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Near named Saybrook master

Almost out of the woods.

February is over, midterms are nearly through and Spring Break is days away. Random, inconvenient snowstorms aside, things are finally looking up here in New Haven.

Godspeed for the final push.

at least he is. Comedy writer (i.e., not the quarterback) Steve Young, best known for his work on the “Late Show with David Letterman,” is the guest of honor at a Trumbull Master’s Tea this afternoon.

The anticipated subject of the talk is, simply, being funny, something we could use a pointer or two on.

Forever & Always. Choosing a college is a big commitment.

Such is the reality that columnist Michelle Singletary hoped to convey in a piece for the Washington Post this weekend that discussed the absolute importance of diligently considering all options before settling upon the school that’ll irreversibly shape one’s life. Unless one manages to transfer.

Welcome to New Haven. On Saturday, a new batch of Yale Tour Guides was selected for both the Admissions Office and Visitor Center. We’d imagine that many people checking out campus are also trying to get a feel for the Elm City, which sells itself more easily than some suggest.

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1989 University officials reveal difficulties in attempts to remove asbestos from various campus facilities.

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serves as the director of undergraduate studies in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, in addition to being the associate curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Near, who teaches the course “Ichthyology,” focuses on fish in his research and has led a Yale Summer Session class on the topic.

“Let’s hear it for fish!” Salovey enthused, drawing cheers from the audience.

SEE SAYBROOK MASTER PAGE 6

SEE ENDOWMENT PAGE 4

Nothing has changed. The

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With Yale’s $23.9 billion endowment at a historic nominal high, the University continues to project strong growth rates, according to the annual report released late last week by the Yale Investments Office.

In the 28-page document, the Investments Office detailed both the guiding principles of its investment strategy and predicted how shifting asset allocations would affect growth in the coming years. Though the $4 billion investment gain during fiscal 2014 — a 20.2 percent return — was announced in September, the full report justified the composition of the University’s current holdings and detailed the investment policy for the longer term.

The report also outlined the University’s continued reliance on the endowment as a source of revenue for funding operations. During fiscal 2014, the endowment was responsible for subsidizing nearly 33 percent of the University’s $3.1 billion income. Over the last decade, spending from the endowment has continued to rise at an annual growth rate of roughly 8 percent, nearly doubling from $502 million to roughly $1 billion.

Chief Investment Officer David Swensen declined to comment, but investment experts said the University’s endowment structure — from its heavy allocation to nontraditional assets, including venture capital, real estate and natural resources, to its increase of foreign equity targets — has allowed Yale to consistently rank in the top tier of institutional investors.

“Alternative assets, by their very nature, tend to be less efficiently priced than tradi-

tried to warn you, O Grand Strategists. But despite the News’ best efforts and those of professor Jeremy Friedman last week, one of Yale’s finest neglected to write his or her name on a proposal for a Grand Strategy summer project.

Let’s hope the student can bounce back from Friedman’s “sternly” worded email to the class on Friday afternoon.

Honestly, this is becoming pathetic.

Picture to burn. Over the weekend, a photo of a cramped Lanman-Wright Hall double made rounds on Reddit, generating significant attention for encapsulating “what $2,122 a month gets you (and a roommate) at Yale.”

Fortunately for OP, Pierson’s rooms have a little more space.

Ivy Noodle’s doors stay closed, with no word as to when they might open.

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goal of every Grand Strategy student is to end up like George H.W. Bush ’48, George W. Bush ’68 or Bill Clinton LAW ’73. The three former United States Presidents recently helped create the Presidential Leadership Scholars program, which will bring together real-world leaders into a realworld version of Friedman’s class. Upon completing it, the program’s attendees will attend a ceremony hosted by the younger Bush and Clinton.

NO MORE NOODLE?

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The next master of Saybrook College, EEB professor Thomas Near, addresses students in the college’s dining hall.

BY EMMA PLATOFF AND RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTERS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor Thomas Near will be the next master of Saybrook College, University President Peter Salovey announced to a crowd of students Friday evening in the college’s dining hall.

Near will succeed Paul Hudak, who will step down at the end of this academic year. Amid applause from the roughly 200 Saybrugians, Salovey

and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway lauded Near for his research on fish and already-proven commitment to the Saybrook community as a fellow of the college. Near’s fiveyear term will start on July 1.

“I, like you, started at Yale as a Saybrugian,” Near said. “There will be time for us to get to know each other. There will be time for us to share our stories with one another.”

Near came to Yale in 2006 after teaching for three years at the University of Tennessee. He currently

Student petition demands CS faculty increase

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER As of 11:30 p.m. last night, 289 Yale students and affiliates had signed a petition calling for the University administration to increase the number of faculty in the Computer Science Department.

The petition comes nearly two weeks after an open letter to the administration penned by computer science graduate student Rasmus Kyng GRD ’17

and signed by 25 out of the 33 current Ph.D. students in the department. The letter, first published in the News, is nearly identical to the latest petition, which was published by computer science major Alex Reinking ’16 on his personal website.

The two documents differ only in their opening sentences.

“We are distraught by the condition of Yale’s Computer Science Department,” the petition reads. “Our department lacks enough faculty to offer

Term bill to increase by 4 percent

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER For the third year in a row, the cost of attending Yale will increase by roughly 4 percent.

During its February meeting, the Yale Corporation approved an increase in the Yale College term bill for the 2015–16 academic year. With this rise, students not on financial aid will pay $62,200 per year compared to the $59,800 undergraduate bill for the 2014–15 academic year. Tuition will rise from $45,800 to $47,600, and the cost of room and board will rise from $14,000 to $14,600.

“The increases in the term bill reflect increases in the costs of the underly-

ing expenses that the term bill pays for,” University President Peter Salovey said. “Our goal is to make Yale accessible to anyone who can get in, and so we work very hard to keep increases in the term bill as modest as we can.”

Because financial aid packages are automatically adjusted to compensate for changes in the term bill, Yale College students on financial aid will not pay any more than they currently do, YaleNews reported. Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi could not be reached for comment.

Sixty-four percent of undergraduates receive some financial assistance SEE TERM BILL PAGE 4

the breadth and depth of classes expected at a modern university, let alone a world-class research institution.”

Reinking said he developed the petition with the help of other undergraduates and received permission from Kyng’s fellow authors to reuse most of their original letter. Reinking added that he hopes the renewed effort to bring attention to the faculty issue will result in an appropriate response from the adminis-

tration, which has yet to make a public statement about the future of the Computer Science Department.

While the administration has not offered a formal, public response to the recent efforts, it has acknowledged the graduate students’ letter.

“We did read the letter from some of the graduate students in Computer Science. It is clear that they care passionately about their department,” said Associate Provost for Science

and Technology Jim Slattery in a Feb. 25 email.

Computer science is now the seventh-most popular undergraduate major at Yale.

The petition and letter, which demand a “radical expansion of the computer science faculty” note that the median faculty size of the top 20 computer science departments in the country is 48. Yale currently has 20 computer science professors — SEE CS PETITION PAGE 4

SUN decries student effort in fin aid

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Nearly 100 students gathered in front of Woodbridge Hall on Friday to protest students’ contributions to their own financial aid packages.

The protest, organized by Students Unite Now, called on the University to eliminate a policy that requires undergraduates on financial aid to contribute to their education through savings or income from a summer job. For freshmen, the total student effort contribution stands at $4,475, while for sophomores, juniors and seniors, it is $6,400.

After sharing their stories for half an hour, the protestors split into five groups and delivered a document containing 1,100 student signatures to all the residential college masters and five top Yale administrators.

During the protest, students chanted against “the student

contribution,” referring to the combined student income contribution performed over the summer and term-time “selfhelp” contribution — Yale’s requirement that students on financial aid contribute to their own education. For freshmen, the self-help requirement is $2,850 per year. For sophomores, juniors and seniors, it is $3,350. The student income contribution is $1,625 and $3,050 for freshmen and upperclassmen, respectively.

“I want to see the student income contribution eliminated,” SUN organizer Avani Mehta ’15 said. “I think that’s the only way we can have a Yale where students choose how they learn and how they work.”

The protesters argued that the required contribution creates a division along socioeconomic lines between Yale students who must secure paid employment as part of their financial aid packages, both

during the academic year and over the summer, and those who do not have such requirements.

The protest began at 12:30 p.m. on Beinecke Plaza, where several students shared their experiences with managing extracurricular activities and schoolwork while also earning enough money to fulfill Yale’s student income contribution requirement.

Yamile Lozano ’17 said she was not aware of Yale’s student income contribution policy before she applied to Yale.

As a first-generation, lowincome and minority student, Lozano said she had hoped to advance both herself and her family during her time at Yale, but the contribution prevented her from becoming financially independent in the way she had hoped to.

“I have to give up my time to make up the contribution,” LozSEE FINANCIAL AID PAGE 6

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t’s a unique right of Yale students living in Ward 1 to elect a peer to represent them on the city’s legislative body, the New Haven Board of Alders.

This fall, we hope Ward 1 residents have a full slate of candidates from whom to choose, including Fish Stark ’17.

Last week, Stark formed an exploratory committee to consider a run. We urge him to follow through with a full-fledged candidacy — and to craft a platform that displays not only a compelling vision for the city but a plan to involve students in that vision.

Stark should run whether or not the incumbent, fellow Democrat Sarah Eidelson ’12, seeks re-election. If Eidelson does throw her hat in the ring for a third time, she needs a serious Democratic opponent, and a current student, who will test her contention that an alumnus can remain engaged with a district comprised mainly of undergraduates. (Threefourths of the residential colleges lie in Ward 1.)

If Eidelson chooses not to run, all the more reason a strong Democratic candidate should come forward.

Eidelson has refused to be forthcoming about her intentions. Two years ago, she waited until May to announce her candidacy for re-election.

Other Ward 1 hopefuls should not be delayed by Eidelson’s equivocations, her non-statement that she is not in “campaign mode,” as she said in a text message to a reporter last week. It's time for campaign mode.

The candidacy of Paul Chandler ’14 in 2013 — and his ability to stir up considerable support for a Republican at deep blue Yale — was aided by his early start.

In urging Stark to run, we do not endorse his wouldbe candidacy. It would be impossible to do so before we know whom he'd be facing, or which issues would top his platform. But we are encouraged by his interest in the role and his demonstrated involvement on campus and in New Haven.

We encourage other candidates, similarly qualified, to come forward.

Stark is a political science major in Jonathan Edwards

College. He comes from a town near Annapolis, Maryland, and his father, Fortney “Pete” Stark Jr., served for many years in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Should he run, Stark would need to prove to voters that his interest in serving on the Board is genuine — and represents a commitment to improving the city, above and beyond a chance to make a political debut.

Stark’s focus seems well-placed. He came to Yale in the flurry of the 2013 mayoral contest and volunteered for Justin Elicker FES '10 SOM '10, who fell to Toni Harp ARC '78 in the race for the city’s highest office. This does mean, however, that if Stark runs, he will be campaigning to join a body that overwhelmingly supported Harp. Stark would need to articulate where his thinking and that of his would-be colleagues diverged, and how this affects his ability to work with them.

After his freshman year, Stark spent the summer here in the city, teaching classes as a President’s Public Service Fellow at Squash Haven, a youth development program. He currently serves as a commissioner on the New Haven Peace Commission.

Perhaps most of all, we are cheered by Stark’s connections on campus. He was membership coordinator for the Yale College Democrats last semester, during the gubernatorial race. It was his job to make freshmen excited about politics, which is perhaps the single most important responsibility of the Ward 1 alder: providing opportunities for Yale students, otherwise cloistered in dining halls and libraries, to engage in a meaningful way with the world beyond the University’s gates.

This can be the legacy of the Ward 1 alder. Opportunities to pass ordinances are fleeting. A greater achievement would be to leverage the energy and intelligence of constituents to serve the city’s needs. To do so would be to prove that public service and towngown collaboration, so often touted at Yale, are not empty promises.

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tudents have spoken loudly and clearly to voice their concerns about Yale’s student Mental Health and Counseling services. My colleagues and I hear their concerns, and we are addressing them. But even as we do, I want to reassure all students that our psychologists, psychiatrists and clinical social workers care deeply about the students they work with, and about helping them thrive — not just academically, but in every way. MH&C strives to be a safe and supportive place.

The concerns that have been raised are varied. Some are logistical: Setting up appointments over the phone, rather than electronically, causes delays; the wait between an initial evaluation and the start of treatment may be long; and getting prescriptions filled quickly is sometimes challenging. Some of the difficulties are in communications: We need to find better ways to follow up on missed appointments, clarify issues about the length of treatment and provide more information about our

services. We have work to do in these areas, and we have already begun doing it. As that work continues, I will continue to communicate about our progress and welcome the community’s continued engagement.

But I have a concern of my own, and it troubles me deeply: a distorted picture of MH&C seems to have emerged based on inaccurate comments that have recently been shared publicly and in the press. I worry that misinformation will cause students to be wary, or even untruthful, about what they say during therapy out of fear of triggering an involuntary medical withdrawal, a rare outcome that has dominated the public conversation about mental health. I worry also about the students who altogether avoid seeking treatment for the same reason.

Anxiety and depression, just to name two of the most common mental health issues students bring to us, are common and treatable. We see several thousand students every year who struggle with their mental health, and the vast

majority of them remain in school.

In fact, in most cases, students do well and stop treatment when they feel ready — often after a few sessions. In a small minority of cases, when they feel overwhelmed even with the support available to them, students do ask for medical withdrawals, voluntarily. And, yes, a tiny number must withdraw involuntarily when the risks to their health reach the level where staying in school is not possible. But this number is very small; the number of involuntary withdrawals in a year is in the low single digits, or zero. These students in almost every case return to graduate from Yale.

Each year, several thousand students are actively and constructively receiving support from MH&C, even as some students have struggled intensely with mental health issues and have been unhappy with their experiences.

We see nearly 20 percent of undergraduates and approximately 25 percent of students in the graduate and professional schools, both in individual sessions and group

therapy. We give them tools to help them handle anxiety, depression, eating disorders, sexual identity and grief — deeply pressing and personal struggles. I stress these numbers and name some of these difficulties in order to reassure students who are now in therapy who may question whether they can confide in their therapists, to reassure students who have avoided meeting with a therapist and to reassure anyone who is wrestling with mental health concerns.

MH&C is a safe, caring and confidential place.

To the students who have voiced their concerns, I say: I hear you, and I am working with my dedicated team of mental health professionals to address these issues. But I also want to reassure all students on a point that may have been lost in recent public discussions about Mental Health and Counseling: We are here to help you succeed. This is the very nature of our work.

PAUL GENECIN is the director of Yale Health. Contact him at paul.genecin@yale.edu .

Challenge the Corporation Y

ou know what I haven’t written about in a while?

The Yale Corporation.

Interested? Maybe? Do you even know what the Corporation is?

Two weeks ago, the News interviewed 35 students; only three “could identify the Corporation as the University’s governing body.” Even if you’ve heard of it, ignorance about the Corporation runs deep. According to a 2014 Yale Politic poll, a third of students think that professors currently serve on the Corporation, and more than 10 percent believe that students are Corporation members. As if.

In reality, the Corporation is the unaccountable, mostly unelected body that makes so many of this University’s major decisions. From bestowing honorary degrees to expanding Yale abroad to choosing the University’s president, the Corporation wields considerable power. Yet the Corporation does not include students, staff or faculty among its ranks. Virtually no students, staff or faculty have any contact whatsoever with the Corporation; Corporation members don’t care what you think.

I am writing today about the near future, about a time when the Corporation will not be able to operate in this manner. I am writing of the coming revolution against the Corporation. This revolution will be bloodless, but it will not be passive. Indeed, it is already in progress.

Obviously, my vocabulary here is a little hyperbolic, but the days

of the Corporation’s disconnected, unelected, secretive dealings are coming to an end.

Allow me to explain.

SCOTT One might STERN expect the CorporaA Stern tion to conPerspective sist primarily of academics and university officials. In reality, though, a majority of Corporation members have virtually no experience working in a university; instead, they are chairpersons, board members, CEOs — utterly unqualified to run a non-profit university. They include the former CEO of J.P. Morgan, the current managing director of Bain Capital and more of that ilk. Men and women who make their living off the backs of poor people.

Here’s the thing to know about the Corporation: Its members act in their own self-interest. Curious about this University going to Singapore, a country that criminalizes homosexuality and ignores freedom of speech? Well, when that decision was made in 2011, three current or former Corporation members “had direct monetary ties to Singapore or its sovereign wealth fund,” in the words of The Politic. In the 1980s, the Corporation repeatedly refused to divest from apartheid-era South Africa. At least four of its mem-

bers had financial ties to that country.

And this brings us to divestment from fossil fuels. On Thursday, Feb. 26, members of Fossil Free Yale met in the snow outside of Woodbridge Hall to protest the Corporation’s lack of transparency. “Who is the Yale Corporation?” one banner read.

The other large banner displayed shadowy silhouettes representing members of the Corporation — inside the figures were phrases such as, “putting profits over people” and “ignoring student voice.”

“This is more than divestment,” FFY spokesman Tristan Glowa ’18 told the News. “It is protesting the way [Corporation members] are divided from the student body.”

As long as those in charge refuse to address issues important to students, FFY coordinator Lex Barlowe ’17 told me, “we have plans to escalate our actions.”

Several current or recently departed members of the Corporation, including Charles Goodyear ’80 and Paul Joskow GRD ’72, have direct financial ties to the fossil fuel industry. This degree of craven self-interest among our decision-makers is unacceptable, and people are starting to realize it.

The very next day, on Friday, Feb. 27, nearly 100 students gathered in front of Woodbridge to protest the student income contribution. This protest, organized

by Students Unite Now, sought to highlight the burdens of forcing students on financial aid to work,

while their wealthier peers can avoid such labor.

This protest did not explicitly address the Corporation, as FFY’s did. But it was an implicit challenge to the decisions of the Corporation, which, in its February meeting, decided to hike up by 4 percent the tuition of a school that has $24 billion endowment.

Decisions made by robber barons — and not by students, those actually affected by the decision — look like this. And students are starting to protest.

That’s the point: Students are starting to protest the Corporation. If the student income contribution increases or the Corporation refuses to move on divestment, more protests are inevitable. I believe that the Yale Corporation’s model — that of an unaccountable, secretive cabal of self-interested CEOs, utterly divorced from the community they claim to serve — is unsustainable.

The history of the American university is a history of democratization — students have claimed rights, won concessions, demanded the creation of new academic disciplines and methods of assessment and torn down discriminatory strictures. Students have always been at the forefront of battles for progress.

The Corporation just can’t go on like this. We won’t let it.

SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST TIM HARKNESS

Why we do Feb Club F

or the last eight years, Yale alumni around the world have organized a month of parties, at least one every night of February. This collection of events is called Feb Club Emeritus, and the parties we throw are as diverse as the people who organize them.

We’ve had huge affairs at the Yale Club of New York, a luau on a beach in Hawaii, intimate dinner parties in Mississippi and even a party in Afghanistan. Feb Club Emeritus began as a joke among friends who, busy with family, careers and adult obligations, yearned for unstructured time to hang out like they did in college. It has turned into an informal and dispersed gathering of Yalies worldwide.

Every year, people ask me why I help put all of this together. Now that February is over it might be time to ask that again: Why did we do that?

The spirit we saw at this year’s parties really answers the question. At over 120 events from Cleveland to Zanzibar, we saw the rekindling of connections, of friendships, of bonds between classmates, among friends, across generations. We are blessed to be part of a remarkably diverse and intellectually alive community.

To dive into that community, to draw from and to contribute to its energy, to have a little bit of fun — that is the point of Feb Club. That is why we do this.

Back in olden times, when I was at Yale, Feb Club was an underground thing and partying was certainly a big part of it. (The Feb Club slogan our senior year was “You can catch up on your sleep the first year you’re dead.” Subtle.)

Some of our alumni events have a bit of this, just a bit. More and more, these parties are becoming chances for people to make “February” friendships and see their Feb Club friends. All over the world, communities are sprouting up, born from these parties, which is what these events are really about. It has ceased being about the party; it’s about the fun and friendships, now.

If I could go back to speak with the 20-something me, I would stress this part — the friendship part — of the Yale experience.

Have a beer or two, dance with that classmate you’ve had your eye on (and don’t wait nine years to do it, like I did with my wife) and by all means have a good time.

You should absolutely stay out late with your friends and classmates

hanging out and talking because they are going to live amazing lives. Do not hang out with them for connections, in a how-can-Iget-ahead way, though. Hang out with them because their experiences will enrich yours. Their worldviews will challenge yours.

They will dare to do things that will give you courage to try things you would not have otherwise done. They will show courage in the face of adversity, which will give you strength when your time comes (and it will). They will be people who live life with purpose, and they can help you find yours if you lose your way. They will be people with whom you will really enjoy sharing life’s joys.

A few weeks ago, in a Brooklyn distillery owned by a Yalie, I found myself at a Feb Club event, locked arm-in-arm with Yalies from three different decades singing “Bright College Years.” (This is becoming a “thing” at lots of the events, apparently.) The words didn’t mean much to me 30 years ago. But now I know that seasons do come and go, the blue of sunny skies does get clouded sometimes and memories most definitely have a haze. I also have learned that time and change do not break

the friendships formed at Yale; they strengthen them. The people singing with me knew this, too.

As we sang (thankfully guided by men and women who were in singing groups), I realized that through our rituals of winterinduced camaraderie, we have found a new way to find our people, our tribe — people with shared experiences, common values of intellectual exploration and an adventurous, sometimes mischievous, outlook. We find one another not through anything formal, but through community, a community that is defined simply by showing up.

As we leave February behind, we turn back to our lives. Throughout the year, we hope to run into our Yale friends at other alumni events: reunions, the Yale Day of Service and the like. But, even if we don’t, we know that February is less than a year away, and wherever we may be and whatever we might be doing, we will be able to hang out with a group of Yalies.

That is, after all, why we do Feb Club every year.

TIM HARKNESS is a 1989 graduate of Morse College. Contact him at timothy.harkness@freshfields.com .

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“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, FEB. 20

A previous version of the WEEKEND article “A Tough Pill to Swallow” misstated the class year of Robert Krause YSN ’98.

FRIDAY, FEB. 27

A previous version of the column “Missing from our Bluebook” incorrectly stated that a 1977 independent study represented Yale’s first course in Asian American Studies. In fact, an earlier course was offered in 1970.

Committees to examine Yale-NUS curriculum

BY SPANDANA BHATTACHARYA AND YONATAN GAZIT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND SPECIAL TO THE NEWS One of Yale-NUS’s most distinctive features, and a defining aspect of the academic experience at the new liberal arts college in Singapore, might soon see major changes.

Now in its fourth semester, Yale-NUS College’s Common Curriculum will undergo extensive review this year, within Singapore and beyond. Two committees will do the bulk of the work.

The Self-Study Committee, composed of Yale-NUS faculty, will consolidate feedback from faculty and students about the curriculum and present potential revisions by September 2015, according to Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis. Thereafter, a visiting committee will review the report and send final recommendations to the Yale-NUS Governing Board for approval in December 2015.

I think it’s fair to say that we’re not going in looking for revolutionary changes.

BRYAN GARSTEN Humanities professor, Yale University The visiting committee is made up of four individuals from Yale University, four from the National University of Singapore and two from Yale-NUS. According to Lewis, three of the four Yale representatives will be psychology professor Marvin Chun, political science and humanities professor Bryan Garsten and ecology professor David Skelly.

Representatives from NUS, as well as the fourth from Yale, have yet to be finalized. The committee will also include Steven Bernasek, science divisional director at Yale-NUS, and it would be chaired by Tan Tai Yong, executive vice-president for academic affairs at Yale-NUS. “We wanted representatives from a large range of disciplines, who are understanding of what we are trying to do [in the Common Curriculum] and [are] of good stature in their fields,” Lewis said.

The members of the visiting committee were chosen by Lewis in consultation with Tan and leadership at Yale, NUS and Yale-NUS. Every aspect of the Common Curriculum might be subject to review. Currently, it includes 12 required courses — ranging from “Comparative Social Institutions” to “Scientific Inquiry” — representing 38 percent of a student’s total coursework. The requirements include sciences, humanities and social sciences.

Science majors are required to take eight common curriculum courses, while non-science majors take seven in their freshmen year. All students are

required to take three common curriculum courses in their sophomore year and two any time in their final two years.

Lewis said discussion about the number of courses in the Common Curriculum is “on the table.” He said student voices will help guide consideration of this issue, which is at the forefront of campus discussion.

The committee overseeing the development of the Common Curriculum had been aware of the concerns around fulfilling major requirements with limited elective slots, especially for science majors, said Garsten, who chaired the committee. Yet they ultimately felt that the critical thinking skills that the Common Curriculum imparts would ground students no matter what they choose to pursue.

Students i n te r v i e we d expressed concerns about the science component of the Common Curriculum in particular — and expressed a desire for sweeping changes.

While the idea for the science component is good, said Jacob Schneidewind YNUS ’18, its execution could be improved.

He pointed out that “Scientific Inquiry,” a course all first-year students take in their first semester, did not prepare students adequately for the science track in the second semester.

“Especially given … that [students’] backgrounds are so diverse — we’re from 40 different countries — you cannot expect that everyone received the same mathematics background, even if everyone took a calculus class,” he said.

Michael James Anthony YNUS ’17 said the arts, humanities and social sciences components work better than the requirements in the sciences.

In addition to looking at the balance between the Common Curriculum and requirements in the majors, Garsten said the Visiting Committee will also be exploring broader questions: weaknesses in curricular matters as a whole and whether the goals of the Common Curriculum are being realized.

Yet the magnitude of changes possible under the review remains to be seen. Garsten said much depends on what the Visiting Committee finds in the process.

“I think it’s fair to say that we’re not going in looking for revolutionary changes,” he said.

Still, Charles Bailyn, dean of the faculty at Yale-NUS, said it would not surprise him if structural change in the sciences were recommended.

Changes approved at the end of the review process will take effect in the 2016–17 academic year.

Whitehouse calls for prison reform

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER As prison reform movements attract attention across the country, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse ’78 came to campus to discuss the current state of prison reform at the federal level.

The Yale College Democrats and the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project co-hosted the discussion, which provided students with a glimpse into federal decision making on prison reform issues, including those surrounding the recidivism rates and the expenses of maintaining prisons, for example. Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, has worked with an array of Republican and Democratic legislators alike to push for a reduction in the national prison population as part of his broader effort to reform existing policies.

Last month, Whitehouse and Sen. John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, introduced a bill based on reforms conducted in their home states, seeking to save taxpayer money by reducing recidivism rates — the rate at which former convicts reenter the prison population after their initial release — and decreasing the size of the federal prison population as a

result. Whitehouse said that, should the bill pass the committee stage, he plans to consolidate it with other legislation currently in the Senate, including a bill proposed by Sen. Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky.

“One way you can reduce your prison costs is to reduce recidivism, and one way you can reduce recidivism is how you prepare people for release,” Whitehouse said at the event.

He also said prison reform has rare bipartisan appeal: While fiscally conservative Republicans can advocate for prison reform as a means of cutting spending while Democrats can support it as a socially conscious measure, he noted.

Few other causes can achieve such overlapping consensus on the national stage, Whitehouse said.

“If you think this is some wacky liberal idea, look at the Koch brothers who are supporting it; look at the evangelicals who are supporting it,” he said, adding that groups ranging from religious organizations to sheriff’s associations — whose presence in the law enforcement community makes their backing particularly crucial — have been receptive to his and Cornyn’s bill.

Whitehouse also expressed hope that the new Republican

majority in the Senate will help the prison reform’s passage because of the increased pressure that the party faces to pass laws as a result.

Before becoming a senator, Whitehouse served as the United States Attorney for Rhode Island. This experience as a member of the criminal justice system, he said, endowed him with a valuable perspective on prison reform, particularly on the question of mandatory sentencing guidelines in the United States — a system that he criticized at the event.

If you think this is some wacky liberal idea, look at the Koch brothers who are supporting it.

SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE ’78 Democrat from Rhode Island “As a prosecutor, you become more and more sensitive to some of the flaws in the system — from the problem of actual innocence to the potential for abuse of charging decisions in order to buy a plea,” he said.

“Having used that power, I’ve

become keenly aware of how it can be abused as well — and there are very few checks on its abuse.”

Prison reform, however, transcends policy related to recidivism. Jacob Wasserman ’16, the Dems’ legislative coordinator, noted that many states have had their capital punishment statutes challenged in courts — in fact, some states have eradicated execution entirely. Whitehouse agreed that national sentiment is shifting away from maintaining capital punishment, citing numerous cases in which executed prisoners were eventually exonerated.

The Dems are not currently active in pushing for federal prison reform — Julia Rosenheim ’18, the Dems’ Juvenile Justice coordinator, said the organization’s work relates only to the state level. Still, Wasserman said, the group continues to advocate for a state bill that would eliminate mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles, thereby bringing Connecticut in line with relevant Supreme Court decisions, such as the 2012 case Miller v.

Alabama.

Contact NOAH DAPONTESMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

Malloy outlines Union Station parking plan

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER Gov. Dannel Malloy met with city officials at a roundtable discussion on Thursday to outline his plans for the construction of a new parking garage at Union Station.

Constructing the garage is part of Malloy’s plan to improve mass transit throughout Connecticut, announced as part of his budget address on Feb. 19.

Although his transportation proposal for the state will take 30 years to complete, the Union Station garage is a top priority that will be included in the first five-year ramp up of the plan, Malloy announced in his budget address.

Union Station is the 10th most active train station in the country, according to Director of Transportation for the City of New Haven Doug Hausladen ’04, but parking has become a barrier to many riders. At last week’s meeting, Malloy pre-

sented his plan for the garage, which will add roughly 1,000 new parking spaces to the station.

“There’s been a big need for a long while of additional parking spaces,” said Hausladen, who attended the meeting. “It gets to full capacity every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.”

He added that riders decide not to take the train because they cannot access the station or do not have a secure place to park.

Although the city has been working for nearly a decade to get the state government to fund another garage, they had been unsuccessful until now, Hausladen said. Because Union Station is a state-owned facility on state property, all funding for the project comes from the state.

City officials are excited that the governor has chosen New Haven as a focal point for the railroad part of his transportation initiative.

“We know it’s part of a comprehensive statewide transportation plan that Malloy envisions, and so the mayor is very pleased that New Haven figures prominently in that statewide plan,” City Hall Spokesman Laurence Grotheer said.

Hausladen added that the garage would encourage more residents to take trains, and decrease congestion in state roads such as Interstate 95. At Thursday’s meeting, Malloy said the average person in the state spends 40 hours stuck in traffic congestion per year, the New Haven Independent reported. This loss in working hours costs the state roughly $4.2 billion dollars, Malloy said.

“We need more transportation options for New Haven to position itself as a key link to the entire Northeast corridor,” Hausladen said. “With added parking, we could be the eighth or even sixth [most active train station in the country].”

At the meeting, officials also discussed the possibility of building a bus depot at the station. Since the parking garage will be built on the top level of the lot, the ground floor would be free for construction.

A bus depot would provide a centralized location where riders can catch buses on any route without having to walk to different stops, Grotheer said.

However, it is unclear if the bus depot will be included in the final design for the garage.

The state government is in charge of designing the project, but Hausladen is hopeful that the city will have some input.

Tom Maziarz, bureau chief for policy and planning at the state Department of Transportation, told the New Haven Register that designing for the parking garage will begin in fiscal year 2016.

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

David Chappell and Scott Currie contributed reporting.

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“I began to think, the endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that’s unfair.” JANE ALEXANDER AMERICAN ACTRESS

Report justifies endowment’s asset allocation tional marketable securities, providing an opportunity to exploit market inefficiencies through active management,” the report stated. “The Endowment’s long time horizon is well suited to exploit illiquid, less efficient markets such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts, oil and gas, timber and real estate.”

The report stated that the endowment’s target mix of assets projects an inflation-adjusted long-term growth rate of 6.3 percent with a risk level of 15 percent. Last year, Yale’s target mix of assets under management produced a portfolio expected to grow at 6.3 percent with risk of 14.8 percent. Yale’s equity risk premium — the excess return that equities provide over a riskfree rate — has been around six percent for more than a decade.

To many investors, the goal is to attain that kind of long-term

equity risk premium without the volatility of investing in a pure equity portfolio.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology finance professor Andrew Lo ’80 said Yale’s longterm horizon for investments allows the University to employ tactics that are not easily replicated for individual investors.

“Yale is making full use of their endowment status because they are really investing for all the future generations of faculty, staff and students,” Lo said.

“So that gives them an advantage that many shorter term investors don’t have when they look at all the potential opportunities over the course of say a 10 or 20 year horizon.”

One of the most notable shifts in the endowment structure during fiscal 2014 was its increase in foreign equity from 11 to 13 percent of Yale’s portfolio, a rise that was offset by a two percentage point decrease in real estate tar-

gets, the report stated. However, Yale’s investment in the foreign market remains well below the average endowment allocation to this asset class among large endowments. According to the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments — the most comprehensive annual report on higher education endowments — large endowments, on average, have 18 percent in foreign equity.

According to the report, this type of foreign equity — which includes 5 percent in foreign developed markets, 3 percent in emerging markets and 5 percent to “opportunistic foreign positions” in China, India and Brazil — allows the University’s endowment to become more diversified and earn strong returns through active management.

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Reinking’s petition website allows anyone with a Yale NetID to securely submit their signature. Reinking said he thought it was important to open up the petition, not just to computer science majors, but to all Yale students.

Computer science major Daniel Leibovic ’17, who signed the petition, said he chose to sign the petition because he is upset by how “critically overlooked” the Computer Science Department remains, given the discipline’s importance to the modern world.

“I feel very strongly that … the University as a whole will do a lot better in the long run if it invests in one of the fields that is producing the most famous, wealthy and influential entrepreneurs that can push Yale’s name into the future and still provide it with a more reliable treasury,” Leibovic said.

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Lo said Yale’s large investment in the private equity market is part of a strategy pioneered under Swensen’s leadership and has led peer institutions to emulate Yale’s strategy to varying degrees of success.

“Yale was certainly among the first to get into private equity in a big way, so the Investments Office has established a long track record of these kinds of investments,” he said. “So I think they are following their nose to see where the best opportunities are, and it happens to be in many case to be in private equity markets.”

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“There are very few opportunities in the fixed income space because ... if you think interest rates will rise in the future — which is possible that it might with quantitative easing ending — longer-term bonds are a poor investment and shorter term bonds have smaller yield,” Ibbotson said. “You don’t get much yield for going out there [in the bond market], if interest rates rise those prices will drop.”

Instead, it appears the University will continue its large-scale investments in the field of private equity, such as investments in venture capital and leveraged buyout partnerships. Not only is Yale’s 33 percent allocation to private equity the largest among its eight assets classes, but it is

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Although Yale increased its holdings in foreign equities, Lo acknowledged that the University’s investment strategy is distinguished by its heavy asset allocation towards other alternative assets.

The increased investment in foreign equities is part of a larger trend of Yale’s endowment shifting away from fixed income classes, such as bonds, and targeting 95 percent of the funds for investments in assets expected to produce equity-like returns, which include domestic securities, absolute return strategies, real estate, natural resources and private equity.

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one point last night, the petition received one signature roughly every minute for an hour.

Computer Science Director of Undergraduate Studies James Aspnes said in a Sunday night email that he was not surprised by the undergraduates’ support of the graduate students’ sentiments. He agreed that the Yale Computer Science Department is in a difficult position after 25 years of no growth. But Aspnes added that he thinks the University administration is committed to finding a solution to the faculty problem.

“Universities are slow-moving institutions, so in the absence of a sudden large donation like the one at Harvard, I don’t expect to see the kind of immediate, rapid increase in the CS faculty that this petition calls for, but the input from the undergraduates help demonstrate the urgency of doing something,” Aspnes said.

In an email response to Jérémie Koenig GRD ’18, one of the students who signed the letter, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler wrote that she and other administrators shared the graduate students’ view that Yale needs a “world-class computer

science department in order to fulfill its core mission.”

Koenig said he felt optimistic after Gendler and Yale computer science professors hinted that the administration will address the issue in the foreseeable future.

But computer science professor Brian Scassellati said he was unaware of any current activity among administrators to change the situation in the Computer Science Department.

“Yale needs a substantially bigger computer science department if it is to maintain its status as an elite university in the 21st century” Computer Science Department chairman Joan Feigenbaum said in a Sunday night email. She added that in the past few months she has had constructive conversations with high-level administrators and expects to see change soon.

Computer science major Stylianos Rousoglou ’18, who shared the petition on several Yale community Facebook groups’ pages last night, said he wants administrators to take meaningful action after reading the student petition.

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

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Yale students and affiliates have signed a petition for the administration to increase the size of the CS Department.

Term bill rises by 4 percent for third year TERM BILLS FROM PAGE 1 during their time at Yale, with the average need-based scholarship for 2013–14 at $41,250. As part of their financial aid packages, students on financial aid must contribute between $4,475 and $6,400 per year from summer earnings and parttime jobs on campus held during the term.

Salovey said the 4 percent increase is a rough approximation based off of the Higher Education Price Index, which tracks the main cost drivers in higher education.

These expenses include costs of maintaining buildings, utilities for those spaces and labor costs, among others, Salovey said, adding that it is normal to see inflation in such commodities each year. The HEPI is compiled by the Commonfund Institute, which provides long-term investors with investment information and professional development programs.

According to the Commonfund Institute’s website, forecasts for the 2015 HEPI have not been posted because of severe winter weather. However, the HEPI for the 2014 fiscal year stood at 3 percent. These numbers were also reflected in two separate press releases from the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, which demonstrated that tuition at private colleges grew by 3.9 percent for 2012–13 and 3.6 percent for 2013–14.

Mark Kantrowitz, senior vice president and publisher of Edvisors.com, said steadily increasing tuition for universities like Yale is not an immediate concern given their large applicant pools and extremely selective acceptance rates. However, Kantrowitz said one of Yale’s reasonable concerns would be about eventually pricing themselves out of the student populations they are trying to attract.

“Right now, $60,000 a year is ridiculously high and they’re giving out a lot of financial aid, but there’s still enough demand from wealthy individuals,” Kantrowitz said. “If a school wants to have a diverse student population, raising tuition again and again is going to cause problems with that.”

Kantrowitz said there are ways colleges and universities can make tuition rates rise slower than inflation rates, but only at the

cost of decreasing enrollment or cutting back the number of faculty positions, for example.

Rudy Fichtenbaum, president of the American Association of University Professors and professor of economics at Wright State University, said these kinds of tuition increases are only sustainable “as long as the top one percent keep having kids,” but that a lack of socioeconomic diversity among the study body would ultimately change the character of an institution.

“American higher education has always been somewhat of a kind of stratified system with the really private elites at the top, followed by several public elite institutions like Michigan and Berkeley,” Fichtenbaum said. “I think the gutting of public spending for higher education has meant that the really top-notch public institutions, who to some degree were able to compete for faculty and to some degree for students, increasingly will not be able to do that.”

Richard Vedder, professor of economics at Ohio University, said Yale may face less price resistance in the long term because of its esteemed reputation.

Four students interviewed said that while they understood why the rise could be necessary, they still think there are negative impacts.

Karl Notturno ’17 said that while he did not doubt the 4 percent increase was justified to keep up with inflation, the positive performance of Yale’s endowment suggests charging students more may not be the best way to deal with the rising costs of higher education.

Matthew Stock ’18 said that while he understood the tuition increase was necessary in order to keep Yale running, he is wary of Yale losing its appearance as a financially accessible school.

“I’d say that college tuition is expensive enough as it is, and it seems to go against Yale’s philosophy of accessibility and affordability that they are so intent on raising tuition,” Stock said.

The estimated financial aid budget for Yale College is $119 million.

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

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“The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.” CHICK COREA AMERICAN JAZZ AND FUSION PIANIST

Murphy criticizes U.S. response in the Middle East

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Sen. Chris Murphy attended a Yale Political Union discussion Friday afternoon on the deployment of U.S. ground troops in the Middle East.

BY ANDI WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The deployment of United States ground troops in the fight against terrorism in the Middle East is wrong, Sen. Chris Murphy said in a talk Friday afternoon.

Attended by roughly 150 students and faculty and sponsored by the Yale Political Union, Murphy instead called for a “winning strategy” that puts more weight on non-military intervention and homeland security. Murphy specifically referenced the threat that the Islamic State poses to regional stability in the Middle East and U.S. national security, and called the “evil” group to be completely eliminated. But while Murphy said the U.S. must

take a leadership position in the war against IS, he warned against the deployment of U.S. ground troops.

Murphy first grieved the death of Kayla Mueller, an American journalist who was killed while an IS hostage, adding that he was “as angry as every American” when he saw videos of IS brutally beheading hostages.

“But I kept reminding myself: Fury is not a strategy, and revenge is not security,” he said.

A better foreign policy strategy, Murphy said, would be to employ a tactic that turns local residents into American allies, not enemies. In this sense, nonmilitary solutions are often more effective than military ones, Murphy said. For example, building infrastructure that

the region badly needs and providing food aid are proven and effective methods to win the loyalty of locals, he added. Unfortunately, these essential methods are often undervalued and poorly supported, Murphy said.

But I kept reminding myself: Fury is not a strategy, and revenge is not security.

CHRIS MURPHY U.S. Senator, Connecticut Fund shortages at the World Food Programme caused the

United Nations to suspend aid to 1.7 million Syrian refugees two months ago, he said.

“Our priorities are badly misplaced,” Murphy said. “If we left the refugees hungry, we are turning them to IS for help.”

While Murphy suggested soft power interventions in the Middle East, he also emphasized the importance of robust homeland security. He said he was disappointed that the House failed to pass a three-week extension of funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Later that day, the House passed a oneweek extension to keep the negotiations open. The initial failure of the House to extend funding showed how the proponents of aggressive military actions overseas lacked commitment to

“hardening the nation,” Murphy said.

Still, Murphy was quick to note that military interventions should not be completely ruled out from any foreign policy strategy. Instead, he said it is important that legislators, in granting the president the power of waging war, exercise discretion in utilizing U.S. ground forces.

In the fight against IS, Murphy said the U.S. strategy should be to befriend locals, and non-military methods are effective in doing exactly this.

Besides Murphy, five other members of the YPU debated from both sides of the resolution.

From the Party of the Right, Tyler Carlisle ’15 said that deploying ground troops is the most effective method of peace-

making that we have seen.

“Ground troops make more terrorists?” Carlisle asked.

“Then this logic applies to all military interventions.”

In response, Ong Kar Jin ’17 from the Liberal Party said that by heavily focusing on military actions, the U.S. is losing a war of ideology and soft power. He said the professionalism of the films made by IS is just an example of the terrorist group’s proficiency in winning over hearts and minds.

Before becoming a senator, Murphy represented Connecticut’s 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013.

Contact ANDI WANG at andi.wang@yale.edu .

DPops celebrates 10th anniversary

BY GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTER On Saturday night, the Davenport Pops Orchestra took the stage to wish itself a happy birthday.

DPops performed their 10th anniversary concert this weekend in front of 200 people at the First and Summerfield Church on College Street. Emily Frost ’16, DPops co-president, said that the concert, titled “Happy Birthday DPops,” featured many of the group’s notable arrangements from past seasons, add-

ing that alumni of the group helped select the concert’s repertoire. The program featured arrangements of Toto’s “Africa,” Kanye West’s “All of the Lights” and “Happy Birthday,” among other works.

“The alumni really played a huge part helping us create a party atmosphere at the concert; we even gathered to cut cake with the alumni, after the concert,” Frost said. “It was really exciting for us as orchestra members to have both former members that we’ve played with as well as members who

graduated before our time like the founding member of DPops, Justin Lo, whom a lots of us hadn’t met before.”

DPops conductor Tim Laciano ’15 explained that the group allowed its alumni to vote for pieces to be played at the concert through an online form.

“Skyfall” and “All of the Lights” were selected by DPops alumni from a list of songs the orchestra had played before. Laciano added that the orchestra wanted to surprise the alumni with songs, such as those performed in “The Greatest Hits Medley,”

whose pieces are associated with humorous anecdotes from the orchestra’s history.

The alumni really played a huge part helping us create a party atmosphere at the concert.

EMILY FROST ’16 Co-president, Davenport Pops Orchestra

To c o m m e m o ra te t h e group’s birthday, Max Vinetz ’18 performed an unconventional arrangement of “Happy Birthday.” Laciano noted that Vinetz’s writing his own version of the song follows in the group’s tradition of promoting original student arrangements in its concerts.

The concert was part of a larger reunion weekend for the group’s anniversary that drew 14 of the orchestra’s alumni to the show. As with most DPops concerts, Laciano said, the orchestra employed theatrics,

costumes and other performance elements in order to celebrate the alumni’s return to campus.

“We had everything from a unicyclist to a dragon costume to a large poster of a past head conductor eating an ice cream cone,” said Leigh Vila ’17, DPops principal trombonist and colibrarian.

The DPops orchestra was established in the spring of 2005.

Contact GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

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“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.” FELIX FRANKFURTER FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

Ichthylogy prof to become Saybrook master in July SAYBROOK MASTER FROM PAGE 1 Near has won many research and teaching awards, most recently the Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Golden Anniversary Alumni Award in 2009.

Near’s wife, Allison Near, who practices criminal law in her own New Haven firm, will join her husband as Saybrook’s associate master.

The couple has two daughters, Alice and Rebecca, who will be three and five when they move into the master’s house this summer.

Before introducing Near, Salovey took a moment to acknowledge Hudak’s years of dedicated service.

Hudak, who was diagnosed with leukemia several years ago, announced in December that he would depart at the end of this year due to health concerns. A Yale faculty member since 1982, Hudak told the college that while he had hoped to serve for longer, he no longer feels able to bring Saybrook as much vibrancy and energy as he would like.

Hudak’s wife Cathy Van Dyke SOM ’86 spoke briefly on his behalf. “[Near is] someone I have known for many years and is already a part of the Saybrook community,” Van Dyke said, reading from a statement Hudak wrote.

However, Hudak said he plans to continue his teaching and research in the Computer Science Department, where he worked with his colleagues to design a new major called “Computing and the Arts” — an interdepartmental program designed for students interested in both disciplines.

Both students and administrators lamented Hudak’s premature departure, but said they have high hopes for the future.

“Speaking with [Near] a month ago, there was already a clear recognition of how great this community is, and an awareness of the special kind of intention it deserves,” Holloway said. “I’m convinced you’ve got the right master and associate master to continue the kind of care and attention you’ve

received over the last few years.”

Jordan Coley ’17 said Near appeared eager to introduce himself to his fellow Saybrugians after the announcement Friday evening. Coley added that it did not make a difference to him that the college’s new master was previously a Saybrook fellow since he has had little interaction with them to begin with.

Alec Downie ’16, a student in “Ichthyology,” said Near is an engrossing professor, adding that he always looks forward to Near’s lectures. As an EEB major, Downie has also had the chance to interact with Near many times in his role as DUS. Downie said Near has been a very helpful resource in this capacity and is always enthusiastic — qualities that will make for a great master as well.

Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures William Fleming, who served on the Saybrook search committee, said Near is a great teacher whose warm personality and ability in the classroom transformed a small class on fish biology into a popular lecture.

“It’s wonderful, although of course not always possible, to have a master with existing ties to a college,” Fleming said. “We’re lucky that Professor Near falls into this category.”

Harrison Miller ’16 said that while he does not know Near personally, he has heard from a friend taking his course that he is upbeat and cheerful.

Miller also said he has fond memories of Hudak from his freshman move-in, and that the current master is in his prayers.

Sijia Yang ’16, a student member of the search committee, said Near has already shown himself to be very friendly during his years as Saybrook fellow.

“We don’t feel like he’s the new master, but a friend we’ve already known for a long time,” Yang said.

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Saybrook fellow Thomas Near will take over the role of master when Paul Hudak departs at the end of the year due to health concerns.

1,100 support removing “student effort” from financial aid FINANCIAL AID FROM PAGE 1 ano said. “My talents are being wasted on the contribution.”

Another student, Sarah Swong ’15, spoke about what she described as a lack of economic and cultural diversity in her primary extracurricular, the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Condemning what she called “socioeconomically homogeneous” student organizations, Swong said she would like to see “a Yale

that’s not divided by race and class.”

Students who are currently expected to contribute financially as part of their financial aid packages are less likely to join time-consuming extracurricular activities, Javier Cienfuegos ’15 said.

“It’s impossible to balance extracurriculars, work and school,” Cienfuegos said.

Posters containing the signatures were delivered to University

President Peter Salovey, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan and Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi, residential college masters and other top administrators.

According to Jesus Gutierrez ’16, who spoke at the protest, SUN organizers met in January 2015 with several residential college masters to request that they ask the administration to eliminate the student income contribution.

Tyler Blackmon ’16, a Yale College Council representative and columnist for the News, said that if Provost Benjamin Polak “actually walked out and talked to students, he might see that the two-Yale idea actually exists here.”

The protest comes roughly two months after the YCC presented a report to the Yale administration recommending greater clarity in financial aid letters and a short-term freeze on the stu-

dent income contribution. The YCC report noted an increase in the self-help requirement from $2,600 in the 2009–10 academic year to its current level of $3,350.

“There hasn’t been an articulated justification for why it’s been rising at such a precipitous rate,” YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 said.

Although the figures for student contribution have usually been announced over Spring Break, Herbert said the YCC

told the administration that this practice is not transparent. It would be disappointing if the administration released next year’s expected student contribution figures during Spring Break, Herbert said.

None of the University administrators who received the signatures could be reached for comment.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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Students gathered to protest the student contribution to financial aid in an event organized by Students Unite Now.

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“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” VICTOR HUGO FRENCH AUTHOR

Students and faculty call for Asian American studies

BY STAPHANY HOU STAFF REPORTER Over 100 students and faculty members came together this weekend to discuss why Yale needs to offer more opportunities in Asian American Studies to students.

Students, administrators and faculty from Yale, Harvard, UCLA and other universities came together on Friday and Saturday for the Asian American Studies Conference, jointly hosted by the Asian American Studies Task Force and the Asian American Cultural Center.

The conference drew attention to the rich academic work that has been done in Asian American Studies, spanning history, art, political science, literature and urban studies, among other fields.

“The field of Asian American Studies is integral to academia and necessary not just for interested Asian-Americans but … for all students,” AACC Dean Saveena Dhall said.

In his keynote address that kicked off the conference, UCLA professor Don Nakanishi ’71 described his personal and professional experiences with Asian American Studies.

Nakanishi went on to cite the tremendous growth in AsianAmerican research literature in fields such as history and the social sciences as well as in professional disciplines such as law and public health. He also commended Yale’s role in the development of this field.

To date, however, Mary Lui is the only full-time professor in Asian American Studies at Yale, compared to the nearly 60 tenured Asian American Studies professors at UCLA, Nakanishi said.

“Yale has not devoted sufficient resources to build Asian American Studies,” he said.

After Nakanishi’s speech on Friday morning, attendees listened to three panels on Asian American literature, social science and art.

The panels covered topics such as refugee studies, urban development in New York’s predominantly Chinese neighborhoods and Asian American political participation.

“I was really impressed with how well the faculty members walked us through their complex research in these panels,” Lui said. “My frustration is that Yale’s interest for Asian American Studies is reflected in these broad fields of study, but we just don’t have the resources to teach it.”

Students on the Asian American Studies Task Force interviewed shared Lui’s frustration.

Task force member James Ting ’15 said he realizes that students like him often do not think that Asian American Studies could be of interest to them because of Yale’s lack of course offerings. The conference, Task Force Chair Austin Long ’15 said, is supposed to expose students to these scholars and get students at Yale to understand the nature of this field of study.

AACC member Casey Lee ’17 said that after attending the second panel , he would definitely take classes on the subjects that the panel speakers are researching. Long, who took Lui’s course, “Asian American History, 1800 to Present,” and is now completing an independent study on Asian-American resistance in the 20th century, said he believes that much of what was taught in that class is central to the wider American experience. This area of study is not just a reflection on identity but is an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary field, Long added.

“There is a conflation between

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The Asian American Studies Conference at Yale featured three panels on Asian-American literature, social science and art. ethnic research and studies about myself and my race,” Ting said. “A large part of why the conference is set up to be very professional and academic is to show faculty and administrators that there is a lot of great, objective, solid research in the field of Asian American Studies,” he added.

University of Massachusetts at Boston Professor Loan Dao, who presented on her research in Asian American political par-

ticipation, said it was wonderful to be inspired by another field of work and to think about how her work as a social scientist intersects with other professors’ scholarship.

Dao added that at the conference she witnessed exchanges between panelists, especially during the panel centered on literature, that may not have happened otherwise.

“It is very rare that we [Asian American Studies scholars] have

an intimate space to dialogue, and that’s what is so unique about this conference,” she said.

At the close of the conference, students interviewed said they hope that the event will spark an impetus for change within the administration and faculty on campus. The conference and task force want to continue a conversation about growing this field of study at Yale, LiLi Johnson GRD ’19 said.

“This is a momentous first

step for Yale, and we expect and hope that the conversations and scholarship shared today will help to further develop Asian American Studies and imagine what could be and should be at our Yale,” Dhall said.

Yale’s first Asian American Studies class was offered 45 years ago, during the spring semester of 1970.

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

CT ranks high in school threats

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Three weeks after Connecticut was ranked as the state with the 10th most threats to schools between August and December 2014, Hamden High School evacuated its corridors Friday morning in response to a bomb threat.

Hamden Police Department arrested 18-year-old Dyshawn Silva, who called the police Friday morning to say there was a bomb in the school. The Hamden police did not locate any bombs in the school, and classes resumed Friday afternoon, the HPD reported on their Twitter account on Friday. Silva has been charged with first-degree threatening, second-degree breach of peace and falsely reporting an incident.

Ken Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, directed a study on the number of threats to schools across the country, calling the national rise of violent school threats an “epidemic.”

His report was released on Feb. 9.

“School threats are a fast growing problem,” he said in a press release. “They send fear and panic through a community.”

His reports said school threats have increased by 158 percent since the same survey was conducted in 2013.

He added in an email to the News that the quick spread of communication via social media is presenting school administrators with added challenges in dealing with school threats.

Social media can create widespread anxiety that puts intense pressure on a school’s administration to manage not only the threat but also the communication with students, staff and parents.

Thirty-seven percent of the threats Trump studied were sent electronically, and 28 percent of those communications were sent using social media.

According to Trump’s report, high schools received 70 percent of threats, middle schools received 18 percent and elementary schools received 10 percent.

Yet, despite the smaller percentage of elementary schools that receive threats nationwide, the discussion of school threats in the state of Connecticut is focused around the tragedy that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.

On Feb. 12 — two years and two months after 26 people were killed by a gunman at the elementary school — a task force released a report analyzing the shooting and offering a list of recommendations to legislators.

“The initial, and entirely natural, reaction to a tragedy like the

shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School is to consider steps that would make it virtually impossible for such a violent event to occur at a school ever again,” the report reads.

Dora Schriro, the commissioner of the state Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, told the Connecticut Post that the state is ready to invest in gathering more data on school threats.

As of March 2015, over $43 million of state funding has been allocated to ensuring improved school safety since the events of December 2012. Gov. Dannel Malloy has expanded the School Security Grant Program. Since November 2013, funding has increased to provide reimbursement for school districts purchasing security infrastructure including surveillance cameras, penetration resistant vestibules, ballistic glass, panic alarms and computer-controlled electronic locks.

“It is unfortunate we have to prepare for these situations, but a well-crafted plan is essential if we are to minimize risks to the lives and safety of students, teachers and school staff during times of crisis,” Malloy said in a December 2014 press release.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

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“I eat soup noodles for comfort. In fact noodles of any kind. It’s a food that is very easy to eat; it’s very soothing and comfortable, too.” NOBU MATSUHISA CELEBRITY CHEF

Ivy Noodle may reopen in March

BY JIHAUI HU AND MALINA SIMARD-HALM STAFF REPORTERS Nearly a month after a sign was posted on the door of Ivy Noodle indicating a temporary closure, the restaurant has not officially announced when it will reopen its Elm Street location.

On Feb. 5, a notice on the restaurant’s front door stated that the Elm Street restaurant — which offers Chinese food at low price points — was temporary closed due to personal reasons. More recently, a new sign appeared on the door, directing customers to the restaurant’s Winchester Avenue location, called Ivy Bistro. One employee at that store, who did not provide their name, told the News on Friday that Ivy Noodle will reopen in March. However, no other parties have confirmed that the establishment will reopen this month.

They have not been transparent about the closing at all.

FRED KIM ’18 Frequent Ivy Noodle Customer Employees at surrounding businesses remain unaware of the reasons why Ivy Noodle is still not open.

“I haven’t heard anything about why they’re closed,” Box 63 manager Ed Raffile said. “I’ve asked a bunch of people and no one seems to know.”

Likewise, workers at four other Asian restaurants in downtown New Haven said that they have heard noth-

ing from Ivy Noodle owner Coreen Guo, and are unsure about the restaurant’s future.

Guo could not be reached for comment on Friday.

The property where Ivy Noodle sits, 316 Elm St., is owned by University Properties, but University officials interviewed did not disclose when Ivy Noodle will reopen.

“If Ivy Noodle leaves they will be replaced with a similar operation with similar food and similar price points,” Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander ’65 said in an email last week.

Associate Vice President for New Haven Affairs and Director of University Properties Lauren Zucker said in an email to the News on Friday that Guo will reopen Ivy Noodle once she has resolved whatever personal issue she may have had.

Yale students who frequent Ivy Noodle expressed an interest in seeing Ivy Noodle reopen.

“I do hope that it does return because I used to be a regular; they have not been transparent about the closing at all,” said Fred Kim ’18.

Other students also said that they would like to see Ivy Noodle reopen, saying that it was a great late-night option.

Grace Brody ’16 said given that A-1 Pizza on Broadway closed down over the summer, there would be a shortage of late-night options for students if Ivy Noodle remains closed.

Ivy Noodle opened in 2000.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu and MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .

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Ivy Noodle, which closed nearly a month ago, has not officially announced when it will reopen its Elm Street location.

THE MACMILLAN CENTER

INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK MONDAY, MARCH 2 4:00 p.m. P. Sainath, The Hindu, India, “The Everyday Lives of Everyday People: Jounalism from Below in the Digital Age.” Sponsored by South Asian Studies. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3 12:00 p.m. Susan Stokes, Yale University, “Social Movements and Two Paradoxes of Repression.” Part of the MacMillan Comparative Politics Workshop sponsored by Political Science. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

4:30 p.m. Anna Xiaodong Sun, Kenyon College, “Confucianism in Everyday Life in Contemporary China.” Part of the CEAS China Colloquium sponsored

by East Asian Studies. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

7:00 p.m. Tshering Kinely, Department of Forest and Park Services, Bhutan, “Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Forestry Practices in Bhutan.” Part of the Yale Himalayan Initiative Spring Series sponsored by the MacMillan Center and South Asian Studies. Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 12:00 p.m. Elizabeth R. Wright, University of Georgia, “The Galley Slave’s Backward Glance: Juan Latino’s Epic of the Battle of Lepanto.” Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center. Seminar Room, 230 Prospect Street.

12:00 p.m. Yasmine Farouk, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Middle East Studies and Cairo University, “Domestic Actors and Foreign Policy in Authoritarian Settings: The Cases of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.” Part of the CMES Colloquium sponsored by Middle East Studies. Room A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

4:00 p.m. The War in Ukraine: An Update. Panel discussion with David Cameron, Thomas Graham, and Timothy Snyder, Yale University.

Sponsored by European Studies and European Union Studies. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5 12:30 p.m. Gabrielle Kelly, Fox International Fellow; University of Cape Town, “Welfare, Disability and the State: Deciding Who ‘Deserves’ Social Assistance in South Africa.” Sponsored by the Fox International Fellowship Program. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

1:30 p.m. Abram de Swaan, Amsterdam School of Social Science Research, “The Killing Compartments: The Mentality of Mass Murder.” Part of the Spring Seminar Series: Climate, Atrocities, and Genocide sponsored by Genocide Studies. Room B012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

4:30 p.m. Preeti Chopra, University of Wisconsin, “This is Not a Town Hall.” Part of the Spring Colloquium sponsored by South Asian Studies.

Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

5:15 p.m. Peter Kornicki, University of Cambridge, ´-HOO\ÀVK DQG *LQJHU Medical Books and the Abandonment of Movable Type in the Early Edo Period.” The CEAS McClellan Lecture sponsored by East Asian Studies.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5 & FRIDAY, MARCH 6 La cultura material en las literaturas y culturas iberoamericanas de hoy. Globalization and Literature in Iberoamerican Letters: Material Culture in Iberoamerican Literatures and Cultures Today. A workshop sponsored

by Latin American Studies and the MacMillan Center.

Papers and discussions will be in Spanish. Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street.

For more information or to subscribe to receive weekly events email, please visit www.yale.edu/macmillan.

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“Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most seriou senvironmental issue facing us.”

BILL NYE AMERICAN SCIENCE EDUCATOR

T H E C O L U M B I A D A I LY S P E C TAT O R

THE DARTMOUTH

Over 150 professors plan divestment letter

Greek policy takes strong stance on sex misconduct

BY CATIE EDMONDSON Over 150 Columbia University faculty members, including history professor Eric Foner and political science department chair Page Fortna, in the past week have signed and circulated an open letter to President Bollinger and the board of trustees asking that the University divest from holdings in fossil fuel corporations as soon as practicable.

“In order to exercise leadership in a world that cries out for it, more specifically we ask Columbia University, Barnard College and all affiliated units to agree immediately to freeze any new investments in the 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies, which hold the vast majority of the world’s proven coal, oil and gas reserves; and to divest themselves of all fossil fuel holdings, whether held directly or through private entities, over the course of five years,” the letter states.

The statement follows the appointment of Jeffrey Gordon, the new chair of the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing. Last May, ACSRI voted not to support student activist group Barnard Columbia Divest’s fossil fuel divest proposal.

At Tuesday’s fireside chat, Bollinger said he was not ready to take a position on divesting from either fossil fuels or private prisons, but that he expected ACSRI to have a resolution by the end of the semester.

Todd Gitlin, professor and

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chair of the Ph.D. program at the Journalism School, wrote the letter and has circulated it over the

last week.

“I think it’s fair to say we’ll submit it soon. We’re aware that the issue is cooking in the board of trustees, so we want to check in soon,” Gitlin said.

B a r n a rd a n t h ro p o l o g y department chair Paige West said in an email that the number of staff willing to sign the letter is indicative of “a very thoughtful faculty who understand that the continued use of fossil fuels at the rates we are using them is a death sentence for this amazing planet.”

Professors and researchers across schools and departments have signed the letter, including well-known history professors Eric Foner and Herbert Sloan, English professor Jean Howard, applied physics and applied math professor Adam Sobel, philosophy professor Philip Kitcher and the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Robert Thurman.

Professors who signed the letter said they were motivated by fears stemming from possible ramifications of climate change, and added that they hope that Columbia can be a leader in this regard.

Mary Gordon, the Millicent

C. McIntosh Professor in English and Writing, said she thought of her own grandchildren when she signed the letter.

“Clearly, fossil fuels are a tremendous danger to the wellbeing of the species of the planet, nobody with any sense disagrees with that,” Gordon said. “So then to make a profit off that is really ethically pretty squishy.”

Michael Schudson, a professor at the Journalism School, said that he took some time to consider the issue before signing because he doesn’t often sign petitions, but came to the conclusion that it was too important not to sign.

“The climate change problem clearly has shocking ramifications. From what I can tell, action needs to be taken very quickly,” Schudson said.

Schudson said he hopes Bollinger will answer the letter and update the faculty on his thoughts.

“He’s clearly a man of conscience, and he’s been a fine leader for this institution.

There’s a lot on his plate — there are a hundred matters keeping him up nights, I’m sure, but this is one I’d like him to address with us.”

Shahid Naeem, a professor of ecology and past member of ACSRI, said that he hopes Columbia will divest from fossil fuels because he views Columbia as an international leader at the forefront of progressive thinking. Naaem said he looks to the trustees for a response.

“I feel that the trustees are the ones that actually make these decisions, not Bollinger. … What the president can do, I’m not sure … he might say that as a president who oversees the operations of the University at its largest scale, he might recommend that the trustees consider this, especially given that the letter has a very large number of members,” Naeem said.

Yochanan Kushnir, a Lamont research professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said that he signed the letter because, as a climatologist, he is concerned about climate change.

“I’m concerned about the future, and I want to create some pressure on bodies that endanger the future,” Kushnir said. “In essence, I want a serious discussion about who are the targets about the kind of action the University will take, what should be the message that we are sending out, and eventually to take some actions, to follow these decisions. I hope that this is taken very seriously by the University and by those who are investing in our portfolio.”

Gitlin said that the research Columbia faculty and researchers have been doing on climate change runs contrary to administration investment policies.

“I think this is a matter calling upon the University to step up with its whole moral force to put its weight behind scientific conclusions that its faculty and researchers have settled on,” Gitlin said.

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Class of 1977 starts fund for assault victims

BY CHRISTINA VOSBIKIAN A donation fund launched by members of the class of 1977 this Monday called “Not the Princeton Mom” on the crowdfunding website GoFundMe.com, has raised $5,444 as of Thursday night, exceeding the fund’s original $5,000 goal.

The money will be donated to the University’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education office.

According to an email obtained by The Daily Princetonian, members of the class of 1977 were emailed on Tuesday night about the fund.

The email said the fund’s goal was to express solidarity with victims of sexual assault in the face of what they perceived as offensive remarks by Susan Patton. It also expressed concern that Patton was attempting to speak for the University community.

In December, Patton, who has called herself “the Princeton Mom,” appeared on CNN and discussed date rape.

CNN anchor Carol Costello asked Patton whether she had interacted with a victim of sex-

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ual assault, and Patton said she had.

Costello then asked if she believed the vict i m ’ s

claims.

“I believe she got very drunk and had sex with a man that she regretted the next morning,” Patton said on CNN. “To me, that’s not a crime. That’s not rape. That’s a learning experience that has to do with making choices and taking responsibility for the choices you make.”

Patton, however, said her point was misrepresented in the media.

“I never said that date rape is a learning experience, but that is the headline that was posted in the ‘Prince’ and was picked up by other news media outlets,” she said.

Claims that she is misrepresenting herself as a representative of the University are also inaccurate, she said.

“No thinking person would believe that I speak for the class

or that I speak for the University,” she said. “I love the name ‘the Princeton Mom’ because it combines two things that I love dearly, my alma mater and my children.”

Patton is also president of the alumni class of 1977.

University Trustee Randall Kennedy said Patton’s remarks on CNN were inappropriate.

“I saw her described as ‘the Princeton Mom,’ and the Princeton connection was all over that broadcast,” Kennedy said.

“Frankly, it put Princeton in a bad light … Speaking as an individual is one thing, but then you are speaking in a way in which you associate yourself with your University connection.”

Patton should take more care to individualize her claims, Kennedy said.

“It’s one thing for Patton to say what she wants to say on her own, but I think that she should be more careful about individualizing her statement and stay clear of any sort of association with Princeton that may lead people astray on [the University’s stance on sexual assault],” he said.

Julie List, co-author of a let-

ter published in The Daily Princetonian earlier this month by the class of 1978 said she was excited for the class of 1977 to take its own action.

“SHARE by its very nature, acknowledges that date rape is real, that it exists,” she said. “I think [the members of the class of 1977] were able to debunk the views of this so-called ‘Princeton Mom’ and say, ‘She doesn’t speak for her class.’ Even though [Patton] has appropriated the Princeton name, she doesn’t speak for the class of 1977 …

[The fund] is such a positive action to take.”

SHARE Director Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse deferred comment to Director of Development Communications Ruth Stevens, who did not respond to a request for comment.

The GoFundMe letter was signed by 38 alumni from the class of 1977 as of Thursday night.

Several alumni who signed the letter either did not respond to a request for comment or deferred comment to Mark Nelson, who created the GoFundMe page.

Nelson declined to comment.

BY PARKER RICHARDS The Greek Leadership Council adopted a new, stricter sexual assault policy, GLC moderator Alistair Glover said Wednesday night, that will immediately remove any member of a Greek house from their house upon a finding of responsibility in any sexual misconduct proceedings by the Committee on Standards. The previous policy only removed students from their houses if they were found responsible for such a violation and were then placed on probation for two or more terms.

The new language will be added to the GLC constitution by the end of this term and will go into effect at that time.

If a member of a Greek house is found responsible for sexual misconduct by the COS, Greek Letter Organizations and Societies office director Wes Schaub must notify the president of his or her respective Greek house within 48 hours of receiving the individual’s sanction from the Office of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs, according to the previous GLC sexual misconduct policy, approved Feb. 12, 2013.

Schaub did not respond to a request for comment by press time. Director of Judicial Affairs Leigh Remy declined to comment.

Once the chapter president is notified, the individual found responsible, the Greek house president, Schaub and the Greek house’s advisor would meet to notify the individual of the consequences, the current policy states.

Under the current policy, in the event of probation or suspension of one term, an individual found responsible for sexual assault or misconduct would be subject to social probation, be unable to hold leadership positions in the house or any Greek council, would be barred from living in his or her Greek house and would be required to go through an individual education program.

When an individual received a more severe sanction — that is, a suspension of two or more terms or expulsion — that individual would then be subject to “immediate and permanent removal from his/her chapter.”

In the case of the new policy, any finding of responsibility would result in immediate and permanent removal from the individual’s chapter regardless of the imposed sanction, Glover said.

“I think this is on par with what GLC has been doing for the past two years,” he said. “We are here to ensure that the Greek community remains accountable and a viable organization on campus, and I think making this change is a step in that direction.”

While numerous Greek leaders contacted either declined to comment or did not respond to requests seeking comment, Glover indicated that there was some disagreement over the new policy. He declined to provide a final tally of votes on the policy change amongst GLC members and presidents.

GLC votes are tallied anonymously using an Australian, or secret, ballot, Glover said. The election began last Wednesday, Feb. 18, and a final tally came in on Saturday, Feb. 21.

“There was dialogue regarding the new policy,” Glover said.

“There were concerns regarding submitting to the COS process.

There were individuals who had their reservations and felt that may not be the fairest process.”

Despite those concerns, the policy was approved. Glover said he does not expect any backlash from the Greek community regarding the change.

“We take a strong stance against any sort of sexual violence, and I think that’s a great idea,” he said.

Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity alumni and volunteer corporation president Herb Philpott said he was pleased by the change.

“Sig Ep at Dartmouth and the national fraternity fully support the GLC policy on sexual assault,” he said. “It’s consistent with our fraternity’s cardinal principles — virtue, dili-

gence and brotherly love. Sig Ep has always s t o o d against sexual harassment and assault.”

DARTMOUTH Philpott said Sig Ep has terminated members for other code of conduct violations before, following both internal and external adjudication.

Sig Ep’s Dartmouth chapter voted as a house to approve the policy change, and “were clearly in support of it,” Philpott said.

Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault Chair Tori Nevel said that the SPCSA supports the change.

“One of our recommendations is that student organizations hold themselves and their members accountable and raise their standards, so we really support it,” she said.

The 2014 SPCSA recommendations — released following their second annual symposium on sexual assault at Dartmouth last spring — suggest a policy that bans varsity and club athletes found responsible of sexual misconduct from participating in Dartmouth athletics.

The Greek Proposal, a selection of suggested reforms released in November by leaders in the Greek community to promote Greek-endorsed policies to the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee, contained a similar proposition. The Greek Proposal called for immediate ejection only after a suspension of one or more terms, rather than after any finding of responsibility.

Nevel said the GLC provides an example for other organizations.

It sets the tone for what we expect when you decide to become a member of Dartmouth’s Greek community.

ALISTAIR GLOVER Moderator, Greek Leadership Council Nevel added that there has been misinformation over the change, and that some think that an accusation of sexual misconduct will immediately lead to removal from a Greek house, which is not the case.

The Panhellenic Council expressed support for the change in a statement released to The Dartmouth by vice chair for public relations Jessica Ke. The statement said that Panhell is pleased that the Greek community is taking a stronger stand on issues of sexual assault.

Glover said that he does not anticipate further changes to this part of GLC policy in the near future. The new leadership of individual Greek houses and the GLC, who will take office this spring term, will be primarily responsible for the implementation of the new policy, he said.

“I think it will be up to them to uphold the standards and reevaluate the zero-tolerance policy,” Glover said.

Glover does not anticipate the change having any impact on individuals’ decisions to join or not to join Greek organizations. The policy, when it comes into force, will establish a new expectation for affiliated students at Dartmouth, he said.

“I think it sets the tone for what we expect when you decide to become a member of Dartmouth’s Greek community,” Glover said.

College Sexual Assault Awareness Program Coordinator Amanda Childress declined to comment, citing a lack of familiarity with the policy. Sig Ep fraternity president Eli Derrow and Alpha Theta coeducational fraternity president Cristy Altamirano both declined to comment, and numerous other student leaders did not respond to request for comment.

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TODAY’S FORECAST

Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 38. Wind chill values between 20 and 30.

TOMORROW High of 31, low of 29.

THE DAILY LONDONNETTE BY LEAF ARBUTHNOT

ON CAMPUS MONDAY, MARCH 2 12:00 PM Islands Taking Action: Implementing Innovative Partnerships and Initiatives to Address Climate Change and Sustainable Development. A panel featuring three professionals associated with various small islands will discuss the unique challenges they face when confronting climate change and sustainability issues. Lunch will be provided. Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.), Burke Aud. 4:30 PM Yale Law School presents: Dr. Paul Farmer. The Gruber Program for Global Justice is hosting Dr. Paul Farmer as part of their Distinguished Lecture series. A physician, author and co-founder of Partners in Health, Dr. Farmer is passionate about international access to healthcare and human rights. His lecture is titled “No Health, No Justice: Recent Lessons from West Africa.” Yale Law School (127 Wall St.), Rm 127.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3 4:30 PM CEAS China Colloquium Presents: Confucianism in Everyday Life in Contemporary China. Anna Sun, associate professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Kenyon College, will discuss the ethical and ritual revival of Confucianism in modern day China. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Room 203.

7:00 PM Yale Institute of Sacred Music: ARCHIVE by Arkadi Zaides. Through footage filmed by volunteers of the B’Tselem Camera Project, Arkadi Zaides will guide the audience through an artistic exploration of the Israel/Palestine conflict. A panel discussion will follow the performance. Free and open to the Public. Off Broadway Theater (41 Broadway).

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 5:00 PM A Reading and Public Conversation with Claudia Rankine. Acclaimed poet Claudia Rankine has published three collections of her work, the latest of which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm 101.

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MARK ARCOBELLO ’10 PLAYING AROUND THE LEAGUE Arcobello, a former Yale men’s hockey forward who finished his career with a Yale record for games played (129), has tied an NHL record by playing with four teams this year: Edmonton, Nashville, Pittsburgh and Arizona.

SEAN MCGOWAN DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR According to the New Haven Register, the Yale football team is poised to name Sean McGowan as its new defensive coordinator. McGowan currently serves as the special teams coordinator at Boston College, and he hails from Cheshire, Connecticut.

NCAAM Cornell 57 Harvard 49

“Our guys believed [that they would win], and they went out there and executed.”

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Elis move into first place after home sweep

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s basketball team made the plays it needed to make down the stretch, stringing together key baskets and defensive stops to propel the Bulldogs to a sweep of Princeton and Penn last weekend.

Yale (21–8, 10–2 Ivy) trailed by three at halftime against both Princeton (13– 14, 6–5) and Penn (7–18, 2–9), but the experienced Bulldogs, in their final home weekend of the regular season, came alive in the second half to rally and post wins against two young teams. The victories, coupled with a Harvard loss to Cornell on Friday, set the stage for a crucial Ivy showdown between the Crimson and the Bulldogs this Friday in Cambridge.

“This is a good veteran team,” head coach James Jones said following the team’s 55–50 win against Penn on Saturday night. “[Penn is] playing freshmen and sophomores a lot … The fact that we have these two guys [guard Jack Montague ’16 and guard Javier Duren ’15] that have been through some wars, it helps us down the stretch to have a sense of calmness.”

Jones shared the same sentiment the night before, noting that the team was fortunate to get the 81–60 win against “a very good Princeton team” that has a bright future ahead of it.

The Tigers gave the Elis problems early on, allowing just four different Bulldogs to score in the first half. As has been the case often this season, Duren and forward Justin Sears ’16 carried Yale offensively, notching 21 of the team’s 32 points before intermission, though the Tigers led 35–32.

The Bulldogs also received a boost

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from guard Khaliq Ghani ’16, who scored six points in the first half en route to a career-high 11 points on the night. “[Ghani] was huge for us tonight,” Jones said. “We’ve been searching for a bench wing to come and help us, and Khaliq is a kid that we’ve been trying to work along here. He has great ability, really athletic, can shoot the basketball, and the games that he’s played prior, he’s just seemed a little hesitant. So we talked with him about being aggressive and … for the most part he was tremendous and a big help for our team.”

After coming out of the locker room, Princeton extended its lead to eight. But the Bulldogs remained aggressive on offense and found their way to the freethrow line early and often in the second half. Less than seven minutes into the period, the Elis were in the bonus, and Yale took advantage of its opportunities from the charity stripe to tie the game with 12:09 remaining.

The Bulldogs ended the game on a 30–7 run, keyed by a four-point play from Montague and an emphatic dunk by Sears following a steal by the Plainfield, New Jersey native.

“We locked down defensively,” Sears said. “Coach made us switch into a match-up 23 zone … That confused them, and we started getting stops. We were in the bonus so we just attacked the rim … Princeton got a little loose defensively since they didn’t want to get into foul trouble.”

Sears put all his talents on display against the Tigers, notching an efficient 28 points on 11–15 shooting and 12 rebounds in addition to three steals and two blocks. The team shot a season-high 92.9 percent from the free-throw line SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE B3

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 scored just nine points against Penn, a day after putting up 28 in the win over Princeton.

Yale sails to success

BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After more than three months away from competition, the Yale women’s sailing team finally returned to action this weekend in South Carolina at the Charleston Women’s Interconference Regatta. Despite the lack of practice time, the Bulldogs finished third among 14 teams.

SAILING The delegation for the Elis, ranked second in the country

and tied with Boston University as of last November, consisted of team captain and skipper Marly Isler ’16 and crew Natalya Doris ’17 competing in the A division.

Skipper Casey Klingler ’18 and crew Isabelle Rossi de Leon ’17 represented Yale in the B division.

The regatta was the Elis’ first time sailing since the final competition of the fall season and the first time the Bulldogs had been out on the water as well. Short Beach Cove, Yale’s home practice location, froze completely over this winter and prevented the Bulldogs from practicing in preparation for

Charleston.

“It’s really nice to be able to compete in a regatta after not having sailed for three months and finish in third,” Doris said.

“We were sailing against a lot of teams that had the opportunity to practice before the event, so we were really excited that we did better than a lot of them.”

Isler and Doris finished the two-day competition with 77 points, second among A division boats and two points in front of the eventual regatta champions, SEE SAILING PAGE B3

Yale takes title, buys bye

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER In the final weekend of regular season ECAC play, the Yale Bulldogs accomplished two of their most important goals of the season: locking up the Ivy League title and securing a first round bye for the ECAC tournament. The Elis (17–7–5, 12–6–4 ECAC) completed a two-game stand at Ingalls Rink, drawing 2–2 against Colgate (19–11–4, 11–7–4 ECAC) in the first contest and posting a dominating 4–0 win over Cornell (11–12–6, 9–9–4 ECAC) in the second matchup.

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Yale sailed its way to third place in the Charleston Women’s Interconference Regatta this past weekend.

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“Finishing the regular season with an Ivy League title is rewarding, but also a reminder of the work required to win more championships,” forward John Hayden ’17 said.

“We couldn’t have asked for a better night to honor our seniors [on Saturday against Cornell].”

In the weekend’s first match, against Colgate, the Bulldogs faced a hard-fought physical game replete with glass-shaking hits and wellearned penalties. Going into the night, Yale sat just a point ahead of Colgate in the ECAC standings and needed at least a tie to secure a first round bye in the conference postseason.

With a title and postseason positioning on the line, Yale skated out onto the ice to face one of their most challenging opponents of the season.

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With a tie against Colgate and a 4–0 shutout against Cornell, Yale captured the Ivy League title.

Throughout the first period, neither team seemed capable of breaking through for points as both the Bulldog and Raider defenses took advan-

tage of some sloppy offensive control.

However, as the second SEE M. HOCKEY PAGE B3

THE DIFFERENCE IN POINTS SCORED BY THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM AGAINST PRINCETON IN THE FINAL NINE MINUTES AND 45 SECONDS. The Bulldogs closed out against the Tigers on an impressive 30–7 run.

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“Don’t ever let your memories be bigger than your dreams.”

JIM CRAIG 1980 OLYMPIC HOCKEY GOALTENDER AND GOLD MEDALIST

Elis ride three-game streak LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 Massa, their contribution and ability to compete against the nation’s best in the face-off circle had an impact on the game.

“I think we did great with face-offs,” Scott said. “They had a tough guy [in Massa] and we knew that, but we did a really good job.”

Bryant goalie Waldt, on the other hand, was overwhelmed by the Yale attack. Waldt saved only one of 16 shots on goal before being replaced for the game’s final 10 minutes with the outcome already decided.

Our attack is playing unbelievably… every day, it seems like someone else is playing their best game so far.

MIKE BONACCI ’16 When asked about their success against Waldt, several Elis interviewed credited a combination of in-depth scouting and flawless execution. Multiple players mentioned that the coaches stressed the importance of beating Waldt high with their shots, and the Bulldog attack was able to execute that plan to the tune of 15 goals.

“When we are able to get those shots, we have been capitalizing,” Alessi said. “We got on the board early and often … which propelled us through the game.”

While the Bulldogs were able to triumph once again, they know that the next six days present a stiff challenge, including a midweek road test on short rest at St. John’s and a Saturday home game against in-state rival Fairfield University.

The players, though, appear unfazed by the challenge of playing on short rest.

“I think we should be just fine for the quick turnaround,” Alessi said. “Our coaches are making sure our nutrition is where it needs to be at this point.”

Yale faces St. John’s on Tuesday in Queens.

The game is scheduled for 3 p.m. and will be carried on ESPN3.

Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

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Bryant had a slight edge over Yale on ground balls, grabbing 28 to the Elis’ 27.

Bulldogs lose touch, games W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 absence of our senior point guard [Sarah Halejian ’15] has been difficult,” Gobrecht said. “Never was it harder than this past weekend against the two best teams in the league.”

No Yale player scored in the double digits. Forward Katie Werner ’17 led the Bulldogs with a total of six points on 3–4 shooting. All of these points were scored in the first half of the game.

Despite causing 14 Penn turnovers throughout the game, the Bulldogs were unable to keep the Quakers from taking the lead.

The Quakers shot 44.2 percent on

23–52 shooting. During the first half, this number was even higher, at 47.8 percent on 11–23 shooting.

Penn had two players stand out on offense. Freshman forward Michelle Nwokedi scored a teambest 19 points on 7–9 shooting in addition to her 12 rebounds. Center Sydney Stipanovich scored 12 points on 6–9 shooting, contributing to Penn’s dominance on the court.

Mokri, who stood out in the game against Princeton, played 23 minutes, breaking her season-high set the day before. She recorded two steals and a threepointer as well.

Despite the losses on the road,

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Gobrecht said that the team is looking forward to being at home now and finishing the league season strong.

“The team needs to use these next two games to prove to ourselves and everyone else that we can compete with the best teams in the league,” Mokri said. “When we play to our potential, we are one of the best.”

Yale’s final weekend of action comes next Friday and Saturday, when the Bulldogs play Harvard and Dartmouth at home.

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

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While the Elis were unable to finish the season with a winning record, they achieved a 0.500 record of 15–15–1.

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The Bulldogs were dominated in the paint, as Princeton and Penn outscored them 40–16 and 38–16, respectively.

momentum continued to grow throughout the period, culminating in another goal which brought the score to 2–0 heading into the break.

The Crimson’s lead only increased in the second with another goal that secured a three-point lead for Harvard over the Bulldogs. Despite 24 shots and three power-play opportunities, Yale never managed to find the back of the net, and the game ended in a 3–0 shutout that would end the Elis’ playoff run in just two games.

“We had a lot of scoring chances on Friday that we didn’t capitalize on and in the end that’s what decides a hockey game,” forward Hanna Åström ’16 said. “On Saturday we made a couple

mistakes early in the game which gave them the lead and after that we never really recovered. We all hoped that we would be able to play for a few more weeks, especially for the seniors.”

We had a lot of great leaders on the team, and we accomplished many things that Yale women’s ice hockey hasn’t in the past.

EMILY MONAGHAN ’18 Although the season came to a close with a disappoint-

ing result for the Bulldogs, the team is still proud of their efforts, players said.

“Our motto for the season was ‘redefine tradition’ and I can say that the team did just that,” forward Emily Monaghan ’18 said. “We had a lot of great leaders on the team, and we accomplished many things that Yale women’s ice hockey hasn’t in the past. In the future, I only see the program going up from here, and I know that there are a lot of people that will step up and take the place of our graduating seniors who have helped make the program what it is today.”

The team had five seniors who finished their Yale hockey careers on Saturday.

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

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“Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.”

DALE EARNHARDT SEVEN-TIME WINSTON CUP CHAMPION

Bulldogs finish third in ECAC

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The Bulldogs held Cornell to just 16 shots throughout the entire game on Saturday.

M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 period opened up, so did the scoring. Colgate registered the first point of the night when Mike Borkowski fired a shot past goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 in the third minute. However, Yale responded quickly when John Baiocco ’18 scored off of a Matthew Beattie ’16 assist. With the game tied at one goal apiece, defenseman Rob O’Gara ’17 gave Yale the lead just

13 seconds after Baiocco’s goal.

Following the flurry of scoring, the match devolved into a series of scrums that saw Yale and Colgate players punching and shoving each other to accrue a number of roughing penalties. Brawling finally aside, the match continued locked at 2–1 into the third period.

When the Raiders came out onto the ice after the second intermission, Colgate outplayed Yale, scoring a second time to

equalize and forcing the Bulldogs to scramble to recover. Despite Yale’s reorganization after losing its lead, neither team proved capable of finding a winner, forcing the match into overtime where Yale secured the point it needed to clinch an ECAC tournament bye.

“We need to be able to get the jump on teams moving forward,” Carson Cooper ’16 said after the comeback draw. “It can be costly to let teams get ahead of you.”

Elis sweep after early troubles M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1 and 53.2 percent from the floor to put Princeton away.

On Saturday night, Yale was unable to take control of the game against Penn, a team that the Bulldogs defeated by 27 points the first time around and currently sits in last place in the Ivy League following seven straight losses.

Contrary to pregame predictions, Quaker guards Antonio Woods and Tony Hicks ensured that the Elis would not run away with the game, scoring 19 combined points in the first half to give Penn a 28–25 advantage. Furthermore, turnovers plagued the Elis, who committed eight in the first half.

“Throughout the entire game, Penn had an answer for us when the score was tied,” Jones said. “Every time we had a chance to take the lead, we turned it over or [took] a bad shot. The ball goes the other way, they score, take another lead.”

Unlike the game against Princeton the night before, the Bulldogs continued to trail throughout the second half. Yale was unable to string together a run of more than six consecutive points for the first 16:37 of the second half.

In fact, with under four minutes to play in the game, the Elis trailed by four, 47–43, and had yet to take a lead in the game.

“We talked in the huddle how [with] four minutes to go, there was plenty of time to win the game,” Jones said. “Our guys believed it, and they went out there and executed.”

Yale found its shooting stroke from behind the arc, with Montague starting an 11–0 run to pull the Blue and White to within one with 3:23 to play. He added another three to put the Bulldogs up by

four, 51–47, with 1:23 left on the clock.

Montague finished the night 3–4 from behind the arc, one weekend after he shot just 4–17 from long range.

“You can’t have the past in your head,” Montague said. “You just have to think that the next one is going in. That’s what I’ve been doing for these past three games even though my shot hasn’t been going in. You just have to stick to the game plan on offense, and if you have the open shot, you can’t pass it down.”

Sears, quiet throughout most of the night, sealed the victory for Yale with a key block on a Penn three-point attempt on the very next Penn possession. His three-point play with 33 seconds left gave the Elis their largest lead of the night, at seven, and ensured that the Bulldogs would send the class of 2015 off on a high note on Senior Night.

Duren finished the game with a gamehigh 19 points, including 9–10 shooting from the free-throw line. The Bulldogs finished with their worst assist-to-turnover ratio since January at 0.692.

The victory over Penn marked Yale’s 21st of the season, its most since the 2001–02 campaign, in which the Bulldogs finished 21–11 and tied for the Ivy League championship. It is the sixth time in school history that Yale has totaled 20 wins or more.

Yale will have a chance to improve on its record — and potentially clinch an NCAA Tournament bid for the first time in over half a century — next weekend, when the Bulldogs travel to Cambridge and Hanover to take on Harvard and Dartmouth in the final weekend of the regular season.

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

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Point guard Javier Duren ’15 poured in a team-high 19 points on Senior Night against Penn.

In their final game, the Elis, sitting a point out of the first place in the Ivy League, crowned themselves Ivy League champions on the back of a 4–0 shutout win over the Big Red. Though goals from Mike Doherty ’17, Chris Izmirlian ’17, Trent Ruffalo ’15 and Cooper ultimately secured the win for Yale, defensive play was the story of the night. The Bulldogs’ muchacclaimed unit allowed only 16 shots throughout the match, its

best effort all season, while net minder Lyon recorded his ninth career shutout, a Yale best, and his sixth of the season, which ties him for the national lead. Needing a win to secure an Ivy League title, Yale delivered a clutch performance, which earned the Bulldogs a championship and the No. 3 seed in the ECAC. “Overall it was a solid weekend from us,” Doherty said. “Friday we thought we could have

been sharper against Colgate, but we carried over the positives from that game into Saturday, knowing that we had an Ivy title on the line.

Our goal is to win championships, and this is a great first step.”

Yale’s next game will come in the ECAC tournament when they host a quarterfinals match on the weekend of March 13.

Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

Yale sails to third SAILING FROM PAGE B1 Georgetown. The A squad took on 13 other teams in flying juniors — a type of sailing dinghy used in U.S. college and high school programs — while battling winds upwards of 12 knots at the J. Stewart Walker Sailing complex.

Isler noted that the team was not too concerned with the results considering the Yale sailors’ lack of practice. She added that the results showed promise.

“Since the team has been on our off-season since Thanksgiving break, it was important this weekend to not be too hard on ourselves as we got back into the boats,” Isler said. “We came into this event at Charleston with absolutely no practice, so our inboat communication needed a lot of work. However, I think our scores show that we are excited to keep improving throughout this season.”

Meanwhile, Klingler and Rossi de Leon ended the competition with 71 points, slightly behind Ivy rival Harvard but ahead of Vermont. The team as a whole finished in third place with 148 points, just four behind the aforementioned Catamounts and besting Harvard by nine points.

Rossi de Leon noted that although things were a little bit difficult at first, the women managed to get back into the swing of things by the end of the competition.

“Our boat handling was pretty atrocious compared to the end of last season, but that’s definitely forgivable … Casey and I haven’t sailed together, or at all, in months,” Rossi de Leon said.

“After a few races, our sailing tactics were back. We started hitting the shifts properly, and it felt natural to be back on the water.

Though we were over at the start in one race, our starts were generally pretty good as well.”

The Elis will begin training this week at Yale for the spring season before they head off to St. Mary’s College of Maryland for a week of practice over spring break.

The coed team will head to Charleston as well next weekend to compete at the Bob Bavier team race. The next event for the women’s team will take place on March 14 and 15 at the Navy Women’s Interconference.

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

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Yale’s A team of Marly Isler ’16 and Natalya Doris ’17 finished second among all A division boats.

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“I think I can always shoot threes. I think I can shoot threes when I’m 60.”

DIRK NOWITZKI 13-TIME ALL-STAR AND 2007 NBA MVP

Bulldogs fall to tough competition

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s basketball team returns home this weekend having lost two more games on the road against Princeton and Penn, largely due to an inability to make shots.

On Friday night, the Elis (12– 14, 6–6 Ivy) matched up against the undefeated Tigers (27–0, 11–0). Although Yale put up a fight in its first game against Princeton two weeks ago, losing by just six points — Princeton’s narrowest victory all season — this time the Bulldogs did not perform as well, falling 67–49.

Yale faced Penn (18–7, 9–2) the following day, but after shooting its second-lowest percentage all season at 28.0 percent, the Bulldogs were again unable to secure a win, with the game ending 59–33 in favor of the Quakers.

“We knew that February would be a very difficult stretch for our team with six of eight games on the road and the Ivy League shaping up to be the best it has ever been, top to bottom,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said. “We are glad it’s March.”

The Bulldogs struggled on Friday night to find a good offensive rhythm against the Tigers.

Although guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 matched her career high of 18 points, shooting 6–9 from the field, the rest of the team did not follow through, shooting 11–45 for a total of 24 percent.

By halftime, Princeton had already established a 16-point lead over the Bulldogs. Princeton was shooting at a 48.1 percent clip, while the Bulldogs were

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struggling to create effective ball movement, totaling only two assists in the first 20 minutes.

Shortly after coming back for the second half, Princeton increased its lead to 27, with an 11–0 run against the Elis in the first four minutes. With 13 minutes remaining, that lead had increased to 32, its high-water mark during the game.

However, the Bulldogs drew closer in the final minutes of the game. Over the last 6:58, the Bulldogs led a 17–7 run to decrease the Tigers’ margin of victory to 18.

The game, however, was not all negative for the Yale faithful. Guard Clara Mokri ’18 scored a career-high 13 points on 5–11 shooting. She also set new personal bests in points, field goals, three-pointers, steals and minutes played during the contest.

“It was just fun getting a chance to play while also having an impact on the game,” Mokri said. “Personal bests just came as a result of knowing I had nothing to lose.”

With the loss to Princeton, the Bulldogs found themselves tied for third place in the Ivy League and a chance to draw closer to second-place Penn the next night. But the following game did not turn out any better for Yale.

Once again, the Bulldogs were unable to set up a successful offensive strategy. The Elis shot only 28.0 percent, their secondlowest percentage all season.

“We have defended well throughout the season, but meeting the challenge of scoring in the SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE B2

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The Bulldogs scored just 82 combined points this weekend, a number that Yale surpassed in two games earlier this season.

Crimson closes the door on Yale

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER After a pair of losses this weekend in the first round of the ECAC playoff tournament, the Yale women’s hockey team finds itself once again knocked out of the postseason by Harvard.

BY JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A week after defeating Maryland with a fourth-quarter scoring surge, the men’s lacrosse team took care of business on Saturday from the outset against an inferior Bryant Bulldogs.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Elis (15–15–1, 12–10–0 ECAC) fell to the Crimson in a quarterfinal rematch this weekend after just two games in the three-game series. Despite a close contest on Friday afternoon, the Bulldogs could not rally for a win on Saturday, ending their playoff run with 2–1 and 3–0 losses. This marks the second straight year the Bulldogs fell to the Crimson in the first round of the ECAC playoffs.

“It was a very hard-fought and tough series, and we knew going in that we had to play our best all weekend in order to move on,” defenseman Mallory Souliotis ’18 said. “Unfortunately, in both games, we just couldn’t finish our chances. We knew we would have to score more than one goal in order to beat them, and we were able to generate a lot of chances in both games, but were unable to finish.”

In the first game, Harvard’s offense was out in full force from the start, earning the team a clear shot advantage against Yale in the first period, firing off 12 to the Elis’ six, and even more so in the second period, putting 18 shots on goal in comparison to the Elis’ six. Despite several opportunities to find the back of the net, the Crimson could not manage to get past goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15, keeping the game scoreless in the first frame.

While Harvard continued to out-shoot the Bulldogs, it was Yale who lit the lamp first. Forward Jamie Haddad ’16 slid the puck past Harvard goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer after getting a piece of a shot from defenseman Taylor Marchin ’17 just 3:43 into the second period for the Bulldogs’ only goal of the series.

Yale killed its first penalty a few minutes later, managing to prevent the Crimson from taking a shot on goal during the power play, even when Leonoff lost her stick

Bulldogs cruise past Bryant

LACROSSE The No. 8 Bulldogs (3–0, 0–0 Ivy) held a commanding 5–1 lead after a quarter of play and rolled to a dominant 16–9 victory. After surrendering two of the first three goals in the second quarter, the Elis kept their lead over Bryant (1–3, 0–0 NEC) above three goals for the game’s final 30 minutes.

In the victory, seven different Bulldogs contributed goals and four players tied for the team lead with three tallies. Starting attackmen Conrad Oberbeck ’15, Jeff Cimbalista ’17 and Ben Reeves ’18 scored three goals apiece to pace the Bulldog offense and Eric Scott ’17 added three more off of the bench.

“Offensively, we just stuck to the plan,” Scott said. “It’s a balanced offense. There’s a lot of times where the attackmen are going to be the ones scoring the ball. But also from our group of midfielders, you can pick any one … somebody will have a good game.”

Additionally, the Elis received a pair of goals and an assist from

midfielder Jason Alessi ’18, the first points of his Yale career. Alessi scored off of an assist from Reeves to extend the Yale lead to 6–2, giving Bulldog fans a glimpse of the team’s bright future. He also added an unassisted goal with five minutes left to conclude the scoring.

Although he did not contribute directly to the scoring total, Michael Bonacci ’16 led the team with four assists, including two in the game’s first period. The offensive contributions of Bonacci, in addition to the team’s leading trio of attackmen Scott and Alessi, serve as an indication of the strength of the Bulldogs’ offensive personnel.

“We played well as a team and our coaches did a great job of scouting and putting us in a position to be successful,” Bonacci said. “Our attack is playing unbelievably; … every day, it seems like someone else is playing their best game so far.”

Although Bryant came into the game unranked and having lost two of its first three contests, the team is by no means devoid of talent. The Bryant Bulldogs feature two first-team preseason AllAmericans, goalie Gunnar Waldt and face-off specialist Kevin Massa.

While Yale’s face-off team of Jonathan Reese ’16 and Conor Mackie ’18 won only 10 of 28 faceoffs against the senior veteran SEE LACROSSE PAGE B2

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Despite putting 24 shots on Harvard goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer, the Crimson shut out Yale 3–0. momentarily.

The Elis did not keep the lead for long, however, as Harvard scored a pair of goals in the second half of the period, including a powerplay opportunity and another score in which the puck bounced off a Yale skate.

Going into the third period with the Crimson ahead 2–1, the Bulldogs kept pace with

Harvard, matching them at 11 shots during the final frame.

In spite of several opportunities to score, including three for Yale in the last few minutes, neither team could capitalize and the game ended in a narrow Harvard victory.

“I think we played really well in the first game, and they got a couple lucky bounces and we did not, but

that’s how it goes sometimes,” Souliotis said. “We had a lot of chances to tie it up in the third period but just couldn’t finish.”

Saturday’s afternoon contest got off to a bad start for the Elis with an early goal from the Crimson at 3:28 in the first period. Harvard’s SEE W. HOCKEY PAGE B2

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The men’s lacrosse team went 10–28 on face-offs in a 16–9 win against Bryant this weekend.