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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2014 · VOL. CXXXVI, NO. 65 · yaledailynews.com
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MAYOR TONI HARP INAUGURATED CITY’S 50TH MAYOR
Yalies travel around the globe for the holidays
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Hockey beats Harvard
Pushing architectural boundaries to infinity and
beyond. A recent article on LinkedIn referred to the new Yale SOM campus as the “newest version of the Starship Enterprise,” but the change has not been entirely welcomed. According to the piece, professors who moved in last month are already complaining about missing the charm of the older, Victorian-style buildings. A few even brought up issues with the amount of sunlight being let in through the steel structure’s many windows.
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Exiting through the gift shop.
The Elm City graffiti artist Believe in People released a video “BiP: The Mixtape” at a special one-time screening at the old Robby Len swimsuit factory building last weekend. The film told the story of the artist’s background — how he diverged from his Ivy League education and “2-percenter” job after a lifechanging experience — and also announced his plans to take his work out of New Haven and onto the national and international stage. Life after Yale. A Sunday photo from popular blog “Humans of New York” featured a Yale alum offering the words of wisdom “fly straight.” “If there’s an election, vote. If there’s a cause, participate. If there’s a war, enlist,” he said. Connecticut’s finest. CNN’s list of top 2014 attractions for each state featured New Haven’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas for Connecticut. The two-weeks of art and music events take place each summer and brings in performers and lecturers. For God, for country and for football. Yale Commons
played host to the Walter Camp Foundation Awards Dinner on Saturday. Florida State University freshman quarterback Jameis Winston was awarded 2013 Walter Camp Player of the Year, a title voted on by the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Mission impossible. Over the
break, Parker Liautaud ’16 completed the fastest-ever trek from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole, reaching the southernmost point on the Earth’s surface in just over 18 days.
Post-grad employment prospects. The Senate
confirmed Janet Yellen GRD ’71 as the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve last week. Yellen was previously a member of the Yale Corporation. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1950. Liggett’s soda counter begins serving a flaming marshmallow sundae. Reactions are mixed, with Henry Murray ’52 saying “Sirens and flaming ice creams are for children, not hungover Yalies.” Submit tips to Cross Campus
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See family weighs lawsuit
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Both the men and women’s hockey teams defeated their Crimson rivals on Saturday.
SOM professor sues University BY LAVINIA BORZI AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTERS Alleging gender and age discrimination, a professor has filed a suit against the University and three high-profile faculty members in the School of Management. Constance Bagley, a professor in the practice of law and management at the School of Management, claims in the suit that she was not reappointed to her professorship in May 2012 because of her gender and age. Furthermore, Bagley asserts that while co-teaching the course “State and Society” with SOM professor Douglas Rae, she was subjected to repeated acts of discrimination from her male peer.
Yale believes the lawsuit to be without merit and will vigorously defend itself and the individuals named. TOM CONROY University Spokesman A complaint filed by Bagley against the University, SOM Dean Edward Snyder, SOM Deputy Dean Andrew Metrick and Rae lists 18 counts of discrimination. The Dec. 20 complaint seeks monetary damages for Bagley and asks the court to urge the University to cease gender and age discrimination. Bagley also claims in the complaint that gender animus is a pervasive issue at Yale, and that this hostile climate is to blame for Bagley’s wrongful treatment. “A culture exists within Yale in which strong, assertive and professionally accomplished women who are not stereotypically female in their appearance, behavior and attitudes are viewed negatively because they do not meet certain gender expectations by the dominant male leadership,” the complaint reads. The suit comes after some 18 months of efforts by Bagley to overturn the decision not to renew her professorship, during which three separate committees were convened SEE SOM LAWSUIT PAGE 4
Kelly Flanagan awoke on Nov. 24 at 3:45 a.m. to a call from the New Haven Police Department: her brother, Samuel See, had died in jail. Nearly eight weeks later, See’s family has retained legal counsel and is considering a wrongful death lawsuit against authorities involved in See’s arrest, treatment at an area hospital and incarceration, Flanagan told the News Thursday. That revelation comes on the heels of last Monday’s conclusion of a toxicology report certifying See’s cause of death as a methamphetamine-induced heart attack. “It’s just so cloudy,” Flanagan said of the order of events that concluded with the death of her 34-year-old brother, an assistant professor of English and American Studies at Yale. Baffling in particular, she said, are medical records from See’s treatment at Yale-New Haven Hospital just 10 hours before he died in jail, reportedly from acute methamphetamine intoxication. “He is oriented to person, place and time. Vital signs are normal. He appears well-developed and well-nourished. He is active and cooperative. No distress,” reads a hospital
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Yale accepts 15.5 percent EA EARLY ACTION ADMISSION RATES ACROSS THE IVY LEAGUE Students admitted.
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BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER On Dec. 16, Yale released admissions decisions to early applicants for the Class of 2018, accepting 735 students, rejecting 1,225 and deferring 2,735 applicants for reconsideration in the spring. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions received 4,750 applications this year, 5.5 percent more than last year. However, this year’s acceptance rate of 15.5 percent is slightly higher than last year’s, when the University accepted only 649 students for an admit rate of 14.4 percent. The rejection rate declined from 29 percent last year to 25.8 percent this year, while the deferral rate rose slightly from 56 percent last year to 57.6 percent this year. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said in an email to the News that the admissions office saw “increased strength and diversity in this year’s applicant pool.” Quinlan added that this year’s early applicant pool included a higher number of highachieving first-generation college
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students and students from lowincome communities. Both Quinlan and outside college experts told the News in November that these groups tend to be underrepresented in the early applicant pool. Students in the early applicant pool tend to be wealthier and more knowledgeable about the application process, but Quinlan and outside college counselors agreed that the discrepancy between the early and regular applications rounds has been decreasing gradually.
[There was] increased strength and diversity in this year’s applicant pool. JEREMIAH QUINLAN Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Yale University For the first year in recent years, the admissions office has also publicized the number of QuestBridge scholars the University
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has accepted through the QuestBridge National College Match — a program that seeks to link highachieving low-income high school students with selective American colleges. This year, the University accepted 24 students through the QuestBridge program as early applicants. Quinlan said that QuestBridge is a nonprofit organization that “has demonstrated an extraordinary capability for identifying high-achieving, low-income students.” He added that Yale has been a strong supporter of QuestBridge in the past and hosts one of QuestBridge’s three national summer conferences as part of the University’s commitment to making Yale accessible to the most talented students from around the world regardless of their family incomes. Most Ivy League universities saw increased early applications this year. The five Ivy League schools with binding early admissions programs — the University of Pennsylvania, Brown, Columbia, Cornell and Dartmouth — saw SEE ADMISSION PAGE 4