent from the Internal Affairs Department of the NHPD, which the police department uses to conduct internal investigations.

Jacob Wasserman ’16, a cochair for the Ward 1 Democratic Committee, agreed with Garaffa.

Wasserman added that the CRB should have some oversight over the YPD. “I want to make sure that the CRB has authority over the YPD,” Wasserman said. Referencing the Blow’s detention at gunpoint earlier this week, Wasserman said that the CRB can help ensure that the investigation of the incident results in an appropriate and transparent outcome.

Other speakers at the committee meeting expressed concerns surrounding the possible misuse of the CRB after its establishment.

Under the terms of the City Charter, community organizations will propose candidates to the CRB to the Board of Alders; the mayor will appoint the candidates approved by the alders.

According to Eric Maroney, a middle school teacher in New Haven, that system might be exploited for corrupt purposes. He said some community organizations depend on the mayor’s office for their funding, and they might be wary of nominating a candidate whom Mayor Toni Harp dislikes.

Ron Codianni, a former member of the CRB, agreed with Maroney.

Codianni expressed concern that the alders would make the CRB “machine-backed,” and that City Hall would fill the board with people who represent its own interests.

Ward 25 Alder Adam Marchand GRD ’99 said that the hearing was only the first step in the long process of creating a new CRB. “It’s going to take a lot,” he said.

“It’s going to take an ordinance, it’s going to take administrative wherewithal, and it’s going to take money … I understand the need is urgent, because it is, but if we rush this, it won’t work.”

The Board of Alders has not yet scheduled a second public hearing to discuss the CRB. Contact NOAH DAPONTESMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

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The Board of Alders plans to establish a review board for civilian cases involving police misconduct.

Cultural houses await results of review

BY STAPHANY HOU STAFF REPORTER Students are eagerly awaiting the publication of an external review of the four cultural centers, which began in November and has since been completed.

Members of the Asian American Cultural Center, the AfroAmerican Cultural Center, the Native American Cultural Center and La Casa Cultural participated in meetings with a team of consultants from other universities, including Brown and Stanford, throughout this threemonth time period. Although students involved in the cultural houses were initially anxious about the review, students interviewed said the process provided them with an opportunity to bring up issues and challenges that the centers are currently facing.

“The external review was important because it shows that Yale cares and listens to its students,” Chris Dee ’15, a member of the Asian American Students Alliance, said. “It’s an opportunity for self-reflection and gives us the chance to reassess what we have and what we want to do with the resources at Yale.”

Members of different cultural houses told the News that all centers ultimately share the same main concern — the need for greater administrative and financial resources. As the chief tie to Yale’s administration for

each center, the cultural center directors must single-handedly run all operations that serve thousands of students, and are thus often over-streched resources, said Sebi MedinaTayac ’16, a former staff reporter for the News who is active at the NACC. “We need a dean who can advocate for us, someone who can give warmth to the center,” La Casa peer liaison Israel Tovar ’17 said regarding the absence of a dean at the Latino cultural center. In the past year, the NACC and La Casa have been operating under interim directors after their deans stepped down.

Additionally, the four cultural centers have been working under drastically reduced budgets. With over $60,000 of budget cuts in the AACC alone, the centers are finding it more difficult to grow without necessary financial support, AACC Co-Head Coordinator Hiral Doshi ’17 said. Moreover, the centers are also now expanding their outreach to include Yale’s graduate students, he said. The shortage of funding will be exacerbated, Doshi added, by the opening of the two new residential colleges in fall 2017.

Victoria Chu ’15, a peer liaison for the AACC, said that along with more funding, the centers also hope to obtain more transparent information on how funding is assigned by the administration. Cultural centers

need to know whether they will be able to get enough funding for the activities they want to plan in the interest of spreading cultural awareness, she said.

But La Casa Student Coordinator Benjamin Bartolome ’16 said facilities are his main concern.

“One of our largest issues is also the renovation of our space,” Bartolome said. “In the basement, if you lean on certain walls, you can get electrocuted.”

The AACC is also in need of renovations for its house, AACC Freshman Liaison Dustin Nguyen ’18 said, because it does not have a big central multipurpose room for large events.

As the report will be made public in the coming week, students said they are excited for its release. After meeting with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway this Wednesday, representatives of the cultural houses have been reassured that the report will reflect the issues that were brought up. The cultural center deans have read the report and conveyed their approval of it as well, Co-Head Coordinator of the AACC Jessica Liang ’17.

Assistant Dean of Yale College and Director of the Afro-American Cultural Center Rodney Cohen said he thinks the review is a great show of support from the University to the cultural centers. He added that the process also comes at a good time, as the school looks to the addi-

tion of two new colleges.

“I think people are excited because this is the first time that the cultural review has ever been conducted, and it’s our one chance in 40 years in order to voice our concerns to our administration,” AACC peer liaison Austin Long ’15 said.

“This external review is the first step towards bringing change to the cultural houses.”

Some students, however, are still concerned about the specific actions that the administration will take regarding the results of the report.

“The administration needs to not just share their report but to also be transparent about the actionable steps that will be taken in the months and years to come,” Medina-Tayac said.

Following the public release of the external review report, students have been told to expect a town hall meeting with Holloway and other administrators, which will be open to the entire student body, said Casey Lee ’17, who is involved at the AACC. This meeting will hopefully provide yet another opportunity for all students to give input on the status of Yale’s cultural centers, Lee added.

The first cultural center to open at Yale was the AfroAmerican Cultural Center, which opened in 1969.

Contact STAPHANY HOU at staphany.hou@yale.edu .

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Members of the four cultural centers await the results of an external review that began in November. One of the priorities is to renovate the spaces.

SOM expands career resources

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER As students at the Yale School of Management look for summer internships and post-graduation jobs, they can find comfort in the fact that the school’s estimates for student employment are stronger than in previous years.

Though these early estimates for acceptances and offers have not yet been released in the school’s employment reports, SOM Career Development Office Director Julia Zupko said this interim data shows marked improvement compared to corresponding data from the past.

This improvement coincides with four new hires in the SOM’s career development office over the last few months, making the office more fully staffed than it has been in the last several years, SOM Associate Dean Anjani Jain said. Offering more career development resources and support from the school, Jain said, has contributed to the positive indications in employment data. “[There has been] more sustained outreach and development, so the students’ engagement with employers is better

than it has been the last several years,” Jain said. “And the outcomes in terms of offers being made to students and offers being accepted by them has been ahead of where we have been at this point of the year [previously].”

Jain added that these new hires came as part of an ongoing effort to reorganize the SOM’s career development office and improve its efficacy. Many of the new staff members, he said, have global backgrounds and will focus on building relationships with potential employers outside of the United States.

Zupko said that one of the new hires, Catherine Feng SOM ’00, will be responsible for traveling to develop new relationships with potential employers in Asia, which is important as the SOM continues to foray into new regions.

Zupko also said having members of the career development office like Feng, who is originally from China, increases the office’s language capabilities, enabling SOM-employer relationships to reach the next level.

She said that while many peer institutions have positions similar to those at the SOM’s career development office, this lan-

guage capability is part of what sets SOM apart as “distinctively global.”

Justin Sun SOM ’16, who went on a job trip to Beijing over winter break, said that while this trip is usually organized by student clubs, having a dedicated member of the career development office like Feng will be helpful in making this trip more productive for students in the future.

“Further down the road we’ll be able to have a larger Rolodex in terms of corporate relationships,” Sun said. “This will be tremendous for students moving forward as well as prospective students interested in applying [to the SOM].”

As for employment opportunities, Sun said he has several peers who have already gotten job offers outside of the United States, particularly at private equity firms in China and Europe.

SOM Deputy Director of Relationship Management Antoine Broustra, who began his post at the SOM in December, said he is focused on maintaining existing relationships and cultivating new relationships with international companies that do not actively recruit on the

SOM’s campus. Broustra said an important way to identify these companies is to find firms that have hired alumni from around the University but do not have direct regular relationships with the SOM. He added that many of these global companies are attracted to the SOM’s student population because it is already so diverse in terms of background and experience.

Rob Wu SOM ’15 said he thinks it will take time for students to be able to reap the benefits of these changes, since there will be an adjustment period for the new hires to develop relationships with employers.

“I just feel like relationships are difficult to develop, and if you ask for it immediately, you’ll be disappointed with the results,” Wu said.

So far, Wu said he has not felt much of a change in the career development office, but added that he believes this lack of change signals a smooth transition.

Ninety-three percent of SOM students in the class of 2014 received job offers within three months of graduation.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Ask not what you can do for your country.

Ask what’s for lunch.” ORSON WELLES AMERICAN FILMMAKER

Recognizing “higher risks” of frats, SigEp, SeLF to partner low through with the project after SigEp participated in the Yale College Council’s “It’s On Us, Yale,” a campaign launched earlier this year to prevent sexual assault on campus.

SigEp president Tim Baker ’16 declined to comment on the program.

Though the program is still in its preliminary stage, it is intended to run as a course for the fraternity’s new members that covers a variety of topics related to safety, sexual assault and women’s issues.

“We plan to have at least one or two workshops with all their new members about creating a healthy sexual climate at SigEp and anywhere else on campus,” Robert-

SIG EP FROM PAGE 1 workshop designed specifically for SigEp. The collaboration comes in the midst of a wide-ranging national debate about misconduct on college campuses. Today, Dartmouth announced that the school would ban all hard alcohol on campus as a means to reduce the incidence of sexual assault on campus. The Dartmouth administration also warned fraternities that stiff penalties would be incurred if they did not reform their behavior.

The SigEp/SeLF collaboration is spearheaded by Erickson, a member of both the executive boards of both organizations.

He said he was inspired to fol-

son said.

Erickson said the sessions will be designed to be open-ended and reflective, rather than instructional.

Robertson added that while groups like the Community Consent Educators have specific objectives for their sessions, SeLF runs more as a discussion based on reflection and sharing experiences.

“There’s not one specific thing to agree about; the agreement [between SigEp members] basically is just that the conversation needs to be had,” Erickson said.

“Members might have differing opinions about how best to make a safe space and people might disagree with them. SigEp is a very

diverse fraternity so the goal of the conversations is not to drill certain points but to open up the conversation so that there are different perspectives.”

SeLF Co-Director Jez Marston ’15 said that fraternities have an obligation to ensure that they are creating environments of respect, but sexual assault happens in many different areas of the Yale community.

Laura Kellman ’15, head coordinator for the Yale Women’s Center, added that while there is certainly a problem with sexual assault on campus, this problem is not unique to fraternities.

“SigEp should be commended for taking active steps on this issue,” Kellman said. “We would

like to see more student groups taking initiative like this to improve their communities.”

However, SeLF board member Amelia Nierenberg ’18 said she believes such an initiative should simply be expected, rather than congratulated.

“SigEp should hypothetically be commended, but as a sexually active woman on this campus, I feel like a sex-positive place is something that I deserve,” Nierenberg said. “It’s appreciated that they’re trying, but it shouldn’t have to be.”

Alpha Delta Phi president Connor Durkin ’16 said his fraternity is not pursuing any similar initiatives.

Marston said the main chal-

lenge for implementing more changes in the Greek community is that organizations can choose the extent to which they want to focus on the issue of sexual assault.

Despite the initial meeting between SeLF and 10 members of SigEp’s executive board, Erickson said the fraternity has not yet had a broader session for members outside of the executive board.

“Nothing about the [meeting with the executive board] was about blaming them for anything, or about reprimanding them,” Robertson said. “All frats should be doing some of this.”

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

51 Broadway to become a Salsa Fresca after a year’s vacancy SALSA FROM PAGE 1 of Denali on Broadway, said that he had recently heard that the space would open as a Mexican restaurant after talks of Educated Burgher’s re-opening died down.

David Norris, a principal and financial partner of Salsa Fresca, said the New Haven location is special to him because his father, George Norris ’39, claimed to have had “arguably the happiest years of his life” at Yale.

I’m happy to hear that there are more restaurants coming to Broadway because I think it will generate a lot of student interest.

JOSH ALTMAN ’17 Students i n te rv i ewe d expressed interest in another dining option close to campus.

Josh Altman ’17 said that he was excited to see a new business come to Broadway that is affordable for students.

“I’m happy to hear that there are more restaurants coming to Broadway because I think it will generate a lot of student interest and I hope that students will be the patrons,” Altman said.

“Hopefully this new restaurant will be a great new addition to late night options in New Haven.”

Moe Gad, manager at Tomatillo across the street at 320 Elm St., said that he isn’t concerned about the potential competition from Salsa Fresca’s arrival.

“Competition is always good; it keeps me on my toes,” Gad said.

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NEWS Block watches reconnect with NHPD

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” ANNE HERBERT AMERICAN WRITER

Preparations in full swing for Beinecke renovation

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER In an attempt to revive their relationship with the New Haven Police Department, local block watch groups have been meeting with the department this month.

The block watches are informal groups of volunteers who patrol and oversee the safety of their neighborhood. Following staff changes within the NHPD over the past year, including the retirement of block watch coordinators, communications between the block watch volunteers and police officers has become disorganized and intermittent, according to block watch captains — residents in charge of their local block watch.

Recent meetings between the two groups have served to revive the partnership, promote data sharing and spur interest in block watch within the New Haven community.

“The recent reconnecting with block watches on the Police Department’s end is in information sharing, crime analysis, specific crime locations and their frequency,” NHPD spokesperson David Hartman said in a Thursday email. “There is a renewed energy in information sharing between these groups and the officers in the groups’ patrol districts.”

The lapse in communications between block watches and the NHPD coincided with the retirement of two block watch coordinators within the police department last year, according to Leslie Radcliffe, a member of the Truman Street Block Watch Group.

Although the block watches are not supervised or organized by the police department, liaisons on the NHPD used to coordinate block watch meetings and serve as contact points for block watch captains. Because the NHPD chose not to replace the coordinators who retired last year, official communications between the NHPD and block watches ceased. For example, there are no longer monthly meetings where police officers and block watch groups discuss crime trends and exchange information.

The neighborhood officers need to hear [individual] concerns as they’re best suited to solve these problems.

DAVID HARTMAN NHPD spokesperson Since the last meeting in March 2014, block watch captains have instead held their own meetings without the presence of police officers while continuing to work unofficially with their neighborhood’s NHPD sergeants and beat officers.

Jimmy Jones, the co-captain of block watch 331, said the lack of block watch coordinators within the police department has caused the relationship to become passive.

“In the past, there was someone in the department who would call regular meetings, and this gave us information and structure,” he said. “Now, there is ultimately someone we can contact within the department, but they are not as active in communicating.”

He added that beat officers move between neighborhoods so frequently that it is difficult to build lasting relationships with them.

Hartman, however, said the decentralization of communication might be more effective. He pointed to the department’s 10 district managers and beat officers, who are encouraged by the department to stay in contact with volunteers, as resources for block watches.

“The fault in the [previous liaison] relationship model was that the concerns [of] individual BWs were being vetted at an administration level,” he said. “It’s the neighborhood officers who need to hear these concerns as they’re the ones best suited to solve the problems.”

Nevertheless, he said that the NHPD has also assigned a sergeant as a point-person for groups to reach out to for general information.

Given the lack of agreement in the ideal communications methods, around 20 block watch captains, including Radcliffe and Jones, gathered with NHPD officers and chiefs on Jan. 2 to discuss how to reconnect volunteers with the department. While there has been no reversion to the liaison system, the NHPD has agreed to be more active in its distribution of flash sheets, police newsletters that contain data tables, maps and news clippings to interested volunteers, according to Hartman. The flash sheets are now easily accessible to those who request email copies.

Since the initial reconnection, block watch members have continued holding meetings without the NHPD, sparking renewed interest in volunteering within the neighborhood.

“Once we started to reconnect, the topic of block watch was brought back up in the community management meetings,” Radcliffe said. “This piqued the interests of individuals who want to join or form block watches. The meetings started to stir the pot up again.”

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

ELIZABETH MILES/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is being prepared for an extensive renovation, starting this May.

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM STAFF REPORTER Though the marble exterior of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library may suggest tranquility, a book’s cover does not always reveal its contents. The library is currently involved in a flurry of preparation work in advance of its 16-monthlong renovation.

In the months leading up to the library’s closure in May, all books and archival materials must be moved to secure locations. Beinecke staff will move to Sterling Memorial Library and office space at 344 Winchester Ave., and a temporary HVAC unit will be installed on Beinecke Plaza. The library is currently on schedule for all of these tasks and recently reached a major milestone in the preparations. In late January, the last of 19 bulk shipments of rare archived material comprising approximately 9,500 linear feet in total — with 10 books per linear foot — was sent to the Yale Library Shelving Facility in Hamden. Still, there is much more work to be done.

“It’s a little daunting — we’re moving thousands of feet of material and books, more than 100 staff out and then closing down,” Bei-

necke Director E.C. Schroeder said.

“And at the same time, we’re still doing what we normally do.”

Since April 2014, Beinecke has been moving books and archival material from its basement and the glass stack tower to the LSF. Matthew Beacom, the head of the library’s technical services, said about half of Beinecke staff were involved with this stage of renovation preparations.

Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts Tim Young said in an email that curators are helping to direct where these materials will be located, based on criteria such as their physical format and how researchers use them.

Schroeder said the 19 bulk shipments to the LSF included some of Beinecke’s most heavily used collections, including the papers of Gertrude Stein and Langston Hughes.

The scope of the renovation is broad. It includes the replacement of the building’s HVAC system, upgrades to fire suppression and detection utilities and the addition of new classrooms.

Approximately 90 percent of the material that needs to be moved out has already left the Beinecke build-

ing, Schroeder said. Oddly sized and particularly delicate material, such as the Papyrus Collection, will be moved to the LSF over the next few months, Preservation Coordination Librarian Rebecca Hatcher said. Hatcher, who oversaw the effort to move the material, added that this is approximately 2,000 linear feet of material.

Schroeder said material must be moved out of the basement to make room for corridors for workmen, as well as the materials from the glass stack tower. Hatcher said the next major project on the horizon at the Beinecke is the movement of the remainder of the books — approximately 11,000 linear feet — from the tower to the basement. This process will occur in April and early May. Young said library staff will also be taking materials, books and files related to current projects with them when they move out of the Beinecke. Library staff members are currently packing up their offices, he added.

Schroeder said staff will move in two major waves. In early April, about half of Beinecke’s staff will move to 344 Winchester Ave. The rest of the staff, including curators, will move to Sterling Memorial

Library and other locations on campus in late April and early May. One other aspect of the preparations is ensuring that Beinecke can effectively cater to students, faculty and researchers, Schroeder said. Beinecke staff are making regular announcements on the library website about the availability of collections, and researchers are encouraged to contact the library in advance about material they want to study, he said.

“We’re trying to make as many of collections available during renovation as possible,” he said.

Schroeder said that because a large number of the Beinecke’s holdings are now at LSF, students and faculty will notice a change in the time it takes to retrieve materials. Books that used to be available in 10 to 15 minutes upon request may now take 24 to 48 hours to deliver because they are no longer housed at Beinecke itself.

During the renovation, Beinecke’s Gutenberg Bible will be on display at the Yale University Art Gallery.

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

TIMELINE BEINECKE LIBRARY RENOVATIONS January 20

May 18

Last of the 19 bulk shipments of books and boxes of archival material (primarily from basement stacks or the glass stack tower) sent to Library Shelving Facility. Each shipment contained approximately 500 linear feet of material.

Approximately half of Beinecke staff move to 344 Winchester Ave.

April—May

March

Remaining books in the glass stack tower moved to basement storage.

Installation of temporary HVAC unit on plaza

Packing of offices and moving of staff. Some office material sent to West Campus for storage during the renovation.

January—May

Last day the Beinecke's exhibit space is open

Early April

Rest of the Beinecke staff moves to Sterling Memorial Library and other locations on campus.

Late April - Early May

The Beinecke’s temporary reading room in Sterling Memorial Library opens; Beinecke building closed to the public until September 2016

May 19 Office space at 344 Winchester Ave. completed

April 1

Last day the Beinecke’s reading room is open

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NEWS

“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.” JAPANESE PROVERB

City and state unemployment rates drop

BY MRINAL KUMAR STAFF REPORTER Last year, Connecticut enjoyed its largest surge in job growth since 1998, according to a preliminary estimate released on Jan. 26 by the state Department of Labor.

Over 26,000 new jobs were created in the Nutmeg State last year, resulting in an unemployment rate drop from 7.4 percent to 6.4 percent. Connecticut has recovered 96,300 of the nonfarm jobs that were lost during the 2008 recession. New Haven’s rate of growth surpassed the state’s — in 2014, New Haven’s unemployment rate dove from 10.7 percent to 7.9 percent, according to a DataHaven report.

It is unusual for decreases in unemployment to be this drastic, said Alissa Dejonge GRD ’00, vice president of research at the Connecticut Economic Resource Center. Dejonge said it is possible that the estimate exaggerated the rate of growth, and she added that a revision to the estimate would not surprise her.

Even so, she noted, this is a clear sign that the state’s economy is improving.

“What we saw the previous year or two is that we had more and more discouraged workers in the economy,” she said. “We were seeing the labor force participation rate decrease … now that we’re not only seeing unemployment decrease but we’re also seeing the labor force increase, that’s telling me that the economy is starting to grow.”

New Haven’s labor force saw a healthy increase last year, going from 57,993 in January 2014 to 58,541 in December, according to statistics provided by Mark Abraham ’04, executive director of DataHaven.

City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer attributed this rapid growth to New Haven’s success at drawing businesses.

“New Haven is the economic hub of this entire region,”

he said. “[It] is a transportation hub. That makes it attractive to businesses because they know that a workforce is nearby and better able to get into New Haven.”

Grotheer pointed to largescale construction projects as job creators over the past year.

He also noted that the government has played a significant role in investing in small businesses through programs such as Step Up, which helps young companies underwrite the cost of training new workers.

Both Grotheer and Dejonge agreed that increased consumer optimism and willingness to invest has been a major role in both the city and the state’s job growth.

“Some industries bounce back as a result of the economy bouncing back,” said Dejonge.

“We’re seeing things like retail, accommodations, food services increase. That means that more people are starting to go out and spend more money … as the economy starts to heat up, we see those industries improve.”

The labor department’s report supports Dejonge’s statement — job growth in the retail sector increased by 3.5 percent last year.

Dejonge was optimistic when asked whether this trend would continue.

“The analysts are predicting some fairly strong gains for 2015 and even stronger gains for 2016,” she said. “I do think that this is the start of a longer positive trend.”

Nearly every industry in the state grew last year, with the exception of finance and insurance, which dropped by almost 2 percent. Dejonge explained that Connecticut is losing finance jobs to other states, but that the industry is still strong.

Connecticut gained 18,400 jobs in 2013.

Contact MRINAL KUMAR at mrinal.kumar@yale.edu .

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Dance groups incorporate new members

WA LIU/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Dance groups at Yale such as Rhythmic Blue and A Different Drum accepted only a few new members into their company after the most recent round of auditions.

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER As the spring term gets underway, some of Yale’s undergraduate dance companies are concluding their spring auditions processes.

While most performance groups at Yale only hold one round of auditions per year, a number of dance groups — including Rhythmic Blue, A Different Drum, Rangeela, Yale Jashan Bhangra and Groove — some hold both fall and spring auditions. But while lead-

ers of some groups view spring auditions as a sign of an overall increase of interest in dance, others said that a lack of awareness about dance companies causes many groups to host a second round of auditions at the beginning of the spring semester.

Nicole Feng ’16, president of the Alliance for Dance at Yale and co-president of the dance group Rhythmic Blue, said groups have been growing in membership over recent years, but noted that she believes that their caliber has not declined.

“We have been tapping more now than in the past, but this is not a result of lowering our standards,” Feng said. “We believe this points to the conclusion that there is greater interest in dance on campus.”

After the most recent round of auditions, which took place over the first two weeks of the semester, groups such as Rhythmic Blue and A Different Drum accepted only a few new members into their company, each adding two to their rosters of 21 and 23, respectively. On the other hand, Groove did not

accept any new members this semester.

Sarah Holder ’17, president of Groove, said the spring auditions provide an opportunity for students interested in dance to participate in groups that they might not have heard about in the fall. The presence of many different types of groups in the Freshmen Extracurricular Bazaar might exclude students who participate in other activities in the fall from getting involved with dance groups, Holder explained.

“Sometimes dance groups fall under the radar,” Holder said.

“The second-semester audition is really a way for us to find freshmen who didn’t find us before.”

Holder added that Groove had a lower spring audition turnout this year than in previous years.

She noted that many members of Groove who are also involved with theater productions were unable to participate in the company’s fall show, which means that the number of company members participating in the spring show will be larger. But she noted that having a smaller company allows most of the

members of Groove to choreograph their own pieces for the spring show, and allows each dancer more space on stage.

While membership of A Different Drum has not drastically changed over the last few years, according to artistic director Zoe Reich-Aviles ’16 and president Hannah Leo ’15, the company has consistently held spring auditions over this period, usually accepting a few new members each time.

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

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AROUND THE IVIES

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AMERICAN INVENTOR AND FOUNDING FATHER

THE DARTMOUTH

T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

Hanlon announces hard alcohol ban

BY REBECCA ASOULIN A residential community system, a campus-wide ban on hard alcohol, a mandatory four-year sexual violence prevention and education program and a code of conduct are among the changes College President Phil Hanlon announced this morning as part of the Moving Dartmouth Forward plan.

The College plans to start the hard alcohol ban this spring term, Hanlon said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

Both possession and consumption of hard alcohol with a proof of 30 or higher will be prohibited at events organized by student organizations or the College.

Individual students, including those over the legal drinking age, will also have to adhere to this policy.

Hanlon said that students found in violation of the hard alcohol policy will face “stiffer penalties” than those violating other aspects of the alcohol policy.

This distinction will hopefully limit the use of hard alcohol across campus, Hanlon said. The specifics of these penalties are yet to be determined, he said.

The College will also require bartenders and bouncers for social events. Director of media relations Diana Lawrence said in an email that a working group, cochaired by one staff member and one student, will review social event and alcohol management policies to determine the specifics of both policies.

To enforce these policies, the College will hire additional Safety and Security officers, train residential life staff to enforce the new policy and require undergraduate advisers to complete inspection rounds of residence halls on “likely drinking nights” — Wednesday through Saturday, according to the proposal.

The presidential steering committee found through its research, including discussions with public health experts, that hard alcohol poses the most significant risks to student health, Hanlon said. The committee also considered an “open door” policy — under which students would not be punished for drinking in residential halls if their doors are open — but found that peer institutions

who enacted such policies had more severe alcohol issues than Dartmouth, so that the policy may not be suitable to the College, he said. said that DARTMOUTH theHanlon College wants student input and perspectives on the new alcohol policy.

Lawrence said that Safety and Security, the office of residential life and the office of judicial affairs will discuss and decide how to enforce the alcohol policy over the course of this term. This process will include meeting with undergraduate advisors and students to collect feedback.

The College will also instate a mandatory four-year sexual violence prevention and education program in fall 2015. Lawrence said that the College will develop the program over the next two terms, but that specifics have yet to be determined.

The plan also includes other initiatives that address sexual assault, such as an online consent manual — to be created by the end of the summer — and a Dartmouth-specific smartphone application students can use when feeling unsafe.

The plan targets issues of inclusivity through a change to undergraduate housing. Beginning with the Class of 2019, first-year students will be assigned to one of six communities consisting of a cluster of residence halls that organize social and academic events. The College has dedicated $1 million a year to these residence communities. Starting their sophomore year, students who choose to live in a dorm will reside in the residential clusters associated with their community. First-year students will continue to live in freshman housing.

Students will remain members of their assigned community throughout their Dartmouth career, including during terms when a student chooses to live in off-campus, Greek or affinity housing.

A faculty advisor and a graduate student advisor will live in each community.

Provost Carolyn Dever said that the residential communities will foster student and faculty interactions and bring

the community together.

To increase accountability, the College will require all student organizations to undergo an annual review process.

The College will also require all student organizations to eliminate pledge terms, an action that follows the decision of Greek leaders to ban probationary periods this fall. The College will also require all Greek houses to have one female and male faculty sponsor each and “an active alumni board,” beginning in the fall of 2015.

A committee headed by Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer will create a written set of expectations concerning the annual review process and rules about hosting social events.

“If in the next three to five years, the Greek system does not engage in meaningful, lasting reform, and we are unsuccessful in sharply curbing harmful behaviors, we will need to revisit its continuation on campus,” Hanlon wrote in the Moving Dartmouth Forward plan.

Hanlon said that the organizational review will ensure accountability by asking Greek houses to explain how they further the College’s values, including inclusivity and safety.

“It’s going to go beyond just, ‘Did I stay out of trouble?’,” he said. “It’s going to say, ‘What am I doing to promote the values of this institution?’”

He noted that the Greek Leadership Council took the lead in pushing for continued reform, and said that their proposals in the fall introduced more change than in the previous 50 years. While he said it is apparent that Greek leaders have thought extensively about reform, he is counting on them to follow through with their plans.

An external oversight committee chaired by Tufts University president emeritus Larry Bacow will report annually to the Board of Trustees and Hanlon on the progress of the plan. In addition, the College will be conducting two climate surveys — the Association of American Universities Sexual Assault Climate Survey beginning in April 2015 and continued on a regular basis and the National Health Assessment every other year starting in fall 2015.

Funding may bolster genomics research

BY KARL ASPELUND AND MEG BERNHARD Harvard genomics researchers could see increased funding for their work should Congress approve a White House proposal to allocate millions more dollars to the research of medical treatments personalized to a patient’s genetic information.

Funding for the research would come from the National Institutes of Health, the University’s largest federal sponsor for research, which accounts for about half of Harvard’s federal sponsorship.

Specifics for the proposal — first announced during President Obama’s State of the Union address last week — will not be made public until the release of Obama’s 2016 budget in early February. Still, Harvard professors said that a growing group of the University’s researchers who are focused on applying troves of genetic data to clinical strategies would especially benefit from the increase in funds.

Despite years of progress in the field of genomics, federal funding for related research has been scarce, according to Medical School associate professor Heidi L. Rehm.

“The federal government has been supportive of genomics– based healthcare, but with few dollars,” Rehm said. “So this is encouraging.”

But although new funding from the NIH would benefit genomics research, Medical School associate professor Patrick T. Ellinor said that small grants from other sponsors ensure that projects are sufficiently funded.

“For all medical researchers, NIH is the backbone for funding, but it is not something HARVARD yo u can survive on,” Ellinor said.

Some researchers also pointed to the concern that an NIH initiative for large-scale genomics research could restrict opportunities for smaller grants, a common refrain after the announcement of large health initiatives but more acute in this case because genomic research studies tend to be larger and more expensive.

In the long term, though, big initiatives often lead to more small grants as “leaps in understanding are made,” said former University Provost Steven E. Hyman, a stem cell and regenerative biology professor.

Despite talk of how funding might affect research at Harvard, it is still unclear how the new NIH proposal would be funded.

The program could be financed through new funds, but might also be funded by redistributing money away from existing NIH programs in order to sponsor research on genetically tailored medical treatments, said Kevin Casey, associate vice president for Public Affairs and Communications.

“It will be important to understand how those funds are available,” Casey said. “[Will it come] at the expense at other programs in NIH and affect other peoples’ priorities?”

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“Hands down, I think [Marshawn Lynch] is the best … He is exactly what his name is called: Beast Mode.”

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MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 son with the Tigers (3–14–1, 1–11–0) took place in October, when a shootout goal from forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18 carried Yale into the finals at the Liberty Hockey Invitational before the team won it all against the University of Connecticut. After the team’s only conference win against Cornell early in the season, it has been all downhill for Princeton in ECAC play. While Yale has won seven of the last eight games against the Tigers, the win is not entirely in the bag for the Bulldogs.

Princeton is coming off of the momentum of a non-conference win against Army on Wednesday, with forwards Jonathan Liau and Ben Foster leading the Tigers with three goals each thus far.

In particular, Yale will have to ramp up its production on offense if the team hopes to come away with four points this weekend. While the team has the best goals-against average in Division I hockey, at 1.58, and the thirdranked netminder in the country in Alex Lyon ’17, the team has had a difficult time finding the back of the net when it matters most. The team has gone 0–5 on power plays in its last two games. And with less than a month to go in the regular season, the team sits in the bottom third of Division I with 2.37 goals per game on average.

Forward Henry Hart ’18 emphasized that the team has concentrated on converting scoring opportunities this week.

“The team’s focus is just continuing to play good defense as well as bearing down and capitalizing on our scoring chances,” Hart said.

The competition will almost certainly be tougher on Saturday night when Yale takes on Quinnipiac in their first matchup of the season. The rivals down the road have performed well throughout the season and sit alone atop the conference with 20 points, two ahead of second-place Harvard.

The Bobcats knocked the Elis out of contention for the ECAC title during

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Yale’s opponent on Friday, Princeton, has scored just 26 goals in 18 games, last in the conference. last year’s quarterfinals and the Bulldogs have not bested Quinnipiac since their win in the 2013 national championship game. The Bobcat offense is powered by forward Sam Anas, who currently leads the country in power play goals with eight, while goalie Michael Garteig is tied for first in the nation with four shutouts.

Even though the approach to both teams may differ slightly between Friday and Saturday night, defender Rob O’Gara ’16 noted that the team will be primarily focused on executing its own style of play.

“We need to continue skating and keep our work ethic up and really bear down on all of the opportunities we get to score,” O’Gara said. “Sticking to our habits and our Yale hockey style of play will allow for these things to happen.”

Both games will be broadcast on the Ivy League Digital Network. Saturday night’s game at Ingalls Rink has already sold out.

The puck drops for both games at 7 p.m. at Ingalls on Friday and Saturday.

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

Bulldogs play pair at home W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 a situation to be successful.”

After lone senior and captain Sarah Halejian ’15 was forced off the court due to a season-ending ACL injury, two underclassmen have stepped up to bolster the team’s offense. Guard Katie Werner ’17 leads all active Yale players with 9.7 points per game, immediately followed by guard Tamara Simpson ’18 at 8.8 points per contest. Additionally, Werner is the only player to have started all 16 games.

Yale’s pressure defense has also been crucial in the team’s recent winning streak against Maine, Saint Peter’s and Brown, limiting the Bulldogs’ opponent to under 60 points in all but one game.

In addition, the Bulldogs caused over 15 turnovers in each of their last three games and currently rank second in caused turnovers in the Ivy League at 17.6.

Fr i d a y ’s opponent, Columbia (6–10, 0–2), enters having lost both Ivy games against Cornell and having put up only 39 points in its away game in Ithaca. A pair of underclassmen Lions,

sophomore guard Tori Oliver and freshman forward Camille Zimmerman, currently lead the team in average points per game with 17.6 and 14.5, respectively. Oliver has started all 16 games for Columbia and ranks second in scoring in the Ivy League.

Joining Oliver and Zimmerman in double-digit scoring is freshman guard Alexa Giuliano, who averages 10.6 points per game and ranks third on the team.

Those three players have combined for 66.2 percent of Columbia’s scoring, meaning that it will be crucial for the Elis to shut down this trio.

“We know Columbia has a lot of young talent, and they definitely are not the same team as last year,” guard Lena Munzer ’17 said. “We know it’s going to be a battle, but as long as we play our game we will be successful.”

In comparison, Cornell will likely be the more difficult opponent of the weekend. The Big Red (11–5, 2–0), like the Bulldogs, rides in on a four-game winning streak, having defeated Youngstown State, Howard and travel partner Columbia twice.

Cornell currently ranks sec-

ond in shooting in the Ivy League at 40 percent. Sophomore forward Nia Marshall, a three-time Ivy League Player of the Week winner, leads the team in scoring at 17.4 points per game, enough for third in the Ivy League. Fellow sophomore guard Nicholle Aston follows her in double-digit scoring at 11.9 points per game.

In preparation for the next two games, the Bulldogs are targeting their offense and defense to strike Columbia and Cornell right from the start.

“Winning our first two Ivy games was very exciting for us as a team, however we still have to work our hardest and be fully dialed-in if we want this streak to continue,” Simpson said. “In practice this week, we are really focusing on cleaning up our offense and tweaking our pressure defense in order to really go after Columbia and Cornell right from the beginning of the game.”

Yale will compete against Columbia at home this Friday. Tip-off is at 7 p.m.

Contact JULIA YAO at julia.yao@yale.edu .

Elis enter HYP undefeated SWIMMING/DIVING FROM PAGE 12 year, and their only loss came from Columbia as well. Lilybet MacRae ’17 shone in the diving competitions, taking first place by over 30 points.

Her skills have continued into this year, racking up multiple wins for the Bulldogs in the one–meter and three–meter dives.

While eyes will be on the memorable swimmers and divers from last year, new faces have been turning heads and will surely do so at HYP. Kei Hyogo ’18 has been pulling in victories all year, and has been doing so with incredible times. He is currently undefeated in the 1,000–yard freestyle and

holds the Rutgers pool record in the event.

As the meet will break the first-place tie among the three competing schools, Yale team members say that they are focused on continuing to do what they have been doing, only at the higher intensity called for by the HYP meet.

“Heading into HYP, I think our priority will be to get out mindset in the right place,” Derek Kao ’18 said. “We will get to HYP and be ready to tackle any challenges we may face.”

Hogan added that the team is working to perform at an even higher level than they already are.

According to players, having strong teammates helps

create that higher level of performance.

“Our team dynamic is great this year — we all get along really well and we all are striving towards the same team goal,” Kina Zhou ’17 said.

With only one regular season meet against Brown after the HYP meet, the Elis have a bright outlook for the Ivy League Championships in February.

The women will head to Harvard to begin competition at 6 p.m. tonight, while the men’s team will start competition at Harvard on Saturday at 6 p.m.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

gymnastics was dropped in 1980. Don Tonry remained at Yale, coaching a club team, teaching beginner’s gymnastics and helping out with the women’s team.

Barbara Tonry said that her late husband kept coaching even after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

According to Tonry, he coached and spotted from his scooter due to his love of Yale students and players.

This dedication characterized much of Don Tonry’s career after college gymnastics. In addition to coaching, he wrote and illustrated books about gymnastics, one of which is part of a Sports Illustrated series. He was also a prominent gymnastics judge who scored several high-profile competitions, including the World Championships.

But Tonry made time for smaller meets too. He either judged alongside or coached those who now lead programs at Bridgeport, Southern Connecticut State and Rhode Island College — the three teams who will be attending the Don Tonry Invitational.

“That’s why this weekend, the Don Tonry Bulldog Invitational, is in his memory,” Barbara Tonry said. “He was just a fanatic about the sport and the kids here … You didn’t have to be a great gymnast. He taught people who were beginners and was just as enthusiastic about that as any other person.”

To honor Don Tonry, the gymnastics team has a few special plans for the weekend.

In addition to program alumni, who have been invited back to New Haven for a reception following the meet, friends of the Tonrys will be attending the meet. Don Tonry’s brother, Grossfeld and former student John Deary will also be present, according to Barbara Tonry. Grossfeld will be handing out awards that Deary, who now runs a gymnastics supply company, donated.

“Don was outstanding in all the areas

of his professional involvement as a competitor, coach, teacher, administrator, author, artist and storyteller,” Grossfeld, one of Tonry’s oldest friends, wrote in a message to the News.

Though Tonry was less involved with the women’s team in the later years of his life, he remained a presence in the gym. Traina recalls him visiting practices, both to see his wife and offer advice to the team.

His passion for the sport was evident, according to Traina.

“He was always smiling, always really encouraging and never had a negative thing to say,” Traina said. “If he had a correction, it was what you could do better next time, not what you did wrong. He was such a positive person and really loved the sport. To see someone who loves it that much is really inspiring.”

In the invitational, the team should be aided by the return of Allison Bushman ’18, who sustained a minor concussion before the first meet of the season. According to Traina, she is most likely to compete on bars and floor.

Yale is coming off a short week, as the closing of Payne Whitney Gymnasium due to weather meant the team could only practice three times. Still, Barbara Tonry said, she has confidence in the team.

“I’m hoping [the team] make[s] a good showing,” Tonry said. “They have done very well the first two competitions, but we’ve still made mistakes that we’re trying to overcome. We need to be fighting for every little tenth we can get, because that’s how meets are won, by hundredths of a point. We need to just be clean and hit everything we’re supposed to.”

The Don Tonry Bulldog Invitational begins in Payne Whitney at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

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

Elis travel through New York MEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 dogs have dropped two straight matchups. The road trip could take its toll, as the late 8 p.m. start against the Lions will have Yale’s players arriving in Ithaca in the early morning hours on Saturday before a 6 p.m. tip against the Big Red (9–9, 1–1).

Yale has not swept the Columbia-Cornell road trip since 2003, and the Elis have not opened conference play 3–0 since the 2000–01 campaign.

Forward Justin Sears ’16, who was named Ivy League Player of the Week for the second time this season after a 27-point outing against Brown on Saturday, said the keys to the weekend will primarily come down to focus between the ears rather than the X’s and O’s.

“They’re two road games, and we haven’t played that well at Columbia in the past couple of years, and going up to Cornell is a long trip, like five hours,” Sears said. “Blocking out the distractions, whether it be the fatigue or the fans out there and just focusing on ourselves is the key.”

Delving into the numbers, however, reveals what should be an intriguing matchup of offense versus defense. The Elis average 70 points per game, entering play as the most proficient scoring team in the conference, whereas Columbia and Cornell average 64.6 and 62.9 points per game, respectively.

On the flip side, Columbia and Cornell rank second and third in scoring defense. One only has to look at the scores of the teams’ two battles the past two weekends to see how rarely the ball goes through the basket — Columbia outlasted Cornell in the first meeting 48–45 before falling 57–47 last weekend.

Those two defensive struggles are a far cry from Yale’s open to Ivy play, as the Bulldogs averaged 74.5 points per game in its two victories over Brown.

Both New York foes have capable scorers, however. In fact, Cornell’s Shonn Miller and Columbia’s Maodo Lo are the top two scorers in the Ivy League.

Lo appears to be the most crucial to his team’s success. While Cornell has three players averaging double figures, Lo is the only such player for the Lions, who are without star forward Alex Rosen-

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Yale and Princeton are the only undefeated squads in Ivy League play. berg due to a preseason injury and his subsequent withdrawal for the remainder of the school year.

“We’ll go over all our matchups [in practice], but we do know that he’s a huge part of Columbia’s offense,” Duren said of Lo. “I know a lot of it’s going to be detail on stopping him, containing him and making sure he doesn’t have a big game.”

While the numbers point to a classic confrontation of great offense versus stout defense, Yale still prides itself on its own defensive capabilities as well as its +6.8 rebounding margin, which is more than double the next best Ivy squad.

Duren said that defense and effort are two variables the Bulldogs can focus on this weekend if they wish to build on their quick start.

“You never know if your offense is going to be there on any given night, but what we can control is our defense and how

hard we work,” Duren said.

Such constant grit and defensive effort can take its toll on a team as the conference schedule progresses, but the Elis seem intent on doing all that they can to prevent relinquishing control of the league.

The upcoming slate against the Lions and the Big Red is the first of six consecutive two-game weekends, with all games coming on Fridays and Saturdays.

Despite the grind, Sears said that he relishes the opportunity to make a statement, weekend after weekend, in the Ivy League.

“Each game is a new opportunity to prove to the league that we’re the best team out there,” Sears said.

Tonight’s matchup at Levien Gymnasium will mark the 228th time that Yale and Columbia have played, tied for the oldest continuous series in Division I history.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .

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BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale gymnastics team will host its first home meet on Saturday, but the first annual Don Tonry Invitational has a special meaning to anyone who has been part of the Yale gymnastics program since 1962. A lynchpin of Yale gymnastics, Tonry was a coach, an Olympian and an administrator. He died at the age of 78 in May 2013.

GYMNASTICS “First off, it’s a special weekend because we’re celebrating [coach] Barbara’s husband Don,” captain Morgan Traina ’15 said.

“Doing well will be great for the team, but the meet means a lot to Barbara. Everyone is really excited for it. ” Don Tonry, a New York native, began as a college gymnast at the University of Illinois. In addition to winning the NCAA all-around and team titles in 1956, Tonry competed in the 1960 Olympics in Rome alongside fellow Illinois teammate Abie Grossfeld. Though he started his coaching career at West Point, Tonry came to Yale to take over the gymnastics program in 1962.

When Yale first allowed women to enroll in 1969, Tonry enlisted the help of fellow national champion Barbara Galleher. The two later married. Barbara Tonry began working with the female gymnasts,

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The Elis have converted just seven of their 63 power plays this season, ranking them 11th in the ECAC.

BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After two tough one-goal losses last weekend, the Yale men’s ice hockey team is looking to rebound against two competitors that run the gamut of the ECAC standings.

On Friday night, the Bulldogs face off against last-place Princeton at home before taking on conference leaders and rival Quinnipiac the following evening.

The games kick off a four-game homestand for Yale, its final home contests until

the final regular season games of the year.

“With last weekend, we need to have a positive response moving forward,” captain Tommy Fallen ’15 said. “The team’s focus is to get back to our structure and play with confidence … This weekend is another chance to respond after some adversity.”

As Fallen noted, the upcoming fourgame home stretch is especially crucial for an Eli squad looking to remain in contention for both an ECAC or Ivy championship. Before dropping their last two games against St. Lawrence and Clarkson,

the Bulldogs had won six of their previous seven games. Now, Yale (11–6–2, 6–5–1 ECAC) stands at seventh place in the conference, seven points back from the neighboring Bobcats (15–8–1, 10–2–0).

Yale also currently sits in 16th place in the PairWise rankings, which are used to determine the NCAA Tournament field.

Only 16 teams qualify, meaning that the Bulldogs currently sit squarely on the bubble.

The only previous meeting this seaSEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 10

most of whom were beginners, she said.

“I told [him] I would [help] because the women were not welcome at the very beginning,” Tonry said. “Don took care of them, and I fell in love with them because they were tough. We couldn’t do [much of] anything but we could do it well. We were clean and neat, and we started competing.”

As the program evolved, the women began winning. Though still a club team, they both trained and traveled with the men’s varsity team.

Meanwhile, the men’s team became an Ivy League powerhouse. In the early 1970s, the men won three conference titles and a New England championship and qualified a gymnast to the NCAA Championships.

“We won everything,” Tonry said. “That’s how it all started.

We didn’t get paid anything at the beginning, and eventually, they made it into a paying position, and when they made it full-time, I had to make the choice between teaching school and [Yale].”

Tonry chose Yale, and when women’s gymnastics was officially recognized as a varsity team in 1973, she established the program. She has been the coach ever since, guiding the team to 14 Ivy Classic championships.

However, the program’s success was not enough: Men’s SEE GYMNASTICS PAGE 10

Bulldogs gear up for Harvard-Yale-Princeton

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For the Yale men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams, the annual Harvard– Yale–Princeton meet is the most intense regular season contest of the year. The 2015 iteration — this year hosted at Harvard — will be no different, especially

since every team competing is currently undefeated in conference play.

SWIMMING/DIVING Both of Yale’s teams are currently undefeated and off to their best starts in over seven years.

“HYP is one of the best meets of the year,” Kevin Stang ’16 said.

“The energy in the pool is always crazy.”

The Yale and Princeton women have 4–0 Ivy League records, while the Harvard women are currently at 5–0 in the conference. But only Yale has an undefeated overall record, as the Crimson fell to Duke and the Tigers were defeated by Ohio State.

Elis hit the road for Columbia, Cornell

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER With the first full weekend of Ivy action on tap, the Yale men’s basketball team finds itself perched atop the Ancient Eight with seven teams gunning for them. Two of those clubs will have a chance to dethrone the Elis this weekend, as Yale travels to New York to square off against Columbia and Cornell.

MEN’S BASKETBALL “We’re very much aware that there’s a target on our back, sitting at the top of the league,” point guard Javier Duren ’15 said. “Teams are going to be coming for us — and that’s where we want to be at — but we also have to realize the danger of being in that situation.”

Six of the eight conference teams have already dropped at least one Ivy matchup at this point in the young season, with Princeton — which has only played one league matchup — and Yale (13–6, 2–0 Ivy) the lone squads without a blemish on their conference records.

As the only school to be 2–0 in the Ivy League, the sentiment of a target on their backs was shared by many members of the Bulldog basketball squad.

“Everyone’s out to get us so we need to treat every game like it’s our last,” guard Jack Montague ’16 said. “It’s a 14-game tournament and we can’t afford to drop one here or there against a team that we should beat, so it puts a little bit of pressure on us.”

The pressure begins tonight at Columbia (9–7, 1–1), where the BullSEE MEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 10

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But the men’s teams competing this weekend are also off to prolific starts. Yale’s men’s squad also has won its first four Ivy meets, and though the men of Yale and Harvard are both undefeated in their overall records, Princeton’s men’s team has fallen twice, to Ohio State and North Carolina State.

Last year, the men’s team

was 3–1 in the Ivy League heading into the meet, with its only loss coming from Columbia in the second meet of the season.

In that meet, Yale lost 153–147 after losing the 400-yard freestyle relay by 0.22 seconds.

While the Bulldogs fell to the Crimson and the Tigers, Brian Hogan ’16 was in the spotlight for the entire meet, break-

ing meet and pool records in the 400-yard IM and the 500-yard freestyle. Hogan has been having a standout year in the pool again and has brought in valuable points for the Elis in every meet.

The women had an identical record heading into HYP last SEE SWIMMING/DIVING PAGE 10

Yale hopes to keep streak alive

BY JULIA YAO STAFF REPORTER Currently riding a season-best four-game winning streak, the Yale women’s basketball team will host Columbia and Cornell at home on Friday and Sunday.

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No active player on the team currently averages more than 2.0 assists per game.

The Bulldogs (8–8, 2–0 Ivy) are coming off of a successful start to Ivy play, having defeated Brown both at home 66–49 and once again in Providence 79–69. In its most recent away game in Providence, the team shot a season-high 54.3 percent from the field, and center Emmy Allen ’16 scored a team and career-high 17 points to make the Bulldogs 2–0 in the Ivy League.

“This is our first Ivy weekend with two games, so it is definitely a tougher challenge than we have faced thus far,” guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 said. “We think if we bring our pressure, play together, rebound the ball and push in transition, we will put ourselves in SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 10

NUMBER OF GOALS ALLOWED PER GAME BY THE YALE MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM. Led by goaltender Alex Lyon ’17, the Bulldogs have allowed only 30 goals in 19 games. Their goalsagainst-average is the best in Division I.